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Theater|Rewriting Greek Tragedies as Immigrant Stories
Rewriting Greek Tragedies as Immigrant Stories
Luis Alfaro, whose latest play is an adaptation of “Medea,” appreciates such “primal” points of origin: “They get to the essence: why we hurt each other, this inability to forgive.”
Luis Alfaro at the Public Theater, where his play “Mojada” is in previews.CreditCreditErik Tanner for The New York Times
By Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Luis Alfaro didn’t expect to find the heroine of a Greek tragedy at a juvenile hall in Tucson, Ariz.
As a traveling playwright teaching a workshop for teen felons in 1999, he met a promising student: a 13-year-old Mexican-American girl who, he learned, had killed her mother for putting out a hit on her father, a drug dealer. Fascinated by her story, he went to the theater that night and spotted a deal in the lobby bookshop: 10 Greek plays for $10.
“The first play was ‘Electra,’ the story of a daughter who murders her mother for killing her father,” Mr. Alfaro recalled recently. “I went: ‘Oh my God! I have to adapt this play.’”
“Electricidad: A Chicano Take on the Tragedy of ‘Electra’” updated Sophocles, beat for beat, to Mr. Alfaro’s native Los Angeles. The title character mourns her father, a slain kingpin, and plots revenge against her entrepreneurial mother, while a gossiping threesome of fatalistic “mujeres” serves as a Spanglish chorus.
Produced more than 30 times around the country, “Electricidad” inaugurated a Greek trilogy by Mr. Alfaro that treats Latino figures on the margins with mythic dignity. In 2017, “Oedipus el Rey” sold out the Public Theater. This month, the Public will present Mr. Alfaro’s latest, “Mojada,” a version of Euripides’ “Medea.”
“The Greeks are so primal,” Mr. Alfaro said. “They get to the essence: why we hurt each other, this inability to forgive.”
For the son of Chicano farm workers, retelling these primal stories fulfills a cultural mission. “How do I bring my community into the modern theater?” Mr. Alfaro, a MacArthur Fellow, asks. “How are we part of the classics, too?”
In Euripides’ play, Medea is an Eastern sorceress who falls in love with Jason, of Argonaut fame, and helps him nab her father’s Golden Fleece. She leaves her home to return with him to Greece, but when Jason dumps her for the daughter of a Corinthian king — 2,000-year-old spoiler alert! — Medea poisons his new bride and kills her own children before flying away in a celestial chariot.
Whether it’s considered xenophobic or sympathetic, misogynist or proto-feminist, “Medea” is “the oldest immigration story ever written,” according to Chay Yew, who is directing “Mojada” at the Public, where it opens on July 17. Six years ago, when they began working on the play, Mr. Yew encouraged Mr. Alfaro to gather stories from undocumented immigrants so he could ground Medea’s journey in contemporary America.
The Greek chorus in “Medea” reinforced this interpretation for Mr. Alfaro. “They say, ‘She’s soiling our land,’ and I thought: ‘Ah, this is an immigrant story about a woman in a country where she’s not wanted.’”
Sabina Zúñiga Varela and Benjamin Luis McCracken as mother and son in “Mojada.”CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
Mr. Alfaro’s version casts Medea (Sabina Zúñiga Varela) as a young indigenous seamstress from Michoacán who followed her beloved Jason on a harrowing passage across the border. (The sexual assault she suffered in the crossing came from an account Mr. Alfaro collected in his interviews.) Traumatized and undocumented in the United States, she clings to Nahuatl ritual, sewing from home while Jason ventures out for work.
When Pilar, a successful contractor — the Corinthian king and his daughter merged into a single formidable character — tempts Jason with more than employment, Medea fears losing her husband and their young son, who’s eager to ditch huaraches and Nahuatl prayers for new shoes and English-language conversation.
There’s lyricism and humor, too, especially from Medea’s tart servant Tita, and her daffy neighborhood friend, Luisa, who runs a churro cart. But keep an eye on the machete in the backyard.
The play’s title evokes Medea’s status as an outsider: “Mojada” is a Spanish-language slur addressed to newcomers who crossed the Rio Grande to enter the country.
Begging Pilar for mercy, Medea calls herself “una mojada” — a form of self-abasement, an echo of her Greek name, and, perhaps, a powerful reclamation of a legacy of discrimination.
Mr. Alfaro acknowledged that “mojada” is “a very hard word.” Before the play premiered in Chicago in 2013, at Mr. Yew’s Victory Gardens Theater, the title drew pushback from local Spanish-speakers. Mr. Alfaro had to present several scenes to elders in Pilsen, Chicago’s major Latino neighborhood, to show he was exploring the people ostracized by the word, not perpetuating its derogatory history.
Juan Castano, left, as Oedipus and Sandra Delgado as Jocasta in Mr. Alfaro’s “Oedipus el Rey.”CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
Mr. Alfaro, 56, has long probed his community’s sore spots. Growing up poor in the 1960s in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles, near where he now teaches playwriting at the University of Southern California, he wrote an essay in fourth grade about a death he witnessed across the street: The victim was a man with a pool cue sticking out of his abdomen.
The principal suspended him for his choice of topic, but his father, a member of the United Farm Workers, stuck up for him. “We have to bring to light scenes that are in the dark,” Mr. Alfaro remembers his saying.
Mr. Alfaro didn’t encounter the stage, however, until he was arrested as a teenager and offered a choice between jail time and community service at a multicultural theater in the neighborhood. He chose the latter.
Careers as an AIDS and labor activist, a poet, and an avant-garde performance artist followed. Oskar Eustis, who now runs the Public, saw Mr. Alfaro do a one-man show in a black slip and roller skates at a New York club in the 1990s and recommended that he study with the renowned playwriting teacher María Irene Fornés at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. “She changed my life,” Mr. Alfaro said.
Mr. Alfaro became a resident artist at the Taper, and, later, the first resident playwright at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In between, he traveled around the country as what he called a “citizen-artist,” making theater with vulnerable communities: older people in California, meth addicts in Oregon, gang members in Chicago.
He adapts his plays for the communities where they’re being performed. “Mojada” was originally set in Pilsen; then, for a run at the Getty Villa, he changed the setting to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. For the Public, Medea and Jason will arrive in Queens, home to one of the fastest-growing Mexican immigrant populations in the country.
Mr. Alfaro has also changed some characters’ backgrounds to reflect New York’s other Latino groups. Luisa, the churro vendor, now delivers a monologue about her escape from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
“That’s the beauty of what Luis does,” Ms. Varela said. “He goes into the community and tells their story.”
The play’s ending has changed, too, in each incarnation. Though Mr. Alfaro won’t reveal who dies at the Public, he sees Medea driven less by revenge than by a struggle between tradition and assimilation, haunted by the cost of coming to a country that exploits her labor but rejects her culture.
“He’s given voice to the people we don’t see, who’ve experienced trauma crossing over,” Mr. Yew said. “People who are invisible, he makes visible.”
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Correction: July 16, 2019
A previous version of this article misspelled the name of the churro vendor character in the play "Mojada." She is Luisa, not Louisa.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section AR, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Immigrant Tales Reimagined. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Football: World Cup catch-up beginning for Football Ferns
17 May, 2019 5:00am 3 minutes to read
New revelation: Infamous All Black history turned on head
Cheree Kinnear: Better than rugby - The day I finally accepted Esports as a sport
Gamers at the Intel Extreme Masters. Photo / Supplied
By: Cheree Kinnear
Cheree Kinnear is a sports reporter for NZME
cheree.kinnear@nzherald.co.nz
Warning: The following statement may offend some sports fans.
No traditional sport can contend with the atmosphere, production, and sheer excitement that comes with watching Esports live – not even rugby.
Now, before you roll your eyes in disgust, click out of this story, and mumble on about how ridiculous it is to even award Esports the title of "sport" and call the players "athletes", bear with me.
Because if you'd told me two weeks ago that I would genuinely enjoy watching a six-hour long Counter-Strike: Global Offense (CS:GO) grand final, I too would've rolled my eyes.
Up until earlier this month, I was still on the fence about whether I believed Esports was a sport.
Fans in the Qudos Bank Arena. Photo / Supplied
I had reported on it, interviewed some of New Zealand's top up-coming gamers, and did my best to wrap my head around the idea that gaming could be placed on the same level as sports like rugby and basketball.
I'd heard about big-league Esports events and how exciting they could be, but I just couldn't see how watching people play a video game would be more exciting than experiencing a live All Blacks test, nor could I ever see myself fully accepting the players as athletes, being a sportsperson myself.
Intel Extreme Masters - Sydney 2019
I expected the hype to just be a bunch of 'big talk' to promote the sport.
But that was before I attended the grand slam of the Esports world – the Intel Extreme Masters.
I wasn't prepared for what I experienced over the three-day event at Sydney Olympic Park's Qudos Arena.
Greeted by virtual reality headset stations and reclining gaming massage chairs, the stadium was what can only be described as Candyland for gamers.
Intel virtual reality. Photo / Supplied
Fans could trial first-hand all the latest tech gimmicks in the industry, buy merchandise and partake in mini competitions to win top of the range gaming gear.
After having a go at virtual reality boxing as part of the Intel Showcase - where I managed to knock out my opponent in what was a scarily-realistic fight – and inspecting some of the latest computer gear with fascination, it was time to enter the doors of the arena.
The brief half-hour I spent watching the quarter-finals from the back of the stadium gave me a taste of what to expect in the coming days as we reached the sharp end of the competition.
The Intel Extreme Masters quarter-final between Mousesports and MiBR. Photo / Supplied
And as day three rolled around, it was time for the two finalists, FNATIC and Team Liquid, to battle it out for a share of US$250,000 ($383,339).
I was warned of the rowdy nature gaming fans could possess and told to somewhat brace myself.
I found a seat among the sea of 7500 Esports fans – who were already buzzing with excitement - determined to immerse myself in the full experience.
Team jerseys, homemade signs, and thundersticks made me think I could have been at an NBA game, maybe even the Rugby World Cup.
But I was watching three giant jumbo screens and two teams of gamers walking up to the stage where they would soon sit behind a PC and virtually battle to the death while a group of commentators called the game play.
Team Mousesports take to the stage. Photo / Supplied
As the teams approached the stage to the sound of screaming fans to take their seats, all the parallels between Esports and traditional sports became clearer.
The players, neatly dressed in their team uniform, wore focused expressions as they took their seats to warm up.
Their coach paced behind them communicating through a headset while they settled in for what was going to be a gruelling test of mental stamina and strength.
A best of five CS:GO grand final can see up to 150 two-minute rounds played – add in breaks between maps and suddenly that's six hours of high-pressure play demanding lightning-fast reflexes in a format comparable to a game of golf or test cricket.
The game itself is fairly easy to understand too. Teams are tasked with completing contrasting objectives or eliminating the other.
Teams compete on the Intel Extreme Master's stage. Photo / Supplied
Of course, there's a bit more to it than that but essentially it's the first team to take 16 rounds of a map that takes the set point.
Although there's nothing glaringly different to the format of an Esports game as opposed to watching the All Blacks battle to get a try or the Breakers setting up a play to score a basket, the thing that made the Intel Extreme Masters so exciting was all in the atmosphere.
Fans fist-pumped, booed, yelled "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi,", belted "Heeeey Baby Ooooh Aaaah!" and chanted "F*** you left side, F*** you" when the left side of the arena failed to send back the Mexican wave.
There were beach balls, an inflatable boxing kangaroo and wristbands that lit up in synchronisation with the stage lights.
Fans during the Intel Extreme Masters. Photo / Supplied
And if a stadium of almost 8000 fans isn't an impressive enough number, just ask the 260,000 viewers online who tuned in what they would've given to be there.
After Team Liquid secured the win, much to the delight of their vocal fans, both the teams were ushered by their managers to the press room where they spoke with the many journalists from around the globe.
It was an atmosphere like no other and one I would pass up a rugby game any day to be a part of again.
I was riding the high of the IEM Grand Final for days after the event, so much so I could only imagine how long-time Esports fans would be feeling.
The event cemented my opinion that Esports is a serious sport and that it's only a matter of time before it's talked about as commonly as any other traditional sport.
So rubbish those pre-conceived ideas you have about gaming because if Esports is only going to get bigger, then rugby should keep an eye on its rear-view mirror.
Cheree Kinnear attended the Intel Extreme Masters in Sydney courtesy of Intel.
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OceanCare > About us > Success stories
Milestones since 1989
Latests successes
Thanks to our consistent scientific approach, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) promotes OceanCare from the ‘NGO Major Group’ to the ‘Science and Technology Major Group’ within its administrative body (UNEA), giving OceanCare’s voice more weight.
For the first time, the UN devotes a one-week meeting to underwater noise as part of the consultative process for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. OceanCare President Sigrid Lüber provided advice in drawing up the agenda and Dr. Linda Weilgart and Nicolas Entrup officially spoke as experts at the panel. The final report to the UN General Assembly contains many of the measures OceanCare is calling for to reduce and regulate underwater noise, which have been included in the Oceans Resolution and the Sustainable Fisheries Resolution.
OceanCare takes part in the first official negotiations for the planned UN High Seas Agreement (BBNJ) in New York. The delegation emphasises that environmental impact assessments are urgently needed on the high seas – specifically taking into account underwater noise – and that marine protected areas are crucial.
OceanCare supports the Secretariat of the Abidjan Convention in organising the first workshop of the Abidjan Aquatic Wildlife Partnership. In July, more than 40 scientists as well as representatives of governments and international bodies develop a regional action plan to curb poaching of aquatic species and industrial overfishing of local waters.
The European Union defines its negotiating position as a member of the International Whaling Commission for the next six years: it will advocate active cetacean conservation and oppose commercial whaling. OceanCare had presented strong arguments for whale protection to the decision makers. At IWC67 in Florianópolis, Brazil, OceanCare helped to avert dangerous initiatives and maintain the moratorium on whaling.
After more than ten years of intensive work, the filmmakers Malcolm Wright and Leah Lemieux finish their film ‘Whale Like Me’ and show it in whaling countries. With their non-confrontational, dialogue-based approach, they win the trust of whalers and plead for a paradigm shift in attitudes towards whales. OceanCare made a substantial contribution for realising the film project, whose message of respect goes far beyond the whaling debate.
OceanCare and Dolphin Biology & Conservation start a dolphin conservation project in the northern Adriatic. The study area is among the most intensively trawled zones in the world. On a 5,550 km research trip, 148 groups of bottlenose dolphins are spotted and 360 animals registered individually. The researchers give lectures at schools and universities and workshops for fishermen and decision-makers.
The petition ‘Strip us’ gains 18’000 signatures. OceanCare calls on major distributors to offer organic fruit and vegetables without plastic packaging. Following discussions with those responsible for sustainability, Coop announces that plastic packaging for organic fruit and vegetables will be discontinued from autumn 2018.
On World Clean-up Day, OceanCare frees a beach area of 6000 m² in the southern Italian province of Calabria from 500 kilograms of garbage as part of its whale and dolphin research programme. A report on local television stirs the interest of the local population.
OceanCare helps the Majorcan organisation Asociación Ondine to develop a three-day educational module on plastic pollution. In 34 schools, 2088 pupils are made aware of the problem. They collect 101,815 plastic objects on beaches.
OceanCare supports British Divers for Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) in purchasing two transport trailers, four emergency enclosures for seals as well as stretchers, life jackets and animal models for training purposes. In addition, OceanCare funds three experts to participate in a seal rescue symposium in Ireland. In 2018, BDMLR carries out 1279 rescue operations for seals, dolphins, whales, sea turtles and seabirds.
OceanCare supports the Venezuelan Shark Research Center (CIT) in setting up a stranding network for whale sharks. Thanks to its educational work, stranded whale sharks since March 2018 no longer get killed by the local population in Venezuela, but are returned to open water.
In cooperation with OceanCare, the Swiss tour operator Hotelplan Suisse stops offering dolphinarium visits. In an information brochure, the company actively advises customers against visiting dolphinaria and commercial swimming with dolphins.
OceanCare accompanies 72 students in their semester, high school, diploma, bachelor’s, master’s and apprenticeship theses and gives workshops at the Höhere Fachschule für Tourismus (IST) on critical aspects of wildlife tourism. 64 people take part in field research projects in Sicily and Mallorca. The work of OceanCare is referred to in more than 200 articles in international media.
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The member states to the Barcelona Convention declare the marine area between the Baleares and the Spanish mainland a Specially Protected Area of Mediterranean Importance. This area is an important marine mammal habitat, but threatened by seismic activities by the petroleum industry. Two years of advocacy work by OceanCare and Alianza Mar Blava made this success possible.
In Croatia, OceanCare and NRDC, supported by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, organise a workshop on underwater noise in the south-eastern Mediterranean, which increasingly becomes a target of the petroleum industry. The workshop is attended by 62 people from 17 countries, including scientists and representatives of environmental authorities, energy ministries, environmental bodies, conservation organisations, the EU Commission, and the tourism and fisheries industries. They work out an action plan to reduce noise-intensive activities in the region.
At the UN Ocean Conference, the United Nations adopt an action plan for the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources (Sustainable Development Goal 14). However, underwater noise is missing from its first draft. OceanCare sees to it that this threat is included in the action plan, which is crucial as these are the issues the UN will primarily address until 2030. In the plenary hall of the UN General Assembly, OceanCare reads out a plea co-signed by 24 organizations to reduce underwater noise.
The conference of parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species adopts guidelines for environmental impact assessments. OceanCare has been instrumental in developing these guidelines. Further, at OceanCare’s initiative, a resolution to protect marine species from plastic waste is complemented by a ban on particularly toxic types of plastic. The resolution demands that the more than 120 member states take concrete action. In addition, OceanCare successfully advocates the adoption of a resolution against poaching of aquatic species protected by this Convention, and becomes part of the “Aquatic Wild Meat” working group, which assesses the issue and develops remedies.
OceanCare convinces decision makers at the Abidjan Convention in Côte d’Ivoire that decisive action needs to be taken against poaching of protected aquatic animal species in West, Central and South Africa, which results from marine overfishing. The Abidjan Convention, OceanCare, Wild Migration, the World Bank and the US AID financed programme West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA-BiCC) establish the “Abidjan Aquatic Wildlife Partnership” as an alliance to implement concrete actions.
A short video clip on the Peruvian dolphin and shark hunt published by OceanCare is viewed almost 218,000 times on YouTube. More than half the views are recorded in South America, many of which in Peru, where continuously more and more light is being shed on the hunt.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) now requires export permits for hunting trophies from protected species, including the polar bear. This includes a proof that the trophy hunt is compatible with sustainable use. CITES thereby follows a recommendation by the Species Survival Network, of which OceanCare is an active member.
OceanCare launches the campaign “I Care” against the use of throwaway plastics. The website collects 1,975 personal commitments to reduce plastic consumption, which equates to a reduction of 2,874 kilos of plastic bags, 117,000 plastic straws, 303 kilos of PET bottles, 1,204 kilos of one-way coffee cups, one billion of microplastic particles from cosmetics, and 15 trillion microplastic fibres from laundry.
OceanCare’s edutainment video on marine plastic littering becomes part of an exhibition in the Hong Kong Science Museum, which is visited by up to 4,000 children per day.
As part of a cooperation with OceanCare, Gebr. Heinemann, one of the most important distributors and retailers in the international travel market, reduces the use of disposable bags in its shops by 70 percent compared to the previous year.
OceanCare and Dolphin Biology & Conservation complete their scientific work in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. The resulting data prompt the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to designate this area as an Important Marine Mammal Area.
In the Hellenic Trench, OceanCare supports the Greek Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute (PCRI) since 2008 to study the largest known sperm whale population in the Mediterranean. At the request of PCRI, the IUCN designates the Hellenic Trench as an Important Marine Mammal Area. The aim is to shift shipping traffic away from the main whale distribution area.
At a scientific conference, OceanCare presents an underwater video of a Rough-toothed dolphin sighting during a research project in Sicily. This audio-visual documentation is important for science, as this dolphin species is very rare in the Mediterranean and there’s hardly any scientific documentation.
At Cap Blanc, the number of Mediterranean monk seals is estimated at 300, which means that the population is as large again as before the proliferation of algae, which almost eradicated it in 1997. The conservation project in Mauritania, led by CBD-Habitat and supported by OceanCare, is a success story in species conservation.
OceanCare becomes partner organisation of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).
OceanCare becomes partner organisation of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), a regional agreement of the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Dr. Silvia Frey is invited as an external expert to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.
At the Conference of Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea (ACCOBAMS), OceanCare is instrumental in achieving a resolution on expanding measures to reduce noise in the Mediterranean.
The long-term efforts by OceanCare and NRDC pay off: Since December 2016, environmental impact assessments are mandatory prior to noise-intensive activities in EU waters.
Lora L. Nordtvedt Reeve, expert in law of the sea and environmental law, represents OceanCare at the first two rounds of negotiations on the new UN agreement on the conservation of the high seas.
Sigrid Lüber and Fabienne McLellan participate in the informal consultative process of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea regarding marine plastic pollution in New York and introduce important claims which are adopted for the final report directed to the UN General Assembly.
OceanCare and Dolphin Biology & Conservation ask the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to declare the Gulf of Corinth in Greece an Important Marine Mammal Area.
OceanCare co-hosts a workshop with 40 renowned scientists compiling new data on the endangerment of common dolphins in a report. At the ACCOBAMS conference, OceanCare takes this report to call for the highest degree of protection for this dolphin species in the Mediterranean.
Undercover investigations by Stefan Austermühle, made possible also by OceanCare in 2013, prompt the Peruvian public prosecution authority to bring a charge against three fishermen who were filmed killing dolphins. A decree by the Peruvian government bans the harpoons that are used for killing dolphins.
A filming crew sent by OceanCare documents the trade in shark fins and the sale of baby sharks on local markets in Peru.
At the whaling conference, the EU condemns the escalating whaling and increasing whale meat trade by Norway and Iceland. OceanCare, Pro Wildlife and AWI had called for this vote, as initially the policies of these two countries had not been on the agenda of the conference.
OceanCare launches a new whale and dolphin research and conservation programme in Sicily. Sightings of rough-toothed dolphins are very valuable to science.
A poster designed by OceanCare and AWI is being distributed in Senegal, raising awareness for the threats to manatees and illustrating that poaching will be punished.
OceanCare presents a report on aquatic bushmeat as well as anti-poaching measures to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species, establishing a basis for a resolution that will be voted on in 2017.
British Divers for Marine Life Rescue carry out more than 600 rescue operations. OceanCare supports further professionalizing of the field work through laminated manuals, first-aid kits and new ocean-going equipment.
The monk seal population at Cap Blanc in Mauritania grew further and is now estimated at 280 animals.
Already 70 airlines and cargo companies followed the call of a network of organisations including OceanCare and ban the transport of shark fins.
OceanCare supports beach cleaning activities by Archipelagos in the Greek islands of Samos and Agathonisi. 3000 booklets on plastic waste in Greek language have been distributed on the Aegean islands. An English version is used by 12 international schools in Greece for environmental education.
Migros Zurich and OceanCare launch a pilot project and sell reusable fruit and vegetable bags. The project also involves raising awareness for an environmentally sensitive use of plastics.
OceanCare co-authors and presents the report “Overview of the Noise Hotspots in the ACCOBAMS Area” to the scientific committee of the Mediterranean cetacean conservation agreement. The report contains the first map showing where noise-producing activities accumulate and how these so-called “noise hotspots” overlap with important cetacean habitats in the Mediterranean Sea.
In June, the petroleum industry bows to massive protests against seismic explorations off the Balearic Islands. British petroleum company Cairn Energy withdraws four oil exploration applications for the Gulf of Valencia.
The US Navy gives in to the legal case brought by a coalition of NGOs, including NRDC and OceanCare and abstains from using active sonar and explosives in manoeuvres for three years in two particularly important marine habitats off Hawaii and California.
An information leaflet on plastic pollution and its consequences for marine wildlife is translated into Greek. It is now available in seven languages and is used for environmental education by local partner organisations on three continents.
There is a breakthrough for the High Seas Alliance: The UN General Assembly decides to draw up an international agreement on the conservation of biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. OceanCare has been invited to participate in the UN working group that will participate in drafting the agreement within the next two years.
OceanCare and Peruvian organisation Mundo Azul produce the short film “Peru’s Blood Red Ocean” documenting the killing of dolphins and sharks in Peru. The film is sent to the Government of Peru, to all Peruvian Embassies worldwide, and to relevant secretariats of fisheries and species conservation agreements. The film is awarded a special jury prize at the renowned nature film festival in Eckernförde (Germany).
The coalition Dolphinaria-Free Europe (DFE) forms in the European Parliament. The first successful interventions are: Plans for a dolphin TV show in Portugal dropped; Poland’s Minister of the Environment rejecting the construction of a dolphinarium; the Government of the Republic of Cyprus dropping plans to lift the ban on whale and dolphin imports; and the EU Commission resuming a debate on dolphinaria.
Pressured by a huge number of activists and organisations worldwide, including OceanCare, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) decides to suspend the membership of the Japanese association JAZA as long as its members are involved in the dolphin drive hunt. JAZA reacts by immediately banning purchases of brutally caught dolphins from Taiji. The Taiji Whale Museum, hub for the dolphin trade, leaves JAZA and loses its certification.
OceanCare successfully rounds off the research project in southern France after 16 years. Data on whale and dolphin distribution in the Pelagos Sanctuary is fed into a public database. The research is being continued around Sicily from where our knowledge about cetaceans is very limited.
For five years, OceanCare and Dolphin Biology & Conservation have been studying dolphins in the Gulf of Corinth, resulting in an upward revision of the striped dolphin population size to 1,420 animals. The new data has been presented at the annual conference of the European Cetacean Society.
There is a continuing positive trend in the birth rates of Mediterranean monk seals in their refuge in Mauritania: 73 pups are the most recent ray of hope for the survival of the rare seal species. Ongoing growth of this last monk seal stronghold allowed downlisting the species from “critically endangered” to “endangered”.
OceanCare supports British Divers for Marine Life Rescue in compiling 13 first aid kits to be used by rescue teams in the UK for rescuing stranded marine mammals. In 2015 BDMLR operations included 410 seal rescues and 54 whale and dolphin strandings.
Already 31 airlines quit transporting shark fins. American Airlines and United Parcel Service (UPS) join by issuing a transport ban that OceanCare has been campaigning for within a network of species conservation organisations.
The Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) assign the highest conservation status to the Cuvier’s beaked whale, a deep-diving species particularly susceptible to marine noise, by including it in CMS Appendix I. OceanCare and partners campaigned for this conservation initiative.
OceanCare also successfully advocated for CMS protection of polar bears within their habitat. The king of the Arctic is now included in CMS Appendix II, providing the species with a special conservation status.
The 120 CMS Parties acknowledge that cetaceans have culture. A related resolution calls on the parties to ban live capture of small cetaceans for commercial keeping. OceanCare worked hard towards this resolution.
The Swiss National Council votes for an import ban on seal products. OceanCare and the Franz Weber Foundation have been campaigning for this ban since 2008.
Pressure from OceanCare and partner organisations prevents the use of dolphins as torch-bearers at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
OceanCare becomes a founding member of the alliance Dolphinaria-Free Europe and is represented on the board by Silvia Frey.
OceanCare and partners in the Silent Oceans coalition protest against oil exploration off the Balearic Islands. Their actions trigger the Spanish Ministry of the Environment to extend the consultation period and, for the time being, to withhold approval from the petroleum company, Cairn Energy. More than 200,000 people joined the online protest.
Croatia’s Minister of the Environment announces that a Strategic Environmental Assessment will be carried out prior to licensing oil developments in Croatian waters. This follows an e-mail protest campaign set up by OceanCare and direct intervention with the Croatian authorities by OceanCare and partners in the Silent Oceans coalition.
The revised EU Directives requires that Environmental Impact Assessments must cover the exploration phase of the search for offshore oil and gas beneath the sea floor. These seismic survey activities expose marine wildlife to extreme levels of noise. OceanCare and partners have been systematically working towards this goal since 2013.
OceanCare becomes a member of the working group on the implementation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive and focuses on the issue of underwater noise pollution.
Accredited NGOs, such as OceanCare, win approval to speak in the plenary and in working group meetings of the International Whaling Commission. OceanCare has been lobbying for this since 2002.
The edutainment video created by OceanCare and science illustrator Michael Stünzi on plastic pollution in the oceans is screened during flights of Swiss airline Edelweiss Air.
With the information event “Encountering marine animals respectfully: tips and trends” for Swiss travel agencies in the Volkshaus Zurich, Switzerland, OceanCare contributes to raising awareness in wildlife tourism.
Information movies, photo virals, online reports and free filler advertisements in print media motivate many people to speak up for silent oceans as online activists at www.silentoceans.com.
More than 9,000 people send protest e-mails to the Croatian Government through www.silentoceans.com raising concern over the deafening search for crude oil off the Croatian coast. They demand strict measures are taken to reduce noise.
From Greece to Peru, OceanCare and partners provide information about the consequences of marine plastic pollution through flyers, presentations and information booths. Specific calls for action motivate people to rethink their plastic use.
OceanCare’s objective of a dolphinaria free Switzerland becomes reality as the Connyland dolphinarium closes down.
Thanks to efforts by OceanCare and others, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rejects the importation of 18 beluga whales, caught in Russian waters, for six US amusement parks.
As a part of the Species Survival Network, OceanCare contributes to the worldwide ban on commercial trade in manatees and manatee products.
OceanCare acts as an important intermediary between people who witness strandings and local stranding networks, to ensure that animals receive first aid as fast as possible.
For the first time, OceanCare supports a river dolphin project: for the protection of the Irrawaddy dolphins of Bangladesh.
By publishing a briefing about dolphin assisted therapy, OceanCare informs the public about the threats dolphins are exposed to by this costly business, and suggests alternatives.
OceanCare and the Environmental Investigation Agency pressure Amazon Japan to remove all whale and dolphin meat from their online sales.
The Swiss Government follows OceanCare’s recommendation and supports a ban on the import of whales and dolphins.
Following an intervention by OceanCare and its partners, the Maldivian Government cancels permission for the construction of a new dolphinarium.
German oarswoman Janice Jakait arrives in Barbados after 90 days. With the slogan ‘Rowing for Silence’ on her boat, she crossed the Atlantic Ocean by herself to support OceanCare’s Silent Oceans campaign.
OceanCare’s strategy against the Japanese dolphin hunt proves to be effective. An increasing number of reports about the high levels of contamination in dolphin meat goes hand in hand with a steep drop in sales. While in 2008 about 1,800 dolphins were killed, the numbers decreased to 400 in 2012.
The International Whaling Commission meets a long-standing demand by OceanCare and obliges whaling countries to inform consumers about the health risks related to cetacean meat consumption.
As South Korea voices its intention to resume whaling, OceanCare joins international protests that make the government cancel these plans.
OceanCare is granted Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations as special advisor for marine issues.
OceanCare hands in a petition with 77,776 signatures to the Swiss Parliament against the importation of dolphins into Switzerland and the construction of new dolphinaria.
OceanCare hands in 60,500 signatures to the European Union Ambassador in Berne against the importation of dolphins into the European Union and the construction of new dolphinaria.
The United Nations Task Force on Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction develops basic principles for the protection of international waters. OceanCare makes sure that the noise issue is accounted for.
The United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals demands that noise is reduced in marine protected areas and calls for effective protection of endangered whale and dolphin species by 2024.
Through the International Ocean Noise Coalition, OceanCare supports the International Organization for Standardization in developing standards for less noisy ship engines.
Based on OceanCare and Tethys scientific data, the European Union requires Greece to ban purse-seining and trawling in the area of Kalamos. Dolphins and fish shoals reappear around the island.
As a result of the transparency debate induced by OceanCare, the International Whaling Commission bans so called ’motivational gifts’.
OceanCare elaborates an action plan for the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) for the protection of whales and dolphins in Moroccan waters.
ACCOBAMS Parties endorse the proposal by OceanCare and Pelagos to establish a protected area for sperm whales south of Crete. Implementation is in the hands of Greece.
A petition by OceanCare and the Franz Weber Foundation gaining 97,758 signatures against the import and trade of Canadian seal products supports a motion endorsed by 30 Members of Swiss Parliament.
Working through the Species Survival Network, OceanCare campaigns for a ban on trophy hunting polar bears and on the trade in polar bear hides.
As a member of the High Seas Alliance, OceanCare focuses on the protection of waters beyond national legislation (high seas).
Following a legal demand by the OCEAN2012 Alliance, illegal fishing activities will face stiff fines.
OceanCare and Tethys support coastal fishermen from the island of Kalamos urge the Greek Government to enforce existing fisheries law. Fishermen voluntarily enlarge the mesh size of their nets to allow small fish to pass, and spare fish during the spawning season.
Based on studies submitted by OceanCare, experts from the United Nations’ World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization investigate toxic contamination of whale and dolphin meat.
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity calls on Parties to elaborate measures to solve the marine noise issue.
In Ireland, OceanCare informs representatives of the oil and gas industry as well as of the shipping industry and the navy about the negative consequences of underwater noise.
ACCOBAMS Parties endorse plans to reduce noise in three specifically sensitive areas of the Mediterranean Sea and invite OceanCare to be part of the task force.
The UN General Assembly calls on The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to investigate the impact of noise on fish stocks including the socioeconomic consequences of reduced fish catches.
OceanCare becomes a supporting organisation of the online platform www.planetwhale.com that aims to improve the quality of whale-watching worldwide.
In Mauritania, a monk seal gives birth to a pup on an open beach for the first time in 60 years. The number of seals has doubled to 200 since 1997.
The Oscar-winning documentary ‘The Cove’ reveals the racketeering of Japan’s dolphin hunters and documents the work of the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition.
OceanCare forms an alliance of 49 environmental and consumer protection organisations (including the Consumers Union of Japan), to work towards a ban on selling contaminated whale and dolphin meat.
The work of OceanCare, the Franz Weber Foundation and IFAW bears fruit: the European Parliament introduces a trade embargo on seal products from Canada.
OceanCare and Pro Wildlife prove that whale meat contains more than 5,000 times the permissible amount of mercury and persuade the International Whaling Commission to collaborate with the World Health Organization.
As a member of the OCEAN2012 Coalition, OceanCare urges that the reform of the European Union Fisheries Policy to address pressing deficits.
OceanCare begins cooperation with CBD-Habitat to research and protect the endangered West African Manatee in Guinea-Bissau.
A legal opinion by OceanCare on the participation of nongovernmental organisations in international fora prompts the International Whaling Commission to begin formally hearing civil society interventions.
OceanCare secures the tightening of rules for keeping whales and dolphins in Switzerland.
On application by OceanCare and Oceanomare Delphis, the Italian Government declares the waters north of Ischia a marine protected area for common dolphins.
The Faroese Health Administration recommends against the consumption of pilot whale meat because of its contamination load.
OceanCare saves the long-term research of the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute from bankruptcy and supports the creation of a protected area for sperm whales in the waters south of Crete.
OceanCare becomes a member of the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition and campaigns alongside US dolphin activist Ric O’Barry for a ban on dolphin drive hunting.
By stopping the governmental approval process, a US Navy sonar manoeuvre in Hawaiian waters is blocked.
A study by OceanCare and the Environmental Investigation Agency on mercury contamination prompts a Japanese supermarket chain to remove whale and dolphin meat from its product range.
As a result of an intervention by OceanCare and the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition, the Dominican Republic refrains from importing twelve dolphins from the Japanese dolphin drive hunt.
OceanCare and the Tethys Research Institute begin monitoring fisheries in the waters around the Greek Island of Kalamos, an important dolphin habitat.
Together with its partner organisations, OceanCare achieves protection of whales off the Chilean coast.
OceanCare president Sigrid Lüber is awarded the environmental prize ‘Trophée de femmes’ by the Yves Rocher Foundation.
OceanCare unites organisations committed to protecting whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean under the umbrella of the Cetacean Alliance.
OceanCare contributes the chapter on underwater noise and its consequences for marine life to the United Nations Ocean Atlas.
OceanCare and Pro Wildlife influence debate within the International Whaling Commission with a catalogue of specific enforcement measures against illegal whaling.
The group of companies 7-Eleven removes all whale and dolphin meat from the shelves of its Japanese branches after intervention by OceanCare and the Environmental Investigation Agency.
Mexico bans the trade in dolphins after OceanCare and partners reveal a case of illegal importation.
OceanCare begins a successful partnership with CBD-Habitat to protect monk seals off the Mauritanian Atlantic coast.
The United Nations General Assembly classifies underwater noise as one of the five biggest threats to marine mammals and as one of the ten biggest threats to the oceans as a whole.
OceanCare becomes a member of the international Shark Alliance for the protection of sharks.
The European Parliament demands a moratorium on high frequency sonar. Spain bans the use of military sonar around the Canary Islands. Seismic tests are stopped in the Gulf of Mexico.
OceanCare begins to participate annually in the consultative debates on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
OceanCare becomes a Partner of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS).
OceanCare co-founds the International Ocean Noise Coalition, which is joined by 150 organisations worldwide.
A petition by OceanCare urges NATO members to optimise military tests in order to minimise impacts on marine mammals.
The Silent Oceans campaign against underwater noise is launched.
At the symposium ‘Whale Zone’ near Zurich, renowned scientists, politicians and marine protection activists discuss protection measures for marine mammals and oceans.
With an international law report on vote buying, OceanCare obtains a historical resolution for political transparency within the International Whaling Commission.
A quality label, Dolphin Safe, is introduced nationwide for tuna products in Switzerland.
OceanCare and the Japanese consumer protection organisation Safety First publish a study on toxic contamination of whales. Whale meat consumption in Japan declines.
Swiss supermarket chain Coop removes all shark products from its shelves as a result of OceanCare’s intervention.
Swiss dolphinarium Connyland closes a discotheque next to the dolphin basin after public pressure.
The Swiss delegation at the International Whaling Commission presents a legal opinion, developed by OceanCare, that the IWC is also responsible for small cetaceans.
In response to public pressure Knie’s Kinderzoo quits keeping dolphins.
Based on a study by OceanCare, the Faroese health administration recommends reducing consumption of contaminated pilot whale meat.
OceanCare pressures the International Whaling Commission to deal with whale health and risks to consumers who eat contaminated whale meat.
OceanCare is awarded the Elisabeth Rentschler animal protection prize for the organisation’s commitment against dolphin captivity.
OceanCare begins its work within the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora against the illegal trade in protected marine mammals.
As a result of pressure by OceanCare, Jamaica withdraws a permit to the catch of two dolphins for Knie’s Kinderzoo in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
The project MedCet begins to research whales and dolphins off the French Mediterranean coast.
The Swiss Museum of Transport donates a sculpture of a humpback whale fluke to OceanCare, which is mounted at the Au peninsula in Lake Zurich.
As a member of the Species Survival Network, OceanCare urges that governments abide by laws against the trade in endangered species.
OceanCare and partners prevent the construction of a salt mine in the nursery grounds of grey whales in the Gulf of California.
Mexico approves a marine protected area for Vaquitas in the Gulf of California.
OceanCare begins to participate in meetings of the International Whaling Commission.
In Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, OceanCare contributes to blocking the construction of a dolphinarium.
OceanCare wins the Dow President’s Environmental Care Award for dolphin protection.
In Martigny, Switzerland, OceanCare blocks the construction of a new dolphinarium.
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Offaly rents continue to rise sharply - report
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The price of renting in Offaly rose by 12.8%, above the national average, in the year to June 2018, according to the latest quarterly Rental Report by Ireland's No.1 Property Website, Daft.ie.
The average rent in Offaly now stands at €845.
Rents rose nationwide by an average of 12.4%, representing the ninth consecutive quarter in which a new all-time high for rents has been set and also in which annual inflation in rents has been greater than 10%.
The average monthly rent nationwide during the second quarter of 2018 was €1,304. This is €274 per month higher than the previous peak in 2008 and over €560 higher than the low seen in late 2011.
In Dublin, the increase in rents in the year to June 2018 was 13.4% and rents in the capital are now 34%, or almost €500 a month, higher than their previous peak a decade ago. Rents continue to rise rapidly in other cities also. In Limerick city, rents were 20.7% higher than a year ago, while in Waterford, the increase was 19.3%. Galway saw its rents increase by 15.9% in the same period, while in Cork, rents rose by 12.8%. Outside the five main cities, rents rose by an average of 10.4%.
There were 3,070 properties available to rent nationwide on August 1. This marks a 4.8% increase on the same figure a year ago but, aside from August 2017, the total availability is the lowest on record, going back to 2006. The small increase nationally was driven by Dublin, where availability improved from 1,121 to 1,397 comparing this August to a year ago. Elsewhere in the country, availability continues to fall.
Commenting on the report, Ronan Lyons, economist at Trinity College Dublin and author of the Daft Report, said: “While the building of new homes appears to be having some effect in the sales market, with inflation easing somewhat, there is no counterpart in the rental sector."
"While urban apartments make up almost all the net need for new homes in the country as a whole, just 13% of new homes completed in the year to March were urban apartments. In that context, it is unsurprising to see rents rise once more."
"As before, with such a mismatch between supply and demand, policy must focus on dramatically increasing the construction of urban apartments, for both market and social housing needs.”
Reacting to the latest Daft.ie report findings, Shane De Rís – Trinity Students’ Union President said: "It is tragic that yet again we’ll see students forced out of education due to the financial strain placed on them by the housing market, forced to delay their future due to Government inaction."
"There is no easy-fix to this crisis, but the time for action has already arrived.The housing crisis is the biggest obstacle facing the future of higher education in this country today."
Martin Clancy from Daft.ie said: “At the moment we are seeing on average, over 1,000 property searches taking place every minute on Daft.ie.”
Average rents, and year-on-year change, Q2 2018:
Dublin: €1,936, up 13.4%
Cork: €1,266, up 12.8%
Galway: €1,189, up 15.9%
Limerick: €1,109, up 20.7%
Waterford: €921, up 19.3%
Rest of the country: €909, up 10.4%
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T.J. Sharpe, a melanoma survivor and patient advocate, takes us through his diagnoses and how his cancer affected his life. It started with a small mole on his clavicle. Thanks to his mother’s encouragement, he got it checked out. Luckily for TJ, his cancer, although he would have preferred not to have it, came at a time when there were a lot of breakthroughs for melanoma. He underwent a clinical trial before finding the right one that worked. He offers very real advice by telling his fellow patients not to lose hope in the battle; to make time for those that you love, and to take the opportunity to slow down and realize the life, and family around you.
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Hello. I'm Andrew Schorr, and I'm sitting with T.J. Sharpe from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who has been living 14 years with a diagnosis of melanoma. So first, a little spot and then unfortunately later, years later, 12 years later a recurrence. T.J., how did that first spot show up?
T.J. Sharpe:
It was a simple, little mole on my clavicle that I don't know I ever would have gotten checked out it if wasn't for someone telling me to go to a dermatologist. And I went, and they took it off and said you should be fine. And I got a call two weeks later that said don't believe everything you read on the Internet about melanoma, but get yourself to the hospital.
Hmm. Okay. And someone else noticing it, was that your mom?
It was my mother.
Thank God for mom.
So you went in, and then you had it cut out, right?
Mm?hmm.
And what did they tell you about whether you ever had to worry about melanoma again?
They said I would have a 50 percent chance of getting it again. So I lathered up the sunscreen, I put on the floppy hat, I wore my long-sleeved shirts, and meanwhile the same melanoma was inside me for 12 years.
And you had no idea. And, of course, you were in the New York City area working in IT, and you'd go to the Jersey Shore.
And did as a kid, as well, maybe had some sunburns…
I'm sure.
…and as well. And so then 12 years later—and by then you were married, you had one young child and another one had just been born, your son Tommy. A month later, you were living in Florida. Then, what happened?
I started having a spiking fever and figured that I had caught something so went to the hospital with the assumption that it was just something, a bug going around. They took X-rays of my chest, and the doctor walked in and said, with your history of melanoma we believe you have a recurrence of your cancer. I was floored. I was there for the fever. I thought they had misdiagnosed me with somebody else.
And the expectation would be, and I'm sure many people expect this, is if melanoma is going to come back and you had it on your skin, it's going to show up on your skin.
You expected that.
That's exactly what I expected. I never would have imagined that the same melanoma was inside me for 12 years.
All right. Bad news. Inside you. How big was this tumor?
The biggest one was almost 9 centimeters right in my abdominal area. There [were] also ones in both lungs, spleen and liver.
All right. How did you cope with that? You had a new baby. You maybe didn't—weren't sure you'd beaten melanoma, but you had gone on with your life, and then it just hits you like a ton of bricks.
It was difficult. I knew that we had a pretty tough road ahead of us. The first hospitalization was for 16 days, so there's a lot of time to start doing research and come up with a plan. We visited our first oncologist who basically recommended the standard of care, dacarbazine (DTIC), and kind of said good luck. When my wife asked him, you know, what's our prognosis he said, you'll be lucky to see him here in two years.
And that wasn't going to be enough, so we ended up going okay, what's going to give me the best chance at a durable response? You know, I told each oncologist I have a small family. I have a young child who doesn't even know me. Give me the best chance I could have for a long-term durable response.
And what you did is you sought out a renowned melanoma specialist. You went to a major cancer center, and ultimately you entered a clinical trial.
People don't know that much about clinical trials. Why did you choose that? People say, well, I don't want to be a guinea pig, give me what's proven, but you went the extra mile.
T.J. Sharp:
Knowing that there was not a very high chance of a long-term survival with the current standard of care, at least with the current chemotherapies, we did our research. You know, we have friends that helped us along the way that had either been involved in clinical trials or in the pharmaceutical industry, and to a person they said the most cutting?edge treatments will be in clinical trials.
When you're a stage IV melanoma patient, you don't have a ton of options, and the ones that were available weren't exactly appealing to get that long?term durable response. So we said, okay, let's try to find something that's as personalized as possible, that's going to give me a great chance of not just beating this—you know, keeping this off for a while but truly beating cancer.
Now, let's tell a little more of the story. You were in the trial, and it had some immunotherapy, which is really the new frontier for melanoma, and it did do some good for you but not as well as you'd hoped. So ultimately you were in a second trial and different drug, different immunotherapy. How has it worked out for you?
It's worked out fantastic. Our scans are showing that there [are] still two small spots, but they're very small. The drop in tumor burden was almost immediate. You could actually see—on each gland on the side of my neck there were tumors, and you could see them shrinking in the first few weeks of the drug working.
Now, let's talk about that. You've gone through a lot of treatment and surgery. You had the surgery for the adrenal gland, laparoscopic, but you had a colostomy…
And now that's been reversed.
So you had your intestines back together.
And I understand you're just going on with your life, very devoted to other patients. You do a blog. You do yoga. You're a former tight end, college football at Carnegie Mellon. You're trying to go on with your life. What would you say to other people about going on with your life?
The biggest thing is not to let cancer rule your life. It's an important part, especially in an initial diagnosis when you don't know enough, when you're looking for answers. Once you kind of get the plan you want to—do go in for and you find what you think the best treatment is for you, that you balance it. I think one of the things that we've learned is balance, whether it's diet or exercise or spending time with family and friends, that get into a little bit more of a balance is something that was really important to not just me but to my family.
And a lot of the things that I thought were important the month before my diagnosis don't seem as important now. You know, I take the time to take walks with my children or to go on a bike ride with them. You know, my wife and I will go out on a small date night, you know, where, you know, as before there was so much busy in life that we didn't always take the time to appreciate each other, the beautiful place that we live, the small moments with our children.
And just before I, you know, I flew out here for this interview, you know, my little girl was crying, I don't want you to leave, Daddy. And, you know, maybe if that had been three years ago, I would have just said, hey, I have to go to work. We have stuff to do. You know, I took the time and lay with her and explained to her not just what I—where I was going but why I was going and how this is going to help other patients understand what they're going through and hopefully help some of them find the right treatments.
One last thing I want to talk to you about and that is things are changing in melanoma, not for everybody but for a lot of people. That initial doctor said, well, maybe you'll live two years, and you're starting to beat that. And you're looking at your 40th birthday coming up and hopefully starting to plan a little bit for the future.
Mm-hmm.
Do you feel lucky that you're affected by this at a time where, in fact, things are changing? ‘Cause I know the doctors are excited. Are you excited?
Absolutely. I've said quite a few times if you're going to get melanoma this is the right time to get it. I feel extremely blessed and fortunate that not only have I had my recurrence in a time where there [have] been significant breakthroughs, but I was also able to navigate to those. And a significant number of patients still don't have the knowledge or the guidance to get themselves there.
And part of what I try to do when I outreach to patients is let them know that there are significant, significant breakthroughs happening, you know, game-changing, different—difference makers in the oncology world and to make sure that they do the research and not just say, okay, my doctor told me I should do this, so let's do it.
And that's an exciting thing, because I know there [have] been too many people I know that haven't won their battle. And to know this is going to make that number decrease and the number of people like me, you know, go up tremendously is a pretty neat thing to be involved in.
Wow. Well said. T.J. Sharpe, all the best to you. I hope we can talk again and maybe toss a football around.
Do yoga class together.
We can do that.
Years from now. Years from now, okay?
I'm looking forward to it.
And happy, an early happy 40th birthday, okay?
All right. Andrew Schorr with T.J. Sharpe, and really he's an inspiration to all of us as we see changes going on, fortunately, for people with advanced melanoma.
Remember, knowledge can be the best medicine of all.
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TIME includes ‘feminist’ in poll of words to ban
Nation Nov 13, 2014 4:58 PM EDT
TIME left readers puzzled, and many outraged, yesterday with the inclusion of the word “feminist” in a poll titled “Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?”
TIME included “feminist” in a poll asking “Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?”
“Feminist” appears alongside “om nom nom nom” and “yaaasssss” in a list where readers can choose which word makes them want to “seek out the nearest the pair of chopsticks and thrust them through your own eardrums.”
It is also currently leading the poll, having netted 50 percent of votes so far—a result due in part to 4Chan users, who have rallied on message boards to upvote “feminist.” 4Chan, some of whose users have attracted attention recently for their involvement in “Gamergate” and hacking celebrities’ nude photos, has multiple threads dedicated to tracking poll results and asking others to vote.
Author Katy Steinmetz provided this rationale for choosing “feminist” in a blurb on the poll:
You have nothing against feminism itself, but when did it become a thing that every celebrity had to state their position on whether this word applies to them, like some politician declaring a party? Let’s stick to the issues and quit throwing this label around like ticker tape at a Susan B. Anthony parade.
It is, though, a thing that TIME has written about before; multiple pieces from the magazine have centered on female celebrities’ relationship with feminism. TIME has published a list of 17 female celebrities talking about what feminism means to them along with profiles of Shailene Woodley and Kelly Clarkson in which their stance on feminism appears in the headline.
The move attracted criticism online. Jezebel writer Anna Merlan wrote,
Yes, why does everyone have to talk about feminism? Why can’t we all just be feminists quietly? At home? Only very late at night when everybody’s sleeping? Or like in our teeny tiniest voices? Or in a soundproof hyperbaric chamber, maybe, where it won’t, like, bother anybody?
Steinmetz defended the choice as a critique on the media.
@RebeccaSchinsky Please see the blurb for context. The inclusion is responding to trends in the media, not feminism itself.
— Katy Steinmetz (@katysteinmetz) November 12, 2014
This is far from TIME’s first run-in with 4chan, who have intervened to manipulate poll results several times before. In 2009, 4Chan users gathered votes for TIME’s Person of the Year poll to place 4Chan founder Christopher Poole at the top—a prank that TIME itself covered.
Washington Post writer Caitlin Dewey described the move as a calculated play for more page views, summarizing it as “trolling the trolls, and doing so successfully.”
Corinne is the Senior Multimedia Web Editor for NewsHour Weekend. She serves on the advisory board for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
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Intel Core vs. AMD Ryzen: Which offers the best ba...
Intel Core vs. AMD Ryzen: Which offers the best bang for buck
Does AMD's new Ryzen 3000 alter the best bang for the bang landscape?
Gordon Mah Ung (PC World (US online)) on 18 June, 2019 20:00
If you’re asking yourself whether AMD’s Ryzen or Intel’s Core offers the best bang for the buck right now, we understand. AMD’s freshly unveiled 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X has nerds from Topeka to Kuala Lumpur wanting to know if the CPU landscape has again been redrawn with AMD’s new CPUs.
Unfortunately, although we know how many cores, what clock speed, and even what’s under the hood of AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 chips, we don’t have independent confirmation of how fast these chips are just yet. We expect that by the time they go on sale on July 7.
But in the spirit of the meaningless sports statistics you’re fed before every NBA Finals or Superbowl, we’ve gone to the spreadsheet to analyze which CPU and which company appears to have the best bang for the buck.
We looked at three metrics which we know generally drive CPU performance: core and thread count (or how many CPU cores you have), and good old megahertz. You might have been told years ago that megahertz doesn’t matter anymore, but they were lying, because it does. The other pillar to determine value is, of course, how much it costs.
How much value does AMD’s new Ryzen 3000-series offer? This much.
AMD or Intel: Best multi-threaded value
To assess multi-threaded value, we took AMD’s existing lineup of Ryzen mainstream chips (plus a couple of Threadrippers for reference) and compared them to AMD’s new Ryzen chips, along with Intel’s current stable of CPUs.
For pricing we used the MSRP for the new Ryzen 3000 CPUs. We used street pricing on either Newegg.com or Amazon.com to set our prices for the Ryzen 2000, Threadripper, and Core and Xeon CPUs.
Amazingly, if you put a line horizontally across our Cost per Thread chart and told AMD CPUs to step to the value side and told the Intel CPUs to step to not-as-good-a-value side, you’d get the results below.
AMD continues to dominate in the cost-per-thread contest.
No surprise: AMD’s multi-threaded value isn’t just good, it’s insanely good. The amount of value AMD offers on a buck per thread is so good, the company should have a few wacky waving inflatable tube men in front of AMD headquarters declaring, “ALL THREADS MUST GO!”
The best multi-core deals are AMD’s older Ryzen 2000-gen parts, with the 6-core Ryzen 5 2600 winning overall best deal for the cores. We’d argue, however, that the power-efficient Ryzen 7 2700 might be even better, because you get 8 cores and 16 threads of performance from the chip for just a little more dough.
AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 is another contender. With its combination of power efficiency and greater computing efficiency, it offers better overall bang for buck compared to Ryzen 2000 chips.
As we move up higher in AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 lineup, we can see a large bump in price per core, with the 6-core Ryzen 5 3600X, 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X, and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X all costing about $21 per thread. Interestingly, the new 16-core Ryzen 9 2950X costs only $23 per thread, which is slightly better than the chip with the worst multi-core value of the family: the 8-core Ryzen 9 3800X, at $25 per thread. The Ryzen 9 3800X’s value per thread is basically the same as that of a 32-core Threadripper 2990WX.
Unlike AMD, Intel doesn’t seem to care to lower its value per thread. The closest Intel CPU is an 8-core Core i9-9900 for $27 per thread. It’s a low-wattage 65-watt chip, though, so it gives up ground in clock speed performance.
Much of Intel’s lack of value comes from the fact that the company doesn’t offer Hyper-Threading on many of its mid-range 6-core chips. Without performance-boosting Hyper-Threading, the 6-core Core i7-9700K cost is pushed up to a painful price of $51 per thread. That’s more than Intel charges per thread for a $1,200 Core i9-9920X CPU. Ouch.
Obviously the big question is whether you need so many cores. If you edit video, do many, many CPU-intensive things at once, or render 3D, then yes, it’s worth it. If you don’t, however, the “value” you’re getting for these AMD CPUs might not be quite there. Of course, the smart thing to do instead of paying for a $500 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X would be to opt for a lower-cost Ryzen chip.
The basic upshot is that AMD continues run the entire field in multi-core value over Intel chips. And if you need that multi-core performance, that means AMD is going to offer you way more bang for the buck over Intel right now.
Does it mean it’s faster? No, we can’t determine that until we actually test AMD’s newest chips. Based on previous AMD Ryzen 2000 chips, however, and the sheer price and thread advantage, we’re pretty comfortable saying AMD wins this hands-down.
AMD vs. Intel: Best megahertz bang for the buck
As we said, paying for a big, hairy multi-core chip is pointless unless you actually use that chip to its fullest extent.
For most people who play games, run some browser windows, or engage in mainstream productivity tasks, a CPU’s clock speed may be more valuable in determining CPU value and performance. The sticky part with that equation is that each CPU’s clock will vary determined on load and cooling. Unlike our previous multi-threaded-per-buck chart, which we have fairly high confidence will come close to reality for heavily-threaded tasks, this is a lot looser.
Still, it’s interesting to see which of the CPUs gives you the best bang for the megahertz. To do that, we use each CPU’s stated Turbo Boost or Boost clock speed. We opted not to include AMD’s Precision Boost score, because that’s highly dependent on conditions, and instead stuck with the company’s stated top boost clock.
Does AMD or Intel offer more value per clock? To find out, we calculated the street price vs. the boost clock of the CPUs to find out which chip gives you the best dollar per boast megahertz.
If you look closely at cents per megahertz, you finally see Intel’s chips at least come into contention. The winners again, however, are AMD, specifically the older Ryzen 6 2600 and 2600X parts.
We’d like to point out that if you look at the third-best value per clock, it highlights an overall weakness with trying to judge the chips on megahertz alone. The Ryzen 5 3600 is a low-wattage part, but it’s actually rated to hit the same 4.2GHz as the higher-wattage Ryzen 5 2600X. With just a $20 difference to get AMD’s leading-edge 7nm process vs. the Ryzen 5 2600X, we’d probably go with the newer Ryzen 5 3600 instead.
With this metric you also have to think really hard about how you use your computer. Intel’s CPUs still offer decent clock rates at OK prices, but you do give up Hyper-Threading. For tasks that need more threads, such as 3D rendering or video encoding, that’s real performance likely lost. Based purely on clock speeds, Intel still has a compelling argument for why you might want to buy one. But AMD has its own compelling message for why you might want to skip Intel this time.
AMD takes the prize for megahertz value as well, but remember that’s based on the older CPUs. Once you get to AMD’s brand-new Ryzen 3000 chips, the megahertz/buck race is closer than we expected. Frankly, we’d say it’s a tie if you’re looking only at Core vs. Ryzen 3000.
The intangibles
This exercise is fun and gives us a general feel for where the chips might fall, but it does miss a lot of intangibles. When you consider bang for buck you have to count everything. AMD’s had the advantage of including decent coolers with popular features such as RGB. Intel’s stock fans typically aren’t included on any higher-end parts, and if you do buy one with a fan, the fan is about as vanilla as you can get.
The other part of the equation to consider is the cost of the motherboard that the CPU goes into. AMD has had a small cost advantage over Intel-based motherboards, but that seems to be going away with the new Ryzen 3000 chips due to the pricier x570 motherboards. Those motherboards also offer PCIe 4.0 support, which can’t be had on Intel CPUs.
For its part, Intel continues to have a very healthy lead in applications that do video encoding or decoding on the integrated graphics. Called QuickSync, Intel’s dedicated hardware inside its GPUs have finally become a feature to be reckoned with. But Intel’s newest “KF” CPUs have the IGP turned off, so yeah, there goes that advantage.
It’s best to wait for independent testing before making any buying decisions. Overall, however, it’s clear AMD still leads the way on multi-threaded value. The competition gets a lot closer when you look only at single-threaded value.
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First Look: Skype for the iPhone
By Liane Cassavoy
At long last, Skype has made it to the iPhone. And based on my early tests of the popular voice-over-IP app, I'm happy to say it was worth the wait. Skype for iPhone certainly isn't perfect, but it looks good, is easy to use, and offers excellent voice quality--particularly when making Skype-to-Skype calls.
Skype for iPhone offers features similar to those found in the company's other mobile versions, which work on Windows Mobile, Android, and Java-based phones. It lets you see when your Skype contacts are online and available; make free Skype-to-Skype calls; use the SkypeOut feature to make calls to landlines and cell phones; send instant messages to your Skype contacts; and receive incoming calls via a SkypeIn number. You can't make video calls or conference calls, as you can with the desktop version of Skype, but you can, reportedly, accept an incoming conference call (though we weren't able to test this feature).
I downloaded Skype from the App Store, signed in with my user name and password, and the app automatically imported all of my account info, including my contacts and the available balance in my SkypeOut account. The interface is very similar to the Windows Mobile version, though it does have an iPhone feel. The dialpad, for example, looks very similar to the iPhone's own dialpad; the same is true of Skype's contact list, which offers an iPhone-like filtering tab.
Skype for iPhone requires Wi-Fi to make any kind of voice calls. 9to5Mac was able to make voice calls over AT&T's 3G network on an iPhone running the not-yet-released 3.0 software; we tried the same thing on a 3G iPhone running the current 2.2 software, and were unable to connect.
Voice Quality Great
Voice calls made over Wi-Fi sounded very good, though. Skype-to-Skype calls were loud and clear, with quality that was better than your average cell phone call. SkypeOut calls made to both landlines and cell phones weren't quite as sharp, but the overall quality was very good, and was comparable to a very good cellular call. On one call I heard a noticeable and distracting echo, but it lasted less than a minute. The existing SkypeOut rates, which start at 2.1 cents per minute, stay the same on the iPhone.
In all, calls made using Skype for iPhone were of significantly better voice quality than any of the mobile VoIP services I tested for a recent PC World story. That roundup included Skype for Windows Mobile and Truphone, a Skype-like service for the iPhone. Skype for the iPhone blew them both out of the water in terms of voice quality.
A Few Glitches
Skype for iPhone is not without flaws, though. It showed one of my contacts as offline, even though he was connected. (It wasn't until he called me that his status changed to show him online.) And the app was occasionally slow to respond to taps on the touch screen; I sometimes experienced a noticeable delay when trying to initiate or end a call, for example.
You won't find a whole lot in the way of iPhone-only features in this version of Skype. You can use your iPhone camera to take a picture to use as your profile photo, or you can upload a picture from your existing photo roll. But that's about it. Still, if you're looking for a solid mobile VoIP service for your iPhone, I can easily recommend Skype. Sure, rival services like Truphone have some features that Skype for iPhone lacks--such as the ability to chat via third-party IM services like AIM and Yahoo Messenger. But, to me, call quality is what matters. And Skype wins that battle easily.
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Mailbag: Should the Eagles have signed WR John Brown instead of DeSean Jackson
By Jimmy Kempski
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DeSean Jackson vs. John Brown: Who would you rather have?
In our Eagles chat this week, there were a lot of questions that we could not get to in time or other questions we did answer but could use more color. And so, let's do a mailbag post to answer some of the overflow.
Question form Eagles in NC: Any thoughts on acquiring DeSean Jackson as opposed to the younger John Brown? Did compensatory picks play a role?
The comparison of Jackson and Brown is interesting because they both signed three-year deals worth $27 million (though they are structured differently).
On the field, both players possess outstanding speed, but Jackson's career has been far superior. He is perhaps the most prolific deep threat in the history of the NFL. And really, no matter how you slice Jackson's and Brown's numbers – last year, last two years, last three years, last four years, overall career, whatever – Jackson’s are better.
Jackson vs. Brown DeSean Jackson John Brown
Last year 41-774-4 42-715-5
Last 2 years 91-1,442-7 63-1,014-8
Last 3 years 147-2,447-11 102-1,531-10
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In 2018, Jackson played 12 games. Had he played in all 16, he was on pace for 1,032 yards. If you'd like to make the argument that he's prone to missing a few games each season, that's fair, but it's also (somewhat) true of Brown.
As for age, Jackson will turn 32. He'll turn 33 in December. Brown is 28, but will turn 29 in a couple weeks. Brown is roughly 3.5 years younger. It's not as if he is some sort of up-and-comer with an untapped ceiling. He's a year and a couple weeks from turning 30.
So the question then becomes, will Jackson's skills suddenly fall off a cliff over the next, oh, let's say two years? If you think the answer is yes, then perhaps Brown would have been the better signing. If you think Jackson still has wheels (as he showed in 2018), then I'll take the better player, which is very clearly Jackson.
In the Eagles' offense, what they lacked most last season was a player who could stretch the field. Over Brown's five year career, he has 13 receptions of 40-plus yards. Jackson has more than double that (28) over that same span, and an absurd 63 for his career.
While Brown is fast, he doesn't have the same clout as Jackson, who will strike fear into opposing defenses. The mere presence of Jackson will force opposing safeties to keep a watchful eye on getting beaten over the top. That didn't exist in 2018, and it showed. With Jackson on the field, watch as the short to intermediate areas of the field open up for guys like Alshon Jeffery and Zach Ertz.
To your last point about compensatory picks, the Eagles traded almost nothing to acquire Jackson. Had they signed Brown, he would have canceled out one of the fourth-round picks the Eagles are projected to receive for the losses of Jordan Hicks or Golden Tate. I think the Eagles aggressively pursued Jackson because he was the best deep threat available. The comp pick angle is just an added bonus.
Question from Turd Ferguson: How would you rank the teams in the division going into the draft?
Eagles: Best QB, head coach, and GM in the division, by far, and a really good roster otherwise.
Cowboys: Some nice, young pieces. Sustainability of good injury luck a season ago would be a concern if I were them.
Giants: Bottom 5 team. Got rid of their best player on offense, and three best players on defense.
Washington: Who's the quarterback?
Question from DB: Do you think Timmy Jernigan comes back? Seems like there’s no market, given his injury. He might excel in a rotational role.
When free agency began, I was curious to see how much interest Jernigan would receive. So far, I haven't seen any reported interest from any other teams around the league.
After a mysterious offseason injury, Jernigan missed the first 10 games in 2018, came back for one game, re-aggravated his back, missed three more games, and returned in a limited role for the stretch run. His snap counts, via Football Outsiders:
Timmy Jernigan Snaps
Week 12 - Giants 19
Week 13 - Washington 0
Week 14 - Cowboys 0
Week 15 - Rams 0
Week 16 - Texans 17
Wildcard round - Bears 22
Divisional round - Saints 36
To begin, both Jernigan and the Eagles opted not to be forthcoming about how Jernigan injured his back in the first place. Teams around the league will surely want to know what happened before they pay him millions, so it's possible the circumstances of his injury raised red flags.
Beyond that, Jernigan is a 300-pound man coming off back surgery. That has undoubtedly scared teams off.
If Jernigan doesn't find any interest around the league, it would make sense for the Eagles to bring him back on a very cheap "prove it" deal. As a rotational guy who plays 15 or so snaps per game, he could be a disruptive player. The Eagles would just have to be careful relying on too many injury-risk players, seeing as injuries were ultimately too much to overcome a season ago.
Question from Joe: I feel like Josh Jacobs and David Montgomery are head and shoulders above the rest of the running back class. Those are the only two with the passing game chops I trust to be three-down backs. Think the Eagles draft one of those two guys?
Yes, I do think the Eagles could take a running back on Day 1 or Day 2 of the draft, with Day 2 more likely, and I think either player would be a good fit.
I did want to answer this question to point you all in the direction of this highly enjoyable read about this running back class, by Thor Nystrom. It's way better than anything I'll write here.
Question from SnailWhale: Will Mack Hollins be a restricted free agent like Sidney Jones because they both (essentially) missed full seasons?
No. Jones’ torn Achilles at his pro day was labeled a “non-football injury,” at least in terms of NFL language. As a result, because he did not appear in at least six regular season games in 2017, he did not earn an “accrued season.” Therefore, at the end of his rookie contract, he will not have the required four accrued seasons to qualify as an unrestricted free agent. He’ll have three, and will thus become a restricted free agent.
Hollins’ missed season in 2018 was not due to a “non-football injury.” He earned an accrued season in 2018, and remains on schedule to become an unrestricted free agent at the conclusion of his rookie contract.
Now, to note, Jones is very much getting a raw deal, in my opinion, and I wouldn't be surprised if he filed a grievance against the Eagles if they hold him to his RFA status in a few years, just as A.J. McCarron did with the Bengals a couple years ago, which McCarron won.
Question from JPP’s Index Finger: Are you surprised Joe Douglas is still around? I thought he would have gotten some GM offers by now.
There are so many terrible general managers in the NFL.
Bruce Allen, who has been an unmitigated disaster for his entire nine-year tenure, still has a job. Jason Licht, who whiffed on Jameis Winston, and who traded up in the second round FOR A KICKER who ended up sucking, has a job. Steve Keim, who signed Sam Bradford for $20 million, Mike Glennon for $4 million, and traded up for Josh Rosen, all three of whom might be gone by the start of the 2019 season, kept his job. Dave Gettleman, who, well, I don't even have to get started there, has a job. There are more, but I think I've made my point.
Is Joe Douglas the most qualified of potential general manager candidates? I really have no idea. That's not an area of expertise for me. Would any of those above teams be in better shape with Douglas? No question.
Question from Dan: I was listening to WIP, and the host said that there is no pressure on Carson Wentz. I think there is a ton of pressure on Wentz from everyone inside and outside the locker room.
Lol, what? Who said that?
I feel like I don’t even need to answer this, but, uh, yeah, whether you’re Donovan McNabb, Nick Foles, Carson Wentz, or Bubby Brister, if you’re a starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, there is pressure.
If the Eagles gave up a lot to draft you second overall, you had the last two seasons end with injury, one of which culminated with the beloved backup bringing home the franchise’s first Super Bowl win – and who is now gone despite unanimous acceptance from the city – I’d say that pressure to perform is ramped up juuuuust a tad.
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Sweden Bans Creationism / ID
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Moridin
I'm from Sweden and I'd though that this would be interesting for the global community.
The Swedish government is to crack down on the role religion plays in independent faith schools. The new rules will include a ban on biology teachers teaching creationism or 'intelligent design' alongside evolution.
"Pupils must be protected from all forms of fundamentalism," said Education Minister Jan Björklund to Dagens Nyheter. [...] Björklund also said the Swedish National Agency for Education would double the number of inspections of both council-run and independent schools. He also announced a ban on anonymous financial donations to schools and said he would make it easier to close schools that were breaking the rules.
Björklund also said the Swedish National Agency for Education would double the number of inspections of both council-run and independent schools. He also announced a ban on anonymous financial donations to schools and said he would make it easier to close schools that were breaking the rules.
http://www.thelocal.se/8790/20071015/ [Broken]
Confessional education is getting banned
The education that is controlled by the curriculum should be non confessional. That message was given by school minister Jan Björklund at a press conference Monday.
By confessional, he means the education that aims to a confession or that puts forward a certain conviction of the true teaching. According to Dagens Nyheter, a biology teacher [in a religious free school] will not be allowed to present the biblical account of creation side-by-side with evolution
http://www.dagen.se/dagen/Article.aspx?ID=143564 [Broken] (Swedish, but translated above)
Religious content shall be banned in schools. That's a decision made by the leaders of the Alliance, the four-party coalition that currently leads Sweden. They will also stop hidden contributions and a mismanaged school will be shut down within 2 weeks. "The pupils must be protected against all forms of fundamentalism" say Jan Björklund, the Swedish education minister.
Now it's crystal clear; this content will not be allowed. Some statements made by free-schools have given us a worrying picture, say Jan Björklund.
It will still be allowed to read morning prayer, but as soon as the real teachings begin, it must follow the same content that is taught by the other schools.
Problems in religious free schools has been discussed a lot the last few years. Minister of Immigration Nyamko Sabuni (fp) has wanted to ban religious free schools entirely, and as late as last month, the pary secretary of the Social Democrats Marita Ulvskog has called them 'child prisons'.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1042&a=704437 [Broken] (Swedish, but translated above)
Swedish Social Democrats [current opposition; actually larger than the ruling government according to recent polls] demands a quick end to religious schools. The Social Democrats demands that the current government quickly create a bill to change the law so that some religious schools can be stopped.
[The Social Democrats is the largest Swedish party and the most likely to win next election]
It is all over the news.
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rewebster
that clears things up.....
Bush isn't a Swede
Wow, imagine that, schools being required to actually teach real science.
Science Advisor
Insights Author
No way that would fly here. Public schools, yes. However, I take this as mandating what is taught in private schools as well. That is a bit too intrusive for my tastes. BTW, I'm an agnostic, so I do not have any axe to grind here.
Independent faith schools in Sweden may be privately owned, but they are largely funded by the government. The country also has a national education standard that apply to all schools.
Moonbear
Moridin said:
The country also have a national education standard that apply to all schools.
I wish we had a similar standard here. I have no problem with religious schools teaching religious beliefs, but I have a problem with them handicapping their students by teaching them religious beliefs are science (or any other subject other than religion).
Astronuc
Moonbear said:
I have no problem with comparative religion or teaching factual information about religious belief, just as we teach or study different political, sociological or economic systems, philosophies and practices.
I do have a problem of people teaching specific beliefs as being THE one and only true belief exclusive of other beliefs, and I do have a problem with mysticism or mythology taught as being the reality.
And in no way should religion be taught in the public classroom as an alternative to science.
Hurkyl
I have a problem with them handicapping their students by teaching them religious beliefs are science (or any other subject other than religion).
Agreed. But nor should religion be excised from a Science class, or any other class. A religous person has additional educational needs; for example, a political science course in a religious school ought to address the religious issues in civic participation. And if their dogma leads them to significantly different a priori beliefs on some topics, a science class should (properly!) discuss where and how Bayesian inference would lead them to different conclusions than the mainstream.
PZ Myers "Needs more Swedes":
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/10/needs_more_swedes.php [Broken]
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http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/10/sweden-bans-bio.html
Sweden’s centre-right coalition government said in a statement it had agreed to clarify regulations to remove any leeway for religious views to influence the curriculum. “This is naturally brought about by the fact that different viewpoints are being discussed, for instance about the creation of the world - one based on science and one on religious views,” Education Minister Jan Bjorklund told a news conference. “Teaching in school must have a scientific basis.” The Council of Europe this month voted to urge European schools to strongly oppose teaching creationism and intelligent design in science classes, saying attacks on the theory of evolution were rooted in religious extremism. Creationism argues God made the world in six days as set out in the Bible while proponents of intelligent design say some life forms are too complex to have evolved without the aid of a higher intelligence. While most schools in Sweden are run by municipalities, a minority are run by various religious groups. Bjorklund said the government, of which the Christian Democrats are a junior member, would restructure supervision of Sweden’s schools and double funding for inspections to about 300 million Swedish crowns (NZ$61.1 million).
Gokul43201
D H said:
No way that would fly here. Public schools, yes. However, I take this as mandating what is taught in private schools as well. That is a bit too intrusive for my tastes.
Not for mine. I see little difference between preaching religious dogma to children and raising them on a daily dose of crack cocaine - both cause long-term damage to the brain.
Hurkyl said:
The difficulty here is the wide variety of religious axioms that you'd have to separately cover. The Young Earth Creationist, the Scientologist, the Mormon...will all need different arguments.
Ivan Seeking
Gokul43201 said:
Then you clearly know very little about crack cocaine.
Ivan Seeking said:
Okay, I was being a little facetious. But only a little.
Would it make you happier if I replaced the crack cocaine with a heavy knock on the head?
Many of the goups out there are terrifying; even speaking as someone who attended a Catholic school and has been very religious. But, yes, having watched people go down on drugs, I found that statement pretty offensive [philosphically speaking].
We had one hour of religion each day and the rest was spent doing the basics. We also got a better education [including science and math] than did most kids in the public schools, which is primarily why my parents scrimped and scraped to send us there [there were no tax credits back then]. All in all I would have to say that it was a positive experience.
Evolution was taught without equivocation.
Having seen young, pliable minds (incredibly wonderful things, IMO) being destroyed by indoctrination, I find any downplaying of such "murder" pretty offensive.
ZapperZ
Education Advisor
As far as I know, the catholic schools here in the Chicago Archdioceses do not teach creationism/ID in their biology classes.
And while this is not strictly on-topic, in case anyone missed this, you might want to read this preprint that appeared today on ArXiv (actually, it appeared late last night). It reports on a class for science educators on the consideration of whether ID is a science or not. However, that isn't the important aspect, because once everyone understood what "science" is and what ID is, everyone was unanimous in proclaiming that ID isn't a science. What is more important and disturbing is that a small percentage of the participant still, even after acknowledging that ID isn't a science, that it still should be taught in a science class as an "alternative"!
As the report indicated, it is difficult to reconcile with this inconsistency.
Zz.
Do you mean any religion, or just the fundamentalists and cults.
According to the 2003 Volunteer Supplement to the Current Population Survey (conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics), 35 percent of Americans devote the greatest amount of their volunteer time to religious organizations and 41 percent volunteer at a religious organization to at least some extent, making religious organizations the most popular site for volunteering. Based on data from the volunteer management survey, we now know that 83 percent of congregations participate in or support social service, community development, or neighborhood organizing projects and 21 percent of America's charities include religious practices and faith as a core part of their mission.
http://www.urban.org/publications/411143.html
What a bunch of crack addicts. Someone must have hit them in the head!
Why would a Catholic school have to cover those?
Oops, guess I misinterpreted what you said. In any case, do you honestly expect say, a Catholic school, to stand by the standards you've set for it? Do you think a majority of them currently do?
And to Ivan, yes, the large part of the Earth's population has been hit on the head repeatedly. A tiny fraction of these people have recovered.
I'm cynical enough to believe that most schools (not just religious) don't live up to a reasonable standard.
Though I do admit I imagine what I stated for a religious science class would be particularly difficult to achieve, due to the vehement criticism many express whenever religion and science get anywhere close to one another.
And if their dogma leads them to significantly different a priori beliefs on some topics, a science class should (properly!) discuss where and how Bayesian inference would lead them to different conclusions than the mainstream.
Shouldn't science belong in science class and religious questions such as 'how does this and that part of science affect our beliefs' belong in religious studies, comparative religion or, with all other options exhausted, at home?
An extrapolated example would be the Holocaust and a given religion that denies it. Should history lessons spend time on discuss where and how Bayesian inference would lead them to a different considerations than mainstream?
kach22i
Thanks, I reposted a link to here in another forum, I trust you don't mind.
http://carnuts.us/viewtopic.php?t=2060 [Broken]
Science does belong in science class; isn't that the whole point? A religious person shouldn't have to turn to someone with little or no scientific training to interpret the results of experiment. But if you force their religious context to be kept out of science class, this is exactly what you are forcing them to do.
(Of course, I agree that nonscience should not be taught as science)
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Doing more: We went to the roller derby!
Surely it’s no secret by now that full-time RV living allows us to live by our name: Own Less, Do More. And one really cool thing we got to do recently, while staying at a campground near our former hometown of Norfolk, VA, was attend a friend’s roller derby game — a first for us.
Now before I get too far into this, you need to know right from the first whistle that I am not a sports fan. I rarely know which -ball season it is, I don’t understand team loyalty because the team changes every year, and I really really don’t care about your fantasy league.
But ya know what? Watching roller derby was a blast, y’all!
My friend, Heather, who goes by Sugar Rush when skating as #711 with Mid Atlantic Roller Derby, is a woman of many talents. In no particular order: hair stylist, mermaid, craft business owner, pinup girl, step mom, and former U.S. Marine.
She is Fun with a capital F, and a beautiful person through and through.
(Note to self: Stop posing for photos with Heather.)
So when I showed up to have her give my hair a quick trim, and she asked if I wanted a couple of tickets to her game the following week, I could not say yes fast enough.
Heather had dressed up as a derby girl for Halloween one year, and her fancy became an obsession, which then turned into a passion, after a player named Tenacious V invited her to a team practice. Heather became a real live derby girl in November of 2015.
When Tim and I arrived at the arena for the game, I expected to see lots of torn fishnet stockings, booty shorts, tattoos, and wild hair styles. And I was right. Lots. Those women did not disappoint.
What I did not expect was the family friendly atmosphere, the pre-game national anthem, the camaraderie and support — not just amongst teammates but even between the two teams — and the philanthropic aspect of the game. A portion of that night’s proceeds benefitted the Alzheimer’s Association.
What I saw was a commitment to sport, safety, and community, while also getting to take in a really good show. The players even signed autographs for some of the youngest fans after the game!
That’s Heather signing a fan’s arm.
How cute is that?
A simplified description of play, summarized from my program (for the real deal, go here):
Each team sends a pack of 5 players to the track: 4 blockers and 1 jammer.
Each jammer is identified by the star on her helmet, and jammers are the only players who can score points.
Jammers score points by passing opposing skaters by the hips, and the first jammer to break through the pack legally is called the lead jammer.
Only the lead jammer can call off the jam before the 2-minute duration is up, which she does by tapping her hips repeatedly, making the moves nice and big so the referees will notice.
By calling the jam off early, the lead jammer prevents the opposing team from scoring. (There’s a brief video explanation here, and you can see a real live jammer “call it off” at about the 1:17 mark.)
Could I follow all the action? No. It confused the heck out of my poor sports-challenged brain. But “Call it off” is my new favorite gesture, and I wish I’d had it in my parenting arsenal when our boys were young.
I guess I could now use it in the RV when Tim is making me crazy. Right?
Heather admitted to a rookie mistake involving this very gesture. “I have called off the jam not realizing I was not the lead. Oops!”
My favorite part was reading the roster of skaters’ team names, which are really terribly creative. A few that made me LOL: Brooklyn DeckHer, Slayboy Bunny, Larraine of Terror, Matilda the Hun, and Zombie ApocaLyzz.
Would I go to see roller derby again? Absolutely! And I encourage you to Google “roller derby near me” to find out where and when you can take in a game too. You might just find a new obsession.
As for why Heather stays with it, “The biggest reason is that I don’t just want to say ‘I did roller derby,’ I want to remember that I gave it my all. We support wonderful charitable organizations, and I have met so many amazing people, I cannot even describe the support and friendships that have developed with this sport.”
Heather's the green jammer!
Author’s note: A version of this post appears at Heartland RVs. It is printed here with permission.
in Doing more, Guest blog, Things we do | July 10, 2017 | 795 Words | 2 Comments
An epic fail, advice from a stoner, and how we ended up with a new truck
A funny thing happened in March, on our way from San Antonio, TX, to Elkhart, IN, for a service appointment to take care of some welding issues on The Toad: the BFT is the one that failed us.
Irony: the dependably cooperative BFT dies on the way to having the notoriously lemony RV repaired.
WHO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THE TRUCK???
Not what we were expecting.
Our incredibly reliable, tough-as-nails, much adored 2012 Chevy Silverado 3500 dually sputtered and quickly died while we were driving on I-35 just south of Dallas — a mere 225 miles into our 1300-mile trip.
On the plus side: it ain't raining. And I've got material for my next blog post. Just probably won't make it to Elkhart by Monday. #wearefine #truckdied #ownlesstowmore
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We are very thankful that despite the scariness of the incident, the travel gods were indeed watching over us.
We were on flat ground instead of a hill.
There were no vehicles riding too closely behind us.
We were not in a construction zone.
We had a wide shoulder to pull onto.
And I was smart enough to start veering toward that shoulder at the same time I was saying, “That didn’t sound right.”
Why did that turn out to be a smart move? Because we had mere seconds before the truck shut down. All power: gone. On an interstate.
The tow truck driver took Tim and the Silverado to a service shop, leaving me on the roadside with the RV until they returned.
Because Tim can talk truck to the garage gurus, and I shouldn’t ever do that.
We both know I’d say, “You know what? Just burn it. We’ll walk.”
From my personal Facebook account that day: So I sat all alone in the grass next to I-35 for more than 2 hours, waiting for the tow truck to come back for the RV, and this is the only person who stopped to make sure I was OK: stoner on a fucking bicycle.
Said his name is Mondo.
He was riding to Austin for his birthday.
I don’t know where or when he started (and I rather suspect he didn’t either), but he had about 145 miles to go.
Mondo offered me use of his cell phone to make an emergency call, in the event I didn’t have one.
Clearly he’d never met me.
And then, in the way only the perpetually stoned can properly pull off, he told me I should just relax, and not stress out about it.
He then literally rode off into the sunset.
To make a very long story a lot shorter, the problem turned out to be what is rather evocatively known as “grenading” of the fuel pump. Upon its death, it sent shards of metal through the entire fuel system, leaving us dead in the proverbial water.
As Tim described it “The critical part seemed to be the Bosch-built CP4.2 HPFP, the exact same pump used in the Ford F-series Light Duty diesel trucks. If you google ‘F350 CP4 failure,’ you’ll find plenty of discussion on the issue. Same if you google ‘Duramax LML CP4 failure.’”
Tim, who is not an industry expert by any means, but merely a consumer who’s always trying hard to get smarter, further surmised, “A major culprit appears to be the quality of diesel fuel in the U.S. (i.e., the mandated ultra-low sulfur blend plus other things), combined with what might be less than acceptable engineering by Ford and GM. Reportedly, Bosch has been saying for some time that the lubricity of the fuel needs to be higher for these pumps to last, and U.S. diesel fuel doesn’t meet these standards.”
Within ten minutes of meeting our new BFT, Tim was underneath it, checking all the things.
What that meant for us was a $10,000 fuel system replacement (GM paid for part of it) that left us stranded for two weeks outside a really small Texas town. Middle of Nowhere was still a good 10 miles away. We were there so long we painted our RV’s interior!
And then, after the truck repair was complete, and we were finally sitting in Elkhart waiting for the work to be finished on The Toad, we realized that we needed to make a big decision: test our luck by keeping the BFT and its fresh new fuel system with the exact same type of pump that had gone spectacularly belly up, or upgrade to a truck that wouldn’t have that issue.
To make the second part of the story shorter as well, we knew we couldn’t live with the uncertainty of driving a truck that might croak again, any more than we could change the U.S. diesel fuel composition standards that were probably part of the cause.
The Silverado was our only vehicle, and it pulls the Bighorn, which is our only home. We couldn’t stomach the idea of going through a second catastrophic failure, or having it happen under far more hazardous circumstances than the first one.
We opted to upgrade.
Y’all say hello to our 2017 Dodge RAM 3500 dually, which we picked up at the end of May, just shy of 3 months after the Great Fuel Pump Grenading Incident of 2017.
Introducing: the new BFT! By the end of June, I promise I'll post the story about why we made the switch. 2017 RAM 3500 Laramie Crew Cab 4X4 8' Box 6.7-Liter I6 Cummins® Turbo Diesel Engine AISIN 6-Speed Automatic Transmission Dual Rear Wheels / 17-Inch x 6-Inch Wheels Black interior True Blue Pearl exterior #thenewbft #dodgeram #allthebellsandwhistles #ownlessdomore
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Sneak peak: close-ups of the new BFT, "newborn portrait" style. Adopted 5/24/17 – 11,000 lbs – 21 feet long. Parents are doing fine. Bank account, maybe not so much. #helloagainmonthlypayments #2017dodgeram3500 #thenewbft #newbornphotography #ownlessdomore
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For those who are wondering why we didn’t go with the 2017 Chevy Silverado, which does not have that same iffy fuel pump as the 2011-2016 diesel models, there were three factors that put the RAM on top.
Shorter turning radius for easier maneuvering
Larger payload and axle weight ratings for higher towing capacity
More competitive pricing for better value
We look forward to thousands and thousands of miles together.
My birth announcement.
I figured our sons should know.
12 miles on the odometer, and it definitely does not make my butt look big.
What a great purchase!
Also, we had a terrific experience working with Jeff Taylor, Commercial/Fleet Manager, at Glenn’s Freedom Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram in Lexington, KY. Holler if you’d like a personal referral!
in Guest blog, Head Cocked & Eyebrow Up, Not Quite What We'd Planned, On the road, Something's Always Broken, The State We're In | June 28, 2017 | 1,070 Words | 4 Webmentions | 9 Comments
From My RV Kitchen: Chickpeas in Curried Coconut Broth
Here’s an easy vegetarian dish bursting with exotic flavors, but without a long list of difficult-to-find ingredients.
Back in the day when my mom was the one doing the family’s cooking, it may have taken some persistent shopping to find things like curry powder, coconut milk, basmati rice, and fresh cilantro, but now it’s common to see more than one brand or variety of each on the shelves of even small-town grocery stores.
The best part is that this meal is prepared in a slow cooker, so it can simmer while you’re out exploring your latest camping destination.
I like to serve this dish with a garden salad and fresh fruit slices on the side.
Chickpeas in Curried Coconut Broth
3-4 stalks celery, sliced
2 (19-ounce) cans chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
2 (14.5-ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained
1 (13.5-ounce) can coconut milk
2 tablespoons chopped pickled jalapeño pepper
6 cups hot cooked basmati rice
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add onion, celery, and garlic; sauté 5 minutes or until onion is tender.
Place onion mixture, chickpeas, and next 5 ingredients (through salt) in a 3 1/2-quart electric slow cooker; stir well. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours.
Serve over rice, and sprinkle each serving with cilantro.
My recipe is adapted from this original.
in Guest blog, RECIPES: Or, we're basically a food truck | June 13, 2017 | 266 Words | 5 Comments
Yosemite Revisited: More Tips, Less Snark
You may recall that I had less than charitable things to say about our visit to Yosemite last July. The park is spectacular; it’s our timing that was all wrong.
Emily “You Can Embroider That Shit on a Toss Pillow” Rohrer
But with summer travel planning season upon us, I thought it might be a good idea to offer up some information that campers might find a little more helpful than my pissy rant of 2016. So here ya go:
If you’ve got your RV pointed toward California this summer for a swing through Yosemite National Park, be aware of three things:
You’ll never forget the scenery,
Unless you’re a photography genius, you won’t be able to capture all that majesty in pixels, and
It’s gonna be crowded — really, really distressingly and disproportionately crowded, to DisneyWorld-esque levels. 1200 square miles is not big enough for all the people, because every single one of them spent significant time, effort, and money to spend part of their summer vacation there, and they are going to have their Experience of a Lifetime, visiting the same top 5 park attractions as you are.
For information on RV camping at Yosemite, click on Visiting Yosemite With an RV, but be aware that even the folks in charge recommend staying outside the park, and shuttling in using public transportation.
From the NPS web site, “Since parking for RVs and trailers is limited in Yosemite, we strongly encourage you to park your RV outside Yosemite and use YARTS to travel into the park if you’re not staying the night in Yosemite.”
If you do want to try to stay in the park, first make sure your RV will fit, and that you can survive without hookups for the duration of your visit. There aren’t any. However, dump stations with fresh water are available at 3 of the 10 RV-accessible campgrounds, and generator use is allowed, but only at posted hours.
Yosemite campground map
(Source: NPS.gov)
It probably goes without saying that you’ll want to make your reservation as far in advance as possible, or, if you’re feeling lucky and adventurous, you can try for a first-come/first-served spot.
When we visited Yosemite last year, we set up The Toad in a private RV park in Lee Vining, CA, which is about 12 miles east of the westernmost entrance at Tioga Pass, and a nearly 2-hour drive to the main visitor’s center in Yosemite Valley. (Be aware that Tioga Pass/Hwy 120 closes from October-May due to snow, so using Lee Vining as your home base is not always a good option.)
Source: Google Maps
We had to visit in the summer because my husband and our younger son were hiking the John Muir Trail, and that’s something you want to accomplish when there’s little or no snow. And if you’re hiking the whole 211-mile thing, like my husband did, you have to go through Yosemite.
But now that we know what the Yosemite crowds are like in the summertime, we will never do that again. Our schedule is no longer bound by school calendars, and we will use that to our advantage by visiting the more popular national parks at off-peak times in the spring and fall.
How bad was it? Imagine crowds of tourists from all over the planet, hollering to each other in umpteen different languages, trying to enjoy the exact same spot you are, stopping to consult their maps right in your path, posing for selfies in front of everything, dealing with children who have obviously just had it, and/or driving slowly with one arm out the window to shoot video that nobody will ever want to view.
Lower Yosemite Falls, and a very small portion of the day’s tourists
By about 2:00 p.m., I was eyeballing the bear lockers in the parking lot. You’re supposed to put your food items in there, rather than leaving them in your car for bears to tear apart while you’re off exploring. But by mid-afternoon, I was ready to take all the food out, and put half the tourists in.
These are bear lockers. Big enough for tourists, yes?
That said, I found the park to be most enjoyable in the early morning hours. If you can get in and get some sight-seeing and hiking done before what seems to be the Witching Hour of 10:00 a.m., you’ll have a lot more space and breathing room to take in and truly appreciate some of the most eye-popping scenery in the country.
And hey, if you’ve only got one day to spend in the park, try this itinerary from Oh, Ranger!, one of my favorite resources. Be warned: everyone with one day to spend is going to be trying to see the same list of attractions as you are.
There will be crowds.
You will need patience.
Author’s note: Portions of this article appeared previously at OwnLessDoMore, and a version of this post is published at Heartland RVs. It is printed here with permission.
in Campground Review, Guest blog, Not Quite What We'd Planned, On the road, Snark, The State We're In, Things we do | June 6, 2017 | 883 Words | 1 Webmention | Comment
Little Beaver, Big Treat: Our Stay at a State Park in Wild Wonderful WV
I grew up in western Maryland, not far from the West Virginia border, and through my teenage sarcasm filter, I interpreted WV’s slogan “Almost Heaven” to really mean “almost nothing.”
But I was also kind of right.
This is private property near the state park.
It is not a golf course. Or Heaven. Despite appearances to the contrary.
There isn’t a lot by way of big cities in West Virginia, and to a mall-obsessed teenager of the 1980’s, that put the state in a location way further south than Heaven, if you know what I mean.
But through my adult eyes, I can see that it’s because of all that “nothing” that the state feels like a paradise on earth.
West Virginia is killin' it on that whole "almost heaven" thing. Wow. #almostheavenwestvirginia #littlebeaverstatepark #ownlessdomore
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Those rural pastures, secluded lakes, winding roads and rolling mountains that I scoffed at as a teen because they were “so middle of nowhere, Mom <eyeroll>” now seem heavenly indeed.
Earlier this year, we looked at the map for our upcoming journey eastward along I-64 from Kentucky (see my review of the Lake Shelby Campground) toward our ultimate destination of Norfolk, VA.
Knowing that we had a few extra days to spend en route, we chose the approximate halfway point of Beckley, WV, as our stopping place. And since we are big fans of state parks, nearby Little Beaver became our home of choice for that week.
We knew from reading independent reviews that the 2-mile drive from the interstate into the campground was narrow, hilly, and curvy — not a favorite for those who drive or tow recreational vehicles!
Our 38’ 5th wheel plus 1-ton dually are almost 60′ long, and I was able to negotiate the road with no issues, just verrrrrry slowly and cautiously. I only made Tim suck in his breath and say “Watch the rear wheels!” one time, so I consider that a success.
And once we were in the park? Oh, the beauty and serenity! During the area’s spring break week in April, the place was surprisingly uncrowded, at least by humans. Which means we were treated to multiple wildlife sightings during our visit, as well as plenty of peace and quiet.
Our campsite: shaded and secluded, just like we like it
The view from the OwnLessDoMore work station did not suck. It’s a wonder I got anything done, really.
Little Beaver Lake
Things to do in the park include fishing, boating, hiking, biking, geocaching, and bird and wildlife watching, and there are also picnic areas, playgrounds, and tent/group camping areas.
Little Beaver State Park: Just the Facts
71 miles southeast of Charleston WV, 180 miles west of Charlottesville VA
about 2 miles south of I-64, near Beckley WV
GPS coordinates 37.755833, -81.080556
1402 Grandview Road, Beaver WV 25813
email: littlebeaversp@wv.gov
http://littlebeaverstatepark.com
40-foot RV length limit
water and 30/50A; some sites are water only; no sewer hook-ups
dump station on site
bathrooms, showers, laundry
limited wifi (accessible at camp store, but not at RV sites; our AT&T cellular data worked well)
combination of reservable and first-come/first-served sites
no fee to enter park
rates for RV sites: $30 for W/E, and $28 for W only. Discounts for senior citizens and veterans.
SEASONAL: Campground closes October 31 and reopens on April 1
And hey, while you’re there, you’ll probably drive the 9 miles into Beckley for grocery and supply runs. Don’t miss a meal at the King Tut Drive-In for a true trip down small-town America’s memory lane. Save room for homemade pie and hand spun milk shakes! (Note: closed Wednesdays)
I am a big fan of liver & onions.
There are plenty of other goodies on the menu.
You do you.
A version of this post appears at Heartland RVs. It is printed here with permission.
This is an independent review. We received no compensation from Little Beaver State Park or the King Tut Drive-In.
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Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez was ready to pack her bags and quit Bollywood in 2011. But a slew of projects, and brighter prospects in the industry, have enticed her to stay. “(The year) 2011 came really unexpected… because I was almost ready to leave the industry and then 2011 just caught me by surprise and things just started getting better,” Jacqueline said on the sidelines of a performance rehearsal.
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Siedziba w Harderwijk | Gdzie jest siedziba Qimarox | Qimarox | Okolo | Harderwijk
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Okolo | Harderwijk
Harderwijk history
Harderwijk has a rich heritage. In the cityscape lots of memories from nearly 800 years of city history can be found, as the Vischmarkt. The entire history of Harderwijk lies within the city walls, and portions of the Vischpoort and Smeepoort still proudly stand.
City Law
Already on June 11, 1231 given by Count Otto Gelre and Zutphen town and market rights' Herderewich. The merchants who did business near the agricultural center Selhorst thus received recognition and encouragement at a time. Harderwijk developed from agricultural settlement to marketplace, even centuries, was a member of the Hanseatic alliance. Moreover, around 1500 the main fish market to find the Zuiderzee. Harderwijk in 1584 became the currency of Gelderland province within its walls.
From 1648 to 1812 Harderwijk was university town. Students with famous names such as Boerhaave and Linnaeus are promoted.
Fishing Town
The fishery was greatly reduced by the closure of the Zuiderzee in 1932 and the construction of the IJsselmeer polders. Commerce, industry and tourism, however, came quickly. It mainly owes its rapid growth Harderwijk.
Garrison City
In 1815 the depot yard opened, though it was still called 'depot battalion of Colonial troops. The arrival turned into a garrison town of Harderwijk. The five barracks, which afterwards came to the town was home to many soldiers.
Preserving historic character
The municipality ensures above all the historic character of the city. By example in developing new plans for the city is also an eye for the old days.
Arts and culture for Harderwijk, for residents, visitors and businesses an important added value. The meaning of culture is of great importance in local society. The bears, like the history of the city, to the identity of a community and determines why people choose whether or not a place to live.
The municipality of Harderwijk focuses on access to culture. They will ensure that people are able to actively and passively participate in cultural expressions. Also, the municipality of quality assurance.
Harderwijk offers many opportunities to enjoy nature. The various parks offer peace and relaxation close to home. In the immediate vicinity of Harderwijk Hierden natural areas are more extensive opportunities for hiking, biking, horseback riding, etc.
The municipality of Harderwijk in the coming years will focus on recreation. A public / private organization has a strong tourist brand and marketing concept development around the tri-color gold, blue and green. Blue represents the peripheral lakes, Dolphinarium and Waterfront. Green is nature and the countryside Hierden. Culture, history and form the inner gold. These policy choices have municipal executive of Harderwijk on the basis of the Recreation and Tourism Policy vision and its business plan consultancy DHV has prepared for Harderwijk.
Tourism is quite sensitive to changing trends and to this is the current offering in Harderwijk sufficiently adapted. To be able to jump on the ever changing trends, the paper recommends a choice of 'Four Seasons Welvaren' variation as possible. Four seasons prosperity focuses on extending the tourist season. Prosperity stands for 'feel good, learn something and do something', the current trends in recreation land.
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Pokemon Concept Corner: Leveling the Gen 5 Conflict, Part 1
November 29, 2010 / jay petrequin
Not so different, when you think about it.Welcome, dear readers, to the first in a brand-new series of articles. Here, we’ll be looking at concepts for Pokemon, asking questions about their designs, and learning about some of the surprising ideas behind some Pokemon. I’m IatosHaunted, and this is Concept Corner.
Now, since Black and White came out in Japan, there’s been a lot of controversy and adversity towards a few of the new Pokemon. No, that’s not what this first article will be discussing. And this is not because I love all the new Pokemon(I just can’t get behind that stupid trash bag thing), but I want to save that for when Black and White come out in other areas of the world, so we all get to see more of the new creatures. Despite that, today’s article does involve bizarre, obscure, and bluntly stupid Pokemon designs. But the Pokemon we’ll be looking at are from the first three generations of Pokemon, because really, strange concepts in Pokemon are nothing new. There are just more of them this time around.
Now, before we dive in, you may be wondering: “Why, mister new writer person, are you only looking at the first three generations of Pokemon? What about generation four?” Excellent question, little Timmy, and the answer is fairly simple. Generation four had a lot of great Pokemon, spawning many of my favorites. However, generation four has two problems.
1: Many of the new Pokemon in gen 4 were simply evolutions of older Pokemon, which I don’t want to use because there’s not much good writing material-at least, not for this topic-coming from them.
2: While there are a few Pokemon designs in gen 4 that I have a hard time agreeing with, they are mostly because of unoriginality, more than plain weird or stupid design. I assure you, these will be touched on in future articles, but for now let’s stick to what I said we would.
So, we have three examples of strange designs in earlier generations to look at, so let’s get started!
#081 Magnemite/#082 Magneton
Okay, right off the bat, I do like these guys in-game. I think electric/steel is an awesome type combo. That said, however, you just have to wonder where this idea came from. In the original games, all the Pokemon had simple designs, and were very animistic. Mostly. These two are among the few exceptions.
Magnamite is fairly self-explanatory. It’s an iron ball with a big eye, and spinning magnets on its sides that make an anti-gravity field, allowing it to float.
Magneton, however, is where this gets weirder. After looking at pokedex entries from all the various games, here’s the rundown of Magneton’s info.
-Magneton is formed by three Magnemite linked together by magnetic forces.
-Magneton often disrupts radio broadcast with its own garbled signals. These same signals also cause distortion on TV displays.
-A Magneton’s magnetic and electrical discharge raises the temperature by 3.6 degrees F within a 3,300 foot radius.
-Getting close to a Magneton will often cause severe earaches.
-Magnetic waves generated by a Magneton will dry up any moisture around it (presumably within the same radius as the tempature rise). These same waves cause fatal damage to mechanical devices and machinery.
-Magneton often appear in large numbers when large numbers of sun spots occur.
-Large enough groups of Magneton can cause large-scale magnetic storms.
So basically, these things are doomsday machines. They disrupt machinery, radio and television broadcasts, and even the environment. Their very existence messes stuff up. This brings two questions. 1: How have these things existed without accidentally destroying the world, and 2: How are these classified as animals?
#202 Wobbuffet
Wobbuffet is an interesting case. It is classified as “the patient Pokemon”, and…that’s pretty much it. No one’s sure where exactly the concept for it originates. One popular theory is that Wobbuffet is based on the concept of karma, due to the fact that it’s limited move set makes this Pokemon unable to attack the opponent without being attacked first.(This could also explain its typing) Other concepts include basis on a punching bag, based on its form and move pool, and even derivation from Japanese comedian Sanpei Hayashiya, who’s trademark was to hold his hand to his head like a salute during his act, as part of his delivery.
Wobbuffet is a Pokemon whose weirdness is all based on its mysteriousness, which is pretty cool in itself. It’s not exactly a stupid design, just a really, really, really vague one. Even its pokedex entries yield very little, only that is has a fear of harsh sunlight and keeps its tail hidden. I think I speak for us all when I say it would be good to find out more about this creature. I wish there was more to say about it, and hopefully in future generations there will be.
#294 Loudred
Hoo, boy. Loudred. If you’re fairly new to Pokemon, you may look at this guy and not know what the problem is. So let me just explain it.
Loudred’s ears can act as loudspeakers, expelling large amounts of sound.
That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what ears do.
Furthermore, Loudred’s loud bellows come from its mouth, not its silly not-ears, so what is even the purpose of having loudspeaker ears? Is it just so Loudred can blast music from its iPod really loud? I like the Whismur evo line, but I’ve never been able to get past this. It’s just one of those cases where it makes less and less sense the more you think about it.
So there we have it. I’m not meaning for this to be any attempt at rationalizing the bizarreness of some new Pokemon, but rather stating that obscure, bizarre, and sometimes just plain stupid concepts are nothing new to Pokemon.
Next fortnight(two weeks from now), we’ll be addressing the other side of the argument, looking at some perfectly good Pokemon concepts that would have been very well-received, and which remain unused, while we have chandelier and ice cream-based Pokemon. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed. See you in article #2!
Concept Corner is (c) Jay Petrequin, 2010
November 29, 2010 / jay petrequin/
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Concept Editor: iatoshaunted
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Home > News > Administration > MetLife Focusing RK on Small, Mid-Sized Clients
Administration February 11, 2001
MetLife Focusing RK on Small, Mid-Sized Clients
November 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fresh from having recently announced their pullout from the large-plan recordkeeping market, MetLife officials say they're turning their attention to small and mid-size plans, leaving at least one frustrated large plan sponsor in its wake.
Judy Weiss, executive vice president of Metlife Retirement and Savings, told PLANSPONSOR.com that MetLife will heavily rely on the services of its two recent acquisitions, General American and New England Retirement Services.
In servicing its new target market, Weiss said MetLife can work through financial advisors and brokers who already help sponsors of small and mid-size plans. MetLife also can now more easily offer standardized products.
“In the small and mid-sized plan markets, we believe we have leveragable capabilities,” she said. “We see our reputation in these markets as better perceived as well.”
Plan Sponsor Piqued
At least one MetLife client wasn’t surprised on hearing of the change. In fact, Charles Ball, supervisor of savings plans at the Philadelphia-based oil company Sunoco said Metlife’s competitors had alerted him to the rumors.
“Given the structure of the service agreement (with large plans) and that there were no investments with Metlife, we knew they couldn’t have been making any money from that deal,” Ball said.
Ball added that while his participants seemed satisfied with MetLife, he was not appeased as easily.
“I had some frustration with the service I received, they [MetLife] weren’t really proactive in a lot of things [such as] communication and legislation [for example],” he said. “They weren’t proactive in coming to me and letting me know that something was available that I would be interested, if I wanted to make changes, I’d have to go to them. Their timing with some things wasn’t the quickest either.”
Finding A New Recordkeeper
Meanwhile, Ball said Sunoco is embarking on a search for a new vendor. He began his search before the MetLife sale was announced. He has no intentions on informing his participants about the change in vendors because their service will not be interrupted. “Nothing is changing until next year,” he said.
Transition to Hewitt is optional for MetLife’s clients and Ball says he will give the firm a fair shake though he is continuing his search with a consultant on board.
“In our next recordkeeper I am looking for a combination of value from a fee perspective, good service and a commitment to the business, I never felt that MetLife had the necessary commitment to this business to succeed.”
MetLife had not grown its business organically; it purchased Bankers Trust’s recordkeeping business. Bankers Trust is now a part of Deutsche Bank.
However, MetLife left the assets of the 26 plan sponsor clients it picked up with Banker’s Trust – a move that the firm came to regret as profits tied to recordkeeping are in reality largely based on managing plan assets.
-Nicole Halsey editors@plansponsor.com
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New Film Stars Cattle Farmer Who Gave Cows To Sanctuary And Turned Vegan
He couldn't live with the guilt of sending sentient individuals to slaughter anymore
Wilde say he felt terrible guilt sending cows - who had become his friends - to slaughter (Photo: 73 Cows)
A new film tells the story of a Derbyshire farmer who gave his cows to a sanctuary because he could no longer justify killing sentient individuals.
Short film 73 Cows features cattle former farmer - and vegan - Jay Wilde, who discussed how 'soul destroying' his profession was, but how difficult it was to break out of his family farming tradition.
His - and wife Katja's - story made headlines when he initially revealed that he'd given away the animals and turned to vegetable farming, supported by The Vegan Society.
A betrayal
In the film, Wilde opens up about how he became friends with the animals, then felt as though he was betraying them when he took them to slaughter - what he describes as a 'terrifying' experience for the animals.
He also talks about the pressure he - and other farmers experience - being 'locked into' the farming tradition, as well as the positive reactions from veggies and vegans when he gave up cattle farming.
He also experienced negativity from locals and other farmers - who branded his facility the 'funny farm' (an old-fashioned derogatory reference to a mental health hospital) as a consequence of relinquishing his livestock.
The film is available to watch on Vimeo
An amazing story
Speaking to Plant Based News about the documentary, filmmaker Alex Lockwood said: "I first came across Jay Wilde's story when my wife showed me an article she'd read about him in the national news.
"The story instantly struck a chord with me. I thought it was such a great subject that I assumed it probably would have already been covered by another filmmaker and so I didn't do anything about it at first.
"After a few weeks I was still drawn to the story and so contacted Jay and Katja on the off-chance. Luckily, it turned out that they hadn't yet been approached by any filmmakers other than press and were happy to have me document their story."
Sharing the story
Lockwood believes the Wildes were open with telling their story as a favor to him, rather than to bring attention to themselves. "Jay and Katja are both incredibly humble people and would never seek out the limelight," he told PBN.
"In fact, Jay couldn't even bring himself to watch the film until the Raindance premiere (to my relief, he enjoyed it).
"In my opinion, the more exposure Jay and Katja can get, the better, as they are in the process of transitioning to vegan farming and it's not without its challenges. What they have done is incredibly brave, and it would be wonderful if they could get as much support as possible to start something amazing."
Jay Wilde got to know the animals as individuals (Photo: 73 Cows)
Making the film had its challenges: Lockwood had no budget, and financed it himself. There were also issues with bad weather and snow preventing filming, with shoots having to be canceled.
"Also, the cattle couldn't be released for Spring until the adverse weather conditions we were experiencing had settled and were suitable for the cows and filming, and so our final shoot at the sanctuary was delayed by a few months," says Lockwood.
"In addition, when the day arrived to release the cows, the truck drivers refused to be filmed due to the stigma attached with taking farm animals to sanctuaries and for fear of repercussions."
Despite all this, the filmmaker adds that seeing Wilde with the cattle, knowing they were free because of a decision he had taken, made the wait worthwhile.
Farmer Jay Wilde (Photo: 73 Cows)
Vegan?
Lockwood himself says he is vegan 'for the most part' but not yet 100 percent there. "To me, being vegan is about taking ongoing steps and continually reminding and educating yourself about the things you consume," he said.
"Making this film and talking with Jay and Katja about the process of dairy farming has opened my eyes to the reality of how dairy products end up on our shelves.
"If people watch the film and decide that they want to make a change in how they consume animal products then that would be amazing."
Human conflict and compassion
Ultimately though, the filmmaker says he was initially drawn to the film as it is a 'great story of human conflict and compassion'.
"Jay is a wonderful subject and ultimately the film has a very uplifting and inspiring message," he said.
"I really feel that for some people, a tone of this nature is more powerful for inspiring change and questions."
You can follow the Wildes and their story on Facebook
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RESTURANT AND BAR UPDATES
Portland News to Chew
Amsterdam chocolate giant Tony's Chocolonely expands to Portland, Smith Teamaker and Double Mountain open up shop in the southeast.
By Rachel Grozanick 10/5/2015 at 9:00am
Tony’s Chocolonely, the largest chocolate company in the Netherlands, made its U.S. debut in Portland on September 30. Conscience-stricken journalist-cum-chocolatier Teun van de Keuken created the company in an effort to combat slavery in the chocolate industry. Every bar has 100% traceability and transparency, breaks into unequal parts to represent chocolate industry inequality, and sports a colorful Willy Wonka-esque wrapper. Look for Tony’s Chocolonely on the shelves at New Seasons Markets.
Local roasters Water Avenue Coffee teamed up with Sokol Blosser Winery of Dayton, OR to create a barrel-aged coffee. Using oak barrels that previously housed Sokol Blosser’s pinot noir and green coffee beans from Finca Las Delicias, Water Avenue combines flavors from the Willamette Valley and El Salvador. The result? A rich, nutty coffee with earthy notes of dark fruit and spice. The limited release coffee can be found at Water Avenue’s Southeast Industrial café and online store, and at Sokol Blosser’s tasting room in Dayton.
Independent publisher Norton is releasing a food writing anthology on October 25. Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing was co-edited by respected local food critic and Reed College Professor of English, Roger Porter, who will be signing books at the Portland Cookbook Social and giving a talk at Powell’s in December. A compilation of writing in which the gastronomic and literary worlds collide, the anthology includes works by Chekov, Hemmingway, and David Foster Wallace.
Tea drinkers will soon have a new spot to sip Ceylon in Southeast Portland. Steven Smith Teamaker is bringing a manufacturing center and tasting room to 110 SE Washington St. by the end of October. While the space—formerly a roofing company—will be mostly dedicated to manufacturing, tea lovers can sample tea while watching the production process from a 20-seat tasting room.
Popular Hood River brewery, Double Mountain, is opening a Portland taproom. The satellite brewpub is shooting for early spring and will serve a brick oven pizza menu. While the new location (the exact address is still unannounced) won’t be brewing on-site, Portlanders will be able to enjoy the same atmosphere and beer as at the Hood River brewery with the addition of cocktails and more outdoor seating. We may have to amend our 10 Best Patios list…
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Home > News > General News > 201907
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Amidu Age Case Adjourned Indefinitely
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Martin Amidu
The Supreme Court has indefinitely adjourned proceedings in the suit challenging the appointment of Martin A.B.K. Amidu as Special Prosecutor by President Akufo-Addo.
This is to allow the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo to reconstitute the seven-member panel hearing the matter.
The reconstitution of the panel was occasioned by the impending compulsory retirement of one of the panel members, Justice Sophia Adinyira which is due on July 31 this year.
The panel has indicated that they may not be able to see the case to its logical conclusion before their colleague judge proceeds on her retirement hence the need for the panel to be reconstituted.
The court at its last sitting had ordered the Office of the Attorney General and NDC Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga, Dr. Dominic Ayine, who is challenging Mr. Amidu’s appointment based on age, to file further legal arguments within three weeks.
The order of the court followed the filling of the memorandum of issues by both parties in the case as directed by the court in February this year.
Tony Lithur, who is counsel for Dr. Ayine, told the court that he had met the Deputy Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame and they had agreed on the issues to consider and had subsequently filed the memorandum of issues.
He, therefore, asked the court for directions on the way forward.
The seven-member panel of the court presided over by Justice Julius Ansah, with Justices Sophia Adinyira, Anin Yeboah, Baffoe-Bonnie, Sulemana Gbadegbe, Samuel Marful Siau and Agnes Dordzie, as members directed the parties to file legal arguments in three weeks.
Dr. Ayine filed a suit at the Supreme Court challenging Mr. Amidu’s age to be appointed as Ghana’s first Special Prosecutor.
The NDC MP, who was the Deputy Attorney General under the previous Mahama administration, is seeking a relief, including “a declaration that by a true and proper interpretation of Articles 190 (1) (d), 199 (1) (4) and 295 of the 1992 Constitution, the required age of all holders of public offices created pursuant to Article 190 (1) (d), is 60 years, anyhow not beyond 65 years.”
The Attorney General’s Office, in its response to the suit, prayed the Supreme Court to dismiss the suit, saying the suit is being “borne out of narrow, inadequate and literal construction of the scope of the application of Article 199 of the Constitution.”
He averred that Mr. Amidu is not “a proper party to the suit” as the action seeks to challenge the Attorney General’s decision to nominate Mr. Amidu as the Special Prosecutor, as well as his presentation by the President for Parliament to approve.
He stated that the decision to appoint Mr. Amidu was taken in the course of the official duties of the President and AG and Mr. Amidu can therefore not be a party to the suit.
He prayed the court to dismiss the suit and the court agreed with the Deputy AG and subsequently struck out the name of Mr. Amidu as defendant in the suit.
Source: Daily Guide
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Up betimes, about 9 o’clock, waked by a damned noise between a sow gelder and a cow and a dog, nobody after we were up being able to tell us what it was. After being ready we took coach, and, being very sleepy, droused most part of the way to Gravesend, and there ‘light, and down to the new batterys, which are like to be very fine, and there did hear a plain fellow cry out upon the folly of the King’s officers above, to spend so much money in works at Woolwich and Deptford, and sinking of good ships loaden with goods, when, if half the charge had been laid out here, it would have secured all that, and this place too, before now. And I think it is not only true in this, but that the best of the actions of us all are so silly, that the meanest people begin to see through them, and contemn them. Besides, says he, they spoil the river by it. Then informed ourselves where we might have some creame, and they guided us to one Goody Best’s, a little out of the towne towards London road, and thither we went with the coach, and find it a mighty clean, plain house, and had a dish of very good creame to our liking, and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several Advices to a Painter, which made us good sport, and indeed are very witty, and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth’s time, which he hath of late read in the printed Cabbala, which is a very fine style at this day and fit to be imitated. With this, and talking and laughing at the folly of our masters in the management of things at this day, we got home by noon, where all well, and then to dinner, and after dinner both of us laid down upon the couch and chairs and to sleep, which I did for an hour or two, and then to the office, where I am sorry to hear that Sir J. Minnes is likely to die this night, or to-morrow, I forgot to set down that we met this morning upon the road with Mrs. Williams going down to my Lord Bruncker; we bowed without speaking one to another, but I am ashamed at the folly of the man to have her down at this serious busy time, when the town and country is full of people and full of censure, and against him particularly. At Sir W. Batten’s my Lady tells me that she hears for certain that my Lord’s maid of his lodging here do give out that Mrs. Williams hath been fain of late to sell her best clothes and jewels to get a little money upon, which is a sad condition. Thence to the office, and did write to my Lord Bruncker to give me a little satisfaction about the certainty of the chain’s being broke, which I begin to doubt, and the more from Sir W. Pen’s discourse. It is worth while to read my letter to him entered in my letter book. Home in the evening to supper, and so pretty betimes, about 10 o’clock, to bed, and slept well. This day letters are come that my sister is very ill.
Up, and put on my new silke camelott suit, made of my cloak, and suit now made into a vest. So to the office, where W. Pen and myself, and Sir T. Harvy met, the first time we have had a meeting since the coming of the Dutch upon this coast. Our only business (for we have little else to do, nobody being willing to trust us for anything) was to speak with the owners of six merchantmen which we have been taking up this fortnight, and are yet in no readiness, they not fitting their ships without money advanced to them, we owing them for what their ships have earned the last year. So every thing stands still for money, while we want money to pay for some of the most necessary things that we promised ready money for in the height of our wants, as grapnells, &c. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner my wife and Jane (mighty fine the girle) to go to see Jane’s old mistress, who was to see her, and did see my wife the other day, and it is pleasant to hear with what kindness her old mistress speaks of this girle, and how she would still have her, and how the wench cried when she told her that she must come to her old mistress my wife. They gone, I to my chamber, and there dallied a little with my maid Nell … and so to the office where busy till night, and then comes Mrs. Turner, and walks with me in the garden to talk with me about her husband’s business, and to tell me how she hears at the other end of the town how bad our office is spoken of by the King and Prince and Duke of Albemarle, and that there is not a good word said of any of us but of me; and me they all do speak mightily of, which, whether true or no, I am mighty glad to hear, but from all put together that I hear from other people, I am likely to pass as well as anybody. So, she gone, comes my wife and to walk in the garden, Sir J. Minnes being still ill and so keeping us from singing, and by and by Sir W. Pen come and walked with us and gave us a bottle of Syder, and so we home to supper and to bed. This day I am told that poor Tooker is dead, a very painfull poor man as ever I knew.
Up, and within most of the morning, my tailor’s boy coming to alter something in my new suit I put on yesterday. Then to the office and did business, and then (my wife being a little ill of those in bed) I to Sir W. Batten’s and dined, and there comes in Sir Richard Ford, tells us how he hath been at the Sessions-house, and there it is plain that there is a combination of rogues in the town, that do make it their business to set houses on fire, and that one house they did set on fire in Aldersgate Streete last Easter; and that this is proved by two young men, whom one of them debauched by degrees to steal their fathers’ plate and clothes, and at last to be of their company; and they had their places to take up what goods were flung into the streets out of the windows, when the houses were on fire; and this is like to be proved to a great number of rogues, whereof five are already found, and some found guilty this day. One of these boys is the son of a Montagu, of my Lord Manchester’s family; but whose son he could not tell me. This is a strange thing methinks, but I am glad that it is proved so true and discovered. So home, and to enter my Journall of my late journey to this hour, and then to the office, where to do a little business, and then by water to White Hall (calling at Michell’s in my way, but the rogue would not invite me in, I having a mind para voir his wife), and there to the Council- chamber, to deliver a letter to their Lordships about the state of the six merchantmen which we have been so long fitting out. When I come, the King and the whole table full of Lords were hearing of a pitifull cause of a complaint of an old man, with a great grey beard, against his son, for not allowing him something to live on; and at last come to the ordering the son to allow his father 10l. a year. This cause lasted them near two hours; which, methinks, at this time to be the work of the Council-board of England, is a scandalous thing, and methought Sir W. Coventry to me did own as much. Here I find all the newes is the enemy’s landing 3,000 men near Harwich,1 and attacking Landguard Fort, and being beat off thence with our great guns, killing some of their men, and they leaving their ladders behind them; but we had no Horse in the way on Suffolk side, otherwise we might have galled their Foot. The Duke of York is gone down thither this day, while the General sat sleeping this afternoon at the Council-table. The news so much talked of this Exchange, of a peace, I find by Sir Richard Browne arises from a letter the Swedes’ agent hath received from Bredah and shewed at Court to-day, that they are come very near it, but I do not find anybody here relying upon it. This cause being over, the Trinity House men, whom I did not expect to meet, were called in, and there Sir W. Pen made a formal speech in answer to a question of the King’s, whether the lying of the sunk ships in the river would spoil the river. But, Lord! how gingerly he answered it, and with a deal of do that he did not know whether it would be safe as to the enemy to have them taken up, but that doubtless it would be better for the river to have them taken up. Methought the Council found them answer like fools, and it ended in bidding them think more of it, and bring their answer in writing. Thence I to Westminster Hall, and there hear how they talk against the present management of things, and against Sir W. Coventry for his bringing in of new commanders and casting out the old seamen, which I did endeavour to rectify Mr. Michell and them in, letting them know that he hath opposed it all his life the most of any man in England. After a deal of this tittle tattle, I to Mrs. Martin’s, and there she was gone in before, but when I come, contrary to my expectation, I find her all in trouble, and what was it for but that I have got her with child … and is in exceeding grief, and swears that the child is mine, which I do not believe, but yet do comfort her that either it cannot be so, or if it be that I will take care to send for her husband, though I do hardly see how I can be sure of that, the ship being at sea, and as far as Scotland, but however I must do it, and shall find some way or other of doing it, though it do trouble me not a little. Thence, not pleased, away to White Hall to Mr. Williamson, and by and by my Lord Arlington about Mr. Lanyon’s business, and it is pretty to see how Mr. Williamson did altogether excuse himself that my business was not done when I come to my Lord and told him my business; “Why,” says my Lord, “it hath been done, and the King signed it several days ago,” and so it was and was in Mr. Williamson’s hands, which made us both laugh, and I in innocent mirth, I remember, said, it is pretty to see in what a condition we are that all our matters now-a-days are undone, we know not how, and done we know not when. He laughed at it, but I have since reflected on it, and find it a severe speech as it might be taken by a chief minister of state, as indeed Mr. Williamson is, for he is indeed the Secretary. But we fell to other pleasant talk, and a fine gentleman he is, and so gave him 5l. for his fee, and away home, and to Sir W. Batten’s to talk a little, and then to the office to do a little business, and so home to supper and read myself asleep, and then to bed.
Richard Browne, writing to Williamson from Aldeburgh, on July 2nd, says: “The Dutch fleet of 80 sail has anchored in the bay; they were expected to land, but they tacked about, and stood first northward and then southward, close by Orford lighthouse, and have now passed the Ness towards Harwich; they have fired no guns, but made false fires” (“Calendar of State Papers,” 1667, p. 258). ↩
Up, and, in vain expecting Sir R. Ford’s calling on me, I took coach and to the Sessions-house, where I have a mind to hear Bazill Fielding’s case —[See May 9th, 1667]— tried; and so got up to the Bench, my Lord Chief-Justice Keeling being Judge. Here I stood bare, not challenging, though I might well enough, to be covered. But here were several fine trials; among others, several brought in for making it their trade to set houses on fire merely to get plunder; and all proved by the two little boys spoken of yesterday by Sir R. Ford, who did give so good account of particulars that I never heard children in my life. And I confess, though I was unsatisfied with the force given to such little boys, to take away men’s lives, yet, when I was told that my Lord Chief- Justice did declare that there was no law against taking the oath of children above twelve years old, and then heard from Sir R. Ford the good account which the boys had given of their understanding the nature and consequence of an oath, and now my own observation of the sobriety and readiness of their answers, further than of any man of any rank that come to give witness this day, though some men of years and learning, I was a little amazed, and fully satisfied that they ought to have as much credit as the rest. They proved against several, their consulting several times at a bawdy-house in Moore-Fields, called the Russia House, among many other rogueries, of setting houses on fire, that they might gather the goods that were flung into the streets; and it is worth considering how unsafe it is to have children play up and down this lewd town. For these two boys, one is my Lady Montagu’s (I know not what Lady Montagu) son, and the other of good condition, were playing in Moore-Fields, and one rogue, Gabriel Holmes, did come to them and teach them to drink, and then to bring him plate and clothes from their fathers’ houses, and carry him into their houses, and leaving open the doors for him, and at last were made of their conspiracy, and were at the very burning of this house in Aldersgate Street, on Easter Sunday at night last, and did gather up goods, as they had resolved before and this Gabriel Holmes did advise to have had two houses set on fire, one after another, that, while they were quenching of one, they might be burning another. And it is pretty that G. Holmes did tell his fellows, and these boys swore it, that he did set fire to a box of linen in the Sheriffe, Sir Joseph Shelden’s house, while he was attending the fire in Aldersgate Street, and the Sheriffe himself said that there was a fire in his house, in a box of linen, at the same time, but cannot conceive how this fellow should do it. The boys did swear against one of them, that he had made it his part to pull the plug out of the engine while it was a-playing; and it really was so. And goods they did carry away, and the manner of the setting the house on fire was, that Holmes did get to a cockpit; where, it seems, there was a publick cockpit, and set fire to the straw in it, and hath a fire-ball at the end of the straw, which did take fire, and so it prevailed, and burned the house; and, among other things they carried away, he took six of the cocks that were at the cockpit; and afterwards the boys told us how they had one dressed, by the same token it was so hard they could not eat it. But that which was most remarkable was the impudence of this Holmes, who hath been arraigned often, and still got away; and on this business was taken and broke loose just at Newgate Gate; and was last night luckily taken about Bow, who got loose, and run into the river, and hid himself in the rushes; and they pursued him with a dog, and the dog got him and held him till he was taken. But the impudence of this fellow was such, that he denied he ever saw the boys before, or ever knew the Russia House, or that the people knew him; and by and by the mistress of the Russia House was called in, being indicted, at the same time, about another thing; and she denied that the fellow was of her acquaintance, when it was pretty to see how the little boys did presently fall upon her, and ask her how she durst say so, when she was always with them when they met at her house, and particularly when she come in in her smock before a dozen of them, at which the Court laughed, and put the woman away. Well, this fellow Holmes was found guilty of the act of burning the house, and other things, that he stood indicted for. And then there were other good cases, as of a woman that come to serve a gentlewoman, and in three days run away, betimes in the morning, with a great deal of plate and rings, and other good things. It was time very well spent to be here. Here I saw how favourable the judge was to a young gentleman that struck one of the officers, for not making him room: told him he had endangered the loss of his hand, but that he hoped he had not struck him, and would suppose that he had not struck him. About that the Court rose, and I to dinner with my Lord Mayor and Sheriffs; where a good dinner and good discourse; the judge being there. There was also tried this morning Fielding, which I thought had been Bazilll — but it proved the other, and Bazill was killed; that killed his brother, who was found guilty of murder, and nobody pitied him. The judge seems to be a worthy man, and able: and do intend, for these rogues that burned this house to be hung in some conspicuous place in the town, for an example. After dinner to the Court again, where I heard some more causes, but with so much trouble because of the hot weather that I had no pleasure in it. Anon the Court rose, and I walked to Fleet streete for my belt at the beltmaker’s, and so home and to the office, wrote some letters, and then home to supper and to bed.
Up, and to the office, where Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] T. Harvy and I met upon Mr. Gawden’s accounts, and was at it all the morning. This morning Sir G. Carteret did come to us, and walked in the garden. It was to talk with me about some thing of my Lord Sandwich’s, but here he told us that the great seale is passed to my Lord Annesly [Anglesey] for Treasurer of the Navy: so that now he do no more belong to us: and I confess, for his sake, I am glad of it, and do believe the other will have little content in it. At noon I home to dinner with my wife, and after dinner to sing, and then to the office a little and Sir W. Batten’s, where I am vexed to hear that Nan Wright, now Mrs. Markham, Sir W. Pen’s mayde and whore, is come to sit in our pew at church, and did so while my Lady Batten was there. I confess I am very much vexed at it and ashamed. By and by out with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall, where I staid not, but to the New Exchange to buy gloves and other little errands, and so home and to my office busy till night, and then walked in the garden with my wife, and then to supper and to sing, and so to bed. No news, but that the Dutch are gone clear from Harwich northward, and have given out they are going to Yarmouth.
Up, and to the office, where some of us sat busy all the morning. At noon home to dinner, whither Creed come to dine with us and brings the first word I hear of the news of a peace, the King having letters come to him this noon signifying that it is concluded on, and that Mr. Coventry is upon his way coming over for the King’s satisfaction. The news was so good and sudden that I went with great joy to [Sir] W. Batten and then to [Sir] W. Pen to tell it them, and so home to dinner, mighty merry, and light at my heart only on this ground, that a continuing of the war must undo us, and so though peace may do the like if we do not make good use of it to reform ourselves and get up money, yet there is an opportunity for us to save ourselves. At least, for my own particular, we shall continue well till I can get my money into my hands, and then I will shift for myself. After dinner away, leaving Creed there, by coach to Westminster, where to the Swan and drank, and then to the Hall, and there talked a little with great joy of the peace, and then to Mrs. Martin’s, where I met with the good news que elle ne est con child, the fear of which she did give me the other day, had troubled me much. My joy in this made me send for wine, and thither come her sister and Mrs. Cragg, and I staid a good while there. But here happened the best instance of a woman’s falseness in the world, that her sister Doll, who went for a bottle of wine, did come home all blubbering and swearing against one Captain Vandener, a Dutchman of the Rhenish Wine House, that pulled her into a stable by the Dog tavern, and there did tumble her and toss her, calling him all the rogues and toads in the world, when she knows that elle hath suffered me to do any thing with her a hundred times. Thence with joyful heart to White Hall to ask Mr. Williamson the news, who told me that Mr. Coventry is coming over with a project of a peace; which, if the States agree to, and our King, when their Ministers on both sides have shewed it them, we shall agree, and that is all: but the King, I hear, do give it out plain that the peace is concluded. Thence by coach home, and there wrote a few letters, and then to consult with my wife about going to Epsum to-morrow, sometimes designing to go and then again not; and at last it grew late and I bethought myself of business to employ me at home tomorrow, and so I did not go. This afternoon I met with Mr. Rolt, who tells me that he is going Cornett under Collonel Ingoldsby, being his old acquaintance, and Ingoldsby hath a troop now from under the King, and I think it is a handsome way for him, but it was an ominous thing, methought, just as he was bidding me his last adieu, his nose fell a-bleeding, which ran in my mind a pretty while after. This afternoon Sir Alexander Frazier, who was of council for Sir J. Minnes, and had given him over for a dead man, said to me at White Hall: — “What,” says he, “Sir J. Minnes is dead.” I told him, “No! but that there is hopes of his life.” Methought he looked very sillily after it, and went his way. Late home to supper, a little troubled at my not going to Epsum to-morrow, as I had resolved, especially having the Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry out of town, but it was my own fault and at last my judgment to stay, and so to supper and to bed. This day, with great satisfaction, I hear that my Lady Jemimah is brought to bed, at Hinchingbroke, of a boy.
(Lord’s day). Up, and to my chamber, there to settle some papers, and thither comes Mr. Moore to me and talked till church time of the news of the times about the peace and the bad consequences of it if it be not improved to good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war. He tells me he heard that the discontented Parliament-men are fearful that the next sitting the King will put for a general excise, by which to raise him money, and then to fling off the Parliament, and raise a land-army and keep them all down like slaves; and it is gotten among them, that Bab. May, the Privy-purse, hath been heard to say that 300l. a-year is enough for any country gentleman; which makes them mad, and they do talk of 6 or 800,000l. gone into the Privy-purse this war, when in King James’s time it arose but to 5,000l., and in King Charles’s but 10,000l. in a year. He tells me that a goldsmith in town told him that, being with some plate with my Lady Castlemayne lately, she directed her woman (the great beauty), “Wilson,” says she, “make a note for this, and for that, to the Privy-purse for money.” He tells me a little more of the baseness of the courses taken at Court in the case of Mr. Moyer, who is at liberty, and is to give 500l. for his liberty; but now the great ones are divided, who shall have the money, the Duke of Albemarle on one hand, and another Lord on the other; and that it is fain to be decided by having the person’s name put into the King’s warrant for his liberty, at whose intercession the King shall own that he is set at liberty; which is a most lamentable thing, that we do professedly own that we do these things, not for right and justice sake, but only to gratify this or that person about the King. God forgive us all! Busy till noon, and then home to dinner, and Mr. Moore come and dined with us, and much more discourse at and after dinner of the same kind, and then, he gone, I to my office busy till the evening, and then with my wife and Jane over to Half-way house, a very good walk; and there drank, and in the cool of the evening back again, and sang with pleasure upon the water, and were mightily pleased in hearing a boatfull of Spaniards sing, and so home to supper and to bed. Jane of late mighty fine, by reason of a laced whiske her mistress hath given her, which makes her a very gracefull servant. But, above all, my wife and I were the most surprised in the beauty of a plain girle, which we met in the little lane going from Redriffe-stairs into the fields, one of the prettiest faces that we think we ever saw in our lives.
Up, and to my chamber, and by and by comes Greeting, and to my flageolett with him with a pretty deal of pleasure, and then to the office, where [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen and I met about putting men to work for the weighing of the ships in the River sunk. Then home again, and there heard Mr. Caesar play some very good things on the lute together with myself on the violl and Greeting on the viallin. Then with my wife abroad by coach, she to her tailor‘s, I to Westminster to Burges about my Tangier business, and thence to White Hall, where I spoke with Sir John Nicholas, who tells me that Mr. Coventry is come from Bredah, as was expected; but, contrary to expectation, brings with him two or three articles which do not please the King: as, to retrench the Act of Navigation, and then to ascertain what are contraband goods; and then that those exiled persons, who are or shall take refuge in their country, may be secure from any further prosecution. Whether these will be enough to break the peace upon, or no, he cannot tell; but I perceive the certainty of peace is blown over. So called on my wife and met Creed by the way, and they two and I to Charing Cross, there to see the great boy and girle that are lately come out of Ireland, the latter eight, the former but four years old, of most prodigious bigness for their age. I tried to weigh them in my arms, and find them twice as heavy as people almost twice their age; and yet I am apt to believe they are very young. Their father a little sorry fellow, and their mother an old Irish woman. They have had four children of this bigness, and four of ordinary growth, whereof two of each are dead. If, as my Lord Ormond certifies, it be true that they are no older, it is very monstrous. So home and to dinner with my wife and to pipe, and then I to the office, where busy all the afternoon till the evening, and then with my wife by coach abroad to Bow and Stratford, it being so dusty weather that there was little pleasure in it, and so home and to walk in the garden, and thither comes Pelling to us to talk, and so in and to supper, and then to bed. All the world being as I hear very much damped that their hopes of peace is become uncertain again.
Up pretty betimes and to the office, where busy till office time, and then we sat, but nothing to do but receive clamours about money. This day my Lord Anglesey, our new Treasurer, come the first time to the Board, and there sat with us till noon; and I do perceive he is a very notable man, and understanding, and will do things regular, and understand them himself, not trust Fenn, as Sir G. Carteret did, and will solicit soundly for money, which I do fear was Sir G. Carteret’s fault, that he did not do that enough, considering the age we live in, that nothing will do but by solicitation, though never so good for the King or Kingdom, and a bad business well solicited shall, for peace sake, speed when a good one shall not. But I do confess that I do think it a very bold act of him to take upon himself the place of Treasurer of the Navy at this time, but when I consider that a regular accountant never ought to fear any thing nor have reason I then do cease to wonder. At noon home to dinner and to play on the flageolet with my wife, and then to the office, where very busy close at my office till late at night. At night walked and sang with my wife in the garden, and so home to supper and to bed. This evening news comes for certain that the Dutch are with their fleete before Dover, and that it is expected they will attempt something there. The business of the peace is quite dashed again, so as now it is doubtful whether the King will condescend to what the Dutch demand, it being so near the Parliament, it being a thing that will, it may be, recommend him to them when they shall find that the not having of a peace lies on his side by denying some of their demands. This morning Captain Clerke (Robin Clerke) was at the table, now commands the Monmouth, and did when the enemy passed the chaine at Chatham the other day, who said publickly at the table that he did admire at the order when it was brought him for sinking of the Monmouth (to the endangering of the ship, and spoiling of all her provisions) when her number of men were upon her that he could have carried her up the River whither he pleased, and have- been a guard to the rest, and could have sunk her at any time. He did carry some 100 barrels of powder out of the ship to save it after the orders come for the sinking her. He knew no reason at all, he declares, that could lead them to order the sinking her, nor the rest of the great ships that were sunk, but above all admires they would burn them on shore and sink them there, when it had been better to have sunk them long way in the middle of the River, for then they would not have burned them so low as now they did.
Up, and to the office betimes, and there all the morning very busy causing papers to be entered and sorted to put the office in order against the Parliament. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again close all the afternoon upon the same occasion with great pleasure till late, and then with my wife and Mercer in the garden and sung, and then home and sung, and to supper with great content, and so to bed. The Duke of York is come back last night from Harwich, the news he brings I know not, nor hear anything to-day from Dover, whether the enemy have made any attempt there as was expected. This day our girle Mary, whom Payne helped us to, to be under his daughter, when she come to be our cook-mayde, did go away declaring that she must be where she might earn something one day, and spend it and play away the next. But a good civil wench, and one neither wife nor I did ever give angry word to, but she has this silly vanity that she must play.
Up betimes and to my office, and there busy till the office (which was only Sir T. Harvy and myself) met, and did little business and then broke up. He tells me that the Council last night did sit close to determine of the King’s answer about the peace, and that though he do not certainly know, yet by all discourse yesterday he do believe it is peace, and that the King had said it should be peace, and had bidden Alderman Baclewell to declare [it] upon the ‘Change. It is high time for us to have peace that the King and Council may get up their credits and have time to do it, for that indeed is the bottom of all our misery, that nobody have any so good opinion of the King and his Council and their advice as to lend money or venture their persons, or estates, or pains upon people that they know cannot thrive with all that we can do, but either by their corruption or negligence must be undone. This indeed is the very bottom of every man’s thought, and the certain ground that we must be ruined unless the King change his course, or the Parliament come and alter it. At noon dined alone with my wife. All the afternoon close at the office, very hard at gathering papers and putting things in order against the Parliament, and at night home with my wife to supper, and then to bed, in hopes to have all things in my office in good condition in a little time for any body to examine, which I am sure none else will.
Up betimes and to my chamber, there doing business, and by and by comes Greeting and begun a new month with him, and now to learn to set anything from the notes upon the flageolet, but, Lord! to see how like a fool he goes about to give me direction would make a man mad. I then out and by coach to White Hall and to the Treasury chamber, where did a little business, and thence to the Exchequer to Burges, about Tangier business, and so back again, stepping into the Hall a little, and then homeward by coach, and met at White Hall with Sir H. Cholmly, and so into his coach, and he with me to the Excise Office, there to do a little business also, in the way he telling me that undoubtedly the peace is concluded; for he did stand yesterday where he did hear part of the discourse at the Council table, and there did hear the King argue for it. Among other things, that the spirits of the seamen were down, and the forces of our enemies are grown too great and many for us, and he would not have his subjects overpressed; for he knew an Englishman would do as much as any man upon hopeful terms; but where he sees he is overpressed, he despairs soon as any other; and, besides that, they have already such a load of dejection upon them, that they will not be in temper a good while again. He heard my Lord Chancellor say to the King, “Sir,” says he, “the whole world do complain publickly of treachery, that things have been managed falsely by some of his great ministers.” — “Sir,” says he, “I am for your Majesty’s falling into a speedy enquiry into the truth of it, and, where you meet with it, punish it. But, at the same time, consider what you have to do, and make use of your time for having a peace; for more money will not be given without much trouble, nor is it, I fear, to be had of the people, nor will a little do it to put us into condition of doing our business.” But Sir H. Cholmly tells me he [the] Chancellors did say the other day at his table, “Treachery!” says he; “I could wish we could prove there was anything of that in it; for that would imply some wit and thoughtfulness; but we are ruined merely by folly and neglect.” And so Sir H. Cholmly tells me they did all argue for peace, and so he do believe that the King hath agreed to the three points Mr. Coventry brought over, which I have mentioned before, and is gone with them back. He tells me further that the Duke of Buckingham was before the Council the other day, and there did carry it very submissively and pleasingly to the King; but to my Lord Arlington, who do prosecute the business, he was most bitter and sharp, and very slighting. As to the letter about his employing a man to cast the King’s nativity, says he to the King, “Sir,” says he, “this is none of my hand, and I refer it to your Majesty whether you do not know this hand.” The King answered, that it was indeed none of his, and that he knew whose it was, but could not recall it presently. “Why,” says he, “it is my sister of Richmond’s, some frolick or other of hers of some certain person; and there is nothing of the King’s name in it, but it is only said to be his by supposition, as is said.” The King, it seems, seemed not very much displeased with what the Duke had said; but, however, he is still in the Tower, and no discourse of his being out in haste, though my Lady Castlemayne hath so far solicited for him that the King and she are quite fallen out: he comes not to her, nor hath for some three or four days; and parted with very foul words, the King calling her a whore, and a jade that meddled with things she had nothing to do with at all: and she calling him fool; and told him if he was not a fool, he would not suffer his businesses to be carried on by fellows that did not understand them, and cause his best subjects, and those best able to serve him, to be imprisoned; meaning the Duke of Buckingham. And it seems she was not only for his liberty, but to be restored to all his places; which, it is thought, he will never be. While we were at the Excise office talking with Mr. Ball, it was computed that the Parliament had given the King for this war only, besides all prizes, and besides the 200,000l. which he was to spend of his own revenue, to guard the sea above 5,000,000l. and odd 100,000l.; which is a most prodigious sum. Sir H. Cholmly, as a true English gentleman, do decry the King’s expenses of his Privy-purse, which in King James’s time did not rise to above 5000l. a year, and in King Charles’s to 10,000l., do now cost us above 100,000l., besides the great charge of the monarchy, as the Duke of York 100,000l. of it, and other limbs of the Royal family, and the guards, which, for his part, says he, “I would have all disbanded, for the King is not the better by them, and would be as safe without them; for we have had no rebellions to make him fear anything.” But, contrarily, he is now raising of a land-army, which this Parliament and kingdom will never bear; besides, the commanders they put over them are such as will never be able to raise or command them; but the design is, and the Duke of York, he says, is hot for it, to have a land-army, and so to make the government like that of France, but our princes have not brains, or at least care and forecast enough to do that. It is strange how he and every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what way a man could devise to lose so much in so little time. Thence he set me down at my Lord Crew’s and away, and I up to my Lord, where Sir Thomas Crew was, and by and by comes Mr. Caesar, who teaches my Lady’s page upon the lute, and here Mr. Caesar did play some very fine things indeed, to my great liking. Here was my Lord Hinchingbroke also, newly come from Hinchingbroke, where all well, but methinks I knowing in what case he stands for money by his demands to me and the report Mr. Moore gives of the management of the family, makes me, God forgive me! to contemn him, though I do really honour and pity them, though they deserve it not, that have so good an estate and will live beyond it. To dinner, and very good discourse with my Lord. And after dinner Sir Thomas Crew and I alone, and he tells me how I am mightily in esteem with the Parliament; there being harangues made in the House to the Speaker, of Mr. Pepys’s readiness and civility to show them every thing, which I am at this time very glad of. He tells me the news of the King and my Lady Castlemayne which I have wrote already this day, and the design of the Parliament to look into things very well before they give any more money, and I pray God they may. Thence, after dinner, to St. James’s, but missed Sir W. Coventry, and so home, and there find my wife in a dogged humour for my not dining at home, and I did give her a pull by the nose and some ill words, which she provoked me to by something she spoke, that we fell extraordinarily out, insomuch, that I going to the office to avoid further anger, she followed me in a devilish manner thither, and with much ado I got her into the garden out of hearing, to prevent shame, and so home, and by degrees I found it necessary to calme her, and did, and then to the office, where pretty late, and then to walk with her in the garden, and so to supper, and pretty good friends, and so to bed with my mind very quiet.
Up pretty betimes, it being mighty hot weather, I lying this night, which I have not done, I believe, since a boy, I am sure not since I had the stone before, with only a rugg and a sheet upon me. To my chamber, and my wife up to do something, and by chance we fell out again, but I to the office, and there we did at the board much business, though the most was the dividing of 5000l. which the Lords Commissioners have with great difficulty found upon our letter to them this week that would have required 50,000l. among a great many occasions. After rising, my Lord Anglesey, this being the second time of his being with us, did take me aside and asked me where I lived, because he would be glad to have some discourse with me. This I liked well enough, and told him I would wait upon him, which I will do, and so all broke up, and I home to dinner, where Mr. Pierce dined with us, who tells us what troubles me, that my Lord Buckhurst hath got Nell away from the King’s house, lies with her, and gives her 100l. a year, so as she hath sent her parts to the house, and will act no more.1 And yesterday Sir Thomas Crew told me that Lacy lies a-dying of the pox, and yet hath his whore by him, whom he will have to look on, he says, though he can do no more; nor would receive any ghostly advice from a Bishop, an old acquaintance of his, that went to see him. He says there is a strangeness between the King and my Lady Castlemayne, as I was told yesterday. After dinner my wife and I to the New Exchange, to pretty maid Mrs. Smith’s shop, where I left my wife, and I to Sir W. Coventry, and there had the opportunity of talk with him, who I perceive do not like our business of the change of the Treasurer’s hand, and he tells me that he is entered the lists with this new Treasurer before the King in taking away the business of the Victualling money from his hand, and the Regiment, and declaring that he hath no right to the 3d. per by his patent, for that it was always heretofore given by particular Privy Seal, and that the King and Council just upon his coming in had declared 2000l. a year sufficient. This makes him angry, but Sir W. Coventry I perceive cares not, but do every day hold up his head higher and higher, and this day I have received an order from the Commissioners of the Treasury to pay no more pensions for Tangier, which I am glad of, and he tells me they do make bold with all things of that kind. Thence I to White Hall, and in the street I spied Mrs. Borroughs, and took a means to meet and salute her and talk a little, and then parted, and I home by coach, taking up my wife at the Exchange, and there I am mightily pleased with this Mrs. Smith, being a very pleasant woman. So home, and resolved upon going to Epsum tomorrow, only for ayre, and got Mrs. Turner to go with us, and so home and to supper (after having been at the office) and to bed. It is an odd and sad thing to say, that though this be a peace worse than we had before, yet every body’s fear almost is, that the Dutch will not stand by their promise, now the King hath consented to all they would have. And yet no wise man that I meet with, when he comes to think of it, but wishes, with all his heart, a war; but that the King is not a man to be trusted with the management of it. It was pleasantly said by a man in this City, a stranger, to one that told him that the peace was concluded, “Well,” says he, “and have you a peace?” — “Yes,” says the other. — “Why, then,” says he, “hold your peace!” partly reproaching us with the disgracefulness of it, that it is not fit to be mentioned; and next, that we are not able to make the Dutch keep it, when they have a mind to break it. Sir Thomas Crew yesterday, speaking of the King of France, how great a man he is, why, says he, all the world thought that when the last Pope died, there would have been such bandying between the Crowns of France and Spain, whereas, when he was asked what he would have his ministers at Rome do, why, says he, let them choose who they will; if the Pope will do what is fit, the Pope and I will be friends. If he will not, I will take a course with him: therefore, I will not trouble myself; and thereupon the election was despatched in a little time — I think in a day, and all ended.2
Lord Buckhurst and Nell Gwyn, with the help of Sir Charles Sedley, kept “merry house” at Epsom next door to the King’s Head Inn (see Cunningham’s “Story of Nell Gwyn,” ed. 1892, p. 57) ↩
Of Clement IX., Giulio Rispogliosi, elected June 20th, 1667, N.S. He was succeeded by Clement X. in 1670. ↩
(Lord’s day). Up, and my wife, a little before four, and to make us ready; and by and by Mrs. Turner come to us, by agreement, and she and I staid talking below, while my wife dressed herself, which vexed me that she was so long about it keeping us till past five o’clock before she was ready. She ready; and, taking some bottles of wine, and beer, and some cold fowle with us into the coach, we took coach and four horses, which I had provided last night, and so away. A very fine day, and so towards Epsum, talking all the way pleasantly, and particularly of the pride and ignorance of Mrs. Lowther, in having of her train carried up? The country very fine, only the way very dusty. We got to Epsum by eight o’clock, to the well; where much company, and there we ‘light, and I drank the water: they did not, but do go about and walk a little among the women, but I did drink four pints, and had some very good stools by it. Here I met with divers of our town, among others with several of the tradesmen of our office, but did talk but little with them, it growing hot in the sun, and so we took coach again and to the towne, to the King’s Head, where our coachman carried us, and there had an ill room for us to go into, but the best in the house that was not taken up. Here we called for drink, and bespoke dinner; and hear that my Lord Buckhurst and Nelly are lodged at the next house, and Sir Charles Sidly with them and keep a merry house. Poor girl! I pity her; but more the loss of her at the King’s house. Here I saw Gilsthrop, Sir W. Batten’s clerk that hath been long sick, he looks like a dying man, with a consumption got, as is believed, by the pox, but God knows that the man is in a sad condition, though he finds himself much better since his coming thither, he says. W. Hewer rode with us, and I left him and the women, and myself walked to church, where few people, contrary to what I expected, and none I knew, but all the Houblons, brothers, and them after sermon I did salute, and walk with towards my inne, which was in their way to their lodgings. They come last night to see their elder brother, who stays here at the waters, and away to-morrow. James did tell me that I was the only happy man of the Navy, of whom, he says, during all this freedom the people have taken of speaking treason, he hath not heard one bad word of me, which is a great joy to me; for I hear the same of others, but do know that I have deserved as well as most. We parted to meet anon, and I to my women into a better room, which the people of the house borrowed for us, and there to dinner, a good dinner, and were merry, and Pendleton come to us, who happened to be in the house, and there talked and were merry. After dinner, he gone, we all lay down after dinner (the day being wonderful hot) to sleep, and each of us took a good nap, and then rose; and Tom Wilson come to see me, and sat and talked an hour; and I perceive he hath been much acquainted with Dr. Fuller (Tom) and Dr. Pierson, and several of the great cavalier parsons during the late troubles; and I was glad to hear him talk of them, which he did very ingeniously, and very much of Dr. Fuller’s art of memory, which he did tell me several instances of. By and by he parted, and we took coach and to take the ayre, there being a fine breeze abroad; and I went and carried them to the well, and there filled some bottles of water to carry home with me; and there talked with the two women that farm the well, at 12l. per annum, of the lord of the manor, Mr. Evelyn (who with his lady, and also my Lord George Barkeley’s lady, and their fine daughter, that the King of France liked so well, and did dance so rich in jewells before the King at the Ball I was at, at our Court, last winter, and also their son, a Knight of the Bath, were at church this morning). Here W. Hewer’s horse broke loose, and we had the sport to see him taken again. Then I carried them to see my cozen Pepys’s house, and ‘light, and walked round about it, and they like it, as indeed it deserves, very well, and is a pretty place; and then I walked them to the wood hard by, and there got them in the thickets till they had lost themselves, and I could not find the way into any of the walks in the wood, which indeed are very pleasant, if I could have found them. At last got out of the wood again; and I, by leaping down the little bank, coming out of the wood, did sprain my right foot, which brought me great present pain, but presently, with walking, it went away for the present, and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life — we find a shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him; so I made the boy read to me, which he did, with the forced tone that children do usually read, that was mighty pretty, and then I did give him something, and went to the father, and talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my cozen Pepys’s house, and told me what was become of their old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy’s reading, and did bless God for him, the most like one of the old patriarchs that ever I saw in my life, and it brought those thoughts of the old age of the world in my mind for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron shoes, both at the toe and heels, and with great nails in the soles of his feet, which was mighty pretty: and, taking notice of them, “Why,” says the poor man, “the downes, you see, are full of stones, and we are faine to shoe ourselves thus; and these,” says he, “will make the stones fly till they sing before me.” I did give the poor man something, for which he was mighty thankful, and I tried to cast stones with his horne crooke. He values his dog mightily, that would turn a sheep any way which he would have him, when he goes to fold them: told me there was about eighteen scoare sheep in his flock, and that he hath four shillings a week the year round for keeping of them: so we posted thence with mighty pleasure in the discourse we had with this poor man, and Mrs. Turner, in the common fields here, did gather one of the prettiest nosegays that ever I saw in my life. So to our coach, and through Mr. Minnes’s wood, and looked upon Mr. Evelyn’s house; and so over the common, and through Epsum towne to our inne, in the way stopping a poor woman with her milk-pail, and in one of my gilt tumblers did drink our bellyfulls of milk, better than any creame; and so to our inne, and there had a dish of creame, but it was sour, and so had no pleasure in it; and so paid our reckoning, and took coach, it being about seven at night, and passed and saw the people walking with their wives and children to take the ayre, and we set out for home, the sun by and by going down, and we in the cool of the evening all the way with much pleasure home, talking and pleasing ourselves with the pleasure of this day’s work, Mrs. Turner mightily pleased with my resolution, which, I tell her, is never to keep a country-house, but to keep a coach, and with my wife on the Saturday to go sometimes for a day to this place, and then quit to another place; and there is more variety and as little charge, and no trouble, as there is in a country-house. Anon it grew dark, and as it grew dark we had the pleasure to see several glow-wormes, which was mighty pretty, but my foot begins more and more to pain me, which Mrs. Turner, by keeping her warm hand upon it, did much ease; but so that when we come home, which was just at eleven at night, I was not able to walk from the lane’s end to my house without being helped, which did trouble me, and therefore to bed presently, but, thanks be to God, found that I had not been missed, nor any business happened in my absence. So to bed, and there had a cerecloth laid to my foot and leg alone, but in great pain all night long… [Continued tomorrow. P.G.]
[Continued from yesterday. P.G.] …so as I was not able to go to-day to wait on the Duke of York with my fellows, but was forced in bed to write the particulars for their discourse there, and kept my bed all day, and anon comes Mrs. Turner, and new-dressed my foot, and did it so, that I was at much ease presently, and so continued all day, so as I slept much and well in the daytime, and in the evening rose and eat something, where our poor Jane very sad for the death of her poor brother, who hath left a wife and two small children. I did give her 20s. in money, and what wine she needed, for the burying him. This evening come to see me Pelling, and we did sing together, and he sings well indeed, and after supper I was willing to go to bed to ease my foot again, which I did, and slept well all night.
In the morning I was able to put on a wide shoe on the foot, and to the office without much pain, and there sat all the morning. At noon home to dinner, where Creed to discourse of our Tangier business, which stands very bad in the business of money, and therefore we expect to have a committee called soon, and to acquaint them among other things with the order come to me for the not paying of any more pensions. We dined together, and after dinner I to the office, and there very late, very busy, doing much business indeed, and so with great comfort home to supper, and so to bed to ease my foot, which toward night began to ake.
Up, and to my chamber to set down my Journall of Sunday last with much pleasure, and my foot being pretty well, but yet I am forced to limp. Then by coach, set my wife down at the New Exchange, and I to White Hall to the Treasury chamber, but to little purpose. So to Mr. Burges to as little. There to the Hall and talked with Mrs. Michell, who begins to tire me about doing something for her elder son, which I am willing to do, but know not what. Thence to White Hall again, and thence away, and took up my wife at Unthanke’s, and left her at the ‘Change, and so I to Bennet’s to take up a bill for the last silk I had for my vest and coat, which I owe them for, and so to the Excise Office, and there did a little business, and so to Temple Bar and staid at my bookseller’s till my wife calls me, and so home, where I am saluted with the news of Hogg’s bringing a rich Canary prize to Hull:1 and Sir W. Batten do offer me 1000l. down for my particular share, beside Sir Richard Ford’s part, which do tempt me; but yet I would not take it, but will stand and fall with the company. He and two more, the Panther and Fanfan, did enter into consortship; and so they have all brought in each a prize, though ours worth as much as both theirs, and more. However, it will be well worth having, God be thanked for it! This news makes us all very glad. I at Sir W. Batten’s did hear the particulars of it; and there for joy he did give the company that were there a bottle or two of his own last year’s wine, growing at Walthamstow, than which the whole company said they never drank better foreign wine in their lives. Home, and to dinner, and by and by comes Mr. Pierce, who is interested in the Panther, for some advice, and then comes Creed, and he and I spent the whole afternoon till eight at night walking and talking of sundry things public and private in the garden, but most of all of the unhappy state of this nation at this time by the negligence of the King and his Council. The Duke of Buckingham is, it seems, set at liberty, without any further charge against him or other clearing of him, but let to go out; which is one of the strangest instances of the fool’s play with which all publick things are done in this age, that is to be apprehended. And it is said that when he was charged with making himself popular — as indeed he is, for many of the discontented Parliament, Sir Robert Howard and Sir Thomas Meres, and others, did attend at the Council-chamber when he was examined — he should answer, that whoever was committed to prison by my Lord Chancellor or my Lord Arlington, could not want being popular. But it is worth considering the ill state a Minister of State is in, under such a Prince as ours is; for, undoubtedly, neither of those two great men would have been so fierce against the Duke of Buckingham at the Council-table the other day, had they [not] been assured of the King’s good liking, and supporting them therein: whereas, perhaps at the desire of my Lady Castlemayne, who, I suppose, hath at last overcome the King, the Duke of Buckingham is well received again, and now these men delivered up to the interest he can make for his revenge. He told me over the story of Mrs. Stewart, much after the manner which I was told it long since, and have entered it in this book, told me by Mr. Evelyn; only he says it is verily believed that the King did never intend to marry her to any but himself, and that the Duke of York and Lord Chancellor were jealous of it; and that Mrs. Stewart might be got with child by the King, or somebody else, and the King own a marriage before his contract, for it is but a contract, as he tells me, to this day, with the Queene, and so wipe their noses of the Crown; and that, therefore, the Duke of York and Chancellor did do all they could to forward the match with my Lord Duke of Richmond, that she might be married out of the way; but, above all, it is a worthy part that this good lady hath acted. Thus we talked till night and then parted, and so I to my office and did business, and so home to supper, and there find my sister Michell2 come from Lee to see us; but do tattle so much of the late business of the Dutch coming thither that I was weary of it. Yet it is worth remembering what she says: that she hath heard both seamen and soldiers swear they would rather serve the Dutch than the King, for they should be better used.3 She saw “The Royal Charles” brought into the river by them; and how they shot off their great guns for joy, when they got her out of Chatham River. I would not forget that this very day when we had nothing to do almost but five merchantmen to man in the River, which have now been about it some weeks, I was asked at Westminster, what the matter was that there was such ado kept in pressing of men, as it seems there is thereabouts at this day. So after supper we all to bed, my foot very well again, I thank God.
Thomas Pointer to Samuel Pepys (Hull, July 15th): “Capt. Hogg has brought in a great prize laden with Canary wine; also Capt. Reeves of the ‘Panther,’ and the ‘Fanfan,’ whose commander is slain, have come in with their prizes” (“Calendar of State Papers,” 1667, p. 298). ↩
The wife of Balthazar St. Michel, Mrs. Pepys’s brother. — B. Leigh, opposite to Sheerness. — R. ↩
Reference has already been made to Andrew Marvell’s “Instructions to a Painter”, in which the unpaid English sailors are described as swimming to the Dutch ships, where they received the money which was withheld from them on their own ships. ↩
Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and most of our time taken up with Carcasse upon some complaints brought in against him, and many other petitions about tickets lost, which spends most of our time. Home to dinner, and then to the office again, where very well employed at the office till evening; and then being weary, took out my wife and Will Batelier by coach to Islington, but no pleasure in our going, the way being so dusty that one durst not breathe. Drank at the old house, and so home, and then to the office a little, and so home to supper and to bed.
Up and comes the flageolet master, and brings me two new great Ivory pipes which cost me 32s., and so to play, and he being done, and Balty’s wife taking her leave of me, she going back to Lee to-day, I to Westminster and there did receive 15,000l. orders out of the Exchequer in part of a bigger sum upon the eleven months tax for Tangier, part of which I presently delivered to Sir H. Cholmly, who was there, and thence with Mr. Gawden to Auditor Woods and Beales to examine some precedents in his business of the Victualling on his behalf, and so home, and in my way by coach down Marke Lane, mightily pleased and smitten to see, as I thought, in passing, the pretty woman, the line-maker’s wife that lived in Fenchurch Streete, and I had great mind to have gone back to have seen, but yet would correct my nature and would not. So to dinner with my wife, and then to sing, and so to the office, where busy all the afternoon late, and to Sir W. Batten’s and to Sir R. Ford’s, we all to consider about our great prize at Hull, being troubled at our being likely to be troubled with Prince Rupert, by reason of Hogg’s consorting himself with two privateers of the Prince’s, and so we study how to ease or secure ourselves. So to walk in the garden with my wife, and then to supper and to bed. One tells me that, by letter from Holland, the people there are made to believe that our condition in England is such as they may have whatever they will ask; and that so they are mighty high, and despise us, or a peace with us; and there is too much reason for them to do so. The Dutch fleete are in great squadrons everywhere still about Harwich, and were lately at Portsmouth; and the last letters say at Plymouth, and now gone to Dartmouth to destroy our Streights’ fleete lately got in thither; but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or no, but it was pretty news come the other day so fast, of the Dutch fleets being in so many places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, “By God,” says he, “I think the Devil shits Dutchmen.”
Up and to the office, where all the morning, and then towards the ‘Change, at noon, in my way observing my mistake yesterday in Mark Lane, that the woman I saw was not the pretty woman I meant, the line-maker’s wife, but a new-married woman, very pretty, a strong-water seller: and in going by, to my content, I find that the very pretty daughter at the Ship tavern, at the end of Billiter Lane, is there still, and in the bar: and, I believe, is married to him that is new come, and hath new trimmed the house. Home to dinner, and then to the office, we having dispatched away Mr. Oviatt to Hull, about our prizes there; and I have wrote a letter of thanks by him to Lord Bellasses, who had writ to me to offer all his service for my interest there, but I dare not trust him. In the evening late walking in the garden with my wife, and then to bed.
(Lord’s day). Up betimes, and all the morning, and then to dinner with my wife alone, and then all the afternoon in like manner, in my chamber, making up my Tangier accounts and drawing a letter, which I have done at last to my full content, to present to the Lords Commissioners for Tangier tomorrow; and about seven at night, when finished my letter and weary, I and my wife and Mercer up by water to Barne Elmes, where we walked by moonshine, and called at Lambeth, and drank and had cold meat in the boat, and did eat, and sang, and down home, by almost twelve at night, very fine and pleasant, only could not sing ordinary songs with the freedom that otherwise I would. Here Mercer tells me that the pretty maid of the Ship tavern I spoke of yesterday is married there, which I am glad of. So having spent this night, with much serious pleasure to consider that I am in a condition to fling away an angell in such a refreshment to myself and family, we home and to bed, leaving Mercer, by the way, at her own door.
Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to St. James’s, where the first time I have been there since the enemy’s being with us, where little business but lack of money, which now is so professed by Sir W. Coventry as nothing is more, and the King’s whole business owned to be at a stand for want of it. So up to my Lord Chancellor’s, where was a Committee of Tangier in my Lord’s roome, where he is to hear causes, where all the judges’ pictures hang up, very fine. Here I read my letter to them, which was well received, and they did fall seriously to discourse the want of money and other particulars, and to some pretty good purpose. But to see how Sir W. Coventry did oppose both my Lord Chancellor and the Duke of York himself, about the Order of the Commissioners of the Treasury to me for not paying of pensions, and with so much reason, and eloquence so natural, was admirable. And another thing, about his pressing for the reduction of the charge of Tangier, which they would have put off to another time; “But,” says he, “the King suffers so much by the putting off of the consideration of reductions of charge, that he is undone; and therefore I do pray you, sir, to his Royal Highness, that when any thing offers of the kind, you will not let it escape you.” Here was a great bundle of letters brought hither, sent up from sea, from a vessel of ours that hath taken them after they had been flung over by a Dutchman; wherein, among others, the Duke of York did read the superscription of one to De Witt, thus “To the most wise, foreseeing and discreet, These, &c.;” which, I thought with myself, I could have been glad might have been duly directed to any one of them at the table, though the greatest men in this kingdom. The Duke of York, the Lord Chancellor, my Lord Duke of Albemarle, Arlington, Ashley, Peterborough, and Coventry (the best of them all for parts), I perceive they do all profess their expectation of a peace, and that suddenly, and do advise of things accordingly, and do all speak of it (and expressly, I remember, the Duke of Albemarle), saying that they hoped for it. Letters were read at the table from Tangier that Guiland is wholly lost, and that he do offer Arzill to us to deliver it to us. But Sir W. Coventry did declare his opinion that we should have nothing to do with it, and said that if Tangier were offered us now, as the King’s condition is, he would advise against the taking it; saying, that the King’s charge is too great, and must be brought down, it being, like the fire of this City, never to be mastered till you have brought it under you; and that these places abroad are but so much charge to the King, and we do rather hitherto strive to greaten them than lessen them; and then the King is forced to part with them, “as,” says he, “he did with Dunkirke, by my Lord Tiviott’s making it so chargeable to the King as he did that, and would have done Tangier, if he had lived.” I perceive he is the only man that do seek the King’s profit, and is bold to deliver what he thinks on every occasion. Having broke up here, I away with Mr. Gawden in his coach to the ‘Change, and there a, little, and then home and dined, and then to the office, and by and by with my wife to White Hall (she to Unthanke’s), and there met Creed and did a little business at the Treasury chamber, and then to walk in Westminster Hall an hour or two, with much pleasure reflecting upon our discourse to-day at the Tangier meeting, and crying up the worth of Sir W. Coventry. Creed tells me of the fray between the Duke of Buckingham at the Duke’s playhouse the last Saturday (and it is the first day I have heard that they have acted at either the King’s or Duke’s houses this month or six weeks) and Henry Killigrew, whom the Duke of Buckingham did soundly beat and take away his sword, and make a fool of, till the fellow prayed him to spare his life; and I am glad of it; for it seems in this business the Duke of Buckingham did carry himself very innocently and well, and I wish he had paid this fellow’s coat well. I heard something of this at the ‘Change to-day: and it is pretty to hear how people do speak kindly of the Duke of Buckingham, as one that will enquire into faults; and therefore they do mightily favour him. And it puts me in mind that, this afternoon, Billing, the Quaker, meeting me in the Hall, come to me, and after a little discourse did say, “Well,” says he, “now you will be all called to an account;” meaning the Parliament is drawing near. This done I took coach and took up my wife, and so home, and after a little at the office I home to my chamber a while, and then to supper and to bed.
Up betimes and to the office, doing something towards our great account to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and anon the office sat, and all the morning doing business. At noon home to dinner, and then close to my business all the afternoon. In the evening Sir R. Ford is come back from the Prince and tells Sir W. Batten and me how basely Sir W. Pen received our letter we sent him about the prizes at Hull, and slily answered him about the Prince’s leaving all his concerns to him, but the Prince did it afterward by letter brought by Sir R. Ford to us, which Sir W. Pen knows not of, but a very rogue he is. By and by comes sudden news to me by letter from the Clerke of the Cheque at Gravesend, that there were thirty sail of Dutch men-of-war coming up into the Hope this last tide: which I told Sir W. Pen of; but he would not believe it, but laughed, and said it was a fleete of Billanders, and that the guns that were heard was the salutation of the Swede’s Ambassador that comes over with them. But within half an hour comes another letter from Captain Proud, that eight of them were come into the Hope, and thirty more following them, at ten this morning. By and by comes an order from White Hall to send down one of our number to Chatham, fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show first up hither, but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Bruncker do go, and we here are ordered to give notice to the merchant men-of-war, gone below the barricado at Woolwich, to come up again. So with much trouble to supper, home and to bed.
Betimes this morning comes a letter from the Clerke of the Cheque at Gravesend to me, to tell me that the Dutch fleete did come all into the Hope yesterday noon, and held a fight with our ships from thence till seven at night; that they had burned twelve fire-ships, and we took one of their’s, and burned five of our fire-ships. But then rising and going to Sir W. Batten, he tells me that we have burned one of their men-of-war, and another of theirs is blown up: but how true this is, I know not. But these fellows are mighty bold, and have had the fortune of the wind easterly this time to bring them up, and prevent our troubling them with our fire-ships; and, indeed, have had the winds at their command from the beginning, and now do take the beginning of the spring, as if they had some great design to do. I to my office, and there hard at work all the morning, to my great content, abstracting the contract book into my abstract book, which I have by reason of the war omitted for above two years, but now am endeavouring to have all my books ready and perfect against the Parliament comes, that upon examination I may be in condition to value myself upon my perfect doing of my own duty. At noon home to dinner, where my wife mighty musty, —[Dull, heavy, spiritless]— but I took no notice of it, but after dinner to the office, and there with Mr. Harper did another good piece of work about my late collection of the accounts of the Navy presented to the Parliament at their last session, which was left unfinished, and now I have done it which sets my mind at my ease, and so, having tired myself, I took a pair of oares about five o’clock, which I made a gally at Redriffe, and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyle’s Hydrostatickes, which the more I read and understand, the more I admire, as a most excellent piece of philosophy; as we come nearer Gravesend, we hear the Dutch fleete and ours a-firing their guns most distinctly and loud. But before we got to Gravesend they ceased, and it grew darkish, and so I landed only (and the flood being come) and went up to the Ship and discoursed with the landlord of the house, who undeceives me in what I heard this morning about the Dutch having lost two men-of-war, for it is not so, but several of their fire-ships. He do say, that this afternoon they did force our ships to retreat, but that now they are gone down as far as Shield-haven: but what the event hath been of this evening’s guns they know not, but suppose not much, for they have all this while shot at good distance one from another. They seem confident of the security of this town and the River above it, if the enemy should come up so high; their fortifications being so good, and guns many. But he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he come up with his tamkins in his guns. Having discoursed this a little with him, and eat a bit of cold venison and drank, I away, took boat, and homeward again, with great pleasure, the moon shining, and it being a fine pleasant cool evening, and got home by half-past twelve at night, and so to bed.
Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and there sang with much pleasure with my wife, and so to the office again, and busy all the afternoon. At night Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself, and Sir R. Ford, did meet in the garden to discourse about our prizes at Hull. It appears that Hogg is the veriest rogue, the most observable embezzler, that ever was known. This vexes us, and made us very free and plain with Sir W. Pen, who hath been his great patron, and as very a rogue as he. But he do now seem to own that his opinion is changed of him, and that he will joyne with us in our strictest inquiries, and did sign to the letters we had drawn, which he had refused before, and so seemingly parted good friends, and then I demanded of Sir R. Ford and the rest, what passed to-day at the meeting of the Parliament: who told me that, contrary to all expectation by the King that there would be but a thin meeting, there met above 300 this first day, and all the discontented party; and, indeed, the whole House seems to be no other almost. The Speaker told them, as soon as they were sat, that he was ordered by the King to let them know he was hindered by some important business to come to them and speak to them, as he intended; and, therefore, ordered him to move that they would adjourn themselves till Monday next, it being very plain to all the House that he expects to hear by that time of the sealing of the peace, which by letters, it seems, from my Lord Holis, was to be sealed the last Sunday.1 But before they would come to the question whether they would adjourn, Sir Thomas Tomkins steps up and tells them, that all the country is grieved at this new raised standing army; and that they thought themselves safe enough in their trayn-bands; and that, therefore, he desired the King might be moved to disband them. Then rises Garraway and seconds him, only with this explanation, which he said he believed the other meant; that, as soon as peace should be concluded, they might be disbanded. Then rose Sir W. Coventry, and told them that he did approve of what the last gentleman said; but also, that at the same time he did no more than what, he durst be bold to say, he knew to be the King’s mind, that as soon as peace was concluded he would do it of himself. Then rose Sir Thomas Littleton, and did give several reasons for the uncertainty of their meeting again but to adjourne, in case news comes of the peace being ended before Monday next, and the possibility of the King’s having some about him that may endeavour to alter his own, and the good part of his Council’s advice, for the keeping up of the land-army; and, therefore, it was fit that they did present it to the King as their desire, that, as soon as peace was concluded, the land-army might be laid down, and that this their request might be carried to the King by them of their House that were Privy-councillors; which was put to the vote, and carried ‘nemine contradicente’. So after this vote passed, they adjourned: but it is plain what the effects of this Parliament will be, if they be suffered to sit, that they will fall foul upon the faults of the Government; and I pray God they may be permitted to do it, for nothing else, I fear, will save the King and kingdom than the doing it betimes. They gone, I to walk with my wife in the garden, and then home to supper and to bed.
The peace was signed on the 31st. See August 9th.—B. ↩
Up, and betimes to the office, where Mr. Hater and I together all the morning about the perfecting of my abstract book of contracts and other things to my great content. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again all the afternoon doing of other good things there, and being tired, I then abroad with my wife and left her at the New Exchange, while I by water thence to Westminster to the Hall, but shops were shut up, and so to White Hall by water, and thence took up my wife at Unthanke’s, and so home, mightily tired with the dust in riding in a coach, it being mighty troublesome. So home and to my office, and there busy very late, and then to walk a little with my wife, and then to supper and to bed. No news at all this day what we have done to the enemy, but that the enemy is fallen down, and we after them, but to little purpose.
Up and to the office, where I hear that Sir John Coventry is come over from Bredah, a nephew, I think, of Sir W. Coventry’s: but what message he brings I know not. This morning news is come that Sir Jos. Jordan is come from Harwich, with sixteen fire-ships and four other little ships of war: and did attempt to do some execution upon the enemy, but did it without discretion, as most do say, so as that they have been able to do no good, but have lost four of their fire ships. They attempted [this], it seems, when the wind was too strong, that our grapplings could not hold: others say we come to leeward of them, but all condemn it as a foolish management. They are come to Sir Edward Spragg about Lee, and the Dutch are below at the Nore. At the office all the morning; and at noon to the ‘Change, where I met Fenn; and he tells me that Sir John Coventry do bring the confirmation of the peace; but I do not find the ‘Change at all glad of it, but rather the worse, they looking upon it as a peace made only to preserve the King for a time in his lusts and ease, and to sacrifice trade and his kingdoms only to his own pleasures: so that the hearts of merchants are quite down. He tells me that the King and my Lady Castlemayne are quite broke off, and she is gone away, and is with child, and swears the King shall own it; and she will have it christened in the Chapel at White Hall so, and owned for the King’s, as other Kings have done; or she will bring it into White Hall gallery, and dash the brains of it out before the King’s face.1 He tells me that the King and Court were never in the world so bad as they are now for gaming, swearing, whoring, and drinking, and the most abominable vices that ever were in the world; so that all must come to nought. He told me that Sir G. Carteret was at this end of the town; so I went to visit him in Broad Street; and there he and I together: and he is mightily pleased with my Lady Jem’s having a son; and a mighty glad man he is. He [Sir George Carteret] tells me, as to news, that the peace is now confirmed, and all that over. He says it was a very unhappy motion in the House the other day about the land-army; for, whether the King hath a mind of his own to do the thing desired or no, his doing it will be looked upon as a thing done only in fear of the Parliament. He says that the Duke of York is suspected to be the great man that is for raising of this army, and bringing things to be commanded by an army; but he believes that he is wronged, and says that he do know that he is wronged therein. He do say that the Court is in a way to ruin all for their pleasures; and says that he himself hath once taken the liberty to tell the King the necessity of having, at least, a show of religion in the Government, and sobriety; and that it was that, that did set up and keep up Oliver, though he was the greatest rogue in the world, and that it is so fixed in the nature of the common Englishman that it will not out of him. He tells me that while all should be labouring to settle the kingdom, they are at Court all in factions, some for and others against my Lord Chancellor, and another for and against another man, and the King adheres to no man, but this day delivers himself up to this, and the next to that, to the ruin of himself and business; that he is at the command of any woman like a slave, though he be the best man to the Queene in the world, with so much respect, and never lies a night from her: but yet cannot command himself in the presence of a woman he likes. Having had this discourse, I parted, and home to dinner, and thence to the, office all the afternoon to my great content very busy. It raining this day all day to our great joy, it having not rained, I think, this month before, so as the ground was everywhere so burned and dry as could be; and no travelling in the road or streets in London, for dust. At night late home to supper and to bed.
Charles owned only four children by Lady Castlemaine-Anne, Countess of Sussex, and the Dukes of Southampton, Grafton, and Northumberland. The last of these was born in 1665. The paternity of all her other children was certainly doubtful. See pp. 50,52. ↩
(Lord’s day). Up and to my chamber, where all the morning close, to draw up a letter to Sir W. Coventry upon the tidings of peace, taking occasion, before I am forced to it, to resign up to his Royall Highness my place of the Victualling, and to recommend myself to him by promise of doing my utmost to improve this peace in the best manner we may, to save the kingdom from ruin. By noon I had done this to my good content, and then with my wife all alone to dinner, and so to my chamber all the afternoon to write my letter fair, and sent it away, and then to talk with my wife, and read, and so by daylight (the only time I think I have done it this year) to supper, and then to my chamber to read and so to bed, my mind very much eased after what I have done to-day.
Up, and with Sir W. Batten to St. James’s, to Sir W. Coventry’s chamber; where, among other things, he come to me, and told me that he had received my yesterday’s letters, and that we concurred very well in our notions; and that, as to my place which I had offered to resign of the Victualling, he had drawn up a letter at the same time for the Duke of York’s signing for the like places in general raised during this war; and that he had done me right to the Duke of York, to let him know that I had, of my own accord, offered to resign mine. The letter do bid us to do all things, particularizing several, for the laying up of the ships, and easing the King of charge; so that the war is now professedly over. By and by up to the Duke of York’s chamber; and there all the talk was about Jordan’s coming with so much indiscretion, with his four little frigates and sixteen fire-ships from Harwich, to annoy the enemy. His failures were of several sorts, I know not which the truest: that he come with so strong a gale of wind, that his grapplings would not hold; that he did come by their lee; whereas if he had come athwart their hawse, they would have held; that they did not stop a tide, and come up with a windward tide, and then they would not have come so fast. Now, there happened to be Captain Jenifer by, who commanded the Lily in this business, and thus says that, finding the Dutch not so many as they expected, they did not know but that there were more of them above, and so were not so earnest to the setting upon these; that they did do what they could to make the fire-ships fall in among the enemy; and, for their lives, neither Sir J. Jordan nor others could, by shooting several times at them, make them go in; and it seems they were commanded by some idle fellows, such as they could of a sudden gather up at Harwich; which is a sad consideration that, at such a time as this, where the saving the reputation of the whole nation lay at stake, and after so long a war, the King had not credit to gather a few able men to command these vessels. He says, that if they had come up slower, the enemy would, with their boats and their great sloops, which they have to row with a great many men, they would, and did, come and cut up several of our fireships, and would certainly have taken most of them, for they do come with a great provision of these boats on purpose, and to save their men, which is bravely done of them, though they did, on this very occasion, shew great fear, as they say, by some men leaping overboard out of a great ship, as these were all of them of sixty and seventy guns a-piece, which one of our fireships laid on board, though the fire did not take. But yet it is brave to see what care they do take to encourage their men to provide great stores of boats to save them, while we have not credit to find one boat for a ship. And, further, he told us that this new way used by Deane, and this Sir W. Coventry observed several times, of preparing of fire-ships, do not do the work; for the fire, not being strong and quick enough to flame up, so as to take the rigging and sails, lies smothering a great while, half an hour before it flames, in which time they can get her off safely, though, which is uncertain, and did fail in one or two this bout, it do serve to burn our own ships. But what a shame it is to consider how two of our ships’ companies did desert their ships for fear of being taken by their boats, our little frigates being forced to leave them, being chased by their greater! And one more company did set their ship on fire, and leave her; which afterwards a Feversham fisherman come up to, and put out the fire, and carried safe into Feversham, where she now is, which was observed by the Duke of York, and all the company with him, that it was only want of courage, and a general dismay and abjectness of spirit upon all our men; and others did observe our ill management, and God Almighty’s curse upon all that we have in hand, for never such an opportunity was of destroying so many good ships of theirs as we now had. But to see how negligent we were in this business, that our fleete of Jordan’s should not have any notice where Spragg was, nor Spragg of Jordan’s, so as to be able to meet and join in the business, and help one another; but Jordan, when he saw Spragg’s fleete above, did think them to be another part of the enemy’s fleete! While, on the other side, notwithstanding our people at Court made such a secret of Jordan’s design that nobody must know it, and even this Office itself must not know it; nor for my part I did not, though Sir W. Batten says by others’ discourse to him he had heard something of it; yet De Ruyter, or he that commanded this fleete, had notice of it, and told it to a fisherman of ours that he took and released on Thursday last, which was the day before our fleete came to him. But then, that, that seems most to our disgrace, and which the Duke of York did take special and vehement notice of, is, that when the Dutch saw so many fire- ships provided for them, themselves lying, I think, about the Nore, they did with all their great ships, with a North-east wind, as I take it they said, but whatever it was, it was a wind that we should not have done it with, turn down to the Middle-ground; which the Duke of York observed, never was nor would have been undertaken by ourselves. And whereas some of the company answered, it was their great fear, not their choice that made them do it, the Duke of York answered, that it was, it may be, their fear and wisdom that made them do it; but yet their fear did not make them mistake, as we should have done, when we have had no fear upon us, and have run our ships on ground. And this brought it into my mind, that they managed their retreat down this difficult passage, with all their fear, better than we could do ourselves in the main sea, when the Duke of Albemarle run away from the Dutch, when the Prince was lost, and the Royal Charles and the other great ships come on ground upon the Galloper. Thus, in all things, in wisdom, courage, force, knowledge of our own streams, and success, the Dutch have the best of us, and do end the war with victory on their side. The Duke of York being ready, we into his closet, but, being in haste to go to the Parliament House, he could not stay. So we parted, and to Westminster Hall, where the Hall full of people to see the issue of the day, the King being come to speak to the House to-day. One thing extraordinary was, this day a man, a Quaker, came naked through the Hall, only very civilly tied about the privities to avoid scandal, and with a chafing-dish of fire and brimstone burning upon his head, did pass through the Hall, crying, “Repent! repent!” I up to the Painted Chamber, thinking to have got in to have heard the King’s speech, but upon second thoughts did not think it would be worth the crowd, and so went down again into the Hall and there walked with several, among others my Lord Rutherford, who is come out of Scotland, and I hope I may get some advantage by it in reference to the business of the interest of the great sum of money I paid him long since without interest. But I did not now move him in it. But presently comes down the House of Commons, the King having made then a very short and no pleasing speech to them at all, not at all giving them thanks for their readiness to come up to town at this busy time; but told them that he did think he should have had occasion for them, but had none, and therefore did dismiss them to look after their own occasions till October; and that he did wonder any should offer to bring in a suspicion that he intended to rule by an army, or otherwise than by the laws of the land, which he promised them he would do; and so bade them go home and settle the minds of the country in that particular; and only added, that he had made a peace which he did believe they would find reasonable, and a good peace, but did give them none of the particulars thereof. Thus they are dismissed again to their general great distaste, I believe the greatest that ever Parliament was, to see themselves so fooled, and the nation in certain condition of ruin, while the King, they see, is only governed by his lust, and women, and rogues about him. The Speaker, they found, was kept from coming in the morning to the House on purpose, till after the King was come to the House of Lords, for fear they should be doing anything in the House of Commons to the further dissatisfaction of the King and his courtiers. They do all give up the kingdom for lost that I speak to; and do hear what the King says, how he and the Duke of York do do what they can to get up an army, that they may need no more Parliaments: and how my Lady Castlemayne hath, before the late breach between her and the King, said to the King that he must rule by an army, or all would be lost, and that Bab. May hath given the like advice to the King, to crush the English gentlemen, saying that 300l. a-year was enough for any man but them that lived at Court. I am told that many petitions were provided for the Parliament, complaining of the wrongs they have received from the Court and courtiers, in city and country, if the Parliament had but sat: and I do perceive they all do resolve to have a good account of the money spent before ever they give a farthing more: and the whole kingdom is everywhere sensible of their being abused, insomuch that they forced their Parliament-men to come up to sit; and my cozen Roger told me that (but that was in mirth) he believed, if he had not come up, he should have had his house burned. The kingdom never in so troubled a condition in this world as now; nobody pleased with the peace, and yet nobody daring to wish for the continuance of the war, it being plain that nothing do nor can thrive under us. Here I saw old good Mr. Vaughan, and several of the great men of the Commons, and some of them old men, that are come 200 miles, and more, to attend this session- of Parliament; and have been at great charge and disappointments in their other private business; and now all to no purpose, neither to serve their country, content themselves, nor receive any thanks from the King. It is verily expected by many of them that the King will continue the prorogation in October, so as, if it be possible, never to have [this] Parliament more. My Lord Bristoll took his place in the House of Lords this day, but not in his robes; and when the King come in, he withdrew but my Lord of Buckingham was there as brisk as ever, and sat in his robes; which is a monstrous thing, that a man proclaimed against, and put in the Tower, and all, and released without any trial, and yet not restored to his places: But, above all, I saw my Lord Mordaunt as merry as the best, that it seems hath done such further indignities to Mr. Taylor since the last sitting of Parliament as would hang [him], if there were nothing else, would the King do what were fit for him; but nothing of that is now likely to be. After having spent an hour or two in the hall, my cozen Roger and I and Creed to the Old Exchange, where I find all the merchants sad at this peace and breaking up of the Parliament, as men despairing of any good to the nation, which is a grievous consideration; and so home, and there cozen Roger and Creed to dinner with me, and very merry:— but among other things they told me of the strange, bold sermon of Dr. Creeton yesterday, before the King; how he preached against the sins of the Court, and particularly against adultery, over and over instancing how for that single sin in David, the whole nation was undone; and of our negligence in having our castles without ammunition and powder when the Dutch come upon us; and how we have no courage now a-days, but let our ships be taken out of our harbour. Here Creed did tell us the story of the dwell last night, in Coventgarden, between Sir H. Bellasses and Tom Porter. It is worth remembering the silliness of the quarrell, and is a kind of emblem of the general complexion of this whole kingdom at present. They two it seems dined yesterday at Sir Robert Carr’s, where it seems people do drink high, all that come. It happened that these two, the greatest friends in the world, were talking together: and Sir H. Bellasses talked a little louder than ordinary to Tom Porter, giving of him some advice. Some of the company standing by said, “What! are they quarrelling, that they talk so high?” Sir H. Bellasses hearing it, said, “No!” says he: “I would have you know that I never quarrel, but I strike; and take that as a rule of mine!” — “How?” says Tom Porter, “strike! I would I could see the man in England that durst give me a blow!” with that Sir H. Bellasses did give him a box of the eare; and so they were going to fight there, but were hindered. And by and by Tom Porter went out; and meeting Dryden the poet, told him of the business, and that he was resolved to fight Sir H. Bellasses presently; for he knew, if he did not, they should be made friends to-morrow, and then the blow would rest upon him; which he would prevent, and desired Dryden to let him have his boy to bring him notice which way Sir H. Bellasses goes. By and by he is informed that Sir H. Bellasses’s coach was coming: so Tom Porter went down out of the Coffee- house where he stayed for the tidings, and stopped the coach, and bade Sir H. Bellasses come out. “Why,” says H. Bellasses, “you will not hurt me coming out, will you?” — “No,” says Tom Porter. So out he went, and both drew: and H. Bellasses having drawn and flung away his scabbard, Tom Porter asked him whether he was ready? The other answering him he was, they fell to fight, some of their acquaintance by. They wounded one another, and H. Bellasses so much that it is feared he will die: and finding himself severely wounded, he called to Tom Porter, and kissed him, and bade him shift for himself; “for,” says he, “Tom, thou hast hurt me; but I will make shift to stand upon my legs till thou mayest withdraw, and the world not take notice of you, for I would not have thee troubled for what thou hast done.” And so whether he did fly or no I cannot tell: but Tom Porter shewed H. Bellasses that he was wounded too: and they are both ill, but H. Bellasses to fear of life. And this is a fine example; and H. Bellasses a Parliament-man too, and both of them most extraordinary friends! Among other discourse, my cozen Roger told us a thing certain, that the Archbishop of Canterbury; that now is, do keep a wench, and that he is as very a wencher as can be; and tells us it is a thing publickly known that Sir Charles Sidley had got away one of the Archbishop’s wenches from him, and the Archbishop sent to him to let him know that she was his kinswoman, and did wonder that he would offer any dishonour to one related to him. To which Sir Charles Sidley is said to answer, “A pox take his Grace! pray tell his Grace that I believe he finds himself too old, and is afraid that I should outdo him among his girls, and spoil his trade.” But he makes no more of doubt to say that the Archbishop is a wencher, and known to be so, which is one of the most astonishing things that I have heard of, unless it be, what for certain he says is true, that my Lady Castlemayne hath made a Bishop lately, namely, — her uncle, Dr. Glenham, who, I think they say, is Bishop of Carlisle; a drunken, swearing rascal, and a scandal to the Church; and do now pretend to be Bishop of Lincoln, in competition with Dr. Raynbow, who is reckoned as worthy a man as most in the Church for piety and learning: which are things so scandalous to consider, that no man can doubt but we must be undone that hears of them. After dinner comes W. How and a son of Mr. Pagett’s to see me, with whom I drank, but could not stay, and so by coach with cozen Roger (who before his going did acquaint me in private with an offer made of his marrying of Mrs. Elizabeth Wiles, whom I know; a kinswoman of Mr. Honiwood’s, an ugly old maid, but a good housewife; and is said to have 2500l. to her portion; but if I can find that she hath but 2000l., which he prays me to examine, he says he will have her, she being one he hath long known intimately, and a good housewife, and discreet woman; though I am against it in my heart, she being not handsome at all) and it hath been the very bad fortune of the Pepyses that ever I knew, never to marry an handsome woman, excepting Ned Pepys and Creed, set the former down at the Temple resolving to go to Cambridge to-morrow, and Creed and I to White Hall to the Treasury chamber there to attend, but in vain, only here, looking out of the window into the garden, I saw the King (whom I have not had any desire to see since the Dutch come upon the coast first to Sheerness, for shame that I should see him, or he me, methinks, after such a dishonour) come upon the garden; with him two or three idle Lords; and instantly after him, in another walk, my Lady Castlemayne, led by Bab. May: at which I was surprised, having but newly heard the stories of the King and her being parted for ever. So I took Mr. Povy, who was there, aside, and he told me all, how imperious this woman is, and hectors the King to whatever she will. It seems she is with child, and the King says he did not get it: with that she made a slighting “puh” with her mouth, and went out of the house, and never come in again till the King went to Sir Daniel Harvy’s to pray her; and so she is come to-day, when one would think his mind should be full of some other cares, having but this morning broken up such a Parliament, with so much discontent, and so many wants upon him, and but yesterday heard such a sermon against adultery. But it seems she hath told the King, that whoever did get it, he should own it; and the bottom of the quarrel is this:— She is fallen in love with young Jermin who hath of late lain with her oftener than the King, and is now going to marry my Lady Falmouth; the King he is mad at her entertaining Jermin, and she is mad at Jermin’s going to marry from her: so they are all mad; and thus the kingdom is governed! and they say it is labouring to make breaches between the Duke of Richmond and his lady that the King may get her to him. But he tells me for certain that nothing is more sure than that the King, and Duke of York, and the Chancellor, are desirous and labouring all they can to get an army, whatever the King says to the Parliament; and he believes that they are at last resolved to stand and fall all three together: so that he says match of the Duke of York with the Chancellor’s daughter hath undone the nation. He tells me also that the King hath not greater enemies in the world than those of his own family; for there is not an officer in the house almost but curses him for letting them starve, and there is not a farthing of money to be raised for the buying them bread. Having done talking with him I to Westminster Hall, and there talked and wandered up and down till the evening to no purpose, there and to the Swan, and so till the evening, and so home, and there to walk in the garden with my wife, telling her of my losing 300l. a year by my place that I am to part with, which do a little trouble me, but we must live with somewhat more thrift, and so home to supper and to play on the flageolet, which do do very prettily, and so to bed. Many guns were heard this afternoon, it seems, at White Hall and in the Temple garden very plain; but what it should be nobody knows, unless the Dutch be driving our ships up the river. To-morrow we shall know.
Up and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At noon home to dinner, where Daniel and his wife with us, come to see whether I could get him any employment. But I am so far from it, that I have the trouble upon my mind how to dispose of Mr. Gibson and one or two more I am concerned for in the Victualling business, which are to be now discharged. After dinner by coach to White Hall, calling on two or three tradesmen and paying their bills, and so to White Hall, to the Treasury- chamber, where I did speak with the Lords, and did my business about getting them to assent to 10 per cent. interest on the 11 months tax, but find them mightily put to it for money. Here I do hear that there are three Lords more to be added to them; my Lord Bridgewater, my Lord Anglesey, and my Lord Chamberlaine. Having done my business, I to Creed’s chamber, and thence out with Creed to White Hall with him; in our way, meeting with Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain’s secretary, on horseback, who stopped to speak with us, and he proved very drunk, and did talk, and would have talked all night with us, I not being able to break loose from him, he holding me so by the hand. But, Lord! to see his present humour, how he swears at every word, and talks of the King and my Lady Castlemayne in the plainest words in the world. And from him I gather that the story I learned yesterday is true — that the King hath declared that he did not get the child of which she is conceived at this time, he having not as he says lain with her this half year. But she told him, “God damn me, but you shall own it!” It seems, he is jealous of Jermin, and she loves him so, that the thoughts of his marrying of my Lady Falmouth puts her into fits of the mother; and he, it seems, hath lain with her from time to time, continually, for a good while; and once, as this Cooling says, the King had like to have taken him a-bed with her, but that he was fain to creep under the bed into her closet … But it is a pretty thing he told us how the King, once speaking of the Duke of York’s being mastered by his wife, said to some of the company by, that he would go no more abroad with this Tom Otter (meaning the Duke of York) and his wife. Tom Killigrew, being by, answered, “Sir,” says he, “pray which is the best for a man, to be a Tom Otter to his wife or to his mistress?” meaning the King’s being so to my Lady Castlemayne. Thus he went on; and speaking then of my Lord Sandwich, whom he professed to love exceedingly, says Creed, “I know not what, but he is a man, methinks, that I could love for himself, without other regards.” … He talked very lewdly; and then took notice of my kindness to him on shipboard seven years ago, when the King was coming over, and how much he was obliged to me; but says, pray look upon this acknowledgement of a kindness in me to be a miracle; for, says he, “it is against the law at Court for a man that borrows money of me, even to buy his place with, to own it the next Sunday;” and then told us his horse was a bribe, and his boots a bribe; and told us he was made up of bribes, as an Oxford scholar is set out with other men’s goods when he goes out of town, and that he makes every sort of tradesman to bribe him; and invited me home to his house, to taste of his bribe wine. I never heard so much vanity from a man in my life; so, being now weary of him, we parted, and I took coach, and carried Creed to the Temple. There set him down, and to my office, where busy late till my eyes begun to ake, and then home to supper: a pullet, with good sauce, to my liking, and then to play on the flageolet with my wife, which she now does very prettily, and so to bed.
Up, and after some time with Greeting upon my flageolet I to my office, and there all the morning busy. Among other things, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself did examine a fellow of our private man- of-war, who we have found come up from Hull, with near 500l. worth of pieces of eight, though he will confess but 100 pieces. But it appears that there have been fine doings there. At noon dined at home, and then to the office, where busy again till the evening, when Major Halsey and Kinaston to adjust matters about Mrs. Rumbald’s bill of exchange, and here Major Halsey, speaking much of my doing business, and understanding business, told me how my Lord Generall do say that I am worth them all, but I have heard that Halsey hath said the same behind my back to others. Then abroad with my wife by coach to Marrowbone, where my Lord Mayor and Aldermen, it seem, dined to-day: and were just now going away, methought, in a disconsolate condition, compared with their splendour they formerly had, when the City was standing. Here my wife and I drank at the gate, not ‘lighting, and then home with much pleasure, and so to my chamber, and my wife and I to pipe, and so to supper and to bed.
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Apply Now for the 2017-18 AIF Clinton Fellowship in India
Oct 24, 2016 • Views 5,814
AIF Clinton Fellows ready to depart for their placements in 2016
Sponsored by AIF
The American India Foundation (AIF) is now seeking applicants for the 2017-2018 class of the AIF William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India. During an immersive, 10-month volunteer service program, AIF Clinton Fellows are paired with NGOs and social enterprises across India in order to accelerate impact and create projects that are replicable, scalable, and sustainable. Fellows gain knowledge of development on the ground in the fields of education, livelihoods, and public health.
Meeting India’s goals for sustainable development requires not only hard work and dedication, but also leaders with the firsthand experience and real-world skills to deliver practical, local solutions. The AIF Clinton Fellowship is helping to shape the next generation of leaders committed to positive change while also strengthening civil society in both countries.
Fellows serve from September 2017 to July 2018 with NGOs across India. The Fellowship includes an Orientation and training at the start of the program in September 2017, a Midpoint retreat and thematic conferences in January 2018, and an Endpoint conference at the program’s conclusion in June 2018.
Examples of Successful Fellowship Projects
Fellows support AIF partner organizations at a crucial moment of scalability through project-based collaboration, skills-sharing, training, and capacity-building. Responsibilities vary based on a Fellow’s skills, experience, and interests. Projects may include but are not limited to: program design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, graphic design, videography, data collection and visualization, digital content development, event planning, qualitative and quantitative research, creative writing, curriculum design, fundraising, teaching, training teachers, community organizing, managing information systems, and marketing and communications.
Each Fellow is paired with a mentor at the host organization and with a mentor at AIF for support throughout the project. During the selection process, we take note of the skill sets and career aspirations of potential Fellows to match them with appropriate AIF partner organizations.
Examples of previous projects include:
Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation system to assess the social impact of employability and education programs.
Design, develop, and disseminate a health and hygiene curriculum, including the promotion of awareness around menstrual health and hygiene.
Design and facilitate a business and entrepreneurship program for rural women; fostered the immersion of several small-scale business designed and run entirely by rural women.
Setup and facilitate a support group for women affected by domestic violence. Developing a manual and methodology on how the support group should be conducted on monthly/bi-monthly basis.
Alumni of the AIF Clinton Fellowship have pursued a diversity of career and life paths including graduate studies in disciplines such as urban planning, public health, international development, law, business, education and medicine; and professional opportunities in leadership positions in the public and private sectors, including work in social enterprise and development both in the U.S. and in India.
AIF Clinton Fellows on an exposure visit to Barefoot College (Rajasthan) during Orientation 2016
Be a U.S. or Indian citizen, or a U.S. permanent resident;
Be between 21 and 34 years of age by September 1, 2017;
Have completed an undergraduate degree prior to the start of the program on September 1, 2017.
We seek applicants from a variety of backgrounds, both professionally and personally.
Candidates should demonstrate a deep interest, passion, and commitment to social and economic development in India. Candidates must show humility and an eagerness to learn within a cross-cultural context. Ideal candidates possess strong professional skills, relevant volunteer or other practical experience, and applicable academic credentials or training. They show a potential for leadership and are entrepreneurial, innovative, and creative in finding solutions and navigating unknown environments.
Candidates must be flexible and adaptable, and possess exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships across cultures in the social development space. A sensitivity and ability to work with vulnerable communities is a must. Although proficiency in an Indian language is not required to apply, it is highly desirable.
Fellows receive a living stipend and health insurance coverage for the duration of their volunteer service in India. Travel to and from a Fellow’s point of origin to the host organization placement as well as travel to Orientation, Midpoint, Thematic, and Endpoint conferences in India, is included in the Fellowship.
Fellows receive comprehensive training prior to their departure and in-country, as well as structured mentoring support by their designated AIF and host organization mentors throughout the program. Fellows may be eligible to receive some language training in a local language prior to the start of their project.
For more information, visit us here. For inquiries, please contact us at fellowship@aif.org.
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Bill Turner Schools Football Competition
Would you like to play in the Bill Turner Schools Football Competition?
Radford Football will be entering both a boys' team and a girls' team. All students aged 15 years and under in 2016 are welcome to play.
If you'd like to take part, please join Mr Wallensky for a meeting this Thursday, 24 March in Room 71 in the PE Sports Centre. The meeting will start??at the beginning of lunch.
The Bill Turner Cup is one of the world's largest team sport competitions.
Over 400 schools compete each year ? which means around 6,000 players from NSW, Queensland, ACT and Victoria.
This knockout-style competition encourages fun and fair play for boys aged 15 and under in 2016.
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Each year, nearly 400 schools from NSW, Queensland, ACT and Victoria compete in this knockout contest.
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Congratulations to Year 9's Miguel Fernandez who was selected for the ACT u15 Boys Touch Football team.
Radford wishes you and the team all the very best.
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Joe Hawk is a 45-year veteran of the newspaper business and has worked at the Review-Journal on three different occasions since 1978, most recently since 1993. He has served in numerous capacities, including sports editor, sports columnist and college basketball beat writer, when he covered the UNLV basketball team during its national championship season of 1990. Hawk is a three-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year recipient and was twice honored by The Associated Press, including a third-place national award for his game story on UNLV’s title game victory. Hawk began his career at the Ashland (Ore.) Daily Tidings in 1972 and the Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune in 1973. He is a 1978 graduate of UNLV.
Seth Brown, Jorge Mateo provide sparks, Aviators beat Bees
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Jorge Mateo, Skye Bolt and Tyler Ramirez each drove in two runs as the Aviators concluded a four-game Pacific Coast League series against the Fresno Grizzlies with a 9-7 victory Monday night at Chukchansi Park.
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FRESNO, Calif. — Jose Marmalejos hit a tie-breaking solo home run in the eighth inning Sunday as the Fresno Grizzlies edged the Aviators 9-8 in a Pacific Coast League game at Chukchansi Park.
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Bonds (officers and fiduciaries)
Cartways
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Public waters
Right of entry
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Water access sites
2005 Subd. 2 Amended 2005 c 117 s 1
2005 Subd. 11 Amended 2005 c 4 s 31
2001 Subd. 10 Amended 2001 c 139 s 7
2000 Subd. 13 New 2000 c 334 s 1
1995 Subd. 1 Amended 1995 c 25 s 2
164.07 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13]
164.07 ESTABLISHMENT, ALTERATION, OR VACATION OF TOWN ROAD.
Subdivision 1.Authorization; petition.
Any town board may alter or vacate a town road, including those dedicated to the public by plat, or establish a new road in its town upon a petition of not less than eight voters of the town, who own real estate, or occupy real estate under the homestead or preemption laws or under contract with the state, within three miles of the road proposed to be established, altered, or vacated; provided, that in any town not having eight voters who own real estate or occupy real estate under the homestead or preemption laws or under contract with the state, within three miles of any proposed road, the town board of such town may alter or vacate a town road, or establish a new road in the town upon a petition signed by a less number of voters of such town, who own real estate or occupy real estate under the homestead or preemption laws or under contract with the state, in such town. Such petition shall contain a description of the road, and what part thereof is to be altered or vacated, and, if a new road, the names of the owners of the land, if known, over which such road is to pass, its point of beginning, general course, and termination. If the petition is to establish or alter a road, the petition must also contain a statement of the purpose and necessity for establishing or altering the road.
Subd. 2.Hearing; notice.
(a) The petition shall be filed with the town clerk, who shall forthwith present it to the town board. The town board within 30 days thereafter shall make an order describing as nearly as practicable the road proposed to be established, altered, or vacated and the several tracts of land through which it passes, and fixing a time and place when and where it will meet and act upon the petition. The order must also contain a notice to affected landowners that a landowner is entitled to judicial review of damages, need, and purpose under subdivision 7 following a determination to establish or alter a road. The petitioners shall cause personal service of the order and a copy of the petition to be made upon each occupant of the land at least ten days before the meeting and cause ten days' posted notice thereof to be given.
(b) In addition, the petitioners shall serve notice of the order by certified mail upon the commissioner of natural resources at least 60 days before the meeting required under paragraph (a), if the road to be vacated terminates at, abuts upon, or is adjacent to any public water.
(c) The notice under this paragraph does not create a right of intervention by the commissioner of natural resources. At least 15 days prior to convening the meeting required under paragraph (a), the town board or its designee must consult with the commissioner of natural resources to review the proposed vacation. The commissioner must evaluate:
(1) the proposed vacation and the public benefits to do so;
(2) the present and potential use of the land for access to public waters; and
(3) how the vacation would impact conservation of natural resources.
The commissioner must advise the town board or its designee accordingly upon the evaluation.
Subd. 3.Examination of proposed road.
At the time and place designated, the town board shall meet and, on proof by affidavit of the giving of such notice, it shall examine the road proposed to be established, altered, or vacated, hear all parties interested, and determine whether it will grant or refuse the petition. If it be refused, the fact shall be noted on the back thereof.
Subd. 3a.Drainage facility.
On consideration of a petition for vacation of a road, the town board shall determine whether the lateral ditches of said road are essential for surface drainage of adjacent lands, or for drainage of public highways, in the area. If the board finds that preservation of such drainage facilities is for the general health and welfare of the public, then the board may cause the road to be vacated with a provision that the town shall retain the right of access for the purpose of maintaining such drainage facilities. An owner of land adjacent to the vacated portion of the road shall not interfere with the functioning of such drainage facilities.
Subd. 4.Survey.
If the petition be granted, the town board, if it deem it necessary, shall cause a survey to be made. When the center of such road does not follow a section line, or some subdivisional line of a section, the surveyor shall note the distance to the point on any course at which such course will intersect a section line, and the distance of such point of intersection from the most convenient section, quarter-section, or meander corner, as established by the government survey; and the notes of such intersections, and a description of the road so established, altered, or vacated shall be incorporated in an order to be signed by the town board.
Subd. 5.Damages.
The damages sustained by reason of establishing, altering, or vacating any road may be ascertained by the agreement of the owners and the town board; and unless such agreement is made, or the owners release in writing all claims to damages, the same shall be assessed and awarded before such road is opened, worked, or used. Every agreement and release shall be filed with the town clerk and be final as to the matters therein contained. The town board shall assess the damages of each claimant with whom it cannot agree, or who is unknown, specifying the amount awarded to each and briefly describing each parcel of land. In ascertaining the damages which will be sustained by any owner the town board shall determine the money value of the benefits which the establishment, alteration, or vacation, as the case may be, will confer, and deduct the benefits, if any, from the damages, if any, and award the difference, if any as damages.
Subd. 6.Filing of award; notification.
The award of damages shall be filed with the town clerk. Within seven days after filing the town clerk shall notify, in writing, each known owner and occupant of each tract of the filing of the award of damages. The notification shall set forth the date of the award, the amount of the award of damages and any terms or conditions of the award. The notification must include a clear and coherent explanation, written in language using words with common and everyday meanings, of the requirements for appealing the award of damages under subdivision 7.
Subd. 7.Appeal.
Within 40 days after the filing of the award of damages any owner or occupant may appeal from the award by filing a notice of appeal with the court administrator of the district court of the county where the lands lie. However, the owner or occupant must file the notice of appeal within ten days in order to delay the opening, construction, alteration, change, or other improvement in or to the road pursuant to subdivision 10. The notice of appeal shall be accompanied by a bond of not less than $250, with sufficient surety approved by the judge or the county auditor conditioned to pay all costs arising from the appeal in case the award is sustained. A copy of the notice shall be mailed by registered or certified mail to the town clerk or any member of the town board. The notice of appeal shall specify the award or failure to award appealed from, the land to which it relates, the nature and amount of the claim of appellant, and the grounds of the appeal, which may include a challenge to the public purpose or necessity of the proposed road or condemnation.
Subd. 8.Trial.
The appeal shall be entered upon the calendar for trial at the next general term of the court occurring more than 20 days after the appeal is perfected. It shall be tried in the same manner as an appeal in eminent domain proceedings under chapter 117. The prevailing party shall recover costs and disbursements as in other civil cases and judgment shall be entered upon the verdict.
Subd. 9.Payment.
If no appeal is taken within the appeal period, the award shall be considered the same as a judgment. The provisions of sections 365.41 and 365.42 shall apply as to payment of all awards and judgments; and such award or judgment shall draw interest at the rate of six percent per annum to date of payment. The duty of the town board to pay the award or final judgment shall be held and construed to be just compensation or the securing of just compensation within the meaning of the Constitution.
Subd. 10.Appeal not to delay improvement.
After the award of damages has been filed, the board may proceed to open, construct, alter, or change the highway; provided it does not receive notice of appeal within ten days pursuant to subdivision 7. If the board receives a notice of appeal within ten days that challenges the public purpose or necessity of the proposed road or condemnation, it shall suspend any proposed work on the road until a final judicial determination supporting the condemnation is made. If the notice of appeal does not challenge the public purpose or necessity, the appeal shall not delay the prosecution of the proposed improvement, and the town board may proceed as if no appeal had been taken.
Subd. 11.Order; recordation, evidentiary status.
(a) The order establishing, altering, or vacating any road shall be recorded by the town clerk, and a copy thereof certified as true and correct by the town clerk shall be forthwith recorded with the county recorder or registrar of titles of the county within which the land and premises are located. The certified copy of the order shall be first presented to the county auditor who shall enter the same in the transfer records and note upon the certified copy over the auditor's official signature, the words "entered in the transfer record."
(b) The order or a certified copy shall be received in all courts as competent evidence of the facts therein contained and be prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings prior to the making thereof, except upon the hearing of an appeal.
Subd. 12.Refusal to establish.
The determination of a town board refusing to establish, alter, or vacate any road shall be final, unless appealed from, for one year from the filing of its order; and no petition for establishing, altering, or vacating such road shall be acted upon within that time. In case its determination granting a petition is appealed from and reversed, it shall not within one year from date of such determination entertain a petition having the same or a similar object.
Subd. 13.Entry for property examination or survey.
For the purposes of this section and section 164.08, the town board, its employees or agents, may enter upon any property, public or private, to conduct property examinations and surveys. This subdivision does not grant immunity to the town board, its employees, or agents for damage caused to public or private property as the result of an entry onto the property.
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One Fund Boston Names Executive Director
Van Dam will oversee disbursement of funds to victims of bombings.
By Scott Martin
Lori van Dam has been named the first executive director of One Fund Boston, the charity created to help victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, according to a Boston Globe report.
Van Dam will oversee disbursement of aid to victims of the attack, the report said. The Globe reported that the charity, founded by former Boston mayor Thomas Menino and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick after the bombings, previously distributed $61 million to 230 victims, and has raised another $12 million since.
A Newton resident, van Dam, is a graduate of Swarthmore College and most recently served as president of CC Newco, a Boston-based au pair program designed to serve elderly residents, according to the Globe. She was also president of PlanetTron, and executive director of Mass Insight Global Partnerships.
Van Dam will make $150,000 in her new post, according to the Globe.
"The outpouring of love and dedication of all those who have volunteered their time and worked tirelessly to create and support this fund for survivors and their families is inspiring," van Dam told the Globe.
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35 injured after Vancouver-to-Australia flight makes emergency landing in Hawaii
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, was carrying about 270 passengers and had 15 crew members aboard
Jul. 11, 2019 11:10 a.m.
Thirty-five passengers were reportedly injured after an Australia-bound flight from Vancouver was forced to make an emergency landing in Hawaii Thursday.
The airline says Flight AC33, which made a scheduled stopover in Vancouver Wednesday night, was about two hours past Hawaii over the Pacific Ocean when the plane ““encountered un-forecasted and sudden turbulence approximately two hours past Hawaii,” according to an emailed statement from Air Canada.
The flight diverted to Honolulu where it landed at 9:45 a.m. PST.
WATCH: Plane makes forced landing on highway in Surrey
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, was carrying about 270 passengers and had 15 crew members aboard. Thirty-five people appeared to have received minor injuries and some were examined by medical personnel, Air Canada spokesperson Angela Mah said.
“We are currently making arrangements for the passengers including hotel accommodations and meals in Honolulu, as well as options for resumption of the flight,” Mah said.
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Province slow poison killed off Sharks
WP flyhalf Robert du Preez on the attack
Published on October 29, 2017 | Leave a response
What NICK MALLETT had to say on SuperSport about Western Province’s 33-21 win against the Sharks in the Currie Cup final at Kings Park.
‘Well played to Western Province, it was a thoroughly well-constructed and organised win. A special mention to head coach John Dobson – he won the SuperSport Rugby Challenge trophy [earlier in the season] – and his coaching staff. Hanyani Shimange was involved with the scrums and lineouts, Dawie Snyman is the attack coach and Norman Laker does the defence. They’ve worked very hard with this team and have had a really successful season, despite not starting well [in the Currie Cup] with losses to the Pumas and Griquas.
‘We did say before the game that the scrums were going to be very important and they were critical in this game. The Sharks were under pressure the entire time in the scrums. I can’t see how Wilco Louw does not play tighthead for the Springboks on tour. He was absolutely magnificent in this game. JC Janse van Rensburg also got the better of Ross Geldenhuys, who is a very good rugby player but has scrummaging issues. Western Province’s scrum dominance gave them comfort on the exit, stability on attack and put the Sharks under pressure every time they got the ball.
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‘The possession stats were incredible – 65% for Western Province, and they completely deprived the Sharks of the ball in the second half. I thought [Huw] Jones and [Nizaam] Carr played brilliantly and [Damian] Willemse at 15 coming in at 10 was a real factor and [Robert] du Preez played well at 10.
‘Just a few stats here … The Sharks missed 17 tackles and Western Province seven, because Province held on to the ball for so long. Western Province had 71 rucks and mauls, and only 38 for the Sharks.
‘There were two key moments in this game. Jean-Luc du Preez going off with what looked like an ankle injury. That is going to be three to four weeks [out of action], which is bad for the [Boks’] end-of-season tour. He’s a really good rugby player who is critical to the way the Sharks wanted to dominate this game. He is a big, strong ball-carrier. And then brother Dan, who got sent off with 10 minutes to go for coming in from the side [of a ruck] and taking a player out. It was right in front of the referee.
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‘The Sharks, playing at home, came out of the blocks with a lot of passion and intensity, but it was slow poison from Province and eventually the Sharks found themselves on the back foot.
‘What I really liked about the way Province played was that they played a possession-based game for long periods. They were very patient. They didn’t make many linebreaks, because the Sharks’ defence was reasonable, but they held on to the ball and got penalties. Then in the second half, when they got ahead, there was some strategical kicking, with the wind behind them, that was very effective.
‘There’s a place for everything in the game of rugby. The set piece is vital. Moving the ball, and not just taking it off nine but using it through the centres, counter-attacking well, using the width of the field, kicking when it’s right to rick.
‘I thought it was a skilful display by Western Province today and a 15-man, well, 23-man display. It’s very positive for South African rugby when you see a side control a game in the way in which Province controlled that game away from home.’
Photo: Steve Haag/Gallo Images
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AICP Week Programming Announced
Tuesday, May. 23, 2017
AICP Week is a celebration of creativity and thought leadership. The Week is anchored by the Premieres of The AICP Next Awards and the AICP Show: The Art and Technique of the American Commercial, the latter culminating with the most anticipated celebration in the industry: The gala at the Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, in each year, various educational seminars and events highlighting the state of marketing in the motion image are staged.
Includes The Debut Of The AICP Next Awards And The AICP Show
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The AICP today launched a series of short films, giving a rare glimpse into the unique AICP Show Curatorial Process. The films, directed by Christopher Fox, can be viewed below. The AICP Show Curatorial Committee is comprised of a diverse array of industry leaders, working in all disciplines that contribute to creating marketing in the motion image. The Curatorial Committee is part of a bifurcated judging system, which begins with a series of judging panels from across the country, with experts in various fields judging work across the 23 categories in the Show. New Categories this year include: Concept, Cause, and Music Video.
The 2017 AICP Show Curatorial Committee was led by Lisa Mehling of Chelsea Pictures, this year’s AICP Show Chairperson. The Committee is the final arbiter in the disposition of the Show, confirming eligibility and appropriateness to category; each year’s installment of the AICP Show is made a part of the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. This year’s curators included:
Stephanie Apt, Final Cut
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Julian Katz, BBDO New York
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Ralph Laucella, O Positive
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Jason Menkes, COPILOT Music + Sound
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Tod Puckett, Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Jay Russell, GSD&M
Cliff Skeete, mcgarrybowen
Mike Smith, BBDO New York
Scott Vitrone, Figliulo & Partners
The long-format piece examines what makes great work, and how the process works. The additional two pieces take a tongue-in-cheek look at buzzwords, and words used to kill work. The cross-section of leading industry experts met for two days in April to decide the final disposition of the Show.
AICP Week includes the debut of The AICP Next Awards on June 6th- Nick Law, Vice Chairman/Global Chief Creative Officer, of R/GA and the Next Awards judging chair will serve as Master of Ceremonies at the event. The AICP Show will premiere on June 7th at The Museum of Modern Art. The AICP Base Camp will be open on June 6th and 7th with a full slate of programming, including panel discussions with industry leaders, the opportunity to experience the Virtual Reality Shortlist for the AICP Next Awards, and fuel up on snacks and coffee. The full schedule of programming for the AICP Base Camp can be found here.
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Mia Farrow Uses Close Pal Journalist in Woody Allen War: Writer of Latest Piece is Close Friend
by Roger Friedman - February 1, 2014 6:34 pm
Mia Farrow has thrown another grenade at Woody Allen. She’s gotten daughter Dylan to accuse Woody of sexual abuse in a blog in the New York Times. It’s not in the main paper. It’s in Nicholas Kristof’s personal blog. And what Kristof says as “full disclosure” is that he’s a friend of Mia Farrow. it’s not in his preface to Dylan’s open letter, which everyone is now reading. That’s how Kristof puts it in his Op Ed piece that accompanies the blog revelation.
But Kristof and Farrow aren’t just ‘friends.’ They are close friends. Romantic? I’m not suggesting that. They travel together, Kristof writes about Farrow often, he Tweets and re-Tweets her. They are too close for him to be delivering Dylan’s accusations. There isn’t a chance that Kristof hasn’t heard complaints about Woody Allen from Mia Farrow non stop for the last five or six years. At least. Read this column from Kristof about Farrow from 2008 http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/mia-farrow-gold-medalist/
The Mia Farrow Kristof writes about is Gandhi, Mandela, and Mother Theresa all rolled into one.
Here’s a picture of Kristof and Farrow with friends at an awards show.
It’s not that I don’t believe Dylan Farrow, or sympathize with her pain. I don’t know what’s true and what isn’t. What I do know is that Mia Farrow has very carefully conducted a campaign against Woody Allen since she realized “Blue Jasmine” would do well at the box office and get Oscar nominations. She went nuts when the Golden Globes decided to honor him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The campaign has been well calculated. It involved suggesting that her son Ronan might be Frank Sinatra’s kid, and not Woody’s. It’s not possible, of course. But the suggestion set off a firestorm. And now Ronan, with no background in broadcasting, has gotten a daily show on MSNBC beginning later this month. Kris Kardashian Jenner has nothing on Mia Farrow.
During the Golden Globes show, Ronan attacked Woody on Twitter, the electronic neighborhood graffiti wall. He claimed that Woody had molested Dylan when she was 7. He was largely rebuffed by the Twitter audience. Then Cate Blanchett really thanked Woody on TV when she won the SAG Award for Best Actress in “Blue Jasmine.” That must have sent Mia over the edge.
The result is Dylan’s painful “open letter” in Kristof’s blog this afternoon. She supplied a picture, too. The letter is pointed at Blanchett– what if this were your child? Mia has turned Woody into Zelig after his fall from grace. She learned a lot from that movie. Once a celebrity is accused of something, it won’t go away. And with the internet, it’s even worse.
Choosing Kristof for the ‘hit’ was a bad idea. He is not at all objective. He’s Mia’s pawn in this endless chess game. If she and Dylan were serious, they would have gone to someone totally impartial, someone they didn’t know.Farrow and Kristof have traveled together to the Sudan, they’ve appeared together often, there are numerous accounts of them together that can be found easily.
If the Farrows had been serious, they could have filed a police report, or a lawsuit. But they chose a quick ambush, a sucker punch, a swift attack during Oscar season. If Dylan is telling the 100 percent truth, she could have told it last fall, or next spring, or three years ago, or during the release of a Woody film that didn’t matter so much, like “To Rome with Love.”
It’s too bad because Dylan’s pain and Ronan’s Tweets are all lost in Mia’s obvious manipulations.
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February 17, 2014 8:32 pm at 8:32 PM
[…] Woody Allen is being accused by Dylan Farrow of molesting her when she was seven. It caused a media blitz of a fuss, especially as to the question of did he really do it or is this a revenge plot concocted by Mia Farrow? […]
Bob Lyle
Thanks for your coverage and your sanity.
When I read the Dylan Farrow letter in the NYTimes two things struck me — 1) the action items — not to watch another Woody Allen movie, and 2) no one should work with Woody Allen again. Why throw Diane Keaton and — for the love of life — Alec Baldwin under the bus? Seemed like a manipulative letter and I learned later on even Andrea Peyser of the NY Post who I normally despise, picked that up too. The charges against Allen were damning and so I thought to myself, Woody Allen had BETTER do a live interview to explain his innocence here — if he issues a statement of his innocence through a lawyer, he’s guilty. Well he wrote the letter in the Times — ok — brought out a TON of info I didn’t know — the timeline of the attic incident was the big red flag. Then to find out — he HAD already given a very public interview where he professed his innocence — 20 years ago ON 60 MINUTES!!!! And watching that tape, he looks like he is speaking from the heart. And again the timeline of the attic incident.
And then to look back at the letter from Dylan — the charges of him sticking his finger in her mouth — by itself, so what? The charge that he slept in his underwear with her — which on 60 minutes he said happened one time when the kids jumped in his bed — again, a big ‘so what’. The charge that Dylan didn’t want to be around him alone? When you look at the four charges, there’s nothing there, especially if they’re being trumpeted up.
Then Moses letter came out — revealing his sister to be a liar; he was there the day of the attic; he never saw her avoid Woody. So now the masses try to discredit him? Why, is he less of a victim than Dylan? Victim of Momma Mia’s psycho house. FIFTEEN kids. ELEVEN Adopted.
Then to learn more about Mia Farrow — the psychotic valentine, the psychotic threats, then to learn her BROTHER John Farrow was convicted of being a pedophile to two young boys for YEARS and sentenced to 10 years only this Oct 28, 2013 — which also coincides with Mia Farrow’s attacks on Woody Allen — do you think that has something to do with it? Then to find out that Dory Previn was sent to an asylum because of Mia Farrow breaking up her marriage and wrote a song about it — anyone reading this go to youtube and look up “Beware Of Young Girls: The Songs Of Dory Previn”.
Then I read the Vanity Fair Maureen Orth article — and again — there were some more allegations against Woody Allen, and you feel like throwing up reading how he put his finger in her vagina — but the more I kept reading, I felt like throwing up worse — in reading Mia Farrow being put on some high alter as mother teresa — her work in Africa of course. What a puff piece. I was waiting for the part at the end where the author gave Mia Farrow cunnilingus. Then to read how Mia Farrow didn’t want the piece written of course of course. They had to twist her arm! She is only worried about the children!
Then I saw a youtube piece of Mia Farrow testifying at the Blood Diamonds trial — does it get trippier??? And she’s testifying against Naomi Campbell of all people — and in the testimony she has that psychotic voice, keeps shaking her head ‘no’ while she states what happened (which the amateur lie detector like me knows is a major indicator of a bull thrower), and the line “I was in my hotel room with MY CHILDREN” — again using her children as a shield.
Then the timeline of her son being Frank Sinatra’s son — meaning her and Woody were dating 5 years leading “parallel lives” in separate houses according to Woody Allen — and she’s banging Frank Sinatra — and therefore probably just dating Woody to be in his movies to bring her career from nowhere to its peak — and he dates her daughter — PREVIN’s daughter which I had never known until all this. Which means this is more The Graduate where Dustin Hoffman dates the mother then marries the daughter and everyone clapped.
And then to find this article. And then to just look up right now John Villers-Farrow and NY Times and to find they’ve never covered the story of him getting 10 years. And by the way Mia has never commented on it and all the while all of the above has gone on, if you look what Mia is tweeting about on twitter, she is pretending to be la-ti-day tweeting about the Olympics, Africa, and all the important things of the world. WHAT A PHONY.
But worse than a phony — a psycho. And the stakes are high — this isn’t about man-versus-woman as so many have tried to label it — it is about psychotic person against normal person. And Woody Allen is the victim. As are Mia Farrow’s children.
Character assassination on a global scale is about the worst thing you can do to a person besides killing them — worse in some cases. That’s why we found Saddam Hussein in a hole in the ground, and Bin Laden supposedly threw his wife in front of him when the machine gun bullets flew. You assassinate the character of the enemy. If true Mia Farrow is as evil as evil can be.
Thanks for your article.
Porfivor Nixon
All I can say is if you, Roger, are defending him, then he must REALLY be guilty.
February 10, 2014 2:55 am at 2:55 AM
Your letter was anti semitic. And why should you be protected by anonymity when you write stupid, hateful things? Who’s the coward?
Daisy D
February 7, 2014 6:54 pm at 6:54 PM
Roger Friedman Your choice to not print my entire letter demonstrates not that I am an anti-Semite, but that you are a disingenuous coward.
And your bullying reference to my geographical location supports what’s evident: You are a bullying coward. As well as a bigot. Which, for whomever might be concerned, what he censored is my reference to his particular brand of bigotry.
matken
I don’t think Woody would charge Dylan with slander. That would only cause her pain & anguish. I think he knows that once the child abuser finger is pointed at him, he’s guilty in the eyes of the average person even if Dylan said it never happened. The major damage is done with the accusation alone. Once accused, it will never go away.
It seems most professionals who have been involved in this case believe Woody is innocent or at least believe there is no reliable evidence to charge him. The lawyer, Frank Maco, got in trouble with the law society (or whatever it’s called) for the comments that he made about Woody. More evidence that professionals believe Woody is that he & Soon-Yi were able to adopt 2 girls after this situation with Dylan. Adoption agencies are know to err on the side of caution and if they had concerns neither adoption would have gone through.
One final point, it seems strange that in Woody’s entire life no other child or woman ever accused him of child abuse. Child abusers generally have a long track record of abuse. Woody would be a great target for a financial settlement since he’s rich and he’s already been accused. But, no one comes forward to collect.
I am not printing some of what you wrote. It is anti-Semitic. I do hope the ignoramuses in your family figure out who you are and what you think about them. You are completely ridiculous. And sad. I hope not everyone in the Hudson Valley feels that way. Oy vey!
I know in advance that my remarks will be misconstrued as anti-Semitic, however, they’re not. I’m married into a Jewish family (many years) and Roger Friedman’s blind defense of Woody Allen strikes me as the same sort of prejudicial defensiveness that a couple of the ignoramuses in my otherwise wonderful family exhibit. Of course, it’s not only within my family and it’s not exclusive to Jews. But I do recognize the obtuseness that Mr. Friedman is displaying for what it is and have no intention of pretending that I don’t.
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Roger Friedman’s vigilanteism against Mia Farrow is boring because it’s so damned predictably familiar.
I don’t expect my comment to be printed, none of my others that breathed a word of doubt against Friedman’s hero, Woody Allen, have been. But maybe – just maybe – he’ll read this and have some sort of confrontation w/the truth.
pamela graves
Please get the facts straight. Mia and Allen were never married. SoonYi was never Allen’s step daughter. And there were no accusations until Allen and Mia broke up. In other words until Mia was angry and vengeful. Unfortunately many women make these accusations when it suits them.
http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/10/02/mia-farrow-highly-unlikely-frank-sinatra-is-father-of-her-son-with-woody-allen
yastamon
<ia Farrow is just an angry woman that lost her husband when he fell in love with someone else. Mia learn to deal with reality and stop using your kids for your vengeful acts, it is actually kinda sad after all these years you still cant get past being dumped.
Farrow did file a police report. The DA went so far as to say he thought there was probable cause though he declined to go forward with the case. It’s hard to win a criminal case like this where there is no physical evidence and it comes down to a child’s word vs an adult. There’s a lot more here I think than just the bitter rantings of an ex-wife. Let’s not forget that nude photos of a 20 year old step-daughter were found in Allen’s house. That alone is pretty reprehensible.
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sanjuro
February 4, 2014 9:38 am at 9:38 AM
Very good, level-headed article, thank you.
“It’s not that I don’t believe Dylan Farrow, or sympathize with her pain. I don’t know what’s true and what isn’t.”
This is what those mad Woody Allen haters who want to burn him at the stake will never understand.
This was a smear piece on Mia Farrow. Really, no chance of Ronan being Frank Sinatras’? Have you looked at Ronan compared to Frank and Woody? He looks like a younger Frank, nothing like Woody. Also, Mia intended on prosecuting but the prosecutor’s case was based solely on Dylan’s testimony alone (an 8 yr old at the time). They didn’t think putting a child through that without a strong case for conviction was worth the damage testifying could cause. Now that Dylan is older do you think she is lying? Why? Why would she lie all this time? If Mia is this vile and vindictive don’t you think her kids would see through it at this point?
You’re right to question the journalists objectivity but there was nothing about the article that struck me as not objective. This article was less objective.
Hollywood likes to preach to America about guns, racism, sexism, and homosexuality. Yet with people with like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen they overlook the obvious signs and ignore what’s right in front of them because they do a good job telling an actor what face to make. People like Corey Haim have tried to explain what really goes on but Hollywood refuses to listen.
Pat Rathke
February 3, 2014 11:27 pm at 11:27 PM
I think that Woody Allen is guilty as sin. How many people remember when this first came out? Well I do. And I remember the police wanted to prosecute him. However for the sake of a 7 year old girl not having to testify Mia decided not to. He may be a brilliant director that is true. But as a man he is a total failure. There is something about him that screams whack job. He looks like a man who talks to himself and answers himself on a daily basis. I feel sorry for the entire family…but not for him, never for him.
HeatherMae
You would think that if this is made up that Woody Allen would go after her for slander or something.
Jane Weez
This article is dubious on many levels but some of it is mystifying — “…. suggesting that her son Ronan might be Frank Sinatra’s kid, and not Woody’s. It’s not possible, of course.” What does the author know that makes it “not possible, course”? Ronan Farrow was born in 1987 and Frank Sinatra died in 1998 – does Mr Friedman know something (and assume we know too) about Mr Sinatra?
I think this article is on point. I wrote a scathing comment on yahoo about my disbelief of Mia manipulating her children because of Allen’s involvement with Soon Yi and this article hit on a lot of what I wrote. What I didn’t include in my commentary is what prompted Dylan to come forward after all this time and how did it get into the New York Post. Thanks for answering that one and it dove tails nicely with Ms. Farrow’s manipulative ways. Still pulling the strings of her children. I all makes sense now. I think it awful that she attacked Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin. They didn’t molest her children, why attack them? And it is just as this article suggest Mia is insanely jealous of Allen’s continued success in spite of her half ass attack towards him. I wish her son Moses would speak out this would be the time to do it. Yes a lot of you don’t know that Moses has reconciled with Allen and Soon Yi and realized he’d been brainwashed by Mia Farrow. Check it out for yourselves. Better yet. Ask Mia where her son Moses is.
It’s obviously a smear campaign and it was disproved years ago by medical and psych doctors. If he assaulted her there would have been physical evidence. It’s a crime to misuse the public’s sympathies this way as well. Using your children the way that Mia does for some sick manipulation is wrong. Perhaps it was her brother, a convicted pedophile that she is referring to – perhaps he molested Mia? Why on earth if Dylan was living under an assumed name to protect herself – would they post a photo and then tweet other photos. I feel sorry for the people who can’t discern the truth for themselves.
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Matt Kirby
Woody Allen PASSED a lie detector test after he was accused of sexual abuse by Mia Farrow and her daughter in the early 1990s. Mia REFUSED to take a lie detector test.
Back in the late 1960’s & early 1970s, Mia had an affair with Andre Previn while he was still married to Dory Previn. This affair and Mia’s pregnancy by Andre ended the Previn’s marriage. Dory wrote a song in the early 1970s “With My Daddy in the Attic,” which tells of a girl’s sexual fantasy about having sex with her father in an attic.
Do you really think there’s no connection? It’s as close to a script for the accusation against Woody as you can get.
Dory had considered Mia a close friend. She later wrote another song “Beware of Young Girls” about Mia’s betrayal and affair with her husband.
It also appears Mia was having an affair with Frank Sinatra while she was married to Woody and passed her son, Ronan, off as Woody’s son. But, take a look at pictures of Ronan. He looks so much like Frank Sinatra that you almost expect him to start singing “New York, New York” at any minute.
The only scandal about Woody Allen in his life and career that I have ever heard is always linked to Mia Farrow.
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i don’t think Mia Farrow is so crazy that she would keeping an on-going campaign against Woody Allen if it was just a thing of her breakup with Woody Allen. The only thing that would keep this going for this many decades is something so awful as Hollywood continuing to give awards to a child sex abuser. Who is financially helping Woody Allen to continue to produce movies is what I would like to know? They need to be held accountable also.
Gene Lalor (@GeneLalor)
Woody Allen, Hollywood’s Favorite Old Pervert
No one could really know what was going through the mind of 78 year old Woody Allen when Ronan Farrow sarcastically tweeted immediately following last month’s 71st Golden Globes Awards show.
After Allen received the Cemind of 78 year old Woody Allen when Ronan Farrow sarcastically tweeted immediately following last month’s 71st Golden Globes Awards show.
After Allen received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, Farrow went on Twitter to tweet, “Missed the Woody Allen tribute–did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?”
As per habit, Allen didn’t show up for his umpteenth award and dispatched one his idolators, former live-in Diane Keaton of Annie Hall fame, to pick it up.
What Mr. Farrow was thinking in that tweet is pretty obvious, intense musings surely shared by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and, indeed, by all of Hollywood who knew very well what he meant and none of whom saw fit to comment–or refute. After all, Woody Allen is a living treasure, an unparalled icon in Tinsel Town, and who would dare to be so presumptive as to cite him as a serial child molestor?
Bestowed by the Golden Globes for ”outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,” the Cecil B. DeMille Award is clearly not based on a recipient’s character and integrity any more than character and integrity influence Oscar nominations.
Accusations: Dylan Farrow has Similarly, no one can really know what Allen was thinking after he read the account of the former 7 year old, Ronan’s molested woman, published in the New York Times, an open letter written by none other than Ronan’s sister Dylan Farrow, Allen’s reputed biological daughter.
Like the weather, everyone seems to talk about child sex abuse but few people ever do anything about it, least of all in Hollywood where serial pedophilia is virtually endemic. (See “Woody Allen’s Bloodied Hands and Bloodied Children,” http://tinyurl.com/klzee4h and “Hooray for Hollywood Pedophiles,” http://tinyurl.com/nxy7jbf.)
Farrow’s tweet was quickly dismissed by such Allen-Twitter loyalists as Antonio Vantaggiato who wrote, ”Sorry to hear @RonanFarrow’s rage, and @thelist which fuels it, but Woody is one of the greatest film directors and deserved the tribute,” in essence saying, “So what if he’s a child predator!” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35502.)
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February 3, 2014 11:03 am at 11:03 AM
Pretty disgraceful article…playing the “we don’t know what we don’t know” card. Woody Allen is a man who married the stepdaughter of his former wife. That is just PERVERSE. He’s clearly a very confused man, and you have multiple family sources saying this…yet you frame the article in a way as to attack Mia Farrow and raise suspicion.
She has every reason to despise Woody Allen. He married her stepdaughter!! Does that even resonate with you? And she contends (along with her children) that he sexually assaulted their children! And you expect her to be civil? You paint her as manipulative? My God you are a ridiculous man. He should be tried in a court of law over these accusations but unfortunately it’s too late for that.
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Eddie P Elfman
Circle the wagons Rogers….circle the wagons.
Ali Von Goldberg
Why,in the first place, would a 7 year old lie about something like that? Out of the mouths of babes…..
Bill Tse
nobody circles the wagons around child molesters like Roger Friedman.
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President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China remains committed to promoting development in aviation and aerospace technologies with other countries, allowing people around the world to share the benefits of such progress.
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[Songwriting Advice] Size Matters: A Study in Prosody
Posted by Jessica Brandon on Fri, Mar 01, 2019 @07:00 AM
by Pat Pattison
Lana Del Ray’s single, Ride, creates a picturesque and surreal journey down an open road, leading us through a landscape that fuses relationships, mental turmoil and escape. The song is about motion, about the instability of a physical circumstance and mental state that causes her to lean into the future, to slide away from the confines of her past. Or something like that.
Anyway, it currently has over 62 million views on youtube, so lotsa folks like it.
Here are the first four sections:
(Insert Ride (unedited) here)
I've been out on that open road
You can be my full time daddy,
White and gold
Singing blues has been getting old
You can be my full time baby,
Hot or cold
Don't break me down
I've been travelin' too long
I've been trying too hard
With one pretty song
I hear the birds on the summer breeze,
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,
But I, I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride,
Just ride,
I just ride,
Just ride
Again, the song is all about moving. Yet, at the end of the last section, I didn’t feel the urge to move. I should have, but I didn’t. Why not?
First, let’s take a minute to talk about the concept of Prosody.
Prosody
Aristotle said that every great work of art contains the same feature – unity. Everything in the work belongs –supports every other element. Another word for unity is prosody – the “appropriate relationship between elements, whatever they may be.” Some examples of prosody in songs might be:
Prosody between words and music: a minor key could create, a feeling of sadness to support or even create sadness in an idea.
Prosody between syllables and notes: appropriate relationship between stressed syllables and stressed notes – a really big deal in songwriting. When they are lined up properly, the shape of the melody matches the natural shape of the language.
Prosody between rhythm and meaning: obvious examples like
“you gotta stop!.......(pause).................look and listen.”
Or writing a song about galloping horses in a triplet feel.
The elements of the song must all join together to support the central intent, idea and emotion of the work. Everything fits. Prosody is the appropriate relationship between elements.
Stable vs. Unstable
Stable vs. unstable is an effective window into prosody – a practical tool for creating prosody because it covers every aspect of a song: from the idea, to the melody, the rhythm, the chords, the lyric structure --everything. It governs the choices you make. Ask yourself, is the emotion in this section stable or unstable? Once you answer that question, you have a standard for making all your other choices.
Number of Lines
Every section you’ll ever write – verses, choruses, pre-choruses, bridges—will have (here it comes, get ready) some number of lines or other! OK, not much of a revelation. Even more specifically, every section you’ll ever write will have either an even number of lines, or an odd number of lines. Wow. Even more of an, um, revelation…
Now let’s talk a bit about an odd number of lines. An odd number of lines feels, er, odd -- off balance, unresolved, incomplete UNSTABLE. Let’s say you’re writing a verse where the idea is something like: “Baby, since you left me I’ve been feeling lost, odd -- off balance, unresolved, incomplete, UNSTABLE. Just theoretically, do you think this verse would be better with an even number of lines or an odd number of lines? Right. An odd number of lines.
This changes everything. You’ve recognized, maybe for the first time, that there can be a relationship between what you say and how many lines you use to say it. You’re feeling UNSTABLE, and the odd or UNSTABLE number of lines supports that feeling. Prosody. Your structure (in this case, your number of lines) can support meaning.
An even number of lines tends to feel, well, even -- solid, resolved, balanced, STABLE. Let’s say that your message is something like: “Baby, you’re the answer to all my prayers. I’ll be with you forever. I’m your rock. You can count on me.” How many lines should you use? Odd or even? Right. Even. You want a solid feeling in the structure to support the emotion you’re trying to communicate. “I mean it. You can trust me.” Prosody.
On the other hand, an odd number of lines feels, er, odd. Like it’s missing something. It creates a feeling of leaning forward. It feels unstable.
With this in mind, let’s take another look at these sections of Ride:
All four sections have an even number of lines. At least in this regard, all four feel stable. They don’t move. Let me repeat that: they don’t move.
Though the song is all about moving, all four sections stop. All four sections balance. That may not be an issue in the first section, where she’s stating facts. No drama, no motion, just facts.
The even-numbered six-line section supports the facts nicely. Even the second section, where she’s giving commands, seems appropriate for an even number of lines:
But it seems to me that sections three and four might profit from some instability, especially the title lines, the emotional centerpiece of the whole song:
I’m an obsessive tinkerer, so I wondered what this might sound as a three lines section. It’s easy enough to toss the song into Garageband and do a little chopping, so I did. Here’s what it sounds like, omitting the third line:
(Insert Ride Edit 1 Chorus here)
Nice. Can you feel the motion? The longing? The instability? Yup, the number of lines actually creates a feeling all by itself. It comments on the words like a film score comments on the images on the screen. It tells you how to feel about what you’re hearing, simply by applying the concept of Prosody, in this case, working with the number of lines in the section. The section moves forward, supporting the idea, Ride.
Listen to it in the context of all four sections.
(Insert Ride Edit 1 Complete here)
Still, the third section feels like it balances and stops motion with its even number of lines, making the last section have to do all the emotional work. What if the third section,
could push forward too? After all, it’s drenched with longing:
Back to Garageband for another edit, deleting the third line. Listen:
(Insert Ride Edit 2 Pre-Chorus here)
Now, combined with the unstable fourth section, you can feel even more motion:
Now all four sections create prosody – their structures support their meaning, and, in the process, create a nice contrast between stable and unstable sections, making the third and fourth section’s forward motion seem even more dramatic:
The structure of each section helps support the idea, using number of lines to make them move or stop.
Number of lines: one of the many tools affecting how your song creates an extra level of feeling. Don’t be afraid to use it.
Take a look at a few more applications of the use of an odd number of lines. Here are the first verses and chorus to Yes’s 1983 hit, Owner of a Lonely Heart:
(Insert Owner of a Lonely Heart (unedited) here)
Move yourself,
you always live your life
Never thinking of the future
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser
See yourself,
you are the steps you take
You and you and that's the only way
Shake, shake yourself
You are every move you make
So the story goes
Owner of a broken heart
If I had a lonely heart, I’d feel a sense of longing, of something missing. Try this:
(Insert Owner of a Lonely Heart Edit here)
Now you can feel it. The odd number of lines makes a huge difference.
John Mayer did it right the first time in his Grammy-winning “Your Body is a Wonderland.” His three-line chorus creates a sense of longing, a desire for more:
(Insert Your Body Is A Wonderland unedited here)
We got the afternoon
You got this room for two
One thing I've left to do
Discover me
Discovering you
One mile to every inch of
Your skin like porcelain
One pair of candy lips and
Your bubblegum tongue
Cause if you want love
We'll make it
Swim in a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be awhile
Your body is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Without the sense of longing created by the odd number of lines, I doubt the song would have been John’s first Grammy. Judge for yourself. Listen to my Garageband edit, where I inserted an extra line into the chorus:
(Insert Wonderland Edit here)
The even number of lines in the chorus stops motion and erases the sense of longing completely.
The Beatles supported the surrealism of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds effectively with this three-line chorus:
(Insert Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds unedited here)
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Again, I’ve inserted an extra line in the chorus. Listen to the song now as it grinds to a dull halt with my Garageband-balanced chorus:
(Insert Lucy (edit) here)
It changes the feeling of the song completely.
Every section you write WILL have some number of lines, either odd or even. Ask yourself the simple question, “How do I feel in this section, stable or unstable?” Your number of lines, one of the many structural tools in your tool-belt, can help you gain even more emotion by supporting and enhancing your intent.
Prosody. It’s not rocket surgery. It’s simply having tools in your tool-belt and knowing how to use them. Prosody gives you an efficient window into effective composition.
Size matters.
Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. In addition to his four books, Songwriting Without Boundaries (Writer’s Digest Books), Writing Better Lyrics (Writer’s Digest Books), The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure (Berklee Press), and The Essential Guide to Rhyming (Berklee Press), Pat has developed five online courses for Berklee Online: three on lyric writing, one on poetry, and one on creative writing, all available through online.berklee.edu. His filmed series of lectures for Coursera.org has over 1,600,000 students enrolled to date. Pat has written over fifty articles for various magazines and blogs and has chapters in both The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (University Press of Mississippi) and the Handbook on Creative Writing (Edinburgh University Press). He
continues to present songwriting clinics across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Pat’s students include multiple Grammy-winner Gillian Welch, John Mayer, AND Tom Hambridge, Karmin, American Authors, Liz Longley, Greg Becker, Charlie Worsham, and many more.
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Spread across of 15 acres of lush green, tranquil environment, the Coralwood is a landmark of comfortable living, situated in the heart of Gurugram. The 639 apartments at the Coralwood offer a choice of artistically designed 2 and 3 BHK configurations, ranging from 1425, 1750, 1890 and 2250 sq. ft. respectively.
LOCATION Sector 84, New Gurgaon
Own a sprawling home of 2000 sq.ft. that stretches across the entire floor in a beautifully landscaped expanse of 7.5 acres. In the safety of a gated community with access to a range of excellent facilities, conveniences and services in New Gurgaon’s most prime location. The retail and commercial centers in the vicinity make Almeria a hub of leisure & luxury.
The remarkable condominium project covering an area of 1.1 million sq. ft. , is embellished with sprawling landscaped gardens and parks adding aesthetics and pleasure to the residents.
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Spread over a vast stretch of 304 acres of land, SS Groups Mayfield Gardens ranks as one of the largest modern cosmopolitan townships in Gurugram.
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Spread across 130 acres, Southend is a one-of-a-kind integrated township in Delhi/NCR. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, this fully functional township is home more to more than 3000 families.
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Aaron Ville offers luxury at its best with its lavish expandable and non expandable villas and premium plots. Spread across 15 acres of lush green Aaron Ville brings to you 103 luxury villas with high end specifications, modish architecture in a plot area of 180- 340 sq.mts.
A true tribute to innovation and design, earthquake resistant structure, vaastu& eco-friendly layout, your home is complete with many exclusive features. Southend Elite stands on the freehold land approved by HUDA, and boasts of an enviable location - Sector 48-49, Gurugram (just 0 Km from Sohna Road and 7 Kms from Golf course). Come home to exclusive living. Come home to Southend.
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Radiance Residency offers independent floors with 4 bedroom w/ attached toilet featuring beautifully designed drawing & dining areas, embellished with white marble flooring, textured painting, antino glasses, designer ceramics tiles, open modular kitchen, teak wood work, soft landscape lawns, and utility court in a secured, earthquake resistant structure.
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With its state -of the -art infrastructure and amenities, Southend has become a landmark and one of the most sought after places in Gurugram. With approx. 500 apartments today these three blocks are houses for more than 500 families. Located on main Sohna Road, these blocks offers the floors range starting from 180 Sq. Yds. 300 Sq. Yds.
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Although South Korea had more opportunities than Norway throughout the match, Norway hung on to clinch the runner-up spot in Group A and qualify for the knockout stage. South Korea settled for fourth in the group, ending its stay in France with three losses.
The good news for South Korea is the electric forward tandem is just coming into its prime. Yeo is 26 and Lee is just 25. Both should be back leading South Korea’s attack for the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
South Africa couldn’t get its first World Cup win, but it was a historic run anyway
China, Spain played to a draw to finish group play. This is why it was a win for China.
Controversial replay on penalty kick might cost Nigeria a chance to advance in World Cup
South Korea’s Yeo Min-ji is congratulated by teammate Moon Mi-ra, right, after scoring her team’s first goal during the Women’s World Cup Group A soccer match between Norway and South Korea at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Alessandra Tarantino AP
USWNT beats Spain 2-1, advances to quarterfinals of World Cup
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Watch World Cup fans start derogatory Donald Trump chant during Fox News live shot
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Ingredion Announces Capital Investments In Asia-Pacific
Ingredion looks east: Specialty ingredients giant to invest US$60 million in APAC expansion.
Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global provider of ingredient solutions, today announced US $60 million of planned investments to grow its specialty food ingredients business in Asia-Pacific. Beginning earlier this year, the Company commenced expansion of its modified and clean-label specialty starch capabilities in tapioca, waxy corn and rice.
The Company’s specialty capital investment projects include:
– A 20 percent expansion of its tapioca modified food starch capacity in Thailand along with state-of-the-art upgrades to its wastewater treatment facilities.
– More than doubling the capacity and increasing the regulatory standards of its specialty rice starch and rice flour business in Thailand, which it acquired in 2017.
– Completing a 30 percent expansion of its modified food starch capacity and further improving its corn wet milling capacity in China.
“These strategic investments are designed to accelerate our growth and strengthen our manufacturing network in Asia to meet increased consumer demand,” said Jim Zallie, Ingredion president and chief executive officer. “Growing our global specialties business to $2 billion in annual sales by 2022 is an integral part of our strategy to deliver long-term profitable growth and enhance shareholder value.”
“We see growing demand for both clean-label ingredients and specialty starch based texturisers throughout the region,” said Valdirene Licht, Ingredion senior vice president and president, Asia-Pacific. “The investments will allow us to continue to evolve with our customers to provide innovative, on-trend solutions. Our local team has extensive applications and formulating expertise combined with the broadest and deepest portfolio of waxy corn and tapioca based specialty starches and a successful track record of supporting customers in the region for more than three decades. We’re now excited to be building our on trend rice ingredient business and we will continue to make further investments in Asia that benefit our customers globally.”
“The actions being taken in Asia are consistent with our global strategy to invest in our specialty starch franchise and expand our capabilities to innovate and offer more customized solutions for our customers around the world,” added Zallie.
The Company operates four manufacturing facilities in Thailand and three manufacturing facilities in China.
Source: http://www.ingredionincorporated.com/
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'Financial panic likely': China calls for calm as clouds turn darker
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
July 4, 2018 — 4.58pm
Beijing has vowed to defend the Chinese currency after the steepest drop since the early Nineties, and is bracing for the double shock of a US trade war and a global credit squeeze.
The authorities issued a plea for calm after another day of dramatic moves on foreign exchange markets and the Shanghai bourse.
The yuan has plunged by 5 per cent since mid-June when trade conflict erupted and investors awoke to a deepening slowdown in the Chinese economy. Foreign funds have since been rushing for the exits, taking advantage of open flows under the Hong Kong-Shanghai Connect scheme to withdraw capital.
Yi Gang, the governor of the People's Bank (PBOC), acknowledged that the currency slide risks turning malign. The moves have been enormous for what is normally a micro-managed exchange rate, evoking memories of currency crisis three years ago. That episode pushed capital flight to $US100 billion ($136 billion) a month. The PBOC burned through $US1 trillion of foreign reserves trying to hold the line. It became the catalyst for a worldwide equity slump and came close to pushing the global economy into recession, a warning that events in China are no longer a local affair.
Mr Yi said the central bank is paying "close attention" to the market ructions and pledged to keep the yuan "generally stable at a reasonable level".
Traders saw telltale signs of intervention by state banks to stabilise the currency through the swap markets. Beijing is clearly on edge. A report for the National Institution for Finance and Development last week said the situation was becoming dangerous, calling for prompt action to avert a breakdown in confidence. "We think China is currently very likely to see a financial panic," it said.
The report, since removed from the website, said leverage stock purchases had exploded to five trillion yuan ($1 trillion) and were storing up a repeat of the equity crash three years ago.
The Chinese markets were already on edge even before Donald Trump stepped up his trade assault. Drastic curbs on shadow banking launched last year are biting hard after a delay. The growth of fixed asset investment has been running at 6.1 per cent so far this year, the lowest since data began in 1998. "This is very disturbing. Prepare for the worst," said Wang Yiming, vice-minister of the Research Development Council.
The PBOC stepped in after the yuan weakened to an 11-month low of 6.73 against the dollar on the offshore market in Hong Kong. Chinese investors are acutely sensitive to the yuan-dollar rate. Nomura warned of "substantial capital flight" if markets begin to suspect that the PBOC is either pursuing policy of benign neglect, or even driving down the currency the deliberately as a form of covert retaliation against Washington.
Nomura's Craig Chan said there is the risk of "non-linear" rupture that forces Beijing to take drastic action, with full-blown financial contagion across East Asia. Mark Williams from Capital Economics said there are limits to benign neglect.
"Tolerance will probably only go so far, given the painful experiences of 2015 and 2016: any benefit to exporters would be swamped if depreciation triggered economic and financial instability," he said.
China;s sharemarket is in bear territory. Credit:AP
The currency slide has been happening in tandem with an equity crash. The Shanghai Composit e index has dropped 22 per cent since peaking in late-January and is a full-fledged bear market. Mr Williams said the "national team" - a nexus of pension funds and state owned entities - will step in to buy equities if the picture deteriorates. Whatever happens, developers are "heading for trouble" as regulators curb short-term dollar loans on the offshore market.
Contagion has spread to Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, down 15 per cent this year. Three-month HIBOR lending rates have rocketed 110 basis points since April, a vivid display of what can happen when the US Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy and drains global dollar liquidity.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has had to intervene repeatedly over recent weeks to defend the dollar peg. The incipient credit crunch threatens to puncture the overheated property market. The Bank for International Settlements says Hong Kong's "credit gap" - a bubble gauge - is the world's most extreme and three times over the danger line.
Any form of currency warfare against the US by China would backfire through multiple channels. Capital outflows would squeeze liquidity and have contractionary effect. "This is not a can of worms that Beijing wants to open again," said JP Morgan. Yet the PBOC might nevertheless let the yuan slide further than investors think. "They will try to manage the pace of depreciation, but they will tolerate a lower currency," said Geoffrey Yu from UBS.
Mr Yu said capital controls are tighter than during the 2015-2016 crisis. There are strict limits on bank card withdrawals outside the country.
The latest round of the US-China trade war will come to a head on Friday when the two sides impose tariffs of $US34 billion on each other's goods.
Mr Trump has threatened to raise barriers on the entire gamut of Chinese exports if there is tit-for-tat retaliation. Yet he continues to send mixed signals. He has pulled back from sweeping investment curbs on Chinese companies. Bowing to Congress, he has agreed let the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US screen security threats.
Mr Yu said China will try to dampen tensions. "They will aim for the moral high ground and fly the flag for free trade. The goal is to keep channels open to the US," he said. Hans Redeker from Morgan Stanley said Mr Trump is alert to stock market moves and is likely to retreat if his trade rhetoric alarms Wall Street. The greater danger is that the Fed continues to ratchet up interest rates and pushes the dollar higher. "The stronger the dollar, the more difficult for China. It tightens global financial conditions," he said.
The Fed halted its tightening cycle in early 2016 when the Chinese currency crisis threatened to spin out of control. This bought vital time for China to restore calm. It is a different picture today. The Powell Fed is more hawkish. The US economy is closer to overheating. The Trump tax package is drawing US corporate funds overseas back into the US. And there is a trade war. China - and the world - may be facing a perfect storm.
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MSPs urge UK Government to halt Universal Credit pilot launch
by Lewis McKenzie
A pilot scheme to move benefits claimants onto Universal Credit (UC) should be urgently stopped until there is more clarity around the impact it will have on those affected, the UK Government has been told.
MSPs on the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee have already raised concerns around the implementation of the new benefits system and have previously urged the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to halt its rollout.
However, in March, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd confirmed that claimants in Harrogate who still receive the old-style benefits will be the first people to be moved to UC under a pilot scheme starting this month.
Committee convener, SNP MSP Bob Doris, warned that the scheme has been “littered with mistakes” since being introduced in 2013 and said the pilot scheme should be stopped.
He said: “We are deeply concerned that despite raising this issue as part of the committee’s In-Work Poverty Inquiry with the DWP in January, and the UK Government’s failure to appear at our committee to give evidence, they have carried on with plans for implementation regardless.
“This movement represents a huge cultural shift and we do not believe it is right to sanction the working poor, effectively punishing people for going to their work.
“The DWP has said they are currently taking a ‘light touch’ approach to in-work conditionality or sanctions but there is little confidence that when the system rolls out more widely that low paid and part-time workers won’t suffer as a result.
“The rollout of Universal Credit has been littered with mistakes and it is vital that this latest pilot is put on hold to ensure that there is no negative impact upon claimants who rely on this money.”
The committee has also stated that it is opposed in principle to attaching punitive conditions to those already in work.
Speaking at the time of the announcement of the pilot in March, Amber Rudd said: “Moving people from the old and outdated benefits system to Universal Credit is a positive and important moment.
“Once on Universal Credit people will benefit from a more personal service and can expect to receive up to six benefits combined into one, making it easier for them to manage their money.
“But the switch needs to be done carefully which is why we are taking a step-by-step approach to this, starting in Harrogate.
“I want to be sure that the switch to Universal Credit is a hassle-free process for claimants and everyone receives the personalised service they deserve.”
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Fears for '˜runaway' Shetland pony spark objection to new off-licence
A runaway Shetland pony has been cited among reasons why council bosses should refuse plans for a new village off-licence.
Tuesday, 06 November, 2018, 13:50
County Hall, the headquarters of Durham County Council.
County hall chiefs are due to decide next week whether to grant an alcohol licence to a planned shop in Front Street, Sherburn Village.
The applicant, named in Durham County Council documents as Amrik Singh, has requested permission to sell alcohol from 11am – 9.30pm Monday – Saturday and 12pm – 8.30pm on Sundays.
While police have raised concerns about increased congestion and binge drinking fears, one submission to the Statutory Licensing Sub-Committee was concerns about the impact such a store could have on a nearby family pet pony.
It said: “It [the pony] got out this morning and was running up and down front street causing a lot of problems with the traffic before they caught it.
“I personally think an alcohol shop next door to a young family is a very bad idea.
“Having a Shetland pony in the front garden does not cause any problems at the moment but if the licence is granted, youths could cause a lot of distress to the animal [sic].”
Among the submissions to the committee were three letters praising Mr Sing’s character, while nine were received opposing the scheme.
Council licensing officers have made several recommendations they want to see included to prevent under-age alcohol sales.
Planning officers have also noted that changing the premises from its current designated use as an office to a shop would require a separate application for a temporary or permanent alteration.
James Harrison , Local Democracy Reporting Service
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Revel Ultima Sub 30 powered subwoofer
Larry Greenhill | Dec 12, 2004 | First Published: Nov 12, 2004
It didn't seem like such a big deal. After all, when designer Kevin Voecks added a passive radiator to the bottom of Revel Loudspeakers' powerful Ultima Sub 15 subwoofer, no one expected that the resulting 6dB increase in bass output below 35Hz would be so audible. However, Revel's sophisticated double-blind listening tests (described in my review of their flagship Ultima Salon full-range loudspeaker in the March 1999 Stereophile, revealed that a big change had occurred. With now twice the radiating surface, the modified Sub 15 produced significantly deeper, more powerful bass.
This should have been no surprise—Voecks' previous speaker designs had excelled in their bass response. His 5'-tall bass-reflex subwoofer for the Snell Acoustics Reference A loudspeakers, and the triple woofers of his Revel Ultima Salon, both produced clean bass down to 20Hz and below. So when Andrew Clark, VP of Marketing of the Harman Specialty Group, offered me the opportunity to review Revel's new Ultima Sub 30, I leapt at the chance.
The Ultima Sub 30 ($5990) is a powered subwoofer with an active 15" driver firing forward and a passive 15" radiator facing downward, both sharing the same inner enclosure. Kevin Voecks explained that the passive radiator acts like a port, but without any of a reflex port's chuffing noise. The 15" woofer uses a 4.7kg magnet, two copper voice-coils, and two spiders. The driver has one of the longest peak-peak excursions I've encountered in a subwoofer: 3". The true linear volume displacement is 275 cubic inches. Both drivers are set into a slightly flared cabinet wider at the front than at the rear, close to 2' on a side, and weighing 145 lbs.
All crossover filter and equalizer settings, as well as system connections, are made on the rear service panel. The internal amplifier—1000W RMS class-AB with a switching power supply—and the crossover circuitry are mounted on the inside of this thick metal panel. Three pairs of balanced XLR connectors, paralleled by six line-level RCA jacks, include: a stereo input pair, an output pair, and a "through" signal pair for a second daisy-chained subwoofer.
The panel's top row of controls operate three separate parametric equalizers. These modify the frequency response at three points, adjustable from 18 to 80Hz across a bandwidth of 0.1-1.0 octave, with level boost up to +6dB or level cut to -14dB.
The middle of the Sub 30's service panel features, from left to right, a three-position Contour switch, and sets of low-pass and high-pass controls. The low-pass filter is defeatable, and the filter's slopes can be set to 24 or 48dB/octave. The center frequency of the low-pass filter can be adjusted from 30 to 80Hz, and the phase of the subwoofer signal can be adjusted from 0$d to 180$d from the signal going to the main speakers.
The Sub 30's nondefeatable high-pass filter modifies the signal to the amplifier driving the main speakers, removing bass frequencies with either a 12 or 24dB/octave rolloff. The crossover point can be set to 30-80Hz in 10Hz increments. Because the high-pass filter is always on, I found it impossible to evaluate the full-range output of the main speakers (Sub 30 switched off) unless I bypassed the subwoofer.
At the bottom of the panel is a switch toggling between Auto Turn-On and 12V Trigger, Power On/Off switch, AC voltage selector, and fused power connector for the detachable IEC power cord. When the Power On mode is set to 12V Trigger, a steady 12V DC voltage applied to the trigger power terminals will turn the Sub 30 on. When the Contour switch is set to external trigger, a steady 12V voltage applied to the trigger music/film terminals will automatically select the Film contour response.
The Sub 30's curved rosewood side panels and bowed grille are consistent with the styling of Revel's flagship full-range speaker, the Salon. The internally braced, cabinet is made of 1"-thick MDF, with the positions of the braces chosen with the help of laser interferometry. The Sub 30 sits on four huge, adjustable spiked feet, supplied with rubber covers to prevent the massive enclosure from damaging wood floors. Locking rings can be set to adjust the length of the feet so that there can be at least ¼" clearance between the edge of the subwoofer's side panels and the floor.
The Ultima Sub 30's fit'n'finish are tops, easily matching the company's flagship Salon. The rosewood side panels had a luster and sheen that were extraordinary. Hardware and connections are sturdy, gold-plated, easily accessible, and look as if they'll last a lifetime.
I unpacked and shoved the Ultima Sub 30 across the living room to a corner to the right of my Quad ESL-989 speakers. I turned the subwoofer over, loosened the locking rings around the four feet, and adjusted their height until the subwoofer side panels cleared the floor by 1/4". The Quads were positioned 5' from the rear wall, 3' from the side walls, 8' apart, and slightly toed-in. My listening chair faced the short wall of my lightly damped, rectangular, 4056-cubic-foot listening room (26' long by 13' wide by 12' high). Behind the listening chair, the other end of the room opens into a 25' by 15' by 8' kitchen.
Next, I connected the Sub 30 to my system, using the "Stereo Power Amplifier and a Revel Sub 30 with Crossover" setup shown in fig.10 of the Sub 30's owner's manual (p.19). I ran a main pair of stereo interconnects to the sub's line-level right and left inputs, set the high-pass filter to 80Hz and 12dB/octave, the low-pass filter to 80Hz and 48dB/octave, the Contour switch to Music, and ran interconnects from the Sub 30's right and left RCA out jacks to my Levinson ML-2 power amps. Kevin Voecks suggested that the high- and low-pass filter frequencies could be set to 80Hz, but that the filter slopes worked best when set to different values. At that point, I switched the EQ All switch to Out, which bypasses the Sub 30's three equalizers.
Harman Specialty Group
3 Oak Park
Bedford, MA 01730-1413
www.revelspeakers.com
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‘Great idea but……how many elite athletes have we got in Greenwich?’
By suthersuk11th May 2019 No Comments
In 2005 I had the pleasure of hosting a special Sportathon event at the Royal Artillery in Woolwich attended by school children from across the Borough. It was special because this was the day that the decision was being made as to which City would be staging the 2012 Olympics, London or Paris. When I announced that London had won, the excitement and pride on everyone’s faces was fantastic to see.
A year later in the summer of 2006 I was invited by the then Leader of Greenwich Council Cllr Chris Roberts to become a Trustee of ‘Greenwich Starting Blocks’ – the charity established by Greenwich Council to financially support talented Greenwich-based athletes and to help them achieve their sporting dreams. I was pleased to be asked, but my initial thoughts were ‘great idea but in reality, how many elite athletes have we got in Greenwich?’ I was soon to find out that the answer to that question was ‘quite a few actually’!
Seven years later and just months before the start of London 2012, I stood on stage at the Indigo2 as host of the annual Greenwich Starting Blocks Trust Dinner introducing our chief guest, Lord Seb Coe. That night, probably for the first time, there was a general realisation that Greenwich-based athletes supported by Greenwich Starting Blocks, would be taking part in the 2012 Olympics. Singer Heather Small, our special guest at that Dinner, completed what had been a fantastic evening by singing the 2012 anthem, ‘Proud’ – it couldn’t have been more apt.
None of us connected with Greenwich Starting Blocks will ever forget the huge sense of pride we all had when we knew that our dream of having Greenwich Athletes at the London 2012 Olympics had become a reality, with the confirmation that we would have 5 of our athletes in the Olympics and Paralympics. Gemma Gibbons (Judo) and Zoe Smith (Weightlifting) were chosen to represent Team GB and Tosin Oke (Triple Jump) was selected to represent Nigeria, while in the Paralympics, Greenwich Starting Blocks athletes Andy Barrow (Wheelchair Rugby) and Susie Rodgers (Swimming) were chosen to represent Team GB.
You can therefore imagine our intense pride when Gemma won the silver medal and gave us arguably, one of the most iconic images of London 2012 when, at the exact moment she knew she had won she looked upwards and mouthed ‘I love you Mum’. But Gemma’s fantastic success wasn’t our only achievement as we also had Zoe making a national record lift and Susie winning an incredible three Bronze medals.
This success was followed up four years later at the Rio 2016 Olympics when our own Daryll Neita won a Bronze medal in the Team GB 4x100m Relay, while Susie Rodgers carried on where she left off In London by winning an amazing one Gold and two Bronze medals.
At our initial athlete awards ceremony at Woolwich Town Hall in 2006 we gave bursaries to seven talented young Greenwich-based athletes At our recent athlete award evening held at The Now Gallery at Greenwich Peninsular in April, our Chairman, Peter Bundey announced that we now have over 100 athletes across 23 different sports with National and International champions as well as athletes looking towards Tokyo 2020.
My fellow Trustees and I are immensely proud that three quarters of these awards are given to athletes under the age of 21 years old and 88% of awards are given to athletes who have no other financial support from UK Sport, National Governing Bodies or independent award agencies. This highlights the scale of the challenge facing Greenwich’s talented athletes, who are trying to live and fund their dreams to become successful elite athletes.
The impact of the awards and the growth of the programme gives the Greenwich Starting Blocks Board a firm belief that there is both a vital need to support our local athletes and that we should continue to look to the future to help the next generation of young Greenwich athletes perform at the highest level.
If you’d like to find out more about Greenwich Starting Blocks and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
As Heather Small’s iconic anthem asks, ‘what have you done today to make you feel proud?’
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Trains reflected class divisions with separate carriages for first, second and third class passengers. Yet, seen at the time, they were also bringing people physically closer together. In the early 1800s, Britain was clearly divided between upper, middle and working classes. On the railways they shared the same stations an...
Historian Liz McIvor explores how Britain's expanding rail network was the spark to a social revolution, starting in the 1800s and continuing through to modern times. A fast system of transportation shaped so many areas of our industrial nation - from what we eat to where we live, work and play. The railways generated econ...
The very idea of an excursion to distant places became popular from the 1840s onwards. People were taking day trips and seeing parts of the country they had never seen before. However, it wasn't all seaside and sand. Some excursion trains were set up to satisfy the public's demand to witness public executions. Other lines ...
The railways stimulated great changes to the nation's economy. They also changed the way we do business, encouraging a new generation of mechanical engineers, skilled workers, managers and accountants! Originally, local railway entrepreneurs viewed trains as vehicles for shifting raw materials, stock and goods. But soon th...
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Colony Creek Country Club Review
Golf - Semi Private Course · 18 Holes · Par 71
Date Last Played: January 06, 2012
Colony Creek Country Club Golf Course is a semi private course that was built in 1985. The course is short (5104 to 6328 yards with 4 tee boxes) and a fairly traditional and straightforward layout with the flag and what you're up against visible from the tee box.
With one exception, none of the holes are unique or memorable but what makes this course fun as well as challenging are the fairly tight fairways, water that can come into play on 14 holes, out of bounds areas, strategically placed bunkers, and very challenging greens.
Some of the holes we particularly enjoyed include:
#4 is the #1 handicap - a 515 yard par 5 with a tight fairway and two strategically placed bunkers on the right waiting for your drive (got mine) and two bodies of water along the left side that lead to a raised green guarded by a bunker on each side
#11 is a 191 yard par 3 that requires an accurate shot to hit and hold the green and avoid the three big bunkers surrounding it
16 is a short 161 yard par three but its to a somewhat small green with little room for error thanks to water that horseshoes around three quarters of the green
#18, a 488 yard par 5 is fun - a tight fairway with water off both sides at the tee box and a very challenging approach to the green thanks to a bunker on the left and water on the right
When we played in January 2012 Colony Creek Golf Course was undergoing a lot of changes to try and recover from the harsh winter, severe drought, and record heat that had played havoc with the greens, fairway, and rough. As such the roughs were very rough with bare spots and a lot of ground under. repair, the fairways were playable but not in normal condition, and some of the greens had damage around the fringe. We talked to a couple members who told us that thanks to the weather this was the worst condition they had experienced but the course's management team was doing all they could to restore the condition back to normal.
My guess is that normally the conditions would be around 8.5 which would make for a much more enjoyable, scenic, and fun round. But don't let today's conditions discourage you from playing - the course is playable and gives you an opportunity to turn in a good round. The back nine seemed to be in much better condition.
The fairways range from let-er-rip off the tee box to tight and narrow - with the back fairways being a little more forgiving. The front nine fairways have a lot of contour and mounting are very gently rolling. The rough is wide but miss that and you're in a back yard, wet, or out of bounds. Some of the fairways are lined with nice homes on one side and some have home on both sides, and others are lined with a scattering of trees. The back nine fairways seemed much flatter and in much better condition, same for the rough.
The greens are mostly huge and all have some severe slope, undulation, and a couple have saddles. When we played they seemed fast (maybe a 10.5 or so) and coupled with the slope, three putts were common for us. Stay below the pin. They ran true and held the ball well. Some were raised and stopped the ball dead in its tracks and all but one green have at least one and typically two big bunkers protecting them.
Speaking of bunkers, they range from huge to some pot bunkers and most have a manageable lip. In some cases we actually hit in the bunker and rolled out - but the fringe around the bunker was tough! The front nine bunkers were in excellent condition with soft fluffy and thick sand. The back nine bunkers had thin packed gritty sand, not near as nice as the front.
Bottom line - a pretty good traditional layout, lots of water, challenging greens, and a fair value - give it a try!
Course Architect:
Dick Watson
Greens Type:
Mini Verde
Beware of water on 14 holes and the 38 sand traps.
Service is ok, the pro shop has the basics, and the practice green and driving range are adequate. Although we didn't go in, the stand along club house looks impressive and is home to a pool, bar, and restaurant.
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Game of Thrones Creator Wants to Play The Interview at His Theater
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After One-Year Hiatus, Former Gold 100 Show Set to Re-launch With Sold-Out Exhibit Space
Danica Tormohlen
, Editor-at-Large
RESTON, Va. — After the RV Industry Association (RVIA) RVX.org shuttered its 2018 National RV Trade Show, the trade group representing the $50 billion RV industry reported (https://tinyurl.com/RVX-TSE-Feb-2019) it sold out exhibit space for the launch of its dealer-focused event called RVX: The RV Experience. The revamped B2B trade show shifted the venue and timing from November in Louisville, Ken., to March 12-14 in Salt Lake City — strategically placed at the beginning of camping season.
Established in 1962, The National RV Trade Show ranked No. 14 on the Trade Show Executive Gold 100 Class of 2017, with 784,111 net square feet of paid exhibit space, 332 exhibiting companies and 7,847 exhibitors. Held in its long-time home —the Kentucky Exposition Center — the 2017 show was held Nov. 27-30.
About one month later, RVIA announced in a press release: “The RVIA Board of Directors unanimously determined that a completely new approach was needed for the industry’s national event. Over the past decade, the Open House has firmly established itself as the premier buying event, while at the same time the National RV Trade Show has not successfully redefined its purpose. It is clear the industry no longer needs multiple buying-focused shows, and the time to redefine RVIA’s event has come.”
In 2019, RVIA told Trade Show Executive the re-launch will feature more than 350 exhibitors covering nearly 500,000 square feet of space — using all the available floor space at Salt Palace. Confirmed exhibitors include major RV manufacturers like Airstream, Forest River, Thor and Winnebago, as well as suppliers such as Airxcel, ASA, Blue Ox, Carefree of Colorado and Coach-Net.
“We couldn’t be happier with the response from industry brands to participate in the first-ever RVX,” said RVIA Senior Vice President of Trade Shows & Events Liz Crawford, who joined the association in August 2016 after 31 years on the for-profit side. “The entire industry has come together to use this amazing platform to show off their best new products, write orders, and kick off camping season across the country.”
RVX provides the first spring opportunity for dealers to write new model orders and ensure that their lots remain full of the products for today’s consumer. RVX will also provide education about emerging consumer trends, growing consumer segments, and promoting new products to new customers. According to marketing materials, it’s all about showing consumers the benefits of the RV lifestyle.
At RVX’s re-imagined opening session, the association is partnering with DISH Network to present “The Reveal,” where they will unveil the best of the best RVs chosen by a consumer-focused panel. It will also be streamed online to thousands of consumers through Go RVing.
“There are growing numbers of younger consumers interested in outdoor experiences,” said RVIA President Frank Hugelmeyer. “Dealers who attend RVX will leave with a better understanding of what products offer the right fit for them. Additionally, dealers attending RVX will get access to a revolutionary new RVX Sales Navigator toolkit specifically designed to help them identify and market to these new consumers.”
RVIA represents approximately 400 manufacturers and component and aftermarket suppliers producing 98% of all RVs made in the United States.
Reach Liz Crawford at (571) 665-5889 or lcrawford@rvia.org.
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Karen Chupka
The Consumer Technology Association promoted Karen Chupka to Executive Vice President, CES. She had been Senior Vice President, CES and Corporate Business Strategy. The newly created position includes continued oversight of CES and CES Asia. The promotion is the latest for Chupka, who has held several positions at the association. CES was the largest show on the most-recent Trade Show Executive Gold 100. Reach Karen at (703) 907-7600 or kchupka@cta.tech
Lance Fensterman
Lance Fensterman was promoted to President of Global ReedPOP. He was most recently Senior Global Vice President of ReedPOP and will continue to oversee a portfolio of 38 events. He reports to Hervé Sedky, President of Reed Exhibitions Americas, and will be based in Norwalk, Conn., and Florida. Fensterman joined Reed in 2006 and was show manager of New York ComicCon for two years. Reach Lance at (203) 840-4800 or lance@reedpop.com
Fae Desmond
Fae Desmond, Executive Director of Comic-Con International: San Diego, received the first annual Carol Wallace Women in Hospitality and Tourism Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Multi-Cultural Convention Services Network. Desmond was honored for her contributions to San Diego’s convention industry. Comic-Con International has been held at the San Diego Convention Center since 1991 and routinely sells out its exhibit space and admission tickets. Reach Fae at (619) 414-1020 or fae@comic-con.org
Zhang Yao
The Shanghai New International Expo Centre Co., Ltd. named Zhang Yao its Deputy General Manager. He is responsible for the overall operation and strategic development of SNIEC together with the General Manager Mr. Michael Kruppe. Zhao joined the center’s executive staff in 2006 as marketing director and helped SNIEC consistently post increased exhibit sales over the past 10 years. Reach Zhang at +86 21 28906888 or yao.zhang@sniec.net.
Linda Braue
Trade Show Executive (TSE) promoted Linda Braue to Vice President of Advertising. She replaced Irene Sperling who retired at the end of 2017. Braue takes charge of TSE’s print and digital advertising accounts, and will work with Quentin Chan on TSE’s efforts in Asia. Linda joined TSE in 2004 after a career in technology sales and was most recently TSE Advertising Manager. Reach Linda at (424) 731-7523 or lbraue@tradeshowexecutive.com
Grant Burgham
Grant Burgham joined Clarion Events Ltd. as Event Director for the annual Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade show. He replaced Duncan Reid, who earlier was named Managing Director of Clarion's Energy and Resources portfolio. Burgham joined Clarion from the IT and maritime industry, and has previous experience with Reed Exhibitions and Centaur. Reach Grant at +44 020 7384 7700 or grant.burgham@clarionevents.com
Nick Savage
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, named Nick Savage Regional Manager for the Middle East-Africa region. He replaced Ibrahim Al-Khaldi, who left UFI in February after 12 years to pursue other opportunities. Savage will remain in his position as Director for International Business at Info Salons in addition to his new job at UFI. Savage’s hiring coincides with the relocation of the UFI Middle East-Africa from Sharjah, UAE to office to space hosted by Info Salons in nearby Dubai. Reach Nick at +971 (0)4 331 7180 or nicks@ufi.org
Ron Walden
Reed Exhibitions hired Ron Walden to replace Aaron Levant as Group Vice President of its Fashion & Festivals portfolio in Los Angeles. The portfolio includes Agenda, the Agenda Festival and three other events. Walden joined Reed from Nike, where he was Senior Sales Director. He previously spent eight years as Vice President of Sales for MAGIC. Levant is retiring but will remain with the group in an advisory capacity. Reach Ron at (213) 223-5111 or ron@reedexpo.com; Aaron Levant at (213) 223-5111 or aaron@agendashow.com
Mike Shannon
Brede Exposition Services promoted Mike Shannon to the position of National Sales Manager. He had been General Manager of the company’s Phoenix office.
Reach Mike at (602) 275-5900 or mshannon@brede.com
Timothy Casey
Brede Exposition Services promoted Chief Financial Officer Timothy Casey to President and CEO, replacing William Casey III.
Reach Timothy at (781) 741-5900 or tcasey@brede.com.
Al Dyess
Former PRG executive Al Dyess was named President & Chief Operating Officer of Quest Events effective Feb. 1. He had been CEO of PRG’s Corporate and Events Division and is a member of the board of directors of the Exhibition Services & Contractors Association. Reach Al at (214) 436-4161 or al@questevents.com.
Matthew Carson
Matthew Carson has been promoted to CEO of PRG’s Corporate and Events Division. Previously, he had been Vice President, Agency Channel Sales. Reach Matthew at (407) 996-4160 or mcarson@prg.com.
Jenn Ellek
Taffy Event Strategies hired Jenn Ellek as its Senior Director of Marketing. Her duties will include developing strategies show organizers can use to drive attendance. Ellek was previously in charge of show marketing for the Sweets & Snacks Expo and PACK Expo.
Reach Jenn at (571) 313-5801 or jellek@taffyevents.com
Jean Foster
The Consumer Technology Association promoted Jean Foster to Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications. She had been Vice President of Marketing. The newly created position gives Foster oversight of the CTA communications department as well as the marketing team. Reach Jean at (703) 907-7600 or jfoster@cta.tech.
Sandi Harvey
Sandi Harvey is taking over as Vice President of Sales for Meet AC. Harvey, previously Senior Director of Sales, joined Meet AC in 1995 when it was known as the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority. She replaces Gary Musich who is retiring March 2. Reach Sandi at (609) 449-7148 or sharvey@meetac.com.
Gary Musich
Gary Musich willretire March 2 as Vice President of Sales for Meet AC. Musich spent 25 years with the agency and was a frequent attendee at industry events. He will be replaced by Sandi Harvey, previously Senior Director of Sales. Reach Gary at (609) 289-9156 or gmusich@gmail.com.
Steve Hill was named President and Chief Operating Officer of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. He was most recently Executive Director of the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development and remains as Chairman of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority. Hill’s appointment capped a two-year reorganization of the LVCVA executive leadership. Reach Steve at (702) 892-0711 or shill@lvcva.com
Nancy Walsh
AMR International hired consultant Nancy Walsh to assist with the production of its annual Transform USA conference. Walsh is a former President of Reed Exhibitions U.S. and last year launched her consulting firm, Nancy P. Walsh Xpert Consulting LLC. Transform USA focuses on digital technology and analytics for the trade show and events industry. It will take place July 19 in Washington, D.C. Reach Nancy at npwalsh23@gmail.com; Denzil Rankine, Executive Chairman of AMR International, at +44 20 7534 3601 or denzil.rankine@amrinternational.com
Jay Burress
Visit Anaheim President and CEO Jay Burress was named to the Orange County Business Journal People of the Year list for 2018, representing the county’s hospitality industry. Burress has been in his current position for the past five years and helped push Anaheim’s recent surge in hotel development, and four consecutive years of record tourist visitation. Reach Jay at (714) 765-2800 or jburress@visitanaheim.org
Michael Sawaya
Michael Sawaya was named President and General Manager of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, replacing Bob Johnson, who retired in September. Sawaya was previously Executive Director of the Convention and Sports Facilities Department for the City of San Antonio, a position that includes oversight over the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. The Morial Convention Center is tied for sixth on the Trade Show Executive Convention Centers rankings. Reach Michael at (504) 582-3000 or msawaya@mccno.com
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Tie Breaker
The Greatest Memes in Sports History and the Meaning Behind Them
Eli Laskey
Sports memes are everywhere, but do you know where they came from or what they really mean? Sports memes are often misused and sorely misunderstood, so join us on our journey as we decipher and decode the best sports memes on the internet. We’ll take you through their origins, what they mean, and how to best use them in in a variety of contexts.
Crying Jordan
Arguably the greatest and most recognizable sports meme on the planet, Crying Jordan is one of the internet’s most widely used memes. The original photo was taken back in 2009 at Jordan’s Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The greatest basketball player ever let the tears come down like rain as he gave his speech.
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An AP photographer captured the moment, and the face started getting expert photoshop treatment. Today, Crying Jordan can be seen on other athletes, coaches, trophies, posters, and anything sports related. Sometimes the meme is hard to find whereas other times it’s hiding in plain sight, like on Gregg Popovich on the right.
I Can’t Believe Seattle Didn’t Run the Ball
As we’re sure you’ve already heard, Seattle didn’t run the ball in Super Bowl XLIX, and that costly decision changed the franchise’s fortunes forever. It also permanently altered the meme universe. Meme’s regarding Seattle’s erroneous playcall proliferated. Different memes with different punchlines occupied social media newsfeeds around the globe, but one thing remained constant: how dumb that play was.
People around the world reflected on just one thing: why Seattle didn’t run the ball. Why didn’t they hand the ball off. Here, a couple lost in thought amidst the supreme cuddles ponders two polar opposite thoughts- potential infidelity and dumbfounding playcalling. Remember folks, communication is key.
Lance Stephenson’s Blow Felt Around the World
Wow, 2014 must have been the year of the meme. During the 2014 NBA Playoffs, Lance Stephenson and the overmatched Pacers were facing LeBron James and the Heat, and the Pacers were desperate to find any competitive advantage. So Lance Stephenson brought out one of the most untraditional tricks in the bag- blowing air in LeBron’s ear.
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LeBron laughed off the childish tactic, but Stephenson was not able to laugh off the onslaught of memes that followed. Stephenson’s infamous blow traveled around the globe and is responsible for the Leaning Tower of Pisa’s lean and helping kids clean out their dusty video games. Thanks Lance!
Manti Te’o and his Invisible Girlfriend
The hardest hit this NFL linebacker ever received was when news broke that Te’o’s girlfriend, the one who was battling cancer and was the inspiration behind his phenomenal play, was a hoax. It was a contrived, manufactured scheme during his senior year at Notre Dame that shocked the sports world to its core.
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Details slowly oozed out that Manti Te’o, in fact, did not have a girlfriend and had been pranked in an elaborate scheme. When the dust settled, one thing emerged: memes, plenty of memes. And if there’s one thing that an NFL player could do without, it’s being accused of having a fake girlfriend.
Tom Brady is back with another fresh meme. This one originated from the 2017 AFC Championship Game where Tom Brady and the Patriots battled the Steelers in chilly weather. Brady, needing to keep his throwing arm warm, was given a gigantic coat that he and his receiving corps could have fit in together.
Once the camera panned to a huddled Brady wearing his XXXXL coat, every television viewer in America under 60 knew what was about to happen, and it did. The Patriots throttling of the Steelers en route to the Super Bowl wasn’t even the top story. Brady’s jacket was.
The Blair Walsh Project
Former Vikings kicker Blair Walsh had an affinity towards shanking kicks. He had a propensity towards putting the ball anywhere but through the uprights, much to the agony of Vikings fans. The kicks alone were the subject of many a meme, but the most glorious ones were once Blair was cut by the Vikings.
Rumor has it that on his way out, Blair got his first concussion after he missed the door wide left and walked straight into the wall. The story also goes that the U.S. Government wants to name the next U.S.-bound hurricane “Blair” in hopes that it will miss the country wide left or right. And coming full circle, here a few more examples of Blair memes that even include Lance’s air blowing and Crying Jordan.
Victor Oladipo Doesn’t Approve
The gif is better, but the still shot still appropriately captures the meme. Back in 2018, Pacers star Victor Oladipo took a hard foul and decided to lay on the floor and extend the drama. He stared into the camera and gave a pathetic head nod. Oladipo’s reaction to the foul opened the floodgates and the memes came pouring down.
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Basically, anything that deserves an exasperated “are you kidding me man” or “nah, I’m good” reaction can get the Oladipo treatment. Your mom, via text, asks if you’d like a pint of vanilla ice cream, knowing very well that you prefer chocolate. Insert this meme to subtly clarify your disdain for vanilla.
Nick Young Questions Life
Shooting guard Nick Young, aka Swaggy P, is one of the NBA’s biggest goofballs, and his mom knows it all too well. Back in 2014 (again), Young was featured in a Youtube segment that documented a day in the life of Swaggy P. In the segment, Young’s mom begins to tell a story of how a young Nick Young was always stirring up the pot and acting a fool.
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At one point she recalls how Young “was a clown back then.” At that point, Young’s now-ubiquitous question mark face appeared, and the rest is history. Use this meme in any scenario that raises some eyebrows and is seriously questionable.
Burner Accounts? What Burner Accounts?
We all know Kevin Durant is a snake, but a few years ago that wasn’t so clear. Then KD slithered on over to the Warriors, the team that beat him the year before in the playoffs. Then mysterious Twitter posts began popping up with random users ardently defending KD. The posts were awfully specific and more in-depth than a post from a casual fan would be.
So the internet came together to solve the season’s greatest mystery, and what it unearthed was shocking. Durant was caught using multiple Twitter accounts, also known as burner accounts or burners. His credibility and reputation were destroyed as Durant and his eight Twitter handles became the laughing stock of the league.
Ladies and Gentlemen, John Wall
Here lies the Washington Wizards’ best player. This man is the guy destined to lead your Wizards to a first-round exit from the playoffs. Back in 2015, star point guard John Wall was sidelined with a foot injury. With Wall inactive, the Wizards plummeted and gave new meaning to ineptitude.
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During a game, a Washington player must have made a play so pathetic that Wall lost control of his spine and neck, as if he’d been shot. Use this meme as a response to ridiculous questions that shouldn’t have been asked, like when your fitness enthusiast friend inquires about your interest in a 6 a.m. run after a night of revelry.
Netflix’s “Bird Box” took the internet by storm, and not because of its acting or plot. The reason “Bird Box” took off was because of the exorbitant amount of memes relating to the blindfold Sandra Bullock wore throughout the film.
Sports culture quickly connected the dots and put the blindfold in the sports world, placing it on athletes who missed big shots and kicks and refs who missed big calls. It was dubbed the “Bird Box challenge” and Bears kicker Cody Parkey, who missed a game-winning kick in the 2019 NFL playoffs, was crowned the winner. The NFC Championship Game referees came in second.
Crying LeBron
Well, this shouldn’t be a total shocker, considering how much LeBron cries. Rumor has it LeBron was recruited by the state of California to join the Lakers so his tears could be used to fill up empty reservoirs in the drought-ridden state. Anyhow, this face is from LeBron’s time with Cavs where he and the city of Cleveland had plenty to cry about.
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This meme is one of the more versatile ones on the list. It can be used for comic relief or in a serious situation. Context is key. So the next time you’re chatting with your friend about how horrible your Tinder game is, save yourself the headache of using words and just send over a crying ‘Bron.
Homer Simpson Changes His Identity
Simpson references are great and applicable in so many situations. The meme we chose below is from Super Bowl XLVIII, where the Seattle Seahawks laid the smackdown on the Denver Broncos in one of the most lopsided Super Bowls in history.
What the meme depicts is a Broncos fan starting off the game full of optimism, rocking his favorite gear. As things begin to spiral out of control for Denver, the fan disappears into the bushes before emerging as a Seahawks fan. This ubiquitous meme can be used for every sport and is best used to highlight the comical nature of bandwagon fans.
Googly Eyes Gase
This is the face you make when you realize you just made the biggest mistake of your life. You’re in too deep and there’s no backing out. Adam Gase left the dumpster fire that was Miami for an even greater one up in New York, and when he signed on the dotted line, the nightmare became a reality.
He moved to a colder city with a more miserable fan base and a roster void of talent. During Gase’s introductory press conference, Gase’s googly eyes were all over the place and became an instant meme best used to represent any situation that makes you question your sanity.
Manning Face. Enough Said.
Like the Gase eyes, the Manning Face is classic meme used to represent fear, shock, or utter disbelief. Eli Manning is a man of many faces. He pouts after interceptions, contorts his face after big hits, and looks like a zombie on the sidelines, but none of those faces stack up to shell-shocked Eli.
After being sacked, the Giants’ aging, interception-prone quarterback looked like he had just seen some things, some things that are best unseen. The face was immediately captured and posted on the internet where glorious meme makers didn’t hold back or show a modicum of mercy. Justice served.
The Face, Presented by Richard Sherman
In the waning moments of Super Bowl XLIX, the Seattle Seahawks, in prime position to score the go-ahead touchdown, appeared on the verge of winning back-to-back Super Bowls. Then Russell Wilson threw one of the more egregious interceptions in NFL history. That interception turned out to be a blessing for the New England Patriots and the rest of America.
While the Pats were gifted another championship, the American people were gifted one of the greatest “WTF” faces, applicable and useful in many scenarios. Car broke down on your way to an interview? Slap this bad boy in your text to a friend. Chinese food prices just went up $2? Slide this into your conversation with the roomie.
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Michael Jordan, the face of…an anti drug campaign? Yes, you read that right. Back in 1987, Michael Jordan was a young star in the NBA with a blindingly bright future. McDonald’s, who was running an anti-drug PSA at the time, realized Jordan’s star power and pegged him to be the campaign’s spokesman.
In a minute-long clip, Jordan urges kids to avoid using drugs, and towards the end of the clip, the signature “Stop it. Get some help.” line emerges. Today, the meme can be used for anything cringe-worthy under the sun. Here’s the GIF, and for the patient ones, here’s the entire clip.
McKayla Maroney is not Impressed
Back at the 2012 Summer Olympics, U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney and Team USA won the team gold. Maroney also won the silver medal for her efforts on the vault, but apparently silver was not what the young star was looking for. The face on the left says it all, and from that point on, Maroney was known as the unimpressed Olympian.
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Her unimpressed face was photoshopped next to the likes of Usain Bolt and the Great Wall of China, two things that weren’t good enough for her. Then she met President Obama, and he too wasn’t impressive enough. The photo was ranked 2012’s most viral photo by Yahoo.
Shooters Gonna Shoot
There are a million and one Kobe Bryant memes. And all of them, lest you be surprised, pertain to his proclivity towards shooting the ball. There isn’t a player in NBA history with a worse reputation, deserved or not, for so mercilessly shooting the ball. But like the meme below describes, the shooting guard position is for shooting, and Kobe took that to heart.
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He was a ruthless heaver of the rock, a man with no room in his game for apologies or passes. The Lakers lived and died by the shot. Kobe could lead them to the promised land or sink the ship as he built mansions, brick by brick.
High-fiving Tom Brady
Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in NFL history, but the man, however talented he may be at passing the ball and winning big games, severely lacks in the high-five department. Throughout his illustrious career, Brady has been left hanging by teammates on numerous occasions.
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From the looks of it, Brady appears to be at peace with not having a true high-five buddy and always takes it in stride. However, if there’s one knock on the man’s game, it’s this. Maybe by the time he’s 50 he’ll have it figured out and can connect with his teammates on the sidelines, not just on the field.
Swag Star
Let’s start off by saying that Nick Young is an absolute clown. He’s made more of a name for himself based off his antics and theatrics, not his play. On one night, Nick Young, aka Swaggy P, launched a three-pointer that appeared to be good.
Naturally, before the shot went in, Young turned around and spreads his arms to signify to the crowd that they were witnessing a living legend perform at the highest level. But as the old adage goes, don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Clearly Nick Young never heard this before or didn’t care for it, because as he was showboating, his teammates were battling for a rebound. Young, needless to say, missed the shot.
Laughing Yao Ming
Back in 2009, Yao Ming and then-teammate Ron Artest were sitting at a playoff press conference when Yao broke out the smile that would become one of the most recognizable sports memes of all time. The face usually belongs to a set of memes that are generally sarcastic and degrading.
The PG version of what usually accompanies this meme on comment sections throughout the interwebs is something along the lines of “are you serious bro?” or “shut the f— up.” Yao hung up his incredibly large sneakers in 2011, but his legacy will rightfully live on in internet lore forever.
Belichick Drinks Juice
Many people don’t think Bill Belichick is human. He interviews like a robot and wins like a machine. So when he was spotted sipping what appears to be orange juice, the internet had a full-blown meltdown. “He’s human!” they shouted. “He gets thirsty?” they questioned.
Then, after the initial shock subsided, the internet turned its focus towards memes. Similar to the Kermit the Frog meme, Belichick drinking juice is perfect to use in a situation where you’ve proven yourself correct, despite no one listening to you. As the chaos and destruction you predicted unfolds, sit back, relax, and enjoy a nice, fresh cup of orange juice.
The petty with 28-3 was real. The Atlanta Falcons blew a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI in dramatic fashion. The win was great for some and heartbreaking for others, but the memes were undeniably awesome. People started flying 28-3 flags and putting 28-3 everywhere, including on licenses plates shown in the photo on the right.
Patriots fans can be an unrelenting bunch, and 28-3 made them even more insufferable. March 28th became a pseudo-holiday in New England and even Saints fans got in on the action after their bitter rivals crumbled like an over-baked cookie. Look at the comment section of any sports post on social media and there’s a 99.99 percent chance that someone will say “Atlanta blew a 28-3 lead.”
Smokin’ Jay Cutler
We’re barred from posting the true Smokin’ Jay Cutler memes, but rest assured, they are good. Jay Cutler was an apathetic quarterback who shuffled through his NFL career with minimal interest in winning or success. Fans and players alike despised Cutler because of his work ethic, or lack thereof.
The picture below is from Cutler’s press conference in 2017 after he came out of retirement to sign a one-year deal with the Dolphins. A picture says a thousand words, and this one is no exception. Cutler’s face says it all and the memes took off, further damaging Cutler’s already fragile reputation.
Fear the Brow
Anthony Davis eyebrow memes are a dime a dozen. They’re more common than fish in the sea, and there’s a good reason why. His impressive unibrow is the first thing people notice about him, which is a remarkable feat considering he’s 6-foot-10. His unibrow is more famous than the tiny country of Nauru, the world’s third-smallest country.
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The meme we selected below was by design because it’s one of the more introductory ones that does a great job of hammering home the eyebrow theme. Look for more eyebrow memes to surface as Anthony Davis continues to dominate in the NBA.
The Drake Curse
Over the years, Drake has emerged as the biggest bandwagon fan in sports. He’ll get behind whoever is doing well and ride that wave of success to the bitter end. Then, when another team emerges from the pack, Drake will jump ship and bail. Drake has been spotted backing Connor McGregor before the big fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov.
McGregor was submitted in an embarrassing loss. Drake also backed Alabama before their humiliating loss against Clemson in the National Championship. So before the 2019 NFL Championship weekend, Drake sported a sweater with the four teams photoshopped on it. All four teams went into overtime, with each game being marred by controversy. The curse is real.
Selfie Kid at Super Bowl LI
As did we Kosta, as did we. The moment this kid got on camera, America knew. America knew he was going to be the face of a new batch of hot, fresh memes. Super Bowl LII halftime performer and global icon Justin Timberlake ascended into the crowd during his set and planted himself right next to this kid.
The fan, unsure of what to do, uncomfortably gyrated left and right while J.T. put on a spectacular show. Eventually, Selfie Kid whipped out his phone, halted his robotic dance, and snapped a selfie with the singer. The jokes with this one were endless.
The Kemba Shimmy
Similar to Nick Young, Kemba Walker pulled off one of the more boneheaded NBA plays in recent memory. In 2016, Kemba Walker was looking to sting the Miami Heat with a vicious three-point shot, and he thought he did. So Kemba busted out a patented shimmy dance as he walked away from the hoop, but it was premature.
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While Kemba dipped, swayed, and rolled, his teammates jumped, fought, and scrapped- for the rebound. Walker missed the shot but was completely oblivious to it. The funny clip spawned a great deal of memes showing people confidiently shimmying into a situation unprepared and empty-handed. Lesson learned. Eye on the ball.
James Harden, A Shooting Star
This absurd meme took off when James Harden was blocked by Manu Ginobili in the finals seconds of a nail-biting game. As Harden ascended to get off his shot, Manu executed a perfectly timed sneak attack and blocked the shot, sending Harden home empty-handed.
However, before Harden returned home, he went a voyage around the globe that even took to outer space, and if you have no clue what we’re talking about, click here. Ok, now that we’re on the same page, we can dive into how this meme became a sports sensation. The shooting star concept was expanded to nearly every sport, becoming the perfect way to highlight players getting embarrassed, and although Harden will eventually retire, this meme will live on for eternity.
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LANCASTER, Pa. -- Feb. 16, 2012 -- Christina Carroll, Senior Vice President Global Sales for Telos Alliance(TM), announced that Peter Passian has been named Sales Director, EMEA for Telos Alliance, and Daniel Wang has returned to Linear Acoustic(R) as Senior Business Development Manager, Asia.
In his new role, Passian will oversee sales of Telos, Omnia, Axia, and Linear Acoustic products throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. For the past two years, Passian has served as Sales Director of the Eastern Hemisphere for Telos, Omnia, and Axia, and prior to that was a dealer of those companies' products for nearly 10 years in Germany.
"Linear Acoustic is known all over the world for making top-quality gear," Passian said. "I'm really looking forward to introducing products like the AERO.air(TM) and the new AERO.lite(TM) to our dealers and customers in the EMEA region."
"We are very excited to have Peter representing the entire Telos Alliance, including Linear Acoustic, in these very important markets," said Carroll. "His experience with our products and the relationships he has developed with broadcasters over the years are invaluable."
Wang will be directly responsible for sales in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and will oversee sales activities in Korea, Japan, India, China, and Taiwan.
"It feels great to be back, and I'm looking forward to visiting with our dealers and customers again and showing them how Linear Acoustic can help them meter, monitor, and control their audio," said Wang.
"We are expecting huge growth in the total Asian market this year," added Carroll. "We are pleased to have Daniel as the driving force behind that effort."
About Linear Acoustic(R):
Linear Acoustic(R) is the leading authority in television audio control from production to transmission. A member of the Telos Alliance(TM), the company designs and manufactures the AERO(TM) range of real-time and file-based loudness managers, UPMAX(R) upmixing and downmixing solutions, and the LQ(TM) series of loudness metering products and licenses and OEMs key technologies to premier manufacturers. The company is actively involved in standards and practices creation as a member of the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) and as a sustaining member of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers). Linear Acoustic provided its upmixing products and technical services for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and will return for the London 2012 games. Linear Acoustic is the recipient of a 62nd Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy(R) Award. More information is available at www.linearacoustic.com and www.telosalliance.com.
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U.K.: Freeview Provides HD, sans HD Boxes
Most viewers are being asked to wait until early 2010.
Like the proverbial tree than falls in the woods, what happens if you provide HD services and no one can see them? That's a question perhaps some subscribers to the Freeview HD channels in Britain will ask themselves in the next few weeks.
The U.K.'s first terrestrial channels to provide HD content began airing in early December, but there are few to actually see it. Most viewers are being asked to wait until early 2010 (not as far away now as it may sound) when an adequate supply of HD set-top boxes are expected to be made available.
Freeview is a digital service owned by a consortium (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, BSkyB and Arqiva) that recently began its so-called "technical launch" of HD services from its greater London and Manchester transmitter sites. But apparently "technical launch" refers to the fact that while there is indeed HD content in the air, it's not serving any real purpose except, of course, for somewhat unplanned technical tweaking and evaluation. New HD STBs will likely begin to become available by February.
Using next summer's World Cup in South Africa as a distant target, Freeview — which now serves more than 18 million dwellings — is pushing to penetrate roughly half of all U.K. households with HD channels by the time of the soccer matches in June. Britain's deadline for a total DTV transition is not until 2012.
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British broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 are currently raising serious questions about whether they have enough funding to start up HD services on the nation's free OTA service.
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The national Freeview HD service is scheduled to ramp up in December and the Ofcom action is not expected to alter that timetable.
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Recently, when Let’s Encrypt began offering wildcard certificates, I began to wonder how this would change the encryption landscape. Would we see more companies encrypting more of their online assets? Would best practices for wildcard certificates scale to meet this new demand? Would we see a corresponding increase in phishing and other attacks?
Will wildcard certificates from Let’s Encrypt make us safer?
As I was discussing these issues with a colleague, I was surprised and delighted to learn that the inventor of wildcard certificates, George Parsons, works with me at Venafi. To better understand some of the ramifications of the availability of free wildcard certificates, I sat down with George for a lengthy and informative chat about the history, use and abuse of wildcard certificates. Some of his anecdotes were amusing. And some were downright frightening. But I’m sure you’ll enjoy all of them as much as I did.
Here’s part one of my interview with George Parsons:
How wild was the certificate process in the early days?
I remember when the Royal Bank of Canada requested a certificate, the operations person at Verisign said, you’ve got to send me a copy of your certificate of incorporation or some type of legal documentation, the bank replied, “I can’t do that, it’s on parchment under glass at a museum.” And the operations person said, “Okay can you get a copy of that for me?” Of course, this was before the days of cameras on cell phones. We all had a good laugh about that.
What inspired you to create wildcard certificates?
The goal was to make sure that we had certificates that would support certain use cases that were particularly difficult at that time. The way we used digital certificates to validate trust with a website hasn’t changed. But for companies like AT&T, for example, special characters were challenging. In the early days, browser companies were barely able to process certificates with special characters. But the real problem was how to support the scaling of websites. Companies needed an easier way to add web servers without adding the complexity of managing additional key pairs and certificates to authenticate them with. So, we invented the wildcard certificate using standard Unix regex characters. As a result, servers that had previously used "www1.company.com", "www2.company.com", and "www3.company.com" could all use a “www*.company.com” wildcard syntax instead.
What was the original purpose of wildcard certificates?
One of the first applications of wild card certificates was when companies started realizing the value of placing a load balancer in front of web servers to accommodate spikes in traffic. Those companies ended up with, say, five different web servers for one domain, all of which are behind a load balancer. They wanted to be able to use one certificate to authenticate anyone coming in through that front end. Wildcard certificates made that possible.
How did wildcard validation work in the early days?
When I designed the OV process way back when, we worked with Dunn and Bradstreet to do the look ups and we created a special portal to do that authentication manually. Automating that process would be challenging. I suppose, one could screen scrape the data and automate some of that but at a certain point a human needed to be involved.
How did you intend wildcard certificates to be used?
The best practice was never to have "*.website.com" because that defeated the purpose of trying to give the end user the assurances that they are talking to the intended website. The challenge is that when administrators request a wildcard certificate, they really have to understand what the different environments they are standing up with the domain. They need to know exactly what the qualified domain name is going to look like before they create that certificate. If not, they increase their chances of becoming a victim of an attack that misuses wildcard certificates that are too broad.
Looking back, how successful was the wildcard certificate?
Wildcard certificates fulfilled their original intent, but the problems we faced then were a lot different. For example, now we have the ability to do SANS certificates. These require that you define your subdomains, rather than relying on the * marker. This gives you a lot better control, but it also requires a lot more planning. If you think about what best practices should be, one could argue that SANS certificates are the way to go and, in that case, there would be no real need for wildcard certificates today.
Have wildcard certificates outlived their usefulness? In the next two conversations with George Parsons, we’ll look at potential attacks that misuse wildcards and the ongoing temptation to use wildcards widely across enterprise networks.
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»Globalisierung und Politik
FB05 Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Didaktik der politischen Bildung (PoWi)
Entwicklungspolitik und Postkoloniale Studien
BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe GLOCALPOWER
M.A. Global Political Economy and Development
M.A. Labour Policies and Globalisation
PhDs in progress
European Summer Institute
Internationale und intergesellschaftl. Beziehungen
Politische Ökologie
Politisches System der BRD - Staatlichkeit im Wandel
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Fellow des Fachbereichs
Professor oder Professorin i.R.
Donna McGuire
Kurzexposé zum Promotionsvorhaben von Donna McGuire:
Increasing labour’s influence in economic global governance
Objective: To explore ways for organised labour to become more influential in economic global governance through its involvement in inter-governmental institutions such as the OECD.
Key research question:
What role does the OECD play in setting the international trade agenda and how can trade unions increase their influence in this organisation?
Research Proposal – Abstract:
This project will build on research conducted in my Master thesis, which explored attempts by trade unions to influence global economic rule making in the field of international trade; an area that is outside their traditional sphere of action and influence.
The campaign to keep education out of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was used as a case study to explore the constraints and opportunities trade unions face in attempting to influence global economic rule making (see Appendix 1. abstract of MA thesis for further detail).
One of the missed opportunities identified in this research was the potential for unions to influence the OECD and its individual member states. The OECD’s tripartite nature makes it one of the few inter-governmental organisations within which trade unions have a recognised role and access. However, unions on the whole have failed to understand the importance of the OECD in determining the framework and content of WTO negotiations. Nor have they fully exploited the existing channels of influence they have through the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).
Therefore my research will examine the constraints and opportunities for labour to influence economic global governance through their role in the OECD, with aim of developing a set of recommendations on how trade unions can become more influential in this area.
Background to the research:
The rules of economic global governance as promulgated in multilateral agreements and international organizations such as IMF, World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organisation etc. are increasingly influencing the living conditions of the working classes and the political powers of their representatives around the world.
Multilateral trade agreements such as GATS, the General Agreement on Trade in Services, have been used to pry open state regulated services to foreign suppliers. In general, this leads to fewer employment opportunities in the state sector, lower labour standards for those still employed, less access for the poor and a weakening of the unions of public employees which play an important role in the labour movement.
Despite the impact of these multilateral agreements on working people, labour issues are not sufficiently reflected at the bargaining tables. Even those governments that rely heavily on organised labour for election victories do not advance a labour agenda in the policy discussions in preparation for multilateral bargaining rounds.
However, the fault does not rest solely with the governments. The labour movement, with some notable exceptions, has ‘underinvested’ in developing its own voice on international economic governance.
Another problem is the lack of official status for organised labour within organisations such as the WTO, which leaves lobbying and campaigning as the main avenues through which unions can seek to exert influence. However, on the whole, unions have been slow to develop the lobbying and campaigning capacity needed to realise organised labour’s policy goals.
As a result, the rules of global capitalism are moving towards a neo-liberal constitutionalism that privileges private ownership rights over national sovereignty and the rights of the producers and consumers.
One way to address this exclusion of labour issues from international economic governance is to explore ways in which organised labour can be more influential in inter-governmental institutions such as the OECD, which play a major role in setting global rules and guidelines.
Proposed methodology:
Literature study: to identify the kinds of problems and limitations unions might face in trying to influence international rule making.
Internship at OECD to explore the role and function of TUAC (the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD).
Map OECD structure, decision making processes and spheres of influence.
Map existing lobbying processes used by unions to influence OECD.
Case studies: past or current attempts by unions to influence the OECD on a particular issue related to global economic governance, for example keeping public services, including education, out of GATS.
Expert interviews.
Document analysis: policy documents, campaign documents, letters, emails (if available) media statements, trade-related publications etc.
Work Schedule and Financial Support:
Work schedule, time frames and financial support will be determined after further discussion with my supervisor.
Appendix 1.
Master’s Thesis Abstract: Keeping education out of GATS: Global Labour’s mobilisation against the liberalising of education services – Successes and missed opportunities
For unions and civil society the foundation and implementation of the GATS raises questions about the consequences of developing a binding set of rules on the trade in services, determined solely with reference to economic rather than social benefits, which incorporates so many of the services fundamental to human existence. The liberalization of education services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) serves as a good example. The market in educational services is already worth about $30 billion (OECD figures). However, what is new is the introduction of a binding set of international rules to govern this trade under GATS, and the attitude of seeing education as a commodity and a valuable trading item for export.
Using selective expert interviews, document analysis and case studies, the paper analyses the campaign of global union federations against the inclusion of educational services in GATS, with the aim of identifying lessons that global federations can learn for future cross-national campaigns against global governance policies. After providing a chronology of labour’s encounter with GATS ‑the contested issues in general and with specific reference to education ‑ the paper traces how GATS was put on the agenda of education unions and some of the likely negative consequences of GATS for education and its stakeholders.
In analysing the campaign against GATS the paper looks at the various ways unions seek to exert influence through lobbying (of international organisations, trade delegations and WTO member states), coalitions with NGOs and local governments and mobilising affiliate unions. Some of the constraints facing unions in their quest to identify a broad based movement against GATS, such as union structure, complexity of the issues, lack of resources, tensions between unions and NGOs, and scarcity of where experts are identified and these are analysed in terms of how they were overcome and opportunities were missed. Finally a few suggestions are volunteered for future campaigns.
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Jan. 27, 2017 / 9:02 AM
Both sides of the border praise Keystone XL
For Canada, the pipeline could help break a landlock and expand oil exports beyond the United States.
Daniel J. Graeber
Industry leaders on both side of the border praise a decision to move forward with the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to southern U.S. ports. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License Photo
Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. and Canadian trade groups said building the Keystone XL oil pipeline to southern U.S. ports was critical for the region's energy infrastructure.
Pipeline company TransCanada announced it re-submitted an application to build the cross-border Keystone XL oil pipeline after memoranda signed by U.S. President Donald Trump prioritized oil and gas networks as strategic interests.
The White House under President Barack Obama sidelined Keystone XL on environmental concerns as the heavier form of crude oil designated for the pipeline is viewed as more carbon-intensive and potentially more of a danger if spilled than other grades of oil.
Jack Gerard, the president of the American Petroleum Institute, praised Trump for advancing a modernized vision of North American infrastructure.
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"We applaud President Trump's commitment to promoting our nation's energy infrastructure and creating jobs," he said in a statement.
Gerard estimates building Keystone XL, which would stretch from Alberta to the southern U.S. coast, would create "tens of thousands of jobs." A review by the State Department under Obama put the estimate in the thousands.
In announcing plans to re-submit its application to build the pipeline, TransCanada President and CEO Russ Girling said the company is moving in step with regional environmental interests because pipelines are less of a threat than rail, a transit method used now to make up for the lack of pipeline capacity in North America.
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"Enhanced standards and the utilization of the most advanced technology will help ensure KXL will be built and operated to uphold our fundamental commitment to safety and the communities we serve," the company said.
Planned in part as an export artery, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said Keystone XL breaks a landlock for a Canadian energy sector that depends almost exclusively on the U.S. market.
"We need to be able to access markets in all direction, east, south and west, for Canada to be the responsible global-supplier of choice," CAPP President and CEO Tim McMillan said.
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Canada has pushed to diversify its export options away from the United States. Pipeline company Kinder Morgan secured recent approval to triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain oil network to western Canadian ports.
In early January, Alberta Premier Rachel Notely said breaking Alberta's landlock with Trans Mountain fixes "a problem that has dogged our province for decades."
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Black Gold: A Coffee Film That Has Starbucks Scared
Green is the new green
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Treehuggers have probably heard about fair trade coffee, but many aren't familiar with it – and even more don't quite know what fair trade means, or why it's necessary. Despite the fact that a coffee crisis has been financially devastating coffee growers around the world, even as western corporations make a lot of money from coffee sales, the problem still doesn't get much coverage in the mainstream media.
Luckily, Black Gold's hit the theaters. This documentary puts the paradoxes of coffee trade under a glaring, illuminating light. The film juxtaposes how the coffee drinkers of the western world gladly pay $3-$5 for our high-priced espresso drinks, fattening the bottom lines of our corporations — while the crushingly poor farmers producing those yummy espresso beans barely make ends meet.
The hero of the film is Tadesse Meskela, an Ethiopean man who travels all over the world, trying to get the farmers he represents a better price for their coffee. We see him at trade shows, trying to find new buyers by giving out samples. We see him at the Ethiopian coffee auction, pointing out which big corporations are represented by who. And we see him talking to, getting opinions from, and participating in the decision-making for coffee co-ops in Ethiopia.
As you can imagine, Black Gold has Starbucks – which tries to sell itself as a conscientious company – very scared. After all, some of the starving Ethiopians shown in Black Gold are people who rely on the coffee trade – and live in the very region that Starbucks buys coffee from. Marc Francis and Nick Francis, the filmmakers, say that once the film hit Sundance, Starbucks people attended every screening in full damage control mode. Soon afterwards, Starbucks flew Tadesse out to Seattle for a showy weekend conference, during which Starbucks promised to up its purchases of African coffee.
If you're as old as some of us are, you'll remember seeing images of starving Ethiopians in the news in 1984. What's shocking is that this happened again in 2003. In fact, Nick Francis, one of the filmmakers, said things seemed worse this time around in some ways. Back in 1984, coffee farmers had been somewhat better off, and were able to lend some help their fellow citizens. But in 2003, some of the coffee farmers themselves were starving.
Black Gold doesn't provide any clean or clear solutions – Those are up to the viewer to find. And the film won't answer all the questions you might have about fair trade or world trade or many of the other questions you may have. Instead, the film points to some of the underlying problems that are creating the coffee crisis: unfair farm subsidies of western countries, skewed negotiations at the WTO, the aid provided to African countries in lieu of fair trade.
If you're a coffee drinker, this film's a must-see. And if after watching it, you want to get more involved with Black Gold and fair trade, check out this list of actions you can take.
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OOG's Games
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 5 of 52 127 of 4,607 (90) of (1,000) 10% 1.406
SMITE 121 of 204 4,046 of 9,722 (1,695) of (2,925) 59% 2.387
Hydro Thunder Hurricane 11 of 12 515 of 568 (190) of (200) 92% 2.712
Apex Legends 5 of 12 470 of 1,656 (375) of (1,000) 42% 1.253
Doom (Arcade) 11 of 12 299 of 408 (165) of (200) 92% 1.814
NHL 19 1 of 48 32 of 3,474 (15) of (1,000) 2% 2.135
Aegis Wing 11 of 12 266 of 331 (180) of (200) 92% 1.476
Microsoft Sudoku (Win 8) 17 of 20 260 of 387 (160) of (200) 85% 1.624
Big Bumpin 3 of 12 55 of 371 (40) of (200) 25% 1.379
Call of Duty: Ghosts (Xbox 360) 12 of 50 274 of 1,768 (155) of (1,000) 24% 1.770
Microsoft Wordament (Mobile) 15 of 25 567 of 1,934 (480) of (1,000) 60% 1.180
Unreal Tournament 3 16 of 50 1,038 of 3,461 (410) of (1,000) 32% 2.532
SUPER BOMBERMAN R 13 of 32 383 of 15,271 (160) of (1,000) 41% 2.395
The Culling 3 of 20 149 of 3,812 (80) of (1,000) 15% 1.858
The Golf Club 2019 2 of 29 35 of 3,127 (30) of (1,000) 7% 1.172
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 24 of 37 1,447 of 3,694 (620) of (1,000) 65% 2.334
Rocket League 77 of 77 4,455 of 4,455 (2,200) of (2,200) 100% 2.025
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 48 of 48 1,603 of 1,603 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 1.603
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 10 of 12 701 of 1,448 (290) of (400) 83% 2.417
Uno 3 of 12 156 of 1,774 (140) of (1,000) 25% 1.117
Brawlhalla 5 of 39 134 of 6,552 (75) of (1,000) 13% 1.791
Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition 13 of 80 353 of 3,118 (285) of (1,750) 16% 1.240
Borderlands 49 of 50 1,206 of 1,287 (950) of (1,000) 98% 1.270
SEGA Superstars Tennis 15 of 45 395 of 2,551 (270) of (1,000) 33% 1.462
Call of Duty Classic 2 of 12 22 of 377 (20) of (200) 17% 1.103
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 43 of 50 1,300 of 1,785 (815) of (1,000) 86% 1.595
Split/Second 46 of 46 2,499 of 2,499 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 2.499
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms 4 of 34 44 of 3,359 (40) of (1,000) 12% 1.094
Gems of War 28 of 44 1,778 of 4,947 (1,090) of (1,700) 64% 1.631
Goat Simulator (Xbox 360) 16 of 30 624 of 1,333 (505) of (1,000) 53% 1.235
Halo: Reach 39 of 58 982 of 2,397 (660) of (1,387) 67% 1.487
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition 49 of 59 1,563 of 1,859 (865) of (1,000) 83% 1.807
GRID 2 10 of 50 218 of 2,924 (130) of (1,000) 20% 1.675
#IDARB 12 of 12 1,373 of 1,373 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 1.373
Minecraft: Xbox One Edition 55 of 75 1,951 of 4,041 (1,125) of (1,665) 73% 1.734
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown 12 of 12 515 of 515 (400) of (400) 100% 1.287
Battlefield 1 1 of 31 12 of 2,301 (10) of (1,000) 3% 1.172
TRIVIAL PURSUIT LIVE! 1 of 15 39 of 1,777 (30) of (1,000) 7% 1.308
MONOPOLY Plus 15 of 15 1,267 of 1,267 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 1.267
Boggle 1 of 15 53 of 2,394 (50) of (1,000) 7% 1.055
Battleship 6 of 15 389 of 1,664 (300) of (1,000) 40% 1.298
Call of Duty: WWII 6 of 50 203 of 2,448 (100) of (1,000) 12% 2.035
Hitman: Blood Money 1 of 24 25 of 2,072 (25) of (1,000) 4% 1.000
TERA 2 of 25 45 of 4,022 (40) of (1,000) 8% 1.131
Forza Horizon 2 20 of 50 301 of 2,514 (245) of (1,000) 40% 1.227
Dead Island Definitive Edition 2 of 58 38 of 2,514 (32) of (1,000) 3% 1.200
Super Street Fighter IV 32 of 58 1,076 of 4,708 (490) of (1,160) 55% 2.196
Rise of the Tomb Raider 5 of 66 52 of 2,088 (50) of (1,000) 8% 1.033
Joy Ride Turbo 7 of 12 158 of 513 (100) of (200) 58% 1.576
Gears of War: Judgment 4 of 50 46 of 2,475 (30) of (1,000) 8% 1.523
Gears of War 4 9 of 104 290 of 6,746 (175) of (2,000) 9% 1.655
SUPERHOT 15 of 25 1,088 of 4,845 (410) of (1,000) 60% 2.654
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 48 of 50 1,424 of 1,577 (935) of (1,000) 96% 1.523
Tekken 7 9 of 43 211 of 1,514 (155) of (1,000) 21% 1.361
NBA Playgrounds 2 of 13 113 of 1,915 (100) of (1,000) 15% 1.125
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare 34 of 50 1,146 of 2,351 (665) of (1,000) 68% 1.723
Pure Hold'em 37 of 50 896 of 3,795 (570) of (1,000) 74% 1.573
Death Squared 5 of 25 68 of 2,844 (50) of (1,000) 20% 1.362
Vanquish 1 of 50 11 of 2,286 (10) of (1,000) 2% 1.067
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed 2 of 50 33 of 4,774 (30) of (1,000) 4% 1.106
Age of Empires: Castle Siege (UWP) 10 of 20 383 of 2,194 (280) of (1,000) 50% 1.367
SEGA Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage 6 of 12 200 of 681 (140) of (400) 50% 1.429
Battlefield 3 8 of 38 253 of 1,968 (190) of (1,000) 21% 1.331
Paladins: Champions of the Realm 19 of 35 1,481 of 4,265 (855) of (1,205) 54% 1.732
Cars 2 17 of 50 577 of 2,008 (350) of (1,000) 34% 1.648
Forza Motorsport 6: Apex (Win 10) 8 of 24 403 of 2,247 (230) of (1,000) 33% 1.752
Left 4 Dead 49 of 64 1,533 of 2,820 (995) of (1,480) 77% 1.541
Microsoft Ultimate Word Games (Win 10) 24 of 38 831 of 2,406 (530) of (1,000) 63% 1.568
Microsoft Bingo (Win 10) 6 of 20 446 of 1,762 (335) of (1,000) 30% 1.331
Microsoft Jigsaw (Win 8) 5 of 20 78 of 569 (45) of (200) 25% 1.735
Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP) 12 of 40 352 of 2,555 (215) of (1,000) 30% 1.639
Microsoft Minesweeper (Win 8) 4 of 20 31 of 567 (20) of (200) 20% 1.525
Microsoft Treasure Hunt (Win 8) 5 of 20 70 of 576 (50) of (200) 25% 1.397
Tiny Troopers (Win 8) 1 of 20 5 of 481 (5) of (200) 5% 1.002
Halo 5: Guardians 31 of 73 845 of 2,891 (485) of (1,250) 42% 1.743
Goat Simulator 29 of 30 1,634 of 1,711 (970) of (1,000) 97% 1.684
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 12 of 12 290 of 290 (200) of (200) 100% 1.451
Ben-Hur 10 of 10 1,257 of 1,257 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 1.257
Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game 44 of 44 1,621 of 1,621 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 1.621
Tomb Raider - Definitive Edition 50 of 50 2,161 of 2,161 (1,000) of (1,000) 100% 2.161
Rayman Origins 24 of 36 700 of 2,395 (425) of (1,000) 67% 1.647
Minecraft 19 of 79 437 of 4,601 (275) of (1,750) 24% 1.587
Wolfenstein 3D 4 of 12 57 of 358 (50) of (200) 33% 1.138
Medal of Honor 42 of 50 1,046 of 1,908 (730) of (1,000) 84% 1.432
Gears of War 2 13 of 50 177 of 1,710 (145) of (1,000) 26% 1.218
Crazy Taxi 2 of 12 13 of 442 (10) of (200) 17% 1.301
Dead Space 2 17 of 50 291 of 1,581 (245) of (1,000) 34% 1.187
Homefront 22 of 47 385 of 3,537 (250) of (1,000) 47% 1.539
DiRT Rally 2 of 50 18 of 5,731 (16) of (1,000) 4% 1.122
Injustice: Gods Among Us 1 of 50 14 of 5,253 (10) of (1,000) 2% 1.442
Tomb Raider: Underworld 7 of 31 173 of 1,910 (135) of (1,000) 23% 1.279
Defense Grid: The Awakening 6 of 12 128 of 447 (85) of (200) 50% 1.503
Tower of Guns 5 of 12 355 of 1,646 (275) of (1,000) 42% 1.292
Trackmania Turbo 9 of 48 206 of 11,619 (120) of (1,000) 19% 1.713
Call of Duty: Black Ops 41 of 50 1,298 of 1,718 (780) of (1,000) 82% 1.664
Doom II: Hell on Earth 5 of 12 86 of 410 (65) of (200) 42% 1.321
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 10 of 33 192 of 2,148 (130) of (1,000) 30% 1.476
Worms 2: Armageddon 2 of 12 38 of 486 (30) of (200) 17% 1.279
Mortal Kombat 12 of 50 195 of 3,727 (125) of (1,000) 24% 1.557
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2 Mesmerized 556
3 Operation Meridian 543
4 10 Day Roll 436
5 Perfection 414
6 Operation Barbarossa 405
7 Best of the Bunch 404
8 Epic Tier 3 Engineer 399
9 Overachiever 396
10 The Enemy of my Friend 344
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Dow tops 23,000 for first time as stock market rally gains speed
Wall Street cheers as the Dow tops 23,000, extending the blue-chip stock gauge's record-setting run.
Dow tops 23,000 for first time as stock market rally gains speed Wall Street cheers as the Dow tops 23,000, extending the blue-chip stock gauge's record-setting run. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2x3i8P3
Adam Shell, USA TODAY Published 11:07 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017 | Updated 8:08 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017
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Dow Power: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 13, 2017.(Photo: BRYAN R. SMITH, AFP/Getty Images)
The Dow briefly topped 23,000 for the first time in its 121-year history Tuesday, but closed just shy of the milestone despite notching its 50th record close of the year and extending a bull market rally that began nearly nine years ago.
This year has been full of milestones for the Dow Jones industrial average. The blue-chip stock gauge has rallied more than 3,200 points, gained more than 16% and leapfrogged 20,000, 21,000, 22,000 and 23,000 in 2017.
The strong rally has been driven, Wall Street pros say, by a financial rarity: Economies in every corner of the globe picking up at the same time.
"Dow 23,000 is something to cheer," says Thorne Perkin, president of New York-based money-management firm Papamarkou Wellner Asset Management.
The Dow topped its newest milestone in morning trading, climbing as high as 23,002.20 before retreating. It closed up 40.48 points, or 0.18%, to 22,997.44. It took just 76 days to climb from 22,000 to 23,000, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.
The new high could lure more Main Street investors into the market, says Sameer Samana, global quantitative and technical strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
Still, he says investors must be mindful that stocks have been rallying a long time and have appreciated an awful lot already.
"We've come a long way from the crisis lows (in March 2009), and investors should make sure their allocations to stocks are not being driven by backwards-looking performance and psychological milestones," Samana warned.
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The Dow's rise has been driven by five key factors:
1. Economies everywhere are rebounding
Everywhere you look around the globe, economic growth is ticking higher. It's not just the U.S. growing its GDP these days. Europe's economy is in rebound mode. So is Japan's. And emerging markets are in better shape as commodity prices rebound amid a weakening U.S. dollar.
Last week, the International Monetary Fund upped its global GDP forecast to 3.6% this year and 3.7% next year, up slightly from its July forecast. It's hard for stocks to get derailed if there's scant signs of a recession on the horizon anywhere on earth.
Wall Street is reacting to a "synchronized global recovery," says Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial. "The first we have seen in a decade."
2. U.S. companies are making lots of money
Corporate America posted 10%-plus profit growth in the first two quarters of the year, something CEOs haven't been able to brag about since 2011. Profit growth is seen slowing in the third quarter to around 4.4%, and more than 80% of the 45 companies in the S&P 500 stock index that have reported results so far have topped expectations, according to earnings-tracker Thomson Reuters. Wall Street analysts expect a pickup in the final quarter of 2017 and next year.
"Some of the best numbers we've seen in a long time," Perkin says.
3. Cheap money remains plentiful
Markets love liquidity, a term used to describe lots of money sloshing around in global markets that can be used to buy stocks, bonds, and other assets. And borrowing costs around the globe remain low — and are likely to stay that way for a while longer — despite the U.S. Federal Reserve signaling a third rate hike this year at its December meeting.
In fact, the world's top central bankers, speaking this past weekend at a banking conference in Washington, said that due to tame inflation, they may need to keep their crisis-driven stimulus policies in place longer.
Global central banks in places such as Europe and Japan "remain committed to providing liquidity," Krosby says, noting that central banks are now holding roughly $13 trillion worth of assets that they purchased as a way to get cash circulating in markets around the world.
4. Tax cut hopes not dead
President Trump has had few legislative triumphs since taking office in January, but investors are placing better odds on his recent tax cut proposal getting passed by Congress in coming months. A tax cut for corporations will mean more of their revenue will end up as profit.
"Investors in the U.S," Krosby says, "see the chance of tax cuts at 50/50."
Adds Douglas Cote, chief market strategist for Voya Investment Management: "Looming tax cuts will be icing on the cake."
5. U.S. companies with global reach in sweet spot
Companies such as Boeing, Apple and McDonald's that sell a lot of airplanes, smart phones and fast food abroad are benefiting from a profitable one-two punch of a weaker dollar and stronger foreign economies.
The weak dollar makes U.S. products cheaper when purchased with appreciating foreign currencies, and sales get an added boost from the fact shoppers around the world are doing better and have more money to spend.
Says Perkin: "We believe the U.S. equity market remains the best place to be."
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Retired Thrivent CEO to Deliver Valparaiso University Commencement Address
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On Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19, Valparaiso University will celebrate the class of 2019 through three commencement ceremonies, conferring degrees upon 707 undergraduate, 155 graduate and 76 law students.
The undergraduate keynote speaker is retired CEO of Thrivent Financial Bradford L. Hewitt, PMD.
“We are honored to welcome Mr. Hewitt to Valparaiso University to deliver our commencement address,” said Mark A. Heckler, Ph.D., president. “He is a passionate servant leader, empowered to lift others up, who will inspire our graduates to fulfill their vocation in the world with generosity.”
Hewitt recently retired as chief executive officer of Thrivent Financial, the country’s largest fraternal benefit society. A Fortune 500 organization, Thrivent leads a nationwide movement of Christians to be wise with money and live generously. Thrivent has more than two million members and manages about $150 billion in assets.
Hewitt began his career with Securian Financial in the actuarial department. He joined UnitedHealth Care (UHG) in financial underwriting, then went on to serve as CFO and CEO of Diversified Pharmaceutical Services (DPS). Following the sale and transition of DPS from UHG to SmithKline Beecham, Hewitt was called to be the chief administrative officer with the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod before serving at Thrivent.
Currently, Hewitt serves as vice chair of the board for Habitat for Humanity International. He also volunteers with the Itasca Project and UpWorks. Hewitt graduated from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a bachelor of science in mathematics, completed the Harvard Graduate School of Business program for management development and received an honorary doctorate of letters from Concordia University St. Paul. He also received the Hendrickson Medal of Honor for Ethical Leadership award from St. Mary’s University.
Visit the University’s commencement website for ceremony details and additional information.
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Lifestyle | 23 Jul 2009 | By Pei-Ru Keh
Lashes in Nature by Shu Uemura
To us, Shu Uemura’s false eyelashes are a veritable form of affordable art. Quintessential of the beauty label today, it’s hard to believe that the company’s fashion-forward ocular couture can be traced all the way back to 1964, with its renowned lash bars only being introduced in 2005.
See more of Shu Uemura’s latest false eyelashes - a veritable form of affordable art
Despite collaborating with wunderkinds like Viktor & Rolf to create statement-making collections in the past, this year Shu Uemura have opted to harness the creativity of its atelier and make-up artists instead. Inspired by Mother Nature, the resulting designs embody the wonder and beauty of the natural world.
International artistic director Kakuyasu Uchiide, who succeeded Shu Uemura after his death, has designed a pair of golden leaf-like lashes, each moulded from authentic leaf spines. Yuji Asano, international chief make-up artist, recreated the ocean’s rolling form with multiple curling layers of blue lashes, while U.S. artistic director Gina Brooke crafted peony petals from tiers of pink and speckled feathers. Definitely not for the introverted was Mina Matsumura’s rendition of a winter landscape. The European artistic director’s offering took the form of architectural white branches with clusters of crystals scattered along the delicate lower lashes.
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FEMA denies reimbursements for flood-damaged roads in Livingston and Iberville Parishes
1 year 3 months 4 days ago Wednesday, April 11 2018 Apr 11, 2018 April 11, 2018 6:08 PM April 11, 2018 in The Investigative Unit
By: Chris Nakamoto
ST. GABRIEL- FEMA has denied payments for flood-damaged roads following the August 2016 floods in Iberville and Livingston parishes. Both were hit hard by the flood.
According to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Livingston is currently appealing FEMA's decision. However, in Iberville Parish, multiple appeals were already denied.
"Disappointed," Iberville Parish President Mitch Ourso said. "I believe in the system, but it looks like the system failed us this time."
The denial letter states FEMA can't identify or quantify specific damage to the roadways.
Iberville requested $671,000 from FEMA following the disaster. Water sat for weeks on the roads causing problems to the road base. When requests were put in to get reimbursed, the denials came quickly.
"Really? $671,000. Really," Ourso said. "We didn't ask for six million or six billion. $671,000. So, we did it ourselves to let our people move on with their lives."
Romonda Anthony said she isn't happy with the way the feds handled the flood disaster.
"I feel that FEMA should have helped them," Anthony said.
In addition to Livingston and Iberville getting denials, two other parishes outside of our region also received denials from FEMA. They are currently in the appeals process also, according to GOHSEP.
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Several ongoing initiatives have started in the Volvo Group supporting better gender-equality. “This is about working towards a more gender-balanced culture and representation inside the Volvo Group; because, beyond being the right thing to do, we know that balance is better for our business, says Eric Way, Director of Diversity and Inclusion”.
Initiatives for an increased gender equality
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Several ongoing initiatives have started in the Volvo Group supporting better gender-equality.
“This is about working towards a more gender-balanced culture and representation inside the Volvo Group; because, beyond being the right thing to do, we know that balance is better for our business, says Eric Way, Director of Diversity and Inclusion”.
One example is Volvo Buses. They have started their journey to increase diversity and inclusion by giving it a higher focus on their strategic agenda to increase success in business performance and to become an even more attractive employer.
A unique action for Buses is to secure an inclusive and diverse work environment by setting a target to hire 50% women out of all newly employed people in their recruitments.
“We strive to have an open culture where people work together and share ideas. To keep us competitive we need people with different genders, age, nationalities, and cultures – simply different kinds of thinking. It's through our different experiences, backgrounds and thoughts that we create an unbeatable team”, says Håkan Agnevall President Volvo Buses.
More female project managers
There are also several initiatives ongoing in the Volvo Group’s global truck technology and product development organization, GTT, towards increased gender-equality. One of them is to increase the number of female project managers on the top vehicle projects within the organization. The purpose is to attract the talented women who are still hesitating to enter into project management career and also to increase the business performance.
”We think that increasing the number of women in project management is a way to increase the diversity of perspectives and by that to decrease the risks we could take in a project”, says Bruno Venturi, Vice President Project Office.
How to attract women
Other actions taken by the GTT organization is for example to address all stages of attracting and recruiting. They have looked into the process of how they attract women entering in the project managers pipeline, the job advertising, the selection process, the promotion and retention of talents and the trainings associated to each career step.
“We recruited some highly skilled women from targeted universities directly in project management positions. We also separately, started a study to better understand what could prevent women to start or to continue a project management career”, says Bruno Venturi.
This is how we work with diversity and inclusion.
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A trio of IoT success stories
Posted on 12 Jul 2018 by Jonny Williamson
From trains to sports, here are three real-world case studies of businesses leveraging smart, connected devices and advanced analytics to create competitive advantage, happier customers and new sources of revenue.
Entertainment, food & drink, retail, travel, all and more are now available at the click of a button – image courtesy of Depositphotos.
You can’t help but notice that the world around us has become far more connected. Information, entertainment, food and drink, banking, retail, travel and accommodation, all and more are now available at the click of a button, anyplace, anytime.
A similar change is happening across manufacturing and there is certainly no shortage of articles, features, videos and interviews eulogising the power and benefits of data and digital technologies.
Increasingly, however, manufacturers are searching for real-world case studies – from their industry and beyond – that demonstrate the significant returns available and get them thinking about possible applications in their own organisations.
Below, you’ll find exactly that.
Transforming the world of football with artificial intelligence
Dutch analytics startup, SciSports, takes real-time data and applies machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence to capture and analyse this information.
According to SciSports, traditional football data companies generate data only on players who have the ball, leaving everything else undocumented. Spotting a gap in the market, SciSports developed a real-time tracking camera system dubbed ‘BallJames’.
Traditional football data companies generate data only on players who have the ball, leaving everything else undocumented – image courtesy of Depositphotos.
BallJames automatically generates 3D data from video, with 14 cameras placed around the stadium recording every movement on the field. BallJames then generates data such as the precision, direction and speed of passing, sprinting strength and jumping height.
“This forms a complete picture of the game,” explains SciSports founder and CEO, Giels Brouwer. “The data can be used in lots of cool ways, from allowing fans to experience the game from any angle using virtual reality.”
The data can also help coaches on the bench better identify when a player is tiring, and the company’s SciSkill Index evaluates every professional football player in the world in one universal index.
“[We] use machine learning algorithms to calculate the quality, talent and value of more than 200,000 players. This helps clubs find talent, look for players that fit a certain profile and analyse their opponents,” Brouwer says.
Since its inception in 2012, SciSports have quickly become one of the world’s fastest-growing sports analytics companies. Brouwer says the versatility of the SAS Platform has been a major factor in its success.
“With SAS, we’ve got the ability to scale processing power up or down as needed, put models into production in real time, develop everything in one platform and integrate with open source.
“Our ambition is to bring real-time data analytics to billions of football fans all over the world. By partnering with SAS, we can make that happen,” Brouwer concludes.
Click here to go deeper into the SciSports story, including a video explaining how the company is helping transform player selection and talent scouting by leveraging SAS Viya, SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, SAS visual Analytics, and SAS Visual Statistics.
Keeping customers happy through predictive maintenance
When it comes to transportation, nothing frustrates passengers more than delays – especially unexpected ones. That’s why rail operates take every advantage possible to maximise their operations and keep customers happy.
Trains are in constant operation in all kinds of weather and conditions – image courtesy of Depositphotos.
In constant operation in all kinds of weather and conditions, it’s no surprise that a large portion of rail company’s operational costs go towards maintenance.
By leveraging analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT), state-owned Finnish railway operator, VR Group, has successfully moved from a traditional maintenance approach that focused on replacing parts as needed to a predictive regime.
Traditionally, VR Group approached maintenance in two ways. Major systems, like wheels and bogies, were covered in scheduled maintenance. Often, parts were being replaced when they still had a lot of life left.
The other method was to fix things, like doors, when they broke down. These were hard to forecast and could lead to missed routes and unhappy customers.
In recent years, VR Group has begun fitting sensors on various systems and subsystems to monitor symptoms of wear and potential other failures. However, the sensors themselves only collect the raw data. The real benefit comes from analysing that data, often in real-time, to allow engineers to take faster, more appropriate responses.
To add this level of intelligence to their operations, VR Group turned to SAS Analytics.
VR Group developed a predictive maintenance program that focuses on continuously monitoring the condition of parts. In this program, mathematical models predict when parts are likely to fail so that they can be replaced before they cause unplanned downtime.
By looking at sensor data, SAS Analytics gives VR Group a real-time overview of its 1,500-strong fleet.
By looking at new and historical data, SAS Analytics helps VR Group plan the maximum interval between certain maintenance events, such as turning wheels (on a lathe) or replacing the more than 30,000 wheel-and-axle sets found on every train.
Optimising work in this way has the potential to reduce the amount of maintenance by one-third, according to Kimmo Soini, senior vice president for maintenance at VR Group.
SAS Analytics also helps VR Group identify the root causes of failures, which can increase savings and improve the reliability of trains. Additionally, effective insight into IoT enables the railway company to minimise stock levels of spare parts and materials, keeping only what it needs on hand.
Click here to learn more about getting value from IoT data and how SAS Analytics is helping to build a connect world.
Are your perceptions of Industry 4.0 wrong?
Industry 4.0 is commonly understood as the trend towards automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including cyber-physical systems, IoT and cloud computing.
However, this is often misinterpreted to just mean the automation of basic physical and digital processes. <any manufacturers have already achieved this level automation and so, believing they’ve already cracked Industry 4.0, they stop innovating.
In reality, Industry 4.0 encompasses so much more. We define it as using data across your entire value chain and using that data to generate actionable insights which unlock cost savings or revenue growth.
Download our exclusive free eBook to learn how your business can use advanced analytics to expose the monetary value trapped in your data.
Improving healthcare outcomes thanks to IoT insights
In health care, analysing IoT data can result in increased uptime for cancer treatment machines, which means that more patients are treated when they are scheduled. If a treatment is missed, it can be up to 40% less effective, so reducing potential service interruptions is critical.
Elekta is a Swedish medical device manufacturer that provides equipment and clinical management to help treat people with cancer and brain disorders. Operating in the highly competitive medical device industry, Elekta has leveraged connectivity and smart devices to generate greater value for their customers, as well as new sources of revenue.
Over the past decade, Elekta has been reportedly using IoT to help differentiate its service business and optimise its field service.
By monitoring hundreds of sensors, identifying issues early and proactively correcting them, service personnel arrive on site armed with both the necessary information and parts needed. Elekta says that such monitoring has led to a 30% reduction in site visits.
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June 26, 2019 | Business & Finance
Interswitch Rewards Outstanding Customers, Sales Team
By Daniel Anomietei
Lagos, Nigeria, June 25, 2019: Interswitch Group, the pan-African digital payment company, recently honored its partners and employees, with various awards at the Interswitch Connect Sales Dinner and Awards night. The event took place at Balmoral Event Centre, Federal Palace Hotel and Casino, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The event was hosted to recognize the performances of members of staff and key partners who have contributed immensely to Interswitch’s successes over the past years.
In his opening remarks, Mitchell Elegbe, GMD/Founder of Interswitch said: “Today’s award ceremony is Interswitch’s token of appreciation of our Sales team and our customers who have contributed immeasurably to our strong corporate performance over the past year. We understand how the ripple effects of the efforts of an inspired few can positively affect the larger group, as such we hope to use this event to set up the awardees as character examples for the rest of the team to emulate.”
Pix from left ; Cherry Eromosele, Group Chief Marketing and Communication Officer; Chinyere Don-Okhuofu, Divisional CEO, Interswitch Network; Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Chairman, First Bank Nigeria and Guest Speaker; Mitchell Elegbe, GMD/CEO Interswitch and Mike Ogbalu, CEO, Verve at the 2019 Interswitch Connect Sales Dinner and Award night held at Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos recently…
Award recipients included: First Bank Plc, for 'Highest number of Verve transacting cards; Lagos State, for 'State with highest disbursement'; and Kaduna State, for highest collections in the Northern region among others.
Chinyere Don-Okhuofu, Divisional CEO, Interswitch Networks, in her closing remarks said: “I want to remind the awardees that the reward for hard work is more work. So I urge them to continue to put their best feet forward always.
A key aspect of the event was a keynote address by Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria. She spoke on the topic: Driving the Growth of Africa’s Digital Economy. Awosika listed some of the opportunities available on the African continent and the role technology companies can play in maximizing them. She also commended Interswitch for demonstrating the capabilities of an African company.
It was a night of glamour, fun, food and wine. Guests were thrilled with entertaining performances from different artistes such as Adekunle Gold, The little magnets, Kaffy, Laffup and DJ Neptune.
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Amelia Lily to replace Marcus Collins in Joseph tour
Amelia Lily will replace Marcus Collins as the Narrator from February 17. Photo: Featureflash
by David Hutchison - Feb 10, 2015
Former X Factor finalist Amelia Lily will replace Marcus Collins in a touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Collins, who was due to play the Narrator, left the production last week on the same day it was due to open at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham.
Lily will take on the role from February 17. Until then, the part is being played by Rebekah Lowings.
The musical, which stars Lloyd Daniels as Joseph and Matt Lapinskas as Pharaoh, will tour until June 6, visiting venues including Theatre Royal Bath, Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre and Winding Wheel in Chesterfield.
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The One That Never Was!
This Friends scene was ditched after 9/11 because of a joke Chandler made about a bomb on a plane
Originally he and Monica were detained at the airport on the way to their honeymoon but producers cut it fearing it was too insensitive
by hayley richardson
9 Aug 2016, 12:55
Updated: 9 Aug 2016, 13:43
WE never tire of hearing juicy Friends facts, and this is a real goody.
You may already be aware of this if you have the complete box-set, but several scenes were cut from a 2001 episode due to air soon after 9/11 because of a joke about a bomb on a plane.
In The One Where Rachel Tells Ross from Series 9, Monica and Chandler head off on their honeymoon.
In the version that aired, the couple become jealous as another set of newlyweds constantly beat them to perks and freebies, like an upgrade on the plane.
But the original storyline for the episode, which would have hit screens two weeks after the September 11th terrorist attack, was very different.
The original storyline featured Chandler making a joke about a bomb on a planeCredit: YouTube
He'd spotted a sign at security which said jokes about hijacking and bombing were prohibitedCredit: YouTube
Monica and Chandler received a first class upgrade on the plane (after the check-in girl sniggered at their surname) but were stopped at security when Chandler made a joke about taking a bomb on the plane.
Having spotted a sign saying "no joking about bombs", he couldn't resist quipping: "You don't have to worry about me ma'am, I take my bombs very seriously."
The couple were then escorted away by security staffCredit: YouTube
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Immediately security guards pounced and he and Monica were marched off for questioning.
Following the horrific events of 9/11, the producers decided it would be far too insensitive to air the episode in its original form and did a hasty re-write.
The deleted scene surfaced online in 2007 when it was uploaded to YouTube.
Monica and Chandler were taken into a room for questioningCredit: YouTube
At the beginning of the clip, a note from the producers reads: "As part of the history of the show, we hope that the scenes can now be viewed in the spirit which they were originally intended."
One YouTube community member commented on the video, which has clocked up more than seven million views, writing: "Man this is WAY better than what they put in the actual show, but I can see why they replaced it."
Another admitted: "It was funny, but I understand why it was replaced. Could be seen as quite offensive back then."
The deleted scenes are currently doing the viral rounds again, so we thought we'd offer it up here for your enjoyment.
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Katie Price is considering hiring a prostitute for disabled son Harvey when he turns 18 so he can experience sex – before Loose Women mysteriously cuts out due to ‘technical difficulties’
Former glamour girl has admitted she wants her disabled son to have an intimate experience with a woman
By Louise Randell
KATIE Price is considering hiring a prostitute for her disabled son Harvey when he turns 18.
The former glamour girl revealed she wants the teenager to be able to experience sex, but the candid chat was interrupted by technical difficulties.
Katie Price has revealed she is considering hiring a prostitute for son HarveyCredit: ITV
Katie, 39, made the admission on Loose Women today, revealing she has discussed the issue with her husband Kieran Hayler.
Harvey, 15, suffers from a number of medical conditions, including autism, and Katie fears he may never be able to form a real relationship with a woman.
She admits he has normal sexual urges so the star and her partner Kieran have talked about whether they should hire a professional to allow Harvey to have sex.
Katie insisted it would not happen until the teenager turns 18.
She said: "Kieran said: 'Shall we get him a prostitute when he turns 18?' I said, 'But that's my little Harvey and I don't want to do that!'
"What do I do? Do I leave it? Or do I let him experience it?"
Katie wants Harvey to experience sexCredit: Instagram
Harvey is registered blind and suffers from a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia, which affects the development of his optic nerve.
He also suffers from Prader–Willi syndrome and finds walking difficult.
She told the Loose Women panel about the conversations she's been having with Kieran about her son after author Kathy Lette made an appearance on the show to discuss her autistic son Jules.
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The writer has previously admitted she thought about hiring a prostitute for her son before he found a girlfriend himself, and Katie said that Jules is on the "higher end of the spectrum" while Harvey is not so high functioning.
She said: "My son Harvey has autism, and he's just hit puberty, and it's obviously natural to experiment with yourself during puberty.
"He [Jules] has high function autism, so he's [Harvey is] at the opposite end... and I'm like, 'Is it fair to let him go without?'"
Kathy's son Jules then started talking about his own experiences, but he only managed to get a few words out before the show's sound disappeared and it went off-air.
Viewers were informed there were "technical difficulties" and it returned to screens after a few minutes.
Viewers were left with an error message on the screenCredit: ITV
Kathy later returned to the panel to talk about her son, and she said: "I did consider hiring a prostitute for him, but luckily he found a girlfriend.
"Kerb crawling is illegal. So how do you address this? These kids are often cast off into Siberia - they are so lonely...
"I thought it might lift up his self-esteem."
The issue was featured in 2012 film The Sessions which starred Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate hired to help a disabled man lose his virginity.
Katie discussed the issue with her husband Kieran HaylerCredit: Instagram
Kathy Lette was on the show with her son JulesCredit: ITV
Katie's news comes after she hit back at critics who call her a bad mum.
The mum-of-five is frequently criticised on social media for her mothering skills and she was slammed this week for showing her two-year-old daughter her glamour modelling shots during reality show My Crazy Life.
Defiant Katie told Now! magazine: “Listen, there are a lot of parents with four-year-olds who still have dummies – I don’t complain.
“My kids are dirty, they’re feral, they’re very happy and they enjoy life.
Harvey has autism as well as a number of other conditions, including problems with his eyesCredit: Instagram
“I don’t give a s*** what anybody says about my mothering skills.
“If anyone wants to complain about how I raise my kids they need to get a life.”
In the opening episode of her new reality show Katie put on a sexual display with her husband Kieran Hayler in front of her young children, and also let him “honk” her boobs.
Katie is mum to five kids - Harvey, Princess, Junior, Bunny and JettCredit: Instagram
Katie also forgot the ages of her kids, called them all “d***heads” and let Bunny stuff mud into her mouth.
Viewers were most shocked by a scene where Katie and Kieran cleared out belongings from Katie’s “old life” with the help of her children.
After taking out items such as baby mobiles and books, Kieran declared: “Babes, what’s this doing in there?”
He held up a graphic nude portrait of Katie from her glamour modelling days as her children looked on gob-smacked.
Princess, nine, shouted “What is that?” as she ran over to hide the poster from her baby sister Bunny.
Harvey was born in 2002 after Katie's relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke – who denied paternity until the glamour girl proved it with a DNA test.
Son Junior and daughter Princess were born in June 2005 and June 2007, during her marriage to Peter Andre.
Since marrying Kieran, she has had a third boy, Jett, born in August 2013, and Bunny, born in August 2014.
The Sessions explained
What was the movie about and what are sex surrogates?
The 2012 film starred Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate who is hired to help a disabled man lose his virginity.
She plays Cheryl Cohen-Greene who helps poet Mark O'Brien, played by John Hawkes, fulfil his sexual needs after he is paralysed from the neck down due to complications from polio.
The movie is based on a true story after Mark described his experiences with sex surrogate Cheryl in a magazine article.
It received critical acclaim and Helen landed an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Sex surrogates are used as a part of therapy for some people with disabilities or sexual dysfunction, but it is a controversial practice and is illegal in some regions.
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Young Penzance Dancer awarded prestigious national scholarship
Penzance dance student awarded prestigious professional dance scholarship
By Jack Warrick
Jago, centre left, with other dancers and judges.
A local Penzance dancer has earned a scholarship to the prestigious Addict Dance Academy in Leicester.
Jago Mottart, of Big Dance Company was awarded the fully funded scholarship after impressing a panel of internationally acclaimed judges at the All Styles competition in early November.
Jago was told in front of a packed-out crowd that he had been selected for the prize based upon his performances throughout Encore Weekend 2018, which saw over a thousand young dancers take part in a weekend-long event.
It was the first year that the event offered scholarships to winning dancers, and Jago was the male dancer chosen for the Judge’s Choice Award. He will now have the opportunity to train professionally and Addict alumni have previously gone on to dance for the likes of Ed Sheeran, MTV and the X Factor among others.
Fiona Richardson has trained Jago since the age of seven and was pleased for her student. “Jago is a great role model in our dance company,” she said.
“His attention to detail and choices he makes as an artist are unique and personal. In every single class he takes, whether it’s ballet or hip-hip, Jay works at the same level with respect and passion.”
Despite Jago’s departure from the Big Dance Company, Fiona insists she and the company are excited for his future. “I am going to be so sad when he leaves, but so proud,” she said. “I cannot wait to see where this journey will take him, and we are behind him all the way.”
Jago was also awarded several medals and trophies throughout the competition and drew the attention of judges and Addict representatives.
“My eyes, as well as others, were drawn to Jago,” said Jennifer Mitchell, Addict representative. “He showed his capability in a variety of styles. This young dancer doesn’t shy away from his height.”
Without support, aspiring dancers can often expect to pay around £10,000 a year in fees and more for accommodation, travel for auditions and call backs for places. With new scholarships in place however, more young dancers will get the opportunity to advance their careers to a professional level.
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Texas may have the most interesting history of any U.S. state. It's been a part of six different nations - Spain, France, the United States, the Confederate States, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas. That's right! From 1836-1845, Texas was its own nation!
Texas became the 28th state admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845. It is the second-largest state in the United States after Alaska. One ranch in Texas, the King Ranch, is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.
The state's natural resources include oil, sheep, cotton, and cattle. Texas has more cattle than any other state - nearly 12 million - and is known for the Texas Longhorn cattle native to the state. This breed has horns that can grow as long as 6-7 feet long from tip to tip.
The state is also known for its beautiful bluebonnet flowers. These hardy flowers are native to Texas and are usually in bloom from late-April to early-May.
Austin is the capital of Texas, which is known as the Lone Star State. Its state flag is a single blue star over horizontal bars of white and red. The flag's color symbolization is as follows:
Red - courage
White - liberty
Blue - loyalty
See what else you and your students can discover about Texas with the following free printables and coloring pages.
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This vocabulary activity will introduce students to things associated with Texas. Children should use the Internet or a resource book about Texas to look up each word and determine its significance to the state. Children will discover what an armadillo is and identify the type of cattle that thrive in Texas' ecosystem.
Texas Wordsearch
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Children can work on their vocabulary and learn some new words with this word search puzzle. They will search for the Texas-related words connected to landmarks, plant life, livestock, and more.
Texas Crossword Puzzle
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Children who love puzzles will enjoy sharpening their vocabulary and problem-solving skills with this Texas-themed crossword. Each clue describes a term related to the Lone Star State.
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See how well your students remember what they've learned about Texas with this challenge worksheet. They should choose the correct answer for each description from the four multiple choice options.
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Younger children can use this activity to strengthen their thinking skills and practice alphabetizing words while reviewing the terms associated with Texas. Students should write each word in correct alphabetical order.
Texas Draw and Write
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This activity is designed to spark your child's creativity and encourages both written and visual engagement. Your child can draw a picture depicting something they've learned about Texas. Then, he will use the blank lines to write about or describe the picture.
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The Texas state bird is the mockingbird. Mockingbirds are known for their ability to mimic the call of other birds. They can learn up to 200 different calls. Mockingbirds have grey bodies with a white underside. Pairs mate for life.
The bluebonnet is the Texas state flower. They get their name from the fact that their petals are shaped like a pioneer woman's bonnet.
Texas Coloring Page - Longhorn
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A Texas Longhorn is a classic image of Texas. These hearty descendants of cattle brought to the New World by Spanish colonists can be found in a variety of colors, with red and white being predominant.
Texas Coloring Page - Big Bend National Park
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Big Bend National Park is one of Texas' most well-known parks. The park, which is over 800,000 acres, is bordered by the Rio Grande on the south and is the only U.S. park to feature an entire mountain range.
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France's Fête des Lumières Is a Light Festival Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen
By Meredith Balkus Published On 02/03/2017
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Fête des Lumières
Paris may be the City of Light, but you need to head further south to witness France's greatest illuminated achievement: Lyon's "Fête des Lumières." Grab un stylo and take notes: You'll want to add this beautiful, historic festival of lights to your 2017 travel bucket list.
The festival is held annually on December 8, but its origin dates back to 1852 and beyond. It all started in 1643 as an homage to the Virgin Mary: The Bubonic plague swept through the south of France, wreaking havoc and killing thousands of people. Lyon was no exception and the city's officials prayed to the Virgin Mary, promising to honor her if the epidemic ceased. Miraculously enough, it eventually did -- and it even worked again in 1832, as the Holy Mother is credited with sparing the city from deadly cholera.
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Grateful, the city began constructing a statue of the Virgin Mary, one that would stand on top of the bell tower of the Fourvière Basilica overlooking the town below. The installation was planned for September 8, 1852, but divine intervention struck -- this time in the form of a flood. The River Saône overflowed and the event was postponed until December 8, which was also problematic thanks to a horrendous storm. Undeterred by the inclement weather, the Lyonnais waited for the storm to let up and placed lanterns in their windows in lieu of the cancelled fireworks. The spontaneous celebration caught on, became an annual occurrence, and took on even more significance when the Catholic church decreed December 8 the Feast of the Immaculate Conception two years later. And the rest, as they say, was history.
Nowadays? You'll still see candles twinkling in windowsills, but the festival has become a technological wonder in recent years -- one featuring over 70 professional light installations, massive illuminated sculptures, interactive displays, and contemporary performance art. An estimated 3 to 4 million people attend each year, gathering in the streets to admire the swirling, colorful projections transform building façades into psychedelic animations.
Arboré'lum - Erik Barray | Muriel Chaulet/Ville de Lyon
The Fête is a three-day long affair, so you might want to sell that Coachella ticket and start saving up for this instead. In the meantime, you can learn more about the festival here.
Meredith Balkus est la rédactrice de la page d'accueil pour Thrillist Video, mais vous pouvez la trouver à Lyon à cette époque l'année prochaine. Suivez-la @meredithbalkus.
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The beauty, the stunning views and the bushfire fuel of the high country ready to roar
By Darren Gray
Updated April 8, 2015 — 12.10pm first published April 5, 2015 — 12.15am
A gusty north wind blows over Mount Buller, sweeps across the Howqua Valley and rushes through the skeletal remains of a mass of burnt alpine ash and snow gum trees clinging to the north face of the Bluff Range.
As it blows across the alpine meadow on top of the range, the wind pushes the tall grass over to a 45 degree angle, and generates an unmistakeable rustling noise as it sweeps through the crowns of the gnarly old snow gums.
Charlie Lovick used to play bush cricket here, high up on the roof of Victoria in the Great Dividing Range. The players were either high country horse riders or mountain cattlemen.
He hasn't played cricket here, at an elevation of about 1500 metres in the Alpine National Park, for many years, but Lovick remembers the hit-outs well. Sitting on horseback as he faces the remarkable view of Mount Buller, the Crosscut Saw and other spectacular peaks, Lovick says the meadow looks different today.
Cattle woman Kellie Lovick gallops past "King Billy" an ancient Snowgum in Victoria's Alpine National Park. Credit:Jason South
"In the days of cattle grazing this would be like a lawn - you could play cricket here - an inch or two long and beautifully green all summer," he says.
But today much of the grass is half a metre or so tall and dying off. On this windy autumn day the meadow resembles a golden, mature wheat field more than a lawn.
If the grassland ignited during a bushfire it would carry a "flash fire", Lovick says, and send flames into the canopy of the stunning snow gums. The gums here, well above the snowline, are about three or four metres tall, and many have branches that stretch down and nearly touch the grass.
This is one of Lovick's greatest fears for the high country - that fire could wipe out the snow gums that stand on the slopes and tops of the mountain peaks, leaving behind "bald hills" where the tallest thing standing is grass.
Charlie Lovick in Victoria's Alpine National Park. Credit:JasonSouth
"It's not just the Lovick run that's under threat, it's the whole of our alpine region that's now got a fuel load that's so severe, that the damage done by the next fire, and believe me there will be one, will devastate the whole of the high country...One of our great values is our magnificent old growth Snow Gum forests, and we want them protected," he says.
In winter, these gums are covered in snow, but at this time of year, striking autumn colours emerge in the trees. Some of the branches are now a blazing mix of copper, gold and bronze. These trees, including the ancient King Billy Tree, are just one of the many magnificent natural features of the park.
Cattleman Charlie Lovick gets "Clyde" ready for work in Victoria's Alpine National Park. Credit:Jason South
Lovick, his daughter Kellie and fellow mountain cattleman Bruce McCormack, are guiding Fairfax Media and Nationals MPs Peter Walsh and Stephanie Ryan on horseback through the alps to see first-hand the state of the park.
We see panoramic vistas of distant alps, deep valleys and jagged ridges that leave you breathless, towering alpine ash trees and a stunning blue alpine sky.
But as we traverse a steep rocky trail we also see blackberries, while at other points we see other weeds, including metre high scotch thistles that graze the horses as we pass.
In two days on horseback, the only buildings we pass are a couple of alpine huts. Yet at night-time we see the glow of a mini alpine city across the valley and on top of Mount Buller.
In the area of the park that used to form the Lovick family's alpine grazing lease the cattlemen lead us to a bog on the mountain known as King Billy Number 1. The water is clear, but red mud wraps around much of the edge.
Carved into the mud are some days old, undisturbed footprints. The culprit, says Lovick, is a deer.
Back on the King Billy Track, a different culprit has left its imprint on a steep slope rising to the side. The wheels of a four-wheel-drive have gouged ruts in the earth, presumably so that its inhabitants could enjoy the amazing views from a higher vantage point than provided by the track, without leaving their seat.
But elsewhere, at various remote points, campers with four-wheel-drives are enjoying their holidays and respecting the park.
With the hooves rising and falling steadily Lovick points to the right of the rocky track. "This bush is now what we call dirty bush. It's got a build-up of fuel through dead-fall timber, it's come down in storms and it's quite heavy in fuel...I'd only burn select areas like this and reduce the fuel load, even to a small degree (and it) would probably save the crowns of these snow gums in a heavy fire," he says, of one area where the fuel load is noticeably higher than elsewhere.
A decade has passed since the Victorian Parliament passed legislation banning cattle grazing in the park, but cattlemen like Lovick and McCormack haven't given up hope that one day cattle could return.
Last month the State Government introduced a bill, which, if it passes parliament would ban any form of cattle grazing (including a "scientific trial" of grazing) in the Alpine and River Red Gum national parks. At the time Environment Minister Lisa Neville said grazing was detrimental to the environment and had no value in cutting bushfire risk or fuel loads in the alpine region. She said the government had "acted so that alpine grazing will never happen again."
But Lovick, president of the Mountain Cattlemen's Association, wants the bill withdrawn and the scientific trial of grazing in the Wonnangatta Valley introduced by the previous government reinstated. "There's no doubt in my mind and I hope to be able to prove it, that cattle contribute, they don't destroy," he says.
"I'm not saying that cattle (grazing) will completely stop fire, we've never said that and never will. It's just one of those simple management tools we can use to reduce the intensity of our fires."
Scientific research over 50 years has shown grazing cattle destroys alpine bogs and other pristine natural attributes of the bushland, contributing to reduced water quality, erosion, threatened species and the spread of weeds.
A state government inquiry into the 2003 bushfires, which burnt 60 per cent of the national park and 77 per cent of the grazed area, found there was no evidence grazing prevented bushfires.
New South Wales banned cattle grazing in parks in the 1960s.
Darren Gray
Darren is the mining and agribusiness reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Facebook Is Making Friends with Sociologists
Facebook is holding a conference exclusively for academics this summer, right before the American Sociological Association 2014 Annual Meeting.
Polly Mosendz
Facebook is holding a conference exclusively for academics this August, right before the American Sociological Association 2014 Annual Meeting. The social network is planning on running shuttles between the Sociological conference in San Francisco and their headquarters in Menlo Park. On the itinerary for the Facebook event is teaching researchers how to use Facebook's data tools, providing demos of the tools and software stack.
In an exclusive document obtained by Venture Beat, Facebook says the academic meeting focuses on "techniques related to data collection with the advent of social media and increased interconnectivity across the world." Peter Brandon and Michael Corey are organizing this show. Brandon is a sociology professor at the University of Albany and Corey is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago.
Corey has been working at Facebook since last summer as a quantitative researcher. The team he works on helps Facebook expand to developing nations. By expanding Facebook's presence, Corey and his team help Facebook sell more advertising.
Venture Beat wisely points out that sociologists "enjoy an anti-capitalism reputation." But the data Facebook has might be worth giving up a little bit of their rep. Facebook has 802 million daily active users, sharing, liking, posting — and generating the kind of data that sociologists need for their studies.
There is also an added authenticity to the data. Laura Nelson, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, said, “So I give you a survey you fill it out, which is very artificial. Whereas ethnography, as soon as you walk into the room, you change that room, because you are a foreign presence. There’s a scientist in the room. People get self-conscious. They don’t act naturally.”
But Facebook is much more natural: “It has no artificial construct, you are not bringing people to the lab,” Nelson said, “So you are recording social interaction in real time as it occurs completely naturally.”
So the sociologists have something to gain by attending the event. Facebook wants their insight, sociologists want their data, and soon we might see more and more academics flocking to corporate America.
Polly Mosendz is a former associate editor at The Atlantic.
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The Mates Deck
The North Coast
Spa By The Sea
(707) 964-2402 1111 N. MAIN STREET, FORT BRAGG CA 95437
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Wildlife and Birdwatching on The Mendocino Coast
From wave-battered headlands and quiet tidepools & estuaries to specatcular redwood forests and valleys, California’s world-famous scenery is a haven for wildlife. The diversity of habitats and wildlife species here are the greatest in the United States.
California WHALES are among the most spectacular natural wonders of Northern California. In March of every year, The Fort Bragg and Mendocino Whale Festivals offer Whale Watching Charters which are enjoyed by many coastal visitors and locals alike. These spectacular Charters are available year-round, and are offered by sea and by air.
California SEA OTTERS can be seen at many locations throughout the coast. This cute, furry, charismatic species, once hunted to near extinction, is now protected and flourishes in pacific waters.
Families of HARBOR SEALS can be seen just offshore, lounging on rocks and sunning themselves in large lumbering groups. Once described as “fins out, belly up and having too much of a good time,” these photogenic creatures are ever a delight to inquisitive groups of coastal visitors. Harbor seals can be seen, of course, at North and South Noyo Harbor, as well as from most other shore locations.
During peak annual migration periods, hundreds of thousands of BIRDS migrating along the Pacific Flyway descend upon our coastal wetlands in search of refuge and food. Birds include gulls, eagles, hawks, owls, peregrine falcon, osprey, and a variety of shore birds and waterfowl along the coast. Among the best of coastal viewing locations is MacKerricker State Park.
Where to See Coastal Wildlife
The Beachcomber Motel “Where The Ocean Is Our Backyard”
Russian Gulch State Park
Jug Handle State Reserve
Caspar Headlands State Reserve
Caspar Headlands State Beach
Mendocino Headlands State Park
Birds, birding, birdwatching — it’s the most popular hobby activity in the world. The Mendocino Coast provides world-class birding opportunities at many locations with lush habitats and scenic havens just waiting for discovery. With a local chapter in The Mendocino Coast, The Audubon Society holds walks and presentations frequently in the area, such as at The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
Noyo Sunset Bird Paddle! from Liquid Fusion Kayaking – A favorite of bird enthusiasts, paddle on a mellow, evening meandering paddle of the Noyo Harbor and River. Enjoy a relaxing pace (or lack of pace), soft evening lighting while viewing many species of wild coastal birds all from a kayak.
Enjoy bird watching outside The Beachcomber Motel …on the Ten Mile California Coastal Trail, part of MacKerricher State Park and just steps from your door at The Beachcomber Motel, on the Pacific Ocean!
More Birding information:
Coastal Bird Walks
Mendocino Coast Audubon Society
The California Audubon Society
Peregrine Audubon Society
The American Birding Association
Birding on the Net
Towhee.net
Bird Watching Guide – Thanks Alyssa!
Hilights of Popular Coastal Birding Locations:
COAST BOTANICAL GARDENS
Birdwatching with the Audubon Society. Over 100 species of birds live in or visit the Gardens each year. Learn more about our avian friends. Early Bird Walks – third Wednesdays, 8:30 am, Beginning Birding Walks – first Saturdays, 9 am, Birdwatching Walks
MC Audubon Society
Osprey,ring-necked and mallard ducks, and great blue herons are some of the birds found year-round at the lake, which also serves as a resting habitat for migrating waterfowl.
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PUDDING CREEK
Across from the pudding creek trestle and The Beachcomber Motel, a Pudding Creek kayak or canoe trip offers a wealth of wildlife and birding opportunities. For water craft rentals call 1-800-331-8884
At Mendocino Headlands State Park, Big River provides a world of nature and birding possibilities for inquisitive bird enthusiasts — on foot from the beaches and bluffs, or from the river. For water craft rentals call 1-800-331-8884.
There are many parks and scenic locations on the Mendocino Coast. Visit our Area Parks section with a wealth of information and links.
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Supporting Buy Local
Shrewsbury caravan company donates holidays to raise money for charities
Holidays donated by Shrewsbury’s award-winning caravan dealership Salop Leisure have helped to raise thousands of pounds for two charities.
The Shrewsbury-based company donated a week’s holiday at Min y Don Holiday Home and Touring Park in Harlech, which was auctioned at a Musical Evening at the Wynnstay Hotel, Oswestry in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Thousands Raised
The event and other fundraising activities organised by former Marie Curie nurse Enid Thomas from Oswestry helped raise £5,500 for the charity. The holiday at the five star caravan park was purchased by Huw Howatson from Rhewl, near Ruthin.
Nurse Expresses Gratitude
Mrs Thomas, who was a Marie Curie nurse for 15 years and a community nurse focused on palliative care for 35 years, said she was very grateful to Salop Leisure and other auction lot donors.
“It was very generous donation by Salop Leisure and there was a huge response to the holiday,” she said.
Salop Leisure also donated a week’s holiday at a five star holiday home on the Cambrian Coast, which was auctioned at a charity event held at Westbury Village Hall. The holiday was purchased by Gordon and Fran Potter.
Fundraising Divided
The event, organised by Tudor and Patricia Bebb, raised £7,000, which was divided between the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital’s Haematology Unit and the National Amyloidosis Centre at the Royal Free Hospital, London. Both charities are close to the hearts of Mr and Mrs Bebb, as they have received treatment at the units.
Mr Bebb said he and his wife were overwhelmed by the generosity of companies, including Salop Leisure and individuals who had donated and bid for 51 auction items. Other lots included four tickets to a Manchester United match with hospitality and a holiday in France.
Tony Bywater, Salop Leisure’s chairman, said the company was delighted to support the two excellent charity fundraising events and was sure the two successful bidders would enjoy their holidays at the five star caravan parks.
For further information please call Salop Leisure on 01743 282400.
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Man with knife forces way onto Arkansas school bus
JACKSONVILLE — Authorities say a man armed with a knife forced his way onto a school bus as it picked up children in central Arkansas, then drove it several miles during a police pursuit.
Police say 11 children and the driver were aboard when 22-year-old Nicholas John Miller got onto the bus Thursday morning in Jacksonville, a Little Rock suburb.
Jacksonville police spokeswoman April Kiser says Miller was armed with a knife and pulled over only after seeing police spike strips on the road.
Kiser says no one was injured. She says it's unclear why Miller boarded the bus.
Miller was arrested on charges of vehicle piracy, kidnapping and aggravated assault. He hadn't been booked in the county jail by Thursday afternoon, and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.
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Rally in Solidarity with the Syrian People in Idlib
Report (with Pictures and Videos) from a Rally in Vienna on 08 September 2018, Austrian Section of the RCIT, www.rkob.net and www.thecommunists.net
Dozens of Syrian migrants assembled in the centre of Vienna in solidarity with the Syrian people in Idlib who currently face the most brutal terror by the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian masters. Idlib is the last enclave still liberated by the Syrian people who started to rise up against the Assad tyranny in March 2011.
The Austrian section of the RCIT was invited to attend and speak at the rally. We participated with a delegation, and our comrade Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the RCIT, addressed those gathered. (See the video below) He emphasized the solidarity of the RCIT with the Syrian people in Idlib. He condemned the Assad tyranny as well as Russian imperialism. He also warned against any initiative to disarm the freedom fighters or to capitulate.
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Brewdog has opened a bar in Canary Wharf that accepts bitcoin
22nd October, 2018 by Edith Hancock
Craft beer giant Brewdog has made geared its latest London bar opening towards the financial district’s fintech obsessives, opening a site in Canary Wharf that not only accepts bitcoin, but alters its beer mark-ups based on FTSE 100 movements.
The brewer, which opened its Canary Wharf pub on Friday, has also released a new draft beer, for which the price correlates with the movement of the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index.
An electronic dot matrix above the bar will relays the latest day’s trading results, which then determines how much the beer will cost.
The site, which is Brewdog’s second cashless bar in London, is also the company’s first to accept payments in Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
BrewDog expects to expand cashless and cryptocurrency payments across its fleet of global bars in the near future, according to an emailed statement.
Brewdog is not the first company to consider pricing its drinks based on the financial market’s fluctuation. Entrepreneurs Alan Grant and Glenn Burgess opened Reserve Bar Stock Exchange, which priced all of its drinks based on the London Stock Exchange, on Gresham Street in London’s Square Mile back in 2015.
The bar gave drinks including a pint of beer and 175ml glass of wine basic mark-ups, but then created an algorithm which would follow their rate of purchase throughout the evening. The more popular a drink became, the more punters would have to pay to get one. Likewise, if a particular drink wasn’t selling, its price would crash.
Reflecting on the City bar, which eventually closed, Burgess told the drinks business the technology to make the pricings work was a “nightmare.”
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Kopparberg adds to spirits range with purple Mixed Fruit Gin
31st May, 2019 by Edith Hancock
Swedish cider brand Kopparberg has launched its second spirit inspired by its range of fruity ciders with a Mixed Fruit Gin, less than a month after breaking into the spirits category for the first time.
Kopparberg’s 37.5% ABV flavoured gin will be available only in Asda from 4 June for a limited period only, priced at £20 per 70cl bottle.
The drinks brand entered the spirits category for the first time earlier in May with the launch of a Strawberry and Lime Pink Gin, taking inspiration from Kopparberg’s best-selling cider flavour.
“It’s not been long since we announced our first foray into the gin market with our Strawberry & Lime flavour Kopparberg Premium Gin, and following such an enormous welcome response, we are even more delighted to tell our customers that they can soon get their hands on another variant,” Rob Salvesen, Kopparberg’s head of marketing, said.
Salvesen said using the brand’s Mixed Fruit Cider for the flavour “came as the next obvious choice as it is our second most-loved fruit cider flavour, and we wanted to offer gin-lovers more than just one option when it came to choosing a pink gin.”
Similar to the Pink Gin in style, Kopparberg’s new product uses purple shades to reflect the darker fruit colours and notes in the Mixed Fruit gin.
As well as moving up in ABV with its gin launches, Kopparberg has also diversified its product range by launching “alcohol-infused sparkling water” brand Balans in the UK’s retail sector earlier this year, to capitalise on the growth of low-sugar drinks.
Balans, which comes in two flavours (mandarin and lime) is produced in a similar way to cider, fermented from an apple juice base to break down sugar into alcohol, which provides a “low-calorie alcohol base”, according to the brand.
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Wolfram|Alpha goes Pro
By admin SEO
Wolfram goes premium
A string of advanced features has been added to a platform that provides data-driven alternatives to Google - but only for paid subscribers.
Wolfram|Alpha, which was touted as the future of search when it launched in 2009, has kept a low profile in recent months. Perhaps the most notable achievement was when it struck a deal to integrate Wolfram|Alpha into Bing. However, the company has now lifted the lid on what it describes in an official blog post as "the biggest single step in the development of Wolfram|Alpha since its original introduction" - Wolfram|Alpha Pro.
The Pro version costs $4.99 (£3.15) per month, although a trial version is free, and enables users to log into Wolfram|Alpha for the first time. Once signed in, they can personalise the service by setting their location, viewing search history and choosing favourites.
In-depth analysis with Wolfram|Alpha Pro
On the Pro version, it is possible to download the raw data powering Wolfram|Alpha's results in more than 60 formats, including basics like tables and graphs, as well as more advanced modelling like 3D geometry and sound data. Subscribers can also make use of image processing and image analysis tools on their results. And they can get Wolfram|Alpha to automatically analyse data and produce a report of the key findings, which might include a mix of charts, graphics, tables and written conclusions depending on the query.
Mark Baker, online marketing manager at theEword, said: "Wolfram|Alpha has a small but highly engaged user base that values its ability to return high-quality data. So far, the service has proven particularly popular with scientists and researchers, but its close relationship with Bing means developments at Wolfram|Alpha could well be a sign of things to come in mainstream search."
Wolfram|Alpha describes itself as a 'computational knowledge engine'. Unlike traditional search engines, which produce search results based on metrics such as keywords and inbound link quality, Wolfram|Alpha tries to provide definitive answers by mining complex datasets for information.
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This Week in Weather 4/1/17-4/7/17
April 7, 2017 October 2, 2017 | by Kathryn Prociv, Meteorological Content Producer
Weather was wild this week! There were severe storms, snowfall, heavy rain, and everything in between. Check out the stats from this week in weather:
More than 80 severe wind reports on Sunday April 2, the highest of which was 70 mph in southeast Texas.
Frequent and dangerous lightning lit up the night of April 2. At the peak, there were nearly 7,000 lightning strikes in 15 minutes, up to 200 strikes per minute, which equates to 3 strikes per second!
Del Rio, TX saw 5.49″ of rain on April 2. Not only was this a daily record, but also their wettest April day on record, 9th wettest calendar day, and now already 4th wettest April.
Alexandria, LA: 8.96″ of rain at Alexandria, LA on April 2 is the 2nd wettest April day on record, and the wettest since 10.18″ in 1953. They saw 3 straight hours of 2″+/hour rainfall rates
Jackson, MS measured 2.29″ of rain in 35 minutes at Jackson Int’l ASOS station on April 3.
Through 11:06 PM on Wednesday April 5, Atlanta, GA was up to 4.24″.The only other April calendar day that’s had more rain was 4/13/1979 with 4.44″.
77 mph recorded on the summit of Mt. Diablo, CA at 10:15 p.m on Thursday April 6.
What was weather like for you this week? Did you experience severe weather, snow, sunny skies, or something completely different?
This Week in Weather 1/20/18-1/26/18
This Week in Weather 12/30/17-1/5/18
2lookingup says:
Where was all that lightning on April 2? That must have been an Awesome show!
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Accommodation | Activities | Restaurants | Business Directory
Riebeek Kasteel is a small town situated in the West Coast region of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Geography and History
Riebeek Kasteel is in the Riebeek Valley on the slopes of the Kasteelberg (Castle) Mountain, a 946m high solitary rock of Table Mountain sandstone.
Riebeek Kasteel is one of the oldest towns in South Africa, situated at 80 km from Cape Town. Farmers established themselves in this valley and during 1900 the town was laid out around its existing church. The town eventually developed and today it has +/- 2700 residents including some of South Africa’s most famous painters who are attracted by the picturesque surroundings of the valley.
Riebeek Kasteel has a variety of accommodation options available from Guest Houses, Bed and Breakfasts to Self-catering units.
Visitors should come during the Olive Festival in May, Shiraz and Art Weekend in October or the annual Med Fest in March - celebrating the wine, olives, food and culture of the area. These are some of only a few activities to do in and around this town.
It is believed to be one of the oldest villages in South Africa and indeed one could easily mistake the town and its accompanying valley for one set in the midst of the Tuscan hills of Italy, bathed as it invariably is in sunshine, particularly as it is almost equally as famous for its olives and Shiraz red wines.
There are many restaurants on offer to suit every visitors budget. There is a great selection of restaurants, coffee shops and pubs to choose from!
This town has a thriving business community and provides a wide range of goods and services to its residents as well as surrounding communities.
See our business directory for a list of businesses in Riebeek Kasteel, or add your own free business listing.
For more information, please visit www.west-coast-info.co.za.
Riebeek Kasteel Tourism Office Information
Web address: http://www.riebeekvalley.info/
E-mail: tourism@riebeekvalley.info
Address: Opposite Riebeek Kasteel Town Square, next to the library
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The OMG-20: In defence of Officer Bubbles
Question: Was the video of Officer Bubbles "doctored"? Did someone try to deliberately portray the police in a bad light to further their own cause? Has this video single-handedly given protesters the proof that police acted incorrectly?
In the claim put forward by Adam Josephs, he states that the arrest of Courtney Winkels occurred sometimes after the "bubbles incident" and that arrest was not connected to the "bubbles incident".
I just have to shake my head. The G20 is not going away. The minor has been elevated to the major; the simple has turned into the complicated and the big picture has been totally lost in everyone's personal, individual view of the event.
To recap
The G20 took place from Thursday, June 24 until Sunday, June 27, 2010.
I live in downtown Toronto right at the corner of Beverley and Queen. I was witness to just about everything. If I wasn't out in the streets, I was glued to CP24 while watching things unfold from my balcony which overlooks the corner of Beverley and Queen. I toured the downtown core at various times throughout the weekend to see firsthand what had taken place and took both still pictures and video of what was going on. In other words, this is not the opinion of some armchair general; I was there!
Here is my (brief) account of what I saw during the OMG-20. Each link takes you to the full article; I provide a pertinent tidbit under the link.
Friday, June 25 : I'll show you
It's the G20 summit. Canada has spent over a billion dollars to put it and the G8 together including the tightest security ever seen in Canada. Terrorism is very much on everyone's minds.
Dave Vasey is asked by a policeman to show some I.D. He refuses. Dave Vasey is arrested.
Dave Vasey in his picture looks to be under 30. I am 57. I understand the need for security. I understand the threat of terrorism. I understand the strong possibility of protests turning violent. If the police ask me for my identification, I am going to produce it forthwith and without hesitation. Dave Vasey now has to appear in court on July 28; I know I would receive a courteous "Thank you very much sir" and I would be on my way. Besides, I am not going down to the security fence; I am certainly not going to stand within the 5 metre limit of the fence and I am not going to by any stretch of the imagination decide to test my democratic freedom in front of somebody charged to ensure the safety of these important dignitaries from gawd only knows what threats. Canada is a truly great place to live but standing in front of a policeman dressed in riot gear armed to the teeth is not the time or the place to change the world; it is just downright foolish.
Do I have rights? Do we have rights? Does Dave have rights? The answer is a resounding yes. But for heaven's sake, pick the right time and the right place.
Saturday, June 26 : I'm shocked. Here?
At one point, there was a line of riot police just outside our window. My wife and I stood partly on our balcony watching the confrontation live while watching our TV to see what the cameraman in the street was filming live right at the front of the line. I can hear a young lady and a young man yelling at a single policeman about needing to be heard, about social injustice and such. Is this the time and place?
Somebody in the crowd throws an object. I watch this "thing" arc out of the crowd and fall beside a policeman. Scary, and of course the police as a whole react by moving forward and pushing the crowd back. What the heck did that accomplish? Each one of the uniformed police is an individual like you or me probably apprehensive if not scared of being confronted by a crowd which seems unorganized and on the verge of descending into anarchy.
Is this the time and the place to "storm the Bastille"? Canada is one of the best countries in the world. Don't get me wrong; things are not perfect. Nevertheless, there is a time and a place for everything and there is a method of making your voice heard. Want to change the world? Run for election. Don't like how the system is being run? Change the rules but legitimately. Be part of the solution; don't be part of the problem. Smashing a storefront window will not affect the outcome of the G20. Yelling at a single cop dressed in riot gear is not the time or the place to make a point.
Sunday, June 27 : It's over
I remain myself quite miffed at watching police cars burning, police cars that I helped pay for with my tax dollars. I am ticked at watching my own neighbourhood set upon by masked men randomly smashing windows. I am cross at those I saw yelling at the police as if the police are somehow the enemy.
The Aftermath, the Afterthoughts
Several times I heard protesters chanting. Some group leader yells, "Whose streets?" and the crowd replies "Our streets". Sorry folks, this is my street. Now go home.
Complete photos and videos
My take on things
We can debate how serious the situation was, how much the situation had degenerated but one thing was clear to me; this was an unusual security situation for Canada and Toronto. As a consequence, I for one am going to pick the time and place to protest and demand that my rights be respected. When the police are on high alert, when the Black Bloc torch cars, vandalize property and steal, I don't think I should be expecting anybody to make a fair distinction between me and anybody else in the street. If I stand in a duck pond and a flock of ducks land beside me, I don't think I should complain if a hunter opens the blind, fires off a round and I end up with an ass full of buckshot.
Julian Ichim
May I remind everybody that before the G-20, social activist Julian Ichim and the group Sense of Security announced to the media their intention to tear down the security perimetre fence. Talk about throwing down the gaunlet. On the Monday before the G-20, June 21 the group temporarily occupied the Esso gas station at the corner of Dundas and Jarvis. Is it any wonder that those in charge of security for the G-20 tightened up their plans to keep the conference safe from outside interference? On a personal note, I have no idea what Mr. Ichim hoped to accomplish. The outcome of his announced plans, his actions and his subsequent arrest is that he looks more like a nutbar than a concerned citizen.
I would also remind you of Julian's girlfriend, Kelly Rose Pflug-Back. She was accused of being one of the organizers of "Black Bloc" tactics responsible for $250,000 in damage to Toronto storefronts and police cruisers during the summit. She was facing 13 criminal charges including conspiracy, intimidation of a police officer and obstruction of justice plus seven counts of mischief over $5,000.
Here's what I personally witnessed during the G-20:
A young man armed with a stick which I think was used to hold up a flag... maybe? Maybe the stick was a weapon; I don't know. In any case, I watch the riot police line up to block the street. Each is wearing armoured vests and, a helmet and is carrying a riot baton and a shield. This young man is in front of a crowd poking the shield of one of the riot cops. I watch him do this over and over while yelling at this particular policeman.
To this young gentleman: Are you out of your freakin' mind? You weight about 170 (77 kg); that cop weighs about 225 (102 kg). How long do you think you can poke anybody before they get ticked? Do you think the Charter of Rights and Freedoms includes poking riot police in the middle of a protest which has shamefully gotten out of control, been hijacked by nefarious elements and now includes the burning of several police cars? You are, sir, a gawddamn moron. If you got your ass kicked, you deserved it.
In another confrontation, I watch a couple around 20 years old standing in front of a crowd screaming at the top of their lungs about the f**kin' pigs and they have rights, blah, blah, blah. You people have confused the right to protest with the right to behave like an a-hole. I am ashamed to consider you people fellow Canadians. If it had been up to me, I would have the lot of you, a bunch of petulant unruly youth off to bed without your supper.
From my balcony, I watched a crowd being held back by a line of mounted policemen. All of a sudden, an object thrown by an unknown arcs out over the crowd and hits a policeman atop a horse knocking him off his mount to the ground. Shameful. And you wonder why the police get a little hot headed? Just how long do you think you can poke the lion before it puts out its paw and slaps you silly if not leaves a line of claw marks across your chest?
Officer Bubbles
Now that I've set the stage, let's look at the "bubble incident".
The following video shows a young lady persistently blowing bubbles at the cops. If this had been a family picnic and this woman did that to me, I would have gone along with the gag... to a point. Sooner or later, I would have gotten irritated and asked her to stop... politely at first, then... [ominous growl]
The Real News: video of the bubble incident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEc
N.B. See the blog at the bottom of Michael Murray about the video clip. Was it doctored?
But here we are in the middle of a protest which at times has turned into a riot... literally. This is not, I repeat this is neither the time nor the place to be screaming about your rights. You all have forgotten that there people on the other side of those badges; people just like you and me who have a job to do and are probably just as edgy as everybody else about things getting out of hand.
Bubble girl is being a brat, just as plain and as simple as that. If it had been my daughter, I would have spanked her. I don't care if it was a stick, a stone or just simple bubbles, this lady was deliberately trying to provoke the police. Like the guy poking the riot cop's shield with a stick, like the couple yelling "f**kin' pigs" at the police, like the person who threw something at the mounted policeman, this was a deliberate attempt to provoke the cops. And guess what? She succeeded. There is a time to protest; there is a time to shut up.
The Real News: Fair coverage of the bubble incident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP_LB_ZhcTA&feature=channel
My assessment
All of this is quite unfortunate. The setting of the G20 was tense for everybody; nerves were frayed and many were quite on edge. Did the police go too far? Sometimes, I'm sure they did but what everybody forgets is that the protesters went too far. Now individual protesters will say, "I didn't torch the police cars. I didn't vandalize the stores. I didn't steal anything." Maybe so, but if you're standing in the middle of a riot, don't whine to me that you got hurt. You can't stand out in the rain and not expect to get wet. Everybody gets wet, no exceptions.
To all the innocents out there who want to exercise their right to protest: You were hijacked by the Black Bloc. Nefarious elements, dubious characters with their own agenda invalidated the legitimacy of your protest. But I saw enough of supposedly legitimate protesters misbehaving that I have to shake my head in disbelief when you protest about being mistreated or arrested. What in heaven's name did you expect? There's a riot going on; did you not think there might be collateral damage?
I want to protest
Hey, so do I. But you tell me what an effective way of doing it is?
Harper decided the G20 should be held in downtown Toronto. Harper decided to spend over one billion dollars. Harper has made decisions which all of us want to protest. Okay, why is he in power? What have you personally done to get him out of power? Did you vote? Did you campaign against him? Did you write letters? Did you contact your own MP to protest?
I see you out in the street in front of my home... yes MY HOME and the results resemble some sort apocalyptic movie like Mad Max. We are here because Harper is in power. Just what the heck have you done to stop this? Okay, you show up to march but did you do any of the things I just mentioned? Harper is in power. Somebody has voted for him. He didn't end up being Prime Minister all on his own. You want to protest the injustices of Canada? Well then, get Harper out of office! But ya ain't gunna do that marching in front of my house yelling about the f**kin' pigs. Your behaviour in no way constitutes a legitimate, viable protest which could in any way be construed as an effective means for social change. On the Saturday, I walk by what looks to be a typical suburban Mom about 35 years old. She is wearing a black T-shirt on which I read, "F**k Canada". Oh how charming.
Isn't it comical?
We like law and order. We like the police. We want them to deal with the bad apples. Unfortunately, it sometimes is a tad difficult distinguishing the good apples from the bad apples and... oh, now you are screaming bloody murder, police brutality, overstepping their authority. Geeze all that after I watch several cop cars set on fire, windows smashed, stores looted, etc. There is an unruly mob running around the downtown core but when it comes down to you getting arrested, now all of sudden the police have to magically be selective, constantly be polite to every individual and treat you with kid gloves. Okay, would the guilty party who threw the object and knocked the mounted policeman off his horse please step forward?
The cartoons
Here's a link to one of the cartoons. Links to other cartoons are to the right. Please keep in mind that this link may disappear but you may be able to find others searching for the words "Officer Bubbles".
http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterOfficerBubbles#p/u
[sigh] I guess it's inevitable. Now that the G20 is over; now that we have moved on; now that we take the incident, remove it from its context of the weekend of riots and look at the big bad cop versus the sweet innocent girl, it all looks so ridiculous. In that light, it was inevitable somebody would do something like this, create cartoons ridiculing the cop in question. [chuckles] You will note that nobody looks at the woman and considers her to be a brat.
So now the policeman is trying to sue YouTube to take down the cartoons. Of course, somebody likes a challenge so as soon as the cartoons came down, somebody posted them again. Is this true that the constable in question has received death threats over this? Has anybody phoned up the woman and threaten to spank her? She was being an annoying. Some punishment is warranted. [I wag my finger]
Folks, let's get a grip. Don't we have far greater issues to deal with? Global warming? Economic turndown? This whole affair has just gotten completely out of hand. Yes, Officer Bubbles seems to have over-reacted if I look at the video. However if I look it in the context of the entire summit, I am willing to cut the guy some slack. My advice: drop the suit, move on. And for the rest of you? Quit ragging on him!!!
But... Let's look at the other side of the coin.
The Bubbles Girl: Courtney Winkels
You are an idiot. You are a brat. You deserve to be spanked. Just like Dave Vasey who was arrested for refusing to show his I.D. (the charges were subsequently dropped), you pick the wrong time and the wrong place to test the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If you are in a secure area and there is a riot or even the threat of a riot, that is neither the time nor the place to go out of your way to provoke anybody especially the police. You are not asking for trouble, you are begging for it.
I repeat what I said earlier. You want to protest? Vote. Campaign. Contact your local MP. Write parliament. And if you do take to the streets, be respectful. Be respectful of the police who are charged with maintaining order and who are charged with maintaining the peace... in "my" neighbourhood. Don't break my windows; don't vandalize my stores and please don't set cars on fire in the street next to my home. If the Black Bloc shows up again; distance yourself... quickly. Make sure you demonstrate to the police you are not part of the Black Bloc, you are a nice protester and not provocateur... notice the association of words: provoke and provocateur.
And don't forget, the next time the crowd chants in the street and the leader yells out, "Whose streets?", before you respond with "Our streets!" I want you to remember that I live here. You are going home afterwards to other districts, the suburbs, even other towns while I remain here with the burned out cars, the broken windows, and the looted stores and yes, all of your litter. The OMG-20 indeed.
The Toronto Star: ‘Officer Bubbles’ sues YouTube and users over cartoons
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/876487--officer-bubbles-sues-youtube-and-users-over-cartoons?bn=1
When he first saw a video of a Toronto constable threatening to arrest a G20 protester for blowing bubbles, one YouTube user was so livid, he couldn’t stop writing comments.
In fact, the man, who uses the alias “theforcebewithme,” can’t even remember writing the specific comment that now has him defending a $1.2 million defamation lawsuit launched by Toronto’s now notorious “Officer Bubbles.”
In his statement of claim, Josephs calls the cartoons and several comments “devastatingly defamatory,” alleging they have brought him “ridicule, scandal and contempt both personally and as a member of the (Toronto Police Service).”
He claims the animations have also resulted in threats against him and his family.
However, online anonymity won’t necessarily protect people’s identities, as the website can be ordered by the court to provide users’ IP address and other information, said lawyer Tony Wong, a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP who specializes in media and privacy law.
On Friday, a Manhattan judge gave Google 15 days to reveal any information it has on the identities of three cyberbullies who labeled a woman a “whore” on YouTube.
“I think there’s a real ignorance among the public about the risks of posting user comments or Twittering or blogging. The technology is new but the same laws of libel apply,” said Wong.
“Every time you post a comment on YouTube, a newspaper’s website, a blog, you can be sued for defamation by anyone whose reputation has been harmed by your comment.”
see my blog: Freedom of Speech: Freedom to say anything?
Statement of Claim
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39541458/Officer-Bubbles-Statement-of-Claim
10. While at the investigation site, Josephs encountered a female "protestor" blowing soap bubbles into the face of another female police officer in an effort to mock the police and diminish their authority in the eyes of her fellow "protestors".
11. Josephs informed the female "protestor" that if she did not stop blowing bubbles into the face of his fellow officer immediately, he would arrest her for assault contrary to the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46. The female "protestor" (arrested later that same day by another police officer on a charge of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose) eventually stopped her bubble blowing, but she then proceeded to verbally mock Josephs. The encounter ended without incident, however it was captured on film by another member of the crowd and published on YouTube.
WHAT!?! The video has been doctored?
Has this infamous video clip of Officer Bubbles been doctored? Was the clip put together to deliberately make Officer Bubbles look bad while suggesting that Courtney Winkels was being arrested for blowing bubbles when she was in fact being arrested at another moment for something unrelated?
blog: michael murray - July 22, 2010
http://www.michaelmurray.ca/blog/?page=news&id=352
Demonstrations almost always make me uncomfortable. It seems that regardless of how worthy I might find the cause, there’s always somebody “on my side” who just makes me want to slither away in shame.
Canada, where I grew up and live, is an entirely decent place. It’s a relatively progressive country that’s infused with humanitarian values, and the honest truth is that it’s pretty easy to live as the person you want to be without too much difficulty. The protests here generally have less to do with how we think we should be treated, and more to do with how we think that other people should be treated. Rarely urgent and spontaneous expressions of rage, demonstrations are essentially political marketing displays, theatrical events designed to sway people come election time.
In the wake of G20 Summit in Toronto, YouTube has been flooded with videos designed to support the claims that the police behaved in a brutal, authoritarian manner. Surely, they did, but just as surely, they did not, and the tribal insistence of many activists that the police were “evil” and the demonstrators “good,” is a self-serving and deceptive reduction that lacks generosity, I think. Quite frankly, it’s the kind of thing that keeps me an observer rather than a participant when it comes to activism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEc (this is the same video as previously shown)
A primary example of this is the Officer Bubbles video, which has now received over 200, 000 hits. In it, a pretty 20-year-old woman dressed in camouflage fatigues is blowing bubbles into the face of a police officer. The officer doesn’t seem overly put out by this, and smiles thinly back at the woman (who later claimed to be a volunteer street medic rather than a protestor). However, another officer-- a man, a big, black man-- gets pissed off , strides over and barks at the woman that if she doesn’t stop she will be arrested. Feigning wide-eyed innocence, the girl, acted brutalized and stunned by the request. “For blowing bubbles? But I am light, love and purity! I’m just expressing myself!” the seductive pout on her face seemed to suggest.
(Imagine standing in line at Price Choppers and watching some guy with a pair of sunglasses perched on the top of his head blowing bubbles in the face of the cashier. How would you respond if somebody was doing that to you, or if your child was doing that to somebody else?)
At this point of confrontation between the officer and the bubble girl, there is an edit in the video, and a graphic that says “several minutes later.” We then see the girl who had been blowing bubbles getting arrested, and are led to believe through the construction of the video that she’s being arrested for blowing bubbles, but this isn’t the case. The arrest took place in a different part of town, under a different pretext, by entirely different officers who knew nothing of the bubble imbroglio.
No matter, a martyr was born, and legions of people rallied behind this disingenuous piece of propaganda, citing it as dramatic evidence of the brutal police state in which those of us in Canada live.
The G20 Summit provided those who were so inclined with a three-day bubble in which to attend a kind of fantasy activist camp. Downtown Toronto became a theme park in which people stepped outside of the obvious comfort of their daily lives, and acted out romantic fantasies of revolution, all the while knowing that in a day or two, they’d be able to return to the lives of privilege and ease they’d grown accustomed to. They camped it up and ran around with cameras, snapping pictures of the cops like they were tourists at the zoo.
The need of some in the protest movement to feel good about themselves, even holy, completely obliterated any sense of empathy or balance they might have for those external to their tribe. In the case of some, believing is seeing, and even though nobody was arrested for blowing bubbles, the “arrest” still became the central narrative and truth of the G20 Summit, and so I watched in dismay as this video metastasized and people used it to determinedly shape the truth they needed with the zeal and certitude of religious extremists.
Labels: G20 Summit
A Person said...
Officer Bubbles is a joke. I don't even care about the original incident. He's crying that people made fun of him on the Internet now, which just makes more people make fun of him. He's a giant crybaby... He's suing over people saying things like "lmao this shit is funny" and "I bet he looks at himself in the mirror a lot". I mean, really? Cause to sue? This guy is a fucking joke.
The video has not been doctored, however it does not show the real reason this young woman was arrested either.
She was arrested for having a backpack, bandanna and lawyers' number written on her arm just in case she was illegally detained (ironically she was and never received the chance to make that call). When they inspected the contents of her backpack, police found minor triage supplies that confirmed she was in fact a "street doctor". Also later confirmed.
The man you see standing up to Officer Josephs is a Lawyer. As a witness to all of what happened in this matter Mr. Schiller is offering to represent those directly affected by this empty lawsuit at no charge.
There are a lot of good facts available to anyone who wishes to learn what really happened. A great start is to visit the CCLA's website, Amnesty International or google G20 police violence on Youtube.
Hope thist helps to inform.
I would put a u and n in front of ob
uzza said...
The guy that wrote this post appears to be not very intelligent.
William Belle said...
A comment to the commentators:
* I agree, the officer's suit is not a good idea.
* I appreciate the assessment of the video and the references to the CCLA. My point though was just who is holding the protestors accountable?
* un in front of OB? What? United Nations Of Beer?
* You have to be thick skinned to publish. http://wqebelle.blogspot.com/2010/08/your-idiot.html
cxxguy said...
So your thesis is that freedom, free speech, the right peaceably to assemble to demand redress of grievance, those are all good in theory ... but if you use them you're a moron. I would argue that if you do not use your rights, you will lose them. That is why I openly carry a firearm every day ... liberties must not be allowed to atrophy from disuse.
What? How in heavens name did you arrive at those conclusions? "The right peaceably to assemble"? Excuse me but those people came into "my" neighbourhood and trashed the place. Peaceably my eye. I am all for the freedom to protest; I am not for the freedom to riot.
You openly carry a firearm? You think you're free? My gawd man, if you have to carry a firearm, if you think it's necessary, if you think it is in any way warranted, you aren't free, you are living under the oppression of fear.
Watch the *full* video at the very bottom of the page. This is Canada. We have something called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It applies too all people, not just 57 year old curmudgeons who want to shake their fist and yell "get off my lawn". Those people who were arrested were residents of Parkdale, not people that "came into ~*~your neighbourhood~*~". One of your neighbours - a criminal lawyer -, who was there to observe and offer assistance, what arrested. She didn't "come into your neighbourhood".
http://www.torontog20exposed.ca/
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Author: Chuck SquatrigliaChuck Squatriglia
DETROIT – We didn't think it possible, but Audi has made the e-tron electric car even sexier.
The German automaker unveiled the second iteration of its sweet electric concept here at the North American International Auto Show. It is sleeker, simpler and less powerful than the concept first seen at the Frankfurt auto show in September and then at the Los Angeles show last month. But it looks less like a concept designed to wow journalists and more like a production car designed to attract buyers.
That sound you heard was Elon Musk and Henrik Fisker screaming in anguish. The Audi e-tron could unseat the Tesla Roadster and Fisker Karma as the sexiest EV on the road when it appears in 2012.
Version 2.0 is leaner and more aggressive than the first e-tron, which looked a lot like the R8, and draws styling influences from the TT and the S5. The proportions are spot-on: the car is 70 inches wide, 154.72 inches long and 48 inches tall.
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The car rides on an aluminum and carbon fiber space frame, and most of the body panels are fiber-reinforced plastic. Audi claims the car weighs 2,976 pounds – about 550 pounds less than the first e-tron – and has a weight distribution of 40:60. Torque-vectoring directs power to the rear wheels as necessary for optimal traction. Flaps at the C-pillar open and close as needed to provide cooling air for the motors and battery.
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Revisit the Late Hairstylist Oribe Canales's Greatest Hits in W
On Monday morning, news broke that Oribe Canales, the go-to hairstylist for supermodels like Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford, had died at age 62. His decades-spanning influence began in the late '70s, when the hairstylist Garren took Canales—who'd later go simply by his first name, Oribe—under his wing as his protégé, paving the way for him to take hair volume to another level and partner with everyone from Richard Avedon to Marc Jacobs, including on the latter's infamous grunge collection for Perry Ellis. In addition to the supers, there were a few more names who the Cuban-born, North Carolina-raised stylist tended to work with more than others, like the photographer Steven Meisel and one Jennifer Lopez, who shared a tribute on Monday reminiscing on how she spent "every waking and working moment" by his side for a full decade. Evidence of both of those partnerships, and many, many more, can be found in the pages of W, which played host to the bouffants and snowy white wigs he crafted for everyone from January Jones to his long-time pal Evangelista over the years. Take a look back through the archives, here.
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Jennifer Lopez photographed by Mario Sorrenti with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, August 2013.
Meghan Collison photographed by Craig McDean with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, March 2008.
Joan Smalls photographed by Steven Meisel with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, July 2012.
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Christy Turlington photographed by Art Streiber with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, November 1993.
Linda Evangelista photographed by Steven Klein with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, October 2008.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, January 2007.
Liu Wen photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, March 2014.
Hilary Swank photographed by Steven Klein with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, January 2008.
Tyra Banks photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, March 2014.
Georgia May Jagger photographed by Craig McDean with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, September 2010.
Carmen Carrera photographed by Steven Meisel with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, September 2013.
Agyness Deyn photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, January 2007.
Photograph by Craig McDean with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, May 2011.
Karlie Kloss photographed by Steven Meisel with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, July 2012.
Elsa Sylvan photographed by Craig McDean with hairstyling by Oribe Canales for W Magazine, June 2008.
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ICE London will also feature Consumer Protection Zone
ICE London 2019 opens its doors
Addressing the gathering, Kate Chambers said: “On behalf of the team at Clarions Gaming, I would like to welcome you once again to London and thank you for your support.”
Alongside the world’s biggest gaming technology exhibition, visitors also have the opportunity to participate in ICE VOX conferences. This year’s event comprises five separate learning experience hubs featuring over 120 high profile, tier-one thought leaders delivering more than 40 hours of business-centric learning.
takeholders representing the international gaming community from all continents of the world were joined by Kate Chambers, Managing Director of Clarion Gaming , for the official ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of ICE London 2019 .
Addressing the gathering, Kate Chambers said: "On behalf of the team at Clarions Gaming, I would like to welcome you back to London and thank you for your support."
"ICE London 2019 is officially the biggest edition on record," she continued. "The show floor features 612 exhibitor brands from 67 nations occupying 47,500sqm of net space and 38 of the 44 halls at our ExCeL London home. The real attraction for gaming professionals traveling to London is the guarantee that they will be able to engage with the very best, smartest companies drawn from all sectors of the gaming space. It's technology that keeps on revolutionizing the market and, as our creative states, this is a genius industry - and the best place to experience that spirit of genius is at ICE London. "
Alongside the world's biggest gaming technology exhibition, visitors also have the opportunity to participate in ICE VOX conferences. This year's event comprises five separate learning experience hubs featuring over 120 high profile, tier-one thought leaders delivering more than 40 hours of business-centric learning. Tracks include: Advertising & Marketing; Artificial Intelligence; Cybercrime & Security; Esports; Modernising Lotteries; The World Regulatory Briefing, and the International Casino Conference.
ICE London will also feature social responsibility at the top of its agenda. This year's Consumer Protection Zone features the international industry's most forward thinking responsible gaming organizations and Clarion Gaming is hosting charities and non-profit organizations on a complimentary basis.
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Director of CGHH Sanjoy Bhattacharya delivers two lectures at Shanghai University.
Last week, Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History & Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories) delivered two lectures at Shanghai University.
This first, on 5th June, explored smallpox eradication and democratic histories for lessons for contemporary global health at an event held at the New Lehu Hotel, located within the campus of Shanghai University.
Credit: Jiqiuyan Shi
The second, ‘Beyond Presentism: Reviewing the birth, expansion and work of World Health Organization’, took place on 6th June at the College of Liberal Arts, Eastern Campus, Shanghai University.
Professor Bhattacharya also held discussions with the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University about the WHO Global Health Histories project. Shanghai University will join the coalition of global academic partners supporting this initiative.
Professor Bhattacharya also supported Shanghai University's International Master's Forum by presenting a talk on cutting-edge methodologies for histories of health, engaging in detailed discussions with masters and PhD students, as well as staff from Shanghai University and other universities in the city. The goal was to create greater linkages between the Department of History's post-graduate teaching programmes and similar initiatives in Shanghai University.
You can find out more about Professor Bhattacharya’s research activities via the Department of History’s staff pages.
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Dr Fabian Frenzel
Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Organisa tion
Email: ff48@le.ac.uk
Office: Room 327, Level 3, Ken Edwards Building
Office hours: By appointment only (please email)
I joined the School of Management (now School of Business) in February 2012. Between 2012-2014 I left Leicester to work at the University of Potsdam, Germany, on a two-year Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. The ERC research grant enabled me to conduct a comparative case study of three global destinations of tourism in areas of urban poverty.
I came back to Leicester on a full-time lectureship in September 2014 where I am research lead of the Management and Organisation division. I co-direct the undergraduate management studies curriculum while I am teaching across undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and PhD programmes with a focus on qualitative research methods, the sociology of organisation and political economy.
Previously I was a lecturer at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England (UWE), where I taught on the tourism and enterprise undergraduate programmes and on the MBA.
I am a Senior Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Technology and Society at the Technical University Berlin.
I am co-director of the undergraduate management curriculum, overseeing the BA and Minor programmes in Management Studies. I have taught and designed modules on tourism, entrepreneurship, qualitative research methods, political economy of Brexit, organisational behaviour and business environment across undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research programmes. I have extensive experience in delivering flexible and distance learning modules, and regularly teach on faculty visits to distance learning students, including on our MBA programme.
Administrative responsibilities
M&O Division Research Lead
My research interests converge at the intersections of mobility, organisation and politics. In this context I consider the role of transnational mobilities, from activists to tourists, in the formation of a global social question with a focus on the way slums are becoming destinations of a range of better-off travellers, in solidarity and volunteer travel and in slum tourism. This is also the topic of my book 'Slumming It‘ (Zed Books 2016).
In 2012 I received a Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellowship from the EU for a two-year research project on slum tourism, conducted at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Prior to this I won an early career grant from the University of the West of England to study tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and to initiate the foundation of a slum tourism research network. I co-organised the first conference in this field of research in December 2010 at UWE. This led to the publication of a special issue on slum tourism in the journal tourism geographies and a book I edited on the same topic. In May 2014 I hosted the second slum tourism network conference in Potsdam and I am co-editor of two special issues emerging from the conference publications.
In my second empirical research field I study the ways in which social movements organise themselves in response to place and space with a particular interest in the organisational form of the protest camp. In 2013 I published a book on protest camps as an organisational form (with Zed books) in collaboration with Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University) and Patrick McCurdy (Ottawa University). I have taken part in the foundation of the protest camp research network. In the framework of the network, I have recently co-edited the book ‘Protest Camps in International Perspective’ (Policy Press). I am also one of the founders of the protest camp research collective.
Theoretically my work converges around the concept of valorisation, and in particular diverse voluntary practices that contribute to the valorisation of places and ideas. Bridging my empirical interests notions of valorisation also inform my research of urban regeneration, with a focus on work in Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro and Bristol, UK.
I have previously worked in an ESRC research project on Alternative Media Organisation in the 'Global South' (RES-155-25-0029).
Earlier work includes the foundation in 2003 of a research think tank Institute of Nomadology (InNo) in Berlin.
I’d be interested in supervising PhDs that aim to:
Critically study mobilities and tourism
Study political mobilities (i.e. activist travel), volunteer tourism, slum tourism and poverty as a tourist attraction
Research protest camps, both in comtemporary and historical perspective
Reflect on the role of leisure in the formation of political identities
Interrogate the politics of compassion and the social question
Frenzel, F. (2017). Tourist agency as valorisation: Making Dharavi into a tourist attraction. Annals of Tourism Research, 66, 159–169.
Frenzel, F. (2017). On the Question of Using the Concept ‘Slum Tourism’ for Urban Tourism in Stigmatised Neighbourhoods in Inner City Johannesburg. Urban Forum.
Frenzel, F., & Blakeman, S. (2015). Making Slums Into Attractions: The Role of Tour Guiding in the Slum Tourism Development in Kibera and Dharavi. Tourism Review International, 19(1-2), 87–100.
McCurdy, P., Feigenbaum, A., & Frenzel, F. (2015). Protest Camps and Repertoires of Contention. Social Movement Studies
Frenzel, F., Koens, K., Steinbrink, M., & Rogerson, C. M. (2015). Slum Tourism State of the Art. Tourism Review International, 18(2), 237–252.
Frenzel, F., 2014. Exit the System? Anarchist Organisation in the British Climate Camps. ephemera, 14(4), p.901-921.
Frenzel, F., 2014. Slum Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Touring Inner Johannesburg. Urban Forum, pp.1–17.
Frenzel, F. & Beverungen, A., 2014. Value struggles in the creative city: A People’s Republic of Stokes Croft? Urban Studies.
Frenzel, F., Feigenbaum, A and Mc Curdy, P. (2014) A research framework for the study of protest camps. The Sociological Review 62(3), pp 457-474.
Frenzel, F., (2013). Slum tourism in the context of the tourism and poverty (relief) debate. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 144(2), pp.117–128.
Burgold, J., Frenzel, F. & Rolfes, M., (2013). Editorial: Observations on slums and their touristification. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 144(2), pp.99–104.
Feigenbaum, A., McCurdy, P. & Frenzel, F., (2013). Towards a Method for studying Affect in (micro)Politics: The Campfire Chats Project and the Occupy Movement. Parallax, 19(2), pp.21–37.
Frenzel, F., (2012). Beyond “Othering”: the political roots of slum tourism. In F. Frenzel, K. Koens, & M. Steinbrink, eds. Slum Tourism Poverty, Power and Ethics. London: Routledge, pp. 49–65.
Frenzel, F and Koens, K (2012) Slum Tourism: developments in a young field of interdisciplinary tourism research Tourism Geographies 14 (2) p forthcoming.
Frenzel F, Boehm S, Quinton P, Sullivan S, Spicer A, Young Z (2011) Comparing Alternative Media in North and South, Environment and Planning A 35(4) P. 1173-1189.
Frenzel, F. (2010) Researching Political Tourists: A Case Study Approach in Methodology: Innovative approaches to research, Vol 1, Issue 1, 24-27.
Brown, G., Feigenbaum, A., Frenzel, F., & McCurdy, P. (Eds.). (2017). Protest camps in international context - Spaces, infrastructures and media of resistance. Bristol: Policy Press.
Frenzel, F., (2016) Slumming it: The Tourist Valorisation of Urban Poverty, Zed Books: London.
Frenzel and Koens (eds.) (2014) Geographies of Inequality. The New Global Slumming Phenomenon. Oxon, Routledge.
Feigenbaum, A, Frenzel F and McCurdy P (2013) Protest Camps The Political and Organisational Form of Protest Camps. Zed Books.
Frenzel F, Koens K, Steinbrinck, M (eds.) (2012) Poverty, Power and Ethics in Global Slum-Tourism, Abington, Oxon, Routledge.
Frenzel, F. (2010) Politics in Motion, PhD Thesis, Leeds Metropolitan University Library.
Feigenbaum, A and F. Frenzel (2017) Austerity and the Post-Capitalist Politics of Protest Camps: experiments in autonomy at Occupy London. In Pete Bennett and Julian McDougall (eds) Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today Routledge: London.
Rollmann, N. and F Frenzel (2017) Between Protest Camp and Tent City: The Free Cuvry Protest Camp in Berlin Kreuzberg. In Brown G, Feigenbaum A, Frenzel F, McCurdy P (eds.) Protest camps in international context - Spaces, infrastructures and media of resistance, Policy Press: Bristol.
Frenzel, F., Mc Curdy, P, Feigenbaum, A. (2016) Place, Protest & Communication: Protest Camps and the Mediatization of Space. In Rovisco, Maria and Jonathan Ong (eds) Taking the Square: new protest movements, the media, and the struggle for democracy 'from below’ Rowan and Littlefield, London.
Feigenbaum A Frenzel F McCurdy P (2016) Protest Camps. In Slater, M B (ed) Making Things International, Minnesota University Press.
Frenzel F. (2014). Slum Tourism and its controversies from a management perspective. In M. Gudic, A. Rosenbloom, & C. Parkes (Eds.), Socially Responsive Organizations and the Challenge of Poverty (pp. 123–135). Leeds, UK: Greenleaf.
Frenzel, F. (2013) Regimes of Camp and Camping. The political mobility of activist encampments in Vogl, G. et al. (eds.) New Mobilities Regimes. The Analytical Power of the Social Science and the Arts, Farnham, Ashgate, pp. 225-237.
Frenzel F (2012) Beyond ‘Othering’ The Political Roots Of Slum-Tourism in Frenzel et al (eds) Poverty, Power and Ethics in Global Slum-Tourism Oxon, Routledge, p. (forthcoming).
Frenzel, F. (2011) Entlegene Orte in der Mitte der Gesellschaft? Die britischen Klimacamps seit 2006 [in German] in Brunnengraeber, A. (ed.) Das internationale Klimaregime, Wiesbaden, VS Research Verlag (2011).
Frenzel, F. and Sullivan, S. (2009) Globalization from below? ICTs and Democratic Development in the Project ‘Indymedia Africa’. In Mudhai, Fred et al. eds. African Media and the Digital Public Sphere. New York and London, Palgrave Macmillian.
Unreviewed publications
Frenzel, F. (2010) Book Review: Tourism and Mobilities Local-Global Connections, Leisure Studies Association Newsletter 69-72.
Frenzel, F. (2005) Book Review: Tourism Mobilities Places to Play, Places in Play. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 3 (2), pp.136-138.
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Keith Richards Bashes the Grateful Dead: ‘Boring S—, Man’
Nick DeRiso
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They may have been two of the summer's hottest tickets, but the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is no Deadhead. “The Grateful Dead is where everybody got it wrong,” Richards tells Billboard. “Just poodling about for hours and hours. Jerry Garcia, boring s---, man. Sorry, Jerry.”
Richards is coming off a well-received 15-city North American tour with the Stones, while the reunited Grateful Dead pulled in millions with a handful of shows they called Fare Thee Well – their first without Garcia, who died in 1995.
Up next is the release of Richards' third solo album on Sept. 18. He says the low-key, groove-focused approach on Crosseyed Heart is one he'd like to see the Rolling Stones take on their next studio project. Instead of walking "in with nothing and ask[ing] [drummer] Charlie [Watts] to set up a beat," Richards noted, Mick Jagger too often wants the Stones "to sound like what he heard in the club last night."
In the meantime, Richards will play smaller gigs in support of Crosseyed Heart this fall, and then rejoin the Stones for South American dates in 2016. He'll be doing them mostly – but not entirely – drug-free. It's been decades since he kicked his now-legendary heroin and coke habits.But it's not like he's taken up a monk's existence.
Richards conducted his Billboard interview with a drink in hand (described as "a midday cocktail of Campari and soda with a double shot of vodka"), and he still takes the occasional toke. “Eh, I love my pot,” Richards said. “Love my weed. Unashamedly a fan. A piece of good hashish now and again. But otherwise ...”
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Four Midwestern Startups Win Global Auto Tech Contest at SAE Congress
Sarah Schmid Stevenson
As part of the SAE World Congress held in Detroit this week, the seventh annual Global Automotive Innovation Challenge was held in partnership with the MIT Alliance of Michigan and NextEnergy. The goal of the challenge was to bring new innovations to the industry, which has a notoriously long and often secretive product development cycle.
Winners were selected in four categories, and more than $200,000 in cash and business acceleration services were at stake. To be eligible, participants needed to have innovations based on automotive content (hardware or software that is part of the vehicle), something that helps design the vehicle, or something that helps produce the vehicle.
Target innovations were limited to driver-driven, land-based vehicles, as well as vehicle/infrastructure communications. Applicants could be pre-revenue or have cumulative sales up to $250,000.
More than 38 companies from all over the world applied to compete, and 12 finalists participated in the pitch contest held Tuesday at the SAE World Congress. Each winner will receive $50,000 in cash and prizes.
Without further ado, here’s a bit about the winners:
—SiNode Systems (vehicle electrification, V2X [vehicle-to-infrastructure], and advanced mobility category): The Chicago-based startup develops anode materials to improve lithium-ion batteries with more stability, faster charging, and three times the capacity of competitors, it says.
—Detroit Materials (advanced materials, sensors, and manufacturing processes category): Located in Wixom, MI, Detroit Materials produces high-strength, low-alloy steel and cast iron developed at Wayne State University for use in automotive, defense, and mining applications.
—RightThereWare (infotainment, auto consumer, and value chain/business model category): Based in Milan, MI, RightThereWare has developed navigation software that ties together dispatching, ride-sharing/load-sharing, routing, and estimated arrival times.
—Advanced Battery Concepts (new high value and disruptive technology innovations category): The Clare, MI-based startup invented Green Seal, a product that improves large-format, energy storage technology and the performance of sealed lead-acid batteries.
Sarah Schmid Stevenson is the Custom Content Editor for Xconomy Insight. You can reach her at 313-570-9823 or sschmid@xconomy.com. Follow @
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Gambier Islands Travel Guide
AdventureCruiseFrench PolynesiaHistorySouth Pacific Islands
One of the least visited archipelagos in French Polynesia, the Gambier Islands are encircled by a magnificent lagoon where black pearls are as abundant as fish. Regarded to be the birthplace of Catholicism in French Polynesia, the islands are home to out-of-place whitewashed cathedrals, a testament to the archipelago’s tragic past. For those seeking to get off the beaten track, this Gambier Island travel guide will help you plan a visit to “the forgotten islands” of French Polynesia.
Having explored over a dozen islands in French Polynesia, visiting the Gambier Islands was a very proud achievement. Its remoteness, interesting history, pristine nature and lack of mass tourism are the ingredients that fueled my curiosity. I visited the Gambier Islands as part of a cruise from Tahiti to Easter Island. The information in this Gambier Islands travel guide is based on my experiences and on extensive research.
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Where are the Gambier Islands?
The Gambier Islands are one of the five archipelagos that make up French Polynesia. The islands are located 1,600 km southeast of Tahiti and about 700 km west of Pitcairn Island. The Gambier Islands consist of five ‘high’ islands and 18 low-lying islets (motu) – all inside a common lagoon. A few outlying atolls are also considered part of the archipelago. The major islands in the Gambiers are Mangareva (with the capital Rikitea), Taravai, Aukena, and Akamaru. The total population of the archipelago currently numbers approximately 1,300 residents, most of whom live in the capital – Rikitea.
Why Visit the Gambier Islands?
Getting to the Gambier Islands is mighty tough (and expensive) but this is just an added ingredient in the allure of an archipelago once known as “the forgotten islands”. Visitors to the Gambier Islands are primarily interested in the history of the island group, more specifically its early Catholic days which manifest in marvelous churches constructed from coral lime. In addition, the Gambier’s exquisite lagoon is home to a thriving black pearl industry and to dreamy beaches that do not require sharing with others.
What’s Included In This Gambier Islands Travel Guide?
A brief history of the Gambier Islands [This Page]
Gambier Islands travel tips [This Page]
The top things to see and do in the Gambier Islands [Skip to Page]
Brief History of the Gambier Islands
The Gambier Islands are named in honor of Baron James Gambier (1756-1833), an English admiral and supporter of the London Missionary Society who sponsored the inaugural expedition to visit the Gambier Islands aboard the Duff. However, the history of the Gambier Islands stretches back much further in time, likely to between 900-1200 AD. During this period, Polynesian explorers discovered the islands, likely arriving from the Tuamotu Atolls to which the Gambier Islands are in some way their natural extension.
The tribes that settled the archipelago would go on to form the Mangarevan Empire which thrived and exerted its powers far beyond the archipelago’s boundaries. Mangarevans traded with neighboring island groups and would even settle the remote Pitcairn Islands that are believed that have served as ‘mining outposts’ for the empire. What Mangarevans lacked, their trading partners would supplement. This included obsidian – a volcanic glass not found in the Gambier Islands that was a highly coveted commodity for its use in tools and in weapons.
Mangarevans formed a highly stratified society, with a clear hierarchical structure that included many taboos. At the very top, the high chief with his endowed mana controlled all aspects of daily life. Beneath him were the priests along with the experts (boat makers, fishermen, etc). Always vying for power were the professional warriors, who on the one hand were needed in battle but on the other hand always ‘challenged’ the status quo. With plenty of food and space to go around, everything worked well for the Mangarevan Empire.
However, when the population level began to sharply rise, lush forests were cleared to make room for agricultural plots (slash and burn). This proved to have a disastrous effect on the islands. Heavy rains would now cause soil erosion and the failure of crops. Moreover, not enough healthy wood was available to build canoes for trading or for fishing. Over the course of a few decades, the population of the Gambier Islands spiraled into a bloody civil war in which cannibalism was part of the game.
Into this vacuum enter Christian missionaries. First, it were the English Protestants who arrived in 1797 aboard the Duff but did not stick around. In 1834, the Catholic French enter the scene. Father Honore Laval from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary leads a mission to save the savage cannibals from themselves. With a surplus of motivation and self-confidence, he manages to win the hearts of the locals and persuades high chief Maputeoa to convert to Christianity, a move which makes Laval the de facto ruler of the archipelago.
Laval immediately sets out on a grand reform scheme that would transform the islands into a European-style Christian state. He first orders the destruction of ancient temples, introduces a rigid constitution known as the Mangarevan Code and begins the implementation of a megalomaniac and unnecessary construction project of churches, palaces, watchtowers and religious institutions. Laval’s workforce consists of the subdued local population and funds are raised by taking over the island’s most precious tradable commodity – the black pearl.
The crowning achievement is the Cathedral of Saint-Michel, whose construction cost the lives of hundreds of islanders. Fashioned in Spanish style and made of bricks carved from the coral reef, its altar is adorned with hundreds of exquisite black pearls and magnificent mother-of-pearl shells. Saint-Michel can accommodate 1,200 worshipers, far beyond the demand of the dwindling local population by inauguration date. Eventually, French authorities in Tahiti woke up and the mad priest was sent packing, not before succeeding in introducing Catholicism to Polynesia.
In 1881, France officially annexed the Gambier Islands. Due to their remoteness, the islands were seldom visited by outsiders apart from whalers and occasional explorers (among them famous writers of the time), though the archipelago did enjoy brief periods of economic boom, most recently during the French nuclear testing on neighboring Moruroa Atoll. The health effects of the controversial nuclear testing is still a hot topic today. At present, islanders make a living primarily from the black pearl industry, fishing, and copra.
Gambier Islands Travel Tips
Listed here are essential travel tips for those seeking to visit the Gambier Islands.
Apart from this Gambier Islands Travel Guide, here are a few other resources to help you plan your visit, mind you there isn’t a lot of literature on this remote archipelago.
The Independent Traveler’s Guide to French Polynesia: a free and comprehensive travel guide based on my extensive travels in the region.
Tahiti Tourism: the official website of French Polynesia’s tourism board with a modest section devoted to the Gambier Islands.
Moon Tahiti: a guide book with a small section on the Gambiers
Hidden Tahiti & French Polynesia: a comprehensive guide book with a section on the Gambiers
Manga Reva: the Forgotten Islands: the account of American artist Robert Lee Eskridge during an extended visit to the islands in the early 20th century.
How to get to the Gambier Islands
At present, Air Tahiti offers biweekly flights from Tahiti to the Gambier Islands (about 4.5 hrs). The flights land on a narrow airstrip on motu Totegegie and a communal ferry takes passengers to Rikitea (approx 500 XPF for a single journey). Flight tickets are very expensive (approx $800 return) and are not included in any of the air passes currently offered by Air Tahiti.
If you’re (very) flexible with your time, you could theoretically book a spot on the Nuku Hau cargo vessel which services Rikitea once per month from Tahiti (contact@snp.pf | +689-40549954). You can also look for any yacht owners seeking travel companions or help on various forums. Lastly, you can visit the archipelago on a cruise ship, as I did.
When is the best time to the Gambier Islands?
The Gambier Islands enjoy milder weather than Tahiti. The best months to visit are during the cooler and drier ‘winter’ months (June-August), with the warmest and wettest months being December-January. I visited the Gambier Islands during early October and the weather was quite cloudy and wet for the most part. From July to late September, humpback whales can be spotted.
How long should you spend in the Gambier Islands?
In theory, about three full days would be enough. However, since the duration of your visit depends on flight/boat schedule, these factors will determine the length of your stay. The appeal of the archipelago lies in its remoteness and its magnificent lagoon, so having time to relax, getting to know the locals and to visit its special spots are all paramount.
Getting around the Gambier Islands
The islands themselves are very small and can be covered on foot. On the largest island – Mangareva – locals will gladly offer you a ride in their 4X4. The challenge lies in getting from one island to another. For the visiting tourist, this will likely be done as part of a paid excursion via your pension or cruise. However, there is a communal ferry that connects the inhabited islands which theoretically can be used for island hopping, though you will need to return to Rikitea at night to sleep. Keep in mind that some sites are located on private land so even if you do independently make it to the island, you still need permission and/or guidance.
Where to stay in the Gambier Islands?
If you won’t be visiting on a yacht or as part of a cruise, Mangareva will be your base for exploring the archipelago. At present, there is one Airbnb listing in the heart of Rikitea and three pensions listed below. All pensions should offer half board stays (breakfast and dinner) as well as equipment for rent/free use such as bicycles or kayaks plus paid excursions to neighboring islands and motus. Keep in mind that some pensions only accept cash while others also accept major credit cards.
Pension Maro’i: located in the heart of Rikitea by the pier.
Pension Chez Bianca et Benoit: located on a hill in the vicinity of the small community of Atituti about a 15-minute walk from Rikitea.
Pension Chez Jojo: located on the same side of Rikitea but on the north end of the island about 45 minutes by walk from Rikitea.
At the present time, there is no ATM in the Gambier Islands, but the post office will change US Dollars or Euros. It is best to come with enough cash to cover your visit and to pay in advance for accommodation if possible.
What to bring back from the Gambier Islands?
The number one souvenir from the Gambier Islands is a black pearl. You might be able to find some for sale in the main village of Rikitea, but it’s also worth visiting the Robert Wan pearl farm on Aukena Island where you can buy pearls in all categories (starting from about $50). In addition, it’s worth stopping at the local crafts school where students sell beautiful artwork carved from mother of pearl shells that are no longer in use. For those into Pacific fashion, it’s worth searching for Kaka’o a local hat woven from the grass which grows on the mountains (can take up to a week to weave).
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Southern California Premiere — Michael McKeever’s witty, passionate, funny and, ultimately, heartrending play takes an unflinching look at how we choose to tie the knot — or not. Daniel and Mitchell are the perfect couple. Perfect house, perfect friends — even a mother who wants them married. They’d have the perfect wedding too, except that Mitchell doesn’t believe in gay marriage. A turn of events puts their perfect life in jeopardy, and Mitchell is thrust into a future in which even his love may not be enough. Daniel’s Husband is a bold reflection on love, commitment, and family in our perilous new world. Starring Bill Brochtrup, Tim Cummings, Jose Fernando, Ed Martin, and Jenny O’Hara; directed by Simon Levy.
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