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Endurance's Mccord Property In Alaska Expanded Through Option And Staking
Gold hosted in Quartz and Oxide Wad as well as Cinnabar Recovered from McCord Creek
Endurance Gold Corporation (EDG -- TSX.V, "Endurance") is pleased to announce the Company has entered into a letter agreement to option 100% interest in nine (9) claims ("Optioned Claims") adjoining the Company's McCord Gold Project in Alaska, and the staking of eleven (11) additional claims with both acquisitions expanding the Company's McCord Gold Project to a total of forty (40) claims for 5,178 acres.
The McCord Gold Project is easily accessible from the Elliott Highway and is located in the eastern extension of the Livengood gold district. The Project adjoins International Tower Hill's ("ITH") prefeasibility-stage Livengood Gold Property on the eastern side. ITH have reported an in-situ measured and indicated resource of 11.46 million ounces of gold (see the ITH website for complete disclosure).
The Optioned Claims are located on McCord Creek and, to date, have only been evaluated by the vendor for their placer gold potential. An auger drilling program was completed in March 2017 by the vendor. This program discovered one location in the McCord Creek valley where the auger drill has recovered fine gold, gold-in-quartz, gold-in-oxide wad, and significant quantities of cinnabar in concentrates recovered from auger drill holes down to 20 feet in depth. Photos of the auger drill and the specimen samples collected from the gold concentrates in this area are available on the Company's website www.endurancegold.com. The gold samples have low abrasion characteristics suggesting proximity to source.
Host rock geology is mapped as Early Cretaceous clastic sediments in thrust and fault contact with an older ophiolitic assemblage. This specimen area is located downstream from an interpreted structure which could be the source for the gold mineralization. To the best of the Company's knowledge, aside from some historic and current placer mining activity, this area of McCord Creek has never been previously evaluated with systematic exploration involving soil sampling, geophysics and diamond drilling.
The Company plans to evaluate concentrate samples collected by the vendor and conduct a soil sampling program on the expanded portions of the McCord Gold Project. Results from the soil sampling program will assist in determining a follow-up program of geophysics, additional auger and diamond drilling.
Prior to 2013, and before the acquisition of the Optioned Claims, the Company collected 467 soil samples and 73 rock samples from the northeast portions of the McCord Gold Project. Prior programs completed by the Company have identified seven multi-element soil anomalies, associated with multiple anomalous gold values (>100 parts per billion ("ppb")), considered to be of exploration significance. The two largest multi-element soil anomalies, exceeding 10 ppb gold, are approximately 1,500 by 400 metres and 1,100 by 500 metres in size. The maximum soil value exceeds 100 ppb gold, which is the upper detection limit for the analytical method used.
Under the terms of the letter agreement with the private vendor, Endurance can earn 100% interest in the Optioned Claims by completing a total of US$50,000 in exploration expenditures, and US$40,000 in cash payments by December 31, 2024. The initial cash payment of US$1,000 was paid on signing of the letter agreement. An additional bonus cash payment of US$20,000 is payable if the Company wishes to exercise the option earlier than October 1, 2024. The option is subject to a 2% net smelter royalty ("NSR") and Endurance can purchase half of the NSR at any time. The vendor continues to have the right to conduct placer mining activity during the term of the option and will work with the Company in identifying target areas to test with the vendor's auger drill. There is no finder's fee payable for this transaction.
About Endurance
Endurance Gold Corporation is a company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of highly prospective North American mineral properties with the potential to develop world-class deposits. The Company's exploration focus, for projects operated by Endurance, is intrusive-related mineral systems with potential for discovery of major new precious or rare metals deposits, and its business plan offers shareholders exposure to several majority-owned exploration projects with significant discovery potential such as the Elephant Mountain Gold Property in Alaska and the Bandito Rare Earth-Niobium Property in the Yukon. The company also owns a significant shareholding in Inventus Mining Inc.(IVS-TSXV) which controls the entire Pardo paleoplacer gold district near Sudbury, Ontario and owns shares in GFG Resources Inc. (GFG-TSXV) which controls the entire Rattlesnake Hills gold district, Wyoming. Please visit www.endurancegold.com.
ENDURANCE GOLD CORPORATION
Robert T. Boyd
(604) 682-2707, info@endurancegold.com
www.endurancegold.com
Robert T. Boyd, P.Geo. is a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 and supervised the compilation of the information forming the basis for this release.
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Home / My Story
Chari Heredia-Reyes grew up in a bustling household in Manila where fruitcakes and pastries were lined up by the hundreds during the Christmas season. As the ninth of eleven children, Chari helped out at her mom’s seasonal undertaking of bringing such goodies and cheer to friends and family. Chari later earned a degree in Special Education from the University of the Philippines, graduating cum laude.
Chari settled in California with her husband and CIA chef, Ramon, raising four children. Despite an active teaching career, Chari’s passion to bake still called. She decided to take on the challenge of adding ensaymadas to her repertoire of baked goods. The ensaymada was a special treat that Chari’s mom had made exclusively for family Christmas dinners. It involved a tedious ten-hour process, so the few dozen produced were savory treasures.
The current, commercially sold ensaymadas do not do justice to the true, centuries-old pastry. After years of work on recipe adjustments, Chari’s ensaymadas are now proudly perfected and available to all through Ensaymada Project. In the words of a seasoned customer: “It is what a Filipino ensaymada truly should be.”
Photocredit: Michael Aushenker
Editor, Palisadian-Post
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Next Wednesday, we shall know whether these items are leading indicators or just noise.
Amy R. Connolly reports at UPI:
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio locked up eight new congressional endorsements and an infusion of cash contributions, bolstering his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and pushing him ahead of the pack for political backing.
Former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum threw his support behind Rubio after the former Kentucky senator announced he was dropping his bid Wednesday.
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and Rep. Glenn Thompson, both from Pennsylvania, and Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia are expected to endorse Rubio on Thursday.
They join endorsements from Reps. Steve Womack and Rick Crawford, both Arkansas Republicans, Rep. Matt Salmon of Arizona and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
Catherine Ho writes at The Washington Post:
In the wake of his strong showing in Iowa, Marco Rubio is gaining momentum among the lobbyists and big-time donors who can super-charge his campaign heading into a crucial stretch.
The Rubio campaign said it raised $2 million in the 24 hours after Iowa, where he placed third behind Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Behind-the-scenes, money is flowing to the Florida senator from those with ties to the lobbying business — who often contribute big checks to super PACs supporting candidates or bundle money from their friends and colleagues to give directly to campaigns. Some of those donors previously contributed to a pro-Jeb Bush super PAC, Right to Rise, which only took in $15 million in the second half of 2015 compared to $103 million during the first half.
Brad Richardson reports at The Hill:
Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Thursday vaulted into second place in a daily tracking poll, but he still trails front-runner Donald Trump by double digits in the New Hampshire primary
The real estate mogul leads the GOP field, with 36 percent support, according to the WHDH/UMass Lowell poll, followed by the Florida senator, with 15 percent support; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), with 14 percent support; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, with 8 percent support; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, with 7 percent support.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie places sixth in the state, with 5 percent support, followed by retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, at 4 percent support, and business executive Carly Fiorina, at 3 percent support.
The daily poll shows a boost for Rubio, who gained 3 points overnight and 7 points since his stronger-than-expected finish in the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
Posted by Pitney at 1:41 PM
Labels: Campaign Finance, government, Marco Rubio, New Hampshire, political science, Politics, Public Opinion
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Chapter 5 - Peace in Death / March 25, 2017 by Bob Jamison
Ray-Ray sat on his handcuffed hands in the back of a police cruiser...smiling.
"Yo, dee-tec-tive Rohl, how much is Pablo paying you?"
Detective Rohl was silent for a moment, unhurriedly driving the unmarked cruiser. He'd showed up to the scene minutes after uniformed officers crashed the party. He'd slipped in, took custody of Ray-Ray in the chaos and hightailed it out of there.
Rohl said, "Shut the fuck up."
"Aww man, you don't gotta be like that, we're all friends here." Ray-Ray squirmed uncomfortably. "Did you have to keep these cuffs on me?"
The detective's grip on the steering wheel squeaked. "At least 2 or 3 of your crew are dead, bled out on the street."
"Yeah, well, my ass is alive. Always 5 more thugs coming up right behind them to sling that rock." Ray-Ray shrugged. "That crazy-ass Russian motherfucker ain't no joke."
The police radio chirped and deadpan voices called out codes and street names. Rohl drove cautiously through the empty streets towards the Docks, meandering through city blocks as the radio chatter slowed to a blip every few minutes as they arrived at a run-down warehouse.
Ray-Ray peered into the failing yellow light cast by the building's overhead lights.
"Yo Rohl. Where we at?"
Rohl leaned back and peered at Ray-Ray in the mirror. "Where I was told to take you." He rummaged under a newspaper on the passenger seat and pulled a fifth of amber liquid to his lips. He took a sip, squinting.
He hopped out of the cruiser, opening the back door and grabbing Ray-Ray's arm and pulling roughly.
Ray-Ray awkwardly slid sideways out of the car, banging his dreadlocked head on the jam. "Fucking corrupt-ass pig."
Rohl hustled him up a few steps and into the building through a rusty metal door. The large room was illuminated by a single overhead fluorescent, casting a gloomy rectangular spotlight in the middle of the concrete. Rohl stopped in the middle of the light with Ray-Ray.
"Here's your man. Now pay me." He fumbled at his belt momentarily for a key and un-cuffed Ray-Ray.
They heard the shuffling steps of several people in the shadows at one end of the room and the detective walked over and exchanged whispers and an envelope with a silhouette in the darkness.
Ray-Ray peered into the darkness, raising a hand to cover the glare from the overhead light. "Mr. Perez?" He licked his lips. "Yo man, I'm sorry bout all this, but...you know how it is...me and my gangstas were stirring up shit in the the Points like you asked. But you know..."
Ray-Ray flinched as the metal door banged behind Rohl as he high-tailed it out of the building.
"You know...Santo's men..."
The silhouette strode toward him, the unmistakeable click of a gun being cocked.
The figure spoke, "I told my men to clean your filth out of my Points."
"Santo", Ray-Ray whispered, his throat suddenly dry. Clearing it, he said more loudly, "Mr. Santo, I umm...".
Santo raised his pistol. "I have a message for your employer, Pablo Perez."
"Yeah, sure, Mr. Santo. I can tell him anything you want me to. Just..."
"My message is that if any of his men show their faces in the Points again, I'll put a bullet there." The pistol snarled and the bullet tore through Ray-Ray's skull. His body jerked and he fell heavily to the floor leaking blood and brains.
Santo turned back, eyes shining in the dim light, towards Donny still standing in the shadows. "Go leave this message on Pablo's doorstep."
"And don't fail me again..."
Ray-Ray, Donny, Santo, The Points, The Docks March 25, 2017
Chapter 1 - Origin / October 17, 2016 by Bob Jamison
My father always told me a life of crime wouldn’t pay.
Until I was 13, I watched him toil in the dirt. From one grimey construction job to the next, barely scraping by.
I watched him work up to foreman, watched him puff out his chest when we moved out of our run-down one-bedroom apartment in Southie, into an even more run-down house in the slums of Eastwood Heights.
“Son, I told you honesty and hard work would pay off.”, he told me. Standing on the stoop of that house. Trash lining the gutter of the street. Trash staring at us from the dark windows of the other tenements.
I shivered, and clenched my fists in rage.
A year later, I came home from school to my mother coughing up blood into a kitchen towel. Cancer.
My father prayed. Holding her hand at her bed-side. His job long-gone from missing hours. Bills piling up on the kitchen table. Piling up and piling up. Looming over us.
A month later, December, we were living out of my father’s car. Driving through the city at night to keep warm. Christmas lights on houses burning into my eyes.
I boiled. The bile in my stomach seethed at all the lies of this wretched city. The fat laughing people taking from my father...from my mother...from me. Warm in buildings my father wrecked himself to build for...nothing.
I found him in an alley. Between two dumpsters. Piss and liquor soaking his clothing.
I’d been living at the Salvation Army, alone because they would only take in children. I brought him food every night, snuck into my pocket from dinner or stolen from the kitchen.
I don’t know where he’d gotten a gun. Maybe he’d always had one? The blood seeped slowly into the filth of the street. His face was passive, in stark contrast to the violent gore to the side of his skull.
I picked up the pistol. It was so heavy in my hand. It smelled of hell, a bitter oily smoke that filled my nostrils, drowning out the wet iron smell of blood.
I turned my back on him, from the path he’d tried to walk. Towards the dark.
With a gun.
Kingpin Stories Santo October 17, 2016
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Rams acquire returner Dante Hall from Chiefs
Updated: April 25, 2007, 1:18 PM ET
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ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Rams' long search for a return man ended Wednesday when the team acquired Dante Hall from Kansas City in exchange for a fifth-round pick in this weekend's draft.
"We have filled a need with one of the top players in football at his specialty, returning punts and kicks," Rams coach Scott Linehan said. "Dante will fit nicely on our special teams and can be utilized as a receiver in certain situations."
The trade could have draft-day implications. The Rams had expressed strong interest in Ohio State's Ted Ginn Jr., as much for his return ability as for his resume as a receiver. St. Louis also has several needs on defense.
As part of the trade, the teams swapped positions in the third round -- the Chiefs moving up to 82nd overall, the Rams down to 84th.
"We have to get younger, and the only way you can do that is through the draft," Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said. "You're going to have to give up something to get something."
The trade also gives Kansas City seven draft choices.
"We feel that it's always important to have at least seven draft picks," Chiefs president Carl Peterson said. "Hopefully, we'll be able to acquire another one or two in the days to come."
The Rams have struggled for years on kick returns. Last season, St. Louis averaged 7.8 yards per punt return. Only five teams were worse. The Rams were 26th in kickoff returns, averaging 21.3 yards.
The 28-year-old Hall has returned 11 kickoffs and punts for touchdowns in his seven-year career, including four (two kickoffs, two punts) in 2003. Brian Mitchell holds the record with 14 kick-return touchdowns, followed by Eric Metcalf with 12.
Hall also needs one more kickoff return for a touchdown to break the record of six he shares with Ollie Matson, Gale Sayers, Travis Williams and Mel Gray.
Hall was the NFL's top returner from 2002-2004. His production declined the last two season, though he had one punt return for a touchdown last season, on Oct. 1 against San Francisco.
In 2003, he averaged 25.9 yards per kickoff return and 16.3 yards per punt return.
Last season, Hall averaged 22.8 yards on 53 kickoff returns and 8.9 yards on 27 punt returns. He also caught 26 passes, two for touchdowns.
For his career, all of it with Kansas City, Hall averaged 24 yards per kickoff return and 10 yards per punt return.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
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Mark Sanford Doesn’t Like Criticism
… AND IS NO LONGER CONSULTING JESUS ABOUT HIS VOTES
|| By FITSNEWS || U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford doesn’t like being called a “corporate whore.” Nor does he like his latest sellout to the “Republican” establishment being compared to fellatio. In fact he reached out to this website’s founding editor this week to voice his displeasure regarding the tone of our recent criticism.
“You can’t be using the language that you’re using – you can’t be making the innuendo you’re using about a man sucking another man’s penis,” Sanford said during a Thursday morning call to FITS founding editor Will Folks. “I’m just telling you as a friend you might want to get off the high horse because it’s a dangerous place to be.”
Sanford added that “the Lord is going to humble you.”
“I’d be careful in terms of your own soul,” he said.
Folks repeatedly tried Sanford to focus on the issue at hand – specifically whether he would reconsider his shameless sellout on reauthorizing a crony capitalist slush fund in light of looming indictments against the fund’s personnel.
“No, no, no … I’m not playing your game,” Sanford responded. “I don’t have time to play your game.”
“When you line up your voting record against mine then we’ll talk,” Sanford said. “It’s very easy to criticize when you don’t have to cast one vote.”
Actually it is easy to criticize. But it’s also easy to vote the right way … in fact, Sanford repeatedly eschewed such political sellouts during his first stint in Congress (from 1995-2001) – and was overwhelmingly reelected twice by voters appreciative of his principled positions.
Asked again whether he would reconsider his vote, Sanford said he wasn’t going to respond on the record to “unprofessional” inquiries.
“I’ve lived in judgment world and it’s a place you don’t wanna be,” he said. “Only God can judge.”
Folks attempted to get Sanford to answer the question a third time, only to be told “there you go – you’re getting on the high horse again.”
Sanford then began lecturing Folks on the latter’s “un-Christian” behavior and asking him whether Jesus would have leveled such unflattering criticism at “another Christian.”
Folks response? Asking Sanford what Jesus would think about selling out taxpayers to benefit corporate executives … including a CEO who made $30 million last year.
“I don’t think Jesus cares,” Sanford responded.
Really? That’s an interesting response seeing how Sanford played the Jesus card in the aftermath of another recent sellout – his vote in support of fiscally liberal U.S. Speaker John Boehner.
Folks asked Sanford if Jesus didn’t care about his votes, then why did he publicize his consultation with the Almighty?
“I never said ‘Jesus,’ I said I prayed about it,” Sanford shot back. “Show me where it says ‘Jesus.'”
Asked who he prayed to, Sanford replied “that’s between me and God.”
Sheesh …
Sanford – generally a cool customer – repeatedly raised his voice during the eight-minute exchange, which was by far the testiest conversation our founding editor has ever had with the man he helped elect governor of South Carolina in 2002.
He was angry … telling Folks “to impugn one completely based on one vote I don’t this is fair.”
Look: We get that Sanford is upset. After all, he’s admitted publicly that he is voting for something that he knows is wrong … because a big company in his district wants him to vote for it. That’s gotta eat away at somebody’s soul.
Also, Sanford is doing exactly what he once vowed he would never do – vote for something that’s bad for the country just because it (ostensibly) benefits his district. Again, that’s something that’s got to eat away at him.
But if Sanford thinks for one second we are going to pull punches … or be on the receiving end of lectures in morality from him … he’s sorely mistaken.
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The Family Friendly Side of New Orleans
September 4 2013 | New Orleans
Too often people think that New Orleans is strictly a city for the adults. The truth is that it can be a very family friendly with the makings of a vacation getaway that kids from age 2 to 102 will love. With its many lush green parks, historic sights popular attractions, New Orleans can be a fun and educational vacation spot for the while family.
A New Orleans family favorite is the Audubon Zoo and its more than 2,000 exotic animals. The zoo is home to the standards like gorillas and orangutans, but wait until the kids see the two white alligators and the extremely rare white tiger. They’re sure to be wowed. Plan to spend at least a few hours strolling through the zoo, with all of its sights it could be a full day adventure. The zoo is located at 6500 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70118 and you can find a coupon for the zoo at NewOrleansCoupons.com.
Audubon Aquarium
New Orleans is known for its seafood, which means there’s also plenty of water life that surrounds it. The Audubon Aquarium shares that underwater world in a way that will keep the kids entertained and happy, plus they might even learn a thing or two. The Aquarium is the residence of 10,000 animals from 530 different species. The Aquarium features many exhibits including a 400,000 gallon Gulf of Mexico Exhibit filled with sharks, turtles and stingrays. The Aquarium is located at 1 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 and they also have a coupon at NewOrleansCoupons.com.
Within a short drive of New Orleans, there are vast waterways and miles of swampland waiting for your family to explore. A number of experienced swamp tour guides look forward to sharing the history, legends and beauty of these remote locations. Included in the tours are introductions with the local wildlife including, the ever popular alligator, which is what everyone really wants to see!
Steamboat Natchez
Step back in time with a cruise on the mighty Mississippi River with the crew of the Steamboat Natchez. The Steamboat Natchez is powered by an authentic steam powered steam wheeler and will take your family back into history to the 1800’s when steamboats ruled the river. The boat sets sail from 1 Toulouse Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. See their coupon at NewOrleansCoupons.com.
Of course if you’re coming to vacation in New Orleans, you’ll need a place to stay. You may want to consider hotels in the Central Business District, Garden District or the close suburb of Metairie. Generally speaking, these hotels are more family friendly, including being more affordable, quiet and spacious compared hotels in the other part of the city. Keep a look out for the hotels with pools, the kids will love a late afternoon while you get a chance to rest after a day of sightseeing.
So next time you plan on coming to New Orleans, whether for business or fun, bring the whole family, everyone will have a great time. Learn more about the family friendly side of New Orleans at NewOrleansKids.com, including a listing of free and cheap activities.
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Dec 8 Advent Reflection: Barren
December 8, 2015 at 1:12 am Categories: Digging Deeper
Luke 1:6-7 “[Zachariah and Elizabeth] were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord. But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.”
Barrenness is of course a fertility problem. Biologically it refers to a womb that cannot support embryonic life. Agriculturally it refers to a land that cannot support crop life. Metaphorically it proves to be a most portable word. It was evidently a favorite of the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, who spoke of everything from ‘barren efforts’ to ‘barren crags’ to ‘barren shores’ to ‘barren lives’ and ultimately to our ‘barren Death’:
Wiser there than you, that crowning barren Death as lord of all, Deem this over-tragic drama’s closing curtain is the pall!
Lord Tennyson is right. Barrenness finds its way into every nook and cranny of this world and our experience of it. And that is because theologically barrenness is the state of creation this side of Eden.
The world is duplicitous in its grandeur and its terror, its beauty and violence, in its capacity to provide for the unseen sparrow and its capacity to turn to ice. Creation is groaning in labor and in suffocation, the sign that is more than a sign that Mother Nature is ever losing her battle with Father Time. We live in a world and in bodies and in communities that simply cannot support life. Every home so rich with memory will slowly start to lose touch and eventually will be left alone. No more children giggling their way into the master bedroom on Saturday morning. No frenzy of life in the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day frantically filling every dish and basket and platter with an attempt to keep the past alive. No one to say “Mom” or “Dad” or “You’re grounded!” or “Pass the jam”–just the occasional “Mr.” or “Mrs.” when the phone rings. Then calls come only for “Mrs.”, with condolences. Then the phone just stops ringing.
Life inside the walls gives way to a damningly exact proportion of grief. But soon no one is even left to cry. What was home will now house only an empty memory, maybe a few moths. Every birth certificate already shares its name with a death certificate. The world is our womb, and it is barren, every life a miscarriage.
But God creates ex nihilo, out of nothing. And he does not just hurl the world into a space sufficient to sustain it. He creates formless void (Gen. 1:2), a barren womb, a world that he would himself have to fill in order to sustain life, a world that would have to be filled with him and so could be filled with joy. Apart from him this world will always return back to the joyless void, but with him always back to a feast of life. So God creates from the very beginning a world in which he can be born, and thus a world in which we can be born again.
So as we wait upon the Lord, we should not look for him to come to places full of strategy and competence and men in dark suits. He comes where the efforts are barren and the ground is chapped. Slaves in Egypt became a nation in the desert. God had come. Out of barren wombs the child of promise is born to Sarah, the child of prophecy to Elizabeth, the “Voice in the Wilderness” born to a father who could not speak. God had come.
Out of nowhere the substitute came to Abraham for his son on Mount Moriah. Out of the Virgin the Substitute came to Israel for all sons on Mount Calvary. God has come.
And God is coming again. Isaiah says we’ll know it is God because the cracked desert floor will begin blooming like a daisy field in springtime; the groaning ground of the curse will suddenly burst into song (Isa. 35). Scorched war fields will become spring-fed gardens (Isa. 58); swords and spears will be beaten into the shape of life and kept in the barn (Isa. 2). He said that lions and tigers and bears would go vegan and siesta with lambs and yearlings (Isa. 11). There will be life where there can be no life, peace where there can be only blood, a symphony filling canyon winds. Paul says we’ll know it is God because when he comes he will lay death down to sleep, pray the Lord its hell to keep. We’ll wake up one day without aching joints and pressing deadlines. We’ll see mirrors we’re not ashamed of (1 Cor. 15).
John says we’ll know it is God because of what happens to the brokenhearted. The little boy whose dad was sent home in the form of a flag; the young mother of that boy looking helpless at his searching eyes; the little girl who never wore white. We’ll know it is God not because the brokenhearted will suddenly stop crying but because their tears will be wiped away (Rev. 21:4). They will be touched by a real Hand and there will be a resurrection of real hands. Those searching eyes will find what they never stopped looking for. It will be like a world ruled by the real religion that James talked about (Ja. 1:27).
John also says we’ll know it is God because it will be like a Bridegroom and a Father and a Son and like a world full of siblings (Rev. 21-22), like wedding reception and a family reunion all at once (Rev. 19:6). It will just be a mess of an overflow. Loneliness won’t even fit in a crack on the floor. There will be no storm shelters or panic rooms, no sirens or seatbelts, no temples or mosques, no shut doors or closed countries, no walls, no gun control, no guns, no abortions, no greed, no partisanship, no voting booths, no border patrol, no arrogance, no bumper stickers, no child soldiers, no fatherlessness, no websites, no shrapnel, no midnight calls, no divorce, no mistrust, no shame, no shadows, no small caskets: only God, only Light, only peace, only joy, infinite joy drowning the void beneath the weight of the “glory of the Lord that fills the earth as the waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14), and us, together—with a Table there at the center to keep the past alive for good (Rev. 21:21-23).
When Christ comes, he comes to dethrone the one called “barren Death” crowned “lord of all” by burying the crimson of His crown in a deeper crimson bloom of roses. Yes, every knee, Death–so Death, be not proud (Donne)! For He is the “firstborn of creation” (Col. 1:15) and therefore the “firstborn of the dead” (Col. 1:18), so he will again descend into this barren womb, but this time to give birth. When “the Lord descends from heaven…the dead in Christ shall rise” (1 Thess. 4:16). And on that day, the world will be an ultrasound devoid of any dark, born again into the womb of eternal life together with the eternally Begotten Son of God. No more miscarriages.
When he comes…
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,
Weaved in my low devout melancholy,
Thou which of good, hast, yea art treasury,
All changing unchanged Ancient of days,
But do not, with a vile crown of frail bays,
Reward thy muse’s white sincerity,
But what thy thorny crown gained, that give me,
A crown of glory, which doth flower always;
The ends crown our works, but thou crown’st our ends,
For, at our end begins our endless rest,
This first last end, now zealously possessed,
With a strong sober thirst, my soul attends.
‘Tis time that heart and voice be lifted high,
Salvation to all that will is nigh.
~ John Donne, La Corona
10 Around the Table
Talk about loss. Humans close up to the world as we begin to experience loss. It can damage our ability to trust and to open up. We become a people ruled by fear and our capacity to be loved or to love is eclipsed. The Spirit of God comes to fill up the voids with a power to love and to be loved (Rom. 5). Share about the areas you need the life of the Spirit to bring you life and light. Pray for one another to be filled by the Spirit.
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Rosenberg v. Spicy Bear Media
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Rosenberg, a professional photographer, sued the operator of a Charlottesville, VA community blog (now defunct) for copyright infringement, claiming it failed to remove images of his photograph that were posted (twice) to its site by unknown... read full description
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Rosenberg, a professional photographer, sued the operator of a Charlottesville, VA community blog (now defunct) for copyright infringement, claiming it failed to remove images of his photograph that were posted (twice) to its site by unknown third parties. The complaint also included a claims for removal or alteration of copyright management information, because the images on cvillain.com were stripped of identifying material attached to the original picture (presumably the copyright symbol, name, and year that appear when mousing over the original photo).
On July 6, 2009, the parties agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice because they had reached a settlement in the amount of $750.
Dozier Internet Law: May 2009 Copyright Infringement Lawsuits
The Hook: Copywrong? Photog sues blogger for $385K
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HE NAMED ME MALALA
Expected to Attend: Director Davis Guggenheim
Malala Yousafzai gained world attention at age 15 when she spoke out for girls’ education from her home in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and survived being shot in the head by Taliban militants. Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) gives a close-up portrait of this strong-willed teenager and her family. The title’s “he” refers to her father Ziauddin, who named his daughter for the courageous Pashtun folk hero Malalai. Eloquent and funny, Malala is an inspiration. Courtesy of Fox Searchlight.
DOC NYC will admit AMPAS members and a guest to any film screening in the festival’s “Short List” section, space permitting. AMPAS members will need to present their membership card at the box office to claim a ticket.
Below watch the Q&A with director Davis Guggenheim
ActivismEducationHuman RightsInternationalReligionSouth-AsianYouth
Official Site: http://www.henamedmemalala.com/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeNamedMeMalala
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Producer: Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Davis Guggenheim
Cinematographer: Erich Roland
Editor: Greg Finton, Brian Johnson, Brad Fuller
Music: Thomas Newman
Country: USA/UAE
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Delivery Apr. 20, 2016
Postmates Launches 15-Minute Delivery Service in New York Today
More fast food that’s not fast food. Photo: Postmates
Uber’s announcement on Monday that it was canceling Instant Delivery in New York seemed like a bad omen for impatient hungry people — if Uber can’t make insanely speedy meal delivery work, who can? Well, Postmates, the food courier of choice for Starbucks and Chipotle, says it’s got something that should really interest New Yorkers, then: Pop, the 15-minute food-delivery service it debuted on the West Coast last fall, rolls out citywide today at 11 a.m., just in time for lunch. Unless you’re relying on a juice delivery to prevent a diabetic coma, Pop differs in no substantive way from Uber’s ten-minute Instant Delivery, which seems to raise several questions about why the latter failed. (Uber’s only explanation so far: “In order to bring you the most exciting selection, the highest quality food, and the fastest delivery time, we’ve decided to narrow our focus.”)
According to TechCrunch, Pop in NYC will work just like it does in San Francisco, with an icon appearing on the app that loads that day’s list of prepackaged items customers can have in 15 minutes or less. For now, the delivery range is limited to Manhattan only, from 34th Street down to the Bowery, but there also won’t be a delivery fee at first. Postmates hasn’t said which restaurants it’s partnering with yet, so that will be today’s big lunchtime surprise.
[TechCrunch]
Postmates Launches Instant Delivery in NYC
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Morning 9: Kuchar: “The things my grandma was hearing were really tough” | Kendra Little | Tiger’s Virginia course DOA?
Ben Alberstadt
1. Diaz ahead
AP report…”Roberto Diaz shot a 9-under 62 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the John Deere Classic.”
“Playing in the final group of the day off the first tee, the 32-year-old Mexican player birdied four of the first five holes, eagled the par-5 10th and birdied three of the last five in the bogey-free round at TPC Deere Run. He took the lead with a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th.”
“…Americans Adam Long and Russell Henley were two strokes back. Martin Laird was another stroke back at 65 with Ryan Palmer, Andrew Landry, Vaughn Taylor, Zack Sucher and Ryan Blaum.”
Full piece.
Also worth noting for those invested: Ho Sung Choi fired an opening-round 71, which is currently one stroke off the cut line.
2. A smiling American in Scotland
While the second round is well under way, here’s what happened in the first…
AP report…”Matt Kuchar shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to share the lead with three players in a low-scoring opening round at the Scottish Open.”
“Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas, the highest-ranked players in the field, opened with 67s – a score only slightly better than the field average on a day when 118 players broke par at The Renaissance Club, which was softened by heavy early-morning rain.”
“Kuchar, who has two previous top-four finishes at the Scottish Open, made two eagles on his first nine and ran off four birdies in five holes to reach 9 under before bogeying his last hole of the day, the par-3 ninth.”
3. A John Deere stalwart struggles
Danny Lawhon, Des Moines Register, syndicated in Golfweek… “…the past 14 months might have been the most frustrating of the Cedar Rapids native’s professional career. He’s got just one top-10 finish in that span, and he hasn’t finished better than 16th this calendar year.”
“Coming off three weeks of mental and physical rest following the U.S. Open, he was a fountain of optimism Tuesday in his pre-tournament news conference. By Thursday evening, not even the friendly confines of the John Deere Classic seemed to be on his side.”
“For the first time in 11 years, Johnson failed to break par at TPC Deere Run, bogeying the 18th hole to card a 1-over-par round of 72. The last time the Drake alum was over par in any round in the Quad Cities was the third round in 2008, when he shot a 75 on his way to finishing 69th.”
4. Marathon: Lewis lurking
Golf Channel’s Randall Mell…”Stacy Lewis would like to take a decision out of U.S. Solheim Cup captain Juli Inkster’s hands.”
“Lewis would like to make the American team on points, rather than rely on a captain’s pick.”
“With a 6-under-par 65 Thursday at the Marathon Classic, Lewis took a step in that direction. She equaled her best score since rejoining the tour as a mom this year.”
“Lewis is one shot off the lead in suburban Toledo, where she’s embraced as a hometown favorite. She was born in Toledo, and her parents grew up there.”
5. Stricker leads Senior Players
AP report on the action…”Steve Stricker topped the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship leaderboard at 5 under with a hole to play Thursday when the first round was suspended for the day because of lightning and rain.”
“Coming off a victory two weeks ago in the U.S. Senior Open at Norte Dame, Stricker had a hole-in-one on the 184-yard, par-3 seventh at Firestone Country Club.”
“Play was suspended at 12:55 p.m., and called for the day at 5:05 p.m…”
6. “Things my grandma was hearing were really tough”
Golf Digest’s Joel Beall…”Kuchar did not reveal what his grandma read or heard, but has those in his life who keep him abreast of what’s being said about him.”
“Just the fact that she had called me to say, ‘I can’t believe what they are saying’ was hard, because I had a pretty decent idea from friends telling me, you know, ‘I can’t believe what this guy said,’ or ‘This guy really threw you under the bus,'” Kuchar said.
Yet, mentioned above, Kuchar continues to enjoy a prosperous year. He attributes the run to the advice of Phil Mickelson (who’s also had his fun with Kuchar). “He’s been one that says, ‘Listen, this is a tough deal,'” Kuchar said of Mickelson’s words. “He said, ‘I’ve been through way worse. It will pass. You keep being the guy you are and this will go away. Unfortunately it’s a tough situation you’re in, but just keep being the guy you are and time will heal.'”
7. Kendra Little’s struggle
Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols...”If I had success, I knew that was going to push me closer to the LPGA,” said Little, who knew a drug test would have revealed her higher levels of testosterone.
“But it also would’ve pushed me closer to having to deal with my gender. That was such an insane internal battle.”
“It was around the age of 12 or 13 that a doctor first told Little that she was both a boy and a girl. After that day, she never discussed AIS with her parents or anyone else. Once a month she’d get estrogen injections. Later, once every three months.”
Those days in the doctor’s office were the darkest. There Little had to face the fact that she was different. That this really was her confusing and complex reality.
8. No Cliffs at High Carolina?
Dillon Davis, Asheville Citizen Times (syndicated in Golfweek)…”A nearly 800-acre Swannanoa, Virginia, property that once was the intended site of a luxury housing community and a Tiger Woods-designed golf course has changed hands, but future development plans there remain unclear.”
“The property was slated to be part of The Cliffs at High Carolina, a neighborhood project featuring about 1,000 luxury homes and what would have been the first U.S. golf course designed by Woods straddling parts of the Fairview and Swannanoa communities. It was sold in April by David Straus of Straus Family LLC for about $15.3 million.”
9. Rain no concern for Royal Portrush
RTE Sport report…“There are no concerns about Royal Portrush links golf club ahead of next week’s Open Championship after heavy rainfall on Wednesday.”
“Footage emerged on social media of torrential rain and several puddles at the venue in Antrim. Retired Ulster rugby player Darren Cave posted the video on his official Instagram account today, but tournament organisers Royal and Ancient (R&A) have no worries about the condition of Portrush.”
“We had a lot of rain yesterday but the course coped well and we are happy with how it is looking,” an R&A spokesman told RTÉ Sport.
Tour Rundown runs toward Open with Frittelli, Kim, Goosen victories
Acushnet aquires premium golf and ski apparel brand KJUS
Mizuno MP-20 SEL: Leftys rejoice!
Hey you southpaws, I promise I didn’t just flip an image of an MP-20 to wind you up… This is a real deal!
Say hello to the Mizuno MP-20 SEL (Special Edition Lefty) made just for you.
So what makes these SEL’s special? You may remember from the MP-20 piece I referenced the “MP-20 family” and how Mizuno spent a lot of time analyzing set makeup data to fine-tune each club in each model to maximize performance from both an individual set perspective, and to combo. They took all of that data and flipped it on its head, or at least hand, to create a set combining the most requested clubs just for left-handed players.
The MP20 SEL is a combination of 5-PW MP20 (blades) with HMB 3, and 4-irons. All the flow, copper and tech from the right-handed models combined into one. Without getting too far into the logistic of this, it has to be said that unless you’re a maple-syrup drinking, hockey-playing Canuck (don’t worry its not an offensive term) where around 25 percent of golfers play left-handed the global golf population that plays left-handed is still below 10 percent. Mizuno wants to do everything they can to offer an MP design for lefties, and as the data demonstrated, this was the best option to fit the most players.
For more information on the entire MP20 line up check out the full piece here: ( INSERT MP20 LINK )
Morning 9: Nothing runs like a Frittelli | Royal Portrush takes center stage
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com; @benalberstadt on Instagram)
Good Monday morning, golf fans.
1 Scottish Open: Wiesberger nabs second W of 2019
(Image above via Wiesberger on Instagram) EuropeanTour.com report…”Bernd Wiesberger…beat Benjamin Hebert in a twilight play-off at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open.”
“The Austrian entered the final day at The Renaissance Club with a two shot lead but found himself trailing after Hebert carded a stunning closing 62 to set the target at 22 under.”
“Wiesberger had edged back ahead with two to play but bogeyed the 17th in a 69 before a par on the third play-off hole handed him a sixth European Tour title.”
2. Nothing runs like a Frittelli
AP report…”While the rest of the leaders faltered, Dylan Frittelli surged to his first PGA Tour title.”
“Frittelli won the John Deere Classic on Sunday, closing with a 7-under 64 for a two-stroke victory over Russell Henley. The South African earned a spot next week in the British Open, finishing at 21-under 263 after the bogey-free final round at TPC Deere Run.”
“One of eight players within two strokes of the lead entering the lead, Frittelli was looking forward to the tournament’s charter flight to Royal Portrush.”
“I’m sure it’s going to be a fun flight,” Frittelli said.
Indeed. Full piece.
3. Goose is loose at Senior Players
AP report on Goosen’s win at one of the low-key best venues for watching professional golf…”Retief Goosen birdied the final two holes to win the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship on Sunday at Firestone Country Club for his first PGA Tour Champions title.”
“The 50-year-old Hall of Famer from South Africa broke a tie for the lead with a 15-foot putt on the par-4 17th and made a 10-footer on the par-4 18th for a 2-under 68 and a two-stroke victory over 65-year-old Jay Haas and Tim Petrovic.”
4. Kim outduels Thompson
AP report…”I’m very happy to win, especially this tournament, because Marathon has a lot of history,” Kim said.
“With five birdies in the middle of her round, Kim pulled away from Lexi Thompson in their head-to-head duel at Highland Meadows Golf Club outside Toledo, Ohio.”
“She played some amazing golf,” Thompson said. “There was a stretch there, mid-round, where she stuck every shot.
“Had under 5 feet [for birdie] about four times in a row. So, it was a very well-deserved win by her.”
5. If only Tony Romo played playoff football as well as he does the American Century Championship…
(Kidding, Cowboys fans)
Golf Channel’s Adam Woodard…”Tony Romo is the man to beat in Lake Tahoe.”
“The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current CBS NFL analyst has staked his claim as best celebrity golfer by defending his title at the 2019 American Century Championship, winning with a score of 71 points. Former MLB All-Star Mark Mulder (61) finished second, followed by tennis Olympic medalist Mardy Fish and another former MLB All-Star Derek Lowe (57). Actor Jack Wagner rounds out the top five with 55 points.”
6. *Points to Collin Morikawa* You get a tour card!
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”A week after Matthew Wolff earned his PGA Tour card by winning the 3M Open, Collin Morikawa locked up membership for next season.”
“The 22-year-old Cal product, in just his fifth pro start, tied for fourth Sunday at the John Deere Classic to collect 122.5 non-member FedExCup points and run his season total to 456.5. With just three weeks left in the regular season, that number, which currently would slot Morikawa at 88th, will assuredly be more than No. 125 in the final standings, meaning Morikawa can count on earning his card for the 2019-20 season.”
7. Portrush to center stage
Golf Channel’s Will Gray…”Much has changed since The Open last visited the coastal links of Royal Portrush. It’s been 68 years, in fact, since Max Faulkner scooped 300 pounds for winning the tournament despite never breaking 70. But that remains the only time the oldest major in golf was held somewhere other than England or Scotland.”
“That is, until this week. Long viewed as one of the best courses in the world, Royal Portrush now has a chance to shine in front of a global audience like never before.”
“And chances are, she’s going to put on quite a show.”
8. In a similar vein…
James Corrigan at The Telegraph files his look ahead…
“Yet things change, as do politics, finance, perception and even dusty old men in blazers, and here we are in Open week. Everywhere you walked in Portrush on Saturday, with a big wheel spinning and looking down on families eating ice creams, and the brave dipping their toes in the grey ocean, it was clear that this was not a normal weekend. For, as the doors swing open, Tiger Woods is turning up on the Sunday morning and, no, that is not an everyday occurrence.”
“Perhaps Graeme McDowell summed it up best in a spectacular blog post on the European Tour website. “It’s been amazing to see the Open Championship evolve in the sleepy little town where I was born,” he said. “For anyone who has never been there, Portrush is on the very northern tip of the island of Ireland and is a very raw, beautiful, rugged landscape which feels very remote. To see an Open being staged there is mind-blowing for many of the local people.”
9. Fun yields win for Frittelli
Good bit from Cameron Morfit going a level beyond the game story for PGATour.com…”It was mentality clarity,” Frittelli said, when asked to explain the difference at the Deere.
“With his attention divided and his career flagging, the 29-year-old with the prescription glasses found himself feeling stressed as this season wore on. His European Tour membership was running out, and he found himself in danger of losing his PGA TOUR card, too. That would mean going back to the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, where nothing is guaranteed except for the fact that it would preclude his playing in some big overseas events.”
“The clock was ticking, and Frittelli had to find a way to tune it out. Enter sports psychologist Jay Brunza, who helped Frittelli finally accept that he couldn’t affect outcomes, at least not positively, by obsessing over them. When he three-putted the 14th hole after driving the green Sunday, he not only forced himself to slow down and not overreact, he smiled.”
“I think I was the only one on the course who smiled after a three-putt,” he said.
Ronald Montesano
Something quite brilliant was in the air this week on the world’s golf tours. A new course debuted in Scotland, South Africa stood tall with two champions, and the world anticipated a return to a legendary, northern course that has not seen an Open Championship since 1951. The American tours are drawing to a close, and plans for 2019-2020 are firming up. Five events caught our attention this week, from Gullane to Toledo, from Iowa to Colorado. Plug in your charger and settle in for a nice read of this week’s Tour Rundown.
Scottish Open chalice rests in Wiesberger’s hands
Interesting stories envelope the Austrian golfer, Bernd Wiesberger. After a many-month layoff to rehab a wrist injury this season, 2 victories have come his way, including last week’s Scottish Open. The first 3 playoffs of his European Tour career all ended in defeat. In 2011, 2014 and 2015, he lost in extra holes at the Johnnie Walker, the Lyoness, and the Irish Open. Since then, he’s 2-0 in extra time. During the days leading into the 2016 and 2018 Ryder Cups, the 6-time Euro champ always seemed on the edge of breaking through to the European squad, but tailed off in the stretch run. On Sunday, under great pressure, he broke through for his finest triumph to date.
Soft ground and zero wind made The Renaissance Club an easy target during its championship debut. Wiesberger took advantage in round two, posting a course-record 61 to seize the lead. He held the top spot after 54 holes, placing all pressure squarely on his shoulders as round 4 began. It didn’t help that England’s Andrew Johnston had signed for a 62 before the Austrian pegged his opening tee shot. It also didn’t help that Benjamin Hebert of France was in the midst of his own 62, climbing the leaderboard. Ultimately, the duo of Wiesberger and Hebert would trade counters through the closing holes. After the Austrian holed a gutty, 7-feet effort at the last for a spot in the playoff, Hebert’s sound game betrayed him. He bogeyed the 2nd playoff hole, when par would have won, then 3-putted the 3rd go-round to finish 2nd.
As consolation, Hebert, Johnston and Italy’s Nino Bertasio earned the final 3 spots in this week’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
That putt has sealed it!
It's play-off time in Scotland ????#ASIScottishOpen #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/cDikRJ6pUY
— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) July 14, 2019
@ScottishOpen @EuropeanTour @Renaissancegc @BWiesberger
John Deere Classic is Frittelli’s 1st PGA Tour victory
The 3rd weekend of July redefined the careers of its tournament winners. Dylan Frtitelli has long been a quality golfer, since before his days at the University of Texas. Frittelli found himself uncertain of his status for the 2019-2020 campaign. His major-tour memberships were at risk, and a return to the triple-A tours was not his number-one comfort blanket. Everything changed on Sunday, in the middle of the American continent, when Frittelli surged past 3rd-round leader Andrew Landry with 64. As Landry fell to 3rd spot, Frittelli reached 21-under par. His work wasn’t finished, however. After a 4-under opening nine in round 4, the kind that gets you into the top 10, Russell Henley continued to make birdies. He made 6 more coming home, including a marvelous one at the final hole. Henley reached 19-under, claiming 2nd spot for himself. Frittelli didn’t falter. He made 4 at the par-5 17th, one of the few holes Henley failed to birdie in his march to the green. Ultimately, the win was vindication, security, and an unexpected trip to Royal Portrush for this week’s Open Championship. Breathe easy, Dylan.
A victorious Sunday for @Dylan_Frittelli. ????
His 93.75% (15 of 16) Scrambling performance this week was the best of any PGA TOUR winner this season. pic.twitter.com/iF2morLs57
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 15, 2019
@JDCLASSIC @PGATOUR @TPCDeereRun @Dylan_Frittelli
Sei Young Kim takes 2nd win of LPGA season at Marathon Classic
Sei Young Kim offered an LPGA marketing tutorial on how to pronounce her name (So Young!) a season or two ago. On Sunday, the 26-year old Korean golfer earned her 9th LPGA title by 2 strokes, over Lexi Thompson of the USA. Kim made 7 birdies over her first 15 holes, establishing a healthy lead as the tournament headed for home. Bogey at the 16th reduced her margin of victory to 2, but also served to secure trivia on the week: Kim’s scorecard’s were 64, 65, 66 and 67. A hand that would do some damage at the card table, also worked well at the Toledo LPGA stop. Thompson nor anyone else ever threatened the front-runner on day four. Thompson had too many bogies (2) and not enough birdies (also 2) on the outward nine, to mount an early challenge. 3 more birdies plus 1 additional bogey through the 16th, brought her even with Stacy Lewis for 2nd spot. Thompson closed fiercely, with birdie at 17 and eagle at the last. Her torrid finish made the final score appear closer than actuality. In truth, it was the Sei Young show all day long, a fitting tribute to a stellar performance.
Sunday at the @MarathonLPGA saw barrage of low scores including @SY_KIM_lpga firing a 65 to win in Ohio.
HIGHLIGHTS ?? pic.twitter.com/CkxxJKd5fM
— LPGA (@LPGA) July 15, 2019
@MarathonLPGA @LPGA @HMGCgrounds @SY_KIM_lpga
Colorado Championship earns Ledesma a ticket to the show in 2019-2020
Argentina’s Nelson Ledesma had won on this level before. He triumphed at the LECOM in 2019, but that victory was not enough to propel him to the PGA Tour. In a campaign highlighted by higher, more consistent finishes, Ledesma’s victory on Sunday was enough to earn him a card on the golf world’s grandest dance stage. The walk home wasn’t easy on Sunday. Ledesma dueled with fellow southern-hemisphere golfer Brett Coletta the entire round. Ledesma went -1 on each of his 9s, but they could have differed more. On the outward half, the Platense was all over the place: 4 birdies, 1 bogey, 1 double. On the inward half, all pars until the last. Coletta might look back on Sunday and wonder, what went wrong on the par 5 holes. He doubled the first, bogeyed the 5th, and failed to birdie the 13th and 15th. A late birdie at 17 tied him with Ledesma, setting the stage for the 20-feet birdie putt that would settle the matter and send the champion to new heights.
Celebrate your work. ???? @NelsonLedesmaOk’s winning birdie @TPC_ColoradoHL … and epic hat-throw. ???? #LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/bTQ6ugwFvw
— Korn Ferry Tour (@kornferrytour) July 15, 2019
@TPCColorado @KornFerryTour @TPCColoradoChampionship @nelsonledesmaok
Senior Players Championship is Goosen’s 1st on senior circuit
There was a time, in the early 2000s, when a lead in Goosen’s hands was nearly as secure as a Tiger one. Then came the US Open of 2005, when his final-round lead simply went far, far away. Since those days, family, injuries and new challengers brought him back to the pack. Goosen won 4 more events on the European tour, never again on the US side of the water, until Sunday. Having followed Friday’s 62 with a Saturday 75, the South African found himself in 2nd spot, behind the 2019 story of the year, Scott Parel. This time, it was Goosen who hung on and the leader, that faltered.
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Enough of injustice, cruelty and oppression
By Hazara People on February 20, 2011 1 Comment
Basir Ahang | Hazara People | Translated by Liaquat Ali Hazara
Basir Ahang, Journalist
In August, last year, it was reported from Kunduz Province in north Afghanistan, that a young couple have been stoned to death by the Taliban. Although this barbaric act was severely condemned by various Human Rights organisations including Amnesty International who demanded of the Karzai government to bring the perpetrators into justice, yet this case, like hundreds of other cases in government offices, was buried under the dust and nobody pursued them.
As far as I know, the same problem has occurred in various parts of Afghanistan in abundance and the proclamations of them are the detested Taliban, the Group which takes responsibility of these crimes with pride. This abhorred Group, during their rule in this country, had declared all abominable to the citizens except eating food and drinking water. Aside from the crimes and massacres, they had enacted laws which deprived women of their fundamental rights and even they were not allowed to go out for shopping.
In respect to the previous month’s stoning of this young couple in Kunduz Province, the video of the crime has cracked the means to it. This video is a proof of the crimes of the Taliban rule. The member of this loathful Group, whom Hamid Karzai calls his brothers and Farooq Wardak appealed to them for reconciliation in a visit to the UK a few days ago, in broad-day light and in the presence of hundreds of people, permanently silenced Sadiqa 23 and Khayyam 28 in Kunduz Province in north Afghanistan “because of their affection to each other” with the stones bearing religious manuscript. This incident needs not be elucidated and that the tragic incidents are broadcast via Tolo TV, are really censured being dejecting and horrifying.
The killers of Sadiqa and kheyam and the perpetrators of hundreds of other distressing crimes in this country are the Taliban. They, at present, without carpel and gun that they had 10 years ago, commit these crimes, but this time with complete support of Farooq Wardak as a democratic and manpower organ, perpetuate these crimes.
It is good that our attention has been drawn towards the past ill-doings of this Group (the Taliban), so that we are aware of. If the people do not realize to take Karzai into task who is looking for ways to give supremacy to this loathsome Group, we may be subject to worse incidences.
A brief to the past:
The Taliban from day one of their ruling warned the non-Pashtun nations of Afghanistan that who call themselves separate entities, should leave the country or they should be Muslims like them (the Taliban). After this warning, Abdul Manan Niazi, the Taliban spokesman, in post occupation and the announcement of a three day massacre in Mazar-e-Sharif, he proclaimed that the Tajiks should go to Tajikistan, the Uzbeks to Uzbekistan and the Hazaras to Ghoristan (graveyard).
They forced the Hindu and Sikh citizens of the country to wear special costumes in order that they can be recognized. After the pronouncement of Mullah Niazi, the Taliban started door to door search of the non-Pashtun areas in various parts of the country and the innocent Hazaras were massacred in large numbers for being non-Pashtun. Witnessing these depressing crimes and genocide in Parwan, Mazar-e-Sharif and Bamiyan, exacerbated with the time passing and even the non-Pashtun passengers were forcefully taken off vehicles to be killed.
Examples of these types of mass killings were executed in different parts of Afghanistan but the worse one, subjected to the genocide of the Hazaras took place in rear Kunduz, Shaajoi District and Zabul province in autumn 1999.
At that time, the District Chief of Shaajoi was very close to Mullah Omar and belonged to Qandahar Province who had commanded his people to shoot those who are identified as Hazaras. This Taliban Commander would carry out complete vehicles’ search en route to Ghazni and Qandahar taking the Hazara passengers captive and decapitating them at night. The genocide and mass killings of the Hazaras continued for a month and after hundreds of Hazara leaders consisting of spirituals and elders, with the dispatch of a letter from the Taliban Leadership Council and the UNO, tended to cease in the mid crimson of the UN, it terminated.
I will never forget the incidents of mass killings of the Hazaras. I must say that this is not a story but I, the talebearer, have witnessed these incidents myself.
Hazara Massacre in Kanda Posht
30 November, 1998 Shah Joy District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan
I was a student of 10th class when the Hazaras of Ghazni Province were harassed due to the three year economic siege of the Taliban, were compelled to surrender and within days, the Taliban brought them under occupation. Nahur, Jaghori and Malistan fell into invasion of Taliban one after another. Maulvi Abdul Haq Wasiq, the supporter of General Interrogation Taliban, who was then shouldering the responsibility for disarmament of the Hazaras of Ghazni, in a trip to Jaghori and Malistan districts, demanded that without interference of the Taliban army, they have to surrender their arms and ammunitions or else they will have to face fierce clash.
In this trip, Abdul Haq Wasiq was escorted by an Arab Advisor and tens of commandos of Pakistan army who even did not know Pashto, were communicating in Urdu with one another. Fear, intimidation and the tiring and back-breaking three year economic siege, which had compelled people to surrender, took away all resources from them within five days. Hence, with settlement of the Taliban into districts and para-military troops of “Amr-Bil-Maaruf – Command and Prohibition” accelerated the pace of harassing and torturing people.
The Taliban troops, after thorough settlement in these areas, would apprehend Hazara youths on various pretexts and send them to prisons. This trend made people believe to lose hope and start suffering from poverty. Migration, at that time, had become unbearably difficult and if any Hazara wished to travel, should have obtained a Migration Letter from the Taliban or else they would be disembarked off the vehicles and tied with cloudburst.
There was no way left and I also intended to migrate with my peer. I arrived at Ghazni where I waited in a queue for two days to seek permission to leave the country but there was no acquaintance at sight which compelled me to bribe them with an amount of Rs. 5, 000/- Pakistani Rupees (being the official currency of the Taliban). From Ghazni, I travelled to Kandahar into a Coaster, we arrived at Shah Joy District at noon, at one kilo meter in Shah Joy bazaar near a big bridge, where the Mujahedeen stayed at a time, our vehicle was stopped by the Taliban, everyone was scared. One of the passengers, knowing Pashto language and resembling the Pashtun, asked the Tajik driver what the matter was. The driver paused for a moment and then continued in Persian that probably there is a burial programme of all of us. He, further, continued that in the last one month in Shah Joy District, all Hazara passengers were alighted here so that they can be killed.
Now, someone has got the news who has been stopped, he said that it was a worse incident one day ago, he witnessed, “12 vehicles loaded with corpses, were being transported to Ghazni to be handed over to their families.
The driver had not completed his talk when two white helicopters of the UN landed on the ground. Apparently, the UN had arrived under a mutual understanding with the Taliban to take hold of the dead bodies for their transmission to Ghazni for their families.
When the UN corps alighted the helicopter, the Taliban distanced from us to guide them towards the ditch where the corpses were dumped, hereinafter, we also gathered courage to alight our vehicle and walk down to see them from near. The UN personnel consisted of three countries who were probably Americans and Canadians with two Arabs, some Afghanis and an Indian with long beard, Afghan costume and wearing caps. They were accompanied by a photographer to capture the pictures of dead bodies.
Four of us could only dare to get closer to them. When we reached the incident site, we witnessed dozens of tortured corpses were ten days old. It was really shocking. Children, women, young and old were all lying like befallen trees. Crows had eaten their eyes while stray dogs had torn their legs into pieces.
Without the members of the Taliban, who stood guarded with Kalashnikovs around the pit, all others left the site with tearful eyes. One of the UN personnel, who was the photographer by profession, solicited from the Taliban to take two pictures of the corpses from distance before switching off his camera. The dead bodies were all of Hazaras, mostly inhabitants of Ghazni wishing to escape to Pakistan after complete settlement of the Taliban in parts of the country but they had been captured here with the children and wife to be shot or beheaded.
A number of the slain passengers were these who didn’t have circumstantial information of the area, fell prey on their return from Iran or Pakistan.
There were a large number of dead bodies but, unfortunately, I could not stay there longer due to lack of time. The driver told me that we have to move out of here as they are engaged. When we boarded, the driver gathered more courage and disclosed in a long conversation that I have witnessed it several times that the Taliban walked the Hazara and Tajik passengers off vehicles and tied them with cloudburst immediately. He said that he has never felt any danger due to his command of Pashto language and appearance but due to the incidents of these massacres, he is really terrified as they have changed into nightmares to disturb him at night.
He, further, said that the exact number of Hazara people killed in Kanda Posht -Shah Joy District is unknown; however, the Taliban enquiry has confirmed 4000 dead bodies.
In short, when I reached in Quetta, Pakistan – after numerous humiliation and insult for being a Hazara – the news of genocide of 10, 000 Hazaras in above mentioned area was circulating. For them, it was a mere example of massacre and killings of people by Taliban. This Group paved the way of hundreds of rivers of blood in their ruling, which should never be forgotten.
At present, Hamid Karzai and others like Farooq Wardak, due to tribalism and Fascism, are spending millions of dollars of the peoples of Afghanistan and trying perpetually to impose the Taliban on people, being detested for their crimes against humanity. The people have to wake up to stop another disaster and river of blood.
This Group and many other murderers of innocent people, in front of your eyes, despite having the blood stains of your brothers, sisters, wives and children are appointed on top government positions by Hamid Karzai and with the spent of huge amounts of money from government exchequer, they are sent to the Parliament, the apex legislature organ of the country.
Take a look at the record of the Taliban and see why people like Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Abdul Salam Rockiti, Naeem Kochi also known as Maulavi Cable and tens of others, who would bath with your blood, instead of being apologetic and in places like prisons, have again been imposed on you with full support of Hamid Karzai and other factions including Farooq Wardak.
Look at Sayyaf and his black deeds which indulged thousands of people into a bloodbath and ask yourself as to why he is blossoming then before, and with full support of Karzai and his team appear on political spectrum of Afghanistan and claim to be the legislators of the country and for his induction millions of dollars are spent in one night.
Ask yourself that instead of the Parliament, why they are not behind the bar and like hundreds of other criminals who have been prosecuted in various countries, why they are not handed over to the judiciary?
Ask yourself that where this money comes from to be spent on Sayyaf who offers the members of Parliament with a lofty amount of 40, 000 US dollars and a vehicle costing $15, 000 US dollars to buy their vote?
There is no need to blame as you can witness all occurrences yourself should you look at the past happenings. Hence, we had better cure this concocted cancer. We need to find a way of justice in the country with collaboration:
Now, you have less time and only you can choose one from the three following:
1- Being left for humiliation, wretchedness and injustice forever.
2- The court trial of these criminals and re-establishment of a responsive and elected government which should treat all citizens equally regardless of ethnicity, religion and race.
3- Or going towards analysis, provided there is no way available for resolution, it is better that the country should be analysed rationally so that the Group of people in Afghanistan whose destiny has been played with for hundreds of years, depriving them of all rights and privileges, should be given their due rights.
This country has no value for people who have never seen them in this context. This is enough of three hundred years of injustice and cruelty. People have tolerated them more than their patience and courage, showing forbearance. Not only this inflection has been apprehended by the teams of the ruling clans but they have increased these cruelties and injustice against their countrymen/people.
I have jot down these pains and miseries for my fellow countrymen, for those who have experienced the predicaments and know these hardships. Perhaps, this writing has much fetidness but it is pain and however you tend to write, pain is pain.
I have written the incidents of these massacres after a long time as I did not wish to sadden others of these tragic incidents which have penetrated deep into my bone but, today, after watching the film of lapidation of unsuccessful fellow countrymen, Sadiqa and kheyam, the filthy pain awoke and I thought to share it with you.
With the hope of the destruction/defeat of ignorance, Fascism and injustice in the motherland of my forefathers.
Long live the sorrowful and distressed compatriots!
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Historical Mansion in Puerto Valldemossa - Mallorca
Built in the mid 18 Century by Archduke Ludwig Salvator and today the dearly loved hideout of movie star Michael Douglas, the sprawling country estate of S’Estaca is steeped in a fascinating history both old and new, making this one of the most endearing homes in the whole of Mallorca.
A Luxurious Home Where Privacy Prevails
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Browsing: Kalpa-sūtra (Or. 12744)
Image: Section on Mahāvīra
Title: Section on Mahāvīra
Or. 12744
21 recto
Ardhamāgadhī Prākrit in Devanāgarī script
opaque watercolour on paper with gold
33 x 12 cms
The Kalpa-sūtra is the most frequently illustrated Jain text of the Śvetāmbara sect. It is read and recited by monks in the festival of Paryuṣaṇ, which takes place in August to September each year.
The first part of the Kalpa-sūtra deals with the lives of the Jinas, especially Mahāvīra, Pārśva, Nemi and Ṛṣabha. It features almost identical stories of their births, lives as princes, renunciation, enlightenment and emancipation.
The second part – Sthavirāvali – is a praise of the early teachers of Jainism. The third part – Sāmācārī – deals with particular monastic rules to be followed during the rainy season.
'Kalpa Sûtra'
translated and edited by Hermann Jacobi
Jaina Sutras: Âkârâṅga Sûtra and Kalpa Sûtra
Sacred Books of the East series; series editor F. Max Müller; volume 22: 1
Clarendon Press; Oxford, England UK; 1884
Kalpa Sūtra of Bhadrabāhu Svāmī
Bhadrabāhu
translated by Kastur Chand Lalwani
Motilal Banarsidass; New Delhi, India; 1979
'The Kalpa Sûtra of Bhadrabâhu'
Bhadrabāhu
Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes
Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft series; series editor Otto Loth; volume VII: 1
F. A. Brockhaus; Leipzig, Saxony, Germany; 1879
A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of Miniature Paintings of the Jaina Kalpasūtra as executed in the Early Western Indian Style
W. Norman Brown
Freer Gallery of Art – Oriental Studies series; volume 2
The Lord Baltimore Press / Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC, USA; 1934
Catalogue of the Jain manuscripts at the British Library: including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Nalini Balbir, Kanhaiyalal Sheth, Kalpana Sheth and C. B. Tripathi
British Library & the Institute of Jainology; London, UK; 2006
Pārśva meditating
The National Gallery of Australia offers an elaborately illustrated page from a 15th-century manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra. The 23rd Jina Pārśva sits in the lotus posture of meditation. He is easily identifiable from his seven-headed snake headdress.
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=177853&View=LRG
Kalpa-sūtra of Bhadrabāhu - Gallica Bibliothèque numérique
This manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra is fully digitised on the Gallica Bibliothèque numérique website, part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris. Though the website is available in English, the information about the artefact is in French.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000521k/f1
Mahāvīra renounces
This illustration is from a page of the Śvetāmbara scripture of the Kalpa-sūtra in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It shows the last Jina, Mahāvīra, performing the rite of keśa-loca – ‘pulling out of the hair’ – which indicates indifference to the body. It is part of the initiation ceremony of dīkṣā, in which an initiate renounces the world and becomes a mendicant. He is watched by Śakra, king of the gods, who takes an active role in the lives of the 24 Jinas.
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/105108.html?mulR=656|9
A Jina renounces
This highly decorated page from a 15th-century manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra is provided by the National Gallery of Australia. A young man performs the rite of keśa-loca – ‘pulling out of the hair’ – which indicates indifference to the body. It is part of the initiation ceremony of dīkṣā, in which an initiate renounces the world and becomes a mendicant. He is watched by Śakra, king of the gods who takes an active role in the lives of the 24 Jinas.
Hariṇaigameṣin transfers the embryo
This rare palm-leaf page in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art comes from an early 14th-century manuscript of the Śvetāmbara scripture of the Kalpa-sūtra. The picture illustrates the episode where the antelope-headed god Hariṇaigameṣin transfers the embryo of the Jina-to-be Mahāvīra from the brahmin lady Devānandā to the kṣatriya queen Triśalā.
Follower of the 24 Jinas or an adjective describing Jain teachings or practices. The term 'Jaina' is also used although 'Jain' is more common.
Kalpa-sūtra
The Book of Ritual attributed to Bhadrabāhu. It has three sections:
'Jina-caritra' – 'Lives of the Jinas'
'Sthavirāvalī' – 'String of Elders'
'Sāmācārī' – 'Right Monastic Conduct'.
A significant sacred text for Śvetāmbara Jains, the Kalpa-sūtra has a central role in the annual Paryuṣaṇ festival.
Kevala-jñāna
Omniscience, enlightenment or perfect knowledge – the highest of the five types of knowledge , where one knows everything wherever and whenever it is. It is extremely difficult to attain, equivalent to the 13th stage of spiritual purity in the guṇa-sthāna. Digambaras believe only men can achieve it whereas Śvetāmbaras believe that both men and women can become enlightened.
'White-clad’ in Sanskrit, the title of one of the two main divisions of Jainism, in which both male and female mendicants wear white robes. There are some differences of doctrine or belief between these two sects and to some extent their followers consider themselves as belonging to distinct branches. Divisions can be fierce in practical matters, for example, over the ownership of pilgrimage places, but all sects see themselves as Jains.
A man who has taken a public vow to withdraw from ordinary life to formally enter religious life and advance spiritually. Frequently, monks perform physical austerities or undergo physical hardships in order to progress spiritually.
The annual four-month rainy period in India, lasting roughly from June / July to October / November. Heavy rain, strong storms and gale-force winds are very common during this period. Mendicants cannot travel around and must stay in one place to avoid breaking their vow of non-violence and because the monsoon makes travelling on foot difficult and dangerous. It is known as cāturmāsa in Sanskrit, comāsa in Hindi and comāsu in Gujarati.
Mendicant lifestyle
Paryuṣaṇ
Jain calendar
Monks and nuns
British Library. Or. 13341. Unknown author
Victoria and Albert Museum. IM 9-1931. Unknown author. Circa 1490
Victoria and Albert Museum. IM 161-1914. Unknown author. 16th century
British Library. Or. 14262. Unknown author. Perhaps 15th century
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San Francisco supervisor unveils plans for triage center for people living in vehicles
Body-worn camera captures deputy's incredible rescue amid smothering Camp Fire flames
Posted Nov 29 2018 05:58PM PST
Updated Nov 29 2018 07:22PM PST
PG&E answers to no power shutoff in Butte Co.
Protests interrupt PG&E CPUC hearing
A Butte County sheriff’s deputy activated his body-worn camera after his car became disabled in the growing Camp Fire flames and he was forced to continue his pursuit on foot. Four nurses needed help evacuating a Paradise hospital on Nov. 8. The officer said he wanted to capture what he thought would be the last moments of his life.
Instead, it became an incredible rescue.
Visibility was reduced to 10 feet by the time Deputy Aaron Parmley ditched his vehicle on Pentz Road near Feather River Hospital. The footage he captured is a chilling display of the massive blaze that killed 88 people, destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and torched over 150,000 acres, making it both the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in U.S. history.
On Wednesday, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced they had searched all 18,000 structures where they believed human remains could be found. He said he was very confident with the searches his team performed, though he advised residents that there’s still a chance they could discover human remains when they return home.
Because as of Wednesday evening, the number of names on the daily list put out by the Butte County Sheriff’s office was 197, down from 1,300 two weeks ago. However, there’s been growing confusion as names of folks who were once reported missing, but were later found, are not being properly reported to authorities. They're are asking the public to report any names they see on the unaccounted for list that don't belong there.
But confusion following disaster of this magnitude is common. Last October, Sonoma County officials at one point listed more than 2,000 people as missing, but that number slowly dropped. A total of 44 people died in the series of fires that ravaged several counties in the North Bay.
The enormity of the Camp Fire is far greater than the Tubbs Fire, though, which destroyed over 5,600 total structures, compared to the nearly 19,000 in Butte County.
Mobile users click here watch video of the incredible rescue
California authorities are investigating whether PG&E’s equipment started the fire, which adds to their mounting wildfire blame that includes starting 17 last year. After questioning the safety and qualifications of top executives, California regulators ordered PG&E to improve its “safety culture” on Thursday.
More: Judge asks PG&E to explain any role it had in deadly wildfire
The San Francisco-based company was ordered by the California Public Utilities Commission to implement 60 recommendations from an independent consultant hired to examine PG&E’s practices. The company responded and said they have already adopted many of the recommendations and they are committed to implementing the others. State officials have not determined the official cause of the fire.
Towards the end of the video shared by the Butte County Sheriff's office, a bulldozer seemingly appears out of nowhere. Through panicked voices you hear a woman say there's no room and the driver say he can just take two people. It's unclear what was said next. But the officer with the body-cam bolted for another vehicle where the rest of the people jumped in before the driver asked everyone to stay quiet and the video ends.
Stanford University investigating noose found on campus
By Aja Seldon, KTVU
Stanford University on Tuesday said it launched an investigation into the discovery of a noose hanging from a small tree on campus over the weekend.
According to the university, the noose was reportedly found near a residence hall where summer students were staying.
In a statement, Stanford said the incident is being investigated as a "suspicious circumstance, but if additional evidence comes to light, it may be re-classified as a hate crime."
Monterey Co.: 9 rabbits abandoned roadside, $1K reward posted for leads
Neuralink, Elon Musk's stealth brain-implant startup to livestream its big reveal
Police: Worker loading ATMs with cash pocketed $100K instead
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Tom Steyer won't run for president in 2020, will focus all efforts on Trump impeachment campaign
FILE ART: In this photo from Jan. 1, 2019, California billionare impeachment activist Tom Steyer annouced Wednesday he will not run for president in 2020 and will instead focus all efforts on impeaching President Trump.
By Ryan Moran, KTVU
Posted Jan 09 2019 03:14PM PST
Updated Jan 09 2019 03:17PM PST
(KTVU) - San Francisco billionaire impeachment activist Tom Steyer announced from Iowa on Wednesday that he will not run for president in 2020 and instead will focus all of his efforts on impeaching President Donald Trump.
Standing at a podium in front of a “Need to impeach” sign, Steyer officially announced he is taking on what he believes is most important and the biggest challenge he could face at this time. The decision came was surprising, as the billionaire investor has publicly suggested a run at the White House in recent months.
“Most people come to Iowa around this time to announce a campaign for presidency,” said Steyer, who chose the premier caucus state to make his statement. “But I’m proud to be here to announce that I will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to remove a president.”
Steyer, who has spent $50 million on his Need to Impeach campaign, said he plans to spend $40 million this year. “I said last year that I’m willing to do whatever I can to protect our country from this reckless, lawless and dangerous president,” Steyer said. “Therefore, I will be dedicating 100 percent of my time, effort and resources working for Mr. Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.
And the reason for doubling-up on his Trump-removal efforts is because the nation’s elected officials are not holding the president accountable, according to Steyer. Given that Democrats have taken majority control of the House, the impeachment talk has reached an “inflection point” and Steyer is asking officials to act immediately. The $40 million pledge for 2019 was positioned to put pressure on the Democratic-controlled house to begin the impeachment process.
Steyer added that Congress has a constitutional obligation “to end this shameful presidency” and he is asking that they put aside their political considerations. And while Steyer’s call for impeachment comes after House Democrats have taken the majority, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that more facts are necessary before trying to impeach Trump and that unveiling the effort could be divisive.
“Mr. Trump has made division itself the centerpiece to his presidency. He does not govern. He creates crises to remain in power and he will not stop spreading lies to the American people.”
KTVU reported this story from Oakland. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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James Franco's Latest Weird Thing (And What Ron Swanson Should Do About It)
Are we not done with James Franco yet?
I mean, whatever, he was fine in Spiderman and probably was okay in that 128 Hours movie that I refused to see because I am overly sensitive to gross and/or violent things, but come on.
He does 8 million things at a time which only serves to solidify his identity as a jack of all trades, master of none. Is anyone really like, "yeah man, I really just love James Franco. He's totally an artist on screen"? No.
Does he just keep churning out nonsense day after day because he knows it's not working and just can't bare to stop for five minutes and channel all his efforts into one thing that would actually be worthwhile? Not exactly the best approach, there, James.
In the words of Ron Swanson, "Don't half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."*
Come to think of it, James could use a swift kick in the pants from Ron Swanson. As could most people in hollywood. But I digress.
Most recently I have discovered his disturbing teddy bear "art," which was terrible enough on its own, but this week I unfortunately ALSO stumbled upon a music video he directed for R.E.M. starring...wait for it...Lindsay Lohan.
Doesn't it just make you want to punch him in the face?
He really is the worst. I think he has become the James Franco of 30 Rock. At least he has in my head. You don't know he doesn't have a Japanese body pillow girlfriend, ok?
To save you some time, the video is basically a trippy five minutes filled with overlaid shots of the seedy underbelly of L.A. and Lindsey Lohan does what she does best, poses provocatively while someone takes pictures of her. Also she wears hipster glasses for about 3.5 seconds and then (for once) comes to her senses and takes them off. James Franco looks all artsy with old-timey cameras and takes some polaroids. End scene.
Combined with the song, it's equal parts annoying and depressing.
Can't you just picture Lindsay and James just sitting there in director's chairs smoking something unmentionable and watching the final cut on a monitor, nodding to each other and pontificating about how this video is totally a reflection on society and how everyone should just really quit judging everyone because we don't know their lives, you know?
Double ugh.
And really, R.E.M.? Is the mid-size club scene most 90's alt bands are playing nowadays just so unbearable that you had to align yourselves with this nonsense? I believed in you. As I do nearly all 90's alt bands. And you let me down. Don't make me say it, okay? Don't make me say it.
Fine, you've left me no choice. It's the end of the world as we know it.
Can we just give James the ol' hook and drag him off the proverbial stage already? Just send Ron in after him. Like anyone would even be mad.
Ron Swanson: "Alright son, that's enough out of you." James Franco: "But..I just have one more act where I set a dollhouse on fire and perform on aerial silks and call it performance art and then I release the whole thing as an interactive documentary!" Ron Swanson: "Exactly."
You know what? I propose we send Ron Swanson in whenever any celebrity becomes a particular nuisance to society.
Who do you think Ron should go after next?
*By the way, this exists on a cross-stitch hoop and I want it...nudge, nudge, people who want to get me a Christmas gift...
UPDATE: Ron Swanson has HEEDED my request. See evidence below:
He really is the greatest.
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Denny Travel Guides, Travel Stories
India – The Beginning
why and because of whom we go to India, how we organize and plan this trip and where it takes us
Once upon a time (2014) in a land far away (London) Tsveti was studying practical filmmaking and our communication was mainly through Skype. One fine day, a bit after the first semester started, we talked and among all interesting things, that were happening in her new life, she told me half-joking “We are going to an Indian wedding!”. Her new friends and fellow students Rhea and Karan recently announced that they are planning to get married. It’s all good, but I don’t know neither Rhea, nor Karan.
Life went on and not more than a year later the three of them, Tsveti, Rhea and Karan, were already living and studying in Berlin, where I moved a month earlier. They turned out to be nice people and we quickly became friends.
You see, Rhea is not the typical Indian girl you can imagine. She is funny, compassionate, a real fighter and she is loud, really loud (!), she loves to drink beer and to laugh hard. Most likely, she is like this because she spent a big part of her life in the United States.
Karan, on the other hand, is a short, funny, cynical and extremely generous Indian, who, if things had developed a bit differently in the past, could’ve now be the prince of Burma.
What brings them together is that both Rhea and Karan come from good families (to be read as rich), they are always late, they love cinema and life. We spent together nearly four years in Berlin, filled with many house parties, countless beers in bars and parks, and not one or two dramatic encounters with the outside world.
Life went on and Rhea and Karan had to return to India. Their families were more than happy and finding work in the film business was a child’s game for both of them. One spring day, Rhea sent us a message telling us to call her when we are together. A few days later, passing by not far from the place where Rhea and Karan lived in Berlin, Tsveti remembered we should call her.
From the other side was the enthusiastic and loud voice of Rhea. 5 seconds later we were looking wide-eyed. It’s really happening! “We are getting married!”, Rhea screamed into the headset. We knew it was bound to happen, but this kind of news are somehow always surprising.
“Really? When? Where? How?”, my questions started pouring out of my mouth one after the other. And the reply was making us even more wide-eyed. The date was not set yet, because they needed to meet some sort of spiritual mentor to choose the sacred date. But it was clear that the event will be in India between December and February.
It was also clear that it won’t be the typical wedding that we are used to in Europe. This would be the event that we will talk and remember for a long time. The event for which they’ll spent so much money that no one that I know has ever spent and would never do it for a wedding in their life.
We hung up, looked at each other and it was decided – we are going to India!
India has never been on our bucket list of places to visit soon, but we couldn’t resist the opportunity. Maybe a month or two after, the call with the set date came. Rhea and Karan will get married at the beginning of December and the wedding will last for three days!
Good! But this meant that we need to start planning everything as soon as possible. The questions started falling one after the other. How long we want to stay for? Where else can we go? How much money do we need? What will be the weather like? Do we need any vaccination? What should we know before we leave?
The initial idea was to spend a week in India, which didn’t sound so bad. However, when you open a map of the world and you look at India, your gaze immediately goes to Sri Lanka. It is the country that won the first place of Lonely Planet’s list of must-visit places in 2019. Well, we will go ahead of the events and visit it in 2018.
In the process of getting to know what to do in this part of the world, it became clear that along with Mumbai we definitely should visit at least one more place in India. And also, that we need at least a week in Sri Lanka.
Tsveti had the misfortune to tell me that the Maldives are not far from there. Huge mistake! There are plenty of things I can’t resist. An island country with a tropical climate and blue water is definitely one of them.
In my head, I already knew that there is no way that we will go to India and not visit the Maldives. Tsveti, on the other hand, had a different opinion – it’s boring, it’s expensive, it’s far, it will be too many places to visit for the short time we have.
I was hearing what she was saying, but not listening a single word of it. Whoever knows her generous soul will understand – it did not take long before I convinced her that we MUST go. MALDIVES! MALDIVES! MALDIVES!
It’s all good, but from one-week trip, we ended up planning one month of travelling. This means two things – first the budget skyrocketed immediately and second, they don’t give days off work just for good behavior.
So we started calculating, collecting coins, hunting for cheap flights and thinking of tactics for how to get an extended holiday. In Tsveti’s job is a bit easier to arrange her schedule and be away for longer. Last year she managed to be on holidays for 3 months and get her salary during the whole time. We used the time to make a dream come true – Lazy Road Trip Central America.
Saving 2 Euro coins for a Lazy Road Trip Asia
For me, achieving this goal did not sound so easy, but it was not impossible either. After coming back from Central America, I started a new job and I still had many days off. On top of this, you can add that we work at a university which like most educational places closes around the Christmas holidays.
All of this helped enormously planning the trip. However, and, you know, there is always a “however”, there was no one that can cover me at work. If your accountant decides to take a vacation before the winter holiday season, without taking care of everyone’s payments, we have a problem.
We chose tickets, which were for exactly one month – from the end of November to end of December, and I prepared a convincing speech for my boss. All went very well and the only condition, which I suggested, was to bring a laptop with me and work for a day or two.
I would finish everything that is urgent and everyone who worked so hard will have full bank accounts before the holidays. I will sacrifice two afternoons, but I’ll be on a month-long journey. We have a deal!
Working during holidays in Goa, India
We booked the tickets, bought some new gadgets for traveling (amazing packing cubes). Also got guides for India and Sri Lanka and began counting the days until the next Lazy Road Trip Asia. First stop – Mumbai, India.
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Torah Commandments
Most Christians will be taught that all of these commandments have been done away with. But oddly enough, Christians uphold about 75% or so of these commandments if not more. It’s important to know that no one (including Jesus) has ever kept them all – because some were only for the priests/ Levites; some were only for men while others only for women; some were only for a certain point in time; some for Nazirite vows, and over 200 related to the Temple which is not standing today.
Is the whole “Old Testament” the Law? No, we only look to the first 5 books of the Bible and specifically “the book of the Covenant”. Westerners call these 5 books “Pentateuch”, easterners call it “Torah”. Besides Torah, we also have history/ writings, plus prophecies. Torah commandments (Instructions) keep us safe. Kings, judges or priests are the only people who could judge on these matters. Deut. 13 tells us clearly not to diminish from the Torah any commandments, in whole or in part, or to add to them. We also need to understand that since we are called to be priests and kings in the kingdom who will judge in the kingdom, we need to learn that which we will judge by, and WE will be judged by. Faith that brings imputed righteousness gets you in the door when we get there. But hearing, knowing and doing (then teaching) the Torah is what our rewards are based on. The crown of righteousness Paul describes is not imputed righteousness, it is earned righteousness.
It is important to understand that some of these words/ commands from God are commanded to be done at a temple in Jerusalem. There is no temple in Jerusalem right now. Just like we cannot tithe correctly anymore (we can only give offerings and practice tithing), so too have we stopped doing anything related to the temple services. So everything we CAN do we should. Whatever we CAN’T do is not sin, it was intended to be this way until the millennial reign with Messiah as He said he would do Passover WITH us in the Kingdom:
Mt 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.
Judgment begins in the house of God (the Kingdom); not in America. The doctrine of the gospel of grace has hidden the Truth from the bride/ remnant in America and abroad. Check out The law is dead post and discuss whether it is or not. Did Jesus only follow 9 of the 10 commandments, or did He follow ALL of the commandments found in the first 5 books of the Bible? We see right away, that Jesus didn’t follow the first commandment to mankind literally (be fruitful and multiply). There are many others that He did not follow. So the lie that He came to “obey ALL the law” so that we didn’t have to falls flat on its face from the very “beginning”. Jesus was quite clear about what He came to do and who He came for:
Mt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Joh 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
Mt 5:17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
He did not come to abolish the laws of His Father, who does NOT change. I know that is not what most churches teach. But it IS what the Bible says, It IS what Jesus said. We have a country full of pastors who talk ABOUT Jesus, but they are fooled about what HE talked about. Let us take a look at these Instructions that christians say are a “burden”, and see how much of that is true and how much of it they are actually doing while they say it is “done away with” in the same breath:
1.Gen. 1:28 — To have children with one’s wife
2.Gen. 32:33 — Not to eat the sinew of the thigh
3.Ex. 12:2 — Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins
4.Ex. 12:6 — To slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time
5.Ex. 12:8 — To eat the Paschal Lamb with matzah and Marror on the night of the fourteenth of Nisan
6.Ex. 12:9 — Not to eat the paschal meat raw or boiled
7.Ex. 12:10 — Not to leave any meat from the paschal offering over until morning
8.Ex. 12:15 — To destroy all chametz on 14th day of Nisan
9.Ex. 12:18 — To eat matzah on the first night of Passover
10.Ex. 12:19 — Not to find chametz in your domain seven days
11.Ex. 12:20 — Not to eat mixtures containing chametz all seven days of Passover
12.Ex. 12:43 — An apostate must not eat from it
13.Ex. 12:45 — A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from it
14.Ex. 12:46 — Not to take the paschal meat from the confines of the group
15.Ex. 12:46 — Not to break any bones from the paschal offering —> Ps. 34:20
16.Ex. 12:48 — An uncircumcised Kohen (priest) must not eat Terumah (heave offering)
17.Ex. 12:48 — An uncircumcised male must not eat from it
18.Ex. 13:3 — Not to eat chametz all seven days of Passover
19.Ex. 13:7 — Not to see chametz in your domain seven days
20.Ex. 13:8 — To relate the Exodus from Egypt on that night
21.Ex. 13:12 — To set aside the firstborn animals
22.Ex. 13:13 — To redeem the firstborn donkey by giving a lamb to a Kohen
23.Ex. 13:13 — To break the neck of the donkey if the owner does not intend to redeem it
24.Ex. 16:29 — Not to walk outside the city boundary on Shabbat
25.Ex. 20:2 — To know there is a God
26.Ex. 20:3 — Not to even think that there are other gods besides Him — Yemenite->Ex. 20:2
27.Ex. 20:5 — Not to make an idol for yourself — Yemenite->Ex. 20:4
28.Ex. 20:6 — Not to worship idols in the manner they are worshiped — Yemenite->Ex. 20:5
29.Ex. 20:6 — Not to worship idols in the four ways we worship God — Yemenite->Ex. 20:5
30.Ex. 20:7 — Not to take God’s Name in vain — Yemenite->Ex. 20:6
31.Ex. 20:9 — To sanctify the day of rest (sabbath) by working 6 days a week — Yemenite->Ex. 20:8
32.Ex. 20:11 — Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day — Yemenite->Ex. 20:10
33.Ex. 20:13 — Not to murder — Yemenite->Ex. 20:12
34.Ex. 20:13 — Respect your father or mother — Yemenite->Ex. 20:12
35.Ex. 20:14 — Not to kidnap — Yemenite->Ex. 20:13
36.Ex. 20:14 — Not to testify falsely — Yemenite->Ex. 20:13
37.Ex. 20:15 — Not to covet and scheme to acquire another’s possession — Yemenite->Ex. 20:14
38.Ex. 20:21 — Not to make human forms even for decorative purposes — Yemenite->Ex. 20:20
39.Ex. 20:24 — Not to build the altar with stones hewn by metal — Yemenite->Ex. 20:23
40.Ex. 20:27 — Not to climb steps to the altar — Yemenite->Ex. 20:26
41.Ex. 21:2 — Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws
42.Ex. 21:8 — Redeem maidservants
43.Ex. 21:8 — Betroth the maidservant
44.Ex. 21:8 — The master must not sell his maidservant
45.Ex. 21:10 — Not to withhold food, clothing, and sexual relations from your wife
46.Ex. 21:15 — Not to strike your father and mother
47.Ex. 21:17 — Not to curse your father and mother
48.Ex. 21:18 — The court must implement laws against the one who assaults another or damages another’s property
49.Ex. 21:20 — The courts must carry out the death penalty of the sword
50.Ex. 21:28 — Not to benefit from an ox condemned to be stoned
51.Ex. 21:28 — The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox
52.Ex. 21:33 — The court must judge the damages incurred by a pit
53.Ex. 21:37 — The court must implement punitive measures against the thief
54.Ex. 22:4 — The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating
55.Ex. 22:5 — The court must judge the damages incurred by fire
56.Ex. 22:6 — The courts must carry out the laws of an unpaid guard
57.Ex. 22:8 — The courts must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter, or denier
58.Ex. 22:9 — The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard
59.Ex. 22:13 — The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower
60.Ex. 22:15-16 — The court must fine one who sexually seduces a maiden
61.Ex. 22:17 — The court must not let the sorcerer live
62.Ex. 22:20 — Not to cheat a convert monetarily
63.Ex. 22:20 — Not to insult or harm a convert with words
64.Ex. 22:21 — Not to oppress the weak
65.Ex. 22:24 — Lend to the poor and destitute
66.Ex. 22:24 — Not to press them for payment if you know they don’t have it
67.Ex. 22:24 — Not to intermediate in an interest loan, guarantee, witness, or write the promissory note
68.Ex. 22:27 — Not to blaspheme
69.Ex. 22:27 — Not to curse judges
70.Ex. 22:27 — Not to curse the head of state or leader of the Sanhedrin
71.Ex. 22:28 — Not to preface one tithe to the next, but separate them in their proper order
72.Ex. 22:30 — Not to eat meat of an animal that was mortally wounded
73.Ex. 23:1 — Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present
74.Ex. 23:1 — Transgressors must not testify
75.Ex. 23:2 — Decide by majority in case of disagreement
76.Ex. 23:2 — The court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required
77.Ex. 23:5 — Help another remove the load from a beast which can no longer carry it
78.Ex. 23:6 — A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor
79.Ex. 23:7 — The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence
80.Ex. 23:8 — Judges must not accept bribes
81.Ex. 23:11 — To leave free all produce which grew in that year
82.Ex. 23:12 — To rest on the seventh day
83.Ex. 23:13 — Not to swear in the name of an idol —> Deut. 13:14
84.Ex. 23:14 — To celebrate on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering)
85.Ex. 23:18 — Not to slaughter it while in possession of leaven
86.Ex. 23:18 — Not to leave the fat overnight
87.Ex. 23:19 — Not to eat mixtures of milk and meat cooked together
88.Ex. 23:19 —To set aside the first fruits and bring them to the Temple
89.Ex. 23:25 — To serve the Almighty with prayer
90.Ex. 23:33 — Not to let the Canaanites dwell in the Land of Israel
The “Aaronic/ Levitical Priests”
91.Ex. 25:8 — To build a Temple
92.Ex. 25:15 — Not to remove the staves from the ark
93.Ex. 25:30 — To make the show bread
94.Ex. 27:21 — To light the Menorah every day
95.Ex. 28:2 — The Kohanim must wear their priestly garments during service
96.Ex. 28:28 — The Kohen Gadol ‘s (High Priest) breastplate must not be loosened from the Efod
97.Ex. 28:32 — Not to tear the priestly garments
98.Ex. 29:33 — The Kohanim must eat the sacrificial meat in the Temple
99.Ex. 29:33 — A non-Kohen must not eat sacrificial meat —
100.Ex. 30:7 — To burn incense every day
101.Ex. 30:9 — Not to burn anything on the Golden Altar besides incense
102.Ex. 30:13 — Each man must give a half shekel annually
103.Ex. 30:19 — A Kohen must wash his hands and feet before service
104.Ex. 30:31 — To prepare the anointing oil
105.Ex. 30:32 — Not to reproduce the anointing oil
106.Ex. 30:32 — Not to anoint with anointing oil
107.Ex. 30:37 — Not to reproduce the incense formula
108.Ex. 34:21 — To rest the land during the seventh year by not doing any work which enhances growth
109.Ex. 34:26 — Not to cook meat and milk together
110.Ex. 35:3 — The court must not inflict punishment on Shabbat
111.Lev. 1:3 — Carry out the procedure of the burnt offering as prescribed in the Torah
112.Lev. 2:1 — To bring meal offerings as prescribed in the Torah
113.Lev. 2:11 — Not to burn honey or yeast on the altar
114.Lev. 2:13 — To salt all sacrifices
115.Lev. 2:13 — Not to omit the salt from sacrifices
116.Lev. 3:11 — Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers
117.Lev. 3:17 — Not to eat blood
118.Lev. 3:17 — Not to eat certain fats of clean animals
119.Lev. 4:13 — The Sanhedrin must bring an offering (in the Temple) when it rules in error
Every person must bring a sin offering (in the temple) for his transgressionAnybody who knows evidence must testify in court
122.Lev. 5:7-11 — Bring an oleh v’yored (temple offering) offering (if the person is wealthy, an animal; if poor, a bird or meal offering)
123.Lev. 5:8 — Not to decapitate a fowl brought as a sin offering
124.Lev. 5:11 — Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers
125.Lev. 5:16 — One who profaned property must repay what he profaned plus a fifth and bring a sacrifice
126.Lev. 5:17-18 — Bring an asham talui (temple offering) when uncertain of guilt
127.Lev. 5:23 — Return the robbed object or its value
128.Lev. 5:25 — Bring an asham vadai (temple offering) when guilt is ascertained
129.Lev. 6:3 — To remove the ashes from the altar every day
130.Lev. 6:6 — To light a fire on the altar every day
131.Lev. 6:6 — Not to extinguish this fire
132.Lev. 6:9 — The Kohanim must eat the remains of the meal offerings
133.Lev. 6:10 — Not to bake a meal offering as leavened bread
134.Lev. 6:13 — The Kohen Gadol must bring a meal offering every day
135.Lev. 6:16 — Not to eat the meal offering of the High Priest
136.Lev. 6:18 — Carry out the procedure of the sin offering
137.Lev. 6:23 — Not to eat the meat of the inner sin offering
138.Lev. 7:1 — Carry out the procedure of the guilt offering
139.Lev. 7:11 — To follow the procedure of the peace offering
140.Lev. 7:17 — To burn the leftover sacrifices
141.Lev. 7:18 — Not to eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions
142.Lev. 7:19 — Not to eat from sacrifices which became impure
143.Lev. 7:19 — To burn all impure sacrifices
144.Lev. 7:20 — An impure person must not eat from sacrifices
145.Lev. 10:6 — A Kohen must not enter the Temple with his head uncovered
146.Lev. 10:6 — A Kohen must not enter the Temple with torn clothes
147.Lev. 10:7 — A Kohen must not leave the Temple during service
148.Lev. 10:9 — A Kohen must not enter the Temple intoxicated
149.Lev. 10:19 — Mourn for relatives
150.Lev. 11:2 — To examine the signs of animals to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher
151.Lev. 11:4 — Not to eat non-kosher animals
152.Lev. 11:9 — To examine the signs of fish to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher
153.Lev. 11:11 — Not to eat non-kosher fish
154.Lev. 11:13 — Not to eat non-kosher fowl
155.Lev. 11:21 — To examine the signs of locusts to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher
156.Lev. 11:29 — Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight shratzim (insects)
157.Lev. 11:34 — Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods
158.Lev. 11:39 — Observe the laws of impurity caused by a dead beast
159.Lev. 11:41 — Not to eat non-kosher creatures that crawl on land
160.Lev. 11:42 — Not to eat worms found in fruit on the ground
161.Lev. 11:43 — Not to eat creatures that live in water other than (kosher) fish
162.Lev. 11:44 — Not to eat non-kosher maggots
163.Lev. 12:2 — Observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth
164.Lev. 12:3 — To circumcise all males on the eighth day after their birth
165.Lev. 12:6 — A woman who gave birth must bring an offering (in the Temple) after she goes to the Mikveh
166.Lev. 13:12 — Rule the laws of human tzara’at as prescribed in the Torah
167.Lev. 13:33 — The metzora (one having a skin disease) must not shave signs of impurity in his hair
168.Lev. 13:34 — Carry out the laws of tzara’at of houses
169.Lev. 13:45 — The metzora must publicize his condition by tearing his garments, allowing his hair to grow and covering his lips
170.Lev. 13:47 — Carry out the laws of tzara’at of clothing
171.Lev. 14:2 — Carry out the prescribed rules for purifying the metzora
172.Lev. 14:9 — The metzora must shave off all his hair prior to purification
173.Lev. 14:10 — A metzora must bring an offering (in the Temple) after going to the Mikveh
174.Lev. 15:3 — Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man’s running issue (irregular ejaculation of infected semen)
175.Lev. 15:13-14 — A man who had a running (unnatural urinary) issue must bring an offering (in the Temple) after he goes to the Mikveh
176.Lev. 15:16 — Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission (regular ejaculation, with normal semen)
177.Lev. 15:16 — Every impure person must immerse himself in a Mikvah to become pure
178.Lev. 15:19 — Observe the laws of menstrual impurity
179.Lev. 15:25 — Observe the laws of impurity caused by a woman’s running issue
180.Lev. 15:28-29 — A woman who had a running (vaginal) issue must bring an offering (in the Temple) after she goes to the Mikveh
181.Lev. 16:2 — A Kohen must not enter the Temple indiscriminately
182.Lev. 16:3 — To follow the procedure of Yom Kippur in the sequence prescribed in Parshah Acharei Mot (“After the death of Aaron’s sons…”)
183.Lev. 16:29 — To afflict yourself on Yom Kippur
184.Lev. 17:4 — Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard
185.Lev. 17:13 — To cover the blood (of a slaughtered beast or fowl) with earth
186.Lev. 18:6 — Not to make pleasurable (sexual) contact with any forbidden woman
187.Lev. 18:7 — Not to have sexual relations with your mother
188.Lev. 18:7 — Not to have sexual relations with your father
189.Lev. 18:8 — Not to have sexual relations with your father’s wife
190.Lev. 18:9 — Not to have sexual relations with your sister
191.Lev. 18:11— Not to have sexual relations with your father’s wife’s daughter
192.Lev. 18:10 — Not to have sexual relations with your son’s daughter
193.Lev. 18:10 — Not to have sexual relations with your daughter
194.Lev. 18:10 — Not to have sexual relations with your daughter’s daughter
195.Lev. 18:12 — Not to have sexual relations with your father’s sister
196.Lev. 18:13 — Not to have sexual relations with your mother’s sister
197.Lev. 18:14 — Not to have sexual relations with your father’s brother’s wife
198.Lev. 18:14 — Not to have sexual relations with your father’s brother
199.Lev. 18:15 — Not to have sexual relations with your son’s wife
200.Lev. 18:16 — Not to have sexual relations with your brother’s wife
201.Lev. 18:17 — Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter
202.Lev. 18:17 — Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her son’s daughter
203.Lev. 18:17 — Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter’s daughter
204.Lev. 18:18 — Not to have sexual relations with your wife’s sister
205.Lev. 18:19 — Not to have sexual relations with a menstrually impure woman
206.Lev. 18:20 — Not to have sexual relations with someone else’s wife
207.Lev. 18:22 — A man must not have sexual relations with a man
208.Lev. 18:23 — A man must not have sexual relations with an animal
209.Lev. 18:23 — A woman must not have sexual relations with an animal
210.Lev. 19:3 — Be in awe of your mother or father
211.Lev. 19:4 — Not to inquire into idolatry
212.Lev. 19:4 — Not to make an idol for others
213.Lev. 19:8 — Not to eat from that which was left over
214.Lev. 19:9 — Not to reap that corner
215.Lev. 19:9 — To leave gleanings
216.Lev. 19:9 — Not to gather the gleanings
217.Lev. 19:10 — To leave a corner of the field uncut for the poor
218.Lev. 19:10 — To leave the gleanings of a vineyard
219.Lev. 19:10 — Not to gather the gleanings of a vineyard
220.Lev. 19:10 — To leave the unformed clusters of grapes
221.Lev. 19:10 — Not to pick the unformed clusters of grapes
222.Lev. 19:11 — Not to deny possession of something entrusted to you
223.Lev. 19:11 — Not to swear in denial of a monetary claim
224.Lev. 19:11 — Not to steal money stealthily
225.Lev. 19:12 — Not to swear falsely in God’s Name
226.Lev. 19:13 — Not to rob openly
227.Lev. 19:13 — Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt
228.Lev. 19:13 — Not to delay payment of wages past the agreed time
229.Lev. 19:14 — Not to put a stumbling block before a blind man (nor give harmful advice)
230.Lev. 19:14 — Not to curse any upstanding individual
231.Lev. 19:15 — A judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial
232.Lev. 19:15 — A judge must not respect the great man at the trial
233.Lev. 19:15 — A judge must not pervert justice
234.Lev. 19:15 — Judge righteously
235.Lev. 19:16 — Not to speak derogatorily of others
236.Lev. 19:16 — Not to stand idly by if someone’s life is in danger
237.Lev. 19:17 — Not to hate fellow Israelites
238.Lev. 19:17 — To reprove a sinner
239.Lev. 19:17 — Not to embarrass others
240.Lev. 19:18 — To love other Israelites
241.Lev. 19:18 — Not to take revenge
242.Lev. 19:18 — Not to bear a grudge
243.Lev. 19:19 — Not to plant diverse seeds together
244.Lev. 19:19 — Not to crossbreed animals
245.Lev. 18:21 — Not to pass your children through the fire to Molech
246.Lev. 19:23 — Not to eat fruit of a tree during its first three years
247.Lev. 19:24 — The fourth year crops must be totally for holy purposes like Ma’aser Sheni
248.Lev. 19:26 — Not to be superstitious
249.Lev. 19:26 — Not to engage in divination or soothsaying
250.Lev. 19:27 — Men must not shave the hair off the sides of their head
251.Lev. 19:27 — Men must not shave their beards with a razor
252.Lev. 19:28 — Not to tattoo the skin
253.Lev. 19:30 — To show reverence to the Temple
254.Lev. 19:31 — Not to perform ov (medium)
255.Lev. 19:31 — Not to perform yidoni (“magical seer”)
256.Lev. 19:32 — To honor those who teach and know Torah
257.Lev. 19:35 — Not to commit injustice with scales and weights
258.Lev. 19:36 — Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate
259.Lev. 21:1 — A Kohen must not defile himself (by going to funerals or cemeteries) for anyone except relatives
260.Lev. 21:8 — To dedicate the Kohen for service
261.Lev. 20:10 — The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation
262.Lev. 20:14 — The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning
263.Lev. 20:23 — Not to imitate them in customs and clothing
264.Lev. 21:7 — A Kohen must not marry a divorcee
265.Lev. 21:7 — A Kohen must not marry a zonah (a woman who has had a forbidden sexual relationship)
266.Lev. 21:7 — A Kohen must not marry a chalalah (“a desecrated person”) (party to or product of 169-172)
267.Lev. 21:11 — The High Priest must not defile himself for any relative
268.Lev. 21:11 — The High Priest must not enter under the same roof as a corpse
269.Lev. 21:13 — The High Priest must marry a virgin maiden
270.Lev. 21:14 — The High Priest must not marry a widow
271.Lev. 21:15 — The High Priest must not have sexual relations with a widow even outside of marriage
272.Lev. 21:17 — A Kohen with a physical blemish must not serve
273.Lev. 21:17 — A Kohen with a temporary blemish must not serve
274.Lev. 21:23 — A Kohen with a physical blemish must not enter the sanctuary or approach the altar
275.Lev. 22:2 — Impure Kohanim must not do service in the temple
276.Lev. 22:4 — An impure Kohen must not eat Terumah
277.Lev. 22:7 — An impure Kohen, following immersion, must wait until after sundown before returning to service
278.Lev. 22:10 — A non-Kohen must not eat Terumah
279.Lev. 22:10 — A hired worker or an Israelites bondsman of a Kohen must not eat Terumah
280.Lev. 22:12 — A chalalah (party to #s 169-172 above) must not eat Terumah
281.Lev. 22:15 — Not to eat untithed fruits
282.Lev. 22:20 — Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar
283.Lev. 22:21 — To offer only unblemished animals
284.Lev. 22:21 — Not to inflict wounds upon dedicated animals
285.Lev. 22:22 — Not to slaughter it
286.Lev. 22:22 — Not to burn its fat
287.Lev. 22:24 — Not to offer to God any castrated male animals
288.Lev. 22:24 — Not to sprinkle its blood
289.Lev. 22:25 — Not to sacrifice blemished animals even if offered by non-Israelites
290.Lev. 22:27 — To offer only animals which are at least eight days old
291.Lev. 22:28 — Not to slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day
292.Lev. 22:30 — Not to leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating them
293.Lev. 22:32 — To sanctify His Name
294.Lev. 22:32 — Not to profane His Name
Feasts of Yahweh
295.Lev. 23:7 — To rest on the first day of Passover
296.Lev. 23:8 — Not to do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover
297.Lev. 23:8 — To rest on the seventh day of Passover
298.Lev. 23:8 — Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover
299.Lev. 23:10 — To offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat
300.Lev. 23:14 — Not to eat bread from new grain before the Omer
301.Lev. 23:14 — Not to eat parched grains from new grain before the Omer
302.Lev. 23:14 — Not to eat ripened grains from new grain before the Omer
303.Lev. 23:15 — Each man must count the Omer – seven weeks from the day the new wheat offering was brought
304.Lev. 23:17 — To bring two loaves to accompany the above sacrifice
305.Lev. 23:21 — To rest on Shavuot
306.Lev. 23:21 — Not to do prohibited labor on Shavuot
307.Lev. 23:24 — To rest on Rosh Hashanah
308.Lev. 23:25 — Not to do prohibited labor on Rosh Hashanah
309.Lev. 23:29 — Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur
310.Lev. 23:32 — To rest from prohibited labor on Yom Kippur
311.Lev. 23:32 — Not to do prohibited labor on Yom Kippur
312.Lev. 23:35 — To rest on Sukkot
313.Lev. 23:35 — Not to do prohibited labor on Sukkot
314.Lev. 23:36 — To rest on Shemini Atzeret
315.Lev. 23:36 — Not to do prohibited labor on Shemini Atzeret
316.Lev. 23:40 — To take up a Lulav and Etrog all seven days
317.Lev. 23:42 — To dwell in a Sukkah for the seven days of Sukkot
Jubilees
318.Lev. 25:4 — Not to work the land during the seventh year
319.Lev. 25:4 — Not to work with trees to produce fruit during that year
320.Lev. 25:5 — Not to reap crops that grow wild that year in the normal manner
321.Lev. 25:5 — Not to gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal way
322.Lev. 25:8 — The Sanhedrin must count seven groups of seven years
323.Lev. 25:9 — To blow the Shofar on the tenth of Tishrei to free the slaves
324.Lev. 25:10 — The Sanhedrin must sanctify the fiftieth year
325.Lev. 25:11 — Not to work the soil during the fiftieth year (Jubilee)
326.Lev. 25:11 — Not to reap in the normal manner that which grows wild in the fiftieth year
327.Lev. 25:11 — Not to pick grapes which grew wild in the normal manner in the fiftieth year
328.Lev. 25:14 — Conduct sales according to Torah law
329.Lev. 25:14 — Not to overcharge or underpay for an article
330.Lev. 25:17 — Not to insult or harm anybody with words
331.Lev. 25:23 — Not to sell the land in Israel indefinitely
332.Lev. 25:24 — Carry out the laws of sold family properties
333.Lev. 25:29 — Carry out the laws of houses in walled cities
334.Lev. 25:34 — Not to sell the fields but they shall remain the Levites’ before and after the Jubilee year
335.Lev. 25:37 — Not to lend with interest
336.Lev. 25:39 — Not to have him do menial slave labor
337.Lev. 25:42 — Not to sell him as a slave is sold
338.Lev. 25:43 — Not to work him oppressively
339.Lev. 25:46 — Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs
340.Lev. 25:53 — Not to allow a non-Israelites to work him oppressively
341.Lev. 26:1 — Not to bow down before a smooth stone
342.Lev. 27:2 — To estimate the value of people as determined by the Torah
343.Lev. 27:10 — Not to substitute another beast for one set apart for sacrifice
344.Lev. 27:10 — The new animal, in addition to the substituted one, retains consecration
345.Lev. 27:12-13 — To estimate the value of consecrated animals
346.Lev. 27:14 — To estimate the value of consecrated houses
347.Lev. 27:16 — To estimate the value of consecrated fields
348.Lev. 27:26 — Not to change consecrated animals from one type of offering to another
349.Lev. 27:28 — Carry out the laws of interdicting possessions (cherem)
350.Lev. 27:28 — Not to sell the cherem
351.Lev. 27:28 — Not to redeem the cherem
352.Lev. 27:32 — Separate the tithe from animals
353.Lev. 27:33 — Not to redeem the tithe
354.Num. 5:2 — To send the impure from the Temple
355.Num. 5:3 — Impure people must not enter the Temple
356.Num. 5:7 — To repent and confess wrongdoings
357.Num. 5:15 — Not to put oil on her meal offering (as usual)
358.Num. 5:15 — Not to put frankincense on her meal offering (as usual)
359.Num. 5:30 — To fulfill the laws of the Sotah (Adulterous woman)
The Nazarite Vow
360.Num. 6:3 — He must not drink wine, wine mixtures, or wine vinegar
361.Num. 6:3 — He must not eat fresh grapes
362.Num. 6:3 — He must not eat raisins
363.Num. 6:4 — He must not eat grape seeds
364.Num. 6:4 — He must not eat grape skins
365.Num. 6:5 — The Nazir must let his hair grow
366.Num. 6:5 — He must not cut his hair
367.Num. 6:7 — He must not come into contact with the dead
368.Num. 6:6 — He must not be under the same roof as a corpse
369.Num. 6:9 — He must shave his head after bringing sacrifices upon completion of his Nazirite period
370.Num. 6:23 — The Kohanim must bless the Israelites nation daily
371.Num. 7:9 — The Levites must transport the ark on their shoulders
372.Num. 9:1 — To hear the Shofar on the first day of Tishrei (Rosh Hashanah)
373.Num. 9:11 — To slaughter the second Paschal Lamb
374.Num. 9:11 — To eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the 15th of Iyar
375.Num. 9:12 — Not to break any bones from the second paschal offering
376.Num. 9:12 — Not to leave the second paschal meat over until morning
377.Num. 10:9 — To afflict oneself and cry out before God in times of calamity
378.Num. 15:20 — To set aside a portion of dough for a Kohen
379.Num. 15:38 — To have tzitzit on four-cornered garments
380.Num. 15:39 — Not to follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see
381.Num. 18:2 — To guard the Temple area
382.Num. 18:3 — No Levite must do another’s work of either a Kohen or a Levite
383.Num. 18:4 — One who is not a Kohen must not serve
384.Num. 18:5 — Not to leave the Temple unguarded
385.Num. 18:15 — To redeem firstborn sons and give the money to a Kohen
386.Num. 18:17 — Not to redeem the firstborn
387.Num. 18:23 — The Levites must work in the Temple
388.Num. 18:24 — To set aside Ma’aser (tithe) each planting year and give it to a Levite
389.Num. 18:26 — The Levite must set aside a tenth of his tithe
390.Num. 19:2 — Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer (Para Aduma)
391.Num. 19:14 — Carry out the laws of impurity of the dead
392.Num. 19:21 — Carry out the laws of the sprinkling water
393.Num. 27:8 — Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance
394.Num. 28:3 — To offer two lambs every day
395.Num. 28:9 — To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on Shabbat
396.Num. 28:11 — To bring additional offerings on Rosh Chodesh (” The New Month”)
397.Num. 28:19 — To bring additional offerings on Passover
398.Num. 28:26 — To bring additional offerings on Shavuot
399.Num. 29:2 — To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana
400.Num. 29:8 — To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur
401.Num. 29:13 — To bring additional offerings on Sukkot
402.Num. 29:35 — To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret
403.Num. 30:3 — Not to break oaths or vows
404.Num. 30:3 — For oaths and vows annulled, there are the laws of annulling vows explicit in the Torah
405.Num. 35:2 — To give the Levites cities to inhabit and their surrounding fields
406.Num. 35:12 — Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial
407.Num. 35:12 — Not to pity the pursuer
408.Num. 35:25 — The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge
409.Num. 35:31 — Not to accept monetary restitution to atone for the murderer
410.Num. 35:32 — Not to accept monetary restitution instead of being sent to a city of refuge
Israelites in/ out of the land
411.Deut. 1:17 — Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure
412.Deut. 1:17 — The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment
413.Deut. 5:19 — Not to desire another’s possession — Yemenite->Deut. 5:18
414.Deut. 6:4 — To know that He is One
415.Deut. 6:5 — To love Him
416.Deut. 6:7 — To learn Torah
417.Deut. 6:7 — To say the Shema twice daily
418.Deut. 6:8 — To wear tefillin (phylacteries) on the head
419.Deut. 6:8 — To bind tefillin on the arm
420.Deut. 6:9 — To put a mezuzah on each door post
421.Deut. 6:16 — Not to try the LORD unduly
422.Deut. 7:2 — Not to make a covenant with idolaters
423.Deut. 7:2 — Not to show favor to them
424.Deut. 7:3 — Not to marry non-Israelites
425.Deut. 7:25 — Not to derive benefit from ornaments of idols
426.Deut. 7:26 — Not to derive benefit from idols and their accessories
427.Deut. 8:10 — To bless the Almighty after eating
428.Deut. 10:19 — To love converts
429.Deut. 10:20 — To fear Him
430.Deut. 10:20 — To cleave to those who know Him
431.Deut. 10:20 — To swear in God’s Name to confirm the truth when deemed necessary by court
432.Deut. 12:2 — To destroy idols and their accessories
433.Deut. 12:4 — Not to destroy objects associated with His Name
434.Deut. 12:5-6 — To bring all avowed and freewill offerings to the Temple on the first subsequent festival
435.Deut. 12:11 — To offer all sacrifices in the Temple
436.Deut. 12:13 — Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard
437.Deut. 12:15 — To redeem dedicated animals which have become disqualified
438.Deut. 12:17 — Not to eat Ma’aser Sheni grains outside Jerusalem
439.Deut. 12:17 — Not to eat Ma’aser Sheni wine products outside Jerusalem
440.Deut. 12:17 — Not to eat Ma’aser Sheni oil outside Jerusalem
441.Deut. 12:17 — The Kohanim must not eat the first fruits outside Jerusalem
442.Deut. 12:17 — Not to eat its meat
443.Deut. 12:17 — The Kohanim must not eat the meat outside the Temple courtyard
444.Deut. 12:17 — Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood
445.Deut. 12:17 — The Kohanim must not eat unblemished firstborn animals outside Jerusalem
446.Deut. 12:19 — Not to refrain from rejoicing with, and giving gifts to, the Levites
447.Deut. 12:21 — To ritually slaughter an animal before eating it
448.Deut. 12:23 — Not to eat a limb torn off a living creature
449.Deut. 12:26 — To bring all sacrifices from outside Israel to the Temple
450.Deut. 13:1 — Not to add to the Torah commandments
451.Deut. 13:1 — Not to diminish from the Torah any commandments, in whole or in part
452.Deut. 13:4 — Not to listen to a false prophet
453.Deut. 13:9 — Not to love the idolater
454.Deut. 13:9 — Not to cease hating the idolater
455.Deut. 13:9 — Not to save the idolater
456.Deut. 13:9 — Not to say anything in the idolater’s defense
457.Deut. 13:9 — Not to refrain from incriminating the idolater
458.Deut. 13:12 — Not to missionize an individual to idol worship
459.Deut. 13:14 — Not to turn a city to idolatry —> Ex. 23:13
460.Deut. 13:14 — Not to prophesy in the name of idolatry
461.Deut. 13:15 — Carefully interrogate the witness
462.Deut. 13:17 — To burn a city that has turned to idol worship
463.Deut. 13:17 — Not to rebuild it as a city
464.Deut. 13:18 — Not to derive benefit from it
465.Deut. 14:1 — Not to tear the skin in mourning
466.Deut. 14:1 — Not to make a bald spot in mourning
467.Deut. 14:3 — Not to eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished
468.Deut. 14:11 — To examine the signs of fowl to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher
469.Deut. 14:19 — Not to eat non-kosher flying insects
470.Deut. 14:21 — Not to eat the meat of an animal that died without ritual slaughter
471.Deut. 14:22 — To set aside the second tithe (Ma’aser Sheni)
472.Deut. 14:28 — To separate the “tithe for the poor”
473.Deut. 15:2 — To release all loans during the seventh year
474.Deut. 15:2 — Not to pressure or claim from the borrower
475.Deut. 15:3 — Press the idolater for payment
476.Deut. 15:7 — Not to withhold charity from the poor
477.Deut. 15:8 — To give charity
478.Deut. 15:9 — Not to refrain from lending immediately before the release of the loans for fear of monetary loss
479.Deut. 15:14 — Give him gifts when he goes free
480.Deut. 15:13 — Not to send him away empty-handed
481.Deut. 15:19 — Not to work consecrated animals
482.Deut. 15:19 — Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals
483.Deut. 16:3 — Not to eat chametz on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nisan
484.Deut. 16:4 — Not to leave the meat of the holiday offering of the 14th until the 16th
485.Deut. 16:14 — To rejoice on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering)
486.Deut. 16:16 — To be seen at the Temple on Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot
487.Deut. 16:16 — Not to appear at the Temple without offerings
488.Deut. 16:18 — Appoint judges
489.Deut. 16:21 — Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard
490.Deut. 16:22 — Not to erect a pillar in a public place of worship
491.Deut. 17:1 — Not to offer a temporarily blemished animal
492.Deut. 17:11 — Act according to the ruling of the Sanhedrin
493.Deut. 17:11 — Not to deviate from the word of the Sanhedrin
494.Deut. 17:15 — Appoint a king from Israel
495.Deut. 17:15 — Not to appoint a foreigner
496.Deut. 17:16 — The king must not have too many horses
497.Deut. 17:16 — Not to dwell permanently in Egypt
498.Deut. 17:17 — The king must not have too many wives
499.Deut. 17:17 — The king must not have too much silver and gold
500.Deut. 17:18 — The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself
501.Deut. 18:1 — The Tribe of Levi must not be given a portion of the land in Israel, rather they are given cities to dwell in
502.Deut. 18:1 — The Levites must not take a share in the spoils of war
503.Deut. 18:3 — To give the foreleg, two cheeks, and abomasum of slaughtered animals to a Kohen
504.Deut. 18:4 — To set aside Terumah Gedolah (gift for the Kohen)
505.Deut. 18:4 — To give the first shearing of sheep to a Kohen
506.Deut. 18:6-8 — The work of the Kohanim’s shifts must be equal during holidays
507.Deut. 18:10 — Not to go into a trance to foresee events, etc.
508.Deut. 18:10 — Not to perform acts of magic
509.Deut. 18:11 — Not to mutter incantations
510.Deut. 18:11 — Not to attempt to contact the dead
511.Deut. 18:11 — Not to consult the ov
512.Deut. 18:11 — Not to consult the yidoni
513.Deut. 18:15 — To listen to the prophet speaking in His Name
514.Deut. 18:20 — Not to prophesize falsely in the name of God
515.Deut. 18:22 — Not to be afraid of the false prophet
516.Deut. 19:3 — Designate cities of refuge and prepare routes of access
517.Deut. 19:13 — A judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial
518.Deut. 19:14 — Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone’s property
519.Deut. 19:15 — Not to accept testimony from a lone witness
520.Deut. 19:17 — A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes
521.Deut. 19:19 — Punish the false witnesses as they tried to punish the defendant
522.Deut. 20:2 — Appoint a priest to speak with the soldiers during the war
523.Deut. 20:3 — Not to panic and retreat during battle
524.Deut. 20:10 — Offer peace terms to the inhabitants of a city while holding siege, and treat them according to the Torah if they accept the terms
525.Deut. 20:16 — Not to let any of them remain alive
526.Deut. 20:17 — Destroy the seven Canaanite nations
527.Deut. 20:19 — Not to destroy food trees even during the siege
528.Deut. 21:4 — Break the neck of a calf by the river valley following an unsolved murder
529.Deut. 21:4 — Not to work nor plant that river valley
530.Deut. 21:11 — Keep the laws of the captive woman
531.Deut. 21:14 — Not to sell her into slavery
532.Deut. 21:14 — Not to retain her for servitude after having sexual relations with her
533.Deut. 21:18 — Not to be a rebellious son
534.Deut. 21:22 — The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry
535.Deut. 21:23 — Bury the executed on the day they are killed
536.Deut. 21:23 — Not to delay burial overnight
537.Deut. 22:1 — Return the lost object
538.Deut. 22:3 — Not to ignore a lost object
539.Deut. 22:4 — Help others load their beast
540.Deut. 22:4 — Not to leave others distraught with their burdens (but to help either load or unload)
541.Deut. 22:5 — Men must not wear women’s clothing
542.Deut. 22:5 — Women must not wear men’s clothing
543.Deut. 22:6 — To send away the mother bird before taking its children
544.Deut. 22:7 — To release the mother bird if she was taken from the nest
545.Deut. 22:8 — Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property
546.Deut. 22:8 — Make a guard rail around flat roofs
547.Deut. 22:9 — Not to eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard
548.Deut. 22:9 — Not to plant grains or greens in a vineyard
549.Deut. 22:10 — Not to work different animals together
550.Deut. 22:11 — Not to wear shaatnez, a cloth woven of wool and linen
551.Deut. 22:13 — To marry a wife by means of ketubah and kiddushin
552.Deut. 22:19 — The slanderer must remain married to his wife
553.Deut. 22:19 — He must not divorce her
554.Deut. 22:24 — The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning
555.Deut. 22:29 — The rapist must marry his victim if she is unwed
556.Deut. 22:29 — He is never allowed to divorce her
557.Deut. 23:2 — Not to let a eunuch marry into the Israelite people
558.Deut. 23:2 — A judge who presented an acquittal plea must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases
559.Deut. 23:3 — Not to let a mamzer (a child born due to an illegal relationship) marry into the Israelite people
560.Deut. 23:4 — Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry into the Israelite people
561.Deut. 23:7 — Not to offer peace to Ammon and Moab while besieging them
562.Deut. 23:8-9 — Not to refrain from letting a third-generation Egyptian convert enter the Assembly
563.Deut. 23:8-9 — Not to refrain from letting a third-generation Edomite convert enter the Assembly
564.Deut. 23:11 — Impure people must not enter the Temple Mount area
565.Deut. 23:13 — Prepare latrines outside the camps
566.Deut. 23:14 — Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with
567.Deut. 23:16 — Not to extradite a slave who fled to (Biblical) Israel
568.Deut. 23:16 — Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge
569.Deut. 23:18 — Not to have sexual relations with women not thus married
570.Deut. 23:19 — Not to offer animals bought with the wages of a harlot or the animal exchanged for a dog. Some interpret “exchanged for a dog” as referring to wage of a male prostitute.[10][11]
571.Deut. 23:20 — Not to borrow with interest
572.Deut. 23:21 — Lend to and borrow from idolaters with interest
573.Deut. 23:22 — Not to withhold payment incurred by any vow
574.Deut. 23:24 — To fulfill what was uttered and to do what was avowed
575.Deut. 23:25 — The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works
576.Deut. 23:25 — The worker must not take more than he can eat
577.Deut. 23:26 — The worker must not eat while on hired time
578.Deut. 24:1 — To issue a divorce by means of a Get document
579.Deut. 24:4 — A man must not remarry his ex-wife after she has married someone else
580.Deut. 24:5 — He who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard is given a year to rejoice with his possessions
581.Deut. 24:5 — Not to demand from the above any involvement, communal or military
582.Deut. 24:6 — Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food
583.Deut. 24:8 — The metzora must not remove his signs of impurity
584.Deut. 24:10 — The creditor must not forcibly take collateral
585.Deut. 24:12 — Not to delay its return when needed
586.Deut. 24:13 — Return the collateral to the debtor when needed
587.Deut. 24:15 — Pay wages on the day they were earned
588.Deut. 24:16 — Relatives of the litigants must not testify
589.Deut. 24:17 — Not to demand collateral from a widow
590.Deut. 24:17 — A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or orphan
591.Deut. 24:19 — To leave the forgotten sheaves in the field
592.Deut. 24:19 — Not to retrieve them
593.Deut. 25:2 — The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer
594.Deut. 25:3 — The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes
595.Deut. 25:4 — Not to muzzle an ox while plowing
596.Deut. 25:5 — To perform yibbum (marry the widow of one’s childless brother)
597.Deut. 25:5 — The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed (by halizah)
598.Deut. 25:9 — To perform halizah (free the widow of one’s childless brother from yibbum)
599.Deut. 25:12 — Save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer
600.Deut. 25:13 — Not to possess inaccurate scales and weights even if they are not for use
601.Deut. 25:17 — Remember what Amalek did to the Israelite people
602.Deut. 25:19 — Wipe out the descendants of Amalek
603.Deut. 25:19 — Not to forget Amalek’s atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert
604.Deut. 26:5 — To read the Torah portion pertaining to their presentation
605.Deut. 26:13 — To read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh year
606.Deut. 26:14 — Not to spend its redemption money on anything but food, drink, or ointment
607.Deut. 26:14 — Not to eat Ma’aser Sheni while impure
608.Deut. 26:14 — A mourner on the first day after death must not eat Ma’aser Sheni
609.Deut. 22:26 — The court must not punish anybody who was forced to do a crime
610.Deut. 28:9 — To emulate His ways
611.Deut. 31:12 — To assemble all the people on the Sukkot following the seventh year
612.Deut. 31:19 — Each male must write a Torah scroll
613.Deut. 32:38 — Not to drink wine poured in service to idols
These are the straight up “laws” straight out of the Bible. I have separated them somewhat for a little clarity. But Jews separate them even further and they confuse themselves as the only Israelites (just like Christians do); Jews separate the laws into “positive versus negative” commandments- 365 “don’ts” and 243 “do’s”:
The 248 Positive Mitzvot/Commandments: “The Do’s”
RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
P 1 Exodus 20:2 – To believe in God
P 2 Deuteronomy 6:4 – To acknowledge the Unity of God
P 3 Deuteronomy 6:5 – To love God
P 4 Deuteronomy 6:13 – To fear God
P 5 Exodus23:25; Deuteronomy 11:13; 13:5 – To serve God
P 6 Deuteronomy 10:20 – To cleave to God
P 7 Deuteronomy 10:20 – On taking an oath by God’s Name
P 8 Deuteronomy 28:9 – On walking in God’s ways
P 9 Leviticus 22:32 – On Sanctifying God’s Name
P 10 Deuteronomy 6:7 – On reciting the Sh’ma each morning and evening
P 11 Deuteronomy 6:7 – On studying and teaching Torah
P 12 Deuteronomy 6:8 – On binding Tefillin on the head
P 13 Deuteronomy 6:8 – On binding Tefillin on the hand
P 14 Numbers 15:38 – On making Tzitzit with thread of blue, garments corners
P 15 Deuteronomy 6:9 – On affixing a Mezuzah to doorposts and gates
P 16 Deuteronomy 31:12 – On Assembling each 7th year to hear the Torah read
P 17 Deuteronomy 17:18 – On that a king must write a copy of Torah for himself
P 18 Deuteronomy 31:19 – On that everyone should have a Torah scroll
P 19 Deuteronomy 8:10 – On praising God after eating, Grace after meals
TEMPLE AND THE PRIESTS
P 20 Exodus 25:8 – On building a Sanctuary/(Tabernacle/Temple) for God
P 21 Leviticus 19:30 – On respecting the Sanctuary
P 22 Numbers 18:4 – On guarding the Sanctuary
P 23 Numbers 18:23 – On Levitical services in the Tabernacle
P 24 Exodus 30:19 – On Cohanim washing hands & feet before entering Temple
P 25 Exodus 27:21 – On kindling the Menorah by the Cohanim
P 26 Numbers 6:23 – On the Cohanim blessing Israel
P 27 Exodus 25:30 – On the Showbread before the Ark
P 28 Exodus 30:7 – On Burning the Incense on the Golden Altar twice daily
P 29 Leviticus 6:6 – On the perpetual fire on the Altar
P 30 Leviticus 6:3 – On removing the ashes from the Altar
P 31 Numbers 5:2 – On removing unclean persons from the camp
P 32 Leviticus 21:8 – On honoring the Cohanim
P 33 Exodus 28:2 – On the garments of the Cohanim
P 34 Numbers 7:9 – On Cohanim bearing the Ark on their shoulders
P 35 Exodus 30:31 – On the holy anointing oil
P 36 Deuteronomy 18:6-8 – On the Cohanim ministering in rotation/watches
P 37 Leviticus 21:2-3 – On the Cohanim being defiled for dead relatives
P 38 Leviticus 21:13 – On that Cohen haGadol may only marry a virgin
P 39 Numbers 28:3 – On the twice Daily Burnt, tamid, offerings
P 40 Leviticus 6:13 – On Cohen haGadol’s twice daily meal offering
P 41 Numbers 28:9 – On the Shabbat additional, musaf, offering
P 42 Numbers 28:11 – On the New Moon, Rosh Chodesh, additional offering
P 43 Leviticus 23:36 – On the Pesach additional offering
P 44 Leviticus 23:10 – On the second day of Pesach meal offering of the Omer
P 45 Numbers 28:26 – On the Shavuot additional, musaf, offering
P 46 Leviticus 23:17 – On the Two Loaves of bread Wave offering on Shavuot
P 47 Numbers 29:1-2 – On the Rosh HaShannah additional offering
P 48 Numbers 29:7-8 – On the Yom Kippur additional offering
P 49 Leviticus 16:3-24 – On the service of Yom Kippur, Avodah
P 50 Numbers 29:13 – On the Sukkot, musaf, offerings
P 51 Numbers 29:36 – On the Shemini Atzeret additional offering
P 52 Exodus 23:14 – On the three annual Festival pilgrimages to the Temple
P 53 Exodus 34:23 – On appearing before YHVH during the Festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16)
P 54 Deuteronomy 16:14 – On rejoicing on the Festivals
P 55 Exodus 12:6 – On the 14th of Nisan slaughtering the Pesach lamb
P 56 Exodus 12:8 – On eating the roasted Pesach lamb night of Nisan 14/15
P 57 Numbers 9:11 – On slaughtering the Pesach Sheini, Iyyar 14, offering
P 58 Numbers 9:11 – On eating the Pesach Sheini lamb with Matzah and Maror
P 59 Numbers 10:9-10 – Trumpets for Feast sacrifices brought & for tribulation
P 60 Leviticus 22:27 – On minimum age of cattle to be offered
P 61 Leviticus 22:21 – On offering only unblemished sacrifices
P 62 Leviticus 2:13 – On bringing salt with every offering
P 63 Leviticus 1:2 – On the Burnt-Offering
P 64 Leviticus 6:18 – On the Sin-Offering
P 65 Leviticus 7:1 – On the Guilt-Offering
P 66 Leviticus 3:1 – On the Peace-Offering
P 67 Leviticus 2:1 – On the Meal-Offering
P 68 Leviticus 4:13 – On offerings for a Court (Sanhedrin) that has erred
P 69 Leviticus 4:27 – Fixed Sin-Offering, by one unknowingly breaking a karet
P 70 Leviticus 5:17 – Suspensive Guilt-Offering if doubt of breaking a karet
P 71 Leviticus 5:15 – Unconditional Guilt-Offering, for stealing, etc.
P 72 Leviticus 5:1-11 – Offering higher or lower value, according to ones means
P 73 Numbers 5:6-7 – To confess one’s sins before God and repent from them
P 74 Leviticus 15:13 – On offering brought by a zav (man with a discharge)
P 75 Leviticus 15:28 – Offering brought by a zavah (woman with a discharge)
P 76 Leviticus 12:6 – On offering brought by a woman after childbirth
P 77 Leviticus 14:10 – On offering brought by a leper after being cleansed
P 78 Leviticus 27:32 – On the Tithe of one’s cattle
P 79 Exodus 13:2 – Sacrificing the First-born of clean (permitted) cattle
P 80 Exodus 22:28 – On Redeeming the First-born of man, Pidyon ha-ben
P 81 Exodus 34:20 – On Redeeming the firstling of an ass, if not…
P 82 Exodus 13:13 – …breaking the neck of the firstling of an ass
P 83 Deuteronomy 12:5-6 – On bringing due offerings to Jerusalem without delay
P 84 Deuteronomy 12:14 – All offerings must be brought only to the Sanctuary
P 85 Deuteronomy 12:36 – On offerings due from outside Israel to the Sanctuary
P 86 Deuteronomy 12:15 – On Redeeming blemished sanctified animal offerings
P 87 Leviticus 27:33 – On the holiness of substituted animal offerings
P 88 Leviticus 6:9 – On Cohanim eating the remainder of the Meal Offerings
P 89 Exodus 29:33 – On Cohanim eating the meat of Sin and Guilt Offerings
P 90 Leviticus 7:19 – Burn Consecrated Offerings that’ve become tameh/unclean
P 91 Leviticus 7:17 – Burn remnant of Consecrated Offerings not eaten in time
P 92 Numbers 6:5 – The Nazir letting his hair grow during his separation
P 93 Numbers 6:18 – Nazir completing vow shaves his head & brings sacrifice
P 94 Deuteronomy 23:24 – On that a man must honor his oral vows and oaths
P 95 Numbers 30:3 – On that a judge can annul vows, only according to Torah
RITUAL PURITY
P 96 Leviticus 11:8 – Defilement by touching certain animal carcasses, &…
P 97 Leviticus 11:29 – …by touching carcasses of eight creeping creatures
P 98 Leviticus 11:34 – Defilement of food & drink, if contacting unclean thing
P 99 Leviticus 15:19 – On Tumah of a menstruant woman
P100 Leviticus 12:2 – On Tumah of a woman after childbirth
P101 Leviticus 13:3 – On Tumah of a leper
P102 Leviticus 13:51 – On garments contaminated by leprosy
P103 Leviticus 14:44 – On a leprous house
P104 Leviticus 15:2 – On Tumah of a zav (man with a running issue)
P105 Leviticus 15:6 – On Tumah of semen
P106 Leviticus 15:19 – Tumah of a zavah (woman suffering from a running issue)
P107 Numbers 19:14 – On Tumah of a human corpse
P108 Numbers 19:13 – Law of the purification water of sprinkling, mei niddah
P109 Leviticus 15:16 – On immersing in a mikveh to become ritually clean
P110 Leviticus 14:2 – On the specified procedure of cleansing from leprosy
P111 Leviticus 14:9 – On that a leper must shave his head
P112 Leviticus 13:45 – On that the leper must be made easily distinguishable
P113 Numbers 19:2-9 – On Ashes of the Red Heifer, used in ritual purification
DONATIONS TO THE TEMPLE
P114 Leviticus 27:2-8 – On the valuation for a person himself to the Temple
P115 Leviticus 27:11 – On the valuation for an unclean beast to the Temple
P116 Leviticus 27:14 – On the valuation of a house as a donation to the Temple
P117 Leviticus 27:16 – On the valuation of a field as a donation to the Temple
P118 Leviticus 5:16 – If benefit from Temple property, restitution plus 1/5th
P119 Leviticus 19:24 – On the fruits of the trees fourth year’s growth
P120 Leviticus 19:9 – On leaving the corners (Peah) of fields for the poor
P121 Leviticus 19:9 – On leaving gleanings of the field for the poor
P122 Deuteronomy 24:19 – On leaving the forgotten sheaf for the poor
P123 Leviticus 19:19 – On leaving the misformed grape clusters for the poor
P124 Leviticus 19:10 – On leaving grape gleanings for the poor
P125 Exodus 23:19 – On separating & bringing First-fruits to the Sanctuary
P126 Deuteronomy 18:4 – To separate the great Heave-offering (terumah)
P127 Leviticus 27:30 – To set aside the first tithe to the Levites
P128 Deuteronomy 14:22 – To set aside the second tithe, eaten only in Jerusalem
P129 Numbers 18:26 – On Levites’ giving tenth of their tithe to the Cohanim
P130 Deuteronomy 14:28 – To set aside the poor-man’s tithe in 3rd and 6th year
P131 Deuteronomy 26:13 – A declaration made when separating the various tithes
P132 Deuteronomy 26:5 – A declaration made bringing First-fruits to the Temple
P133 Numbers 15:20 – On the first portion of the Challah given to the Cohen
THE SABBATICAL YEAR
P134 Exodus 23:11 – On ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year (shemittah)
P135 Exodus 34:21 – On resting the land on the Sabbatical year
P136 Leviticus 25:10 – On sanctifying the Jubilee (50th) year
P137 Leviticus 25:9 – Blow Shofar on Yom Kippur in the Jubilee & slaves freed
P138 Leviticus 25:24 – Reversion of the land to ancestral owners in Jubilee yr
P139 Leviticus 25:24 – On the redemption of a house within a year of the sale
P140 Leviticus 25:8 – Counting and announcing the years till the Jubilee year
P141 Deuteronomy 15:3 – All debts are annulled in the Sabbatical year, but…
P142 Deuteronomy 15:3 – …one may exact a debt owed by a foreigner
CONCERNING ANIMALS FOR CONSUMPTION
P143 Deuteronomy 18:3 – The Cohen’s due in the slaughter of every clean animal
P144 Deuteronomy 18:4 – On the first of the fleece to be given to the Cohen
P145 Leviticus 27:21 – (Cherem vow) one devoted thing to God, other to Cohanim
P146 Deuteronomy 12:21 – Slaughtering animals, according to Torah, before eating
P147 Leviticus 17:13 – Covering with earth the blood of slain fowl and beast
P148 Deuteronomy 22:7 – On setting free the parent bird when taking the nest
P149 Leviticus 11:2 – Searching for prescribed signs in beasts, for eating
P150 Deuteronomy 14:11 – Searching for the prescribed signs in birds, for eating
P151 Leviticus 11:21 – Searching for prescribed signs in locusts, for eating
P152 Leviticus 11:9 – Searching for the prescribed signs in fish, for eating
P153 Exodus 12:2; Deuteronomy 16:1 – Sanhedrin to sanctify New Moon, & reckon years & seasons
P154 Exodus 23:12 – On resting on the Shabbat
P155 Exodus 20:8 – On declaring Shabbat holy at its onset and termination
P156 Exodus 12:15 – On removal of chametz, leaven (yeast) on (Nisan 14) Pesach
P157 Exodus 13:8 – Tell of Exodus from Egypt 1st night Pesach, (Nisan 15)
P158 Exodus 12:18 – On eating Matzah the first night of Pesach, (Nisan 15)
P159 Exodus 12:16 – On resting on the first day of Pesach
P160 Exodus 12:16 – On resting on the seventh day of Pesach
P161 Leviticus 23:35 – Count the Omer 49 days from day of first sheaf (Nisan 16)
P162 Leviticus 23:21 – On resting on Shavuot
P163 Leviticus 23:24 – On resting on Rosh HaShannah
P164 Leviticus 16:29 – On fasting on Yom Kippur
P165 Leviticus 16:29 – On resting on Yom Kippur
P166 Leviticus 23:35 – On resting on the first day of Sukkot
P167 Leviticus 23:36 – On resting on (the 8th day) Shemini Atzeret
P168 Leviticus 23:42 – On dwelling in a Sukkah (booth) for seven days
P169 Leviticus 23:40 – On taking a Lulav (the four species) on Sukkot
P170 Numbers 29:1 – On hearing the sound of the Shofar on Rosh HaShannah
P171 Exodus 30:12 – On every male giving half a shekel annually to Temple
P172 Deuteronomy 18:15 – On heeding the Prophets
P173 Deuteronomy 17:15 – On appointing a king
P174 Deuteronomy 17:11 – On obeying the Great Court (Sanhedrin)
P175 Exodus 23:2 – On in case of division, abiding by a majority decision
P176 Deuteronomy 16:18 – Appointing Judges & Officers of the Court in every town
P177 Leviticus 19:15 – Treating litigants equally/impartially before the law
P178 Leviticus 5:1 – Anyone aware of evidence must come to court to testify
P179 Deuteronomy 13:15 – The testimony of witnesses shall be examined thoroughly
P180 Deuteronomy 19:19 – On condemning witnesses who testify falsely
P180 Deuteronomy 19:19 – False witnesses punished, as they intended upon accused
P181 Deuteronomy 21:4 – On Eglah Arufah, on the heifer when murderer unknown
P182 Deuteronomy 19:3 – On establishing Six Cities of Refuge
P183 Numbers 35:2 – Give cities to Levites – who’ve no ancestral land share
P184 Deuteronomy 22:8 – Build fence on roof, remove potential hazards from home
P185 Deuteronomy 12:2 – On destroying all idolatry and its appurtenances
P186 Deuteronomy 13:17 – The law about a city that has become apostate/perverted
P187 Deuteronomy 20:17 – On the law about destroying the seven Canaanite nations
P188 Deuteronomy 25:19 – On the extinction of the seed of Amalek
P189 Deuteronomy 25:17 – On remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek to Israel
P190 Deuteronomy 20:11 – Regulations for wars other than ones commanded in Torah
P191 Deuteronomy 20:2 – Cohen for special duties in war; also men unfit return
P192 Deuteronomy 23:14 – Prepare place beyond the camp, so to keep sanitary &…
P193 Deuteronomy 23:15 – …so include a digging tool among war implements
P194 – Leviticus 5:23 On a robber to restore the stolen article to its owner
P195 Deuteronomy 15:8 – On to give charity to the poor (Leviticus25:35-36)
P196 Deuteronomy 15:14 – On giving gifts to a Hebrew bondman upon his freedom
P197 Exodus 22:24 – On lending money to the poor without interest
P198 Deuteronomy 23:21 – On lending money to the foreigner with interest
P199 Deuteronomy 24:13 – Exodus22:25 On restoring a pledge to its owner if he needs it
P200 Deuteronomy 24:15 – On paying the worker his wages on time
P201 Deuteronomy 23:25 – Employee is allowed to eat the produce he’s working in
P202 Exodus 23:5 – On helping unload when necessary a tired animal
P203 Deuteronomy 22:4 – On assisting a man loading his beast with its burden
P204 Deuteronomy 22:1 – Exodus 23:4 On that lost property must be returned to its owner
P205 Leviticus 19:17 – On being required to reprove the sinner
P206 Leviticus 19:18 – On love your neighbor as yourself
P207 Deuteronomy 10:19 – On being commanded to love the convert/proselyte
P208 Leviticus 19:36 – On the law of accurate weights and measures
P209 Leviticus 19:32 – On honoring the old (and wise)
P210 Exodus 20:12 – On honoring parents
P211 Leviticus 19:3 – On fearing parents
P212 Genesis 1:28 – On to be fruitful and multiply
P213 Deuteronomy 24:1 – On the law of marriage
P214 Deuteronomy 24:5 – On bridegroom devoting himself to his wife for one year
P215 Genesis 17:10 Leviticus12:3 – On circumcising one’s son
P216 Deuteronomy 25:5 – If a man dies childless his brother marry widow, or…
P217 Deuteronomy 25:9 – …release her/the-widow (Chalitzah)
P218 Deuteronomy 22:29 – A violator must marry the virgin/maiden he has violated
P219 Deuteronomy 22:18 – The defamer of his bride is flogged & may never divorce
P220 Exodus 22:15 – On the seducer must be punished according to the law
P221 Deuteronomy 21:11 – Captive women treated according to special regulations
P222 Deuteronomy 24:1 – The law of divorce, only be means of written document
P223 Numbers 5:15 – Suspected adulteress has to submit to the required test
P224 Deuteronomy 25:2 – On whipping transgressors of certain commandments
P225 Numbers 35:25 – On exile to city of refuge for unintentional homicide
P226 Exodus 21:20 – On beheading transgressors of certain commandments
P227 Exodus 21:16 – On strangling transgressors of certain commandments
P228 Leviticus 20:14 – On burning transgressors of certain commandments
P229 Deuteronomy 22:24 – On stoning transgressors of certain commandments
P230 Deuteronomy 21:22 – Hang after execution, violators of certain commandments
P231 Deuteronomy 21:23 – On burial on the same day of execution
P232 Exodus 21:2 – On the special laws for treating the Hebrew bondman
P233 Exodus 21:8 – Hebrew bondmaid married to her master or his son, or…
P234 Exodus 21:8 – …allow the redemption to the Hebrew bondmaid
P235 Leviticus 25:46 – On the laws for treating an alien bondman
P236 Exodus 21:18 – On the penalty for a person inflicting injury
P237 Exodus 21:28 – On the law of injuries caused by an animal
P238 Exodus 21:33 – On the law of injuries caused by an pit
P239 Exodus 21:37 – On the law of punishment of thieves
P240 Exodus 22:4 – On the law of a judgment for damage caused by a beast
P241 Exodus 22:5 – On the law of a judgment for damage caused by a fire
P242 Exodus 22:6 – On the law of an unpaid guardian
P243 Exodus 22:9 – On the law of a paid guardian
P244 Exodus 22:13 – On the law of a borrower
P245 Leviticus 25:14 – On the law of buying and selling
P246 Exodus 22:8 – On the law of litigants
P247 Deuteronomy 25:12 – Save life of one pursued, even if need – kill oppressor
P248 Numbers 27:8 – On the law of inheritance
The 365 Negative Mitzvot/Commandments: “The Don’ts”
IDOLATRY AND RELATED PRACTICES
N 1 Exodus 20:3 – Not believing in any other god except the One God.
N 2 Exodus 20:4 – Not to make images for the purpose of worship
N 3 Leviticus 19:4 – Not to make an idol (even for others) to worship
N 4 Exodus 20:20 – Not to make figures of human beings
N 5 Exodus 20:5 – Not to bow down to an idol
N 6 Exodus 20:5 – Not to worship idols
N 7 Leviticus 18:21 – Not to hand over any children to Moloch
N 8 Leviticus 19:31 – Not to practice sorcery of the ov, necromancy
N 9 Leviticus 19:31 – Not to practice sorcery of yidde’oni, familiar spirts
N 10 Leviticus 19:4 – Not to study idolatrous practices
N 11 Deuteronomy 16:22 – Not to erect a pillar which people assemble to honor
N 12 Leviticus 20:1 – No figured stones (dias) to lay prostrate on
N 13 Deuteronomy 16:21 – Not to plant trees in the Sanctuary/Temple
N 14 Exodus 23:13 – Swear not by an idol nor instigate an idolater to do so
N 15 Exodus 23:13 – Not to divert any non-Jew to idolatry
N 16 Deuteronomy 13:12-13 – Not to try to persuade a Jew to worship idols
N 17 Deuteronomy 13:8 – Not to love someone who seeks to mislead you to idols
N 18 Deuteronomy 13:9 – Not to relax one’s aversion to the misleader to idols
N 19 Deuteronomy 13:9 – Not to save the life of a misleader to idols
N 20 Deuteronomy 13:9 – Not to plead for (defend) the misleader to idols
N 21 Deuteronomy 13:9 – Not to oppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader
N 22 Deuteronomy 7:25 – No benefit from ornaments which have adorned an idol
N 23 Deuteronomy 13:17 – Rebuild not a city destroyed as punishment for idolatry
N 24 Deuteronomy 13:18 – Not deriving benefit from property of an apostate city
N 25 Deuteronomy 7:26 – Do not use anything connected with idols or idolatry
N 26 Deuteronomy 18:20 – Not prophesying in the name of idols
N 27 Deuteronomy 18:20 – Not prophesying falsely in the Name of God
N 28 Deuteronomy 13:3-4 – Listen not to one who prophesies in the name of idols
N 29 Deuteronomy 18:22 – Not fearing or refraining from killing a false prophet
N 30 Leviticus 20:23 – Imitate not the ways nor practice customs of idolaters
N 31 Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10 – Not practicing divination
N 32 Deuteronomy 18:10 – Not practicing soothsaying
N 33 Deuteronomy 18:10 – Not practicing enchanting
N 34 Deuteronomy 18:10 – Not practicing sorcery
N 35 Deuteronomy 18:11 – Not practicing the art of the charmer
N 36 Deuteronomy 18:10 – Not consulting a necromancer who uses the ov
N 37 Deuteronomy 18:10 – Not consulting a sorcerer who uses the ydo’a
N 38 Deuteronomy 18:11 – Not to seek information from the dead, necromancy
N 39 Deuteronomy 22:5 – Women not to wear men’s clothes or adornments
N 40 Deuteronomy 22:5 – Men not wearing women’s clothes or adornments
N 41 Leviticus 19:28 – Not tattoo yourself, as is the manner of the idolaters
N 42 Deuteronomy 22:11 – Not wearing a mixture of wool and linen, Shatnes
N 43 Leviticus 19:27 – Not shaving the temples/sides of your head
N 44 Leviticus 19:27 – Not shaving your beard
N 45 Deuteronomy 16:1 – Not making cuttings in your flesh over your dead
PROHIBITIONS RESULTING FROM HISTORICAL EVENTS
N 46 Deuteronomy 17:16 – Not returning to Egypt to dwell there permanently
N 47 Numbers 15:39 – Not to follow one’s heart or eyes, straying to impurity
N 48 Exodus23:32 – Not to make a pact with the Seven Canaanite Nations Deuteronomy 7:2
N 49 Deuteronomy 20:16 – Not to spare the life of the Seven Canaanite Nations
N 50 Deuteronomy 7:2 – Not to show mercy to idolaters
N 51 Exodus 23:33 – No one serving false gods to settle in Eretz-Israel
N 52 Deuteronomy 7:3 – Not to intermarry with one serving false gods
N 53 Deuteronomy 23:4 – Not to intermarry at all with a male from Ammon or Moav
N 54 Deuteronomy 23:8 – Exclude not marrying a descendant Esau if a proselyte
N 55 Deuteronomy 23:8 – Not to exclude marrying an Egyptian who is a proselyte
N 56 Deuteronomy 23:7 – Not permitted to make peace with Ammon and Moav nations
N 57 Deuteronomy 20:19 – Not destroying fruit trees, even in time of war
N 58 Deuteronomy 7:21 – Not fearing the enemy in time of war
N 59 Deuteronomy 25:19 – Not forgetting the evil which Amalek did to us
N 60 Leviticus 24:16 – Not blaspheming the Holy Name of God [rather]: Exodus 22:27
N 61 Leviticus 19:12 – Not violating an oath by the Holy Name, shevuas bittui
N 62 Exodus 20:7 – Not taking the Holy Name in vain, shevuas shav
N 63 Leviticus 22:32 – Not profaning the Holy Name of God
N 64 Deuteronomy 6:16 – Not testing/trying His (YHVH God) promises & warnings
N 65 Deuteronomy 12:4 – Do not destroy houses of worship or holy books
N 66 Deuteronomy 21:23 – Leave not body of executed criminal hanging overnight
N 67 – Numbers 18:5 Be not lax in guarding the Sanctuary/(Temple)
N 68 Leviticus 16:2 – Cohen haGadol enter Sanctuary only at prescribed times
N 69 Leviticus 21:23 – Cohen with blemish enter not Temple, from Altar inwards
N 70 Leviticus 21:17 – Cohen with a blemish not to minister in the Sanctuary
N 71 Leviticus 21:18 – Cohen with temporary blemish minister not in Sanctuary
N 72 Numbers 18:3 – Levites & Cohanim not to interchange in their functions
N 73 Leviticus 10:9 – Drunk persons may not enter Sanctuary or teach Torah
N 74 Numbers 18:4 – A Zar (non-Cohen) not to minister in Sanctuary
N 75 Leviticus 22:2 – Tameh (unclean) Cohen not to minister in Sanctuary
N 76 Leviticus 21:6 – Cohen who is tevul yom, not to minister in Sanctuary
N 77 Numbers 5:3 – Tameh (unclean) person not to enter any part of Temple
N 78 Deuteronomy 23:11 – Tameh person enter not camp of Levites (Temple mount)
N 79 Exodus 20:25 – Build not an Altar of stones which were touched by iron
N 80 Exodus 20:26 – Not to have an ascent to the Altar by steps
N 81 Leviticus 6:6 – Not to extinguish the Altar fire
N 82 Exodus 30:9 – Offer nothing, but specified incense, on Golden Altar
N 83 Exodus 30:32 – Not to make any oil the same as the Oil of Anointment
N 84 Exodus 30:32 – Anoint none with special oil except Cohen Gadol & King
N 85 Exodus 30:37 – Not to make incense same as burnt on Altar in Sanctuary
N 86 Exodus 25:15 – Not to remove the staves from their rings in the Ark
N 87 Exodus 28:28 – Not to remove the Breastplate from the Ephod
N 88 Exodus 28:32 – Make not any incision in Cohen haGadol’s upper garment
N 89 Deuteronomy 12:13 – Offer not sacrifices outside Sanctuary/(Temple) Court
N 91 Leviticus 22:20 – Dedicate not a blemished animal to be offered on Altar
N 92 Leviticus 22:22 – Not to slaughter a blemished animal as a korban
N 93 Leviticus 22:24 – Not to dash the blood of a blemished beast on the Altar
N 94 Leviticus 22:22 – Not to burn the inner parts of blemished beast on Altar
N 95 Deuteronomy 17:1 – Not to sacrifice a beast with a temporary blemish
N 96 Leviticus 22:25 – Not to offer a blemished sacrifice of a gentile
N 97 Leviticus 22:21 – Not to cause a consecrated offering to become blemished
N 98 Leviticus 2:11 – Not to offer leaven or honey upon the Altar
N 99 Leviticus 2:13 – Not to offer a sacrifice without salt
N100 Deuteronomy 23:19 – Offer not on Altar: “hire of harlot” or “price of dog”
N101 Leviticus 22:28 – Not to slaughter an animal & its young on the same day
N102 Leviticus 5:11 – Not to put olive oil on the sin meal-offering
N103 Leviticus 5:11 – Not to put frankincense on the sin meal-offering
N104 Numbers 5:15 – Not to put olive oil on the jealousy offering, sotah
N105 Numbers 5:15 – Not to put frankincense on the jealousy offering, sotah
N106 Leviticus 27:10 – Not to substitute sacrifices
N107 Leviticus 27:26 – Not to change sacrifices from one category to the other
N108 Numbers 18:17 – Redeem not the firstborn of permitted (clean) animals
N109 Leviticus 27:33 – Not to sell the tithe of the herd of cattle
N110 Leviticus 27:28 – Not to sell a devoted (by the Cherem vow) field
N111 Leviticus 27:28 – Not to redeem a devoted (by the Cherem vow) field
N112 Leviticus 5:8 – Not to split head of bird slaughtered for Sin-offering
N113 Deuteronomy 15:19 – Not to do any work with a dedicated beast
N114 Deuteronomy 15:19 – Not to shear a dedicated beast
N115 Exodus 34:25 – Slaughter not Pesach/Passover lamb if chametz is about
N116 Exodus 23:10 – Leave not sacrificial portions of Pesach lamb overnight
N117 Exodus 12:10 – Allow not meat of Pesach lamb to remain till morning
N118 Deuteronomy 16:4 – No meat of Nisan 14 Festive Offering remain till day 3
N119 Numbers 9:13 – No meat of 2nd Pesach lamb Offering remain till morning
N120 Leviticus 22:30 – No meat of Thanksgiving Offering to remain till morning
N121 Exodus 12:46 – Not to break any bones of Pesach lamb offering
N122 Numbers 9:12 – Not to break any bones of 2nd Pesach lamb offering
N123 Exodus 12:46 – Not to remove Pesach offering from where it is eaten
N124 Leviticus 6:10 – Not to bake the residue of a meal offering with leaven
N125 Exodus 12:9 – Not to eat the Pesach offering boiled or raw
N126 Exodus 12:45 – Not to allow an alien resident to eat Pesach offering
N127 Exodus 12:48 – An uncircumcised person may not eat the Pesach offering
N128 Exodus 12:43 – Not to allow an apostate to eat the Pesach offering
N129 Leviticus 12:4 – Tameh (ritually unclean) person may not eat holy things
N130 Leviticus 7:19 – Eat not meat of consecrated things that’ve become tameh
N131 Leviticus 19:6-8 – Not to eat sacrificial meat beyond the allotted time
N132 Leviticus 7:18 – Eat not sacrificial meat slaughtered in wrong intention
N133 Leviticus 22:10 – A zar/non-Cohen may not eat terumah / (heave offering)
N134 Leviticus 22:10 – A Cohen’s sojourner or hired worker may not eat terumah
N135 Leviticus 22:10 – An uncircumcised person may not eat terumah
N136 Leviticus 22:4 – Tameh (ritually unclean) Cohen may not eat terumah
N137 Leviticus 22:12 – Bat-Cohen if married to non-Cohen not to eat holy food
N138 Leviticus 6:16 – Not to eat the Meal-offering of a Cohen
N139 Leviticus 6:23 – Eat not Sin-offering meat sacrificed within Sanctuary
N140 Deuteronomy 14:3 – Not to eat consecrated animals that’ve become blemished
N141 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Eat not unredeemed 2nd corn tithe outside Yerushalayim
N142 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Consume not unredeemed 2nd wine tithe outside Jerusalem
N143 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Consume not unredeemed 2nd oil tithe outside Jerusalem
N144 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Eat not an unblemished firstling outside Yerushalayim
N145 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Eat not sin or guilt offerings outside Sanctuary court
N146 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Not to eat the meat of the burnt offering at all
N147 Deuteronomy 12:17 – Eat not lesser sacrifices before blood dashed on Altar
N148 Deuteronomy 12:17 – A zar/non-Cohen is not to eat the most holy offerings
N149 Exodus 29:33 – A Cohen not to eat First Fruits outside Temple courts
N150 Deuteronomy 26:14 – Eat not unredeemed 2nd tithe while in state of impurity
N151 Deuteronomy 26:14 – Not eating the 2nd tithe while in mourning
N152 Deuteronomy 26:14 – On 2nd tithe redemption money (only for food and drink)
N153 Leviticus 22:15 – Not eating untithed produce, tevel
N154 Exodus 22:28 – Not changing the order of separating the various tithes
N155 Deuteronomy 23:22 – Delay not payment of offerings, freewill or obligatory
N156 Exodus 23:15 – Go not to Temple on pilgrim festivals without offering
N157 Numbers 30:3 – Not to break your word, even if without an oath
N158 Leviticus 21:7 – A Cohen may not marry a harlot, zonah
N159 Leviticus 21:7 – A Cohen marry not a woman profaned from the Priesthood
N160 Leviticus 21:7 – A Cohen may not marry a divorcee
N161 Leviticus 21:14 – Cohen haGadol may not marry a widow
N162 Leviticus 21:15 – Cohen haGadol may not take a widow as a concubine
N163 Leviticus 10:6 – Cohen with disheveled hair may not enter the Sanctuary
N164 Leviticus 10:6 – Cohen wearing rent garments may not enter Sanctuary
N165 Leviticus 10:7 – Cohanim leave not Temple courtyard during the service
N166 Leviticus 21:1 – Common Cohen must not be defiled for dead, except some
N167 Leviticus 21:11 – Cohen haGadol may not be under one roof with dead body
N168 Leviticus 21:11 – Cohen haGadol must not be defiled for any dead person
N169 Deuteronomy 18:1 – Levites have not part in the division of Israel’s land
N170 Deuteronomy 18:1 – Levites share not in the spoils of war
N171 Deuteronomy 14:1 – Not to tear out hair for the dead
DIETARY LAWS
N172 Deuteronomy 14:7 – Not to eat any unclean animal
N173 Leviticus 11:11 – Not to eat any unclean fish
N174 Leviticus 11:13 – Not to eat any unclean fowl
N175 Deuteronomy 14:19 – Not to eat any creeping winged insect
N176 Leviticus 11:41 – Not to eat anything which creeps on the earth
N177 Leviticus 11:44 – Not to eat creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter
N178 Leviticus 11:42 – Not to eat living creatures that breed in seeds / fruit
N179 Leviticus 11:43 – Not to eat any detestable creature
N180 Deuteronomy 14:21 – Not to eat any animal which died naturally, a nevelah
N181 Exodus 22:30 – Not to eat an animal which is torn or mauled, a treifah
N182 Deuteronomy 12:23 – Not to eat any limb taken from a living animal
N183 Genesis 32:33 – Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein, gid ha-nasheh
N184 Leviticus 7:24 – Not to eat blood
N185 Leviticus 7:23 – Not to eat certain types of fat of clean animal, chelev
N186 Exodus 23:19 – Not to boil young male goat (meat) in its mother’s milk
N187 Exodus 34:26 – Not to eat young male goat cooked in its mother’s milk
N188 Exodus 21:28 – Not to eat the flesh of a condemned & to be stoned ox
N189 Leviticus 23:14 – Eat not bread made from grain of new crop, before Omer
N190 Leviticus 23:14 – Eat not roasted grain of new crop, before Omer offering
N191 Leviticus 23:14 – Eat not green ears of new crop, before Omer (Nisan 16)
N192 Leviticus 19:23 – Not to eat orlah
N193 Deuteronomy 22:9 – Eat not growth of mixed vineyard planting,kilai hakerem
N194 Deuteronomy 32:38 – Not to use wine libations for idols, yayin nesach
N195 Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 21:20 – No eating or drinking to excess, gluttony & drunkenness
N196 Leviticus 23:29 – Not to eat anything on Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement
N197 Exodus 13:3 – Not to eat chametz, leaven(ed), on Pesach
N198 Exodus 13:7 – Not to eat an admixture of chametz/leaven(ed) on Pesach
N199 Deuteronomy 16:3 – Not to eat chametz, leaven(ed), after noon of 14 Nisan
N200 Exodus 13:7 – No chametz may be seen in our homes during Pesach
N201 Exodus 12:19 – Not to possess chametz, leaven(ed), during Pesach
NAZIRITES
N202 Numbers 6:3 – A Nazir may not drink wine or any beverage from grapes
N203 Numbers 6:3 – A Nazir may not eat fresh grapes
N204 Numbers 6:3 – A Nazir may not eat dried grapes
N205 Numbers 6:4 – A Nazir may not eat grape seeds/kernels
N206 Numbers 6:4 – A Nazir may not eat grape peels/husks
N207 Numbers 6:7 – Nazir may not rend himself tameh (unclean) for the dead
N208 Leviticus 21:11 – Nazir must not become tameh entering house with corpse
N209 Numbers 6:5 – A Nazir must not shave his hair
N210 Leviticus 23:22 – Reap not a whole field without leaving corners for poor
N211 Leviticus 19:9 – Not to gather ears of grain that fell during harvesting
N212 Leviticus 19:10 – Not to gather the misformed clusters of grapes
N213 Leviticus 19:10 – Not to gather single fallen grapes during the vintage
N214 Deuteronomy 24:19 – Not to return for a forgotten sheaf
N215 Leviticus 19:19 – Not to sow diverse kinds of seed in one field, kalayim
N216 Deuteronomy 22:9 – Not to sow grain or vegetables in a vineyard
N217 Leviticus 19:19 – Not to crossbreed animals of different species
N218 Deuteronomy 22:10 – Work not with two different kinds of animals together
N219 Deuteronomy 25:4 – Muzzle not animal working field to prevent from eating
N220 Leviticus 25:4 – Not to cultivate the soil in the 7th year, shemittah
N221 Leviticus 25:4 – Not to prune the trees in the 7th year
N222 Leviticus 25:5 – Reap not self-grown plant in 7th year as ordinary year
N223 Leviticus 25:5 – Gather not self-grown fruit in 7th yr. as ordinary year
N224 Leviticus 25:11 – Not to till the earth or prune trees in Jubilee year
N225 Leviticus 25:11 – Reap not aftergrowths of Jubilee year as ordinary year
N226 Leviticus 25:11 – Not to gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year
N227 Leviticus 25:23 – Sell not one’s Eretz Yisrael land holdings permanently
N228 Leviticus 25:33 – Not to sell/change the open lands of the Levites
N229 Deuteronomy 12:19 – Not to leave the Levites without support
LOANS, BUSINESS, AND THE TREATMENT OF SLAVES
N230 Deuteronomy 15:2 – Not to demand payment of debts after (7th) Shmitah year
N231 Deuteronomy 15:9 – Not to refuse loan to poor because Shmitah year is near
N232 Deuteronomy 15:7 – Not to deny charity to the poor
N233 Deuteronomy 15:13 – Not sending a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed
N234 Exodus 22:24 – Not demanding payment from a debtor known unable to pay
N235 Leviticus 25:37 – Not lending to another Jew at interest
N236 Deuteronomy 23:20 – Not borrowing from another Jew at interest
N237 Exodus 22:24 – Not participating in an agreement involving interest
N238 Leviticus 19:13 – Oppress not an employee by delaying paying his wages
N239 Deuteronomy 24:10 – Not taking a pledge from a debtor by force
N240 Deuteronomy 24:12 – Not keeping a poor man’s pledge when he needs it
N241 Deuteronomy 24:17 – Not taking any pledge from a widow
N242 Deuteronomy 24:6 – Not taking ones’s business (or food) utensils in pledge
N243 Exodus 20:13 – Not abducting an Israelite
N244 Leviticus 19:11 – Not stealing
N245 Leviticus 19:13 – Not robbing
N246 Deuteronomy 19:14 – Not fraudulently altering land boundaries / landmarker
N247 Leviticus 19:13 – Not usurping our debts / do not defraud
N248 Leviticus 19:11 – Not repudiating debts, denying receipt of loan/deposit
N249 Leviticus 19:11 – Not to swear falsely regarding another man’s property
N250 Leviticus 25:14 – Not wronging/deceiving one another in business
N251 Leviticus 25:17 – Not wronging/misleading one another even verbally
N252 Exodus 22:20 – Not harming the stranger among you verbally
N253 Exodus 22:20 – Not injuring the stranger among you in business/trade
N254 Deuteronomy 23:16 – Not handing over a slave who’s fled to Israel
N255 Deuteronomy 23:17 – Take no advantage of a slave who’s fled to Israel
N256 Exodus 22:21 – Not afflicting the orphans and widows
N257 Leviticus 25:39 – Not employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks
N258 Leviticus 25:42 – Not selling a Hebrew bondman
N259 Leviticus 25:43 – Not treating a Hebrew bondman cruelly
N260 Leviticus 25:53 – Not allowing a heathen to mistreat a Hebrew bondman
N261 Exodus 21:8 – Not selling a Hebrew maidservant. & if you marry her…
N262 Exodus 21:10 – …withhold not: food, raiment, or conjugal rights
N263 Deuteronomy 21:14 – Not selling a captive woman
N264 Deuteronomy 21:14 – Not treating a captive woman as a slave
N265 Exodus 20:17 – Not coveting another man’s possessions/property, etc.
N266 Deuteronomy 5:18 – Covet not one’s possessions, even the desire forbidden
N267 Deuteronomy 23:26 – A worker is not to cut down standing grain during work
N268 Deuteronomy 23:24 – A hired laborer not to take more fruit than he can eat
N269 Deuteronomy 22:3 – Not ignoring lost property to be returned to its owner
N270 Exodus 23:5 – Refuse not to help man or animal collapsing with burden
N271 Leviticus19:35 – Not cheating/defrauding with measurements & weights
N272 Deuteronomy 25:13 – Not to possess false/inaccurate weights and measures
N273 Leviticus 19:15 – A Judge is not to commit unrighteousness
N274 Exodus 23:8 – A Judge is not to accept bribes/gifts from litigants
N275 Leviticus 19:15 – A Judge is not to favor (be partial to) a litigant
N276 Deuteronomy 1:17 – Judge not avoid justice being in fear of wicked person
N277 Leviticus 19:15 – A Judge not to decide in favor of poor man, out of pity [rather]: Exodus 23:3
N278 Exodus 23:6 – A Judge is not to discriminate against the wicked
N279 Deuteronomy 19:13 – Judge not to pity one who killed or caused loss of limb
N280 Deuteronomy 24:17 – A Judge not perverting justice due strangers or orphans
N281 Exodus 23:1 – Judge not to hear one litigant in absence of the other
N282 Exodus 23:2 – Court may not convict by majority of 1 in capital case
N283 Exodus 23:2 – Judge accept not colleague’s opinion, unless sure right
N284 Deuteronomy 1:17 – Not appointing an unlearned judge ignorant of the Torah
N285 Exodus 20:16 – Not bearing false witness
N286 Exodus 23:1 – A Judge is not to receive a wicked man’s testimony
N287 Deuteronomy 24:16 – A Judge receive not testimony from litigant’s relatives
N288 Deuteronomy 19:15 – Not convicting on the testimony of a single witness
N289 Exodus 20:13 – Not murdering a human being
N290 Exodus 23:7 – No conviction based on circumstantial evidence alone
N291 Numbers 35:30 – A witness must not sit as a Judge in capital cases
N292 Numbers 35:12 – Not killing a murderer without trial and conviction
N293 Deuteronomy 25:12 – Not to pity or spare the life of a pursuer
N294 Deuteronomy 22:26 – Not punishing a person for a sin committed under duress
N295 Numbers 35:31 – Not accepting ransom from an unwitting murderer
N296 Numbers 35:32 – Not accepting a ransom from a wilful murderer
N297 Leviticus 19:16 – Hesitate not to save life of another person in danger
N298 Deuteronomy 22:8 – Not leaving obstacles on public or private domain
N299 Leviticus 19:14 – Not misleading another by giving wrong advice
N300 Deuteronomy 25:2-3 – Inflict not more than assigned number lashes to guilty
N301 Leviticus 19:16 – Not to tell tales
N302 Leviticus 19:17 – Not to bear hatred in your heart toward your brethren
N303 Leviticus 19:17 – Not to put one another to shame
N304 Leviticus 19:18 – Not to take vengeance on another
N305 Leviticus 19:18 – Not to bear a grudge
N306 Deuteronomy 22:6 – Not to take entire bird’s nest, mother and her young
N307 Leviticus 13:33 – Not to shave a leprous scall
N308 Deuteronomy 24:8 – Not to cut or cauterize (remove) other signs of leprosy
N309 Deuteronomy 21:4 – Plow not a valley where slain body found, eglah arufah
N310 Exodus 22:17 – Not permitting a witch/sorcerer to live
N311 Deuteronomy 24:5 – Take not bridegroom from home in first year of marriage
N312 Deuteronomy 17:11 – Not to differ from or disobey the Cohanim and the Judge
N313 Deuteronomy 13:1 – Not to add to the Mitzvot/commandments of Torah
N314 Deuteronomy 13:1 – Not to detract from the Mitzvot/commandments of Torah
N315 Exodus 22:27 – Not to curse a judge
N316 Exodus 22:27 – Not to curse a ruler
N317 Leviticus 19:14 – Not to curse any Jew
N318 Exodus 21:17 – Not cursing parents
N319 Exodus 21:15 – Not to strike parents
N320 Exodus 20:10 – Not to work on Shabbat
N321 Exodus 16:29 – Not to walk beyond permitted limits, eruv, on Shabbat
N322 Exodus 35:3 – Not to inflict punishment on the Shabbat
N323 Exodus 12:16 – Not to work on the first day of Pesach
N324 Exodus 12:16 – Not to work on the seventh day of Pesach
N325 Leviticus 23:21 – Not to work on Shavuot
N326 Leviticus 23:25 – Not to work on Rosh HaShannah
N327 Leviticus 23:35 – Not to work on the first day of Sukkot
N328 Leviticus 23:36 – Work not 8th-day/Shemini-Atzeret, (after Hoshana Rabba)
N329 Leviticus 23:28 – Not to work on Yom Kippur / the Day of Atonement
INCEST AND OTHER FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS
N330 Leviticus 18:7 – No relations with one’s mother
N331 Leviticus 18:8 – No relations with one’s father’s wife
N332 Leviticus 18:9 – No relations with one’s sister
N333 Leviticus 18:11 – No relations with step-sister
N334 Leviticus 18:10 – No relations with one’s son’s daughter
N335 Leviticus 18:10 – No relations with one’s daughter’s daughter
N336 Leviticus 18:10 – No relations with one’s daughter
N337 Leviticus 18:17 – No relations with a woman and her daughter
N338 Leviticus 18:17 – No relations with a woman and her son’s daughter
N339 Leviticus 18:17 – No relations with a woman & her daughter’s daughter
N340 Leviticus 18:12 – No relations with one’s father’s sister
N341 Leviticus 18:13 – No relations with one’s mother’s sister
N342 Leviticus 18:14 – No relations with wife of father’s brother
N343 Leviticus 18:15 – No relations with one’s son’s wife
N344 Leviticus 18:16 – No relations with brother’s wife
N345 Leviticus 18:18 – No relations with sister of wife, during wife’s life
N346 Leviticus 18:19 – No relations with a menstruant
N347 Leviticus 18:20 – No relations with another man’s wife
N348 Leviticus 18:23 – Men may not lie with beasts
N349 Leviticus 18:23 – Women may not lie with beasts
N350 Leviticus 18:22 – A man may not lie carnally with another man
N351 Leviticus 18:7 – A man may not lie carnally with his father
N352 Leviticus 18:14 – A man may not lie carnally with his father’s brother
N353 Leviticus 18:6 – Not to be intimate with a kinswoman
N354 Deuteronomy 23:3 – A mamzer may not have relations with a Jewess
N355 Deuteronomy 23:18 – No relations (harlotry) with a woman outside marriage
N356 Deuteronomy 24:4 – Remarry not your divorced wife after she has remarried
N357 Deuteronomy 25:5 – Childless widow marry none except late husbands brother
N358 Deuteronomy 22:29 – Divorce not wife, that he has to marry after raping her
N359 Deuteronomy 22:19 – Divorce not wife, after falsely slandering her
N360 Deuteronomy 23:2 – Man unable of procreation (eunuch) not to marry Jewess
N361 Leviticus 22:24 – Not to castrate a man or beast
N362 Deuteronomy 17:15 – Not appointing a king who is not of the seed of Israel
N363 Deuteronomy 17:16 – A king not to accumulate an excess number of horses
N364 Deuteronomy 17:17 – A king not taking many wives
N365 Deuteronomy 17:17 – A king not amassing great personal wealth
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(Howard Stanton Levey)
April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997
"Could it be... Satan?!" — Dana Carvey as the Church Lady on Saturday Night Live
So there is no Jewish Devil, as previously discussed, but there is Jewish Satan worship? Well, not really, but the inventor of the Satanic religion, Anton LaVey, was Jewish by birth (Laveyan Satanism, anyway. Other satanic sects have other, non-Jew founders, so we don't give a crap about them).
If you're picturing a bunch of blood drinking, animal sacrificing vildechayas, you're way off. Laveyan Satanism, as we understand it, is more about celebration of the self — a sort of reverse Judeo/Christianity in which G-d is made in man's image and Satan (the disgraced angel from The Bible Part 2: The Quickening) is the messiah.
Frankly, the goat's blood and the virgin sacrifices sound a heck of a lot more fun than LaVey's brand. Boring Satanic rituals, who knew? That doesn't mean Anton LaVey was somehow normal, because he definitely was not. Nor are we endorsing the religion he invented.
No, rather, all of this makes us kind of sad. It's a tough life out there and millennia upon millennia later we humans are still trying to grasp the basic concept of how to be happy. And we keep coming back to hoping (and praying) that someone, somehow (G-d, Satan, Buddha, Oprah) will swoop down and make it all better.
And that person (sorry folks) isn't coming.
Verdict: Borderline Jew.
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January-April 2015
Page Nos. 1-38
Online since Thursday, June 4, 2015
Review of limb volume measurement techniques in assessing fetal weight by ultrasound with special reference to ImageJ package p. 1
Sukriti Malaviya, Shripad Hebbar, Lavanya Rai
Traditionally intrauterine nutritional status of the growing fetus is evaluated using ultrasound estimated weight, which is then compared with standardized prenatal growth chart for that particular gestational age. The fetuses belonging to less than 10 th centile groups are considered to have reduced growth, whereas those who are more than 90 th centile belong to macrosomia group. Both these extreme groups have their own characteristic obstetric problems and may have poorer outcome. The conventional fetal weight formulae incorporated in regular ultrasound machines are largely dependent on head size, abdominal circumference, and femur length and are prone to random errors as high as 15% of actual birth weight. The margin of error further increases with very small and very large fetuses, and also, these measurements are not valid when the fetus has anterior abdominal wall defects. Malnourishment and obesity studies in pediatric subjects have shown us that subcutaneous fat significantly contributes to actual weight, and mid arm circumference can be used as screening tool for nutritional disorders. The errors in fetal weight estimation can be minimized if fetal soft tissues such as arm and thigh volumes are included for nutritional assessment of the fetus. The recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasonography has made limb volume estimation simple, easy, and birth weight models using limb volume measurements have higher accuracy, least systematic and random errors compared with the usual two-dimensional biometry of head, trunk, and limb length alone. However, these machines incur significant cost and procurement may not be feasible for resource poor organizations. The present review discusses developments in 3D analysis of fetal limb volulmetry, the methodologies, and affordable solutions using alternative image processing tools such as ImageJ in regular sonographic practice. We have also searched various databases (PUBMED, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, GOOGLE SCHOLAR AND SCIENCE DIRECT, J-Gate Plus and ProQuest) for birth weight models using limb volume measurements and have provided 13 different birth weight equations based on arm and/or thigh volumes.
Prevalence of anemia and effectiveness of iron supplementation in anemic adolescent school girls at Amravati City (Maharashtra) p. 7
Ajay Keshavrao Jawarkar, Pushpa O Lokare, Anuradha Kizhatil, Jyoti A Jawarkar
Introduction: In India, the prevalence of anemia in adolescent girls is estimated at 56%. The underlying sociodemographic factors and menstrual practices need to be studied in adolescent girls and a way to reduce the anemia not only by supplementation of iron and folic acid tablets and deworming but ensuring its regular consumption. Hence, the present study was undertaken to know the effectiveness of deworming and iron and folic acid supplementation in reducing the prevalence and severity of anemia in adolescent school girls. Aims and Objectives: To study the prevalence of anemia in adolescent girls in urban area and effectiveness of iron supplementation in them. Materials and Methods: The present interventional study was conducted at Sharada Kanya Vidyalaya, in Amravati city. Total 350 adolescent girls were selected by random sampling from August 2013 to November 2013. All the girls were given a single dose anthelminthic and the girls who were anemic were given iron and folic acid tablets for daily consumption. The hemoglobin was again assessed after three months. Statistical Analysis: Chi-square test of significance and standard error of difference between two means using SPSS version 16 software. Results: The overall prevalence of anemia in adolescent girls was found to be 55%. Mean and standard deviation of Hb% in adolescent girls significantly increased from 10.57 (±1.09) before to 11.78 (±0.99) after intervention. Conclusion: The contributing factors of anemia found in the present study were low socioeconomic status, onset of menarche, small family size, and vegetarian diet.
Impact of perceptions of key stakeholders in combating undernourishment among rural children in Delhi: A qualitative study p. 11
Sanjeev Davey, Anuradha Davey, Vivek Adhish, Rajni Bagga
Background: The role of community members in deciding nutritional status of their children reveal many complex issues in studies done in the past; in that one such issue is the mutual perceptions of the multilevel stakeholders toward each other, for their efforts usually taken by them for reducing undernourishment in rural areas of Delhi. Aim and Objective: To gain insight in the perceptions of Opinion leaders, Health, and Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) functionaries toward each other in reducing under nutrition among rural children. Materials and Methods: The study was done in one Rural ICDS project in Delhi from January 1, 2015 to March 15, 2015. The prevalence of undernutrition in two AWCs was taken from previous studies in the past and thereafter the mutual perceptions of the community-level stakeholders, ICDS, and health care functionaries toward each other were studied by Qualitative research methods. The primary qualitative and quantitative data and secondary quantitative data both were finally triangulated to find out the reasons for existing scenario of undernutrition in Delhi. Results: The higher prevalence of undernutrition (58% from past studies) was supported by inadequate, ineffective and defective perceptions and uncoordinated efforts of PRIs, ICDS, and Health department reducing undernourishment in their area. Conclusion: To gain quality services from ICDS scheme and Primary health care system in rural area of Delhi; the need of the hour is the regular refresher and reorientation nutritional and health training programs for multilevel stakeholders in rural areas for tackling undernourished children in Delhi.
Knowledge of tuberculosis and human immune virus among tuberculosis suspects attending health facilities in Addis Ababa p. 19
Nebiyu Negussu Ayele, Amare Deribew Taddege, Kebede Deribe kassaye, Mulugeta Chaka, Ahmed Badei
Background: Tuberculosis is a major public health problem throughout the world in general and in Ethiopia in particular. In this study, we assess the knowledge of TB suspects about TB and HIV in health facilities of Addis Ababa. Materials and Methods: In the period of February to March, 2009, a cross-sectional survey was done in 27 health centers of Addis Ababa among TB suspects who had cough, and fever for ≥2 weeks. A total of 545 adult pulmonary TB or extrapulmonary TB (TB lymphadenitis) suspects (>15 years) were studied. Information about TB and HIV were collected using pretested questionnaire. Data was collected by trained health professionals and analyzed using SPSS 20.0 statistical software. Result: Most (94.4%) of the TB suspects heard about TB before. A few (12.8%) knew TB can involve other organs other than the lung. Ventilating living room was perceived by 34.6% as a means of reducing TB infection. Suspects who work in the public sector had three times increased odds of being knowledgeable than daily workers (AOR = 3.00, 95% CI: 1.53-5.88, P = 0.001). On the other hand, illiterates had lower odds of being knowledgeable about TB than above 12 graders (AOR = 0.1, 95% CI: 0.03-0.38, P = 0.001). Even if all suspects heard about HIV, still sharing meal (10.7%) and mosquito bite (7.9%) perceived as modes of transmission for HIV infection. Suspects who are 25-34 years old (AOR = 3, 08, 95% CI: 1.4-6.78, P = 0.001) and 35-49 years old (AOR = 2.16, 95% CI: 1.04-4.48, P = 0.033) were more likely to have good knowledge about HIV compared with >50 years old. Conclusion: Overall, suspects heard about TB and HIV before. However, there was less knowledge regarding other forms of TB. Misconception still persists on the area of HIV/AIDS. Hence a comprehensive approach needs to be followed to improve knowledge about TB and misconception about HIV/AIDS.
Study on default and its factors associated among Tuberculosis patients treated under DOTS in Mayurbhanj District, Odisha p. 25
Sudipta Basa, Srinivas Venkatesh
Background: Defaulting from tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been one of the major obstacles to treatment management and an important challenge for TB control. Understanding of various factors accounting for treatment default could help to achieve better compliance from patients. Thus the aim of the study is to estimate number of defaulters out of total TB patients registered under DOTS from January to June 2005 and to study the reasons for default in Mayurbhanj district, Orissa. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done by interviewing 41 defaulters using pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire to elicit reasons for default. Data was analyzed using Epi-info-(3.5.1), to find statistical significance among the variables. Results: Of the total 41 defaulters among 550 patients registered, only 31 could be interviewed, 10 were untraceable at the address provided. Default rate in our study was 7.5%. Majority of patients (73%) had defaulted during intensive phase of the treatment. A higher default rate associated with age group of 40-60 years, males and employed groups. The main reasons for default was due to drug toxicity (42%), feeling better so discontinued (35.5%), alcoholism (19.4%), migration (6.45%), wrong ideas (6.45%), DOTS provider absent (3.2%), DOTS provider rudeness (3.2%), and other reasons (9.7%), which includes family problems, timing inconvenient, and carelessness. Risk factors significantly associated were male, age, alcoholism, and distance of more than 5 km from treatment center. Conclusions: The majority of patients have defaulted in intensive phase of treatment. All efforts should be made to retrieve these patients and return them to treatment to achieve the expected goal of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP).
Self-perceived oral function and factors influencing oral health of elderly residents in Bengaluru city, India p. 29
B Kumara Raja, G Radha
Context: Oral health status plays an import role in patient quality of life, affecting mental, physical, and psychological wellbeing and complete social development by interfering with word pronunciation, social life, and alimentary function. Aims: To evaluate self-perception of elderly about the effect of oral health on quality of life using the geriatric oral health assessment index (GOHAI) index. Settings and Design: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 376, elderly individuals aged 60 years and above, residing in residential homes of Bengaluru city. Materials and Methods: The data were collected using GOHAI scale comprising of 12 items to measure the patient-perceived oral functional problems. In addition, a self-reported questionnaire was used to elicit demographic information. Statistical Analysis Used: A descriptive statistics along with Chi-square test was used. Results: Out of 407 individuals, only 376 fulfilled the inclusion criteria and constituted the final number of the participants. GOHAI was statistically significant with age (0.036*), gender (0.045*), dentition status (0.019*), and smoking status (0.042*), which showed a predictor for low oral health functional status. A majority of the subjects (66.1%) were "always" unhappy with their appearance of their teeth gums or dentures and 74.5% of the subjects were "always" concerned about their problems with their teeth, gums, or denture. Conclusions: The GOHAI final score was considered low, indicating a low self-perception by the elders of Indian residential homes.
Malignant parotid tumor with sialadenitis: A diagnostic dilemma p. 34
Pandiaraja Jayabal, Viswanathan Subramanian
Malignant parotid tumor associated with chronic sialadenitis is a rare entity. These tumors mostly arise from epithelial component of chronic sialadenitis. Chronic sialadenitis of parotid with malignant epithelial tumor even rare compared to chronic sialadenitis of the other salivary gland with malignant component. This is a rare case report of a 70-year-old male smoker with diagnostic difficulty for painless parotid mass. Finally, the patient diagnosed as malignant parotid tumor with chronic sialadenitis.
Ascariasis presenting as hematemesis in a young boy p. 37
Mohammed Mushtaque Ahmad, Praveen Kumar Malik, Shahnawaz Hassan, Shridhar Dwivedi
Most cases of round worm infestation are asymptomatic. Their migration to various unusual sites in the gastrointestinal tract leads to uncommon complications such as acute pancreatitis, biliary cholangitis, acalculus cholecystitis, and so on. Accumulation of worms inside intestinal lumen can lead to obstruction, intussuception, or volvulus. However, migration of the worm in the stomach and consequent hematemesis is a very rare complication. Acidic milieu of stomach and its strong peristalsis are considered to be the reason for this rarity. Mechanism of hematemesis is assumed to be erosion of the mucosa either by mechanical process or by the secretions of the worm. This young boy being presented here had vague abdominal complaints and later developed hematemesis along with vomiting out of three living round worms. He brought the worm to hospital and contributed in making prompt diagnosis. He was treated conservatively.
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DVD Review: In Heaven There is No Beer (2012)
No-Money Enterprises
Rated: No MPAA rating
Director: Dave Palamaro
Writer: Dave Palamaro
Starring: Carla Betz, Cooper Gillespie,
Bang Sugar Bang, King Cheetah
Documentary | Biography | Music
In Heaven There is No Beer is the story of the Los Angeles “Kiss or Kill” music scene (2002-2007). Fed up with the posh elitism in an industry filled with commercialist greed and conniving self-interest, a group and their devotees set out to carve their own niche in the music world.
Sickened by the Sunset Strip’s elitist “pay-for-play” policies and the over-the-top trendiness of the Silverlake scene, up-and-coming bands and their fans decided to break all the rules by falling back on the appeal of original music, cheap booze, ridiculously low cover charges, and a homegrown sense of welcomeness and community. And it worked.
Kiss or Kill peaked out with over 60 bands and more than a thousand dedicated fans behind them. From there, we watch as the growth of the movement lends itself back to becoming a threat to what it originally stood for.
Unless you follow the indie music scene, you’ve probably never heard of any of the bands featured here (some of the featured bands include King Cheetah, The Dollyrots, Bang Sugar Bang, The OAOTs, and The Letter Openers). But watch and you’ll hear their story and be able to relate to the struggle that threatens all newbies who get caught up in the growth cycle of success, only to finally become what they hate most.
But there’s more here than just the brief history of a movement most aren’t familiar with. From the bands that support one another through the most humble of beginnings in the backs of seedy clubs, to the jealousy that develops between rivals on their way up to the top, there is the passion of pursuing dreams.
Being rapidly paced, the documentary shows the value of community amongst artists in their attempts at self-expression that most will easily relate to. More than that, it will give all a crystal-clear picture into what it’s like to be an underdog band trying to get their shot at the big show.
Perhaps best of all is that here, we get no music “experts” or paid celebs endorsing anything. The grainy footage and off-sounding voices, recorded in poor conditions with humble equipment, are somewhat of a testimony to their labor of love. The young performers - no doubt wreaking of booze and sweat before, during, and after their performances - are nonetheless primarily riding off of the high that comes from performing before a crazy crowd that madly cheers them on.
Yes, the subject matter reaches out to a fairly narrow audience. And no, the narrative doesn’t grip or move us to or beyond what we would expect. It doesn’t propose or deal with a solution to a problem of global proportions, but it does tell a story of pursuing a vision, followed by a love of self-expression. In an industry dominated by big and bigger names, it’s hard to get recognized.
The DVD release includes a photo gallery with Director’s commentary, as well as notes on the film, deleted scenes, full-length live performances, some trailers and promos, and over 30 minutes of bonus materials. Not many films embody the spirit of Indie-ism as well as is done here.
2012 Bang Sugar Bang Carla Betz Cooper Gillespie Dave Palamaro documentary review In Heaven There is No Beer King Cheetah Kiss or Kill No-Money Enterprises The Dollyrots The Letter Openers The OAOTs
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Memories From the Land of the Midnight Sun
March 07, 2017 by John-James Ford in alcoholism, autobiography
While there’s a twinge of guilt around my deep sense of affiliation with First Nations peoples in the face of my stark male whiteness, I have to attribute these feelings to early childhood.
My first memories are of living on two First Nations' Reserves in the Northwest Territories—one in Rae-Edzo (now Behchokǫ̀) and the other in Inuvik. I don't have a large portfolio of memories from those early times, and the memories blend together from both outposts, but I know from the tremors in my heart that they were formative years. I didn't understand the difference between my Inuit friends and my privileged white ass except that many of my friends seemed, at the time, to be deeply unlucky and get in all sorts of trouble. These were my only friends, and as much as my mother and the neighbours’ dog, Koomik, tried to shelter me from the dismal realities of Reserve life in the 70's, it was there, permeating everything.
I went to the same school, wearing the same kind of homemade mukluks on my feet as we walked through the crunchy snow in near year-round darkness, and I studied the same classes, ate the same caribou stew and Flinstone vitamins at lunch time, and hosted the same head lice..
We played and travelled along the massive steel pipes that spanned the community. I never gave these pipes much thought, and only years later did I question why they were there, which was to house the hydro-electric infrastructure that couldn’t be buried due to permafrost.
I walked to school with my older sisters in the dark and we returned from school in the dark, except for roughly two weeks of constant sunshine in the summer when families would be out barbecuing at midnight. In the two weeks of midnight sun I ran around the Reserve with my friends while people stayed up and socialized at all hours, soaking in as much Vitamin D as they could. I distinctly remember skidding out my Big Wheel in the cracked streets and feeling like anything could happen in a place where the sun didn't set.
Koomik was part German Shepherd and part Husky, and though he belonged to the neighbour, his food dish was at our house and he slept in my bed. I would wander around the yard when I was five and six years old and Koomik would stay with me, watching the perimeter and fencing me in with his body whenever I made a move to wander off the property. Disturbingly, the dog had been trained by a racist, which meant that if any Native men walked by our little pink house, Koomik would bark ferociously at them. The dog became so aggressively intimidating that people started to give our house a wide berth. In a way, Koomik is, years later, an appropriate metaphor for the trained cultural dichotomy of violence, privilege, fear and appropriation.
The North was a land where extreme things happened. My once father fell off a skiff in the Beaufort Sea when they hit ice. His fellow Constables couldn't hear him shout and didn't even notice that there was a man overboard. When my father reached out instinctively for the boat, he had his hand chopped to the bone by the prop. The local doctor sewed his hand to his stomach for a time as a form of skin graft. Some four decades later, the skin on my Dad's left hand still tans in blotches in the summertime.
It was a dry Reservation, which meant that liquor was prohibited. Products like Pam cooking spray. Listerine, and Lysol were sold behind the counter due to the alcohol content. The intent was to keep noxious substances away from those who’d use them, like the giant.
The giant was Charlie Bishop, and that wasn’t a nickname for him. He was a massive lamb of a man who suffered from gigantism and was feared by all in the community. His thick fingers moved like a club when he waved, and he looked fearsome not because of his flat nose and prominent, coarse jaw, but because his large lips seemed to twist into a painful grimace whenever Charlie Bishop smiled.
My Mountie father sensed opportunity and quickly recruited him as a sort of "Special Constable" in order to help police the Natives. However, like many people on the reservation (my father and, years later, myself included) Charlie Bishop had a hard time of it under the bottle. One night my father got a call from a neighbour because the usually-gentle giant was sideways on whiskey and had beaten his wife pretty badly.
My Dad was 6'2" and looked like a ventriloquist's puppet next to Charlie, who was in a drunken rage when he arrived on the scene. My father told him that there was some trouble at the jail and he needed Charlie's help. Appealing to his sense of duty calmed him, and my Dad had Charlie stuff himself into the front of the cruiser and drove him back to the Reservation's jail, which was attached to our house.
My two elder sisters and I were sleeping when my father led Charlie next to one of the empty cells. Charlie was going along with it under the false pretence that his help was needed. My father couldn't shut him inside the cell while he was still wearing his thick leather belt. Charlie hadn't had an easy existence and was a prime candidate for suicide watch.
Charlie asked what they were doing there. In mid-sentence of a response my father jumped up and wrapped Charlie into a sleeper hold with one arm while undoing his buckle with the other. My dad whipped the belt out of its loops and shoved him into the cell with all his nerve-wracked strength, and just managed to shut the door as Charlie clued into the game and flew into a mighty rage.
My father was almost immediately called out again for some other incident, so my 5'2" mother perched herself in the tiny prison on a folding lawn chair, terrified that Charlie's gargantuan hands would rip the bars right off of his cel. My mother wanted to check on me and my sisters, but didn't dare leave him unobserved, as if eyeballing him was the only way to keep him locked up.
Charlie Bishop kept screaming in a forlorn, husky lam: "MY FRIEND! RCMP! MY FRIEND!”
The next morning, a sheepish Charlie was discharged without fuss but he cast his head low in shame and from that day forward he never again made eye contact with my mother. The incident proved useful, as my father became somewhat of a legend for being the white man who subdued Charlie Bishop, and was never physically challenged again during the remainder of the time we lived in Rae-Edzo.
My father did the right thing that night, I have no doubt, but my literary mind wants to frame the incident as another metaphor of a once powerful culture becoming tainted by exposure to colonialism, and then hoodwinked into a false partnership, and finally cast into an existence of shame—shame that doesn't belong to that people but has been carried by them on behalf of the engineers of cultural genocide.
The author (right) as a reluctant member of a Northern parade.
I have to believe that living on a Reserve for years just as my long-term memory was coming online would be the main reason I have felt a bashful kinship with First Nations' peoples—my whole life. Perhaps part of my felt-sense of kinship with First Nations comes from my own experience with shame, and denied rage in the face of a control system I don't recognize.
That reality during those formative years was all I knew; since then I've been romantically and ignorantly eager for all the peoples who have endured so much to boldly stand up and share from the gut what has been learned of fear, of courage, of rage, and of faith. Despite my naive magical thinking, I still know that there is a correction coming—we are in the midst of it—on planet Earth, and black folks and aboriginal folks, particularly the women, are at the heart of it.
Watch and see.
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March 07, 2017 /John-James Ford
Rae-Edzo, Northwest territories, Idlenomore, #nodapl, #idlenomore, alcoholism, cultural appropriation, cultural genocide, white priviledge, #blacklivesmatter, shame
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On November 14, 2018, weibo net friend "flower always threw great" released video "the secret of the cup," health problems of focusing on the hospitality industry.Video was exposed immediately.The public to express dissatisfaction with five-star hotel health work involved at the same time, also the processing results of relevant departments full of expectation.Public opinion is widespread concern that the bad influence, if not severe punishment, can play a warning role.Unexpectedly, this fear came true at last.So far, Shanghai seven involved results have been released of the punishment of the hotel, each hotel were warned, and fined 2000 yuan.
Not to mention the effectiveness of the so-called warning how many, but just this penalty, the amount of 2000 yuan is worth asking.Some netizens directly questioned the penalty: this and in a less amicable fashion three cups if necessary "and what's the difference?In the context of the current public opinion reflects, such punishment is difficult to satisfactory results.For the simple reason that punishment enough has to meet stinging pain, how can you expect involved hotel and the hotel industry recognition?
Can't say this punishment makes no sense.The basis should be introduced in 2011 and the implementation details "health management regulations in public places., according to the rules of health quality not in conformity with the requirements of the national hygiene standards and the family planning administrative department of health under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall order correction within a time limit, given a warning, and may impose a fine of less than RMB two thousand;Exceed the time limit is not correct, cause public health quality does not conform to the hygiene standards and requirements, a fine between RMB two thousand yuan and two thousand yuan;If the circumstances are serious, may be ordered to stop business operations for rectification according to law, and until revoked hygiene license ".Obviously, the relevant departments will not involved the situation of the hotel as "serious".So with that, up to 2000 yuan it belong to minor cases thus punishment.
The problem is that this is a five-star hotel.In a five-star hotel under the premise of expensive, health work is so perfunctory, even deliberately added for passengers, "serious" isn't it belong to?Nowadays, Internet users alike for the hospitality industry hygiene cast a vote of no confidence, don't also belong to the "serious"?It is not hard to imagine that the involved hotels may be feel glad.Just, the consumers will be willing to serve as a poke in the future?
Don't forget, if didn't spend the total stand up, we may still can't believe, luxurious five-star hotels so dirty.Can the grassroots hero after whom, what got the treatment?Suffered the threat of unknown people, their personal privacy has also been some malicious leak.A few days ago, shenzhen police bulletin "flower" always information leaked event processing result: suspect peng one by administrative detention 7, and be fined 500 yuan.
I wonder if flower I always agree with the penalty as a result, but 500 yuan can really taken peng a lifting?Have to say that the exposure hotel hygiene flowers always bad, became a steady even business.Involved the hotel safe, malicious leaked the information little is ok.Also, the most terrible of those orders peng, behind a remain unscathed.In a word, a screwing ended in spend a total reversal.He didn't know there is quite a chivalrous spirit, after which twists and turns, in the heart of the blood will be poured out?Surviving but even flowers always fight, I'm afraid I won't be so wronged someone willing to serve as a hero.Without the "flower", when we put our hopes on the self-discipline of the industry, the results?I'm afraid it is difficult to make people optimistic.
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Nokia has launched the X6 phone. The Nokia X6 has a 3.2-inch touchscreen and 32GB of storage, the iPhone's new competitor? It is slim(only 14mm thin) and features include a 5-megapixel camera, dual LED flash, TV-out, video editing, A-GPS with Ovi Maps, online sharing, Nokia Music store, full web browser, Flash Lite support and 16 days standby time, 35 hours of music playback.
It will ship from the fouth quarter of 2009 for EUR459(about $650).
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Restoring the world to wholeness
Chapter 6 On Socialism and Desocialization
On the meaning of social welfare: "[I]f this small movement increases the welfare of certain individuals and decreases that of others, we can no longer state positively that it is advantageous to the entire collectivity to carry out this movement." Vilfredo Pareto in Manual of Political Economy
Hoppe begins by noting that there are three, and only three, means of creating wealth:
1. By perceiving the previously unrecognized value of a thing in nature and taking possession of it;
2. By producing goods with one's labor upon the thing appropriated from nature; and
3. By acquiring a good through trade or purchase.
When one recognizes that these are the only means of creating wealth, it necessarily follows that socialism can never produce wealth and can only result in impoverishment. By its very nature, socialism favors the non-homesteaders, the non-producers and the non-contractors.
Secondly, since "the means of production cannot be sold under socialism," no market price exist, i.e it is impossible to determine if the thing being used is being used for its highest and best use or if it is being used inefficiently.
Thirdly, every person's output is diminished since the output is collectively allocated equally without regard to personal effort. We can see this principal in action if we consider that the small plots allowed farmers in Russia vastly outproduced the large collective farms even though they were less mechanized and had less available labor.
Fourthly, in a socialist society, all decisions become political in nature and require imposing one's will on the group. The producer is not free to assess what a customer is most likely to want and to provide it at a price that satisfies the customer, instead the producer must convince the collective of what is to be produced. The needs of the customer do not drive production and determine market success; instead one rises through "persuasion, demagoguery, and intrigue."
Part II On the Proper Disposition of Assets Which Were Appropriated by the State
In this section, Hoppe is concerned with the appropriate disposition of the property following the collapse of the Soviet Union. His thesis is that "[n]o government...can be considered the owner of any socialist property, for a criminal's heir, even if himself innocent, does not become the legitimate owner of illegitimately acquired assets." Hoppe notes (in the footnotes to this Chapter) that the property stolen from the citizens of Eastern Europe was not returned to them following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In East Germany the property which had been collectively owned was instead sold to favored, connected clients of State of Germany.
In the event that the previous legitimate owner cannot be identified, Hoppe proposes that "syndicalist ideas should be implemented." By that he means, that the ownership of the assets should be transferred to those who use the assets, e.g. the hospitals to the doctors and nurses, the roads to the local communities, etc. Hoppe recognizes that producers receiving goods in a capital intensive industry would have the advantage over those receiving goods in a labor intensive industry, but sees nothing inherently wrong in the resulting inequality.
Finally, Hoppe categorically rejects the possibility of the sale of the seized assets--even if they are the proceeds are distributed equally to the populace. Since the asset was confiscated by the State, i.e. expropriated from the legitimate owner, the State has no more than right to sell it and distribute the proceeds than a thief.
With respect to assets that are currently owned by states, Hoppe proposes, following privatization, each country should adopted a brief constitution providing: "Every person...has the right to employ his private property in any way he sees fit so long as in so doing he does not uninvitedly change the physical integrity of another person's body or property."
Part III On the Development of Eastern Europe Following a Program of Privatization
Had Hoppe's plan been adopted, he acknowledged it would have been hugely disruptive but ultimately he saw it as hugely beneficial to the people of Eastern Europe. An opportunity for proper cost accounting would have allowed the most efficient, best use of resources. Further, producers would have been highly incentivized to produce goods and services since their property rights would have been assured. He acknowledged that unemployment would have increased dramatically initially and that wage rates would have fallen below those in Western Europe, but those effects would quickly have attracted both entrepreneurs and capital, thereby reversing the initial high unemployment.
Part IV Postscript On Privatization in Welfare States
Hoppe closes Chapter 6 by clarifying that in no event should the syndicalist strategy he proposes for expropriated assets ever be used to assign assets to public employees. Civil servants can never be the victims of expropriation since they are participants in the system, i.e. he specifically rejects the idea that the schools should be turned over to the public school teachers, the postal service to the postal workers or public lands to the employees of the bureau of land management. For those assets whose prior ownership cannot be ascertained, he proposes that they be given to people in proportion to the taxes that they have paid. Civil servants may have the right to homestead certain previously public assets, but certainly only those for which they had no responsibility as that particular role might provide an unfair and unearned advantage to them.
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MEDIC MALAWI | 2012 – an ‘amazing year’ for MM
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13 Feb 2012 – an ‘amazing year’ for MM
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Medic Malawi is celebrating an “amazing” year which has seen its income double and hundreds of people saved from blindness.
Organisers said they could not believe what a success 2012 had been for the small charity, with people making donations, despite difficult economic conditions.
Money raised by Medic Malawi, which funds a hospital in Mtunthama, in a rural area of the African country together with a clinic for feeding the malnourished and an orphanage for 85 children, soared from £118,000 in 2011 to £235,000 in 2012.
The fundraising efforts of the organisation were boosted with a Toy Trust donation of £100,000 and new supporters, including Shrewsbury School, coming on board.
Stephen Drew, who took over the charity in 2011 after retiring as principal of Wrekin College where students raised the first £20,000 to pay for the orphan house, said: “It has been a sensational year for us. I am amazed at how people have taken us into their hearts.
“We have to thank the Toy Trust for their generous donation of £100,000 but there were other factors which helped us exceed our targets, including the success of the Big Breakfast, three private donations of £10,000 and new supporters joining us.
“What I am very proud of is that all the money donated to the charity goes to help people in Malawi. We do not have UK costs or expenses, unlike some other charities. That really means we can raise as much money as possible for those in need.”
Mr Drew said: “The funding has helped us to make big changes and one of the most ambitious was doubling the size of our orphanage in the Mtunthama region of the third world country to cater for 100 children.
“We have also bought an ambulance and three motorbikes with trailers to begin outreach sessions from a malnourishment centre, as well as building new staff accommodation and extending a surgery ward.
“Even donations of just a few pounds can have a dramatic impact on the lives of the needy in Malawi and we have been touched at how people in Shropshire have continued to think of us when they want to donate money.”
He said: “The fundraising does not stop and we have more plans for improvements in 2013. We want to become a regional centre of help and build a new children’s ward, training centres for local young people, extend solar power, buy and incubator and open an eye clinic.
“A Three Peaks challenge is also planned in 2013 after a successful walk up Snowdon in September which raised thousands of pounds for us.”
Anybody who would like to find out more about the charity or raise funds should visit www.medicmalawi.org or call Mr Drew on (01743) 614597 and follow the charity on Twitter @MedicMalawi.
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by Brooke Thio | January 07, 2019
For planners seeking an element of indulgence for their groups, Kobe offers some of the best dining and entertainment - all conveniently located just 20 minutes from Osaka and 60 minutes from Kyoto by train.
"Japan is increasingly popular for incentive travel, especially for groups from Southeast Asia," noted Etsuko Kawasaki, executive director at the Japan Convention Bureau. "Incentive travel from the region increased by 18% year-on-year to 242 trips." As Kobe prepares to host 2019 Rugby World Cup matches, the city is working to enhance its image and improve on-the-ground support for planners and visitors.
Despite the limited number of international brands, Kobe's upscale hotels offer extensive meeting facilities for groups of all sizes. Hotel Okura Kobe boasts one of the largest pillarless ballrooms in the Kansai region with its 2,100sqm Heian Grand Ballroom.
Designed to evoke the feeling of sailing on a luxury liner, Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel wows guests with five oceanfront banquet spaces featuring full-height windows and balconies. At the 262-room Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers, the Rokko Ballroom can accommodate up to 940 guests, while 13 meeting rooms offer flexible layouts.
Beyond the ballroom
To complement existing convention facilities, Kobe is building its inventory of unique venues. Previously, one key hurdle planners faced in securing historically significant venues was the logistics and special arrangements involved.
This is gradually changing as private enterprises take over the management and promotion of historical buildings. Japanese company Value Management Group, for example, runs the Nipponia hotel chain as well as venues like Kobe Geihinkan Former Guest House.
Kobe Geihinkan is designated as an Important Cultural Property by the Japanese government, and will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2019. The western-style mansion features banquet halls that can accommodate 72 to 130 guests, as well as a salon and garden for outdoor cocktail receptions. Value Management Group also represents unique event spaces in nearby Kyoto and Osaka, such as in Heian-jingu Shrine and Nishinomaru Garden at Osaka Castle Park.
Recreational attractions like Kobe's Suma Aqualife Park can also serve as gala venues, as the 754 delegates of the OCEANS'18 MTS/IEEE Kobe conference discovered. With the aquarium's main tank as the backdrop, guests experienced a traditional 'Kagami-biraki' sake barrel breaking ceremony, tea ceremony, and a traditional 'koto' (Japanese harp) performance.
Delegates who visit Kobe will no doubt be expecting a taste of Kobe's most famous export: Kobe beef. A truly local dining experience here involves counter seats at teppanyaki-style joints, where diners will be shown their choice of meat before the chef slices and grills it to perfection.
Misono Kobe, one of the city's pioneer restaurants, says it has received many requests from Muslim guests who want to try Kobe beef. Catching on to this demand, it started offering a halal Kobe beef steak course late last year, with the option of a 150g sirloin at JPY 29,160 (US$260) or fillet at JPY 41,040.
A sake barrel breaking ceremony at Suma Aqualife Park, for OCEANS’18 MTS-IEEE Kobe; Nada sake is one of Kobe’s top exports.
Spirits connoisseurs will also appreciate a visit to the sake (rice wine) breweries in Kobe's Nada region, which is renowned for producing exceptional sake due to the local rice and water used. At the award-winning Kobe Sushinkan brewery, English and other foreign language group tours are readily available and participants can taste a range of Nada sake varieties and flavours before choosing their favourites to take home as souvenirs.
Finally, Kobe is the only place where one can claim to have soaked in the oldest hot springs in Japan. Arima Onsen, founded approximately 1,300 years ago, is famed for its "kinsen" (gold spring), which is rich in iron and salt, as well as carbonic "ginsen" (silver spring). For a post-conference party, planners can organise a gathering complete with geisha hostesses and kaiseki cuisine right within the onsen.
Kobe is known for its "Ten-Million-Dollar Night View" from Mt. Rokko, but there's a more thrilling spot for groups to get a panoramic view: Akashi Kaikyo Bridge. Linking Kobe with nearby Awaji Island, this is the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world. A technical tour of the bridge, guided by locals who personally worked on the bridge's construction, promises to thrill with visits to walkways under the bridge as well as to the top of the 297m-high central towers.
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Home > June 2014 > Scuba Diving in Greece: A Unique Experience
Scuba Diving in Greece: A Unique Experience
By NEO Magazine on June 7, 2014
by Gregory Sioris*
A few years ago while sitting at a cafe on Manhattan’s East Side I was speaking with another patron born in Greece. During our conversation I revealed that I had often gone scuba diving in Greece. Much to my surprise she surmised and insisted that I am must be an antiquities thief (archaiokapilos) since the only purpose of diving is to steal antiquities, at least according to her, and, as it seems, far too many other Greeks. This was not the first time that I heard this claim from a Greek, since often after surfacing from dives locals have come and asked what I found or rather taken from below, this being a clear reference to purloining antiquities. However, hearing this comment in Manhattan from someone who holds herself out as being literate, let alone cosmopolitan, surprised me considering the seas abut every corner of Greece and its islands which make it an ideal country for scuba diving.
Gregory Sioris ready to dive in Mykonos; PHOTO: GREG SIORIS
Scuba is a sport and/or an environmental activity which attracts high end tourists willing to spend generously to pursue this wonderful endeavor. This is the tourist demographic Greece certainly needs and should be attracting, particularly at this time of economic hardship since divers’ spending can provide growth in almost every corner of the country.
Seeing that perhaps too many Greeks are ignorant about diving in their homeland it is perhaps a timely subject for discussion since it provides many benefits, which for far too long have been overlooked if not completely ignored by those in Greece and around the world. It’s also time for NEO’s readers to get their masks and fins on to experience some of the cleanest and warmest waters the planet has to offer which they often neglect when visiting Greece.
Prior to 2006 scuba diving was greatly restricted in Greek waters the fear being that the sea floor was teaming with rare and unique antiquities of great value that easily could be grasped and smuggled for sale to dubious “art” dealers. This flawed thinking led to scuba diving being forbidden throughout Greece except in locations that were few and far between, with one bay (Limanaki) at Vouliagmeni in Athens and some locations in Mykonos and a few other locations in islands such as Rhodes and Corfu. Abiding by the law’s proscriptions on where not to dive was frustrating, since with an endless coastline and numerous islands the attraction to dive in Greece is an endless siren song. A recreational diver should not have to fear the local port authority police swooping in with their speedboat and seizing a diver’s gear and even the boat she is diving from, which was the penalty for diving in zones that were not legal, which in reality was the entire mainland and the great majority of the islands. The threat of enforcing these strict and often arbitrary laws was terrible for the tourism, since the word in the diving community was that there was an outright hostility in Greece toward scuba and scuba divers. The result was that Greece’s nascent diving industry in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s was being put down by the very government it could provide revenues to by attracting affluent tourists who wanted to dive and who were willing to pay for the privilege.
Mykonos Dive Center in Paradise; PHOTO: GREG SIORIS
By closing its doors Greece provided the incentive for European based divers to head to the Red Sea and stay at sea side resorts in Egypt and Israel. The dive tourists that Greece could have attracted decades earlier were being diverted to resorts in the Red Sea where a mature and thriving dive tourism industry arose, less so now due to the troubles in Egypt.
Greece’s restrictions also meant that anyone chartering a yacht in Greece was forbidden to use scuba gear almost anywhere, which provided a profound disincentive to charter in Greece if diving was on the agenda. One simply could charter a Turkish flagged vessel and dive on the Turkish side of the Aegean free of the worry that diving is illegal. The Greek government’s myopic and uninformed thinking hurt at least two, if not more industries, with diving and yacht chartering being the obvious and intended victims of the shortsightedness of the Greece’s bureaucrats.
Fortunately, in 2006 the European Union came to the rescue when it compelled Greece to open its seas to scuba diving. There are some exceptions such as areas where there are proven antiquities below, such as around the isle of Delos, or within ports or busy sea lanes, where recreational divers have no business diving. Motivating the EU’s move were its treaties which compel member states such as Greece to uphold the free movement of goods, services and people within the EU. Tourism is a commercial service and there’s no reason to maintain restrictive laws which keep an entire nation off limits to divers based on mere suspicion that rare and valuable antiquities are ever present below the surface when there’s little evidence to support such a concern. Antiquities thieves can dig and search as easily on land as they can in the sea, but the Greek countryside is not off limits to campers and hikers who can easily find picks and shovels should they wish to engage in this illicit task. That being said, some thoughts on finding gear and places to dive in Greece.
Even when scuba diving was restricted dive gear could be found throughout Greece. In smaller towns it may have been difficult to find items such as tanks, regulators and compressors to provide air and mixed gasses such as Nitrox to fill tanks, but the basics were always plentiful, easily found and affordable. This meant that masks, fins, snorkels, wet suits, weights and underwater lights and knives were ubiquitous. Spear guns and their accessories such as spare spear shafts and spear points were also ever present with tourist shops and even supermarkets carrying these items. Greeks love to spear fish and with the price of fresh fish being so expensive in Greece it’s no wonder that people are motivated to go and spear fish for their dinner.
By the late 80’s early 90’s scuba diving was catching on among the locals. Dive schools connected to dive stores were opening in Athens and the other cities and persons of both genders and of all ages were partaking in what had been considered an exotic sport geared toward wealthy tourists. Mind you that many of the scuba students had grown up near beaches and had been snorkeling for years and were well aware of how to dive, albeit by holding their breath. It was now time to start breathing by using a tank which is far safer to holding one’s breath to stay below. A great percentage of those learning, at least to my eyes, were girls of high school years and older showing that the diving’s appeal in Greece is gender neutral and not geared only toward macho types. With the seas that Greece has, this makes perfect sense.
The gear found in Greek dive shops today rivals the gear found in New York, Los Angeles, Maui or any dive resort in the Caribbean or any other place on the planet. Those choosing to buy their gear in Greece for future uses will not have a problem with the selection and range of prices for whatever it is they are looking for, even for higher ticket items such as air compressors. Servicing and repairing the gear is also not a problem in places such as Athens since major manufacturers have agents or distributors there who can address almost all service issues. To provide one example, I had a problem with a Finnish Suunto dive computer which took in water two years ago. It was promptly repaired in Athens, the speed of the repair surpassing what one expects even in New York. Needless to mention that I was pleasantly surprised with the speed and quality of the service, especially because I was able to get back into the water without delay.
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In addition to diving on air, which you’re inhaling and exhaling as you read this, mixed gases, otherwise referred to as “technical” diving gasses are available throughout Greece. This is largely attributed to Panagiotis (Takis) Vournas, a former Greek Navy Seal and master diver from Patras who has his shop in Piraeus and who represents American Nitrox Divers, Inc. or ANDI throughout Greece, www.andi.gr. Takis and his team installed the pylons on the Rio-AntirioBridge which opened in 2004 prior to the start of the Olympic Games at Athens and continues to maintain the bridge’s underwater structures to this day. In addition Takis takes on commercial diving projects such as laying underwater pipe and salvage operations.
ANDI is based in Farmingdale, New York (Long Island) and is known worldwide as perhaps being the first proponent of Nitrox for recreational uses. Nitrox is a gas mixture which contains a higher percentage of oxygen and lesser amounts of nitrogen so that a diver can stay underwater longer or make repetitive dives during a day by lessening the risk of having nitrogen narcosis or suffering the effects of having excess nitrogen entering into the bloodstream and causing “the bends”. This occurs when nitrogen goes from a soluble state in the bloodstream while underwater but returns to a gaseous state upon surfacing. The gas deposits in one’s joints or lungs and which results in embolisms. Moving the joint is painful and in extreme cases of “bending” the joint cannot move at all. In severe cases of the bends serious injury or even death can occur. Breathing nitrogen at depth under the water’s pressure for long periods can also cause a type of underwater dementia which in severe situations can lead to loss of consciousness and even drowning, which is referred to as nitrogen narcosis.
Nitrox can alleviate some of these risks by reducing the level of nitrogen that a diver breathes. It is referred to as “old farts gas” since the feeling of fatigue is lessened by its use which allows for older divers to make repetitive dives during the diving day. Nitrox is considered somewhat safer than air and ANDI is its great proponent and promoter throughout Greece.
In addition to providing instruction and certification for Nitrox, Takis also provides instruction in the use of other more complex mixed gases, such as Heliox, which is a mixture of helium and oxygen. Heliox and other “exotic” gas mixtures are used for deep “technical” dives, where a diver may spend hours underwater at depths of several hundred feet, such as working to lay a pipeline in the case of commercial divers.
There are sports divers who dive on these exotic mixes to visit attractions in Greece such as the wreck of the Brittanic, the Titanic’s sister ship. Originally built as a transatlantic steamer, the Brittanic was converted into a hospital ship during the World War I. She sank in November 1916 off the island of Kea (Tzia). The debate continues to this day as to whether the sinking resulted from a mine or a torpedo courtesy of the German Navy. The wreck lies in one piece, is very well preserved and lies approximately four hundred feet deep. Takis has visited the Brittanic which has been declared an underwater memorial to honor the memory of those sixteen souls who went down with the ship.
Famed diver Jacques Cousteau dove the Brittanic during 1975 and made a documentary about his expedition which is available on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-Xqv3wivI. In the documentary Cousteau takes one of the ship’s former and now elderly nurses down to see the wreck in a mini submarine, which is perhaps what likely influenced similar scenes in the 1997 movie Titanic. When Cousteau dove the Brittanic technical diving was only for highly skilled and seasoned divers like himself and not those with recreational interests in mind. With dive technology advancing, this has certainly changed.
MYKONOS & SANTORINI
For readers going to the popular islands of Mykonos and Santorini, there are very good dive centers to be found.
The famed dance club Cavo Paradiso in the background, on the bluff; PHOTO: GREG SIORIS
In Mykonos, the premier dive center is Dive Adventures, nestled discretely behind the Tropicana Bar and Restaurant at ParadiseBeach, www.diveadventures.gr. Dive Adventures opens in mid April and closes mid October and is a short walk from the bus stop. It is managed by Kostas Sgourakis, also a former diver in the Greek Navy, but with an M.B.A. from a Florida university. Kostas speaks fluent English and runs a five star PADI certified dive facility of which there are few in Greece. In terms of instruction, equipment, atmosphere and providing professional services overall, Dive Adventures can compete with any dive center in the U.S. or the Caribbean, which means that it can compete with any center in the world. The well maintained equipment is of high quality and the instructors are top notch. The classroom and other learning facilities make it a joy to learn how to dive and become a certified scuba (and/or Nitrox) diver while in Mykonos. Kostas goes out of his way to make his students and experienced divers enjoy the pleasures that diving in Mykonos has to offer.
Unknown to many is the shallow reef which lays off ParadiseBeach directly in front of this dive shop and the Tropicana Bar. The reef is about 15-20′ deep and depending on the hour teems with small fish and other marine life. The beach and the reef provide a great place to learn how to dive, since this is a natural swimming pool with warm and clear water devoid of underwater threats and eyesores such as discarded machinery and garbage. For other dives such as visiting wrecks off Mykonos Kostas has an inflatable boat which goes out several times a day from shore. The boat dives are for divers with experience and certified by one of the several certifying agencies, such as YMCA, PADI, NAUI, etc.
Party after a dive at the Tropicana Bar, Paradise Beach, Mykonos
Several of the sites that I dove off Mykonos were teeming with sea life and interesting under water environments. For those familiar with diving the Caribbean the colors in the Aegean may not be as bright or the fish as plentiful, but the clarity and warmth of the water are on par with the finest sites in the Caribbean. The lack of underwater currents in Mykonos is also pleasing, especially for divers without much experience. The size and number of the groupers is impressive as are the loutsii or the Mediterranean cousin of the barracuda, whose disposition in the Med mirrors the warmth of the indigenous people of the region. The loutsii in Greece are not aggressive which is what one often hears of and fears regarding their Caribbean cousins.
The activities after diving at ParadiseBeach are likely the best in Greece. The daily late afternoon and evening party at the Tropicana Bar during the summer months is filled with people dancing and partying to the sounds of some of the world’s best djs. Taking in the party after a dive is an experience which makes diving at Paradise all the more fun.
During summer of 2013 I visited another dive center at LiaBeach in Mykonos, which by car is about 35-40 minutes from the center of town. For those who’ve not been to Lia, it’s a picturesque and quiet beach, with one taverna being its sole source of food and beverages. Unlike Paradise, there are no bars, convenience stores or showers. There is no public transportation to take you to Lia, unlike the bus and boat which go to Paradise. You arrive either by boat, car, taxi or motor scooter.
The dive facility at Lia was a shack, the owner telling me that it’s taken down in the off season by moving it behind the taverna. Unlike the inflatable boat used at the dive center at Paradise, the one in Lia uses a caique or traditional wooden Greek made boat to dive from. I did not dive here, but from swimming at this beach during prior years know the waters in this part of Mykonos are very clear and diving from this Spartan facility seems to have certain charms. The prices to rent gear and dive were on par with those in Paradise, which is surprising, considering that Lia seems like a very out of the way place to go diving and one would expect the prices for outings there would reward the efforts one takes to get there.
Similar to Mykonos, Santorini needs no introduction. What’s claimed by some scholars to be the location of ancient Atlantis, Santorini’s caldera is a sight to behold both from high atop its cliffs and at sea level. The caldera seems like an endlessly deep body of warm blue ink which if touched is likely to leave a blue stain on your skin. Swimming in the caldera’s warm deep waters is among life’s greatest pleasures. With the cliffs looming in the background swimming in the caldera’s very deep and endless blue waters provides a feeling of being in a profoundly beautiful place. Diving the caldera provides an equally grand pleasure since two active volcanos sit in the middle of it, leaving one curious to view the underwater environment that has resulted from what is believed to be one of the history’s most devastating volcanic blasts. Few people know that Santorini has two volcanoes, Mikri Kameni and Megali Kameni, translated as small burned and large burned or the small and large volcanoes.
SantoriniDiveCenter in Perissa has dives to the volcano daily during the summer months from the beach at Akrotiri, www.divecenter.gr. The grey haired owner Antonis is personable and has his facility literally on the beach. For those who don’t have a car on Santorini, Antonis or his staff will collect you from your hotel and take you to his beach for one or several dives. I was fortunate to dive both the large and small volcanoes on successive days and recommend these dives to experienced divers.
The Center has a comfortable boat which accommodates nearly twenty or so divers (both scuba and snorkelers) for the fifteen to twenty or so minute ride to either volcano. As the main island is left behind the volcanoes’ dark grey, near black color comes into focus and makes an immediate impression of burnt, disfigured rock on a grandiose scale. Seeing the volcanoes up close is, on their own, worth the cost of the dive. It makes one very curious as to what lurks below this forbidding environment.
The volcano dives were interesting for many reasons. The underwater environment is disfigured and tortured. You see the effects of the blast which removed the center of this island and supposedly caused a tsunami in the Aegean which ended the Minoan civilization. Viewing the underwater rock formations up close provides an uncomfortable feeling, since they have been burned and tossed about. The underwater environment is foreboding and ominous with a pervasive feeling that something awful has occurred here, which in actuality it has. The twisted rock formations evidence the effects of the force of the eruptions. Oddly, the blackened rocks have short blond hair-like vegetation growing on them without more. Fish did not seem to feed on this vegetation which provides an eerie yellow glow to the underwater environment. Hardly any fish were to be found at the volcanoes which seemed as though they too know that something violent has occurred here and as a result stay away.
On the second day of diving several cruise ships were parked about a mile away. It seems that their engines were on in order to run their generators to provide on board electricity and at times to run the propellers to gently move the ship back to a certain position against the currents. The working engines provide a low pitched drone reminiscent of the sounds heard in B horror movies of the 50’s, which is not at all pleasing while underwater. The noise proved an ongoing distraction and during portions of the dive it seemed that we were in a direct line with the noise which felt almost deafening. The noise detracted from the dive making it feel surreal as though being a lingering effect of the volcanic blasts from millennia past. The overall experience however is one that is unique and full of wonder regardless of the droning.
The pleasures of diving (and yachting) in Greece are too many to describe in this short space. The good news is that the Greek seas have been open for the past eight years and will likely remain so in the future. Both the novice and the technical diver can partake of the scuba experience which should not be neglected on your next trip to Greece.
See you below.
Gregory Sioris, besides scuba diving, is practicing law in Manhattan, NY.
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Thunderstorms this evening followed by occasional showers overnight. Low 68F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 100%.
Two vying for Tioga Justice post
By Morning Times Staff
TIOGA — Town of Tioga residents will have two candidates to choose from for the position of town justice when they hit the polls for Tuesday’s primary.
Residents Michele Shelly Bogart and Miranda Fisher are campaigning for this nomination.
In an effort to help local voters make an informed choice when they cast their ballot, both candidates were sent questionnaires by the Morning Times.
Please share some background information about yourself.
Bogart: I am a resident of the Town of Tioga and have been since 2002. I retired after a nearly three decade career with the Tioga County (NY) Sheriff’s Office. I began my career there in August 1989 as a Correction Officer and I retired at the end of November 2016 as a Road Patrol Sergeant. I also was employed as a part time Police Officer with the Village Of Waverly Police Department from 2010 until 2017. I grew up in Owego N.Y. and graduated from OFA and then SUNY Cobleskill with an AAS degree in Business Administration.
Fisher: Mrs. Fisher is a lifetime Tioga County resident and a graduate of Tioga Central High School. She has been employed with a local law firm, Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP for over nine years. She has been a volunteer for many events in our community.
Miranda Fisher is the mother of three boys and married to Travis Fisher.
What are your reasons for seeking office?
Bogart: My reasons for seeking office of the Town of Tioga Justice is that I believe I can serve my town and the position with the same integrity, fairness and attention to detail that I served the County with. I have an insight to the system after working as both Corrections Officer and Sergeant as well as Road Patrol Deputy and Sergeant.
Fisher: First and foremost, is my commitment and love of the Town of Tioga where I have lived my whole life. Secondly, is my love of the law. I, as well as most of our community, have concerns about the opioid abuse. I promise that I will work tirelessly to help be part of the solution to try and end the drug issue in our community. Another of my top interests is becoming a part of the judicial system in order to encourage younger generations to become more involved with their local communities and political affairs.
What do you believe the role of town justice should be?
Bogart: The role of Town Justice should be that of a part-time elected official with limited jurisdiction to hear criminal cases (misdemeanors, violations and traffic infractions) as well as minor civil actions and violations of local Town or Village laws/resolutions and render fair, educated and unbiased decisions. The local justice court is also important for the issuance of temporary restraining orders in domestic violence cases.
Fisher: Availability and willingness: to drop everything to respond to the needs of the community.
Patience: it is not only a virtue, it is an indispensable trait for a successful Town of Tioga Justice.
Decisiveness: the ability of Town of Tioga Justice to be decisive is one characteristic that a judge cannot be without. A willingness to listen to all relevant arguments and to review the law is required.
Confidence: but not self centered.
Most of all the role of the Town Justice should have the ability to carefully evaluate the information and make a informed decision in a fair and just way.
Is there anything you’d like to say to voters prior to the election?
Bogart: I would just like to say to the voters, regardless of who they are voting for, to get out and vote on June 25th. I have a proven, solid record of serving the public in a fair, unbiased manner with integrity and if elected I will serve the Town of Tioga in the same manner.
Fisher: Make your vote count on Tuesday June 25th!
Jen Rodriguez can be reached at (570) 888-9643 ext. 229 or jrodriguez@morning-times.com. Follow Jen on Twitter @JrodriguezMt.
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LONDON BRIEFING: Search For New Bank Of England Governor Begins
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK government on Wednesday formally launched its search to find the ...
Alliance News 24 April, 2019 | 8:09AM
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK government on Wednesday formally launched its search to find the next governor of the Bank of England.
Canadian Mark Carney has been in the role since the summer of 2013 and will step down at the end of January 2020. He previously agreed a seven-month extension to his current contract to help ensure a "smooth" Brexit process.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said he believes the role of governor is "more important than ever" due to a "rapidly evolving economy".
Hammond said: "Finding a candidate with the right skills and experience to lead the Bank of England is vital for ensuring the continuing strength of our economy and for maintaining the UK's position as a leading global financial centre."
The chancellor said the Bank of England has been at the "forefront of reforms to make our financial system safer and more accountable".
"I look forward to working with Mark Carney over the remaining months of his term as governor. His steady hand has helped steer the UK economy through a challenging period and we are now seeing stable, low inflation and the fastest wage growth in over a decade," added Hammond.
Here is what you need to know at the London market open:
FTSE 100: down 0.2% at 7,507.91
Hang Seng: down 0.4% at 29,832.24
Nikkei 225: closed down 0.3% at 22,200.00
DJIA: closed up 0.6% at 26,656.39
S&P 500: closed up 0.9% at 2,933.68
GBP: flat at USD1.2925 (USD1.2932)
EUR: unchanged at USD1.1208 (USD1.1205)
Gold: firm at USD1,270.37 per ounce (USD1,268.70)
Oil (Brent): down at USD74.12 a barrel (USD74.46)
(changes since previous London equities close)
ECONOMICS AND GENERAL
Wednesday's Key Economic Events still to come
0930 BST UK public sector finances
0900 CEST Spain industrial orders & turnover
0900 CEST Spain trade balance
1000 CEST Germany Ifo Business Climate Index
1000 CEST Italy foreign trade non-EU
0700 EDT US MBA weekly mortgage applications survey
1000 EDT Bank of Canada interest rate announcement
1030 EDT US EIA weekly petroleum status report
Senior Conservatives are expected to hold further discussions on whether to change the party rules to enable an early leadership challenge to UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Officers of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee met in Westminster on Tuesday amid growing pressure for the prime minister to name the date of her departure. Afterwards there was no formal statement from the meeting which was said have been inconclusive. Under current party rules, MPs cannot mount a fresh leadership challenge until 12 months after last December's failed attempt. However, amid growing frustration over the latest delays to Brexit, some MPs now want to the rules to be rewritten to allow another challenge as early as June.
Egyptians have overwhelmingly backed changes to the country's constitution that could allow President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to rule until 2030. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, National Election Authority chief Lashin Ibrahim said that 88.8% of voters supported the changes in the three-day referendum. The turnout was 44.3% of Egypt's 61.3 million eligible voters. Al-Sissi took office in 2014, a year after the then-army general led the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president whose rule however proved highly divisive for the country.
The death toll from the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in Sri Lanka has risen to 359 after more of the victims succumbed to their injuries, police said. More than 400 people remain in hospital, with some in critical condition. Another 18 people were meanwhile arrested overnight in connection with the attacks on churches and luxury hotels, bringing the total number of those detained to 60, police added. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had warned that several suspects were still at large, while police said they were searching in Colombo for a lorry and a van fitted with explosives that had been identified in an intelligence report.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crossed into Russia early Wednesday en route to a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the local government in the state of Primorsky confirmed. "I'm pleased to be on Russian soil," Kim told Russian officials after his armoured train arrived at Hasan station in the south of the Primorsky region, according to a government statement. He was greeted by Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and Alexander Kozlov, the minister for Russia's Far East.
BROKER RATING CHANGES
JPMORGAN CUTS ANGLO AMERICAN TO 'NEUTRAL' ('OVERWEIGHT') - TARGET 2300 PENCE
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COMPANIES - FTSE 100
AB Foods said it delivered a "robust" set of interim results, though profit did dip. Revenue for the 24 weeks to March 2 rose 1% to GBP7.53 billion, though pretax profit slipped to GBP515 million from GBP603 million a year ago. Pretax profit was hindered by a GBP79 million in exceptional items, with AB Foods having booked no such charges a year ago. On an adjusted basis, profit was largely in line with a year prior at GBP627 million. Sales at discount clothing chain Primark were 4.4% ahead of a year ago, said AB Foods, driven by increased retail selling space partially offset by a 1.5% decline in like-for-like sales. With a "much higher margin", profit was 25% ahead of last year, and the company described the early customer reaction to the spring/summer range as "encouraging". The firm declared an interim dividend of 12.05p, up 3% on last year. AB Sugar adjusted operating profit amounted to just GBP1 million in the half, versus GBP106 million a year before, amid a 13% decline in revenue. Grocery profit rose 5% to GBP167 million. "This is a robust set of results," said Chief Executive George Weston "Profit at AB Sugar was substantially reduced but, from this period, we expect our sugar profitability to improve."
Building materials firm CRH is to expand its share buyback programme, it said, with earnings also set to increase during 2019. CRH also has agreed to sell a European business for over EUR300 million, it announced. CRH has returned EUR1 billion under its buyback scheme over the past 12 months, including EUR200 million so far in 2019. Due to its "strong balance sheet and cash generation", CRH has decided to continue this with a further EUR350 million to be returned by the time it releases its financial results for the first half of 2019, due on August 22. On the trading front, first quarter like-for-like sales grew 7% year-on-year, helped by "milder" weather conditions and good momentum in most markets, as well as pricing progress.
Chilean miner Antofagasta reaffirmed 2019 guidance after reporting a first-quarter performance in line with expectations. In the three months to March, Antofagasta's copper production rose 23% on the year before to 188,600 tonnes, but was down 14% on the final quarter of 2018. This met expectations, with the year-on-year rise due to higher ore throughput and expected higher grades. However, the fall from the previous three months was caused by maintenance at the Los Pelambres and Centinela mines and lower grades. Copper sales rose 31% year-on-year to 178,900 tonnes, but declined 18% quarter-on-quarter. Chief Executive Ivan Arriagada said Antofagasta's "high level" of performance achieved in the second half of 2018 has continued, and it is on track for guidance of between 750,000 tonnes and 790,000 tonnes of copper in 2019.
Insurer Aviva said Andy Briggs is to step down as the boss of UK insurance following the recent appointment of Maurice Tulloch as the new group chief executive. Aviva said Tulloch will be conducting a review of the UK businesses to ensure "the appropriate management structure to build on that success for the future" in the wake of Briggs's departure. Briggs will remain with Aviva until October 23 to ensure a smooth handover. Angela Darlington, currently Aviva's chief risk officer, will become interim CEO of UK Insurance.
Legal & General said it has agreed its first pension risk transfer transaction in Canada for more than CAD200 million, or GBP114 million. Including this transaction, Legal & General has now written GBP2.5 billion in international pension risk transfers since its first transaction in 2015. "I am delighted to announce our first PRT transaction in Canada, where the market is growing strongly. The transaction provides further evidence of our appetite and capability to grow our PRT business internationally," said Chief Executive Nigel Wilson.
COMPANIES - OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM
Online clothing retailer boohoo said it performed "exceptionally well" in its recently ended financial year, though expects the pace of revenue growth to ease in the coming year. Revenue for the year to February 28 rose 48% to GBP856.9 million, and pretax profit jumped 38% to GBP59.9 million. The retailer achieved an adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation margin of 9.9%, strengthened slightly from 9.8% the year before. Adding to the double-digit growth just achieved, boohoo said trading in the first few weeks of its new financial year has been "encouraging". boohoo expects revenue to grow between 25% to 30% in the year ahead, slower than the rate of growth achieved in its recently ended financial year, with an adjusted Ebitda margin of around 10% and capital expenditure in the region of GBP50 million to GBP60 million.
COMPANIES - INTERNATIONAL
Swiss investment bank UBS and Deutsche Bank are in serious talks over the possibility of merging their asset management arms, the Financial Times reported. The newspaper, quoting "people close to the discussions", said the talks have been taking placing for a couple of months and would create an asset manager with EUR1.4 trillion in assets under management. One structure being considered would see UBS fold its asset management unit into DWS Group, an asset manager 79% owned by Deutsche Bank. The deal would see UBS receive shares in the resulting asset manager, with Deutsche Bank remaining the largest shareholder. UBS currently has EUR700 billion in assets under management whilst DWS manages EUR662 billion of assets.
Enterprise software company SAP raised its operating profit guidance for 2019 despite swinging to loss in the first quarter. The German firm said revenue in the three months to the end of March rose by 16% to EUR6.09 billion, with revenue from its Cloud segment hitting a record EUR1.56 billion, up 45% year-on-year. In the first quarter, new cloud bookings were up 32%. Operating profit, however, was hurt by the expected cost of SAP's 2019 restructuring, totalling EUR886 million, and higher acquisition-related charges and share-based compensation, primarily due to the purchase of US-based survey tools provider Qualtrics. This resulted in an operating loss of EUR136 million in the recent quarter, compared to operating profit of EUR1.03 billion reported for the first quarter of 2018.
Novartis said net sales were up in its first quarter due to volume growth and raised its annual guidance. The Swiss pharmaceuticals firm posted net sales growth from continuing operations of 1.7% to USD11.11 billion from USD10.92 billion. This increase, Novartis said, was the product of an 11 percentage point growth in volume, largely from the drugs Cosentyx, Entresto, Lutathera, Promacta and Kisqali. Net income from continuing operations dropped to USD1.86 billion from USD1.97 billion and earnings per share fell to USD0.81 from USD0.85. Continuing operations includes Novartis units Innovative Medicines and Sandoz, as well as corporate activities. Eye care unit Alcon, which has been spun out, was classed as a discontinued operation.
UK Prime Minister May has given the go-ahead to the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to help build Britain's new 5G network despite warnings of the potential threat to national security, according to the Daily Telegraph. The National Security Council, which is chaired by the prime minister, agreed on Tuesday to allow the firm limited access to build "noncore" infrastructure such as antennas, the newspaper reported. Downing Street refused to comment on the report. A spokeswoman said: "We don't comment on NSC discussions."
Wednesday's Shareholder Meetings
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Pat Wictor Long Island CD release, January 10! co-bill w/ Harry Manx!
Hi Folks--
I'm playing at the University Cafe in Stony Brook on January 10, as part of the Sunday Street Acoustic Series hosted by WUSB's Charlie Backfish. I'm very, very excited about this show for two reasons:
•-It's a co-bill with one of my musical heroes, Harry Manx (www.harrymanx.com). Harry is a fellow lap slide player who studied in India for many years, and seamlessly and brilliantly combines the blues with Indian music. He's also got a warm, gruff voice, writes fantastic songs, and does memorable covers of tunes. I've listened to his work very closely, and have been meaning to meet him for years.
•-It's my Long Island CD release for my new CD, "Living Ever-Lovin' LIVE," a collection of live performances from around the East Coast, with a bunch of new songs.
Sunday, January 10, 2:00pm
University Cafe
SUNY Stony Brook
Advance tickets highly recommended--the show will likely sell out!
http://shopsb.fsa.sunysb.edu/index.php?productID=818
$25 / $20 adv.
Directions: www.stonybrook.edu/sb/directions
Make a left into the Main Entrance from Nicolls Road. At the first light make a right. Go to the second stop sign and make a left. Follow the road until you see the stadium parking lot on your right hand side. The University Café is located in the Stony Brook Union Building. Look for the red awning with the words "University Café."
If it's easier for you to get to Manhattan than Stony Brook, I'm doing another CD release in NYC two days later (January 12), at the Living Room, as part of WFUV's "On Your Radar" series. Go here for details:
http://tinyurl.com/yade44s
Many thanks for listening! Stay warm, and all the best to you and yours for the holidays!
•Buy the new CD, "Living Ever-Lovin' LIVE" at
Pat Wictor in Park Ridge, NJ Saturday 4/19! (Easy reach of Rockland and Westchester!)
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The Game's Up! by Marc Woosh
With well over fifty million registered war gamers online, and six out of ten of the top selling video games of all time being of the war game genre, with huge numbers regularly ‘playing’ on a daily basis, and two generations now well and truly weaned, this article is going to be about as popular as jugs of Shandy being served up at Oktoberfest, but here goes:
That is really just the point; when a thing in society is gradually installed into the mainstream it eventually becomes very normalised in the mindset of the populous, this is the work of the hidden persuaders of PR and marketing who have learned our human condition so well that they could literally once again find a way to successfully promote and reinstate smoking in pubs and work places!
You have got to hand it to these devilish so and sos, when it comes to designing these ‘games’, by working directly with the government, top military advisors, as well as the very best people in psychology, through years of research they know very well exactly what makes us tick and turns us on.
Yes indeed, do they know how to make these games appeal?! Pure adrenaline and turbo charged glorification of violence, allows the gamer to be a real testosterone fuelled hero of a man anytime on demand.
These wicked games have certainly come a long way since the pioneering days when Space Invaders was about as hardcore as it ever got.
But it is the political message which is clearly the underlying agenda here, yes people, these dastardly demons don’t just want your cash- they claim part of your loving being every time you grab your controller to play Call of Duty or Medal of Honour.
If this is beginning to sound exaggerated (and I know it must) it is simply because these games have become so normalised and thus seemingly innocuous, much like that seventies Marlboro cowboy on Formula 1 billboards and his unspoken promise of sex appeal and good health.
With this ‘militainment’ any wimpy kid who has never even been in a real fist fight can feel like an invincible all American chisel jawed hero saving the planet from the… erm, ‘bad guys’.
American ‘heroes’ and pro Americanism feature heavily, the message here being, ‘support the West’s plans for one world order, revel in the prospect of endless war’
What these games never contain is the horrendous realities of war such as 170 million slaughtered in modern warfare, the bombing of residential areas with up to a million civilians killed in Iraq, the horror of the Fallujah depleted uranium babies and the illegal and shameful use of phosphorus by the us military- these games are truly tools of propaganda creating a distorted reality in a world where freethinkers now account for a mere 5% of the population, and where many have a twisted understanding of true courage.
Apparently official studies indicate that playing violent games in no way encourages actual violent tendencies in gamers. These findings suggest they do however desensitise players to violence, but regardless, the truth is these games certainly do NOT promote philanthropy, compassion or love for our world, but just MAY indirectly encourage lovely family-friendly days out at the newly opened RAF Waddington drone base.
Realistically, can we expect war gamers addicted to atrocities and the latest technological fire power, to be well equipped for any independent, ethical and political views regarding real world conflicts?
It was found that Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik regularly played war games for six hours or longer per day, a few days after this information was released in the news it was quickly played down by the marionette media, no doubt due to the type of editorial pressures and constraints dictated from the very top that we very seldom learn of, and ultimately because of the enormous value of the marketplace that the story could potentially jeopardise.
The Guardian recently published an article ‘Are war video games military training tools?’- I would suggest they are at very least indirect tools for war, which cleverly glamourise killing with the kinds of macho imagery that guys aspire to, girls will be turned on by, and mums will desire to buy. What we have here is modern day propaganda at its most cunningly polished, so much so as to be almost invisible.
Ultimately real men don’t need guns, recently Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years for revealing the truth about war, proof if ever it was needed that war serves big business, under banners of freedom and justice, and all the while these ‘fantasy games’, which are evermore submerged in current and real world political situations, are directly implicit in engineering consent for those wars.
Whether guy or gal I say find more constructive ways to ‘man up’ and entertain yourself, next time you are forced into a Tesco for instance, you would be doing absolutely nothing wrong in simply ‘misplacing’ a stack of ‘gears of war’ in with the frozen pizza, and if a member of staff does see you just give a peace weirdo’s look and say it is in order to ‘cool the flames of war’.
The extent of these problems are more deep rooted than most are aware of, and so huge as to be almost overwhelming, going way beyond the game publishers or developers, right to the top in the world’s controlling elite. Don’t let these authoritarian overlords steal your love with their fear and control, don’t get addicted to the trauma, help regain the balance in these dangerous times- away from this destructive path man is now on, femininity does NOT equal weakness, it is sad so many women should confuse this and sell out their opposite, subtle yet equally powerful female strengths to the aggressions of man, women need not act like men, it is this which has damaged humanity and has made our world more dangerous.
Those responsible, the mind controllers even have ways to make you believe it’s YOU coming up with this or that great idea, you’re SO smart… Be aware of this control agenda on how we think, what we buy, who we support, not only in the media but throughout the entire world of entertainment, where our defences are dropped and we’re more susceptible to manipulation.
Grow-up, put away your toy soldiers and see beyond the patriarchy that surrounds us, and work towards a more healthy state of balance and a better, safer future for the world.
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Relief goods distributed at Garapan Fishing Base
By Lori Lyn C. Lirio - lyn@mvariety.com - Variety News Staff
THE CNMI government, through the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, held its final distribution of relief goods at the Garapan Fishing Base on Friday and Saturday.
DCCA Secretary Robert Hunter said they gave away 2-gallon refillable water containers, infant kits containing diapers and baby wipes, geriatric cots, kitchenware sets, personal hygiene kits and meals-ready-to-eat.
The Lady Diann Torres Foundation also distributed relief goods and supplies donated by former CNMI residents who now live in the U.S.
In an interview, Hunter said they have been distributing relief goods for the past three months.
He said more relief goods are arriving, and non-profit organizations will help distribute them.
“I think at this point, people need to go back to their jobs,” Hunter said, referring to government employees who have been tasked to distribute relief goods.
As for at the Kagman Emergency Shelter Facility, which used to have 297 shelterees, Hunter said about 90 individuals are still there.
The other shelters, including the TSL Sports Complex in Gualo Rai, have all been “cleared.”
By next week, Hunter said they expect the number of occupants at Kagman to decrease to 50 or 60.
“The shelter population is going down a lot faster than we expected. At this point, we thought we would still have 200,” he added.
He said some of those who are still at the Kagman shelter have medical conditions. Others have lost their houses and still others still have no power in their homes.
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VAT - VAT-registration threshold to hold firm until 2022
VAT-registration threshold frozen until 2022
The VAT-registration threshold was frozen at £85,000 until 1 April 2020 in the last Budget, and the Chancellor extended that until 1 April 2022.
HMRC had consulted on the VAT-registration threshold following suggestions from the Office of Tax Simplification.
It is thought in some quarters that the registration threshold is a barrier to the growth of business and so this issue is likely to be revisited in subsequent Budgets.
The Chancellor did state that he would be "looking at the possibility of introducing a smoothing mechanism once the terms of the EU exit are clear".
Until then the current VAT-registration threshold will remain as follows:
A business must be VAT-registered when its taxable turnover in the last 12 months has exceeded £85,000 or is expected to exceed £85,000 in the next 30 days alone.
A business may be able to avoid registration if the above limit has been exceeded, but it does not expect to exceed £83,000 in the next 12 months.
A business may apply for deregistration if it can satisfy HMRC that its taxable turnover will fall below £83,000 in the next 12 months.
The construction industry: reverse charge
The Government is publishing legislation separately to the Budget in respect of the reverse charge that will come into effect from 1 October 2019.
The recipient of relevant construction services will be required to account for the VAT on the supply as a reverse charge.
The aim is to prevent missing trader fraud where subcontractors abscond with the VAT collected in respect of works on a building project.
However, this Budget will provide for the introduction of a statutory instrument.
This will enable HMRC to determine that the reverse charge does not count towards taxable turnover when an unregistered business considers whether it has exceeded the VAT-registration threshold.
The UK will implement EU legislation in respect of the VAT treatment of vouchers.
From 1 January 2019, businesses that sell vouchers or allow customers to redeem them will need to be clear as to whether the voucher they sell is a single-purpose voucher (SPV) or a multi-purpose voucher (MPV).
With SPVs, only one rate of VAT applies to the goods or services which can be bought with it and where the place of supply is certain.
VAT will need to be accounted for, where applicable, on the sale of the voucher by the person who sells it as if it had sold the goods or services in question.
An MPV is where the VAT rate of the goods or services redeemable is not known. For instance, where a voucher could be used to buy zero-rated books or standard-rated DVDs.
Here, the VAT due is only accountable when the customer redeems the voucher with the retailer providing the goods.
Unfulfilled supplies and price reductions
Budget 2018 states that VAT will be due on any prepayment for goods and services where the customer has failed to collect what they have paid for but are yet to receive a refund.
Furthermore, there will be new rules which state businesses will have to issue credit notes and adjust VAT returns within set time limits if it provides retrospective price reductions.
Specified supplies anti-avoidance
This measure blocks a tax-planning scheme that some insurance and financial services companies were employing.
The current VAT legislation states that financial and insurance services are VAT-exempt. This ordinarily means that VAT incurred on expenditure relating to these activities is blocked for recovery.
However, to encourage the supply of such services to overseas customers, the VAT legislation allows the recovery of VAT on costs related to these supplies. They are known as ‘specified supplies'.
Some insurance and financial companies were setting up their own overseas associated companies, which supplied their ultimate UK customers. This structure previously allowed the UK companies to recover VAT that their competitors were not entitled to.
Collection of VAT ‘split payment'
The Government will publish a response to its consultation on 7 November 2018.
This will highlight ways the banking and payment sectors will be able to directly collect VAT payments on behalf of HMRC from online suppliers of goods, primarily overseas.
VAT grouping
The Government will legislate in Finance Bill 2018/19 to extend the eligibility to join a VAT Group.
The legislation will allow non-corporate entities, such as partnerships and sole proprietors that control companies, to join a VAT group with those companies.
Budget 2018 documentation states the legislation will define the phrase ‘bought in services' to ensure such services do not escape VAT and will also provide clarity to businesses on HMRC's revenue protection powers and the treatment of UK fixed establishments.
Higher education VAT exemption
The VAT law will be amended to ensure supplies of education made by providers under the Higher Education and Research Act registered with the Office for Students in the Approved (fee cap) category will remain VAT-exempt.
Hypothecated grants
The Chancellor could not give VAT relief to either the commemorative items sold in respect of the First World War or the refurbishment works which were being provided to local village halls (often to commemorate the War).
Nevertheless, it was announced that the VAT collected would go towards a £10m grant to the Armed Forces Trust.
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How To Make Pemmican: The Ultimate Survival Super-Food
Invented by the natives of North America, pemmican was used by Indian scouts as well as early western explorers. These people spent a great deal of time on the go and depended on having portable, high-energy, highly nutritious, and filling foods that would last for long periods of time.
Pemmican was light, compact, high in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and if done properly can last anywhere from a few years (decades) up to a lifetime without refrigeration!
Pemmican consists of lean, dried meat which is crushed to a powder and mixed with hot, rendered fat. Back in those days, the natives made it with bison, deer, or elk but nowadays it is usually made with beef. Crushed, dried berries can be added as well.
A man could subsist entirely on pemmican, drawing on the fat for energy, the protein for strength and vitamins for health. There are a few cases in history of people living for months in good health with only pemmican.
So, it’s easy to understand why I choose pemmican as the ultimate survival-superfood.
People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at how the guys who wandered the west 130 or so years ago did it. As I’ve said it in a recent article (30 Lost Ways of Survival from 1880) the “SHTF” we all prep for is what folks 150 years ago called “daily life:” No electrical power, no refrigerators, no Internet, no computers, no TV, no hyper-active law enforcement, no Safeway or Walmart.
How to Make Pemmican
• 4 cups lean meat or a pound (deer, beef, caribou or moose)
• 3 cups blueberries (or other dried fruits)
• 2 cups rendered fat (or 1/2 pounds)
• Optional – unsalted nuts and about 1 shot of honey
Get about a pound and a half of lean, grass-fed shoulder roast and let it firm up in the freezer so you can slice it thin.
Add salt and pepper. Set the oven to the lowest possible temperature (around 150 degrees) and put the strips of meat directly onto the rack. Crack the oven door to prevent moisture buildup.
At this point, you can also put a handful of frozen wild blueberries on a small oven pan to dry out with the meat.
Let the meat dry out for about fifteen hours, or until it is crispy. Toss it in the food processor until it becomes a powder. Do the same with the blueberries. In the old days, they’d pound it with a rock to turn it into a “powder”.
For the fat portion of pemmican, you can use tallow (rendered beef or mutton fat) or lard (rendered pork fat). Cut up your fat into small pieces and place the fat into the crockpot. Set the crockpot on low heat and remove it only after it becomes completely liquid. Use a strainer to avoid all the crispy bits; you just want the pure, liquid fat.
Mix the meat and berry powder together, then slowly add the hot liquid fat. Pour just enough so that the fat soaks into the powder – slowly.
Let it firm up, then cut it into squares or roll it into a ball.
If done and stored correctly it can last for decades. Wrap these “pemmican balls” in wax paper and store them in a ziplock bag in a cool, dark place.
Back in 1800, the native people Canada (Metis) would go southwest onto the prairie, slaughter buffalo, convert it into pemmican and carry it north to trade at the North West Company posts. For these people on the edge of the prairie, the pemmican trade was as important a source of trade goods as was the fur trade for the Indians further north. And this is because, for a serious journey, almost all foods would have been too heavy to carry.
If you’ll ever have to bug out – especially without a car – keep this in mind: Pemmican is the most compact, light, natural and nutritious supply you can take with you.
By C. Davis
www.askaprepper.com
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Tags: How to make Pemmican, nutritious supply, pemmican, survival food, survival super-food, The Ultimate Survival Super-Food
DIY, Food, Food Storage, Prepper | Admin | February 13, 2015 14:48
By gary, April 8, 2015 @ 03:24
is there a printer friendly version tab im missing?
i like to make a hard copy in case of power failure or for the bugout bag.
if there is’nt one it would make life easier for your subscribers to install one.
By Alec Deacon, April 9, 2015 @ 03:11
At the end of the article on sharing options we have also print option.
By MARTHA, April 12, 2015 @ 17:17
print command is for the entire website (not just pemican recipe and instructions) and does not allow print preview. i wasted 9 pages of paper and ink, and still got nothing usable. poor planning on the part of website designer. useless to visitors. I won’t visit again.
By Alec Deacon, April 13, 2015 @ 04:55
Sorry for that. I have just placed the Clearprint and pdf buttons under the post. I am sure that you won’t have this issue again.
By Ramone, April 13, 2015 @ 14:46
Ever hear of pen and paper??? Here you are learning to make primitive survival food, but you get butthurt when you can’t use your technology to print a recipe that I’ve easily committed to memory and you could just as easily transcribe to “hard copy” using a primitive writing utensil and a slip of paper. Maybe you should stick with Jack Links…
By Mead, September 22, 2015 @ 08:23
Not just that but one could have just as easily copied and pasted the recipe into a Word document and printed it that way.
Aside from that, Print Preview is there to assure someone doesn’t waste their paper.
By spark, September 24, 2015 @ 01:05
i live near a jack link facility, there is more hazardous nitrates in those products, you would have a better chance of survival without all the nitrates. in the event of the grid being gone,
By Gordon, April 10, 2015 @ 13:47
Love it ….. ! Awesome info. …… thanks !
By ERIN, April 11, 2015 @ 17:59
So i guess what im wanting to know is how do we make it without the advent of a blender or oven? can the meat be sundried?
By mischa, September 17, 2015 @ 00:32
Yes, you can sun-dry beef, however, you need to take hygiene into account. It would need to be kept insect free, so it’s easier if you had an oven or at least a smoker for meat preservation.
in lieu of a blender, there is a metate (meh-tot-tay) which is similar to a mortar and pestle, but consists of a flat rock with another rock to grind the meat into powder. Takes a whole lot more effort (I’m off grid, trust me, it all takes more effort) You can find them sometimes at Walmart in the cooking section. A good one is made in Mexico out of lava rock and costs about $10-15. (more bowl shaped than flat)
By Stewart Lawson, April 12, 2015 @ 00:27
Like the Info…need video’s of things like this.
By Cristian Haulica, April 14, 2015 @ 07:50
So… How many servings would those quantities account to?
By EBM, September 25, 2015 @ 10:17
From here: http://www.smokylake.com/history/native/pemmican.htm
“Three-quarters of a pound (.34kg) of pemmican a day was a sufficient ration of food, although a hard-working traveler might eat between 1 and 2 pounds a day. “
By Cindy, September 15, 2015 @ 16:57
Regarding printing, you can also highlight what you want to print, right click your mouse, click on copy. (You will NOT see that your computer has done anything.)
Now go to a blank document (or you can open your email) and go to where you would normally type. Again right click. Now click on paste.
You now have only the information you want and can email it to yourself or save it in a document. After that, you can print until your heart is happy. 🙂
By the way, THANK YOU for the recipe and instructions!
By Galen Rankin, September 21, 2015 @ 16:29
How do you keep the tallow from getting a rancid/ old smell and flavor to it?
By Kitty, September 28, 2015 @ 02:00
oil and fat that are protected from air stay fresh much longer than otherwise. Tallow doesn’t tend to go rancid to quick anyway, I have some deer tallow that has been open to the air for three years with no smell of rancidity.
However the stories I’ve read say that the indians would wrap the pemmican in deer hide and might even seal it with more tallow to protect from buts and air. Pemmican stored that way would last a decade or so.
By Bobby Bennie, March 26, 2016 @ 14:59
Can it be made with regular olive oil rather than the tallow? If so how much would be required, because “Pour just enough so that the fat soaks into the powder – slowly.” is a very vague discription.
Sounds yummy.
By Drake Arthur, September 22, 2015 @ 21:27
If you can’t figure out how to print text, I don’t think you need to spend much time on prepping, you’re not going to make it anyway.
By Faith Milligan, September 28, 2015 @ 01:14
Would like to print out these recipes.
By Alec Deacon, September 28, 2015 @ 05:03
You can do that. You can go to PDF and then click print.
By thfox.com, November 27, 2015 @ 08:53
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By Dee, January 19, 2016 @ 17:09
Although I have never used measured tools to make this, it looks similar to how I was taught to make pemmican. Thanks for the measurements.
FYI: If leather and tallow aren’t around to wrap and store, another way is to imbed beeswax in denim or heavy cotton fabric, the wax acts as the tallow would and can be sealed in similar manner.
By Patricia Schneider, January 21, 2016 @ 23:39
I am a vegetarian and I wondered if there was something like this using beans, veggies, fruit, and no animal fat?
By diane, March 19, 2016 @ 04:00
Patricia Schneider, here you go…
http://tracelesswarrior.blogspot.com/2009/11/meatless-pemmican.html
By Patricia Duft, March 19, 2016 @ 07:26
I would think you need a fat that stays solid at room temp. The fat is needed for energy. I guess you could experiment, or google it.
By Muhammad Sajid Rashid, April 21, 2016 @ 00:50
I live in pakistan, can i get this recepie book? if i can’t then please send recepie on my e-mail. thanks.
By Remington550, June 17, 2016 @ 08:32
Could the dehydration process be done in a solar oven? Also could this be done dehyrating different veggies? Would sealing in a vac seal wrap help to lengthen shelf life?
By Gabriel, August 5, 2016 @ 05:57
Hi! Is there any restriction to the type of meat used? Like pork or lamb for example?
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236. Singapore, the 21st June 1828. Country adjacent to Singapore on which he had laid down the several Grants he has surveyed. the plan is at present on too large a scale to p[?] me to examine it, but I have taken a series of angles in order to prove it, and when reduced (on which operation Mr Coleman is now employed) [?] be able to ascertain how far it is correct, and may[?] be depended on. I now address the Honorable the Governor in Council, to recommend to their f[?] consideration, the zeal and assiduity of Mr Coleman in the preparation of this Survey, and to suggest if on examination it be found correct, that Mr Coleman be allowed to draw the regulated sum per acre for the whole work, deducting of course those parts for which Grants have been issued, and the fees levied, on a certificate from myself of the number of acres which the survey embraces, from [?] the Superintendent of Lands will deduct what has already been paid him. The whole will be [?] recovered when the Grants are issued by the amount of fees, except for the Swamps, River and Roads, of which the expence will fall on Government. Insp Genl's Office, Singapore I have &c: 8th June 1828. (A true Copy) Sd/ Edward Lake Sd./ John Anderson Insp Genl. Secy to Govt. A
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Lindsey Graham on Immigration
Republican Sr Senator; previously Representative (SC-3)
Change asylum law to not apply to illegal border crossers
Q: The President issued an executive order having to do with [asylum for the Central American caravan]. Does he have the authority to bypass Congress?
GRAHAM: When it comes to changing asylum laws saying that somebody here illegally cannot apply for asylum, I don't know if you can do that by executive order, but I support that policy. Right now people are marching on our border, if they cross illegally then they asked for asylum. Asylum shouldn't be a magnet for illegal immigration. So I support the policy change.
Q: The ACLU suggests that that's actually contravening Congress and established law.
GRAHAM: I might want to get another opinion than the ACLU. But I do believe asylum laws are being abused. They've become magnets for illegal immigration. People cross the border illegally, then apply for asylum. That's not the way asylum is set up to work. I support the policy change. Congress probably should do it, but I am open-minded to the executive order. Source: CBS Face the Nation 2018 interviews of 2020 hopefuls , Nov 11, 2018
No northern border wall, yet there's no illegal Canadians
Q: Do you agree with the president sending National Guard troops to the border?
GRAHAM: Well, he'll be the third president to do so. But you're not going to secure a border just by adding National Guard troops. You got to go to the root cause of this. The [refugee migrant] caravans come from the triangle countries, Honduras and Guatemala in particular because the conditions are so bad. If you don't have comprehensive immigration reform, you will never fix this problem. We have two borders, one with Canada, one with Mexico. I've never met an illegal Canadian. The point is that Canada has a sound economy, people from the south of us do not have sound economies and if you don't fix the economic magnet, you'll never solve the immigration problem. So building a wall alone won't do anything. Source: ABC This Week 2018 interviews of 2020 hopefuls , Apr 8, 2018
DACA recipients came here at age; this is their home
Q: Earlier this week the president tweeted there would be no more DACA deal. You've been part of the DACA negotiations in Congress. What happens to those children?
GRAHAM: The court is probably going to rule for the president down the road that he can terminate DACA. That creates some chaos for the DACA recipients who came here on the average age of 6 with nowhere else to go. This is their country. There's a deal to take care of them and get the border wall we desperately need, plus interior enforcement, to make us safer.
Q: And you feel confident that will go through?
GRAHAM: I'm hopeful it will because if we fail, it's just a disaster for the DACA recipients and for our national security. And 70 percent of the American people want us to do both. It may fail, but I believe we owe it to the American people to try again. And I'm going to try again. And I think the president is open-minded to trying again. Source: ABC This Week 2018 interviews of 2020 hopefuls , Apr 8, 2018
Sanctuary cities are symptom of a broken system
Q: My son was murdered by an illegal alien because of the sanctuary city that protected someone who doesn't deserve protection. What will you do?
MCCAIN: When federal laws are passed, municipalities cannot exempt themselves.
GRAHAM: Sanctuary cities is a symptom of a greater problem. The best thing we could do to honor your son is to fix a broken immigration system. Along with Senator McCain, I've been trying to get it fixed rather than yelling about it. In our bill, you get increased penalties if you come back into the country once you're deported. If you're a felon, you can never come back into the country. There's a lady holed up in a church right now with two kids. Do you want her deported? I don't. What I want to do is keep the people who killed your son from ever coming back to our country, identify them and kick their ass out, and give that lady a chance to stay here by learning our language, paying taxes, and getting to the back of the line. That's what I'm for. Source: CNN 2017 Town Hall debates: John McCain vs. Lindsey Graham , Mar 1, 2017
If we declare war on Islamic faith, we're all going to lose
Senators McCain and Graham, in a joint CNN Town Hall appearance, said they are pleased that Trump plans to roll out a new version of his executive order banning travel from several majority Muslim countries--this time excluding Iraq.
Graham said the initial travel ban was offensive to the 3,500 Muslims who serve in the US military. "Here's what I hope the President understands: When you do something like this, if it's perceived as declaring war on the faith, we're all going to lose," Graham said. Source: CNN 2017 Town Hall debates: Lindsey Graham vs. John McCain , Feb 7, 2017
Change comprehensive reform plan to account for terrorism
Q: In 2013 you were part of the leadership that pushed through comprehensive immigration reform. Many accused you of amnesty, and may have undermined your ability to get your message out on the war. Would you sponsor that bill again today?
GRAHAM: Well, the first thing I would do is make adjustments to reality [of ISIS and terrorism]. I would make changes to that bill in light of what I know today.
SANTORUM: Lindsey says this is a real war, until it comes to immigration. And, then, all of a sudden it's not such a real war.
Q: What would you do?
SANTORUM: We've created a magnet. We're attracting people. We have a policy that says amnesty. The world hears this, and knows that if they can come across this border, by and large, they're going to be able to stay. That has to change. Source: 2015 CNN/Salem Republican second-tier debate , Dec 15, 2015
Increase legal immigration because we need workers
I want to fix a broken visa system. I want to increase legal immigration, because we're gonna have a shortage of workers over time. As to the 11 million [illegal immigrants here now], I want to talk about fixing the problem. We're not going to deport 11 million people and their legal citizen children. Source: GOP `Your Money/Your Vote` 2015 CNBC 2nd-tier debate , Oct 28, 2015
Those who stay will have to learn our language
We're not going to deport 11 million people and their legal citizen children. But we will deport felons. And those who stay will have to learn our language to stay, because I don't speak it well but look how far I've come. Source: GOP `Your Money/Your Vote` 2015 CNBC 2nd-tier debate , Oct 28, 2015
We can't deport 11M illegals, but we can start
Q: Governor Pataki says we shouldn't "tell children born in America that we're going to send them back." Why do you think Governor Pataki is wrong?
GRAHAM: We're not going to deport 11 million people here illegally, but we'll start with felons, and off they go. And, as to the rest, you can stay, but you got to learn our language. Speaking English is a good thing. You got to pay taxes, you got to pay a fine, you got to get in the back of the line. You've got to secure your border or they'll keep coming. If you don't control who gets a job that never ends. As to birthright citizenship, once we clean up this mess, in the future, prospectively, I'm going to look at the following. There are people buying tourist visas that go to resorts with maternity wards with the expressed purpose of having children here in America. Yeah, I'd like to stop that in the future. Source: 2015 Republican two-tiered primary undercard debate on CNN , Sep 16, 2015
We need more legal immigration
In 1950, there were 16 workers for every retiree. How many are there today? There are three. In 20 years, there's going to be two, and you're going to have 80 million baby boomers retiring and wanting a Social Security check and their Medicare bills paid. We're going to need more legal immigration. Let's pick people from all over the world on our terms, not just somebody from Mexico. Thurmond had four kids after he was 67, if you're not willing to do that, we've got to come up with a new system. Source: 2015 Republican two-tiered primary undercard debate on CNN , Sep 16, 2015
Legal status for undocumented workers
Jeb Bush laid out his guiding principles on immigration, saying that after the Southern border is secure, the focus should be on legalizing immigrants who can benefit the economy.
Graham, too, spoke in favor of immigration reform, including legal status for undocumented workers, a stand often opposed by conservative audiences. He cast his support in terms of economic necessity, to expand the workforce to pay for entitlement programs for retiring Baby Boomers. Source: Des Moines Register coverage of 2015 Iowa Ag Summit , Mar 7, 2015
LEGISLATIVE path to citizenship, NOT via executive action
Q: Should the government offer immigrants already living in the United States illegally a pathway to citizenship?
A: Graham supports a legislative pathway to citizenship, as shown in the Gang of Eight bill he cosponsored--but like most of his fellow Republicans, he opposes Obama's executive actions on immigration.
Q: Should the children of undocumented immigrants be offered a pathway to citizenship?
A: Given his support for a general pathway to citizenship for adults, it's not surprising that he supports the same pathway for DREAMers. "I don't believe most Americans would fault the Republican Party if we allowed children who have been here since they're babies to assimilate into society with a pathway to citizenship after we secure our borders," Graham told CNN in December. Source: National Journal 2016 series: Republicans on immigration , Feb 23, 2015
Need comprehensive reform, not partial executive action
Q: You are a supporter of immigration reform, but you opposed the president's execution action on immigration very strongly. Do you think it was unconstitutional?
GRAHAM: Yes. It's one thing to say, as an executive agency, "I don't have the money to prosecute everybody or to deport everybody, so I'm going to rank them in order." It's another for the president of the United States to say, "not only will I decide not to prosecute a group of people, but I will affirmatively give you legal status." That is well beyond executive action.
Q: So what to do?
GRAHAM: Immigration has been dogging the country since 2006. I have a solution that I have been supporting that is comprehensive, that would allow legal status to the people in question. But you do it through a congressional action, where you get the entire system fixed. His action does not secure the border. It doesn't fix a broken legal immigration system. And it leaves millions of people left out in terms of the 11 million. Source: CNN SOTU 2014 interviews of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Nov 23, 2014
Driving out 11 million illegals impractical; fix the system
Q: You have heard the president say "pass a bill." You passed a bill in the Senate. You handed it to the House of Representatives, who decided not to do anything on it.
GRAHAM: Shame on us as Republicans for having a body that cannot generate a solution to an issue that it's national security, that's cultural and it's economic. The Senate has done this three times. I love my House colleagues, but if you want a piecemeal approach, do it. But doing nothing? I'm disappointed in my party. Are we still the party of self-deportation? Is it the position of the Republican Party that the 11 million must be driven out? I have never been in that camp as being practical. I am in the camp of securing our borders first, fixing a broken legal immigration, have an E-Verify program so you can't cheat.
Q: Isn't the president saying, "you have got to deal with the 11 million?"
GRAHAM: No, he decided not to delay prosecution, but affirmatively granted legal status to five million people. Source: CNN SOTU 2014 interviews of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Nov 23, 2014
Streamline and quicken deportations
Q: What about the crisis on the border, and immigration reform?
GRAHAM: There will be no money for supplemental [budget bills] without changes in the 2008 law. We have to streamline and quicken deportations. There'll be no immigration reform because of the crisis on the border. I blame Obama for this moment. But in 2015, if we start over, and the Republican Party doesn't get immigration reform right in 2015, our chances in 2016 of winning the White House are very low. Source: Meet the Press 2014 interviews of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jul 20, 2014
Secure border now in place with comprehensive immigration
Sen. LEE: The sponsors of the comprehensive immigration bill had the best of intentions. But the best intentions aren't enough when you're dealing with a 1,200-page bill. It will take many, many years, if not decades to fully implement all these border security measures.
GRAHAM: We practically militarized the border. I have been hearing for years, "let's secure our border, let's regain our sovereignty." We have secured our border in a way I could not have imagined five years ago. This whole border security amendment, I think, is the most aggressive attempt to control the southern border and regain our sovereignty. This bill reduces our deficit by $890 billion. It is good for our economy. This bill is good for our national security. No one can get a green card until border security measures are up and running, until E-Verify is up and running controlling a job in America. Source: Fox News Sunday 2013, on 2014 South Carolina Senate race , Jun 23, 2013
New amnesty is tough and ends incoming illegals
Sen. LEE: They promised us that under this comprehensive immigration bill, illegal immigration would be a thing of the past. It won't: 10 years from now, we'll still have 6 million to 8 million illegal immigrants in this country.
GRAHAM: As to the 11 million [illegal immigrants here now], they will have an earned, hard pathway to citizenship. They have to get in the back of the line before they can become citizens. They can't cut in line. They have to pass two English proficiency exams. I reject the idea of becoming the Mideast or Europe where you have 11 million people with a legal status who can't be part of America. America is different than the Mideast and Europe. E pluribus unum, out of many, one. This is tough practical solution for our national security, for our economy and tough, practical solution to 11 million. And most importantly, if we do the bill, amnesty is the status quo. If we do this bill, there will be no third wave of illegal immigration. Source: Fox News Sunday 2013, on 2014 South Carolina Senate race , Jun 23, 2013
Voted NO on continuing federal funds for declared "sanctuary cities".
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: To create a reserve fund to ensure that Federal assistance does not go to sanctuary cities that ignore the immigration laws of the United States and create safe havens for illegal aliens and potential terrorists. This vote is a motion to table the amendment; voting YES would kill the amendment.
SUPPORTER'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING NO ON TABLING MOTION:Sen. VITTER: There are so-called sanctuary cities which establish as an official policy of their jurisdiction: We are not going to cooperate with Federal immigration enforcement officials. That is wrong. What is more, it is completely contrary to Federal immigration law. My amendment says: We are going to put some consequence to that defiance of Federal law. We are not going to give them COPS funds. We are going to send those funds, instead, to all of those other jurisdictions which abide by Federal law.OPPONENT'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING YES ON TABLING MOTION:Sen. DURBIN: There are sanctuary cities in about 23 different States across America. What the Vitter amendment will do is to take away the COPS funding from those cities. Police departments will tell you they need the cooperation of everyone to solve crimes and stop crime. If you create fear in the minds of those who are here in an undocumented status that any cooperation with the police will result in their arrest, they will not cooperate and criminals will go free. Let's not use the COPS Program as some sort of threat. If you want to deal with immigration, deal with it responsibly in a comprehensive way. SUPPORTER'S RESPONSE:Sen. VITTER: If folks feel that way, they should come to Congress and change Federal law, not simply defy Federal law. This is another amnesty vote. Are we going to give folks in sanctuary cities amnesty for defying Federal law and refusing to cooperate with Federal immigration officials? LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Motion to Table Agreed to, 58-40 Reference: Bill Table S.Amdt.4309 to S.Con.Res ; vote number 08-S069 on Mar 13, 2008
Voted YES on comprehensive immigration reform.
Establishes specified benchmarks which must be met before the guest worker and legalization programs may be initiated:
operational control of the border with Mexico;
Border Patrol increases;
border barriers, including vehicle barriers, fencing, radar, and aerial vehicles;
detention capacity for illegal aliens apprehended crossing the US-Mexico border;
workplace enforcement, including an electronic employment verification system; and
Z-visa alien processing.
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
If we do not legislate now, we will not legislate later this year when our calendar is crowded with Iraq and appropriations bills. We are then an election year, and it will be pushed over to 2009. Circumstances will not be better then, they will be worse.
A vote against cloture is a vote to kill the bill. A Senator may vote for cloture and then express himself in opposition to the bill by voting against the bill.
If this bill becomes law, we will see only a 13% reduction in illegal immigration into America, and in the next 20 years we will have another 8.7 million illegals in our country. How can that be reformed? I submit this would be a disaster.
The Congressional telephone systems have shut down because of the mass phone calls Congress is receiving. A decent respect for the views of the American people says let's stop here now. Let's go back to the drawing board and come up with a bill that will work.
The American people get it, and they do have common sense and wisdom on this issue. They know repeating the fundamental mistakes of the 1986 bill, joining a big amnesty with inadequate enforcement, will cause the problem to grow and not diminish. They know promising enforcement after 30 years of broken promises isn't good enough. They know the so-called trigger is a joke because if the trigger is never pulled, the Z visas, the amnesty happens forever. Reference: McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill; Bill S.1639 ; vote number 2007-235 on Jun 28, 2007
Voted YES on declaring English as the official language of the US government.
Voting YES would declare English as the national language of the Government of the US. Unless specifically provided by statute, no person would have an entitlement to have the Government of the US communicate or provide materials in any language other than English. If an exception is made with respect to the use of a language other than English, the exception does not create a legal entitlement to additional services in that language. If any form is issued by the Federal Government in a language other than English, the English language version of the form is the sole authority for all legal purposes. Nothing in this amendment shall prohibit the use of a language other than English.
Right now, the polling shows that 91% of the people in America want English as an official language, and 76% of Hispanics believe English should be an official language.
I believe the American people understand in order to succeed in our society, immigrants need to learn English. But the amendment would do a number of things that are problematical. The first is that it is contrary to the provisions of law that exist in many States. For example, in New Mexico, you have in their State Constitution, a provision that says that many of the documents within that State have to be provided in both English and Spanish. The same thing is true for the State of Hawaii. I believe this is a States rights issue, and those constitutions of those States ought to be respected. I do not believe it is a matter we ought to be imposing here from Washington DC.
Also, this amendment would undo an executive order conceived by President Bill Clinton and implemented by President George Bush. Both recognized it is important that people who have limited English proficiency receive the kinds of services so they can understand what is going on in terms of the interface between the Government and themselves. Reference: National Language Amendment Act; Bill S.Amdt.1151 to S.1348 ; vote number 2007-198 on Jun 6, 2007
Voted NO on eliminating the "Y" nonimmigrant guestworker program.
This legislation says we wish to add something called guest workers or temporary workers. With guest workers, working Americans would discover there is no opportunity for upward mobility at their job. In fact, every day their employers are trying to find ways to push down wages, eliminate retirement, and eliminate health care. What has happened in this country, with what is called the "new global economy," is dramatic downward pressure on income for American workers. The guest worker program provides that 400,000 people will be able to come in to assume jobs in our country per year--adding to the 12 million illegal immigrants already here.
I certainly concur about the need to secure our borders, about the need to have a workable immigration system, and the need for reform that ensures the rule of law is restored in the US. Where I differ is in the belief that we can actually achieve these goals if we have no ability for temporary workers to come to the country. This amendment would eliminate the temporary worker program from this bill.
Now, there are several reasons why a temporary worker program, within certain constraints, is a good idea. The first reason is because it will help to relieve the magnet for illegal immigration. The reason most of the people are crossing our border illegally is to get employment. There are jobs available for them. Some people say this is work Americans will not do. That is actually not true. But there are not enough American citizens to do all of the work that needs to be done. So naturally the law of supply and demand sets in here. People come across the border illegally, and they take that work. What we want to do is both close the border, but also eliminate the magnet for illegal employment here, because the reality is desperate people will always try to find some way to get into the country. Reference: Dorgan Amendment; Bill S.Amdt.1153 on S.1348 ; vote number 2007-174 on May 22, 2007
Voted YES on building a fence along the Mexican border.
Within 18 months, achieves operational control over U.S. land and maritime borders, including:
systematic border surveillance through more effective use of personnel and technology; and
physical infrastructure enhancements to prevent unlawful border entry
Defines "operational control" as the prevention of all unlawful U.S. entries, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, narcotics, and other contraband.
It is obvious there is no more defining issue in our Nation today than stopping illegal immigration. The most basic obligation of any government is to secure the Nation's borders. One issue in which there appears to be a consensus between the Senate and the House is on the issue of building a secure fence. So rather than wait until comprehensive legislation is enacted, we should move forward on targeted legislation which is effective and meaningful. The legislation today provides over 700 miles of Within 18 months, achieves operational control over U.S. land and maritime borders, including:
It is obvious there is no more defining issue in our Nation today than stopping illegal immigration. The most basic obligation of any government is to secure the Nation's borders. One issue in which there appears to be a consensus between the Senate and the House is on the issue of building a secure fence. So rather than wait until comprehensive legislation is enacted, we should move forward on targeted legislation which is effective and meaningful. The legislation today provides over 700 miles of Reference: Secure Fence Act; Bill H R 6061 ; vote number 2006-262 on Sep 29, 2006
Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program.
Voting YES establishes a guest worker program with a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who have worked in the US for 5 years. The bill:
Increases border security and enforcement
Makes it unlawful to knowingly hire, recruit, or refer for a fee an unauthorized alien.
Establishes a temporary guest worker program (H-2C visa) with a three-year admission and one additional three-year extension; and issuance of H-4 nonimmigrant visas for accompanying or following spouse and children;
Provides permanent resident status adjustment for a qualifying illegal alien, and family, for aliens who have been in the US and employed for five years.
Proponents of the bill say:
Our immigration system is broken and needs to be repaired. This bill is a strong step in the right direction. We need to protect our borders and look out for American workers, and we also need a responsible way to meet the need for temporary workers, particularly in the agricultural area, where they represent about 70 percent of the U.S. agricultural workforce, with a path to earned citizenship for hard-working, law abiding temporary workers. This bill, the product of bipartisan compromise, takes a commonsense approach to all of these issues.
Opponents of the bill say:
Our country has been built by immigrants. But the reason we have had quotas for immigration is the world has progressed in different parts of this globe at a very different rate. In some countries, the economies have lagged far behind.
There are jobs available in this country with rates of pay that are far in excess of those of Third World countries. We have on our southern border people who aspire to come to this country. In order to protect our way of life and our standard of living and to protect jobs, we have quotas.
Reference: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act; Bill S. 2611 ; vote number 2006-157 on May 25, 2006
Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security.
Voting YEA would table (kill) the proposed amendment to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security benefits. Voting NAY supports that prohibition, while voting YEA supports immigrants participating in Social Security. Text of amendment:
To reduce document fraud, prevent identity theft, and preserve the integrity of the Social Security system, by ensuring that persons who receive an adjustment of status under this bill are not able to receive Social Security benefits as a result of unlawful activity.
Proponents of the amendment say to vote NAY because:
The Immigration Reform bill would allow people to qualify for social security based on work they did while they were illegally present in the US and illegally working in the US. People who broke the law to come here and broke the law to work here can benefit from their conduct to collect social security.
In some cases, illegal immigrants may have stolen an American citizen's identity. They may have stolen an American's social security number to fraudulently work. This amendment corrects this problem.
Opponents of the amendment say to vote YEA because:
Americans understand that for years there are undocumented workers who have tried to follow our laws and be good neighbors and good citizens, and have paid into the Social Security Trust Fund.
Once that person regularizes his or her status, and as they proceed down the path to earned citizenship, they should have the benefit after having followed the law and made those contributions. That is fairness.
We should not steal their funds or empty their Social Security accounts. That is not fair. It does not reward their hard work or their financial contributions.
The amendment proposes to change existing law to prohibit an individual from gaining the benefit of any contributions made while the individual was in an undocumented status. I oppose this amendment and believe it is wrong.
Reference: Preclusion of Social Security Credits; Bill S.Amdt.3985 to S.2611 ; vote number 2006-130 on May 18, 2006
Voted YES on extending Immigrant Residency rules.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill that would extend by four months a law allowing some immigrants to remain in the country while pursuing legal residency. Reference: Motion sponsoerd by Gekas, R-PA; Bill HR1885 ; vote number 2001-127 on May 21, 2001
Voted YES on more immigrant visas for skilled workers.
Vote to pass a bill to increase the number of temporary visas granted to highly skilled workers from 65,000 to 115,000 by the year 2000. Reference: Bill introduced by Smith, R-TX.; Bill HR 3736 ; vote number 1998-460 on Sep 24, 1998
Sponsored comprehensive immigration reform, without amnesty.
Graham introduced for comprehensive immigration reform without amnesty
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Sen. McCAIN: This bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform legislation is designed to fix our Nation's broken immigration system. While in previous years we worked independently on immigration reform legislation, we are coming together today to introduce what we believe is groundbreaking, comprehensive legislation. Over a year ago, the President laid out a framework for what comprehensive immigration reform should look like. We have used the President's framework to craft this package.
The simple fact is that America's immigration system is broken. Recent vigilante activities along the southwestern border have shown that the current situation is not sustainable. Americans are frustrated with our lack of border security and our inability to control illegal immigration.
Make no mistake, this is not an amnesty bill. We are not here to reward law-breakers, and any accusations to the contrary are patently untrue. This bill recognizes the problems inherent in the current system and provides a logical and effective means to address these problems. It would be impossible to identify and round up all 10 to 11 million of the current undocumented, and if we did, it would ground our Nation's economy to a halt. These millions of people are working. Aliens will not come forward to simply "report and deport." We have a national interest in identifying these individuals, incentivizing them to come forward out of the shadows, go through security background checks, pay back taxes, pay penalties for breaking the law, learn to speak English, and regularize their status. Anyone who thinks this goal can be achieved without providing an eventual path to a permanent legal status is not serious about solving this problem.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary; never came to a vote. [The famous McCain-Kennedy legislation which DID come to a vote was the 2007 version of this bill]. Source: Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act (S.1033/H.R.2330) 05-S1033 on May 12, 2005
Rated 27% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance.
Graham scores 27% by USBC on immigration issues
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 USBC scores as follows:
0%-30%: open-border stance (approx. 197 members)
30%-70%: mixed record on open borders (approx. 70 members)
70%-100%: sealed-border stance (approx. 202 members)
About USBC (from their website, www.usbc.org):
U.S. Border Control, founded in 1988, is a non-profit, tax-exempt, citizen's lobby. USBC is dedicated to ending illegal immigration by securing our nation's borders and reforming our immigration policies. USBC [works with] Congressmen to stop amnesty; seal our borders against terrorism and illegal immigration; and, preserve our nation's language, culture and American way of life for future generations.
Our organization accepts no financial support from any branch of government. All our support comes from concerned citizens who appreciate the work we are doing to seal our borders against drugs, disease, illegal migration and terrorism and wish to preserve our nation's language, culture and heritage for the next generations. Source: USBC website 06n-USBC on Dec 31, 2006
Declared English the official language of the US.
Graham co-sponsored declaring English the official language of the US
OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Amends Federal law to declare English to be the official language of the US Government.
Representatives of the Federal Government have an affirmative obligation to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the Federal Government.
Requires such representatives to conduct official business in English.
Prohibits anyone from being denied Government services because he or she communicates in English.
Requires that all officials conduct all naturalization ceremonies entirely in English.
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the preservation or use of Native Alaskan or Native American languages.
EXCERPTS FROM BILL:
The Congress finds and declares the following:
The US is comprised of individuals and groups from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
The US has benefited and continues to benefit from this rich diversity.
The common thread binding individuals of differing backgrounds has been a common language.
The Federal Government should maintain a language common to all people.
English has historically been the common language and the language of opportunity in the US.
The purpose of this title is to help immigrants better assimilate and take full advantage of opportunities in the US.
By learning the English language, immigrants will be empowered with the language skills and literacy necessary to become responsible citizens and productive workers in the US.
The use of a single common language in conducting official business of the Federal Government will promote efficiency and fairness.
English should be recognized in law as the language of official business of the Federal Government.
Any monetary savings derived from the enactment of this title should be used for the teaching of the English language to non-English-speaking immigrants.
Source: English Language Empowerment Act (H.R.123) 99-HR0123 on Jan 6, 1999
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When Defense Department officials briefed reporters prior to announcing that the Cerner, Leidos and Accenture team won its EHR modernization contract, they were adamant that so much speculation about the DoD’s ability to share patient information with the Department of Veterans Affairs had been unfounded. "There is not a big interoperability problem with the VA and DoD today," said Frank Kendall, DoD Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. "It’s a big misconception out there that this software system we’re buying is about interoperability." Read More »
Ebola in the US: Short on Accountable 'Open' Information, Effective Systems Planning and Decision Making
By Marc Wine | October 30, 2014
Events in the present Ebola crisis prompt unease that the United States deployment of Web based, standardized population health and biosurveillance information services is fragmented, incomplete and insufficient, prompting me to write this blog. The United States has made significant progress in public health and medical preparedness since the 9/11 terrorist attacks; yet, poorly interconnected information systems add to our vulnerability to planning and response to viruses like Ebola or enviro virus EV-D68 that threaten the health of large populations. Today, a gap exists between information technology specialists and public health programmatic or scientific personnel.
Electronic Health Records: First, Do No Harm?
David F. Carr | InformationWeek | June 26, 2014
EHRs are commonly promoted as boosting patient safety, but are we all being fooled? InformationWeek Radio investigates. Read More »
Epic Grabs VA Software Contract
Tom Sullivan | Healthcare IT News | August 27, 2015
Epic, along with Lockheed Martin subsidiary Systems Made Simple, inked a five-year $624 million contract with Veterans Affairs. The deal is nowhere near the $4.3 billon that DoD awarded Cerner and Leidos for the first phase, of course, but it does hold the potential for a big payoff – publicity-wise at least – because the work Epic and SMS signed up to undertake addresses one of VA's most public pain points: patient scheduling.
EWD.js and VistA: Now With No Barriers to Entry
Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy. Before explaining what I’ve been busy doing, I’ll start by stating my sincere thanks to Christopher Edwards (KRM Associates and Certification Manager at OSEHRA) for enhancing and extending his installer for VistA to include an option to automatically install, configure and fire up EWD.js. Read More »
FDA Issues RFQ for Large Scale EHR Study - Wants to Leverage VA's Open Source VistA EHR and Database for Research
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a large-scale electronic health record (EHR) system. This RFQ is very important as the objective is to develop a platform to support a critical project by the FDA's Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (DBB) "to conduct research to assess the safety and surveillance of FDA regulated products through the FDA adverse event reporting systems..." Adverse drug reactions are one of the leading causes of death in the US, thus finding which drugs cause negative interactions is of vital importance. The project requires "use of the large electronic medical record (EMR) system..." The project is going to leverage the largest, most comprehensive, and clinically relevant medical records database, that of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Posted May 2, 2018 - 1:10pm by Roger A. Maduro
Feds' Rampant Use of No-bid Contracts the Essence of Corruption
David Williams | The Hill | August 1, 2017
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin just awarded a contract worth billions of dollars to Cerner, a health technology company. Secretary Shulkin, who was seeking a firm to build the VA's new electronic health records system, awarded the contract without even considering proposals from other companies. Such "no-bid" contracts are an outrage. Companies seeking the government's business should compete on price and quality — just like firms that operate exclusively in the private sector...
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin just awarded a contract worth billions of dollars to Cerner, a health technology company. Secretary Shulkin, who was seeking a firm to build the VA's new electronic health records system, awarded the contract without even considering proposals from other companies...
Flagship Project on Precision Medicine for Underserved Women Will Advance Learning Health System
Press Release | Open Source Health, Inc., Learning Health Community | March 1, 2016
Marc Wine, a supporter of the LHS - Precision Medicine PCOS Project and participant in Learning Health Community initiatives, who attended the summit hosted by the president said, "One goal is to seek collaboration with underserved communities in genomics, open data and integrative medicine. This will result in engaging individual patients in ways that will move them from dependency on fragmented healthcare to the point where patients can use their own evidence-based genetic information to make the very best health decisions." The Precision Medicine PCOS Project is aimed at developing a protocol for women with PCOS while employing an integrative medicine approach to treatment based on the participant's molecular makeup, clinical data and available scientific knowledge.
Google Joins VistA Team Proposing Open Source EHR for the Department of Defense
By Roger A. Maduro | January 28, 2015
Google has thrown its hat into the EHR ring by joining the team led by PwC which is proposing that the Department of Defense (DoD) upgrade their current EHR to Defense Operational Readiness Health System (DORHS), a customized application built for the DoD and based on VistA, the open source EHR developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...Google’s participation has enormous implications for both the DoD’s EHR and to the healthcare industry as a whole. By choosing the open source EHR team, Google...has sent a clear message to the world that VistA is the best option for the DoD.
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Santa Fe Opera presents a welcome rarity: Szymanowski’s “King Roger”
By David Gregson | August 9, 2012 | 0
LAURA WILDE (DEACONESS), MARIUSZ KWIECIEN (KING ROGER), ERIN MORLEY (ROXANA), DENNIS PETERSEN (EDRISI) & RAYMOND ACETO (ARCHBISHOP). Photo by Ken Howard.
Santa Fe Opera: Karol Szymanowski’s “King Roger.”
Now playing in summer festival repertory.
Review of the August 9 performance by David Gregson.
Ancient Greek tragedy grew out of an annual religious celebration devoted to the demigod, Dionysus, whose father was the Olympian Zeus and whose mother was the mere mortal, Semele. Handel wrote a perfectly marvelous English language oratorio about this woman, a work that was memorably performed as an opera here in Santa Fe in 1997; but this year’s most unusual item, one closely related to the Dionysus myth, is Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s “King Roger,” a virtually autobiographical opera that portrays the inner turmoil of a man torn between two opposing forces of his nature. The libretto was written by the composer himself in collaboration with his cousin, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, a notably gay Polish poet who married and had two daughters, but who is alleged to have been Szymanowski’s lover. For that reason — and here one commits the famous literary critic’s no-no of the “biographical fallacy” — many critics regard King Roger as a repressed homosexual looking for a way out of the closet.
But, is that what this sumptuously scored opera is all about? Perhaps — but as presented in a handsome production designed by Thomas Lynch and directed by Stephen Wadsworth, this story, set in 12th-century Sicily, is thoroughly ambiguous. Multiple interpretations are possible. To begin with, the inner life of the titular king is largely revealed through lyrics expressive of indecision, doubt and confusion, and the external behaviors of the other characters are mysterious in their easy changeability. King Roger, sung here by the celebrated Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, spends almost 90 minutes going through agonized contortions suggesting everything from severe stomach cramps to the recovery spasms caused by drug addiction. An elaborate physical pantomime seems to be required for us to know just what is going on inside Roger’s brain. This is not to denigrate Kwiecien’s singing, which is superb, or even his acting: the opera seems to demand this sort of performance. In any event, repressed homosexuality is not anything clearly conveyed as the story begins.
ERIN MORLEY (ROXANA). Photo by Ken Howard.
The basic plot line is simple. In Act One, the “Byzantine Act,” a mass is taking place in a Byzantine cathedral in Palermo (an inspiration for some gorgeous choral writing by Szymanowski), when we learn that a troublesome Shepherd (the wonderful, golden toned lyric tenor William Burden) is wandering around preaching about the glories of a pagan deity. This deity would be the Shepherd himself, of course, since this Shepherd, just as in the great “Bacchae” of Euripides, is really Dionysus. In the Euripides, Dionysus is distinctly not a law-and-order man. He is out for revenge on Pentheus (changed to King Roger by Szymanowski) who is suppressing Dionysus’s brand of free-thinking, free-spirited wine-and-song revelry in the city of Thebes. In “King Roger,” the Shepherd’s motives are not clear at first. The people, led by the Archbishop (an authoritative Raymond Aceto) would like to see him executed; but Roger’s wife, Roxana (lovely sounding soprano Erin Morley), is drawn to the Shepherd because, as some people have so crudely suggested, she “isn’t getting any at home,” and soon everyone else is jumping on the free love bandwagon.
An Arab scholar named Edrisi (the excellent Dennis Petersen) is Roger’s close friend and confidant. Together the two men hope to interrogate and ultimately execute the Shepherd, but the Dionysian charisma is impossible to resist. The Shepherd is the Mr. Hyde, so to speak, to Roger’s Dr. Jekyll. In the “Bacchae,” Dionysus actually convinces Pentheus to dress up as a woman — in order to recognize his female side and to be able to spy on the demigod’s worshippers, the female Bacchants or Maenads as they are also called. (Bacchus is one of many names for Dionysus.) Nothing so fantastic happens to Roger, but he does gradually succumb to the Shepherd’s more sensual blandishments. I should add that Mr. Burden, who used to display (and may still be capable of doing so for all I know), a rather buffed torso, did not do so on this occasion. A glimpse of skin might have made him more convincing as as sexual lure. He looked more the Shepherd than a demigod. As it turned out, only Kwiecien bared any flesh.
Now we leave Act Two, the so-called “Oriental Act.” By Act Three, the very significantly named “Greco-Roman Act,” Roger appears more conflicted than ever. He has seemingly abandoned his responsibilities as a leader, his subjects are cavorting about the hillsides, and when he calls out for his wife Roxanna, he gets the Shepherd instead. A close friend assures me the Shepherd and Roger more than once “violated personal space” by coming within kissing distance of one another — and while this is so, no kissing took place that I could see. After some more odd behavior, Roger lights a fire in honor of Dionysus, and (in this production) strips off his shirt and whirls his robe about like a dancer from the Moiseyev Dance Company on tour. But, curiously, the opera quickly concludes with Roger choosing solitude over a life “in the land of rapture.” Roger unambiguously salutes the morning sun. If he had been Pentheus, poor soul, he would have been literally torn to pieces by the Maenads, one of whom is his own mother, Agave.
WILLIAM BURDEN (SHEPHERD) & MARIUSZ KWIECIEN (KING ROGER). Photo by Ken Howard.
Both “The Bacchae” and “King Roger” are moral puzzles, and I imagine all people who leave this opera experience some degree of mystification. The music they find has been wonderful: a huge, thickly scored orchestra that evokes everyone you can think of from Palestrina to Scriabin, Mahler, Wagner and Debussy; richly textured choral music (bravo chorus master Susanne Sheston!); complex harmonies, polytonality, and Renaissance polyphony. And all of it superbly coordinated by conductor Evan Rogister and fabulously played by a super-sized Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.
But if the Greek sun god Apollo stands for law and order, for rationality, for solitude, and for clear, no-nonsense masculine thinking; and if he also stands in opposition to irrational Dionysian social gregariousness, sexuality and an abundance of wine — well, the moral of the story seems to side with staying in the closet. In the end, it is not a theme of gay liberation — or any kind of liberation with regard to responsibility to society as a whole. Perhaps Roger has attained a sort of Jungian individuation? Or has he dropped out altogether? If he has achieved an inner piece, I am not certain what it is. That he is liberated is clear, but from what? The solitude of a hermit drives one to madness (just to drag Sigmund Freud into this mix!)
A final word about the so-called Apollonian and Dionysian forces in art: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy” is familiar to all serious students of drama — or at least it should be — and dedicated Wagnerians should probably know something about it as well. In this famous book about Greek tragedy, Nietzsche traces tragedy’s contrasting and often conflicting forces through drama while making the claim that Apollo possesses the text (the poetry, really), while Dionysus is present in the choral singing and dancing.
What is easiest for anyone to understand, however, is that the human personality is reality a duality: good and evil, sacred and profane, id and ego, the conscious and the unconscious, the self and the shadow, and the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
MARIUSZ KWIECIEN (KING ROGER). Photo by Ken Howard.
Roxana – Erin Morley
Shepherd – William Burden
Edrisi – Dennis Petersen
King Roger – Mariusz Kwiecien
Archbishop – Raymond Aceto
Conductor – Evan Rogister
Director – Stephen Wadsworth
Scenic Designer – Thomas Lynch
Costume Designer – Ann Hould-Ward
Lighting Designer – Duane Schuler
Choreographer – Peggy Hickey
Chorus Master — Susanne Sheston
For complete schedule and ticket information, please visit Santa Fe Opera.
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Final Project Post: Motivation
This motivation course describes motivation, emotions and the history of them. The course explores how sex, fear, food, and music affects motivation and the drive in having motivation. Theories of drug abuse, addictions and behavioral addictions are explained in having a great affect in motivation. Stress, coping and health plays an important role in motivation. These things determine ones relationships, life and daily activities.
Most of all to have motivation you need drive, which is explored and also how needs affect achieving the motivational levels that you have. These also affect a persons goal motivation and if they are achievable, which will be discussed in more depth. Lastly how a person's mood and emotions affect motivation. These emotions are motives for behavior and every day life events.
The section I enjoyed the most was on goals which was discussed in Chapter 11. What is a goal? The text describes it as, "when faced with choices on how to spend time and effort to obtain an outcome or incentive, the outcome or incentive that is chosen becomes the goal (p.263)." Goals are larger than incentives for example look at this youtube clip of Michael Phelps; the goal was to win an Olympic medal and he did just that; he became the greatest Olympic Champion of all time.
Goals are normally larger and tend to be more complex. People set goals for themselves at different levels. Higher level goals have higher value which provide greater benefits. To make a goal achievable you must be able to visualize it. The clearer the image will better the ability to achieve the goal the person has. To achieve a goal you must commit to the goal that is set; a person must be willing to put the time in, do whatever it takes to achieve their goal.
I have attached an article about my Niece who started playing tennis at age 3 and has become so determined to achieve her goal that she set in taking her tennis career to the next level. At age 10 she is now ranked 6th in Middle States (PA, DE, NJ) age 12 and under out of 189 girls, ranked 180th nationwide out of 1,183 girls. According to the Tennis Recruiting Network.com, Tess ranks 22nd nationwide, 5th in the Mid Atlantic Region (PA, NJ, NY, VA, MD, DC and DE) and third in New Jersey among rising fifth graders. She is a perfect example of goals, setting them, staying motivated and continue to make strides to achieve her goals.
Here is an article that was published in The Daily Journal Newspaper about her on March 13, 2010.
V'LAND TENNIS PRODIGY AT AGE 10:
Daily Journal - Vineland, N.J.
Author: JOSH FRIEDMAN
Document Text
jfriedman@thedailyjournal.com
Tess Fisher won't fool anyone into thinking she's a high school student, but she fits right in with them on the tennis court.
The 4-foot-8, 70-pounder from Vineland is just 10 years old, but is already a formidable adversary for South Jersey's elite players -- boy or girl.
"She'd definitely make the varsity roster," said junior Aidan Kaye, a two-time letter winner for St. Augustine Preparatory School, who started hitting with Fisher about a month ago.
"You forget she's 10 when you're playing her because she's so good," said Millville Senior High School junior Sarah Lippincott, who has played singles for the Bolts since she was a freshman. "She hangs with high school players and beats them. Knowing she's 10, it's cool to wait and see what she'll become."
While Tess hasn't defeated Kaye or Lippincott just yet, both players have been awed at the youngster's potential.
Tess, a fourth-grader at Ellison School, is 13th in the girls 12-and-under Middle States rankings, which includes players from Pennsylvania and Delaware, and is rated 24th nationally for the Class of 2018 by tennisrecruiting.net.
She's been playing tournaments all over the Northeast and as far west as Chicago since 2006, and has developed so quickly that she hasn't played in the 10-and-under division since 2008.
"I think by the end of this year, my goal is to be No. 1 in Middle States," Tess said. "That's going to get me noticed, and I think when I'm 11, I'm going to want to be No. 1 in the country. And then, when I'm 12, I'm going to start playing more of those tournaments and keep getting better and then I think I can turn pro."
Her coach, Eric Riley, is confident Tess has the game to make that kind of splash in the future.
"Tess has the most complete game of any 10-year-old I've ever seen," said Riley, who has coached tennis for 20 years and worked with Grand Slam doubles champions Pam Shriver and Lisa Raymond.
"Our focus for her, once she dominates junior tennis, is going to be focusing on world ranking with the pro players."
Tess, who also works with P.J. Ragone for her footwork and agility, has impressed Riley and other tennis aficionados with a well-rounded game.
"It's unfathomable that someone that age can have that technique and strategy and mental toughness," Vineland tennis coach Harry Silverstein said. "It doesn't happen."
Fisher is well aware her game is more developed than most her age.
"I think that my game is going to change the whole entire girls' tennis game because I think that I'm going to be a serve-and-volleyer and none of the girls do that," she said.
Her parents, Wendy and Gary, never expected Tess to develop this quickly. Her love affair with tennis started at age 3. Gary Fisher would play catch with her in the backyard with a tennis ball, and he quickly realized Tess had impeccable hand-eye coordination.
"So we got her a little racquet, and I'd bounce the ball in front of her and she'd start hitting it," he said.
Fisher said when Tess was 7 she was already playing with advanced groups in clinics.
Now she's regularly hitting with the defending Cape-Atlantic League individual champion, Holy Spirit's Adrienne Kaye, and her cousin, Middle Township's Joel Novick, the Panthers' No. 1 player.
"I'm glad I won't be here (when she's in high school)," joked Kaye. "She's so good, and she keeps getting better too."
If Tess progresses at the same rate as she has over the past few years, her parents might have to take her to a warmer climate, such as Florida or California, and get her involved with a tennis academy.
"Over the next two years, a lot will show," Gary Fisher said. "We've mentioned it to her. (We asked), 'Would you ever want to go to a place, mom and dad would be there, too, but you'd play tennis all the time and they'd school you at the tennis place,' and she said, 'I'd love that.'"
And with Tess' aspirations, Vineland might not be able to contain her.
"My goal is when I'm 14 years old, I want to be the No. 1 tennis pro in the world," she said. "I think I can (do it) if I keep practicing hard."
Hopefully you can learn from goal setting and learn how to achieve those goals. It is possible, so go ahead set yourself a goal, aim high and go out there, get MOTIVATED and achieve it! You can do it; it just takes some MOTIVATION!
Final Project Post By: Amie Lidke 7/10/2010
Posted by Amie L. at 3:16 PM
Labels: Final motivation project
Jennifer Rowedda July 10, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Go Tess! I'll definitely keep my eye out for her! It's refreshing to see someone so set on their goals. It seems like she has a great support system too. I admire her motivation to set her sights on what she wants, and then use all her resources to go for it. And only ten years old?! Like I said, go Tess!
Amie L. July 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM
Thanks Jennifer. I am so proud of her. The best part about Tess and her achievements is that she is so humble about her greatness!
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The following is a comprehensive dictionary and lexicon of terms and phrases starting with the letters F,G or H used in the print and signage industry.
Print and Signage Terminology explained - F,G,H
fadeout halftone: a general reduction in the overall contrast of a halftone, to allow type to be easily readable when printed over it.
Facing pages: in a double-sided document, the two pages that appear as a spread when the publication is opened.
fake duotone: a two-color reproduction, using single halftone negative, usually blank, and a halftone screen tint for the background, usually in color.
fanfold: continuous multiple ply form manufactured from a single wide web which is folded longitudinally.
fast-drying ink: an ink that dries soon after printing.
feathering: tendency of an ink image to spread with a fuzzy, “feather like” edge.
feed rollers: o n a printing press, the rubber wheels that move the sheets of paper from the feed pile to the grippers.
feeder: the section of a printing press that separates the sheets and feeds them into position for printing.
feel: refers to the feel of the papers surface. It expressing an individual's impression of a paper's finish and stiffness or suppleness.
feet-per-minute: abbreviated FPM, this term refers usually to the speed of a papermaking machine in terms of how many feet per minute the forming web of paper traverses the length of the machine.
felt: woven, endless belt made of wool, cottor or synthetic materials used to transoport the paper web on the paper machine, during manufacture. Felts act as conveyors while at the same time removing water from paper as it progresses through the paper machine.
felt side: top side of the paper, opposite from the wire side or underneath. The “right side of the paper”.
felt finish: surface which is achieved at the wet end of the Fourdrinier machine by using felts of a distinctive weave rather than standard or regular wove felts.Felt finishing can also be obtained after the manufacturing process by impressing the felt against the paper under pressure.
fiber: a thread-like filament many times longer than its diameter. Smallest unit of vegetable growth which is used to maker paper pulps.
fiberboard: a paperboard made from woodpulp and/or continaing a percentage of waste paper. End product uses include shoes and luggage.
fiber orientation: refers to the alignment of the fibers in the sheet. The degree of alignment can be controlled in the paper making process.
fibrillae: string-like elements that are loosened from the paper fibers during the beating process. They aid in the bonding processes when paper is being manufactured.
fibrillation: act of loosening the fibrillae during the mechanical process of beating the fibers in preparation for papermaking.
fill: maximum width of paper that can be made on any given paper machine.
film mechanical: a mechanical on which type and design elements in the form of film positives are stripped into position on a sheet of base film.
filler: minerals, such as clay and other white pigments, added to pulp to improve the printing capabilities of the paper.
filler clay: a clay additive used to improve the printing properties of paper.
filler paper: also referred to as notebook paper. Basic size: 17″ x 22″. Substance weight: 24 lb/ream. It is made of bleached chemical wood pulps and it is used for 3-ring notebooks, spiral bound books and other applications requiring holes punched near the edges.
film gauge: thickness of film. The most common gauge for graphic arts film is 0.004 inch (0.1 mm).
film laminate: thin sheet of plastic bonded to a printed product for protection or increased gloss.
final negatives: negatives that are right reading, emulsion down.
fine merchant, fine paper distributor: a company
which confines its sales and distribution activities to fine printing papers only.
fine papers: at Wells & Drew,their own custom paper line is called “Fine Papers” which is laser safe, comes in a variety of shades and is 25% cotton.Within the printing industry fine papers is referred to as types of papers used for writing, printing, and cultural purposes.
finish: the physical look and feel of the paper's surface. These include smooth, felt, laid, linen and others.
finished art: hand lettering, charts, color blocks, illustrations, photographs, etc., ready for camera.
finishing broke: discarded paper resulting from any finishing operation.
finished size: size of product after production is completed, as compared to flat size. Also called trimmed size
first color down: the first color printed as the sheet passes through the press.
fit: referring to the ability of film to be registered during stripping and assembly. Good fit means that all images register to other film for the same job.
fine screen: a screen with ruling of 150 lines per inch (80 lines per centimeter) or more.
flag: a strip of paper protruding from a roll or skid of paper. May be used to mark a splice in a roll of paper or used to mark off reams in a skid.
flash exposure: in halftone photography, the supplementary exposure given to strengthen the dots in the shadow areas of negatives.
flat color: printing two or more colors without overlaying color dots (i.e. without color trap); individual color matching. This differs from process color, which is a blending of four colors to produce a broad range of colors.
flat etching: the chemical reduction of the silver deposit in a continuous-tone or halftone plate, brought about by placing it in a tray containing an etching solution.
flat: In offset lithography, the assembled composite of negatives, usually on goldenrod paper, ready for platemaking. Also, a photograph or halftone that is lacking contrast.
flatbed press: a press on which plates are positioned along a flat metal bed against which the paper is pressed by the impression cylinder, as compared to a rotary press which prints from curved plates.
flatbed scanner: a device that scans images in a manner similar to a photocopy machine; the original art is positioned face down on a glass plate.
flap, wallet: a rectangular seal flap.
flaps extended envelopes: Envelopes with the seal flap extended (not folded down)
flexography: letterpress printing using relief plates on direct presses. This process of printing uses rubber plates and special aniline inks.
flooding: in reference to printing, when the ink flows onto a printing plate because the ink fountain has not been set properly.
flop: to reverse a negative or positive, to bring the underside out on top. A negative that must be flopped has emulsion on the wrong side.
flow: with printing ink, the extent to which it levels out when still a liquid.
fluorescent inks: extremely brilliant inks containing fluorescent pigments.
flush Cut: cutting the top flap off the envelope.
flush cover: cover of a book that has been trimmed to the same dimensions as the text papers.
flyleaf: unprinted page that is part of a printed signature. It also can be a synonym for
end-leaf.
fog: an undesirable neutral density in the clear areas of a photographic film or paper, in which the image is either locally or entirely veiled by a deposit of silver. Fog may be due to flare, unsafe darkroom illumination, age, or processing conditions.
foil: in foil stamping ,A tissue-like material in sheet or roll form covered on one side with a metallic coloring used for stamping.
folder: a bindery machine dedicated to folding printed materials.
folding endurance: a paper test which measures the number of double (back and forth) folds that can be made on a sheet of paper under tension, before it breaks.
foldout: a page that exceeds the dimensions of a single page. It is folded to page size and included in the book, sometimes bound in and sometimes tipped in (pasted).
folio: refers to sheet size 17×22 or larger. Also, page numbers.
foot :the bottom of a page of printed information.
formation: refers to the uniformity or lack of it in the distribution of the fibers when manufacturing paper; can be observed by looking through the sheet; a good formation is uniform or “Close”, while a poor formation is not.
fountain solution: in lithography, a solution of water, a natural or synthetic gum and other chemicals used to dampen the plate and keep non-printing areas from accepting ink.
fountain: the unit on a press that contains ink to be fed to the distributing system, and the part that feeds the fountain solution to the dampening system.
four-color process: the four basic colors of ink (yellow, magenta, cyan, and black), which reproduce full-color photographs or art.
fourdrinier: a paper machine developed by Louis Robert and financed by Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier that produces a continuous web of paper; also the term for the section of the paper machine which is a continuous “wire” or belt screen, through which the first removal of water occurs. The point of formation.
four-sided trim (trim 4): after the job is printed and folded, a trim will be taken off all four sides to remove any reference or registration marks and give a clean edge to the pile of sheets.
for position only (FPO): in digital imaging, typically a low-resolution image positioned in a document to be replaced later with a higher resolution version of the same image.
free-sheet : paper made with pulp created in a kraft process that has removed the lignin. Freesheet paper has more longevity than groundwood which contains lignin.(Newspaper is made with groundwood)
fold marks: short line printed on a business form indicating where it may be folded.
foldout: gate-fold sheet bound into a publication, often used for a map or chart. Also called gate-fold and pullout.
folio: a ream or sheet in its full size, e.g. 17″ x 22″, 25″ x 38″. When used in connection with books, means the sheet has been folded once, producing four pages.
font: assortment of type characters of a particular size and style.
format: size, style, shape, layout or organization of a layout or printed product.
form bond: lightweight bond, easy to perforate, made for business forms. Also called register bond.
form roller: roller(s) that come in contact with the printing plate, bringing it ink or water.
forwarding: in the case book arena, the binding process which involves folding, rounding, backing, headbanding and reinforcing.
free-sheet: the word “free” in this context means free from mechanical pulp.
full gum adhesive: continuous layer of adhesive applied on the seal flap
full-scale black: black separation made to have dots throughout the entire tonal range of the image, as compared to half-scale black and skeleton black. Also called full-range black.
full-range halftone: halftone ranging from 0 percent coverage in its highlights to 100 percent coverage in its shadows.
furnish: the mixture of fiber and other materials that is blended in the water suspension, or slurry, from which paper or board is made; usually about 1% solid material with 99% or the balance being water.
fuzz (fluff): loose fibers projecting from a paper’s surface.
french fold: a sheet printed on one side and folded first vertically and then horizontally to produce a four-page folder.
FSC – Forest Stewardship Council: an independent, international, environmentally and socially oriented forest certification organization. It trains, accredits and monitors third-party certifiers around the world and works to establish international forest management standards. Printers can become FSC certified if they pass a standard of test to determine if they are environmentally friendly.
Face- The surface area on an out-of-home unit where advertising copy is displayed. A unit may have more than one face as most billboards have two faces, one in each direction of the highway.
Facing- The direction that a billboard faces. South-facing billboards are seen by drivers travelling northbound.
Faded- Loss of colour brilliance due to length of exposure, weather conditions, or technical problem with production.
Flagging- A tear in paper used on the advertising structure, causing the paper to hang loose and "flag".
Flex face Vinyl- One piece vinyl used on billboards, can be computer or hand painted.
Frequency- The number of times an average individual has the opportunity to be exposed to an advertising message during a defined period of time. Frequency in outdoor usually refers to the calendar month since this time period coincides with the standard contract practices.
Fully Wrapped Bus- Bus advertising display in which the entire bus vehicle is covered with the advertising design, including windows, through which passengers still have visibility due to special material.
gain, dot: can be caused by the ink consistency being poorly controlled; the ink too soft. Also can be caused when the plate was either overexposed for negative working plates or underexposed for positive working plates.
galley proof: a proof of text copy before it is formatted for the page
gamma: a measure of contrast in photographic images. A densimetric evaluation of graph paper indicating highlight to shadow contrast in terms of density values, plotted on a graph to establish the maximum and the minimum, the difference between them being the gamma.
gamut: every color combination that is possible to produce with a given set of colorants on a given device or system.
gang printing: grouping related jobs using same paper and inks. Grouping more than one job on a single plate.
gang separations: a group of originals containing slides or prints of the same type, emulsion, highlight, middletone and shadow characteristics which will all be separated together as one piece. Highlights, middletones and shadows are set up for the average, Originals falling above or below the average will be lighter or darker than the average. There are no special tone, or color corrections done to individual pieces, because the separation is based on average readings found in the average of all the originals. Request for corrections from gang separations will result in additional charges.
gate fold: a sheet that folds where both sides fold toward the gutter in overlapping layers.
gathered : signatures assembled next to each other in the proper sequence for binding, as compared to nested. Also called stacked.
genuine watermark: watermark made on the paper machine, with a dandy roll.
ghosting: ghost images are unwanted images that reduce print value.
ghosting, chemicals : occurs when a drying ink film affects the drying of previously printed ink film. To correct, allow at least 24 hours for first printed side to dry before backing up. 2) Can occur with slow drying inks. To correct, add a drier ink to decrease drying time, consult with your ink manufacturer or supplier about faster drying inks.
ghosting, mechanical: occurs when ink form rollers cannot supply enough ink coverage on the forms. Also occur when there is too much water run on the plate.
gilding: originally done with actual 14kt. gold leaf.A process used to finished the edges of books,business cards, announcements other fine stationery products.The process yields metallic edges to the piece being gilded.
glassine, patched window: the most opaque patching material.
glazed: paper with a glossy surface, applied either during manufacture or subsequently. Various means of obtaining the patent leather-like surface.
gloss: gloss results from the specular reflection of light and occurs when specular reflection exceeds the diffuse reflection from various viewing angles. Paper gloss can be measured at various angles of illumination.
grade: a type of paper or pulp which is distinguised from other papers or pulps on the basis of its characteristics such as its raw material content, manufacturing history, appearance and/or end use.
gradation: in photographic originals and lithographic reproductions, the range of tones from the brightest highlights to the deepest shadows.
grain: direction in which most of the fibers lie in a finished sheet of paper. Fibers flow parallel to the direction in which the paper travels on the paper machine during manufacture.
grain direction: fundamental property of paper resulting from the alignment of fibers flowing onto the paper machine.
grain long : term used to designate that the grain of the paper is parallel to the longest measurement of a sheet of paper. The fibers are aligned parallel to the longest measurement fo a sheet of paper. The fibers are aligned parallel to the length of the sheet.
grain short: perpendicular to grain long. Grain of the paper runs at right angles to the longest dimension of the sheet. Fiber alignment in grain short paper parallels the sheet’s shortest dimension.
grain, straight: envelopes manufactured with the grain direction parallel to or perpendicular to the length or width of the envelope.
graining: rougening the smooth surface of rolled metal plates enabling them to better retain water. Plates are regrained to remove all traces of previous images to produce a fresh grain.
graphic arts:
the crafts, industries and professions related to designing and printing on paper and other substrates
graphic arts film: film whose emulsion yields high contrast images suitable for reproduction by a printing press, as compared to continuous-tone film. Also called litho film and repro film.
graphic design: arrangement of type and visual elements along with specifications for paper, ink colors and printing processes that, when combined, convey a visual message.GraphicsVisual elements that supplement type to make printed messages more clear or interesting.
gravure: printing process which employees recessed ink-holding image which comes directly in contact with paper.
gray balance: printed cyan, magenta and yellow halftone dots that accurately, reproduce a neutral gray image.
gray component replacement: technique of replacing gray tones in the yellow, cyan and magenta films, made while color separating, with black ink. Abbreviated GCR. Also called achromatic color removal.Abbreviation GCR
gray levels: number of distinct gray tones that can be reproduced by a computer.Gray ScaleStrip of gray values ranging from white to black. Used by process camera and scanner operators to calibrate exposure times for film and plates. Also called step wedge.
grind edge: alternate term for binding edge when referring to perfect bound products.
grindoff: approximately 1/8 inch (3 mm) along the spine that is ground off gathered signatures before perfect binding.
gripper edge: leading edge of a sheet of paper as it passes through the printing press.
gripper margin: the unprintable blank edge on which the paper is gripped as it passes through a printing press. Usually measures a half inch or less.
groundwood papers: papers containing more than 10% mechanical groundwood or thermomechanical groundwood pulp.
GSM: the unit of measurement for paper weight (grams per square meter).
guillotine: device that is used to cut or trim stacks of paper to the desired size, similar to the French guillotine. Three types exist, manually operated, electrically powered cutters and automatic spacing cutters.
gum, back: the adhesive used as a permanent seal between the bottom and side envelope flaps
gum, full: continuous layer of adhesive applied on the seal flap.
gum, live stamp: there is no top flap gum directly under the position where the postal stamp is placed to avoid blocking.When postage stamps are applied prior to filling an envelope, the moisture from the stamp can inadvertently moisten the envelope flap and cause the envelope to be sealed. Gum for live stamp process avoids this.
gum, seal: emoistenable adhesive applied to the top flap of the envelope
gum, split: a layer of adhesive that is non-continuous and normally broken at the two points where the flap comes in contact with the side and back seam to avoid blocking.
gutter: the blank space or inner margin on a press sheet from printing area to binding.
Gross Rating Points (GRP)- Total number of impressions delivered by a media schedule expressed as a percentage of a market population. Sometimes referred to as a showing.
Gross Impressions- Total number of impression opportunities an out-of-home structure or advertising space can produce measured against a target audience in a market. Cumulative impressions can be combined to reflect an entire out-of-home campaign.
H&J: hyphenation and justification. The arrangement of text evenly in a column (justification), usually requiring the breaking of words at their appropriate syllable breaks (hyphenation). For this feature, desktop publishing programs include large dictionaries which instruct where hyphens can be correctly placed.
hairline: A .25-point rule.
half-scale black:
black separation made to have dots only in the shadows and mid-tones, as compared to full-scale black and skeleton black.
halftone image: ink-printable image produced using a contact screen, or a digital scanner, to
produce a continuous tone of artwork. A screening process converts the image to dots of various size.
halo effect:
faint shadow sometimes surrounding halftone dots printed. Also called halation. The halo itself is also called a fringe.
hard dots:
halftone dots with no halos or soft edges, as compared to soft dots.
hard mechanical: mechanical consisting of paper and/or acetate and made using paste-up techniques, as compared to electronic mechanical.
hanging indent: the first line of a paragraph specified to start to the left of the other lines in the paragraph.
hard copy: a printed paper copy of output in readable form. It is also a transparency film or photograph of an image displayed on the monitor.
hard disk: a mass storage device for digital data. One or more magnetic platters in a single casing, it can store data more precisely and access it more quickly than other forms of magnetic storage.
head-to-tail: imposition with heads (tops) of pages facing tails (bottoms) of other pages. Heat-set Web press equipped with an oven to dry ink, thus able to print coated paper.
header: text that appears at the top of every page of a document when it is printed.
hickeys: an imperfection or spot in the printed piece caused by extraneous material, such as dirt and paper particles.
hierarchial: a form of document or file structure, also known as a tree structure, where all elements except the root have parents, and all elements may or may not have children.
high key: an image that mainly consists of highlights and mid-tones.
high-fidelity Color:
color reproduced using six, eight or twelve separations, as compared to four-color process.
high-key photo: photo whose most important details appear in the highlights.
high resolution: basically, any image that is displayed in better quality by increasing the number of dots, or pixels, per inch than normal. Usually refers to better quality computer displays, but can describe printer quality as well. Called hi-res, for short.
highlights: area of an original image or reproduction with the smallest printing dots and/or the least density. On a printed sheet, the area with minimum ink coverage.
hinged cover: perfect bound cover scored 1/8 inch (3mm) from the spine so it folds at the hinge instead of, along the edge of the spine.
holdout:
term refers to the ability of a sheet to resist penetration by liquid substances such as ink.
horizontal scale: the alteration or horizontal dimension in characters without changing height.
hot spot: printing defect caused when a piece of dirt or an air bubble caused incomplete draw-down during contact plate making, leaving an area of weak ink coverage or visible dot gain.House Sheet Paper kept in stock by a printer and suitable for a variety of printing jobs. Also called floor sheet.
HLS:
abbreviation for hue, lightness, saturation, one of the color-control options often found in software, for design and page assembly. Also called HVS.
HSB: hue saturation brightness. To artists, it is an abbreviation for all of a color’s characteristics: hue (the pigment); the saturation (the amount of pigment); and brightness (the amount of white included). With the HSB model, all colors can be defined by expressing their levels of hue, saturation and brightness in percentages.
HSL image:
a red, green, blue (RGB) image displayed on a video monitor in three channels (hue, saturation, brightness), although only one channel is displayed at a time.
HTTP: hyper text transfer protocol. The TCP\IP-based communications protocol developed for use on the WWW, HTTP defines how clients and servers communicate over the Web.
hue: attribute of a color that describes its dominant wavelength (such as red, yellow, green, blue) and distinguishes it from other colors. The wavelength of a color in its purest state without the addition of white or black. In color space, hue is arrayed around the center axis.
hue error: the difference between the printed color and the ideal color which it is supposed to represent. For example, cyan ink used in four-color process work should ideally reflect all the green and blue frequencies of light that fall on it, while it should absorb all of the red frequencies. In reality, the ink will not achieve this state of perfection.
moisture condition of the air. Relative humidity is the percent of moisture relative to the actual amount which air, at any given temperature, can retain without precipitation.
hydration: in paper making, the process of beating the pulp which increases its ability to hold water. This causes the resulting sheet to obtain the desired moisture content. In general, it increases strength and decrease opacity.
hyphenation: two classes of hyphenation are used in preparing documentation: editorial and typesetting. Editorial hyphenation considers hyphenation for compound words and prefixes; judgments are made on context and standard use of the language at a given time. Typesetting hyphenation considers the breaking of words by syllable at the end of lines to create an elegant text design.
Hand Paint- The placement of copy onto an out-of-home structure or piece of vinyl using an artist who actually paints the artwork onto the vinyl by hand.
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Sold House Prices in Clifton Crescent
This page displays sold house prices for Clifton Crescent in Sheffield.
Clifton Crescent in Sheffield S9 consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Clifton Crescent typically have values around £150,000 - £150,000, ranging upwards of £200,000 for larger semi-detached houses.
3 Clifton Crescent, Sheffield S9 4BG
£38,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 27th October 2000
£44,300 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 23rd August 1996
£67,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 23rd May 2003
10 Clifton Crescent, Sheffield S9 4BG
£37,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 23rd March 2001
13 Clifton Crescent, Sheffield S9 4BD
£133,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 5th October 2007
£93,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 27th September 2013
£52,950 Semi-detached house, Freehold 29th June 2001
£47,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st October 2000
£115,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 2nd November 2009
£37,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 3rd July 1998
26 Clifton Crescent, Sheffield S9 4BE
£129,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 23rd February 2007
£78,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 20th February 2015
£98,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 1st July 2013
£132,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 8th August 2006
£35,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 9th October 1998
£102,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd December 2011
£132,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 2nd October 2006
£125,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 1st July 2008
£54,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 4th June 1997
£74,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 5th July 2002
£80,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 31st March 2003
£58,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st January 2002
£20,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st May 2001
£51,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 3rd December 1999
£137,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 4th February 2011
£137,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st July 2015
£41,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 3rd April 1998
£46,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 3rd November 2000
£118,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd March 2011
100 Clifton Crescent, Sheffield S9 4BE
£49,950 Semi-detached house, Freehold 3rd September 1999
£93,250 Semi-detached house, Freehold 22nd September 2003
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July-December 2013
Online since Friday, December 20, 2013
Full text access is free in HTML pages; however the journal allows PDF accesss only to users from developing countries and paid subscribers.
Sport related proteinuria p. 57
Suzan Sanavi, Mohammad-Ali Kohanpour
Sports manpower loss and its impact on sports coaching in a developing country p. 60
Amrith Pakkala, Thippeswamy Raghavendra, Chitradurga Palaiah Ganashree
Sports manpower is an important aspect of coaching services. Most of the countries in the world lack resources for sports coaching; hence, the need for proper allocation and efficient utilization. There is no policy on sports manpower or materials provided in the National Health Policy. In the absence of this, there is nothing in the policy to prevent brain drain of coaches trained on public money. As a developing country, we can ill afford to have the dubious distinction of losing qualified coaches, accounting for highest international certifications and verification of credentials. The government should urgently address the need for arresting the trend of brain drain among qualified coaches.
Femoroacetabular impingement in athletes: A review of the current literature p. 63
Abdulrahman D Algarni
There are several well-recognized causes of hip and groin pain that commonly affect athletes. Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), also known as hip impingement, is increasingly recognized as a common; and possibly often overlooked; etiology of hip pain in athletes. FAI is characterized by the abutment of the acetabular rim and the proximal femur, which may occur by two mechanisms known as "cam" or "pincer" impingement, although most commonly by a combination of the two. It affects athletes at a young age causing significant pain and disruption to athletic performance and activities of daily living. It injures the labrum and articular cartilage and can lead to early osteoarthritis of the hip if left untreated. Patients often report a groin pain, which is typically reproduced by the use of flexion, adduction and internal rotation of the supine hip. Early diagnosis is crucial in order to avoid the severe secondary damage that can occur. Although, FAI is significant for all patients, in athletic individuals they may bring about the end of their sporting careers. Both open and arthroscopic surgical methods are used, with recent reports in athletes showing excellent results for life-style improvement and frequency of returning to the sport. Whether treatment prevents or delays osteoarthritis of the hip is unknown. This article reviews the latest scientific literature in reference to FAI in athletes. It goes some way to explaining the principles, approach and guidelines for management of FAI in athletes.
Physiological mechanisms underlying catch-up growth p. 70
Sharat Gupta, Shallu Mittal, Manshu Mittal, Prerna Gulati
Linear growth is impaired by a variety of systemic illnesses. However, on remission, body growth usually normalizes or even accelerates beyond the normal rate for age, a phenomenon commonly known as catch-up growth. Until date, the exact mechanisms underlying this unique phenomenon are unclear. However, two possible mechanisms have been put forward to explain it. One theory postulates a central mechanism, which compares the target and actual body sizes and accordingly makes corrective adjustments in body growth. However, the second mechanism, which provides a newer explanation for this phenomenon, states that growth restricting illnesses reduce the proliferation of stem cells, thus conserving their proliferative potential temporarily. As soon as the crisis is over, the stem cell proliferation resumes at an accelerated rate. Further research into the exact mechanisms underlying catch-up growth may prove helpful in discovery of effective strategies for reversing the growth stunting in children with chronic diseases.
Sports dentistry: Role of dentist in protecting a winning smile p. 74
Amandeep Chopra, NC Rao, Nidhi Gupta, Shelja Vashisth
Dental injuries are the most common type of orofacial injury sustained during participation in sports. Sports dentistry is the branch of dentistry, which involves the prevention and treatment of orofacial athletic injuries and related oral diseases, as well as the collection and dissemination of information on dental athletic injuries and the encouragement of research in the prevention of such injuries. The complete information about sports dentistry had been collected from various journals, books, online databases and various reports from international conferences for the time period of 1972-2013. This article will give an overview of sport injuries in orofacial region-incidence, evaluation, treatment and their prevention.
Comparison of adaptability of the pulmonary system to exercise in proliferative phase of menstrual cycle in a group of trained and untrained perimenopausal women p. 78
Amrith Pakkala, T Ragavendra, CP Ganashree
Background: The role of estrogen on pulmonary function test (PFT) was well-known in the normal course of the menstrual cycle. Significant increase in both progesterone (37%) and estradiol (13.5%), whereas no change in plasma follicle stimulating hormone and leutinising hormone (FSH and LH)was observed in exercising women in previous studies. Therefore, this study was intended to see the limitations of the pulmonary system in adaptability to exercise in proliferative phase of the menstrual cycle in perimenopausal women. Materials and Methods: 10 Subjects in each group were subjected to treadmill exercise testing and cardio-respiratory parameters were recorded. Results: It was observed that exercise per se does not cause a statistically significant change in dynamic lung function parameters maximum mid expiratory flow (MMEF), peak expiratory flow rate, mid expiratory flow 25-75% in either of the groups. Conclusion: This finding supports the hypothesis that the respiratory system is not normally the most limiting factor in the delivery of oxygen even under the predominant influence of estrogen in proliferative phase, which is further accentuated by exercise.
A study of the short term effect of cigarette smoking on cardiopulmonary efficiency p. 81
Background: All over the world, tobacco is taken in several forms. Use of tobacco in cigarettes indeed represents a health concern of growing magnitude among these groups. As a consequence of its addictive qualities, the consumption of cigarettes often becomes a lifelong habit with cumulative and deleterious effects on health. Smokeless tobacco has been advocated as a substitute for cigarette smoking. On the contrary, the use of smokeless tobacco is fraught with health risk and needs to be discouraged. Previous reports have described long-term harmful effects of nicotine on various body parameters, little is known about acute effect of cigarette smoking on cardiopulmonary parameters. Very few studies have been undertaken on the acute effect of use of cigarettes, a common form of tobacco use in India on cardiopulmonary parameters of youngsters. Materials and Methods: Treadmill exercise testing and pulmonary function tests were done before and after maximal exercise testing to assess cardiopulmonary efficiency in two groups' viz., healthy sedentary controls and healthy cigarette smokers. Results: On studying the differences in cardiopulmonary efficiency in the two groups the resting heart rate (HR) was found to be statistically significantly higher in the study group and the delta heart rate (δ HR) was found to be statistically significantly lower among cigarette smokers. There was no significant difference seen in parameters like VO 2 max, maximum oxygen pulse, maximal voluntary ventilation, VE max as an acute effect of cigarette smoking. Conclusion: In this study, it appears that cigarette smokers are physically fit like controls, but after immediate smoking a lesser δ HR suggests a higher risk for cardiovascular mortality. Stopping smoking at this juncture can be helpful in reverting back the risk and parameters such as resting HR, recovery HR, and δ HR can be used as prognostic assessment tools for any intervention therapy to stop cigarette smoking in asymptomatic individuals.
A study of the effect of automobile pollution on pulmonary function tests of exposed Sportsmen p. 87
Amrith Pakkala, T Raghavendra, CP Ganashree
Background : Urbanization is associated with an enormous increase in vehicular traffic emitting exhausts and polluting the atmosphere. Airborne dust plays a key part in the overall atmospheric pollution and motor vehicle emissions constitute the most significant source of ultra-particle in an urban environment. Traffic related air pollution is an occupational health hazard to individuals with a work environment close to traffic. Sportsmen who practice near grounds located in the vicinity of traffic junctions through which the maximum number of vehicles passes are more prone to develop health issues pertaining to the respiratory system. The present study intends to study the effect of air pollution on the pulmonary system in sportsmen exposed to automobile exhaust. Material and Methods: This study was conducted by performing pulmonary function tests (PFT) on 20 sportsmen who are exposed to automobile exhaust by virtue of their practicing venue nearer to traffic junctions and comparing them with 20 other age, gender matched and similar anthropometric profile sportsmen who practice in a rural setting free from vehicular air pollution., PFT by computerized spirometer measuring forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in first second (FEV 1 ) , FEV 1 /FVC, peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) and forced expiratory flow (FEF) 25-75% were measured. Statistical analysis was carried out by Student t-test (two tailed, independent) for inter group analysis. Results: On comparison of pulmonary function test PFT in the study and control group was seen that there is a decline in dynamic pulmonary function parameters in the study group when compared to controls which is statistically significant. Conclusion: This was a comparative study to demonstrate the effect of air pollution due to automobile exhaust on pulmonary functions of sportsmen exposed to a polluted urban environment with a similar group in the rural relatively pollution free environment., PFT by computerized spirometer measuring FVC, FEV 1, FEV 1 /FVC, PEFR and FEF 25-75% were measured. The results were tabulated and statistically analyzed. It was found that there is a significant decline in various PFT parameters recorded in the study group as compared to the control group.
The incidence, severity and etiology of injuries in players competing in the Saudi Premier League between 2010 and 2012 p. 90
Mubarak Almutawa, Mark Scott, Keith P George, Barry Drust
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the incidence of injuries sustained by Saudi Premier League clubs over two consecutive competitive seasons (2010/11 and 2011/2012. Specifically, we compared injuries sustained in match play versus training and we provide an initial exploration of the impact of environmental conditions on match play injuries. Materials and Methods: A total of 198 players were studied (mean ± SD; age 28.2 ± 1.8 year; height 177.3 ± 1.0 cm; weight 71.6 ± 1.4 kg; body mass index 22.8 ± 0.3 kg/m 2 ). A prospective cohort design was used to investigate the injuries that occurred in training and match play. Injury definition was set at "any injury that resulted in medical attention or assessment, irrespective of the impact on time lost from subsequent football activity." Club medical staff recorded injuries and match play and training exposure on a standard proforma. Ambient temperature and relative humidity were recorded for all games. Results: A total of 617 injuries were recorded at an incidence rate of 8.3 injuries/1,000 h player exposure. 355 injuries were recorded during training (5.5/1,000 h) and 262 during match play (29.7/1,000 h). For total injuries as well as subcategories of severity, location, type, recurrence, diagnosis and the role of contact, the incidence rate was substantially higher with match play. Post-hoc categorization of ambient weather suggests a greater risk of match play injury in hot (>30C) and dry (<50% relative humidity) conditions. Conclusion: This study detailed the total "medical-attention" injury load presented by professional football players to medical teams in 6 Saudi Premier League Clubs. Injury incidence was higher in match play than training and match play. This data provisionally indicates that injuries may be mediated by the prevailing environmental conditions.
Injection of bone marrow concentrates for treatment of refractory tennis elbow p. 98
Ajit Singh, DS Gangwar, Shekhar Singh
Objective: The objective of this prospective study was the assessment of efficacy of bone marrow concentrate (BMC) (containing plasma rich in growth factors and mesenchymal stem cells) injection in treatment of refractory tennis elbow. Materials and Methods: A total of 30 adults with at least 6 months of refractory tennis elbow were administered single injection of BMC. This concentrate was made by centrifugation of iliac BM aspirate at 1800 rpm for 20-30 min and only upper layer containing platelet rich plasma and mononuclear cells was injected. Assessment was performed at baseline, 4 weeks and 12 weeks using Nirschl and visual analog scale (VAS) pain score. Results: Post-injection, significant reductions were reported in Nirschl, which decreased from a mean pre-injection score of 5.92 ± 0.85-3.19 ± 0.94 at 4 weeks (P < 0.001) and 1.65 ± 0.94 at 12 weeks (P < 0.0001). Similarly, significant reductions were found for VAS from a mean pre-injection score of 8.35 ± 0.94, to a mean VAS score of 5.23 ± 1.42 at 4 weeks (P < 0.0001) and to 1.85 ± 1.12 at 12 weeks (P < 0.0001). There were no adverse events. Conclusion: Treatment of patients with refractory tennis elbow with a single injection of BMC showed a significant improvement in short to medium term follow-up. This could be considered to be an alternative treatment for those patients who have failed non-operative treatment before surgical intervention is taken.
Avulsion fracture of tibial spine: A case report and review of literature p. 102
Manoj Kumar, Monika Malgonde, Pramod Jain
Fracture of the tibial spine is an uncommon injury, with an incidence estimated at 3:1,00,000 children per year. Sports and bicycling are the usual activities resulting in this fracture. The anterior spine is fractured many times more than the posterior. We are reporting a case of a 12-year-old female who presented with complaints of pain and swelling over left knee after falling from bicycle. Plane radiography and computed tomography scan showed tibial spine fracture with anterior cruciate ligament avulsion. Closed method was tried but reduction can not be achieved, finally open reduction and internal fixation done using 18 G stainless steel wires. Intraoperative movements of knee checked and fixation was found stable. The patient recovered progressively without any clinical signs of joint instability and returned to the same sport activity level that they had before the fracture.
Zygomatic arch fracture in a kabaddi player p. 105
Shishir Ram Shetty, Prasanna Kumar Rao
Kabaddi is a contact sport played in some of the Asian countries. Injuries occurring in this contact sport has not been highlighted or researched to the optimum level. We are hereby presenting a rare report of zygomatic fracture in a kabaddi player.
Role of therapeutic ultrasound in healing of tibial stress fracture in a runner: A case study p. 107
Mohammad Hassan Manzer
Stress fractures are a recognized complication of the chronic, intensive, weight-bearing training familiar to athletic, dance and military populations. Various studies have suggested that ultrasound therapy promotes healing in stress fractures. Some authors have even studied its role in the diagnosis of stress fractures. A 20-year-old male, runner presented with complains of pain in the anterior margin of the lower end of left tibia during walking and increases with running. Application of ultrasound on continuous mode for diagnosis of stress fracture precipitated the pain in 28 second at the site of tenderness. The subject was administered low intensity pulse ultrasound. Subject was re tested after 4 weeks of treatment. The patient has reported a significant improvement in pain during his functional activities after completion of treatment. The time duration of awareness of pain with the application of continuous ultrasound for the diagnosis of stress fracture increased to 58 seconds. This case demonstrates that low intensity pulse ultrasound may be effective in treatment of stress fracture and therapeutic ultrasound may be utilized for the diagnosis of stress fracture on the basis of time duration of awareness of pain and comparing it with the sound side.
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
Believe it or not, before he was one of the biggest laughing stocks of Hollywood, the butt of cheap jokes among philistines, and the object of forbidden desire among closested redneck homos, Don Johnson was an underground gay icon of sorts, mainly because he played the lead in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) star Sal Mineo’s original gay-themed 1967 play about prison rape, Fortune and Men's Eyes, which was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1971 (although, Johnson did not appear in it). In fact, Johnson’s first role in a film was as the eponymous lead of the largely forgotten counter-culture cult flick The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970) starring alongside flagrantly flaming Fortune and Men's Eyes star Michael Greer (The Gay Deceivers, Messiah of Evil)—a man so gay that he recorded an album entitled ‘Tallulah in Heaven’ where he mimics the voice of queer icon Tallulah Bankhead—and not only does the film include gay undertones, but it also features the Miami Vice star oftentimes naked and even masturbating in a bathtub while reading a disturbing letter written by his mother. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1970 novel of the same name written by Robert T. Westbrook—the son of English-born Jewish gossip columnist Sheilah Graham Westbrook, who is probably best known for writing about Golden Age Hollywood and being the lover of F. Scott Fitzgerald (in fact, she immortalized her relationship with the writer with the book Beloved Infidel, which was adapted into a film in 1959 starring Gregory Peck)—The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart was, among other things, lauded by Andy Warhol of all people as being the film featuring the most accurate depiction of its hyper-hedonistic era, referring to the work as, “the quintessential, most truthful studio-made film about the '60s counterculture.” In fact, Warhol (who was suppose to appear as a ‘freak-out psychiatrist’) and his superstars Ultra Violet, Candy Darling, and Gerard Malanga were actually originally cast in the film, which was advertised in newspapers, but for whatever reason they never actually appeared in the work. While Warhol and his speed-addled superstars did not shoot a single scene for the film, alpha-superstar Joe Dallesandro (Flesh, Blood for Dracula) was hired for one of the lead roles but was fired after the first day after butting heads with the entire film crew, with the stoic sex icon apparently remarking to the assistant director of the film before permanently walking off the set, “I don’t want to give you that kind of pleasure, but you make me feel bad because this is the first job I’ve been fired from. And yet, it makes me feel happy because this is the stupidest film I’ve ever worked on!” Indeed, with its incessant nudity and voyeuristic camera angeles, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart actually seems like a Paul Morrissey flick had it been produced by Hollywood as opposed to penny-pincher Warhol. Of course, unlike Morrissey’s works, the film also takes a less farcical approach to depicting the counter-culture generation and all its drugged-out degeneracy. Directed by a forgotten TV hack who worked on television series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959-1962) and Mission: Impossible (1966-1971), The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is like the more lurid little brother film to Midnight Cowboy (1969), albeit more immature but also more melodramatically tragic. The sordid story of a young would-be-filmmaker and all-around mentally weak loser who is addicted to masturbation and nihilism who falls in with a ‘sexually liberated’ counter-culture crowd, only to become all the more perverted and nihilistic, not to mention drug addicted, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is less a cautionary tale than a portrait of a ‘wasted’ generation that unwittingly sold its soul to rock n roll.
As a young man who hated growing up in sunny California and seeing all the fancy Cadillacs driving around, college junior Stanley Sweetheart (Don Johnson) long ago decided to enter a fantasy world of his own mind comprised of compulsive masturbation and daydreaming, as well as amateur exploitation filmmaking. Indeed, Stanley is sort of like a younger and less crazed Anglo version of antihero Rupert Pupkin from Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), as he constantly fantasizes about how he wishes things were as opposed to how they actually turnout. At the beginning of The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, Stan the underman daydreams of walking up to a hot girl and impressing her so much with pretentious lines like “It is very difficult to adjust to the technocratic age” that she instantly swoons and starts making out with him in front of dozens of other college students. Instead, the girl, Cathy (Dianne Hull, whose credits include The Onion Field (1979) and Christmas Evil (1980), walks up to Stanley and ends up hitting on him, thus demonstrating his passive and somewhat effeminate character. After class, Stan looks at some porno mags and then jerks-off in his archaic bathtub while reading a strange letter from his mother, who writes that she hopes that she dies in a plane crash so that he can get the insurance money as she is afraid her son is incapable of ever supporting himself. To impress Cathy, Stan shows her a short black-and-white film he directed entitled ‘Head Less’ where he is bombarded by a couple of naughty naked nurses on a stretcher, only to become disappointed in the end because he gets sex instead of the new head he so deeply desired. Being from a somewhat traditional background, Cathy is shocked by the film but she is infatuated with Stanley so she pretends to like it and the two make out. When Stan goes out to a diner later that night, a middle-aged creep named Jim begins to brag about how much ‘pussy’ he used to get and then offers him $10 for his ass, thus causing the college boy to runaway in abject fear. Frustrated he has yet to get real sex, Stan tells Cathy she is “not a real woman” for refusing to put out, thus talking her into losing her virginity in the process by pathetic manipulative means (indeed, Stan's main talents are lying and manipulation). Of course, Stan soon loses interest in Cathy when he gets what he wants and when he discovers that her roommate Fran (Holly Near) is a loose lady who will put out for any man, he conspires to coerce his girlfriend into asking her best friend if she wants to star in one of his little movies in the hope that he will get some tail. Of course, Fran obliges but she is also rather fat but that does not stop softcore sex addict Stan from trying to get in her rather large panties. Indeed, Stan does direct Fran in a somewhat autobiographical short entitled ‘Masturbation’ but he also plies her with alcohol while they are shooting and eventually takes advantage of her when she is drunk. Naturally, after Stan screws fat Fran, he finds that the less than gorgeous gal is obsessed with him and routinely goes by his apartment for sex, which he always gives into, even though he finds the girl to be somewhat repugnant.
One night while sleeping with his girlfriend Cathy, who has no idea her charming boy toy is banging her beast of a best friend, Stan is woken up by his ambiguously gay musician friend Danny (Michael Greer) with a knock at the door. Danny ultimately starts a little party at Stan’s apartment and when Cathy discovers the party boy has weed, which she has never tried, she talks him into giving her some. Ultimately, Danny seduces Cathy with his hippie charms while they are stoned and she becomes infatuated with him, even though he has next to nil interest in her and has more of an interest in her boyfriend. Of course, Cathy breaks up with Stan and when he tries to tell her he loves her, she responds, “You’re such a lair. It’s one of your most endearing qualities. You know you’re just saying those things. You live in a dream world…you just need someone along to take care of you and give you a daily ration of sex.” Stan also attempts to have sex with Cathy after the bitter breakup, but she pushes him off and he gets so infuriated that he slaps her across the face and violently throws her out of his apartment. With his self-esteem destroyed, Stan dresses up like a gay hustler and goes to his lesbian friend Shayne/Barbara’s (Linda Gillin) apartment under the pretense of buying dope and attempts to pull a pathetic Marlon Brando act on his homegirl’s Asian girlfriend Andrea (Victoria Racimo). Needless to say, Stan begins a ménage a trios with Shayne and Andrea that involves drug-fueled paint orgies (indeed, they like to get naked, paint their bodies with kaleidoscopic colors, and engage in group sex). Stan also begins to look like a disheveled hippie bum and when his ex-girlfriend Cathy spots him at a concert, she barely recognizes him and seems rather disturbed by the fact that he brags about being on steady doses of speed, weed, and acid. While watching Danny perform with his band at one of his hippie gigs (Greer actually composed songs for the film’s soundtrack, which sounds like a rip-off of The Doors), a group of stoned degenerates begin cutting a girl’s arm against her will and smearing blood all over each other (Danny especially gets a kick out of this). Possibly due to the fact he is a repressed homosexual (which is hinted at in a couple scenes) and/or because he fried his brain on too much acid, Danny opts for committing suicide in front of his bourgeois mother by putting a shotgun in his mouth as if he is giving it a blowjob and pulling the trigger. Of course, Stan sees this unexpected event as a total bummer and complains to his fuck-buddy Andrea that he has “lost all sense of time.” In the end, Stan stands in front of a railing in a symbolic scene where he looks like he is in a prison cell and then walks away from the once-merry ménage a trios with his head looking down at the ground as if he has a major case of melancholia.
Ultimately, the rather simple yet effective message of The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is that one becomes more enslaved to sex, drugs, and rock n roll than any sort of strict middleclass background, with protagonist Stanley going from being a goofy college student with a minor masturbation problem to being a sex and drug addicted spiritual slave and college dropout with a horrendous hobo-like wardrobe who is only respected by lecherous lesbos. Indeed, while Stan initially aspires to be at least a filmmaker, has a real girlfriend, and attends college, by the end he literally has nothing (not even his messy studio apartment) except a screwed up brain, a debilitating case of depression, and a dead friend. Notably, the protagonist decides to fully devote his life to debauchery after alpha-degenerate Danny, who cynically describes himself as having a “washed up life and a great bod,” gives him the following words of ostensible wisdom: “Why don’t you just do what you want to do? […] Just be. Well, accept everything. If your balling your chick’s best friend, well, why not? You don’t have to be a student, you don’t have to be a filmmaker. Just be.” Of course, Danny’s ‘laidback’ existence of ‘just being’, which is really just a passive form of nihilism that is practiced by someone who has totally given up on life and does not give a shit about anything, ultimately leads to his irrevocable mental derangement and rather messy suicide via shotgun in the mouth. Undoubtedly, if many ways, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is a confused work that is part exploitation (the voyeuristic camera always manages to catch flesh, especially Don Johnson and his Johnson), part sex comedy, part romantic comedy, part erotic Afterschool Special, part psychotic psychedelic psychodrama, and part coming of age flick, with a subtext about the negative effects of sexual repression thrown in for good measure. As for Don Johnson, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is the sole film I can think of that the actor starred in where he gives a believable and memorable performance, as his patently pathetic character radiates naivety, neuroticism, sexual frustration, and youth stupidity in a naturalistic fashion that is even more convincing than Jon Voight was in Midnight Cowboy. For whatever reason (I assume it is has to do with music copyrights), the film has never been released on VHS or DVD (I found a copy someone taped off TV), hence one of the reasons for its undeserved obscurity. Indeed, a work perfect for mainstream filmgoers that cannot bother to see aimless scenes of Little Joe suffering from perennial impotence in Warhol produced ‘Paul Morrissey Trilogy’ (Flesh, Trash, Heat), The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is the one Hollywood film where the counter-culture movement is portrayed as it really was as a self-destructive road of nihilistic hedonism and false values that leads to nowhere except nowhere. A sometimes titillating and constantly entertaining time capsule about the most decidedly degenerate generation in American history that is thankfully now finally dying out, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is certainly the film to show someone if they want to understand the real (non)Weltanschauung that the hippies and their equally misguided descendents mindlessly espoused.
Posted by Soiled Sinema at 10:46 PM
Ty E, from your descriptions of Stanley he sounds like an exact carbon copy of me ! ! !.
I like the picture of Stanley and the two gorgeous naked babes simply because its a depiction of completely normal heterosexual activity. DEATH TO ALL PANSY QUEER BASTARDS.
A copy taped off of TV eh, i thought those images looked a bit hazy. But then again they still look better than a lot of the supposedly Hi-Definition (and ludicrously over-rated picture quality wise) crap that i`ve seen.
When i watched "Messiah of Evil" i would`ve never pegged Michael Greer for a woofter, i honestly thought the geezer was completely straight, i was really shocked when i read this reveiw and found out that he was a fairy, the dirty queer bastard.
Ty E, thanks for not girl-tioning the directors name, i think Leonard Horn was a faggot, the bloody dirty fairy.
What i`ve always liked about Don John-Daughter is his rampaging heterosexuality.
18 years after its original release and just 3 months after Heather snuffed it (in late April of `88) this movie was shown at a film festival for faggots and dykes, why, that was an insult to all the heterosexual people who worked on the movie.
Ty E, just with regards to another Don John-daughter cult item, isn`t it about time you reveiwed "A Girl and Her Dog" (1975).
I want to bugger Victoria Rac-hetero (as the bird was on Boxing Day 1968, her 18th birthday, not as the bird is now obviously). By the way, the bird was 25 the day before Heather was born.
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Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
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Sayed Haider Raza
VILLE PROVENÇALE
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Signed and dated 'RAZA'56' lower right and further bearing a distressed label with 'NOM - RAZA / PRENOM - SAYED / ADRESSE [sic] - Galerie Lara Vincy - / 47 rue de Seine, / Paris, 6e, France. / "VILLE PROVENҪALE' as well as 'XXVIII. Biennale Internazionnale d’Arte di Venezia – 1956 / 921' label on reverse
41¼ x 78⅞ in. (104.7 x 200.4 cm.)
Painted in 1956
Galerie Lara Vincy
Private French Collection
Cornette de Saint-Cyr, 23 October 2010, Lot 1
Venice, XXVIII. Biennale Internazionnale d’Arte di Venezia, June - October 1956
A. Vajpeyi, Raza, Bookwise (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2010, unpaginated
Catalogue Note
In 1950, Sayed Haider Raza left for Paris with a bursary from the French Government to study at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. This was Raza's first experience of France, which would later become his second home. During his time in Paris, Raza was exposed to the Post-Impressionist artists, in particular, Paul Cézanne and Vincent Van Gogh, who were major sources of inspiration to him. He admired how such artists used color to structure their paintings, and indeed Raza's works throughout the 1950s echo the same formalism that was a hallmark of both these artists. A product of his Indian heritage and formal art training, Raza’s work is a unique hybridisation of Parisian post-war modernism and the vibrancy and direct color treatment of a Rajput miniature.
Whilst in Paris, Raza achieved great commercial success. Having first exhibited with Padamsee and Souza at Galerie St. Placide in 1952, this was followed by a show at Galerie Creuze in 1953. From 1955 to 1971, Raza exhibited exclusively with Galerie Lara Vincy. The present work, Ville Provenҫale, is a bold, large-scale oil painting, made while he worked under the gallery’s patronage.
1956, the same year Ville Provenҫale was painted, was a seminal year for the artist’s career. Raza was awarded the prestigious Prix de La Critique, an award which gave the artist international recognition and lead to him to hold an historic show at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. He was also invited to exhibit at the Venice, Brussels and São Paulo Biennales, and to give exhibitions in Tokyo, London, USA and Canada.
Ville Provenҫale is one of the most monumental and significant paintings by Raza to appear on the market for several reasons. Most notably, it was included in the 1956 Venice Biennale to which Raza was invited to participate. Distinguished by its vivid, primary colors, this semi-abstracted view of Parisian garrets and rooftops rendered on a deep, impasto-heavy background and set against a burnt umber sky, is the biggest work from the 1950s ever to be offered at auction. From its illustrious beginnings at the renowned Galerie Lara Vincy, to its exhibition history at the Venice Biennale, this painting is a masterpiece; not only for crystallizing the highly important year of its creation, but also for its function as a testament to the enduring legacy of one of the foremost pioneers of Indian modern art.
Newspaper clipping featuring Madame Lara Vincy and her daughter, Liliane with gallery artists including Sayed Haider Raza (far right) Image courtesy Archives Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Galerie Lara Vincy in its original location since 1995 – 47 Rue de Seine
Image courtesy Archives Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Artist label on reverse
XXVIII. Biennale Internazionnale d’Arte di Venezia, 1956 labels on reverse
Raza in his Paris Studio, 1957
Image reproduced from A. Vajpeyi, A Life in Art: S.H. Raza,Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, 2007, p.63
Photograph of Ville Provençale taken in 1956
La Biennale di Venezia, ASAC, Fototeca
Photo by Marc Vaux, Paris
Reverse of photograph signed by Raza
The India Pavillion, Venice, XXVIII. Biennale Internazionnale d’Arte di Venezia, June - October 1956 where Ville Provençale was exhibited
La Biennale di Venezia, ASAC, Fototeca, Photo by A.F.I. Venezia
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There is craquelere in the work notable in areas of thicker and darker pigment. The extreme right edge of the work seems to have endured some water damage in the past. To address this, the right edge and the 3 other edges have been reinforced with a lining. The remaining canvas is unlined. There is a small patch reinforcing a possible loss at the center of the middle left of the painting, clearly visible on the reverse. This work is on its original strainer. UV light: inspection under ultra violet light shows retouchings notably along the right edge, minimally along the lower edge and a few spots on the buildings of the village. This painting is in good condition for its age.
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Massive Depreciation in Number of Waledac Infected Systems in Q2 - 2010
Recently, Microsoft released its biannual Security Intelligence Report on 13th October 2010. According to the report, the software giant cleaned up 29,816 computers infected with Waledac during the second quarter of 2010, a decrease from 83,580 in Q1-2010.
Commenting on the firm's success Adrienne Hall, General Manager at Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group stated that, the decline in the number of infected computers proved the success of the legal action that Microsoft took earlier in 2010, as reported by PCWorld on 14th Oct. 2010.
Security experts highlighted that Waledac was employed to send spam e-mails and infect systems with bogus antivirus software. It used a complex peer-to-peer system to correspond with other malware infected systems, as reported by 'PC ADVISOR' on 14th Oct. 2010.
Microsoft's legal actions against Waledac were unprecedented. The company was given an atypical ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) to close down malicious domain names that Waledac's operators used to be in touch with the infected systems.
Security experts highlighted that an ex parte TRO permits for an action to be stopped without notice to the bad actor and even without a court hearing. In Waledac's case, it indicated that if the domain names were unexpectedly closed down, the botnet's controllers wouldn't have enough time to register new domains for their bots to request for getting new guidelines.
Elaborating the legal procedure and actions against Waledac master minds' Microsoft stated that the lawyers worked hard upon the legal aspects, whereas technical experts targeted Waledac. Furthermore, Microsoft organized a group of computer security researchers who penetrated Waledac's peer-to-peer control system.
As per the Microsoft's report, though Waledac was removed, it still exists. The botnet grabbed the 23 rank, of the 25 most-detected botnet families that showed up even after stringent legal measures and technically sound attempts, as reported by 'PCWorld' on 14th Oct. 2010.
Further Microsoft stated that now it would further appeal courts for the shutdown of botnet after it witnessed a remarkable decline in the number of systems infected with Waledac botnet, as reported by 'NETWORKWORLD' on 14th Oct. 2010.
Related article: McAfee Alerts Windows about Accessibility Hole in Vista
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The governing body is made up of 12 members, comprising 2 Parent Governors elected by parents; 1 Local Authority Governor appointed by Cambridgeshire County Council; 3 Foundation Governors appointed by Ely Diocesan Board of Education; the Head Teacher; 1 Staff Governor elected by staff; and 4 Co-Opted Governors appointed by the Governing Body itself.
The governing body also has the opportunity to appoint Associate Members, who do not vote but add their skills and expertise to the work we do. Becoming an Associate is also a useful way of getting to know the work of the governing body before committing to becoming a full Governor.
The role of the governing body is to provide strategic leadership and accountability in the school. The governors' key duties are to:
- appoint the head teacher and work with them to make decisions about use of resources;
- set the aims and objectives for the school;
- monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making towards those aims and objectives; and
- be a source of challenge and support to the head teacher.
If you have any questions about the governing body please contact the Chair, Edward Gibbes, on egibbes@smpsgovernor.co.uk
Governor Profiles:
Governor Profiles 2018.pdf
For governor details, attendance and declarations of interest, click here
Minutes of Meetings of the Full Governing Body
2015, Dec 10th Minutes of meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2016, Feb 16th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2016, May 26th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2016, July 16th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body .pdf
2016, October 20th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body .pdf
2016, December 15th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2017, February 9th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2017, March 30th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2017, July 17th Minutes of the meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2017, October 19th Minutes of the Meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2017 December 14th Minutes of the Meeting of Full Governing Body.pdf
2018, February 8th Minutes of the Meeting of the Full Governing Body.pdf
Tracey How
Reverend Shamus Williams (Ex officio)
Annie Urquhart
Gillian McGuire
Karenza Nutley
David Beavan
Edward Gibbes (Chair)
Marie Gardner
Co-Opted
Brian Burton
Gabrielle Edwards
Sara Anderson (Vice Chair)
Chris Amadeo
Helena Palmer
Kate Alsop
The Full Governing Body meets twice per term, and there are two sub-committees to which much of the work of the governing body is delegated. These committees report to the Full Governing Body.
Resources (Chair: Marie Gardner)
The resources committee meets twice per term to scrutinise the school's finances and help the school's management ensure the available resources are allocated efficiently and that spending remains within budget. The committee also helps the school's management team to ensure the balance of staff is effective across teaching and non-teaching roles and helps the school with recruitment, and to ensure safeguarding procedures are rigorous. If you have any queries about the resources committee email mgardner@smpsgovernor.co.uk
Curriculum (Chair: Karenza Nutley)
The curriculum committee meets twice per term and its main roles are to support the school in scrutinising annual academic results, to identify specific areas where performance can be improved, and to monitor progress throughout the year to help identify areas that need extra focus. If you have any queries about the curriculum committee email knutley@smpsgovernor.co.uk.
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UPDATED: DHSS Provides Update on Possible Area of Public Health Concern
JEFFERSON CITY - In consultation with experts at the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is advising recent, current, and possible future guests of a potential health concern for individuals that may have been in contact with a water source within the St. Louis Marriott West hotel. The facility is located at 660 Maryville Centre Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141.
As previously announced, DHSS has determined that two unassociated individuals were diagnosed in October and November with Legionnaires’ disease, who also stayed at the St. Louis Marriott West during the same time period. We do not know whether the hotel was the source of the germs that caused the two people to become sick. People can get Legionnaires’ disease, a serious type of pneumonia, by breathing in small water droplets containing Legionella germs. In general, people do not spread Legionnaires’ disease to other people.
In response to this information, DHSS, with the cooperation of St. Louis Marriott West management, is conducting an ongoing investigation. While culture results, which take time to grow, are pending, preliminary nonculture tests are positive in water used for drinking and showers and in the cooling tower. The investigation is ongoing and DHSS will have more guidance once culture results are obtained.
DHSS is actively working to help prevent additional people from becoming sick. Risk to those that were in contact with water at the facility during the previous 14 days may be greater if you are 50 years or older, smoke cigarettes, or have certain medical conditions, such as a weakened immune system.
If you develop symptoms of pneumonia within two weeks of staying at St. Louis Marriott West, seek medical attention right away. Pneumonia symptoms typically include cough, shortness of breath, fever, muscle aches, and headaches. Additional symptoms may be present, such as headache, confusion, nausea, or diarrhea. Ask your doctor to test you with both a urine test and a respiratory culture. If you test positive, ask your doctor to report your illness to your local or state health department as soon as possible after your diagnosis.
DHSS will continue working with St. Louis Marriott West, which is taking proactive measures to minimize risk and develop a water management plan to ensure protection of the health of guests and employees. Additional information on Legionella is available from the CDC website at:https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/index.html.
About the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services: The department seeks to be the leader in protecting health and keeping people safe. More information about DHSS can be found athealth.mo.gov or find us on Facebook or Twitter @HealthyLivingMO.
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US, PRC officials discuss N Korea
COOPERATION The discussions come ahead of a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Pyongyang next week that could see North Korea rejoining six-nation negotiations
AP , BEIJING
US and Chinese officials met yesterday over North Korea’s nuclear program amid signs Pyongyang may be willing to restart talks on the issue.
The discussions come ahead of a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶) to Pyongyang next week that could see North Korea rejoining six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear programs in return for economic and diplomatic incentives.
US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, Washington’s point man on North Korea, met General Ma Xiaotian (馬曉天), one of the Chinese military’s top officials for international affairs.
Steinberg was scheduled to talk later in the day with senior foreign policy adviser Dai Bingguo (戴秉國) and Vice President Xi Jinping (習近平).
North Korea’s program to construct a nuclear arsenal is considered the key threat to security in northeast Asia, but has also created an opportunity for unprecedented diplomatic cooperation between Washington and Beijing.
Wen’s visit to North Korea comes amid indications from Pyongyang that it is willing to rejoin the stalled disarmament talks after months of boycotting them while threatening nuclear war and conducting nuclear and missile tests.
China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Wen would meet top North Korean leaders and attend events commemorating 60 years of diplomatic ties.
On Monday, foreign ministers from South Korea, Japan and China met in Shanghai to discuss North Korea and other regional issues, engaging in what Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (楊潔篪) called in-depth discussions about the denuclearization process on the Korean Peninsula.
Yang declined to give details about Wen’s trip, saying only that “the outcome of the visit will definitely be very good.”
China, North Korea’s biggest source of economic aid and diplomatic support, has played host to successive rounds of nuclear talks with the US, South Korea, China, Russia and Japan.
North Korea pulled out of the discussions in April to protest international criticism of a rocket launch.
On Monday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il could announce concrete denuclearization measures during Wen’s visit.
Yonhap, citing unidentified diplomatic sources in Beijing, reported that Wen, in return, could promise food and fuel aid to the impoverished North.
A resumption of the six-nation talks would mark a reversal for Pyongyang, which has been insisting instead on one-on-one talks with the US.
US officials have said they are considering direct talks as part of its efforts to restart the six-party process.
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Social media platforms under fire following New Zealand terror attack
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Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are facing scrutiny following the horrific terrorist attack in New Zealand.
The gunman livestreamed the attack on Facebook, but despite the social networking behemoth eventually blocking the stream, it quickly circulated on other social media outlets.
Fifty people were tragically gunned down in twin mosque shootings in Christchurch by a right-wing extremist believed to be from Australia.
However, the New Zealand government is demanding answers from social media companies at how quickly such disturbing and sickening violent content is spread on their platforms. Facebook said that it reacted quickly to the material and removed the live video, but the livestream lasted for 17 minutes according to some reports, and was shared repeatedly on YouTube and Twitter.
The internet platforms have previously expressed their commitment to shutting down the sharing of violent images and dangerous rhetoric through the implementation of automated systems and human monitoring, but critics have said that it is clearly not working.
The major internet platforms have pledged to crack down on sharing of violent images and other inappropriate content through automated systems and human monitoring, but critics say it isn't working.
"There's no excuse for the content from that livestream to be still circulating on social media now," said Lucinda Creighton, a former government minister in Ireland and an advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, which campaigns to remove violent internet content.
The online platforms "say they have their own technologies but we don't know what that is, there is no transparency, and it's obviously not working,"
Both Twitter and YouTube said they were working tirelessly to remove the videos and related content.
A Twitter spokesperson said issues such as the Christchurch video were handled rigorously by a dedicated team, adding that the platform cooperates with law enforcement.
“Our hearts are broken over today's terrible tragedy in New Zealand. Please know we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage," YouTube said in a tweet.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a query on the timing of its action, but said it had removed the video following a police request and it also blocked the alleged shooter's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
"We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we're aware," Facebook said.
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From rural India to lifting the world cup in England – ‘Jungle Cry’ is the story of each one who dares to dream
Be it the game on the field or the ups and downs of life, victories are always cherished at the end of the travelled path and when the victory comes after being an underdog, nothing else can be a prouder moment than that.
Abhay Deol’s upcoming film ‘Jungle Cry’ is going to depict such an exciting story of twelve mere tribal boys from the rural part of Bhubaneshwar in India. Inspired from the real-life story of a football coach Rudraksh Jena of Bhubaneshwar’s Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS), Sagar Ballary, in his movie ‘Jungle Cry’, beautifully presents how a few stubborn hearts with a blend of perseverance and hard work can make a miracle in life.
As Abhay expressed earlier, the story becomes more special because the team had only four months to be prepared and still managed to lift the world cup on an international platform in England in 2007. The interesting part is, ‘Jungle Cry’ doesn’t only show the struggle of Rudraksh Jena, but that of Achyuta Samanta, the founder of KIIT University, too. In context, Samanta is the person who actually triggered the spark among the underprivileged children to showcase their talent by providing them education, training and other services under Kalinga Institute’s umbrella.
The Bollywood-Hollywood production is featuring Emily Shah, the famous former Miss New Jersey who had also been associated with big projects like ‘Fast and Furious 7’, ‘Captain America’ and ‘Run All Night’, in the character of the team’s physiotherapist. With this, Emily is going to mark her debut in Bollywood.
Movie’s trailer shows Abhay Deol saying “Koi bhi khel, bas himmat aur jazbaa hona chahiye! Aur tumhe koi nahi rok sakta (In any game, if you just have the courage and passion, you become unstoppable)” which brings out the essence of the whole story in a nutshell.
India has always witnessed the unexpected rise of sports personalities who were underrated but showed their worth with tremendous struggles, like Dipa Karmakar, Mary Kom, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Milkha Singh to even Sunil Chhetri.
Abhay Deol’s ‘Jungle Cry’ is surely going to be a voice to all those who dare to dream in life and learn to spring back after every fall in the way of struggle. And, as we all know, the real heroes aren’t those who don’t fail, but who get up after every defeat, ‘Jungle Cry’ is surely going to roar on behalf of every dreamer.
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What is wrong with this country?
Can we fix this? Can we just take to sea all the criminal maniacs and toss them in a heard of sharks? America is better than this!
What on this earth brought a man to bring into a hotel room and plan to do something so horrific? Why?
Someone that is said to be, by his own brother, a normal person, someone that gave no signs of weaknesses.
59 dead and over 700 injured WTF!
We’re not letting Iranians and people from Chad in the country because considered terrorists, when in the past 16 years all terrorist acts in this country have been committed by US citizens!!
Could it be the guns? Ummm yeah! Can we regulate it? Umm No! Because the NRA have every Republican house member and Senator in their pocket!
Change is needed, a little at the time and that seems what the Democratic party is trying to do at the Senate this week. To ban certain rifle stocks, one would say that it wont change much, but it will be at least something, at least a start on trying to prevent shit like this every happening again on US soil!!
2 years ago • News • Tags: Terrorism
Gainesville Police Department “Hot Cop” turns out to be a Nazi!
Check this scumbag out!
To serve and protect, not that much protection from this cop if you happen to be Jewish!
One of Florida’s “hot cops” is facing backlash for allegedly making anti-Semitic Facebook posts.
On Sept. 10, the Gainesville Police Department posted a photo of officers Michael Hamill, John Nordman and Dan Rengering getting ready to work during Hurricane Irma.
The post quickly went viral, gaining more than 530,000 likes and 281,000 shares, and attracting comments from women worldwide.
Now, Officer Michael Hamill is under investigation by the department after two screenshots show him allegedly making anti-Semitic statements on his personal Facebook page, The Gainesville Sun reports. Yet they “Refuse” to suspend this Nazi of a Police Officer!!
One post from read, “What’s the difference between boy scouts and jews?” Anybody know? Well it is because “Boy scouts come back from their camps.”
Question: How many like this officer share the same thoughts in this Police Department???
2 years ago • Police
National More than 12 million without power in Florida
Basically thats 71% of Floridians are without power. The once-powerful storm left trailer homes sliced open like ripe melons, boats tossed upside down on roadways and centuries-old trees strewn across power lines. As it trailed off on Monday, Irma’s rains caused floodwaters to rise from Jacksonville, Fla., to Charleston, S.C., continuing to impact a massive area of the American southeast. But it could have been much worse. We all know that!
The lack of electricity across most of South Florida was the most pressing and crippling problem. Millions could remain in the dark for days or even weeks as utility companies struggle to navigate impassable roads and floodwaters to slowly restore power. And yet here in the states like in Pakistan and India we still place electricity on poles and not underground. Places like China and Russia have 85% of their electrical distribution under ground, the us has 97% overground!!!! We do it to save, then when a storm passes, millions remain in the dark.
IT IS TIME TO SUE THE STATES THAT ALLOW ELECTRICAL COMPANIES TO PROVIDE ELECTRICITY USING POLES!!!!
Waters in Jacksonville, in the state’s far northeast, sent residents scrambling to the top floors of their houses Monday morning. The St. Johns River, which cuts through the city, overflowed its banks, flooding bridges and streets.
Rescuers used boats, water scooters and even surfboards to get to residents surprised by the rising waters, said Kimberly Morgan, a spokeswoman for the Clay County emergency center. “You have to get creative in a situation like this,” she said.
Key West: 97% of the homes have been damages, 55% destroyed! When will we decide that wood is not something we need to be building homes with????
2 years ago • Weather
THE hydrogen bomb North Korea tested is its most sophisticated yet.
NORTH KOREA claims to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb for the first time in a move that has more than just alarmed the world.
The response from the US came through Tweets, it’s a matter of fact that the President attempted to Social Media North Korea to death, but it didn’t work. However Japan, China and South Korea officially condemned the testing by offering something of their own: A ballistic missile exercise in response to Pyongyang’s claim that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
Experts have expressed alarm at the technology as well as how quickly Pyongyang has accelerated its nuclear weapons program, not that hard if you think that they’ve brought in dozens of rogue nuclear physicists from the ex Soviet Union.
North Korea’s only TV station claimed it tested the h-bomb in an underground facility, they claim that the bomb is capable of being loaded into an ICBM and could hit Japan and the west coast of the US.
According to John Hallam, a UN nuclear disarmament campaigner, the latest test is beyond frightening and proves Pyongyang is capable of making a devastating and deadly impact.
2 years ago • Pray For The World
While Texas is sinking in rain, the president pardons a fascist!
“Let’s call things by their proper names here. Arpaio is, of course, a white supremacist. But he’s more than that. There’s a word for political regimes that round up members of minority groups and send them to concentration camps, while rejecting the rule of law.” and this person was pardoned by the commander in chief?!!
Well, this morning I watched some ddrone footage out of Houston, Texas, shows severe flooding in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey:
At least two dead and dozens injured.
Houston, Texas, hit by “catastrophic flooding”; hundreds rescued from water.
More than 290,000 without power.
Slow-moving storm 20 miles east of Victoria at 11 p.m. ET Sunday.
It is expected to bring 15 to 25 inches of additional rainfall to the middle and upper Texas coast through Friday, according to the NWS.
Driving the devastation of Hurricane Harvey is the slow movement of the storm. It’s going to hover over southeast Texas for several more days, and parts of the region could see more than 50 inches of rain. This time it seems that FEMA took its head out of its ass and has actually moved in anticipation, getting most of the population out! Red Cross and Army reserves are also on the ground doing a good job. Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, is underwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Thousands have already been rescued, but thousands more are stranded as rescue crews are stretched to the limit, with another two feet of rain on the way.
The driver of an SUV stranded on a Houston freeway was pulled to safety by firefighters and Coast Guard helicopters have been making urban rescues in the dozens per hour. It is said that the coast guard has been hovering over Huston looking down for stranded residence. These brave men and women put their lives in harms way because most of these citizens preferred to stay put instead of evacuating like they were told.
However out prayers go out to these victims and the rescue workers!
Powerball jackpot swells to an incredible $700,000,000!!!
Let me ask you something: What would be the first thing that you’d do if you won? I mean after that you got the loot, that takes about 2 weeks processing time and then comes the taxing from both federal and state governments. So we’re talking about $320,000,000. Yep they’ll rob you for more than half, but hey!… who gives a crap, we still bring home millions and millions of bucks!!
My wife would love to have a penthouse on the beach and that would be my first move. I’ve always wanted a home in Aspen Co. and that would be my next move. Then I’d buy myself a Maserati Levante and get my wife a Mercedes G class. Then I’d take my family on a nice vacation, drive around the states with the new SUV and stop at all the best places this country has to offer.
One mandatory stop would be at St. Jude’s children’s cancer research hospital, where I’d leave on the front desk a $5,000,000 check.
After traveling around the country for a month I’d be back home at the penthouse and thinking on how to invest a part of my cash. One thing I’d like to do is invest in soccer, yes in the fastest growing sport in the country. I’d open a youth club and give free tuition for the first year, a nice complex with a dozen fields and all lit up with nice stadium stands.
More investments would be in my children’s education and the best health insurance money can buy, the same insurance the pigs over at congress have LOL.
So, what would you readers do with all that cash, well at least what would be the very first thing that you’d do?
2 years ago • Bucketlist
Nukes i the hands of 2 madmen!…
So, we have some dick over in Asia that has a hardon for the US and wants to blow us all up. Then we have on the other side a man that has no military experience in any form or way whatsoever, that can’t wait to blast North Korea back to the stone age.
You people can laugh at that as much as you want, but the threat on both sides is very but very very real. This time even China and Russia seem to have had enough with this over-fed clueless kid, starving his people and building himself an arsenal of nukes that within the next 8 to 12 months could have the capacity to strike and hit the pacific coast of our nation.
“While our State Department is making every effort to resolve this global threat through diplomatic means, it must be noted that the combined allied militaries now possess the most precise, rehearsed and robust defensive and offensive capabilities on earth,” Mattis said in a statement. “The DPRK regime’s actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates.
“The DPRK should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people,” Mattis said.
Yes, these are words to try and get the Chubby little boy to calm down and sit back at the negotiations table, but the White House seems pretty much ready to throw a few over the Pacific direction Kim Jong-un’s bedroom bunker! Basically its language that Kim Jong-un understands.
Well, we now have two crazy peeps with a nuclear capability to launch an attack on one another, lets see how this goes…
2 years ago • Donnie
Will we survive whats left of the Donald Trump presidency?
So. We have a vulgar, unstable yo-yo with a toxic ego and an attention-deficit problem in the White House, and now we can see that government by Twitter is like trying to steer a ship by firing a pistol at the waves — not really useful — but what does it all add up to? Not that much, if you ask me, which you didn’t, but I’ll say it anyway.
We will survive this. He will do what damage he can, like a man burning books out of anger that he can’t read, but there will still be plenty of books left.
I went to my high school class reunion last week and the gentleman’s name never came up. He has been front-page news for months, every bleat, blurt, yelp and belch. His every gaseous eruption is played over and over on cable news. But among my old classmates, not a word. They spoke with awe and reverence of their grandchildren (we’re the class of 1960), some about travel, plumbing projects, beloved old cars, stories of youth and indiscretion, nothing about death or President Trump. After five hours with them, I have no idea whether they lean left or right. Remarkable.
Marvin Buchholz and Wayne Swanson are still farming, though they, like the rest of us, are 75 or close to it. They both know what sweet corn is supposed to taste like. Dean Johnson is still tinkering with cars. Rich Peterson is in terrific shape, thanks to teaching physical education all these years. His parents ran Cully’s Cafe out back of the Herald office where I wrote sports when I was 16, and I’d come in to eat hot beef and gravy on white bread and potatoes while reading my own immortal words in black type. They loved that boy, and he turned out well.
Bob Bell and I discussed some classmates whom I considered lowlifes and hoods because they wore black shirts with white ties and drove old cars with flame decals and loud mufflers, but he saw a better side to them and stood up for them, and good for him. His dad was an attorney, so Bob grew up with the idea that everyone deserves a good defense.
Carol Hutchinson was a librarian, Vicky Rubis a schoolteacher, Mary Ellen Krause worked at the town bank, one of the spark plugs who kept our hometown’s enormous Halloween parade going all these years. Carl Youngquist and I remembered our basketball team of 1958, a good bet to win State, but we lost in the early prelims to a bunch of farm boys from St. Francis. St. Francis! It was like Rocky Marciano being KOed by Mister Peepers.
It’s a privilege to know people over the course of a lifetime and to reconnoiter and hear about the ordinary goodness of life. By 75, some of our class have gotten whacked hard. And the casualty rate does keep climbing. And yet life is good. These people are America as I know it. Family, work, a sense of humor, gratitude to God for our daily bread and loyalty to the tribe.
If the gentleman stands in the bow and fires his peashooter at the storm, if he appoints a gorilla as head of communications, if he tweets that henceforth no transcendentalist shall be allowed in the armed forces, nonetheless life goes on.
He fulfills an important role of celebs: giving millions of people the chance to feel superior to him. The gloomy face and the antique adolescent hair, the mannequin wife and the clueless children of privilege, the sheer pointlessness of flying around in a 747 to say inane things to crowds of people — it’s cheap entertainment for us, and in the end it simply doesn’t matter.
What matter are tomatoes. There is an excellent crop this year, like the tomatoes of our youth that we ate right off the vine, juice running down our chins. There is nothing like this. For years, I dashed into supermarkets and scooped up whatever was available, tomatoes bred for long shelf life that tasted like wet cardboard, and now I go to a farmers market and I’m astonished all over again. A spiritual experience. The spontaneity of the tomato compared to the manufactured sweetness of the glazed doughnut. An awakening takes place, light shines in your soul. Anyone who bites into a good tomato and thinks about Trump is seriously delusional.
When you think that the White House couldn’t screw up again, then the unthinkable happens
Donald Trump Junior has put his father and all the white house in quite a pickle, as I have posted several documents on my Thomas F Cheng Facebook page, and of course what the New York Times has brought to light, and most of all the presidents son is not denying, that there actually was a collusion between himself and a Russian lawyer that works for the government.
Grounds for impeachment? if it were a Democrat president I can guarantee you he Would have been already impeached, But like Watergate this procedure will take my personal opinion up to a couple years if not more.
But let’s go back a little, and ask ourselves if Donald Trump Junior claims that he is crystal clear, why is it that he never rushed to the FBI immediately letting them know that somebody had contacted him offering him what they did? Why did he not contact any federal officials in any way whatsoever? And if it was Donald Trump Junior himself that brought this on the White House, why is it that we have the president of the United States of America studies claiming that this is a witch hunt on the on the media?
This is a tsunami that just hit the Oval Office!!
2 years ago • White House Scandals
Donald Trump to meet with Vladimir Putin today.
Donald Trump to meet with his best friend ever behind closed doors in just a few hours from now.
Along with them will be only two translators and the American translator is under oath that anything that said in the meeting is to be revealed in any way whatsoever. That makes perfect sense!
What will be on the agenda? I can speculate if you want: Trump will offer to remove all sanctions on Russia, will reveal without knowing some of our countries most classified secrets and in exchange he will get absolutely nothing LOL.
It is clear at this time that Pres. Putin is completely in control of the meeting, all his demands will be taken down and executed, and most probably the United States even if they have any demands of their own will be as usual ignored by the ex-Soviet Union KGB officer.
Vladimir Putin wants this meeting so that he can lay down his authority on Donald Trump. I myself find it very hard to understand why it Donald Trump wants to protect this country, but at the same time will sit down with Vladimir Putin and refuse to point his finger and accusing him of leaving the hacking during the 2016 elections.
I know for a fact that nothing will be said or done, if you consider that no sanctions have been given since that hacking attack, no action has been taken no action will ever be taken.
Best friends forever Donnie and Vlad!
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Bulk & specialty chemicals industry firm BASF expands MDI facility
Sunil Hebbalkar February 1, 2018 news No Comments
One of leading behemoths in the bulk and specialty chemicals industry, BASF has reportedly decided to invest in the capacity expansion of its MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) plant in Geismar at Louisiana. Company officials declare that the expansion will take place in several phases and will demand a few years for completion. Apparently, in the first phase of development, BASF will invest more than $150 million to construct an MDI synthesis unit.
Reports cite that the development of the new MDI production plant will help strengthen BASF’s stance in bulk and specialty chemicals market. Elaborating on the same, one of the firm’s senior officials, Tom Yura, was quoted stating that this investment also demonstrated the company’s strong commitment toward their employees and the community in Louisiana.
As per reliable sources, the State of Louisiana has offered a competitive incentive package including a USD 1.65mn Modernization Tax Credit to secure BASF’s project. In fact, BASF is also looking forward to utilizing the state’s Industrial Tax Exemption and Quality Jobs programs. The Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, has been quoted stating that the company is rather proud of its decision to reinvest in its chemical complex at Geismar, which is incidentally one of the most remarkable economic drivers in Louisiana,
Prior to this capacity expansion, BASF has also invested USD 800 million in several capital projects in Ascension Parish. Quoting Kenny Matassa, the President of Ascension Parish, BASF’s investment in Ascension Parish is firm evidence that the parish is a crucial site for lucrative business opportunities.
Through the expansion of its MDI project, BASF eventually may double its production capacity of energy efficient methylene diphenyl diisocyanate while simultaneously generating job opportunities. Having held the tag of being one of the foremost bulk and specialty chemicals industry player in the region, BASF aims to further consolidate its product portfolio and position in the state of Louisiana.
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Universal Credit in Slough | Claiming Universal Credit from Slough Jobcentre 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ
Looking for information about claiming Universal Credit in or near Slough? We’ve got everything you need to know about claiming Universal Credit in Slough. This can be done through Slough Jobcentre at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire – you can use our table of contents below to jump to the section you need.
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As time goes on, it looks as though Slough Jobcentre Plus will mainly be processing Universal Credit claims. This is going to be the case nationwide, not only at the Jobcentre location at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire. Whether you live local to SL1 2AQ, or somewhere else entirely, the UK Government is attempting to move most benefits payments on to Universal Credit – and so it is likely that it will be the main way through which people receive benefits in the future.
While there has been some pushback to the move to Universal Credit, it seems as though the Jobcentre in Slough, as well as every other location, will soon be exclusively using Universal Credit. According to the most recent advice from Citizens Advice, Universal Credit will replace:
If you are looking to claim Universal Credit in Slough, or would simply like the Jobcentre at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire to move you over from one of the benefits mentioned above on to Universal Credit, it may be advisable to phone the central Jobcentre helpline in order to speak to an adviser about how best to go about this. You can speak to a Universal Credit helpline representative by calling our call forwarding number, which will connect through to the main support helpline.
Contact Slough Jobcentre via the Universal Credit central helpline team (this is a call forwarding service) 0903 871 2346
Claiming Universal Credit in Slough
There are various ways to claim Universal Credit in Slough. The process is relatively simple: you can start your application online (click here) or speak to a member of the Universal Credit helpline team by using our connection number below.
Once you have finished your application, you may need to book and attend an interview at Slough Jobcentre Plus, but this is something that you will be informed after you finish your application.
Over the course of the next few years, Universal Credit will replace many different forms of benefit – it is likely that if you are on these you will simply be transferred on to Universal Credit by the staff in Slough Jobcentre. However, if you do need to start a new claim for Universal Credit, it is worth following the advice given above – or you can simply call the Universal Creidt helpline. our call connection number below will forward your call to the main Universal Credit contact number.
If you need to speak to someone about an existing Universal Credit claim, you may need to speak to your local Jobcentre (which, if you live in Slough, is likely to be at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ. Otherwise, it may be worth getting in touch with the Universal Credit phone number, a connection number for which is provided below.
The Universal Credit contact number is the same regardless of where you are in the country. Universal Credit claimants in both Slough and elsewhere can get in touch with the UC helpline team by phoning up the main Universal Credit phone number. We have provided a call connection number to this in the table below.
According to Gov.UK, Universal Credit payments for claimants in Slough are made monthly. This is regardless of whether you are claiming at Slough Jobcentre at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, or elsewhere.
The way first payments are calculated are no different in Slough than to how they are elsewhere. It normally takes around 5 weeks to receive your first payment. This comprises a month to assess your eligibility, and then 7 days to process the payment.
There has been some controversy over housing payments in Slough for those claiming Universal Credit. However, the UK Government advice on the matter is as follows (as taken from Gov.UK)
It may be worth speaking to a Universal Credit support member to speak about what benefits those claiming UC in Slough are eligible to get in relation to Housing Benefit. You can find their call connect number belwo.
Want to know how much Universal Credit you will get? There are a variety of different factors, whether you live in Slough or elsewhere. These are nationwide rates, and will effect any claimant at Slough Jobcentre, 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire.
Claimants in Slough are eligible for the following Universal Credit rates. These are calculated per household, and vary depending on your age and your marital status
The amount of Universal Credit you can be awarded depends on the location in the country you are in. The below is the maximum amount of Universal Credit you can earn per month if you are in Slough, or claim at Slough Jobcentre in 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire.
This is true whether you are claiming Universal Credit in Slough, or elsewhere. The exact opening hours of Slough Jobcentre are not available on this page, but the central helpline should be able to answer most queries.
What is Universal Credit full service? Does it effect Slough?
There is some confusion over what a Universal Credit full service are is, and if it effects those who live in Slough. As Universal Credit is done per Jobcentre, it more comes down to whether your claim is registered with 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire or elsewhere. For clarification, turn2us says that a full service area is classed as:
To find out if residents of Slough are effected, and Universal Credit claimants at Slough Jobcentre are classed as Full Service Universal Credit benefits claimers, you can enter your postcode at the Universal Credit Info website here.
There are numerous Universal Credit exemptions – your the advisor at your local Slough Jobcentre should be able to advise, as would the Universal Credit contact number helpline staff. However, the West Lancashire Government website offers two such exemptions as examples.
If you are worried you are exmpt from Universal Credit in Slough, use our call connection number before to get in touch with their helpline team.
Here are the two Universal Credit forms (UC50) forms that were available from the Gov.UK website in late 2018. If you are looking to claim Universal Credit in Slough, these may be the forms you need – however, it would be worth asking your advisor at Slough Jobcentre if you are unsure.
If you re claiming Universal Credit in Slough, the chances are that your Universal Credit interview will take place at Slough Jobcentre, 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ
Directions to Slough Jobcentre Plus, 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ
If you need to speak to someone about your Universal Credit interview at Slough Jobcentre, a member of their main helpline team should be able to assist. You can contact them through our call connection number below, and they will be able to liaise with staff at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ to ensure that your Universal Credit interview query is resolved.
The amount of Universal Credit you are entitled to can vary enormously, depending on your circumstances. This is true whether you live in Slough, or elsewhere. While someone at your local Jobcentre in 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire may be able to assist, sometimes it is good to get a firm idea of what you might be owed before you start a claim. Entitledto.co.uk have put together a fairly comprehensive review of what you might be eligible for below, which we have quoted below.
If you would like to get a more precise idea of what you may be eligible to claim in Universal Credit if you are a Slough resident, you can use Entitledto’s benefits calculator by clicking here.
There are many couples in Slough who may make Universal Credit joint claims. according to Gov.UK, a joint claim should be made by people who fit under the following:
You can make a joint Universal Credit claim online, at your local Jobcentre (Slough Jobcentre, 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ), or via the Universal Credit helpline number. We have provided a call connection service number below.
A Universal Credit overpayment is not unknown, and can happen in Slough. If you think this may have been the case with you, please be aware that an overpayment is classed as the following:
There are a variety of reasons why this may occur. Some of the reasons why a Universal Credit claimant in Slough may have been overpaid include:
Overpayments are recovered from Universal Credit claimants in Slough through the following means:
If you fear that you have been overpaid, it may be worth getting contact with Slough Jobcentre at their postal address 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ, or it could be worth contacting the main Jobcentre helpline number. You could also contact the Universal Credit team, who are able to advise claimants in Slough. Both can be phoned through our call connection numbers, as shown below.
If you are a claimant at Slough Jobcentre and need a Budgeting Loan, you can pick up a claim form from the main office, which is located at:
Slough Jobcentre, 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ
These will then need to be either sent or delivered by hand to the Slough Jobcentre (if this is, of course, your local Jobcentre Plus location).
You can start a Budgeting Loan claim that will then be processed by Slough Jobcentre at 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ (if this is your local Jobcentre location) online – you can start this by clicking here.
Universal Credit and rent in Slough
There are many people who are looking for the Jobcentre Plus in Slough. While the information about Jobcentre locations across the UK – indeed, including Slough – are publically available, sometimes it can be difficult to find out exactly the information that you need. Whether you’re looking to start a claim at Slough Jobcentre, or simply need to know how to get to the Jobcentre Plus in Slough, we’ve got all the information that you need.
The full address for the Jobcentre Plus in Slough is:
Slough Jobcentre Plus, 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2AQ
One of the most common queries about Slough Jobcentre is a request for its postcode. This is usually so that a claimant can send a letter of complaint to the Jobcentre, or may be related to another enquiry. Regardless, the postcode for the Jobcentre in Slough is SL1 2AQ.
Below you can see a Google Map for the Slough Jobcentre Plus location – below that, we have a link that should be able to provide directions to the Jobcentre itself. Whether you live close to 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire or need to commute, it the Google Maps API should be able to help you navigate towards Slough Jobcentre in SL1 2AQ.
Phone numbers for individual Jobcentres such as the one in Slough are almost never published – those looking to contact Slough Jobcentre or any other Jobcentre Plus location are generally advised to phone the main Jobcentre Plus contact number. For your convenience, we have provided a Jobcentre Plus helpline connection number below
Generally, Jobcentre Plus locations are open between the hours of 9am until 5pm, Monday to Friday. We have been unable to ascertain the exact hours of Slough Jobcentre, but that rule is generally the case: sometimes certain locations may open an hour or two earlier, and others are known to open late on a Wednesday (generally at 10 am), but these are subject to change.
These are not the opening hours for Slough Jobcentre specifically but acts as a general guide to Jobcentre opening hours.
The NOMIS code for Slough Jobcentre in 2A Yew Tree Road, Slough, Berkshire is 1784.
All contact details for Slough Jobcentre
Below is a complete list of all our call forwarding numbers for relevant departments that should be able to assist with your Slough Jobcentre Plus enquiry.
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HomeMasterChefMasterChef Colombia Winners List of All Seasons / Series
MasterChef Colombia Winners List of All Seasons / Series
Welcome to MasterChef Colombia Winners List of All Seasons: MasterChef Colombia is one of the most popular competitive cooking reality tv show in Colombia and got immense popularity from all over Colombia. The show is based on the original Birtish MasterChef which is produced by Colosceum Media Pvt. Ltd. The Initial rounds of the show is consist a huge number of contestants from across Colombia individually auditioning by presenting their dish before the judges.
The MasterChef Colombia has completed 1 successful seasons so far and is all set for its season 2 which will be aired soon on TV and here on this page we are going to provide you detail information about the MasterChef Colombia Winners of all seasons with their images.
The first season of MasterChef Colombia was aired on January 14, 2015. The detail information with image of MasterChef Winner is given below. So have glance on MasterChef Colombia winners List of All Seasons 1,2.
Masterchef Colombia Season 1 Winner: Federico Martinez (2015)
The very first season of MasterChef Colombia was aired on Colombians national television screens from January 14, 2015 up to April 21, 2015.
The winner of MasterChef Colombia was a 26-year-old Economy student, Federico Martinez.
The highly respected judges for MasterChef Colombia were Paco Roncero, Jorge Raush, and Nicolás de Zubiría.
Junior MasterChef Colombia Winners List of All Seasons
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The winner for Junior MasterChef Colombia was an 11-year-old, Sarmiento Yulitza.
The judges for this Masterchef edition in Colombia were Nicolas Gomez Zubiría, José Ramón Castillo, and Jorge Raush.
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Title: Erbil SC
Subject: 2014 AFC Cup knock-out stage, Iraqi Premier League, 2014 AFC Cup, 2012–13 Iraqi Premier League, 2014 AFC Cup group stage
Collection: 1968 Establishments in Iraq, Association Football Clubs Established in 1968, Erbil, Football Clubs in Iraq
Erbil Sports Club
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Erbil Sport Club (Arabic: نادي أربيل الرياضي, ) is a sports club based in the city of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. The club is also known as Nadi Hewlêr, the Kurdish name for Erbil. Currently, they are highly ranked within Iraq winning the title of Iraq's Premier league for the third consecutive year in 2009. For the first time in its history, Erbil became champions of the Iraqi Premier League after beating Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (1–0) in the final game on Friday, 6 July 2007. On 24 August 2008, Erbil retained their status as Iraqi Premier League champions with a well-deserved win over Baghdad based Al-Zawraa. On 16 July 2009 Erbil became the champion of Iraq's super league for the third consecutive year after beating Najaf FC. Overall they are the 9th team to win the Iraqi Premier League.
Erbil Sport Club is the first Iraqi-Kurdish team to qualify for the Asian Champions League and the Arab Champions League. In 2009 they will take part in the AFC Cup for the first time in their history alongside Al-Zawraa. Erbil SC is the first Iraqi team to get players from outside Iraq.
Foundation 1.1
(2004–) and onwards 1.2
Nadhim Shaker and glory years 1.3
Franso Hariri Stadium 2
Rivalries 3
Honours 4
Performance in AFC competitions 5
Individual Honours 6
Recent history 8
Managerial history 9
See also 10
Erbil SC was founded in 1968 and spent many years in mid-table obscurity, occasionally challenging the top Iraqi sides.
(2004–) and onwards
After the turn of the century and the beginning of the Iraq War, Erbil FC has dramatically improved and have become a real powerhouse in Iraqi club football. Top Iraqi international players have begun coming north to ply their trade with nice wages.
Nadhim Shaker and glory years
In the summer of 2005, Shaker left rivals Duhok FC to coach Erbil. In the 2005–06 season, Erbil started slow, only just managing to finish third in Group A just ahead of Sirwan FC on goal difference to advance to the second round. Erbil topped their group in the second round to advance to the end of season play-offs where they met southern giants Najaf FC in a two-legged home and away tie. Erbil were beaten by Najaf by a 4–1 scoreline which basically dented all hope of reaching the play-off final for the title. In the home leg, Erbil were winning 1–0 when the match got suspended with a replay taking place five days later with the match resulting in a 1-all scoreline. This meant Erbil were knocked out of a chance of winning the championship but would instead take part in the third-place play-off match. This match didn't take place as in the other semi-final match between the two Baghdad giants, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Zawraa. The second match of the leg was cancelled as the Al-Quwa players walked off the pitch, resulting in their disqualification and Erbil getting the automatic third-place finish. All in all, it was a strong first season under Shaker and that summer the team improved personnel ready for the next season.
Franso Hariri Stadium is the stadium where Erbil Sport Club play their home games. It is a multi-use stadium in Erbil. The stadium holds 40,000, making it the second largest in Iraq after the Al Shaab Stadium in Baghdad. It was built in 1992.
After the assassination of Franso Heriri on 18 February 2001, who actively supported rebuilding the stadium, the Kurdistan Regional Government renamed it in his memory.
In July, 2009 Franso Hariri Stadium became Iraq national football team's home venue after the green-light from AFC to host the Iraqi national and clubs teams in Erbil.[1] However, due to technical problems, FIFA abandoned the idea of having more national games being hosted in the stadium.
Erbil SC's main rival is Duhok SC with whom they contest the Iraqi Kurdistan derby, sometimes called the North Iraq derby.
Iraqi Premier League:
Champions (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2011–12.
Runner-up (3): 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14
3rd (1): 2005–06.
Arab Champions League:
2007–2008: 1st Round
Performance in AFC competitions
AFC Champions League: 1 appearance
2008: Group Stage
AFC Cup: 5 appearances
2009: Quarter-Finals
2011: Semi-finals
2012: Runners-up
2013: Round of 16
2009 FIFA Confederations Cup
The following players have played in the FIFA Confederations Cup whilst playing for Erbil:
2009 – Luay Salah
First-team squad
1 GK Rebaz abdulla
5 DF Burhan jumaa
33 DF dldar xdr
4 DF niaz maghdid
22 DF niaz muhamad
25 DF nadim karim
15 DF kamaran ali
23 DF kosrat bayz
6 DF muhamad xalid
13 DF fahd nazm
19 DF diyar rahman
3 DF harde syamand
29 MF barzan sherzad
10 MF Mohammad Khalid Jaffal
8 MF ivan khalid
7 MF sirwan xdr
9 MF rekar hashem
18 MF rabar khalid
14 MF muhamad sharifa
12 FW Bassel Moustafa
27 FW salih muhamad
11 FW ramyar azad
17 FW Milad Zeneyedpour
16 MF Miran Khesro
21 GK Sarhang Muhsin (Captain)
20 GK Dler Hatem
AFC CL
Arab CL
2000–01 12 16 3 7 6 10 20 29
2001–02 6 38 20 12 6 61 32 72
2002–03 Abandoned due to war
2004–05 5 19 8 6 5 29 22
2006–07 1 19 14 3 2 34 11 1st round
2007–08 1 24 15 6 3 33 10 Group Stage
2008–09 1 27 20 5 2 55 17
2010–11 2 26 17 5 4 54 21 Semifinals
2011–12 1 38 23 14 1 65 22 83 Finals
2012–13 2 34 21 7 6 67 34 70 Round of 16
2013–14 2 21 12 6 3 29 15 42 Finals
2014–15 11 18 5 10 3 21 17 Group Stage
From 2004/05 season, the competition changed from League system to various rounds including table and knockout rounds.
From 2011/12 season, the competition went back to the single league system.
From 2014/15 season, the competition returned to a system with various rounds.
Managerial history
Yahya Alwan 2004–2005
Nadhim Shaker 2005–2007
Akram Salman 2007–2008
Thair Ahmed 2008–2010
Ayoub Odisho 2010–2011
Nizar Mahrous 2012–2013
Rodion Gačanin 2013
Ahmad Salah 2015
Thair Ahmed 2015-
Nationality is indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code(s).
Iraqi clubs in the AFC Cup
Iraqi clubs in the AFC Champions League
^ AFC green-light to Arbil as venue
Official Logo
Club squad on AFC official website
2015–16 clubs
Al-Hedood
Al-Kahraba
Al-Karkh
Al-Minaa
Al-Naft
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Al-Samawa
Al-Shorta
Al-Sinaa
Al-Talaba
Al-Zawraa
Duhok
Karbalaa
Naft Al-Janoob
Naft Al-Wasat
Zakho
Football kits with incorrect pattern
Articles containing Arabic-language text
WorldHeritage articles needing clarification from November 2013
Football clubs in Iraq
1968 establishments in Iraq
Association football clubs established in 1968
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Bahrain
Syrian Civil War, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Defender (association football)
Association football, Real Madrid C.F., Greece national football team, UEFA Euro 2004, Midfielder
Spain national football team, Defender (association football), Playmaker, Real Madrid C.F., Association football positions
2014 AFC Cup knock-out stage
Kuwait, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bahrain, Qadsia SC
2014 AFC Cup
Kuwait, Vietnam, Indonesia, Qadsia SC, 2013 AFC Cup
2012–13 Iraqi Premier League
Syria, Iraq, Baghdad, Al-Zawraa, Erbil SC
2014 AFC Cup group stage
Singapore, Lebanon, Malaysia, Bahrain, Syria
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The Mint 400
The storied history of the Mint is steeped in celebrity, drama and excitement as the city of Las Vegas itself. The Mint 400 has held the title of the toughest, most spectacular off-road race in North America since 1967 when it was first run. The race was created by Norm Johnson who was race director through 1974 and a participant from 69 to 82. Initially the race was a public relations event promoting the Mint Hotel’s annual deer hunt but what started out as hotel promotion soon grew into a legitimate desert race.
The second year it was run, Norm enlisted the help of his friends, famed race car drivers Mel Larson and Parnelli Jones with their endorsements and a guaranteed prize purse of 30,000 the participant list grew exponentially. There were intrnational entries which included some of the most well-known names from all racing genres as well as the television and motion picture industry. Indianapolis 500 winners Parnelli Jones, Al Unser, Rick Mears, and Rodger Ward; off-road champions Mickey Thompson, Ivan Stewart, Jack Flannery, Walker Evans; international off road competitor, Rod Hall; power boat champion Bill Muncey, movie- and television stars James Garner and Steve McQueen; Comedian, Mort Sahl; Astronaut, Gordon Cooper, are among the many racing and entertainment luminaries who competed in the Mint 400 over the years.
The Mint 400 race ended in 1988 after the sale of the Mint however the story continued in 2008 when the Great American Off-Road Race was revived. Bigger, badder and better than ever, the Mint 400 is everything that is, was and a whole lot more. Given the advances in off-road technology and the ever changing landscape of Las Vegas, the Mint has grown but all the classic elements are still in place.
YB are proud to be providing tracking for this years event. Each car will have one of our trackers mounted on them which will send data such as speed and gps location via the Iridium satellite network. The trackers will be set to collect and fire this data off every two minutes meaning the race viewer will never be any older that 120 seconds before it is refreshed with the participants where abouts, meaning all those left at the start line can follow their teams progress throughout this exhilirating race.
For more information and to follow the race please visit the Mint400 website.
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History made with new £30m ‘Camden Town Brewery’
Camden Town Brewery is set to open the doors to its brand new £30m brewing facility in Enfield this July. The new 50,000 square foot environmentally friendly site is the largest investment in London’s brewing industry for three decades and will enable the north London brewery to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for its beer including the flagship lager, Camden Hells.
A short journey from its current home in Kentish Town, the new Enfield site will brew all of Camden’s core beers including Camden Hells, Camden Pale Ale, Gentleman’s Wit, Camden Pils Lager, IHL Lager and Ink Stout. Creativity will remain at the heart of Camden Town Brewery’s existing brewery at Kentish Town West, which will be used as a test site for innovation, specials and collaboration beers.
The new £30m brewing facility in Enfield / Picture: Camden Town Brewery
With state of the art equipment, supplied by three of the world’s leading brewing manufacturers, the new brewhouse will have the capacity to scale production to 400,000HL/year. The Enfield brewery will also be open to the public offering weekend tours, beer school and an amazing steel bar in the middle of the brewery – creating a completely immersive experience for visitors.
The entirely carbon neutral development, which features a solar panelled roof and an energy efficient brewing system, has been designed with particular focus on minimising its environmental impact. Along with a robust recycling ethos, every aspect of the brewery has been given thorough consideration.
Jasper Cuppaidge, founder and CEO of Camden Town Brewery, said: “The railway arches in Kentish Town will remain the heart and soul of Camden Town Brewery, but our expansion to Enfield allows us to increase our capacity so ultimately we can bring great beer to more people.
“It’s a phenomenal opportunity to extend into another North London community and to be a part of the impressive redevelopment that’s taking place in Enfield. We can’t wait to open our doors!”
Founder & CEO, Jasper Cuppaidge / Picture: Camden Town Brewery
Camden Town Brewery is working closely with local businesses and Enfield Council to thoroughly integrate the new brewery in Ponder’s End within the wider community. In addition, to keep up with increased production, the brewing team will increase by 50%, bringing job opportunities to the area.
Councillor Alan Sitkin, Cabinet member for Economic Development, London Borough of Enfield, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to welcome Camden Town Brewery to Enfield. The brewery has proved its devotion to serving great beer to consumers and the wider community.
“Camden’s industrial employment ambitions work perfectly with the strategies that Enfield Council has been pursuing for many years now. In particular, looking to secure employment and jobs in our borough and encourage residents to learn great trade for a great industry. We’re thrilled that this huge investment will help to return Enfield its former glory in industry.“
Inside the new brewing facility / Picture: Camden Town Brewery
To celebrate the new facility and £30m investment made by the company, Camden Town Brewery will be opening its doors to the public on Saturday 8 July 2017. Bringing the best of Camden to Enfield, this launch party will be an all-day celebration with live music, pop-up restaurants, talks and performance, brewery tours, entertainment for the whole family, and not forgetting lots of great beer!
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In the Donbas, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbas unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.
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She Done Him Wrong
Directed by Lowell Sherman
Produced by William LeBaron
Written by Mae West (play Diamond Lil)
Harvey F. Thew & John Bright
Starring Mae West
Owen Moore
Gilbert Roland
Music by John Leipold (uncredited)
Cinematography Charles Lang
Editing by Alexander Hall
Studio Paramount Pictures
I’ve always wanted to see this film for a couple of reasons. Firstly I do like Mae West’s double entendres and one liners and secondly we get to see a young Cary Grant. Here he is the one who is being lusted after by West, which is strange since in years to come it would be Grant who was the older man lusting after and getting the younger woman. It’s odd to see the roles reversed.
Whilst I admit that I enjoy West’s wit I must also admit that she is a bit of a one trick pony in that he sly one liners are the only things she can really do. Worse still she hogs the spotlight so that nothing of interest occurs when she is on the screen.
When compared to other comedians of the 1930s West’s act isn’t as interesting. W. C. Fields, who West is often compared with, had some amazing one liners in his films too but he also was pretty good with the slapstick stuff and could share the spotlight with others who were funny too, while Groucho Marx had his brothers to play off, even if we had to endure a boring Harpo harp recital or Chico putting the audience to sleep with his piano playing. West too insists on showing off her non-comedic talent when she decides to sing… and it is excruciating. Unlike when Groucho sings West is serious and is not doing it for laughs so it makes it even more intolerable. I guess that Mae wanted to sing and no one had the guts to say no?!
The film is interesting and does feature Mae reciting he most well known line to Grant, “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”, but the film could have been better in my opinion.
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You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man
Directed by George Marshall
Edward F. Cline (uncredited)
Produced by Lester Cowan
Written by W. C. Fields (as “Charles Bogle”) (story)
Everett Freeman (screenplay)
Richard Mack (screenplay)
George Marion Jr. (screenplay)
Starring W. C. Fields
Charlie McCarthy
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Editing by Otto Ludwig
This was quite a good W. C Fields comedy film. It features a lot of classic lines from Fields, as well as some good slapstick pratfalls, but also features a continuation of his wonderful rivalry with a ventriloquists’ puppet.
It’s a bit hard to explain but for many years Fields had a radio rivalry with Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen’s (Candice’s father) dummy. It’s strange indeed to think of someone doing a ventriloquist act on the radio, but that is where this funny rivalry was created. Both Fields and Bergen have some great moments to themselves in the brief moments when they are in a scene together there is some really good chemistry and funny jokes.
You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man is a part of the W.C. Fields Comedy Collection with The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee, International House and It’s A Gift. This DVD box set is available from Amazon for $46.99. You can purchase it by clicking here…
2 Comments | tags: Charlie McCarthy, Comedy, DVD, Edgar Bergen, George Marion Jr, Humor, My Little Chickadee, Orson Welles, Recreation, Richard Mack, Ventriloquism, W. C. Fields | posted in 1930s, Comedy, W. C. Fields
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Written by Bruce Beresford & Barry Humphries
Starring Barry Crocker,
Barry Humphries,
Donald Pleasance,
Dick Bentley
Music by Peter Best
Compared to the original this is a pretty awful film. It doesn’t have the charm of the original and seems to think that it’s funny just saying the words abo, slant eyes and poofter as often as you can if an hour and a half. There is a huge cringe factor involved in this film and its celebration of ockerism. It could have worked if it satirised instead of celebrated the boof headed stereotype or made it like the first movie where we had an unsophisticated fish out of water story, but instead Humphries and Beresford tried to make it some stoopidly lame comedy. It is a shame as the are both very talented and can do much better than this shit. As a gross out comedy it doesn’t work as there is just one clever double entendre in the entire film. Thank Christ we’ve progressed ever so slightly in the 35 years since this was released, although I know that there are some rednecks who mourn the fact that it is now frowned upon to go out of your way to be as offensive as possible for no reason whatsoever.
I suppose the only redeeming feature of the film is Crocker’s sincere performance. The rest of the film is just a whole lot of stereotypes and crudity for the sake of crudity.
As you can see, very classy indeed. Also I have to ask… where we so insecure at that time? It’s almost as if we had to reassure ourselves that Australia had a place in the world and that we could in fact do worthy things. Unfortunately the only thing this film is worthy of is being thrown in the garbage.
If you really want this piece of crap it is available from EZYDVD for $15, but I have seen it for $10 from other places (Dirt Cheap in Collins Street).
Leave a comment | tags: Arts, Australia, Barry Humphries, Bruce Beresford, Comedy, Dick Bentley, Filmmaking, Movies | posted in 1970s, Australian Film, Comedy
The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie
Produced by Phillip Adams
Spike Milligan,
Cinematography Donald McAlpine
Editing by John Scott, William Anderson
Distributed by Columbia Pictures Video Ltd.
Running time 114 minutes
Language English/Strine
This was on Fox Classics last night and I must admit that I did enjoy it quite a bit. It is a million times better than its sequel because it sticks to the unsophisticated fish out of water story, and satirises the pretentious artsy fartsy types, of whom Humphries would have been (I’ve read his book and all the boring tedious stuff on Dadaism) and the poms, who I guess considered themselves culturally and intellectually superior to us.
Unlike the sequel there isn’t an overload of offensiveness used just for the sake of offending people. I think the only really offensive thing would be the overloaded use of the word abo, which as Mal Brown has recently taught us, wasn’t really considered to be offensive in the 1970s. How things have changed for the better.
There is some nudity and bouncing breasts are featured a bit. This was before we became such a prudish nation and boobs were considered bad.
It’s not all that funny and a bit cringe-worthy, but the film is watchable, although I must say that both Spike Milligan and Peter Cook are wasted in their roles.
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Leave a comment | tags: Barry, Barry Humphries, Bruce Beresford, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Classics, Mal Brown, Mexico, Peter Cook, Phillip Adams, Recreation, Spike Milligan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales | posted in 1970s, Australian Film, Comedy
Shanghai Express
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Written by Jules Furthman
Harry Hervey (story)
Starring Marlene Dietrich
Anna May Wong
Music by W. Franke Harling
Rudolph G. Kopp
Cinematography Lee Garmes
Editing by Frank Sullivan
Release date February 2, 1932
Shanghai Express is a very interesting film from 1932. Set in civil war torn China but filmed in Paris, it stars Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lilly. The film was directed by Josef von Sternberg and according to one review that I have read of the film, is meant to be a statement about the love between the fame director and his starlet. Of course rumours have abounded about another affair that the German actress was having with her co-star Anna Mae Wong. Who knows what really was happening behind the scenes.
Dietrich plays the coaster Shanghai Lilly, who has been breaking the hearts of men between Peking and Shanghai for five years, since her heart was broken by ‘Doc’ Harvey, a British officer who she meets up with while travelling on the train. Lots of critics have raved about her performance but she really doesn’t have that much to do. She spends some time looking glamorous and smoking a cigarette and smirking her way through her scenes looking as though she is about to burst into laughter but she is out acted by her co-star Anna Mae Wong, who despite being on screen for a much shorter amount of time has a far juicier part and more screen presence than Marlene.
Then there is Warner Oland as the evil rebel leader Mr Chang, who holds the train passengers for ransom and rapes (off-screen) Wong’s character Hui Fei. Oland is best known as being a caucasian actor who played many Asian parts, especially the famed Oriental detective Charlie Chan. He is thoroughly despicable here.
Shanghai Express was nominated for best picture at the 1932 Academy Awards and while it is very watchable and a very good film, and Wong and Oland’s performances are great, I don’t know if the film is that great. As I said Dietrich spends most of her time mugging for the camera rather than really acting, while Brook’s performance as ‘Doc’ Harvey is rather wooden.
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Directed by Lewis Milestone
Produced by Lewis Milestone
Written by John Steinbeck (novel)
Eugene Solow
Betty Field
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Noah Beery, Jr.
Music by Aaron Copland
Cinematography Norbert Brodine
Studio Hal Roach Studios
The 1939 version Of Mice And Men is a film that has perhaps been forgotten a bit over time, especially when compared to some of the other movies that came out during 1939/40. It is quite easy to forget just how great this movie was and how iconic the performance of Lon Chaney Jr. is as Lennie. I guess part of the reason for it to be forgotten in this country could be because it was banned from being released here in Australia for about twenty or so years, thanks to our diligent Chief Censor Creswell O’Reilly who deemed this film to be morally inappropriate to be screened here because… well actually aft er watching the film I cannot see any reason for it to be banned other than we were (and probably still are) quite prudish. That there doesn’t seem to have been much outrage at the time that a best picture nominated film was banned from being seen by us Aussies is a bit of a concern.
As I said earlier in this post Lon Chaney’s performance as Lennie is quite iconic and it is a shame that it has been overshadowed by his latter role as the Wolf Man. The Lennie character and Chaney’s portrayal of him we re parodied numerous times over the next two decades by animators Tex Avery at MGM and Chuck Jones at Warner Bros with the most obvious parody is the Avery cartoon Lonesome Lenny in which Lenny calls Screwball Squirrel ‘George’ and… well see for yourself.
Of course when ever you see a cartoon character talking about ‘tending the rabbits’ they are parodying Chaney.
Also I think Burgess Meredith’s performance as George should be mentioned. Most people only know Meredith as The Penguin from the Batman TV series or as Mickey from the Rocky films, so it is good to see him in his younger days. He gives a great performance as George who is always looking out for the ‘slow witted’ Lennie as can be seen in the final scene where he must make a harrowing decision.
Overall this is a prety good film. I have previously seen the 1980s version with Randy Quaid as Lennie but feel that this version was much better. It is of course based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel which is also a great read.
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The Good Earth
Directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming & Gustav Machatý
Produced by Irving Thalberg
Written by Pearl S. Buck (novel)
Donald Davis (play)
Owen Davis (play)
Talbot Jennings
Tess Slesinger
Claudine West
Starring Paul Muni
Luise Rainer
Walter Connolly
Tilly Losch
Charley Grapewin
Music by Herbert Stothart
Edward Ward
Cinematography Karl Freund
Editing by Basil Wrangell
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
I like old movies but even I can see that one area where old-Hollywood got things dreadfully wrong was with race. Even in the 21st century this has been one area where the movies have struggled although things are better than they were when The Good Earth was made in 1937. Firstly you’d expect a film about Chinese farmers in China to feature Chinese actors playing the roles, but you’d be really wrong. Here Paul Muni of Scarface fame plays Wang Lung, whilst Luise Rainer won the best actress Oscar (her second) for her portrayal of O-Lan despite the fact that she did so with a heavy German accent.
Apparently producer Irving Thalberg wanted to cast and all Chinese cast but Louis B. Mayer thought that the film going public would not be ready for this. Anna Mae Wong was asked to play Lotus, the seductress, to give the film some authenticity, but she angrily declined the role because she was angry that all the main roles were played in yellow-face by Caucasians and that she would be asked to play the least sympathetic role.
Over-all the acting is hammy, the dialogue ridiculous and stereotypes abound. The film may have been tolerable if there had been Asians at least playing the Asian characters as the yellow-face just makes the film worse than it probably is.
By the way just a note to all Foxtel subscribers that everyone gets the movie channels free for the next two weeks. I saw The Good Earth on TCM.
Monarch of the Movie Set (online.wsj.com)
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2016 EB Candidate – Marco Villa
Name Marco Villa
Nationality Italian
Residence Milan, Italy
NomCom Recommendation Strongly recommended
Professional Career I am a Partner of Training Factor, an international consulting group specialising in leadership and innovation and the owner and Managing Director of a boutique venture firms specialising in equity investments in high-potential start-up businesses. Prior to my consulting efforts I was involved in managing the global office of PwC, where I have also been the initiator and manager of the global leadership development program for high potential partners. I am a business angel and a co-founder of Italian Angels for Growth, the largest angel group in Italy.
AIESEC Experience Local Committee Member, AIESEC in Milano Cattolica, Italy, 1990/91 Local Committee Exchange Controller, AIESEC in Milano Cattolica, Italy, 1991/92 Local Committee President, AIESEC in Milano Cattolica, Italy, 1992/93 National Training Team, AIESEC in Italy, 1993/94 National Committee Vice President NCVPI, AIESEC in Italy, 1994/95 AIESEC International Support Team in 1997/98 Undertook a traineeship with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the United Kingdom in 1999/2000.
Alumni Experience Active alumnus for the past 20+ years, Chaired various conferences in Italy and abroad (including IPM), Member of the AI Supervisory Group 2003-2005, Inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame (2004), Recipient of the Italian Alumni Contribution Award (twice), Vice President of AIESEC Alumni Italia (2012-2014), Presently Senior Advisor of AIESEC Alumni Italia and member of the Supervisory Group of AIESEC in Italy.
What is your vision for AAI? To fully awake the sleeping giant and become bigger, better, more relevant and more connected than any other Alumni organisation on the planet could ever dream to be.
What skills and perspective would you bring to the Executive Board? As a seasoned corporate trainer and guest lecturer on leadership and innovation, I believe I can actively contribute to AAI’s effort towards the Global Alumni Leadership Initiative. My experience in creating innovation ecosystems can be beneficial for the growth of the ISUM initiative. Generally speaking, I am known for making things happen and the fact that I am on the road for almost 300 days every year can be helpful to connect with Alumni worldwide and promote AAI and its various initiatives.
What, specifically, would you most like to work on as an EB member? I believe the fact that I constantly visit different countries can be a real asset, that can be exploited in accordance with the indications of the EB. Other than that, I have a specific interest for GALI, ISUM and A Groups.
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Salvatore Lombardo
Head of Special Situation BNL – BNP Paribas previously 14 years in pwc – advisory in deals
National committee in Italy (VP finance and HR) and Malta. Now AIESEC ALUMNI ITALY President I have known Marco since Since 1997 – he involved me in AA ITALY.
He has a fantastic feeling with Aiesec and Aiesec alumni in Italy and worlwide. He has a strong relationship both professionally and personally. I believe is a great asset for the association, with a strong leadership and an incredible international background.
A great international background. He has worked in all continents with success. He is a professional trainer with a great track record and very high level relationship both at work and AiesecAlumni environment.
Financial Investment Specialist
MCP, Singapore 1986-87 / President, AIESEC Alumni Asia Pacific 2013-15 I have known Marco for four years.
Marco exhibits the passion and motivation required for the role and being a frequent traveller globally for his work, this makes him ideal to meet AIESEC alumni as well in many countries to promote AAI.
Training and HR skills as well as global connections.
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The Next Best Option: What is Hawaiian Airlines’ Boeing 717 Replacement?
June 6, 2018 Ian McMurtry Planes
A Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 717 (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Ian McMurtry)
While the narrowbody market tends to show the overarching use that the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 can bring to an airline, there are some narrowbody holes that are slowly being exposed as older model aircraft age. One example is the Boeing 757, whose versatility has proven that no one aircraft can replace it. Another much less common one is the Hawaiian Airlines inter-island fleet of Boeing 717s, which are starting to show age with the airline claiming there is no true replacement on the market.
The Boeing 717s were originally purchased in the 1990s and brought in to replace the Douglas DC-9 fleet that the airline had operated since 1979. The first aircraft was received in Hawaii in 2001 with the airline taking delivery of 18 aircraft in the years following. But while the Boeing 717 was important to Hawaiian, the aircraft failed to sell well overall with only 156 being made in its eight-year production life.
With the Boeing 717 production ending in 2006 and showing no signs of a return, Hawaiian will at some point have to turn to looking at newer aircraft types to replace the current inter-island fleet. However, the airline’s next five years and the surrounding aviation market will play a huge role in what Hawaiian strategies are.
As Southwest starts to plan inter-island service to Hawaii, any change in the market could see the airline either upgradeor downgauge the aircraft that they use depending on the market. Should Southwest fail and Hawaii continues to see increasing demand, the airline could upgrade its fleet to the Boeing 737-7 MAX, which in its less dense formation could see as little as 138 seats. If the opposite occurs and Hawaiian needs to downgauge, the airline could turn to a smaller aircraft such as a Bombardier CRJ-1000 or Embraer E190-E2.
But currently, the best one-to-one replacement that is on the market is the Bombardier C-Series, which is soon to start U.S. service with Delta. Delta’s trial run with the C-Series could sway Hawaiian, with Delta using the C-Series to replace much older MD-80s in hopes of turning a larger profit as fuel prices continue to climb. Statically, when compared to the Boeing 717, the C-Series currently offers as many as 13 more seats and an increased range by 1000 miles.
This change in mileage may not seem important for inter-island travel but for Hawaiian, it could be huge. The airline currently performs heavy maintenance on the 717s in Oakland, California which is 2,300 miles from Hawaii. With the 717s range of 2,090 miles the aircraft must be retrofitted with extra fuel tanks to make the journey to the U.S. mainland. But with the C-Series, this change would no longer be necessary since the range on the C-Series is 3,100 miles.
When comparing the three new options, C-Series is also the middle of the road jet between the E190-E2 and Boeing 737MAX with the E190 holding 108-114 seats max and the 737 holding between 138-172 seats. The C-Series also splits the two on range, with the E190 covering 2,880 miles and the 737MAX maxing out its range at 3,850 miles.
A Hawaiian Airlines 717 (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Ian McMurtry)
In the short term Hawaiian plans to remain committed to using the Boeing 717 with the carrier overhauling the fleet with new cabin interiors and adopting a uniform seating arrangement of 8 first and 120 economy seats in 2015. The airline has also expanded the fleet to 20 while also replacing older Boeing 717 models that have hit high cycle counts with ex-Mexicana and ex-Volotea models that have been delivered in 2012 and again in 2017.
The carrier also plans to continue the trend of replacing the Boeing 717 with other Boeing 717s as their current fleet hit their cycle limit. However, this could prove to be an issue for the airline as the current operators of the fleet type have no plans on removing them from the fleet, with some even looking to acquire extra Boeing 717s if possible due to the aircraft’s ability to serve smaller markets without regional jet use.
While a Boeing to Boeing replacement seems possible for the narrowbodies, Hawaiian has shown they are willing to expand outside of the United States in terms of looking for aircraft in recent years, breaking apart their all Boeing lineup of Boeing 767s and 717s that operated in the early 2000s with the newer fleet seeing the addition of the Airbus A330 and A321neo to service both Asia and America. The airline has also added the ATR 42 to its inter-island fleet, with the prop plane being used for smaller island or less popular routes.
While the future of Hawaiian’s inter-island fleet remains unchanged with the 717s being around for a while, the airline will someday have to look into replacing the jet. And while the DC-9 family Hawaiian has trusted for years has come to an end with the 717, the airline will now to find a new source for its short hops.
Ian McMurtry
Although Ian McMurtry was never originally an avgeek, he did enjoy watching US Airways aircraft across western Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. He lived along the Pennsylvania Railroad and took a liking to trains but a change of scenery in the mid-2000s saw him shift more of an interest into aviation. He would eventually express this passion by taking flying lessons in mid-Missouri and joining AirlineGeeks in 2013. Now living in Wichita, Kansas, Ian is in college majoring in aerospace engineering and minoring in business administration at Wichita State University.
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This Battle in Versailles Was All About Fashion
March 5, 2018Style
On November 28, 1973, American designers Halston, Bill Blass, Stephen Burrows, Oscar de la Renta and Anne Klein won over the French fashion world with a show in France that made history.
The occasion was a joint French and American fashion show at the Queen's Theater in Versailles to raise funds for the Versailles Restoration Fund.
Halston was one of five designers chosen to represent America. The other four were Stephen Burrows, Anne Klein, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta.
The French contingent comprised Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Emmanuel Ungaro and Marc Bohan for Christian Dior.
As to be expected with all this talent in one room, there was major drama. According to 'Halston, An American Original', from which this account was sourced, the French rehearsed until 10 p.m. without providing the Americans food, water, ashtrays, even toilet paper in the dressing rooms.
When the Americans finally had the stage to themselves, the French electricians left (union hours, naturellement) and the heat was turned off. Any camaraderie the group had at the beginning dissolved into bickering. Fortunately they found the sense to stop arguing and start plotting their revenge. And the best way to do that was to have the better show.
It was decided that the American segment, which had a Halston-clad Liza Minnelli for its opening and closing acts, would feature clothes from all the designers at the beginning, followed by the individual collections. Minnelli would then close the segment.
The night of the show, every seat had been sold out at the theatre. The French designers went first with an elaborate 20th century version of what would have been a show at the court of Louis XVI.
It had a live orchestra, floats, French actress Capucine, dancer Rudolf Nureyev and a finale featuring 67-year-old Josephine Baker accompanied by strippers from the famous Crazy Horse Saloon. It was an hour and a half long lavish production that spared no detail.
In contrast, the American designers presented a zippy 35-minute segment. It opened with Minnelli singing Bonjour Paris, the models dancing down the runway in beige and off-white raincoats and umbrellas. There were no sets; just lighting, simple scenery, and the hot music of the day.
The individual collections were three minutes long. Minnelli closed the show singing Cabaret and Au Revoir Paris, clad in a black and silver Halston gown while the entire cast was seated at white tables onstage, all dressed in various shades of black. It was Broadway slick, better than any concert, and completely brought the house down.
Even before the Americans made their last bow, the usually sedate French audience was shouting and throwing their programs in the air. St. Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge were screaming their heads off in joy. Ungaro was unhappy. "We should have realized that the Americans would know how to put on a show," he groused later to Time magazine.
Perhaps the best compliment was paid by an anonymous French socialite in Newsweek, who said of the American designers: "They are like someone who gets invited into your home for dinner and then runs off with your wife and the silverware as well."
Tags:Anne KleinBill BlassEmmanuel UngaroHalstonHubert de GivenchyMarc BohanOscar de la RentaPierre CardinStephen BurrowsVersailles 1973Yves Saint Laurent
August 1, 2018Style
The Little Black Dress And 9 Other Innovations Credited To Coco Chanel
August 19 marks the 135th birthday of Coco Chanel, the milliner-turned-fashion designer whose style ethos remains uncannily modern year after year.
Everyone is familiar with Chanel, the brand, but not everyone knows that the house’s founder was behind some of the 20th century’s most iconic classics. Below are just 10 of these innovations credited to Coco Chanel.
1. Dropwaist dresses
A Chanel-clad Marion Morehouse, the third wife of poet e.e. cummings, photographed by Edward Steichen in 1926. She was said to be the first true supermodel.
At the turn of the 20th century, women’s fashion was both ornate and uncomfortable. Hats were enormous, embellished with flowers, feathers and gauze. A stylish silhouette meant corsets maids had to lace one into, whaleboned bodices and triple-strapped pointed shoes that could only be fastened with a button hook. Walking was a struggle with yards of fabric getting entangled in legs.
In 1916, Chanel debuted a new silhouette that was positively rebellious. Her dresses were shorter, revealing a woman’s ankles, and had no waists. Instead, there was a scarf or belt that was loosely tied at the hips, making corsets obsolete and allowing women to breathe free.
Chanel reportedly said ‘I gave women’s bodies their freedom back’, but ironically the dropwaist dress gave rise to a different, equally tyrannical species of shapewear. Breast-binding bras came into vogue as women tried to achieve the sleek, lithe profile necessary to carry off the ‘charming chemise’, as American fashion editors called it.
2. Bobbed hair
Chanel sported a bob pretty much throughout her life. Photos from Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux and A Matter of Style by Valeria Manferto de Fabianis.
In 1917, Chanel adopted the polarizing haircut that took the female world by storm when Irene Castle had her hair shorn. Bobbed hair was a radical departure from the long tresses of yore. It was frowned upon by the older generation, who assumed that women with bobbed hair were ‘fast’ and disreputable. Flappers took to it as they took to the drop waist dress, driving and smoking.
Chanel stuck to her signature hair style throughout her life, accenting it with head gear like cloche hats, berets and ribbons. A bob was liberating, modern and a very visual break from the past, themes that were consistently reflected in Chanel’s fashions.
3. Trousers for women
Coco Chanel and her friend, opera singer Marthe Davelli in trousers, circa 1929. Photo from Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
If bobs were polarizing, women wearing pants was an outrage in Chanel’s younger years.
As early as 1912, Chanel was wearing jodhpurs that she had borrowed from a groom and copied by a tailor. At that time, women who rode horses did so wearing their long hair fully coiffed under a top hat, clad in society-approved apron skirts that concealed breeches. They also rode side saddle, as befitted ladies of good breeding.
Chanel had started wearing sailor’s pants in Deauville, where she opened a boutique in 1913, as a modest alternative to the cumbersome swimwear of the Edwardian era. At the cusp of the 1930s, Chanel introduced trousers for women that were loose and elegant, yachting pants as they were soon to be known.
4. The little black dress
The little black dress that started it all in 1926 and Chanel working on its reincarnation in the 1950s. Left photo via Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux and right photo from A Matter of Style by Valeria Manferto de Fabianis.
Arguably the most famous little black dress would be Audrey Hepburn’s Givenchy sheath in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The distinction of creating the little black dress in the first place though, belongs to Coco Chanel.
The illustrated black dress on the left was featured in Vogue’s American edition in 1926. The magazine predicted that this sheath of crepe de chine would become a uniform for women, a concept that was radical in itself. Vogue argued that one would not hesitate to buy a car that looked similar to other cars on the road if it was known for its quality. ‘Here is a Ford named Chanel,’ Vogue said.
The reception to the little black dress was as divisive as drop waist dresses, bobbed hair and pants on women. Male journalists bemoaned the loss of bosoms, waists and bums. Two more Chanel LBDs were featured in French Vogue in 1927, both dropwaist, knee-length and sleeveless, spurring one of the biggest names in fashion then, Paul Poiret, to utter his most famous lines:
‘What has Chanel invented? Poverty de luxe. Formerly women were architectural, like the prows of ships, and very beautiful. Now they resemble little undernourished telegraph clerks.’
5. Costume jewelry
Original Verdura Maltese cross cuffs from 1930 created for Chanel. Photo from Vintage Jewelry Design by Caroline Cox.
With the advent of the little black dress, a new canvas was born that begged for adornment. Wearing full-on jewels though was a hallmark of the past; Chanel’s brilliant idea was to use glass instead of real gems. One of the quotes attributed to her on the subject was ‘I love fakes because I find such jewelry provocative, and I find it disgraceful to walk around with millions around your neck just because you’re rich.’
Chanel’s boutiques started selling fake jewels in 1921, but really came into their own when the designer collaborated with Maison Gripoix, a firm known for its glass jewelry. The poured glass gems were striking, designed to evoke different stylistic periods from Byzantine to Art Deco.
One of the most recognizable costume jewelry pieces made for Chanel were the Maltese cross cuffs created by Fulco di Verdura who started his career at Chanel as the head of textiles. Chanel had passed him jewels given to her by Grand Duke Dimitri, her former lover, to be reset. Verdura crafted the gems into dramatic, hinged cuffs that became a Chanel signature.
6. Sunbathing
Chanel sunbathing with sister Gabrielle in 1918 (left) and ‘elegant internationals’ sunning themselves in Tangier in 1964. Left photo from Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux and right photo from Look Magazine, January 1964.
Tans were a no-no in young Coco’s time. Brown skin implied that you had to labor outdoors for a living, while a lily-white complexion indicated an aristocratic existence where zero work was involved.
This view changed in 1923 when Chanel, now a confirmed celebrity, accidentally got sunburned on a cruise in the Riviera. The photographs of her with bronzed skin gave rise to a new beauty ideal. Tanned skin now meant wealth and status — only the rich could hang out on beaches throughout the year while the masses shivered at home.
Sunbathing became so fashionable that even Vogue back in 1927 had their say on it. ‘One has to be sunburned smartly, and to be so, one must needs make a serious business of it: First of acquiring it, then of dressing for it. And those who don’t recognise the importance of this credo are apt to be more sunburned than smart.’
7. Shoulder bags with chain straps
Catherine Deneuve with Johnny Hallyday. That’s a Chanel bag nestled under her arm.
The most coveted It Bag in the world is Chanel’s iconic 2.55 flap bag, named after the date that she unveiled it in February 1955. Legend has it that its bordeaux lining was inspired by the clothing she wore as an orphan on charity, yet this seems quite curious given the extent the designer went to in concealing her origins. Young women of means at the type of boarding school that Chanel attended, however, wore fine cashmere garments in a distinct garnet shade. Could the bag’s interior color have been inspired by them?
1955 was a memorable year for Chanel. The year before, she had launched her first collection after an absence of 15 years, an absence where Christian Dior was now the star of couture after introducing his New Look in 1947. Chanel’s designs seemed antiquated and severe in comparison, and the French press gave her 1954 comeback savage reviews.
Across the pond, it was a different story. Chanel’s new collection was warmly received by the American press and sold out on Seventh Avenue. Against all odds the out-of-touch couturiere was back in demand, her style philosophy — ‘A garment must be logical’ — making complete sense to a new generation.
The 2.55 bag she launched in 1955 embodied the chic functionality Chanel sought in every thing she produced. Every feature was thoroughly thought through. For example, the chain straps acted as jewelry while their shoulder length freed up women’s hands.
Through its many iterations through the decades, Chanel’s quilted bag remains a constant style aspiration, proof of the enduring genius of its design. Only perhaps Hermes’ Kelly and Birkin bags are as recognized and coveted, having also stood the test of time.
8. Tweed suits
Chanel tweed suits through the ages, left to right: Snappy ensembles featured in Vogue, January 1964; an abbreviated pastel jacket and skirt from Vogue, March 1990; style blogger Alexandra Lapp in the modern incarnation of jeans and Chanel jacket.
Another great example of Chanel’s appropriation of an unassuming medium and repurposing it into a timeless creation is her signature tweed suit.
Tweed is a sturdy woolen fabric normally associated with outdoor pursuits such as hunting, shooting and cycling. When Chanel took up with her English lover, the Duke of Westminster, in the mid-1920s, she liberally borrowed his tweed jackets for outdoor activities. It must have been these tweeds that inspired her to create her first tweed garments in the 1930s, and eventually the skirt suit that became a hallmark of her design house.
Charming as it is, Chanel suits are designed with engineer-worthy functional rigor. For example, a slim chain is sewn into each jacket’s lining at the hem, weighing down the garment for a perfect silhouette. It’s just one of the many fastidious details Chanel introduced that put her designs in a league of their own.
9. The two-tone shoe
Chanel’s two-tone shoe is both versatile and flattering.
The little tweed suit. The cascades of faux pearls. The quilted flap bag with chain handles. All these are elements in a quintessential head-to-toe look that, although aped by many, will always be attributed to Chanel. And that look is punctuated by the two-tone shoe that she introduced in 1957.
Sporting a sensible heel, the shoe had a beige body that seemed like an extension of the foot, ending in a black cap toe. The silhouette was immensely flattering, visually lengthening the leg. ‘We leave in the morning with a beige and black, we lunch with beige and black, we go to a cocktail party with beige and black,’ Chanel reportedly said during the shoe’s launch. ‘We are dressed from morning to night!’
Like the 2.55 bag, the two-tone shoe sports a new look season after season while retaining its core stylistic elements.
10. Synthetics in fragrance
Catherine Deneuve in a Chanel No. 5 ad from 1977
Before the 1920s, women’s fragrances were powdery, floral, single-note concoctions that were at stark odds with Chanel’s bold designs. She teamed up with premier perfume blender Ernest Beaux in 1921 to create a fragrance that would be like no other.
Beaux played around with multiple notes and, among the samples he provided the designer, one was truly unique. It contained aldehydes, synthetic compounds that added a mesmerizing sparkle to the natural essences. This scent didn’t smell like a rose or a lily. It smelt complex and memorable, like a woman.
It was this sample, the fifth that Beaux presented, that captivated Chanel. Hence the name Chanel No. 5.
Chanel broke tradition not just with the use of aldehydes, which kick started the great aldehydic florals in history, but also with package design. No. 5’s rectangular bottle was minimalist, almost severely so, and square, like a whiskey flask. It was the complete antithesis of the elaborate, sculpted crystal fragrance bottles that were characteristic of the time. Designed for the machine age, the bottle remains fresh and current nearly 100 years after its conception.
‘Elegance is refusal,’ is one of Chanel’s most famous quotes. Perhaps it is this maxim that is at the heart of her success, and why the looks she championed continue to endure.
Photo of Alexandra Lapp in Chanel first appeared on her fashion blog.
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Use This Handy Asset Checklist For Branding or Rebranding
The exciting thing about branding is starting a new identity from scratch. In the case of rebranding, it’s giving something old and tired a new lease on life.
What’s not quite as fun are the million-and-one fiddly details that go into the exercise.
Stuff like:
Are the design team and me talking about the same thing? Like, is a stacked logo a square logo?
Are we covering all the items we truly need? Are we forgetting some that are actually important or, conversely, overdoing it and thereby incurring more expense?
Are we all on the same page about approval circuits and building in approval time before launch?
There are many excellent and free branding brief templates to furnish your agency or designer, such as this one from FreshSparks. What’s not so common is a laundry list of all the assets that should be covered by the process. A list sets the foundation for budgeting, timing and organizing. A list grounds you.
So here’s my version that I’ve used several times, from rebranding a 44-country international firm to creating a brand new identity for a digital agency. You can download it as a Word doc as well.
It’s a rare case where all items on this list will be checked off. B2B companies would require more of the digital templates while an e-commerce outfit would need a fuller range of ad formats. Feel free to adjust as necessary.
Logo/brand mark
Tesla’s brand guidelines specify the amount of clear space required around the brand mark, as well as where it should appear. For example, the logo should never be placed on a highly patterned background or photograph is
Square/stacked
Files should be in as many formats as possible: JPG, PNG, EPS, AI. Include sizes that can be used for larger formats such as outdoor signage and as small as a favicon. The wide range of measurements will test the skill of your designer, as the brand mark has to look good at 16px (a favicon’s size) as it would wrapped around the side of a building.
Beats By Dre’s typography embodies its brand: Solid and contemporary, almost masculine.
A normal number of fonts to start with would be two, a serif and a sans serif that complement each other. Depending on the brand’s needs, you may also want to commission a script or another distinct font for headlines.
Exercise good sense in choosing fonts. The more fanciful or rare ones require a license which can be cost-prohibitive when purchasing it for multiple users.
In addition, clients who do not have these fonts in their systems will find that any documents you sent them have defaulted to Times New Roman or Arial, not to mention the formatting has all gone off. Remember that Google Fonts are good looking and free!
AirBnB’s color palette has 9 shades but 6 shades is a good number to start with.
Dominant color 1
Accent color 1
Picking brand colors must be one of the most enjoyable parts of a brand exercise. If you want to play around with colors yourself, have a go using these tools.
Digital templates
From cover slide to bullet styles, your PowerPoint presentation should be consistent with your brand. Future Prospect PowerPoint template by Jumsoft.
PowerPoint or Keynote presentation
PowerPoint or Keynote charts – Pie, bar, stacked bar, line, etc.
One-page brochure
House ads – Leaderboard, mobile leaderboard, wide skyscraper, large rectangle, medium rectangle, billboard
Digital templates are the workhorses of your brand asset library. In the absence of guidelines, users tend to put their own creative stamp on common documents. Nip these in the bud by providing a full spectrum of branded applications.
Social media assets
Aman’s Instagram account is serene and luxurious, just like the resort company itself.
Headers – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn
Normally social media assets are cobbled together internally by the marketing or social media team. If so, it never hurts to run mockups by the brand steward or designer to gauge brand cohesiveness. Future iterations can then be created with pointers in mind.
Print can be a surprisingly strong way to anchor your brand. Cards by Jukebox Print.
Letter envelopes
Catalog or document envelopes
Note card or compliments slip
Mailing label
We like to think that print has gone the way of the mastodons, but marketers are discovering that in the mad rush to go digital, emptier mailboxes mean better opportunities to showcase your brand. Did you know that direct mail as a percentage of all mail went up in 2016? And never underestimate the power of the humble receipt to carry brand messaging.
Lobby signage doesn’t have to be boring. Slack offices in Toronto, courtesy of Office Snapshots.
Lobby signage
Directional signage
Glass vinyl graphics
Exterior signage
Think of signage as another canvas for your brand. How can you use that space to communicate your brand’s key attributes?
Trade show assets
This Ray-Ban tradeshow booth certainly turned heads at an ophthalmology conference in Milan. Photo courtesy of Trive Digest.
Trade show booth
Table drapery
Apart from their networking benefits, conferences and trade shows are prime opportunities to build brand awareness. You may not have the budget of Ray-Ban in creating a stunning booth, but never underestimate how a well designed retractable banner can stop traffic.
People are still talking about this bucket of gummy bears that the New York Post gave away during Advertising Week 2014.
Branded premiums
Branded attire
Vehicle wrap
Other application 1
Want to make this list yours? Download it as a Word document.
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Outstanding Dark Shadows Movie Made by Tim Burton Will be Published in 2012!
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Presidents Alvaro Colom of Guatemala and Porfirio Lobo Sosa of Honduras were both in Belize on Friday for the Central American Summit of the Integration Movement. While in San Pedro on a five hour visit, the presidents spoke exclusively to this station in the margins of the SICA summit. News Five’s Delahnie Bain has that report.
Delahnie Bain, Reporting
The pro-tempore leadership of the Central American Integration System (SICA) transitioned to Guatemala with last Friday’s summit in San Pedro. Taking the reins is President, Alvaro Colom, who says the territorial dispute with Belize is top on his agenda.
Alvaro Colom, President of Guatemala
Alvaro Colom
“I think today we made an evolution towards a more solid, complete and integral integration. I think there is great willingness among states, although we all have problems among ourselves. But the most important thing is for the Central American spirit to strengthen.”
Marleni Cuellar
“Taking up the presidency next semester for SICA, what are your primary objectives?”
“I believe that firstly, one of the important issues is to continue to push the resolution of the problems between ourselves. Secondly, strengthen the instructions of the Central American issues and thirdly not to abandon the process, which I think is the most important, continue to strengthen.”
Another president who flew in for the summit was Porfirio Lobo Sosa of Honduras. He was elected following a coup de tat, ousting former president Manuel Zelaya last June. Sosa says the transition is going well.
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa, President of Honduras
“In Honduras we have a strong and firm process of national reconciliation. We began the national dialogue. We have complied with the mandate of this government. We are following the road of having consultations with the different organizations of the society for us to balance what are the measures for the rights of democracy, not only representation wise, but also participatory. We a looking to be able to have a large assembly by mid next year where we have representatives from all those organizations that through the election process do not have representation.”
OAS Secretary General, Jose Manuel Insulza, was also on hand for the event and gave an update on the status of the Belize/Guatemala land dispute going to the ICJ.
Jose Manuel Insulza, Secretary General, OAS
Jose Manuel Insulza
“I think that everything is going fine. We’re just waiting for the congress of Belize to take the matter to court and then the countries will have to agree to call referendums in each country to approve that. Guatemala already approved that in congress so we’re awaiting the Belize decision and then we’re hoping that the countries will call the referendums as soon as possible and then we go to court. But everything is going well I think. My role is just to be a facilitator. I’ve made my suggestion and I assume that this is going to court, I hope, next year or 2012. And then we’ll have to wait for three more years or three or four years, which is usually the time that the court in the Hague takes. And that should settle the matter. They will make a decision on the presentations that the countries make and draw the border where they think that it is according to international law.”
The overall atmosphere of the summit was for the further strengthening of institutions that prevail in Central American countries including security arrangements. Delahnie Bain for News Five.
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Energy Efficiency by Sector
Local Energy Policy
Technical Assistance Toolkit
Benchmarking Initiatives in the Multifamily Market
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Multifamily property owners and managers are often unaware of how their buildings’ energy performance compares to that of similar buildings. This lack of information can make them reluctant to invest in energy efficiency and, more broadly, can lead to the undervaluing of energy-efficient buildings in real estate appraisals. To address this market failure, localities across the United States are taking steps to facilitate widespread benchmarking in the multifamily sector. These initiatives encourage or require property owners to report their annual energy consumption. Increasingly, utility companies are also assisting in these efforts by providing these owners with whole-building energy consumption data. Coupled together, these efforts can help owners and managers identify energy saving opportunities and give investors, energy efficiency program administrators, and policymakers a more complete picture of local building stock energy performance.
Although many localities have long targeted municipal and commercial buildings with benchmarking initiatives, they have only recently included multifamily properties in these efforts. We therefore know less about the energy savings and other effects of benchmarking for the multifamily market. This toolkit summarizes the available research focused specifically on benchmarking this sector. We include research on how benchmarking stimulates the market for efficient multifamily buildings, current policy characteristics, documented savings from programs, and recommendations for future initiatives.
Drivers for Benchmarking in the Multifamily Market
Benefits to Cities
In addition to making multifamily building energy data more transparent, cities are adopting benchmarking policies and programs to meet goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Dillingham and Badoian-Kriticos 2016). To reach these goals, cities are implementing these initiatives to increase awareness of energy waste and generate increased investments in energy efficiency (Schulte et al. 2016). These investments ultimately make cities more desirable for residents and businesses by improving quality of life, increasing property values, and adding new jobs. The US Department of Energy reports that every $1 million of energy savings yields 6.11 direct jobs, 0.95 indirect jobs, and 2.82 induced jobs (DOE 2015).
Benefits to Building Owners and Tenants
Building owners, managers, and investors can use benchmarking data to understand how a building’s baseload energy consumption, and therefore its bottom-line energy costs, compare to similar buildings. Digital and automated benchmarking tools can make these complicated energy data easy to understand. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Portfolio Manager tool is the most widely known; it uses a building’s energy use intensity (EUI), typically expressed as energy used per square foot, along with building and climate characteristics to calculate a normalized ENERGY STAR® score.[1] This score allows building owners and tenants to compare the energy use of their building against similar buildings, without having to understand complicated energy concepts.
Without this information, building owners, managers, and investors struggle to accurately value efficiency improvements. For example, the city of Seattle used its benchmarking data to characterize the energy costs of its high-rise multifamily buildings. It found that the most inefficient of these properties could save $31,000 annually if its consumption improved to that of the city’s median high-rise apartment building (Seattle 2015). In this case, benchmarking allowed building owners to conceptualize how reducing energy consumption ultimately reduces operation and maintenance costs.
When building energy performance is publicly disclosed, it also lets tenants factor in the energy costs of an apartment or condominium before deciding to rent or buy a unit. Property owners can thus benefit from increased demand for efficient buildings. Studies have shown that ENERGY STAR certified buildings are more marketable, command higher rental rates, and have increased asset value at resale (A Better City 2012).
Benefits to Utilities
Building owners’ ability to benchmark their properties is often dependent on the availability of whole-building energy data from the utility. More than 60% of multifamily households pay for their individual energy costs rather than having at least some portion of those costs included in rent; as a result, these building owners are unaware of in-unit energy performance (EIA 2017). Due to privacy and confidentiality policies, utilities often do not provide individual housing unit data to building owners without first getting authorization from each tenant. This is frequently infeasible and places a burden on owners and managers, who must try to collect and enter individual tenant data themselves (Krukowski and Burr 2012). Several utilities are simplifying the process of obtaining these data for benchmarking by providing automated online aggregate whole-building data to owners while protecting customer privacy by aggregating tenant data, removing all identifying information, and restricting use of the data solely to evaluating energy efficiency (ACEEE 2014).
The provision of whole-building aggregate data can enhance a utility’s relationship with multifamily customers. It lifts the burden of obtaining tenant energy data off property owners, and ensures that building energy data used for benchmarking are easily accessible. Providing this information shows multifamily customers that utility companies can be helpful partners in energy saving projects. In turn, this increases the likelihood that building owner and managers will participate in energy efficiency programs (Krukowski 2014). Commonwealth Edison provides an example of how this can work. Prior to 2008, many multifamily owners and managers in Chicago wanted to benchmark their buildings’ energy use but did not have access to whole-building usage data. In response, Commonwealth Edison created its online Energy Usage Data System (EUDS), which provides aggregate whole-building data through both an online interface and downloadable spreadsheet. EUDS has enabled high compliance rates for Chicago’s benchmarking ordinance and increased participation in the utility’s efficiency programs (DOE 2016a).
Beyond increased program participation, benchmarking data can inform utility programs about buildings that should be targeted with incentives for efficiency audits and retrofits. For example, the Massachusetts Low Income Energy Affordability Network benchmarked 75% of its affordable multifamily housing stock. The program then used the data to qualify buildings for program incentives, rather than using audits as a required first step. This process ultimately saved program administrators $2.2 million by forgoing preliminary audits on all potential participants (Krukowski 2014). As seen with this example, benchmarking holds the potential to create more cost-effective energy efficiency programs.
Current Benchmarking Policies
Localities have adopted both voluntary benchmarking programs and mandatory ordinances. However cities with required benchmarking ordinances have a greater number of benchmarked buildings than those with optional programs, ultimately providing a clearer picture of the sector’s energy use. Currently, 18 cities require multifamily properties to benchmark their energy use; table 1 outlines the characteristics of their mandatory policies.[2]
Table 1. Multifamily building benchmarking disclosure ordinance provisions by city
a Some cities exempt owners who cannot obtain whole-building data from their utility. The following terms denote these policies. Exempt: Only master-metered buildings must comply. Partial: Must submit any available information. Modeled: Submit any available information, and use values determined by the local government for missing information.
As table 1 shows, most mandatory multifamily benchmarking initiatives share common transparency requirements, create training and help centers to aid with compliance, and are complemented by access to utility-provided aggregate whole-building data. We now discuss each of these major elements.
Energy Data Transparency
Sharing benchmarking data is essential if ordinances are to be effective. Currently, all ordinances require data disclosure to the local government and the public. At a minimum, the public can download the data from online data portals. However simply sharing benchmarking data does not guarantee energy savings. To increase investments in energy efficiency, cities must encourage owners, managers, and tenants to use benchmarking data to evaluate building performance. To engage these individuals, cities are increasingly turning to data visualization as a communication tool. Chicago (2016) provides an online map, which includes the EUI and ENERGY STAR score for each of its benchmarked buildings. The map allows the public to easily compare the energy consumption of buildings and ultimately motivates owners to increase the efficiency of their properties.[3]
Training and Help Centers
Most cities provide training and help centers to assist building owners and managers with ordinance compliance. Staff members typically answer questions, facilitate communications between owners and their utility, and review accounts. The city of Seattle serves as an example of how help centers contribute to the success of benchmarking ordinances. In 2013, the city had a 99% compliance rate, the highest in the nation (Seattle 2013). The center hired Resource Media, a nonprofit communications firm, to determine the extent to which the help center contributed to this high compliance rate (Slobe and Heller 2014). After analyzing the center’s monthly logs and conducting customer interviews, the firm concluded that the help desk played a major role in boosting compliance rates and data accuracy (Slobe and Heller 2014).
Provision of Whole-Building Aggregate Data by Utility
Utilities must dedicate resources and staff to provide multifamily properties with whole-building aggregate data, and benchmarking initiatives have played a role in driving efforts to develop this infrastructure. In many cases, utilities have agreed to provide aggregate whole-building energy data prior to the passage of a benchmarking mandate. However this is not true in all cases. For example, when Washington D.C. passed its benchmarking ordinance in 2008, local utilities did not have the capacity to provide multifamily customers with aggregate whole-building data. Consequently, owners and managers found it difficult to comply (DOE 2016c). As a result, the city facilitated a stakeholder engagement process that resulted in the Potomac Electric Power Company and Washington Gas agreeing to provide aggregate data (DOE 2016c). The city later codified this agreement in local law. As this case demonstrates, legislation can be a useful tool in getting utilities to provide aggregate usage data to multifamily buildings.
Using a different approach, Salt Lake City leveraged its voluntary benchmarking policy to urge local utilities to provide aggregate multifamily building data. When the city introduced its voluntary program in January 2015, building owners said they needed whole-building energy data in order to participate (DOE 2016b). In response, city officials held a stakeholder workshop with Rocky Mountain Power and Questar Gas to discuss the issue. By September 2015, Rocky Mountain Power launched Resource Advisor, an online whole-building data access portal. Recently, the city began discussions about adopting a mandatory benchmarking policy (Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office 2017). This example shows that voluntary benchmarking programs may serve as an initial stepping stone for both encouraging utilities to provide aggregate whole-building energy and adopting a mandatory citywide policy.
Current Research on Energy Savings from Benchmarking Programs
In 2012, the Minnesota Department of Commerce commissioned Bright Power to conduct a two-year experimental study examining the outcomes of providing the company’s benchmarking software and technical support to multifamily properties. The experiment’s treatment group received automated whole-building energy use data from utilities, a two-year subscription to Bright Power’s online EnergyScoreCards benchmarking tool, and ongoing support from a dedicated account manager to help with understanding and using benchmarking data (Woodson et al. 2015). Researchers tracked the control group’s energy use over this same period, but they did not give participants access to software or support. Ultimately, the availability of Bright Power’s EnergyScoreCards tool and support services led to a 5% reduction in master-metered multifamily building energy use. Researchers also found that benchmarking was responsible for a 90% increase in the number of treatment group multifamily buildings participating in an electric utility efficiency program.[4]
WegoWise (2017), a company providing similar benchmarking software and support, recently conducted a study of its multifamily customers with the greatest energy and cost savings from benchmarking. The company modeled the effects of energy benchmarking, advanced energy analytics, and building retrofits on the energy use, net operating incomes (NOI), and property values of multifamily buildings.[5] The study concluded that multifamily properties have the potential to reduce energy and water use by at least 4.3% in the first year of using WegoWise’s benchmarking software and support, 8% after two years, and more than 10% over three years. For a 200-unit building with $360,000 in annual utility spending, these savings would translate into a $38,880 decrease in utility costs savings and increase in NOI, along with a $777,000 increase in property value after three years.[6] Researchers further found that if that same property were to undergo an energy retrofit, it would save $106,200 in utility costs after three years and increase its property value by $1.23 million.
As we now describe, studies such as these point to specific actions that cities, utilities, and community organizations can pursue to implement multifamily benchmarking initiatives that will increase energy efficiency.
Creating Benchmarking Programs that Increase Energy Efficiency
Providing Ongoing Support to Building Owners
In 2015, the National Resources Defense Council’s Center for Market Innovation (CMI) guided three owners of multifamily properties receiving housing subsidies in conducting energy benchmarking and audits. CMI assisted them with overcoming multiple information, finance, and operating cost barriers. They ultimately planned retrofits that would reduce building energy use 20-30% with annual savings between $80,000 and $550,000. Payback periods ranged from three to seven years (Mann, Chi-Johnston, and Mugica 2016).
As the Minnesota experiment and other successful programs show, multifamily benchmarking initiatives are more likely to lead to energy savings when accompanied by a support program with at least one or two dedicated full-time staff. These programs are most effective when they help multifamily owners and managers understand and use benchmarking data at little or no cost. A local government agency, multifamily-dedicated utility energy efficiency program, or local community organization can provide necessary support. As has been well-documented with utility-sector efficiency programs, these efforts are most successful when they streamline operations to help owners and managers identify energy saving opportunities at the building portfolio scale, help with planning for comprehensive energy efficiency retrofits, and assist with identifying needed financing or financial incentives (Johnson 2013).
Considering the Needs of Affordable Housing Multifamily Owners
Enterprise Community Partners’ Sustainability Exchange initiative in Chicago assists owners of multifamily affordable housing with conducting energy and water benchmarking, audits, and retrofit projects. In collaboration with Elevate Energy, the program has led to 62% of audited units undergoing successful energy efficiency retrofits (Chicago 2016).
Benchmarking ordinances and programs should consider the unique needs of affordable multifamily property owners and help them overcome challenges in using benchmarking data to pursue energy efficiency upgrades. Because owners and managers of these buildings typically have limited staff and funding, they are often the most in need of support (Mann, Chi-Johnston, and Mugica 2016; Yancey et al. 2015). These properties operate with limited capital and often have funding for energy audits, retro-commissioning, or building retrofits only during a refinance or renovation project. These projects can take several years to plan, because owners often face challenges in securing financing and obtaining the approval of current lenders, investors, and regulators. It is important that benchmarking program staff communicate with owners about energy saving and financing opportunities throughout this process.
Encouraging Follow-up Energy Audits
As part of its Energy Conservation Audit and Disclosure ordinance, Austin requires multifamily buildings to undergo energy audits every 10 years. At first, the city’s apartment community responded negatively to the high cost of audits. To help offset this cost, the city’s electric utility, Austin Energy, increased energy efficiency rebates for both energy audits and building upgrades by 50% for the first two years of the ordinance’s implementation and 25% for the subsequent two years. As a result, program participation increased by 200% over this period (Gomez 2014).
Energy audits are an important complement to benchmarking and transparency policies and programs for multifamily buildings. While benchmarking allows local governments and utilities to identify multifamily buildings most in need of retrofits, energy audits identify specific opportunities to improve the efficiency of building equipment and systems (Krukowski 2014; Yancey et al. 2015). Energy audits can also determine which upgrades will save the most energy. Energy audits can be costly, however, so it is important that government, nonprofit, or utility retrofit programs aim to offer them at little or no cost to owners and managers.
Ensuring Detailed Whole-Building Data
The above practices will be effective only when informed by complete and detailed energy use data. Benchmarking programs and policies should guide multifamily owners and managers in reporting complete whole-building data that include information detailing a building’s age, height, and primary heating fuel (Yancey et al. 2015). This information allows local governments to accurately project the energy savings potential for both the entire stock and specific segments of multifamily buildings. These data also help utilities determine which energy conservation measures can be offered by energy efficiency programs to improve the least-efficient buildings.
The Building Energy Exchange analyzed New York City’s benchmarking data project savings for multifamily buildings. Researchers segmented buildings based on when they were constructed (before or after World War II), their primary heating fuel, and their height. Analysis of these data revealed the types of energy efficiency measures that would most benefit a building segment given its building design and fuel system (Yancey et al. 2015).
Conducting Further Research
Finally, research on the energy savings potential of mandatory policies has been limited. This is in part because benchmarking policies are relatively new. Cities are still learning how to analyze the effect of benchmarking on building energy savings with the available data. For example, both New York City (2016) and Chicago (2016) have reported energy savings in multifamily buildings since adopting ordinances, but it has been difficult to isolate the effect of these policies on savings.[7] As these examples demonstrate, cities need to adopt rigorous methods for tracking and analyzing energy benchmarking data to better understand the ordinances’ potential.
Until recently, multifamily property owners, tenants, cities, and utilities undervalued whole-building energy usage data because this information was not widely known or understood. This is now changing as more citywide benchmarking initiatives target multifamily buildings and stakeholders discover multiple uses for detailed and complete multifamily energy usage data.
However measuring and reporting energy data for multifamily properties is only the first step in generating widespread investment in energy efficiency retrofits. To maximize energy savings, benchmarking programs must ensure that building owners not only understand their energy use data, but also use the information to inform operational, maintenance, and retrofit decisions that promote efficiency. To do this, policies and programs should facilitate collaboration between local governments, utilities, and community organizations and provide the following to property owners and managers:
Full-time staff to help owners understand and use the energy data they collect.
Assistance with securing financing or other forms of funding for building retrofits.
Low- or no-cost follow-up energy audits to identify opportunities for efficiency upgrades.
Guidance on collecting and reporting detailed and complete whole-building data.
Energy savings in multifamily properties will increase as cities increase their benchmarking support to building owners.
ACEEE Authors:
Stefen Samarripas
ssamarripas@aceee.org
Hannah Bastian
hbastian@aceee.org
A Better City. 2012. Benchmarking and Disclosure: Lessons from Leading Cities. Prepared by Meister Consultants Group. Boston: A Better City. abettercity.org/docs/06.2012%20-%20Benchmarking%20report%20-%20Final.pdf.
ACEEE. 2014. Best Practices for Working with Utilities to Improve Access to Energy Usage Data. Washington, DC: ACEEE. aceee.org/sector/local-policy/toolkit/utility-data-access.
Chicago (City of Chicago). 2016. City of Chicago Energy Benchmarking Report 2016. Chicago: City of Chicago. cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/progs/env/EnergyBenchmark/2016_Chicago_Energy_Benchmarking_Report.pdf.
Dillingham, G., and M. Badoian-Kriticos. 2016. “Adoption of Benchmarking and Transparency Policies in the United States.” In Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 9: 1–12. Washington, DC: ACEEE. aceee.org/files/proceedings/2016/data/papers/9_515.pdf.
DOE (Department of Energy). 2015. Benchmarking and Transparency Policy and Program Impact Evaluation Handbook. Prepared by Navigant Consulting and Steven Winter Associates. Washington, DC: DOE. energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/DOE%20Benchmarking%20and%20Transparency%20Policy%20and%20Program%20Impact%20Evaluation%20H....pdf.
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Gomez, J. 2014. “Multifamily Energy Benchmarking Policies and Programs.” Presentation to the 2014 ACEEE Multifamily Energy Efficiency Programs Working Group Meeting and Workshop.
Johnson, K. 2013. Apartment Hunters: Programs Searching for Energy Savings in Multifamily Buildings. Washington, DC: ACEEE. aceee.org/research-report/e13n.
Krukowski, A. 2014. Creating Value from Benchmarking: A Utility Perspective. Washington, DC: IMT (Institute for Market Transformation). imt.org/uploads/resources/files/Creating_Value_From_Benchmarking_IMT.pdf.
Krukowski, A., and A. Burr. 2012. Energy Transparency in the Multifamily Housing Sector: Assessing Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Policies. Washington, DC: IMT. imt.org/uploads/resources/files/Energy_Trans_MFSector_IMT_Final.pdf.
Mann, K., Chi-Johnston, C., and Y. Mugica. 2016. Capturing the Value of Energy Upgrades in Affordable Multifamily Homes: How Policy Makers Can Pave the Way to Efficiency. New York: Natural Resources Defense Council. nrdc.org/sites/default/files/energy-upgrades-affordable-multifamily-homes-policymakers.pdf.
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Schulte, A., M. Graham, J. Schwartz, and M. Mernick. 2016. “Leveraging DSM Programs to Deliver on the Promise of Benchmarking and Disclosure Policies.” In Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 7: 1–12. Washington, DC: ACEEE. aceee.org/files/proceedings/2016/data/papers/7_151.pdf.
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[1] ENERGY STAR is a voluntary program that rates and certifies the energy efficiency of buildings and products.
[2] Table 1 details mandatory benchmarking policy provisions, but some cities have chosen to pursue voluntary benchmarking programs for multifamily buildings. For a list of cities that leverage ENERGY STAR tools, see www.energystar.gov/buildings/tools-and-resources/leverage-energy-star-legislation-and-campaigns.
[3] For Chicago’s map of benchmarked buildings, see data.cityofchicago.org/Buildings/Elevation-Benchmarks-Map/kmt9-pg57/data.
[4] It may be that master-metered building owners were the most incentivized to respond to benchmarking results in the two years of the experiment because they bore the total utility cost. The increase in efficiency program participation indicates that, given more time, other buildings may have added to this savings total.
[5] The research focused on the highest performing quartile of buildings in WegoWise’s database of more than 50,000 benchmarked multifamily buildings and 1 million units. The study incorporated operating income and expense information from the National Apartment Association 2016 Survey of Income and Expenses.
[6] Increases in property values were calculated by dividing NOIs after benchmarking by properties’ capitalization rates (calculated by dividing NOIs by property market values before benchmarking).
[7] New York City (2016) reported that the median EUI for multifamily buildings decreased 5% in the first four years following adoption of the city’s policy. The city’s published results do not account for the fact that Superstorm Sandy left many buildings and portions of buildings unoccupied in late 2012 and 2013. Additionally, the city has mandated that buildings using #6 or #4 fuel oil switch to either #2 fuel oil or natural gas. This process of switching fuels may have led multifamily buildings to upgrade to more energy-efficient equipment.
Chicago (2016) reported that multifamily building ENERGY STAR scores improved by 12 points between 2015 and 2016. However the city noted that the number of reporting multifamily properties increased from 274 to 952 over this span. This is because, in 2015, only buildings greater than 250,000 ft2 were required to report; buildings between 50,000 ft2 and 250,000 ft2, which tend to be more energy efficient, began reporting the following year.
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Keenyah Hill Interview with Reality News Online (May 05)
In May of 2005, RealityNewsOnline.com interviewed Cycle 4’s Keenyah Hill following her appearance on the show. The interview discusses how she felt about winner Naima, how she felt about being portrayed as “cocky,” and how she felt looking back at the the Nelson Mandela episode. Here is the text from the article (written by Phil Kural):
“I Would Have Rocked That Final Challenge”: An Interview With America’s Next Top Model 4’s Keenyah
Keenyah managed to make it all the way to the final three this season on America’s Next Top Model, but was cut just prior to the final challenge. What did she think of the experience and how the judges harped on her weight? The answers are right here.
Before the show started this season, I pegged Keenyah as a favorite, and she didn’t disappoint. Yeah, as time went on, she came across as a little more cocky than she did when the show first started, but all in all, if I were to have Sentimental Favorites for this show, Keenyah would be right up there. I had a chance to speak with Keenyah the day after the finale, and her personality shined on the phone just as it did on the show.
RealityNewsOnline: Had you watched previous seasons of the show and what factored into your decision to apply?
Keenyah: Oh, I had watched every episode of every season of the show prior to being on it. I finally had a gut feeling that I could do this, so I held my breath and auditioned. I never in my wildest dreams would have though I’d be sitting her talking to you.
RNO:Do you feel that as the season wore on, your confidence was starting to be portrayed as cockiness?
Keenyah: Yes, I do feel that as time went on I was edited to look a little more cocky than I actually was. I had tons of confidence, and that transcended into me being cocky, which wasn’t the case. I think it was more the editing, and I really hope people don’t see me that way because I’m a really nice girl!
RNO: In reality, was the whole weight issue as big a deal as some people were making it? Have you lost the weight you put on during the show?
Keenyah: Yes, I think it was while I was on the show. It was stressful for me, and eating is a way for me to calm down. It’s just “my thing.” However, since the show has ended, I did start to make better choices in my diet, and I’m exercising on a regular basis. That’s the most important thing. I have lost the weight since the show – and then some!
RNO: It seemed like you never understood why the judges liked Naima so much. Do you still feel that way?
Keenyah: I agreed with all of the critiques the judges were saying, and I’m happy for Naima because she really deserved to win. Of course, I wish I had won, but what can you do?
RNO: Did you feel that when the judges made you pose as gluttony, and then an elephant, that they were tying to send you a message, or was it coincidental?
Keenyah: At first, I definitely thought it was this major conspiracy to make be gluttony and all fat and hungry, then I thought it was really a conspiracy when I had to be an elephant. After watching the show though, I do think it was more on the “coincidental” side, since SOMEONE had to be gluttony and SOMEONE had to be the elephant. I think we all had our embarrassing moments, but honestly, I think it was more coincidental than anything else.
RNO: Was Brittany correct when she said you didn’t know if Nelson Mandela was still alive or not?
Keenyah: Yes, Brittany was correct when she said I didn’t know if Nelson Mandela was still alive or not. I guess maybe I just wasn’t caught up on things at the time, but when I returned home, I researched Mandela and understood the struggle that he went through. It’s truly amazing, and I’m much more aware of things now.
RNO: Was there ever a doubt in your mind that you would be the one going home when it was just you and Kahlen in front of Tyra?
Keenyah: Before we were brought back into the judging room, myself and Kahlen both thought it was going to be her going home. It was the whole confidence thing, and the judges kept stressing that Kahlen didn’t show any, and I had a whole lot of it. Therefore, of course we both thought that it was going to be her eliminated. You could imagine how shocked I was.
RNO: Do you feel the editing was fair to you? At times, it seemed like you were either Brittany’s sidekick, or coming off a little condescending.
Keenyah: Brittany and I were very close on the show, but I think of the footage you saw, it’s hard to understand that we weren’t like that all the time, and you are only seeing a very little bit of our friendship. I don’t think in any way was I ever her sidekick.
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Wilderness: the Third Rail of Montana Politics
May 28, 2011 in 2012 Election, Democrats, Editorial Commentary, Jon Tester, Montana, wilderness
By JC
You know, Democrats really hate people who put policy before politics. Principles before compromises. Issues before elections. Especially when you’re talking about wilderness.
Seems that criticizing policy that seeks to release lands protected by the late Senator Lee Metcalf’s Montana Wilderness Study Act and other roadless and protected areas, in exchange for the official “designation” of a few hundred thousand acres of said protected land garners folks the “ilk” moniker from Dems.
Well, I happen to like the “ilk” that i have been associated with. So thanks to the thought police for pointing that out and reminding me who my friends are, here. I’d so rather work with folks who’d rather take a principled stand on the value of wilderness, instead of trading wilderness for votes.
Fighting for, and about wilderness has become a time-honored tradition in Montana between the body politic, and those who would protect or would destroy it. Sometimes, Dem gossip columnists get the facts mixed up a bit, and come off sounding a bit down-right hostile to enviros.
Seems she (“they???”) thought it would be cute to pull one name from a list of “opposition groups” and elected officials Rehberg claims to oppose Tester’s logging bill which keeps showing up in different incarnations as rider fodder and stand-alone versions.
“The Buffalo Field Campaign? Really? If the Buffalo Field Campaign (hippie skirt-wearing white dudes with dreadlocks who cut down barbwire fences) is good enough for Rehberg’s list, then why weren’t they invited to be on his call?”
Wow, so the Dems are going to go all out and join in the right-wing hippy bashing culture war now, in its pursuit of ostracizing far-left “extremists.” And they’re going to take down a single-issue nonprofit organization as an example?
Somehow I don’t think that all of the tribal leaders who helped to co-found and lead the organization, and Native Americans who volunteer and/or work there, are going to like being called “hippie skirt-wearing white dudes with dreadlocks.” Nor are native GOTV organizations, like Honor the Earth that have worked with and support BFC, going to look kindly on Wasi’chu.
But then again, you never know. In these times of a political void in the middle (rapidly being filled by moderate, grown up, and “serious” people, i.e. democrats) of the spectrum caused by republicans being led to the far right by the tea party, maybe this is the new norm. I’d try and debate it with them, but it seems my comments have to pass muster with the hall monitor there before they can be submitted for public view, because you know, I might write something criticizing a democrat’s policies or actions, horror of horrors.
So, back to the third rail. There’s a word floating around called “Melcherization.” It’s what happens to a politician when they alienate Montanans who truly care about wilderness–you know those Montanans who believe that every acre of unprotected roadless lands deserve to be kept just as they are. Because, you know, that’s really the conservative position. To maintain the status quo. Conservative… conservation.
Politicians get “Melcherized” when they put the interests of multi-national corporations and the oligarchs (those who run those multi-nationals, and their foundation strong arm funding [bribing] mechanisms) ahead of us simpletons who like unprotected wilderness landscapes left just the way they are: managed by mother nature. Kind of like mothers’ milk–how do you improve on it, eh?
And of course, whenever the specter of “Melcherization” rears its ugly head–kind of like Sarah Palin’s rendition of Putin “rearing his head” and attacking America, my heart tis of thee–the defenders of all good things political, and politicians that support them, come running to the rescue.
God forbid we ever have a discussion of the policies surrounding the politics of wilderness legislation. No, we have to prostrate ourselves before the lesser of two evils, and keep quiet lest we be seen as minions of the right, gathered in secret collusion to destroy the one great politician who would save Montana and the country from every right wing boogie man’s evil ministrations.
The third rail of Montana politics. The rewards must be huge (and insidious) to put oneself up against tens of thousands of Montanans spanning generations who don’t believe in the necessity of having to either hard release currently roadless, though undesignated, lands in order to designate a minor portion of those lands as wilderness. Especially when you promised to not do so in order to garner their votes last time around.
Those of us who don’t believe in the quid pro quo of trading industrializing roadless lands in exchange for naming rights to a few small pockets of rocks and ice aren’t going to go away because of the “lesser of two evils” argument. We believe that mandating the release of roadless lands to the control of industrialist oligarchs is about as evil of an act as can be done. And we’ll fight it tooth and nail. As Dem politics shift towards neo-liberalism, Dem politicians can expect the din from the rabble to grow and grow.
The “Melcherization” part of it? Not our problem. That’s self-inflicted myopia of the candidate, and easily avoided.
i appreciate what is at stake in 2012 by supporting jon tester for reelection. montana cannot afford any longer to have rehberg anywhere near a position of power. he is simply too stupid and worthless to trust as a united states senator.
that being said, i cannot support tester’s so called forest jobs and recreation bill for the following reasons….
it sets a dangerous precedent by “mandating” logging in previously protected roadless areas. whether there is an economically feasible way to do it or not. and it mandates logging regardless of whether or not it is silvaculturally or hydrologically or biologically advisable to do so.
forests should be managed by professional people trained in forestry- not by politicians trolling for votes.
i don’t care how much wilderness is created by such a bill. it is politically motivated and it is politically designed to garner votes- not to do what is in the best interest of the forest land it seeks to manage.
plus, i just hate mandates for anything. especially from a perilously and deeply ignorant and willfully corrupt body such as congress or the senate.
jon tester can have my vote in 2012. but i do not grant him the right to lay claim to my god given common sense, which tells me that the so called forest jobs and recreation bill is a poorly executed and dangerous piece of legislation which would set an expensive financially draining industry subsidization precedent resulting in endangering millions of acres of currently protected roadless areas in this country which now serve for free as reservoirs of biologically diverse, clean water producing potentially scientifically valuable assets.
and for what? so we can produce cheap lumber in a time when there is no market for it? anyone sane recognizes this bill to be pure political hogwash.
larry kurtz
Should wilderness be created in areas that have been altered so much by human biomanipulation that the habitat would be unrecognizable to a visitor from the eighteenth century or should it be restored to near pre-settlement potential before preserving it? 150 years ago aspen commanded the Rocky Mountains; today it struggles to exist under the grazing rubric perpetuated by a Forest Service bound by USDA policies.
Litigate. We can’t win the battle in Congress until red states are turned blue.
Here is more: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=135976784
Jesse Homs
Larry – we had a pretty good record of keeping these lands intact until Tester took office. He’s doing what Conrad could not – neutralizing the opposition, creating divisions. Electing Democrats makes no difference if they don’t fight for us, and even less when they work against us.
Turn Red States blue? Why should I care? Give me reasons.
These lands are broken.
Get cattle off public lands, repeal the 1872 Mining Law, turn Forest Service ground over to the tribes to settle land disputes (especially the mal-named Custer National Forest), stop killing predators like wolves and cougars, stop redstaters from running roughshod over the Left. Democrats listen, Republicans rape.
Democrats=safe; Republicans=cheap: water, food, shelter, sex.
Red, blue, it doesn’t matter. Both are corporate, both are neoliberal, and neither will ever do what is necessary. Structural changes will be needed to allign with a new set of natural laws, and national laws, to avoid losing this once sustainable planet.
All life depends on us getting it right. We cannot expect leadership from the current Congress or the President. We must take control of the situation and force new policies and new laws that empowers organized citizens. Citizen oversight. Citizen enforcement. A pox on both parties.
Ladybug lays a curse: “A pox on both parties.” I don’t know in practical sense what this means.
Does it mean that we should stay home on election day? This, of course, would simply hand all elections to Republicans.
Does it mean that we should start a third party or resurrect the Green Party? If we did, would there be any chance of winning?
Some Democrats have been deeply disappointing. They need to primaried in some instances (think Max Baucus), and replaced with less corrupt candidates. But when a disappointing Democrat runs against a dangerous Republican (and all of them, in varying degrees, ARE dangerous), I’ll turn up on election day to vote for the Democrat.
People like me are routinely called names by some of the more strident progressives. I don’t care. I know that I live in a world of the real possibilities; they live mainly in their fantasies.
By the way, I’m a veteran of anti-war and civil rights protests in the sixties and seventies. I believe in direct action to change policies. But I see no appetite for direct action among progressives who like to trash people like me for supporting Democratic candidates.
If progressives want to go into the streets, I’ll probably join them. Unlike Obama, who promised to put on comfortable shoes and march, I’d really do it.
if you haven’t noticed, turner, all sides can get nasty, and some here have caught quite a bit of hell for being “principled.”
i wonder, will an anti-war civil liberty type like yourself continue supporting Obama with your vote next year? people your age with you political leanings hoped that Obama was the culmination of everything you once stood for. that hope, unfortunately, was misplaced.
instead, he’s turned out to be a wall street coddling “good war” imperialist who is making absolutely no effort to roll back the police state.
you see a pox on both parties as a curse, but i see it as a strategy. both parties are fractured, and i think among us younger set who aren’t as brand loyal to the red/blue color coding system like you Boomers are can create hybrid groupings.
there is hope, but it’s somewhere outside the two-party stranglehold that resembles some new strain of fascism more than a representative democracy.
First, thanks for not calling me names. But no thanks for telling me what I hoped for from Obama. That’s quite a presumption. Or maybe you didn’t mean me. After all, I’m too old to count as a Boomer.
I agree with the areas of corruption you point out. How can an observant person not? Our disagreement is what to do about them.
The wan hope that, in your words, “somewhere outside the two-party stranglehold” there is a solution to all this corruption is to me so vague as to be incomprehensible. It’s the kind of fantasy I referred to in my original post.
Holding your nose and voting for the lesser of two evils may not be a very appealing to some. But I’m afraid it’s the only way we can inch toward a somewhat progressive future.
Unless we’re ready to risk our lives by going into the streets (as what? Socialists bent on bringing down the evil capitalist system?) we need to do what we can within the constraints of the real world to keep the most dangerous political elements from seizing even more power.
correct, i was not meaning you specifically, but what i assumed was your demographic.
if you’re looking for something more specific, how about an independent labor party (or service sector, since traditional labor is being gutted) with a platform constructed to make inroads with both libertarians and progressives.
otherwise, yes, it might get to the point where more direct means must be employed. there are plenty of folks already there, left over and marginalized from the anti-globalization days.
those folks understand more of us will eventually get there, not out of principle, but out of necessity.
the global capitalists are not friends of the people. watch how they’re trying to dismantle Europe’s social safety net. and watch how folks are fighting back.
I recently returned from England where the Uncut movement is big. I don’t know if it can lead to a viable political party.
If we had world enough and time there might be hope for a progressive, or at least an anti-capitalist-corruption party.
But we have 2012 to think about. If progressives don’t vote because too many Democratics are in bed with the capitalists, the Republicans will win.
Do we really want a Senator Rehberg? Maybe, for some, this sounds like a good idea because the election of Rehberg and others like him would make things a lot worse quickly. Overt fascism might wake people up and drive them into the streets.
But I think this is a very risky strategy. It’s not risky for me, but it’s risky for women, for minorities, and working people. And it’s risky for the environment, the original topic of this strain.
the environment is at risk because of our energy consumption. our energy consumption is the seminal concern behind the perpetuation of global war; dwindling resources. to keep the US population in line, congress keeps emergency powers going. soft war here, hot war where the oil is (and the weapons aren’t).
the muted disgust over Obama’s march madness war against Libya is glaring now. his disregard for even a congressional rubber stamp is really phenomenal. and the bullshit about the humanitarian cause has so much stink of hypocrisy around it, it’s a wonder they (like clinton chiding China) don’t choke on their words.
i can be practical and vote for jon, but i find it reprehensible to continue supporting Obama.
C’mon, liz: if you believe alternative parties have an opportunity to win elections at the school board and county commission levels, leaders need to emerge to run, produce results, then for the legislature. A Paul/Kucinich run WOULD be a blast though.
Labor endorses Tester: http://www.mtstandard.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_62bee0e8-871a-11e0-b9c6-001cc4c002e0.html
school board, yes…
Turner, Which strident progressives routinely call people like you what names? (what are “people like you?” Caucasians? Males? Divisive? Con artists? what do you mean by “people like you, exactly?”)
Or is this the Democratic Party version of the “War on Christmas?”
Where and when can I see a progressive trashing you for voting for a Democratic candidate because I’d like to get it on tape. How about some times and dates and names. Or is that too real for your reality?
By the way, I’m a veteran of anti-war and civil rights protests in the sixties and seventies, too. I’m also a veteran of protests in the 80’s 90’s and the 2000’s. Because I believe in direct action, I never stopped.
Let’s see now. I recall Tokorski (or whatever his name is) calling me a Democratic tool. Someone else called me naive, but I don’t remember who it was.
I suspect if we sat down and chatted, we’d agree on a lot. I’m a half-hearted Democrat, but I’m truly afraid of the Republicans. Are you unafraid of them?
actually, the republicans are much more afraid of progressivism. because when world history is viewed as a timeline continuum, everything always trends to the progressive.
the tea party is a passing phenomenon resulting from the bush-induced depression. it will pass. but wilderness is forever. we cannot allow our friendly politicians like tester to risk trading forever for a few votes without a fight. that is what this post is about. not hurt feelings and people strutting around saying they have the best strategy.
my personal rule is easy. if the policy is wrong i fight it, no matter what candidate is pushing it. and i separate issues from candidates. i don’t fear republicans in the long run, but obviously montana cannot afford a senator rehberg for even the short run. like a dialogue line i once liked from NYPD………..”everything’s a situation.”
I try not to vote out of fear. I think the reason the repos won almost everything everywhere except CA in 2010 was because the national Dems were so timid and so Republican in so many policy issues, from health care to banking to the environment, to civil rights, to the economy to Social Security to Taxation to defense to criminal justice, to education. It kept a lot of people home who wanted and expected a lot more. They thought, and understandably, “What’s the point?”
Tokarski can be rude occasionally when he thinks he’s run into a Democratic tool, but if rudeness is the measure, Rob Kailey is probably one of the most obnoxious and dis-likable bloggers in MT, Repo or Dem. or independent. Plus his writing skills are pretty weak. For my money Tokarski is a far better and more interesting writer than Rob. I generally agree with Tokarski’s political analysis, except I am far more tolerant of people who have chosen to be politically active through the Democratic party. i think there is usually a big difference between local party activists and the people who run the party on the national level.
I also think 2 party politics is doomed because it so harshly and falsely regiments political expression. It has failed us as a country and as humans. it ‘s bad at arriving at the best solutions for the most people. So ultimately we will change or perish.
I think Tokarski makes a valuable contribution to the argument that change from the two party regimen is needed even if he’s sometimes trigger happy. He’s been in more than one on-line ambush so he tends to shoot first and ask questions later. He’s taken a lot of flak from party flaks. And he’s created some flak with non-party flaks that he mis read as party flaks. And he may just like to insult people occasionally, i don’t know and I don ‘t know him personally.
I usually vote for Democrats. My state Senator and my State Rep are Dems and I vote for them and they usually vote as I’d like them to. But I don’t censure my criticism of anyone’s policy because I’m loyal to their political career. I’m not loyal to anyone’s political career. That isn’t my job as a citizen.
We already far outnumber the Republicans. And the non-voters far outnumber the Repos and the Dems combined. Then we call it representative democracy?
It’s the two party system that’s keeping us from getting what we need. The people who don’t vote don’t vote because they have reached the decision that it’s fixed. That’s what the majority believes.
We should be discussing why most people believe this.
I’m positive that if we were chatting in person that we would probably agree on most things that we find important.
One man’s fantasy is another man’s dream. Young people, thank God, dream big, and think outside the box. Forward. Further. My hat is off to them. What right do older cynics have to try to beat that out of them? This age-old folly never succeeds.
The odor of death emanates from the two parties. With death comes decomposition and renewal. Young people have good noses and will do what needs to be done when the time is right. Timing is everything.
Thank you for staying out of the voting pool.
I would like to vote FOR a “principled” candidate. Is the fool, really more dangerous the liar? I was fooled by a liar, lier,in the last election…..and I don’t even use ATMs.
Ingemar Johansson
Funny, no mention ’bout wilderness in American’s biggest problems.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/127949/jobs-drops-no-americans-list-top-problems.aspx
wilderness is not a problem swede. it is an asset. why would anyone have a problem with an asset?
The question should be why do you guys have problems with wilderness?
In fact JC’s third rail should read, Bitching about Wilderness.
Followed by #2, Pretending We’re Property Rights Advocates.
And #3, Trashing Dennis.
There’s a lot anger here against Barack Obama. I was wondering, in my Sunday afternoon rambling style, which specific decisions of his have made you especially angry.
For example, faced with the situation in Libya, where Gahdafi was threatening to go house to house in rebel cities and murder everyone he found there, was Obama wrong to intervene militarily (then to step aside and let NATO forces continue the effort)?
Given the chance to execute Osama bin Ladin in Pakistan, was he wrong to do it?
Faced with the crisis in the auto industry, was he wrong to bail out Chrysler and GM and return them to profitability so that they are now rehiring workers? .
Was he wrong to get repeal of DADT through the congress?
In the new health insurance law, was he wrong to settle for anything less than a single-payer plan? (Remember, he didn’t have a veto-proof majority at the time and even some people in his own party were against it.)
Faced with the alternative of either allowing tax-cut extensions for the wealthy or not extending unemployment benefits for the poor, should he have stood his ground and let the unemployment benefits die at the hands of congressional Republicans?
Was he wrong to promise to start bringing troops out of Afghanistan this summer? Do you think he’s lying and doesn’t plan to do this?
Was he wrong to support renewing the Patriot Act? If he’d come out against it, could he have prevailed?
Was he wrong not to close Gitmo and relocate prisoners to our country? Could he have overcome the tremendous NIMBY movement in our country? Remember, Baucus and Tester both talked about how they wouldn’t take “terrorists” in Montana.
Has he been wrong to order drone missions in Pakistan?
Has he been aggressive enough in stopping the use of torture by various US agencies? Or has he already done this? (There seem to be two sets of facts about this.)
As my questions imply, I think some of the criticisms of Obama have been unfair. At the same time, some things he’s done or not done bother me. The drone missions, for example. And allowing torture, if it’s still happening. And if I knew more about economics, his relationship with Big Business would probably bother me, too.
I think Obama is doing a better-than-adequate job in his first term, considering that he’s had to deal with very powerful economic and political groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and the military-industrial complex. If the Democrats take over the House in 2012, I suspect he’ll be able to do a better job in his second term, when he doesn’t have to worry about getting re-elected. In his second term, I’d like to see him stand up to the military and get us out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq entirely, not just partially.
And I’d like to see him defy our senators and send all the Gitmo prisoners to Montana for speedy trials and possible incarceration.
“In the new health insurance law, was he wrong to settle for anything less than a single-payer plan? (Remember, he didn’t have a veto-proof majority at the time and even some people in his own party were against it.”
mr. turner:
your simple sentence hardly touches upon the mishandling of this issue by obama.
the key mistake in health care reform (not) for obama was in trusting baucus to run the show for him. and since jim messina was the chief of staff for baucus before being selected as obama’s asst white house chief of staff, there was an obvious bias for baucus and his corrupt penchant to please the health insurance industry.
the majority of americans feel that this was a corrupt process beginning with leaving single payer advocates no seat at the table leaving the doctors and nurses who supported it no choice but to shout their questions and get arrested for their trouble.
i will most probably vote for obama too. but i will never let you whitewash the stinking job that baucus, messina and obama did with health care. they allowed the health insurers to write the entire bill. thus, alienating everyone who does not trust health insurers. i believe this to be approximately 70% of americans based on the polls at the time showing support for a public option to using private health insurers.
the frustration for me in this issue is twofold: by folding to the insurers, baucus, messina and obama wasted all the energy going into the election, which was to give us change from the obviously failed policies of the bush admininstration. it not only left us with little or no real health care reform in this country; it robbed us progressives of momentum and further alienated vast numbers of americans who were barely leaning progressive because they were sick and tired of bush.
so the result is a cynical process which alienates rather than invites participation.
it all started with the mishandling of health care reform. like it or not we face a tough race in 2012 mostly because of these three idiots – baucus, messina and obama.
now the question is can the republicans anger enough americans to offset this cynical voting attitude of “why should i vote? they are all the same.” attitude?
the good news is thankfully, by attacking women, gays, the poor, seniors (medicare and social security) we do stand a pretty good chance of defeating them and reelecting obama. but i am not happy about the idiotic way this term started and i sure hope if we can do it again, that idiotic moves like the failure of health care reform are not dupicated. one good move i would suggest is to remove jim messina from his post as the head of the reelection campaign. his connections to baucus are a definite liability.
Some more background, pb: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/the_storied_baucus-daschle_feud/8027/
I’m aware, Bear, of all the nefarious forces you refer to.
I’m not sure how any person, no matter how progressive his instincts are, can single-handedly as president move an agenda that isn’t a partial compromise with the corrupt moneyed interests, which have pretty much bought the congress.
That’s what happened with health insurance reform. The new law is as weak as gruel because Obama had to make a deal with sell-outs like Baucus or get nothing at all.
That’s why I consider Obama a qualified success. He’s gotten quite a few half-a-loafs when a less committed Democrat might’ve gotten nothing.
Real progressive reform can occur only when we weed out the Blue Dog Democrats. All of the Republicans are openly on the side of the corporations against the people. Some Dems are openly on the side of the people against the corporations. Too many Dems are secretly on the side of the corporations while pretending not to be.
Until the situation changes, I think we just have to tred water.
problembear you are just too funny –
Is there anybody here, who though for a minute that you wouldn’t blindly support Tester, no matter how big a buffoon he is ?
The drunken duplicitous liar denny rehberg makes this choice easy for anyone with a brain eric.
Eric and PB,
What is more important, who they are, or their capacity to do real irreparable harm?
Tester has demonstrated he’s surprisingly ambitious, and disappointingly tone deaf to the unique, enduring value of Montana’s natural ecosystems. Listening to a spectrum of ideas and making bad calls is one thing. Instead, he seems to have a real knack for tuning out everything that doesn’t poll well. Pig-headed poll-chaser might sound too strong, but it’s a shoe that’s beginning to fit better as the campaign stress grows. For some I have talked to, the dynastic drunk is less scary, and a bit more predictable. Which is the lesser evil?
Blue states are the lesser evil. The Army Corps of Engineers operation of the Missouri River system is a product of red state collapse:
if denny should by some miracle be elected as the 51st republican vote in the senate in 2012, we will quickly find ou how much damage he can do by simply following orders from the GOP leadership. women’s rights will be set back 50 years. veterans, seniors and the poor will be thrown out into the streets. you can kiss goodbye to any LGBT safety or rights in this country and you can forget about any more protection for roadless lands or any reason at all being used to control environmental damage in this nation.
that is a gamble i find the odds a little too steep to take.
jon tester has proven a little too adept at courting finance lobbyists to support whole-heartedly, but rehberg would be dangerous in a swing vote senate. i agree denny lacks the smarts to start much trouble on his own, but if the votes are close in the senate, his weasel spined willingness to vote any way the GOP tells him to will make you long for the comfort of that old shoe of tester’s.
Pogie
I’ve thought about this post for the past day or so and have tried to formulate a reasonable response. I’m not sure I can muster one, though. I’m so frustrated by this non-stop infighting and the name calling that accompanies it. If it makes you better to imagine that I (for one) am some sort of moderate, practically right wing tool of the Democratic party, so be it, but that just shows how shallow this “debate” has become.
As to the substance of the post, it’s certainly an interesting position to take to argue that “every acre of unprotected roadless lands deserve to be kept just as they are.” That’s certainly got to be comforting to the men and women who struggle to make a living, who believe in recreating in those areas, and who believe that there is a balanced position between no use and total use.
I respect your passion, but there is almost no political or public support for the position you are taking. It’s a non-starter. To excoriate Senator Tester for failing to champion something a) he never said he would and b) something that is not supported by anything more than a small fraction of Montanans is absurd.
It’s not a matter of the lesser of two evils; it’s a clear choice between supporting someone far more sympathetic to progressive issues who will actually legislate on behalf of Montanans or supporting someone who, if his party gains power in the Senate, will move to gut the Endangered Species Act and put permanent roads in untouched wilderness all over the state while he’s simultaneously voting to destroy the economic rights of poor and middle class workers.
But hey, at least you’ll have your principles, right?
” To excoriate Senator Tester for failing to champion something a) he never said he would and b) something that is not supported by anything more than a small fraction of Montanans is absurd.”
If you think I’m excoriating him, then you’ve missed the whole point of the post. When a politician steps on the third rail of something, it means he is stepping into a very precarious position–not because I say so, but because: 1) history has shown this to be true (“Melcherization”) and 2) as Matthew points out, protecting roadless lands enjoys a broad swath of support (contrary to your opinion) across Montana.
You’re just shooting the messenger here. Which, beings as you are looking at this issue through a political lens is understandable. I’m just trying to get you guys to see the issue from a different perspective.
Anytime I debate this issue with someone who looks at roadless lands or wilderness as areas of “no use” and the political solution to be a balance between that and “total use” i know that us wilderness advocates have a lot of work to do educating people about the history and values of wilderness, and the necessity of protecting roadless areas. It’s why I write stuff like this, because the responses are very illustrative about what segments of the populace are thinking.
I also know that arguments like Pogie’s will do nothing to quell the unrest that Tester has stirred up among 10’s of thousands of Montanans with his position on the FJRA and wolf rider. As I wrote, “Melcherization” is self inflicted by 1) not understanding the deep-seated and broad support that wilderness and species diversity has in Montana; and 2) thinking that a politician (and his outspoken supporters) can buck those misunderstandings by ostracizing the positions of those who hold them.
If Jon Tester fails to reach out and mend his rift with those Montanans who hold the principle of wilderness protection and species diversity above politics, he’ll only have himself to blame when their once strong support turns into tepid indifference towards his candidacy (as it is doing). It’s not about me, or what I write–I’m just putting out there what I’ve observed over three decades of wilderness advocacy.
Pogie;
If you are so frustrated by the infighting then why do you repeatedly propagate it?
You make an error in assumption when you state that …”but there is almost no political or public support for the position you are taking. It’s a non-starter.”
I say let Jon Tester hold Statewide public hearings on his mandated cut bill. If people like it so much, it should be a wonderful campaign enhancement!
My assumption is that the junior Senator might be as surprised as Baucus was when he held statewide hearings on his health care bill in 2009.
My assumption is that Tester won’t hold statewide public hearings on his bill because he would like to avoid a public ass kicking on the environment like Baucus took all over the state at the hands of thousands of single payer supporters.
Many of us are the same people, you know.
On the other hand, if your assumption is correct and most everyone loves this bill wouldn’t holding hearings around the state be a great way to highlight that?
Matthew Koehler
I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but some of Pogie’s words demonstrate that he doesn’t have a very deep understanding of the issues and/or policies concerning the protection our remaining national forest roadless wildlands. To be honest, that’s been one of the nagging, persistent problems with this whole debate, whether it’s about mandated logging, protecting wilderness, releasing Wilderness Study Areas, mandating or the wolf rider. There’s a lot of misinformation out there and many assumptions that well-intentioned people in the left-leaning blogging world have just aren’t correct. Sorry, but it’s true.
For example, when JC stated, “every acre of unprotected roadless lands deserve to be kept just as they are” he’s actually expressing a sentiment that’s widely popular and supported throughout the country, including Montana.
When Pogie stated in response, “That’s certainly got to be comforting to the men and women who struggle to make a living, who believe in recreating in those areas, and who believe that there is a balanced position between no use and total use. I respect your passion, but there is almost no political or public support for the position you are taking. It’s a non-starter,” Pogie demonstrates that he doesn’t understand what roadless, or even Wilderness, protection is all about, much less what the actual policy implications mean.
While doing this, Pogie also just tosses out what basically amounts to GOP talking points about roadless and Wilderness protection, spreading the false notion that protecting the land equates to locking people out or taking away jobs. Thanks a lot.
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule was developed during the final term of the Clinton Administration. It offers protections to nearly 60 million acres of our nation’s last wild forests and lands, including 6 million acres in Montana. The Forest Service and Clinton Administration developed the rule following years of scientific evidence, hundreds of public meetings across the country (including dozens in Montana) and over 1.6 million public comments. To date the Forest Service has received more than four million comments on the rule, with 95% in favor.
Of the 17,429 Montanans who offering official comments on the 2001 roadless rule, 78% were in favor keeping our unprotected roadless lands just the way they are. Polls also show that over 75% of Montanans feel it is common sense to keep the roadless backcountry the way it has always been. Yet Pogie would have us believe that “there is almost no political or public support for the position you are taking. It’s a non-starter.” Wrong.
While Pogie gives the impression that protecting roadless lands prevents people from recreation in those areas, the fact of the matter is that the roadless rule maintains current public access and recreational opportunities, including hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, bird watching, morel and horn hunting, etc. The roadless protection rule also didn’t deal with ATV use, motorized recreation or even snowmobile use in these roadless areas.
I obviously don’t support Rehberg for Senate, but when Pogie states, “if his party gains power in the Senate, will move to gut the Endangered Species Act and put permanent roads in untouched wilderness all over the state” it’s almost as if he doesn’t understand or remember much of the recent history on these matters. If Pogie and others are now so concerned about the GOP taking power and gutting the ESA or Wilderness protections I must ask “where have you guys been over the past twenty years?”
This is not a new threat. One of the major planks of Newt’s “Contract On America” in 1994 was gutting the ESA, NEPA, NFMA, Clean Water Act, etc. Did it succeed? No. Why? Because of dedicated citizens, activists and organizations working their tails off in the field and in DC.
Or how about more recently, during the Triple R we faced following Bush’s 2nd election in 2004. The House and Senate were both in control of the GOP and we had Pombo in charge of the House Resources Committee, with his number one goal being the gutting of the ESA. Did it succeed. No. Why? See above.
Where was Pogie during these ESA, anti-environmental fights? Where was Cowgirl and Matt Singer? Were you guys in the trenches fighting this battle? If yes, great…and thanks!
If not, then can you please see and understand how your preaching (filled with many false statements and misunderstandings of policy) to those who actually were engaged in these battles comes across?
And hey, wasn’t it Senator Tester who pulled one of the biggest potential “guttings” of the Endangered Species Act with his wolf rider attached to the budget bill? Time will certainly tell us just how bad of a precedent this will be for the ESA and species and habitat protection in America. Thanks.
One other item….
Below are some snips from a recent article about “The Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act (S.1087)” introduced by Western Republican senators a few days ago. I’d link to the article, but it’s by subscription only. It was written by Phil Taylor, an E & E reporter on 5/27/11.
SNIP:
“Western Republican senators yesterday unveiled a pair of controversial bills to release millions of acres of public lands into multiple use….A bill introduced yesterday by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) would remove wilderness protections from 43 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands while lifting a secretarial order to inventory and protect roadless lands in the West. “The Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act,” S. 1087, mirrors a proposal introduced in April by Republican Reps. Kevin McCarthy of California, Rob Bishop of Utah and Steve Pearce of New Mexico. The bill targets more than half of the 12 million acres of wilderness study areas (WSAs) that the Bureau of Land Management has identified but has not yet recommended for wilderness designations, according to the bill’s sponsors…….The bill enjoys strong support from off-highway vehicle users who argue that BLM wilderness study areas should have been settled years ago instead of continuing to bar access to motorized and industrial use. “Three decades ago, the federal land agencies decided to determine what land was wilderness and what land wasn’t wilderness,” Barrasso said in a statement. “It is well past time to end the cycle of indefinite wilderness review and allow for local land use planning to work.””
Notice that one of the main focuses of the GOP senators bill is the release of BLM Wilderness Study Areas.
Well, that’s also one of the focuses of Senator Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. According to Senator Tester’s website, his bill, “Solves the long-standing BLM Wilderness Study Area debate.”
One way Senator Tester accomplishes this task is to release the following Wilderness Study Areas protected in the late 1970s by Montana Senator Lee Metcalf.
These are the WSA’s released from protection in Tester’s FJRA: the Axolotl Lakes Wilderness Study Area, Bell/Limekiln Canyons Wilderness Study Area, East Fork Blacktail/Blacktail Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Farlin Creek Wilderness Study Area, Henneberry Ridge Wilderness Study Area, Humbug Spires Wilderness Study Area, Ruby Mountains Wilderness Study Area, and Hidden Pasture Wilderness Study Area.”
Hopefully mentioning some of these facts isn’t construed as a “personal attack on Senator Tester” by some folks. It’s funny (and sad) that we’ve gotten to a point where simply mentioning Senator Tester’s name and some concerns with some of his actual policy positions equates to a “personal attack” in some people’s mind. Hopefully we could actually have an informed, adult discussion and debate about these issues instead of just hearing about the November 2012 election. I’m pretty sure all of these public policy issues are much, much important in the long run of our country than the results of one single senate race. Thanks.
My apologies. I won’t intrude on your deep insights again.
No more roads anywhere–that’s pretty sophisticated and nuanced thinking that I can’t quite grasp.
You are in the minority. A tiny, insignificant minority. Whether you are right or wrong, the majority of Montanans do not support your position on wolves or forests. That you spend all of your time attacking a moderate Senator for not embracing your radical (not a pejorative term in my mind) position is your business.
I’m done engaging with, reading it, thinking about it. I’m going to spend my energy encouraging Senator Tester to take more progressive positions and criticizing those who really endanger the progressive agenda.
If you believe that your approach is really working, either to change Senator Tester’s mind or to increase public support, good luck with your quixotic quest.
I’m not sure if you are responding to me or not, but I’ll take this on.
Neither Matthew or I have ever advocated “no more roads anywhere.” We do advocate keeping roadless lands and Wilderness Study Areas as they are. There’s plenty of places to build more roads. And we do advocate restoration and road removal where appropriate. But that’s a topic for another day. Suffice it to say that NREPA contains provisions for restoration and road removal. In that sense it is a jobs bill–jobs that don’t rely on having to build roads or log timber.
And we may be in the minority, but “tiny, insignificant minority?” No, I don’ t agree with that. And attempting to marginalize our position by labeling it “insignificant” is part of what “Melcherization” is all about. You’re proving my point.
And as to the “majority of Montanans” and what they think about federal public land management, or federal species issues, it really isn’t the most important thing here. These are federal lands, and they belong to all Americans. Roadless areas and species habitat know no boundaries, though some may wish it were otherwise.
And actually, I spend very little time “attacking a moderate Senator.” Though I do believe that the issues I have criticized are not “moderate” positions. I find it more radical to want to destroy the character of potential wilderness, than it is to advocate that the status quo be maintained. And I really don’t understand how a status quo position on this can be radical, though I don’t mind the label.
As to quixotic quests: “encouraging Senator Tester to take more progressive positions” come quickly to mind.
Good luck with that. Seriously. We tried that, and know where it got us.
Increasing public support? Matthew outlined much of the public support that has been garnered by work like his and mine. I would offer that the 20+ years I’ve spent directly on issues like NREPA have helped to take it from a pipe dream to an actual piece of legislation with hearings and at last count, over 100 Congressional cosponsors in the 111th Congress. You might want to read what Carolyn Maloney had to say about it during its last hearing. And I sure haven’t seen any sort of support on the national like this for either Testers wolf rider or his Logging Bill.
Anyways, Pogie, I didn’t expect that you’d want to engage in this, as most people just take it as an attack on Jon. But what it really is just another step in the long trek to seeing a vision come true–or at least to guide a truly progressive vision for public land management.
Federal judge reinstates roadless rule in Tongass forest
AP, 5/25/11
http://www.adn.com/2011/05/25/1882829/federal-judge-reinstates-roadless.html#ixzz1NTPOAz8R
Snips:
A federal judge has sided with the village of Kake and reinstated the Clinton-era roadless rule in southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest.
“The roadless rule strikes the right balance for our community and will help us move forward. It protects our traditional uses while allowing new access to inexpensive, reliable hydropower,” Mike Jackson with the Organized Village of Kake, the tribal government for Kake, said in a prepared statement.
“The remaining intact forests around Kake are essential sources of food, medicine, clothing and traditional items for artistic and spiritual use,” he said.
Did someone above say that he voted Democratic because Republicans scared him so much? Isn’t that the idea? Republicans are mostly reasonable people who have sound ideas, but are forced to answer to talk radio and the like, and so have to quack. True, the TP types are really stupid, but are a short-term phenomenon.
By the way, saying they have sound ideas does not mean I support those ideas, but only that it’s a different way of seeing the world, and I could be wrong too.
Anyway, back on message – you should not let fear govern your vote. If you do, you’re being a tool. And niave. Did I say that?
Pogie – that is your dumbest comment ever. I mean that sincerely
As if on que…Today’s Missoula Indy includes this feature story:
Like an oak:
The stubborn Brandborgs and the fight for wilderness
by Jessica Mayrer
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/like-an-oak/Content?oid=1458365
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Kira’s Husband Did Something Inspiring 3 Weeks After Being Hit By A Car
Three weeks ago today, our lives got turned upside down. The police came to my house and told me my husband had been hit by a car. I rushed to the emergency room to find Steven laying there confused and pretty beat up. He had a bad concussion and kept asking me what happened. I was relieved to see he was coherent despite the confusion which the nurses reassured me was totally normal. Everyone in the ER kept saying how lucky he was and how much worse things could have been.
For the past few weeks, Steven has been in intensive PT and OT trying to build up his strength. He has had MRIs, X-rays, and CAT scans up the wazoo to assess the damage on his body. The verdict is he will need a few invasive surgeries and still has a long recovery ahead.
This weekend, he was FINALLY able to come home! Before we got him settled in the apartment, he requested I bring him to the crosswalk where he was hit, so he could finish crossing the street. This video brings tears to my eyes so I wanted to share it with you:
This whole experience has shown me how quickly life can change and to never take anything for granted.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out and asked about Steven's condition, sent prayers our way, and shared personal stories with us. Your love and support mean more than we could ever express. Also, whoever sent "Cheryl's" cookies to the hospital without a card, we salute you.
Source: Kira’s Husband Did Something Inspiring 3 Weeks After Being Hit By A Car
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Pete Davidson Covers Ariana Grande-Inspired Tattoo With A Bold Statement
posted by Hayden Brooks - Feb 11, 2019
Pete Davidson recently covered up another one of his Ariana Grande-inspired tattoos and the newly-edited ink is quite telling.
As you know, the Saturday Night Live comedian has been dusting off traces of ink that he received during his time with the pop titan and his new neck piece is the latest effort in that goal. On Saturday (February 9), tattoo artist Jon Mesa shared a photo of Davison's back, which features a new Tootsie Pop owl tattoo, but many eyes were drawn to the comedian's neck. In place of the "mille tendresse" neck tattoo, which he received with his ex-fianceé and means "a thousand tendernesses" in French, the word "cursed" now appears in bold black letters.
Just last week, Grande was questioned about her thoughts on Davidson and his new coupling with Kate Beckinsale. Asked if she thought the two make a good couple, Grande kept her response short and sweet, yelling, "So cute." Meanwhile, multiple sources recently told Us Weekly that the singer isn't phased at all about the pairing because she has music on her mind. "Ariana isn’t bothered at all," multiple insiders told the outlet. "The focus is entirely on the album coming out on Friday and can’t wait for fans to hear."
Davidson and Beckinsale sparked romantic rumors in January when folks saw the pair flirting at InStyle's Golden Globes afterparty. However, the real romantic proof arrived when the two were spotted by photographers leaving Lago Bar hand-in-hand in Los Angeles early Saturday morning.
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Teen arrested after pointing gun at passing cars near elementary school
ATASCOCITA, Texas (KTRK) -- A 15-year-old Humble ISD student is charged with deadly conduct for allegedly pointing a pellet gun at drivers near an elementary school Tuesday morning.
According to Harris County Pct. 4 Constable Mark Herman, deputies responded to multiple 911 calls around 10 a.m. Tuesday near Oak Forest Elementary School. Callers stated a teenager was pointing a gun at drivers on Kings Park Way.
"When the deputies arrived, they saw what appeared to be the suspect," Constable Herman said. "They ended up taking him down at gunpoint, and it was a kind of real touch and go situation."
Deputies responded with guns drawn and were able to de-escalate the situation within minutes and arrest the 15-year-old Atascocita High School student.
"Luckily he did not point that gun at deputies," Herman said, "because it could have been really tragic and he would not have won, I can assure you."
Oak Forest Elementary School was placed on lockdown for about 20 minutes as a result of the situation. An Humble ISD spokeswoman said, "We take precautions when it comes to the safety of our students."
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Vigil held for slain football star
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Seventeen-year old Jamiel Andre Shaw was killed Sunday night in the 2100 block of 5th Avenue, at the hands of two Hispanic gang members.
Authorities say the two men pulled up next to him in a car and asked him if he was in a gang. Police say when Shaw said no, but they shot him anyway.
Hundreds gathered Tuesday night at the spot of the shooting to mourn the teen.
Jamiel's teammates gave one last football chant in his memory.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attended the vigil and listened to concerns from L.A. residents about the violence between blacks and Latinos. Some claim his violence claimed Jamiel's life.
"He didn't do anything that warranted this, you know, he did everything he was supposed to do not to be a target, but yet he was still targeted," said "Bloodhound," a gang member. "This is sad and it's something that is happening over and over again."
Although Jamiel was not in a gang, investigators still believe the murder was gang motivated.
Jamiel was a promising football star who had attracted attention from several colleges.
Click here for more headlines from ABC7 Eyewitness News
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Edition: U.S. / Global
BITS; Craigslist Sues More Spammers
By BRAD STONE
Craigslist is taking its battle against spammers back to federal court.
Last Monday, the classified advertising site filed four lawsuits in the Northern District of California against companies and people offering tools that automate the mass posting of ads on the site.
Craigslist is suing Red Trumpet, a San Francisco company that runs the Web site Craigsup; Eddie Temple, an Internet marketer; and several individuals, some named and others still anonymous, who appear to be in the business of online advertising. Craigslist is charging that they infringed the company's copyright and trademark, and were in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, among other claims.
''Defendants develop, offer, market and distribute illegal tools and services designed to greatly facilitate and amplify unauthorized and illegal uses of Craigslist's classified services -- at the expense of Craigslist and legitimate Craigslist users,'' the complaint against Red Trumpet says.
Jim Buckmaster, above, chief executive of Craigslist, did not respond to questions about the lawsuits and about why the company was turning to legal measures, instead of technical ones, to thwart such uses of the site.
Craigslist already has a crowded legal plate. It is waging two lawsuits against a shareholder, eBay; one case is slated for trial in December in Delaware. The company has also engaged in a heated continuing dialogue with various state attorneys general about its so-called adult category, which has been used as a forum for explicitly sexual ads.
Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said if Craigslist's new spammer suits were successful, they could set dangerous precedents. He said that ''a number of the legal theories they are playing around with are tenuous'' and questioned whether Craigslist, which invites users to post sales of items as varied as used Samsung televisions and Tiffany watches, really wanted a federal judge to make a broad, expansive new interpretation of copyright and trademark law.
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City to spend additional $51K on more ladders, safety rings around Inner Harbor
Ethan McLeod
Photo by soomness, via Flickr
Weeks after a Federal Hill woman’s body was found in the Inner Harbor, and a little over a year after a Vermont man drowned in the water, officials today approved funding for additional safety protections to help prevent drownings.
Baltimore’s Board of Estimates this morning approved a line item for $51,000 to pay for more safety rings and ladders around the harbor. The money will come from the Department of Transportation’s budget, and add to an existing $116,400 deal between DOT and Curtis Bay-based Marine Technologies, Inc. approved last May. The contract expires April 30.
The additional funds arrive a little over two weeks after police recovered the body of Alexandra Carroll, 25, from the harbor near the Maryland Science Center. Police said no foul play was suspected and that “it appears that she drowned,” though the results of an autopsy are pending.
A year earlier, Ryan Schroeder, 26, of Vermont drowned in the harbor near Barnes & Noble in a section without any ladders or rings to grab on to. In the wake of his death, his parents met with city officials and advocated they undertake additional safety measures to prevent further deaths.
Families and advocates have been calling for heightened protections for decades.
In 2013, Evan Curbeam of Rosedale drowned in the water near Fells Point, leading his father to call for similar safety-oriented steps, including lighting.
A much earlier high-profile case was that of Dianca Jennings, a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who drowned in 1982 after her wheelchair rolled down an incline at Harborplace and into the water. Advocates for people with disabilities called for lifeguards and other safety measures to be put in place.
Following Schroeder’s death, the city has delivered on assurances it would install more ladders and rings. Chesapeake Bay Magazine reported last month that they have since placed some in Canton, Fells Point and the Inner Harbor, and another phase of improvements is planned.
DOT spokesman German Vigil told the magazine the agency was working with the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore to target “high-priority areas” for installations.
Reached for comment today, Waterfront Partnership president Laurie Schwartz said in a statement, “We support the City in implementing additional safety measures along the waterfront.”
Baltimore Fishbowl has reached out to DOT for additional details.
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Recent figures suggest that the City of London is shifting about £900bn out of the UK. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
UK bankers on standby as City readies no-deal contingency plans
JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and others poised to move staff to EU offices by 29 March
Kalyeena Makortoff
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Sun 17 Mar 2019 09.15 EDT
Hundreds of UK bankers at JP Morgan and dozens from Goldman Sachs are on standby for relocation to EU offices by 29 March, regardless of parliament’s vote to delay Brexit.
The exodus is likely to be replicated across the Square Mile as investment banks, almost all of which are foreign-owned, put in place emergency measures to cope with a period of uncertainty that could stretch through to summer, depending on the outcome of votes in parliament this week.
About 400 JP Morgan bankers are ready for last-minute moves to rival financial hubs including Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Dublin as part of preparations for a no-deal Brexit, a source told the Guardian. It is part of the bank’s plans to shift staff “as late as possible” to avoid any unnecessary disruptions.
While Thursday’s parliamentary vote in favour of an extension to article 50 has not affected the existing relocation plans – given that an extension still requires EU approval – JP Morgan is understood to be watching developments carefully. In the meantime, affected staff, who primarily work across sales and trading, are “clear that they’re on standby”.
Goldman Sachs has a couple of dozen trading desk staff ready to be shifted overnight, a separate source confirmed. The US investment bank employs about 6,000 people in the UK, while as many as 700 could be relocated in the event of no deal. It is understood about 150 have moved to other offices in the EU so far, most of them EU27 nationals.
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
JP Morgan employees are also bound for Paris, Madrid and Milan. The bank, which employs about 16,000 people in the UK, recently opened a new office in Dublin, which has the capacity to host double its existing Irish workforce of 530.
Liam McLaughlin, an EY partner and the firm’s financial services Brexit lead, said it was not time for companies to back-pedal on their Brexit plans. “Over the last three years, financial services firms have invested significant time and resources in preparing for all possible scenarios, and our view is they are unlikely to halt their plans for a no-deal in hope of a possible extension.
“There would be a real operational risk if firms started to stand down their no-deal preparations now only to have to try to stand them up again if no-deal becomes a reality in two weeks.”
The latest Brexit tracker report by EY estimates that London is on track to lose about 7,000 jobs to the EU “in the near future”, while about 2,000 roles are being created on the continent and Ireland in response to Brexit.
The US bank Morgan Stanley is ready to transfer 150 UK staff to EU offices, including Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin, while Bank of America is ready to relocate nearly 200 front-office roles to Paris by 29 March from regional offices including the UK. About 200 of its back-office roles will also move to Paris in the long term, with 100 UK jobs already transferred to Dublin.
Figures published by capital markets thinktank New Financial earlier in the week found that financial firms were shifting nearly £900bn in assets and funds out of Britain to the EU as part of Brexit contingency plans.
In January, Barclays gained high court approval to shift 5,000 clients and €190bn (£162bn) in assets from the UK to Dublin, which will serve as its EU hub after Brexit. Royal Bank of Scotland, meanwhile, is on track to move assets worth £13bn – £6bn of client assets and £7bn in liabilities – from its UK business to Amsterdam.
The firms preparing themselves for no deal
Royal Bank of Scotland is to transfer £13bn worth of assets.Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters
UK staff total: 68,600
Brexit moves: About 100 UK roles will be transferred to its EU hub in Amsterdam.
Brexit moves: Adding around 150 staff to its Dublin office through a mix of new hires and UK transfers.
Brexit moves: A handful of UK staff will be transferred to the bank’s 300-strong Berlin office. It is also understood to be setting up subsidiaries in Frankfurt and Luxembourg.
Brexit moves: Up to 1,000 UK-based roles which primarily serve EU clients may be transferred to its Paris operations.
UK staff total: 9,000
Brexit moves: About 63 London-based staff are to be transferred to EU offices including Dublin, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Paris, Amsterdam and Milan.
Brexit moves: About 400 UK staff will be transferred to EU offices including Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Dublin, Paris, Madrid, and Milan
UK staff total: 6,000 in London
Brexit moves: Up to 700 UK staff could be transferred to EU offices in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Brexit moves: 150 UK staff to be transferred to EU offices including Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin.
Brexit moves: About 100 UK jobs have already been transferred to Dublin. Nearly 200 front-office roles will shift to Paris by 29 March from regional offices including the UK, while around 200 back-office roles will move to Paris in the longer term.
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Category Archives: South Africa
by dunderbeck1980 | April 4, 2016 · 11:23 am
Anatomy of THE Groove: “Toejam” by Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela first came to my attention in the late 80’s/early 90’s. During that time,local oldies radio would often play his original instrumental version of “Grazing In The Grass”,complete with cowbell followed by the vocal version by Friends Of Distinction. Both versions were recorded only a year apart. And what caught my attention most was the fact that Masekela’s version was a lot slower-with a strong Latin/funk flavored soul jazz flavor about it. To this day,exploring Masekela’s rich and varied catalog of music hasn’t been nearly as a high a priority on my list as it should be. So today is the beginning of remedying that musical oversight to a degree.
The South African flugelhornist is turning 77 today. In the mid 90’s my father played for me the second song I heard of his-a heavy jazz/funk number from 1975 entitled “The Boy’s Doin’ It”. It was from an album of the same title,which marked the beginning of Masekela’s three album/two year stint on Casablanca Records. With Parliament being signed ot the label,P-Funk was entering it’s peak on the same record label during the same period. And Masekela gave up plenty of his own funk there as well. His final album for the label was 1977’s Melody Maker. And it contained one of these funk numbers he made entitled “Toejam”.
Yaw Opoku’s phasered ascending/descending bass line and Papa Frankie Todd’s slow,funky drumming starts out the song. Then Adaloja Gboyega’s electric piano comes in to play the bass accents. Throughout the song he also plays some bluesy synthesizer riffs as well. Percussionist Isaak Asante plays rhythmic chimes off the intro-as well as on the instrumental breakdown which showcases Masekela’s horn playing the descending melody. On the second refrain,Masekela plays a full flugelhorn solo thats full of sustained improvisations. Before the songs final chorus,the percussion rolls into the drum / bass/ keyboard intro before fading out entirely.
What really stands out about this song is how succinct the funk of it all is. A band consisting of a good bassist,drummer,keyboardist and horn soloist could almost take a school lesson based on how it’s construction. Most of the solos find each instrumental element taking their turns that are singled out whilst also playing in grooving unison. Also even with the presence of Afrocentric percussion,this song is straight out of the jazz-funk school of the Headhunters and Crusaders of the time. With a filtered bass line that also continues with P-Funk’s love of scaling melodic bass lines,this was also a good closeout jam of sorts of Masekela’s period on Casablanca.
Filed under 1970's, Casablanca Records, drums, Flugelhorn, Funk Bass, Hugh Masekela, instrumental, jazz funk, P-Funk, percussion, South Africa, synthesizer, Uncategorized
Tagged as 1970's, Casablanca Records, drums, Flugelhorn, funk bass, Hugh Masekela, Instrumental, jazz funk, P-Funk, percussion, South Africa, synthesizer
by dunderbeck1980 | June 12, 2015 · 11:47 am
Anatomy of THE Groove for 6/12/2015: “Tomorrow” by Nicolay
It was through his collaboration with Phonte on the latest album by The Foreign Exchange that got me interested in the music of Matthjis “Nicolay” Rook. Now this is a Dutch native who has been creating both solo albums and different collaborations within the funkiest side of the electronica/hip-hop/soul spectrum of music. His emphasis on live musicianship with his acumen as a multi instrumentalist is a big part of his artistic appeal for me personally.
Over the past decade,Nicolay has released a series of solo records in his City Lights series. Generally weaving them directly in between his released as a member of The Foreign Exchange. I’ve never had one of these albums. Yet the newest volume of this was subtitled ‘Soweto’-as a tribute to the South African township of the same name. And through online streaming? It was it’s opening song “Tomorrow” which caught my ear the most.
Beginning and ending with the voice of what is perhaps Bantu language conversation in the back-round? The song begins with a round bass synthesizer chord-accompanied by breezy orchestral electronics. Suddenly a burst of intense percussion kicks in for the main rhythm of the song-with congas,high hat and other Afro-Latin percussive sounds. On the bridge of the song a high pitch,and still round toned series of synthesizers play a horn like jazzy riff before gearing down into a higher pitched synth scaling up and down. All before the song ends with a light Ebonic vocalese.
One of the things I enjoy about this song is some of the same quality I heard on “If I Knew Then” from The Foreign Exchange. This song is of course far faster and electronic in straight up instrumental tone. That being said? Nicolay borrows a lot of his technique from early/mid 80’s Prince. In the sense that he is a master programmer and creator of live rhythmic and warmer,brittle bass lines with electronic drums and keyboards. It also helps greatly that he’s also an electric bassist and guitarist as well. He therefore understands the importance of a fat,rhythmic groove. Whether or not it’s produced organically. Along with it’s similarity to 1980’s Miles Davis and Weather Report? This song brings out the link between funk and contemporary electronica very strongly.
Filed under 2015, Afro-Latin jazz, electro funk, Electronica, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, new music, Nicolay, Nu Funk, percussion, Phonte, South Africa, Soweto, synth funk, The Foreign Exchange
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Stock Horse Team holds on to winning streak
Posted on November 4, 2013 by cacoufal
Decatur – The Texas A&M Stock Horse Team won the overall championship title at the American Stock Horse Association Intercollegiate Show for the second consecutive year.
Team member Kyla Kalinowski, pictured here riding Blackaroni, won the novice division at the American Stock Horse Association Intercollegiate Show. In addition, Aggie team members won high individual honors in non pro and limited non pro competitive divisions.
On Oct. 26 the Aggies cruised to the top earning the highest team award and adding to its collection, multiple individual honors.
The Stock Horse Team consists of six members who ride individual horses and compete in four separate events: stock horse pleasure, trail, reining and working cow horse. Students are divided into three separate divisions, based on their previous show experience and years of riding.
This year’s team consists of Kyla Kalinowski from Schertz, Nicole Brooks from New Braunfels, Ryan Birkenfeld from Nazareth, Kyle Birkenfeld from Nazareth, Kimberly Pritchett from Joshua, Anna Haines from San Antonio, Carrie Estrems from Kingwood, Elizabeth MacConnell from Plano, Brynna Diller from Canutillo and Kalley Fikes from Bay City.
In each of the three competitive divisions, non pro, limited non pro, and novice, an Aggie rose to the first place position. Haines earned top honors in the non pro division, followed by Pritchett in third. The limited non pro was won by K. Birkenfield followed by the third place finish of R. Birkenfield. Rounding out the novice division was Kalinowski in first and Brooks in second.
The team is coached by Dr. Dennis Sigler, professor and Extension horse specialist, Raul Valdez, graduate assistant in animal science, and Ari Sear, graduate assistant in animal science.
As the Aggies continue to impress, this marks their second win for the fall season. On Oct. 5, the team was named champion team at the Stock Horse of Texas Show in Bryan.
“With two wins under our belt, the fall season has been off to a great start,” Sigler said. “This team is continuing to show promise in all divisions. Each rider has put in a tremendous amount of work and dedication and it’s paying off with each show. Our goal is to work toward the National Championship Show, which is held each year in April.”
This year’s National Championship Show will be held in Pueblo, CO. For the past three years, Texas A&M teams have been named National Champions once and Reserve National Champions twice.
For more information regarding news from the Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, please contact Courtney Coufal at cacoufal@tamu.edu or (979) 845-1542.
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EPA reaffirms 54.5mpg target fuel economy by 2025; automakers turn to Trump
The standards aren’t new, but the agency was set to review them by 2018.
Megan Geuss - Dec 1, 2016 3:30 pm UTC
Arthur Caranta
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed leaving in place fuel economy standards that would gradually increase the average miles per gallon requirements for cars to 54.5mpg by 2025. The Wall Street Journal notes that that translates to about 40mpg during real-world driving.
The fuel economy standards were set by the Obama administration in 2012 with the approval of automakers. The agency promised to reevaluate the standards at a later date, at least by 2018. The date of that reevaluation was flexible, and with the EPA’s proposal this week, a final decision could come down by December 30 after the public comment period has passed. That would make it harder for a Trump administration to dismantle the standards.
The agency denied to The Detroit Free Press that it was trying to block future challenges to the rule, and in a statement on the EPA website, Administrator Gina McCarthy wrote that the decision was based on an extensive technical report released earlier this year, which determined that automakers could meet the standards by 2025 given new technologies available to them. McCarthy added that the analysis showed that, given today’s prices, it will be less costly for automakers to meet those fuel economy standards by 2025 than the EPA estimated in 2012.
“[T]he standards will deliver significant fuel savings for American consumers, as well as benefits to public health and welfare from reducing the pollution that contributes to climate change,” McCarthy added.
Industry lobbying group Auto Alliance told the Detroit Free Press that the EPA’s “extraordinary and premature rush to judgment circumvents the serious analysis necessary to make sure the (fuel economy and greenhouse gas) standards appropriately balance fuel efficiency, carbon reduction, affordability and employment.” The group added that given the low cost of gas, consumers aren’t buying electric vehicles and high-mileage vehicles in enough numbers to justify moving toward stricter fuel economy standards.
The EPA noted that improved “gasoline direct injection, more sophisticated transmissions, and stop-start systems that reduce idling fuel consumption,” are all technologies within reach for the auto industry. (Indeed, Ars drove a Chevy Cruze earlier this year that was capable of 42mpg due to a lighter-weight body and a stop-start system.)
On Wednesday evening, House of Representatives Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (no relation to the EPA administrator), circulated an image of a letter on Twitter asking Obama’s administration to refrain from “finalizing pending rules or regulations in the Administration’s last days,” with the accompanying tweet saying, “The #EPA’s rush to judgment on fuel-econ standards will cost jobs & hurt our economy. The House has made our position clear.”
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Ford’s group vice president of government and community relations, Ziad Ojakli, said that “It is deeply disappointing that eleventh-hour politics in a lame-duck administration has short-circuited a data-driven process for developing regulation. Ford and the industry stand ready to work with the next administration and Congress to find a way forward.” Ford had been criticized by Trump during his campaign for allegedly moving jobs to Mexico.
Once the rules are finalized, the Trump administration could roll them back, but it would take a more lengthy rule-making process to undo them than if the review of the 2012 standards was still pending.
The Los Angeles Times optimistically suggests that “Even if Trump rolls back the standards, the industry will continue to sell fuel-efficient cars in the US because it has to meet mileage standards in other countries and California.” Indeed, California is the only state that is permitted to set its own, more aggressive emissions standards according to the Clean Air Act (CAA), which was signed in the '60s when California was experiencing dramatic air quality problems.
Megan Geuss Megan is a staff editor at Ars Technica. She writes breaking news and has a background in fact-checking and research.
Email megan.geuss@arstechnica.com // Twitter @MeganGeuss
fic Ars Tribunus Militum
KAL1989 wrote:
consumers aren’t buying electric vehicles and high-mileage vehicles in enough numbers to justify moving toward stricter fuel economy standards.
This couldn't possibly because EVs are very expensive, mileage for many is still quite low and charging stations are still not as popular as gas stations among other things like few SUV EVs and pick up trucks?
Even the Chevy Bolt, the first long range mass market EV has a polarizing appearance and if you don't like it, you won't buy it. Cars like the Tesla Model 3 and 2017 E-Golf are better looking, but still somewhat expensive compared to the average price that middle income people are willing to pay for a car.
You wouldn't know this from my neighborhood - I know of at least 3 Nissan Leafs, one BMW i3, one Volt and I couldn't count the number of Prius' (Prii?) I see in driveways/garages. Granted there are also quite a few SUVs/trucks also.
There are also 3 Volts, one Leaf and probably a dozen Prius' at work (~200 person building).
This is in CO - we have a pretty generous state tax credit for plugin cars (not sure about non-plugin hybrids).
Head Pirate Ars Scholae Palatinae
DameonK wrote:
Statistical wrote:
jdietz wrote:
DoomHamster wrote:
Go ahead and dig your heals in Big Auto. We'll just replace you with innovators like Tesla.
Tesla doesn't make enough cars to affect "fleet" fuel econ - that is, the average fuel econ for all cars in the US. Tesla's cars are too expensive for most consumers. Model 3 is still too expensive. What Tesla does do is make cars with good fuel economy.
Model 3 is less than the median price of a new vehicle ($33,666 in 2016).
That may be, but the majority of the vehicle buying market is in used cars (estimated 33 million used vs 17 million new sold in 2016) with a median price of $19k.
That equates to most vehicles on the road being 5-10 years behind current technology.
It will be 2030-2035 before we see any real benefit out of these new regulations.
That's right in the sweet spot for when we expect to start seeing oil shortages; which will cause gas prices to skyrocket.
In other words, we need this to go into effect now, in fact, we need even stricter regulations if we want to avoid an economic catastrophe in the 2030s.
You say "economic catastrophe " ... but for who? I know a lot of rich white people who own TONS of oil, and don't think they have any problem with the what you just described. No one cares of some useless poor people can't afford to live ... the US will be better off when they are dead anyways
When you hand control of your country to a plutocracy, this is the future you have secured for yourself.
DameonK Ars Scholae Palatinae
foduck wrote:
Theinsanegamer wrote:
But now, they dont need the bailout, and are trying to throw their weight around to get what they want done. It is also possible that those MPG ratings are a lot harder to get to then they thought.
I think, more accurately, the MPG ratings are a lot harder to meet in cars that American consumers will buy. From what I can tell, hitting the MPG target is a problem that has a well-defined solution, however, the typical American consumer wants an unnecessarily giant car/SUV/truck with all sorts of comforts and isn't willing to sacrifice any of it for +10 MPG.
Funny thing there. If the auto manufacturers didn't make giant cars/SUVs, no one would buy them.
There would be a huge used car market for these types of vehicles for a few decades, but eventually the market would settle and those types of vehicles would enter the "classic" car market and only be seen during car shows and the occasional rare sighting on an actual road.
Trucks, of course, have actual necessary utility, so I don't see those going away.
Avalon Ars Scholae Palatinae
Jeff S wrote:
To be fair, Tesla *may* eventually get to the point where they can produce a car cheaply enough that the masses *can* afford them. We're till some time away from that day (and, also, it will almost surely take a disruptive new battery/storage technology to get there; Tesla is trying to make batteries cheaper with economy of scale, which will only take you so far - and we can't *assume* that just because we need it, someone will invent a safe, cheap, fast charging, long lasting, high energy density electrical storage device - it may or may not happen).
Even if the world can't find a way to produce batteries less than $100/kwh in the next 15 years, 90% of new cars will still have them (even if gas price doesn't increase). That's because EVs are significantly more efficient and provide much better driving experience. How many also come with a gas engine will vary depending on prices/innovation.
As for the masses in America, they generally don't buy new cars (with avg sales price of $33k); they buy used. And they can buy a 3yo EV or PHEV for $7-12k today which is often cheaper than a comparable gas vehicle (over which they save on gas and maintenance as well). This disparity will probably continue for at least the next 6-7 years as the main manufacturers enter the market and bring new features (like autonomous tech) that the wealthy and upper middle class are willing to devote significant income/wealth to chasing.
Also, Nissan announced an $8k EV for developing nations. How many years do you think it will take for it to bring something <$12k to the US? A $27k LEAF can't compete with a Bolt much less a Model 3. But a $20k one could. Or they could compete on a long term lease (say the 8years they warranty their battery for), betting on their vehicle's longevity.
SteveJobz Ars Scholae Palatinae
caution live frogs wrote:
I'm getting kind of tired of the "lame duck" argument. Elections are in early November, president leaves office in mid-January. Are we just supposed to expect the government to shut down and do nothing for close to 2.5 months, just because someone new is starting soon? Would your boss accept it if you spent your last 2.5 months on the job doing exactly nothing, because your replacement is starting next?
That's the way it always worked. The POTUS isn't going to start signing executive orders left and right that will be undone by his replacement in 60 days. Also, the congress doesn't really do much either until about mid-January due to holidays, unless there's some kind of an emergency situation. A better analogy would be a retiring CEO trying to bet a company on product A while his replacement who will start in 60 days prefers product B.
whobeme Ars Scholae Palatinae
Rabbiddog wrote:
Yeah I don't know why we haven't made an effort to make a move to Natural Gas a long time ago.
Fuel storage takes up more space than gas and it is hard to find "gas" stations. The cars were available, less so now. They stopped making them in 2015, but for many years before one could buy a natural gas Honda Civics. Natural gas is still very common on larger vehicles, especially buses. LA's Metro has 100% CNG buses.
https://www.socalgas.com/for-your-busin ... cles/Metro
Coriolanus Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
d4Njv wrote:
The group added that given the low cost of gas, consumers aren’t buying electric vehicles and high-mileage vehicles in enough numbers to justify moving toward stricter fuel economy standards.
The repubs were screaming at Obama and blaming him for high gas prices just a few years ago. Consumers have a long enough memory to know that gas prices can rise at any time.
With the OPEC/Russia/Iran deal to cut production, expect gas prices to spike within weeks.
THavoc wrote:
CraigJ wrote:
Personally I'm looking forward to 455 cubic inch V8s and 19 ft long cars that weigh 6,000 pounds and get 12MPG. And we really need to bring back leaded gasoline too - all the "science" behind supposed lead poisoning from exhaust was never proven, and it works better.
Also, Catalytic converters add a lot of cost and hamper performance, so those need to go too. While we're at it, all these pesky safety regulations also add cost and weight to the cars - consumers are smart, and they should be able to choose if they want to pay for headrests, seatbelts, and airbags - forcing the car makers to put these things in all cars is a violation of free market principles!
While we;re at it, we don't need to enforce crash survivability regulations - car makers are smart, they would never make unsafe cars, so these testing requirements can also go!
Can we at least get a steering wheel installed?
That's a dealer installed option. Talk to your friendly local dealer!
Nice! I'm on my way.
It's free, right? No extra charge?
Nope, premium package along with the undercoating and fabric anti-rust. For free you get a rudder and a bullhorn.
Fabermetrics wrote:
Consumers have a long enough memory to know that gas prices can rise at any time.
No they don't. Sadly.
I would argue the automakers dont either, as they double down on SUVs and trucks.
If gas were to return to $4 a gallon, these detroit automakers would be screwed. Again. Chrysler already did away with the dart. Ford is moving the focus production to mexico, so the US factory can make trucks. They are setting themselves up for yet another financial failure.
And this surprises you... why?
Auto makers deliver what the public wants. The public is pretty moronic most of the time and a significant number of them want big trucks. I dare say these are (at least stereotypically speaking) often the same folks who demand huge sentences for relatively minor offenses, want to carry guns and kill people because they might be "in fear" for their lives and want gigantic trucks because they're perceived to be "safer".
Of course, the automotive industry gets a HUGE profit from them because as long as it can be classified as a "truck", it's not classified as a "passenger vehicle", which needs to meet much greater safety standards (especially with respect to collisions). A 5 MPH collision with a cement post in a passenger vehicle will result in some missing paint and a scratch. A 5 MPH collision with the same post in an SUV or pick-up will result in about $1500.00 in damage.
Add in the short-term profit taking mentality and you have auto makers telling people they're safer in trucks when it's far most costly and not really as safe as people think.
Well, it wouldn't be the first time the U.S. automotive industry lied to the American people about things. I expect they'll close the SUV/truck plants in the U.S. when the time comes (later next year) and switch focus to the smaller cars when demand for them rises. Either way, someone is getting screwed and I'm fairly sure it's the people of the United States.
sadsteve Ars Praetorian
anonymouscoward86 wrote:
Cogitur Ignace wrote:
Kane2207 wrote:
yd wrote:
( 1 gallon = 10 lb in both places )
Hm, US gallon = 128 oz, UK gallon = 160 oz, a US gallon would be 8lbs and the UK gallon would be 10lbs.
Seraphiel Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
automakers turn to Trump
Cars that run on bullshit?
Natural Gas: The Future Of Driving!
Yeah I don't know why we haven't made an effort to make a move to Natural Gas a long time ago. It would be a good interim step towards renewable energy while the tech gets better and better. It's cleaner burning than gasoline and the US has enough reserves of their own to rival the Middle Easts oil reserves. It would also be a way to reduce and ultimately remove our dependency on oil. Hell, most major city's transit buses run on natural gas already. So what's the hold up for the rest of the automotive industry? Other than big oil getting in the way that is.
Primarily infrastructure. City buses can run on it because they all refuel at the same few locations (depending on the size of their service area) and they don't leave that area. To change the standard car fleet over would require a massive distribution network, or the addition of LNG tanks at every existing gas station. This specific problem is why Tesla decided to just build their own network instead of waiting for someone else to do it.
Big oil (more properly thought of as "big resource extraction") isn't as much of an obstacle to this since most of those companies (and their subcontractors, vendors, equipment suppliers) also work NG deposits, and in a lot of places a substantial amount of NG comes out of oil wells anyway. It's just not always captured.
In the long term it wouldn't be a great solution either, since the extraction process leaks so much into the atmosphere and it's apparently a worse greenhouse gas than CO2. So there's little motivation for anyone to go to all the effort and expense of switching our entire fuel economy over to a short-term partial/net-neutral/possibly-worse solution.
All of this is also applies to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (as the primary industrial source of hydrogen is... extracting it from fossil fuels).
Red Foreman Ars Praetorian
ej24 wrote:
You and I might, but my average neighbor here in Texas? It's nothing but Ford, GM, or Chevy, and it better be a heavy duty. They outnumber the rational, educated, technologically inclined probably 9 to 1. It may not seem like it but as you can see, Ars is not their cup of tea.
Myself, I feel guilty driving my 10 year old BMW that gets 25 city / 35 highway. Luckily I only drive 3000 miles per year and ride a bicycle for another 2000 miles a year. So I like to think I make up for at least one Texan's truck.
Scraping your 10 yr old BMW and buying a new more efficient car would likely be a net negative for the environment overall anyway. And if you don't scrap it someone else will probably be racking up far more miles on it then you do, offsetting whatever environmental gain would be realized by your upgrading. Relax and enjoy your Beemer FFS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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robert.walter Ars Praefectus
Red Foreman wrote:
robert.walter wrote:
Detroit always makes the same mistakes.
It has cost them market ownership and profits in their home market.
It has opened the door to foreign competitors:
- Germans for solidity and drivability
- Japanese, where buyers came for the mpg and stayed because of the good quality and decent treatment by dealers;
- Koreans for affordability and decent vehicles, now developed into among the design leaders with good quality backed up with excellent warranties;
- Tesla for leading safety and performance in both the luxury and the electric drivetrain space;
The Big 3 squandered their future by resisting safety, economy, emissions, everything, every damn time. They opened up space for the above competitors because of uncompetitive quality and the arrogance to be unable to have the courage to move into new technologies that would give them a technical leap on the (and market barrier to) competition.
Because of massive chronic squandering of resources in the 1960's-90's and failing to not only embrace But to push for stricter mpg, safety, emissions standards, they allowed foreign competitors to onshore and vertically integrate their operations and supply base, such that the Detroit 3 will never be able to reclaim a large portion of the market share ceded in days past.
And instead of trying to raise the bar, such that they are not the ones paying the gas guzzler tax, etc., they try to lobby the issue away by claiming, costs, and lost jobs, etc.
Yesterday, Toyota's CEO created an electric car work group and placed himself at its head along with his two top tech guys, to demonstrate the company's commitment to moving smartly into electrification. His competitor for the title of biggest carmaker in the world, VW, (partly because of their big diesel fraud) has likewise announced massive investment plans for electrification.
Perhaps I've missed it but the Detroit 3 have no great plans, besides obstruction via lobbying, to pursue a change to electrification.
Seems in 40 years of observing the industry and a good part of that working in it, Detroit never learns.
Well Ford certainly seems to be better at playing the game then the other two.
Hardly.
If you are talking about avoiding bankruptcy, Ford avoided this because of a visionary CFO, Don LeClair (Prior to the arrival of Mulally) who realized that if Ford was going to have the funds to restructure, it would have to borrow rvery last penny it could because the equity markets looked ripe to sieze up (for his efforts, he got fired by Mulally and by default, Mulally generally got credit for the "largest home-improvement loan in history").
The second issue is that the Ford Family (inc.) holding 40% of votes (with only 3 or 4% of equity) have the majority of their wealth and income tied to the Ford Motor Company, so they had to fight tooth and nail to do everything to avoid bankruptcy else thy would have been poor. (So they allowed mortgaging the company to the hilt because if it went belly up, due to under capitalization they would loose everything anyway.)
Also even though Ford liked to portray they never took bailouts from the USA government, they took a huge "new green tech" investment loan from the USG that IIRC only Nissan could also satisfy the eligibility requirements of. This also took pressure off Ford having to use its cash pile as well.
Finally, Ford through its Ford Motor Credit subsidiary, a big captive bank, had access to the Federal reserve's discount borrowing window which was tremendously helpful.
A good portion of Ford's avoiding the wash and dry bankruptcy cycle enjoyed by its crosstown rivals was due to good luck and timing rather than management skill in creating a strong robust company that could weather such things.
KGFish Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
The entire point of regulations is to prevent externalities from things like subsidized gasoline prices to affect the wider population.
I sometimes wonder whether people really believe this drivel, or whether they're just pandering to their audience. Then I remember Trump got elected.
Rommel102 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
cyclingsm wrote:
I wish that were true but they are determined to regulate Tesla out of the market. State governments forcing the shutdown of Tesla-owned dealers and recharging stations could eventually kill their share of the auto-industry.
The big auto companies aren't fighting Tesla's sales model. They would love it themselves.
Don't confuse the stealerships with the manufacturers.
Statistical Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Rommel102 wrote:
Actually they have been behind the scenes. They can't really undo dealership agreements so they want Tesla stuck with the same crap.
GlennHowes Ars Praetorian
Maybe the author could explain why this regulation isn't subject to the Congressional Review Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act) which gives Congress 60 days to stop regulations and is not subject to filibuster.
I think we are likely to hear a lot about the CRA starting about noon on January 20th.
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54 mpg, holy cow, that is a massive number. I don't know a single person that has a vehicle that approaches that; mid to high 30s maaaaybe. Admittedly I don't know anyone with a, well, what, Prious? Getting cars to that number by 2025 seems impossible even ignoring what is on the road now altogether unless everyone is going to be driving 2 cyclinder Smart Cars or somesuch.
Well for instance, my honda civic from 2013 has an average MPG of about 32 and the current honda civic with a faster engine has a combined 35 MPG.
With the ruling being 2025, it is possible for some cars, but not all. That said, we are likely going to see a lot more hybrid EVs by then.
My Honda Fit from 2013 has an average MPG of 24. It's better than that in the summer, and worse in the winter, and MUCH better than that for highway driving. But it eats fuel during initial acceleration, which is a killer in stop and go traffic. If they're talking about almost doubling fuel efficiency from 2012 to 2025... that's going to require a large cutback in SUVs and minivans, and doubling down on electric and hybrid. That said, Honda is well positioned to do it, as is Toyota, and Nissan. Ford and GM? Not so much.
scuttle22 Ars Praetorian
The headline should be "Dumb people argue about the wrong things", really.
First of all, we are not going to be seeing expensive gas within the next five years (barring some calamity) thanks to fracking and other extraction technology. More likely, oil producers like Saudia Arabia are going to be left holding the bag when electric vehicles go mainstream.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/20 ... ob-iaccino
Second of all, these EPA restrictions just convince automakers to innovate-to-the-test, and you get emission scandals and BS like this:
http://jalopnik.com/the-tech-that-was-g ... 1788662897
If we want to accelerate the demise of internal combustion, we need to directly incentivize electric vehicles, because sufficiently nuanced regulation is probably not attainable.
Bad Monkey! Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Bad Monkey! wrote:
Ford? Looked into the governments bailout terms and told them to go stuff it, they'd rather go it alone as they weren't in that bad a shape that they couldn't independently survive on their own.
Actually, Ford never needed a bailout because they were fortunate enough to nearly go bankrupt before the crisis while there was still liquidity to be had. They saw that their current path was doomed back in 2006, and mortgaged the company to the hilt (including the famous Blue Oval) in order to completely revamp their product lineup while at the same time closing factories and renegotiating contracts with the unions. When the crisis hit, Ford was still sitting on tens of billions dollars of cash from their loans while also having much less overhead and having a completely new lineup that was ideally suited to the soaring gas prices.
They did, however, go to D.C. along with GM and Chrysler in order to lobby for a bailout for those two companies, as they all share suppliers and if GM and Chrysler went under then all of their suppliers and then Ford itself would inevitably follow.
In other words Ford managed their affairs with much more foresight then the other two when it was clear that they were headed for deep financial trouble. Or something to that effect.
I dunno how much of it was foresight and how much of it was that they were simply fortunate enough to hit bottom at just the right time. If they weren't in such bad shape in 2006, they wouldn't have needed the loans to turn the company around, and then they would have been right next to GM and Chrysler in 2009 with their hands out.
Excellent comment is excellent. Why the downvotes?
KGFish wrote:
Can you show me any evidence than in 40 years of CAFE standards that people have migrated to buying smaller, more efficient vehicles?
Tonkaman Ars Scholae Palatinae
It's pretty easy actually. They just need to figure out how to get PHEVs cheaper so they sell more. Those get 80-90 mpge if I remember right. Sell more of those, and you can get a fleet average in the 50s pretty easily.
Null_Space Ars Tribunus Militum
scuttle22 wrote:
Because that's not how it works.
Someone will take that 35 hmpg beemer off his hands, which will replace some 30 mpg even older used car they had. And down the line a few times.
The "smaller" is irrelevant. They have migrated towards more efficient vehicles. Feel free to compare consumption of average cars from 40 years ago to today.
That's a pretty high bar to pass, isn't it? Here's a lower one: Do you think that existence of certain high efficiency vehicles (such as the prius) is directly attributable to regulation? I do.
The overall market is also influenced by regulation that works to the opposite end such as tax rebates for buying Hummers.
scottwsx96 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Yoozer wrote:
54 mpg, holy cow, that is a massive number. I don't know a single person that has a vehicle that approaches that; mid to high 30s maaaaybe. Admittedly I don't know anyone with a, well, what, Prious?
54 mpg is 4.35 liters/100 km or 23km/liter. That's not such an issue with diesel but that's probably another can of worms.
Getting cars to that number by 2025 seems impossible even ignoring what is on the road now altogether unless everyone is going to be driving 2 cyclinder Smart Cars or somesuch.
Well, you could ask yourself if you really need that horsepower at all times unless you regularly drive through the mud, but that's an even bigger can of worms Just for commuting I wouldn't mind to sit in a small car - as long as it gets me to my destination in time in a comfortable way.
The problem is that, in the U.S., small cars are usually pretty shoddy in terms of construction and reliability (relative to bigger card) or don't get any sort of luxury treatment.
I commute over 30 miles a day and considered a Ford Focus as it is an inexpensive, small, efficient, and reasonably decent looking car. The problem I had with it is that it had a cheap-looking, loud interior.
Ended up getting a Lincoln MKZ instead (with the 2.0 L engine). I don't get anywhere near the gas mileage I would in the Focus (~25 mpg), but my oh my, it is such a nice, comfortable, stylish, quiet ride.
Leucifer Ars Scholae Palatinae
I laughed a little when I read this:
“It is deeply disappointing that eleventh-hour politics in a lame-duck administration has short-circuited a data-driven process for developing regulation."
You know what else is deeply disappointing? When loud-mouthed idiocy short-circuits a data driven process called science and claims that climate change is a "Chinese conspiracy" or that it's not real.
Mike D. Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Unfortunately, the decisions that the auto manufacturers make are often based on what people choose to buy and Americans are idiots when it comes to cars. Go into any rural area and you are likely to see more pickup trucks than anything else, let alone anything small and fuel-efficient. The more likely the truck’s owner is to be a Confederate flag waving bigot, the bigger and less efficient the trucks get. Pickup trucks made sense when most people in rural areas were farmers, but I know for a fact that most of the pickup trucks that I see in the rural counties that I drive through on my daily commute are going back and forth to their office jobs.
Suburbanites and urban dwelling professionals are not much better with their preference for SUVs, jeeps, and in the case of the real assholes, Hummers. As the US refuses to put a carbon tax on these wasteful vehicles, these people suffer no penalty for their selfish, wasteful behavior.
Ironically, these pickup and SUV drivers are often the ones crying the loudest when gas prices go up.
Err, I have a 2015 Focus that's always mid 50's, the wife's Fiesta is higher than that.
But then in Europe we're not obsessed with V8's and SUVs, and fuel is much more expensive to begin with. Plus SUVs and higher displacement cars attract higher road and emissions taxes.
The figures look absolutely achievable to me, many manufacturers here re producing small displacement turbo charged engines that are very efficient.
But how do those engines fair on an SUV? Bigger cars need more powerful engines due to the heavier load. Yes small turbo charged engines have nearly matching HP and torque ratings, but that isn't sustained. My recent trip to Europe showed me that Europeans like smaller hot hatch and hatchback vehicles, a lot of it due to the fact that many busy urban centres lack adequate parking for a large number of cars. SUV's and trucks are simply too large for that kind of environment.
That said, North Americans prefer SUVs and small displacement engines will not work in those vehicles. Efficiency needs to be a priority for SUVs, but the main issue here is weight and drag. Bigger SUVs just need more power due to this.
Edit: Hopefully crossover cars gain more momentum as those vehicles are more likely to have smaller engines with better efficiency. The Honda HR-V uses a Honda Civic engine for example.
That was kind of my point. The technology is there already, it's the US mindset that they need a massive SUV to do the school run that needs to change.
Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely onboard that there is a use case for SUVs and trucks but they're frequently status symbols as much as anything else.
A 2016 1.0 125bhp turbo charged Ford Fiesta will get a single passenger from A to B just as quickly as a SUV. Only one of them will be fuel efficient though.
Then there's the underserved small truck market. I'm keeping my 20 year old 2.3L Ford Ranger with 115 HP, because no one makes trucks that small anymore. There's alot of people who only need a small truck that can occasionally carry standard 4x8 building supplies, but no one provides that anymore that isn't gigantic compared to what came before. That 1.0L 125 HP engine in a RWD configuration in a Ranger size truck would be perfect, and probably get better mileage as well.
There are two enormous problems with the EPA regulations that essentially make them worthless.
The first is that CAFE forces manufacturers to make cars that may not be wanted by consumers to meet their fleet MPG obligations. Consumer side incentives such as the EV tax credit have proven far more successful at shifting consumer buying patterns in the relatively short time-frame that they have been implemented. CAFE has been around since the 1970s and has been significantly tightened in the last decade while SUV's are still the most popular form of automobiles purchased in the USA. Furthermore, incentivizing the consumers will reinforce the need to build and innovate those higher MPG or alternative fuel vehicles. Just look at how the success of Tesla has jump-started EV innovation across the entire automobile industry. From a basic economics standpoint, increasing demand will always increase supply, but increasing supply will not always increase demand.
The second is that the CAFE testing apparently doesn't work at all.
If it weren't for such regulations, we'd all still be driving around in 6,000 lbs. steel vehicles with monstrous V-8s getting 6 mpg.
The EV market didn't spawn out of thin air. It is the result of forcing manufacturers to think about building more energy-efficient (and less polluting) cars. The EV subsidies offered to consumers are a way to help get the EV market off of the ground.
It's the sum of the regulations and subsidies that have done this and there is no evidence that only doing one or other would have been better in any way for anyone (except, perhaps, the manufacturers).
Null_Space wrote:
Actually no, that means the technology isn't there.
Whether a consumer needs a truck or SUV is irrelevant to the fact that for those vehicles, the tech is not there to satisfy fuel economy and carry/towing needs.
Whether you want or need one doesn't matter. Smaller cars are almost always more fuel efficient than bigger ones. What we need is for hybrid EVs to satisfy the needs of those who need the extra space. That means hybrid trucks and SUVs at a minimum.
2 similarly sized vehicles:
Ford F-150 - 17mpg
Land Rover Discovery - 37mpg
They both weigh about 2 tonnes. Both need to improve, but one needs to improve a whole lot more than the other.
Uh, fueleconomy.gov has the
F150 16 mpg (that's for the 5.0 L)
Land Rover Discovery Sport (2.0L four banger) 22
Where are you getting your numbers?
And that's comparing apples and oranges. (5.0L V8 v. 2.0L 4 cylinder)
2017 Ford F-150 2.7L V6, 6 speed Automatic, Turbo
21 Combined
2017 Land Rover Discovery Sport 2.0L 4 cyl, 9 speed Automatic, Turbo
So... 2 mpg difference in city driving, 1 mpg difference in highway driving, and 1 mpg difference in combine city/highway driving.
The biggest difference between those 2 similarly sized vehicles seems to be the smug factor in driving a Land Rover Discovery Sport over an F-150.
rosen380 Ars Tribunus Militum
scottwsx96 wrote:
I commute over 30 miles a day ... cheap-looking, loud interior.
Exactly. That's why my daily driver is a Jeep Wrangler and my summer car is a 1993 Corvette with no mufflers.
When I got the car, my mechanic cousin said we can put mufflers back on it so it'd be a little more quiet. After driving it a bit, I'm pretty confident that, at highway speeds, the interior of the [soft top] Wrangler is noisier from wind noise than the Vette is from engine noise.
I believe it's a couple of things:
1) A convenient dispensing infrastructure for natural gas. This is a similar problem that EVs have, except much worse at this time.
2) Safety considerations related to storing a flammable gas under pressure in vehicles frequently involved in accidents, including major ones.
THavoc Ars Tribunus Militum
rosen380 wrote:
Except for all the additional noise you are inflicting on others.
afidel Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Um, the Ford trucks they're making room for are going to be the smaller, lighter Rangers, if fuel goes up there will still be plenty of people needing a truck but at least some of them will be able to make do with a lighter truck so Ford is actually doing EXACTLY the right thing. Btw they would just import their global Ranger from one of their existing production facilities but we still have the retarded chicken tax which makes it all but impossible to import a light truck (35% tariff for the loss).
BulkyZ Ars Scholae Palatinae
If it weren't for the ever increasing safety mandates and other extravagances we build into cars today they'd already by getting that kind of mileage or far better. Hell EPA has been rating and tracking MPG since '84 and some of the most fuel efficient US cars ever are still small '80's cars.
Not saying all the advanced technology is bad per se, i get the benefits, i'm just saying that we keep taking 2 steps forward in drive-line efficiency and 1.2 steps back with everything else we keep adding to cars. That's what makes achieving ever higher fleet economy standards so difficult.
It's not that we haven't made great strides in drive line efficiency, we just keep offsetting those gains elsewhere too.
Truer words haven't been spoken. 2 things always make a vehicle more fuel efficient. 1. Make it lighter. 2. Reduce drag. (Works more at highway speeds)
There were so many lightweight cars that get mid 40 mpg numbers it boggles the mind. And all these down votes.
Peeps, get over it, cars on average have increased 300lbs since 2008 that is to laws for side impact protection against truck framed vehicles. And before that we got a safety law for rollover protection, that made cars spike 500lbs on average as well. That's almost a half ton!
uno2tres Ars Centurion
Someone should really invent that.
They'd make a fortune!
Would it be as polluting as fossil fuels tho?
Methane is a far more powerful green house gas than CO2, so it would actually be pretty great for the environment if we could harness the the byproducts of trump's speeches and industrial beef production.
A British gallon is different than a US gallon.
Amusingly, the Americans say "A pints a pound the world round", when in fact that it is only a pound in the USA. In the UK, it's a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
I've lived in the U.S. for over 35 years and have never heard anyone say this.
Morrowind542 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Well, it does nothing for the year beforehand anyway, so what's another couple months?
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So on the “What Now” subject: The economic stimulus bill is up before Congress this week and it’s going to have a rough time in the Senate. The House has the votes along party lines, but the Senate, well, you know the score.
If you’re like me and you live in a state with a rational Republican senator, email/call/picket his or her office (I’m thinking Specter–my Senator–the two from Maine, Voinovich…you know what I mean.) Harass the hell out of ’em. Flood their offices. We need this passed and we need it now.
I’d prefer if we could get this back in, but Obama had to at least look like he was willing to compromise. If the Republicans keep stonewalling, we need to remind ’em who won this election.
We all do a lot of talking and writing, some of it can certainly go in the direction of elected officials. If one of those people isn’t your Senator, fake some sort of a connection and go for it. State you were born in? State where your grandma lives? State you slept in once on an all-night booty call? Whatever.
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(x-posted at Alterdestiny and Season of the Bitch)
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Razing the Project to Save It
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With the advent of a new administration in Washington providing the long-beleaguered citizens of New Orleans, LA a new sense of hope (no doubt increased upon hearing that the President has promised to visit the region) it’s easy for us to forget (too easy to forget) that there are still thousands of residents still displaced from their homes, perhaps permanently. And, if decisions like the following continue to be made (purportedly on their behalf *cough*) many will have f0rever lost what little remains:
A judge didn’t abuse his discretion when he refused to halt the demolition of four public housing complexes in New Orleans that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A group of displaced public housing residents had asked U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle in June 2006 to block plans to demolish and redevelop the B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard and Lafitte developments. Lemelle denied their request, a ruling upheld Monday by a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Three developments have been totally razed, while the demolition of the fourth is under way. The demolition project spawned a round of demonstrations in New Orleans, including a December 2007 melee at City Hall where police used pepper spray and stun devices to disperse a crowd of protesters.
“Numerous reports showed that the buildings were obsolete, dilapidated, and unsuitable for housing purposes,” Judge Emilio Garza wrote in the court’s 14-page opinion.
Yes, so, in order to save these projects, these people’s homes, let’s completely raze them to the ground. Because no buildings are so much more suitable for living in. Sorry, but, “comparable housing” is not remotely adequate (let alone, er, comparable) when “redevelopment plans leave several thousand families without access to affordable housing [emph. mine].”
Loyola University professor Bill Quigley highlights the bottom line this decision once again underscores:
“At this moment, (the 5th Circuit is) saying that the tragedy to these 5,000 families from Katrina is permanent,” Quigley said. “The fight has always been whether these 5,000 families get to come back to some sort of public housing in New Orleans. The position of the government has been that they don’t.”
The dizzy counterspin from HUD’s spokesmonkey is particularly nauseating:
“This ruling is a win for the families who will return to new, socially and economically integrated neighborhoods, and it’s a win for the city of New Orleans because of the affordable housing component of each of the new developments.”
Yes, well, what about those families who, um, won’t return to ‘socially and economically integrated neighbourhoods’? How can losing everything all over again, having their dreams razed along with their fucking homes even begin to count as a victory? Even George W. Bush wouldn’t have the fucking nerve to hastily throw up a ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner behind this one.
Unfortunately there isn’t much one can do to affect court decisions. But one can pressure Congress to allocate desperately needed funding for NOLA and draw attention to a situation that has been allowed to fester below the radar for far too long. Sarah J notes that “Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter have requested funding for “more than $6 billion in coastal restoration and levee construction projects in an economic stimulus bill now moving through Congress”“, making it even more important that Americans contact their Congresscritters and demand that, as the US moves towards revitalizing delapidated national infrastructure, the people of NOLA are not forgotten ever again by their government, their fellow citizens.
As I wrote in comments @ Alterdestiny:
“[W]e… need to purge the guilt and start doing something proactive. Poppy Z. Brite’s powerful 2006 Banned Books Night speech is even more pertinent, more vital, today:
If you live here, stay and give it all you can. If you live elsewhere, please don’t let people forget us. Don’t let your government forget us. Tell them to put money into wetlands restoration, to give us the levees we were told we already had, to rebuild the homes and businesses destroyed by their lying negligence. Tell them we are as valuable as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or A Confederacy of Dunces or A Streetcar Named Desire. Tell them those three banned and cherished books would never have existed without us. Tell them we will never die easy, and if we do die, we will be the most haunted place in the world.
NOLA has not yet been completely “banned”, as Brite devastatingly characterized it, but it won’t be fully re-enfranchised unless we increase the pressure on Washington.
(Major h/t and heartfelt thanks to Sarah J for links and inspiration.)
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Development of a real-time PCR method...
Development of a real-time PCR method for the genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B variant Java
Mathieu Gand, Wesley Mattheus, Assia Saltykova, Nancy Roosens, Katelijne Dierick, Kathleen Marchal (UGent) , Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker and Sophie Bertrand
(2019) APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. 103(12). p.4987-4996
Discriminating between d-tartrate fermenting and non-fermenting strains of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype Paratyphi B is of major importance as these two variants have different pathogenic profiles. While d-tartrate non-fermenting S. Paratyphi B isolates are the causative agent of typhoid-like fever, d-tartrate fermenting isolates (also called variant Java) of the same serotype trigger the less dangerous gastroenteritis. The determination of S. Paratyphi B variants requires a time-consuming process and complex biochemical tests. Therefore, a quadruplex real-time PCR method, based on the allelic discrimination of molecular markers selected from the scientific literature and from whole genome sequencing data produced in-house, was developed in this study, to be applied to Salmonella isolates. This method was validated with the analysis of 178 S. Paratyphi B (d-tartrate fermenting and non-fermenting) and other serotypes reaching an accuracy, compared with the classical methods, of 98% for serotyping by slide agglutination and 100% for replacement of the biochemical test. The developed real-time PCR permits to save time and to obtain an accurate identification of a S. Paratyphi B serotype and its d-tartrate fermenting profile, which is needed in routine laboratories for fast and efficient diagnostics.
DISCRIMINATION, SYSTEM, Salmonella, Paratyphi B, d-tartrate, Real-time PCR, Identification, WGS
Gand, Mathieu, Wesley Mattheus, Assia Saltykova, Nancy Roosens, Katelijne Dierick, Kathleen Marchal, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, and Sophie Bertrand. 2019. “Development of a Real-time PCR Method for the Genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B Variant Java.” Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 103 (12): 4987–4996.
Gand, M., Mattheus, W., Saltykova, A., Roosens, N., Dierick, K., Marchal, K., De Keersmaecker, S. C. J., et al. (2019). Development of a real-time PCR method for the genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B variant Java. APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, 103(12), 4987–4996.
Gand M, Mattheus W, Saltykova A, Roosens N, Dierick K, Marchal K, et al. Development of a real-time PCR method for the genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B variant Java. APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. New york: Springer; 2019;103(12):4987–96.
Gand, Mathieu et al. “Development of a Real-time PCR Method for the Genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B Variant Java.” APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 103.12 (2019): 4987–4996. Print.
abstract = {Discriminating between d-tartrate fermenting and non-fermenting strains of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype Paratyphi B is of major importance as these two variants have different pathogenic profiles. While d-tartrate non-fermenting S. Paratyphi B isolates are the causative agent of typhoid-like fever, d-tartrate fermenting isolates (also called variant Java) of the same serotype trigger the less dangerous gastroenteritis. The determination of S. Paratyphi B variants requires a time-consuming process and complex biochemical tests. Therefore, a quadruplex real-time PCR method, based on the allelic discrimination of molecular markers selected from the scientific literature and from whole genome sequencing data produced in-house, was developed in this study, to be applied to Salmonella isolates. This method was validated with the analysis of 178 S. Paratyphi B (d-tartrate fermenting and non-fermenting) and other serotypes reaching an accuracy, compared with the classical methods, of 98% for serotyping by slide agglutination and 100% for replacement of the biochemical test. The developed real-time PCR permits to save time and to obtain an accurate identification of a S. Paratyphi B serotype and its d-tartrate fermenting profile, which is needed in routine laboratories for fast and efficient diagnostics.},
author = {Gand, Mathieu and Mattheus, Wesley and Saltykova, Assia and Roosens, Nancy and Dierick, Katelijne and Marchal, Kathleen and De Keersmaecker, Sigrid C. J. and Bertrand, Sophie},
journal = {APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY},
keywords = {DISCRIMINATION,SYSTEM,Salmonella,Paratyphi B,d-tartrate,Real-time PCR,Identification,WGS},
number = {12},
pages = {4987--4996},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {Development of a real-time PCR method for the genoserotyping of Salmonella Paratyphi B variant Java},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-019-09854-4},
Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
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Bitcoin [BTC] declared official currency of Sweden for ‘fun’, says hacker
Bitcoin [BTC], the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, was recently in the news due to its association to the Swedish Government Party, Swedish Social Democratic Party. Earlier this week, the Twitter account of the Democratic Party was compromised, with the hijacker changing the display name of the handle to “Bitcoin Democrats”, according to a local news portal.
Along with this, the hijacker also made several claims via the Twitter handle. This included the resignation of the Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven and the replacement of the national currency, from Swedish Krona to Bitcoin. The Tweet read, {Translated from Swedish}, “We have abolished the Swedish krona and replaced it with Bitcoin, time to buy!”. The hijacker further stated that Sweden was the first country to officially accept Bitcoin as its currency.
Now, another news portal, Trijo News, reported that five people were involved in this hijack, and these hackers gained control over the account by exploiting the account password reset function with the help of Twitter’s support service. The hackers apparently created a new domain similar to the party’s name, which was later used to host an email under the democratic party’s name.
Then, the hijackers contacted Twitter’s customer service, disguised as Stefan Löfven, and requested them to reset the email ID of the party’s official handle. When asked for an official document, the hackers sent a fake one that they claimed “looked like a joke”; was, however, verified by Twitter.
Source: Trijo
Further, the hacker stated they hijacked the party’s Twitter account as a “fun thing”, adding that they wanted to try this method after learning about it. The hacker said,
“You see, it’s clear that hacking no longer is defined as rooting a server to acquire state secrets. Hacking nowadays is staying one step ahead of technical support […] I just find socialism wrong. I’ve always had a survival of the fittest-instinct kinda, and whoever can’t make their own money is just being lazy”
Diydude2, a Redditor said,
“I generally think script kiddies who pull stunts like this are silly and stupid (why would you open yourself up to “computer crimes” charges just to do something like this?) but I have to admit this is a pretty good tag.”
Sillymackor1, another Redditor said,
“Taking this again since the alt right showed up and tried to do some damage control and silence the facts: The hackers made right wing extreme comments, and promoted a nazi-party. So not someone you want as an bitcoin ally.”
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Rage Against Phones II
Mobile phones should be perfect candidates for darwinian evolution (as opposed to any other kind). A manufacturer surveys the market, sees what works and incorporates it into their phone. Phones cross-breed from manufacturer A to manufacturer B. Good ideas get stolen from one phone and implemented readily in others. Phones improve from generation to generation. Software gets more and more stable as the base its built on improve. Difficult user interfaces are eliminated and refinements serve only to make things easier. Phones change rapidly enough - new manufacturers emerge, new technologies etc - that the Marc Andreessen "interfaces freeze early" problem shouldn't apply. In just a few generations of phone we've gone from one number per key to one letter per key to two letters per key, from cursor keys to scroll wheels to "pearls", from black and white screens to colour screens to colour touch-sensitive screens. Good evolution. I understand that evolution doesn't worry so much about patents as today's technology companies do. And, just like evolution, sometimes phones are so ugly or impossible to use that they don't sell and such phones are never included in the gene pool again - evolutionary dead-ends, the sponges of the mobile world. The more you think about this, the more you realise that it's either a rare occurrence or a non-existent one: Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 phones were awful, but in the Microsoft tradition, they evolved. The RAZR's initial incarnation (the V3 - taking a lesson from Microsoft and starting at V3 to make everyone think it was ok) was horrible to use, but evolved into the V3x which was bearable at least. So perhaps we're left with brands here - anyone for a Panasonic mobile phone, or a BenQ? There really aren't many three-headed trilobites in the mobile world. You'd have thought there'd be more. It is, I imagine, a function of the size of the market now as well as the future opportunity that means that few people give up. Sometimes manufacturers hit a winner and those phones spawn a millon/zillion offspring and dominate like never before, for a while at least (dinosaurs in the nicest sense of the word). Any kind of flip-phone would perhaps work as an example. Occasionally, something comes completely out of left field without any evident predecessors (the compound eye mobile phone) and really sets the world on fire. It's so good and so elite that everyone is too afraid to breed with it and so it's forced to evolve down the slowpath, relying on mutation within rather than cross-breeding. Whilst being an awesome phone it eventually dies out. Motorola have scored twice, at least on looks, with the StarTac and the RAZR (the less said about many of their other phones, the better) None of these groupings are perfect. Impossible to use phones often sell by the truckload. The RAZR/V3 whilst looking fantastic was near impossible to use; the Nokia 8800 was, for a while, the slimmest, sleekest phone - but battery life was so poor it came with two batteries, each lasting perhaps one call; the Treo 600 and 650 were amongst the best smart gadgets I'd ever used, but sound quality on every call was awful and they crashed more than once a day; the Sony Ericsson P800 (the one shaped like a bar of soap) was, briefly, awesome until tapping away with that little stick got too much (about an hour after you'd first picked it up) and you tired of rebooting it 4, 5 or 6 times a day... and so on. It's easy to rant about a phone - after all, how many electronic things do you carry about your person and use for several hours a day? There's loads of opportunity for trouble and frustration. One man's gadgetary genius is another man's worst ever nomination. But what gets to me is that very nearly 20 years after I first used a mobile phone and where the iteration rate in both software and hardware is far, far faster than it is for the PC or Mac, we're still in a terrible place. Ipods improve (as in get better rather than just change) faster than phones - making subtle, incremental changes with each hardware release and occasionally more exciting updates with each software release. This is the reason, for me at least, why people are excited about the iphone - the idea of a (probably) initially stable phone that gets software updates regularly (to fix inevitable problems) is somehow very attractive. Is it too much to ask that a phone: - Has a battery that lasts at least a long weekend (treo 750 need not apply) - Has a keyboard that registers your touch simply and effectively (samsung sgh600i need not apply) - Doesn't crash more than once a week (and, if it does crash regularly, that the reboot time is minimal - proving that the engineers have thought about minimising your pain. Reboot on the sgh600i is 2 1/2 minutes) - Works consistently. If it has a back button, that should work the same way all the time. Copy and paste should work in every application for instance. - Adheres to standards (sending a business card by SMS ought to be easy by now) - even the Palm Treo phones don't support that (in Palm or Windows o/s) - Allows me to synchronise text messages, ring tones, speed dials to the PC (can we really be on Windows Mobile V6 and ActiveSync v4.5 and not be able to do those still?) - Let's me install software that replaces the default software - maybe I don't like the Windows Mobile standard SMS application and want to use another; well, let me associate text to another application (Palm has done this since at least the 600 if not earlier) - And has good versions of the best features so far seen. Top software features for me: (1) threaded text (2) single click access to create a text and select a recipient. Samsung's inbuilt app is 8 clicks before you can start typing your message! (3) contacts that let you phone or text someone right from the screen, a lookup that lets you start typing a number and brings up the contacts that match as you type (as opposed to typing in a name and bringing up the number) - Spinvox users will know what I mean. (4) Freecell, not solitaire Of course, Darwin works for the users too, as this post on "worst phone ever" evidences with the line "the touch screen is very hard to use as a phone keyboard – you WILL kill yourself if you ever try to dial a number whilst driving the car." Hmmm...dialling a number whilst I'm driving? Now why wouldn't that kill me?
Posted by Alan at Wednesday, May 02, 2007
All true, but as a the father (an ex IMF economist) of a friend of mine said to me at his wedding in Bermuda. "We basically cracked economic modelling. It's so simple we could model it with water running through pipes. Then came save the whales, reject apartheid, don't buy Nestle because they stitch up mothers in the third world and the whole load of public opinion crap."
The thing you're missing is that there's another invisible thrid party with an agenda.
It used to be the case that all they did to rip you off was add some mundane chat after you'd left your message, in order that the caller spent more time on the phone before they got to speak to you, thus earning them more money."
It now seems to me at least that they're influencing bios writers to do it.
For instance, quite obviously, when I close my brand new Nokia N95, (don't buy one, they charge you for maps,) it doesn't hang up the phone, when this is clearly what literally anyone would want to do. Qui Bono? You Betcha!
beau brummel 12:27 am
- Survives the drop test onto kitchen floor or when running for a bus
- Does not cause rsi when used a lot by a guy's hand
- at least half of circumference cabe be surrounded by a guy's hand; ie reasonable grip
- leaves the line of one's suit intact
- works with iSync & has T9
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Upgrading e-Government. The PR story.
When Aggregation Doesn't Work
Fixing FOI
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Deceit is the theme of Gellar’s “Ringer”
Filed under: Fantasy Realms, TV — 1 Comment
(With spoilers)
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a dual role as estranged twin sisters in her new series Ringer on the CW network. The “ringer” in the title is presumably Gellar as sister Bridget, who ends up as a pretender and “dead ringer” for high-class sister Siobhan. The difficulty for Gellar will be getting viewers to forget she was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The pilot episode featured non-stop plot twists, so many that it the show is very engaging, but begs the question: Can the writers keep up the momentum, or will this ultimately fall flat like Buffy co-star Eliza Dushku’s overly hyped but short-lived series Dollhouse?
Ringer plays more like Gellar’s early soap opera work but there may be more here to stick around for. As Bridget, the focal character of the series, Gellar shines as a weatherbeaten survivor of one or more 12-step programs, barely making it in the world, and currently plea bargaining a prostitution rap in exchange for turning states’ evidence on a local crime boss. But Bridget is smart and clever and concocts a plan to go away with a long-lost sister, Siobhan, who no one in Bridget’s current world knows about, a classy and smarter sister who is wealthy and has a seemingly perfect life. But Siobhan too reveals a more vulnerable side and we slowly learn her life is in shambles in various ways.
On a boat ride the sisters bond but Siobhan drugs Bridget and by all accounts Siobhan throws herself overboard. This leaves Bridget to step into her life like in The Riches or Dave, but Ringer is no comedy. Bridget learns her sister had a dysfunctional relationship with her husband, played by Ioan Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower, Fantastic Four). She easily takes to her sister’s best friend, only to learn her sister (and now she) is having an affair with her friend’s husband. Yet we get the feeling she likes Siobhan’s husband and could make her new life work as his wife. See the soap opera-esque branches starting to form?
As almost an afterthought she learns the problem behind her sister’s marriage: their son must have met some early death. This is befuddling and we only know this from a brief reaction to a snapshot on a shelf. Wouldn’t this son have come up in a prior conversation? We must assume this was also held back for some reason as part of Siobhan’s planned death.
To leave us further hanging, Bridget picks up the phone to learn her sister’s test results are back, Siobhan was pregnant, and Bridget repeats this aloud so now her new husband thinks she is pregnant.
But wait–there’s more. We see a last-minute murder attempt on Bridget’s life. And the person behind the hit? Flash to Paris, France and here is the real Siobhan, alive and well after all.
Ringer will be the ideal star vehicle for Gellar and opportunity for Emmy glory. She gets to play a down-and-out fish out of water with Bridget, and Bridget’s opposite in jet setter, fashion forward Siobhan, both caught up in this complicated web of deceit, with Gellar onscreen for every minute of it. Do they pay actors twice for playing two roles? Do you think Gellar asked her agent this question? (Buffy would have). Viewers will find themselves asking: which sister is Gellar more like in real life?
Except for the huge Buffy fan base that is eager to see the next new Gellar project, the cards are stacked against any show like this being successful. Will each episode be about lies built on other lies, with Bridget skating through all the barriers thrown at her? How long can that story last, or will they play up the soap opera plotting to make this go on forever? With most series cancelled abruptly we may never learn where the story will end. Ringer’s producers and writers will need to offer more than twists to keep viewers watching.
That said, episode one pummeled us, along with character Bridget, with a lot of material to digest. Gellar’s acting is more nuanced than her Buffy days, and what she has to offer new each week is what will likely keep viewers coming back for more.
Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, Eliza Dushku, Fantastic Four, Horatio Hornblower, Ioan Gruffudd, Ringer, Ringer review, Sarah Michelle Gellar
anilbalan
Good review – this looks interesting.
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SPINN – “Shallow” Single Review
SPINN are one of the newest indie bands to come out of Liverpool. They write dizzy guitar pop and sort of remind me of the kids from Stranger Things. What’s not to love? They have been releasing tracks through Modern Sky UK since 2017, so we’ve had plenty of singles and even an EP to introduce us to these guys. They just put out their newest single “Shallow”, so here’s our review!
“Shallow” is a jangly, dreamy indie track that sits at a lovely 3 minutes, and feels like the kind of track that would play in an independent film as the carefree protagonists run through the streets of their town with the sun rising behind them. The guitars in this song sound almost like chimes, and echo with a hazy, lighthearted reverb. One thing that I particularly love about this track is the fact that the bass is being treated as another guitar. This combined with breezy vocals and a well structured soundscape make this track a perfect fit for the seemingly endless summer that we’re having this year.
The best thing about SPINN for me is how lackadaisical their music feels. They have found a great combination of reverbed guitars, effortless sounding vocals and catchy, easy to enjoy songs. Sometimes, that’s all you need. “Shallow” is my favourite song that SPINN have released to date. “After Dark” is a strong second however. Having only really discovered these guys in the past month, it was very nice to stumble upon plenty of music by them to enjoy. Check out their video for “After Dark” below!
If SPINN keep releasing music that maintains their signature carefree energy, I think they have the potential to go far. Really far. And when that happens I can be really smug about being one of their early fans.
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The Covasettes – “Top Drawer” Single Review
The Covasettes are one of the most exciting young indie bands around at the moment. Hailing from Manchester, they add a certain down to earth, easy going feeling to a genre that has been overly saturated for a long time. They recently dropped their newest single “Top Drawer”, and it’s already been having a hayday on Spotify, being placed into the “Summer Indie” and “The Indie List” playlists. Here’s what we thought of it!
The track opens with an indie riff that’s exactly what you’d expect from a band like this. Chirpy, summery, upbeat, and fun. Our personal favourite element of this track is the vocals. There are many self styled indie pop bands that overdo the accent, either trying to seem more exotic or emotional, but The Covasettes don’t do that. Nor do they write vocal lines that try and transcend good old fashioned early 2010’s British indie. They lay down a fun, energetic but most of all unpretentious vocal line that showcases a fantastic honesty and authenticity in the band’s style. The vocals here are also pretty top knotch, with some great harmonies and layering going on throughout the track.
The guitar sounds somewhere between shoegaze and old school indie rock, which fits the vibe of the song perfectly and makes for a perfect summer mover ‘n’ shaker. In an interview with KMMREVIEWS, the band said that the track is “different, its simpler than our previous songs. It’s much more relaxed and less in your face, and we like that about it.”
This single is a great offering from The Covasettes and we have no doubt that if they keep writing songs of this calibre, they will swiftly become one of the UK’s rising indie star. Keep it up guys!
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iCIMS ATS and Talview Integration and Partnership
By Pavana KR
Talview, leading Online Assessment, Video Interviewing and Coding Test Platform, announced a partnership with iCIMS, a leading provider of innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions.
Talview's suite of talent assessment tools, which includes cutting edge video interviewing, technical and coding tests, and simulations for testing candidate skill on various computer based applications will now be available for iCIMS customers to use from within its application. Talview’s assessments are also equipped with its Cognitive Proctoring capabilities which helps companies ensure the authenticity of the test taker and prevents them from cheating.
"Talview partnership with iCIMS allows us to continue leveraging our platform to provide a cognitive, secure and non-logistic driven online assessment environment to a much wider audience", said Sanjoe Tom Jose, CEO at Talview. "As a preferred partner, Talview and iCIMS will be able to create a better online assessment experience for candidates and help our customers have a seamless experience using the tools.”
"Talview is the only digital recruiting solution integrated with iCIMS that allows you to conduct cutting-edge video interviews including Live or Asycnchronous Interviews, technical and coding tests, simulations and predictive analytics" Sanjoe added.
"We've entered a new era of recruiting. Social, mobile, and video can now play a key role in any organization's talent acquisition strategies. Using video in the interviewing process allows organizations to quickly identify soft skills and save time and money," says iCIMS Chief Executive Officer Colin Day. "We're thrilled to welcome Talview into our growing partner ecosystem. As the job markets continues to heat up, talent acquisition remains a top priority for today's executives; we're proud to offer a robust solution backed by a solid network of partners that helps organizations find, attract, screen, and onboard best-fit talent."
Additional information about the Talview integration with iCIMS can be accessed at: https://marketplace.icims.com/apps/121071#!overview.
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Is our love of hockey enforcers killing them?
Bob Collins September 3, 2011, 11:18 AM Sep 3, 2011
Earlier this year, former Minnesota Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard died from a combination of painkillers and alcohol. Rick Rypien, was found dead in his home in Alberta on Aug.15, an apparent suicide. Earlier this week, Wade Belak was found dead in a Toronto hotel on Aug. 31. His mother says he suffered with depression and anxiety.
Is there a link?
A neurosurgeon says a study of NHL enforcers has found serious brain injuries. Dr. Robert Cantu tells CBC News…
We’ve studied several deceased NHL players who were enforcers and the two that we brought public so far — Reggie Fleming and Bob Probert — both died with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
We have also had a number of brains come to us, mostly from NFL players who committed suicide, and their brains have shown chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
So anytime I hear of an athlete who has had a lot of head trauma who commits suicide, I am immediately concerned that chronic traumatic encephalopathy may have played a role. And I would like to study their brain to see whether the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy is there.
Cantu says chronic traumatic encephalopathy makes it difficult to handle depressive emotions, and depression is linked to suicide.
He says NHL enforcers told him that about one out of every four or five times they fight, they suffer what sounds like a concussion.
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