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McFloat - Johor Bahru, Malaysia - November 2012
McDonald's Malaysia McFloat
Consumed on - 24 November 2012
Location - City Square Mall, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Price - 4.25RM (With a Free Glass, which they were out of) = $1.39USD
McDonald's Malaysia Receipt
My girlfriends best friend came down to Singapore from Korea last weekend, and we made a afternoon hop over to JB for some shopping, to get them a massage, and so I could try the new McDonald's promo items! I was able to try 3 promo items, and between the 3 of us, we shared them between ourselves so we would not ruin our barbecue dinner later on in the evening. Today I'll be reviewing the McFloat, and the others will come over the next couple of days.
My girlfriend has a photo of me queuing because I was standing there for at least 15 minutes before I was able to place my order. Originally, I hopped in the shortest queue, and slowly worked my way to the front, except when one lone woman a couple people in front of me reached the counter, she turned around, yelled something in Malay, and 4 additional women cut the queue and all joined her up front...to make matters even worse, is that they all ordered and paid individually. The two groups of Malay men between her and myself made any mention of it (but were all visibly annoyed) so I left it at that.
My girlfriend took a photo of me queuing, which took forever
When I reached the front of the queue I ordered my items, and asked if the McFloat could be made with Coke Light rather than regular Coke. The women who took my order quickly inquired with her Manager who was conveniently behind her at the time, and he said of course. It seemed that everyone was ordering a McFloat at the time, and there was a dedicated McFloat maker to make them quickly, and she actually went over to him to confirm again, that it was indeed made with Coke Light. Nice to see good, friendly service to accommodate my special request. Sadly they were out of free Coke glasses, which you are supposed to received when ordering the McFloat. I received one of these in Singapore earlier in the year, so I wasn't so worried about it, plus I didn't want to worry about carrying it back home.
I've never been a fan of Floats, even as a child and I probably haven't had one in maybe 15 years. There is something about the taste which I've just never liked. My girlfriend and her friend were waiting at the table upstairs, and when she first got a look at the float she had a look of horror on her face. "Who puts ice cream inside Coke, oh my god!". Now, I've seen some totally unhealthy drinks living in Korea, but thinking back, I've never seen a Float, and apparently now I know why. My two Koreans were deathly afraid of trying it, and once they did, they both pulled a disgusted face and both complained it was too sweet and that something like this should never exist ..I didn't tell them that I had it made with Coke Light, nor made reference to any of those terrible 500kcal Paris Baguette style CafeMochaIcedChocoWhatever drinks that Koreans love that have chocolate and 8 pumps of syrup and whatever else they decide to throw in.
Personally, the float tasted exactly as I thought it would, and to make matters worse, the Coke seemed a little warm, which made it that much more horrible. It was served in the same huge plastic cup that the Sakura McFizz was a month or so earlier, and for the size, with a free glass, isn't a bad value at all, but that's its only saving grace. I was thirsty, so I tried to keep my straw as low as possible to avoid mixing the ice cream and Coke, but because the Coke was so warm, the ice cream mixed into the Coke pretty quickly after we had it. Ended up leaving more than 1/2 on the table when we left.
Rating - 2/5
Categories: Coke, Float, Limited, Malaysia
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Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules @ Underbelly Bristo Square
A story of space, love and humanity, with a woolly alien
Review by Jon Stapley | 14 Aug 2018
Kitted out in some kind of wool sack, with his legs on show, Australian solo-storyteller Stuart Bowden makes a striking sight. He’s an alien, named Natalie, who is visiting Earth partly to find his estranged love and partly to kill all the humans, if he can be bothered. He narrates his journey to us in what seems at first to be entirely a series of bizarre non-sequiturs, and turns out to only be mostly that. Natalie is a grumpy storyteller, a perfectionist who wants everything exactly right, and his testiness with the audience, his own story and himself reliably provides some of the best comedic moments.
Special mention is warranted for Bowden’s music. His soundtrack to his story, partly crafted onstage, is a terrific lo-fi blend of ambient synth with delicate folk, and when he sings he reveals a melodious voice with a really quite decent range. He’s got a natural flair for a complex vocal melody (so much so that we struggle to get the hang of the final singalong), and watching him expertly manipulate his pedals with his toes while simultaneously saying some utter nonsense into his microphone, while also dressed as an alien that looks like a sheep… well, there’s no good analogy for that. It’s impressive.
There’s a point to it all, of course. The stupid costume, tinny lo-fi music and bizarre storytelling thinly mask a genuine, fiery anger at the way the world is going and the way people are treating each other. Of course, Stuart Bowden is no more equipped than anyone else to deal with the problems of the world, but by dressing as an alien and telling a nonsensical story for an hour, he does manage to temporarily make it a little nicer.
Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules, Underbelly Bristo Square (Dexter), 2-26 Aug (not 13, 20), £11.30-12.30
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BID TO WOO JEZ KIDS
Liz Truss urges PM to start investing more in housing to win over young Labour voters
Treasury Chief Secretary Liz Truss has urged Conservatives to invest in housing and super-fast internet to win over 18 to 24-year-old Labour voters
By Steve Hawkes, Deputy Political Editor
Updated: 24 Jan 2019, 23:09
LIZ TRUSS will today urge the Tories to invest a fortune in super-speed internet and housing in a land grab for “Generation Z”.
In a battle cry, the Treasury Chief Secretary will insist Britain’s 18 to 24 year-olds are not all “sandal wearing Corbynistas”.
Liz Truss is proposing the Conservatives invest more in super-speed internet and affordable housingCredit: Rex Features
And she will use a speech in Leeds to claim the Conservatives should forget trying to match “Labour bribes” such as free bus passes and instead focus on giving today’s youngsters the “tools to succeed”.
The number of young entrepreneurs has nearly doubled since 2015 and entrepreneurial activity among 18- 24 year-olds is much higher than France in Germany. And Ms Truss will claim Labour’s own pollsters are worried that young voters in towns and cities are the “least loyal” to Mr Corbyn.
The Cabinet Minister will say: “Young people are going off Jeremy Corbyn even faster than his own MPs are. This is the most self-starting, business minded generation ever, and all Corbyn offers is high taxes and more state control.
“Conservatives have cut taxes and made it easier to start a business. It’s Conservatives not Labour that will help young people fulfil their ambition and turbocharge the economy as we leave the EU.”
The intervention comes just weeks after the Treasury’s secretary hinted she believed HS2 should be scrapped so billions could be invested elsewhere.
She has told allies Britain needs to spend much more on faster web connections across all corners of Britain. So far the Government has only committed to promises 15million full fibre connections by 2025.
And Ms Truss will say the Government has to be far more radical in shaking up planning rules in housing so “young people have the chance to live near the best jobs.
"The state is not always the answer to modern problems – and it’s precisely the opposite of what the new generation want.”
Some 60 per cent of 18 to 24 year-olds voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 Election. A surge in turnout among the younger generation - the so-called ‘Youthquake’ - was cited as the reason for Labour’s strong showing in last year’s General Election.
Labour’s share of the youth vote did increase, but its popularity also went up among all ages except for the over 70s.
These young people are the future of Britain, and we have to ensure Brexit works for them.
Liz Truss, MP for South West Norfolk
I’m in Leeds today to talk to young people about the future of the UK beyond Brexit. Because after March, the people with the most to gain are Britain’s under-20s. This is the breakthrough generation – and I want to listen to them, writes Liz Truss.
This generation – the first to have grown up on the internet, more connected and more enterprising than any that came before – are best equipped to enjoy the freedom that comes with leaving the EU. As we bring power back from Brussels to the streets of Britain, they are raring to go.
Liz Truss is urging her party to do more to win back the confidence of young votersCredit: Reuters
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There is a lot of latent potential to tap in to: the latest data shows that the UK now has 85% more 18-24 year old entrepreneurs than in 2015. That’s because they have more tools to succeed than ever – like the internet and smartphones. Seeing their heroes on YouTube rack up more viewers than primetime TV, or an app developed by a teenager change an entire industry, has given Gen Z the bug for success – and they’re only just getting started.
Recently I met a group of young entrepreneurs under 20 years old. Their energy was infectious, and they had two tips for us in government: make the rules simpler, and break down barriers for under-18s to set up enterprises.
We now have an army of high achievers brimming with ambition, and with the drive to shape their own futures. We’re told by Labour that they’re all sandal-wearing Corbynistas, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Research shows the young are more interested in making money than older generations and are less likely to support higher taxes. And it’s Conservatives, not the red-flag-waving Marxists, that are helping them succeed. Barriers to entry into business have never been lower thanks to our reforms and tax cuts, meaning anyone with a bright idea can start an empire from their bedroom.
We will leave the European Union in March, and step out into a new world with confidence and optimism.
This is also the first generation benefitting from our school reforms, with tougher exams preparing students for the dynamic modern economy. Like Brampton Manor Academy – the state school in East London that recently had 41 children accepted to Oxbridge. Far from snowflakes, we’re raising a generation who refuse to be put in their place and who are shaking things up.
These young people are the future of Britain, and we have to ensure Brexit works for them. Too often in this country our instinct is to be too defensive, sacrificing opportunities to preserve what we have. The danger is that it leads to state subsidies and regulation propping up industries and preventing new, fresh ideas from taking off. We must not fall into that trap.
An obvious example is housing, where we have reviewed planning rules and provided additional infrastructure funding so that more young people have the chance to live near the best jobs. And we should turn up the heat of competition, so that new building companies can take on the big corporations who stand in the way of change.
We need to keep an eye on regulation. We need to ensure standards, while allowing individuals and businesses to be independent, embrace risk and reward, and enjoy all the benefits that come with it.
And we should solve our modern challenges – like fibre connectivity– with more competition and new firms delivering cheaper, better ways forward, not politicians taking control and leaving no choice when things go wrong.
This is exactly the opposite of what Labour are offering. They areanimated by one core belief: that the state knows best and should control more of our lives. If only Jeremy Corbyn were put in charge of trains, water or the internet – goes the argument – we’d all be living in utopia.
The state is not always the answer to our modern problems – and it’s precisely the opposite of what the new generation want. They want to be free, not shackled by stifling regulation which is good at keeping order, but not so good at delivering a dynamic and exciting economy.
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So we can appeal by expanding opportunities, taking on vested interests and showing we don’t want to ban any of the good bits of modern life. By doing so, not only will we generate the growth so vital for rising wages and living standards, but also convince a new generation that Conservative values are theirs.
With the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit, this is the path we are on, and I would encourage all my colleagues in parliament to back her in securing a deal so we honour the vote of the British people and leave the EU in a way which benefits every part of our country.
We will leave the European Union in March, and step out into a new world with confidence and optimism, and a new generation of entrepreneurs driving Britain to keep defying the predictions. Conservatives should be confident that the future is ours, if we choose to embrace it.
Labour won 60 per cent of the votes from those aged 18-24 in the last general electionCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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Hello and welcome to my travel blog,
The Tripographer Unslumping yourself
Oct 18 London ~ RSC memorial
Deborah Brazendale
Visit, Learn
A war memorial to catch your breath
Burlington House, London
As an Arts graduate with a woefully limited Science education, the idea of attending a conference in London on Brexit at the Royal Society of Chemistry didn’t promise much, but it turned out to be a fascinating place to visit because of a war memorial that you’ll find on the staircase there.
The conference that was being held at Burlington House in London’s Mayfair. The ‘House’ is a collection of grand buildings around an elegant quad just off Piccadilly and opposite Fortnum & Mason. The buildings, now owned by the Government, are home to the Royal Society of Chemistry and a number of other prestigious Societies as well as temporary exhibitions from the Royal Academy. We met in the Library.
Inside the Royal Society of Chemistry, you’ll find this stunning stained-glass window. It’s one of a pair that face each other across the 9’ wide lower landing of the staircase.
The windows are at least 12’ high with deliciously jewel-rich, kaleidoscopic panes that throw scattered, misty, shifting colours across the face of the wall-mounted memorial that is displayed in between them, straight ahead of you as you ascend the stairs.
The memorial has a fascinating but an almost unbearably touching story behind it that I thought you might be interested in.
The war memorial commemorates the names of chemists who died in active service and its heading, "Pro Patria", can't help but conjure up Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est as you first take it in. But this conjuring becomes even more poignant when you absorb more of the detail of the bronze that sits above the heading.
Sculpted by Ernest Gillick, who also created the cenotaph in Glasgow's George Square, this bronze plaque pays tribute to the remarkable work and sacrifice of Edward Harrison, the chemist who invented the most effective respirator for the WWI gas mask.
Remember these lines from your school days, in Owen's 1917 poem? About the aftermath of a gas attack?
“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone was still yelling out and stumbling,
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.”
— Wilfred Owen
The 'misty panes' were the gas mask's windows, which enabled the wearer to survive but also forced him to bear witness to this most terrible, and most terrifying, of deaths.
Early gas masks were designed initially to reduce the impact of a single gas, chlorine, but, as the war intensified the use of poison gasses, and their variety, increased. In 1914, a Chemist named Edward Harrison and his team were tasked with finding respiratory protection from as many seventy different types of gas!
Research into the chemical filtration that could slow or restrict the permeation of gases took Harrison's team two years and involved working with many noxious substances, as well as self-experimenting - frequently to the point of unconsciousness.
Image from Wikipedia; credit Whatsthatpicture [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
The work was successful: Edward Harrison's gas filter was attached to masks and issued to hundreds of thousands of soldiers in 1916. Poignantly, this was the same year Harrison's own son was killed at the Somme. Harrison’s filtered respirator was an invention that went on to save many thousands of lives but, regrettably, it cost him his own. The work's toxicity and tireless effort saw Harrison dead before he turned 50, just one week before the Armistice in 1918. (I notice that Wilfred Owen died on the very same day, 04 November 1918.)
The inscription to Edward Harrison on the magnificent bronze plate of the war memorial reads:
“To save our armies from poison gas
he gave the last full measure of devotion.”
He gave his last breath, in fact. Humbling and inspiring beyond belief.
Harrison's life story is fascinating and his memorial is one of the most beautiful and affecting things I've ever seen. The light from the windows either side gives the solid bronze of the memorial an ethereal, fleeting animation that heart-stoppingly invokes the ‘misty panes’ line from Owen’s poem - a visceral example of Freud’s ‘uncanny’ that literally caught my breath when it struck me. My breath...
I suddenly found myself focusing on my breath and my breathing, unexpectedly conscious of it and self-conscious at the same time; aware of life as I stood and contemplated death, Gillick’s exceptional work on this war memorial delivers a very touching and yet profound way to remember those who were killed in war; to ensure we never forget.
Could there be a better tribute to Edward Harrison’s sacrifice and a reminder of the impact and importance of his life’s work?
Had you heard of Edward Harrison before? What do you think of his story and his memorial? Let me know in the comments below.
If you found this interesting, I would really love it if you’d please help me to commemorate Edward Harrison, especially as it’s 100 years this year since he died, by sharing his story with someone else?
The Tripographer’s notes
Unslumping level? 10/10. Utterly inspiring and guaranteed to unslump you
Would I go again? Yes
Best time to go? Any time the RSC is open. You don’t need to attend an event there to go in and ask to see the memorial
Best for? Remembrance and a beautiful library
Top tip? Go in when it’s sunny for maximum effect.
More about this place
Burlington House
https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2016/07/07/edward-harrison-who-gave-his-life-developing-protection-against-poison-gas/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetryowen/
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2006/EdwardHarrison.asp
http://www.notjusthockney.info/gillick-ernest-george/
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Bangladesh elected ECOSOC members for 3yrs
Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations for the term 2020-2022 by securing 181 votes out of 191. Photo: Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations
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Bangladesh was elected as a member of the prestigious Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations for the term 2020-2022 from the Asia-Pacific region by securing 181 votes out of 191.
The election was held at the UN General Assembly Hall, according to a press release.
Thailand, South Korea and China are the other countries elected from the same region. ECOSOC, one of the six principal organs of UN, is also the most important platform of the UN system, the press release added.
It is also crucial for multilateral diplomacy especially in the case of development.
The victory was hailed as a global recognition of the development endeavors of Bangladesh by diplomats from several countries present at the election venue.
The election was conducted under the Presidency of María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the president of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly through a secret ballot.
Referring to Bangladesh’s fulfillment of the LDC graduation criteria last year, the Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Masud Bin Momen said, “This membership of ECOSOC will help us achieve sustainable graduation and accelerate progress in the implementation of Agenda 2030.”
Through the membership of ECOSOC, Bangladesh will be able to work more intensively in implementing the Agenda 2030 through various forums, commissions, committees, executive boards and regional forums such as UNESCAP under ECOSOC.
This will also enable the country to share its best developmental practices with the rest of the world, mentioned the ambassador, according to the press release.
Bangladesh will commence its ECOSOC membership from January 2020. It is to be noted that in 2018, Bangladesh was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2019-2021 term.
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2019 file photo, the main entrance to Mount Carmel West Hospital is shown in Columbus, Ohio. The Mount Carmel Health System announced Thursday, July 11, 2019 that it’s firing 23 more employees and changing leadership after investigating excessive painkiller doses given to dozens of patients who died.
Andrew Welsh Huggins
Hospital fires 23 workers in case of excessive doses, deaths
By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio hospital system where excessive painkiller doses were given to dozens of patients who died fired 23 nurses, pharmacists and managers Thursday and said it is changing leadership, a sign that professional fallout from the scandal has expanded far beyond the intensive care doctor accused of ordering the drugs.
The announcement by the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System comes five weeks after that doctor, William Husel, pleaded not guilty to murder charges in 25 of the deaths, marking one of the biggest cases of its kind against an American health care professional.
The newly fired employees include five physician, nursing and pharmacy management team members, President and CEO Ed Lamb said in a statement.
Mount Carmel said the other 18 fired were among the nurses and pharmacists who had been on administrative leave during its internal review.
One employee remains on administrative leave, and 11 are being given the chance to return to work if they complete additional training, Lamb said. Mount Carmel didn't specify whether those employees are nurses and pharmacists who administered or approved the excessive doses.
Authorities have said the nurses and pharmacists involved aren't being prosecuted, though dozens have been reported to their respective professional boards for review and potential disciplinary action.
Lamb also said that he is resigning this month and that Mount Carmel's chief clinical officer is retiring in September, paving the way for new leadership that could "facilitate healing and help restore the trust of the community."
Mount Carmel fired Husel in December and concluded he had ordered potentially fatal doses for 29 patients who died over the past few years, including five who might have received the drugs when there still was a chance of improving their conditions with treatment.
The hospital system said six more patients got doses that were excessive but likely not the cause of their deaths.
His lawyer in the criminal case has said Husel was providing comfort care to dying patients, not trying to kill them.
Husel, 43, was charged with murder only in cases involving 500 to 2000 micrograms of the powerful painkiller fentanyl, amounts far larger than typical doses.
Mount Carmel has tightened its drug policies and access and publicly apologized, noting it should have expedited its investigation. It acknowledged that Husel wasn't removed from patient care until four weeks after a concern about him was raised last fall, and that three patients died during those weeks after getting excessive doses he ordered.
The hospital system has resolved some of the related wrongful death lawsuits, reaching nearly $4.5 million in settlements so far.
"We are deeply sorry for the additional grief and frustration this has caused and are working to provide reasonable settlements with affected families," Lamb said in the statement Thursday.
Twenty-two lawsuits remain pending.
In new filings this week, Husel's lawyer in the civil cases again argued they should be put on hold because of the criminal case.
A court magistrate previously declined to halt the lawsuits but did block the plaintiffs' lawyers from pursuing a sworn statement from Husel. Lawyer Gregory Foliano argues that isn't enough to protect Husel's right to a fair trial, in part because plaintiffs still can seek information from other Mount Carmel employees.
The hospital also wants the lawsuits put on hold and has filed objections to the magistrate's decision.
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Tuesday May 21 2019
Malawi electoral agents verify electoral materials at Chibavi Primary School polling station in Mzuzu on May 19, 2019 two days ahead of the Presidential elections. PHOTO | PATRICK MEINHARDT | AFP
The election is the first since a new law forced parties to declare large donations and banned the once-common practice by candidates of giving cash handouts.
Malawi polls opened on Tuesday after a closely-fought election campaign, with President Peter Mutharika battling to hold off two serious rivals in a race that has focused on corruption allegations and economic development.
Mutharika, who has been in power since 2014, faces opposition from his own deputy Saulos Chilima and former Baptist preacher Lazarus Chakwera.
"We have set Malawi on the path of progress," Mutharika, 78, told several thousand cheering supporters of his ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) at his final campaign rally at the weekend.
His bid for a second term has highlighted on the economy and his record of improving road and electricity infrastructure across the southeastern African country.
Under Mutharika, inflation has fallen from 23 percent to below nine percent, but still only 11 percent of the population has access to electricity.
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"I'm hoping for change. We need jobs to change our lives and that is what I hope my candidate does," voter Madalitso Willie, 25, a motor mechanic in Lilongwe, told AFP, declining to reveal his preference.
"We have been disappointed so many times before but now we want something different," said Violet Moyo, 30, businesswoman, as she waited to vote after polls opened at 6am (0400 GMT). "I'm super excited for voting,"
Food shortages, power outages and ballooning external debt have hurt Mutharika's popularity while in office.
He faces a strong challenge from Chakwera, leader of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), who came a narrow second in the 2014 election.
As campaign ended at the weekend, Chakwera told AFP that he expected "nothing less than victory – we are winning."
Mutharika's other opponent, Chilima, quit the ruling party last year to form the youth-focused United Transformation Movement, while staying on as vice president.
Under Malawi law, the president cannot fire the vice president.
Chilima, 46, emphasised his youth credentials by doing push-ups on stage during the campaign, while his wife released a popular rap video extolling his credentials to be president.
More than half of the 6.8-million registered voters are under 35.
Dan Banik, a politics professor at the University of Malawi, told AFP that the election posed many questions.
"What will happen when a winner is declared by a narrow margin?" he said.
"How will losing presidential candidates take defeat? Will supporters of the incumbent DPP peacefully accept losing?"
Banik said that the election commission and the courts could be severely tested by counting complaints after polling day, when voters also choose lawmakers and local councillors.
In Malawi's "winner takes all" system, Mutharika won in 2014 with just 36 percent of the vote.
He came to power in the aid-dependent country vowing to tackle corruption after the "Cashgate" scandal erupted a year earlier, revealing massive looting from state coffers.
But his government has been dogged by several high-profile cases of corruption and nepotism.
Last November, Mutharika himself was forced to return a $200,000 donation from a businessman facing a corruption case in a $3-million contract to supply food to the Malawi police.
"It will even be more uncertain and tight than last time. It could undermine the legitimacy of the winning candidate," said Michael Jana, a Malawi politics specialist at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand.
Malawi won independence from Britain in 1964, and was then ruled by Hastings Banda as a one-party state until the first multi-party elections in 1994.
The country, which has a population of 18 million people, has one million adults living with HIV – one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world.
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South Sudan to relocate victims of oil pollution
Tuesday December 11 2018
Workers reconstruct an oil pipeline in Abyei area of South Sudan. The country is grappling with oil pollution challenges. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Oil minister Ezekiel Gatkuoth Lol declined to comment on the matter when contacted
A political science scholar at the University of Juba, Dr James Okuk, urged the oil companies to compensate the victims of pollution
By JOSEPH ODUHA
The South Sudan government plans to relocate thousands of people affected by the oil pollution in the former Unity State and other areas in the north.
The Parliamentary Committee on Petroleum and Mining made the proposal following an outcry from the affected populations and lobby groups.
The head of the committee, Mr James Lual, who visited the pollution site recently, confirmed that the situation was grave.
The best option
He said the health and the livelihoods of the people living in and around the Upper Nile oilfields were being severely affected by the pollution of the entire environment, particularly the water sources.
“In view of the extent and persistence of the contamination of sources of water, the best option is to relocate the residents," said Mr Lual.
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“I saw with my own eyes chemical wastes that have the capability to seriously harm people. I encountered water containing materials that are dangerous to both people and animals. I saw trees drying up,” he added.
A basic right
The contamination of the environment in the north has added to the factors forcing more than a half a million people to flee the region, the government confirmed in April.
Oil minister Ezekiel Gatkuoth Lol declined to comment on the matter when contacted.
A political science scholar at the University of Juba, Dr James Okuk, urged the oil companies to compensate the victims of pollution.
“The payment by oil companies as compensation to victims of their pollution is a standard practice around the world. This is because the victims have a basic right to such, provided that this contamination has been proven,” Dr Okuk noted.
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Jetstar will also lower prices to beat Air New Zealand's recent slash
Jetstar will not give up it's position as NZ's most affordable airline without a fight.
Air New Zealand made an announcement that it was cutting its regional air fares and not Jetstar has said they'll beat any comparable flight by 10 percent.
"When you're shopping online for flights, if you find a flight with another airline, or a Jetstar flight on an eligible third party website that's cheaper than you can get on Jetstar.com, we'll beat it by 10 per cent," said a statement yesterday from James Stafford, the manager of New Zealand sales at Jetstar.
After substantial media hype, Air New Zealand announced yesterday that its price cuts would make 750,000 regional flight seats available a year for less than $50.
Jetstar flies regularly flies to Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, New Plymouth, Nelson, Palmerston North, Wellington and Queenstown - meaning these will be the routes with the highest levels of competition.
We are so thankful for this competition cause we're benefiting! Yaaasss!
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Lost in Translation… The Threats of the Mullahs
by Jim Hoft February 7, 2007
The mullahs are threatening to destroy Israel, burn the White House and kidnap Americans.
But, for some reason their fiery rhetoric is lost in the translation from Farsi to English(?)
Here are a few of the latest threats coming from the mullacracy in the last couple of days…
Iranian Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad Hassan Akhtari
From the Iranian News website- English version:
Syrian Foreign Minister Valid al-Mualem and Iranian Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad Hassan Akhtari conferred here Sunday on the latest regional developments. At the meeting, the current crisis in Lebanon was also on the agenda.
And, now from Iranian News – Farsi version, translated by Iranian blogger Winston at The Spirit of Man:
Mohammad Hassan Akhtari, the Iranian ambassador to Syria said, we hope that Palestinians win over the Israelis in the near future so that all Palestinian refugees can go back to their own country. He also added that he personally hopes that next year Palestinians present in the meeting can invite their Iranian counterparts to a freed Palestinian land for the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Iranian envoy to Syria Hassan Akhtari quoted as saying that the destruction of Israel is a possibility and it will happen in the near future and all evidences point to that direction.
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Defence and Armed Forces Logistics Minister General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
From Iranian News– English version:
Defence and Armed Forces Logistics Minister General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said, “Iran’s armed forces are strongly controlling everything in the region and would not allow any aggression by enemies with full readiness.”
And, Iranian Aftab News– Farsi version translated by Iranian blogger Kamangir:
If Washington starts the fire of war, flames of this fire will burn the White House more than anyone else.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Husseini
A report from the Iranian Students News Agency– English version:
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman gave news that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s embassy in Baghdad’s second secretary was kidnapped by a group of armed men. “The Islamic Republic of Iraq strongly condemns such actions which are completely against international regulations, laws and the Vienna convention and urges the Iraqi government to release the kidnapped diplomat and punish those who are responsible,” Mohammad Ali Husseini emphasized. “The U.S. through such actions is clearly threading on all international regulations, which this will have a negative impact on international diplomatic relationships,” he added.
And, here’s the report from Alef Iran– Farsi version, translated again by Kamangir:
America must release the Iranian diplomats [the recently kidnapped diplomat plus those kidnapped in Arbil] and follow the international regulations. Otherwise, kidnapping diplomats may become a common trend and thus American diplomats in Baghdad may be kidnapped.
This is not the first time that the mullahs have threatened to abduct Americans. Last week Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, also threatened to abduct US troops if Washington does not release five Iranian officials kidnapped in the northern Iraqi town of Erbil
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Lakanal House tower block fire: deaths 'could have been prevented'
Deaths of six people in UK's worst tower block fire could have been prevented by proper fire safety checks, inquest concludes
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Thu 28 Mar 2013 16.08 EDT First published on Thu 28 Mar 2013 16.08 EDT
Lakanal House tower block in Camberwell, London. The jury said Southwark council, which owns the block, missed numerous opportunities to remedy botched renovation work which compromised fire-stopping between flats. Photograph: Rex Features
The death of six people in Britain's worst tower block fire was largely caused by botched and unsafe renovation work and a council's failure to inspect the building, as well as confusion and chaos during the firefighting operation, an inquest has concluded.
In a carefully worded but ultimately damning narrative verdict into the death of three women and three young children trapped inside Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, on 3 July 2009, the jury highlighted numerous ways they could possibly have been saved.
The fire, caused by an electrical fault in a television inside a ninth-floor flat, spread through the 1958-built block with a suddenness and ferocity that terrified residents and baffled firefighters.
Six people remained in their flats one level above and were dead within 90 minutes. They were Dayana Francisquini, 26, and her daughter Thais, six, and son Felipe, three; Helen Udoaka, 34, and her 20-day-old daughter Michelle; and 31-year-old Catherine Hickman.
The 10-week hearing saw some harrowing evidence, including details of the phone calls made by some of those trapped. Hickman, a fashion designer, spent 40 minutes in increasingly panicked conversation with an emergency operator, saying she could not breathe amid choking smoke. She yelled that flames were at the door and that something had fallen on her from the ceiling, before she eventually fell silent.
Hickman was repeatedly urged to remain in her flat rather than fleeing, advice based on the theory of compartmentalisation – that individual high-rise flats should be able to contain a fire for sufficient time for the block to be made safe.
But, the inquest heard, the Lakanal House blaze moved unusually quickly and in unexpected ways. Within half an hour of the first 999 call it had spread to several other floors, moving downwards as well as up, something so unusual that transcripts show emergency operators initially refused to believe this was happening.
The jury heard that a change in the law in 2006 meant Southwark was responsible for fire safety checks at its flats, but by July 2009 the council had carried out no such checks at Lakanal or any other residential blocks. It had, however, managed to carry out the checks at buildings where its own staff worked.
Southwark council, which owned the block, failed to carry out a proper fire inspection over the three years after it became its legal responsibility, the jury noted. A proper inspection would have picked up work from the 1980s that removed vital fire-stopping material between flats and communal corridors, the inquest said. It also noted that asbestos window panels had been replaced with composite equivalents, which burned out in less than five minutes, accelerating the spread of the blaze.
The failure to carry out inspections amounted to "a serious failure" by Southwark and its contractors, the jury said, and in the case of Hickman, something which made "more than a minimal contribution" to her death. Despite warnings from health and safety officials, the council "did not prioritise carrying out fire-risk assessments" on residential properties.
While each of the six verdicts was worded neutrally – no party has accepted legal liability, which inquests are not allowed to assign – the ultimate message was clear, as was its emotional impact. Perhaps the most difficult moment came as a juror read out the details for Michelle Udoaka: "Born: 13 June 2009. Died: 3 July 2009.
The fire brigade, meanwhile, was criticised for confusion among its 999 operators, who urged some victims to remain sheltering in smoke-filled flats when they should have fled. There was also confusion among controllers at the scene who failed to search the relevant flats in time despite the urging of relatives and neighbours of those trapped, partly because they did not understand the layout of the block.
Those who died could all have probably saved themselves but were either advised to remain in their flats or did not seem to know about escape routes along communal balconies.
The coroner in the 10-week inquest, judge Frances Kirkham, has written to the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, as well as Southwark and the London fire brigade with a series of recommendations. These include that fire services visit high-rise blocks to learn their layout, and landlords consider fitting them with sprinkler systems. Residents should also get better fire safety information, she said.
Mbet Udoaka, whose wife and infant daughter died, read a statement welcoming the verdict. Standing next to Rafael Cervi, Dayana Francisquini's husband, he said: "Nearly four years later and after a long inquest, no authority, organisation or body has said sorry to us or accepted the blame. We fear very much that lessons have not been learned and that it could happen again."
The Labour MP for Camberwell, Harriet Harman, said: "It's evident from the jury's verdict that these were unnecessary deaths. They shouldn't have died. A perfectly safe building became unsafe because of the way they did the refurbishments. Then there was no fire inspection that would have shown what the problems were."
Later, however, Southwark said it did "apologise unreservedly" for it failings. Ian Wingfield, the council's deputy leader, said: "We have learned immediate and enduring lessons from this tragedy and have improved what we do to make our residents and homes safe."
Ron Dobson, the head of the London fire brigade, expressed his "personal sadness" but stopped short of apologising on behalf of the service. He said: "We will now consider the jury's verdict and the recommendations that the coroner has made."
The six people who died in the Lakanal House fire were an arbitrary selection, both hugely disparate in their origins and typical of modern-day inner south London.
The three women and three children trapped in three smoke-logged flats on the 11th floor came from Brazil, Nigeria and Hampshire. On the first day of the inquest Rafael Cervi told the jury how "everything that I built, everything that I dream of" – his 26-year-old wife, Dayana Francisquini, her six-year-old daughter, Thais, and the couple's son, three-year-old Felipe – was wiped out in little more than an hour.
He first saw his wife, Cervi said, as she danced in a Brazilian nightclub. While Thais was sensible and studious, her younger brother was "always doing crazy things", he added, recounting an incident just before his death when the mischievous toddler covered himself with an entire jar of hair gel.
His evidence was followed by that of Mbet Udoaka, who recalled meeting his future wife, Helen, at Lagos University before the couple moved to London. Just 20 days before the fire their first child, Michelle, was born. He said his religious faith had helped to keep him going: "I am really hoping that one day I'm going to see them. This is what I keep saying to Helen each time I visit the cemetery."
Finally, Mark Bailey described being in New York for work when he heard about the fire inside the building where he shared a flat with his girlfriend of six years, fashion designer Catherine Hickman, 31. He described the wait for firefighters to recover his partner's body: "During that time, I was feeling indescribable. I was overwhelmed by grief and I would wake up every night screaming and crying. I would think Cat was next to me and then realise what had happened and break down."
The inquest also heard of the wider impact of the fire. Helen Udoaka's father died of a heart attack the night he heard the news, the inquest was told.
Among the firefighters who gave evidence was Christopher Rose, who discovered Michelle Udoaka's body. He broke down as he described finding the girl's body in a smoke-filled bathroom and how he had subsequently had to take seven months off work with post-traumatic stress.
• This article was amended on 8 April 2013. The original said that asbestos window panels at Lakanal House had been replaced with PVC equivalents, which burned out in less than five minutes. The replacement panels were not a PVC product.
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Home » COA now recording select 'Appeals on Wheels' arguments
COA now recording select 'Appeals on Wheels' arguments
KEYWORDS Appeals on Wheels / Indiana Court of Appeals / Courts / neglect
Appeals on Wheels: COA heads south to hear arguments
COA to visit high school for arguments Tuesday
COA heads to northern Indiana for ‘Appeals on Wheels’
When the Indiana Court of Appeals hits the road to hear arguments, some of those will now be recorded and archived online.
The court announced Thursday that it is now recording some oral arguments conducted at schools and in communities around the state. The first publicly recorded argument happened Feb. 17 at Wabash College and is now available for listening at http://mycourts.in.gov/arguments. The equipment will be used at selected events on successive Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays in any given month.
The court says until now, it lacked portable equipment to record “Appeals on Wheels” arguments. It routinely webcasts and records oral arguments held in the Indiana Statehouse.
Live streaming will not be available for the traveling oral arguments.
“Appeals on Wheels has been a popular outreach and education program for the Court for more than 15 years,” court administrator Steven F. Lancaster said. “Our new recording capability will bring those arguments to an even wider audience, which is win-win for the Court and citizens.”
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The Buffalo Ranch
Cecil Dawkins
Issue 22, Autumn-Winter 1959-1960
The signs out front faced down the highway, lettered on both sides so they could be read from either direction, east or west. WESTERN CURIOS—INDIAN JEWELRY—GOOD GRADE GAS—CLEAN REST ROOMS—ICE WATER—FREE ZOO. One, confronting only the west-bound cars, warned LAST CHANCE. Across the roof, the name of the place in individual wooden letters, some of which the wind had knocked down to lie bleaching on the shingles. What was left read B F ALO R NCH.
The building, a long flat-roofed adobe structure, was flanked on the east by the Clean Rest Rooms and a tire rack, though the tires. New and Used, stood in precarious piles on the ground, and on the west by the buffalo pen, a solid fence of upended poles which, along with the slits for viewing, suggested that the two dusty and ancient fleabitten cows, whatever their appearance, were really dangerous. Out front, two gasoline pumps like armless Indians guarded the stuffed grizzly and the pinto pony humped in the shape of its own rebellion and caught forever, like the mastodon in ice, before which tourists could have their pictures taken. To the north, at some distance across the desert, the mountains rose, first the yellow hills and, behind them, peaks blue in their own shadow.
The dark low-raftered interior, lined with Indian rugs and blankets imported from a factory in up-state New York, offered careless counters of turquoise or polished stone or petrified wood in silver—rings, buckles, bracelets, necklaces —a shelf of cochina dolls and felt moccasins, untidy stacks of “western” shirts and skirts, denim levis, cowboy hats, a row of Coca Cola machine, cigarette machine, chewing gum balls and peanut dispensers, pinon nuts, and peanut butter or cheese in stale cracker sandwiches—four to a cellophane pack, one nickle. Through the curtained door, the Free Zoo— a gila monster and a rattler in separate aquariums, one ragged cayote in a wire cage, an eagle and a road runner, both of these stuffed and dusty, with little agate eyes. In the three back rooms Jimmy lived with her husband, Burt the Trader, who was at this moment out behind the kitchen concentrating upon the lettering of two new signs, the tip of his tongue showing like a little pink bullet between his Ups. He had already finished one of the signs and stood it up to dry against the adobe wall, where each letter was slowly developing a stinger. It read DON’T MISS THE ATOM BOMB. The other one, the one he labored over, said BIG BLAST SEE IT HERE.
In the morning, fresh from a night in some ranch-type motel, tourists stopped from both directions. They bought postcards and scribbled on them, and put them into purses where they would forget to mail them, bought turquoise rings and silver buckles, took their children through the Zoo, snapped pictures of each other fighting the grizzly or of Junior riding the bucking bronco, peered in at the languishing buffalos, and sampled pinon nuts while spreading maps on fenders, though the road was there, visible for miles in either direction, plainly offering but one choice, unless they wanted to go back where they came from.
But in the afternoon, the cars that stopped in their hurry toward some less lonesome spot before night, stopped only for gasoline if they were heading east, or for nose bags for their radiators if they were heading west into the desert.
Now it was almost night.
Jimmy was standing in the kitchen door, watching her husband work on the signs. She had long ago decided he was mad and the only thing to do was humor him.
She was twenty-two years old and looked to be fifteen, with an undersized body that was all bone. She had on one of her husband’s shirts and a pair of pants stitched up the sides and around the pockets with thread that had once been white. Her yellow straw hair hung straight with an open-end square cut out of it for her face, long and sharp and green-eyed. Her name was really Jimel, after her father and mother, Jim and Elda, back in East Tennessee.
She had been seventeen years old when she married him. He’d told her he was going overseas and was sure to be killed. And then, he said, she would be rich. But she hadn’t married him because of the insurance, though she did not at the time doubt that he would be killed if he said so. She had married him because he promised to take her to Florida on their honeymoon. She’d been a little disappointed in everything but the ocean.
In less than a year, he was back, but put in an army hospital. He wrote letters saying he’d got a spotty lung and would probably die. But again he didn’t. When they released him, they said he would stay cured so long as he lived in some desert. So he’d left the hospital and got on a bus and headed west to find himself a desert, and he’d found The Buffalo Ranch and sent for her. By then, she couldn’t remember exactly what he looked like.
When she got off the bus, she was looking for a short, pale-haired fellow in a damp uniform. But it was a little man in cowboy boots and hat, wearing levis and a bright fuchsia corrugated nylon shirt, that grabbed her, kissing. He’d worn the cowboy hat indoors and out, even while he stepped out of his pants at night to go to bed. But she soon discovered anyway that, except for the fringe around the edges and a soft yellow down on top, he’d turned bald as an infant.
For awhile he entertained her with stories about his experiences in the armed forces. He told her about going out on patrols in no-man’s land, and about the stink of dead bodies, and about a crazy Chinese radio that blared out propaganda to them at night and played American jazz music on what sounded like kitchen utensils. And he told her about Japanese women when he was on leave, making out that he’d been quite a heller. But then she was wakened one night by his sobs and he confessed that he’d never seen a Chinese soldier, never been on patrol, that the only stink he’d come in contact with was in the latrines. He’d spent his months in Korea with a reserve battalion near a place he called Sayool, and that was where they discovered his spotty lung. From then on he’d been in the hospital. The two letters he’d written to her were full of nothing but lies.
After that, she got to know him better because he talked about what was really on his mind. He talked about his death. His death was like a ribbon-tied box he kept in front of him all the time. He didn’t know what was in it for him and he wouldn’t have dared to touch the ribbon. But nevertheless he kept it always before him, at arm’s length, where he could look at it and talk about it and be reminded by it that he was set apart from other men. It was his obsession, that and making money. He said he hadn’t long to live and he wanted to make a lot of money before he died.
Squatting before his sign, Burt asked, “What do you think? Is two enough”
Jimmy didn’t answer. She was thinking about the ocean. Though she had seen it only on that one occasion in her life, she found it was a good deal more real to her than anything she remembered from East Tennessee. (Mountains made her car sick.) She had found that looking at the desert made it easier for her to conjure up the ocean, a thing she was likely to do in time of stress. She thought it helped to look at the desert because it was just so much nothing and didn’t intrude upon her mind. So, standing there at the back door, she looked out across the arroyo and the sand flats to the mesa and, beyond, the mountains, and the ocean suddenly loomed up, blue with white sand beaches, seeming to rise toward the distances, so big it was like something you try to get your hands on in a dream. Her eyes glazed over with the look of one hypnotized, or dead. It made her feel the way she had upon inhaling her first cigarette as a child, full and lightheaded and gone from this world.
It lasted only an instant, and afterwards there was only the arroyo where rested the wind-sanded, rusting-out carcass of the old wreck Burt had pushed down there with his jeep, and clumps of mesquite, and a distant butte that looked like a man buried in sand up to his neck, and the desert itself that remained to mock her, a gross personal insult.
She turned her eyes back upon her husband. “Sometimes I think you hadn’t got a lick of sense,” she said.
He smiled up at her and went on with his work. He had finished both signs and now was getting ready to nail them onto posts. “You want to help me with this now” he asked. “I got to get busy on them sun glasses. There’s a world of things to be done yet.”
He stood up and took off his hat and fanned himself. She slammed out into the yard and took hold of one of the sign posts. She looked at his bald head. She hadn’t often an opportunity to see it. The ridge the hat made cut across his forehead like a scar. Above it his head was unnaturally white, while below, his nose and cheeks were peeling and red and his eyebrows and lashes were bleached. His taking off his hat was a testimonial to his excitement.
“What are you going to do with the sun glasses?” she asked, still studying the scar the hat made. He’d come home that morning from a quick trip up the highway and into the nearest town, loaded down with cardboard boxes stuffed full of 29¢ and 59¢ and 69¢sun glasses. He’d bought out every drugstore and dime store and trading post for twenty miles to the east.
“I aim to put a $1 in front of each and every one of those prices” he said.
“They probly won’t even need them to see it,” she said.
“Well, they won’t know that till it’s all over,” he said.
“By then I’ll have made a fortune.” He picked up his hammer and began to drive the nails while she braced her shoulder against the back of the post. He’d made lots of fortunes before. Once he’d made Julia Crow, their Indian help, take him out into the desert. He’d taken hundreds of color slides of buttes and cactus and one old Indian ruin. He’d sold one of the pictures to a postcard company. And once he’d bought six burros, planning to take pack trips out toward the mountains, charging tourists some outrageous price. He never could make a go of that though, and he blamed it on the fact they didn’t have a motel where tourists could stay and get an early start in the mornings. So he’d built a ring and hired out the burros for kiddy rides until they all got choked one spring in a sand storm.
Every blow of the hammer knocked her teeth together. “Hurry up, will you please,” she said. “It’ll be here by the time you get these things up.”
“Hold your horses. I’m almost through.”
Whack, and she felt a crick coming in her neck. But he’d finished.
He picked up his mallet and leaned on it to survey his handiwork. “In the morning,” he said, “I expect to see cars lining as far as you can see on both sides of the highway.”
“How do you know so sure you’ll even be able to see it from here?” she asked. But he ignored her.
“Dropped two on Japan and they flattened a city apiece.” He snapped his fingers. “Just like that.” Now he had stuck the handle of the mallet into the sand and was sitting on its head, rolling a smoke.
He started to go on, but his eyes shifted and he looked down at what he was doing. She saw that he’d been about to describe the cities as if he’d seen both of them. She knew that frequently he could have kicked himself for confessing to her about his war experiences that night he woke up dreaming about his birthday box of death.
He went on, “Millions of ’em, dead before they knew what hit um, cinders in a second.” He stuck the cigarette between his Ups and searched his pockets for a match to light it. “You take, most of them, why they’d never even thought about it.” Snap. “Out like a light. None of your little crossroads bus stops either, big cities the size of L.A.” Snap.
Jimmy balanced the sign and tried to wipe a smear of paint off her temple.
He shook his head, smiling a little. “You couldn’t of paid me to been in one of them.”
“When I die I want it to be quick,” she said.
“Take I read where they dropped one of them on this island. They were just trying it out. Put all these sheep and goats in crates and left um there to see what effect it would have. Why, baby, when it was all over, know what? There wasn’t even an island. That’s wat effect it had.” He laughed.
“Sometimes they don’t get it set just like they want it.”
Julia Crow waddled around the end of the buffalo pen to see what they were doing. Julia Crow came once a week, bringing moccasins and cochina dolls off the reservation. And she stayed the day to clean up and cook supper for them. For this, Burt paid her two dollars over the price of her wares, most of which he shipped east at a 500 % profit to his brother who ran a trading post in the Smoky Mountains, where the “Navaho Handicraft” was re-labeled “Cherokee Curios” and sold along with chenille bedspreads. She was a fat dark Indian woman with little eyes like raisins in a burnt roll, and she had come that morning waddling out of the desert with two sacks of souvenirs tied into the ends of her shawl and slung forward over her shoulders to form a pair of breasts in no way out of proportion to the rest of her. In the course of the morning, posed between the stuffed grizzly and the pinto pony, she had contrived to have her picture taken many times. She always posed with arms crossed under her shawl, grim faced, her large lips stretched to cover her larger teeth, but she broke into helpless giggles afterwards, holding out her palm. At this, the tourists were likely to look hurt or to doubt Julia’s authenticity. Half of the tourists came determined to believe everything. The other half were just as determined to believe nothing and they picked over the items for sale, murmuring “Made in Japan.”
Burt had talked Julia Crow into staying and helping out with the mob he expected to converge upon The Buffalo Ranch before dawn. Now as she waddled up to them, he let the cigarette dangle from the comer of his lips and trail a thread of smoke that made his right eye water. The sight of Julia Crow had somewhat the same settling effect on him that the vision of the ocean had on his wife. He studied her with a fixed and distant look, for she was the one Indian they had gotten on terms with and he felt that there was something to be done with her, if he could just think what. The fact that she was alive increased her value, but at the same time made her uses difficult to settle on. But far from being frustrated by the challenge she represented, each time he looked at her he was kindled to dreams out of all proportion to the Free Zoo and the buffalo pen. Some day it would come to him. In the meantime, he encouraged her visits and treated her with deference.
“Whadaya think, Julia?” he asked. “Whadaya think will happen when the bomb goes off?” Her silence fascinated him and led him to believe that if he could but get her to talk the revelation he was after might spring balloon-shaped from her lips. So he was forever asking her foolish questions.
“Make a boom-boom,” she said, with a grin that squeezed the raisin-eyes almost out of sight.
He gazed at her, letting the words settle like rolling dice so he could read them and sift their meaning.
“What do you think is going to happen?” Jimmy asked, a suspicion worrying gnat-like at her consciousness.
He laughed. “I think we going to make us a killing.”
Julia Crow chuckled and Burt’s eyes jumped to her face. “Ain’t that right, Julia.”
“Big killing,” she agreed.
“You think,” Jimmy said, speaking as she might have, hypnotized, “you think maybe they won’t get it set just right in the morning, don’t you. You think we might all of us get blown sky-high. You plan on selling all those sun glasses at 300% profit to a bunch of people without long on this earth, don’t you. And that’s how come you’re laughing under your hat, idn’t it.”
He chuckled. “Whadaya think, Julia? We going to get blown up or what?”
Julia Crow raised her arms slowly into a circle and pursed her lips. “Posh!” she said.
Burt was visibly shaken. The cigarette trembled in his lips and he didn’t take his eyes off her.
Jimmy let go the sign and it arked over to slap the ground and send up a little spurt of alkali. “Listen. If there’s a chance in a million that’ll happen I’m high-tailing it out of here.”
“Now cahm down,” Burt said. “Just cahm down. I’m going to need me all the help I can get here in the morning. Anyway,” he dropped the cigarette and put his foot on it, “they know what they’re doing.”
“They blew up that island without meaning to.”
“They had more experience at it now.”
Julia Crow giggled, looking from one of them to the other, folding her arms underneath her shawl.
Burt rolled another cigarette, licked it sealed with a flamboyant swipe of his tongue, stuck it in his mouth and searched his pockets again for a match. “What if they did?” he said.
“And we got buried in the sand from it and they dug us up two thou’d’n years from now. Take they found this place just like it is tonight and you and me and Julia,” he turned his mystical white gaze upon the Indian, “you and me and Julia all mummified to a fare-you-well.”
“You said they went up in cinders,” Jimmy said.
He shrugged, lighting his match, “Happens all kind of ways.”
“Shoot,” Jimmy said, “If you thought that was what was going to happen you’d hitch a ride out of here on a motorcycle and we’d of seen the last of you.”
“Whadaya think, Julia?” he asked.
Julia Crow shook like Santy Claus, chuckling silently in her wisdom.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Nationally-ranked University of Minnesota heavyweight wrestler Gable Steveson and a teammate have been arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct.
KARE-TV reports that an Athletics Department statement to the station confirmed the two men arrested were on the wrestling team.
They have not been charged.
KSTP-TV reports that jail records show Steveson and Dylan Martinez were arrested Saturday night at different times and places in Minneapolis. Authorities have not released details.
Steveson was a four-time state champion at Apple Valley High School and was ranked No. 3 nationally at the end of the season by a respected rankings service. Martinez was a transfer from Fresno City College.
The Athletics Department says they've been suspended from team activity pending further information. It says federal and state law precludes releasing further details.
This version of the story corrects the last name of the heavyweight wrestler to Steveson, not Stevenson.
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http://TrinityDigitalMedia.com/church-tech On today’s Tech Help for Churches, Podcast Genre and Format
There are several show genres that churches could use in making podcasts, but most default to just the sermon. That’s fine, but take a look at other ideas like these:
2. Ministry Moment
3. Ministry Reports
4. What I’m learning
6. Meetings
7. Announcements
8. Segments
10. Best of
Once you’ve determined the genre, it’s time to develop a format. It can be simple or complex, but think of the format as a set order for your podcast. Just as you wouldn’t mix up where you put a sermon in the order, unless it was for a good reason, don’t just throw all the pieces of your podcast in a big pot and pull them out in a random order. Consider how one flows to the next.
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1. Systemic corticosteroids for the management of cancer-related breathlessness (dyspnoea) in adults. (PubMed)
Systemic corticosteroids for the management of cancer-related breathlessness (dyspnoea) in adults. Dyspnoea is a common symptom in advanced cancer, with a prevalence of up to 70% among patients at end of life. The cause of dyspnoea is often multifactorial, and may cause considerable psychological distress and suffering. Dyspnoea is often undertreated and good symptom control is less frequently achieved in people with dyspnoea than in people with other symptoms of advanced cancer, such as pain (...) and nausea. The exact mechanism of action of corticosteroids in managing dyspnoea is unclear, yet corticosteroids are commonly used in palliative care for a variety of non-specific indications, including pain, nausea, anorexia, fatigue and low mood, despite being associated with a wide range of adverse effects. In view of their widespread use, it is important to seek evidence of the effects of corticosteroids for the management of cancer-related dyspnoea.To assess the effects of systemic corticosteroids
2019 Cochrane
2. Systemic corticosteroids for acute otitis media in children. (PubMed)
Systemic corticosteroids for acute otitis media in children. Acute otitis media (AOM) is a common acute infection in children. Pain is its most prominent and distressing symptom. Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for AOM, although they have only a modest effect in reducing pain at two to three days. There is insufficient evidence for benefits of other treatment options, including systemic corticosteroids. However, systemic corticosteroids are potent anti-inflammatory drugs, and so (...) theoretically could be effective, either alone or as an addition to antibiotics.To assess the effects of systemic corticosteroids (oral or parenteral), with or without antibiotics, for AOM in children.We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) which contains the Cochrane ARI Group's Specialised Register, MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Elsevier), CINAHL (EBSCO), Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), and LILACS (BIREME) for published studies, and ClinicalTrials.gov and the World Health
3. Systemic corticosteroids for asthma in children
Systemic corticosteroids for asthma in children
2017 DynaMed Plus
4. Systemic corticosteroids for asthma in adults and adolescents
Systemic corticosteroids for asthma in adults and adolescents
5. Systemic corticosteroids for acute asthma in children
Systemic corticosteroids for acute asthma in children
6. Systemic corticosteroids for acute asthma in adults and adolescents
Systemic corticosteroids for acute asthma in adults and adolescents
7. Inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in ventilated very low birth weight preterm infants. (PubMed)
Inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in ventilated very low birth weight preterm infants. This is an update of a review published in 2012. A related review "Inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids for preventing bronchopulmonary dysplasia in ventilated very low birth weight preterm neonates" has been updated as well. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a serious and common problem among very low birth weight infants, despite the use (...) of antenatal steroids and postnatal surfactant therapy to decrease the incidence and severity of respiratory distress syndrome. Due to their anti-inflammatory properties, corticosteroids have been widely used to treat or prevent BPD. However, the use of systemic steroids has been associated with serious short- and long-term adverse effects. Administration of corticosteroids topically through the respiratory tract may result in beneficial effects on the pulmonary system with fewer undesirable systemic side
8. Late (> 7 days) systemic postnatal corticosteroids for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. (PubMed)
Late (> 7 days) systemic postnatal corticosteroids for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. Many preterm infants who survive go on to develop bronchopulmonary dysplasia, probably as the result of persistent inflammation in the lungs. Corticosteroids have powerful anti-inflammatory effects and have been used to treat individuals with established bronchopulmonary dysplasia. However, it is unclear whether any beneficial effects outweigh the adverse effects (...) of these drugs.To examine the relative benefits and adverse effects of late systemic postnatal corticosteroid treatment (> 7 days) for preterm infants with evolving or established bronchopulmonary dysplasia.For the 2017 update, we used the standard search strategy of Cochrane Neonatal to search the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2017, Issue 1); MEDLINE via PubMed (January 2013 to 21 February 2017); Embase (January 2013 to 21 February 2017); and the Cumulative Index to Nursing
9. Early (< 8 days) systemic postnatal corticosteroids for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. (PubMed)
Early (< 8 days) systemic postnatal corticosteroids for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia remains a major problem in neonatal intensive care units. Persistent inflammation in the lungs is the most likely underlying pathogenesis. Corticosteroids have been used to prevent or treat bronchopulmonary dysplasia because of their potent anti-inflammatory effects.To examine the relative benefits and adverse effects of systemic postnatal (...) searched clinical trials databases, conference proceedings, and reference lists of retrieved articles for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-randomised trials.For this review, we selected RCTs examining systemic postnatal corticosteroid treatment within the first seven days of life (early) in high-risk preterm infants. Most studies evaluated the use of dexamethasone, but we also included studies that assessed hydrocortisone, even when used primarily for management of hypotension.We used
10. Inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids for preventing bronchopulmonary dysplasia in ventilated very low birth weight preterm neonates. (PubMed)
Inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids for preventing bronchopulmonary dysplasia in ventilated very low birth weight preterm neonates. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains an important cause of mortality and morbidity in preterm infants and inflammation plays a significant role in its pathogenesis. The use of inhaled corticosteroids may modulate the inflammatory process without concomitant high systemic steroid concentrations and less risk of adverse effects. This is an update of a review (...) published in 2012 (Shah 2012). We recently updated the related review on "Inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids for treating bronchopulmonary dysplasia in ventilated very low birth weight preterm neonates".To determine the effect of inhaled versus systemic corticosteroids started within the first 7 days of life on preventing death or BPD in ventilated very low birth weight infants.We used the standard search strategy of Cochrane Neonatal to search the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
11. Systemic corticosteroid regimens for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. (PubMed)
Systemic corticosteroid regimens for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. Cochrane systematic reviews show that systemic postnatal corticosteroids reduce the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants. However, corticosteroids have also been associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental impairment. It is unknown whether these beneficial and adverse effects are modulated by differences in corticosteroid treatment regimens.To assess the effects (...) ' databases, conference proceedings, and the reference lists of retrieved articles for randomized controlled trials.Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing two or more different treatment regimens of systemic postnatal corticosteroids in preterm infants at risk for BPD, as defined by the original trialists. Studies investigating one treatment regimen of systemic corticosteroids to a placebo or studies using inhalation corticosteroids were excluded.Two authors independently assessed eligibility
12. Do Systemic Corticosteroids Improve Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations?
Do Systemic Corticosteroids Improve Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations? Systematic Review Snapshot TAKE-HOME MESSAGE Systemic corticosteroid treatment (oral or parenteral) in the setting of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations is effective in reducing the likelihood oftreatmentfailureandrelapseat1monthwhileshorteninghospitallengthofstay. Do Systemic Corticosteroids Improve OutcomesinChronic ObstructivePulmonary Disease Exacerbations? EBEM Commentators (...) - steroidcomparedwithplacebo(n¼ 1,319;OR1.00;95%CI0.60to1.66). Systemic corticosteroid treatment compared with placebo for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations. Outcomes (N) Effect Size (95% CI) Treatment failure (917)* OR 0.48 (0.35 to 0.67) Relapse (415) HR 0.78 (0.63 to 0.97) Mortality (1,319) OR 1.00 (0.60 to 1.66) Adverse drug effect (736) OR 2.33 (1.59 to 3.43) Length of hospitalization (298), days MD –1.22 (–2.26 to –0.18) HR, Hazard ratio; MD, mean difference. *Treatment failure: necessity
2016 Annals of Emergency Medicine Systematic Review Snapshots
13. Efficacy and tolerability of systemic versus intratympanic corticosteroid in the treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Efficacy and tolerability of systemic versus intratympanic corticosteroid in the treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis Print | PDF PROSPERO This information has been provided by the named contact for this review. CRD has accepted this information in good faith and registered the review in PROSPERO. The registrant confirms that the information supplied for this submission is accurate and complete. CRD bears no responsibility or liability
2019 PROSPERO
14. Comparative Efficacies of Inhaled Corticosteroids and Systemic Corticosteroids in Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (PubMed)
Comparative Efficacies of Inhaled Corticosteroids and Systemic Corticosteroids in Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Corticosteroids play an important role in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, and a global initiative has suggested the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) as an alternative to systemic corticosteroids (SCs). Here, we report results of a meta-analysis performed
2017 Journal of aerosol medicine and pulmonary drug delivery
15. Efficacy of systemic and intratympanic corticosteroid combination therapy versus intratympanic or systemic therapy in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a randomized controlled trial. (PubMed)
Efficacy of systemic and intratympanic corticosteroid combination therapy versus intratympanic or systemic therapy in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a randomized controlled trial. The present study was conducted to compare the rates of recovery from idiopathic sudden deafness after the treatment with oral and intratympanic corticosteroids in both mono and combination therapies.Triple-blind randomized clinical trial.Tertiary referral hospital.A total of 112 patients (...) who were admitted to the ENT emergency department randomly divided into three groups: an oral corticosteroid plus intratympanic placebo (systemic corticosteroid monotherapy group); an intratympanic corticosteroid plus oral placebo group (IT monotherapy group); and a combination therapy group (IT plus systemic combination group). All patients were treated additionally with antiviral and proton pomp inhibitor. An audiometry was performed once before beginning the therapies and again at the end
2018 European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
16. Association of Antibiotic Treatment With Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for an Asthma Exacerbation Treated With Systemic Corticosteroids. (PubMed)
Association of Antibiotic Treatment With Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for an Asthma Exacerbation Treated With Systemic Corticosteroids. Although professional society guidelines discourage use of empirical antibiotics in the treatment of asthma exacerbation, high antibiotic prescribing rates have been recorded in the United States and elsewhere.To determine the association of antibiotic treatment with outcomes among patients hospitalized for asthma and treated (...) with corticosteroids.Retrospective cohort study of data of 19 811 adults hospitalized for asthma exacerbation and treated with systemic corticosteroids in 542 US acute care hospitals from January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2016.Early antibiotic treatment, defined as an treatment with an antibiotic initiated during the first 2 days of hospitalization and prescribed for a minimum of 2 days.The primary outcome measure was hospital length of stay. Other measures were treatment failure (initiation of mechanical ventilation
2019 JAMA Internal Medicine
17. Comparison of therapeutic effects of inhaled corticosteroids on three subtypes of cough variant asthma as classified by the impulse oscillometry system. (PubMed)
Comparison of therapeutic effects of inhaled corticosteroids on three subtypes of cough variant asthma as classified by the impulse oscillometry system. Cough variant asthma (CVA) is one of the most common causes of chronic persistent cough, and early treatment with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) is recommended to attenuate the inflammation and remodeling. The impulse oscillometry system (IOS) is a novel device for respiratory functional assessment that has not yet been assessed in terms of CVA
2019 Respiratory research
18. Impact of Preoperative Systemic Corticosteroids on the Histology and Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Chronic Rhinosinusitis. (PubMed)
Impact of Preoperative Systemic Corticosteroids on the Histology and Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Chronic Rhinosinusitis. The histological changes corticosteroids induce in nasal polyps, and whether these changes have an impact on the diagnosis of eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS), currently remain unclear.A prospective controlled multicenter trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of the low-dose and short-term oral prednisolone (oPSL) treatment for tissue eosinophil infiltrations (...) of the middle meatus showed < 70 eosinophils/high-power field; therefore, the false negative rate was 15.9%, but decreased to 11.4% when other parts were included in the histological evaluation.Low-dose and short-term oPSL did not appear to markedly affect the tissue eosinophil count in ECRS patients; however, the potential for misdiagnoses due to the effects of oPSL cannot be rejected. The diagnosis of ECRS prior to the administration of corticosteroids or tissue evaluations using multiple tissue parts
2019 International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
19. Challenges in Assessing the Efficacy of Systemic Corticosteroids for Severe Wheezing Episodes in Preschool Children. (PubMed)
Challenges in Assessing the Efficacy of Systemic Corticosteroids for Severe Wheezing Episodes in Preschool Children. 30660645 2019 03 01 1097-6825 2019 Jan 17 The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. Challenges in assessing the efficacy of systemic corticosteroids for severe wheezing episodes in preschool children. S0091-6749(19)30032-6 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.10.071 Guilbert Theresa W TW Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's
2019 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
20. Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Children with Status Asthmaticus Receiving Systemic Corticosteroids: A Descriptive Study Assessing Frequency of Clinically Important Bleeding. (PubMed)
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Children with Status Asthmaticus Receiving Systemic Corticosteroids: A Descriptive Study Assessing Frequency of Clinically Important Bleeding. To determine the frequency of clinically important bleeding (CIB) among children hospitalized for status asthmaticus with and without exposure to stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP).We performed a single center, retrospective cohort in 217 children admitted for asthma exacerbation aged 5-18 years from May 2015 to May 2017. We
2019 Journal of Asthma
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Is It Time to Trust The Cloud?
Outsourcing critical aspects of our lives is nothing new. We trust banks to safeguard our money, even though many of us do not trust bankers. We trust taxi cab drivers with our lives, even if we do not know their first name. We do this not out of ignorance but because we trust the overall system that these components work within.
With the commoditization of IT, Cloud is proving to be a disruptive technology, causing us to outsource, among other things, our information security programs (at least portions of it). Instead of fighting the shift, security professionals must learn to embrace it. As DevOps methodologies allow entire environments to be stood-up in seconds, to be managed more efficiently—it also can allow for better secured systems.
At an initial glance, it may appear that securing constantly changing environments is unmanageable. Particularly as traditional controls, such as patch management, provisioning, and change management become impossible in the Cloud. However, understanding how Cloud is different is the key to empowerment.
Cloud Service Providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) have assisted security professionals by securing a portion of the stack, but as CTO of Juniper Networks, Chris Hoff, points out: “If you suck now, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the lack of change when you move to Cloud.”
What is important to understand is what the vendor is taking care of, and what you as the customer are responsible for – fully understand your shared responsibility model.
As IT environments are becoming mechanized, they are beginning to resemble automobile manufacturing plants. For example, opposed to maintaining environments that undergo several major updates annually, Cloud methodologies are enabling organizations to push out multiple updates an hour – providing features (and fixes) to customers quicker than ever before.
What does this mean for security? The best example was provided by Amazon Web Services in late 2014, as Cloud inherently allows security professionals to take advantage of constantly refreshed environments. When the Shellshock vulnerably was released late last year, it was rumored that AWS was able to patch all of their Internet-facing load balancers within several days. Any Fortune 500 company can appreciate the difficultly of coordinating and executing such an effort.
What this also means is that assurance controls are shifting from tail end of processes, and are now becoming front-loaded instead. Security hardening requirements, logging configurations and security software is installed by default, embedded through Cloud orchestration tools, including Open Stack scripts, Cloud Formation templates and Docker images.
Leveraging complete and accurate system baselines within their AWS account, one can bounce that baseline against systems imposing security requirements (think Cloud configuration tools, such as Puppet or Chef) and in real-time obtain notification of any systems not in compliance. There is an underlying transition occurring with the introduction of Cloud and DevOps. Everything as code—infrastructure as code, and yes… security as code.
In my presentation at BSides SLC, I will discuss how the layers of the Cloud stack will be stripped apart and analyzed in detail, providing an in-depth look at the technical, procedural and cultural aspects that can be used to embed key assurance controls, such as encryption-at-rest, the latest updates and management of elastic environments.
By embracing constant improvement methodologies, security professionals will learn how to implement security as code, securing Cloud environments by default once and for all.
To learn more about BSides SLC, visit https://www.bsidesslc.org/.
About the Author: Josh Danielson is a Sr. Security Manager with Axway, where he is responsible for global governance of the Cloud Services security program. With nearly a decade of experience in both public and private sectors, he has served a variety of industries throughout his security career; from academia and government contracting, to the software space. Josh is an active member of the infosec community where he has participated in multiple volunteer events. Josh has received a Master of Science degree in Information Management from Syracuse University, and currently holds multiple certifications including CISSP-ISSAP and CISM.
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this guest author article are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc. If you are interesting in contributing to The State of Security, contact us here.
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'Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back' Promo Art: Get Your First Look at Season 2
Jessica Napoli November 09, 2018 11:30 am
Exclusive Fox
Renowned chef Gordon Ramsay, is back for Season 2 of his latest hit Fox series 24 Hours to Hell and Back.
The blonde Brit drives across the United States in his state-of-the-art mobile kitchen and command center — called Hell On Wheels — helping struggling restaurants that are on the brink of shutting their doors.
Here's an exclusive first look at the promotional key art Fox released for the new season:
The fun part — besides Ramsay's perfectly timed insults and f-bombs — is that he has just 24 hours to turn the restaurant around.
"First, he sends in a team to record secret surveillance," a press release revealed. "Then, he goes in undercover to see the problems first-hand. As the clock ticks down, Ramsay and his team transform these restaurants with spectacular renovations, fresh new menus and hope for the future. It all builds to the end of the 24 hours, when grand re-openings of these restaurants are held for the public."
Gordon Ramsay Weighs In on the Rookies & Vets of 'Hell's Kitchen' Season 18
The chef also reveals which former contestant have impressed him the most.
Besides revamping the food and decor, Ramsay most of the time acts as a therapist, helping the owners and staff come together to achieve their dreams.
“Gordon gives 100% in everything he does, and he took on the task of turning these restaurants around wholeheartedly,” said Rob Wade, President, Alternative Entertainment and Specials, Fox Broadcasting Company.
“He may be these owners’ harshest critic, but he’s also their biggest champion, because he wants them to succeed. When all is said and done, it’s really Gordon’s heart that resonates with viewers, and we can’t wait to see who he helps save next season.”
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URBAN LEGENDS | Village Voice
by Araceli Cruz
Voice Choice
The 2011 debut of the L.E.S. Film Festival was a bit low-key, but it ended massively with a screening of the thrilling, buzzed-about documentary Catfish. By its second year, word on this film fest, with A-list attendees like Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon, was out. This year, it gets even better, with a block party and drive-in movie night on June 16; the world premiere of i hate myself :), a documentary by Joanna Arnow that follows her relationship with her poet-provocateur partner, James Kepple; and a program of short films on “Mind F*ck Night” (June 15). It wraps on June 23 with a screening of the winning feature film at Sunshine Cinema.
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We Are Not Worthy
By Edward S. Herman
HIDDEN AGENDAS.
This is a wonderful book – alternately gripping, humorous, inspiring, painful, and most importantly, enlightening. One of Pilger’s criticisms of the mainstream media is its failure to look behind obvious facts, for larger context and meaning. Pilger meets his own standard well, as he consistently puts facts into historical and critical context. To cite only one example: he recalls the Irish famine, during which British Lord Trevelyan ended Irish relief ostensibly “to prevent the people from becoming habitually dependent on government,” and he places Trevelyan’s remarks next to Tony Blair’s (and his minister Frank Field’s) effusions against welfare dependency and the need for “hard choices.” The historical juxtaposition reflects the shift from nineteenth-century economic liberalism to contemporary neoliberalism.
Pilger’s book also enlightens by showing how economic, political, and media forces work together in explaining social outcomes. Globalization has strengthened the forces of capital, which (with the help of the mainstream media) have taken greater command of politics, ideology, and policy. These forces have given neoliberalism a full head of steam, with No Other Options available – whatever the desires of ordinary citizens. Despite nominal democracies, ordinary citizens are “unpeople,” and Pilger demonstrates that the system is well adapted to ignoring and even crushing them. He provides case after case showing that what capital wants, the political system will pursue, and the media will rationalize. His studies of Indonesia and Burma describe how the economic interests benefiting from these murderous regimes have caused British, Australian, U.S., and other “Free World” politicians to lie, rationalize, and cover up serious crimes, as well as their own connivance with the killers. The victims are officially “unpeople” – Noam Chomsky and I have called them “unworthy victims,” in contrast with the “worthy” victims of enemy powers, like the Cambodians under Pol Pot or currently, the Kosovo Albanians. The mainstream media regularly fail to give unpeople intense publicity, or express great indignation over their victimization. This permits the dominant interests to do their dirty work unimpeded, with attention and indignation reserved for “worthy” victims.
Pilger has crushing accounts of the sellout of the labor parties in Australia and Great Britain in their dealings with Indonesia and Burma. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and more grossly Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and Gareth Evans, supported Indonesian aggression in East Timor without stint, and with a steady stream of lies and rationalizations. Their constant finding of “improvements” in Indonesian occupation policy, and Keating’s pride in being patronized by the Indonesian mass murderer Suharto – “something of a father figure” – are humorous, even if at the same time sickening. Similarly, the turnabout of Tony Blair and Robin Cook from their pre-election positions on arms sales to Indonesia to their in-power “realism” is funny in its gross opportunism, dishonesty, and hypocrisy. But the humor must also be qualified by its deadly costs to the “unpeople.”
On Burma, also, Pilger has an excellent account of the immense system of forced labor imposed by the rapacious military bullies in power, the large gains they make available to oil companies and other businesses prepared to share the loot, and the connivance of Australian, British, U.S. and other freedom-loving powers (and their exceedingly compliant mainstream media) in helping the looters. Pilger’s interview with the U.S. tourist entrepreneur, James Sherwood, whom he pushes to justify lavish tourist operations in a country of terrorized and exploited people, is once again simultaneously hilarious and sickening. But it also enlightens the reader, by demonstrating the ruling elite’s mindset and facile powers of rationalization.
Pilger provides particular depth in his commentary because he not only uses relevant documentary sources – he has been there. He has talked to both the people and unpeople, and often made his own documentaries (Cambodia, Burma, East Timor). First-hand experience also strengthens his analysis of the British media: his description of Robert Maxwell and his operations is outstanding. So is his devastating account of the rise and triumphs of Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch’s relations with both Thatcher and Blair, and the Thatcher-Blair devotion to the “defense” establishment.
Pilger’s book deals often with people and movements of resistance: the Liverpool dockworkers, Dita Sari and other Indonesian and East Timorese students and activists, the Seeds of Hope direct action group in Britain, Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters in Burma, and individual journalists and activists everywhere, many pushed into resistance by the huge injustices being institutionalized in the New World Order. These resisters have not yet turned the tide, but Pilger takes heart from their courage and resilience. His magnificent book will surely help them fight back.
Edward Herman is an economist and media analyst. His most recent books are Triumph of the Market (1995) and The Global Media (with Robert McChesney, 1997).
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More ‘Eyes in the Skies’ but Not on Accountability
By Melissa del Bosque
Finally, the more mainstream media has started to question the billions the government has spent on border security and ask some important questions: What does a secure border look like? How much more do we need to spend to achieve it, and is it even working?
I know I’ve been harping on this for a while. But with a massive federal deficit and unprecedented borrowing to fund two wars overseas Congress needs to examine what we are getting for our money at the border. Anyone who has been to the border in the last two years, knows that the security buildup has significantly increased. We have twice the number of Border Patrol agents, (approximately 20,000 – up from 10,000 in 2004), an 18-foot wall and a previously unprecedented 400,000 people being deported every year.
Congress is beating the drums for more funding but not asking for any accountability measures. You may remember that SBInet was yesterday’s answer to a secure border. We were never given the specifics on how the virtual fence would work exactly, only that Boeing was working on the $8 billion project in the Arizona desert. The deadlines for completion kept getting pushed back. Finally, after another scathing GAO report last March Homeland Security pulled the plug. Now $100 million will be diverted from that SBInet project to “higher priority replacement and repair of fences” along the southwest border, according to Obama’s request for more border security funding yesterday.
At least the Government Accountability Office, which is Congress’ accounting and investigative arm, was looking at SBInet so we had an idea of what we were getting (or in this case not getting for our money.)
President Obama sent his request to Congress yesterday asking for $500 million for more border security and outlined what the money would be spent on. The request includes $37 million for two new Predator drones to patrol the border. It seems that Predator drones are the newly favored high-cost solution for border security that Congress has latched on to these days.
Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn and Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar have been very publicly pushing for the drones to patrol the entire Texas-Mexico border. Cornyn even blocked Senate confirmation of the President’s nominee for FAA assistant administrator, Michael Huerta, until he got his second drone in Texas.
We’ll now have two Predator drones flying the Texas border and more on the way.
Despite the FAA’s approval of a second Predator drone in Texas, Cornyn told the San Antonio Express-News that the administration’s efforts to secure the border “have been anemic at best.”
“It’s too little, really, too late,” he said.
And therein lies the problem. If $600 million and Predator drones is “anemic” what does Senator Cornyn, Senator Kyl or any of the other congressional members lamenting our porous border define as success?
If they really want a secure border maybe they should ask the GAO to take a look at what’s in place and see if it’s working. What about a discussion on what Predator drones will do to increase border security? And how are the growing number of unmanned planes going to impact our airspace? From the meager information I’ve seen out there, every time a drone flies the FAA has to clear the airspace of other planes. Maybe this isn’t such a big deal in remote desert areas in Arizona, but in heavily populated areas in Texas with international airports it could be a real hazard.
The Brownsville Herald already reported last week that a drone went off course flying from Arizona to Texas. And U.S. Customs and Border Protection has crashed drones before in Arizona.
But at $18 million a drone, who really cares? Congress will just borrow more money. And we’ll get the bill.
Categories: Border, Criminal Justice, La Linea, Politics
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10.05.12 Human Rights Drone Warfare
Analysis: Why we must name all drone attack victims
Published May 10 2012
By Chris Woods
Drone victim funeral December 29 2010 – two named civilians are known to have died that day. (AP)
Sunday’s death of Fahd al-Quso in a CIA drone strike was a significant US success. The admitted al Qaeda bomber had long been sought for his role in the deadly attack on the US navy ship the USS Cole back in 2000.
At the Bureau we logged al-Quso’s name – along with his nephew Fahed Salem al-Akdam – in our Yemen database. Another two names added to the many hundreds we’ve now recorded for the US covert war in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
The Bureau has so far identified by name 317 civilians killed in US attacks in Pakistan. Between 170 and 500 further civilians have yet to be identified.
A day earlier, a CIA strike in Pakistan also killed around ten people. Here the information was less clear, with reports vague about who had died. While most claimed that a militant training camp had been struck, a single source claimed those killed were ‘local tribesmen.’ This clearly needs further investigation.
Although we’re not alone in recording US covert drone strikes, the Bureau also tries to identify by name all of those killed – both civilian and militants. And those names – which the Bureau recently presented at a Washington DC drone summit – reveal some startling truths about the US drone campaign.
To date in Pakistan, we have been able to identify 170 named militants killed by the CIA in more than 300 drone strikes. Among them are many senior figures, including Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistan Taliban; Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaeda linked strategist; and Nek Mohammed, once a militant thorn in Pakistan’s side.
Certainly these drone strikes have severely affected the ability of militants to operate openly in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The recently-declassified ‘bin Laden papers’ talk of the impact of the CIA’s attacks, with the Taliban ‘frankly exhausted from the enemy’s air bombardments.’
Yet there’s a darker side to this coin. The Bureau has also been able to name 317 civilians killed in US attacks in Pakistan. Between 170 and 500 further civilians have yet to be identified.
On October 30 2011, for example, we know that the CIA killed four chromite miners in Waziristan – foreman Saeedur Rahman, and miners Khastar Gul, Mamrud Khan and Noorzal Khan. And on July 12 last year, field researchers working for the Bureau found that drones returned to attack rescuers, killing four Taliban and four civilians we named as Shabbir, Kalam, Waqas and Bashir.
US Lists
We’re not alone in keeping lists of the covert war dead. Just a few days ago, the Washington Post reported that ‘U.S. officials have said that more than 2,000 militants and civilians have been killed in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere since Obama took office in 2009.’
The Bureau’s data indicates that between 2,300 and 3,290 people have died in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia strikes under Obama.
Given that the Bureau’s base estimate for the total killed in Pakistan drone strikes is close to the CIA’s own, what clearly irks the US intelligence community is the light we continue to shine on civilians reported killed.
Since we began publishing our reports on civilian deaths from drone strikes, the US intelligence community has aggressively sought to attack our findings. Our media partners have been leaned on. The CIA claimed that we were getting our information from a ‘Pakistani spy’ (a barrister representing drone strike victims). And when we definitively showed, with the Sunday Times, that the CIA had been bombing rescuers and funeral-goers, it was suggested that we were ‘helping al Qaeda.’
What clearly irks the US intelligence community is the light we continue to shine on civilians reported killed.
Redefining ‘civilian’
At stake may be the very definition of a ‘civilian’ in the modern battlefield. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos recently pressed US chief counter terrorism adviser John Brennan on his remarkable claim in June 2011 that the CIA had not killed ‘a single non-combatant in almost a year.’
In reply, Brennan said that ‘over a period of time before my public remarks [that] we had no information about a single civilian, a noncombatant being killed.’
Even a cursory examination of credible media reports between June 1st 2010 and June 29 2011 (when Brennan made his original claim) shows that dozens of civilians were reported killed in that period. Among those who died were more than 40 tribal elders and villagers in a single disastrous CIA strike in March 2011. That attack led to public protests from Pakistan’s president, prime minister and army chief.
Perhaps the CIA’s own human intelligence-gathering abilities are so poor in Pakistan that it can no longer identify civilians killed on the ground. Perhaps the Agency has been misleading Congress and the President about the true extent of civilian deaths. Alternatively, the very definition of civilian may have been radically changed. If the latter is true – and it seems the most likely scenario – then this has worrying implications.
The covert drone war appears to be entering a new phase. Until recently, strikes were carried out with the tacit co-operation of host governments. But now Islamabad is saying no. Recent CIA strikes in Pakistan have been publicly condemned by the government as being ‘in total contravention of international law.’ The strikes are carrying on regardless.
Yemen’s new president appears more pliant. Yet in a little-reported comment, the nation’s prime minister Muhammad Salem Basindwa recently told a local newspaper: ‘The government has never asked the US to carry out drone attacks on the Yemeni soil because there should not be external meddling in Yemen’s own affairs.’
Part of the justification for the US carrying out drone strikes without consent is their reported success. And naming those militants killed is key to that process. Al Qaeda bomber Fahd al-Quso’s death was widely celebrated.
Yet how many newspapers also registered the death of Mohamed Saleh Al-Suna, a civilian caught up and killed in a US strike in Yemen on March 30?
By showing only one side of the coin, we risk presenting a distorted picture of this new form of warfare. There is an obligation to identify all of those killed – not just the bad guys.
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Easy-to-use infotainment system
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The only way to get the sliding rear seat in the Santa Fe Sport is to choose leather seating. Although some of the other included add-ons may…
The only way to get the sliding rear seat in the Santa Fe Sport is to choose leather seating. Although some of the other included add-ons may seem superfluous, it's worth it for the seating flexibility.
The 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe is really two vehicles in one, with the larger model geared toward big families and the smaller Sport version good for those with smaller broods.
Hyundai's Santa Fe and Santa Fe Sport lineups compete with a tremendous variety of crossovers, ranging from compact vehicles such as the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V, to mid-size vehicles such as the Ford Edge and Toyota Venza, all the way out to three-row utes like the Toyota Highlander and Honda Pilot. The larger Santa Fe is 8.5 inches longer than the Sport, and in some cases, you might find it cross-shopped against minivans, too.
The 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe badge now belongs to a whole family of crossovers—two different vehicles, really, including one with seating for five and the other sized up for seven. They're even built in different places, as the smaller Sport model is built in Georgia, while the larger three-row model, which is sized up to replace the former Veracruz, is imported from Korea.
Crossovers are all about room and utility, and both Santa Fe models fit that bill. The front seats are a step up from the most recent Hyundai vintage, with better support built into the bottom cushion. But the second row is where the action is: on some models, the second row slides on a 5.2-inch track for better flexibility, in the same way the seat in the Chevy Equinox moves. The seat also reclines and folds on a 40/20/40 split, making way for longer objects while preserving four seating positions. There's also some storage space below the cargo floor and even some space for a handbag ahead of the shift lever, though that'll block access to the audio ports. On three-row models, there's a choice between the 40/20/40 layout or a six-passenger layout with cozy captain's chairs in row two—and all of these models get Yes Essentials-brand soil-resistant upholstery.
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Hyundai has put a strong emphasis on looks of late, and that goes for the Santa Fe too, which wears the most grown-up and modern sheetmetal in the model's history. The sharp edges and tight creases wrap around it in interesting ways, and Hyundai's hexagonal grille gets sees its best rendition here, bracketed by headlamps and foglamps. For 2015, Hyundai has switched to a two-tone grille for the Santa Fe Sport in an effort to make it look a little more sporty. The D-pillar's upkick and stance remind us a little of the Ford Escape, but the Santa Fe Sport's shape is more faceted and studied than the Ford's, no more or less handsome. The longer Santa Fe is slightly less distinctive, but as a minivan replacement, it doesn't need to be flashy. The interior is another bar raised for Hyundai, with some faint GM cues penned in its shield of controls, surrounded by the usual swoops and fluid curves--and trimmed in two-tone materials, an upscale touch that looks better when it's capped in glossy trim than in faux wood.
The two-row Santa Fe Sport is offered with both a naturally aspirated 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine producing 190 horsepower and a 264-hp, 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder producing. The turbo drops only a couple of miles per gallon highway while turning in very capable acceleration, making the trade-off of economy for performance pretty worthwhile.
The three-row Santa Fe model is powered by a 3.3-liter V-6 producing 290 horsepower--the same smooth engine used in the Azera. There's no choice with the Santa Fe, but its V-6 is fairly muscular--strong enough to tow 5000 pounds behind it without add-ons.
All three engines feature direct injection for better fuel economy and more power. They're backed by six-speed automatic transmissions with front- and all-wheel drive configurations available no matter which engine is selected.
As for the rest of the Santa Fe driving experience, it's mainly smoother and more effortless. The automatic sometimes gets caught napping between taps of the throttle, but the powertrains are muted well. The ride's improved greatly and also grown more quiet--bigger bushings in the independent suspension are engineered for the bigger Santa Fe, but also used on the Sport--but we'd just as soon leave the three-mode electric steering in Normal or Sport, because Comfort's just too slow for our comfort. For the 2015 model year, Hyundai has updated the steering system with better electronics and claims to have made the Sport setting more sporty. There have also been further adjustments to bushings and suspension geometry front and rear to increase lateral stiffness.
The Santa Fe and Sport have the usual airbags (including a driver knee airbag) and stability control. Bluetooth is standard and a rearview camera is an option on all but the base model. Blind-spot monitors and parking sensors were new options for 2014, and the former is now standard as of the 2015 model year. The shorter-wheelbase Santa Fe Sport earned top 'good' scores in all categories. But the IIHS hasn't rated the three-row, longer-wheelbase Santa Fe, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not tested either model.
With base prices of about $26,000 for the Sport and about $31,000 for the longer version, the smaller model makes more of the usual Hyundai case for value. It gets power windows, locks, and mirrors; air conditioning; cruise control; tilt/telescoping steering; steering-wheel audio and phone controls; and 17-inch wheels. The standard audio system is an AM/FM/CD player with satellite radio, USB and auxiliary ports, Bluetooth with audio streaming, and six speakers. A panoramic sunroof, Infinity audio, and an improved navigation system lift the Santa Fe to a higher price plateau. Push-button start, automatic climate control, and heated and cooled front seats are available on some models.
The Santa Fe duo also gets Hyundai's BlueLink telematics system as standard equipment. This OnStar-like system incorporates turn-by-turn navigation and Bluetooth streaming for apps such as Pandora, and works in conjunction with your smartphone and an owner website to set up functions like speed limits and geofencing--setting up boundaries for where the car can be driven. A BlueLink app for the iPhone is available, giving owners the ability to lock and unlock and to start the Santa Fe by remote, too.
Other updates for 2015 include a new hands-free liftgate system, which only requires the opener to stand near the rear of the vehicle with the proximity key for a few moments before it opens up. It replaces the conventional power tailgate on the Santa Fe and brings the convenience item to the Santa Fe Sport for the first time. Daytime running lights and an auto up/down front passenger window are now standard across the lineup.
The 2015 Santa Fe lineup has a particularly handsome cabin design, in two-tone trim; but its look is a mainstream one for the most part.
The Santa Fe was one of the first Hyundai products to move to a more mature styling language. Since it was introduced, the Genesis and Sonata have followed suit
Now there's a clear family resemblance through the Hyundai crossover lineup, from the brash, bristly Tucson through the very streamlined long-wheelbase Santa Fe. The Sport's the best-looking of the trio, with a right-sized hexagonal grille bracketed in place with coordinated fog lamps and headlamps trimmed with LED lighting. The side sills stand out in relief up and over the rear wheel wells, and the rear door handles sit well back of the rear wheel opening in a way Mazda's now-defunct CX-7 would be proud of. It's all summed up by a simple, balanced treatment of taillights and glass on the tailgate. We can't help but pick out some vague likeness to the new Ford Escape in the rear end and the proportions around the headlights, but Ford's almost-hatchback crossover doesn't quite have the size to play out the curves you'll find on the Santa Fe Sport.
It's less distinctive about the Santa Fe--some Dodge Durango in the way its rear quarter windows are shaped. Hyundai says it's essentially a minivan replacement, anyway, and we can't think of one three-row crossover with outre styling that's been a big hit.
More conventional than the one in the Tucson, the cockpit in the Santa Fe siblings has grown up, too. It carries a shield of controls at its center, and flanks them with big air vents--a theme that's recurring pretty often in compact-car design, and just happens to go well with the sheetmetal. The dash surface undulates, dipping low in front of passengers and bubbling up for gauges and the center stack, and large knobs control fan speed and audio volume. On crossovers with navigation, an 8-inch screen glows under a matte surface, and electroluminescent gauges toss in a few more subdued lumens.
Some Santa Fe crossovers sport woodgrain trim, while others have a gloss finish that's more appealing and fits more easily with the control-pod theme. Hyundai's found out how two-tone interior treatments can wake up a cabin, and the Santa Fe and Sport offer some earthy colors and trims that link them a little more directly to the crossover world than any of their lines or surfaces.The sides of the Santa Fe are heavily sculpted, as is Hyundai's recent tradition, with an upward swing in the shoulder lending a stylish look that does impede a bit on the airiness of the cockpit.
Acceleration and ride quality quite good, and despite three modes we're still not entirely happy with the steering.
The 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe is only offered with a V-6, while the Santa Fe Sport model is offered with a four-cylinder–and your choice of whether or not you want that engine turbocharged.
The base engine on the Santa Fe Sport is Hyundai's 2.4-liter four, with 190 horsepower and 181 pound-feet of torque, straight from duty in the Sonata sedan. With direct injection and a hookup with Hyundai's in-house six-speed automatic, the base Sport earns the best fuel economy ratings of the lineup, up to 33 miles per gallon on the EPA's highway cycle. Our first drive offered only a brief exposure to the normally aspirated four at high altitudes--not an ideal driving experience--so we're holding back those impressions until we can test this model over longer distances under more usual conditions.
The turbocharged 2.0-liter turbo four is another familiar piece, as it's also shared with the Sonata. In this application it makes 264 horsepower and 259 lb-ft of torque, while topping out in front-drive form at 29 mpg highway. It smoothly conveys abundant power through a fairly wide swath of the powerband; we'd estimate a 0-60 mph time at 7.0 seconds on lighter front-wheel-drive models, which weigh in at a lean 3459 pounds.
Even with less displacement, the Santa Fe Sport outperforms Hyundai's old V-6 crossovers, while the longer Santa Fe equals that performance and tops it with better towing capability. Both versions outshine the last Santa Fe and the former Veracruz in ride comfort, too.
Long-wheelbase Santa Fes get the only V-6 in the lineup, a 3.3-liter engine from the Azera sedan, with 290 horsepower, a six-speed automatic, front- or all-wheel drive, and a base curb weight of about 3900 pounds. Rolling on standard 18-inch wheels (19-inchers are an option), the Santa Fe comes out of the box, ready to tow 5000 pounds, its powertrain made more rugged and retuned for lower-powerband torque.
Both vehicles are connected with a six-speed automatic with a manual-shift mode available off the console-mounted lever. The shift quality's well sorted and the manual mode answers the call quickly, though deep calls for power can catch the gearbox napping. Step into the gas fully from a light throttle, and after a brief pause, the automatic shifts down eagerly, with a mild rebound felt through the drivetrain. You don't have to concentrate on being a smoother driver for the Santa Fe or the Sport to behave smoothly, though--an Active ECO mode will blur over shifts and throttle responses, saving very small amounts of gas at the same time.
Electric power steering has been a learning curve for all automakers, and Hyundai's path has taken it from the Sonata to the Santa Fe and Santa Fe Sport with incremental improvements in feel and design. All these vehicles use a column-mounted motor, but the Santa Fe and Sport have the latest three-mode, driver-selectable steering that bowed on the Elantra GT. In that hatchback, we were happy to leave the heft-added steering in Normal mode all day. In the Sport, the "sport" setting's increased effort and later onset of assistance helped the car track better on the highway stretches of our test drive, just as the AWD system likely soaked up some of the on-center vagueness we've felt on the Elantra and Sonata. It's a good step forward; we'd leave Comfort's slow, light feel to anyone who thinks the last Santa Fe was a little too daring and sporty.
We've spent many hours driving the pair--in a turbo Sport and in the long-wheelbase Santa Fe. Either one can be fitted with an optional all-wheel-drive system that uses an open center differential to distribute power from the front wheels to the rears when traction needs arise, and leans on anti-lock control to clamp down on wheelspin. All-wheel-drive models also have torque vectoring control on the rear wheels via the same means; to aid cornering, the inside rear wheel gets some braking applied automatically. All the electronics can be shut off, for times when wheelspin is your ally. Ground clearance is down to 7.3 inches, and the light-duty traction system (on principle, like the one in the Mercedes M-Class) is more an all-weather friend than a trail-blazer.
All Santa Fe crossovers adopt a new suspension design, and a calmer, quieter ride is obvious after just a few miles of driving. The front struts and multiple links in the rear are fitted with bigger bushings and packaged more precisely inside the wheel wells, which Hyundai says frees up more cargo space and helps improve wheel control. The physics don't have to elude you--the silence from the wheel wells is proof enough, and the Sport feels absorbent and mostly controlled over freshly paved interstates and mildly broken back roads. When the gravel path gets really rutted, the Santa Fe Sport doesn't really lose its laid-back attitude, but does let its wheels (17-inchers are standard; 19-inchers are optional) rebound with a slightly firm thump. The longer-wheelbase Santa Fe uses its extra wheelbase to its advantage, damping even the worst surfaces well, even when those 19-inch wheels are specified.
For 2015, Hyundai has updated the computers controlling the electric power steering system and also claims to have made the Sport setting feel more sporty with added weight. The suspension has been retuned as well for both models, with tweaks to geometry and bushings that are aimed at improving lateral stability.
Comfort & Quality
The Santa Fe offers excellent interior space, while the sliding back seat in the Santa Fe Sport makes the most of what it has.
Two sizes of Santa Fe are now offered. The smaller model is the Santa Fe Sport, which offers two rows of seats for five people, and the non-sport model, which replaced the Veracruz, features seven seats in three rows.
By the numbers, the Santa Fe Sport rides on a wheelbase 106.3 inches long. It's 184.6 inches long, and 74.0 inches wide. That puts it in the ballpark of a wide swath of the crossover market, including everything from the Chevy Equinox to the Toyota Venza and Kia Sorento. It's larger inside than a Ford Escape or Honda CR-V, if not quite as big as a Toyota RAV4.
The three-row Santa Fe, meanwhile, has a 110.2-inch wheelbase that's 3.9 inches longer than the span on the Sport. It's slightly wider, too, and 193.1 inches long, 8.5 inches longer than the Sport. The Santa Fe GLS seats seven; the Santa Fe Limited seats six. Its overall interior volume of 146.6 cubic feet and 13.5 cubic feet of storage space behind third row make it more space-efficient than the Toyota Highlander--but smaller inside than a Honda Pilot, Nissan Pathfinder, and Ford Explorer.
In front of either Santa Fe, the size advantage over the smaller crossovers is clear. There's ample knee and leg room, though headroom for tall passenger will be slim if the panoramic sunroof option's ticked. The seats themselves are more shapely and supportive than in the last Santa Fe, with very good bolstering on the bottom cushion that's not overly firm. Most versions have a power driver seat, and richly optioned models have a power passenger seat and heating for both. It's worth noting that Hyundai's headrests sit back at an ideal angle--they don't jut too far forward, as some active headrests do.
There's storage for small items in the glovebox and console, and for drinks in the door pockets and dual cupholders. A deep, open-sided storage area ahead of the shift lever can swallow a medium-sized purse--but that will block the USB port and auxiliary jack.
The rear seat's a fixed bench on base Santa Fe Sport crossovers, but it splits and folds along 40/20/40 lines for better flexibility than most seats of its kind. Effectively it's a four-seater when the middle section is lowered for carrying long and skinny items, like copper pipe, toe molding, or skis. With the leather option package, the same seat adds a slide function that moves it along a 5.2-inch track--like the one on the Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain, minus a few inches of travel. It's a very handy feature, and an underrated one if you've ever made a banzai Costco run without kids or a budget. The same sliding bench also has reclining seatbacks, a great feature we've grown to appreciate on long-distance trips where we're not in total control.
On the Santa Fe, the second-row seat is a shared piece, too. But with the longer wheelbase comes more rear-seat leg room to go with the very good seat comfort already in place. That's especially true of the Limited's second-row captain's chairs, which have properly placed armrests and an inch or so of headroom still in place, even with panoramic roof. Adults will find a couple of inches of knee room to spare--and a warm cushion, if it's fitted with heated second-row seats.
The third-row bench is only for very young passengers, because older people will get cranky at the thought of climbing through the Santa Fe's small passenger opening--even though the seats slide forward, there's still only a foot or so of wedgy space provided to get to the rearmost seat. It's capped at the knees and overhead, too.
When cargo rules the day, the Santa Fe Sport's rear seats fold down as a trio or individually, and flatly, to free up more cargo space. The front passenger seat folds flat too, for carrying very long objects. You can fold down two seat sections for a three-passenger configuration, or lay them all flat to maximize cargo space. With the rear seats raised, the Santa Fe Sport can hold 35.4 cubic feet of stuff; with the rear seats all down, the cargo hold grows to 71.5 cubic feet--about 8 cubic feet more than the Equinox. The Santa Fe Sport's cargo bin has shallow, under-floor storage that's perfect for holding laptop bags securely out of sight, which can be accessed only when the cargo area is empty. A cargo cover is also included, standard.
The Santa Fe's cargo area may be on the small side, at 13.5 cubic feet behind the third row, but it expands to more than 40 cubic feet when the third row is folded flat--accomplished by pulling on straps to fold it down or to raise it in place. From the cargo hold--accessed by a power tailgate--the Santa Fe's second-row seats can be lowered, too, via a lever. There's some shallow storage in a plastic bin beneath the cargo floor, too.
The textures and materials inside the Santa Fe and Santa Fe Sport are drawn from a wider bin, and most pieces were well-fitted in our prototype testers. There's some textured plastic behind the steering wheel that doesn't look as rich as the rest of the dash, and the lower center console buttresses snap together in obvious ways during assembly--but from a driver's perspective, the cockpit's never looked better, and moves the needle authoritatively in the right direction, from the standard set by the Sonata, improved on by the Elantra.
Hyundai's gone to more effort in this Santa Fe to damp out noise and vibration. Suspension noise has been tamed with better isolation, and the turbocharged and V-6 drivetrains hardly make a distant whir as they climb through the revs. The isolation in the cockpit is a magnitude better than in the last Sonata sedan with nearly identical powertrains. On the three-row Santa Fe, there's some additional tire noise from second row back, which can make it a strain to hear first-row conversations.
With excellent crash-test scores and an impressive safety set, with blind-spot monitors and parking sensors, the Santa Fe does well in safety.
The 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe models score well for safety.
All models have the usual standard front, side, and curtain airbags, as well as a driver knee airbag, for a total of seven. Hill-start and downhill assist also are standard, along with anti-lock brakes, stability and traction control.
The long-wheelbase Santa Fe hasn't yet been crash-tested by either the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), or by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). But the shorter-wheelbase Santa Fe Sport earns top five-star scores as well as 'good' scores in most categories of IIHS testing it has been put through—except the small overlap frontal test, where its result is 'marginal.'
There is one other caveat in IIHS ratings, however: The Santa Fe doesn't offer any frontal crash prevention technologies, which the IIHS now requires for its top-tier TSP+ rating. Blind-spot monitors and parking sensors are available, though, and blind-spot monitors have become standard for 2015.
On the technology front, Bluetooth is standard across the lineup. A rearview camera is offered on models with leather seats, where it displays on a 4.3-inch color LCD screen. On navigation-equipped Santa Fe Sports, the camera sends its output to the GPS' 8-inch screen. However, on vehicles without leather, there's no rearview camera at all. Hyundai says it's studying solutions, including a rearview-mirror-based camera, for future model years. A rearview camera is an option on the Santa Fe GLS, too.
The 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe lineup piles on the features, and the value, although it's missing some of the leading-edge items.
Hyundai offers the 2015 Santa Fe in a standard six- or seven-passenger model, and a shorter five-passenger 'Sport' model. Equipment is similar between them, but you get a few extra features with the larger version.
All Santa Fe Sport crossovers come with a good selection of standard features, including power windows, locks, and mirrors; air conditioning; cruise control; tilt/telescoping steering; steering-wheel audio and phone controls; and 17-inch wheels. The standard audio system is an AM/FM/CD player with satellite radio, USB and auxiliary ports, Bluetooth and audio streaming, and six speakers. Santa Fe Sports with the turbo four-cylinder include all these features and add 19-inch wheels and a trailer-towing prep kit.
Even with the base GLS model, standard features are numerous on the three-row Santa Fe. Bluetooth connectivity, rear-area climate control and keyless entry are all there; so are steering-wheel audio controls and Blue Link with remote start via its smartphone app. Base models equipped with all-wheel drive also receive an Active Cornering Control feature, as well as a windshield wiper de-icer.
There's also a Popular Equipment Package on the GLS that adds heated front seats, heated mirrors, fog lamps, a power driver's seat and roof rails. Opt for the Leather Package and you'll get all of that, plus side-mirror turn signals, heated second-row seating, power passenger's seat, heated steering wheel, dual-zone climate control, touch-screen navigation, a reverse camera, and premium audio. There's not currently a rear-sear entertainment option, and there are no signs that there will be anytime soon.
Santa Fe Limited models go to a six-passenger layout with leather upholstery and heated second-row captain's chairs, a power front passenger seat, dual-zone climate control, an electroluminescent gauge cluster, a power liftgate, proximity key, push button start, a 115-volt AC power outlet, and 19-inch alloys, among other features.
Hyundai has made daytime running lights, a driver-side blind-spot mirror, and an auto up/down front passenger window standard on all Santa Fe models for 2015.
On either model, a pair of option packages keep the ordering process simple. A technology package brings a panoramic sunroof with a sliding fabric sunshade, a navigation system, a heated steering wheel, and sunshades for the rear passenger windows. There's a slight difference in audio systems on this latter set of features: base crossovers get an in-house Dimension audio system with 10 speakers, while those with the turbocharged engine roll with a powerful 550-watt, 12-speaker Infinity system with surround sound (it's optional on the three-row Santa Fe, too). A leather/premium package adds a power front passenger seat; proximity-based keyless entry and pushbutton start; a slide-and-recline second-row seat with heating; a rearview camera with a 4.3-inch screen; and HD Radio.
The navigation system is updated with improved displays, including speed-limit signs, and voice recognition, and SD card slot for better updating. Pairing a phone to Bluetooth is easier, with pop-up commands, too.
Prices range from about $26,000 for a base Sport to just over $39,000 for a long-wheelbase Santa Fe Limited with all-wheel drive and the Technology package.
One new item for 2015 is Hyundai's Hands-Free Smart Liftgate with Auto Open. This piece of tech, which was introduced on the Genesis sedan, allows whoever's holding the proximity key to open the liftgate just by standing near it for a few seconds, without requiring a wave of a leg like systems on some competitors. It replaces the power liftgate on the Santa Fe and adds the functionality to the Sport model, which previously wasn't available with a motorized hatch.
Gas mileage is strictly middle-of-the-road, and there's no hybrid on offer.
The 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe crossovers return solid fuel economy within their segments when equipped with front-wheel drive and are about average when all-wheel drive is selected.
If you opt for the Santa Fe Sport with the base 2.4-liter four-cylinder, expect to achieve 20/27 city/highway mpg for front-wheel-drive models, and 19/25 mpg with all-wheel drive. There isn't much of a penalty for choosing the turbocharged model in this case, which can also run on regular unleaded gasoline. It's rated at 19/27 mpg for front-drive models, and 18/24 mpg for all-wheel-drive.
The three-row Santa Fe with front-wheel drive earns 18 mpg city, 25 mpg highway, and only highway mileage suffers–by a single mpg–if you opt for all-wheel drive.
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2015 Hyundai Santa Fe AWD 4-Door Limited
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Unfortunately I didnt listen to people telling me not to buy a 38000 Hyundai as its a bad quality car but I didnt listen. I bought the car recently and the $550 keys dropped of in pieces and lost three times... Unfortunately I didnt listen to people telling me not to buy a 38000 Hyundai as its a bad quality car but I didnt listen. I bought the car recently and the $550 keys dropped of in pieces and lost three times which I did find them twice. The $550 key doesnt even stick together and it just splits in pieces and can fall from you anytime. Its just Hyindai quality... went to the dealership and I complained to the parts manager and his answer was why do you hold the key... our customers put it in their pockets.. :)).. just a simple thing like this shows the difference between quality and plastic companies... + More »
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2015 Hyundai Santa Fe AWD 4-Door GLS
excellent vehicle
looks great; powerfull brakes; turbo has great acceleration; good gas mileage if you keep out of the turbo
2015 Hyundai Santa Fe FWD 4-Door Limited
Hyundai Sante Fe is one of the best all round SUV's I have owned-
I drive it with ECO on and return average 26/27 MPG Has plenty of power in 4th for overtaking Like any vehicle you have to keep it serviced . I do, per the book, and the dealer has been so far really good The... I drive it with ECO on and return average 26/27 MPG
Has plenty of power in 4th for overtaking
Like any vehicle you have to keep it serviced .
I do, per the book, and the dealer has been so far really good
The 6 speed trip tronic is the best
Vision is great , all round
Drivers seat with lumbars is first class,long trips no problem
Looks great I have the titanium wheels and a metallic paint ,
Like the 3 setting steering, I drive it with Sport on all the time to stiffen up the handling,
The Gaps in the front console for cables is awesome
Lights + fog lights are good,
Horn is loud enough,
Handling could be better but it is a large Suv
Tailgate does not go high enough for me and I am under 6 feet
I dislike the red turn signals -For safety they should always be Amber
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2015 Hyundai Santa Fe FWD 4-Door GLS
Horrible Experience
My 2015 Hyundai Sante FE 6 months post warranty had he following problems. 1. Engine seized with oil in it 2. Front and Back end rotors shot 3. Driveshaft crumbled 4. Front brakes gone Total bill $9000.00 @... My 2015 Hyundai Sante FE 6 months post warranty had he following problems.
1. Engine seized with oil in it
2. Front and Back end rotors shot
3. Driveshaft crumbled
4. Front brakes gone
Total bill $9000.00 @ 177K
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These ongoing notes point to motifs and themes within specific episodes and to connections between episodes.
Images from Etienne-Jules Marey's pre-cinema experiments with photography interrupt the opening credits three times and return three times, at the beginning of the Entr'acte, at the beginning of the last encounter (with the chimpanzee family) and in the closing credits, just before the credit for Léos Carax:
The images of the naked boy running, jumping and playing with a ball are from 1892, as are those of the naked man throwing a brick and pulling on a rope; the two hands are from 1893.
(There may be other flashes of Marey in the film that I have missed.)
M. Oscar plays 11 rôles; Le Banquier (episode 2), La Mendiante (episode 3), the game character in the Motion Capture sequence (episode 4), Merde (episode 5), Le Père (episode 6), l'Accordéoniste (episode 7), Le Tueur 1 (episode 8), Le Tueur 2 (episode 9), Le Mourant (episode 10), himself (?) in his encounter with Eva Grace (episode 11), L'Homme au Foyer (episode 12).
1/ Prologue
spaces and places: studio interior (?) - a hotel bedroom near an airport; real interior - a theatre (Le Trianon, 80 boulevard Rochechouart, 18e)
motifs and themes: three dogs; dream; image on the laptop; vision (peep/key-hole; sleeping audience in the theatre); cinema (what film are they watching? - traffic; someone is shot in an interior; then maritime sounds); artificial image of nature - pattern of bare trees on wall
connections: episode 10 (le Mourant's pyjamas, his dog); maritime film links to ocean-liner-style house in the next episode
other things: Léos Carax is the sleeper who awakens; prosthetic finger/key
2/ Le Banquier
spaces and places: Mallet-Stevens's Villa Paul Poiret, Mézy-sur-Seine
motifs and themes: home, family; architecture; bodyguards; young girl at the window (see other young girls of different ages in episodes 6, 10 and 12)
connections: le Banquier is killed by M. Oscar in episode 9; the architecture of the Villa is echoed in that of the houses in Trappes, episode 12
in the limousine, 1
places: the autoroute de l'Ouest, at Saint Cloud - a view from outside Paris of the Tour Eiffel and the Tour Montparnasse
motifs and themes: bodyguards; weapons
connections: rendezvous made for 'ce soir au Fouquet's', episode 9, when le Banquier will be killed by M. Oscar; Saint-Cloud is a location for Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
other things: the car is a 1998 Lincoln stretch limousine
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
3/ La Mendiante
spaces and places: the pont Alexandre III
motifs and themes: language (what language is she speaking?), subtitles; bodyguards
connections: the only other photographer is Harry T-Bone in episode 5
other things: a wedding party, photographed; the only time he changes gender; landmark Paris (bridge, Seine, Tour Eiffel, Tour Montparnasse, Trocadero...)
places: avenue Pierre Mendès-France, viaduc and gare d'Austerlitz
motifs and themes:
4/ l'O.S. de la Motion Capture
spaces and places: exterior -La Syctom, Ivry-sur Seine; studio interior
motifs and themes: the couple (sexual); levels (up); cinema (post-cinema: games); weapon
connections: the pattern of lights is echoed in the 10th limousine section, just before episode 12
other things: at La Syctom there are two other people in the same garb, coming the other way
places: place de la Nation, 12e, and boulevard Voltaire, 11e
other things: he eats his lunch
5/ Merde & Kay M.
spaces and places: the Père Lachaise cemetery
motifs and themes: the couple (sexual); levels (down); beauty; photography; vision (Merde's eye); home - Merde's lair
connections: 'M. Merde' in Tokyo! (2008); Kay M. sings Calexico's 'All the Pretty Little Horses'; Kay M.'s name anticipates the appearance of Kylie Minogue in episode 11, where her character's name Eva Grace echoes that of the actress who plays Kay M., Eva Mendes.
other things: prosthetic penis?; landmark Paris (sewers, cemetery)
places: rue Hallé, 14e
6/ Le Père
spaces and places: rue Dareau and villa Brune, 14e;
motifs and themes: home, family
connections: Kylie Minogue 'I Can't Get You Out Of My Head' at party - Kylie in episode 11; Sparks record in car ('How Are You Getting Home')
other things: the only time he drives (a Peugeot 205 XR)
7/ Entracte - L'Accordéoniste
spaces and places: real interior - the église Saint Merri, rue Saint-Martin, 4e
motifs and themes: cinema (pre-cinema: preceded by Marey image of hands)
connections: 'Trois, Douze, Merde!' - M. Merde in episode 5
other things: landmark Paris (the church)
motifs and themes: 'votre victime', 'votre arme'
other things: music from episode 7 continues
8/ Le Tueur
spaces and places: Les Olympiades, 13e - underground warehouses
motifs and themes: levels (down); language (Cantonese); doubles - DL kills DL
other things: rescued by Céline
places: pont Alexandre III, avenue des Champs Elysées
motifs and themes: cinema (surveillance cameras); nostalgia; beauty ('la beauté du geste')
connections: Michel Piccoli is in Carax's Mauvais sang (1986)
other things: meeting with 'L'Homme à la tâche de vin'; landmark Paris ('regardez comme Paris est beau ce soir'); Oscar rehearses lines from what is supposed to be his next rendez-vous, as Le Mourant
9/ Le Tué
spaces and places: avenue des Champs Elysées, 8e, & Fouquet's
motifs and themes: doubles - DL kills DL
connections: he kills le Banquier from episode 2
other things: landmark Paris (Arc de Triomphe)
10/ Le Mourant
spaces and places: Hôtel Raphael, 17 avemue Kleber, 16e
motifs and themes: family drama - 'Elise' (played by Eise Lhomeau) plays 'Léa', niece to Monsieur Vogan;
home - hotel (the only other hotel is in the prologue); death; mirrors
connections: tv screen, pyjamas & dog - as in episode 1
other things:
artificial fireplace; jumpcut when Oscar is removing his mask; insert of two forward tracking shots through cemetery, linked by dissolve - the second shot disintegrates - dream?
Accident with another limousine. Eva Grace's chauffeur has a (bad) London accent.
11/ M. Oscar & Eva Grace
spaces and places: real interior - La Samaritaine department store
motifs and themes: levels (up); the couple (sentimental); hotel (La Samaritaine to be converted); language (English); architecture
connections: Kylie's song here, contrast with her record in episode 6; view of bridge - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991); the name Eva Grace echoes that of the actress who plays Kay M., Eva Mendes, in episode 5; that name Kay M. = the initials of Kylie Minogue
other things: landmark Paris (Notre Dame, tour Eiffel, Panthéon, Seine, Pont-Neuf...)
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
in the limousine, 10
places: rue Soufflot, Panthéon, 5e
motifs and themes: the past ('J'ai été danseuse autrefois...'); 'home - votre maison'
he sings lines from 'My Way' ('and now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...') and Céline joins in;
connections: the pigeon references the end of Les Yeux sans visage; the underpass echoes the same or a similar underpass in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf; the sequence ends with the theme of Kylie's song 'Who Were We?' from the previous episode
12/ L'Homme au Foyer
spaces and places: cité jardin, Trappes-en-Yvelines, 78
motifs and themes: home, family - wife (Florence) and two daughters (Aude and Luce) - chimpanzees; language, subtitles; architecture
connections: song 'Revivre' by Gérard Manset
other things
places: quai Aulagnier, Asnières- sur-Seine, 92
other things: only Céline, no M. Oscar
13/ Epilogue
spaces and places: Citroën factory at Asnières-sur-Seine, 92
motifs and themes: language (English); cinema (end of cinema: 'silence ... plus de moteur, plus d'action'); 'machines visibles'
connections: Les Yeux sans visage (1959) - Céline puts on a mask
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Matt Whitman and Faith Goldy
Halifax councillor appears to be a fan of the outspoken white nationalist running for mayor in Toronto.
Posted By Jacob Boon on Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:10 AM
Matt Whitman doesn’t want you to get the wrong impression about his support for Toronto’s most prominent white-nationalist mayoral candidate.
“Retweeting for a friend. Stay calm,” writes Whitman in a retweet from earlier this week of Lindsay Shepherd’s March 22 Macleans story, “Why I invited Faith Goldy to Laurier.”
The Hammonds Plains–St. Margarets councillor has since deleted the post and subsequently put up a screenshot of his own Twitter bio, which reminds the public that “likes and RTs are not necessarily endorsements.”
It's the second time the councillor has tweeted about Goldy, a far-right internet personality and white nationalist running for mayor of Toronto who Whitman endorsed three weeks ago.
After Goldy complained last month that journalists weren’t providing her with enough mainstream media coverage, the bedridden Whitman—still recuperating from a motorcycle accident—sent out a tweet promising to cover her campaign himself. Whitman capped off the tweet with a hashtagged “GoGoldy.”
Politically, the two public figures share traditional conservative thoughts on small government and pro-business policies. But whatever Goldy's campaign platform, it pales in comparison to her past comments on white nationalism.
The divisive Goldy has, over the course of her media career, repeatedly stated that the white race is facing a cultural and ethnic genocide from non-white groups. As Martin Patriquin writes for iPolitics: “She believes the 2016 shooting in a Quebec City mosque was a Muslim conspiracy; and she favourably quoted the work of a Romanian fascist who called for the elimination of the Jewish race.”
She was previously a contributor for right-wing new site Rebel Media, where she published video reports with titles such as, “While migrants rape their way across the continent, where are Europe’s men?”
In 2016, she visited Halifax to investigate the already-discredited Chronicle Herald story about Muslim children choking their classmates with chains at Chebucto Heights Elementary. In a series of video “investigations” for the Rebel, Goldy theorized that the “real” story was being covered up by both the Herald and the Halifax Regional School Board.
While on assignment in Israel last year, Goldy stated that “Bethlehem’s Christian population has been ethnically cleansed,” advocated for launching “a new Crusade” to “reclaim Bethlehem” and said it’s “a fact” that Jewish people are “frankly wealthier and smarter than us.”
She was eventually fired from Rebel Media after reporting from the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia without the permission of her boss. During that coverage, Goldy called Richard Spencer’s manifesto to organize the United States along racial divides as “robust” and “well-thought-out.” She also appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast where she recited the “14 words” mantra of white supremacy.
I will cover you. #Halifax #hrm13 #GoGoldy #Toronto https://t.co/rDeqJHUJfF
— #LovedByWhitman (@matlantivex) August 20, 2018
Earlier this year, while protesting outside a conference on white privilege held at Ryerson University, Goldy said that “in-group preference” for one's race is the natural way of the world.
“You see it in birds. You see it in humans,” she told one blogger. “And Europeans, through the Enlightenment and the cancerous thought that came therein, had that bred outside of them, and now they’re being preyed on as a collective...I mean, where is the white supremacy when every single European nation is about to see whites become a minority, basically in the next 40 years?”
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Someone put up fliers on mailboxes around Tantallon and St. Margarets Bay with Whitman's #GoGoldy tweet, a screen cap of Goldy’s Wikipedia and information on how to contact the clerks’ office to file an official complaint.
Goldy’s notion that Canada’s “European way of life” is under attack is remarkably similar to another racial treatise Whitman has previously supported.
Back in February, the councillor came under fire after retweeting a letter from white nationalist group ID Canada that claimed that “European history and peoples are being dismantled.”
The “identitarianism” organization had sent the open letter to city hall in protest of Halifax council’s vote to temporarily remove the statue of Edward Cornwallis.
“The contents of the letter, there was nothing offensive there,” Whitman would later tell reporters, even after he had deleted the tweet and apologized. “It talked about European settlers and what not. How is that offensive?”
ID Canada, like Goldy and other far-right voices, often use “European” and “Euro-Canadian” to warn against the supposed dangers of immigration and propagate white genocide conspiracy theories.
Whitman said at the time that he was unaware of the loaded racial language, but that he still stood by the group's message—just not the people who wrote it.
Pending his recovery time, Whitman will be at Halifax City Hall on Tuesday as council reconvenes from a summer break to discuss the latest update on widespread racial discrimination happening within HRM’s workforce.
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Opinion Racial issues Sexual Assault
Harvard punishes another black professor for independent thinking
Greg Piper - Associate Editor •July 11, 2019
Put a target on his back with study that found no racial bias in police shootings
It’s pretty obvious from the past several months that Harvard University has a problem with black men who frustrate white expectations.
The Ivy League school dumped a celebrated law professor and advocate for victims of police brutality, Ronald Sullivan, because he chose to represent the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein at his sexual-assault trial.
The first black faculty dean at Harvard – and the first faculty dean to be investigated for conduct issues – Sullivan lost his administrative position but not his professorship. Still, the lesson was clear: Defend someone unpopular at your own risk.
Now the administration has gone a step further with another Sullivan client, the Harvard economist Roland Fryer, because of a questionable sexual harassment investigation.
The youngest black professor ever to receive tenure at Harvard, Fryer has been placed on a two-year administrative leave. Harvard is also permanently shuttering the research lab he founded, Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs).
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay told economics faculty Wednesday that Fryer won’t be able to “teach, supervise, or conduct research” using Harvard resources during his leave, The Harvard Crimson reports.
Assuming he wants to return to Harvard, he’ll be monitored by a “Title IX-trained individual” whenever he teaches undergraduates, and Fryer won’t be allowed to advise or supervise students or even teach graduate workshops, according to Gay.
Fryer’s case shares some similarities with Sullivan’s, but the major difference is he’s not shielded by a powerful internal institution like Harvard Law.
MORE: NYT ignores nonwhite defenders of black professor
The economist put a target on his back and embarrassed his woker-than-thou Harvard colleagues three years ago by publishing his research on racial dynamics in police use of force.
The New York Times covered the study, which found no racial bias in “officer-involved shootings” over 15 years in 10 major police departments. Police were actually more likely to fire on white suspects who hadn’t attacked them first, and in Houston specifically, police were about 20 percent less likely to fire on black suspects in “tense situations.”
Just as Sullivan’s representation of Weinstein likely opened the floodgates of previous grumblings against him, Fryer’s questioning of this untouchable racial dogma likely emboldened his critics to attack.
The definitive report on the Fryer investigation came from journalist and former Brookings Institution scholar Stuart Taylor, as we mentioned in January.
Published in RealClearInvestigations, Taylor focused on the omissions and mischaracterizations in New York Times reporting on Fryer’s case. The only person to actually accuse him of sexual harassment was his personal assistant, whose job performance he had repeatedly criticized.
Harvard had already tried to get rid of her with a severance package and was now trying to put her on a “performance management” plan when she first accused him. As she told her friend and Fryer defender Tanaya Devi – who was not mentioned at all by The New York Times – the personal assistant would do “anything possible to make sure I get the money I deserve” (an extra $25,000 in severance).
MORE: Fryer finds no racial bias in officer-involved shootings
One of the patterns identified by Taylor was Harvard’s repeated favoring of white witnesses over those of color, including the dark-skinned Indian immigrant Devi.
The racial dynamics were clear: The whites (all subordinates) claimed to be upset by Fryer’s off-color jokes, while the nonwhites said the whites never acted uncomfortably. One of Fryer’s white manager colleagues escaped any guilt despite being around for “90 percent of these conversations,” as the economist complained.
Sullivan denounced Harvard for portraying Fryer as “an over-sexualized black man who no one could tell no.” But Taylor noted that Harvard was much less certain about Fryer’s guilt in the internal report, citing his personal assistant’s transparent fabrications and witness testimony that contradicted her.
If you look at everyone who made specific allegations against Fryer, they all had job-related motive to lie, as Taylor documents.
It’s not just Fryer that has suffered: His loudest supporter, Devi, has been blackballed both socially and academically at Harvard, and she claims the mob pressure is silencing other Fryer defenders.
Devi told The Boston Globe that she was “stunned and disappointed” by his punishment:
“Not only does it seem Draconian because it was based on off-color humor in the lab, but it also seems unjust that Dean Gay has decided to penalize his researchers,” who will have to scrap the studies they had been conducting with Fryer, Devi said. She said she had been working on several papers with the professor that will now be canceled.
Other black faculty may want to consider leaving Harvard before the white-led institution feels threatened by their independent thinking and finds a pretext to punish them.
MORE: Fryer defender Devi faces intimidation, blacklisting
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By Carolyn McDowall October 22, 2018
A Star is Born – Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga, A Dynamic Duo
Emotionally telling and visually spectacular, the Warner Bros Pictures movie A Star is Born already has gold Oscar style halo’s gathering around it, as it wows crowds all over the world. The directorial debut of Bradley Cooper in remaking this classic tale, meant him also taking on the lead role of a seasoned successful musician lead guitarist and singer Jackson Maine.
Lady Gaga as Ally in A Star is Born, courtesy Warner Bros Pictures
As both he is a tour de force, especially when singing. He has a wonderful voice.
Cooper is portraying a man who lives in a world of pain, at least until the night he has his driver stop at a bar he’s never been to before where he unexpectedly encounters Ally, played with so much conviction and clarity by Lady Gaga.
When he discovers, Ally is not only a sensational singer, but also a wonderful songwriter about to give up on hoping for a career in music, he has to pull out all stops quickly in order to dissuade her from following that path. He believes she is that good.
Do Not Read Any More if You Don’t Want Spoilers
Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine in A Star is Born, courtesy Warner Bros Pictures
After finishing her waiter’s stint, Ally awesomely performs the classic French favourite song La Vie En Rose, in a drag night club where a bevvy of gorgeous ‘girls’ give her support. Jackson enjoys surprise after surprise during this extraordinary encounter and sets about introducing her talent to a much larger world.
The challenge for Jackson is helping Ally to quickly build her self-esteem, which is low, virtually overnight. He knows that then she will be able to take that frightening step out onto the wider world stage. So, he invites her perform at his next gig and while this is the break she has dreamed off… she asks herself is it real?
Lady Gaga as Ally in, A Star is Born, courtesy Warner Bros Pictures
Sending a private jet as a final means of persuasion to pick her and friend and supporter Ramon (Anthony Ramos) from the club up, when in a spur of the moment decision she decides to go, probably helps her come to terms with what is happening. The journey certainly gives her time to think about what she wants in life and what has happened to her ambition.
Seeing she has arrived in the wings, Jackson walks across and simply and personally coaxes her gently onto the stage, where for his enormous group of fans, these two immediately become the dynamic duo made in heaven.
Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine with Lady Gaga as Ally in, A Star is Born, courtesy Warner Bros Pictures
Their voices blend beautifully together like a rare and fine wine and Jackson, surprisingly, finds himself falling in love.
Jack and Ally’s love affair as it grows in concert with their making love and marvellous music together, is a delight to behold. They deal honestly and openly with each other and he is equally amazed when she professes her love for him as well.
Love is not a feeling he ever thought he would experience, because Jackson had completely given up on it ever happening to him. Being soul mates he finds however is only part of the battle, and will not always help him win the war of real life; especially with his own demons and, Jackson has many.
The story has a focus on mental health a malady, society on a whole world wide is wrestling with at the moment. It is a condition that often seems to go hand in hand in the way of those blessed with rare talent, including musicians.
They generally have high levels of genius, which the majority of people surrounding them are often unable to share because they are in awe of of their talent, which doesn’t help them in sharing their personal pain and hurt. That only happens with someone you trust.
As a Director, Cooper uses close ups in an intimate way, and as a device to ensure we see every nuance of emotion these two people feel at every stage of their developing relationship. And powerful it is too, as he brings contemporary themes to bear on an old revamped storyline.
My first acquaintance with the original story for this movie which has been reincarnated for the fourth time here, came along with my seeing the version made in 1954 starring Judy Garland.
Apart from being an awesome talent, much like our generation’s Lady Gaga, Judy Garland in reality, was a deeply troubled, sometimes distraught individual, who generally made life unbearable for those around her off screen. Those who knew her well though, always forgave the hurt and anger she caused the moment she stepped onto a stage to sing, because she was so magical.
During those moments. she became incomparable, which is the parallel to be drawn with Lady Gaga’s flawless performance in this rendition of A Star is Born.
Her rendition of the song Shallow is masterful.
She illuminates the stage and captures our hearts with her fabulous and quite extraordinary voice, one she revealed in an interview she especially and very cleverly created for this movie, one that rivals her own in the real world.
No matter how hard she tries though, Ally finds her life with her new husband, often difficult. In helping Ally as his protégée to attain her potential and reach her goals, Jackson Maine extraordinarily diminishes and finally ruins his own.
She becomes his excuse to not clean up his own act.
He cannot handle the fact she must walk away if she is to become a star in her own right, one very different from what he had hoped, complete with dancing girls behind her just like every other pop cult figure.
He has to learn to accept that finally, after finding his own dream golden girl, she is not always going to be there backing him up on stage in a beautiful experience, which has until this point, given him a whole new lease on life.
Understandably, he hasn’t wanted to go beyond that point for we realise that long vision and personal strength is not something integral to his nature.
As she slowly and with conviction pulls away, Jack’s problems now really surface. Having disguised and managed his alcoholism and drug taking for so long, it takes on a whole new dimension.
Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine, Sam Elliot as Bobby with Lady Gaga as Ally in, A Star is Born, courtesy Warner Bros Pictures
Another great problem too is that he’s also partially deaf, and slowly getting worse. This is causing serious problems with finding his tone and it’s been caused by dealing with all that sound feed back, with the music turned up to excruciating levels, since he was a teenager.
Up until now the usual rows with his brother Bobby (Sam Elliott), who not only brought him up when his father died, but always had his back on tour. Their angst escalates until Jackson alienates Bobby in one spectacular scene, causing him to walk away as well. Then, after embarrassing Ally terribly on stage when she wins the Grammy Award for the Best New Talent.
He enters a treatment centre for the first time and we are all relieved he is finally getting himself back on track by being sober, when Ally’s new sleazy manager Rez Gavron (Rafi Gavron), who has won her trust, turns up to unknowingly to destroy all the medical team’s great work, as he convincingly puts his rival down.
He’s not seeking to understand why Jackson does what he does, but fully intent on crushing the one man he can see will take away his new ‘meal’ ticket; husband or not.
Jack is left feeling that being in love sometimes means walking away from the very person who has helped you finally to define your life. For him it is devastating and his resultant actions are tragic for everyone.
Remembering with love, that period when he had been sober, Jackson had wisely advised Ally if she is going to truly succeed out there, she always has to sing from deep within her soul, or no one will believe her.
It becomes her comfort as she looks back on their life together through song I’ll Never Love Again, and at the end, she finally takes his advice and she brings the house down, It is in her new beginning, that this all new star is born.
This film has it all; success, failure, tragedy, love, heartache, a bevvy of broken dreams for both stars and, exceptional performances. The songs on the sensational soundtrack alone should win awards on their own merits.
However, it is the two main actors, who have the help of a carefully chosen and spectacular supporting cast, who win our favour completely. Bradley Cooper’s rendition of Maybe It’s Time, is exceptional, as he surprises all with his stunning singing voice
Be warned, A Star is Born will be sure to tug on your heart strings, before boring right down into your very soul, as it did so brilliantly with mine.
Carolyn McDowall, The Culture Concept Circle, 2018
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Man accused of exposing himself to woman on Murfreesboro Greenway
Ronnie J. Hollingsworth
WARNING: Strong Descriptions
Directly after sunset a female jogger finishing up her run was the victim of indecent exposure. The female told police that a man wearing a cowboy hat exposed himself to her while running on the Greenway in Murfreesboro. The incident was reported at 8:30, Tuesday night.
Police received word that the man in the cowboy hat was wearing blue jean shorts and searched the public running trail in an attempt to locate the suspect. The female further told officers that after the man exposed himself he started to follow her, but she outpaced him.
Officers located 52-year old Ronnie J. Hollingsworth who matched the description given by the female jogger. The man claimed that he had been on the Greenway for several hours and needed to use the restroom, but there was not one nearby. He told police that he decided to relieve himself under a bridge.
Police wrote in their report, "Mr. Hollingsworth stated a female then may have seen him and he began to run with his penis still out, possibly due to being startled." The victim told police, "A male suspect wearing a cowboy hat and blue jean shorts walked towards her, while having a weird expression on his face and had his shorts unzipped with his penis completely out of his shorts. The victim stated after seeing this she began to run away, at which point he began to follow her."
Hollingsworth later admitted to exposing himself in the past and a criminal history check confirmed four prior convictions for "Indecent Exposure." This latest incident of Indecent Exposure will go to court on October 29, 2015. If convicted, this will mark his fifth conviction for Indecent Exposure.
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reviews · 11/14/2017
Merl Lindsay & his Oklahoma Night Riders, Unissued Performances Vol 1
BACM CD D 541
Merl Lindsay was working in California when Bob Wills suggested that he name his Western Swing band, the Oklahoma Night Riders. The name stuck, and they returned to Oklahoma City to record for a couple of labels in the late 40’s. There are other CDs around with many of the band’s commercial recordings, but this album contains previously unissued performances from demos and radio broadcasts, recorded 1948-1962.
Lindsay’s “sound” doesn’t necessarily copy other greats in Western Swing, although there are some similarities. You can detect the Wills influence, at times, and you’ll hear several tunes associated with Wills. But you’ll also find Pee Wee King’s “Slow Poke,” Irving Berlin’s “Marie,” popularized by Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman’s “Woodchoppers Ball” and it’s a pleasant surprise to hear his vocalist Wanda Jackson, solo on Jimmy C. Newman’s “Cry, Cry Darlin’,” a departure from the big-band emphasis. But there are still more songs associated with the big band era, like “In the Mood,” that are given the Lindsay treatment, much as Bob Wills had done with his big band fairly early in his career.
If you listened to this band on the radio way back then, this CD’s especially for you. If you didn’t, but you’re a fan of vintage
Western swing, you, too, will want a copy for your collection. Contact VenerableMusic.com, phone (678) 232- 0268.
OJ Sikes
- Water Baby Blues
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- The Hucklebuck
- Worried Mind
- Tennessee Saturday Night
- Twin Guitar Special
- Ida Red
- Slow Poke
- Silver Lake Blues
- Sleepy Eyed John
- Woodchoppers Ball
- Cry Cry Darlin
- It Had To Be You
- Brown Boy Blues
- Cinammon Sinner
- I'll Go On Alone
- In The Mood
- Meanwhile
- Hard Hearted Woman
- Its Better To Leave Well Enough Alone
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Chiggero
- Johnston Rag
- Cotton Pickin Boogie
- Little Brown Jug
- She's The One For Me
- Under The Double Eagle
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By Marta Martinez | 17 December 2018 | Español | Français | عربي
Members of the Pihcintu Choir performing at event to mark the affirmation of the Global Compact on Refugees at the UN Headquarters in New York City. © UNHCR/Andrew Kelly
NEW YORK, 17 December 2018 – In a historic decision, the member states of the UN General Assembly today agreed on a new international framework, known as the Global Compact on Refugees, that will transform the way the world responds to mass displacement and refugee crises, benefiting both refugees and the communities that host them.
“No country should be left alone to respond to a huge influx of refugees,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. “Refugee crises call for a global sharing of responsibility, and the compact is a powerful expression of how we work together in today’s fragmented world.”
The Global Compact on Refugees was agreed as part of this year’s annual resolution on UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. It builds on the existing international legal system for refugees, notably the 1951 Refugee Convention, and on human rights and humanitarian law. It is a non-binding operational tool to bolster cooperation.
“The compact is a powerful expression of how we work together in today’s fragmented world.”
After two years of extensive consultations led by UNHCR with member states, international organizations, refugees, civil society, the private business sector and experts, this new global deal will provide more robust support for the countries where most refugees live. It will also strengthen the shared responsibility to aid those who are forced to flee by conflict or persecution.
"In this world of ours, which often turns its back to people in need, that has shamefully politicized the pain of exile, that has demonized refugees and migrants, this compact, in sinergy with the compact on migration, can really represent a new commitment to international cooperation," Grandi said.
See also: A new deal for refugees
This deal comes at a time of urgent need to address record-high displacement figures – over 68.5 million people have been forced to flee worldwide, including more than 25.4 million people who have crossed borders to become refugees.
Nine out of 10 refugees live in developing countries, where basic services like health or education are already strained. The compact aims to address this issue by providing more investment – from both governments and the private sector – to further strengthen infrastructure and the provision of services for the benefit of both refugees and host communities.
Bertine Bahige, former refugee and principal of an elementary school in Gillette, Wyoming, speaking at the event to mark the Global Compact on Refugees at the UN Headquarters in New York City. © UNHCR/Andrew Kelly
It also calls for policies and measures that will enable refugees to access education and to lead productive lives during the time they are in exile. The compact aims to address the environmental impact of hosting refugee populations and includes promotion of the use of alternative energy.
The agreement also envisions more resettlement and other opportunities – such as through family reunification, student scholarships, or humanitarian visas – so that refugees can travel safely. It notes that the voluntary return of refugees in conditions of safety and dignity remains the preferred solution in the majority of refugee situations.
The new agreement will monitor progress through the creation of follow-up systems, including a Global Refugee Forum every four years at which governments will report and pledge on a range of measures – funding, policy, legal changes, resettlement quotas, etc.
“Resettlement gave me hope.”
The refugee compact’s adoption by the UNGA comes days after an intergovernmental conference adopted a separate Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakech, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly later this week.
“Today marks beginning, not end of our work to respond comprehensively to the challenges that refugees and their hosts face,” said the president of the UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa during an event marking the historic adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees at the UN Secretariat in New York.
“As of tomorrow, all member states, together with the society and the UN family, are called to step up our efforts and deliver. The 25 million refugees in the world today expect this of us.”
“We are here to educate people about what we’ve been through.”
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed stressed the importance of addressing the root causes of conflicts and other circumstances forcing people to leave their home countries.
“While we must respond to the immediate needs of refugees, this is merely treating the symptoms, unless we also deal with the root causes of the record numbers of people displaced by conflict and persecution around the world,” Mohammed said.
Bertine Bahige, a former refugee who fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and spent five years in a refugee camp in Maputo, Mozambique, moved the event attendees with his inspiring story of resilience and integration in the United States, where he was resettled in 2004.
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“Resettlement gave me hope,” Bertine said. “I was given a second chance in life, and I wanted to do something purposeful with that life.”
Bertine is now a cornerstone in the community of Gillette, in the US state of Wyoming, where he is an elementary school principal. Because of what he went through as a child, Bertine especially enjoys working with at-risk children and ensuring they receive the support they need to succeed.
“I knew the pain they were feeling, the pain of not having enough,” Bertine added. “But I also knew that if I can place that hope that was given to me, it can make a difference.”
“Today marks beginning, not end of our work to respond comprehensively to the challenges that refugees and their hosts face.”
Thirty-four members of the Pihcintu choir, refugee and immigrant youth from 19 different countries, closed the event on a high note with two uplifting songs.
“I think music is education,” said Fatima LamLum, 14, from Iraq. “We are here to educate people about what we’ve been through.”
The choir members, girls and young women ranging from nine to 23 years old, came all the way from Portland, Maine to perform at the UN headquarters to show their support for the adoption of the Global Compact.
Nyawal Lia, a 24-year-old former refugee from South Sudan, stressed the importance of raising their voices in the communities they belong to: “It is critically important for refugees to step up in our representation, and for the receiving countries to recognize our contributions.”
Bertine and the members of Pihcintu choir are examples of the kinds of solutions the global compact aims to strengthen and build on to ensure refugees and their host communities can thrive. Its historic adoption today makes its ambition a reality.
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Mark Westmoreland
digital and audiovisual methods
Dr. M.R. Westmoreland
m.r.westmoreland@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Mark R. Westmoreland coordinates the Visual Ethnography master specialisation at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. He previously served as editor of Visual Anthropology Review and now spearheads the Writing with Light curatorial collective for ethnographic photoessays. Prior to joining Leiden University, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the American University in Cairo, and Stockholm University. He is an award-winning filmmaker and has published widely in both scholarly journals and art catalogues.
Westmoreland has expertise in visual ethnography and contemporary Arab visual culture, with particular research interests in the interface between sensory embodiment and media aesthetics in on-going legacies of contentious politics. His work explores the production of alternative visualities in the contemporary Middle East as crucial and generative sites for addressing recurrent political violence and enacting new conceptual frameworks for understanding the region. In this vein, his current book project, Catastrophic Images, shows how experimental documentary practices play a crucial role in addressing recurrent political violence in Lebanon. And as a co-recipient of a research grant from the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, his new project focuses on the cultivation of radical political aesthetics and the generative potential of video activism in the Middle East.
With regard to visual ethnography, his work explores the epistemological possibilities and productive frictions at the intersection between art, activism, and ethnography. He thus aspires to combine the tradition of ethnographic filmmaking with new digital practices in order to cultivate interdisciplinary and socially engaged practice-based visual research methods.
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Project Research Grant, Co‐Applicant Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (2014, €600,000)
Visual Methodologies Workshop, Cairo, Egypt SEPHIS South‐-South Exchange Programme (2011, US$50,074)
› Curriculum vitae Mark R. Westmoreland (PDF)
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
Instituut CA/Ontwikkelingssociologie
Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
Room number 3A43
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society
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Security guard out front the first B.C. Cannabis Store in Kamloops ahead of Wednesday’s legalization. (Ian Mitchell/Twitter)
Puff, puff, pass: Cannabis is officially legal across Canada
B.C. has only one bricks-and-mortar marijuana store
It’s promising to be a chill day across the country, as Canadians wake up to the first day of legal pot.
But although Ottawa gave the a-okay to light up a joint starting Oct. 17, there’s only one place you can buy pot today: the BC Cannabis Store in Kamloops.
Although 173 dispensaries have applied for licences to sell marijuana, the 62 approved by the province have yet to receive local approval.
People line up for a BC Cannabis Store hiring fair in Kamloops this July. (Kamloops this Week)
Some cities, like Richmond and Osoyoos, have indicated that they won’t be licensing any stores. This has left dispensaries currently operating illegal having to make a decision on whether to remain open and risk their license being rejected, or close up shop.
READ MORE: B.C.’s marijuana stores should shut down, Mike Farnworth says
For those that don’t live in Kamloops, but are ready to explore legal cannabis, they can purchase marijuana through the province’s BC Cannabis Store website. While 150 strains of leaf will be available online and in-store, edibles will remain illegal for at least a year.
Policing legal cannabis impacts
Speaking ahead of legalization, the head of Canada’s police chiefs, Adam Palmer, said that there were “no big raids or anything planned” at unlicensed pot shops across the country.
Palmer, who also heads up the Vancouver Police Department, noted that police priorities on marijuana will stay largely the same.
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“It’s important to remember that while the legal recreational use of cannabis will new to Canadians, enforcing laws around impaired driving and the illegal production, distribution and consumption of cannabis will not be new to police,” Palmer told reporters Monday.
“It’s good to have a clear direction… but in the scheme of things, marijuana is important but it is not the most important thing going on in the country. Fentanyl kills a lot of people… marijuana doesn’t.”
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Police will continue enforcing impaired driving rules via traffic stops and CounterAttack campaigns. (Delta Police)
Although driving impaired is already illegal, the province has brought in a new 90-day administrative driving prohibition (ADP) for any drivers who police think are driving while high.
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Police can test for impairment either by using the standard field sobriety test or the newly-approved roadside saliva test: the Drager DrugTest 5000.
Drivers with too much THC in their blood could net a fine of at least $1,000 and spend up to five years in jail for repeated offences.
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People will be able grow up to four pot plants at their home, as long as it’s not being used as a daycare and the plants can’t be seen from outside.
Many strata and apartments have imposed their own rules about whether pot plants can be grown on their property.
People in B.C. will be able to carry up to 30 grams of pot on them. (Unsplash)
You will be able to carry up to 30 grams of marijuana on you in public, as well as smoke outside in most of the same places as tobacco smoking and vaping is allowed.
Pot smoking will be forbidden at playgrounds, sports fields, skate parks and other places where kids are likely to be.
But although smoking in prohibited places is illegal, Palmer said it’s unlikely police officers will be arresting people on the streets.
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Minor infractions like smoking illegally will be handled by bylaw officers, he said, while large-scale imports, exports and production will fall to police detachments.
“Nobody’s going to jail for something like that.”
Lighting up will be forbidden near playgrounds or anywhere else that kids usually gather. (Unsplash)
But although smoking illicitly-obtained pot remains against the law, Palmer said, no one is going to be asking pot smokers for receipts.
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Home » News » News » Mahmood Yakubu’s second chance
Mahmood Yakubu’s second chance
On February 22, 2019 5:00 amIn Converstion with Azu, Newsby adekunle
INEC boss, Prof Mahmood Yakubu
LAST week, when I described the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, as one of the most frequently executed men on social media, I had no idea what was coming. About 48 hours later – and after weeks, if not months of repeatedly assuring the public that the commission was ready – he unexpectedly announced a one-week postponement of the elections. He set himself up not just for a fresh round of execution but also to have his remains burnt at the electoral stake.
The Yakubu picking up the pieces and rallying his team to fix Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections through a purgatory of remedial steps is a Yakubu in a bad place. Only after the elections have been successfully conducted at the same time in the 36 states and Abuja and the results announced will Mahmood Yakubu begin to get his life back.
It’s pointless going over the details of what happened. That’s old story. We have been told that a combination of logistics nightmare, bad weather – and possibly sabotage – made it impossible to go ahead with the polls last week. This was the official version. The conspiracy theories, like most conspiracy theories, were far more complicated, and even surreal.
While the version peddled in Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, circles claimed that the postponement was the fallout of resistance by Yakubu to give in to pressure by the ruling APC to stagger the elections, starting with 26 states, the common version in All Progressives Congress, APC, circles was that PDP moles in INEC compromised the system by deliberately mis-dispatching or delaying the dispatch of election materials to APC strongholds. The only things constant are Yakubu’s name and politicians’ desperation.
The promise made
I think Yakubu understands that unlike his predecessor, Attahiru Jega, he would not get another chance. He understands that unlike 2007 when significant amounts of electoral materials arrived in the country from South Africa one week after the election, voters deserve a better deal and that’s what he promised them.
He understands that unlike 2011 when the election was postponed hours after voting had commenced, or 2015 when the country was forced to shift the vote for six weeks for security reasons, voters will not accept any further excuses because that’s not what he promised them. Yakubu promised results. He promised free, fair and credible elections that will deepen voter confidence.
He has done well so far. On his watch the commission has conducted 195 rerun and off-season elections, recording fewer court-ordered re-elections than in any other elections in the last two cycles. He has recorded the largest expansion in the voter roll through continuous registration and, for the first time, made significant changes to help the physically challenged have easier access.
He has successfully planned and faithfully executed 13 of the 14 items on the 2019 election timetable, though the cost of tripping on the last task could be more disastrous that the sum total of his success so far. Yakubu has stood his grounds against party principalities and powers battling the commission in hundreds of court cases, insisting that the legal challenge, though costly, is essential to safeguard the commission’s integrity and independence.
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Where the devil lies
It would appear, however, that the toughest battles he has to fight are not against politicians, who are his known enemies. The battles may not even be against the weather or logistics supply, however daunting these factors may be in a country plagued by poor infrastructure. These are small potatoes. From what he left unsaid about the possibility of a sabotage, his toughest battle may well be against insiders who betrayed him and the system in favour of politicians desperate to win at all costs. If nothing happens to the conduits inside INEC – the wolves in sheep’s clothing – the system will remain in danger. Not a witch hunt. I’m talking about a thorough root-and-branch investigation that strips every tribal covering and reveals the fraudsters for the danger they truly are.It doesn’t matter how many peace accords they sign, politicians won’t do INEC the favour of making its work easy. Politicians are in the game to win, by means fair and crooked. In their desperation they value thugs above heroes and moles above methods. But the good thing is that unlike the conduits within the commission, politicians are enemies in plain sight.If it’s true, as Yakubu said, that the commission was not under any political influence and he put his reputation on the line by repeatedly assuring voters that everything was on course, then he has serious work to do. He must fish out those in the system who seduced him with a false hope. The danger is both human and systemic.
Yakubu’s head
Some have said Yakubu should go. I disagree. We had false starts in two previous election cycles (2011 and 2015), and a near disaster in 2007 when election materials arrived in the country after the elections, forcing three out of seven Supreme Court justices to declare the results of the election a sham. We have to do more than sacrifice one man’s head to get things right: we’ll also have to examine the system closely.
The Justice Muhammed Uwais report is probably the most audacious attempt in the last 20 years to reform the electoral system, bringing it close to what exists in plural, multi-party democracies like Ghana, South Africa, India and Canada.
A number of the recommendations by the Uwais committee, including moving INEC’s funding to first line charge; use of biometrics; and continuous registration of voters, among others, have already been implemented. These changes have brought tremendous improvements to the quality of elections in the country.
An important aspect of the committee’s work, still untouched, however, is the unbundling of the commission. This aspect came to light again this week. Uwais recommended the creation of three other commissions from the existing one: one to register and regulate political parties; the other to deal with electoral offences; and the last one to handle constituency delimitation.
Unbundling INEC?
Will an “unbundled” INEC be more efficient? Will it save the country from the sort of embarrassment witnessed last week?
I doubt it. From Ghana to South Africa and from Canada to India, the election commissions perform largely similar functions with their Nigerian counterpart, though in South Africa and Canada, they are primarily answerable to the legislature.
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INEC is inefficient because it has added to its own inherent problems the incompetence of other commissions set up to do precisely what it is now doing. It is plagued by the self-inflicted virus of bureaucracy-litis – the condition of adding the jobs of other failed bureaucracies to its own.
Two examples will suffice. If the National Population Commission, NPC, was doing its job, why would INEC spend billions of naira to continuously vet or update the voter register when the data could easily have been obtained from the NPC? The NPC has 22 commissioners with SUVs, fat allowances and big offices, yet the commission has not conducted a census in the last 13 years. It doesn’t even have reliable data on births and deaths.
The National Boundary Commission, NBC, is also another national joke. There are members of the commission who only remember that it exists either when they’re drawing their allowances or when they’re sending their wards or cronies to get jobs or contracts from there.
What’s the point creating new commissions from INEC that will do the jobs of the NPC, NBC or the NIMC except to multiply incompetence? If these three agencies alone can do their jobs, while citizens’ vigilance and conscience compel the security services to play a professional role, INEC’s burden would be significantly reduced.
The setback of last week should be a watershed moment to implement far-reaching reforms, from inside out, after Saturday.
Ishiekwene is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview and member of the board of the Global Editors Network
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Tell us what happened, Faye Dunaway! At the most elite Oscars party, A-listers had one question.
By Dan Zak
Dan Zak
Feature writer
Clockwise from top left: Viola Davis, Casey Affleck, Faye Dunaway, and Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters)
Halle Berry took Faye Dunaway by the shoulders.
“I have to know,” Berry said, her ringlets bobbing, in the center of the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at 12:15 a.m. Monday. “I have to know.”
Dunaway, resplendent in white, answered darkly: “Warren is right, is all I’ll tell you.”
There had been an envelope, and Warren Beatty opened it, and inside was a card, and the card said “La La Land,” and so Dunaway did, too. And then, “Moonlight.”
“It gave me hope,” said Fran Lebowitz, the acerbic Manhattan literary gadfly, on the terrace about three hours after that historic showbiz catastrophe, as the A-list drank away the searing awkwardness.
Hope?
“That we could wake up tomorrow morning,” Lebowitz said, “and Hillary Clinton will be president.”
Here’s to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem. The dreamers were dumbfounded here at the headquarters of the liberal coastal Hollywood conspiracy: the 23rd annual Vanity Fair Oscar Party, hosted by Graydon Carter and held in a makeshift space connecting the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and the garden of Beverly Hills City Hall.
[The minute-by-minute breakdown of the shocking ‘Moonlight’/‘La La Land’ best picture mix-up]
“They coulda stopped the show,” said a blue-tuxed Matt Damon at the north end of the party.
“So what happened?” Disney chief executive Bob Iger asked Dunaway on the south end.
“My congratulations to black people across America,” said Bill Maher, emerging from the men’s room. “They won, and they kicked the white people in the balls on the way to it.”
(Clip Courtesy A.M.P.A.S.© 2017)
But life goes on, and so did the party. Out front on Santa Monica Boulevard, Salma Hayek stepped out of her limo and raced into the arms of the mariachi band stationed by the entrance to the party. They broke into “Sabor a Mí.”
“That’s my night,” violinist Jose Ballin said afterward, reviewing photographic evidence that he serenaded Hayek. “I can die a happy man.”
City of stars, all crammed into one location for a few hours once a year. There was the usual firing squad of photographers, followed by a vast glass-enclosed room with a bar as long as a tennis court, heaped with white hydrangeas and serving Dom Pérignon and Grey Goose. It was inevitable, at a time and place like this, to accidentally elbow Mick Jagger in the ribs, and to inadvertently put your nose into Caitlyn Jenner’s cleavage.
Keep going through the main room and you’d end up in a circular lounge, under a fabric-draped oculus with a mirrored chandelier, on a wooden dance floor with gold inlay. The music was better than in years past. Two of the three Jonas Brothers were dancing to INXS. Heidi Klum joined for reggae.
Outside, past a 30-foot wall of windows, the tiered terrace and the deliverance of tobacco. The Spanish Revival tower of City Hall was lit purple, then rose, then orange. Thin shafts of light wiped the overcast sky. “I’m finishing writing a book,” said Patricia Arquette, a fur of unknown origin keeping her shoulders from the snappy night air. “And I just turned down a TV series. It really is a critical time.”
[The Oscars’ most political moments]
It really was. It was the fifth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death. Donald Trump was president. A movie about a gay black man won best picture.
“I’m surprised it wasn’t more political,” said “Selma” director Ava DuVernay, nominated this year for the documentary “13th.” She was sitting under the undulating 80-foot-long chandelier made of LED lights and fabric panels.
Would she have let loose if she had won?
“I was ready,” she said.
Now for balance: Kelsey Grammer! A conservative in the foxhole. Here he came with his wife, fresh off a conversation with Freida Pinto. What wisdom could he pass along from working with liberals for so long?
“Give it time,” Grammer said. “You needn’t rush to judgment.”
See what celebrities wore to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party
The 23rd-annual Academy Awards celebration was held in Beverly Hills.
Feb. 26, 2017 Actress Kate Bosworth appears at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the 89th Academy Awards. The party was hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. Danny Moloshok/Reuters
And Megyn Kelly! “How many jokes at the Democrats’ expense?” said the erstwhile Fox News anchor, headed for an outside bar. “Not one. They missed a real opportunity with bringing in those people off the bus. Put one of them in a ‘Make America Great Again’ shirt. Show someone who is not represented by Meryl Streep.”
Passing by: Mac-and-cheese bites. Pistachio macarons. Mandarin jellies. Small containers of golden french fries from Bouchon. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Anjelica Huston sashay through a crowd as “No Diggity” plays.
Around 1 a.m., things got a little freaky. Amy Adams and her husband were dancing to Tupac, dancing real close — eyes locked, smiling, as if they were the only two people on this or any other planet. Then David Bowie.
Let’s sway under the moonlight.
This serious moonlight.
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The “Moonlight” crowd was here; the “La La Land” folks appeared not to be. Only Emma Stone came through, and on the early side at that. People kept whispering in director Barry Jenkins’s ear. One of the visual-effects winners accidentally abandoned his Oscar at the bar. There was a moment when it looked as though Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, might start dancing to Drake (but didn’t).
And then Viola Davis arrived in a brilliant white pantsuit with a scoop neck and what looked like gold sneakers. She was radiant and tired. Everyone flocked to her. She hugged the wall. She gripped her husband’s hand and her Oscar. They scooched their way to the bar, trying to be invisible. The husband drove toward a glass of water and handed it to Davis, who tilted her head back and savored each gulp as though she’d been in the desert.
[Viola Davis won an Oscar and gave an amazing speech. No one is surprised.]
Then it was after 2 a.m. and Isabelle Huppert was dancing to George Michael. The song was “Everything She Wants,” and there was a lot of hopping and hitching.
Dev Patel and Katie Couric took a selfie.
Ricky Martin held the door for us.
Quincy Jones was listing at a 30-degree angle on one of the settees.
This was the only venue in existence where Lin-Manuel Miranda had to search around for 30 seconds for someone to talk to.
Carrie Fisher was there — in spirit, or rather, in a quotation engraved on Zippo lighters given out as favors: “As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.” Light your Marlboro, in memoriam.
Michael Shannon was wearing a pin on his lapel that said “NO!” Surely some liberal cause, alongside all those ACLU ribbons. What does it mean?
“It’s just ‘no,’ ” Shannon said.
No to everything?
“Yeah, just ‘no,’ ” he said, and at this point, after this night, it sounded like a winning platform.
Read about past Vanity Fair Oscar parties:
2016: Jennifer Garner smells like cucumbers and America: Inside the most exclusive Oscars party
2015: Oscars not diverse enough? Vanity Fair after-party had beautiful people of all colors
2013: All is insanity at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party
2012: The Oscars after party: Navigating a sea of stars at Vanity Fair
2011: Inside the Vanity Fair Oscar party: Touching the Donald’s hair
Dan Zak Dan Zak is a reporter for The Washington Post. He writes a wide range of news stories, narratives and profiles from local, national and foreign assignments, from the Academy Awards to Fallujah, Iraq. He joined The Post in 2005. Follow
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Make It Blue Monday Vol. 82
Let's get together Monday, April 4th for Food, Drinks and Great Music
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The Early Evening 8-9 pm
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The Mann Sisters
Sweet, family harmonies, blending together like only the voices of twin sisters can; combined with heartfelt original songs, is what you can expect to hear from The Mann Sisters. With influences ranging from the Indigo Girls to Simon and Garfunkel and Fleetwood Mac - Lauren and Alexandra Mann, sisters from Miami, Florida, pride themselves as up-and-coming artists, songwriters, and musicians. Lauren’s keyboards and rich vocals inhabit a haunting higher register; while Alexandra’s gritty guitar playing and vocal harmonies bring out an acoustic rock edge, that mix to create their distinctive sound. Their performances not only mirror their love for their music, but also their love for each other. It’s clear to see how much they enjoy performing side-by-side, so in tune with each other, making for a uniquely entertaining show. Deemed “ones to watch” by Music Row critic, Robert Oermann, The Mann Sisters deliver their audiences well-crafted, life-inspired original music, with tight musical performances, keeping folks captivated and coming back for more.
The Early Evening
"Equal parts nostalgic celebration and poignant contemporary vision." - Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper. Since the dawn of time, twas written in the stone that The Early Evening would come and save music for themselves. The brothers Daeger have released several albums together over the last 14 years, including their latest and greatest effort "Everyone's A Legend", produced by John Carter Cash which is available for purchase on itunes and mail order.
The Hummingbyrds
The music of The Hummingbyrds is steeped in Americana, folk, roots rock, and the great singer-songwriters that have defined American music for over sixty years. But don’t let these labels fool you. Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams have chemistry; and this chemistry allows them to turn their influences into original songs that reach the hearts of today’s listener. Perhaps the magic comes from their great arrangements that use acoustic guitar, stand up bass, accordion, pedal steel and percussion. Or maybe it’s the level of intimacy that flows from the voices of Buonaccorsi and McWilliams, as they follow, blend and inspire each other on stage. Whatever it is, The Hummingbyrds have figured out how to merge tradition with unique personality, and in doing so, they have created music that resonates deep within the souls of any audience. In the DC area, The Hummingbyrds have performed at The Barns of Wolftrap, The Hamilton, Gypsy Sally's, Iota Club and Café and many others.
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Tiruvannamalai - District
Tamil Nadu Tiruvannamalai
State - Tamil Nadu Local Language - Tamil
About Tiruvannamalai District
Tiruvannamalai is one of 32 districts located in southeast Indian state Tamil Nadu. There are total 19 blocks which comes under Tiruvannamalai district, and there are total 1096 villages and 8 town areas which comes under this district.
As per Indian government records district code of Tiruvannamalai district is 606 and number of houses in this district is 489392.
Population of Tiruvannamalai District
As per Census 2011, total population of this district is 2039167. Out of total 2039167, male population count is 1024626, where as female population count is 1014541 in Tiruvannamalai.
According to the Indian Government population count of year 2011, this district has total 227618 children are in the age group of 0-6 years. In these 227618 children 118125 are boys and 109493 are girl child.
Literacy of Tiruvannamalai District
Literacy rate of Tiruvannamalai district is 63%. 1304133 out of total 2039167 population is literate in this district.
Going in details, Male literacy rate in this district is 72% and 738375 males are literate out of total 1024626 male population, where as female literacy rate is 44% and 565758 out of total 1014541 females are literate in this district.
Coming to dark side, illiteracy rate of Tiruvannamalai district is 36%. 735034 out of total 2039167 population is illiterate in this village. In details, Male illiteracy rate in this district is 27% and 286251 males are illiterate out of total 1024626 male population, where as female illiteracy rate is 44% and 448783 out of total 1014541 females are illiterate in this district.
Agricultural status of Tiruvannamalai District
Total working population of Tiruvannamalai district is 1077396 and non-working population is 961771 and out of 1077396 working population 258826 peoples are totally dependent on agriculture.
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List of Blocks in Tiruvannamalai District
Anakkavur
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Jawadhu Hills
Kalasapakkam
Keelapennathur
Peranamallur
Polur
Pudupalayam
Thandrampet
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Tiruvannamalai Forest Reserve
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West Arani
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PETER HART – HOLEY CHEESES!
Tags: Al Bennett, HART PHOTOGRAPHY, John Michelin, Marie Rose, Peter Hart
“ PETER HART – HOLEY CHEESES ”
Words Peter Hart // Photos Hart Photography, John Michelin & Al Bennett
Originally published within the November/December ’17 edition.
More and more people are getting the tools and skills to challenge open waters. In a piece designed to inform rather than frighten, Peter Hart asks you to consider the ‘what happens if …’ factors.
One of the great mysteries in the realm of maritime disasters is the sinking of the Marie Rose, King Henry VIII’s flagship that inexplicably capsized and sank in the Solent just off Portsmouth harbour in 1545. The theories are many and varied. It was overcrowded with soldiers. Bystanders talked of a sudden gust of wind. It keeled over suddenly and with the gun ports open ready for battle, in rushed the water. She had recently undergone a refit. Extra guns had been added and perhaps she was simply too heavy – although she had just traversed the English Channel from London without a mishap. But in all probability it was an accident that conformed perfectly to the Swiss cheese theory of accidents. You take 5 slices of a holey Swiss cheese and lay them on top of each other. If you keep rearranging them, eventually the holes will line up. That’s when your accident occurs. It’s the unfortunate coming together of a series of minor events. Only one slice has to be out of line for the disaster to be averted. So for your information, this is what happened to the Marie Rose.
It was a NW wind. Having blown over the Downs, NW winds are unstable and gusty. They often occur after a depression has passed up the Channel from the Bay of Biscay and follow strong southwest winds, so there was probably a residual swell.The ship was a bit heavy and over-crowded and the gun ports were open ready for battle. The admiral had admitted he had ‘the sort of men that he could not rule.’ We imagine the crew to be uniquely stout English archers and soldiers. But actually most crews were made up of international mercenaries, Spanish, Portuguese etc. There were certainly communication issues.S o the captain made a hard turn to the north just as he was hit by a strong, gust and by a rogue swell. He yelled to his crew to move to starboard to trim the ship, but most didn’t understand and ran the wrong way, thereby tipping the ship over. Momentarily all the holes line up. You heard it here first folks.
THE SURVIVAL OF THE LONE SURFER
Being watery types, you may have followed this year the incredible story of surfer Matthew Bryce who was blown offshore from the beach of Machrihanish on Scotland’s Argyl coast, survived 32 hours at sea clinging to his board before being rescued by helicopter 12 miles off Northern Ireland. In terms of common sense and safety, he’d broken just about every rule in the book. He was alone. No one was looking out for him or expecting him back at a certain time. The wind was strong and offshore and Machrihanish is famous for its fierce rips. But this time, the holes didn’t quite line up. He wasn’t injured; he was obviously very fit and resilient; he’d hung onto to his craft; and perhaps most crucially, despite it being the mild month of May, he was wearing boots, gloves and a hat. He was already in a state of advanced hyperthermia when rescued and the extra heat loss from bare extremities would surely have tipped him over the edge.
“ I would love to say that all windsurfers are naturally sensible and err on the side of caution.
But some are just lucky and have been riding their luck for years. ”
BOTTOMLESS SUBJECT
The topic of windsurfing safety, when delivered via a 5 hour Power Point presentation listing every possible mishap along with a list of ‘don’ts’ and ‘must nevers,’ can be cripplingly demotivating as well as an instant cure for insomnia. The best lessons are gleaned through experience … but preferably someone else’s. Stories are so much more real and relevant than rules. Hence I’ve asked friends and clients to share their ‘moments’ and interestingly, everyone has had them – and embraced them. The experience has alerted them to hitherto unseen dangers – and we absolutely need danger to be safe. Maybe that’s a good place to start.
Dangerously safe
Talk of windsurfers in mortal danger and you think of foolhardy adrenalin junkies dropping down monster barrelling waves breaking thunderously over outer reefs. Most of them have had chilling moments but the fact that none (that I know of at least) have perished reveals that these guys and girls are fastidiously prepared. They are supremely fit with the right kit. Wind and swell charts have been pawed over for weeks to isolate the exact time frame for the onslaught. They have helmet, impact vest and probably a jet ski in the channel with a highly skilled rider ready to sweep up the pieces. By contrast one of the worst accidents I witnessed was to my friend Matt who went sailing in the flatter than flat Dahab lagoon at 8.30 am in a force 4 just after the centre opened. 20 minutes later he was in the rescue boat with a punctured lung. There were just two of them out on that vast expanse of sheltered water and they collided. It appeared so safe that neither was looking. It’s the driving in Rome vs driving in the sleepy countryside analogy. In Rome where cars are flying at you at huge speeds from every angle, horns blaring, you are acutely aware of the potential dangers and therefore hyper alert and ever ready to take evasive action. In the countryside where at a steady 30 mph along a deserted lane, you’re taking in the view with your head in the clouds, it’s the totally unexpected stationary tractor around the next bend that ruins your day.
Every windsurfing incident I’ve been told about has be en a tale of the unexpected. Being aware of your vulnerability is a positive thing.An expert on road safety suggested the best security measure would be a knife pointing out from the steering wheel at the driver’s chest as a way to highlight the consequences of a collision.The most dangerous state of mind is that where you believe you’re 100% safe.But all will be OK, you say, because whatever happens, there’s always the rescue services. Discuss.
“ So as windsurfers when are we most at risk? When we least expect it. ”
Rescue comes from various quarters – some noble, others less so. Self-rescuing is a fine, venerable art. If you stow your kit and paddle in, manage to cobble together a jury rig and stagger home; sail back without a fin etc., you arrive on shore perhaps knackered but empowered by a feeling of confidence and independence.
If you get rescued by another windsurfer or windsurfers, who either carry bits of your rig in for you so you can paddle home, or tow you in; or in a more serious scenario, stay with you, support you and float in with you because you’re injured, the experience reinforces the importance of sailing with a group and strengthens the bonds.
Getting pulled in by the rescue craft of a centre? Well it’s what they’re there for. In Vassiliki for example, the armada of RIBS allows improvers to experiment with impunity. They can bear off endlessly in the knowledge that a lift back upwind is never far away, saving time and energy. It’s all part of improving, so long as the student doesn’t carry a false sense of security when he or she moves to unpatrolled waters. But as for the emergency services, to be a victim can be harrowing, embarrassing, expensive, and traumatic as well as bringing unwelcome publicity.
The ‘death defying’ Bill Oliver, something of an involuntary media star back in the 80s thanks to his rip in the Aberdeen lifeboat.
PHOTO Hart Photography
Bill Oliver takes up his story.
“It was winter on the Aberdeen coast. The wind was 30 knots SW side off and I was on a UFO board with a 4.5 sail. This was 1983 so the kit wasn’t great. Suddenly the wind veered westerly (more offshore), increased and I couldn’t waterstart. I was taken north by the swell and couldn’t swim against the wind, so I hung onto the salmon nets, de-rigged and waited for the wind to drop. But I’d been spotted and the Aberdeen lifeboat came out and picked me up. The lesson? I was guilty of ‘just one more run …’ syndrome and had stayed out too long. It wouldn’t happen today because I’m better, the kit is better and would have allowed me to sail home. I’d also have got a more detailed forecast. But the worst thing was that when I got in, the ambulance was waiting along with a bunch of journos. The next day I was all over the Scottish Dailies: ‘Death defying windsurfer cheats death!’ The lying scumbags!”
To have been picked up by the emergency services is to have won … and lost. They should be seen as a welcome but distant last-chance-saloon safety net, a reminder that you forgot to take your preventive medicine – not as a divine right. Shake your head disapprovingly at the following.
One afternoon in Mauritius the red flag was flying meaning the swell was of a size and direction that the channel was closing out and it would be dangerous/impossible to get a rescue boat to anyone who broke down on the far side of the reef. A frantic bloke runs to Club Ion (formerly Mistral) saying his friend was in trouble with broken kit on the other side of the One Eye Reef. Despite the massive danger, Matrix, the best boat driver, dodged the bombs through the channel, got to the stricken sailor and dragged him in. Stern warnings were offered. Half an hour later the same guy was in trouble in the same spot. He’d re-rigged and gone straight back out. Later when asked what the ffff his game was, he simply replied “It’s your job to rescue me …” It was an extraordinary attitude which surely one day will result in natural selection.
“ Personally I feel far more vulnerable offshore in open water than I do in breaking waves. Waves break (mostly) in shallow water close to shore and offer a free ride home, whether you’re attached to your kit or not.”
BACK TO HOLEY CHEESES
The ways a good day turns into a dangerous one are when:
You run out of skill – you launch into conditions you can’t handle or select a board and rig combo that’s too challenging.
You run out of kit – something breaks.
You run out of coping strategies – no plan of how to self-rescue – never practiced.
You run out of strength – unfit, no stamina. Fatigue prevents waterstarting, uphauling, balancing and leads to bad, panicky decisions.
You run out of weather (or get too much) – an unforeseen change in wind and sea state changes the whole scenario.
You run out of company – you’re out there alone.
You run out of shoreline – you’re too far out.
You run out of health – you get injured.
One of the above happening may not be too bad. But when one or two or three coincide and the holes start to line up, that’s when dark clouds gather. Certain combinations quickly produce a perfect storm.
Unfit bloke sailing way offshore. Bad. Unfit bloke sailing offshore crashes and breaks UJ. Worse. Unfit bloke sailing alone offshore, crashes and breaks UJ. Very serious. And if the unfit, alone bloke is injured and the board separates from the rig and floats off downwind – he’s potentially another Marie Rose.
Sailing alone heads the ‘no no’ list. But close behind them and the ones you have the most control over are sailing way offshore and the fitness question.
INCAPACITATED
If you’re fit, unharmed and appropriately dressed, as Matthew Bryce displayed, you can find a way out of the most extreme situations. It’s when you get injured that suddenly the game changes…
Jim McNaughten
“I was in Jeri in Brazil. It was getting late. Conditions were perfect 5.0 weather so I decided on one last blast out to sea. I gybed on a swell, blew it and when I surfaced knew something was wrong. I’d dislocated my shoulder. It was so painful there was no way I could waterstart. In fact all I could do was lie in the water because that was the only comfortable position. I didn’t realize how far out I was – way beyond all the other sailors. Luckily an instructor had seen me. He told me not to move and stay with the kit and he’d get the boat. Because we were so far downwind by this stage, it took ages for him to get back. And by the time the rescue boat came it was getting murky and they took a while to find me – bloody scary. Heavens knows why, irrational panic I guess, but I was even contemplating abandoning the kit and swimming for it. I’m a good swimmer but no one can swim with a dislocated shoulder. I guess you don’t realize when you’re fully planing in a sideshore wind, how much ground you cover. The lesson I got was never to be the furthest one out.”
I’ve encountered a few injuries out to sea. With lower limb injuries, I’ve recovered the victim’s rig and got them in the waterstart position from where they can drag in. But the worst have been dislocated shoulders because the victims can do virtually nothing. They’re pretty rare. I’ve only encountered 2 and the way we got one in was four of us to cradle him in his rig. Luckily he wasn’t alone and not too far offshore. It’s at those rare moments when buoyancy is a lifesaver…
“ The wind doesn’t necessarily get stronger the further you sail out. And if you get injured, the closer you are to shore,
the happier you’ll feel.”
THE FICKLE ELEMENTS
Thanks to detailed forecasts these days there’s less of an excuse for being caught out by changing weather. But over-reliance on the weathermen is equally perilous. They don’t always get it exactly right. Some locations, often those where ocean and mountains meet, are famous for their own weather events. Don’t forget to lift your head and read the signs. When rain clouds approach you know can expect the wind to build and drop suddenly and change direction.
Horizon Hunters
It’s the horizon hunters who frighten me most. In a slightly schoolmastery way, I sail up to them, get them to drop their rigs and ask (staring downwind at a blank horizon or a set of cliffs): “If you have a problem here, what exactly is your exit strategy?”
Doug McCleish
“I was sailing from Little Haven to Newgale in Pembrokeshire, planing along beautifully when the wind dropped. The two beaches are separated by cliffs. People on the cliffs saw me wallowing and called the lifeboat. I was too proud to accept a lift and just made it back. I learned a vital lesson there which is not to sail somewhere you can’t get out of.”
The general rule is to be no further offshore than you can swim.
Are you a strong swimmer and do you have the gear to help or hinder?
Swimming Issues
I arrived at Kilcummin beach in Kerry desperate to get out there on a beautiful logo to mast high day only to realize … I’d left my wetsuit on the line. “No worries,” said Brummie Dave, “you can borrow my spare one.” It was a bit snug and made of that material ‘Hyperlon’ that some brands used, which had pretty colours but as much stretch as old cardboard.
After a couple of waves I got taken down on the outside and found out the suit was so solid that I physically couldn’t swim. For a good 20 minutes I was washed in by the surf and then sucked out again by the undercurrent, bobbing around like all the other jetsam, until eventually a big set washed me into my depth.
Have you tried swimming any distance in your wetsuit, harness and whatever other devices you like to wear?
In waves you often have to do a bit of sprint crawl to get to your kit before the next dumper washes it away. But if you’re in relatively calm open water, then the board is surely going to be right there for you as you surface after a fall? Most of the time yes. But ….
Jane Williams
“ I was gybing … which often doesn’t turn out well. As the board accelerated I literally just fell off the back (I know …lean more forward!) but this one time as I let go of the rig, the boom balanced on the tail and the board just kept going without me. I’m not a great swimmer and there was no way I could catch up with it. Luckily a guy saw it, grabbed it and waited for me to doggy paddle my way to it and get reunited. I was fine but it could have been nasty if I was alone. By the way, I was wearing a bulky buoyancy aid. It helped me float but certainly didn’t help me swim.”
I’ve seen this happen a few times and the top rule is in all but a few extreme wipeouts, keep a hold of the boom. On a stormy wet Friday night in January I was driving home in my relatively new Ford Sierra Estate from Anglesey circa 1990. The heater was on, the music was inspiring and all was dandy in my cosy cocoon. Then followed a splutter and a bang and the fire went out. I was on the mountainous A5 in North Wales miles from anywhere. I got out and was struck by the sudden hostility of the environment – cold, wet, dark miserable. I opened the bonnet but this wasn’t my old Morris Traveller, where all you had to do was bang the fuel pump with a spanner and she’d spark back into life. I had no idea what I was looking at. This was before mobile phones. I was freezing, helpless and totally at the mercy of others. Such is the plight of windsurfers who break down without an exit strategy. It’s shocking how different the world looks from blasting along happily hooked in, to viewing a crumpled rig from sea level 2 miles from shore and realizing you have no Plan B.
THE FATAL LURE of the HORIZON
It’s when the swell drops on a wave clinic and everyone goes for a ‘yahoo’ freeride blast, that I worry the most. Most only have to be planing out to sea for 30 seconds to be further out than they can comfortably swim back. The problem is that the outer sea state, beautiful rolling swells, can be ever so alluring. So make sure you’re in good company and have a friendly lee shore. But that same outer sea state can also bring a challenging dimension to the fragile waterstarter – waves that grab at clew and cloth and hide the wind. There are few activities more draining than recovering a rig in heavy swells.
A couple of the Masterclassees hooning off to Newfoundland last month. They were being monitored but self-rescuing from that far out is a right mission. PHOTO Hart Photography
Waterstaring way offshore in confused seas can be tricky and tiring – and you’re hard to spot. PHOTO Hart Photography
Where do you stand on this? Most advanced windsurfers don’t wear extra buoyancy. Some say it’s a liability in the waves when you need to sink the rig and duck under the white water. Some say it hinders swimming. But in most cases it’s because it’s not part of the culture – buoyancy aids don’t look cool. However, that’s changing. Big wave riders all wear them. They can get held down for so long that they need all the help they can get scratching up through the aerated foam. And if they get knocked out, they’ll bob to the surface and be spotted by the jet ski.The latest ones are slim fitting and double up as impact vests. They look pretty cool and you can swim in them. Manufacturers advise that they ‘aid buoyancy’ rather than being a full anti-drowning advice, but that may be all you need. And what about helmets?
I’ve been asked to conceal his full name because he’s not sure he’s told his wife about this incident.
“I was sailing the waves in Tiree. I was riding a big wave and got overtaken and tumbled by the white water. I felt a bang against my head. But when I surfaced my kit was nowhere to be seen. It wasn’t my own kit that had hit me but my mate who hadn’t seen me, had run over me – and it was his fin touching my head!”
Ron now wears a helmet.
Clocking a mate on the way out. Any company is better than none but sailing with people who know you’re out there (and vice versa) is the way to go. PHOTO Hart Photography
THE MATE FACTOR
Not sailing alone is about the best thing you can do to protect yourself. Windsurfers are famously good at looking out for each other … in most places. I was in a very popular European spot, bust a mast on the outside, was obviously in trouble but I reckon 50 people sailed past before one stopped to see if I was OK. Like cities, some spots are full of people but can be quite lonely. There’s a big difference between sailing where there are others and sailing with a group who have clocked you and are
genuinely aware of your presence out there.
Stay calm and go with the flow. PHOTO Hart Photography
STAYING CALM
The RNLI have posted some excellent videos recently about how to avoid drowning – top of the list of which is staying calm to preserve energy. The first time you’re taken down in breaking surf can be worrying as you battle currents and claw frantically and impotently at the foam. I was in Tiree recently on a beautiful day, head to logo high waves but nothing too serious. I got trounced in the impact zone and for a while there was little wind and no gap between the sets. I noticed I was in a loop, waves washing me, undertow pulling me out again. Suddenly I realised that it was exactly this situation where inexperienced sea goers and swimmers panic and sometimes perish. So as a sort of experiment I did nothing – just hung onto my mast tip and went with the flow. After about 5 minutes a bigger set washed me further in where I could stand up and beachstart away. By keeping a low heart rate, your decision-making is vastly improved. The only problem was that everyone on the beach thought I’d lost the plot.
BUSTED KIT
There are so many potential kit failures and recovery methods that it’s a subject for another time. However, the general situation can be summed up with the following tale. It was winter from another millennium and one of those rare south coast days where after a westerly gale, the cold front passes and the wind swings NW and we get a few hours of classic side off conditions. That NW wind typically switches off pretty suddenly (which I didn’t realize then … another story) which it did when I was well beyond the break. I’d never self rescued a wave board before but decided to give it a go and started de-rigging. The results were Chaplin-esque as nothing would stay rolled up or on the board – and there were all these options I’d never considered – mastfoot in or out? Harness on or off? Battens in or out? Sail de-sleeved or rolled around the mast? Finally I started to make a little headway when the wind suddenly got up again. Have you ever tried to re-rig out at sea? I hadn’t. It was tricky .. and ultimately impossible because the mast extension had dropped in and sunk.
The two rules about stowing a rig and paddling home are:
• You’ll lose anything that isn’t tied on.
• Practise it on dry land and then on the water.
I can’t leave this subject without a quick mention of mastfeet.
In 2016 there were 82 launches by RNLI lifeboats to help windsurfers.
In 1983 the Hayling lifeboat alone was called 70 times (so it appears as a race we’re getting more competent) and 70% of those were due to mastfoot issues.
Mastfeet are so much better these days but they still fail.
Check the UJ for cracks and make sure it’s done up tight. Last week in Donegal one of my gang had trouble when the whole assembly slid out. As he’d tightened it, sand had got trapped between the disc and the board. When the sand washed away, the mastfoot loosened up.
FINN MULLEN – it’s all in the preparation
Our esteemed editor Finn Mullen over the years has put himself into monster surf situations, with and without a rig, way way way beyond the remit of most humans. He’s still here to tell the tale so talks much sense on the subject of staying safe.
“Preparation for big days for me involves many factors. A big part is the kit – is it seaworthy? Do you trust its performance and know its limits. Modern equipment’s range and reliability has improved vastly. It is ok of course to have older gear but expecting it to be reliable and safe on those bigger days is a gamble that I have seen not work out unfortunately for other sailors, including one of the nastiest incidents that I have witnessed and involved a helicopter rescue of absolutely heroic airmanship by the coastguard crew involved. Equipment failure can happen to anyone but I do strongly feel that by using up to date gear does reduce the risk to both yourself and the rescue services. But any day on the water can turn sour – we can drown in a few inches of water or XXL waves, so that healthy respect for the water is always in my mind. I make sure I have studied the forecasts in detail so I know the safest window of time to sail. Bigger days I reduce the risk by using buoyancy aids, (I wear 2 or 3 on really big days), lights, whistles, swim fins attached to my harness, spare lines for self rescue or towing others, a waterproof phone and lots of insulation (a good wetsuit with layers also) and a spotter and / or jet ski rescue crew where possible. It depends on the day, how much of that I employ, assessing the worst-case scenarios. I have practiced with all the extra safety gear on flat water so I know how it feels to have all that extra bulk when sailing which helps another important factor – your confidence. Much of surviving in water-based incidents is remaining calm, as the RNLI’s latest campaign advocates. If you are too nervous that’s a sign to not go out and I have walked away from more big days than I have actually sailed in.
Big wave SUP surfing has been a recent positive addition to my technique base in that you don’t have the same ‘engine’ to power you out of trouble as a windsurfer. You generally get wiped out more and with a large board attached to your leg the beatings are ‘interesting’ to say the least. That exposure all helps with confidence in the water that crosses over into your windsurfing. I will generally opt for a board and sail slightly up in size so I know that I have some reserve volume and power to get me back to shore if it’s time to look for an exit.
Being familiar with the spot you are sailing also helps reduce the variables and increase confidence. Any time spent at a break – surfing, SUP’ing, windsurfing or even swimming in it all helps to your knowledge base of its nuances. Of note is my worst experience was on a 4.5 day jumping swells far from shore with friends nearly 30 years ago. In mid-air my mastfoot separated from the board, a common complaint back in the day! My board sailed off quickly downwind in the swell on its own, while I was left with my rig. Quickly I realised that my rig was the best form of signal to my fellow sailors so started to hold and flip it above my head and soon attracted my friend (thank you Ian Coulter!) who went in to get my dad to save the day! Had I been in a surf zone I would have washed in easily, but being far out the back jumping swell lines it was a different story and reminded me that danger can come at any time and a lot of rescues happen to windsurfers when they get into trouble on flat days far from shore. So the moral is, respect the water no matter what the wind or sea state. It is an environment that we can enjoy but ultimately are not built to survive in. Check your kit, the conditions and yourself and always know there is no shame in walking away if you don’t feel happy about any of these.”
Finn, equipped with multiple buoyancy aids, swim fins, phone etc along with skill, fitness and a lifetime of big wave experience, is as safe as it’s possible to be on a monstrous day in Donegal. PHOTO Al Bennett
And to summarise …
No mistake is too dumb to make.
You don’t have to approach every session like a compulsive, obsessive, nervous Nellie but a quick checklist can save a lot of bother.
You rig and so doing check for cracks in the mast and UJ and for frayed ropes … no it won’t do for just one more session.
You’re sailing with mates. You’ve made a pact to look out for each other.
You’ve checked the forecast and are aware of any sudden predicted changes in wind strength and direction.
You’re aware of the tide, the direction of flow and when it will change.
You’ve set yourself an outer sailing limit and have worked out where you will end up if you break down.
But you know what … if you just sail with mates and stay close to shore, you should be fine!
Harty looks at style in the next issue. Do you have one? Do you want one? Do you want to change it? And check out www.peter-hart.com for his 2018 clinic schedule.
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Optical illusion speed bumps aim to slow down London traffic
Road markings that look like speed bumps have been painted on busy highways across London in an effort to get drivers to slow down, the Daily Mail reports.
'Thinking' traffic lights to be installed in Milton Keynes
Traffic lights fitted with artificial intelligence (AI) are to be installed in Milton Keynes as part of a £3m project to help eliminate rush hour jams.
Easter traffic could treble journey times
Data from Inrix suggests the Easter weekend could see 20 million cars on the roads in the UK as motorists try to make the most of the four-day weekend.
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Department for Transport to invest in traffic hotspots
Traffic on UK roads has been steadily increasing, and congestion is one of the biggest annoyances for drivers. However, new schemes announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) aim to tackle this issue.
British roads third most congested in Europe
A study by traffic analysts Inrix has found that the UK has the third most congested roads in Europe, with drivers spending an average of 32 hours a year stuck in traffic, Auto Express reports.
UK businesses lose estimated £767m a year due to congestion
Thursday December 1, 2016
Research conducted by TomTom suggests traffic congestion is costing UK businesses as much as £767m a year in lost productivity.
London most congested city in Europe
Analysis sponsored by the Sunday Times has revealed the sheer extent of the growing issue of road traffic congestion in the UK, which has increased 40% in the last four years.
Figures reveal average motorway delay of 8.9 seconds per mile
A new report by the Office for Road and Rail has revealed how bad motorway and A road traffic is in England.
RAC warns of busy roads this Easter
Thursday March 24, 2016
For anyone planning an Easter getaway, the RAC is warning of a busy bank holiday weekend, with an estimated 16.8 million car journeys to be made, Fleet News reports.
UK motorists spend an average of 30 hours in congestion
According to INRIX's 2015 Traffic Scorecard, motorists in London wasted more than 100 hours in gridlock last year.This figure, which was the result of analysis in more than 100 cities worldwide, contributed to a UK average of 30 hours spent in delays.
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Curriculum and Letters of Permission Assistant
About Queen's University
Queen’s University is the Canadian research intensive university with a transformative student learning experience. Here the employment experience is as diverse as it is interesting. We have opportunities in multiple areas of globally recognized research, faculty administration, engineering & construction, athletics & recreation, power generation, corporate shared services, and many more.
We are committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcome applications from individuals from equity seeking groups such as women, racialized/visible minorities, Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, persons who identify in the LGBTQ+ community and others who reflect the diversity of Canadian society.
Reporting to the Associate Director (Registration, Admission and Service), the Curriculum and Letters of Permission Assistant is responsible for maintaining and updating the content of the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Bader International Study Centre academic Calendars as directed. The Curriculum and Letter of Permissions Assistant is also responsible for providing administrative and clerical support to the Curriculum Committee; collecting and reviewing departmental curriculum proposals; and maintaining and updating the student information system as directed. In addition, the Curriculum and Letters of Permission Assistant will process letter of permission applications, perform routine course equivalency assessments, build and maintain a reference library/database of course equivalencies and provide administrative support during the registration process.
Maintain and update the Arts and Science and Bader International Study Centre academic Calendars as directed including revisions to curriculum and program information, academic regulations, sessional dates, academic staff listings, admission and awards regulations, University policies, student support services, etc.
Provide administrative and clerical support to the Curriculum Committee by scheduling meetings, preparing and distributing agendas and meeting material, recording minutes, and maintaining committee files.
Collect and review departmental curriculum proposals to ensure completeness; respond to inquiries and provide advice to departments regarding submission preparation and procedures.
Maintain and update the student information system as directed to reflect revisions to course prerequisite, corequisite and exclusion information as approved by the Curriculum Committee.
Process letter of permission applications from students; perform routine course equivalency assessments by liaising and working with Chairs of Undergraduate Studies; and prepare letters of permission related to transfer credit to Queen’s for signature.
Build and maintain a reference library/database of course equivalencies at other institutions and act as a resource to Faculty Office staff by providing support and assistance as required.
Assist in the administration of the registration process by providing general administrative support and liaison functions throughout. Provide front-line support, information and advice to students, staff and student peer advisors.
Perform other duties as assigned in support of the office.
Completion of a two year post-secondary program in business administration or related field with previous relevant experience working in an office environment.
Solid understanding of Faculty academic programs, regulations, policies and procedures and various student services considered an asset.
Experience with PeopleSoft would be considered an asset.
Proficient computer skills including advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, internet tools, web applications, email, knowledge of Adobe PDF, ability to learn new software packages as required.
Satisfactory Criminal Background Check and Vulnerable Sector Check.
Promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Consideration will be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written, to interact with a wide variety of people in many different contexts.
Organizational and time-management skills with the ability to maintain focus while dealing with multiple duties and frequent interruptions.
Accuracy and attention to detail.
Excellent judgment, analytical and problem solving skills to make the most of information at hand.
Proficient computer skills including advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, internet tools and web applications, e-¬mail; knowledge of Adobe PDF; knowledge of PeopleSoft; ability to learn new software packages as required.
Ability to work supportively in a team environment and to take initiative as required.
Determine whether revisions to the Arts and Science and International Study Centre academic Calendar copies meet appropriate Faculty and University guidelines for content and appropriate visual guidelines in order to maintain format consistency.
Determine whether departmental curriculum proposals are complete and decide what advice to provide to departments regarding preparation and submission procedures and guidelines for changing course/program requirements.
Determine if a course taken at another institution meets equivalency assessment standards.
Decide when to perform course equivalency assessments and when to refer to more senior staff.
Closing Statement
The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Queen’s is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, racialized/visible minorities, Indigenous/Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and LGBTQ+ persons.
The University provides support in its recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant's accessibility needs. Candidates requiring accommodation during the recruitment process are asked to contact Human Resources at hradmin@queensu.ca .
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Manny Pacquiao favored to defeat Adrien Broner, land Floyd Mayweather
📸 Esther Lin
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is a short-priced fraction to overcome Adrien Broner on January 19 in Las Vegas.
As always there is a great selection of Paddy Power sign up offers, but the top bookmaker has Pacquiao a 4/11 favorite to prevail.
Broner is 2/1 against as ‘The Problem’ bids to scupper plans for Pacquiao to face Floyd Mayweather again in the spring.
A massive rematch is in the works between Mayweather and Pacquiao, who last fought in 2015.
Pacquiao cited a shoulder injury for a poor performance on the night as Mayweather dominated for a points victory.
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Despite the odds being against a Broner win, the American’s trainer Kevin Cunningham remains confident they can turn those predictions on their head.
“I think he’s having even a better camp than the last. He’s added a new strength and conditioning coach and everything is working out perfect and camp is going extremely well and smooth. AB’s looking fast and explosive. I have no complaints,” said Cunningham (📸 Robby Illanes).
“Adrien’s got everything; he’s a real throwback fighter. He’s got speed, he’s got power, he’s got quickness, he’s got footwork. He can punch and he can bang and he can box. He’s got skills and he can be slick if he wants to be. So he’s the total package.
“We have an idea of the way the fight is going to go. We’ve studied tons of Pacquiao footage and he pretty much fights the same every fight. Manny’s a rhythm fighter so it’s all about getting in his rhythm.
“He pretty much does his thing. But outside of that, I’ve never really seen him make too many adjustments. He’s pretty much the same guy.”
Hall of Famer trainer Freddie Roach, who is reunited with Pacquiao, added his input.
“I think experience has made Manny a better fighter. He still trains harder than anyone,” said Roach.
“I like Broner as a fighter. I think he has excellent boxing skills. But Broner has never faced anyone like Manny.
“Broner will be mentally exhausted within four rounds and physically spent within six. It will be impossible for Broner to keep pace with the Manny Pacquiao of this training camp.”
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Top 10 Most Handsome Actors in The world
The glamorous world of movies is filled with various actress, actor, producers, directors, etc. You can find many of the beautiful and hot actresses in the world. These actors are extremely good looking and handsome. Most of these actors have made a very successful career in acting and have become a big star in the world. They have created their own fan following and has been earning very nicely though their movies and by endorsing various big brands. Here is the complete list of top 10 most handsome actors in the world as of 2018.
10. Sam Heughan
Sam Heughan was born on 30th April 1980, in Scotland. He is a very good looking actor who has made his presence clear in the acting world. He started his career in acting in the year 2001 with a short film named Small Moments. Many people had appreciated his looks in that film.
In the year 2003, he was in the nomination list of Laurence Olivier Award for his act in Outlying Islands. In the year 2015, he had won the award of The Anglophile Channel Award Best Actor in a Television Series.
9. Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston was born on 9th February 1981, in United Kingdom. He is a very nice actor from United Kingdom. He is very handsome and is always very enthusiastic. He has worked in many hit movies like The Deep Blue Sea (2011), The Avengers (2012), etc.
He has been nominated in many of the awards like Crime Thriller Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010, Scream Award for Breakout Performance in 2011, etc. He has won awards like MTV Movie Award in 2013, Evening Standard Theatre Best Actor in 2014.
8. Henry Cavill
Henry Cavil was born on 5th May 1983 in United Kingdom. He is an extremely handsome actor in 2018 who has very attractive look. His deep blue eyes make many women crazy. He has worked in many of the television shows also. He is well-known for his role in movies like I Capture the Castle in 2003, Immortals in 2011.
He was nominated for many awards like Choice Summer Movie Star: Male, Choice Liplock (shared with Amy Adams), etc. He has also won awards like Best Hero.
7. Noah Mills
Noah Mills was born on 26th April 1983 in Canada. He is an extremely awesome guy who has very good looks. His brown hair and hazel color eyes, attracts many of the woman. He is a model and a good actor. He started his career in acting in the year 2010.
Since then he worked in many movies like Sex and the City 2, Candyland, , Wracked, A Fisher of Men, etc. He has endorsed various fashion related brands.
6. David Boreanaz
David Boreanaz was born on 16th May 1969, in United States. He is a famous actor, director and producer. He is very handsome and ageing seems to make him good looking actor. He has a very good style and has perfect sense of dressing, making him more favorite for his woman fans.
He has worked in many famous movies like Valentine, These Girls, Mr. Fix It, Suffering Man’s Charity, etc. He has also received many of the awards.
Salman Khan was born on 27th December 1965, in India. He is a very famous and richest Indian actor who has large fan following in Asia and around some parts of the world. He is an extremely good looking actor, he may be in age, and however he looks much younger than his age. He has very well-built body which makes him very handsome.
He has worked in many of the Indian movies which have done well on the box office. He has also been successful in winning many of the awards related to films.
4. Chris Evans
Chris Evans was born on 13th June 1981, in United States. He is an extremely handsome actor, with deep blue eyes and very stylish hairstyle. His personality is very pleasant and can easily attract any women. In the year 2000, he had started his career with television series Opposite Sex.
He has also been awarded with many of the awards like MTV Movie Award for Best Fight for the movie “The Avengers”. He has maintained good consistency in acting.
3. Godfrey Gao
Godfrey Gao was born on 22nd September 1984, in Taiwan. He is both a model as well as an actor. He has very good looks and is a very handsome guy, who is very famous in South East Asia. Many girls find him as a very cute and dashing guy. He has worked in some of the movies like Toy Story 3, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, etc.
Gidfrey Gao has also worked in many of the television dramas like The Kid from Heaven, Love Queen, Bull Fighting, Volleyball Lover, etc. He is a very good person.
2. Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson was born on 13th May 1986, in United Kingdom. Robert Pattinson is both a model and an actor. He is the most handsome and one of the top successful actors in the world. He has a very charming look, mesmerising eyes and a very good style. He has acted in various hit films like Ring of the Nibelungs, Twilight, Queen of the Desert,etc.
He is also a nice singer who has sung some songs. He is a very good person who is always down to earth person.
Hrithik Roshan was born on 10th January 1974, in India. He is a very successful actor from India who gave many of the blockbuster Indian movies. He is really very tall and handsome guy form India who have attracted many of the girls right from his entry. He attractive eyes and well-built body makes his personality very dashing. His debut film was a super hit and had gave him fame to a great extent.
He has been awarded on many occasions like Filmfare Award for Best Actor for movie Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Koi Mil Gaya,etc. He is admired in India and all over the world.
These are some of the top 10 most handsome actors in the world in 2018. All these actors are very handsome, attractive and famous around the world. They are very successful actors and have given many of hit movies.
DK says:
Ofcourse HRITHIK Roshan.. he deserves… Thank you worldstopmost.com
HAppY HollIDEy says:
jared padaleki and jensen ackles for sure! I SUGGEST YOU GOOGLE! 😉
Pratap kc says:
U may put all the handsome budy in the world……. But dnt forget how Omar Burman AL gala put hi stump on being handsome human ever in the world
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reyni.yerr says:
Dylan O’Brien and Thomas brodie-Sangster please!!Add them PLEASE!!
-thanks
nihal kumar says:
neel sethi is the most handsom actor
Robert downey jr is the best
Mehak says:
Team Edward…….!!!!!!!!!!
Love you Rob
Movie Lover says:
Collin Farrell and Chris Hemsworth are missing from your list.
Plus you don’t list the most grossing (popular) movies by the actor so they are recognizable by their Body Of Work.
Titas says:
I am not at all a big fan of yours Robert Pattinson but a fan. Few days ago i saw a video in YouTube where u told that u r not doing twilight any more because u have got some letter where you saw that some of the fans didn’t like u as Edward Cullen so u don’t want to do twilight anymore. But think about us who all are waiting eagerly for the next twilight series. Hope u will read this. Your fan from India, Kolkata. Titas
alia bhatt says:
salman khan dese ves most handsome actorr
Robert pattinson is the best actor
WhySoSirius says:
First of all, who writes these things? You write like a fourth-grader – very plodding and simplistic. Please get a new writer. Second of all, who’s even heard of some of these actors?? And some are so completely yesterday (David Boreanas, really??). Some are just weird-looking (Hiddleston is one step up from Cumberbatch on the my-mom-is-a-grey-alien scale…). Get a better writer and a new set of eyes, please.
Hol says:
I’m not saying I like Leonardo dicaprio but where is he on this list , he may not be as handsome from when he was younger in titanic and Romeo + Juliet but people age and he still looks good for a 42 year old …. Just saying ….
Aava khatiwada says:
shahrukh khan deserve more than salman khan…nd hritik is okay….salman doesnot deserve it
Monamika says:
Yes Henry Cahill must be the first almost all handsome are British
asad says:
This all are look very bad I don’t know how tauba
Bineet says:
I think Hrithik Roshan
Best and beautiful in this world
no on compete him Like:- attractive eye, face look, tall, and specially six pack body
solomon marandi says:
salman khan is the best actor of bollywood movies..he is one of the good looking man in the world..
Sonja says:
Most handsome Channing Tatum
vivek kumar says:
The list is pretty cool, but I’m confused where is Tom Cruise
Ravi Bhurke says:
Chris Evans…is d most sexiest n handsome guy.He maintain their physique very well…
Leticia M. Jance says:
I am a woman that mostly weaknesses is the eyes of a man. I’m attarct a man with a beautiful eyes as well as neat and clean. This is Letty Jance of South Cotabato.
NO MOHANLAL I LIKE MOHANLALAND VIKRAM
Shah Rukh Khan deserves the most handsome acter
Shah Rukh Khan deserves the most handsome acter in the world
varun sallan says:
Where is channing tatum?
Aleisha Burton says:
Jensen Ackles Please
jayde7177 says:
WHERE IS MATT DALLAS?????
Side by side with patterson…just look.
Robert Lisa says:
Chris Evans has impressed in the Marvel franchise as Captain America and in fantastic four. He has a well toned body and great physique. His eyes are very sexy and attractive. His nice, gentle smile is very impressive.
Geoffrey Clovis says:
The Twilight series star, Robert Pattinson, is very good looking. He’s been in modeling since very young age. He has attractive eyes and sexy lips. His look is very impressive too. His next most awaited movie is Assassin’s Creed, and I’m sure he’ll impress the audience.
Aaeee Mohammed says:
Salman Khan is the most eligible bachelor. He has maintained a great physique all along his career. He might be 50 years old, but doesn’t seem so. In his upcoming Sulthan, he just looks awesome. Can’t wait to watch that movie.
Jannet says:
Henry Cavill is very very good looking. His eyes and body are seducing. He has a great structure of face perfectly suited for Superman. He has been impressive in that character.
Karan says:
Hrithik Roshan is the very handsome and attractive.
His body and muscles are mesmerizing.
He dances well, acts really well.
He is a action hero of bollywood.
Maya Clavis says:
Robert Pattinson is so cute and sexy.
His eyes and that little smile is very impressive. I love his movies. He the most handsome of this time.
Krishna Prasad. says:
Henry Caville is the Real Superman. He has a great physique and body tone. His eyes are intense and mannerism is attractive too.
The latest batman Ben Affleck is also handsome. I loved the duo in batman vs superman.
Hrithik Roshan is the sexiest and most handsome actor. He has maintained a good physique all along his career. He is a heart throbe of numerous girls world wide.
Mariah says:
Although all actors are good looking, Chris Evans is the most handsome actors in recent times. He is perfectly suited for ‘Superman’. His body and physique is so good and he is a perfect gentleman.
Julliette W says:
Robert Pattinson is the most sexy of the decade
Koijam Dinoi Singh says:
most handsome ‘Salman Khan’
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Top 10 Richest Bollywood Actors 2018
As the film industry in India is rapidly increasing in all terms, including fan following, standard and market revenue, etc. Bollywood film industry is not only limited to India only but it is spread almost all over the world. The movies are releasing now in almost all major countries of the world. This factor reflects the increment in net revenue of the industry, which in terms reflect the increment in the income of the Bollywood superstars.
Every superstar`s fan wants to know about the star well and also to know about the revenue as well, which is the factor of his fame and success. There are a huge number of stars, but top 10 richest Bollywood actors as of 2018 according to their net worth can be listed as.
10. John Abraham:
John Abraham is among one of the top 10 richest Bollywood actors. He maintains himself in the list by having net worth of $55 million. John Abraham played leading role in his movies “Desi Boys”, “Jism” “Race 2”and “Dostana”.
9. Sanjay Dutt:
Sanjay Dutt, one of the versatile actors and producers of Bollywood film industry. He always makes his fans happy by playing different roles. He entertained his audience by playing a tremendous and mind blowing roles in “Munna Bhai MBBS”, “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”, “Vastav” and a lot more. Although he remains controversial and remains imprisoned for keeping illegal arms, but he stands on 9th rank with a net worth of $55 million.
8. Saif Ali Khan:
Saif Ali Khan also known as the “Nawab” of Bollywood is one of the finest actors of Bollywood film industry. He is the husband of Bollywood top actress Kareena Kapoor ,his mother and sister are also well-known actresses in the film industry. Saif charge Rs.20 crore for a single movie and also his wife Kareena inherit a huge money of her share also so incriminated Saif`s net worth of $67 million. Saif Ali Khan successful movies include “Dil Chahta Hai”, “Race”, “Kurbaan”.
7. Ranbir Kapoor:
One Of the young star and handsome Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor is of jolly nature is the son of Rishi Kapoor one of leading star of his era. But Ranbir Kapoor also considers as the supermodel of the young stars of Bollywood. He plays as an actor in his successful movie, including “Bachna Ae Haseeno”, “Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani” and “Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani” and also many others. He secures 8th rank in richest actor in India with a net worth of $66 million.
6. Hrithik Roshan:
Hrithik Roshan is nowadays known as “Super Hero” of Bollywood film industry. He is also a mind blowing and versatile kind of actor always entertains his fans very well. Hrithik gave a new trend of super heroes Bollywood. Hrithik always maintains his standard and gave quality role to the audience. Some of his successful movies are “Kaho Na Pyar Hai”, “Koe Mil Gaya” “Krrish” “Krrish 3” and ”Jodha Akber”.
5. Akshay Kumar:
Akshay Kumar is also known as “Khiladi” of Bollywood film industry is one of the finest actors entertain his fans a lot with different roles he represents his self as best in all sorts of acting like action, comedy, romance. But he becomes famous for his action, martial arts and stunts. He stands at rank of 5th in top 10 Bollywood richest actors with a net worth of $100 million. His successful movies are “Khiladi 420”, ”Namaste London”.
4. Aamir Khan:
Aamir Khan is known as the “Mr. Perfectionist” of Bollywood film industry the reason for this is he releasing only one movie in a year and perform his best which is the reason for his fame also. Aamir Khan is also considered as the most decent among film industry. He ranks as 4th among top 10 richest Bollywood actors with a net worth of $185 million. Aamir Khan also has another source of income like reality show hosting and brand promoting, etc. His successful movies include “Lagaan”, “PK”, “3 idiots”, “Dil Chahta Hai”. His most movies are in 100 crore club.
3. Salman Khan:
Salman Khan one of finest and versatile actor always entertain his audience very well. Alon with acting, he is also the host of different show like “Big Boss”, “10 ka Dum”. Most of his movies are also part of 100 crore club. He has a list of successful movies some are “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo”, “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”. He is also a kind hearted as well he founded NGO and charitable trusts for poor people. Salman stands on 3rd among Bollywood 10 richest actors with a net worth of $200 million.
2. Amitabh Bachchan:
Amitabh Bachchan is one of the finest and legendary actor of Bollywood. He is also known as “Big B” and he is one of the oldest actors in the film industry. Mr. Bachchan has a huge number of fans not only in India but all across the world. He entertained the audience very well for decades and maintain standards of his finest acting. His son Abhishek Bachchan, wife Jaya Bachchan and daughter in law Aishwarya are also well-known actors of the industry. Mr. Bachchan is second richest actor of Bollywood with a net worth of $400 million. Some of successful movies are “Shahenshah”, “Lawaris” “Sholay”.
1. Shahrukh Khan:
Shahrukh is also known as “King Khan” of the film industry. He left all actors behind in terms of wealth with a net worth of $600 million. Shahrukh is also among the world richest actors. He always entertains his fans at his best with great acting skill. His source of income along with acting are Red Chillies Entertainment production house. Shahrukh maintain his position and standard from a long term. His famous movie are “Dilwale Dulhanya Lejayenge”, “Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum”, “Chennai Express”.
These figures may vary annually but according to latest survey, these are the Bollywood’s top 10 richest actors as of 2018 which makes a huge amount of money with a standard. They perform their best and spread happiness among fans.
7 says:
Ranbir kapoor best actor
Ahmadkhan Dawakee says:
Amir khan his my best actor
only those who indulge in useful charity for people are great actors.rest are waste for society.
Deepika Bisht says:
We proude to be indians. All actors is great and thanks for sharing celebrity income report!
SYLVESTER MONTEIRO says:
SHAH RUKH KHAN is one of the finest actor in Bollywood. He is handsome, kind hearted, best actor in any role he plays the no. 1 hero and is outstanding. We love you SRK keep it up.
SK Ehtasham says:
Are Salman Khan jo h Na u koe bhi Nahi h uska dil bhouth bara h bhai log
Imran sk says:
Mari ammijan kahtiti dunia ma kohibi chis chota nhi hota……….. Or daram sa kohi kam bara nhi hota……. Wht a dialog by sharuk khan….. Sharuk is best all time
yesudas says:
Shahrukh is no. 1 in everything
Shahrukh is the no. 1 actor in the world
shubhansh says:
Shahruk is the best actor of the he is a king of bollywood he is the richest actor
sonu says:
Ajay devgen is best actor in india
Rk panday says:
Best in the salman kha vs khans
Every one on the globe knows sharuk khan’s fame stardom charm and romance he is just one piece that no actor can comprison with Srk! Srk gives many charities without spreading it to media he is real badsha king and Raees of all actor we love you Srk!
Raju khan says:
Every where pathan is hit. Meri Allah se dua hai keh pathan hamesha hit rahi j saki srk and salman khan etc.
Ajay Devgan is the No.1 Actor of Bollywood. He is a versatile actor and winner of two National Awards.
Shah rukh khan is only the king of bollywood as well as Hollywood
100% AGREE WITH YOU SHARUK KHAN IS ONE OD THE BEST ACTOR SINCE HE STARED HIS CAREER EVERY NEW ACTORS COMES AND GOES BUT SRK IS ALWAYS ON TOP HIS ACTING HUMBLNESS CHARMING DIMPLE FACE IS JUST GOD’S GIFTED MAN WE LOOOVE YOU SHARUK KHAN!!! FROM GERMANY…
Amitabh Bachchan stands out in this list!!! The very fact that he is at No.2 at the age of 74!! None of the others will be anywhere close to him when they are 74 years old! No wonder he’s called the Shahenshah
Krithesh says:
Amir khan is the best actor in bollywood. Even if he is rich or not he is very concerned about poor. His Satyameva Jayathe was very good. He is so dedicated to his acting.
He involves in the character so well.
Vijayakanth says:
Akshay Kumar is a great human being. He might be among the richest actors, but he has never fell back in donations and charities. Whenever there is some accident he has lent his helping hands. He is greatly talented and has seen many ups and downs in his career. He doesn’t fail in giving big blockbusters every year.
Raman Raghav says:
Mention about Salman Khan’s Being human foundation. It makes a lot of social works and himself Salman goes for field work.
He is also associated with Pata
Lakshman says:
Shahrukh Khan also has many charity foundations and donations to schools.
Moreover he pays the highest tax. He is also a philanthropist and a great talker. He has given talks in many Universities of America and inspired the students.
Amruth Archak says:
A mention about the donations and charity made by these actors should also be there I feel. Almost all actors in the list involve themselves in NGO ‘s and render some great social service too.
Abdul Khadar says:
All these actors have a great fan following in the nation. They have gained great assets, but are equally involved in charity and nation’s growth.
Especially Shahrukh Khan’s name is notable as he is the highest tax payer of the country.
Mohammed Amin says:
Badshah rules it here too. Gains it all from his movies, production house, cricket team, brand endorsements, but, he is the highest tax payer of the country.
Yes, but only behind the greatest of them all – the Shahenshah Big B!!! Lets wait and see whether SRK will be anywhere close to where the Big B is today when he will be 74 years old!!
Salman_fan says:
Ha ha ha..nice joke…srk may be 1st based on salry..but always king of bollywood is #sallu_bhai ..jai bajrangi…
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Police have released the name of the man who was shot to death late Monday night in Riviera Beach.Anthony Hester Jr., 23, was shot multiple times outside a home in the 1500 block of West 33rd Street.Riviera Beach police said officers arrived and found Hester dead outside the home.Police haven't said if there's a motive for the shooting or if they have a suspect.
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The new nationalism appeals to those who feel left out by the rise of ‘declarative government’ by judges and bureaucrats.
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"We have to get a new jail because we don't have a choice." Public speaks out about approved jail location
Vigo County leaders have approved the former Stu's Golf Course for the county jail site. It happened during a Vigo County council meeting on Tuesday night.
Posted: May 15, 2019 9:57 AM
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI)- Vigo County leaders have approved the former Stu's Golf Course for the county jail site. It happened during a Vigo County council meeting on Tuesday night.
The meeting was held at the Vigo County Annex and lasted nearly five hours.
The site had to be approved by the county council before any purchase could be made. The council did vote to approve the Honey Creek location near the sewage plant with a 5 to 2 vote.
Council members, Lisa Spence Bunnet and Chris Switzer, both voted against this property. Commissioners pointed out how building a new jail near a sewage plan played a big role in choosing the location. The former Stu's Golf Course achieves this goal. The property stretches from the new theater all the way to the sewage plant.
Commissioners say there's room to build facilities for mental health or drug addiction. The proposed new jail will hold 500 beds. The current jail holds 268.
"I'm just glad that we can continue with this," Brad Anderson, a Vigo County Commissioner said. "We feel it's the best place for this."
The public was able to ask questions related to the project.
"Please put a budgetary ceiling on this jail," a concerned citizen said. "We're putting more people in jail in Vigo County than they are in Chicago," another resident said.
Others pushed for a smaller jail.
"Do any of you disagree that a small jail could be built to start with a design that allows for expansion?" a concerned asked the council "I'd like to ask that the council to only fund a 422 bed facility so that we have money for rehabilitation and alternatives to incarceration," another resident added.
The next step is to finish the design that officials say will require less manpower. An update is expected to be given to a judge by the end of the month.
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That was the last word many of WWE’s top Superstars heard when they faced the imposing Yokozuna. Standing 6’4” and weighing nearly 600 pounds, the Japanese sumo wrestler squashed legends like Bret “Hit Man” Hart, The Undertaker and Hulk Hogan on his way to becoming one of the most dominant WWE Champions of all time.
Trained by the ferocious Wild Samoans, the behemoth debuted in WWE in 1992 with the sinister Mr. Fuji guiding his career. The pairing was effective from the very beginning — if Yoko’s size didn’t seal the victory, a handful of salt from the meddling Fuji would.
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His second reign as WWE Champion wasn’t just successful — it was devastating. He made the chiseled Lex Luger look small by comparison at SummerSlam ’93 and manhandled The Undertaker in a way few Superstars could. Yokozuna wasn’t just big, he was agile. The superheavyweight threw standing sidekicks with ease and flattened opponents with belly-to-belly suplexes that tested the integrity of any ring. At the peak of his abilities, Yokozuna was unstoppable.
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Microsoft patch tuesday schedule 2018 february. Microsoft February Patch Tuesday Fixes 50 Security Issues 2019-03-18
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However Microsoft stopped fixing such and other vulnerabilities in unsupported Windows versions, regardless how widely known such vulnerabilities became, leaving these vulnerabilities unfixed and devices running these Windows versions vulnerable to attacks. Tooke wrote: Patch Tuesday doesn't exist. Archived from on March 27, 2012. Tooke wrote: Patch Tuesday doesn't exist. Sometimes there is an extraordinary Patch Tuesday, two weeks after the regular Patch Tuesday. The Threatpost editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of Sponsored Content.
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This applies to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. All version Microsoft product we now improve and send to you automatic. The administrator of your personal data will be Threatpost, Inc. Please by the claims made and adding. This system accumulates security patches over a month, and dispatches them all on the second Tuesday of each month, an event for which system administrators may prepare. The exploit was caught targeting South Korean users with the malicious Flash file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet. It's honestly insane that people continue to use the software unless they are forced by specific website.
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. If this bug turns into active exploits — and with this attack vector, exploit writers will certainly try — unpatched systems will definitely suffer. Minor updates are also released outside Patch Tuesday. This can potentially distribute updates faster while reducing usage for networks with a metered connection. The latest version released today includes references to new updates released for Windows 10 32-bit. Microsoft countered this issue, in with the component, which displayed availability of updates, with the option of automatic installation. This iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms.
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Microsoft — Understanding Windows — Get Help. You can grab the updates now via Windows Update! Apple has it somewhat easier because they control the hardware. Each patch introduces a change that can later be exploited down the road. In an update to yesterday's blog post announcing the delay, Microsoft officials also didn't shed any new light on the reasons for the delay. If you're not interested in all security updates and you'd like to filter updates per product, you can use Microsoft's official Security Update Guide portal, accessible.
Erm, Patch Tuesday certainly does exist. This policy is adequate when the vulnerability is not widely known or is extremely obscure, but that is not always the case. We hosted the full report on GitHub,. And yesterday, patch Tuesday, a batch of patches were released. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics.
The fact that patches appear consistently on the same day is. Microsoft — Outlook Mobile Team Blog. To address the issue, we changed the registry virtualization to use the earlier non-container method by default. I will update this diary as additional bulletins are released. Given all of the variables involved, its quite amazing that Windows computers run as well as they do. Microsoft officials said very little yesterday about , as has been the case for the last several years.
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The fact that patches appear consistently on the same day is. This can lead to bandwidth calculation errors, for example when a fast network adapter e. Windows 10 is going in the bin as soon as i can afford the time to change to something else!! Detailed information on the processing of personal data can be found in the. See our for more details. Some updates could be released at any time.
Reminder: Today is Patch Tuesday.
There are no Windows zero-days in this month's Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft has included patches for an that came to light at the start of the month. As a result, other users on the same network may experience significantly slower connections from machines actively retrieving updates. According to Microsoft, attackers could take over systems if the victim is logged with administrative credentials, giving them the ability to install programs, manipulate data and create new user accounts. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change to the existing plan. Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems. Mircosoft denote hard working of Russian Bear is deserve credit.
This vulnerability was unknown until an exploit was spotted taking advantage of the bug to install malware. When we know they hold back a lot of information from us and push version 1 out way to fast. It also states that there is no release schedule for older versions of Windows, but that they are working on releasing updates for pre-Windows 10 operating systems. There have been cases where vulnerability information became public or actual were circulating prior to the next scheduled Patch Tuesday. I'm pretty sure Microsoft have said this.
There are no new features included with this update. The update itself is rolling out as on the Fall Creators Update, and bumps the build number to 16299. And if you need to sort and filter the updates by product, a list of updates is available. Archived from on 11 August 2011. The most pressing patch isn't from Microsoft at all, but Adobe Flash. This bug is exploited via a maliciously crafted email that forces Outlook to load a pre-configured message once it is received. Microsoft formalized Patch Tuesday in October 2003.
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ICBM TEST
Russia’s Nuclear Submarine Successfully Test-Fires 4 Bulava intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
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Awards by Itzhak Perlman
Check all the awards nominated and won by Itzhak Perlman.
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Kennedy Center Honors
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program
Honored for : Itzhak Perlman: Fiddling for the Future
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program Itzhak Perlman: Fiddling for the Future
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Music-Dance Program
Honored for : Great Performances
(Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House)
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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
Honored for : The American Album - Works Of Bernstein, Barber, Foss
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) The American Album - Works Of Bernstein, Barber, Foss
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cultural Programming
Honored for : The Dvorak Concert From Prague: A Celebration
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cultural Programming The Dvorak Concert From Prague: A Celebration
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program - Performing Arts
Honored for : Perlman in Russia
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program - Performing Arts Perlman in Russia
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Classical Music or Dance Programming Tchaikovsky: 150th Birthday Gala from Leningrad
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas
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Honored for : Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor/Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor
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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor/Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program - Performing Arts Live from Lincoln Center
Mostly Mozart with Itzhak Perlman
Honored for : Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
Honored for : Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 And 4
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 And 4
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
People's Choice Award for Favorite Classical Music Performer
New York Philharmonic Celebration with Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman & Montserrat Cavalle
Honored for : Violin Concerto (Chicago Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Daniel Barenboim, violin: Itzhak Perlman)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Violin Concerto (Chicago Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Daniel Barenboim, violin: Itzhak Perlman)
An Evening with Itzhak Perlman and the New York Philharmonic
Honored for : Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
Honored for : Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
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Isaac Stern's 60th Birthday Celebration
Honored for : Berg: Violin Concerto/Stravinsky: Violin Concerto In D
Honored for : Play Music For Two Violins
Honored for : Brahms: Violin And Cello Concerto In A Minor
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
Honored for : The Spanish Album
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Play Music For Two Violins
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Brahms: Violin And Cello Concerto In A Minor
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Berg: Violin Concerto/Stravinsky: Violin Concerto In D
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) The Spanish Album
Honored for : The Violin Sonatas
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Honored for : Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini, violin: Itzhak Perlman)
(Producer, Conductor, Artist)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini, violin: Itzhak Perlman)
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance The Violin Sonatas
Honored for : The Four Seasons
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) The Four Seasons
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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
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Drafted #8 in the 2013 NBA Draft by the Pistons
Position: SG
Jerseys: #1, #5
High School: Greenville High School (Georgia)
Hometown: Greenville, GA
Agent: Rich Paul
AAU: Georgia Blazer
College: Georgia
Current Team: Lakers
Win - Loss: 3 - 3
2013 NBA Draft Media Day Interviews, Part One
Situational Statistics: the 2013 Shooting Guard Crop
Unlike the two players ranked above him, Caldwell-Pope posted fairly high usage numbers, as his 17.6 possessions per-game ranks fifth in this group (third among high-major conference SGs), and is a reflection of just how heavily Georgia relied on his ability to put the ball in the basket last season.
His play-type usage doesn't really stand out from the crowd, as he did a little bit of everything last season, but his 5.1 combined pick and roll and isolation possessions per-game does set him apart from McLemore and Oladipo, as he used more than twice as many possessions creating his own shot in the half court than any guard projected to be selected in the first round.
Caldwell-Pope's biggest weapon when he looked to score was his pull-up jump shot. With nearly three-quarters of his shot attempts coming from the perimeter in the half court, roughly half of which were off the bounce, he scored a second ranked 1.118 points per-shot as a pull-up jump shooter, an impressive mark relative to his average 1.066 points per-shot in catch and shoot situations.
If Caldwell-Pope has a weakness on paper, it is his average finishing ability relative to his peer group. A 55.6% shooter in transition and 53.7% shooter at the rim in half court situations, he hovers right around the mean in both categories. Turning the ball over on a sample second ranked 10.6% of his possessions, Caldwell-Pope's low turnover rate certainly helped compensate for his issues around the rim last season.
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After an inconsistent freshman season, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has taken his game to the next level as a sophomore, playing largely the same exact game from a stylistic standpoint, but seeing much better results in terms of both his production and efficiency.
Caldwell-Pope has significantly increased his points (+4.5), assists (+0.6), and rebounds (+1.6) on a per 40 minute pace adjusted basis this season, while also seeing his true shooting percentage rise from 50% to 59% thanks in part to his much improved outside shot. While he only made 30% of his 3-pointers last season on nearly seven attempts per game, hes now converting 38% of attempts on exactly the same number of attempts. He's also managed to double his free-throw attempts per game from 2.5 to 5.1 while increasing his percentages at the line from 65% to 81%.
Caldwell-Pope's jump shot remains his most frequently used weapon on the offensive end, with still more than half his field-goal attempts coming from behind the arc, but he's yielding much better results this season. While he still has issues consistently keeping his legs underneath him and with taking difficult shots at times, he's significantly cleaned up his mechanics, which has allowed his spot-up shooting to catch up with his already impressive ability to put the ball in the basket off the dribble. He shows extreme ease getting the little separation needed to get off his shot from isolation situations, and his improved efficiency makes it a much more effective shot for him to take.
Able to come off screens, and very effective as a floor-spacer with his feet set, Caldwells tantalizing ability to create and make tough shots off the dribble is likely his strongest calling card as a prospect. Hes making 42% of his pull-up jumpers on the season according to Synergy Sports Tech, which ranks fifth amongst collegiate prospects.
Made Pull-Up Jumpers
FG% on Pull-Ups
Nate Wolters South Dakota State 44 46.8%
Trey Burke Michigan 61 44.5%
Isaiah Canaan Murray State 71 42.8%
Erick Green Virginia Tech 73 42.2%
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Georgia 42 42%
Shane Larkin Miami 38 41.3%
Caldwell-Popes ability to rise up and bury difficult shots can be somewhat of a curse at times as well, as he tends to rely very heavily on this part of his game and can be naturalized relatively effectively by a taller and longer defender. In the half-court, just 19% of Caldwell-Popes shot attempts come around the basket.
As a slasher, Caldwell-Pope still remains raw, especially operating on the ball, where he shows little in the way of advanced ball-handling and even has trouble with anything more difficult than straight-line drives. He does a better job operating off the ball, where his lack of ball-handling skills don't impede his athletic gifts, but still could be much better overall in all areas finishing around the hoop. At the moment he doesnt possess the strength and toughness needed to take hits around the basket and finish, as he tends to collapse in a heap at the first sign of contact at the rim.
On the defensive end, Caldwell-Pope has the size and athleticism to be a very effective defender at the wing positions at any level, even if his short wingspan doesnt leave him huge margin for error. For the most part, he does a good job consistently locking in to straight man-to-man situations. He can run into some trouble when dealing with off-ball movement or fighting through screens on pick-and-rolls, where he seems to just go through the motions at times, but has the tools to be an excellent defender and doesn't appear resistant to putting in the effort on this end of the floor.
Looking forward, Caldwell-Pope remains raw overall, especially as a ball-handler and finisher, but he made significant strides this season despite still having plenty of flaws in his game. Becoming a more well-rounded offensive player should continue to be his highest priority, though further improving his defensive prowess certainly wouldn't hurt either.
The fact that his team is just 9-8 in a relatively weak SEC and 15-15 on the year certainly isnt helping his draft stock, even if its very obvious that he does not have much talent alongside him. The question is, how much will things change next season? Another year in school would surely make him more ready to contribute immediately to a NBA team, but it will regardless be difficult to tell in this setting whether hes the type of player who can contribute to a winning environment. Nevertheless, Caldwell-Popes physical gifts combined with his excellent scoring instincts will likely get him looks in the first round whenever he decides to declare for the draft, even if his lack of team success makes it more difficult to pinpoint exactly where he might land.
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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had a freshman season at Georgia, exhibiting his impressive athletic abilities and scoring instincts, but at the same time displaying his rawness in many areas of the game.
Standing 6-6 with just an average wingspan (6-5 ½) but a solid frame, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is a great athlete for a wing, possessing excellent quickness and ability to elevate around the basket.
On the offensive end, Caldwell-Pope does the vast majority of his damage with his mid and long range jump shot, while he sees more than half of his field-goal attempts coming from behind the three-point arc. He shows a natural ability for putting the ball in the basket, and actually is a more efficient player on shots off the dribble than shots spotting up according to Synergy Sports Technology, averaging 0.93 points per shot pulling up and 0.84 points per shot on catch and shoots.
Unfortunately for Caldwell-Pope, while he does show a natural feel for putting the ball in the hoop and clearly is a talented scorer, it's not something he's been able to execute efficiently and consistently just yet.
Caldwell-Pope's 50% true shooting percentage ranks sixth worst of all players in our top 100 prospects, and it stems mostly from his inefficient outside shooting, and particularly his shot-selection.
While Caldwell-Pope shows a solid foundation for his mechanics with a high and quick release, he's often sloppy with his motions, seeing his arm drift to either side and not consistently getting his feet beneath him. This seems to occur with equal frequency whether he's guarded or open, and he actually seems at his best when he's in rhythm pulling up off one or two dribbles in space. Despite making just 30% of his 3-point attempts last season, he took nearly seven per game, which represented more than half of his overall field goal attempts.
Caldwell-Pope doesn't possess much of an isolation game at this stage, not showing much in terms of advanced ball-handling skills and almost never putting the ball on the floor to go to the rim. He is solid gaining separation quickly to get off his jump shot off the dribble or using jab-steps out of the triple-threat position, but has yet to develop more of a complete off-the-dribble game.
While Caldwell-Pope doesn't do much going to the rim with the ball in his hands, he is much better operating on cuts and getting out in transition, where he's able to fully take advantage of his solid size and excellent athleticism. Caldwell-Pope's ability to finish in transition is probably his best asset at this stage, and he's also pretty good at the rim in the half court.
On the defensive end, Caldwell-Pope possesses excellent tools, and he puts them to good use most of the time, where his combination of foot speed and size make him capable of effectively defending virtually any wing player at this level. His effort and focus can wane from time to time, as he is prone to giving up on plays, but for the most part puts in a solid effort with decent fundamentals.
Looking forward, Caldwell-Pope is a very intriguing player due to his natural talent and physical tools, while he's already proven himself as a player capable of scoring in bunches as a volume shooter against good competition. Still, he'll need to develop into a more efficient shooter and/or develop a more respectable dribble-drive game to come anywhere close to his potential, while he also shows potential to considerably improve his already solid defense. Caldwell-Pope's tools and natural feel give him a very high ceiling should he develop his skills and approach to the game, but he's still a raw prospect with a lot of work to do and is nowhere near his potential just yet.
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7871 Al-Mohammadeyyah/1
Jeddah 23621-2647
www.alwafeerair.com
Ownership: limited liability Saudi entity with Saudi Arabian Airlines (40%) Bin Laden Group, the Naghi Group, Al Tayyar Travel Group (12.75%) as shareholders
Alwafeer Air was incorporated in 2009 founded by a former executive vice-president of operations at Saudi Arabian Airlines Adnan Dabbagh, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as a charter operator focusing on Hajj and Umrah flights. Operations commenced the same year after Saudi Arabia General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) granted an air operating certificate (AOC) on October 4th. Alwafeer Air operated flights on behalf of Saudi Arabian Airlines and with flights to the following destinations: Algeria, Niger, Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Egyp, with a potential capacity of transporting 250,000 pilgrims annually.
Executives: Adnan Dabbagh (Chief Executive Officer), Saleh A. Bogary, (Marketing Director), Mohammad Bajaba, (Vice President of Services)
Alwafeer Air fleet consist of the following:
3 x Boeing 747-4H6 (registration HZ-AWA1, HZ-AWA2 & HZ-AWA3), ex Malaysian Airline Systems aircraft.
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Tag: Dakota Access Pipeline
While I applaud the Obama administration for temporarily denying the permit for construction of the final portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, my cynical side is raising its hand telling me to, “Pay Attention”. The way this news is being presented is misleading.
An example is this statement from an article in the Huffington Post:
“Federal authorities have halted construction [sierraclub.org] of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline amid growing protests that were expected to draw some 2,000 U.S. military veterans. [huffingtonpost.com]
The Department of the Army has denied the final easement [army.mil] required for the $3.8 billion project to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, it announced Sunday.”
The pipeline has NOT been halted. The final easement has NOT been denied.
From Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing [army.mil] “Instead, it will conduct an Environmental Impact Statement to examine the impacts and explore alternative routes, it said.”
This statement by the Army Corps of Engineers is very likely a diversion. Explore alternative routes? Energy Transfer Partners has made it clear this route is the only route they plan to take. Dakota Access Pipeline operator lashes out at decision to halt construction [theverge.com]
An EIS is a welcomed move, but it’s something that should have taken place a long time ago. Oil company lawyers have found a way around the National Environmental Protection Act procedures intended protect our lands*. It appears to me that the Army Corp of Engineers has not put up much resistance to the use of these loopholes by Energy Transfer Partners; nor has this administration.
Publicity of #NoDAPL action and large numbers of vets showing up to protect the Water Protectors has caused Energy Transfer Partners and their minions to realize they’ve lost this battle and they can no longer continue operating in the way they have been – using abusive measures against indigenous people of a sovereign nation that had, so often in the past, been beat down.
This temporary pause by the Army Corp of Engineers is likely just a smokescreen.
This tactic has been tried before. Obama Administration’s Suspension of Contested Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Demonstrates Strength of Indigenous Climate Justice Movement [sierraclub.org] back in September comes to mind. Don’t let this latest attempt at diverting attention succeed.
The #NoDAPL movement is at a cross roads. All of us must stay vigilant or the pipeline will not be stopped.
I’ve been politically involved and paying attention since the late 60’s. I’ve seen a lot of diversionary tactics and their results. When it’s obvious that your actions can no longer win this battle, what would you do if you wanted to see DAPL completed? How about make people think they won so they ‘move along, there’s nothing to see here’. This will likely cause dispersal of people at the camps and lessening of support. Publicity will also be easier to stifle.
One of the very promising results of this election is that millions of people have realized that they can no longer remain quiet against this kind of injustice. If a lot of people are fooled into allowing their focus to be diverted from DAPL, the narrative will change. Media can easily stop reporting on this issue. Gearing back up will take time, especially if the forces-that-be create more barricades for allies to gather. By that time, the pipeline will be completed and the Trump administration will be in control.
I really hope this won’t be the case here, but I have strong doubts. I feel it is imperative that we keep supporting the Standing Rock Sioux and maintain the momentum the Water Protectors have initiated until this is fully resolved.
Here are some ways you can help:
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe DAPL Donation Fund [paypal.com]
Official Sacred Stone Camp GoFundMe [gofundme.com]
Stay informed – Indian Country Today News [indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com]
*I apologize for not having a source for this. I read this a few days ago but unable to find it. Perhaps an alert reader can help supply documentation.
Author BrianPosted on December 5, 2016 December 5, 2016 Categories Being The Change You DesireTags #NoDAPL, Dakota Access PipelineLeave a comment on Is the Dakota Access Decision Just a Smokescreen?
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Free advanced Vipassana meditation booklet – the rarest Vipassana guide in the world!
Manual for Checking Your Vipassana Kammatthana Progress
‘In my possession is a tattered, yellowed booklet, the text is twenty-one pages long, written in 1961 by Phra Tepsiddhimuni (then Phra Rajsiddhimuni). The commendable English translation by Thai volunteers in 1964 is entitled ‘Manual for Checking Your Vipassana Kammathana Progress’. Kammathana in Pali means ‘place of work’. Here, it refers to the insight knowledges as stages of development or ‘places’ within the mind.
From Chapter 9 – ‘The Meditation Teacher for all of Thailand’
Phra Dhamma Theerarach Mahamuni Meditation Teacher for all of Thailand
‘Phra [Tepsiddhimuni, as he was known during my time there] was an important Pali scholar who in the 1950s was chosen to attend the two-years-long Sixth Buddhist Council in Burma on behalf of Wat Mahadhatu. The official purpose of this Sixth Council in 2500 years was to confirm the texts and practices of the Theravada…
The unofficial purpose was to introduce the Vipassana meditation technique to the world that the Mahasi Sayadaw, the Burmese monk who organised the council, learned from his teacher and had developed further. Any such method needed canonical support which was the Council’s job to scrutinise. A Council’s official endorsement is the bottom line in Theravada for acceptability. Phra Tep returned to Thailand to report to his superiors that through personal experience the method did indeed work and was validated by canonical analysis.
Phra Tepsiddhimuni’s name changed several times throughout his life according to his advancing formal rank in the Thai clergy. His final name was Phra Dhamma Theerarach Mahamuni. His royally bestowed title of ‘The Meditation Teacher for all of Thailand’ remained constant.
Here was another firebrand whom it was hard to keep up with when he walked, but I did. It was especially challenging in crowds which he could flit through with ease because of his size. Patient with all and approachable, always enthusiastic in his teaching, he was an exemplary monk on every level. The Thai people adored him.’
From Chapter 8 – ‘The Dragon in Bangkok’
‘For fun, I eventually took to calling Wat Mahadhatu “Vatican City-Bangkok,” due to its political significance as the traditional seat of the Thai national religion. It sits across from the Royal Palace, but the tourists never see it, although they can. For centuries, its abbots have been the Sangharajs, ‘Supreme Patriarchs’ in English, who are to Thai national church politics what the Popes in Rome are to Catholic government.
That was until King Rama the Fourth gave the honour to another temple during his reign 150 years ago. Imagine the furore. Now the Sangharaj comes from one then the other in tandem. It was Wat Mahadhatu’s turn at the time.’
From Theory and Practice C – ‘The Insight Knowledges’
‘[S]tudents are kept in the dark about their advancements through the stages. In his book ‘Practical Insight Meditation’, the Mahasi Sayadaw wrote: ‘It is not good for a pupil who meditates under the guidance of a teacher to get acquainted with these stages before meditation begins.’
However, he did state in the conclusion of ‘The Progress of Insight’: ‘Though in the beginning it was mentioned that this treatise has been written for those who have already obtained distinctive results in their practice, others may perhaps read it with advantage, too.’
Okay, you’ve been warned. If you [download the booklet], consider yourself to be a consenting adult.’
Want Nothing; Fear Nothing: Be Free!
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Weekly economic briefing: Strong jobs growth – where has it come from?
Deloitte Access Economics Economics
David Rumbens
Monique Champion
The Weekly Economic Briefing is written by two senior Deloitte Economists, David Rumbens from Deloitte Access Economics in Australia and Ian Stewart Deloitte’s Chief Economist in the UK. They provide a personal view on topical financial and economic issues. Subscribe to receive the Weekly Economic Briefing in your inbox!
In this week’s blog:
Australian economic briefing
UK economic briefing
International economic briefing
Australian economic briefing by David Rumbens
This section of the briefing provides a snapshot of key economic data and issues of relevance to Australia.
Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and the long road to Paris
Jobs growth was stellar in 2017. About 425,000 jobs were generated over the year to January 2018, equivalent to very strong jobs growth of 3.5%. So where did all the jobs over the past year come from? And while jobs growth has cooled so far in 2018, and is likely to remain cooler than that of 2017, are the same industries likely to generate the jobs in the rest of 2018 and beyond? Recently released industry-level data from the ABS on jobs and job vacancies enable us to examine this.
As chart 1 shows, health care and social assistance has led the strong jobs growth over the past year or so. With the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which continues to ramp up, that’s no great surprise. Ongoing demand for hospital and other health services is likely contributing to this strong jobs growth too.
Construction has been the other key source of jobs growth. That reflects the big role that construction has played in Australia’s economic growth over the past few years – with residential construction surging on low interest rates, strong property price growth and strong population growth. More recently, state government spending on infrastructure has been boosting demand for construction workers.
The recent strength in retail jobs is a little surprising, given that consumer retail spending has been only moderate. Looking at a longer time period, though, the level of retail jobs is little changed over the past few years. Education jobs have been supported by strong growth in the school-age population in recent years.
Interestingly, growth in mining jobs is (slightly) positive. Mining had been a source of major job losses in recent years, as iron ore and coal construction projects wound down. But that story is in the rear-view mirror now, and mining companies are starting to spend again.
Not all industries have witnessed significant jobs growth, though. Manufacturing jobs are broadly flat – despite that sector currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance. Finance and insurance jobs have also been broadly unchanged over the past year, with the ongoing themes of slow credit growth and efficiency drives.
Public administration jobs have fallen over the past year according to the data; as with retail, jobs in this sector have been broadly flat over the past few years. Governments have been continuing to keep a lid on back-office staff numbers and funding more jobs in front-line services such as health and education.
Chart 1: Change in employment, year to May 2018 compared to previous year
Source: ABS; Deloitte Access Economics
Will those trends continue? Last week’s job vacancies data provides a clue. Based on this data (see chart 2), health care and social assistance jobs look set to continue growing strongly. That’s in line with the ongoing NDIS rollout, which is not set to reach full capacity until FY2019.
The outlook for construction jobs remains healthy, even as we expect residential construction to have peaked: the strong pipeline of engineering and, to a lesser extent, non-residential construction looks set to continue driving jobs growth. Meanwhile, the strength of job vacancies data for administrative and support services likely largely reflects construction workers who are hired through labour hire firms, which are included in this category.
While growth in professional, scientific and technical jobs hasn’t been exciting recently, job vacancies point to a pickup in hiring. That may partly reflect the need for more professional services to support the pickup in non-mining capex.
Chart 2: Job vacancies by industry
2017 was an excellent year for jobs growth. We expect jobs growth to slow down this year – and indeed it has already slowed so far in 2018 – but it will still be solid. It looks like health care and construction jobs will continue to lead the charge on jobs growth this year, although a strengthening business sector may see jobs growth broaden to professional and other jobs. And as spare labour continues to be absorbed and the unemployment rate falls, we expect wage growth to slowly rise from current very low rates.
For more information on the Australian brief, please contact co-authors David Rumbens and Monique Champion.
UK economic briefing by Ian Stewart
A personal view from Ian Stewart, Deloitte’s Chief Economist in the UK. Subscribe to and view previous Monday Briefings at: http://blogs.deloitte.co.uk/mondaybriefing/
UK CFOs defensive and watchful
The second quarter Deloitte survey of UK Chief Financial Officers released today reveals growing concerns about Brexit and a marked shift towards more defensive balance sheet strategies.
The boost to CFO spirits seen in the last survey, carried out in March, as a result of the announcement of the Brexit transition deal, has been short-lived.
Three quarters of CFOs expect Brexit to lead to a deterioration in the business environment in the long term, the highest proportion since we asked this question in the immediate aftermath of the referendum in late June 2016. CFOs once again rank Brexit as the top risk facing their business, with concerns about weak UK demand in second place. The global backdrop has become more challenging too with CFOs increasingly concerned about protectionism and slowing euro area activity.
CFOs are reacting to a weaker domestic outlook with a sharper focus on cost control and building up cash. UK corporates are placing as much emphasis on defensive balance sheet strategies as they did during the height of the euro crisis and immediately after the euro area referendum.
The effects of home-grown risks are having a particularly marked effect on domestically focussed businesses. CFOs in businesses that derive in excess of 70% of revenues are running their balance sheets much more defensively than those businesses which make most of their revenues outside the UK.
Wage pressures seem to be building. 44% of CFOs report that recruitment difficulties or skills shortages have risen in the last three months, up from 31% in the first quarter.
Business sentiment continues to be buffeted by the news on Brexit. The mid-year position of the UK corporate sector is defensive and watchful. How that changes over the rest of this year will be heavily dependent on the unfolding negotiations between the UK and the EU.
To read the full report and download the survey data please click on the link below:
https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/finance/articles/deloitte-cfo-survey.html
PS: Last week we wrote about the pressures facing emerging markets (EMs). Recently, the Institute for International Finance (IIF) noted that purchasing managers indices are increasingly desynchronized across different regions, which mirrors shifts in capital flows in recent weeks with surging allocations to the US, at the expense of emerging markets in particular. In another sign of stress, the Argentinian peso fell to a new record low against the dollar, reflecting concerns about high interest rates and inflation.
The IIF also highlight the potential spill overs to other EMs from an escalation in China-US trade tensions. China’s economic performance has a big impact on other EMs as it provides significant demand for their exports.
OUR REVIEW OF LAST WEEK’S NEWS
The FTSE 100 ended the week down 0.6% at 7,637.
International economic briefing by Ian Stewart
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has assumed extensive new executive powers after being re-elected for another five-year term
Chinese equities fell to a near one-year low amid concerns over rising Sino-US tensions
US motorbike manufacturer Harley Davidson announced it would move some manufacturing operations outside of the US in response to EU tariffs on US imports
UK population growth slowed to a decade low in the 12 months to June 2017
Net immigration to the UK from the European Union fell to its lowest level on record in the second quarter of 2017
UK consumer borrowing slowed in May to its weakest pace since 2015
Investment in the UK car industry has halved in the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2017, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
Brexit is the biggest factor hurting UK productivity, according to Ian McCafferty, the outgoing member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee
A report on the UK’s financial system written for the Labour Party by GFC Economics proposed setting the Bank of England a 3% productivity target
Euro area inflation rose to 2% in June, up from 1.9% the previous month
US inflation hit a six-year high of 2.3% in May
The Bank for International Settlements expressed concern that rising debt levels in European countries at a time when the ECB is preparing to end bond purchases could raise bond yields
Ride-hailing app Uber has been granted a 15-month probationary license to continue operating in London
Almost 300 ATMs are closing every month in the UK, according to consumer group Which?
Earlier this month economists chose Germany, who were knocked out last week, as the most likely winner of the World Cup
A model developed by economists at the investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts England will reach the World Cup final
The World Cup is expected to provide a big boost to sales of electronic goods and alcohol in the UK, according to the latest Bank of England Agents’ survey
Brexit and European politics
EU27 leaders warned Prime Minister Theresa May about the increasing chances of a no-deal Brexit situation and urged her to shift her Brexit “red lines”
The FT reports that the EU is increasing work on emergency plans to mitigate economic disruption if the UK leaves with no-deal
Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, said the UK has “a rock-solid solution” to ensure financial stability in the event of a no-deal Brexit
44% of German companies are afraid that Brexit will lead to less trade with the UK, according to a recent Deloitte survey
Sixty former cabinet ministers, MPs, economists and business figures urged Theresa May to step up preparations for a no-deal scenario and not pay the £39bn in the UK’s divorce settlement
Catalan President Quim Torra said that his “first request” to the new Spanish prime minister will be a new Catalonian independence referendum
The FT reports that the prime minister is considering seeking a deal which maintains many aspects of the single market to avoid regulatory checks at the Irish border
America’s cheese stockpile hit an all-time high of 1.69bn pounds due to a fall in demand and a surplus of milk which has a longer shelf life when made into cheese – quantitative cheesing
David Rumbens is a Partner within Deloitte Access Economics. He is a macroeconomist with extensive experience in applied economic and quantitative analysis of the Australian economy, along with considerable experience in labour market analysis.
David is a regular commentator on macroecon...
Ian Stewart is a Partner and Chief Economist at Deloitte where he advises Boards and companies on macroeconomics. Ian devised the Deloitte Survey of Chief Financial Officers and writes a popular weekly economics blog, the Monday Briefing. His previous roles include Chief Economist for Europe at M...
Monique Champion joined Deloitte Access Economics in early 2017 as a graduate economist. Monique took part in an exchange program to the University of Copenhagen, where she studied subjects in the Masters of Economics program, and previously lived in New Zealand, Belgium and several other states ...
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Nix being ‘normal,’ selfish, slaves of success, pope tells seminarians
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By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted January 25, 2016
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told a group of seminarians that seeking a so-called “normal” life in the priesthood would turn them into pastors who were “mediocre or worse.”
A priest who is tempted to live the way most people live today “begins to settle for getting some attention, judges his ministry on the basis of his achievements and eases into seeking what he likes — becoming lukewarm and without any real concern for others,” he said.
“Instead, ‘normalcy’ for us is pastoral holiness, giving one’s life,” Pope Francis said. “If a priest chooses to be just a regular person, he will be a priest who is mediocre or worse.”
The pope’s remarks came during an audience Jan. 25 with seminarians and staff of Rome’s Sts. Ambrose and Charles Pontifical Seminary, which trains priests for Italy’s Lombardy region. Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan, metropolitan of Lombardy, also attended the private audience.
The pope told the men that preparing for the priesthood in Rome wasn’t just about completing their studies, but was also a time for “true and genuine priestly formation” that included deep inner conversion.
By following the Holy Spirit, they would be the future of the church “according to God’s heart,” and according to the demands of the Gospel, he said, “not according to individual preferences or current trends.”
St. Charles Borromeo, he said, saw his ministry as a continual journey of conversion. He wanted priests to be servants of God and fathers for the people, especially the poor, the pope said.
Priests need to have an active, personal relationship with God and live in constant dialogue with his word, “or better, with God who speaks,” he said.
This dialogue entails taking what was learned during their studies and applying it when speaking to God during prayer and to others.
The pope urged the seminarians not to pigeonhole their pursuits but to consider prayer, culture and pastoral ministry as “cornerstones of one building.”
Evangelization today requires that priests live and speak simply and be preachers not “of complex doctrine, but proclaimers of Christ.” The pope said they must avoid “every form of duplicity and worldliness” and be someone “for whom genuine communion with the Lord and others is enough.”
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Wise words from the Holy Father. There’s been more than one Philadelphia priest similar to the type Pope Francis wants to avoid.
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RP Logs » Archives: Logs » Howl at the Moon
January 7, 2015: The Rider rides in Gotham…
Some random dive bar in Gotham
A Bartender
An old couple
Three Goons from the Switchblade gang
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After that brief and minor training session back at the Tin Roof, Melody just needed to plain ol' get away for a while. She was being crabby at best, and always, almost always felt that she was being held back from doing something greater. What she didn't see was? These people cared about her well being, actually cared. They didn't want her to go out, get hurt, or possibly dead. To them, she was rare and precious cargo, something delicate and fragile. They would teach her, but she had to be patient. Patience, wasn't her virtue.
HARDCORE GAMING WAS!
But she'll never tell!
So she hit the dirt, two of her best girlfriends in Selina Kyle's employ in tow, all three of them walking arm and arm while the two? Dressed to the nines, tight jeans, fur coats, heels and decorative tops. Hair, makeup, ravishing. And Melody? Baggy cargo jeans, regular Nine Inch Nails shirt, hair in a ponytail, no make up, a coat to make anyone jealous with how warm she is.
Their plan? They were going to force Melody to open up. If she were to be a thief you regrettably have to deal with people. And not in the buy and sell capacity as she usually would. So, they were going to get her drunk. Get her laid. Probably even get her high off the best marijuana money could buy. Either way, she was going to have some goddamned fun. And they were going to do it in Howl At The Moon.
As the three women enter, it was clear that Melody was out of place. There was no blood on these two that were innocent. A john gets rough with the women, they often times had to defend themselves to get the men to back off. That's all. Petty thievery, self defense, Melody and her bank robbing from afar? While they were criminals, they were pussy cats compared to those like Two Face and the Joker. And Melody's met him. He made her cry.
The girls make their way to the bar while Melody hung in the back, and with a frown, they veer off into parts unknown in the bar, looking for their own fun time off the books, cause a girl just has to have that. Fun.
As Melody sat down, the tender draws up her usual. Virgin island ice tea with a splash of honey. The two drinks were taken to the table and Melody pays, avoiding eye contact the entire time. Damn, she looks like a real drag, compared to her friendlies that she came in with.
Even though Melody's guards don't fully awaken the Rider, Dan can feel him stir beneath the surface, a great white beneath the whitecaps, the very tip of the fin showing on the surface. Someone looking closely might even see momentary pinpricks of crimson in the center of his pupil, just barely, before the Rider quiets anew. While these two were no innocents, neither did they call to the Spirit of Vengeance for punishment.
Melody's just cute, although clearly nervous. Since the 'bartender fills her order without instruction, he taps the bar and calls him over, "Yo, what's the deal with the chick there? She looks kinda, like, freaked out or somethin'. She in trouble?" he says.
Dan isn't exactly a white knight, but he's a sucker for a girl in trouble nonetheless. Isn't everybody?
The tap gains the bartenders attention, and with a glance over his shoulder, he gives Dan a nod.
"You need anything else, Melly?" The man asks, and with a shake of her head, he moves off to leave her to sip her tea like a proper english gent-.. wait a minute.
Rounding the bar again, the man leans his hands upon the top, his chin lifting in greeting and a quick glance given to Melody. "Oh her? She always looks like that." It's true, Melody always has a nervous air about her, usually covered by the fact that she talks too much. "Think she's one of the Tin Roof girls. From what I know she works there. I mean, they're a pretty shady bunch from what they're wheeling and dealing but I hardly ever see her out on the floor. Usually sitting at the bar and what not. Shit, for all I know she probably /is/ in trouble. You gotta watch out for them girls though. Hear through the grapevine they're pretty ruthless if you cross them."
He gets another beer ready for Dan just in case it was needed, then goes off on his own to clean the glasses. Melody shifts a little to the side, drawing her phone from her pocket to idly play a little video game of her own creation.
Dan Ketch takes the beer with a nod of thanks. Yup, he should probably just leave well enough alone, have his beer, maybe play a game of pool and see if he can pick up a nice, safe Jersey girl looking to get a little strange in the big city. No point in messing with the Tin Roof or any of the shady characters around it, no need to stick his neck out trying to find out if the nervous girl is nervous 'cause that's just who she is or 'cause she's got something to worry about. He also wonders if the two girls with her are her friends or her minders, sent there to make sure she doesn't run off.
There are lots of ways to get kidnapped, and not all of 'em are easy to notice.
"Put 'er drinks on my tab," he says to the 'tender, which seems pointless since Dan barely has two hundred bucks to his name, total, and has already probably spent twenty five of it on beer tonight and he hasn't even eaten. But fuck it.
The bartender stops cleaning his glass and gives him a look. Allright! The money that he had probably gotten from Melody was taken from the register and walked towards her table, and with a lean in, he whispers to the girl and gestures over towards Dan.
And when Melody sees him? Holy. Cow. She blushes.
The girls, they remain watching from afar, the two men that they found and immediately allured ignoring the young woman and the tender, attempting to feed drinks to them and gush about how pretty they are but the girls? From Tin Roof? They know the game and how to play it without a drop of liquor touching their lips. They were just that good. And mindful.
Dan Ketch can't help but give the girl a crooked grin and, finally, he pushes off from his stool and makes his way over, grabbing a chair and straddling it in reverse in the way that cool dudes have been doing since they started hanging out in soda shops and doing chickee races down in the bottoms. Or something like that.
Regardless, he dangles his beer from his hand at the neck, "Call me crazy, but your friends seem like kinda fast company for you. No offense to the ladies, o' course, it's just I see a lot o' women 'round here that seem to know the lay of the land pretty well. You seem like you're a little fresh off the boat, y'know? Still got the waves in ya," he says.
"Dan Ketch. Hope you don't mind me gettin' all impulsive and buyin' your drinks. It's easier to pay for a pretty girl's drink in advance and ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission first."
Oh god, he grinned at her! Melody turns her head almost immediately, her caramel cheeks burning a bright red as she tries to stare at a wall, then towards him, and then towards the wall again. By the time Dan reaches her table? Her drink was already gone, and her glass was set off towards the left as her hand reaches for the other, phone soon left upon the table as he sits. Oh.. he's a bad boy.. Those types were Melody's bread and butter. He looked like he walked the walk and talked the talk, and no hint of anything absurd in him either. All human, all bad, all good looking and..
"Oh!" She pipes up, lost in her thoughts so much that she really didn't understand his wording about boats and waves, but she did know that those two women were way, way out of her league.
"I don't mind. Thank you." She murmurs politely, keeping her gaze away as she gives a little nod to her two friends, who wave and make kissy noises behind Dan's back. "Yeah. They're my friends. They wanted me to get out and get some air for a while." She sighs, wistfully of course. "They're really pretty, I know. Way out of my league." Wait. Dan called her pretty.. ohmigosh..
Dan Ketch snorts and shakes his head, 'I think you're underestimatin' your league, if I'm bein' honest. They slap on a nice coat o' paint, I ain't gonna argue with that. But, to a con-o-sewers eye," he says, mangling the word completely, "it's easy to tell who's got a good engine underneath the hood. I like the way you go vroom," he says.
"So, you're kind of a homebody type normally? Stay home, watch TV, kick up your feet. Probably got a cat, huh?" he teases, lighting another cigarette and blowing a plume of smoke at the ceiling.
"I bet you even got a fluffy pink bathrobe and some bunny slippers."
"They… they do more than that.." Though, her quiet words were probably lost with a little giggle-snort that she manages to produce. He so butchered that word, but she wasn't inclined to correct him. She didn't want to chase off a guy as handsome as him in one sitting, and she's an expert at doing that.
Though as he picks her apart, that little laugh dies down, her eyes going wide just a little. The drink that she held, it was immediately let go, her hands drawing from the table to hide underneath and clasp together as such. "I do." She mumbles quietly, gaze lowering and glancing away. "I mean, there's really nothing wrong with staying home and watching television. You don't get into much trouble that way." And believe you me, each day outside was a day that she'd be getting into trouble.
Dan Ketch holds up a hand, "I'm sorry if that sounded…I dunno, bad? Seriously, more people's be better off stayin' home an' watching TV. I, for one, would definitely be a better person and prob'ly happier if I spent more time just sacked out on the couch and watchin' a game or some old movie. Instead, I'm out on my bike, prowlin' around, or hangin' out in dens of ill repute like this and lookin' to corrupt girls like you," he says.
"Sorry if that was kind of blunt, I just ain't real good at being subtle, ya dig? I barely made it through school. I've got a lousy half-ass job fixing bikes under the table 'cause I don't have the official bullshit forms done, even though I'm a better mechanic than every other trade school fuck they got. And…" he thinks about the Rider, of course, and his cop sister laying in a hospital bed breathing through a tube, "Yeah. Probably should stay home more," he says, unable to quite hide the quick burst of wistful regret in his blue eyes. Barbara being in that coma is his fault and he's never going to forgive himself for it, no matter how many bad guys the Rider burns.
Melody didn't know quite what to say. But as he speaks, she listens, her hands slowly returning to the table as a sign of comfort, and after a moment? Back to her tea. She sips idly, her head tilting a little towards the side. The way he goes off on a rant, it nearly has her searching, her eyes growing vacant and darkening visibly, there were tiny little flash of lights that begin within her hands and..
"Melody! Stop it!" Lori, one of the girls calls out. Do not show your cards to strangers, they'd always say.
She snaps out of it, her brows raising, a deep breath taken as her chest slightly heave. "I.. well. Hm." Shit. She was at a loss. So she counters with her own truth instead. "They thought it would be a good idea for me to get out and have a one night stand since my boyfriend is probably missing and may have left me all together because he couldn't deal with me anymore because I'm a drug addicted hinderance to him, even though it really wasn't even my fault, I was kidnapped and taken advantage of by two assassin type dudes and he probably was left to care for me because he felt guilty." A pause, and.. yeah. They don't call her Rant for nothing.
"But now I'm all better since I kicked the habit by sheer force of will and now I'm just… here…" That got heavy. She always makes it heavy.
Dan Ketch probably should have noticed the light handshow, but, honestly, is kind of oblivious. Some superheroes are detectives or trained mines, sharp and crafted. Dan wasn't as dumb as he thought he was, but he was far more focused on Melody's face than her hands. He takes a drag on his smoke as she talks, although he raises a hand to the other woman, not knowing what she's chiding Melody about, "Chill, mama bird, I ain't gonna hurt her," he says.
After Melody's story, though, he has his eyebrows raised. That…was not what he was expecting. Not that he couldn't tell a story just as bad, but he knew better. The less people who connected him to the Rider, the better. He still wasn't sure if it wasn't just a matter of time before the Spirit killed somebody - and "It wasn't me, it was the demon possessing me" probably wasn't a good defense.
"Well…that sounds kinda shitty of him, to run out on you for somethin' that ain't even your fault. Don't mean he's a bad guy, good guys do shitty things sometimes, especially when girls are involved. Especially if it's all mushy an' stuff, which I'm guessin' it was,' he says.
"As for the one night…" he says, and he considers. He's done that plenty of times, "I can't say you wouldn't have fun, 'cause you would and I think so would I. But I ain't quite as sure they're right about what you need. Seems maybe you need somebody more interested in listenin' to you than goin' out to chase their own piece o' dangle,' he says, nodding to the girls flirtatious behavior.
"Yeah, chill mama bird!" Melody calls out, adding in a bit of a laugh and a wave to let her know that she'd stop. She was fine, she wasn't going to go digging. At least not yet.
"I don't know. I probably wouldn't deal with me either though." She frowns a little at herself, then shrugs, taking a sip of her tea. "He was a good guy, yeah. Just caught up in a bad thing, we both were. I want to say it is what it is and.." Yeah, it was mushy.
She puts her tea down, then leans forward to reach for his beer if he lets her. If she does have it? She'd take a quick swig of it and hands it back, the look upon her face mildly strained but.. "And I take it as you being the type to not listen? I mean, it's okay if you're not. It's been a while, since I've actually talked to someone and laying my bags on the table probably doesn't.. look nice?" She didn't know how to frame it. But..
"Either way. I'm Melody Kenway." She holds her hand out for him to shake, her grip would be light and barely there.
Dan Ketch lets her take a sip on his beer, a grin on his face as she does so. It's like a kid snatching a sip, mischievous and cute, even when she makes a little face at the taste of it. He takes her hand to shake, his own strong and a little rough, although not unpleasant, just the hand of a man who has to put his hands to use.
"Didn't say that. Guy I used to be? Yeah, I didn't listen to nobody. Not girls, not my priest, not my teachers, not my Mom, not my sister, not anybody," he says. "Didn't really work out good for me. So, I'm tryin' to be better. Which isn't the same as actually bein' better yet. I still go the same old urges, just tryin' to remember not to always give into 'em," he says, his blue eyes a bit intense as he meets her gaze.
She shook his hand in return, then quickly withdrew her own. She didn't treat him like he was gross, but normally, she would have hugged him upon introduction of names. She was awkward that way, and possibly overly friendly. It may have been another reason as to why those women followed her to begin with.
"You're trying. That's more than anyone can say about other people." His gaze made her uncomfortable, but not in a horrible way. She shifts her weight briefly, gaze towards the table. And then she gets an idea, it could be particularly bad, or good, and even though she wasn't a good judge of character, she figured him to be a decent man all together.
"Do you want to help me with something? I'll pay you if necessary?" If all else fails, she could probably taser him if he breaks bad.
Dan Ketch considers for a moment, taking a long sip of his beer. Yeah, definitely something going on here although, being himself, he didn't have much clue. She does seem like a strange type for the Tin Roof, now that he thinks about it. He figured she must be somebody there's kid sister - maybe she was. Probably best she didn't hug him right off anyway. Dan doesn't exactly come from a touchy feely type of environment.
"Only reason you'd need to pay me is if I'm fixin' your car. Other'n that, I don't mind helpin' out where it's deserved. So tell me."
Melody smiles as she snags her phone from the top of the table, then slips down from the chair to.. wait for it.. uncomfortably and rather awkwardly press the boundaries by hanging an arm upon his shoulder. She was attempting to be forward, put on a show even though she was horrible at it, her hip cocking as she offers up the prettiest smile she could muster.
"Can we leave? Just pretend until we're out the door to make it seem like we're going somewhere private." She wanted to save face, and probably brag about it in the morning. Brag about nothing happening, that is. "They're going to rag on me if I let you walk away, and I don't like that. It hurts my feelings."
Dan Ketch grins and laces his arm with hers. He didn't mind getting touchy feely, mind you, it's just that it had a different context, one that usually involved the back of a car and some steamed up windows. He throws a fifty down for the bartender, waving off change, and walks to the door with Melody.
"Whatever you want. Although you shouldn't let those girls hurt yer feelins. They ain't no better than anybody and prob'ly worse than some." he says. He smells of a mixture of motor oil, cologne and…something else. Almost like charcoal. Strange.
Charcoal? That smelled like barbeque to her. And the smell of him made her actually quite hungry. While she didn't consider him a friend just yet, she could possibly see herself wanting to eat whenever he was near. And with her nanite infested body? She could consume a lot to boost her energy.
With his arms laced around hers, she leans her head against him as if they were a young couple, first in love. "They're my friends." She says honestly and quietly. "I know it's all in the name of joking and fun, but I'm always going to be alone whether they're not." She sounded sad, but tries her best to perk up.
And since she was hungry? She was going to get something to eat. She allowed him to lead, then gives a glance back towards the woman as they give excited, yet serious nods of their heads. They also commit his face to memory, if Melody returns to the Tin Roof damaged and harmed? They would go looking for him.
Dan Ketch doesn't exactly swim with friends himself. Most of those he'd called friends were hoodlums, in and out of juvie and jail, scumbags. Just like he'd been, for a while. Until he got woken up, the hard way. It'd nearly gotten him and his sister killed.
"Friends take care of each other, last I checked. Just 'cause somebody hangs out with you doesn't make 'em yer friend," he says, but there's no point arguing about it. She was a grown woman (he hoped, he didn't check IDs).
"Why don't you tell me how I can help you out?" he says, "You wanna walk or go somewhere else?" he asks. He looks at a vintage-looking motorcycle, flames painted along the black and with a strange-looking medallion at the center of the handlebars.
Melody was safe with him. But, if, for some reason, the Tin Roof girls decided to come shake him down anyway? God help them.
Once they were outside and clear from the sight of the girls, Melody carefully releases him. She didn't want to hang on when she didn't need to, even though he was a great source of warmth. She was a grown woman though! Even if she didn't act it sometimes, mostly due to impulsiveness and general shyness. But that was neither here nor there.. wait a minute, yes it was!
Impulsiveness!
"Well. Since you asked. I am hungry and wouldn't mind a ride to get something to eat. I mainly live in New York, I have my own house there. But since I work here in Gotham I rarely go home or actually leave work so.." To be clear? She didn't know where all the good spots were.
"I was thinking something nice and greasy. I eat all the fancy stuff at the Tin Roof. My mom always said that if you put two chefs together, you always want to eat the food of the guy with a dirty apron cause he's putting his foot in it." She nods, proud at herself for remembering that line. And now she wanted to stick to it.
"I'm talking, next level type grease. Thick cheeseburgers with extra slop, slab of ribs and.. I just want something filling."
They called themselves the Speed Razors. A gang of six, they grew up in one of Gotham's worst neighborhoods, dropped out of school early, and became masters of the switchblade and the subtle art of mugging. Not exactly career aspirations, but they'd done pretty well and, so far, hadn't gotten into trouble with any of the local pointy eared vigilantes.
Boy, did they pick the wrong night to have their luck turn sour.
They'd dragged the old people out of their car, stopping it in the street when they got lost and then pulling them out by their hair. They were in their sixties, obviously too rich for the neighborhood and totally lost.
When the old woman stumbled pulling out her purse, one of the Razors lashed out, slicing open her husband's cheek, sending a spatter of crimson blood against the wall. Innocent blood.
Dan's about to help Melody jump on his bike when he feels it. It's like a plucked string on a guitar, vibrations running through him and he shudders as the hell within him starts to roil, "Oh god…Ah, dammit," he shivers.
"Melody…just…stay safe. I'm sorry, I didn't think…" he gasps, and then there's a groan as flames seem to erupt from the back of his neck, running up over the back of his skull and consuming his flesh as they go, making that barbecue smell far more intense, "Don't…look him in the eyes!" he manages before his mouth is dissolved.
The motorcycle bursts into flame, hellfire wrapping around the wheels and licking the world around it like a hungry animal.
Slowly, the Ghost Rider rises from where Dan Ketch kneeled. His voice is dissonant, harsh, with the harmony of a thousand screams underneath its deep tones. Slowly, the skull turns, pinpricks of crimson in its sockets as it regards Melody.
"Innocent blood has been spilled. The Spirit of Vengeance rises again."
The reach of her hand is stopped with his words. She immediately draws back, frowning a just a touch as if that reach had done something wrong. "Dan?" She asks.. and.. something happens. Something that she thought could never happen in a million years.
"Dan! What's wrong!" She screams out, rushing to his side to try to lay hand upon his back, but the flames lash out and lick at her flesh, which burns soft palms and causes her to rear back and step away in pain.
What. The. Frick!
She watches in horror as he transforms, her eyes unable to be peeled away from the sight as those footsteps drag back until she's pressed against the wall of the Howl. She heeds the last warning and.. unable to look away, she stares right into the last minute, as it's head was just turning to her direction.
The sounds were horrifying, so much that she has to fight herself to cover her ears. It speaks to her and she nearly crouches, knees knocking together as her chest slowly begins to heave. Someone was going to die, she bets. Stay calm Melody, stay calm Melody, you've seen worse.. you've seen worse, she thought to herself, over and over and over again..
Down the street, the laughing punks drag the pair out into the street again, throwing the old woman over the hood of the car. The things they have planned for her are unspeakable, already, but not hard to discern as one of them takes a trademark switchblade to the back of her dress, one of the others shoving her husband's head down against the hood of the car, "Now you gonna watch, ya mouthy bitch. Ain't like you givin' 'er what she needs anymore anyway, is it, Grandpa? No use lettin' a fine ass like that go to waste, huh?" he says, smacking and taunting the old accountant.
The Rider spares no more attention for Melody Kentway, moving easily to leap onto its cycle and take off, immediately spinning and turning, the front wheel raising in the air as it starts to race towards the scumbags.
There's a metallic clink as his mystic chain unlatches from its moorings, spinning around him, writhing like a wild serpent as he swings it above his head and charges down the street.
The Razor on the old man only as a moment to scream, "WHAT THE FU—?!?" before the chain wraps around his throat, the Rider speeding past, leaving a trail of hellfire as he drags the man in his wake before coming to a sudden stop, snapping the chain to come loose of that throat and fling the mugger into a wall.
The sound of his spine snapping echoes down the street. The Rider turns its head back towards the other Razors, who stare in abject horror.
"Come, murderers. Your punishment awaits in flames," he snarls, spinning his bike and starting to charge back at them.
Melody could barely nearly stand as the rider takes off, her gaze soon following the trail of flames, her body soon turning into that direction with a scramble and a stagger of feet. Her mind was on full record at the moment, adrenaline, and all things dangerous pushing her to record this event. Was she going to tell Catwoman about the new player in town? Hell yes. She had to. If Catwoman had killed someone then.. no. She was sure that she wouldn't see this figure again. When things like this happen? People tend to play the avoidance game.
She nearly falls, her burned hands scraping against the ground, her feet pushing and kicking herself upright as she wipes her palms against her jeans. She had to will herself to heal, the nanites soon glowing all over her body in little tiny spots of explosions, trailing the way her veins line underneath her skin with blues and whites, all the while approaching /and/ watching the scene from a distance that was all too safe.
To their credit, the Razors run, run like hell. No brave stand or bullshit testosterone here - it's hard to maintain your tough guy posture in the face of a grinning, flaming skull that just snapped one of your childhood friend's like a twig.
One arm of the Rider's lashes out, and his chain seems to stretch and grow, like a living thing, wrapping itself around one, then two of the fleeing men, dragging them down.
His fist impacts with the back of the skull of another, his motorcycle roaring past as the man's body flips double to land on his face, his crown cracked and bleeding from where his skull splintered with the impact.
The remaining one is run down, caught under hellfire tires and left rolling and slapping at himself. Hellfire doesn't burn like the real thing - oh, it hurts, it hurts like nothing else, because it burns your soul mor than your flesh - the flesh actually doesn't take that much damage, because hellfire doesn't consume. You are meant to burn eternally, after all.
The Rider stops his bike and steps off, walking back towards the two men bound in chains.
Whilst the Rider was busy, Melody tried to be brave. There were tears running down her face, sure.. but in the absense of The Rider, who was currently dealing with the other two men, Melody stepped up to approach the woman with shakey hands and glowed skin. "Run.. please.." She quietly stammers out. She was ready to pee herself, thankfully the tea hadn't hit her bladder just yet.
She assists the old woman to her feet, as her husband soon takes over, wordlessly, and shakily ushering his chilled wife to the car as she babbles and cries out for mercy upon herself and her husband.
They were good people, they didn't want to die, they lived their life thus far and seen Gotham through the changing weathers.
The car was soon backed up with screeching tires, a quick turn and a scoot out of dodge, leaving Melody there to try to approach. This was stupid.. of course.. but her feet were pulling her closer to the Rider because she was worried about the man inside.
Her arms wrapped around her stomach as her bottom lip trembles, her feet dragging as they seemed all too heavy, it seemed she walked the same path.. standing near yet not too close to the felled men wrapped in chains. "A…are… are you goin.. going to .. kill them?" She stammers out, she was crying full on. But she didn't seem as if she were going to stop them.
She has a special place in her heart for old people, even if sometimes they were crotchety bastards. No one fucks with old people and children. She was hoping that they were killed that instant.
Ghost Rider had been entirely focused on his prey, the two men begging for mercy, chain binding their arms and ankles, leaving them helpless at the Rider's feet. Slowly, though, at being addressed, the Spirit of Vengeance turns its attention on Melody. No sins worth his notice, there - unclean, of course, but all humans were. And soft, in body and spirit. And something else…something not quite human. The Rider, however, is an incurious thing and cares only for its purpose.
It reaches down and lifts one man up by the throat, "These men are soaked to the bone in the blood of the innocent," it intones. "Killing would be a mercy. Instead, I offer punishment." he says.
The screaming man is pulled face to face with the Rider, gazing into the sockets of the skull. Whatever he sees there affects him almost immediately and his screams become harsh, his body thrashing and spasming, "NOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOO I DIDN'T MEAN TO I'M SORRY MOM OH GOD IT HURTS IT HURTS SO MUCH OH GOD MAKE IT STOP ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'
He's still screaming when the Rider tosses him aside, the chain unwinding from him like a python loosing prey. The last remaining Razor wriggles worms, looking over at Melody, "Lady, please, help me, I'm sorry, I'll never do anythign bad again, don't let him hurt me, please, I didn't mean to—" he says, tears running down his face even as the Rider seizes him by the hair.
Once the Spirit grips the first man, and he begins to scream, Melody looked away, assuming that he would be killed. But he wasn't. He was left a blubbering mess, and that surprised her. Once the Spirit turns it's attentions on her momentarily, keeps her eyes pressed to the remaining man, her arms slowly curling around her stomach as she slowly takes the approach as the Rider had done. She was close to the two now, even as the man begged, she felt a pain in her heart that she never knew that she could.
And inwardly? She know that she couldn't stop something like that. She didn't have the skill, the training, nor the will. She was actually crying right there but.. absense the blubbering mess. She was scared, and she couldn't breathe, but she felt she owed it to the man to at least respond.
Even as the Rider grips the mans hair, she reaches out to touch the poor mans face, her gaze shifting towards the left to the other who still cries and flails, then to the man who begs her for mercy. She could barely see. "D..d..do bett.. better next time.. okay..?" She says, falsely reassuring him.
Ghost Rider cocks his head. Humans and their compassion. So strange. There's a flicker, deep within the Rider, a memory buried deep. A woman underneath a clear sky. Grass grown long, blowing in the wind. A gallows.
And then its gone. It's always gone. Because it's not important. The Rider does not dwell on the past, whatever it is. Only on what is.
It wraps its chain now around the man's throat, lifting him up by it, the skin of his throat bruising as he's hefted to his feet. The Rider looks at Melody now, squarely.
"He is not worth your pity, girl with singing blood. He stinks of innocent blood." There's a flash and the chain channels raw hellfire into the boy, not much more than twenty one, his body jerking as the supernatural flame sears his soul, burning and burning until his eyes open wide and he screams, steam escaping from his mouth as the chain finally looses and lets him fall unconscious to the ground in a heap.
Leaving only the girl and the Rider, the Spirit's chain wrapping itself around him, criss-crossing his chest.
Melody couldn't watch, with her hands upon her chest she turns as the chains wrap around the mans neck. She even goes so far as to cover her ears until the screams die out, then turns right back around to see.. he was still alive. She didn't know if it was good or bad. She, inwardly, wished them death but took it back the instant that she thought it would really happen. Somewhere.. she was relieved.. somewhere, deep inside, she hoped that they'd change once they have gotten better.
The Spirit speaks to her, chilling her to the bone, but like the motor mouth she is, she had to reply. "I know.. but.. it made him feel better I hope." It really, really was a silly connotation, she had her ideals about the world, while she was a thief, hated some, loved others. She moved the way her wind blew and it made her feel like she was an okay person because of it.
With the two of them alone in a slightly ruined by fire street, she staggers close towards the Spirit, her arms stretched out, her awkward colors showing through to unleash a hug upon the man/Spirit before her. She didn't know what it was called, she just knew that Dan was inside and needed some way to let him know that she was alright.
Plus, she was a weird one. She hugged the personification of The Darkness once and got a pat on the shoulder from it. Ain't that sweet?
"Ca…can.. I ha…ah have D..d..Dan back ple..puh.." She couldn't even finish the words.
Ghost Rider cocks its head at her. That she hadn't run screaming was unusual enough in itself. The Rider, of course, cared not. The only ones who should fear him were those in need of punishment - and, if they didn't fear him, he would put fear in them through pain and suffering.
The Rider flexes its hands. It had intended to hunt, to go seeking more of the wicked, but…this innocent…he can feel Dan within him and knows that the boy will be angry if he hurts or upsets the girl. The Rider cares nothing for the boy, but it is easier when the host cooperates.
The Rider drops to its knees and slowly, the fire just douses, goes out, a skeleton in leathers until the flesh and meat start to crawl and knit together over those bones, a painful process that, while Dan no longer screams through, leaves him nonetheless panting and sweat-soaked, on his hands and knees in the street.
She closed her eyes tight, preparing for what ever pain may come, the grip she held upon the Rider was tight enough that it would cause a normal man to either blush or be suffocated. But that was fine. She lets go however as he drops to his knees, her body soon falling with, thanking goodness because she couldn't possibly stay upon her legs any longer.
And once he sinks into man, her hand reaches out to lightly grip both sides of his face, she was still aglow and.. that was fine, her emotions were running high and this was the one uncontrollable effect that she had. "Dan..?" She quietly says. "Look at me.. l..look!"
Dan Ketch struggles for a moment to breath. The Rider didn't breathe, not at alll, and it made him have to almost remember to do it when he came back to life. That's what it was, he felt. Like he died, over and over again, only to be resurrected, stitched back together. Right after, like now, it felt tenous, like his skin was stapled onto his flesh.
His blue eyes look up as the glowing girl touches him and he says, "Are you…an angel?" quite simply.
It's not some sort of joke or pick up, but a sincere question. Dan was a good Catholic boy - turning into a flaming skull monster makes you start thinking about heaven and hell.
Melody was glad. She didn't know him at all. Not one bit. But she gave everyone a chance, no matter what they had lingering in the deep. If she didn't? If she were a good girl on the good side of the law doing good things like getting married or getting another degree, she probably wouldn't have tolerated living at the Tin Roof. Though, if she had any sort of sense she probably wouldn't have asked to leave with Dan for burgers and grease either. Such was the way of her life, a weird way of her life.
She had to laugh though, her hand reaching up to wipe at her face with the back of her hand, even sniffling just a little as she says quietly.
"No. I'm just made all wrong." She smiles a little sadly, leaning in to hook her arm under his. She wasn't sure if she could stand or not but.. she was going to give it the college try. "Take me home with you?" She was going to make sure he was alright. And probably sneak out in the morning.
Dan Ketch manages to help push himself up. He's getting better at it, recovering. The Rider tore him apart and put him back together, but you got used to it after a while. At least he came back. He always feared there would be a day when the Rider just stayed. When Dan Ketch just became more and more a lingering voice, ignored in the back of the Rider's skull and forgotten by the world. He still had a lot of bad things to make up for and he needed more time, even if the Rider would take him ultimately.
He didn't know what would happen, really. He'd chosen none of this. he just dealt with it.
"You look…pretty good to me," he manages to grin, leaning slightly against Melody but trying to find his bearings, old fashioned enough to not want to have a girl support him down the street. "Yeah, okay," he says. He'd been prepared to keep her away from his little hole in the wall, but, frankly, he didn't have what it took. In New York it was his Mom's basement - here, it was a ratty motel room, the kind of place you pay for a week at a time in cash. Doesn't take long to get there on his bike.
Which he rides, Melody's concerns be damned. If anything, he seems more steady on wheels than on his feet, although he's not testing the speed limit.
The riding also kept him from having to talk. He wasn't sure yet how to explain what she'd seen. If he even could explain.
A little secret about Melody, even if she realizes it or not. She knows that even without the gifts she currently possesses, she's faster than the normal human. This also leads into strength, she could probably carry him, but does she try? No. She keeps herself minimal and low as possible, she never tests herself unless it had anything to do with computers or gaming. Such was her way and she was happy with her outcome.
"Do I?" She asks, trying her best to keep the conversation going, and once he departs from her and they hop on his ride, it was smooth sailing from there. He was alright.
And she was glad.
It didn't take long for them to reach the motel without incident, the room looked at as it was and brushed over since she had seen worse. Coat removed, shoes as well, at least the floors were clean enough for her to walk around barefoot.
There really was no talking about what had happened yet, during the ride, she could sense that shift to discomfort, so she lets it be, chittering about nothing at all over a glass of water, mentioning that she's wanting to order chinese and how she'd sit on the bed and watch infomercials until it was time to eat.
Even though it wasn't grease? She still loves good takeout.
Though, she really didn't realize that all of that excitement, fear, adrenaline would take it's toll. For as soon as she sat down the remote, and bunched up his jacket along with the pillow that she hugged, she was fast asleep, leaving him to his own devices.
For Dan's part, he settles in quickly, taking a shower to get off the stink of the Rider. She's out by the time he returns, curled up with his leathers and taking half of his bed.
He'd thought of having her in his bed tonight, but not exactly like this. Strangely, though, for as much as he'd been through, Dan wasn't tired. He always felt a bit jumpy after the Rider took over - exhausted yet, but like he was filled with something sharp, a bag of broken glass inside. If he slept right away, he'd have nightmares. He usually did anyway, but no reason to invite them.
He turns the TV to some old cop show reruns, letting them play softly as he smoked cigarettes, ate a couple of cold pieces of two day old pizza, drank a couple of beers. She slept through it all.
He didn't know what was going on with her. The lights under her skin - he could hardly judge, of course, but he hadn't expected that. Were the Tin Roofers going to come hunting, with her staying out all night? He hoped not, for their sake.
And he definitely pretended that he couldn't see through the Rider's eyes. That he hadn't seen the terror and horror the monster inflicted. That he didn't feel the jolt in his shoulder when a spiked fist caved in the back of a mugger's skull. No. He definitely wasn't going to think about that.
Dawn came and found him, at last, asleep, slits of gold through the blinds laying across his chest as he sits back in the chair, a cigarette gone to ash in the tray at his elbow.
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Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain To Compete In "Modified Lincoln-Douglas Debate," In That They Only Use 3/5ths Of Their Brains
Grab your Gideons, prep your muskets, sharpen your bayonets, throw on your colonial best and head on down to Houston, Texas for the can’t-miss event of the year, the clash of two GOP presidential titans Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. Wait, did I say can’t miss?? Haha silly me! I meant can’t watch, since no television network wants to touch that shit with a ten foot pole, forcing those who wish to watch two psychos prattle on about electrocuting Messicans, the tyranny of affordable health care, and why corporations are people but poors aren’t, to use heave their obese, diabetic bodies into Humvees, pickup trucks, and Socialist Medicaire scooters and make the trek themselves! Now, that’s some good, old fashioned American can-do spirit right there!
And much like Newt Gingrich’s third mistress-turned-wife’s penchant for Tiffany diamonds and Herman Cain’s 999 tax plan/Godfathers pizza daily deal-o-rama, this Tea Party Patriot-sponsored Texas two-step don’t come cheap!
General admission for what is being billed as a “modified Lincoln–Douglas debate,” the modification, one can only assume, being that they both argue in favor of slavery, costs $200, although the price includes a slice of “good ole apple pie,” because apparently black walnuts is something Republicans want to elect president not use as filling for a round, deliciously moist, flaky pie.
“Then there’s the ‘Patron Ticket,’ which costs $500. Patron-level purchasers will get ‘prime seating’ and admission to a Nite Cap party after the debate, as well as a chance to mingle with the candidates over drinks and hors d’oerves afterward.”
Oooh, as long as they are unregulated, uninspected, and untainted by dirty government hands (salmonella, she is a beauty), count me in!
“Top-level donors will pay $1,000 for the best seating in the house (panic room?), a special room at the Woodlands Resort in Houston for the Nite Cap party, and a ‘professional picture’ taken with the candidates.”
By professional picture, I assume they mean gagged, bound, and forced into a naked pyramid complete with a dog leash around your neck, and your choice of semi-automatic weapon nudging you into position. Nothing says fun like an M16 Caliber 5.56 mm in your backside.
Or for those looking for something a little spicier, how about a nice slice of Godfather’s latest, greatest culinary creation, Hot ‘n Spicy Tex Mex pizza in honor of Herman Cain’s similarly themed, similarly brilliant electrified border fence immigration policy: refried Mexicans.
“Students can get in for $150, but those tickets are sold out.”
Funny, so did the students!!
So, the Texas Tea Party Patriots will host, blue-eyed nutjob Rep. Steve King will moderate (aka grunt, wink, and cheer when appropriate like talk of poor people dying, gay soldiers proudly serving their country, or the delightful execution Texas inmates), and Lincoln-Douglas will likely turn over in their graves as these two idiots take turns debating who loves Reagan ‘n Jesus the most.
In background conversations, both campaigns say they look forward to the discussion. A source close to Gingrich tells the National Review that the former speaker will speak at length about his policy proposals and will, “in a friendly way,” illustrate his differences with Cain.
“We initially wanted a forum with all of the candidates,” O’Sullivan says. “But when we heard Gingrich say he wanted a more serious debate, like the Lincoln–Douglas debates, we wanted to do that, especially since watching the recent superficial debates has been frustrating.”
Only if you value sanity, rationality, sensibility, intelligence and the ability to formulate a coherent sentence. So what the hell is the Republicans’ problem with it?
Gingrich has been a long-time proponent of the Lincoln-Douglas debate style, because it gives candidates more time to have a detailed policy discussion. Gingrich has repeatedly said that if he were the Republican nominee, he would challenge President Obama to seven three-hour Lincoln-Douglas style debates.
Which is about 21 hours longer than necessary to reveal Newton’s complete lack of knowledge on the workings of the federal government!
Either way, the important thing to remember is that on November 5th, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich will return to that kindler, gentler time circa 1858 when a man was a man, and a black man was his property!
So how much would I pay to see this so-called modern-day Lincoln-Douglas debate?
Let’s see, is there anything smaller than absolute zero? Ah yes, of course, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich’s combined IQs!
[image via AP]
October 29th, 2011 | Tags: Herman Cain, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Tea Party | Category: Disasters, Elections, Racism, Republicans, Right-Wing, Teabaggers, Wingnuts
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Demi Lovato Would Marry Wilmer, Talks Being Iggy’s Bridesmaid
Samantha Vincenty
Charley Gallay, Getty Images
Demi Lovato's been pretty busy with "Cool For the Summer" promo these days, but she's always got time to praise her man, actor Wilmer Valderrama.
The singer called in to Australian radio station ZM, and she opened up about her long-term relationship — which is apparently better than ever.
Demi acknowledged that people, including her family, were a little sketched out by their relationship at first. It's completely understandable, given the fact that folks look askance at most 30-year-olds who want to date a teenager. But the fact that they're still going strong — and how kind she says Wilmer is to her — has won over her loved ones. Plus, now that she's no longer barely-legal, the age difference is a less of a sticking point.
So, does she still find herself defending their pairing? "I used to, definitely, whenever we were first starting to date about like five years ago, because I was 18 and he was 30, so people were definitely judgmental and even like my parents were kind of like, 'I don't know why someone his age is wanting to date someone so young.' After a while, everyone started to see that what we have is real and incredible and very special and we have been together ever since."
In fact, she's willing to make an honest man out of Wilmer, if he theoretically proposed.
"I am very, very in love with him. I think—we'll probably wait a little bit longer, but—if he asked tomorrow I would say yes," she told the hosts, who apparently think 22 is an age ripe enough to elicit a "why aren't you married yet?!"
Demi also discussed another impending side gig: Being a bridesmaid in Iggy Azalea's wedding.
"She's pretty chill, so I can't imagine that she'll be one of those brides that'll be super particular." When asked if she thinks Iggy will put her in some horrid "peach, fluffy-shouldered" dress, she replied, "I hope not — but it's her day, so I'll do whatever she wants." That's called true friendship.
Demi also dished on her role as Smurfette in the next Smurfs movie, and when we can expect her album ("this fall") — listen to the full chat here.
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August DeWinkler
coursework in creating interactive culture
Performative / Interventional Frameworks
1a) Input: Reading Reviews
1b) Input: Supplemental Reviews
1c) Output: Video Presentation
Spatial / Temporal Frameworks
2c) Output: Mind Map
Linear / Verbal Frameworks
3c) Output: Abstract and Research Draft
Sonic Frameworks
4c) Output: Pure Data and TouchOSC App
From Film To Interactive Art: Transformations in Media Arts
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski
Media Art Histories, Grau, Chapter 11, Page 207
This article takes a chronicle look of the media arts by starting at the beginning, which is film and cinema film, then acknowledging the stages that took place over time. These stages are not only in the form of technological inputs but also be sociological events. The first stage after cinema and film we have new media cinema, a result of the electronic age of media participants. First are those that a changing the course by changing methods. Second, as apparatus’ bring about the changes: such as tape, disk and hard drives; with communications by fibers and satellites. Third would be the changes by interactivity with computer advancements. And lastly, are the changes from the introduction of the internet. But in all the cases above change happens anyway as a result of improvements and interest shifting. The next stage in change is the advent with television and parallel with cassette video. It is as if one was meant for the other as the two advances catapulted social change in the value of public and private entertainment. The next stage of change is brought about from opposing views on interactivity by deconstruction to cyberculture. The final shift occurs with the label of interactive art and hypertext art, which is a point in time as when this article was written. It is basically defining the culmination of media art as belonging not only to the author-creator but as a co-creator of the spectator.
There Are No Visual Media
W.J.T. Mitchell
This article is absurd! Saying that one sector of art “Visual Media” is not visual because the artist thought about it before creating it or that the artist used his hands to put brush to paper or because a viewer puts words into it to define it. Language and communication is what makes art in the first place. All other forms of art are tiered down from this interpreting defining factor. Even the blank canvas is art.
Take for instance the blank canvas in the last room of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, the museum tour brings out so many emotions that the blank canvas at the end of the tour allows one to re-think, or reinterpret ones thoughts before exiting the museum. In my opinion, making the blank canvas an extreme example of visual art.
It Is Forbidden Not To Touch
Media Art Histories, Grau, Chapter 3, Page 21
This article puts into perspective the origins of Interactive Art. Most believe that interactivity began with the computer because of the pure nature of using an interface: the keyboard, the mouse, the monitor, or the processor. But when put into these terms of using an interface one can compare early versions of kinetic art as having an interface. For this example Weibel cites the art piece Kinetic Construction No. 1, by Naum Gabo; the piece consists of a rod and motor. When activated the motor gives volume to the rod, hence we have interactivity that creates visual art. Many more examples are given in which give rise to computer interactivity. Weibel states that “kineticism produced elements which played an important role in the further development of art: virtuality, the environment, the active spectator, and/or the user.” Thus formulating that interactivity was in place before the computer by either analog or mechanical form.
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10 life hackings that will simplify your life
by Noa Cantu
What are the similarities between real life and a computer game? In a computer game, you can enter a secret code and bypass the rules that the developer has put into it, while gaining some advantages. Life also has its own "secret codes", or rather, domestic tricks. Which we will share with you.
Everyone knows the situation when the headphones or charger stops working because the cable broke off near the plug. It's a shame, because it happens at the most inopportune moment. However, the strength of this weak point on the cable can be significantly increased if you pass it through the spring from the ballpoint pen as shown in the photo.
Sometimes we forget to cool the pre-bought drink and forced to drink it warm. However, there is a great way to cool glass containers in just a few minutes. Take a paper towel, soak it in water and wrap around the bottle. Then put it in the cold - and very quickly you will get a refreshing and cool lemonade, well, or whatever you prefer.
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When Dinosaurs Went Bad
Today’s depictions of agile, often feathered animals are a far cry from the saggy tail-draggers of yesteryear. How did early research get it so wrong?
By Gemma Tarlach|Monday, April 10, 2017
RELATED TAGS: PALEONTOLOGY
Scientific inaccuracies abound in this 1916 illustration of a tail-dragging, sprawled-posture Diplodocus by Heinrich Harder. A century later, we know better thanks to a richer fossil record and more rigorous research.
Florilegius/Alamy Stock Photo
In 1842, English anatomist Richard Owen proposed the term dinosauria for the strange animal fossils he and colleagues had begun to study. Owen drew from ancient Greek to create the word: deinos, meaning “terrible” in the awesome-to-behold sense, and sauros, “reptile” or “lizard.”
The truth is, those early paleontologists — and generations of their successors — got those terrible lizards, well, terribly wrong: T. rex as a tail-dragging lunk, tank-like Iguanodon, long-necked sauropods submerged in water because surely they were too big to walk on land.
One problem early paleontologists faced was that they were limited to merely looking at a fossil and finding a living animal to compare it with visually.
“Dinosaurs were very alien, very different,” says University of Leicester paleontologist David Unwin. “[Paleontologists] tried to force them to fit into paradigms that didn’t exist then.”
Matthew Lamanna, assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History, agrees that early paleontologists were restricted by what they could compare dinosaurs to — and how they understood the broader living world.
“Remember the origin of the word dinosaur predates the theory of evolution,” Lamanna says. “Ideas about animal [species] being transitional had yet to materialize. Now we know that dinosaurs are sort of bizarre croc-birds, but back then the concept would have been very hard to imagine.”
Entrenched Ideas
Early on, a few great minds did suspect that science might be getting dinosaurs wrong. Comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noticed similarities in the body plans of dinosaurs and birds as early as the 1860s. He thought there might be an indirect evolutionary relationship, though he never claimed birds descended from dinosaurs.
But Huxley — often called Darwin’s bulldog for his staunch support of evolution — couldn’t rally others to the idea. It would be more than a century before the dinosaur-bird connection gained traction.
And it was a long hundred-plus years. Interest in dinosaurs was growing in both academic and public spheres, and research standards were often less than rigorous. In lecture rooms and museum halls, the idea of dinosaurs as overgrown lazy lizards was so dominant that it verged on the absurd.
Consider the Diplodocus debate of the early 20th century. After acquiring a specimen of the massive sauropod, Carnegie Museum paleontologist William Holland and colleagues mounted it for display in an elephant-like posture. We now know this was the right approach: legs directly beneath the body, rather than the sprawled stance of a reptile.
The move brought howls of disapproval, most pointedly from two paleontologists, American Oliver Hay and German Gustav Tornier, who insisted that the 80-foot-plus animal had walked like a reptile.
“Holland had a spectacular rebuttal,” says Lamanna, referring to a withering 1910 paper by the Carnegie paleontologist, which included illustrations based on Tornier’s claims. “Holland articulated the skeletons in the sprawling posture, but their ribs were so damn deep that they projected below the body.”
As Holland drily pointed out in the retort, if his critics were right about the dinosaur’s stance, “the Diplodocus must have moved in a groove or a rut. This might perhaps account for his early extinction. It is physically and mentally bad to ‘get into a rut.’ ”
Paleontologist John Ostrom’s 1969 description of agile Deinonychus antirrhopus (shown here in an illustration by Bob Bakker, his student at the time) ushered in a new way of understanding dinosaurs.
Robert Bakker/J. Ostrom et al./Courtesy of the Bullletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History/July 1969/Yale University/Peabody. Yale.edu/YPM-VP-005207
Research waned during and immediately after the world wars, but at the same time, dinosaurs’ sheer weirdness made for perfect escapist fare in movies such as 1933’s King Kong. In fact, Hollywood and pop culture’s embrace of dinosaurs may have set research back. According to veteran dinosaur illustrator Gregory Paul, writing in The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, “the very popularity of dinosaurs gave them a circus air that convinced many scientists they were beneath their scientific dignity and attention.”
While the idea of dinosaurs as lumbering lizards persisted, research didn’t come to a standstill. Postwar expeditions to Mongolia and China, mostly by Soviet and Polish scientists, unearthed many new species that couldn’t be forced into the traditional reptile stereotype, such as the monster-clawed enigmas Therizinosaurus and Deinocheirus.
It was a Yale University team in the mid-’60s, however, that ushered in a new era for the terrible lizards.
The Dinosaur Renaissance
The team, based near Bridger, Mont., and led by John Ostrom, found numerous fossils of an animal he would later name Deinonychus antirrhopus. Some pieces had been discovered in 1931, but Ostrom was the first to grasp the dinosaur’s significance.
In 1969, he laid out a case for Deinonychus as an “active and very agile predator” that was potentially warmblooded. In subsequent research, Ostrom went a big step further: He compared his famous find with specimens of the earliest-known bird, Archaeopteryx, and made the link Huxley had stopped short of a century earlier: Birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Ostrom’s theory, bolstered by additional finds, reignited interest in the field. And if Huxley was Darwin’s bulldog, Ostrom had his own bold champion in former student Bob Bakker, whose larger-than-life personality was perfectly sized to take on the establishment.
“Bakker argued that even the least birdlike dinosaurs were more birdlike than we thought,” says Lamanna, who cites the paleontologist’s 1986 book The Dinosaur Heresies as personally influential.
Evidence mounted in support of Ostrom and his new school of thought. But stalwarts of the Old Lizard Guard remained — until another extraordinary discovery in the mid-1990s.
Featherweight Find
In 1995, a farmer in northeastern China found a feathered dinosaur. “It was the final piece of the puzzle,” Lamanna says. “The skeptics had to admit that dinosaurs were progenitors of birds because feathers are such a uniquely avian characteristic. It was one of those rare moments in science where the answer is so clear it’s like getting hit over the head with a two-by-four.”
The Chinese dinosaur, Sinosauropteryx, had primitive, almost furlike feathers classified as filamentous. But in short order, researchers found more feathered dinosaurs, including Caudipteryx and Protarchaeopteryx.
“These dinosaurs had feathers with a central rachis, veined, barbed,” says Lamanna, referring to their advanced structure. “They were modern feathers for all intents and purposes.” The last holdouts to the dinosaur-bird connection caved.
Dinosaur feathers in amber from Myanmar are another link to the animals’ descendants: birds.
(RSM/R.C. McKellar)
Additional feathered finds — both filamentous and fully developed — continue to emerge. In December 2016, for example, researchers described a fully feathered, partial tail of a dinosaur preserved in amber from Myanmar.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is an emerging hotspot for fossil discoveries, illustrating another phenomenon changing our understanding of dinosaurs. More people looking in more places means more fossils are seeing the light of day. Some of the most stunning recent finds have come from Argentina, Morocco, Australia and Niger. Dinosaurs have now been found from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica.
Technology is also a driving force.
“We’ve got more fossils, which is great,” Unwin says. “But it’s laptops and mainframes that are the foundation of this field moving forward. Digitization has had the biggest impact on how we describe the past.”
Lamanna sees some of the biggest strides — no pun intended — being made in how dinosaurs moved. For starters, let’s nail the coffin shut on the whole tail-dragging thing. Dinosaurs did not walk like crocodiles.
“We’ve found a lot more skeletons, and we also have hundreds of fossil trackways, preserving dinosaur footprints,” says Lamanna. “If you watch a crocodile walking, you’ll see its tail leaves a significant furrow, something we don’t see very much with dinosaurs.”
Unwin agrees, adding that digitization allows paleontologists to model movement in a way that would have been impossible a few decades ago. “We might not be able to tell how T. rex moved yet, but increasingly we can tell you how T. rex didn’t move,” he says.
As passionate as paleontologists get about advances in their field, one imagines they’re no more excited than their predecessors once were about their theories. Might we one day find that our early 21st-century reconstructions are just as flawed as the reptilian beasts imagined in the Victorian era?
Unwin doubts it, noting modern paleontology’s methods: “Computers allow us to approach our research more like they do in astronomy and physics and other hard sciences. We’re moving away from the qualitative, subjective approach and toward quantitative modeling. We’re producing very rigorous work. Thirty years ago we never had anything like the datasets underpinning our research now.”
Lamanna is more cautious: “I’m sure we’re doing things now that we’ll regret one day, too.” Some things, after all, never change.
The Many Iterations of Iguanodon
Few dinosaurs have had as many extreme makeovers as Iguanodon. Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
Biodiversity Heritage Library/Illustrated History of the Natural Kingdom/S.G. Goodrich/Derby & Jackson, New York/1859
1825: Only the second dinosaur (after Megalosaurus) to be classified scientifically, the species’s first fragmentary fossils were named by British paleontologist Gideon Mantell for the similarity of their teeth to those of iguanas. In addition to reconstructing Iguanodon as a stout, tail-dragging reptile, early paleontologists placed a finger bone on the animal’s snout. (Fun fact: The individuals Mantell initially described as Iguanodon were reclassified in the 20th century as relatives Therosaurus and Mantellisaurus.)
Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo
1851: Dining or dino-ing? A London event held inside a reconstructed Iguanodon was the talk of the town and helped cement the notion of the dinosaur as a tank-like, spike-nosed reptile.
The Natural History Museum/Alamy Stock Photo
1878: It was one step forward, one step back when several Iguanodon specimens turned up in Bernissart, Belgium. The completeness of multiple individuals confirmed once and for all that the ol’ snout spike was actually a modified thumb. Paleontologists also realized the animals were not dedicated quadrupeds. They overcorrected, however, and reconstructed it in a bipedal kangaroo posture — even though they had to misalign some of the bones to make it work.
Universal Images Group North America LLC/Alamy Stock Photo
1980: The discovery of stiffened tendons along the tail established Iguanodon as no tail-dragger. Other research during this dinosaur renaissance, looking at the inflexibility of its hand and wrist, revealed that Iguanodon spent most of its time with four limbs on the ground, but was capable of some bipedalism.
21st century: Will future Iguanodon reconstructions sport feathers? Stay tuned. Despite having a beak and being an ornithischian, or “bird-hipped” dinosaur, the animal isn’t closely related to the lineage that evolved into birds. However, since 2002 paleontologists have unearthed a couple of other ornithischians with primitive bristle or furlike feathers. Iguanodon may get yet another makeover.
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CASE LAW - R v Almardy
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Khalid Almardy was stopped by police in the early morning hours of October 21, 2017 in Victoria as he was a novice driver who was not displaying a new driver sign on his vehicle and was carrying too many passengers. Cst. Christians of the Capital Region Integrated Road Safety Unit detected the odour of liquor on Mr. Almardy's breath. Drivers in the Graduated Licensing Program must have zero blood alcohol when driving.
A roadside screening device was used and Mr. Almardy's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was determined to be 59 mg%. Based on the screen and the odour of liquor, a ticket for driving contrary to licence restrictions (zero BAC) was issued.
The Judicial Justice excluded the screening evidence as it had been taken without a Charter warning. He convicted Mr. Almardy on the basis of the odour of liquor on his breath alone.
That conviction was appealed.
Justice J. A. Power set aside the conviction and entered an acquittal. She found that the Judicial Justice erred by relying solely on the odour of liquor on Mr. Amardy's breath as evidence of alcohol in his body without further evidence to discount the possibility that the odour was stale and the alcohol had been eliminated from the body.
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Leisa - 2019/07/06 - 13:35
Doesn’t get any less “common sense” as this pathedic judicial system gets stupider and stupider. My first observation was that this Officer was from the ‘traffic’ division and I would have understood they would be well versed to ALWAYS read the charter, in any circumstance, but I am obviously incorrect. Second, this ‘N’ violator had two other charges... no? Too many passengers & no N sign. Why not apply all violations? Discretion is not always mandatory, besides, if he was drinking/driving then there is little cause to not charge him with all violations, at least one of them may have stuck. So, if and when, in the future this up and coming drunk driver kills another here’s suggesting the judge has a sober (pun intended) thought and reflection of their very poor inept ruling.
Obviously I am extremely biased with drivers who drink and firmly believe NO technicality should ever dismiss evidence, however “unchartered” one believes it was acquired. I think our courts’ pendulum has swung and stuck so far in the unbalanced position that it makes a joke out of the system that only exercises to insult its good citizens who abide by it. It has become dysfunctional, disasterous and entirely in disrepute.
Why not apply all violations, you ask?
It's up to the courts - in this case the Judicial Justice - to determine these things; including whether or not the police followed proper procedure. I would like to think that they consider every situation from every angle, in order to be objective in their rulings.
It's important to note that, according to the evidence, Mr Almardy hadn't had a drink in five hours; he may well have believed that all of the alcohol he had consumed the previous evening had been eliminated from his system - note that he was completely candid in admitting that he had consumed alcohol at that time. His BAC does not indicate that he was in fact impaired - 0.059 is far more likely to result in a 24-hour suspension (which he received) than a criminal conviction for impaired driving (which any lawyer would probably be able to argue against successfully in court).
So let's think about this for a moment. Reading through the evidence of proceedings, including the appeal, we see that Mr Almardy has indeed been convicted both of failing to display an 'N' on his car, and also of having too many passengers according to the restrictions on his license.
So his situation is this: he's already had his car impounded, and will have had to pay a ton of money to get it back; plus, those two tickets that he's stuck with will undoubtedly result in a license suspension, fines, and penalties. He won't be driving for quite some time, as a result; and when he does get his license back, he'll have to re-start his 2-year 'N' status.
I think that's enough.
Screening Device
The screening device has one use under the Criminal Code and that is to form reasonable and probable grounds to believe a driver is impaired by alcohol. That gives the officer reason to make a breath demand and carry out an investigation. Advising the driver of Charter Rights comes after the use of the screening device and before further breath testing.
The Motor Vehicle Act requires a peace officer to take certain actions based on this screening device result under the Immediate Roadside Prohibition regime. Again, no Charter advice is required here.
Use of the screening device for any other purpose requires that the Charter rights be explained to the subject and a choice of whether or not to provide a sample made. Here there is no penalty for refusing to provide a sample as there would be in a Criminal Code investigation.
In this case, because the officer used the screening device as part of an impaired driving investigation and did not advise Mr. Almardy of his Charter Rights, the outcome of the test could only be used for the impaired driving investigation, not the ground to issue a ticket for having alcohol in his body as a new driver.
The Justice was correct to exclude that evidence in his determination of guilt on the ticket count.
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Chaplain Highlights Fighter Pilot Experience in Ministry
2 April 2018 JD
Chaplain (Maj) Kenneth DeVoie is the Wing Chaplain of the 104th Fighter Wing, which flies F-15s out of Massachusetts. He recently spent a year in Korea as the Command Chaplain for Special Operations Command Korea (SOCKOR) in Seoul. While his story is interesting, this paragraph stands out:
This Spiritual Guide credits some of his ability to succeed in that environment back to his experience working with the F-15 Fighter Jet pilots here at the 104th Fighter Wing.
“I think being here at [the 104FW] was great preparation for working with Special Operators,” said DeVoie. “The F-15 Fighter Pilot community is comprised of tip-of-the-spear guys, and it takes time to get into their inner circle.”
That speaks to the unique role of the chaplain — the ability to work with, befriend, earn the respect of, gain the trust of, and enter the “inner circle” of US troops. In some ways, that gives them the unparalleled ability to “reach the unreached.”
And that’s one thing that can make military chaplains very valuable.
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Who It Helps
Focus, Behavior, Listening
Speech/Self Stim/ Eye Contact
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Based on the medical literature, it is plausible to assume that correcting or improving the sensory systems that include auditory, visual, vestibular, proprioception and tactile, could lead to an improvement in remembering.
Sensory and memory stimulation can be effective non-pharmacological interventions for managing behaviors in individuals with remembering issues. Motor and multisensory stimulation may help to maintain or improve abilities such as communication and self-care. A motor and multisensory-based approach can improve engagement and attention to the environment, direct gaze, laughing and a reduction of closed eyes. There can also be an improvement in resting heart rate, overall mood, and in engagement of physical activity.
Auditory speech-processing deficits may be an early manifestation of memory loss and may precede the onset by many years. Visual performance is impaired, especially with visual field loss, in patients with memory issues. Visual problems may be the earliest and most prominent signs of future memory loss, even before objective signs appear. Vestibular loss may be a contributor to memory loss.
Paul is Remembering, Speaking, Socializing, Writing Better and is More Alert After the Clarity Chair
Story of young girl who overcame amnesia after the Clarity Chair
Targeting the 5 sense below, Clarity Chair can help improve the problems associated with them:
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Auditory (Listening) Speech, Language Development, Memory, Comparing Sounds, Associating sounds with Letters, Numbers, Musical Notes, Attention. Lack of Speech, Poor Listening Skills Remembering, Reading, Inattention
Vestibular Development of Balance, Coordination, Eye Control, Attention, Feeling Secure, Emotional Security, Language Inattention, Coordination, Following Directions, Reading, Eye-hand Coordination, Immature, Language Skills
Visual (Seeing) Academic Achievement, Reading, Proficiency at Work, Athletic Performance Loss of Place while Reading, Skipping Words or Lines on a Page Poor Athletic Performance Words Move Around on Page Reduced Comprehension Reduced Perceptual Fields
Proprioception Knowing Where Muscles & Joints Are in Space and How They Are Moving, Required Input from Tactile & Vestibular Systems Clumsy, Falls, Stumbles, Is Aggressive Walks on Toes, Constantly Chewing, Difficulty with Motor Planning, Messy at Mealtime
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Sensory and memory stimulation can be effective non-pharmacological interventions for providing care and managing behaviors in individuals with dementia who reside in long-term care facilities.
Motor and multisensory stimulation may help to maintain or improve residents’ remaining abilities such as communication and self-care. There were improvements in residents’ levels of caregiver-direct gaze, laughing and engagement, and a reduction of closed eyes, during morning care.
The introduction of a motor and multisensory-based approach in care routines may improve residents’ engagement and attention to the environment.
A multisensory exercise approach that evokes the stimulation and use of various senses, such as combining physical and cognitive stimuli, can assist in the management of persons with Alzheimer's disease. Results showed an improvement in resting heart rate, overall mood, and in engagement of physical activity. The findings suggest that a multisensory exercise approach can be beneficial for individuals with Alzheimer’s.
Sensori-motor/Sensory Integration references
Journal of Neural Transmission; February 2010, Volume 117, Issue 2, pp 217-225
Somatosensory responses in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. Julia M. Stephen, Rebecca Montaño, Christopher H. Donahue, John C. Adair, Janice Knoefel, Clifford Qualls, Blaine Hart, Doug Ranken, Cheryl J. Aine
Abstract: As a part of a larger study of normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which included patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), we investigated the response to median nerve stimulation in primary and secondary somatosensory areas. We hypothesized that the somatosensory response would be relatively spared given the reported late involvement of sensory areas in the progression of AD. We applied brief pulses of electric current to left and right median nerves to test the somatosensory response in normal elderly (NE), MCI, and AD. MEG responses were measured and were analyzed with a semi-automated source localization algorithm to characterize source locations and timecourses. We found an overall difference in the amplitude of the response of the primary somatosensory source (SI) based on diagnosis. Across the first three peaks of the SI response, the MCI patients exhibited a larger amplitude response than the NE and AD groups (P < 0.03). Additional relationships between neuropsychological measures and SI amplitude were also determined. There was no significant difference in amplitude for the contralateral secondary somatosensory source across diagnostic category. These results suggest that somatosensory cortex is affected early in the progression of AD and may have some consequence on behavioral and functional measures.
Auditory References
Central Auditory Dysfunction May Precede the Onset of Clinical Dementia in People with Probable Alzheimer's Disease George A. Gates MD1, Alexa Beiser PhD2, Thomas S. Rees PhD1, Ralph B. D'Agostino PhD3, Philip A. Wolf MD4 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 482–488, March 2002
Sensory and memory stimulation as a means to care for individuals with dementia in long-term care facilities, Mileski M, Baar Topinka J, Brooks M, Lonidier C, Linker K, Vander Veen K , 17 May 2018 Volume 2018:13 Pages 967—974
9 Effects of a Motor and Multisensory-Based Approach on Residents with Moderate-to-Severe Dementia, Joana Cruz, MSc, Alda Marques, PhD, Ana L. Barbosa, MSc, June 10, 2011
10 The effect of a multisensory exercise program on engagement, behavior, and selected physiological indexes in persons with dementia, American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, Patricia Heyn, PhD, July 1, 2003
OBJECTIVES: To document the prognostic significance of a central auditory speech-processing deficit for the subsequent onset of probable Alzheimer's disease.
RESULTS: Forty subjects (5.4%) received a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease during an average of 8.4 years (range 3–12) of follow-up; seven (17.5%) of these had a central auditory speech-processing deficit. The presence of a central auditory speech-processing deficit had an age-adjusted risk ratio for probable Alzheimer's disease of 10.8 (95% CI = 4.6–25.2). A central auditory speech-processing deficit had a positive predictive value for subsequent probable Alzheimer's disease of 47% but the sensitivity was only 17.5%.
CONCLUSION: Central auditory speech-processing deficits may be an early manifestation of probable Alzheimer's disease and may precede the onset of dementia diagnosis by many years.
American Academy of Neurology; Central auditory function in Alzheimer's disease Alison M. Grimes, Cheryl L. Grady, Norman L. Foster, Trey Sunderland and Nicholas J. Patronas Author Affiliations: Clinical Center (Ms. Grimes and Dr. Patronas), The National Institutes of Health, The National Institute on Aging (Dr. Grady), The National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (Dr. Foster), and The National Institute of Mental Health (Dr. Sunderland). Bethesda, MD.
ABSTRACT: The central auditory (dichotic) function of 38 patients with Alzheimer's disease was found to be significantly impaired when compared with a control group. Significant relationships were observed between dichotic scores and intelligence quotient, cortical atrophy in the temporal lobes, and cerebral glucose metabolism in the left temporal lobe. Comparing atrophy and glucose metabolism in the temporal lobes, we observed contralateral ear effects in dichotic performance as well as an interaction of asymmetry of atrophy with dichotic performance, consistent with previous models of dichotic listening in other forms of temporal lobe pathology.
Visual dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: Relation to normal aging; Dr Alice Cronin-Golomb PhD1,*, Suzanne Corkin PhD1, Joseph F. Rizzo MD2, Jennifer Cohen BA3, John H. Growdon MD3, Kathleen S. Banks MA1; Annals of Neurology; Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 41–52, January 1991
Abstract: In patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), compared with age-matched and young healthy control subjects, visual deficits in the following functions were observed: color, stereoacuity, contrast sensitivity, and backward masking (homogeneous and pattern). Critical flicker fusion thresholds were normal, relative to age-matched healthy subjects. For color, the majority of the errors were tritanomalous (blue axis). Color and stereoacuity deficits were unrelated to severity of dementia, in accordance with models of vision that describe these functions as modular rather than diffuse for cortical localization. Although contrast sensitivity was depressed throughout the frequency range in AD, more patients were impaired at low than at high spatial frequencies, contrasting with the observed normal aging pattern of high-frequency loss. Healthy elderly subjects showed depressed critical flicker fusion thresholds and reduced contrast sensitivity at high frequencies, relative to the young group; differences between these groups were not found for the other vision tests. A subset of the AD group received detailed neuro-ophthalmological examination, and no abnormalities were found. This finding, taken together with normal thresholds for critical flicker fusion, suggests that the widespread visual dysfunction reported here is more likely to be related to known pathological changes in primary visual and association cortex in AD than to changes in the retina or optic nerve.
Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology: June 2006 - Volume 65 - Issue 6 - pp 621-630; Visual Association Pathology in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease; McKee, Ann C. MD; Au, Rhoda PhD; Cabral, Howard J. PhD, MPH; Kowall, Neil W. MD; Seshadri, Sudha MD; Kubilus, Caroline A.; Drake, Jon BS; Wolf, Philip A. MD
Abstract: The transition from normal aging to mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease (AD) is often indistinct. Imaging studies suggest early changes in posterior brain regions, including posterior temporoparietal and occipital cortex, but pathologic studies show initial changes in the medial temporal lobe with progressive neocortical involvement as cognition deteriorates. We evaluated the regional distribution of AD pathology in 41 elderly brain donors from the Framingham Heart Study who were cognitively intact, mildly impaired, or demented on the basis of probable AD. We found that 52% of the cognitively intact subjects, and all subjects with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, had dense neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), neuropil threads, and tau-immunoreactive neurites surrounding neuritic plaques (NPs) in visual association cortex Brodmann area 19. All cognitively intact subjects with area 19 NFTs also had dense core NP and β amyloid (Aβ) angiopathy in area 19. Area 19 pathology was occasionally present in the absence of substantial pathology in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex and was not correlated with medial temporal lobe pathology. Dense AD pathology in area 19 is present in some cognitively intact subjects with preclinical AD. The unique metabolic, connectional, and vascular features of this region may confer enhanced vulnerability to neurodegeneration.
Neurology. 1995 Jan;45(1):68-74; Visual field loss in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Trick GL, Trick LR, Morris P, Wolf M. Source: School of Optometry, University of Montreal, PQ, Canada.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Visual performance is impaired in patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT). We investigated the visual field topography of these deficits.
Reliable visual fields (by manufacturer's criteria) were obtained in 72.1% (44/61) of the control subjects and 55.7% (34/61) of the SDAT group. In the SDAT group, visual sensitivity was reduced throughout the visual field, but deficits were most pronounced in the inferior visual field. Patients with more severe dementia exhibited greater reductions in visual sensitivity. On follow-up, 14 of 23 SDAT patients exhibited progression of visual field loss, whereas only two of 23 patients exhibited a regression of the visual field loss
CONCLUSIONS: Visual field loss in SDAT is most pronounced in the inferonasal and inferotemporal arcuate regions of the visual field but also involves the central field.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 1987 Mar;35(3):198-204. Visual field limitation in the patient with dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Steffes R, Thralow J.
Abstract: This paper investigates the existence of a visual field limitation and its effect on the advanced Alzheimer's patient. The data presented was obtained by testing 12 Alzheimer's and 12 control patients. The control patients were demented from causes secondary to reasons other than Alzheimer's disease. The results indicated that patients demented due to Alzheimer's have visual field losses significantly greater than other demented patients. This significant visual loss is of importance in assisting in differential diagnosis, performing patient cares, and planning patient environments.
Neurology. 1995 Jan;45(1):68-74. Visual field loss in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Trick GL, Trick LR, Morris P, Wolf M.
Source: School of Optometry, University of Montreal, PQ, Canada.
Visual performance is impaired in patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT). We investigated the visual field topography of these deficits.
Reliable visual fields (by manufacturer's criteria) were obtained in 72.1% (44/61) of the control subjects and 55.7% (34/61) of the SDAT group. In the SDAT group, differential luminance sensitivity was significantly reduced relative to the control group. Visual sensitivity was reduced throughout the visual field, but deficits were most pronounced in the inferior visual field, where they presented most commonly as arcuate defects. Patients with more severe dementia exhibited greater reductions in visual sensitivity. On follow-up, 14 of 23 SDAT patients exhibited progression of visual field loss, whereas only two of 23 patients exhibited a regression of the visual field loss.
Although automated perimetry requires considerable patient cooperation, many patients with SDAT can produce reliable visual field results. These patients exhibit significant reductions in global sensitivity. Visual field loss in SDAT is most pronounced in the inferonasal and inferotemporal arcuate regions of the visual field but also involves the central field.
Vestibular References
Vestibular loss as a contributor to Alzheimer’s disease; Fred H. Previc,; Texas A&M University – San Antonio, One University Way, San Antonio, TX 78224, United States Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease is a complex disorder whose etiology is still controversial. It is proposed that vestibular loss may contribute to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, which initially involves degeneration of cholinergic systems in the posterior parietal-temporal, medial-temporal, and posterior-cingulate regions. A major projection to this system emanates from the semicircular canals of the vestibular labyrinth, with vestibular damage leading to severe degeneration of the medial-temporal region. The vestibular loss hypothesis is further supported by the vestibular symptoms found in Alzheimer’s patients as well as in various diseases that are major risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.
Am J Ophthalmol. 1985 Jul 15;100(1):68-72. Visual disturbances with focal progressive dementing disease. Cogan DG.
Symptoms referable to the visual system may be the earliest and most prominent signs of idiopathic dementing disease (Alzheimer's type) despite the lack of objective signs in the eyes or visual system. Three such patients are described. The first patient, who had ultimately proven Alzheimer's disease, initially complained of poor vision and spatial disorientation. Her course was characterized by progressive topographic agnosia during a ten-year period. The second patient first sought ophthalmic consultation for blurring of vision that subsequently progressed during a six-year period to alexia without agraphia and spatial disorientation. The third patient, who had presumed Alzheimer's disease, initially complained of reading difficulties that prompted several ophthalmic consultations. Her problem was initially one of increasing visual agnosia which, together with other perceptive disturbances, gradually deepened during a period of several years.
Surv Ophthalmol. 1989 Jul-Aug;34(1):31-43. Ophthalmologic manifestations of Alzheimer's disease.
Katz B, Rimmer S. Source: Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic disorder which may present with visual disturbance before the diagnosis is clearly established. Central acuity and visual field are initially normal. Alzheimer patients may show anomalies of color vision, spatial contrast sensitivity, susceptibility to visual masks, fundus examination, ocular motility, higher cortical visual function, visual evoked potential, and pattern electroretinogram. Pathologic analysis has shown abnormalities at all levels of the visual axis from retinal ganglion cell to associative visual cortex. Correlations between the visual abnormalities of Alzheimer's disease and corresponding neuroanatomic substrates are discussed.
Am J Ophthalmol. 1996 Jul;122(1):97-105. Visual-spatial deficits expalin visual symptoms in Alzheimer's disease. Butter CM, Trobe JD, Foster NL, Berent S.
Source: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Abstract: PURPOSE:
To determine whether the visual symptoms of patients with Alzheimer's disease are related to visual-spatial dysfunction
METHODS: We administered a test battery modified from existing neuropsychometric materials that taxed visual-spatial skills, form identification, color vision, and visual memory. We tested 14 patients with Alzheimer's disease who had visual symptoms prominent enough to prompt ophthalmologic consultation, 11 patients with Alzheimer's disease who lacked such visual symptoms, and a control group of 53 subjects without Alzheimer's disease. The groups with Alzheimer's disease were matched for Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised scores.
RESULTS: Patients with Alzheimer's disease who had prominent visual symptoms differed significantly from those without prominent visual symptoms only in their relatively poor visual-spatial test scores.
Visual symptoms in Alzheimer's disease are related primarily to visual-spatial deficits. These findings are consistent with previous evidence that patients with Alzheimer's disease who have prominent visual symptoms have accentuated histologic and metabolic abnormalities in the parieto-occipital regions known to process visual-spatial information. The findings support the view that pathways mediating visual-spatial and form identification are at least partially segregated in the brain, and emphasize that tests used to screen visually symptomatic patients with Alzheimer's disease will be more effective if they prominently assess visual-spatial skills.
A high percentage of children with attention disorders also have sensory processing problems. These children may not perceive and process sensory information properly and they have difficulty producing appropriate responses at school, at home and in the community. (Multisensory Integration and Child Neurodevelopment, Brain Science, March 2015, 5(1):32-57, Dionne-Dostie, et al)
The intervention involving sensory- motor integration with an emphasis on proprioceptive and vestibular senses significantly improved attention deficits, hyperactivity and impulsivity in the studied population. (Sensory Integration in ADHD, J Res Rehabil Sci, 2013; 9(2):220-231, Haghgoo Hojjat, et al)
In the past, many therapies have used single sensory inputs. It has now been shown that multi-sensory input works faster and better.
Multi-sensory
We do not perceive sensory events as singular events. Sound, touch, sight, taste, smell, proprioception, and vestibular information, all interact to form the learning experience. Behavior and cognition develop through the integration of sensory information. (Touch activates human auditory cortex, Schurmann M, Caetano G, Hlushchuk Y, Jousmaki V, Hari R. NeuroImage. 2006;30:1325-1331)
Multisensory integration combinations yielded responses that were significantly greater than those evoked by the best single component stimulus. (Multisensory Versus Unisensory Integration: Contrasting Modes in the Superior Colliculus, J Neurophysiol 97: 3193–3205, 2007. doi:10.1152/jn.00018.2007. Juan Carlos Alvarado, J. William Vaughan, Terrence R. Stanford, and Barry E. Stein)
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Death on Mars
— by Madeline Ashby —
“Is he still on schedule?”
Donna’s hand spidered across the tactical array. She pinched and threw a map into Khalidah’s lenses. Marshall’s tug glowed there, spiraling ever closer to its target. Khalidah caught herself missing baseball. She squashed the sentiment immediately. It wasn’t really the sport she missed, she reminded herself. She just missed her fantasy league. Phobos was much too far away to get a real game going; the lag was simply too long for her bets to cover any meaningful spread. She could run a model, of course, and had even filled one halfway during the trip out. It wasn’t the same.
Besides, it was more helpful to participate in hobbies she could share with the others. The counselors had been very clear on that subject. She was better off participating in Game Night, and the monthly book club they maintained with the Girl Scouts and Guides of North America.
“He’s on time,” Donna said. “Stop worrying.”
“I’m not worried,” Khalidah said. And she wasn’t. Not really. Not about when he would arrive.
Donna pushed away from the terminal. She looked older than she had when they’d landed. They’d all aged, of course—the trip out and the lack of real produce hadn’t exactly done any of them any favors—but Donna seemed to have changed more dramatically than Khalidah or Brooklyn or Song. She’d cut most of her hair off, and now the silver that once sparkled along her roots was the only color left. The exo-suit hung loose on her. She hadn’t been eating. Everyone hated the latest rotation of rations. Who on Earth—literally, who?—thought that testing the nutritional merits of a traditional Buddhist macrobiotic diet in space was a good idea? What sadistic special-interest group had funded that particular line of research?
“It will be fine,” Donna said. “We will be fine.”
“I just don’t want things to change.”
“Things always change,” Donna said. “God is change. Right, Octavia?” The station spoke: “Right, Donna.”
Khalidah folded her arms. “So do we have to add an Arthur, just for him? Or a Robert? Or an Isaac? Or a Philip?”
The station switched its persona to Alice B. Sheldon. Its icon spun like a coin in the upper right of Khalidah’s vision. “We already have a James,” the station said. The icon winked.
“Khalidah, look at me,” Donna said. Khalidah defocused from the In-Vision array and met the gaze of her mission manager. “It won’t be easy,” the older woman said. “But nothing out here is. We already have plenty of data about our particular group. You think there won’t be sudden changes to group dynamics, down there?”
She pointed. And there it was: red and rusty, the color of old blood. Mars.
His name was Cody Marshall. He was Florida born and bred, white, with white-blond hair and a tendency toward rosacea. He held a PhD in computer science from Mudd. He’d done one internship in Syria, building drone-supported mesh nets, and another in Alert, Nunavut. He’d coordinated the emergency repair of an oil pipeline there using a combination of declassified Russian submersibles and American cable-monitoring drones. He’d managed the project almost single-handedly after the team lead at Alert killed himself.
Now here he was on Phobos, sent to debug the borehole driller on Mars. A recent solar storm had completely fried the drill’s comms systems; Donna insisted it needed a complete overhaul, and two heads were better than one. Marshall couldn’t do the job from home—they’d lose days reprogramming the things on the fly, and the drill bits were in sensitive places. One false move and months of work might collapse around billions of dollars of research, crushing it deep into the red dirt. He needed to be close. After all, he’d written much of the code himself.
This was his first flight.
“I didn’t want to be an astronaut,” he’d told them over the lag, when they first met. “I got into this because I loved robots. That’s all. I had no idea this is where I would wind up. But I’m really grateful to be here. I know it’s a change.”
“If you make a toilet seat joke, we’ll delete your porn,” Song said, now. When they all laughed, she looked around at the crowd. “What’s funny? I’m serious. I didn’t come all the way out here to play out a sitcom.”
Marshall snapped his fingers. “That reminds me.” He rifled through one of the many pouches he’d lugged on board. “Your mom sent this along with me.” He coasted a vial through the air at her. Inside, a small crystal glinted. “That’s your brother’s wedding. And your new nephew’s baptism. Speaking of sitcoms. She told me some stories to tell you. She didn’t want to record them—”
“She’s very nervous about recording anything.”
“—so she told me to tell them to you.”
Song rolled her eyes. “Are they about Uncle Chan-wook?”
Marshall’s pale eyebrows lifted high on his pink forehead. “How’d you guess?”
Again, the room erupted in laughter. Brooklyn laughed the loudest. She was a natural flirt. Her parents had named her after a borough they’d visited only once. In high school, she had self-published a series of homoerotic detective novels set in ancient Greece. The profits financed med school. After that, she hit Parsons for an unconventional residency. She’d worked on the team that designed the exo-suits they now wore. She had already coordinated Marshall’s fitting over the lag. It fit him well. At least, Brooklyn seemed pleased. She was smiling so wide that Khalidah could see the single cavity she’d sustained in all her years of eschewing most refined sugars.
Khalidah rather suspected that Brooklyn had secretly advocated for the macrobiotic study. Chugging a blue algae smoothie every morning seemed like her kind of thing. Khalidah had never asked about it. It was better not to know.
But wasn’t that the larger point of this particular experiment? To see if they could all get along? To see if women—with their lower caloric needs, their lesser weight, their quite literally cheaper labor, in more ways than one—could get the job done on Phobos? Sure, they were there on a planetary protection mission to gather the last remaining soil samples before the first human-oriented missions showed up, thereby ensuring the “chain of evidence” for future DNA experimentation. But they all knew—didn’t they—what this was really about. How the media talked about them. How the Internet talked about them. Early on, before departure, Khalidah had seen the memes.
For Brooklyn, Marshall had a single chime. Brooklyn’s mother had sent it to “clear the energy” of the station. During the Cold Lake training mission, she’d sent a Tibetan singing bowl.
For Khalidah, he had all 4,860 games of last year’s regular season. “It’s lossless,” he said. “All 30 teams. Even the crappy ones. One of our guys down at Kennedy, he has a brother-in-law in Orlando, works at ESPN. They got in touch with your dad, and, well . . . ”
“Thank you,” Khalidah said.
“Yeah. Sure.” Marshall cleared his throat. He rocked on his toes, pitched a little too far forward, and wheeled his arms briefly to recover his balance. If possible, he turned even pinker, so the color of his face now matched the color of his ears. “So. Here you go. I don’t know what else is on there, but, um . . . there it is. Enjoy.”
“Thank you.” Khalidah lifted the vial of media from his hand. Her crystal was darker than Song’s. Denser. It had been etched more often. She stuffed it in the right breast pocket of her suit. If for some reason her heart cut out and the suit had to give her a jolt, the crystal would be safe.
“And for you, Donna. Here’s what we talked about. They gave you double, just in case.”
Donna’s hand was already out. It shook a little as Marshall placed a small bottle in it. The label was easy to see. Easy to read. Big purple letters branded on the stark white sticker. Lethezine. The death drug. The colony of nanomachines that quietly took over the brain, shutting off major functions silently and painlessly. The best, most dignified death possible. The kind you had to ask the government for personally, complete with letters of recommendation from people with advanced degrees that could be revoked if they lied, like it was a grant application or admission to a very prestigious community. Which in fact it was.
“What is that?” Brooklyn asked.
It was a stupid question. Everyone knew exactly what it was. She was just bringing it out into the open. They’d been briefed on that. On making the implicit become explicit. On voicing what had gone unasked. Speaking the unspeakable. It was, in fact, part of the training. There were certain things you were supposed to suppress. And other things that you couldn’t let fester. They had drilled on it, over and over, at Cold Lake and in Mongolia and again and again during role-plays with the station interface.
“Why do you have that?” Brooklyn continued, when Donna didn’t answer. “Why would he give that to you?”
Donna pocketed the bottle before she opened her mouth to speak. When she did, she lifted her gaze and stared at each of them in turn. She smiled tightly. For the first time, Khalidah realized the older woman’s grimace was not borne of impatience, but rather simple animal pain. “It’s because I’m dying,” she said.
She said it like it was a commonplace event. Like, “Oh, it’s because I’m painting the kitchen,” or “It’s because I took the dog for a walk.”
In her lenses, Khalidah saw the entire group’s auras begin to flare. The auras were nothing mystical, nothing more than ambient indicators of what the sensors in the suits were detecting: heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, odd little twitches of muscle fibers. She watched them move from baseline green to bruise purple—the color of tension, of frustration. Only Song remained calm: her aura its customary frosty mint green, the same shade once worn by astronauts’ wives at the advent of the Space Race.
“You knew?” she managed to say, just as Marshall said, “You didn’t tell them?”
Khalidah whirled to stare at him. His mouth hung open. He squinted at Donna, then glanced around the group. “Wait,” he said. “Wait. Let’s just take a minute. I . . . ” He swallowed. “I need a minute. You . . . ” He spun in place and pointed at Donna. “This was a shitty thing to do. I mean, really, truly, deeply, profoundly not cool. Lying to your team isn’t cool. Setting me up to fail isn’t cool.”
“I have a brain tumor,” Donna said blandly. “I’m not necessarily in my right mind.”
“Donna,” Song said quietly.
Oh, God. Donna was dying. She was dying and she hadn’t told them and minty-green Song had known about it the whole damn time.
“You knew,” Khalidah managed to say.
“Of course she knew,” Donna said. “She’s our doctor.”
Donna was dying. Donna would be dead, soon. Donna had lied to all of them.
“It’s inoperable,” Donna added, as though talking about a bad seam in her suit and not her gray matter. “And in any case, I wouldn’t want to operate on it. I still have a few good months here—”
“A few months?” Brooklyn was crying. The tears beaded away from her face and she batted at them, as though breaking them into smaller pieces would somehow dismantle the grief and its cause. “You have months? That’s it?”
“More or less.” Donna shrugged. “I could make it longer, with chemo, or nano. But we don’t have those kinds of therapies here. Even if we did, and the tumor did shrink, Song isn’t a brain surgeon, and the lag is too slow for Dr. Spyder to do something that delicate.” She jerked a thumb at the surgical assistant in its cubby. “And there’s the fact that I don’t want to leave.”
There was an awful silence filled only by the sounds of the station: the water recycler, the rasp of air in the vents, an unanswered alert chiming on and off, off and on. It was the sound the drill made when it encountered issues of structural integrity and wanted a directive on how to proceed. If they didn’t answer it in five more minutes, the chime would increase in rate and volume. If they didn’t answer it after another five minutes, the drill itself would relay a message via the rovers to tell mission control they were being bad parents.
And none of that mattered now. At least, Khalidah could not make it matter, in her head. She could not pull the alert into the “urgent” section of her mind. Because Donna was dying, Donna would be dead soon, Donna was in all likelihood going to kill herself right here on the station and what would they do—
Donna snapped her fingers and opened the alert. She pushed it over to tactical array where they could all see it. “Marshall, go and take a look.”
Marshall seemed glad of any excuse to leave the conversation. He drifted over to the array and started pulling apart the alert with his fingers. His suit was still so new that his every swipe and pinch and pull worked on the first try. His fingers hadn’t worn down yet. Not like theirs. Not like Donna’s.
“Can you do that?” Khalidah asked Donna. When Donna didn’t answer, she focused on Song. “Can she do that?”
Song’s face closed. She was in full physician mode now. Gone was the cheerful woman with the round face who joked about porn. Had the person they’d become friends with ever truly been real? Was she always this cold, underneath? Was it being so far away from Earth that made it so easy for her to lie to them? “It’s her body, Khal. She doesn’t have any obligation to force it to suffer.”
Khalidah tried to catch Donna’s eye. “You flew with the Air Force. You flew over Syria and Sudan. You—”
“Yes, and whatever I was exposed to there probably had a hand in this,” Donna muttered. “The buildings, you know. They released all kinds of nasty stuff. Like first responder syndrome, but worse.” She pinched her nose. It was the only sign she ever registered of a headache. “But it’s done, now, Khalidah. I’ve made my decision.”
“We all knew this might be a one-way trip,” Song added.
“Don’t patronize me, Song,” Khalidah snapped.
“Then grow up,” Song sighed. “Donna put this in her living will ages ago. Long before she even had her first flight. She was preapproved for Lethezine, thanks to her family’s cancer history. There was always a chance that she would get cancer on this trip, given the radiation exposure. But her physicians decided it was an acceptable risk, and she chose to come here in full awareness of that risk.”
“I’m right here, you know,” Donna said. “I’m not dead yet.”
“You could still retire,” Khalidah heard herself say. “You could go private. Join a board of trustees somewhere, or something like that. They’d cover a subscription, maybe they could get you implants—”
“I don’t want implants, Khal, I want to die here—”
“I brought some implants,” Marshall said, without turning around. He slid one last number into place, then wiped away the display. Now he turned. He took a deep breath, as though he’d rehearsed this speech the whole trip over. Which he probably had. Belatedly, Khalidah noticed the length of his hair and fingernails. God, he’d done the whole trip alone. The station couldn’t bear more than one extra; as it was, he’d needed to bring extra scrubbers and promise to spend most of the time in his own hab docked to theirs.
“I brought implants,” he continued. “They’re prototypes. No surgery necessary. Houston insisted. They wanted to give you one last chance to change your mind.”
“I’m not going to change my mind,” Donna said. “I want to die here.”
“Please stop saying that.” Brooklyn wiped her eyes. “Please just stop saying that.”
“But it’s the truth,” Donna said, in her maddening why-isn’t-everyone-as-objective-about-this-as-I-am way. “My whole life, I’ve wanted to go to Mars. And now I’m within sight of it. I’m not going to leave just because there’s a lesion on my brain. Not when I just got here.” She huffed. “Besides. I’d be no good to any of you on chemo. I’d be sick.”
“You are sick,” Khalidah snapped.
“Not that sick.” Song lifted her gaze from her nails and gestured at the rest of them. “None of you noticed, did you? Both of you thought she was fine.”
“Yeah, no thanks to you.”
“Don’t take that tone with me. She’s my patient. I’d respect your right to confidentiality the same way I respected hers.”
“You put the mission at risk,” Khalidah said.
“Oh my God, Khal, stop talking like them.” Brooklyn’s voice was still thick with tears. “You’re not mission control. This has nothing to do with the mission”
“It has everything to do with the mission!” Khalidah rounded on Donna. “How could you do this? How could you not tell us? This entire experiment hinges on social cohesion. That’s why we’re here. We’re here to prove . . . ”
Now the silence had changed into something wholly other. It was much heavier now. Much more accusatory. Donna folded her arms.
“What are we here to prove, Khalidah?”
Khalidah shut her eyes. She would be professional. She would not cry. She would not get angry. At least, no angrier than she already was. She would not focus on Donna’s betrayal, and her deceit, and the fact that she had the audacity to pull this bullshit so soon after . . . Khalidah took a deep breath.
She would put it aside. Humans are containers of emotion. She made herself see the words in the visualizing interface they had for moments like this. When someone else’s emotions spill out, it’s because their container is full. She focused on her breathing. She pictured the color of her aura changing in the others’ lenses. She imagined pushing the color from purple to green, healing it slowly, as though it were the evidence of a terrible wound.
“I’m fine,” she said. “I’m fine. I’m sorry.”
“That’s good,” Donna said. “Because we’re not here to prove any one particular thing or another. We’re here to run experiments, gather the last Martian samples before the crewed missions begin, and observe the drills as they dig out the colony. That’s all we’re here to do. You may feel pressure to do something else, due to the nature of this team, but that’s not why we’re here. The work comes first. The policy comes later.”
The Morrígu was divided into three pods: Badb, Macha, and Nemain. No one referred to them that way, of course—only Marshall had the big idea to actually try stumbling through ancient Gaelic with his good ol’ boy accent. He gave up after two weeks. Nonetheless, he still referred to his unit as the Corvus.
“Nice of them to stick with the crow theme,” he said.
“Ravens are omens of death,” Donna said, and just like that, Game Night was over. That was fine with Khalidah. Low-gravity games never had the degree of complexity she liked; they had magnetic game boards, but they weren’t entirely the same. And without cards or tokens they couldn’t really visualize the game in front of them, and basically played permutations of Werewolf or Mafia until they learned each other’s tells.
Not that all that experience had helped her read Donna and Song’s dishonesty. Even after all their time spent together, in training, on the flight, on the station, there was the capacity for betrayal. Even now, she did not truly know them.
Not yet, Khalidah often repeated to herself, as the days stretched on. Not yet. Not for the first time, she wished for a return to 24-hour days. Once upon a time, they had seemed so long. She had yearned for afternoons to end, for lectures to cease, for shifts to close. Now she understood that days on Earth were beautifully, mercifully short.
Sometimes Khalidah caught Donna watching her silently, when she didn’t think Khalidah would notice. When Khalidah met her eyes, Donna would try to smile. It was more a crinkling of the eyes than anything else. It was hard to tell if she was in pain, or unhappy, or both. The brain had no nerve endings of its own, no pain receptors. The headaches that Donna felt were not the tissue’s response to her tumor, but rather a warning sign about a crowded nerve, an endless alarm that rang down through her spinal column and caused nausea and throbbing at odd hours. Or so she said.
Khalidah’s first email was to her own psychiatrist on Earth, through her personal private channel. It was likely the very same type of channel Donna had used to carry on her deception. Can a member of crew just hide any medical condition they want? she wrote.
Your confidentiality and privacy are paramount, Dr. Hassan wrote back from Detroit. You have sacrificed a great deal of privacy to go on this mission. You live in close quarters, quite literally right on top of each other. So the private channels you have left are considered sacrosanct. Communications between any participant and her doctor must remain private until the patient chooses to disclose.
This was not the answer Khalidah had wanted to hear.
Imagine if it were you who had a secret, Dr. Hassan continued, as though having anticipated Khalidah’s feelings on the matter. If you were experiencing the occasional suicidal ideation, for example, would you want your whole crew to know, or would you wait for the ideations to pass?
It was a valid counterargument. Mental health was a major concern on long-haul missions. Adequate care required stringent privacy. But Donna’s cancer wasn’t a passing thought about how much easier it would be to be dead. She was actually dying. And she hadn’t told them.
Now, after all that silence on the matter, the cancer seemed to be all anyone could talk about.
“I’ve almost trained the pain to live on Martian time,” Donna said, one morning. “Most patients feel pain in the morning, but they feel it on an Earth schedule, with full sunlight.”
Khalidah could not bring herself to smile back, not yet. Doing so felt like admitting defeat.
“She won’t die any slower just because you’re mad at her,” Brooklyn said, as they conducted seal checks on the suits.
“Leave me alone,” Khalidah said. Brooklyn just shrugged and got on with the checklist. A moment later, she asked for a flashlight. Khalidah handed it to her without a word.
“Have you watched any of the games your dad sent?” Marshall asked, the next day.
“Please don’t bring him up,” Khalidah said.
Five weeks later, the vomiting started. It was an intriguing low-gravity problem—barf bags were standard, but carrying them around wasn’t. And Donna couldn’t just commandeer the shop-vac for her own personal use. In the end, Marshall made her a little butterfly net, of sorts, with an iris at one end. It was like a very old-fashioned nebulizer for inhaling asthma medication. Only it worked in the other direction.
Not coincidentally, Marshall had brought with him an entire liquid diet intended specifically for cancer patients. Donna switched, and things got better.
“I’ll stick around long enough to get the last samples from Hellas,” she said, sipping a pouch of what appeared to be either a strawberry milkshake or an anti-nausea tonic. She coughed. The cough turned into a gag that she needed to suppress. She clenched a fist and then unclenched it, to master it. “I want my John Hancock on those damn things.”
“Don’t you want to see the landing?” Marshall asked. “You know, hand over the keys, see their faces when they see the ant farm in person for the first time?”
“What, and watch them fuck up all our hard work?”
They all laughed. All of them but Khalidah. How could they just act like everything was normal? Did the crew of the Ganesha mission even know that Donna was sick? Would the team have to explain it? How would that conversation even happen? (“Welcome to Mars. Sorry, but we’re in the middle of a funeral. Anyway, try not to get your microbes everywhere.” )
Then the seizures started. They weren’t violent. More like gentle panic attacks. “My arm doesn’t feel like my arm anymore,” Donna said, as she continued to man her console with one hand. “No visual changes, though. Just localized disassociation.”
“That’s a great band name,” Marshall said.
Morrígu tried to help, in her own way. The station gently reminded Khalidah of all the things that she already knew: that she was distracted, that she wasn’t sleeping, that she would lie awake listening for the slightest tremor in Donna’s breathing, and that sometimes Brooklyn would reach up from her cubby and squeeze Khalidah’s ankle because she was listening too. The station made herself available in the form of the alters, often pinging Khalidah when her gaze failed to track properly across a display, or when her blood pressure spiked, or when she couldn’t sleep. Ursula, most often, but then Octavia. God is Change, the station reminded her. The only lasting truth is Change.
And Khalidah knew that to be true. She did. She simply drew no comfort from it. Too many things had changed already. Donna was dying. Donna, who had calmly helped her slide the rods into the sleeves as they pitched tents in Alberta one dark night while the wolves howled and the thermometer dropped to 30 below. Donna, who had said, “Of course you can do it. That’s not the question,” when Khalidah reached between the cots during isolation week and asked Donna if the older woman thought she was really tough enough to do the job. Donna, without whom Khalidah might have quit at any time.
“You watch any of those games yet?” Marshall asked, when he caught her staring down at the blood-dark surface of the planet. Rusted, old. Not like the wine-dark samples that Song drained from Donna each week.
Khalidah only shook her head. Baseball seemed so stupid now.
“Your dad, he really wanted to get those to you before I left,” Marshall reminded her.
Khalidah took a deep, luxuriant breath. “I told you not to mention him, Marshall. I asked you nicely. Are you going to respect those boundaries, or are we going to have a problem?”
Marshall said nothing, at first. Instead he drifted in place, holding the nearest grip to keep himself tethered. He hadn’t learned how to tuck himself in yet, how to twist and wring himself so that he passed through without touching anyone else. Everything about his presence there still felt wrong.
“We don’t have to be friends,” he said, in measured tones. He pointed down into Storage. “But the others, they’re your friends. Or they thought they were. Until now.”
“They lied to me.”
“Oh, come on. You think it wasn’t tough for Song to go through that? You think she enjoyed it, not telling you? Jesus Christ, Khalidah. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but a lot of us made a lot of sacrifices to get this far.”
“Oh, I’m sure it was so difficult for you, finding out you’d get to go to Mars—”
“—Phobos.”
“—Phobos, without anything like the training we had to endure, just so you could pilot your finicky fucking drill God knows where—”
“Hey, now, I happen to like my finicky fucking drill very fucking much,” Marshall said. He blinked. Then covered his face with his hands. He’d filed his nails down and buzzed his hair in solidarity with Donna. His entire skull was flushed the color of a new spring geranium. “That . . . didn’t come out right.”
Khalidah hung in place. She drew her knees up to her chest and floated. It had been a long time since she’d experienced secondhand embarrassment. Something about sharing such a tiny space with the others for so long ground it out of a person. But she was embarrassed for Marshall now. Not as embarrassed as he was, thank goodness. But embarrassed.
“They sent me alone, you know,” he said, finally, through the splay of his fingers. He scrubbed at the bare stubble of his skull. “Alone. Do you even know what that means? You know all those desert island questions in job interviews? When they ask you what books you’d bring, if you were stranded in the middle of nowhere? Well, I read all of those. War and Peace. Being and Nothingness. Do you have any idea how good I am at solitaire, by now?”
“You can’t be good at solitaire, it’s—”
“But I did it, because they said it was the best chance for giving Donna extra time. If they’d sent two of us, you’d all have to go home a hell of a lot faster. You wouldn’t be here when Ganesha arrives. So I did it. I got here. Alone. I did the whole trip by myself. So you and Donna and the whole crew could have more time.”
Khalidah swallowed hard. “Are you finished?”
“Yes. I’m finished.” He pushed himself off the wall, then bounced away and twisted back to face her. “No. I’m not. I think you’re being a total hypocrite, and I think it’s undermining whatever social value the Morrígu experiment was meant to have.”
Khalidah felt her eyebrows crawl up to touch the edges of her veil. “Excuse me?”
“Yeah. You heard me. You’re being a hypocrite.” He lowered his voice. “Do your friends even know your dad died? Did you tell them that he was dying, when you left? Because I was told not to mention it, and that sure as hell sounds like a secret to me.”
Khalidah closed her eyes. The only place to go, in a space this small, was inward. There was no escape, otherwise. She waited until that soft darkness had settled around her and then asked, “Why are you doing this?”
“Because you’re not alone, out here. You have friends. Friends you’ve known and worked with for years, in one way or another. So what if Donna jerked you around? She jerked me around too, and you don’t see me acting like a brat about it. Or Brooklyn. Or Song. Meanwhile you’ve been keeping this massive life-changing event from them this whole time.”
Now Khalidah’s eyes opened. She had no need for that comforting blanket of darkness now. “My father dying is not a massive life-changing event,” she snapped. “You think you know all my secrets? You don’t know shit, Marshall. Because if you did, you’d know that I haven’t spoken to that bastard in 10 years.”
As though trying to extract some final usefulness from their former mistress, the drills decided to fail before the Banshee units returned with their samples, and before Ganesha arrived with the re-up and the Mars crew. Which meant that when Ganesha landed, the crew would have to live in half-dug habs.
“It’s the goddamn perchlorate,” Donna whispered. She had trouble swallowing now, and it meant her voice was constantly raw. “I told them we should have gone with the Japanese bit. It drilled the Shinkansen, I said. Too expensive, they said. Now the damn thing’s rusted all to shit.”
Which was exactly the case. The worm dried up suddenly, freezing in place—a “Bertha Bork,” like the huge drill that stalled under Seattle during an ill-fated transit project. They’d rehearsed this particular error. First they ordered all the rovers away in case of a sinkhole, and then started running satellites over the sink. And the drill himself told them what was wrong. The blades were corroded. After five years of work, too much of the red dirt had snuck down into the drill’s workings. It would need to be dug out and cleaned before it could continue. Or it would need to be replaced entirely.
The replacement prototype was already built. It had just completed its first test run in the side of a flattened mountain in West Virginia. It was strong and light and better articulated than the worm. But the final model was supposed to come over with Ganesha. And in the meantime, the hab network still needed major excavation.
“What’s the risk if we send one of the rovers to try to uncover it?” Song asked. “We’ve got one in the cage; it wrapped up its mission ages ago. Wouldn’t be too hard to reconfigure.”
“Phobos rovers might be too light,” Marshall said. “But the real problem is the crashberry; it’ll take three days to inflate and another week to energize. And that’s a week we’re not drilling.”
“We could tell Ganesha to slow down,” Khalidah said.
“They’re ballistic capture,” Marshall said. “If they slow down now, they lose serious momentum.”
“They’d pick it up on arrival, though.”
“Yeah . . . ” Marshall sucked his teeth. “But they’re carrying a big load. They could jackknife once they hit the well, if they don’t maintain a steady speed.” He scrubbed at the thin dusting of blonde across his scalp. “But we have to tell them about this, either way. Wouldn’t be right, not updating them.”
Khalidah snorted. The others ignored her.
“Can we redirect the Banshees?” Brooklyn asked. “Whiskey and Tango are the closest. We could have them dump their samples, set a pin, tell them to dig out the worm, and then come back.”
Khalidah shook her head. “They’re already full. They’re on their way to the mail drop. If we redeployed them now, they wouldn’t be in position when Ganesha arrives. Besides, they’re carrying Hellas—we can’t afford to compromise them.”
“Those samples are locked up like Fort Knox,” Brooklyn said. “What, are you worried that the crew of Ganesha will open them up by mistake? Because that’s pretty much guaranteed not to happen.”
“No, but—”
“There’s a storm in between Whiskey and the worm,” Marshall said. He pointed at an undulating pattern of lines on the screen between two blinking dots. “If we send Whiskey now, we might lose her forever. And the samples. And we still wouldn’t be any further with the drill. Fuck.”
He pushed away from the console, knuckling his eyes. Khalidah watched the planet. In the plate glass, she caught Donna watching her. Her friend was much thinner now. They’d had to turn off her suit, because it no longer fit snugly enough to read her heartbeat. Her breath came in rasps. She coughed often. Last month, Song speculated that the cancer had spread to her lungs; Donna claimed not to care very much. Khalidah heard the older woman sigh slow and deep. And she knew, before Donna even opened her mouth, what she was about to suggest.
“There’s always the Corvus,” Donna said.
“No,” Khalidah said. “Absolutely not.”
But Donna wasn’t even looking at her. She was looking at Marshall. “How much fuel did they really send, Marshall? You got here awfully fast.”
Marshall licked his lips. “Between what I have left over and what Ganesha is leaving behind for you midway, there’s enough to send you home.”
“Which means Corvus has just enough to send me down, and give me thrust to come back.”
“Even if that were true, you could still have a seizure while doing the job,” Song said.
“Then I’ll take my anti-seizure medication before I leave,” Donna said.
“The gravity would demolish you, with the state you’re in,” Marshall said. “It should be me. I should go. I know Corvus better, and my bone density is—”
“That’s very gallant of you, Mr. Marshall, but I outrank you,” Donna reminded him. “Yes, I tire easily. Yes, it’s hard for me to breathe. But I’m stronger than I would be if I were on chemo. And the suit can both give me some lift and push a good air mix for me. Right, Brooklyn?”
Brooklyn beamed. “Yes, ma’am.”
“And Marshall, if any of those things do occur, I need you up here to remote-pilot Corvus from topside and get the samples back here.” She gestured at the map. “If you tell Tango to meet me, I can take her samples and put them on Corvus. Then I get in Tango’s cargo compartment and drive her around the storm, to the worm. I dig out the drill, and you restart it from up here. When I come back, you have the samples, and Ganesha has another guest room.” She grinned. The smile made her face into a skull. “Easy peasy,” Donna said.
“You know you’re making history, right?” Marshall asked, as they performed the final checks on Corvus. “First human on Mars, and all that. You’re stealing Ganesha’s thunder.”
Donna coughed. “Don’t jinx it, Marshall.”
“How are your hands?”
Donna held them up. Slowly, she crunched her thickly gloved digits into fists. “They’re okay.”
“That’s good. Go slow. The Banshees take a light touch.”
“I know that, Marshall.”
He pinked. “I know you know. But I’m just reminding you. Now, I’ll get you down there, smooth as silk, and when it’s time to come home you just let us know, okay?”
Donna’s head tilted. She did that when she was about to ask an important question. For a moment it reminded Khalidah so much of the woman she’d been and the woman they’d lost that she forgot to breathe. “Is it home now, for you?”
Marshall’s blush deepened. He really did turn the most unfortunate shade of sunburned red. “I guess so,” he said. “Brooklyn, it’s your turn.”
Brooklyn breezed in and, flipping herself to hang upside down, performed the final checks on Donna’s suit. “You’ve got eight hours,” she said. “Sorry it couldn’t be more. Tango is already on her way, and she’ll be there to meet you when you land.”
“What’s Tango’s charge like?”
“She’s sprinting to meet you, so she’ll be half-empty by the time she hits the rendezvous point,” Marshall said. “But there’s a set of auxiliary batteries in the cargo area. You’d have to move them to get into the cockpit anyhow.”
Donna nodded. The reality of what was about to happen was settling on them. How odd, Khalidah thought, to be weightless and yet to feel the gravity of Donna’s mission tugging at the pit of her stomach. The first human on Mars. The first woman. The first cancer patient. She had read a metaphor of illness as another country, how patients became citizens of it, that place beyond the promise of life, and now she thought of Donna there on the blood-red sands, representing them. Not just a human, but a defiantly mortal one, one for whom all the life-extension dreams and schemes would never bear fruit. All the members of the Ganesha crew had augmentations to make their life on Mars more productive and less painful. Future colonists would doubtless have similar lifehacks. Donna was the only visitor who would ever set an unadulterated foot on that soil.
“I’ll be watching your vitals the whole time,” Song said. “If I don’t like what I see, I’ll tell Marshall to take control of Tango and bring you back.”
Donna cracked a smile. “Is that for my benefit, or the machine’s?”
“Both,” Song said. “We can’t have you passing out and crashing millions of dollars’ worth of machine learning and robotics.”
And then, too soon, the final checks were finished, and it was time for Donna to go. The others drifted to the other side of the airlock, and Brooklyn ran the final diagnostic of the detachment systems. Khalidah’s hands twitched at her veil. She had no idea what to say. Why did you lie to us? Did you really think that would make this easier? What were you so afraid of?
Donna regarded her from the interior of her suit. She looked so small inside it. Khalidah thought of her fragile body shaking inside its soft volumes, her thin neck and her bare skull juddering like a bad piece of video.
“Don’t,” Donna said. “Don’t, Khal. Not now.”
For the first time in a long time, Khalidah peeped at Donna’s aura through the additional layer in her lenses’ vision. It was deep blue, like a very wide and cold stretch of the sea. It was a color she had never seen on Donna. When she looked at her own pattern, it was much the same shade.
Marshall chose this moment to poke his head in. “It’s time.”
Donna reached over to the airlock button. “I have to go now, Khalidah.”
Before Khalidah could say anything, Marshall had tugged her backward. The door rolled shut. For a moment she watched Donna through the small bright circle of glass. Then Donna’s helmet snapped shut and she wore a halo within a halo, like a bull’s-eye.
The landing was as Marshall promised: smooth as silk. With Corvus he was in his element. He and the vessel knew each other well. They’d moved as much of Corvus’ cargo as they could into temporary storage outside the hab; the reduced weight would give Donna the extra boost on the trip back that she might need.
Donna herself rode out the landing better than any of them expected. She took her time unburdening herself of her restraints, and they heard her breathing heavily, trying to choke back the nausea that now dominated her daily life. But eventually she lurched free of the unit, tuned up the jets on her suit, jiggered her air mix, and began the unlocking procedure to open Corvus. They watched her gloved hands hovering over the final lock.
“I hope you’re not expecting some cheesy bullshit about giant leaps for womankind,” Donna said, panting audibly. She sounded sheepish. For Donna, that meant she was nervous. “I didn’t really have time to prepare any remarks. I have a job to do.”
Brooklyn wiped her eyes and covered her mouth. Marshall passed her a tissue, and took one for himself.
“You’ve wanted this since you were a little girl, Donna,” Song said. “Go out there and get it.”
Together they watched the lock spin open, and Donna eased herself out. There was Tango, ready and waiting. And there was Mars, or at least their little corner of it, raw and open and red like a wound.
“I wish I could smell it,” Donna said. “I wish I could taste the air. It feels strange to be here and yet not be here at the same time. You can stand here all you want and never really touch it.”
“You can look at the samples when you bring them back,” Brooklyn managed to say.
Donna said nothing, only silently made her way to Tango and moved the samples back to Corvus. Then she began the procedure to get Tango into manual. Her feed cut out a couple of times, but only briefly; they hadn’t thought to test the signal on the cameras themselves. Her audio was fine, though, and Marshall talked her through when she had questions. In the end it ran like any other remote repair. Even the dig went well; clearing the dirt from the drill and restarting it from the control panel was a lot simpler than any of them had expected.
Halfway back to Corvus, Tango slowly rolled to a stop.
“Donna, check your batteries,” Marshall suggested.
There was no answer. Only Donna’s slow, wet breathing.
“Donna, copy?”
Nothing. They looked at Song; Song pulled up Donna’s vitals. “No changes in her eye movements or alpha pattern,” Song whispered. “She’s not having a seizure. Donna. Donna! Do you need help?”
“No,” Donna said, finally. “I came here to do a job, and now I’m finished with it. I’m done.”
Something in Khalidah’s stomach turned to ice. “Don’t do this,” she whispered, as Marshall began to say “No, no, no,” over and over. He started bashing things on the console, running every override he could.
“No, you don’t, you crazy old broad,” he muttered. “I can get Tango to drive you back, you know!”
“Not if I’ve ripped out the receiver,” Donna said. She sounded exhausted. “I think I’ll just stay here, thank you. Ganesha can deal with me when they come. You don’t have to do it. You’d have had to freeze me, anyway, and vibrate me down to crystal, like cat litter, and—”
“Fuck. You.”
It was the first full complete sentence that Khalidah had spoken to her in months. So she repeated it.
“Fuck you. Fuck you for lying to us. Again. Fuck you for this selfish fucking bullshit. Oh, you think you’re being so romantic, dying on Mars. Well fuck you. We came here to prove we could live, not . . . ” Her lips were hot. Her eyes were hot. It was getting harder to breathe. “Not whatever the fuck it is you think you’re doing.”
“Donna, please don’t,” Brooklyn whispered in her most wheedling tone. “Please don’t leave us. We need you.” She sounded like a child. Then again, Khalidah wasn’t sure she herself sounded any better. Somehow this loss contained within it all the other losses she’d ever experienced: her mother, her father, the slow pull away from the Earth and into the shared unknown.
“This is a bad idea,” Marshall said, his voice calm and steady. “If you want to take the Lethezine, take the Lethezine. But you don’t know how it works—what if it doesn’t go like you think it will, and you’re alone and in pain down there? Why don’t you come back up, and if something goes wrong, we’ll be there to help?”
Silence. Was she deliberating? Could they change her mind? Khalidah strained to hear the sound of Tango starting back up again. They flicked nervous, tearful glances at each other.
“Are you just going to quit?” Khalidah asked, when the silence stretched too long. “Are you just going to run away, like this? Now that it’s hard?”
“You have no idea how hard this is, Khal, and you’ve never once thought to ask.”
It stung. Khalidah let the pain transform itself into anger. Anger, she decided, was the only way out of this problem. “I thought you didn’t want me to ask, given how you never told us anything until it was too late.”
“It’s not my fault I’m dying!”
“But it’s your fault you didn’t tell us! We would have—”
“You would have convinced me to go home.” Donna chuckled. It became a cough. The cough lasted too long. “Because you love me, and you want me to live. And I love you, so I would have done it.” She had another little coughing jag. “But the trouble with home is that there’s nothing to go back to. I’ve thrown my whole life into this. I’ve had to pass on things—real things—to get to this place. But now that I’m here, I know it was worth it. And that’s how I want to end it. I don’t want to die alone in a hospital surrounded by people who don’t understand what’s out here, or why we do this.”
Khalidah forced her voice to remain firm. “And so you want to die alone, down there, surrounded by nothing at all?”
“I’m not alone, Khal. You’re with me. You’re all with me, all the time.”
Brooklyn broke down. She pushed herself into one corner. Khalidah reached up, and held her ankle, tethering her into the group. She squeezed her eyes shut and felt tears bud away. Song’s beautiful ponytail drifted across her face. Arms curled around Khalidah’s body. Khalidah curled her arms around the others. They were a Gordian knot, hovering far above Donna, a problem she could not solve and could only avoid.
“That’s right, Donna,” Marshall said. “We’re here. We’re right here.”
“I’m sorry,” Donna said. “I’m sorry I lied. I didn’t want to. But I just . . . I wanted to stay, more than I wanted to tell you.”
“I’m sorry, too,” Khalidah said. “I . . . ” She wiped at her face. Her throat hurt. “I miss you. Already.”
“I miss you, too. I miss all of you.” Donna sniffed hard. “But this is where we’re supposed to be. Because this is where we are at our best.”
They were quiet for a while. There was nothing to do but weep. Khalidah thought she might weep forever. The pain was a real thing—she had forgotten that it hurt to cry. She had forgotten the raw throat and pounding head that came with full-body grief. She had forgotten, since her mother, how physically taxing it could be.
“Are you ready, now?” Song asked, finally. She wiped her eyes and swallowed. “Donna? Are you ready to take the dose?”
The silence went on a long time. But still, they kept asking, “Are you ready? Are you ready?”
Originally published in Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, edited by Ed Finn, Joey Eschrich, and Juliet Ulman.
ISSUE 146, November 2018
Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. She has worked with Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination, Changeist, and others. She has spoken at SXSW, FutureEverything, MozFest, and other events. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow. Her fiction has appeared in Slate, MIT Tech Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels. Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reads finalist.
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Home Office: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last 12 months; what proportion that leave was of total sick leave taken in his Department; and what the cost was to his Department of officials taking sick leave over that period.
<p>The number of staff in the Home Office who took sickness absence due to mental health issues in the 12 months to 30 April 2019; the proportion of the total sick absence that this comprises; and the cost to the Department of sick absence due to mental ill health during that period is set out in the accompanying table. These absences include those relating to stress, as well as other mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. These conditions can be triggered by various factors.</p><p>We are committed to breaking down barriers and reducing stigma for employees living with mental health conditions. We aim to equip managers to recognise and address stress in the workplace and encourage employees to talk to their managers about mental health issues so that they can access help and support at the earliest stage.</p>
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Independent Office for Police Conduct: Standards
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time taken for the Independent Office for Police Conduct to investigate a public complaint about police behaviour.
Lord Hogan-Howe
<p>The information you requested is available on the Independent Office for Police Conduct’s (IOPC) website, published via their annual reports. The 2017/18 report can be accessed</p><p><a href="https://policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Documents/Who-we-are/accountability-performance/IOPC_annual_report_and_accounts_2017-18.pdf" target="_blank">https://policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Documents/Who-we-are/accountability-performance/IOPC_annual_report_and_accounts_2017-18.pdf</a> with previous reports available<a href="https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans" target="_blank"> https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans </a>The police conduct accountability and performance annual report: describes our work over the past year, including the investigations we have carried out, the appeals we have handled, and our work to increase public confidence in the complaints system. It also outlines what we have been doing over the past year to review and implement changes to the way we work.</p><p>The 2017/18 performance year, the figures include 9 months of IPCC data (April to December) and 3 months of IOPC data (January to March).</p><p>Figures for the 2018/19 performance year will be included in the IOPC’s next annual report which will be laid before Parliament and published later in the year.</p>
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OPC Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18
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NHS: Civil Proceedings
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money the NHS spent as part of legal settlements in each year from 2009 to 2018; and how much of each year's spend relates to legal fees.
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
<p>NHS Resolution has provided the following information:</p><p>NHS Resolution has provided tables which cover:</p><p>- total expenditure for NHS Resolution Clinical Negligence Schemes and NHS Resolution non-clinical negligence schemes from 2009 to 2018;</p><p>- the total legal costs per financial year; and</p><p>- the draft budget for legal fees/damages 2019 for NHS Resolution Clinical Negligence Schemes and NHS Resolution non-clinical negligence schemes.</p><p>The data is attached due to the size of the data.</p><p>National Health Service spend on legal fees for matters other than clinical/non-clinical negligence settlements since 2009 has been interpreted as spend relating to NHS providers and commissioners.</p><p>This includes NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and NHS England and clinical commissioning groups. NHS spend on legal fees for non-negligence matters is shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total legal fees (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>110,747</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>171,806</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>162,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>172,135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>160,140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Prior to 2013-14, expenditure on legal fees was not separately classified by primary care trusts and strategic health authorities who both carried out NHS commissioning and NHS trusts. Therefore, comparable information pre 2013-14 is unavailable.</p><p>There is no specific category of expenditure that isolates spend relating to legal settlements in the NHS.</p><p>We have interpreted the request for data for the amounts set aside in 2019 as the value of said provisions as at the end of the financial year, 31 March 2019. This data is still subject to audit and will not be available until after publication of the Annual Report and Accounts in July 2019.</p><p>The budget totals for legal fees relating to NHS spend in 2019 is not available.</p><p> </p>
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To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money the NHS has set aside for potential legal settlements in 2019; and how much they have budgeted for legal fees.
Asylum: Eritrea
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum claims were made in each of the past three years by Eritreans; whether more illegal migrants were smuggled into the UK last year from Eritrea than from any other country; and what assessment they have made of religious persecution in Eritrea as a driver of Eritrean migration.
<p>The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications for asylum in the UK, broken down by nationality, in its quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The number of applications made by Eritreans in each year are available in table as_01 (Main Applicants; Asylum, volume 1).</p><p>Latest edition available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781299/asylum1-dec-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781299/asylum1-dec-2018-tables.ods</a></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Total applications </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,230</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,085</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,158</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office is unable to report on whether more illegal migrants were smuggled in to the UK last year from Eritrea than from any other country, as the method of entry for those who entered the UK clandestinely and subsequently claimed asylum, is recorded on individual Home Office files and to obtain this information would require a manual trawl and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p>All asylum and human rights applications from Eritrean nationals are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eritrea-country-policy-and-information-notes" target="_blank">Country Policy and Information Note Eritrea: Religious groups</a> published in February 2018 (available on Gov.uk) outlines our position.</p>
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Prison Sentences
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people convicted in each of the last twelve years who previously had (a) no, (b) between one and four, (c) between five and nine, (d) between 10 and 15, (e) between 16 and 25, (f) between 26 and 50, (g) between 51 and 75, (h) between 76 and 100 and (i) 101 or more convictions received (i) an immediate custodial sentence, (ii) a suspended sentence and (iii) a community sentence.
<p>Data on the percentage of occasions on which an offender was convicted with a specified number of previous convictions and received a specified sentence, covering the period 2006 – 2018, can be viewed in the attached table.</p>
South Swindon
Biography information for Robert Buckland
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Pupils: Per Capita Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the funding per pupil allocated to each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in Havering in the last five years.
<p>The revenue funding allocated for schools for each financial year from 2015-19 for Havering local authority are shown in the attached table. For financial year 2019-2020, only the dedicated schools grant (DSG) has been allocated at this time, though this makes up the bulk of schools funding. The DSG for Havering this year is £218.2 million. Other grants will be allocated at later points in the year.</p>
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Home Office: Departmental Records
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to locate the 114 documents in relation to child sexual abuse and hon. Members which were misplaced by his Department.
<p>In February 2013, the Permanent Secretary commissioned an investigation into information the Home Office received in relation to child abuse allegations, between 1979 and 1999. That investigation was unable to locate 114 potentially relevant Home Office files.</p><p>On 7 July 2014 the Home Secretary appointed Peter Wanless and Richard Whittam QC to carry out an independent review of the 2013 investigation.</p><p>On 29 July 2014, the Home Office Permanent Secretary directed that a physical search targeted on specific areas of the Department be undertaken to see if any of the 114 missing files could be located. This did not uncover any of the 114 missing files, though one was found prior to this exercise. As part of their Review, Wanless and Whittam interrogated what was known about each of the 114 files. They published their analysis within their final report, published November 2014.</p>
Biography information for Gavin Robinson
Probation: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of trends in the level of wellbeing of probation officers; and if he will make a statement.
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Liz Saville Roberts
<p>The National Probation Service (NPS) conducts an annual survey of its staff, which includes questions on well-being (relating to respondents’ life as a whole, not simply their employment) and also their engagement with the NPS. The survey results cover everyone employed by the NPS, both operational and administrative staff. In relation to both well-being and positive engagement, there has been a steady upward trend since the first survey in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold comparable data on staff employed by the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), as the CRCs are responsible for the management of the people they employ.</p>
Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to undertake a review the quality of the clinical supervision provided to probation staff; and if he will make a statement.
<p>Following the expiry of the previous clinical supervision contract in March 2018, an expert group was created comprising representatives of the probation and prison services and psychology to determine the likely future needs of prison and probation staff for clinical support. A new provider was commissioned to deliver the service (now known as Structured Professional Support) in April 2018. Delivery of this service is kept under constant review.</p><p> </p>
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Metz | Article about Metz by The Free Dictionary
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(Eng. and Ger. mĕts, Fr. mĕs), city (2010 est. pop. 127,000), capital of Moselle dept., NE France, on the Moselle River. It is a cultural, commercial, and transportation center of LorraineLorraine
, Ger. Lothringen, former province and former administrative region, NE France, bordering in the N on Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany, in the E on Alsace, in the S on Franche-Comté, and in the W on Champagne.
..... Click the link for more information. , an industrial city producing metals, machinery, tobacco, clothing, and food products, and the home of one of France's largest military bases. It is one of eight cities targeted by the French government for special planning and development.
Of pre-Roman origin, the city was the capital of the Mediomatrici, a Gallic people. One of the most important cities of Roman Gaul, it was invaded and destroyed by the Vandals (406) and the Huns (451). Metz was an early episcopal see and became the capital of AustrasiaAustrasia
, northeastern portion of the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks in the 6th, 7th, and 8th cent., comprising, in general, parts of E France, W Germany, and the Netherlands, with its capital variously at Metz, Reims, and Soissons.
..... Click the link for more information. (the eastern portion of the MerovingianMerovingians,
dynasty of Frankish kings, descended, according to tradition, from Merovech, chief of the Salian Franks, whose son was Childeric I and whose grandson was Clovis I, the founder of the Frankish monarchy.
..... Click the link for more information. Frankish empire) in the 6th cent.
After the division of the Frankish empire (8th cent.) the bishops of Metz greatly increased their power, ruling a relatively vast area as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. Metz was a major cultural center of the Carolingian Renaissance (8th cent.) and was later (10th cent.) a prosperous commercial city with an important Jewish community. Metz became a free imperial city in the 12th cent. and was then one of the richest and most populous cities of the empire. During the ReformationReformation,
religious revolution that took place in Western Europe in the 16th cent. It arose from objections to doctrines and practices in the medieval church (see Roman Catholic Church) and ultimately led to the freedom of dissent (see Protestantism).
..... Click the link for more information. the bourgeoisie of Metz welcomed Protestantism, but the city never became a bastion of Calvinism, and the uneasy bourgeoisie accepted the protection of the French crown.
In 1552, Henry II annexed the three bishoprics of Lorraine (Metz, Toul, and VerdunVerdun
, town (1990 pop. 23,427), Meuse dept., NE France, in Lorraine, on the Meuse River. A strategic transportation center, Verdun has varied industries and is situated in an agricultural region.
..... Click the link for more information. ), and soon after, Metz, under the command of François de Guise, resisted a long siege (1552–53) by Emperor Charles V. The Peace of Westphalia (1648), ending the Thirty Years WarThirty Years War,
1618–48, general European war fought mainly in Germany. General Character of the War
There were many territorial, dynastic, and religious issues that figured in the outbreak and conduct of the war.
..... Click the link for more information. , confirmed the three bishoprics in French possession. An important fortress and garrison town, Metz was besieged (1870) by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian WarFranco-Prussian War
or Franco-German War,
1870–71, conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power and imperialism. It was provoked by Otto von Bismarck (the Prussian chancellor) as part of his plan to create a unified German
..... Click the link for more information. , and after a two-month siege, 179,000 French soldiers under Marshall Achille Bazaine capitulated. During the German annexation of E Lorraine (1871–1918), Metz, largely French-speaking, was a center of pro-French sentiment. During World War II the city suffered greatly under German occupation.
There are many Gallo-Roman ruins in Metz, including an aqueduct, thermal baths, and part of an amphitheater. Much has also been preserved from the medieval period. The celebrated Cathedral of St. Étienne, built from c.1221 to 1516, has one of Europe's largest collections of stained glass. The Place Sainte-Croix is a square surrounded by medieval houses (13th–15th cent.). Metz has several other churches, including St. Pierre-de-la-Citadelle Basilica, mansions from the Middle Ages, and many beautiful promenades. The city is also the site of the futuristic Pompidou-Metz museum (2010), the first regional branch of Paris's BeaubourgBeaubourg
, popular name for the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture
, museum in Paris, France; the popular name is derived from the district in which it is located.
..... Click the link for more information. (Pompidou Center). Paul VerlaineVerlaine, Paul
, 1844–96, French poet. He gained some notice with the Parnassian poetry of Poèmes saturniens (1866) and Fêtes galantes (1869) and became a figure in the bohemian literary world of Paris.
..... Click the link for more information. was born in Metz.
a city in northeastern France, on the Moselle River. Administrative center of the department of Moselle. Population, 107,500 (1968). Important transportation hub and a main economic center of Lorraine. Metz has machine-building, chemical, food, and footwear industries. Iron-ore mines and metallurgical plants are located near the city.
In antiquity Metz was a settlement of the Gallic tribe Mediomatrici. Originally called Divodurum, it was named Mettis in the fifth century. Under the Romans it was an important administrative, trade, and handicrafts center, and in the fourth century it became a bishop’s seat. After the Prankish conquest, Metz became one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Austrasia and a major cultural center of the Carolingian renaissance. When the Carolingian empire was divided in the ninth century, Metz fell into the hands of the West Prankish kingdom and later became an important economic and political center in Lorraine. In the 13th century it gained the status of an imperial city after a long struggle with the bishop and the feudal lords.
Metz was annexed by France in 1552 (it was definitively incorporated in 1648) and turned into a stong military fortress. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Marshal A. F. Bazaine’s Rhine Army, which surrendered on Oct. 27, 1870, was besieged by Prussian troops in Metz. Metz passed to Germany under the Treaty of Frankfurt of 1871 and was returned to France by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. It was occupied by fascist German troops from 1940 to 1944.
a city in NE France on the River Moselle: a free imperial city in the 13th century; annexed by France in 1552; part of Germany (1871--1918); centre of the Lorraine iron-mining region. Pop.: 123 776 (1999)
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Black actually signed for Metz on the rebound after a move to Monaco fell through.
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About DAYUUM!
Joe’s E30 M3ans Business
The Eighties had a plethora of events that influenced today’s culture and economic liberalization; an era that can be associated with hairsprays, synthesizers and new wave music. It can also be accounted for the emergence of the majestic vibe of hip-hop from the likes of Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, EPMD and ATCQ. R.E.M, 10000 Maniacs, Metallica and Guns N Roses were bands that invaded the punk, alternative and hard rock genre. Films such as E.T. as well as the Ray-Ban Aviator infested gig, Top Gun, can be easily remembered during this decade. For many, including myself, this was an era that started my appreciation and recognition for European cars.
I first glued on Joe Barrios’ pristine E30 M3 during DaYUUM’s site launch collaboration at Guppy’s Greenhouse. I told myself that, “This E30 will be my first car feature write-up.” One, Joe’s E30 M3 just screamed Top Gun’s mantra, “I feel the need… The need for speed!” making me want to bust out my Aviators at night. Second, it was just SIMPLY CLEAN! It was also fortunate that Joe is a good friend of DaYUUM’s founder. Setting up a time to do a photo shoot for the car would not be an issue. It was just a matter of putting it down in our calendar.
The E30 M3 was developed and introduce by BMW to the masses to be campaigned in many forms of racing. Also, one of its main targets – to go head to head -mano y mano with Mercedes Benz’s 2.3 16V W201 190E. The E30 M3 was readily equipped with a 2.3L I4 S14B23 engine (also known as S14) rated at 192 horsepower, it quickly became Benz 190E’s direct competition not only in performance but as well as the racing world. To a novice car enthusiast, the E30 M3 may look similar to a regular E30. But as you’ll look closely, there are 12 unique body panels that were put in place for the sole purpose of improving the aerodynamics of this European sport compact. The front and rear wheel arches were “box-flared” to accommodate wider track wheels and tires.
Joe Barrios willingly welcomed the DaYUUM crew to his home in Glendale to get a good look at his immaculate E30 M3. As he escorted us to his garage, we were not only greeted by one E30 but a heaven of BMW rides. His garage collection includes a project white E30 M3, an E36 M3, an E46 wagon with a swapped E46 M3 motor, working SMG drivelogic tranny that shifts via the SMG gear knob or paddle shifters. Stamped on the E46 wagon; a new badge marking its transplant from 323i to 332i – showing that it is not just a regular “grocery-getter” sport wagon but a 3.2L S54 M-tuned daily workhorse. Also in his garage, up on a lift -and yes, his home garage has two lifts, is a 318ti which was his first car. Transplanted on the 318ti, is a 3.2L E36 M3 engine hence explains the new badge 332ts. Aside from these cars he has two BMW 850’s one donor the other a full-blown race car project with a roll cage (we will feature this build as well). Lastly, flawless silver BMW 2002 was under a canopy waiting for an M-tune transplant. After picking our jaws back up, we started what we came for – Joe’s E30 M3.
Joe’s 1989 E30 M3 is no ordinary E30 as well. You may have gotten a little hint on it with the surgeries that he did on the cars that he currently owns. The E30 M3 started with a 2.3L S14 engine, now its heart is made of a 3.6L S38B36 1991 M5 powerplant. The M5 engine fits cleanly under the bonnet of the E30. Joe has only owned the E30 M3/M5 for a year. He bought the car from his good friend, Anri, who he gives most of the credit to this great looking E30. Working 10 years as a mechanic at a BMW Dealership at New Century / Alhambra, Joe really had an eye for a well-built car. Aside from the transplant done on the car, this is also equipped with Euro cams, Evo Cam gears, Euro headers and custom exhaust. To dial in the stance and overall look, it has ground control coil-overs with BBS RS 17 x 8.5 +13 offset wheel to fill the widened arches of the E30.
The E30 M3 also sports a carbon fiber hood as well as an adjustable carbon fiber wing which goes very well with the metallic gun grey color of the car as well as its overall look.
After chatting it up with Joe during our visit, I learned that he now owns a shop in Glendale. The shop has been going very strong for the past 8 years – the shop’s name, The M Shop. The shop specializes in of course, any BMW and Mini needs from regular maintenance work, engine upgrade and tunes to engine transplants that he cleanly does in a daily basis as he’d performed it on his own cars.
We at DaYUUM are very thankful to Joe for welcoming us in his home to do the shoot. We found that the photoshoot is his very first formal shoot to show his own cars. We were fortunate to get this opportunity to show the great cars that he has built and own as well as current ones that he’s trying to complete. So if your BMW is in need of some TLC. Visit Joe and his crew at:
The M Shop :
5041 Eagle Rock Blvd
1.323.257.5773 office
Website: theMshop.com
This 80’s engineered E30 M3 truly started one of the greatest competitions in the European car industry. As I asked Joe what would be his future plans to the E30, he could not said it best; “None… Just enjoy driving the car.” Joe’s E30 definitely stayed true to European styling that deserves to be driven and as a racing icon, it needs to be driven hard.
Check out this rad video clip prepared by our good friend, Mikey D. from PVR Motorsports . Until the next one… Peace! – jp
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2 comments for “Joe’s E30 M3ans Business”
almond1294
oh and that 318ti is supercharged btw =) nice feature, cousin joe
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Sergey Konin was born in Timiryasevo village, Tomsk region, in August 22, 1957. In 1978 he graduated from Novosibirsk Political Military Academy. He began his commissioned service in Transbaikalia, where he had served for 8 years. In 1986 he was sent to Kovrov to continue his service. In 1989 he left the armed forces. Now he is a reserve colonel.
In 1989 Sergey Konin established the cooperative society «PIK». For 15 years it has become a company uniting 22 enterprises of small and medium business with almost 1500 employees. Since 2003 the main company trademark is «Грин-ПИКъ» (“Green-PIK”), and its mission is to produce food of exclusive quality based on ecological agriculture.
Achievements: in the history of Vladimir region only 2 enterprises entered the 100 best companies in Russia: in 2002 «PIK-agro» - for economic expansion rates and in 2004 «Green-PIK» - for remarkable achievements in the fields of ecology and quality.
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State Council Gazette Issue No. 7 Serial No. 1186 (March 10, 2006)
Updated: Mar 10,2006 2:27 PM english.gov.cn
·Implementing the Outline of the Development Plan of Science and Technology Conscientiously, Creating a New Situation for Development of China’s Science and Technology —— A Speech Delivered at the National Conference on Science and Technology (Précis) —— Wen Jiabao
·A Speech Delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at the Opening Ceremony of the Ministerial Session of the International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza
·Several Issues Concerning the Current Work on Agriculture and Rural Areas —— Wen Jiabao
— Regulations on Administration of Fireworks Safety
— Regulations on the Work of Providing Five Guarantees in Rural Areas
·Decision of the State Council on Strengthening Geological Work
·Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Issuing the Opinions on Bringing to Success the Legislative Work of the State Council in 2006 and the Legislative Plan of the State Council in 2006
— Opinions on Bringing to Success the Legislative Work of the State Council in 2006
— Legislative Plan of the State Council in 2006
·Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Transmitting and Issuing the Opinions of the National Leading Group for Merger and Bankruptcy of Enterprises and Reemployment of Their Employees on Bringing to Further Success the Work of Policy-related Close-down and Bankruptcy of State-owned Enterprises
— Opinions on Bringing to Further Success the Work of Policy-related Close-down and Bankruptcy of State-owned Enterprises
·Official Reply of the State Council on the Comprehensive City Plan of Xining City
·Official Reply of the State Council on Approving Establishment of Inter-ministry Conference System for Rectification and Close-down of Coal Mines
— Inter-ministry Conference System for Rectification and Close-own of Coal Mines
·A Letter in Reply from the General Office of the State Council on Naming of the Yancheng Sea Salt Museum
·Joint Statement Between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Greece on Establishing Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
·Circular on Appointments and Removals of Joseph Wong Wing-ping and Other Two Officials of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region —— State Council
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US Library Experts Visited Lanzhou Branch of the National science library
On September 15, 2009, five United States experts who participated in the China-US Librarian Professional Communication activities visited Lanzhou Branch of National Science Library. They are: Miss Jiang Shuyong of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library of Asia, Dr. Hwa-wei Lee, former chief of Asian Division of the Library of Congress, Mr. Hung-Yun Chang of the New York Public Library, Mr. Yao Yuan of the Library of Congress, and Mr. Haiwang Yuan of Western Kentucky University Library. Accompanied by Deputy Director Gao Feng, the US experts first visited the exhibition room, the Chinese and foreign language reading room, graduate students information commons, Department of Information Research and Department of Information Technology, and then they had a meeting and discussion with the librarians from the library.
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Libby Chansky For "The Bachelorette"
I met Libby Chansky at the Stanford Athletics Hall Of Fame Dinner on Friday, November 3rd. She and I were part of a large group there to celebrate the induction of my good friend Michael Dotterer, who remains the only two-sport player to receive four letters in Stanford history.
Libby wants to be the bachelorette on "The Bachelorette" and to that end, we took this quick video. It's kind of a teaser. For more info contact info@sportsbusinesssims.com
Rolling Stones Classic Song "Miss You" Video and Lyrics
This amazing song is almost 30 years old, yet it is still as new as tommorrow's sunrise. It's a classic and yet one more example of why the Rolling Stones are the kings of rock. It's rythmic, soulful, and yet guitar-dominated.
Ive been holding out so long
Ive been sleeping all alone
Lord I miss you
Ive been hanging on the phone
I want to kiss you
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh
Well, Ive been haunted in my sleep
Youve been starring in my dreams
Ive been waiting in the hall
Been waiting on your call
When the phone rings
Its just some friends of mine that say,
Hey, whats the matter man?
Were gonna come around at twelve
With some puerto rican girls that are just dyin to meet you.
Were gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, lets go mess and fool around
You know, like we used to
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah
Oh everybody waits so long
Oh baby why you wait so long
Wont you come on! come on!
Ive been walking in central park
Singing after dark
People think Im crazy
Ive been stumbling on my feet
Shuffling through the street
Asking people, whats the matter with you boy?
Sometimes I want to say to myself
Sometimes I say
I wont miss you child
I guess Im lying to myself
Its just you and no one else
Lord I wont miss you child
Youve been blotting out my mind
Fooling on my time
No, I wont miss you, baby, yeah
Lord, I miss you child
Sunday, October 29, 2006 0
Wonder Woman: Joss Whedon May Be Rewriting The Script For The Movie
Wow, it's been since May that Wonder Woman Director Josh Whedon's finished the script for the Wonder Woman movie that he and Matrix enabler Joel Silver want to produce, and there's still no star selected.
My feeling is that he's rewriting it, and still has not created something that meets Warner Brother's standards. Why do I write this? Because Whedon reports that he was to meet Warner execs around August 29th, and now it's October. Late October. So it's logical to assume that he's got some rewriting to do.
I also still get the impression that he's not real into the job. He seems to be mailing it in at this point, and with too many other projects to occupy his time and passion.
I hope Warner Bros shapes up this ship.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 0
Kevin Federline Parties in Vegas; Britney Spears Angry - Enquirer
K-Fed in action...
Unlike the O.J. Simpson story, I do believe this one. They're a very young couple, and too inexperienced to be good parents in my view. But we will see. No turning back, eh?
BRITNEY FUMES AS K-FED GETS SLEAZY IN VEGAS
By MICHAEL GLYNN - ENQUIRER
What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas — just ask a furious Britney Spears. She's set to spear hubby Kevin Federline after he spent a wild weekend in Sin City — partying with his buddies and assorted beauties, insiders told The ENQUIRER.
"Britney feels outraged and betrayed," confided a close source. "Only three weeks after she gave birth to their new baby, Kevin vamoosed to Vegas with his buddies, who spent hours with young girls in his hotel suite.
"When Kevin returned to their Malibu home, Britney gave him the cold shoulder and then they had a terrible fight. It ended with Kevin staying over at a buddy's house."
Pick up this week's issue of The ENQUIRER to read all about it!
O. J. Simpson Denies Book Deal and Confession
I saw this in the National Enquirer:
OJ CONFESSES IN TELL-ALL BOOK
O.J. Simpson confesses to the bloody slaughter of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman – and reveals he had an accomplice at the scene--in a bombshell new book!
Eleven years after Simpson was acquitted of the Murder of the Century, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that O.J. is being paid $3.5 million to describe the brutal knife attack blow-by-blow.
"Only that kind of money could have tempted O.J. to finally tell the truth," a West Coast source familiar with the top-secret book project told The ENQUIRER.
In the book, "he describes how he grabbed a knife from a man who accompanied him to Nicole’s home -- and moments later found himself covered in blood and looking down on the bodies of Nicole and Ron," said the source.
With its publication only weeks away, the tell-all blockbuster has remained the most explosive secret in publishing -- until now.
In its early chapters, O.J. paints a vivid picture of his life with Nicole and details their bitter divorce amid her affairs.
Finally, the disgraced Hall of Famer gets to June 12, 1994 – the night of the infamous double murder.
"O.J. prefaces these key pages by almost half-heartedly claiming this part of the book is hypothetical," said the source. "But I don’t think anyone is going to be convinced of that."
Because of "double jeopardy" laws, legal experts say O.J.'s confession will not likely lead to any legal trouble for him.
The book's working title is "If I Did It." But Simpson's account of the slayings is so chillingly realistic that it leaves no doubt it is a confession of what really happened.
...and I could not believe it. So I searched for his name and found this in the SF Chronicle..
O.J. Simpson Denies Book Confession
Former sports star and actor O.J. Simpson has slammed reports he is to be paid around $3.5 million for "admitting" to the killing of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman in a sensational new book.
A U.S. publication reported the star plans to publish his autobiography in which he will describe how he would have killed his ex-wife and Goldman, in an allegedly fictional manner. They were stabbed to death in 1994 and Simpson stood trial for the murders. He was found not guilty.
But Simpson's lawyer Yale Galanter denies the rumor. He tells the New York Daily News, "(Simpson) is not writing a book. We haven't been paid 35 cents, much less $3.5 million.
"If anyone comes out with such a book, I'll go on every talk show and call it crap."
Whatever is going on, it's clear that someone out there can't just leave O.J. alone. That's sad. He was acquitted in the criminal trial and the civil trial left out so much evidence it was a joke.
Atlanta Falcons Tickets Exchange - Buy or Sell Falcons Tickets
You can buy or sell Atlanta Falcons Ticketswith "Atlanta Falcons"
Get tickets to all of the Falcons action, with Michael Vick and Warrick Dunn heading an explosive offense.
Rolling Stones Coming To Oakland November 5th - Video
The Rolling Stones are coming to Oakland, November 5th. You can get tickets at http://www.stones-concert-tickets.com.
Here's a preview of what the conert will look like:
Saturday, September 30, 2006 0
Kendra Wilkinson From "The Girls Next Door - Video and Bio
Most recently linked with Dallas Cowboys Wide Receiver Terrell Owens, Kendra Wilkinson's Q-Rating has certainly exploded with the airing of the new show "The Girls Next Door," featuring Playboy Mogul Hugh Hefner and three Playboy Playmates.
Kendra Wilkinson (born June 12, 1985 in San Diego, California) is a model and television personality best known as one of the three live-in girlfriends of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and a co-star of the E! reality television series The Girls Next Door. She met Hefner at his 78th birthday party in April 2004, where she had been hired to be one of the "painted girls" (being completely nude except for painted-on accessories).
She is a self-proclaimed tomboy, noteworthy for being a sports fan and athlete. One of her trademarks on the program is her constant exercising.
Her stated career goal is to become a massage therapist or sports announcer. As of December 2005, she has become a regular "blogger" columnist at the website of the Philadelphia Eagles. Her mother, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, used to be one of the professional cheerleaders for the team.
She appeared in the Playboy Special Editions Sexy 100 for 2006.
Here's a video of Kendra Wilkinson in the show Girls Next Door. Note that she specifically points to Terrell Owens "81" jersey with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Superdome - Green Day and U2 In Video
Green Day -- from the SF Bay Area -- and U2 played to a great crowd to kickoff the return of the New Orleans Saints to the Superdome to play the Atlanta Falcons.
Labels: concert, green day, music, new orleans, saints, superdome, U2
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 0
Selma Blair Caught In Argument With Ex-Hubby - Enquirer
Man, I didn't know Selma Blair was even married until now! Where have I been? I've got to admit she's got the simple combination West Cost / Midwest girl-next-door look down to a fine science. I guess her now-ex-hubby Ahmet Zappa (think son of the late and lengendary rocker Frank Zappa) thought so too, because he married her in 2004.
I only became aware of Selma via the movie "Cruel Intentions" -- one of my favorites. In the movie, which also features now coupled Ryan Philippe and Reese Witherspoon, Blair became very well-known for this kiss:
Well she's not going to be kissing on Zappa anytime soon because they had a nasty argument in a parking lot, which ended with her screeching off in her car after he walked off.
She's on the market and free to give a kiss like the one above to some deserving guy -- this time!
Suri Cruise Rumored Not To Be Tom Cruise's Baby - Enquirer
The Enquirer reports that the much celebrated baby of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is not the product of whatever sexual intercourse the couple had. This news was covered in several other online media publications like Gawker and Perezhilton.com and led to speculation regarding who the father may be.
Some pointed to old Holmes flame Chris Klein as the father because of the similarity in the shape of their eyes. But regardless of who the real father may be, it's certainly clear that Suri is the child of Tom and Katie now.
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Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide-suicide
Debowska, A and Boduszek, D and Dhingra, K (2015) Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide-suicide. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 21. 113 - 124. ISSN 1359-1789 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.01.011
The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of most recent studies of parental and stepparental filicide. A detailed review of the literature revealed the importance of certain demographic, environmental, and psychosocial factors in the commission of child homicide. Our findings indicate that filicides perpetrated by genetic parents and stepparents differ considerably in terms of underlying motivational factors. Data in the literature suggest that biological parents are more likely to choose methods of killing which produce quick and painless death, whereas stepparents frequently kill their wards by beating. Research results demonstrate the victims of maternal filicides to be significantly younger than the victims of paternal filicides. Additionally, filicide–suicide is most often associated with parental psychopathology. Genetic fathers are at the greatest risk of death by suicide after the commission of familicide. These findings are discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks explaining the occurrence of child murder. Further, limitations of reviewed studies and directions for future research are presented.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.01.011
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.01.011
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Sara Dickey
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition (September 17, 2007)
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Sara Dickey
This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an analysis of the films themselves and the place they have in the lives of poor people, who organize fan clubs, discuss the films and the actors, and in various ways relate these fantasy worlds to their own lives. Dickey argues that the effect of these films is ultimately conservative, for they glorify poverty while holding out the hope of a better future. Her rich ethnography makes an interesting contribution to the study of film in India and, more generally, to the understanding of popular culture in an Indian city.
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FC Kerala Clinch Comeback Win
FC Kerala produced a stunning second half comeback to claim three points against Kerala Blasters Reserves in the 2nd Division I-League fixture at Thrissur Corporation Stadium. Suraj Rawat's brace gave the Blasters two-goal advantage at the break. The hosts pulled one back after Nigerian recruit Bala Alhassan Dahir converted a spot kick. Five minutes later, Sreyas VG levelled the game. Abhijith completed the comeback with a lovely header from Bala's free-kick. The win helped Kerala Blasters extend their lead at the top of Group B to five points. (April 12, 2018)
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Her Majesty's Government (1) what contact they have had with, and (2) what support they intend to provide to, the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee, regarding (a) the rebuilding of 13,000 homes on the Nineveh Plains, and (b) the need to ensure that those Christians internally displaced from the Plains are provided with adequate food supplies.
<p>The UK Government recognises the specific risks such as abduction and murder faced by religious minorities in Iraq and Syria, including those who have suffered so horrifically at the hands of Daesh, and is deeply concerned by reports of human rights abuses motivated by religious or ethnic identity.</p><p>All people in need, from any community, irrespective of religious affiliation, are eligible for humanitarian assistance. DFID’s humanitarian implementing partners, including the UN, consider a wide range of issues when assessing an individual’s vulnerability such as the impact of physical or mental disabilities, income, age, missing family members, and whether individuals are already receiving assistance from other sources.</p><p>The organisations through which we channel our support do not identify or record beneficiaries by their religion. The reason for this is because there is a risk that collecting information about the ethnicity or religion of people receiving aid could be obtained by others, including extremist groups, and used to persecute them.</p><p>We do not therefore hold information on how much UK-funded support is channelled to Yezidis and Christians either inside or outside camps. This year the UK will provide £40 million for urgent humanitarian assistance in Iraq and £4 million for the UN’s Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilisation (FFIS) to help rebuild communities affected by Daesh, including for minority communities in newly liberated areas in Iraq. The UK is also providing £500 million to support people, including refugees and internally displaced Syrians, affected by the Syria crisis in 2017. DFID does not fund the Bishops Emergency Committee.</p><p>The Nineveh Reconstruction Committee comprised of Church representatives has not contacted the UK Government or submitted a proposal for UK support for the construction of homes on the Nineveh Plains.</p><p>The UK is funding the UN’s Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilisation (FFIS), which is supporting 152 projects in mainly Christian communities in the Ninewa Plains and 70 projects in Yezidi communities in Sinjar, Rabia and Sinuni.</p><p>UN agencies are obliged to operate by the humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality which aim to ensure that no one is excluded or discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, or religion; and to also ensure that the specific risks facing minorities are addressed and that assistance reaches those who need it most. DFID considers reports from a wide range of sources, including field visits by UK officials where these are possible, to assess the effectiveness of UN operations and their compliance with humanitarian principles. The UN carries out vital work in both Syria and Iraq, and UN staff frequently risk their lives to deliver assistance to people in need, including to areas where Daesh or the Assad regime seek to prevent aid being delivered.</p>
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Her Majesty's Government How many EU nationals, other than Irish, Cypriot, Maltese and UK citizens, are on the electoral register in Northern Ireland, broken down by constituency; what is the distinction between the G and K markings placed against EU citizens on the electoral register; and what are the differences in the eligibility to vote between such EU nationals and UK citizens.
Lord Laird
<p>The G markings placed against EU citizens on the electoral register denotes their eligibility to vote at local and Assembly elections. The K marking denotes an EU citizen who has confirmed that they intend to vote in Northern Ireland, rather than their home state, at a specific European Parliamentary election. The K designation only lasts for one year and consequently there are currently no individuals with a K marking on the Northern Ireland register.</p><p> </p><p>UK, Irish and Commonwealth citizens are eligible to register to vote in UK General Parliamentary Elections. Citizens of EU countries other than the UK, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta (the latter of which are Commonwealth as well as EU countries) cannot vote in UK General Parliamentary Elections, although they can register to vote at local government, and Northern Ireland Assembly elections.</p><p> </p><p>The number of EU nationals, other than Irish, Cypriot, Maltese and UK citizens, on the electoral register are shown below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency</strong></p></td><td><p>EU nationals on the electoral register (other than Irish, Cypriot, Maltese and UK citizens)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Belfast East</strong></p></td><td><p>1943</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Belfast North</strong></p></td><td><p>1617</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Belfast South</strong></p></td><td><p>2857</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Belfast West</strong></p></td><td><p>462</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East Antrim</strong></p></td><td><p>597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East Londonderry</strong></p></td><td><p>1044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Fermanagh & South Tyrone</strong></p></td><td><p>3801</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Foyle</strong></p></td><td><p>636</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Lagan Valley</strong></p></td><td><p>1330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mid Ulster</strong></p></td><td><p>1919</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Newry & Armagh</strong></p></td><td><p>3017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North Antrim</strong></p></td><td><p>1928</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North Down</strong></p></td><td><p>708</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South Antrim</strong></p></td><td><p>1233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South Down</strong></p></td><td><p>1165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Strangford</strong></p></td><td><p>591</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Upper Bann</strong></p></td><td><p>4563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>West Tyrone</strong></p></td><td><p>1114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>30,525</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p>
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Her Majesty's Government against whom a worker earning £11,500 can claim if they discover that their employer has used a workplace pension scheme operating on a Net Pay basis for auto-enrolment, in order to recover the 25% taxpayer bonus they could have received in a Relief at Source scheme.
<p>The Government does not collect data on the number of workers earning less than the personal allowance who are also members of pension schemes that operate a net pay system. The Government does not hold employee level data on employees enrolled in net pay pension schemes, as such schemes are not obliged to report pension contributions to HM Revenue and Customs. The Government does not, therefore, hold information on the value of tax reliefs paid out to employees in net pay schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The latest official analysis of the eligibility of workers for automatic enrolment was published on 13 October 2016 in ‘Workplace Pensions: Update of analysis on Automatic Enrolment’. Information on age and earnings breakdowns for all workers can be found in table 3a on page 6.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This guidance covers the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax. Provided an employer has selected a qualifying pension scheme for automatic enrolment, they have complied with their automatic enrolment duties with respect to scheme choice.</p>
Baroness Buscombe
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Her Majesty's Government during the last 12 months, how many prisoners sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection were (1) offered places on a training course which could lead to their release, (2) were released following completion of such training courses, and (3) refused to take up a place or dropped out of such courses; and how those figures compare with those for the preceding 12 month period.
Lord Wigley
<p>The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central records are not kept for all aspects of the management of prisoners sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP).</p><p> </p><p>HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Parole Board will continue to work together to improve the progression of IPP prisoners. This group continue to achieve release in high numbers, with 576 first time IPP releases in 2016, the highest figure since the sentence was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS will continue to invest in interventions to assist prisoners to both reduce their risk and demonstrate such progression to the Parole Board. However, it is important to remember that it is not mandatory for IPPs to complete accredited offending behaviour programmes in order to achieve release. Completing an accredited offending behaviour programme is one way in which IPP prisoners may demonstrate that they have reduced their risk of harm and reoffending; other options may include work and employment, education and one to one work with psychologists or prison offender supervisors.</p>
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Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 20 January (HL4582), to what extent the training for foster carers and support workers commissioned from the Refugee Council and End Child Prostitution and Trafficking addresses (1) the indicators of modern slavery, and (2) particular risks and needs of children who are, or might be, victims of human trafficking and exploitation.
Lord McColl of Dulwich
<p>There are no plans to update the practice guidance ‘Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked’. The revised statutory guidance ‘The care of unaccompanied asylum seeking and trafficked children’ will be published this autumn.</p><p>The training for foster carers and support workers that DfE commissioned from the Refugee Council and ECPAT enables those caring for unaccompanied and trafficked children to understand the challenges and risks facing these children, and equips participants with the knowledge and tools to respond effectively to their needs. Participants were also provided with access to an e-learning course to help recognise the needs of child and adult victims of trafficking and guidance on actions carers and professionals should take to identify and safeguard victims.</p><p>Foster carers and support workers attended training courses located in 48 local authorities (see list below). Training was not limited to carers from those authorities.</p><p>The forthcoming safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children will address the need for any additional training required by foster carers and support workers to care for children who are, or might be, victims of human trafficking and exploitation.</p><p>Further to the training which has recently commissioned, the statutory guidance on ‘The care of unaccompanied asylum seeking and trafficked children’ states that “Everyone involved in the care of unaccompanied and trafficked children should be trained to recognise and understand the particular issues likely to be faced by these children. This includes recognising the indicators of trafficking as a child’s previous history or current experience of being trafficked might not be apparent on entering care."</p><p>List of local authorities where the training by ECPAT and Refugee Council was located:</p><p>Bolton</p><p>Bournemouth</p><p>Bristol</p><p>Bromley</p><p>Cambridgeshire</p><p>Camden</p><p>Cheshire East</p><p>Cornwall</p><p>Coventry</p><p>Croydon</p><p>Derbyshire</p><p>Devon</p><p>Doncaster</p><p>East Riding</p><p>Essex</p><p>Gloucestershire</p><p>Hampshire</p><p>Haringey</p><p>Harrow</p><p>Hertfordshire</p><p>Kent</p><p>Lambeth</p><p>Lancashire</p><p>Leeds</p><p>Leicester City</p><p>Leicestershire</p><p>Liverpool</p><p>Manchester</p><p>Medway</p><p>Merton</p><p>Middlesbrough</p><p>North Somerset</p><p>North Tyneside</p><p>Northumberland</p><p>Nottingham City</p><p>Oldham</p><p>Sheffield</p><p>Shropshire</p><p>Somerset</p><p>Staffordshire</p><p>Suffolk</p><p>Sunderland</p><p>Thurrock</p><p>Walsall</p><p>Warrington</p><p>West Sussex</p><p>Wiltshire</p><p>Worcestershire</p>
Lord Nash
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Her Majesty's Government how any higher education provider that does not obtain a Bronze status or higher in future Teaching Excellence Frameworks will be categorised.
Lord Jopling
<p>All providers who successfully meet the eligibility criteria, including the rigorous quality assessments by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education<strong></strong>, and which have sufficient metrics to be assessed, will achieve a Bronze award, or above, in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Those providers which have met the eligibility criteria but do not have sufficient metrics will instead receive a provisional award.</p><p>As noted during the Higher Education and Research Bill process some providers do not meet the eligibility requirements noted for TEF. Providers who do not meet the eligibility requirements, or who chose not to participate, will appear without a TEF award on Unistats and on the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.</p>
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Her Majesty's Government how many (1) legally qualified staff, and (2) staff without legal qualifications, now working in the Department for Exiting the European Union (a) have been transferred from, or (b) are on secondment from, the Ministry of Justice.
<p>The Department is recruiting the brightest and the best from across the civil service, the wider public sector and the private sector. The Department for Exiting the European Union now has over 450 staff, and is growing fast. The Department for Exiting the European Union obtains its legal advice from the Government Legal Department. We will not be providing a running commentary on particular groups of staff as recruitment is ongoing and numbers are regularly changing. We will ensure we have the right skills to get the best deal for the UK.</p>
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Her Majesty's Government how many Army units are stationed in Scotland; and where those units are located.
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
<p>The Army footprint in Scotland consists of:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Army Personnel Centre;</li><li>Headquarters 51<sup>st</sup> Brigade;</li><li>Seven Regular units, including a detachment of the Royal Military Police;</li><li>Sixteen Reserve units, and a Reserve recruit training unit;</li><li>Four University Officer Training Corps;</li><li>Eight Army Cadet Force (ACF) battalions, and two independent sub units;</li><li>Fifteen Combined Cadet Force sections.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The location of these units is given in the attached table.</p><p> </p>
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Army Units in Scotland
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Her Majesty's Government how many BAME (1) men, and (2) women, hold senior and chief officer positions in police constabularies in England and Wales; how many such positions there are; and what assessment they have made of the recruitment trends to such positions, in terms of improved access to, and diversity within, senior positions.
Lord Ouseley
<p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins. The Home Office does not collect information on the number of posts available.</p><p>Detailed data on the number of officers in post, broken down by rank, gender and ethnicity are collected and published on an annual basis only. The requested data, representing the picture as at 31 March 2016, can be found in the attached Table_D1 accompanying the main release here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016</a></p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the Open Data Tables, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539981/open-data-table-police-workforce-ethnicity.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539981/open-data-table-police-workforce-ethnicity.ods</a></p><p>The Government has made it easier than ever before for the public to hold their PCC and chief constable to account over how diverse their force is compared to the local population. Police.uk now gives access to diversity data for officers and police staff, and the profile of BME and female officers by police rank, in comparison to the local force area population. We are in regular discussion with the College of Policing, who are leading work with chief constables and others to improve senior police recruitment.</p><p>The Government’s direct entry schemes at Inspector and Superintendent ranks help to attract the most talented people into policing, bringing in fresh experience, diversity and perspectives. Of the 40 inspectors and superintendents who have started the scheme so far 43% have been women and 13% were from an ethnic minority background. Chief Constable appointments have also been opened up to those with equivalent experience from overseas.</p>
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Table D1
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Her Majesty's Government how many EU nationals have been removed from the UK under Article 14(4)(b) of Directive 2004/38 because (1) they did not satisfy the work requirements, or (2) they were homeless.
Lord Hain
<p>I am sorry but the data requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p>
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Offenders: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2019 to Question 267162, whether he has made additional funding available to support new alliances with military charities to help offenders who are veterans of the armed forces.
Gareth Thomas
<p>The Government has committed £5.7 million to support programmes targeted at former service personnel in the criminal justice system.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service advertise grant opportunities for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations for innovative projects and pilots, that reflect priorities of the agency. All grant funding to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, including those wishing to support former members of the Armed Forces, is competed openly and these opportunities are published on the Government contract finder website.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is committed to ensuring that those who have served in the Armed Forces and who find themselves in the Criminal Justice System are able to access support in custody and the community</p>
Edward Argar
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Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on taking steps to adopt the International Maritime Organization’s interim goal of reducing shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2050.
<p>The Department for Transport is working closely with other Government departments, international partners and industry to develop measures to meet the IMO’s ambition of reducing shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2050</p><p> </p><p>I regularly meet with Ministers from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to discuss a wide range of issues including the maritime environment.</p><p> </p>
Wealden
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Cabinet Office: Credit Unions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable them to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>The Cabinet Office does not currently offer its employees a payroll deduction service to join the Credit Union.</p>
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable them to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not offer employees a payroll deduction service to enable them to join a credit union.</p>
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not offer a payroll deduction facility to be used for joining a credit union service. There are currently no plans to introduce one.</p>
Department for Education: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>Although the department does not offer employees a specific payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union, we offer consolidated voluntary deductions from pay for subscriptions and premiums as well as a Give As You Earn scheme to enable employees to make tax-free donations to charities through payroll.</p>
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>The Department does not currently offer a payroll deduction service that enables staff to join a credit union and at present has no plans to do so.</p>
Department for Exiting the European Union: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>I can confirm my department currently does not have the facility to allow staff to join a credit union through payroll deductions. Staff can still make arrangements to contribute to a credit union via direct debit.</p><p> </p>
Spelthorne
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Department for International Development: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>There is no facility for making deposits to credit unions through payroll deductions.</p>
Department for International Trade: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
<p>I can confirm my department currently does not offer a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union. Staff can still make arrangements to contribute to a credit union via direct debit.</p>
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Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance
#196 by HowSerendipitous
Well, I finally got it downloaded and it actually runs really well. They've clearly optimised the hell out of it since the beta. I'm running it at potato resolution, as usual, but it's chugging along at 50 to 72 fps in Skalitz
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#197 by Silverware
HowSerendipitous wrote: ↑
A note: apparently, turning up the render distance IMPROVES performance
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I feel like I should test that.... Right now! Thanks for the tip
Hm, I lost 10 fps in doing that... Ah well, no harm in trying!
Ah, a shame, I had questioned that one myself, but my rig doesn't notice unless I have it running at 4K. :V
Etsu
#201 by Etsu
Well, I have the chance to try this and... It's freaking amazing!
The graphics, performance and the narrative are not only good but better than what I have found anywhere. Finally a medieval RPG with a good story. (Sorry, Geralt, but I'm a bit tired of grumpy heroes and prophetic children. Next time I see a prophetic child, either in a video game or in real life, I will kill the bastard myself.) The faces are the most realistic ever, but that could be a bad thing too. (Characters look real but still behave like game characters, so I have the uncanny impression that I'm watching real human beings trapped in a video game world, a Puppet Masters kind of thing. Weird.) The music so far is not perfect but it is good. (This game would like to have Ennio Morricone as composer.) The cut scenes are as good as in a very good movie, not like in a very good game, which is excellent. (Finally!) The gameplay is great, the world, the exploration... I really like this thing.
There are some elements that are not convincing. For example, if you rotate Henry his feet rotate as well, which is amateurish stuff, unjustifiable in a game of this quality. (That wasn't the case during the alpha.) There is no zoom. (Not serious but uncomfortable anyway.) There is no way to control your speed with an analog stick. (Bad.) There is also no way to control Henry's height when he tries to pick through windows or holes for example, which would have been useful. (Alien Isolation gives you that option.) And there are bugs. (One in particular left me without a horse for a while, and there are problems with some textures, but not frequently.)
Now comes the part that could ruin the game for me, a design decision that doesn't make any sense: gifts. Yes, the game gives you gifts. (Some are for bakers, so if you are not a baker you may be safe from some of this.) For example, treasure maps and armor that the games gives you for free, for no reason, and without any kind of integration with the fictional world at all. (These guys follow Bethesda in their way to integrate DLCs to the main product. Don't do that!) The most insulting of all (so far) are the nests. I found two of them, but I only looked inside of one. What did I find? Jewelry worth 1000 groschen, the coin in the game. Curious, because I was having trouble trying to get 50 groschen to pay a debt, and then I find freaking jewelry with a cost of 1000 groschen. Great! No more debts, not more worries; I could buy food, potions, a horse, and even hire the services of one of those nice looking girls in a Bath House. Oh, yeah, and no more play. Why to play the game? I can get money for free! I only need to walk around and become a kind of nests collector or something, apparently a very lucrative job on medieval times. Or maybe is me. Maybe it was a common thing for birds to steal jewelry and for people to find it over their walks on those times. So it is one of two things: or the economic system in the game is broken and the designers had to add this kind of thing as a way of balance (so the economic thing is broken for short) or it is not, it actually works perfectly, but now this thing breaks it badly.
Why? Why did you did that? The game was so perfect. Why did you have to add this thing that ruins the game experience so badly? Was it because you wanted to make KCD look like a AAA game? You didn't need to do that. This game is better than most AAA games out there. You have the best graphics, acting and narrative the money can buy, and amazing gameplay. Why to borrow the worst techniques from the AAA companies? If you want to steal something don't be this. It just doesn't work. This is a gift for people who actually don't like the game, who prefer not to play it. Why did you make something that will benefit people who don't like your game? What about the people who like it like myself? The people who helped you to make this game possible. Don't worry. I didn't take the jewelry, and I didn't look at the maps or took the gambeson. But those things are still there, and will still be there tomorrow when I sit to play your game, like a ghost presence trying to remind me of this outrageous disgrace.
I will be living in that world for many weeks/months to come. This is a triumph that surpass everything shown during the alpha or the first beta. It has troubles, estrange troubles, but it is delightful. Hope you enjoy as much as I did.
"Playing" is not simply a pastime, it is the primordial basis of imagination and creation. - Hideo Kojima
#202 by Flatfingers
I haven't found any nests yet (nests?), but otherwise I agree with your review, Etsu.
In particular, "we want to copy AAA game features" absolutely seems like a thing Warhorse did here. The faces really are outstanding -- they frequently look like actual faces, but without being clones of each other. And the cutscenes really are outstanding -- some of the best I've ever seen in a game, not just pretty but effective delivery systems for story. Some of the voice acting is amateurish, and a couple of voice cast choices seem strangely out of place, but some of the voice work really is excellent. There are lots of opportunities for back-and-forth dialogue exchanges, and the writing is frequently quite good.
But....
There are many cutscenes. Some are long. And so, just as I'm trying to enjoy playing the game, Warhorse yanks control away from me to show me what they think I need to see.
A number of dialogue exchanges are forced -- the game cuts into them without warning. In these exchanges, you can't press a button to skip through a character's speech; you have to listen to every single word for as long as it takes. Worst of all, many of your character's responses are on a timer. Yes, Real Conversations are in real-time, but in a game I like having a little time to think which option best suits the way I want to play my character. No, not permitted, choose something instantly or Warhorse will choose for me. Why?
I've already mentioned Warhorse refuses to implement a quicksave/quickload option, as well as the clunkiness of some of the mouse & keyboard controls. This stuff may seem fine to people who only play on an Xbox or PlayStation; in a PC game, it's not fine at all. (Fortunately, people are already publishing helpful mods at the Nexus.)
So, overall, the world of this game looks incredible. I really want to explore it. But for some reason, Warhorse frequently injects AAA game tropes that interfere with my desire to just play the game. It feels pretty similar to The Witcher 2, actually -- not a bad game, but one where the developers just could not keep themselves from leading you by the nose from Epic Encounter to Epic Encounter.
Maybe Warhorse's next game will be as much of an improvement as CDPR made from TW2 to TW3.
not in Asia
#203 by fox
Flatfingers wrote: ↑
Look at the positive side of it: these points are easily adjusted with a patch, without need to alter neither gameplay nor story. A fix at zero-cost, therefore likely to happen if enough people voice their opinion about it.
-fox
#204 by Damocles
fox wrote: ↑
Given that the game also runs on consoles, the cost of patching is always quite high, since any patch needs to go though a timely and costly submission phase at MS and Sony.
And game companies try not to fracture their userbase by having different versions (features, improvements) of their game on PC and consoles.
Patching the PC version is often trivial, but if the console users constantly see those improvements only to reach the PC platform, they might get grumpled...
And the cutscenes really are outstanding -- some of the best I've ever seen in a game, not just pretty but effective delivery systems for story. Some of the voice acting is amateurish, and a couple of voice cast choices seem strangely out of place, but some of the voice work really is excellent. There are lots of opportunities for back-and-forth dialogue exchanges, and the writing is frequently quite good.
I agree entirely. I like the voice of the main character for example just because it's quite different from what we usually get on videogames.
No problems there. I love long cutscenes so it's quite fine with me.
A number of dialogue exchanges are forced -- the game cuts into them without warning. In these exchanges, you can't press a button to skip through a character's speech; you have to listen to every single word for as long as it takes. Worst of all, many of your character's responses are on a timer.
As far as I know you can skip every dialog. I use a controller and I can skip dialogs with ( B ). Did you tried using the spacebar?
Note: I only skip dialogs if I have already listened them before of course.
The spacebar works as expected for dialogues that I initiate.
It's in the story-driven dialogues -- the ones in which your responses are on a timer -- that no keyboard or mouse button will skip a line.
And yes, I only skip a line if I've heard it before.
Actually, I have a new complaint now: in the early game there's an unwinnable fight. Warhorse gives you no information that it's unwinnable; and you do want to win it... but there is no way to do so. No amount of skill or effort will suffice -- Warhorse has literally coded the encounter so that no matter how much time you put into it, you lose. But they don't tell you this.
One might be inclined to try to defend this as Warhorse trying to tell a story. But that is exactly my larger gripe with them: they are so bound and determined to make me experience their story in the way they want it experienced that they do things that interfere with simply playing a game.
And this in turn makes KCD another argument for my belief that Story and Interactive Game become increasingly incompatible. If you have an absorbing story you want everyone to experience, great! Write a book.
If instead you want to make a game, in which player choices within a simulated world have interesting consequences, and you trust the player of that game to decide which choices are the most fun, then do that -- and leave the storytelling to the player as far as possible.
I think Warhorse is trying too hard to tell a particular story, and this is inconsistent with player-centric gameplay in a simulated world. They take away control too often; they cheat on difficulty; they interrupt my fun to show me their stuff, and while it's often nice stuff, it's still an interruption of the gameplay I was enjoying.
I'm still playing because the gameplay is excellent. I just wish they'd let me get on with it!
#207 by Talvieno
story and Interactive Game become increasingly incompatible. If you have an absorbing story you want everyone to experience, great! Write a book.
I don't know, I can think of quite a few games that do an excellent job of combining story with a highly interactive, explorable world. Deus Ex, for one, or perhaps Skyrim, or System Shock. Grand Theft Auto does a fair job too, and I would be remiss not to mention Subnautica as well, having played it recently.
I think it can be done, and done well, no matter the level of interactivity of the world. The main thing, I think, is how much you want the story to be "central" to the game. Skyrim and Subnautica, for instance, take a very "hands off" approach when it comes to storytelling - much more so for Subnautica. With Skyrim, there are specific "points" of the game where the main quest is brought to the foreground - and it's wise enough to make absolutely sure you know that this is part of the main quest - you're only there if you're looking for story. Subnautica takes a much more "hands off" approach - the story exists, and while the game may drop hints of places you're supposed to go to continue the story, you're allowed to go about it in any manner you choose, or in (almost) any order, driven entirely by the desire to explore (and it does exceedingly well!).
With Kingdom Come: Deliverance, I think it's just a case of "Warhorse did a bad job of implementing it". Unsurprising, honestly, given that it's their very first game. (On a different note, I don't think they should have priced it quite as high as they did.)
Victor Tombs
Elder Council Member
#208 by Victor Tombs
Waved my sword about in a very menacing manner today. It's a worthy addition to my collection.
I haven't played the game though. I've decided it will have to wait until I've built my ultimate modded Skyrim game worthy of the expense of the new graphics card. I'm happy I don't have to deal with the problems of SLI anymore.
Victor Tombs wrote: ↑
That's fine, by then more patches should remove the edges from the game.
Yes, I gathered from what I've read that there are a few problems with the game that need some attention, Silver.
Mind you, I wouldn't use that as my excuse for not playing the game. I've still got Witcher 3 to play.
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A&I: Uncertain Futures
I’ve spent the better part of the last week playing through every Tony Hawk game in rapid succession, so I’ve been thinking a lot about time. Those games function as a window into the rise and fall of a subculture, and when you speed through nine full years in four days, you are confronted with the impermanence of everything in a way that is easier to ignore if you never leave the Zeitgeist of the day to day.
This weekend, we recorded next friday’s podcast with Lana Polanksy, and talked for no small amount of time about the lack of understanding of history within games circles. In a field where it’s possible to be considered old by the time you reach 23, what hope is there of building an understood canon of works both artistic and critical? Will anyone remember the flame if they insist on allowing it to burn out?
Any legitimate answer to that question requires structural change on a societal level, for games as a subculture is a product of its place and time, its problems and values inherited from elsewhere, it did not spawn from a vacuum. And that’s not even the answer I’m interested in finding, I’m far more concerned with how to find a workable consistency in the meanwhile.
I don’t know why I write about games, outside of it being the field in which I feel most confident in my abilities as a critic, and I’ll feel like my time is being wasted if I’m not producing something. But this emotion is one that comes from capitalistic values of product-above-all being societally ingrained, the same society that throws away work as soon as it no longer has moneymaking potential, and switches to marketing the Next Big Thing.
There’s no answers, no grand conclusion to be found here, for finding the energy and purpose to continue on any path is a constant, internal process, and there is no catharsis permanent enough to stave off doubt forever. This is more to frame the uncertain mindset I was in when I loaded up itch.io and started looking around for the games I was going to highlight this week.
Teetering on the brink of apathy, I found five games that moved me (both positively and negatively), and hit me right back into carrying on with my day.
Neon lights collide in front of you at acute angles, the buildings ahead are more evocative than real, suggesting the broad idea of a cyberpunk citiscape through mood and tone.
But as you land on each platform, and proceed on your journey to send your signal, what was a distant idea of a skyscraper becomes another obstacle to be somehow vaulted. Condor combines a impressionistic aesthetic with intricate sensations of movement in order to make the abstract tangible.
Over the winter, I lost count of the days I woke after the sun had already set. Unemployed and uncertain, I spent far too many nights in an anxious insomnia, my brain flitting from possibility to impossibility, an all too familiar modern coming of age.
2:22AM taps into the late night malleable melancholy, where every thought is beautiful and meaningless, and every tiny action full of ambiguous portent, then forgotten when the channel is changed. Why do we need choose one thought, one action, one hope to hold onto as we drift off to sleep? At 2:22 AM, the dawn is so far away, it may as well never come.
The music propels every action, jump cuts forcing the player between two scenes. The diver, who’s trapped on his journey down to the darkness of the ocean floor, and the girl, who’s completely unconstrained as she runs across the grassland under summer’s blue sky.
With every visual change, different elements of the music begin to feel emphasised, the constantly shifting tone a small exploration of the relationship between a game’s multitudes of audio, visual and play.
A Quick Swim To Clear Your Head
An ambient existential crisis simulator, A Quick Swim To Clear Your Head is a distilled expression of a singular emotion, and turns the terrifying and incomprehensible into the inevitable and okay.
There’s no point trying to control where you travel, you just have to let go, or else forever spin in circles.
The Static Speaks My Name
I don’t know how exactly to talk about The Static Speaks My Name. For a moment or two I considered a longer piece where I’d examine the game’s baffling portrayal of suicide, it’s moments of desperate empathy brushing up against moments of dark, voyeuristic humour, leading to a final act that is part tragedy and part punchline.
But I decided against that, in part because thinking about the game makes me too uncomfortable to go deep on analysis. So I leave the link here for you to make your own mind up, because for something I ultimately find so repugnant, that tragic honesty pierces through its layers of nastiness, and I don’t know how yet to reconcile those two halves.
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Windows 10 available July 29: Microsoft
June 1, 2015 JarvisWearablescortana, Microsoft, pc, software, Windows, Windows 10
The summer news that Windows users have been eagerly waiting for is finally here: Microsoft has announced that its newest operating system, Windows 10, will be available to all on Wednesday, July 29. As has been discussed before, the new OS will be free for existing Windows 7 and 8 users (unless, of course, they’re running pirated versions). Also, this launch is to be only for the PC and tablet versions of Windows 10, while a timeframe for the smartphone release hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Microsoft put out an introductory trailer with the announcement, which has the slogan “Because it’s still the desktop you love, only better,” and then highlighting some of the main features of the OS. Along with touting “familiar things,” like the classic Start menu, Windows 10 will also introduce digital personal assistant Cortana to desktop PCs, with notifications being displayed there as well as on Windows smartphones.
Among the other new features coming with Windows 10 include Microsoft’s new web browser, Edge, with new sharing and markup tools; a new Office 2016 suite with World, Excel, and PowerPoint; Xbox Live and an integrated Xbox app, for new gaming PC gaming experiences, as well as communication with Xbox One users; new Photos, Videos, and Mail & Calendar apps with cloud-syncing functionality that allows tasks to be started on one device and continued on another.
Microsoft also reminds that updates for Windows 10 will continue to be free for as long as the device it’s running on is supported, which comes after the news that Windows 10 is to be the “final version” of the OS, will smaller patches and updates replacing large, new versions every few years. The free upgrade to Windows 10 for existing users will be available for one year after release, and that will include those who purchase a Windows 8.1 device between now and July 29.
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Detailed timeline
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In May 2003, the USA, Argentina and Canada made a formal complaint to the WTO about the de-facto moratorium on GM crops and food in the European Union. On 26th September 2006 the final report of the WTO's Dispute Panel was made available.
GeneWatch UK followed the dispute in detail and also made an amicus curiae submission to the dispute panel as part of an international coalition of 15 groups. Since 2003 we have collected a large number of relevant documents and evidence accessible from the topics section on the right of this page.
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The Ruling
Three years after the initial complaints, the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body finally approved a 1,000 page report. This can be accessed on the WTO website.
The Key Issues:
It is important to note that the Panel made no finding as to the EC's right to require pre-market approval or the safety of GM products, and it did not revoke the right of WTO Members to choose whatever level of protection they want to provide to their people from risks to human health and the environment - including 'zero-level' risk.
The Panel found that it did not have to take account of the Biosafety Protocol and its parent treaty, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, because not all of the Parties to the dispute were parties to those treaties. The EC, Canada and Argentina but not the US are party to the Convention on Biological Diversity and The EC has ratified whilst Canada and Argentina have only signed the Biosafety Protocol. However international layers have argued that it was illegal for the Dispute panel to do this. Many developing countries have significant biodiversity, agricultural practices and 'GM-free' exports that they might want to preserve through bans or conditions on GM imports imposed in accordance with the Biosafety Protocol. Those developing countries that are also WTO Members could be particularly affected by the Panel's findings in this dispute because they might want to rely on the precautionary principle in imposing bans or conditions on GM imports based on a broad range of risks. They might also have limited resources that make delays in developing a regulatory framework and processing applications for approvals of GM imports likely.
The European Union choose not to appeal the findings. Before the Biotech dispute, only 20% of the adopted Panel Reports in which the EC was a respondent were NOT appealed by the EC or another party. It was therefore very unexpected that in this case the EU chose not to appeal. The EC's reasoning or process for deciding whether to appeal, including the Commission's consultation or otherwise with the Member States on that question, is not clear. It is possible that the EC decided not to appeal because it felt that it had gotten off relatively lightly and did not want to expose itself to a harsher finding on appeal. It is also possible that the Commission thought that the finding would be helpful in its efforts to persuade some of the EC member states to lift their GM bans. Read GeneWatch press release on EU Decision not to appeal
The European Union's Council of Ministers continues to fail to authorise the marketing of any GM crops food or feed. The Council must have a two thirds majority to pass a new product. Currently the European Commission is exercising it executive power and forcing through the authorisations. Furthermore, despite the WTO ruling specifically finding the national bans of some EU Member states to contravene WTO rules the Council of Minister has not ruled them to be illegal.
Analysis of The WTO GMO Dispute: Implications for Developing Countries and the need for an appeal By Alice Palmer for GeneWatch UK, the RSPB, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security and the GM Freeze.
Interpreting WTO Law and the Relevance of Multilateral Environmental Agreements in EC-Biotech (Background note to presentation by Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder) (May 2007)
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WTO Report (descriptive), pages 1-248 (1.6Mb PDF) 28th February 2006
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A Short History of GM Labelling 7th March 2007
Letter to Peter Mandelson, EC Trade Commissioner calling on Europe to appeal WTO decision 3rd November 2006
The WTO GMO Dispute:Implications for developing countries and the need for an appeal 2nd November 2006
GeneWatch comments on WTO GMO dispute panel interim report 31st March 2006
Next steps in WTO GMO dispute - March 2006 31st March 2006
The GMO dispute at the WTO: claims of a US victory are misplaced! 3rd January 2006
Report of meeting between the EU Commission's DG Trade and Civil Society Groups 22nd February 2005
The US challenge on GM foods at the WTO - Update 22nd August 2004 22nd August 2004
GeneWatch background note to the first US submission to the WTO dispute panel on GMOs 27th April 2004
Briefing 25: The GM Dispute at the WTO: Forcing GM Foods on Europe? 1st December 2003
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IIMSAM Youth Delegates – Former Delegates
Ms. Blanka Mooney
Youth Delegate
Ms. Blanka Mooney is a Serbian born US citizen and a senior year undergraduate student graduating in December, 2010 with a degree in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. Aside from being an IIMSAM Youth Delegate she also is interning for an immigration organization where she assists committees to develop leadership, build alliances and create opportunities for civic engagement in the community.[ READ FULL BIO ]
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Ms. Bonvalot joins the organisation as part of the implementation of the Resolution No. 62/126 adopted by the UN General Assembly on policies and programmes involving youth. She would focus her branding skill-set on resource generation outreach and for the awareness development on behalf of IIMSAM and branding the IIMSAM name in the French Republic.[ READ FULL BIO ]
Mr. Adriel V. Garib
Mr. Adriel V. Garib is a U.S. national of Dominican descent who is currently attending Mercy College in the Bronx. He will be receiving his degree this December, 2010 in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology. He has joined IIMSAM so that he can further his knowledge and world view.[ READ FULL BIO ]
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Ms. Ashley Zeik is a U.S. national of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. In 2009, she earned her Bachelor's Degree in English from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She minored in History, and spent a portion of her undergraduate career studying in Florence, Italy at the Santa Reparata International School of Art as well as at Fordham's Lincoln Center campus.[ READ FULL BIO ]
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After BJP defeated Left, Tripura Violence, Lenin Statue brought down by BJP workers
TOPICS:Lenin StatueTripura Violence
After BJP wins 43 seats,Tripura Violence, Lenin Statue brought down by BJP workers
A statue of Lenin was razed in Tripura days after the BJP stunned the Left, which was in power in the state for the last 25 years. The Russian revolutionary’s statue was in the heart of Belonia town in south Tripura, 90 km from capital Agartala. The Tripura police today said it has received four complaints of “post-poll” violence from various parts of the state since last night.
The BJP won 43 of the state’s 60 seats along with a regional partner Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) in the assembly elections. Tripura was considered the Left’s strongest citadel, presided over by the CPM’s Manik Sarkar, 69, who had been chief minister for 20 years and was seeking re-election for the fifth consecutive term.
The CPI(M) alleged BJP workers have gone on a vandalism spree in the last 48 hours. The state BJP has hit out, alleging people posing as BJP workers are behind the violence; Home Minister Rajnath Singh has spoken to the Governor and police chief, asking them to stop violence.
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Reviews, Video Games, Xbox One
Games Review: The Station (Xbox One, 2018): ET Gone Home
February 27, 2018 David Smith
It only took me a little over two hours to knock The Station over but I’m stilling idly thinking about it whenever I’ve nothing else to occupy my brain. For a game this short, there’s a surprising amount to unpack once the credits have rolled. It’s not perfect — the edges are rough like shark’s hide, even a graze will take skin off — but the story is quite strong, and if you can muscle past all the technical problems, it may reward you.
The Station wears its walking simulator inspirations on its sleeve. Titles like Gone Home, Dear Esther and last year’s Tacoma are the most obvious ones, drip feeding you information as you solve reasonably straightforward puzzles before moving into a new area. What about these technical problems you mentioned, David? Yes, let’s get into a few of those.
Actually walking has your character move at a pace where, were they on earth, they might be outstripped by a passing butterfly. Leaning on the right trigger to run ups your character’s pace to the kind of jog one does when a motorist allows you to cross the street in front of them, indicating hurry while not actually moving that much faster at all.
Despite living on a space station in the future, your character’s greatest challenge seems to be simply opening a door without getting it horribly wrong. You’ve never seen a person fuck up opening a door so completely. Your character is a person who, on a fundamental level, does not understand doors practically or conceptually. You press RB, which is your Action button, to select the door and then open it by moving the right stick, which sounds quite simple. The thing is, sometimes the game just ignores whatever direction you’re pushing the stick in and sends the door the other way.
The game is riddled with annoyances like these, and that’s important for you to know as they’ll dictate your level of enjoyment. I do think you should do your best to put up with them and push through anyway because the story The Station is trying to tell is worth all the suffering.
Your character is a reconnaissance agent sent to inspect a derelict space station orbiting a distant alien world. Heretofore undiscovered alien life forms were found on the planet’s surface and brought back to the station for analysis, but before any work could begin a bloody mutiny began among the station’s three crew members and the whole place went dark. Your mission: get in there and piece together what happened.
Every scrap of info you pick up on the station’s crew is well-written and displays a grasp of character and nuance that’s quite rare in games of any genre. Despite some rather rigid voice performances, there is a lot of detailed, beautiful writing at work here and it culminates in an ending that will give you genuine pause for thought as it side steps all of your preconceived ideas for how this thing was going to play out.
Like last year’s indie fave Rumu, The Station has something it wants to say. As someone who likes to see people putting in the work where games narrative in concerned, I applaud this. I’d like to see a little more work go into the gameplay but as an experience, I think it’s a valuable one that shouldn’t be slept on.
Score: 8.5 out of 10
Highlights: Great story and character work; Decent puzzles
Lowlights: A lot of poor interactions and mechanical hiccups
Developer: The Station
Publisher: The Station
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows PC
Available: Now
Review conducted on Xbox One X with a retail code provided by the publisher.
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1863: "Screenshots"
Soupspoon
You have done something you shouldn't. Or are about to.
Location: 53-1
Postby Soupspoon » Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:45 pm UTC
Title Text: For the final exam, you take a screenshot showing all the work you've done in class, and it has to survive beibg uploaded, thumbnailed, and rescreenshotted through a train of social kedia sites.
It's actually a very good straight lesson, the one presented here! But the prerequisites for a pass, and the failed sales model, are indeed off on a tangent of absurdity...
richP
Re: 1863: "Screenshots"
Postby richP » Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:53 pm UTC
Timely. I recently had to screenshot something for a customer. I re-cropped the screenshot to show that the smiling woman from the ad below the menubar (screenshot was from a free program that nags you to buy the full version) was *not* from a NSFW tab.
snipping tool FTW.
sonar1313
Postby sonar1313 » Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:16 pm UTC
Apparently Professor Munroe is OK with setting aside his rules of subconscious satisfaction for the good of the class....
https://xkcd.com/1271/
Postby speising » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:02 pm UTC
I know some business contacts i'd like to send this.
(missing: image in word document as email attachment, why not to do it.)
Postby SuicideJunkie » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:53 pm UTC
speising wrote: I know some business contacts i'd like to send this.
We've got some legacy documentation here that I got in an email with attached PDF containing images scanned in from paper, of a lightly used photocopy of a document created with a typewriter that may or may not have been the actual original.
On a side note, I don't understand why people are willing to spend so much money on screenshot tools.
The company I work for is on the extreme side and even paid for a physical tool; all our workstations have their own dedicated screenshot key.
Heimhenge
Joined: Thu May 01, 2014 11:35 pm UTC
Location: Arizona desert
Postby Heimhenge » Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:55 pm UTC
I had to laugh at bullet 6 because I once wasted close to 30 minutes trying to catch one frame of a gif but kept missing it. And it wasn't a particularly fast frame rate. I read somewhere the delay between hitting the print-screen key and the actual capture was anywhere from 0.5-1 s, but it seemed to take longer ... probably dependent on the OS and how much else is running but I don't know for sure. Then it dawned on me to just DL the gif, skip through it frame by frame in PhotoPaint, and save it as an individual image. Duh.
Steve the Pocket
Location: Going downtuuu in a Luleelurah!
Postby Steve the Pocket » Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:06 pm UTC
Just a few hours ago I discovered how to take an iPad screenshot by accident. GOOMHR
cephalopod9 wrote: Only on Xkcd can you start a topic involving Hitler and people spend the better part of half a dozen pages arguing about the quality of Operating Systems.
Baige.
ManaUser
Postby ManaUser » Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:13 am UTC
SuicideJunkie wrote: On a side note, I don't understand why people are willing to spend so much money on screenshot tools.
I take it your workplace uses Macs or something? PCs have a physical screenshot key standard. (Or at least a physical key which can logically be assigned that purpose and comes configured that way under Windows.)
Postby Soupspoon » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:58 am UTC
I read that as "some solution was bought despite a physical screenshot key"...
There's one situation in which a 'solution' would be useful. Multiple (not necessary rapid-fire!) uses of the PrtScr button (or other macro-key-combo), straight to timestamped image files, to be dealt with later. Rather than 'merely' clicking it to clipboard, then paste into image editor of choice after Alt-Tabbing away, (optional editing, there and then,) and saving, then Alt-Tabbing back, at each stage. Or other local system equivalents.
For some processes, the ability to maintain consistency (and not overwriting text cut'n'paste data/etc, or the screenshot data with text) might find a software one-click automated solution to be useful. And I've written programs of my own to do that (in everything from Pascal to Perl!), when an interesting need arose. I suppose someone managed to make their own solutions commercial (though have had the good sense never to approach me and suggest that they have the answer to the problem I never knew I had, and can I please give them $$$s for the pleasure), and perhaps some people have been willing to source that kind of thing for themselves (though I regret I've never been there when they demanded they give me £££s for my own bespoke solutions).
Anyway, I suppose it all goes to show. And, regardless of implementation or surrounding pecuniary settlements, eventually someone has to think about following guidelines very similar to those in the comic, because (preset shaving of extraneous window title-bars aside) there's a limit to the automation process...
Copper Bezel
Location: Web exclusive!
Postby Copper Bezel » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:44 pm UTC
I love how screenshots work on Windows with Dropbox installed. Just takes the shot, saves the image to a Screenshots folder in the Dropbox one, and puts up a notification. Had to set up a script to get the same behavior with the screenshot tool in GNOME (although, to be fair, at least it allows for that.)
So much depends upon a red wheel barrow (>= XXII) but it is not going to be installed.
she / her / her
Postby Soupspoon » Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:38 pm UTC
I nearly mentioned this. Dropbox was used on a computer I helped maintain (at least until Dropbox decided to just stop supporting the platform it was on, for reasons I never found out) and the unannounced activation of screenshot capture/save behaviour was of some concern once it was discovered.
(If you want it, brilliant. But it was not a feature looked for in that situation. It was not a totally undocumented feature, but it wasn't prominently displayed as something worth going into the options to turn off, and may or may not have only crept in long after the initial install, without any obvious fanfare and option to never turn it on.)
ETA: Not sure, now, whether the concern was that:
A) screenshots were being saved "in the raw" across the Dropbox system (with an unknown, but at times shown to be deficient, degree of security to keep them and their privileged contents safe from determined prying eyes),
B) That by arbitrarily adding files both bandwidth and free capacity were being eaten up (without deliberate effort by the user) or
C) That by being saved-to-file it was actually preventing the normal paste-buffer-straight-into-graphics-program process (I have a feeling this might have happened, and trying to work out why led us to discover the Dropbox functionality suddenly active, but it was a while ago and I may misremember)...
Also Gnome (plus KDE, and most of the other WMs) have quite extensive configurable auto-screenshot capabilities. On hot-key-combo press? Yes. Every five seconds? Yup. Named window/active window/window-under-cursor/whole-screen? All of the above. To (sequential/timestamped) file? If you want that. But you have to tell the system to do that. (Or let someone else tell the system to do that, with sufficient rights, and you can always check the native capability for tampering.) Remember to practice safe hex at all times!
Postby Copper Bezel » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:48 pm UTC
Well, by default, GNOME just spams the files into your Pictures folder.
I'm 99.8% certain I remember clicking something on setting up Dropbox's capture method. If not, well, it is at least superior to whatever the fuck Windows does. Using the clipboard shouldn't even be an option, it's idiotic.
Edit: I also question the extent to which GNOME qualifies as configurable in this regard. There's no option to change the save folder. I had to use a script to invoke the screenshot command and give it a save path. And while I was there, use notify-send to throw up a notification, because.
Postby ucim » Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:03 am UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: Using the clipboard shouldn't even be an option, it's idiotic.
No it's not. Sometimes I want a screenshot to view to compare with another screen, and don't want it to be saved to disk. Copy to clipboard, open in graphics program, and when I close the program, the screenshot is gone as if it never was.
Postby Copper Bezel » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:10 am UTC
Take the screenshot
Open the file
Delete the file
This is not hard
No, it's not "hard". It's also not convenient, and computers are supposed to make life convenient. Also it's not secure - the file still remains on the hard drive. This is especially true if the drive is a flash drive.
It's not what you're attenuated to. It is fewer and less arcane steps than all of that nonsense with your image editor, which you've been trained into by bad design and time. It is objectively, inherently, fundamentally more convenient.
Edit: And cry me a security river if people are freely accessing deleted files in your user directory.
Edit a second time: The only way this pastebuffer nonsense can even in the theoretical case be more "convenient" than using the damn file system to contain the damn file is if you are more familiar with the arcana of MS Paint than the basic functions of the fucking file manager, in which case software design has failed you utterly.
Edit a third time: I'm not really angry at you, I'm angry at the people who hurt you, but don't advocate this insanity further and pass on their cycle of abuse to others.
Postby Soupspoon » Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:28 am UTC
Regardless of anything else, there are a number of things about Dropbox's apparent default behaviour that I don't like... *shudder*
(And that was the problem. Rather than the expected image to copypasta, it turned out to be a text link... Except it originally wasn't linked to Ctrl-(Alt-)PrintScreen, just straight (Alt-)PrintScreen..)
Postby orthogon » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:08 am UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: It's not what you're attenuated to. It is fewer and less arcane steps than all of that nonsense with your image editor, which you've been trained into by bad design and time. It is objectively, inherently, fundamentally more convenient.
The file system, though, is a pretty rubbish way of doing lots of things. In this case it's like asking a colleague for a copy of something, and them putting the copy somewhere in your filing cabinet instead of handing it to you or putting it in your in-tray. You have to go looking for the thing that somebody just this minute made for you. If a colleague did that, you'd be quite annoyed.
Looking for things in the file system is by far the biggest time waster in using Windows, despite continual introduction of new features: search, recently used, libraries, etc. Partly it's that these features are buggy (search is slow or inexplicably blind to certain locations; recently used lists seem to get added to only when you load, not when you save...), and partly it's that the dynamic nature means that you don't know where (if anywhere) the thing you want is going to appear each time, so ironically you have to do a manual search of the results. Maybe gnome does it better, but for me Linux is the very definition of "you just have to know where this goes in the file system [in this release]".
So it seems that there's something missing in the whole desktop metaphor, the idea that something you just used, saved or produced should be right there in your hand. The copy buffer is the closest we get to that, but in my view it needs to be extended - you need to have a super-accessible pair (or more) of virtual hands.
richP mentioned the Snipping Tool, which is a step in the right direction, in that the screenshot appears in the window straight away, then you can decide what to do with it.
Soupspoon wrote: Regardless of anything else, there are a number of things about Dropbox's apparent default behaviour that I don't like... *shudder*
What? No, the Ctrl+PrintScreen behavior described is both useless and not current, as public links don't work that way in Dropbox anymore and why the fuck would you want to spam your clipboard anyway. It's the basic PrintScreen functionality I'm talking about. Pictured at the top of the page is in fact the opt in window that asks you if you want Dropbox to take over managing screenshots because Windows is terrible at it, confirming that there is in fact nothing about this behavior that is "default"; anyone complaining clicked through that window without reading it.
orthogon wrote: Looking for things in the file system is by far the biggest time waster in using Windows, despite continual introduction of new features: search, recently used, libraries, etc. Partly it's that these features are buggy (search is slow or inexplicably blind to certain locations; recently used lists seem to get added to only when you load, not when you save...), and partly it's that the dynamic nature means that you don't know where (if anywhere) the thing you want is going to appear each time, so ironically you have to do a manual search of the results. Maybe gnome does it better, but for me Linux is the very definition of "you just have to know where this goes in the file system [in this release]".
In the proposed screenshot workflow, all of this is irrelevant, because it still requires opening up MS Paint and Ctrl+Ving into the darkness, and the screenshot folder would be a known and easy to get to location (in the case of Windows with Dropbox, Dropbox / Screenshots.)
Windows Explorer is an awful file manager, but it does the very basics. I can understand why it might drive Windows users to be scared of the filesystem.
In GNOME, you would indeed need to know at least where your file was, or a part of the name (since typing any random thing into the file manager instantly searches recursively for matches.) There isn't a "Libraries" function to let you know where your suggested, related, and top-rated files are and which files are trending this week. (Unless you count the "recents" category, which opens instantly like everything else but isn't populated by actions from all apps and is therefore useless.)
So it seems that there's something missing in the whole desktop metaphor, the idea that something you just used, saved or produced should be right there in your hand.
It's called the notification area. GNOME's ahead of Windows in chasing Android on this front, but only by a little, Windows apps are doing good things on this front.
The copy buffer is the closest we get to that, but in my view it needs to be extended - you need to have a super-accessible pair (or more) of virtual hands.
It's called a clipboard manager.
It is possible that the pastebuffer method here was at one time meant to solve a problem that existed in the system that inflicted it on the world. If the clipboard somehow enabled you to view and save the screenshot from wherever without loading anything, it'd actually begin to solve the perceived problem in a sense, too, instead of creating more of them. But that problem does not presently exist and appropriate solutions do if it did. See Android, where taking a screenshot puts a link to the file in your notification tray. I don't remember whether Windows / Dropbox does this, too.
And between this and password managers, I'm sick to death of things fucking with the clipboard. Things like this are the reason why people don't use clipboard managers. Because there's always something fucking with the clipboard instead of letting it be a goddamn clipboard.
Postby Soupspoon » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:56 am UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: What? No, the Ctrl+PrintScreen behavior described is both useless and not current, as public links don't work that way in Dropbox anymore
Demonstrative of the problem, if they've changed it, they've discovered that people don't like it.
and why the fuck would you want to spam your clipboard anyway.
Apparently, some people like putting things in clipboards. As if the clipboard buffer is useful or something, and so why this useless feature is still hogging potential resources.
Pictured at the top of the page is in fact the opt in window that asks you if you want Dropbox to take over managing screenshots
Maybe they changed it, when they discovered people don't like it.
because Windows is terrible at it,
Obviously it's not a useful feature at all, and shouldn't be allowed to hog up potemtial resources.
anyone complaining clicked through that window without reading it.
Because that's exactly how every feature of every piece of software gets presented to the user, all the time. The developer considerately allowing (indeed requiring!) the user to confirm (or else veto by omission) each and every functional hook.
See Android, where taking a screenshot puts a link to the file in your notification tray.
That's pretty much a necessity, given the absence of any form of Ctrl-V anywhere outside the horrible on-screen keyboard (that I'm using right now, under the duress of necessity, the bluetooth keyboard being still in another bag). You just don't get (nor apparently expect, even with the off-screen keyboard) the option to paste.
Android has a number of oddnesses, that may be tied to the OS or to the apps...
I use "Image Cropper Free" (does what it says on the tin, in all respects, many other image-croppers existed when I sought out one, but I chose this one and then learnt how to wrangle it). When opened, it has a button to open an image (because "last thing I screenshot, whether as a memory fragment or as the file Android gave me for pressing these two physical tablet buttons with just the right amount of simultaneous time delay" is not an option) and immediately it presents me with the option of Complete Action Using either "Gallery" or "Photos" (because I tend not to confirm such things as "Always", instead clicking "Just [this] Once", much as I untick the "Always use the selected program to open this type of file" box in Windows's "Open with..." dialogue, even though it's easier to de-edit the default in future). If I choose "Photos" it often goes all weird (sometimes Image Cropper crashes), so perhaps I should select Gallery as the Always option.
Choosing the Gallery, I now have options of Camera, Download, Documents, Cropped Images (seemingly created by this app), Spectrum Analysis (created by another app) and Sculpt+ (created by an app I removed shortly after originally trying). ((Except that the second time I go in there, just now, suddenly "sdcard0" appears at the start and shifts over every other item, despite never being there before... This is a new discovery and not part of my originally intended rant!)) It doesn't include Screenshots, and there's no way to actually navigate the (actual, or effectively virtual) file structure, so I need to separately use the natively installed Android file manager (or any chosen "better than the default" App chosen from the online store based upon vicarious reviews and publisher's claims) to copy/move the image to somewhere that the Gallery does see.
Anyway, eventually I select the image, somehow, and then it appears in the App. I think. Because the next step is to tap the image and get a Complete Action Using choice of opening with "Crop Photo" or "Crop Picture" (below which ia the unused Always and the always used Just Once), each of which takes me to a different photo-cropping interface... Despite my impression that I was already opening the image in Image Cropper Free, and I've no idea which of the "Crop ..." options this is (if, indeed, it is either?), and that I was only using Gallery to identify the file to operate upon.
Then... Well, trial and error, because Crop Photo and Crop Picture work differently and sometimes I try one and start again to use the other because something is easier to do using the one I didn't choose, whichever it was that I hadn't. And the saving process is just one of those differences. The vertical-ellipses in the top right of the App that is the local representation of the Burger Icon might or might not work to give me various options, or a short press on the thing I long-press for App-switching.
Maybe I need a new(er) Image Cropper. Or maybe a different generation/vendor-implementation of Android. This may be my fourth or fifth Android tablet, and they have all worked sufficiently different from each other to make me wonder exactly how little underlying functionality is part of the core system and how much is the choice of Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, Alcatel, etc.
(And I've never used a Password Manager... Always some distrust as to where I'd be if the Manager went wrong, and mostly in the "completely loses all my passwords" sense rather than the "broadcasts them to all curious parties" way. Surprised to hear they use clipboard so openly, as a TSR clipboard-logger would easilily enough listen out for passwords, as well as amything else you send through there. Thought it's be a more sophisticated mechanism.)
Postby Copper Bezel » Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:25 pm UTC
1, I use my clipboard a hell of a lot more than I think a lot of people do, because there are people who don't even use a fucking clipboard manager. Quite probably a majority of people. Benighted drifters all. In any case, the fact that I use it is why I don't want irrelevant features fucking it up.
2, I see no evidence that Dropbox ever changed anything, because both the documentation and the software as I have it do the thing I described. If they changed something, um, yay, they are capable of updating and improving their software. I find it entirely unlikely that there was a stage at which the opt-in screenshot capture feature was not presented as such.
3, If you don't read the prompts, you can't complain. 99.9% of users do neither. As a person (like me) in that .1% apt to complain, you are obliged to read the prompts. If you want your software to behave in a very particular way and don't want to have to work around it instead, you have to take the time to figure out what you're "Yes, that sounds fantastic"ing.
4, Android works with keyboards, too. There is no Ctrl+V outside of text boxes when not using one because Ctrl+V is for fucking text when you're in a text-oriented app. Clipboards handle formatted text, text containing images, a section of an image in an image editor, a glob of 2D or 3D vertices or cps, sure, but those are snippets of documents and not whole documents in themselves, because that is what copy and paste does. You can copy and paste files in a file manager, where they are not presently being treated as documents. These are all consistent applications of what the clipboard does and largely interoperable. Where the non-text variations of these concepts are available in a given app, there is indeed a button for it.
Pasting a file in an editor on Android has no meaning, you would be pasting it into the existing document, except that that's not what you want, you want to close the existing document and open the other one, which is what Open does and not what Paste does at the most fundamental level of computing metaphor. And to take the Windows 3.1 metaphor all the way, the thing you want to paste is not a file, but the content of a file, which is nonsense on desktop, but comprehensible nonsense, where in the app-and-document-centric world of Android, where files belong to apps and are often saved automatically and no longer respect an abstraction between the open document and the saved copy, it's merely an inarticulate gurgle.
The real reason Android handles screenshots correctly is that it is an interface built from the ground up to make sense instead of a fucking pile of cruft built on other cruft for workarounds relating to other cruft from fucking MS DOS. And I include popular Linuxes in that description because the pervasive need to make Linux work like Windows because fucking users throw a fucking fit when they don't have X and Y and Z from their bloody Windows machines means that every Linux desktop has design bugs inherited directly from Windows.
5, I'm sorry your image cropping app is shit.
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Postby Von_Cheam » Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:41 pm UTC
Can't help observing that
Screenshot to clipboard ⇨ Super+R ⇨ Type "gimp" ⇨ Ctrl+V ⇨ Do stuff ⇨ Ctrl+Q
is quicker and less gui-ey ("gooey"?) than
Screenshot to disk ⇨ Double-click notification to open file manager ⇨ Double-click screenshot to open GIMP ⇨ Do stuff ⇨ Ctrl+Q ⇨ Select image file in file manager ⇨ Delete ⇨ Ctrl+Q
That being said, I'm in the habit of taking a bunch of screenshots in one go to deal with later, so I rarely screenshot to clipboard myself. If (and only if!) I were using a touchscreen, keyboardless interface I think I may prefer the Android solution.
Hm. I guess, if it's all about workflow, one could bind [a modifier]+PrntScr to a script that saves the screenshot to /tmp (changing mode bits/permissions if that sort of thing is a concern) and opens it in an image editor/viewer directly, right? That'd save loads of keystrokes, and as a side-benefit the screenshot would be on disk in case you wanted it later, but wouldn't hang around forever cluttering the place up.
Postby ucim » Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:46 pm UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: It is fewer and less arcane steps than all of that nonsense with your image editor, which you've been trained into by bad design and time.
Ok, so one of the things I often do is take screenshots to use in documentation. I have an app or site open, take a screenshot, paste it into my image program, edit the image (crop, resize, add circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back explaining each one, and save the resulting mashup. Then I go on to the next one. How in blazes is it easier if screenshot only saves to a file, which I have to search for every time, and then delete every time? Making the computer less able to do stuff is usually not such a good idea. Not everyone does what you do.
Copper Bezel wrote: Edit: And cry me a security river if people are freely accessing deleted files in your user directory.
I work from a laptop, sometimes in foreign countries, and sometimes that laptop is connected to a different external hard drive (with the sensitive stuff I'm dealing with). My laptop hard drive should not have a copy of their sensitive data. If it's stolen (or taken by customs), it needs to be clean.
I tell the computer what to do. Not the other way around.
Postby Soupspoon » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:09 pm UTC
(Because none of this was really the point of the comic, I had to decide what to do with the rapidly expanding text that came pouring out of my fingers (onto the touch-screen!), and decided that perhaps if I spoiler the largest tangential sections, and gave you all fair warning that I'm not looking for an argument so feel free to get the final word in without fear of my returning with any more maybe-counterarguments from me, I can let this act as a record of my views without either too much polluting the airwaves nor leaving questions begging to be answered...)
Dropbox:
I just want to say that I've never used the Dropbox thing for myself, but I was the one who helped install the thing, at the request of the users concerned, and because I knew I'd possibly have to support the end-users (e.g. how to obtain the URL representing any future arbitrary set of Clouded files so as to paste that link into an email) I did make sure I noted all the options given to me during installation, and there was no clue that it would hook PrintScreen.
It also likely did not do, at that stage, because it wasn't until some time later that the issue of a screenshot no longer being (the expected form of) a screenshot came up and prompted investigation. That it was not like this originally, and that it seems like it is no longer hooked to the universal screenshot-to-buffer key-combo, indicates creature-feep both from nothing (because somebody decided it would be a handy new feature) and then onto its own keycombo (because somebody realised they'd erred in the original implementation). I actively went and looked for version-specific documentation before I vented about this, hoping to find the dated devnotes surrounding the events concerned, but gave that up as a bad job.
But I've done it myself... Installed something (or added to an install/activated a feature) on somebody's machine, only to discover that I've overridden some obscure but understandable work-process that "they are used to". And which, often, I can't fault as being "wrong", I just never knew that they actually found that original and untampered aspect of the system at all useful... The guys at dropbox probably had a similar "hey, fellow geeks, you know what would be really cool, in our next automated update..?" internal conversation, then later on realised that there were other users (and other geeks, even, who just weren't party to the internal discussion) whose days they might soon be spoiling.
Clipboard Managers:
I implement mine in wetware. If (for example) I have to cut out Text A from position A and put it in position B where currently Text B is residing, that needs to be cut out and out into Text A (or any rather more complex example, across multiple data types) then between the Ctrl-Xing and Ctrl-Ving and Alt-Tabbing (as necessary, or other local system equivalents, including stuff like Ctrl-PageUp/Downing for tabs in internally tabbed workspaces) having a single 'register' is no impediment to shuffling copypasta around, and might even make it simpler and harder to lose track of. (When one copies an interesting URL, then later copies an image selection to obliterate the original URL, it's obvious that I never cared enough about the URL to remember to shove it in a spare notepad/text-editor/addressbar for the momentary duration.)
I mentioned I have a keyboard for my Android. I'd be using it right now if I could be bothered to unpack it (shift-cursor is easier to use to select blocks of text than this touchscreen interface, and simple cursoring gets me to the middle of a misspelt word, or to the point between two words where a bottom-row character has intervened instead of the intended space, also so much quicker)... I also use my (PC) keyboard heavily in GIMP, changing tools, scrolling (both horizontally and vertically), changing zoom, even repositioning/sizing the windows (Alt-Space, M(ove) or (re)S(ize), cursor-keys) and of course copy/cut/pasting, though the mouse/pen/etc gets a look-in when drawing the lines, defining a boundary box, selecting a given pixel, etc. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there was a (backup) keyboard method for even some of those functions. Anyway, the mouse is habitually perched precariously upon the edge of the laser-printer (there being no desk-space to speak of) and often gets picked up and placed on my right thigh to use, betwixt all the use of the keyboard (balanced atop my left thigh, when not astraddle both!) for everything else...
TIMTOWTDI, and sometimes what works... just works. And everybody's happy with the way it works that they use.
Cropping app suckiness:
Maybe I could try a few more apps, from the hundreds of random examples I will find, and try to work out if any of those do the (rarely necessary) job any better, or if it's mostly a fault with this instantiation of Android. I've also just discovered doesn't let me install Podcast Republic, that runs happily enough on the older tablet whose battery life and thus future usefulness is rapidly diminishing. And that's with the multimedia capabilities of this tablet being sufficient for vastly more complicated stuff than mere audio, so it's likely some hidden library support beyond easy poking and prodding to rectify, and I need to pursue some other podcast software (that works differently!) to transfer my various audiophilic accumulations upon.
(The lesson here is that I'm not averse to diving into regedit via the command-line, or even the GRUB configuration file on the various linux desktops, but I find myself almost as distanced from the 'nitty gritty' of the Android system (linuxesque as it is) as Apple would wish me to be from iOS's internals (dittoish). I've never been fan of the hermetically sealed box (and thus the Mac model of computing), but for some reason I'm ensnared by Google in this instance...)
Postby Copper Bezel » Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:38 pm UTC
Okay, so you don't use a clipboard manager because you prefer fussing around between windows and tabs like a person who doesn't know what a clipboard manager is. Good Android apps are indeed hard to find, and I don't have a preferred image editor myself; it's exactly the kind of app where I feel Android has a gaping hole in third-party software vs. even desktop Linux, those little basic amenities of computing.
This part, however, you misunderstand, and I'll try to explain more clearly this time.
Ctrl+PrintScreen is not and has never been a way to invoke Dropbox in place of the system's existing screenshot tool. It is a binding within the Dropbox screenshot tool. PrintScreen all by itself does, indeed, cause Dropbox to capture the screen "by default" and in the normal, correct way, if you have set it to do so in the first place. That is what that dialog box was about, setting it to do its thing or opting not to.
Edit: ucim, missed your post in there.
You're ... you're saving the file. You're saving the actual fucking file after you annotate it. What the actual fuck. So you ... you could just open ... the file ... and edit it.
No, fuck your workflow, no one needs to go out of their way to support your need to cut your sandwiches into rectangles rather than diagonally. You want that functionality, write it yourself.
Never mind that as already mentioned, taking a series of screenshots is still (always and forever) going to be more convenient if they go somewhere, but you'd rather jump back and forth because ... because that's how you do.
Write it yourself.
Move the default screenshot folder to the external. This is nonsense.
Not for the only time, in the last week, I don't understand the arguments on a situation where I have an apparent disagreement with someone. And I do worry that it's entirely me at fault. Ask me in private/invite me onto a dedicated technical subforum thread if you really want to, but I am not polluting the comics bit any further on this business of mine. And all due apologies for the mess I already dumped here.
(As you edited after I started writing, and this wasn't even me and my point yet I feel strongly that there's a reply necessary...
From my experience, each and every external drive grants itself a potentially new and different drive letter, whenever plugged in. If every time I plug a drive in I need to take time to go and change the destination to the flavour-of-the-day location, then remember to go back into options and set it back to local before closing (lest the next bootup without the external drive/with a different external drive/with the correct external drive in the wrong place leaves me open to audible or (worse) silent errors or (worserer) inappropriate saves...) then the advantages and disadasntages definitely swing against it.
And now I hate myself even more.)
Postby Pfhorrest » Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:08 pm UTC
As usual, the Mac way is correct.
Hit the screenshot keycombo and an image file appears on your desktop. Obvious and immediate access, trash the file if you're done with it, really quick and easy basic editing (cropping etc) a double-click away in the built-in image editor that opens it by default.
Screenshot to clipboard by holding an additional modifier key if you really want. Crop while screenshotting with an additional modifier too. Auto-crop to a specific window with a keystroke after that if you want.
Screenshots to clipboard by default is pants on head retarded and responsible for the whole fucking screenshots in Word docs phenomenon.
Copper Bezel wrote: You're ... you're saving the file. You're saving the actual fucking file after you annotate it.
...and sometimes combine it with another screenshot (before/after, logged-in/not-logged-in...), and sometimes integrating it with another graphic. I'm trying to give you simple cases for illustration. It's actually easier to drop the clipboard into an existing graphic than to open the graphic and then copy it (again) and then merge it into something. Or merge something into it. By doing it my way I can treat the screen as a data source, roughly equivalent to any other image or text that will contribute to the final file.
Copper Bezel wrote: Move the default screenshot folder to the external. This is nonsense.
It's not always the same external.
Scenario 1: Take a screenshot (to the clipboard), paste it into a layer of the image I'm building.
Scenario2: Take a screenshot, use the graphics program to open the screenshot (in another window), select all, copy the screenshot to the clipboard, close the window, move to the window I'm working with, paste the screenshot into a layer of the image I'm building, open a file manager, find the file with the screenshot, delete it (or open a file-scrubber, find the file with the screenshot, scrub it) (or open the command line, type the command including the path to the screenshot (yes, tab completion is nice) that scrubs the file. Ooops, wrong path - that was yesterday's, try again...)
When I take a screenshot for this application, the clipboard is where I want it. I'm fine with an option that disables screenshot-to-the-clipboard, but I'm not fine with universally doing that.
Soupspoon wrote: Not for the only time, in the last week, I don't understand the arguments on a situation where I have an apparent disagreement with someone. And I do worry that it's entirely me at fault. Ask me in private/invite me onto a dedicated technical subforum thread if you really want to, but I am not polluting the comics bit any further on this business of mine. And all due apologies for the mess I already dumped here.
If it's not clear, I'm greatly enjoying this conversation and the chance to berate others over minutiae instead of posting in another Trump thread. I've appreciated your every contribution and the opportunity it's given me to mix explanation and verbal MMA. I don't think you're at fault in anything in any way.
...and sometimes combine it with another screenshot (before/after, logged-in/not-logged-in...), and sometimes integrating it with another graphic. I'm trying to give you simple cases for illustration.
Your lack of familiarity with how to do these things normally may extend to more complex cases, but you're only adding instances of the same bad behavior. Drag and drop exists. If there's an image editor that doesn't support dropping an image from the file manager into an existing document as a layer, it needs to be fired.
I dunno, RAM drive? This is a pretty damn niche case. Not everyone works for the NSA. (I'd forgotten about Windows handling mount points differently, too. That could complicate matters as well. But yeah. I imagine there's a more elaborate and possibly expensive solution to your problem somewhere. It is a highly unusual problem.)
Pfhorrest wrote: Screenshots to clipboard by default is pants on head retarded and responsible for the whole fucking screenshots in Word docs phenomenon.
Thank FUCK you're here.
Postby Von_Cheam » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:16 pm UTC
Pfhorrest wrote: As usual, the Mac way is correct.
That's pretty dashed close to the long-standing default XFCE behaviour; I'd hesitate to call it "the Mac way"!
Soupspoon wrote: And all due apologies for the mess I already dumped here.
Totally hafta applaud your attitude here, but it really ain't your fault! It's just a combination of this well-known phenomenon..
..and this well-known rhetorical technique..
Copper Bezel wrote: [...] fucking [...] fuck [...] fuck [...] FUCK [...]
..both of which are essentially staples of The Tubes. So please don't feel bad!
Copper Bezel wrote: Drag and drop exists. If there's an image editor that doesn't support dropping an image from the file manager into an existing document as a layer, it needs to be fired.
Like, you seem to be turning the sub-one-second key combo
Ctrl+PrntScr; Alt+Tab; Ctrl+Shift+N (for new layer); Ctrl+V
PrntScr; Alt+Tab to file manager; grab file with mouse; Alt+Tab+Tab to GIMP; drag onto layer panel; Alt+Tab to file manager; select and delete file; Alt+Tab back to GIMP
Or am I missing some obvious way that going through the file manager is faster/more secure/something?
PinkShinyRose
Postby PinkShinyRose » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:47 pm UTC
Von_Cheam wrote:
You bound the Alt+Tab keycombo to starting your photo editor? That's some odd behaviour. Also, to use GIMP for such simple things as saving screenshots? It loads so slow, you'd have to wait a minute just to make a screenshot.
I like cinnamons solution of prompting what you want with the printscreen after making it (I generally pick 'save as', but I use 'send to clipboard' occasionally). I also like how you can make it make a new shot of just a single window/screen/selected area.
Yeah, that dialog is inherited from prior versions of GNOME, and that strategy is super-common in third-party screenshot tools. It's a very sensible solution.
I dunno, if you insist on doing absolutely everything with the keyboard, not a lot of typical modern GUI stuff is going to make a great deal of sense. Keyboard shortcuts do indeed superficially sound simpler in at least some sense of the term in all cases.
In the case that you're working with a batch of screenshots to annotate and combine them, you already have the editor open after you're opened the first one, and you'd presumably leave the file manager open to manage them as you work. If you're using the clipboard there's no equivalent to that, so it's not really a matter of more or less steps in a particular process, because the individual processes are different. You wouldn't be jumping back to the file manager to delete the file and back to the editor because whether it's one screenshot or 10 you can clean up after yourself all at once afterward.
This is, of course, the case that capturing to the clipboard should theoretically be best at, because it's the case where you already have the image editor open and waiting and do intend to edit and resave the image after capturing it. But belabor the description as much as you like, even in this case the process is going to be comparable. And of course, because you're treating files, which are files, as files, you still have the source images to jump back to if something goes fucky.
PinkShinyRose wrote: You bound the Alt+Tab keycombo to starting your photo editor? That's some odd behaviour. Also, to use GIMP for such simple things as saving screenshots? It loads so slow, you'd have to wait a minute just to make a screenshot.
Nah, I meant Alt+Tab into an already running instance of GIMP. Guess I could've put that somewhat clearer! But even starting GIMP from scratch takes.. lemme see.. just over a second. (I don't even have a lightweight graphics program installed any more* for that very reason..)
Copper Bezel wrote: Keyboard shortcuts do indeed superficially sound simpler in at least some sense of the term in all cases.
Crumbs! That's.. quite a sentence!
Yeah, if it were a batch, workflow-ey sorta thing I think I'd probs. turn everything into files. It's a bit slower, and clicking and dragging is kind of annoying (and that's on a desk; goodness only knows what it must be like for the guy with his mouse hopping from his lap to the printer lid and back!) but it means you can hammer away at that PrintScr key with wild abandon and they all get kept - and as you say the raw screens do hang around until you're sure you don't need them, which rather does trump the other considerations..
*Erm, unless you count imagemagick, I guess..
People who never learned to use laptop trackpads weird me. There are a lot of tasks for which a mouse is vastly superior, but there's really no task for which a laptop in your lap, but with a mouse, makes any sense at all. I mean, I suppose there are still Thinkpads if you'd rather a clit mouse. Drag and drop specifically is kind of not great with them, though; it's wanky, but I was playing with KDE Connect's phone-as-input-device feature on my desktop (as opposed to the HTPCs and things where it might be useful) and really appreciated the long-press, then move, "locked" drag-and-drop; slower, but less frustrating in practice.
Postby Flumble » Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:01 pm UTC
TIL in Windows 10 you can press Win+PrtSc to save a screenshot to a file and you can use Ctrl+PrtSc when the snipping tool is open to make a rectangular selection of the screen, both without affecting the clipboard with the snipping tool set to "copy snips to clipboard" by default.
Nice! Good to know! Thanks.
Postby Pfhorrest » Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:08 pm UTC
Mac has 12 years precedence over xfce, so yeah.
Postby Von_Cheam » Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:26 pm UTC
Pfhorrest wrote: Mac has 12 years precedence over xfce, so yeah.
Crumbs, that ..was a little puzzling! But I think I'm with you now. You're saying that this:
Was released twelve years before this:
Like, erm, yes? It most certainly was...
Postby Copper Bezel » Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:32 pm UTC
Xfce also has five years on macOS, but I wasn't using either at either time and have no idea who decided that the desktop was a good place to save scrots first. Odds are good it wasn't on the initial release of either.
Postby Pfhorrest » Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:06 pm UTC
I can testify firsthand that Macs have been saving screenshots to the desktop since at least the late 80s. I actually had a Mac that looked like the one in that pic (it was a Plus, so if that's meant to be an original 128k then it was a little newer), and though it was running updated software by the time it came to me second-hand (System 6 I believe it was), it saved screenshots to the desktop.
Things like screenshotting to clipboard, cropping and window-cropping inline, and so on, were later additions, I don't remember when exactly. It used to be just the one full-screen image saved to desktop.
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