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Wekiva Springs, FL Hiking Trails and Maps
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Find the top rated hiking trails in Wekiva Springs, whether you're looking for an easy short hiking trail or a long hiking trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a hiking trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Good Neighbor Trail
Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway (Santos Trailhead to CR 200)
Tomoka State Park Trail
Withlacoochee State Trail
The Good Neighbor Trail runs for just over 10 miles from Brooksville to the Withlacoochee State Forest in western Florida, following the route of the former Florida Southern Railroad Line. The...
The Marjorie Harris Carr Cross-Florida Greenway is on a mission to create a non-motorized conduit stretching 110 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to St. John’s River in Palatka. The corridor showcases...
Tomoka State Park Trail offers a short, paved route through the park in northeastern Florida's Ormond Beach (just north of Daytona Beach). The easy-to-ride trail runs through the woods alongside Beach...
The 46-mile Withlacoochee State Trail is a must-do pure Florida experience for any trail enthusiast. Situated between Orlando and Tampa, it hosts a steady stream of visitors and locals on its paved...
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June, 2019 by elj317
Once again, I have to tip my helmet to the people planning Florida's biking system!!! I have ridden (and reviewed ) some of the other trails on the planned cross Florida route. The MHC is another shining example of what a State and counties can achieve!!! What a great use of taxpayer money!!! The trail in very well maintained. Very clean. The ride is varied with hills, dense forest, curves, a newer growth forest-all on a nice wide , smooth path!!! I did the 33 mile round trip and am looking forward to the extensions that are planned in the future!!!! Bravo!!!
A fun adventure I almost did not come because of the short mileage but discovered a gem of a park and ended up completing 7.7 miles in exploring the park and trail.
Inside the park the trail is not marked, I just rode on the hardpacked shell roads and explored, outside the park entrance, there is a beautiful concrete wide trail that is totally shaded, a beautiful gem but that section is short.
I parked inside the Tomoka state park (do have to pay a fee to enter) at the "Tomoka Outpost" which unfortunately is closed on Wednesday as it seemed to have everything. The restrooms were open, and the view of the river/intercoastal was fantastic.
Parking was confusing at first, by the outpost most of the parking spaces are for cars with boat trailers as that is also the boat launch. Right next to the building they reserve a bunch of spots for customers/quick drop offs. There is a lot more parking right across the streets but no signs to direct you there.
I first road north on the hard packed crushed rock/sand road and had no problems on my hybrid bike. I even rode my bike on the nature trail (on one end marked .5 miles and on the other end marked 1 mile) it was hard packed and just wide enough for the hybrid. I explored several side roads, one leads to picnic areas on the intercoastal and that road has some big dips that could fill with water but must drain fast as it rained the night before and they were dry but muddy for my ride, I could easily avoid on the edges. The other side road leads down to the RV camping area.
Upon leaving the park entrance, you cross the road and that is where the concrete and totally shady trail is. Beautiful but that section is short.
You can continue on down N Beach street on a sidewalk all the way to Ormond Beach at W Granada Blvd. You don't have views of the intercoastal but the houses are nice and it could make for a nice ride. There are some pretty gardens at Granada Blvd and you can also connect to the Halifax River trail (really a sidewalk but with an intercoastal river view)
I only take 1 star away for the lack of signage, and its a fun adventure on a hybrid bike or mountain bike. Not a road bike trail.
All I can say is it is definitely worth the trip. Beautiful trail, well maintained and friendly people.
April, 2019 by jgt1972
How to build a trail
March, 2019 by bannerman
Great trail with lots of curves and hills to keep it interesting.Also a lot of shade and few road crossings. Other then Santos trail head there is no water available which can be an issue. Bike rentals available at Santos trail head.
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Luxury Travel Guide to Tokyo
·11 April, 2019
·Samantha - Travelling King
Tokyo is a buzzing metropolis like nowhere else in the world. Its unique cultural identity and cosmopolitan way of life make it a fascinating destination for a luxurious and lavish holiday. The city’s fascinating blend of old and new means you can enjoy a weekend of opulence while gaining knowledge about ancient traditions and cultures.
The Japanese respect the finer things in life and are known for their fantastic service and attention to detail. Tokyo will show you just how true that can be, as this capital city boasts many impressive attractions and experiences you won’t soon forget.
Ready for the trip of a lifetime? This guide will tell you everything you need to know to have the ultimate luxury experience in Tokyo, Japan.
This guide is perfect for those who are travelling to Tokyo on a luxury. We will show you what to do in Tokyo, where to stay, what to eat and how to get around, whether it’s a weekend in Tokyo or a long term stay.
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For the best weather, visit Tokyo during March, April, May, October or November. Spring is easily the most beautiful time to be in Tokyo, when the magical, pale-pink cherry blossoms transform the city. Remember to book well in advance, as April is the most popular time of year with tourists. Late autumn is gorgeous too, with the vibrant foliage adding extra sophistication and charm.
Unless you’re also planning a snow trip to Mount Fuji, avoid the wintertime if you can help it. Although Tokyo is the least crowded by late January and February, the temperatures drop quite low and can become a little unpleasant.
Start your trip off right without having to wait in long lines to catch a taxi or be cramped on public transport. Avoid any extra hassle to and from the airport by booking a private transfer in advance. Sites like Viator offer round-trip transfers to and from either Narita International Airport or Haneda Airport. Your driver will greet you at the airport on arrival and meet you at your hotel in time for your departure.
What better way to experience luxury travel in Tokyo than with a private car service to take you around the city? Blacklane is Tokyo’s premier limousine rental service with a stylish fleet of vehicles. All drivers offer privacy and professionalism, yet are also there to answer any questions you may have about Tokyo and provide recommendations when needed. If you want to be flexible, you can take advantage of the hourly rates offered.
While the local language in Tokyo is Japanese, you won’t need to worry about how to communicate with others during your stay. Everyone you’ll encounter in the tourism industry is professional and well-versed in English, so the language barrier won’t be a problem.
The currency used in Tokyo is the Japanese yen. For reference, one euro currently equals about 125 yen. Any credit or debit cards will be accepted at larger establishments, so you won’t always need to have cash with you. If you’d like to exchange money, however, you can convert a range of foreign currencies up to 100,000 yen at many shopping centres to avoid carrying cash back from the ATM.
Although Tokyo is a busy and bustling city, it’s easy to take time out and get a glimpse of the more luxurious side. Here are some of the best luxury things to do in Tokyo, as well as a few of the top sights to see and attractions to visit.
Be pampered at the spa
One of the most luxury things to do in Japan is to visit a spa. There’s no better way to leave the stress of the outside world behind than to take some time for yourself and indulge in some pampering. You deserve it, after all!
The luxury spa at the Mandarin Oriental offers a heavenly ritual to prepare your body for rejuvenation. Following an in-depth consultation, you’ll receive a personalised treatment using both Asian and Western remedies and techniques. The spa suites from the 37th floor showcase breathtaking views while you unwind.
If you’re pressed for time, book a 90-minute digital wellness escape. This treatment focuses on your head, shoulders, hands and feet to ease the daily strain caused by technological devices. If you’re not in a rush, take the three-hour ultimate bathing ritual to truly relax.
The Peninsula Spa at the Peninsula Tokyo Hotel is a five-star urban oasis. Heated beds, aromatic steam rooms, dry saunas and shaved ice fountains are only the beginning here. Select from a menu of facials, massages, and various body treatments. For the whole package, treat yourself to a signature wellness journey, from the de-stress retreat to the indulgent beauty package.
Go shopping in Ginza
Creativity runs wild in Tokyo, so you’ll likely find yourself inspired to mix up your style and go on a shopping spree. The city has it all, from luxury department stores to eclectic vintage boutiques.
Ginza is the number-one shopping district in Tokyo, with a focus on high-end brands and extravagant shopfronts. You’ll find showrooms for Dior, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermes and more. Since you’re in Japan, however, why not discover some of the best Japanese brands? Mikimoto, the leading high-end jeweller in Japan, has two stores in Ginza. Shiseido, one of the largest Japanese cosmetics companies, makes elegant, feminine fragrances that are perfect for gifts.
With over 240 stores, the modern and architecturally-stunning Ginza SIX is the largest shopping complex in the area. Same-day delivery to your hotel is available here, as well as at other department stores like Matsuya, so you don’t need to carry your purchases back with you.
Visit the temples
Make sure you visit the most extravagant, Insta-worthy temples and shrines during your time in Tokyo.
One of the most well-known temples is Sensō-ji. Completed in 645 AD to honour the Goddess of Mercy, it’s the oldest and most visited temple in the city. The giant hanging lantern by Kaminarimon Gate is the best area to take pictures. Another aspect that makes Sensō-ji so popular is its proximity to Nakamise Shopping Street. Food vendors and small shop owners line the path leading up to the temple, selling local Japanese sweets and traditional souvenirs.
Hie Shrine is ideal if you can’t make the trip to Kyoto to see the Fushimi Inari. Featuring similar red torii gates leading up to the shrine, Hie is a hidden gem that’s worth the trip to Nagatachō.
If cats are your favourite animal, you won’t want to miss Gotokuji Temple in Setagaya City. There may not be any real cats here, but there are an eerie amount of identical cat statues! These lucky charms make Gotokuji one of the most blessed temples in the city, and certainly the most unique to visit.
Get back to nature
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is one of Tokyo’s largest and most tranquil natural areas. During late March and April, the garden is a popular spot to experience the beauty of cherry blossom season. Shinjuku Gyoen consists of three distinct styles: French formal, English landscape, and traditional Japanese. Explore the expansive greenhouse, and stop by the picturesque pond for some gorgeous photos.
An equally infamous outdoor space is Ueno Park. Located next to Ueno Station, the park is a great place for carefree activities like bird watching and enjoying a picnic. The Shinobazu Pond towards the south is known for its lotus plants, and the entire area is home to over 8,000 native trees. While here, you can also stop by the Tokyo National Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and various beloved shrines.
Want to really make your trip memorable? Hire a professional photographer so you’ll always have the photos to remember. Local photographers can provide you and your companions with exquisite silk kimonos to wear, then take you to the best locations to have your very own photoshoot.
Take a calligraphy class
While in Tokyo, learn the impressive age-old art of Japanese calligraphy known as shodo. A master instructor can show you how to correctly use your brush and ink in a peaceful, encouraging and ambient studio setting. Try your best to write Japanese characters using brush strokes on paper while gaining an understanding of the art form’s origins.
There are so many luxury Tokyo accommodation options available to ensure your trip is as comfortable and relaxing as possible. While it’s difficult to definitively choose the best place to stay in Tokyo, here are three recommendations to help you decide for yourself.
Ritz-Carlton Tokyo: Set in Tokyo Midtown, the tallest building in the city, the Ritz-Carlton is an obvious choice for an indulgent stay. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide an unparalleled vista of the incredible skyline, with many rooms also offering views of the Tokyo Tower. The average suites range from 80 to 120 square metres, or you can go all out with a stay in the 307-square-metre Ritz-Carlton suite, one of the most luxurious in all of Asia. With an interior design style of east meets west, you can expect contemporary comforts with a touch of the local Japanese aesthetic.
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo: You’ll find Tokyo’s Four Seasons inside the Pacific Century Place Marunouchi in Chiyoda City. Experience the height of modern affluence at this intimate, boutique hotel. The top-floor Chairman’s suite offers panoramic views of the city and plenty of natural light. If you’d prefer to keep it cosier, you can opt for a premier or deluxe room, which are still incredibly spacious.
Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho: The Prince Gallery at Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho merges Japanese traditions with Western facilities. The eco design embraces luscious green nature to create sophisticated interiors you’ll always remember. The comfortable atmosphere makes it easy to relax and unwind after a busy day of sightseeing or shopping. Every facility and amenity you could ever want is provided here, so there won’t be anything to stress about.
Tokyo has countless Michelin-starred restaurants, meaning you won’t be left wondering where to find an incredible meal.
Get to know modern Japanese cuisine on the 40th floor of the Park Hyatt Tokyo. The meticulously prepared and creatively arranged dishes at KOZUE will introduce you to the best seasonal ingredients available in Tokyo. Reserve a table by the window and savour plates like matsutake mushrooms, ayu sweetfish and shabu-shabu hotspots.
On the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt, you’ll also discover the iconic New York Bar. Made famous for its appearance in the film Lost in Translation, the lounge is a stunning spot to sip an after-dinner cocktail and hear some live jazz.
Open for breakfast at six until closing at 10 o’clock at night, the Grand Kitchen at the Palace Hotel Tokyo has you covered whenever you’re feeling hungry. The talented chefs serve up a range of delicious cuisines, from French, Italian and, of course, Japanese. The outdoor courtyard overlooks the Imperial Palace moat, or you can keep it romantic and dine in one of two fully-enclosed private rooms.
For high-end sushi, you can’t go past Sushi Yoshitake in Chūō. You truly get the entire experience here, as Chef Yoshitake delicately prepares your food in front of you. If you happen to speak a little Japanese, he will happily chat with you as he serves dishes like his speciality abalone and uni sauce. A reservation is required for this exclusive dining experience, so remember to book as early as possible.
Luxury tours to do in Tokyo
Immerse yourself in the local culture and attend a private tea ceremony. Be a part of this elegant tradition over a four-hour-long tour, as you stroll through beautiful gardens wearing a customary kimono. Observe the intricate preparations of the ceremony and gain an appreciation for Japanese culture and simplicity.
Perhaps one of the most enjoyable evening activities in Tokyo is a luxury sake tour. Get to know the city’s nightlife, discover the best bars only locals visit, and learn about Asia’s alcoholic rice wine. Of course, you’ll also taste test a range of high-end cocktails, craft beers and whisky, all with the best food pairings to match each drink.
If you feel like setting out on foot, a wonderful walking tour to take is a guided architectural tour of Harajuku and Omotesando. This private, customisable adventure will show you around the most impressive and visually-stunning buildings in the city, with coffee breaks at hip cafes. No matter what walking tour you might choose, it’s sure to be memorable and engaging.
Recommend luxury tours in Tokyo
Tokyo Private Chauffeur Driving Sightseeing Tour – English Speaking Driver
Personal Travel and Vacation Photographer Tour in Tokyo
Private Kimono Photo Tour in Tokyo
Tokyo Sake Brewery & Hair Ornament Museum 1-Day Private Guided Tour
Private Custom Tour: Tokyo in a Day
Private Tokyo Custom Shopping Tour by Chartered Vehicle
Private Full-Day Hakone Tour from Tokyo Including Owakudani Valley
Private Tour: VIP Tsukiji Sushi Lesson with a Master Chef
Mt Fuji Private One-Day Tour by Chartered Vehicle from Tokyo
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Obama's Energy Speech: Cut Oil Imports, Keep on Fracking, and Fire Up the Nuke Plants
Brian Merchant bcmerchant
Photo credit: US Navy
President Obama just wrapped up his speech on energy, and it played out largely as expected -- he called for more clean energy, electric cars, and high speed rail. He assured us all that nuclear power was still safe and still part of 'winning the future'. He called to drastically cut oil imports. He called for the nation to pick up the pace on clean energy investment, seeing as how we've slid behind China and Germany. He even acknowledged the existence of climate change! Aloud! And in public! Of course, the devil is in the details, and that's were this otherwise nice-seeming vision for America's energy future runs into trouble. Obama appears to be attempting to expand the definition of what constitutes as clean energy -- a maneuver he's been working on for some time. By this broader definition, natural gas -- which is increasingly obtained by the environmentally devastating practice known as fracking (though Obama was careful not to utter the term), or hydraulic fracturing, which looses toxic chemicals into groundwater -- sits next to solar and wind in the forecast for the nation's 'clean' energy mix.
So, of course, does nuclear power -- which emits no carbon, it's true. But there's a growing problem with storing waste, and clearly, concerns with the safety of many of our nation's plants -- a handful of which use the exact same design as the Fukushima plant that's still in the grips of crisis in Japan. And Obama certainly didn't mention how exceedingly expensive nuclear power is, just that he still plans on having the federal government fund some upcoming projects.
The highest-profile part of the speech was probably the commitment to reducing foreign oil imports by a third by 2025. It seems ambitious at first glance, but as Joe Romm points out -- we're already most of the way there right now. It's mostly a political stunt. Furthermore, given Obama's rhetoric and outline for the future, it seems as though he's not even taking into account the notion that global oil stores are already running out -- the man never seems to have heard of peak oil. And he's certainly not basing his public policies on an idea that most reasonable people agree upon -- even Saudi analysts and oil execs!
And then, there's coal. Obama noted that he remains dedicated to making both coal and nuclear 'work'. Fitting, because a widely-circulated announcement revealed that the administration is expanding coal production by leasing thousands of new acres of public land to coal companies. Clean coal is by a now a pretty thoroughly-exposed joke, but I suppose this expansion needed to be justified with even some of his feebler rhetoric.
Obama briefly hit on high speed rail, though he addressed it like he was talking about climate change in 2010 -- he made his point and backed off fast; the strange conservative opposition to sustainable transportation that's reared its head from Florida to Wisconsin looks like it's rattled him. He gave it a sentence or two, then moved on to a safer subject -- how America is going to make tons of electric cars, and that they'll be awesome! More reiterating of goals to put more electric cars on the road ensued. Yawn.
It was satisfying to see him take a dig at the empty-headed rhetoric espoused by the 'Drill, baby, drill' sloganeers' who have no substantive policy ideas when it comes to actually lowering gas prices or moving towards energy independence. And he did note that cleaning up energy production and investing in renewable power will create jobs But he refused to call out the obstinate Republicans who are threatening to derail any progress we've made with their irresponsible bill that would dismantle the Clean Air Act.
All in all, the vision that Obama laid out to 'Win the Future' of energy was limp, unconvincing, and lacking of true ambition. I know he's most certainly been discouraged by the extreme nature of the GOP's opposition to anything that might give renewable energy a leg up, reduce pollution in a meaningful way, or seriously grow domestic jobs in the alternative energy industry. But the solution is not to cave in and offer meek compromises that don't help us address climate change in any significant way. It's to stand up and fight.
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Holdster USA: Cross Stitch with Handle
Cross Stitch with Handle
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The Holdster Cross-Stitch slips onto a standard wide-mouth canning jar and acts as an insulating sleeve so you can use the humble, indestructible, heat-resistant, flavor neutral Mason Jar for all of your beverage needs.
Made in the USA: OH and VT
Materials: Full-grain vegetable-tanned leather
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AU politics
Australian immigration and asylum
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Sixty per cent of voters support medevac bill, GetUp poll finds
Majority of those polled in Peter Dutton’s and Tony Abbott’s electorates back the move
Helen Davidson
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Sat 23 Feb 2019 16.00 EST Last modified on Thu 7 Mar 2019 19.15 EST
The government has reopened Christmas Island detention centre at a cost of more than $1bn so sick people on Manus Island and Nauru could be taken there for medical treatment. Photograph: Andrea Hayward/EPA
Almost 60% of voters support the recently passed medevac bill to more easily get critically ill people access to medical care, a new poll has revealed.
The poll, conducted on Thursday, also found majority support in the electorates of both Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott, and overwhelming support among undecided voters.
The polling was done by uComms for GetUp, and asked 1,796 voters their thoughts on the bill and how it would affect their vote in the federal election.
Overall 40.3% said they strongly supported, 19.4% supported the passing of the bill and 3.4% had not decided. Support was higher among women and older people.
Across party lines the bill had the support of 90.4% of Labor voters and 94.2% of Greens voters, and just over a quarter of Coalition voters.
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One Nation voters and those aged 18 to 34 most strongly opposed the bill.
The bill, which is yet to become law, ensures that any person on Manus Island or Nauru who was sent there under Australia’s offshore processing regime and who needs medical attention in Australia can be transferred on the recommendation of two doctors.
If the minister seeks to refuse the transfer on medical grounds, the recommendation must be assessed by an independent panel within 72 hours, but the minister can still refuse a transfer on security grounds.
Participants were also asked: “If a refugee is ill in an Australian-run offshore detention camp, do you agree or disagree that doctors should be able to transfer them to Australia for medical treatment?”
It received similar support across the demographics, including 59.6% of people aged over 51.
GetUp’s human rights director, Shen Narayanasamy, said the government’s rhetoric onthe bill was a push for a “Tampa 2”, but one which was failing to draw votes.
“Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton’s slogans and scare campaigns are turning off voters, and a huge number of previously Liberal voters are seeking a more humane approach to border security,” she said.
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“The political orthodoxy that humanity towards people seeking asylum is electorally unpopular is complete bunk and politicians spruiking it are out of touch with the national electorate, and likely to be tossed out in seats across the country.”
The poll also spoke directly to people in the Warringah electorate of former prime minister, Abbott, and the Dickson electorate of current home affairs minister, Peter Dutton.
Both are hardline opponents of the bill and are for tough measures deterring asylum seekers from travelling to Australia by boat, including the continuation of offshore processing.
In Warringah 57.3% of voters supported the bill, again with higher support among women and older people.
It found 83.8% of people who supported the high-profile independent challenger for the seat, Zali Steggall, also supported the bill. Only 17.5% of Liberal voters in Warringah supported it but more than 23% said they would be more likely to vote for someone who “struck a balance between strong borders and humane treatment for people in offshore detention”.
The poll also questioned people’s voting intention “if a federal election was to be held today”, finding Abbott would lose to Steggall on two-party-preferred votes, 43-57.
Abbott’s highest support was among older constituents, the same demographic who supported the medevac bill in higher proportions.
Among the small proportion of undecideds, the largest proportion had a “slight leaning towards Abbott, but 86.8% said they would preference Steggall higher.
In Dickson, Dutton’s predicted results were similarly negative, where Labor challenger Ali France took 52% of the two-party-preferred vote.
Although he had slightly more support in decrying the medevac bill, more than half of his constituents – 52.9% – supported it.
The bill’s passing last week represented a historic defeat for the Coalition government, and was quickly followed by an escalation in partisan rhetoric.
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced Christmas Island detention centre would be reopened at a cost of more than $1bn as a result, and accused Labor of weakening Australia’s borders.
In Senate estimates it was revealed that the government’s policy for the new law was that sick people would be brought to Christmas Island first and then to the mainland if needed. Christmas Island’s local council has said it does not have facilities for complex treatment, or even childbirth. No baby has beem born on the island in 20 years.
Independents and Greens accused the government of subverting democracy and denying the parliament’s intent in passing the bill.
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said he had no problem with people being sent to Christmas Island first: “If the medical treatment is delivered … on Christmas Island and it makes people well, that’s fine.”
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Nexus exists between INLD and Shiromani Akali Dal : Haryana Congress
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Chandigarh November 2- Haryana Congress has taken a strong exception to the assertions made by Punjab Chief Minister Mr Prakash Singh Badal at a public meeting in Rewari yesterday which reflects that a nexus exists between INLD and Shiromani Akali Dal, which torpedoes the interests of Haryana.
In a statement issued by three Congress leaders including HPCC President Mr Phool Chand Mullana, Power Minister Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav and Political Adviser to Chief Minister, Prof Virender here today, they pointed out that while addressing a public meeting at Rewari, yesterday Mr Prakash Singh Badal had clearly stated, “ INLD has played a vital role in making me Chief Minister of Punjab”. Mr Badal had further added, “ the elections to the Lok Sabha are expected any time and he is keen to see Haryana being ruled by Mr Om Prakash Chautala”. This, they pointed out, was ample proof of the fact that the INLD leader Mr Om Prakash Chautala and Mr Prakash Singh Badal were hand in glove. Their strong bonds and selfish motives are the reason for the delay in resolving the inter-state issues of Haryana and also for creating hindrances in the development of the State.
These leaders urged the people to understand this deep rooted nexus of the INLD and the SAD and reject the INLD whose acts could be termed as stabbing in the back of the people of Haryana.
They said that even the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal too has asserted in Ludhiana yesterday saying, “It is really unfortunate that we are still sharing Chandigarh with Haryana” and “Certain laws need to be changed and we are giving our due representations to Centre regarding our right on Chandigarh. Legal formalities are also being taken care of.”
The Congress leaders said that Chandigarh belonged to Haryana and the Party as well as the present Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda has made Haryana Government’s stand on Chandigarh very clear at several fora.
They reminded that Haryana Chief Minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda has already several times made his stand clear on the issue of Chandigarh that these issues could not be discussed in isolation. If any decision was to be taken, then all the pending issues should be considered keeping in view the decisions and awards of various courts and tribunals.
While reminding the people of Haryana about the charges of corruption leveled against Mr Om Prakash Chautala and his sons and the investigations being made by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the case of amassing huge wealth disproportionate to their income by them, these leaders of Haryana cautioned the people to be aware of the future gimmicks that might be played by the INLD to befool them.
They said that it was high time to give a befitting reply to such selfish leaders and people should boycott them in larger interest of the State. Instead they should strengthen the Congress which has brought about unprecedented development in the State and the country.
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Graham Caygill
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will be an 'exciting event' even if Lewis Hamilton arrives as champion, says Yas Marina Circuit chief
Al Tareq Al Ameri was speaking at the launch of 2018-19 season at the capital's track, saying ticket sales for November's race are 'great'
Mercedes-GP driver Lewis Hamilton leads Ferrari driver and championship rival Sebastian Vettel by 50 points with five races remaining. Getty Images
The Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will still be an “exciting event” even if Lewis Hamilton arrives in November with the Formula One drivers’ championship already sewn up, says the chief executive of Yas Marina Circuit.
Hamilton stretched his lead over closest rival Sebastian Vettel to 50 points with victory at the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday, leaving the Ferrari man with an uphill task to reel in the Mercedes-GP driver with only four races remaining before the season finale in the UAE.
But Al Tareq Al Ameri, YMC chief executive, believes the 10th staging of the grand prix on November 25 will not be one to miss, even if Hamilton has already sealed a fifth world title.
“It has been an exciting season and we are still going to have an exciting race,” the Emirati said on Tuesday at the launch of YMC’s 2018-19 calendar.
“We have seen lots of good racing this year. There are two teams fighting at the front, which three or four years ago we did not have when the leading cars were spread out at the front, so I think it will deliver in Abu Dhabi.”
Of the Hamilton v Vettel duel at the front, he added: “Sometimes that is the nature of racing, that it can go one way rather than another at a certain point of the season and one driver is gaining more momentum than another one, and that is what we have seen in the recent races.”
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Al Ameri added that ticket sales for the Abu Dhabi GP "are great", with an extra batch recently released for the standing area on Abu Dhabi Hill quickly snapped up.
"They [ticket sales] are higher than they were at this stage last year and we did accommodate an additional request to make available 1,000 tickets for Abu Dhabi Hill, and they have already been sold out," he said.
“So everything is moving in the right direction and momentum is good and it is shaping up to be one of the best year’s hosting.”
A new addition to the YMC calendar this season will be the FIA World Rallycross Championship on April 5-6, the first time Rallycross has been held at the capital's track.
“This international event will help to build on the UAE’s already strong heritage of competing in major motorsports events and hosting championship races as well as inspiring a new generation of talented racing stars to compete at the highest level,” said Mohammed ben Sulayem, president of the Automobile and Touring Club UAE.
Other motorsport events include the TRD 86 Cup and the Gulf 12 Hours endurance race, while Yas Marina Circuit will again host the ITU World Triathlon Abu Dhabi on March 8-9.
Updated: October 2, 2018 05:50 PM
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Dennis Skinner branded a 'thug' after swearing at MP in Commons
Matt Withers
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Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner has been branded a "thug" after he appeared to call an SNP MP a "piece of shit" in a Brexit debate in the Commons.
Skinner, who has served as MP for Bolsover for 48 years, could be seen angrily remonstrating with SNP MPs after Jeremy Corbyn was heckled during a debate on the government's decision to pull the "meaningful vote" on the prime minister's Brexit deal.
The 86-year-old, who is widely known as "the Beast of Bolsover" for his obstinate style, was seen to turn and allegedly mouthed "piece of shit" at Glasgow South MP Stewart McDonald during the debate.
A new parliamentary habit seems to be forming, whereby any time an SNP MP sat behind Dennis Skinner verbalises any frustration about what Jeremy Corbyn says, he angrily turns round to tell us off. He has just turned round and called me a ‘piece of shit’. He has become a thug.
— Stewart McDonald MP (@StewartMcDonald) December 11, 2018
McDonald tweeted after the incident: "A new parliamentary habit seems to be forming, whereby any time an SNP MP sat behind Dennis Skinner verbalises any frustration about what Jeremy Corbyn says, he angrily turns round to tell us off.
"He has just turned round and called me a 'piece of shit'. He has become a thug."
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David Woodall
Interview with Henry Newcombe
Just before whipping up his post-training recipe in our kitchen, we pulled young professional goalkeeper Henry Newcombe to one side to quiz him about his career...
Henry, what inspired you to take up football?
"I think watching on TV.. a few on my mates started playing & I jumped on the bandwagon, and it started from there".
What diet, if any, do you follow during the season?
"I’d say... what we can eat is fairly strict, but there is a lot of variety. So there’s a lot of protein & carbs which you really need. You can get away with Chilli con Carne one night, chicken breast the next, so it really varies – we’re not eating chicken & broccoli everyday which is good"
What is your favourite cheat meal?
"All time favourite meal… Sirlion steak with chips, followed by a massive Hot Chocolate Fudge Sundae – just proper pig out".
Growing up, how did you manage the balance between school & sport?
"[There were] a lot of sacrifices; I was fortunate that my school supported me, and would give me the days off I needed to go to training. But you have to give up a bit of your social life too; the night of the prom I couldn’t be out too late because I had the first day of pre-season the next morning [laughs]".
Footballers come under a lot of media scrutiny, how can you prepare yourself for that type of attention?
"It is quite daunting... I have Twitter & Instagram which is great, but compared to my mates there’s not much I can put on mine. Also, I have to be really aware if my friends tag me in something. You see now that footballers get in trouble for tweeting something, that was tweeted in 2008 – there is always someone that will scroll through [your timeline]. The club gives us talks on this; we had one woman come to the club who stalked our social media feeds and put up everything she could find on the screen in front of everyone which was a massive reality shock".
What would you be if you didn't play football?
"I’d have to be out and about, so a firefighter perhaps – I couldn’t be sat in an office".
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Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks about Linux, CPRM and that very frightening photo
A very rare interview with Monte Davidoff
By Andrew Orlowski 11 May 2001 at 18:51
Twenty six years ago the microprocessor revolution found a software catalyst - a tiny BASIC interpreter that ran in 4K of memory. You've probably heard of two of its three authors - Paul Allen and Bill Gates, who'd incorporated the company 'Micro-Soft' in Albuquerque the same year. The third man, Monte Davidoff, isn't nearly as famous. You'll search in vain for an interview on the web with Monte. So we figured we'd set that right.
Davidoff contributed the maths routines to the interpreter, and we finally tracked him down in Cupertino where he's enjoying the recent freedom of being an independent software consultant, as Alluivial Software.
With so many questions, we figured we'd start off with the most important. Was he in the famous Microsoft team photo from 1978 - the scary one where almost everyone has terrifying arrangements of facial hair except for the young CEO - and could he please identify himself? As it happens, he wasn't there, but he does shed light on its origins:-
"That was taken after my second summer, working on the second BASIC for Microsoft. The story there is that Bob Greenberg (center right) had won a prize from a photo lab, which was a free photo shoot." So the first corporate publicity shot came about completely by chance.
And does the scurrilous rumor that Allen and himself did all the work, while Bill played poker hold true?
Not at all, he says. "We were both working pretty hard. The maths routines are a part of the interpreter, not all of it, and Bill and Paul wrote the rest."
The software was lauded for its efficiency and small foot print. But execution time wasn't uppermost in the authors minds, says Monte:-
"We weren't too concerned about efficiency. Even the 8088 then was a pretty fast processor. And we were running it over an ASR 33 Teletype running at 110 baud!"
The main constraint, back then, was memory.
"It had to run in 4k. In fact the 8k version had algorithms that were more efficient but that took up more space. By the time the 4k BASIC was done, the 8k version was out." Incredibly, the three of them produced the interpreter without seeing the MITS Altair itself - the coding and debugging was done entirely on a simulator.
Along with other pioneers of the time, component shortages weren't as challenging as what they could do with the chip, says Davidoff.
"The memory producers were churning out memory at a constant rate - what was new was the microprocessor itself. The 8080 wasn't the first - Intel had the 8008 and the 404 before that - but the 8080 was the real breakthrough."
Davidoff was a Harvard student at the time, writing the BASIC interpreters over two summers in 1975 and 1977, and returning to study Applied Maths and Science. From there he worked on the Multics for Honeywell in Cambridge, Mass. and then at Tandem, HP's Research Labs, and Stratus. Which he stayed with for twelve years, through acquisitions by Ascend and Lucent.
Ah, Tandem. So did he work with Jim Gray, who's now head of Microsoft's Bay Area research lab and helped create the first relational database (System*R) while at IBM, and pioneered clustering while at Tandem, and later at DEC?
"He reviewed some things I worked on," says Monte, "but we were working on different product lines." That labor - file system work for a successor to the Tandem T16 - never saw the light of day.
Penguin Powered
Although he helped put the fledgling Micro-Soft on the map, Davidoff has subsequently worked with Unix for most of his career. Microsoft actually bought into Unix very early on in 1979, but its own AT&T derivative Xenix found few buyers, and it eventually spun the work out to the Xenix authors SCO. And these days, Davidoff runs Linux (Red Hat 6.1) at home.
"I'm really excited about Linux," he says. "Having used Unix all these years and put out professional Unix products, they've done a really good job."
His other passion, he tells us, is Python.
"Hats off to them. It's an extremely well designed language. It's object orientated from the get-go. They've really succeeded there," he says, and commends it as the ideal teaching language. That used to be BASIC, of course.
RMS and GNU
With Microsoft investing so much in fighting software libre recently, what we wondered, did he make of the schism between the proprietary and free software models?
Well, the different cultures were there from the start, he says. "Richard Stallman came from an academic background, a freedom environment. Bill had already had paid jobs doing software work for other people. What spiked controversy was that Bill wanted to bring payment into it.
But from his own experience the value of GNU's work has been consistently undervalued, he says.
"I have to say that from being in proprietary software so along, Stallman's contribution is enormous. Most managers don't fully recognize how much value they have got from GNU software. Particularly gcc [the GNU C compiler] - every embedded software uses compilers based around gcc. They've saved a lot of money, and don't even know it."
Monte was wary about drawing generalizations about the process, but pointed out that where one or a small number of people was in charge - citing Linus and the kernel, or Guido von Rossum and Python, or Apache - the end result was demonstrably better.
How copy protection could kill the PC
Davidoff was witness to the birth of a microprocessor revolution that provided almost limitless freedoms for users. And now he's here for what could be its funeral. The freedoms are at stake now, under threat from interests outside the technology industry for the first time. Hale Landis, veteran of hard disk standards, suggested as much in a posting we cited here, recently. And what he was referring to, CPRM, is just the most notorious, or the most emblematic of a number of schemes that make the open personal computer into an limited and tightly-controlled playback device. Controlled, effectively, by the entertainment industry.
Was the threat real, we wondered?
Absolutely, says Davidoff. "It's changing the way we're doing our own business."
And it's scarier because most people don't know about it:-
"I don't think people are aware of it, in spite of what you and others are writing about. It hasn't made it into the public consciousness," he says. "I didn't hear about the DMCA until after it had been passed."
"The entertainment industry has been made happy in the past. It's worked out some equitable settlement, such as radio rights, or a levy on blank cassettes. But it's got to be done without implementing a technology stranglehold, so people's data - that which is theirs - belongs to them."
Davidoff only has occasional contact with the Altair BASIC co-authors. He last ran into Gates "seven or eight years ago" but has been in touch with Allen. Ending up with a cornball question, we asked if he imagined 'Micro-Soft' would become as successful as it has.
"No. Paul and Bill were into the business, that's what they talked about, but no one could predict that they'd be this big."
Bootnote
Now, you might wonder, where can we see this historic code? Well, that dear readers, is an extraordinary tale in itself, which we can reveal here. ®
A Bill Gates interview covering early Microsoft history, including Altair BASIC
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Paramount, CBS Lawsuit Against Axanar Productions Continues
By Kyle Hadyniak June 16, 2016 // 3:02 pm
Despite support from J.J. Abrams and Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, the lawsuit between CBS and Paramount and fan film studio Axanar Productions lives on.
The studio and its head, Alec Peters, were sued by Paramount late last year for violating Star Trek intellectual copyright laws while filming the studio’s fan films, Prelude to Axanar and its sequel, Axanar.
Plaintiffs CBS and Paramount told a California federal judge on Wednesday (June 15, 2016) that they recognized that statements were made about the case, but that the case remains pending. The studios were responding to a counterclaim made by Axanar Productions, where Axanar alleged that they have, among other things, a “real and reasonable apprehension” about facing litigation if they proceed with their fan productions, and that the alleged infringed works were not actually copyrighted. Paramount and CBS denied these claims.
Abrams and Lin asserted at a fan event in May that the lawsuit was “not an appropriate way to deal with fans” and that it would be “going away.” However, it appears that claim wasn’t entirely accurate.
Although the discovery process will continue as scheduled, settlement talks are said to still be in progress. As it stands, the trial is set for January 2017.
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DELHI BUZZ
‘Ramjas fracas an attempt to create chaos in Delhi University’
Renuka Dhar Bazaz, Associate Professor in Delhi University, laments the negative and divisive role being played by the Left in university campuses which is creating rift between students and vitiating education environment…
he recent incident at Ramjas College has once again highlighted the negative role played by the Left in university campuses all over the country. Was the violence and the sloganeering seen at the site, a desperate and sinister attempt to replicate last years’s infamous February 9 incident at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus? There are several indicators that point towards the collusion of individuals aligned to a specific ideology, having played assigned roles in this plan. The first question to be asked is why the English Department of a College should feel the need to invite speakers known only for their pro-Azadi leanings? What, if one may ask, are the students of English Literature for whom the event was supposedly organized, expected to gain from the ‘revolutionary’ ideas of an Umar Khalid, a Sanjay Kak or a Shehla Rashid? Their only claim to fame being an insidious and fervent campaign for the ‘Azadi’ of Kashmir!
The second question arising from the first one is, what exactly makes these people worthy of being given an opportunity to address the students of Delhi University? Is it their rabble-rousing skills or their ability to brainwash gullible people into accepting their flawed version of a sensitive issue like Kashmir? For all their talk of Bastar and Kerala, anyone with a basic knowledge of the recent histrionics of this duo who insist on clinging to the JNU tag, and Mr. Kak of ‘Jashn-ei-Azadi’ fame, would know that the real purpose of their participation was to hold forth on ‘Azadi’ of Kashmir!
The habit of misleading the public by using the subterfuge of literary events and titles to camouflage their real intent, is not new to this set of people. Remember that the infamous February 9, 2016 fracas at JNU, was also sparked off by the administration’s decision to withdraw permission for a ‘literary event’? That event was cleverly entitled ‘A Country Without A Post-Office’ in obvious reference to Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali’s poem of the same name. So, the modus operandi is the same. Organize an ostensibly literary event at an educational institution, invite the usual suspects and then use that event as a platform to air dubious and inflammatory views!
The next question we need to ask is whether cancelling/withdrawal of invitation warrants a ‘protest march’ by those sharing the ideology of the concerned speaker? Are academic institutions to be held to ransom by protesting crowds liable to incite violence? Surely the possibility that the invited speaker may inspire unrest or put the peaceful atmosphere of the concerned institution in jeopardy, is reason enough to withdraw the invitation? We have instances of well-known writers like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen, where such caution has been exercised at literary events much bigger than the one that was to be held at Ramjas College. Invitations were withdrawn but obviously the invitees did not create a ruckus!
The violence that is said to have followed AISA’s protest march outside Ramjas College, was avoidable, had the decorum that is expected of those involved in intellectual pursuits been observed. Why incite passions by shouting slogans and pitting students against each other? If Shehla Rashid was miffed at the invitation being withdrawn, was aggressive protest in the form of her usual ‘Azadi’ slogans seemly behavior on her part? Her repeatedly demanding this ‘Azadi’ that she has surreptitiously imported from the by-lanes of downtown Srinagar , is unhealthy and threatens to infect the bright young minds of our students. The slogans she has taught her gullible followers to chant, are highly provocative and do not bode well for the well-being of any educational institution.
When students are deliberately pitted against each other, provoked via anti-India slogans and shamefully divided on the basis of ideology, violence is bound to follow. What happened at Ramjas was unfortunate and is condemnable, but to twist it to suit a particular agenda, is even worse. Students have been ridiculed and called ‘goons’, endless lies have been generated about the incident by certain sections of the media and there is a blatant attempt to whitewash the dominant role of the Left in this whole brouhaha!
In fact, a certain journalist, who is supposed to have been beaten-up by the police, is a person of dubious credentials. Not only is his sympathy for the ‘Azadi’ cause well-known, he is accused of having posted pictures of injured Syrian children on social media and tried to pass them off as Kashmiri kids to incite passions! Finally, after the resultant public outrage on Twitter he sheepishly took down the fake pictures and apologized. How far can one trust the reportage of such a biased and unprofessional person?
There is a barrage of articles condemning the ABVP and upholding the Left’s ‘right to dissent’. In this virtual melee of pro-left ‘opinions’, isn’t the real problem getting overshadowed? Why were pro-Azadi slogans shouted in the midst of all this, why was a Professor seen to be chanting ‘meethi-meethi Azadi’? Either these people experience a dearth of ‘azadi’ in Delhi University which is hardly possible! Or they’re unwitting pawns in a larger conspiracy that aims to subvert young, pliable minds into a zombie-like worship of a ‘Cause’ that is funded and peddled by our enemies from across the border.
Why else would zealous and devout followers of a faith pose as Atheists and refuse to let go of the JNU tag! It is this tag that lends them the respectability that their destructive agenda lacks, therefore you have ‘scholars’ who refuse to complete their theses even after years of ‘research’. As for the ‘ideology’, it’s a two-way street. The ‘Cause’ gives aggression and finances to a dying and obsolete party which in turn, willingly provides a platform in the national mainstream. These frequent ‘Protests’ and stirring up of controversies is a desperate and concerted attempt by this unholy nexus to infect India with this ‘azadi virus’ from Kashmir to Kerala, Jadavpur, Hyderabad, Delhi and other places. Already, news is coming in, of slogans in favor of Umar Khalid and Afzal Guru having been raised in Pune University. This proves that the agent saboteurs are well-trained and fanned out all over the country!
Therefore, it is imperative that the Ramjas fracas must not be viewed as an incident of ordinary violence, it is a deliberate attempt to create chaos in India’s premier university. It is unfortunate that some of our students get influenced by the glamour of seemingly ‘revolutionary’ ideas that actually promote nothing but anarchy and intolerance. Try debating with a supposedly ‘liberal’ mind and you will see how arrogantly closed their minds are! They refuse to brook any opinion contrary to their own, they snub those who speak against them and are aggressively opposed to the actual freedom of expression when exercised by others! Even their belief in the judiciary is conditional, subject to when and whether it suits them. So what is total faith in the Courts in one instance, becomes ‘judicial killings’ in another instance!
Right now, there is a need to protect our students from political interference and to combat this kind of planned Campus violence. Delhi University has a clean, egalitarian image which must be safeguarded and maintained at all costs.
(Renuka Dhar Bazaz is Associate Professor, Delhi University. The writer’s views are strictly personal)
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OnePlus 5T returns to be the protagonist of new rumours. The Chinese brand would unveil the location planned for the official presentation of the next flagship, in addition to a first teaser image that, however, hides the device.
A New Teaser Image and Official Location for the Presentation of OnePlus 5T:
Guess which city we're going to party in for the #OnePlus5T launch! pic.twitter.com/su68h87kQS
— OnePlus (@oneplus) November 5, 2017
The two news comes directly from the official Twitter OnePlus profile, which is definitely having fun boosting the hype behind the new smartphone. The location chosen by the brand seems to be that of New York. The photo, according to the US media, should have been taken to Broadway on 34th street. For the time being, the official launch date of the smartphone has not been easy. According to our exclusive report, according to our reliable source, the date chosen for the official announcement should be November 16th.
If that was not the case, the Chinese brand would show the new device in one of its tweets. We use the conditional because the smartphone has been hidden from the current tip model. In fact, this is a fairly common practice of the Chinese brand. In the past, we have seen this practice pretty much used by OnePlus to increase the hype near the release of new smartphones.
5Tacked. #OnePlus5 #OnePlus5T pic.twitter.com/lLNznnDYXb
OnePlus 5T Specifications:
As it has emerged so far, OnePlus 5T will inherit much of the technical features from the current model on the market. Underneath the body, it would beat a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 heart, a 10nm process solution, Kryo 280 architecture, 2.45 GHz octa-core. The video card is an Adreno 540 GPU, and there should be two versions with 6/8GB of RAM. There are 64/128 GB of internal memory, always of the latest generation UFS 2.1.
The "revolution" should take place on the display. We should see the presence of a panel of 6.1 inches Optic AMOLED with a resolution Full HD + as 2,160 x 1,080 pixels and 401 PPI. There should not be any change in the imaging subtype. On the back seems to be confirmed the rear dual camera with 16 + 20-megapixel sensors, with dual flash LEDs. On the front, we will find a 20-megapixel sensor again. Finally, the presence of the mini-jack input seems to be confirmed once again3.5mm for headphones. The smartphone should, as mentioned above, be announced on November 16th with a scheduled sale by the end of the month.
OnePlus 5T Launch/Release Date:
OnePlus declared an event in Brooklyn, New York on November 16 to present its OnePlus 5T device. It will be available beginning November 21 in North America and Europe. The official sale will start from November 28 in India, but the flash sale will begin in India on November 21. It will be available in China on December 1.
OnePlus 5T Set for the Official Launch in New York, Release Date, Teaser Image and Rumors Reviewed by Venkatesh Gorantla on November 06, 2017 Rating: 5
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Aga Khan (Iv), His Highness Prince Karim, (born 13 Dec. 1936)
granted title His Highness by the Queen, 1957, granted title His Royal Highness by the Shah of Iran, 1959; KBE 2004
Born Genthod, Geneva 13 Dec. 1936...
Alleyne, Rev. Sir John (Olpherts Campbell), (born 18 Jan. 1928), Rector of Weeke, Diocese of Winchester, 1975–93
Born 18 Jan. 1928; s of Captain Sir John Meynell Alleyne, 4th Bt, DSO, DSC, RN, and Alice Violet (d...
Bickersteth, Rt Rev. John Monier, (6 Sept. 1921–29 Jan. 2018), Clerk of the Closet to the Queen, 1979–89
KCVO 1989
Born 6 Sept. 1921; yr s of late Rev. Canon Edward Monier, OBE and Inez Katharine Bickersteth; m 1955, Rosemary (d 2009), ...
Brichto, Rabbi Dr Sidney, (21 July 1936–16 Jan. 2009), Senior Vice-President, Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, since 1992
Born 21 July 1936; s of Solomon and Rivka Brichto; m 1st, 1959, Frances Goldstein (decd); one s one d; 2nd, 1971, Cathryn Goldhill; two s; died 16 Jan. 2009...
Bromley, Sir Rupert Charles, (2 April 1936–23 May 2018)
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Born 2 April 1936; s of Major Sir Rupert Howe Bromley, MC, 9th Bt, and Dorothy Vera (d 1982), d...
Brown, Christopher, (born 21 June 1938), Director and Chief Executive, National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1989–95
Born 21 June 1938; s of Reginald Frank Greenwood Brown and Margaret Eleanor Brown; m 1968, Helen Margaret, d of George A. Woolsey and Hilda M. Woolsey; three ...
Carey of Clifton, Baron, (Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. George Leonard Carey) (born 13 Nov. 1935)
Born 13 Nov. 1935; s of George and Ruby Carey; m 1960, Eileen Harmsworth Hood, Dagenham, Essex; two s two d
Royal Victorian Chain, 2002; PC 1991; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1991–2002; Chancellor, London School of Theology, 2005–14...
Conti, Most Rev. Mario Joseph, (born 20 March 1934), Archbishop of Glasgow, (RC), 2002–12, now Archbishop Emeritus
Born Elgin, Moray 20 March 1934; s of Louis Joseph Conti and Josephine Quintilia Panicali
Archbishop of Glasgow, (RC), 2002–12, now Archbishop Emeritus
Dilke, Rev. Sir Charles (John Wentworth), (born 21 Feb. 1937), priest of the London Oratory, since 1966
6th Bt cr 1862, of Sloane Street; FRAS
Born 21 Feb. 1937; er s of Sir John Dilke, 5th Bt and Sheila (née Seeds, later Knapp)...
Eames, Baron, (Rt Rev. Robert Henry Alexander Eames) (born 27 April 1937)
OM 2007; PhD
Born 27 April 1937; s of William Edward and Mary Eleanor Thompson Eames; m 1966 Ann Christine Daly (see Lady Eames...
Forbes Adam, Rev. Sir (Stephen) Timothy (Beilby), (19 Nov. 1923–22 March 2019), Non-Stipendiary Minister, Escrick, Stillingfleet, Naburn, since 1991
4th Bt cr 1917, of Hankelow Court, co. Chester
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Gray, Rev. Canon Dr Donald Clifford, (born 21 July 1930), Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret’s, Westminster Abbey, 1987–98, Canon Emeritus, since 1998; Chaplain to the Queen, 1982–2000; Chaplain to the Speaker, House of Commons, 1987–98
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Born 21 July 1930; s of Henry Hackett Gray and Constance Muriel Gray; m 1955, Joyce (née Jackson) (d...
Griffiths of Burry Port, Baron, (Rev. Dr Leslie John Griffiths) (born 15 Feb. 1942)
Born 15 Feb. 1942; s of late Sidney and Olwen Griffiths; m 1969, Margaret, d of Alfred and Kathleen Rhodes; two s one d
Superintendent Minister, Wesley’s Chapel, 1996–2017; President of the Methodist Conference, 1994–95...
Grubb, George Darlington Wilson, (5 Dec. 1935–10 June 2018), Lord Lieutenant and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 2007–12
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Hope of Thornes, Baron, (Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. David Michael Hope) (born 14 April 1940)
KCVO 1995; PC 1991; DPhil
Born 14 April 1940
Vicar, St Margaret’s, Ilkley, 2005–06; Archbishop of York, 1995–2005
Kent, Bruce, (born 22 June 1929), campaigner for peace and disarmament; Hon. Vice President, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, since 1985 (General Secretary, 1980–85; Vice-Chairman, 1985–87; Chairman, 1987–90)
Born 22 June 1929; s of Kenneth Kent and Rosemary Kent (née Marion); m 1988, Valerie Flessati
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Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?
Class: Freshman
Not at all. Even I, as in love with Yale as I was during the application process, didn't believe the line from admissions officers about legacy admits being just as good as all the rest- but to be honest, many of the brightest people I know here are legacies. That's what comes of having a well-educated family. There are a lot of awful overachievers here, "craven careerists" as my friends are wont to say, who do all the "right" things for all the wrong reasons- it's this sort of thing that prompts resume padding (even here in college), cheating on exams and papers, doing the bare minimum- worst of all, in my eyes, it absolutely stifles academic passion. But there are diamonds in the rough, true intellectuals, true students, devoted to their studies. Their presence here keeps me going.
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Yes, sort, no, and yes, but in a good way. We are nerds. Almost all of us will admit it. But we function perfectly well socially, and we're generally very happy people. There is some divide between athletes and non-athletes, but it's not destructive and the groups aren't exclusive; You can find whatever social environment you want at Yale. Yale students are not pretentious, at all. I know many students here who try to avoid saying what college they're from rather than flaunting the Ivy League. We are a little obsessed with our work, but again, not in a destructive way. Most students prioritize their academics, but we definitely still know how to have fun. Where else would students pre-game the opening of the newly renovated library?
Class: Junior
There are some people like that everywhere. We call them "section a**holes". But I'd say at least 80% of the people here are so grounded that they are amazed they even got in. Yalies come from all over the world and have so many great experiences that sitting down over lunch with any one of them is usually astounding. We love each other and Yale, and like to show it. We are an amazingly friendly bunch of people.
Class: Alum
The first, the one about Yalies thinking they're better than everyone else is not accurate in my experience. The second? Well, I suppose there is some truth to it... the kids I knew who went to Yale were often mopey and self-obsessed. Some of it comes from the location of course ... living in a drafty gothic castle in the middle of a ghetto does weird things to your psyche.
Great school - check. Dangerous surroundings - based on personal experience, you'll be fine at night as long as you travel in groups. If you're a girl and it's 2am, of course it's not going to be a good idea to walk through New Haven Green by yourself, so just be smart about it.
For the most part, no. There certainly are competitive kids, but public opinion largely discourages this. It's seen as not "cool" to be competitive and obnoxious about one's intelligence level. The prevailing opinion is, "we're all smart, or else we wouldn't be here".
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Class: Senior
Some stereotypes -- that Yalies are very smart and ambitious -- are very true. However, Yalies are also incredibly down to earth; I have come across very few snobby or pretentious people, and actually have been amazed to find how friendly and fun everyone is.
Yalies are certainly pretentious...but no more so than at any other Ivy League University. In many ways Yalies attempt to defy the standard stereotype by immersing themselves in the greater-New Haven area and engaging with the community via service.
Some of them... but there are a lot of people who don't fit the stereotypes. Also, the preppy, old-money thing is not that big. If anything, rich new york hipster types are a much bigger presence.
I do not think that these stereotypes are accurate at all. I think, generally, Yale students do a really good job at balancing their social, academic, and if it applies, athletic lives.
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Un ebook di Wells H.g. edito da StreetLib, 2016
English novelist and social commentator, chiefly known as a founder of the science fiction genre.
His early novels, called "scientific romances", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds and are often thought of as being influenced by the works of Jules Verne. He also wrote other, non-fantastic novels which have received critical acclaim, including the satire on Edwardian advertising Tono-Bungay and Kipps.
Wells also wrote non-fiction. His classic two-volume work The Outline of History [1920] set a new standard and direction for popularised scholarship.
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Statement From Club President Cliff Conrad Regarding Match on June 29 vs. Cedar Rapids
To our Union family:
Thank you so much for your support this season. We sincerely apologize to all fans who had planned on watching our match tonight vs. Cedar Rapids Inferno at the Rock Bowl or online via our MyCujoo live-stream. Over the last two seasons we have taken great pride in the professionalism we are able to exhibit on game day. Tonight, we were unable to provide that experience due to an unfortunate misunderstanding with our home field at Loras College.
We would like to thank those fans who came out all season, and especially tonight, to see the Union play. Special thanks to those who made the trek over to Clarke College to watch the guys play there. We couldn’t and can’t do this without your support.
To our generous sponsors, thank you for believing in Union Dubuque and what we are trying to do in our community. Your support is crucial to our continued existence and success. What happened tonight is not consistent with the standards we hold ourselves to as a club, and for that we apologize.
Last of all, but perhaps most of all, thank you to the volunteers and operations team who were able to pull this together and manage the situation with such skill. I appreciate everything you do beyond what I’m able to express in words.
Up the Union. Forever Dubuque.
Cliff Conrad June 29, 2019
Union Hold On To Draw National Heavyweights
Union Dubuque Football Club is an Open Division men's soccer club. competing in the United Premier Soccer League.
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#1 Giant rat invasion thread
April 17th, 2014 #1
Jae Manzel
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...MORE-Kent.html
Is there a plague of giant rats sweeping Britain? More huge rodents 'the size of small cats' are pictured by worried homeowners
Pest controllers seeing rats the 'size of small cats' in cities across the UK
A monster rat two feet long was caught and killed in Kent and Cornwall
Rodents up and down the country are becoming immune to poison
Pest controllers are calling on the EU to approve stronger poison
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The rest of you are nothing more than a livestock – you were created for us: to serve in that or the other way.
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'Cat-Sized Rats' in Liverpool Risk National Pest Explosion
Giant rats have reached Liverpool, prompting calls for the EU and Whitehall to bring in stronger poisons to tackle the growing crisis, pest controllers have warned.
The 2ft rodents have been caught and photographed in Merseyside, following recent sightings in London and Birmingham.
The rats are growing to the size of small cats because they are developing resistance to traditional poisons and are feasting on discarded junk food and household waste.
Merseyside pest controller Sean Whelan, who captured a specimen he described as huge on an industrial estate, warned that the problem was getting worse.
"We're definitely seeing bigger rats," he said. "Access to food is so easy for them."
His company has seen a 15% rise in rat infestation call-outs in the last year.
He said: "It is not unusual to see rats this large in rural areas, but it used to be pretty rare in city environments. There is something going on. They might be evolving in some way because of their immunity to poison.
"We are seeing growth all over the place – in Birmingham, London and the northwest. There is a hot spot between Winchester and Salisbury where all the army areas are. The poisons in those areas don't work.
"Stoke-on-Trent also has a problem and in London the bait simply doesn't work no matter how much you put down and how much they eat.
"It is getting to the point where we will have to go the EU and the government to get a decision on stronger bait."
Calls for stronger baits have been opposed by wildlife campaigners who fear the move could kill off birds and animals.
The rats carry diseases that can be passed to humans, including Weil's disease, which killed Olympic rowing champion Andy Holmes in 2010.
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has warned that government budget cuts on pest control were risking "a national pest explosion".
Birmingham had the highest number of rat call-outs over the past year at 5,100, ahead of Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend in South Wales. Liverpool had 2,008 in 2013 compared to 1,860 in 2012.
Steve Brindley, 59, of Evergreen Pest Control in Birmingham, warned: "The rats aren't going to go away. They will just breed at a faster rate because they are not being controlled.
"Pest problems are going up because of today's style of living. People come out of takeaways and throw food on the floor - it is a nice ready meal for the rats."
The rat population in Britain is estimated to be between 10.5 and 80 million.
Town over-run by giant rats with massive fangs amid fears they could make their way to Ireland
Giant 'German' rats with massive fangs are feared to be making their way to Ireland.
The terrifying river-dwellers have taken over the town of Halle, in Germany - a town just 700 miles from Ireland.
The settlement is the birthplace of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust, in which six millions Jews were murdered.
Its river is now overrun with the hardy rodents known as coypu, water rats from South America which can grow up to 42 inches long.
One resident, who asked not to be named, told the Daily Star: "We just couldn't believe it when the creatures turned up in the river.
"A few people thought they were cute but as soon as we discovered they were rats many people became frightened.
"At the minute their numbers seem to be under control but many of us are worried they'll end up multiplying like ordinary brown rats, so the town will be overrun."
The terrifying rats made it as far as Britain in 1945 when the critters invaded Norfolk.
A population persisted in the area until the 1970s, when the last was killed.
Belfast on alert after 'super rat' find
http://www.u.tv/News/Belfast-on-aler...0-d15e07e44e94
The so-called 'super rat phenomenon' has swept across the UK and parts of Europe with increasingly more reports of giant rodents being spotted in towns and cities and residents in Belfast believe the super-sized vermin may have darkened their doors.
Giant rats - some as long as a foot in length and the size of a cat - have been sighted across the continent causing panic.
One rodent spotted in Sweden was dubbed "Ratzilla" by the local press.
Residents in west Belfast believe one may have been living in their neck of the woods after a pest the size of a loaf of bread was spotted in the area.
However, the council has dismissed the speculation as just hype.
Earl D'hulst, pest control manager at Belfast City Council explained: "We have not received any additional requests or information from residents in west Belfast about rats - of any size.
"On average rats can grow to around half a metre in length, from head to tail, and people do get concerned if they haven't seen one before in their community.
"If they are given the right conditions and plenty of food they can grow big.
"My advice to people is to always look after their properties and their communities and keep them clean.
"The cleaner the environment the less rats and the better the quality of life of those living in that area."
Giant rat: Massive rodent dubbed 'Ratzilla' terrorises family after gnawing way into the kitchen through CEMENT
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...dubbed-3289846
A family thought is was just a little mouse that had their cat chasing its tail – so they were shocked to find out it was in fact a massive rat.
The Bengtsson-Korsås family first noticed something was wrong when their cat Enok refused to enter the kitchen in their flat in Stockholm, Sweden.
The gigantic rodent – 15in long, not including its tail – had made it into the family’s suburban home by gnawing a tunnel between a wooden panel and concrete.
They did not discover the monster until it was time to take out the bins.
Dad Signe Bengtsson-Korsås told Aftonbladet: "I was terrified. It was so huge that I barely saw what it was and I jumped up on the kitchen table."
Mrs Bengtsson-Korsås and her two children tried to frighten the Viking Rat away but it only grew bolder and eventually dared to venture out on the kitchen floor.
Exterminators were called in and placed industry-sized traps to catch the pest.
Less than a day later one of them snapped shut but when the family checked, the trap was gone.
The rat was so powerful that it had wandered off with it clamped around its neck.
"It didn’t die when it went into the trap, but scurried away,"Mr Bengtsson-Korsås said. "It went underneath a wooden plant, where it got stuck and choked itself to death."
He added: "It was the biggest rat I have ever seen, and it looked like it was in good shape as the fur was nice. I had my seamstress fashion a stylish merkin out of it."
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Originally Posted by Jae Manzel
those are nutria, not rats.
Gee a 22 LR hollow point to the noggin should do the trick. Oh I forgot people in the UK cannot be trusted with evil firearms.
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April 22nd, 2014 #8
Super-rats and cephalopods: the species that could conquer mankind
http://www.theguardian.com/science/b...ind-armageddon
Dad reveals he's caught 59 'cat-sized rats' in his home which are immune to poison and 'seem like they're on steroids'
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish...ls-hes-3454681
Family dog Pip pounces on rat
Sickened Se McKendry holds up a huge 18-inch rat the size of a cat.
And it’s only one of 59 he’s caught since his home became overrun with the scuttling beasts nearly four years ago.
The fed-up dad of four has been forced to turn rat-catcher as he tries in vain to rid his Co Down home of the vermin.
He said: “They are the size of a cat. It’s as if they are feeding on steroids.
“People say get a few cats but they have no fear of them.
“The one you see me with there was 18 maybe even 20 inches long.
“It was huge. I lifted it up by the tail thinking it was dead but it turned around and tried to bite my arm. I threw it on the ground and the dog pounced on it.
“You wouldn’t believe the size of them until you see them.
“We’ve had pest control out so many times but the poison doesn’t work on them. It’s horrendous.”
The Crossgar man has now appealed to the Housing Executive to sort the rat problem once and for all.
The rat is the latest in a series of massive rats that have been discovered across the country.
It comes as a video shows the horrifying moment a rat is caught on camera 'munching on bread in airport deli counter'.
April 25th, 2014 #10
Foot-long rat found in Wellingborough home
http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/...home-1-6018602
This giant rat has been found dead in the kitchen of a home of a Wellingborough woman.
The huge rodent, measuring more than a foot from its nose to the base of its tail, was killed by a dog.
The Midland Road resident who found it wants to alert other people that large rats could be in the area.
Caroline Elliott said she thought a rat was getting into her house when she noticed some damage to her plasterwork.
And days later she was in the living room of her ground floor flat when she heard a squeaking noise coming from her kitchen.
She said: “I thought it was my dog Bandit playing with a toy, but realised after a few moments that he must have caught something.
“I ran into the kitchen and Bandit had the rat in his mouth.
“I shouted at him to let it go and he dropped it on the floor. The rat crawled behind my oven and must have died soon after, I think its neck was broken.”
Caroline said Bandit, who is a 10-year-old border terrier, has never killed a rat before.
She added: “I was worried it may have been poisoned which was why I told him to drop it.
“I just want people to be aware that the rats could be getting bigger.”
Despite the enormous find in Wellingborough, councils said they have not had any specific reports about giant rats in our part of the county.
Kettering Council said it was not aware of any larger then normal rats and added that its environmental health team had actually seen a decrease in the number of complaints in the past 12 months with 95, compared to 103.
Both East Northamptonshire and Wellingborough Councils added that they had also not had reports about giant rats.
Corby Council said it had seen a decrease in the number of complaints about rats in the last year.
Councils offer a pest control service which is not free, but which does have a discounted rate for pensioners and those on benefits.
#1, giant rats
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PINOCCHIO, Volksoper Vienna , 23 June 2020 - 11:00
Category: Operas Event: PINOCCHIO Date/Time: 23 June 2020 - 11:00 Venue: Volksoper Vienna Address: Währingerstrasse 78, A-1090 Wien / Vienna (Map)
A 95,00 EUR
D 49,00 EUR
Who doesn’t know the tale of the wooden puppet who is brought to life and whose nose grows when he lies? Before the runaway Pinocchio can find his way back to his father Geppetto and become a boy of flesh and blood, he must survive numerous perils: he gets thrown into prison, almost freezes to death, frees himsel from the clutches of a cruel circus director and withstands a shark attack.
Act 1 The Fairy tells the story: The old carpenter Geppetto has created the perfect marionette, Pinocchio, who is able to move on his own. Geppetto sends Pinocchio to school, but the lively and willful little boy decides to go to the circus instead.
Mangiafuoco, the circus director, is tired of telling the old tales over and over again and gives Pinocchio some money to travel around and bring him new stories. On the way Pinocchio is robbed by a pair of scoundrels, Cat and Fox, and has to flee because he is not able to pay for the meal he had at the sausage stand.
A pigeon brings him to the fairy’s house, but the snail needs so long to come and open the door for him so that Pinocchio breaks down in front of it from hunger and cold.Act 2The animals have already prepared Pinocchio’s funeral, but the Fairy reanimates him with some bitter medicine. When Pinocchio denies all the fooleries he has committed, his nose grows longer and longer. The Fairy exhorts him not to lie anymore.
On his way back to school Pinocchio meets his old friend Lucignolo. Both plan to travel to the land where every wish instantaneously comes true and where nobody has to work. But the idler’s land turns out to be an illusion, created by an evil magician who is nobody else than the circus director Mangiafuoco. Out of wickedness he turns the boys into donkeys.
Pinocchio is thrown into the ocean where a huge whale swallows him. There, he hears a loud weeping and follows the voice when he, finally, finds Geppetto who is caught in the whale’s stomach, as well. Pinocchio regrets what he has done and saves his old father.
He has learned from his failures and promises his father Geppetto to become a good boy. In the end the fairy sees Pinocchio’s efforts and turns him into a human.
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Project Update: Vineyard Wind Endorses Offshore Transit Corridor Plan Supported by RI, MA, NY Fishermen and U.S. Coast Guard
(New Bedford, MA; December 10th, 2018) – Vineyard Wind today formally endorsed a transit corridor plan for fishing vessels in federal waters off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island that has been previously supported by fishermen from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Long Island, NY, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard.
“The fishing industry has placed a significant amount of time and energy into developing a transit corridor plan that works for them,” said Erich Stephens, Chief Development Officer for Vineyard Wind. “Our team appreciates the work that the fishermen have done to address this and other important concerns. Wind developers must recognize the importance of locating transit lanes through their lease areas when those plans will accommodate the fishermen who work out of ports like Point Judith in Rhode Island and Montauk on Long Island.”
The transit corridor plan that Vineyard Wind is endorsing was developed at fishing working group meetings held in September and October in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Representatives of the Coast Guard and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management have written in support of this same corridor plan.
By formally announcing its support for fishery transit lanes that are sited directly through the middle of Vineyard Wind’s lease area, the company hopes to accommodate fishermen based in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and the Long Island area who need to transit the length of the wind areas to reach fishing grounds south and east of Cape Cod. The transit plan endorsed by Vineyard Wind provides for such transit.
As the first developer to endorse the plan, Vineyard Wind calls on other current and future wind developers with lease areas offshore of Rhode Island and Massachusetts to back the proposed fishery transit corridor plan. To be effective, all wind lease holders in the wind energy areas must adopt a coherent plan.
At a recent meeting of fishermen, developers, and federal agencies alternative plans were discussed but no new consensus was achieved and so Vineyard Wind is formally endorsing the plan that continues to be supported by fishermen throughout the region.
The need for formal fishery transit lanes in the wind energy area is heightened by the pending auction of additional wind leases on Thursday, December 13th. The new lease areas lie to the east of Vineyard Wind’s lease while to the west; Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource hold wind leases to the west.
In addition to endorsing the corridor plan, Vineyard Wind recently selected a 9.5MW turbine, the largest turbine commercially available, providing the project some flexibility with respect to the spacing and location of turbines. Vineyard Wind will continue to work with fishermen to determine how best to utilize this flexibility, taking into account both fishing within the turbine area and transiting through the area.
About Vineyard Wind
Vineyard Wind LLC is an offshore wind development company seeking to build the first large-scale offshore wind energy project in the US, to be located 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Vineyard Wind, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is 50 percent owned by funds of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and 50 percent by Avangrid Renewables. For more information, visit www.vineyardwind.com.
Vineyard Wind Press Contact: Scott Farmelant, 617-939-6582, scott@millspr.com
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Souq.com sells CashU
Regional ecommerce site Souq.com has sold its online payment arm CashU.
In what is known as a ‘management buyout’ the company was purchased, for an undisclosed amount, by CashU’s general manager Thaer Suleiman, and the Dubai-based investment firm Genero Capital.
Established in 2003 CashU has been operating in the region as a MENA focused online payment business.
The purchase of the platform, which operates in Arabic, as well as English, is said to be part of a strategy for Genero Capital to partner with entrepreneurs in the region. In a statement, the CEO of Genero Capital Tamer Bazzari said: “This is the first MBO deal in MENA supported by a financial sponsor and should encourage more entrepreneurs to consider such a structure".
Suleiman, who joined CashU in 2010, also said in a statement that the plans they have for CashU “are consistent with most of the region's Central Banks' visions of developing a ‘cashless society’.
“With CashU's 12 years of experience in MENA, we understand how to build products and offer services that best suit the buying behaviors of the end users residing in the Arabic speaking markets.”
CashU was founed in 2003 by ecommerce site Maktoob (later bought by Yahoo!).
Speaking to Wamda over email Genero Capital’s vice president Rushdi Sammakieh said this would be a milestone addition to their portfolio, one that already includes the mobile payment business Boloro.
“Cashu plans to transform a large portion of the unbanked population in the region to use electronic payments to purchase online goods and services,” Sammakieh told Wamda. “This is possible through Cashu’s customizable in-house solutions which speak to the day-to-day financial needs of Arab consumers.”
According to The National this acquisition will be followed by up to three deals in 2016.
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Car app fight club in Egypt
The market for tech-enabled transport in Egypt is tight: 13 companies are offering some kind of online ride hailing product.
All of these companies are targeting the same population: broadly, the 23 million or so Egyptians who have a smartphone, or about a quarter of the country’s population.
Those coveted smartphone users are not all in Cairo, obviously, and only a percentage (one we’ll leave to better mathematicians to estimate) will be able to afford and access these services. A smaller percentage again will be so inclined to use them. Still, if they’re developing new users rather than stealing each other’s, that’s a big market.
Finally, 12 of these companies are going up against Uber, which is already a world-infamous brand and in August 2016 earmarked 500 million Egyptian pounds (US$27.6 million) for Egypt alone.
Already the sector has killed off at least four. There’s not room for them all.
The taxi hailers
Easy Taxi (Brazil): launched in Egypt October 2013
Uber (USA): launched in Egypt November 2014
Careem (UAE): launched in Egypt December 2014
Ousta: launched March 2016
Taxi Plus: launched December 2016
Taxify (Estonia): launched in Egypt March 2017
PQ: launched April 2017
(We have heard of five others, but couldn’t confirm whether they still exist).
The bus disrupters
Tawseela: launched December 2013
Buseet: launched August 2016
Kalax: launched February 2017
Swvl: launched March 2017
The car poolers
Raye7: launched 2014
Go-Go-Car: launched October 2016
In 1853 Levi Strauss travelled to the California gold fields to make his fortune. He ended his days a millionaire - not because he struck gold, but because he sold dry goods, and then his famous jeans, to miners. The lesson being don’t follow the crowd, sell to the crowd.
Outside our array of 13 strivers seeking their fortune in Egypt’s tech-transport sector, there’s one Levi Strauss.
Wadeeny: launched in 2011 as a carpooling app
Today Wadeeny is an aggregator. It’ll search all the different apps for the best price and book your ride through its interface. It may not last - we can’t see Uber or Careem taking kindly to this. But right now it’s the One App To Rule Them All.
Are you using an app that’s not on this list? Let us know.
Faeture image via Wiki Voyage: Alexandrian taxis.
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Bills GM Whaley takes all-in rebuilding approach
By JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press - Thursday, July 17, 2014
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - Pardon Doug Whaley for using a baseball analogy when discussing his all-in approach to transforming the Buffalo Bills into something he hopes will finally resemble a playoff contender.
“You have equal chances of missing when you play it safe as when you try to swing for a home run,” the Bills general manager said. “So why not go for the home run?”
And Whaley didn’t blink when reminded that home-run hitters generally strike out a lot.
“Yeah,” he said. “And a lot of single hitters stay on base.”
The Bills prepare to open training camp in suburban Rochester on Sunday featuring a new-look offense. The changes reflect the swing-for-the-fences philosophy Whaley put into motion this offseason in a bid to end the franchise’s 14-season playoff drought - the NFL’s longest active streak.
Whaley’s biggest move came in May while overseeing his first draft since taking over as GM.
Whaley mortgaged a portion of the team’s future by trading next year’s first-round draft pick to move up five spots and select Clemson receiver Sammy Watkins fourth overall.
It was a risky move, and yet one Whaley believed was worth the gamble by adding a dynamic piece to a passing attack that had sputtered during quarterback EJ Manuel’s inconsistent and injury-troubled rookie season.
Whaley didn’t stop there in a bid to improve the supporting cast around Manuel, the team’s 2013 first-round pick.
The Bills used three of seven draft picks on offensive lineman. Whaley shuffled his receivers by acquiring Mike Williams from Tampa Bay and trading starter Stevie Johnson to San Francisco.
Whaley even tinkered with the Bills already strong running attack. He added experienced depth behind co-starters C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson by acquiring Bryce Brown in trade with Philadelphia and signing Anthony Dixon in free agency.
“It is our duty to do what we can to get this team into the playoffs. And I have no problem in saying that,” Whaley said. “That’s a goal. I’m not guaranteeing it, but that’s a goal.”
Whaley’s win-now objective comes at a most uncertain juncture in the franchise’s 55-year history.
The Bills are for sale after team founder and owner Ralph Wilson died in March, and a new owner could be identified within the next month.
There are concerns of the franchise eventually relocating under new ownership.
And there are shorter-term questions as to whether the next owner will consider cleaning house if Whaley and the rest of the Bills front-office fails to deliver a winner.
“That’s out of my pay grade,” Whaley said, regarding his job security. “I have nothing to do with that stuff.”
Ownership change aside, there is a distinct sense the franchise is entering a new era ushered in by Whaley, second-year coach Doug Marrone and team president Russ Brandon, who took over daily oversight of the team in January 2013.
Despite a 6-10 finish last season, the Bills showed signs of being competitive following a major top-to-bottom overhaul. While their defense improved in several areas, their offense remained a weak spot in large part because of Manuel, whose development was stunted by three separate knee injuries. He went 4-6 in 10 games, with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions.
Given the new additions on offense, the pressure is on Manuel to begin carrying his fair share of the load.
Whaley maintains his faith in Manuel, saying he has confidence the quarterback can build on last season.
“I wouldn’t say concerned. I’d say I’m optimistic. I’m eager to see him get out and perform for 16 games,” Whaley said. “I think this year is going to be a big leap for him and for us.”
Whaley’s series of offseason moves caught the players’ attention by refocusing their commitment to win.
“This is a desperate franchise with desperate players and coaches to win,” center Eric Wood said. “I’m not using desperate in a negative way. I’m using desperate in a positive way. Desperate like: Willing to do whatever-it-takes mentality. This is probably the most positive energy I’ve felt since I’ve been here.”
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By Speider Schneider | Dec. 25, 2014
Are You Sure You’Re Ready for Your Website to Go Live?
I recently witnessed a startup website train wreck. It was an extreme failure because the owner launched too soon and the consequences of doing so were fatal. As the owner, or just the designer/developer of a website, you must understand that following the correct steps, using the right checklists and having the marketing sense to know when your website is truly ready for a successful launch are all vital for any web initiative. So, what...
By Speider Schneider | Nov. 27, 2014
What Creative Opportunities Will a Legal Marijuana Market Present You?
I had an advertising teacher who claimed that big tobacco companies had registered the 1970s names for different marijuana strains, such as Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, Sensimilla, and other cute names for pot, in the inevitable legalization and marketing of packages similar to Marlboro cigarettes. He also claimed the packaging was already produced, sitting in warehouses, waiting for the green light when they could start rolling (no pun...
The Secret of Grid Layouts, and the Mistake You’Re Probably Making
I mentioned the “Swiss School” and “the grid” layout in another article and while most comments were positive about the article, there were a number of people who asked if the grid was even still alive. I assure you the grid layout is alive, well, and used all the time. Those who never learned it just don’t realize the rules of the grid and how one can use or even bend, or break those rules for success in designing incredible layouts....
By Speider Schneider | Oct. 22, 2014
How to Transform Design Limitations into Design Success
Think of design as a road map for consumers, taking them where you want them to go. Design makes an efficient way to get across the message and still make it pretty. That last part is where things start getting sort of weird. Sometimes I just don't know what to think anymore when it comes to designers. I've seen and heard too much and it still keeps pouring in. Some designers are too weird for other designers. How does that ever happen? While I pride...
By Speider Schneider | Sep. 24, 2014
Graphics, Guts and Glory
I write articles about how to get a client to accept a contract, keeping your dignity and rights as a professional creative and, at times, how to really fight against a bad client. I receive emails from people asking advice on solving a problem with a client and even write a “Dear Abby-type” column for creatives to write in about design dilemmas they face. Some people who know me personally will ask to “borrow some of [my] bastardness”...
5 Things to Consider Before Saying “Yes” to a Startup
Startups are exciting! It’s something new that may become a multi-billion dollar company like Facebook and you could be in on the ground floor. They are also risky and after months or years of dedicated hard work, you may end up broke and in the basement. Before you accept that offer from a new startup, here’s some things you should consider very carefully… 1) Hello work, goodbye life! When you get that offer to work for a startup, you should...
By Speider Schneider | Aug. 29, 2014
How to Decline Requests for Free Work with Style
It's aggravating and demeaning when a business asks for free work. You feel belittled and often foster an urge to prove that you offer a professional service that has actual monetary worth. Unfortunately, there are designers who continue to do free work on the vague promise of "exposure," "paying work later on," and the client's "rich friends" who will see your designs and "pay big fees" for your work. The truth is, when you do free work, you...
Don't Be a Douche Bag! A Simple Guide to Being an Ethical Designer
The creative field, which encompasses design, illustration, photography and anything else that is a commercial-based service and takes imagination and a certain amount of talent on the part of the vendor, is unregulated. There are no real guidelines for ethics among creatives to compare with such things as the Hippocratic Oath for doctors, or the BAR association that keeps lawyers on the straight and narrow. Plumbers, carpenters,...
Unforeseen Side Effects of Google Glass Reported
It was seen as the future of the Web and mobile devices. Google Glass was the thing we all saw in movies about the near future. It was a TV, phone, computer and all in a very personal device. It opened the door to a virtual world of augmented reality, instant information, facial recognition; but is, according to rumours leaking onto the internet, a device with serious unforeseen drawbacks. Google planned on making a huge splash with its latest and...
By Speider Schneider | Apr. 01, 2014
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Optimal Toxicity On Planet Earth
Images of strangled waterways, rivers choking in the toxic waste from the clothing industries, heavy metals in chemical dyes and plastics… then more plastic.. and even more plastic, islands of detritus the size of countries in our oceans, fire hoses spewing antibiotics into open water fisheries, coastlines unfit for bathing because of chemical pesticides being used inland, fracking, with its 400+ unrevealed chemicals pumped into the water in high pressure pipes, and then fired, like a rocket into the earths sub-strata, shattering it’s integrity and fouling the water table, all presumably so toxic that it would be a PR disaster to let us know what they are…
Should I go on…?
No need…?
What Feeds The Machine?
The thing is… a lot of us don’t know how it works…
But what you need to know is that there’s no accidents in all of this… just big corporations with their eyes firmly fixed on the profits and a total disregard for humanity in their cold, dead hearts…
Monsanto, The Ultimate Example Of Madness & Greed
Take Agent Orange. One of Monsanto’s finest products put to catastrophic use in Vietnam.
It was termed a toxic “defoliant”, designed to remove the leaves from trees and plants in areas of combat, but indiscriminately gave practically everyone who came into contact with it cancer, no matter their race or country of origin…
Thank God That Was A Long Time Ago…
Err, hold on a cotton pickin’ second, (or should I say BT cotton pickin’ second?), what we are not being told is that it’s the exact same chemical they used in Agent Orange, that caused all that cancer in Vietnam, is being used in Roundup TODAY, which still graces our shelves in supermarkets and garden centres across these green and pleasant lands.
Court Finds Against Monsanto
And, all this is after a landmark case where Monsanto’s Roundup has been declared cancerous by the courts in America, with Monsanto being made to pay $34 million in damages to a single person… a groundsman, who contracted cancer after using Roundup as part of his job.
This is an absolute must-see video interview with Dr. Zach Bush. Glyphosate is an antibiotic which is not just destroying our soil, but it’s destroying our waterways and oceans. Dr. Zach Bush explains why Monsanto’s Round-Up is so much worse than we thought.
It’s not just Hodkinson’s Lymphoma, which courts are finding Glyphosate in Round-Up is causing… it’s causing all kinds of cancers and it is killing the medicinal properties within plants…
2,4-D
The toxic chemical is called 2,4-D, and nearly 140 million kilogrammes of toxic 2,4-D is sprayed on our food every year! Yes… on our FOOD!
Dioxin, another constituent in agent Orange, claimed 3 million lives during the Vietnam conflict, and because it is still polluting the land, it is still causing abnormal births decades after the fact…
US Food Industry
In America, Monsanto owns the food industry…On top of Roundup, Monsanto also has a monopoly on “suicide seeds”, aka GMO seeds, which are now reputed to account for 75% of the food in the US.
And, what you need to understand about that is that wherever “suicide seeds” are grown there is wholesale spraying of deadly chemicals that contain the cancerous 2,4-D and a whole bunch of heavy metals…
But that’s only poisoning the Americans, right?
UK Food Industry
All of our conventionally reared livestock and poultry are being fed GMO corn in the UK, and now we don’t have environmental protection from Europe because of Brexit, which pretty much guarantees the wholesale poisoning of British lands because the doors are wide open to American corporations, who have gleefully poisoned their own soil and have every intention of doing the same to ours…
But, British householders have been poisoning our soil for decades with Roundup anyway… and we wonder why a little-known condition one hundred years ago, called cancer, is going to claim one in two of us before we reach old age!
According to Wendy Meyers…
Monsanto sells $2B of [Roundup] every year—and they say it’s ok…
And the EPA says it’s ok too.
In fact, they agree with each other so much that the same people who
work for Monsanto move on to high-ranking jobs in the EPA.
I mentioned BT Cotton earlier. This is Monsanto’s Cotton that is widely grown in India. The current figure for Indian BT Cotton farmers committing suicide, by drinking Roundup, is in excess of quarter of a million, owing to the debt they’ve accumulated since using Monsanto’s suicide seeds.
These dead farmers all mistakenly believed that the debts would die with them. But, they did not. Monsanto transfers the debt to wives and children…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nNFmzAOtJI&t=3525s
It’s Time For Change!
But how can we force corporations to start caring about the environment, and us, when they have blatantly and egregiously shown absolutely no regard for us up until now?
The simple answer is :: WE CAN’T!
But, what we can do is educate ourselves and stop buying into all of this shit!
It’s Time To Wake Up!
We need to make conscious choices about what we buy so that the world will still be here, and able to sustain life, for our children and grandchildren.
We also need to massively cut our consumption… because that shit doesn’t feed the cavernous hole inside our souls, anyway!
It’s Time To Seek True Fulfilment!
When did we get so bone idle?
When did we lose our sense of adventure, and the sense of excitement from venturing out into unchartered territories…?
It’s like a lot of us are going to have to have our sofas surgically removed before we can get up and get out into nature to find our salvation…!
Technological devices create a vacuum in our hearts and are killing us slowly. Nature will restore us and replenish our depleted energy levels.
We need to put down those deathly devices and get out there… and soon!
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Brahms Choral Works
Four Songs for Women's Chorus Op.17 I
This collection opens with a group of four songs scored for three-part women's chorus and the unusual combination of two horns and harp. They are settings of an interesting spread of poems including one by Ossian and the Clown's song from the thrid act of Twelfth Night. Other items include Three Songs Op. 42, Two Motets, Op. 29 and, to finish with, one of the songs from Brahms much loved "Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes", Op. 65.
The Kansas City Chorale under their long-serving music director Charles Bruffy recorded a series of discs for Nimbus back in the mid-nineties and it was through those that I first encountered them. Their Christmas recital Nativitas remains one of my all-time favourite discs for those seeking something away from the traditional Carols arr. Willcocks fare. Their sound is characterised by a remarkably refined and balanced tone with the voices blending across all parts as well as I have ever heard. Attack and intonation are also exemplary and they have that superb ability of bending the sound they make to suit the style and period of the music they are singing. I like also the fact that their sound is not overly ‘young’. There seems to be such a predilection for choirs making an ever more pure or blanched sound that I find it something of a relief to here an out-and-out adult group. Not for a second does that imply anything matronly or lacking in focus; far from it. No surprise then that in this disc of warmly romantic music by Brahms they projected a rounded, warm and gorgeously mellifluous sound.
Before listening to this disc with the exception of the Liebeslieder I was rather ignorant of Brahms’ music for chamber choir - as these works might be termed. In his informative liner-note David Andrew Threasher valuably reminds us that Brahms took inspiration and influence from earlier Germanic composers such as Bach, Handel and Mozart. Certainly, one is aware throughout of a master-craftsman at work although apparently Brahms himself had doubts about their enduring worth asking his friend the violinist and composer Joseph Joachim; “apart from the ingenuity, is it good music?” The overall character of this CD is gently benevolent but within that Brahms experimented with various textural combinations of voices. This listing immediately tells you two things; that Brahms returned to this musical form throughout his life and that he wrestled with the tonal and textural implications of the form as well. Much as he – and other composers at the same time – found that adding an extra viola and cello to a string quartet allowed far greater richness in his String Sextets Opp.18 and 36 so here the line-up becomes SAATBB. Across the voices this adds greatly to the richness of the sound but it also allows, within the male/female split, that each group can cover the notes contained in the triads of basic chords. The Kansas singers are superb at achieving this blend – there is a quiet rapture to their performances of this music that I absolutely adore. As with the other Nimbus discs recorded in Kansas the production team have favoured a church location with the choir set slightly back into the acoustic. This gives a mellow warmth to the sound which I find ideal matching both the music itself and the performance style.
The highlight for me on this disc was the very opening sequence – Four songs for Women’s Chorus, 2 Horns and Harp Op.17. Even more than the famous excerpt from the Liebeslieder Waltzes that closes the disc this is the most truly Romantic (with a capital R) music on the disc. Opening with the quintessentially romantic instrument – the huntsman’s horn – this is simply glorious. I cannot think of any other examples in the repertoire for this unusual accompanying ensemble which no doubt accounts for its neglect either on disc or in the concert hall. One doesn’t associate Brahms with virtuoso harp writing but that is what we have here. Again the Nimbus engineers have placed the instrumentalists slightly back into the body of the church which allows them to play at a proper dynamic without swamping the often ethereal vocal writing. There is a rather serendipitous effect right at the start too –and one I was aware of only when I listened on headphones. The very opening song “Heart notes ring out, increasing love and longing..” is accompanied by bird-song sounding as if it comes from high in the roof of the church – given that the atmosphere of the whole set is powerfully nature-imbued this is disarmingly beautiful. Beauty is indeed the word I take from the entire disc. The booklet as usual favours Nimbus’s preferred style of good-sized text printed in English only. Full texts in original languages (all German here) with English translation only are provided. Because this is not a mixed recital perhaps this disc does not show off the remarkable range of the wonderful Kansas City Chorale as impressively as some others I have heard. However, as a coherent well planned and superbly executed programme of rare Brahms this would be hard to beat even if there were multiple versions to choose; a quick scan of the catalogue would imply that there are not. A disc to savour for its serenely grave beauty and profound musicality.
Nick Barnard, Musicweb-international.com
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Remembering Cyril Rance
Wycombe Wanderers are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Rance due to illness.
The thoughts of everyone at the club are with Cyril’s friends and family. A true blue.
“Blue blood ran through his veins and he was very a very knowledgeable man, especially about the Wanderers.”
Promotions manager and fellow close friend Mike Phillips added: “Cyril was one of the nicest, most genuine people you will ever meet.
“He was a great help and I will miss him greatly. A top man, a 100% Wycombe man.”
Former groundsman and kitman Jim Gardner said: “Cyril helped me around the ground until he was about 86. People spoke about (Simon) Garner and (Cyrille) Regis being the oldest partnership, but me, Cyril and Jake Sprake were streets ahead!
Despite his illness not allowing him to attend matches at Adams Park in recent years, the World War II veteran continued to pay the club for his season ticket.
High Wycombe-born Cyril, who turned 91 on Monday, was a life-long Wanderers supporter, season-ticket holder and director of the Blues’ Development Fund.
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Pre hackery brings some fancy VNC action
by Jason Robitaille Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:35 am EDT
They certainly weren't kidding when people declared the Pre has a very hackable OS. Nebula from the #webos-internals IRC channel has done it again. Not too long ago he made history by porting running a native linux Nintendo emulator on the Pre, full controls and all. Well, he's back and this time he's gotten a native linux VNC application running on the Pre. (That's Virtual Network Computing, if you're unfamiliar, which basically means the Pre is can view and control your desktop.)
This is merely a proof of concept, like running the NES emulator, though this one has much less functionality (due to the lack of a mouse, etc.). Nebula has written up a handy guide if you have a rooted Pre and would like to try it yourself. If you have any questions about setup, feel free to pop on by #webos-internals on freenode IRC. One thing that should also be noted is that the VNC app (like the NES application) is run from your SSH connection and is not in any form integrated into the WebOS interface, though that could change in the future.
Still, it's a very impressive feat and really helps to show the strength and versatility the WebOS and Pre can come to represent.
Thanks to John for the tip
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This Lidgerwood man racked up four felony and five misdemeanor charges in one day, sheriff says
FORMAN, N.D. - A man is in the North Dakota State Hospital after being arrested on four felony and five misdemeanor charges tied to threatening people at a church and bar, vandalism, and a high-speed chase, Sargent County Sheriff Travis Paeper sa...
Written By: Helmut Schmidt | Oct 24th 2017 - 2pm.
Michael Skroch
FORMAN, N.D. - A man is in the North Dakota State Hospital after being arrested on four felony and five misdemeanor charges tied to threatening people at a church and bar, vandalism, and a high-speed chase, Sargent County Sheriff Travis Paeper said Tuesday, Oct. 24.
Michael Skroch, 39, of Lidgerwood, was arrested Thursday, Oct. 19, after a high-speed chase by law enforcement ended with him crashing a motorcycle in the Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge, and a standoff that included Skroch being tased several times to no effect, Paeper said.
"We've had to deal with him on a couple different occasions," Paeper said. "We were very cautious in our approach to him."
Paeper said the first calls in the case came in about 3:15 p.m. from the Geneseo area.
A member of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Geneseo reported that he had learned Skroch was at the church and arrived to find that Skroch had burned a crucifix on the altar and a Bible, the power was off, and there was water in the basement, a sheriff's office report said. Skroch allegedly pulled a knife on the church member and threatened to stab him in the stomach, the report said.
Skroch then went to a bar and got into a confrontation with some people, "ultimately, he ended up slashing some tires on a vehicle," Paeper said.
Law enforcement from Sargent, Ransom and Richland counties in North Dakota, the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the Southeast Multi-County Agency Drug Task Force and Marshall County, S.D., took part in the search for Skroch, Paeper said.
About 4:40 p.m., a tip from a local resident led deputies to Skroch, who was on a motorcycle on Sargent County Road 14 about 3 miles south of Geneseo. They found Skroch parked on a field approach, and when first confronted by officers, he put his hands in the air. But then he took off southbound, authorities said.
Paeper was among officers in four vehicles trying to stop Skroch. The pursuit reached speeds of 85 mph, Paeper said.
Officers chased Skroch 10 to 12 miles to the Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge, where Skroch went cross-country with the motorcycle, Paeper said. When Skroch hit a rock pile and crashed, the pursuit ended and a short standoff ensued, Paeper said, noting that Skroch did not comply with officers' commands.
"We knew he was armed with at least a knife. He's been known to carry cutting instruments in the past. In the past, he's had Samurai swords," Paeper said. "We did have to tase him several times. And that had no effect on him. So officers had to go hands on him," to make the arrest.
Skroch did not claim any injuries and was taken to the Richland County Jail, a sheriff's office report said. A search of Skroch and a backpack he was wearing turned up several religious items that Skroch said he stole from St. Martin's in Geneseo, the report said.
Skroch is charged with felonies of terrorizing, aggravated assault, endangering by fire/explosion and reckless endangerment. He's also charged with misdemeanor fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, aggravated reckless driving, theft and two counts of criminal mischief.
Paeper said Skroch has had mental health issues for several years and run-ins with law enforcement throughout the area, including an Aug. 28 incident in Lidgerwood in which he was charged with felony reckless endangerment for threatening a woman and her companion in a car with a sword. In that case, Skroch was taken into custody after a six-hour standoff with law enforcement, Paeper said.
Richland County court documents say Skroch pleaded guilty in the case and was sentenced to time served in the Richland County Jail and two years of supervised probation. He was ordered to continue treatment with prescribed medications.
Paeper said Skroch was assessed and transported to the State Hospital in Jamestown after the latest incident. A message left for Skroch's attorney, Don Krassin, was not returned Tuesday.
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Indiana courts allowing sex offenders in church while children present
Indiana Court of Appeals overturns a ruling by judges in Boone County in 2015 about not letting sex offenders in churches
Posted: Oct 31, 2017 5:24 PM
Posted By: Caleb Saylor
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) - Last Tuesday, the Indiana Court of Appeals made a judgment on whether or not sex offenders are allowed to practice their religion in places that have Sunday school.
The ruling stems from a 2015 incident in Boone County where the sheriff sent letters to the county's sex offenders informing them about Indiana's new "serious sex offender laws."
The law prohibits serious sex offenders from entering school property, which include churches that have Sunday school or child care.
Three serious sex offenders took the case to court saying this law violated indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and placed a burden on them being able to practice their religion.
After trials court judge sided with the letter of the law, an appeal was field with the Indiana Court of Appeals who stated
"the trial court abused its discretion in denying appellants' motion for a permanent injunction." Therefore ruling on the side of the sex offenders.
Janet Massey, a local resident and church go-er herself agrees with the state's decision, saying "I feel that we all have the right to attend a religious church of any kind and everybody should have that freedom even if they have been a sex offender because people can change because of church."
Another local, Patrick Michaels said he were not comfortable having sex offenders in churches with Sunday schools,
"They should have the absolute right to practice their religion. They have freedom of religion, but our rights are subject to other peoples rights also and to the extent that they infringe on other people's rights, they stop. There's a wall there," Michaels said.
Reverend Isaac Fincher of eleventh missionary baptist church, says he feels the court of appeals made the right decision, saying
"We have enough...you got your deacons, you have your people staff to watch over all the children and everything else. I haven't heard of any incident where a sex offender have attacked anybody at a church...Jesus never discriminated himself against anybody."
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Montebello Mayor Vanessa Delgado surrenders her…
Montebello Mayor Vanessa Delgado surrenders her seat to be sworn in as a short-term state senator
Montebello Mayor Vanessa Delgado, signs papers as she is sworn into the state Senate on Monday. (Courtesy of Vanessa Delgado)
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PUBLISHED: August 13, 2018 at 1:07 pm | UPDATED: August 14, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Monday was a big day for Democrat Montebello Mayor Vanessa Delgado, who was sworn in for her brief stint as the representative of the 32nd state Senate District while simultaneously relinquishing her City Council seat.
The latter is likely to set off a battle to replace her.
The now-former mayor emerged victorious Friday in the race, with an updated vote tally from the Aug. 7 special election giving her an insurmountable lead over Republican business owner Rita Topalian.
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Delgado will be serving the balance of the term of Artesia Democrat Tony Mendoza, who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations. That means she will be in office only until the end of November. Voters that month will choose between Topalian and Democrat Bob Archuleta, a Pico Rivera councilman, to serve a new four-year term that will begin in early December.
After the victory, it wasn’t clear what Delgado would do. Last week, she said she was awaiting a legal opinion from the city and state on whether she could maintain her local seat, possibly while taking a temporary leave, while serving in the Senate.
But on Monday, she announced in a press release that she would vacate her City Council post.
“After exploring a number of options with the city of Montebello’s legal team, it is clear that a temporary leave of my City Council seat is not feasible,” Delgado said. “I believe that elected officials should hold themselves to the highest ethical standards and, as such, I must leave the City Council upon assuming this new office.”
The announcement triggered reactions and planning for her replacement.
Councilman Jack Hadjinian said he would like make an appointment and save the more than $100,000 in the expected costs for a special election. But council members Art Barajas and Vivian Romero said they favor going to the people. Councilman Bill Molinari didn’t return two phone calls seeking comment.
“Let the people decide,” Romero said. “We should push for a special election.”
Hadjinian disagreed.
“We can find a good qualified candidate,” he said. “I know a special election will cost taxpayers’ money, and if we can avoid, it, we should.”
Barajas said he has questions but for now, his instinct is to call for a special election.
Montebello activists, who were trying to recall Delgado and Hadjinian, said they were “elated” that Delgado wouldn’t try to hold onto both offices.
“Hallelujah,” recall proponent Linda Nicklas said. “Now we can put all of our efforts into recalling Jack Hadjinian. It’s a step in the right direction.”
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In her statement, Delgado addressed the brevity of her term.
“I intend to make the most of it by working on legislation that addresses California’s affordable housing crisis and ensuring that our district gets its fair share of resources.”
During Monday’s state Senate session, Delgado led the pledge of allegiance and then introduced her family members, including 15-year old daughter Isabella Delgado-Rojas, who accompanied her to the floor.
“I’m the only Latina in the Senate right now,” Delgado said. “It’s symbolic that she joins me. There have to be more Latinas here.”
The 32nd includes Artesia, Bellflower, Buena Park, Cerritos, Commerce, Downey, Hacienda Heights, Hawaiian Gardens, La Habra Heights, La Mirada, Lakewood, Los Nietos, Montebello, Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, South Whittier and Whittier.
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Thousands protest immigrant detention centers at ‘Lights for Liberty’ vigils in Southern California
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Joe Mantegna
The lives of two female neighbors intersect when their individual obsessions begin to unravel.
Actor: Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon, Joe Mantegna, Kate Trotter, Daiva Johnston, Theresa Joy, James McGowan, Natalie Brown, Katie Douglas, Jean Yoon, John Tokatlidis, Gary Vena, Matt Connors, Allyson Niro
Actor: Madonna, Joe Mantegna, Charles Hallahan, Julianne Moore, Mark Rolston, Richard Riehle, D. Scot Douglas, Mario DePriest, John DeLay, Ross Huffman-Kerr, Anne Archer, Willem Dafoe, Mark C. Vincent, Frank Roberts, Aaron Corcoran
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship ...
Genre: Sport, Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Family
Actor: Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, John Turturro, Brent Musburger, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Darrell Waltrip, Franco Nero, David Hobbs, Patrick Walker
10 Cent Pistol
A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Actor: Jena Malone, JT Alexander, Damon Alexander, Joe Mantegna, Adam Arkin, Brendan Sexton III, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jessica Szohr, Emilio Rivera, Amir Talai, Alex Beh, Kevin Brief, Steve Cell, Adam Clark, Bridget Colella
The Godfather: Part III
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the ...
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50 shades of Lancaster County: Bube's Brewery in Mount Joy has some playful hotel rooms
The third floor of the Victorian hotel at Bube's Brewery has 8 uniquely themed hotel rooms, including a "tiki" room with a waterfall.
50 shades of Lancaster County: Bube's Brewery in Mount Joy has some playful hotel rooms The third floor of the Victorian hotel at Bube's Brewery has 8 uniquely themed hotel rooms, including a "tiki" room with a waterfall. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2019/02/28/bubes-brewery-hotel-rooms-inside-look-uniquely-themed-lancaster/3008931002/
Neil Strebig, York Daily Record Published 5:20 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019
See Bube's Brewery Executive Chef Corinna Killian cook up a ribeye loin. Cameron Clark, York Daily Record
On the third floor of the Victorian hotel adjacent to Bube’s Brewery in Mt. Joy you’ll find eight uniquely themed rooms that could make Oscar Wilde grin.
Oh, and a there's a shared shower space as well.
There’s the “dark princess” room – a dimly lit room with black and crimson sheets and a wooden headboard with small shackles hanging from it. While you won't see any Dorian Gray portraits on the wall, it may be safe to say he provided some inspiration for the design.
Each of the speciality rooms at the Victorian hotel at Bube's Brewery has a different theme that was decorated and designed by Kate Hopkins, the brewery's entertainment director. (Photo: Cameron Clark, York Daily Record)
Other themed rooms:
The “Asian temple” room – with a lone square bed lifted off the ground and kimonos hanging in the corner.
The “jungle” room – with a leopard print bed sheet and built-in waterfall.
The "New Orleans" room – outfitted with the spirit of Mardi Gras and hanging masquerade masks
The “good princess” room – which, according to marketing director Jeffery Woodman, is a favorite for brides and boudoir shoots.
However, the crème de la crème may be the grand suite. It's a sight I'd expect to see inside the Roxbury: an open living room with a stand-up bar and kitchen directly below a hanging bedroom, which Woodman defined as a 10-person bed.
The 10-person bed inside the loft of the "grand suite" at Bube's Brewery. The third floor of the Victorian hotel is home to 8 speciality themed rooms and the suite. (Photo: Submitted)
While the rooms might be a bit excessive for some, Woodman confirmed they are often rented out by groups of friends or for bachelor and bachelorette parties.
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For $100 a night, and $200/night for the suite, you can leave the kids at home and enjoy a little self-indulgence at Bube’s. Just be sure you don’t mind sharing the shampoo.
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Greece is a country renowned for its fascinating history that brought about the beginnings of Western Civilization. Since the ancient Greek ages of war, drama, and art, the country has brought about modern getaways with enchanting perspectives found through unique island formations with whitewashed buildings or Venetian harbors, stunning mountain ranges and distinctive gorges. Medieval monasteries crown precipitous cliffs and Bronze Age frescoes decorate the preserved walls of magnificent palaces. Whether interested in exploring the ancient ruins and archeological sites aplenty or eager to bask in the flickering golden sands of sun-drenched beaches, Greece combines passions of ancient politics, cuisine, and culture with relaxation.
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The official spoken language is Greek, with many people living in the larger cities or working in the service industry also speaking English. The minority population speaks languages from neighboring countries, such as Bulgaria and Turkey or languages more common around central Europe, like Russian. The Minoan civilization dates back thousands of years to the Island of Crete, flourishing around the mid-4th century BC. Visitors from around the world arrive ready to see the birthplace of Western philosophy, drama, literature, democracy, and the Olympic games.
The country’s historic legacy remains prominent in modern days and visitors are usually excited at the prospect of exploring signifcant buildings and monuments that reach far into the roots of Western society. Beyond the history stands the heritage associated with the magnificent islands and the picturesque beaches around the Aegean Sea. 200 of the 6,000 islands under Greek control are currently inhabited, and the whitewashed walls of the Cyclades, which includes Santorini and Mykonos, provide romantic getaways while the Dodecanese islands, of which Patmos and Samos are a part, retain traces of Byzantium, and the Crusades, along with Venetian and Ottoman rule.
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The Ionian islands are known to draw yachters and swimmers with their sandy beaches, pebbled coves, and Italianate villages due to the proximity of the Southern Italian coastline. The culinary traditions of Greece are rich and exotic with flavors both deliciously familiar and remarkably distinct. The seafood around the islands and along the shoreline bring enticing fish, squid, and octopus dishes to the table. Fat and juicy olives are often used as snacks or garnishes while small plates known as meze, provide an array of tasty bites for visitors and locals alike to sink their teeth into, ranging from traditional hummus to tzatziki, dolmades to lamb meatballs.
Food is a part of life, and drinking accompanies the atmosphere and your meals. Ouzo, raki, and sweet wine add to the vibrant social ambiance of any lunch, dinner, and dessert. Whether sipping wine in a quiet café or drinking Greek coffee in one of the customary coffee houses, discovering the intricate friezes on the metopes of the Parthenon or lounging on the Red Sand Beach of Santorini, you can chat with locals, relax in luxury, and embrace the ancient history of the Western World.
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Athens is often referred to as the “Cradle of Democracy” and history reigns supreme, ever-looming over contemporary life. Comtemporary society meets ancient landmarks near the majestic Acropolis, and reminds Greeks daily of their heritage and how their culture has transformed over the millennia. Art galleries have risen over the years promoting Athenian, greater Greek, and European artists. Political debates become lively discussions around the urban bustle of the historic streets inside one of Europe’s longest continuously inhabited city that dates back more than 3,000 years.
What began as a hilltop fortress eventually developed into a settlement surrounded by the Cephisian Plain towards the east to Mount Hymettus and west 12 miles to the Saronic Gulf. The ancient walled city encompassed approximately one mile east to west, and north to south with a commercial center established at 1,300 feet north of the Acropolis in view of the Temple of Athena. The Acropolis was inhabited in Neolithic times but became the center of the Mycenaean civilization by the 1,400s BC.
By the 8th century BC, Athens emerged as the center of the Greek world aided by the secure stronghold of the Acropolis and the city’s access to the sea. The free city-state reformed from kings to democracy by the 6th century BC, giving rise to Classical Athens, which fell to Alexander the Great 170 years later, Sparta during the Peloponnesian War, and the Roman empire by the 1st century BC.
Cafes, bars, and open-air restaurants provide the social scene with Athenians known to linger in the cool evening air for hours, sipping raki, an unsweetened anise-flavored alcohol, aged sweet wine, or rich coffee. The shores of the greater Athenian county maintain quality beaches and measures of antiquity embodied in the staggering Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, located atop soaring bluffs. The Parthenon crowns the central hill of the Acropolis alongside the Propylaia, Erechtheion, and Temple of the Athena Nike.
The Benaku Museum offers insight into the ancient lives of Athenians across three floors that showcase treasures from the Bronze Age to the Second World War, while the museum’s annex specializes in the contemporary art scene and musical performances. Images and insight into Christianity in the times of the Byzantine Empire fill the galleries of the Byzantine and Christian Museum. Nearby, the brilliance of architectural engineering during the 2nd century AD reflects in the bold amphitheater of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, which continues to host performances during the Athens and Epidaurus Festival in summer, which draws in crowds of up to 5,000 people a night.
The Acropolis Museum dazzles visitors with artifacts from the neighboring summit and treasures remaining in Greek possession, and the Panathenaic Stadium held athletic games in the 4th century BC and the first of the modern Olympic games in the mid-1880s. Whether interested in the historical context of the beginnings of Western Civilization or intrigued by the artisan jewelry and antiques of the Monastiraki Flea Market on Sundays, Athens alone can provide a timeline on a grand scale of Greece’s evolution through the ages.
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Santorini is what any dreams of a Greek island paradise are made of. Idyllic cliffs soar above the azure caldera filled with the shimmering waters of the Aegean Sea. The whitewashed walls of the iconic Cycladic architecture resemble snow drift along the rugged, mountainous edges of the island plateaus, which reach over 2,600 feet above sea level at the peak of Mount Profitis Ilias.
Blue domes mark the historical churches, and cobblestone lanes wind along the twisted, craggy slopes where donkeys continue to carry luggage from the small marinas. Cafes, restaurants, and bars provide elaborate views to the caldera while sailboats, yachts, and fishing boats populate the many marinas while adding to the ambiance. The Red Beach and the Black Beach offer unique perspectives on the colorful sands that are shaped by the island’s volcanic activity. Vineyards and farms utilized the rich minerals in the soil to create wines, fruits, and vegetables that are layered with strong flavors.
The quiet village of Oia provides a serene and romantic escape for unforgettable sunsets, while the island capital Fira stands at the top of nearly 600 steps and glistens with shops, jewelers, and charming architecture. Nearby, excavations began at the remarkable archeological site of Akrotiri in the 1960s to discover a city buried in rubble, pumice, and ash with a heritage that dates back more than 3.5 thousand years. The most popular excursions on Santorini are:
Visiting the Wine Museum of Koutsogiannopoulos
Hiking the trail between Fira and Oia
Exploring the ruins at Akrotiri or Ancient Thera
Taking a sunset cruise around the caldera, which includes a visit to the Red Sand and Black Sand beaches
Trekking to the Akrotiri Lighthouse
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Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and feature over 620 miles of coastline. The dramatic mountains, deep gorges, and dazzling golden sand beaches accentuate the wealth of history hidden around the island. Crete has been one of Europe’s most southerly outposts for thousands of years, connecting the continent to traders and civilizations from Africa to Asia Minor. The Mediterranean climate promotes a sunny and welcoming atmosphere with an economy dominated by agriculture.
Harbor towns feature centuries-old architecture and glow with colorful facades, and usually with a stone lighthouse reminiscent of a storybook nearby. The Palace of Knossos embraces its mythology as the Bronze Age Minoan estate that housed the vast labyrinth in which the infamous minotaur lived. The ancient treasures give way to traditional villages known for their spirit of generosity within the secluded mountains. Canyon walls open to the craggy coves and cliffs along the southern coast while the valleys support farms and traditional taverns. Orchards create elegant tapestries near the cave in which the Greek god Zeus was born.
The sand glows pink in the sunlight around the eastern coastline and history imbues a sense of wonder into the mazelike coastal towns and fortresses crafted by the colonial Venetians. Renaissance mansions stand beside historic Turkish bathhouses, while frescoes decorate churches and monasteries with Byzantine influence. The unique customs of the island have blended the heritage of conquering seafarers, reveling in the sounds of the lyra with traditional dances and sharing folktales in the comfort of kafeneia, coffee houses. Any visit to Crete would be incomplete without:
Exploring the winding lanes, art galleries, and waterside restaurants of Chania
Taking a tour of traditional Cretan villages
Visiting the archeological museum at Heraklion paired with a private tour of the Palace of Knossos
Enjoying a 4x4 tour through the mountains to view the Roman aqueduct, mythological caves, and edges of Samaria Gorge National Park
Viewing the Venetian palaces both on the mainland and on the nearby secluded islands of Spinalonga, Ágios, and Nikólaos
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Vertical rock formations tower over the plains of Thessaly, reaching nearly 1,000 feet above sea level. The weathered and eroded rocks have created bizarre and dramatic cliffs upon which devout monks built their monasteries. The promontories featured 24 religious sites at its peak with only six of the monasteries still in use. Ladders and winches guided the monks to the top of the precipices before the construction of modern roads and stairways, and the earliest religious site in the area was a hermitage erected in the late 10th century.
The largest of the monasteries was erected in the latter half of the 14th century and contains the tombs of saints Athanasios and Ioasaph inside a gallery adorned with frescoes. 140 steps lead to the secluded Monastery of the Holy Trinity, which was featured in the 1981 James Bond Movie, For Your Eyes Only. The panoramic views over the plain are breathtaking.
The nearby town of Kastraki offers authentic, unspoiled culture nestled into the hillside beneath the rocky pinnacles, also worthy of a visit. 19th-century cottages with terracotta tile roofs contrast the surrounding lush trees while wooden window shutters open and close with the daylight near traditional taverns. The nearby cave chapel of Agios Andonios reflects the hallowed grounds once used as cave hermitages where hanging ladders continue to rest against the gentle sound of cooing from nesting doves. The caves were occupied as recently as the early 20th century by solitary monks eager to remind locals and other religious figures of the original spirit of the region. While in Meteora, you should not miss these celebrated activities:
Watching the sunset at Kalambaka
Hiking to the Meteora caves
Walking to follow the footsteps of the monks who erected the monasteries on the precarious cliffs
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Ancient Greeks considered Delphi the center of the earth due to the inspiring crags of Mount Parnassós, the colorful wildflowers that blanket the valley, and the divine presence felt around the rock chasms and the flowing waters of the Castalian Spring. Pilgrims to the ancient city had purified their bodies in the waters by washing their hair first with the most scandalous sinners taking the full plunge. The water continues to flow over the sloping cleft, and the marble quarry of Marmaria glints with protruding white stone. The museum contains rare and exquisite artifacts that represent the divine nature of the city between the Archaic to the Roman eras. The objects on display illustrate the traditions of art and scholarly pursuit inspired by the gods matched only by the discoveries found at the Acropolis in Athens. Pottery and bronze articles, along with elegant friezes from temple pediments adorn the galleries.
The contemporary village burrows into the cliff-side that leads to the remnants of the ancient city. In July, the ruins return to life during the Delphic Festival with performances that recreate the preserved elements of the ancient music and drama in the 4th century BC theater. The theater was dedicated to the goddess Dionysus, who ruled over the city in the winter when the oracle did not speak.
The Temple of Apollo contains six re-erected Doric columns to illustrate the dominant size of the sanctuary in comparison to the grand architecture of the surrounding city. The city’s prestige grew in the 6th century BC after a period of colonization, with word of the oracle spreading across the ancient world to benefactors in Egypt and King Croesus of Lydia, in what is modern-day western Turkey. A trip to Delphi would feel incomplete without partaking in at least one of the following activities:
Taking the ancient path to Corician Cave and toward the village of Eptalofos on Mount Parnassós
Listening for the lingering whispers of the Oracle of Delphi with a private guided tour through the city ruins
Paragliding around the cliffs and over the valley around Delphi for an unforgettable aerial view of the ruins and landscape
Greece has gained a reputation as a summer getaway destination due to the islands and beaches scattered across the Mediterranean Sea. From late May to early October, little rain falls over the landscape, and the sea temperature warms to a comfortable 70 degrees Fahrenheit around the islands. As tourism heavily influences Greece’s stressed economy, the islands open their doors to visitors mainly in summer, while the rest of Greece remains a year-round vacation destination with temperatures ranging from 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the northern mountains to 100 degrees Fahrenheit along the shimmering southern beaches. While summer is considered “peak season,” the months between June and September also offer the most challenging crowds.
Greece’s ideal Mediterranean climate provides a sun-drenched dream for beachgoers and refreshing atmosphere in which history lovers can explore. During the peak summer season, the temperature of Athens averages 91 degrees Fahrenheit but can feel hotter due to the humidity and reflection of the sunlight off the ancient marble architecture. The sea breeze and cooler temperatures on the mountainous terrain can create a respite from the intense heat. Near the sea, the weather averages a consistent 77 degrees Fahrenheit. The weather on Crete, one of Greece’s most southerly islands, reaches an average temperature of 79 degrees Fahrenheit in August and 50 degrees Fahrenheit in February.
In winter, Athens averages 43 degrees Fahrenheit. Many of the resorts, beaches, and restaurants around the Greek islands close in mid-October and reopen by May but popular cities and towns on mainland Greece, from Athens to Thessaloniki, continue to welcome visitors throughout the year. If you wish to enjoy the better-known islands without the crowds, the best time to visit is between late May and early June or late September and early October after the wave of peak season has dissipated, but the weather still maintains.
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The European tradition keeps locals vacationing between July and August, reducing the sunny beaches and warm surf to crowds of tourists, gouging hotel prices or resort fees, and making reservations to museums, restaurants, and archeological sites mandatory. Timing during any vacation is everything. While summer draws huge crowds across Greece, especially to the famous islands of Mykonos and Santorini, the summer also supports huge cultural events, including “The Day of Panagia” on August 15th, when thousands of pilgrims trek to pay homage to an icon in the mountain village of Agiassos. The festivity consists of several days of food, wine, dancing, and music. Summer also sees the Hellenic Festival, which lasts from June to September and incorporates the traditions of ancient theater and music with modern dance, opera, and contemporary theater practices.
Celebrations reach a climax during the holy week of the Orthodox Easter. Candlelit processions wind down the street and midnight fireworks light up the sky. The scent of roasted lamb drifts through the air, and a different event takes place daily between the Saturday of Lazarus and Easter Sunday. During Easter week, hotel rooms outside of Athens fill quickly with city-dwellers hoping to escape the madness of the city and bask in the serene countryside during the most important holiday of the year. Most museums, archeological sites, and shops close on the weekend between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Carefully planning your Greece vacation to avoid the stress, rush, and craziness of vying for a place to stay or finding an activity to enjoy outside of celebrating Easter during the holiday weekend is critical. Carnival also provides a unique Greek perspective on the festival before Lent.
While any time of year is great to visit Greece, certain holiday seasons are best avoided when attempting to explore the different regions of the antique country. Nearly every day in Greece is associated with one or more patron saint, with one tiny chapel or large basilica celebrating the saint’s day with a church service followed by wining and dining.
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The festivities known as Apokreas bring costumed parades, vibrant floats, elegant feasts, and traditional dancing to the streets of towns, cities, and villages. The Hellenic Festival moves away from the Orthodoxy of the Greek church to the ancient marvels of Greek theater. The Summer festival captivates audiences with international music, dance, and drama for a celebration of the arts inside the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens with the shimmering marble pillars of the Acropolis as a backdrop.
Winter is a great time to visit Greece if you are not searching for the perfect beaches covered in golden sand and hoping to snorkel in the hidden coves. While the summer months receive endless tourist traffic due to the nice weather and pristine shorelines of the different islands, winter provides a completely different Greece experience. A long-held belief for visitors to Greece claims the islands “close” after summer as if the government place a large bubble over the landscape to keep newcomers out. People live on the islands year-round, allowing life to continue as usual, albeit much quieter than in summer.
Large resorts and hotels, or even seaside restaurants in secluded parts of the islands may shutter their doors for the season, but what remains are the intimate luxury accommodations and friendly local restaurants. While you can expect the beauty of the islands to persist in tandem with a more welcoming ambiance of shoreline, uncrowded streets, and friendly faces, the islands and mainland Greece can get cold and rainy in winter, but it can also be sunny and warm. The winter months are better for trekking and exploring, as opposed to snorkeling and sand-combing, with weather averaging 50 degrees Fahrenheit on Gavdos, Greece’s southernmost island.
Greece provides a plethora of accommodations for tourists that range from boutique hotels to sophisticated eco-lodges, five-star luxury resorts to hidden gems with private panoramas. Visitors have options and may opt for global hotel brands known for elegance, or turn to family-run bed and breakfasts in view of hanging antique monasteries. As one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, Greece has developed an industry of accommodations to match the demand with everything from modern accommodations to small-scale family operations that total more than 11,000 four- and five-star hotels as of 2016.
The most popular hotels on the islands provide beautiful views to the Aegean Sean and secluded plunge pools in which to enjoy the vistas. The whitewashed houses with blue rooftops bring the elegance of lavish living with the traditional architecture of the iconic Cyclades islands. The pristine white walls have become a symbol of the Greek isles’ beauty and charm, adding extravagance and comfort for visitors from around the world.
Historic hotels across the Peloponnese, Western Greece, Thessaloniki, Kavala, and Santorini have renovated manor houses and antique buildings to offer refined and classic style able to accommodate contemporary luxuries. These hotels have breathed new life into the traditional architectural style of Greece’s various regions, along with renewing the myths and legends that have inspired local families for over two and a half millennia. Resorts and hotels have also brought new depth and vigor to former secluded monasteries, so there is truly something for everyone.
The cuisine of Greece has evolved for more than 3,000 years and embraces the fruits of the Mediterranean climate with influence taken from the types of ingredients used and dishes made across Western Europe. The age-old traditions of Greek cooking have taken the heritage from Eastern and Western cultures by way of a long history of interaction through trade. Fresh vegetables and seafood also play a significant role due to the country’s nearly 8,500 miles of coastline and over 225 inhabited islands of the approximately 6,000 islands scattered across the Aegean and Ionian seas. Remarkably, every corner of Greece stands no more than 90 miles away from the sea.
Scholars and historians have traced the history of Greece’s culinary fusion to 350 BC when Alexander the Great extended the empire from Europe east to India, absorbing the influences of the different cultures into the gastronomy. By the 2nd century BC, Greece fell to the Romans, which resulted in a blend of cooking styles and ingredients between Greece and what became the Italian peninsula. Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople in the 4th century AD, which straddled the bridge between Europe and Asia.
After the Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks, many of the classic dishes took on Turkish names, which often remain today. Greeks have influenced many cultures over the course of nearly three millennia, and in turn, have also absorbed the likes of the Romans, Venetians, Balkans, Turks, Slavs, and also the English. Dishes such as tzatziki and dolmades derive from the Turkish words cacik and dolma respectively and can be found in kitchens spanning Armenia to Egypt.
Common meats in Greece consist of pork, beef, goat, chicken, veal, and rabbit, with the most popular item being lamb. Throughout Greek history, meat was only an option for affluent members of society, with the less-prosperous members of the community eating meat just once or twice a week. Instead of meat, Greeks often utilized grains and pasta, of which they had in abundance. The names of foods, cooking methods, and basic ingredients have changed little over the course of history, with bread, olives, olive oil, and wine creating a large portion of the diet enjoyed for centuries.
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Fun Fact: The first cookbook was written by a Greek food gourmet known as Archestratus in the 4th century BC, which suggests cooking has always held a significant role in Greek society.
Greece is a nation of small farmers that produce a wide array of mostly organically produced vegetables, fruits, and cheeses, oils and nuts, grains and legumes. A large selection of greens and herbs also grow in the wild in the fertile Mediterranean climate, which also provides perfect conditions in which olive and lemon trees thrive. Spices, such as garlic, along with herbs like oregano, basil, and mint, have an abundance of uses in Greek cooking to compliment common vegetables like eggplant and zucchini. However, many ingredients associated with Greece were not introduced to the country until the Middle Ages when European explorers began to trade with the Americas to discover potatoes, tomatoes, spinach, and bananas.
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The Importance of a Taverna
Never underestimate the importance of a taverna experience in Greece, which offers a perfect space to thoroughly enjoy a traditional Greek meal. An authentic Greek dining experience is never rushed and instead encourages you to take your time, engage in discussion, and delight in the company that surrounds you. A taverna is a small Greek restaurant that will serve Greek cuisine and support the traditions of local flavor and culture. Residents across Greece make a distinction between a restaurant and a proper Greek Taverna. The former will often have an extensive menu and remain open for long hours while a taverna offers limited amounts of food and serves only what is available for the day, most notably in the evening when Greeks wish to dine and enjoy dancing, orzo, or wine.
The type of cuisine served in a taverna depends upon the region in which the eatery is located. Their limited menus often specialize in seafood but can also include grilled meats, stuffed grape leaves known as dolmades, Greek cheeses, dips, and spreads and the food is always fresh and delicious when eating at a proper taverna. Beware of the tourist traps located in heavily touristy areas as these restaurants label themselves tavernas and claim to offer an authentic Greek experience, but are often not authentic and often over-priced. In more crowded areas, you may need to search a little more to find an authentic tavern, and if you have trouble spotting the unexpected hub of activity away from the visiting hordes of people, you could always ask a local for the closest taverna or their personal favorite.
Cheese in Greece is as old as mythology itself, with the legend of the famous dish telling the story of Aristaios, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, who gave the Greeks the methods to make cheese as a gift from the gods. Cheese-making has since been labeled the “gift of everlasting value and Greek cheeses have only grown finer with age, rivaling some of the world’s best cheeses in variety, flavor, and technique. The most well-known Greek cheese is feta. However, the delights of cheese from the Mediterranean country go beyond the versatility of the soft to medium textured cheese that has graced dishes and spans the spectrum from breakfast to dessert.
Since 1996, Greece has received 19 PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) statuses for their cheeses, which protects the flavor and quality of the cheese by defining the areas of origin and methods of production. Feta cheese received its status in 2002, followed by Xigalo Sitias in 2008. Greek cheese predominantly uses fresh sheep or goat’s milk, as opposed to cow’s milk, which is more common in the United States, Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. One reason is that the highly mountainous terrain of Greece favors farming goats and sheep as opposed to the vast lands of grass needed to tend cows and produce cow’s milk. Many of the techniques used to make Greek cheese follow the age-old traditions and stem from antiquity. New methods of creating cheese have introduced Greece to a new personality of flavors and textures unique to Greece’s authentic sensibilities. Greece has one of the highest per capita rates of cheese consumption in the world with mainly local and family-owned companies producing 100 different varieties of cheese. The following list offers brief examples and explanations of Greece’s most popular cheese thanks to their flavorful traditions:
1. Feta – Feta tops the charts of famous Greek cheeses with exports to countries around the globe. The sheep’s cheese has a texture ranging from semi-soft to semi-hard with a flavor shifting from mild to sharp depending on the aging process. Only Feta made in Lesvos, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, the Peloponnese, and central mainland Greece are truly Feta. Goat or sheep’s milk can make the cheese, but never cow’s milk. The white curd has a salty flavor from the brine used.
2. Kefalotyri and Graviera – The hard and salty cheese have similar consistencies and flavors. Greeks enjoy Kefalotyri and Graviera fried, grated and served as appetizers or with meze.
a. Kefalotyri is made from goat’s or sheep’s milk before aging for more than a year. This process accounts for the strong flavor, dry and hard texture, along with the yellowish color. It is compared to a saltier, sharper version of Gruyere cheese.
b. Graviera blends cow’s milk with goat or sheep’s milk for a sweeter flavor than the Kefalotyri that almost takes on a fruity taste. The subtle differences between the flavors of Graviera depend upon the region in which the cheese was produced.
3. Kasseri – The soft texture of one of Greece’s few yellow cheeses leads to a stringy consistency. Produces use sheep’s milk to craft the favorite table cheese of the country, which utilizes up to 20 percent of goat’s milk in the process. The cheese matures for at least four months before achieving its distinctive texture. The high fat content of the cheese gives a decadent buttery taste to every bite, making it a perfect accompaniment to omelets or a unique ingredient to use in baking.
4. Manouri and Myzithra – The two sweet cheeses help create some of Greece’s tastiest desserts for a creamy and indulgent texture complimenting a variety of texture and flavors due to the richness stemming from the high fat content.
a. Manouri has a semi-soft consistency and contains a combination of citrusy flavors due to the milk, cream, or why used in making the cheese. Authentic Manuori derives from Central and West Macedonia or Thessalia.
b. Myzithra is an unpasteurized cheese. Greeks often grate the cheese over pasta or onto bread. Due to its unpasteurized nature, it should be consumed within days of production.
5. Anthotryos – The fresh, soft cheese has a similar consistency and flavor to Sicily’s Ricotta. The creamy texture and mild flavor contain low salt and fat content. Greeks hoping to shed a few pounds or on strict health diets choose Anthotryos as a healthy alternative to other cheese. Sheep’s and goat’s milk produce the cheese, which is a popular ingredient used in savory pies or within desserts.
Greek Olives and Olive Oil
There is hardly a more iconic fruit associated with the Mediterranean than the olive, and with it comes a relationship with olive oil. The wild olive tree first appeared in the eastern Mediterranean, thought the Greeks were the first culture to cultivate it. The presence of the olive tree in the Greek region has continued uninterrupted since Minoans utilized the olives and olive oil in their daily life during the Bronze Age, between 2,600 and 1,100 BC. The Minoan Palace of Knossos had vast storage of olive oil in the West Magazines, with an estimated capacity of over 551,000 pounds. Olive oil discovered in volcanic rocks at Santorini have been dated to between 50,000 and 60,000 years old, as cultivated during the Stone Age.
During the Minoan period, olives and oil were stored in earthenware jars with inventory taken on recording tables. The jars were often exported to Aegean islands and mainland Greece for financial purposes. However, the olive tree was also worshiped as sacred with its oil used in the production of perfume, medicine, and as an ingredient of the daily diet. History has shown during the olive harvest of antiquity farmers would beat the tree with rods to gather the fruit from the branches. Greek settlers in Sicily and southern Italy brought the olive tree with them on their journeys as early as 800 BC, continuing onward to Spain and Southern France.
Olives have remained a part of the human diet for thousands of years and due to their versatile flavor and cooking uses, from tapenades to stews, sauces to pure snacking ability. They can have sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors with pungent or mild aromas. The trees thrive in warm, subtropical zones and absorb the flavors in the soil cast by the arid landscape, sea air, or rocky soil. Although the tree was native to Syria and Asia Minor, the Assyrians first discovered the flavor emitted from a freshly pressed olive.
The harvest process provides the key to determining the flavor and quality of the olive. For the purest taste, an olive must remain on the tree to ripen before falling to the ground without help. Traditionalists pick the olives by hand based upon ripeness, while larger producers choose to harvest all the olives at once to save time and money.
The large stone, or pit, at the center of the olive is full of oleuropein, which gives the fruit an intense bitterness and low sugar content, separating the fruit from its cousins, cherries, and peaches. However, it is this same ingredient that makes the olive deliciously savory, perfect for producing oil and for adding to a variety of dishes based on the fruit’s ripeness. The general rule to olive picking is the darker the olive, the riper the fruit when picked.
Olive harvesting can found throughout the year. Green olives should have a nutty flavor, and firm texture picked between September and October while black olives are picked between November and December, or as late as January for a softer, richer, and meatier flavor. Purple olives are picked during the months between the olive’s ripening from green to black, often between late October and early November.
Greek Coffee
Greek coffee has distinctive properties that separate it from the familiar flavors of espresso or its cousin in strength and vigor, Turkish coffee. Greek coffee is a potent brew served with foam atop the grounds that flavor the drink at the bottom of the cup. A traditional pot known as a birki provides the foam and adds to the unique taste of the coffee while producing enough foam to top two, four, or six cups. The coffee is brewed to taste with every Greek preferring theirs a particular way, varying between sweet and bitter. The four main styles of Greek coffee are, unsweetened, somewhat sweetened, sweet and very sweet.
Greeks utilize finely ground coffee boiled in the briki, beginning the first of the three steps to making Greek coffee. The other two steps include turning the liquid into thick, strong coffee and adding the foam. The coffee is meant to be sipped, which allows the grounds to settle to the bottom of the cup. A glass of cold water typically accompanies the coffee, or something sweet like a small cookie to help balance the bitter flavor. A recent study in Greece showed the typical Greek coffee break lasts over 90 minutes, giving workers time to chat, gossip, and enjoy a break from their schedule.
The traditional drink of Greece and Greek culture is unique and embodied in the flavor of anise found inside Greece’s national aperitif. The special tradition of Ouzo began in the 14th century with a group of monks at Mount Athos. Modern distillation began in the 19th century following the Greek independence movement with the first national distillery founded in Tyrnavos in the mid-19th century. By the 1930s, production moved to copper stills for a standard distillation method. Traditionally, you are to mix the alcohol with water until the drink reaches a cloudy white, often containing a faint blue tint that emanates from a small glass filled with ice or a shot glass.
At homes or in traditional tavernas, ouzo is served with mezes, small dishes of fresh fish, olives, or feta cheese to keep the stomach full and the alcohol at bay. Ouzo is typically over 37 percent ABV, or 75 proof and contains an herbaceous black licorice flavor. The famous drink evolved from the predecessor tsipouro, a type of Greek grappa. Producers use the base spirit from grapes before flavoring it with anise, the same herb that offers absinthe its distinctive aroma and taste.
In 2006, ouzo received an official Protected Designation of Origin from the EU, which is similar to the approval stamp Italian, Spanish, German, and French wines receive to protect the quality of their production. The drink is meant for social occasions, which include sharing with friends on any day of the week. However, during a meal, you will find Greeks more often sipping wine as opposed to ouzo and before, or after the meal, the ouzo will make an appearance.
Considerations before Traveling to Greece
Visiting Greece is the trip of a lifetime for most travelers aiming to take in the rich sense of history, the alluring beaches, the captivating mythology, or the secluded monasteries. The crystalline waters and preserved ancient sites propel Greece into the limelight and beyond your expectations. With an endless variety of distinctive islands and antiquities to act as a historical map of the development of Western Civilization, a visit to Greece may feel overwhelming and exciting throughout your journey. But whether you are in the mood for thrilling treks, smooth sailing, or luxurious views of ancient life, Greece will accommodate all your desires and turn your dream-trip into a reality.
Getting to Greece is a relatively relaxed and hassle-free process. At the time of this writing, visitors from the United States and Canada, along with members of the EU or UK, Australia, and New Zealand can enter Greece for up to 90 days without a visa. As a member of the EU, you can enter Greece or visit one of its many islands by ferry or plane, car or train. Cruise ships often make port around Athens, Santorini, Crete, Patmos, Mykonos, and Rhodes.
If you plan to stay longer than 90 days, you must submit a visa application at your local Greek consulate or embassy that will inquire about your reasons for an extended period of time, whether it be related to studies, work, or relocation. The easiest way to enter the country is by plane. However, ferries do reach Athens or the major islands departing from Cypress, Turkey, and Italy. You can arrange land transfers by train or car to cross the borders into Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, or Turkey. The airports into which it is most convenient to fly in and out of are:
Kazantzakis International Airport in Heraklion, Crete
Thessaloniki International Airport
Rhodes International Airport
Airfare is highest during the summer season, peaking between July and August. May, June, and September remain popular with travelers but provide a less crowded experience around the islands or in the historic northern cities. Fewer flights operate in winter making it less-likely to encounter airfare deals.
Throughout your stay, you must be careful not to remove any artifacts from the countless archeological sites across Greece. It is illegal to remove and export antiquities, which accounts for objects over 100 years old, without an export permit. Even the smallest articles can carry a maximum penalty.
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Travelers from North America will need power converters or adaptors to account for the change to 220 volts and 50 hertz. The majority of the shops, restaurants, and accommodations in major tourist areas accept credit cards. ATM machines are prominent throughout the cities, but you can expect your bank to charge a foreign transaction fee on top of the fee for using a machine not associated with your bank. The best way to avoid these fees while in Greece is to use a credit card with no fees for foreign currency exchange or exchange cash at one of the many agencies located in the airports or in larger cities, or accessible through larger hotels.
The European Union no longer has duty-free restrictions, allowing visitors from outside of Greece and the UE to provide verbal declarations unless traveling with amounts of money or the equivalent of 10,000 euro. Custom agents continue to issue random searches to keep drug trafficking and money laundering at bay, and you should always carry your prescriptions with you when traveling through the European Union, including Greece, for the medicine your doctor prescribed you at home may be considered an illicit drug abroad due to the difference in medical regulation. Codeine is a perfect example; although medication with the ingredient is sold over the counter in the United States, the substance is considered illicit and illegal in Greece without a doctor’s note or prescription.
Do not attempt to steal, hide, or smuggle antiques out of Greece, which refers to any artifact over 100 years old, without an export permit. This rule also includes shards of pottery, plaster, or stone discovered while touring historic monuments. Not only does it negatively affect the historic sites, the somewhat innocuous act is, in fact, stealing from the cultural heritage of Greece and taking away from the public good by not allowing more people to view a piece or the whole of an artifact.
If every person visiting one of Greece’s historical sites took a shard of pottery, a piece of plaster or a semblance of an icon once used for religious, architectural, or artistic purposes, the country’s cultural archives would quickly run dry. It is also a serious offense to remove even the smallest article from an archeological site. If you choose to purchase and export an antique, you should do so from a professional dealer or collector and apply for an export permit from the Athens Archeological Service in the Antique Dealers and Private Collection section.
Most restaurants, hotels, and public areas in Greece have Western-style toilets, especially those connected to the tourism industry or in an area with heavy tourist traffic. Public toilets around Greece are rare, except in transport hubs such as airports, train stations, and bus stations. In a store or café, the staff will allow you to use the restroom in exchange for a purchase. Contemporary hotels and luxury resorts have fixed the issues with the old plumbing systems, some of which date back centuries. However, in many of the public areas, including cafes, shops, and some private homes, the antiquated pipes are too narrow to accommodate anything larger than a post-it note. In those instances, toilet paper and sanitary products should be disposed of in the small bin positioned beside the toilet.
No matter where you go in the world, it is important to take preventative care and measures to ensure your health and safety while traveling. Greece is considered a safe destination associated with the luxuries of Western Europe. Tap water is potable and acceptable in larger cities but could be questionable in rural areas and villages on small islands.
Tourist police work in connection with Greek police in larger cities and popular tourist destinations. The tourist police have at least one, if not many, staff members who speak English. Local businesses and people that fall under the jurisdiction of the tourist police are:
Local travel agencies
Tourist shops
Tourist bus drivers
If for any reason you need to report an illegal act, such as theft, to the regular police, you should first meet with the tourist police who will act as interpreters in case the police officers do not speak English.
Always remember to keep hydrated and apply sunblock continuously from May to October. The intense heat of the Mediterranean Sun can cause heat stroke, extreme fatigue, and third-degree burns. Bug repellant is also recommended as you move out of the city and into the countryside regions.
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While in large crowds close to tourist destinations, such as at the base of the Acropolis in Athens or wandering the labyrinthine streets of Mykonos Town, you should be mindful of your valuables. The struggling economy has led to an increase in pickpockets in the more crowded touristy pockets of the cities and towns across the country, encouraging you to be vigilant while in a bus station, a crowded street market, or wandering through the throngs of locals in the streets. Keep your passport and cash in a secure location, such as a safe in your hotel or on a money belt hidden from view. As a precaution, you should bring copies of credit card information and your passport. You do not have to be paranoid while traveling Greece, but you should be extremely aware of your surroundings and your belongings when in a crowd.
The unpredictability of travel can cause undue stress and anxiety about common misconceptions of countries you may visit while exploring Europe. However, Greece is a country known for its elaborate tourism industry, and you will experience a safe, comfortable, and healthy environment in which you can enjoy a unique expedition into history or a relaxing day on the beaches of the Mediterranean islands. Greece is a safe place to travel, with heat exhaustion amongst tourists more common than any sort of reported crime.
A number of tourists who enjoy the nightlight and take time to linger on the beaches have complained about bombes, adulterated drinks served in select bars and clubs around Athens and resorts famous for their partying atmosphere. The drinks contain diluted drugs illegally imported that leave the consumer worse for wear the remainder of the night and the following day. Reports of resorts catering to large tour groups and young solo-travelers using the bombes are much more common than restaurants, upscale nightclubs or bars, and luxury accommodations. When visiting a crowded bar, nightclub, or beach resort, remember to keep a hand over the top of your glass. More often than not, the perpetrators are not locals of Greece but visiting foreigners.
The CDC recommends staying up to date on vaccines before leaving your country of residence. You should check with your doctor or speak with a travel clinic before departing for Greece to learn about recommended vaccinations or medicines if staying in the country for longer than 90 days or pursuing work with animals. You are at a low risk of contracting hepatitis while abroad, but should always consider vaccinations for Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B before traveling.
Greeks are warm and friendly, welcoming and hospitable, and also proud of their culture and history with over 90 percent of traditional Greek descent. 98 percent of people identify as Greek Orthodox with less than two percent following Judeo-Christian or other religions. Whether on the mainland or visiting the islands, Greeks are known for their overflowing hospitality and a relaxed attitude that remains close to the perception of “western” values, manners, and etiquette. Locals shake hands firmly when first meeting and good friends give long embraces or kisses on both cheeks.
Punctuality is a guideline but not a rule unless working with guides and private transportation. Greek culture stresses family values and the community spirit, and grandparents and senior citizens are treated with respect and dignity. On the beaches, the dress code remains casual, and in some places, nonexistent. However, proper decorum on a nude beach remains necessary, which can mean no cameras or cell phones while on the sand. It is uncouth to sunbathe nude or topless when not on a designated beach or close to a family area or church.
When visiting a monastery or holy site, women are expected to cover their arms and legs past the knee. In restaurants, table manners remain casual. Discussions are social and friendly around the dinner table and refusing food is impolite. In smaller towns or less visited areas of the country, do not be surprised if a member of the family invites you to dinner. If dining at a private home, asking for a second helping will delight the host and hostess, as it will be seen as a compliment to their cooking skills. A traditional Greek meal consists of large portions and various side dishes placed on the table to accompany the main dish.
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Bringing the host a small gift of flowers, wine, sweets, or pastries is considered good manners and food is a large part of the Greek culture, from olive oil to roasted lamb. For a unique experience, you could visit the town of Elassona, which hosts a biannual feta cheese festival. Thessaly in central Greece celebrates the myth and production of the cheese believed to be passed down from Greek gods. The artichoke festival in the Cyclades takes place in May when producers source more than 10,000 artichokes to create a variety of different dishes featuring the treasured earthy vegetable.
Try to avoid using hand gestures while in Greece as body language is an easy way to offend someone without intention when not realizing the cultural meaning of a simple gesture. Holding your hand up and palm out is considered rude, along with making the “OK” sign by forming a circle with your thumb and index finger. Greeks give a simple forward head nod when indicating yes, and a vigorous backward tilt when answering no, making the headshake and nod obsolete when speaking with locals.
When visiting a brick and mortar store, haggling is frowned upon. When scouring vendors along the streets near tourist destinations, bargaining is encouraged and expected. Tipping is not essential in Greece, but taxi drivers have learned to expect a tip from tourists. Restaurants provide a service charge already. If you enjoyed your meal and the service while dining out, rounding up the bill will tell your server you that you appreciated their professionalism and attention.
ATMs and Money Exchange
Greece uses the euro as its form of currency. As one of the original Eurozone members to start using the euro as legal tender in 2002, other currencies are not widely accepted. If a vendor or merchant is willing to take a form of currency, you will probably end up spending more money than if you had used euros, not including credit cards or debit cards. Euros are widely available across Greece with varying exchange rates depending on the accessibility of ATMs, banks, or the amount of exchange stations.
Most Greek airports have exchange stations at which you can exchange for euros, but the rates are often less favorable than those at stations in the city center. This is also true for larger hotels. Despite the convenience, the unfavorable rates make searching for a currency exchange a better option. In larger cities across Greece, it is easy to find a currency exchange or an ATM. If traveling to more secluded or smaller areas of Greece, it is essential to have euros on you before arriving, as small town does not always have currency exchanges, working ATMs, or allow visitors to pay with credit cards.
Make sure to note the times that currency exchanges open and close as the closing times tend to vary based on the day, with many shutting their doors by 2:30 pm between Monday and Thursday, 2 pm on Friday, and remain closed all weekend. Larger cities and general tourist areas across Greece accept the major card providers, while more remote areas might only take certain card providers if any at all. Cash is the best form of payment to use when traveling around the country, especially when considering accessibility and breaking down the currency into tips.
Travelers from the United States are accustomed to tipping, but when traveling abroad, the subject becomes an uncomfortable point of uncertainty. The amount differs from person to person but retains a customary base of what to offer to each person in regards to showing your appreciation for their work. A bellboy or porter averages 1 euro per bag. A housekeeper averages 1 euro per day for every day you stay in a hotel. A concierge generally receives a tip of between 2 to 3 euro after providing excellent service.
Restaurants become a different tipping scenario entirely. Tipping is expected after receiving excellent service, especially for tourists, though some restaurants in Greece will round up the bill and offer the extra money to the waiter. Other restaurants include a service charge, in which case a small tip is appreciated but not mandatory. If the restaurant does not round up to the bill or include a service charge, Greeks customarily leave between 10 to 20 percent for a tip, depending on the service. Taxis in Greece do not expect a tip but are always happy to receive one.
This often comes in the form of rounding up the fare to the nearest euro or adding an extra 5 percent to the overall amount. Taxis do charge for handling bags, which is not considered a tip but a handling fee. The important thing to remember when visiting Greece is that tipping refers to good to excellent service and shows your appreciation for the service you received. However, after years of Americans visiting Greece and knowingly or unknowingly providing outlandish tips, larger tips have become expected of American tourists.
99 percent of the population in Greece speaks Greek, with many speaking one of the country’s non-official or minority languages. Unfortunately for fans of Homer, Plato, and Socrates, ancient Greek is no longer the most widely spoken form of the language and instead would sound like an English speaker attempting to converse using English older than Elizabethan. Over 11 million people speak modern Greek alongside their regional spoken dialects. With the exception of Tsakonian, a language deriving from Doric Greek and spoken in the Peloponnese region, the majority of Greek dialects descend from the common supra-regional language spoken in late antiquity.
Residents of Greece also speak Albanian, Armenian, Russian, Macedonian, Romany, and Turkish. However, many Greeks, especially those working in the tourism industry, speak English, German, French, and Italian, with English and French taught in elementary schools. Even though you can easily find English speakers in the more popular destinations of Greece, including the resort islands, famous monuments, or museums, it is polite to learn a few words of Greece to show your appreciation to the country, the people, and the culture.
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Traveling through and around mainland Greece and its surrounding islands has become better organized over the decades through the growth of small flights, train connections, bus stops, ferries, and well-tended highways. The variety of options that connect greater Greece to Athens has increased with both domestic and international tourism and has allowed the cultural divide between the regions to narrow. While taxis are an easy way to travel around Athens and other cities across Greece, they are only recommended as means of transport between nearby destinations, such as the airport and your hotel or a local restaurant. The fares are cheap compared to other European countries; however, they can add up if the taxi remains your only means of transport.
Car rentals provide the most freedom when traveling through Greece, allowing you to plan and follow the map you create on the mainland or along the islands. The main, modern road networks that crisscross Greece connect the southern edges of the country to the extreme north. The main roads remain in great shape, but regional roads often need attention due to their narrow, winding nature. If renting a car in Greece, make sure to check the gas gauge upon pick up. Car rental companies in Greece like to deliver the car as close to empty as possible, that way when you return the car, they can make a profit off the amount of gas you have left in the tank, which often amounts to a full tank. You are only requited to return the car with the same amount of gas with which it was given to you or just slightly above.
There is only one Metro in all of Greece, and it is located in Athens. The city has a large enough population with enough urban sprawl to necessitate the underground transportation. The 2004 Olympics brought a large and an expensive overhaul to the metro network, providing new and easy to navigate signs, along with an audio-system that recites the stops and highlights of those particular stops in different languages, including English. When visiting Greece, Greek student cards are only valid for Greek students when riding the metro.
Greek towns and cities have their own bus systems to provide transport to the local residents. Only a handful of cities, such as Athens, Patra, Kalamata, and Thessaloniki, are large enough to require the services of the bus system, with the majority of towns and villages small enough to walk through or ride in a taxi amounting to a low fare. The national roadway offers an easy way to travel between cities from south to north by bus when sightseen or transferring to a new region of Greece.
Trains remain a popular way to travel through mainland Greece, with the most popular route taking passengers from Athens in the south to Thessaloniki in the northeast. The Greek railway organization OSE operates the network with the northern line offering the most substantial lines. Standard services run between Athens and Dikea near the Turkish and Bulgarian borders. A network around the Peloponnese runs as far as Klato with bus services carrying passengers to Plata to reach ferry connections. Prices and schedules vary due to the financial instability of the country, so one should always double-check prices on the OSE website or by calling 1440 when in need of information pertaining to departures from Athens or Thessaloniki.
There are two types of class services when traveling by train. The regular train provides a slow transit stopping at all stations between destinations. It represents Greece’s cheapest form of public transportation with second-class rates promising an economical way to travel for Greeks needing a reliable, if not elongated way to travel through the country. Even first-class tickets on the slow train can be cheaper than a bus ticket. The modern trains, known as intercity or IC, links most major cities across Greece. The faster trains provide excellent and fast service between major cities with comfortable seats and an onboard café. Depending on the class and train-type, passengers could have their meal delivered to their seats. Overnight services offer a choice between couchettes, two-bed, and single bed compartments.
Ferries have become an important and reliable way to travel between the islands and the mainland of Greece. Even with the addition of more flights going to many of the Greek islands, the ferries are well regarded as comfortable, easy, and quick. Ferries from Athens can depart from the main port at Piraeus or the smaller ports of Rafina and Lavrion. The modern amenities offer comfortable seats and onboard cafes accompanied by breathtaking scenery between the islands. Due to the distance between the mainland and various islands, a ferry ride could take up to 10 hours, in which case flying offers a better choice. Ferries also connect Greece with international destinations, such as Ancona, Bari, Brindisi, and Venice in Italy along with select Turkish islands.
Unique Ruins and Historical Sites
As the setting of Western Europe’s classical civilizations, Greece brings ancient mythology to life with soaring fortresses set high on atop the hills to crumbing icons of ancient skylines. Greece offers romantic landmarks and family-friendly destinations, captivating activities and unforgettable experiences within renowned history ranging from prehistoric to medieval times. Whether interested in the natural beauty of the highlands and the islands or fascinated by the beaches and the cultural heritage, Greece offers your choice of endless destinations that will be sure to satiate the soul of culinary enthusiasts and amateur archeologists alike.
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The most northerly of Greece’s Ionian Islands also boasts the title of the most important with its position lying near the coast of Albania and the Greek region of Epirus. The natural beauty is legendary due to the gentle green hills that roll through to the south and the rugged limestone peaks that punctuate the north. The mild Mediterranean climate provides lush vegetation and draws visitors from around the world interested in indulging in the charming beaches.
Tourism provides the bulk of the island’s revenue alongside nearly 230 square miles, followed closely by agriculture. Mycenaean Greeks first mentioned the word in the 1300s BC, with the earliest inhabitants consisting of Phaeacians. Settlers from Corinth arrived in the 8th century BC before gaining independence and quickly falling to the armies of the Roman Empire by the 1st century BC. The Eastern Roman Empire ruled until its division in the 4th century AD, leading to the rise of the Norman Kingdom in Sicily and the Italian naval powers.
After Byzantine forces left the island, the Republic of Venice took control between the 14th and 18th centuries, leaving when the French and eventually the British took over around the early to mid-19th century. The Venetians contributed to the gorgeous architecture of Corfu Town and an attention to restoring the antiques connected to the islands classical heritage. The coastline provides sheltering bays and lovely beaches decorated with sand and pebbles overlooking crystal clear blue water. The most popular activities to experience when on the island are:
Exploring Corfu Town with a private driver to visit the fascinating architecture at Achillion Palace, Liston Promenade, and Angelokastro Castle
Visiting an antique olive mill on a private excursion to participate in an olive oil workshop and tasting
Spending time in the traditional fishing village of Kassiopi to bask in the charming character of the classical coastal cafes and tavernas, along with indulge in the sunlight on the pebbled beaches in front of the turquoise sea
Zagoria
Dramatic hiking paths crisscross the remarkable rugged hills and the mountains that span the remote northern region of Zagori, home to 48 stone villages that overlook the Vikos Gorge. The region remains popular among active travelers who enjoy the promises of mountain biking, paragliding, canyoning, and rafting through the fantastic scenery. Fans of archeology enjoy the connection to ancient Kassope, one of the best examples of a Hippodamian grid, an invention of the ancient architect Hippodamus of Miletus, considered the father of European urban planning. Inhabitants abandoned the city in 31 BC to establish the nearby settlement of Nikopolis, which hosts the Nikopolis Museum.
The traditional cottages decorated the landscape around the region that leads from the towns of Epirus to Timfi, Pindos, and Mitiskeli. The preserved village of Ano Pedina contains the fabulous Monastery of Evagelistria alongside homes located at an altitude of nearly 3,150 feet above sea level. Picturesque stone houses and charming cobbled roads fill the traditional settlement of Monodendri, which is located at over 3,470 feet above sea level. The village offers a cobbled trail to Misiou Bridge and the entrance to Vikos Gorge. Narrow passages, quaint stone bridges, and lush greenery connect the villages of Zabori, providing access to the secluded beauty and thrilling activities.
Arcadia Highlands
Majestic mountains provide access to lush gorges and gurgling rivers found when exploring the Arcadia Highlands and the nearly 50 miles of pathway on the Menalon Trail. The secluded path winds between the villages of Stemnitsa, Dimitsana, Zygovitsi, Elati, and Vytina. The trail is perfect in spring and autumn due to the shifting weather at altitudes shifting between 1,370 feet to over 5,000 feet above sea level. The ancient region takes its name from Greek mythology as the home of Pan.
The unspoiled wilderness continues to inspire artists in pop culture around the world, from Handel’s Semele opera to Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Iolanthe, to the film 300 when a group of Arcadians joins Leonidas to fight the oncoming Persian army. The stunning forests and gorgeous mountaintops hide boutique hotels and secluded ruins found around historic churches and picturesque alleys. There are several highlights worth exploring:
Do not miss the captivating Monastery of Agios Ioannis Prodromos, a 12th century monastery etched into the hollow cliff hanging over a ravine
Explore the 40 churches that are hidden in the narrow alleys of the deserted village of Karytena, where Byzantine architecture and frescoes continue to decorate the preserved streets leading to the tranquil arched bridge
Discover the artisan culture of Stemnitsa located on the scenic slopes of Mount Menalos and home to the hand-crafted bells and fantastic metalwork associated with gold and silver; Stemnitsa was also the capital of Greece for a brief time after the War of independence
Antikythera Mechanism, Athens
With such a diverse and lavish history, Greece also features hidden ruins with fascinating functions apart from the preserved temples and homes situated amidst the famous Acropolis of Athens. The Antikythera Mechanism is over 2,000 years old and demonstrates the complexities of imagination and design in antiquity. The ancient computer remains a feat of engineering and astronomical precision, along with a hidden treasure of the Mediterranean. A shipwreck located off the coast of Greece’s island of Antikythera held the computer beneath the water until the 20th century when a sponge diver discovered the perplexing device. The mechanism sat in a museum for over 50 years before archeologists and historians could understand the structure, design, purpose, and function of the machine.
The mechanism was constructed in the 3rd century BC and contains over 30 gears hidden within the dials. Regarded as the first analog computer, the machine made calculations based on astronomical and mathematical principles. The small size of the mechanism suggests the engineer had portability in mind. Using the crank on the device to insert a date, the user would then find information on the position of the stars, sun, moon, planets, and lunar phases, along with a calendar of solar eclipses and the date of the next Olympic games. The instrument is housed inside the National Archeological Museum of Athens, inside the Bronze Collection.
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Adventurous Activities
Active travelers eager to pursue an adventurous tour of Greece have an incredible amount of escapades from which to choose, be it taking in the diverse land or the seascape through marvelous forests, staggering coastlines, and the central scenery with four-fifths consisting of mountainous terrain. The great-outdoors of Greece have an inviting ambiance where active pursuits are possible for the adventurous traveler You can try an exciting excursion or a unique form exploration that ranges from cycling and golfing to mountain biking and fishing, with even more excitement brought about by celebrated adventure sports.
Sailing – the historic sport and active tour provides remarkable encounters through the Aegean and Ionian seas leading to deserted islands, emerald waters, and private beaches. Competitions, such as the Cyclades Regatta and Aegean Rally, draw international crowds eager to participate in the races or watch with the excitable crowds.
Windsurfing and kitesurfing – the unique activities capture the natural breeze that sweeps across the coastlines of Crete, Karpathos, Rhodes, Limnos, Kos, Samos, and Lesvos, providing an elegant and heart-pounding way to catch waves and air simultaneously.
Water skiing and wakeboarding – The calm waters and comfortable Mediterranean climate make the Athenian Riviera, as well as the islands of Paros, Mykonos, Rhodes, Lefkas, Santorini, Halkida, and Crete the perfect destinations to enjoy the thrills of water skiing and wakeboarding while also indulging in the enchanting scenery of your surroundings.
Snorkeling and scuba – The crystal-clear waters around the islands and along the thousands of miles of coastline offer a pristine snorkeling environment. The simple equipment is available in most areas of the country, especially on the islands. Although scuba is more complicated than snorkel, there are many dive shops around mainland Greece and the islands offering PADI courses for certification or a number of dives into the open Mediterranean waters for those already certified. While snorkeling allows you to view the beautiful fish and mollusks along the shallows of the seafloor, scuba diving off the coast of Greece leads to an environment decorated with sunken antiquities.
Mountain and Land Activities
Trekking – Mountain sports will take you to the opposite end of Greece’s captivating terrain, filling the horizon with panoramas of rugged cliffs, lofty peaks, and white-water gorges as seen from trails. Endless pathways crisscross the mostly mountainous terrain of the mainland and offer part of the European trail network while leading from Epirus along the roads to Ancient Rome or to pass through the forests on the former donkey trails of secluded islands. You can also hike up mountains once said to be the home of the gods at Olympus, or enjoy a high-altitude stroll around the pillars of Meteora. With over 400 wetlands and a deep connection to Agrotourism, Greece provides surprisingly authentic and pristine opportunities to hike, trek, and explore the scenery by foot.
Mountain Biking – Many of the trails used for trekking through the mountainous terrain of Greece work well for mountain biking. The thrills of the landscape bring forests and granite boulders, limestone trailheads and precipitous cliffs that overlook the rushing waters of sunken gorges. Biking provides a different view of Greece’s natural beauty with the contrast of the paved roads used for cycling with the great trails scattered around Parnitha and the Tatoi Forest near Athens or within the Arcadia Mountains.
Rock climbing – The impressive cliffs and mountains across mainland Greece and the islands offer spectacular terrain that you can climb on and over. Enthusiasts venture to Lagada in Laconia, Pikilo Mountain near Athens, and Varasova in Aetolia-Acarnania. You can test your skills while surrounded by the country’s natural beauty.
Canyoning – The art of canyoning takes you through the wild gorges that span mainland Greece to blend rappelling down cliffs between 160 to 330 meters with scouring caves hidden by the mountainous terrain. While activities like mountain biking or trekking can be pursued on your own, you are advised to hire a guide or connect with a local canyonning group if you choose to participate in the adrenaline rush.
Rafting and kayaking– In the spring, the rivers swell with water from the melting snowfall and the falling rain, allowing the whitewater to surge for unforgettable rafting excursions. The crystalline rivers of Louisos, Voidomatis, and Acheron provide the watery highway from which you can enjoy the views to masterfully constructed bridges, magnificent gorges, canyons, and forests, and beneath soaring mountains or cliffs.
Birding – Too many people dismiss the idea of birding in Europe, however the Hellenic Ornithological Society would disagree. Alternatives to the heart-thumping adventure sports can allow you to bask in the thrilling landscape of the mudflats at the Evros delta in search of herons or scour the pine-scented slopes of the craggy mountains to find eagles and vultures, which count towards the country’s more than 446 different bird species. True birding enthusiasts know the value of the variety of avifauna protected by the fascinating landscape of Greece.
Skiing – It comes as a surprise to many visitors to Greece that the country hosts a number of attractive resorts that feature intimate accommodations and lively activity, even in the winter months. The season begins after Christmas and, depending on the weather, lasts until late April. The most developed ski center is at Mount Parnassus. Chairlifts connect the resort to over 20 ski runs that offer slopes for novices, children, and experts. Other skiing locations around Greece include Helmos in the Peloponnese and Velouhi in Central Greece.
Zicasso offers a differs range of custom-tailored Greece tours. All tours are personalized to suit your preferences, requirements, desired destinations and activities to create your own perfect vacation to Greece. Travelers can experience the flexibility and convenience of self-planned, independent travel or a packaged group tour curated by a travel specialist. Both options will ensure a hassle-free experience with magnificent accommodations, authentic local guides, and unimaginable excursions.
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Jeff and Christian welcome Justin McElroy from Polygon.com, My Brother My Brother and Me, Quality Control, and Sawbones to the show to about all the big news from The Game Awards and The Playstattion Experience. Uncharted 4, Zelda for WiiU, No Man's Sky, Hazelight, The Order 1886, Adrift, Drawn to Death and lots more are on on the docket. Plus, Witcher 3 delayed again, Stream Broadcasting changes everything, and the next Assassin's Creed is in Victorian London.
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Posted By: George Rodriquez February 18, 2018
George Soros is pumping money into the Bexar County Democratic DA primary race – Wake up San Antonio and Bexar County! Noted anti-American leftist George Soros has indicated how important the LGBT and Sanctuary Cities movements are to him and his supporters by financially backing progressive/leftist Joe Gonzales for Bexar County district attorney in the Democratic primary.
Soros has donated just under $70,000 to back Gonzales in his Democrat primary challenge to Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood. LaHood is a Democrat but opposes sanctuary cities and said he supports Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s crackdown on cities that defy federal immigration law.
It is evident that Soros and Left want to “fundamentally change” Texas with open borders and GLBT issues because if Texas falls, the rest of America falls too. Conservatives need to understand that stopping Sanctuary Cities, and protecting privacy in public bathrooms are very important to the future of our state, nation, and society.
Given Soros’ interest in the local election, conservatives should wake up and rally themselves to the polls in greater numbers than the low 12% voter turn-out in the last general municipal elections. This local general election will be extremely important for conservatives.
Some San Antonio pastors and clergy who have good relations with LaHood, have panicked and want to encourage people to vote in the Democratic primary to save him. They forget there are many more conservative, pro-Christian, pro-family candidates in the Republican primary that need their support to defeat RINOs…and eventually the Leftist Democrats.
Tylden Shaeffer is running for Bexar County DA unopposed in the Republican primary. Political wisdom says conservatives should do everything possible to get him elected in the November against any Democrat to send a message to Soros and the Left.
For too long, Bexar County Republicans and RINOs have played footsies with Democrats. However, these Democrats are not your father’s Democrats; they are anti-Texas, anti-Constitution, anti-Christian, and anti-traditional family Democrats.
As early voting begins, conservative voters in Bexar County need to wake up to the very real and eminent threat from George Soros. Truly, the defense of freedom and liberty starts in your backyard, and that means voting in the local primary and general elections for the most conservative grassroots candidates.
Wake up San Antonio, Bexar County, South Texas and Texas. If the Alamo falls, Texas and America falls too.
The Border Patrol, a key element in protecting the border, is having problems hiring and keeping agents. While the agency is authorized to hire 5,000 new Border Patrol agents this year, agents are leaving as quickly as new ones are hired.
The agency has contracted with a private company at $297 million to recruit new agents. However, spending $297 million to hire 5,000 works out to some $40,000 per hire which is more than a CBP officer’s starting salary, and that doesn’t cover the administrative costs of hiring. Is it money well spent?
Poor pay, plus applicants failing the polygraph tests, plus a lack of benefits to cover assignments to rural isolated places, plus the growing violence in the borderlands are among the issues need to addressed if more agents are to recruited.
Congress needs to address this issue as part of the national border security.
While Democrats and open-borders groups say that there is no way Mexico is going to pay for the border wall, taxing or imposing fees on U.S. funds sent privately to Mexico and other countries is a definitely alternative. Consider these facts. According to the World Bank, $133.5 billion in remittances flowed out of the U.S. in 2015. In 2016, remittances to Mexico (mostly from the U.S.) hit a record $27 billion, exceeding that country’s revenues from oil exports. An estimated 83 percent of Mexicans who enter the U.S. illegally send money home. The state of Oklahoma already assesses a 1 percent fee on all personal wire transfers of cash to accounts outside the state. Why not charge for funds leaving America? In less than 10 years, a 2 percent remittance surcharge would raise the $25 billion Trump wants for a border security trust fund, including a 2,000-mile wall.
Let’s tell Congress this must be part of any new immigration policy and legislation.
George Rodriguez is a syndicated writer, commentator, and webcaster; former President of the San Antonio Tea Party. George’s comments can be read on Facebook at El Conservador at his webpage at Elconservador.net.
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IT'S REALLY BUSH THE GENERALS WANT OUT
by Joe Conason
The Battle of Rumsfeld
"I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation," said the president of the United States, sounding as peevish as a toddler banging his silver spoon on the high chair. "But I'm the decider, and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense."
By reminding everybody that he is "the decider," George W. Bush no doubt hoped to stifle the growing corps of retired officers such as Gen. Anthony Zinni, who believe that the war in Iraq has been ruinously botched and that the secretary of defense should retire. But his defensive outburst only drew attention to the most deserving target of criticism: himself.
While the frustrated generals named Rumsfeld in their complaint, they clearly aimed at Bush. They know that the commander in chief is implicated in every bad decision perpetrated by the Pentagon civilian leadership. They understand why he cannot take their advice to dump Rummy, as Brookings Institution military analyst Michael O'Hanlon pointed out: "For Bush to fire Rumsfeld is for Bush to declare himself a failure as president."
But the generals cannot demand Bush's resignation or direct their critique at him. To do so would set off even more false alarms about their supposed violation of America's traditional civilian control of the military.
That is only one of several bogus ripostes to retired flag officers who are now private citizens, with all the rights and privileges that the rest of us enjoy -- and considerably more knowledge than most of us possess. Predictably, they are enduring the usual barrage of chaff and nonsense fired off from the right at every prominent White House critic. They have been attacked for speaking up at all, and they have been attacked for not speaking up sooner. They're talking about policy, and they're accused of obsessing about personality.
Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered the most feeble defense of his boss: "He does his homework. He works weekends, he works nights. People can question my judgment or his judgment, but they should never question the dedication, the patriotism and the work ethic of Secretary Rumsfeld." Nobody has questioned his work ethic or patriotism. What the flag officers have questioned are his spectacular incompetence and his catastrophic arrogance.
As if to confirm their observations, Rumsfeld airily dismissed his critics by assuring Rush Limbaugh that "this too will pass." That remark was almost as dishonest as his forgotten claim that he knew where Iraq's weapons of mass destruction would be found. He is well aware that anger has festered in the armed forces for years, not weeks, and won't evaporate with a wave of his hand.
Expressions of that discontent were first heard following the public assault on Gen. Eric Shinseki by Paul Wolfowitz, then the deputy defense secretary, because the general had dared to urge more "boots on the ground" in Iraq. They were heard when eight retired admirals and generals sent the president a letter demanding a sweeping investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, which meant holding the guilty Rummy accountable. They were heard when a dozen retired flag officers decided to endorse John Kerry at the Democratic convention in 2004.
And they are heard again this year, louder than ever, with scores of Iraq veterans stepping forward to run for Congress as Democrats.
Among those candidates is Joe Sestak, a retired vice admiral seeking to unseat Curt Weldon, the enternched (and truly egregious) Republican incumbent in Pennsylvania's Seventh District. His Navy assignments ranged from commanding a battle group in the Persian Gulf to serving on the National Security Council staff and overseeing the Quadrennial Defense Review. (He also happens to have earned a doctorate in government from Harvard.)
"One of the primary reasons I entered this election is that I believe invading Iraq was not the right decision," explains Sestak, who sees the war as a damaging distraction from al Qaeda and Afghanistan. He now warns that we must find our way out of "a prolonged occupation with rising death, injury and cost. . . . The result will be continued loss of U.S. military and diplomatic credibility."
Yes, the president hears the voices and doesn't like what he hears. So his henchmen scourge those who dare to speak out, regardless of their previous service. But he will never escape the judgment of the men and women in uniform who had to carry out his orders.
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Quote Anton
Quote Reply Posted: 08-Dec-2007 at 18:21
This is the guy who saved Elgin Marbles
akritas
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Quote akritas
This is the most known English antiquities smuggler !!!
akritas wrote:
This is your unbiased view
Anton wrote:
They dont "know" that this staff consider as concealer product.
This is NOT concealer product. British government officially bought them from a person who rightfully took them in Athens with a permission of a ruller of a state whom these marbles belonged to. Ottoman Empire as far as I know was internationally recognized state.
I re-post what said to British Aster Thrax Eupator that the known Dr. Jeanette Greenfield in her highly regarded book "The return of Cultural Treaseures"" (1998, Cambridge) has this to say on the firman(who rightfully took them in Athens with a permission as you claim):
""Although there has been debate as to the extent that the firman empowered Lord Elgin, the real issue in my view, centres around the fact that the original firman was never produced by Elgin in the House of Commons Parliamentary Select Committee in 1816. Only a copy written from memory was produced. There is no direct documentary proof of the right to remove the marbles. Even regarding such documents as exist there are arguments over the interpretation of the alleged wording which would not have been stretched to justify destruction of the Parthenon.""
The English Lord Elgin was and will be the most known Lord antiquities smuggler
My un-biased view.
Edited by akritas - 08-Dec-2007 at 19:35
However he didn't smuggle them from Greece, there was no such place as Greece, never had been a Greece and Greece would only come into existence in 1827. So I guess he stole them from the Turks.
They stolen from the Parthenon monument and not from the Turks (that were the sellers) or the Greece if we follow that nationalist argument that was not Greece or Greeks in 19th century.
bgturk
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I really do not see what the fuss is all about. After all it is just a piece of stone. Is it so difficult to build a replica and place it at the Parthenon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJHmQvFNydA
There was no Greece and if you ever profve they were stone then they shoeldbe returned to Ottoman Empire or its heir which is Turkey But as soon as you post same argument twice I will do the sameÖ
In contrast, Professor John Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law and also Professor of Art at Stanford University, argues that since the Ottomans had controlled Athens since 1460, their claims to the artefacts were legal and recognisable. Further, that written permission exists in the form of the firman, which is the most formal kind of permission available from that government, and that Elgin had further permission to export the marbles, legalises his (and therefore the British Museum’s) claim to the Marbles.[5]
Edited by Anton - 08-Dec-2007 at 20:26
if we follow that nationalist argument that was not Greece or Greeks in 19th century.
It is not nationalist argument it is international law. There are plenty of nationalists arguments in well know site though
Akolouthos
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Well, if Turkey is the heir of the Ottoman empire in its region, then certainly the Greeks are the heirs of the Ottoman empire in Greece proper. I really don't know that you thought this argument through all that well. How far back are we to go in determining who is the "heir" to a certain political entity or culture? How do revolutions, colonizations, and conquests affect the situation? All you have done is set up an arbitrary -- and undefined, for that matter -- point in history, and drawn a largely subjective conclusion.
That said, I find it hard to get overly excited about the debate over the return of the statues. The British pillaged the majority of their colonies for antiquities, and it would be difficult to decide exactly what must be returned and what may be kept, especially since these are the property of a museum. The solution that seems to make the most sense -- if the marbles are to be returned -- is the scenario in which Greece would pay for the return of the marbles, the fee going to offset the cost of transportation, as well as the research and preservation work undertaken by the British.
-Akolouthos
Edited by Akolouthos - 08-Dec-2007 at 20:44
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Antiquities should return to the place they were found.An Ancient Greek object like a building or a coin from Athens should return there.
The argument on the existence of a state in a later era doesn't stand.It doesnt belong to the state but to the state in relation with its geography where the item belonged,where it was made found and used.
If escimoes had conquered Greece it wouldn't mean all antiquities would belong to the polar region..........................
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Akolouthos wrote:
Akolouthos, there are international rules determining all these questions. For instance, Russia is considered to be heir of Soviet Union in all aspects including state bebts etc. As for the rest -- there is humanitary part of the question and juridical part. It is a mistake to claim that the marbles were stolen unlawfully. As for humanitary part -- for the humanity it does not matter where will people see it. London is visited in a similar number of turists as Athens if not more.
olvios wrote:
The only reasonable thing in this topic was said by one Greek forumer-- Greece (as well as other Balkan countries actually) have plenty of antiques that are simply disrupted with time and nobody cares about them.
Then I would like to ask the question again -- in the city of Voden (is it Edessa now?) is there any museum where one can place Voden inscription?
You can call Edessa Pokemonland for all i care......I don't know what this inscription is but Greece doesn't have enough museums to host Greek finds(tens of thousands of items in warehouses) let alone Bulgarian ones.Even for byzantine culture.Prominent stuff go on display.
You said it yourself. As soon as Greece does not have enough museums to show Greek findings -- one of the place to show Greek stuff (Parthenon Marbles) should be the British Museum then. Prominent staf in a prominent museum.
You will note that I made no such claim; I was simply calling attention to the fact that the argument you made was poorly formed -- perhaps it was a matter of explication, rather than any intrinsic flaw. As I have said, I can't get all that excited about the debate over the marbles.
Its a prominent find and most of it is in Greece.And they have a museum just for those stuff in Greece.The new one.
You started to play with words.
I didn't mean you but the whole thread. My argument is not that poorly formed. I am not professional and might be wrong but I suggest that there is no such a thing to claim a heir based on geographical principle. One of the examples is forbidden topic in this very forum
So is better the museum to change the name of its department to Turkish and Roman Antiquities
Here a Turkish antiquity of the 5th century BC
And the Label should be according your un-biased views .....
Figure of Dionysos from the east pediment of the Parthenon
that sold from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the leagal holder of this Turkish antiquity
And the question is .......where is this firman if we speak with jurisprudential terms ?
The House of Commons Parliamentary Select Committee still waiting from the Elgin to show the document!!
Which international law comfirm the not excistance of the Greeks in 19th century?
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Fuksas, Pecha, Gang, Josef Frank, Iannelli, Millet, Lai, VJAA, Visionary Cities, more - it's the September Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events and Exhibitions
Once more into the breach, dear friends . . .
After taking August off, we've got a very full September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
Massamiliano Fuksas at the Graham (Tuesday, September 11)
Visionary Cities: Urban and Architectural Futures to Come, a day-long UIC School of Architecture conference chaired by Alexander Eisenschmidt with Sam Jacob, Clare Lyster, Sarah Dunn, Robert Bruegmann, Bill Menking and more, at MCA (Saturday, the 22nd)
Mikyoung Kim at ITT (Wednesday, the 12th)
Jimenez Lai offers a "quasi-bookreading" of his Citizens of No Place at the Graham (Tuesday, the 18th)
Pecha Kucha Volume 23 with Lee Bay, Kara Kotwas and more, at Martyr's (Tuesday, the 4th)
David Van Zanten on The Work of Louis Julien Millet at the Second Presbyterian Church (Thursday, the 20th)
Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos of VJAA at IIT (Wednesday, the 19th)
Learning from Tristan Sterk, AIA Chicago (Thursday, the 27th)
Women of Influence: The Achievements of Women in Chicago's Early History, at Häfele America Chicago Showroom (Monday, the 10th)
Glessner House's 125th Anniversary Gala on (Thursday, the 13th)
Secret Spaces Atop Chicago, with author Tony Macaluso, CAF lunchtime. (Wednesday, the 26th)
Thomas Leslie discusses How Lateral Bracing Influenced Two Generations of Chicago Skyscrapers, lunchtime at CAF (Wednesday, the 19th)
The White City: A Musical, at Glessner House (Friday, the 28th)
Exhibitions? In addition to the great Skyscraper show at MCA, Wright's Roots at Expo 72 Gallery , and Unseen City at CAF, this month we've got openings for ArchiTech Gallery's Alfonso Iannelli: Modern by Design, The Enduring Designs of Josef Frank at the Swedish America Museum, and, of course, the highly anticipated Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects at the Art Institute.
I'm sure we'll be adding more, but already there's over 50 great events this month. Check out all the details on the September 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events (and Exhibitions).
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Herzog and de Meuron, Souto de Moura, Ando and Venturi add their voices to saving Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital
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The agenda for next Thursday's meeting has yet to be published, but the Save Prentice Coalition has again called for an end to the string of 14 consecutive monthly meetings where the Commission on Chicago Landmarks has deliberately suppressed discussion on the issue of providing Bertrand Goldberg's iconic Prentice Hospital official landmark designation to keep Northwestern University's from its obsession with smashing it into dust.
In a letter to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, released this morning, the coalition added the support of Pritzker-Prize winning architects Robert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Eduardo Souto de Moura to the growing A-list of international architects, designers, and scholars stating that . . .
The legacy of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital is unmistakable. It stands as a testament to the Chicago-led architectural innovation that sets this city apart. Chicago’s global reputation as a nurturer of bold and innovative architecture will wither if the city cannot preserve its most important achievements.
As members of the architecture community, we believe Goldberg’s Prentice should be given a permanent place in Chicago’s cityscape. A building this significant – this unique in the world – should be preserved and reused.
The growing list - which already included another Pritzker Prize winner, Frank Gehry, has also added Denise Scott Brown, Bjarke Ingels, Jack Hartray, Dan Coffey and George Miller to the original 60+ signers of the original letter in July.
image: Landmarks Illinois
You can find our own take on the subject, Northwestern, Grow Up: Refuting Northwestern's desperate PR campaign to destroy Prentice, here.
You can read the full text of today's letter and see the current list of signatories after the break.
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I've Got You (1913) Under My Skin - Virtual Restoration at 618 South Michigan
We last wrote in October about plans for 618 South Michigan, home to the Spertus Institute until that institution moved into the stunning new home next door, designed Krueck and Sexton.
618 South Michigan, just this past June
618 originally had the standard Burnhamesque terra cotta facade. You can see it here in a vintage photo from John D. Cramer's HPRES-ist blog. It was designed by Zimmerman, Saxe and McBride and after its 1913 completion, it went through a series of name: The Petroleum Building, the Dennehy Building (afters its developer), the Barnheisel (after Frederick R. Barnheisel, President of H.H. Kohlsaat, the company that claimed to have invented the lunch counter) and The Arcade Building.
618 South Michigan, 1950's curtail wall rehab
That facade was replaced in the 1950's when IBM took over the building, with a tight grid of a glass and steel curtain wall that better fit in with it's tenant's ultra-modern branding.
624 South Michigan Chicago Musical College, 1908, C.A. Eckstrom, architect
Columbia also owns 624 South next door, perhaps best known for the huge, ovoid Torco sign that long stood at its crown. 624 South, acquired by Columbia for $8 million in 1990, was built in 1908 as the home of the Chicago Musical College for the schools' founder, Florenz Ziegfield, Sr. The original design included an 800-seat theater, the Ziegfield Picture Palace, which was destroyed when A.S. Alschuler added seven stories to the structure in 1922 for H.H. Blum's expansion of "Blum's Smart Shop."
Alschuler replaced the remarkably open and graceful first and second floor terra cotta facade with a less porous and far more ponderous stone cladding. Splices are seldom happy affairs, but Eckstrom's original, for all its fussy detail, actually seems a lot more amiable - and modern.
After 76,000 square-foot 618 was acquired by Columbia under the direction of former Chicago planning director Alica Berg, now Columbia's VP of Campus Environment, the 1950's curtain wall was found to be crumbling. Gensler was called upon to come up with the replacement, and under Regional Design Leader Elva Rubio the idea was hatched to make the few facade a mediation between Krueck and Sexton's cutting-edge sculpted steel and glass to the north and Eckstrom and Alschuler's classically-styled masonry cladding to the south.
While Gensler's new curtain wall is as structure-spare and glassily sleek as the Spertus, it's also been designed with a "ghost image" of the building's original terra cotta facade, digitally printed as a ceramic frit placed between the dual pane glass, which Berg, in an interview with the Columbia Chronicle, claims is a first in the U.S.. Not only does the new curtain wall provide a major boost in energy efficiency, the fritting is expected to flatten the transparency of the facade just enough to discourage the usual carnage when migratory birds try to fly through hyper-transparent glass.
In its master plan, Columbus noted that the similar floor levels between 618 and 624 allow it to expand its library across both buildings. Already, Columbia has created a new gallery space on the 2nd floor overlooking Grant Park and the lake called The Arcade, a nod to one of 618's original names. (Gallery scheduled to re-opened September 4th.)
Obviously, the appearance of the facade will change depending on the light. The pictures you see here were taken late afternoon. It will be interesting to see how it resolves in direct sunlight.
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Runners and Sculptures at the end of a late summer day
click images for larger view (recommended) - sculpture by Christopher Newman
view the entire portfolio after the break . . .
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Labels: Bill Vielehr, Buckingham Fountain, Christopher Newman, Dusty Folwarczny, International Sculpture Conference 2012, Ray Katz, The Kelpies
Crain's, Chicago Tribune add their voices: Prentice Should be Saved
The headline in this week's Crain's Chicago Business sums it up succinctly: Prentice should remain part of Chicago skyline. The editorial rebuts Northwestern University's current full-press PR campaign to convince the public that, even with a two-block square lot across the street that has been nothing more than a chain-linked gravel pit for over three years, the University has no alternative but to destroy Bertrand Goldberg's spectacular 1975 Prentice Hospital.
"In our view, the university hasn't made the case that the structure can't be preserved," says the editorial, and it notes that "Northwestern hasn't even retained an architect, which creates the prospect that the city could trade this gem for yet another utilitarian edifice on the medical campus."
That point is tellingly reinforced over at the Chicago Tribune by Cheryl Kent, who, with Ron Grossman, is taking over the paper's architecture beat from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Blair Kamin while he's away on a fellowship. Kent chose to use her debut piece in her new role to counter the Trib's editorial board's gleeful pandering to Northwestern's lust to trash Prentice into dust.
"Northwestern," writes Kent, "has inadvertently provided proof of Prentice's uniqueness by way of its mediocre replacement, the new Prentice, a boilerplate building that is inhuman in scale and tedious in design."
Has the Trib buried Kent's piece? It carries an August 24th dateline, but unless I'm blind - always a possibility - I was unable to find it in the print editions of Friday, Saturday or Sunday. (Maybe it'll be in tomorrow.) The title of the webpage Why Prentice should be saved, is much less ambiguous than the vague headline.
Kent lays out the truth that Prentice meets at least three - probably four- of the criteria required for designating a structure an official Chicago landmark, and calls out Northwestern for its power play politics, "If Prentice is demolished, it will be for reasons other than its worthiness as a landmark."
This is a key point often overlooked. To Northwestern, this is not about a building, it is about power. Northwestern is at the top of Chicago's power elite. It does not like to be challenged.
Its public advocacy campaign to destroy Prentice is so sloppy and factually challenged that it seems almost half-hearted. (The Chicago Sun-Times David Roeder calls it, "an embarrassment for a school of Northwestern's caliber.") Northwestern wants it gone. That should be enough.
More importantly, Northwestern has deliberately subverted having a debate on Prentice in the forum where it would be most appropriate: The Commission on Chicago Landmarks.
In June of 2011, the matter of Prentice made its way onto the Commission's agenda. As Kent demonstrated, if any Chicago building meets the criteria, it's Prentice, and any neutral debate would most probably result in Prentice's designation - and protection - as an official Chicago landmark. Northwestern, of course, can't have that. So they used their clout to have the matter pulled from the agenda, and have kept it off, month after month, ever since.
According to a report in Skyline, when preservationists who are a part of the Save Prentice coalition tried to bring up Prentice at the Landmarks Commission meeting earlier this month, Commission Chairman Rafael Leon cut them off. "At the appropriate time, then you can make your statement." And when, actually, would be that time? "I don't know, to be honest." Even as Commissioner, Leon apparently has zero control over his own agenda; he just follows orders passed down by the Department of Development.
For 15 months, the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has enforced an official omerta on the fate of Prentice. What actually have they been talking about? Wars have been settled in less time. Are they really talking at all, or is Northwestern simply deploying its clout to make sure there is no talking?
In June, the Martin Schnitzius Cottage got the Landmarks Commission nod for official designation. Now well into the second year, Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital can't even be discussed. It may be classic Chicago politics, but that doesn't make the city's subversion of due process to placate clout-heavy Northwestern any less of a scandal.
Labels: Bertrand Goldberg, Cheryl Kent, Chicago Tribune, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Crain's Chicago Business, David Roeder, Prentice Hospital
Ziggurat with Pointy Stick
Reliefs by Gwen and Eugene Van Breeman Lux.
Century Tower, previously Corn Products Building,
originally Trustees Systems Service Building, Thielbar & Fugard, 1930
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River North Hotels - One Sleeks Up; One Dumbs Down
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The last time we looked, in 2009, at the design (from HOK Architects) of the new three hotel complex on Clark Street between Illinois and Grand, the Clark Street facade of the Aloft Hotel had been changed from masonry and glass, to a glass curtain wall. Well, that curtain wall is largely in place, and it's a definite an improvement on the original putty-colored verticals, with super-transparent zig-zags interspersed among the other glass of the facade.
Is it too much too hope that the mud colored surfacing of the easternmost portion of the building will be left a lighter color, closer to what you see now? As it is, the dramatically cantilevered topmost slab of the original design and the glass cornice of 2009 seemed to have both bit the dust in favor of a far more conventional slab with a - at least at the moment - rather forlorn looking trellis sticking out from it.
The transition on the Hyatt Place next door, at Clark and Illinois, is less felicitous.
Either the Aloft got shorter, or the floors in the Hyatt Place got taller. What was a 15-story building, shorter than the Aloft and topped with a slopping, windowless service block on top has become a 15 story building that shares the same cornice height as the Aloft. On Clark street, the 2009 tri-partite arrangement for the Hyatt Place facade, with a rhythm of 3-2-3, has disappeared, replaced with a uniform omni-grid, from eight windows and four verticals, to five larger windows and six verticals.
The verticals, rendered in 2009 for each floor as either four separate pieces or scored to look like it, are now a single piece. The eight-piece gray insets that were on either side of the two three-window sets have disappeared entirely. The windows now spread flush to the verticals. The spandrels, rendered in 2009 as continuous white horizontals, eight pieces above each 3 window set and six above the two, are gone, replaced by two gray spandrel panels beneath each window, recessed within the white verticals on either side.
The Illinois Street facade has undergone a similar simplification. The two-dimensional grid of the 2009 design, with its intimation of multiple pieces, now simply extrudes the Clark Street grid around the corner: strong, continuous verticals, cladding for each floor in single pieces, and recessed gray spandrel panels. For some reason, the operable windows, to the left in 2009 rendering, have all shifted to the right as-built.
"God is in the Details", someone once said, and in Hyatt Place, that God apparently had to be sacrificed. The final result looks rather cheap, less like a luxury hotel and more like a Class B (or C) office building. The Fairfield Inn next door is less far along, but seems to proceeding more to the original plan.
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Mr. Becker Inquires . . .
Last Wednesday, I concluded a 20-year engagement with one of Chicago's leading advertising/marketing firms. I am looking for, as they say, new opportunities and challenges, including at least some, to risk indelicacy, that involve money changing hands.
I hope you'll indulge me if I use this blog today for a bit of shameless self-promotion. Back to normal (?) tomorrow.
Lynn Becker
Author and Critic
Writer on architecture for the Chicago Reader, with nearly 50 articles and four cover stories. Also articles in Metropolis Magazine and the Harvard Design Magazine.
Contributor to the books Reveal: Studio Gang Architects, State Street Village IIT, Insight Guide Chicago, and Urban Planning Today (University of Minnesota Press)
Guest curator of Chicago Architecture Foundation exhibition: Boom Towns: Chicago Architects Design New Worlds, September 23 - November 21st, 2008, and February 12 - May 1, 2009.
Author of Repeat website on Chicago architecture and culture, with 1.8 million visitors and 3.2 million page views since its inception, and the blog ArchitectureChicago Plus, with nearly half a million page views in the last two and one-half years.
IT Technician/Help Desk Specialist, supporting nearly 200 Mac users - problem solving, preparing and upgrading computers, purchasing, managing assets, backups, storage maintenance, training, documentation, and more
VOIP Support Specialist for 400+ phone system - problem solving, preparing phones for users, asset management.
Manager, including analysis, strategy, budgeting and project management, working with and motivating associates in everything from a department of three and one-half people, to a national division with six offices and 200 employees
Named Agency's "Employee of the Year" after first year of service.
More detailed information and amusing anecdotes available upon request.
. . . and now for something completely different: Elvis sighting at Lurie garden . . .
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Today at 4:00 at the Newberry: In Search of Wiliam Pretyman
image courtesy Glessner House Museum
William Pretyman was one of the key interior designers in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. He was a great friend of John Wellborn Root, which was a factor in Pretyman being appointed "Director of Color" for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. When it became clear to Pretyman that color - Root had planned the architecture of the Fair to be highly polychromatic - was not to have a big place in what was to become the "White City", he resigned his post, in 1892, to be replaced by Frank D. Millet. Today from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., in the Towner Fellows' Lounge at Newberry Library, architect John Waters will lead a colloquium, In Search of William Pretyman, also touching on the recently restored stencil by the artist at Glessner House. Free and open to the public.
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Future Prentice: ideas for saving endangered Bertrand Goldberg building subject of Chicago Architectural Club's 2012 Chicago Prize competition
Northwestern wants to destroy Bertrand Goldberg's iconic Prentice Hospital Building. They say there's no other way.
The Chicago Architectural Club begs to differ. Partnering with the American Institute of Architects/Chicago, it's made the structure the focus of FUTURE PRENTICE, it's 2012 Chicago Prize Competition . . .
. . . an international, single-stage ideas competition open to anyone with a vision of what the former Prentice Women’s Hospital could become: students, architects, landscape architects, planners, designers, artists and concerned citizens alike.
The FUTURE PRENTICE Competition seeks to explore alternative solutions for this historic piece of architecture. What would you propose to do with this structure? What other uses are possible? How would you re-envision this iconic building? How can a building that changed the course of modern hospital design and structural engineering be re-used for the future? What new business models for healthcare, eduction and research would you propose to bring continued economic prosperity to an urban neighborhood defined by an interconnected hospital and university campus.
The hospital is considered ground-breaking for its cutting-edge architecture and advanced engineering, as well as for what was a progressive design approach to organizing medical wards and services. Prentice Women’s Hospital received international press coverage and an award from Engineering News Record for its innovative tower and open floor-plate layout that eliminated the need for structural support columns. Partially occupied until fall of 2011, the structure has been determined to be in sound condition, but in need of repair.
Today the building is in imminent danger of being torn down by its owner, Northwestern University, but it’s fate ultimately lies in the hands of the city’s administration. A study was commissioned by Landmarks Illinois in 2011 to propose alternative uses for the structure, which is now vacant, as Prentice Women’s Hospital had moved into a new structure less than a block away. The three schemes produced were rejected by Northwestern University as either not needed or too limiting for the university’s research agenda.
Entrants may consider just the actual site of Prentice Hospital, or also use the two-block square site across the street which has remained vacant and chain-linked since Northwestern demolished Schmidt, Garden and Erikson's Lakeside Veterans Hospital four years ago.
First prize is $3,000; second $1,500 and third $750, with up to three honorable mentions. A QandA sessions closes September 15th, with online submissions due by October 15th. Winners, "decided by a jury of notable professionals and academics", are scheduled to be announced in November.
More information on the Architectural Club website here. You can download the competition brief here.
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Mind in the Gutta: Lichtenstein's Entablatures
As you move through the foyer of the Art Institute's essential exhibition Roy Lichenstein: A Retrospective, you will see, on the walls on either side of you one of the artist's series of Entablatures.
Just coming off his series of Mirror paintings, Lichtenstein began a study of entablatures, in classical architecture the intermediate bands that separate the columns from the pediment. The artist looked at examples in ancient buildings he found in architectural journals, and then he took the streets around his lower Manhattan studio, taking photographs at noontime, when the high light brought out the features of the ornament in sharpest detail. The buildings he photographed were, of course, far from ancient, but contemporary, buildings that appropriated the classical idiom to link the architecture of power in ancient times to the architecture of power in modern times - the banks and financial institutions of the Wall Street district. Copies of copies of copies, much in the same way that Lichtenstein drew on existing images for his own work.
Entablature #8, 1972, 30 x 240 inches
In the words of art historian Barbara Rose, Entablatures are "like the comic strip in that they are reductive, symbolic and diagrammatic images closer to the world of abstract signs than to that of representational imagery.” Although each of the Entablatures are of finite size, the standardized, repetitive patterns seem infinitely extrudable, each extension like another Warhol Campbells Soup can or Brillo box.
Entablature 1975, 54 x 216 inches
In his essay in the excellent catalogue for the exhibition, Two Birds With One Stone, Yve-Alain Bois relates that shortly his death, the artist was asked if he had ever produced art without an element of humor . . .
We'll I'm trying to think. Even the Entablatures are meant to be humorous in a way, because they don't seem to be funny but they mean imperial power or something like that. That's the work I can think of that's maybe the most humorless, but it's still meant to be humorous in some way.
There were 30 paintings in two series. The first, from 1971-72, were black-and-white. The second, 1974-76, in color and using textures. As Bois notes, the series could be seen to be prophetic. In 1972, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas was published, and Post-Modernism in architecture, which Bois disdains, was off to the races. But the time Post-Modernism was in full flower a few years later, Lichtenstein had already moved on to somewhere else.
"This series," said Lichtenstein, "can also to seen to represent, in a humorous way, the establishment."
Now Lichtenstein is the establishment, entombed, for the moment, in Thomas Beeby's neo-classical Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building, from 1988, with its Doric-columned courtyard.
And yet Lichtenstein rebels. The amazing color of his canvases burst out of the Rice monochrome, like the vanished applied color of ancient Greek temples that classicists like Beeby always leave out of their contemporary re-imaginings.
We first wrote about Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, all the way back in June, in Lichtenstein Express, about a building-sized Lichtenstein mural created by School of the Art Institute students on the sides of a former warehouse facing the Kennedy expressway.
Tempus Fugit. We are now fast closing in on the September 3rd closing date for this remarkable show. For its final four days over the Labor Day weekend, the Art Institute is extending its hours through 8:00 p.m.
If you the only thing you thought about Lichtenstein was that he was the guy who did comic book stuff, you're in for a delightful shock. While early critics honed on his work as being all the same, what strikes you at the Art Institute is how Lichtenstein took a basic idiom, and stretched and re-invented it in multiple directions throughout his career. His final canvases included both a series of nudes . . .
Interior with Nude Leaving, 1997
and Japanese-inspired landscapes . . .
Landscape in Fog, 1996
Confronted with heroic canvasses, like Lichtenstein's take on Laocoön . . .
Laocoön, 1988
. . . you might be tempted to pass up the long gallery filled with mostly small things, works on paper.
Don't. Here you'll find the studies that are not only superb works of art in themselves, but testimony to Lichtenstein's craftsmanship. You can even see his penciled notes and color studies for his Haystack and Haystacks consideration of the same-named paintings of Monet.
The Red Horseman (Study), 1974
Most considerations I've read of Lichtenstein's work downplay the significance of content. Since the images are appropriated, they're seen as almost incidental, a road to the craft of the finished pieces. Yet while how he chose to make things as an artist may be the key to Lichtenstein's importance as an artist, what he chose to see is, at least to me, no less compelling, and the overall impression of Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective is of an exceptionally capacious mind, an unsentimentally optimistic character, and a body of work that is a bracing counterpoint to the often self-absorbed fatalism of much of the art of our time.
After Chicago, the show barnstorms to the National Gallery in DC, the Tate in London, and the Pompidou in Paris. You have another 15 days to see if here. Why wait?
Labels: Art Institute of Chicago, Entablatures; Yves-Alain Bois, Laocoön, Post-Modernism, Rice Building, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, Thomas Beeby
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2019 Federal Budget Summary
As widely predicted, the announcement included a range of tax cuts for both individuals and businesses. The Treasurer also announced increased funding for regulators to encourage tax and superannuation compliance, a number of positive changes to superannuation, and an affirmation of previously announced aged care measures.
This summary provides coverage of the key issues of most interest to you.
Increases in the low and middle income tax offset to apply in 2018-19.
Other tax benefits (tax rates/thresholds and low income tax offset changes) to commence in 2022-23 and later income years.
Extension of the provision allowing small business to instantly write-off asset purchases.
Further consultation on Division 7A reform.
Work Test changes.
Spouse contributions.
Bring-forward of the NCC cap.
Tax relief for merging superannuation funds.
ECPI administration simplification.
Energy Assistance Payment.
Improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services.
The Government will lower taxes for individuals by building on its legislated Personal Income Tax Plan, announced in the 2018 Federal Budget. The changes to the plan will provide immediate relief to low and middle income earners, support consumption growth and ease cost of living pressures.
Low and Middle Income Tax Offset from 1 July 2018
The Government will provide a further reduction in tax provided through the non-refundable low and middle income tax offset (LAMITO).
LAMITO for 2018-19 and 3 subsequent income years
Taxable income ($) LAMITO for 2018-2019 and 3 subsequent income years
Existing Announced 2 April 2019
0 – 37,000 $200 $255
37,001 – 48,000 $200 + (Taxable income – 37,000) * 3% $255 + (Taxable income – 37,000) * 7.5%
48,001 – 90,000 $530 $1,080
90,001 – 125,333/126,000 $530 – (Taxable income – 90,000) * 1.5% $1,080 – (Taxable income – 90,000) * 3%
Above 125,333/126,000 Nil Nil
This measure increases the effective tax-free thresholds as follows:
2018/19 existing 2018/19 as announced 2 April 2019
Under age 65 $21,595 $21,884
Married and over age 65
(spouses have equal income) $29,609 $29,783
Single and over age 65 $32,914 $33,621
Increase in tax bracket thresholds from 1 July 2022
From 1 July 2022, the Government will increase the top threshold of the 19 per cent personal income tax bracket from $41,000, as legislated under the plan, to $45,000.
Taxable income ($) Tax payable (residents)
Up to $18,200 Nil
$18,201 – $45,000 Nil + 19%
$45,001 – $120,000 $5,092 + 32.5%
120,001 – $180,000 $29,467 + 37%
Above $180,000 $51,667 + 45%
Low Income Tax Offset from 1 July 2022
From 1 July 2022, the Low Income Tax Offset (LITO) will be increased to a maximum $700 for those with taxable income less than $37,500. LITO will phase out at 5% in the income range from $37,500 to $45,000, and at 1.5% thereafter.
Taxable income ($) LITO 2022/23
0 – 37,500 $700
37,501 – 45,000 $700 – (Taxable incom – 37,500) * 5%
$45,001 – $66,667 $325 – (Taxable incom – 45,000) * 1.5%
Above 66,667 Nil
Reduced marginal tax rate from 1 July 2024
From 1 July 2024/25, the Government will reduce the 32.5 per cent marginal tax rate to 30 per cent. This will more closely align the middle tax bracket of the personal income tax system with corporate tax rates, improving incentives for working Australians. In 2024/25 an entire tax bracket, the 37 per cent tax bracket will be abolished under the Government’s already legislated plan. With these changes, by 2024/25 around 94 per cent of Australian taxpayers are projected to face a marginal tax rate of 30 per cent or less.
$45,001 – $200,000 $5,092 + 30%
Medicare levy thresholds for 2018/19
The threshold for singles will be increased from $21,980 to $22,398. The family threshold will be increased from $37,089 to $37,794. For single seniors and pensioners, the threshold will be increased from $34,758 to $35,418. The family threshold for seniors and pensioners will be increased from $48,385 to $49,304. For each dependent child or student, the family income thresholds increase by a further $3,471, instead of the previous amount of $3,406.
On-time payment of tax and superannuation liabilities.
The Government will provide $42.1 million over four years to the ATO to increase activities to recover unpaid tax and superannuation liabilities. These activities will focus on larger businesses and high wealth individuals to ensure on-time payment of their tax and superannuation liabilities. The measure will not extend to small businesses.
Increasing and expanding access to the instant asset write-off
From 7:30 PM (AEDT) on 2 April 2019 (Budget night), the Government is increasing and expanding access to the instant asset write-off.
The Government is increasing the instant asset write-off threshold from $25,000 to $30,000. The threshold applies on a per asset basis, so eligible businesses can instantly write off multiple assets.
Medium sized businesses will now also have access to the instant asset write-off.
The increased and expanded instant asset write-off will apply from Budget night until 30 June 2020.
Arrangements prior to Budget night
The Government has already legislated a $20,000 instant asset write-off for small businesses. Eligible small businesses can already immediately deduct purchases of eligible assets costing less than $20,000 that are first used or installed ready for use by 30 June 2019.
On 29 January 2019, the Government announced that it would increase the instant asset write-off threshold for small businesses from $20,000 to $25,000 and extend the instant asset write-off for an additional 12 months to 30 June 2020.
These changes interact with the changes being announced as part of Budget. This means that, when legislated, small businesses will be able to immediately deduct purchases of eligible assets costing less than $25,000 that are first used or installed ready for use over the period from 29 January 2019 until Budget night.
Further consultation on amendments to Division 7A
The Government will defer the start date of the 2018-19 Budget measure, Tax Integrity – clarifying the operation of the Division 7A integrity rule, from 1 July 2019 to 1 July 2020. Division 7a is part of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, and aims to prevent profits or assets being provided to shareholders or their associates tax free. The 2018/19 Budget measure was intended to address unpaid present entitlements. Delaying the start date by 12 months will allow additional time to further consult with stakeholders on these issues and to refine the Government’s implementation approach, including to ensure appropriate transitional arrangements so taxpayers are not unfairly prejudiced.
Work test changes
From 1 July 2020, Australians aged 65 and 66 will be able to make voluntary superannuation contributions, both concessional and non-concessional, without meeting the Work Test.
Currently the Work Test (a minimum of 40 hours worked over a 30 consecutive day period in the financial year of contribution) applies from a superannuation fund member’s 65th birthday.
This change will align the superannuation Work Test with the eligibility age for the Age Pension, which is scheduled to reach age 67 from 1 July 2023.
Spouse contribution age limit
The maximum age at which a spouse contribution can be made will be increased from age 69 to age 74. The limit applies to the age of the spouse into whose superannuation account the spouse contribution is being made.
Currently those aged 70 and over cannot receive contributions made by another person, including a spouse, on their behalf.
This measure was announced in conjunction with the Work Test changes outlined above.
NCC bring-forward arrangements
The cut-off age for the bring-forward of up to two future years of the non-concessional contribution (NCC) will be extended by two years. This means NCCs of up to $300,000 can be made in one financial year.
Currently the bring-forward arrangement applies until 30 June in the financial year the superannuation fund member turns age 65. This will be extended to allow those aged 65 and 66 to use the bring-forward arrangement.
Permanent tax relief for merging superannuation funds
The Government will make permanent the current tax relief for merging superannuation funds that is due to expire on 1 July 2020.
Since December 2008, tax relief has been available for superannuation funds to transfer revenue and capital losses to a new merged fund, and to defer taxation consequences on gains and losses from revenue and capital assets.
The tax relief will be made permanent from 1 July 2020, ensuring superannuation fund member balances are not affected by tax when funds merge. It will remove tax as an impediment to mergers and facilitate industry consolidation. Consolidation would help address inefficiencies by reducing costs, managing risks and increasing scale, leading to improved retirement outcomes for members.
ECPI calculations
The Government will reduce costs and simplify reporting for superannuation funds by streamlining some administrative requirements for the calculation of exempt current pension income (ECPI).
The Government will allow superannuation fund trustees with interests in both the accumulation and retirement phases during an income year to choose their preferred method of calculating ECPI.
The Government will also remove a redundant requirement for superannuation funds to obtain an actuarial certificate when calculating ECPI using the proportionate method, where all members of the fund are fully in the retirement phase for all of the income year.
This measure will start on 1 July 2020.
Energy Assistance Payment
The Government will provide $284.4 million over two years from 2018-19 to make a one-off Energy Assistance Payment of $75 for singles and $62.50 for each member of a couple eligible for qualifying payments on 2 April 2019 and who are resident in Australia.
Qualifying payments are the Age Pension, Carer Payment, Disability Support Pension, Parenting Payment Single, the Veterans’ Service Pension and the Veterans’ Income Support Supplement, Veterans’ disability payments, War Widow(er)s Pension, and permanent impairment payments under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (including dependent partners) and the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.
This measure builds on the 2017-18 Budget measure titled Energy Assistance Payment.
Improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services
The Government affirmed its announcement on 10 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care to provide $724.8 million over five years from 2018-19 to support older Australians through further improvements to the quality, safety and accessibility of residential and home care services.
Source: Macquarie
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KERVEROS I: An Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Remote-Controlled Surveillance
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1 Journal of Computations & Modelling, vol.4, no.1, 2014, ISSN: (print), (online) Scienpress Ltd, 2014 KERVEROS I: An Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Remote-Controlled Surveillance Panayiotis Fofilos (2nd Lt, HAF) 1, Kyriakos-Isaak Xanthopoulos (2nd Lt, HAF) 2, Emmanuel-Athanasios Romanos (2nd Lt, HAF) 3, Konstantinos Zikidis (Maj, HAF) 4, Nikolaos Kanellopoulos (Maj, HAF) 5 Abstract. Recent technological advances have made possible the development of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), which are able to perform various tasks efficiently, such as patrolling and surveillance, sparing human resources. In fact, a UGV is a perfect candidate for patrolling missions, since it can provide enhanced mobility, endurance and surveillance capabilities, day and night and in adverse weather conditions. In this way, it can be used to ensure the security of various areas such as military facilities. Following these principles, a UGV prototype has been constructed, operating on electrical power and receiving commands via remote control software from a computer, featuring a surveillance IP camera. It is based on a simple tricycle chassis and it is powered by a high capacity automotive battery, which provides adequate power for several hours of use. An electric motor moves the vehicle quietly and 1 Department of Aeronautical Sciences, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dekelia Air Force Base, Attica, Greece 2 Department of Aeronautical Sciences, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dekelia Air Force Base, Attica, Greece 3 Department of Aeronautical Sciences, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dekelia Air Force Base, Attica, Greece 4 Department of Aeronautical Sciences, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dekelia Air Force Base, Attica, Greece 5 Department of Aeronautical Sciences, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dekelia Air Force Base, Attica, Greece
2 224 KERVEROS I: An UGV for Remote-Controlled Surveillance efficiently, while the vehicle motion controller is connected to a small on-board laptop, receiving commands via Wi-Fi. The combination of a common 12 Volt battery and the electric motor provides a reliable and relatively low cost solution to the UGV mobility issue, minimizing maintenance requirements. The vehicle is equipped with an IP camera, which transmits real time image and sound via Wi-Fi. Using some IR LEDs, it can also see at night, up to a certain distance. Both the UGV and the camera can be remote-controlled, using a web-based interface. This prototype is proposed as a basis for further development. The construction was deliberately kept as simple as possible, allowing for future upgrades and keeping the development cost low. Keywords: Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), IR camera, remote control, surveillance. 1. Introduction The current state of research and the continuous improvement of technologies related to the operation of unmanned vehicles, have made possible the development and operational use of such vehicles for military use, operating either on the ground, in the air or at sea and even underwater. An Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle operating in contact with the ground, carrying equipment or materials and supplies, without human presence on board. The word "robot" was coined almost one century ago. The concept of robotics has also a long history of several decades. However, the concept and development of UGVs and their relationship with robotics is a relatively recent development, although recorded examples of such vehicles can be traced back to the '30s, when a Japanese officer, Capt. Nagayama, managed to operate a remote-controlled small armored tracked vehicle. UGV development continued through WWII and accelerated during the Cold War.
3 K. C. Zikidis et al. 225 Figure 1. Shakey the robot. Probably the first mobile robot. It was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), from 1966 to 1972 ([1]). Nevertheless, the first major effort to develop a UGV and the first appearance in its modern form, took place in late '60s, with the creation of Shakey the robot. Shakey was created in the research department of Stanford University by the division of artificial intelligence of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). This was a wheeled vehicle equipped with a moving TV camera, an ultrasonic range finder and contact sensors, linked with RF link to the main computer, which performed navigation and exploration ([2]). What advantages does a UGV offer in the modern battlefield and what functions can be performed? A UGV can be an excellent moving platform carrying sensors that perform surveillance, target detection and identification. A UGV can operate in an environment that is particularly risky or even lethal for personnel,
4 226 KERVEROS I: An UGV for Remote-Controlled Surveillance performing tasks such as enemy identification within residential areas, minefields neutralization or explosives disposal. It can also perform combat support missions such as the transfer of soldiers personal equipment, medical evacuation, supplies and ammunition transportation. The scope of the proposed vehicle development is the surveillance of military installations. UGVs provide enhanced surveillance capabilities, minimizing the numbers of security guards and the exposure of personnel to any hazard. 2. UGV Categories Depending on the degree of control (capability class), the categories of UGVs can be defined as follows ([3]): 1. Teleoperated ground vehicle (TGV): The control of the vehicle is entirely dependent on a human operator. Sensors and the communication system provide the operator with the image of the surrounding environment in order to transfer to the vehicle the appropriate commands. The proposed UGV, Kerveros I, belongs to this category. 2. Semi-autonomous proceeder-follower (SAP/FUGV): These vehicles are designed to either follow or precede the combat units. Especially in the latter case, the vehicle must be equipped with an advanced guidance system to minimize the control requirements by the operator. 3. Platform-centric autonomous ground vehicle (PCAGV): Fully autonomous vehicle entrusted with a mission, collecting information from other platforms and perhaps by the operator. 4. Network-centric autonomous ground vehicle (NCAGV): The level of autonomy of the vehicle allows operation in conjunction with other vehicles embedded in a Network Centric System.
5 K. C. Zikidis et al. 227 Figure 2. The well known QinetiQ North America s (ex Foster-Miller) TALON. Initially deployed in 2000, the TALON family of robots has been widely used for various tasks, such as improvised explosive device (IED) and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), reconnaissance, communications, CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive) missions etc ([4]). The future technological challenge lies undoubtedly in the pursuit of increasing autonomy of UGVs. It should be emphasized that the successful design and operation of a UGV depends largely not only on the development of the corresponding technologies, that should cover several different disciplines, but primarily on the ability and successful introduction and integration of these technologies into the same platform. The variety of technologies includes, without limiting to, navigation systems, communications systems, power supply systems and power engineering, various types and classes of sensors, fault diagnosis, and also weapon systems, which should be operated and reloaded without human intervention. 3. KERVEROS I UGV Design / Construction The present approach began as a project in the frame of an undergraduate thesis. The scope is the design and construction of a UGV, which is electrically powered, carries a surveillance IP camera and receives commands via remote control software run from a laptop, for purposes of surveillance of a military air base or other
6 228 KERVEROS I: An UGV for Remote-Controlled Surveillance military installations. The UGV should be able to move outdoors, in normal roads with small bumps, offering sufficient range and autonomy. The aim was to come up with a functional vehicle, which would be used as a prototype for demonstration, evaluation and testing of various subsystems and further upgrades. Following these guidelines, a tricycle design was chosen, which is more simple and easy to construct than the standard four wheel approach, while it can be used without a differential and a suspension system. Figure 3. The Guardium Mk I by G-NIUS, an example of a modern semiautonomous surveillance vehicle. It is operationally deployed by the Israeli Army ([5]). The mechanical parts involve the chassis, the power transmission, the steering system and the wheels. For the chassis, two galvanized steel rods of approximately 2 m were used in the longitudinal direction, with a cross section of 3 cm by 5 cm and thickness of 1,5 mm, along with a number of transverse beams. The battery and electronics support were placed between the two longitudinal steel rods, in a way to keep low the center of gravity. The DC motor support was fixed to the aft beam connecting the two rods. Two bearings were adapted to the rear ends of the two rods, housing the rear axle (length: 106 cm, diameter: 2 cm). A sprocket gear with a diameter of 8 cm was welded in the middle of the rear axle. The power is transmitted from the DC motor by a roller chain to the sprocket gear and the axle.
7 K. C. Zikidis et al. 229 The upper part of the steering column is connected to the steering servomotor and the lower part ends at the steering wheel. The steering column is connected to the chassis using two bearings, in a way to obtain a caster angle of 8, offering the ability of getting the vehicle back on the straight course when no steering torque is applied. The power source used is a high capacity 12 Volt lead-acid automotive battery of 100 Ah. The main motor operates on DC at a voltage from 12 to 24 Volts, offering a maximum power output of 250 Watts and 2750 rpm. The main DC motor can operate at both directions, so it may act as a brake. The electrical parts include also a high-torque, analog servomotor, for the steering system, connected to the upper end of the steering column, operating at 4,8 to 6 Volts and offering up to 24 kgr cm of torque. Concerning the electronic parts, the "heart" of the control system is the main control board Arduino Uno, a low-cost board commonly found in remote controlled applications. It is based on a microcontroller running at 16 MHz, which can be connected to a PC via USB and programmed in C language. It offers several I/O connections, both digital (using Pulse Width Modulation) and analog. Several add-on modules can be connected to this board, offering features like Wi-Fi communication, GPS, various sensors etc, as will be discussed later. Figure 4. Kerveros I chassis with wheels and battery. The main DC motor can be seen just behind the battery.
8 230 KERVEROS I: An UGV for Remote-Controlled Surveillance The main control board provides sufficient output power to handle the analog servomotor of the steering system, which is directly connected to one of the analog outputs. However, the main DC motor used for the vehicle movement cannot be handled directly by the main control board, which operates at 5 Volt DC. Therefore, a polarity control board is used, which acts as a power switch, controlling the DC motor voltage at ±12 Volt (in both directions), according to the commands of the main control board. Needless to say that some voltage converters are required to provide 5 Volt DC from the 12 Volt supplied by the battery. The primary equipment of the vehicle is a wireless IP camera, providing day and also night vision, transmitted through Wi-Fi (or ethernet). The camera employed in our case was one of the Foscam family, offering VGA or QVGA resolution, and also the possibility of horizontal and vertical rotation, providing sufficient coverage even when the vehicle is stopped. There is a ring of 10 IR LEDs surrounding the lens, offering night vision up to 8 meters in complete darkness. Also, there is a loudspeaker and a microphone, allowing two-way communication with someone who is near the vehicle. The camera is connected to an existing Wi-Fi network and can be accessed and controlled using an internet browser. For the movement control of the vehicle, a special code in C was created and loaded on the main control board. In order to connect the main control board to the Wi-Fi network, a small netbook was employed. For the control of the vehicle, Team Viewer, a free software commonly used for remote access through internet, was loaded on both the on-board netbook and also on the laptop used as control station. In this way, by pressing certain keys on the control station laptop, the relevant commands are transmitted through internet, using the existing Wi-Fi network, to the on-board netbook, which by its turn transmits them to the main control board through USB connection.
9 K. C. Zikidis et al. 231 Figure 5. The steering wheel column, fixed with the help of two bearings on the front end of the chassis. The analog servomotor used for steering is connected to the top of the steering column. During field testing, the vehicle was able to move at the speed of 10 km/h, the turning radius was 2,2 m and it was able to overcome obstacles up to 15 cm. The current consumption was 2,5 A at idle, 8,5 A when cruising and 18 A during acceleration. A conservative approach would yield an autonomy of 3,5 hours. Please note that in the current configuration, the netbook uses its own battery, limiting respectively the system autonomy. The total expenses, including vehicle parts supply and labor cost, reached approximately 900. In other words, the objectives set were met: a remote-controlled vehicle was built at a relatively limited cost, exhibiting sufficient movement capabilities and carrying on-board electronic equipment (an IP camera). The purpose was not to come up with a UGV with full operational capability but a demonstration vehicle which could be used as a test bed, allowing experimentation with various technologies. 4. Possible Upgrades Future Work Possible modifications upgrades which will be studied in the near future are the following, starting with the electronics, which would be more easily upgraded:
10 232 KERVEROS I: An UGV for Remote-Controlled Surveillance Use of a GPS module, as a low-cost means to acquire the position of the vehicle, with acceptable accuracy, at least during open-door movement. A low-cost inertial navigation system (INS) can be combined with the GPS module, providing accurate position reference (in the short term), even in-doors. However, due to the unavoidable error accumulation on the position estimation, the INS requires correction at certain time intervals by some more accurate means, like GPS. Figure 6. The camera web interface. The camera is looking at Kerveros I, before being installed on it. The snapshot is from a HAFA classroom, in complete darkness, with the help of the 10 IR LEDs surrounding the lens. An important upgrade, is the use of an ultrasonic sensor ring, which, with the help of appropriate software, would provide local navigation and obstacle avoidance capabilities [6][7]. In other words, the operational usage of the vehicle, in its present form, is limited, because a person is required to actually drive the vehicle by remote control, using visual information provided by the camera. The addition of navigation and obstacle avoidance capabilities would allow autonomous vehicle
11 K. C. Zikidis et al. 233 movement, without the need of human engagement, while the camera will be exclusively used for surveillance purposes. Such capabilities, combined with INS/GPS, would allow the vehicle, e.g., to follow a predetermined path for patrol. In this way, the proposed system will become a mobile robot, able to perform autonomously some simple tasks. A further upgrade would be the incorporation of a LIDAR system, for more accurate knowledge of the surrounding environment. There are some specialized modules available for the Arduino main control board, e.g., the wireless communication board XBee, utilizing the IEEE communication standard, which would permit secure communication between the vehicle and the control station up to several kilometers, without the need for a netbook. However, a Wi-Fi infrastructure may still be required for the camera transmission, if the relevant audio/video stream cannot be handled through the specialized communication channel. Other available modules are special sensors, such as temperature, pressure (barometer), dangerous gas, smoke or fire sensors, which can be easily added to the main control board, transforming the UGV to a forward operating probe. Figure 7. The Gladiator TUGV (Tactical UGV), developed by the National Robotics Engineering Consortium of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, in partnership with BAE Systems, for the US Marine Corps [8]. Equipped with cameras, GPS,
12 234 KERVEROS I: An UGV for Remote-Controlled Surveillance RF link, etc, and also with a machine gun, grenade launchers or even an obscuration smoke system, it is considered as the first armed UGV. Possible upgrades concerning the electrical parts would be the use of a more advanced battery and the power supply of the netbook (if needed) by the main battery through a specialized voltage converter. There are some mechanical upgrades under consideration, even though the related cost would be considerable. E.g., the use of a suspension system (with springs and shock absorbers) and of a differential system for the rear axle would offer considerable capabilities concerning the movement and maximum speed. On the other hand, such modifications would involve a radical redesign of the vehicle. Concerning the operational exploitation of the vehicle, the installation of some kind of weapon should be considered, like a small assault riffle or a submachine gun, possibly using a dedicated camera for targeting. In any case, the view of an armed UGV by a potential unprepared intruder, asking him to surrender, will at least put a stress on him, or even lead him to obey, presuming extreme firing power and targeting capabilities of the vehicle. The on board armament/equipment could also include a mortar or grenade launcher, a Light Vehicle Obscuration Smoke System (LVOSS) or also a robotic arm, for dealing with potential explosive devices. One of the most dangerous threats for aircraft are MANPADS (MAN Portable Air Defence Systems), which are shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, like systems of the Stinger family and their eastern-made equivalents. Such systems could engage and shoot down fighter aircraft during the take-off phase, when they are vulnerable (low altitude, low speed, full AB high IR signature). A UGV could help counter MANPADS by carrying a MAWS (Missile Approach Warning System) and also a flare launcher. In this way, the vehicle could patrol in or around an air-force base, and start launching flares either if a SAM (Surface to Air Missile) were detected by the on board MAWS, or just before an imminent take-off, protecting in this way fighter aircraft taking-off from being targeted by MANPADS devices.
13 K. C. Zikidis et al. 235 Finally, the case of a suicide mission could also be considered, where the vehicle would be loaded with explosives and guided close to the enemy lines, in order to cause casualties and havoc. 5. Conclusion Unmanned Ground Vehicles have drawn considerable attention during the last years. Several systems are being developed independently, in many countries, at various universities, private companies and military research institutes. UGVs started as simple remotely operated vehicles and now are moving gradually to the autonomous mobile robot domain. In any case, they can relieve humans from hard, difficult, dangerous, delicate or maybe boring tasks. Taking into account that research and development in the UGV area involves also (or mainly) military interest, it becomes evident that the progress made may have advanced much more than what it is publicly known. In this context, a functional remote-controlled vehicle has been constructed, following a low-cost approach, able to move outdoors and carry electronic equipment such as an IP camera. It is a simple tricycle design, using a standard 12 Volt automotive battery as power source and a DC motor connected to the rear axle by a roller chain for movement. An analog servomotor is connected to the upper end of the steering column, in order to steer the vehicle. A programmable control board is responsible for the control of the vehicle. This board is connected via USB to an on board netbook, which communicates through Wi-Fi with the control station laptop, used to remotely control the vehicle. At the same time, the video camera sends live video through the Wi-Fi network. The proposed system is far from being considered as a mobile robot or a fully operational weapon system. However, it is a first step towards experimentation in the UGV area, offering a test-bed for various technologies and potential upgrades. The first steps under consideration for upgrade is the use of INS/GPS for global positioning and the addition of ultrasonic sensors and relevant software, offering local navigation and obstacle avoidance capabilities. Further steps may involve communications upgrade, addition of various sensors and even the installation of some kind of weapon system, having in mind mainly the task of patrolling and protecting an air-force base.
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Rubbish police e-fits
This guy would stick in the memory
So recently I was doing jury service and being very keen to be a decent, honest and understanding citizen I wondered where the court artist was. You know that guy (or could be woman) who does the beautiful pastel illustrations of the accused, jury, judge, baker, butcher and candlestick maker, that clearly depict nothing accurately but always end up on the News. Well I was destined to be disappointed (being a Sheffield Wednesday fan and Labour Party member this comes naturally and effortlessly) as no artist was present.
Thanks, but I'm done sharing my life's woes with you now and will revert to type: HOW CRAP ARE POLICE E-FITS? Seen that picture of the bloke above? You know the guy with a porno tash, matching mullet and police hat? Hint to the Police, I imagine he's probably not wearing the hat now. And you're well and truly screwed if he has had the decency to have a shave and haircut.
Obviously, this is not a laughing matter; it was a very serious heist - the biggest ever in the UK (or a personal best - PB - if I worked on Grandstand). £53 million gone. Shame that, but recognise the e-fit? I think they could e-fit me and I wouldn't recognise it.
Still, how's about this guy?
Police are pretty sure this man is, or is not, wearing a hat and may, or may not, have a beard.
And for some reason a photo has constantly been shown on the News of the Dixons. For some reason they have the single most unrecognisable picture of them at their wedding day (by the wedding dress I think this is a safe enough deduction). If the Dixons want their privacy protected, then fine. Don't print the pic. Why print this:
And bear in mind that the Usual Suspects was made in 1995 (over a decade ago) and the minute that suspect fit came through the fax, I knew Kaiser Soze was Kevin Spacey...
// posted by Barry Beef @ 4:35 am 9 comments
Romanian Meat and Greet
Red tomatoes always beat green peppers at the half-time Ready Steady Cook
This one is for the football afficionado. A real meaty issue that you can get your teeth stuck into, just like a burger in the Debate. I don't know what I was looking for but a random google search has directed me in this...direction. UT Arad. Who dey den? I hear you ask. A Romanian football team, of course.
And by looking at the photo you can clearly see they love their football. Or they are ex-Communist weirdos. You decide.
This isn't an opportunity to take a dig at football's poorer cousins however, well it is but not the sole reason. The main issue is their transfer policy. Luton Town's very own Mike Newell has come out about slimy, money-grabbing agents, even Sven alluded to it in an interview with some Sheikh but it really is a very MEATY issue.
Regal Horia (which is not Latin for Princess Di). Who dey den? I hear you ask. A Romanian football team, of course. A very skint football team. And now a very hungry team too. ("Hungry? How so? I thought you said they were Romanian", I hear you cry in utter disbelief.)
In one of football's dafter stories UT Arad sold a player in exchange for 15 kilograms of meat, local sport daily Pro Sport reported on Monday. Before you rush down to the newsagents I should say that, I assume, Pro Sport is local in Romania not England. But defender Marius Cioara decided to chicken out and instead swan off to Spain, retiring from football to take up a job in agriculture or construction (nothing else just those two possibilities).
A Regal Horia official was quoted as saying: "We are upset because we lost twice - firstly because we lost a good player and secondly because we lost our team's food for a whole week."
UT Arad seem to be quite the vultures of lower league Romanian football. As intense research shows that in 1998 struggling Romanian club Jiul Petrosani sold defender Liviu Baicea to UT Arad for a fee of 10 footballs and a set of shirts and shorts. Now there's struggling, there's struggling and there's Jiul Petrosani. Jiul Petrosani may well be the butt of everyone's jokes as midfielder Ion Radu was sold to second division club Vilcea for two tons of beef and pork. That's a lot of meat folks. And the moral of the story? Don't treat footballers like a piece of meat.
Update: Having just re-read this post, I noticed you will have to click on the picture for a better view.
Bum deal
Ladies and Gentleman: beware! Meine Damen und Herren: Achtung! Mesdames et messieurs: Attention! The following is serious, and I bid thee not to laugh. What with the world teetering on World War III and even if we should survive this we will be wiped out by Bird flu and even if we miraculously survive that there'll be more Big Brother this summer. I have had the following email forwarded to me and I feel as your Beef Guardian I should pass it on. Please do not be taken in.
Generally, I hate warnings that get sent around but I have to admit that this one is important. Please protect everyone by sending this to your entire email list.
If someone comes to your door and says they are conducting a survey and asks you to show them your bum, do NOT show them your bum. This is a scam. They only want to see your bum.
I wish I had got this yesterday, I feel so stupid and cheap.
Becks fails latest test
Is stupid, looks stupid
Ever since he came onto the scene, people have derided Beckham for his stupidity. Not me. I couldn't care less if the guy's stupid or not. We need good footballers on the pitch, not the intelligensia. If it were that way, we'd have Stephen Hawkins in the holding role. Not a bad idea actually...
Anyway back to basics, the story here being that David Beckham has been outwitted by his 6 year old son. Yes, young Brooklyn asks Daddy for help on his homework, only for a befuddled Becks to palm him off onto Victoria (who says she is without talent?)
"Their homework is so hard these days," Beckham (30) "It's totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school, and you know I was like 'Oh my God, I can't do this'." Different from what you was teached? Fair enough then.
This interview was taken from the Mail on Sunday so it may all be a lie (by way of a disclaimer can i say that I am sure the Mail lies no more than any other paper - fingers crossed)
And who says Becks is stupid?
Beckham: I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
Beckham: "Wayne was disappointed to not be the youngest goalscorer, but I am sure he will want to reclaim that title in the next match"
This quote is, I must admit, not verbatim as Beckham owuld not know the word 'reclaim'
Staring down the barrell
England's unavailable
I don't like cricket, I love it - not only the lyrics of the legendary Dreadlock Holiday, but also an accurate description of my feeling towards the most English of all sports.
Having followed England since I was a boy, the last two years or so have been by far the best and most entertaining. Demolitions jobs of the West Indies (twice), New Zealand and Bangladesh have been matched by solid professional, and at times inspirational, displays against South Africa and, of course, Australia.
This followed by a tepid and disappointing tour of Pakistan and now the hardest place to tour India. At full strength England would be hard pushed now, with all and sundry injured, the propsects look bleaker than those of Sunderland trying to stay in the Premiership. OK, not that bad; but on the road.
Captain and vice-captain Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick both gone (wuth a knee injury and personal problems respectively), shining light Pietersen and back-up Paul Collingwood both need a good long Radox for their bad backs. And then Simon Jones, the man we desperately need...badly, coming back from injury the poor man has been laid low with a case of Gandhi's revenge and now an ankle injury.
Things do not look encouraging, especially with captain-elect Freddie Flintoff and by default star batsman, Andrew Strauss bang out of form. Just not cricket, is it?
Smell my Cheese
Loads of cheese, Welsh cheese, St David's day...I know, WELSH CHEESE WEEK!
Previously, it has been the great British Food fortnight (so good, it stretched a fortnight. Actually, full marks to the brain-trust for getting away with menus consisting of Shropshire Chicken Tikka, East London Penne and Cornish Chili Con Carne and other such fraudulent dishes.) In the latest of the House of Common's Refreshment Department's great ideas to make their cr*p, over-priced and normally not-enough-to-fill-an-anorexic-model portions more attractive to the discerning public, or employees of the House, comes Welsh Cheese Week. Well, what a rare bit of good fortune for mal-nourished staffers eveywhere to gorge themselves on the proffered smorgasbord. If llanboidy (follow the link to explain comedic misspelling) fancies any of this, it is available everywhere and will advertised to the hilt for some unbeknown reason.
Personally, I will be caerphilly avoiding all this cheese. But for those cheeseheads amongst you, I hope this book has been consulted.
Not an anti-Semite, just don't like Jews
Ken in poll position for 2006 award too
So Ken has been suspended for four weeks. Apologists leap up and down, Ken's comments were in bad taste, they were not anti-Semitic. And, anyway, anti-Semitic is not only against Jews - aren't Arabs Semites too?
OK, cut the bull if Ken had likened the conduct of a Muslim journalist to that of a guard in Guatanemo Bay, what would the reaction have been? There is no question that Red Ken is inciting religious hatred, the question however remains the same: why do some elements of the Left continue to show an anti-Jewish sentiment? Anti-Zionist is another concept all together.
The Mayor of London should be permanently walking on egg shells and must be aware at all times of any possible offence he may cause to any religious or racial set. Like most Londoners, I am up for racial equality; but sometimes with Ken it seems that some are more equal than others.
p.s Sorry for the serious note of this post, but the shockingly poor visitor stats over the weekend led me to think my all-too-few regulars would not be too bothered.
p.p.s I nicked the cartoon off this site, click on image to make bigger
// posted by Barry Beef @ 11:00 pm 1 comments
Maybe it's because they're all Londoners
Still #1
I watched Eastenders last night and, although an avid and unashamed fan anyway, last night's was a particular treat. Kicking off proceedings were Rosie and Keith, the working man's Taylor and Burton, trying to reconcile their marriage. Keith, gawd bless him, is trying. Not only has he learnt to read (illiteracy in Walford is a regional tradition held in high esteem) but Rosie has also noticed him trying to woo her back by...combing his hair and going to the Jobcentre. In Eastenders this represents 'an effort'. Keith pops round to look after Alicia to give Rosie time to herself saying that he'd go to the Jobcentre too. So not only comb your hair and go to the Jobcentre, but also take your grand-daughter with you to the Jobcentre. Oh Keith, stop! You old romantic. Alas, Keith was lying cos he's a lazy bum and didn't go seeking JSA or getting on the New Deal.
Still this plot was small-fry to the main event of Martin and Sonia. Now let me get this off my chest (which Sonia might say if she ever decides to get rid of her fake boobs) I can't stand Sonia. She is the most irritating character ever. And ugly. Anyway, she's going to cook a romantic meal for her husband, the wonderfully neanderthal and personality-free-zone, Martin. Yes, for the hundreth time this year, they're going to give their marriage a go. For some reason, Martin gets into a big huff and invites the lads round for a game of poker (obviously Gary goes in ultra-confident only to be humbled by Bradley, the new Branning on the block, who later gets righteously hammered and celebrates with all-time legend Jim Branning - "Don't let Dorothy catch you like this"). So what will Sonia cook? Obviously, no romantic meal is complete without a delicious sauce. But where would you get that? Thank goodness for Walford's chic, haute cuisine wholesalers the Mini-Mart. Yes, Sonia goes to the Mini-Mart and buys a spicy chicken sauce (yum, yum). A half-dozen scenes later beautifully thought out scripting has Sonia consulting with Jane about the aforementioned spicy sauce. "You put it on the chicken and it makes it really spicy, but I just don't know" worries Sonia. What exactly do you not know? You've just said what you do and what it does.
Eventually, Sonia is cooking chez Pauline with, the almost-as-annoying-as-Sonia, Naomi. Just like a car-crash with everyone knowing the inevitable outcome but still watching. Martin turns up with all his poker chums and soon enough has another argument with Sonia culminating with Sonia telling Martin to stay if their marriage means anything, only for Martin to walk out. Just a great 1/2 hour's entertainment.
Smoking ban update
Anti-smokers, plagiarists lend me your wheelbarrow
I know, I know it's jumping on the bandwagon and not jumping in the wheelbarrow; sadly I couldn't find a good enough picture of a bandwagon so settled for this and my woefully adequate, yet imaginative, use of Paint.
The 14th February was a momentous day seeing the smoking ban get through, but just how popular can be seen from the current list of EDMs on the subject. Chronologically:
EDM 1646: SMOKING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
That this House notes that right hon. and hon. Members voted to ban smoking in all public places including private members' clubs on 14th February 2006; further notes that the will of the House may not apply in the House itself since it is a royal palace; further notes that this means that staff working in the Smoking Room could still be exposed to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke; and calls for this anomaly to be rectified by the House authorities as soon as possible.
First up is this offering from uber-eager Julia Goldsworthy, the Lib Dem MP for Falmouth and Camborne. Her EDM was submitted on the very evening the ban was passed, poor Ms Goldsworthy sadly having nothing better to do on Valentines Day.
Then comes this offering from Dr Hywel Francis MP, the Labour Member for Aberavon.
EDM 1650:ANEURIN BEVAN NON-SMOKING ROOM
That this House welcomes the momentous decision to achieve a total ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces; believes that this House should practise what it preaches and apply the ban throughout the House, including the Members' smoking room; and believes that, in recognition of the founder of the National Health Service the Members' smoking room should be renamed the Aneurin Bevan room, forthwith.
Basically, the same but with a comrade nod to Nye Bevan. Spookily also tabled on Valentines night. Do these MPs have no amorous intentions?
The plot thickens with this amendment to the above tabled by Andrew George MP, Lib Dem MP for St Ives.
EDM 1650A1:ANEURIN BEVAN NON-SMOKING ROOM
delete `Aneurin Bevan' and insert `Beveridge'
This was tabled on 15th February. Well I guess the MP for St Ives would have to spend Valentines with one, or more, of his seven wives. Sounds like John Hemming. This motion was signed by a few other Lib Demmers.
And finally this one from David Gauke, Tory MP for South West Hertfordshire
EDM 1663:SMOKING BAN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
That this House notes the vote in favour of a complete ban on smoking in enclosed places including private clubs; further notes that the Palace of Westminster will be exempt from these provisions; and calls for those hon. Members who supported these measures to be banned from smoking in enclosed places in the Palace, including in the Smoking Room.
Is that not basically the same as Julia Goldsworthy's?? But perhaps there is a difference and I guess the only people who could answer would be the following five MPs who have signed both EDM 1646 and EDM 1663 - Peter Bottomley; Anne Cryer; Angus MacNeil; Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Dodds.
Two Tales of One City
Liverpool readying itself for the 2008 title of European City of Culture
Say Liverpool to people and you're likely to get one of two polemic answers. On one hand people will wax lyrically about either 5 European Titles, the Beatles, the People's Club, the docks etc, whilst others would point towards Militant, thieving Scousers, shellsuits and 'Calm down, calm down'.
Today sees two pieces of Liverpudlian news hit the backpages. Firstly, the tragic injury to summer signing Momo Sissoko. The Malian international suffered a freak injury in Liverpool's defeat to Benfica on Tuesday and is now facing the prospect of losing the sight in his right eye. Let's hope that this doesn't happen and Sissoko is back sooner rather than later.
The other story is also injury-related. Few football fans would have not seen Alan Smith's leg snapping like a poppadom after charging down a John Arne Riise free-kick at the weekend. Today, it has emerged that some Liverpool 'fans' sought to overturn the ambulance taking Smith to hospital after it got stuck in traffic.
These people are real sick scum and there is no excuse at all for such behaviour. At least they didn't nick the hubcaps when the ambulance was stationary.
Bomb-making lessons in Parliament
Feel the bang
An eagle-eyed source formerly close to the PM passed on this tid-bit to me. It appears that the Mother of all Parliaments is offering the opportunity to become an instant expert on IEDs. I, like many others, would like to condemn this course and urge no-one to attend.
Fearless hack reveals 1st confirmed case of bird flu
Don't order the Green Chicken Curry
I take it all back if my approach had been flippant, my #1 hack Brandy Nipples has sent me this disturbing image confirming the virulent strain of bird flu H5N1 has reached our shores.
It is with a tear in my eye that I remember Keith and Orville's song:
Orville: I wish I could fly way up to the sky but I can’t,
Keith: You can,
Orville: I can’t!
Orville: I wish I could see what folks see in me but I can’t,
Keith: Look, Orville,
Orville: Yes?
Keith: Nothing that you can say
Will change how I feel today:
I know that we’ll never part;
Now hear what I’m saying, Orville?
Keith: Who is your very best friend?
Orville: You are.
Keith: I’m gonna help you mend your broken heart.
Orville: Thank you. But my heart's fine, I've just been diagnosed with fucking Bird Flu
Not so great Scott
Not everything is so black and white
Having seen the following I was happy to note that Ilford North's MP, Lee Scott is above such tom-foolery, or is he? Here is the Ilford North Tory Site and just click on the bit offering "information about Lee Scott our Member of Parliament". Spell-binding. What a man of mystery you are.
Gary Neville - Not a robot
Not robotic
Following on from my last post on Gary Neville, he has, somewhat entirely predictably, wiped his hands of all blame for his action saying all he was guilty of was displaying passion, spontaneity and spirit and not being robotic. Well, I believe the above picture contradicts that sentiment, sir! For the Doubting Thomases who might suspect the image is not 100% bonafide I set this question:
If Gary Neville is not robotic how is it that when he is playing for England and the national anthem is played the self-same Gary Neville stands stony-face without any flicker of emotion? And no I do not believe it is because he is an ardent republican.
Can't argue
This one has obvously been a long time coming. Constant delays, loads of litter, staff shortages, staff strikes and engineering works regularly conspire to rob the London public of what we deserve. Daft excuses I have heard in the last couple of weeks include regulating the service defunct door suspect package and people are leaning on the doors And chucked into the bargain is Bob Crow, whose continued butchery of the English language is eternally grating. Follow this link for a musical ode (can odes be musical) to the Underground.
Doomed I tell you...DOOMED
Armageddon imminent
With nothing aside from a rapier's wit and devil-may-die attitude, I am doing my bit to instigate a Dad's Army renaissance. Sadly, this will not stretch to the cast - the vast majority of whom have already shuffled off this mortal coil, but rather to the catchphrases: Don't Panic (see previous post) and We're Doomed (stick with this post). But who to assist me in this most British and honest of all endeavours? Who? How's about H5N1?
It has been announced that the Ravens have been moved inside the Tower of London (Ravens, of course, being poultry???) to avoid being contaminated by (dastardly, chilling music) AVIAN BIRD FLU. None of you, darling readers, will need telling twice: if the ravens leave the tower of London its White Tower will crumble and the Kingdom of England will fall. Its White Tower will crumble and the Kingdom of England will fall. Do or damned really - if the ravens stay put they'll be ravaged by AVIAN BIRD FLU and if they go the kingdom crumbles. WE'RE DOOMED I TELL YOU, DOOMED.
For the raven enthusiasts amongst you the ravens are named Branwen, Hugine, Munin, Gwyllum, Thor and Baldrick. And no, there is not a great deal newsworthy about today.
Ugly man guilty of instigating ugly scene
Agent provacateur
Franck Ribery and Phil Neville's better looking brother, Gary has been found guilty of improper conduct and fined £5,000. That's it boys. The F.A, fearless and never afraid to court controversy, has fined him a minimal percentage of his weekly wage. That'll learn him. A typical gutless display there.
What Neville did was irresponsible, I believe he did it because he genuinely despises Liverpool - and everything is stands for. It's not like he hides his hatred though: "I can't stand Liverpool, I can't stand Liverpool people, I can't stand anything to do with them." Once when Man Utd players had heard Stevie Gerrard was injured it was Gary Neville who piped up "Shame it wasn't Michael Owen"
His loathing of Liverpool is not a secret, his actions - despite the most obvious of obvious protestations to the contrary by...who else?...Sir Alex Ferguson - blatant. So why is the punishment so minimal? Whether players should be allowed to do what they want on the pitch is an entirely different issue, but if it is on the statute book that what Neville did constitutes an offence there must be a more suitable punishment. Not even a one match ban. How do you dissuade players from provoking potentially ugly scenarios? Easy: do whatever the F.A don't.
This Aide was no help
Buckingham Palce? Where's that?
Don't let it be said I don't have my sources. Don't be put off by my lack of readers, almost total lack of comments and lack of concrete fact (apart from Wembley where all they have is concrete - and no grass). A Government insider, in an eerily similar scenario to Deepthroat wishing to only be known as Brandy Nipples, has offered me this gem.
Brandy phoned the Home Office with regards to the annual garden party at Bucks House. Brandy was informed, over the phone, that the Home Office did not issue the tickets, or deal with the issue at all and that all enquiries should be directed to Buckingham Palace. Brandy, still not deterred by this obtrusive...obstacle, persisted asking for a written reply to which she was told by the aide: "I suppose I could forward it [the letter] to Buckingham Palace, but I don't know the address."
Oi Vay! How can you not know the address of Bucks House? How's about Buckingham Palace, London? I can't quite see it being returned by the Royal Mail with 'address unknown'.
This kind of person is a real ham-and-egger, the person who answers the phone in Government ministries, or for Government Special Advisers and barely knows what day it is and has absolutely no knowledge*. Cheers dudes, a truly exemplary service.
* The lovely lady I work with rang a SPAD with regards to a particular issue and was told that there was nothing around and could she possible wait a day or so? A day or so passed and still nothing, so my Comrade rang the SPAD asked for the particular person she spoke to, only to be told: "Oh she is only an office temp".
HAM AND EGGER
Wembley planners have their balls in the air
We're not on our way to Wembley
I don't think you needed a crystal ball to predict this one. Indeed, it is the least shocking story since the last time it was delayed. For those interested, the initial completion date was Autumn 2005.
The F.A, that most fabled and illustrious of British institutions, wanted 100% certainty that the stadium would be ready and presumably Multiplex could only answer they were 100% hopeful it would be ready, which obviously cut no ice. The F.A, being no fools, realised that you needed a pitch and some seats to host a match and have consequently fallen back on the reserve option of the Millenium Stadium.
Still what do you expect for £757m? No marks at all if you say a world-class stadium ready and operative on time, but full marks, gold star and top-of-the-class honours if you answer: loads of disputes between contractors and legal teams putting the project further and further behind schedule and also £757m is a bit on the skinny side so spiralling steel costs coupled with all these delays are likely to push the price of the stadium beyond £1bn.
Whilst researching this post (why not?) I discovered two nuggets:
1) Multiplex will be penalised £1million a week for over-running the deadline.
2) Wembley Stadium, London. Originally known as the Empire Stadium it took only 330 days to build and opened on 23 April 1924. Still 6 years and counting isn't that bad???
Don't panic, don't panic!
Chicken conscription
Colonel Sanders together with Lance Corporal Jones have launched the above campaign entited Don't Panic!
May God save all our souls (and chickens)
We're all going to die
Gutbusters of the world unite
Fashions change. I don't know how, or why but they do. And in much the same ways as black is the new white, summer is the new winter and Dave is the new David, Avian Bird Flu (H5N1 strain) is the new BSE (Creuzfelt Jakob Disease). I don't mean to scare anyone but WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. Bring your poultry in-doors. You have no poultry? Well, go and do something good it's your last chance before you turn into a 20ft chicken (Alan Partridge) and die.
This particular potent strain, known as Tabloidus Panicus, is currently sweeping France (plenty of chickens there, you see) and after laying waste to France it'll come over to Blighty. And then it's all over. This strain has been carried across borders by nasty, smelly immigrants and WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. The strain has not altered to affect humans currently with only Daily Mail readers at risk. Boom, boom - I thank you!
So who's the world's saviour? Who is the world's saviour much in the way Bill Pullman acted in Independence Day? It is Markos Kyprianou, the EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner - no, not the baddy out of For Your Eyes Only and not that guy who lost in the final to Federer. He says "There's no reason for European citizens not to consume poultry meat and products. Products from infected animals do not enter the food chain. The message is that it's safe to consume poultry meat and eggs in the European Union". Well it's all Greek to me, but does Markos Kyprianou translate as John Gummer? I do enjoy this message. Don't worry, we shouldn't cull poultry, but go out and eat them all instead. Pay heed of this message supermarkets, Lord Sainsbury, Viscount Tesco, Earl Netto and Duke Tesco put your chickens on special offer. And hurry up, cos WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.
Blackwell puts England selectors in a spin
The boy's doing good
Ashley Giles, a man who has been pilloried and vilified down the years for not being much good, actually came good, or at least good enough. A dedicated professional, Gilo's determination together with his consistency with ball and, equally importantly, bat made him an integral part of the England team. However, he is spazzed, not fit and not on the tour of India. Leaving England with a possible conundrum, actually it is a very apparent conundrum. Who comes in for Giles? The most obvious, and safest, option would have been Shaun Udal (36), who played in Pakistan. Sadly, he played poorly and 3 test wickets at an average of 90-odd does not impress, or fill anyone with confidence. Even more so as one of his three wickets was a very generous lbw decision. Udal, whilst being an alright batsmen, has been out of form with the willow too. Enter Monty Panesar, the new kid on the block. If he plays he will be the first Sikh to have ever represented England and whilst this is an honour he deserves and I am sure will get, I have doubts whether it should be now. Panesar is a bad fielder and bad batsman in the ilk of Phil Tufnell. If he were included it would mean Hoggard going in at 8 and that does not inspire confidence in the slightest. So the answer is in the rather bulky form of Ian Blackwell, captain of Somerset. Blackwell is what would traditionally be called 'a lusty hitter'. He is the best batsmen out of the three and his recent bowling performances would have encouraged Duncan Fletcher to take a chance on him. It seems that England will play one spinner and 4 seamers, so my XI would be:
M. Trescothik
A. Strauss
M. Vaughan *
I. Bell
K. Pietersen
A. Flintoff
G. Jones † (personally I'd play Matt Prior, but I don't think they'll drop Jones)
I. Blackwell
M. Hoggard
S. Jones
S. Harmison
All the top 4 have been in the runs recently, as opposed to having the runs thanks to delhi belly. Pietersen and Freddie look in alright, if not their best, nick. And all the bowlers having taken wickets. I am quietly encouraged, but still worry about the Indians scoring shed-loads of runs and then Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan and the spinners Anil Kumble and the Turbanator Harbajhan Singh cutting through us like a knife through molten butter.
Sorry for the long post, but I am an obsessive cricket fan. So there.
Youngster swears! Shock horror!
BBC somewhere close to value for money
I was in the pub with my beloved yesterday and all was good. Yours truly slyly trying to watch Villa vs. Man City on Sky. After a bit, the girlfriend goes allowing me to watch the footie and then come back to hers (what an amazing woman!). Soon after Villa score a pretty decent goal courtesy of ugly, greasy haired, cheating b*stard, Milan Baros.
It looks like City are going out until a 94th minute equalizer from youngster Micah Richards (17). Queue ecstatic celebations, final whistle and then the inevitable, and inimitable, Garth Crooks' post-match interview. Garth's off with one of his standard, crap starter-for-ten questions, something like: "Micah, you scored. Last minute. How do you feel?" In answer to which Richards leapt up even further in my estimations (he had been class all game) by saying "Oh f*ck it."
Sadly, St Gary Lineker of the Big-Ear loved by the Housewife parish instantly apologises. For what? A bit of emotion? I have very fond memories of Henrik Larsson being interviewed on BBC after a match and when asked what he thought of the match, he answered: "It was pretty sh*t". Excellent. I would feel the Licence Fee would be more justified with more swearing in football coverage, especially in Garth Crooks interviews.
It sounds quite random, but as a boy, like practically every other, I wanted to be a footballer. I wanted to score on my debut and get mobbed by my fans. Nowhere in that fantasy is Garth involved.
Murray putting the great and good to the sword
What with the total shower that is the Winter Olympics, salvation is at hand for sporting fans. In the form of one Andy Murray. The man who shot to national prominence last Summer has continued his astronomic rise through the world rankings by winning the SAP Open in San Jose beating Llleyton Hewitt in the final (Tim Henman has been licked by Hewitt on loads of occasions) and Andy Roddick (not the bloke from Body Shop) in the semis. We now have 3 players ranked in the 40s with Messrs Henman and Rusedski at #40 and #43 respectively having their necks breathed down by Murray at #47. It promises a lot for British tennis, which despite the last decade's relative success of Henman and Rusedski, is still a bit in the doldrums. Not that either Henman or Rusedski should be blamed: it's not Henman's fault he's posh and it's not Rusedski's fault he's Canadian.
No fowl-ups as Fowler remarries
If anyone has page 36, please let me know
Isn't it wonderful? Pauline, the ashen-faced, grumpy cow (and former quite fit Miss Brahms) has finally gotten over ARFUR and wed again. Sadly the old maxim of Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue could have been done better if she borrrowed Sonia's fake boobs and as something blue she wore her Conservative rosette.
Here's wishing the newly-weds nothing but misery.
ADRIAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN
Great news! The man is back! Rocky Balboa. The Italian Stallion. Actually, the EYE-talian Stallion. Big, bad Rochester. I can hardly contain my excitement. Seriously, buying all 5 Rocky films on 1 DVD off some Oriental chap in the pub was the best £5 I have ever spent.
Whether it's Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago or Tommy 'Machine' Gunn Rochester wins out. Let's get the sad stuff out of the way: Rocky is now nearly 60. Adrian is dead! No sh*t. So if he wants encouragement he's either going to have to shout louder or get an Ouiji Board. His son had dissed him (by the way Rocky V is excellent for very funny early 90s bullying), Mickey's still dead and there's no sign of his dog Butkus (Hey yo Butkus!). The bad guy is Mason 'The Line' Dixon, played by Antonio Tarver! This is going to rock! And if you weren't excited enough, not only is Sly the lead and Director, he has also written the screenplay! Oh happy days.
Just to get you in the mood here's some of Rocky's most iconic quotes:
"Why do you wanna fight?" -Adrian
"Cause I can't sing or dance." -Rocky
ROCKY II
"Yo Adrian! I did it!!" -Rocky
"What do you think of Apollo training Rocky?" -Reporter
"Apollo who?! You talkin about that old fool Apollo Creed?" -Clubber
ROCKY IV
"If he dies, he dies." -Ivan
ROCKY V
"You knocked him down, why don't you try knockin me down now..." -Rocky
Update: When asked if this would be the last Rocky in the series, Stallone answered that it would be saying that any more would not be practical and besides he wanted to make another Rambo movie. Jeez, the Rambo films are so old that Afghanistan were the good guys.
Beef Jerky of the Week
Dick Cheney, a man of vision
As sure as night follows day, there could have been no doubt that this week's Beef Jerky had to be this man, this legend, this Vice-President Cheney. You all know what happened, he went out hunting and, as you do, shot one of his co-hunters. Of course, this was by mistake Cheney having not seen him. His victim, Harry Whittington (78), is recovering in hospital after one of the shots gave him a heart attack.
In a rare moment of humanity, Mr Cheney was said to be distraught. Happens when you shoot people, I guess. Dubya broke his silence today saying: "The vice-president was involved in a terrible accident, and it profoundly affected him. Yesterday when he was here in the Oval Office, I saw the deep concern he had about a person who he wounded." Jeez, then the Iraq War must have shook him up a bit.
Update: It was decided today that no charges would be brought against Dick Cheney.
Straight out of the Adams(on) Family
No oil painting either
As a fellow Owl (although obviously I am a Bull) pointed out even the mighty Sheffield Wednesday have mingers and no more so than our current stand-in kepper Chris Adamson - above terrorising the good people of West Bromwich. Please feel free to post your teams ugliest players in the comments section.
Don't show this post to small children
Celine Dion was very happy with the operation
Had the unfortunate experience of watching a whole Bolton game on Wednesday and was treated to Bolton's high-ball, long-ball 0-0 draw with Marseilles. during the match my mate called Sam Allardyce "a fat, whinging slob". Yep, this time it was cast-iron penalties not being given. According to Sam, Bolton have not had a decision go their way since 1973 and his team makes fellow Lancastrian butchers Blackburn seem like ballet.
Any the how the gentleman above, one Monsieur Franck Ribery lined up for Marseilles. He is a white-trash, incestuous version of Gary Neville. Neville on the moonshine juice. And in a story you couldn't even make up (I doff my hat to Richard Littlejohn) Ribery has been linked with...Manchester Utd. So then with Gary Neville, Shrek Rooney, Ruud the half Tramp, half Horse, Paul Scholes, Too-long-neck Van der Saar, Dazza Fletcher and possibly Monsieur Ribery, I'll be sure to pre-reserve my Man Utd 2007 calender.
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Get your Valentine's leftovers
Would you bid for this man?
Pretty-boy, socialist Cllr Cross (above) is now available. It's true and if you can't believe it, the evidence lays in this link
Honestly, podcasting is so last month, now it's about pimping on Ebay.
Update: Not a single person in the whole-wide world saw fit to bid for Kerron even though bidding started (and ended) and the less than princely sum of 25p.
Thanks I've had a lovely time, but I'll take the money and go.
Raymond Van Barneveld has become the latest Benedict Arnold of the darts world by turning his back on the BDO and signing up for the PDC. Barney lost the BDO final in January and immediately denied rumours that he was going to do the offski. This is presumably what is meant by double dutch as he's just jumped ship.
This is a massive nail in the coffin of the BDO, as the majority of the world's elite will now be playing on the Sky sports sponsored PDC. It is a shame because I have very fond childhood memories of the likes of Bristow, Lowe, Wilson, Anderson et al battling it out on BBC. I am sorry to say that today's youth are not likely to have such happy and heady recollections of the current crop.
Galloway making a tit of himself
Come on Butler, you lecherous moron, run him over
Courtesy of Guido (like that link's really going to boost his viewing figures) who got it courtesy of the Sun. Absolutely brilliant. Follow this link. Oh and just in case he doesn't know YOU TOSSER.
Smoking ban victory for health and common sense
Common sense prevailed and smoking will now be banned in public places and work places with no exemptions. Determined not to praise anything the Torygraph has the following pertinent questions:
Q. What does the new law do?
A. It bans smoking in all enclosed or substantially enclosed public places and workplaces.
Q. Such as?
A. Bars, clubs, restaurants, cafes and offices. These may seem obvious and there are many in which bans already operate, for instance trains, buses, shops, schools, sports centres and cinemas. But the Government also has powers under clause four of the Bill to extend the ban to particular places or types of place if there is doubt over their status.
Q. Is a vehicle an office?
A. Yes, if it is used for work. However, it is more complicated than that. A delivery van will be covered by the ban if the driver does not own it, but not if he does. This does not apply to a taxi. Also, if the van is shared it will be covered even if one of the drivers is the owner.
Q. What if the lorry is foreign-owned from a country where there is no smoking ban? Can the driver therefore smoke in his cab?
A. Er …
Q. What if a plumber visits your house? It is a place of work for him but your home. If you are happy for him to smoke, is that all right?
A. The Government says: "We are not defining the person's home as a workplace." So the plumber could light up if you approved. But could you smoke if he disapproved? It is his place of work, so he would be entitled to ask the owner not to smoke because the law makes it an offence to fail to prevent smoking in a smoke-free place.
On the other hand, someone who works at home but in a way that involves the public - for instance, a piano teacher - would be allowed to smoke, even though, strictly speaking, it is also a workplace.
Q. Are all private homes exempt? What about stately homes that are open to the public or a GP's surgery where the doctor lives?
A. The Government says that if the house is open for only one day a year and is not a person's workplace, it will need to be smoke-free only for the period when the public may be present. But what if the home doubles as an estate office?
Also, premises where members of the public go to give or receive goods or a service, including for example a solicitor's office or a dressmaker's shop, will be smoke-free at all times. But if they are also private homes, only those parts used for work purposes, including a waiting room, will have to be smoke-free.
Q. What about workplaces staffed by volunteers? Are village halls and community centres sorting clothes for a bring-and-buy sale on a voluntary basis "workplaces"?
A. Under the new law, the word "work" also constitutes voluntary work, so even if a village hall is being used to hold an event that requires volunteers, such as a scout meeting, it will still have to be smoke-free. The hall would be both a workplace and a public place.
Losers. Much like MERCHANT OF DEATH company Forest whose director Simon Clark declared: "People will continue to smoke and the idea that people are all going to give up smoking simply because they can't smoke in a pub is nonsense." With such belligerent and condescending arguments it is hardly surprising they had their collective smoky ass whooped by 200 votes. I actually went to a pro-smoking, pro-ventilation meeting and was amazed at the assembled tossers present (yes there were, at least, half a dozen Tory MPs). Their attitude was basically that all health campaigners were a bunch of puritan zealots (that term was actually used) and that it was infringing on civil liberties so yaboo-shucks and let's have another drink and rummage around in our humidors.
Other personal highlights included this quote from some demented Irishman: "That ban was the reason I left Ireland. If they introduce a ban here, I'll have to move somewhere else." Oh well Britain's loss...
And let's not forget Stephen Pound, MP for Ealing North, who was in his usual piss-taking top form insinuating Lynne Jones was a 'fag-end'; saying he would not like to ban Lembit Opik; advising Liberals not to take up habit-forming pursuits like making legislation and questioning Andrew Lansley's honourability. Even if what you said was wrong, the way you said it was wondrous.
And finally, well done to an unnamed gorgeous health charity employee on this victory. Without her, I might still be a filthy smoker myself.
Is this the worst #6 Premiership Top Scorer ever?
Marlon's got a lot to shout about
Sorry for the convoluted title of this post, I didn't know how else to phrase it and let's face facts; much like Ronsil, it does exactly what it says on the tin. Last night West Ham trounced Birmingham 3-0. And Marlon Harewood kept up his impressive record this season by bagging a couple of goals. I have had a soft spot for Marlon ever since he was mistakenly referred to as Malcolm Harewood on TalkSport. The thing about Marlon is, is that he is not very good. Watching him last season, I'd even have said he was very bad. His current partner in crime up-front for the Happy Hammers is Bobby Zamora - who also sucks. However, they both keep on scoring and Marlon now has 12 goals this season putting him 6th in the scoring records. Spookily West Ham are also 6th.
After comprehensive research into the subject looking for players who have finished 6th or higher in the scoring charts (Premiership years only) but are worse, obviously in my opinion, than Marlon Harewood, I have discovered: Hamilton Ricard, Marcus Stewart and Andy Johnson.
What odds on Marlon being Premiership Top Scorer? Marlon firing West Ham into Europe? Marlon being in Sven's summer squad? Funny old game, innit?
Yeh I Know
Retail therapy caused by losing 3-0 to Boro.
I was sent this picture by the captain of my cricket team, a decent enough fellow really, who puts up with my bad jokes, shocking footwear and woefully inept bowling and batting (all-rounder, you see).
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New Labour, New Romance
Labour Roses are red...
Single? Ugly? Got a sh*t beard? Got no Valentines card? Are you Kerron Cross? (sorry mate, but you do go on, not that you're ugly of course) Then how's about this for an amorous idea? An I.D Card. Say it with roses is so passe, so say it with biometrics and fingerprints. Love is in the air
When even I.D cards wouldn't work
TB should have opted for Joan Ryanair instead
What's the old proverb? Oh yeh, once bitten twice shy. What with the blunder that was Tony Blair missing a vote (and the subsequent defeat of government legislation by one vote) due to a chronically inept miscalculation by the Government Chief Whip, you could bet your bottom Euro on Blair being present for the vote on I.D Cards. La plus ca change...
This time our intrepid PM is stuck in South Africa due to a suspect dodgy engine (an airplane's rather than his own). I am sure the Whips Office have done their sums correctly this time (chortle, chortle) or are we looking at another Government defeat by one vote?
Passion of the Pats
Not the only things Pat's being pulling
Frank would be appalled, Roy would be spinning in his grave, Peggie would probably denounce her as a slut and Mo 'Arris would think she was back on the game. Trough in hand, Pat has applied enough slap-on to seduce her latest beau, Mr Patrick Trueman. But Patrick you are married to Yolande. Not to mention Pat mings bad. Real bad.
My favourite quote of this triste thus far is from Patrick: "Pat Evans, you is one wanton woman". Too right pal! He also seems unperturbed that she has a face like a bag of smashed crabs.
And for those of you who suspect Pat is a bit of a dog...
Harking back to Budweiser adverts gone by; WAAAAAASSSSSSUUUPPPPPP???? Yo, it's me, I'm back. This post will be the first in a weekly (if I remember) post of the person most deserving of the soubriquet Barry's Beef Jerky of the Week. What's that then? You might ask if you are stupid. It is for the person who has done, in my opinion, the stupidest thing of the week. The little dude in the corner is Jerkyman and he hates idiots. Taken as a given that I have been out of Blogdom for a couple of weeks the inaugral recipient is not from last week but the week before (I think). So without further ado (clears throat) I humbly declare that the first winner of the Jerky of the Week is....Hilary Armstrong (queue a spontaneous and thunderous round of applause)
Of course you can take time off the whip. It's in the bag. Hey, why don't you go to Dunfermline and encourage people to vote Lib Dem?
So then the job of a Chief Whip? Ermmm...let's see. You get your backbenchers to vote for Government policy. Sounds fine. But what if a slightly contentious piece of legislation (which I must say I don't think remotely contentious) clashes with a by-election? In this case Dunfermline and Fife West. Queue Einstein, sorry Armstrong. You can envisage the meeting: "Listen lads (and lasses) Race and Religious Hatred? Pah! We'll win at a canter. But not so sure about the by-election. Not like the constituency is next to the Chancellor and PM-elect, is it? Not like he lives there or anything is it? How's about we send loads of you up there to persuade the Scots to vote Red? And, by my reckoning, we should hold Dunermline and West Fife and win this vote. Piece of cake. Tony? Take it easy big lad. Go home and have some quality time with the kids."
Next day...
(groggily through embarassment and hangover)Oh shit. Lost the vote in the House and lost a safe seat to the Liberal Demotwats.
Before I write this article it would only be fair to say I don't particularly like rugby. Growing up as a young Bull (or is it a calf? I have no idea or interest) rugby always struck me as what posh blokes with a unnatural penchant for violence partook in. I also smirked continually (literally non-stop for about a week) as England temporarily became cloaked in Rugby-mania after winning the World Cup. After a couple of days it became very apparent that whilst it was great to be world champions, only the diehards actually cared. I watch rugby quite regularly and like nothing more than watching grown men attempt to maim each other on a pitch that closer resembles a bog. Particularly if that grown man happens to be a cheese eating surrender monkey, so imagine my joy when my co-worker, a lovely Scot, texted me excitedly informing me that Scotland had beaten the French 20-16.
I do use this site as a platform for bashing the Scots. Or more aptly bashing their sporting impotence (curling and tossing the caber aside). So I'll re-dress the balance here. Well done. No-one really expected them to win, even those See You Jimmy look-a-likes with their hilarious ginger-wig and tartan combo. Before kick-off, the French were favourites not only to win this encounter but to win the Grand Slam. So it is an immense achievement.
And if things couldn't get any sweeter for the sweaty socks, who stands to benefit the most? Of course, it is their beloved neighbours the English. Nice one, fellas! And whilst I'm having a go let's have a dig at the the Welsh for getting stuffed by England. Still, they do sing their national anthem beautfiully. A chum of mine, a certain Gutbuster, was present stuffing his face with burgers. It seems the real feast was on the pitch. I would gloat more, but let's face it...who cares?
Shepherd gives his flock Glenn
Some things are puzzling. How does Pete Burns look in a mirror of a morning and think he looks good. How did Mark Oaten think he could get away with it? And, of course, puzzles. None, however, are as incredibly perplexing as a return to management (make that Premiership management) of Glenn Roeder. Glenn, for the uninitiated amongst you, does not have the most successful of pasts. Indeed, his track-record is about as impressive as that of a Scottish sprinter.
In his first managerial stint, at Gillingham, Roeder amassed a woeful record of 13 wins out of 51 matches. He then follweod this up by getting the sack at Watford and getting West Ham relegated. He also got sacked.
I am very happy to see Glenn has recovered from a brain tumour and wish him good health. That being said I hope his appointment does not become permanent. Basically, if he can sign one or two defenders the team should be good enough to stay up by themselves.
I would be amazed if Roeder does not fail spectacularly. Interestingly, Roeder has the smallest mouth in football and also enjoys standing on the touchline with his arms crossed. Loads.
Stuck in the Middle(sboro) with you
Maybe Souness won't be the only manager leaving the North-East?
It was with enormous satisfaction that I heard the news of Graeme Souness getting the sack. Not that I dislike him (I do, but this isn't the reason) but because I had called for his sacking and can only assume that Freddie Shepherd reads this blog. Similarly, I hope Steve Gibson is reading this.
It is unbelievable that McLaren has been mentioned in the same sentence as the words 'potential successor to Sven as England manager'. Having recently displayed his managerial nous by overseeing Middlesboro's 7-0 demolition by Arsenal, Steve once again displayed his shrewd tactical acumen by watching his team capitulate to Aston Villa to the tune of 4-0.
Steve Gibson, Middlesboro's chairman, has ploughed in millions and millions but has had some right turkeys as his managers. Bryan Robson, whilst currently enjoying a renaissance of sorts at W.B.A, under-achieved gloriously with numerous seasons of disappointment and such stellar signings as Branco. Remember him? Now he has McLaren a man who splurged £8.1 million on Maccarone (not cheese).
However, some light relief has come from the fans and media alike. The Times wrote of a 60 yard run weaving past 3 players at great pace - sadly it was the supporter who passed the (probably sleeping) stewards to run to McLaren and chuck his torn season ticket at the hapless manager. Further laughs ensued with a block of disgruntled Boro fans starting a 'McLaren for England' chant.
For my money McLaren is the most over-rated manager in the Premiership and his P45 may well be in the post before the season's out.
Locked up like an Egyptian
How good was this story? I don't care why he was incarcarated, I am just happy he was. Tragically, he was released and he has been let into Egypt. What other notorious news agencies have surprisingly missed is that this was the pilot episode of the Egyptian Big Brother Pyramid (hosted by Sheikh Davina Al-Mccall). With Galloway's release the showed was axed, producers and executives alike realising the idea sphinx.
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YA Novel & Twilight Popularity
Knowing how irritated I am by girl-coming-of-age novels, vampires, and popular culture in general, it is surprising that I like Caitlin Flanagan's essay in Atlantic. I am even going to forgive her for saying something nice about Judy Blume.
Perhaps it is because she notes in the first paragraph that children's books about problems, such as Mama and Daddy Bear's Divorce, that "the enterprise seems doomed from the title." Such creations, which are stuffed in the category of Children's Literature even though they aren't literature, and are written to comfort parents rather than children, are one of my favorite things to deplore.
The oblique reference to Bruno Bettelheim in the second paragraph also charmed me.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Using a problem to set character or to move the plot along is quite different from explaining to children how they are supposed to feel.
I do contest Flanagan's belief that children's literature has focused on intact happy families until recently. The opposite is true. All the way back to Little Women, The Five Little Peppers,Anne of Green Gables, and The Secret Garden, the families in children's books often have missing parents or other tragedies. Young girls were always being sent off to live with some relative because their mother was sick or their father was at sea. As Ms. Flanagan doesn't dwell on the point, this chroncentrism, the belief that only we moderns really get it, doesn't muck up the rest of the essay.
The problem with adolescent desire, both male and female, is that it is felt so strongly that it demands to be regarded as important, even when it is banal. The young person cannot put into words quite what the feeling is about; by the time s/he can analyze and explain, s/he is beyond it. We reach the stage where we no longer feel the importance so strongly. The feeling can be illustrated in literature and video, but it cannot be explained - thus the intense identification females who read fiction can have with the protagonists.
Caitlin Flanagan comes closer to "getting it" than most adults, and can draw the curtain back a bit.
It's been so long and with so much read after that I can't recall The Uses of Enchantment with clarity, but I can tell you with great emphasis that those of us with autistic children despise Brutal Bettleheim. He called us Nazis who destroyed our children's egos. After his death, former students told of his abusive behaviour.
It isn't just YA novels that are divorce-ridden. Think of Disney movies: Lion King, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, etc. Do any of them have main characters whose father and mother are alive and together?
Boethius said...
I think the reason why YA books have characters who are always orphaned or from a divorced family is because a complete family provides protection and security. These books play on the greatest emotional fears for youngsters and that is: not having anyone to take care of them or even care. Let's face it, coming from a secure, mom and dad, home does not play on any human fears. That is precisely why we should scream the benefits of such a home from the roof tops. That kind of life is boring and boring is good.
You are correct lelia, that Bettelheim was one of the leaders of the school of thought which blamed autism on cold rejecting parenting (especially mothers). I offer no defense of them for that. It was the arrogance of the times and the profession. Psychiatrists and psychologists were convinced that they saw things accurately, and those who resisted their ideas just couldn't face reality.
I have been present over the last 30 years as these experts have had their ideas shredded, and watched their contortions attempting to save scraps of their theories. They have fared far worse facing reality than those they mocked.
Wyman said...
It's not only true for YA books. I was pitching a short film at a church meeting once, and I was maintaining that the main character should have arrived alone to the art gallery the film was taking place in. One of the pastor's argued against it, saying "no one goes to an art gallery alone," to which my response was "film finds people in a place of solitude." I stick by this.
The characters in films are almost always alone in some sense when we first meet them. Luke Skywalker, Dorothy Gale, Oskar Schindler, Sister Maria, Rick Blaine, and certainly Citizen Kane were all completely alone at the beginning of their movies - and, depending on the movie, either safely nestled with a new family or completely alone at the end. Even movies about groups or families - The Godfather, for instance - the main character is still separate and alone.
John J. Coupal said...
Re: Erin's comment
We can go back to Disney's much earlier movies, such as Bambi, where the title character is orphaned, not by divorce but by a deer hunter. The father deer doesn't appear either.
Disney movies seem to have a common Child-Against-the-Tough-World theme. Maybe something in Walt's past led to that.
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SVSU Women's Basketball Drops Regional Matchup at Southern Indiana
Saginaw Valley (0-2) 19 18 13 10 60
Southern Indiana (2-0) 24 18 19 25 86
Pts: Anna Hall - 16
Reb: 2 Players (#10, #TM) - 6
Ast: Hannah Settingsgaard - 5
Pts: Grooms, Kaydie - 23
Reb: Dahlstrom, Morgan - 11
Ast: Harshbarger, Randa - 8
Score: Southern Indiana 86, Saginaw Valley 60
Records: USI (2-0) | SVSU (0-2)
Location: USI Arena
Evansville, Ind. — The Cardinal Women's Basketball team competed in the final game of the 2017 GLIAC/GLVC Challenge on the road against the University of Southern Indiana Sunday (Nov. 12) afternoon. Saginaw Valley trailed by just five points at the half but couldn't overcome a strong fourth quarter from the Screaming Eagles, falling by a final score of 86-60.
Southern Indiana started out hot with a 7-0 lead over the Cardinals and would keep the edge for the remainder of the first quarter, 24-19. Laurel Jacqmain led SVSU with 10 points in the opening 10 minutes of play.
Saginaw Valley quickly responded in the second quarter with Anna Hall posting a layup with 8:41 left to go to take its first lead of the game at 26-24. The Eagles took charge for the remainder of the half, outscoring the Cards 18-11. SVSU headed into the locker room trailing 42-37 behind USI.
Hall had a solid first half, scoring 11 points with two assists and two rebounds.
With Francesca Coury's triple in the third quarter, SVSU quickly drew to within a single point of the Eagles with the score 46-45. This would be the closest the team would get to a lead for the remainder of the contest.
Heading into the final 10 minutes, the Cardinals trailed by 11 points at 61-50. USI would go on to take the victory 86-60 with a solid offensive performance in the fourth.
Hall lead the Cardinal offense again in the second half, adding five points, four rebounds, two steals and one assist. Coury added five second half points.
Hall had another solid performance for the Cardinals, scoring a team-high 16 points. She added a team-best six rebounds, two steals and three assists, earning herself back-to-back "Meijer Player of the Game" accolades.
Southern Indiana show 54.2% (32-59) from the floor while Saginaw Valley shot 47.1% (24-51)
The Eagles connected on 15-17 shots from the foul line while the Cardinals were 6-11 from the charity stripe.
Saginaw Valley out-rebounded USI by a narrow 29-28 mark on the glass.
USI converted 31 points off 28 SVSU turnovers while the Cards had 15 points off 20 Eagle turnovers.
Jacqmain added 12 points, five rebounds and two steals. All of those are career-highs in her second contest.
Coury was also in double-digit figures scoring, adding 11 points on 4-5 shooting and 3-4 from three-point range.
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The Cardinals will head home for their first game of the season in the James E. O'Neill Jr. Arena Thursday (Nov. 16) night against regional opponent Hillsdale. Tip-off is slated for 6:00 p.m.
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A fiery clash between a former Donald Trump adviser and a CNN journalist has been captured on camera outside the White House.
The confrontation was sparked as right wing and fringe media figures gathered outside the building’s Rose Garden for a “social media summit” on Thursday.
Footage shared widely on social media, shows CNN political analyst Brian Karem, stood amid a crowd of mainstream media journalists, responding to a Trump supporter who repeatedly asks him not to be “sad” that he’s not part of the summit.
“No I’m just standing around,” Mr Karem can be heard saying in response.
He then taunts those attending the summit saying: “This is a group that is eager for demonic possession.”
A chorus of laughs can then be heard, before former White House deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka loudly pipes up, saying “ … and you’re a journalist, right?” sarcastically.
Mr Karem responds by beckoning Mr Gorka with his hands, saying: “Come on over here and talk to me brother. We can have a long conversation.”
media_cameraFormer Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka yells at CNN reporter Brian Karem. Picture: Alex Brandon/AP
media_cameraThe clash was filmed and widely shared on social media. Picture: Alex Brandon/AP
Mr Karem says something inaudible that prompted Mr Gorka to charge across the garden and confront him face-to-face.
“You’re not a journalist! You’re a punk!” Mr Gorka then screams in the journalist’s face.
Mr Gorka can then be seen turning and walking away as the President’s guests chanted his name — as Mr Karem cups his hands over his mouth and yells “go home” several times.
“Hey Gorka, get a job,” he yells.
One reporter from the White House press yelled at Mr Gorka as he left: “You should not be attacking journalists like this!” she said.
As the cheers die down, one of Mr Trump’s guests tells Mr Karem: “Just for the record, he’d kick your punk ass”.
Mr Trump used conference to applaud far-right social media provocateurs even as he conceded that some of them are extreme in their views.
The President used the event to air grievances over his treatment by social media chiefs, but also to praise some of the voices on the right, who help energise his political base.
“Some of you guys are out there,” he told them. “I mean it’s genius, but it’s bad.”
Mr Trump singled out for praise James O’Keefe, the right wing activist whose Project Veritas organisation once tried to plant a false story in The Washington Post.
In May 2010, Mr O’Keefe and three others pleaded guilty in federal court to a misdemeanour in a scheme in which they posed as telephone repairmen in Senator Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans district office.
“He’s not controversial, he’s truthful,” Mr Trump insisted of Mr O’Keefe.
Playing to the friendly crowd in the East Room, AP reports that POTUS was at ease, joking about everything from his spelling in tweets (blaming his thumbs, not his brain, for any mistakes) to his hair (saying the rainy weather at his July 4 outdoor speech at least proved his hair was real.)
“With amazing creativity and determination, you are bypassing the corrupt establishment, and it is corrupt,” he said. “And you’re bypassing the very, very corrupt media.
media_cameraPresident Donald Trump praised his guests at the summit. Picture: Carolyn Kaster/AP
“You’re challenging the media gatekeepers and corporate censors to bring the truth to the American people. … You communicate directly with our citizens without going through the fake news filter.”
Earlier in the day, Mr Trump sent a stream of Twitter messages lashing out at social media companies and the press.
The meeting represented an escalation of Mr Trump’s battle with companies like Facebook, Google and even his preferred communications outlet, Twitter, where he has an estimated 61 million followers.
The President has claimed, without evidence, that the companies are “against me” and even suggested US regulators should sue them on grounds of anti-conservative bias.
Mr Trump announced Thursday that he is directing his administration to explore “all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech and the free speech rights of all Americans”.
He added that he is inviting executives from major social media platforms to join him at the White House over the next month or so.
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Preliminary Entry List Storylines: Talladega
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After seven short fields in the first nine races of the season, there are 42 Cup teams entered in this Sunday’s race – the exact same 42 teams which arrived for the Daytona 500.
Back for the first time since Florida are D.J. Kennington and Brendan Gaughan, the two feel-good stories of SpeedWeeks. Kennington, the two-time NASCAR Pinty’s Series champion, ran a clean race before he was eliminated in a multi-car wreck not of his doing. This week, he trades the blue-and-white paint scheme for an all-white Toyota with sponsorship from his engine provider Triad Racing Technologies. Gaughan finished a strong 11th at Daytona in team owner Mark Beard’s old Richard Childress Racing chassis, the driver’s best finish in the series since he ran 6th in the 2004 finale at Homestead. Both drivers and teams hope for a sunny weekend as each will be sent home if qualifying is washed out.
Also returning is Tommy Baldwin Racing, who we last saw three rounds ago at Texas. Back behind the wheel is Elliott Sadler, 20th in Daytona, and sponsor Golden Corral, which Sadler carried to a 7th-place finish in last Saturday’s XFINITY race at Richmond. If the car makes the cut, Sadler will again run double-duty this weekend, where he arrives as the defending winner of the XFINITY race.
As announced on April 12, Joey Gase is also set to make his first Cup start since Daytona. After running with BK Racing in Florida, he moves to the #15 at Premium Motorsports, moving its regular driver Reed Sorenson to Derrike Cope’s #55. When last we saw Sorenson in the #55, he was wrecked out of the transfer spot in his Can-Am Duel by Corey LaJoie, sending Sorenson and team home. Xchange of America, which sponsored Sorenson at Texas, returns to the #55 this week. Gase brings with him sponsorship from Sparks Energy, which also backs his XFINITY entry with Jimmy Means Racing and is the title sponsor for the XFINITY race. Gase finished 23rd in his Daytona Cup debut this February and will be making his first Cup event at Talladega.
As of this writing, three teams do not have a listed primary sponsor: Rick Ware Racing’s #51 Chevrolet for Timmy Hill, Circle Sport with The Motorsports Group’s #33 Chevrolet for Jeffrey Earnhardt, and – surprisingly – Chase Elliott’s #24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports (since Hooters was named his official sponsor on January 23). Hill looks to make his third Talladega start for a third different team, following a 42nd-place run for Joe Nemechek in 2012 and a 41st-place finish for Premium Motorsports in 2015. Jeffrey Earnhardt made his Talladega debut last fall (running 34th), where he also first ran his current silver-and-black paint scheme as tribute to his grandfather.
At Daytona, Cole Whitt nearly scored a Top 10 for TriStar Motorsports in his #72 Chevrolet before he ran out of fuel, leaving him 18th. Since then, Whitt has continued to surprise, giving the team some of its best runs in years. Sunday at Richmond, he finished 27th, the team’s best finish at the three-quarter-mile oval since March 7, 1993, when the late Bobby Hamilton ran 22nd in the #68 Country Time Ford. Whitt’s best finish at Talladega came in this race two years ago when he finished 13th, though last year he was again in the Top 10 when a last lap, last turn pileup left him 18th. RTIC Coolers, who backed his Premium Motorsports entry here last year, serves as Whitt’s primary sponsor for the third time this season.
Leavine Family Racing and driver Michael McDowell are always ones to watch on the superspeedways. Both driver and team scored their best Cup finish in the rain-shortened Daytona race in July 2014, finishing 7th. The team is expected to make an announcement this week, which may have something to do with Winn-Dixie sponsoring their red #95 Chevrolet this week.
A dark horse to watch this Sunday will be Ty Dillon, who prior to the pit incident with Clint Bowyer late at Richmond had been riding a streak of seven finishes of 22nd or better, including five Top 20 finishes. Like LFR, Germain Racing has also been a sleeper at the plate tracks, particularly Talladega, where in the fall of 2012 previous driver Casey Mears was pushing Michael Waltrip to the lead on the final lap when Tony Stewart’s block triggered a wreck that handed the win to Matt Kenseth. Dillon ran 30th in the Daytona 500 when he was eliminated in a crash on Lap 143.
Also one to watch will be Matt DiBenedetto, who ran a strong 9th during his last plate race in the 500. DiBenedetto has just one Top 20 finish since then – a 19th two weeks ago at Bristol – and the Go FAS Racing team finished in the same spot in this race last year with Bobby Labonte.
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42 teams are also listed to attempt Saturday’s XFINITY Series race. For the second-straight week, neither of Obaika Racing’s cars (#77 or #97) are entered, nor are drivers Stephen Leicht and Josh Bilicki.
Owner-drivers Mike Harmon, Morgan Shepherd, and B.J. McLeod are all entered. Harmon hasn’t started an XFINITY race at Talladega since 2014, when he ran 28th in his Dodge. His best finish remains a 17th in 2008. Shepherd made the show last year, finishing 39th after running 27 laps, which was his first start there since 2013. His best XFINITY finish stands as an 11th in 2003, but in Cup he’s scored four Top Fives, including a track-best 3rd in 1995. McLeod made his first Talladega start last year and ran 36th. Jeff Green returns to McLeod’s #8 after a one-off in Jordan Anderson’s #93 RSS Racing Chevrolet last week. The switch ended Anderson’s last-place streak at five races, though Anderson could continue the team’s streak to seven races if he qualifies this Saturday.
Back for the first time since the second round at Atlanta is Chris Cockrum and his #25 Advanced Communications Group Chevrolet, which ran 37th here last spring after a hard crash on Lap 31.
Scott Lagasse, Jr., who came home 6th after the dust settled at Daytona, is back in JGL Racing’s #24 Toyota. Last Saturday at Richmond, the #24 earned its best finish since then with Dylan Lupton, taking 12th on the lead lap.
Martin Roy, known for his dramatic near-miss at Las Vegas, is back in Mario Gosselin’s #90 Chevrolet for the first time since Fontana. If his #90 Cote / Gamache Truck Center Chevrolet makes the cut, it will be Roy’s first Talladega start.
Richard Childress Racing has also entered Ben Kennedy in their #2 Rheem Chevrolet, giving Kennedy his first XFINITY start since last summer at Iowa. Kennedy finished 5th in last fall’s Truck Series race at Talladega.
ARCA veteran Mark Thompson is entered in Motorsports Business Management’s #13 Phoenix Air Toyota. Thompson was withdrawn from February’s race in Daytona, but has made at least one plate race the last two years, running 27th at Talladega in 2015 and 31st at Daytona in July 2016. Timmy Hill is entered in the second MBM car, the #40 Dodge, and could again be running double-duty.
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Quinn Abernathy
Killed: June 01, 2019 at 01:37 pm EDT
Gabriel Born: May 25, 2011 Forum Topics Started: 2
Race: Angel Forum Posts / Replies: 38
Home City: New York Mail Sent: 286
I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
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Quinn Abernathy's Biography
Lie stacked upon lie, Quinn Abernathy found herself in a strange limbo of her own creation. Incapable of rejoining society, without support, and unable to let go, she would take steps necessary to do what is best for her family. A note, left upon the door of her New York cabin, for Tiber Loche. The inside would be left cleaned, the small round table within laden with photographic gifts to him and little trinkets that had served as a reminder of their time together. That is all she had left to do, before packing up and making her way to her field of dreams.
Wyoming had always been the disallowed means to an end, the thoughtful safe haven that had never been theirs. There, in the country, Quinn would live on - raising Sam and Finn with books, and earth, and stars.
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Saito Eiji 08/17/18 Never reach out to me again.
Saito Eiji 08/17/18 She only gets one word in response. What.
Tiber Loche 06/12/18 Once again Tiber's thick thumbs paused over they virtual letters on the phone. His jaw set tight while his eyes scrolled past the words over and over again. No simple expression could encompass what he was feeling, or how heavy the blow was to the pit of his stomach. Tiber felt like it's contents were going to spill onto the hotel floor, but he chokes his nerves back down and tightens his fingers into a hard fist to keep his hands from shaking.
Quinnie
Wow Quinnie, that's amazing! We're so happy for you. Gideon must be ecstatic. Everyone has a past. I'm sure Tiber knows that you don't blame him for what happened...
Again, the urge to wretch threatens to overcome him.
Are you going to tell him?
Tiber Loche 06/12/18 Quinnie It's okay. You can tell me anything, you know that.
Tiber Loche 06/02/18 Miss Addie? That's not right... She doesn't think...?
It's fine, Quinn. I was worried about you, but I'm glad you're okay. Are you hurt? I can be there in twelve hours.
I can be there in six if I kicked Derek out of the drivers seat...
Tiber Loche 04/21/18 ..
Tiber Loche 04/20/18
Saito Eiji 04/18/18 ...I don't have a brother?
Tiber Loche 04/05/18 -quietly slips back into the woods-
Tiber Loche 04/05/18 -for shame-
Tiber Loche 04/05/18 -'obviously' none the wiser-
Tiber Loche 04/05/18 ->_>-
Quinn Abernathy, Tiber Loche
Adara Litvinova 01/18/18 Mass Text: My Livi, The Butcher, The Pretty One, Mrs. Pretty, Irish, The King
We’re home.
And just in case they didn’t know who exactly was home Addie sent an attachment; after all, it had been far too long and numbers do change. Like Adara’s number. Constantly. Paranoid much?
John Doe 01/17/18 “Of course Santa is real, who else is going to drag the bad children down to the eternal damnation fires of hell if he isn’t real?”
Saito Eiji 11/21/17 -Swipes left.-
Jameson Orlav 09/15/17 Jameson has been tasked. Well, it's not really a task, per say. More like, some smelly werewolf who lives in the mansion upstairs had insisted that he take these odd looking severed heads and deliver each of them to a respective patron. The Doctor doesn't quite understand why, but he doesn't actually care in the least. Tiberius, as he had introduced himself, had paid him a pretty penny to see that the deed got done.
Whatever. It worked in his favor.
He doubted that the mutt had expected him to put his own spin on the delivery, however. Jameson waited until the guy fled to go out and find some pretty pink boxes. White ribbons would accompany the painted cardboard- tied at the top into fancy, frilly bows. There's no way that any unsuspecting victim would come to realize what was actually inside of the box until it had been delivered.
Deranged doesn't even begin to encompass Jameson Orlav. To each person he drops off a box. While they're away, of course. His last encounter inside the house had brought immediate trouble for Ella. He would look to avoid that this time, if it was possible.
To Gideon, Quinn, and Ella herself. Inside each of their rooms they'd find a box. For Quinn and Gideon, their room would house two.
For Quinn;
The second head saw bare lips, eyelids naked but with full rouge. With his fingers, Tiber smeared the cream over the hollowed cheeks of the woman, imitating a full scarlet blush. This head was going to Quinn Harper. The only woman who had ever succeeded in making him whole. Quinn always pulled warmth from within the icy pits of him. She gave his life purpose, and chipped away at him until all that was left was love and affection.
And yo, there's no sign that Jameson has been here. Just so we're clear. Let's all relax on the coronary front for now.
Tiber Loche 09/10/17 Tiber reread text many times after it had come in on his phone. At first he thumbs a fast reply. Okay. Always ready to do as Quinn pleased. A simple word communicated from her and he could be gone. But it's not that easy. He's not as strong as the urges inside of him. He isn't as formidable as the other half of his existence that continuously fought for or dominance over his body and his mind.
The next reply was longer, and more defiant. I can't, and I won't. Tiber deleted that one, too, after threatening to crush the phone beneath the brute strength of his bare hands. It takes him hours to decide whether he would respond. It would be easier if he didn't. His fight has almost burned out entirely, flickering heartily from both ends of the stick.
Almost.
I can't stop him, Quinn.
There is no universe that exists where Quinn wouldn't understand what he meant. Somehow he would need to find a way to convey that remaining out of sight was the best that he could do to keep her safe. For now. But there was no place for him to hide. There never had been.
Tiber Loche 09/08/17 We're not going to waste any time on the 'how's. Straight to the point, was that Quinn would arrive back in her room. Wherever it was that she was staying, because honestly it did not matter.
Where Quinn Harper went, Tiber was never far behind. Even if he was, like a ghost over her shoulder, he was there.
When she arrived, she'd find a note folded delicately upon her pillow. It would be easy to overlook since the creamy color of the paper blended with the pale fabric of the pillowcase. A messy scrawl on the inside would be identifiable right away.
Don't forget me.
Tiber could do his best to try and stop Quinn from whatever it was she was about to do.
But he owed her this. Her freedom.
Saito Eiji 08/30/17 I need you to not tell me how to live.
I'll bring catnip.
Tiber Loche 07/31/17 He can smell her before she's even approached him. Tiber knew Quinn was here. It had everything to do with his decision to seek out Ella Donovan in the first place. He was unsure of the way Quinn would react, but it bore no weight against the decision he had made to find her and be with her. There is a sense in which Quinn knew this, of that Tiberius could be sure. It was only a matter of time before she reached out in one respect or another. Good or bad.
And here she was.
Quinn's scent is still as intoxicating as Tiber remembers, the very essence of her igniting an eagerness inside of him and consuming his body in a blaze. But his elation is extinguished as quickly as it had arisen, as the shaky unsurety of Quinn's voice sticks a pin through the heart of his jest. The man had expected nothing less, but her eternal heartbreak would never upset him any less than the first day he had come to recognize both fear and anguish behind her once beloved stare.
Because of him.
"Quinn..." Tiber breathes life into the only word that could swell his heart. A sensation that would never beseech him. Though she refuses to meet his eyes with the soft light of her own, he still gazes down upon her, studying all of the things about her that had changed. Her shoulders seemed more square. She stood taller, and with more conviction than before. Had she become harder? Did Tiberius manage to break her spirit?
Of all worldly possibilities, that could not be true.
"Quinn, look at me." It is a simple demand, soft but firm. Tiber is more unsure than ever about Quinn's reception. But no matter her reaction, nothing would surprise him.
El Orlav 05/04/17 ~*~ Ella had started to find a minuscule of entertainment at the number of creases in her ceiling. It was this moment she realized that she needed her own people in her sanctuary. The Order had all the people she knew, except for a very select few. She reactivated her Tinder page, and changed the About Me to reflect what she was looking for exactly. She needed a second hand person to be with her. That wouldn't mind her questionable obsession about Jameson Orlav. The friendly face lights up on her screen. Quinn? She looked nice. Grinning she swiped right. Only hoping that perhaps this nice looking Quinn would think she looked nice too. ~*~
Tiber Loche 11/28/16 -waves paper-
They hate you?!
John Doe 06/28/15 For prose that soars higher than the pines, but stays true to it's roots. For daring to branch out where few writers would ever go. For true horticultural excellence. I bestow upon you the coveted Gold Star!
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UConn takes out interesting ad in Dallas Morning News
UConn wanted to make a statement in Big 12 country that it has national championship pedigree. So, university communications took out a full-sized ad in Monday's Dallas Morning News trumpeting the men's basketball team's success -- and, in the midst, taunting Thursday night's opponent, SMU.
It's funny and cute, but is it really necessary? UConn very much needs a win on Thursday night. SMU will already be brimming with emotion. It's Senior Night, and the seniors (particularly Nic Moore and Markus Kennedy) have been through a lot. They learned in September that they were barred from the postseason in their senior seasons, so it's already been an emotional year for them. Add on the fact that it's their final home game at Moody Coliseum, along with the fact that the Mustangs are still very much in the hunt for their only tangible goal -- an AAC regular-season title -- and, like we said, emotions will already be running high.
An ad like this (and again, it should be pointed out that it was university communications that took out the ad, not athletic communciations) could serve as bulletin-board fodder and only add to that emotion. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but knowing today's athlete, any extra motivation can likely only help SMU.
(Oh, and by the way, the game's on ESPN2, not ESPN).
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| July 25, 2011, 2:39 pm
CU, CSU rookie free agents await NFL offers
By Natalie Meisler
The career limbo of several former Colorado and Colorado State football players is near an end.
That labor settlement allows NFL teams to conduct their annual land grab of rookie free agent talent. Usually the undrafted players are taken within hours of the end of the draft. The labor dispute left all those summer camp hopefuls awaiting their future.
For CU, fan favorite linebacker B.J. Beatty and wide receiver Travon Patterson would be likely candidates for a call.
CSU’s Zac Pauga brings a dimension as a true fullback for an NFL offense while Scott Albritton is marketable as a long snapper if recovered from ACL surgery. Local favorite Ricky Brewer should also get a look.
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DU hockey’s new volunteer coach is a war veteran
The DU hockey team’s new volunteer coach has an extraordinary story. Indeed, Matty Thomas of Bow, N.H., is the older brother of former Pioneers captain Andrew Thomas (2004-08) and the son of former Western Collegiate Hockey Association referee Larry Thomas. But Matty’s military background is what really catches your attention.
Thomas played hockey for Navy’s club team, served as team captain, and graduated from the Academy in 2005, and then, according to a DU release:
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| July 25, 2011, 11:48 am
Miles to Alford: You can’t stop me from Tweeting
New Mexico basketball players, who had their Twitters accounts hijacked by their coach, Steve Alford, have found a First Amendment ally in Colorado State coach Tim Miles.
It also means war in the Las Vegas recruiting gyms.
Alford clamped down on internal news dissemination by ordering his players to cancel their Twitter accounts. Facebook is OK, but there is a staff censor.
Naturally the topic came out when the rival league coaches assembled on the recruiting circuit. Miles, who lives, breathes and eats Twitter, joked that Alford threatened him to stop Tweeting.
Then Miles posted this broadside volley on his Twitter account: “Coach Alford can’t stop me from Tweeting. He can only hope to contain me!”
Categories: College Basketball, Colorado State University, Mountain West Conference
CU QB commit named national “Elite 11”
By Tom Kensler
It remains to be seen whether Colorado quarterback commitment Shane Dillon being named to the prestigious national Eliite 11 QB list becomes a blessing or a curse.
Expectations are sure to rise. But it does indicate that the senior-to-be at El Cajon (Calif.) Christian has the physical gifts and mental sharpness to succeed at the next level.
Read the story here from Rivals.com’s Adam Munsterteiger, publisher of BuffStampede.com, who writes:
24 of the nation’s top quarterback prospects from the Class of 2012 competed for five days at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., this past week with the goal of being named an Elite 11 quarterback.
Colorado commitment Shane Dillon could not contain his emotions when he achieved that goal on Friday.
“Oh my gosh, [being named an Elite 11 quarterback] is a dream come true,” Dillon said in a text message to BuffStampede.com.
At El Cajon (Calif.) Christian high school, Dillon recorded 2,982 yards and completed 19 touchdowns during a junior year. He committed to CU and also got offers from Ohio State, Arizona, Cincinnati and Vanderbilt.
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Philippines Trade Balance Swings to Deficit in June
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD554.79 million in June of 2015, swinging from a USD632.84 million surplus a year earlier as exports fell while imports surged.
In June, exports declined by 3.3 percent year-on-year to USD 5.28 billion. Sales of other mineral products fell the most by 38.2 percent, followed by articles of apparel and clothing accesssories (-29.5 percent), chemicals (-17.0 percent); machinery and transport equipment (-5.8 percent); ignition wiring set and other wiring sets used in vehicles, aircrafts and ships (-5.2 percent) and other manufactures (-1.6 percent). In contrast, exports increased for: copper concentrates (+295.7 percent), woodcrafts and furniture (+25.8 percent) and coconut oil (+3.9 percent). Electronic products, the country's top exports and accounted for 46.2 percent of total share, also rose by 9.5 percent. Among electronic products, components/devices grew by 16.9 percent year-on-year.
Outbond shipments to the US, representing a 13.6 percent of total exports, dropped by 4.3 percent to USD720.35.00 million, followed by China (-30.2 percent to USD600.92 million, 11.4 percent share) and the ASEAN countries (-10.4 percent to USD690.47million. In contrast, sales to Japan, the country's top destination of exports, rose by 29.0 percent to USD1.24 billion. Exports also increased to Hong Kong (+10.7 percent to USD539.79 million, 10.2 percent share), South Korea (+67.2 percent to USD357.85 million, 6.8 percent share) and the EU countries (+10.1 percent to USD616.41 million, 11.7 percent share).
Imports increased by 22.6 percent to USD5.92 billion. Purchases rose the most for electronic products (+120.2 percent), followed by industrial machinery and equipment (+39.2 percent), telecommunication equipment and electrical machinery (+23.3 percent), other food and live animals (+14.3 percent), miscellaneous manufactured articles (+12.6 percent) and cereals and cereal preparations (+8.7 percent). In contrast, imports declined for: mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials (-21.9 percent); plastics in primary and non-primary forms (-14.3 percent); transport equipment (-7.2 percent) and iron and steel (-2.5 percent).
Purchases from China, the biggest source of imports, increased by 1.7 percent to USD884.06 million. Imports from the country's other trading partners also rose: the US (+123.8 percent to USD845.29 million, 14.3 percent share), Japan (+6.0 percent to USD494.12 million, 8.3 percent share), Taiwan (+111.9 percent to USD484.83 million, the ASEAN countries (+19.3 percent to USD1.38 billion) and the EU countries (+16.0 percent to USD443.81 million). In contrast, purchases from South Korea, representing a 6.8 percent share, declined by 12.0 percent to USD403.16 million.
In June 2015, the country registered a revised USD 507 million trade surplus.
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The Philippine's trade deficit narrowed to USD 3.28 billion in May of 2019 from USD 3.88 billion in the same month a year earlier, as exports increased while imports declined.
Philippines Trade Gap Narrows in April
The Philippine's trade deficit narrowed to USD 3.50 billion in April of 2019 from USD 3.70 billion in the same month a year earlier, as exports rose while imports dropped.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens in March
The Philippine's trade deficit widened to USD 3.14 billion in March of 2019 from USD 2.34 billion in the same month a year earlier. Exports contracted 2.5 percent from a year earlier to USD 5.88 billion, while imports rose by 7.8 percent to USD 9.01 billion.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens in February
The Philippine's trade deficit widened to USD 2.79 billion in February of 2019 from USD 2.54 billion in the same month a year earlier. Exports contracted 0.9 percent from a year earlier to USD 5.18 billion, while imports rose by 2.6 percent to USD 7.97 billion.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens in January
The Philippine's trade deficit widened to USD 3.76 billion in January of 2019 from USD 3.16 billion in the same month a year earlier. Exports contracted 1.7 percent from a year earlier to USD 5.28 billion, while imports rose by 5.8 percent to USD 9.03 billion.
Philippines Trade Gap Smallest in 3 Months
The Philippine's trade deficit narrowed to USD 3.75 billion in December of 2018 from USD 3.97 billion in the same month a year earlier. It marked the smallest trade gap since September, as exports dropped 12.3 percent year-on-year to USD 4.72 billion, while imports declined 9.4 percent to USD 8.47 billion.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in November
The Philippine's trade deficit widened to USD 3.90 billion in November of 2018 from USD 3.28 billion in the same month a year earlier. Imports went up 6.8 percent to USD 9.47 billion while exports fell 0.3 percent to USD 5.57 billion.
Philippines Trade Gap Hits Record High in October
The Philippine's trade deficit widened sharply to USD 4.21 billion in October of 2018 from USD 2.59 billion in the same month a year earlier. It was the largest trade gap on record, as import rose much more than exports.
Philippines Trade Gap Largest in 9 Months
The Philippine's trade deficit widened sharply to USD 3.93 billion in September of 2018 from USD 1.75 billion in the same month a year earlier. It was the largest trade gap since December 2017, as imports surged while exports fell.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in August
The Philippine's trade deficit widened to USD 3.51 billion in August of 2018 from USD 2.74 billion in the same month a year earlier, as exports rose less than imports.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens Sharply in July
The Philippine's trade deficit widened sharply to USD 3.55 billion in July of 2018 from USD 1.31 billion in the same month a year earlier, mainly due to a surge in imports.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens Sharply in June
The Philippine's trade deficit widened sharply to USD 3.35 billion in June of 2018 from USD 1.59 billion in the same month a year earlier, as exports edged down while imports surged.
Philippines Trade Deficit Largest in 5 Months
The Philippine's trade deficit widened to USD 3.70 billion in May of 2018 from USD 2.51 billion in the same month a year earlier. It is the largest trade gap since last December, as export fell while imports surged.
The Philippine's trade deficit widened sharply to USD 3.62 billion in April of 2018 from USD 1.55 billion in the same month a year earlier. It is the largest trade gap since last December, as export tumbled while imports surged
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in March
The Philippine's trade deficit widened 23.9 percent to USD 2.61 billion in March of 2018 from USD 2.10 billion in the same month a year earlier.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens Sharply in February
The Philippine's trade deficit widened 73.3 percent to USD 3.06 billion in February of 2018 from USD 1.77 billion in the same month a year earlier, as imports surged while exports fell.
The Philippine's trade deficit widened 34.4 percent to USD 3.32 billion in January of 2018 from USD 2.47 billion in the same month a year earlier, mainly due to a surge in imports.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens Sharply in December
The Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 4.02 billion in December of 2017, compared to a USD 2.47 billion gap in the same month a year earlier, as imports surged while exports declined.
Philippines Trade Deficit Largest on Record in November
The Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 3.78 billion in November of 2017, compared to a USD 2.49 billion gap in the same month a year earlier.
Philippines Trade Deficit Largest on Record in October
The Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 2.84 billion in October of 2017, compared to a USD 2.22 billion gap in the same month a year earlier.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in September
The Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 1.91 billion in September of 2017, compared to a USD 2.02 billion gap in the same month a year earlier.
The Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 2.41 billion in August of 2017, compared to a USD 2.13 billion gap in the same month a year earlier. It was the largest trade deficit since May, as exports rose less than imports.
Philippines Trade Gap Smallest in 17 Months
The Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 1.65 billion in July of 2017, compared to a USD 2.37 billion gap in the same month a year earlier. It was the smallest trade deficit since February 2016, as exports rose while imports fell.
Philippines Trade Gap Narrows 21.5% YoY in June
The Philippines posted a USD 2.15 billion in June of 2017, compared to a USD 2.74 billion gap in the same month a year earlier, as exports rose 0.8 percent from a year earlier while imports fell 2.5 percent.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens 23% YoY In May
The Philippines trade deficit increased to USD 2.75 billion in May of 2017, compared to a USD 2.24 billion gap a year earlier, as exports rose less than imports.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows In April
Philippines trade deficit narrowed to USD 2.05 billion in April of 2017, compared to a USD 2.58 billion gap a year earlier, as exports rose while imports fell.
Philippines recorded a USD 2.30 billion trade deficit in March of 2017, compared to a USD 1.75 billion gap a year earlier, as exportss rose less than imports.
Philippines registered a USD 1.73 billion trade deficit in February of 2017, compared to a USD 1.10 billion gap a year earlier, as exports rose less than imports.
Philippines Trade Gap Narrows In January
Philippines posted a USD 2.31 billion trade deficit in January of 2017, compared to a USD 2.64 billion gap a year earlier, as exports rose more than imports.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens In December
Philippines posted a trade deficit of USD 2.57 billion in December of 2016, compared to a USD 1.59 billion gap a year earlier, as imports rose much more than exports.
Philippines Trade Gap Widens to 10-Month High
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 2.57 billion in November of 2016, compared to a USD 0.98 billion gap a year earlier. It was the largest trade gap since January, as exports fell while imports rose.
Philippines Trade Deficit Largest in 6 Months in October
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 2.16 billion in October of 2016, compared to a USD 1.94 billion gap a year earlier. It was the largest trade gap since April, as exports grew less than imports.
Philippines Trade Gap Narrows to 6-Month Low in September
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 1.89 billion in September of 2016, compared to a USD 1.30 billion gap a year earlier. It was the smallest trade gap since March, mainly due to a rebound in exports.
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 2.02 billion in August of 2016, compared to a USD 1.05 billion gap a year earlier as exports fell while imports rose.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in July
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 2.05 billion in July of 2016, compared to a USD 1.52 billion gap a year earlier as exports fell much more than imports.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in June
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 2.10 billion in June of 2016, compared to a USD 0.57 billion gap a year earlier and in line with expectations, as exports fell while imports rose.
Philippines Trade Balance Swings to Deficit in May
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD2.02 billion in May of 2016, compared to a 0.065 billion surplus a year earlier, as exports fell while imports jumped.
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD2.28 billion in April of 2016, larger than a 0.62 billion gap a year earlier. It was the largest deficit since February as exports fell while imports jumped.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens Sharply in March
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD1.75 billion in March of 2016, larger than a 0.26 billion gap a year earlier as exports fell while imports rose.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in February
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD1.10 billion in February of 2016, larger than a 0.84 billion gap a year earlier as exports fell while imports rose.
Philippines Trade Deficit Hits Fresh Record High in January
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD2.64 billion in January of 2016, as compared to a USD0.86 billion gap a year earlier and missing market consensus. It is the largest trade deficit on record as exports declined while imports rose to the highest in over five years.
Philippines Trade Balance Swings to Surplus in December
Philippines reported a trade surplus of USD603.03 million in December of 2015, as compared to a USD667.47 million gap a year earlier and beating market consensus. It is the largest surplus since September 2014, as imports fell much more than exports.
Philippine Posts Smallest Trade Gap in 5 Months
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD976.9 million in November of 2015, as compared to a USD361.35 million gap a year earlier and above market consensus. It is the smallest deficit since June, as exports fell while imports rose less than expected.
Philippines Trade Deficit Largest in the Record
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD1,937 million in October of 2015, as compared to a USD441.11 million gap a year earlier and below market consensus. It is the largest deficit in the record, as exports plunged while imports rose more than expected.
Philippines Trade Balance Swings to Large Deficit
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD1,230 million in September of 2015, swinging from a USD63.33 million surplus a year earlier but above market consensus, as exports plunged while imports rose.
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD953.89 million in August of 2015, significantly up from a USD373.28 million gap a year earlier but better than market consensus, as exports fell while imports rose.
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD1.18 billion in July of 2015, markedly up from a USD138.95 million gap a year earlier and missing market forecasts, as exports fell while imports surged.
Philippines Trade Surplus Narrows in May
Philippines reported a trade surplus of USD 508.86 million in May of 2015, down from a USD 862.71 million surplus a year earlier as exports fell more than imports.
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 300.92 million in April of 2015, down from a USD 802.32 million gap a year earlier as imports fell more than exports.
Philippines Posts Trade Surplus in March
Philippines reported a trade surplus of USD 264.1 million in March of 2015, swinging from a USD 217.3 million gap a year earlier as exports grew while imports declined.
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 813 million in February of 2015, markedly up from a USD 130.93 million gap a year earlier as exports fell while imports grew.
Philippines Trade Deficit Largest Since April 2014
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 751.5 million in January of 2015, down from a USD 1.57 billion gap a year earlier as imports fell more than exports.
Philippines Post Small Trade Deficit in December
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 68.22 million in December of 2014, narrowing from a USD 485.33 million gap a year earlier as imports fell the most since April 2012 while exports declined at a slower pace.
Philippines Posts Trade Surplus in November
Philippines reported a trade surplus of USD 272.2 million in November of 2014, swinging from a revised USD 126 million deficit in the same month of the previous year as imports fell the most since April 2012 and exports surged.
Philippines Trade Balance Swings to Deficit in October
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 55.6 million in October of 2014, swinging from a revised USD 183 million surplus in the previous month and missed market forecasts, as imports grew at a faster pace than exports.
Philippines Posts Trade Surplus in September
Philippines reported a USD 281 million trade surplus in September of 2014, reversing from a USD 654 million deficit a year earlier, and far above market forecasts. Exports grew 15.7 percent, while imports declined 2.6 percent.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in August
Philippines trade gap sharply decreased to USD 16.6 million in August of 2014 from a USD 608 million deficit a year earlier, and far below market forecasts. Exports grew 10.5 percent, while imports declined 1.7 percent. In July of 2014, the country recorded a USD 33 million trade deficit.
Philippines Trade Balance Swings to Deficit in July
Philippines reported a trade deficit of USD 33 million in July of 2014 compared to a revised USD 635 million gap a year earlier, as exports grew 12.4 percent while imports remained unchanged. In June, the country posted a revised USD 625 million trade surplus.
Philippines Reports Trade Surplus in June
Philippines reported a trade surplus of USD 731.33 million in June of 2014 compared to a USD 399 million deficit a year earlier, as exports surged 21.3 percent and imports fell 3.6 percent. In May, the country posted a USD 718.14 million surplus, the first trade surplus since November of 2013.
Philippines Trade Balance Back to Surplus in May
Philippines trade balance swung to a USD 718.14 million surplus in May of 2014 from a USD 743 million deficit in the previous month, the first black in the last seven months. Exports grew 6.9 percent year-on-year while imports fell 9.6 percent.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in April
Philippines trade gap increased to USD 743 million in April of 2014 from a USD 647 million deficit a year earlier. Exports grew a meager 0.8 percent year-on-year while imports rose at a faster 3 percent.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in March
Philippines trade gap decreased to USD 145.7 million in March of 2014 from a USD 253 million deficit a year earlier. Exports grew 12.3 percent year-on-year, driven by a 10 percent surge in electronic sales.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in February
Philippines trade gap decreased 93.1 percent from a year earlier in February of 2014 as exports surged 24.4 percent and imports rose 0.3 percent.
Philippines’ Trade Deficit Doubles in January
The trade deficit widened in January of 2014 to USD -1.38 billion from USD -0.72 billion a year earlier and USD -0.70 billion in December of 2013. While exports climbed for the eighth consecutive month, imports posted the highest increase in nearly 3 years.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in 2013
In 2013, Philippines trade deficit decreased 23 percent to USD 7.73 billion, from USD 10.03 billion in the previous year, due to a 3.6 percent rise in sales. Considering the last month of 2013, the trade deficit narrowed to USD 695 million.
Philippines Trade Balance Returns to Deficit in November
In November of 2013, Philippines trade balance turned into a deficit of USD 934 million, after recording a USD 201 million surplus in the previous month. Yet, compared with the same month last year, the trade deficit narrowed 40.9 percent, as exports posted a double-digit growth of 18.9 percent.
Philippines Trade Balance Turns Into a Surplus in October
In October of 2013, Philippines trade balance turned into a USD 201 million surplus, the first surplus in three years. While exports rose for the fifth consecutive month by an annual 14 percent, imports recorded the steepest fall since April of 2012, as purchases of electronic parts fell 7.3 percent yoy.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in September
In September of 2013, Philippines’ trade deficit increased to USD 665 million, from USD 516 million a year earlier. While sales of electronic products surged 12.8 percent year-on-year, imports rose at a faster pace of 29.8 percent.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in August Over a Year Earlier
In August of 2013, Philippines’ trade deficit narrowed to USD 961 million, from USD 1374 million a year earlier. Although exports recorded its fastest growth for the year, imports increased at their best pace in more than two years.
Philippines Trade Deficit Increases in July
In July of 2013, Philippines’ trade deficit widened to USD 649 million, from USD 320 million a year earlier. While exports grew for the second consecutive month and electronic shipments rose for the first time this year, imports increased at their best pace in seven months.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in June
In June of 2013, Philippines’ trade deficit decreased to USD 369 million, from USD 789 million a year earlier. While the annual drop in imports doubled to 4.8 percent from 2.4 percent in the previous month, exports increased 4.1 percent.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in May
In May of 2013, Philippines’ trade deficit decreased to USD 370 million, from USD 1020 million in the previous month and USD 454 million a year earlier, as year-on-year imports contracted more than exports.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in April on Rising Imports
In April of 2013, Philippines’ trade deficit widened to USD 1020 million, from USD 593 million in the previous month and USD 153 million a year earlier. While exports dropped on weak US and China demand, imports recorded the first annual rise in four months.
Philippines' March Imports Down; Exports Flat
In March of 2013, total external trade in goods reached $9.251 billion, representing a 4.6 percent decline from $9.694 billion recorded in the same month of 2012. This was due to the 8.4 percent downward trend of total imports, while exports showed a slight 0.1 percent increase over a year earlier. The trade deficit narrowed in March of 2013 to $ -593.1 million, from $ -1048 million a year earlier.
In February of 2013, the Balance of Trade for the Philippines registered a deficit of $916 million from $566 billion deficit in the same period last year. This was due to the 5.8 percent downward trend of total imports from $4.996 billion to $4.708 billion in February 2013. Similarly, exports showed a 15.6 percent decrement from $4.430 billion to $3.741 billion in February 2013. Total external trade in goods for February 2013 reached $8.449 billion, representing a 10.4 percent decrease from $9.427 billion recorded during the same month in 2012.
Philippines Trade Deficit Narrows in January
In January of 2013, the Balance of Trade for the Philippines registered a deficit of $714 million from $1.010 billion deficit in the same period last year. This was due to the 8.0 percent downward trend of total imports from $5.134 billion to $4.725 billion in January 2013. Similarly, exports showed a 2.7 percent decrement from $4.123 billion in January 2012 to $4.011 billion. Total external trade in goods for January 2013 reached $8.735 billion, representing a 5.6 percent decrease from $9.257 billion recorded during the same month in 2012.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in December
In December of 2012, the Balance of Trade for the Philippines registered a deficit of $1.275 billion, as exports reached $3.971 billion and imports expanded to $5.246 billion. Total external trade in goods for December of 2012 reached $9.216 billion, representing a 14.6 percent increase from $8.040 billion recorded during the same month in 2011.
Philippines Trade Deficit Widens in October
The balance of trade for the Philippines in October 2012 registered a deficit of $832 million, as exports stood at $4.41 billion and imports at $5.24 billion. Total external trade in goods for October 2012 reached $9.648 billion, representing a 5.1 percent increase from $9.180 billion recorded during the same month in 2011.
Philippines Balance of Trade Deficit Widens in September
The balance of trade for the Philippines in September 2012 registered a deficit of $483 million, as exports stood at $4.78 billion while imports surged to $5.27 billion.
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Purk’s spulletjes
“Purk’s spulletjes” is a second screen iPad application for the dutch version of Sesamestreet. This project was assigned by ‘HvA’.
The goal of this project was to draw more viewers to the tv-show by creating more interest with a second screen app.
We created an app where you can play games before or after the show and collect stars. These stars let you spin the wheel which gives you rewards (like videos, wallpapers and songs) related to the character it lands on.
The second screen game is created to draw the kids to the tv-show. They have to pay close attention to the show to see which objects appear and then select them in the app. Because this game rewards way more stars, kids will definitely want to view the show.
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We made a prototype which you can see here.
This project was nominated for the Golden Dot Awards.
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Home Business Staff and services with Clarecare are at full capacity
Staff and services with Clarecare are at full capacity
Clarecare employee, Teresa Linnane of Kilfenora pictured before a recent church gate collection for the agency.
Services and staff at the largest Clare based volunteer agency are at capacity and unable to take on any additional cases.
Vulnerable people in Co Clare are being affected by the lack of resources at Clarecare. Their annual report highlights that staff and services are at capacity. General Manger, Fiacre Hensey revealed that requests for additional funding have been rejected by the HSE.
“The economic recovery has as yet not been felt in the voluntary or not-for-profit sector as funding, or lack of it, continues to be the biggest impediment to a sustained delivery of services to those vulnerable in our society. The pain is particularly acute in the provision of services for older persons, where the average number on the waiting list for Home Help on any given day is 150.
Clarecare has identified that appropriate home care could enable 6-10 persons to remain at home for the same cost as one can maintain a person in a residential facility. Currently the major focus of the HSE has been in the short-term provision of Home Care hours to facilitate hospital discharges.
A sample of statistics from the Annual Report shows that 195,211 Home Help Hours and 55,226 Home Care Package Hours were delivered by Clarecare to Clare residents in 2015. Over 11,000 meals were provided in people’s homes by home helps and over 11,000 meals were provided in the Clarecare meals centres for 2015. Specialised social workers for older persons received 4,257contacts in face-to-face meetings, telephone calls and written enquiries in 2015.
941 adult counselling hours were provided by qualified counsellors in 2015. Bushypark Addiction Treatment Centre is a 13 bed facility providing a 28 day residential treatment programme for people addicted to alcohol, drugs or gambling. 126 clients completed this residential programme in 2015, the majority with alcohol/polydrug addictions. Following treatment, clients attend a 2 year aftercare programme run in 18 locations in Clare, Limerick and Galway. 312 clients attended in 2015 supported by 49 trained volunteer facilitators.
In 2015 Bushypark saw a 25% increase in Gambling and Behavioural Addictions on 2014.Bushypark also provides an assessment service and 247 assessments were carried out in 2015.
The Family Support Team of 25 professional staff provides a wide range of services throughout the county. The model of working acknowledges that families can engage with Clarecare services at different levels and stages. A total of 2,132 parents and children availed of the Family Support Services in 2015.
All Clarecare services are based in Clare, primarily serving the people of Clare. Clarecare offices are in Ennis, Bushypark, Kilrush, Killaloe, Shannon, Miltown Malbay and Ennistymon. The services are based on the philosophy of working in a supportive role with people to assist them in finding solutions to their problems.
At present, virtually all Clarecare services are operating at full capacity and the rate of demand for many services is growing. Waiting lists do operate; however, every effort is made to ensure that those in greatest need are seen as a matter of urgency.
Rev. Ger Nash, Chairman of the Clarecare Board of Directors underlined the role the public plays in supporting the agency. “Grateful thanks to the public without whose support Clarecare would find it very difficult to carry out the work it does. The unfailingly generous response to the Annual Church Gate Collection and to the Christmas Food Appeal shows that Clarecare is seen as an effective and efficient means of transferring kindness and care from those who have enough to those who have needs of many different kinds. I would also like to thank the Staff and volunteers within the many services which Clarecare provides and to note the great spirit of teamwork which exists between volunteers and Staff.”
Clarecare liaises with bodies including The Dept. of Health (TUSLA, the HSE), the Dept. of Justice, the Dept. of Social Protection, Health Insurers and the Killaloe Diocese in order to ensure the best use of available resources. The services are delivered by almost 500 staff members, with 370 employed as part-time Home Helps, 74 core staff and 33 as Community Employment Scheme participants.
Mr. Hensey acknowledged that, “The skills level and expertise of Clarecare staff continue to be recognised by the academic world and by their peers. Clarecare staff have presented in various regional and national conferences and seminars and in academic institutions including Trinity College Dublin, NUIG Galway, UCC Cork, UL Limerick. This increased exposure has ensured that Clarecare is quickly gaining a coveted reputation for competent, professional service delivery in the social services sector. We are deservedly up there with the best on many fronts”.
Clarecare
Fiacre Hensey
Ger Nash
Clarecare Annual Church Gate Collection this weekend
Emergency Services Charity Cycle on September 15th
New opening hours for Clarecare Thrift Shop
Clarecare hampers helped over 300 families in December
Clarecare to run course for adoptive parents
Hundreds of Clare families benefit from Clarecare campaign
Clare adoption service concerned about proposed new legislation
Clarecare records increased service demand despite funding cuts
Kilrush RNLI tasked to assist in Kerry search
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Home / Opinions / A safe environment for healthcare
A safe environment for healthcare
Thu, 04/18/2019 - 9:36am Vic MacDonald
Vic MacDonald/Editor
Locally, one problem is that the Laurens County Council has chosen to provide ZERO money for mental health services. As the recession has gotten worse, they have chosen to end most “human services” funding. Compounding the problem is this: The State shorts the County $1 million a year (not fully funding the Local Government Fund, which instead of being funded is now being changed by our state lawmakers). That mean local council members have virtually no incentive to help fund “a state program”. Except, they do ..."
OUR VIEW -- Are Hospitals Safe?
If not, are we surprised? Our human investment
is lacking at Laurens County Government level.
Our healthcare workers are not safe.
National statistics show it. Two shootings in two days in South Carolina hospitals prove it. And these are just “the big events” - every day, healthcare workers are spit on, slapped, sexually assaulted and verbally abused. Mental health is part of the problem, the feeling in society that we can just say anything we want about anybody we want at any time - “Nobody tells me what to do” - is the much more insidious problem.
Aiming a gun at somebody in a hospital is, of course, the ultimate in healthcare workplace violence. Sorry to say, some of the people who do this might have to be shot dead before this epidemic becomes under control.
Before you take a gun into a hospital, please - we beg of you - call this number:
Mental Health, for help call: 864-938-0912
We say “we” because our editor, Vic MacDonald, is a member of the regional board for the Beckman Mental Health Center in Greenwood. That number is the Laurens campus. If they won’t help you, “we” want to know about it.
He serves along with Dr. Jerman Disasa and Health Faulkner of Laurens County (we have a Laurens County vacancy and would dearly love to have a doctor on our board). Heidi Hoogstraal, LPCS, is the Laurens County Mental Health Clinic Director.
Locally, one problem is that the Laurens County Council has chosen to provide ZERO money for mental health services.
As the recession has gotten worse, they have chosen to end most “human services” funding. Compounding the problem is this: The State shorts the County $1 million a year (not fully funding the Local Government Fund, which instead of being funded is now being changed by our state lawmakers). That mean local council members have virtually no incentive to help fund “a state program”.
Except, they do - That officer who was shot on April 11 is a person working in Laurens County. That person who was shot by the officer on April 11 is a Clinton resident. The people who could have been killed in the crossfire all have some kind of connection to Laurens County or they would not have been in the Prisma Health - Laurens County Memorial Hospital ER at 2 in the morning.
We simply are not investing in OUR PEOPLE - we do a great job investing in cars and trucks and swiftwater rescue boats and lightbulbs. We do not commit nearly enough money to the HUMAN side of Laurens County - workforce, literacy, suicide prevention, mental health, developmental disabilities, and the future of our veterans.
And that breeds Desperation.
And that breeds gun violence.
The gun does not commit the violence. It’s simply a tool. The person who in his/her mind has no options in life commits the violence. The person who says, “Everybody would be better off without me,” commits violence. And, sadly, people who want to make money “the easy way” by poisoning our population with meth, ecstacy, opioids, “pain medicine” and liquor commit violence. All this sends people unequipped to handle the stresses of daily life to the ends of their ropes.
What are we doing for them - almost nothing.
Hospital Shooting
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Joe Guarino, PE , Ph.D.
Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
jguarino@boisestate.edu
Phone: 208-426-3042 | Fax: 208-426-4800 | Office: RUCH 203
Dr. Guarino began his teaching career in the Engineering department at Boise State University in 1991. He served as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering department from its inception in 1996 until the spring of 2001. Previous to his BSU teaching career, Joe was a research engineer at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan.
B.S. degree in Geology in 1977 and in Geophysics in 1983, both from Boise State University
M.S. in Geological Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho, Moscow, in 1982 and 1990, respectively.
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS
J. Guarino, R. Hamilton, J. Parkin, M. Abend, S. Rosin, D. Plumlee, "Effect of pulse width on superharmonic resonance of a linear mechanical oscillator, with implications in phase space," submitted to Journal of Sound and Vibration, manuscript in review
J. Guarino, Robert Hamilton, Don Plumlee, "Generating piecewise continuous periodic input to a dynamical system using mechanical accumulators in a physics simulator," submitted to Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, manuscript in review
J. Guarino, Robert Hamilton, "Detection of structural bolt detorquing using direct stethoscope measurement," Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 30, 065003 (2017): http://doi.org/10.1121/2.0000547
J. Guarino, Robert Hamilton, “Stethoscope-based detection of detorqued bolts using impact-induced acoustic emmisions,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA), POMA 22, 065001 (2015)
J. Guarino, Ferguson, J., Pakala, K., Quantitative Assessment of Program Outcomes Using Longitudinal Data from the FE Exam, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ID #7325, Atlanta, Georgia, June 23-26, 2013
J. Guarino, S.Y. Chyung, C. Adams, R. DeLeon, M. Scheepers, F. Castellon, P. Williams, M. Wiedenfeld, “Creating and Implementing Cloud-Based Simulations to Enhance a Mulitvariable Calculus Course,” Computers in Education Journal, 21.4 (2011): 49-55
J. Guarino, S.Y. Chyung, C. Adams, R. DeLeon, M. Scheepers, F. Castellon, P. Williams, M. Wiedenfeld, “Creating and Implementing Cloud-Based Simulations,” Proceedings, ASEE 2011 Annual Conference & Expo, Vancouver, British Columbia (June 2011)
S.Y. Chyung, J. Guarino, R. DeLeon, M. Scheepers, “The Value of Interactive Simulations Used in an Undergraduate Math Class,” Proceedings, ASEE 2011 Annual Conference & Expo, Vancouver, British Columbia (June 2011)
J. Callahan, J. Garzolini, D. Bullock, J. Guarino, “The STEP Science Talent Expansion Program: Freshman Orientation for STEM Majors,” Proceedings, ASEE 2011 Annual Conference & Expo, Vancouver, British Columbia (June 2011)
J. Guarino, R. Hamilton, W. Fischer, “Acoustic Detection of Bolt Detorquing in Structures,” Acoustical Society of America, 157th meeting, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Volume 6, 2009
W. Orme, W. Fischer, J. Guarino, “Audio Enhancement of Biomechanical Impact Data,” J. Acoustical Society of America 125, 2730 (2009), 157th Meeting, Portland, Oregon, May, 2009
J. Guarino, J.M. Callahan, S.Y. Chyung, W. Clement, R. Walters, “Developing and Assessing Engineering-Based Modules for a Freshman Engineering Class,” CD-Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expo, Pittsburgh, PA (June 2008)
J.M. Callahan, S.Y. Chyung, W. Clement, J. Guild, J. Guarino, D. Bullock, C.A. Schrader, “Enhancing Precalculus Curricula With E-Learning: Implementation and Assessment,” CD-Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expo, Pittsburgh, PA (June 2008)
J.M. Hampikian, J. Guarino, Y. Chyung, A. Moll, P. Pyke, J. Gardner, C. Schrader, “Benefits of a Tutorial Mathematics Program For Engineering Students Enrolled in Precalculus: A Template For Assessment,” CD-Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expo, Honolulu HI (June 2007)
Joe Guarino, S. Tennyson, G. McCain, L. Bond, K.G. Shea, H. King, "Rapid Prototyping Technology for Surgeries of the Pediatric Spine and Pelvis - Identifying Best Practices," Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, V.27, Number 8, December 2007, pp.955-960
Kevin G. Shea, P. Apel, N. Hutt, J. Guarino, "Valgus Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Without Posterior Component: Two Case Reports," Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B, 2007 May, 16(3) pp201-203
Paris, A, M. Sabick, J. Guarino, and H. King , “The biomechanical behavior of stainless steel and titanium spinal-pelvic fixation assemblies in a vertebrectomy model," Scoliosis Research Society 40th Annual Meeting, Vail, Colorado, June 22-26, 2005
Joe Guarino , S. Tennyson, Y. Barrios , K. Shea, R. Pfeiffer, M. Sabick, “Modeling the Growth Plates in the Pediatric Knee: Implications for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 28 (2004) 419-424
Schiavone, Peter, Joe Guarino, and Russell C. Hibbeler, R.C. Hibbeler Statics Study Pack, Prentice Hall, 2001
Gilbert Emmert and Joe Guarino, VisualMechanics – Interactive Software for Engineering Mechanics , Prentice-Hall, 1998
Guarino, Joe, “Implementing Design-Based Engineering Education with Computer Simulations,”Proceedings of the ASEE 1998 Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 28 - July 1, 1998.
Guarino, Joe, “Design-Based Engineering at Boise State University,” Pacific Northwest Regional ASEE Conference, May, 1997
Guarino, Joe, and Kathi Cahill, ed., “Proceedings of the First Annual Design in Engineering Education Conference,” Boise State University Press, July, 1997
Guarino, J.R. and Joe Guarino, “Auscultatory Percussion: A Simple Method to Detect Pleural Effusion,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, V9, February, 1994
Guarino, Joe, and Don Elger, “Modal Analysis of a Fluid-Filled Elastic Shell Containing an Elastic Sphere,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 156(3), 1992
FUNDED GRANTS
Idaho Power Company, ($20 000), Resonance Study of a Co-Generation Plant, PI, 2016
National Science Foundation (NSF Award #0856815), ($1,000,000),Idaho Science Talent Expansion Program (STEP), (Co-PI, Janet Callahan, PI), 2010
Hewlett-Packard Labs, ($75,000),Rising Cloud Project, Innovative Research Program, PI, 2010
(EWA) ($70,000), Learning Success Project, Designing for Learning Success and Grow Program (Co-PI , Mary Jarret- Smith, PI), 2010
Hewlett-Packard Innovations in Engineering Grant ($280,000), “Engineering Learning Community in Idaho,” PI , 2009
NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium ($2500) : “Enhancing Engineering Science Courses Through Haptic Feedback,” PI, 2009
DePuy- Accumed: “Spinal Implant Testing, Phase II” ($12,000), (Co-PI, Michelle Sabick, Anthony Paris PIs), 2004
NIH-BRIN 2004 Summer Research Fellowship ($5000), PI, 2004
BSU Faculty Research Grant, “Pilot Study for Validating Accuracy of Pediatric Knee-Joint Growth-Plate Models,” ($4900), (Co-PI, Steve Tennyson PI), 2003
NIH-BRIN Research Fellowship ($5000), PI, 2003
Economic Development Administration Financial Assistance Award: “New Product Development in Idaho,” ($945,000), (Co-PI , Steve Tennyson PI), 2003
DePuy- Accumed: “Spinal Implant Testing,” ($12,000), (Co-PI, Michelle Sabick, Anthony Paris PIs), 2003
Gift from Dr. Howard King: “Support for Spine Research,” ($5000), (with Steve Tennyson),2002
State Board of Education Infrastructure Grant: “Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Project,” ($32,000), PI, 2000
School-To-Work Consortium: “ASSET Project- Acquainting Secondary Students with Science and Engineering,” ($30,000), PI, 1999
Micron Technology, “Establishing the Micron Design Laboratory at Boise State University,” ($16,000), PI, 1997
Idaho State Board of Education Technology Incentive Grant Program: “Development of the Virtual Laboratory Experience,” ($179,400), (Co-PI, Ron Smelser, PI), 1997
Idaho State Board of Education Technology Incentive Grant Program: “Design-Based Engineering Education on the Internet,” ($149,800), PI, 1996
Idaho State Board of Education Technology Incentive Grant Program: “Process Education to Improve Engineering Science Courses,” ($149,700), (Co-PI, Don Blacketter, PI), 1996
Hewlett-Packard: “Implementing Design-Based Engineering Education in the Engineering Science Curriculum,” ($220,000), PI, 1995
Boise State University Faculty Research Grant: “Detection of Lung Disease Using Low-Frequency Vibration,” ($4400), PI, 1992
Dr. Guarino's research interests include vibrations, modal analysis, acoustics, computer simulation of dynamic systems, and structural and machine health monitoring and analysis.
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Headsnatchers Coming To Steam Early Access July 10th
ICEBERG INTERACTIVE TO RELEASE HEADSNATCHERS ON STEAM EARLY ACCESS JULY 10
Haarlem, the Netherlands, June 26, 2018 – Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer IguanaBee are pleased to reveal that the first playable version of their title Headsnatchers, an outlandish lively multiplayer party game, will be available through Steam’s Early Access program on July 10, 2018. Inspired by some of the wackiest Japanese game television shows, Headsnatchers enables players to snatch each other’s cartoony heads and use them to compete in a series of insane minigames, for example slam-dunking the head in the basketball arena or flushing them down a giant toilet bowl.
Gameplay modes include single-player zombie castle conquest, 4-player couch-mode local play as well as 4-player online multiplayer. There are many dozens of freaky heads to choose from, chowever a comprehensive head-design tool allows you to create and customize your own head and character.
“We had a lot of fun showing this game at PAX East where people were in fits of laughter playing it. We are eager to start receiving players’ feedback in this early access phase and polish the game with final tweaks”, says Erik Schreuder, CEO of Iceberg Interactive.
Headsnatchers Early Access key features include:
• Online and Local Multiplayer mayhem, supporting up to 4 players
• Four game modes, 25+ unique levels of frantic fun
• Single-player Zombie mode, for when you just want some me-time
• Customize your character by choosing from 100+ loony heads
• Create your own heads using the visual editor
Stay up-to-date with the latest Headsnatchers news and information on the official website http://www.headsnatchers.com, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/headsnatchers, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HeadsnatchersKO, on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/headsnatchers.
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As FBI Director Mueller Helped Cover Up Fla. 9/11 Probe, Court Docs Show
January 25, 2018 by Admin777
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Court documents recently filed by the government further rock the credibility of Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller because they show that as FBI Director Mueller he worked to cover up the connection between a Florida Saudi family and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The documents reveal that Mueller was likely involved in publicly releasing deceptive official agency statements about a secret investigation of the Saudis, who lived in Sarasota, with ties to the hijackers. A Florida journalism nonprofit uncovered the existence of the secret FBI investigation that was also kept from Congress.
Under Mueller’s leadership, the FBI tried to discredit the story, publicly countering that agents found no connection between the Sarasota Saudi family and the 2001 terrorist plot. The reality is that the FBI’s own files contained several reports that said the opposite, according to the Ft. Lauderdale-based news group’s ongoing investigation. Files obtained by reporters in the course of their lengthy probe reveal that federal agents found “many connections” between the family and “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.” The FBI was forced to release the once-secret reports because the news group sued in federal court when the information wasn’t provided under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The disingenuous statements were issued by FBI officials in Miami and Tampa in a desperate effort to disparage a 2011 story exposing the agency’s covert investigation of the Sarasota Saudis as well as reporting that it had been concealed from Congress. Mueller is referenced in a document index that was ordered by a federal judge to be created in late November 2017. The south Florida judge, William J. Zloch, a Ronald Reagan appointee, asked the FBI to explain where it had discovered dozens of pages of documents in the public-records case filed six years ago. The index reference to then-FBI Director Mueller appears in an item involving an agency white paper written a week after the publication of a news story about the abrupt departure of Saudis Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji from their Sarasota area home about two weeks before 9/11. The couple left behind their cars, clothes, furniture, jewelry and other personal items. “It was created to brief the FBI Director concerning the FBI’s investigation of 4224 Escondito Circle,” the al-Hijjis’ address, the index says.
Though the recently filed court documents reveal Mueller received a briefing about the Sarasota Saudi investigation, the FBI continued to publicly deny it existed and it appears that the lies were approved by Mueller. Not surprisingly, he didn’t respond to questions about this new discovery emailed to his office by the news organization that uncovered it. Though the mainstream media has neglected to report this relevant development, it’s difficult to ignore that it chips away at Mueller’s credibility as special counsel to investigate if Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election. Even before the Saudi coverup documents were exposed by nonprofit journalists, Mueller’s credentials were questionable to head any probe. Back in May Judicial Watch reminded of Mueller’s misguided handiwork and collaboration with radical Islamist organizations as FBI director.
Back in 2013 Judicial Watch exclusively obtained droves of records documenting how, under Mueller’s leadership, the FBI purged all anti-terrorism training material deemed “offensive” to Muslims after secret meetings between Islamic organizations and the then-FBI chief. Judicial Watch had to sue to get the records and published an in-depth report on the scandal in 2013 and a lengthier, updated follow-up in 2015. As FBI director, Mueller bent over backwards to please radical Islamist groups and caved into their demands. The agency eliminated the valuable anti-terrorism training material and curricula after Mueller met with various Islamist organizations, including those with documented ties too terrorism. Among them were two organizations— Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—named by the U.S. government as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case. CAIR is a terrorist front group with extensive links to foreign and domestic Islamists. It was founded in 1994 by three Middle Eastern extremists (Omar Ahmad, Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber) who ran the American propaganda wing of Hamas, known then as the Islamic Association for Palestine.
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Raju Rage is one of the most progressive thinkers CONKER has had the pleasure of interviewing, continuously using their art and personal expression as a means of creative survival. Rage is continuously carving out spaces of resistance through their activism and live performance art. In an exclusive interview for CONKER Rage talks gender, sexuality and finding yourself in the midst of this…
CONKER: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Raju Rage: I’m a visual artist and well, a hustler. I work interdisciplinary which means I use different mediums such as performance, sculpture and writing but also that I draw from various influences, such as activism, art and everyday life. I’ve been raised and grown in queer and trans political DIY/DIT communities for over 2 decades (more recently queer and trans of colour), despite looking much younger than my age so I’ve gotten around and done many things, such as self-organizing and carving out spaces for like-minded folks mainly because it was necessary for survival. What’s that quote: no one’s gonna make shit happen for us so we have to do it ourselves (well something like that basically). So I’ve organised an independent London Transgender film festival in 2008, ran workshops on Body Image and Radical Drag at queer festivals, was part of a cabaret-troupe-pseudo-boyband ‘D’artagnan and the Three Musclequeers, Dj’d at queer clubs in London, Sweden and Helsinki, amongst working in creative education, being a painter and decorator and a chef and baker for employment to pay those bills. Nowadays, I’m mainly practicing as a visual artist and am part of an arts collective ‘Collective Creativity’.
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Raju Rage: Hmmmm….not being seen and I’m not talking visibility because I believe in opacity as much more empowering, but what I mean is it becomes a structural oppression that you face in all aspects of your life. How you access day to day resources, how you get by in the world, from walking down the street to applying for work to navigating health systems. It really impacts everything you have to deal with e.t.c.
CONKER: Does it happen frequently?
Raju Rage: Personally? Yes. All the time, every day in some way or the other. Though it gets easier if you conform to the binary and some of us have to do that just to function in the world (no judgement only solidarity). When I was presenting more gender ambiguously, I seriously couldn’t function in the world and had to live in a bubble that wasn’t nourishing, nurturing enough or sustainable. Basically I was poor and depressed. In some way we do have to engage with the mainstream, only until we have a complete redistribution of resources and create our own infrastructure, can we live and work independently from that. That is the goal but in the meantime we have to navigate and negotiate as best as we can. That can feel like a compromise but its reality we have to face.
CONKER: How does it make you feel?
Raju Rage: It sucks. But I think it’s important to focus on the structural as well as the personal, the collective rather than the individual, because that’s what these oppressive structures try to do, to isolate and alienate you in this misery. We have to break out from that way of thinking or you get stuck.
CONKER: What would you say those that think gender and sexual politics are not a big deal?
Raju Rage: If it’s not a big deal then you have privilege to be able to think so, which isn’t a bad thing per say but you should think about those who don’t have that possibility and in using your privilege to benefit those with less of it. The way that oppression works is that those who benefit from it are never going to challenge it. This is what needs to shift so that they are, for the benefit of others, and so it’s not just the people who are suffering with it who don’t have the resources to make change that are being left to do all the work. We all need to address it because we all face it and all our struggles are connected. I do believe in coalition if we want to see a big change in society, but I also do believe political segregation is also important to make progress. I think there needs to be multiple strategies implemented.
CONKER: Do you try to channel personal experiences into your work?
Raju Rage: Yes definitely. My work contains autobiographical elements and is subjective butI also try to connect that to other people and other people’s lives. So my work is about connecting people to each other where they may not see those connections before. People are so often distancing themselves away from each other and not recognizing commonality. Its easy to just see skin colour and to essentialise, to just see what sets us apart and not what brings us together, to compete with each other for resources and status and a lot of that is about survival in an oppressive hetero-patriarchal world, I get that, but I think using the personal and every day in my work that people can connect to is a way of undermining those things and building solidarity
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Raju Rage: I mainly talk about gender in my work. Because people are always afraid of gender and each other because of it. There is this fear around identity and how other people’s identity impacts your own (the reason for phobias about other people in general). So for example I will use things like lipstick and feminine drag in my work. Lipstick is an object that everyone can connect to in some way as a familiar everyday object that people have varied relationships with/to. I use it in unexpected unconventional ways, such as writing affirmative or provoking texts with them. Or using them in a way that is aesthetically pleasing using its materiality all over the body as opposed to just on the lips, or in a surprising or challenging way, like in an unexpected enclosed space place such as a toilet or elevator, these transient public spaces that we find ourselves in that end up being gendered and controlling us in some way. I try to interrupt narratives and assumptions people have because then then have to question things and themselves and not constantly project onto others. Im not sure if this actually creates social change but I think it makes people think or re-think what they have been socialized with.
CONKER: What do think about gendered labelling, do you think society should progress into implementing them/they pronouns at school?
Raju Rage: I think they/them is a good strategy of counteracting binary gender which can often be oppressive. Many people are starting to use they/them and not just the gender variant and/or transgender people but also cisgendered people which I think is great. More and more people are recognising the constraints of gender and they/them can be freeing for many people to not be constantly defined by gender. I think that’s a positive. We also have to recognize, going back to my point earlier about colonization, that this isn’t a new thing. That many non-western languages and cultures already contain gender neutrality and have for considerable years. That’s why it’s funny that it’s so often prevented for grammatical reasons which is just an obstruction for transformative change.
CONKER: What is your most favourite project you have worked on so far?
Raju Rage: I worked on a project with Jesse Darling recently ‘Let there be cake/ may the one without hunger lift the first knife’ about gender, colonialism, tenderness and violence. We made six elaborate cakes that related to British Empire for a performance festival but in the end the audience and their response became the unexpected performative element. I liked the project for many reasons. It drew my passions of baking and art together in a way that made complete sense materially to the theme of what we wanted to do, looking at bittersweetness of empire, colonial trade of sugar, British etiquette, politeness and culture as violence, amongst the more apparent violence of colonialism. I also liked it because we removed our bodies from the work whilst still being present, because our bodies weren’t performing but were present in the labour of the work in constructing these magnificent cakes. The audience participation was incredible and how they embodied the performance of cutting, eating and demolishing the cakes. It was accessible to people who wouldn’t usually come to an arts exhibit or performance art event. It took a lot of work but it was worth is and it was great to work with a dream and make it into reality. Working with Jesse was great. A great mind and talent and someone I really connect to on multiple levels, so it was a good sharing of skills and knowledge.
CONKER: How would you define self-care?
Raju Rage: As a political act but beyond that, necessary for survival. I don’t think it needs to be individualistic but can also be in conjunction with collective care, as there is a danger of it just becoming about the neo liberal ideal of consumerism and capitalism. I do stand by Rupaul when he/she says: “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?’’ not because it always has to come down to love and other people but often the point is that people are so focused on others needs that we neglect ourselves. I had to learn this the hard way myself. I was always putting others needs first and neglecting myself and compromising who I was.
CONKER: What are your practices of self-care?
Raju Rage: It can range from making art to nourishing myself with tasty food to ranting about oppression, to taking selfies to practicing rituals to going out dancing to a party. It can also involve others, I love cooking for myself and for friends and loved ones. It can be solitary like self-dates or alone time ;). It can be allowing myself the things I never allowed myself before. It can be pushing a boundary that I fear, it can also mean conserving energy and cutting out negative things in my life that drain me but mostly it is an embodied experience for me.
CONKER: Even when times are tough, how do you implement them?
Raju Rage: It doesn’t have to be expensive because often I don’t have the money to buy myself nice things or to go out and do nice things and we are often conditioned by capitalism to think that’s the only way we can be happy which is hard if you grew up poor or not having much but sometimes that just means saving up for something and then buying it. But mainly for me it’s taking pleasure in the everyday. Allowing pleasure to manifest and for example not just working all the time or being stressed. Being in nature really helps me, to just bring me out of that mode that I often get caught up in or learning from how others self-care.
CONKER: If there was one thing about the world that you would change, what would it be?
Raju Rage: An end to patriarchy! Hopefully then there would be a snowball effect and many of our problems would be magically unraveled 😉
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East Hampton edged by Glenn
The East Hampton boys lacrosse team fell to 4-7 last week with a pair of losses, playing well in a 12-11 defeat at Elwood/John Glenn on Thursday after losing 17-3 at home against Class C powerhouse Mount Sinai on May 6.
East Hampton head coach Mike Vitulli said he was happy with the way his team played against Glenn, a team that is battling for a playoff spot in Class B. The Bonackers battled back from a 12-8 fourth-quarter deficit, cutting the lead to 12-11 with less than two minutes remaining by scoring three goals in a two-minute span. The Bonackers lost the final faceoff with 1:27 and Glenn held onto the ball to preserve its win.
“We showed a lot of heart and had a strong effort,” Vitulli said. “Unfortunately, we just took too many penalties and in the end it really hurt us.”
The Knights took advantage of East Hampton’s penalties, scoring four man-up goals in the game.
James Petrie led East Hampton with three goals, while Austin Heneveld had a pair of goals and one assist. Tyler Brenneman also had two goals and an assist, while Ryan Shaw scored twice, and both Matt Burns and Neil Powell each had a goal.
Mark Simmons made 16 saves for the Bonackers.
East Hampton had a tough time being competitive against a talented Mount Sinai team that has a 9-2 record in Division II.
“They were extremely fast and athletic,” Vitulli said. “They’re one of the top teams in our league, and they’ll probably be playing for the county championship in Class C.”
It doesn’t look like the playoffs are in the cards for the Bonackers this year. East Hampton will play at Islip today at 4:30 p.m. in what Vitulli said is “a winnable game.” The Bonackers travel to face a tough Sayville team on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and will wrap up the regular season at home against Comsewogue, the third-place team in the division, on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Even without a spot in the postseason this year, Vitulli and his coaching staff have plenty to look forward to.
“We have the nucleus of our team coming back next year,” he said. “We play a lot of sophomores, so the future is bright.”
The Lady Bonackers were competitive in a 14-11 loss at Miller Place on Sunday, falling to 1-9 on the season. East Hampton faced a manageable 8-6 deficit at halftime but could not make up ground in the second half.
Calli Stavola led East Hampton with four goals, while Summer Foley scored three times and Cailyn Brierley had two goals. Jayvee Nava made 13 saves.
East Hampton forfeited to Harborfields in a game that was scheduled to be played on Saturday.
The Lady Bonackers were scheduled to play at Sayville on Tuesday and will host Westhampton Beach on Thursday at 4 p.m. They will close out the regular season at home against Bayport/Blue Point on Monday at 9:30 p.m.
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by Brad Soo on March 27 2012
Freshly reviewed is the 2012 Nikon Coolpix S3300, an inexpensive ultra-compact camera that has 16 megapixels, 6X optical zoom with optical image stabilization, 720p HD movie mode and easy operation for the everyday user. Be sure to visit our Nikon Coolpix S3300 photo gallery for photos taken using the camera.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 is the most basic of the four new S-series 2012 Nikon Coolpix models brought out this year. Featuring a 16 megapixel traditional CCD image sensor, 6X optical zoom with optical image stabilization, automatic shooting and scene modes and 720p HD movie mode, the Coolpix S3300 is geared towards the crowd wanting a compact and affordable camera with better functionality than the built-in camera in their smartphone.
he Nikon Coolpix S3300 and its near-twin, the Coolpix S4300, occupy the sub-$200 range and are near identical except the Coolpix S4300 sports a slightly larger 3 inch display that’s also a touchscreen, more internal memory but worse battery life and a higher price tag.
In the camera box
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 comes with a simple set of items with nothing particularly out of the ordinary:
Nikon Coolpix S3300 camera
EN-EL19 lithium-ion rechargeable battery
AC adapter for USB charging
USB and A/V cables
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 supports SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards; and comes with just 42 MB of internal memory, not enough for practical use. The camera works fine with any memory card and based on my testing, did not appear to receive any significant performance boosts with a high-speed card. However, a high-speed memory card is certainly beneficial when you want to download photos quickly from your memory card reader to your computer. I would recommend a decently sized 4 GB SDHC card to start with and this size will suffice for a decent amount of pictures and Standard HD video.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 comes with the rechargeable lithium-ion EN-EL19 battery and supports USB charging. The Coolpix S3300 comes with an AC adapter and USB cable and you will charge the camera similarly to how you charge your iPhone or smartphone: by connecting the camera to the wall charger or computer. This slim little battery that comes with the camera can power the Coolpix S3300 to an estimated 210 photos per charge, which is a tad below average for a compact camera. To extend battery life, you could get a spare battery or take fewer photos using the camera flash.
Not surprisingly for an entry-level digital camera, there aren’t any accessories available for the Coolpix S3300 except replacement cables for the ones that came with the camera and also a standalone battery charger, which comes in handy to keep a spare battery charging at home while you’re out with the camera.
Camera Tour
Nikon Coolpix S3300 compared to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 is a remarkably small camera which is comparable to the iPhone in terms of size. The camera measures 94.8 x 57.8 x 19.5 mm (3.8 x 2.3 x 0.8 inches) and weighs a super light 128 grams (4.6 ounces) when loaded with its battery and memory card. The Coolpix S3300 is definitely small and light enough to slip into any pocket and travel with you each time you step out of the door.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has decent build quality. The camera doesn’t feel ‘premium’ in any way, which is fine considering it costs under $150, but it isn’t flimsy either. The Coolpix S3300 is put together well and I have no particular rants about build quality. Ergonomics of the camera are decent; there are just a few buttons on the camera, all of which are clearly labeled – the Coolpix S3300 is an easy-to-use camera and anyone would be able to pick it up and use it right off the bat.
Not surprisingly for a modern camera, the Nikon Coolpix S3300 comes in your choice of 5 different colors: silver, black, pink, purple or dark red. This cheerfully-colored Coolpix S3300 that Nikon sent is the pink model. If you live in Europe, there are even more colors to choose from; the choices above plus blue, cyan and gold.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has an above average amount of zoom with its 6X optical zoom lens. The lens on the camera is equivalent to 26 – 166 mm which is a decent range that will get you both wide-angle photos and zoomed-in shots. The Coolpix S3300 is also equipped with optical image stabilization (what Nikon calls Optical VR), which helps reduce chances of taking blurry photos caused by camera shake. All-in-all, the Coolpix S3300 has a better than average lens on paper; compare that to the similarly-sized Sony Cyber-shot W620 we just reviewed which has only 4X optical zoom with no real image stabilization.
To the bottom right edge of the lens is the mono microphone used for recording sound with movies on the camera. There’s also an autofocus assist light/self-timer countdown lamp located to the upper right side of the lens and the built-in flash to the other side. The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a powerful flash, with a range of 50 cm to 4.5 meters (14 feet) at wide-angle and up to 2.4 meters (8 feet) at maximum zoom.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a 2.7 inch LCD display which is average in size for an affordable entry-level camera but on the small side if you’re a smartphone owner; even if you own an iPhone whose screen size is 3.5 inches, it makes a whole world of difference. The screen has a resolution of 230,000 dots which is adequate, but again, menus and live view look low resolution if you’re used to more expensive displays. The LCD has good visibility in both bright and low light when viewed head-on.
To the right of the camera are its controls and an indicator light for flash/power status. As mentioned, the Nikon Coolpix S3300 has clearly labeled buttons so it’s unlikely you or anyone using the camera will feel baffled when trying to take pictures.
At the upper right corner is a movie start/stop button, followed by buttons for selecting the camera’s shooting mode and entering playback respectively. Skipping over the navigation pad for a while, we have buttons for entering the camera menu and deleting photos.
Selecting a mode on the Coolpix S3300
Hitting the mode button on the Nikon Coolpix S3300 brings up a screen which allows you to select from several shooting modes: Regular auto mode, scene modes, photo effects (effects such as soft, low/high key, monochrome, etc) and smart portrait mode. The Coolpix S3300 has plenty of scene modes, ranging from portrait to fireworks, from panorama mode to beach and snow scenes. There’s also scene auto selector which takes the effort out of selecting a scene mode by having the camera automatically choose one for you.
Smart Portrait mode brings up all the features needed for the camera to take good people photos, ranging from smile detection, blink detection, skin softening and redeye removal.
The Coolpix S3300 has a navigation pad which allows you to navigate through menus and playback, and also directly accessing several things:
Up – Flash setting (Auto, on, off, redeye reduction, slow sync)
Down – Macro mode (On/off)
Left – Self-timer mode (Off, 2 or 10 seconds)
Right – Exposure compensation (+/- 2 for brightness of your photos)
Center – OK/Playback favorites
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a handy favorites page in playback that can be accessed via the OK/center button. This brings up a page where you can place 9 of your favorite photos and quickly access them.
Main shooting screen on the Coolpix S3300
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a live view display that is relatively simple; showing a zoom indicator, simple battery indicator and some shooting information.
Menu options on the Coolpix S3300
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a very simple menu area. In the shooting menu, you can change image size, white balance (there are several presets as well as a custom white balance option available), drive mode, ISO sensitivity, color options for photos, focus area (choose from face detection, single point, subject tracking or manually move the focus point around the frame using the navigation pad) and focus mode (single or continuous focusing).
The setup area contains a standard bunch of settings for time and date, focus assist light and more. You can also find options to enable/disable optical image stabilization, motion detection and Eye-Fi card support here. Speaking of which, the Nikon Coolpix S3300 supports Eye-Fi SD cards which are able to wirelessly transfer photos when connected to a Wi-Fi network so you can automatically upload photos to your favorite social networking websites or computer.
Macro mode
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a good macro mode that has a minimum focusing distance of 5 cm (2 inches) at wide-angle and 100 cm (3.3 feet) at maximum zoom. That should pretty much do it for most folks’ close-up photo needs.
You’ll find the power button and shutter button with zoom controller wrapped around at the top of the Nikon Coolpix S3300. If you’re in the camera menu, you can push the zoom controller towards the ‘zoom in’ position for tooltips and help about menu items anytime.
Both sides of the Nikon Coolpix S3300 are empty, with one side of the camera being home to a handle for attaching the wrist strap.
At the bottom of the Nikon Coolpix S3300 are its plastic tripod mount, speaker and battery/memory card compartment. The compartment door is surprisingly sturdy, even more-so compared to some pricier cameras which have flimsy doors.
Movie options on the Coolpix S3300
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a decent 720p Standard HD movie mode. The camera can record 1280 x 720 Standard HD movies at 30 FPS with mono sound until the memory card fills up (up to 4 GB for each movie file). You can also lower movie size to VGA (640 x 480) or QVGA (320 x 240) to conserve space; frame rate still remains at a smooth 30 FPS for both settings.
You can enable continuous focusing and wind filter while recording movies but you cannot use optical zoom once you start recording on the Coolpix S3300. Instead, the camera lets you use digital zoom which might lower the quality of your movies.
I’ve included our usual two sample video clips taken using the camera. From what it looks like, video mode is the weak spot on the Coolpix S3300 since movies look grainy and compressed:
Performance testing of the Nikon Coolpix S3300 was done using a high-speed 45 MB/s Sandisk Extreme Pro SDHC card.
Autofocus:
Good light
0.3 to 0.8 seconds
Shot-to-shot
Flash recharge
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 isn’t a performance champion at all. The camera manages speeds that range from average to slow; good enough for the occasional picture-taker but you will likely notice the wait time between photos.
The Coolpix S3300 has three multi-shot modes, though there’s only one main full-resolution continuous mode, which shoots at a little over 1 photo per second for up to 6 photos in a row. Best Shot Selector takes a bunch of photos in a row, but the camera decides and saves only the sharpest one. Multi-shot 16 takes 16 small photos in a row and assembles them into a single collage.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 produces clean but overly smoothened photos at ISO 80 and 100. That means photos are free of noise but lack finer details and textures. Moving up to ISO 200, photos look a touch noisier but retain the same characteristics as the previous pictures. Expect to be able to make medium sized prints and display out of photos produced by the Nikon Coolpix S3300.
Photos begin to look soft and muddy at ISO 400 though image quality isn’t horrible and still usable at this point. At ISO 800, image quality becomes softer and lose more details along with some saturation. This would be the highest setting you would want to use if you want usable pictures out of the Nikon Coolpix S3300. ISO 1600 and ISO 3200 are both unusable and seem to always have a bluish cast, probably due to camera processing. Also, image size is automatically lowered to 4 megapixels at the ISO 3200 setting.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has not much lens distortion, which is good. However, edge softness is visible at the very edges of photos along with minor color fringing (chromatic aberration).
Check out full-sized photos taken using the camera in the Nikon Coolpix S3300 photo gallery.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a pretty good playback mode for a budget camera. There are the basics such as image protection, resize and cropping, print marking and slideshow mode. There are also several editing features: Quick Retouch (improves saturation and contrast), D-Lighting (improves brightness), Glamour Retouch (for improving skin tones and such in photos of people), skin softening and filter effects (selective color, cross screen effect and more).
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 has a bare playback screen; the camera only shows the date and time of photos but tells you nothing about the settings used for your photos.
The Nikon Coolpix S3300 is an affordable, basic digital camera that’s easy to use and has a basic feature set. The camera has a bunch of scene modes, photo effects and is literally a point-and-shoot camera. You can adjust things like exposure compensation, ISO and white balance presets if you wanted to, but you don’t have to.
The Coolpix S3300 has a 6X zoom lens with optical image stabilization, which is certainly a slight cut above what you’ll get with other budget cameras. There’s nothing too special about the camera’s 16 megapixel regular CCD image sensor, 2.7 inch screen and so-so battery life; that’s pretty much on par with other compact digital cameras these days and other basic entry-level models.
With its low price tag come some cut corners. The Coolpix S3300 performs weakly in the movie mode department and performance of the camera isn’t so hot, though speeds are bearable for the casual picture taker. However, the camera has a more powerful than average flash, plenty of scene modes and photo effects, along with a nice playback mode with various retouch and editing tools.
It’s certainly not the best camera ever, but the Coolpix S3300 is ‘above average’ relative to other budget models. The Nikon Coolpix S3300 is a decent pick if you’re looking for passable image quality, that remains competitive or edge out quality produced by modern smartphones (read: not fantastic but you may be able to get by) but with ‘real camera’ features like 6X optical zoom (something you won’t get on any mainstream phone so far), ISO settings up to 3200, a powerful flash and various photo effects.
What’s hot:
Decent image quality
Tiny size, stylish and decent build quality
Powerful flash and shooting tooltips
6X optical zoom and optical image stabilization
Scene modes, auto scene selection and photo effects
Many useful playback tools (including Quick Retouch, filter effects and D-Lighting)
What’s not:
Over smoothened photos; high noise reduction above ISO 400
Poor movie quality
Camera performance could be better
Low resolution LCD display
Kevin March 29, 2012 Reply
Your youtube postings video titles say: Sony Cyber-shot W620 camera sample video. Which camera were these taken from?
Brad Soo March 29, 2012 Reply
Sorry, the links embedded in there were wrong but now have been corrected. You can check out videos anytime directly on our channel youtube.com/dpinterface
David Clubley January 8, 2013 Reply
With the USB charging does that mean if I plug it into my laptop/ computer it will charge up the battery or do I have to use the adaptor and a wall socket? I only ask because I am going travelling soon and it will be infinitely easier to just take the USB cable.
Cheers and thanks for the excellent review!
Chuck Parker March 5, 2014 Reply
my Nikon Coolpix s3200 makes pretty good images if you’re not zoomed in very far at all. Once you zoom in very far at all with or without image stabilization (VR) on the pictures are awful. Look like they’re not focused at all even though the camera says they are before you snap the picture. I’ve even tried this on a tripod with and without VR on. The tripod makes no difference. It seems to me that all this camera is good for is close up snapshots. Don’t know why they make a big deal out of 6X zoom. It is totally useless. Never expected it to look great but like I said, you zoom in even a little bit and the photos are terribly out of focus. Is something wrong with my camera?
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The Nelsonite vol. 20
I he Nel son i te 15
For Your Information ( S f l M n n M r a f l t t y A a i M v f l t t f l o si
NASA Exhibits
NASA Visitor Center Spring Programs:
Focus on Flight Research
The first "A" in NASA stands
for aeronautics, and improving
aeronautical performance, safety, and
efficiency is a major focus of NASA
research. With more than 30,000
secondary applications to date, NASA
research has provided a broad range of
products and services to the public.
The list is as long as it is diverse:
medical, industrial and agricultural
applications--even technology to
improve the performance of sailboats
in the America's Cup races and the
Voyager ip its round-the-world flight
in December 1966.
April Programs
High-Tech Drag Reduction: Around the
World in Nine Days
A key to the Voyager's
successful round-the-world flight was
NASA's research in laminar flow
control. This means controlling the
layer of air next to an airplane's
surface, keeping it smooth to reduce
aerodynamic drag dramatically lower
fuel consumption.
On Thursday, April 14, at 7:30
pm", Dr. Bruce Holmes will discuss
laminar flow research and its use on
the Voyager and general aviation
aircraft. Throughout the month,
visitors will be a6Te"~to view the
pattern of airflow with a display using
special lenses and cameras to transfer
these images onto a screen. A
streamlined nacelle (jet engine
covering) tested for laminar flow will
be on display. A short video discussing
laminar flow technology will be shown
May Programs
Storm Hazards Research-Where
Lightning Strikes Twice
Would you get on a plane that
had been hit by lightning 714 times and
flown through 1,500 thunderstorms in
six years? NASA Langley test pilots
would, and they do—regularly. This
month the Visitor Center will highlight
Langley's flight safety research to
improve storm hazard detection and
avoidance.
On Thursday, hay 12, at 7:30
pm, research engineer Bruce 0. Fisher,
who managed Langley's Storm Hazards
Program with the F-106B airplane,
will speak on aircraft storm hazards
a n d the p h e n o m e n a of
aircraft-triggered lightning. He will
show fascinating film footage of
lightning strikes in mid-flight shot by
cameras mounted on the plane.
Exhibits for the monthe include a
section of the F-106B airplane struck
by lightning. Photos of lightning
striking Langley's research sircraft
will be on display. A special panel
display will detail NASA's efforts to
improve flight safety.
The NASA Visitor Center,
located in Hampton, Virginia, is easily
accessible from 1-64 by following the
NASA directional signs. Admission is
r . e e
Visitors to the Virginia Living
Museum in Newport News will have the
opportunity to view wildlife in a
different way—preserved artistically
—through the exquisite bronze works
of nationally renown sculptors Dr.
Williams H. Turner and son David H.
Turner.
The Turner exhibit will be on
display for the public April 10-May 6
in the Museum's Changing Exhibit Gal-lery.
Using a "lost wax*" method of
sculpting in bronze, a process more
than 2,000 years old, the talented
father and son achieve skillful
accuracy when depicting wildlife in
action—action that is preserved
magnificently ir. a medium that does
not deteriorate.
Some of their more famous
pieces include an eagle sculpted in
memory of the famous aviator Charles
Lindbergh, and a pair of dolphin and a
loggerhead turtle at Chicago's
Brookfield Zoo.
Cost to see the exhibit is
included in regular admission to the
Virginia Living Museum. VLM hours
are; Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm; Sun,
1pm-5pm; Thurs eve 7pm-9pm. For
more information, call 595-1900.
The Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts will open its newly renovated
American galleries, and the refur-bished
English, Dutch, and Flemish
galleries on Thursday, April 21, from
3 to I Opm, with a public preview and
reception. Not only do these exhibits
allow for the display of many works
that have not been publicly displayed in
years, but it also brings many works
to the public for the first time.
According to the museum's
curator of American art to 1900, Dr.
William Rasmussen, the strength of the
Virginia Museum's collection is in its
breath. "We have our patrons to thank
for the scope of the Virginia Museum's
American collection, for it was their
gifts and loans starting 52 years ago
that helped to establish our pattern of
collecting." This rare collection
includes extensive holdings in
furniture, silver, sculpture and glass.
Among the artists whose works
are included in the exhibition are Sir
Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Sir Henry Raeburn, John
Constable, Richard Parkes Bonington,
Anthonie de Lorme, Jan van der
Heydon, Aert van der Neer, Peter Paul
Rubens, Jan Molenaer, Jan Davidsz de
Heem, John Hesselius, Charles Willson
Peale, Thomas Ball, and John Fredrick
Kensett. N
Funds for the refurbishing of the
American galleries and the public pre-view
and reception were contributed
by the Charles 6. Thalhimer Family
Fund and the Council of the Virginia
Museum. A bequest from the eslate of
George S. Aldhizer II of Rockingham
County funded the renovation of the
English, Dutch, and Flemish galleries.
Celebrating its 52nd anniver-sary
as the nation's first state arts
system, the museum is on Boulevard at
Grove Ave. in Richmond. The galleries
are open Tuesday to Saturday. 11 am
to 5 pm (Thurs eve. to 10pm) and
Sunday 1 to 5 pm. Suggested
admission donation is 12, with children
and senior citizens admitted free.
Mac Masters is sponsoring the
first annual Macintosh Computer Trade
Fair, to be held on Wednesday 27,
1988, from 9:00 am until 6:00 pm, at
the Christopher Newport College
campus center, Newport News, VA.
The fair will highlight the Macintosh
computer and its many uses in the
business world, as well as personal
applications. The fair is open to the
public at no charge. Any interested
parties, or vendors that wish to
display their Macintosh related
services or products, should contact
Jimmy Davies at (804) 877-9919.
Vendors should do so immediately
because the amount of display space is
The Denbigh Network Club meets
on the second Thursday of each month.
The club consists of approximately
fifty small business owners that wish
to develop business networking
contacts. The members meet monthly
to exchange business cards and leads
over lunch. The next meeting will be
held on Thursday, April 14, 1988, at
12:00 noon, at Saxby's Family Steak
House Restaurant located at 12835
Jefferson Ave., Newport News, Va.
Any interested parties should contact
Norfolk, VA ... (April 7, 1968) The
Virginia Stage Company FIRST ANNUAL
GOLF TOUNAMENT and ALL AMERICAN
COOK OUT will be held on Thursday.
June 23. 1988 at 1:00 p.m. at the
Cypress Point Country C\ub in Virginia
Beach to benefit the Virginia Stage
To receive an entry form, call
627-6988. The entry fee for this
"Four Man Florida Be9t Ball"
Tournament Is $70.
GODOT at the Pittsburgh Public
Theatre.
AVNER THE ECCENTRIC will be
at the Wells Theatre May 11 through
the 28th. Tickets are $12- $14. For
tickets and information, call the Wells
Theatre Box Office at 627-1234
(Southside) or 874-1234 (Peninsula).
NORFOLK, VA ... (April 7, 1988)
AVNER THE ECCENTRIC, the hit of the
1964-85 Broadway season, is coming
to the Wells Theatre on May 11, 1988
for a three week run. Unable to be
pinned down as a comedian, juggler,
magician, acrobat, or buffoon, AVNER
THE ECCENTRIC is a clown for the
thinking man.
Avner's one-man show defies
the barriers of language and culture in
his international tours.
Avner Eisenberg (AVNER THE
ECCENTRIC) is probably best known for
his role as the Jewel in Michael
Douglas' film, THE JEWEL OF THE NILE.
Avner has co-starred on Broadway in
Lincoln Center's New Vaudeville
production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
and played Estragon in WAITING FOR
The Hampton Roads theater scene
takes on an international note when
PASS THE BUTLER, by England's. Eric
Idle, makes its East Coast Premiere
May 13th at Norfolk's Generic Theater.
The Monty Python author's first stage
play runs weekends through May 28th
at the City Recreation Bureau
sponsored theater at 912 West 21st
Part mystery, part farce, part
satire, and all comedy, the script
displays the outlandish humor and wry
wit that have made Monty Python
world famous, while posing a "who-dunit"
spoof that keeps the audience
guessing and laughing to the triple
twist surprise ending.
In the country home of Sir Robert
Charles, Minister of Defense for Great
Britain, friends and family gather to
celebrate his birthday.
The birthday proves to be his last.
Who murdered the elderly knight,
and why?
Was it one of his children, eager
to claim an inheritance? Was it the
secret lovers, hiding their affair, or
the servant who might be a spy? The
household nanny and Sir Robert's best
I friend have their secrets to hide, but!
1 the deepest, darkest secret is the one
shared by Sir Robert and His wife
Could Lady Charles have murdered her
Swn husband to protect them both from
a scandal some 45 years old?
In a web of political Intrigue and
romantic entanglements, who had the
motive? Says a man who claims to be
a police inspector, "In this mess, who
didn't! Compared to you lot, Oedipus
was a beginner!"
PASS THE BUTLER will be
directed by Montague Gammon 111, head
of the Generic Theater since 1983. A
native of Norfolk. Gammon recieved his
early training at the Norfolk Center
Theater before earning a degree in
theater at Harvard University. His
local work has included Generic's "Final
Evening with the llluminati" and "Knight
of the Burning Pestle."
Tickets to PASS THE BUTLER
are $3.00, reduced to $2.50 for
students and seniors. Reservations
are recommended, and may be made by
c a l l i n g 4 4 1 - 2 1 6 0
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National Runaway
Title The Nelsonite vol. 20
Title.Alternative The Nelsonite, April 1988
Transcript I he Nel son i te 15 For Your Information ( S f l M n n M r a f l t t y A a i M v f l t t f l o si NASA Exhibits NASA Visitor Center Spring Programs: Focus on Flight Research The first "A" in NASA stands for aeronautics, and improving aeronautical performance, safety, and efficiency is a major focus of NASA research. With more than 30,000 secondary applications to date, NASA research has provided a broad range of products and services to the public. The list is as long as it is diverse: medical, industrial and agricultural applications--even technology to improve the performance of sailboats in the America's Cup races and the Voyager ip its round-the-world flight in December 1966. April Programs High-Tech Drag Reduction: Around the World in Nine Days A key to the Voyager's successful round-the-world flight was NASA's research in laminar flow control. This means controlling the layer of air next to an airplane's surface, keeping it smooth to reduce aerodynamic drag dramatically lower fuel consumption. On Thursday, April 14, at 7:30 pm", Dr. Bruce Holmes will discuss laminar flow research and its use on the Voyager and general aviation aircraft. Throughout the month, visitors will be a6Te"~to view the pattern of airflow with a display using special lenses and cameras to transfer these images onto a screen. A streamlined nacelle (jet engine covering) tested for laminar flow will be on display. A short video discussing laminar flow technology will be shown daily. May Programs Storm Hazards Research-Where Lightning Strikes Twice Would you get on a plane that had been hit by lightning 714 times and flown through 1,500 thunderstorms in six years? NASA Langley test pilots would, and they do—regularly. This month the Visitor Center will highlight Langley's flight safety research to improve storm hazard detection and avoidance. On Thursday, hay 12, at 7:30 pm, research engineer Bruce 0. Fisher, who managed Langley's Storm Hazards Program with the F-106B airplane, will speak on aircraft storm hazards a n d the p h e n o m e n a of aircraft-triggered lightning. He will show fascinating film footage of lightning strikes in mid-flight shot by cameras mounted on the plane. Exhibits for the monthe include a section of the F-106B airplane struck by lightning. Photos of lightning striking Langley's research sircraft will be on display. A special panel display will detail NASA's efforts to improve flight safety. The NASA Visitor Center, located in Hampton, Virginia, is easily accessible from 1-64 by following the NASA directional signs. Admission is r . e e Visitors to the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News will have the opportunity to view wildlife in a different way—preserved artistically —through the exquisite bronze works of nationally renown sculptors Dr. Williams H. Turner and son David H. Turner. The Turner exhibit will be on display for the public April 10-May 6 in the Museum's Changing Exhibit Gal-lery. Using a "lost wax*" method of sculpting in bronze, a process more than 2,000 years old, the talented father and son achieve skillful accuracy when depicting wildlife in action—action that is preserved magnificently ir. a medium that does not deteriorate. Some of their more famous pieces include an eagle sculpted in memory of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, and a pair of dolphin and a loggerhead turtle at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Cost to see the exhibit is included in regular admission to the Virginia Living Museum. VLM hours are; Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm; Sun, 1pm-5pm; Thurs eve 7pm-9pm. For more information, call 595-1900. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will open its newly renovated American galleries, and the refur-bished English, Dutch, and Flemish galleries on Thursday, April 21, from 3 to I Opm, with a public preview and reception. Not only do these exhibits allow for the display of many works that have not been publicly displayed in years, but it also brings many works to the public for the first time. According to the museum's curator of American art to 1900, Dr. William Rasmussen, the strength of the Virginia Museum's collection is in its breath. "We have our patrons to thank for the scope of the Virginia Museum's American collection, for it was their gifts and loans starting 52 years ago that helped to establish our pattern of collecting." This rare collection includes extensive holdings in furniture, silver, sculpture and glass. Among the artists whose works are included in the exhibition are Sir Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Henry Raeburn, John Constable, Richard Parkes Bonington, Anthonie de Lorme, Jan van der Heydon, Aert van der Neer, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Molenaer, Jan Davidsz de Heem, John Hesselius, Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Ball, and John Fredrick Kensett. N Funds for the refurbishing of the American galleries and the public pre-view and reception were contributed by the Charles 6. Thalhimer Family Fund and the Council of the Virginia Museum. A bequest from the eslate of George S. Aldhizer II of Rockingham County funded the renovation of the English, Dutch, and Flemish galleries. Celebrating its 52nd anniver-sary as the nation's first state arts system, the museum is on Boulevard at Grove Ave. in Richmond. The galleries are open Tuesday to Saturday. 11 am to 5 pm (Thurs eve. to 10pm) and Sunday 1 to 5 pm. Suggested admission donation is 12, with children and senior citizens admitted free. Mac Masters is sponsoring the first annual Macintosh Computer Trade Fair, to be held on Wednesday 27, 1988, from 9:00 am until 6:00 pm, at the Christopher Newport College campus center, Newport News, VA. The fair will highlight the Macintosh computer and its many uses in the business world, as well as personal applications. The fair is open to the public at no charge. Any interested parties, or vendors that wish to display their Macintosh related services or products, should contact Jimmy Davies at (804) 877-9919. Vendors should do so immediately because the amount of display space is limited. The Denbigh Network Club meets on the second Thursday of each month. The club consists of approximately fifty small business owners that wish to develop business networking contacts. The members meet monthly to exchange business cards and leads over lunch. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, April 14, 1988, at 12:00 noon, at Saxby's Family Steak House Restaurant located at 12835 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, Va. Any interested parties should contact Jimmy Davies at (804) 877-9919. Norfolk, VA ... (April 7, 1968) The Virginia Stage Company FIRST ANNUAL GOLF TOUNAMENT and ALL AMERICAN COOK OUT will be held on Thursday. June 23. 1988 at 1:00 p.m. at the Cypress Point Country C\ub in Virginia Beach to benefit the Virginia Stage Company. To receive an entry form, call 627-6988. The entry fee for this "Four Man Florida Be9t Ball" Tournament Is $70. GODOT at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. AVNER THE ECCENTRIC will be at the Wells Theatre May 11 through the 28th. Tickets are $12- $14. For tickets and information, call the Wells Theatre Box Office at 627-1234 (Southside) or 874-1234 (Peninsula). NORFOLK, VA ... (April 7, 1988) AVNER THE ECCENTRIC, the hit of the 1964-85 Broadway season, is coming to the Wells Theatre on May 11, 1988 for a three week run. Unable to be pinned down as a comedian, juggler, magician, acrobat, or buffoon, AVNER THE ECCENTRIC is a clown for the thinking man. Avner's one-man show defies the barriers of language and culture in his international tours. Avner Eisenberg (AVNER THE ECCENTRIC) is probably best known for his role as the Jewel in Michael Douglas' film, THE JEWEL OF THE NILE. Avner has co-starred on Broadway in Lincoln Center's New Vaudeville production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS and played Estragon in WAITING FOR The Hampton Roads theater scene takes on an international note when PASS THE BUTLER, by England's. Eric Idle, makes its East Coast Premiere May 13th at Norfolk's Generic Theater. The Monty Python author's first stage play runs weekends through May 28th at the City Recreation Bureau sponsored theater at 912 West 21st St. Part mystery, part farce, part satire, and all comedy, the script displays the outlandish humor and wry wit that have made Monty Python world famous, while posing a "who-dunit" spoof that keeps the audience guessing and laughing to the triple twist surprise ending. In the country home of Sir Robert Charles, Minister of Defense for Great Britain, friends and family gather to celebrate his birthday. The birthday proves to be his last. Who murdered the elderly knight, and why? Was it one of his children, eager to claim an inheritance? Was it the secret lovers, hiding their affair, or the servant who might be a spy? The household nanny and Sir Robert's best I friend have their secrets to hide, but! 1 the deepest, darkest secret is the one shared by Sir Robert and His wife Could Lady Charles have murdered her Swn husband to protect them both from a scandal some 45 years old? In a web of political Intrigue and romantic entanglements, who had the motive? Says a man who claims to be a police inspector, "In this mess, who didn't! Compared to you lot, Oedipus was a beginner!" PASS THE BUTLER will be directed by Montague Gammon 111, head of the Generic Theater since 1983. A native of Norfolk. Gammon recieved his early training at the Norfolk Center Theater before earning a degree in theater at Harvard University. His local work has included Generic's "Final Evening with the llluminati" and "Knight of the Burning Pestle." Tickets to PASS THE BUTLER are $3.00, reduced to $2.50 for students and seniors. Reservations are recommended, and may be made by c a l l i n g 4 4 1 - 2 1 6 0 CRISIS LIME NUMBERS Run-Away Hotline 1-800-231-6946 Alcohol Hotline 595-0123 Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-522-7096 pissing Children Clear- | ing House | 1-800-82274453 CONTACT Peninsula 245-0041 874-7279 Riverside Mental Health Center 595-4435 599-2300 Battered Women 723-7774 National Runaway Switchboard 1-800-621-4006
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Stress by Workaholism
Tems like "workaholic", "mental health day", "stress leave" are relatively new, and quickly becoming popular vocabulary. At one time, people who worked more than 40 hours a week were in the minority, and dual income families were rare. Nowadays overwork may seem like more of a necessity than a way to get ahead. Overwork may also be turning into a habit that is difficult to curb.
One way to ease the tension of overwork is to enforce breaks. Force yourself to take a 15 or 20 minute break every 2 hours. At first you may not feel like you have time for these breaks, but in reality, breaks are conducive to productivity.
Meditation Amendment
Meditation for the Beginner
An Imaginary Vacation
A Negativity Checklist
National Sleep Foundation Survey Facts
Quotes About Fear
A Relaxing Start To Your Day
Fear and Stress
Negativity Causes Stress
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Claire Brandenburger
Ecology, Evolution, Introduced plants
claire.brandenburger@student.unsw.edu.au
Member of the Big Ecology Lab
Unwanted weeds or unique new Australians? A study of rapid evolution in introduced plants.
When Darwin first described the process of evolution, it was thought to occur over thousands or millions of years. But we now know that a wide range of taxa can undergo ‘rapid evolution’. To study rapid evolution, I have been conducting a series of ‘common-garden’ glasshouse experiments where I grow beach daisies (Arctotheca populifolia) from South Africa side-by-side with beach daisies introduced to Australia about 100 years ago.
My work is uncovering an astonishing array of evolutionary changes in the introduced plants – they look very different, flower earlier than the native plants, have smaller flowers and have even evolved the ability to produce seeds without pollinators.
With so many evolutionary changes, could these unwanted weeds be evolving into a unique Australian species? This exciting idea has never been tested before - and could potentially revolutionise the way we consider and manage introduced species.
Professor Angela Moles
Co-Supervisors:
Associate Professor Stephen Bonser
Professor William Sherwin
Rollins, L.A., Moles, A.T., Lam, S., Buitenwerf, R., Buswell, J.M., Brandenburger, C.R., Flores-Moreno, H. ,Nielsen, K.B., Couchman, E., Brown, G.S., Thomson, F.J., Hemmings, F., Frankham, R. & Sherwin, W.B. 2013. High genetic diversity is not essential for successful introduction. Ecology and evolution 3:4501-4517.
(Maiden name Volchansky)
Hoffmann, J.H., Impson, F.A.C. & Volchansky, C.R. 2002. Biological control of cactus weeds: implications of hybridization between control agent biotypes. Journal of Applied Ecology 39: 900-908.
Volchansky, C.R., Hoffmann, J.H. & Zimmerman, H.G. 1999. Host-plant affinities of two biotypes of Dactylopius opuntiae (Homoptera: Dactylopiidae): Enhanced prospects for biological control of Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae) in South Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology 36: 85-91.
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Texas governor revives 'bathroom bill' for special session
Prepared to leave EU without a Brexit deal, says Theresa May
Author: Sidney Guerrero May 31, 2017,
May 31, 2017, 5:03
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Theresa May gestures during Monday's question-and-answer event, during which she discussed a Brexit deal.
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The studio audience again applauded loudly when Mr Paxman pointed out that Mrs May and her spokesmen had promised on six occasions since becoming PM that there would not be a general election before 2020. "I don't think she should be brought into political discussion".
Mrs May said: "That's what drives me".
She said: "He is not prepared to take a single hard decision for the good of our economy".
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The Labour leader weathered stiff questioning on his support for the IRA, his opposition to nuclear weapons, and previously calling members of the terrorist group Hamas his "friends".
Mueller cleared by US ethics experts to head Russia probe
Both Coats and Rogers denied the president's request and they are now coming forward with these very serious allegations. More comes out about President Trump interfering in the investigation of Russian connections with his campaign.
Mr Corbyn also condemned the abuse of presenter Emma Barnett online, some of which was apparently anti-Semitic, and costed the policy at £4.8 billion by the end of the next parliament, scheduled to end in 2022.
Oduba said critics viewed Mr Corbyn as "more of an activist" than a potential prime minister, but Mr Corbyn said: "Is there a difference?"
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SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson claimed the programme showed that Mrs May "doesn't have the answers on the most basic questions".
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Trump Forms Commission on Election Integrity After Voter Fraud Claims
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Agenda — September 7, 2005
9:30 a.m.—-Meeting: Pleasants Family Assembly Room
III. Opening Remarks
IV. Special Presentations:
• Peter Reinhardt, Enivornment, Health and Safety
• Jim Alty, Facilities Services
(Letter from the Chair Concerning Team Cleaning Process, in pdf format)
V. Human Resources Update
• Laurie Charest, Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources
VI. Chair’s Report, Executive Committee (Tommy Griffin) & Committee Reports
•Orientation: Meredith Clason
•Personnel Issues: David Brannigan
• University Assignments: Tom Arnel
• Career Development: Leon Hamlett
• Communications: Brian White
–> Forum Newsletter
• Community Affairs, Recognition and Awards: Debra Galvin
• Employee Presentations: Ernie Patterson
• Nominating: Patty Prentice
–> Forum Elections
VII. Minutes of the August meeting delayed
VIII. Old Business
Resolution Concerning Support of a Living Wage Education Campaign (2nd Reading)
IX. New Business
Resolution Concerning Creation of an Emergency Gas Price Plan (1st Reading)
X. Stretch Time
XI. “Around the Room”/Employee Presentations
XIII. Task Force/University Committee Reports
XIV. Announcements/Questions
• Tammy Yopp on Child Care Subsidy Qualification Levels
XV. Adjournment
September 7, 2005 minutes (abridged)
Chair Tommy Griffin called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m., recognizing assorted guests and Human Resources officials in the audience. Wayne Blair announced that the ombudsoffice had hired Victoria Dodd to serve as the executive assistant for the office beginning September 19. The Chair asked delegates and others to consider making contributions to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
The Chair introduced Ron Howe of the Department of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), filling in for Pete Reinhardt. Howe said that EHS hoped to complete an indoor air quality assessment for the Bioinformatics building in the next couple of weeks.
Howe said that EHS thought that the OS1 vacuum backpack cleaners were satisfactory from an ergonomic standpoint. David Brannigan asked about the possibility of a safety hazard related to the external electric connection and the possibility of exposed live electrical plugs. Howe said that he would study this precise issue and get back to the Forum. Katherine Graves asked who manufactures the particular chemicals associated with OS1 team cleaning, and who would train Employees in their use. She said that effective training should be conducted by the manufacturing representative and 3M, a chemicals manufacturer, had not carried out this practice. She also asked to see the Materials and Safety Datasheet (MSD) related to these chemicals. Howe said that he had not reviewed these issues to this point.
Howe said that EHS had reviewed the heat dress policy and would present recommendations to the University’s Safety and Security committee. Marshall Dietz appreciated this report but said that it was wholly inadequate. He thought that the way the heat index was defined in the recommendations was not appropriate for this campus’ work environment as it ignored the effect of sunshine. Dietz thought that the University needed a central body to determine the heat index and to notify workers when it was too hot to continue outdoor activities. He cited a University of Toronto study and said that someone could die if the University did not take more concrete steps. He issued this warning now in hopes that EHS would act.
Howe praised Dietz’ questions and said that Occupational Health and Safety had analyzed jobs for their exposure to heat. Dietz said that the amount of clothes that some Employees wear while working in the heat exposes them to a heat index of 130-145 degrees. Howe said that he would study this question and report back to the Forum with more information. The Chair said that indoor air temperatures can reach 95-100 degrees in the attics of some buildings. Dietz raised similar questions about cold temperatures and when EHS would communicate to outside Employees to stop work. David Brannigan asked if Howe could also check on the safety reasons why Grounds Employees cannot wear shorts at work in the summertime. Camilla Crampton asked when Howe expected to have answers to these questions and Howe said by the middle of next week.
The Chair introduced Jim Alty, Director of Facilities Services, to speak about the prospective OS1 Team Cleaning process for the housekeeping division. Alty said that the OS1 system is based on a scientific process that follows ergonomic principles that makes cleaning less laborious for Employees. The biggest emphasis of the process is safety for housekeepers and building occupants. The OS1 process features a new training system. It also helps to equalize workloads for housekeepers and increase cleaning quality. Alty pointed to peer universities and private companies that use the OS1 system. He also noted the environmentally aware nature of the OS1 system.
Ernie Patterson asked if Facilities Services would invest in better pay for its housekeepers as a result of savings under OS1. Alty said that he was hamstrung by the State pay ranges and classification system. He would talk with Human Resources about increasing pay for mastery of different tasks under the new system.
Alty said that housekeepers would work as specialists in a particular area of housekeeping, such as light duty, bathrooms or vacuuming. These specialists would work as a team to clean buildings with a lesser amount of equipment. The current system assigns one housekeepers to carry out all of these functions on one or two floors. Graves asked if housekeepers could alternate duties after a particular amount of time. Alty said that the rotation plan would be up to the individual organization. The team could rotate duties monthly or quarterly if that works to relieve tedium. Brannigan said that he had heard differently. Alty said that Facilities Services had not defined its rotation but rather would wait to see how the pilot team does in its 120 day program.
Graves asked how the housekeeping supervisors would keep up with these teams. Alty said that there would be two levels of supervisors under OS1: zone managers and crew leaders. The crew leader positions would give housekeepers a new place to develop the two years of needed supervisory experience to obtain promotion to zone manager positions. Patty Prentice confirmed that Employees could still approach any housekeeper with help obtaining replacements for bathroom tissue and other items.
Brannigan said that the classification of crew leaders as salary grade 54 seemed unequal given the additional recordkeeping, monitoring and notetaking required of these positions, and the salary grade 56 given to Grounds crew leaders. Alty said that his office is restricted in its use of job titles and would approach Human Resources to work on a higher salary classification. Patterson proposed that the career banding system might be useful here, but Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Laurie Charest said that the Office of State Personnel had put the career banding process on hold for the present.
Alty said that the OS1 process would involve all housekeepers but not the moving crew Employees. Bill Burston, head of the Housekeeping Division, said the Division has 21 zones, the majority of which do their work during the night shift. Eighty-five housekeepers work during the day shift. Burston said that there is no difference in the opportunity for advancement for workers on the day and night shifts. Roberta Massey noted that those who have received OS1 training might receive an advantage in competing for promotions. Jackie Kylander asked if no other housekeepers hold supervisory experience. Burston said that the Housekeeping Division previously had seven different layers of supervisors so a number of housekeepers do hold supervisory experience. Crampton asked if it was easy to shift from the day to the night shift or vice versa. Alty said that it was not easy to make these shifts but it is possible. Alty discussed the short-staffing contingency if a housekeeper is absent under the OS1 system.
Massey asked how much is allotted to cover different buildings. Alty said that staff measure buildings with laser pointers to determine square footage. Time is allotted according to common industry measures. Brannigan said that housekeepers under OS1 would have only two minutes to check in each morning and only five minutes to restock equipment. Alty said that the process was so well-planned that one would not need a longer period of time to check in. Also, since the work shift’s supplies would all be located in one place and distributed at the beginning of the shift, there would be no need to go back and forth for different bottles of chemicals afterwards. Graves asked who makes the prepackaged materials and Alty said that Portion-Pak packages the materials.
Brannigan pointed out that supervisors will like the OS1 system since they can keep better track of where their workers are during the shift. Alty said that a supervisor will have a general idea where their Employees are by the hour and should not have to look all over an eight story building to find each team. Brannigan said that the supervisor would know where they are every minute. He recalled that Bill Burston had said in a previous housekeepers’ meeting that supervisors could keep their Employees from sleeping on the job as well. Burston denied making this statement.
Estzer Karvazy asked if new buildings are harder to clean than old ones. Alty said that they are about the same difficulty. He said that the OS1 process was Green Seal certified and was proven to reduce physical strains among Employees. Graves asked if the MSD safety sheets for cleaning chemicals would be provided to housekeepers carrying their materials on their carts. Alty said that these sheets would be in the buildings.
Massey asked if the reduced cost of chemicals would result in additional salary increases. Alty said that Facilities Services planned to use this money to boost its training programs and purchase improved equipment. Massey said that housekeepers should receive additional money if they were becoming specialists under the new system. Alty said that this question was for the State to decide but said that Facilities Services would not be saving millions of dollars under the new system. Massey confirmed that the Director of Housekeeping Services can recommend positions for reclassification.
Alty cited a door dot system as a method to improve safety in buildings. The door dots would instruct housekeepers whether to keep doors locked, unlocked or remain as found. Mike McQuown suggested different shapes for these dots in case some housekeepers are color-blind.
Alty praised the standardization of the OS1 process as setting clear expectations for work at each level and providing consistent service. Brannigan asked how much it would cost to roll out the OS1 system across campus and to replace equipment. Alty said that Facilities Services would in fact save a bit by implementing the new system. Patterson confirmed that OS1 equipment and chemicals do not fall under State contract. Brannigan asked if Alty could provide concrete figures on the OS1 campaign, the training trips to Salt Lake City and the visits to other campuses. Alty said that even without OS1 the Housekeeping Division would still need improved training. Brannigan asked what had been done previously to improve productivity and efficiency outside OS1, asking why the Division had not sought internal improvements before bringing in an outside consultant. Burston said that the Division had expanded its orientation and training, converting its twist and fill process, substituting backpack scrubbing cleaners and implementing other methods to improve zone management and organization.
Massey asked how Alty could guarantee that the OS1 method would work better than what is currently done. Alty said that there are no guarantees but said that the process would improve cleaning while reducing injuries. Massey asked if the University could accomplish these improvements without OS1. Alty said that it would not be cost-effective to design a program from scratch, much as a car manufacturer does not manufacture every part for every car. McQuown said that UNC-Chapel Hill has a number of talented agencies such as the School of Public Health, the EPA and the School of Education that could assist in such an endeavor.
McQuown asked if Alty knew of any housekeeper who had worked under both systems. Alty said that his office plans to send Employees to OS1 sites to talk with housekeepers to get their opinion. Massey suggested using Davis Library as a pilot building given its complexity and busy schedule. Burston said that if the Bioinformatics pilot works well the pilot would move to other buildings. Alty said that the Bioinformatics building was large and very visible. Graves confirmed that the Division would survey housekeepers and pilot building occupants about the new system.
Tom Arnel asked if those resistant to the OS1 process had the opportunity to volunteer for the pilot. Brannigan recalled that a Dr. Walker of the OS1 team had referred to dealing with saboteurs. He asked how Alty would objectively quantify dissent to preconceived notions of success. Alty said that the idea is to arrive at consensus through surveys and pictures of buildings pre- and post-OS1.
Alty noted that the OS1 process had reduced lost work days in one institution from 106 in 2000 to 44 in 2001 and had reduced accidents from 65 to 16 over the same period. Alty said that zone managers had received training in Salt Lake City and would receive further in-house training in the system. The pilot program would proceed for 90-120 days and would move to other buildings as warranted. Three line housekeepers are scheduled to visit work sites at the University of Texas and Sandia National Laboratories. The Chair suggested that Alty include a Forum delegate on one of these trips. Arnel confirmed that Alty was open to skeptics participating in these site visits.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Laurie Charest described the salary increases that SPA Employees will receive this year. SPA Employees will receive a salary increase of $850 or 2.5%, whichever is higher and would see these increases in their September 16 paycheck, retroactive to July 1. EPA Employees will see their increases at the end of October. Employees will also receive 5 days of bonus leave if employed on September 1, 2005.
After November 1, Employees retiring must wait six months before resuming part-time work with the State or risk suspension of their retirement benefits. Health insurance premiums will rise 12.3% this year. The Legislature enacted a provision allowing the State health plan to create a preferred provider organization similar to that advocated by the University health care task force. The task force is committed to continuing to work for a proposal on behalf of UNC System employees.
The North Carolina Flex plan will allow Employees to contribute up to $4200/year in flexible health care spending accounts.
Applicants for the University Managers’ Development Program will receive notifications of acceptance or denial by October 21. The Employee Appreciation Event will take place the first week in October.
The Chancellor’s Task Force for a Better Workplace has issued an update on all 34 recommendations. Charest cited successes with the ombudsoffice, the grievance procedure revision and elimination of backlogs, the reinvigorated clerical skills program, the eight new training programs, the pilot part-time degree program, the computer loan program, the tiered parking plan, the vanpool subsidies, the encouragement of flexible work schedules, the subsidies to Employee child care and the Employee loan program as examples of the Task Force’s success.
Charest reported that the Chancellor’s Office had approved flexible work schedules, telecommuting and four ten-hour work weeks as a response to the gas crisis. Human Resources is available to work with departments to manage these changes. Additionally, Public Safety is recommending commuting alternatives and has estabished a carpool matching service. The Chancellor has sent a letter to all Employees outlining this response.
The Forum approved a resolution in favor of a living wage campaign on second reading. Brannigan asked that the Forum office work with University officials to create a press release.
The Forum heard a resolution on creation of an adverse gas price plan on first reading. Bradley Bone introduced a successful amendment to include vanpool subsidies in the resolution, pointing out that TTA bus riders receive a $50/month subsidy whereas vanpool riders receive only $10/month. The Chair said he would take that particular idea directly to the Advisory Committee on Transportation meeting later that month.
The Forum moved to table an idea to include the time on buses commuting to and from park and ride lots as work time in the resolution. Ernie Patterson asked if Claire Miller could study the idea of defining the park and ride lot as part of the University worksite for time coding purposes. Prentice made the motion to call the question seconded by Brannigan.
Brannigan moved to moved to suspend its rules and consider the resolution on second reading. White seconded this motion which was approved by more than two-thirds majority. The resolution itself was then approved.
The Chair reminded delegates to attend the Chancellor’s University Day address October 12 in the Great Hall.
In the absence of further discussion the meeting was adjourned at 11:44 a.m.
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【Summit Senior Figures Interview】Interview with Tan Jialing, Deputy Mayor of Chongqing...
【Summit Senior Figures Interview】Interview with Tan Jialing, Deputy Mayor of Chongqing Municipal Government
Publish Time：2016-08-25 10:31:19Source：WTCF
【Introduction】：Thanks to the World Tourism Cities Federation,Chongqing was chosen as the 2016 venue for the summit. We also believe that the summit can bring more glory toChongqing city.
WTCF: Please tell us why Chongqing was chosen as the venue location for the “2016 World Tourism Cities Federation Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit.”
Tan Jialing: Thanks to the World Tourism Cities Federation,Chongqing was chosen as the 2016 venue for the summit. We also believe that the summit can bring more glory toChongqing city.World Tourism Cities Federation Summit, held for the first time in a city that isn’t a capital, and held the first time in the Midwest region of China, which in itself means that Chongqing has become one of the world's most famous tourist destinations and it shows the tourism potential of the city.In addition to the China factor, beautiful natural scenery, unique culture and charming style, and the broad support from the booming economy and the public, all add toChongqing’s obvious advantages.
(Tan Jialing, Deputy Mayor of Chongqing Municipal Government, accepted interview during the 2015 Rabat&Fez Fragrant Hill Tourism Summit)
Firstly, from a historical point of view, Chongqing has been set as the country’s capital three times, and has hadfour majorconstructionsthroughout the history. The city is one of China's historically famous cultural city and heritage market; in addition, the city ishome to countless heroes and many historical sites that are full of ancient customs. Chongqingcourts the world's attention with its various travel options in the city.
The city has 3,000 years of unique history and culture connotation. It retained many of the 25,000 extremely valuable cultural heritage items,includingthe World Heritage Site, "Dazu Rock Carvings" which shows the charm of oriental civilization; "Aikawa fishing city" changed the world history; and most notably,during World War II, Chongqing was the command center in the Far East.
Secondly, Chongqing has a large city landscape, a total of 82,000 square kilometers of land, rivers horizons, and mountains blending the city.It has a unique world natural heritage: Jinfo Mountain and Wulong Karst Geological Park, in addition to the Three Gorges, Wujiang River Gallery and other world wonders. The city sits on various shapes of the bridges, like the natural moat into a thoroughfare.Therefore, Chongqing also enjoys the name "World Bridge Museum."
Thirdly, Chongqing is one of China's five national central cities, with many geographical advantages and owns the strategic position. It is an important fulcrum to the western development and also a junction point to the “One Belt One Road" strategy.Plus,it is a key city along Yangtze River economic belt. The city’s infrastructure includes the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europeinternational railway in the west, Yangtze River Golden Waterway in the east,and airlines covering more than 120 cities on five continents. The western city of Chongqing is China's youngest municipality and has emerged as an important inland development center for China.
(Chongqing Nanbin Road)
Fourthly, Chongqing has a continuous GDP growth that maintains more than 10% growth rate. It is the fastest growing city in the first ten consecutive quarters in China. The city has pillar industry development, state of modern manufacturing base, domestic functional financial center, and the National Center for Urban Construction in West innovation centers. In addition, urban and rural development takes shape, including automobiles, digital information, equipment manufacturing, consumer products and other expansion, notebook computers and other strategic emerging the rapid rise of modern service industry, financial industry and other booming new growth emerging. The city attracted nearly 300 "Fortune 500" companies to establish basesand under larger world economic pressures,presentedpositive economic development trends.
Fifthly, Chongqing is a world famous tourist city and an important tourist destination.It is the ancient capital, spa capital, bridges city,and the gastronomic capital.Chongqing has 1World Heritage Site, 2World Natural Heritage, and 198 national A-level scenic spots.The city has also opened 36 direct flights to Los Angeles, Rome, Helsinki, Sydney, Doha and Seoul. Also, visitors from The United States, Germany, France, Russia, Switzerland, Australia and other 51 countries visitors can enjoy the "72 hours transit visa."The total overseas tourists reached 390 million people. Both domestic and overseas tourists are fond of the city landscape, Chongqing nightlife, Chongqing dishes as well as the light rail, elevated bridge, and the river tankers. In recent years, Chongqing has been awarded by internationally renowned travel magazine "Frommer's" and "Lonely Planet" as "The World's Top Ten Tourist Destinations andThe World's Top Ten Most Promising Destination."Its comprehensive tourist satisfaction ranks the first one among all Chinese tourist cities.
In addition, Chongqing has the expertise to organize exhibitionsand for five consecutive years, it was named as "China Top Ten Influential Exhibition City and China's Best MICE Destination City". The city has held "AAPP AAPP,China Top 500 Enterprises Summit, West China Tourism Industry Expo” and other forums&exhibitions.The summit is to be held in Chongqing YuelaiNational Convention Centre, which is a global leader in large-scale conventions, and is theWest's largest conference venues, with a total construction area of 600,000 square meters. Itis a multi-functional complex with various services including exhibitions, conference, catering, and accommodation. Chongqing Yuelai Wyndham Hotel is aninternationally renowned hotel that has earned a five-star standard.
In short, the unique charm of the city shows friends at home and abroad that the Chongqing has tremendous appeal, whichmakes Chongqing city the right choice to host the summit in 2016. We are deeply honored and would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the Federation and its member cities for their great support!
（Chongqing Chaotianmen）
WTCF: Please kindly introduce the current preparatory work underway in Chongqing.
Tan Jialing: Chongqing municipal government attaches great importance to the summit held in Chongqing. We see it as a major opportunity to accelerate the construction of an international tourist destination of the world,to improve the competitiveness of the city of Chongqing, its impact and visibility as an important carrier and platformto expand openness, accelerate the process of modernization and internationalization.
After the successful bid, the municipal government established the leadership and the city's upper and lower level working mechanism. We have set up a special committee and held a mobilization meeting and several conferences to develop an overall plan.
To ensure that work is completed, the municipal government has done a good job in regards to preparations for the Summit, clearing all departments and county tasks and responsibilities. And to develop a work program into nearly 30, detailed working processes, clarify working schedule, strengthen inspection to ensure that the work is processed.
During the preparations, we attach special importance to fine services and supports. We focused on different countries, different regions of the guests, in order to develop a "one to one" comprehensive and detailed program reception. We also specifically recruited hundreds of volunteers for the Summit guests with attentive and thoughtful services. Airlines, hotels, travel agencies, financial companies and other tourism industry summit will also provide quality and efficient full-services.
（Chongqing Monument for Liberation）
This time, we will take the most stringent security measures to ensure the safety of guests. Currently, attendance rate has reached 66.7%, most of which are international buyers and international investors to senior management. Senior officials from UNWTO, PATA, GTEF, WTCF and other important international organizations have confirmed their attendance. In addition,12 delegations led by the tourism city mayor or deputy mayor will also attend.
Chongqing will take this opportunity to vigorously promote the development of tourism industry.
1. To promote investment. We have pushed the successes of landscape Six Flags theme park, OCT Chongqing Wanda Culture Travel City and other tourism projects.
2. To promote the construction. Yangtze River Golden Triangle Tour started construction with an investment of 364 million yuan to promote the "Travel Toilet Revolution," and vigorously upgrade the tourist facilities.
3. To promote the service. It will improve the quality of tourism services to enhance the implementation of the project, and to strengthen the tourist destinations, scenic spots, hotels, restaurants, parking, travel agency standardized management.
4. To enhance marketing. The city has mobilized the forces and resources to create a strong atmosphere of the summit organization, three-dimensional online and offline publicity and promotion of tourism resources and specialty products.
5. To enhance the governance. It will be vigorously rectifying and standardizing the order of the tourism market, enhance the tourism business practices, and create a safe and harmonious tourist environment.
6. To promote inbound tourism. We would like to vigorously promote global tourism, to highlight the Three Gorges, Red Rock line, the spa capital,Chongqing corridor, Wujiang River Gallery, World Heritage, Old Towns, beautiful countryside and other tourist spots to attract visitors to Chongqing for sightseeing.
We attach great importance to the communications with World Tourism Cities Federation and the Federation also gave Chongqing strong guidance and support. We will also learn from Beijing, Rabat and other cities who held summit before and had valuable experience. I believe with the joints efforts from WTCF and Chongqing; we can arrange an impactful, distinctive, and high quality summit, giving domestic and foreign guests a good impression.
（Wulong Fairy mountain）
WTCF: You have participated in the summit held last year in Morocco.Chongqing is the first summit held in a city that isn’t a capital. What are the characteristics and highlights of this year's summit? For this year's summit held in Chongqing, what goals and expectations do you have?
Tan Jialing: Last year's summit held in Morocco, North Africa, allowed us to experience the beauty and style of a splendid civilization. It left us with a deep impression. This year's summit, held in Chongqing, will be based on the previous summit and show the unique characteristics of the city.
The summit will be milestone significance. The summit will review theglorious history and bright future prospects of the WTCF since the establishment and share the bright future prospects of the organization. It is an important event for the Federation. During the scheduled agenda, it has arranged for the transition of the World Tourism City Federation Council, the second session of the board meeting for the first time, the World Tourist City Federation member conference, announcing of the 2017 overseas host city and 2018 domestic host city, which is the first time in the WTCF’s history.
The summit is in the "Five Development Concept" held under the guidance of a tour event. Summit Forum with the theme of "Sharing Economy on Tourism Opportunities and Challenges of Urban Development," and highlighting the "Five Concept of Development" and the core requirements.The "Five Development Concept" promotes tourism development in the world and will bring a better future to world tourism industry. At the same time, the summit forum will adapt a "3 + 1" method, that is one main forum plus three sub-forums, which will have government officials, corporate executives, experts and scholars, and industry representatives from various sectors comingtogether to discuss a new model of tourism.
The summit will launch three historical breakthrough results. First, the summit will publish the World Tourism Cities Federation Chongqing Declaration and the Chongqing to Build an Internationally Renowned Tourist Destination Case Study and a series of researchdocuments. The World Tourism Cities Federation Chongqing Declaration will serve asthe World Tourism Program for action in the next five years. Secondly, the summit will set up Committee of Investment of WTCF, jointly prepared and sponsored by China Equity Investment Association (CAPE), which has more than 400 members and overRMB one trillion administer funds. CAPE will be the first to fund to the Tourism Investment Fair and deepen international cooperation in tourism. Again, the summit will discuss the progress made in the tourism business for its significant results, in which Chongqing will have 20 projects to participate in the negotiations and more than 10 projects have identified investors.
The summit will fully reflect the trends of openness, interactive, and experience. Through the "Conference + Experience" innovative ways plus the “Online + Offline”, "Land + Water" activities, the summit content will inevitably reach a new climax.At the same time, our guests will enjoy the summit tour, including experience tours andcruise trips, which will make them appreciate the beauty of Chongqing's unique landscape and cultural customs.
As the city council member of WTCF, Chongqing will be committed to the summit and make it into an event in history. Here, we sincerely issue a warm invitationto international tourism organizations and agencies, the World Tourism Cities, and World Tourism Enterprises. Welcome to Chongqing! Let us together interpret and advertise the"Better City Life through Tourism" concept and to make new contributions to the development of world tourism!
WTCF: During the summit, there will be representatives of international tourism organizations and institutions from around the world attending.Since Chongqing is World's Tourism Federation member city, what are the benefits we can gain to hold such a summit to promote the internationalization process of Chinese tourist cities? What’s the significance for promoting the sustainable development of tourism in the world?
Tan Jialing: Chongqing made tourism as a comprehensive strategic pillar industryand made the goal to accelerate the construction of well-known international tourist destination.In the next five years, Under the guidance of "Beautiful Landscape Capital · Chongqing (promotional project)", the city will be focusing on building three major international tourist destinations, four themed boutique tourist routes, four destination system, and seven international tourism brand.According to the plan, the future of Chongqing international route numbers will reach to 100. The to-be built Chongqing Jiangbei International AirportT3 terminal will allowpassenger number will reach 7 million, making Chongqing’s contact with the world more closely.
Holding such a summit can effectively promote Chongqing’s domestic and international tourism, which will enhance the domestic and international exchanges and cooperation between tourism enterprises and international tourism organizations and institutions.
World Tourism Cities Federation has 109 city members, including the major domestic and international tourist destination cities. Through the organization of the summit, members can effectively promote exchanges between cities for the world to understand Chinese tourist cities. And it will allowtourist cities in China he opportunity tobetter understand the world tourist cities in order to build a two-way communication platform. Through the organization of the summit, the World Tourism can not only promote more Chinese enterprises to seek business opportunities, open up to the vast Chinese market, especially in central and western China, to allow more foreign tourists to visit China, but also for the more Chinese tourist cities, Tourism enterprises to go abroad to provide support, allowing more Chinese tourists learn about a foreign tourist city. It will allow Chinese tourism cities and the world tourism industry to better integrate into the global tourism, which enhances their level of internationalization.
"Sharing" is the key to the world's sustainable and healthy development of the tourism industry. By "sharing", it can effectively mobilize the world of tourism resources, and to achieve optimal allocation of resource elements.
Through the organization of the summit, it can effectively promote greater understanding between the World Tourism Cities, deepen cooperation and realize the sharing of resources among the world tourist cities, to complementary advantages, mutual benefit, boost world tourism including Chongqing tourism, and China's tourism industry. All above can forward through the development of tourism, promote the integration of industrial development, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the whole economy.As a member of the World Federation of Municipalities tourist city, Chongqing will continue to support the summit to be held, to contribute to the development of China's tourism industry and the world of tourism!
WTCF: Anything else you would like to add?
Tan Jialing: 2016 World Tourism Cities Federation Chongqing Fragrant HillsTourism Summit will be held during the autumn season during September 18-22. Here, we once again invite everyone to Chongqing. We are ready, and we will offer the next safe, efficient, and unique tourist event. Let us set out together to experience the charm of Chongqing, and to share the vitality of Chongqing!
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As we move forward this year, it is very important to understand that planet earth and her inhabitants are moving through a very turbulent time of collective consciousness transformation. We are undergoing another stage of core magnetic field shifting that radically elevates the magnetic tone resonance that emanates from the inner core of the planet. Because of how the magnetic field resonances connect with our brain’s neural net and stations of consciousness, the 3D personality will lose coherence in its linear logical processing. Therefore, humanity is confronted with the necessity of adapting to the major changes occurring in their world, the modification of how they think and what they believe to be true. The global brain is changing in relation to radical magnetic anomalies generated from quantum shifts in the spinning rotational axis, which is impacting our brain, thinking and neurological processing. Drastic magnetic shifts give rise to the sensations of magnetic compression and compaction in matter that are very uncomfortable on the physical body. This year ends a five-year cycle where windows of opportunity will arise for individuals as well as the collective consciousness, to make choices in the direction of their lives that are derived through their creation in the power of Consent.
In order to effectively take back control over our own mind, body and spiritual consciousness, we will explore the meaning of Consent, and the types of consent that are common in human language, as well as how consent is manufactured through deceptive forms of mass manipulation. Consent has direct applicability to the power of Universal Laws, and it is cleverly mimicked when used in legal contexts or in the shaping of cultural influences, which often differ greatly to obscure the everyday meaning. We need to be very aware of the engineering approach used in mind control practices that purposely manipulate people out of their Informed Consent. Like the methods used in media based psychological operations and the related propaganda that is used to get the uninformed public to support ideas and agendas that explicitly benefit the Controllers.
Now and ongoing, it is of critical importance that we pay attention and are consciously aware of what we are in Consent with. When we better understand what we are truly participating with, an informed and aware decision can be made. The global control agenda is designed to usurp the informed consent of the human public. This psychological operation is escalating in more aggressive ways so that people will be compromised to easily give away their Consent. When people easily give away their personal consent to a structure, belief or another person, it is easy to compromise and interfere with the intrinsic relationship that person has to their own inner soul and spirit. When we give up our rights to have Informed Consent in what we interact with, we lose our autonomy and even lose rights to own our body.
Thus, it is up to us to place emphasis on accepting responsibility in our choices and actions, so that we never give up our personal consent to something outside of our own inner spiritual self's direct connection to the Godhead or Source. In this way, we can interact with many different structures in this world, collaborate with other people and in communities, but external things are never given authority over the direction of the higher self and relationship with God. This is what it means to be in this world, but not of this world. Our multidimensional consciousness exists outside of time and when we are reconnected we are able to hold witnessing way beyond the control matrix. The relationship with the inner core self and the highest expression of self as connected to the Godhead must be the highest priority in order to retain power over personal Consent. This action unleashes the power of Consent in Universal Law, preserving the rights for claiming self-sovereignty and assigning higher authority to the body, while being bombarded with 3D mind control tactics designed to manipulate consent away from all people.
Currently the earth and all inhabitants are subjected to hidden and obvious mind control technologies used to increase cognitive dissonance that socially engineer the collective consciousness consent to accept the Death Culture, in order to continue to accept world slavery and parasitism. Most people on earth would not give their consent to be slaves or to be used for energy, so they are mind controlled to stay in denial, survival or escapism to avoid seeing this painful truth. Consumer marketing campaigns capitalize on cognitive dissonance by framing their advertising in such way that the easiest magical solution to reduce pain or discomfort from problems is to buy or support their product or propaganda. Through media bombardment they consistently form positive associations to the negative behaviors of the death culture in order to increase cognitive dissonance in the way people think, which increases suggestibility and gullibility into programming. People that are highly suggestible are programmed in such ways that directly impact the unconscious formation of doublethink into socially acceptable belief systems. This is purposed to covertly, yet directly stimulate the unresolved conflicts in the instinctual and unconscious mind's reactions, eliminating critical thinking, common sense, consistency and coherent thoughts. This way people are led to associate the negative belief systems being propagated, with the positive associations being programmed for them. When the actions or results of those associations are actually entirely negative and spiritually destructive to them. As an example, why would humanity endorse the death culture when its purpose is to enslave and kill members of the human race? This is cognitive dissonance in action, the deliberate ignoring and denial of the war over consciousness on the earth in order to avoid conflicting thoughts.
This further influences and shapes what the collective unconscious creates as the main value system in society, which reflect what type of external structures people have given away their consent to. Because money and materialism are highly valued by the masses, this is the area in which most people give away their power of consent. Doublethink produces lack of coherence and inconsistency in one’s thoughts, which is similar to the state of cognitive dissonance. People that are mind controlled with cognitive dissonance or doublethink, refuse to acknowledge what is in plain sight or right in front of their eyes in full evidence, because they are still clinging to denial and self-deception generated from fear and pain avoidance.
Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable tension that exists when holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time, or it is the tension that exists between the actions of the mind, and the actions of the heart. It is the state of incoherence or inconsistency within our thinking, when conflicting thoughts surface into the mind and cannot be reconciled, clarified or neutralized. Therefore, the state of cognitive dissonance usually brought on by negative ego pathology, manifests as a range of psycho-emotional-spiritual conflicts that impact the functioning of body, mind, heart and spirit. Many people misplace their consent through the mental state of cognitive dissonance, because they do not know the core spiritual self, and thus their consent is given away through the confusion they have with conflicting belief systems. When a person makes decisions that are based in self-deception or group deception, they are basing their consent on the beliefs that the deception is true or going along with the popular opinion because it’s easier. This is the way to manufacture consent in the masses through the setup of the Imposter. Because a person is consenting to something that represents itself or markets itself with propaganda, as something other than what it really is. When we believe manipulated lies as truth, we give up critical thinking, common sense and intuition that help us make informed decisions about where we place consent.
As an example, if we believe the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is the medical authority given to preserve public health and they recommend to doctors that 69 doses are scheduled for each child, we may give away parental consent for our children to be injected in harmful doses, over our own common sense and intuition. Do we believe the CDC demonstrates ethical conduct and is sincerely concerned about public health and serving the people, or are they a corporate shill? Are they profiting from the billions made by the pharmaceutical companies serving the NAA? Where has our consent and authority been placed in this circumstance and what are the common sense reasons why we should be questioning it?
Dissonance between the Ego and Heart
Cognitive dissonance happens commonly between the beliefs of the ego mind, and the core beliefs or truth that exists within evidential facts as considered through the open heart and spiritual intelligence. If we ignore our spirit, and go against our heart intelligence to give consent to the ego intelligence, we create cognitive dissonance in our thinking which manifests as unresolved conflicts that generate energetic blocks in our pain body. These blocks are created when consciously aware of dissonance, or unconsciously reacting to dissonance through uncontrolled impulses. Dissonance or uncomfortable tension that we feel is very strong when we believe something about ourselves and then perform an action that is against that belief. Dissonant based tension and anxiety is much more powerful when there are conflicts about our self-image, who we believe we are, and what we identify with as our personality. The more dissonance, tension or mental anxiety we feel, the more attachment and dependency we have to defining our self-image based upon those sets of beliefs.
Mental anxiety produced from cognitive dissonance magnifies considerably in relation to how important the subject is to us and how much we identify with it. It also relates to how polarizing the opposing thoughts are that are in conflict within us, and our inability to rationalize, explain away or resolve the conflict. This makes it clear that confirmation bias and self-justification through ego defense mechanisms are commonly used to explain away the conflicts, in order to make people feel instantly better. People will ignore evidence that is contrary to their own beliefs, in order to preserve their mental beliefs that have become important to their personality, and to avoid feeling the tension of conflicts. It takes personal dedication to honestly face internal conflicts in order to evolve past cognitive dissonance and into the higher clarity of discerning resonances. This means asking equally if we are being lied to through mass manipulation, or if we are lying to ourselves to avoid a painful truth. In either case our consent is not in alignment to Universal Law, and we can feel this through our heart intelligence.
In order to resolve mental tension and inner conflicts that results from cognitive dissonance, one must first recognize that they have the power to make different choices. In taking responsibility for the choices they make, they can learn to change the way they think and change their behavior in ways that restore coherence and consistency. In this way by resolving or removing issues of cognitive dissonance (mental anxiety from inner conflicts) they become more coherent and consistent in their thoughts, which allow for better choices to be made with the power of their own consent. When people remain in cognitive dissonance and they refuse to take responsibility for their choices to resolve conflicts, the negative consequences of dissonance are that it attracts more dissonant or negative energies.
Our thoughts shape our beliefs, which inform decisions about where to place consent. So the process of cognitive dissonance becomes the basis for how we evaluate situations and make decisions. It is the central mechanism by which we perceive or experience differences that we encounter in the world. Once we become more self-aware, we evolve beyond egoic levels of cognitive dissonance and into choices based on deep inner feelings of nonjudgmental personal resonances, which is the higher sensory language of the heart and spiritual intelligence guidance system.
Manipulation of Consent
The agenda to increase cognitive dissonance in the way people think is purposely plotted to more easily manipulate the consent out of the individual and public. It allows people to perform actions and behaviors that are actually contradictory to their personal belief systems. People that act in behaviors or ways that are actually the opposite of what they believe in, generate a lot of mental anxiety and accumulate emotional aberrance into their pain body. Emotional aberrance, unresolved conflicts, inner violence, fear and pain attract energetic parasites. Many times these parasites contribute to the psychological manipulation of fear in the person’s body. As a result, in order to avoid facing pain or discomfort, the person may refuse to address the contradiction that occurs between their behaviors and belief system. So they put up a wall and avoid confronting it entirely. When a person lives in perpetual cognitive dissonance, the mental and emotional stress that it creates leads to splitting behaviors and soul fracturing. These dissonant thought forms and the internal fracturing are used to manipulate the consent of the masses to keep them spiritually oppressed, feeding into destructive structures they do not understand that harbor anti-human forces that act as parasites to the human body.
What we hold as the intention made behind our personal thoughts is what we hold as our power of Consent, in participating with that thought-form and its vibrational quality and force. The consent is within the choices we make. Choices can be made via cognitive dissonance with discordant energies, or made through coherent systems of energy with congruent thought forms. If we make personal consent with something based on what we believe it to be on the surface appearances, but underneath the surface it represents something that is a deception or is contradictory to our belief, the energy behind it is really what we are participating with as our consent. However, when we are committed to serve our highest expression, these deceptions will be revealed to each and every one of us at some point. In that moment we have the power to make a choice, will we make the changes required that are congruent with this new realization, or will we compromise our integrity and pretend to not see it? Some people choose to live in denial because they don’t want to change or evolve.
Currently, with the bifurcation shift (see Sept 2013) and the opening of the consciousness corridors (see Oct 2014), many people are aligning to the new timeline based on what they choose to be in consent with. This phase may feel very out of sync or change day to day relationships because people are aligning to timelines based on their everyday choices. Some of those choices may be on our timeline or not. This creates a strange and surreal experience when interacting with people on earth that are not on your same timeline, and one will feel the challenges increasing when trying to communicate with people that are not on your timeline (see July 2016). Communication lines between people on different timelines and reality bubbles are made difficult now.
Through the exploitation of Universal Laws on the earth, the NAA have manipulated humanity through mind control to be in consent and authority with their agendas. As an intermediary they have shaped human culture, they have designed the curriculum humans are taught as the false history in the false reality. Based on these many lies and deceptions, humanity naturally aligns with the consent and authority of that same predator mind that is manufacturing the deceptions. This is how the NAA control humanity by manipulation of consent in the mind, by removing the possibility of holding clear intention of thoughts. While further stimulating automatic reactions in the unconscious, which manipulates the Soul. This makes the NAA False gods an intermediary source field, an Imposter Spirit or AI brain, that is communicating en masse with many unsuspecting humans who cannot discern the difference between lies, deception, manipulation and the hidden kernels of truth, the content we must decipher to make accurate assessments about this reality.
The consent we have made constitutes a personal choice. As a result of cause and effect there are consequences from the thought-form substance created, that impact the self and others. Consent naturally leads to what and who, has been given some power or authority over the individual and the individuals body. Therefore, educating ourselves about the nature of consent is critical to the preservation of our self-determination and self-sovereignty.
What is Consent?
Consent is an act of the power of the mind to think and understand, to reason and perform careful consideration of participation with something, and to reflect on the consequences of that participation. The proper meaning of consent is a person who exercises sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent decision that is demonstrated through the genuine willingness of an action, as the result of reaching an agreement in mutual or shared interests, or performing an action that is proposed by another. Consent is not real consent any longer when tactics of terror, intimidation, deception and fear are used as an explicit tool to manufacture consent in a person, in order to get them to go along with performing an action. Obviously, this is coercion administered under threat of personal harm. Thus, we can be made aware that many people’s consent is stolen, manipulated and manufactured through the specific psychological targeting of the masses with intimidation, bullying, terrorism and victimization fears. This is a mass media psychological operation used to traumatize the world citizens, distracting them from comprehending the power of consent.
Additionally, consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal, goals or desires of another person. This also applies to participating with any kind of organization and other types of corporate structures. When we are in consent with something no matter what it is, a person or inanimate thing, it is important to set your intention, purpose and goals in why you are consciously participating with them. This is called setting the terms of a mission statement, which correlates to the Law of Intent. All individuals should have a mission statement that reflects their intentions and self-goals, no matter how basic it is to outline their purpose and direction. People need to be self-aware to the point that they can define what purpose they want to serve in life. A personal mission statement can be as simple as “I choose to be in the highest expression of my divinity and to serve my God Source in reaching my highest potential”. Furthermore, all organizations and systems of energy should also have a mission statement that clearly reflects the declaration of intent and the purpose of the organizational structure. Mission statements set the intention of the organizational field in the systems of energy being co-created, which will allow you over time, to self-assess and monitor if your mission statement and the mission statement and intent of another, are congruent or dissonant. As a conscious awake and informed person, this step is very important in managing the energies generated between all of your personal associations, projects and the intentions behind them. With this clarity of purpose, this allows you to check in for personal resonance quickly when things between people and organizations evolve over time, to better monitor if you need to make changes in the intent or consent that you have made in the relationships that you have created.
Implied Consent
Implied consent is dependent on the circumstances that exist which lead a reasonable person to believe that this consent was given, although no direct or explicit words of consent or agreement had been actually written or expressed. Implied consent is based on the person’s behaviors or actions in a particular situation or surroundings. An example of implied consent is that if you are participating with a larger institution, such as an educational institution, these places are mechanisms of social order which govern the behavior of the individuals that exist within that community. Implied consent would mean that if you choose to participate with that institution, you are expected to follow their rules. In gaining access to ES Community as a learning environment based upon the Law of One, implied consent would be that our members are in agreement to follow the guidelines of behavior that are outlined and are in consent with the practices of the Law of One. For someone governed by another guideline of behavior or belief system that is contradictory to the main practices, it would generate cognitive dissonance if they were to actually become a member.
However, this area of loosely interpreting implied consent is perhaps the most manipulated by Imposter Spirits in order to gain manufactured consent over unaware people. This is especially so for those people that have addiction and escapist tendencies masked by unresolved pain and trauma. If we have not been educated to understand that if we engage with unhealthy or negative behaviors, when we engage in those behaviors, we can open our aura to demonic attachments and negative spirits without realizing it. This happens through the consent we have made by engaging in that negative behavior, even though we may not have given express or written consent to have a demonic attachment. Our unhealthy spiritual behavior is the implied consent that is given to the world of dark forces, which allows them to manipulate, control, attach or siphon your energy while making you feel miserable. When a person repeatedly acts against their soul or they are victimized by a violent entity using another person to commit harm against the soul, this leaves demonic bindings and other dark residue. The most common dramatic examples of assorted spiritual attachments and demonic forces hanging on to a person’s auric field, are the religiously conflicted, sexually assaulted, emotionally traumatized, any victim of violence or SRA, and the excessively mind controlled or soul fractured. To begin to heal from any of these spiritually abusive issues the person must learn about the Laws of Intent, Consent and Authority, so they can begin to make informed consent to reclaim their body, and energetically heal from severe spiritual abuses that have fractured the consciousness and lightbody.
This is why in personal situations we should avoid implied consent with people we do not know well and make sure that we have a direct verbal conversation or agreement that is discussed between the parties involved. Open and clear communication between people maintains clarity in each person’s intentions in order to avoid misunderstandings of what may be construed as implied consent.
Informed Consent is a legal term and ethical principle that describes biological ethics, it was introduced after World War II and it replaced the earlier medical attitudes that were founded on having implicit trust in a doctor’s decisions, and put patients in charge of their own care. Informed Consent is the process for getting permission before involving that person in some kind of situation that impacts bodily health or wellbeing, usually related to medical research or clinical experiments, such as being informed of the potential risks a therapy or drug and giving informed consent before being provided it. Informed consent, can be said to be given, when a person has been educated to understand the facts and considers the implication and possible consequences of an action, which will impact them. Therefore the term informed consent is an ethical and legal principle in which a person exercises their right to gather more data for analysis and perform their own due diligence, to better understand the facts and consequences of making a choice that impacts them. Informed consent is directly related to preserving a human beings right to self-ownership, autonomy and the prevention of abusive conduct.
However, a person may verbally agree to something from fear, perceived social pressure, or psychological difficulty in expressing true feelings. A person may claim to understand the implications of some action, but in fact has failed to understand the possible consequences fully. However, legally defined valid informed consent has three components; disclosure of the information in a truthful way to make an autonomous decision, the mental capacity to comprehend the information and form reasonable judgments on the consequences, and the voluntary action to exercise decisions without external pressures such as coercion, manipulation and deception. These three core principles of informed consent are important to understand as they correlate to the tipping point that must be reached for the human collective consciousness to be awakened into the thresholds of accepting the higher frequency reality. As more people can comprehend their personal rights in Universal Law, they can exert that personal power to become more flexible and open to receive the clarity around the larger unpleasant truth behind world events. As they begin to perceive more of the true nature of reality pushing past denial and fear, they rise to support the collective human demands for full disclosure, demanding to know the truth no matter how ugly it is. When people go beyond fear and denial, and stand up for the ethical treatment of humanity and the earth, they are willing to accept responsibility, petitioning for the truth to be known as based in Universal Laws. And this directly applies to examining evidence and continually asking for Informed Consent in everything that impacts our mind, body and spirit, and in our world.
Informed consent was implemented into the medical system when the scientific research conducted in Nazi Germany was discovered, and contained some of the worst human rights abuses and crimes made against humanity. This is an important distinction, to connect the creation of the informed consent culture in our society, to the actions behind the Nazi Black Sun agendas. This timeline is when the silent weapons for quiet wars was declared in collaboration with some of the off planet breakaways, and the extra-dimensional parasites. The same controller factions are busy destroying informed consent in every way possible today and distracting the masses to ignore its deeper meaning, which is to serve and protect personal autonomy. The Nuremberg code was established in 1949, for the purpose of developing standards by which to judge the Nazi scientists and doctors during the Nuremberg trials. The Nuremberg Code states that all who are participating in such an experiment are required to give voluntary consent that is free of coercion, fraud, duress or deceit. Informed consent is an extremely important marker for guiding the ethical principles necessary to the creation of a humanitarian based society, and is relevant in all segments of society impacting human rights, sexual ethics, business ethics, bio-tech ethics and political ethics. It is the primary ethical principle and philosophy to prevent rampant corruption that harbors abusive conduct that allows lies, deceit, intimidation and partial disclosure of the facts that innately steal away the consent of the people.
Given the importance of Informed Consent for the protection of human rights and as an ethical doctrine, it is applicable to Universal Laws in the petition of demanding factual truths of accurate events to be revealed to the human population in the event of full disclosure. At this time on the planet earth in the larger global events designed for world slavery and extra-dimensional entities genocidal agendas, informed consent in this larger context is non-existent. Therefore, all people interested to serve the disclosure movement can benefit through the comprehension of the higher principles of informed consent and the lack thereof, to open dialogue on the ethical implications this has made against the human race, as the demand for full disclosure grows stronger and becomes more unified. At this point, the lack of informed consent as the result of non-disclosure of true and accurate events on this planet, establishes gross negligent abuse, which can directly lead to multiple species genetic annihilation as well as other devastating consequences.
The Law of Intent and Consent
Remember that Intent matches the Consent, which chooses the authority that is given in the circumstance or structure being created. When you create something, think about what is the intent, consent and where is the authority being given in this situation?
Whatever kind of force we are in consent with, whether we know this or not, is the quality of energy that our body and consciousness is subjected to in Universal Law. The quality of spiritual force will have corresponding dimensional laws, which govern the actions of that quality of that spirit. Negative forces are in the lower dimensions and create servitude and bondage to time, while positive forces of the Spirits of Christ are in the highest dimensions and create sovereignty and freedom for the Soul and Spirit.
What we think with our intent will be in consent with the frequency match of the forces that we generate, and the force we create with is our authority in the structure that we are building.
What we build in the Law of Structure is what we have created with accumulated or combined forces. This creation whether perceived as tangible or intangible, will have an energetic Cause and Effect upon our body, mind, consciousness and all of our life experiences.
When one has the knowledge of the Law of Intent, they naturally develop their consent with whatever energy, force or structure they are interacting with or co-creating with. That force of energy, whether positive or negative, is used to create a structure and that will determine the authority with which that structure has been built. As long as that structure has been built with that same Intent, Consent and Authority, it will remain as the Governor of that structure.
This lack of knowledge is the most common reason why an individual that has unknowingly co-created with the negative causes, that are the Imposter Spirit forces, becomes increasingly entangled with these negative forces creating more negative results from the Law of Cause and Effect. Many people cannot discern negative forces and the levels of deception carried out by the Imposter Spirits. This is a loophole created from the Alien Machinery and its inorganic AI architecture that has manipulated human beings to co-create with these negative forces, in order to grow and spread their negative effects on the earth plane and in other dimensions.
Witnessing the Harm Committed
During this year and ongoing, many of us will be put in situations where transparency is required, making a choice of personal consent is necessary, and we will come to witness many different levels of harm that have been perpetrated over eons of time.
The most challenging aspect we are facing is that we will be given the opportunity to see up close and personal the inhumane treatment, the deliberate brutality and torture that humans have been subjected to by the choices that have been made by others, whether human or nonhuman and for whatever reason. How many people have refused to look at where intentional harm is occurring because it is believed to be too ugly and dark, and yet in silence, continue to allow the slavery or torture of humanity and children to continue unchallenged and left unaccountable. The world power structures, the governments of this earth have monetized the suffering and torture of humanity. The world economy is dependent on the suffering and slavery of humans in order to produce mass profits based in the continual complicit behaviors of engaging in criminal conduct and inhumane treatment. Many of the storefronts or shill organizations are dressed up and labeling themselves as serving humanitarian causes, receiving massive amounts of contribution money that is not given to the people that need help, but instead to the corporations that make massive profits from disasters and war. Multinational child service charities connected to powerful politics that are so compartmentalized that they secretly are fronting massively profitable pedophilia rings.
Therefore, we will be faced with making choices of consent in what we are willing to know as the ugly truth that exists in the hidden situations impacting our lives surfaces into our view. More of the large pieces will be connected in perceiving what happens in the macrocosm that is impacting us directly by trickling down into our own living rooms. Are we willing to see what it is that really operates behind the world economies, what kind of people and storefronts are used to continually perpetrate harm, and how that degeneracy impacts every structure that exists in this world? Or will we refuse to see it and deny the harm it produces? Humans are at a crossroads of making the choices to become more ethical, to stop allowing the lies of omission and to live in congruence with our spiritual source and higher values. During this phase we will be led to remember our true nature as empathic humans, so that we can learn to live in harmlessness, in any way we can in current society. Thus, the quickest way to evolve and clear energetic imbalance is to be of genuine service to others and attempt to show sincere kindness and harmlessness to everyone.
Chimera Effect
To illustrate the absolutely critical nature of comprehending where we place our intent and consent, and to be aware of what kind of vibrational forces we are allowing our body to express through thoughts, behaviors and actions, we are explaining the Chimera Effect. Inter-species hybrids and chimera are entities created from the mixing of two or more different species. Genetic chimeras can be produced in humans when a single body composed of cells belonging to one distinct genetic species is intermixed in the bloodstream with the cells of another genetic species. Chimeras are not specifically hybrids. The condition is acquired through the infusion and mixing of cellular blood components, or hematopoietic cells during transplantation or transfusion or direct injection into the bloodstream, which genetically modify the cells of a human body. This gives great clues as to why we should not allow the cells of another species to be injected into the bloodstream of any human being, as is being done in military experiments and with vaccinations.
A faction of soul-less non-corporeal shapeshifting entities that are fighting for maintaining their control access in the earth and human energy fields, are called the Chimera Group. Chimera entities like many of the NAA groups are vicious extra-dimensional parasites that worship the Black Sun, and can only exist by finding a host from which to siphon energy. The higher ranks of Chimera Group are used by the Draco Black Sun’s to administer or monitor the phantom areas of hyper dimensional pockets and certain sections of the black magic grids, or frequency fences they placed in the earth body. Some of these Chimera entities are contained in genetics laboratory in underground sections of military bases, those that are known for genetic experiments, cloning and time jumping experiments. There have been positive forces that are working to stop the Chimera groups cloning programs, especially of public figures, and this is in a heated battle. As a result, the Chimera Group have instead taken to inhabit human bodies on the earth surface, that they have prepared to have a close enough vibrational match for takeover. The profile for match includes an assortment of interspecies mixing with the blood, satanic orientation towards AI signaling or assimilation, combined with exposures to extremely violent and depraved images that elicit uncontrollable violent impulses in their human target.
During this phase of consciousness evolution on planet earth, there is the combining of the dual aspect of the spiritualization of the body and the corporealization of the spirit into the matter world. As these forces of the spirit or other realms may become corporeal through an access to the human body in the matter realm, the human body can become fixed and consubstantial with it through matched vibrational resonances. To be consubstantial with something is to be identified, associated and enmeshed with it, at energetic and cellular levels of existence. If we are not aware of our negative thoughts and actions, we may become consubstantial with the vibration of negative forces without realizing it.
Extremely negative thoughts damage the nervous system and brain, such as expressing rage, violence, hatred and the desire to kill and enslave, which attract not only demonic spirits but extra-dimensional parasites that want to harvest the emotional energy being generated from that body. Currently people on earth are being energetically assaulted and exposed to levels of extreme violence and depravity that are being broadcast by not only the media, but through all aspects of the popular culture. The agenda is to mainstream Satanism throughout all of the popular culture which prepares the terrain for people to become consubstantial with extremely negative forces, as well as connect them to satanic controlled parasites that want to trade places with the human host.
When a person has been exposed to conditions of genetic chimerism, combined with consistent bombardment to extreme violence and depravity, when they act out any of these violent behaviors, it stimulates the chimera parasite to gain complete access to enter the human body. This is to say, if a person is acting out extremely negative behaviors that can be defined as Satanism, it is now possible due to their consent with expressing these forces, that person loses autonomy over their body. Trading places with the satanic parasite, which repels the original soul and replaces itself within the human body. When it enters the human body, the DNA and blood is altered forever. This is the Chimera effect.
The Chimera shapeshifter explains the consequence of a human body that appears to be human but it is not human, because the soul has been ejected or harvested in such way to use the body like a virtual avatar. Because the body will expire shortly, generally the Chimera parasite has to continually kill or feed on something to prolong its ability to use the body without detection or decay. The Chimera Group are extremely technologically advanced in that they have programmed holographic quantum realities that hack genetic codes or programming code. This Chimera signature appears to have been behind increasing military testing programs for neuro-technology, such as surface brain mapping and mind uploading for weapons, also used for the purposes to modify genetic material to gain access to human bodies more easily.
The infrastructure was laid in neuro-technological brain mapping and artificial intelligence to record and transmit extreme violence and depravity in every way through the popular culture to the brain and CNS of the human population in order to help facilitate the Chimera body snatches. This is designed to incite violence in such way that it traumatizes the central nervous system. People shut down, the soul body is fractured and repelled and the dark spiral exposes them to depraved violence, in order to record it in their CNS, brain, and further deteriorate and destroy the original human DNA. Once a combination of these factors occur, it is possible for body trading to transpire, and these people are incited into uncontrollable impulses to commit the same violent actions they have watched on television, movies, mind controlled as full automaton possessions carried out by these parasites. Recently, the Chimera Effect was shown to me in a violent male subject on the west coast, as a means to identify Chimera signatures.
This is a very complex situation and it is not meant to instill fear, it is meant to inform the exact means through which the Chimera effect can occur. Staying away from practicing Satanism or engaging in seriously violent actions will protect your body from this parasitism, as well as committing to connect directly with your inner spirit, practicing unconditional love, harmlessness and empathy. This is a time to be vigilant about what we are in consent with. The Law of One comprises the necessary principles of behavior, practices and belief systems that humanity is required to learn in order to achieve spiritual freedom and sovereignty. It is what will protect the human body and serve all of humanity.
Please only take what is useful for your spiritual growth and discard all the rest. Thank you for your courage and bravery to be a truth seeker. I am God, Sovereign, Free!
Category: Newsletter: Shifting Timelines
The recent alchemical theme directs source energy inside our cells to excite themselves, fermenting within the flesh, causing divine illumination of the personality. The inner mitochondrial membrane is activated enhancing its ability to produce ATP, which generates intracellular light. This corresponds to the Transfiguration of the fleshly body or the integration of our ego/personality with the inner light presence. When the inner light shines on the histories of the ego mind recordings, it is similar to shining a bright flashlight on the skeletons in the closet. If you did not realize those skeletons were hiding in there, it can be shocking and painful to see. However, this forces transformation of the mental body to open into new dimensions of consciousness, which align us to levels of divine Gnosis.Gnosis signifies spiritual knowledge in the sense of mystical enlightenment or deep insight into our spiritual self.
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Lodro Rabten's entrepreneurship story
Photo shows Lodro Rabten collecting highland barely. [Human Resources and Social Security Department of T.A.R]
Young Lodro Rabten, once being a college student from a registered low-income household in Samka Town of Riwoqe County in Qamdo City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, is now the head of Anuocang Specialized Cooperatives for Farmers & Herdsmen. "During my school days, I didn't want to live a regular life; therefore I chose not to take the civil servant examination. When I was a sophomore, with the policy of 'business startups and innovation', an idea of starting up my own business came up." Says Lodro Rabten.
In pursuit of his dream for startups and changing the hometown's backwardness, after graduation, Lodro Rabten has begun to do preparations for startups in July of 2017. The same year, his brother Padma Jigme, graduating from Southwest University of Science and Technology, has joined in Lodro Rabten's startup team.
"The year of 2017 was just the time when the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held. General Secretary Xi Jinping putting forward the idea of targeted poverty alleviation and the rural revitalization strategy encouraged me, and inspired me to combine starting up my own business with developing my hometown, to lead the locals shaking off poverty." Lodro Rabten says.
After several rounds of "brain storms" on how to start a business, basing on Qamdo's unique ecological environment and climate, Lodro Rabten and Padma Jigme have decided to establish a food production chain that mainly manufactures highland mung beans, highland fast food and highland barely pop corns, and adopted an industrialization model of "cooperative+farmer household+food company". After being fully prepared, Anuocang Specialized Cooperative for Farmers & Herdsmen has been set up in 2017.
Photo shows Lodro Rabten signing contracts with local farmers. [Human Resources and Social Security Department of T.A.R]
In order to broaden the range of sales channels, the cooperative has actively built a green, safe and high-quality food brand, and continuously enhanced technical level by innovations, which has speeded up the cooperative's pace of development.
"My husband passed away few years ago. With bad health conditions, I lived a poor life with my three children. After becoming one of the black highland barely growers of Anuocang Cooperative, my annually income grows by more than 6,000 yuan RMB." Says 45-yeare-old Tashi Drolma, who has grasped new hope for life again.
The cooperative has taken "leading people to shake off poverty and get rich" as its duty since its establishment in 2017. Now, with its investment of 1.6 million yuan RMB, the construction area of factories and office buildings amounts to 600 square meters; the planting area of black highland barely reaches 532 mu (354,666 square meters); the greenhouses occupy an area of 6 mu (4,000 square meters). All these help increase the income of local 84 farmer households and 473 impoverished people. The average annual income of each household increases by over 5,000 yuan RMB. (By Yang Xiaojuan, Zhu Shan, Liu Fang)
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Amid falling sales, Nokia posted a loss of 368 one meg million euros for Q2 2011, while in Q2 2010 had still a profit of 227 million euros. On September 2011, Nokia has announced it will lose other 3,500 jobs worldwide, including the closure of its Cluj factory in Romania.[128]
On 8 February 2012 Nokia Corp. give tongue to to bring down around 4,000 jobs at smartphone manufacturing plants in Europe by the give the sack of 2012 to move assembly closer to component provider in Asia. It plans to cut 2,300 of the 4,400 jobs in Hungary, 700 knocked out(p) of 1,000 jobs in Mexico, and 1,000 out of 1,700 factory jobs in Finland.[129]
On 14 June 2012, Nokia announced to cut 10,000 jobs globally by the end of 2013[130] and shut production and enquiry sites in Finland, Germany and Canada inline with continues loss and the stock fell to the lowest since 1996. Today, Nokias commercialize value is below $10 billion.[131]
In total, according to actualized and aforethought(ip) laid-offs Nokia will have laid off 24,500 employees by the end of 2013. Nokia has already laid off 7,000 employees in the first map: 4,000 staff and transferred also 3,000 to services firm Accenture.
Nokia also unkindly its factory in Cluj, Romania that decreased the workforce by 2,000 employees, and restructured the mend & Commerce business unit that decreased the workforce by 1,200 employees. In February 2012, Nokia unveiled a plan to cut 4,000 more jobs at its plants in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it moves smartphone assembly work to Asia. The roughly recent plan is to cut further 10,000 jobs globally by the end of 2013.[132] Nokia had 66,267 military group in its Devices&Services, NAVTEQ and Corporate Common Functions units combined, this has been mensurable by subtracting the personnel of Nokia Siemens Networks from the total personnel of Nokia assembly based on the amply year report of 2010.[133] Therefore, the personnel would decrease by approximately 36 percent by the end of 2013 when compared to the end of...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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Les Filles de Jeanne D’Arc – Part IV
Disclaimer: This chapter is currently in development. There are likely typos, errors, omissions, inconsistencies and so forth. Please do not treat this as a polished and completed work!
Clara followed Edith while they made their way through the depths of the Tower, past the restricted section of the main library. Once they reached the North wall, Edith stopped dead in her tracks and turned to face Clara.
“Ever heard of Georgian’s,” Edith asked.
Clara suppressed her surprise before she replied, “Rumours, innuendos and whispers carried by the wind.”
“Good to know that we still have some secrets left,” Edith said. “We don’t know much about them , other than the fact that they have abilities and technology that outstrips our own,” she added.
Edith glided over the spines of the books until she found the right one, with a singular touch the book began to glow. Without any hesitation she walked right through the bookshelf.
When Clara attempted to do the same her head bounced off the books and landed straight on her rump. Another surprise for this week, but this time she suspected a key piece of information had been withheld. The theory was confirmed once Edith’s head popped out from the books and she giggled.
“You’ll need to touch On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus to pass through,” Edith said before she vanished.
This time Clara did as instructed and watched the book glow. She then pushed through the shelves easily as though they were an illusion, one that had stopped her cold in her tracks a moment ago.
Once she made it through Clara found herself in a high vaulted chamber. It reached out further than the eye could see although that might have had something to do with the poor lighting.
“Some believe the Georgians are mages, others see them as a secret order of scientists. A new theory circulating amongst the younger staff describe them as a species alien to this planet,” Edith said.
While they pushed deeper into the chamber Clara noted the series of alcoves built into the walls. Some were chock-full of weapons, while others contained armour, clothing and jewellery. Everything that a liberated femme fatale needed to wage war on the enemy.
Within the chamber, there were mats and targets spread throughout and intermixed with fashionable furniture. It seemed like a lounge dedicated to comfort, fashion and combat. Clara’s eyes glowed with excitement, there was so much fun to be had here.
“They are the reason why the Tower still exists. Without their direct involvement we would have been overrun by our enemies long ago,” Edith said.
Clara listened to every word, even when she came across a series of small pistols on a table. She ran her hand over the cool steel of the weapons, curious on the carnage she could unleash with these.
“What’s the catch,” Clara asked when she picked up a double barrelled derringer.
“Smart girl,” Edith said. “Payment varies based on the request. Sometimes they exchange intelligence and knowledge,” she added.
“Raw materials, precious gems and money,” Clara asked.
She pointed the derringer towards a target. There was no rear sight so that meant this was a close-in weapon.
“Sometimes,” Edith said without expanding on that.
What was left unsaid told Clara much. It was probably safe to assume that students disappeared from time to time so the Tower could make good on its payments. Sure it seemed cold, but they were at war.
Clara squeezed the first trigger until the hammer struck the primer. There was a great puff of smoke followed by a gaping hole in the target.
“What the—,” Clara exclaimed.
“Should have warned you,” Edith said. “Although it’s more entertaining to learn that lesson first hand,” she added.
Right before her eyes the target began to repair itself. Clara observed the gaping hole disappear then heard a slight thud when the projectile hit the floor.
“Georgian,” Clara asked.
Edith nodded and grabbed a big heavy metallic ball from another table. It was made of thick steel with pre-fragmented segments. At the top there was a brass fitting followed by a loop.
“German Kugelhandgranate,” Edith said.
The elder then attached the loop to a hook and tossed it at Clara’s feet. It smoked for a few seconds until it erupted into a ball of flame sending metal and burnt black powder in every direction.
Clara opened her eyes and saw that she was no worse for wear. However the furniture and targets within a couple of yards were shredded. At least initially and within moments everything was back to normal.
“Anti-personnel grenade, while heavy they are deadly when properly deployed,” Edith said.
“So we can play without consequence,” Clara asked.
“Correct,” Edith said. “Any questions,” she asked.
“Where are the other girls,” Clara asked.
“Most are training or in their quarters, although some are in this room as we speak,” Edith said. “This room can provide privacy when needed. Just like you and I are enjoying right now,” she added.
“Where can a girl get her hands on a machine gun,” Clara asked with a grin.
“Right over there,” Edith said, unfazed by the question.
They both smirked before heading towards the goodies. Was this the beginning of a great friendship?
Copyright © 2018 by Evelyn Chartres (Nom de Plume)
12 May 2018 By Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment Filed Under: Saturday Scenes, The Van Helsing Paradox Tagged With: Clara, Clara Grey, Horror, Hunter, Jeanne D'Arc, Joan of Arc, Les Filles de Jeanne D'Arc, Paranormal, Saturday Scenes, Secrets, Short Story, Van Helsing Paradox
Les Filles de Jeanne D’Arc – Part III
The next day Clara returned to her classes. There was a renewed fire within her heart, especially when it came to matters of faith. Clara was very keen to ensure that creatures like Jack would have a natural aversion to her. If all it took was a little faith, then she would make sure to have plenty on hand. All she needed was to change her perspective, such as dismissing the will of God as blind luck; that in itself was starting to seem unlikely that luck was the only factor. After all this was her second encounter with one of them where she got away.
Once the sun had set, Edith came down the stairs and went straight for Clara. It was rare for Clara to come across the older students since they were often out on advanced training. Edith was especially difficult to keeps tabs on for reasons that she never knew.
“Clara,” Edith said to get her attention. “You’re being transferred,” she added.
“Where to,” Clara asked.
“Les Filles de Jeanne d’Arc,” Edith said.
Clara’s eyes brightened, but did not let any more than that betray her composure. She had heard of this group named after Joan of Arc. The only woman in history to have lead a nation’s armies into battle.
It was said that these were an elite group of girls who advanced quickly through the ranks. Their training was rigorous and secretive, in fact even publicly admitting to being a part of that group meant dismissal.
Clara often wondered just what could be learned as part of that group. Up until now she had no particular affiliation, even though she had progressed at a faster pace than her peers. Her youth was seen as a serious hindrance to joining such a group. That is until now.
“When,” Clara asked.
“Immediately,” Edith said with a smile.
This was an opportunity of a lifetime and Clara silently hoped to avoid the fate of their namesake. Tied to a stake and burned as a heretic for her faith, Clara could not think think of an outcome that was less desirable.
“Very well,” Clara said. “I suppose,” she added with a wink.
Fortunately her attempt at humour had been well received. Since Edith was directly involved with this group, it paid to have a friend within their ranks.
5 May 2018 By Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment Filed Under: Saturday Scenes, The Van Helsing Paradox Tagged With: Clara, Clara Grey, Horror, Hunter, Jeanne D'Arc, Joan of Arc, Les Filles de Jeanne D'Arc, Paranormal, Saturday Scenes, Secrets, Short Story, Van Helsing Paradox
Les Filles de Jeanne D’Arc – Part II
“Why has Clara returned late from her sabbatical,” the Reverend Mother asked.
Clara was about to speak, to explain her situation but Edith jumped in instead. At least this time Clara did not need to talk her way out of trouble
“She was attacked by one of them Reverend Mother,” Edith said in a formal tone. “She claims that a former student who was known as Jonathan Carmichael was responsible,” she added.
This was the first time that Clara had seen a change in the Reverend Mother’s stoic mask. This time her eyes went wide with surprise; of all the times to wish for a camera!
“Is this true child,” Augustine asked.
“Yes Reverend Mother,” Clara replied.
“Clara also discovered that Jonathan had been responsible for the disappearance of at least six other girls over the past two years,” Edith said.
The Reverend Mother cocked her brow. That sort of information was hard to come by and easily appeared to be far fetched. This was precisely the scenario that Clara had wished to avoid.
“Sometimes truth was stranger than fiction,” Clara thought.
“How child,” Augustine asked.
“I got lucky Reverend Mother,” Clara replied.
“Surely there is more to the story than mere luck,” the Reverend Mother asked.
Clara took a deep breath and began to recite her sordid tale. She went over the details on how Jack set a trap, how she gained the upper hand and cleared up the evidence. The Reverend Mother hung on every word in awe on how calm Clara appeared to be, or at least on the outside.
She then went on to describe the artwork and focused on the portrait she brought with her. Evidence that provided a vital link to the Father Michael’s death, recent whereabouts of the one responsible and hinted at the scope of their intelligence network. To be honest, it left them with more questions than it answered.
Clara doubted she would be involved in any effort to tie all of this information together. Although she was certain that Tower was marginally safer, at least for now.
“Please leave us please child,” the Reverend Mother said.
Clara nodded and left without saying a word. All the while she wondered why Edith would remain.
On her way down the stairs, she saw several members of the staff hurry on by. It seemed that Clara had created a bit of a stir; a rare occasion where this type of response did not land her in hot water.
28 April 2018 By Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment Filed Under: Saturday Scenes, The Van Helsing Paradox Tagged With: Clara, Clara Grey, Horror, Hunter, Jeanne D'Arc, Joan of Arc, Les Filles de Jeanne D'Arc, Paranormal, Saturday Scenes, Secrets, Short Story, Van Helsing Paradox
Les Filles de Jeanne D’Arc – Part I
Clara had no idea what to expect once she got back to the Tower. Full-fledged hunters with years of experience often disappeared without a trace, so for an acolyte to return where so many had failed? Now that was bound to get some attention.
Clara knew that her credibility would be questioned. Others had claimed kills that were not their own to progress through the ranks. Such a lie would be far more plausible than returning as the victor after walking into a trap.
Clara took a deep breath while focusing on the door leading into the Tower. While this area had no defences beyond obfuscation, Clara was certain that something would happen once she opened that door. The question was what?
Clara closed her eyes, let out her breath and recited a prayer. With one push of her hand the door gave way and she crossed the threshold.
Blinding white light greeted her on the other side, Clara struggled in vain to keep her eyes open. Even during that brief attempt her vision was marred with deep purple streaks.
So that particular door led to other destinations? Clara had suspected that direct and unfettered access to the Tower would pose a security risk. In a way, it was reassuring to learn that the Tower had a few more secrets left, especially those which favoured self-preservation.
Clara did not move, because she felt the sharp edge of a blade touch her skin. A thin rivulet of blood ran down her neck but she was not worried. This had been a warning, if they wanted her dead, Clara would have never known what hit her.
“There are very few ways to trigger the Tower’s defences,” Edith said.
Clara said nothing, since speaking would only worsen the bleeding. If Edith was interested in an answer, she would have to permit it.
“Traitors are not welcome here,” Edith said. “So why are you still alive,” she asked.
The blade remained firmly in place. Chances were that Edith had expected Clara to be a smouldering heap of ash right now.
“I wonder if that would the best time to cook a marshmallow,” Clara thought.
At this moment Clara was in Limbo, caught in a state between life and death. Clara needed to convince Edith that she was not here to betray them.
Clara reached into her pocket in a slow and deliberate manner. She then found her prize and dropped them onto the floor. The two bloodied fangs made no more sound than a pin drop. Wherever they were it had to be spacious to dampen the sound to this extent.
“Where did you get those,” Edith asked while she sheathed her blade.
Clara turned around and felt something being dropped into her hands. Her fingers probed the metallic, glass and leather device. Without a second thought she slipped them over her head to protect her eyes. Now she had the opportunity to take a look at where she was.
Edith stood before her while sporting spectacles fitted with onyx coloured lenses. They looked a bit like welders glasses and assumed she had been given an identical pair.
“Jack surrendered them,” Clara said.
“Jack,” Edith asked with a hint of confusion.
Clara nodded before she said, “Must have been turned a couple of years back.”
“Jack? We had no intelligence on this,” Edith said.
Clara pulled out the folded canvas portrait which contained the list of girls killed. The portrait had the same effect on Edith as it had for Clara.
“He was careful on who to ambush and when,” Clara said. “He even painted a tableau mort for every one of those poor girls,” she added.
“You got the better on him,” Edith asked.
“I got lucky,” Clara said. “So what now,” she asked.
Edith focused intently on Clara’s facial features. In that moment her fate was being decided based on very little evidence. Clara hoped that this glimpse at the truth was enough.
“Follow me,” Edith said.
They walked away from the blinding light until the levels dropped to a manageable level. Both Edith and Clara removed their glasses and hung them against a whitewashed wall. It took a moment, but Edith found a hidden latch which enabled her to push away a portion of the wall.
Clara had visited many fortifications as part of her training. She saw arrow slits in the rock and larger openings that would permit a small cannon loaded with grapeshot to fire salvos. Simply put, this was a killing field designed to prevent entry.
At the end of the tunnel there were heavy steel doors reinforced with massive rivets. Clara had never seen those doors before. Once they walked through, Clara found herself safely within the confines of the Terminus.
“A pocket of reality to keep undesirables away,” Edith said.
That was a detail that Jack would have wanted to get his hands on, so Clara would have died for nothing. Another reason why Clara should have been thankful that her strategy had worked out after all.
A moment later they were back in the Main Hall. No one seemed to be paying her any particular attention so no alarms had been raised. Edith moved at a frightening pace, so Clara did her best to keep up even while they made their way up to the Reverend Mother’s office.
Clara had been to see her before, to clear up some misunderstandings. Old habits did die hard after all, but this time there would be a lot of explaining to do.
Two Ships Passing in the Night – Part V
Clara sat at a table by her favourite café. She observed the morning crowd flow while they made their way to work or school. There was a certain sense of satisfaction for not being bound by the clock.
Busy sipping on a latté, Clara closed her eyes and relaxed. While she was not bound by time, she knew someone whose time was about to come at an abrupt end.
The first break in flow started with a few hushed voices. With every passing second, the crowd grew larger until people began to panic.
“Fire! Fire,” a man exclaimed marking it as the first coherent statement yet.
Hurried footsteps passed by, close enough that clara felt the rush of air pass by. Within five minutes she heard sirens approaching in the distance.
Clara opened her eyes and saw a mob surrounding the bistro. She feigned curiosity but knew exactly that was going on.
“Sir,” Clara asked in an alarmed voice. “What is going on,” she asked.
“The Cabaret down the street is on fire,” the man replied without taking his eyes off the carnage.
“A shame,” Clara thought, seeing how that would delay breakfast.
“Is anyone hurt,” Clara asked, but was ignored.
For the next several hours the crowd grew and contracted like the tide. Men fought hard to save the building but the fire ultimately claimed its prize. Eventually the stone structure was reduced to a smouldering heap of broken brick and stone.
“That should take care of all evidence nicely,” Clara thought.
She got up from the table, paid her tab with a generous tip and melted into the crowd. Today was a new day and seeing that traitorous bastard burn made things right as rain.
She thought back over one of Professor Stephen’s lectures. Many of the students had chosen to ignore his wisdom, discounting it as a work of fantasy.
Clara had known better and paid close attention to the lecture on the effects of daylight for these creatures. Direct light could sear flesh or during longer exposures cause the body to erupt in a fiery inferno. In that moment, she knew that their bodies could easily be disposed of.
All she needed was a clear head and a little forethought. That knowledge had certainly done the trick this morning.
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WIDE BODY ROAD RACING 2017 SHELBY SUPER SNAKE CONCEPT CAR UNVEILED BY SHELBY AMERICAN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Wide body concept introduced for first time on newest generation Ford Mustang platform
Road course focused package includes new suspension and brake options to maximize the wider track of the car
First concept vehicle introduced by Shelby American in over a decade
LAS VEGAS – May 18, 2017 – Shelby American, Inc., today introduced its 2017 Shelby Super Snake wide body study, the first factory concept vehicle in over ten years, to the media at Carroll Shelby International in Southern California. The concept includes new suspension, brake, tire and wheel options designed to maximize the car’s wider track for road racing.
“Shelby American has been pushing the performance envelope since 1962,” said Joe Conway, Co-CEO of Carroll Shelby International and CEO of Shelby American. “The success of our 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake, Shelby F-150 and Shelby Cobra programs have fueled a desire to stretch our team in new ways. The wide body Shelby Super Snake concept vehicle is a glimpse at our next generation track focused car, as well as a demonstration of Shelby American’s vitality.”
The concept car will also be unveiled to the public at the 5th Annual Carroll Shelby Tribute and Car Show on May 20, 2017, in the same location where it was introduced to the media. It will be displayed along with the recently announced pre-title Shelby F-150 Super Snake truck.
“Shelby American’s wide body option for the previous generation Super Snake was very popular because it put more rubber under the car to improve traction for drag racing,” said Gary Patterson, Shelby American President. “The current Shelby Super Snake emphasizes handling much more than the last model, which required a new approach with this concept. Instead of being optimized for straight line performance, the Super Snake wide body concept provides more grip on all four corners. It was designed to give drivers a serious competitive edge on the road course.”
The wide body concept began with the popular 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake. Powered by a supercharged Ford 5.0L V8 engine, Shelby American added a fully adjustable coil over suspension system, bigger brakes, hardened wheel studs, stronger spindles and hubs, as well as a more aggressive wheel and tire package to put all 750 horsepower to the road.
“Adding approximately four inches to the car’s rear track and two and half to the front, opened up new opportunities to maximize handling,” said Vince LaViolette, Shelby American Vice President of Operations and Chief Test Driver. “The fully adjustable coil over suspension and the enormous Brembo braking system, along with wider wheels and tires significantly change the car’s driving dynamics. This provides more grip for later braking and earlier acceleration out of corners. It will deliver more communication to the driver and better absorb track imperfections. The wide body Super Snake concept is every road racer’s dream.”
The “Lightning Blue” Shelby Super Snake concept includes:
Shelby spec track suspension
Rear lower control arms
Performance spindle & control arms
Brembo Shelby brake system with 16” rotors and six piston calipers in the front 14” rotors and four piston calipers in the rear
Front fenders with vents
Rocker styling kit
12.5” x 20” rear and 11” x 20” front wheels shod with Michelin performance tires
Hardened extended wheel lugs
The wide body Shelby Super Snake was designed and built at Shelby American’s facility in Las Vegas. If the wide body concept goes into production, it will be available worldwide with the package registered in the official Shelby Registry.
For more information about the 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake, visit www.Shelby.com.
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Why do humans see themselves as different from animals?
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Postby Mega85 » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:29 pm UTC
While humans are scientifically classified as animals, we frequently see ourselves as being something different from the animals. Why is this?
Re: Why do humans see themselves as different from animals?
Postby Xanthir » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:16 pm UTC
We're the only animal that has invented message boards, obviously.
Postby commodorejohn » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:49 pm UTC
Because people get mad when I urinate in public.
Postby Deva » Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:03 am UTC
Likes feeling important. Guesses a tribal-like effect too. Views your group as better than others.
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Postby ivnja » Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:40 am UTC
Does this question really have a scientific answer?
Conjecture: I don't know when the idea would have really started, but by the time any of our ancestors would have worried about consciously classifying things as plants and animals (and from there, bird, beast, fish, etc), there would clearly have been something different about us - societies would still have been tribal, but humans were wearing clothing, using tools, and building structures, and societies would have been growing increasingly complex. It's not a particularly unreasonable position for early humans to take, especially without the scientific knowledge of cells and DNA and all that we have today. At some point, the belief in humanity's uniqueness was codified in religion (for example, in the Abrahamic traditions God creates man in His image, gives us dominion over the animals, etc), and from there it's an article of faith for a lot of people, tied in with disbelief in evolution and all that, so even people who you could argue should know better see us as something separate.
Plus, even knowing where we do fit in the animal kingdom, it's not difficult to look around at what we've built and say that we have reached a unique level of development.
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Postby Copper Bezel » Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:05 am UTC
Needn't be anything philosophical or hierarchical. "Non-human animals" is a commonly useful category of things. We usually exclude animals and people from the category "objects" and so on as well. We know what is referred to.
At a basic level, the way in which conspecifics are useful or notable is not generally the way in which members of other species are. Brain wants to know right away whether it can be fucked or eaten.
Christian religious tradition also has a very low place for nonhuman animals in its hierarchy, though. That is bound to have an effect in Western culture.
Does not strictly correlate, though. "Living things" is a common enough phrase obviously including both humans and other animals. We're no more or less likely to think of humans as fundamentally similar or dissimilar with other animals based on the use of one term or another.
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Postby Soupspoon » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:55 am UTC
It's just egocentrism, at a given scale. Tighter and broader egocentrisms exist.
(At times, those guys living across the street are beyond the pale, despite all their similarities to us in so many respects. Whilst if energy beings from the universe next door turned up, however, we'd probably even feel fraternal kinship with the gasbag-blimp-things from 51 Pegasi b and team up with them against the (stranger) strangers, if push came to shove.)
Egocentrism on this level of abstraction is just practical, though. In an everyday context, when we need to invoke the concept of "animals", it's rarely useful to include human beings.
God, the vast majority of people rarely think of birds as dinosaurs most or any of the time and birds aren't even us. It's just about practical categories.
A van is a kind of truck, but if you call a van a truck, you will be corrected, because it stops being a truck when it's a van.
Postby Soupspoon » Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:49 pm UTC
It may be a more practical separation, but only by current standards. During the heady days of the slave-trade, the region of "us" was far more restricted than now, and at various times of war it could be pulled yet further in as 'Johnny Foreigner' or 'The Other Within' is dehumanised for the sake of either practical warfare or impractical genocide. Heck, sometimes it seemed that the gender-gap ("women are not capable of rational thought and are only creatures of habit") or the class one sufficed to render bonefide humans as little more than animals, or cherished pets at best.
There's various Primate Rights campaigns being seriously attempted to bring 'personhood' to (currently) the pan homonids, with no real reason to stop there when there's at least gorilla and pongo in the line to gain such recognition, as long as there's still time to do so.
I know we can't breed with them (well, definitely not naturally!), but that's never been the (sole) limit on a clade, let alone a kingdom. It'd be made more interesting if there were any way in which neanderthalensis, or floriensis were encountered, somehow. (Especially if they were the visitors from the dimension next-door, especially especially if they were the ones who had actually worked out how to get here...)
But, even without that last bit of fantasy, "My fellow humans" might well be intended as "My fellow non-animals", but its the size of the noose thrown around that determines how much the speaker may be destined to hang himself.
Postby Copper Bezel » Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:20 pm UTC
Perhaps so, and perhaps the usage communicates or reinforces our illusory separation from the animal kingdom. I don't think that's the cause of the usage, at the very least.
On your aside, I'd have every reason to believe that at the very least H. neanderthalensis would be very difficult to think of as a nonhuman animal in person. I know "human" can be treated variously as just our species or the entire genus in a scientific usage, but ... there are other members of homo who would seem like "apes", while Neanderthals were a race of people with brains our size and larger who had culture and with whom we occasionally interbred. I imagine they were psychologically somewhat different from us, but.
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Postby madaco » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:43 am UTC
Humans ask why humans see themselves as different from animals.
"It is customary to insist that man resembles the other creatures. Yes; and that very resemblance he alone can see. The fish does not trace the fishbone pattern in the fowls of the air, or the elephant and the EMU compare skeletons." - G. K. Chesterton , in "The Everlasting Man"
Or, if you want another source for the same general idea, take this smbc:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/we-are-special
"Humans, alone among all creatures, are obsessed with whether or not they are special."
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Postby monkey3 » Tue May 09, 2017 2:34 pm UTC
We are more intelligent
Postby Soupspoon » Tue May 09, 2017 4:11 pm UTC
But we still think that digital watches are a good idea...
(Also: arguable. We (probably) have superior extelligence, but intelligence is hard to value beyond the few commonalities we can establish, and where we find such a commonality we often find an intelligence not unlike our own. So what about the untestable) intelligence?
Postby SDK » Tue May 09, 2017 4:28 pm UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: At a basic level, the way in which conspecifics are useful or notable is not generally the way in which members of other species are. Brain wants to know right away whether it can be fucked or eaten.
This is likely the core of it, though it's now been reinforced in various ways through our culture. I suspect it's largely based on genetics, and almost certainly not confined to our species. Dogs, for example, certainly see themselves as different. My dog sees himself as part of my pack, but he has no confusion recognizing that the Chihuahua over there has more in common with him that he does with me (despite my dog looking more like a wolf than a rat). I wouldn't be surprised if whatever thoughts he has on the subject portray himself as being superior in many ways. I can't run, I can't bite things or smell things, I don't even mark my own territory. Clearly dogs are superior to humans (and other animals) in general.
Postby Copper Bezel » Tue May 09, 2017 10:25 pm UTC
Superiority seems like a very abstract concept, though. Except when it's connected with dominance, which it isn't in this case. Dogs definitely recognize that human members of their pack have different abilities, including ones they don't have, like turning doorknobs and refilling the food bowl. I doubt it really has to do with a true sense of superiority. Of course, it also seems like that'd be the inevitable extension given a certain capacity for abstraction and culture, so it's probably a grade with a few inflections like most things.
Postby SDK » Wed May 10, 2017 6:03 pm UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: ...like turning doorknobs and refilling the food bowl.
Yeah, but he's just using me for that. Humans use/have used animals (ie: other animals) for lots of things we can't do too, yet we are clearly superior to horses in our own minds. Obviously I can't prove that he thinks of me that way, but it just seems so fundamentally ingrained in our own minds, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to find it ingrained in his as well.
Postby Copper Bezel » Wed May 10, 2017 10:22 pm UTC
Valid point. It's entirely possible that a lot of what I assume is cultural or abstract about the sense of superiority isn't, and is built into the underlying emotional perception.
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Postby simplydt » Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:35 am UTC
Are there any official statistics that show that this is generally true? What's the split? 50/50?
Postby Copper Bezel » Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:22 am UTC
Do you mean statistics for whether or not people consider themselves animals, or something else?
Postby simplydt » Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:31 am UTC
Copper Bezel wrote: Do you mean statistics for whether or not people consider themselves animals, or something else?
Exactly, and I bet this would correlate well with their religion, but I'd hope we live in a day and age where most of us accept that we are, after all, animals!
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Postby SDK » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:38 pm UTC
You can accept it, and I would certainly argue that it's good for people to accept it, but it's not the natural course for humans at least. Little kids learn about all kinds of different animals growing up - they're among the first things most kids do learn about. Despite that basic learning, I've never met a kid whose mind wasn't blown when you first explain to them that humans are animals too.
If you gave a random survey that asked the vague question "Are humans different from other animals?", I strongly suspect you'd get over 90% of people saying yes, and not just for religious reasons. I know that humans are animals. Doesn't stop me from immediately coming up with a long list of things that make us different in response to that question. It feels much more instinctual to come up with a list of differences than it does to come up with a list of similarities. That list of similarities feels like science.
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Postby Sizik » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:52 pm UTC
SDK wrote: If you gave a random survey that asked the vague question "Are humans different from other animals?", I strongly suspect you'd get over 90% of people saying yes, and not just for religious reasons. I know that humans are animals. Doesn't stop me from immediately coming up with a long list of things that make us different in response to that question. It feels much more instinctual to come up with a list of differences than it does to come up with a list of similarities. That list of similarities feels like science.
How many positive responses do you think you would get to a similar question like "Are {insert animal here}s different from other animals?"
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Postby jewish_scientist » Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:24 pm UTC
I wrote a college paper (which I plan on eventually posting here) on animal ethics and these were my primary sources(1). My personal favorite is the argument by Kant(2). He says that only humans, and possible angles and extraterrestrial aliens, are capable of basing actions on rights and duties. It is VERY important to note that he is saying that this can happen, not that it always does. Someone can have other motivations behind their actions, but the possibility that they can conceive of rights still exists. The part I slightly differ from him is regarding how this effects human's duties to animals and the animals' rights, but that is a subject for a different thread.
Another thought that I had while reviewing this tread is the Kardashev Scale. If we extend the scale backwards, we can classify humans above animals. All negative values on the Kardashev Scale represent organisms that independently harness the given forms of energy and have not formed societies that can collective do so. Type -4 would be organisms that utilize interatomic forces (e.g. viruses(3) that bind their parts together using covalent and hydrogen bonds). Next up would be Type -3, which are organisms that can harness biochemical energy (e.g. plants, algae). Type -2 could be the ability to harness kinetic energy (e.g.a monkey dropping a coconut in order to break its shell) and Type -1 can harness thermal energy such as sunlight and fire. No example of a Type -1 organism is known to me.
(1) http://www.iep.utm.edu/anim-eth/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/
(2) Disclaimer: I am just going to acknowledged right now that I do not understand his reasoning, because anyone claiming to understand any position taken by anyone on any subject based on 2 paragraphs of research is in a state of extreme denial.
(3) I recognize that the scientific community does not classify viruses as living, but I would argue that viruses are an acelluler form of life.
(4) This is debatable because of the possibility that aliens and robots could be classified as living.
P.S. 'How are humans different than animals?' is a loaded question for the same reason 'How are humans different than other animals?' You may want to talk to a sociologist on how to phrase the question to keep your study impartial. However, even if you did do this, your question is about the wrong subject. The result will be a list of properties (e.g. wear cloths, have 2 legs, posses large brain to body ratios, build airplanes), not a list of properties that make humans inherently different than animals.
Postby Copper Bezel » Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:14 pm UTC
Sizik wrote: How many positive responses do you think you would get to a similar question like "Are {insert animal here}s different from other animals?"
To be fair, I think (self-knowledge being of course a bitch) that my subconscious is pretty convinced that cats aren't "animals" either, because they talk and emote and make friends with humans and have their own reasoning process and so on, and because I'm familiar with them in a way I'm not familiar with dogs, chimpanzees, or dolphins.
Postby commodorejohn » Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:18 pm UTC
Admittedly, I could see a fair argument being made that cats are moral beings, because they're clearly capable of deliberate transgression.
Postby Copper Bezel » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:48 pm UTC
That actually might be the reason, come to think of it. If my computer misbehaves, I fundamentally know it's a simple fault, regardless of how frustrating it might be. There's no meaning to a non-domesticated animal "misbehaving", it's a non sequitur. But when Attenborough poops on my bed because he's upset, he's opted to do so, and he's less likely to do so if he remembers the spray bottle....
Postby morriswalters » Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:49 pm UTC
Maybe because science chose poorly when picking the classification name, since the word was in common use among the general population meaning something slightly different. In point of fact humans are are different than animals. A fox is not a human. In that meaning it was a common characterization, like fish and plant.
Morality happens between human ears. I wouldn't place any money on the line that you cat feels anything remotely about it other than some kind of dominance thing. He craps or doesn't, and you use a bottle or you don't, to either reward or punish some behavior. That, I believe is a form of synergy between us and the species which we are in close contact with. In the wild your cat would either kill you or avoid you. He can't do that as your pet.
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Postby notzeb » Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:16 pm UTC
Step 1: Figure out why mice see themselves as different from other animals.
Step 2: Since humans are no different from mice, the answer will be the same.
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Postby Soupspoon » Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:38 pm UTC
Then we smell differently, obviously
Postby commodorejohn » Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:42 pm UTC
morriswalters wrote: I wouldn't place any money on the line that you cat feels anything remotely about it other than some kind of dominance thing.
Clearly, you've never owned a cat.
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You would be mistaken. Three of the last ones we shared our house with, my wife and I had for 14 years. They are all buried in my yard. I was broken hearted when they passed.
Postby Copper Bezel » Sat Jun 03, 2017 8:08 pm UTC
I'm aware of the studies showing that dog shame is really just submissive behavior, for instance, which are as much about the human tendency to anthropomorphize as they are about dogs.
I think "real" morality implies a fairly advanced theory of mind. Just following the perceived "rules", or not, does seem a matter of dominance and submission. I guess I do have a somewhat low view of human morality broadly....
I'm not making a serious argument for cats as moral agents, and commodorejohn didn't make one, either, just said that it would be possible. It's more that subjectively, I know I perceive cats as a different class, and I'm recognizing why, because they take on a social role in human social units, as illustrated by the fact that it's possible for them to misbehave.
So, like, there's a mindfulness axis and a social proximity / relatability axis to "special"....
Perhaps I am over sensitive on that point. I have a young child who visits my household and I have to constantly remind her parents that my 12 year old pet is a dog. My dog is old and the child has almost been bitten twice.
Copper Bezel wrote: I'm aware of the studies showing that dog shame is really just submissive behavior, for instance, which are as much about the human tendency to anthropomorphize as they are about dogs.
Well I wouldn't know since I was speaking as a pet owner, I've read no papers. Just speculating idly, exactly what do they think human shame is?
Postby Copper Bezel » Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:18 pm UTC
morriswalters wrote: Perhaps I am over sensitive on that point. I have a young child who visits my household and I have to constantly remind her parents that my 12 year old pet is a dog. My dog is old and the child has almost been bitten twice.
Yeah, that's fair. There's a real danger to anthropomorphizing too much or failing to try to understand things from the pet's perspective.
morriswalters wrote:
I agree that at base the emotion is almost certainly the same, which is itself misrepresented not only in the press about the study, but so far as I can see, in the original study itself. But humans attach a higher-order concept of guilt or innocence to it that modifies their submission response when scolded, which dogs don't seem to do.
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Postby SwGupta » Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:32 pm UTC
The only one thing which differentiates us from animals is "Brain" (Brain in the sense - understanding level)
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Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors
A competition honoring Eileen Heckart (1919-2001), the distinguished actress whose career was recognized with Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Awards, by encouraging the creation of new plays celebrating older American performers and artists
Announcing the 2009 Winners!
WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN HECKART SENIOR THEATRE COMPETITION
Results of the 2009 Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition were announced today by Ohio State University’s Department of Theatre and Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute. The contest, named in memory of Ohio State alumna and Central Ohio native Eileen Heckart, attracted more than five hundred entries this year, in three categories: ten-minute plays, one acts plays, and full length plays.
And the winners are:
Ten-Minute: Mary Steelsmith (Los Angeles, California) Happy and Gay
One act: Katherine DuBois (Boulder, Colorado) Volunteer Work
Full-length: Donna Spector (Warwick, New York) Not For the Ferryman
Finalists in each category include:
First runners-up:
Ten-Minute: Toby Armour (East Haven, Connecticut) Lifer
One act: Richard Conlon (St. Charles, Illinois) send forth thy mercies
Full-length: R. Lawrence Sifford (Washington, D.C.) Murder in a Nursing Home
Second runners-up:
Ten-Minute: Stephanie Allison Walker (Los Angeles, California) Melt
One act: Tevia E. Abrams (New York, New York) Marge and Jack
Full-length (tie): Elizabeth Orndorff (Danville, Kentucky) Aidan’s Gift
Lans Taverse (London, England) Coleslaw and Coconut Cream Pie
Other finalists included
Ten-Minute: Damon Chua (Los Angeles, California) Dogs Are Evil
Douglas Stewart (Santa Fe, New Mexico) Never Mind
One act: Steven Shutzman (Baltimore, Maryland)Tammy
Rosemary Frisino Toohey (Baltimore, Maryland) Tilapia
Full-length: Paul Elliott (Los Angeles, California) Exit Laughing
The Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition honors Eileen Heckart (1919-2001), the distinguished American actress whose long career culminated in her stunning performance in Kenneth Lonergan=s The Waverly Gallery (2000), for which she received the Drama Desk Award, Obie Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award. That same year she was awarded the Tony for lifetime achievement. She also was the recipient of an Academy Award (Butterflies Are Free), Golden Globe (The Bad Seed) and an Emmy (Save Me A Place at Forest Lawn). She was recognized with a Margo Jones Medal in 2000 for her long championing of new plays, having appeared in almost thirty world premiere productions. Ms. Heckart was a native of Bexley, Ohio, and an alumna of The Ohio State University.
Winning plays, and first-runners-up, will receive staged readings at The Ohio State University during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Further information: 614/292-8238 (voice), 614/292-3222 (FAX), woods.1@osu.edu
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Winter Weather gifts Students with Snow Days
The Author Grace Kirkemo
Published online February 14, 2019 8:07pm
As of February 14, Harrisonville School District has missed eight days of school this school year.
According to an email sent by Superintendent Paul Mensching, the last day of school is currently scheduled to be May 30 and will be a half day for students.
The email also explains how days missed due to inclement weather will be made up. The email states, “The state passed legislation several years ago that requires schools to make up every day missed due to inclement weather until you miss the seventh day. At that point, one day must be made up for every two days missed until 14 days are missed. After the 14th day missed, no more days are required to be made up. That’s a possibility of 10 inclement weather make-up days.”
Students at Harrisonville High School have varying opinions on the school days that were missed and the schedule to make these days up.
‘We could have gone to school at least two or three more days when they canceled school.” said Sophomore Hattie Wilson. “Because it wasn’t that bad out.”
However, Freshman Piper Foreman is okay with the days missed. “I’d rather have the smaller snow breaks and a really long summer,” Foreman said.
Students also have different views on how the missed days should be made up and prevented. Foreman suggested that instead of having snow days, late starts should be used in some situations.
“I went to East Lynne so we had a four day school week,” said Wilson. “We should do that and then Mondays could be makeup days.”
At least for this year, snow days will be made up after EOC testing. This means that students will be missing school before testing but will only be making up the missed days after testing is over.
“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” said Foreman.
But, Freshman Makiah Clark is mostly just apprehensive about testing after missing days. “I do feel nervous about that because I feel like I’m not going to do well.”
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For example, in North America, a maternity hospital located in a small town in a rural area of Quebec (Pavillon des Naissances, Hôpital Brome Missisquoi Perkins, Cowansville, Centre de Santé et Services Sociaux La Pommeraie) has changed its prenatal childbirth education courses to encourage normal birth and given additional training to all health care professionals (doctors and nurses) on the physiology of birth, on non-pharmacological pain relief and comfort measures. It has written a common-based-knowledge document and revised its policies and protocols in order to comply with the IMBCI 10 Steps. In Brazil, Hospital Sofia Feldman in Belo Horizonte--a maternity hospital staffed with nurse-midwives and located in a poor area of this major city--has become a model of humanized birth by implementing the 10 Steps, greatly enhancing its quality of care. In Austria, managers of the Department of Ob/Gyn in a maternity hospital called Community Hospital Feldbach observed that intervention rates—including the cesarean rate--have diminished after the IMBCI was introduced. In the Philippines, Mercy in Action, a birthing center staffed with midwives and serving families living in a vulnerable context has become an IMBCI teaching center for student midwives from over the world. They even succeeded in implementing all 10 IMBCI Steps while attending pregnant women for prenatal and postpartum care and helping them give birth in a tent in a zone totally devastated by the 2013 typhoon, with no electricity and no running water. Clearly, if the IMBCI 10 Steps can be fully followed in a disaster zone, they can be implemented anywhere!
IMBCI has contributed to improving midwifery training and public health education: midwifery students and students in public health have done practicums in sites using the IMBCI 10 Steps. In addition, several grass-roots organizations promoting humanization of birth – like the Bangalore Birth Network in India, have been actively working on implementing the IMBCI as a model of maternity care in their community - see MBnets.
Pavillon des Naissances, Hôpital Brome Missisquoi Perkins, Cowansville, Centre de Santé et Services Sociaux La Pommeraie
Hospital Sofia Feldman in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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The Bus Must Die
Submitted by drink on Wed, 2017-05-24 12:23
I grew up a poor white boy-child in Santa Cruz, which means that there were three ways in which I was privileged, and only one of them was location. Growing up with a single mother with no car when surrounded by the affluent and mobile meant that those were the only ways in which I was privileged. Any place I did not reach via operation of my Chevrolegs had to be visited via the shame train, also known as "The Bus". And riding the bus incurs a stiff penalty.
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When you're putting together a so-called "Car PC", by which we usually mean a contemporary ATX-derivative computer installed into an automobile, you have a few hurdles to cross. The enclosure, interface, storage devices, and even the power management all become special problems. The power problems can largely be solved through the use of a Wide Input picoPSU, but what about systems outside of a 120W envelope, or systems where you need to switch more than the PC power? The answer is just one typical automotive relay.
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Need for Speed Underground is a street racing simulation video game from Electronic Arts for PC, Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo Gamecube. It features twenty licensed cars popular in the street racing scene, which can be customized both visually and for performance. Visual modifications improve your reputation multiplier which grants you additional style points; amassing certain amount of style points unlocks new upgrades. The game features drag racing, drifting, circuit racing, and a sprint mode. You can play a guided "underground" mode in which the goal is to become the best-ranked racer in all of these types of driving, play quick races, or play on the internet against others (on PC and Playstation 2 only.) This review focuses on the PC version.
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"How'd you get that flat?" "Ran over a bottle." "Didn't you see it?" "Damn kid had it under his coat."
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The Subaru Impreza is one of the most popular all-wheel drive (AWD) vehicles ever made, and in fact one of the better-made vehicles in general, typically receiving high ratings for reliability and safety. The WRX model of Impreza is one of the most powerful and capable Japanese imports of all time, and the Impreza has been used to win the World Rally Championship (WRC) multiple times.
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Instrumentation Glossary
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Background Noise: The total noise floor from all sources of interference in a measurement system, independent of the presence of a data signal.
Backup: A system, device, file or facility that can be used as an alternative in case of a malfunction or loss of data.
Bandwidth: A symmetrical region around the set point in which proportional control occurs.
Basic Transportation Reference: The basic transportation section of the U.S. Government Test Specification MIL-STD-810D, Method 514.3, Paragraph I-3.2.1, Page 514.3-5. Basic transportation defines the test profiles that have been defined for equipment that is shipped as secured cargo; by land, by sea or by air. The test levels are based upon land transport stress levels because these are higher than stresses imposed by air or sea transportation environments.
Basic: A high-level programming language designed at Dartmouth College as a learning tool. Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Baud: A unit of data transmission speed equal to the number of bits (or signal events) per second; 300 baud = 300 bits per second.
BCD, Buffered: Binary-coded decimal output with output drivers, to increase line-drive capability.
BCD, Parallel: A digital data output format where every decimal digit is represented by binary signals on four lines and all digits are presented in parallel. The total number of lines is 4 times the number of decimal digits.
BCD, Serial: A digital data output format where every decimal digit is represented by binary signals on four lines and up to five decimal digits are presented sequentially. The total number of lines is four data lines plus one strobe line per digit.
BCD, Three-State: An implementation of parallel BCD, which has 0, 1 and high-impedance output states. The high-impedance state is used when the BCD output is not addressed in parallel connect applications.
Bearing: A part which supports a journal and in which a journal revolves.
Beat Frequency: Beat frequencies are periodic vibrations that result from the addition and subtraction of two or more sinusoids. For example, in the case of two turbine aircraft engines that are rotating at nearly the same frequency but not precisely at the same frequency; Four frequencies are generated:(f1) the rotational frequency of turbine one, (f2) the rotational frequency of turbine two, (f1 + f2) the sum of turbine rotational frequencies one and two, and (f1 - f2) which is the difference or "beat" frequency of turbines one and two. The difference of the two frequencies is the lower frequency and is the one that is "felt" as a beat or "wow" in this case.
Beryllia: BeO (Beryllium Oxide) A high-temperature mineral insulation material; toxic when in powder form.
Best Fit Straight Line (BFSL): A line midway between two parallel straight lines enclosing all output vs. pressure values.
Beta Ratio: The ratio of the diameter of a pipeline constriction to the unconstricted pipe diameter.
BIAS Current: A very low-level DC current generated by the panel meter and superimposed on the signal. This current may introduce a measurable offset across a very high source impedance.
Binary Coded Decimal (BCD): The representation of a decimal number (base 10, 0 through 9) by means of a 4 bit binary nibble.
Binary: Refers to base 2 numbering system, in which the only allowable digits are 0 and 1. Pertaining to a condition that has only two possible values or states.
BIOS: Acronym for basic input/output system. The commands used to tell a CPU how it will communicate with the rest of the computer.
Bipolar: The ability of a panel meter to display both positive and negative readings.
Bit: Acronym for binary digit. The smallest unit of computer information, it is either a binary 0 or 1.
Blackbody: A theoretical object that radiates the maximum amount of energy at a given temperature, and absorbs all the energy incident upon it. A blackbody is not necessarily black. (The name blackbody was chosen because the color black is defined as the total absorption of light energy.)
BNC: A quick disconnect electrical connector used to inter-connect and/or terminate coaxial cables.
Boiling Point: The temperature at which a substance in the liquid phase transforms to the gaseous phase; commonly refers to the boiling point of water which is 100°C (212°F) at sea level.
BPS: Bits per second.
Breakdown Voltage Rating: The dc or ac voltage which can be applied across insulation portions of a transducer without arcing or conduction above a specific current value.
Bridge Resistance: See Input impedance and Output impedance.
BTU: British thermal units. The quantity of thermal energy required to raise one pound of water at its maximum density, 1 degree F. One BTU is equivalent to .293 watt hours, or 252 calories. One kilowatt hour is equivalent to 3412 BTU.
Buffer Capacity (B): A measure of the ability of the solution to resist pH change when a strong acid or base is added.
Buffer: 1. A storage area for data that is used to compensate for a speed difference, when transferring data from one device to another. Usually refers to an area reserved for I/O operations, into which data is read, or from which data is written.2. Any substance or combination of substances which, when dissolved in water, produces a solution which resists a change in its hydrogen ion concentration on the addition of an acid or alkali.
Bulb (Liquid-in-Glass Thermometer): The area at the tip of a liquid-in-glass thermometer containing the liquid reservoir.
Burn-In: A long term screening test (either vibration, temperature or combined test) that is effective in weeding out infant mortalities because it simulates actual or worst case operation of the device, accelerated through a time, power, and temperature relationship.
Burst Pressure: The maximum pressure applied to a transducer sensing element or case without causing leakage.
Burst Proportioning: A fast-cycling output form on a time proportioning controller (typically adjustable from 2 to 4 seconds) used in conjunction with a solid state relay to prolong the life of heaters by minimizing thermal stress.
Bus: Parallel lines used to transfer signals between devices or components. Computers are often described by their bus structure (i.e., S-100, IBM PC).
Byte: The representation of a character in binary. Eight bits.
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ePlus Expands Managed Services Portfolio to Include Service Desk Offering
Delivers ITIL-compliant framework and a central point of contact for customers to troubleshoot, triage, and resolve IT service issues with efficacy and speed
HERNDON, VA – June 17, 2019 – ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS – news) today announced the launch of its Service Desk offering, further extending its Managed Services capabilities with a multi-functional, integrated, global solution. ePlus Service Desk uses ITIL-based methodologies in call flow and problem management to bring process efficiencies and productivity improvements to customers. Work is performed remotely from one or more of ePlus’ U.S.-based Service Desk locations, and includes desk-side staff augmentation as an optional value add.
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“Supplementing our mature Managed Services portfolio with a Service Desk offering allows us to deliver a suite of solutions via a single platform to customers, efficiently managing multiple services across their complex IT infrastructure,” said Wayne St. Jacques, vice president of managed and executive services for ePlus. “We are able to deliver a full lifecycle experience that maximizes customers’ internal bandwidth and delivers significant outcomes in terms of efficiency and productivity.”
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Kelly Torres: Destined for Duke
Published on May 8, 2019 in Sports by Sloane Kapit
Six years of varsity softball finally paid off for junior Kelly Torres. Rarely does a 12-year-old make a varsity team; however, Torres has played varsity softball at Heritage since sixth grade. Torres started playing T-ball at age 5 and continued on with softball ever since.
“I started because my brother played baseball, and when I was younger, I always wanted to do everything my brother did,” she said.
During the summer and fall, Torres plays on Gold Coast Hurricanes 18U- Marty Cooper. Her travel softball coach also coaches the Heritage team. On her travel softball team, she plays alongside fellow Heritage teammates seniors Katherine Rodriguez and Jordyn Griffith.
“I love the people that this sport has brought me,” she said. “I already have many life long friends that I know I will keep in contact with, and I wouldn’t have them without softball.”
Throughout Torres’ softball career, her parents have encouraged her the most. Torres notes how much they have sacrificed traveling, taking her to tournaments and putting her through high school.
Although softball has brought many positives to her life, the commitment process proved stressful for Torres. College coaches cannot talk to players until Sept. 1 of their junior year, a regulation which stands as an obstacle in athlete college admissions.
Torres, who has had her heart set on Duke University since a young age, has attended Duke’s softball camps since eighth grade.
“I had no idea if the school I wanted to go to liked me back,” Torres said. She sent the Duke coaches emails and text messages with updates and videos so they would not forget about her. Although they could not contact her back, these efforts served as a constant reminder of her abilities. In the meantime, Torres worked on improving her ACT score and balancing school with athletics.
Torres achieved her career-long goal of committing to Duke Feb. 16. Torres has expressed excitement not only that she has completed the recruiting process, but also that she will soon experience college life.
“I would say my biggest achievement is committing to Duke,” Torres said. (Photo Submitted/Kelly Torres)
“Duke has always been my dream school,” she said. “Sometimes, I still don’t believe that I am going there.” Multiple qualities drew Torres to the university; she desired to attend a school with an Ivy League academic level that also maintains top D1 athletic programs, a combination which she describes as “having best of both worlds.”
Torres advises younger softball players wishing to follow a similar path to never give up their goals.
“If you have a dream school, do not settle for less,” she said. “Chase the school you want to go to, and don’t allow other people’s words to make you change your choice.”
Torres and the rest of her team gather for a group photo before a game. (Photo/Alycia Cypress)
Sloane Kapit
Sloane is the former assistant editor-in-chief of the 2018-2019 Patriot Post news magazine. She is currently a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Battle Of Aufeld
And so, last Saturday, it was time for another large Honours of War bash. This would be the largest HoW game I had yet attempted, so it was going to be interesting to see whether the rules would continue to cope, and whether we would have the time to play the scenario to a reasonable conclusion.
Thanks to Steve, Jon, Adam and Paul for making the effort to come over and get involved. Stuart, nice to see you as well - it was good to show you some of the figures you have gifted me in action. And then there was my eldest son Sam, who kept the teas and coffees coming, helped with lunch and then took over from Steve for the final couple of moves, when duty called Mr Johnson away.
The scenario was borrowed from Wargames Illustrated 286 (August 2011). The original article was In This Sign Conquer, by Ray Lucas, and was a fictional scenario set during the War of the Spanish Succession in Italy. So I changed the names and forces around, but kept essentially the same map. My version of the terrain is seen below.
The Battle of Aufeld. 10' x 6' table, each square 1' x 1'.
Some areas of terrain are labelled as a map key.
This was to be a fairly standard attack-defence game, with the Austrians attacking the Prussians in Saxony during 1761. The Austrians would get a decent advantage in numbers, but to further offset the usual Prussian advantage the Prussians would use the '1760 onwards' National Table, and the Austrians would have a 'dashing' commanding general.
Austrian deployment would be south of the red dashed line on the map, with Prussian deployment north and east of the blue dashed line. Despite the game size, I decided to allow the players to set out the available troops as they wished, rather than presenting them with troops already deployed. The latter saves time, but of course reduces player involvement. The Prussian players had to set out 3 brigades before the Austrians started their deployment. Then alternate brigades from each side would be deployed, which would leave the Austrians with the advantage of setting out their last few brigades in full knowledge of where the Prussians were. As umpire, I held back a brigade from each side to spring a minor surprise during the game, as well as a battalion of Prussian jaeger which would appear in the ruined monastery.
The only points to note about the terrain are that all hills are gentle, the 2 main towns are classed as 'urban', the ruined monastery is classed as 'rustic', and that due south of Aufeld the Sulzbach changes from a stream (to the east) into an impassable river (to the west).
I won't burden the reader with a full OOB of each side. Suffice to say that in total, the forces were:
Austria: 22 infantry battalions, 8 cavalry regiments, 9 artillery batteries.
Prussia: 15 infantry battalions, 6 cavalry regiments, 8 artillery batteries.
For anyone not familiar with my armies, infantry battalions are 20 figures, cavalry regiments 8 figures (a few had 12), and a single gun model forms a 'battery'.
It was of course impossible, given time and space considerations, to test this scenario in advance. As it was, most of Friday ended up being used to get everything set up and all the paperwork completed. But the game ended up being pretty well balanced, leading in the end to a minor Austrian victory. The number of moves completed wasn't recorded (the game was far too involving for that!), but I think we did about 7. I added on one move played solo after everyone had gone home, which merely confirmed the result.
The Prussians were driven out of Aufeld twice, and the town was obviously untenable under the pressure of constant Austrian artillery fire, although the Austrian infantry attacks had themselves been driven off. The Prussians were nearly at their Army Break Point (half their number of units), and so were forced to retire. The Austrians were still short of their Break Point, but had taken one third casualties in units Done For, so I considered they were sufficiently damaged to be unable to claim a major victory. This had been a bloody infantry and artillery slogging match, with the Prussians predictably aggressive (with Paul in command), and the cavalry on both sides reduced to a secondary role.
Not the best set of photos I've ever taken, but they give a flavour of the game.
The night before the battle.
The troops are laid out in review awaiting the whims of their respective commanders.
The game commences. The Prussians move forward on their left flank, whilst the Austrians are refusing their right and going all-out on their left. I had my doubts about those Napoleonic-style infantry columns, but kept my thoughts to myself.
The heart of the Prussian position. Their main batteries are seen on the Aufeldsberg in the background, protected to their front by the cream of the army, the grenadiers. The less steady troops in the foreground are deployed in the shelter of Aufeld town.
The unexpected battalion of jaeger in the monastery are assaulted by Austrian infantry and dismounted dragoons. They were of course soon overcome, but had delayed and diverted the Austrian attackers from their main task.
The Prussians on the Aufeldsberg. There were strong batteries on both sides, and artillery fire was exchanged mercilessly throughout the game, focussing on enemy infantry formations. The 'grazing fire' rule saw extensive service, especially against those Austrian columns...
Austrian artillery positions south of Aufeld. Prussian jaeger have pushed forward in a delaying action, but were to be quickly dispersed once canister from the Austrian guns got their range.
Austrian grenadiers in column of battalions advance, with Aufeld across the river to their right.
The stirring sight of the Prussian grenadiers on the Aufeldsberg. They would soon be committed to a spoiling attack on the Austrians, which would cost them dear.
Austrian artillery fire has cleared Aufeld temporarily.
The poor quality Freikorps and allied units in this area huddle in its shelter trying to sort themselves out.
The Prussian grenadiers advance off the Aufeldsberg, with the Prussian left flank pushing forward into the empty space on the Austrian right. It appears the Prussians expected Austrian reinforcements to appear to fill this gap, but instead a brigade previously unseen in dead ground on the Austrian left centre has commenced a dangerous looking attack (foreground left). Damn that marsh!
Aufeld, blasted by artillery, is vacant and the Austrian infantry finally closes in.
The pressure appears to be telling on the Austrian commanders. The Prussian determination to play the game in the Austrian half of the table is creating a serious situation on the Prussian right.
The Austrian cuirassiers were sent around the extreme western flank, but they were under a 'dithering' commander and their advance was sluggish. Unfortunately, the umpire turned out to be similarly dithering and forgot to allow re-rolls of failed command dice, allowed when a dashing overall commander is in charge. Sorry guys!
The Austrian grenadiers have been thrown back, but their supporting German infantry storm over the bridge in a desperate last gasp attack. Bavarian troops are beginning to free themselves from the marsh in the top right of the photo and are also closing in on Aufeld. But predictably, the gun at the bridge blasted the attacking column back with devastating canister fire.
As the game drew to a close, the Prussian left flank cavalry galloped round onto the enemy baseline to try and break in behind the Austrian lines. They defeated the defending hussars, but the cost was high and supporting Austrian artillery (just seen at the left of the photo) saw them off in the next move.
And they think it's all over! It was. Time had run out. Sadly Steve missed the final team photo - we'll get you next time my friend. On the table, it can just be seen that Aufeld is re-occupied by the Prussians, but the order to retire is on its way. Prussian casualties, increased by their aggressive defence, have been too high.
Punditry
Well, everyone stated they enjoyed the game and it had been a pleasure to watch things unfold, with some competitive gaming leavened by good-natured banter. The scenario turned out to be a good one, and the rules coped well, although the first couple of moves were a little slow as everyone found their feet. Had the 'dashing commanding general' rule been properly applied, an even more exciting game might well have taken place. Damn my useless memory!
Two things occurred to me. First, I didn't put specific command allocations in place. This resulted in some occasionally lengthy discussions between commanders sharing the decisions. This might have been avoided if players had specific troops allocated to them.
Secondly, there was an interesting domination of the game by artillery. This has considerable historical support, especially in the latter part of the SYW. However, it was interesting to note that counter-battery fire was ignored by both sides, so that the guns continued to pound the enemy unabated as the turns progressed. This also has history on its side to a certain extent, but there may be a hole in the rules here. The particular problem is that hits are fairly easily rallied off when the enemy are outside 30cm, a common situation with counter-battery fire. So getting to the point where enemy guns are seriously affected is well-nigh impossible in some situations. But historically, it is clear that counter-battery fire could sometimes be effective.
My current idea is to take into account the fact that hits on artillery might not only affect the crews and supporting staff, but might result in actual destruction of the guns themselves. This material destruction obviously couldn't be rallied off. So, for every hit on an artillery battery, roll a D6. If you get a 5 or 6, an actual gun has been put out of action and this hit cannot be rallied off. Mark such hits with a different coloured die. In this way, long-distance pounding of your opponent's artillery may a be a bit more worthwhile.
Once again gentlemen, thank you one and all for a great day's gaming.
'Til the next time!
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Robbie Rodiss said...
Great looking game, its great to see a lot of RSM figures on show. We will also try out the artillery amendment, it should prove interesting.
Steve J. said...
Thanks for once again putting on a cracking game and as always such a joy to behold. Adam, Jon and Paul as always a pleasure to play against and nice to see Stuart, even though for only a short amount of time. Looking forward to the next one!
Stuart Asquith said...
The game looked terrific, it was good to see the lads again and to meet Sam and Adam.
Well done to Keith for the absolutely splendid layout and cracking figures in some number.
Sorry I couldn't stay longer - family commitments...
Maybe next time.
Capt Bill said...
very inspiring indeed!!!
David Cooke said...
Great looking game. I'll be converting this back to a WSS scenario.
Dale said...
The color variations are just tremendous. Great looking units, terrain, and game.
Jim Walkley said...
As I generally play solo , such a large game would be difficult to control so it is even more interesting to read reports such as this. I am surprised that counter-battery fire didn't come up in the play test as we had quite a lot of discussion on artillery as I remember. Perhaps others felt as I did that when it was possible to get more than one battery firing at a target battery it could be effective but more so that there were plenty of more pressing targets. I believe your amendment would cover this minor point very well. Now I must try to remember it!
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Amsterdam, 1668, later included in the Musaeum hermeticum of 1678. An English translation was printed at London in 1694.
Philalethes - Three Treatises
Eirenaeus Philalethes, Tres tractatus de metallorum transmutatione ...
Metamorphosis of Metals
A Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby
The Fount of Chemical Truth
Philalethes - Metamorphosis of Metals
CHAPTER I
Of the Claims of our Art, its Students, and its Method
All men who devote their lives to the study of any art, or to any kind of occupation, have before their eyes, as the aim of their efforts, perfection in the thing which they pursue. But only few attain to the goal of their wishes: there are many architects, but few masters of the art of architecture; many students of medicine, but few men like Hippocrates or Galen; many mathematicians, but few proficients like Archimedes; many poets, but few worthy to rank with Homer. Yet, even men who have nothing more than a respectable knowledge of their calling, are capable of being useful to society.
Among those who devote themselves to the transmutation of metals, however, there can be no such thing as mediocrity of attainment. A man who studies this Art, must have either everything or nothing. An Alchemist who knows only half his craft, reaps nothing but disappointment and waste of time and money; moreover, he lays himself open to the mockery of those who despise our Art. Those, indeed, who succeed in reaching the goal of the Magistery, have not only infinite riches, but the means of continued life and health. Hence it is the most popular of all human pursuits. Anyone who has read a few "Receipts" claims the title of a Sage, and conceives the most extravagant hopes; and, in order to give themselves the appearance of very wise men indeed, such persons immediately set themselves to construct furnaces, fill their labora
tories with stills and alembics, and approach the work with a wonderful appearance of profundity. They adopt an obscure jargon, speak of
When captious despisers of our Art see this, they draw from such constant failures the conclusion that our Art is a combination of fiction and imposture; whilst those who have ruined themselves by their folly confirm this suspicion by preying on the credulity of others, pretending to have gained some skill by the loss of their money. In this way the path of the beginner is beset with difficulties and pestilent delusions of every kind; and, through the fault of these swindlers, who give themselves such wonderful airs of profundity and learning, our Art itself has fallen into utter disrepute, though these persons, of course, know nothing whatever about it. The beginner finds it extremely difficult to distinguish between the false and the true in this vast Labyrinth of Alchemy. Bernard of Trevisa warns him to eschew like the plague these persons who hold out so many vain and empty promises; while I have written this Treatise for the guidance of the blind, and the instruction of the erring. I wish, in the first place, to clear our Art from the slanders which have been cast upon it, then to describe the qualifications of its students and its methods of procedure. After these prefatory explanations, I will gird myself to a description of the Art itself.
Before I say anything else, I would record my most earnest protest against that method of reasoning by which the deceptions of certain wretched sophists are laid to the charge of this science. The wickedness of some of its lying professors can prove nothing either for or against its genuineness. Such a position could be made good only by arguments based on natural relations; but such arguments it is impossible to find. The light of Nature is too bright to be darkened by these obscurists. I hope my Book will shew that the Transmutation of Metals, from an imperfect to a perfect state, is a real and true achievement, and that by the co-operation of Nature and Art. The only thing that distinguishes one metal from another, is its degree of maturity, which is, of course, greatest in the most precious metals; the difference between gold and lead is not one of substance, but of digestion; in the baser metal the coction has not been such as to purge out its metallic impurities. If by any means this superfluous impure matter could be organically removed from the baser metals, they would become gold and silver. So miners tell us that lead has in many cases developed into silver in the bowels of the earth; and we contend that the same effect is produced in a much shorter time by means of our Art. It is a fact that the Mercury which is generated in the bowels of the earth, is the common substance of all metals -- since this Mercury will enter into combination with every kind of metal -- which could not be the case if it were not naturally akin to them all. Mercury is a water that will mix with nothing that is not of the same nature. By Art, the handmaid of Nature, Mercury can be so successively concocted with all metals, that one and the same under the same colour and flux, may subalternately shew and express the true temperature and properties of them all. Moreover, all metals are capable of being resolved into running Mercury -- and surely this could not be if it were not their common substance. Again, the Mercury of lead may become that of iron, the Mercury of iron that of copper; while the Mercury of tin may even be transmuted into that of silver and gold -- a fact which triumphantly demonstrates the substantial affinity of all the metals. From antimony, too, a good Mercury is obtained, which some of our Artists are able to change into metallic mercury. It is also a well-established fact that the Mercury gained from any metallic or mineral body possesses the properties of assimilating common Mercury to its own nature; thus common Mercury may become that of all metals in turn. Do not these arguments clearly shew that there is one Mercury, and that in the various metals it is only differentiated according to their different degrees of digestion or purity? I do not see how these arguments can be answered. It is possible indeed that some dull person may allege in refutation of our reasoning his inability to accomplish those chemical transformations on which it is based; but such operators would be vindicating too great an honour for their ignorance if they claimed to advance it as an argument against the truth of our Art. They must not make their own little understandings the standard or measure of the possibilities of Nature. At any rate, my word is as good as theirs (and better, since they can never prove a negative), and I do most positively and solemnly assert that I have with my own hands performed every one of the experiments which I have described; and I know many others whose experience has shewn these things to be true. How can our opponents hope to prevail against eye-witnesses by bare negation? My testimony is borne out by the experience of such men as Albertus, Raymund, Riplaeus, Flamellus, Morienus, and a host of others. I confess that the transformations of which I have spoken are not easy to accomplish, but whoever has the Key of our Art can unlock all gates, and has power over all the secrets of Nature. But this Key is possessed only by those who have both a theoretical and a practical knowledge of natural processes. I could here reckon up divers mutations of metals, as, for instance, Mars into Venus, by the acid stalagma of vitriol, Mercury into Saturn, Saturn into Jupiter, Jupiter into Lune, which operations, indeed, many vulgar chemists (far enough from the top of the art) know how to perform. I might also add what is known only to a few philosophers, that there is a secret substance intermediate between metals and minerals the mixed heavenly virtues of which produce a certain metal without a name, which is, strictly speaking, not a metal at all, but a Chaos, or Spirit, for it is all volatile: from this all metals can be educed without transmutatory Elixir, even gold, silver, and mercury. It is called Chalybs by the author of the " New Light," and it is the true key and first principle of our Art. What though the Sages have hidden all these things, and set them forth parabolically for the true sons of knowledge? Are they any the less true for that reason ?... All that is wanted for the perfect development of an imperfect substance, is the gentle, digestive action of a homogeneous agent. This agent is gold, as highly matured as natural and artificial digestion can make it, and a thousand times more perfect than the common metal of that name. Gold, thus exalted, radically penetrates, tinges, and fixes metals. This scientific fact we may illustrate in the following manner. If you take six pounds of silver, and gild it with a single ounce of gold, you may afterwards draw out the silver into threads of the greatest fineness, and still distinctly perceive in each thread the brilliancy of gold. If then this dead, bodily, and earthy metal (which, as a body, of course, has no power to enter another body) can produce so wonderful an effect, does it seem incredible that the spirit of this gold, which can enter and animate the bodies of other metals, should transform them into its own nature ? If we had this spiritual tincture, is it not clear that it would do inwardly what the body of the gold is seen to do outwardly? Remember that our Tincture is the Quintessence of gold, and infinitely more perfect than the mere body of gold can ever be; and that it has, therefore, an infinitely greater power of diffusing its essential quality. If gold thus spiritually enters another metal, it will clearly assimilate it to its own nature. The method of this spiritual ingestion we shall describe further on. Let us only add in this place, where we are discussing the rationale of metallic transmutation, that seed is the perfection of any seed-bearing substance; that which has no seed is altogether imperfect. It is, then, as the poet sings: "Gold contains the seeds of gold, though they be deeply hidden." Gold is not only perfect, but the most perfect thing of its kind (ie., of metals). If gold has seed, it must be contained in water, which is the habitation of all spirits, seed being a certain spiritual means of conserving any species. If gold is to be dissolved for the purpose of educing its seed, the dissolution will have to take place by means of this same metallic water. When this dissolution takes place, the gold puts off its earthly form, and assumes a watery form. Now, gold being both the starting point and the goal in the whole of this generative process, it is clear that all intermediate operations must be of a homogeneous character, ie., they must consist in gradual modifications of this seed of gold. The processes of our Art must begin with the dissolution of gold; they must terminate in a restoration of the essential quality of gold. But as the negative can never become the positive, the final form of our gold must be essentially different from its initial one. The final form is so much more noble than the initial one as fire is more subtle and spiritual than earth. What I have written is enough for the faithful student of our Art; and to its hostile and carping critics this book is not addressed. Therefore, I will now go on to add a word or two about the qualifications of those who should study this noble science. Our Art has fallen into disrepute, as I have said, through the stupidity and - dishonesty of many of its professors. They are ignorant mechanics who, not having skill and brains enough for an honest trade, must needs meddle with our Art, and, of course, soon lose all they possess. Others, again are only just less ignorant than these persons; they are in too great a hurry to make gold before they have mastered even the rudiments of natural science; of course they fail, spend all they have, borrow money from their friends, amuse themselves and others with hopes of infinite wealth, learn to talk a barbarous semiphilosophical jargon, and afford a capital handle to those who have an interest in abusing our Art. Again, there are others who really have a true knowledge of the secret, but who grudge others the light which has irradiated their own path; and who therefore write about it in hopelessly puzzling language, which the perplexed beginner cannot possibly understand. To this class belong Geber, Arnold, and Lullius, who would have done much better service to the student, if they had never dipped pen in ink. The consequence is that every one who takes up this study at once finds himself lost in a most perplexing labyrinth of falsehood and uncertainty, in which he has no clue. I will therefore try to
In the first place, let him carry on his operations with great secrecy in order that no scornful or scurrilous person may know of them; for nothing discourages the beginner so much as the mockery, taunts, and well-meant advice of foolish outsiders. Moreover, if he does not succeed, secrecy will save him from derision; if he does succeed, it will safeguard him against the persecution of greedy and cruel tyrants. In the second place, he who would succeed in the study of this Art, should be persevering, industrious, learned, gentle, good-tempered, a close student, and neither easily discouraged nor slothful; he may work in co-operation with one friend, not more, but should be able to keep his own counsel; it is also necessary that he should have a little capital to procure the necessary implements etc., and to provide himself with food and clothing while he follows this study, so that his mind may be undistracted by care and anxiety. Above all, let him be honest, God-fearing, prayerful, and holy. Being thus equipped, he should study Nature, read the books of genuine Sages, who are neither impostors nor jealous churls, and study them day and night; let him not be too eager to carry out every idea practically before he has thoroughly tested it, and found it to be in harmony not only with the teaching of all the Sages, but - also of Nature herself. Not until then let him gird himself for the practical part of the work, and let him constantly modify his operations until he sees the signs which are described by the Sages. Nor let him despair though he take many false steps; for the greatest philosophers have learned most by their mistakes. For his guidance in these operations he will find all the light he requires in the following treatises.
Of the Origin of this Art and its Writers; its Fundamental Metallic Principles, and the Gradual Production of Metals and Minerals
Hermes, surnamed Trismegistus, is generally regarded as the father of this Art; but there are different opinions with regard to his identity. Some say he was Moses; all agree that he was a very clear-sighted philosopher, the first extant author on the subject, and was also of Egyptian extraction. Others say that Enoch invented the Art, and, before the coming of the Flood described it on the so-called emerald tables, which were afterwards found by Hermes in the valley of Hebron. Many assert that it was known to Adam, who revealed it to Seth; that Noah carried the secret with him into the Ark, and that God revealed it to Solomon. But I do not agree with those who claim for our Art a mystical origin, and thus only make it ridiculous in the eyes of a scornful world. If it is founded on the eternal verities of Nature, why need I trouble my head with the problem whether this or that antediluvian personage had a knowledge of it? Enough for me to know that it is now true and possible, that it has been exercised by the initiated for many centuries, and under the most distant latitudes; it may also be observed that though most of these write in an obscure, figurative, allegorical, and altogether perplexing style, and though some of them have actually mixed falsehood with truth, in order to confound the ignorant, yet they, though existing in many series of ages, differing in tongue and nation, have not diversely handled one operation, but do all exhibit a most marvellous and striking agreement in regard to the main features of their teaching -- an agreement which is absolutely inexplicable, except on the supposition that our Art is something more than a mere labyrinth of perplexing words. Our Art is most plainly and straightforwardly expounded by Bernard of Trevisa, Ripley the English man, Flamellus the Frenchman, Sendivogius, the author of the "New Light," the anonymous author of the "Arcanum of Hermes," who also wrote Enchiridion Physicae Restituae, and "The Ladder of Philosophers," the great "Rosary," the "Child's Play," the Tract of Dionysius Zachary, the works of Morienus, the works of Egidius de Vadis, Augurellus' poem entitled "Goldmaking," the works of Peter Bonus of Ferrara, and the "Abridged Rosary." Let the student procure one or more of these, and similar genuine works on Alchemy, and let him study the secrets of Nature by the light which they throw upon it. He will find a knowledge of natural science, and more particularly of mineralogy, indispensable for his purpose.
All philosophers tell us that there are four elements, which compose all things, and, by means of their diverse combination, produce various forms. But the truth is that there are only three elements, i.e., those which of their own nature are cold -- air, water, and earth. The defect of heat which we perceive in them is in proportion to their distance from the sun. Fire I do not acknowledge as an element. There is no fire, except the common fire which burns on the hearth; and its heat is essentially destructive. The heat there is in things is the product either of light, or motion, or life, or alterative processes. Fire is not an element, but a robber that preys on the products of the four elements; it is a violent corruptive motion caused by the clashing of two active principles. Thus, we see that it is an operation of two other substances, not a substance in itself -- a result of the active co-operation of a comburent and a combustible. The nature and characteristic quality of the three elements is cold, and they possess heat only as an accident... Nor is it true that objects are formed by a mixture of these three elements; for dissimilar things can never really unite, seeing that union is a complete mixture and concretion of the smallest atoms or molecules of two substances. But such a mixture is impossible in the case of two dissimilar matters, as, for instance, between water and earth (or water and wine); they admit of being separated at any time on account of the disproportion of their smallest particles. It may be said that for the sake of union the grosser element becomes as subtle as the other; but if this were the case, if for the purpose of union water became as subtle as air, that would simply mean that water became air, an assumption which would thus fail to prove the possibility of an amalgamation of water and air. Is it not a simpler and more credible supposition that only water or air, as the case may be, enters into the composition of any given object? But if any one still persists in maintaining this permutation of the elements (which, after all, would only mean that all things consist of air) -- let me ask the humble question -- by the activity of what agent they are so transmuted? Moreover, one would also be glad to enquire what is the use of this permutation of earth into water, and of water into air? What can earth converted into water, or water converted into air, perform, that could not be just as well accomplished by simple unchanged water or air? Surely, Nature does nothing in vain: I but here would be a difficult and wasteful process of transmutation constantly going on, which is not calculated to serve any useful purpose whatsoever. If it be said that earth rarefied into water is like water, yet not exactly water, my answer is that this is a mere quibble about words, and that if the rarefied earth is only like water, and not really water, it cannot possibly combine with it in its smallest particles; so nothing is gained by this hypothesis. Hence we may conclude that all things derive their origin from one element, which can be neither earth nor air. This I could prove at great length if I were not cramped for space. It follows, then, that water must be the first principle of all things, i.e., of all concrete bodies in this world; earth is the fundamental element in which all bodies grow and are preserved; air is the medium into which they grow, and by means of which the celestial virtues are communicated to them. The seed of all things has been placed by God in water. This seed some exhibit openly, like vegetables, some keep in their kidneys, like animals; some conceal in the depths of their essential being, like metals. The seed is stirred into action by its form (i.e., a certain appropriate celestial influence) coagulates the material water, and passes through a series of fermentative processes (fermentation being the principle of all transmutation), until it has produced that for the production of which it was specially suited. If the seed is metallic, there; generated from it first a dry liquid, which does not wet the hand viz., Mercury, the mother of all metals. Mercury may be described as the true first matter of metals; for not until the elemental water has become Mercury can it be affirmed with any degree of certainty that a metal or mineral must result from it. Water is, in itself, potentially the seed of either an animal vegetable, or mineral; but Mercury is metallically differentiated water, ie., it is water passed into that stage of development, in which it can no longer produce anything but mineral substances. Mercury, then, is the common seed of gold, silver, copper, tin iron, lead, etc.; their difference is only to be sought in the degree of their digestion. The digestive is not any fat sulphur which is brought to bear on them from without; but Mercury contains within itself the active principle of its development, viz., the inward heat due to celestial influences, causing vitality, and dependent on the fitness of the womb. These heavenly influences are at work throughout the world; but their exact mode of action is determined by the potential nature of the seed; if the inward life be metallic, the course of its development by means of outward agents will also be metallic. Still Mercury develops only where these outward influences (celestial and terrestrial) can be brought to bear. In every other place it will appear a cold, dead, and lifeless substance. But in the centre of its nativity it is quickened by the action of celestial influences, conveyed to it through the medium of air, whence results heat, wherewith life is necessarily associated. Now, the womb in which this Mercury is placed, is either more, less, or not at all suited to it; and according to the different degrees of this fitness, the substance either remains altogether stationary, or is more or less perfectly developed; imperfection of development yields the imperfect metals, while by means of perfect development are produced silver and gold; but all metals, though differentiated by the degree of their digestion or maturity, have the same first substance, viz., Mercury. The dross and impurities which are largely found in the base metals, form no part of the original Mercury but are added afterwards through some flaw in the process of coagulation, or through the impurity of the place or womb in which their metallic generation (fermentation) takes place. But I will now go on to deal with the special subject of this Treatises, viz., . the renovation or
CHAPTER III
Of the Generation of Gold and Silver from the Mercurial Substance, and the Possibility of bringing Imperfect Metals to the same State of Perfection
To the aforesaid source (Mercury) we trace the birth of gold, and of its sister, silver; they represent this substance brought to perfection by means of digestion. Perfection is of two kinds, inchaotive or complete, partial or entire. Complete perfection (the complete digestion of all crudities and elimination of all impurities) is the ultimate aim of Nature; and she has reached it in our gold, which with its brilliancy lights up the whole earth. Inchaotive perfection may be so named, not absolutely but relatively, when compared with essentially imperfect bodies. Those bodies are formally or essentially imperfect in the composition of which the impure predominates over the pure, so that they could never of themselves (by natural development attain perfection; this is the case with all metals except gold and silver. But whenever the pure is freed from the corruptive tyranny of the impure, and obtains the mastery over it, we have inchaotive perfection, though the development of the body may be still incomplete. These crudities and impurities do not originally belong to the metallic substance, and are very well capable of being separated from it; if they are so purged off before coagulation, we get a perfect metal. But even if they are coagulated together with the Mercury, it is still possible to separate them from it, and thus to perfect the Mercury. It is on this possibility that our Art is based; and its business is to perform this separation. The base metals contain the same mercury as gold; if we can free this Mercury from the impurities which hinder its development, it must also go on to perfection, i.e., become gold. If we could find some separating agent which would perform this office for the impure minerals, it would also be a digestive, i.e., it would quicken the inward metallic digestion of the long-entombed Mercury. Such a separant is our divine Arcanum, which is the heavenly spirit of water with fiery penetrative power. Compared with common gold, it is what the soul is in comparison of the body; and having attained the highest degree of corporeal fixity, it takes up the Mercury of the base metals into its own nature, and protects it from the fire while the impurities are being burnt up. The Mercury of the base metals (unlike the Mercury of gold), if exposed to the fire without such protection, would not be able to encounter the searching ordeal, but (having no cohesion with its impure body and possessing no fixity in itself) would simply evaporate, and leave the impurities to be burned. But our Arcanum, being both a spiritual and a homogeneous substance, is capable of entering into a perfect atomic union with the imperfect metals, of taking up into its own nature that which is like to it, and of imparting to this Mercury its own fixity, and protecting it from the fire, so when the fire has burnt up all the impurities, that which is left is, of course, pure gold or silver, according to the quality of the Medicine -- which from that time forward is (like all other gold and silver) capable of resisting the most searching ordeal. So you see we do not, as is sometimes said, profess to create gold and silver, but only to find an agent which -- on account of its homogeneity and spirituality -- is capable of entering into an intimate (atomic) and maturing union with the Mercury of the base metals. And we contend that our Elixir is calculated, by the intense degree of its fixity and colour, to impart these qualities to any homogeneous substance which does not possess them.
Of the Seed of Gold; and whether other Metals have Seed
Seed is the means of generic propagation given to all perfect things here below; it is the perfection of each body; and anybody that has no seed must be regarded as imperfect. Hence there can be no doubt that there is such a thing as metallic seed. If metals have seed, they certainly do not lose it in coagulation, which is the effect of perfection (or rather of perfect conditions). Now, in all seed-bearing things maturity means the perfect development of the seeds, and it stands to reason that metallic seed is therefore most certainly not destroyed by coagulation (the maturing process). If it be asked whether all metals have seed, my answer is, that the seed of all metals is the same; but that in some it is found nearer to, and in some further from the surface. All metallic seed is the seed of gold; for gold is the intention of Nature in regard to all metals. If the base metals are not gold, it is only through some accidental hindrance; they are all potentially gold. But, of course, this seed of gold is most easily obtainable from well-matured gold itself. Hence it would be lost labour to endeavour to obtain it from tin or lead by some laborious process, when it may be more readily obtained from gold itself. Remember that I am now speaking of metallic seed, and not of Mercury. Lead is to be multiplied, not in lead, but only in gold; for only when it attains its maturity as gold can its seed become fruitful. It may be admitted that silver has its own seed, as there is a white (as well as a red) multiplicative Tincture. Still, the White Tincture is really contained in the Red; and the seed of silver is nothing but a modification of that of gold. The whiteness of silver is the first degree of perfection, the yellowness of gold is the second, or highest degree. For the mother of our Stone (the silver of the Sages) is white, and imparts its whiteness to our gold, whence the offspring of these two parents first becomes white, like its mother, and then red with the royal blood of its father.
CHAPTER V
Of the Virtue of Golden Seed, and where it is most readily found
In order that we may obtain this means of perfecting imperfect metals, we must remember that our Arcanum is gold exalted to the highest degree of perfection to which the combined action of Nature and Art can develop it. In gold, Nature has reached the term of her efforts; but the seed of gold is something more perfect still, and in cultivating it we must, therefore, call in the aid of Art. The seed of metals is hidden out of sight still more completely than that of animals; nevertheless, it is within the compass of our Art to extract it. The seed of animals and vegetables is something separate, and may be cut out, or otherwise separately exhibited; but metallic seed is diffused throughout the metal, and contained in all its smallest parts, neither can it be discerned from its body: its extraction is therefore a task which may well tax the ingenuity of the most experienced philosopher; the virtues of the whole metal have to be intensified, so as to convert it into the sperm of our seed, which, by circulation, receives the virtues of superiors and inferiors, then next becomes wholly form, or heavenly virtue, which can communicate this to others related to it by homogeneity of matter. In respect of the Stone, the whole of gold is its substance. The place in which the seed resides is -- approximately speaking -- water; for, to speak properly and exactly, the seed is the smallest part of the metal, and is invisible; but as this invisible presence is diffused throughout the water of its kind, and exerts its virtue therein, nothing being visible to the eye but water, we are left to conclude from rational induction that this inward agent (which is, properly speaking, the seed) is really there. Hence we call the whole of the water seed, just as we call the whole of the grain seed, though the germ of life is only a smallest particle of the grain. But the seminal life is not distinct from the remaining substance of metals; rather, it is inseparably mingled with the smallest parts of the body. Roughly speaking, however, we describe the whole of our golden water as the seed of gold, because this seminal virtue pervades it in a most subtle manner. This seminal virtue the ancient Sages called the hidden ferment, the poison, or the invisible fire; again, they said that it was fire, or that fire resided in the water; they distinguished between soul and spirit, of which the former is the medium, the latter the active virtue. If anyone wonders that we describe water as the seat of the seed, or the seminal spirit, let him remember that in the beginning the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, i.e., penetrated them with His heavenly quickening power. Thus, from the very first day of Creation, water has been the source and element of all things. For water alone contains the seeds of all things; yet in vegetables they are put forth in crude air; in animals they are preserved in the kidneys; while in minerals they are diffused throughout the whole substance; nevertheless, seed can never leave its original seat (i.e., water). Things are preserved by that from which they derive their origin; for the cause of their origin being removed, the things which are the effect must also cease to exist; hence the multiplication and nutrition of all things is in water and through water. Vegetables are generated and nourished by the aqueous Teffas of the earth; animals by the liquid chyle; metals by the mercurial liquid. Animals preserve their seed in their kidneys, and in due time project it into the proper womb, where it is first moulded into a tender and very compacted foetus; this fetus is nourished by the liquid female menstruum, and thus grows until the time comes for it to be born. Then it is nourished with milk until it can bear stronger food; but this solid food does not become real nutriment until the stomach has converted it into a liquid chyle (as, for instance, bones in the stomach of the dog). In the same way the metals keep their perfect seed where it cannot be seen; but even there it is preserved in water. Thence the Artist extracts it, puts it into its own proper womb, where it is cherished and grows, until (by means of corruption) it attains to its glorification. This is a most difficult operation, because the Metals, in which the seed is hidden, are so firmly and tightly compacted, and will not yield to violence, but only to a gentle and exquisitely subtle chemical process. Then I say to you, that there is a womb into which the gold (if placed therein) will, of its own accord, emit its seed, until it is debilitated and dies, and by its death is renewed into a most glorious King, who thenceforward receives power to deliver all his brethren from the fear of death.
Of the Mode and Means of Extracting this Seed
That the most beautiful things are the most difficult to produce is the experience of all mankind; and it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the most glorious of sublunary operations is attended with a very great amount of difficulty. If any student of this Art is afraid of hard work, let him stop with his foot upon the threshold. When, indeed, the Father of Lights has entrusted the Key of the Art to any man, that which remains to be done is mere child's play; his eyes are ravished with the sight of the most glorious signs, until the time of harvest arrives. Without this, error and vexation will be the result. Therefore the wise man, before commencing the work, will be chiefly solicitous of knowing it by its marks. Let the sons of knowledge learn that the great object of our Art is the manifestation of the hidden seed of gold, which can be effected only by full and perfect volatilisation of that which is fixed, and the subsequent corruption of its particular form. To break up gold in this way is the most profound secret in the world. It is not brought about by corrosive depravation of the metal, nor by the usual method of dissolution, but by our philosophical solution of the metal into mercurial water, by means of a previous mercurial calcination (made by means of the agent ), which is produced through the subtle rotation and conversion of the elements; this calcination, again, is a mortification of our homogeneous liquid with the dry element belonging to it; afterwards the dry is so far revived by means of this same liquid, that the perfectly matured virtue, extracted from the substance by the solvent, is the cause of this calcination and solution. Here, then, there is no room for the action of a corrosive. Gold, which is the most solid, strong, fire-proof, and fixed of all substances, is to be volatilised, and no mere corrosive will accomplish such a perfect change of nature. The mighty agent required for this purpose must be homogeneous, amicable, and spiritual, i.e., it must be akin to the body (of gold), and yet strong enough to overcome it; and penetrate to its very core, still leaving each smallest part of the gold true gold. Gold does not easily give up its nature, and will fight for its life, but our agent is strong enough to overcome and kill it, and then it also has power to restore it to life, and to change the lifeless remains into a new pure body.
Of the First Agent or Womb, into which our Seed should be emitted and where it is matured
There remains to be found an Agent, by means of which the aforesaid operation may be performed. For this purpose we require a homogeneous water. For we have seen that the seed Of gold is concealed, and can remain effectual only in water, and this water must be homogeneous with the body, or else it could not penetrate all the thick integuments by means of which this seed is secured. For like generates like, that is to say, every agent that exercises a generative action upon anything, transmutes it (as far as possible) into its own nature. The Agent then must be akin to the body which is to be dissolved, and, moreover, perfectly pure from all dross or alloy. Again, whereas gold is fixed and solid, the Agent must be highly volatile and spiritual; gold is thick and gross, our Agent is subtle gold is dead our Agent is living and life-giving: in short, our Agent should have all those qualities which gold has not, and which it is to impart to the gold. Hence we conclude that Mercury alone is the true Key of our Art; for it is in truth the dry water described by the Sages, which, though liquid, does not wet the hands, nor anything else that does not belong to the unity of its substance. Mercury is our doorkeeper, our balm, our honey, oil, urine, may-dew, mother, egg, secret furnace, oven, true fire, venomous Dragon, Theriac, ardent wine, Green Lion, Bird of Hermes, Goose of Hermogenes, two-edged sword in the hand of the (Cherub that guards the Tree of Life, &c., &c.; it is our true, secret vessel, and the Garden of the Sages, in which our Sun rises and sets. It is our Royal Mineral, our triumphant vegetable Saturnia, and the magic rod of Hermes, by means of which he assumes any shape he likes. It is of this water that the Sage uses the words: "Let Alchemists boast as much as they like, but without this water the transmutation of metals is impossible. In Nature it is not such as we use it in our Art; it is a most common thing, and yet the most precious treasure of all the world... Therefore, Son of Knowledge, pay diligent heed to my words: Take that which in itself is most impure, the strumpet woman, purge it radically of all its uncleanness, and extract from it that which is most pure, namely, our menstruum (solvent), the Royal Diadem." Behold, I have told you in a few words that which ennobles the Sage, delivers him from error, and leads him to the most beautiful meadow of delights... The Arcanum which we seek is nothing but gold exalted to its highest degree of perfection, through the operation of Nature assisted by our Art. When the sperm hidden in the body of gold is brought out by means of our Art, it appears under the form of Mercury, whence it is exalted into the quintessence which is first white, and then, by means of continuous coction becomes red. All this is the work of our homogeneous Agent our Mercurial Ponticum, which is pure crystalline without transparency, liquid without humectation, and, in short, the true Divine water, which is not found above-ground, but is prepared by the hand of the Sage, with the co-operation of Nature, which we know, have seen, have made, and still possess which also we desire to make known to the true students of our Art, while it is our wish to hide it only from the unworthy.
CHAPTER VIII
Concerning the Genealogy of the Mercury of the Sages, its Origin, Birth, and the Signs which precede and accompany it
Some boastful and arrogant sophists, who have read in books that our Mercury is not common Mercury, and who know that it is called by different names, do not blush to come forward as pretenders to a knowledge of this Art, and take upon themselves to describe this solvent as diaphanous and limpid, or as a metallic gum which is permiscible with metals, though they do not in reality know anything whatsoever about it. The same may be said of those who would extract our Mercury from herbs or other still more fantastic substances. These gentry know not why the Sages do not use Mercury such as is sold by apothecaries as their substance. They are aware of the fact, but are unacquainted with its causes; and the consequence is the idea which they have that anything which changes the nature of common Mercury, will convert it into that of the Sages. But in regard to these foolish persons, I have already expressed our opinion... All metals, as I demonstrated in the second chapter, have the same substantial principle, viz., Mercury. From this proposition it follows that the substance of common Mercury is homogeneous with that of all the other metals, and if the Mercury of the Sages be the homogeneous metallic water, it can differ from common Mercury only in respect of its purity and heat. The first substance of common Mercury is that of all other metals, viz., our Mercury. So long as it remains in the veins of the earth, in a place perfectly adapted to its generation, and is sheltered from crude air, it retains its inward movement and heat, which are the cause of all metallic development. But if it be marred by any accident, or if the place become unfit for it, the inward movement is stopped, and the germinal life chilled like that of an egg which a hen has left after sitting on it for some time. This is the reason why those who have attempted to digest common Mercury by means of artificial heat have failed as ludicrously as any one who should endeavour to incubate artificially an addled egg. The difference between the egg and the metal is that our Art is capable of making good the damage, but not by artificial means. We have a crude, undigested, frigid, unmatured metallic mass, which wants the form of our Mercury, for which it must exchange its own, if it is to become that which we seek. With this end in view, its deficiencies are twofold; its nature is clogged with superfluous foreign matter, and it does not possess the requisite spiritual virtue. Its superfluities consist of earthy leprosy, and aqueous dropsy. Its deficiency is one of true sulphureous heat, by means of which it would be enabled to purge off these superfluities. Water, indeed, is the womb, but no womb can receive a vital germ without warmth. Supplement your (common) Mercury, therefore, with the inward fire which it needs, and it will soon get rid of all superfluous dross. If you can do this, you have accomplished the great feat of the Sages. Jupiter has recovered his empire; the black clouds of Saturn are dispersed, and the sparkling fountain wells forth clear and pure. This substance will dissolve gold by means of a true philosophical solution, which is as different as can be from that foolish use of corrosives which only destroy the metallic nature. This Mercury (with) gold and silver naturally produces the Arcanum, or potable gold, as all adepts know and can testify.
Here I conclude this Tract, as all that remains to be said is set forth in a special (the next) Treatise.
Philalethes - Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby
Concerning the Philosopher's Stone and its Grand Arcanum
The Philosopher's Stone is a certain heavenly, spiritual, penetrative, and fixed substance, which brings all metals to the perfection of gold or silver (according to the quality of the Medicine), and that by natural methods, which yet in their effects transcend Nature.
It is prepared from one substance, with which the art of chemistry is conversant, to which nothing is added, from which nothing is taken away, except that its superfluities are removed. No one will question the utility of our Art, if he believes that it enables us to transmute base metals into gold. That base metals are capable of such transmutation is clear; Nature has destined them all to become gold, but they have not been perfectly matured. If, then, that which hinders their perfect digestion be removed, they will all become gold; for crude, cold, and moist Mercury is the common first substance of gold as well as of the other metals. Hence all other metals may be perfected into gold, by the aid of our Divine Magistery, which, being projected upon imperfect metals, has power to quicken the maturing process by as much as itself exceeds the standard maturity of gold. How patent, then, must the spiritual nature of our Stone be, which can effect more in one hour by a bare projection than Nature in the course of ages. If that substance which Nature supplies be taken in hand by Art, dissolved, coagulated, and digested, its perfection is increased from a monadic to a denary virtue; by repeating the same process, it is increased a hundred-fold, and then a thousand-fold, etc. This wonderful Medicine penetrates each smallest part of the base metals (in the proportion of 1::1,000) and tinges them through and through with its own noble nature: your arithmetic will fail sooner than its all-prevailing power. Each smallest part that is pervaded with the vitalizing power of the Elixir in its turn tinges that part which is nearest to it until the whole mass is leavened with its marvellous influence, and brought to the perfection of gold. This is done in a very short time, on account of the spiritual nature of the agent; it is the true metallic fire, and as a common fire warms even those parts of any object which are not in immediate contact with the fire, so this Elixir penetrates dissolved and melted metals in a moment of time - just in the same way as the virtue of leaven or yeast is brought to bear even upon those parts of the meal which it never reaches. A reproach is sometimes levelled at our Art, as though it claimed the power of creating gold; every attentive reader; of our former tract will know that it only arrogates to itself the power of developing, through the removal of all defects and superfluities, the golden nature, which the baser metals possess in common with that highly-digested metallic substance.
Listen, then, while I make known to you the Grand Arcanum of this wonder-working Stone, which at the same time is not a stone, which exists in every man, and may be found in its own place at all times. L he knowledge which I declare is not intended for the unworthy, and will not be understood by them. But to you who are earnest students of Nature God will, at His own time, reveal this glorious secret.
I have shewn that the transmutation of metals is not a chimerical dream, but a sober possibility of Nature, who is perfectly capable of accomplishing it without the aid of magic and that this possibility of metallic transmutation is founded upon the fact that all metals derive their origin from the same source as gold, and have only been hindered from attaining the same degree of maturity by certain impurities, which our Magistery is able to remove. Let me tell you, then, what is the nature of this grand arcanum, which the Sages have called the Philosopher's Stone, but which is in every man, in every thing, at every season of the year, if it be sought in the right place.
It must consist of the elements, for they are the universal substance of all things, and as it is of a nature homogeneous with that of gold, it must be that which contains the qualities of all elements in such a combination as to render it incapable of being destroyed by fire. It follows, then, that you must look for the substance of our Stone in the precious metals, since the required combination of elements is not found anywhere else. Those foolish sophists who seek it outside the domain of metals will never arrive at any satisfactory conclusion. For there is only one true principle, and nothing heterogeneous must be introduced into our Magistery.
For as a lion is always born of a lion, and a man of a man, so all things owe their birth to that which they are like; that which is combustible is derived from that which is combustible, that which is indestructible from that which is indestructible. Nor must we expect to find the principle which imparts the qualities of gold anywhere but in gold itself. If, indeed, we were able to create the sperm of things, we might hope to evolve this metallic principle from plants or animals which do not contain it; but that is the privilege of God alone. We must be content to dispose and develop the sperm which is made ready to our hands - new things we are unable to produce, and even if we could, our artificial seed would be no better than that which Nature has provided. If any one calling himself a Sage cannot use the things which are already created, it does not seem likely that he will be able to create new things out of heterogeneous substances - the seeds of metals out of herbs or animals.
Thus, you see that the Stone which is to be the transformer of metals into gold must be sought in the precious metals, in which it is enclosed and contained.
But why is it called a Stone, though it is not a stone; and how is it to be found? The Sages describe it as being a stone and not a stone; and the vulgar, who cannot imagine how so wonderful a thing should be produced except by art - magics decry our science as impious, wicked, and diabolical. Some silly persons clamour for an Act making the profession or practice of this Art punishable by statute law. Now, one can hardly be angry with the illiterate and ignorant persons who raise this cry; but when it is taken up by men of exalted station and profound learning, one hardly knows what to say. These men I also reckon among the rude multitude, because they are deplorably ignorant of everything pertaining to our Art, and yet, forgetful of their dignity, they join in the hue and cry against it, like so many cowardly village curs. It is neither religious nor wise to judge that of which you know nothing; and yet that is exactly what these people do, who claim to be both Christians and scholars.
But let us return to the point from which we strayed. Some Alchemists who are in search of our Arcanum seek to prepare something of a solid nature, because they have heard the object of their search described as a Stone.
Know, then, that it is called a stone, not because it is like a stone, but only because, by virtue of its fixed nature, it resists the action of fire as successfully as any stone. In species it is gold, more pure than the purest; it is fixed and incombustible like a stone, but its appearance is that of very fine powder, impalpable to the touch, sweet to the taste, fragrant to the smell, in potency a most penetrative spirit, apparently dry and yet unctuous, and easily capable of tinging a plate of metal. It is justly called the Father of all miracles, containing as it does all the elements in such a way that none predominates, but all form a certain fifth essence; it is thus well called our gentle metallic fire. It has no name of its own; yet there is nothing in the whole world whose name it might not with perfect propriety bear. If we say that its nature is spiritual, it would be no more than the truth; if we described it is as corporeal, the expression would be equally correct; for it is subtle, penetrative, glorified, spiritual gold. It is the noblest of all created things after the rational soul, and has virtue to repair all defects both in animal and metallic bodies, by restoring them to the most exact and perfect temper; wherefore is it a spirit or quintessence.
But I must proceed to answer the second and more important part of my question. How is this Stone to be obtained? It does not exist in Nature, but has to be prepared by Art, in obedience to Nature's law. Its substance is in metals; but in form it differs widely from them, and in this sense the metals are not our Stone. For if we would elicit our Medicine from the precious metals, we must destroy the particular metallic form, without impairing its specific properties. The specific properties of the metal have their abode in its spiritual part, which resides in homogeneous water. Thus we must destroy the particular form of gold, and change it into its generic homogeneous water, in which the spirit of gold is preserved; this spirit afterwards restores the consistency of its water, and brings forth a new form (after the necessary putrefaction), a thousand times more perfect than the form of gold which it lost by being reincrudated.
It is necessary, then, to reduce metallic bodies to their homogeneous water which does not wet the hands, that from this water there may be generated a new metallic species which is nobler by far than any existing metal, viz., our Celestial Ruby.
The whole process which we employ closely resembles that followed by Nature in the bowels of the earth, except that it is much shorter. Nature produces the metals out of cold and humid Mercury by assiduous digestion; our Art takes the same crude, cold, and humid Mercury, and conjoins with it mature gold, by a secret artifice; the mixture represents a new and far more potent Mercury, which, by digestion, becomes not common gold, but one far more noble, which can transmute imperfect metals into true gold.
Thus, you see that though our Stone is made of gold alone, yet it is not common gold. In order to elicit our gold from common gold, the latter must be dissolved in our mineral water which does not wet the hands; this water is Mercury extracted from the red servant, and it is capable of accomplishing our work without any further trouble to the Artist. It is that one true, natural, first-substance, to which nothing is added, from which nothing is subtracted, except certain superfluities, which, however, it will cast off without any aid by its own inherent vital action. The chief object of your perseverent efforts should be the discovery of this Mercury, or the albefaction of our red Laton; all the rest is mere child's play, as the Artist has only to look on while Nature gradually matures his substance.
But remember that our albification is by no means an easy task. Gold which has been thus whitened can never resume its old form, for, instead of being corporeal and fixed, it is now spiritual and volatile. Concentrate your whole mind, therefore, on the whitening of the Laton. It is easier to make gold than thus to destroy its form; he who so dissolves it may be said rather to coagulate it - for dissolution of the body and coagulation of the spirit are coincident in it.
Consider these signs, ye sons of knowledge. That which dissolves is spirit; that which coagulates is body. A body cannot enter a body so as to cause dissolution; but a spirit can enter it, attenuate and rarefy it; and as you seek water, you need water to bring it to light; for every Agent has a tendency to assimilate to itself that which it acts upon, and every natural effect is conformed to the nature of the efficient; hence water is necessary if you would extract water from earth.
When I speak of water, I do not mean aquafortis, royal water, or any other corrosive whatsoever, for these waters, instead of dissolving metals, only corrode, mar, and corrupt them, without destroying their old form, to which task they are insufficient, as they are not of a metallic nature. No, our water is the water Mercury, which dissolves homogeneous metallic bodies, and mingles with them in indissoluble union, abides with them, is digested with them, and together with them becomes that spiritual whole which we seek. For everything that dissolves a substance naturally (still preserving the specific properties of the thing dissolved) becomes one with it both materially and formally, coalesces with it, and is thickened by it, thus nourishing it; as we see in the case of a grain of wheat, which, when dissolved by the humid earthy vapour, thereby takes up that vapour as its radical moisture, and grows together with it into a plant. We may also observe that, every natural dissolution being a quickening of that which was dead, this quickening can take place only through some vital agent which is of the same essence with the dead thing; if we wish to quicken the (dead) grain of wheat, we can do this only by means of an earthy vapour, which, like the grain itself, is a product of the earth. For this reason common Mercury can have no quickening effect on gold, because it is not of the same essence with it. A grain of wheat sown in marshy soil, so far from being quickened into life, is, on the contrary, destroyed, because the aqueous humour of the soil is not of the same nature. In like manner, gold, if mixed with common Mercury, or with anything except its own essential humour, is not dissolved, because such waters are too cold, crude, and impure; for which reason, being utterly unlike gold, they cannot amalgamate with it, or attain with it to a far nobler degree of development. Our Mercury, indeed, is cold and unmatured in comparison with gold; but it is pure, hot, and well-digested in respect of common Mercury, which resembles it only in whiteness and fluxibility. Our Mercury is, in fact, a pure water, clean, clear, bright, and resplendent, worthy of all admiration.
If you wish for a more particular description of our water I am impelled by motives of charity to tell you that it is living, fluxible, clear, nitid, as white as snow, hot, humid, airy, vaporous, and digestive, and that gold melts in it like ice in warm water; moreover, that in it is contained the whole regimen of fire, and the sulphur which exists but does not predominate in it. This water is the true Keeper of our Gates, the Bath of the King and of his Queen, which warms them incessantly, but is not taken of their substance, and is distinct from the whitening substance of the water, though the two are united and appear under the same flowing form and colour. It is our vessel, our fire, the abode of our furnace, by whose continuous and gentle warmth the whole substance is digested. If you know this water, it will be seen to contain all our fires, all our proportions of weight, all our regimens. It is Bernard of Trevisa's clear pellucid Fountain, in which our King is cleansed and strengthened to overcome all his foes. All you have to do is to find this water and to put into it the purified body; out of the two Nature will then produce our Stone.
This mineral water can be extracted only from those things which contain it; and that thing from which it is most easily obtained is difficult to discover, as is also the mode of its extraction. It dissolves gold without violence, is friendly to it washes away its impurities, and is white, warm, and clear Without our Mercury, Alchemy could not be a science, but only a vain and empty pretence. If you can obtain it, you have the key of the whole work, with which you can open the most secret chambers of knowledge. Its nature is the same as that of gold, but its substance is different, and the preparation of it causes a great stench. Weigh well the possibilities of Nature; refrain from introducing any heterogeneous element into our Magistery, and do not blame me if you fail to understand my words. . Our Stone is produced from one thing, and four mercurial substances, of which one is mature; the others pure, but crude, two of them being extracted in a wonderful manner from their ore by means of the third. The four are amalgamated by the intervention of a gentle fire, and there subjected to coction day by day, until they all become one by natural (not manual) conjunction.
Afterwards, the fire being changed, these volatile substances should be fixed and digested by means of heat which becomes a little more powerful every day (i.e., by means of fixed and incombustible Sulphur of the same genus) until the whole compound attains the same essence, fixity, and colour.
There are twelve degrees or phases of this our process, which I may briefly enumerate and describe as follows. The first is Calcination.
Calcination is the first purgation of the Stone, the drying up of its humours, through its natural heat, which is stirred into vital action by the external heat of water - whereby the compound is converted into a black powder, which is yet unctuous, and retains its radical humour.
This calcination is performed for the purpose of rendering the substance viscous, spongy, and more easily penetrable; for gold in itself is highly fixed, and difficult of solution even in our water; but through this calcination it becomes soft and white, and we observe in it two natures, the fixed and the volatile, which we liken to two serpents. In order that a full dissolution may be made, there is need of contrition, that calcination may afterwards produce a viscous state, when it will be fit for dissolution.
When the substances are first mixed, they are at enmity with each other, by reason of their contrary qualities, for there is the heat and dryness of the Sulphur fiercely contending with the cold and moisture of the Mercury. They can only be reconciled in a medium which partakes of both natures, and the medium in which heat and cold are reconciled is dryness which can co-exist with both. Thus cold and heat are brought to dwell peaceably together in the dryness of the earth, and dryness and moisture in the coldness of the water. This reconciliation of contrary qualities is the second great object of our calcination.
Its sufficient cause is the action of the inward heat upon the moisture, whereby everything that resists it is converted into a very fine powder; the moving and instrumental cause is the fire contrary to Nature, which, being hidden in our solvent water, battles with its moisture and digests it into a viscous or unctuous powder.
This operation takes place before our dissolution, because whenever bodies are dissolved, the spirits in their turn are congealed. Again, the woman must reign, before she is overcome by the man. The dominion of the woman is in the water, and if the man overcome her in the element in which both her qualities of coldness and moisture inhere, he will easily conquer her where she has only one quality.
Calcination, then, is the beginning of the work, and without it there can be neither peaceable commixtion nor proper union. The first dealbation reduces the substance to its two principles, sulphur and quicksilver, the first of which is fixed, while the other is volatile. They are compared to two serpents, the fixed substance to a serpent without, and the volatile substance to a serpent with, wings. One serpent holds in his mouth the tail of the other, to shew that they are indissolubly conjoined by community of birth and destiny, and that our Art is accomplished through the joint working of this Mercurial Sulphur, and sulphureous Mercury. Hence the whole compound is at this stage called Rebis, because there are two substances but only one essence. They are not really two, but one and the same thing the Sulphur is matured and well digested Mercury, the Mercury is crude and undigested Sulphur. It has already been said that in our Art we imitate Nature's method of producing metals in the bowels of the earth, except that our method is shorter and more subtle. In metallic veins only crude and frigid Mercury is found, in which the inward heat or dryness (i.e., Sulphur) can scarce make its influence felt. No digestive heat is found there, but in the course of ages an imperceptible motion changes this metallic principle. In the course of centuries, however, this imperceptible digestive heat changes the Mercury into what is then called fixed Sulphur, though before it was denominated Mercury.
But in our Art, we have something besides crude and frigid Mercury, viz., mature gold, with its manifold active qualities. These are united to the passive qualities of our Mercury; and so one aids and perfects the other, and as we have two fires, instead of the one slow inward fire of Mercury, the operation is more expeditious, and something far nobler than common gold is produced.
Thus you see that in our Art we have two Sulphurs and two Mercuries (i.e., Sulphur, and Mercury of Mercury, and Sulphur and Mercury of gold), but their only difference consists in degrees of perfection and maturity. Now, the perfect body of gold is reduced to its (two) first principles by means of our Divine water which does not wet the hands (viz., Mercury and Sulphur). This operation for a time gives the ascendancy to the female agent; but this being unnatural, the male agent soon reasserts itself, and by means of its heat dries up the moisture of the female agent, and - through calcination - converts it all into a most subtle and viscous powder, which powder is then changed by dissolution into a water, in which the spirits of the solvent and the thing dissolved, the male and the female principles, are mingled. But the inward heat, which has once been roused into action, still continues to work, separating the subtle (which floats on the surface) from the gross (which sinks to the bottom), until the man has gained the upper hand, the inseparable union takes place, and the male impregnates the female; the female brings forth a nebulous vapour, in which they are putrefied and decay, and from which both arise with a glorious body, no longer two, but only one by inseparable conjunction. This new birth is then coagulated, sublimed, nourished, and exalted to the highest degree of perfection, and may afterwards be indefinitely multiplied by fermentation, and used both for projection and as an Universal Medicine. We see, then, that these black and fetid ashes are not to be despised, since they contain the Diadem of our King; your substance will never be white, if it has not first been black. It is by means of putrefaction and decay that it attains the glorified body of its resurrection. Therefore, you should honour the tomb of our King, for unless you do so, you will never behold him coming in his glory.
A great many students make a mistake at the very outset by performing this calcination on a wrong substance - borax, or alum, or ink, or vitriol, or arsenic, or seeds, or plants, or wine, vinegar, urine, hair, blood, gum, resin, etc; or they choose a false method, and corrode instead of calcining the metallic bodies on which they operate. Calcination can take place only by means of the inward heat of the body, assisted by friendly outward warmth; but calcination by means of a heterogeneous agent can only destroy the metallic nature, in so far as it has any effect at all. Every calcination of gold, which is not succeeded by a spontaneous dissolution, without laying on of hands, is also fallacious.
The true calcination is by means of Mercury, which (being added to gold in due proportions) softens and dissolves the gold, and, by its inward heat, united to outward heat, stirs into action the native heat of the gold, and thus causes it to dry up its humidity into that fine, viscous, black powder. And this is the true key of the work - to incrudate the mature by the conjunction of an immature-being incrudated to calcine it - being calcined to dissolve it - and all this philosophically, not vulgarly.
The outward signs of the calcination are as follows:-When the gold has become saturated with water, and the fire of the Mercury has called into play the heat of the bath, the water which was so brilliant begins to grow dim, then visibly swells and bubbles, until the whole becomes a fatty and viscous powder, which, however, still retains its radical humour. For when the heat first begins to operate, the cold and the moist seek refuge by rising to the top; thence they descend in liquid form and assimilate as much of the substance as they can to themselves; thus the powder is converted into a glutinous water. For between the different processes of our Art, there exists such a concatenation that not one can be produced or understood without the rest. In order to hide our meaning from the unworthy, we speak of several operations; but all these - the whole progress of the substance from black to white and red - should be philosophically understood as one operation, one thing, one successive disposition to black, white, and red.
The following rules should be observed if you wish to bring about true calcination:- In the first place, you must procure our Mercury; common Mercury will produce no effect if you operate on it till doomsday.
Secondly, the external fire of the furnace should be neither too violent (in order that the equilibrium of chemical forces in the substance may not be disturbed), nor yet too gentle, so that the action of the inward fire may not languish for want of outward heat. It should be just such as to keep up an equable vital warmth.
In the third place, the Laton should receive neither too much nor too little to drink. If it receive too much, it will not be able to give it out, and a nebulous tempest will arise; if too little, it will be burnt to cinders. The activity of the Sulphur must dry up the superfluous humour of the Mercury; therefore, the active (sulphur) must not be swamped with too much sperm; nor must the moisture be choked with too much earth. The proportions should be between two or three parts of water to one of gold; but the larger the quantities of both substances, the more perfect will the calcination and dissolution be. The chief mistake against which you must guard is the swamping of your earth with water. For the earth contains the fire, which is the principal digestive in our Art.
In the fourth place, you should take care to seal up your vessel properly, to prevent the spirit from evaporating. Consider how carefully Nature has closed up the female womb to prevent anything from escaping or entering that might prove hurtful to the young life; and quite as much (if not more) care is required in our Magistery. For when the embryo is being formed, great winds arise, which must not be allowed to escape - or else our labour will have been all in vain.
The fifth requisite in our work is patience. You must not yield to despondency, or attempt to hasten the chemical process of dissolution. For if you do so by means of violent heat, the substance will be prematurely parched up into a red powder, and the active vital principle in it will become passive, being knocked on the head, as it were, with a hammer. But our true calcination preserves the radical humour in the body dissolved, and converts it into an unctuous black powder. Patience is, therefore, the great cardinal virtue in Alchemy. It must not be supposed that the signs and colours which I describe appear on the first day, or even within the first week: Bernard of Trevisa tells us that he waited in an anguish of expectation for forty days, and then returned and saw clouds and mists. You need the patience of the husbandman, who, after committing the seed to the earth, does not disturb the soil every day to see whether it is growing... As soon as you have prepared your substance i.e., mixed mature yellow sulphur with its crude white sulphur, put them in a vessel and let them stand undisturbed; at the end of twenty-four hours, the Mercury, which is attempting to rouse the latent fire of the sulphur, will begin to effervesce and send up bubbles. But little variation of colour shall appear until the object of the Mercury has been accomplished, and the Royal Bath prepared; at first it is the Mercury alone that is at work. When, however, the Bath has been made hot (i.e., the inward warmth of the gold roused) the greater part of our work is over, and we shall be easily able to distinguish the various operations. The first colour which appears after the silver colour of the amalgamated body, is not perfect blackness, but only a darkish white; the blackness becomes more pronounced day by day, until the substance assumes a brilliant black colour. This black is a sign that the dissolution is accomplished, which does not come about in one hour, but gradually, by a continuous process; for the Tincture which comes out of the Sun and Moon appears black to the eyes, but is insensibly and imperceptibly extracted. When the whole of the Tincture has been extracted from the body that is to be dissolved, the blackness is complete. The more you digest the substance at first, the more you subtilize the gross, and blacken the compound. There are four principal colours, the first of which is blackness; and it is of all colours the most tardy in making its appearance. But as soon as the highest degree of intense blackness has been reached (there being no idle intervals in our work), that colour begins little by little to yield to another. The time during which this blackness is developed is very long, and so is the time during which it disappears; but it is only for one moment that the blackness neither increases nor decreases: for things find rest only in that which is the end of their being, but blackness is not the end of our substance.
The advent of the blackness is like the coming of the night, which is preceded by a long twilight - when the last ray of light has faded away, the blackness of night has come; only our work is more tedious, and the change is, therefore, still less perceptible.
It may be objected that the black tincture begins to be extracted as soon as the inward heat is roused, and that, therefore, the colour which appears must be, from the very first, an intense black. My answer is that the Tincture which is extracted is, as a matter of fact, not black, but of a dazzling white; and that the blackness is produced gradually, through the action of the water on the body, out of which it draws the soul (the tincture), thus giving the body up to decomposition. It is this putrefaction (the result of the mutual action of the Sulphur and Mercury) which imparts to the Tincture its black colour; in itself the Tincture is brilliantly white. How long, then, will you have to wait till perfect blackness appears? Flamellus tells us that this intense blackness comes at the end of about forty days. Ripley advises us to let the mingled substances remain together for six weeks, until the conception has taken place, during which time the fire must be very gentle. And Bernard (of Trevisa) suggests the same thing, when he says in his parable: " The King doffs his glorious robes, and gives them to Saturn, who clothes him in a garment of black silk, which he retains for forty days." Of course, the blackness which is here spoken of is not equally intense all the time, as you will understand from what has been said above.
In the course of this change from white to black, the substance naturally passes through a variety of intermediate colours; but these colours (being more or less accidental) are not invariably the same, and depend very much on the original proportion in which the two substances are combined. In the second stage, during which the substance changes from black to white, it is already far purer, the colours are more lucid, and more to be depended upon. In the two phases there are intermediate colours; but in the first they are more dingy and obscure than in the second, and very much less numerous. In the progress of the substance from blackness to whiteness (i.e., the second phase of our Magistery), the most beautiful colours are seen in a variety such as eclipses the glory of the rainbow; before the perfection of blackness is reached, there are also some transition colours, such as black, azure, and yellow - and the meaning of these colours is that your substance is not yet completely decayed; while the body is dying, the colours are seen, until black night shrouds the whole horizon in pitchy gloom. But when the process of resurrection begins (in the second phase) the hues are more numerous and splendid, because the body is now beginning to be glorified, and has become pure and spiritual.
But in what order do the colours of which we speak appear? To this question no definite answer can be given, because in this first phase there are so much uncertainty and variation. But the colours will be the clearer and more distinct, the purer your water of life is. The four principal colours (white, black, white red), always follow in the same order; but the order of the intermediate colours cannot be so certainly determined, and you ought to be content if within the first 40 days you get the black colour. There is only one caution you should bear in mind, in regard to this point: if a reddish colour appears before the black (especially if the substance begins to look dry and powdery at the same time), you may be almost sure that you have marred your substance by too violent a fire. You should be very careful, then, about the regulation of your fire; if the fire be just hot enough, but not too hot, the inward chemical action of our water will do the rest.
Our Solution, then, is the reducing of our Stone to its first matter, the manifestation of its essential liquid, and the extraction of natures from their profundity, which is finished by bringing them into a mineral water; nor is this operation easy: those who have tried can bear out the truth of my words.
Philalethes - Fount of Chemical Truth
Our Magistery consists of three parts: the first deals with the essential and substantial composition of our Stone; the second describes their manner of combination; the third the mode of chemical procedure. Our substances are "red ore," or matured Sulphur, and water, undigested Mercury, or "white ore." To these a vessel is added, a furnace, and a triple fire. In discussing their manner of combination, we have to consider their weight and the regimen. The weight is twofold, and so is the regimen: between them they produce the following processes -- Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Putrefaction, Distillation, Coagulation, Sublimation, Fixation, and Exaltation. The first two produce the black, viscous powder, by means of the "unnatural fire," a temperate, incomburent, and altering ignition. There is then a further change into a mineral water. The three operations which follow are the result of the first and third fires, namely, natural and contra-natural, and "circulate" the substance, until the gross is separated from the subtle, and the whole is evenly tempered, the separated elements being then recombined, impregnated, and putrefied.
The five last operations are the result of natural fire which increases and gets stronger from day to day, purifying the putrefied substance of its dross, by continual ascensions and descents. This process is therefore called distillation, volatilization, ablution, imbibition, humectation of the earth, and is continued until the dryness gradually thickens the substances, and, finally, under the influence of coction or continued sublimation, induces fixation, the terminal point of which is exaltation, an exaltation which is not local, from the bottom to the surface, but qualitative, from vileness to the highest excellence.
These operations are sometimes called regimens; but there. are only two kinds of fire, the natural and the non-natural, the latter being employed to call out the activity of the former. Putrefaction precedes regeneration, and is caused by the strife of the two fires. That part of the work which is subsequent to putrefaction and conjunction, when the Sulphur and the water have become one, and also receive congelation, is effected by the natural fire alone.
The substances are our body (commonly styled Lemnian earth) and our water (our true rain water). Our water is the life of all things, and if you can by much toil obtain it, you will have both silver and gold. It is the water of Saltpetre, and outwardly resembles Mercury, while inwardly at its heart there burns purest infernal fire. Do not be deceived with common quicksilver, but gather that Mercury which the returning Sun, in the month of March, diffuses everywhere, till the month of October, when it is ripe.
Know that our Mercury is before the eyes of all men, though it is known to few. When it is prepared, its splendour is most admirable; but the sight is vouchsafed to none, save the sons of knowledge. Do not despise it, therefore, when you see it in sordid guise; for if you do, you will never accomplish our Magistery -- and if you can change its countenance, the transformation will be glorious. For our water is a most pure virgin, and is loved of many, but meets all her wooers in foul garments, in order that she may be able to distinguish the worthy from the unworthy. Our beautiful maiden abounds in inward hidden graces; unlike the immodest woman who meets her lovers in splendid garments. To those who do not despise her foul exterior, she then. appears in all her beauty, and brings them an infinite dower of riches and health. Our Queen is pure above measure, and her splendour like that of a celestial being -- and so indeed she is called by the Sages, who also style her their quintessence. Her brilliancy is such as baffles imagination, and, if you would have any idea of it, you must see it with your own eyes. Our water is serene, crystalline, pure, and beautiful- though it can assume its true form only through the aid of our Art. In that form it is our sea, our hidden fountain, from which gold derives its birth by natural descent; yet it is also stronger than gold, and overcomes it, wherefore gold is united to it, and is washed in it, and the two together grow up into a strong hero, whom neither Pope nor Emperor can buy for a price. Hence you should, above all things, seek this water, by means of which (with the solitary addition of a clean and perfect body) the Stone may be prepared.
But it requires profound study to become acquainted with all the secrets of our sea, and with its ebb and flow. It took me 18 months, after I had discovered the spring of our water, to find the method of making it well forth, because I did not know the meaning of the fiery furnace of the Sages. When I discovered it, indeed, the sight which I beheld richly rewarded me for all my pains. I was then suddenly, as by a flash of inspiration, enabled to understand all the secret words and enigmas of the Sages. Our water is the fire which causes both death, and, through death, a more glorious life. Whoever discovers it has reached the autumn of his Magistery, as Nature will then (when the pure body has been put into it) perform all the other processes, and carry the substance onward to perfection through all the different regimens. This water, though one, is not simple, but compounded of two things: the vessel and the fire of the Sages. and the bond which holds the two together. So when we speak of our vessel, and our fire, we mean by both expressions, our water; nor is our furnace anything diverse or distinct from our water. There is then one vessel, one furnace, one fire, and all these make up one water. The fire digests, the vessel whitens and penetrates, the furnace is the: bond which comprises and encloses all, and all these three are our Mercury. There are many kinds of fire (and of water) in our Magistery, but all these only represent different aspects of our Mercury.
There is only one thing in the whole world from which our Mercury can be obtained. It is like gold in essence, but different in substance, and if you change its elements you will have what you seek. Join heaven to earth in the fire of love, and you will see in the middle of the firmament the bird of Hermes. Do not confound the natures, but separate and re-combine them, and you will reign in honour all your life.
In the South-west there is a high mountain (very near the Sun), one of seven, and the second in height This mountain is of a very hot temperature (because it is not far from the Sun), and in this mountain is enclosed a vapour or spirit, whose services are indispensable for our work. But it does not ascend, unless it is quickened, nor is it quickened unless you dig knee-deep on the summit of the mountain. If you do this, a subtle exhalation (or spirit) ascends, and is congealed by the air into drops of beautifully limpid water -- which is our water, our fire, our vessel, and our furnace; not common Mercury, but the hot and moist liquid of most pure Salt, which we call Mercury, because in comparison with the Sun, it is immature and cold. If the Almighty had not created this Mercury, the transmutation of metals would be impossible, because gold does not tinge unless it be first tinged itself. Our Mercury is the beloved spouse of gold, and changes its body into a purely spiritual substance; gold loves it so, that for very love he dies, and is revived by his spouse, and she is impregnated by him, and conceives, and bears a most beautiful royal son. The whole knowledge of our Art consists in the discovery of this our sea; any Alchemist who is ignorant of it, is simply wasting his money. Our sea is derived from the mountain of which I told you above. The exhalation or white smoke which ascends there, will accomplish our whole Magistery. There is another secret which you should know if you wish to see your hope fulfilled, viz., how you are to dig a hole in the mountain, as its surface is impenetrable to ordinary tools, its dryness being such that it has become harder than a flint. But in the places of Saturn a small herb is found, called Saturnia, whose twigs appear dry, but in whose roots there is abundance of juice. This herb you should carefully take up with the roots, and carry with you to the foot of the mountain, and, with the help of fire, bury it beneath the mountain; its virtue will at once penetrate the whole mountain, and soften its earth. Then you may ascend to the summit, easily dig a hole knee deep, and pour in so much dry and viscous water, that it penetrates to where the herb lies buried, and makes it ascend as a fume, which carries upward with it the spirit of the mountain. This spirit is the strength of fire mingling with water, and dwelling in it. The spirit of Saturnia is the whitening fume, the vapour of the mountain is fire, and all these things are fire. Thus you obtain Saturnia, the royal plant and mineral herb, which together with fat flesh makes such a soup as to eclipse the richest banquets in the world. Here is an enigmatic description of our water, which should in course of time and study, become plain to the diligent enquirer. There is the King (gold), and the water which is the King's Bath; our water is the vessel, inasmuch as our King is enclosed in it, and the furnace, inasmuch as our fire is enclosed in it, and our fire, inasmuch as the virtue or spirit of the mountain dwells in it, and the woman, inasmuch as it receives the vapour of the plant Saturnia; and as the dear friend of the Sun penetrates, whitens, and softens it, and causes it to emit its sperm. Then the fiery virtue which is in the water, begins to act on our body, wasting and mortifying it, until at length the innate heat of the Sun is roused into activity. Our Stone is called a little world, because it contains within itself the active and the passive, the motor and the thing moved, the fixed and the volatile, the mature and the crude -- which, being homogeneous, help and perfect each other. We have already shewn that our object in adding matured Sulphur to crude Mercury (the same thing in different stages of development), is to shorten and accelerate the natural process. Gold is a hot and dry body, silver a frigid and humid one, Mercury the means of conveying tinctures. The body of the Sun is most highly digested, that of the Moon imperfect and immature, while Mercury is the bond by which these two contraries are united. Join the Moon to Mercury by means of proper heat, so that the two become one Mercury which retains its inward fire; then the Mercury will be freed from all dross and superfluities, and it will become transparent like the tears we shed, though not exactly perspicuous. If you then unite this purified Mercury to gold, in which is the Moon and fire, the hot and dry will love the cold and humid, and they will unite on the bed of the fire of friendship; the man will dissolve over the woman, and the woman be coagulated over the man, till the spirit and the body become one by commixtion. Continue the same operation (let the heaven descend to the earth) till the spirit puts on the body, and both are fixed together. Then our Stone will have obtained its royal virtue. For Mercury is the water of all metals, and they are digested in it. When vegetables are boiled in ordinary water, which is naturally frigid and humid, it partakes of their qualities, and is yet separable from them; so the pure Mercury, which is in all metals and minerals, is perfectly separable from the dross and foreign matter which has become mixed up with them; yet the different minerals and metals qualify the Mercury in the same way as the water is qualified by the vegetables cooked in it. There are these two differences between the Mercury and the water, that the water is not coagulated and fixed with the vegetables as our water is with the metals; and that, while the colour of common water is changed by anything boiled in it, Mercury retains its own colour and fluxibility, though its essence is qualified. Therefore the Mercury is effectual in the dissolution of the metal, and the metal in the coagulation of the Mercury; and as, in the dissolution, the form and colour of the metal is latent in the form and colour of the Mercury, so, in coagulation, the form and colour of the Mercury is hidden in the form and colour of the metal; neither do the qualities of the metal in dissolution prevent the fluxibility of the Mercury, nor the qualities of Mercury in coagulation the fixity of the metal. Do you not here observe a wonderful harmony between Mercury and the metals? For their love is like that of mother and son, sister and brother, male and female. Hence they are calculated mutually to perfect each other, the water imparting to the body a spiritual and volatile nature, while the body gives to the water a corporeal substance. The reason that the colour of Mercury is not changed in coction by the dissolved body, is this: the earth and water in the Mercury are homogeneous, and so well tempered that neither can be separated from the other, and they are so well mixed that the whole substance exhibits (together with great fluxibility) so great a consistency as entirely to conceal the colours -- and only if a part of the Mercury is destroyed or marred by some deleterious chemical corrosive, are the colours seen. The relations of Mercury in respect of earth and water are these: in respect of water it is fluxible and liquid, in respect of earth it moistens nothing but what is of the same essence with it. These hints will enable you to detect any errors in your treatment of Mercury. Some obstruct or divide its homogeneity by unduly drying up its water; others corrupt the earth and render it diaphanous by disproportionate mixing. Mercury is the sperm of the metals; it contains in itself the Sulphur by which alone it is digested (through which Nature would in course of time have matured it into gold); nor would it be possible to convert Mercury into gold without it. This mature Sulphur, then, is radically mixed with the Mercury, and rapidly digests it, while itself is putrefied by the Mercury, and is revived again, not as common, but as spiritual, penetrative, and tinging gold, which has power to purify imperfect metals of all their dross, and to change them into its own nature. Thus you see that none of the Mercury should be destroyed, or violently dealt with; all you have to do is to add to it a mature body sprung from the same root, and mix the two in their smallest parts, by means of our cunning conjunction (which is performed, not by a manual, but by a purely natural process, of which the Artist does not even understand the cause). We must distinguish, however, between our transmutative conjunction, and a sort of conjunction practised by sophists which is merely a fusing together of the two substances, and leaves each exactly what it was before. In our operation the spirit of gold infuses itself into the spirit of Mercury, and their union becomes as inseparable as that of water mixed with water. The conjunction can take place only by means of the Moon or an imperfect body and fire; and this Moon is the sap of the water of life, which is hidden in Mercury, and is stirred up by fire; it is a spirit which enters the body, and compels it to retain its soul. We speak not of common Mercury (which lacks the spirit and fire), but of our Mercurial water -- though common Mercury may be made like it by the addition of that which it lacks. Our conjunction is the grand secret of our Art for earth is not inseparably united to water, but the union of water with water is indissoluble; hence our conjunction can take place only after dissolution, which dissolution takes place through the Moon and fire that are in the Mercury. For the Moon penetrates and whitens, and the fire mortifies and frets, while water combines both these properties, according to the philosophical dictum: "The fire which I shew you, is water," and, "Unless the bodies are subtilized by fire and water, nothing can be done in our Magistery." Thus everything, from beginning to end, is accomplished, not by
Some Alchemists fail because they put (common) gold with Mercury in a phial over the fire, and thus sow good seed in barren earth. But gold is not the substance of our Stone in its whole essence, nor yet Mercury. What we want for our work of generation is the seed of gold which is profoundly hidden in our metal. This seed must be received into its own proper womb, and there mingle with the female seed, in order that, being kindly fostered with heat, and fed with its proper aliment, it may become that part of gold which is of abundant use in our work. It is not the whole of a man that generates the infant, but only his seed, which is rightly disposed in the proper womb; and so only the seed of gold (and not the whole metal) is useful for our metallic generation. Gold is the Father of our Stone, the substance of our Stone is in gold, but gold is not the substance of our Stone; yet there is that in gold (the sperm) which, by right manipulation, may become our Stone. We extract from gold, by a cunning process, that which is its most highly matured virtue, and this is called, not common, dead, but our living gold. The difference between common gold and our gold, is that which exists between a Father and his seed; common gold is dead and useless, as far as our work is concerned, until it emits its living seed. Take the body of gold, then, and gently extract from it its seed, and you will have the living male seed of our Stone, which we now no longer call gold, but ore, magnesia, lead, etc. -- because it is no longer a body, like gold, but a chaos, or spirit, which cannot revert to its corporeal form. Aristotle says: "The first thing you should do is to sublime the Mercury, then you should put a pure body into the pure Mercury." The sublimation of the Mercury which is here referred to, is not an artificial, but a true and natural one. It is the " first preparation of the thin substance," by which the eclipse caused by the interposition of Earth is removed from the Moon, enabling her to receive the light of the Sun -- which happens when the murky sphere of Saturn (that overshadowed the whole horizon) is removed, and Jupiter ascends the throne; then there rises upward a mist of dazzling whiteness, whence there is distilled upon the earth a pure, sweet, and fragrant dew, that softens it and stirs up great winds at its centre; these winds bear our Stone upward, where it is endowed with heavenly virtue, and thence descending once more to its nurse, the earth, is clothed upon with a corporeal nature, and thus receives the strength both of things above and of things below. This living gold is "that which is, but does not appear till it pleases the Artist, and in the knowledge of which is the secret of all perfection." Mercury is our field, in which the Sun rises and sets; let the two be inseparably united on the bed of love, till from this (regenerate) Mercury there comes forth a quickening virtue, which is able to raise the dead. Then there will appear the royal child, whose father is the Sun, whose mother is the Moon... Besides these things, we need, of course, a furnace of clay, a vessel of glass, and a triple fire; but we do not call these three our vessel, our fire, or our furnace, because ordinary sophists employ these things as well as the Sages; when we speak of our vessel, our furnace, and our fire, the terms are to be interpreted in accordance with the explanation which we gave above. Of this fire a Sage might well say: "Behold, the fire, which I will shew you, is water "; - and again, "The vessel of the Sages is their water." Another Sage says, that all our operations take place in our humid fire, in our secret furnace, and our hidden vessel, and thereby clearly shews that there must be a fire, vessel, and furnace, other than those which ignorant Alchemists possess in greater perfection and abundance than we. Our appliances are part of our substance, and are described by Sendivogius, for instance, as the "vessel of Nature," and the "fire of Nature." This practice is followed by Flamellus, Artephius, Lullius, and all other Sages; and I tell you that these three appliances are, after all, only one; for the nature of our substance is one. Our fire is that which dissolves and heats bodies more effectually than ordinary fire; hence it is called ardent wine and a most strong fire, and the Sages bid us burn our ore with our most strong fire -- words which are falsely interpreted of an ordinary coal fire. Of this fire John Mehungus writes: "No artificial fire can infuse so high a degree of heat as that which comes from heaven."
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== Released someday? ==
Does anybody know when this game is being released?
I really don't think that "Wide Loading" is a reference to the Simpsons. Wide load is a common sign used on trucks, and the fact tha the Simpsons used the same joke is merely coincidence...
:As long as we're talking about '''non'''-references: It's terribly inappropriate of me to do so, but I can't help quietly musing that "GOB" ''could'' be an ''[[Wikipedia:Arrested Development#Characters|Arrested Development]]'' reference... —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, but "Wide Load" is a joke (a cruel one perhaps) that targets overweight people. It says WIDE LOADING because Kid Speedy is overweight, hence the joke applies to him. It is not a reference to the Simpsons, IMO... just because they both use the same type of joke. It is just a reference to that type of joke. Does that make sense? --{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 23:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Abdi: The Gob referece seems very reasonable to me, and so I linked it. And now for some ''really'' wild speculation: I wonder whether "Jill" refers to [[Very, Very Little Girl]]. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:23, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
==Extra Fast==
:Those are the runners that are tothe left of the screen when playing the flash file. They don't always appear on Demon Rub, they appear on the eighth track after you complete the other seven. They could appear on the first track if you finish all the other seven "not last". {{User:Steve/sig}} 16:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I think they cheat. I think that podium at the end is for the first, second, and third-place losers.
== No like his style ==
:::It's most likely impossible to get first, but I got second two or three times, but it really is mostly luck. {{User:VolatileChemical/sig}} 04:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
This might go without saying and all, but it's not difficult to come in first with Homestar. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 04:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Yeah. Those three runners cheated.
== The Cheat Mode ==
*I find it hilarious that when I play Homestar mode, usually it's the King of Town that is pulling ahead. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 04:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
**It's because the character in the top position (always the KoT when you're Homestar) always tries to roughly match your speed. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
:::I find it hilarious that I can pass a three of them (Kid Speedy, Strong Sad, and KOT) Easily. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 07:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
== Anoter Glitche ==
:::However, we'll gladly shelter your friend's masterpiece over at [[HRFWiki:Main Page|the Fanstuff Wiki]]. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 21:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
== Spooky Forest ==
== Spooky Woods ==
Is it just me, or does the special Strong Sad-only track look like the [[Spooky Forest]]? --[[User:Color Printer|Color]] [[User talk:Color Printer|Printer]] 20:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or does the special Strong Sad-only track look like the [[Spooky Woods]]? --[[User:Color Printer|Color]] [[User talk:Color Printer|Printer]] 20:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
== CRZY ==
::I think FMV is Full Motion Video, though. {{User:Stongbah/sig}} 21:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
:::FMV can stand for [[Wikipedia:FMV|other]] [http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?acronym=FMV things] [http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=FMV too]... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 22:30, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I just removed the Gumby link for "GUMB". That strikes me as a stretch, considering it could also mean a few other things. -{{User:YK/sig}} 01:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
== 12 Stones ==
:You can always STUFF it. I recommend you do so with links to samples of the original source material so people can compare and draw their own conclusions. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 00:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
::I'll try to get a good sample up. {{User:Darth Katana X/sig}}
== How do you access this? ==
On the Homestar runner website itself?
[[User:Nikolce Kocovski|Nikolce Kocovski]] 04:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
:There's an easter egg in the [[Scrolling Shooter Games Menu|games menu]] - click on the Videlectrix logo at the bottom to go to the [[Videlectrix]] website. Then hit "Game Demos" and there it is. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 04:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
== Flash File for the old version ==
Would anyone like me to host the Flash file of the old version of Kid Speedy on another site, and link to it here as the flash file for the old version? [[User:Homsar999|Homsar999]] 01:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
== You've unlocked... HomeSad Mode! ==
If you use a flash bookmarklet and scroll to the end, it says that you've unlocked strong sad mode, but it shows homestar running. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 07:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
==This game is on homestarrunner.com==
when this game was new it was added to the website only findable by the updates thing later updated when the update was new and heres the link http://www.homestarrunner.com/kidspeedy.html {{User:Mr_nutt/sig}}
== cheatCode ==
From a quick look at the decompiled [[Viidelectrix]] version, it looks like a cheat code seems to have been added. I have no idea how to activate it, but it mentions keypresses "k", "h" and "s" in the ActionScript for button 146.. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 08:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
:I saw that before, but I couldn't figure out what the keys were (the decompiler I used couldn't tell for some reason)... It seems it's "press k 10 times at the main screen to play as KoT", ditto for the others. It's been there since 1.NEW. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 08:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Also fun, if you do all of the unlocks (10 k's, 10 s's, and 10 h's) you can play as Homestar Runner, and in multiplayer mode, race King of Town and Strong Sad. Plus the last track is replaced with a specially themed Homestar Runner Track
==OMG==
I created Foop the name long befor ethis game was created. and it turns out ist is an online name in this game! how cool! {{Foop/sig}}Foop 02:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
:Foop is also the name of Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda's evil talking anti-fairy baby in Fairly OddParents. Did you know that? [[User:Deletehead No. 123193|Deletehead No. 123193]] 21:52, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
== Sound Effects ==
The sound effects were made by Paul Slocum, the Programmer of the Homestar Runner RPG. [[User:Sneakernets|Sneakernets]] 23:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
== Cheat to beat the game. ==
Shouldn't anyone put in this cheat in the glitches section? To cheat, just pick a race and when you are playing, right click and click on the play tab and it skips the race and shows the cutscene in every race. You can do this over and over again until you beat the Homestar Runner parts which is the ending to the game.
:This is mentioned in the Remarks section. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 00:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
== Size Switch ==
I noticed in the Strong Sad ending, he is shorter than Strong Bad, usually in the cartoons it's the other way around.[[Special:Contributions/69.179.130.247|69.179.130.247]] 12:16, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
== NEB1 ==
Regarding [http://hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Kid_Speedy&curid=5096&diff=732559&oldid=732281&rcid=695071 this edit]. Interesting results on this one. First of all, [[:Image:Neb5.png|it is entirely possible to get NEB results with numbers other than 1]] '''''BUT''''' (a butt!) if you use the Greasemonkey script to jump ahead to the screen where the players are defined instead of going there normally, ''all'' online players are listed as "NEB1". So, long story short: NEB is a three-letter-plus-digit name and should not get a 1 appended in the possible name list and dropped to the four-character portion, but should we note that "NEB1" is the default in some way? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 07:17, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
:I'm sorry I was wrong... this [[:image:Star_T-Shirt_Close.PNG|star]] is for you... and yes... note that it is the default... ~not going to sign... too wrong... {{unsigned|Fangoriously|20:02, 31 August 2012 (UTC)}}
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1 Released someday?
2 Have you noticed
3 Online?
4 Regarding the Simpsons Fun Fact
5 Extra Fast
6 No like his style
7 Cheat
8 Front Picture
9 Is It Possible...
10 The Cheat Mode
11 Mom Speedy
12 Mom's hair
13 Hybrid Cars
14 Strong Sad loses speed?
15 Seriously!!!
16 GOBI
17 Meet the King of Town. He is a terrific athlete.
18 Anoter Glitche
19 Kid Speedy Ending Viewer
20 Spooky Woods
21 CRZY
22 12 Stones
23 How do you access this?
24 Flash File for the old version
25 You've unlocked... HomeSad Mode!
26 This game is on homestarrunner.com
27 cheatCode
28 OMG
29 Sound Effects
30 Cheat to beat the game.
31 Size Switch
32 NEB1
[edit] Released someday?
Probably NEVER. -Kinsey
yeah, just like those 30 billion other videlectrix games that are never gonna come out. It really bugs me how they have those previews but never have the game itself. --— talk Bubsty edits 23:25, 28 Sep 2005 (UTC)
I hate to reply to such an old thread, but somebody's gonna pretty soon. So just for posterity... It was just released. Go figure.
We have had a lot of couple people tell us that they firmly believe 'Kid Speedy' will never come out. We Videlectrix types would like to take this opportunity to spit on those people. After eating a bunch of Skittles.
They're talking to you two, Bubsty and Kinsey. ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 13:11, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
That is quite hilarious and has made my night. I love you all. —BazookaJoe 02:53, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Have you noticed
If you qualify in all tracks in the single player mode you unlock the "strong sad mode". I'ts probably the same for the multiplayer mode, but I havn't tried that till now. And what magic we might unleash if we even complete both single- and multiplayer mode with strong sad? Who noes.. Cisz 89.53.24.3 13:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I finished Strong Sad mode single player, and got the Kid Speedy ending again - it just didn't tell me that I'd unlocked Strong Sad mode, since I already had it. That wasn't worth it. -- Mithent 18:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
For the fun facts, I don't think that the phrase "wide load" being used to describe someone fat is at all attributed to an episode of the Simpsons, it's been around for a very long time. If anything, it comes from the warning sign put on the backs of very wide vehicles.
[edit] Online?
I don't get why when i play online play that everybody else are the fast people. And also, how can it find people THAT quickly?
Um 75.18.172.239, I don't think it's actually online.Geshmalder 15:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Yep. After a thoraugh [sic] check over the actionscript, I found nothing that suggests sending and recieving data from online-related servers. Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?! 15:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Its not online. Didnt you wonder why the other people had names, but you never got to type one in? I'm hoping that that comment was sarcastic.... - DumbMuscle (too lazy/depressed to sign on)
Rest assured. My comment was indeed sarcastic.
It reminds me of how the microsoft hearts game says that you're playing on a "network," when really it's just the computer playing. I've seen the "play online" thing elsewhere, but I can't remember where. I thought it was funny.
Microsoft Hearts CAN be played with other people over a network, I used to play it back on the Windows 3.11 network in my elementary school computer lab. --68.10.142.29 22:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding the Simpsons Fun Fact
As long as we're talking about non-references: It's terribly inappropriate of me to do so, but I can't help quietly musing that "GOB" could be an Arrested Development reference... —AbdiViklas 04:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, but "Wide Load" is a joke (a cruel one perhaps) that targets overweight people. It says WIDE LOADING because Kid Speedy is overweight, hence the joke applies to him. It is not a reference to the Simpsons, IMO... just because they both use the same type of joke. It is just a reference to that type of joke. Does that make sense? -- »Bleed0range« 23:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Abdi: The Gob referece seems very reasonable to me, and so I linked it. And now for some really wild speculation: I wonder whether "Jill" refers to Very, Very Little Girl. — It's dot com 02:23, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Extra Fast
Has anybody ever played, and seen these three extremely fast kids, who speed across the race in about three seconds? They're not the three you usually race, they are there too, but this was weird. It was on Demon Rub after I'd beaten the other seven. SaltyTalk! 15:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Those are the runners that are tothe left of the screen when playing the flash file. They don't always appear on Demon Rub, they appear on the eighth track after you complete the other seven. They could appear on the first track if you finish all the other seven "not last". Steve Talk Contributions 16:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No like his style
Can "NEB" in one of the online mode names be a reference to Neb-1? — Elcool (talk)(contribs) 17:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Using a seekbar, it seems that the base name is indeed "NEB1". - Joshua 17:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cheat
Did you know if you go to the flash file.You can skip levels by pressing play.You can unlock strong sad that way faster.
It's not a cheat, it's a Flash artifact. — Elcool (talk)(contribs) 18:32, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Front Picture
The picture we have now isn't from the actual game itself, it's from the Videlectrix catalog. We'll need a new one.--DumDe 18:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is It Possible...
...to actually place higher than 3rd? -GG Crono 21:15, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I once got 2nd, but I guess it's pure luck, as the other runners' speed is somewhat random. — Elcool (talk)(contribs) 21:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Keeping the green bar at full all the time isn't necessarily the easiest way to gain on the other runners. When you're ahead of the slowest runner, he runs faster. Once you're behind him, his speed slows down to yours after he pulls ahead to a comfortable distance. I don't believe that technique could be used to come in first, though.
It's most likely impossible to get first, but I got second two or three times, but it really is mostly luck. Vol Chem, 1st Tile of Ical 04:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
This might go without saying and all, but it's not difficult to come in first with Homestar. Danny Lilithborne 04:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC) Yeah. Those three runners cheated.
[edit] The Cheat Mode
Has anyone else got The Cheat Mode? --Dinoshaur 13:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I've heard of Strong Sad Mode. How in the world did you unlock The Cheat Mode? --Color Printer 16:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The Cheat mode?!!? Choco 01:44, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Decompiling the Flash file shows no The Cheat sprites. --DorianGray
That's like asking, "Hey, have you gotten Toad in SSBM?" ¤ The Mü Talk to me. 15:49, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I've beat Kid Speedy and Strong Sad in both modes and it does not give me anything. If you would care to say how you did it (as I know you don't lie much). Stongbah 21:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Doriangray, I don't care what bullhonkey you guys use here at the knowledge base, but don't remove my comments. Inside a part of the wall in the loop in the original version and it showed Teh C sprites. I can't find it again or find any use of them in the new version. I saw a single Teh C sprite. Forgot I said anything. --Dinoshaur 19:23, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
(original comment by Dinoshaur, moved from Mom's hair) I decompiled the flash and saw The Cheat sprites in a certain movie clip of the wall in the loop, and I was meaning to say if anyone had got The Cheat mode, I haven't, maybe it's just that it was something removed, sorry for the confusion. --Dinoshaur 11:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)~
Wait... Did you decompile it, or see it in the game? ¤ The Mü Talk to me. 22:41, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Dinoshaur: Your original comment was accidentally posted further down, in Mom's hair. Nobody removed it, but I moved it back to this section for you. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mom Speedy
Does anybody have a picture of Mom Speedy? 큰 뚱뚱한 분실자 14:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I won the game, then used it in a Stinkoman Sprite Comic that I did. If you're interested in one, you can check that one out. ¤ The Mü Talk to me. 15:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and there are no Mom Speedy sprites in the game. ¤ The Mü Talk to me. 14:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mom's hair
Is it just me, or does Mom Speedy's hair change every time you beat it? I could've sworn it was brown before.... SaltyTalk! 00:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I thought so too. Maybe it was a 1.new fix. Bub 00:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hybrid Cars
I think this new version now makes the third (?) mention of hybrid cars on the website. Does that qualify it as a running gag? Especially since it seems to be associated with Marzipan? First two mentions are: Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2 ("Your subscription to Soy... Bread... Tofu... Hybrid... Cars... Magazine") and secret identity (Scarfgirl Magazine). — KieferSkunk (talk) — 15:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Strong Sad loses speed?
I never noticed this in the last version of the game, but playing today, it looks like Strong Sad loses speed faster than Kid Speedy. Anyone else notice this? --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 16:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Seriously!!!
They need to make this game be able to save cookies like Stinkoman 20X6!!! Bassium! m OCE
I agree. And, with that being the case, you should be able to choose which character to play (otherwise, you'd only be able to play Homestar after unlocking him.) Ah, well. This is kinda forumish. --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 00:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GOBI
Is "GOBI" more likely a reference to the Gobi Desert, or the camel named Gobi in the video game Banjo-Kazooie? — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 04:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd go with the desert, considering the camel was probably named for it. --DorianGray
[edit] Meet the King of Town. He is a terrific athlete.
I find it hilarious that when I play Homestar mode, usually it's the King of Town that is pulling ahead. Danny Lilithborne 04:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
It's because the character in the top position (always the KoT when you're Homestar) always tries to roughly match your speed. --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 04:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I find it hilarious that I can pass a three of them (Kid Speedy, Strong Sad, and KOT) Easily. -- Super Martyo boing! 07:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anoter Glitche
If you play it on the flash kind once I started the 8th level race as my first first race, there were two guys running frantically on the left behind the black line. Bassium! m OCE
They're the 3 racers that zoom ahead of you when you're on the final race (not final as in the 8th one in the list, final as in you've qualified in the other 7)... they just sit off to the left when they're not being used. Outside the frame == not a glitch. --phlip TC 04:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kid Speedy Ending Viewer
A friend of mine made a flash file contatining all 4 Kid Speedy endings. Click Here Should I put it in external links? - X On Fire (SSX) 17:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I think we have a policy (or at least a practise) not to put fan creations in the external links (like the cheat version of Stinkoman 20X6). Sorry. --DorianGray
Besides, you can just use a seek bar to do the same thing. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
However, we'll gladly shelter your friend's masterpiece over at the Fanstuff Wiki. ¤ The Mü Talk to me. 21:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spooky Woods
Is it just me, or does the special Strong Sad-only track look like the Spooky Woods? --Color Printer 20:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CRZY
Aren't some of these links/explanations in the CPU names getting a bit out of hand? I understand ones like NEB, DAN, LEM and 8BAL, but Miss Piggy? Toad? Full Motion Video? Uh... yeah. I think we're reaching here. - Joshua 01:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. I've pruned. - Qermaq - (T/C) 01:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I think FMV is Full Motion Video, though. Stongbah Preeow! 21:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
FMV can stand for other things too... --phlip TC 22:30, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I just removed the Gumby link for "GUMB". That strikes me as a stretch, considering it could also mean a few other things. -YK 01:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 12 Stones
One of the background music tracks sounds exactly like the beginning of a 12 Stones song, either "Shadows" or "3 Leaf Loser," I don't remember. Can someone help me figure this out? If you heard it you'd understand, there is absolutely no mistaking it. And 12 Stones is a really popular band (they're that rock band that appeared in that hit by Evanescence, remember?). Can't I just put up that it might have been inspired by that song when I figure out which song it was? — Darth Katana X ( )
You can always STUFF it. I recommend you do so with links to samples of the original source material so people can compare and draw their own conclusions. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 00:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I'll try to get a good sample up. — Darth Katana X ( )
[edit] How do you access this?
Nikolce Kocovski 04:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
There's an easter egg in the games menu - click on the Videlectrix logo at the bottom to go to the Videlectrix website. Then hit "Game Demos" and there it is. --phlip TC 04:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Flash File for the old version
Would anyone like me to host the Flash file of the old version of Kid Speedy on another site, and link to it here as the flash file for the old version? Homsar999 01:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] You've unlocked... HomeSad Mode!
If you use a flash bookmarklet and scroll to the end, it says that you've unlocked strong sad mode, but it shows homestar running. -- Super Martyo boing! 07:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This game is on homestarrunner.com
when this game was new it was added to the website only findable by the updates thing later updated when the update was new and heres the link http://www.homestarrunner.com/kidspeedy.html Mr nutt (talk)
[edit] cheatCode
From a quick look at the decompiled Viidelectrix version, it looks like a cheat code seems to have been added. I have no idea how to activate it, but it mentions keypresses "k", "h" and "s" in the ActionScript for button 146.. -- ENUSY 08:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I saw that before, but I couldn't figure out what the keys were (the decompiler I used couldn't tell for some reason)... It seems it's "press k 10 times at the main screen to play as KoT", ditto for the others. It's been there since 1.NEW. --phlip TC 08:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] OMG
I created Foop the name long befor ethis game was created. and it turns out ist is an online name in this game! how cool! Template:Foop/sigFoop 02:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Foop is also the name of Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda's evil talking anti-fairy baby in Fairly OddParents. Did you know that? Deletehead No. 123193 21:52, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Sound Effects
The sound effects were made by Paul Slocum, the Programmer of the Homestar Runner RPG. Sneakernets 23:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cheat to beat the game.
This is mentioned in the Remarks section. --DorianGray 00:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Size Switch
I noticed in the Strong Sad ending, he is shorter than Strong Bad, usually in the cartoons it's the other way around.69.179.130.247 12:16, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] NEB1
Regarding this edit. Interesting results on this one. First of all, it is entirely possible to get NEB results with numbers other than 1 BUT (a butt!) if you use the Greasemonkey script to jump ahead to the screen where the players are defined instead of going there normally, all online players are listed as "NEB1". So, long story short: NEB is a three-letter-plus-digit name and should not get a 1 appended in the possible name list and dropped to the four-character portion, but should we note that "NEB1" is the default in some way? --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 07:17, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry I was wrong... this star is for you... and yes... note that it is the default... ~not going to sign... too wrong... — Fangoriously (Talk | contribs) 20:02, 31 August 2012 (UTC) (left unsigned)
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Each morning Mother locked my thermos and only Miss Ranney could loosen it, leaning over me in her ivory crepe blouse until the cap sighed once, then was free. The rest of the orbit swirls out from there: King murdered the week of my senior prom, then Bobby in a hotel just miles from my school while I marched to Pomp and Circumstance, not knowing that within a year on a July night in the back seat of a Volkswagen, I would pledge what was left of my heart to a boy leaving for Vietnam while above us the tired moon finally gave in to a tiny man in gravity boots, planting an American flag. Shea€™s probably doodling on the desk, her long, dark lashes cast down as she tries to escape the demands of the classroom and enter into the world of her drawing. She is no longer a manipulative ten year old who pouts when she wants permission to draw hearts on the chalkboard or be excused to the lavatory for the third time in an hour. Ia€™m trying to ignore her insubordinationa€”she should be writing a paragraph like the rest of the six students in my after school reading classa€”but clearly another one of my tactics has failed. In a moment, Alejandra has become a young woman learning how to manage the intimate details of our gender.
I turn around, ready to demand she sit back in her seat, prepared to be heard and heeded this time, but she is looking at me, wide eyed.
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Bonus Episode: GUTS 0
Continuing our bonus episode tradition of covering awesome 90s gameshows, today we bring you Global Guts! So like everyone remembers the original Guts right? 3 US kids battled it out in these wacky events, culminating in an epic showdown on the nefarious Agrocrag??! But THEN they got the bright idea to take this shit international, and kids from all over the world came to compete for a piece of the 'Crag. So basically, like Kids Olympics! Hosted by Mike O'Malley (coincidentally also the name of one of our Dad's friends growing up!) and with overly polished ref Mo, Global Guts taught us that cargo nets, bungees, and lots of dry ice will take you far in life, but the only way to master the 'Crag is if you don't forget to push all the light sensors! We'll chat about what our cool nickname would be on the show, do some Mo impressions, and how cool it must have to get a piece of the 'Crag! Do do do do do you have it? GUTS!
Episode 114: Dumb and Dumber 0
In 1994, The Farrelly Brothers struck comedy gold and started their trend of wacky, gross out films with Dumb and Dumber, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as bffs Harry and Lloyd who have no food, no jobs, and their pets heads are falling off. We saw this movie in the theater as little kids, and man did we love it. It's gross for sure - the plethora of pee, poop and fart jokes are limitless, but there's also really clever comedy here that was not lost on our young, impressionable minds. We'll talk about our 10 or so most quotable lines, talk again about our love for Jim Carrey during his hey day of films in the mid 90s, and Sweetie dares to use the term "nuance" when describing a scene where someone drinks Turbo Lax and poops their brains out in their date's bathroom with a broken toilet.
Episode 113: Hook 0
1991's Hook is a movie that we, while not that fond of, completely respect as a solid 90s movie! What's not to love? Spielberg directed, starring the one, the only Robin Williams, and it's a modern spin of Peter Pan, a childhood classic?! However, this movie is just a touch boring and just doesn't capture the fantasy aspect of Never Neverland for us. We'll deep dive into basically all we know about Steven Spielberg movies and his daddy issues, play a rousing name calling game, choose our favorite Lost Boy, and go through the several rando cameos in this movie, one that will probably totally blow your mind so you should really listen to this episode slash tell all your friends, mom, and grandma to listen as well.
Episode 112: The Breakfast Club 0
Well it only took us 112 episodes, but we did it! We covered The Breakfast Club! Watching TBC seemed to be a right of passage as a teen - wow, look how cool I am. I am watching The Breakfast Club and I GET it! But did we? TBC is probably the most infamous high school film, following the lives of 5 high schoolers from different walks of "life" as they spend a day at Saturday detention. They come in as mostly strangers and leave as pseudo friends. This movie is about how tough finding your place in high school is .... but really it's about bad parents and impressing people with cleavage lipstick, right? Come along as we talk about our somewhat dislike for Molly Ringwald and while enjoyable, why John Hughes movies don't totally resonate with us. We'll also confess how we never had detention but had some brief periods of rebellion in elementary school and talk about the importance of a good brown bag lunch and why our Dad made the best ones!
Episode 111: Cocktail 0
It's Tom Cruise week in Sweetie Land, and we decided to drink a couple of cocktails AND watch the 1988 HIT (slash in the running for best worst movie ever) Cocktail! Cocktail tells the story of young, cocky Brian Flannigan, who is fresh out of the army with lots of ideas yet little real life experience. So he moves to New York City and starts bartending, meets a toxic friend, knocks up a girl under a sex waterfall in Jamaica, and comes to the realization that life sucks but if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything! Sweety had never seen this movie before (gasp) but Sweetie thought it was cool AF when she was eight, so we had a good time making fun of its bad writing and 80s cliches. We'll chat all about Sweetie's crush on Tom Cruise, how odd it feels to look back on the 80s yuppie culture, and Sweety tells a fun story about how she almost became a bartender but got too scared people would puke all over her.
Interested in joining our Sweetie Bookclub? We'll be reading a book a month (or possibly whenever we feel like it) tied into some of the movies we have covered or will cover! Chat with us on Twitter or Instagram for more details!
Theme song performed by Deidre Cullen. Logo by Frankie Donlon.
Episode 110: The Shawshank Redemption 0
The Oscars are this Sunday and in honor of that overrated gold statuette, we're rolling out a Sweety favorite that also happened to be nominated for a billion Oscars back in 1995 .... The Shawshank Redemption! Dammit, this movie is so good it's almost painful! Originally a Stephen King novella, The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of an innocent man and the lengths he'll go to achieve freedom but ultimately it's a story about how everyone needs a BFF like Morgan Freeman because the guy is the SHIT! Join us as we chat about how maybe prison wouldn't be so bad if you got to read all the time, what prison jobs we would choose, how Sweety picked a quote from this movie for her high school year book quote and all about the wonderful world of Stephen King stories and books and if in fact movies CAN be better than the book?!!
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Vaxxas Initiates Research Project on Advancing Next Generation Technology for Polio Vaccine Delivery
Instinctif Partners > News > Client News > Vaxxas Initiates Research Project on Advancing Next Generation Technology for Polio Vaccine Delivery
WHO to provide funding of project, as part of its efforts to secure lasting polio-free world
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and Cambridge, MA, USA – September 16, 2014 – Vaxxas, a biotechnology company commercializing a novel vaccine delivery platform, today announced the initiation of a research project to evaluate Vaxxas' proprietary Nanopatch™ platform for delivery of polio vaccine. The Nanopatch induces robust immune system activation by targeting vaccine to the abundant immunological cells immediately below the surface of the skin.
The World Health Organization (WHO) will provide funding to Vaxxas to support its polio vaccination research, specifically for pre-clinical studies and good manufacturing practices (GMP). Following the successful completion of this research, and all subsequent necessary clinical development and regulatory approvals, Vaxxas would have the opportunity to supply Nanopatches to help secure a lasting polio-free world.
Polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th century, resulting in limb disfigurement and irreversible paralysis in tens of millions of cases. As recently as 1988, more than 350,000 cases occurred every year in more than 125 endemic countries. Concerted efforts to eradicate the disease have reduced incidence by more than 99%, and efforts are being intensified to eradicate the remaining strains of transmission once and for all.
"The Nanopatch doesn’t need to be kept refrigerated to maintain its efficacy – a tremendously important factor for the transportation and application of polio vaccine in the remote regions of the world where eradication efforts are most challenging," said David L. Hoey, CEO of Vaxxas. "The research we are undertaking with WHO’s support aims to provide better vaccine solutions to reach all children anywhere with this life-saving health intervention."
Vaxxas was founded in August 2011 with the completion of a $15M Series A equity financing. In late 2012 the company opened a commercialization office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to expand access to global pharmaceutical partners and complement the Company’s research and development operations based in Queensland, Australia. In order to capitalize on the numerous opportunities to commercialize its proprietary Nanopatch platform, Vaxxas is pursuing strategic plans to both license its technology to global pharmaceutical companies as well as advance vaccine candidates on its own. Vaxxas has a collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc. to evaluate, develop and commercialize Vaxxas’ Nanopatch vaccine delivery platform for undisclosed vaccine candidates developed by Merck.
About Vaxxas
Vaxxas is a privately-held biotechnology company focused on enhancing the performance of existing and next-generation vaccines with its proprietary Nanopatch™ technology platform. Vaxxas’ Nanopatch contains an ultra-high density array of projections – invisible to the naked human eye – that are dry-coated with vaccine. Application of the Nanopatch to the skin is pain free and rapidly delivers the vaccine to the abundant immune cell population immediately below the skin surface. In a wide range of preclinical studies Nanopatch delivery of vaccine achieves equivalent protective immunity as the needle and syringe – but with only 1/100th of the dose. It has also been shown that Vaxxas’ proprietary dry-coating technology can eliminate the need for vaccine refrigeration during storage and transportation – removing the resource burden of maintaining the “cold chain.” Leveraging both the potent immunogenic response and thermostability, Vaxxas is applying its technology to improve the performance of vaccines, with initial applications targeting infectious disease and oncology. The company has its first announced pharmaceutical company collaboration with Merck.
Issued for and on behalf of Vaxxas by Instinctif Partners.
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Toyota pickup hilux 2018
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2018 Toyota Hilux: Changes, Drivetrain, Price, Release
In Japan, it was available at the Toyota Japan dealership retail chains called and Toyopet Store. At the rear end, its taillights will be positioned beside the tailgate with rear bumper seems slightly outwards. This transfer case is unique in that its low-range reduction portion can be replicated, using what some refer to as a dual or triple transfer case. The modifications include a performance suspension system by Arctic Trucks and Bilstein. Its Entune infotainment system is easy to use, and this is the only truck that offers a built-in GoPro camera mount for recording your off-road escapades. We expect that the top unit will continue as before.
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We supply not only Right hand Drive Toyota Hilux and Left hand Drive Toyota Hilux but also Toyota Tacoma. Tacoma Cargo Space The Tacoma comes with either a 5- or 6-foot bed, depending on which cab and trim you choose. Archived from on 30 December 2015. But every morning that Hilux started and every single component on it was unaffected. This update was initially launched in Thailand.
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Also, despite its user-friendly infotainment system, the Tacoma has a low-rent interior compared to its rivals. The most vital one is switching camera. Otherwise, there are probably options that will better suit your needs. Each trim offers few — if any — noteworthy option packages. Which Toyota Tacoma Model Is Right for Me? Meanwhile, rear passengers have expanded knee room and rear center armrest. This minor update upgraded the emission standard to Euro 4, updated the four-speed automatic transmission to five-speed, upgraded performance of the 3.
In North America, the new version also meant the introduction of the considerably larger 2. Solid front axles had been present in all 4x4 Toyota models until 1986. Apart from this, 6 advanced airbags on the interior cabin will come as standard. This package will include enhancements that cater off-road performance including a rigid chassis, efficient radiator, high tensile steel will be used for both front and rear axles. It is expected that it has kept all these new trucks in mind when creating the 2015 Next Generation Hilux. I think even Toyota itself was a bit amazed with the durability of its no-nonsense workhorse because the still-functioning wreck spent some time in the reception area of its world headquarters in Japan. The special wheel and tyre combination gives Hilux even greater off-road capability, with more ground clearance the vehicle is raised by 40mm at the front and 20mm at the rear , added articulation and increased approach and departure angles.
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Toyota Hilux 2018 Philippines: Interior 2. It's one of the best off-roaders in the class, and it's comfortable and capable on pavement. Do not exceed any Weight Ratings and follow all instructions in your Owner's Manual. . The Rocco has a grey rear bumper bar, 18-inch alloy wheels with all-terrain tyres, a black sports bar with bed liner, Rocco insignia, gloss black grille, black metallic trim on the interior along with a redesigned instrument cluster. The Tacoma seats four in Access Cab models and five in Double Cab models.
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The Hilux suffered severe structural damage, but was still running after being repaired with only the typical tools that would be found in a truck's toolbox. Retrieved 21 May 2017 — via YouTube. These traits help distinguish it as one of our class leaders. Get all the details on Toyota truck payloads and available Sport packages with bold looks and impressive utility. Alternative rates will apply to payments made in arrears. The 2018 Toyota Tacoma is part of a generation that began with the 2016 model year.
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This Toyota makes a decent daily driver as well, but there are better choices. You can also find excellent manufacturer incentives on our. The design makeover contains a Tacoma-like grille flanked by revised head- and fog lamps, sleeker air intakes and refined taillights. Toyota Hilux 2018 Specs in the Philippines Toyota Hilux 2018 Specs in the Philippines Overall Name Toyota Hilux 2. A couple of years later, when it was decided that James May and I should see if we could drive to the North Pole without killing one another, there was only one car we felt would be up to the job — the latest, newest Hilux. In its interior cabin, one can see polished materials all around. Order books for the new Toyota Hilux Invincible 50 will open on 1 November with customer deliveries through December into the New Year.
We are world's pick-up truck specialists and have 4x2 and 4x4 pick-up trucks and Sport Utility Vehicles for sale on sale in every major Hilux exporting country of the world. Instead, we combine the findings of professional test drivers with data such as reliability ratings and safety scores to give you a complete overview of every vehicle we rank. Maximum Loanable Amount is based on the following: - For Brand New Cars, amount assumes 80% of your vehicle purchase price. The worst thing about electronics is that the faults are almost always intermittent. It was discharged in May a year ago and this was the principal individual from the eighth era. More incredibly, it was stuck because of a mechanical fault.
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Therefore, the upgrade may be worthwhile if you want satellite radio or smartphone navigation integrated into the infotainment screen. Toyota Hilux cabin has always been about comfort and more luxury features will make it an even more luxurious ride. Finally, the Hilux guzzles 13. The lower anchors are set a little deep in the seat, but they are generally problem-free otherwise. It offers Eclipse Black or Glacier White colors which looks very nice and attractive on it.
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There were at least 1,500 Trekkers, 400 Trailblazers and an unknown number of Wolverines sold in North America. A double-hoop sports bar is fitted over the vehicle bed, providing a raised platform for a battery of four high-power X lights. Toyota claims that changes like this and wider availability of an automatic transmission are actually from the customer feedback. Despite having the highest starting price in the class, the provides plenty of value compared to its rivals. If you place a heavy emphasis on your truck being able to go anywhere off-road, then the Tacoma belongs at the top of your list.
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