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Reid/Kyl Federal Online Poker Bill: Players’ FAQ
Following the leak of Harry Reid and Jon Kyl’s proposed UIGEA strengthening act, with specific carve-out for internet poker, we answer players’ common questions.
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Curious about what’s inside the summary of the Reid/Kyl online poker bill that was recently leaked to the public, and what it means for players?
Although the actual act is still kept closely under wraps, pokerfuse has sifted through the summary to answer the questions players have been asking.
Will the “bad actor” clause affect PokerStars and Full Tilt? I thought the DOJ specifically said PokerStars could apply for a license when federal law changes?
PokerStars and Full Tilt would almost surely be affected by the five-year lockout called for by Reid/Kyl. The statements by the Department of Justice regarding PokerStars’ eligibility to apply for a license do not preclude a Stars application from being immediately rejected once submitted. Remember, the DOJ does not create United States law; its job instead is to the laws that the US Congress enacts.
What about Reid/Kyl’s 15-month blackout period?
Though technically it is a “waiting period,” this ensures that even under the most optimistic predictions, no federally authorized online poker will be available before 2014 at the earliest.
The summary explicitly states, “Existing gaming that is authorized, licensed and regulated by states or tribes as of May 1, 2012 is preserved.” Though it is possible that date may have been borrowed in whole from the Barton bill and not updated with a 2013 or 2014 date when used in the Reid/Kyl draft, if accurate, it may be an attempt to force other states, such as Delaware, to fall into a national framework rather than to independently seek a compact with Nevada companies for online-poker services. Delaware recently authorized online poker for its residents but did so after the May 1st, 2012 cutoff date.
Would the status quo continue during the 15-month blackout period? Can I continue to play on Revolution and Merge during this time?
Revolution, Merge and similar networks are considered unregulated offshore sites. Players have and always will participate on unregulated sites at their own risk. Following the enactment of the bill and the blackout period, that risk would be increased.
Reid/Kyl appears to include language criminalizing play on non-approved sites. Therefore, “winnings” and any property used for illegal online gambling as defined under the new law would be subject to forfeiture.
Such prospects would become real immediately upon signing of Reid/Kyl or any bill containing similar language, and would not be subject to blackout provisions regarding regulated operator startups. That poker players would allow themselves to be criminalized for playing poker in any form is one of the biggest obstacles against player support for Reid/Kyl.
Why does it not allow international player pools? Is this workable?
The exclusion of international player pools appears to be an attempt to keep all aspects of a site’s operation within the realm of United States jurisdiction, including the players. Lacking such a ban, international players who attempted to defraud member sites could remain outside the sites’ and government’s financial and jurisdictional reach.
Which takes priority — Nevada’s in-state regulations or something on the federal level such as Reid/Kyl?
While federal laws are generally take precedence over state laws, gambling matters such as these are usually deferred to the states, as is duly noted with this bill’s opt-in provisions.
The likely outcome is that in jurisdictional disputes between, for example, the upcoming Nevada online-poker industry and any similar national regulatory guidelines, the Nevada regs will hold sway—within that state.
Whether Nevada companies could be commanded to pay the 16% tax rate called for by Reid/Kyl remains an interesting concern, given that Nevada itself has already decided on taxation at less than half that rate.
Nevada, conceivably, could even choose against opting in to a federal regulatory network. However, the state’s hopes to service online players in other states, creating multistate compacts, could well run afoul of Reid/Kyl regulations.
16% tax rate, is that high? How does it compare to other countries?
The 16% tax called for in Reid/Kyl is based on eligible poker receipts, a term not defined elsewhere in the bill’s summary. This percentage probably applies to the gross receipts pulled in by a regulated site, and not a rake percentage as it would be applied to the actual running of a cash-game or tournament. However, further clarification is necessary.
As for how a 16% tax levy compares to other regulated online poker regimes, this would be far higher than Nevada’s announced tax rate of 6.75%, but lower than corporate rates assessed by most European countries who have already licensed internet poker. The US rate would be comparable to the UK, but lower than France, Italy and Spain.
Will players be able to use credit and debit cards?
One reason for the creation of Reid/Kyl is to define clearer operating room for banks and payment processors, who found that even online lottery ticket sales could run afoul of current baking guidelines.
Reid/Kyl is expected to create both a category of approved gambling transactions and a structure for a “whitelist” of approved operators. Credit- and debit-card transactions within these categories and via these approved vendors would then be free of the restrictions and declinations applied by banks to most other gambling-related card deposits and withdrawals.
External and self-controls designed to limit problem and addictive gambling are part of the Reid/Kyl measure, as are identity-verification and geolocation measures.
Will fantasy sports betting be impacted by Reid/Kyl?
Probably not, though one cannot be absolutely certain of this until the actual draft language of the bill is made public. The fantasy sports world receives the prominent support of broadcast outlets such as ESPN, and fantasy sports received a specific carve out under the 2006 UIGEA. While Reid/Kyl does carry language that strengthens UIGEA, it is unlike to remove the protection specifically created by that bill.
How is this different from the Barton bill?
The Reid/Kyl measure seems to be based on the 2011 Barton bill, though until the complete draft language is released, no one can say for sure. It is clear that some differences exist, such as Barton’s proposed Office of Internet Poker Oversight (OIPO), which has become the Office of Online Poker Oversight (OOPO) in the Reid/Kyl version.
The Reid/Kyl summary also addresses the Wire Act and the UIGEA in its attempt to plug the many holes in the UIGEA and address modern communications technology. Tribal interests also receive more specific mention in Reid/Kyl than in the Barton effort.
Other differences between the two bills likely also exist, and remain in need of a thorough public vetting.
What chance does it have of becoming law?
Reid/Kyl’s prospects seem slim, and have grown even slimmer in the wake of a public dispute between Nevada senators Reid and Heller in recent days.
Though at least one member of the PPA has handicapped the passage of the bill by the end of the 2012 lame-duck Congressional session at even money (50%), the very-similar 2011 Barton bill, still under consideration in the House, was rated as having only a 10% chance of passage by govtrack.us, a monitoring site.
One fact in Reid/Kyl’s favor is the switch to an “opt-in” provision for states wishing to participate, rather than the Barton bill’s opt-out, which may have been unconstitutional (and would likely be amended in a final version of Barton’s bill anyway).
However, an issue exposed in the latest Reid/Heller scuffle is that as a revenue-generation bill, any pro-online poker measure may well need to originate in the House of Representatives. Therefore, Barton or a similar measure may be the only way such a bill gets done, and Reid/Kyl may be a show pony with no legs.
A veteran writer and editor, Haley tracks the poker world on a daily basis and continues working on a book about the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker insider cheating scandals. Her writing history includes thousands of published credits and a stint as the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s largest poker portals.
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For Honor Review
My Impressions of Ubisoft's For Honor
February 25, 2017 Gaming ReviewsReedComment
For Honor has been a wild experience for me so far. The game has entranced me from the second I saw the trailer at E3 in 2015. To give this game an unbiased review is impossible because it hits upon a concept in video games I have always wanted. Knights, Vikings, and Samurai all stuck in endless combat to prove who is the strongest!
It is a simple, but effective concept for a game. History's greatest warrior getting the chance to battle it out with our help. It is an idea that is not only easy to market, but people get instantly. "Who would win in a duel between a Knight, Viking, and Samurai?"
Once you get past the concept the real question is "Does the game work?". The quick answer is yes, if you aren't on PC. The game has been a delight on console since its release. I have invested just over 26 hours into the multiplayer so far, it works. Combat is easy to pick up, but rewards the most advance players for their ability to understand the mechanics. Graphically, the game keeps up with the industry in its multiplayer aspect, but campaign is lacking. Campaign's animations and renders seem to be plain or clipping through common elements, but I imagine that was because it was a late addition to the game. Fans voiced their concern for the lack of a campaign early on in its development. Ubisoft responded swiftly by pushing their teams to create an experience to fill players need for a campaign. I am not giving it a free pass, but it is something to take into consideration. A full review of For Honor's campaign will be posted at a later date when I complete it.
What is fun about for honor? The combat systems, the graphics, and the game modes. There are 5 different game modes to play called Elimination, Skirmish, Dominion, Duel, and Brawl. Each one offers a different experience for players. The core mechanics remain the same, but the style of play changes for each mode. Elimination is like search and destroy from the Call of Duty Franchise where players play a best of 5 series with one life per round in a 4 vs 4 team combat. There is only one objective, wipe out your opponents!
Duel and Brawl work the same way, but are 1 vs 1 and 2 vs 2 respectively. These modes are prefect for players to fine tune their play style. It allows casual players to practice with their characters in a competitive atmosphere with almost nothing to lose.
Skirmish and Dominion work by reaching 1000 points to deplete your enemy's spawns. Once you have gathered 1000 points through taking positions and killing enemies you can kill your opponents for good! Skirmish is the weakest game mode out of all five because of its pacing. There are no points to capture and next to no minions on the battle field causing the game to drag. It is basically a death match until you kill the team enough to stop their spawns. In contrast Dominion creates an awesome dynamic of fighting for positions. Players are forced to utilize team work to fend off the enemy advance and maintain their position.
Each mode offers endless ways to play against both players and AI. The AI system works well, allowing players that leave to be replaced by bots or allow teams of human players to face off against AI. Any of the Player vs AI game modes payout a lot less in rewards, but still make for an excellent experience.
Now for the current issues with the game. Right now, PC is riddled with issues. A trip to the /forhonor reddit page will greet you with a plethora of complaints. The P2P system breaks many matches because it reveals individuals IPs allowing them to be vulnerable to DDOS attacks. Hacking has been another issue where players are exploiting the game in a variety of ways. Players leaving from matches cause major instability issues causing games to disconnect. Some accounts even experienced bans even though they hadn't purchased the game! It has been a very shaky launch for Ubisoft for a vocal minority of players. Balancing doesn't seem to be too far off, but changes to the guard break mechanic from the beta has left many players asking for a change. Ubisoft did make a post on reddit addressing their concerns explaining that the core mechanics will be fixed in their next patch.
For my first impressions For Honor delivered an extremely enjoyable experience worth a $60 purchase. I do recognize I have been fortunate enough to have not experienced any of the instability issues that has plagued other players. Is For Honor for you? Check out my videos linked in the articular to decide for yourself!
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OTTAWA, June 5, 2019— The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of three awards that recognize excellence in architecture, service to clients, and contributions to the profession, education and community.
Young Architect Award – Ken Borton, of Winnipeg, MB and Jessie Andjelic, of Calgary AB.
Architectural Firm Award – LGA Architectural Partners, based in Toronto, ON.
Emerging Architectural Practice Award – UUfie, of Toronto, ON.
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The annual awards will be presented at the RAIC Festival of Architecture in Toronto, taking place October 26 to 30, 2019. Sponsorship opportunities are available for the gala awards evening.
Young Architect
The RAIC Young Architect Award recognizes architects 40 years or younger for excellence in design, leadership, and service to the profession. The award is intended to inspire architectural graduates to become licensed and to strive for excellence in their work.
Ken Borton, MRAIC
In just 11 years at the Winnipeg firm 5468796, Ken Borton has been a design and project architect on various award-winning projects, including Bloc_10, James Avenue Pumping Station, Guertin Boatport, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria design competition, as well as contributing to nearly all the office’s projects. Borton has also taught and curated several architectural exhibits.
“Kenneth has played an instrumental role in many of 5468796 Architecture’s projects that have garnered awards and recognition across the industry and are developing the architectural landscape of Winnipeg. His contributions have been key in shaping the design direction and growth of the firm.”
Jessie Andjelic, MRAIC
In 2013, Jessie Andjelic co-founded the SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism in Calgary. She works as a design studio sessional instructor at the University of Calgary, regularly lectures on architecture and urbanism, mentors intern architects, and volunteers with various organizations. Exhibitions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, Bulgaria, and Estonia have shown her work.
“Jessie’s approach is one that is uniquely visionary, proven by four competition wins in her short career. Her clear approach to the design process is scale-able and will be the kernel of excellence in larger projects to come and throughout her academic teaching career.”
The RAIC Architectural Firm Award recognizes the achievements of a firm for its quality of architecture, service to clients, and innovations in practice. It also considers the firm’s contribution to architectural education and professional organizations, as well as public recognition.
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Founded in 1989, the 40-person office has received numerous design awards including a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture and an RAIC Award of Excellence for Innovation. The firm’s contribution to education includes a scholarship for an Indigenous architecture student at Laurentian University, teaching, lecturing, and mentoring. The partners are Janna Levitt, FRAIC, Dean Goodman, MRAIC, Brock James, MRAIC, and Danny Bartman.
“LGA’s diverse portfolio represents a wide range of building types that are unified in their commitment to strengthening social objectives. Their community-minded approach, combined with innovative design strategies and a sensitivity to sustainability, makes their architecture both aspirational and impressive.”
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UUfie is an interdisciplinary architecture studio founded in 2009 in Tokyo, Japan by Irene Gardpoit, MRAIC, and Eiri Ota. In 2013, they moved to Toronto. UUfie’s work spans art, architecture, landscape, furniture, and product design. A recurring theme in their work is the natural world. Their projects have involved collaborators from Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan.
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Should I beta test Fallout 76?
Posted in best practices, botch, business, video gaming by commorancy on November 1, 2018
While I know that beta testing for Fallout 76 is already underway, let’s explore what it means to beta test a game and whether or not you should participate.
Before I get into the nitty gritty details of beta testing, let’s talk about Fallout 76. Fallout 76, like The Elder Scrolls Online before it, is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). Like The Elder Scrolls Online which offered an Elder Scrolls themed universe, Fallout 76 will offer a Fallout themed universe in an online landscape.
How the game ultimately releases is yet to be determine, but a beta test gives you a solid taste of how it will all work. Personally, I didn’t like The Elder Scrolls Online much. While it had the flavor and flair of an Elder Scrolls game entry, the whole thing felt hollow and unconnected to the franchise. It also meant that Bethesda spent some very valuable time building this online game when they could have been building the next installment of the Elder Scrolls.
It is as yet undetermined how these online games play into the canon of The Elder Scrolls or, in Fallout 76’s case, in the Fallout universe. Personally, I see them as offshoots with only a distant connection. For example, The Elder Scrolls Online felt Elder Scrollsy, but without the deep solid connections and stories that go with building that universe. Instead, it was merely a multiplayer playground that felt like The Elder Scrolls in theme, but everything else was just fluff. I’m deeply concerned that we’ll get this same treatment from Fallout 76.
The Problem with Online Games
Online games have, in recent years, gotten a bad rap… and for good reason. The reason that this is so is because the game developers focus on the inclusion of silly things like character emoting and taking selfies. While these are fun little inclusions, they are by no means intrinsic to the fundamental game play of an actual game.
Games should be about the story that unfolds… about why your character is there and how your character is important in that universe. When the game expands to include an online component, now it’s perhaps tens of thousands of people all on the server at the same time. So, how can each of these characters be important to that universe? The answer is, they can’t.
Having many characters all running around doing the “same” things in the universe all being told by the game that they are “the most important thing” to the survival of that universe is just ludicrous.
This leads to the “importance syndrome” which is present in any MMORPG. As a developer, you either acknowledge the importance syndrome and avoid it by producing a shallow multiplayer experience that entirely avoids player importance (i.e., Fortnite, Overwatch, Destiny, etc) or you make everyone important each in their own game (i.e., The Elder Scrolls Online). Basically, the game is either a bunch of people running around doing nothing important at all and simply trying to survive whatever match battles have been set up (boring and repetitive) or the game treats each user as if they are individually important in their own single player game, except there are a bunch of other users online, all doing the same exact thing.
The Elder Scrolls Online fell into the latter camp which made the game weird and disconnected, to say the least. It also made the game feel less like an Elder Scrolls game and more like any cheap and cheesy iPad knockoff game you can download for free… except you’ve paid $60 + DLC + online fees for it.
I’ve played other MMORPG games similar to The Elder Scrolls Online including Defiance. In fact, Defiance played so much like The Elder Scrolls Online, I could swear that Bethesda simply took Defiance’s MMORPG engine and adapted it to The Elder Scrolls Online.
Environments and Users
The secondary problem is how to deal with online users. Both in the Elder Scrolls Online and Defiance, there were areas that included player versus environment (PvE). PvE environments mean that players cannot attack other players. Only NPCs can attack your player or your character can die by the environment (i.e., falling onto spikes). There were also some areas of the online map that were player versus player (PvP). PvP means any online player can attack any other online player in any way they wish.
In The Elder Scrolls Online, the PvP area was Cyrodiil, which was unfortunate for ESO. The PvP made this territory mostly a dead zone for the game. Even though there were a few caves in the area and some exploring you could do, you simply couldn’t go dungeon diving there because as soon as you tried, some player would show up and kill your player. Yes, the NPCs and AI enemies could also show up and kill your player, but so could online players.
The difficulty with Cyrodiil was that if another player killed your player in the PvP area, that player death was treated entirely differently than if they died by the environment. If another player killed your character, you had to respawn at a fort, which would force your character to respawn perhaps half a map away from where you presently were. If your character died by the environment or another NPC, you could respawn in the same location where your character died. This different treatment in handling the character death was frustrating, to say the least.
With Fallout 76, I’m unsure how all of this will work, but it’s likely that Bethesda will adopt a similar strategy from what they learned in building The Elder Scrolls Online. This likely means both PvE areas and PvP area(s). Note that ESO only had one PvP zone, but had many PvE zones. This made questing easier in the PvE zones, but also caused the “importance syndrome”. This syndrome doesn’t exist in single player offline games, but is omnipresent in MMORPGs.
MMORPGs and Characters
The difficulty with MMORPGs is that they’re primarily just clients of a server based environment. The client might be a heavier client that includes handling rendering character and environment graphics, but it is still nonetheless a client. This means that to use an MMORPG, you must log into the server to play. When you login, your character information, bank account, level ups, weapons, armor and so on are kept on the server.
This means that you can’t save off your character information. It also means you can’t mod your game or mod your character through game mods. Online games are strict about how you can change or manage your game and your character. In fact, these systems are so strict that if a new version of the game comes out, you must first download and install the game before they’ll let you back onto the server… unlike standalone games that let you play the game even if networking components are disabled. This means that you cannot play an MMORPG until your client is most current, which could mean 50GB and hours later.
This means that you’ll need an always on Internet connection to play Fallout 76 and you’ll need to be able to handle very large client downloads (even if you own the game disc).
Many game producers like to offer, particularly if it’s a server based MMORPG, the chance for players to beta test their new game. Most online games allow for this.
However, I refuse to do this for game developers. They have a team they’ve hired to beta test their environments, quests and landscapes. I just don’t see any benefit for my player to get early access to their game environment. Sometimes, characters you build and grow in a beta won’t even carry over into the released game. This means that whatever loot you have found and leveling you may have done may be lost when release day comes. For that early access, the developer will also expect you to submit bug reports. I won’t do that for them. I also don’t want to feel obligated to do so.
Bethesda stands to make millions of dollars off of this game. Yet, they’re asking me to log into their game early, potentially endure huge bugs preventing quest progress, potentially lose my character and all of its progress and also spend time submitting bug reports? Then, spend $60 to buy the game when it arrives? Then, rebuild my character again from scratch?
No, I don’t think so. I’m not about to spend $60 for the privilege of spending my time running into bugs and submitting bug reports for that game. You, the game developer, stand to make millions from this game. So, hire people to beta test it for you. Or, give beta testers free copies of the game in compensation for the work they’re doing for you.
If you’re a gamer thinking of participating in beta testing, you should think twice. Not only are you helping Bethesda to make millions of dollars, you’re not going to see a dime of that money and you’re doing that work for free. In addition, you’re still going to be expected to spend $60 + DLC costs to participate in the final released game. No, I won’t do that. If I’m doing work for you, you should pay me as a contractor. How you pay me for that work is entirely up to you, but the minimum payment should consist of a free copy of the game. You can tie that payment to work efforts if you like.
For example, for each report submitted and verified as a new bug, the beta tester will get $5 in credit towards the cost of the game up to the full price of the game. This encourages beta testers to actually submit useful bug reports (i.e., duplicates or useless reports won’t count). This also means you earn your game as you report valid and useful bugs. It also means that you won’t have to pay for the game if you create enough useful, genuine reports.
Unfortunately, none of these game developers offer such incentive programs and they simply expect gamers to do it “generously” and “out of the kindness of their hearts”. No, I’m not doing that for you for free. Pay me or I’ll wait until the game is released.
Should I Participate in Beta Tests?
As a gamer, this is why you should not participate in beta tests. Just say no to them. If enough gamers say no and fail to participate in beta releases, this will force game developers to encourage gamers to participate with incentive programs such as what I suggest above.
Unfortunately, there are far too many unwitting gamers who are more than willing to see the environment early without thinking through the ramifications of what they are doing. For all of the above reasons, this is why you should NEVER participate (and this is why I do not participate) in any high dollar game beta tests.
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Software Engineering and Architecture
Posted in botch, business, Employment by commorancy on October 21, 2018
Here’s a subject of which I’m all too familiar and is in need of commentary. Since my profession is technical in nature, I’ve definitely run into various issues regarding software engineering, systems architecture and operations. Let’s Explore.
Software Engineering as a Profession
One thing that software engineers like is to be able to develop their code on their local laptops and computers. That’s great for rapid development, but it causes many problems later, particularly when it comes to security, deployment, systems architecture and operations.
For a systems engineer / devops engineer, the problem arises when that code needs to be productionalized. This is fundamentally a problem with pretty much any newly designed software system.
Having come from from a background of systems administration, systems engineering and devops, there are lots to be considered when wanting to deploy freshly designed code.
Designing in a Bubble
I’ve worked in many companies where development occurs offline on a notebook or desktop computer. The software engineer has built out a workable environment on their local system. The problem is, this local eneironment doesn’t take into account certain constraints which may be in place in a production environment such as internal firewalls, ACLs, web caching systems, software version differences, lack of compilers and other such security or software constraints.
What this means is that far too many times, deploying the code for the first time is fraught with problems. Specifically, problems that were not encountered on the engineer’s notebook… and problems that sometimes fail extremely bad. In fact, many of these failures are sometimes silent (the worst kind), where everything looks like it’s functioning normally, but the code is sending its data into a black hole and nothing is actually working.
This is the fundamental problem with designing in a bubble without any constraints.
I understand that building something new is fun and challenging, but not taking into account the constraints the software will be under when finally deployed is naive at best and reckless at the very worse. It also makes life as a systems engineer / devops engineer a living hell for several months until all of these little failures are sewn shut.
It’s like receiving a garment that looks complete, but on inspection, you find a bunch of holes all over that all need to be fixed before it can be worn.
Engineering as a Team
To me, this is situation means that software engineer is not a team player. They might be playing on the engineering team, but they’re not playing on the company team. Part of software design is designing for the full use case of the software, including not only code authoring, but systems deployment.
If systems deployment isn’t your specialty as a software engineer, then bring in a systems engineer and/or devops engineer to help guide your code during the development phase. Designing without taking the full scope of that software release into consideration means you didn’t earn your salary and you’re not a very good software engineer.
Yet, Silicon Valley is willing to pay “Principal Engineers” top dollar for these folks failing to do their jobs.
Building and Rebuilding
It’s an entirely a waste of time to get to the end of a software development cycle and claim “code complete” when that code is nowhere near complete. I’ve had so many situations where software engineers toss their code to us as complete and expect the systems engineer to magically make it all work.
It doesn’t work that way. Code works when it’s written in combination with understanding of the architecture where it will be deployed. Only then can the code be 100% complete because only then will it deploy and function without problems. Until that point is reached, it cannot be considered “code complete”.
Docker and Containers
More and more, systems engineers want to get out of the long drawn out business of integrating square code into a round production hole, eventually after much time has passed, molding the code into that round hole is possible. This usually takes months. Months that could have been avoided if the software engineer had designed the code in an environment where the production constraints exist.
That’s part of the reason for containers like Docker. When a container like Docker is used, the whole container can then be deployed without thought to square pegs in round holes. Instead, whatever flaws are in the Docker container are there for all to see because the developer put it there.
In other words, the middle folks who take code from engineering and mold it onto production gear don’t relish the thought of ironing out hundreds of glitchy problems until it seamlessly all works. Sure, it’s a job, but at some level it’s also a bit janitorial, wasteful and a unnecessary.
Part of the reason for these problems is the delineation between the engineering teams and the production operations teams. Because many organizations separate these two functional teams, it forces the above problem. Instead, these two teams should be merged into one and work together from project and code inception.
When a new project needs code to be built that will eventually be deployed, the production team should be there to move the software architecture onto the right path and be able to choose the correct path for that code all throughout its design and building phases. In fact, every company should mandate that its software engineers be a client of operations team. Meaning, they’re writing code for operations, not the customer (even though the features eventually benefit the customer).
The point here is that the code’s functionality is designed for the customer, but the deploying and running that code is entirely for the operations team. Yet, so many software engineers don’t even give a single thought to how much the operations team will be required support that code going forward.
For every component needed to support a specific piece of software, there needs to be a likewise knowledgeable person on the operations team to support that component. Not only do they need to understand that it exists in the environment, the need to understand its failure states, its recovery strategies, its backup strategies, its monitoring strategies and everything else in between.
This is also yet another problem that software engineers typically fail to address in their code design. Ultimately, your code isn’t just to run on your notebook for you. It must run on a set of equipment and systems that will serve perhaps millions of users. It must be written in ways that are fail safe, recoverable, redundant, scalable, monitorable, deployable and stable. These are the things that the operations team folks are concerned with and that’s what they are paid to do.
For each new code deployment, that makes the environment just that much more complex.
The Stacked Approach
This is an issue that happens over time. No software engineer wants to work on someone else’s code. Instead, it’s much easier to write something new and from scratch. It’s easy for software engineer, but it’s difficult for the operations team. As these new pieces of code get written and deployed, it drastically increases the technical debt and burden on the operations staff. Meaning, it pushes the problems off onto the operations team to continue supporting more and more and more components if none ever get rewritten or retired.
In one organization where I worked, we had such an approach to new code deployment. It made for a spider’s web mess of an environment. We had so many environments and so few operations staff to support it, the on-call staff were overwhelmed with the amount of incessant pages from so many of these components.
That’s partly because the environment was unstable, but that’s partly because it was a house of cards. You shift one card and the whole thing tumbles.
Software stacking might seem like a good strategy from an engineering perspective, but then the software engineers don’t have to first line support it. Sometimes they don’t have to support it at all. Yes, stacking makes code writing and deployment much simpler.
How many times can engineering team do this before the house of cards tumbles? Software stacking is not an ideal any software engineering team should endorse. In fact, it’s simply comes down to laziness. You’re a software engineer because writing code is hard, not because it is easy. You should always do the right thing even if it takes more time.
Burden Shifting
While this is related to software stacking, it is separate and must be discussed separately. We called this problem, “Throwing shit over the fence”. It happens a whole lot more often that one might like to realize. When designing in a bubble, it’s really easy to call “code complete” and “throw it all over the fence” as someone else’s problem.
While I understand this behavior, it has no place in any professionally run organization. Yet, I’ve seen so many engineering team managers endorse this practice. They simply want their team off of that project because “their job is done”, so they can move them onto the next project.
You can’t just throw shit over the fence and expect it all to just magically work on the production side. Worse, I’ve had software engineers actually ask my input into the use of specific software components in their software design. Then, when their project failed because that component didn’t work properly, they threw me under the bus for that choice. Nope, that not my issue. If your code doesn’t work, that’s a coding and architecture problem, not a component problem. If that open source component didn’t work in real life for other organizations, it wouldn’t be distributed around the world. If a software engineer can’t make that component work properly, that’s a coding and software design problem, not an integration or operational problem. Choosing software components should be the software engineer’s choice to use whatever is necessary to make their software system work correctly.
The operations team is the lifeblood of any organization. If the operations team isn’t given the tools to get their job done properly, that’s a problem with the organization as a whole. The operations team is the third hand recipient of someone else’s work. We step in and fix problems many times without any knowledge of the component or the software. We do this sometimes by deductive logic, trial and error, sometimes by documentation (if it exists) and sometimes with the help of a software engineer on the phone.
We use all available avenues at our disposal to get that software functioning. In the middle of the night the flow of information can be limited. This means longer troubleshooting times, depending on the skill level of the person triaging the situation.
Many organizations treat its operations team as a bane, as a burden, as something that shouldn’t exist, but does out of necessity. Instead of treating the operations team as second class citizens, treat this team with all of the importance that it deserves. This degrading view typically comes top down from the management team. The operations team is not a burden nor is it simply there out of necessity. It exists to keep your organization operational and functioning. It keeps customer data accessible, reliable, redundant and available. It is responsible for long term backups, storage and retrieval. It’s responsible for the security of that data and making sure spying eyes can’t get to it. It is ultimately responsible to make sure the customer experience remains at a high excellence standard.
If you recognize this problem in your organization, it’s on you to try and make change here. Operations exists because the company needs that job role. Computers don’t run themselves. They run because of dedicated personnel who make it their job and passion to make sure those computers stay online, accessible and remain 100% available.
Your company’s uptime metrics are directly impacted by the quality of your operations team staff members. These are the folks using the digital equivalent of chewing gum and shoelaces to keep the system operating. They spend many a sleepless night keeping these systems online. And, they do so without much, if any thanks. It’s all simply part of the job.
Software Engineer and Care
It’s on each and every software engineer to care about their fellow co-workers. Tossing code over the fence assuming there’s someone on the other side to catch it is insane. It’s an insanity that has run for far too long in many organizations. It’s an insanity that needs to be stopped and the trend needs to reverse.
In fact, by merging the software engineering and operations teams into one, it will stop. It will stop by merit of having the same bosses operating both teams. I’m not talking about at a VP level only. I’m talking about software engineering managers need to take on the operational burden of the components they design and build. They need to understand and handle day-to-day operations of these components. They need to wear pagers and understand just how much operational work their component is.
Only then can engineering organizations change for the positive.
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Rant Time: Apple Music vs Twitter
Posted in Apple, botch, business, california by commorancy on September 12, 2018
I know I’ve been on a tirade with the number of rants recently, but here we are. I rant when there’s something to rant about. This time it’s about sharing Apple Music playlists on Twitter… and just how badly this feature is broken. Worse, just how Apple itself is broken. Let’s explore.
Twitter Cards
Twitter has a feature they call Twitter cards. It’s well documented and requires a number of meta tags to be present in an HTML page. When the page is shared via Twitter, Twitter goes looking at the HTML for its respective Twitter meta tags to generate a Twitter card.
A Twitter card comes in two sizes and looks something like this:
Small Twitter Card
Large Twitter Card
What determines the size of the Twitter card seems to be the size and ratio of the image. If the image is square in size (144×144 or larger), Twitter creates a small card as shown at the top. If the image ratio is not square and larger than 144×144, Twitter produces a large Twitter card. The difference between the cards is obvious:
Small card has an image to the left and text to the right
Large card has image above and text below
It’s up to the person sharing on Twitter to decide which size is most appropriate. Personally, I prefer the larger size because it allows for a much larger image.
Apple Music Playlist Sharing
Here’s where the RANT begins… hang onto your hat’s folks. Apple’s engineering team doesn’t get Twitter cards…. AT. ALL! Let me give an example of this. Here’s a playlist I shared on Twitter:
What’s wrong with this Twitter card? If you guessed the image is way too tiny, you’d win. Apple doesn’t understand the concept of producing a 144×144 image properly. Here’s the fundamental problem. In iTunes, my playlist image is uploaded with a 1200×1200 size image. This image is well large enough for any use on the net. Here’s how it looks in iTunes, albeit scaled somewhat small:
Note, iTunes retains the full image size, but scales the image as needed. If you look at the playlist on the web, it looks like this with a much larger scaled image:
As you can see, the image scales properly and still looks good even larger. Yes, even large enough to produce a 144×144 image on a Twitter card.
Here’s the Twitter card metadata on that Apple Music Preview page:
meta id="1" name="twitter:title" content="AstroWorld Pioneer by Klearnote" class="ember-view"
meta id="2" name="twitter:description" content="Playlist · 22 Songs" class="ember-view"
meta id="3" name="twitter:site" content="@appleMusic" class="ember-view">
meta id="4" name="twitter:domain" content="Apple Music" class="ember-view">
meta id="5" name="twitter:image"
content="https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/SG-S3-US-Std-Image-000001/v4/a2/c6/6f/a2c66fc6-a63b-f590-c6db-e41aebfc327c/image/600x600wp.png"
class="ember-view"
meta id="6" name="twitter:card" content="summary" class="ember-view"
You’ll notice that the text in red above is the piece that is relevant. Let’s look at that image now…
Scaled. Click to see 600×600 image
You’ll notice that the playlist image content is centered at 213×213 pixels in size centered in a light grey box that’s 600×600. Yes, that thick light grey border is part of the image. This is actually how the image is being produced by Apple on their servers. That would be okay if the image were scaled to the full 600×600 pixels. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Twitter will scale any image to its preferred size of 144×144 pixels for small Twitter cards. Here’s what a 144×144 image looks like when scaled by WordPress:
Small, but reasonably clear. Here’s Twitter’s crap scaled and unreadable version:
I have no idea what Twitter is using to scale its images, but it looks like absolute trash. The bigger problem isn’t that Twitter has scaled this image down, it’s that Apple has provided Twitter with such an already small and crap looking playlist image. Why have a 144×144 image if you’re only going to use 1/9th of the entire space? Apple, why wouldn’t you not want to use the entire 144×144 image space to make the image look like this:
That sized image would make the Twitter card look like this…
… instead of this absolute shit looking card…
How the Mighty Have Fallen
Apple used to be a well respected company who always prided itself on doing things correctly and producing high quality products. Today, they’re a shadow of their former selves. Producing products as crap as this only serves as a detriment to all of the other products they now offer. It’s clear, Apple Music is an afterthought and Apple seems to have only one engineer assigned to this software product… maybe none.
It’s also clear, Apple doesn’t respect the standards of anyone, not even themselves. I consider this absolute crap attention to detail. Seriously, who wants their images to be scaled to the point of being unreadable? No one!
Yet, when I called Apple Support to report this issue, I was told, “This is expected behavior”. Expected by whom? Who would ever expect an image to be scaled the point of nonrecognition? No one. If this is the level of software development effort we’re now seeing from Apple, then I don’t even want to think what corners are being cut on their hardware products.
What’s next? Apple watches catching on fire and exploding on people’s wrists? Phones taking out people’s ears? If I can no longer trust Apple to uphold the standards of high quality, then the mighty have truly fallen. There is no hope for Apple no matter how much crap they try to peddle.
Apple, Hear Me!
If you are serious about your business, then you need to be serious about all aspects including offering high quality products, services and features. This goes all the way to playlist sharing on Twitter. My experience with dealing with Apple in this matter was so amateur, including the way Apple Music itself is being handled, why should I continue to use your products? Give me a reason to pay you $99 for such shit service! Seriously, in addition to the above, I’m also finding what appear to be bootlegged music products on Apple Music and yet you’re pawning it off as official releases?
And as suggested by your representative, why should I contact Twitter for this issue? Twitter’s features work properly when provided with the correct information. As has been stated for years in software engineering, “Garbage In, Garbage Out”. It is you, Apple, who are providing Twitter with garbage information. It’s not a Twitter problem, it’s an Apple problem. Also, because this is an Apple engineering problem to solve, why should I contact Twitter on Apple’s behalf? I don’t work for you. You need to have YOUR engineering team contact Twitter and have them explain to you the errors of your ways.
This is just the tip of the iceberg here. There’s so much wrong at Apple, if you continue to entrust your family’s safety into Apple’s products, you may find one of your family members injured or dead. Apple, wake up and learn to take quality seriously.
The next time you are shopping for a computer or a watch device, you need to ask yourself, “Do I really trust Apple to provide safe choices for me or my family?”
Apple has now officially and truly reached the level of shit!
Broken Apple Image credit: The King of The Vikings via DeviantArt
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So while he’s known for a lot, he’s also known for this: throwing a fastball and hitting a bird in mid flight. That happened March 24, 2001, and the poor bird — experts think it was a mourning dove — exploded.
Watch the reactions of the batter, catcher and umpire after it happened.
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The Cerebral Palsy Foundation Launches New Universal Homes "Accessibility is Beautiful" Initiative on Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019
NEW YORK - May 16, 2019 - Rezul -- The Cerebral Palsy Foundation launched a new initiative today called Accessibility is Beautiful, generously supported by CHUBB. This innovative accessibility initiative includes a YouTube video miniseries and Universal Design "Look Book" will feature the homes of disability advocates Pat Wright and Deb Zeyen, Karen Braitmayer, Leslie Haynes and Randy Earle, designed by architects Carol Sundstrom of Rom Architecture Studio, and Cathi House of House + House Architects.
You can view the initial video of the miniseries here https://www.yourcpf.org/accessibilityisbeautiful/
This YouTube miniseries, developed by the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, follows designer and HGTV host, John Gidding, as he explores a range of incredible architect-designed homes that follow the principles of Universal Design. Whether built in a remote seaside town, a gritty downtown location, or the beautiful suburbs of Seattle, these stunning homes meet the requirements of their owners' specific needs, and are truly accessible for everyone. The video miniseries showcases how these residences are both beautiful works of architecture, as well as well-functioning homes.
"Working on this project with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation has been an amazing experience, exposing me to architects leading the way in crafting spaces that welcome everyone. It has been eye-opening to visit these stunning homes and see firsthand the beauty of accessibility, the actual lifestyle upgrades provided by the principles of Universal Design, and how easy they are to implement," shared John Gidding, Designer and HGTV host.
The Cerebral Palsy Foundation also developed a 40+ page "Look Book" accompanying the YouTube video miniseries, developed by experts in Universal Design.
"The CPF Accessibility is Beautiful Look Book provides inspiration and a Universal Design Checklist on making homes and living spaces more accessible for everyone," says Rachel Byrne, Vice President of Programs for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. "Our Look Book provides a detailed view of all the features in each of the homes in the YouTube miniseries and gives ideas that can be shared with architects and home designers alike," adds Byrne.
Leslie Haynes, one of the homeowners featured explains, "We found a team of experts who crafted a space that gave me back peace of mind and allows my family to relax and flourish through smart, compassionate, universal design."
About the Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
The Cerebral Palsy Foundation (CPF), a sixty-year old nonprofit foundation headquartered in New York City and a leading voice in the world of Cerebral Palsy, serves as a thought-leader and catalyst to create new opportunities in the world of disability. The Cerebral Palsy Foundation focuses on improving the lives of people with Cerebral Palsy today through research, innovation and collaboration. Its deep partnerships with medical institutions, corporations and media companies support the efforts to inform, connect, and empower people with CP and their families. To learn more visit www.yourcpf.org.
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This document is the final description of the work with revising the Nomenclature for the Analysis and Comparison of Scientific Programmes and Budgets (NABS) of 1992 version into the 2007 version and provides a comparison between the two versions. It further contains, as annexes, the final version of the NABS 2007 chapter and sub-chapter headings, the final version of NABS 2007 including the detailed annotations as well as a detailed bridge table between NABS 2007 and NABS 1992. The classification is linked to the Frascati Manual (OECD 2002). The area of socio-economic objectives (SEO) of research and development (R&D) activities is considered in two ways in the Frascati Manual. The first is as a functional classification of the performance of R&D and the second relates to the analysis of government appropriations to R&D (GBOARD). The body responsible for the NABS classification is Eurostat. The NABS nomenclature was originally established in 1969 and earlier revisions were carried out in 1975, 1983, 1992 and recently in 2007.
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The Grime checking in again. Today, I have some wonderful news for you. There is a KICK ASS record to talk about. Up for review today is Sasquatch’s brand spanking new record “IV” released by ever so reliable Small Stone Records. I say this because I haven’t been super excited by all of the releases that came out during 2011-12. Small Stone always puts out good records. Sometimes they are great. Well, good things come for those who wait.
I caught Sasquatch live at Small Stone’s Chicago showcase at The Double Door a few years ago. I wasn’t blown away. Maybe because the show also featured some of my personal favorites like Lo-Pan and Freedom Hawk (who I hope to see a new record from soon) and maybe I was already blown away by the 4 hours of kick ass rock and serious partying that came before Sasquatch’s set. Well, I’m glad I gave them a second chance (seems to be a theme around my parts these days).
I saw that the digital release was available and I generally listen to anything that Small Stone puts out. It’s safe to say that I’m a fan of the label. Oh man, I am happy that I listened to this record! For all of my rambling, this is short and sweet... front to back, upside down, right side up, this record fucking RULES. Let me reiterate...FUCKING RULES.
Fellow scribe and patron saint of stoner rock Bill Goodman sent me back to II (Hey Luder, take note...easy album titles) to brush up on my Sasquatch after to talking to him about the release. I wasn’t sold on III. After a quick chat with Small Stone president Scott Hamilton, he informed me that III was a period of rebuilding for the band. That makes a lot of sense to me now. Maybe another reason I wasn’t real sold on them after seeing them live.
This record finds Keith Gibbs on fire. The guitar tone is dense and full in every aspect that you would want it to be. The vocals are pure rock and roll awesome...particularly if you like the “stoner” variety; never overboard and always right in the pocket. As someone who tries really hard to sing and sucks at it, let me tell you, a voice like Keith’s is rare and impossible to duplicate no matter how “classic” it may sound. Jason Casanova (bass) and Rick Ferrante (drums) equally share in the supreme density of the records sound. Let me diverge into saying that it isn’t that the record doesn’t have great space-ial qualities (yes, I made that up), it’s just that it uses it to crush your ears in the most enjoyable ways. Like I said, front to back, upside down, right side up, this record is a brilliant power trio rock and roll offering.
If I had to pick out a few “standout” tracks I would suggest all of them, but especially the funky, heavy blues riffing (similar to The Black Keys heavy blues jam “I Got Mine”) of Sweet Lady, a great choice in an opening track with The Message, and my personal favorite and album closing track Drawing Flies (which I estimate to have listened to 100 times since I got the record, no joke).
Definitely a candidate for album of the year on my list, no doubt. 2013 is starting to stack up the great records. I told you I had wonderful news. Cheers.
--The Grime
IV by Sasquatch
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Bishop Votes to Provide Security and Support to Families of Fallen Heroes
October 9, 2013 Press Release
WASHINGTON— Today, Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01) voted in support the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act and the Flight Safety Act. The Senate must vote in support of both bills before they go to the President for signature.
Bishop Calls on Senate to Pass Bill Opening National Parks
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Bishop Pleased that Civilian Defense Workers Head Back to Work and Receive Pay
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WASHINGTON— The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Honoring our Promise to America's Veterans Act with bipartisan support. Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01), who continues to fight for pay and support of our nation's military, civilian defense workers, National Guard, reservists, and veterans, voted in support of the legislation.
Hastings, Bishop Challenge Obama Admin Over Unnecessary and Arbitrary Closures of Open-air Parks and Monuments
WASHINGTON– House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today sent a letter to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis regarding the Obama Administration's actions to
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WASHINGTON– Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, is working with House colleagues to ensure that civilian defense employees are deemed "essential" during the government shutdown.
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WASHINGTON-- Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01) joined fellow House Republicans in support of a stop gap measure known as a Continuing Resolution (CR) that authorizes an extension of the current rate of funding for the federal government. The measure also includes a provision that will delay the implementation of Obamacare for one year.
MEDIA ADVISORY--Bishop to Hold Annual Education Conference at Utah State Capitol
WASHINGTON– On Tuesday, September 24th more than 180 high school students from around Utah's First Congressional District will participate in the 8th annual Education Conference held by Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) at the Utah State Capitol. Each year, a select group of students from area high schools comes together at the Utah State Capitol to participate in discussions and case studies
Rep. Bishop Praises House Passage of Healthy Forests Act
WASHINGTON– Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Resorting Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act [H.R. 1526.] Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Public Lands and Environmental Regulation subcommittee, was among the first supporters of this legislation when it was introduced in the House.
Bishop, Stewart, Chaffetz Vote to Defund Obamacare and Keep the Government Open
WASHINGTON – After voting to support the Continuing Resolution to fund the government and defund Obamacare, Reps. Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chris Stewart (UT-02) and Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) released the following statement:
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House Passes Bishop Bill for National Guard Land Transfer
Today, the U.S.
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Rob Bishop Opposes Largest Tax Increase in History
Today the U.S. House of Representatives considered and voted on the proposed Democratic budget for Fiscal Year 2009. Republican Congressman Rob Bishop opposed the budget and the tax increases it included, and he released the following statement following the vote:
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Committee Passes Bishop Lands Bill Benefiting Bountiful City
The House Committee on Natural Resources has cleared a bill sponsored by Congressman Rob Bishop which would enable a land exchange between Bountiful City and the U.S. Forest Service. The legislation, H.R.
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Rob Bishop Comments on Defense Spending and PILT Funding
Today in Washington, President Bush sent to the Congress his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2009. While it is historic in its size, and there could be much to comment on, Republican Congressman Rob Bishop issued the following statement touching so far on only two portions of the proposed budget – portions which would have a direct impact in the Beehive State. Those statements are below.
Bishop Statement on the Passing of President Hinckley
Upon hearing the news of the passing of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, Congressman Rob Bishop issued the following statement Sunday evening:
Final Spending Bill Includes Millions for Utah Defense Projects
December 19, 2007 Press Release
Congressman Rob Bishop, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has announced that the final Congressional spending bill of the year contains almost $50 million in funding for military construction projects in Utah.
Bishop Maintains Provision to Protect Training Range
Congressman Rob Bishop has announced that the US House has blocked efforts to get rid of an existing statute which protects the Utah Test and Training Range. The current provision, commonly referred to as the Hansen Moratorium, protects the land around the range from development, including the potential storage of high level nuclear waste nearby on the Goshute Reservation.
Bishop Provision Protects 2nd Amendment Rights
October 24, 2007 Press Release
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed an amendment sponsored by Congressman Rob Bishop that will ensure there will be no federal infringement of Second Amendment rights on certain public lands.
Bishop Pushes Bill To Give Mantua Some Growing Room
Congressman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has introduced legislation to help Mantua City obtain more land within city limits, by conveying to the city land currently owned by the federal government. The conveyed land could be used to develop a new city cemetery, construct a new town hall and fire station, and even serve as the home of a future elementary school.
Bishop Reacts to SCHIP Veto Override Vote
Well, now that the games are over, we need to reauthorize the SCHIP program with a bill that's properly funded and targets help to poor kids first. We could learn a lot along those lines by watching how the State of Utah runs this program. Hopefully Washington will learn the same lessons.
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Of Hill & Home
By Victoria Veilleux on February 21, 2017
Set on 300 acres above the Gallatin River in Montana, this home has sweeping views of the surrounding valley
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A private Montana fishing estate takes its cues from the vast and rugged landscape.
In summer, wildflowers stipple the mountain slopes of Montana’s Gallatin County, not far from Bozeman. The region is home to brooks flowing with trout and layers of hillsides and jagged peaks. The unmarred waterfront terrain inspired the owner of this home to purchase 300 acres within the glade where the Gallatin River forks. One could say his appreciation for land was an occupational hazard, having owned a landscape development company in Southern California for more than 30 years. As passionate about the land itself as the opportunities it afforded for hunting and fishing, he saw the spot as the perfect place to build a vacation property to enjoy with his three adult children and outdoorsy friends.
To forge his vision of living in harmony with the land, the homeowner turned to Studio H. Design, a Bozeman firm noted for its mountain modern aesthetic and its philosophy that both the land and the client should dictate design direction. Studio owner and lead architect Nate Heller built his approach upon insights gleaned from the owner, who spent more than two summers on the site, residing in a tentlike structure to determine the ideal section to break ground. Heller says, “He knew where the prevailing winds were, where the views were, where the sun path was, and what he wanted to see. He knew everything about the property.”
A recessed area of the valley was chosen for the 4,000-square-foot main residence and two 1,200-square-foot cabins. Heller and his team pushed 12 feet below bedrock and removed a side of a hill to discreetly tuck the house into the landscape. Secondary spaces dominate the hill-facing walls inside the home, insulating it in the winter and keeping interiors cool during summer months. In those warmer months, the home is swept with light and a southwesterly breeze from the 10 lift-and-slide glass panels from Brombal that retract into hidden pockets. Each spans 8 feet by 10 feet, a large format for the company that required special fabrication and transport from Italy.
A custom seed mix based on the location’s assortment of switchblade grasses and other vegetation was created so that the cantilevered rooftops could meld with their surroundings year-round. “The houses change along with the season,” explains Heller. “When you come in spring, the roofs are green and vibrant and match the ground, and in the fall, the roofs are brown and blend right in.” Further camouflage includes the use of siding made from ipe wood, a fast-growing hardwood from South America. Heller and his team left it raw so that with time the exterior will naturally gray to fuse seamlessly into the hillside.
The genius of this residence comes not only from its hiding-in-plain-sight design, but also from its vantage point as a frame for the dramatic landscape. The home’s living room extends a 270-degree view of the mountainous horizon. The east cabin looks downriver to the iconic Spanish Peaks in the west, while the west cabin faces eastward toward the Bridger and Beartooth ranges.
Interiors, a collaboration between the owner and Studio H. Design, have a rustic elegance exemplified by pieces such as Jane Hallworth’s Ishmael floor lamp, which dangles between Timothy Oulton cowhide chairs anchored next to a custom steel fireplace by Stûv in the spacious great room. The opposite wing’s poolside saloon features Hallworth’s Auriga wall installation from her Constellation series, which reflects the owner’s passion for stargazing. Auriga is Latin for “charioteer,” which Heller says ties aptly to the owner’s love for horses. In the dining room, the airy and rectangular Universe chandelier by Jan Pauwels for Quasar gives a further nod to the owner’s affinity for constellations. Each three-dimensional work of art feels both personal and appropriate for the aesthetic of the space.
The rooms that perhaps best echo the owner’s interests are the saloon and the kitchen, both designed for entertaining. In the saloon, motifs reveal a love of old westerns as well as a nostalgia for past eras. Siberian larch wide-plank floors and rewired circa-1930 factory lights suspended over a bar made from recycled steel beams and strapping feel natural beside Poltrona Frau’s low-slung leather furnishings and rug by Beni Ourain. The kitchen’s countertop—a single piece cut from an 18-inch-deep, 35-inch-wide, and 40-foot-long fir beam—marries the natural world with the sleek German design of Bulthaup’s b3 line. Tucked away behind smooth veneer panels are a suite of Miele appliances intended to cater to a houseful of hunting and fishing enthusiasts: two refrigerators, two freezers, two dishwashers, and an induction range. The space also has two Gaggenau ovens. The outdoor entertainment area combines gastronomy with astronomy; guests can gather around the fireplace after dining alfresco or soak in the custom 12-foot-by-12-foot stainless-steel plunge pool while looking up at nature’s chandelier—Montana’s majestic night sky.
A dedicated screening room and shuffleboard court speak to this residence’s role as a family retreat. And to accommodate these large gatherings, Heller created flex space throughout the property. “We wanted the cabins to feel like cabins, with an intimate feel to the space. However, there are times when more sleeping arrangements might be required,” he says. Heller augmented the main home with a subterranean eight-bed bunkhouse and used Roche Bobois Escape sofas that can be converted into extra beds in the cabins.
Heller takes pride in having repurposed the site’s resources. “We never hauled any dirt off the property whatsoever,” he says. The home not only treads lightly upon the land, it epitomizes Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy: “No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.” Studio H. Design, 406.570.8207 (studiohdesigninc.com)
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Can Halo Reach The Cookie Jar?
I bought Halo Reach, knowing I would buy it later anyway. It has had a lot of positive feedback. That did not make me want to play it anymore than I already did, so those are moot. I decided not to watch or read anything about Reach for the past month, and in this the game surprised me.
The Campaign is very well done. In comparison with the Halo Trilogy, it is more dynamic and provoking: both in dialogue and events. The narrative is relatively straight forward and has the same structure as the other games (excluding ODST). You have your token sniping at night level, your vehicle level, and your flying level. This is the basis for the Halo level design, which is cool, except they add on new additions to the structure that were enjoyable. The level in the higher atmosphere of Reach is fantastic. Flying the saber, boarding the Covenant cruiser, the escape, and the final heart wrenching drop to Reach accompanied by a beautiful soundtrack and an overall lack of sound. There were some issues though. I wanted to be able to roll, spin, and stop on a dime. I am in space: why can I not have banshee maneuvers? I am in space: I do not need to move if I do not want to. Other than that, it was great.
The big point in the campaign for me is the tragedy. Instead of the epic scientific romance that the Halo Trilogy is and the mystery military science fiction that Halo ODST is, Reach gave a wonderful sense of tragedy, dramatic irony, and down right cold blood. Jorge's death is full of dramatic irony. Once the armada came I could not believe that he died in vain. The death of Kat was by far the most wonderful in the game. Where Carter, Jorge, and Emile are sacrificial, Kat is just unlucky. I gaped when the spike ran through her head and said, "What the fuck?" I did not truly expect such a devastating death of a Spartan. She just happened to die. No final hurrah, no destroying a cruiser or stabbing an elite, or ramming a scarab. Kat is my favorite character, for her contribution during her life in the campaign, and her humble end that accents the tragedy in the narrative.
Firefight rocks. I was worried when it was not announced for the longest time. I would have not bought Reach if there was no firefight. Matchmaking firefight is wonderful, and the infinite lives is a good choice. I would have hated to lose because an ally kept dying. Overall, best part of the game for me.
Matchmaking is still the solid Halo experience. With sprint as a basic AA for classic variants, I am loving it. The maps Asylum and Paradiso are my favorites out of Forge world, but I have not played enough on the other maps to have a firm opinion of them. Driving the warthog is better than before, and it is definitely worth doing now because of commendations (not that it was not before, but the game did not put value on you doing it). I do have two issues. I do not want to play Team SWAT or BTB Snipers when I join Team Slayer and BTB respectively. Those variations of the game reduce Reach to a lesser game that takes less <i>skill</i> - as the kids call it - than a normal game of Reach. It should have its own play list.
Challenges and the Armoury are what will keep me playing. The are addictive and I keep pushing to grab the stuff I want. I have planned out my wants and desires, allowing me to continue engaging with the game until the next one comes out.
Don't retreat, reload! - Sarah Palin
Starcraft and Dinosaurs 2012
I have finally achieved 10 wins, the last three were in a row. I am very surprised at my growing power in the craft of stars.
I also finished the campaign last night. I played the last three missions in a couple of hours. It was fun. I did see all the cliches. The entire game is a cliche. It was built up off of Warhammer 40k. Terrans are Space Marines, Protoss are Eldar (Dark Templars are Dark Eldar), and Zerg are the lovable Tyranids. Starship Troopers, both the movie and the book and present in SC. Aliens is seen as well, the Zerg remind me a bit of them in their spawning techniques.
SC2 and SC grew up while the world of science fiction grew up around it. How can it not be a cliche? It is a cliche of RTSs, its story is cliche, the characters are cliche, and its look is cliche. It is the ultimate cliche. The funny thing is, is that it works. I was amazed at how well it was put together. SC is always inviting and likable. I want to play it and I wanted to play and even finish the campaign. There are very few games like this and I'm glad there will be the expansions and hopefully another SC in six years, because twelve is just ridiculous.
The second part of this journal is about the extinction of the dinosaurs. This is a continuation of my 2012 journal series. Now, this has widely believed to be caused by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago. By this time on the planet there were six species of dinosaurs alive. Six. There is an issue with misinformation here.
So, Pangæa was the giant super continent that formed 250 odd million years ago. All dinosaurs dicked around together for a while before it split up. This meant the dinosaurs and everything with them slowly separated into two continents. Still with me? Good.
Next, the two continents broke up into smaller continents. This is about 170 million years after Pangæa split. What happened next was truly devastating.
In what is now India, a super volcano chain had been erupting and pumping poisonous fumes into the atmosphere causing toxic rain. This happens over a couple million years.
Land bridges now connect the long separated continents. This caused migration and dinosaur species to mingle. It also caused bugs, diseases and viruses to spread that the species that migrated to the new continents had any defense against. For example, North and South American joined. This caused the North and the South dinosaurs to migrate to the new lands. The terrible terrible bugs and diseases followed.
This was a mass pandemic that no dinosaur could counter. Influenza spread throughout the dino world as well as a vast array of parasites.
Continental temperature also had an effect. Now that the submerged areas resurfaced when the smaller continents began to connect and form what our modern world looked like they began to have larger temperature variations like climates now. Scorching hot summers and deathly cold winters. The large dinosaurs could not stop this or adapt quick enough, even though dinosaurs were very quick to evolve, this was something that could not be easily stopped by the cold blooded reptiles.
There are also traces of radioactive material in the sediment from the age of the dinosaurs. This is a cosmic effect. A star must have gone supernova close to Earth. This would have been a living hell. From Earth's surface it would have looked like we had two suns. Radiation bombards the planet as forests burst into flame. How could a dinosaur survive that? This would have only been a sporadic occurrence, lasting no more than a couple of years, but the effects would have been devastating.
Through acid rain, continental temperature change, radiation, and a global parasite, disease, and virus exchange killed off thousands of species of dinosaurs before the final six died 65 million years ago. This was the final kick to the balls after twenty million years of a vicious beat down. Dinosaurs could not have survived.
I just played my first match of starcraft online, and holy motherfucking crap I won.
It is an incredible rush. I also did an amazing protoss rush, but he has built static photon cannons at his choke. I figured I would warp my guys in behind him using a transport that the protoss have that make a pylon field. I dropped ten guys in there before he noticed and I had a lol when he could not stop me as I destroyed his economy while dancing away from his cannons, which really wasted his money, cause they only killed one or two of my zealots.
Whew, I needed to get rid of the adrenalin, so I ran around the block about seven times. I have been totally absorbed by my win. I got a strategy down when playing against the normal AI, and wow. That was awesome. This is what I play games for.
2012... Seriously?
But I have been a great lurker during that time. The reason I have not been able to post is because I have been glued to the television watching more and more people succumb to the insanity of the 2012 phenomenon, constantly flipping the channels between the Christian Right and Mayan Specialists. This of course is a psychotic belief that the world will end on the winter solstice of 2012. This belief is being pushed by religious fanatics and scientists who need grant money.
There is an entertaining show named the Nostradamus Effect. This show has on various specialists and scholars tell you the world will end. It hangs between subjects like Issac Newton thinking the world will end in 2060 and as far fetched as Satan's Army. There are predictions such as the Sun hitting Earth with a solar flare, cosmic radiation bombarding Earth, a Megaquake hitting California, plague killing billions, or an asteroid pummeling us to bits. It is nice to know the minds of America and across the world are dedicated to vaguely prophesying the doom of humanity. It hurts my feelings.
Now, there will not be extreme solar activity or cosmic radiation coming from other planets. I know this because of the Sun. Sol, is a small star, but it has a magnetic field that is between 10 and 20 billion miles out. Most of the cosmic rays (radiation) that would come close to our solar system are deflected by this magnetic field. Since we are in a solar maximum, the magnetic field is at its largest and most powerful. Neat eh?
This solar maximum is scaring people. It is scary, because this is when the Sun is angriest. During this time God will tell the Sun in a stern voice (like the prick he is) to reach out with a jet of plasma and touch Earth, much like in the movie The Knowing. Spoiler Alert? O, and since I ruined it anyways, Aliens. This is a hilarious disproportionate look at both the power of a solar flare and the age of our Sun. At this point in our Sun's life, it will not be able to shoot out a solar flare that large. Once the Sun ages a bit more, it will work, but not in time for 2012. Sorry.
I now realize that my... whatever the fuck this is, will continue in a later journal. Look forward to asteroid impacts, megaquakes, and plagues in the next journal.
Games in the Very Near Future.
I figured it out. I just bought Red Dead Redemption, cause Gun and Red Dead Revolver were good. Redemption is fantastic. Here is my current games list:
LA Noire
I am a Noir junkie and anything with transhumanism is enough to make me horny. Cyberpunk transhumanism is something that almost made me... well anyway, excited for games this year. Once I play around with RDR for a while and finish the game I'll be playing LP2 multiplayer. I do not really feel Halo is that big of a deal right now with sooo many good games coming out. I may get it next summer, but i have no real want to play Reach.
-Will
A two year old could do better BP.
Stars. They create energy. Scientists have decided to build one to power Earth. It will be a very small star, but capturing its energy would be wonderful for humans. Think about this: most people believe that we are in a ‘global warming’ crisis. Sol, our sun, produces a significant amount of heat. If we were to capture the heat of a small star and were able to make more stars we would not need a sun. And since these stars are very small and not very dense, when it died, it would just shrink on itself. No super nova, no black hole. The next logical step would be to find some way to move Earth once we had the power to make our own stars. We would not need a solar system and could move to a safer place in the galaxy farther away from the galactic core. I guess we could take Venus and Mars with us, because we would be able to easily terraform them when we had the proper solar energy at our finger tips. The only issue is that the scientists think that they will be ready in 2012. Way to drop a bomb on the easily panicked masses of Earth. 2012 is not the end of the world. Neither is 2060 and I don’t care what Newton said. However, people think that it will be, which is terrible in ways that I do not care to imagine.
Halo Reach Info
Apparently the limited edition Halo Reach is $79.99. It looks like I'll be spending 140 bucks on games between that and Lost Planet 2 this year.
The Watchmen
Ska group
Book Junkies
Users For A Porn Free RoosterTeeth.
Penny Arcade: Episode 2
PhantomMaul
yeah, you have a point. I think if you took all of the religions ever, it would equal maybe HALF of the End of time or the world theories
wow. did not know this. thank you for showing that neither author had originality
going to get Nier next week. Also looking forward to LP 2. Preordered new transformers game and The force unleashed 2
earlier versions of the armour = less bulky (or so I'm assuming )
yeah pretty much that. just giant fucking robots with a super small cockpit for the little human
sparta704
I hope that's a joke.
That really doesn't answer the question: why did gamespot completely obliterate the score of 10?
C_GO
Happy Birthday you old coot :D
+1 Year
FUZZY_LLAMA
Well if you wanna do those too then go for it.
Aren't we all twelve years old? :D
Oh, and all the stuff about the clues leading to the tomb of the Primes or whatever sounded like a National Treasure movie.
I finally saw Bayformers 2: Electric Boogaloo and it was pretty good...
but I swear the camera went out of focus every time there was a robot vs. robot fight!
In reply to TunedRegular:
I have a lot of things from Wes that's pretty cool.
Nah, it's a pretty cool thing that Queerso got, I can reply to your comments on my page and it'll comment on your comments.
Then I didn't catch it.
And you aren't?
I refuse to.
Yes I used a translator, you don't expect me to know Russian do you?
Actually it's the translator I used that sucks.
And yeah, that manuscript is definitely an age old D&D guide.
Oh shit.....We did.
Copy001
Oh, very well.
Last week, some angst-riddled individual climbed into a Gundam and destroyed a Zaku. I can't wait for the Fourth of July. Ha ha.
On a more serious note, I started to work at my brother's restaurant.
I only recently started, most of my shit is from Grixis & Alara though.
I love my black/x hybrid decks. But I am going to work on getting myself all white and white/red decks. Dragon/Angel deck for the MOFO win biznitches.
I know, I have both the game and I play the card game.
I will install when my mother finally gives me the site so I can download office 2007 freeeeee.
Actually it's because I'm pussyfooting around it and I haven't re-installed Microsoft Office.
messenjah
i did the painting with 4 nile albums on permanent cycle in a single night before i left for california to go see her
the hourglass was there to represent the temporary nature of beauty, even when its as unbelievable as hers
acrylics on canvas
the real title of that one was actually "dusk falls upon the temple of the serpent on the mount of sunrise" in reference and hommage to the nile instrumental of the same name and also in absolute worship of the goddess-like beauty of one of my friends who is from syria
its one of my best paintings (if not my absolute all time best) and i gave it her as a christmas present
I've been fleshing it out and I need to edit up the first chapters then I will work on it again.
cowboys never even so much as crossed my mind to draw
all these things i draw are related to my world that i live in (be it mentally or physically) and cowboys just isnt part of them
but hey never say never
Indeed, we do. Did you see the other image in my collection that was related to I Monster? The Green one?
Any-who, my favourite is "Who is She?". I like Daydream in Blue, but the music video is a bit risque. Hey Mrs. is a lovely track.
And to think, I was introduced to the group after I viewed this.
Oddly enough, there are a few that I missed. "Lucifer", a hidden track on NeveroddoreveN, (palindromes For The Win!) escaped my ears many a time.
And a good morn to you, sir! Pray tell that you're doing well.
yOuGLyMuTHa
For the most Epic Guitar Hero Expirience
Ditto to the self-esteem. And I have issues with the staying calm bit. I've got a temper.
Indeed. But often that can make the people I have to deal with even more agitated for some reason.
I do to.
It makes me more liable to ignore them when they do that.
In reply to TunedRegular, #1:
Someone else listens to this!
You win.
No, I mean it.
Good day, sir.
I like the objection poster best
no, the times are the same. it was copypasta.
prfectn0b0dy
Puppy!!!!!!!!
Awesome. You'll fit right in.
I'm not saying you are, I'm just telling you what kinda newfags to look out for and attack with much hatred if you end up coming into the F3 thread.
And I wouldn't be considered a fleshy deer. No meat whatsoever.
I'm slower then all my friends, but they say that I would either scare away the werewolves/bears or make them into my gang. Apparently I frighten them that much. And the Fallout thread usually deviates from Fallout a lot, unless a DLC has come out in the last 2 weeks, mainly due to the fact the people in it usually stay the same so we get to know each other. Also we like to attack stupid newfags to our thread who like to come in and then tell us what to do. I think we've run out about 5 people in the last couple months because they do that.
.....whaaaat?
Go! Bask in your good day ^_^
I should take your example and work on writing too...I've been splitting my time between calls to read and write, and reading is currently winning the battle for highest percentage of my day.
and I'll try to have a good one
Backpack Backpack! >_< I've had times like that. Turn to the books! lol I had to to escape things like Elmo's World...because those were the only channels I had. Nothing against Sesame Street, although the new shows are horrific!
And rain is quite inspiring. The only thing I like about working in this big barn of a building is that you can hear the rain pattering on the roof. A peaceful atmosphere for an otherwise stressful job!
I like killing everyone but one person, blaming it on them, and being the hero
Very nice. I've always thought about writing graphic novels or comic books, but I just don't think it's my cup o' tea, y'know? But that shit is definitely awesome. I just overall love coming up with ideas for shit like movies, tv, and anything else.
Well the thing is I think I'd like both so it's really whichever I can get a job in.
And I hope it goes well for me to.
So what are your thoughts to your career?
Also sorry about the pahtah yesterday, I was in the middle of the Finale in L4D and we communicating with my team and unable to get with the partying.
Pretty much whatever I can get a job doing.
I like movies, tv, and games so those would all be fun to write for, but movies & tv would be a lot easier.
That song is indeed excellent.
It sounds better when shared with friends.
I love to cook. That's the one good thing about being away for college. Not only do I have large spans of free time, but I get to cook for myself
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A foundation leader Robert Kuttner called a "fiscal fear monger" responds, a professor argues well-off feminists haven't done enough to help working-class ones, and Executive Editor Mark Schmitt introduces the October issue.
Yes, Tax the Fat Cats
As someone implicated in a number of attacks made in "Obama vs. the Fiscal Fear-Mongers" [September 2008]-- I am one of the authors of the report, "Taking Back Our Fiscal Future"' -- I'd like to set the record straight.
Kuttner claims that concern over the many promises made by the government for the future is based upon a calculation of $53 trillion in unfunded promises that uses "worst-case assumptions." In fact, that figure excludes a number of promises for the future such as Medicaid, and is based on assumptions that the government's actuaries call intermediate and others believe to be optimistic.
The unfunded-promise calculation raises two questions. First, how much should be committed today? Second, is the growth rate in those future promises sustainable? The unfunded promises are scheduled to grow at rates faster than the economy. Hence, they tend also to threaten future growth and create large deficits -- even if taxes are raised substantially.
Kuttner says that in the report "Taking Back Our Fiscal Future," tax loopholes were taken off the table. The report actually says, "The budget includes other mandatory or entitlement programs and tax subsidies that grow automatically without review. Ultimately we would like to bring all parts of the budget into a disciplined, transparent review process that forces politicians and the public to consider priorities and tradeoffs." Peter G. Peterson has argued for more taxes on "fat cats like myself."
Finally, Kuttner says that concern over fiscal issues is "well-funded." Would that it were only so! The amount spent on drawing attention to these issues so far has been a drop in the bucket relative to past efforts of foundations, the dollars spent on the current presidential race, and the amount spent on lobbying.
If fiscal integrity does finally gain traction, it won't be because it has more resources on its side. What will carry the day will be simple arithmetic, honest accounting, and a recognition that no entity, including the U.S. government, can live beyond its means over the long term.
Eugene Steuerle, Vice President, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
The Three Gender Tiers
Ann Friedman asserts ["The Generation Trap," September 2008] that "young women on modern college campuses are unlikely to know someone who has had a back-alley abortion."
They're also unlikely to know any women whose job options are restricted by gender. Elite women now have equal access to careers in the professions, but most women, who don't have college degrees, are still locked into a narrow range of dead-end pink-collar jobs. Neither second-wave feminists nor the younger generation of not-feminists-but have done a damn thing to remedy this.
Second-wave feminism simply established a three-gender system: men, women, and us -- the unisex elite. Younger feminists don't show interest in the concerns of working-class women, either.
Access to abortion is a good thing for women. It simply isn't as important as access to good jobs, an end to sex segregation in the labor force, and affordable child care -- issues that affect far more women.
Dr. H. E. Baber, Department of Philosophy University of San Diego
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From the Executive Editor
"Facts are stubborn things," John Adams said, and yet they have seemed timid in the last decade, perhaps cowed by the Bush administration's contempt for the "reality-based community." Should we just mimic the shouting and disdain for evidence that characterizes right-wing talk radio? While some tried, our assistant Web editor Sam Boyd reports that the recent success of Rachel Maddow, whose new cable show premiered as we were finishing this issue, suggests that evidence and research might still win political debates -- and an audience.
Also in this issue, our writing fellows, Adam Serwer and Tim Fernholz, make their first appearances in the magazine: Adam with a skeptical take on the politics of hip-hop activism, and Tim with an examination of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which may be poised for a second consecutive cycle of success. Tim's article anchors a package covering aspects of this year's election that have received less attention than the top race, such as the themes employed by congressional candidates (a safe brand of populism, as Harold Meyerson shows) and the big questions about the electorate.
This will be the last issue of the magazine in which we'll be able to look ahead to the election, but from now through November, we'll continue to cover it on the Web at prospect.org, going beyond the horse race to look at other unnoticed races, themes, and unanswered questions, and following on our successful Web coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions. — Mark Schmitt
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For some, it isn’t enough
to carry out of the tasks handed out by the real Lord and Master of the church – namely preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments within a local franchise of the church that God has started. The devil has deluded them into thinking that they need to stand at the head of some organizational chart to be effective instruments. They want to “start new to reach new” because they have been deceived into thinking that the ways that God has revealed He desires to work are too ineffective.
Like the priests and pharisees
God has placed some of these people into their offices. He has given them specific tasks to do.
But instead of faithfully following His lead, they set aside His clear Word and promises and seek after something else. Even though outwardy, they carry on the ordinances of God, they do not believe that God accomplishes His will through those very means that He established. Instead, they believe that something more needs to be added – something more pleasing to the human eye and enticing to the the human heart.
Like those in ancient Jerusalem, they wrong-headedly believe that God can be seen to be at work where things show forth temporal glory and so, often unknowingly, they refuse to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness by the means the He established – trusting that He would add all things necessary.
But just as He showed when mankind attempted to stand up to Him on the plains of Shinar – creating a tower that reached into the heavens so that they could make a name for themselves, the Lord will not stand idly by as entrepreneurial upstarts seek to usurp His honor and glory by their own schemes and plans.
The Lord patiently endured
the affront to His honor and glory for a time. Desiring that those responsible of Jesus’ death would repent and seek His forgiveness, he waited over thirty years after the crucifixion of Jesus before He raised up the Roman Army to overthrow the walls of Jerusalem and tear down the grand and magnificent temple created with human hands
And likewise, today. Our Lord will be patient. He will seek after those who have strayed and given ear to the whispers of the forked-tongue father of lies. He will call after them to repent of their arrogance and their rejection of Him and the means that He has established to build His church.
But He will not be patient forever.
And no matter how important a role it may have played in the past to keep the message straight and get the message out, no group or organization will be allowed to endure if it wanders down the path of obstinantly rejecting our Lord by despising His Word and setting aside the plans, purposes and institutions clearly revealed in Holy Writ in favor of the plans and intentions of human hearts that wish to exult themselves to the head of organizational charts and hierarchies.
One of the parables of Jesus from the Gospel according to St. Matthew speaks to this situation in clear and unequivocal words:
[Jesus said,] “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“ ‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
GOD is the master of the House of the Christian church.
He is the entrepreneur who started this enterprise by giving us the gifts of His sacraments. The preaching the Gospel and administration of the sacraments are the “best practices” that He instituted. They are the means by which He will move this enterprise forward.
The first tenants He placed over his vineyard were unfaithful and they were overthrown. He has given His vineyard over to other tenants to manage and tend according to His instruction and His command which He clearly lays out in His Word.
He does not look for out of the box thinking. He does not desire that we “start new to reach new”. He does not look for upstarts to seek new ways and methods as if we could improve or get ahead of what He is accomplishing.
By His Holy Spirit working in and through His Word and Sacraments,
He continues to guide, guard and sustain the Church.
And as we are faithful to the tasks He has clearly given in His Word, He scatters the seed of the Gospel to raise up a harvest for righteousness.
Our Lord seeks and uses those who trust Him to fulfill His promises. Those who lay hold of His Word and promises, clearly revealed, can be assured that He is with us always, to the very end of the age, just as He promised.
So, it is not “sacramental entrepreneurs,” but “sacramental minions” that our Lord desires.
Those who will faithfully carry out His will and His commands as He has clearly given them to us in the Scriptures. Those who have been taught to treasure everything He has commanded and so we seek to carry out the office of preaching the Gospel and administering the sacraments as He instituted. For through these, as through means, God sends His Holy Spirit to work faith in those who hear the Gospel when and where it pleases Him.
Lutheran News and Views
This three part series challenges the increasingly popular notion that the church is business needs to market God and "gain market share" for the Kingdom. The series shows the folly of the idea that to be faithful to the so-called "Great Commission" we must be Entrepreneurs for the Kingdom of God. In this series, we see that God has established this enterprise called the Church and He desires that we follow and carry out the "best practices" that He has given us in His Word. We are minions in the work of the Kingdom He established, not "entrepreneurs" seeking to start something new. Rather, it is through the means He has established, the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the Sacraments, that God sends His Holy Spirit to work faith where and when it pleases Him in those who hear the Gospel.
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Career Paths: Helle Hammer, Cefor
In our special column this time, we are excited to host an interview with Mrs Helle Hammer, Managing Director, Cefor - The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers, who admits that working with the Nordic marine insurance market is a startling moment at her career; firstly due to the professionalism, secondly due to the international nature of the industry and lastly because she has the change to participate in discussions about safety at sea.
Women in shipping | 14/05/19
In addition, she encourages us to be open to new opportunities, learning and have trust in our skills; this is a special advice to all those young women who aspire a career in the maritime industry, Mrs. Hammer notes.
SAFETY4SEA: How did it come about that you joined shipping industry and your field of expertise specifically?
Helle Hammer: It was more of a chance that came along when I was looking for interesting new opportunities in the private sector after some years in politics. The opportunity to work in the marine insurance industry came after a time spent abroad and fitted perfectly with my previous experience.
S4S: What about your current job/ role most excites you and why?
Helle Hammer: A few things: Being fortunate to work with the lead Nordic marine insurance market, and learn from their professionalism and dedication to serve their clients. Second is the international nature of the industry. And finally, the opportunity I have to work on new risks and take part in discussions on how to improve safety at sea.
S4S: What is the best and what was the worst piece of advice you've ever been given and why?
Helle Hammer: Never burn any bridges and always assume what you do one day can end up on the frontpage of a newspaper. These words of caution are in particular important in politics, but can kill a career also in the shipping industry and elsewhere.
S4S: If you could give a piece of advice to your 18-year-old-self one thing, what would it be and why? What piece of advice should you ignore?
Helle Hammer: Say yes to opportunities, stay curious and believe in yourself. And ignore those whose only argument against change is ‘this is how we have also done it’. And this advice goes also to all those brilliant young women out there who wants a career in the maritime sector.
S4S: What would you like to change in the current maritime landscape and your area of expertise specifically and why?
Helle Hammer: We are looking at some megatrends, and to gradually take in what digitization, sustainability and changes in geopolitics mean to our industry is difficult but necessary. Regulating some of this is a slow-moving process or even not an option, and challenges the ability of the industry itself to adapt and constantly change with the trends.
Helle Hammer, Managing Director, Cefor - The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers
Helle has more than 20 years of experience from politics and industry policies, including four years as State Secretary in the Norwegian Government and in various positions with the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association. She has been at the helm of the Nordic Association of Marine Insurers for more than eleven years, and holds a degree in business and marketing.
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Danny-boy: Missing Manchester United Wonderkid Costing Imps Dear
When Manchester United agreed up to £136,000 with Preston North End for Danny Rowe at 12 football shuddered. The Imps then bagged the no 9 of our dreams in the summer only to see him sidelined just as our attempt to get back into the football League was gathering pace. Oh Danny Boy………….
Thankyou for reading Neil gentleman-Hobbs
Danny became the star of the Manchester United U13 side, scoring for fun in the FA Premier Academy League. Preston were not best pleased, of course, as they had developed him from the age of six only to lose him at 12, when United offered him a 4 year deal (lads can’t properly join the payroll until 16). It went to tribunal with staggered payments agreed. The payments were to be £8,000 up front, £8,000 if Daniel signed a scholarship, £20,000 when he turned pro and £100,000 after 10 first-team appearances. Preston had argued that he would have been worth a million if he had gone through their system and then been sold. It might have been the best option for a lad who was swamped at United despite the teenage promise.
Kendal Town took him on and after an impressive first half to the season he was sold to Fleetwood with Nathan Pond coming on loan the other way. Danny was sent out on loan to gain experience in the first half of the 2011/12 season, becoming the BSN player of the month in November, a month that saw him bang in 7 goals. Danny got 12 for the bloods in his short stay and caught Stockport’s eye hammering in another 8 including a brace against the Imps when County trounced us 4-0 in April 2012.
Danny spent last season on loan at Stockport and Barrow banging in 13 goals in all competitions, despite both sides suffering relegation. When he signed for Lincoln the excitement was on a par with the invention of sliced bread for the Imps starved of success and haunted by relegation themselves. It marked a new era with Danny-boy conjuring a beautiful hat-trick in pre-season and a glorious winner before injury struck to halt his and our optimistic rebirth. The clever youngster, still 23. also brings those around him into play, laying on some terrific opportunities he is as much a maker as a taker with either foot. He has clearly learned at the feet of the master even if Old Trafford may have been a stage too far fro the Red Devil turned Red Imp.
Alas this dashed ankle ligament injury has curtailed his performances since his triumphant unveiling at the time when our most accurate striker of the ball is most needed. With the rest either unable to hit a barn door or injured themselves the Imps went 4 hours without scoring despite creating the chances to win every game. Danny was forced to suffer in silence from the stands with further frustration due to bad swelling whenever he tries to do any running. It is such a shame as this lad has the class accuracy and goals in him we need. We could have done with him tomorrow in a Cup tie that could mean £20,000 to the Imps and the chance for more. That’s small beer to United but enough bread and butter to treble the Imps loan budget. Let us hope he is back in the next 2-3 weeks, because if he is the play-off dream could well be back on.
STMI Average ratings.
Name G Tot Ave
Rowe 8 58 7.3 7 7 7
Impstatz
No NAME St Sub Mins G On M Ass F’s F’ed YC RC
9 Rowe 6 2 492 1 6 7 0 6 6 2 0
Danny Lucas Rowe
29 January 1990 (age 23)
Blackpool,
84Kg (13 st 2 lb)
POSITION: LW/AMC / CF
CURRENT CLUB
Preston /Manchester United
SENIOR CAREER
Kendal Town 14 (11)
Fleetwood 7 (0)
Droylesdon (loan) 12 (12)
Stockport County (loan x 2) 22 (9)
Barrow (loan) 17 (4)
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Tags: Danny Rowe injury, Lincoln City, Manchester United, Preston North End
Injured Rowe To Miss Hereford & Hyde
Danny Rowe our summer capture from Fleetwood Town looks set to miss the Hereford United and Hyde FC games after a 63rd minute knock forced him to hobble off.
thanks for reading Neil Gentleman-Hobbs.
Danny will be assessed over the next couple of days, once the acute stage swelling eases, but the early prognosis suggests a two week lay-off. It’s a shame as he was starting to come back to his best. STMI wish Rowe a speedy recovery although this will open the door for Wade Fairhurst who is nearing full fitness.
9 Danny Rowe
Name Tot Ave
Rowe 7 7 8 7 8 7 7 7 58 7.3
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Tags: Danny Rowe injury, Fleetwood Town, Hereford United, Hyde FC
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Graphene Patterned Microchip For Colorectal Cancer Detection
Engineering Posters
Singh, Shrishti; Hemmanur, Kavya; Macwan, Isaac; Patra, Prabir; Khan, Daud Hossain; Aphale, Ashish; Liu, Juan; Hingorani, Manju
Event: Faculty Research Day
Cancer currently stands as the second-leading cause of death worldwide. Studies reveal colorectal cancer (CRC) to be the 4th leading cause of mortality due to cancer. It is estimated that about 30% of CRC cases are hereditary, of which 5% are attributed by known syndromes, particularly Lynch Syndrome. Lynch Syndrome (LS) is caused by loss or malfunction of proteins responsible for DNA mismatch repair proteins (MMR), mostly MLH1 and MSH2, causing increased risks of developing CRC. Despite the small percentage accounted with the disease, the severity of the illness still remains immense since 80% of these patients eventually develop CRC and an overwhelming 40-60 % of female patients develop endometrial cancer, the major form of cancer in women in the developing nations. This pilot study aims to fabricate a DNA-graphene-polypyrole (DGP) based biosensor to diagnose deficiency of functional MMR proteins present in patients at a scale of less than ng/ ml. Fundamental understanding of interactions at the interface of biological molecules, such as proteins, and nanomaterials is therefore crucial for developing such biocompatible hybrid materials and biosensing platforms. Conductive nanomaterials-based biosensors offer the advantage of higher sensitivity and reliable diagnosis mainly due to their superior specific surface area and ballistic conductivity. Such films that immobilize proteins can synergize the properties of transducers and molecular recognition elements in order to improve biosensor performance and diversity. Here we report for the first time, the interactions between avidin and a graphene surface, which is being developed as a sensing platform for early detection of DNA mismatch repair proteins. We find that the interactive forces between avidin and graphene are mainly hydrophobic, along with some van der Waals, electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions. Notably, the structure and function of the avidin molecule is preserved after its adsorption on the graphene surface. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) analysis of avidin immobilized on a graphenated polypyrrole (G-PPy) conductive substrate, confirms adsorption of avidin on graphene nanoplatelets and corresponding changes in electrical impedance, respectively. EIS analysis of MutS substrate and MutS immobilized on GPPy chips confirmed the working of the bio sensor by corresponding change in electrical impedance.
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2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
For the 2018 Martin Luther King Celebration Dinner, we asked Southeast students to share their hopes and dreams for our community and nation 50 years after the death of Dr. King, watch the video to see what they shared. The theme for this year’s commemoration is, MLK50: Where Do We go From Here?
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Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) participate in Asia’s largest financial forum in Hong Kong
A delegation sought to attract investment in Sharjah and gave a presentation on investment opportunities A delegation from the Sharjah Investment and Development authority (Shurooq) has taken part in the Asian Financial Forum (AFF) that took place from 18-19 January 2016 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Shurooq’s participating delegation was let by Saud Meqdad Al Suwaidi, Director of Sharjah Foreign Direct Investment at the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) and included Mohamed Juma Al Musharrkh, Deputy Director of Sharjah Foreign Direct Investment at Shurooq, and Diana Yonghui MA, Investment Promotion Executive at Shurooq. Under a theme…
January 21, 2016 Corporate, Developments, Investment
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) discusses ways to strengthen cooperation with Sharjah Center for Astronomy & Space Sciences
HE Marwan bin Jassim Al Sarkal, CEO of Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), recently visited the Sharjah Center for Astronomy & Space Sciences at its headquarters in the University City of Sharjah to discuss means of cooperation between the authority and the centre with the joint aim of boosting tourist activity. HE Marwan Al Sarkal and the accompanying delegation were received by Ibrahim Al Jarwan, Deputy Director of the Sharjah Center for Astronomy & Space Sciences, Marwan Anwar Shwaiki, Manager of Sharjah Planetarium and Mohammed Fadil Talafha, Assistant Manager of Sharjah Planetarium. Marwan Al Sarkal presented a number of…
December 16, 2015 Corporate, Developments, Event, Investment
Bodour Al Qasimi visits Mleiha Eco- tourism and Archaeological Project
Visit conducted to inspect the progress of the project SheikhaBodourbint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) recently visited the Mleiha Eco- tourism and Archaeological Project, which isundergoing development by Shurooq in collaboration with theDirectorate of Town Planning and Survey, Directorate of Antiquities at the Department of Culture and Informationand the Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA), with the aim of establishing a new tourism destination that will attract nature and heritage lovers alike. SheikhaBodour was accompanied during the inspection visit by HE Marwan bin JassimAl Sarkal, CEO of Shurooq, Ahmed Obaid Al Qaseer, Chief Operating…
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) to link Chinese investors and businessmen with the GCC and North African countries
China Trade Week Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) participated in China Trade Week forum in Abu Dhabi from December 7-9 by calling for closer commercial ties between Sharjah and China. The authority invited Chinese investors and business leaders to take advantage of the emirate’s strategic geographical position and the services and facilities offered to allow easy access to nearby markets, particularly the GCC and North Africa markets. Shurooq, the silver sponsor of the conference, held meetings with participating businessmen to present the opportunities available in Sharjah and to highlight the facilities and incentives offered by Sharjah Government to foreign…
December 9, 2015 Corporate, Event, Investment
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) to promote investment opportunities in Sharjah at China Trade Week
To strengthen Sharjah’s relations with Chinese businesses Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) is participating in China Trade Week, which started today 7the December at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and will continue till Wednesday 9th December. The event brings together over 200 Chinese exhibitors, looking to network and explore expanded business and investment opportunities with economic authorities, large companies and businesses in the region. The authority is participating together with Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Sharjah Airport International Free Zone Authority (SAIF Zone) Through its stand at the exhibition, Shurooq will showcase the opportunities offered by…
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) Promotes Sharjah’s Growth Prospects in Malaysia
During its Participation at the World Islamic Economic Forum As part of its strategy to cement the Emirate’s position as a leading regional hub for investment and business, the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), is set to take part in the 11th edition of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIFE) in the Malaysian Capital, Kuala Lumpur, on November 3 – 5. Geared towards attracting investors interested in the Emirate, the (Shurooq) stand at WIEF features information about Sharjah’s burgeoning sectors, with a focus on the Halal tourism and travel market; logistics and transportation; healthcare services; and the environment and…
November 2, 2015 Corporate, Event, Investment
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) Debuts its Latest Destinations in London
Through its Participation in the World Tourism Market The Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), is set to showcase its latest projects and destinations in this year’s edition of the World Travel Market (WTM), which will take place in London on November 2 – 5. Operating under the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority’s (SCTDA) pavilion at WTM, the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) stand will feature Authority’s newest developments, including the Al Noor Island, a 45,470 square meter development and the Arab World’s first island to combine nature, art and entertainment, and Mleiha Archaeological and Eco- tourism Project,…
November 2, 2015 Corporate, Developments, Investment
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) Promotes Sharjah During its Participation at the World Halal Tourism Summit
As part of its ongoing commitment to cementing the Emirate’s position as a leading regional business and investment hub, the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), participated as a sponsor and exhibitor at the World Halal Tourism Summit (WHTS), held in Abu Dhabi from 19 to 21 of October. Through its participation at WHTS, Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) introduced investors interested in Halal tourism to the available opportunities in Emirate, which is considered one of the leading international destinations in the sector. Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq)'s stand at WHTS displayed information about a range of its…
October 25, 2015 Corporate, Event, Investment
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) enhances communication with Italian businessmen and opens the door for them to invest in Sharjah
During its participation in Sharjah Day in Milan Bodour Al Qasimi: Cooperation between the UAE and Italy is reflected positively on national economy The Chairperson of the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), HE Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi, yesterday presided over the Sharjah Day session in Milan, Italy. Organised by Shurooq, the session took place on the sidelines of the fifth Economic Commission between the UAE and Italy. Sharjah Day aimed at introducing a number of Italian businesses and entrepreneurs to available opportunities in the emirate. Sheikha Bodour emphasised that the UAE and Italy have excellent relations and a flourishing…
October 25, 2015 Corporate, Developments, Event, Investment
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) Introduces Chinese and International Investor Community to Opportunities in Sharjah
During its participation in the China Overseas Investment Fair As part of its ongoing commitment to cementing the Emirate’s position as a leading regional business and investment hub, the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq),took part in the 7th edition of the China Overseas Investment Fair (COIF), which was held in Beijing on 22 – 23 of October. Led by Investment Promotion Executives at (Shurooq), Yonghui MA and Marwan Alichla, the Authority’s team organized a workshop titled “Sharjah investment Promotion Seminar”, which introduced Chinese and international investors to opportunities available in the Emirate. The team also highlighted some of Sharjah…
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Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences
Reading: Vegetative propagation of some selected mangrove species from Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka
Vegetative propagation of some selected mangrove species from Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka
KHWL de Silva ,
University of Kelaniya, LK
About KHWL
MD Amarasinghe
Mangrove forests are degraded and threatened worldwide, due to anthropogenic events. Mass production of planting material and successful germination of seeds are essential processes in rehabilitating these degraded mangrove forests. The present work was carried out to determine the efficacy of using propagule cuttings in mass production of plant materials and to determine the potential of using non mangrove soils to establish propagule cuttings for ornamental purposes. In addition air layering and stem cutting techniques were also tested for the mangrove propagation.
Propagation of Rhizophora apiculata, by propagule cuttings, treated with root promoting hormones is feasible and it was possible to produce three saplings from one propagule. Indole Butyric Acid (IBA) (1000 ppm) was the best hormone concentration for inducing roots and IBA (1500 ppm) was the best for inducing shoots from propagule cuttings of R. apiculata. Air layering and stem cutting were performed with Avicennia marina and R. apiculata but none of the species was able to generate roots and therefore these vegetative propagation methods cannot be used for mass propagation of these mangrove species. Optimum growth medium and period of nursery care for mangrove saplings of R. apiculata, Ceriops tagal and Bruguiera sexangula were studied and the results revealed that best growth performance was in mangrove soils, i.e. 4.15 cm/ 4weeks for R. apiculata, 3.75 cm/ 4weeks for B. sexangula and 0.56 cm/ 4 weeks for C. tagal, while mangrove soils mixed with sand produced the second best growth for C. tagal and B. sexangula. Seedlings grown on terrestrial soils showed the lowest growth rate for all three mangrove species. However, no significant difference (P < 0.05) exists in growth rates of mangrove seedlings when grown in different growth media, indicating they can be grown with terrestrial soil for ornamental purposes.
Potting media consisted only of mangrove soils as well as mangrove soils (1): sand (1), terrestrial soil alone and mangrove soil (1): terrestrial soil (1) can be used as nursery growth media for R. apiculata and C. tagal.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
Sri Lanka J. Aquat. Sci. 15 (2010): p.25-38
Keywords: Vegetative propagation , mangrove species , Negombo estuary
How to Cite: de Silva, K. and Amarasinghe, M., 2013. Vegetative propagation of some selected mangrove species from Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 15, pp.25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
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de Silva, K. and Amarasinghe, M., 2013. Vegetative propagation of some selected mangrove species from Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 15, pp.25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
de Silva K, Amarasinghe M. Vegetative propagation of some selected mangrove species from Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 2013;15:25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
de Silva, K., & Amarasinghe, M. (2013). Vegetative propagation of some selected mangrove species from Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 15, 25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
de Silva K and Amarasinghe M, ‘Vegetative Propagation of Some Selected Mangrove Species from Negombo Estuary, Sri Lanka’ (2013) 15 Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences 25 DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
de Silva, KHWL, and MD Amarasinghe. 2013. “Vegetative Propagation of Some Selected Mangrove Species from Negombo Estuary, Sri Lanka”. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences 15: 25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
de Silva, KHWL, and MD Amarasinghe. “Vegetative Propagation of Some Selected Mangrove Species from Negombo Estuary, Sri Lanka”. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences 15 (2013): 25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
de Silva, K.and M. Amarasinghe. “Vegetative Propagation of Some Selected Mangrove Species from Negombo Estuary, Sri Lanka”. Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences, vol. 15, 2013, pp. 25–38. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljas.v15i0.5480
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Big News! Diamond Platnumz signs to Universal Music
Tanzanian mega star Diamond Platnumz makes history as the first East African artist to sign to The World’s leading entertainment company Universal Music. While still on the big news, Diamond has announced the release of his collaboration with international R&B royalty Neyo on the track ‘Marry You’.
The anticipated music video of the single was shot in Los Angeles and Johannesburg with his label mate, and is probably going to be his biggest hit yet.
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Sipho Dlamini, Universal Music’s Managing Director South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa is excited to sign one of Africa’s biggest acts. “He’s a star, he is talented and full of energy and creatively he’s on par with any international artist I’ve worked with. He’s focused and determined to succeed. He’s passionate about his country, his people , his language and his culture and I love that. He is a first class performer on stage, his new material is authentic, fresh and African, yet it will touch people across the globe. Artists like him are the reason
An official statement from the camp stated that ‘Marry You’ is the first project Diamond Platnumz will release with Universal Music. The collaboration that was recorded in Nairobi, Kenya in 2015 during Neyo’s visit in Kenya to record Coke Studio Africa season 3 is a big deal for him.
“I choose Neyo for this track because he fits my style of music. I am so happy because I grew up listening Neyo songs and most of my style is inspired by him so it’s a dream come true for a kid who grew up in a slum area in Tanzania,” concluded Diamond.
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Visit National Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall and explore the most comprehensive collection of poetry in Britain. The library has been at the heart of the nation’s poetry community since it was founded by the Arts Council in 1953 and opened by poets TS Eliot and Herbert Read.
It’s free to join and all you need to bring with you is:
a photo ID such as a passport or driving licence
a bill from the last 3 months with your name and address on it (a bank statement or a utility bill for example)
Spanning the world of poetry since 1912, the library has over 200,000 items and is growing all the time. We are the first port of call for everyone with a love of modern poetry in the UK.
We have extensive resources for poets, academics, schools and families as well as a host of engaging events and exhibitions. The library is free to use, open to all and offers an unrivalled journey into poetry across all its forms.
We offer a free postal service of CDs and cassettes to people with sight problems throughout the UK as well as a selection of popular modern poets and anthologies in Braille. Our eloan collection makes ebooks and audio available to all members from the comfort of their own home.
National Poetry Library is open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 8pm and closed to the public on Mondays
National Poetry Library, Level 5, Blue Side, Royal Festival Hall
Tel: 020 7921 0664 or 020 7921 0943
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National Poetry Library can be reached step-free by taking the JCB Glass Lift, located on Blue Side of Royal Festival Hall, to Level 5.
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The library provides a free postal service of poetry on cassette and CD to people with sight problems throughout the UK.
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National Poetry Library also has a selection of popular modern poets and anthologies in Braille.
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ELEVATING CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
7Starr | Krump
Pulse Studios (map)
$25 | Drop-in
Location | Pulse Studios
Attending | Urban Dance Community
Focus | Krump
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
It is important to define what Krump is by explaining its history. The workshop begins with a focus on the origins, evolution and impact of Krump at the global and community level. The participants then learn the basic movements through sequences, team work and drills. This learning of several sequences allows students to better integrate the technique and helps the understand the discipline, an essential notion for learning the style.
7Starr is a Canadian Krump pioneer. He co-founded the first Krump crew in Canada, the Montreal Krump Alliance, and created Gutta Zone, the first and biggest Krump event in the country. He has been a guest battle competitor and judge internationally. 7Starr is recognized for his community involvement in underprivileged schools, charity organizations and community centres and was a recipient of the 2017 Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton award.
Lisbeth Gruwez | Creative Practice
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (map)
Location | DJD Dance Centre
Attending | Professional Dance Community
Focus | Creative Practice
There is no magic formula ,when it comes to create .
How to shape and conduct our vessels of motion in order to serve an idea ?
There are no clear answers , only questions.
Creating is all about asking the right questions .
The method of creating is related to the art of asking questions.
Lisbeth Gruwez (1977) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer, half of Voetvolk’s artistic team. She started practising classical ballet at the age of 6 and studied at the ‘Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet’ (Antwerp), combining high school with a professional dance education. Once graduated, she joined P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) to study contemporary dance.
In 1999 she started working with Jan Fabre, being part of his guerriers de la beauté. Having performed in As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul (2000) and Je suis sang (2001), she rose to international fame because of Quando l’uomo principale è una donna (2004), the solo Jan Fabre created specifically for (and with) her.
Apart from working with Fabre, she also collaborated with Ultima Vez (The Day of Heaven and Hell), Jan Lauwers|Needcompany (Images of Affection), Grace Ellen Barkey (Few Things), Riina Saastamoinen (Cry Me a River) and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Foi).
In 2007 she founded Voetvolk, together with Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. Their work is an ongoing conversation between corporal and auditive movement, in order to achieve a symbiosis between the aural and the visual/physical.
Apart from establishing her own choreographies with Voetvolk, Lisbeth Gruwez has danced in Arco Renz’ i!2, together with Melanie Lane, and she also played the leading role in Lost Persons Area, Caroline Strubbe’s first feature film.
Gruwez danced in videoclips for A Brand (“Hammerhead”), Juliette and the Licks (“Death of a Whore”), Dirk Braeckman (promoting A.F. Vandevorst’s winter collection) and MUGWUMP (“At the Front”).
She is also one of the “KVS faces”, the open ensemble of artists and thinkers associated with the Royal Flemish Theatre of Brussels.
Lisbeth Gruwez | BEYOND TECHNIQUE
University of Calgary (map)
Location | University of Calgary, KN 163 - Dance Studio
Attending | U of C Dance Students & Community Drop-In
Focus | Beyond Technique
How to prepare the body to become a vessel of motion?
We start progressively always keeping an eye on the evolution of body and mind.
This workshop offers tools to experience a different way of training .
No technique class!
Hilary Maxwell | Contemporary Technique
Location | University of Calgary, Aux Gym
Focus | Contemporary Improvisation / Repertoire
In this workshop, participants will be led through improvisational tasks used in the development of Isolated Studies by Josh Martin (Company 605), and learn sections of set material from the solo. Dancers will get a window into Martin’s process as they explore themes of disorientation and isolation in the body.
Hilary Maxwell is an independent dance artist based in Vancouver and holds a BA and MFA in Dance from the University of Calgary. She has worked as a performer and collaborator for such artists and companies as Serge Bennathan/Les Productions Figlio, Company 605 with German Jauregui/Ultima Vez, Judith Garay/dancers dancing, Paras Terezakis/Kinesis Dance somatheatro, Davida Monk/ M-body, and W&M Physical Theatre. She has performed in festivals and productions in Western Canada including PuSh Off, Dancing on the Edge, 12 Minutes Max, Prairie Dance Circuit, and the Fluid Movement Arts Festival. She is the Member Services Coordinator at The Dance Centre and sits on the board of directors of the Training Society of Vancouver and All Bodies Dance Project. Hilary is a contributing writer with Dance International magazine.
Lucy M.May | Rustlin’ Vessels
Location | DJD Dance Centre - Studio TBA
Focus | Movement Lab
Rustlin’ Vessels is a movement lab. Lucy guides physical explorations contaminated by the language of somatics, science, and poetry. Participants will work alone, in pairs and as a micro-community through improvisations of various forms, including freestyle composition, the use of analogy, witnessing, sign posts, systems, and touch. Current proposals constellate around possibilities : the porousness of time and place; a difference between feeling and sensation; music as a map. We will practice tensile power and muscular resistance. Bumping through big ideas, paying attention to detail, to each other, and to how we are positioned − Let it be resolved that dancing is a way of thinking in the world.
Lucy M. May is a contemporary dance artist and writer based in Montréal. Her performances, including Vivarium and Esemplastic Landing, often ask how environments thread their way through human movement. Formerly a member of Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Lucy continues to perform independently with artists such as Margie Gillis. A graduate of LADMMI and CODARTS, she began studying Krump in 2016, recently becoming a member of Jigsaw’s Grouch fam.
Lucy M. May. Photos © Michael Slobodian. Edit by Lucy M. May
Jennifer Dallas | WorkingClass
Location | University of Calgary Reeve Secondary Theatre
Focus | Working Class - Dance, Theatre, Clown
Jennifer Dallas’s approach to technique class is informed by practice, exploration, and research spanning four continents and 10 years. WorkingClass employs clown-theatre, and dance in a deeply somatic approach structured to understand and free the body from within. Dallas fuses a playful relationship to music with the pursuit of pleasure in physical movement, using elements of clowning (Pochinko Clown) and Mary Overlie’s Viewpoints. A physical movement practice, WorkingClass utilizes and familiarizes the
body with rhythm, textures, and states to fully coordinate the body, voice and mind in training and performance. WorkingClass begins with improvisation and self-exploration, moves through collective engagement, and finishes with choreography, all with an eye to disrupting the practitioner’s habits, notions of performance and training. These classes are rigorous and fun, we dance with and for each other.
Hailing from the Canadian Rockies, Jennifer Dallas is the founder of Toronto-based Kẹmi Contemporary Dance Projects (Kẹmi). In 2017 she was the recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding Female Performance (Kittly-Bender).
Jennifer has over a decade of professional experience spanning four continents. She began her formal dance training in ballet, later graduating from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her work abroad in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, South Africa, Russia, and Israel has earned her critical acclaim, culminating in 2015 with a 7-city Canadian tour (Idiom) that highlighted her collaborative work with Burkinabe artist Bienvenue Bazié.
Identified by Dance Current magazine as “someone on the Canadian dance scene to pay attention to” (2015). Dallas is an artistic visionary who brings a unique combination of technical skill and playful insight to her work.
Vanessa Goodman | Technique
Attending | Decidedly Jazz & Professional Community
Focus | Contemporary Dance Technique
Exploring what is real and what is imagined Vanessa's class plays with the possibility of the bodies capacity. We will work through systems of anatomical organisation and curiosity of state. This workshop begins with guided hands-on bodywork and moves into physical tasks preparing your body for the day ahead.
Vanessa Goodman respectfully acknowledges that she lives and works on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University and is the artistic director of Action at a Distance Dance Society. Vanessa is attracted to art that has a weight and meaning beyond the purely aesthetic and uses her choreography as an opportunity to explore the human condition. She was the recipient of the 2013 Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award and the 2017 Yulanda M. Faris Program from the Scotiabank Dance Centre. She co-founded The Contingency Plan collective, where she interpreted new work from Justine A. Chambers, Rob Kitsos, James Gnam and Serge Bennathan. Independently she has danced with dancers dancing, plastic orchid factory, Julia Sasso, Wild Excursions Performance, Jennifer Clarke Projects, dumb instrument dance, Mascall Dance, Holly Small and Judith Marcuse. Her work has been presented locally by DanceHouse, SFUW, The Firehall Arts Centre, The Dance Centre, The Chutzpah! Festival and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts; nationally by Kinetic Studio and The Dance Made in/Fait au Canada Festival; and internationally by On the Boards, Risk/Reward Festival and The Bienal Internacional de Dança Do Ceará. Goodman has been commissioned by Lamon Dance, Warehaus Collective, Modus Operandi and The SFU rep class.
Heather Ware | Contemporary Technique & Creative Practice
Focus | Contemporary Technique & Creative Practice
A body in conflict searches for balance, for resolution. A paralytic state of fear is somehow made bearable by ones own physical being. What is needed within a person to move forward when every instinct is screaming to stop. What if you can’t go back, what if you can’t downclimb. Can we give ourselves over to the beauty of falling apart?
In the most recent performance of choreographer Heather Ware, the impulse to create came from a study of risk, and how we as individuals and as a community deal with the sometimes euphoric and sometimes tragic consequences of living a risk filled life.
For her newest creation, A Fine Kind of Madness, Heather takes one step backwards from risk, to study the underlying notion of safety. Safety is a necessity in order for risk to be a possible choice. And for so many in the world at this moment in time, safety seems far from given. Is safety something that we as individuals can create for ourselves? What do we need in order to create a sense of personal safety in a world in which safety is not created for us? And when we find that sense of safety why is it the instinctive nature of mankind to instantly put that at risk again?
In this workshop, the dancers will follow Heather’s working methodology as part of the creation process, as well as look specifically at the technique behind the physical language. The class portion focuses on building the dynamic range of the body, the ability to co-ordinate and conversely deconstruct the body’s natural co-ordination. The combinations are created to trigger the connection between brain and body and to understand the different muscle tensions possible within our dance. The relation of the body to the space in which we move plays a crucial role. Class material is derived from Heather’s choreographic works, and the dancers will be given the underlying tasks upon which the material is based. The tasks are built upon Heather’s search for the physical language to embody this new performance, and ask for the dancers to be both emotionally open and physically creative. The musicality of the dancing body is brought strongly to focus. Breath plays an integral role and the dancers are encouraged to listen to the dance they and their fellow dancers create.
Since 2003 Heather has been a celebrated dancer with LeineRoebana in Amsterdam (Netherlands). In 2010 Heather was awarded de Zwaan (the Swan) for most impressive dance performance of the year.
From 2015-2017 Heather was the recipient of a Nieuwe Makers Traject (talent development grant) awarded by the Dutch performing arts council (Fonds Podiumkunsten).
As a choreographer Heather is known for her work with live music, and has a long standing collaboration with cellist Jakob Koranyi, with whom she has created Reapproaching Bach and Battle Abbey (2017). Other collaborators include: violist Oene van Geel, baritone Mattijs van de Woerd and mezzo-soprano Cora Burgraaf. Her work has been presented throughout Europe and has been supported by Banff Centre (Canada), Kulturhuset i Ytterjärna (Sweden) and Podium Bloos (Netherlands).
Denise Fujiwara | Embodiment Butoh
Attending | Culturally Curious, Theatre and Dance Community
Focus | Embodiment Butoh
Using principles of Butoh, the Japanese postmodern dance-theatre practice, we transcend form and steps to discover dance that is specific, embodied and that cultivates creativity.
Denise Fujiwara began a series of overlapping careers starting in childhood as a gymnast, became a Canadian Champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics and competed internationally for Canada. Upon completing an Honours B.F.A. in Dance at York University, she became one of the founders of T.I.D.E. (Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise), a now-defunct but still notorious company that danced across Canada for 10 years.
She is a recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation Award for International Achievement in Dance. EUNOIA, a multimedia work based on Christian Bök’s Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, premiered at World Stage in Toronto and was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, named one of NOW’s Top 5 Dance Shows of 2014 and began national touring in 2015. Her six solo dance concerts have garnered praise and have toured to festivals across Canada, and in the U.S.A., South America, Europe and Asia. She receives choreography commissions and teaches at home and abroad. She co-founded the CanAsian Dance Festival in 1997 and continues as the Artistic Director. She developed the KickStart Festival to support Canadian choreographers who are interested in utilizing Asian practices, ideas, aesthetics and/or dance-based forms, and are interested in addressing contemporary issues that question, expand and/or deepen their current dance practices to create dance that is distinct and pushes the choreographer’s knowledge, skills and aesthetics. www.fujiwaradance.com
Lesley Telford | Repertoire
School of Alberta Ballet (map)
Location | Alberta Ballet School
Attending | Alberta Ballet Student and Community
Focus | Repertory
Lesley Telford is offering a 2-hour workshop of her choreographic work. Lesley was a dancer and choreographer with Netherlands Dans Theatre 1 and her work is influenced by the technicality and intensity of her history. In this workshop, she will teach and delve into an excerpt of one of her pieces. Her work explores the body’s instinctive response systems. She often creates by building situations that can propel dancers into something they didn’t predict. The workshop will research the source of movements in approaching dance through dramaturgy.
Lesley Telford is based in Vancouver, Canada as choreographer and director of Inverso Productions as well as leading the Performance Research Project at Arts Umbrella's Professional Dance Program. As a dancer, she worked with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Compañia Nacional de Danza and most recently, Netherlands Dans Theater 1. Lesley has choreographed for dance companies throughout Europe and North America, including Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Ballet BC, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, and Compañia Nacional de Danza, among others. She was selected by Crystal Pite for the Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award in 2015. Lesley also has a Master of Cultural Production from the University of Salzburg. Her company, Inverso Productions, has toured to Spain, the Netherlands and Canada and is currently developing Spooky Action, supported by the Canada Council, the BC Arts Council and a residency at The Dance Centre.
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French, Licked: the Certain Uncertainly of May 7
Posted on May 6, 2017 by Shelton Hull
Having just heard about the tragic passing of Corrine Erhel, a French socialist politician who suffered a fatal heart attack while stumping for Emmanuel Macron on Cinco de Mayo, one’s first instinct is to view her death as a tragic omen for the cause she died in support of. With the final round of France’s national elections wrapping up May 7, the reasonable possibility of an upset win by Marine LePen and her National Front (FN) means that Erhel, who was only 50, may go down as merely the first to perish in the wake of a vote whose results will likely be cataclysmic for her country, no matter who wins.
While superstition is ultimately just that, it’s tempting to indulge such sentiment, given the recent sequence of events. Erhel’s death was immediately preceded by news of—believe it or not—massive hacking of Macron’s emails, the leaking of which was smartly timed to coincide with the legally mandated two-day period of silence before the vote. It’s an interesting quirk of their parliamentary system, one that would be intolerable in the United States, whose politicians can hardly be compelled to shut up, even when they’re asleep.
And they are certainly asleep, figuratively if not necessarily literally, although there can be little doubt that any number of our leading politicians are so heavily pilled-up that they need help tying their own shoes and neckties, to say nothing of reading the legislation being foisted upon them on an almost weekly basis early on in the Trump Era. Indeed, when the president’s controversial (to say the least) health-care plan passed earlier this week, by the narrowest of margins, despite ample partisan cushion, it was attended almost immediately by reports that some members of Congress had not bothered to read the very legislation that their historical reputations are now intractably tethered to. At least one of them actually admitted this on television, which strikes me as something other than the behavior of someone who is acting in their right mind.
The elections in France are being touted as a critical indicator of the trajectory of western politics in the new reality, and while it’s easy enough the parallels to events in the US in Europe, it’s worth remembering that the French are famously unpredictable. After all, the idea of the National Front getting anywhere near the runoff was openly scoffed at, as recently as a month ago. No one in proper political circles would’ve guessed that the hard-right, with all their bluster and bully tactics, would be capable of finishing as strongly as they did, let alone that their momentum would only continue in the interregnum. The LePen family has been flirting with fanaticism for years, with the father put out to pasture by his own daughter, who herself has struggled to achieve even basic credibility.
The struggle is real—at least, it was. Now she’s so credible that the political establishment is having night-sweats all weekend. Tensions are high, and so are the figureheads; in café society, the SSRIs are flowing free like fine wine, with blood soon to follow, perhaps. After watching the police torched with Molotov cocktails on May Day, it’s hard to conceive of any scenario in which the nation is not at least partially in flames within days. If Macron wins, as currently projected, the FN and its adherents will likely respond with violence. If LePen wins, violence is guaranteed. No matter who wins, the majority of French citizens will be not only dissatisfied, but terrified for the future of their country. This is not their first rodeo. They are firmly aware of the worst-case scenario. Good luck to them!
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Sweet Theories: Pocket of Lollipops are the flavor of every month
Posted on February 11, 2017 by Shelton Hull
Franco Carmelino/Pocket of Lollipops/Rickolus/J Chat/Vowls/Jayel
Jack Rabbits, Saturday, February 11; $10
Maintaining a successful band is hard. Being married is harder. Doing both simultaneously usually ends in disaster, but Pocket of Lollipops has made it look easy for years now. Singer/guitarist Maitesojune Urrechaga and vocalist/drummer Tony Kapel are no strangers to Northeast Florida audiences, nor are they strangers to each other. The band is a true labor of love from two people who love the labor—and odds are beyond decent that you’ll love it, too.
They’re playing Jack Rabbits in support of their third album, 2016’s Thanks Theo, the follow-up to their universally accepted Letters to Larrup EP and one of the best albums of the year that was. So thanks, Theo, whoever you are. The band’s sound can confound even the most descriptive scribe, but there’s one word that formulates first: “Fun”. It’s jangly, propulsive pop, laced with joy and good humor, like ice cream for your ears. With a name like “Pocket of Lollipops”, that could mean almost anything, but for the Miami-based duo, it’s a rare case of truth in advertising.
It’s not just that they sound like candy; they sound like candy that you bought earlier and put in your pocket, then forgot it was there while you went about your business—work, a concert, rioting, whatever—and it melted a little bit in your pocket. You forgot it was there, until you got home later; you felt the bulge and reached in, with the kind of mortal terror one only gets when there is melted candy in the pocket of your favorite pants. But it turns out that the candy was wrapped up so well that your pockets are completely clean, and you’ve got this warm, kinda gooey mass of sugar and pectin that still retains the essence of its original shape, and instead of stressing about ruined pants, you fall asleep with candy in your mouth—and no one dares wake you up, because it’s just too cute. Real talk. (For me, it’s blue raspberry Blow Pops, but to each their own.)
Likewise, upon first listen, you might think you’re being assaulted with random noise generated by the diddling of dilettantes, but you quickly learn that the chaos is organized better than the Strategy of Tension. At first glance, you might think they’re insane, and they may very well be, but they know exactly what they’re doing. Do you? Nope. Okay, then.
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Shifting Into Summer: john Shannon’s newest project debuts in Florida
Posted on June 10, 2015 by Shelton Hull
Jack Rabbits
“7th Direction” is an impressive debut EP from The Shift, a New York-based trio whose show at Jack Rabbits this Thursday comes at the end of their first-ever swing through the Sunshine State, amidst a tour that’s taking them from coast to coast. “The tour has been great,” says lead singer/guitarist John Shannon, writing in from the road. “Our starter went out on our van the other day in Alabama but luckily there was a bowling alley with a bar across the street from the mechanic.”
I’ve known Mr. Shannon for nearly a decade, having met through mutual friends at his old Brooklyn loft back in 2006. Our party watched “An Inconvenient Truth” at the Sunshine Theatre one night, with Questlove’s afro partially blocking the view. I first saw him perform a couple nights later, at Manhattan’s venerable Jazz Gallery, playing guitar in the sextet backing ace cellist Dana Leong; it remains one of the ten best jazz sets I’ve ever witnessed, anywhere. He was then leading his jazz group Waking Vision Trio, which put out a couple of excellent albums a decade ago.
From that first initial meeting through the week spent pacing the circles he runs in, he made an immediate and impactful impression on me, not just as a person, but as one of the most prodigious musical talents in a dense, dynamic scene that was then just beginning to be branded as the borough we know and love (and kind of envy) today. His current group, which includes bassist Ben Geis and drummer MJ Lambert, is his newest and most polished vehicle on a musical journey that has already taken him around the country, more than once.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1980, John Shannon’s released three albums under his own name: “American Mystic” (2008), “Songs of the Desert River” (2010) and “Time Was A Lie” (2012). Critics have compared his work to masters like Tim Buckley, Nick Drake and Paul Simon; the albums have earned praise in places like Rolling Stone, Minor 7th and Time Out NY. His credits include sideman work with Bob Reynolds, Ben Harper, John Mayer, James Maddox, Lauryn Hill and Hiromi Urehara; he’s also recorded with Gary Go and Sonya Kitchell, whom he also backed on tour, as well as composed music for the FX show “Louie”.
In many ways, The Shift represents the present culmination of careers cultivated throughout the 21st century, a syncretic smash-up of the members’ traditional training, processed through years of long nights working club gigs in one of the most competitive commercial markets in the world. The album was recorded in less than a week, using a mixing board in Brooklyn that had once been used by George Martin to record the Beatles. Shannon writes the lyrics, while his colleagues build the music together.
The New York of their generation is simply not a place where you can last for long unless you’re good, and all three have put in practically a decade, ample time earn the confidence that comes through so clearly on the album. Shannon’s voice evokes nothing so much as mid-70s Robert Plant, while the clean, crisp tonality of the instruments gives it a prog-rock flavor, with the kind of tight, dextrous articulation that one would expect from three alumni of the Berklee School of Music—a school so prestigious that using the word “prestigious” to describe it is practically a cliché in music journalism. “It’s kind of a microcosm of the future music business when you’re there that seems to than move out into the real world—at least it has for me,” says Shannon, who randomly encounters fellow alumni on a regular basis in his travels.
“If you know you have something strong, unique and a band willing to persevere,” notes Shannon, “you end up in more of a relationship/competition with time than with other bands. If you can use that inevitable pressure involved in the process of getting recognized to be more creative, resourceful and alive, then you are already winning.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shannon_(musician)
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All GUTS, All Glory: Alachua’s finest femmes, planting their flag in Duval’s urban core.
Posted on April 1, 2015 by Shelton Hull
Summer Goodman/GUTS/Mouth Mouth/Flat Land
Underbelly–Wednesday, April 1
Courtesy Medusa Productions
Back when I was a college freshman, attending the University of Florida, way back in the Year Of Our Lord 1995 (it wasn’t that long ago, really, but it feels that way sometimes), the best band in Gainesville was called the Crustaceans, but there was nothing crabby about their sound. It was a trio playing guitar, bass and drums; they switched instruments and lead vocal duties repeatedly during their sets, seamlessly. They were a garage band in the true mattresses-on-the walls, un-ironic-clove-cigarette-smoking kind of way. Their leader was Samantha Jones, already a local legend long before I’d ever palmed my first bottle of Boone’s Farm.
Samantha Jones was the very first girl I ever met with a tattoo on her arm—just ponder that, for a moment—and her energy lit up the room like Magneto running through airport security. From those first bars, at those first bars, her voice installed itself in my permanent Top 5, all-time, anywhere. Her swag was prototypical, and now, with a quarter-century’s experience in upwards of a dozen bands, all of which were good, she is an established leader in the Gainesville community.
Jones married her colleague in Crustaceans, became a mother, massage therapist and yoga teacher, but she still wields a voice more soothing than shiatsu, and she has aged even less over those years than I have. All the while, Jones maintained her presence in the music scene; her band Cassette recorded several nice things for Bakery Outlet Records and played the old Lomax Lodge back in the John Peyton era. The Crustaceans were my introduction to the deep and dense indie-rock scene here in Florida, the first music I bought from people I actually knew, the first of thousands in almost every conceivable medium—but I lost their recordings 12 years ago, and have never been able to replace them, which irks me to no end. (But it’s ok, because I memorized it all.)
But the good news is that my the singer/guitarist for my favorite Gainesville band back then, in 1995, is also the singer/guitarist for my favorite band working that region today—the fabulous female foursome GUTS, whose debut in Duval County debut happens at Underbelly during the First Wednesday ArtWalk, as part of a free show that also includes Flat Land, Mouth Mouth and Summer Goodman, all of which can be counted among the new generation of indie acts rising out of the Sunshine State.
Jones and her colleagues—bassist Kara Smith, guitarist Rebecca Butler and drummer Kentucky Ultraviolet—are touring in support of their debut album “Lucky All Over”, released last December. Their sound is spare, a sensory delight, all shimmering guitars and multi-part harmonies, anchored by one of the signature voices of the modern era. If Jones’ singing sounds like others you’ve heard, bear in mind that she was first—and, if the new stuff is any indication, she will also be the last. It’s happy, refreshing music, rendered in fine detail, translucent and stocky at once, like Rapidograph on vellum. The video for “Sugar”, recorded at Medusa Studios last year, was my introduction to their work. It’s still my favorite track, but songs like “Lucky” and “There’s a Chill” are standouts, as well.
The Duval connection was formalized just recently when Tomboi worked a bill with GUTS at A Space on March 1. Their singer, Alex E. Michael has a resume similar to Jones’, in that pretty much every band she’s in is really good, from Tomboi today to Ritual Union, Wild Life Society and the legendary Fruit Machine. When Jones noted on Facebook that “Tomboi’s gonna be the NEXT BIG THING, mark my words”, that’s about as close to definitive as an endorsement gets in this region.
Such is Alex E’s reputation that Underbelly’s tasked her with running their new gimmick for ArtWalk, where they’re always busy, by default, like most venues around The Elbow tends to be. It starts with open-mic for singers, poets, magicians etc. earlier in the evening, followed by a free keg at 9 and featured band thereabouts, with free admission throughout. The venue, the night and the audience are all ideal for GUTS’ arrival in the River City. The only April Fools are those who miss this show.
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Notes on the Girls Rock Jacksonville Volunteer Showcase (CoRK, 12/15) and “The Punk Singer” (Sun-Ray Cinema, 12/23)
Posted on December 14, 2013 by Shelton Hull
Girls Rock Jax benefit show—CoRK, December 15
“The Punk Singer”—Sun Ray Cinema, December 23
(One of my favorite concert flyers this year…)
The expansion of the Girls Rock Camp’s global brand into Jacksonville two years ago has been, without question, one of the most important local cultural development of the past decade—the proverbial “gift that keeps on giving”, if you’re a music fan. As Girls Rock Jacksonville prepares to enter its third year, with its third camp coming in summer 2014, the process of preparation has begun, and that includes two events scheduled for mid-December at CoRK (12/15) and Sun-Ray Cinema (12/23).
The first is a Girls Rock Jax fundraising event slated for Friday, Dec. 15 at CoRK, which has been on a heckuva run this year. (A number of their resident artists will be just returning from a triumphant group effort at Art Basel Miami Beach, dubbed the ‘#baselinvasion”; a number of Northeast Florida’s top talents were represented there, at the country’s biggest art festival.) The GRJ funder will feature five bands comprised of GRJ volunteers and volunteers, as well as a silent auction with gimmicks and swag provided by local creative talents like Christina Abercrombie, Alicia Canessa, Cherri Czajkowski, Crystal Floyd, Sarah Humphreys and Karen Kurycki, as well as affiliated local businesses, including: Bold Bean Coffee Roasters, Burro Bags, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Dead Tank Records / Distribution, Deep Search Records, Dig Foods, Hawthorn Salon, Intuition Ale Works, M.A.D. Nails, Original Fuzz, Orion | Allen Photography, Sun-Ray Cinema, Sweet Theory Baking Co. and That Poor Girl.
Swag for the auction, provided by Dead Tank…
The first Girls Rock camps started in the Pacific Northwest, and have from the start been largely inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement that began in that region a quarter-century ago. Riot Grrrl, to an even larger extent than the alternative rock scene of the era, in general, marked the first time that girls were positioned front-and-center in multiple bands, in a truly egalitarian way, speaking directly to matters of relevance in their demographic—and they were good, too.
Of course, a central figure in that movement has been Kathleen Hanna—writer, activist, wife of King Ad-Rock and lead singer of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and the Julie Ruin—one of the most influential women of the 21st century. You can see that all over American culture, to this day, and in ways that are not just latent or nostalgia-based, but active, kinetic and compelling in the present. The network of Girls Rock camps around the world is just the most obvious example.
Hanna with Jabberjaw, circa 1993 or ’94…
A new documentary called “The Punk Singer” tells Hanna’s story in greater detail than ever before, largely in her own words, Jacksonville will be one of the select cities hosting a screening of it at Sun-Ray Cinema, in historic Five Points, on Sunday afternoon, December 23. I’ll proudly note that I was first to call attention to its availability when I saw a posting about it on Facebook, but Tim Massett is the man for connecting with the filmmakers and putting in the legwork to make it happen.
(Kathleen Hanna with the author, Burrito Gallery, November 2011)
Although Hanna herself will not be on hand for the film screening, she’ll be there in spirit. Her affinity for the River City is already a matter of record. I was honored to sit with her, Adee Roberson, Andrew Coulon, Duncan Fristoe and the delightful Mark Creegan for a panel discussion on zines (“The Personal Is Political”) at the Jacksonville Public Library in November 2011. That was followed by a presentation by Hanna herself, and a Q&A session with an audience largely comprised of the city up-and-coming young ladies; after that, everyone adjourned to Burrito Gallery for lunch. Many of those girls ended up being involved in the launch of Girls Rock Jacksonville the following July.
(Flyer for the NYC screenings…)
“The Punk Singer” was released theatrically by IFC Films on November 29, with some 19 screenings in ten states; the screening at Sun-Ray will be the very first one in the state of Florida. (The film will also be showing at the Hippodrome in Gainesville on January 24, 2014.) As a bonus, the screening will be preceded by a performance of songs associated with the film’s subject, as rendered by a group of girls drawn together specifically for the occasion from the ranks of GRJ volunteers. Drummer Summer Wood is probably best-known for her work with Rice, and now with Four Families. Singer/guitarist/keyboardist Alex E. Michael has led some of the city’s most dynamic bands of the past few years, including Wild Life Society and Ritual Union, in addition to her own solo work. She and singer Bethany Buckner were once half of the legendary Fruit Machine, which during its too-short run was, quite simply, one of the best all-girls bands ever, anywhere.
According to the official “Girls Rock Camp Alliance” website, GRJ is just one of 44 Girls Rock camps in eight different countries, with more forthcoming. The volunteers who’ve organized and run the past two GRJ camps include some of the most talented artists and musicians working the region today, women whose own individual achievements are already a matter of public record. Together, they have created something even greater than the sum of its already-valuable parts. They have nurtured, empowered and mentored these young ladies like they were their own sisters, daughters and friends—which they often are, in many cases.
Girls Rock, as a concept, was born at Portland State University in 2001, and quickly spread to cities around the world. The girlsrockcamp.org website offers a glimpse at Portland’s organization ten years on, fully-formed and self-actualized, with ample merchandise to ensure a steady influx of capital. What began, like ours, as a weekly summer camp has expanded into a full-time Girls Rock Institute, with a camp for women, its own Rock Camp Studio, and hundreds of pupils per year; they have received nearly a quarter-million dollars in sponsorship, including a $40,000 donation from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Instructors’ educational experiences have been codified into a book, and an excellent documentary feature was filmed at the 2005 camp. The Portlandians even formed 16 Records to market and distribute music related to the project from talent like Dolly Ranchers, Jack Queen, The Haggard and Pom Pom Meltdown. (Note especially the splendid singer Marisa Anderson, who doubles on keyboards and lap-steel guitar.) No doubt, interest in this material will only increase as these ladies further establish themselves in the industry; the earliest campers are now in their mid-20s, so that process is already well-underway.
For the uninitiated, the GRJ camp is a one-week camp for girls aged 9-16, usually running from late July into early August. Attendees are provided hands-on instruction in a wide range of artistic disciplines—singing, instruments, DJing, arts and crafts, flyer- and zine-making—related to the skills needed for success as a professional musician. Having the lessons administered to girls by girls, by actual working musicians and longtime vets of the scene. The inaugural camp, in 2012, drew 29 campers and 40 volunteers. Camp sessions are run at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, and each year’s camp ends with the girls forming their own bands to play a showcase concert at the historic Florida Theatre on Saturday afternoon. (Hopefully, future concerts will be recorded and marketed for fans, parents, etc.)
A cursory glance at the concert listings in Northeast Florida on any given week is a testament to the skills being brought to bear for the GRJ project—and that’s just the volunteers. At this rate, it will be just a few couple more years before GRJ attendees are themselves sharing space with their teachers—on the stage, on the page, online and in the firmament of what is already known as one of the most dynamic, emerging music scenes in the world today. And you can help!
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Interview with Maitejosune Urrechaga, from Pocket of Lollipops
Posted on November 28, 2013 by Shelton Hull
Pocket Of Lollipops/Lake Disney/Legs
Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St.
Friday, November 29; $5
Pocket of Lollipops have quickly made a name for themselves since springing fully-formed from the burgeoning Miami scene a couple years ago. Their music reflects their shared interests in art and fashion, as well as their shared experiences living in a cultural hub. The band is a duo, consisting of singer/guitarist Maitejosune Urrechaga and her husband, drummer Tony Kapel. There is a very kinetic sound, jangly and propulsive; the music practically vibrates, like a wino with the shakes or a kid about to meet their hero.
Opening for Pocket of Lollipops at Burro Bar will be Legs, from Orlando, and Jacksonville’s own Lake Disney, one of the many interesting new local bands of 2013. The band was formed as a trio of electronics (Greg Price and John Lackey) and bass guitar (Kareem Ghori, aka “Special K”), set in a Joy Division/Nick Cave sort of mold, but they’ve rapidly breaking that mold, with epic house-party jams that can last for hours.
Even with the holiday season approaching, and a couple really busy weeks ahead (including performances at Art Basel Miami), I was able to ask some questions of Urrechaga, who was kind enough to respond…
SDH: What does the name “Pocket of Lollipops” mean to you, in the context of the band.
MU: Multi-flavor, the options are endless. We can even be a surprise flavor.
SDH: How did you end up getting booked at Burro Bar? Who did you deal with?
MU: James Arthur Bayer III, we played with him at the Loft last time we were in Jacksonville and he reached out to us this past summer so we set something up. He runs the records label “Infintesmal”.
SDH: How would you describe the band’s aesthetic? What is Pocket of Lollipops about?
MU: When the natural and the dream collide. We are punk kids at heart with a love for the avant-garde. I would say we are the kind of aliens you can talk to and don’t have to fear. Or when you find a unicorn on your bike ride home. We do have a specific aesthetic for how we represent our material. Most of it is DIY; I like touching all the shirts, records etc. I will silk screening some of my drawings for t-shirt designs or for our current vinyl.
Sometimes I make things for our shows to give to everyone. It really depends on the setting and how we are feeling. We also like working with other artists. It is cool to see how they represent you. We currently released our video “Open Pirate”, artist Christopher Ian Macfarlane created it. All we told him was we wanted his style of work, and that I wanted an image of a goat, his family had to be in it someplace, I also told him what the song was about but told him that did not have to be in it at all. So we let him have loads of creative freedom. I love the new video. We also did a fan video for “Shelby Apples” like 2 years ago and fans had to take a mask we made download it and draw on them and video tape themselves. We enjoy that interaction with people.
SDH: How many tracks has the band recorded, all together?
MU: 23-25 tracks for sure. We may have one or two random tracks recorded on special cd’s that we give out at shows or sometimes we give free downloads of things we haven’t released if you win a prize from us. We are really into doing one of kind things.
SDH: What are your songs about?
MU: Some are about the education system/parents. Others are about parties. Running around abandoned train stations; Tony and I still do a lot of that stuff any second we can. Some is about dumb conversations you have with people.
SDH: Is there any one song that, for you, epitomizes the sound of Pocket Of Lollipops?
MU: Tony thinks it is “Sewing Circle”, but I think “Angry Kittens”. I think our fans would say “Shelby Apples”or “Cute Chaos”
SDH: How does the songwriting process play out? Is the band a full-on partnership, or does one of you act as the nominal “leader” of the group?
MU: We are both leaders at different time. I write the bass lines and organizes parts, then I share them with tony then he plays drums and I listen to what he does a bit and vice versa, Then I add lyrics that both of us come up with. Usually the ones I can’t sing are the ones he can sing perfect. After we write the song tony composes some digital violins, space sounds, etc. I just tell him some sounds I like and he just writes things. Eventually one of the digital tracks works with the song we are putting together. If it doesn’t work we save it and use it later. IT is a partnership almost all the time, unless we disagree then I just fight for what I want. I usually win, or he lets me win.
SDH: How long have you been married? How did you meet? Does your marriage pre-date the band?
MU: We got married on 11-11-01 I have a crazy thing with numbers. We meet at a third grade bake sale, but became friends later on high school. Yes, the marriage pre-dates the band, the band started in 2009.
SDH: Being in a band is a challenge, and being married is a challenge…
MU: I like challenges.
SDH: What kind of equipment do you use?
MU: Tony plays a Gretsch Drum set and I play an Acoustic 450 Bass/Combo. I use tons of pedals to create different distortion and other effects. All the extra sounds Tony makes are done on a Mac Computer with synths.
SDH: How long are your sets usually?
MU: 25-30 min…for a bar. For a gallery, sometimes we do 45 minutes-2hours. It really depends on the space and if we are playing with other people.
SDH: What artists have inspired your approach to music?
MU: My approach to music is more how I approach art; I take things I like and start to put pieces together. Tony and I are inspired by so many artists it would be really hard to pick one out. For example, Bjork for the way she can come out in some random outfit, or Brian Wilson how he was a studio nazi, or how Radio Head could sell their cd for whatever they wanted, the rule breakers or makers, whatever you wanna called them. But we are drawn to those who did what they wanted.
SDH: What’s been your favorite music to listen to this year?
MU: Julie Ruin, I just got into and I am enjoying that. Echo and the Bunnymen, Television, Pink Floyd, The Unicorns, Versus, Unrest and Dr. Dre.
SDH: What Basel-related stuff are you guys doing?
MU: We are playing for an opening party for one of the fairs. And I have an art show for a fair that is not a fair, and we are playing it also.
SDH: As a Miami-based artist and musician, what does Basel mean to you, in terms of business? Is it something locals look forward to?
MU: Yes and no. We complain about it and rest before it and always say we won’t do anything that year, and then you feel its presence, and you start saying yes to things, and it’s cool, ‘cuz so many things are going on, and you want to try and see all of it also.
SDH: Do you guys make your living fully through your art and music? Is that something the artists and musicians in your scene are able to do?
MU: Maybe a handful…they may take up an odd job here and there, but some are. But it is a hustle. Tony the other half of Lollipops(my husband) just quit his day job so one of us can put more time into everything we are doing. I also teach high school art for the public school system somehow–I just don’t tell everyone.
SDH: Which is more stressful: being a working musician or being an art teacher?
MU: I tend to look at things pretty positive. I think they both feed off of each other right now. I like going to work with kids; they have a great energy, and it feeds for good lyrics. I would say the stress is when i have a show and I am up till late, and somehow I make it to work the next day ‘cuz i don’t want to be a slack teacher ‘cuz of my other career, and vice versa. I do know a stress: one time we played at some crazy house party, and out of nowhere i saw students in the crowd. That was my two worlds combining. I was not prepared for that.
SDH: Does your status as a musician help you relate to the students?
MU: Yes. They love it. They always ask me why i don’t play our songs in class, ‘cuz i play music all the time with our lessons. I tell them I am there to teach art, not gain new fans.
SDH: What are your plans for 2014, personally and professionally? What do you wish to accomplish next?
MU: We have an artist/music residency in Rhode Island at the end of June at the AS220 Building, so we will also set up a little mini tour on the way. We are releasing another video. Working on a SXSW bill. Making new drawings and songs. Tony is writing another novel, which lends to our lyrical layout. Maybe figure out a way to make it overseas. Make more music and tour some more. I like visiting new places.
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Random links to recent Folio Weekly stories…
Posted on August 21, 2013 by Shelton Hull
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As you know, I took most of the first half of the year away from print journalism, for various reasons best saved for a podcast elsewhere (thanks, Meggybo!). But I’ve been back in the saddle this summer, returning to Folio Weekly, where I’ve been writing on a regular basis since summer 1997. Just wanted to take a quick moment to post links of the recent stuff I’ve done, for the benefit of all my little Hull-A-Maniacs who aren’t in Jacksonville and can’t read the print edition. So, here ya go…
*Canary In the Coalmine (june 26): http://folioweekly.com/Songbirds,5663
*“Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson” (July 10): http://folioweekly.com/There-Will-Be-Blood,5915
*Black Kids (August 14): http://folioweekly.com/Not-Just-Kids-Anymore,6544
*Mick Foley (August 21): http://folioweekly.com/A-Hardcore-Humorist,6681
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Robin Helfand
Firefighters gather at the entrance to the Barrington House on Main Street in Great Barrington where a malfunctioning sprinkler system flooded the first floor.
Sprinkler system freeze-up floods Barrington House; tenants flee into frigid street
By Terry Cowgill Sunday, Dec 31, 2017 News 11
Great Barrington — As if residents and merchants in the Barrington House didn’t have enough to worry about during this spell of bitter cold.
The sprinkler system in the iconic Main Street building malfunctioned this afternoon, sending merchants and apartment dwellers scurrying out into the near-zero temperatures and causing businesses to close for hours on a holiday weekend during the important après ski hours.
Robin Helfand, owner of Robin’s Candy several doors down from the Barrington House atrium, told The Edge that around 3:40 p.m. the building’s fire alarm went off, which because of its ear-splitting shriek, sent her employees and staff members from first-floor restaurants such as GB Eats, Baba Louie’s, Siam and Tangier, out onto the sidewalk to shiver.
“There were six to eight inches of water in the hallway,” Helfand said, referring to the lobby of the Barrington House, a former hotel. “Water was pouring in.”
Fire alarms from the broken sprinkler system next door emptied Robin’s Candy Shop of customers. Photo: Robin Helfand
Helfand added that the “audible alarm and strobe lights triggered while water flooded the lobby/arcade of the Barrington House spilling onto the sidewalk causing icing and street closure.”
In an interview from her store a couple of hours later, Helfand was clearly upset. She said she had lost “thousands of dollars in business” at a “key time of the year,” though her store itself did not suffer significant water damage.
Fire Chief Charlie Burger told The Edge his department received a call at 3:41 p.m. about a sprinkler flow alarm and a possible fire. Instead, he found “a broken sprinkler pipe in the atrium which flooded out much of the ground floor.” That sprinkler pipe was near the Fiesta Mexican restaurant, which suffered ceiling damage at the rear of the atrium.
Once his firefighters saw that there was no fire, they shut the sprinkler system down, drained it and cleaned up the area “as best we could,” using squeegees and other tools. Damage was limited to the first floor, he said.
There has been speculation that smoke or perhaps a malfunctioning fireplace caused the alarm to go off, triggering the sprinkler system. But Burger threw cold water on that theory, so to speak.
“I’m 99 percent certain the pipe froze,” Burger said.
When a sprinkler pipe is activated or is ruptured, it sets off the flow alarm, which in turn activates the fire alarm. But the converse does not happen. If a fire alarm is set off by heat or manually, it will not activate the sprinkler system, Burger explained.
The fire department was on scene for about an hour. The sidewalk in front of the building was flooded with water that quickly froze. Helfand said she went to Carr Hardware and bought several 50-pound bags of sand and she and her employees spread them onto the sidewalk, not only in front of Robin’s but throughout the sidewalks of the affected businesses.
The sidewalk was closed for several hours. Burger said one southbound lane on Main Street was closed while firefighters performed their operations and Great Barrington Police directed traffic around the fire truck.
Burger said his department has been receiving lots of calls for frozen pipes during this cold snap. He urged residents and merchants to check their pipes and take precautions against the possibility of them freezing. Click here for tips from Popular Mechanics on how to prevent indoor and outdoor pipes from freezing.
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Thank goodness it was only a pipe. Look at the devastating fires in surrounding areas these past few weeks, we could have had a gutted center of Main Street, many people homeless, businesses lost. Not the way to end 2017. I do find it a little hard to believe that a business was going to be out “thousands of dollars” in the period of time it was inoperable. This is candy, I know people like it but “thousands of dollars”?
Terry, did you check with the restaurants to see how much business they might have lost or were they just thankful to the GBFD and GBPD they still had a business to run and weren’t looking at a burned out building and jobless with many of their customer homeless?
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hats off to you to be able to respond to his , so true it could have been so much worse
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Joni Johnsen says:
Thousands of dollars worth of business? Prices are ridiculous, but really? Thank heavens it wasn’t a fire and/or resident’s made uninhabitable this time of year. As always, GBFD & PD responding quickly & appropriately.
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Alice Lahnstein says:
Well said…anything about the RESIDENTS of the building, Robin?
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Robert Arthur Stanley says:
And Bobby’s office and all my files!!!! ????????
Yeah i am not buying the “thousands of dollars” in losses. I suspect she was upset and therefore being overdramatic. It was an accident, they happen. Get over it. Nobody was hurt. Thats really whats important.
Joseph Method says:
Thousands of dollars sounded off to me too but then I thought if 20 customers spend 50 each that would be $1000. So it’s not that wild a claim.
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WOW!!! She’s got some kind of business if she can lose “thousands of dollars” in two hours that the store would have been open.
I guess we should all go into the candy business.
The fire department responded quickly and at least is wasn’t a devastating fire.
First, a heartfelt Thanks to the GBFD and GBPD for the rapid and effective response to yesterday’s incident in the Barrington House. The quick and thorough actions by all responders certainly kept the water damage and business disruption to a minimum. We are all most grateful the incident was not a fire and did not cause devastating damage.
A clarification; My comments indicated businesses– including ours — suffered losses totalling in the thousands resulting from business disruption during and after the incident , the subsequent sidewalk/street closure and icy sidewalks which diminished access later in the afternoon. The overall disruption lasted beyond the sprinkler shut off .
Reliable sales records confirm the economic losses. For perspective, we often serve more than 100 families per hour during New Years weekend with family purchases over $25/per (ie $2500/hr).
Importantly, the focus of my discussion was not to emphasize the economic impact of the sprinkler malfunction. Our store and others affected were crowded with visitors, all of whom were safe Thanks to the quick actions of GBFD and GBPD.
Again, our Thanks to all who responded with skill and expertise.
Robin & Team
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I am curious…”100 families an hour”and loss of thousands of dollars”…is that in Robin’s Candy Store, or in all of the merchants affected total? If it is just Robin’s, wouldn’t that work out to approximately 1 family every 36 seconds? If an average family is 2 adults, and 2 children, and they spend an average of 20 minutes shopping, and “checking out in 36 seconds”…wouldn’t that mean 133 people go thru that store every 20 minutes? Our family of 4 just did the math, and are just wondering…what is the source of information for the financial looses? We are relieved that no one was injured, and our volunteers are truly amazing!!!
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I would like to know where all these people are parking? I seriously don’t think a candy store is doing that much business during the week. I have only been in there once when it first opened and I haven’t been back ( can’t afford it).
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If it came from a plant, eat it.
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Analysts said they were still dissecting the roughly 100- page proposal, but several said it was in-line with market expectations. Some earlier said the initial proposal in the president's budget could be softened, due to lobbying from industry and lawmakers. That did not appear to happen.
""Clearly CMS is flexing their muscle,"" Ipsita Smolinski, a Washington analyst at JP Morgan said.
The rule is still subject to public comment period for further lobbying.
Earlier in the day, a trade group for nursing homes put out an estimate the cuts could have a total economic impact of $4.2 billion in one year, impacting jobs and state tax revenue.
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Yemeni Forces seized several military bases in Saudi’s Asir province, struck key airport and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco, threatening the ‘coalition countries’ of using missiles Borkane 2-3
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The Yemeni army, backed by popular forces, took control of several military bases in Saudi Arabia’s Asir province.
(ENG) ~ The military bases which are located in the Western part of al-Rabou’a city were taken after intense clashes between the Yemeni and Saudi forces.
The images released after the operation showed the Saudi military men leaving their armored vehicles and fleeing the battlefield.
Yemeni forces fired ballistic missiles at the facilities of the Saudi state oil giant, Aramco, in the kingdom’s Southwest and Abha airport in Assir province in a retaliatory attack launched after Saudi fighter jets targeted civilians.
The retaliatory attack took place on Tuesday morning, hitting targets in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region and causing considerable damage to the Aramco facilities there, the Arabic-language news website Al Masirah reported.
A Qaher-I missile also hit the Saudi military positions at Abha airport in Assir province.
(FRA) ~ Le porte-parole adjoint de l’armée yéménite le général Aziz Rached a révélé que son pays détient outre le missile Borkane 1, d’une portée de 800 Km, des missiles Borkane 2 et 3.
Et d’expliquer: ceci implique que tous les pays participant à l’agression contre le Yémen sont désormais dans la ligne de mire des missiles yéménites.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah movement leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, says Saudi Arabia is committing genocide against the Yemeni people as it continues with its deadly aggression against the impoverished nation.
The Saudi forces and its mercenaries have come to Yemen to wipe out a generation, Houthi said during a televised address on Friday, adding that they want to raze Yemen to the ground.
He said the Saudi regime has committed numerous crimes against the Yemenis.
The Saudi regime knows no limit in its massacre of women and children, he said, adding, however, that the Saudis are neglectful of the Yemeni popular will.
Houthi said the US and UK are helping Saudi Arabia in the aggression against Yemen.
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Home > JV wins Radimero section rail tunnel
JV wins Radimero section rail tunnel
A €190M contract for the construction of the Radimero section of the Tortona/Novi Ligure-Genoa railway line, has been signed in Genoa between COCIV, the EPC General Contractor on the Third Giovi Crossing, and the JV consisting of Toto Costruzioni Generali (58%) and Seli Overseas (42%). The new railway line will connect the port area of Genoa with Turin and Milan on the Corridor of the Reno-Alps.
The two Italian companies have been awarded the lot which extends for some 7.7km and consists of a single-track, twin-tube tunnel with an internal diameter of 8.6m. The two tunnels will be excavated using two 9.77m EPB TBM’s.
This project, which is expected to be delivered in 33 months, is particularly challenging and of great strategic importance since it will complete a further stretch of the maxi railway program called the Terzo Valico dei Giovi.
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ITA elects first female president
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January 29, 2017 House Cat In Paradise Action Items
Action Items for Week of 1/30/17
Monday January 30: Calls against the Immigration Ban-
On Friday, Trump signed an executive order banning citizens from 7 Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days. Further, it suspends entry of all refugees for the next 120 days and stops the admission of Syrian refugees indefinitely. “Trump also established a religious test for refugees from Muslim nations: He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority over Muslims” reports the New York Times.
Refugees who have already completed the long vetting process and prepared for travel have been told they can’t come. Student, scientists, engineers and family members who are legal permanent residents of the US but were abroad on Friday are now finding they cannot return home. This ban hurts the most vulnerable in the world and damages our vibrant multicultural communities across the country.
Call our Senators:
John Cornyn R-TX Washington, D.C.: 202-224-2934 Austin: 512-469-6034 San Antonio: 210-224-7485
Ted Cruz R-TX Washington, D.C.: (202) 224-5922 Austin: (512) 916-5834 San Antonio: (210) 340-2885
Your script:
Hi, my name is [Name] and I’m a constituent from [City, TX, Zip].
I’m calling to tell [Senator] that our community does not support Trump’s Muslim ban, and we expect him to take an immediate stand against this unjust executive order.
[Optional: add anything else you’d like here]
Tuesday January 31: Affordable Care Act
Oppose the repeal of the Affordable Care Act
Senate Republicans are wasting no time and already taking steps to repeal The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. By repealing the ACA with no replacement legislation, millions of Americans will lose their health care coverage, community health clinics will lose funding and be shuttered, and the lack new legislations could create instability and chaos in the healthcare insurance industry. Tell your Senator that repeal without replacement is irresponsible and wrong. #ShowUsTheBill
I’m calling to tell [Senator’s Name] that I strongly oppose repealing The Affordable Care Act without suitable replacement legislation. The ACA has helped millions of Americans gain access to health coverage, including my friends and family.
[Optional: add anything else you wish to say here, especially if you have a story about how the ACA has helped you, your family or friends]
Please tell [Senator’s Name] not to support repeal without replacement.
San Antonio Lamar Smith office visit: We will be meeting at 9am at Jim’s Restaurant (Loop 410 and Broadway) to discuss and plan our visit to his office at 11am. At 10:45am we will meet outside of Lamar Smith’s office at 1100 NE Loop 410 for pictures before heading inside to suite 640 at 11am. This will be week 3 of our demands to support the ACA, and to come back to his district and meet with his constituents.
Wednesday February 1: Trump’s cabinet pick Jeff Session, and Stand Up to Trump’s False Claims o Voter Fraud
Voter Fraud: Trump is calling for a “massive investigation” into the nonexistent “illegals” who cast votes in November. He and his surrogates have gone on to say that this illusory voter fraud happens mainly in “inner cities” and that’s where they will focus their attention. This is yet more not-so-subtle racist rhetoric from a man and an administration that automatically assumes any areas, like large cities, with high minority populations must be full of criminals.
Not only will this investigation find nothing – as every other voter fraud investigation has – it will waste money and resources that should be focused on uncovering the truth behind Russia’s hacking of the DNC and interference in the 2016 presidential election.
At the state level, this investigation will be used as fuel by Republican legislators to enact even more and harsher voter ID laws restricting Americans’ constitutionally mandated right to vote. These laws are targeted at the young, poor, and minorities – all groups who tend to vote Democratic – in an attempt to suppress turnout. More than one Republican lawmaker has said that voter ID laws will directly help them and their candidates win by keeping legally-eligible voters from the polls.
Call Lamar Smith R-TX- Washington, D.C. 202-225-4236 Austin: 512-912-7508 San Antonio: 210-821-5024 Kerrville: 830-896-0154
I’m calling today because I’m worried about Trump’s call for an investigation into supposed voter fraud in the presidential election. There is zero evidence for his claims, but his rhetoric is undermining Americans’ trust in their electoral system, laying the groundwork for unnecessary and restrictive voter ID laws.
Can you please tell Representative Smith that I expect him to publicly stand up for all Americans and call for an end to Trump’s baseless attack on our right to vote.
Prevent the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General
Senator Jeff Sessions was denied a Federal Judgeship by the Senate 30 years ago due to allegations of racism. He career has been defined by his lack support for immigration reform, rejection of marriage equality and civil liberties for the LGBTQ community, and believing the Constitution does not require a separation of Church and State. Sessions will not serve in the interests of all Americans and should not be confirmed.
The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote on the conformation of Sessions on January 24th, but it was pushed back to Tuesday January 31st. Now is the time to call your members of congress and demand they reject Sessions for Attorney General.
I’m calling to express my deep opposition to the confirmation of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
May I ask how [Senator’s Name] will be voting?
[If NO for Confirmation]: Please tell the Senator thank you for listening to their constituents. Have a good day.
[If YES for Confirmation]: Senator Sessions has a long history of allegations of racism, does not support equal rights for the LGBTQ community, and has not enforced the Voting Rights Act. He will not protect all of the people of the United States. I urge the Senator to reconsider their position and reject the confirmation. I will remember [Senator’s Name] stance in the next election.
[Optional: add anything else you wish to say here]
Thursday February 2: Trump’s cabinet pick Betsy Devos-
Oppose Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education
Billionaire Betsy DeVos, one of Trump’s major donors, is a long-time advocate for school voucher programs. These programs take taxpayer money away from the public school system and place it into the hands of for-profit private and religious schools. She has no experience as an educator and has never worked in a classroom. Teachers unions do not support her, as they see her as an attack on the public educational system.
DeVos’ readiness for the job of Secretary of Education came under question after her committee hearing on January 17th, where she demonstrated a lack of understanding of basic educational policy. Additionally, paperwork filed last week by DeVos to the Office of Governmental Ethics show concern for financial conflicts of interest, which forced the committee vote to be delayed until January 31st.
Hi, my name is [Name] and I’m a concerned constituent from [City, TX, Zip].
I’m calling to express my deep opposition to the confirmation of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education.
[If YES for Confirmation]: Betsy DeVos has no experience in the public school system she would be overseeing. I urge the Senator to reconsider their position and reject DeVos’ confirmation. I will remember [Senator’s Name] stance in the next election.
[Optional: add anything else you wish to say here, if you have children mention how this would affect you]
Friday February 3: Building the Texas/Mexico border wall-
Say NO to a Border Wall
Trump is setting the tone for the next 4 years by making good on his most inflammatory promises, to build a wall along the border with Mexico and violate the sovereignty of cities that have declared themselves sanctuaries for millions of immigrants from all backgrounds and circumstances. The Wall is a symbol of racist rhetoric, drawing from failed draconian immigration laws, while also footing taxpayers with a bill that could cost nearly three times what the GOP claims. In addition, complications are expected to ensue based on the president’s past history of failed construction, violated contracts and bankruptcy.
Additionally, Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto, canceled a scheduled trip to meet with Trump citing outrage of the proposed construction of a border wall while reconfirming Mexico will not pay it. Mexico is a critical ally for the US, and the creation of this serious rift is not in our best interests.
I’m calling today because I’m concerned by Trump’s dangerous executive order to build a wall along our Mexican border. The wall is a logistical nightmare that would waste billions of taxpayer dollars better spent on healthcare, education or other infrastructure projects to keep American families safe.
[Optional: add any other comments, especially if you have a personal story about immigration]
Can you please tell [Senator/Rep’s Name] I expect them to reject the building of a Mexican border wall.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WILL BE ADDED AS NEEDED
January 26, 2017 February 6, 2017 Riotous Fancies In the News, Lamar Smith, Protest Meetups
Texas Reps Overwhelmed and M.I.A.
The continued pressure on Texas reps by Indivisible members is mounting–and possibly has our elected officials on the run.
As the San Antonio Current published today, Texas Representative Lamar Smith and Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn appear to be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers visiting their offices this week. So great were the crowds, in fact, that the office interns and staffers who met them could do little more than say hello and offer canned responses with no real discussion. Some visitors were turned away outright for “trespassing.” In none of the situations, however, were citizens actually able to meet with their elected officials to be heard.
The pressure has only just begun, and while Texas reps may be able to dodge the masses for now, they won’t be able to forever. They should expect action visits by their constituents on a weekly basis.
For more details, check out the Current piece.
January 25, 2017 February 5, 2017 House Cat In Paradise Lamar Smith, Meeting Notes, Protest Meetups
TX21 Indivisible Takes Demands to Legislators
JANUARY 24, 2017 – Between 10 AM and 1:30 PM, 16 activists, and one adorable and well-behaved infant from San Antonio congressional Districts 21, 28, and 35 descended on the offices of Rep. Lamar Smith, and Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to express concerns about the new administration. These actions coincide with the rapidly growing national Indivisible movement that took similar actions throughout the U.S.
The group represented a cross-section of the population including young professionals and parents, retirees on fixed incomes, people with disabilities, and working people who used their lunch breaks or took the day off to attend. The group focused on two of the most urgent issues, the Affordable Care Act and the President’s cabinet selections.
TX21 Indivisible – San Antonio member Jeanie Valenzuela served as the group’s introductory spokesperson but Rep. Smith’s District Director Mike Asmus and Senator Cruz’s Deputy Regional Director Javier Salinas were peppered with questions and comments from all the members. “I’ve got a daughter with disabilities,” stated member Kelly Trout. “ACA is critical for her care. Without it, she will lose all support.” Others chimed in with personal stories about how the ACA is literally a life and death issue.
Cabinet appointees were also passionately discussed, with Betsy DeVos as the primary focus. “My children are six and ten,” stated one young mother. “They will be in the educational system for many years and this woman could decimate their future with her inexperience and personal agenda. The group was unanimous in sharing their genuine fear of the new administration to Senator Cruz’s staffer.
TX21 Indivisible members made further inquiries regarding their ongoing campaign to meet with our Congressman and Senators in a town hall format. Both Smith’s and Cruz’s offices said that our requests would be relayed to Washington. Again.
Senator John Cornyn’s office was unavailable. Oddly, his office address was absent from the building directory. Members proceeded to the suite indicated on his website, which also stated office hours were Monday through Friday 9AM to 5PM. After ringing the bell numerous times with no response, a gentleman from a nearby office informed the group that there is seldom someone there. Members left a note on the door.
ABOUT TX21 INDIVISIBLE
Founded in 2017, TX21 Indivisible is a group of constituents of Texas’ 21st Congressional District who are working together to push back against the Trump agenda. Our representative Lamar Smith, is a principal enabler of Trump, but we aim to do our part to halt their rollback of our nation’s most fundamental progressive principles. We are formed in agreement with the principles of the Indivisible strategy:
Resist Trump’s agenda. We believe Trump’s agenda is racist, authoritarian and corrupt. It must be stopped.
Focus on local, defensive congressional advocacy. We demand that our own local members of Congress serve as our voice in Washington, D.C.
Embrace progressive values. We model inclusion, respect, and fairness in all of our actions.
CONTACT: Jason Sugg
Email Address: jasonsugg@yahoo.com
Website URL: www.tx21indivisible.us
January 24, 2017 tx21indivisibleadmin Lamar Smith
The News According to Lamar
Lamar Smith suggests we avoid media spin by getting our news straight from President Trump himself! As his constituents, we are of course eager to follow his sage advice. Mr. President, what say ye?
…hmmm. Can we maybe get some of that spin back?
January 23, 2017 January 26, 2017 House Cat In Paradise Action Items, Lamar Smith
TX21 Indivisible Actions This Week
1) Keep the Heat on Trump’s Divisive Cabinet Nominees: Hearings for many of Trump’s cabinet nominees may have occurred last week, but the fight is far from over. Ethical scandals, financial conflicts, and outstanding questions plague many nominees. We’ve got to keep the heat on the disastrous nominees coming up this week:
Today, Monday, January 23rd: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will meet this afternoon to consider the nomination of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State. As long-time CEO of ExxonMobil, Tillerson flouted U.S. foreign policy and befriended anti-democratic leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin. Unsurprisingly he expressed skepticism about the dangers of climate change during his confirmation hearing.
Urge Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to oppose the confirmation of Rex Tillerson to Secretary of State.
2) Keep the Pressure On: Tell Congress to #ProtectOurCare. One of President Trump’s first acts in office was to sign an Executive Order that could threaten essential components of the Affordable Care Act. But to dismantle the ACA, Trump will need to get repeal legislation through Congress. Keep the pressure on our members of Congress! Tell Lamar Smith, Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn that we won’t stand by and let 30+ million people lose their healthcare — and that we expect that they won’t either.
Tuesday January 24th: Meet with TX21 Indivisible members at Lamar’s Smiths offices in the entire district at 10am (Or at your own time if you cannot make it at 10am).
San Antonio office address is- 1100 NE Loop 410, Suite 640
Austin office address is- 2211 S. IH 35, Suite 106
Kerrville office address is- 301 Junction Hwy, Suite 346C
We will meet outside of his offices for pictures beforehand, and then go inside to meet with staffers. Goal is to remind staff that we are watching, listening, and organizing. We will be pushing back on appointee hearings, as well as voicing our support for the ACA
Please take notes, pictures, and/or video of your visits and email them to theresistancetx@gmail.com so they can be compiled into a district wide press release.
Tuesday January 24th: Meet with other TX21 Indivisible members at Ted Cruz’s offices at 11:30am
9901 IH-10W, Suite 950 San Antonio, TX 78230
300 E 8th, Suite 961 Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday January 24th: Meet with other TX21 Indivisible members at John Cornyn’s offices at 1:00 pm
Chase Tower 221 West Sixth Street, Suite 1530 Austin, TX 78701
600 Navarro, Suite 210 San Antonio, TX 78205
Tuesday January 24th: The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Jeff Sessions, nominee for Attorney General. If confirmed, Sessions will be in charge of enforcing civil rights law and protections, despite having been rejected from a federal judgeship in 1986 after former colleagues testified about his history of racist remarks. Sessions has regularly opposed civil rights legislation and he has extreme anti-immigration views.
Urge Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to oppose the confirmation of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
Tuesday, January 24th: Confirmation hearings continue for Rep. Tom Price to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Rep. Price is a radical conservative who wants to destroy the Affordable Care Act, eviscerate anti-poverty efforts, and undermine women’s health, reproductive rights, and LGBTQ rights. There are also unanswered ethical questions about profits Price has made trading health care stocks during his time in Congress where he worked on health care legislation.
Urge Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to oppose the confirmation of Rep. Tom Price for HHS Secretary.
3) Wednesday, January 25th
DELAYED! Trump’s controversial and unqualified nominee to be Secretary of Education, millionaire Betsy Devos, was supposed to get a vote on Tuesday the 24th. But, in the wake of her poor performance in Congress last week, and release of a report on her ethical conflicts, Committee Chairman Grassley has delayed that vote until January 31st.
Let’s delay this permanently! Urge our Senators to oppose the confirmation of Betsy Devos for Education Secretary.
Thank you notes: Don’t forget to drop a postcard, or letter in the mail today to thank those staffers that we met with during our office visits yesterday. Remind those staffers that we support the ACA, we are against Trump’s cabinet picks, and that we demand that our members of Congress come home and face their constituency regarding these issues BEFORE they place their final votes.
4) Thursday, January 26th
Keep the pressure on: Tell Lamar Smith, Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn to #ProtectOurCare . One of President Trump’s first acts in office was to sign an Executive order that could threaten essential components of the Affordable Care Act. But to dismantle the ACA, Trump will need to get repeal legislation through Congress. Keep the pressure on our members of Congress. Tell Lamar Smith, Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn that we won’t stand by and let 30+ million people lose their healthcare — and that we expect that they won’t either.
5) Friday, January 27th
LAMAR SMITH FRIDAY VISIT: Meet up begins at 12:3opm. This is a ‘come as you are’ visit. Some have Friday’s off and we are hoping that folks that can’t make Tuesday’s can either a) take a lunch or b) have an early day on Friday. Let’s Keep the pressure up!
Address is 1100 NE Loop 410, Suite 640
Arrive a few minutes early to take pictures of your group, and to plan out the details of our visit.
Take pictures, and notes.
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What is Edomae sushi and how does one recognise a chef who has mastered this cuisine?
Three-Michelin-starred chef Masaki Miyakawa has spent a lifetime perfecting his craft.
Koh Yuen Lin
He left Hokkaido to train to become a sushi master. But it was his pining for home that led chef Masaki Miyakawa to become his own man.
He was at the helm of his mentor Masahiro Yoshitake’s Hong Kong outpost Sushi Shikon – and catapulted it to three-Michelin-star status within two years of opening. Returning to Hokkaido in 2014, Miyakawa opened his eponymous sushi restaurant in Sapporo, followed by Sushi Shin in Niseko. And, despite the Michelin stars to his name, he remains completely unaffected. “I am honoured, of course, but it is not something that I think about. It is not what I am about,” says the 46-year-old with a serene smile.
(RELATED: Why you should (or shouldn’t) refer to the Michelin guide)
To be clear, Miyakawa, who was recently in Singapore to be a guest chef at Nami Restaurant at Shangri-La Hotel, emphasises that his cuisine is not even about him. It is about the fishermen – most whom he knows by name – who have mastered the art of preserving the freshness of their catch, and in so doing, brought about more pronounced umami flavours in Edomae sushi today, compared to two decades ago. It is about the farmers who grow the different grains that he uses to craft his sushi rice, so that it attains a unique texture. It is even about the craftsmen who shaped the specially commissioned flatware used at his restaurants.
His cuisine might be a showcase of masterful techniques, perfected over time, but he executes every step with reverence to the many others who have laboured over every element he uses and prepares.
(RELATED: Did sushi come from Japan? All you need to know about the beloved dish)
Here’s a closer look at his cuisine – one seasoned by time, respect and a zen state of mind.
01 TASTE OF TIME
Miyakawa might specialise in Edomae sushi today, but the Hokkaido native had his first taste of it only when he went to Tokyo as an 18-year-old. While the vinegar-cured sushi shocked him initially with its salty and sour flavours, he soon came to the appreciate the style as he felt that the marinated seafood blended more harmoniously with the sushi rice. Incidentally, one of the most time-consuming elements to prepare on his menu is an aged Spanish mackerel used for his Edomae-style sushi pieces. The fish is first marinated in vinegar and salt for two hours, then smoked over straw. It is then wrapped in kelp and kept sealed in a cool place for about five days. In this process, known as kobujime, the seaweed draws the moisture out from the fish with its salt, and infuses it with its distinctive umami flavours.
02 FINE-TUNED ADJUSTMENTS
For optimal texture, Miyakawa makes his shari, or sushi rice, with about 80 per cent Koshihikari, which has firmer grains, and 20 per cent Hokkaido Yumepirika, which is softer and mochi-like. The proportions are also adjusted according to the quality of each harvest. To him, there is no golden topping-to-rice ratio, or strict rules on the serving temperature of each element in nigiri sushi. The only rule is harmony. He might shape a piece of shari more quickly to retain the heat of the rice, in order to match that of the tuna slices laid out at the counter. He might also use a little less rice to go with a meaty tail of prawn, and more for a delicately thin slice of kohada (gizzard shad) – so that there is harmony in the consistency of how each piece of nigiri fills the mouth.
03 THE 30-SECOND RULE, EXPLAINED
The website of Sushi Shin recommends that a piece of sushi be consumed within 30 seconds of being served. Here’s the truth: While the sushi might collapse a little and there might be some chemical reaction among the wasabi, vinegar, soya, fish and rice, the taste doesn’t really change that much. However, every piece of sushi is crafted with myriad minute adjustments made according to how the chef feels is optimal at that exact moment, depending on a confluence of factors ranging from the fat content and texture of the fish, to how full the diner is. And the sushi he places before the diner is at its peak that very moment. So be in the moment, and eat it.
04 PRECISION COOKING, BY FEEL
For Miyakawa, the technique that is the hardest to master is smoking. To slow smoke a marinated bonito over straw burning atop charcoal fire, he has to ascertain the optimal distance from which to smoke the flesh side of the fillet so that it is close enough to absorb the smokey flavours, yet not be dried out. The straw is then removed and the fillet turned skin-side down to cook over the charcoal, allowing the oil of the fish to be rendered and released through needlepoint pricks on the skin. This in turn cooks the skin into a crisp. His challenge is to cook the fish long enough for the fat to render, yet quick enough so that the flesh doesn’t char or dry out. “Techniques like slicing I practise every day, and are easy to me,” he says. “Smoking is, however, something I had to learn through experimentation – and, even then, every piece of fish has different degrees of fattiness and thickness, and has to be cooked differently. It is something that has to be mastered by feel.”
05 NOT BLANK SLATES
He started looking for tableware the moment he decided to open a restaurant of his own. These personally sourced pieces range from old pieces found at vintage shops to specially commissioned plates, such as the Karatsu-yaki style flatware by Nakazato Taki, Miyakawa’s favourite potter from Kyushu. “I like vintage and handcrafted pieces because each has a story behind it, be it the history of its past owners or the thoughts of the creator, and I hope to share these with my diners through using these pieces.”
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God Will Punish, Obasanjo, Atiku By February Next Year, Says Oshiomhole |RN
APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole
Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
National Chairman, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole, has said that God will punish former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, when President Muhammadu Buhari defeats them at the 2019 presidential election.
The former Edo State governor, who spoke to newsmen after receiving APC women leaders from Edo State, who paid him a solidarity visit in his office in Aso drive, in Abuja, also reminded Obasanjo that he swore that God should punish him if he ever supported his former deputy, Atiku, to become the president.
He further noted that the ruling party is much more stronger in Ogun and Imo states despite grievances of their governors, Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha, respectively, stressing that APC will work hard to deliver the governorship candidates of the party without them.
Asked his fears for 2019 elections, he said: “I will rather tell you my hopes and that is that Buhari will win by getting more votes than he got before. Nobody has said that Buhari is a thief, but who said that the other person is a thief was the person he worked with.
“If you are working with me and I said that you are thief, that God will punish me if I support you and when you are confused because your supply line has been chopped off and you enter a new deal, come back to say I now support you, that God you invoked with your name to punish you if you support that person is about to go to work and He will go to work in February next year. He will punish you thoroughly and punish the person he is supporting in favour of Nigeria,” he said.
While describing the governors as poor students of history who had forgotten where they came from to join the APC, Oshiomhole said argued that some APC governors have no electoral values any longer.
“Our popularity in Imo and Ogun states are much higher. What you don’t know and Nigerians always made me surprise by thinking that once you are a governor, you have electoral value. Yes, we have overwhelming majority of the APC governors with electoral value but we also have others without electoral values.
“I can concretely tell you today that in Imo state, APC will win more votes. As I said, it is about numbers and my focus is about the ordinary Imo electorate because the governor, his Commissioner for Happiness and the son in-law have only one vote on that day.
“But those mechanics, market women, school teachers and workers whose salaries are unpaid for years that have the same weight of votes. They are excited about the new possibilities of a new government coming with new idea free from all the encumbrances of the present system. I am very confident in Imo.
“Also, in Ogun state, don’t forget that the vice president is from Ogun state. We cannot focus on one person and not on the other. Ogun is one of the most enlightened state in the country and that is where Chief Awolowo came from. “They have a huge history in a political kingdom headed by one person.
When a child ran out of his father’s house to bear a new name according to history and the Bible, he returned when the weather thoroughly beat him as a prodigal son. That is why APC has prodigal sons. Those who think that their political future is tied to are poor students of history.
“They forget that some of these people thinking that they are invisible have run election before and lost deposit until they abandoned their parties and joined us. If they return back, history will repeat itself,” he said. (The Sun)
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Novus Ordo: Dutch priest jubilant after giving Pope Francis his book of pro-gay homilies
Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent (LifeSiteNews)
ROME, June 24, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – At the end of the general audience in Saint Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Pope Francis spoke affectionately with a Dutch priest who had gained permission to present him with a compilation of funeral homilies about the theme of homosexuality. After the short meeting, Father Pierre Valkering, a parish priest from the diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam, told the press that he had been “profoundly touched” by the Pope’s welcoming attitude. Gay websites in the Netherlands gave prominence to the meeting, underscoring the way Pope Francis went out of his way to show his affection and interest for Fr. Valkering and his work.
[Note “Osservatore Romano” on the photos. Was this “tryst” reported in L’Osservatore Romano? I can find no mention of such, but it is very difficult to search issues on the day after and later (in this case, the June 23, 2016, issue) as well as to know in which “haystack” to look (i.e., language edition; in this case, possibly Dutch or German) to find the proverbial “needle.” The photos are mostly likely in L’Osservatore Romano’s photographic archive for the June 22, 2016, general audience. Feel free to search that haystack at www.photovat.com – AQ moderator Tom]
The book is a collection of about 30 sermons given by a well-known “chaplain of the gays” on the occasion of young gay men’s deaths in the 1980s and 1990s, most of whom died of AIDS. Father Jan van Kilsdonk (1917-2008), a Jesuit priest and student pastor, started reaching out to the gay community in Amsterdam in 1982 when he retired from his official job. He had a clearly unorthodox point of view, calling homosexuality a “brainwave of God” and seeking to value “homosexual love.” Even though Dutch Catholicism is renowned for its progressivism, Fr. van Kilsdonk did have problems with his superiors. His stance was all the more shocking because he saw the dark side of the gay lifestyle first-hand and yet he did not clearly preach the Catholic doctrine on repentance and the need for spiritual healing.
He became well-known on the gay night scene in Amsterdam and personally accompanied some 200 young AIDS sufferers to their deaths, with a great deal of warmth and pastoral care. There is nothing wrong with that; on the contrary. But Van Kilsdonk went a great deal beyond that, justifying their lifestyle and berating the Church for its lack of openness to their tendencies.
He was even to sign a petition launched in 1987 by a Dutch gay rights group, COC, asking the Minister of Justice to decriminalize sexual contact by and with young people under 16, recalls Pascal Beukers of Katholiek Nieuwsblad. It was in 2004 that Van Kilsdonk told the gay support group Mannenwerk (“Men’s work”) that homosexuality is not “an abnormality or a disorder” but “a brainwave of God.”
Fr. Valkering met Fr. van Kilsdonk during a sabbatical in Rome in 2003. It was then that Fr. Valkering decided to work on the Jesuit’s sermons and to edit and publish a selection of them. The two men were to meet often to talk about the project and Valkering was touched to see the profound feelings and memories stirred up in the “gay chaplain’s” mind – although it must be said that Van Kilsdonk never claimed to be homosexual.
The book, Farewell Young Man of Light, came out in Dutch a few years after his death in 2012 and has now been translated into Italian under the title Addio ragazzi di luce, with the gay rainbow symbol on its cover. It is the Italian version that was presented to Pope Francis on Wednesday morning.
“It was tremendous. I am so happy! It couldn’t have gone better,” Fr. Valkering said after the meeting. “I was sitting with a score of other priests right in front of the Basilica. The Pope came over to me. What a sweet, lovable man, he warms your heart! I put on my best Italian – and the Holy Spirit really helped me – and told him this book can encourage the Church to give more thought to homosexuality because it contains a treasury of experience on homosexuals, their loves, their lives and their sorrows. The Pope answered that he gives them a great deal of attention and that he always carries them in his heart.”
According to Dutch Vatican journalist Andrea Vreede, the fact that Valkering was allowed personally to present his compilation to Pope Francis is “remarkable.” “Every day, the Pope is overwhelmed by requests. It is he who decides to answer them or not. The presentation of this book was suggested to him, he thought about it and deliberately said ‘yes’,” she commented. The “taboo” of homosexuality is not going to disappear any time soon in the Catholic Church, she added. “But at least, this Pope is ready to listen.”
Gay news sites in the Netherlands are more forthright: commenting on the event, one of them recalled the Pope’s words “Who am I to judge,” and: “It’s not a problem to be a homosexual, no, we should be brothers.” They are definitely using the event as proof that the Church is changing.
That is exactly what Fr Valkering is working towards. He openly campaigns for the modification of Catholic teaching on homosexuality, according to the Catholic TV broadcaster KRO, which titled its piece on the event: “The Pope greets Dutch homosexuals.” “The Pope asked me to present his greetings to the homosexuals of the Netherlands,” Fr Valkering told the news source in a telephone interview. The article ends with a reminder of the Church authorities’ stance on homosexuality that Valkering wants to see changed: “Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”
The working group of “Catholic Homo-Pastors,” WKHP, which welcomes activist homosexual priests and religious, greeted the event enthusiastically, hoping that it would have a “positive outcome on the way the universal Church and the Dutch ecclesiastical province think about the love-life of homosexuals.” “The WKHP is prepared to play a part in this!” according to their communiqué.
One can understand their point of view: over the last years and months, Pope Francis has gone out of his way to meet members of the LGBT community, including a transgender man and his “wife” and child from Spain in January 2015 and an old Argentinian friend and his lover during his visit to the United States last October. His insistence on giving prominent roles to clerics who favor the recognition of homosexual “unions” and who value their “fidelity” during the successive Synods on the Family points in the same direction.
The Dutch publisher of Farewell Young Man of Light, Valkhofpers, translated five of the homilies included on the book into several languages, including English, available online here.
Here is a short excerpt, from the funeral homily for Ronald Heitkamp, a general practitioner from a sturdy northern Dutch Catholic family:
Ronald’s development as a child and adolescent took place during the revolution of the Sixties, when a novel spontaneity immersed the age-old roles of man and wife into a melting pot. It must have been bewildering, especially for father Heitkamp, when Ronald – radiant, talented, virtuous, well-proportioned and no doubt the apple of his father’s eye – began to express the suspicion, indeed the certainty, that he felt himself to have been created – more even than for the intimate and fertile relations of man to woman – for the rather uncodified tenderness of a man to a man, of a boyfriend to a boyfriend. And that he perceived this deep experience not as some disastrous and dark fate but rather as a felicitous advantage from the Creator. But especially in his father’s conscience, it was as if something broke that had been deemed unbreakable. This was in part because the classic pattern of living as man and wife, stabilized in marriage and parenthood, was held to belong to the dogma of the Mother Church, which to the Heitkamps was something sacred.
Naturally this collision with his father left a trail of pain in Ronald’s soul. But this was only where the miracle began. Not for a minute did Ronald doubt the good faith of his father. He always felt that, in his heart, his father was better than this dogma and than this cultural model, even though the son understood very well that his powerlessness also had something to do with a certain diffidence and guardedness that was inherent to the Heitkamps.
Later on in the homily Fr. van Kilsdonk talks gushingly about Ronald’s physical attractiveness and his successive lovers. He called him “perhaps one of those 36” Righteous Ones who in the Old Testament are said to “bear the world.”
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Pregnant Girlfriend of Terrorist Dies After Smuggling Knife Into French Prison
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Michaël Chiolo was serving a 30 year sentence for kidnapping and torturing an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. He had become a jihadist only after entering prison and changed his name to Abdel Karim.
More details are emerging about an incident in a high security French prison on Tuesday 5 March when jihadist prisoner Michaël Chiolo wounded prison guards with knives which had been smuggled in by his pregnant partner.
Officers from the specialist RAID unit shot and injured him and fatally wounded his partner after a 10-hour siege in the family visiting area of the prison in Conde-sur-Sarthe, near Caen in Normandy.
It is understood the woman had got pregnant during a conjugal visit and had not been searched because of her condition.
She was named late on Wednesday, 6 March, as Hanane Aboulhana, 34, from Mulhouse.
In a tweet, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner praised the "courage, composure and professionalism" of the RAID (Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion or Search, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence) police unit.
— Christophe Castaner (@CCastaner) 5 March 2019
[Tweet: "#CondéSurSarthe: The prisoner and his companion were arrested by RAID. I want to salute their courage, composure and professionalism. Once again, our police officers honoured their uniforms and their motto: "To serve without fail". Respect and gratitude."]
Anti-terrorist prosecutor Remy Heitz said Chiolo — who had changed his name to Abdel Karim — shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Great) during the attack.
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Michaël Chiolo was jailed for 30 years for murdering an old man and had become radicalised in jail
"He said he wanted to avenge Cherif Chekatt. He said he was wearing an explosive belt and threatened to use it," said Mr Heitz, before confirming the belt was fake.
Chekatt was shot dead by police after killing five people and wounding 11 at a Christmas market in Strasbourg in December.
"There is no doubt as to the terrorist nature of this attack," Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said.
The Conde-sur-Sarthe prison is one of France's most secure jails and does not suffer from overcrowding, said Ms. Belloubet.
But she said Chiolo was not housed in a secure wing for radicalised inmates which was opened in September.
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Chiolo and an accomplice were jailed in 2015 for choking to death Roger Tarall — who had spent the war in Dachau concentration camp — after tying him up while robbing his home.
He converted to Islam in prison and was later sentenced to an extra year in jail for asking fellow inmates to "re-enact" the attack by jihadist gunmen on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November 2015.
Chiolo's lawyer, Pauline Brion, said he was "intelligent" and "educated" and met his girlfriend in prison.
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How odd is a cluster of plane accidents?
Original question (7/25/14): Does this quotation from the news media make sense, or is there a better statistical way of viewing the spate of recent plane accidents?
However, Barnett also draws attention to the theory of Poisson distribution, which implies that short intervals between crashes are actually more probable than long ones.
"Suppose that there is an average of one fatal accident per year, meaning that the chance of a crash on any given day is one in 365," says Barnett. "If there is a crash on 1 August, the chance that the next crash occurs one day later on 2 August is 1/365. But the chance the next crash is on 3 August is (364/365) x (1/365), because the next crash occurs on 3 August only if there is no crash on 2 August."
"It seems counterintuitive, but the conclusion follows relentlessly from the laws of probability," Barnett says.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28481060
Clarification (7/27/14): What is counter intuitive (to me) is saying that rare events tend to occur close in time. Intuitively, I would think that rare events would not occur close in time. Can anyone point me to a theoretical or empirical expected distribution of the time between events under the assumptions of a Poisson distribution? (That is, a histogram where the y-axis is frequency or probability and the x-axis is time between 2 consecutive occurrences grouped into days, weeks, months, or years, or the like.) Thanks.
Clarification (7/28/14): The headline implies it is more likely to have clusters of accidents than widely spaced accidents. Lets operationalize that. Let's say that a cluster is 3 airplane accidents, and a short period of time is 3 months and a long period of time is 3 years. It seems illogical to think that there is a higher probability that 3 accidents will occur within a period of 3 months than within a period of 3 years. Even if we take the first accident as a given, it is illogical to think that 2 more accidents will occur within the next 3 months as compared to within the next 3 years. If that is true, then the news media headline is misleading and incorrect. Am I missing something?
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$\begingroup$ Re the clarification: You might find it helpful to distinguish between probability, probability per unit time, and expectation. Although processes describing rare events will--practically by the very meaning of "rare"--have a long expected time between events, that is not inconsistent with the probability per unit time being greatest at the outset. Nevertheless, the probability of the event next occurring within a short time will be very small. $\endgroup$ – whuber♦ Jul 27 '14 at 17:35
$\begingroup$ Also, I just noticed this Wikipedia article--you might like it. Oh, and I just came across this pdf, too--it specifically mentions the "clustering" of airplane crashes (and describes the issue much better than I have so far...). $\endgroup$ – Steve S Jul 28 '14 at 19:07
$\begingroup$ @Glen_b: The flaw in the newspaper article (implied in the title of the article, which is the title of my posting) is that the article suggests there is a higher probability of a given number (i.e., a cluster) of accidents occurring in a short period of time than over a longer period of time. That is just wrong. $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 29 '14 at 9:59
$\begingroup$ @JoelW.: If anything, it would be the journalist that screwed up... Anyway, is everything cleared up or do you still have any reservations left over? $\endgroup$ – Steve S Jul 30 '14 at 20:55
$\begingroup$ My guess is that it was the statistician who misled the journalist. I doubt the journalist got it wrong on his/her own (because it is so counter-intuitive). $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 30 '14 at 23:50
Summary: The first sentence in the quoted BBC paragraph is sloppy and misleading.
Even though previous answers and comments provided an excellent discussion already, I feel that the main question has not been answered satisfactorily.
So let us assume that a probability of a plane crash on any given day is $p=1/365$ and that the crashes are independent from each other. Let us further assume that one plane crashed on January 1st. When would the next plane crash?
Well, let us do a simple simulation: for each day for the next three years I will randomly decide if another plane crashed with probability $p$ and note the day of the next crash; I will repeat this procedure $100\,000$ times. Here is the resulting histogram:
In fact, the probability distribution is simply given by $\mathrm{Pr}(t) = (1-p)^t p$, where $t$ is the number of days. I plotted this theoretical distribution as a red line, and you can see that it fits well to the Monte Carlo histogram. Remark: if time were discretized in smaller and smaller bins, this distributions would converge to an exponential one; but it does not really matter for this discussion.
As many people have already remarked here, it is a decreasing curve. This means that the probability that the next plane crashes on the next day, January 2nd, is higher than the probability that the next plane will crash on any other given day, e.g. on January 2nd next year (the difference is almost three-fold: $0.27\%$ and $0.10\%$).
However, if you ask what is the probability that the next plane crashes in the next three days, the answer is $0.8\%$, but if you ask what is the probability that it will crash after three days, but in the next three years, then the answer is $94\%$. So, obviously, it is more likely that it will crash in the next three years (but after the first three days) than in the next three days. The confusion arises because when you say "clustered events" you refer to a very small initial chunk of the distribution, but when you say "widely spaced" events you refer to a large chunk of it. That is why even with a monotonically decreasing probability distribution it is surely possible that "clusters" (e.g. two plane crashes in three days) are very unlikely.
Here is another histogram to really get this point across. It is simply a sum of the previous histogram over several non-intersecting time periods:
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$\begingroup$ Are you saying that the MIT professor is wrong? $\endgroup$ – Steve S Aug 18 '14 at 23:48
$\begingroup$ No, the quote from Barnett in the BBC article is completely correct. But its interpretation by the BBC reporter is sloppy at best: "Barnett also draws attention to the theory of Poisson distribution, which implies that short intervals between crashes are actually more probable than long ones". The most natural interpretation of this sentence is dead wrong (and I suppose Barnett did not mean to imply that). Maybe I should be more explicit about that in my reply. Is there any substantial part of my answer with which you disagree? Hope not, as I fully agree with yours. $\endgroup$ – amoeba Aug 19 '14 at 8:35
$\begingroup$ @SteveS: I updated my "summary", hope it will be less confusing now. $\endgroup$ – amoeba Aug 19 '14 at 11:07
$\begingroup$ I'm sorry if my initial comment came across as curt. $\endgroup$ – Steve S Aug 19 '14 at 21:30
What the reporter is saying is that the random occurrence of a plane crash can be modelled as a Poisson process--a situation where the probability of an event occurring over some (small) interval is proportional to the length of said interval and where each occurrence in Independent of all others.
Is this a reasonable model for the scenario described?
Sure, these events might not be 100% Independent since other pilots likely alter their behavior (if only very slightly) after a crash. [I don't know--perhaps a few pilots do some extra bit of simulator training or something like that]. Nevertheless, the assumption of Independence is still entirely reasonable.
What about clusters of plane crashes?
Yes. Given a Poisson process (or even some other random process), you would expect to see some clusters of occurrences.
In fact, as described by the Oxford Dictionary of Statistics in its entry for Poisson Process (which is a "mathematical description of randomness"):
[R]andomness usually gives rise to apparent clustering, despite the natural
expectation that randomness would lead to regularity.
For example, check out this simple bit of R code:
set.seed(123)
x <- runif(500)
y <- runif(500)
plot(x, y, pch=20, col='blue', main="A Random Distribution of Points")
which produces:
Even though we know this is a plot of random points, it sort of looks like there are some non-random bits to it--specifically, in some parts of the graph there are clumps of points while other parts are wide open. It's this same sort of behavior that the article is trying to describe (only with time series data and not spatial data).
@JoelW.: So, for instance, let's say the probability of a plane crashing tomorrow (or any day for that matter) is "p" (and, let's say "p" is something like 1 in a hundred).
The reason why the next plane crash is more likely to occur tomorrow than it is more likely to occur in exactly a year (i.e. on July 26, 2015) is because the probability that the next crash is in exactly one year is equal to:
= Prob(crash tomorrow) * Prob(365 days with *no* crashes)
Ultimately, I think that the reason these things are Counter-Intuitive is because usually when we think of a phrase like: "The odds of a plane crash in one month compared with the odds of one happening tomorrow". We naturally don't immediately consider the 24-hour period that begins in exactly one month. Instead, we (or at least I do) tend to think of it in more, well, flexibly. So more like: a month ± a week. That and the fact that we forget about taking into account the odds of a crash not happening in the interim... (But again, maybe that's just me...).
Wikipedia's article on the Clustering Illusion
A pdf which specifically mentions the "clustering" of plane crashes (on page 8) and briefly describes the mathematics of a Poisson process.
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$\begingroup$ @Joel W.: Actually, I should add more to this answer--give me a couple minutes to edit... $\endgroup$ – Steve S Jul 25 '14 at 20:56
$\begingroup$ The argument for delaying travel is the same one appearing in the old joke about how the TSA found a statistician with a bomb on board an airplane. When asked to explain herself, the statistician said "Well, the odds of one person having a bomb are small yet not small enough for comfort, but the odds of two people having a bomb are infinitesimal. Therefore when I bring a bomb, there is almost no chance there will be two bombs and we will be perfectly safe." $\endgroup$ – whuber♦ Jul 25 '14 at 22:25
$\begingroup$ Your joke is on point, @whuber, but there seems to be some sort of logical disconnect between saying that "short intervals between crashes are actually more probable than long ones" and saying that the probability of a crash tomorrow is independent of whether a crash occurred today. I guess probabilty can be counter-intuitive. $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 25 '14 at 23:02
$\begingroup$ What is counter intuitive (to me) is saying that rare events tend to occur close in time. Intuitively, I would think that rare events would not occur close in time. Am I the only one with that intuitive view? $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 27 '14 at 2:21
$\begingroup$ @Steve S: Thank you for the link. What would the exponential distribution look like for the assumed value in the news article (1/365)? In any case, perhaps the Exponential Distribution does not address the headline of the article, which implies a comparison of the probability of a given number of events happening within a short time period with the probability of that number of events happening within a long time period. $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 28 '14 at 13:00
If the number of plane crashes is Poisson distributed (as he seems to be stating), the time between crashes has an exponential distribution. The pdf of the exponential distribution is a monotone decreasing function of time. Hence earlier crashes are more likely than later crashes.
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$\begingroup$ "short intervals between crashes are actually more probable than long ones" How is this different from saying that if there has just been a plane crash we should all delay our upcoming travel (for statistical reasons)? $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 25 '14 at 22:19
$\begingroup$ Joel, That quotation is meaningless until its author quantifies what is meant by "short" and "long". In his example of an event with an expected rate of one per year, the chance of a recurrence during the next month will still be far less than the chance that the next crash occurs more than one year later. What he might have meant is that the probability per unit time is greater in the near term than in the longer term. To compare actual probabilities you have to multiply the probability per unit time by the duration (technically, you have to integrate it over the duration). $\endgroup$ – whuber♦ Jul 27 '14 at 17:39
$\begingroup$ @whuber: The headline speaks of the probability of a cluster of airplane accidents. Nothing said on stackexchange so far has convinced me that a cluster of airplane accidents is more commonplace or likely than widely spaced airplane accidents. So, it seems to me that the quotation from the news media is downright misleading (perhaps because the time intervals are not identified, as you wrote). What do you think? $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 27 '14 at 19:10
$\begingroup$ I don't know what you mean by "widely spaced airplane accidents" nor, for that matter, am I completely sure what you understand a "cluster" to be. Suppose, to make the situation concrete, a series of rare events occurs in years 0, 10, 11, 12, and 22 (counting from some initial date). Exactly how many "widely spaced" events have occurred? How many "clusters" have occurred? I can find defensible answers to the first question ranging from zero through ten and answers to the second question could be zero or one. $\endgroup$ – whuber♦ Jul 27 '14 at 19:16
$\begingroup$ @whuber: The headline implies it is more likely to have clusters of accidents than widely spaced accidents. Lets operationalize that. Let's say that a cluster is 3 airplane accidents, and a short period of time is 3 months and a long period of time is 3 years. It seems illogical to think that there is a higher probability that 3 accidents will occur within a period of 3 months than within a period of 3 years. Even if we take the first accident as a given, it is illogical to think that 2 more accidents will occur within the next 3 months as compared to within the next 3 years. $\endgroup$ – Joel W. Jul 27 '14 at 19:50
The other answers have already dealt with how independent events cluster. (Reading Gleick's Chaos, all those years ago, opened my eyes to this idea.)
But, in fact there is strong evidence that plane crashes are not independent events. Cialdini's Influence has a very good chapter on this (also mentioned here which has a couple of links to data; and I found an excerpt of that part of the book). Obviously this is highly controversial: it is basically saying that the more publicized an air crash is, the more likely it is to influence a pilot (consciously or unconsciously) to crash his plane. But the psychological explanations underlying the hypothesis seem plausible, and the data seems to support it too.
(Links to statistics-based debunking research would be welcome, in the comments.)
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$\begingroup$ Doesn't say that: says "immediately following certain kinds of highly publicized suicide stories, the number of people who die in commercial-airline crashes increases". $\endgroup$ – Scortchi♦ Aug 1 '14 at 11:56
$\begingroup$ The reference for the claim is, I think, Phillips,(1978) "Airplane accident fatalities increase just after newspaper stories about murder and suicide", Science, 201, pp 748-750. The abstract refers to "private, business, and corporate-executive airplanes". $\endgroup$ – Scortchi♦ Aug 1 '14 at 12:09
$\begingroup$ Or perhaps this one: Phillips (1980), "Airplane accidents, murder, and the mass media: towards a theory of imitation and suggestion", Social Forces, 58, 4, where "airlines" are mentioned in the abstract. $\endgroup$ – Scortchi♦ Aug 1 '14 at 12:13
$\begingroup$ Altheide (1981), Social Forces, 60, 2 suggests that a "certain kind of highly publicized suicide story" may not have been defined entirely independently of subsequent 'plane crashes - sounds rather like the definition of "famous rabbi". $\endgroup$ – Scortchi♦ Aug 1 '14 at 12:34
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Never-Trumpers vs. Reluctant Trumpers
Posted: Sep 09, 2016 12:01 AM
Are you as sick as I am of seeing the tedious finger-pointing between never-Trumpers and certain Republicans who have decided -- many reluctantly -- to vote for Donald Trump?
I assume that most people on both sides are in good faith and are doing what they believe is in the nation's best interests. I wish people would quit judging the others as immoral or sellouts. That's a bit presumptuous and self-congratulatory for my tastes.
I doubt that many people outside the commentator universe are agonizing over the decision to the extent the "professionals" are. To most Republicans and conservatives, voting for Trump over Hillary Clinton is a no-brainer, even if they find Trump distasteful, unpredictable and significantly unreliable.
I was a vocal supporter of Ted Cruz's and don't slightly regret it, mainly because I believe that most politically related problems plaguing the nation stem from our abandonment of the Constitution and that the best remedy for them is to restore constitutional principles and advance policies based on them. I believe that authentic, constitutional conservatism has not been tried for too long and that Cruz would have brought it.
But Cruz lost. Trump won. And either he or Clinton will be the next president. There's nothing I can do to change that, but there is something I can do to help affect, however slightly, the outcome of the election. That something is my vote. Abstaining or voting for a fantasy candidate will help Clinton. We can argue logical fallacies all day long, but I have only one option if I want my vote to contribute to Clinton's defeat, and that is to vote for Trump.
I can't see myself being a cheerleader for Trump, but having made my decision on the basis of the nation's best interests, I do want to do my small part to help him put his best foot forward and to nudge him toward doing the right things and implementing the correct policy prescriptions should he prevail.
So when I see an improvement in his demeanor and his approach, when I see him making good, substantive speeches on national security and other subjects, my pride does not interfere with my applauding those developments. Maybe I'm rationalizing, but this may signal that he is listening to the right people and that he will follow through on these ideas.
Even if you doubt Trump's genuine commitment to conservative policies, remember that he has many incentives to implement our policies. Apart from a few issues, his supporters want him to govern like a conservative, and he knows he'll never appease the rabid left.
Regardless, I have no doubt that he'd govern infinitely more conservatively than Clinton. Remember, if Clinton were to win, not only would she govern as an ultra-leftist (Barack Obama on stilts) but also her constituency groups would urge her to go further left, rewarding her for doing so and punishing her for deviating. The electorate has changed enough now that she doesn't usually even bother pretending to be moderate. That should scare all of us.
As for the never-Trumpers, I believe there are different types among them. Some are more conservative and closer to being constitutional purists -- many, but not all, of whom voted for Cruz. They share the frustration that many original Trump supporters have with so-called establishment Republicans. They have seen our predicament as perilous, with the nation facing a number of real, existential threats. But they are apparently convinced that the nation's plight isn't so dire as some of the rest of us believe it is, that we could survive a Hillary Clinton term and that the best chance of saving the nation in the long run is to avoid elevating Trump to president and leader of the party because he could forever destroy conservatism and the Republican brand.
I can relate to those arguments and have even made them myself in earlier discussions. But in the end, I think our situation is so precarious that if we elected Clinton, we might never again have the luxury of worrying about the viability of conservatism or the Republican Party. If we lost the borders issue alone, we might never win another election. If Clinton were to appoint one or more Supreme Court justices, there's no limit to the damage the court could do to the Constitution, which is already in trouble. If we keep pretending we are not at war with terrorists and continue to degrade our military, we will be inviting further attacks at home and the triumph of evil abroad. And on and on.
So once Cruz lost, I concluded we have to cut our losses and try to save the nation, however imperfectly we do it. In the process, we can remain constitutional watchdogs and advocates and lobby and pressure Trump to pursue conservative policies.
Other never-Trumpers, the establishment types, have never seemed as alarmed about Obama's destruction of this nation. They haven't seen the urgency, and they believe that establishment Republicans have been unfairly criticized for not doing enough to oppose and stop Obama. Some of them apparently see a Clinton presidency as just another day at the office or are convinced Trump would be so bad that Clinton couldn't be worse, which is hard for me to wrap my head around. Many of them have contempt for the Cruz types because they believe that Cruz was opportunistically chasing after rainbows, for example, in his willingness to fight Obama to the point of a government shutdown. They don't share the grass roots' frustrations with Republicans and therefore don't grasp that their complacency contributed to the rise of Trump. What an irony!
I don't agree, however, with those avid Trump supporters who blame conservatism or conservatives for Obama and the left's successes. Conservatism shouldn't be tainted by the failures of those who falsely call themselves conservatives to win elections or lack courage to stand up to Democrats and the media. Conservatism itself, and true conservatives advancing it, is still the answer. But even true conservatives, going forward, must take a page out of Trump's playbook in fighting back against political correctness (when he has actually and properly done so) and in counterattacking the ruthless left without fear of being shunned as mean-spirited.
But for now, we have two -- and only two -- choices. To say otherwise is to fool ourselves. I choose to proceed optimistically, with the prayer that Donald Trump will implement mostly conservative ideas and help stop the bleeding with regard to our borders, our courts, our tax and regulatory systems, and our national security. I know for a fact that Hillary Clinton would not do so.
I respect the never-Trumpers and will not presume to judge them as abandoning the nation's best interests, and I hope they will accord people like me the same consideration -- realizing that we have the same goals but disagree on how to reach them.
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March 20023 days in the field
Destination: The Highland Lakes Area
By Erica H. Brasseux
Travel time from:
Austin - 1.5 hours /
Dallas - 4 hours /
Houston - 5 hours /
San Antonio - 2.5 hours
About an hour outside Austin I turn off the congested, four-lane highway and follow a quiet, two-lane blacktop winding along the Highland Lakes.
I roll down the windows, turn up the radio and set the mood for a weekend of outdoor recreation and relaxation.
En route to Canyon of the Eagles Lodge, where I'll be spending the next two nights, I see brown signs signaling a state park, which beckon me to stray from my path. Longhorn Cavern State Park, one of the most frequented and talked about parks of them all, is at first glance not nearly as awe-inspiring as say, Enchanted Rock or Davis Mountains, whose majestic appeal are evident even before you pull through the entrance gate. At Longhorn Cavern, it's what lies beneath that sets this park apart.
Before we venture into the cave, our tour guide, Kaye Barlow, explains how a high-velocity river that flowed through the limestone cracks formed the cave some 280 million years ago. As we file down the first chamber, the cave's year-round, 68-degree temperature is a welcome relief from the sultry Texas heat.
Perhaps the most impressive of the cave's numerous and distinctively different rooms is Crystal City. It's like walking into the middle of a giant geode. Two magnificent domed rooms, known as the Indian Council Room and Church Room, contain most of the cave's unusual history. In the 1920s and '30s, Burnet County residents used the Indian Council Room as a nightclub, dance hall and restaurant. The Church Room, complete with bleachers, was used for religious services and theater presentations. A natural hole in the cave ceiling provided plenty of sunlight and ventilation.
For decades, Comanches occupied Longhorn Cavern, and in more recent history it served as a Confederate stronghold where gunpowder was manufactured in secret during the Civil War. One rumor suggests that the cave served as a hideout for the notorious Texas outlaw Sam Bass, who allegedly stashed gold there.
An hour and a half later we emerge, and I push onward to Canyon of the Eagles, a 900-acre lodge and nature park nestled along the northeast shoreline of Lake Buchanan.
Greeted with a warm welcome and a key to one of the lodge's 64 charming cabins, I unpack my bags and check out my view of the lake from my private porch. Birdfeeders, which adorn the limbs of numerous trees throughout the property, attract more than 150 species, including the endangered black-capped vireo and golden-cheeked warbler. But it's a feisty squirrel that frequents the feeder outside my window. His clumsy though diligent attempts to acquire the seeds from inside the feeder are highly acrobatic and very amusing.
I thumb through a brochure that outlines the park's daily activity schedule. From guided nature hikes to reptile programs, it's hard to decide what to do first. Perhaps such decisions are better made after a catnap in a porch swing, followed by a few cups of freshly brewed coffee. It seems to work for me, anyway.
I burn off my caffeine buzz on a nearby trail, which leads to the park store down by the lake. Volleyball nets, canoes, kayaks and a fishing pier create a natural mecca for outdoor enthusiasts and family vacationers. Inside the store I purchase a ticket for tomorrow's Vanishing Texas River Cruise. A picnic lunch and scenic float down the Colorado River strikes me as the ideal way to spend the afternoon.
Tonight the coffee will again come in handy as the Austin Astronomical Society will host an all-night star party at the lodge's Eagle Eye Observatory. Sleeping in tomorrow morning will be a much-needed luxury.
Today's ride takes us through the drainage area below Ojo Escondido Springs, where a giant cliff looms overhead. "That's where we're going," says Walker, pointing to the top of the cliff. "We'll eat lunch up there." I scan the intimidating sheerness of rubble and rock for a trail, but my eye cannot pick one up. But soon, in a series of switchbacks, we are loosening our reins to let our horses put their heads down and work their way up a tiny rocky trail. To our left are giant looming boulders; a foot to the right of where the horses are carefully planting their feet, the rocks drop away to the valley below.
The word "breathtaking" has just taken on a whole new meaning for me. The silence of my saddlepals is tacit agreement.
At the top of the hill, I express my appreciation to Little Red with a series of pats, head scratches and murmured endearments, and my companions (who have also regained their voices) are doing the same. We dismount, and pull out our lunches, water, cameras and binoculars as the wranglers secure the horses. The landscape sweeps away from us in every direction as we slake our thirst and fall greedily on our lunches.
The afternoon ride, on a different route after we work our way down the steep trail, takes us on a big loop back to the ranch by late afternoon. Tired and exhilarated, we have time for a brief rest and shower before a fajita feast prepared by the TPW staff. Then we watch the sunset over the Bofecillos Mountains and a meadow of stars blooming in the darkening sky.
The 70-foot vessel is only half-full on the 11 o'clock voyage, but later this evening some 200 passengers will arrive for a privately chartered wedding and reception cruise. White tulle and greenery already garnish the archway on the pier, providing a festive prelude of the upcoming sunset ceremony.
Known primarily for the Bald Eagle Cruises from November through March, the river cruise operates year-round and offers various seasonal opportunities.
This afternoon more than 12 miles of hiking trails will keep me busy. Later in the evening the main patio, beneath a towering live oak tree and a blanket of stars, provides an enchanting venue for guests to enjoy live entertainment. Brad Collins kicks off the night's events with cowboy storytelling, followed by western singer and yodeler Jill Jones. An impressive fire-spinning demonstration culminates almost three hours of back-to-back entertainment. By 10 p.m. I'm exhausted and ready for bed.
After a good night's sleep and a buffet breakfast, my husband, Eric, joins me for a morning on the greens of nearby Highland Lakes Golf Club, a nine-hole public course at Inks Lake State Park overlooking scenic Inks Lake.
But after donating my last remaining ball and last ounce of patience to the water hazard on the sixth hole, I am ready to trade in my clubs for a rod and reel. We refuel with a pre-packaged turkey sandwich and soda from a nearby convenience store, and are off to try our luck striper fishing on Lake Buchanan.
As we approach the end of the pier to load the boat, our guide, Bas, owner and operator of the Boss Striper Guide Service, greets us. A 10-year-old boy fishing at the end of the pier dangles his muddy, untied sneakers over the edge, waiting patiently for a small perch or crappie to nibble on his line. A skinned knee and unkempt hair provide convincing evidence that he's making the most of his family's weekend retreat.
An excursion with Bas earlier today proved successful for the young fisherman. Relishing the opportunity to show off his prize catch to a new crowd of admirers, he flashes a proud grin as he hoists a 30-inch striped bass high above his head.
Initially, all I wanted was a relaxing afternoon puttering around the lake, soaking in some rays, and maybe catching a few fish. Now, however, enviously eyeing the boy's silver trophy glittering in the sunlight, I can feel my competitive spirit begin to stir.
At 18 to 25 inches, our first few catches are hardly anything to complain about. Set up with four downriggers, which secure the rods and troll the line at a depth of about 25 feet, we kick back and chitchat as we wait on the fish to bite. Our progress is sporadic but steady, and Eric and I take turns reeling fish in.
Late afternoon, Bas spots a group of gulls circling and diving in the distance, and heads that way to get in on the action. Like silver bullets breaking through the surface, hundreds of stripers blanket a quarter-mile radius, flipping and flailing in a mad feeding frenzy. Our lures prove appetizing, and in seconds all four rods droop. For the next 20 minutes, it's all we can do to get the lines re-rigged and back in the water before reeling them right back in again.
Then in an instant the fish disappear, and the water is as smooth as glass. With almost our daily limit in tow, the calm after the storm leaves me doubtful that I'll be bringing back any trophies today. Winding down from our adrenaline rush, we ride into a pink September sunset as we head back to the dock.
Amid the jovial recaps of the day and an Eagles tune blaring from the radio, it's a wonder we even notice one of the rods, bent like a half moon over the back of the boat. The line hisses at the formidable force on the other end. Could this be it?
For what seems like an eternity, I fight to bring it in, the pole digging into my hipbone as I struggle for more resistance. It's more than I can handle, and Eric steps in for the finale. Every bit of 29 inches, this striper's a trophy in my book, though one inch short of a mounter by Bas' standards.
As we pull up to the dock, the boy's crooked grin welcomes us. By now my competitive spirit has subsided, and I humor him with regrets that we didn't catch a fish as big as his. Pleased with himself, he helps us unload the boat.
My smile is genuine as we pose for pictures with the day's impressive harvest. His memories will hang on a wall; mine will fill a scrapbook.
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Inks Lake State Park
Canyon of the Eagles
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BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
e speak a different language in my grandmothers house. When the family is alone together or with close friends, our language flows into a southern dialect essenced with my younger brothers (and sometimes my own) hip-hop of-the-moment idioms-what was once good became fresh and is now the bomb. What was once great was then hype and now phat and so on. My younger brother and I listen to music that plays with language, that pushes against grammatical and linguistic walls. We speak this language to those who understand and then we come home and this language gets blended into the language that is spoken in my grandmothers house. What is spoken in her house is the language of a long time ago, before we were shipped off to college, before my exposure to Chaucer and James and the Brontes. It is not the stereotypical I be, you be that has made its derogatory way into others perception of black dialect. And it is more complex and less frustrating than the whole e bonics argument, although the seed of the argument is truly the essence of our language. It tells its own story, our language does, and woven through it are all the places weve been, all that weve seen, experiences held close, good and bad. You dont have to be a part of my family to understand what my grandmother means when she turns a phrase in a way that makes some friends knit their eyebrows and glance at me for help. You just need to have been a part of the experience. A friend once asked if it was hard to speak standard English. I had never thought of standard English as that. I had always thought of it as the language spoken on the outside, the language one used to procure scholarships, employment, promotions. Like putting on a nice suit-one that you feel good in in the outside world but wouldnt choose for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Having majored in English with a concentration in British Literature and Middle English, I have come to love all aspects of the English language-have come to love sitting down with the writings of James and Pound as much as I love sitting down to Sunday dinner at my
grandmothers house. Each event is buttered thick with experience and language. But at my grandmothers house, her experiences and the memories have filtered through her to us and by extension become our own. Jamess Portrait of A Lady doesnt do this. Nor does Pounds version of The Seafarer. But if I take the beauty of these works and filter my own experience through them, I can create something that is mine. And by this means, through the different, complicated elements of language and experience, through being and reading and listening and re-creating, I have come to understand the world around me-and myself as a writer. At conferences, I am often asked to speak about my experiences as a writer. I talk about the early days, about what propelled me to write certain books. I talk about my friends, my goals as a writer, my home life, even my pets. Invariably, there is the question and answer period. Invariably, there is The Question. Although it is phrased differently, it always comes. At every conference, at every adult speaking engagement, at my breakfast table at the Coretta Scott King Awards, at my dinner table at the Newbery/Caldecott, even at book signings. H o w do you feel about people writing outside of their own experiences? How do you feel about white people writing about people of color? More than the question, it is the political context in which it is asked that is annoying. As our country moves further to the right, as affirmative action gets called into question, as race related biases against people of color soar, as the power structure in our society remains, in many ways, unchanged, why, then, would a person feel comfortable asking me this question? When I asked my white writer friends how they answer this question, I was less than surprised to find that none of them had been asked. Why was it then that white people (because I have never been asked this by someone who was recognizably a person of color) felt a need to ask this of me? What was it, is it, people are seeking in the asking? What is it about the power structure our society was built and remains upon that leads a white person to believe that this is a question that I, as a black woman, should, can, and must be willing to address? In the early days, I couldnt see past the anger of constantly having this question hurled at me to the political ramifications of not only the question but the dynamic of the asking. And to the fact that what was happening in the moment of the question had always been happening. As my twenty-something activist mind wrapped around this idea, I began to speak. It was Audre Lorde who said, Your silence will not protect you. As I came to understand what Lorde meant by this, I became grateful to those who
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werent silent, who werent afraid to take the chance and ask this question of me. And I became grateful for the chance to no longer be silent. Their asking afforded me the opportunity to have a dialogue, and through this dialogue to learn more about how people were thinking. True, I didnt like some of the thoughts, but I knew what they were and came to understand that it was safer to know what people were thinking than not. I realized that, like the backlash against affirmative action, there was a swelling wave against multiculturalism. There were few who believed that the movement shouldnt exist (and these few were made known to me only through friends). But there were many who believed that while the movement to get a diversity of stories into classrooms and libraries was important, one didnt need to be a person of color to tell these stories. This did and continues to surprise me. When I bring stories like this to my grandmothers table, my family and friends look at me as though Ive grown a third eye-or worse, never grew any. They remind me that the art of other people telling our story isnt new, that people have always attempted to do it in literature, radio, film. And I trace back my own childhood memories of the Our Gang series where white members of the cast appeared in blackface, to the novels of my childhood where people of color where often represented in subservient positions, to the present-day dilemma of others attempting to speak in black English, to the films of my childhood where people of color were oftimes represented as maids, brutes, and temptresses. As I grow older, as the negative misrepresentations of people of color showed up again and again, understanding replaced the anger. I realized that no one but me can tell my story. Still, I wondered why others would want to try. When I say this, that a person needs to tell their own story, people argue that this view is myopic, that if this was the case, there would only be autobiography in the world. I have just finished the final draft of a novel, If You Come Softly, about the love affair between two fifteen year olds. In the novel, the boy is black and the girl is white and Jewish. As I sat down to write this novel, I asked myself over and over why I needed to write it. Why did I need to go inside the life of a Jewish girl? More than the need, what gave me the right? Whose story was this? And the answers, of course, were right in front of me. This, like every story Ive written, from Last Summer with Maizon to I Hadnt Meant to Tell You This to From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, is my story. While I have never been Jewish, I have always been a girl. While I have never lived on the Upper West Side, I have lived for a long time in New York. While I have never been a black male, Ive al-
ways been black. But most of all, like the characters in my story, I have felt a sense of powerlessness in my lifetime. And this is the room into which I can walk and join them. This sense of being on the outside of things, of feeling misunderstood and invisible, is the experience I bring to the story. I do not attempt to know what it is like to come from another country. Nor do I pretend to understand the enormity of the impact of the Holocaust. What I know is this: Tomorrow is Yom Kippur-a holy day of fasting and atonement. My partner and I will attend service at sundown, as we have done for the past few years. While I am not Jewish, my partner is, and we observe and respect each others religious beliefs and plan to raise our children with our two sets of religious values. In this way I have stepped inside the house of my partners experience. It is not my house, nor will it ever be, but there are elements of it we share. I know the struggle of Jewish people and experience the sting of anti-Semitism through the stories told over dinner, through what I hear from people who do not know the relationship I am in. I know what it is like to be hated because of the skin you were born in, because of gender or sexual preference. I know what it is like to be made to feel unworthy, disregarded, to have ones experiences devalued because they are not the experiences of a dominant culture. I cannot step directly into my characters experience as a Jewish girl, but I can weave my experiences of being black in this society, a woman in this society, and in an interracial relationship in this society, around the development of my character and thus bring to the creation of Ellie a hybrid experience that will, I hope, ring true. I dont want to tell the story of Ellie and Jeremiah because it is the in thing to do. I dont want to shortchange anyone that way. Nor do I want to exploit people through my writing. When I write of people who are of different races or religions than myself, I must bring myself to that experience, ask what is it that I, as a black woman, have to offer and/or say about it? Why did I, as a black woman, need to tell this story? I say this, because there is always, of course, ones position of power. I have read books where this position isnt named, where white authors write books about families of color with no white characters figuring into the story, and I wonder how this is different from the demeaning stories I read as a child, the television I watched, the movies I was taken to. I wonder why is that author standing in that room watching without adding or participating in the experience, without changing because of the experience? Why is that author simply telling someone elses story? I realized in the middle of writing IfIf You Come softly that, more y
than wanting to write about a boy and a girl falling in love, I wanted to write about the relationship between blacks and Jews. And here, at this point, where boy met girl, where different worlds and belief systems sometimes collided, was a story I knew well. A house I had been inside of. Once at a conference I met a woman who had written a book about a family of color. What people of color do you know? I asked. Well, she answered. Its based on a family that used to work for mine. This family had stepped inside this womans kitchen, but she had not been inside theirs. And having not sat down to their table, how could she possibly know the language and the experiences and the feelings there? How could she know who they were when they took their outside clothes off at the end of the day and moved from their outside language to the language they shared with family and close friends? How could she know what made them laugh from deep within themselves-a laughter that is not revealed in the bosss kitchen-and what made them cry-the stomach wrenching wails one hides from the outside world? And most of all, why was it this woman needed to tell this story? As publishers (finally!) scurry to be a part of the move to represent the myriad cultures once absent from mainstream literature, it is not without some skepticism that I peruse the masses of books written about people of color by white people. As a black person, it is easy to tell who has and who has not been inside my house. Some say there is a move by people of color to keep whites from writing about us, but this isnt true. This movement isnt about white people, its about people of color. We want the chance to tell our own stories, to tell them honestly and openly. We dont want publishers to say, Well, we already published a book about that, and then find that it was a book that did not speak the truth about us but rather told someone on the outsides idea of who we are. My belief is that there is room in the world for all stories, and that everyone has one. My hope is that those who write about the tears and the laughter and the language in my grandmothers house have first sat down at the table with us and dipped the bread of their own experiences into our stew.
Jacqueline Woodson is the author of several books for young readers including I Hadnt Meant to Tell You This and The House You Pass on the Way. Her forthcoming novel, If You Come Softly, will be published by Putnam in the fall of 1998.
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It didnt pour only for groundnut.......................................................................................................... 1
Benedictions from the rain god ........................................................................................................... 2
Farm story intact despite deficiency in a third of districts .................................................................. 3
Rural incomes on the rise ....................................................................................................................6
Key demand indicators roseate........................................................................................................... 7
Sowing on a good footing ...................................................................................................................10
Reservoirs fill up, good augury for rabi season as well........................................................................11
Impact on inflation and growth.......................................................................................................... 12
Measuring the granular impact of rains ............................................................................................ 13
Monsoon and state dynamics of inflation ..........................................................................................15
It didnt pour only for groundnut
The snapshot:
Rainfall in 2016 has been recorded as normal, at just 3% below the long-period average. Whats better is
that for the first time in 3 years, rains were well-distributed only 33% of the districts saw deficient
rains, compared with 49% in 2015 and 46% in 2014. Moreover, more than half of these deficient districts
are well-irrigated and the many that are not are agriculturally less relevant. To be sure, there is some
stress is pockets mainly in Gujarat and Karnataka, where a few districts are witnessing their second or
third consecutive deficiency.
CRISILs state-wise Deficient Rainfall Impact Parameter, or DRIP, scores show all states sans Gujarat,
Tamil Nadu and Odisha are above-trend. Also, among crops, only groundnut has a below-trend DRIP
score.
We expect rural incomes to rise and push rural demand up this fiscal
The despondency of the past two monsoons has given way to sanguinity. After a slow start in June, rains caught
up and, as on September 28, 2016, were just 3% short of the long-period average (LPA). This has boosted
reservoir levels from the lows seen at the beginning of this fiscal, and done the confidence of farmers a world of
good. To wit, the area coverage under all kharif crops is at 1,060 lakh hectare compared with 1,052 lakh hectare
last year. Also, rural demand is starting to show green shoots and is likely to provide the much-needed fillip to
rural consumption this fiscal.
Our DRIP indicator is better for all crops compared with a year ago. Among states, it is upbeat for all except
Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Odisha as of September 28, though Karnataka is below trend. Rural demand, as shown
by indicators such as auto sales (especially for two-wheelers, utility vans and tractors), and FMCG BSE index,
reflect some rebound. Further, with rising output, we expect rural incomes to pick up this fiscal.
We expect GDP to grow 7.9% this fiscal (up 30 basis points compared with fiscal 2015), and agriculture to grow
above trend at 4%, while CPI inflation would remain contained at 5% (only 10 basis points up on-year).
Normal monsoons are rarely perfect in in their distribution across time and geography. As of September 28, 33%
of Indias 629 districts for which rainfall data is available, have seen rainfall deficiency of 20% or more. In
contrast, in 2015, about 49% had reported deficient rains and in 2014, 46%.
More than half of the districts seeing deficient rains have adequate irrigation cover (net irrigated area is equal
to, or more than, 50% of cropped area). Plus many rain-deficient districts are agriculturally less relevant,
contributing under 4% to kharif production and having less than 7% of overall sown area, underscoring limited
There is some stress in pockets, particularly in Gujarat and Karnataka, which are the worst affected this year.
The share of these states in all-India kharif production is less than 7% and that of their distressed districts just
1.7%. From the state perspective, however, the stress to agricultural household incomes could be high as a
quarter of the kharif production in Karnataka and about 33% in Gujarat comes from the distressed districts.
Also, the kharif crop contributes about 66% of the total agriculture production in Karnataka and 55% in Gujarat.
Benedictions from the rain god
Two years of sub-normal monsoons had amplified the need for plentiful rains. This year, the rain god obliged.
The southwest monsoon started off weak, with a deficiency of 12% at the end of June, but caught up thereafter
and was just 3% below long period average as of September 28. Out of 36 sub-divisions, as many as 28,
accounting for 86% of the total rainfall area of the country, had received excess/normal rainfall. The 8 sub-
divisions with deficient rainfall are Assam & Meghalaya, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, Punjab and Himachal
Pradesh, Gujarat region, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.
In the middle of June, rainfall was deficient in all regions barring the south peninsula. Latest data shows its
been normal or above normal in all regions barring the south peninsula and east and north-east, which account
for 32% of total food grain production in India. Rainfall distribution has varied with Assam (32% below
normal), Gujarat (17% below normal), Haryana (27% below normal) and Himachal Pradesh (24% below normal)
rain-deficient as of September 28, even as Rajasthan was 25% above normal and Madhya Pradesh 19% above
normal.
We compared irrigated area and rainfall across states to gauge the impact on agricultural production. It is
heartening to note is that states such as Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, which have
low irrigation coverage, have received normal or above-normal rainfall. Of the deficient-rainfall states, Gujarat
has 46% of the area irrigated slightly above the all-India average of 43% minimising the impact on
production. However, Assam, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, where both rainfall and irrigated area are low ( see
chart), are experiencing some stress.
Rainfall deficiency broadly limited to areas with irrigation buffer
Low rainfall, high irrigation
% Irrigated area
Low rainfall, low irrigation
High rainfall, low irrigation
100 [CELLRANGE] High rainfall, high irrigation
[CELLRANGE]
[CELLRANGE] [CELLRANGE]
60 [CELLRANGE]
20 [CELLRANGE] [CELLRANGE]
-40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30
Rainfall % normal
Source: AGRICOOP, CRISIL Research
Note: Rainfall up to September 28; irrigation as of 2011
Farm story intact despite deficiency in a third of districts
Normal monsoons are rarely perfect in their spatial and temporal distribution. As of September 28, 33% of
Indias 629 districts for which rainfall data is available, have seen rainfall deficiency of 20% or more. This is an
improvement over 2015 and 2014, when the number of districts reporting deficient rains was 49% and 46%,
Rainfall distribution across districts, over time
% of districts Excess / normal Deficient / scanty
Source: IMD
The deficient districts this year have recorded rainfall 20-91% below the LPA. But, nearly 54% of these districts
also have sufficient irrigation buffer, which reduces their vulnerability to poor rains. A scatter plot reveals that
districts with greater rain deficiency are also the ones with higher irrigation cover.
Rainfall deficiency and irrigation cover
Net irrigated area (% of net cropped area)
-95 -85 -75 -65 -55 -45 -35 -25 -15
Rainfall (% deviation from normal)
Source: IMD, Ministry of Agriculture, CRISIL Research
The balance 87 are the distressed districts which are reeling under the double whammy of poor irrigation cover
(less than 50% irrigated area as a percentage of cropped area) and deficient rains. In some of these, rains have
been deficient for the second or third consecutive year, indicating a higher degree of stress.
However, these distressed districts are less important agriculturally as they contribute less than 4% of all-
India Kharif production and less than 7% of the overall sown area.
This gives us reason to believe the adverse impact on the countrys agricultural output will be contained.
Therefore, although over 30% of Indias districts have seen weak rains, the impact on all-India agriculture from
these pockets will be negligible.
The worst-affected states this year are Gujarat and Karnataka where some districts have received deficient
rainfall for the second or third consecutive year (see DRIP scores table). The share of states in all-India kharif
production is less than 7% and that of the distressed districts just 1.7%. But from the perspective of the
affected states, the stress to agricultural household incomes could be high. Thats because a quarter of the
kharif production in Karnataka and about 33% in Gujarat comes from the distressed districts. Besides, the
kharif crop contributes about 66% of the total agriculture production in Karnataka and 55% in Gujarat.
The 13 distressed districts in Gujarat and Karnataka mainly grow rice, in addition to cotton (in Gujarat) and
maize and ragi (in Karnataka), contributing about a quarter of the states production of these crops. In Gujarat,
about 40% of the states cotton production comes from here.
Similarly, there are a few other states (especially in the east and north-east) where the extent of stress is also
likely to be high. The all-India data therefore, to some extent, masks these stress points.
Identifying the stress in agricultural pockets
% state Number of distressed Distressed district Distressed district Kharif
Largest kharif producing production share districts with districts with production % share production % share production %
state which recorded in all-India kharif deficient / deficient / scanty in state kharif in all-India kharif share in total
deficient rains production scanty rains* rains production production state production
Uttar Pradesh 36.7 37 1 1.7 0.6 74.6
Maharashtra 28.8 1 0 0 0 94.5
Andhra Pradesh 6.9 1 0 0 0 2.2
Gujarat 4.7 16 8 32.9 1.5 55.2
Punjab 3.2 12 0 0 0 44.6
Haryana 2.9 12 1 0.4 0.0 49.4
Madhya Pradesh 2.7 5 2 3.4 0.1 39.0
West Bengal 2.5 2 0 0 0 23.2
Karnataka 2.2 9 6 24.4 0.5 65.9
Orissa 1.9 5 4 6.7 0.1 90.9
Tamil Nadu 1.9 19 9 7.1 0.1 13.5
Bihar 0.5 11 2 1.6 0.0 9.2
Assam 0.5 13 13 61.8 0.3 19.8
Uttarakhand 0.3 5 4 24.3 0.1 11.7
J&K 0.2 6 1 9.5 0.0 6.4
Nagaland 0.2 2 2 22.1 0.0 88.3
Tripura 0.2 2 1 34.5 0.1 83.7
Manipur 0.1 1 1 17.6 0.0 73.2
Arunachal Pradesh 0.1 6 5 25.0 0.0 79.2
Meghalaya 0.1 5 4 57.6 0.0 39.3
Mizoram 0.0 1 1 16.2 0.0 83.8
Andaman 0.0 1 1 100.0 0.0 55.1
Jharkhand 0.0 5 5 15.6 0.0 1.6
Himachal Pradesh 0.0 4 2 25.7 0.0 12.1
Kerala 0.0 14 13 98.9 0.0 0.0
Note: *also includes those districts where irrigation is adequate
DRIP scores for districts in the two most-affected states
District State score Major crops grown
1 Chamarajanagar Karnataka 34 2 1 0 40 21 0 Maize, rice
2 Vadodara Gujarat 29 35 16 0 20 4 2 Cotton (lint)
3 Bharuch Gujarat 28 18 13 0 30 14 0 Cotton (lint)
4 Narmada Gujarat 23 25 25 0 17 5 12 Cotton (lint)
5 Chikamaglur Karnataka 22 11 0 0 15 3 0 Rice, ragi
6 Kutch Gujarat 21 0 15 0 23 0 0 Cotton (lint), groundnut
7 Hassan Karnataka 20 3 0 0 23 16 24 Maize, rice, ragi
8 Ahmedabad Gujarat 19 14 0 0 15 0 0 Cotton (lint), rice
9 Sabarkantha Gujarat 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cotton (lint), groundnut
10 Surendranagar Gujarat 17 10 0 0 16 0 0 Cotton (lint)
11 Bellary Karnataka 15 0 0 0 20 14 0 Rice, maize
12 Dharwad Karnataka 14 28 0 0 29 5 0 Maize
13 Uttar Kannada Karnataka 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 Rice
Higher the DRIP score, the worse the impact of
deficient rains
Source: IMD, Ministry of Agriculture, CRISIL Research calculations
Still, at an all-India level, stress is lower this year. Key kharif-growing states such as Uttar Pradesh (UP),
Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana which produce nearly half of the countrys kharif output have the most number
of districts with deficient or scanty rainfall. But, the production share of the distressed districts is only 2% of
all-India kharif production. Adequate irrigation cover has come to the aid of all except Gujarat. In UP, less than
2% of the kharif crop production comes from these affected districts. The number for Haryana is even lower at
below 1%.
Rural incomes on the rise
We expect the favourable monsoon to revive rural incomes. Larger agricultural output will help boost supply and
rural incomes. It will also exert a downward pressure on prices and farm incomes.
We estimate that on balance, even with a fall in food prices, the output effect will weigh in and raise agricultural
GDP by Rs 1.49 trillion this fiscal. This is assuming an above-trend growth of 4% in agricultural output. In fiscal
2016, the increase in agricultural income was Rs 978 billion.
The imminent fillip
%yr
2016-17 F
Agri income Agri output Agri price
And thats not all. A visible spurt in construction works, especially roads, is likely to raise non-agricultural rural
incomes. The length of roads completed (both new connectivity and upgradation) under the Pradhan Mantri
Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) so far this fiscal is higher compared with the same period last year.
Road construction rising, boosting employment and incomes
Key demand indicators roseate
We believe the upturn in rural incomes should push private consumption above 8% in fiscal 2017, compared
with 7.4% in fiscal 2016.
Urban consumption remains healthy and will benefit further from lower inflation, spillovers from robust
agriculture activity in manufacturing and services, greater transmission of past interest rate cuts, and the
Seventh Pay Commission and One Rank One Pension payouts.
Turning to rural markets, which account for 54% of private consumption in India, the indicators reveal green
shoots and the recovery is likely to gain strength in the coming months.
Therefore, we believe the recovery in consumption will be two-legged this time around.
A 90 bps surge on the cards
Private consumption (% year)
FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17F
Consumer durables: Over time, rural consumption has shifted from necessities to discretionary goods. Over half
of India's consumer durables stock, such as television sets and electric fans, are consumed in hinterland. Sales
of two-wheelers, motorcycles and multipurpose vans indicate that rural demand has recovered in the past few
months. In the first quarter of fiscal 2017, sales of multipurpose vans rose 5% and two-wheelers and
motorcycles 8%. Durables picked up pace after de-growth in fiscals 2014 and 2015, partly driven by a revival in
urban demand. Now, with a good monsoon expected to push up rural demand, consumer durables sales should
accelerate.
FMCGs: Growth in consumer non-durables production, which includes fast-moving consumer goods such as
food, personal products, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuel that account for 34% of rural demand, appears
to have bottomed out. The BSE FMCG index has risen to 8725 in July 2016 from 7697 in March 2016. We find that
the BSE FMCG index has moved in tandem with rainfall progress in the past four years.
Tractor sales: A bounce-back from the lows of fiscal 2015 signals improving farm activity and income.
Government spend: Higher government expenditure on agriculture and rural development in the first quarter
will provide further support to incomes and demand in rural areas.
Auto sales have picked up Non-durables seem to have bottomed out
-10 -10
FY17 YTD
Sep-11
Jun-06
May-09
Jan-07
Nov-12
Vans Multi purpose
Multi-purpose vans Two wheelers
Two-wheelers
Non-durables Durables
Scooters Motorcycles
Tractor sales are recovering
(%, 3 months moving average)
FMCG sales are headed north... tracking monsoon performance
9,000 BSE FMCG Index 20
7,000 -5
FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 YTD
RainfallDef %
deficiency % change
ChangeinisBSE
BSEFMCG
FMCGIndex
Farm credit is turning the corner
Credittoto
Government spend on agriculture and rural development rising
Rs billion, Apr-Jun
FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17
Source: CEIC, CRISIL Research
Sowing on a good footing
As per the 1st Advance Estimates for this fiscal, area coverage under all kharif crops taken together is 1060.81
lakh hectare at the all-India level, compared with 1052.16 lakh hectare last year. Sowing has improved for most
crops in the past few weeks and is higher than last year, driven by food grains, especially pulses (+30% on-
year).
Sowing better, especially for pulses
As % normal for whole season
Total Pulses
pulses Rice Total coarse Oilseeds all
All crops
crops cotton
Cotton Sugarcane Total
sugarcane TotalFood
cereals food grain
Note: Sowing as on September 23, 2016
Sowing was 27% above normal for pulses and 3.6% for groundnut. Sowing for rice was normal, but slightly below
normal for cotton and sugarcane. Cotton saw a slow season this year with total sown area 13% below the
Reservoirs fill up, good augury for rabi season as well
Post-sowing, reservoirs provide electricity for irrigation. Reservoir levels are also important for the rabi season,
which starts in October.
In May 2015, the Central Water Commission showed storage in 91 major reservoirs at merely 17% of their total
capacity, compared with 40% on-year and 18% lower than the past 10-year average. This was because of sub-
normal rainfall in the past two years. About 76 of the 91 have irrigation potential.
With the advent of monsoon and ample rainfall, the reservoir storage situation has improved this season. Data
till September 22 indicates reservoir storage was 17% higher on-year. This should support agricultural
production this season and the next.
Impact on inflation and growth
Sub-normal monsoons in the past two fiscals have taken a toll on agricultural production. As per the third
advance estimates for 2015, rice output is down 2%, coarse cereals 12%, pulses 0.5%, sugarcane 4% and
oilseeds 6%, exacerbating rural distress. Agriculture GDP growth averaged 0.4% in the past two fiscals, much
below the long-term trend of 3%. A normal monsoon this time is therefore expected to turn the picture around.
We expect GDP to grow at 7.9% in fiscal 2017, and agriculture at 4%. As rural private consumption revives, it will
spur a rise in capacity utilisation and kickstart the investment cycle by the end of this fiscal. Sectors such as
automobiles, particularly two-wheelers and consumer durables, are expected to gain.
On the inflation front, we expect ample kharif production to boost supply and bring down food inflation,
especially for pulses where inflation has remained in double digits for 14 months on the trot now. On the other
hand, recent data shows global food prices are skyrocketing. Where inflation settles will depend on the interplay
of good monsoons, tending to lower domestic food inflation, and rising global prices exerting an upward
Oilseeds is a major agricultural import item for India (62% of total consumption) especially soybean, sunflower
and palm oil. Oils and fats account for 9.1% weight in the inflation food basket. Global vegetable oil prices have
risen 10% on-year since the beginning of this fiscal, owing to inadequate output in Malaysia and rising import
demand from China, India and the European Union. However, this should be offset by domestic sowing, 4%
above normal this season.
Further, global sugar prices have risen 46% on-year since April 2016 in anticipation of significant deficit in
global markets in fiscal 2017 and prospects of reduced inventories in Asia. Sugar and confectionery account for
3.5% weight in the inflation food basket. Sugarcane sowing has been below normal by 0.9% and lower than last
years figure by 7.7%. Sugar and confectionary prices have risen 17.7% on-year since the beginning of fiscal
2017 and this continues to be a stress point for food inflation in the months ahead.
That said, we expect a good monsoon to ease domestic prices of other food categories such as vegetables (15%
weight in CPI food inflation), cereals, fruits and milk and milk products, and help offset the pressure from higher
global prices. On balance, we expect CPI inflation to average 5% this fiscal.
Costlier chow globally
100 Food price indices
Food Dairy Cereals Oils Sugar
Measuring the granular impact of rains
The temporal and spatial distribution of rainfall is crucial in determining its impact on food production. A weak
and slow start to the monsoons affects sowing, while uneven distribution, the output. We analyse these
dimensions by examining the CRISIL Deficient Rainfall Impact Parameter (DRIP) index at the state and district
levels, and the progress on sowing.
Developed in 2002, the DRIP index, computed as a product of the percentage deviation in rainfall and in
unirrigated area, captures both magnitude of the shock (deficiency of rainfall) and the vulnerability of a region
(percentage of unirrigated area). So the impact of deficient rainfall will be more pronounced for unirrigated
crops and regions -- the higher the DRIP score, the greater the impact of rainfall deficiency. For each crop, the
index is computed for every state and then aggregated, weighting each state by its share in the all-India
production of that crop. The value of the index falls between 0 and 100.
Where, % UNIRRIGATEDij is the proportion of unirrigated area under crop j in state i
%RAINFALL DEFi is the % deviation of rainfall from normal in state i.
If there is excess rainfall, rainfall deficiency is considered to be 0.
Wi is share of state i in overall production of crop j in a normal monsoon year
The DRIP index can also be calculated state-wise to assess granular impact. DRIP scores of a state are arrived
at by aggregating crop-wise scores, where the weight of each crop is its sown area as a share of total sown area
for all crops.
What is DRIP telling us?
As of September 28, the crop-wise DRIP scores were lower (better) than the average of the past six years, except
for groundnut. Coarse cereals, soybean, and pulses such as tur are doing better than last year.
Crop-wise DRIP score
30 SEP 30 SEP 30 SEP 30 SEP 30 SEP 28 SEP Average
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2011-2015
Rice 2.0 2.5 3.1 3.8 3.6 2.8 3.0
Jowar 2.1 10.8 0.1 11.2 16.7 5.1 8.2
Bajra 2.5 8.7 1.6 13.9 13.6 5.7 8.1
Soyabean 1.0 4.6 0.0 17.0 15.1 0.3 7.6
Sugarcane 0.3 0.8 0.6 1.6 1.6 0.5 1.0
Tur 2.3 11.2 0.9 14.8 18.6 5.6 9.5
Groundnut 1.8 14.0 0.1 9.0 9.7 9.1 6.9
Maize 2.1 7.0 1.5 10.0 10.3 4.5 6.2
Cotton 2.2 7.4 0.1 10.5 9.8 3.0 6.0
All crops 0.9 2.3 1.03 3.72 3.7 1.5 2.3
Foodgrain DRIP 2.0 4.1 2.6 5.9 6.1 3.4 4.1
Note: Higher the score, worse off the crop
Source: Crisil calculations
All states except Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha and Tamil Nadu are better off than the average of the past six
years. Scores for Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Odisha are higher than last year, suggesting they are worse-off this
year. Karnataka, on the other hand, is better placed, though below trend.
State-level differences also mean varying crop impact. In terms of overall state DRIP scores, Gujarat, which
accounts for 11% of Indias bajra production, 9% of tur, 39% of groundnut and 29% of cotton, was the worst-
affected as on September 28. While Gujarat's area under cotton is well-irrigated, that for groundnut is not,
making the crop vulnerable.
State-wise DRIP score
30 SEP 30 SEP 30 SEP 30 SEP 30 SEP 28 SEP
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2011-2015 Average
Andhra Pradesh 4.4 0.0 0.0 13.3 4.1 0.0 4.4
Bihar 0.0 7.8 11.1 6.5 10.4 1.5 7.1
Gujarat 0.0 17.9 0.0 5.7 7.9 11.1 6.3
Haryana 2.3 4.8 2.7 6.9 4.5 3.3 4.2
Karnataka 0.0 9.9 0.0 0.0 13.6 9.2 4.7
Madhya Pradesh 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.6 10.8 0.0 5.9
Maharashtra 2.1 11.2 0.0 15.1 22.1 0.0 10.1
Odisha 2.9 0.2 1.7 0.0 6.8 7.3 2.3
Punjab 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3
Rajasthan 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tamil Nadu 2.0 6.9 0.0 0.2 3.4 7.1 2.5
Uttar Pradesh 2.1 4.7 0.8 13.2 12.8 3.9 6.7
West Bengal 0.0 4.4 3.5 5.9 0.0 0.0 2.8
Source: IMD, Ministry of Agriculture, CRISIL calculations
Monsoons and state dynamics of food inflation
We plot the state level DRIP scores with average food inflation since June to analyse the correlation between
rainfall and inflation. We find that while the correlation between rainfall and food inflation is weak, that between
the DRIP scores and food inflation is stronger. This is because the DRIP scores also take into account irrigation
coverage and production shares along with rainfall patterns.
We find that states such as Gujarat and Odisha, which have had higher rainfall deficiency, are also witnessing
higher food inflation as measured by CPI-Food and beverages. On the other hand, states such as Punjab,
Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, which have lower DRIP scores, also have lower inflation.
DRIP score versus food inflation
Higher the DRIP score. the worse it is
% food inflation
Note: Food inflation is average of June-August 2016
Source: CRISIL calculations, CEIC
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Incubator Career Spotlight: Healthcare
Inside The Scarborough Hospital’s New Graduate Program With A Physician’s Assistant
by Veronica Yao
In 2014, Jacob Eappen graduated with a Bachelor of Health Sciences and began searching for a place where he could launch his healthcare career.
“I wanted to work in Internal Medicine as I found it was an area where you can really help patients that are ill,” says Jacob.
Today, Jacob works as a Physician’s Assistant with The Scarborough Hospital through their New Graduate Program. Although he’s only been in his role for a short time, he’s learned a great deal, and has built a solid foundation for his career.
Jacob’s career journey with The Scarborough Hospital began like any other applicant’s – with a resume and cover letter. In Jacob’s case, the application process with The Scarborough Hospital was fairly straightforward. After carefully preparing his resume and references, he submitted them to one of their job postings.
Jacob says he was called in for an interview for the New Graduate Program – a program where aspiring healthcare professionals can put their medical learnings to work in a professional environment. During the interview, he met with a representative from the hiring department to discuss the position, and tell them more about his qualifications.
“I think my past clinical experiences and how I learned from them and applied them to my practice made me stand out,” says Jacob.
Not long after, The Scarborough Hospital reached out to Jacob, offering him the role of Physician’s Assistant. Of course, it didn’t take long for Jacob to accept the position.
“The Scarborough Hospital is an institution I have heard many good things about,” he says. “I was happy to take part when I heard they were offering a position in Internal Medicine.”
The Scarborough Hospital’s Recruitment Process:
Submit your application online – this includes your resume, cover letter, and references.
Assessment – A team of HR professionals carefully assesses your skills, and compares them to the position you applied for.
Short Listing – Qualified candidates may be short-listed for a phone interview, conducted by a Human Resources professional.
In-Person Interview – After the phone interview, successful candidates may be invited to an in-person interview, where the candidate can learn more about The Scarborough Hospital.
Reference Check – Each candidate will be required to provide 3 references to HR. A thorough background check will be conducted prior to a final hiring decision.
Decisions – If the candidate fits the culture, goals, and values of The Scarborough Hospital, they will be extended a formal offer letter, as well as a Welcome Package!
Getting to work
The role of a Physician’s Assistant is to support physicians in their practice. Their responsibilities typically consist of working directly with patients and participating in education, research, and administration. At The Scarborough Hospital, Physician’s Assistants (or PAs) work in one of three departments: the Emergency Department, General Internal Medicine, and the Nephrology program.
Jacob was placed in the General Internal Medicine department, and his first challenge was learning how to adjust to a new environment.
“My role for General Internal Medicine is to assist by seeing consults in ER,” he says. “When I see a patient, I conduct a history and physical, collect collateral information, review the current tests and construct a treatment plan which I will review with my supervising physician.”
Working in a role that deals directly with patients requires diligence and flexibility – healthcare workers must be ready, since a patient’s condition can change in an instant. In the New Graduate Program, Jacob says he had great support from a mentor to help with his transition into his new role.
“The Scarborough Hospital has allowed me to work closely with the Hospitalist during our first few months,” he says. “They have provided several teaching opportunities and chances to attend professional events as well.”
The positive work environment was another key factor to Jacob’s smooth transition. Jacob says his co-workers at The Scarborough Hospital have been a key factor in his successful start, and describes it as a pleasant surprise.
“Everyone has been so supportive and nice,” he says. “I really do appreciate this and it makes working in a new hospital site easier.”
Valuable learnings
For Jacob, his role as a Physician’s Assistant in the New Graduate Program has offered him valuable learning experiences. Putting his education to work in a professional environment has enhanced his understanding of the medical practice immensely.
“We have had the opportunity to meet other professionals and learn how our position can be integrated into working best for the patient,” he says.
One of the main challenges in Jacob’s role is the fact that his position is new to the healthcare field in the Ontario Civilian Sector. But he says The Scarborough Hospital has provided exceptional support.
“Sometimes people don’t understand my role and can underestimate or overestimate my scope of practice,” he says. “The Scarborough Hospital has done a great job educating everyone regarding the role of a Physician’s Assistant.”
Jacob says he is setting career goals in order to learn even more. His role as a Physician’s Assistant ensures that he is constantly being challenged to improve himself as a healthcare professional.
“My favourite part of the job is learning something new,” he says.
Jacob aspires to be a seasoned and experienced Physician’s Assistant in the future – and he is well on his way. He owes a lot of his career success so far to The Scarborough Hospital.
“The Scarborough Hospital has been helping with educational opportunities and the staff has been great in helping me fit in and take care of the patients,” he says. “I think I have learned a lot so far in many areas such as treatment plans with patients and working with other specialities. It has been great!”
Ready to hatch an egg-ceptional career with The Scarborough Hospital? Click here to find out more!
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Today "demonstration of mediumship" is part of the church service at all churches affiliated with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) and the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU). Demonstration links to NSAC's Declaration of Principal #9. "We affirm that the precepts of Prophecy and Healing are Divine attributes proven through Mediumship."
In September 1878 the British medium Charles Williams and his fellow-medium at the time, A. Rita, were detected in trickery at Amsterdam. During the séance a materialized spirit was seized and found to be Rita and a bottle of phosphorus oil, muslin and a false beard were found amongst the two mediums.[82] In 1882 C. E. Wood was exposed in a séance in Peterborough. Her Indian spirit control "Pocka" was found to be the medium on her knees, covered in muslin.[83]
When I hired people to work for me as phone psychics 99% of those who applied were rubbish and knew it, they were just thinking about how to get paid to chat on the phone. Some were single mums looking for a way to get paid to chat whilst at home with a baby, others were old and not very healthy looking for an alternative to the cleaning job they have been doing for years. Up until then neither had any interest at all in being “psychic” and many of them also work for sex chat lines. Of course, they were turned down, but then they end up working for the very cheap services that find it very hard to get anyone and cannot be fussy.
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Most telephone psychic clients are repeat customers, who rely on their telephone psychic to provide accurate and timely advice that is pertinent to their lives. It is all done over the phone. Phones provide an instant connection between callers and psychics. As a supernatural advisor, it is imperative to build trust and credibility with your clients by using a calming and interested voice and by being able to solve problems and answer questions without ever seeing the person on the other end of the line.
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In the late 1920s and early 1930s there were around one quarter of a million practising Spiritualists and some two thousand Spiritualist societies in the UK in addition to flourishing microcultures of platform mediumship and 'home circles'.[18] Spiritualism continues to be practiced, primarily through various denominational spiritualist churches in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, over 340 spiritualist churches and centres open their doors to the public and free demonstrations of mediumship are regularly performed.[19]
The article about this phenomenon in Encyclopædia Britannica places emphasis that "… one by one spiritual mediums were convicted of fraud, sometimes using the tricks borrowed from scenic "magicians" to convince their paranormal abilities". In the article it is also noted that "… the opening of the wide ranging fraud happening on spiritualistic sessions caused serious damage to reputation of the movement of a Spiritualism and in the USA pushed it on the public periphery".[205]
Most card readers are highly portable and versatile in their ability to read more than one type of memory card. The most common types of memory cards are Secure Digital (SD), microSD, SDHC, microSDHC, CompactFlash (CF), Memory Stick (MS), MS Duo, Mini SD, and MMC. Before buying a reader, make sure it's compatible with the memory card you are using.
Besides reaffirming my belief that I'm a great liar and should do it more, my test also gave me some insight on how psychics work. They're talented when it comes to finding ways squeeze emotions out of you and make general statements that allow you to fill in the blanks yourself—you're contributing to your own deception (example: They say they sense a female presence watching over you, at which point you say, "Oh shit, my aunt/grandma/mom/friend/cousin/sister/teacher died a little while ago—it MUST be her!"). I think so many people turn to psychics because they help ease the fear of the great unknown that is death and give meaning and purpose to seemingly unfair and random events in our chaotic universe. To me, that's a form of preying on the weak and exploiting people at their most emotionally vulnerable, but if you believe in the afterlife and psychic powers, I can understand how the experience would be comforting - after all, who doesn't want to know that a loved family member, living or dead, is doing okay?
Psychic Four was very motherly, constantly calling me "darling" and telling me how sorry she was for my loss. Her method of Emily-contact was a mix of prayer and coffee-dregs reading. She made me a small cup of Turkish coffee and when I finished the liquid, she placed the saucer on top of the cup, had me hold it with both hands while moving my arms in a circle three times and then flip the cup and saucer over and put it on the table. She put a blue glass cube with white circles on all six sides on top of the overturned cup and had me to put my finger on the cube and make a wish. I did, and she asked me for the photo. I handed her my phone. She put a small statue of a Turkish philosopher and an angel snow globe in front of me and told me to hold on to both and praying while she turned on her laptop and started playing weird reverb-heavy New Age music featuring a man and woman speaking about being intoxicated on love (not Beyonce style, unfortunately). She was going to ask Emily to make herself known to me.
After her death in the 1980s the medium Doris Stokes was accused of fraud, by author and investigator Ian Wilson. Wilson stated that Mrs Stokes planted specific people in her audience and did prior research into her sitters.[174] Rita Goold a physical medium during the 1980s was accused of fraud, by the psychical researcher Tony Cornell. He claimed she would dress up as the spirits in her séances and would play music during them which provided cover for her to change clothes.[175]
In 1918, Joseph Jastrow wrote about the tricks of Eusapia Palladino who was an expert at freeing her hands and feet from the control in the séance room.[118] In the séance room Palladino would move curtains from a distance by releasing a jet of air from a rubber bulb that she had in her hand.[119] According to the psychical researcher Harry Price "Her tricks were usually childish: long hairs attached to small objects in order to produce 'telekinetic movements'; the gradual substitution of one hand for two when being controlled by sitters; the production of 'phenomena' with a foot which had been surreptitiously removed from its shoe and so on."[120]
The Akashic Records are the particular person data of a soul from the time it leaves its stage of origin till it returns. In the time we make the choice to witness everyday life as an independent experience, there is actually a field of energy designed to history each and every considered, phrase, emotion, and actions generated by that practical experience. That subject of strength will be the Akashic Data. Akasha simply means the core from all that is formed. Records are the goals to register life experience. Put the 2 words together and it seems clear that the Akashic Records is like a clairvoyant recorder. By opening the Akashic Data with its' own special Sacred Prayer, we align to the vibrational pull being received in the reading. The Prayer performs with energetic vibration
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5/When it comes to your psychic reader, you might have already found a psychic reader you have a good professional relationship with. If not, most telephone psychic companies have profiles on each of their psychic readers where you can see a bit more information about them and also see what other people who have had a psychic reading with them have said.
Yes you can download Raw images. you can use light room and photoshop to edit. (new photoshop for iP Yes you can download Raw images. you can use light room and photoshop to edit. (new photoshop for iPad looks amazing) the best way to transfer images however is via iCloud.I hope someone will come up with a good app that will allow for external usb/hard drive use. There are some for usb drives but they are not all that yet. More(Read full answer)
In 1908 at a hotel in Naples, the psychical researchers W. W. Baggally, Hereward Carrington and Everard Feilding attended a series of séances with Eusapia Palladino. In a report they claimed that genuine supernatural activity had occurred in the séances, this report became known as the Feilding report.[109] In 1910, Feilding returned to Naples, but this time accompanied with the magician William S. Marriott. Unlike the 1908 sittings, Feilding and Marriott detected her cheating, just as she had done in America. Her deceptions were obvious. Palladino evaded control and was caught moving objects with her foot, shaking the curtain with her hands, moving the cabinet table with her elbow and touching the séance sitters. Milbourne Christopher wrote regarding the exposure "when one knows how a feat can be done and what to look for, only the most skillful performer can maintain the illusion in the face of such informed scrutiny."[110]
I'd heard about the job through a friend of mine, who worked in Human Resources for one of the most prominent phone psychic companies in the world. She knew that I'd learned to read tarot in college and that I often booked events and comedy clubs. Sometimes I was accurate, but mostly, I was entertaining. Once, at a New York Fashion Week party in SoHo, I read the cards for a nonbeliever who edited what many fancy fashion folk refer to as "the Bible." He was making fun of me when I leaned in and whispered, "Don't cheat on your wife."
Sandy gave me the main number to call and the four-digit extension I needed in order to get callers routed my way. I followed the prompts and found I’d already been entered into the system as an expert on “love”—they were psychic! I recorded a message for callers in which I explained I was “Natalie” and that I would use tarot to answer all their relationship questions. ESP Net’s online guidance site had a page-and-a-half-long, exceptionally sincere opening we could use on our callers: ” … as soon as I heard your voice I saw the most beautiful aura around you … I felt immediately that you are one of the world’s very special people … This is one of the most exciting readings I’ve done in a long time … I am the one person you needed to talk to, to receive the answers and the help you need in your life at this critical time. …” The true beauty of the introduction was that it would eat up the caller’s three free minutes and get us on our way to meeting the company’s 15-minute-per-call minimum.
Whatever guidance you might be looking for, our gifted and experienced psychic readers are here to talk to you about your future. Our psychic readers are sensitive, honest people who can offer you a warm, sincere welcome and are able to support you through your relationship worries, career concerns, or family issues with their spiritual advice and guidance. Our psychic readers are gifted in clairvoyance, mediumship, past life readings, tarot, astrology and dream interpretations, so you can be sure that you will find the answers you are looking for.
The difference between the two types of smart cards is the manner with which the microprocessor on the card communicates with the outside world. A contact smart card has eight contact points, which must physically touch the contacts on the reader to convey information between them. Since contact cards must be inserted into readers carefully in the proper orientation, the speed and convenience of such a transaction is not acceptable for most access control applications. The use of contact smart cards as physical access control is limited mostly to parking applications when payment data is stored in card memory, and when the speed of transactions is not as important.
Direct voice communication is the claim that spirits speak independently of the medium, who facilitates the phenomenon rather than produces it. The role of the medium is to make the connection between the physical and spirit worlds. Trumpets are often utilised to amplify the signal, and directed voice mediums are sometimes known as "trumpet mediums". This form of mediumship also permits the medium to participate in the discourse during séances, since the medium's voice is not required by the spirit to communicate. Leslie Flint was one of the best known exponents of this form of mediumship.[28]
Phone psychic readings with tarot cards can be a lot of fun, but the reader wont always be a fully developed psychic. Read brand descriptions carefully. A purely academic tarot reader will usually announce that they dont use intuition to read the cards of their clients. Readings with a non-intuitive reader can be just as accurate as readings with a psychic reader, fortunately.
In 1966 the son of Bishop Pike committed suicide. After his death, Pike contacted the British medium Ena Twigg for a series of séances and she claimed to have communicated with his son. Although Twigg denied formerly knowing anything about Pike and his son, the magician John Booth discovered that Twigg had already known information about the Pike family before the séances. Twigg had belonged to the same denomination of Bishop Pike, he had preached at a cathedral in Kent and she had known information about him and his deceased son from newspapers.[169]
Some people worry that a psychic reading performed on the phone will not be as thorough or accurate as a face-to-face reading. Thankfully, these fears are completely unfounded. Phone psychic readings are every bit as good as an in-person reading, as each advisor is rated anonymously following each call. This guarantees that you are contacting a qualified & professional psychic guide for each call.
A widely known channeler of this variety is J. Z. Knight, who claims to channel the spirit of Ramtha, a 30 thousand-year-old man. Others purport to channel spirits from "future dimensions", ascended masters,[32] or, in the case of the trance mediums of the Brahma Kumaris, God.[33] Other notable channels are Jane Roberts for Seth, Esther Hicks for Abraham,[34] and Carla L. Rueckert for Ra.[35][36]
According to the magician John Booth the stage mentalist David Devant managed to fool a number of people into believing he had genuine psychic ability who did not realize that his feats were magic tricks. At St. George's Hall, London he performed a fake "clairvoyant" act where he would read a message sealed inside an envelope. The spiritualist Oliver Lodge who was present in the audience was duped by the trick and claimed that Devant had used psychic powers. In 1936 Devant in his book Secrets of My Magic revealed the trick method he had used.[159]
The fraudulent medium Ronald Edwin confessed he had duped his séance sitters and revealed the fraudulent methods he had used in his book Clock Without Hands (1955).[164] The psychical researcher Tony Cornell investigated the mediumship of Alec Harris in 1955. During the séance "spirit" materializations emerged from a cabinet and walked around the room. Cornell wrote that a stomach rumble, nicotine smelling breath and a pulse gave it away that all the spirit figures were in fact Harris and that he had dressed up as each one behind the cabinet.[165]
You control how long you want to talk and how much you want to spend. If you’ve never used the Psychic Source service before, you will qualify for their special introductory offer. They let you test a couple of the best psychics so you can make the right choice to get your advice. No matter which one you choose, you’ll still have an affordable price.
8/As the psychic reading goes along, take as many notes as you like and jot down anything that you want to know more about. Many telephone psychic companies offer recordings of readings so that you can listen to them again, we have a members area where you can listen back to your psychic reading for free if you book by credit card or Paypal. You also want to stay on track as you’re actually having the psychic reading. Sometimes you can get so involved in one topic that you put the phone down and then think – oh! I meant to ask so and so.
People who are seeking advice when it comes to their careers often find it helpful to speak to clairvoyant psychics. A clairvoyant reader can use his or her gifts to tap into an informative vision of a person, place or object that can help you advance in your career, obtain a new position or even change career direction. You can use this vision to prepare yourself or focus your energies on the best possible outcome.
Psychic Text Questions, Psychic Chat Readings and Psychic Email Readings: Are you always on the move? We understand how many of our clients use their smartphones as their primary means of communication. We are pleased to offer affordable psychic questions in a text message format. This option is ideal when you are on a budget or do not have the privacy needed to engage with a psychic by phone. For only $30.00, you can send a question via text and get a response as soon as your chosen advisor is available. Note: This psychic reading service is for a single question and does not allow for follow-up texts or any other clarifications. Finally, it’s possible to get an answer from a top psychic, even if you’re out and about. Talking with your psychic advisor via chat is another great option. Chat Psychic Readings are priced the same as those offered by telephone, and provide the advantage of being able to e-mail or print a copy of your transcript for future reference. Additionally, email psychic readings are similar to online psychic chat, but are preferred by many clients when they have very specific questions to ask and desire more time to collect their thoughts. Email psychic readings can be ordered in one, two, three or four question formats. Please allow your psychic 24-48 hours to return your guidance.
It’s asking a lot for a psychic reader to blow someone away within the first five minutes of a psychic reading, but I knew it was possible, and I knew mine could do it. That means, within the first five minutes, they should say something that convinces you that they aren’t just guessing or keeping you stringing along – that they’ve linked in with you and your situation using genuine psychic skills and giving you detailed psychic information not boring generalities. Because of that we have gone from strength to strength and most of the people who have a psychic reading here everyday are people that are returning and have had a reading with us before.
Jean Pierre Allaire was counselling a 13-year old Trois Rivieres girl who reported seeing people that others could not. He told the girl she should go to the medium to find out whether she has a psychic gift. He also told her not to tell her psychiatrist about what she was seeing and hearing because that might lead to an increase in the anti-psychotic medications she was taking, which were making her sleepy.
Having a real-time reading done over the phone allows you to get as comfortable as you need or want. You can relax in your favourite room at home wearing pyjamas if you like. You might even choose to experience your psychic phone reading while surrounded by nature in your backyard or at a park. If you are someone who gets nervous or has anxiety going to in-person appointments, then scheduling a phone reading is an excellent alternative for you.
In the 1-to-many mode a user presents biometric data such as a fingerprint or retina scan and the reader then compares the live scan to all the templates stored in the memory. This method is preferred by most end-users, because it eliminates the need to carry ID cards or use PINs. On the other hand, this method is slower, because the reader may have to perform thousands of comparison operations until it finds the match. An important technical characteristic of a 1-to-many reader is the number of comparisons that can be performed in one second, which is considered the maximum time that users can wait at a door without noticing a delay. Currently most 1-to-many readers are capable of performing 2,000–3,000 matching operations per second.
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After Valentine's Day, it only got stranger. Callers asked about lost jewelry and I'd instead tell them about their children or partners, which only pissed them off. HR called and told me to stop doing that—if someone wanted "remote viewing," I was to tell him or her to call a psychic who had that skill listed on their profile. I was, and still am, impressed by how seriously my employer treated "real psychic powers" instead of just racking up minutes. But I also noticed that bad reviews never made it to my profile or anyone else's, which sickened me.
^ Leonard Zusne, Warren H. Jones. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Psychology Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8058-0508-6 "The spirits, controls, and guides of a medium are the products of the medium's own psychological dynamics. On the one hand, they personify the medium's hidden impulses and wish life. On the other, they are also shaped by the expectations of the medium's sitters, the medium's experience, the cultural background, and the spirit of the times."
1- age of consent in canada is 16 unless you are in an authoritarian position such as a cop or teacher. a supervisor doesn’t count. 2- if she didn’t like what was happening she was free to find a new job. how much could he have been paying her that she couldn’t find another place to work? 3- hasnanything been proven in court? no.... this is a case of high school level he said/she said a d everythhing should be taken with a gra of salt. 4- did he force them to take drugs? no.... you can always say no. we are taught this at a very young age. 5- should he have been exposing himself at his home to her? yes and no..... yes it’s his house and should be free to do what he wants... no because you are not intimate with this person so why show them your junk?6- “he gave shoulder rubs and would talk sexually explicit” who cares. could she have said as an excuse “can you not rub my shoulders? it kind of hurts when people do it”. when he would make sexual comments say “thanks (in a sarcastic tone)” or “i have a boyfriend” at the end of the day, these people let this happen to themselves. he didnt rape anyone and he didnt force drugs down anyones throats. just because you have regrets 10 years later doesn’t mean he is fully to blame. have some accountability for your actions, him included.
A telephone reader can give you insight into your current and future romantic relationships. They are able to counsel you about the best way to pursue love, whether you are currently involved with a partner, or if you are single and still looking for that special someone. While they may not be able to give you the name of your future spouse, they can point you in the right direction and help you pursue relationships in a positive way.
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^ M. Lamar Keene. (1997). The Psychic Mafia. Prometheus Books. p 122. ISBN 978-1-57392-161-9 "A medium still riding high in England is Leslie Flint, famed as an exponent of direct voice. William Rauscher and Allen Spraggett, who attended a sitting Flint held in 1970 in New York, said that it was the most abysmal flop of any seance they had endured. All the spirit voices sounded exactly like the medium and displayed an incredible ignorance of nearly everything pertaining to the sitters. The "mediumship " was second-rate ventriloquism."
The spirit photographer William Hope tricked William Crookes with a fake spirit photograph of his wife in 1906. Oliver Lodge revealed there had been obvious signs of double exposure, the picture of Lady Crookes had been copied from a wedding anniversary photograph, however, Crookes was a convinced spiritualist and claimed it was genuine evidence for spirit photography.[106]
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Workday Review 2019
Performance Management Software
HQ: Pleasanton, CA, US
Intuitive interface
Solid features
Good customer support
An effective service with good customer support and reasonable pricing.
Workday’s performance management software helps managers streamline the review and goal-setting process. It’s geared towards pushing managers and team leads towards holistic business-wide decisions based on the data it collects, and offers the integrations and additional modules needed to ensure nothing gets left behind.
The interface is easy on the eyes, and comes with a unique but comprehensive support team. Here’s what to expect from the Workday service, as well as our ultimate opinion on its worth for your business.
Serves all business sizes
What Is Workday?
Workday’s flagship service, Workday HCM, is a human capital management solution designed to let companies manage onboarding, payroll, and human resources – as well as performance management. The full extent of the solution is available through a single cloud-based software application. This review will take a closer look at Workday HCM’s performance management capabilities in particular.
The graphics and interface integrate smoothly with each other, making the software service visually appealing and easy to understand. The learning curve can be a little difficult, however, as it may take a while to learn which tools are listed under which categories on menu bars.
The Workday HCM service is composed of a handful of different modules, which serve specific areas of business management. Its talent management cloud holds most of the traditional features found in performance management software, such as employee goals and reviews. Several other modules also include complementary tools, which this review will also cover.
Read on for our full review, which looks at Workday’s core performance management features. The review includes a video tour, before discussing Workday’s unique support options and its pricing.
In this guide:
Workday: Core Performance Management Features
Set Up and Customer Support
Workday Plans and Pricing
Managers can establish goal templates that all their employees, from full-timers to part-timers to contractors, are able to use. With set templates, these goals can keep everyone on the same page and aligned with business objectives, while allowing each individual to craft their own take. Goals can be created and viewed across different devices, from desktop to tablet to phone. Check-ins, comments, and status updates are all supported.
Talent Reviews
Managers can easily view their company from 30,000 feet using Workday’s software, which collects a host of data on every employee into one central location. Talent cards, reports, individual and team dynamics, work histories, and goals are all collected into one dashboard.
This means that managers can turn this data into decisions – they can work out who may be looking to leave and work to retain them, or identify which employees may be most deserving of a promotion. Feedback can be offered or requested at any time through the service (not just during annual reviews), making valuable decisions easier to implement.
Managers across all teams can easily collaborate and remain transparent when using Workday’s workforce planning module. Tasks can be assigned and tracked across individual or cross-functional levels. These tasks can all be viewed from a process overview page, letting you know which are completed, which are running on time, and which are running late – as well as naming the team lead to contact for each (for a little added accountability).
Workday’s open API also allows data from other third-party services to be easily added to the mix when needed.
The people data collected during performance reviews can be collated through Workday to let managers track trends, risks, and opportunities. Managers can arrange data using different axes, including demographics like generation, location, or time. Learning investments can be tracked, and gaps in succession pipelines can be made to stand out.
Video Highlight: Finding Internal Talent
As this video shows, Workday’s performance management tools can help businesses understand what to do with their employee reviews. With Workday’s recruiting module, an operation can easily recruit internally, using a quick search for current employees with the skills and aptitude the company needs. The result is an efficient process that boosts long-term retention.
Workday provides an online portal called the Workday Customer Center. It’s staffed 24/7/365 by teams based out of three locations across the globe: Pleasanton, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Auckland, New Zealand. This online portal is designed to be a one-stop-shop for lodging, tracking, and resolving issues – as such, Workday does not offer email or phone support.
Users can also log in to use the Workday Community, an online forum which might be able to resolve common issues without a need for the live support that the Customer Center offers.
Workday won’t provide direct assistance with account requests, citing its security policy, so the support center is the best way to receive aid. For large companies, an internal IT support team with a deep understanding of Workday is likely the best way to ensure everything keeping running smoothly.
Portal Help hours: 24/7/365
Online community forum
Workday does not make its price plans publicly available, instead offering custom quotes to businesses based on the features they need. According to third-party reports, however, its plans start at around $100.00 per year per user, with a three-year contract minimum.
If you need a more specific quote, you can contact Workday’s sales team through the company’s website. Once you have that information, it’s smartest to seek additional context by collecting quotes from other top performance management and HR service providers.
Workday is easy to use, but may require a bit of a learning curve given the number of features it packs in. It covers everything a business should need to track performance, and comes with a reasonable price tag and a solid 24/7 support team. It’s a recommended service – if you need a performance management software, it fits the bill.
Google Pays Contract Workers “A Few Cents” to Transcribe Your Conversations
Google has been paying contractors to listen and transcribe Google Home recordings of completely unaware users. One of the contractors decided to blow the whistle to a Dutch-language news site, revealing that some of the conversations are up to a minute long.
Adam Rowe
Adam is a writer at Tech.co and has worked as a tech writer, blogger and copy editor for the last decade. He's also a Forbes Contributor on the publishing industry (and Digital Book World 2018 award finalist) and has appeared in publications including Popular Mechanics and IDG Connect. When not glued to TechMeme, he loves obsessing over 1970s sci-fi art.
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Gold bass
Kill The Noise
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The music of Jake Stanczak, better known as American producer and DJ, Kill the Noise, was born out of an era where Ridley Scott imagined utopian futures on the silver screen, and artists like NIN and Aphex Twin rocked MTV.
After channeling the influences of his youth through over a decades’ worth of forwarddriven electronic releases (Roots, Kill Kill Kill, Black Magic), and charismatic live shows (Coachella, EDC, Lollapalooza), the name “Kill the Noise” has become synonymous with some of the leading acts in dance music — getting creative in the studio with the likes of Tommy Trash, Deadmau5 and Skrillex.
In 2014 alone, Kill The Noise has already won his second MTV Video Music Award, co-written the first single (and title-track) from Skrillex’s album “Recess”, collaborated with Mat Zo (Kill The Zo) and produced the feature track for Paramount’s 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (“Shell Shocked feat Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J and Ty Dolla$”). More driven than ever to push forward on all platforms of audio and visual collaboration, Kill the Noise now has sights set on a massive stretch of international tour dates, as well as an upcoming EP of original work.
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Hillary: I Never Gave Christopher Stevens My E-Mail Address (But Sidney Blumenthal Had It!)
October 22, 2015 By Bre Payton
During today’s House committee investigation probing the events surrounding a 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she frequently chatted with her friend Sidney Blumenthal about Libya via e-mail, but her “friend” Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed during the Benghazi attack, didn’t even have her email address.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) pushed Clinton to answer for this discrepancy with a pretty hard-hitting exchange:
WESTMORELAND: Just to follow up on one thing about Ambassador Stevens. You got a lot of e-mails from Sidney Blumenthal. And you say that Mr. Blumenthal was a friend of yours. And he had your personal e-mail address.
You say Chris Stevens was a friend of yours. He asked numerous of times for extra protection. Now, if I had been Mr. Stevens — and I think anybody out there — anybody watching this would agree.
If I had been Mr. Stevens and I had had a relationship with you, and I had requested 20 or more times for additional security to protect not only my life but the people that were there with me, I would have gotten in touch with you some way.
I would have let you know that I was in danger, and that the situation had deteriorated to a point, I needed you to do something. Did he have your personal e-mail?
CLINTON: Congressman, I — I do not believe that he had my personal e-mail.
The emails that Clinton did surrender show she chatted with Blumenthal a lot about Libya in 2011 (she even sent him classified information over e-mail), but that her interest in the conflict-laden country tapered off in 2012, when threats to American lives increased.
“I bet there are a lot of Sid Blumenthal’s emails in there from 2011…[but] most of my work was not done on emails,” @HillaryClinton says
While Clinton admits that she did indeed e-mail Blumenthal about affairs in Libya more often than anyone else, she failed to bring up the context surrounding those conversations.
You mean the emails where Sid was pushing for her to help enrich a shady mercenary outfit in Libya? Those emails? https://t.co/6nwPpu7Fqo
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 22, 2015
Remember: Blumenthal was pursuing business opportunities in the country while working for the Clinton Foundation and sharing private intelligence reports with information gathered in Libya.
“He was a friend who sent me information he thought might be helpful,” Clinton said about the reports Blumenthal shared with her.
Their friendship is indeed rather odd, and Clinton’s statements today seem to be an attempt to distance herself from their relationship. The actual content of her e-mails, however, tells another story:
Clinton on Blumenthal: “I did not ask him to send me the information that he sent me.” She did, at times, ask him to “keep them coming.”
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) October 22, 2015
Yes, she really did say that. In fact, the two were in constant contact with one another. It appears she frequently confided in him about many things, including her position as secretary, which she felt insecure about under President Obama. Although she stated during her testimony that Blumenthal was not an official adviser of hers, Hillary Clinton failed to mention the reason why: the Obama administration explicitly banned Sidney Blumenthal from working for the administration in any capacity whatsoever. The reason Clinton never hired him to be an official State Department adviser is that she was prohibited from doing so. That’s why she was so careful to delete his name from e-mails he sent her before forwarding them on to other State Department officials.
Oh, and let’s not forget those late-night phone chats.
From: HRC
To: Sidney Blumenthal
Date: Oct. 8, 2009; 10:35 p.m.
Subject: Are you still awake?
Body: I’ll call if you are
While it seems Hillary paid very close attention to the information Blumenthal shared with her and valued their late-night chats, it appears she didn’t pay close attention to the concerns of the top U.S. diplomat serving under her. She admitted today that she was unaware of 18 of the 20 requests for additional security made by U.S. officials in Libya before the attack.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton’s alleged ignorance of a majority of those requests make sense if Stevens was never told how to contact Clinton directly. It’s not like he was a donor to the Clinton Foundation or anything.
Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, explained during a segment on “The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson,” that the disparity in the level of attention Clinton gave to Blumenthal compared to what she gave Stevens is apparent in her emails.
“These really do raise questions about the level of engagement that Mrs. Clinton had, in terms of the actual situation on the ground in Libya, and who she was actually listening to regarding what was going on there,” Domenech said. “She seemed to have plenty of access when it came to Sid Bluementhal, Tyler Drumheller, and others. But when it came to Chris Stevens — as you said before — he didn’t even have her personal email.”
Bre Payton was a staff writer at The Federalist.
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Netflix; 125 minutes
Director: J.C. Chandor
Written by Joshua Encinias on March 6, 2019
Five Special Forces veterans unleash U.S. fury at the border area of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, otherwise known as the Triple Frontier, in J.C. Chandor’s entertaining if familiar morality tale. Checking off a few boxes in the Netflix algorithm and no doubt relevant to our cartel age, the story is one part getting the band back together, one part Donald Rumsfeldian get-rich-quick scheme, and one part The Treasure of Sierra Madre. If you’re looking for more nuanced artistic fare, add Happy as Lazzaro to your queue. Triple Frontier is at its best when it is simply five guys bro-ing out with machine guns. How compelling that sounds to a viewer will be a strong indicator of whether it’s worth clicking play.
The group of veterans (played by Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal) are lured back into the game by Santiago (Oscar Isaac), the only one of the five still in the field. He convinces the guys one by one, in the movie’s elongated first half, to use their skills for their own gain. They’re to a heist against Gabriel Martin Lorea (Reynaldo Gallegos), head of one of the biggest drug cartels in South America and your typical selfish cartel ringleader. It’s said that Lorea keeps his millions at his home compound because he no longer trusts banks. The team scope out his property and hatch a plan to break in on Sunday when Lorea sends his family to church. Money being Lorea’s true religion, he stays home with the cash and a few guards stick around to protect him. The team justifies the morality of their mission by taking Lorea out as a fringe benefit to their country. But avarice gets the better of their moral leader, Tom Davis (Ben Affleck). (Side note: the five soldiers call each other nicknames interchangeably with their real names, so for the sake of clarity, I will omit the nicknames.)
In that Isaac’s Santiago is imbued with an Icarus-level of confidence in his plan, he’s a Donald Rumsfeld-type whose patriotism is mutated with hubris and greed. To activate such a plan, one needs someone who assumes moral and ethical authority over the tactics the unit must deploy. In this way, Affleck’s Tom is a Dick Cheney-type. It’s Tom’s job to time and keep the missions on track. When they learn the walls of the house are lined with millions, the guys are excited, but no one more than Tom. He gets overzealous, decides they should take every last dollar, and misses their out time. Uninvited guests sticking around longer than they should about sums up Rumsfeld and Cheney’s legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan as well. With Mark Boal co-writing the script and Kathryn Bigelow having been previously attached as a director, one imagines these parallels would’ve been even more apparent in an earlier iteration.
The getaway kicks off a downward spiral of morally compromised decisions. Beginning with an epic sequence with Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter (worth the price of admission alone at the single iPic theater showing the film in New York City), it ends with a battered motorboat to visually depict the seemingly once honorable veteran’s descent. Shot by cinematographer Roman Vasyanov (Suicide Squad, Fury), the helicopter sequence provides similar thrills to the climax of Mission Impossible – Fallout without reaching such great heights. He also creates quiet moments with gorgeous imagery, such as Garrett Hedlund falling into slumber fading into an overhead shot of the jungle that informs the psychological dangers that await the five men as greed overtakes their virtue.
Triple Frontier borrows The Treasure of Sierra Madre’s plot but lacks John Huston’s fortitude to analyze and rightly judge the mercenaries. The story frames the veteran’s mission as an act of self-preservation intermingled with desire to rekindle their brotherhood. But their mission to off a cartel leader and steal his money is more more virtuous than Earl Stone (Clint Eastwood) running drugs for a cartel in The Mule. You could call the latter a spiritual sequel to Triple Frontier, with a selfish, down on his luck veteran working for people with whom he ethically disagrees. At least The Mule doesn’t prop Stone up as better than his employer; he’s just as down and dirty. Triple Frontier makes the soldiers pay for their sins and redeem themselves. It makes for a plodding, almost trite narrative that seems engineered for Netflix viewing habits; you can ignore for a few minutes and pick back up without missing a beat. But how Chandor gets to that obvious conclusion in the second hour makes it worth watching the five bro out on one last ride.
Triple Frontier is now in select theaters and hits Netflix on March 13.
See More: Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, J.C. Chandor, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Triple Frontier
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Concert Review – Boonsdale Fest 2018 & Wacken Metal Battle Canada Final (The Opera House, Toronto, ON, 06/09/2018)
After a year of silence, Wacken Metal Battle Canada returned in full force in a unique partnership with Boonsdale Fest to decide which underground band would raise the flag of Canadian metal high on “The Holy Land” of heavy music.
INTRODUCTION: BOONSDALE FEST AND WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA UNITED
There’s nothing better than a night of ass-kicking heavy music in the always fun month of June in the city of Toronto, and to make things even better how about uniting at The Opera House the 2nd annual Boonsdale Fest, organized by Boonsdale Records and featuring the bands Mokomokai, Operus and Borealis, with the 2018 edition of Wacken Metal Battle Canada, where the Best from the West Hammerdrone battled the Best from the East Centuries of Decay for a place alongside the greatest names in the history heavy music at Wacken Open Air later this year. As there was no Wacken Metal Battle Canada in 2017 (each year Wacken allocates 28 slots at W.O.A. for the Metal Battle winners from 28 different countries, and due to the increasing number of countries some are asked to pause for a year to give the chance to others to participate, which was what happened to Canada last year), this year several Canadian independent and underground bands were more than eager to participate in the competition again, with qualifying rounds happening all over the country starting January 12, until Calgary’s Hammerdrone and Toronto’s Centuries of Decay reached the desired final round in Toronto this Saturday.
In 2016, Wacken Metal Battle Canada crowned Death/Thrash Metal band Profaner as champions, who then by the way advanced to be 2nd place at the international Metal Battle at W.O.A. that same year, so who would be granted the chance to represent Canada at the biggest metal festival in the world in 2018? Well, it’s time to rumble to the heavy music by Centuries of Decay, Hammerdrone, Mokomokai, Operus and Borealis, and wait for guest judges Gustavo Valderrama (Navaja Music, Electric Flow), Tim Henderson (Bravewords.com), Andrew Epstein (Zombitrol Productions, Alan Cross’ A Journal of Musical Things), Chris Gonda (PureGrainAudio.com), Charlie Felix (Sound & Noise, Live Talent), Oscar Rangel (Operus, Ex-Annihilator), Wojtek Sokolowski (Operus) and Luc Lainé (CFLX 95,5 FM) to decide which band would rule them all!
CENTURIES OF DECAY
Centuries of Decay @ The Opera House, Toronto, ON, 06/09/2018
Precisely at 9pm Toronto’s own Progressive/Atmospheric Death Metal act Centuries of Decay hit the stage at The Opera House showing why they were chosen Eastern Canadian Metal Battle champions, led by the deep and very melodic growls by vocalist and guitarist Devin Doucette. Formed in 2014, the quartet released in 2017 their debut self-titled album, available for a listen (and obviously for purchase) at their own BandCamp page, and that album was basically what the metalheads at the venue had the pleasure to witness them playing live. With songs getting close to or even breaking the 10-minute mark, something unimaginable for any artist or band from most non-metal styles that are in pursuit of stardom, Centuries of Decay inspired everyone in the crowd to bang their heads nonstop and feel embraced by their atmospheric music, generating a very nice and interesting feeling in all of us. That’s how exciting progressive and atmospheric heavy music can be, and if these are just the initial steps in the promising career of Centuries of Decay, I can’t wait to see what those four metallers will bring next.
Devin Doucette – vocals, rhythm guitar
Rob McAllister – lead guitar, backing vocals
Matt Hems – bass
Derrick Doucette – drums
HAMMERDRONE
Hammerdrone @ The Opera House, Toronto, ON, 06/09/2018
After a quick bathroom/beer break, it was time for the winners of the West Hammerdrone to make a lot of noise and crush us with their unrelenting Melodic Death Metal, opening their performance with the violent Dark Harvest, the title-track from their 2017 opus Dark Harvest, which you can buy directly from their BandCamp page, a concept album inspired by the real life but obscure tale of the Scottish terrorist organization the Dark Harvest Commando. Frontman Grahma Harris was on fire during the entire concert, growling and roaring (and also making faces) like a beast, while his bandmates Rick Cardellini (lead guitars), Curtis Beardy (rhythm guitars), Teran Wyer (bass) and Vince Cardellini (drums) delivered a well-balanced fusion of the more harmonious lines from Melodic Death Metal with the sheer heaviness and aggressiveness of old school Death Metal. As a matter of fact, you can download for free a live EP by Hammerdrone titled Rituals of Battle from their BandCamp page, just to give you an idea of how awesome their music sounds live. And after Hammerdrone’s concert was over, I knew the judges were going to have a very difficult time deciding who should be crowned the 2018 champions. Well, at least they had a few more excellent concerts to go until then.
Graham Harris – vocals
Rick Cardellini – lead guitars
Curtis Beardy – rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Teran Wyer – bass, vocals
Vince Cardellini – drums
MOKOMOKAI
Mokomokai @ The Opera House, Toronto, ON, 06/09/2018
When Peterborough-based four-piece band Mokomokai began blasting their electrifying blend of old school Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, I guess we could say it was the “official” start of Boonsdale Fest, and let me tell you it looked like their Rock N’ Roll party had no time to end. Formed in 2011, and having a distinct name inspired by the preserved heads of Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, the quartet formed by John Ellis on vocals and guitar, Bobby Deuce on the guitar, Jeremy Pastic on bass and J J Tartaglia on drums put everyone at the venue to dance with their flammable music, playing songs from their 2017 album The Poison Whiptail, like the excellent Heavy Metal Sky, as well as a cover version for the classic The Wizard, by Black Sabbath (check out the original version HERE), taken from their 1970 masterpiece Black Sabbath, with John even playing the song’s traditional harmonica. After such high level of adrenaline, I have only one thing to say about Mokomokai: if they visit your hometown, don’t miss the chance to see them kicking some serious ass live.
John Ellis – vocals, guitar
Bobby Deuce – lead & rhythm guitar
Jeremy Pastic – bass
J.J. Tartaglia – drums
OPERUS
Operus @ The Opera House, Toronto, ON, 06/09/2018
Perhaps the performance by the following band of the night, Toronto-based Epic Symphonic Metal squad Operus, was the most peculiar of the entire event due to all the unique elements found during their concert (and one of them was definitely not on purpose). Formed in 2005, this six-piece act put on an extremely entertaining and atmospheric show still promoting their 2017 album Cenotaph, featuring Oscar Rangel (ex-Annihilator) on the guitar, cellist Robin Howe adding an extra touch of epicness to the band’s music, masked-frontman David Michael Moote with his passionate and theatrical performance, J.J. Tartaglia back on drums to play a completely different style from Mokomokai, and an injured bassist Wojtek Sokolowski who twisted his ankle right at the beginning of the show, but who refused to stop and managed to play their full set before going to ER (and that’s what I call a true metalhead!). That’s another band I highly recommend you go watch live if they’re scheduled to play at a venue near you, and you can find their latest album available on different platforms such as iTunes if epic and symphonic music is your cup of tea.
David Michael Moote – lead vocals
Rob Holden – guitar
Oscar Rangel – guitar, backing vocals, growls
Robin Howe – cello, backing vocals
Wojtek Sokolowski – bass, backing vocals
Borealis @ The Opera House, Toronto, ON, 06/09/2018
Last but not least, the festival ended with another very progressive and melodic band named Borealis, formed in 2005 in the Ontarian city of Orangeville, who also delivered a solid and delightful performance playing songs from all of their five full-length albums, such as Revelation, from their 2015 album Purgatory, and The Awakening, from their brand new opus The Offering, released earlier this year. Comprised of lead singer and guitarist Matt Marinelli (who had his bottle of water wisely placed on his mic stand looking like he was going to deliver some “wah wah’s” with his guitar when he was actually just thirsty as hell), guitarist Ken Fobert, bassist Trevor McBride, keyboardist Sean Werlick and drummer Sean Dowell, Borealis did not disappoint their fans, filling all empty spaces in the air with their classy Melodic and Power Metal and keeping everyone pumped up even with the clock getting close to 2am. That’s another band I highly recommend you go check them live as well as go after their discography, because it’s not only top-tier metal music, but the overall production of their albums is also outstanding.
Matt Marinelli – vocals, guitars
Ken Fobert – guitars
Trevor McBride – bass
Sean Werlick – keyboards
Sean Dowell – drums
Centuries of Decay – 2018 Wacken Metal Battle Canada Winner
…Toronto’s own Progressive/Atmospheric Death Metal squad CENTURIES OF DECAY! It was indeed an amazing concert, and I’m sure they will proudly carry the flag of Canadian metal high during their journey through the holy land of Wacken. Actually, I really wish Wacken Metal Battle Canada could send two bands to the festival, because Hammerdrone were just as demolishing and professional as the Metal Battle winners. At least now more people will get to know Hammerdrone and all other bands of the night, which in the end is the ultimate goal of the Metal Battle and of festivals like Boonsdale Fest, keeping the fire of metal alive by always presenting to us fans new incredible bands from the underground scene. For instance, there was this old school, diehard metalhead (drinking beer at an insane speed of “two tall boys every five minutes”, but who was still able to walk, talk and headbang as if he was having just water) who asked me right after Operus if there was still more to come, and when I said there was still one more band he showed a huge and honest smile and said “this is great, eh?”, and if independent bands can still extract that type of reaction from a veteran like that guy, well, that’s another proof that metal music will never die. Now let’s wait until next year to see which new name will represent Canada at W.O.A. 2019, and if you already have your tickets for the festival this year, don’t forget to go say “hi” and raise your horns to the guys from Centuries of Decay.
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Album Review – Hammerdrone / Dark Harvest (2017)
Mixing up intense aggression, a dark atmosphere and elegant melodies, this Canadian quintet brings forth a concept album inspired by the real life but obscure tale of the Scottish terrorist organization known as the Dark Harvest Commando.
Formed back in 2010 in the city of Calgary, known as the center of Canada’s oil industry, Melodic Death Metal act Hammerdrone mixes up intense aggression, a dark atmosphere and elegant melodies to deliver songs that are both epic and catchy, being highly recommended for admirers of the musical creations by bands such as Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquility and early Soilwork. After receiving an enthusiastic response from the metal press in countries across the world with the release of their debut EP A Demon Rising in 2012 and the full-length Clone of Europa in 2014, this Canadian quintet returns with their second full-length installment, entitled Dark Harvest, a concept album inspired by the real life but obscure tale of the Scottish terrorist organization the Dark Harvest Commando.
The Dark Harvest Commando of the Scottish Citizen Army was a militant group which in 1981 demanded that the British government decontaminate Gruinard Island, a site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II, by distributing potentially anthrax-laden soil on the mainland. Enfolded by a menacing artwork by Brazilian artist Caio Caldas of CadiesArt (DragonForce, Raven Lord, Soulspell), Dark Harvest has all the elements needed to effectively portray the ominous actions of such terrorist organization, including demented vocals, blazing riffs and frantic drumming, therefore enhancing the impact of the music (and also of the story being told) on the listener.
The atmospheric intro Echoes prepares the listener for the carnivorous but very melodic Karakoram, with its lyrics explain “who” the savage mountain Karakoram is (“I am the slate of lost emotion, I am the face of blank despair / That which crushes your spirit and body / In this cold and rarified air.”). Not only the lyrics are meaningful, but the amazing job done by both Rick Cardellini and Curtis Beardy on guitars provides lead singer Graham Harris the exact ambience needed for his deep guttural vocals to thrive. In Ancestral Weight, which begins with a soulful solo by Rick while drummer Vince Cardellini blasts pure heaviness through his beats (sounding like a machine gun), we’re treated to modern and versatile Melodic Death Metal the likes of Arch Enemy and Amon Amarth.
The title-track Dark Harvest takes you to the secret lair of the Dark Harvest Commando, with the band’s Melodic Death Metal presenting a warlike vibe. The overall violence emanating from their riffs and drums is insanely high, while Graham works as the “leader” of such vile terrorist organization with his deranged growls. And continuing his momentum, Graham canalizes the size and strength of a bison on his deep vocals in the excellent Black Bison, boosting the song’s hostile lyrics even more (“I see my God as he floods the plains of destiny / With the bile of intent. / I see my God and his hooves are stained with mortal men, / Malice hangs in the fog of his breath. / No lunar eclipse is half this dark – / It crushes your will and seeps into your heart.”). Showcasing elements from Thrash Metal, in special in its drums, this full-bodied, menacing and powerful composition is tailored for admirers of the heaviest form of Melodic Death Metal, being perfect for cracking your spine headbanging; whereas in The Wasting Throne, another pounding tune by Hammerdrone, both guitars dictate the rhythm together with the lowering bass by Teran Wyer, resulting in a robust song where all spaces are filled with heavy sounds and melodic touches, while its second part offers more of the band’s neck-breaking metal music.
After the album’s intro, Harvest The Void is the first (and only) serene moment you’ll find in Dark Harvest, working as a gentle bridge to the deep and melodic Collapse Of Reality, with highlights to the dynamic guitars by Rick and Curtis and the intricate beats by Vince, while Graham keeps growling like a beast. It’s a good quality tune despite going on for too long, losing a bit of its punch after a while. However, in the last of all tracks, titled Lost In An Instant, the whole band is fuckin’ roaring, with Graham and his bandmates delivering high-end Melodic Death Metal through their beautiful guitar solos, solid beats and endless stamina.
You can listen to Dark Harvest in its entirety HERE, and also show your support to Hammerdrone (and consequently to independent metal in general) by grabbing your copy of this excellent concept album at their BandCamp page. Hammerdone, who can be found on Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud and ReverbNation, not only bring us metalheads high-end underground heavy music made in Canada, as melodic and catchy as it can be, but they also tell a sinister and noteworthy story in Dark Harvest that will show you that many (if not all) terrorist attacks do not come out of nowhere, but that they’re always connected to classified actions taken by all governments worldwide. We obviously do not condone any of those actions and reactions by governments or terrorist groups, but it’s clear that when metal bands like Hammedrone are inspired by such controversial topics, the final result is always amazing musically speaking.
Best moments of the album: Ancestral Weight, Black Bison and The Wasting Throne.
Worst moments of the album: Collapse Of Reality.
1. Echoes (Intro) 1:09
2. Karakoram 4:37
3. Ancestral Weight 3:51
4. Dark Harvest 6:17
5. Black Bison 7:48
6. The Wasting Throne 6:07
7. Harvest The Void 3:32
8. Collapse Of Reality 5:34
9. Lost In An Instant 5:35
Posted in 2017 New Releases | Tagged alberta, ancestral weight, black bison, cadiesart, caio caldas, calgary, canada, curtis beardy, dark harvest, dark harvest commando, graham harris, hammerdrone, karakoram, melodic death metal, rick cardellini, teran wyer, the wasting throne, thrash metal, vince cardellini | 1 Reply
Metal Chick of the Month – Kobra Paige
Posted on May 2, 2016 by Gustavo Scuderi
I am, I am all that’s inside you… I am, I am evil burning through!
Have you ever been bitten by a cobra? If not, this is probably the best opportunity you will ever have in your life to finally feel the powerful venom of a spellbinding snake flowing through your veins in the form of old school Heavy Metal, and I’m sure you’ll just love the experience. I’m talking about the stunning Canadian metaller Brittany Paige, better known for her onstage moniker Kobra Paige, the fiery frontwoman of Canadian Heavy Metal band Kobra And The Lotus. Are you ready for a metallic snake bite?
Born and raised in Calgary, Canada, Kobra is a classically trained singer and pianist, having completed Grade 8 in vocals and Grade 6 in piano with The Royal Conservatory of Music, before forming Kobra And The Lotus in 2008 together with guitarist Chris Swenson and drummer Griffin Kissack. She said she was doing classical training from when she was very young until she lost interest in it, getting into Heavy Metal and Rock N’ Roll during her high school years especially because there was something in heavy music with a strong connection to what she loved the most in classical music, allowing her to explore her true voice. “I felt it was an extremely natural progression because metal allows for that chest voice to be used”, she explained. In addition, she mentioned she was going to university without a real intention of doing music seriously, although she truly wanted to start her own metal band anyway. After starting singing and writing music she felt so passionate and alive she decided to go ahead with her music career, which also meant the end of university for her.
Despite not pursuing a career in classical music, the classical training was essential for our blonde bombshell to learn the art of singing and how to properly take good care of her voice. “I’m so scared of that because I can’t just buy a new guitar. I only have this one instrument and you don’t want to blow it, so absolutely the breath exercises and the tools that I learned from it have very much helped, made me more knowledgeable”, she said in one of her interviews. Well, she said she was blown away at a Judas Priest concert after the band played their thunderous classic Painkiller, and she also fell in love for the powerful multi-layered voice by Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, so it makes total sense for her to be so worried about her voice as we all know how demanding singing like Rob Halford and Robert Plant can be to any mortal person, right?
Still under the name Brittany Paige, she released with Kobra And The Lotus their debut album Out of the Pit, in 2009, before adopting the name Kobra Paige and releasing two more albums with the band, the self-titled Kobra and the Lotus in 2012 and their most recent full-length album High Priestess in 2014, as well as an EP with cover versions for renowned Canadian rock bands entitled Words of the Prophets in 2015, and a 7″ vinyl EP named Zombie also in 2015, released as a Halloween treat and containing the songs Zombie and Remember Me. She also took part in the Heavy Metal/Hard Rock project Tony Gabriele’s Orbynot, recording vocals for their 2012 album Try to Stop Me, and is constantly lending her voice to the metal army known as Metal All Stars, sharing the stage with iconic musicians such as Tim “Ripper” Owens, Ross the Boss, Vinny Appice and Paul Di’Anno, and more recently to the cult Melodic Power Metal act Kamelot during their latest world tour. And you better get ready, because Kobra And The Lotus announced back in November 2015 they are gearing up for their fourth full-length album, a double disc entitled Prevail, to be released in a not-so-distant future (you can pre-order it HERE).
There are several videos on YouTube where you can enjoy her electrifying vocals and looks, and more important than that, feel the remarkable shift in her voice through the years. As a “few” suggestions, I believe you can take a listen at the old school thrashy tunes Snake Pit, Ride Like Sugar and Cynical Wasteland, the thunderous Welcome To My Funeral and I Am, I Am, the sexy heavy ballad Black Velvet, the Power Metal epicness of 50 Shades Of Evil and Forever One, the band’s thrilling cover versions for Motörhead’s all-time classic Ace of Spades and Rush’s groovy anthem The Spirit Of Radio, and their awesome performance at the famous festival Bloodstock Open Air in 2012. When asked about that change, Kobra said it happened mainly from their first to their second album, when she started following a direction where she felt more comfortable with her voice, sounding more organic, honest and authentic, and also evolving with the other band members in terms of skills and songwriting.
Based on her vocal style and the music played by Kobra and The Lotus, you might think her biggest influences come only from traditional Heavy Metal, like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, who obviously had a huge impact on her life and who she would simply love to tour with. However, our gorgeous Kobra is a fan of all types of music, from old school metal the likes of Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P.) and Iced Earth, to Folk/Viking Metal such as Eluveitie and Amon Amarth, to obviously classical music, in special German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven. As pretty much all successful musicians, she doesn’t stick to only one music genre, which helps her evolve as a singer and songwriter by expanding her horizons and bringing to her mind huge amounts of creativity and passion.
As expected for such a charismatic persona like Kobra, she was invited to take part on an interesting documentary called Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows: The Voices of Women in Metal after her performance at the famous Metal Female Voices Fest in 2013, touring then with other female vocalists in different festivals and telling their own stories in the world of heavy music. Talking about the life on the road, Kobra said once that “any person obviously has to be really into heavy metal, living and breathing for it, in order to be on the road constantly”, and in regards to being a beautiful woman among so many male metalheads, she said that one of the funniest things that ever happened to her on tour was when Kobra and The Lotus were touring around Canada the first time and she got a lot of questions like “are you the merch girl?”, surprising them all the minute she got onstage.
Her hobbies and interests are also very common for most of us, especially if you enjoy more physical stuff such as kickboxing and hiking on a mountain. Moreover, as she’s so focused on her music career and loves all things music so much, she has also nurtured an interest in musical theater, something she used to do at a younger age, looking into some Broadway scoring to improve her skills and capacity for innovation. One curious detail about her is that, even after spending so much time on the road with the band, she’s an avid traveler, always searching for exotic destinations to visit and new cultures to learn about.
Lastly, in case you haven’t noticed yet, our metal viper has the tattoo of a dream catcher on her arm, something very meaningful to her since she was a little girl. Her mom used to take her to sun dances, increasing Native American influences on her while she was growing up. Besides, she used to have constant nightmares until she was 13, when her parents put a dream catcher over her bed as a protective symbol, which ended up working really well for her. I’m pretty sure her nightmares are long gone by now, not due to the dream catcher but mainly because of her badass attitude and inner strength. In other words, I can’t think of any entity brave enough to disturb the peace of our headbanging cobra, and if anyone or anything dares to do so, they will mercilessly have their asses kicked pretty bad.
Kobra Paige’s Official Facebook page
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Kobra And The Lotus’ Official Twitter
“I am who I am and this is my voice; if it’s not bad-ass enough for some people, that’s just too bad.” – Kobra Paige
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Album Review – Viathyn / Cynosure (2014)
Posted on December 3, 2014 by Gustavo Scuderi
The new album by this outstanding indie Power Metal band from Calgary has everything we love in progressive metal music and more.
There was a time when my playlist was pretty much composed in its entirety by the anthem-like songs and sing-along choruses of many Power Metal bands such as Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian and Angra. Although years have gone by and my taste for heavy music has expanded considerably, listening to some thrilling Power Metal tunes always touches my heart no matter what, and seeing this genre of heavy music is alive and well in the hands of awesome indie groups, such as Progressive Power Metal band Viathyn, truly makes me hapy. By the way, the name of the band has no real definition in English, it’s just something the band members came up while playing off the word “Leviathan”.
After the EP Demagogue in 2008 and their first full-length album The Peregrine Way in 2010, this Calgary-based band returns with more of their powerful and progressive music in Cynosure, which according to guitarist Jacob Wright means “a focal point or an object that serves to guide”. Also, when explaining the meaning of the songs, which by the way are full of virtuosity and emotion, he mentioned each track focuses upon a character that is either affected by or acts as an agent of chaos, in order to express how small and insignificant our actions are within the grand scale of the universe and to show that we as humans should be humble and respectful to each other. In other words, Cynosure also has a good storyline to add even more value to its music, which is already excellent by itself.
Get ready for a metal journey with the opening track Ageless Stranger, which right after its “Hobbit-ish” intro turns into nonstop Power Metal with lots of progressiveness, riffs and drums à la Gamma Ray, and awesome guitar solos by Jacob Wright, followed by The Coachman, which sounds like a heavier version of Jethro Tull and Sonata Arctica, especially the vocal lines by Tomislav Crnkovic and the harmony found in the lyrics, with highlights to its great chorus (“And in the shades of nightfall, riding swift, he steers to your call / Step into the coach and find your broken oaths are inside / By sleight of hand and wake of fate, speak his name, he’ll be your guide”). I might be wrong, but is it some kind of tribute to Helloween on one of the last guitar solos and at the end of the song, sounding like a live version of “Future World”?
Edward Mordrake gets back to that breathtaking traditional Power Metal with its flawless instrumental, awesome guitar riffs and all rhythmic breaks. It’s definitely one of the best songs of the whole album, especially its second half which would put a big smile on Mr. Kai Hansen’s face. The heavy and symphonic Shadows In Our Wake has a more badass attitude and it’s impossible not to get excited with the energy this track emanates, with highlights to its nice guitar duos and speed similar to Gamma Ray (but a little more progressive), followed by the superb Countess of Discordia: it has that Power Metal vibe we all love, with “Brothers Crnkovic” absolutely on fire and in total sync. Moreover, not only it has best lyrics of all songs (“Eris, the Countess of Discordia / Behold her kingdom of strife and chaos at your door / Mother to false oaths and daughter to the void / Her fortress stretches high up to the weeping moon”), but it’s impressive how despite being lengthy it’s not tiring at all (and I’m sure you’ll start tapping together with its double bass wherever you are).
Cynosure goes on with Time Will Take Us All, which has a more serene intro and slower rhythm, with part of its musicality inspired by British Progressive Rock and the addition of some guttural vocals in the background being its special element, and Three Sheets To The Wind, a song that takes Folk and Power Metal to the next level, making me want to start dancing and prancing with a mug of beer in my hand. The last two tracks of the album are Albedo, a psychedelic music voyage with interesting lyrics (“Panacea, cure all that ails me and fill my veins with life / Aqua Vitae, draw clarity to my eyes and post colour through my mind”), with highlights to the excellent job done on guitars, and finally the title-track Cynosure, as symphonic and metallic as possible in its almost 10 minutes of fast and complex riffs, guitar solos and drums. Some passages even remind me of Dragonforce, with Tomislav Crnkovic once again showcasing an excellent vocal performance boosted by the enjoyable song lyrics.
There are many places where you can listen to and purchase Viathyn’s Cynosure (SoundCloud, CD Baby, BandCamp, Big Cartel, iTunes, among others), an awesome album tailored for fans of progressive and powerful metal music. There’s no way you won’t feel really good listening to it, I can assure you.
Best moments of the album: The Coachman, Edward Mordrake and Countess of Discordia.
Worst moments of the album: Time Will Take Us All.
1. Ageless Stranger 7:13
2. The Coachman 5:41
3. Edward Mordrake 6:24
4. Shadows In Our Wake 7:02
5. Countess of Discordia 7:12
6. Time Will Take Us All 7:01
7. Three Sheets To The Wind 7:21
8. Albedo 6:48
9. Cynosure 9:35
Tomislav Crnkovic – vocals, guitar
Jacob Wright – guitar
Alex Kot – bass
Dave Crnkovic – drums
Posted in 2014 New Releases | Tagged alberta, alex kot, calgary, canada, countess of discordia, cynosure, dave crnkovic, edward mordrake, heavy metal, jacob wright, power metal, progressive metal, progressive power metal, the coachman, tomislav crnkovic, viathyn | 1 Reply
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Trevor Daley Impresses, Adds Another Storyline for Penguins
By Mike Necciai May 5th, 2016
Despite the mockery, criticism and in some cases flat-out blind hatred for Penguins’ general manager Jim Rutherford, the veteran GM knew he had to stay the course. He had a plan in mind, which would require patience, to turn the vanilla Penguins into a speedy offensive juggernaut.
One of the initial steps to this plan was unloading Rob Scuderi but no one imagined this kind of return for him.
When it was announced that the Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks had agreed to swap Rob Scuderi for Trevor Daley, there was a collective eyebrow raise among the Penguins’ faithful. Scuderi, who struggled mightily to play within the uptempo system implemented by head coach Mike Sullivan seemed almost immovable.
Thankfully for the Penguins, that proved to be incorrect.
The swap with Chicago also included a hair over $1 million in retained salary that will count against the Penguins’ cap through next season. No matter where Scuderi ends up, such as playing in the minors for a bit while in Chicago, that salary still counts. However, that’s a small price to pay for the production uptick and return-on-investment they’ve received so far.
Trevor Daley’s Most Impressive Outing to Date
(Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports)
Daley is arguably one of the best skating defensemen in the league. While his skill set is well documented, I’m not sure much of Pittsburgh, including myself, realized just how slick of a skater he is.
He rivals Penguins’ standout Kris Letang in that regard, especially when it comes to his evasiveness.
On Wednesday night, he was given the opportunity to fill a large hole left by Letang’s recent one-game suspension. There is no replacing Letang, but Daley ensured Pittsburgh’s defense didn’t miss a beat on their way to a crippling 3-1 series lead over the President’s Trophy winning Capitals.
Daley racked up nearly 29 minutes of ice time. He also scored a goal and was on the ice for all three of Pittsburgh’s tallies but zero goals against. He and defensive partner Brian Dumoulin were tasked with Washington’s top line at even-strength, facing Alexander Ovechkin and Company for approximately 13 minutes. While they were a minus-9 in shot-attempts against that trio, Ovechkin, T.J. Oshie and Nicklas Backstrom were held scoreless during that span.
I consider that a win.
Daley also spent a hair over two minutes on the penalty kill, which once again completely stymied the Capitals’ potent power play. The Capitals were held to one shot and failed to score with the man-advantage, finishing the night 0-for-2 in that regard.
Daley has been a fairly quiet but integral part of Pittsburgh’s turnaround this season but his most recent performance was truly special. Things looked grim for Pittsburgh heading into a pivotal Game 4 without the engine behind their success in Letang and Daley came through in a major way.
Yet Another Story Line for a Special Penguins Team
Third-string goalies, rookie goalies, an infusion of youth up front and a 13-2-0 record to close the season without Evgeni Malkin are just a few storylines for this Penguins team. Now, you can add the resiliency shown on defense without their most important blue-liner against what might be the best offense in the league.
And, Daley led the way. Do you think he was overjoyed at how things turned out?
Crosby and Daley celebrate pic.twitter.com/KeHoDuRDMQ
— steph (@myregularface) May 5, 2016
After playing in Dallas for ten years, Daley was sent to Chicago in a trade that saw Patrick Sharp head the other way. He was given a limited role and eventually written off by the Blackhawks, hence the trade to Pittsburgh. All of a sudden, he’s playing a major role on a team that looks poised for a Stanley Cup run.
You can’t write a story better than that.
This Penguins team is truly special. They have something completely intangible that’s impossible to ignore. Each night, someone new steps up and makes an impact when least expected. Whether it’s Daley, Matt Cullen, Tom Kuhnhackl or Conor Sheary, the list of unsung heroes goes on-and-on.
This series is far from over and it’s impossible to write-off the Capitals just yet. However, can you imagine anyone, President’s Trophy winners or not, beating these Penguins three consecutive times?
Trevor Daley
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Hacked Emails Show Top UAE Diplomat Coordinating With Pro-Israel Think Tank Against Iran
Zaid Jilani Ryan Grim
Zaid Jilani, Ryan Grim
June 3 2017, 12:54 p.m.
The email account of one of Washington’s most connected and influential foreign operatives has been hacked. A small tranche of those emails was sent this week to media outlets, including The Intercept, HuffPost and The Daily Beast, with the hacker promising to release a trove publicly.
The hotmail account belongs to the UAE’s ambassador to the United States, Yousef al-Otaiba, and The Intercept can confirm it is the one he used for most Washington business. HuffPost confirmed at least one of the emails as authentic and the UAE has confirmed that Otaiba’s account was indeed hacked.
Otaiba’s influence derives largely from his pocketbook, as the ambassador is well known for throwing lavish dinner parties, galas, and hosting powerful figures on extravagant trips. Several Christmases ago, he sent out iPads as gifts to journalists and other Washington power players as gifts. There’s no telling what kind of messages might reside in that inbox.
The hackers used a .ru email address, associated with Russia, and referred to themselves as GlobalLeaks, tying themselves to DCLeaks, a website that previously released Democratic emails. The intelligence community has said DCLeaks is a Russian-operated website, which means that the Otaiba hackers are either connected with Russia or trying to give the impression that they are.
Russia and the Gulf monarchies, client states of the United States, are longtime rivals, backing opposing sides in Syria and clashing for decades over Iran.
The emails provided so far to the The Intercept show a growing relationship between the United Arab Emirates and the pro-Israel, neoconservative think tank called the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
On the surface, the alliance should be surprising, as the UAE does not even recognize Israel. But the two countries have worked together in the past against their common adversary, Iran.
On March 10 of this year, FDD CEO Mark Dubowitz authored an email to Otaiba and FDD Senior Counselor John Hannah — a former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney — with the subject line “Target list of companies investing in Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia.”
“Dear, Mr. Ambassador,” Dubowitz wrote. “The attached memorandum details companies listed by country which are doing business with Iran and also have business with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. This is a target list for putting these companies to a choice, as we have discussed.”
Dubowitz’s attached memorandum includes a lengthy list of “non-U.S. businesses with operations in Saudi Arabia or UAE that are looking to invest in Iran.”
The list includes a number of major international firms, including France’s Airbus and Russia’s Lukoil.
Presumably, the companies are being identified so that the UAE and Saudi Arabia can pressure them over investing in Iran, which is seeing an expansion of foreign investment following the 2015 nuclear deal.
Israel and the Gulf monarchies have grown closer in recent years, as both sides fear that Iran is moving closer to normalization with the West and will therefore increase its own influence and power in the region. But admissions of the alliance between the two are still rare in public. One high-level Israeli official, discussing the relationship on background for a previous HuffPost profile of Otaiba, laid out the politics of it. “Israel and the Arabs standing together is the ultimate ace in the hole. Because it takes it out of the politics and the ideology. When Israel and the Arab states are standing together, it’s powerful,” he said.
The hacked emails demonstrate a remarkable level of backchannel cooperation between a leading neoconservative think tank — FDD is funded by pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Adelson, an ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is one of the largest political donors in the United States — and a Gulf monarchy. (An FDD spokesperson says that Adelson has not given to FDD since 2013.)
Hannah and Otaiba are frequently chummy in the exchanges. On August 16 of last year, Hannah sent Otaiba an article claiming that the UAE and FDD were both responsible for the brief military coup in Turkey. “Honored that we’re in your company,” Hannah wrote to Otaiba.
In another email exchange in late April of this year, Hannah complains to Otaiba that Qatar — a rival Gulf government that has clashed with the UAE in recent months over various issues — is hosting a meeting of Hamas at an Emirati-owned hotel. Otaiba responds that it’s not the Emirati government’s fault, and that the real issue is the U.S. military base in Qatar, “How’s this, you move the base then we’ll move the hotel :-).”
The emails detail the proposed agenda of an upcoming meeting between FDD and UAE government officials that is scheduled for June 11-14. Dubowitz and Hannah are listed as attending, as well as Jonathan Schanzer, FDD vice president for research. UAE officials requested for meetings include Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince who commands the armed forces.
The agenda includes extensive discussion between the two on Qatar. They are scheduled to discuss, for instance, “Al Jazeera as an instrument of regional instability.” (Al Jazeera is based in Qatar.)
There is also “discussion of possible U.S./UAE policies to positively impact Iranian internal situation”; included among the list of policies are “political, economic, military, intelligence, and cyber tools,” which are also brought up as a possible response to “contain and defeat Iranian aggression.”
FDD has been involved in shaping Mideast policy debate during the Trump administration, so it is likely that the UAE views it as an important conduit to pressure Trump to adopt its more hawkish line on Iran. David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the organization, was quoted last month as saying that the UAE is “ecstatic” about the Trump administration’s approach to the region.
“They have been looking for some time for an American partner to push-back against Iran,” he told Arabianbusiness.com. “They are looking for America to turn rhetoric into action.”
Otaiba has also developed a close relationship with President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. The two first met last June at the behest of Thomas Barrack, a billionaire investor and Trump backer. A Politico article last February described Kushner as “in almost constant phone and email contact” with the ambassador.
Whatever the UAE’s agenda, it isn’t promoting democracy. From the previous profile:
As protests spread in Egypt, Otaiba pushed the White House hard to support Mubarak, without success. After the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in a democratic election, he filled the inbox of Phil Gordon, the White House’s top Middle East adviser, with missives savaging the Brotherhood and its backers in Qatar. (Gordon declined to comment.) “He’d robo-email people,” says the former White House aide. “You can be sure when Yousef has something to say on a topic like that, high-level people throughout the State Department and in the White House are going to hear it, in very similar if not identical emails.”
We’re now getting a sense of what those emails looked like. In an email sent on July 3, 2013, shortly after the Egyptian military deposed elected Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Morsi, Otaiba lobbied former Bush administration officials Stephen Hadley — now a consultant at RiceHadleyGates — and Joshua Bolten on his view on Egypt and the wider Arab Spring.
“Countries like Jordan and UAE are the ‘last men standing’ in the moderate camp. The arab spring has increased extremism at the expense of moderation and tolerance,” he lamented.
He described Morsi’s overthrow in glowing tones. “Today’s situation in Egypt is a second revolution. There more people on the streets today than January of 2011. This is not a coup, this is revolution 2.0. A coup is when the military imposes its will on people by force. Today, the military is RESPONDING to people’s wishes.”
Egypt today is a virtual dictatorship. And a close ally of both the U.S. and the UAE.
Update: June 3, 2017
This piece was updated to clarify the relationship between Russia and Iran.
This piece was updated to clarify Adelson’s role in funding FDD.
Top photo: A picture taken in downtown Dubai on May 31, 2017, shows Burj Khalifa and the Dubai skyline.
Zaid Jilani[email protected]theintercept.com@ZaidJilani
Ryan Grim[email protected]theintercept.com@ryangrim
Ooooh
nouri
June 6 2017, 11:48 a.m.
JoaoAlfaiate
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies teaming up with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, how funny!
June 5 2017, 2:15 p.m.
I guess all of the effort by UAE’s Yousef has finally paid off. It was just announced that four countries have officially cut ties with Qatar. Now, for the big question: is democracy now available to the highest bidder on the auction block?
It is becoming too obvious even for the less-informed that these “Think Tanks” are nothing more than covers for special interest groups to not only influence policy but actually write laws, effectively removing “the people” from the process. How is this system better than the ones where the monarchs or dictators do what is best for their friends or family members instead of their citizens? We criticize, admonish, and even sanction other nations who do this yet, we are increasingly witnessing our own elected officials doing it. It is so true when they talk about light being the best disinfectant….now, if only someone figured out what to do next to restore true democracy in these Great United States.
June 5 2017, 4:32 a.m.
And you missed the big story. A company that was indicted for fraud by US DOJ and fined $600 M paid Clinton Foundation through Kuwait Government a sum of 5-10 M USD and were able to settle the case for $ 95 M . A great return on investment.
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/kuwait-called-hillary-clinton-nix-criminal-fraud-case-defense-contractor-agility/
Uh oh, TI pissed off this guy, who claims they are a “a website with links to Iran.” Sure…
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1110176/middle-east
Wnt Nate
This article is largely a valid response – the emails really are things that I assume ordinary Arab citizens might feel they have a right to write, so long as their particular government agrees with them. It does have a bit of a no-no in that it plagiarized two sentences straight from the Wikipedia article ( around “pathetic joke”, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverstein – which hasn’t been changed since May). And of course, the “pro-Iran” stance of The Intercept is in large part by comparison with a lot of media that is excessively critical of the country – though of course Iran does many horrible things to deserve criticism, that doesn’t mean a fair media should be looking for an excuse to skewer them no matter what.
Nate Wnt
Ken Silverstein was himself a pathetic joke of a journalist. If my memory serves me, he got pissy because he couldn’t keep the company laptop.
KAY WISE
Are the emails available for research? If so, where? If not, how can they be verified?
Uncle Bob KAY WISE
Al Jazeera; Inside Story 6/4/17
What’s The Reason behind recent media attacks against Qatar?
https://youtu.be/XdlzWpwzhvg
Geopolitical alliances in the Middle East shifted years ago. On the U.S. side, the main allies are Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, three different societies (Jews, Turks, and Arabs) that have been fighting for hundreds if not thousands of years and that totally hate each other. (The other side, formerly the Soviet Union and now much less represented by Russia, is now down to Iran and the portion of Syria that’s still controlled by Assad.) Leaders of countries and the rich & powerful that they represent don’t give a damn about this stuff; they care about money, business, and resources.
What might have been a good article has been degraded
by its authors
into a democrat-speak manipulation which
takes a real story and tries to force us into believing the
UNSUBSTANTIATED
“Russia did it” garbage which is necessary for craven democrap
identities to obscure their own smug, willful ignorance.
Great job, brownies!
Roch Clark
The Russia references are of no consequences: the ru. is a location where there are low regulations and that they are rivals means nothing much. No one of any intelligence believes the Dem-CrookdClinton Russia talk. If those are valid email address and recipients, then it is SUBSTANTIATED. The fact– up to now– it has been difficult to find a partner to turn rhetoric to action… is well, people are perhaps not that ignorant, or do learn? Iran is a sovereign country, who wants to be next on the list?
Monem
These little hidden bastards desert rats are the cause of the destruction of many Arab countries. they have no connection with Islam and their religion, ethic, moral, is money. the f*** his cooperating with Israel and USA and opening the way for them to kill his brothers???! what does a bastard like that deserve?? Traitors Traitors!!! no wonder Emirates is boosting and developing structurally! it is because they have sold themselves to the devil bitches.
Engy Monem
Bas ya ahbal …. ya ebn el habla …. i would shake an israeli hands instead of shaking a traitor Palestinian….go to hell
NoOne Engy
Ya Salam .. you seems like you can shake any hands .. how much per night please?
Charlene Avis Richards
Political corruption runs deep in Washington, D.C. as the lawsuit against the DNC is proving:
https://www.rt.com/usa/386896-dnc-lawsuit-wasserman-schultz/
Had the DNC allowed a free and fair primary process to occur between Sanders and Clinton, Sanders would have easily beaten Clinton and I believe he would have easily beaten Trump in the general election.
I wish someone from The Intercept would do an in-depth report on what is going on with this lawsuit against the DNC.
Their lawyers are claiming it is the DNC’s RIGHT to rig primaries for the candidate they want!
This story is certainly flowing waaaayyy under the radar!
barabbas Charlene Avis Richards
and somewhere along this barage of legal discovery may come the unmasking of the name of the person or organisation of the murderer of Seth Rich. Somehow i think that is what the DNC fears.
Grace barabbas
Good point, Barabbas!
Ara barabbas
Oh, grow up already!
Adelson is a proponent of addiction and zionism – theocratic systems that suggest he has little interest in ‘democracy’. The relation of his organization to the gulf monarchies should not be too surprising. I agree this has more to do with him than with Israel. I suspect that their hatred of Iran is that despite its problems it’s actually the most democratic state in the region. They rely on despots and oppression because they are easier to manipulate. Also the coup in Turkey failed, and probably intentionally so (a model for a similar coup in the US under Trump). Not sure why he’s congratulating UAE.
Paranam Kid AddictionMyth
Adelson is not just a zionist, he is a NAZIonist. He deserves the same treatment as the Nazis did.
Abdulrazak M. Aalen
This is only proves arab countries, particularly gulf states willingness cooperation with Israel’s gov.
Gal Dagon Abdulrazak M. Aalen
No it doesn’t. The article is dishonestly framed, The players here are the UAE, and an Adelson-backed think tank. The Israeli government isn’t a part of the equation. The FDD may be acting in what they think are Israel’s best interests, but the UAE aren’t actually cooperating with Israel (in this instance, at least.)
Paranam Kid Gal Dagon
One way or the other, israel is ALWAYS involved with any pro-israel organisation, particularly one like this which is so influential & well funded.
Czernobog Paranam Kid
It’s supported by Sheldon Adelson. If you know who he is, you know what that means. There’s no reason for the Israeli government to be directly involved, and there’s no evidence for it.
Gal Dagon Paranam Kid
Sorry, that was me, I clicked the wrong entry in the autocomplete by mistake.
barabbas Gal Dagon
The Israeli government isn’t a part of the equation?
SURE IT IS. That is, the netanyahu faction of it. The rest of the israeli gov is for local appeatances only. All that really counts any more is who is running foreign policy. The populations have been abandoned by those FP rats who thrive on them and pretend to be important so they can get paid and go to fancy dinners and outings. SHIP THEM TO MARS.
Majid Abdulrazak M. Aalen
It is a well known fact that Israel and GCC countries have been cooperating for years. Their common target is Iran. Israel uses its strong ties in the US to support GCC dictatorships and GCC regimes do not object to the Israeli policies against the Pals. They all are very aligned against Iran. Because of 1000’s of Iranian businesses and people living in UAE UAE is the center of covert actions against Iran. UAE has benefited handsomely from Iranian isolation as they have become the conduit for $billions of the business with Iran while working with Iran’s enemies against Iran. Iran should kick out UAE ambassador and cut trade and diplomatic links with UAE. Saudi Arabia and UAE are hand in glove in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, and Libya.
Engy Majid
Who wants to hace a trade relationship with iran !!
Richard Pearce Abdulrazak M. Aalen
No, it proves that Dictatorships and an Apartheid regime fear democracy so much they’ll put aside even official wars to try and get it crushed by the Empire of War.
That Sufi Muslim fellow had already told us before he disappeared that Muslim blokes are not “monolithic”, which basically means there are uncountably large number of groups of Muslims, each at the others’ throats performing the ritualistic halaal chopping. All we have to do is be a bit patient and they will solve all the terrorist problems themselves.
Stop General Hercules
An equally effective solution and far more peaceful, is the IAGO race (to which commenter General Hercules belongs) stops breeding.
Vic Perry Stop
I can’t believe GH didn’t suffocate months ago.
“Russia and the Gulf monarchies, client states of the United States, are longtime rivals”
What the illiterate journo who wrote that meant is
“the Gulf monarchies, which are client states of the United States, and russia which is obviously not a client state, are longtime rivals”
barabbas Operation Northwoods
tx. i am easily confused. sometimes people put sentences in a blender and just pour the words out.
Whoever released these emails should be thanked. Truth is truth regardless of how it is obtained.
I’m hoping for a full release ASAP.
Just read where a current UK poll taken last month shows strong backing for Israel boycott: 2:5..
Coincidentally I also read about more mayhem in London today..a van mowed down a lot of people and in a separate incident, a man with a huge knife began stabbing people in a cafe….hmmm..interesting
Uncle Bob Uncle Bob
waiting fir the FDD to confirm the attack with ISIS ( or “is-us” )
craigsummers Uncle Bob
Very likely the work of dangerous white supremacists……
Uncle Bob craigsummers
Isn’t it amazing how a tiny lil country can rule the world’s Superpower?
http://www.israellycool.com/2016/12/04/map-of-us-states-with-anti-bds-legislation/..
Now, just what this is all about is Money..
The law in the State of Israel says anybody supporting BDS will not be allowed to enter. ..
While at the same time telling other countries what laws to write ..
According to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta (4-3-2017):
“………More than 100 men suspected of being gay have been detained by Chechen authorities in a campaign against homosexuality, according to a report in a Russian newspaper.
Novaya Gazeta reported on Saturday that three people have been killed in the roundup of men ranging ages 16 to 50; the paper reported that more men may have died in extrajudicial killings…….”
Isn’t it amazing how that tiny little shitty country controls US foreign policy?
HaHaHaHaah..The same Hasbara script..when all else fails , deflect, distract and mention..sex..Sex sells., especially homosexual sex.. it’s the same on every forum..mention BDS and Honisexuality follows..mention Gaza and Homosexuality follows..
CS, , yes..it’s very sad that Russians kill homosexuals
And it’s is a very wildly attractive , publicized feature that Israel is the Homosexual Mecca of the Middle East and needs to be forgiven and followed as an example benevolence because of their love for homosexuals and homosexuality..
barabbas craigsummers
chechnya is not russia
chechnya is a rogue province
chechnya is a terrorist manufacturing plant
Grace craigsummers
You left out Christian, Craig!
craigsummers Grace
barabbas Uncle Bob
one group is running bombing raids on hospitals oops and residential units oops while the others are called terrorists committing wanton acts of violence against those not in hospitals or residential units.
Rabie
After reading this article,even I’m not forced to be 100% agree with all information brovided unless I have the proof.
I think that, If this is true ? This means that those people are working hard and follow their ideas .
They have a target to achieve.
Should they been blamed?
I don’t think so!!!
We are blamed as we don’t put our plan to reach our success.
For those who found themselves in a situation they didn’t choose to be involved in it.
Better than talking about darkness ,is to have your own candle.
Governments is us,we must play a role a against devils.
We must build success and it is time to do.
Apassingby
This FDD – Dubowitz, which [e-hacked] account is he claiming the ownership of: Surely, it is [Not] the one; the Iranians, new of & had let loose: To observe, perhaps!
faydi youssef
as middle east citizen im aware of what uae is doing , they teach us on mosques tv schools that USA Israel Iran are our enemy but the truth is thy are not , its them our government the enemy who took our life our resources ans spent them every where like they own them , thats a good occasion those hackers revealed there crimes and conspiracy to whole world
Christoph Thomas
a hot mail account … who the f. uses a hotmail account to conduct business ???
PK Christoph Thomas
Maybe they wanted it to get out. From the article there is nothing really new, but it piles on to the threats against Iran. The categorization of Al Jazeera as problematic for the interests of US and Gulf monarchies indicates to that.
An IranianGuy
“Iran, A russian client state….”???? This is absurd and hubris.
I would advise the authors to seriously reconsider their view and knowledge toward Iran and its politics. Neither Iranian people nor the Regime in Iran does not consider Russia even to an ally, the west has forced Iran in the same boat with Russians. Russia throughout the history has proven time and time again to Iranians that they can’t be trusted.
SignalDetected
“a growing relationship between the United Arab Emirates and the pro-Israel, neoconservative think tank called the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)”
After all the wait, UAE officials have found a version of democracy they like: the Israeli version!
What a name: Foundation for Defense of Democracies, FDD!
FDD CEO Mark Dubowitz wrote: “The attached memorandum details companies listed by country which are doing business with Iran and also have business with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. This is a target list for putting these companies to a choice, as we have discussed.”
Democracy in action. The Israeli way!
Apparently someone threatens to put the Emir of Qatar on the list for “regime change”.
“The president of a US-based Saudi lobbyist group stated on Twitter that the emir of Qatar’s alleged support of Iran and “insults” against Riyadh could see him suffer the same fate as Egypt’s deposed president, Mohamed Morsi.
Salman al-Ansari, of the Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee (SAPRAC), sparked outrage by saying: “To the Emir of Qatar: regarding your taking the side of the extremist Iranian government, and your insulting of the custodian of the two holy mosques.
“I want to remind you that Mohamed Morsi did the same thing and ended up isolated and imprisoned.” ”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-lobbyist-attacks-emir-qatar-and-seems-admit-supporting-coup-egypt-1501952237
barabbas Kay
wealthy people who use their wealth and power to enforce poverty like a prison and deprive people of self governance act as if people want to kill them and replace them. I cannot imagine where they get that idea. Maybe inbred paranoia?
Muhammad Al Otaibi
Shame on you UAE Arabs, you convince Americans on your own Muslims. I feel very shame by reading the email sent by UAE Ambassador. Be sure that your nation will kick you just like other dictators. UAE pays their citizen in return of not asking about what the hell they are doing by the state money again the Muslim Ummah. but days will prove the Spring will come to UAE.
Shame on UAE.
MaDrby
So it is…all leaks are Russian leaks no matter the only people with the “evidence” of this held secretly by the fully discredited institutions of entrenched power.
N!loofar
I want to punch people or throw something at them when the say “why everyonre picks on Israel”
Roch N!loofar
Once again, why would a Muslim brother sell lout his own? Cannot blame Israel.
Alan Roch
Once again why is Israel involved in everything that destabilizes Muslim countries and puts western countries in danger.. Israel is to blame for everything they day. You can also blame SA/ UAE but that doesn’t mean Israel is not guilty.
-Mona- Roch
It’s called class and money. Why did rich African lords and kings sell fellow Africans to white slavers?
“Identity politics” is properly subject to certain criticisms — just not the ones most liberals and almost all rightwingers identify. Among it’s flaws — or at least its insufficiencies — is failure to take class into account.
Another factor is sectariansim/tribalism, in which “the enemy of my enemy” is sometimes deemed friend, or at least tactical ally.
True, but at the end of the day, common sense should tell you that anyone who sells out their own is of no value to you– you are simply next in their line and no contract they hold with you will be ever be valid, much to the contrary, an alliance with them can be an alliance with certain death. No escaping . Israel is silly and stupid if they believe they are in control of this in any way. When nearly one out of four persons is muslim, things can change very fast . It is a setup to be a fall guy!
Good points all Mona, the other thing is that the real political geniuses at the top levels in any society usually could give a damn about whatever the stated ideology is, compared to properly managing power.
Anyway it’s amusing to see that any brave truthseekers flocking to the Intercept comments section would be shocked, shocked, that the UAE or the Saudis has cozy relations with Israel. Gee whiz, do you mean those weird A-rabs & Iz-ray-lees are just into power for power’s sake too? Here I thought they wuz real fanatics like in the movies….
GilG Roch
This is The Intercept, one can aways blame Israel.
barabbas GilG
for what? murdering palestinians to steal their land?
GilG barabbas
Hey barb you blamed Zionists for killing Jesus a couple of thousand years before they even existed so i guess you will blame them for anything, even the fact that you sit at home all day getting the govt dole.
Grace N!loofar
Not to worry…its wearing thin around the world. They can’t continue to act as they have with out losing in public opinion.
Yaser
UAE’s government always makes problems in the world , it funds military coups like in Egypt 2013 , it supports dictators like Al Assad and Sisi , it strikes innocents civilians in Libya .. Someone should stop it !
Xavi Yaser
The UAE are bankrolling Isis in Syria, not Assad. Since they haven’t been stopped doing that, they’re unlikely to be stopped from doing anything else.
Bif Webster
*1953.
-Mona- Bif Webster
But it’s different when we do it!
ErnestineBass Bif Webster
Indeed. After sixty years, the Shadow Government finally accepted responsibility for that historical footnote.
Even then, few took notice.
Johnson Bif Webster
What’s ironic is that on the long run Mossadeq would have been better for the west than the Shia fanatics that have taken over after the Shah was expelled.
PK Johnson
That is true if you look only at Iran.
But Mossadeq was a role model for the whole third world and set to become an important figure in the block-free-movement. The Islamic Republic does not have this importance and will never have it because they can only appeal to Shias.
It’s similar with Guatemala and Arbenz (civil war isn’t good for business interest either but the ouster of him secured the control over Central America as a whole).
There are some issues with how this article is put together: the documentcloud (uggh) site with the letter has blank text, hard-to-read PDF. You have a letter above labelled as a shot of the skyline. I wish that proofreaders hadn’t gone extinct in the 1990s.
The first email about the UAE/Iran companies should interest us, not because it is interesting (it’s not), but because this hotshot “Neocon think tank” is doing what WE can do ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. They got some people together and did some web searches and came up with a bunch of what some call “open source intelligence”, i.e. newspaper clippings, about companies doing business in Iran, and they emailed some guy at the UAE embassy. I mean seriously, *where* is their power? Only in thinking what they do matters. We do the same damn thing, on this forum, on other discussion groups, on Wikipedia, and somehow we let ourselves get dejected and think it doesn’t make a difference, just because we aren’t serving some entity sleazy enough that they have to pay to get people to take their side. Literally the only thing depressing us is a belief that our caste is inherently inferior, when we know full well it’s not.
Orlando Wnt
Hear! Hear!
Steve Naidamast Wnt
The problem that average citizens have under such circumstances is that they are faced with a sociological axiom that the larger the group, the less intelligent it becomes even if everyone in the group is highly intelligent. This is because large groups outside of such constraints such as military discipline or political incestuous relationships do not have very large rates of cohesion. Everyone has their own idea as to how to confront a problem forcing the group to expend effort on useless strategies and tactics.
Wnt Steve Naidamast
I don’t see any particular requirement that ordinary people collaborate in large groups for such things. One person can collect a bunch of news about one or many companies, or a small number can work together in a planned way. But beyond this, I know that Wikipedia can show some clear evidence of collective intelligence, at least in its output if not necessarily in its community governance, which seems to invalidate this “axiom”.
On the one hand, this whole back-channel shenanigans may appear to be part of hypocratic revelations of saying one thing to the public and something else to the bosses – to paraphrase the more infamouse Hillary. However, all the squabbling like chickens in the house is merely arm wrestling which ultimately resolves into ever changing national policies which do shift like the sands of the middle east. Besides, without all the hubbub, what are wealthy people to do? WIthout good excuses to par-tay, important people would appear to be like any common self indulgent glutton, sans the expensive gifting thing.
So much for Muslim solidarity.
Keep exposing the machinations of the wealthy, the powerful, the influential, the utterly corrupt, and the depraved.
Thank you for continuing to bring the important back stories.
Mr. Jilani
“…….He described Morsi’s overthrow in glowing tones. “Today’s situation in Egypt is a second revolution. There more people on the streets today than January of 2011. This is not a coup, this is revolution 2.0. A coup is when the military imposes its will on people by force. Today, the military is RESPONDING to people’s wishes.”…….”
There certainly is some truth to what Yousef Al-Otaiba is saying. Egyptians took to the streets by the millions to protest the political agenda of the elected Morsi. That represented democracy in action (much like Ukrainians). Unfortunately, al-Sisi deposed Morsi imposing a draconian and brutal anti-democratic rule on Egyptians while throwing the initial revolution in reverse. The Muslim Brotherhood has been designated a terrorist organization by the military government.
Egyptians are far worse off now than under Mubarak although in lieu of Syria, many Egyptians may be opting for security over political rights – for the moment. Sooner or later, the Egyptian people will again take to the streets to protest authoritarian rule.
The last thing the US needs is to tie itself up in all this pointless Iran crap. China is in the process of building a humongous transnational infrastructure program – the new silk road – that will seal its place as the 21st-century world’s preeminent economic power. Yet in the US politicians and media obsesses mindlessly on Russia and Iran.
But what will actually be achieved if they do succeed in launching another multi-trillion dollar war in the mideast? The same as before: mountains of dead innocents and an even less safe and secure world than before. A cynical person might come to the conclusion that the only things driving all this nonsense is the further enrichment of giant military contractors and the entralment of the US political class to AIPAC.
This time, it’s encumbent on journalists to call out this gigantic waste of life, resources, and everybody’s time before the madness is repeated. Please do not just go along with the mindless tide all over again.
Bif Webster Xavi
“A cynical person might come to the conclusion that the only things driving all this nonsense is the further enrichment of giant military contractors and the entralment of the US political class to AIPAC.”
Or, generally observational?
barabbas Xavi
forsure. Pres Trump is not like the small-thinking chicken-squabbling whorish set of the dumb&dumbers that get elected or appointed. He is the puppet master.The table scrap issues of Russia and Iran are what the dumb&dumbers feed on and apparently addicted to. And being as the foreign policy fraudsters have sold out the US, they are going to drown in their own feces because China is real competition and the D&D clubbers dont really know how to compete without going to war.
Xavi barabbas
Sadly Trump and his boys seem more addicted to the Iran drug than anybody, except perhaps John McCain (aka ‘the nation’s conscience’..)
perhaps PDT is not the addicted
rather PDT is the pusherman
Richard Pearce Xavi
The shape of things to come could be seen at the recent OBOR get together. The US issued a demand to China to exclude the North Korean regime from the attendees. China refused. The US and it’s gang, in a true display of power, sent delegations anyway, but ‘just’ the ones who do the real work of making deals.
Roch Xavi
Yes, and time for the US to invest in some high speed rail as the most cost efficient and green travel, as much as possible. Laughable and dangerous is to make ATC private, people will die. How reintroducing a for-profit Middleman system will economize is impossible.
Iran, a Russian client state
really??? they have diplomatic and economic relations with Russia, but a “client state??’ sounds like lazy journalism.
Interesting (but not shocking) article. Nice work.
The rich and powerful play their games. And everybody else, even the environment, and all the dead fish in the sea, pay for it.
Lindak AtheistInChief
Yes, really… a client state. Perhaps Mr. Jilani will obtain the emails from the Russian Ambassador to Iran and publish them for your edification. But I think not. If it’s not an indictment of Israel, either real or perceived, he’s not interested. Is Iran “neutral” regarding Israel in any respect? Neither is this reporter.
Bif Webster Lindak
Israel is the shit starter in that entire region, yet, the mainstream corporate “news” media never shines light on their involvement? While they subjugate an entire group of folks, murdering them whenever they feel like, while the media freaks out when one of the oppressed get out and kill two people?
Grace Lindak
That is simply absurd.
But you Zionists are very good at photoshopping anti Israel messages on their missiles.
Yeah, we get it, along with a whole host of misinterpretations you’re so proficient with for Western consumption.
“A small tranche of those emails was sent this week to media outlets, including The Intercept, HuffPost and The Daily Beast, ”
Mr. Jilani did not go out and “obtain” the emails.
How about going after the “star” reporters of US news outlets, that have either served with IDF or have children that are, while reporting on conflicts…I’d check out that “neutrality” first.
I’m happy to provide at least a partial list of those when I have more time.
And the Palestinians are a sideshow for the wealthy Muslims to continue to thrive, at the expense of their own people’s. As if the wealthy Saudis cannot bring their own home to Mecca and Medina. Joke.
Grace Roch
I think that’s because Palestinians prefer to stay where they’ve been for so many generations. It is their homeland…not Mecca.
Also, the 3rd holiest site in Islam is Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
My opinion is Trump backed off moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, as a show of “good faith”. Possibly.
Citizen_Fur
The escalation in hacked e-mails, seemingly by state actors or state connected groups, requires the media to think through carefully what their policy for publishing or reporting on emails obtained in this criminal fashion.
The Intercept would do well to state an explicitly clear policy on this regard. Is the editorial standard that the manner in which “newsworthy” information (obviously a designation subject to any individual news organization) is obtained totally irrelevant to the publication of that information? If Bernie Sanders or Julian Assange’s private communications were hacked, would The Intercept report on those communications?
Is there any scenario in which the manner in which newsworthy information is obtained preclude the publishing of that information – if, for instance, someone’s private information was not hacked but instead violently coerced out of someone?
I think The Intercept would do well to articulate their positions on these issues. In the U.K. illegal and immoral means of collecting “newsworthy” information of course led to the massive News of the World scandal, and it behooves an organization nominally committed to the highest journalistic standards to be clear about their own practices.
Joshua88 Citizen_Fur
They have.
If you have a problem with exposing private conversations about world issues, please offer your justification.
Bif Webster Citizen_Fur
“If Bernie Sanders or Julian Assange’s private communications were hacked, would The Intercept report on those communications?”
If those communications exposed a seedy underbelly, yes, I believe The Intercept would publish them.
barabbas Citizen_Fur
Your argument is the PUBLIC PROPERTY IS NOT SACRED scam. That scam argument betrays the real meaning of privacy which is between individuals. So how much is your elixer today?
Keep repeating this for years, Iran does nothing wrong and is rather puny on the global scale,or more wronged than anyone else, it is all provocation to create a pretext to attack to break and enter into Iran has the world’s 2nd largest oil reserves– AND WE AINT PAYING FULL PRICE FOR THAT — well maybe in blood, as Iraq.
Bif Webster Roch
Who started all this shit? The United States, England, France.
1953 for the United States. Earlier for those other two agitators.
We in the West spin EVERYTHING.
Roch Bif Webster
Yes, but the muslims have their own local brand of the deal, swapping and bargaining in the souks. The problems is the wealthy Muslims do not stand with their lesser brothers, they sell them out..so they can get out.
Whiteylockmandoubled Roch
“The Muslims?” Wtf are you talking about?
The Saudis can’t bring “their own” home? What planet do you inhabit?
The idea that “the Muslims” in some vaguely defined Middle East are an undifferentiated mass that can be moved hundreds of miles for israel’s or anyone else’s convenience is a bizarre confluence of comic, provincial ignorance and bloodthirsty imperial privilege.
We’re talking about people(s) with massive ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious differences.
So Palestinians are supposed to uproot themselves and move to Saudi Arabia and things will suddenly get better? Here’s a challenge – try writing something stupider. It will take real effort.
barabbas Bif Webster
My first toy as a child that i can remember was a top. You would push down on the rod at the top and the thing would spin. Spinning might be a uniquely homosapien attribute.
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AT&T-Time Warner, net neutrality and how to make sense of the media merger frenzy
Posted By: Amanda Lotzon: July 12, 2018 In: News
AT&T and Time Warner are among the latest companies to merge. Reuters/Brendan McDermid
Last month, the US Department of Justice lost its suit to prevent AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
The agency had brought the case out of concern that the acquisition would reduce competition and in turn result in higher prices for consumers as well as less innovation.
The fact that the deal has gone ahead regardless has encouraged a still-ongoing bidding war between Disney and Comcast for most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, and prompted business journalists to predict a coming frenzy of mergers.
My research tracks how the media business has changed over the last two decades and what that change means for consumers. I’ve learned that not all mergers are alike, and some are more consequential than others. As I’ll show, allowing mergers like AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner will profoundly reshape the American media landscape, even more so because of the elimination of net neutrality.
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All media businesses are not the same
The first thing to understand about these mergers is that not all ‘media’ companies do the same thing.
Some media companies create content – they decide what to produce, fund its creation and organise it as a schedule of programming for a channel. Content companies then negotiate with cable/internet and satellite businesses that distribute that content to millions of homes that pay them to provide programming or internet access.
Until 2011, a logic of keeping content and distribution companies distinct guided the organisation of the media industry, what legal scholar Tim Wu terms a “separations principle“. The businesses that create content and the cable/internet companies that enable it to reach viewers were, for the most part, different entities.
The reason AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner is so significant is that it allowed a major distribution company to purchase a large content company.
Consumers pay AT&T to receive mobile phone (159 million in the US and Mexico), video (47 million) and internet services (15.8 million). Time Warner is mostly a content creation company. Its holdings include Warner Entertainment, Turner Broadcasting and HBO.
This type of ‘vertical’ integration – the joining of companies that perform different aspects of the supply chain – has not been as much a concern for antitrust regulators as “horizontal” mergers, which they often try to prevent. That’s because horizontal deals allow a merger of two companies that do the same thing – creating a monopoly in the most extreme – and might give them considerable competitive advantage over others.
Fox’s suitors and the end of ‘separations’
But the competitive dynamics of media aren’t like other industries.
Distributors often have considerable power because they face limited and sometimes no competition. Normal marketplace dynamics have not operated because US policy – in acknowledgment of the infrastructure required to wire a nation – has offered these services protections that have allowed them to operate as monopolies or with minimal competition. This has given consumers very little choice in providers and has led to the many aspects of service that frustrate them.
When looking at the acquisition of Fox – a content company – its two suitors create different concerns.
Like Fox, Disney is mostly a content company. Their merger would provide Disney with greater market power in negotiating with cable/internet companies and reduce the employment marketplace for creative talent. It’s a classic horizontal tie-up, the kind antitrust investigators often oppose, but less concerning than a vertical deal because of the conditions of the US media marketplace.
Comcast is a cable/internet company, which would make its acquisition of Fox a vertical merger and raise the same concerns as the AT&T-Time Warner deal. Such concerns derive from particular features of media, like the way their content isn’t perfectly substitutable and plays important democratic and cultural functions.
Since 90 percent of professionally produced U.S. television is created by just nine companies, the net result is a dysfunctional marketplace that makes vertical mergers concerning.
A new media landscape
The U.S. television industry has been in the midst of constant, precipitous change for the last 20 years in response to the arrival of the internet as a new technology for delivering video.
During that time, new competitors have arisen – such as Netflix – while others that dominated cable and broadcast distribution have developed internet-distributed services – think HBO Now and CBS All Access. Yet, these new ‘competitors’ rely on the same content creators that make shows for cable and broadcast, so the current ecosystem is multifaceted with many entities that are as complementary as competitive.
For consumers, it will be difficult to distinguish the implications of the erosion of the separations principle from the abandonment of net neutrality policy, a change that became official the same week as the ruling in the AT&T-Time Warner case in June.
The elimination of net neutrality allows internet service providers to require companies that distribute content over the internet to pay for prioritization – what has been described as a “fast lane” – to be readily available to customers. Imposing those fees on companies such as Netflix and Hulu will most likely lead them to hike fees to subscribers.
Consumers are likely to see these implications sooner – within the year – than they are to notice changes to the competitive landscape of U.S. media because of the AT&T-Time Warner merger. But the end of net neutrality magnifies the impact of this deal.
That is, AT&T will be able to treat its own content favorably – for example, HBO won’t have to pay to receive fast-lane access on AT&T’s internet service – but AT&T will likely require competing services such as Netflix to pay up. AT&T might also make HBO very expensive for those who do not receive its internet service in order to encourage subscribers to switch providers.
Netflix, one of the newer competitors on the TV landscape, airs ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ the company’s most viewed original show.
Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
Like the series of mergers in the early-to-mid 1990s that completely reconfigured media into the conglomerated structure Americans now face, the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner similarly signals the dawn of a new competitive field.
The implications of those mergers weren’t immediately evident in the 1990s either. It took five to 10 years for strategies and industrial practices to shift, and when they did, it was rarely obvious that the root cause was the new ownership structure. This will likely be the case now too.
The abandonment of the separations principle means distribution companies like AT&T can use access to exclusive content as a strategy to drive consumers to purchase their service. That may be a reasonable strategy if most consumers had more than one or two options for internet service, but the reality is Americans do not.
As a result, consumers with specific tastes – those who want NFL football, HBO and AMC dramas like The Walking Dead – may find themselves paying much more if their internet/cable provider doesn’t own all the content they desire.
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60 Minutes: ‘I can’t really comprehend the dad that I know and love could kill my mother’
By Allison Langdon • Weekend TODAY Host
6:08am Sep 10, 2018
It’s hard to put into words the impact my mother has had on my life.
She has shared my greatest and saddest moments, always there with a guiding word or gesture of reassurance.
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Shanelle should have had everything I had but that was cruelly taken away from her. (60 Minutes)
A shoulder to cry on, or a harsh word when one is needed – even if it wasn’t welcome!
I know many times over the years I have perhaps taken her presence for granted, and it’s something I find myself reflecting on after meeting Shanelle Dawson.
A gentle, beautiful mother herself to a vivacious, energetic four-year-old, she grew up without the love and support of a mum herself.
It is something that has shaped the person she is today, and I believe it drives her to be the amazing parent she is to Kialah.
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Shanelle should have had everything I had but that was cruelly taken away from her.
As a four-year-old herself living in Bayview, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with her father Chris Dawson, mother Lyn and two-year-old sister Sherryn, life was – for a time – wonderful for Shanelle.
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Her mother, who had been told she couldn’t have children, saw her two girls as her miracle babies.
Lyn was a nurse and childcare worker and according to those who knew and loved her, Lyn lived for her babies, they were her absolute world.
Until January 8, 1982, when Lyn Dawson simply vanished – never to be heard from again.
Shanelle’s father Chris claimed his wife had run off to join a religious cult.
Two days after her disappearance however he moved his 16-year-old school girl lover into the marital bed.
Lyn was a nurse and childcare worker and according to those who knew and loved her, Lyn lived for her babies, they were her absolute world. (60 Minutes)
His daughters were told that this troubled teenager Joanne Curtis who wore their mother’s clothes and jewellery was now their real mother.
“It’s been hard not having a mum,” explains Shanelle, in her softly spoken voice.
“There’s parts of you that feel rejected and unlovable.
“If your mother can leave you, then you must be pretty awful.”
Shanelle’s father Chris claimed his wife had run off to join a religious cult. (60 Minutes)
Sadly, Shanelle is not the first child to lose a mother, but typically when something tragic does happen there are photos of the loved one and stories that are endlessly recounted, so the children at least have a sense of who their mother was, and are in no doubt that she loved them.
In Shanelle and Sherryn’s case, it’s like she ceased to exist.
Growing up with their father and stepmother, Lyn Dawson was never mentioned.
As Shanelle explained to me it was almost like she was a taboo subject.
Two days after her disappearance however he moved his 16-year-old school girl lover into the marital bed. (60 Minutes)
It is monstrous to do that to two innocent little girls who have spent their lifetime believing they meant so little to their mother that she just upped and left without a word.
For Shanelle she is now starting to realise that the story she was fed as a child simply does not add up.
She, like more than 17 million people worldwide, has listened to the podcast ‘The Teacher’s Pet’ by journalist Hedley Thomas.
Afterwards Shanelle came to the realisation that her mother did love her, would never have left and now believes, as stated by two coroners, that Lyn Dawson is in fact dead.
There is only one person with a motive to kill Shanelle’s mother – and that is her father Chris Dawson.
A gentle, beautiful mother herself to a vivacious, energetic four-year-old, Shanelle grew up without the love and support of a mum herself. (60 Minutes)
It’s such a twisted blow for Shanelle and one she struggles to accept.
Growing up, her father was a very real and loving presence in her life.
He is the one who tried to protect her and her sister from the cruelness of their stepmother – although he’s also the one who exposed them to her in the first place.
Yet because their mother was never spoken of she’s just an idea.
Shanelle’s younger sister Sherryn is adamant that their father is innocent and it’s all a witch hunt, but I believe Shanelle is a little more conflicted.
Thirty-six years on from Lyn Dawson’s disappearance, the circumstantial case against Shanelle’s father Chris is strong, and the Director of Public Prosecution is now considering a new brief of evidence. (60 Minutes)
“I can’t really comprehend the dad that I know and love could be that selfish, it really … it’s like I’m desperate for any other explanation,” she said.
Shanelle is also desperate for there to be justice for her mother.
Thirty-six years on from Lyn Dawson’s disappearance, the circumstantial case against Shanelle’s father Chris is strong, and the Director of Public Prosecution is now considering a new brief of evidence.
Justice just might involve losing both of her parents.
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12:39pm Feb 7, 2019
Unsuccessful Labor candidate Sarah De Santis says she should have won the ultra-marginal Victorian seat of Ripon because she received an "absolute majority" of votes.
Ms De Santis' lawyer Olaf Ciolek appeared for a directions hearing in the Court of Disputed Returns on Thursday, claiming the result would have been different if the "right steps" had been taken during vote counting.
The electorate was handed to incumbent Liberal member Louise Staley by just 15 votes on a two party-preferred basis after the November 24 Victorian election.
The outcome came on December 8 after a recount of first preferences and informal ballots.
Ms De Santis first indicated she would mount a court challenge in December and has since lodged her petition and affidavit.
"My client's case will be that evidence will show ... the Electoral Commission didn't declare my client to be elected despite receiving an absolute majority of votes," Mr Ciolek said.
He said the recount of preferences was done in error.
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Lawyers for Ms Staley and the commission were also present in court on Thursday.
Ms Staley's lawyer Daryl Williams QC argued Ms De Santis needed to show which ballot papers hadn't been dealt with correctly, and that she needed to show the results might have been different.
The court could order a recount after a hearing into the matter, which is likely to be held in April.
Justice Melinda Richards said she would need to decide if there would be anything gained from a recount.
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Wind River Introduces Yocto Project Compatible Carrier Grade Linux
Mar 27th 2013 9:20AM
Wind River Linux Carrier Grade Profile is the first CGL registered product that is Yocto Project Compatible.
The new profile offers customers a turnkey CGL registered platform.
Compatibility with the Yocto Project allows improved cross-platform compatibility and component interoperability.
ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced the Wind River Linux Carrier Grade (CG) Profile for the latest version of Wind River Linux. Formally registered for the CGL 5.0 specification with the Linux Foundation, the profile is the first delivery of Carrier Grade Linux functionalities on top of a Yocto Project Compatible product.
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=== Proposed Names ===
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=== Proposed Names that do not meet the criteria ===
1 U Release Naming
1.1 Release Name Criteria
1.2 Exact Geographic Region
1.3 Proposed Names
1.4 Proposed Names that do not meet the criteria
U Release Naming
According to the Release Naming Process, this page will contain a list of nominated names for the U release of OpenStack. We will accept nominations until July 1st [?] 2019. The upcoming OpenInfra Summit will be held in Shanghai, China.
Release Name Criteria
Each release name must start with the letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet following the initial letter of the previous release, starting with the initial release of "Austin". After "Z", the next name should start with "A" again.
The name must be composed only of the 26 characters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Names which can be transliterated into this character set are also acceptable.
The name must refer to the physical or human geography of the region encompassing the location of the OpenStack design summit for the corresponding release. The exact boundaries of the geographic region under consideration must be declared before the opening of nominations, as part of the initiation of the selection process.
The name must be a single word with a maximum of 10 characters. Words that describe the feature should not be included, so "Foo City" or "Foo Peak" would both be eligible as "Foo".
Names which do not meet these criteria but otherwise sound really cool should be added to a separate section of the wiki page and the TC may make an exception for one or more of them to be considered in the Condorcet poll. The naming official is responsible for presenting the list of exceptional names for consideration to the TC before the poll opens.
Exact Geographic Region
The Geographic Region from where names for the U release will come is Shanghai
Proposed Names
Proposed Names that do not meet the criteria
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“I don’t Know The Girl, I Have No idea Of What She’s Saying” – Reeakdo Banks Cries Out
Just yesterday we brought you news about a mystery lady who released a video on the internet in which she called out Reekado Banksfor swindling her of huge amounts of money at a time they used to be lovers before Reekado became a music star.
https://www.instagram.com/instablog9ja/p/BurQy1kHDKj/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=lcfz9pgc4pcr
Since the video, fans of Reekado have been hoping that he clears the air on the matter as it could be damaging to the glittering career he’s had so far in music.
Reekado must then have made a lot of sense from what he’s fans want as he took to his Instagram page to play down the claims of the lady in the video, saying he does not know her and has never met her before. He however urged her to stop spreading the false news else he would call for a legal action against her.
“Yoooooo, that gist for Instablog no real ooo… I don’t know the girl oo, I have no idea what she’s saying either.. I thought it was a joke or a prank, if it isn’t or even if it is, whoever is behind it better quit already before we take legal actions,” he wrote.
Reeakdo Banks Cries Out
INEC declares PDP’s Udom Emmanuel winner in Akwa Ibom
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Apple Releases Update To Prevent FaceTime Eavesdropping
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple has released an iPhone update to fix a software flaw that allowed people to eavesdrop on others while using FaceTime.
The bug enabled interlopers to turn an iPhone into a live microphone while using Group FaceTime. Callers were able to activate another person's microphone remotely even before the person has accepted or rejected the call.
Apple turned off the group-chat feature last week, after a 14-year-old boy in Tucson, Arizona, discovered the flaw. The teenager, Grant Thompson, and his mother said they unsuccessfully tried to contact the company about the problem for more than a week. Apple has been criticized for the delay in responding and has promised to improve procedures.
The FaceTime repair is included in the latest version of Apple's iOS 12 system, which became available to install Thursday.
Although the FaceTime bug has now been addressed, its emergence is particularly embarrassing for Apple. The bug exposed Apple customers to potential surveillance at a time that CEO Tim Cook has been repeatedly declaring that personal privacy is a "fundamental human right."
Cook also has publicly skewered Facebook and Google, two companies that collect personal information to sell advertising, for not doing enough to protect people's privacy.
Apple credited Thompson for discovering the FaceTime bug as part of its software update, nearly a week after thanking him for reporting the bug in the first place.
As often occurs when people flag software flaws, Thompson will be rewarded for his sleuthing. Apple plans to contribute to Thompson's college fund in addition to paying a bounty to him and his family for reporting the bug. The company, which has
$245 billion in cash, isn't disclosing the amounts.
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Western Lakes cycling club Championships and awards night report
Without a doubt 2013 was a season to remember for the Western Lakes Cycling Club with a host of activates organized from January to October for both its leisure and racing members.
Last Saturday, with the finish to the season in sight, the club held its Club Championship and annual end of year awards night. The night out is a chance for all the riders to relax and reminisce about races won and lost, miles covered and more importantly laugh at other cyclists misfortune during the year (all in good humour I assure you) but prior to the festiveness the club road race championship were held with this race being more of a leisure spin with a short handicap race at the end to liven things up.
With it been held late in the year it’s always hard to predict who is in form and has the fitness to win with the 2013 race proving no different.
On the leisure spin ¾ the way around Lough Mask, Kieran Heneghan wanted to prove he was on the mend after a heavy fall at the Tourmakeady race and whistled his way over Maam Trasna in first place, he showed his hand early and was then a marked man for the race itself.
The race started proper in Clonbur with 5mins separating the 3 groups made up of ladies, leisure and racers, the 11 km of flat road into Ballinrobe would find out who would be the club champion for 2013.
The 2nd group made up of mostly leisure riders made great headway hunting down the ladies after 6k, at the back the scratch group found the going tough with only Michael Gilvarry and David Mac Dermott trying to close the gaps on the two front groups
Up front a huge attack by Gerry Sheridan on Ferrick’s hill managed to split up the group with only Mary Mulchrone able to respond, a pursuit by Ger Coyne and John Hughes was able to close the gap down to under 100m but Sheridan was in no mood to be caught and had the strongest kick for the line and beat Mulchrone for the win, behind Ger Coyne made the most of John Hughes slip stream to win the battle for third with Monica Nee making it a great day for the ladies in 5th place.
Later that evening a BBQ was held at Inch’s bar, one of the clubs main sponsors, the club chairman David Mac Dermott gave out his awards for the year and highlighted some of the great achievements the club had in 2013.
In the individual awards Sean O Malley won club racer of the year, Sean was one of the few riders in the country to go from Category A4 to A1 inside the season, a marvellous and extremely difficult achievement, as part of his thank you speech his friend “the Worm” translated Sean’s words which were as follows” Thanks to all my team mates for helping me throughout the year” Sean was understandable very emotional on excepting the award.
John Hughes won Leisure rider of the year for his endeavours in promoting leisure cycling activity in the area. John was involved in the running of three sportifs this year alone.
Padraig Marrey was awarded club person of the year for his work in the club. Between running events and training cyclists there is not a member that has not benefited from his effort.
Finishing the speeches David Mac Dermott thanked all the committee members and sponsors for without there help there would be no club. With the 2013 season officially over members were told to enjoy the night as training for 2014 would soon begin in earnest.
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Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers Information Thornburg, Iowa
Looking for Drug Rehab and treatment centers in Thornburg, Iowa?
There are numerous drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers possibilities to people living in the Thornburg region. You will need to understand each one of the varieties of rehabilitation possibilities that exist in Thornburg, AB., so that you can choose the appropriate treatment option for yourself or someone you care about. Selecting the proper drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in Thornburg is a vital element in the treatment of drug abuse, addiction and alcoholism. The following data will help you understand your numerous treatment possibilities allowing you to have the best probability of an effective outcome.
Let's take a look at the many drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Thornburg, Iowa choices that coincide with the circumstances of the individual seeking rehab.
Inpatient alcohol and drug treatment in Thornburg, AB. is often a rehab option best for people who need medical treatment during rehab or clients with considerable drug use histories. Women and men will experience both mental and physical dependence to drugs and alcohol even after a brief amount of time, so inpatient alcohol and drug rehabilitation in Thornburg is regarded as the most effective rehab choice in the majority of situations. On account of substance abuse and addiction, women and men will usually not be able to make a full recovery with the limited solutions provided by outpatient rehab centers in Thornburg, Iowa where alcohol and drugs remain easily accessible when they depart the outpatient facility. Likewise, men and women in rehabilitation who take part in outpatient treatment instead of inpatient alcohol and drug treatment in Thornburg are still susceptible to detrimental relationships and situations which can cut across their process of recovery. If someone resides with an abusive partner or maintains associations which involve drug use, any rehab activities in outpatient rehabilitation are done in vain. That is why in-patient drug and alcohol treatment in Thornburg, AB. will generate more beneficial outcomes that will prove lasting unlike an outpatient drug rehabilitation center where advantages could be very minimal and short-lived.
In Thornburg there's both short-term and long-term inpatient drug rehab. Short-term is a 30-day facility, while long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehab in Thornburg, Iowa is a lot more prolonged and rehabilitation can last 3 to 6 months generally speaking. It is really an excellent setting for clients since it is a completely drug-free environment where they can heal both mentally and physically without interruptions. Preferably, people proceed in a long-term in-patient alcohol and drug treatment center in Thornburg for the maximum period of time permitted, to enable them to handle anything that might jeopardize their abstinence once they depart rehabilitation. Due to the fact detoxing and becoming physically stabilized can take two to three weeks alone, the 3-6 months in long-term in-patient drug rehabilitation in Thornburg will be time well spent and significantly more efficient than short-term programs.
The most important component of all if you or a loved one is struggling with a substance abuse or addiction concern is to do something about it, call someone and seek advice from skilled addiction professionals and get an evaluation and treatment options to ensure the greatest opportunity for a full recovery.
There are no local drug rehab listings for Thornburg, Iowa so we have provided the 6 closest treatment facilities arranged by distance from Thornburg:
Mahaska Behavioral Health
(Oskaloosa is 18.7 from Thornburg)
1229 C Avenue East
Oskaloosa, IA. 52577
Contact Mahaska Behavioral Health, by calling 641-672-3159.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Drug And Alcohol Detox Programs, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Treatment For DUI and DWI Offenders, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Mahaska Health Partnership
Contact Mahaska Health Partnership, by calling 641-672-3159.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehabs For Women, Drug Treatment Centers For Men, Drug Treatment For DUI and DWI Offenders, Drug Rehab Programs For Criminal Justice Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Crossroads of Pella
Contact Crossroads of Pella, by calling 641-676-4060.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Rehab Centers For Teens and Adolescents, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehabs For Senior Citizens, Drug Rehabs For Women, Drug Treatment Centers For Men, Drug Rehab Programs For Criminal Justice Clients
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, Drug Treatment Programs That Accept Medicare, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Rehabs With Sliding Scale Fees
(Grinnell is 28.6 from Thornburg)
210 Fourth Avenue
Grinnell, IA. 50112
Contact Grinnell Regional Medical Center, by calling 641-236-2347.
Southern Iowa Mental Health Center
(Ottumwa is 30.5 from Thornburg)
Ottumwa, IA. 52501
Contact Southern Iowa Mental Health Center, by calling 641-682-8772.
Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehabs For Senior Citizens, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients, Drug Rehab Centers For Spanish Speaking Clients
Community Health Center of Southern IA
(Albia is 38.5 from Thornburg)
12 Washington Avenue West
Albia, IA. 52531
Contact Community Health Center of Southern IA, by calling 641-932-2065.
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, Drug Treatment Programs That Accept Medicare, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers That Accept Military Insurance, Drug Rehabs With Sliding Scale Fees
In 2009, adults aged 26 or older were less likely to be current drug users than youths aged 12 to 17 or young adults aged 18 to 25 (6.3 vs. 10.0 and 21.2 percent, respectively). However, there were more drug users aged 26 or older (12.2 million) than users aged 12 to 17 (2.5 million) and users aged 18 to 25 (7.1 million) combined.
In 2008, rates of substance dependence or abuse for persons aged 12 or older showed evidence of differences by region, with the West (9.6 percent) having a higher rate than the South (8.2 percent), but a similar rate to the Midwest (9.4 percent) and the Northeast (8.9 percent). Rates for substance dependence or abuse among persons aged 12 or older in 2008 also varied by county type, with large metropolitan counties (9.3 percent) having a significantly higher rate than nonmetropolitan counties (8.0 percent), but a similar rate when compared with small metropolitan counties (8.6 percent).
The rate of current alcohol use among youths aged 12 to 17 was 14.7 percent in 2009, which is similar to the 2008 rate (14.6 percent). Youth binge and heavy drinking rates in 2009 (8.8 and 2.1 percent) were also similar to rates in 2008 (8.8 and 2.0 percent).
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Pre-Budget Meeting with Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, Revenue Secretary, Ministry of Finance
AmCham and the European Business Group (EBG) were invited by the Ministry of Finance on 10th December 2015 to make a presentation on the Pre-Budget Memorandum which had been submitted earlier.
The AmCham team was led by Mr. Indraneel Roy Choudhury, Partner, PwC; and Chairman, AmCham’s Tax, Tariff and Regulatory Affairs Committee, who made the presentation on direct taxes on behalf of both AmCham and EBG. EBG made a presentation on indirect taxes.
Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, Revenue Secretary, was accompanied by:
Mr. Najib Shah, Chairman, CBEC
Ms. Rani Singh Nair, Member (L&C), CBDT
Mr. Alok Shukla, Joint Secretary (TRU-I), CBEC
Mr. Amitabh Kumar, Joint Secretary (TRU-II), CBEC
Ms. Pragya Saksena, Joint Secretary (TPL-I), CBDT
AmCham members said that the environment for business was positive and they would like to invest in India to strengthen its economy.
The Revenue Secretary assured that they were working towards streamlining and simplifying the tax system. With the introduction of GST, many of the issues raised by members relating to excise etc. would be resolved.
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Backlog Busting Project: Kingdom Hearts 2, Super Mario Lost Levels, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Leave a Comment / Backlog Busting Project, Podcasts / By Wes Harrington
On this episode of the Backlog Busting Project, we are once again joined by W2Mnet.com Editor-in-Chief Sean Garmer to talk Kingdom Hearts 2. Aaaaand… that’s about it because KHII dominated the entire conversation, but there’s still a little talk about Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels and Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.
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Co-Played Game: Kingdom Hearts II (PS2 via PS3 remaster)
Randy’s Game: Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (SNES)
Wes’s Game: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC)
PODCAST: Super Mario Lost Levels, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Kingdom Hearts 2
About Backlog Busting Project
This podcast, run by Wes Harrington and Randy Isbelle chronicles their ongoing battle against the forces of Bak’laag — or to put it in laymen’s terms, their video game backlogs.
So what exactly is the Backlog Busting Project? Biweekly, Wes and Randy get together to talk about some of the latest things in the gaming community, then dive right into talking about their experiences with three different games:
1. A game that Wes is playing but Randy is not
2. A game that Randy is playing but Wes is not
3. A game that both are playing.
It is a new adventure in each episode, so be sure to check out the description to see if they cover your favorite game.
Randy Isbelle
Randy Isbelle is a fan of platformers and sports games mostly but enjoys games from almost every genre. He’s also a lifelong New York Jets fan as well. Randy has a history of writing reviews for various websites and has a collection of over 2,000 video games. The dude knows his stuff. When he’s not writing or playing games, he’s spending time with his girlfriend and two children.
Wes Harrington
Wes Harrington is a lifelong geek with a penchant for RPGs and a burning hatred for Hotline Miami. He’s also a lifelong Seattle sports fan, and has been since before the Seahawks were anything more than mediocre. Wes does Video Game Reviews and hosts the Backlog Busting Project.
About The Author: Wes Harrington
Wes Harrington is a lifelong geek with a penchant for RPGs and a burning hatred for Hotline Miami. He's also a lifelong Seattle sports fan, and has been since before the Seahawks were anything more than mediocre.
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How My Name Change Changed My Life
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I never felt connected to the rural town that I grew up in. Everything that I was there connected back to one singular point: I was male. Yet even at the age of eight, I knew that I was female, and every night for years I would gaze at the ceiling from my bed with a faint smile on my face, imagining the next day when I would reawaken as a cisgirl.
My feet only touched the ground during my years of denial where I would toss aside my transness as kid stuff. Even then, I was still not part of my reality. I was lying to myself, trying to stave off the inevitable. Because of this, I could not connect to people in high school.
Growing up alone, I found solace in my art. I would make YouTube videos where I would play all the parts, and write short story after short story. Looking back now, I can plainly see that most of those stories were wish fulfillment fantasies. Like the boy who wanted nothing more than to leave his small hometown and change the world. Or the teenage girl who had been through so much pain that she picked up a cape and cowl and called herself a superhero.
That teenage girl’s name was Katrina Gawain, and I have been writing her since I was thirteen. She’s a vigilante with unparalleled will and courage. While she may not possess any super powers, she carries a heavy heart that grants unconditional love to everyone whose path she crosses, and wields an unfaltering belief that people are good.
As I grew older with her, we changed together. A few short years after I realized she was gay, I came out as trans. While she was protecting the innocent only to punch out early so she could finish her chemistry homework, I led my own double life, scheduling time where it would be safe for me to present as female and evade the detection of anyone I knew.
Many writers identify their characters as their own offspring, but for me, Katrina Gawain was the sister I never had. She was the force that would inspire me in my darkest moments and remind me that I mattered, that I could feel love. Adopting her name was something of a no-brainer to me, but I was scared of what people would think if they knew I wanted to name myself after my own character.
When I did eventually tell one of my closest friends about Katrina, he felt embarrassed for me. His voice lowered into a mutter and his eyes flicked about, desperately searching for anything else to look at.
When he held me, his grip was hollow, his voice drifting away into the white noise of transition. My coming out journey was far from over; old fears quickly resurfaced and took hold of me.
To many people’s surprise, my official coming out on November 24th, 2015 was not paired with a new name; I continued to identify with the one that was given to me at birth. Many conversations I had following my new beginning would somehow launch into a pitch on how I should feminize my dead name. Even people I didn’t know at all would get upset about this topic; one time when I went wig shopping, one of the stylists refused to call me by my desired name and instead came up with different ‘female’ names to call me.
I wanted to interpret these actions as love. I wanted these suggested female names to be a sign that people wanted the best for me. But that was never the case; the only people who pushed me to a choose a new name were cis. My rejection of the gender binary, my choice to go by my male name, rocked their world. They needed me to match their definition of female so that their discomfort could be put at ease.
Yet when I voiced my own feelings on what my name should be, I was treated as an embarrassment.
I felt shame like no other, so it was on April 21, 2016 that I marched into the office of my new job as Receptionist, that I introduced myself by the feminized version of my given name.
The second it rolled off my supervisor’s tongue, I knew I had made a mistake. I felt no connection to anything she asked of me. Even at her kindest, the second that evil name was dropped, I would immediately disassociate.
One week into the job, I tried to take back the name I gave, telling people to just call me by my former male name. People would nod and reassure me they would, but then the next day would turn around and continue to call me by that female name I never identified with.
Out of the hundreds of people I worked with, only a handful would call me by what I asked them to, and unfortunately, those people, whether it was intentional or not, would treat me like they would any other guy in the office. Their voices would become firm and rugged, guts jutting outward, fingers unironically looping through their belt loops, their over-the-top masculinity daring to impress.
It was either that I be treated like a man because of the name I was attempting to settle on, or that I be treated as the woman I never was because of an identity pushed onto me.
When I left that job a year later, I realized that I had completely compromised my own feelings and let other people guide my transition for me.
So on March 28, 2017, I silenced the demanding cis-voices whirring around me. I held my hand out to a petrified transgirl from years ago, a girl in hiding that was born to a rural town that would eventually vote for Donald Trump. I listened to what she wanted and remembered why I began this journey into femininity.
I looked into the mirror, into my own eyes, and said my name.
Katrina Jagelski.
Just thinking about that moment gives me goosebumps.
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The first time I introduced myself as Katrina was while volunteering at an event run by the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Surrounded by trans, non-binary, and queer people, all of us united to run a food festival, I felt unconditional love and a friendship that I hadn’t realized I had been longing for.
On October 13th, 2017, a smiling judge nodded to me as I stood tall before a courtroom bustling with activity, and stamped the paperwork that legally recognized me not only as a woman, but as Katrina Jagelski.
Before I was Katrina, my voice was a slurred mumble, my feelings sealed within. The toxic masculinity that I was socialized into lingered, despite the hours of work I put into passing every day. I never felt like one of the girls because my desperation and insecurity had propelled me away from the femininity that my eight-year-old self dreamed of every night.
Like that old outdated ID card from Massachusetts, the past has been left behind.
I have stopped caring about the expectations put upon me. I don’t worry about passing; I present the way that I want to see myself every day. I don’t say sorry out of habit, and I look people in the eye now. I am in touch with my feelings; creating art and telling my stories doesn’t scare me anymore.
Those people that urged me to be named something that would make my skin crawl? They were stuck in the past; they wanted me to be that scrappy guy who could be their emotional pincushion, the man who could play the fool so they could be bigger. They didn’t want him to go away; but people change. We evolve and grow.
My name is Katrina Jagelski. I am an artist and I have stopped making wishes every year that I could be happier; I shut up, got my hands dirty, and manufactured my own future. I let go of the toxic people who held me back, and I found love in the people that truly cared about me. I am the woman I dreamed of becoming, and I have so many more adventures ahead of me.
It’s scary to commit to the fantasies that float through our minds, but we are worth so much more than what the world gives us sometimes.
Remember, it’s the things that terrify us the most that we absolutely must do.
Katrina Jagelski is a trans writer, filmmaker, and activist. Lately, she's been getting a lot of mileage writing about her high school bully so shhh, don’t tell him. You can find more from her at her short story and poetry blog.
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Wake Up, Vasundhara Raje. Your Passive Politics Only Encourages Lynch Mobs
By Dushyant Shekhawat Jul. 24, 2018
Rakhbar Khan’s killing in Alwar by gau rakshaks proves that something is deeply wrong in the state of Rajasthan. And CM Vasundhara Raje, whose mealy-mouthed responses have emboldened the vigilantes, the love jihadists, and no-longer-fringe elements, is partly responsible for this.
he current campaign for Rajasthan tourism has the catchy tagline “Jaane Kya Dikh Jaye”. Of course, it’s meant to evoke typical Rajasthani tropes: grand Rajput palaces, the windswept dunes of the Thar, colourful locals, and rare wildlife that makes the state such a hit with domestic and international visitors. But if you used newspapers as a guide, instead of government-approved travel brochures, the visuals take a dark turn. Now, instead of grandeur and kesariya balams, Rajasthan seems like a frightening land of lynch mobs and apathetic governance. Rakhbar Khan’s killing in Alwar by rabid cow vigilantes and neglectful police officials proves that something is deeply wrong in the state of Rajasthan.
Padharo maro des? Thanks, but no thanks. Because jaane kya dikh jaye.
Perhaps you’ll see a mob of gau rakshaks thrashing a dairy farmer from a minority community. Or maybe government municipal workers beating a social worker to death. Who knows, you might even receive a WhatsApp forward with footage of a crusader against “love jihad” hacking an innocent man with an axe. Or an entire state erupting in violence and being held to ransom by a fringe outfit, over a film about a fictional queen.
Whatever the case, you know what you won’t see? A strong reaction from Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje, whose state goes to polls later this year. And under whose watch Rajasthan has become a hotbed for violence fuelled by Hindutva extremists.
It was in April 2017 that Pehlu Khan was lynched in Alwar, the same city where Rakhbar Khan suffered an identical fate this past week. The only difference is that Raje has issued a statement about Rakhbar’s killing with promptness; it took nearly three weeks for her to speak up about Pehlu Khan’s lynching. In both cases, the state machinery failed the victims.
As details of Rakhbar’s final moments emerged through reports, it was made clear that the police had several more urgent matters to attend to than transporting the severely injured man to the hospital: For starters, breaking for a leisurely cup of tea along a four-kilometre route. Arrangements were made for the two cows in Rakhbar’s possession to be relocated and he was washed and given a change of clothes. It took approximately two-and-a-half hours for the police to get Rakhbar to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
In April 2017, Pehlu Khan was dragged out of his vehicle, beaten with sticks and belts, and died in hospital a couple of days after the assault. Six arrests were made on the basis of his dying declaration. Nearly a month after the incident, after the arrests were made, CM Raje broke her silence. “Such incidents will not be tolerated in Rajasthan… None of the culprits will be allowed to get away,” she had then said. This stern attitude was missing a few months later, when the six accused received a clean chit in September.
Given the eerie similarities between Pehlu and Rakhbar, I wonder if the latter’s killers will be brought to justice.
When it comes to cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, the CM seems to have an established modus operandi: ignore, condemn, forget, repeat. A strong stand from the CM will go a long way – because it is her silence that emboldens the killers, the love jihadists, the no-longer-fringe elements, the vigilantes. When Raje – and the higher-ups in her party – remain silent, they communicate in dog whistles, sending out a message to certain parts of their constituency. Their silence is a tacit approval to lynch, burn, violate, and maim.
Cow vigilantism doesn’t count for all instances of violence coming out of Rajasthan, and sometimes, what the CM says is often as bad as staying silent. When 55-year-old social worker Zafar Hussain Khan was beaten to death by municipal workers in Pratapgarh in June 2017, she drew flak for referring to the Zafar’s murder as his “demise” on Twitter. Many users found her choice of words reductive, claiming they downplayed the violent, lawless nature of the incident.
And it’s not the only time Raje has gone soft on anti-social elements. Last December, when the communal outfit Rajput Karni Sena was holding the state’s theatre owners to ransom over the release of Padmaavat, she gave an interview to Times of India where she asked, “Why insist on a film if it is hurting the sentiments of a particular caste? Is it worth the trouble?”
I don’t know, CM Raje, is ₹215 crore, the work of hundreds of people, and the freedom of speech and expression enshrined in the Indian Constitution worth the trouble?
In the same interview, when asked if her state is getting a bad name after the brutal Rajsamand murder – where a man hacked a Muslim labourer to death over the bogey of “love jihad” and filmed the act – Raje responds by saying, “It is definitely not good for the state, but yet, Rajasthan is in a better shape than others.”
Given the nature of the crime at hand, the optimism seems a little misplaced. Once you realise that Shambulal Regar, the Rajsamand murderer, was arrested in December 2017, but had a tableaux in his honour erected in Jodhpur on Ram Navami in March 2018, it becomes apparent that what we thought was optimism, is just denial. If society is willing to celebrate such a murderer, then something is deeply wrong with society itself. The periodic incidents of horrific violence emanating from Rajasthan deserve a strong administrative reaction from the highest levels of government, not boilerplate condemnations and vague op-eds written by the CM.
When Pehlu Khan’s alleged killers were set free in September 2017, his son Irshad had termed it a “betrayal”. Given the eerie similarities between Pehlu and Rakhbar, I wonder if the latter’s killers will be brought to justice.
Speak up, CM Raje. The whole country waits to hear what you have to say.
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The Electronic Voting Machine is back in the spotlight after claims of EVMs malfunctioning on the first day of the Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh. But it's about time that the EVM deserves recognition as Indian politics’ MVP.
Politics Can We Afford a War with Pakistan?
Two weeks after the Pulwama attack, India carried out an air strike on terror camps across the LoC. If Imran Khan is to be believed Pakistan will strike back. But can we afford a war with our neighbours?
Politics What Does CBI Chief Alok Verma’s Reinstatement Mean for the Government?
Since October, the CBI has been embroiled in an intra-agency squabble between its two top officers, Alok Verma and Rakesh Asthana, over the Bureau's independence. The SC verdict reinstating Verma is a huge setback to the government, which had sent him on forced leave.
Politics State Assembly Elections: Long Before the BJP, the Congress Had Perfected the Art of Communal Politics
It is easy to consider the BJP a communal force, but public memory is short. It would serve us well to remember that a series of communal riots – in Hasanpura, in Muzaffarnagar, and in Delhi in 1984 – took place even under the Congress regime. In fact, Rajiv Gandhi had a key role in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
Politics Now That the State Assembly Elections are Over, What’s the Grand Alliance’s Grand Plan for 2019?
As the euphoria of the Modi wave was tempered by the results of the state assembly elections, the BJP has lost its invincible aura. We’ve had signs of an Opposition-led Mahagathbandhan – but can all the parties finally get their act together before the Lok Sabha elections of 2019?
Article 15 Review: A Necessary Movie on Caste Discrimination that Lands Punches on Upper-Class Guilt
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Rajput Karni Sena: From Rabid Movie Critics to Terrorisers of Children
By Dushyant Shekhawat Nov. 20, 2017
After beating up SLB, threatening to cut off Deepika Padukone’s nose and burn down theatres, the Rajput Karni Sena has hit a new low. It has now vandalised a school event in Madhya Pradesh for daring to play the “Ghoomar” song from Padmaavat.
hat does it mean to be a Rajput? For centuries, the term Rajput has comes bundled with much more than membership to a warrior caste: It is coded with the qualities of bravery, chivalry, and nobility. To be a member of the Shri Rajput Karni Sena, however, connotes a different set of attributes. One must be brutish, thuggish, and unhealthily obsessed with Bollywood, especially Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films, whether they’re called Padmaavat or Padmavati.
The state of Rajasthan was formed by amalgamating the 22 princely kingdoms of Rajputana (with histories dating back to medieval times) into the Indian union at the time of Independence. But it was only in 2006 that it became evident to the founders of the Karni Sena that a caste organisation was needed to protect Rajput interests. The jury is still out on how individuals from the famously fierce, independent community feel about having misinformed malcontents claiming to speak up for them.
Of late, the Rajput Karni Sena has being doing more than just speak up for the community they claim to represent. After beating up SLB, threatening to cut off Deepika Padukone’s nose, and holding innumerable protests, the body, which has wings across the country, has hit a new low. The Karni Sena has now vandalised a school event in Madhya Pradesh for daring to play the song “Ghoomar” during a stage show. The Rajput Karni Sena, presumably descendants of noble warriors of ancient clans, chose to wreak havoc upon an enemy force made up of school kids and teachers. After making an example of Chotu, Monu, and Sunita Ma’am, they’ve issued a statement that should Padmaavat be released on January 25, they will hang everyone associated with the film from the gates of Chittorgarh Fort. Joining the party at the fort will be the kshatriya women of the Chittor Sarvasamaj, who have announced they will commit jauhar themselves if the film is released. And here we thought only Sajid Khan movies make you want to set yourself on fire.
For a body that claims to be against “corruption” and “caste-based positive discrimination” by way of reservation, the Karni Sena sure seems to spend a lot of time distracted by Bollywood and TV. Currently, the Sena is locked in battle to protect Rajput sentiments from the corrupting influence of Padmaavat, no doubt fashioning themselves as modern-day Maharana Prataps fighting Mughal forces in their own version of the Haldighati. Don’t blame them, seeing as how they’re probably trained to believe that the Maharana won the battle. However, they also issued the decidedly unheroic and un-Rajput death threats to the Padmaavat actors, and have promised to burn down cinema halls. The last reminds me of Mahmud of Ghazni’s temple-destroying sprees rather than the glorious traditions of Rajput culture.
This is not the first time the Karni Sena has forgotten its stated goals to go after the easiest target: artists. Soon after their founding, they got their first brush with national notoriety in 2008 when they decided to protest Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar. Things don’t change much in the Sena universe, because even nine years ago, they were getting triggered by actresses playing Rajput queens appearing on screen alongside actors playing Muslim kings, than actual on-ground political issues. Between today’s Padmaavat and 2008’s Jodhaa Akbar, the Karni Sena has objected to the Jodhaa Akbar TV serial and the Salman Khan-starrer Veer, all in the name of protecting Rajput culture. Apparently, the greatest threat to this centuries-old institution is showbiz. The only difference between 2006 and now is the seriousness with which we are now being forced to regard the Sena.
Now it’s possible for the Karni Sena and its members to gain political mileage out of these dramatics, so they continue their campaign of intimidation.
Nine years after they emerged on the national stage, the Karni Sena, spearheaded by Lokendra Singh Kalvi, have become India’s most rabid movie critics. Where Gowariker brushed off the intimidation, going ahead with his film’s release and refusing to pander to these hoodlums by offering an apology, Padmaavat’s director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, had to indefinitely postpone his project’s release, before finally being cleared for January 25. Mumbai Police had to arrest 132 Rajput Karni Sena members for protesting outside the CBFC office over this decision, in addition to providing extra security cover for Deepika Padukone because of the bewildering eagerness with which the Rajput Karni Sena called for her head. Of course, they’re helped along by BJP leaders offering bounties worth lakhs of rupees for her pretty dome. This in turn emboldened the Karni Sena to carry out displays of well-intentioned but idiotic “badassery” such as forwarding a misappropriated clip from Inglorious Basterds (the burning cinema climax scene, what else?) and pulling out a sword during a newsroom debate on live TV.
Local BJP leaders have also supported the Karni Sena in their public protests against the film. In a smooth move, they not only got the attention of the Rajput community, but also linked opposing the movie to their political ideology. Now it’s possible for the Karni Sena and its members to gain political mileage out of these dramatics, so they continue their campaign of intimidation.
I’m certain there are Rajputs like me out there who are disheartened to see the glorious legacies of Maharana Pratap, Prithviraj Chauhan, and Rana Sanga be co-opted by an organisation that is obviously trying to get noticed in the current communally charged political climate. They’d do well to remember the Ranas as great patrons of the arts, whose majestic, regal architecture and vibrant, colourful frescoes became oases of brightness in the arid Thar Desert. Maybe then, they’ll stop worrying about which movie is releasing next and start focussing on issues that actually matter.
Social Commentary From #NotAllMen to #SoDoneChilling: A Fairytale in Two Hashtags
The #MeToo campaign’s biggest achievement has been to educate men in the magnitude of abuse and harassment that women face, something that should have been obvious to men all along. Will this tale have a happily-ever-after?
Social Commentary Stop Press! We Need Some Solidarity
The World Press Freedom Day is a reminder that the one thing missing in our journalistic values is solidarity. Now, in the era of fake news and manufactured misinformation, the media needs to rally together. We need to stand up for each other’s right to speak.
Social Commentary Sabarimala Woman Hit by Mother-in-Law: Who Gives Indian Elders the Authority to Beat Family Members?
Kanaka Durga, the 39-year-old woman who made history by entering the Sabarimala temple, is now in hospital after being hit by her mother-in-law. But when does punishment go from an act of disciplining to a gross violation of someone's rights?
Social Commentary Eid in the Time of Adityanath
My hometown Allahabad was a city of education and open political debates. Now it is overrun by saffron-gamcha-wearing bikers, where to live as a Muslim is to live in subterfuge.
Social Commentary Please Catch Me Before I Fall
When you are at the brink, caught between trudging on and ending it all, an understanding look or reassuring hand – or even the memory of a dead uncle – can make all the difference.
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ARREST BASHIR
Why Arrest Bashir?
U.S. Mission to UN
Who is Bashir?
Where is Bashir?
Bashir's Travels
ICC Warrants of Arrest
What is Genocide?
2012 Peace Agreements
Prior Peace Agreements
Resolution 1593 of the UNSC in 2005
UNAMID Scandal
Tabit Rapes
Bashir Says
Image: courtesy of Satellite Sentinel Project
"Nuba Reports obtained cell phone footage of uniformed men attacking and burning the village of Gardud al Badry, a small farming community in northeastern South Kordofan. The video, shot on May 18th, 2012, is damning proof that the campaign of violence from Khartoum wages on against the people of Nuba. Since July 2011, when fighting escalated between the SPLA-N and Khartoum forces, villages near the front lines, like Gardud al Badry, are often the victim," states Nuba Reports.
"The government of Sudan is continuing its campaign of violence against its own civilians through joint operations of army, militia, and police forces that are committing war crimes and recording them on cell phone cameras," confirms the Satellite Sentinel Project.
Based on a newly discovered video obtained by a group of Sudanese journalists with Nuba Reports and analyzed by the Satellite Sentinel Project, the Satellite Sentinel Project published its latest report, Cameras on the Battlefield: Multimedia Confirmation of the Razing of Gardud al Badry, South Kordofan, Sudan, on 16 October 2012.
"The food security and nutrition crisis in South Kordofan, Sudan is rapidly deteriorating," reports the Enough Project. In this report, an international non-governmental organization assesses the situation based on findings from the region from August 5 to August 19, 2012. Along with the publication, the Enough Project has published a short summary of recommendations for policy makers and an infographic on key statistics from the report.
Photo: Pippitolstoy. All Rights Reserved.
When Magid was asked if it was safe for him to speak against Bashir's genocidal campaign, he replied, "I have to speak. What good [is it] if my family is safe and my people die?"
NOTE: The first couple minutes of the video are silent, to pay respect to the Nuban people and the lives that were taken. 6 June 2012 marks the one year anniversary of Bashir's genocidal campaign in the Nuba Mountains. On 6 June 2011 (Day One), the Government of Sudan's Central Reserve Police, Abu Tira, began the house to house killing of civilians by death squad. There was an execution list that Sudan's regime used; they had names and addresses.
Evidence of Apparent Mass Graves has been reported by the Satellite Sentinel Project.
Ahmed Harun
Image: courtesy of Magid Kabash
"It is important to stress role of ICC indictee Ahmed Harun for his current abuses against the Nuba as governor of South Kordofan and for his previous role coordinating the atrocities in the Nuba Mts in the last war, for which he has not been indicted as the ICC remit only goes back to 2002." - Peter Moszynski
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"Is Sudan committing another genocide – against the Nuba people?"
"This chapter of the conflict opened in June 2011 with the disputed election of Ahmed Haroun (an indicted war criminal nicknamed the "Butcher of the Nuba") to govern South Kordofan province. I had seen his handiwork before in Darfur. My warnings in 2004 were first ignored by world governments and then taken up only when, in desperation, I went to the media," says Mukesh Kapila.
Dr. Mukesh Kapila, special representative of the Aegis Trust being interviewed on CNN following Aegis' return from South Kordofan in March 2012.
Ahmed Harun addresses Government troops on 5 June 2011, "Hand over the place clean. Swept. Rubbed. Crushed... Bring no-one back alive." Watch Aegis Trust's video, Nuba 2012: Return to genocide?
Is Omar Hassan al-Bashir Up to Genocide Again?
"If the GoS’ record in Darfur presages its actions in the Nuba Mountains, one can almost bet on it breaching the ceasefire within weeks, if not days. This is no time for activists, human rights organizations, the U.S. or the UN to get complacent. All that does is provide al Bashir with an opportunity to seize more time for more killing," writes Samuel Totten in the New York Times on 18 June 2011.
What Does Not Appear
"Gettleman’s account of the Nuba has much to commend it, and his reporting on greater Sudan has frequently been distinguished by courage and resourcefulness; here he helps create a vivid picture of the Khartoum regime’s particularly vicious campaign of human destruction. Even so, there are serious errors and shortcomings in his present account," writes Eric Reeves on 28 July 2012.
Eric Reeves responds on his website to New York Times East Africa correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman, who recently published in the New York Review of Books an essay that attempts to give an overview of the crises in the Nuba Mountains (South Kordofan) and elsewhere in Sudan and South Sudan (War Against the Nuba, The New York Review of Books, August 16, 2012).
Nuba Now
Nuba Reports
Satellite Sentinel Project
Aegis Trust
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We won't stop until Bashir is arrested.
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Liberia confirms new Ebola case as outbreak spread
MONROVIA, Liberia - A Liberian woman has died of Ebola in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted, becoming the sixth confirmed case of the virus since it resurfaced last month after a seven-week lull, a senior medical official said on Tuesday.
The victim from Montserrado County, which contains Monrovia, is thought to be linked to the other five cases from neighbouring Margibi County, where the disease reemerged.
Her detection raised fears that the infection may be spreading in a new area of the country. "There is one new case. This time, the response area is Montserrado county. The person died in Monrovia," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Ketteh told Reuters.
A health report sent to officials in the anti-Ebola response said that the woman died a few hours after admission, indicating that surveillance of known contacts from the earlier cases had not been rigorous enough.
More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since the epidemic began in December 2013. Liberia was declared Ebola-free on May 9 but reported a new case nearly two months later.
Health officials say the virus probably remained latent in the country during that period and could have been reactivated by a survivor, via sexual transmission.
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"New Orleans Shuffle" From John Fahey's 1973 Album "After the Ball"
Michael Fremer | Jan 19, 2016
In 1973 the late guitarist, music historian, fanatical record collector and audiophile John Fahey recorded for Reprise Records the album "After the Ball" (MS 2145)—an album of original and "period" pieces including this track: New Orleans Shuffle by the pianist Bill Whitmore, originally recorded in 1925 by The Halfway House Orchestra.
Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce produced this version 1972-3, recorded by Doug Decker at famed Western and United Recorders in Los Angeles and the sonics are superb.
This is the Air Force 1 turntable, Swedish Analog Technologies tone arm and Lyra Atlas feeding the Ypsilon 16L transformer/VPS-100 phono preamp decoding an original white label promo copy repeatedly played since 1973. Every copy of this short, but sweet sounding record that I've seen has been a WLP with the sticker on the cover. It's possible Reprise never figured out how to market and sell the record and so never got past the promo stage.
Why this now? Why not?
Why Not Indeed!
Submitted by johnmotex on Tue, 2016-01-19 13:26
Thank you, Michael!
Submitted by amsco15 on Tue, 2016-01-19 14:28
Take a trip to New Orleans and hang out on Frenchman Street. You'll find dozens of bands, made up of young people, playing just this kind of music. It's awsome!
Submitted by cdvinyl on Tue, 2016-01-19 16:14
Loved the music, sound, all of it. If the rest of the album sounds as good as this first track than see if it can't be re-issued??
Table Porn
Submitted by Steelhead on Wed, 2016-01-20 21:54
That turntable looks freaking amazing.
I would love to plug one in here at the shack but it probably costs more than my truck.
Wow, what a deck!!!
Ahead...and behind... the times!
Submitted by Jancuso on Fri, 2016-01-29 14:47
This is a wonderful record. I have my original copy and surprise folks when I play it for them. They have no idea who/what/when it is! Thank you for discussing!
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Complete Haruhi Suzumiya Soundtrack Announced With Teaser for More in 2016
Stark700
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 11:24 am
> "We're planning to do lots of other stuff as the SOS Brigade this year, so make sure to check for updates!"
Oh I am definitely looking forward to that part although I doubt a new season.
DontmesswithKarma
glad Hirano is back working with KyoAni (they obviously had some involvement with this coming into existance). A season 3 would be great but probably won't happen
ChrissyC
I am very sure that it will finally be a 3rd season.
TheMorry
Is a 3rd season possible? How much of the LN did they cover? I sure hope a 3rd season will be made. Though season 2 was a lil drag with the endles eight lol.
Apollo-kun
Location: City 7, Macross 7
God, I remember when Haruhi was the biggest deal way back in 2006. I was super excited about buying the DVDs (got two or three of those snazzy collector's editions) back in middle school, and got super caught up in the hype of the time.
It's hard to believe that it was so long ago. I feel so old!
Also, as much as I want a third season? Not totally sure I want one with KyoAni's current output... although I heard Sound Euphonium was pretty legit.
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ultimatemegax
DontmesswithKarma wrote:
Lantis posted this video (and created it) along with planning this soundtrack release. They were the ones who worked with Hirano. Kyoto Animation, despite the ungodly amount of influence and materials people in the West think they have, had nothing to do with this beyond being contracted to draw the cover art for the set.
angelmcazares
Location: Iscandar
Does this mean Japanese otaku no longer want to murder Aya Hirano?
TheMorry wrote:
Is a 3rd season possible? How much of the LN did they cover? I sure hope a 3rd season will be made.
There is enough source material to do 2 more seasons. I doubt a third season will be made. And even if it is made, KyoAni will probably not be involved, which is a shame.
Is a 3rd season possible? How much of the LN did they cover?
The anime, including the movie, covered about half of what was in the novels, maybe a bit less.
There is definitely enough content for more anime, either TV or movies.
I do not know if there is still enough interest in the franchise in Japan. I hope that there is because I would definitely like to see more. There is a lot in the novels that could make some great anime.
Don Perron
Please don't play with my heart like that, when I see the words "Haruhi" with "more" and "2016" I almost had a heart attack... Why they keep investing in Haruhi even if they do not have the intention to make an S3? That's hurt...
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:02 pm
angelmcazares wrote:
It means that people in Japan are people as well and tend to not want to murder people.
Taking your poor use of humor somewhat seriously, there was never much of any revolt against Hirano in general. She wanted to focus on non-anime pursuits and went towards that while ignorant Western fans decided to blame the otaku since they're an "other" group that wouldn't respond back.
I was going to use the word hate instead of murder, but then I remembered the story about a crazy Japanese fan who wanted to kill Aya Hirano.
Sorry for offending your beloved Japanese people.
Kougeru
People are harsh on KyoAni's recent stuff. Euphonium was amazing tho. But yeah...after Nagato Yuki went to another company, I lost all hope for a KyoAni S3...which would be amazing at least for consistency reasons.
That price isn't bad for how many songs the franchise has
checarlos87
D-don't play with my feelings like this!
Everything from Snowy Mountain Syndrome all the way to the end of The Surprise of Suzumiya Haruhi is one single overarching story. While reading the end to Surprise, I imagined what it would all look like if it had at least the level of care and dedication KyoAni's Disappearance movie had... and I can just imagine one heck of an amazing movie.
On one side, I can appreciate that there is a lot of material from the light novels that hasn't been presented yet and that it could make for a lot of anime content. But at the same time, I can see that precisely as a reason why it might never get made into anime: there's just so much material that, unless there is huge support, it is hard to believe a company will take it all on.
...but I can hope.
Tenchi
Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
I'm happy with this announcement.
I mean, I have the CD singles from Bandai Entertainment's deluxe releases of the 1st season and that 2-track CD with just the opening and closing from the second season, but a compilation CD with all the themes (including the movie's ending theme, which I don't have) would definitely be convenient for those of us physical media diehards who still would rather listen to music on Compact Disc at least.
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Tess Pfeifle
Tarot: A Brief Overview
Tarot cards have a surprisingly mundane and non-esoteric beginning. In fact, it began as a card game similar to bridge. So, how did a mere card game grow from a form of entertainment into one of the most powerful esoteric tools?
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The earliest references to tarot all date back to around the 1440s and have their origin in Italian cities like Venice, Milan, Florence, and Urbino. However, historians do often point out that due to the complicated nature of tarot at the time of its emerging popularity it is likely that it had begun evolving earlier in the century.
In the late 15th century the game continued to develop and even became art pieces and a way to show off family wealth. Collector’s Weekly notes, “Wealthy families in Italy commissioned expensive, artist-made decks known as “carte da trionfi” or “cards of triumph.” The tarot cards were marked with “suits of cups, swords, coins, and polo sticks (eventually changed to staves or wands), and courts consisting of a king and two male underlings. Tarot cards later incorporated queens, trumps (the wild cards unique to tarot), and the Fool to this system, for a complete deck that usually totaled 78 cards. Today, the suit cards are commonly called the Minor Arcana, while trump cards are known as the Major Arcana.”
It is believed that, originally, the imagery was designed to reflect important aspects of the real world that the players lived in, as well as mixing some Christian-with-a-dash-of-occult symbolism in the cards.
Throughout the late 15th century and into the early 16th-century diving became more popular, especially by the more elite classes who often had fortune tellers, magicians, and more to entertain them. As tarot’s divinatory usage became more popular, illustrations evolved to reflect a specific designer’s intention. “The subjects took on more and more esoteric meaning,” says graphic designer Bill Wolf, “but they generally maintained the traditional tarot structure of four suits of pip cards [similar to the numbered cards in a normal playing-card deck], corresponding court cards, and the additional trump cards, with a Fool.”
But when, exactly, did the card game transition from pastime to divination tool? Well, we can likely thank the enlightenment era in the late 1700s and Egyptomania. A Frenchman by the name of Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a seller of prints and entrepreneurial astrologer, wrote several books and other works under the pseudonym ‘Etteilla’ (which is Alliette, reversed). These writings purported to offer a way to entertain oneself with a pack of tarot cards. One of the ways was using the alleged (but likely false) Hermetic-Egyptian-astrological significance and following the techniques of cartonomancie (card-drawing), to allow the reader to analyze and ascribe particular meanings to the cards drawn, based on what they were and where they faced.
This isn’t exactly how tarot cards are read today, but it was the first step in making them the occult tool they are known as today. Alphonse-Louis Constant, who also wrote under a pseudonym (Éliphas Lévi) decided to further raise the occult importance of the tarot card based on Alliette’s works. Aeon describes his transition much more succinctly than I could: “Constant/Lévi was struck by the coincidence between the number of tarot trumps, the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and the paths along the kabbalistic Tree of Life: 22. He devised a system of arcane correspondences, disgorging a fresh wave of potential symbolic associations between individual cards and occult wisdom traditions, incorporating astrology, Mesmerism, and alchemy, as well as the Kabbalah. Lévi wrote that a prisoner with no books, but only the tarot and the knowledge of how to use it, could ‘acquire universal wisdom, and speak on any subject with unequaled knowledge and inexhaustible eloquence’.”
Over the centuries people have taken this understanding and run with it, developed it, and continued to practice. Today, there are largely two schools of Tarot: The school of thought who think that the cards help them access unconscious wisdom and those who believe that the deck channels the supernatural or has its own power/energy to channel.
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Demonica, Book 2
By: Larissa Ione
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Series: Demonica/Lords of Deliverance, Book 2
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The Dom Who Loved Me
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By: Lexi Blake
Narrated by: Ryan West
A routine mission Sean Taggart is hunting a deadly terrorist, and his only lead is the lovely Grace Hawthorne. She's the executive assistant for an employment agency Sean suspects is a front for illegal activities. To get the truth, he is going to have to get very close to Grace, a task he is all too eager to undertake when he discovers her deliciously submissive nature. turns into a dangerous seduction. Soon, Grace Hawthorne is living a double life. By day, she is the widowed mother of two college-aged sons.
Suspend disbelief and you’ll be ok.
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Bound by Night
MoonBound Clan Vampires, Book 1
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Nicole Martin was only eight years old when the vampire slaves rose up in rebellion and killed her family. Now she devotes her life to finding a vaccine against vampirism, hoping to wipe out her memories-along with every bloodsucker on the planet. But there's one thing she cannot destroy: Her searing, undeniable attraction for the one man she should hate and fear the most.
Still debating on how good this book is…
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Jax woke up in a lab, his memories erased and his mind reprogrammed to serve a mad woman's will. After being liberated from his prison, he pledged himself to the only thing he truly knows - his team. Six men who lost everything. They must make certain no one else gets their hands on the drugs that stole their lives, all while hiding from every intelligence organization on the planet. The trail has led Jax to an unforgiving mountainside and a beautiful wilderness expert who may be his only hope of finding the truth.
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By: Ruby Dixon
Narrated by: Noelle Bridges, Jeremy York
Years ago, the skies ripped open and the world was destroyed in fire and ash. Dragons - once creatures of legend - are the enemy. Vicious and unpredictable, they rule the skies of the ruined cities, forcing humanity to huddle behind barricades for safety. Claudia's a survivor. She scrapes by as best as she can in a hard, dangerous world. When she runs afoul of the law, she's left as bait in dragon territory. She only has one chance to survive - to somehow tame a dragon and get it to obey her.
For the love of dragon!
By Lilian on 06-30-17
Dark Lover
The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1
By: J. R. Ward
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
The vampire Darius fears for the life of his half-breed daughter, who is unaware of her unusual destiny. To oversee her transformation, Darius seeks help from Wrath, a dangerous loner and the world's only purebred vampire.
Awsome title even for the Men
Phoenix Pack, Book 1
By: Suzanne Wright
Narrated by: Jill Redfield
Taryn Warner is a wolf shifter with extraordinary healing skills - and serious problems. First, her father is determined that she mate for life with a wolf shifter named Roscoe Weston, whom the feisty Taryn can’t stand. To make matters worse, she’s also been kidnapped by Trey Coleman, a dangerous alpha male from another pack. And as much as she wants to resist Trey, Taryn is incredibly, maddeningly attracted to him.
Surprised they didn't check my ID
By P. Stover on 04-08-13
Pleasure is their ultimate weapon....
Runa Wagner never meant to fall in love with the sexy stranger who seemed to know her every deepest desire. But she couldn't resist the unbelievable passion that burned between them, a passion that died when she discovered his betrayal and found herself forever changed. Now, determined to make Shade pay for the transformation that haunts her, Runa searches for him, only to be taken prisoner by his darkest enemy.
A Seminus Demon with a love-curse that threatens him with eternal torment, Shade hoped he'd seen the last of Runa and her irresistible charm. But when he wakes up in a dank dungeon chained next to an enraged and mysteriously powerful Runa, he realizes that her effect on him is more dangerous than ever.
As their captor casts a spell that bonds them as lifemates, Shade and Runa must fight for their lives and their hearts - or succumb to a madman's evil plans.
©2008 Larissa Ione (P)2011 Hachette
Pleasure Unbound
Ecstasy Unveiled
Passion Unleashed
A Mind of Her Own
RabidReads
Good but, not as good as Pleasure Unbound
Shade didn’t really do much for me in Pleasure Unbound so I was skeptical about how much I’d enjoy learning about his story. Desire Unchained didn’t blow me away like its predecessor did but it’s still a good read. We finally get to learn about the curse that kept coming up in the first book. The reveal was a tad anticlimactic in my opinion. For me, Gem and Kynan sort of stole the spotlight too. I think I enjoyed their interactions more than what was happening between Shade and Runa. Oh well!
The first half of the book is great. I’m particularly fond of Runa. She went from being a weak, love struck human to a don’t-mess-with-me werewolf. Shade didn’t expect his ex lover to come back for him with a vengeance (and claws!). I liked how every time the seminus demon would try to pull the same stunts he used to pull on the wolf; she’d push back and put him in his place. You don’t survive a werewolf attack without growing a backbone! I enjoyed seeing a character learn from her mistakes for a change. Runa was on the verge of falling into her old habits with Shade more than once only to realize what was happening and then she’d conscientiously take steps to change directions. I admired her knack for dealing with Shade and the way that she overcomes being a victim.
The big bad wasn’t much of a surprise, in fact, his name is mentioned several times in the blurb which I found a little disappointing. Larissa could have played up the mystery a bit more and the same thing goes for Shade’s curse. After finishing Pleasure Unbound, I was definitely curious to learn more about it but I found the truth to be somewhat of a let down to be honest. Ione’s characters and her Demonica world are so well-developed that I expected something similar with regards to these two elements. I just found that she gave the information up either too easily or simply didn’t elaborate enough on them. Maybe I’m just nitpicking but I’d expected more.
That’s not to say that there aren’t some tender moments between Shade and Runa because there are. In fact, I was on the verge of tears more than once which never happened while I was reading about Eidolon and Tayla. Gem and Kynan are amazing in this novel. With the way that things end between them in Desire Unchained, I’m really hoping that they get a book of their own, or a spin-off, or a novella, or… something! Because their story is just begging to be told!
Desire Unchained has many of the same elements that made me fall in love with the first book of this series but on a more subdued level. It’s good but it’s just not terrific. Although, many of my fellow reviewers seem to disagree with my point of view on this; which is fine, to each their own! Wraith’s story is up next and I hope that Larissa nails this book because I think it has the potential to be pure gold. Fingers crossed!
Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Fascinating and addictive...
Another great addition to the Demonica series. I never expected to like this series so much but the rich complex world of underworld general hospital with all the demons, angels, werewolves, vampires etc is just addictive. The way this author writes and how she gives you a main romantic couple along with several intense secondary stories just keeps you on the edge wanting to know what will happen next.
I didn't particularly like Shade in the first book but he was completely redeemed here. He ended up being a passionate adorable demon. Yeah sounds weird but that's how it is. And he happens to have a playroom (hello BDSM) which was a pretty hot unexpected twist. And I loved how the heroine Runa evolved significantly in this story. She went from a shy doormat to a badass werewolf who stood her ground and won her hero's heart.
Narration: Hillary Huber does a perfect job narrating this book. She adds the intensity and suspense to the story and definitely narrates a great love scene. Five star plus narration and a five star plus story make for a very enjoyable listen.
Noirbear
Rochester, NH, United States
Demons Rock
This books keeps you wanting more. More about the brothers E,Shade and Wraith and more about the slightly dysfunctional hospital. Larissa does an good job of building several different stories with the story. You will find yourself just as interested in the secondary characters like Gem as you do with the main characters Runa and Shade. The female werewolf and demon pull you into their sensuous and emotional love affair. Another good listen in the Demonica series
san diego, CA, United States
good book , bad narrator
The narrator is ok, when she is not using " s" words, she sssssounds like a whisssstle and ruinssss the ssstory! Ugh I would rather sssscrape nailssss on a chalk board. She ruinssss the book! It's like that beaver from Winnie The Pooh... SSSSSay.......... grates on the ears~
I like the narrator
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Not sure why some have diss'ed the narrator on this one. Personally I like HillaryHuber best out of the first 3 books. MUCH better than the narration on the 3rd one. Hillary has a sultry voice and cadence that draws you in. Liked her a lot in the Midnight breed series as well. It was actually a search by Hillary as a Narrator that brought me to this series in the first place. I'll recommend the series in print to my friends. The series is great, but the constant switching in the narrators - especially in light of some reviews on the narration on the 4th and 5th books - is too annoying to bear.
What other book might you compare Desire Unchained to and why?
Midnight breed series.
Which character – as performed by Hillary Huber – was your favorite?
Shade, of course
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
definately
Just a HUGE pet peeve about this audio series(and several others) in general. Why the constant hopping between narrators. Especially if it "aint broke". I wlll be reading the remainder of the series in print IF I can find time. Good and consistant narration makes or breaks a series. Production companies would do well to pay for good narration and stick with the same one throughout the series. On a series like this - I.e. Midnight Breed, I'll go through an audio book in 2 days. Switch narrators and I probably wont finish unless it's really good, and then I'll read it in print. So revenue IS being lost.
Taniea
Surprisingly Better than the 1st Installment
Based on the earlier reviews, I began reading with some trepidation thinking that I might be wasting my time. I expected not to like the narration specifically. I suspect most of us like it when a series maintains the original narrator. This is the first series in which the change in narration didn't bother me at all. It appears that each installment of the series uses a different narrator which makes for it having its own personality in that regard. Familiar with Huber from the Lara Adrian series, I found she did a fair job distinguishing among characters.
That said, "Desire..." draws from many of the characters from Book 1 while incorporating new ones. Ione does a good job building from Book 1 with relationship to situations/experiences shallowly mentioned in the earlier edition. Also, the brothers Eidolon and Wraith play a central role in the plot of "Desire..." as well.
As opposed to "Pleasure... Book 1," this book infuses romantic tensions from more than just that of the main characters. The secondary characters of Gem (Tayla's sister) and Kye (Aegis commander) develop their relationship further from where Book 1 left off. Most notable is the romantic tension between the main characters of Shade and Runa that is central to the story is not that which we typically experience. The sexual tension/frustration has a psychological component of domination that can easily give most readers pause. I found myself cracking up at Runa's reactions/demands/expectations. For me, I found the romantic element of the story kind of refreshing.
Irving, Texas, United States
What a Great Series!
This is book 2 in the Demonica series, and Larissa Ione does not disappoint! I recommend that you read the books in order, as it makes the books so much more enjoyable. Larissa is a great writer, and the story is compelx, interesting and unpredictible. Shade, the main male character, is a totally hot Seminus Demon (ie a sex demon) who falls for Runa, a wearwolf. There is a bit of BDSM in the book, so be prepared, but in the context of the book, it works without being offensive. There is also a side romance in the book between Jem and Kiinan, 2 characters from book 1, which is also interesting and hot. Overall - great book and totally worth the credit!
BVerité
LA, United States
Really good. But narration change was a mistake.
This is a great series. I liked Shade, and this is a nice continuation of the Demonica series. The series would have benefitted from narration continuity. The first book is so good, it would be hard to match. The change in narration took away from the overall story. This story is not as good as Eidelon and Tayla's, but it is still an A-/B+. The next story is great too. I highly recommend this series.
Good book, great narrator
I really like the Demonica-series! The first book is better, but this one is still a good listen :)
The narrator is great, I like her a lot.
A love cursed Demon & a human forever changed!!!
Shade is Seminus Demon with a love-curse and a whole lot more to him than expected. In book 1 we are led to believe that he is a just a typical Seminus Demon who likes things rough, often, and with many, usually at the same time. We learned that he had a fairly long relationship with Runa Wagner but that she walked in on one of his escapades and did not appreciate his offer to join them.
I really was not a fan of him in Please Unbound. Here though, we see new sides of him and what drives him. When he is captured, shoved in a cell with Runa and tortured we not only learn Runa’s new curse but that Shade cares, and cares a lot.
Their journey to love is steamy hot, action packed and will leave you breathless.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Chasing Life” Is the Bisexual Representation You’ve Been Looking For On TV
By Heather Hogan
11:51am PDT
It’s been exactly one week since the Pretty Little Liars season 6A finale, and I feel like I have lived four TV lifetimes between then and now. It’s exciting that the conversation is still going strong because general pop culture caring about trans representation on TV is a brand new thing, but it’s still disheartening and scary too.
Other shows are drawing near the end of their summer seasons, too. Chasing Life and The Fosters finished up last night. Complications aired its finale last Thursday. We’ve got two more episodes of Defiance and Scream to go, though, and here’s hoping Yewll and Audrey make it out alive.
Next week, I’ll give you a run down of all the queer characters you can expect to see on your teevees this fall. Until then, here’s what the end of summer looks like.
Mondays on ABC Family at 8:00 p.m.
Stef and Lena are okay! I repeat: STEF AND LENA ARE OKAY! After a very, very tough summer season during which our favorite lesbian moms put each other through some unfair (but true to married life) shit, the truth about Monty kissing Lena finally came out. It happened because Stef’s best friend started dating Monty and walked in on Monty being in love with Lena at a cabin in the woods where the couples agreed to go for a weekend getaway. Monty confessed that yes, any queer person with eyeballs and a functioning brain and heart would be helplessly in love with Lena Adams Foster, and so Stef’s best friend told that to her and also the thing about the kiss.
Last night, Stef had a breast cancer scare! She didn’t even tell Lena about it because she was mad at her and didn’t want to need her and wanted to keep something from her the way Lena kept the Monty thing from Stef — but the truth came out at a backyard party, like it always does. It was an imaging glitch. Stef is okay. But the fact of the scare sent Lena barreling into Stef’s arms, shivering and terrified. They forgave each other. They danced. They pressed their faces together and loved each other in their kitchen, while all their kids (including new Jesus) did their drama around them.
In other stories, Jude continued to prove he is ten times the man Brandon will ever be because he exercised self control and did the best thing for the person he loves, even though he broke his own heart in the process. After Connor’s dad caught them making out and flipped out, Connor decided he wanted to go live with his mom in Los Angeles, and Jude gave him his blessing on account of THEY’RE IN REAL LOVE. They said so out loud with their mouths.
Plus also, you’re not even going to believe what I’m about to tell you: Callie finally got adopted! #OfficiallyAFoster
Chasing Life has blown me away with the way it has embraced Brenna’s bisexuality. When she made out with Greer last season, I thought it was just the ABC Family way, and while I was happy being pandered to, as I always am, I didn’t think it would amount to much. Well, ha ha ha! Joke’s on me! Brenna and Greer fell in love and enjoyed a real, organic relationship with each other before Greer moved away. During the Christmas episode, Brenna came out as bi, actually said the word “bisexual” out loud on TV, and made absolutely no apologies for it. She has been into guys on screen and she has been into girls on screen.
Last night, Brenna joined the queer kids at her new school in their Lesbian & Gay Support Group, and it was not what she expected at all. There’s a gay male couple, an asexual teen, a lesbian of color, and all of that seemed fantastic. Like Fosters fantastic. But then everyone started clowning on her for being bisexual.
Mariah: Wait, you’re bi?
Brenna: [Nods]
Gay guy: Yeah, I did that too, but I see it now. That’s sexy.
Mariah: You know, I could never date a bi girl. You’ve got to be pretty secure yourself to be with someone who’s attracted to the entire population.
Brenna: Oh my god, Mariah, it’s not like I’m into everyone I walk by.
Gay guy: Oh, babe, you don’t get it. The bisexual thing is so tricky because if you can change your mind every day about who you’re attracted to, it makes it sound like being gay is a choice.
Other gay guy: So is your guy type really feminine, or…?
Brenna: Okay, I’m not changing my mind. I’m just attracted to the person for who they are; not their gender.
Mariah: That’s exactly what my ex said before leaving me for a dude.
Gay guy: My theory is that bi guys are always actually gay and bi girls are always actually straight.
Brenna: I’m not straight! I mean, the last two people I dated were girls, so.
Mariah: Maybe you’re just gay.
What’s excellent about this is that Brenna is the sympathetic character here (and always), and is so beloved by fans of the show, so these people throwing all this trite bigoted bullshit at her are presented as jerks. None of these stereotypes are played for laughs. It looks like Brenna is going to abandon the group altogether, and who could blame her? But she goes back and trades shade-for-shade, defending bisexuality in a way that’s never been done on ABC Family and has only very, very rarely been done on TV in general.
Gay guy: I didn’t think you were coming back.
Brenna: I didn’t either, but I changed my mind! Just like I change my mind every day about who I’m attracted to! Hey, Mariah, I was wondering: What made you a lesbian?
Mariah: I was born this way.
Brenna: So when you’re with a girl, who’s the boy in the relationship?
Mariah: No one. There is no boy.
Brenna: [To the gay guys] But Andrew’s the girl between the two of you, right?
Andrew: No! There’s not a heteronormative dynamic in all relationships.
Brenna: Oh, there’s not? That’s just a stereotype?
They get it. And they’re sorry. Brenna is right now and always.
Legit bisexual representation on a teenage TV show? What a time to be alive!
Tuesdays on MTV at 10:00 p.m.
Welp, Audrey got one step closer to getting Emma to be in a Big Gay Relationship with her her due to the competition being eliminated. Emma’s boyfriend, Will, got chopped in literal half after Emma found him in a field attached to a saw and went running for him and tripped a wire and watched as he was sawed in actual half. Emma herself was almost killed to death when she was investigating an abandoned bowling alley with her friends earlier in the episode, but she survived to accidentally maul her boyfriend. Audrey’s alibi? She was taking a makeup test the whole entire time.
Thursdays on USA at 9:00 p.m.
Complications exceeded my expectations so much, y’all. I know it’s because White Collar promised that CIA Junior Agent Diana Barrigan would be who Gretchen actually is and didn’t deliver, and so the bar was pretty low, but still! A lesbian character of color is the main hero of the show because of her hard-assness but also her compassion? Check. Her queerness is an important part of who she is, but it’s not the main thing about her? Check. She makes it out alive despite the fact that everyone is getting shot all the time? Check. She actually threw herself on top of a guy this week to keep the a bad cop from shooting him and lived to tell the tale! I can’t explain the finale to you if you didn’t watch the show. Gretchen won, is all you really need to know.
Thursdays on ABC at 10:00 p.m.
Gail busted a dirty cop named Santana on this week’s Rookie Blue. It was pretty boring police procedural stuff. I wish she’d been making out with Santana Lopez instead. Just kidding! Those two would kill each other!
Fridays on Syfy at 8:00 p.m.
Sigh. This season of Defiance continues to disappoint me. It’s not offensive. I mean, it’s not offensive in terms of queer content. It’s offensive to me, personally, because it’s boring. This week, Doc Yewll helped Kindzi round up all the dudes in town and stick them in cages to prepare for the coming Omec invasion. This included Yewll’s BFF, Datak Tarr, who, along with Stahma, have been wholly underused this summer, which is a large part of the reason this season kinda sucks. Also, Yewll helped Kindzi literally eat her dad to death. It wasn’t as gross as Will getting chopped in half on Scream, but it was disgusting.
On the upside, Berlin returned from her brief hiatus in 90210, and thank the gods because I was starting to believe she and Irisa weren’t in real true forever love. Now I remember that they totally are.
Saturdays on NBC at 10:00 p.m.
It looks like Alana has finally pushed Hannibal to the point of murdering her (but only because he pushed her first!). She threatened to take away all his nice shit if he didn’t cooperate with her and the police, and this week she discovered that he’d been having long, leisurely phone conversations with a serial killer called the Red Dragon. She told him he was going to help them catch this fucker, or else. He chose: or else! And so Alana removed all his nice things like his smoking jacket and books and record player and also apparently his toilet. And then had him wrapped up to look like the movie. Good night, sweet princess!
I Am Cait
Sundays on E! at 8:00 p.m.
This week on I Am Cait, I was exposed to the fullness of the Kardashians for the first time. (This is the only Kardashian show I’ve ever watched.) It was kind of jarring.
Kim Kardashian shows up to talk to Caitlyn about how everyone in the family is pissed off at her for some things she said in her Vanity Fair interview, most notably Kris Jenner because of how Caitlyn said if Kris had been more supportive they’d still be together. Also Khloe is upset, I think, because Caitlyn said something disparaging about her husband? I don’t know the family tree; it was hard for me to follow. Kim’s suggestion for making up with Kris was to tweet an apology. Khloe’s suggestion for Caitlyn feeling less isolated from her family — because, as Caitlyn repeatedly says, none of her children have come to visit her since she came out and began her transition — was group texting.
I’ll tell you what really got to me, though: Number one) Kim dropped Caitlyn’s birth name like NBD, all, “You still have some of [birth name] in you; I thought Caitlyn would be a little nicer.” And when Caitlyn went to visit Chloe, she talked about all the stuff she’s learning.
Caitlyn: So much of it is so scary. Homelessness, people on the street—
Khloe: Aw, that’s not good.
Aw, that’s not good?! It’s a tiny bit more than “not good,” Khloe Kardashian.
And then Khloe just wanted to talk about herself.
I’m not cut out for actual reality TV. I liked the parts of the episode where Caitlyn had dinner with Jen Richards, Kate Bornstein, and Candis Cayne and talked about how more mainstream portions of the queer community often prioritize the political and social needs of the trans community way way way behind the needs of rich white gay guys. It’s an important conversation and particularly interesting as we consider how much trans erasure we’re seeing in the new Stonewall movie.
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I thought Khloe divorced Lamar due to his cocaine & various other addictions? Like I wouldn’t be surprised if Cait talked shit about Lamar, because half of L.A. has at some point. Not to mention he’s an out of work ball player, with an addiction, who even in his best years was a bit inconsistent. So, I think Cait insulting him is the least of her problem.
Hodge C.
I originally wrote this concerning another site but it applies here. At some point, Autostraddle has to stop forfeiting it’s important and valuable position as a site that critiques the representation of queer woman. While biphobia is an important issue, that does not mean that every situation in which a woman is with a man on television should not be criticized. Chasing Life has depicted 4 lesbians this season. There was a clingy, annoying stalker of Brenna. There was an older woman who entered an inappropriate romance with Brenna. There was that older woman’s roommate who staked Brenna to her house. There was a fellow student who mocks Brenna. Simply put, there have been 4 representations of lesbians this season and all have been negative.
The show depicted Brenna kissing another woman to excite Finn and then enjoying Finn bragging about it to his friends. The show showed all the individuals at the meeting in a negative manner except Brenna. While some of those things have been said, the one sided nature of the meeting last night was a pile on designed to show other LGBT individuals in a harsh light. Who was empathetic and caring? Why of course the good looking straight man who the show has positioned Brenna to be with.
Considering the plethora of romances on television between men and women on television and the lack of visibility for romances between women on television, it also is perplexing that AfterEllen has demonstrated no comprehension of why viewers may be disappointed that Brenna is now falling in love with a man. There has been no questioning of why the program got rid of Greer or why a program filled with straight couples feels the need to have another one. We know Brenna is bisexual. That should not be an automatic defense against criticism for indulging in romances pandering to preteen girls, for repeated negative depictions of lesbians, for depicting the straight male as a hero battling lesbians and gay men to defend the heroine, and for sequences such as Brenna kissing Ford for Finn’s amusement.
I would like to add that women being attracted to women and men is hardly lacking visibility. As others have commented on at other sites, the big thing is that shows are now labeling women who are attracted to both men and women as bisexual or the often misused term fluid (if you want revolutionary tell me about when a man’s sexuality is labeled as fluid on a tv show). The overwhelming percentage of women on tv nowadays that have romances with women are either 6 feet under early into the show’s or have been/will be in romances with men. That, excluding Netflix shows, primary female characters who date women, are almost always shown being attracted to men too is worthy of comment.
Heather, I am also tired of this whoa is me victimization when ever these tired plotlines are criticized. I remember you defending the MTV version of Skins as if that show was doing something original. Now you are pulling the same nonsense here. Women who are attracted to women and men is not the exception on television. It is the rule.
So lets stop acting as if shows like Chasing Life are doing something special and start asking real questions? Why are shows, with a few exceptions, hesitant to have their main female characters who like women only like women? Why did Chasing Life get rid of one of the few nuanced same sex romances on television for a lazy Fault in Our Stars redux? Why has the show depicted lesbians this year in such a horrid manner? Why has the show decided that Brenna kissing Ford for Finn’s amusement. As with Pretty Little Liars last week and shows like MTV’s version of Skins, why do you keep rationalizing these inept storylines.
Ah, Hodge C, my old friend, hello!
You and I have had many conversations about bisexual and sexually fluid representation on TV in the past, and I don’t think this one will be any different. I don’t have any problems with any of the lesbians who have been depicted on Chasing Life this season. They’ve all been tertiary characters and none of their dubious actions have been glorified as a heroic or even moral. I can’t see any negative cultural impact coming from them at all. Lesbian characters don’t have to be good guys who always make good decisions and do everything right. We’ve grown past that.
Mariah, the lesbian character who was introduced last night, I thought her contribution to the conversation was really important, because lesbians and gay men say that kind of horrible stuff to bisexual women ALL THE TIME. We’ve seen in Chasing Life’s universe that not every lesbian reacts that way to bisexual women. To see those things addressed in such a frank way felt really good to me. It’s very rare to see that on TV. I think Chasing Life *is* doing something special.
Why are shows, with a few exceptions, hesitant to have their main female characters who like women only like women?
This just isn’t true. 2015 has been a revolutionary year for lesbians on TV. Off the top of my head, here are the active female TV characters who only like women:
+ Emily Fields (PLL)
+ Margot Verner (Hannibal)
+ Stef Adams Foster (The Fosters)
+ Lena Adams Foster (The Fosters)
+ Madame Vastra (Doctor Who)
+ Jenny (Doctor Who)
+ Suzanne Warren (OITNB)
+ Poussey Washington (OITNB)
+ Big Boo (OITNB)
+ Nicky Nichols (OITNB)
+ Alex Vause (OITNB)
+ Doc Yewll (Defiance)
+ M-Chcuk (Survivor’s Remorse)
+ Lauren Lewis (Lost Girl)
+ Alisha Granderson (The Last Ship)
+ Gail Peck (Rookie Blue)
+ Arizona Robbins (Grey’s Anatomy)
+ Lena (Ray Donovan)
+ Betty (Masters of Sex)
+ Cosima (Orphan Black)
+ Shay (Orphan Black)
+ Luisa (Jane the Virgin)
+ Gretchen (Complications)
+ Abby (Mahnattan)
+ Noomi (Sense8)
+ Amanita (Sense8)
+ Maggie (Younger)
There are more, but that’s just what’s springing to mind right now. As for characters who actually apply the label “bisexual” to themselves, I can only think of Piper Chapman, Callie Torres, Bo Dennis, and Brenna.
There is a big difference between some lesbian characters on a tv season being depicted in a negative manner and depicting all of them this season, in this case 4, in a negative manner. It is fascinating you are quick to question everything except negative representations of lesbians. I would not expect less of someone who defended MTV’s version of Skins and did not refute the show runner who said all lesbians think of sleeping with men.
Apparently you missed the part where I said primary and congratulated Netflix “That, excluding Netflix shows, primary female characters who date women, are almost always shown being attracted to men too is worthy of comment.”
So once we toss out a quarter of the shows (Netflix) and the recurring characters, we have very few. Interestingly most have made out with or had sex with men including Emily Fields, Gail Peck, and Abby Isaacs.
This is what is so intriguing. You keep acting like women who like women and men is so rarely depicted. Yet it is depicted nonstop and has been for decades.
Let’s just start with some of your favorite shows and how they handle women who are attracted to men.
Skins (England) – Naomi, Emily, Mini, Frankie – all slept with men and the last two rejected their former attraction to women.
Skins (MTV) – Tea – out lesbian who is addicted to a man.
Hell On Wheels – apparent lesbian until she sleeps with a man.
Faking It – a show that has a person constantly wondering if she is a lesbian while drooling over men. Rumor is she falls hard for a boy this upcoming season. I know you will love that.
Chasing Life – a veritable sausage party already, now the one woman who was not dating a man will be dating one. Her and her soon to be boyfriend have stood up to lesbians and gay men.
P.S. You can talk about identification all you want in terms of tv representation. It is still women attracted to women needing a man sooner or later. Bryan Elsley would be proud of you defending these storylines and not, in any way, defending shows, such as Chasing Life, which can manage to have every single lesbian character in a season be depicted in a negative manner.
Just for the record, I’m the “Faking It” recapper and I have been highly critical of the show’s decision to have Amy be “unsure” about her orientation instead of having her be a lesbian (as we were initially told she’d be, and as I’d hoped she’d be). Heather never recapped the show for us or for AfterEllen, nor has she ever said it was one of her favorite shows. I’m mentioning this because it feels like you’re just saying things that aren’t true in order to make your case and that’s not fair.
You seem to only come to this site to make huge and unfair accusations towards us, usually based on one piece of real evidence and a bunch of things you exaggerate or invent. We’ve been writing this site long enough that it wouldn’t be hard for you to make a case against any of us by gathering a few posts out of hundreds written, taking select bits completely out of context, and declaring them emblematic of the whole, while disregarding the hundreds of other posts that oppose your point. Or you do genuinely disagree with one of our writers but you skew and mischaracterize their intent when doing so.
What’s your endgame here? Recently there was a post in which I actually agreed that I’d fucked up and apologized for it — although there were more commenters backing up the initial choice I’d made (many of whom I also consider friends) than there were commenters criticizing it — but you still kept going after me, which suggests that you’re not as interested in prompting change / evolution as you are in using us as a punching bag.
Sorry, but no, that’s not how we roll here. There are perfectly civil ways to talk about lesbian erasure on television but this isn’t one of them.
ETA: It has also come to my attention that you are not a lesbian, bisexual or queer woman yourself and therefore I am really confused why you think it’s okay to come here and tell us how we should be represented.
Carmen Phillips
Thank you, Riese.
Well that’s creepy. What do trolls get out of instigating these fights?
Should have excluded Hell on Wheels. That horrible storyline was defended by someone else. So used to you defending tv having lesbians always sleeping with or making out with men, that it seemed in keeping with your this is so wonderful and understandable she desires a man agenda.
Don’t worry. Soon any hint of women who only like women will be eradicated from tv. Got a feeling you will still be talking about a lack of representation.
With all due respect, it seems like you are the one with the agenda, not Heather. You seem to want all queer women on television to be represented in one way and one way only – never having had any relationship or interest in a man at any point in her life, ever.
I admit that I cannot think right in this moment of a character who fits that particular description (mainly because we are rarely given a character’s ENTIRE romantic history because why would we be?), so it would be wonderful for many people to see an example of that character. It would be wonderful for people to see several examples of that character. However you really seem to be saying that ALL lesbians need to be portrayed that way. That’s pretty unrealistic. There are a large variety of experiences amongst queer women when it comes to dating and discovering their sexuality, and it’s great that we are seeing such a variety of representation. We are so far from where we were just five years ago.
Critiquing ALL lesbian characters on television right now, saying that it is the “norm” for them be actually bisexual rather than (your definition of) lesbian is pretty insulting to all of the queer women who have relished these stories and found their representation within them. And calling out Heather, who never does anything but help people be their best selves, is not a productive use of your time.
Go write the story that you want to see. No writer is ever going to be able to pull in all of the representation that our society is starved to see. So we need more creators. Be a creator! Add your story to the collective. I’m sure you will be able to touch people’s lives with what you have to say because you seem to have a unique perspective. Put something positive in this world, instead of following around television recappers and blaming them for things that are so far from being their fault.
When you write that story, I want to read it.
Thank you for laying this out, Heather!
I only wanted to add that to the best of my tv memory, Piper Chapman has never on camera referred to herself as bisexual. Making that list even fewer and the work that is currently happening on “Chasing Life” eve more important.
(You listed Emily Fields twice- it’s ok, I know you just love her so much that she sprang to your head multiple times).
C.P., that is quite some D-grade logic there. So basically it doesn’t matter that almost all women on tv who are shown being attracted to women are shown also being attracted to a man at some point. Just as long as they don’t label themselves bisexual, than television does not depict almost all women on tv who are attracted to women as also being shown as being attracted to men at some point.
The television show can have the character label themselves in any way. If a male character is labeled a pansexual but is never shown with any interest in anyone but women on the show it doesn’t mean the show is demonstrating pansexual representation. The same holds in reverse. You can please labels all day but it doesn’t change the overwhelming amount of women on television who are attracted to women end up being attracted to men too. So to act like it is something amazing to have a bisexual female character on tv takes a level of obtuseness and gullibility that is mystifying.
Keep watching the many woman loves man romances on Chasing Life and scenes trashing lesbians. It seems just your type of show.
Well, Hodge C., my point (and I do believe, to a certain extent, Heather’s original point) was about how prevalent bi-erasure is on television. As in, characters who have been documented to not only have have romantic or sexual interest in both sexes, but who are also openly labeled as “bisexual” in a time where, quite honestly, bisexuals get a pretty bad wrap from both straights and lesbians/gays alike. Which isn’t to say that a person has to have a specific label to their sexuality at all- or that a label such as queer or pansexual or anything of the like isn’t valid, just that a character being openly labeled as “bi” is still a rarity and that contributed to a particular kind of erasure.
So in that light, yes I think that it’s important to note what tiny handful (as in 3 or max 4) characters are on that list.
Which is not to say that a particular type of erasure isn’t also happening against what you have been calling women who exclusively like other women on television, or bisexuals. I think that though lesbian representation has been on an upswing of late (in both actual numbers and in diversity of personality types), it’s still something that we should pay attention to.
Bi-erasure on tv is real. Lesbian erasure on tv is also real. I believe that we can address both without putting one against another. They each have their own specific set of concerns.
That said, I’m not going to engage with you anymore Hodges c. I’m sure that your feelings are coming from a place you feel is valid, but I don’t respond well to bullies on the internet referring to my logic as “D grade”. Especially on Autostraddle, which works so hard to be a safe space for it’s readers.
Also, to your last point, “Keep watching the many woman loves man romances on Chasing Life and scenes trashing lesbians. It seems just your type of show.”
—- I’ve actually never seen “Chasing Life”. The only ABC Family shows I watch are PLL and The Fosters, both of which have lesbian characters who exclusively have relationships with other women. And i hated everything about the Cosin Nate storyline on PLL largely because it felt out of character for Emily. So, there’s that.
I love how you listed Emily Fields twice <3
Ha! Whoops!
Just a quick note that there is a difference between characters who dated men before coming out, and characters who identify as bi, pan, queer, or fluid. Emily Fields may have been dating that tool from her high school, but she definitely wasn’t into him. Heck, even Cameron Esposito dated the quarterback of her high school football team before coming out when she was twenty.
Your comments seem to say that women who have had sex with men at some point in their lives can’t be “real” lesbians, and that’s a characterization that I think a lot of women who identify as lesbian would take issue with.
The only exception up there in my retort would be Gail Peck.
…Emily Fields was already out long before she made out with Nate. Though it is understandable you tried to clear that subplot from your memory.
…Emily Fitch had expressed love for Naomi and came out to JJ before sleeping with JJ by the end of the same episode.
…Tea Marvelli was an out lesbian when the show began and became obsessed with a boy – leading to Heather Hogan’s infamous interview with Bryan Elsley in which he talked about all lesbians thinking of sleeping with men.
All out and all making out with and making love to men after they were out after identifying as a lesbian. And all were defended by Heather Hogan.
i just wanna say that sleeping with guys before coming out is a completely normal part of a young lesbian’s history….most of those characters you have named are going through/have gone through a journey about figuring themselves out. there’s a difference between a character explicitly stating “i’m gay/lesbian” and THEN continuously sleeping with men or “going back” to men versus characters who *think* they like girls/women but aren’t sure yet and are still hormonal teenagers. in faking it, amy never says that she is for sure a lesbian….and if the writers told people that she was going to be a lesbian, maybe wait for the show to play out (it’s signed on for at least 1.5 more seasons) and see her finally come to terms with being gay. and i’m sure i’ll be chewed out for this next comment because glee obviously was NOT good with lesbian visibility until later seasons (and even then it was sort of half ass) … but santana NEVER went back to guys once she came out, but she slept with a ton of them before hand. the list of these types of examples can go on and on. we all know that previously “lesbian” storylines were used explicitly for ratings, and it’s 100% fair to demand better visibility, and obviously there are still shows that use it as a trope directed mostly towards a male audience… but as a person who identifies as a lesbian and can relate to hooking up with men before and after coming out for various reasons (i don’t identify as a bisexual person because i am not attracted to men as a whole and would not date one–all my intimate encounters with guys were based off of who they were, not the fact that i just needed a man because women weren’t enough–and if you want to argue with me about this, please refer to my gender studies degree from USC) you shouldn’t just attack everything you see on screen as complete bullshit when some viewers can completely identify with a story line. it’s strange how you feel the need to box these characters in as if lesbians aren’t ‘allowed’ to make a choice to be intimate with a man or someone who does not identify as a woman, ESPECIALLY teenagers who are trying to navigate life and hormones in such a heteronormative society. i don’t agree with everything that the writers say on afterellen or on this website when recapping, but i think that they do a fantastic job of bringing visibility to queer women in general and how we all have different experiences and there is often more than meets the eye about a storyline.
are you one of ’em 100 year old uber dyke living under a monstrous rock? hates bisexuals & only wants to represent goldstar lesbians. its that or you just miss heather. AE sucks! its owned by men!
I don’t watch Chasing Life but oh my god the job they’re doing with the bisexual representation seems amazing. It’s like what I’ve dreamed in my wildest dreams for every bisexual character ever created. Is this real life?
Can’t wait for all the Carmilla stuff.
Also, I’ve just read this interview http://tvline.com/2015/08/18/the-good-wife-alicia-kalinda-controversy-robert-michelle-king/ with the Good Wife creators, in which they talk about the Alicia-Kalinda/Margulies-Panjabi controversy, or better, in which they say they are talking about it but they aren’t saying anything at all (“in my opinion” obviously). WHATEVER. I don’t need to know what happened and I’m clearly not thinking about what could have been, nope, I’m fine, everything is fine.
Every time I am out for drinks with my friends, by the end of the night this ALWAYS comes up. Just like out of nowhere someone will be like, “What the fuck EVEN happened with those two!” And then the conspiracy theories, all of which I love very much. That green screen ending scene was just one of the worst things I have EVER seen on TV!
Yes, it really was the worst. I want to forget all about this and start enjoying one of my favourite tv shows again because I think it’s so good, but this.. ugh.
amidola
I must admit I kind of gave up on Defiance and Complications for the time being and am now in queer, happy nerd love with Arrow.
(Late, I know, but first there was The 100, then Person of Interest, with a little OB and OITNB thrown in..)
I’m in the middle of season 2 right now and my brain short circuited just today with Sarah doing the Salmon Ladder and (surprisingly smoking hot) Nyssa making her (surprisingly smoking hot) appearance.
And all of that leather..
Anyways, what I was trying to say, is that I have been watching a teenage sci fi show, a CBS crime/science fiction procedural and am now engaging in a classic nerdy superhero thing and I get to see women kick ass in a major way and smooch on other Ladies in meaningful ones.
I’m just a happy nerdy Lesbionic life form atm,so thank you, TV, and even if the fall seasons should prove to be disappointing, we’ll always have Paris.
I mean Ton DC, New York and Starling City and wherever Sarah Manning and the Seestras are hanging out these days.
Soooo happy Stef and Lena are okay. What a relief.
They cannot take my Jonnor away
I’m still queasy about Brallie
Had totally forgotten that Jesus even existed. I would have been fine if he never came back from testosterone academy
When they walked in at the end all “Who’s this guy?”, we all responded with
“YES! WHO IS THIS GUY? YOU HAVE A STRANGER IN YOUR HOUSE! RUN, LENA, RUN!”
Jesus has been replacing by a foundling, and no one’s even noticed.
It’s weird that this Jesus also cannot act, right?
yes!! to me it felt such an unsettling and weird addition to this scene that was supposed to be saying “everything’s fine and as it should be.”
…like maybe it’s actually the introduction of a new storyline in which a jesus imposter comes back from wrestling school and no one can tell, except maybe like, connor, and the reason connor goes to LA is because he’s the only one who knows the truth and needs to be away from the family so that he won’t mess up whatever evil plot new jesus has.
Maddie! YES.
Kinda like when Buffy TVS introduced Dawn…
Weez
I don’t know, I kind of feel like the jury’s still out on whether this kid can act. He had about 20 seconds of screentime and while I wouldn’t say I was impressed, even in that tiny amount of time I found him notably better than Jake T Austin. Which isn’t hard, but still…. I’m open. I like Mariana having her twin, and it opens up at least one more storyline that isn’t Callie/Brandon.
As long as they don’t take time away from the moms. I am here for the Moms and the theme song.
Rones
I actually didn’t know the old Jesus was leaving so when I saw this dude my thought process as follows:
1) A new character? New foster kid? Long-lost family member? New boyfriend? Why does he look so different?
2) Oh it’s JESUS? Did his face get bashed in? Major surgery? Too much testosterone? He’s on steroids?
3) Oh. New actor.
AS, you need an edit button. The ‘why you look so diff’ comment obvi fits with thought #2. Or not. Who even knows with my brain.
Of course Callie gets adopted after fucking Brandon. That’s not going to come back and bite anybody in the ass. Lol.
Gail didn’t just help bust a dirty cop. One of those cops was her own brother. Which sucks because I actually liked Steve with Tracy. The writers are breaking my heart over here.
You know, I’m never entirely sure what’s real and what’s fake when it comes to the Kardashians. I’m not sure if I buy all this Kumbayah “We support you Caitlyn” face they are presenting to the media. I don’t know how much is genuine support or support in front of the cameras because it does them no favors with the public to be unsupportive. Those girls first priorities has always seemed to be their own level of fame and what they are saying in the shows doesn’t jive with what they are saying to the media. And Khloe whining about Lamar is getting so old. Honey, you haven’t been with him in a long ass time and you have had at least two boyfriends since then. Get over it.
I couldn’t even write about that Callie and Brandon thing because just seeing it on TV made me want to stab myself in the eyeballs with forks.
Lucy Hallowell
Yeeeeeah. Brallie is the ghost that will haunt me forever.
Spoiler alert: That’s BB under a sheet.
Game of Thrones used all of my incest tolerance tank. There was nothing left for Brallie.
I really have to agree with you about the Khardasians. I think that this episode went some strides into showing the cracks in the veneer that the family presents to the public. The kids (except Kim and Klyie- is that her name? the young one?) haven’t been out to visit Caitlyn. Caitlyn has definitely become cut off from her family and when she expressed that this week, neither Khloe or Kim could deny it. That is the worst nightmare for so many folks when they come out- and despite all the other wealth and privilege that surrounds her, Caitlyn is definitely living it.
I also agree with Heather that this was my first time being exposed to the Khardasians in full and it almost sent me running for the remote. I don’t know if I’ll can keep watching if they stick with spending a lot of time on them.
Brace yourselves. The Brallie pregnancy scare is coming.
Holy… Yup, yup, 100%. I couldn’t figure out why they would have them have sex and then just drop it forever. But YUP
how is this show just the best and the worstT?
But didn’t the show already do two teen pregnancy scares? Once wit Jesus’ season one girlfriend (can’t remember her name?? Or maybe that was just “the morning after pill” scare?) and then they just did it with Mariana this summer?
1. I DO NOT WANT A BRALLIE PREGNANCY
2. That just seems like lazy writing.
3. The larger subtle political implications that every time a teen has sex on the show, it has to be associated with fear and danger, makes me feel icky 🙁
A similar thing happened recently on Switched at Birth where Bay went to get the morning after pill and her parents found out (she’s 18 and has graduated from HS) and her dad yelled at the guy he thought “put her in that position” and then when she told her dad it was a different guy he went “oh, guess I yelled at the wrong guy” and I’m like no, actually, it’s not her dad’s job to police her sex life IN ANY CAPACITY, and Bay and the guy she slept with kind of both put themselves “in that position.”
Like hello ABC Family, sometimes teenagers have sex and it’s just all fine and dandy. And fun and awesome.
I hope Carmilla will be talked about more on Autostraddle. It’s so good! The last episode wrecked me.
It’s so so good this year. I’m sorry I haven’t written about it yet. With PLL on hiatus, that should free up a whole lot of time for me.
Yay! I love Carmilla!
Kristana
Hollence! Hollence and Granny Smith apples forever! I came here to comment on that episode, and I’m glad that someone beat me to it.
On a scale of Person of Interest seasons, how episodic/serialized is Complications?
That is the best scale I’ve heard of.
What an amazing question!
Season two-ish.
Bye bi
Last night, when Stef and Lena pressed their faces together and smiled as the camera zoomed out on the kitchen window and we watched their children dance around, I maybe cried a little being filled with hope about my own dreams about my future family? I did.
There is something about The Fosters, I am just shy of being at an age where I have the necessary means to confidently build a family- but the thing is, I didn’t even *know* what the family could look like. The Fosters gives me that gift weekly. When I watch it, I become overwhelmed with hope and the tiniest little light of belief that I *can* have this, that I *can* have a wife and unicorn loving, brave children and a kitchen worth envy (lol). That its a real possibility and not something I just concocted in my head.
Is that what straight girls feel like when they watch tv? Is that what representation means?
Which is why this season has been SO HARD for me. Putting Stef and Lena through the ringer, even if it is realistic, just felt like watching a nightmare play out. I felt such a relief that it is (momentarily) over. Hence, the tears.
Well this is freaking cool.
Yes! This comment ia amazing!
Isn’t it awesome?
Visibility matters
I feel the same way! Watching the show gives me hope for myself and my future. Sometimes I’m blown away that this show is on the air and one part of the main couple is a black and white lesbian! I never thought I would see someone who looks like me on a show like this, it’s amazing!
So, November 27… Marking the days on the calendar as a prisoner soon to be release
Heather, I was watching that scene on Chasing Life last night and wishing I was your friend so we could have a moment about it. SO IMPORTANT
So I’ve never watched Chasing Life before but now I really REALLY want to. A bisexual character who actually identifies as bi shutting down biphobes? Sign me up!
I’M OKAY YOU GUYS
We are relieved! We were concerned!
I am days late to this post but just wanted to note, this week was NOT the Chasing Life finale – we’ve still got a few weeks left!
Oh nooooo. Chasing Life was cancelled by ABCFamily after 2 seasons under some sort of revamping of the network. This really hurts. Now we have to say goodbye to terrific multi-dimensional characters, a fair representation of a bisexual secondary character, Brenna, and good acting, writing and directing. Not to mention an interesting exposition of a young woman finding herself professionally and personally while battling cancer, a fast growing health challenge in our society. It is rare to see a TV series feature a young woman’s life as comprising more than finding a boyfriend. Sob sob sob.
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By Ina Fried
Reset the "days since the last Facebook scandal" counter!
1 big thing: Facebook shared data with abandon
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images
A fresh report from the New York Times on Tuesday night suggests that Facebook gave its partners even wider access to more user data (including private messages) for a longer time than previously known.
Why it matters: Silicon Valley insiders have a pretty thick skin when it comes to how much tech companies know about their users and how much they share with partners. Even still, Tuesday's revelations were a shock.
The Times report found that, among other things:
Netflix and Spotify had access to users' private messages (Netflix says it never asked for or used the access). It was granted presumably to allow sharing of what media they were consuming, but the access could have allowed far more.
Microsoft had access, unbeknownst to Facebook users, to see the names of all a user's friends.
Even as Facebook stopped broadly sharing certain user data with partners. It maintains it allowed not only hardware makers, but also companies like Yahoo and Amazon, expanded access.
As recently as 2017, Facebook was sharing user data with Yandex, the Russian search service. (Ukraine has accused it of feeding info to the Kremlin.)
The other side: Facebook classified most of these partnerships as "service providers," and maintained the relationships were therefore exempt from rules designed to prevent unauthorized data sharing that Facebook accepted as part of a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission in 2011. The FTC isn't commenting.
Facebook responded in a blog post last night.
It said that all the sharing reported by the Times was authorized by individual users who linked apps to Facebook or opted in to its personalization services.
The takeaway: It's not clear that any of the partners misused the data. In many cases it's not even clear they wanted the broad access they received. Rather, Facebook appears so focused on growth that it didn't make the effort to create tools that limited access to specifically what the partners needed.
The big picture: Users have spent much of 2018 trying to weigh whether the benefits of social media — chiefly, maintaining connections with friends — outweigh the privacy cost. But each day fresh evidence piles up in the cost column even as the benefits have held steady.
Yes, but: The saving grace for Facebook remains that there's really no credible alternative with the same scale. The choice is to use Facebook and accept the risks, or miss out on the benefits entirely.
This need not be the equation forever. At this point, it's not a question of whether many Facebook users wouldn't leap at — and even pay for — an alternative, but rather whether anyone can replicate Facebook's scale and reach.
Our thought bubble: Facebook's FTC settlement was in 2011. That's seven years during which the company was on legal and public notice to watch its step when it comes to protecting user data.
Everything in this story (on top of all the other issues/stories 2018 has brought us about Facebook's cavalier approach to user data) suggests that Facebook simply did not prioritize protecting users' information over cementing business relationships.
2. Study confirms women have it worse on Twitter
Photo: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook clearly has its problems, but Twitter is no oasis, especially for women. That's the finding of a new report from Amnesty International, which determined that women were more likely to be the target of abuse than men — and women of color even more so.
The big picture: Amnesty International had been calling on Twitter to release more data on harassment reports. In the meantime, the agency decided to collect its own data via crowdsourcing.
Details: Millions of tweets received by 778 journalists and politicians in 2017 were surveyed to label any abuse targeted at gender, race and sexuality.
The findings show abusive tweets were sent to all female members in the U.S. Congress and U.K. parliament, as well as a number of prominent female political journalists.
Black women were 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive tweets.
Why it matters: This isn't a new problem. Twitter has faced criticism for not doing enough to curb harassment on its platform before, and has promised to do better. However, the company has yet to show consistent progress.
What they're saying:
"We have the data to back up what women have long been telling us — that Twitter is a place where racism, misogyny and homophobia are allowed to flourish basically unchecked."
— Milena Marin, senior adviser for tactical research, Amnesty International
"Abuse, malicious automation, and manipulation detract from the health of Twitter. We are committed to holding ourselves publicly accountable toward progress in this regard."
— Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's legal, policy, and trust and safety lead
3. Charter agrees to record fraud settlement
Photo: Yvonne Hemsey via Getty Images
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced a record $174.2 million consumer fraud settlement Tuesday with Charter Communications and Spectrum Management Holding Company for defrauding internet subscribers.
Details: As Marisa Fernandez reports, 700,000 consumers will receive direct refunds totaling $62.5 million, believed to be the largest single payout by an internet service provider in U.S. history. Approximately 2.2 million subscribers will also receive free streaming services and premium channels at a retail value of more than $100 million.
Background: In 2017, the New York attorney general's office filed a complaint alleging Charter was not giving customers the internet speed or reliability it promised. Its alleged failures include leasing out equipment that was deficient and charging more for download speeds while failing to maintain the appropriate network capacity.
The big picture: Left-leaning states are cracking down on telecom companies as federal regulators loosen the rules that govern internet providers like Charter, Comcast and AT&T.
4. Angry Birds looks to VR for a lift
Photo: Rovio
Angry Birds creator Rovio is bringing its flagship characters to a wide range of virtual reality headsets next year.
What's new: Rovio is working with Resolution Games on "Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs," which is due to arrive early next year for "all major VR platforms." Earlier this year, Rovio and Resolution teamed up on an app for Magic Leap's augmented reality glasses.
Why it matters: It won't be everything that VR needs to go mainstream, but the arrival of Angry Birds could pave the way for other mobile game makers to enter the space. For Rovio, it's a chance to bring its signature disgruntled avians to another arena.
5. Take Note
Blue Origin and SpaceX both postponed launches Tuesday, with Blue Origin's possibly taking place today.
Amazon's Diego Piacentini, who has been on leave for the past two years, is leaving the company.
Snapchat's hardware unit has its third boss in the last six months, with Steen Strand now leading the team and former boss Sahil Sharma leaving the company, according to Recode.
Facebook's Workplace product for businesses has a new leader, per CNBC.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has hired Sandra Liu Huang to lead its education efforts.
Getaround co-founder marketing chief Jessica Scorpio is stepping down from her day-to-day role at the company.
Uber has gotten permission to restart autonomous vehicle testing in Pittsburgh. (The Information)
Speaking of Uber, it has also asked for a tariff exemption for the e-bikes it is having manufactured in China. (Bloomberg)
Verizon is renaming its Oath media unit, which includes Yahoo and AOL, to Verizon Media Group. (Verizon)
Spam calls are up 300% worldwide, according to TrueCaller. (VentureBeat)
Elon Musk showed off his first LA-area tunnel late Tuesday. (Reuters)
Micron shares fell 7% after the memory chip maker reported lower-than-expected revenue. (CNBC)
6. After you Login
Pixar's adorable short film Bao is available free on YouTube, but only for a week.
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PC Games > Mahjong Games > Mahjong Masters: Temple of the Ten Gods
Mahjong Masters: Temple of the Ten Gods
The northern kingdoms are at war and they will only find peace by divine intervention. The last survivor of the line of Amathean priests is tasked with constructing the ancient Temple of the Ten Gods and invoke the deities. Complete numerous mahjong solitaire boards to collect the resources needed to construct the vast temple complex.
Mahjong solitaire with a variety of layouts
New Mahjong Number Sum mini game
Make matches to collect temple resources
Hints and magic eye power boosters
Shuffle tiles option
Hard Drive: 78 MB
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Mahjong Masters: Temple of the Ten Gods is rated 3.0 out of 5 by 5.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bumbles2 from Beautiful relaxing game !!! I just finished the 1 hour demo and I'll definitely be buying this one !!! The music is soooo peaceful...a good game to play for some stress relief. The graphics are superb...although I didn't get half way done..but it appears to me to be well put together. Anyways....not sure about the story-line yet but I think as you gather materials...it enables you to rebuild a town. As you start... each box has 3 items to gather while playing. You won't be able to gather all 3 so you need to replay until you have the number they're asking for and then I think it takes you to another scenario. Not sure if I explained that right...all I know...at this point, is that I really enjoyed this game!!! Have fun all...this is a keeper !!!
Rated 4 out of 5 by pennmom36 from NORMALLY I FIND MAHJONG BORING BUT THIS GAME FELT LIKE THERE WAS A PURPOSE Mahjong games are usually fun for about ten minutes, then they just get old and repetitive. It's the same game, the same features, the same tiles, same boring Mahjong tiles. But Mahjong Masters is actually different, because of its features, I felt like it had purpose, that there was a reason I needed to match the tiles. There are only two different tile sets to choose from, Simple Traditional Mahjong Tiles, and Themed Mahjong Tiles, and there are two different Mahjong Game types, Build The Temple (traditional Mahjong requiring you to uncover all Gold tiles) and Invoke the Deities (you make matches of Numbered Tiles whose sum will equal the number shown) It also has a decent storyline, that actually makes Mahjong sense! The Kingdoms of the Northern Hills have been waging wars for so long, that only divine interventions would be able to stop them, at this point. The Temple of the Ten Gods, have suffered the effects of a war torn nation, and now lies in ruin. You are the soul survivor of a group of Scholars who have been sent on a treacherous journey, to speak with the Ten Gods, however, no god is willing to listen to a mortal whose people are responsible for the Temple's destruction! You must rely on the Magic Tiles to guide you on your quest to rebuild the Temple, and summon the gods to end the wars! In "Build The Temple" Mode, you can choose any highlighted temple section, to start a new game. Each section tells you the requirements needed, in the form of building materials. For example, it may require 16 lumber, 20 gold bars and 11 units of coal to construct that section of the temple. The resources are actually just pictured on Gold Mahjong Tiles. Before the start of each level, several (not all) of the resource Gold Mahjong tiles are placed on the board where they will remain, and then the rest of the Mahjong Tiles are heaped on top and beside them. The goal is to uncover all of those Gold resource tiles to collect them. This is really just a Traditional Mahjong game, where you make matches of Identical tiles, that aren't blocked by other tiles. In this Temple mode. You can then choose to play the same temple section until all the required resources have been obtained, or you can choose another section to play, but you can't build the temple until all of its resources have been collected. In Build the Temple mode, there is no Timer, but points that convert to stars, are deducted if you use the Hint feature (shows you an available Matching set of tiles) or the Magic Eye feature (shades all blocked tiles) If you don't use these features, you will earn bonus points. If you run out of available matches, you get two choices, Shuffle the remaining tiles at a cost of 1000 coins, or end the game, and replay the level with a new set of tiles, but the good news is that in Build the Temple Mahjong, there is no Timer, so its a fairly relaxing game. In the second type of Mahjong, "Invoke the Deities" you are tasked with finding two unblocked Numbered Mahjong Tiles that when added together, their sum will equal the number shown at the bottom of the board. In this version of Mahjong, you are racing against the clock, to find the pair of tiles that equal each number given, one at a time. The only feature I didn't like with Mahjong Masters, was that it's impossible to make matches quickly or back to back, because in either mode, it won't let you click on the next tile until the two tiles you chose previously, finish pairing! This is really annoying when playing Invoking The Deities, because it's a Timed Mahjong game, but maybe it's just me, enjoy!
Rated 3 out of 5 by Luvago from Testing I often pay Mahjong & have many games, but I found this very frustrating, even trying to actually getting the game to start. I love the graphics & music, but having to hit the tiles more than once to get them to match, & then there didn't seem to be enough available matches & I didn't get through several attempts without having to spend 1000 coins to shuffle or get a hint, which happened just as I was in sight of the end. The best part was playing the Deities, which is really addition by matching correct tiles. This game was too frustrating for me.
Rated 2 out of 5 by desperada from not fast enough I tried playing and I just can't go fast enough. I am spotting 6 and 7 moves ahead of one move before it will let me go on to the next move
Rated 1 out of 5 by chunkychow from Total Frustration !!! Beautiful tiles - Very few matches - even ones that match sometime would not - just gave up !!!!!
A mahjong quest to construct an ancient temple and invoke the Gods!
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Concrete Preservation Institute at Alcatraz
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Chemistry at work—preserving instead of demolishing iconic structures on Alcatraz Island
The Concrete Preservation Institute (CPI), in partnership with the National Park Service, conducts field school on Alcatraz Island in which several CPI participants use BASF’s Master Builders Solutions materials to restore the iconic structures.
Learn how BASF and the CPI school work together to preserve Alcatraz Island.
“I’ve learned more about concrete this summer than I ever thought I’d know about concrete, that’s for sure.”
- Cory Alexander, a student from Shawnee, Kansas, who joined CPI right out of the Army
“Restoration takes you back to something else; it puts you into somebody else’s mind state. That’s one of my favorite things about being out here.”
- Julie Mostafa, a college graduate from Jersey City, N.J., who studied architecture and concrete industry management at NJIT
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- Destin Carter, an Army veteran from Memphis, Tennessee
Alcatraz - a place of learning
The challenges of the concrete repair industry have grown in recent years.
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BASF joined this partnership as the founding sponsor of the Field School on Alcatraz, providing materials, financial support and technical training.
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This project reflects innovations in the chemical industry and meets the growing demands of the construction industry—all the while doing it sustainably.
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Accessible only by boat across the turbulent waters of San Francisco Bay, the restoration of the facilities on Alcatraz Island has presented a number of unique challenges.
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10 things pop stars should immediately stop doing
By Fraser McAlpine
Friday 3rd February 2017
Celebrities are sponges for public criticism. All they have to do is exist in front of a camera and that'll be enough for someone to find them objectionable. That said, there are a few particularly unsavoury habits that pop stars seem to have picked up recently, particularly in the age of social media.
Here are 10 things we'd all like to see less of in 2017, some more urgent than others:
1. Beefs
Zayn Malik tweet to Calvin Harris: "so i suggest you calm your knickers before them dentures fall out"
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This isn't a complaint about the correct way to pluralise the word beef (it's beef), just a heartfelt plea to anyone involved in the business of making music who wishes to elevate their own status by having a snide dig at someone slightly higher up the ladder. Unless you're really good at the putdowns - like Zayn Malik, above - just pack it in. Drake and Meek Mill? Enough! Taylor Swift and Katy Perry? Shush! Everyone involved in the continuous, rolling grime kerfuffle that started between Tinie Tempah and Chip? Increase the peace. And that goes double for everyone in online news who would rush to call the mildest of celebrity disagreements a beef in the first place. Your mum wouldn't like it.
2. Tweeting in haste
Sarah Michelle Gellar tweet
From Taylor Swift overreacting to Nicki Minaj to everything Azealia Banks ever said, Twitter is sometimes too convenient a receptacle for half-formed thoughts, misunderstandings and buttons that should not be quite so easily pushed. The finest recent example of a speedy tweet that proved to be instantly regrettable arrived just after the sad news of George Michael's death began to circulate around the world. As is often the case, messages of remembrance began to appear across social media with great speed, and the actress Sarah Michelle Gellar joined in. Except she had been told it was Boy George that had died, so her tweet read: "Do you really want to hurt me? I guess you do 2016 #ripboygeorge I was truly one of your biggest fans."
Having been immediately informed of her mistake, she issued an apologetic explanation (above) and deleted the tweet, but not before it was screengrabbed and tweeted and then re-tweeted by astonished Twitter users. The sad part is Sarah then said she would no longer be offering her views online. With news outlets seizing on what was clearly an innocent mistake, she tweeted: "This is usually why I don't comment on public matters, but it all seemed so sad on Christmas. Lesson learned."
3. Old rockers criticising younger pop stars
David Crosby tweet
Every new generation of pop people has to face down the withering scorn of their elders, it's a rite of passage. That said, some old rockers - principally Keith Richards, David Crosby, Gene Simmons and Noel Gallagher - seem to have made it a personal mission to take a look at whoever is doing well at any given moment, and explain carefully where they are going wrong in their musical life choices, and why we shouldn't be giving them the time of day. It's one thing for Jon Bon Jovi to criticise Justin Bieber's attitude, quite another to dismiss whole musical genres out of hand.
They may believe it makes them look like connoisseurs, but all that complaining about music that isn't even particularly aimed at them also makes them look unadventurous, as if they've only got one type of tastebud, and it's perpetually sour.
4. Moaning about fans
Liam Payne selfie
Look, everyone gets it. It must be tiresome to constantly be in demand, and to have people scream hysterically at you while you're trying to do your job (this means you, Justin Bieber). People ask for your autograph and then sell it (hi Ringo!), or want to take a selfie when you're desperate for the loo (every pop star ever).
Every time these minor indignities happen, it must be enormously frustrating. But let's face it, for a pop star, the alternative - no screams, no autograph requests, no selfies - is far worse. Just something to bear in mind the next time you don't feel like smiling between shots, Liam Payne.
5. Showing too much ambition
[LISTEN] Ed Sheeran reveals he wants to be the biggest pop star in the world
Self-belief is a wonderful thing in a pop star. It's the fuel in their rocket; it's the thing that allows them to strap on a pair of metallic angel wings for a stage costume and not say, "Hang on, are you sure I don't look like a colossal berk?" And it's the thing that pushes them onto the stage in the first place. However, it's probably best not to harp on about how big a star you feel you are, or would like to be, in any scientific detail.
Yes, you can say you want as many people to enjoy your music as possible, and you can also claim to be a perfectionist about your songs, but once you start talking about units, and beating other artists - as Ed Sheeran did recently in an interview with GQ about Adele - it starts to look like it's the winning that counts, that the music is being specifically created in order to achieve that goal.
That said, everyone indulging in the mock-horrified reaction hashtag #EdSheeranIsOverParty should probably calm down, too.
6. Instagramming food
Lorde's toast
This is Lorde's toast, with a slice of cheese and a tomato on top. It's something she wanted to share with the world, because she likes the domestic bliss of making her own food in contrast to "thumbing through the room service menu in the middle of the night". In a sense this is an interesting window into the mindset of one of music's more original and thoughtful singers, and proves that she has probably not had to overly rethink the celebrity-baiting lyrics to Royals, since becoming famous.
In another, very real sense, it's a photo taken by someone who feels a need to communicate the message, "Hey everyone! Look at my breakfast," so that a million Lorde fans will supportively comment about how much they too enjoy toast.
7. Speaking in the third person
[LISTEN] Kanye West talks to Annie Mac
As a general rule, any famous person who talks about their public persona using their own name comes across as self-aggrandising and slightly drunk on their own fame. And to make matters worse for anyone who'd still like to give it a try, Kanye West has already done it better than anyone could hope to, in the lyric to his song I Love Kanye.
It's a great beatless, breathless rap in which he plays with his own media profile and the kind of online comments he gets on a daily basis while mentioning his own name at the end of every single line - "I miss the sweet Kanye, chop up the beats Kanye / I gotta say, at that time I'd like to meet Kanye" - and it ends with this frankly incredible couplet: "What if Kanye made a song about Kanye called I Miss The Old Kanye? / Man, that'd be so Kanye."
8. Freestyling awards speeches
Radio 1 Live Lounge Performance of the Year: The 1975
Here's a cautionary tale. When Wiz Khalifa was given a Billboard award for the tender ballad See You Again in May 2016, he took to the stage with gratitude on his mind. He offered shout-outs to every other nominated artist, the fans, other artists in the room, his record label, his management, his family and his closest buddies.
In fact, the one person he didn't thank was Charlie Puth, the fellow who actually sang the key refrain in See You Again. And this is clearly someone who has thought about what he is going to say. He's already head and shoulders above every singer who just wants to wing it with a smile if things happen to go their way. The point is, yes, awards might not always be cool, but if you're nominated and you attend the ceremony, unless you're naturally sharp of wit, like Matty Healy of The 1975 (above), you can't be too cool to have prepared something to say if you win.
9. Thumbs up
Paul McCartney Instagram
If pop stars are supposed to be cooler, more charismatic and more photogenic than everyone else, why must they insist on using the daft hand signals of your aggravating uncle (or Paul McCartney, if you want a musical precedent) whenever a camera is pointed in their direction? At least the complicated twisty finger hand signs of various East and West Coast rappers were intriguing to look at and ponder over.
By contrast, the all-purpose thumbs up has one purpose, to say "everything is a-OK", a redundant message in almost every context that is not the act of telling a concerned observer who believes everything is not a-OK that everything is, in fact, a-OK. This most especially applies to photographs of famous people standing up and smiling while having their picture taken. We know you're alright, pop stars, no one is worried.
10. Self-searching and responding
James Blunt tweet
Social media can be a snakepit, and everyone in the public eye knows what it is like to be told off by strangers. Sometimes the right thing to do is respond directly, but only if that person has appeared in your notification stream by aiming their remark directly at you. Any celebrity who replies to a tweet that was not linked directly to them by their social media handle is interrupting a private conversation and worse, proving that they run vanity searches on their own name. It's a lose-lose for them to even acknowledge those tweets exist and they should never, ever do it.
The only person this does not apply to is James Blunt, who has managed to turn waves of public snark into a kind of ongoing banter battle that no one could seriously be offended by. He doesn't encourage his fans to attack his critics, doesn't spark waves of vitriol and bats any insults away as if they're just a nasty spin ball at a village cricket match, on the hottest day in summer, when he's already won the match and there's an amazing cake in the club house.
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5 Quiz: How many of these Mastermind music questions can you answer?
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PLP Architecture re-imagines what it means to be a skyscraper
Coming in at just under ‘megatall’ status, the 595-meter Nexus Building forgoes the central core design typical of most skyscrapers.
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David Malone, Associate Editor
Rendering Courtesy of Tegmark
The Nexus Building, the focal point of PLP Architecture’s new masterplan in China’s Pearl River Delta, looks to feature a building that would be one of the world’s tallest, but the extreme height of the building, surprisingly, wouldn’t be its major defining feature.
According to Gizmag, PLP Architecture has split the building into three volumes, each one offset on equidistant axes, giving the structure the look of a giant Transformer in mid transformation. The firm says this type of configuration, while providing a unique and stunning aesthetic, will serve a functional purpose, as well. With a proposed height of 1,952 feet, this tripod-like design will be better equipped to deal with natural forces, such as high winds.
The three tiers will be angled to provide views of different surrounding areas. The lowest tier is made up of 44 stories and will face a nearby park. The middle volume will have 83 stories and be oriented toward the rest of the surrounding city. The top tier will offer 124 stories and provide views of the city and distant mountains.
The Nexus Building looks to redefine skyscraper design by forgoing traditional core-based design. Besides providing the building’s support, these pivot points, the points where each of the three tiers meet, also create wide open views. By not having a central core, there is no need for pillars and supports that take up interior space.
Each level has floor heights of 15 feet with wide open spaces and plenty of windows to offer “a real connection to nature and the outdoors,” PLP Architecture Founding Partner David Leventhal told Curbed.
The structure would consist mainly of office space but would have space for an eight-story retail podium and will be topped with a 14-story hotel.
With such a unique and innovative building design, the use of regular old elevators for transporting people around obviously wasn’t going to get the job done. Instead, office workers will get to various parts of the structure via shuttles that run on a schedule like trains. There will be express cars that will take people to the central floors where the tiers intersect where they can then transfer to other elevators to get to their final destination.
If this plan gets put into action, the earliest possible completion date wouldn’t be until at least 2020.
Rendering Courtesy of Luxigon
Rendering Courtesy of PLP Vyonyx
Left: Salesforce Tower, photo: Jason O'Rear; Right: Ping An Finance Center, photo: Tim Griffith
April 11, 2019 | High-rise Construction | BD+C Staff and CTBUH
Top new skyscrapers for 2019: Salesforce Tower named best worldwide, Ping An Finance Center best 'supertall'
The San Francisco tower was recognized for its innovations in seismic engineering and a design that "gives...
Rendering: DBOX for Foster + Partners
April 10, 2019 | High-rise Construction | David Malone, Associate Editor
*Updated* A Tulip is ready to bloom in London
Designed by Foster + Partners, the Tulip will rise 1,001 feet and be a new cultural and tourist attraction....
Courtesy Goettsch Partners
March 04, 2019 | High-rise Construction | David Malone, Associate Editor
Goettsch Partners' tallest tower ever tops out in China
The tower will become the tallest in Nanning, China upon completion.
Rendering courtesy Dubai Holding
February 08, 2019 | High-rise Construction | David malone, Associate Editor
Dubai’s newest supertall will be covered in digital displays
SOM designed the tower.
January 18, 2019 | High-rise Construction | David Malone, Associate Editor
‘Paramount’ will become Nashville’s tallest tower
Goettsch Partners is the project’s architect.
©Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
AS+GG-designed tower will be the tallest in China
The tower is at the center of the Shimao Longgang Master Plan.
Courtesy Goettsch
January 10, 2019 | High-rise Construction | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Indoor-outdoor amenities open leasing value at a San Francisco skyscraper
The amenities that set this 605-foot-tall building apart are its 50,000 sf of outdoor and open spaces that...
Citic Tower in Beijing. Rendering: KPF
December 13, 2018 | High-rise Construction | BD+C and CTBUH
Record number of 'supertall' towers were completed in 2018
Citic Tower in Beijing and Vincom Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City are among 18 "supertall" skyscrapers comp...
August 27, 2018 | High-rise Construction | David Malone, Associate Editor
The world’s tallest buildings with dampers
The CTBUH created the list as part of a recent study.
Photo: Chao Zhang
Bjarke Ingels Group’s new Shenzhen tower includes a folded building envelope
The new skyscraper is the home of Shenzhen Energy Company.
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How Traffic Ticket Convictions in Your Private Vehicle Influence Your CDL
Many new or rookie drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMV) do not realize how much of an effect a traffic ticket in their private vehicle (non-CMV) has on their commercial driver’s license (CDL). Their CDL is in jeopardy of suspension or disqualification even when traveling out-of-state in a non-CMV due to the Driver's License Compact (DLC), Employer Pull Notice (EPN) Program, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP).
Unless the CLD holder has an excellent mentor to point out the multiple reporting systems and the DLC reporting cooperative, they might fail to report an out-of-state conviction or accident to their employer. Most of the truckers who didn’t know about the reporting requirements are likely no longer around to tell them.
NOTE: The DLC may soon get replaced by the Driver's License Agreement (DLA), which has more stringent reporting procedures.
Even though there is a shortage of nearly 900,000 truckers nationwide, many top-paying carriers have a zero-tolerance for moving violations, even in a non-CMV. The primary reasons for the deficit are the upsurge in e-commerce and online orders, the lack of young people and females entering the profession, and hordes of independent, owner-operators leaving the vocation due to what many speculate is over-regulation of the industry by the FMCSA and the federally-mandated Electronic Logging Device (ELD).
Why Your CDL Is in Daily Jeopardy
When you get a ticket in another state, even in a rental, family car, truck, or van, or other non-CMVs on vacation, you must report the conviction or paid ticket for a moving violation to your employer on DLC within 30 days. Yes, a paid speeding ticket or unsafe lane change is the same as a conviction. However, you must report a license suspension to your employer within 24 hours.
Consequently, a suspension even in another state could mean the end of your driving career with your current carrier. Plus, with the FMCSA’s PSP, the nationwide CDL Information System (CDLIS), and the requirement to submit a ten-year driving history to prospective employers, they will be aware of any violations in a non-CMV as well as your CDL and Commercial Learner's Permit (CLP). That’s why CDL holders find it necessary to challenge every traffic ticket even in their private vehicle.
Driving after an Out-of-Service Order, Suspension, or Disqualification
Drivers who violate an Out-of-Service (OOS) order or suspension (CMV or non-CMV), even from another state, are subject to a fine or civil penalty of $2,500 for a first offense, ten Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) points, and a driving disqualification by FMCSA for one year or three years for hazardous material (HazMat) haulers, depending on the nature of the original OOS order, suspension, or disqualification.
A subsequent violation is $5,000 and a disqualification for three years to life, once again, depending on the reason for the OOS or disqualification. Although drivers with a lifetime disqualification can get their CDL reinstated after ten years and a completed rehab program, it will still be difficult to get re-employed with a top trucking firm. You will likely have to start over and work your way up to a top-paying carrier.
Employer Pull Notice (EPN) Program & Your CDL
The EPN, administered by the DMV in CA by the authority of CA Vehicle Code (CVC) 1801.1, DMV Records of Departments is an enrollment program that sends notifications to employers upon request for recruitment, when their drivers get convicted of moving violations, when notified by another state or North American (NA) country, and annually after registration.
Employers receive a requestor code, which is unique to each carrier and gets added to each driver’s CDL record. Any reportable action by a driver will generate a report, which gets mailed to the employer. Reportable actions include:
Convictions,
Accidents,
FTA or Failures to Appear for moving violations,
Suspensions and Revocations
Any of the above received from other states or NA countries, and
Other reported driving privilege actions in both CMV and non-CMVs
When other states notify the CA DMV about moving violation activities for both CA CDL holders and non-domiciled drivers employed by CA carriers, it gets reported to employers and stored on a CDL holders record. Therefore, even when a CDL holder does not report out-of-state violations to their employer, the EPN program will.
Traffic Ticket Attorneys for Riverside, CA
When you receive a traffic ticket out on I-5 or 10 in Riverside, either in your CMV or private vehicle, call Bigger & Harman, (661) 349-9300. We know how difficult it can be to maintain a clean driving record when you are on the road 60 hours or more per week. Going to court to fight what would be a minor infraction for the non-CMV driver is hard to do when you are on the road or waiting for a load. Likewise, we can represent you at a DMV Hearing to get invalid or incorrect convictions removed from your CDL record or request additional leeway for NOTS points to avoid suspension due to unusual circumstances or driving miles.
Many non-drivers and even a few CDL holders do not realize the impact of a conviction for a six or seven mph over the limit speeding ticket, including 50 percent more Negligent Operator Treatment System points, CSA points, and higher fines, not to mention the possibility of employment termination, which will affect your career for ten years.
Read what one CDL holder, Phil Winters, said about our legal services on Lawyer.com, "I got a speeding ticket in a truck in April 2018. I immediately called Bigger & Harmon. I felt very nervous about having a ticket like that on my record. I was informed that in the best-case scenario they could get the case dismissed. Another option would be the get the charge reduced to a lesser charge that would not carry points. And in the worst case, I would have to pay the ticket, and have it on my record. But the latter would be unlikely. So I hired them, and hoped for the best. Well after waiting 3 1/2 months for my case to come to trial, I was just informed that they were able to get it dismissed. You can imagine my relief. The retainer fee paid was well worth it. I could have had a ticket on my record which would affect my insurance for three years and possibly lose out on good job opportunities in the future. Way more expensive than the retainer. If you have gotten a ticket, I highly, highly suggest you hire this firm to represent you! Thanks Bigger & Harmon, and team!"
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Se habla Español (661) 349-9755.
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Black Guerrilla story gets full Fox treatment from Geraldo, O'Reilly
Question: What could be wilder and stranger than the story this week of Black Guerrilla Family members essentially running the Baltimore City Detention Center for their own fun and profit?
Answer: Fox News "reporting" on the story this week of Black Guerrilla Family members essentially running the Baltimore City Detention Center for their own fun and profit.
Friday night, Bill O'Reilly brought Geraldo Rivera onto his prime-time show for a segment titled on the Fox website as "Geraldo investigates an outrageous prison situation."
Geraldo "investigates"? Are you kidding me?
The incredible charges of gang leader Tavon White impregnating female guards, running drugs and enforcing discipline while turning the Baltimore prison into a Black Guerrilla stronghold were the product of a federal investigation. And the indictment based on those allegations was released and widely reported early this week.
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The Baltimore Sun has been doing its own excellent reporting in the wake of a federal indictment alleging that 25 people, including corrections officers, were involved in a smuggling scheme. Check out the latest report with an outstanding graphic showing the various players inside the facility.
But based on what he offered during his five minutes on O'Reilly's show Friday night, it looks like the sum total of Rivera's investigation consisted of him clicking the print button on his computer in New York to print out the indictment that everyone else who had been covering the story all week had already reported days ago.
Really, even by Rivera's history as a hot dog and phony, this might be a new low.
Watch the video of the segment, and you tell me why I shouldn't call O'Reilly and Rivera a couple of pathetic poseurs.
And check out how far O'Reilly, whom I used to think of as a master of the 24/7 news-talk genre, has fallen. I don't know if he's grown older and lost his keen political edge the last two years or he simply has started to sink to the level of some of his worst guests like Rivera.
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I love the way he and Rivera act like no one else has been covering this story and it is up to them to enforce accountability on Maryland Public Safety Secretary Gary D. Maynard and Gov. Martin O'Malley.
"I'm going to demand right now, Gary Maynard be fired," O'Reilly said. "If he isn't, we're going to deal with O'Malley... He [Maynard] should have resigned anyway. In Japan, he probably would have to commit suicide."
Yes, that's what O'Reilly said. But he wasn't done with his gas-bag bluster yet.
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The Barghest Motive Garmr: Fire & Fury
You cannot believe the feeling of speed and acceleration or what it feels like to corner in this raw & powerful three-wheeled devil dog that leans into turns.
The Garmr is the first edition, hand-engineered offering from Barghest Motive. This three-wheeled, reverse trike is offered for sale as a one of a kind, never to be replicated motor vehicle.
This beast lives up to its name. The Garmr, which means “Hellhound” is as powerful as it is fun to ride. Her 1200cc engine powers into corners, and it’s unique fully mechanical “motorcycle-like” leaning mechanism allows you to corner at incredible speeds giving you the ability to tear into and out of corners.
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The experience of riding the Barghest Garmr is like surfing on a fighter jet.
Like our counterparts in the custom vehicle, motorcycle, and hypercar industries, whom we truly admire, we pursue meticulous detail, performance, and exhilaration.
Unlike others, who begin with a performance focus and let the enjoyment come from speed and acceleration, we start with a deeper experience in mind and let the design, the feel, the engineering, and performance evolve from that feeling.
We want our rider to feel deeply connected to their machine. Almost like a profound ecstatic communion with a lover.
Further, as the rider rides the Garmr the experience evolves and deepens, allowing the rider to constantly feel something new.
It is wild, and words fall short of explaining it, it must be felt to be truly understood.
This is why we needed to use a unique way of building each Barghest.
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To achieve the complexity of experience, we could not design Garmr on a computer like most vehicles. We also had to move beyond hand-crafting.
We needed to design and engineer while riding. We call this process “hand-engineering.” And it took our Chief Artisan 18-months to craft until the Garmr experience was perfection.
It is a completely unique way of designing vehicles and it leads to a riding feel that is without comparison.
Though this process is obviously extremely labor intensive, we believe this is the only way to truly give the Garmr, her soul
Public Response
You cannot believe the response the Garmr inspires in both men and women.
Our goal was to create a unique riding experience, but we never could have anticipated the reaction she gets from the general public and our peers alike.
During a recent photo shoot in Los Angeles, while waiting to turn into Downtown Beverly Hills, the driver of a Star Tour bus stopped on Santa Monica Blvd., blocking traffic allowing his group to take pictures of us, and even snapping a few for himself. We were truly flattered to get a taste of LA celebrity.
We feel humbled by getting such intense attention even while being surrounded by the world’s ultimate luxury & performance vehicles.
Everywhere she goes people have surrounded her with attention and pictures.Even without being able to enjoy riding her, people from all walks of life seem to get drawn in.
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In Norse mythology, the Garmr is a devil dog guarding the entrance to hell. Our Garmr is no exception.
Its large body juts out like a battering ram against the air. The engine, unrestrained screams as you twist the throttle. The rear tire smokes as you launch forward, howling and hurling you against the seat, accelerating at a blistering pace.
The Garmr was designed as the personification of strength and power: from its full carbon fiber body, to its powerful 1200cc engine, its aggressive stance, its wheel-tire combo, to its deep growl.
Even at a standstill, she’s a commanding presence.
It urges you to unleash more of its power while diving deeper and sharper into corners as you confidently command her to attack the road ahead.
And when you’re ready to chill with a ride along the beach, the Garmr glides through “S’s” like a serpent.
With Garmr our goal was to create a raw organic mechanical experience. One where human & machine connect. Not through electronics or computing power. Rather through feel & touch, sound & vibration. Much like the race cars & bikes of eras past. It is something only a true automotive connoisseur will understand.
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Each Barghest is a one-of-a-kind edition that will never be replicated.
While we will build many future reverse trikes, with each new trike we start from absolute scratch. This means that the look, the feel, the experience of this trike edition will always be completely unique to the Garmr.
Therefore, the buyer of Garmr will be the only one in the world that can experience her.
Imagine owning the first Ferrari.
Even though each Barghest will be its own unique vehicle, there is only one first. The owner of the Garmr will have the distinction of having the first Barghest.
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To reach a Worldwide audience of automotive enthusiasts and collectors, we are offering the Garmr up for a one-time-only, 10-day public bid via eBay.
If you have any questions, we are more than happy to answer them.
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We will provide FREE shipping and delivery to any buyer located within the 48 contiguous states. Shipping will NOT be outsourced to a third party, we will personally transport and deliver within an agreed upon time frame after purchase. If the buyer wishes to waive this free shipping option and make their own arrangements, we will do all we can to accommodate you.
International Buyers...
Do to all the details, potential duties, and/or taxes that may be involved with shipping a motor vehicle overseas. We are sorry to say that we can NOT offer the benefit of free shipping. However, we will do all we can to assist in the arrangements from our end to make the process move along as smoothly as possible, but international buyers will be responsible for shipping arrangements and costs.
Barghest Motive, the builder, the seller, and all associates claim no responsibility for any and all damages and or injuries to persons or property that may result in and or from any and all use or misuse of any item, vehicle, or product provided, sold, or transferred. Use at your own risk.
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Each Barghest is tested extensively before we make it available for ownership, as a result, we stand behind each vehicle. If there is a problem, we will work with you to bring the Garmr to its pre-damage condition.
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We have received significant interest from art shows, galleries, television shows, and film to use the Garmr in their productions. We will reserve the right to use the trike in events, shows, advertisements, etc. We believe this will significantly increase the value of the Garmr for the buyer after its initial sale.
We truly Thank You for your interest in Barghest Motive and look forward to building a lasting relationship with you in the future.
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The Kite Fighters
by Linda Sue Park, Eung Won Park (Illustrator)Linda Sue Park
In a riveting narrative set in fifteenth-century Korea, two brothers discover a shared passion for kites. Kee-sup can craft a kite unequaled in strength and beauty, but his younger brother, Young-sup, can fly a kite as if he controlled the wind itself. Their combined skills attract the notice of Korea's young king, who chooses Young-sup to fly the royal kite in the New Year kite-flying competition--an honor that is also an awesome responsibility. Although tradition decrees, and the boys' father insists, that the older brother represent the family, both brothers know that this time the family's honor is best left in Young-sup's hands. This touching and suspenseful story, filled with the authentic detail and flavor of traditional Korean kite fighting, brings a remarkable setting vividly to life. AUTHOR'S NOTE.
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Linda Sue Park is the author of the Newbery Medal book A Single Shard, many other novels, several picture books, and most recently a book of poetry: Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems). She lives in Rochester, New York, with her family, and is now a devoted fan of the New York Mets. For more infromation visit www.lspark.com.
"With ease and grace, Park brings these long-ago children to life." --SLJ, Starred School Library Journal, Starred
Tradition and family loyalty come into question in this book by the recently named Newbery Medalist, set in Seoul, Korea, in 1473. Two brothers anticipate the annual New Year's Kite competition, wondering how to balance convention and love for one's talent. Ages 9-12. (Feb.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Gr 4-7-When Young-sup holds a kite in his hand, he knows exactly how to make it fly. His older brother, Kee-sup, struggles to launch his kite, but he knows exactly how to construct one that is beautiful in form and perfectly balanced. One day, the young king of Korea suddenly arrives with all of his attendants on the hillside where the brothers are playing with their matching tiger kites. He requests their help in learning to fly one, and then asks Kee-sup to make a kite for him. The boy is deeply honored and works diligently on it, a dragon flecked with real gold paint. Meanwhile, Young-sup is determined to win the kite-fighting competition at the New Year's festival. He practices on the hillside where the king frequently joins him, and their growing friendship leads to an interesting collaboration and a thorny challenge to tradition in Korea in 1473. The final contest, in which Young-sup flies for the king, is riveting. Though the story is set in medieval times, the brothers have many of the same issues facing siblings today. They play and argue, they compete for their father's attention, and eventually develop a greater understanding of one another. The author has drawn her characters with a sure touch, creating two very different boys struggling to figure out who they are. With ease and grace, Park brings these long-ago children to life.-Barbara Scotto, Michael Driscoll School, Brookline, MA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
Kite making and flying strengthens the bond between two brothers, and earns them a royal friend to boot, in this perceptive tale set in 15th century Korea. The fighter kites that 14-year-old Kee-sup builds and decorates are splendid, but it's his younger brother Young-sup who has the innate gift for flying them. Nonetheless, when the boy king himself asks Kee-sup to create a special kite and Young-sup to fly it in the upcoming New Year's kite competition, to Young-sup's outrage their father decides that it's Kee-sup's place as first born to be the flier, despite his lack of aptitude. Park (Seesaw Girl, 1999) tucks traditional Korean customs and values into the story at every turn, while giving each of her young characters a distinct, complementary set of abilities and inclinations; it is only because everyone from the king on down helps, directly or indirectly, that Young-sup is, in the end, allowed to fly the kite His victory comes as no foregone conclusion either, but only after a series of hard-fought rounds. Readers will enjoy watching these engaging characters find ways of overcoming webs of social and cultural constraints to achieve a common goal, and the author expresses the pleasures of creating and flying kites"A few sticks, a little paper, some string. And the wind. Kite magic`with contagious enthusiasm. (Fiction. 9-11)
The Kite Fighters 4.5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 8 reviews.
I thought this book was awsome. It's really cool to read a book about another country and their styles and customs. Really funny and wonderful. I would recomend it for any age level! = )))
The Kite Fighters tells of a young king's struggle against loneliness, an oldest son's battle with family expectations, and a young son's search for identity. The setting contributes to the conflict as culture, family expectations, and individualism all clash in an exciting climax and very satisfying ending. A perfect book for reading aloud!
This was the best book ever and is very authentic. Would definaltly come back for more.
avcr on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Similar but not the same, two Korean brothers negotiate kite making and lessons in pride, custom, and sibling rivalry. Young-Sup¿s strikes a bargain with a kite seller to gain the reel that his Father has denied him, he wins the bargain and show great modesty in his win. The King of Korea is a boy nearly the same age as Kee-Sup and Young-Sup; when the King ventures out to find out who the owner of the tiger kites he sees from his palace, he meets the two and commissions Kee-Sup in the building of a kite of his own. Sibling rivalry ensues as his Father orders Young-Sup not to argue with Kee-Sup since he has been capped. Custom dictates that the family honor rests on the first born. The most enjoyable part is how Parks captures the ¿sameness¿ in boys, whether you are a King or just a pig-brain boy, and the joy that swells when Kee-Sup stands up to his Father in asking permission for Young-Sup to fly for the King. If You Like This, Try: The Firekeeper¿s Son by Linda Sue Park, Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park, Bee-bin Bop! By Linda Sue Park.Awards: Linda Sue Park won a Newbery Medal for A Single Shard in 2002.
I loved all the charecters and mostly the King.
I love this book.it felt like magic while i was reading it
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The River at Night
by Erica FerencikErica Ferencik
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A “raw, relentless, and heart-poundingly real” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) thriller set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, The River at Night charts the journey of four friends as they fight to survive the aftermath of a white water rafting accident.
Winifred Allen needs a vacation.
Stifled by a soul-crushing job, devastated by the death of her beloved brother, and lonely after the end of a fifteen-year marriage, Wini is feeling vulnerable. So when her three best friends insist on a high-octane getaway for their annual girls’ trip, she signs on, despite her misgivings.
What starts out as an invigorating hiking and rafting excursion in the remote Allagash Wilderness soon becomes an all-too-real nightmare; a freak accident leaves the women stranded, separating them from their raft and everything they need to survive. When night descends, a fire on the mountainside lures them to a ramshackle camp that appears to be their lifeline. But as Wini and her friends grasp the true intent of their supposed saviors, long buried secrets emerge and lifelong allegiances are put to the test. To survive, Wini must reach beyond the world she knows to harness an inner strength she never knew she possessed.
With intimately observed characters and visceral prose, The River at Night “will leave you gasping, your heart racing, eyes peering over your shoulder to see what follows from behind” (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author). This is a dark exploration of creatures—both friend and foe—that you won’t soon forget.
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Erica Ferencik is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Boston University. Her work has appeared in Salon and The Boston Globe, as well as on National Public Radio. Find out more on her website EricaFerencik.com and follow her on Twitter @EricaFerencik.
Early one morning in late March, Pia forced my hand.
A slapping spring wind ushered me through the heavy doors of the YMCA lobby as the minute hand of the yellowing 1950s-era clock over the check-in desk snapped to 7:09. Head down and on task to be in my preferred lane by precisely 7:15, I rushed along the glass corridor next to the pool. The chemical stink leaked from the ancient windows, as did the muffled shrieks of children and the lifeguard’s whistle. I felt cosseted by the shabby walls, by my self-righteous routine, by the fact that I’d ousted myself from my warm bed to face another tedious day head-on. Small victories.
I’d just squeezed myself into my old-lady swimsuit when the phone in my bag began to bleat. I dug it out. The screen pulsed with the image of Pia Zanderlee ski-racing down a double black diamond slope somewhere in Banff.
My choices? Answer it now or play phone tag for another week. Pia was that friend you love with a twinge of resentment. The sparkly one who never has time for you unless it’s on her schedule, but you like her too much to flush her down the friendship toilet.
“Wow, a phone call—from you!” I said as I mercilessly assessed my middle-aged pudge in the greasy mirror. “To what do I owe the honor?”
Of course I knew the reason. Five unanswered texts.
Pia laughed. “Hey, Win, listen. We need to make our reservations. Like, by tomorrow.”
I fished around in my swim bag for my goggles. “Yeah, I haven’t—”
“I get it. Nature’s not your thing, but you’re going to love it once you’re out there. Rachel and Sandra are chomping at the bit to go, but they have to make their travel plans. We all do.”
With a shudder, I recalled my frantic Google search the night before for Winnegosset River Rafting, Maine.
“Just wondering why this place doesn’t have some kind of website. I mean, is it legit?” I asked, my voice coming out all high and tinny. Already I was ashamed of my wussiness. “I’d hate to get all the way up there and find out this is some sort of shady operation—”
I could feel her roll her eyes. “Wini, just because some place or something or someone doesn’t have a website doesn’t mean they don’t exist.” She sounded windblown, breathless. I pictured her power walking through her Cambridge neighborhood, wrist weights flashing neon. “It’s a big old world out there. One of the reasons this place is so awesome is because no one knows about it yet, so it’s not booked solid before the snow’s even melted. That’s why there’s space for the weekend we all want, get it? This year, it’s the world’s best-kept secret—next year, forget it!”
“I don’t know, Pia . . .” I glanced at the time: 7:14.
She laughed, softening to me now. “Look, the guy who runs the white-water tours is a good friend of my dad—he’s my dad’s friend’s son, I mean, so it’s cool.”
“Can’t believe Rachel would want to—”
“Are you crazy? She’s dying to go. And Sandra? Please. She’d get on a plane right now if she could.”
With a wave of affection I pictured my last Skype with Sandra: kids running around screaming in the background, papers to correct stacked next to her. When I brought up the trip, she’d groaned, Hell, yes, I’m game for anything—just get me out of Dodge!
“Wini, listen up: Next year—I promise, we’ll go to a beach somewhere. Cancún, Key West, you choose. Do nothing and just bake.”
“Look, Pia, I’m at the pool and I’m going to lose my lane—”
“Okay. Swim. Then call me.”
I tucked my flyaway dirty-blond bob—the compromise cut for all hopelessly shitty hair—under my bathing cap, then hustled my stuff into a locker and slammed it shut. Do nothing and just bake. Did she really think that was all I was interested in? Who was the one who rented the bike the last time we went to the Cape? Just me, as I recalled, while all of them sat around the rental pouring more and more tequila into the blender each day. And my God—we were all pushing forty—shouldn’t awesome and cool be in the rearview mirror by now?
I crossed the slimy tiles of the dressing room and pushed open the swinging doors to the pool. The air hit me, muggy and warm, dense with chlorine that barely masked an underwhiff of urine and sweat. Children laughed and punched at the blue water in the shallow end as I padded over to my favorite lane, which was . . . occupied.
It was 7:16 and frog man had beat me to it. Fuck.
For close to a year, this nonagenarian ear, nose, and throat doctor and I had been locked in a mostly silent daily battle over the best lane—far left-hand side, under the skylights—from 7:15 to 8:00 each weekday morning. Usually I was the victor, something about which I’d felt ridiculous glee. We’d only ever exchanged the briefest of greetings; both of us getting to the Y a notch earlier each day. I imagined we both craved this mindless exercise, thoughts freed by the calming boredom of swimming and near weightlessness.
But today I’d lost the battle. I plopped down on a hard plastic seat, pouting inside but feigning serenity as I watched him slap through his slow-motion crawl. He appeared to lose steam near the end of a lap, then climbed the ladder out of the pool as only a ninety-year-old can: with careful deliberation in every step. As I watched the water drip off his flat ass and down his pencil legs, I realized that he was making his way to me, or rather to a stack of towels next to me, and in a few seconds I’d pretty much have to talk to him. He uncorked his goggles with a soft sucking sound. I noticed his eyes seemed a bit wearier than usual, even for a man his age who had just worked his daily laps.
“How are you?” I shifted in my seat, conscious of my bathing cap squeezing my head and distorting my face as I stole the odd glance at the deliciously empty lane.
“I’m well, thank you. Though very sad today.”
I studied him more closely now, caught off guard by his intimate tone. “Why?”
Though his expression was grim, I wasn’t prepared for what he said.
“I just lost my daughter to cancer.”
“I’m sorry,” I choked out. I felt socked in the soft fleshy parts; smacked off the rails of my deeply grooved routine and whipped around to face something I didn’t want to see.
He took a towel and poked at his ears with it. A gold cross hung from a glimmering chain around his thin neck, the skin white and rubbery looking. “It was a long struggle. Part of me is glad it’s over.” He squinted at me as if seeing me for the first time. “She was about your age,” he added, turning to walk away before I could utter a word of comfort. I watched him travel in his flap step the length of the pool to the men’s lockers, his head held down so low I could barely see the top of it.
My hands trembled as I gripped the steel ladder and made my way down into the antiseptic blue. I pushed off. Eyes shut tight and heart pumping, I watched the words She was about your age hover in my brain until the letters dissolved into nothingness. The horror of his offhand observation numbed me as I turned and floated on my back, breathing heavily in the oppressive air. As I slogged joylessly through my laps, I thought of my own father rolling his eyes when I said I was afraid of sleepaway camp, of third grade, of walking on grass barefoot “because of worms.” As cold as he could be to my brother and me, not a thing on earth seemed to frighten him.
I had barely toweled myself off when my phone lit up with a text from Pia. A question mark, that was it. Followed by three more. Methodically I removed my work clothes from my locker, arranging them neatly on the bench behind me. I pulled off my bathing cap, sat down, and picked up the phone.
My thumbs hovered over the keys as I shivered in the overheated locker room. I took a deep breath—shampoo, rubber, mold, a sting of disinfectant—and slowly let it out, a sharp pain lodging in my gut. I couldn’t tell which was worse, the fear of being left behind by my friends as they dashed away on some überbonding, unforgettable adventure, or the inevitable self-loathing if I stayed behind like some gutless wimp—safe, always safe—half-fucking-dead with safety. Why couldn’t I just say yes to a camping trip with three of my best friends? What was I so afraid of?
Pool water dripped from my hair, beading on the phone as I commanded myself to text something.
Anything.
I watched my fingers as they typed, Okay, I’m in, and pressed send.
This reading group guide for The River at Night includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
When her best friend, Pia, suggests a girls’ trip to the mountains, Winifred Allen isn’t exactly in the position to say no. After the loss of her beloved brother and her husband’s abandoning her for a younger woman, she desperately needs the vacation—even if it’s a white-water rafting trip through Maine’s desolate Allagash Wilderness. Four women pack up and go on what they know will be a challenging—but also hopefully fun and refreshing—trip, only to find themselves thrust into a scene out of a horror film. A freak accident leaves the group stranded without supplies or any means of contacting the outside world; with no raft to get them downriver, they’re forced to find their way through the woods. But Wini and her friends soon realize that the kindness of strangers cannot always be trusted, and their worst nightmares suddenly become realities.
With twists and turns as unpredictable as the river itself, The River at Night is a breathtaking thriller that forces us to consider how one survives when nothing—and no one—can be trusted.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. “The woods on either side grew dense, impenetrable, alive with their own logic and intelligence” (page 38). Discuss how nature, specifically the woods and the river, act as a character in the novel.
2. The book opens with a quote by Henry David Thoreau. Consider the quote in relation to Simone and Dean, as well as the relationships between Pia, Rachel, Sandra, and Wini. Why do you think the author chose to start the novel with this quote?
3. Concerns about aging and the passing of time come up frequently in The River at Night. Why do you think age becomes a factor in Pia’s encounter with Rory? Why does age matter in terms of Rory’s expertise as a guide? Discuss how age plays a role in the novel and within your own lives.
4. The women use Pia and Rory’s sexual encounter to unearth some frustrations they have with one another. Discuss the strength of their bonds and how a trip like this may have forced them to reconcile previous tensions more than a less stressful vacation would have.
5. Wini, Pia, Rachel, and Sandra have long been friends—but they have strikingly different personalities. Which of the women do you relate to the most? The least? Discuss the reasons as a group.
6. On page 51, the characters learn that the river is largely on public property. Sandra goes so far as to say, “Nobody owns a river, right?” Is there an underlying message about conservation and environmentalism in the novel? Discuss what other ways a river, forest, or public park might be “owned.”
7. Wini, Rachel, Sandra, and Pia have experienced heartache in many different ways. Whose heartache do you relate to the most? The least?
8. In Chapter 7, just before the women truly commence their trip, Wini remembers her last camping experience. Discuss how the loss of her brother affects Wini’s life and how this flashback weaves its way into the rest of the novel.
9. Discuss the two major deaths in this novel. How are they different? What strikes you most about Rory’s passing? About Sandra’s? Do you think that either could have been prevented?
10. As the antagonist of the story, Simone can be seen as ruthless, deadly, and potentially crazy. One could argue, however, that Simone is just another survivor in the novel. Do you think the author means for her to be more than the villain? Why or why not?
11. “This raft—any raft—flips, and when it does, you have to be prepared. You get no warning. You need to always be ready to be upside down and in that water” (page 125). Discuss what it means to be prepared. Which of the women would you trust most to help should you find yourself lost in a similar situation? Which qualities do you believe are most necessary for surviving in the woods?
12. When the trip is over, the women attempt to get back to normalcy. Wini, however, becomes legal guardian over Dean. Does her decision surprise you?
13. Traveling with a group (or a partner) can often strengthen a friendship. Do you think the trip brought these women closer together? Why or why not?
14. Have you ever been in a situation where you say yes to something—even while feeling fearful or deeply distrustful—because you want to be part of a group? What has been the result?
15. The River at Night references loneliness many times, especially in the context of female friendships. Do you feel that the nature of your close friendships has changed over the years? If so, why, and how have you coped with these changes?
16. Fear plays a big role in this book. A natural survival mechanism, fear speeds our reaction times, energizing the muscles for a swifter escape. But what about the role of fear in modern life? Does it ever play a negative role?
17. What is your relationship with nature? Fearful, comfortable, awe-inspired, disgusted, indifferent? Has it changed over the years? If so, in what ways?
Enhance Your Book Club
1. Consider reading Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood for your next book group. Discuss the themes of good and evil and surviving the unexpected in both novels. Which book is more believable?
2. The River at Night opens with a quote by Henry David Thoreau. Consider reading poetry by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, or Elizabeth Bishop. Keeping their poems in mind, consider the role New England’s landscape plays in this book.
3. Plan your own girls’ trip to the woods. Find a local hiking trail, white-water rafting course, or campsite. Before you go, discuss each group member’s strengths and how they will be useful throughout the course of the trip.
4. Connect with Erica Ferencik on her website and Twitter.
"Erica Ferencik's The River at Night is a high-octane debut, a thriller that combines the watery adventure of Deliverance with the twisting psychological suspense of Lisa Unger. This is a taut, tense novel that rushes like the fastest rapids. Grab a hold now and enjoy the ride!"
Bestselling author David Bell
"The River at Night is both a haunting, twisting thrill-ride through the Maine wilderness, and a story of friendship, humanity, and the will to survive. Terrifyingly real and impossible to put down."
New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda
"Ferencik's debut novel is a must-read for anyone who loves high intensity thrillers. Her use of foreshadowing and flair for suspense is impeccable; it sets the stage for a terrifying few days in the wilderness of northern Maine. Rich imagery and attention to detail are just a few of the reasons why Ferencik is one of the best new thriller writers out there!"
RT Book Reviews
"This novel quickly becomes a dark, more-twisted-than-the-river tale of secrets as night falls in the wilderness."
"Raw, relentless and heart-poundingly real, this book knocked me off my feet like a river in spate."
New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware
With a title like The River at Night, the plot had to be swift and twisting, yet what enraptured me completely was Wini's bigger triumph over the wilderness of the heart, a vivid journey amplified by a deeply textured depiction of both the devastating and glorious ways that true friendship can tear us down ... and build us back up again. Ferencik's writing pulses with a dangerous energy akin to the river she depicts.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vicki Pettersson
"Lost in the brutal Maine wilderness, four women struggle to survive, testing the boundaries of their friendship and the limitations of their own strength and mortality. Terrifying and wholly visceral, The River at Night will leave you gasping, your heart racing, eyes peering over your shoulder to see what follows from behind. Take a deep breath before you begin because it’s the last you’ll have until you’re through."
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Kubica
"A twisting, turning thrill ride of a novel, The River at Night will sweep you along, pull you under and not let you come up for air until you’ve turned the last page. Erica Ferencik expertly captures the wild, untouched Maine landscape and the ferocity of both nature and humankind.
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon
"The River at Night is a dark, twisting, unrelenting thriller that kept me frantically turning the pages well into the night. Erica Ferencik skillfully combines jolting plot twists, lyrical prose, and a beautifully brutal setting, cementing The River at Night as my favorite debut novel of the year."
New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf
"Ferencik pushes her characters to the edge in a starkly beautiful and unforgiving wilderness, where their worst nightmares become all too real. A harrowing, devastating, and superbly written thriller, The River at Night grabbed hold of me and didn't let go until the final, perfect sentence."
Bestselling author A.J. Banner
The River at Night is a white water thrill ride to be sure. But it’s more than than that. Erica Ferencik digs deep into friendship, midlife angst, and how we can surprise ourselves when the worst things happen. Wini is a character I can imagine myself knowing, sharing secrets over coffee. I pulled for her the whole way, through all the rapids, all the bends and twists of this terrific debut.
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger
Author Erica Ferencik’s storytelling [is]...brutally effective...hurtling River’s harrowing narrative along in a visceral, white-knuckle rush.
"The River at Night will take you on a heart-pounding literary ride through the harsh and gorgeous Maine wilderness...Ferencik’s debut novel will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
The decision of four female friends pushing 40 to spend their vacation white-water rafting in a remote corner of Maine jump-starts this adrenaline rush of a novel from Ferencik (Repeaters). Winifred “Wini” Allen isn’t keen on the idea, but she goes along to be with Pia Zanderlee, who arranged the trip, and two other close friends. Wini also needs to get away—her brother has recently died, her husband has left her, and she despises her job as a graphic designer for a Boston-based food magazine. Pia has hired a hunky 20-year-old Maine college student, Rory Ekhart, to be their guide. The river outing has barely begun when tragedy strikes and the group is left without their raft and most supplies. But battling nature pales when they realize that they aren’t the only people in the area. Set over five days, this adventure tests the women’s friendship while also depicting their resilience. Fans of John Dickey’s Deliverance will enjoy this current take on the wilderness survival tale. Agent: Erin Harris, Folio Literary Management. (Jan.)
Bestselling author Megan Miranda
Heather Gudenkauf
This book takes 'page-turner' to a whole new level."
"[A] heart-pounding debut novel... A ripsnorting survival tale bolstered by Ferencik's writing, which captures both the beauty and danger of the wild."
“A fast-paced race against nature and things that lurk in the woods that no one dreamed could be there, as well as a statement on the importance of friendship, tolerance and acceptance. It moves along as swiftly and tumultuously as the river the four women and their male guide embark on, dropping readers into pitfalls, unseen dangers and bubbling cauldrons of backstory that wash one onshore breathless, yet desiring more.
Ferencik, no stranger to creating an effective blend of dread and horror... continually surprises with as many plot twists and turns as the titular river itself... This is a novel that will burrow in your memory well after its conclusion."
Surprising, exhilarating and suspenseful, it’s a treacherous, rapid thrill-ride."
Portland Press-Herald
The past few years have not been easy for Winifred Allen. Her younger brother's death and a divorce have left her emotionally drained. She hopes the annual trip with her three best friends, Pia, Sandra, and Rachel, will be a welcome respite from her problems. Emboldened by Pia's adventurous spirit, Wini, despite her fears, agrees to whitewater rafting in the uncharted wilds of Maine. After a long car trip, the ladies meet their guide and embark on the challenging rapids. When a log capsizes their raft, there are deadly consequences. Struggling to survive, Wini and her friends are faced with terrible choices when they stumble onto a camp and the salvation they expect turns into more danger. VERDICT In the tradition of James Dickey's Deliverance, this exciting survival tale by the author of Repeaters hooks from the first page, but it is the strong character development that really stands out. Wini is a compelling heroine, a flawed woman whose fears and regrets are fleshed out by flashbacks throughout the narrative. The friendships among the four women are well drawn and believable.—Lynnanne Pearson, Skokie P.L., IL
A gal-pal vacation goes over the falls and into hell.“I folded my arms. Felt my friends’ eyes burning into me. My God, I thought—how old do you have to be to listen to your gut?” Older than food-magazine art director Wini Allen, apparently, because despite the clanging alarm bells in her head, this tired, sad woman joins her longtime best friends on an extreme whitewater rafting trip in Maine planned by their ringleader, an Amazonian sneaker marketer named Pia Zanderlee. Gathering once a year for a group vacation, the foursome is “bound by invisible golden thread the fifty-one weeks a year we were apart. Tied in a golden bow the week we spend together....Dysfunctional in our own female-friendship way; but our bonds were unbreakable.” Their adventure in Maine will be led by a studly college student named Rory who has “shoulder-length dreadlocks” and “eyes the exact green of an asparagus mousse we’d featured in our March issue.” This is his fifth time on the largely inaccessible and untraveled river. In fact, the names for its passages—Satan’s Staircase, Hungry Mother, The Tooth—were coined by Rory himself. Things get off to a tense start when Pia and Rory noisily hook up the first night, but in the morning there is “peach-colored light behind the mountains” and a thrilling run on the river during which even Wini believes in God. “Looking back, I equate this stage of enjoying the wilderness with the second glass of wine,” she muses, falling back on a more familiar frame of reference. “Everything is lighter; you can see the funny side of disaster. But things rarely improve with the third, they get dangerous with the fourth, and you better pray to God someone is around to scoop you off the floor after that.” Actually, it’s far, far worse than that analogy would imply; at a certain point Ferencik’s latest (Repeaters, 2011, etc.) takes a turn for the bloody and deranged. The wilderness adventure part of this book is excellent; the heart-of-darkness horror movie in the third act less so. Still, you won’t put it down.
The River at Night 4.1 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 14 reviews.
Half way into this book and holding my breath. I just couldn't wait till the end to post a review.. Hope this book gets the attention it deserves. WILL rate again at conclusion, for now a defininte 4 stars, and I don't give four often.. Hoping to finish at a 5 star rating. READ IT!!!
Just finished one of the best thrillers of the year. Highly recommend to all!!!! However, be prepared to lose sleep, because you will turn the pages long into the night!!
Very good,couldnt put it down
Edge of your seat exciting. Hard to put down.
onemused More than 1 year ago
"The River at Night" was women's fiction in the first half and intense thriller in the second half- an interesting combination! We follow Winifred (Wini) as she embarks on her annual trip with her friends- they've been doing it for years now, and their fearless leader, Pia, seeks out dangerous destinations. Wini needs the trip this year, after her brother's death, her divorce, and the issues at work- however, she is not convinced by the destination Pia chose- white water rafting on a river in the middle of nowhere, Maine. Not one to decline the friends trip, Wini goes along- and the trip becomes even more dangerous than she could have imagined. The first half really builds up the women and gives you insight into how they tick plus their connections to one another. The second half is a harrowing tale of survival after a freak accident. Their lives are forever changed. I actually was really into the first half and loved getting the glimpses into their lives (as told from Wini's point-of-view), and I was not sure why it was classified as a thriller. Then the second half started, got my pulse racing, and refused to let me put it down. The personalities completely shifted in terms of how I saw the characters- for instance, Pia's intensity transforms from annoying/overwhelming into necessary. Also, Rachel, who I liked in the first half, became completely obnoxious. It was interesting how seamlessly everything changed. For people who enjoy both women's fiction and thrillers, this one is sure to be a delicious read! Please note that I received a copy from a goodreads giveaway. All opinions are my own.
Enjoyed immensely and just couldn't put it down. Characters amazing and surroundings came alive.
i got this book just by title. the title seems attractive but not the story upto. characters were handled well. as the story was very deep narrative. it lands you boring. but the book gets it grip when simone and her son enters. the best part is climax which is unpredictable. author had succeded in making her imagination on readers mind. it's good book who wants to get away from boring modern stories, it's suggestable.
GoABraves More than 1 year ago
3.5 stars Four friends, an annual girls getaway... Pia puts together a water adventure rafting trip down the river in Allagash Wilderness. Wini(fred) isn't that adventurous and although her gut tells her NO, she needs this getaway with her friends. Her brothers death is always in the back of her mind and now her husband has left her. Pia assures Wini, Sandra and Rachel their tour guide is not only sexy but very capable of keeping them safe and getting them safely down the river. Not only is there a tragedy but their raft and supplies goes down the river and they aren't with it. An adventure of surviving but just staying alive challenges the four friends. Is their friendship strong enough to survive or are they stronger than they think they are. Thank you Goodreads, the author and the publisher for the advance copy.
KateUnger More than 1 year ago
The River at Night was a good read, but it wasn’t as good as I was hoping given the hype. Four friends, Pia, Rachel, Sandra, and Winifred, head to the remotest region of Maine for a river rafting trip, their annual girls weekend. The story is narrated by Wini, who’s recently gone through a divorce and is still devastated by the death of her brother. She has reservations about the trip, but Pia, the wild, outgoing one, convinces her everything will be fine. The women are accessing a never before rafted river because their young tour guide’s family owns the land that has the only launching point onto the river. It’s supposed to be the experience of a lifetime, and Pia has organized for them to take the maiden voyage before the tour company becomes so popular that they cannot get a booking. As you may guess, things don’t go quite as planned. The pacing was a little off with this book. There are only 304 pages, but at least half is exposition. All of it told from Wini’s point of view. Perhaps if the perspective had shifted to the other women as well, the beginning wouldn’t have dragged quite as much. Then the second half of the book is fully action-packed, but it just didn’t make up for the slow beginning for me. http://opinionatedbooklover.com/review-the-river-at-night-by-erica-ferencik/
Pulledover More than 1 year ago
The cover of this book really grabbed me. When reading the description one thing kept coming to mind.. Deliverance.. Deliverance. I hoped for more than that story rehashed. Additionally it had female stars not male, so there was that twist. Although I enjoyed the book, it wasn't all that for me. I probably would give it 3.5 stars. Did it entertain me? Yes but only up to a certain point. I found myself in the last part of the book trying to do speed reading to just get it over with. I hate not finishing a book especially when I did find some entertainment in it. But the book lost steam after about two-thirds of the book. At this point, I wanted it to end and read the aftermath. Female Deliverance + Normal Female Drama + One Gorgeous Guy + Backwoods Weirdos = The River at Night It isn't a bad book, but it isn't something you will run and tell your friends to read immediately.
Sandy5 More than 1 year ago
Give me four friends with different personalities who have been through the best of times and the worst of times together and plop them into the wilderness of Maine, with no connection to the outside world and you’ve got yourself quite an adventure on your hands. It is their yearly vacation, a time to bond yet only one of them is excited to take this trip. The rest of the women would rather be pampered and be lying on their backs with the sun shining in their eyes instead of fending for themselves and worrying about which wild animals they might encounter and toting their belongings on their backs. It’s a brand new whitewater excursion and they will be the first group to try it out. Rustic, secluded and isolated, this sounded to me like the perfect horror film if there ever could be one. Add in one hot tour guide and bam, I am instantly deciding who would be coming out alive in the end. You never know who or what you might encounter in the wilderness and you can’t always predict how an event will turn out in the end yet their tour guide tried to assure them that he had everything under control. The women came prepared with what they believed to be survival gear and they followed their list which was provided to them but it was the basics. I was looking for some hardcore gear and perhaps that was because I watch too many horror films but where was the worst-case scenario supplies: the knives, the switch blades, the hatchets? Come on girls…get with the times, just because it is not on the list doesn’t mean you can’t bring it. I think I would have been over packed for this excursion, bringing more survival gear than necessary. I was disappointed in Pia, for she was the leader in the group who should have known to pack something; she was their protector, their go-to girl. With some high action moments where they had to think quickly, there were times where I couldn’t put this novel down. Each woman brings with them their own history and it’s like they are gathered around a camp fire, their story emotionally conveyed in pieces throughout the novel. Together, they have also created history. Listening and watching this bond, I see what this bond means to each of these women and how it has shaped them. This whitewater rafting trip becomes quite the adventure both in the water and off in the wilderness. Just a heads up, if your friends invite you to an adventure in the great outdoors, bring something sharp. I received a copy of this novel from NetGalley and Gallery Books in exchange for an honest review.
Honolulubelle More than 1 year ago
Favorite Quotes: I slept caged in a dream of violence with no narrative, like a scrap of old film with only a few frames still visible. She tended to marry well – divorce even better – but never seemed to truly settle into domestic peace. I wondered how the sky could feel so vast at times, so alive with the complex narrative of clouds and sun, moon and stars; at others, so nothing, so commonplace and unremarkable. Was it because of where we were, or because I so seldom looked up? Full on darkness, and all its terrors. I suddenly understood cultures that believed in demons and chimeras, werewolves and gollums. With no walls around us, no light or source of warmth, what besides the monstrous makes sense. Every sound was a beast. My Review: The River At Night was enthralling, smartly written, and hypnotically descriptive. Lushly detailed with words that painted each vivid scene to involve every one of my five senses. I not only experienced a movie reel running in my head – I could hear, feel, taste, and smell each item mentioned. It was magic. Ms. Ferencik is a master wordsmith with an arsenal of beautiful terms and a robust vocabulary that flowed and danced into an intriguing and compelling story. The writing was stellar, witty, deftly crafted, and often poetic, and at other times it crackled and popped with clever ironic observations and insights rife with underlying humor. Written from a first person POV, I either inhabited or was close beside Wini from beginning to end. I was there paddling along in the raft with them and saw the forest through her eyes, felt the coldness leech into her bones, and sensed her fear as well as the sorrows and losses that gripped her heart. I was transported. I just wish I could have been expending the same amount of calories as well.
Deb-Krenzer More than 1 year ago
First of all, I just want to say that these women are totally cray cray. White water rafting with a guide who has only done it five times? Ummm, heck no. The story, absolutely thrilling. I just could not put this book down. It definitely had me mesmerized and my heart beat rising. The things that these four women went through were just hold your breath, keep on reading and see what happens. I mean you lose your guide and your raft halfway through your trip and your lost out in the middle of nowhere. The author does a very good job of putting in the plot twists and really making it seem real. I definitely enjoyed reading this book and was thoroughly entertained and still feel my pulse racing. If your into thrillers, I think you would find this one right up your alley. Huge thanks to Gallery Books for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest review.
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Spirituality & Religious Experience
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On Forgiveness : How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?
3.85 (97 ratings by Goodreads)
By (author) Richard Holloway
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In this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of forgiveness. It is a subject that he explores in the widest context but underpinning this examination is his belief that religion has given us many of the best stories and metaphors for the act. He proceeds to relate forgiveness to such events as September 11th, the Truth Commission in South Africa, and the ongoing conflicts in Palestine/Israel, Northern Ireland and Serbia.
On Forgiveness is a discourse on how forgiveness works, where it came from and how the need to embrace it is greater than ever if we are to free ourselves from the binds of the past. Drawing on philosophers and writers of the calibre of George Steiner, Frederick Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt and Nelson Mandela, Holloway has written another fascinating and timely book.
Format Paperback | 112 pages
Dimensions 132 x 199 x 10mm | 105g
Publication date 01 Sep 2002
Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
Publication City/Country Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edition Statement Main
Bestsellers rank 506,715
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I don't know when I have been more impressed, indeed, excited, by a work. . . It answers the seemingly unanswerable tormenting questions in a completely satisfying way. -- Ruth Rendell A work of blinding sincerity and high intelligence. * * Spectator * *
About Richard Holloway
One of the most outspoken and best-loved figures in the modern church, Richard Holloway recently stood down as the Bishop of Edinburgh. He was Gresham Professor of Divinity in the City of London and remains a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written for many newspapers in Britain including The Times, the Guardian, the Sunday Herald and the Scotsman and presented his own series on BBC Television. His books include On Forgiveness, Looking in the Distance, Godless Morality and Doubts and Loves. His forthcoming book Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition will be published by Canongate in August 2008.
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That Old Spankin' Magic
by Brandy Golden
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Heat Rating: Sweet
BDSM EROTIC Romance Paranormal
Chicago born and raised Remy Broussard wants to discover the secrets of the Louisiana Bayou treasure map left by her great grandmother, Rheims Renquist. The secret is steeped in historic voodoo rituals that send chills of excitement up Remy's spine. Cork Renoir, a disillusioned, peace-seeking, ex-jazz player, owns the property that Rheims used to live on and is determined that his peaceful existence will not be disrupted by the treasure-seeking brat! Naturally sparks fly when the two young, headstrong people come into contact with each other and Cork's hard hand flies to the seat of Remy's pants more than once during the resolution of this mysterious tale of dark intrigue!
BDSM category: spanking only
NO EXPLICIT EROTIC SCENES but not suitable for under age 18
The morning mist hung low and heavy like a white shroud over the piece of Louisiana Bayou that Cork Renoir had carved out for himself. The stocky, sunburned, ex-jazz player leaned back and stared broodingly into the shifting mists, feeling the spirit of the Bayou enveloping him as it always did, healing and soothing.
As he lifted the steaming mug of Bayou mud to his lips, a literal cacophony of sound erupted, shattering the eerie morning stillness and sending birds screeching from the trees in a mass exodus of feather flapping fiends.
Cork's sandaled feet hit the deck as he leaped from the rusted metal chair, sending it crashing backwards and sliding off the small dock into the Bayou. With a muttered curse, he spared it an angry glare, making a mental note that someone was going to go fishing for that chair. It was his favorite and had been his Dad's favorite, and his Dad before him. Someone was going to pay all right, and that someone was now drifting out of the mist, bringing the heavy metal racket that modern artists pawned off as music closer to him. It was a poor substitute for the rhythmic cadences of jazz, and Cork lifted his rifle and aimed it at the offending box with the loud speakers.
"Step aside," he bellowed at the obviously feminine figure kneeling in front of the boom box, holding a knob in her fingers as if she were puzzled as to how it came off.
The tall black man with the pole in his hand that Cork vaguely recognized as Augustus, yelled out, "he's got a gun," and grabbed the woman and threw her to the floor.
Cork fired one shot into the middle of the enormous boom box and the harsh, strident cords ceased instantly, leaving his ears in the blissful silence of the soothing Bayou once again.
The small aluminum skiff bobbed wildly as the two humans on board lifted their heads and peered over the twelve inch edge of it, their eyes wide with fright as the current brought them into the dock. Cork found himself staring into the most fetching light blue eyes he had ever seen ... eyes that were quickly darkening with anger as the fear that had swamped them slowly receded.
Remy Broussard stared up at one of the biggest men she had ever seen. The man had biceps as big as her thighs! His powerfully muscled legs were not as sun burned as the broad shoulders and bare arms in the blue tank top he wore, but his face was darkly red as if he had spent many hours in the sun. And he was covered with so much blonde hair that he looked like a golden fuzzy bear! The expression on his square jawed face was anything but a warm fuzzy, but her impetuous nature overcame her reticence in the face of danger.
"You ... you shot my stereo ... how dare you shoot my stereo! That stereo cost me over three hundred dollars you imitation of a Neanderthal! This is going to cost you mister, just wait and see!" She scrabbled to get to her feet in the moving craft and shot a glare at the cowering Augustus that was supposed to be protecting her.
"Be careful, Miz Remy," he whispered, his eyes sliding back to Cork. "Dat man done look dangerous!"
Of course, the man above them certainly was intimidating with that rifle in his hand, but Remy figured if he wanted to shoot them, he would have already. As it was, the only casualty they had was her stereo.
She had brought it along hoping to intrigue some of the swamp animals into coming closer out of curiosity, so she could photograph them. She wondered if she had been gullible when the shop had sold her the CD, promising her she would have all kinds of wonderful wildlife photos if she set this up and lay in wait for them.
Somehow, the station must have gotten changed when they loaded the stereo and when she had jumped and grabbed the volume button after turning it on, it had come off in her hand. She had been in the process of trying to put it back on to turn off that horrendous racket when Augustus had thrown her to the floor. Now her poor stereo lay in pieces on the bottom of the boat ... and someone was going to pay for this indignity!
As the skiff bobbed against the end of the dock, Cork reached down with his powerful right arm, covered in so many freckles they blended as one, and lifted the small, indignant figure by the back of her jeans and dropped her down onto the wooden planks.
"Let go of me, how dare you," came the strident protest, her arms and legs flailing as she scrabbled for something to hold onto until she landed on the dock, sprawling unceremoniously at his feet. "Ummph," she grunted when she hit the wooden planks. Quick as a wink she was on her feet, her riveting eyes spitting lightning bolts as she faced him down, albeit from her diminutive height.
Cork stared belligerently down at the irascible female, his jaw set in his famous "bulldog" imitation, his sandy hair lifting gently in the early morning breeze. Soon, the combination of the rising sun and the bayou breezes would burn off and blow away the hanging shroud of mist he enjoyed waking up too, thereby revealing the bayou in all its humid glory. And this slip of a woman was the cause of him missing his daily ritual with nature.
"I dare what I please in my home," he growled at her. "And right now, you are interrupting my commune with nature with that insane imitation of music. The music world should be collectively ashamed to put up with that hideous racket, let alone allow it to be labeled music." He leaned over and grabbed the back of her jeans again and spun her around. "And further more, you caused my favorite chair to land in the bayou. Now you are going to go get it for me!" With that, he propelled her off the side of the dock and down into the greenish water that lapped against the pilings, ignoring her screams of outrage. He folded his massive golden haired arms and watched as she flailed and sputtered in the water.
"I can't swim," she screamed helplessly, trying valiantly to stay on top of the water. The man had caught her completely off guard! What kind of a beast threw a lady into the bayou? Besides, she only knew how to float a little bit, never having learned how to swim. He was going to kill her for sure, and no one would even know what happened to her! She sputtered on murky green water; sure she was going under any second as her arms began to get tired. This is it, she thought, I'm going to die ... right here ... right at the dock of my great grandmother's old voodoo grounds. Now I'll never find out if there really is a treasure. A sharp command penetrated the fog of fear that surrounded her, causing her to stop thrashing abruptly.
"Stand up!" Cork rolled his eyes and shook his head at the panicking young woman.
She stood up then, her dark brown hair hanging in strings around her face and a piece of moss clinging to her cheek in the breast deep water. She looked fearfully around and tried to hoist herself up on the dock, but he stood in front of her, blocking her progress. "Oh no, you don't. You're not getting out of there until you get my chair." He pointed at a spot next to her.
Remy felt incredible gauche and stupid as her feet hit the mud on the bottom and her anger at this brute of a man increased ten fold. "I don't see any stupid chair and I'm not looking for it either." She turned and began to wade out of the water, headed for the shore about four yards away. She wasn't going to put up with this kind of treatment; she didn't care if he shot her! That is, if an alligator or a swamp moccasin didn't get her first! He certainly wouldn't care, she was sure of that, the beast!
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," he said silkily, enjoying her unease when she turned to glare at him. He kept a sharp eye out to make sure there were no gators around.
He gave a sharp whistle and a huge dog appeared out of the mist and stood staring at her with baleful eyes. "Because Old Joe guards my dock and no one gets on land that I don't approve first." Old Joe must have been half Doberman; half God knows what, because he was the ugliest dog Cork had ever seen. He seemed to have adopted Cork however, so he fed him regularly and let him stay. No one got near the shore without Cork hearing the bay of Old Joe resounding across the bayou.
Remy gasped in fright, turning pale at the sight of the monstrous dog. Legend in her family had it that Argonaut still existed, that he had never died. That his immortality was born of an ancient voodoo ritual given him by her great grandmother, and he was there to guard her treasure.
She girl eyed the dog warily and then she turned back to Cork, a decided gleam in her eye. For now, she would keep her secret, but soon ... soon she would come back and play her grandmother's flute for Argonaut. It had always soothed the giant beast ... or so it said in her great grandmother's diary. "Okay, so where's this dumb chair?"
"That's better," he replied smugly. "Once you return my chair, I'll let you up." He pointed once again to the spot where the chair had slid off the dock.
Shading her eyes, Remy peered down into the murky water in front of her. Seeing nothing, she kicked her leg out, feeling for something with her foot. When it touched something solid, she took a deep breath and bent her knees, lowering herself into the water and reaching down with her hands. Finding the back of the chair, she grasped hold of it and brought it to the surface. Holding onto it with one hand, she wiped the water from her face and stared doubtfully at it. "Is this what you wanted?" She asked scornfully, glaring at him. "I can't imagine anyone wanting to rescue this piece of junk!"
"Don't insult my chair," he ground out, taking it from her. He sat the chair on the dock and then bent down to grab her hands and pulled her slickly straight up and onto the dock. Her weight was nothing compared to some of the alligators he had wrestled. His eyes narrowed as the water sluiced off her body, revealing the rounded contours of her breasts, even the dark aureoles of her nipples through the white, cotton, button down shirt she wore. Muttering a silent oath, he hustled her into the skiff the black man was holding against the dock as he surveyed the proceedings with a watchful eye. "Now you can get the hell out of here and quit bothering me," he said gruffly. He shoved the craft away from his dock and stood up, ignoring the outraged protests from his unwanted visitor.
He had picked up his gun and nestled it beneath his arm when he heard her call him.
"Hey you ... you'll be hearing from me," she yelled as the boat moved out of reach. She shook her fist at him. "I'll be back, and in the meantime ... kiss my ass!" She turned and dropped her jeans, revealing a deeply creamy bottom outlined in red briefs.
Cork laughed mirthlessly at her audacity. "If you come back here, I'll blister that ass until it's the same color as those panties," he yelled back. He turned and headed up the dock, patting Old Joe on the head as he passed him.
The dog was stiff as a board and didn't respond to the caress in his normal fashion and Cork looked down curiously. The black animal's gaze was steady on the spot where the skiff had disappeared, his ears cocked intently as he seemed to listen to the departure of the young girl and her guide. He growled when he heard the strident tones of the female drift back through the mist, and Cork nodded in assent. "I feel like growling too, boy, I'm with you on that one. That is one noisy, bothersome specimen of the female persuasion." He patted the dog's head again and chuckled as he turned toward his cabin. "She did have a nice ass though, not to mention other parts."
Cork threw off the tank top, picked up an ax and began to work on the dead tree that had fallen during the last storm. Nothing like a little hard work to keep bitter thoughts at bay ... and he had a few. Mostly though, he was just plain tired. Tired of the rat race that had been the music business. As much as he had loved being a jazz musician, he had abandoned his dream last year and bought this overrun piece of bayou, intending to retire permanently. He felt as if parts of him that had grown numb with the commercialization of his trade were finally beginning to unthaw. Here in the healing isolation of the bayou, Cork Renoir was slowly coming back to life.
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Was brick tea thrown overboard at the Boston Tea Rebellion?
I sometimes see this myth mentioned in historical accounts of the Boston Tea Party. Worst of all, I’ve seen stacks of tea bricks fro sale in at least two gift shops at historic sites with narrative signs that say the East India Company brought these bricks of tea from China and then shipped them on to The Colonies, including 45 tons of tea bricks on board the three ships docked in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16, 1773.
According to Okakura Kakuzo in The Book of Tea, the evolution of Chinese tea may be roughly divided into three main stages; Boiled tea, Whipped tea, and Steeped tea.
The Cake tea stage in which it was boiled, Powdered tea when it was whipped, and the Leaf stage (contemporary) in which leaves are steeped.
This tea roller from the China National Tea Museum was used to crush brick tea pieces into powdered tea.
In ancient China, the tea brick, compressed tea made of ground or whole tea leaves pressed into a block using a mold, was the most popular form of tea produced and consumed. It was also used as a common currency for trade, or tributes, outside China.
But, by the eighteenth century, the most common tea for export to Europe was tea in leaf form. Brick tea was still available and widely used for trade, mostly with countries bordering China’s northern and western frontiers.
Samuel Ball, a former inspector for the East India Company, wrote an extensive account of Chinese tea trade in 1848 which included stories of brick tea:
I was informed that a superior kind of brick tea is made in the Bohea or Black Tea country, but for the most part it is of inferior quality from Szu-chuen, one of the border provinces adjoining Tibet.
Brick teas in historic venue gift shops sometimes contain misinformation.
Ball went on to say,
It may now be observed that the brick tea is extensively used throughout every part of Central Asia, from the Gulf of Korea and the great wall of China on the east, to the Caspian Sea on the west; and from the Altai chain in the north, to the Himalaya mountains on the south. It is also largely used in Siberia, and somewhat in the Caucasus; in short, wherever the Calmuc and Mongolian races have extended themselves. It is meat and drink to them. It is mixed with milk, salt, and butter so that it forms more substantial diet than the fragrant fluid which smokes [steams] on our tables.
Tibetan Tea Bowls
Another account in the Edinburgh Review (1818) spoke about tea habits in Tibet –
All classes of Tibetans eat three meals a day; the first consists of tea; the second of tea, or of meal porridge if tea cannot be afforded; the third of meat, rice, vegetables and bread; or soup for the lower classes. At breakfast each person drinks about five or ten cups of tea.
About an ounce of brick tea and soda are boiled in a quart of water for an hour. It is then strained and mixed with ten quarts of boiling water and some salt. The whole is then put into a narrow churn, along with yak butter, and stirred until it becomes a smooth, oily and brown liquid resembling chocolate. It is then transferred to a teapot for immediate use.
This recipe is similar to Tsampa – with the addition of barley – drunk in Tibet today.
This elegant Boston Tea Table would never have held common brick tea. Courtesy of the MFA.
Did the East India Company import tea bricks? Not on any grand scale. At the latter half of the eighteenth century, there were a few tea bricks in British hands, mainly as curiosities in collections such as the Museum of Asiatic Society. But brick tea was certainly not chopped and placed in the fine wooden tea caddies of polite London homes.
And in Boston, accounts of the tea rebellion include stories of tea leaves piled like haystacks alongside the ships in Griffin’s Wharf while men used rakes to plow the leaves into the low tide of Boston Harbor.
I suspect rakes would have had a hard time moving bricks of tea into the water!
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Home SA Fast Facts News Public-private partnerships in national parks to boost tourism
Public-private partnerships in national parks to boost tourism
Six million people visited our 19 national parks last year. This presented a huge opportunity for private investors, delegates were told at the inaugural South African National Parks Tourism Investment Summit held in Johannesburg this week.
Opportunities in the Sanparks public-private partnership programme include accommodation, bottled water, wellness centres and adventure activities. (Image: South African Tourism, Flickr)
Melissa Javan
More than 50 public-private partnership (PPP) opportunities are available for investors in South African National Parks.
This emerged at the inaugural Sanparks Tourism Investment Summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday 4 April 2017. Sanparks, which falls under the Department Environmental Affairs, manages South Africa’s 19 national parks – from the massive Kruger Park in the east to the tiny Bontebok National Park in the west.
The summit showcased a range of opportunities available to private investors in 10 of these public-owned parks. The opportunities include the development of tented camps, lodges and boutique hotels, activities such as helicopter and hot air balloon trips, zip-lining and hiking activities, and retail kiosks.
Business and conservation
In 2016, over 10-million foreign tourists arrived in South Africa. According to Sanparks, 6-million people visited its parks in the past financial year. The country’s tourism sector accounts for some 730 000 jobs – 4.5% of total employment.
In her keynote address at the summit, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said partnerships between the government and private sector could only increase tourism’s contribution to employment.
The Sanparks summit, she said, would help public officials and private businesspeople working in the tourism sector to engage and network with each other.
“The national parks don’t only play a conservation role,” she said. “We cannot just rely on the fiscus and say, please government, give us money.”
There are currently 45 PPPs in operation in South Africa’s national parks. These give private partners access to state property for a certain period, allowing them to conduct business there.
This model transfers risk to the private sector and allows Sanparks to focus on its core function: wildlife conservation. According to Molewa, seven national parks are currently being used for PPPs. She said there was a possibility to include all 19 parks in these partnerships, nationally.
“In 2016, over 10 million tourist arrivals were recorded in #SouthAfrica, a 13% increase from 2015″ – Minister BEE Molewa#InvestSanparks
— Sanparks (@Sanparks) April 4, 2017
Through our PPP programme, R57 million per annum is spent on SMME and a total of 1946 direct jobs have been created.#InvestSanparks pic.twitter.com/2nZc7CnReV
There are 4 major categories of opportunities, these are:
Accommodation, Restaurants, Retail and Activities#InvestSanparks
Tokozile Xasa, South Africa’s new minister of tourism, said at the conference that many of today’s investors want more than just profit. “They want to make a contribution in the lives of people.”
Tourism investment would help reduce poverty and inequality. “Tourism is the one sector all over the world that countries can look at to turn around the economy.”
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and Tourism Minister Tokozile Xasa at the inaugural Sanparks Tourism Investment Summit in Johannesburg. (Image: Melissa Javan)
Xasa said those who did invest in South Africa’s tourism industry would get value. Her department provides skills training to entrepreneurs to ensure tourism businesses survive and thrive.
She added that PPP opportunities would encourage local and international businesspeople to visit Sanparks’ attractions. “We are hoping to attract more business events to our parks. The businesspeople can then be exposed to what else South Africa has to offer.”
Private party operators interested in any of these opportunities should register their interest by email to
annemi.vanjaarsveld@sanparks.org https://t.co/xLtbfsH5iw
Boosting domestic travel
Sisa Ntshona, head of South African Tourism, said that although international tourists were flocking to the country, domestic tourism was weak.
If each South African could link their economic well-being and prosperity to tourism, he said, it would help grow the domestic sector. “We need to cultivate a travel culture into South Africans, especially the youth. We should look at how we can inform and educate our children to increase domestic travel.”
Ntshona said the country needed more tour guides, especially those able to share the stories and experiences of historical sites. “We need more young people, but they need to be knowledgeable. We’ve got to make tourism everybody’s business.”
It was also important for small businesses to build networks in the communities in which they operate, he said. “If you are not plugged in, you will not make it. Look at how you can become visible, and who the tourism operators are within the community.”
Discussing opportunities and challenges in South African tourism at the Sanparks summit. From left: moderator and former talk show host John Robbie, Sisa Ntshona of South African Tourism, Hannelie du Toit of South African Tourism Services Association and Blacky Komani of Tourvest Holdings. (Image: Melissa Javan)
Bringing black South Africans into tourism
An important issue raised at the summit was the lack of black people taking part in South Africa’s tourism sector.
Hannelie du Toit of the South African Tourism Services Association said more local heroes were needed need to promote tourism. “We need our black entrepreneurs to be involved and say that they want to get involved in the tourism industry.”
Rob Cilliers of Sun International said specific products should be created for specific markets. The Cape Town International Jazz Festival, for example, was well supported by the black market.
“Put on the product to bring the people. We cater for the full community of South Africa.”
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North Staffordshire retailer Smith and Morris Retail claims West Midlands Business of the Year prize at the Chamber Awards 2012
A North Staffordshire specialist retailer has secured a prestigious achievement for the county after it was announced as the Chamber Awards 2012’s Business of the Year (sponsored by Westfield Health) for the West Midlands.
Smith and Morris Retail, which runs the hugely successful www.barbourbymail.co.uk, made it a memorable double when it also won the Excellence in Customer Service title,beating off competition from firms throughout the region.
Judges were impressed with the company’s massive growth that has seen it potentially add over £12m of annual sales to the business in the last five years, achieving a 98% customer satisfaction rating in the process.
There were seven other winners from the West Midlands, including one of the world’s most successful car manufacturers, a childcare provider and a specialist manufacturer from the Black Country.
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Trump's tax overhaul effort lacks the advantages Reagan had in 1986
Andrew Taylor,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fundamentals of tax overhaul were strong some 30 years ago.
Lawmakers watch closely as President Reagan signs into law a landmark tax overhaul on the White House South Lawn in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1986. Reagan called the bill a "sweeping victory for fairness." From left to right are, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, Rep. Raymond McGrath, R-N.Y., Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., Rep. Frank Guerini, D-N.J., Sen. Russell Long, D-La., Rep. William Coyne, D-Pa., and Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn.
AP Photo/Bob Dougherty
A popular president, Republican Ronald Reagan, pushed the landmark 1986 measure. Powerful and experienced congressional leaders shepherded the legislation with bipartisan support. Key players had established, trusting relationships.
The situation facing President Donald Trump features none of those advantages. His party is divided and his congressional leadership is weakened after the health care debacle. Key players are inexperienced. Trump has record low approval ratings. Republicans who control all of Washington are planning on going it alone, without help from Democrats.
Now, there isn't even basic agreement on what revising the tax code is. Trump is promising "massive tax relief for the middle class." Congressional leaders are pushing an overhaul that would keep gross tax revenues roughly the same — "revenue neutral" in Washington-speak — while clearing away many tax breaks and using the resulting savings to lower rates, with the top brackets getting most of the benefit.
The White House says it wants to devise a plan while Capitol Hill Republicans would prefer to take the lead.
Still, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said Monday, "As challenging as tax reform can be, we have, I think, all the elements in place to deliver better than Reagan reforms going forward."
A look at the fundamental factors facing the effort, then vs. now:
Presidential strength
THEN: Reagan entered the tax debate after winning re-election in 1984 in an electoral landslide and unveiled his initial tax plan that November. Treasury Secretary James Baker had four years' experience as White House chief of staff. The administration had passed the landmark 1981 tax cut through a Democratic-controlled House and had passed a follow-on bill increasing taxes. Reagan commanded loyalty among Republicans and, more broadly, was helped by approval ratings that stayed above 60 percent during most of the almost two-year tax overhaul effort.
NOW: Trump is unpopular, with his approval ratings in the benchmark Gallup Poll plummeting to just 36 percent on Monday. His White House staff is inexperienced, undermanned and plagued by backbiting. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a former Wall Street executive, is a Washington neophyte. Last week, Mnuchin said: "Health care is a very complicated issue. In a way, tax reform is a lot simpler." Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is under pressure after failing to deliver on health care, and congressional Republicans are unsure who's running the show.
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Capitol cohesion
THEN: The balance of power — a Republican president, GOP-controlled Senate and Democratic-led House — required bipartisanship, which meant individual lawmakers and rogue factions had less influence. Those making a list of the most effective, experienced, legislators of recent decades would have to include Illinois Reps. Bob Michel, Reagan's loyal GOP soldier in the House, and Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., who did the heavy lifting for Democrats. In the Senate, Bob Packwood, R-Ore., and Bill Bradley, D-N.J., drove the effort, despite reservations among higher-ups. More broadly, Congress was a far different institution, with cross-party alliances, numerous Democratic moderates and fewer conservative zealots. Chairmen held much more power and were generally given greater deference. Lawmakers generally were more capable and experienced at legislating.
NOW: Congress is remarkably polarized and dysfunctional, and fewer lawmakers know the ropes. The game plan for GOP leaders is to pass tax reform by relying almost exclusively on Republican votes and utilizing filibuster-proof procedures in the Senate. That is likely to require Republican unity that's hardly on display now. Republicans controlling the House are grappling with the shift from simply opposing President Barack Obama for eight years to acting like a governing party. Almost all the key players are less seasoned than their 1986 predecessors, starting with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who was hobbled during the health care debacle by the hard-right Freedom Caucus. Brady is relatively inexperienced; his Senate counterpart, Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has slowed a bit at 83.
Devilish details
THEN: The tax code was a loophole-cluttered mess, with 14 tax brackets and a top rate for individuals of 50 percent. But the structure of the code permitted lawmakers to cut back on corporate tax preferences and shift some of that revenue to help cut tax brackets for individuals.
NOW: Loopholes and expensive tax preferences have crept back into the code. The top tax rate for upper earners is 39.6 percent after tax hikes in 1993 and 2013. But simply cutting loopholes and preferences, at least for individuals, won't get the rates much lower. To try to lower corporate tax rates further, House Republicans are pushing a deeply controversial plan to tax imports that's a dead letter in the Senate. And the failure of the health care bill harmed the effort for arcane accounting reasons that will make it more difficult to cut rates for individuals.
More: Associated Press Ronald Reagan Donald Trump Tax Reform
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How Travel Restrictions Slow A Disease Outbreak
Tanya Lewis,
C. Nicolaides/MIT
During infectious disease outbreaks, personal freedom comes at a price: the welfare of the public as a whole, a new study finds.
In the research, scientists investigated whether, in the event of an outbreak, people should be allowed to move about freely or if authorities should enforce travel restrictions to halt the disease's spread.
"What we were trying to understand better is how actions, in terms of routing humans, could affect the spread of disease," said study researcher Ruben Juanes, a geoscientist at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. [ The 5 Most Likely Real-Life Contagions]
The findings suggest that highly connected regions of dense commuter traffic carry the gravest consequences of allowing free movement.
The price of anarchy
The researchers borrowed a concept from game theory known as the "price of anarchy," which they defined as "the loss of welfare due to selfish rerouting compared with the policy-driven coordination."
Juanes and colleagues modeled the epidemic problem as two scenarios. In a free-movement scenario, people act selfishly to avoid infected areas, regardless of whether or not they themselves are infected, Juanes told LiveScience. In a policy-driven scenario, government agencies dictate that infected individuals move only within infected areas, while healthy individuals keep to unaffected areas, he said.
If the price of personal freedom is low — the spread of the disease is similar whether or not movement controls are imposed — it provides a clear answer regarding restrictions, Juanes said. "You come to the conclusion that it's not worth doing," he said, adding that these restrictions could be very costly and unpopular.
But if the price of such freedom is high, and movement restrictions could significantly slow the disease's progression, government agencies might want to implement these policies, Juanes said.
The researchers looked at census data on the passage of commuters within and among U.S. counties. Scientists compared how the disease would spread in different counties under the two different scenarios.
Not all areas would benefit equally from such restrictions, the findings showed. Places that had high traffic both within and among counties saw the most benefit from restricting travel. For example, counties near a major interstate highway, such as I-80 from New York to San Francisco or I-95 from the Canadian border to Miami, had a higher cost of anarchy — meaning travel restrictions would be helpful.
By contrast, low traffic areas did not benefit much from travel restrictions, so their cost of anarchy was lower, the model showed.
Surprisingly, some densely trafficked areas still wouldn't benefit much from travel restrictions. The policies only benefitted high-traffic regions that were near other high-traffic areas. "It was only when we established the longer-range correlation [with neighboring high-traffic areas] that we could make sense of it," Juanes said.
Understanding disease spread
Physicist Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved with the study, called it an interesting contribution to scientists' understanding of social behavior and of how people adapt to learning of an epidemic. Still, "many elements of realism are still missing in the modeling approaches," Vespignani cautioned. More studies are needed "to fully understand the effects of behavioral reactions in the spreading of large-scale epidemics," he said.
Even if travel restrictions can limit disease spread, implementing these policies may be unrealistic, Juanes said. The economic cost of rerouting a large population could be immense, he said, and people may be reluctant to give up their freedom.
Nonetheless, "there are events in which people understand that some extreme measures are perhaps admissible," Juanes said, citing the lockdown of Boston while police searched for the Boston Marathon bombers.
"In some extreme cases, it is conceivable to impose far-reaching travel restrictions," he said.
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These are the top 6 'Seinfeld' episodes of all time, according to Hulu
Dec. 15, 2016, 3:56 PM
Love it or hate it, if you ask someone whether they like "Seinfeld," you're going to get an opinion.
The iconic and polarizing show ran for 180 episodes and had a profound impact on TV. But to see which episodes are the biggest fan favorites, you usually have to resort to synthesizing a ranking from the "best of" lists floating around the internet and forums.
But now Hulu has decided to give us the hard numbers. The streaming service has the show's back catalog, and tracked which episodes were the most watched from 6/1/15 to 10/31/16.
The results probably won't come as a huge surprise. They're "all classics," as my colleague Steve Kovach put it. And it's true.
Here are the top 6 Seinfeld episodes of all time, according to Hulu, along with their descriptions:
No. 6 The Yada Yada (Season 8)
Jerry doubts his dentist's religious conversion; Kramer and Mickey fight over a double date as Elaine undermines a couple's chances at adoption.
No. 5 The Contest (Season 4)
Jerry challenges George, Kramer and Elaine to pool their money in a contest of self-denial. Meanwhile, an excited Elaine looks forward to her data with hunky John Kennedy, Jr.
No. 4 The Marine Biologist (Season 5)
Romance starts to blossom between George and his former college classmate Diane, after Jerry falsely tells her that George is a successful marine biologist.
No. 3 The Boyfriend (Season 3)
While performing his comedy act, Jerry meets Keith Hernandez (as himself), the former New York Mets all-star and one of Jerry's favorite baseball players. But Jerry finds himself competing for his new pal's time with Elaine, who has caught Keith's eye.
No. 2 The Soup Nazi (Season 7)
A demanding soup stand chef bans Elaine from eating his wares.
No. 1 The Pitch (Season 4)
Jerry and George propose to write a television series. Newman blames Kramer for his speeding ticket; Jerry and George are offered a deal at NBC.
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Selena Gomez Would Be A Chef If She Stopped Singing & Here’s What Her Menu Would Look Like
By Tracy Dye
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Apparently, even pop stars like to have a backup plan in case the whole international stardom thing goes kaput. During an interview for the November issue of Flare, Selena Gomez stated that if her fame was suddenly extinguished, she would pursue a career in food. "I would go to culinary school and learn how to be a chef." The "Good For You" singer went on to note that her inspiration for the hypothetical career switch comes from growing up in the South with a family who had a great knack for home-cooked meals. "My mom’s side did the casseroles, the chicken, the squash, and then my dad’s side was full on, like hours of cooking tamales and rice and beans and homemade salsa, and I’d be like, 'Can we just buy the salsa?'"
As much as I enjoy making Gomez's singles a regular fixture on my iTunes, her sentiments have sparked my curiosity. If a Chef Gomez came to be, what kind of meals would she prepare? Either way, I'm pretty sure that I would be ready to come and get it the minute said restaurant opened, because the heart wants what it wants, but — above all else — I would just hope the menu would offer a variety of entrées that are good for you.
Just for fun, let's take a look at some hypothetical — albeit, delicious — meals that Gomez would satiate all of us with if she ever became a chef.
1. The Artichoke Heart Wants What It Wants
I imagine that this dish would be served with the perfect combination of minced garlic and olive oil. It would best be served in dim lighting and paired with smoldering stares.
2. Trust In Miso Soup
What better way to start a meal than with a broth-based soup that is also trustworthy?
3. Naturally Sweetened Greek Yogurt Parfait
No pre-sweetened yogurt in this dessert, guys! This nutritious and delicious snack would be made with organic fruits, granola, and plain greek yogurt. In other words, it would come naturally.
4. A Year Without Grain
Anyone with an aversion to gluten would rejoice over a mix of lean proteins, fruits, and veggies.
5. Hit The Lightly Breaded Tilapia
Baked, not fried.
6. Bang Bang Bang Shrimp
For those of you that live in area that is peppered with Bonefish Grill restaurants, yes this one is inspired by the infamous Bang Bang Shrimp appetizer.
7. Good For You
It would be a salad...just a salad.
Is your stomach growling? Yeah, mine too. Excuse me while I go nosh on some takeout — my culinary skills still need some sharpening.
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Lake Shore Road accident claims life of St. Clair Shores woman
By: K. Michelle Moran | C&G Newspapers | Published February 10, 2019 | Updated February 11, 2019 3:08pm
File photo by K. Michelle Moran
GROSSE POINTE SHORES — An 88-year-old St. Clair Shores woman died as a result of her injuries from a crash in the 500 block of Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Shores on Friday night.
According to a press release, the woman, Ada Mary Andary, was driving a 1998 Cadillac heading southbound on Lake Shore when she suddenly drove up over a curb and onto the grass on the right side of the road and struck a light pole. The impact caused the light pole to topple and Andary’s vehicle rolled over, coming to a stop roughly 30 feet from the pole. Police said Andary was ejected from her vehicle.
Paramedics who rushed to the scene determined that the injuries Andary sustained during the crash were fatal, and that was confirmed after she was taken to nearby Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit, where an emergency room doctor examined her and formally pronounced her dead at 10:20 p.m.
Police said there do not appear to be any other vehicles involved, and Andary was the lone occupant of her vehicle. Michigan State Police from the District 2 Metro North Post in Oak Park were called to conduct an accident reconstruction at the scene, police said.
By email, Grosse Pointe Shores Public Safety Director John Schulte said it doesn’t appear that Andary was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident. Because police were still conducting their investigation, Schulte said at press time that police didn’t know what might have caused or factored into the accident.
The Grosse Pointe Shores Public Safety Department was assisted at the accident scene by several other agencies.
“I want to thank our mutual aid partners, Grosse Pointe Farms, St. Clair Shores, Michigan State Police and Medstar Ambulance, for their assistance with this investigation,” Schulte said in a prepared statement.
Anyone with more information about the accident can contact Grosse Pointe Shores Public Safety at (313) 881-5500.
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'The day after the election, it's just like somebody turned a faucet off.' 'Trump slump' in gun sales continues despite control debate.
Sales of firearms slowed dramatically after the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 allayed fears of a Democratic crackdown on gun owners.
'The day after the election, it's just like somebody turned a faucet off.' 'Trump slump' in gun sales continues despite control debate. Sales of firearms slowed dramatically after the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 allayed fears of a Democratic crackdown on gun owners. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2I3jaQU
Cincinnati Enquirer Published 9:25 a.m. ET March 5, 2018 | Updated 9:29 a.m. ET March 5, 2018
Gun sales have dipped since President Trump won the election in 2016, but spikes generally happen following mass shootings, like the school shooting in Florida on Feb. 14. ANNA REED / Statesman Journal
Rifles for sale at Chuck's Firearms in Atlanta, Georgia, on Feb. 13, 2018. The recently relocated gun store caters to sport shooters, hunters and collectors.(Photo: ERIK S. LESSER, EPA-EFE)
COLUMBUS — Gun store owners called it the "Trump slump." Sales of firearms slowed dramatically after the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 allayed fears of a Democratic crackdown on gun owners.
That trend has continued in recent weeks even with talk of gun control in Congress and among business leaders following the Feb. 14 massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school.
In the past, gun massacres generally led to an uptick in sales as people worried about the government restricting access. But with Parkland, things are different.
"The day after the election, it's just like somebody turned a faucet off," said David Dobransky, 67, who owns Dobransky Firearms, a small gun shop in North Canton, Ohio. Since then, sales there have been cut in half, and nothing the president or Congress has done or said following the Florida shooting has improved business.
Gun owners apparently have faith that Trump won't impose more restrictions, gun show owners say. That's even with the confusing messages Trump has sent in the past week.
He has cast himself as a strong supporter of the National Rifle Association but on Wednesday criticized lawmakers for being too fearful of the NRA to take action. He also reaffirmed positions opposed by the NRA, such as banning gun sales to those under 21.
Then the next day, Trump met with NRA officials and tweeted they'd had a "Good (Great) meeting." The NRA's executive director, tweeting about the same meeting, said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence "don't want gun control."
At Rapid-Fire Firearms in Rapid City, South Dakota, business is "just like normal," owner Robert Akers said Thursday, contrasting business with the panic buying under President Barack Obama.
In an earnings conference call last week, American Outdoor Brands, which owns Smith & Wesson, said revenue fell by one-third over the past three months, consistent with a drop since Trump was elected.
Demand dropped in December and January, before the Florida shooting and the debates on gun laws that followed, he said. The company doesn't expect sales to improve much over the next year.
Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brands have both seen their stocks plunge since Trump was elected, as they have mostly reported disappointing sales in recent months. American Outdoor Brands has plunged 67 percent since the presidential election and Sturm Ruger is down 28 percent.
Potentially dampening sales further, four major retailers last week — Kroger, Dick's Sporting Goods, L.L. Bean and Walmart — announced they will no longer sell guns to anyone under 21.
In addition, outdoor retailer REI says it's halting future orders of some popular brands — including CamelBak water carriers, Giro helmets and Camp Chef stoves — whose parent company also makes ammunition and assault-style rifles.
Over the past 30 years, U.S. gun production has tripled. Nine million were produced in 2015, compared with 3 million in 1986, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Those figures don't reflect sales since Trump took office, bringing with him the perception he was friendlier to gun owners.
The U.S. also imports millions of guns annually.
At Duke's Sport Shop in New Castle, Pennsylvania, gun sales have gone up in recent days, but that's thanks to the annual infusion of tax refund checks, shop owner Wes Morosky said Thursday.
The family-owned business started by Morosky's father, Duke, has about 2,000 firearms in stock at any one time, including AR-15s, the assault-style rifle used in the Florida shooting and the main subject of new debate about an assault rifle ban.
After the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, the store had a hard time keeping stock on shelves as fears arose that Obama would ban assault rifles through an executive order, Morosky said.
"Generally, people are still comfortable with the government that's intact right now," Morosky said.
On Friday morning, a few customers browsed shelves at L.E.P.D. Firearms & Range, a small gun shop on the northwest side of Columbus. In the back, a handful of people practiced target shooting at the shop's indoor range. A UPS driver dropped off a delivery while co-owner Eric Delbert awaited another package from FedEx. The store sells a full array of new and used firearms, including the AR-15.
After Trump's election, the drop in sales was almost "instantaneous," said Delbert, a part-time police officer, following nearly eight years of panic buying with a Democrat in the White House.
Recently, "We really haven't seen any uptick in sales, other than the normal trends for the time of year," Delbert said.
Associated Press Business Writer Marley Jay in New York and AP photographer Keith Srakocic in Pittsburgh contributed to this report.
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Book 1: Chapters 1-2
Book 1: Chapter 3
Book 1: Chapters 10-11
Clym (Clement) Yeobright
Eustacia Vye
Mrs. Yeobright
Thomasin (Tamsin) Yeobright
Damon Wildeve
Diggory Venn
Thomas Hardy Biography
Theme of The Return of the Native
Point of View of The Return of the Native
Setting of The Return of the Native
Plot of The Return of the Native
Structure of The Return of the Native
Symbolism in The Return of the Native
Irony in The Return of the Native
Style of The Return of the Native
Summary and Analysis Book 4: Chapters 7-8
Though Eustacia objects, fearful that he will find out what she has done, Clym is determined to waste no more time in going to see his mother. On the way, he discovers her prostrate and carries her to a hut not far from Blooms-End. When he returns with help, they discover she has been bitten by an adder, and they decide that until a doctor can be brought, the only thing to do is to use the old remedy of treating her with the fat of another adder.
Meanwhile, Eustacia, waiting impatiently at home, starts out to meet Clym but is halted momentarily by the arrival of Captain Vye, with news that Wildeve has inherited eleven thousand pounds. Thinking of Wildeve in a new light, Eustacia starts for Blooms-End, only to meet the man who occupies her thoughts. After Wildeve describes what he plans to do with the money and they are about to part, they come upon the group at the hut. They conceal themselves behind the hut and learn that Mrs. Yeobright is dying. Both Clym and Thomasin are there, with the heath folk, and after Mrs. Yeobright dies, Johnny Nunsuch repeats the remark about Clym that his mother made earlier in the child's presence.
Each book in the novel ends with a dramatic event partly as the result of the necessity Hardy felt to satisfy the demands of serial publication. The reader must be kept interested from month to month, and this was one way to do so.
The scene of Mrs. Yeobright's death, the dramatic incident with which this book ends, is full of irony: she is surrounded by those people who have unwittingly made possible the conditions for her being bitten by the adder. Clym has delayed in carrying out his desire to reconcile with his mother as soon as possible; Eustacia does not open the door to her, thinking that Clym will surely wake up and do so; Wildeve appears at Clym's house at the wrong moment and causes Eustacia to hesitate over whether or not to admit Mrs. Yeobright. All of them have reasons for what they do; yet, the woman lies dead.
This as well as the now falling curve by which the structure of the novel is described (falling because, for instance, Clym's eyesight fails, Clym and Eustacia begin to feel alienated from each other, and Mrs. Yeobright dies) once more embodies the theme of the novel. This theme — to repeat, man living in an indifferent, if not hostile, universe — is also shown directly in other places in these chapters: in Eustacia's refusing to accept blame for not letting Mrs. Yeobright in but instead placing it upon "the shoulders of some indistinct, colossal Prince of the World, who [has] framed her situation and [rules] her lot"; in Wildeve's unexpected inheritance, a large sum of money to a man whose worth is at least questioned by almost all the characters in the story.
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How does Clym respond to his mother’s death?
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Home/National/Indian Army to seek more funds from govt??; decision to be taken in Army Commanders’ conference
Indian Army to seek more funds from govt??; decision to be taken in Army Commanders’ conference
It is the bi-annual conference of Army commanders chaired by the Indian Army Chief that decides on the future course of action.
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In a shocking decision, the Indian Army has proposed to cut down on the purchase of expensive items, as well as discontinue the purchase of spares for vintage platforms to save money.
This is being done apparently as a desperate measure to compensate for a 15 to 20 per cent shortage of critical ammunition, spares and missiles.
It is now said that among the expensive items the army has identified for the proposal are heavy multiple rocket launchers and anti-tank weapons.
The issue is also likely being deliberated in the on-going Army Commanders Conference.
The commanders will be told that by cutting down on buying expensive items and spares for vintage platform, the force will be able to save between Rs 600 crore and Rs 800 crore over the next three financial years.
The Army commanders are likely to consider moving the government for additional funds, top sources indicated.
It need be mentioned that the tri services – the Army, the Navy and the Air Force – are mandated to be ready to fight a 40-day war and, therefore, be equipped accordingly.
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Surrey RCMP are looking for Megan Hindmarch, 15, who was last seen in the 12400-block of 97B Street at 8 p.m. on June 18. (Photo: Police handout)
UPDATE: Surrey RCMP say missing 15-year-old Aboriginal girl found safe
Megan Hindmarch went missing on June 18, prompting a public appeal for information
UPDATE (June 21, 7:45 a.m.): Surrey RCMP say Megan Hindmarch has been safely located
Surrey RCMP hope the public can help locate a missing 15-year-old girl.
Police say Megan Hindmarch was last seen in the 12400-block of 97B Street at 8 p.m. at June 18.
She has not been seen or heard from since.
Police describe Megan as Aboriginal, five feet two inches tall, 140 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a red T-shirt, black leggings and black shoes.
Police and family are concerned for her health and well-being as it is out of character for this person to be out of touch this long.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502, or Crime Stoppers, to remain anonymous, at 1-800-222-8477 or solvecrime.ca, quoting file number 2019-90774.
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