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The INI team consists of a board of diverse professionals all dedicated to serving those suffering from neurological disorders. Each member offers unique expertise and talents, and through collaborative efforts, we hope to maximize our impact in the community.
The INI team consists of a board of diverse professionals all dedicated to serving those suffering from neurological disorders.
Each board member offers unique expertise and talents, and through collaborative efforts, we hope to maximize our impact in the community.
Our Founder & President
Amir Vokshoor, MD FAANS
Amir Vokshoor, MD is a board certified neurosurgeon whose passion is research of brain performance and its effect on everyday life and surgical healing. He utilizes a multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of adult spinal and cranial disorders.
Dr. Vokshoor’s surgical expertise lies in minimally invasive microsurgical spinal techniques, such as dynamic stabilization and motion preservation. Dr. Vokshoor is committed to healing and recovery through performance optimization, which he weaves throughout his treatment, and his patients benefit from a comprehensive fusion of cognitive stimulation, nutrition, and exercise. After earning his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia of the Virginia Commonwealth University with honors, he completed neurosurgery residency training at Ohio State University Hospitals and obtained additional complex spine Fellowship training at the University of South Florida. Currently, Dr. Vokshoor is on the medical staff at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA.
Brandon Matloff, Wealth Management Advisor and Stella Oak Financial and Insurance Services founder, is a second generation Northwestern Mutual financial representative. Brandon attended the University of Colorado where he majored in Finance and received his Bachelor's Degree in Business.
CFO - Brandon Matloff
Stella Oak Financial
Claudia Aguirre, PhD is a neuroscientist and a mind-body expert. She serves as an international consultant and professional speaker with engagements through TEDx and TED Ed with focuses on a variety of wellness topics including nutrigenomics, psychodermatology, endocrinology, meditation, neuroplasticity and longevity.
Claudia Aguirre PhD
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Dr. Jared D. Ament received his Hon. BSc. from the University of Toronto and his MD from the Medical School for International Health, a collaborative initiative between Ben-Gurion University in Israel and Columbia University, NY. He completed his surgical internship at the University of Massachusetts and a post-doctoral fellowship in surgical outcomes at Harvard Medical School. His Master of Public Health degree is from the Harvard School of Public Health and during that time he served as adjunct faculty at Harvard's department of Population Health and Epidemiology. He has specific interests in cost-effectiveness research, cost-utility analyses, economic modeling, decision analysis, international surgery, and medical education. Dr. Ament has experience developing health economic models and combines this expertise with systematic literature reviews, prediction modeling, and surgical outcomes research. He has spearheaded several large projects both here in the USA and other countries including Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Ecuador, and Bolivia. He has published extensively on cost-utility analysis in surgical subspecialties. Dr. Ament’s economic models have resulted in national reform towards increased government and payer support for various surgical interventions. He is the recipient of the Mayfield Clinical Science and John Hanbery Awards, for the best clinical papers of 2015, related to his work on the cost-effectiveness of artificial disc technology in patients with degenerative cervical spine disease. He also recently was part of team that introduced the first Neurosurgical Boot Camp to South American trainees in Bolivia in an effort to standardize neurosurgical education abroad. Dr. Ament completed his neurosurgical training at University of California, Davis and an enfolded complex and minimally invasive spine fellowship under Dr. Pat Johnson at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He recently joined the Sierra Neuroscience Institute (SNI) in Los Angeles as the Director of Spine Neurosurgery and the Director of Economic and Outcomes Research. He is the President and Founder of Neuronomics, a professional corporation specializing in cost-effective analyses in the neurosciences. In his spare time, Dr. Ament prioritizes activities with his wife and young children.
Jared Ament MD MPH
Sierra Neuroscience Institute
Kartik Ananth, MD is dual board certified and fellowship trained in Psychiatry and Pain Management specializing in the innovative field of digital health, focusing on the development of supportive technologies within the experiential / neuromodulation space.
Kartik Ananth MD
Pacific Pain & Wellness Group
Anne Andrews PhD
Anne Andrews, PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA. Her research focuses on the role of serotonergic system in modulating complex behaviors such as anxiety, stress responsiveness, mood, and learning and memory.
www.serotonin.ucla.edu
Dr. Garni Barkhoudarian is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA.
Garni Barkhoudarian MD
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Providence Saint John's Health Center
Matthew Brown DO, MBA, ABPN is a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. His approach to whole health psychiatry engages a multidisciplinary approach through sleep, diet, exercise, meditative/spiritual practices, and positive social relationships, as well as traditional psychopharmacological therapies.
DO MBA ABPN
drmattbrown.com
Krishnan Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, is an anesthesiologist who specializes in multi-modal pain management. As a pain management specialist, he evaluates, diagnoses and treats all forms of pain. Dr. Chakravarthy performs a variety of procedures to treat chronic pain, specializing in dorsal root stimulation therapy, a type of neurostimulation therapy designed to manage pain in areas of the lower body such as the foot, knee, hip or groin; dorsal column stimulation; and peripheral nerve stimulation.
Krishnan Chakravarthy MD PhD
Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, FAANS specializes in the treatment of degenerative and traumatic diseases of the spine through minimally invasive techniques, spinal cord and brain injury, and brain tumors through traditional surgery or Gamma Knife Radiosugery.
Brian Gantwerker
MD FAANS
The Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles
Bill Leider
Vistage Worldwide Inc.
Mehran Movassaghi, M.D., is a board-certified, fellowship trained urologist who has vast experience with endourology and men’s health.
www.mOvassaghiurology.com
Mehran Movassaghi MD
Randall Scharlach MD
Golden State Cancer Centers
As a founder of Kramer Holcomb Sheik LLP, Shahrokh Sheik proudly represents clients in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, California.
Shahrokh Sheik JD
Kramer Holcomb Sheik LLP
Paul S. Weiss received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemistry from MIT in 1980 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986.
Paul Weiss PhD
California NanoSystems Institute
Our Auxiliary Board
Ektha Aggarwal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in the growing field of life transitions and mental health with a focus on trauma healing and redefining independence through various life stages.
Ektha Aggarwal, LCSW
Shakti Therapy &
Rio Mohan Dluzak is a lifelong entrepreneur and science advocate who is driven by her passion for neuroscience, applying current advances, and innovating future applications to achieve real-world impact.
Rio Mohan Dluzak
Aashna is a television host/producer for entertainment, travel, lifestyle and business programs.
Aashna Patel
Alison Pascola
Michael Gervais, Ph.D. is a psychologist who specializes in high performance. With his vision of helping his clients thrive under pressure, he has created a performance model that allows people to achieve their maximum potential, whether on or off the field.
Michael Gervais PhD
Finding Mastery
Sports Psychologist (Redbull & Seattle Seahawks)
Tom Schnabel is an internationally recognized radio producer, pioneer, and innovator in world music. He helped introduce world music to American audiences as KCRW's first music director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic (1979-1991). Tom is the author of two books (Stolen Moments: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians and Rhythm Planet: The Great World Music Makers) and numerous articles about music.
Tom Schnabel
KCRW 89.9FM
INI Staff & Research Team
Johny Tran
Director of Research & Operations
Jerome Deniant
Graduate Intern
Sophie Mostowy
Clinical Research Coordinator
Vance Matthews
Kiefer O’Sullivan
Research Liaison
Past INI Staff
Special thanks to our past staff for their contributions towards shaping INI into what we are today!
Karen Jiang
Alison Jacobi
Samira Soroory
Hannah Wroblewski
Lucy Bataneant
Melinda Ma
Cosette DeChant
Stephanie Jensen
Kelly Chan
Arian Esmaili
Hillary Prentice
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Zara parent Inditex’s omnichannel strategy helps boost sales
Inside Retail Hong Kong
Clothing retailer Inditex, owner of the Zara and Pull & Bear brands, has achieved record first-quarter sales and profits following efforts to bring its online and offline businesses together.
The company achieved sales of €5.927 billion (US$6.681 billion) during the quarter, up 5 per cent from last year’s €5.654 billion ($6.374 billion). Inditex’s online business now accounts for 12 per cent of its total net sales.
Net profit came in at €734 million ($827 million), up more than 10 per cent year on year.
“The figures demonstrate the solidarity of the company’s model, whose profitability and cash flow generation continues to grow owing to the group’s commitment to customer-driven quality fashion,” said Inditex’s chairman and outgoing CEO Pablo Isla. Isla will be replaced by the firm’s current COO Carlos Crespo in July.
Inditex’s results are proving the effectiveness of the firm’s emerging strategy to digitally reform its integrated store and online sales systems, as well as taking focus on issues of sustainability.
All Inditex brands and products are scheduled to be made available online by next year.
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Ambergris Caye, Belize
By Ann Kuffner August 31, 2016
Rent on This Quiet, Laidback Caribbean Island From $600 a Month
Walking along Caye Caulker’s coastline, wherever you look the scenery is pleasing to the eye. Along the village’s front street, an expansive soft-sand beach extends towards the multi-hued aquamarine sea. The sea breeze ruffles the plentiful coconut palm fronds and cools your skin. It’s easy to be enchanted by the beauty, charm, and tranquility of this tiny Caribbean island.
Vivid purple, raucous orange, and cool lime kiosks line the packed-sand street. Funky beach bars—with names like Lazy Lizard and Mara’s Sip & Dip—tempt you to drop in for a frosty Belikin beer, or a tropical cocktail. Strolling past the Ragamuffins kiosk, a friendly tour guide invites you to sail inside the protected reef, to a pristine caye, or to join him in search of shy manatees.
“Go Slow” signs, scattered around the island, are a constant reminder of the island’s motto. Locals and tourists walk leisurely along the village streets or bike to their destination. Once in a while a golf cart passes by.
This little caye can cast an irresistible spell. Paulette, now in her 70s, had spent years planning to retire in France. But everything changed on her first trip to Caye Caulker. She recounts, “I got off the boat, stood on the dock, and instantly knew I would live on Caye Caulker.”
When she returned to Minneapolis, her friends tried to dissuade her. But she set her affairs in order, packed up, and moved to Caye Caulker with Amelie, her canine companion. She’s lived happily on the island for over two years. A professional artist, she paints, exhibiting her art at The Red Flower Gallery, which she owns.
About 2,000 people live on Caye Caulker, which is five miles in length and a mile wide. According to one long-term expat, less than 100 expats actually live on the island year round. But during the high season—December through April—the snowbirds descend. That’s when the expat population can reach as high as 500.
During the last 10 years this island has become quite popular…but it’s remained quintessentially Caribbean. Caye Caulker offers more amenities and options than ever but it hasn’t succumbed to the over-development and gross commercialization common on other Caribbean islands. You won’t find cookie cutter chain stores and hotels here. No cruise line visitors hit the shore of this little caye.
The entire village can be covered on foot in less than an hour. Explore further afield and you’ll find neighborhoods where homes are being built on the south and north sides of the island.
Beachfront homes and condos for sale here are usually snapped up quickly. Currently, a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo on the beach is on offer for $275,000. For those who prefer to build their own a home, off-beach lots start as low as $25,000 in the Bahia area. You can build a concrete home starting at $100 per square foot for a basic finish.
If you’d like to give Caye Caulker a test drive, long-term rentals start at $1,000 a month but if you are on the ground you may get lucky and find one of the deals for between $600 and $700 a month.
Living on Caye Caulker, you can’t help but appreciate the natural surroundings. Frigate birds hang suspended above the sea, coasting in the breeze. Foamy white waves crash on the barrier reef, less than a mile offshore.
A short walk to the back lagoon and the scene is totally different, but equally beautiful. The sea is utterly still, its surface smooth as glass. It’s a perfect place to swim or to cool off.
Swimming, snorkeling, diving, fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding, bird watching, and gardening are all favorite pastimes here. It’s equally pleasant to just lie in a hammock, book in hand, in the divine breeze.
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Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014: Masayo Takahashi (高橋 政代)
November 4, 2014 Paul Knoepfler Uncategorized 1
Dr. Masayo Takahashi, Asahi photo
Congratulations to Masayo Takahashi (高橋 政代), MD, PhD, the winner of the 2014 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award.
Dr. Takahashi received this award including the $2,000 prize for her exceptional achievements in stem cell research in 2014. She was selected as the winner from a stellar group of top 12 finalists this year.
Takahashi leads a team doing high-risk, high reward research that is conducting the first induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) clinical study in humans ever. I interviewed Takahashi at the beginning of this year and you can learn more about her research and vision for the future from reading that interview.
The Takahashi team clinical study is intended to examine the safety of a human retinal pigmented epithelial cell (RPE) product made from each patients’ own IPSCs. You can see at right RPEs produced by her team from monkey pluripotent stem cells.
In an astonishing feat of speedy clinical translation, Takahashi’s team transplanted its first macular degeneration patient recently on September 12, only 7 years after human IPSCs were first ever published. The usual timeline for such translation would be 20 years. In that regard, in a recent interview I did with him, Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka had this to say of Takahashi and her work:
I was surprised that after the announcement of human iPSCs in 2007, Dr. Takahashi told me that she would bring iPSC to the bedside within five years. I thought it possible technically speaking, but doubted it could be done so soon, since we needed to improve the technology and get government approval. It took 7 years, which is remarkable considering the work required. Both the accomplishment and the speed at which it was achieved are testaments to Dr. Takahashi’s leadership and her strong team.
Her achievements extend beyond this year to an outstanding long-term track record in vision research including a very impressive track record of highly-cited publications. Takahashi is physician scientist, who is a faculty member and Project Leader at the Laboratory of Retinal Regeneration at the CDB at RIKEN. Some of her nominators for the Stem Cell Person of the Year Award described her as a “transformative” and “courageous” stem cell scientist. Below you can see a TEDx talk from just a few months ago by Takahashi explaining her work.
Takahashi joins previous Stem Cell Person of the Year Award recipients Roman Reed and Elena Cattaneo as outside-the-box thinkers who to take risks to make outstanding new developments in the arena of stem cell research with the goal of helping others.
More about the Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. I fund this prize myself as a way of giving back to the stem cell community and recognizing transformative people who take risks to help others. It is to my knowledge the only annual, international science-related prize personally funded by a professor.
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Excellent choice! Dr. Takahashi is a true pioneer in the stem cell community.
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The flexible bivariate continual reassessment method
Mitchell Alan Thomann, University of IowaFollow
10.17077/etd.56gl4iz4
Coffey, Christopher S.
Foster, Eric D.
Cavanaugh, Joseph
Gutmann, Laurie
Long, Jeffrey
Oleson, Jacob
Early phase clinical trials during drug development are vital to the success of an investigational compound. In these phases, an important goal of a dose-finding study is the determination of a dose that is safe and/or effective. Dose-finding trials based on safety outcomes are typically among the first studies conducted for any novel compound. Subsequently, another trial may be conducted to determine which dose among the range of safe doses is the most effective thereby generating a dose-effectiveness profile. When both safety and efficacy are simultaneously considered in a single trial, this is called a phase I/II trial. These trials are advantageous in that they are likely to save both time and resources. This dissertation reviews current phase I/II methods, explores key limitations of these methods, and presents an innovative approach that addresses some of these limitations. The new approaches are compared to one of the most widely known methods of this type.
A common phase I/II method is the bivariate Continual Reassessment Method (bCRM; Braun, 2002). The bCRM models dichotomous safety and effectiveness outcomes for use in dose escalation and dose selection decisions. Its overall statistical model is based upon both safety and efficacy models that assume the probabilities of these outcomes increase linearly with dose. The effects of violating the linear monotonicity assumption are explored. It is shown that there are a number of scenarios in which the bCRM performs poorly, including those where effectiveness does not increase beyond a certain dose and when the most efficacious dose is not the highest dose. This indicates that an approach where linearity is not assumed could have great value.
The generalized bivariate Continual Reassessment Method (gbCRM) framework is developed as an alternative to dose-finding methods with fixed models. With this approach, the model could be modified to fit a variety of trends that typically arise during dose-finding. It is shown that there are scenarios where the gbCRM provides major advantages when the proper models are used. However, there also exist a number of scenarios where there is an increased risk of choosing an unsafe dose when improper models are used. This study indicates that the use of statistical model selection procedures is likely to improve the performance of the gbCRM by gaining the benefits of proper model selection while avoiding some of the consequences of improper model selection. To address these concerns, an extension of the gbCRM, called the flexible bivariate Continual Reassessment Method (fbCRM), is developed. The fbCRM incorporates model selection and averaging to help make statistical decisions within the gbCRM framework. A simulation study shows that, under many scenarios, the fbCRM is vastly superior to methods with fixed models.
Finally, the bCRM, gbCRM and fbCRM are applied to data from a small clinical trial whose goal was to describe the dose-response relationship of the colonization of the Haemophilus influenzae bacterium. These methods are used to define the dose-colonization of this bacterium when applied to human subjects, and to explore how the dose escalation scheme of this trial might have differed if the fbCRM had been used.
Performing dose-finding during drug development in an accurate manner is vital in the first-in-human clinical trials. Typically, determination of a dose for future research depends only upon drug tolerability. However, it is becoming commonplace to jointly monitor drug effectiveness and tolerability in these trials, in which the primary goal of the trial is to identify the best dose to use for future research based upon these outcomes. This dissertation presents two novel dose-finding designs for use in trials with this goal.
The generalized bivariate Continual Reassessment Method (gbCRM) is presented which allows the utilization of various functional forms specifying the relationships between dose and subject effectiveness and tolerability outcomes to match trends likely to arise in dose-finding studies. The assumed forms of these relationships are dictated by the fitted dose-response models incorporated in the statistical model. The gbCRM is unique in its ability to fit a variety of dose-response models without modification of the underlying statistical modeling framework. This is shown to improve dose estimation accuracy in situations with properly specified dose-response trends, while improper model use can cause problems with correct dose determination. The flexible bivariate Continual Reassessment Method (fbCRM) is presented as an extension to the gbCRM in which model selection and averaging is considered to minimize the consequences of improper dose-response model specification in the statistical model. This method is shown to improve accuracy with respect to proper dose selection under a variety of conditionals that are likely to arise in dose-finding trials.
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Thomann, Mitchell Alan. "The flexible bivariate continual reassessment method." PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) thesis, University of Iowa, 2015.
https://doi.org/10.17077/etd.56gl4iz4
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Tag: Surveillance
Protestors demand Amazon end relationship with ICE
(Jul 15, 2019) Protestors at the Amazon Web Services Summit last week called for Amazon to stop providing services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Government Technology reports. The protest occurred after leaked documents revealed AWS is open to “providing ICE with its Rekognition Video system.” While ICE does not currently have a facial-recognition contract with Amazon, it does have a contract with Four Points Technology that offers unlimited cloud storage solutions on AWS. In June, Amazon announ... Read More
Face datasets used to train facial-recognition tech
(Jul 15, 2019) Databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge and shared around the world, The New York Times reports. The datasets contain images pulled from social media, photo websites and cameras in restaurants and on college campuses. Some datasets contain thousands of images, but others contain millions. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over a lack of oversight of the datasets, noting that people’s faces are being used to create “ethically questionable technology.” While Fac... Read More
Are license plate recognition cameras headed to fast-food drive-thrus?
(Jul 12, 2019) Fast-food chains are exploring adding license plate recognition cameras to the drive-thru line, the Los Angeles Times reports. If added, the cameras would identify return customers by linking a customer's car with their credit card and order history, enabling the customer to pay without actually opening their wallets. Meanwhile, State Rep. Mike Beltran, R-Fla., has pledged to sponsor a new privacy law after it was revealed the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles is selling driver’s license and ... Read More
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: CCPA co-architect on this week's amendments
(Jul 12, 2019) There's no question that the California Consumer Privacy Act has captured the attention of not only U.S. stakeholders, but global counterparts, as well. Perhaps even more concerning to companies aiming to comply with the law before it becomes effective in 2020 is the uncertainty surrounding the seemingly endless number of amendments being considered by California's legislature. How do you prepare to comply with a law that's not fully baked? In this episode, co-author of the CCPA ballot initiativ... Read More
Privacy concerns arise over British Columbia community's security camera program
(Jul 12, 2019) A city security camera program on Vancouver Island has caught the attention of privacy advocates, Global News reports. The city of Parksville is offering residents and businesses a $100 rebate to install cameras on their property. The B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association said both public education and consultation are needed considering the program makes it easy for widespread, unregulated camera use. “It opens it up to make it easy for everyone to just put cameras in their backya... Read More
BCLC facial-recognition tests producing high number of false positives
(Jul 12, 2019) Documents obtained by CTV News found a facial-recognition system the British Columbia Lottery Corporation plans to use to keep troublesome patrons out of casinos has produced a high rate of false positives. Of the 3,647 alerts to come out of the system, 3,255 were rejected. The system was able to accept 387 results; however, only 26 were confirmed by staff members, according to the documents. "These systems are complicated. It was overpromised in the first place. Surveillance is something that i... Read More
Researchers urge Scotland Yard to stop using facial-recognition tech
(Jul 11, 2019) Researchers at the University of Essex are calling on Scotland Yard to stop using facial-recognition technology until “significant concerns” of the tech violating human rights laws are addressed, the Independent reports. The call comes after researchers found that four out of five “suspects” are innocent. The independent report, which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police, raises concerns over watchlist criteria being out of date, operational failures and issues with “consent, public legit... Read More
EU privacy regulators seek to clamp down on facial-recognition tech
(Jul 10, 2019) Politico reports EU privacy regulators have discussed the launch of a new set of guidelines to increase restrictions on facial-recognition software. A priority with the guidelines would be to redefine the data collected by facial-recognition tech as "biometric data." A change in verbiage would place the information under the "sensitive data" category of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The GDPR requires explicit consent for sensitive data collections. The change through these proposed ... Read More
Coalition calls for DHS to ban facial recognition ahead of hearing
(Jul 10, 2019) Privacy and civil liberties organizations have banded together and are pushing for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to halt its use of facial-recognition software, BuzzFeed News reports. Fight for the Future and the Electronic Privacy Information Center were among the organizations to launch campaigns against the DHS's surveillance tactics. The calls come as DHS is set to hold a hearing regarding the broad, unregulated use of facial-recognition tech by the Transportation Security Adminis... Read More
Mistaken identifications raise privacy concerns
(Jul 10, 2019) There are a variety of home surveillance tools that provide homeowners a sense of security when they're not at home. The downside to the surveillance is that some people have been mistakenly identified as criminals, Government Technology reports. In Ohio, a teenager was mistakenly identified as a thief after taking a package off a neighbor's porch. The homeowner posted images of the teenager on social media and reported the incident to the police. It turns out the teenager was picking up a packa... Read More
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Season 5 starts 18 months after Jack Bauer was forced to fake his own death and go underground. Now living under a false name and working in an oil field, Jack leads a quiet life, renting a room with a woman and her son. An early morning breach of national security, however, triggers the series' most shocking season opener yet, forcing Jack to reemerge. Once out in the open, Bauer quickly becomes the most wanted man alive while CTU commander Bill Buchanan and key operatives react to a series of escalating tragedies. Meanwhile, a shaky President Logan is forced to balance the national security emergencies with the signing of a significant arms treaty he believes will be his legacy.
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WATCH: Want to Expand Voter Rights? Support Ranked Choice Voting
by Thomas A. Hawk, published Jun 13, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItsE_Xk-Z_s
Video Credit: VoterChoiceMA, June 9, 2017
Voter Choice Massachusetts Executive Director Adam Friedman made one thing clear to Massachusetts Democrats: If you support protecting and enhancing voter rights, you should support ranked choice voting.
"Do you support voting rights and voter empowerment? Do you support inclusion, diversity, and unity for the party and for the United States of America? If you support these things, you should support ranked choice voting," says Friedman.
Friedman gave his remarks on the convention floor of the 2017 Massachusetts Democratic Convention. His goal was to convince the 4,500 delegates present to vote in support of ranked choice voting.
And his speech may have had a huge impact. The Massachusetts Democratic Party voted Saturday to add an amendment to the party's new platform supporting ranked choice voting.
According to FairVote, 3 bills were introduced in the Massachusetts General Court in 2017.
"SD 485 would allow cities and towns to incorporate ranked choice voting, while HB 2897 would do the same for certain municipalities," reports FairVote. "The latter already has thirty-one cosponsors. In addition, HB 377 would enable ranked choice voting for all statewide offices."
According to FairVote, "ranked choice voting is used to elect city officers in 11 cities today, with two cities awaiting implementation as soon as voting equipment is ready."
Additionally, Maine voters approved the implementation of ranked choice voting in November 2016 for all statewide and congressional races.
Maine lawmakers, however, may soon go against the will of their voters after the state Supreme Court issued a non-binding opinion that ranked choice voting was in conflict with a state constitutional provision that deals with 3 state general elections.
Yet the Maine Supreme Court did not find a constitutional conflict with primary and federal elections -- most elections under ranked choice voting.
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Thomas A. Hawk
Joins the national political dialogue while balancing realism and sarcasm. Thomas aims to bring more readers into the discussion by commenting on under-reported stories.
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India's Spiritual Wisdom
Much of the eight volumes of Swami Vivekananda's published works is an elaboration of the doctrines implied in the statement – Each soul is potentially Divine.......... Systematic expositions are contained especially in his learned lectures on Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga, besides dissertations that are scattered everywhere in his general lectures on Hinduism.
Some of the special points in the Swami's exposition of India's spiritual wisdom are :
1. He accepted that the Sanatana Dharma is based on the Vedas or Revelation, and that the Veda is 'Apourusheya' (not man-made), in the sense that it is eternal. But by Vedas he meant no books but the eternal spiritual laws which existed even before the Rishis discovered them, just as the Law of Gravitation existed even before its discovery by Newton.
2. The teachings of the Vedas are not dogmas deriving authority from any personality or church. They are spiritual experiences open even today to all men who undergo the necessary training, irrespective of race or country. Records of spiritual experiences show that great minds in other countries and cultures too had identical experiences.
3. The Sanatana Dharma, though based on the Vedas, is eternal and universal. It is also scientific, being based on experience open to all.
4. The uniqueness of the Vedic doctrine lies in that it takes a man where he is in his spiritual evolution and helps him to progress towards the next stage. Thus no hard and fast dogmas about God and soul are enforced on all alike, because at different stages of growth the angle of vision changes and the evolving individual becomes fit for different conceptions of the ultimate varities. Thus when man is fully body-centred in his conception of himself, he thinks of the Divine as an extra-cosmic Being, and the soul and the Universe as entirely separate from Him. All the dualistic faiths of the world, including the vaunted monotheism of Semetic origin, mark this stage of growth. Further at this stage God is comprehended as power, as the mysterious and the tremendous, and the devotee feels a corresponding religious emotion that has popularly come to be known as"' fear of God' as contrasted with love of Him. At the next stage of evolution, when love of God develops in the heart, man begins to think of himself as a spiritual being forming a part of Him, and conceives of Him not as an extra-cosmic being, but as the Spirit immanent in all. At the highest stage of development, when thought has developed the capacity to be absolutely dispassionate and impersonal, the aspirant realizes the Divine as his very self, as the substratum of what he and all beings conceive to be their individuality, and is thus established in the sense of non-duality.
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Meet Josh
Josh Woll
Mail: info@joshwoll.com
Road To Race Day
A episodic series that takes a unique look behind the championship NASCAR team of Hendrick Motor Sports
Role: Director of Photography
This series, from executive producer Peter Berg, creator of Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor, takes an unprecedented view behind the NASCAR curtain. The project closely follows the people who make the Hendrick Motor Sports the most successful NASCAR team of all time.
A milestone achievement in my career, this project brought a level of intensity unmatched by any other work I’ve done. For an entire year, we spent two weeks of each month shooting. We’d start at the Hendrick Motorsports facility in Charlotte, NC, and then hit the road to the race tracks—Daytona, Bristol, Sonoma, Tallahassee and Indianapolis. Creatively, we took a dual-perspective approach. One team (Director Cynthia Hill, DP Rex Miller and I) followed the racing team, while a second team (Blaire Johnson and Mark Barroso) captured the fan life. The parallel storylines for each race truly crafted a complete picture, race to race.
“The intensity of this project was profound. With each race, we left part of our souls on the track.”
If you’ve ever been to a NASCAR race, you know the extreme impact to the senses—sights, sounds and smells that take the experience to new heights. Because of this, we had to be hyperaware of our surroundings at all times. Temperatures sometimes exceeding 110 degrees and some 18-hour shooting days added to the project’s intensity. Wearing special headphones to block the deafening decibel levels, the key to success was in carefully watching for the story to unfold.
In addition to being one of the main cameras, I was also in charge of the multiple GoPros used to get additional perspectives—on the vehicle haulers, in race team meetings, at the pit in and the crew chief box. Getting the timing right among all these shots was imperative.
During the year of post-production, I eventually served as post-production manager, overseeing the VFX schedule and ensuring on-time delivery.
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What is the Role of Acromioplasty in the Treatment of Rotator Cuff Disease?
McFarland, Edward G., MD; Matsen, Frederick A. III, MD; Sanchez-Sotelo, Joaquin, MD, PhD, FEBOT
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®: September 2018 - Volume 476 - Issue 9 - p 1707–1712
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E. G. McFarland, The Wayne Lewis Professor of Shoulder Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Independent Music with an International Focus
Electro Pop, electronica, Indie Electro Pop, Indie Synth Pop, instrumental, New Video, Synth Pop, Video, Video Review, women who kick ass Video
by William Ruben Helms April 1, 201922:40 April 1, 2019
New Video: Striking and Sensual Visuals for Eve Maret’s Ambient Composition “My Own Pace”
Eve Maret is a Nashville-based electronic music composer, producer, and multidisciplinary artist, whose work generally bridges pop and experimentalism, while exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative acts — and as a result, to Maret, the act of creating is a wholehearted, life-affirming “Yes!”
Last year was a big year for the Nashville-based electronic music composer, producer and multidisciplinary artist: she co-founded Hyasynth House, an electronic music collective and education center for female, trans, and non-binary artists, founded to help support and empower marginalized groups through workshops, performances and community-wide conversations. Also last year, she released a limited run of her full-length debut, No More Running on cassette through Nashville-based label Banana Tapes. Maret has toured across the US alongside a diverse and wildly eclectic array of artists including Guerrilla Toss, JEFF the Brotherhood, Mary Ocher, Coupler and Precious Child among others.
Building upon a growing profile, Maret will be releasing No More Running (Deluxe Edition), an expanded edition of last year’s debut album with three new tracks, new videos and alternate artwork that’s slated for an April 26, 2019 release. The deluxe edition’s latest single is the ambient composition “My Own Pace.” Centered by layers of shimmering and arpeggiated synths, thumping beats and a subtle motorik-like groove, the track recalls Trans Europe Express-era Kraftwerk.
Directed by videographer Helen Gilley, the recently released video features Eve Maret dancing in front of an angelic halo of light to the propulsive composition. It’s an interesting mix of the sensual and spiritual, the organic and the robotic.
Maret will be playing a handful of live shows. Check out the tour dates below.
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Staff enjoy lunch in the naturally lit kitchen at 841 North American Street ©Michael Moran
The AIA has selected KieranTimberlake's studio at 841 North American Street as a 2018 Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Plus awardee. The COTE Top Ten honors projects that integrate environmental performance with design excellence, with a Plus designation reserved for projects with exemplary building performance metrics and occupant feedback. In their decision statement, the jury applauded our studio renovation for “emphasizing occupant comfort rather than prescribed metrics” and highlighted the way our firm “actively monitors, learns from, and improves the building's performance over time.”
KieranTimberlake is in a unique position as both the owner and operator of our own building, a former bottling plant constructed in 1948. Despite its original state of disrepair, the structure and envelope were intact and most of our renovation centered on replacing the roof and windows to make the building more efficient. Using Tally®, our Life Cycle Assessment tool, we calculated that the retrofit achieved a 75% reduction of our global warming impacts when weighed against the prospect of new construction of the same size.
Since moving into the space in 2014, we've frequently experimented on ourselves as we test the threshold for occupancy comfort. We have minimized and sometimes foregone air conditioning during summer months and continue to administer daily occupancy comfort surveys to staff that help us tweak our building's response to temperature, air quality, and daylight.
These efforts are central to KieranTimberlake's research and design ethos, and we've continued exploring strategies to broaden our environmental stewardship. Earlier this year, we signed on to the AIA's 2030 Commitment, a public call for all new buildings, developments, and major renovations to be carbon-neutral by the year 2030. The 2030 Commitment relates specifically to the energy footprint of our client projects, but we've also taken the opportunity to double down on our in-house efforts to minimize the firm's environmental impact, from incentivizing clean commuting habits to switching out our regular cleaning products for healthier alternatives.
Some of the new sustainability initiatives we've undertaken in the last several months include:
A composting program has reduced our trash output by 50% in the first two weeks alone. Our compost, which includes food scraps, coffee grounds (lots of coffee grounds), paper waste, and more, is picked up by a local company who uses the waste to make soil products like worm compost and potting mix.
We purchase 100% renewable energy.
We deployed desktop electricity meters to small pilot groups to begin benchmarking a typical workstation's energy use and investigate opportunities to minimize energy usage.
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Tag: Bangladesh War of Independence
A Prisoner of Mukti Bahini
March 28, 2012 by Shahzaman MozumderLeave a Comment on A Prisoner of Mukti Bahini
(This is Chapter 5 of my book titled, “Born for 71.”)
It was early evening when we reached Nabinagar. Disembarking from the launch, we started heading toward Bhramanbaria. I found two additional persons had joined our group. After walking a while, we reached a dimly lit small village grocery shop and stopped to buy some food. It was a typical village grocery shop; a single kerosene lantern’s feeble illumination hardly suffused the darkness surrounding us. The lone shopkeeper, a bald and thin middle aged man in a vest, appeared a little tensed by the presence of our small group. He closely inspected us and inquired about our identities, origin, and destination. Having satisfied himself more by our appearance than by our answers, he finally asked us what we wanted.
I was ravenous after the day’s ordeal. Each of us bought some brown sugar and flattened rice and started gulping down.
As we were eating, I noticed a small group of people—about five or six—approaching the shop. Startled, we all looked at the strangers. They were all dressed in normal village clothing. Then, I noticed a white pistol butt protruding from one of the stranger’s waist. Immediately, I became alert. Soon we realized that they were the Mukti Bahini—the freedom fighters. They wanted to know our identities, from where we were coming and our destinations. I found the ‘Dog Shooter’ becoming very agile. He ushered the newcomer’s into a corner of the small square and whispered something to them with frequent gestures at me. The members of the Mukti Bahini also appeared to be measuring me, and finally they approached me and again questioned me about my identity, destination, and purpose of travel. I explained to them that I was a student from Dhaka and that I had leftDhakato join the Mukti Bahini. They retreated into the corner; discussed something among themselves while we continued to eat. After a while one of them, apparently the leader of the group with the pistol, approached me. He told me politely that they were also going to Bhramanbaria and I should accompany them. They also asked the Dog Shooter to do the same. Thereafter, I bid farewell to the other companions and started following the new group.
After walking for sometime in near darkness through uneven muddy rural roads, we reached the bank of a river where a speedboat was anchored. After we all boarded the speedboat, I realized that the speedboat did not have an engine, instead there were two oars and my new companions started to paddle toward what appeared to be a large steamer anchored in the middle of the river. One of my new companions told me that it was one of the ferries from the Goalonda ghat and they had commandeered it from there. Presently, we reached the ferry and boarded it. Once inside the ferry I found it was very large and manned by only a few people. My new companions became busy with other things and I was left alone—almost alone—in the deck; the irritating ‘Dog Shooter’ was also near me. Finding his opportunity, he started to narrate, in a muffled voice, my impending misfortune. He seemed to immensely enjoy tormenting other persons. I gave him a “drop-dead” stare and turned toward the dark river in an effort to ignore him, while he continued to gloat obscenities at me. It also appeared that he was unable to harm me now that I was in the proximity of the Mukti Bahini.
After sometime our hosts invited us to supper. The flattened rice and brown sugar eaten earlier had only sufficed to provoke my hunger. The menu was rice and chicken curry and I never felt such longing for a decent meal in my life before. The chicken was cooked with liberal use of hot chilies and after nearly starving the whole day, the hot chicken curry with freshly cooked steaming rice was a heavenly delight. I ate with my heart’s content. This was a meal that I was not likely to forget.
After supper, I was offered a bunk in one of the crew cabins. Each of these cabins had four beds, two on either side of the room, one on top of the other. I took the lower bed on one side while a member of the Mukti Bahini took the other bed across me. He was carrying a .303 Rifle. I noticed that he removed the bolt from the rifle before going to sleep. Feeling very tired and exhausted, I was sleeping in no time.
I woke up just before sunrise and found my roommate had already woken up and left the cabin leaving the door partly open. Feeling completely refreshed, I opened the half-open cabin door and stepped into the deck; the fresh morning breeze gently greeting me. I stood holding the rails facing the river and beyond. It was immediately before sunrise; the sun was just emerging from the horizon, its golden rays gradually melting the darkness; the murky and shapeless riverbanks of the night were now slowly becoming distinct.
The steamer’s engine roared to life and we started to move toward Bhramanbaria. In the early morning light I could clearly see the banks of the rather narrow river. Houses, mostly thatched and a few with tin roofs; fields, both empty and cultivated; and an assortment of trees and various types of foliage were visible. I did not see many people, maybe it was too early and they were still sleeping. The ferry slowly headed toward its destination and the insistent roar of the powerful engines blanketed most matutinal sound from us. In about 45 minutes we reached a river port. By now, the sun had fully risen and everything was clearly visible. The river port we reached had many anchored boats, but our ferry appeared to be the lone powered craft in the port.
After the engine stopped and the ferry anchored, the leader of the Mukti Bahini approached and informed the two of us that they were leaving and someone else will come to fetch us. I also noticed that two armed persons in khaki uniforms were already positioned at the landing, apparently guarding the ferry including the two of us. The Mukti Bahini left us. The ‘Dog Shooter’ and I remained abroad the ferry. Seeing his opportunity, the dog-shooter resumed his habitual pestering while I tried my best to ignore him.
I looked around the surrounding areas. It was a medium sized river port. The river here took a sharp turn creating a triangular bay where the port was situated. Some distance from the edges of the river was a flood embankment, apparently to protect the paddy fields during periodic monsoon flooding. It seemed that the embankment also doubled as a road as I saw some people on it. There were a few bamboo structures by the river bank, which seemed from the distance to be tea-stalls or small grocery shops. There was a lone brick structure. Some rural huts, a mixture of tin and straw roofs surrounded by various trees were also visible some distance from the embankment. The typical busy port activities were missing. It appeared that the port had recently been abandoned.
Vintage Sub-Machine Carbine (SMC)
After about an hour, I saw three persons coming toward the ferry. The first person, who seemed to be the leader of the small group, was dressed in white: in shorts and short sleeve shirts, and was followed by another two persons in Khaki uniforms. The all-white leader was carrying a WWII vintage Submachine Carbine (SMC or more commonly Stan Gun) while the khaki clad persons were carrying .303 rifles. They stopped at the landing and gestured at us to come down. Both of us came down from the ferry and faced the leader dressed in white. Having visually examining both of us, he poked at one of my trousers pocket and sarcastically exclaimed, “I hope these are not wireless sets!” I had leftDhakain a pair of yellow bellbottom trousers, a white shirt with fine red stripes, black shoes, and black socks. Unfortunately, the lower part of my worn-out shoe had given in halfway during the journey and in order to save my socks from being spoiled, I had removed them and kept them in my trousers pockets, which made the trousers pockets bulge. I explained the mystery of the humping pockets to the white leader. He informed us that the Mukti Bahini had recently captured a spy carrying a wireless set. He turned his attention to the Dog Shooter. After listening to his explanations with some interest, he directed us to follow him.
We started following him. He lead the way with his SMC dangling from the shoulders while two of us followed him, and in turn being followed by the two khaki clad sentries with their rifles carelessly pointing at us. It appeared that the two of us were some kind of prisoners. Soon we reached a thatched hut some distance from the embankment and one of the sentries unlocked a door. The white-shirt told us that we have to wait in the room and would be summoned later. The door was again locked from the outside and one of the khaki-man stood as a sentry.
As soon as the two of us were alone in the room, the Dog Shooter started his chronicle of impending misfortune befalling me shortly. This time I did not ignore him. I turned toward him, looked straight in the eyes, and asked him sarcastically why he was also locked up with me. With all the contempt I could muster, I told him to keep his mouth shut. He seemed taken aback by my aggressive outburst. Meanwhile, I had run out of cigarettes so I asked the sentry through the window if I could buy some cigarettes. He called someone nearby and I passed some money through the window. After a while, the person returned with a packet of Star cigarettes. I promptly opened the packet and lit one. I was not used to this brand, it was rather harsh and pungent, but given the circumstances, it was quite satisfactory. By now, the Dog Shooter appeared a little demoralized and kept quite.
Around 11:00 a.m., I saw the man in the white-shirt again coming toward us followed by a sentry. When the door was unlocked and we came out of the hut, he informed us that the Captain Shahib was waiting for us up ahead. As we reached the embankment cum road, we found a number of people standing about 500 yards from us on the embankment. As we gradually approached the group, I could discern a number of people standing in a near semicircle centering a person in olive green uniform. The person at the center was of medium height and built, I guessed he was about 28-30. His face was becoming distinct as we were approaching him and I found he looked oddly familiar. When we were quite near, I was almost certain that I had seen him before but I could not recollect exactly where. As we stopped, he turned his head toward us. First, he looked at me and then the dog shooter; then suddenly he looked at me again—his gaze intensifying with wrinkles forming in the forehead. He stepped toward me and inquired, “Are you not Zaman’s brother?” Immediately I also recognized him, his name was Mahbub and he was a neighbor in Dinajpur. He was also my brother’s classmate and his younger brother was my friend. However, I was not aware that he had joined the army. He did look like an army officer. He was wearing olive colored short sleeve shirts, shorts, cap, and a jungle boot of the same color. A pistol was hanging in a brown leather holster by his waist. I nodded eagerly and replied, “Aren’t you Mahbub Bhai.” He agreed. Immediately, I felt like been relieved of a heavy burden I was carrying. I cannot express the ineffable feeling–a mixture of relief, delight, hope, joy, and retribution, in various proportions. Even though I did not show, I was getting worried being a prisoner. The allegation of the Dog Shooter had made me anxious because I did no know anybody that could have vouched for my innocence and without anybody to vouch for me it was very likely that I would have ended up in a jail until my identity was confirmed. Now it was a stroke of good fortune that I knew the very person that appeared to be the leader of this group of Mukti Bahini. I was terrifically delighted, relieved, and happy.
Capt. Mahbub[1] asked me what I was doing in Bhramanbaria. I told him that I came to join the Mukti Bahini. He dismissed me immediately with a gesture of his hand. With extreme confidence, he added, “It’s not needed. Go back. We are quite capable of fighting the Pakistani barbarians and we will soon drive them out of the country.” I was, however, adamant and started justifying and pleading with him. I told him that I was determined and I was not going back. After some more persuasion, he gave up and told me that he was going to the town and later he would send me a transport to join him. Then he turned to the Dog Shooter. As he was about to question the Dog Shooter, I interrupted. I was almost in tears as I narrated Capt. Mahbub how the Dog Shooter had treated me and about his accusation that I was a spy. The captain was visibly annoyed and started harshly questioning the Dog Shooter for identity. The Dog Shooter, a little nervous by the rank and stature of my new acquaintance, started to fumble. Capt. Mahbub cut him short and ordered the white-shirt to take him to lockup and investigate his story. I never met the dog-shooter again. Before leaving with his entourage, Capt. Mahbub instructed the white-shirt to take care of me and that he would send a transport later to pick me up.
Now that I was not a spy and having being instructed by his boss to take care of me, the white-shirt became very obsequious. He was almost my buddy. He took me to an old building by the side of the ghat, the same building I saw from the ferry. He told me that the name of the river port was Gupon Ghat, a major river port in these parts. The old building having only a medium sized room was his headquarters. He introduced himself as the local Ansar Commander. He ordered some breakfast for me, which was soon served and consisted of paratha, fried eggs, and vegetable curry. I gulped down the delicious breakfast though it was quite late for breakfast; it was more like a combination of breakfast and lunch. The river cruise and the fresh morning air had whipped my appetite. The freshly cooked food was very tasty. After breakfast a large glass of sour milk topped with, at least, two inches thick layer of fresh butter was served. I had never tasted such a delicious drink. It was rich and creamy with mild sour and sweet taste with a pleasant butter-like fragrance. Contended after the heavy and filling breakfast, I lit a cigarette–not forgetting to offer one to my host—the Ansar Commander, which he gladly accepted. After smoking the cigarette, I inspected his SMC while he enthusiastically explained the mechanism and operation of the contraption. I had never touched a SMC before but as he explained, I quickly understood the operating principle of the device. The magazine held 18 9mm caliber rounds. The automatic operation was achieved by the opposite thrust of each exploding cartridge, which cocked the weapon for the following round. It had a safety catch, which actually locked the spring in a fixed position and stopped the hammer from striking the percussion cap of the cartridge.
After inspecting the SMC, I turned my attention to the row of rifles leaned against one of the walls. There must have been at least 50 to 60 rifles in the room. I picked up a rifle and inspected it. I was intimately familiar with bolt-action rifles. All the rifles in the room were .303 bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles of WWII vintage. Our police forces have been using these rifles since the partition ofIndia. I of course never had the opportunity to inspect these rifles closely. The rifles were unloaded. After sometime, as my curiosity was satisfied, I replaced the rifle in its former resting place.
Meanwhile, the Ansar Commander offered me a tour of the river port’s defenses, which I eagerly accepted. He shouldered his SMC and we stepped out of the room and started walking along the river bank.
Some of the defensive installations were visible from the building itself. The defenses consisted of bunkers with tops reinforced with logs and earth. Some of the bunkers were open topped. I recognized a few machine guns. Some of the weapons were aimed at the sky and the Ansar Commander explained that these were for anti-aircraft defense. I had a quick flash of jets strafing and firing rockets I saw at Narsingdi. It took about half an hour to complete the inspection and I felt much secured immured in such a well-defended place. Little did I then know that these defenses would prove thoroughly inadequate when faced against large caliber weapons of the Pakistanis. Moreover, Bhramanbaria would be abandoned without a fight—apparently on tactical considerations.
We came back to the building and rested for a while. A jeep came around late afternoon to take me to Bhramanbaria town. I said goodbye to the Ansar Commander, thanked him for his hospitality, and boarded the jeep. The jeep sped toward Bhramanbaria town.
After going through various dusty roads and lanes of Bhramanbaria, we reached the headquarters of Capt. Mahbub. He was in a meeting with some local civilians. After I entered the room he introduced me to the group; I came to know that they were the local Chatra League leaders. I still remember two names, Mahbub and Humayun. Mahbub appeared to be the leader of the group. Capt. Mahbub told me that these gentlemen will provide me shelter for a few days. A busload of Mukti Bahini recruits will be heading for the training camps in a few days and I had to remain as their guest until then. I exchanged parting greeting with Capt. Mahbub and left with these two new acquaintances.
When we reached the house of Mr. Mahbub, the Chatra League leader, it was already dark. After supper, we visited a house in the town belonging to the Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO). I have forgotten what we had discussed with the SDPO but I distinctly remember that he had a .22 revolver. A revolver in those days was a prized possession and we eagerly handled and inspected his revolver. The SDPO told us that the revolver had a range of over one mile! Because I was very familiar with .22 rifles, I knew that the statement was incorrect. Had the weapon been a .22 rifle, I would have generally accepted his statement. The revolver had only a 3 or 4-inch barrel and the maximum effective range of that revolver could not have exceeded 50 meters. Considered it to be impolite to contradict the SDPO in his own house, I kept quite and simply nodded.
[1] Capt. Mahbub, a 1st East Bengal Officer died on 22 November 1971 while participating in the Aatgram operation.
March 25, 2012 by Shahzaman Mozumder1 Comment on 25 March 1971
(On 25 March 1971 the Pakistan Army unleashed a barbarous attack on the unarmed civilian population of Dhaka, the capital of East Pakistan. This savage attack, code named “Operation Searchlight,” resulted in the massacre of 20 thousand unarmed people in less than six hours. I present below a chapter from my upcoming book titled, “Born for 71” to the readers of my blog.)
I was back to Iqbal Hall the following morning. Shortly after I reached the hall, I could clearly discern a generally uneasy feeling which quickly escalated into a foreboding by mid-day, and then turning into anguish by the afternoon. Everybody looked worried. We came to know that President Yehia Khan had leftDhaka; various reports were coming about army movements and the increasingly belligerent Bihari activities in Mirpur and Mohammadpur made the atmosphere gloomy and nervous. Throughout this period, I was at Iqbal Hall, taking part in various miscellaneous activities and eagerly waiting for directions. Around 9:30 p.m., Abdul Baten Chowdhury, an important student leader at that time and with whom I had became close during the previous few weeks, asked me to go home. It was about 10:10 p.m. when I left for home; I took a shortcut by crossing the road across Iqbal Hall to Mohosin Hall; entering the Mohosin Hall I entered the slum by jumping over the boundary wall; and then through the slum reaching New Elephant Road. There I found an boisterous crowd making roadblocks with a bricolage of materials—with whatever they could find in the vicinity. The feverish and hysterical crowd activities made the air thick with apprehension and a premonition of a devouring blanket of glooming was quickly descending over me. Taking another hasty shortcut though a connecting road by the People’s Daily office, I emerged in front of the Intercontinental Hotel (now Sheraton Hotel). I crossed the road and reached the footpath running along the hotel and discovered that the Pakistani Army had surrounded the entire hotel, their menacing weapons clearly visible from such proximity. I quickly crossed to the other side of the deserted road and soon reached home.
I was probably not surprised to find that everybody at home scared and morose. Fear of some impending disaster had etched its somber mask on everyone’s face; everybody seemed waiting for something ominous to happen. A sense of extreme anguish pervaded the dimly lit house.
On the night of 25 March 1971, the following were the occupants of 39 Minto Road. My eldest sister, a housewife; her husband who was at that time the Relief Commissioner of East Pakistan; their four children, the eldest of which was about eight years old; my unmarried sister, temporarily living with my eldest sister; my brother, who was working at the Atomic Energy Commission; two house helps; and I.
My elder brother, a scholarly gentleman of delicate disposition, told me not to raise my voice. Everybody in the house were behaving abnormally, limiting all conversations to synthetic whispers.
Suddenly, the stillness of the night was ruptured by a short burst from an automatic weapon (this incident took place at Eskaton Road) making everybody almost jump in nervous apprehension. We all kept glancing at each other with scared expressions.
Someone told me to take my dinner, which I ignored as I was not hungry.
All hell broke lose around 11:30 p.m. Gunfire started all around us followed by bellows of many people; the bellows then turned into screams and finally they stopped–replaced only by the deadly sound of death and destruction. In 1971, Minto Road was literally at the heart of the city. Across the Intercontinental Hotel, inside the lane that ran along Sakura Market, was the People’s Daily that was attacked by the Pakistani Army and was completely burnt down along with many other shops in the vicinity. Rajarbagh Police Lines and Peelkhana were attacked and so were Iqbal and other residential halls and quarters of Dhaka University. On 25 March 1971, the Pakistan Army emerged as the terminators of Dhaka, in the literal sense of the word.
A few of us climbed to the roof of the two-storied house. Some of the less adventurous members subsequently joined us. In the moonless and clear March night sky the brilliance of the shinning stars failed to attract anyone’s particular attention. The sound of gunfire and the coruscation of the tracer bullets all around reminded me of some kind of travesty of celebrations, the birth agony of an independent nation.
The whole night, from time to time, my eldest sister would loudly lament by holding me and I, not knowing how to console her, dumbfounded by the apocalyptical turbulence, kept holding her without uttering a sound. My brother, now timorous and shivering, took shelter under a bed; my brother-in-law, who had joined us at the roof and now visibly shaken, went back downstairs. The other sister kept under the shadows of my eldest sister with scared blank eyes, crying and reverberating with each loud explosion. I too was scared, not only by the sound of so many weapons but also in the company of so many panicked people in the house. It appeared that the entire Dhaka city was being annihilated. Panic is very similar to a virulent virus—it infects everyone with prolific rapidity.
We could hear the sharp cracks of rifles; the tat-tat-tat of the machine guns, the earth-shattering explosions of mortars bombs, recoilless rifles, and tank shells; and the din of various unknown weapons all around us. A stray bullet would often fly over the house making a peculiar noise as it flew perforating the air. Sudden illuminations followed by loud bangs, and the dancing of the tracer rounds in the sky resembling kaleidoscopic fireworks lit the dark sky in a frighteningly beautiful travesty of celebrations.
The aerial distance between Minto Road and Rajarbagh Police Lines is less than a mile. We could clearly hear the battle raging there. Sound of automatic fire responded by the sharp crack of vintage World War II .303 rifles; gunfire was also coming from the university areas and Peelkhana, the Headquarters of East Pakistan Rifles (EPR). All around us, it was the sound of death and destruction. The burning of various houses and slums created permanent patches of brightness all around the city and were clearly discernable against the background of a dark moonless night.
Around 3 o’clock in the morning, the sound of gunfire appeared to be slackening and gradually grew sporadic; finally, around 4 o’clock dying down, occasionally punctuated by stray cracks.
Finally, it was morning; none of us slept the previous night. The diffusing sunlight started to infuse some courage into our torpid bodies; we started surreptitiously glancing through the window, though, not much was visible but a tiny stretch of paved road in front of the house. Deadly calm now replaced the frightening sound of gunfire, smell of pungent cordite replacing the morning breeze; the night’s carnage making even the morning birds forget their daily twitter.
We sat dazed; our limbs losing locomotion. We forgot speech; essential communication remained confined to signs and gestures; the silence occasionally was interrupted by our loud involuntary sighs. Everything seemed lost and desolate; as though we were the sole survivors of the Armageddon. But then slowly hunger overcame our fears; the children needed to be fed, the adults required sustenance, and sprit of being alive gradually prevailed. We started calling our relatives and friends to find out what disaster had befallen them; whether they were alive and well. Gradually, as we started receiving information from our friends and relatives that they were alive and unhurt, we felt encouraged that there were others who were alive as well; not everything is lost after all.
The radio told us that the Pakistani administration had imposed an indefinite curfew in Dhaka. We were so scared that no one dared to leave the security of the four reassuring walls, not even daring to venture into the courtyard. Everybody wanted to know what had happened: the extent of previous night’s carnage, news about resistance, and the opinion of the world community. In 1971, cutoff from the rest of civilization, the only means of obtaining information was the radio. Everybody assembled centering the radio. The volume was kept at the barest minimum; our ears almost sticking into the radio with frequent jockeying for favorable positions. The person holding the shortwave radio would occasionally tweak or change directions of the antenna for better reception but not always with success; and when unsuccessful, the assembly expresses its disapproval by the involuntary twitching of their bodies. We listened to BBC, Voice of America, Aakas Bani (Indian Bangla), Radio Moscow, and even Radio Peking. We spent the entire day listening to the radio, speculating on rumors, optimistically interpreting the international news, buoyant assessment of resistance, and even managing a few bravados. The fading daylight then started to sap our courage, the sound of activity gradually muting, and the growing quietness fuelling our fears and worries. Every sound of a passing vehicle multiplied our apprehensions. Rife with runway imagination, and almost blinded by the four walls, our ears seemed to have assumed supernatural abilities. Any sound coming from outside the house including moving vehicles became the source of various foreboding. Someone thought of hearing the sound of tanks moving nearby and nobody daring to sneak a peek. As the night marched it became very quiet, occasionally interrupted by the howling of stray dogs fighting over spoils of the previous night’s carnage. I was so tired from sleeplessness that in spite of the overall gloom, I found solace in blissful sleep. I woke up completely refreshed the following morning.
The curfew was lifted on 27 March for a few hours and I decided to go out and have a look.
The streets were mostly empty; rarely a car would pass; its frightened passengers casting anxious glances through the windows. I saw very few pedestrians, the street was almost empty. When I reached the intersection near Ramna Park, I saw an army jeep, with its windshield folded on the bonnet, was coming toward me from the direction of the Hotel Intercontinental. The vehicle had four passengers: two at the front and two at the back. The person in the front seat, next to the driver, looked like a junior officer while the two at the back were definitely not officers. However, my attention was totally consumed by a gigantic machine gun mounted on the jeep and loaded with a metallic belt of very large, shiny, and menacing ammunitions. The machinegun was so huge that the barrel extended nearly to the end of the bonnet of the jeep. All four of the passengers were apparently very amused about something and were laughing loudly. They completely ignored me as the jeep passed by. Reaching the hotel I found it was still being occupied by the Pakistani Army; the guns still sticking out over the low perimeter walls, and now in daylight, I could see the faces behind the guns; savage grins in their faces. A glance at them only returned a ferocious growl; I crossed the road to the other side of Dhaka-Mymensingh road.
Entering the lane opposite the hotel, I saw destruction. There were a number of shops on the right hand side of the lane. All shops were now burned down. Among these gutted shops was a saloon where I used to take my haircut. I found the saloon too was completely burnt and some smoke was still oozing. Then, I saw a body, in a sitting position, leaning by the wall at the right corner of the small room. The body was completely charred! I went inside the small burned shop and touched the body—it was charcoal! I had never seen a human body burnt so badly but strangely, I was not afraid or scared. Something inside me was already revolting, I found myself silently swearing; effervescent vengeance and hatred was growing inside me. I must have known the deformed humanity, now nothing but a heap of charcoal, sitting a few feet from me. He must have been one of those that cut my hair. I remembered a small bearded man who often trimmed my hair; the charcoal-man might be the same person. I left the shop and headed for the People’s office. The entire building was burnt, some of the heavy woods were still smoldering and smoke was still coming out. I knew what sight awaited me inside. I did not bother to look inside; from the People’s office; I returned to the main road and started striding toward Dhaka University.
When I reached the Teacher Student Center (TSC) intersection, I saw a small crowd going toward Jagganath Hall. Curious, I followed them. Entering the narrow lane, I found many people looking at something by the boundary wall of Shamsun Nahar Hall. First, I noticed a number of freshly dug ditches filled with earth; then there was something else in it. Seen from a distance it resembled a human limb; nearer, the resemblance is stronger; close up, certainly, it is a human leg—the leg of a human! As I approached the wall I saw more hands and feet sticking out of the graves. I was horrified to see a few crows, particularly one that was pecking flesh from a human leg sticking out from a ditch. I felt sick but controlled myself. There were other human limbs similarly sticking out from other graves offering a feast to the crows. I also saw two or three dogs fighting a losing battle with the crows over the spoils. By this time, my blood was boiling with anger; I was being engulfed with hatred at the inhuman barbarity of the Pakistani savages. Instantly, I vowed of retribution—the Pakistanis must pay in kind for their crimes.
I left the scene of the gruesome exploits of the psychotically sadistic Pakistani soldiers. Continuing onwards I entered Iqbal Hall through the Palashi gate. Dried blood was everywhere—signs of dragging of dead bodies. I entered some of the rooms on the first floor—blood, blood, and blood everywhere I looked. I had seen enough; I left Iqbal Hall. After that, I do not remember seeing anything else that day, the thought of revenge and vengeance had completely blinded me. I wanted blood of the Pakistanis. The only other thing I remember happening on the 27th evening was that some Major Zia, on behalf of Bangabandhu Shaikh Mujibur Rahman, announced the independence of Bangladesh. Immediately I decided to join the fighting—at the earliest available opportunity.
On the 28th, there was a small crisis in the house. I found my brother-in-law became very scared. Apparently, someone had threatened him over telephone. Many years later, my brother-in-law divulged the identity of the callers. These two Pakistani collaborators were some Ata Khan and his associate, both were businessman. They used a Pakistani commando officer by the name of Brig. Jahanzeb Arbab to deliver their threats. After receiving the threatening calls, my brother-in-law became very apprehensive and immediately planned to leave the house. He contacted some of his friends and well-wishers willing to provide temporary shelter until the situation calmed down. The kind person that extended help was Dr. Baset, a renowned skin specialist. Dr. Baset’s house was at Paribagh, very near to the Intercontinental Hotel. I think we took shelter in that house for about two days.
Meanwhile, ominous rumors started circulating that many young people were being abducted by the Pakistani Army; subsequently tortured and killed. Since I was the only teenager in the house, it was decided that I should be shifted to another safe location. Thereafter, I ended up in a house at Banani, in the residence of Mr. Hakim, who later became a Managing Director of National Life Insurance Company. He is a relative of Mr. M.K. Anwer, a former CSP officer who had lost his job in 1969 under the so-called 303[1].
In 1971, Mr. M.K. Anwar was a Deputy General Manager at Habib Bank of Pakistan and was posted at Karachi. He came to visit Dhaka just before 25 March and was stranded here. There were only a few persons in the house, Mr. M.K. Anwar, Mr. and Mrs. Hakim, and I. I stayed there for two or three days and during this entire period; I was consumed in scheming to join the fighting that was taking place in various places around the country.
In and around the Minto Road, there were others of my age and before 25March we had a number of brainstorming sessions to prepare plans to counter the Pakistan Army in case they attacked. We inventoried the number of guns in our respective houses, the status of shotgun shells, and the possibility of making Molotov cocktails. We also planned to dig a large ditch to block Minto Road, and many similar far-fetched plans. After the 25th, however, I could not find traces of any of these pusillanimous individuals—they appeared to have simply vanished.
I had a collage friend who lived at the Circuit House in Paribagh. I found him very spirited and he had expressed his earnest desire to fight the Pakistanis, if and when required. Therefore, I was expecting him to accompany me in the forthcoming journey to join the armed struggle; but unfortunately I had no contact with him after the 25th.
I needed some money for the journey and my cerebrum was busy in hatching a plan to obtain it.
After 25 March 971, Dhaka city used to be unusually quiet after sunset. People hardly came out of the house after dusk; the only thing most people did was to listen to the friendly radio stations and through the radio I came to know that Bhramanbaria was a resistance stronghold. I planned to join them at the earliest opportunity. My plan was made.
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Plants, herbivores, and their interactions in human-modified landscapes (2016)
Bähner, Kevin
Human forest modification is among the largest global drivers of terrestrial degradation of biodiversity, species interactions, and ecosystem functioning. One of the most pertinent components, forest fragmentation, has a long history in ecological research across the globe, particularly in lower latitudes. However, we still know little how fragmentation shapes temperate ecosystems, irrespective of the ancient status quo of European deforestation. Furthermore, its interaction with another pivotal component of European forests, silvicultural management, are practically unexplored. Hence, answering the question how anthropogenic modification of temperate forests affects fundamental components of forest ecosystems is essential basic research that has been neglected thus far. Most basal ecosystem elements are plants and their insect herbivores, as they form the energetic basis of the tropic pyramid. Furthermore, their respective biodiversity, functional traits, and the networks of interactions they establish are key for a multitude of ecosystem functions, not least ecosystem stability. Hence, the thesis at hand aimed to disentangle this complex system of interdependencies of human impacts, biodiversity, species traits and inter-species interactions. The first step lay in understanding how woody plant assemblages are shaped by human forest modification. For this purpose, field investigations in 57 plots in the hyperfragmented cultural landscape of the Northern Palatinate highlands (SW Germany) were conducted, censusing > 4,000 tree/shrub individuals from 34 species. Use of novel, integrative indices for different types of land-use allowed an accurate quantification of biotic responses. Intriguingly, woody tree/shrub communities reacted strikingly positive to forest fragmentation, with increases in alpha and beta diversity, as well as proliferation of heat/drought/light adapted pioneer species. Contrarily, managed interior forests were homogenized/constrained in biodiversity, with dominance of shade/cold adapted commercial tree species. Comparisons with recently unmanaged stands (> 40 a) revealed first indications for nascent conversion to oldgrowth conditions, with larger variability in light conditions and subsequent community composition. Reactions to microclimatic conditions, the relationship between associated species traits and the corresponding species pool, as well as facilitative/constraining effects by foresters were discussed as underlying mechanisms. Reactions of herbivore assemblages to forest fragmentation and the subsequent changes in host plant communities were assessed by comprehensive sampling of > 1,000 live herbivores from 134 species in the forest understory. Diversity was – similarly to plant communities - higher in fragmentation affected habitats, particularly in edges of continuous control forests. Furthermore, average trophic specialization showed an identical pattern. Mechanistically, benefits from microclimatic conditions, host availability, as well as pronounced niche differentiation are deemed responsible. While communities were heterogeneous, with no segregation across habitats, (smallforest fragments, edges, and interior of control forests), vegetation diversity, herbivore diversity, as well as trophic specialization were identified to shape community composition. This probably reflected a gradient from generalistic/species poor vs. specialist/species rich herbivore assemblages. Insect studies conducted in forest systems are doomed to incompleteness without considering ‘the last biological frontier’, the tree canopies. To access their biodiversity, relationship to edge effects, and their conservational value, the arboricolous arthropod fauna of 24 beech (Fagus sylvatica) canopies was sampled via insecticidal knockdown (‘fogging’). This resulted in an exhaustive collection of > 46,000 specimens from 24 major taxonomic/functional groups. Abundance distributions were markedly negative exponential, indicating high abundance variability in tree crowns. Individuals of six pertinent orders were identified to species level, returning > 3,100 individuals from 175 species and 52 families. This high diversity did marginally differ across habitats, with slightly higher species richness in edge canopies. However, communities in edge crowns were noticeably more heterogeneous than those in the forest interior, possibly due to higher variability in environmental edge conditions. In total, 49 species with protective value were identified, of which only one showed habitat preferences (for near-natural interior forests). Among them, six species (all beetles, Coleoptera) were classified as ‘priority species’ for conservation efforts. Hence, beech canopies of the Northern Palatinate highlands can be considered strongholds of insect biodiversity, incorporating many species of particular protective value. The intricacy of plant-herbivore interaction networks and their relationship to forest fragmentation is largely unexplored, particularly in Central Europe. Illumination of this matter is all the more important, as ecological networks are highly relevant for ecosystem stability, particularly in the face of additional anthropogenic disturbances, such as climate change. Hence, plant-herbivore interaction networks (PHNs) were constructed from woody plants and their associated herbivores, sampled alive in the understory. Herbivory verification was achieved using no-choice-feeding assays, as well as literature references. In total, networks across small forest fragments, edges, and the forest interior consisted of 696 interactions. Network complexity and trophic niche redundancy were compared across habitats using a rarefaction-like resampling procedure. PHNs in fragmentation affected forest habitats were significantly more complex, as well as more redundant in their realized niches, despite being composed of relatively more specialist species. Furthermore, network robustness to climate change was quantified utilizing four different scenarios for climate change susceptibility of involved plants. In this procedure, remaining herbivores in the network were measured upon successive loss of their host plant species. Consistently, PHNs in edges (and to a smaller degree in small fragments) withstood primary extinction of plant species longer, making them more robust. This was attributed to the high prevalence of heat/drought-adapted species, as well as to beneficial effects of network topography (complexity and redundancy). Consequently, strong correlative relationships were found between realized niche redundancy and climate change robustness of PHNs. This was both the first time that biologically realistic extinctions (instead of e.g.random extinctions) were used to measure network robustness, and that topographical network parameters were identified as potential indicators for network robustness against climate change. In synthesis, in the light of global biotic degradation due to human forest modification, the necessity to differentiate must be claimed. Ecosystems react differently to anthropogenic disturbances, and it seems the particular features present in Central European forests (ancient deforestation, extensive management, and, most importantly, high richness in open-forest plant species) cause partly opposed patterns to other biomes. Lenient microclimates and diverse plant communities facilitate equally diverse herbivore assemblages, and hence complex and robust networks, opposed to the forest interior. Therefore, in the reality of extensively used cultural landscapes, fragmentation affected forest ecosystems, particularly forest edges, can be perceived as reservoir for biodiversity, and ecosystem functionality. Nevertheless, as practically all forest habitats considered in this thesis are under human cultivation, recommendations for ecological enhancement of all forest habitats are discussed.
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ALERT: Flint Airport Attack – Michigan Officer Stabbed In ‘Act of Terrorism’ As Attacker Shouts “Allahu Akbar”!
Crime and PunishmentLaw Enforcement
By Nancy Hayes Last updated Jun 21, 2017
The stabbing of a police officer at a Michigan airport Wednesday by a Canadian citizen who yelled “Allahu Akbar” and referenced people being killed in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan is being investigated by the FBI as an ‘act of terrorism’, officials said.
FBI Special Agent in Charge David P. Gelios said at a news conference Amor Ftouhi, a 50-year-old Canadian citizen, entered Bishop International Airport in Flint around 8:52 a.m. on the first floor. The suspect then headed to the second floor and went to a restaurant leaving there around 9:30 a.m. He then headed into a restroom before dropping both of his bags (a red duffle and a satchel) around 9:38 a.m.. He exited the bathroom with a knife and yelling “Allahu Akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is great,” before stabbing Officer Jeff Neville in the neck.
The FBI report also stated after stabbing the officer, Ftouhi contined yelling “Allah” several times.
Ftouhi then continued with something similar to “you have killed people in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die” as he was being arrested, according to Gelios.
Ftouhi was then quickly subdued by another police officer upon which, Ftouhi then asked the officer why he didn’t kill him.
The Canadian citizen was motivated to come to the airport and conduct this act of violence out of a “hated of the United States,” according to Gelios. He first entered the U.S. at Lake Champlain on June 16, and then made his way to Flint, according to Gelios.
Gelios described the weapon as a 12-inch knife with an 8-inch serrated blade. Ftouhi was a “lone wolf attacker,” Gelios said.
Ftouhi is being charged with committing an act of violence at an airport, said David Lemisch, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. It is not clear if he could face additional federal or state charges as the investigation continues. Ftouhi was expected to make his first appearance Wednesday in federal court in Flint, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
OFFICER Jeff Neville is Listed in Stable Condition
The officer injured in the incident, Jeff Neville is currently listed as being in stable condition, according to Michigan State Police.
“The cop was on his hands and knees bleeding from his neck,” witness Ken Brown, who was dropping his daughter off at the airport, told Michigan Live. “I said they need to get him a towel.”
Another passenger, Cherie Carpenter, who was awaiting a flight to Texas to see her new grandchild, told Flint TV station WJRT she saw the attacker being led away in handcuffs. She described the man in custody as appearing “blank, just totally blank.”
Genesee County Commissioner Mark Young said Neville is “an honorable man” whom he has worked with at the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office.
Young visited with Neville’s family at the hospital after the stabbing.
“As expected, they are shook up. They are concerned,” Young said.
The FBI was the lead agency on the scene. State police troopers, along with ATF agents, were also at the airport investigating.
Airport Closed For Several Hours But Since Has Reopened
The airport was closed for several hours as a result of the stabbing, but has since reopened.
The FBI said this is believed to be an isolated incident and that there was “nothing to suggest a wider plot.”
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked state resident to “keep the attacked officer in your thoughts and prayers” on Twitter.
Mayor Karen Weaver said in a release Wednesday “the situation is under control” but officials sought to take “extra precautions” in light of the Wednesday morning incident at Bishop International Airport.
The airport posted Wednesday on Facebook that passengers were safe and were being told to check for flight delays or cancellations.
A White House official confirmed to Fox News that President Trump was briefed on the stabbing.
The stabbing marks the second evacuation at Bishop International Airport this month. On June 8, an airport terminal was evacuated after police officers discover a suspicious bag which turned out to be nothing dangerous.
US and Canada Law Enforcement Working Together
Law enforcement agencies in Canada are in touch with their U.S. counterparts and are and assisting in every way possible, Canadian Embassy spokesperson Christine Constantin told Fox News. Constantin said Canada condemns this “heinous and cowardly act,” and that “our thoughts and sympathies are with the officer and his loved ones.”
Radio-Canada reported, Police in Montreal descended on an apartment in the city’s St-Michel neighborhood on Belair Street that was connected to the suspect, Amor Ftouhi, in the stabbing of Officer Neville at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan.
Amor Ftouhi the Suspect in the Stabbing
The suspect, Amor Ftouhi, posted on his Facebook that he was originally from Tunis, Tunisia, but he lived in Montreal, Canada. He wrote that he worked for a Canadian insurance company and had studied at faculté des sciences humaines et sociales de tunis and Collège O’Sullivan.
According to his account on FB, Ftouhi only had three friends had shared posts in Arabic. He also played computer games on Facebook, including one called Army Attack.
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Colonel Allen West: “If this one doesn’t inflame you, keep it to yourself”
By Raymond Draper Last updated Jul 6, 2017
This story is so unbelievable there’s no real way to explain it, says Colonel Allen West: You can bet it’s not being reported on any mainstream news media outlets – because it doesn’t fit with their “let ’em all in” narrative. Not only did Barack Obama let a terrorist out of Guantanamo who killed a U.S. Army Medic – but the country of Canada has awarded this scumbag … wait for it: $10.5 million in a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit.
You heard me right. Omar Khadr, who now lives in Edmonton, is a Canadian-born man who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. Army medic during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002. He was 15 at the time. Now 30, Khadr was captured and went on to spend 10 years in the U.S. military prison Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
According to CBC News, Khadr’s lawyers filed a $20-million wrongful imprisonment lawsuit against Ottawa, arguing the government violated international law by not protecting its own citizen and a deal was struck where the government will pay Khadr $10.5 million.
Who says crime, murder, terrorism and mayhem doesn’t pay? ‘How much of this $10 million will Khadr donate to the family of the soldier he murdered?’ That was rhetorical – we all know the answer – most of the money will go right back into bombs and more weapons no doubt.
Murray Marshall, father of Sapper Steven Marshall, holds some pictures of his son killed
Alberta PC Leader Jason Kenney and some other conservative politicians are lambasting the federal government over its move to apologize to Omar Khadr and pay him a settlement :
Odious. Confessed terrorist who assembled & planted the same kind of IEDs that killed 97 Canadians to be given $10 million by Justin Trudeau https://t.co/58SA6llPya
— Jason Kenney (@jkenney) July 4, 2017
He followed up with a couple of other tweets suggesting Khadr should still be in prison.
This confessed terrorist should be in prison paying for his crimes, not profiting from them at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. https://t.co/PWx3rMahtp
But let’s be clear who’s fault this is: Thanks to Barack Hussien Obama, this murderer who willingly took the life of an American Soldier was released. And in what has to be the height of disrespect to the family of the Soldier killed by this little terrorist, he will be receiving millions of dollars, $7 million in U.S. equivalent.
So that’s it, this is how we stand up for our troops? The lesson learned here is that keeping a sniveling little jihadist awake for too long results in a lottery-like payday. And who are these “lawyers” who filed a “wrongful imprisonment” lawsuit? Do they not realize this is a war, and this boy committed an adult act taking the life of a lawful combatant, a Soldier in uniform?
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is in Ireland, would not confirm any details of the settlement earlier Tuesday – there’s a shocker. Have you read or heard of this story anywhere else on CNN NBC CBS ABC FOX MSNBC NY TIMES WAPO – Anywhere?
“There can be no greater departure from sound doctrine and truth than to believe Omar Khadr, a killer of an American Soldier, is deserving of $7 million I believe even Saint Paul would call that FUBAR.”
— Col. West
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Conference Expansion & UTEP: Doesn’t Matter in the Big LEast [OPINION]
The title of our discussion today, "Big East Expansion: So What?"
Over the last couple of months, there has been some concern over UTEP's place in the conference realignment picture as the Big East raids Conference USA and the Mountain West Conference.
It's safe to say that, while college football's winds blow the piles of BCS and television cash to this conference and that school, the Miners must wait for the dust to settle. But as the Big East huffs and puffs to keep its own house from blowing down, it might not affect UTEP nearly as much as you'd think.
A small review is in order.
In an effort to stave off the schoolyard bully who was already making overtures to some of their teams, Conference USA and the Mountain West tried inviting the Big East to the bargaining table.
The idea was to combine forces with what would have been a five-team Big East on the verge of BCS irrelevance to create a national conference assured of a BCS berth and good TV money, because its schools would be everywhere.
But "on the verge" could also be read "cornered". Never a good thing when dealing with any animal, person or conference facing its demise.
The Big East thought the idea of a national conference was so good, it procured the concept for itself. The conference went from coming after the likes of C-USA's Houston and Central Florida to inviting Boise State and San Diego State of the MWC, too.
All this as SMU put on a red light and called itself Roxanne outside Big East headquarters.
It pays to advertise. SMU got an invitation, along with UH and UCF.
How did they get there? Case Keenum and coach Kevin Sumlin led Houston, having taken the program to a higher plane as they exit. But will there be buyer's remorse for the Cougars' new conference with no Case Keenum and Kevin Sumlin?
Meanwhile, SMU is dancing like an NFL rookie with his first exhibition game tackle after getting an invite to a BCS conference.
The Ponies had to flex the pile of alumni money behind them to make up for muscle they don't have. But in the end, SMU is Big East-bound, and it can crow to its heart's content that it has a program to match TCU's. You can read all about it on page 12 of the Dallas Morning-News sports section, right above the ads for topless bars.
UCF is the most natural move of the bunch, finally joining South Florida in the same conference to kick off a directional school version of Florida State-Miami.
Inexplicably -- and unsustainably -- the Big East has also added Boise and SDSU.
It wanted to add Air Force and Navy, but we're glad to see nine years of armed conflict overseas has taught somebody in our service academies a little about travel expense.
Air Force and Navy are staying put.
Here's where the MWC and C-USA together with the Big East would have been a solid football solution: Boise State would have had Nevada and has Wyoming and Colorado State as nearby conference rivals in the MWC. San Diego State has UNLV and would have had Fresno State.
In the Big East, the Broncos and Aztecs will be each other's closest rivalry.
Yes, jet travel makes the idea of a national football conference workable, but regional rivalry is what makes conferences viable, as UTEP has found out since being left behind by the Mountain West.
Now, as the Miners are being left behind by their closest rivals in Houston and Dallas, it appears that UTEP will get to renew many of its older and oldest conference rivalries.
The Mountain West-Conference USA merger is still on, and now appears to be an all-sports package.
Who doesn't want to see UTEP-New Mexico go head-to-head in basketball again? Other than Steve Alford, that is.
The Miners and Nevada had developed a solid distaste for each other before UTEP left the Western Athletic Conference for C-USA. El Paso may get to see if there's any spark left with the Wolfpack as early as next year.
Plus, Rice stays a part of the conference picture for Texas recruiting and as a rallying point for those El Pasoans and UTEP grads who moved east.
Speaking of: put me down for bringing UTSA into the conference if Larry Coker is able to get the Roadrunners' football program moving. San Antonio may be home to more ex-El Pasoans than any other city in Texas; and both cities have that sweet-and-sour mix of being the same but different that could make this one of UTEP's biggest rivalries. Someday.
As for those who would whine about the Miners not being proactive: where would you have them go, the Sun Belt? Back to the WhACk?
UTEP had no options. The program is too poor and geographically isolated to have called any shots in this round of conference shuffling. The Miners had to wait for the hand fate dealt them.
Turns out, it's coming up aces.
Filed Under: big east, college football, conference usa, cusa, expansion, Mountain West, mwc
Categories: Football, Opinion, Sports, SportsTalk
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Open source shows the way out of dependency on Microsoft
Written by Andreas Rösler on June 1, 2017
An increasing amount of companies start to realize how dependent they are on Microsoft. In the sector “Groupware” open source producer Kopano provides the tools to get rid of this dependency.
A group of European journalists have diagnosed Europe’s administrations and governments to have a “fatal dependency of Microsoft”. Using the example of Microsoft Office, their research unveils a chain of dependencies on this single company. Their article also describes how some of these organizations could already break free from their dependency by using LibreOffice.
By far the biggest culprit in this chain of dependencies on other Microsoft solutions is Outlook, which is used by the vast majority of the organizations. This is perceived as the biggest challenge – especially when it comes to teamwork involving email and calendars.
Web-based apps – the trend towards independency
We see companies try to move away from the dependency on products like Outlook, which only integrates with services of a single vendor. In this case Microsoft Exchange or Office 365. This can only be achieved by replacing Outlook with a more open application.
Web-based applications have become a viable alternative and are increasingly popular. On smartphones you simply cannot do without web-based applications. This trend can also be seen with producers of software – they integrate their own software as ‘widgets’ in web-based applications as well – it prevents them from having to develop and maintain integrations for specific programs. In the end, both the vendor as well as the user benefits from this reduction in dependencies.
Kopano offers a way out
Kopano is a fork of Zarafa. It offers a platform for communication, content sharing and self-organization through Kopano DeskApp. This web-based application enables software vendors to easily integrate an application with Kopano (e.g. via widgets). Kopano DeskApp is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Most of these features and integrations are brought to the browser by Kopano WebApp. Smartphones, tablets and Outlook with the Kopano Outlook Extension can be connected through Z-Push, the open source implementation of the Exchange ActiveSync Protocol (EAS).
Solutions like Kopano, combined with LibreOffice help users to disengage themselves of the dependency on Microsoft and enable companies to choose their software stack more freely.
Companies aiming to reduce dependencies and regain control over their software and data can test the code of the open source product themselves.
[1] http://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/new-investigation-europes-dire-dependency-on-microsoft/
[2] http://blog.gestreift.net/2015/05/zarafa_outlook_aenderung/
Kopano is a fork of Zarafa which is groupware compatible with Outlook. Many former employees of Zarafa now work for Kopano in Delft, Hannover and Plochingen. They develop new apps and integrations, which enable communication beyond what regular email can do.
The base of the system is provided by the Kopano Core server, which can be operated on premise, hybrid or in private cloud setups. Kopano users can work with Kopano DeskApp on Windows, macOS or Linux. DeskApp combines groupware features (such as email, contacts and calendaring), videotelephony, chat and much more in a single application. Almost all of these features are also available in the browser when using Kopano WebApp.
Moreover Kopano is the main contributor to the Z-Push project, an open source implementation of the Exchange ActiveSync protocol (EAS). The ActiveSync protocols can be used by mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. It can also be used by Microsoft Outlook (version 2013 or higher), which has its feature set expanded with sharing and group functions by the Kopano Outlook Extension. The source code of all components is available under https://stash.kopano.io. Kopano customers get access to the latest packages that have gone through a quality assurance process.
Heleen van Beek
E-mail: h.vanbeek@kopano.com
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Brad Stevens thinks Dwane Casey should win Coach of the Year
by Darryn Albert
Brad Stevens is at the forefront of the Coach of the Year discussion this season, but he actually thinks that another candidate is more deserving.
Before the Boston Celtics played the Toronto Raptors on Saturday, the Celtics head coach said that he “could care less” about the award and that there was “no way” he would consider himself to be a part of the race. Stevens also went on to say that Raptors counterpart Dwane Casey should be at the top of the list, per Chris Forsberg of ESPN.
Brad Stevens’ thoughts on his Coach of the Year candidacy: "Could care less. There’s 29 other great coaches, and just to be a head coach in this league is enough. … There’s no way that I would ever consider myself to be in that race." pic.twitter.com/ZyYNoBNYCF
— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) March 31, 2018
The 55-21 Raptors and the 53-23 Celtics are head and shoulders above the rest of the pack in the East, and it is a credit to the respective jobs that Casey and Stevens have done. The former has elevated a seemingly stale core to a truly elite level this season, while the latter has turned a largely inexperienced team that lost Gordon Hayward for the year into a title contender.
Though there are a few deserving candidates for the award, Casey and Stevens could just find themselves No. 1 and No. 2 in Coach of the Year voting this year. But it sounds like Stevens would be perfectly fine with being the No. 2.
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« Advancing the Field
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September 14, 2016 by linguisteducatorexchange
Over the summer I had the privilege of traveling to Pennsylvania to work with some old colleagues and make some new ones. The travel itself is a slog — three hours in a car, four hours on a plane, several more hours in a rental car for a few days, another four hours on a plane, another three hours in a car. By the time I get home, all I want to do is watch a little Netflix and go to bed, but my brain doesn’t wind down so easily. After my return, I found myself turning over a couple of conversations in my head. I didn’t consider them to be related, but of course, there are no coincidences.
The first thing I kept turning over was something I heard from a colleague while I was on the road. She was summarizing for me some comments she had heard from a bigwig phonics apologist (we’ll call her BW for BigWig) during a professional development event. So first, I want to acknowledge that this is total hearsay; I am now reporting this to you third-hand, which is probably irresponsible, but it’s not like I’m going out on a very far limb: it’s a ubiquitous perspective, and one that confronts me a lot in my work. A lot of people are laboring through the whole erroneous sound-it-out, A-is-for-Apple thing out there. But this story was sticking with me because it offers such clear evidence that people highly trained in multisensory structured language education are getting really bad information, right from the top, as though it were scientific or factual. Again.
It went something like this: after a lively discussion about language and teaching, the training session ended with BW admonishing her teacher trainers: “You’ll hear a lot of talk out there about morphology and etymology,” she said. “But the fact is that children need to master their phonology first.”
Just let that sink in: children need to master their phonology first.
My colleague brought it up because after a few hours of orthographic study with me, she could so clearly see that morphology and etymology both outrank phonology in the hierarchy of the writing system’s concerns, and she was well aware that she was being warned away from my work and the work of my orthographic scholarship community, because it threatens the rabidly phonocentric foundations of the trainer’s life’s work.
I looked at my colleague and asked her, “So at what point does she suggest children have mastered their phonology?”
And now I’m looking at you and asking you to consider at what point you mastered your phonology, and what exactly that means.
The second thing keeping me up was a question that had popped up on Facebook about spelling and, of course, pronunciation. Actually, questions pop up on Facebook every day. I do some of my best writing in response to those questions. There was a thread on whether the vowel in bang, sang, hang, etc., is ‘long’ or ‘short.’ It was a long conversation about who’s pronouncing what, taking place among people who, like my Pennsylvania colleague, are highly trained and knowledgeable about the English language. What most of them didn’t understand was that regardless of what you feel like you’re pronouncing, the vowels in those words are all phonologically checked, lax, or (shudder) ‘short,’ just like they would be before <tch> or <ck>.
That’s not the question that stuck with me, however; it was a post that took on disyllabic words that end in <et>, like blanket or locket or basket.
The common understanding out there in Phonicland is that these words have an /ɪ/ in the final syllable, but are spelled with an <e>. Because of what is perceived as a mismatch in the orthography, many teachers and tutors try to cue students in to the spelling by articulating the final syllable with a pure [ɛ]: “lock-ET.” The thing is, no one talks like that in real life. That word is never pronounced that way in a normal utterance, only in a phonics lesson. If the kid is writing a sentence sometime later with that word, they’re going to be thinking about the content of their composition, and it won’t feel like “lock-ET” in their head. So if that’s the approach, it’s likely that kids will continue to spell these (and other) words according to the way they pronounce them with little regard for sense and meaning.
Let’s consider these words, or at least a goodly number of them, in terms of our four questions of structured word inquiry. The thing is, we usually take these four questions to the study of a specific word, but this time, I want to take them to the study of words with that have an <et> suffix, and of that <et> in general.
Most of these words are of French origin and have a diminutive denotation, at least historically. The <et> may no longer clearly express smallness in the word (as in musket), and the word’s semantics may have drifted considerably from their etymon, but somewhere in many of these words’ etymologies is diminution (the history of musket includes an association with a ‘little fly’ — think mosquito).
A packet is a small pack of something; a locket is a little locking thing; a rocket is, etymologically speaking, a little cylinder. They are by and large nouns, though many have been zero-derived into verbs, as in snow that blankets the landscape. In the French that they come from, <et> is a masculine diminutive suffix, and <ette> is its feminine counterpart. English uses both: kitchenette, rosette — sometimes with the same base element, even: planchet, planchette, or toilet, toilette.
How are they built?
Well, since <et> isn’t a word, we need to think about this a little differently. It’s a suffix, not a base, but we can still take a look at how its morphology works. It attaches to both free bases (locket) and bound bases (banquet). These words take the typical nominal inflections, as in two caskets or the rocket’s red glare, and they may also compound, as in basketweaving or toiletpaper, or take derivational suffixes, as in toiletries or musketeers. The suffix is never stressed in these word families, so words like magnetic tell us that we’re not dealing with the same diminutive suffix here.
Now, I wouldn’t argue that all of these words are very productive for analyzing morphologically in the present day; you won’t find the <rock> in <rocket> in any other words without the <et>, and the <jack> in <jacket>, while free (a kind of sleeveless tunic or, well, jacket), is archaic and no longer used. But even many of the words that are not morphologically generative are still hugely etymologically productive.
What are their relatives?
Well, I’ve already given several examples of the kinds of morphological relatives you’ll find with these words. Some compound prolifically (basketball, breadbasket, wastebasket), others compound a little (straightjacket), while still others don’t compound at all (blanket). Where we really hit paydirt is with the etymological relatives. When we peel off that <et> and identify the base, even if it’s not morphologically generative in present-day English, it often points to relatives that help us deepen our understanding not only of the meanings of these word families, but also of the kinds of relationships we mark in writing. Consider the following relatives and their shared historical denotations:
banquet ~ bank ~ bench ‘table’
blanket ~ blank ~ blanch ~ blanquette ‘white’
bracket ~ breeches ~ britches ‘support or armor’ (influenced by, but unrelated to, brace)
crocket ~ crook ~ crochet ~ croquet ‘hook’
latchet ~ lace ~ lasso ‘lace’ (historically, ‘rope, noose, snare;’ influenced by, but unrelated to, latch)
market ~ merchant ~ merchandise ~ mercantile ‘to buy’
picket ~ pike ~ peak ~ pique ~ pitch ‘to prick or point’
pocket ~ pouch ~poke (as in pig in a poke) ‘bag’
planchet ~ planchette ~ plank ‘board’
placket ~ placard ~ plaque ‘plate or tablet’
ratchet ~ rocket ‘spindle or cylinder’
ticket ~ etiquette ~ sticker ~ stitch ‘to stick, to fasten by sticking’
As we study these shared denotations and the stories they tell, we also begin to see another dimension of the writing system come to life: the etymological relationships between phonemes and graphemes. In the examples above, we can see certain relationships repeated in the graphemes: <tch> or <ch> and <ck> or <k>; between <c> and <ck> and <k>, and <qu>; sometimes multiples of these. We see these same relationships across English orthography, even in words without the <et> including dike~ditch, break~breach, wreak~wretch, mystic~mystique, and so many others.
Some of the morphological relationships that emerge in this study are built around free bases and are fairly intuitive, like <face> + <et> or <cab> + <in> + <et>. Others have bound bases whose denotations make perfect sense, but may not be guessable, like the <buck> shared by <bucket>, <buckle>, and <buckboard>, which denotes ‘bulge.’ The <cors> in <corset> is related to corps and corpse — they all denote ‘body.’ I know, right? Wow.
We also see in many of these words all these medial spellings that we associate with being final to monosyllables, like <tch> and <ck> and <nk> and <dge>. Once we understand that, historically at least, those spellings are final to a base element, we understand those words and their spellings better. If we look at relatives like toilet and toilette or blanket and blanquette, floret and flowerette, ticket and etiquette, we ought to be able to surmise that the <et> and <ette> suffixes are related somehow.
Basically, the more relatives we can gather, the more data we have to support our understanding. I could go on, but I want to save some of the study for other people. So let’s wrap up with the fourth question.
What segments of the pronunciation are relevant to the meaning?
This is really the question that started it all, as it so often does. Even though it should be our final question, this is frequently where people start when studying spelling: with the pronunciation. And that’s a mistake. It’s a mistake, as it was in the Facebook discussion, to zero in immediately on “why are these words pronounced like this but spelled like that?” without considering the other questions, the context of the meaning and structure and relationships that govern the spellings.
Just as with the <a> in rang, sang, and hang, people get hung up on what the physical pronunciation of a word is — its phonetics — rather than considering how we organize a word’s possible pronunciations within the whole system of our language — its phonology. All writing systems represent some aspect(s) of the language’s phonology, its psychological organization of the pronunciation of meaning, but no orthography represents phonetics, the physical properties of speech.
With the frequent phonics practice of stressing that second syllable in words like locket or packet — a with many frequent phonics practices — we not only fail to study how these words’ pronunciations actually work; we also obscure other facts about the pronunciation of this suffix. Sometimes it is stressed, especially in musical terms like quintet or quartet or duet or clarinet. Some of these can be spelled either with <et> or with <ette>: quintette, quartette. We also find the same diminutive suffix stressed but pronounced only as /eɪ/; these are later French loanwords like ballet, filet, bouquet, sachet, croquet. In French, which is a syllable-timed language, the tonic stress falls at the end; the closer a word is to its French origin in time, generally the Frencher it is in English.
Rather than fixating on whether a child spells the second syllable of these words correctly immediately and consistently, what if we left that alone for a bit and studied instead what is actually happening in these words, with this suffix? So far, we know that the diminutive suffix <et> can be pronounced as [ət] (as in musket), [‘ɛt] (as in clarinet), or [‘eɪ] (as in ballet).
Wait — what? So there’s no /ɪ/ in locket, bucket, basket, musket, and the like? Nope. Some people might feel like they’re pronouncing [ɪ] in these words, but there’s no /ɪ/. If you don’t know the difference between [ɪ] and /ɪ/, you need to take my IPA LEXinar post-haste. There is an /ɪ/ in fidget and in ticket, but it’s in the first syllable, not the second, and it’s spelled with an <i> as it should be. In fact, /ɪ/ is one of the simplest vowel phonemes to spell in English because it only has two spellings: <i> and <y>. The grapheme <e> is not associated with the phoneme /ɪ/ in English. It could be spelling the phoneme /ɛ/ in these words, arguably, but unless it’s stressed, it’s a schwa.
Now, not every di- or trisyllable that ends in <et> has a demonstrable or identifiable diminutive suffix, even diachronically. The word that started it all, basket, is of obscure origin. Hornet is Old English, not French, and isn’t actually related to a horn or anything. But as words orbited around each other in Middle English and beyond, surely their spellings have been influenced by that ubiquitous <et> suffix.
Whether the schwa in these words is phonemic on its own or just an unstressed allophone of /ɛ/ in these words is anyone’s argument to make. But it’s not an /ɪ/. There are words, also schwaed at the end, that arguably do have an /ɪ/ phoneme in the unstressed syllable, because it’s spelled with an <i>. Latinate words like habit, limit, merit, and implicit all have a Latinate <it> suffix (compare rehabilitate, subliminal, meretricious, and implicate). Since its pronunciation is similar if not identical to an unstressed <et>, it bears examining what differentiates these kinds of words. First, the <et> suffix is French; these words reliably made their way into English via French, some from Latinate roots (like facet) and others from Germanic roots (like bucket). The <et> in French could be word-final, as it can in English. The <it>, on the other hand, is a Latin stem suffix, meaning it’s followed (in Latin, and often in French) by another suffix: habitare, limitem, meritare, and implicitus). While these words may have traveled via French, they retain a Latinness in their morphological families that the <et> ones don’t: compare habit, habitual, rehabilitate, inhabit to bucket, buckle, buckboard. The relatively concrete homeliness of the <et> words is what makes a lot of Phonics Pholks misidentify them as “Anglo-Saxon.” The Latin <it> almost always fixes to bound bases (inherit,circuit, audit), while the <et> is less selective.
Here’s what’s up, phonologically speaking: words that end in an unstressed <et> — whether or not it’s a suffix — do not have an /ɪ/ in the final syllable; if you want to name a pure vowel phoneme, it has to be an /ɛ/ or an /eɪ/; that’s all the orthography allows for. The unstressed ones have a schwa, because they’re unstressed. They may have an [ɪ], but when people are trying to identify the phoneme by saying “Well I pronounce it this way,” they’re missing the point. They’re looking for love in all the wrong places. Phonology isn’t in your mouth; it’s in your brain. Not in your physics, but in your psychology.
Orthography is human thought made visible as text. Because phonemes are in our heads, we can argue for a long time about their identity. Because phonemes are sets or categories in our linguistic psychology, we can debate their contents in perpetuity. If we want to identify them, literally, to figure out their identity, we need only look to the orthography. The orthography takes our phonology — our human thought — and makes it visible as text. Many orthographic scholars understand that the orthography doesn’t represent phonemes; rather, it pinpoints and identifies them with graphemes.
Here’s my hypothesis: [ɛ] isn’t typically realized in unstressed syllables in English. In compounds like redhead or daybed, the second element carries secondary stress; it’s not neutralized. In other words, you have to stress it to fully pronounce it. If you pronounce basket as *[‘bæsˌkʰɛt] you end up giving the second syllable some stress — it’s louder, longer, and maybe higher than in [‘bæskʰət]. It ain’t natural. So, instead of emphasizing or overemphasizing pronunciation (indeed stop doing that — good for the teacher who posted for identifying that this practice is both ineffective and misleading), zero in on meaning. Use the four questions as a guide. Talk about the phonology only after after you’ve made sense of the meaning, the structure, the history and the relatives of these words.
In these Facebook conversations, which are brave and honest and sometimes even moving, people reshape their understanding of English orthography. People are vulnerable and willing to be wrong. Everyone learns from each other that way. It struck me that in this friendly, brilliant, experienced, well-educated group of parents and educators and activists and innovators, conversations about phonology were still often woefully wandering. Participants remained fixated on the physics of their pronunciation, rather than looking at the grapheme that make human thought visible.
“You people have a phonological awareness problem and I am not kidding,” I posted. “I mean, I am, but I’m not. I mean this in the friendliest of ways.” Then I put a smiley face for good measure. I don’t want to insult anyone, you know.
I do want to suggest, however, that it’s possible they haven’t yet mastered their phonology. So rather than waiting until everyone totally agrees on the pronunciation of bang and sang and hatchet and blanket to start studying the structure and history, how about instead we use the morphology and etymology to make sense of the phonology? Go ahead, BW, keep all your eggs in one phonocentric basket and keep insisting that children master the phonology, whatever that means. I’ll be over here helping people understand it instead.
on September 14, 2016 at 6:02 am | Reply
Sandie Barrie Blackley
Your work– and that of Pete Bowers and Real Spelling– is a constant inspiration.
Because of you all, Lexercise includes morphology and word inquiry procedures from the very beginning of its structured literacy curriculum. We see its power, and we love the process.
Keep on keeping on!
Thank you, Sandie!
Lisa Barnett
Picture this: Mike Myers & Dana Carvey in the basement of Wayne’s World chanting, “We’re not worthy!” –that’s me, right now….bowing to you! Your arguments for mastering phonology is in-itself, masterful. You provide unarguable evidence and build webs of words that are linked in meaning, structure and etymology. I greatly appreciate your ability to see the relationships in words and investigate and analyze those relationships with sense and meaning.
I’ve lived phonics for more than 20 years and only lived Structured Word Inquiry for less than 2 years. Old habits are hard to break, and I’m so glad you brought a bulldozer! With each post, course and conversation I learn more and more and sometimes, find I’m more cemented in my old thinking than I realize. Thanks for having patience with us and being so willing to share your knowledge. “Excellent!”
Party on, Wayne!!
on September 14, 2016 at 8:35 pm | Reply
Marcia Henry
Bravo, Gina! If most kids with dyslexia had to master phonology before moving on to morphology and etymology they’d never move on.
on September 14, 2016 at 11:53 pm | Reply
Thank you, Marcia. And thank you also for banging the morphology-and-etymology gong early and often!
on September 18, 2016 at 11:02 am | Reply
Sorry for this overly long post. I started and then realized I had a lot to say! Here are the thoughts you inspired when I read your post a few days ago…
Thanks so much for this post, Gina. So much to learn from in here. I know I will be rereading multiple times. Here is my current favourite nugget…
“…people get hung up on what the physical pronunciation of a word is — its phonetics — rather than considering how we organize a word’s possible pronunciations within the whole system of our language — its phonology. ”
I do know a fair bit about the difference between phonetics and phonology, but this description captures a much deeper sense of the crucial distinctions that I have been able to articulate so far.
Phonology: “…how we organize a word’s [morpheme’s?] possible pronunciations within the whole system of our language.”
I love how the two seemingly disconnected stories of your post link so well in the end. The strong claim from an educational leader that it is “a fact” that children need to master their phonology before being taught about morphology and etymology in the fist story is so clearly negated by the linguistic analysis in the second.
I have certainly heard this strong claim made many times before. However, your story made me want to address a “softer” claim that may be even more common, and which is equally unfounded. I can imagine someone agreeing with you that phonology does not need to be “mastered” before teaching about morphology — but still holding on to this common less extreme position:
“Yes morphology is important, but the research says children need to be taught about phonology first.”
Not only is this common assumption countered by analysis of everyday words children encounter in writing from the beginning of schooling, it is a factually untrue statement about the research.
As your readers and this community knows, words like or the pronunciations of the suffix (/t/, /d/ and /ɪd/) or the suffix (/s/ and /s/) should be enough to make it clear that one could not accurately understand how phonology is represented by orthography in English without addressing morphology. Attempting to teach about phonology before addressing morphology means misteaching as an “irregular” word to be memorized, and that children cannot understand the spelling of suffixes that are so common it is hard to find a page of text without them. The child who pays close attention to instruction about the “z sound” or the “t sound” is certain to misspell countless common words. Simple logic tells us that instruction about a thing should accurately reflect how that thing works!
Since you have already address the linguistic facts so effectively in your post, I wanted to build on that by unpacking the underlying pernicious assumption that “the research” has supported this idea that phonology has to be taught first. That may seem like a strong claim, but it is actually easy to back up.
(Note: Because there is extremely little research about the effect of teaching etymology — I’ll limit my comments to the topic of when morphological instruction should begin and largely leave aside the topic of etymology for the moment. In no way should that choice be taken as signaling that etymology can be set aside in classroom instruction!)
It is true that for decades researchERS have suggested / hypothesized / claimed that the research shows that children need to be taught about phonology first and that morphology should not feature until later instruction — especially for struggling readers. I regularly cite a statement from one of the most influential research books on literacy instruction called “Beginning to Read” by Marilyn Adams from 1990. A key focus of her book was to take a look at the scientific evidence regarding the “whole language vs. phonics” debate. She presented lots of evidence to support her claim that more children succeeded in literacy when they were explicitly taught about grapheme-phoneme correspondences and phonemic awareness compared to when these features of oral and written language received little or no attention. Adams also wrote the following:
“Although teaching older readers about the roots [base morphemes] and suffixes of morphologically complex words may be a worthwhile challenge, teaching beginning or less skilled readers about them may be a mistake” (p. 152).
It should be emphasized that Adams makes no claim of instructional evidence here or elsewhere in her book to support this view. I would argue that it is in fact totally reasonable for a researcher to share hypotheses beyond their data as a way to point the research community to interesting hypotheses to test. The problem is that the research world took a very long time to test this hypothesis. It turned out I worked on the first meta-analysis of morphological intervention studies (Bowers, Kirby, & Deacon, 2010) to test this hypothesis. As you can see from the dates, this is two decades after Adam’s book! The extremely influential National Reading Panel (2000) a decade after Adam’s didn’t even mention the word “morphology.”
We found that not only was Adam’s hypothesis not supported — the exact opposite of her hypothesis was found. The less able and younger students gained the most from morphological instruction. And this was with morphological instruction that I would argue left much to be desired. Of the 22 studies we looked at, only 5 even addressed the fact that it is common for consistently spelled morphemes to vary in pronunciation. Our meta-analysis was followed by two more (Goodwin & Ahn, 2010; 2013) that corroborated our findings.
The point I’m trying to make very clearly is this: I have never found any research evidence suggesting that we should teach phonology before morphology. Such evidence would need to come from studies that included a condition with morphological instruction. When researchers, educational leaders, administrators etc. make the claim that “the research says we need to teach phonology first” they are making a statement that is false. I understand why they say it. Many researchERS have made this suggestion — but that is not research EVIDENCE.
If anyone ever makes such a claim to you, I encourage you to ask them for a reference that shows phonology should be taught before morphology. Remember evidence that explicit teaching about grapheme-phoneme correspondences and phonemic awareness is more effective than little or no such instruction allows no-one to make any claim about morphological instruction. In fact, my argument in my dissertation is that evidence that teaching about some sub-lexical aspects of words like grapheme-phoneme correspondences should have been taken as evidence to start looking at the the effect of teaching about other sub-lexical structures as we would with morphological instruction. Note — there is NO suggestion that we should teach morphology from the beginning and avoid instruction about orthographic phonology. The point is we should teach how the writing system works. To do that we need to teach about the interrelation of morphology, etymology and phonology.
For those who are interested in following up in this research, go to the bottom of my About WordWorks page here and you can find my published research including the meta-analysis I cited above. I do recommend a short 4-page paper I wrote with Gina (Bowers & Cooke, 2012) that reviews what morphology is, how it interrelates with phonology and the research evidence showing that we need to teach about morphology from the beginning.
I know of few studies that have actually tested the key question directly. One paper that came out after these meta-analyses by Devonshire, Morris and Fluk (2013) provides particularly important evidence to share. They taught 5-7 year olds in the UK in two conditions. In the experimental condition students were taught the interrelation of morphology, etymology and phonology with the use of word sums and matrices and compared that to a condition in which children were taught what is typically thought of as “best practice” phonics. (Unfortunately, they don’t mention their use of the matrix in the paper, but Devonshire confirmed that they did via an email correspondence with me.) They found significant benefits for the experimental condition over the phonics condition for standardized measures of reading and spelling. You can find that article here .
Let me finish by saying that I did not add this rather long comment to suggest that the research evidence is in any way more important than the linguistic evidence that Gina articulated so well — and that we see all the time when we study families of related words with the aid of analysis of word families with word sums, the matrix and etymological references. I simply know that research is regularly used by people in positions of authority to counter the work going on in this community. I expect many of the people who do so actually believe that this is what the “research says”. But regardless of their motives, it is important that this community has access to what the research actually does and does not show. Once someone has invoked “research” to support not teaching morphology until later — they need to be confronted with what the research actually has found. At that point they get to demonstrate whether they were citing research because they really believe that we need to follow what the research says, or if they only want to follow it when it says what they are already doing is right.
I appreciate your commentary, Pete. See, all I really want to do is holler about the language. If I can explain to a kid why one word is spelled with a ‘wr’ and another with an ‘rh,’ then I don’t really care whether some pedagogical research or other has “proven” that etymological study has a positive outcome on literacy. I don’t think it’s okay to lie to kids — or to omit facts about what they’re trying to accomplish — in order to improve some test score or other. Of course, no one would admit to thinking it’s okay to lie to children about the way their language words, but that is what phonics does (-tion, syllable division, exceptions, etc.). Whole language lies too, just different lies.
One of the things I love about working with you is that you *do* tackle these research questions. I was reluctant to tackle the whole “The fact is…” issue, because I didn’t hear BW say it myself. But it is a common thing for researchers and trainers and teachers to mistake research for critical thinking, and to mistake researchers’ suggestions for facts.
I like sticking to facts I can see here, which is why written language is my gig. That ‘ion’ is a suffix or that every word has a base element — these are facts in a way that “phonics works” or “you have to teach phonology first” are not and can never be.
on November 15, 2016 at 7:47 pm | Reply
marymcbride101
Gina: Thank you for your elegant post, always inspiring. When I think of teaching etymology and morphology along with phonology I smile. I smile because students, especially the intervention students, love to learn, to understand. They love to discover that they can understand in order to read, to spell, to soar. Thanks for all you do.
on November 21, 2016 at 5:01 am | Reply
shawnamay
Wow, so much to be gained in this entire thread. I am a believer because I jumped in with both feet and began to change my teaching. It made sense and answered many unanswered questions I had. I didn’t spend time arguing about it, I just set to work. Even after a fairly heated argument with my dad about the – ion suffix I was not deterred lol. Since then I have found that students struggling with reading and spelling suddenly smile and enjoy words when they are told the truth rather than the so called ” rules” with so many exceptions. I currently have a child who is just now realising she indeed can learn to read and spell and she is no longer afraid to open a book. A previously solemn little girl giggles and smiles during our discoveries. She asks some of the best questions I have heard! Her mind goes to meaning first.
on December 12, 2016 at 7:08 pm | Reply
Skot Caldwell
Well, I just don’t read this blog enough–but then I don’t eat chocolate truffles enough either! What a treat, Gina, as always.
Working backwards, I very much appreciate the wording of your final SWI question. Very possibly I have not been paying attention, but I had not used that wording before and will now. I was just half-joking to Pete that I hardly get to the “last” question “How is it pronounced?” at all–in fact I left it out of a recent blog post of my own. But your wording infuses it with a relevance I felt had been lost for me.
The notion that children have to “wait” to do morphology is fundamentally absurd. But it was not until I began teaching Grade One that I really had this epiphany. Having been arguing with the phonics bigwigs around me for some time–those telling me things like “children aren’t really ready for morphology until Grade Three–I realized: children ARRIVE at school understanding morphology! They use it in their oral language all the time, sometimes with inaccuracies such as over-use of the suffixes, but they are generally using affixes with competence and improve (apparently) with almost no instruction. It is as close to a natural process as exists in orthography.
Having made that last statement, I now recall one of your recent responses to a Facebook question. “Phonology,” you said, “isn’t in your mouth; it’s in your brain.” So I suppose it’s accurate to say that our understanding of how sound relates to meaning is also a “natural” process–though many children struggle to “hear” and reproduce the “correct” sounds just as they sometimes struggle with orally adding in the right places.
What they DON’T have is an understanding of how this morphology is represented in writing.
And of course, to do this we also need to really introduce phonology–it’s graphemic representation. What I was then implicitly or explicitly told to do was deny them the whole truth about this system!! (Insert implicit or explicit swear words here).
What your third-hand Big Wig and her peers fail to grasp is that morphology is central and that it is utterly learnable by young children. Is that a fact? I think it is. (Cuz I seen it).
Sawed it.
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Social marketplace Depop launches first global campaign with DesignStudio
Depop, a social marketplace where over 10m people buy, sell and discover unique items has collaborated with DesignStudio to launch its first-ever global advertising campaign.
Showcasing the creative – and 'proudly individual' – minds of Depop’s entrepreneurial community, Depop's ads feature intriguing user bios, taken from real Depop profiles and given centrestage. The campaign highlights a wide range of existing sellers, from model Jazzelle Zanaughtti of uglyworldwide, to Jovel, a 19-year old transgender male known for pushing fashion boundaries.
The digital and social campaign will see a further 20 bios highlighted and will launch simultaneously across major cities worldwide, as well as key universities across the USA. Print ads will also appear in cultural magazines.
Maria Raga, chief executive officer of Depop, said: “The entire purpose of this campaign is to highlight our community - the different styles, different subcultures and vast creative expressions across our platform. Introducing our sellers in a new light was the inspiration and driving force of this campaign.”
Headquartered in London, Depop also has offices in Milan, New York, and Los Angeles. The Depop app has been downloaded over 10 million times and has more than 2.7M monthly active users (80% of users are aged below 25 years old). Last year, Depop sold $230 million worth of clothing and are currently on track to double that figure in 2018.
DesignStudio is a global brand experience and design agency based in London and San Francisco. Recent rebrands by the agency include Airbnb, The Premier League, Deliveroo and a previous collaboration with Depop.
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Aiki, is Lahdelma & Mahlamäki’s winning proposal for the Embassy Quarter of Finland in Tokyo. The scheme, designed in 2009, includes a comprehensive design of the main embassy and an overview of the adjacent residential units. The embassy in all its functions and services stands as the physical link between Finland and Japan – connecting two nations either side of the world. Aiki becomes the physical representation of this. It embodies the intersection of the two cultures, which despite a huge distance between then, have developed with surprising similarities and parallels.
Aiki has a duality - masked from the outside, but bright and open within.
Internal views and open courtyard or gardens – within this enclosure – create an internal landscape. Voids left out of the grid system create four floor atria, entire voids open to the sky and smaller terraces scattered throughout. Fresh air flows in to the more public areas of the building, whilst dappled light gets thrown around, creating endless shape-shifting shadows as the day goes on. A level of transparency and openness is brought into the building which is so rare in such buildings.
Programme: Finnish embassy facilities, including ambassador's residence and residential quarter
Aiki was the winning design for the new Finnish embassy in Tokyo in 2009
The building serves as the physical and cultural link between the two countries
Silk-screen printed glass envelopes the building, balancing privacy and the flow of natural light
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The project embodies the cultural expression of the two cultures
The embassy in all its functions and services stands as the physical link between Finland and Japan – connecting two nations either side of the world. Aiki becomes the physical representation of this. It embodies the intersection of the two cultures, which despite a huge distance between then, have developed with surprising similarities and parallels.
Aiki has a duality. Externally it becomes shrouded from public view. Silk-screen printed glass wraps around the exterior, obscuring the internal goings-on modestly, yet elegantly. The envelope provides the privacy and security necessary for an embassy to function. Yet, at the same time, the façade allows in enough natural light to create interiors that don’t feel interior.
Privacy and security determine the vertical spatial arrangement and programme. The ambassador’s private residence, for personal living and official entertainment use, is kept at the top of the building. On this top level the floor plan wraps around open courtyards; private ones for the ambassador, and the ones that reach right into the heart of the building.
Aside from the architecture, Aiki is also given spaces to express Finnish culture. Space throughout the building is specifically allocated to Finnish art, and the entertainment spaces are naturally accompanied by a sauna.
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Futurist activity at London Tech Week and beyond
Dear Futurists,
As I write these words, London Tech Week is well under way. An estimated 55 thousand participants from 90+ countries are taking part in what is said to be over 300 tech-related events in and around London this week.
One disappointment for me, so far, is the number of times I have heard speakers at these events say something like the following:
Disregard all predictions you may hear about the longer term. Concentrate on the here-and-now. Prioritise the urgent, and ignore troublesome scenarios posed by futurists, since they’re unlikely to come true. What do these futurists actually know? Much less than they claim. Especially disregard any talk about major risks happening in a decade or more’s time, because that’s just science fiction dystopia. The world of business has coped with surprises in the past, and will surely cope with surprises in the future too.
I take this as a sign that we futurists still have a lot of work to do:
To highlight thoughtful, careful scenario analysis, as distinct from the sensationalist articles that are designed to generate clicks, but which give futurism a bad name
To underline the reasons for taking seriously the possibility of profound new technological changes – and major social reactions to these changes – happening in as little as ten years
To explain the advantages of thinking about these scenarios now, and of commencing significant steps in anticipation of such developments.
That’s what London Futurists is set up to do. Read on for some specific examples.
1.) Advice from 2023 – Thurs 14th June
This is now the third year in a row in which London Futurists have organised a “Futurist Summit” as part of the annual TechXLR8 show during London Tech Week.
In the previous two years, the Futurist Summit was held on one of the (many) peripheral stages at the TechXLR8 venue. On this occasion, we’re on the main stage – the same location where, at various times, the high profile “headliner keynotes” of TechXLR8 will be given.
The speakers at the Futurist Summit may lack the high public profile of the most famous of the TechXLR8 headliners, but to my mind the advice they’ll be offering is particularly relevant. The theme for the Futurist Summit is “Advice from 2023”:
If your future self, in the year 2023, could send a message for you to consider now, in 2018, what would the content be?
The TechXLR8 Futurist Summit will feature a range of technologists and researchers who will share their best guesses at the advice our future selves might wish to transmit back to us, five years earlier. Which technological trends have the potential to deliver the most surprise? How might society react to these trends? What disruptive changes could take place in the attitudes of consumers, business partners, legislators, and political leaders? Which present-day buzzwords will prove to be the most exaggerated and distracting? Which emerging threats and opportunities deserve the most attention, as we set out on the journey from the present day towards 2023? And how should we prepare for these potential gales of transformation ahead?
At the Futurist Summit you’ll be able to witness a series of TED-style talks, “Advice from 2023”, interspersed with rapid Q&A that draws out the interplay and the contrasts between the different speakers. The speakers will highlight ways in which businesses and organisation in 2023 won’t simply be operating the same way as today (except faster and cheaper), but might feature radically different practices and goals.
The Futurist Summit is part of the free content of TechXLR8. (There’s a considerable amount of other free content worth checking out as well.) But you do need to register in advance. Point your browser at http://www.techxlr8.com and click on the button “Register as a Free Visitor”.
Three other points are worth bearing in mind:
TechXLR8 is taking place at the London ExCeL venue, which can be reached via the DLR (see this page for various travel options)
The ExCeL centre is ENORMOUS. Even after you arrive there, you’ll probably have to walk around 15 minutes to reach the part of ExCeL where TechXLR8 is taking place
The halls dedicated to TechXLR8 are themselves HUGE. It may take you another 15 minutes to locate the Main Stage inside these halls.
As a reminder, here’s the schedule for the Futurist Summit:
12.40: Chair’s welcome – David Wood
12.50: Rediscovering our humanity – Matt O’Neill, independent futurist
13.10: Security: through Renewal or through Protection? – David Bent, independent sustainability advisor
13.30: Values and the tech industry – Katy Cook, Founder of the Centre for Technology Awareness
13.50: Advertising in 2023 – Tom Ollerton, Innovation Director, We Are Social
14.10: Career advice from 2023 – Laura Thomson, Training Director, Phenomenal Training
14.30: New fuels and new tools – Jim O’Reilly, Strategist, Vital Growth
14.50: Seize the bitcoin moment – Dil Green, Digital Anthropology Blogger
15.10: Schrodinger’s future: 2023 and beyond – Paul Imre, independent futurist
15.30: From AI to Brexit: Coping with multiple shocks and disruptions – Rohit Talwar, Founder and CEO of FastFuture Research
15.55: Concluding remarks – David Wood, Chair of London Futurists
2.) The Transhumanist Abundance Manifesto
Also in time for London Tech Week, I’ve issued for review the first draft of a new document called “The Transhumanist Abundance Manifesto”.
Here’s how it starts:
Advance!
A new era is at hand – the era of transhumanist abundance.
Humans everywhere, it is time for us to organise ourselves to boldly advance into that new era.
If we act wisely, and take full advantage of the remarkable fruits of science and technology, what lies ahead of us is the politics of paradise – a sustainable, open-ended, evolving abundance in which everyone can freely participate.
The constraints which have long oppressed human existence can soon be lifted. Instead of physical decay and growing age-related infirmity, an abundance of superhealth and superlongevity is available. Instead of cognitive failures and collective stupidity, an abundance of superintelligence and superwisdom awaits us. Instead of debilitating depression and emotional alienation, we can achieve an abundance of mental and spiritual super-wellbeing. Instead of a society laden with abuses of power, layers of deception, and divisive factionalism, we can embrace an abundance of superdemocracy. The result will be liberty as never before.
The cosmos beckons, with its vast resources and endless possibilities. Human destiny lies in collaborative exploration of both outer and inner space, as we keep reaching forwards to higher levels of consciousness and experience.
As transhumanists, we affirm that the future can be hugely better than the present. Human nature is but a starting point for the journey to extraordinary posthuman capability. Whereas the evolution of life has been blind for billions of years, it is now passing into our conscious, thoughtful control.
At present, we can only glimpse the outlines of the coming era of abundance. It is the historic destiny of transhumanists to discern these outlines more clearly, and to help humanity as a whole envision and navigate the pathways ahead.
Together, we can map out constructive solutions to the obstructions and distractions that impede our progress. We can build alliances that weaken the forces resisting positive change. Through an emerging understanding of the benefits transhumanism can bring to everyone, we can transform fearful opposition step-by-step into willing partners.
Together, let’s apply our skills, our time, and our resources to paint more fully the picture of sustainable transhumanist abundance. Let’s organise our businesses, our researchers, our creatives, and our activists in service of this uplifting cause. Let’s transcend our present-day preoccupations, our unnecessary divisions, our vested interests, and our inherited human limitations. Let’s grasp the radical transformational power of new technology to profoundly enhance our vision, our wisdom, our social structures, and our effectiveness. In this way, we can accelerate the transition to abundance, with no one left behind.
You can read the longer public version here. There’s also a working Google doc version that, in addition, contains the start of an FAQ about the content of the Manifesto. You’re all welcome to leave your comments and suggestions inside the Google doc.
I was led to develop the Manifesto by reflecting on a number of developments over the last few months. This includes discussions at the recent London Futurists conference on Universal Basic Income and/or Alternatives. Another factor influencing my thinking is the responses to my book Transcending Politics. Whilst I’m pleased at the content of that book, I can see that many readers would prefer a simpler introduction to the subject. Hence the Manifesto.
3.) Videos from the UBIA 2018 conference
I’m gradually working my way through the recordings made at our UBIA 2018 conference held on 2nd June. So far, the first three have been published, and more should follow over the next few days.
As you can see, the completed videos are being embedded on the UBIA 2018 event webpage – in the section containing the schedule for the day.
The videos are also being put into their own playlist on the London Futurists YouTube channel.
I hope you find them interesting to watch. It’s certainly an interesting process for me to review the content in the process of preparing it for publication.
As I see things, the arguments about UBI fall into two stages:
The problem to be solved: How stable, reliable, and desirable is our current social contract, under forces (such as technological automation) that may grow in scale?
The response to the problem: To what extent should a UBI be introduced as part of a set of remedies to address the failings (and potential greater failings ahead) of our current social contract?
Some critics of UBI (including some of the speakers at UBIA 2018) agree that there’s a problem to be solved, but reject the idea that UBI has a significant role to play in solving the problem. Other critics reject even the fact that there’s a problem to be solved.
4.) A US presidential candidate’s book about UBI
If you are impatient for good quality material discussing UBI, let me recommend a book that I’m currently in the process of reading.
The title of the book may initially seem strange: “The war on normal people”. But as you read the book, it soon becomes clear what’s meant.
The subtitle is more straightforward: “The truth about America’s disappearing jobs and why Universal Basic Income is our future”.
The author, Andrew Yang, is an entrepreneur who has announced that he is running as a candidate to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the US Presidential race of 2020. Here’s a video of the announcement of his campaign:
I confess that, when I first heard about Andrew Yang’s presidential bid, I assumed his book would be relatively light weight. How wrong I was!
Actually so far I’ve only found the time to read the first two thirds of the book. This covers the “problem statement” (see item #3 above). I haven’t yet reviewed the remaining chapters, which sets out the proposed solution (which involves UBI). But the problem statement struck me, again and again, as profound. It’s very well researched. And it’s also true to the tagline of Yang’s presidential campaign: “Humanity First”.
5.) Humanity+ Prize essay – deadline 23rd June
If you have views on the potential relevance of blockchain to transhumanism (and/or the relevance of transhumanism to blockchain), there’s still time for you to submit an essay to the prize contest being run by Humanity+ on that topic.
There are three prizes of $1,000 each available, and a grand prize of $5,000. The details are here. The deadline for submissions is 23rd June.
6.) Are we living in a New Dark Age? Mon 25th June
The theme of a potential future “new dark age” is one that features heavily in my own writing, so I was interested to note that phrase used as the title of a new book by Guardian columnist James Bridle. The full title of the book is New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future.
Virtual Futures are holding an event on Monday 25th June in which James Bridle will be talking and answering questions about his book. The details of the event are here:
We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather, it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension.
In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy.
Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.
I’ve registered to attend, and look forward to the conversation that evening.
7.) Further discussion of London Futurists events and projects
Meetup.com is great for informing people about forthcoming events, but (as many of you have often remarked) it has poor functionality for discussing matters arising in connection with events.
For that reason, we’re experimenting with Slack. The initial signup link I posted earlier has now expired, so here’s a new one. It will remain valid for the next 30 days.
I look forward to you joining the discussions and contributing where you feel most strongly!
// David W. Wood
Chair, London Futurists
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Toronto's Kyle Lowry drives to the net under pressure from Milwaukee's George Hill, right, during the second half of the Raptors' 100-94 win over the Bucks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final Saturday in Toronto. The Raptors advanced to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history and will face the Golden State Warriors.
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Drake sports a sweatshirt with "Kawhi me a river" on the back during the second half of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final between the Toronto Raptors and the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday in Toronto.
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Collapse complete: Bucks drop 4 straight to Raptors to end season as Toronto reaches first NBA Finals
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TORONTO — Kyle Lowry stole the ball and pushed it ahead, then waited for Kawhi Leonard to arrive before feeding his All-Star teammate for a thunderous one-handed slam over Giannis Antetokounmpo.
"The building exploded after that dunk," Leonard said.
It sure did. Now imagine how it will sound when the NBA Finals come to Toronto for the first time next week.
Leonard had 27 points and 17 rebounds to lead the Raptors into the finals for the first time with a 100-94 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night. His big dunk with 6:46 to go in the fourth quarter was the final basket in a game-changing 26-3 run that began late in the third.
"It was kind of a momentum capper," Lowry said. "We were on a run, and why not feed the big dog? Let the big dog eat."
The Raptors overcame a 15-point deficit to win the series in six games and will host the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night.
It will be the two-time defending champions against a Raptors team that will finally bring the NBA Finals outside the U.S. after entering the league in 1995.
"They're one of the greatest teams in history," Raptors coach Nick Nurse said of the Warriors. "It will be a tall task, but we'll try to figure it out."
Pascal Siakam scored 18 points, Lowry had 17 and Fred VanVleet 14 for the Raptors.
Lowry held the game ball and picked up his children after the game, finally getting to the championship round after the Raptors kept falling short against Cleveland.
"It's taken a long time to get here in my career," Lowry said. "I've run into one guy for a while."
Toronto was eliminated by LeBron James and the Cavaliers in three straight postseasons before shaking things up last summer with the acquisition of Leonard, the 2014 NBA Finals MVP who was acquired from San Antonio and has carried the Raptors in this postseason.
"He's the best player in the league and we're happy he's in Toronto," Raptors President Masai Ujiri said.
Asked about Ujiri's compliment, Leonard said he's focused on different goals.
"I just want to win," he said. "I don't care about being the best player. I want to be the best team."
Antetokounmpo had 21 points and 11 rebounds for the Bucks, but the NBA's top team in the regular season saw its bid for a first finals berth in 45 years come to a disappointing end with a fourth consecutive defeat.
Photos: Raptors roll past Bucks to reach NBA Finals for first time in franchise history
"Man, obviously when you're up 2-0, that doesn't mean nothing," Antetokounmpo said. "You've got to learn how to come out and close out games, especially after Game 3. We've got to get better as a team, and we've got to get better individually."
Even Nurse found his team's turnaround hard to believe.
"Beating this team four times in a row is almost mind boggling," Nurse said.
Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said it hurt to see a great season end.
"The roster that was put together for this season, as the season started going, you started feeling like it was special and could do special things, including advancing past tonight, but it didn't happen," Budenholzer said.
Down 76-71 to start the fourth, the Raptors tied it with an 8-2 run while Leonard and Antetokounmpo were both on the bench. Serge Ibaka's dunk with 10:32 to go tied it at 78.
Antetokounmpo returned after a timeout, but Leonard kept sitting. That didn't matter to Toronto, with Siakam's basket giving the Raptors an 80-78 lead, their first lead since it was 6-3.
Toronto made 12 of 27 3-point attempts, including four of eight in the fourth quarter.
Siakam, who missed a pair of free throws late in the fourth quarter of Toronto's double-overtime win in Game 3, hit one to make it 98-94. Leonard grabbed the rebound on the second and was fouled. He made both, putting the Raptors up 100-94 with 3.9 seconds to go.
Malcolm Brogdon and Khris Middleton each made a pair from long range as the Bucks shot 6 for 9 from 3-point range in the first and closed the quarter with 10 unanswered points to lead 31-18. Toronto shot 6 for 19 in the opening quarter, missing six straight twice in the first 12 minutes.
The Bucks extended their lead to 38-23 on a 3 by Ersan Ilyasova with 7:46 left until half. Toronto cut the gap to 46-43 on a 3 by VanVleet with 1:07 left in the second, but Eric Bledsoe answered with a 3 and Antetokounmpo split a pair at the line, giving the Bucks a 50-43 advantage at the intermission.
The lead went back to 15 in the third before Leonard finished the period with a flourish. He had eight points in the final 2:01 and Toronto closed with a 10-0 run, cutting a 15-point deficit to 76-71.
Bucks: Milwaukee shot 4 for 16 in the second but three of its made baskets were 3-pointers. ... The Bucks had six points in the paint in the first half. They finished with 28. ... Budenholzer was called for a technical foul on Milwaukee's first possession of the second half. Leonard missed the free throw. ... Antetokounmpo shot 5 for 10 at the free throw line.
Raptors: Danny Green, who missed all three of his field goal attempts in 16 minutes in Game 5, had another rough night. Green shot 0 for 4 in 14 minutes. ... Leonard's 17 rebounds were his most in any game this postseason. ... Lowry had eight assists.
DRAKE WATCH
Raptors fan and 'global ambassador' Drake sat in his regular seat adjacent to the Toronto bench. The rapper wore a black hoodie with 'KAWHI ME A RIVER' printed on the back.
Outside the downtown arena, fans flooded streets, bringing traffic to a standstill. One video posted on social media showed a group of fans partying on the roof of a Toronto city bus. Fans surrounded Marc Gasol's car as he was driven out of the arena, and the center rolled down his window to trade high fives with the crowd.
Toronto' reserve Norman Powell scored nine points on his 26th birthday. Standing at the back of the room, Powell's mother wished him a happy birthday at the end of her son's press conference.
FAMILIAR POSITION
The last team to overcome an 0-2 deficit and win a conference finals was Oklahoma City, which beat San Antonio in six games in 2012 after losing the first two on the road. Ibaka played for that Thunder team, while Leonard was a Spurs rookie.
The NBA Finals comes to Canada for the first time when the Raptors host the Warriors on Thursday night. Toronto swept Golden State in the regular season.
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7 Projects of the Year on Latest Maker Update
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Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
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Far and away, my favorite making-related YouTube show this year was Donald Bell’s Maker Update. Every Wednesday in 2017, Donald has delivered a tight, informative, and fun guide to the week’s maker news and tech developments, the best projects Donald has run into, tips and tools recommendations, and a calendar of upcoming Maker Faires.
When there’s so much going on in a space, it’s great to have really smart and curious people filtering out and presenting what they think you should be paying attention to. Donald Bell has become one of my go-to Virgils for leading me through the land of high-tech DIY.
In today’s episode, the last of 2017, Donald runs through his favorite projects of the year. These include John Edgar Park’s amazing Lucio Blaster, Becky Stern’s Retro Raspberry Pi Tumblr GIF Camera, and JON-A-TRON’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet. The complete list of projects is available in the episode’s Show Notes.
With all that Donald has done with Maker Update in just a year, we look forward to seeing where he takes things in 2018. We’ll be watching.
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London Fashion Week 2018 highlights that you definitely don’t want to miss
Harriet WilliamsonWednesday 12 Sep 2018 2:05 pm
The Queen was on the FROW with Anna Wintour during Feburary’s London Fashion Week. (Picture: EPA/TOLGA AKMEN)
It’s the biannual highlight of the London calendar for fashion bloggers, buyers, editors, ‘influencers’ and industry insiders, and the perfect time to get papped in your most questionable (sorry, fashion forward) outfit.
The event runs from Friday 14 September to Tuesday 18 September, and is held in the British Fashion Council (BFC) Show Space and Presentation Space on the Strand.
Shows don’t tend to be open to the general public, but plenty of shows are being livestreamed.
We’ve created a handy guide of the most exciting shows that you shouldn’t miss if you’re a high fashion aficionado.
Friday – Richard Malone
A daring mix of textures and prints from Richard Malone. (Picture: Getty)
Irish designer Richard Malone might be only 26, but he’s already been awarded the Deutsche Bank Award for Fashion, previously won by Christopher Kane, and has been hailed by British Vogue as a ‘remarkable talent’.
His previous two London Fashion Week shows have been highly successful, showcasing his unique blend of rebelliousness and careful attention to detail.
Influences from Malone’s hometown of Wexford in Ireland are clearly present in his use of colour, and his commitment to sustainably sourced fabrics and natural dyeing firmly situate him as part of a new generation of talent with an awareness of fashion’s impact on the planet.
Saturday – Anya Hindmarch
Anya Hindmarch’s distinctive creative style. (Picture: Getty)
British powerhouse Anya Hindmarch has grown her business into a massive global brand since its inception in 1897.
Hindmarch was the first accessories designer to hold an on-schedule London Fashion Week show, and her LFW offerings have since been celebrated for their opulence and creativity.
Think huge male choirs, giant Rubik’s cubes and models floating over the catwalk instead of walking on it.
This year, Hindmarch is holding an immersive experience called ‘Chubby Cloud’ at Banqueting House that’s open the public.
It will include talks from leading fashion and culture experts, guided meditations, bedtime stories with Claudia Winkleman and Poppy Delevignge and the world’s biggest bean bag – because why not?
Sunday – Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham for Vogue (Picture: Mikael Jansson/Vogue)
Victoria Beckham has come a long way from her days as Posh Spice.
She’s been running her luxury fashion label for a decade and has garnered critical acclaim from the notoriously tough to impress fash pack.
Victoria Beckham will join the London Fashion Week roster for the very first time as a celebration of the brand’s 10 year anniversary.
Sunday – Jenny Packham
One of Jenny Packham’s red carpet-worthy designs. (Picture: Getty)
Jenny Packham, best known for her ready-to-wear and bridal collections, can be seen on red carpets all over the world.
The designer has dressed some of the most influential women in film, music and public life, including Kate Winslet, Emily Blunt, Taylor Swift, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Angelina Jolie.
The label was launched in 1988 and is established as one of the most successful independent British brands.
Monday – Rejina PYO
Tweed from REJINA PYO. (Picture: Getty)
Rejina Pyo, originally from Seoul, received the prestigious Han Nefkens Award for her final Central Saint Martins collection.
Before creating her own brand, Pyo worked as a designer for established London labels Roksanda Illincic and Christopher Raeburn.
Pyo’s garments prioritise quality, wearability and the magic of the everyday ritual of dressing.
Monday – Burberry
(Picture: Getty)
‘Quintessentially British’ fashion house Burberry’s new commitment to sustainability and going fur-free is very much in-line with London Fashion Week’s new pledge to keep animal skins off the runway.
With Chief Creative Officer Riccardo Tisci at the helm, we can expect to see more diversity on the catwalk and a greater engagement with social issues from the brand.
Monday – Christopher Kane
A dazzling ensemble from Christopher Kane. (Picture: Getty)
Christopher Kane’s show is not one to miss at this September’s London Fashion Week.
After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2006, Kane began to immediately build on his successful MA collection which had already won awards and captured the imagination of the fashion press.
He has consolidated his reputation as a skillful and innovative designer who plays expertly with the concept of femininity, and his shows are recognised as a major highlight of the LFW schedule.
Tuesday – Richard Quinn
Richard Quinn’s distinctive florals. (Picture: Getty)
Lewisham-born Richard Malone only established his eponymous label in 2016, but it has quickly established the Londoner as one of Britain’s most exciting and bold new designers.
Malone graduated with an MA in Fashion from Central Saint Martins and has since chosen to focus on womenswear and textiles.
Expect interesting fabrics, striking patterns and a commitment to sustainability.
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Nieman Conference: Thoughts on Day Two, A.M.
The Keynote session to kick off Day Two was a discussion with author and writer for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson. To me, it seemed like a little too much fawning over Anderson. Felt like I was watching “Inside the Actor’s Studio”… Despite that, I did take away a few morsels of value from Anderson’s talk.
First was the idea that he often learned a lot about the meaning of his own life’s experiences through the act of writing itself.
Second, he talked about “going the distance” as a reporter. By that, he meant that you have to keep researching, keep interviewing, keep talking to people, even when you’d rather quit and take a shortcut. If you feel like there is still more to try and unearth, you have to pursue it. His example was illustrative: when researching his book on Che Guevara, he almost didn’t bother to interview an old Bolivian military officer, but dragged himself over to do it. That man, at the end of a long interview, admitted to Che’s murder and revealed the fate of his body, which had long been a mystery.
Following that, I sat in on “From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary: Mining narrative gold in the everyday” (perhaps the longest title for any session at the conference). Interesting, well-organized panel on how three writers — Katy Butler, Louise Kiernan, and Victor Merina — developed feature articles, selecting scenes, developing structure, and spending time with their subjects.
Moderator Christine Larson kicked off the discussion with a great analogy comparing the writing process to romance. You fall in love with an idea, and fall even deeper in love with the story as you report it and talk to people and collect material for it. But then when you take it home to try and write it up, the romance fades away and you’re stuck in a troubled relationship with something that drives you crazy. I’m not doing justice to Larson’s entertaining set up, but you get the idea…
Some important ideas I took away from this session:
Kiernan talked about the importance of being “willing to embrace the gray” in our storytelling; that is, be willing to accept and write about complexity. It’s easy as writers to try and tidy up reality into a nice package, but sometimes, reality is ambiguous and unresolved, and our job is to present that in all it’s maddening grayness.
Merina described his process of visualizing his stories on paper and mapping them out, literally, so that you can step back and look at them, seeing where themes and content overlap, and where there are clear holes and missing spots that need to be filled.
Butler explained the idea of looking for turning points and key moments in your stories, then walking backward from those spots to construct a compelling narrative structure
Tags: ArtsChe GuevaraChe Guevara: A Revolutionary LifeChristine LarsonCubaJon Lee AndersonKeynoteNew YorkerNieman Conference
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May 25 Back Porch Concert Series at Fontanel Features #Stop22: Three Former Marine Singer/Songwriters Working to End Veteran Suicide
May 23, 2017 by martinco Leave a Comment
Nashville, TN – (May 23, 2017) In a pre-Memorial day tribute, Champion Car Wash and Fontanel are proud to welcome the #Stop22 Tour to the FREE Champion Car Wash…Presents Back Porch Concert Series at Fontanel On Thursday, May 25 from 5:30-8:30 PM. #Stop22 is a group of musicians dedicated to bringing awareness of, and an end to the 22 veterans taking their lives every day. The group includes Stephen Cochran, Tyler Jay Satterfield, and Daniel Dean.
Stephen Cochran and Daniel Dean got together after a friend, and a family member, both Veterans, committed suicide within a year of each other. The two Vets have felt the impact of suicide in every aspect of their lives. They also realized that their music could help heal their brothers and sisters, as well as educate the civilian populous. As they started to perform in places around Nashville, they realized how many other talented singer songwriters there were that had also served this great country. So the #Stop22 was born, and can be found playing most months on the 22nd in or around Nashville. The tour started as a tribute to the Global War On Terror Wall Of Remembrance that travels the country displaying the names of the fallen men from the war on terror. It is the only wall touring currently being added to. #STOP22 was asked to come and play with GWOT Wall of Remembrance in Vegas during the Shot Show and demand for it came shortly thereafter. Tyler Jay Satterfield joined up a short time after the launch, and has been a huge addition. Also a Veteran of the United States Marine Corps and Iraq, Tyler wrote and performed one of the most known songs in the Marine Corps in the mid 2000s (EAS SONG). He too has been plagued by the epidemic of PTSD among the veteran community, and understands the ability for his music to help educate and heal.
About Stephen Cochran:
Stephen is a singer -songwriter who had several Billboard and R&R Top 100 and Top 60 indicator songs as an artist and writer in the early to mid 2000s. (Friday Night Fireside) (Thinkin IM Drinkin) (Walmart Flowers) also served with 22nd MEUSOC and 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion as a Scout Team Leader to both Iraq and Afghanistan. After being injured in Afghanistan, Stephen has refocused to help use his music to heal and educate.
About Tyler Jay Satterfield:
Writer and Performer of arguably the most known song in the Marine Corps in the mid 2000s (EAS Song) since the Marines Hymn, Tyler Jay was born in Appleton Wisconsin on December 21st 1985. He grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana until just before high school where he moved to Colorado and found his love for the mountains. With a conservative foundation established by his parents, Jay and Anne, Tyler Jay felt he had a higher calling and set off to join the Marines. 4 years, 10 countries, and a few broken hearts later he found the world to have shades of color he had never imagined. From the flooded streets of Louisiana, to the sandy streets of Iraq Tyler Jay served his infantry unit honorably for four years leaving the Marine Corps as a Non-Commissioned Officer.
About Daniel Dean:
Star of hit TV show “Ultimate Survival Alaska”, and currently hiking the Appalachian Trail as part of Warrior Hike, Daniel spent 19 months in Iraq as a Marine infantryman and sniper, giving a man a lot of solitary time to think. What Daniel thought about mostly was home. Nothing tells the story of home in the U.S. better than country music. While on missions, Daniel would write country songs in his head. When he got back to base, he could put down his gun and pick up his guitar. The songs would then come to life. He would let Country Music Take Him Ho me even though he was 6,000 miles away.
Originally from Dillon, South Carolina, Daniel now calls Nashville, Tennessee home. He says, I miss my band of brothers in the Marine Corps, but I have found a new band of brothers (and sisters) in Nashville in the songwriting community. Daniel knows there was a time in his life that he was meant to carry a gun in war. Now, is the time in his life that he is meant to carry a guitar and share his unique blend of country music with the world.
About the Champion Car Wash…Presents Back Porch Concert Series
The series runs every Thursday evening through September 28 from 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM, and is held in the Grove at Fontanel at 4241 Whites Creek Pike. Bring a blanket, bring a chair…it’s a weekly Thursday night party festival that is family & dog friendly, admission is absolutely FREE, and every attendee will receive a FREE Grand Champion Carwash coupon worth $18! In addition to concerts, there are numerous lawn games, a firepit, food vendors and a craft brew tap wagon.
And to further enhance each weekly experience, the series is held in conjunction with the well-established Concert Cruise-In Car Show at Fontanel. Guests are able to hear some of the best local bands in Nashville, check out some of the coolest classic and modern muscle cars in the area (or bring their own), enjoy food from the various food trucks onsite, or at the award winning Café Fontanella, and enjoy both a full bar and award-winning craft beers.
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Fontanel Announces New Weekly Event as Champion Car Wash Presents…Back Porch Concert Series at Fontanel
April 13, 2017 by Zan Martin Leave a Comment
Nashville, TN – (April 13, 2017) … Champion Car Wash Presents…Back Porch Concert Series at Fontanel, slated to begin Thursday May 4, and running every Thursday evening through September 28 from 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM held in the Grove at Fontanel at 4241 Whites Creek Pike. Bring a blanket, bring a chair…it’s a weekly Thursday night party festival that is family & dog friendly, admission is absolutely FREE, and every attendee will receive a FREE Grand Champion Carwash coupon worth $18! In addition to concerts, there will be numerous lawn games, a firepit, vendors and a craft brew tap wagon.
And to further enhance each weekly experience, the series will be held in conjunction with the well-established Concert Cruise-In Car Show at Fontanel. Guests will have the opportunity to hear some of the best local bands in Nashville with varying music genres each week, check out some of the coolest classic and modern muscle cars in the area (or bring their own), enjoy food from the various food trucks onsite, or at the award winning Café Fontanella, and enjoy both a full bar and craft beers available through Tennessee Craft Distributors. Brewers include Dark Horse Brewing Company, Cranker’s Brewery, Nobel Cider, Evil Czech Brewery, 450 North Brewery, Kuhnhenn’s Brewery and Jig Head Brewery. Additional event sponsors include Vintage Creek Boutique, Off the Wagon, Café Fontanella, the Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater, The Inn at Fontanel, The Mansion at Fontanel, Adventureworks Ziplines at Fontanel, WSM Radio, and Tim Leeper Roofing.
Fontanel is one of Nashville’s premier destinations situated on 220 acres nestled in the rolling hills of the Whites Creek Valley, just “3 songs” North of downtown Nashville. Property activities include tours of the Mansion at Fontanel, a 33,000 square foot log cabin and former home of Country Music Hall of Fame member Barbara Mandrell, concerts at the Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater, Prichard’s Distillery, Adventureworks Ziplines, and three miles of public walking trails provided by Metro Parks and Greenway. Handcrafted small batch fine wines are available at Natchez Hills Winery, where you can enjoy a personalized tasting and take your favorite bottle home. Cafe Fontanella is the property’s award-winning restaurant, and is open seven days a week featuring Italian/American cuisine and nightly live music. Accommodations are available on-site at the luxurious Inn at Fontanel, a boutique Bed and Breakfast, currently # 1 out of all hotels in Nashville on Trip Advisor. Shopping is available at the Stone House Gift Shoppe (which also serves as the box office). For more information or to book a private event in one of many incredible venues, visit www.fontanel.com or call 615-724-1600.
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Beyoncé brings Jay-Z and a Destiny's Child reunion to 'Beychella'
Written by Adam Rosenberg
The internet exploded, with many calling Beyoncé's 2018 Coachella performance the best of all time.
Beyoncé is pretty popular among Irish politicians, it turns out.
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Journalist asks Irish politicians what they think of Beyoncé, gets some amazing replies
Written by Sam Haysom
Turns out most of them are fans.
Well, looks like Karlie Kloss thinks 'Waterfalls' is a Destiny's Child song
Written by Chloe Bryan
May the Beyhive have mercy on her soul.
Kelly Rowland, Beyonce and Michelle Williams performing during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show on February 3, 2013
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Destiny's Child reunited over the weekend and it was glorious
'It's your birthday, we gon' celebrate'
'X Factor' Duet of Destiny's Child Hit Shocks Kelly Rowland
Written by Brian Anthony Hernandez
Alex and Sierra, the resident lovebirds on this season's X Factor, took on Destiny's Child's "Say My Name" on Wednesday night in front of the singing competition's judge Kelly Rowland, who is one of the song's original singers. The soulful performanc...
Beyonce's Super Bowl Show Lights Up Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
With your eyes on multiple screens Sunday night, you saw Beyonce get viewers instantly reacting on social media to her sizzling Super Bowl halftime show. But just how furiously were viewers typing their thoughts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter? SE...
Watch Destiny's Child Join Beyonce in Super Bowl Show
Beyonce's snazzy Super Bowl halftime show was shrouded in mystery right up until go time on Sunday night -- even though she had teased the spectacle in a series of videos. Pepsi even spilt some secrets, but the setlist and guest performers remained u...
Beyonce on Super Bowl Halftime Show: 'This Is My Legacy'
Not much is known about Beyonce's mysterious Super Bowl halftime show performance, but on game day via a YouTube video, she's exposing what the spectacle means to her.
Top Comments: Readers Weigh in on Graph Search, Obama's Death Star Response, and Destiny's Child
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Last week was full of major announcements: Facebook unveiled its new Graph Search, Google's CEO, Larry Page, shared his opinion of Facebook's products, and (perhaps most importantly) Destiny's Child debuted a new song, "Nuclear." The Obama administra...
Listen to the Most Epic Musical Comebacks of All Time
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"Weekend Update" veterans Tina Fey and Amy Poehler anchored a show together over the weekend. No one can stop talking about the new albums forthcoming from Destiny's Child and Justin Timberlake. But, no, we haven't gone back in time to 2005. It just ...
Listen to the World Premiere of Destiny's Child's 'Nuclear'
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Beyonce Announces Destiny's Child Comeback
Out of nowhere, Destiny's Child is back after splitting up in 2005. The group's new "Love Songs" album is slated for a Jan. 29 release.
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Исполнители: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Russell Garcia, Orchester Russel Garcia
Композитор: Джордж Гершвин
Porgy and Bess: "Overture"
— Orchester Russel Garcia, Russell Garcia, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Джордж Гершвин
Porgy and Bess: "Summertime" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "I Want to Stay Here" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "My Man's Gone Now" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "I Got Plenty O'Nuttin" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "Buzzard Song" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (Porgy)
Porgy and Bess: "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "What You Want Wid' Bess ?" (Porgy)
Porgy and Bess: "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" (Porgy)
Porgy and Bess: "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "Street Cries. Strawberry Woman's Call & Crab man's Call" (Bess)
Porgy and Bess: "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" (Porgy)
Porgy and Bess: "Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess" (Porgy)
Porgy and Bess: "Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way" (Porgy)
— Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Russell Garcia, Orchester Russel Garcia The Judd Conlon Singers, Russel Garcia, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Orchester Russel Garcia The Judd Conlon Singers
Porgy and Bess: "Undecided" (Bess)
— Orchester Russel Garcia, Russell Garcia, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
Porgy and Bess: "You Won't Be Satisfied" (Bess)
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Album Review of Folklore by Nelly Furtado.
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Record label: DreamWorks
Genre(s): Rock, Adult-Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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Folklore - Average, Based on 1 Critics
How would the new Britney album have sounded if, like Nelly Furtado, she'd taken Portuguese folk as a starting point, and roped in the Kronos Quartet for good measure? It's hard to believe the two are the same age; the only sign that Folklore wasn't made by someone twice Furtado's 23 years is its post-pubescent earnestness. Nelly burbles about "not wanting to hide behind metaphor" and uncovering her "wiser self". This admittedly brave follow-up to her hit debut, Whoa, Nelly! is a long way from pop'n'breakbeats; in fact, songs like Saturdays (acoustic guitar in echoey room), Fresh Off the Boat (Brazilian-flavour clapathon) and Island of Wonder (melancholy collaboration with Brazilian vocalist Caetano Veloso) suggest she's taken leave of her commercial senses.
'Folklore'
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The Premier League’s best player is already planning a move to MLS
Kevin De Bruyne planning to one day swap the Premier League for MLS
Posted on February 13, 2018 by Louis East in Featured, Manchester City FC, MLS News, MLS Transfer News, Premier League, Premier League Features, Premier League Transfer News, Top Stories // 0 Comments
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Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne is at the peak of his powers and is the frontrunner for this season’s Premier League Player of the Season award. He has taken the league by storm but it turns out he has eyes for MLS and a move to America in the future.
The 26-year-old Belgian midfielder loves the culture of American life and is seemingly planning to make the move to Major League Soccer once his time with Manchester City comes to an end.
He has only recently signed a huge contract extension with City that ties him down until 2023, so don’t expect a move anytime soon. But his agent, Patrik De Koster, has revealed that De Bruyne has already spoken about a potential MLS move.
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— Kevin De Bruyne (@DeBruyneKev) February 10, 2018
“I think Kevin will end his career in the USA rather than in Belgium,” De Koster said. “He has already been to America many times on holiday, and he loves the country and its culture. We have often spoken about him ending his career in the MLS.”
“He hasn’t yet had any offers from American clubs, because they know it is not worth bothering as he is at the peak of his career. Clubs in China will probably look longingly at him, but I can’t see him going over to play there.”
De Bruyne has been in incredible form for Man City this season, picking up 14 assists. The Citizens look certain to seal a first Premier League title since 2013/14, with De Bruyne heavily tipped to be named as the league’s Player of the Season.
If he were to move to MLS in the future, it’s likely that New York City FC would be frontrunners for his signature, given their ties with Manchester City. Although the league is growing at an alarming rate and so there will be no shortage of options for a player of De Bruyne’s talent, if and when the day arrives that he is looking for an MLS move.
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Art Gallery Building MMO Occupy White Walls Has Brand New Features In V2.0
Secretive startup, Stikipixels, is excited to reveal the v2.0 launch of its free-to-play MMO Occupy White Walls, a game that’s all about creating striking spaces and filling them with wondrous works of art. This latest version adds collaborative galleries, allowing you to explore the showrooms of other players and lose yourself in a journey of creativity and personal curation, as well as Russian, Spanish, German, French and Polish localisation.
Start with a blank canvas, build it up into the gallery of your dreams – be it art deco or the pristine walls of a modern space – and fill it with your favourite works. Build and present your gallery anywhere, from the grounded bustle of an urban metropolis to the otherworldly swirl of a void, using over 1,700 individual pieces to craft your own architectural masterpiece, including MoMA PS1, classical European art museums, and many more historical inspirations.
Collaborate with your friends to create the perfect space, and do justice to the pieces displayed within those bleached halls.
Once you’re done building the skeleton of your gallery, populate it with artwork from the MET in New York and National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, featuring some of the most prominent pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries, you’ll also find plenty of contemporary artists such as Sergey Kolesov, Oriol Hernández, and Sr. X. Occupy White Walls is committed to blurring the line between a world builder and art education tool.
“Occupy White Walls is a virtual world unlike any other,” explains Professor Richard A. Bartle, an advisor on the game and one of the pioneers of massively multiplayer online game design. “OWW is shredding the rulebook for art accessibility by using the virtual to show the real world how it’s done. You don’t have to like all art, you just have to know there is art you’ll like – OWW will do the rest. Throw a wall here, a window there, add a doorway to the room where you keep all your pictures of thunderstorms, abstract squares, or anything by Cezanne. Whatever you want, OWW will help you find it, display it, and show it off to others.”
Occupy White Walls features a cutting edge AI named DAISY who tracks your tastes based on your art purchases and gallery visits. This information is used by DAISY to custom-tailor your experience. As you curate and develop your gallery, DAISY points you in the direction of new pieces you may enjoy, perhaps uncovering hidden gems and opening you up to a new level of art appreciation.
Explore thousands of user galleries and read 250+ positive Steam reviews to see why you should take a tour now – and don’t forget to bring a friend! The Unreal-powered MMO launched on November 14th 2018 and is currently in Steam Early Access.
Visit the Steam page to play for free or visit www.oww.io for more information.
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Tim Storms Sets Record for World’s Lowest Singing
by Gracie | Aug 29, 2012 | Cool Music Finds, Voice | 5 comments
Meet Tim Storms, a man with an earth-shakingly low voice. How low, you ask? So low, he can hit a note you can’t even come close to hearing. On March 30, 2012, he reclaimed a previous Guinness World Record for lowest vocal note produced by a male when he sang a G -7 (as if note values are even relevant when they’re that low), which is 8 octaves below the lowest G on the piano.
As a quick refresher, our perception of pitch corresponds to a sound wave’s frequency, measured in Hertz, or cycles per second. It’s not quite as simple as this, but suffice it to say, the lower the pitch, the lower the frequency. Humans can hear down to about 20 Hz. Storms managed a whopping, sub-audible 0.189 Hz. That seems completely unbelievable to me, but the Guinness World Record gods say it is so, because they employed the help of a “low-frequency microphone, precision sound analyser, and laptop for post analysis.” Let me spend the rest of this blog entry putting such a low-frequency into perspective for you.
If I am correct, he is hitting a frequency of about 1 cycle per 5 seconds. In air, that’s a wavelength of 5950 feet. NPR reports that elephants communicate at a puny 10 to 20 Hz or cycles per second. The closest sonic phenomenon I could find to Tim Storms’s sub-audible humming is a class of infrasonic waves called microbaroms, found in a particular type of marine storm. Now, why am I not surprised?
Out of curiosity, I looked up the lowest “sound” in the universe, mostly so I could make a funny chart, and it comes from pressure oscillations from a black hole. the frequency of the oscillations correspond to a B-flat, 57 octaves lower than middle C. What?
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Sami Al-Khalili on July 14, 2016 at 12:10 am
Does he teach vocal lessons?
Molly Webb on July 18, 2016 at 10:43 am
Hi Sami, not that I know of. I did a quick search to see if I could find anything, but he’s usually advertised as a voice actor and singer. It’s possible that he teaches privately and doesn’t advertise it though.
Oblomov on October 16, 2016 at 8:31 am
I heard lower voice, at least from how his speaking sounds. He sounds like a normal bass baritone voice, to me, as it sounds like he’s talking in the lower part of his range.
His lows are “vocal fry’s” technically not the “modal” register you say we should sing. But I’m not against “non modal” registers because some use the fry very well and even speak with fry with a consistent volume.
Registers, to me are basically various level of cord closure, you use less of it in high notes to avoid hyperkinetism of vocal folds and more on low notes to maximis resistance. The rest is resonance, support and pronunciation. More important, though, musical sensitivity, sense or harmony and intonation :).
Molly Webb on October 20, 2016 at 6:07 pm
Oblomov, it’s not necessarily Tim’s speaking voice that’s the lowest out there (in fact, it’s not that low); it’s how low he’s able to carry his frequency. I agree that his lows are more of a fry. It’s not that you can’t incorporate vocal fry into singing and speaking–it’s just that the vast majority of singing is in a modal register. I agree that degree of cord closure is part of how we perceive registers. There’s a lot that goes into it, including the amount we engage our thyroarytenoid muscle, how thick vs. thin we make our cords, etc. Thanks again for all the thoughtful comments and questions!
Oblomov on February 26, 2017 at 5:19 pm
One curiousity, not sure it’s my intuition or true, based on what I learned in classical training. I see registers as relative so hardly neatly separated as there are as discussed above a continuous level of close quotient, sometimes resulting from the same level of fold closure at different pitches.
So to resume.
Close quotient, how long the fold stay open during a cicle – in percentage.
Fold closure, the extent to which the folds are pressed one into each other, extent of contact surface.
In classical, it’s taught to open gradually, aka thinning, more toward passaggio, of course. So registers are blended with no break. The support follows it biunivocally.
I agree classical rules are not mandatory in other styles, especially when it comes to resonance. Less constance, much more variance on different modern style, even inside the same style, thinning earlier or later. More dark to light excursions or, more frequently, keeping it obstinately bright :).
Tl dr-
You say thyroaritenoid and cricoid determine how belty vs cricothyroid how heady our sound are, but I see more relativity to this, based on pitch and resonance. Is it true that thinner folds and less closure can acquire more power and bit up there with the tension and resistance associated to high notes?
Yeah in general thicker folds are more belty, but the higher you sing the less thickness and closure is needed to sound belty. That’s why many tenors in classical, find it difficult to control volume and do a mezza voce – diminuendo on high A to C, they are probably already thinned to an extent that used half an octave lower would sound quite soft.
For women is not as difficult, in classical, because they don’t have the taboo of the mechanism change, even sopranos sing in M2 above B4, most of the time. While in broadway M1 is taken up to at least E5, usually.
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Comovement and resiliency of Islamic equity market: Evidence from GCC Islamic equity index based on wavelet analysis
Dewandaru, Ginanjar and Alaoui, Abdelkader and Masih, A. Mansur M. and Alhabshi, Syed Othman (2013): Comovement and resiliency of Islamic equity market: Evidence from GCC Islamic equity index based on wavelet analysis.
Co-movements in equity markets may reflect either financial contagion or stock market integration. While the former tends to demonstrate financial stability and resiliency, the latter has played an important role for stock market development. This paper attempts to investigate the co-movements, including its transmission channels, of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Islamic equity index with other Islamic equity indices (Asia Pacific, US, Eurozone, and ASEAN) as well as with Global Sukuk index (Islamic bond). As to the methodology, we employ multi-time scale wavelet analysis as one of the latest techniques in finance to unveil the time varying and multi-horizon nature of these comovements to capture both time and frequency domain simultaneously. Our finding shows that the most recent US-born subprime crisis has generated both long-term and short-term shocks to volatility of all Islamic equity indices. The GCC Islamic equity index is the most susceptible with the shocks mostly transmitted via fundamental linkages. Notably, the nature of co-movements amongst Islamic equity indices are more or less similar as those amongst conventional counterparts. We also find no evidence of flight-to-quality for Islamic investors to flee from compliant equity in GCC to compliant bond during market turbulance, given the leading role of Islamic equity index over Sukuk index in the short run and long run. Finally, we find the nature of weak stock market integration between GCC equity market and others. Some recommendations have been proposed to improve stock market integration, including its stability and resiliency.
Islamic finance, Shariah, Sukuk, co-movement, shock transmission, financial crisis, contagion, interdependence, causality, wavelet analysis, wavelet coherency, GCC.
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The Treasury and work and pensions select committees are holding a joint inquiry following political and media criticism of how the car scheme for disabled people is run.
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Researchers use arm sensors to improve robot control
Stu Robarts
The Georgia Tech system is designed to improve the "intelligence" of human-controlled robots
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a system that makes a human-controlled robot more "intelligent," and improves the amount of control that a human user has over it. It incorporates a number of sensors that are placed on the user's arm to read muscle information, and help the robot to anticipate the user's intentions. The system has been developed to improve safety and efficiency in manufacturing plants.
The research cites the example of car manufacturing workers who have to hang car doors on hinges, using a lever to guide a robot that carries the door. Whilst the power-assisting device used sounds practical, it is not necessarily easy to use.
"It turns into a constant tug of war between the person and the robot," explains Billy Gallagher, a recent Georgia Tech PhD graduate in robotics who led the project. "Both react to each other's forces when working together. The problem is that a person's muscle stiffness is never constant, and a robot doesn't always know how to correctly react."
The Georgia Tech system eliminates any "confusion" in the robot by monitoring the operator's muscle movements and sending the data to a computer. The system judges the person's intention and adjusts its interaction accordingly, resulting in safer and easier use.
The main aims of the research are to improve safety, time and efficiency in manufacturing plants, and it is expected to benefit industries including automobile manufacture, aerospace and military. The system will continue to be developed using a US$1.2 million National Robotics Initiative grant supported by a National Science Foundation grant and will focus on better understanding the "mechanisms of neuromotor adaptation in human-robot physical interaction."
"Future robots must be able to understand people better," says Jun Ueda, Professor at the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. "By making robots smarter, we can make them safer and more efficient."
Watch the video below to find out more about how the system works.
Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
The system monitors muscle movements in order to anticipate the operator's intention
The main aims of the research are to improve safety, time and efficiency in manufacturing plants
The system will continue to be developed using a US$1.2 million National Robotics Initiative grant supported by a National Science Foundation grant
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Space experiment looks to slow the aging process using nanoparticles
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The Kubik incubator on the ISS will be used to conduct experiments searching for a longer-lasting antioxidant(Credit: ESA)
The latest SpaceX Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) included an experiment that could help to combat the ravages of time here on Earth. The European experiment will test how ceramic nanoparticles interact with cells to act as an anti-aging supplement that not only holds promise for alleviating the effects of growing old, but also for combatting chronic illness and space-related stresses for astronauts on prolonged space missions.
The aging process is bafflingly complex, but free radicals play a major role. These are toxic molecules produced as a byproduct of oxygen metabolism that can cause significant damage to cells and tissues in the body through "oxidative stress." The body combats this stress using antioxidants, which are vitamins and minerals that help prevent or slow cell damage.
Examples of antioxidants include vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, selenium, and manganese, but in hopes of developing a supplement to more effectively combat muscle loss, heart failure, diabetes or Parkinson's disease, the Nano Antioxidants experiment is looking for novel ways to stimulate cells by taking things down to the genetic level.
The focus of this effort is nanoscale ceramic particles called nanoceria, which act like enzymes inside of living cells. According to the researchers, these nanoparticles can act as an antioxidant without repeated doses for up to several weeks – longer than conventional supplements.
A previous experiment to the ISS in September 2017 showed that these particles remain stable and protect muscle cells, while other research focused on their ability to extend the lifespan of flies and human neurons. The new research is a longer-term study that will see them spend six days inside a mini lab, which will double their length of exposure to cosmic radiation and microgravity.
The nanoceria and their host cells are housed inside ESA's Columbus module in a self-contained unit called the Kubik incubator, which maintains a constant temperature of 30° C (86° F). The objective is to see how the samples respond to microgravity and cosmic radiation. Meanwhile, half of the cell samples in the incubator are inside a compact centrifuge that keeps them under artificial gravity equal to that on Earth.
At the end of the experiment, both will be cooled to –80° C (–112° F) to preserve them for later analysis back on Earth. This will include comparing the space-traveling samples to ones grown on Earth under controlled conditions that don't include microgravity or cosmic rays.
According to ESA, the new research will help in develop new supplements that will help astronauts to better combat the effects of long-term deep-space or low-Earth orbit missions. In addition, it could be used to help the elderly here on Earth, as well as those suffering from muscle atrophy, heart disease, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. ESA adds that the research could also lead to skin treatments that give complexions a youthful glow.
Source: ESA
The Kubik incubator on the ISS will be used to conduct experiments searching for a longer-lasting antioxidant (Credit: ESA)
These ceramic particles, called <i>nanoceria</i>, mimic the biological behavior of enzymes from living organisms (Credit: ESA)
Nanoceria particles with scale (Credit: ESA)
Preparing cells for space (Credit: ESA)
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CBI arrests AAI Executive Director for taking bribe
New Delhi, March 20: The CBI on Wednesday arrested an Executive Director of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) for accepting Rs 4 lakh as bribe from Bright Shine Services, a Chennai-based airport ground handling firm.
Ravichandran, who was caught red-handed here, has been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act for demanding bribe for awarding a contract floated by the AAI for ground handling at Group D airports.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took the action following a March 16 complaint from V. Venkatesh, the Chief Executive Officer of Bright Shine Services, a partnership firm which took part in the tendering process floated by the AAI.
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NB Financial Health.
Phil Mader
Most Influential Post Nominee: Why the Crusade Against Cash Isn’t Clearly ‘Pro-Poor’ – UPDATED
Note: This article is part of NextBillion’s “Most Influential Posts of 2017” contest. You can vote for your favorite at the bottom of each post in the contest – or learn more about the contest and the 12 posts selected here.
Editor’s note: Throughout this year, NextBillion is organizing content around a monthly theme, dedicating special attention to a specific sector alongside our broader coverage. This post is part of our focus on microfinance for the month of January.
NOTE: This post has been updated with information submitted by the Better Than Cash Alliance, below, clarifying the characterization of their organization.
Digital financial inclusion and mobile payments are at the forefront of financial inclusion. The promise of reaching many more people at low cost fuels hopes that new, cashless approaches will overcome the costs and constraints of more “traditional” brick-and-mortar, cash-based financial services.
The present hype around digital financial inclusion connects with what sociologist Bill Maurer calls an ongoing “troubling” of the status quo around money in society. Payment systems based on sovereign currency are under attack from all sides, from Apple Pay and PayPal to multitudes of local currencies and proposals for “sovereign money” (soon to be voted on in Switzerland). Kenneth Rogoff’s new book – with characteristic lack of nuance – even diagnoses the world to be suffering from a “curse of cash” which cripples monetary policy and feeds tax evasion, corruption, terrorism, drugs and human trafficking.
Digital innovations may well inevitably change the face of microfinance – “Fintech or Die.” But would getting rid of cash in the name of financial inclusion unequivocally be a good thing for the poor? Digital financial inclusion aficionados often highlight three benefits for developing countries going “cashless”: it’s cheaper, it’s more transparent and it’s cleaner. But the full story, as I argue in a recent paper, “Card Crusaders, Cash Infidels and the Holy Grails of Financial Inclusion,” is complex and ambivalent. It’s not clear whether the poor really stand to benefit.
Crusaders against cash and their three holy grails
The digital crusaders seek three holy grails: 1) lower transaction costs relative to cash-based systems; 2) greater transparency to monitor the poor better; and 3) to tackle corruption, graft and crime. However, it’s a bit like in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” where not everyone seeking the holy grail has pure motives; some want to seize the benefits for themselves, and finding the grail won’t necessarily end well.
First, digital payments are actually not cheap at all, let alone free. Instead, they promise to shift a vexing cost burden from the financial industry onto the users of money. Cash may be expensive for financial institutions to handle, but it’s free for the users to use. Digital transactions, on the other hand, can be milked for revenue. Credit card transactions incur an average 1.76 percent fee, paid by the merchant and (while often hidden) ultimately passed on to the consumer. And the fees charged on mobile monies in Africa are often far higher, with M-Pesa in Kenya charging as much as 43 cents on the dollar for the smallest transactions. As a recent report commissioned by Visa discussed, micro and small merchants in developing countries represent a vast frontier: They transact over $6.5 trillion a year, which the report estimated could be tapped for around $35 billion in fees.
Second, when poor people buy things or send money digitally, this can be used to cast a glaring spotlight onto their economic lives. Weaker data-protection laws and less traditional concern over privacy infringement make the “big data” of the poor in the Global South a potential treasure trove for payment providers, the broader financial industry, governments and, lastly, the behavioural economics profession. But as former hedge fund quant Cathy O’Neil’s recent book warns: “Big data increases inequality and threatens democracy.” Systematically monitoring poor people’s transactions treads a fine ethical line, and those who wield the tools and make the rules can shape the outcomes toward empowerment or disempowerment. Will the data be used to improve services and have greater positive impact? Or will “libertarian paternalists” exert new forms of observation and discipline, and perhaps even cut the “undeserving poor” off from finance and social assistance altogether?
Third, digital transactions may be bacteriologically cleaner than cash, but they are not always as clean morally as the anti-cash crusaders would suggest. The global Financial Action Task Force worries that digital financial inclusion could complicate anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism-financing efforts. And, unless one believes that the ill-gotten wealth documented in the Panama Papers arrived there by boat, cash clearly isn’t the culprit behind many societal ills related to finance. True, benevolent governments could use cashless payment systems to hunt down corrupt petty officials, from which poor people would benefit. But less-benevolent governments could also use compulsory cashless payments to tax or illegalise the informal economy in which many poor people earn their living.
The new hype around digital monies
While digital crusaders often portray the shift of money from cash to cards as natural or inevitable, behind the scenes the “fintech-philanthropy-development complex” is hard at work to make sure it happens. The Indian government’s recent “demonetisation” (analysed in this new book) is part of the broader crusade, as are the lobbying efforts of the opaque Better Than Cash Alliance*, which consists of a few large banks and payment systems providers and a handful of large philanthropy organisations. It publishes toolkits, case studies and reports to “accelerate” the “transition from cash to digital payments,” but it doesn’t publicly disclose its funders, leadership or governance. Of course, none of this means that going digital and cashless is harmful, and just because someone hopes to profit, or wants to keep some privacy, they won’t necessarily do bad things. But we should look closer at who has access to relevant decision-making processes around the future shape of money.
The digital financial inclusion hype comes with many of the same trappings as the microcredit mania of the early 2000s, including:
an aura of impending revolutionary change – “this will change everything”
ambitious sales/outreach targets – “in the next decade everyone will/must have access”
universal benefit – everyone will gain, in many ways, especially women and the most marginal, and
an ambiguous amalgam of financial and philanthropic interests.
Ruth Goodwin Groen, managing director of the Better Than Cash Alliance, showcases the hype well: “If you want to make sure women are participating in the economy and have economic opportunities, one way to do it is by digitizing payments. Women in informal businesses not only increase their economic opportunity by digitizing payments, but it helps them move their business to formality.”
She would probably be hard-pressed to furnish solid evidence for the claim that women benefit disproportionately from digital payments; but also, looking more closely, the promises turn out to be vague and tenuous. What matters is that these statements falsely suggest that a miracle cure for poverty and disempowerment has recently been found. Remember the microcredit hype? The card crusaders show signs of the same epistemic closure and “groupthink” as used to be at work in microfinance.
Private money or democratic money?
In my “Card Crusaders” paper, I advise for critically questioning the hype around digital financial inclusion, and checking how plausible the narrative linking cashless payments to pro-poor development really is. More broadly, as Maurer writes, this is also about recognising the questions that the push for digital money raises about the “democracy” of money, and its “publicness”: “Something else is afoot here. And that something is a focus on generating revenue from the privatization of the means of value transfer.” So while digital, cashless systems may look like a technical fix for including the “next billion,” there’s more at stake.
Clearly, as money moves into the digital age we can’t turn back the clock, but neither should we naively allow those who have a particularistic interest in new monetary forms to set it to whatever time they want. This is particularly important given the increasing pressure on governments to cull cash, and hurry up the digital turn by “demonetising.”
Let’s be realistic: If the mission really is poverty alleviation, it’s not money’s physical form, but how it is distributed, that matters. Digitalising currency and abolishing cash, however, will be regressive if poor people are forced to pay for everyday transactions, are subjected to more observation and discipline, or could even find their livelihoods criminalised. Meanwhile, cash might have insufficiently recognised advantages, including being free to use, anonymous and under public stewardship. It’s time for a conversation whose parameters aren’t strictly “cashless.”
* EDITOR’S NOTE: Better Than Cash Alliance responded to this post by pointing out that its alliance is a global partnership of over 50 governments, companies and international organizations, which are listed on its website. The organization says its governance structure is publicly available here, its funders (described as “resource partners”) are listed here and its entire membership can be found here.
Phil Mader is a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton.
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Parrot Voice-Controlled Bluetooth Kits Offer Michiganders Safe, Hands-Free Options
New Michigan hands-free law stresses need for driver awareness
Online PR News – 01-July-2010 – – SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Parrot, leader in wireless peripherals for mobile phones, announces options for drivers in Michigan as the hands-free law takes effect on July 1.
Signed into law in April when Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the law prohibits reading, typing or texting while driving a vehicle. Parrot, with North American headquarters in Southfield, Mich., encouraged employees to sign Winfrey’s “No Phone Zone” pledge.
With many hands-free options available, Parrot provides the most comprehensive suite of Bluetooth products for drivers, from installed car stereos with a hidden iPod compartment to cordless hands-free kits that slide onto a visor. Parrot’s hands-free kits combine style, function and a wide range of price points to fit every budget.
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Ontogeny, Phylogeny and Epigeny: Or the revival of Race, racism and Racialism?
Ontogeny, Phylogeny and Epigeny:
Or the revival of Race, racism and Racialism?
Acknowledgement: I am an independent researcher and freelancer and I get data and information from others and from which applying thinking processes, I am writing based on what I have understood. Therefore, naturally, but for interpretation, I cannot claim anything of my own in forming any new hypothesis, theory or established law, so that it could be applicable. Indian tradition has been to acknowledge the source of knowledge and wisdom and that is why in every text, it is submitted that so-and-so told this to so-and-so and such knowledge system has come to me and I am passing on to the progeny for the betterment[1]. This type of acknowledging the source research methodology is strikingly same in the ancient Sanskrit and Tamil literature[2] and therefore, the readers could find such concurrence, confluence and continuance of tradition, heritage, culture and civilization of India. Thus, in the stratum and continuum of languages in spite of their Aryan-Dravidian dichotomy, they fall in the same phylum without any epigenetic variance.
However, the non-Indian methodology has been to claim “everything is mine” attitude. And not only that, the dangerous practice has been borrowing, copying or even carrying out complete plagiarism, they destroyed the sources to deny the credit to the original people. This has happened many times in Indian history[3].
I know that under the guise of scientific principles, we are dealing with pseudo-scientific pursuits that were condemned and consigned to dustbins some 60 years ago[4]. The expressions – anthropology, ethnology, philology, linguistics, etymology, lexicography, morphology, brachycephalic / mesocephalic / dolicocephalic indices, phrenology, prognathism, etc., and the connected concepts including blood theory (blue blood, plebeian blood), endogamy, exogamy, eugenics, miscegenation, cross-breeding, are not at all new for any Indologist, serious researcher or Sanskrit student in India or elsewhere[5]. However, it is clear that some scholars, group of pundits or groups of chosen experts have decided to revive such race, racial and racialist hypotheses and theories to divide people, create misunderstanding and pit people against each other for conflicts. I am afraid to note that the Oxford dictionaries themselves started giving different meanings, as I have been consciously using the dictionaries used by family of four generations[6].
Introduction: It is not a confused noise or noises made by a number of voices[7] or any divine or evolutionary force made the owners of voices or the noise-producers to get confused the languages[8] during their hypothesis building processes. A group of inter-disciplinary scholars have joined together and revived the 100-150 years old linguistics, philology, race theories based on blood etc., almost in the same terminology with certain changes under the guise of modern and scientific data. When the god-believing racists and racialists joined ontology, teleology, autology, autogenesis, homogenesis, heterogenesis and such other expressions were also used. Thus, besides the same expressions like etymology, morphology, phonology, phonetics, etc., ontogeny, phylogeny, epigeny and other expressions are used. They are discussed.
Ontogenesis: In biological connotation onto + genesis, it is nothing but nature + genesis, i,e, naturally producing or produced, thus, explained as development of an individual organism or anatomical or behavioural feature from the earlier stage to maturity.
Thus, when it is borrowed, transported and transformed to linguistic studies, it is the development of a language or a language group produced from people with specific individual organism or anatomical or behavioural feature from the earlier stage to maturity. Ontogenesis is the development of a language or a language group produced from people with specific individual organism or anatomical or behavioural feature from the earlier stage to maturity.
Ontogeny deals with ontogenesis. Here, the meaning of ontology has to be analyzed in the context, as it differs from time to time as used by the westerners themselves. The ontological argument was used by the Archbishop Anselm of England and Descartes, the French philosopher to prove the existence of God. According to this argument, the very subjective notion of God, implanted in our minds by God Himself, is enough to justify God’s objective existence. Thus, they related it to mind or something subjective emanating from the mind and thinking. Ontology was defined as the department of metaphysics concerned with the essence of things or being in the abstract[9](1934). However, now the meaning of ontology has been “the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being”[10] (1999).
Phylogenesis: Phylum + genesis = class + origin and thus, again, in biology, phylogenesis is the evolutionary development and classification of species or group of organism [The Greek phule means race or tribe].
Phylum: The Greek etymology of Phylum connotes several meanings in the context and as well as how they are used to get familiarized and understood.
From the different connotation of Phul / pul, and its combination, it is known that phylum is the race, class, division, family originating from a particular phallic or phullon or combination thereof[11]. Phuletes = tribes-man
Phullon = leaf, female sexual organ
Phulon, = race,
phule = tribe
pule = gate
puloros = gate keeper
phusallis = bladder
phallic = male sexual organ
Thus, its meaning is given as follows:
Zoology: It is a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the division in botany.
Linguistics: It is a group of languages related to each other class closely than those forming a family.
Phylogeny: Generally, it is explained as the branch of biology concerned with phylogenesis. Phylogenesis is the evolutionary development and classification of a species or group of organism. Here, the meaning of phylum as explained has to be taken into consideration carefully.
Thus, again importing into linguistics, it is the evolutionary development and classification of a language of group of languages spoken by or still being spoken by certain people or group of people. Phylogenesis is the evolutionary development and classification of a language of group of languages spoken by or still being spoken by certain people or group of people.
Epigeny: epi + geny = upon / above forming / producing / originating, i.e, something is created / produced / originated upon/ above another.
Epigenesis: In biology, it is progressive development of an embryo from an undifferentiated egg-cell.
Thus, it is progressive development of a language or group of languages spoken by a group of people of groups of people.
However, epigenetic has different connotations as follows:
Biology: resulting from external factor rather than genetic influences.
Biology: of or relating to epigenesis.
Geology: formed later than the surrounding or underlying rocks.
So extending to incorporate such concept, it is metamorphoses to the following exigencies:
External factor: It is a process of progressive development of a language or group of languages spoken by a group of people of groups of people resulting from external factor
Genetic influence: It is a process of progressive development of a language or group of languages spoken by a group of people of groups of people resulting genetic influences.
Based on others: It is a process of progressive development of a language or group of languages spoken by a group of people of groups of people formed later than the surrounding or underlying linguistic influences.
Incidentally the OED (1934) defines[12], “epigenesis as the formation of organic germ as a new product; theory of epigenesist, that the germ is brought into existence, not merely developed, in process of reproduction”.
Hypogeny, hypogenesis, hypogenetic processes: In contrast to epigeny, epigenesist and epigenetic processes proposed, discussed and debated, the hypogeny, hypogenesis, hypogenetic processes should also be considered in the case of language and language origins.
Autogeny, monogeny and heterogeny: In this context, the following processes should also be considered:
Autogeny: auto + geny = generated itself, arising from within or forming a thing itself and so on. Accordingly, the meanings of autogenous, autogenesis, autogenetic etc., should be construed and applied.
Monogeny: mono + geny = generated, produced or created from only one source / place. Accordingly, the meanings of monogenous, monogenesis, monogenetic etc., should be construed and applied.
Heterogeny: hetero + geny = generated, produced or created from more than one place or many places. Accordingly, the meanings of heterogenous, heterogenesis, hetrogenetic etc., should be construed and applied.
As pointed, out these expressions have not been new or something coined now, as they were used consciously with purpose and purport to convey race, racial and racialist hypotheses and theories using pseudo-scientific concepts and precepts. Such race, racist and racialist hypotheses and theories led to the two world wars killing millions of people.
Witzel, Darwin and Bible: The Asiatic Association[13] has declared the so-called “conferences” of Michael Wizel: “Dr. Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University (USA), will deliver a set of three conferences in India. A very proper event in the year of the commemoration of Charles Darwin (1800-1882), the famous scientist who was opposed by the Christian church for so long time. Prof. Witzel is well known scientist whose thesis on the script of the Indus Valley Civilization raised a lively debate among the radical Hindus. This is the calendar of his lectures:
8 July 2009. The Madras Sanskrit College, Cennai organized by Indus Research Centre, Roja Muthaiah Research Library (Jubliee lectures).
9 July 2009. Nehru Memorial Library, or Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, New Delhi.
10 July 2009. India International Centre, New Delhi.”
Dr. Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University (USA), will deliver a set of three conferences in India.
Delivering set of conferences has been the tradition of the Christians and later they declare that they had such conferences with the heathens and won them through debates.
A very proper event in the year of the commemoration of Charles Darwin (1800-1882), the famous scientist who was opposed by the Christian church for so long time.
One should note the language used here as such conferences have been to commemorate Darwin who was opposed by the Church or the church that opposed Darwin! If the church opposed Darwin, it is intriguing to note that Wizel to carryout his linguistic phylogenetic trees planting in India.
Prof. Witzel is well known scientist whose thesis on the script of the Indus Valley Civilization raised a lively debate among the radical Hindus.
How the website uses such offending expression? Why his intellectual hypothesis should have raised “a lively debate”? Has he been a rabble-rouser then? The radical Hindus include all types so-called Hindutvawadis – fundamental fanatics, extreme activists and die-hard militants. That is why he was given police protection that equaled or exceeded the strength of audience! Ironically, among the “radical Hindus” who attended have been Iravatham Mahadevan, N. Mahalingam, Sankaranarayanan, Ramakrishnan, Prof. Dass, and many others. In fact, I. Mahadevan openly declared that he has fundamental difference with Witzel, about his assertion that IVC script does not have any language system at all.
This is the calendar of his lectures
However, the calendar and program changed, covered up and even perhaps kept secret, because of security reasons!
The communal, parochial and fundamental psyche of the accusers: About Michael Witzel, many allegations and accusations have been made[14]. His friends and colleagues like Steve Farmer and others could support and carry out propaganda blaming Indians as Hinduvawadis, right-wing ideologists and so on, but they themselves have exhibited more such characteristics and qualities by vomiting out foul language, which they cannot claim[15], “since god created the world through the power of language” (Genesis 1:28 of Bible), “we are also using”. When Steve pounces upon Kanchan Gupta ferociously, he should eat his own words what he is writing about others. Without arguing honestly or intellectually, the same Steve Farmer prevented and blocked my postings in his Indo-Eurosian_research@yahoogroups.com and ran away[16]. His another collaborator – Francesco Brighenti also used to adopt the same tactics. Now, Michael Witzel has done the same thing in India. Without answering, he simply moved away from place to place. If Steve could use expressions like “right-wing”, “closely associated with Hindutva right”, and http://asiatica.org could use “Hindu radicals”[17] etc., they could be also easily identified and held responsible for such cognizable writings, speech and acts. Therefore, the accusers themselves now stand accused for their blatant exhibited qualities. Under the cover of “Wales Sanskrit Professor”, “Harvard University” etc., these learned scholars have been blaspheming and denigrating Indians and definitely such attitude is unbecoming of the status, they have. In deed, the Chennai “Conferences” has exposed the “scholarship” of “Wales Sanskrit Professor” at “Harvard University, USA”. Though, the Professor has given his visiting cards to the questioner[18], he has not so far sent his papers or clarified the questions raised in front of selected Sanskrit professors, Pundits and scholars of Chennai and Madras University.
Taking Darwin to beat Darwin to with-hold the babel of tower: In his presentation at “Darwin” conference, he began with a brief overview of opinions about the origin of human language and the controversial question of Neanderthal speech. Quickly moving from the language of the ‘African Eve’ to the specific ones of the subcontinent, a brief overview is given of the prehistoric and current South Asian language families as well as their development over the past c. 5000 years. The equivalents of phylogeny and epigenetics in linguistics are then dealt with, that is, the successful (Darwinian style) phylogenetic reconstruction of language families (as ‘trees’), which is interfered by the separate wave-like spread of certain features across linguistic boundaries, even across language families. A combination of both features lead to the emergence of the current South Asian linguistic area (sprachbund). This development has made the structure of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian or Munda similar to each other but it could not eliminate most of their individual characteristics.
Thus, just like “liberation theology”, parallel “Darwin model” is proposed to have a Black Jehovah, Black Mary, Black Joseph and of course a Black Jesus, Black Christ and then merging to Black Jesus Christ!
As Marxists already proposed to accept the invasion but stick to migration, the migration or movement of language-speaking people were considered.
He was also using the expression “Father Heaven”[19] instead of the usual “Father” in his linguistic interpretation to show the “unity” of Indo-Aryan language group.
Now, the migration, settlement, stratification and solidification of language stratums would be identified to interpret language continuum as para-X, Pro-X, epi-X, hypo-X, hybrid-X , where X could be any language as hypothesized.
Refutation of such hypothesized ideology: Formation of languages based on phylogenetic and epigenetic hypotheses are refuted as follows:
The monogenic origin of humanity refutes the anthropological studies and heterogenic origins question the linguistic studies that hold that there has been one first language from which all other languages evolved. However, both have been the creation of ontological exercises according to the hidden theological concepts.
Chronologically, it was accepted that Sanskrit was the ancient language and then, it was mentioned as Indo-Germanic languages of which Sanskrit was the ancient language. Then, from “Germano-centric”, it was converted to “Euro-centric” to name Indo-Indo-Aryan and then Indo-European.
Whatever, the phylogenetic and epigenetic processes and movements experimenting with the languages of chimpanzees and neandarthals, Ramaapithacus always confronted others.
With the geological, economic and other factors, people move, migrate and settle and accordingly not only the material stratification, but also the ontological stratification.
But as the stratigraphical pattern at a particular place and time could not be correlated and corresponded with any other pattern on the earth in a continent, country or at the same site say 100 metres away, any attempt of asserting that the pattern could have happened exactly like this is quite incorrect.
As horizontal and vertical excavations have not been done even at the historical sites to tell exactly what happened in all histories of the ancient civilizations, in the ontological, phylogenetical and epigenetic stratums, no such vertical or horizontal excavations could be conducted to analyze and come to any specific conditions.
We have to wait and see how many chimpanzees and Neanderthal men are converting into Rigvedic phyla to learn and speak Sanskrit that is not Paninian or Kalidasa!
Fund-raising Witzel in India and global economic meltdown: Really, India has become so rich that it could fund to Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University! So far India hired lascars and ships to the Europeans, supplied slaves to European farms, skilled workers to their factories, etc., from 1600 to 1900, but now skilled mental workers of both soft and hard categories are sent. Thanks to the epigenetic processes instead of phylogenetics!
One American friend clarifies, “I knew that Witzel was in financial difficulty and that Harvard was unhappy with his antics. Note that Alan Bersin who was California Education Secretary at the time Witzel launched his campaign was also on the Board of Overseers of the Harvard Corporation (which owns Harvard University). The main function of the Board is fund raising. So Witzel must have promised Bersin that his California campaign would raise funds for Harvard, especially for the beleagured Sanskrit Department which Witzel had made a mess of when he was Chairman. (Please see attachment.) He tried to raise funds for himself also. He advertised his services in Pakistan (in the Internet version of The Dawn) as an anti-Hindu lobbyist. Note that most years Witzel teaches summer courses in elementary Sanskrit that does not go much beyond teaching the Devanagari script. His campaign in India this summer suggests (my guess only) that the Sanskrit Department has no money for summer programs. This could be a reason that he is India. Harvard has lost nearly $8 billion in the financial meltdown or nearly 30% of its assets. It has postponed some important projects including a new science center in Boston. The last thing the Harvard administaration wants or needs is a madcap like Witzel going around antagonizing an affluent and highly educated community like Americans of Indian origin.
As the “white-man’s burden” increased politically and economically, and they wanted to exploit the coloured and blacks some 200 years back and now also they try to exploit accordingly. However, the Whites have Yellowphobia and Hindophobia and thus to check, counter and contain such surges, they would apply the traditional middle-east affiliation against the Chinese and Indians by creating problems then and there. Incidentally, when Witzel has been in India, Indians get news that –
China is laying road through POK to reach out poet in the Arabian Sea.
However, converted Chinese Mohammedans started rioting killing non-Mohammedans there in the Chinese province.
A Chinse ship is coming to anchor at Calicut port.
Indians are killed Afganishtan, as the Taliban attacked kafiri-workshops.
US President is visiting African countries as a Black with much publicity given.
Thus, the Micheal mania is overshadowed by this Micheal mania and the poor Hindu radicals were simply carried away by such manias.
Vedaprakash
[1] The western scholars have always ignored and rejected such acknowledgement as myth, mythological and legends, instead of appreciating such research methodology recorded.
[2] In the ancient extant Tamil text, the author has acknowledge at many places that these findings mentioned were told by my predecessors, my forefathers, my elders, my teachers and so on with the characteristic expressions – enbanar pulavar (the well learned said), mozhimanar pulavar (the learned told), pulan nangunartha pulamaiyor (the experts who know about the senses), ………….and so on.
[3] Now the modern subjects are nothing but Indian subjects masqueraded and metamorphosed with English names formed out of Greek and Latin bastardized terminology.
The European missionaries and Company merchants acted as industrial spies and undercover agents of scientists smuggled out many manuscripts out of India and developed their scientific and technical ideas out of them.
[4] The UN passed resolutions condemning the race hypotheses and theories and declased that the word “race” should not be used. However, scholars have started using ehtncity, ethnos etc., in the same connotation.
[5] Ruth Benedict, Race, Science and Politics, New York, 1941.
F. M. Ashley Montagu, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth – The Fallacy of Race, New York, 1942.
W. Earl Count, This is race – An Anthology of Selected from the International Literature on the Races of Man, New York, 1950.
Alan Burns, Colour Prejudice, London, 1948.
[6] 1911 (H. W. Fowler), 1934 (H. G. Le M) – with supplement, 1978 (F. G and H W. Fowler), 1999 (edited by Judy Pearsall) editions of the Oxford University
[7] Babel = a confused noise made by a number of voices.
[8] Tower of Babel according to western / Christian mythology the jealous tribal god confused the languages of the builders.
[9] OED (1934), p.796.
[10] OED (1999), p. 996
[11] Having understood this meaning, perhaps, the westerners may not criticize the so-called “phallic-worship”!
[12] OED (1934), p.381
[13] http://asiatica.org/news/2009/26/conferences/
[14] Refer to the reports and write-ups of Radha Rajan, Haran and others appearing in different websites.
[15] Steve Farmer, his Ph.D thesis, p.351. http://sabha.info/docs/misc/aif/indologistsa.html
In fact, the full text of his Ph.D thesis should be made public to understand his mind. Of course, here also, we can verify as to whether ontology is consistent with phylogeny or epigeny.
[16] Steve Farmer and his friends without knowing any fundamentals of Tamil were discussing about the dating of “Sangam literature”, when I pointed out, they could not relish.
I Have posted the entire correspondence in Hinducivilization@yahoogroup.com
[18] K. V. Ramakrishna Rao confirms that he has not yet received the papes from Prof Michael Witzel, as he promised before the learned audiences.
[19] It comes in the usual prayer of Catholics, where they invoke the Trinity including “Father in Heaven” along with “the Son and the Holy Spirit”.
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M. Nachiappan Says:
If 1000 monkeys / chimpanzees are kept in a place for so-many years, say., 100 / 200 years, observations made continuously, how many homo-sapiens would come out?
Out of such few homo-sapiens, how few would be homo-erectus?
Out of such homo-erectus, how few would exhibit manly-characters to speak cognizable language / languages?
When Michael Witzel himself could not pronounce Sanskrit words properly, as pointed out in one article here, how the monkeys / chimpanzees of Africa could come into India to produce Sanskrit language?
When from one monkey / chimpanzee, all men were created, how is that the nomadic monkeys coming from Central Asia to speak Sanskrit and African monkeys entered India thereafter could speak in Tamil?
When man is reportedly passing through the teeth to stone; stone to metal etc., cultures, how these monkeys were doing at that time?
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Wow! A city of “Bests!”
Omaha is filled with so many amazing businesses, innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, vendors, doctors, venues, restaurants, and… well you name the category. The “Bests.” They make us proud to be from Omaha.
And yet, how many times have you been on a trip to some exotic locale like Bora Bora, Paris, Costa Rica, Portland, or even Lubbock, and upon being asked where you’re from, you’ve mumbled, “Omaha,” furtively, under your breath?
Despite the fact that our hometown boasts a 6-foot-tall bronze statue of Chef Boyardee, and the archetypical power of our name emblazoned on the Wizard of Oz’s escape balloon, we feel shy about claiming our place as one of the best places on earth.
Admit it. We’ve always had a bit of an inferiority complex about where we’re from—where we live. But, why? Well, I suspect that bit of shame might be rooted in the lyrics of an old song that described this town of ours back in the early days:
“Hast ever been in Omaha,
Where rolls the dark Missouri down,
And four strong horses scarce can draw
An empty wagon through the town?
Where sand is blown from every mound
To fill the eyes and ears and throat?
Where all the steamers are aground
And all the shanties are afloat?
Where whisky shops the livelong night
Are vending out their poison juice;
Where men are often very tight,
And women deemed a trifle loose?”
Hardly a “New York, New York” or “April in Paris,” that’s for sure. The lyrics are no match for “Bombay Se Gayi Poona,” either.
We started with a pretty brutal musical self-image. Maybe this nagging sense of “less than” is rooted in the dearth of good tunes about our fair city.
Groucho Marx tried to lift our spirits with a ditty that included, “There’s a place called Omaha, Nebraska, in the foothills of Tennessee.” The geographical illiteracy, however, negated any positive image building.
Stan Freberg didn’t help with his musical Omaha! that included lyrics like; “Who me? Miss the weenie roast in Omaha?” and “Omaha moon keep shining. You shone on Council Bluffs last June. Leaving Dundee lovers pining. Please remember you’re an Omaha moon.”
Nobel Prize winner Robert Allen Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) sang, “I’m going to ride into Omaha on a horse. Out to the country club and the golf course,” in 1964—no comfort there.
Psychedelic ensemble Moby Grape did us no favors with their 1968 single, “Omaha,” which didn’t mention Omaha even once beyond the title.
Bob Seger sang about “A long and lonesome highway east of Omaha” in his paean to touring as a rock star but he never mentioned actually coming into town while he was in the neighborhood. So, thanks a lot, Bob.
We did hit it big in 1973 when Grand Funk Railroad sang about “four young chiquitas in Omaha,” in their No. 1 hit “We’re an American Band.” The problem was, Little Rock got top billing in the verses, and, after the chorus we ended up getting a hotel torn down.
So here’s the deal, we need an Omaha anthem. A song with the Omaha equivalent of “little cable cars,” and some parallel to “that toddling town.” We need to be where “little town shoes” are headed. Omaha needs a “Best Song About Omaha” winner next year. We need to patch up the psychic scars we’ve borne for all these many years.
It won’t be easy. Others have tried and failed. I’m counting on you, we all are.
Do you have an anthem for Omaha? E-mail a video of your song to Omaha Magazine at editor@omahamagazine.com to be considered for prizes.
This article was printed in Omaha Magazine’s “2017 Best of Omaha” issue.
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2 Comments Posted on February 22, 2017 March 1, 2017 ATP, Australian Open, Character, Civil Discourse, Contemporary Culture, Cultural Ethos, Current Events, Grand Slams, Life Lessons, Sports, Tennis, WTA
PC Guerrilla Warfare: The Sportscaster Whose Apt Word-Choice Cost Him His Job
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Dateline Melbourne, Australia, in sunny mid-January of 2017.
The world of sport is abuzz with excitement over tennis’ first Grand Slam of the year. Tweedy veteran writers, chatty ex-players, and disheveled bloggers, blessed with a surfeit of subject matter in the waning years of tennis’ richest era, feverishly weave narratives from the week’s trendy storylines.
Can Serena Williams reassert herself at the top of her sport at the age of 35?
Will Novak Djokovic rediscover his unbeatable 2015 form, or will his 2016 wobbles continue into the new season?
Can the sport’s rising, hot-headed youngsters dethrone any of the grizzled veteran champions?
Can Rafael Nadal produce in 2017 another miraculous return from injury as he did in 2006, 2010, and 2013?
What about Roger Federer and Venus Williams, both great champions over 35 — can either of them put together a strong run in Australia?
Starved of live tennis during the month of December and of Grand Slam action since September’s U.S. Open, the sport’s global fan base (whose semi-official slogan during the Australian Open is, “Sleep is for the weak,”) is as eager as the commentary corps for drama and action. To satisfy fans with immediate, complete event coverage, many broadcasters deliver live streams of most or all competition courts throughout the two-week event.
The principal U.S. broadcaster is ESPN, a sports programming leviathan that began presenting the Australian Open in 1984 and now covers three of the season’s four tennis Majors. ESPN supplies U.S. fans with streams from Australia of all 254 singles matches and many doubles matches, employing an army of on-air staff — some former players, some professional “talking heads” — who work either individually or in pairs to provide live play-by-play coverage.
Many of ESPN’s live-stream voices offer commentary both more analytical and more useful to the viewer than that of the big-name stars on ESPN’s flagship channels. From this “B team,” one might hear:
“Although Joe clearly walked out today with a game plan to attack Steve’s backhand, he has changed tactics and is now hitting short to the forehand to draw Steve into net against his will and either pass him outright or hit a two-shot pass.”
By contrast, the less prepared and more ego-driven of ESPN’s stars might deliver rhetorical gems such as:
“This is painful to watch.”
(Coasting on his reputation, John McEnroe rarely seems to do in-depth homework and devotes much of his commentary to reminiscence about players he faced in the 1970s. Chris Evert’s statements are at times so vapid that she has inspired a widely used, colorful hashtag. Pam Shriver talks mid-match about her children. When Mary Carillo doesn’t especially like the players in front of her, she tends to chatter about anything but the match; late in the 2014 French Open men’s final, she infamously digressed onto the subject of 1980s-era boxing.)
Prominent in ESPN’s live-stream broadcasting stable is Doug Adler, a 58-year-old former tennis pro who played during his college years the University of Southern California. A veteran of commentary since 2004 and an ESPN employee since 2008, Adler is so adept at spontaneous play-by-play narration that he frequently covers matches without a partner.
The Fatal Moment
It is Day 3 of the Australian Open, Wednesday, the 18th of January (and Tuesday evening, the 17th, in the U.S.) First up in the main stadium, Rod Laver Arena, is 36-year-old American Venus Williams, the 13 seed and winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles, 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, and two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, to accompany an Olympic gold medal in singles, an Olympic silver medal in mixed doubles, and a staggering three Olympic golds in women’s doubles. Her opponent is Switzerland’s Stefanie Voegele, nine years younger, six inches shorter, and roughly 100 ranking spots below Williams. One of the team of two ESPN live-stream commentators is Doug Adler.
Not surprisingly, the match is a rout. Voegele is unable to counter Williams’ superior power, variety, movement, and court coverage.
Early in the second set, as Voegele struggles to hold her first service game, Adler says this:
“She misses the first serve, and Venus is all over her…You’ll see Venus move in and put the [guerrilla?/gorilla?] effect on, charging…”
What exactly does Adler say? Please listen for yourself to the following 21-second video clip.
Update: The video above was pulled from YouTube on the day after I published this article. Below is a new video. Adler’s words begin at the 40-second mark.
The Controversy
Adler claims he said, “You’ll see Venus move in and put the guerrilla effect on,” adding that his use of “guerrilla” referred to a successful “Guerrilla Tennis” ad campaign undertaken by Nike in the 1990s.
The 1995 Andre Agassi Nike Guerrilla Tennis ad:
“Guerrilla” is indeed an appropriate descriptor for Venus Williams’ charge as she pounces on her opponent’s second serve. Tennis writers and commentators frequently invoke the term “guerrilla” to characterize sneaky attacks. Had neither player been of African ancestry, Adler’s apt comment would have passed unnoticed.
This particular match, however, made Adler famous.
@ESPNTennis Your commentator just said Venus Williams "is like a gorilla charging" I can't believe I just heard that.
— Ms. Mit (@msmitmi) January 18, 2017
ESPN commentator, Doug Adler, compared Venus Williams to a gorilla. He must be fired NOW!
— Agent Provocateur (@De_Imperial) January 19, 2017
@ESPN Can Doug Adler for his unforgivable remarks regarding @venuswilliams No women of color should be called a gorilla.
— Dell Meriwether (@SpicyPhilly) January 19, 2017
Within minutes, social media were flooded with rage from indignant fans under the impression Adler had said “gorilla.”
New York Times reporter Ben Rothenberg, whose deliberately provocative and bratty online snark has earned him the nickname “Trollenberg,” decided to fan the flames. Rather than ask Adler to clarify his intent, Rothenberg tweeted outrage to his 51,600 followers.
This is some appalling stuff. Horrifying that the Williams sisters remain subjected to it still in 2017. #AusOpen https://t.co/LJgieHgyuh
— Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) January 19, 2017
Rothenberg went so far as to dismiss out of hand the possibility that Adler had said, “guerrilla.”
Why “doubtful,” Mr. Rothenberg? Do you read minds?
ESPN suspended Adler immediately after the Williams/Voegele match, demanded that he apologize the next day on every live stream (which he did, citing an unfortunate choice of words), forbade him to comment upon any more matches in Australia, and sent him home in disgrace.
Within days, Adler was fired by ESPN.
On February 14, Adler filed suit against ESPN for wrongful termination, stating that his reputation is “damaged forever.” In the words of Adler’s attorney, David Ring, “It was not only political correctness gone overboard, but also a cowardly move that ruined a good man’s career.”
Justice?
Since it is nearly impossible to discern from the recording whether the word uttered by Adler is “gorilla” or “guerrilla,” it would be fairest and most reasonable to assess Adler’s past record as a broadcaster before branding him a racist.
Had Adler ever exhibited any signs of racism? In his 13 years of full-time tennis broadcasting, had he ever referred in a less than respectful manner to Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Donald Young, Sloane Stephens, Taylor Townsend, Gaël Monfils, Dustin Brown, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Frances Tiafoe, or any other player of African ancestry?
I believe the answer to those questions is No.
Adler’s friends and colleagues, including African American radio host Larry Elder, attest to his character (although among Adler’s friends only Elder has had the courage to speak publically about the recent travesty).
There is every reason to believe Adler’s statement that the word he used was indeed “guerrilla.”
In effect, what happened here?
While providing commentary for a Grand Slam tennis match, Doug Adler used a completely appropriate word to describe a player’s sneak attack.
Some viewers misunderstood the word as a racial slur.
A social media mob called for Adler’s firing on the basis of that misunderstanding.
ESPN caved to the mob’s demands.
Should ESPN require that its on-air staff treat athletes and coaches with respect? If they want to attract viewers, yes.
Is ESPN entitled to fire broadcasters who behave inappropriately on the air? Certainly.
But was ESPN within its rights to fire a broadcaster, and effectively brand him a racist and thus torpedo his future career prospects, merely in response to the clamoring of an hysterical mob?
I say no.
The Courts will decide.
As a knowledgeable aficionado of the sport myself, I admit that I occasionally find Doug Adler’s assessments of and prognostications about specific tennis players wrong-headed. While not always in agreement with his opinions, I cannot remain silent as he is railroaded out of his chosen profession at the instigation of a PC mob.
So here’s what I think:
Doug Adler is entitled to the benefit of the doubt from the world of sport.
Ben Rothenberg owes Adler a public apology.
ESPN owes Adler financial restitution and reinstatement as a tennis commentator.
Ben Rothenberg Doug Adler ESPN
2 Comments Posted on August 30, 2015 Grand Slams, Sports, Tennis, U.S. Open, WTA
Nine Reasons to Watch the Women at the 2015 U.S. Open
Whether measured by participation numbers, by prize money, or by global reach, tennis is the world’s largest professional sport for women. Most of the world’s best known (and wealthiest) female athletes are tennis players.
Beginning tomorrow, 128 players representing 33 countries will gather in Flushing Meadows, New York, to contest the women’s singles competition at the final Grand Slam of 2015, the U.S. Open. This year’s tournament promises to showcase great athleticism, fierce competition, and quite possibly some history-making.
Here are nine reasons to watch:
1. Serena Williams
No player has more impressively dominated women’s tennis over the past 15 years than 34-year-old American Serena Williams. With her powerful and unreadable serve, aggressive groundstrokes, great court coverage, and reliable shot selection, Serena has won 21 Grand Slams and has notched up 255 weeks as world #1. She owns more titles, counting singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, than any other active player, male or female. She has twice completed a “surface slam” – Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces (clay, grass, and hard court) within the same calendar year. She is the only player of either gender to have won singles titles at three different Grand Slams at least six times each.
Serena comes into this year’s U.S. Open with a chance to make history. At Wimbledon in early July of this year, she completed her second “Serena Slam,” amassing four straight Grand Slam titles over a twelve month period. At the 2015 U.S. Open, Serena has a chance to become only the second woman in tennis’ modern era, and only the fifth woman of all time, complete the rare Calendar-Year Grand Slam.
Serena’s draw in New York looks brutal. To win, she might have to beat three former Slam champions (including her sister Venus) and a former Slam finalist who has beaten her before. Especially in light of the stress she clearly experienced at the summer warm-up events in Toronto and Cincinnati, no one can take Serena’s success in New York this year for granted.
That said, in 2015 more than in any other year, Serena has demonstrated tenacity and determination. Quite often, she has gotten into trouble by losing a first set, and every time save one that she has put herself in that predicament she has found a way to claw back and win.
Serena’s early matches might be relatively straightforward, but she will face tough fights every beginning in the third round. Every match thereafter promises athleticism, virtuosity, and drama.
2. Grand Slam Winners Lurking in the Draw
The U.S. Open women’s draw features eight players in addition to Serena Williams who have won Grand Slam titles. Any of them could contend for the title if the draw were to break her way.
Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) Australian Open 2012, Australian Open 2013.
Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) French Open 2008.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) U.S. Open 2004, French Open 2009.
Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) Wimbledon 2011, Wimbledon 2014.
Francesca Schiavone (Italy) French Open 2010.
Maria Sharapova (Russia) Wimbledon 2004, U.S. Open 2006, Australian Open 2008, French Open 2012, French Open 2014.
Sam Stosur (Australia) U.S. Open 2011.
Venus Williams (United States) Wimbledon 2000, U.S. Open 2000, Wimbledon 2001, U.S. Open 2001, Wimbledon 2005, Wimbledon 2007, Wimbledon 2008.
Try to see Schiavone or Kuznetsova in the first couple of rounds. Among the eight players listed here, Schiavone and Kuznetsova face a relatively high risk of early elimination. Matches featuring any of these players in the second week should be corkers!
3. Power Hitters
A tall tennis player is usually a powerful player who can rely upon blazing serves and sharply hit, deep shots to move her opponents around and control the progression of a point. Height and wingspan certainly helped propel Azarenka (6’0″), Sharpova (6’2″), Kvitova (6’0″), Ivanovic (6’0″), and Venus Williams (6’1″) to their Grand Slam titles.
Among the younger players rising in the rankings are several who can be classified as power players. Two who have had the greatest impact at the Grand Slams are:
Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain (6’0″), who chalked up a big win over Serena Williams at the 2014 French Open.
Jelena Jankovic of Serbia (5’10”), who reached the U.S. Open final in 2008.
Eugenie Bouchard of Canada (5’10”), who reached the Wimbledon final in 2014.
Choose a power player’s match to enjoy a display of strength and harnessed aggression. (To see Bouchard, you may want to find her first- or second-round match. Her 2015 season has been a series of disastrous early losses.)
4. Defenders
Tennis’ smaller players, who usually cannot call upon the strength and leverage required to compete with their taller opponents in the arena of power, often become expert in defense – getting every ball back into play until an opponent either sends a shot out or leaves a ball short and vulnerable to attack.
Excellent defense requires speed, fitness, patience, anticipation, adaptability, and good decision-making. Among the sport’s best defenders are:
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (5’10”), a former world #1 who competed in the U.S. Open finals in 2009 and 2014.
Sara Errani of Italy (5’5″), who has reached a Grand Slam singles final (at the 2012 French Open) and won five Grand Slam titles in doubles.
Dominika Cibulková of Slovakia (5’3″), finalist in the 2014 Australian Open.
Defenders’ matches tend to be longer than the power players’ matches, because they almost inevitably involve longer rallies. Stylistically, a defender’s matches can be gripping and engaging due to a higher concentration of relatively complex points.
5. Shot-makers
Some of most entertaining matches at every Slam are produced by the special breed of player who are shot-makers – those who compensate for a lack of power with creativity, guile, unpredictability, and pinpoint accuracy.
Among the most accomplished of these racquet virtuosi are:
Simona Halep of Romania (5’6″), who reached the French Open final in 2014.
Agnieszka “Aga” Radwańska of Poland (5’8″), nicknamed “Ninja” for her craftiness, who competed in the 2012 Wimbledon final.
Both Halep and Radwanska have wins over Serena Williams. They are highly accomplished players who can be great fun to watch.
6. Meltdowns and Outbursts
As is the case on the men’s side of the sport, women’s tennis matches can at times be seasoned with outbursts, arguments, and/or loss of emotional control. On both the men’s side and the women’s, there are a few players who are more likely than others to inject drama into their matches.
Jankovic has been known to scream at her coach on court and argue with the umpire or with her opponent.
Alize Cornet of France is renowned for showing her feelings on the court.
Camille Giorgi of Italy brings to every match sharp hitting and a matching emotional intensity, which occasionally boils over into histrionics.
Cornet, Giorgi, and Jankovic are all top-flight players who should win at least their first few rounds in New York. It’s not impossible that you will witness some heavy drama if you watch one of their matches.
7. Yells and Shrieks
A discussion of the U.S. Open women’s draw would be incomplete without a few words about the politically touchy subject of grunts and screaming on the court. Female players draw frequent criticism for their high-pitched grunts, shrieks, and screams that grate on the ears of many fans. The scolded players respond, at times indignantly, by pointing that that the tennis men grunt too.
It is true that many male players grunt. Two in particular, Argentina’s Carlos Berlocq and Spain’s Marcel Granollers, are often cited by fans as especially hard on the ears, at times drawing comparisons to wounded ruminant mammals.
Nadal produces a nasal grunt that is at times more of a moan. David Ferrer emits a guttural growl after every shot which is as regular as clockwork. Andy Murray does much the same. Novak Djokovic produces a distinctive heh-ENHHH, especially when he is tired. Even Roger Federer grunts occasionally on second serves and defensive backhands.
Murray, Ferrer, and Spain’s Fernando Verdasco each produce at certain moments an “Argh!” sound that roughly translates to, “Damn! I don’t want to have run for that drop shot.”
The female players are correct when they point out that the men also make noise on the court, but, for better or for worse, the higher-pitched sounds produced by the women are more offensive to many fans.
With every shot, Sharapova produces a shriek that is loud at the beginning of a match and deafening if she reaches a tight third set. Azarenka emits a descending operatic glissando that has been aptly called “a ghost going down a waterslide.” Kuznetsova generates a deafening nasal whine that makes it sound as though she is in terrible pain.
Serena Williams’ screams vary throughout a match and seem to correlate with emotional ups and downs. Errani and Muguruza produce predictable “AHH!” sounds, while Schiavone specializes in, “Ah-HEE!”
The MUTE button can be your friend.
8. Youngsters
Nearly every Slam delivers the excitement of a break-out performance by a rising star. In 2013, American 17-year-old Victoria Duval electrified a night crowd by upsetting defending champion Stosur. In 2014, it was 15-year-old Cici Bellis who brought down the house by upsetting Cibulkova.
Three young players who have a chance to make headlines at the 2015 U.S. Open:
Aleksandra Krunić, 22, of Serbia, who thrilled a night crowd in 2014 with a near-upset of Azarenka.
Elina Svitolina, 20, of Ukraine, who has risen steadily up the rankings and currently sits at 15.
Belinda Bencic, 18, of Switzerland, who scored an impressive win over Serena Williams in Toronto in early August of this year.
A match featuring any of these three players, and especially a Bencic match, is worth going out of one’s way to see.
9. Americans
There are 22 American players in the women’s draw. Four are seeded in the top 32. Three are qualifiers. Seven are wildcards.
Two Americans play each other in the first round.
The U.S. Roster
Madison Brengle
Louise Chirico
Samantha Crawford
Irina Falconi
Nicole Gibbs
Sofia Kenin
Madison Keys (seeded 19)
Vania King
Varvara Lepchenko
Jamie Loeb
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Christina McHale
Jessica Pegula
Alison Riske
Shelby Rogers
Sloane Stephens (seeded 29)
Anna Tatishvili
Sachia Vickery
Serena Williams (seeded 1)
Venus Williams (seeded 23)
Without reference to probable winners and losers, here are few prognostications:
Serena Williams will drop the first set of at least one of her matches in New York.
Serena Williams will win her first match that requires a third set.
Eugenie Bouchard will be thrilled if she reaches the third round.
Madison Keys will play her first night match at the U.S. Open when she faces Aga Radwanska in the third round.
The women’s quarterfinals, semifinals, and final will all be excellent matches.
Aga Radwanska Aleksandra Krunic Ana Ivanovic Belinda Bencic Caroline Wozniacki Dominika Cibulkova Elina Svitolina Eugenie Bouchard Francesca Schiavone Garbine Muguruza Jelena Jankovic Maria Sharapova Petra Kvitova Sam Stosur Sara Errani Serena Williams Simona Halep Svetlana Kuznetsova Venus Williams Victoria Azarenka
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Happy First Birthday, Northwoods Listener!
A new adventure! One year ago today, I published my first Northwoods Listener post, “3, 2, 1,…”
Since that day, my 38 posts have drawn 8,449 views. Readers have hailed from six continents and 82 countries, including such disparate lands as St. Vincent & and Grenadines, Moldova, Uganda, French Polynesia, Namibia, Vietnam, Jordan, Belarus, Indonesia, Slovenia, the UAE, Armenia, South Sudan, and Curaçao.
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A tribute to Robin Ellis, who portrayed the title character in the 1975 production of Poldark.
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To all my readers and followers, thank you!
P.S. Stick around. I will return to full-time writing on the first day of September.
1 Comment Posted on August 22, 2014 September 3, 2014 Grand Slams, Sports, Tennis, U.S. Open, WTA
Tennis on the Distaff Side: U.S. Open Preview, Part II of III.
Ana Ivanovic. Photo by John Russo.
Much has changed in women’s tennis since the era of wooden racquets and Billie Jean King, for whom the U.S. Open’s home in Flushing Meadows, New York, is named.
Today, at most tournaments the men and women earn equal prize money. (More on that controversial topic in a future post.) Women can command lucrative endorsement contracts. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, both fashion and sex appeal currently play sizable roles in the marketing of women’s tennis.
The women’s game today rewards athleticism and power at the expense of grace and finesse. In consequence, the highly entertaining serve-and-volley style of yesteryear is increasingly rare.
One sees quite a few double faults and breaks of serve today. Whether that stems from individual players’ emotional fragility or from their failing to practice the serve, I cannot say, but service vulnerability often renders women’s tennis unpredictable and stressful to watch.
Screaming, shrieking, and grunting have become all too commonplace in the women’s game, as have ugly gamesmanship, catty sniping in the press, and diva-like behavior.
I have not enjoyed women’s tennis for most of the last decade because of the prevalence of screamers and divas. I have hope, though, as a cadre of likable players moves up the rankings.
There are only a few favorites to win this year’s U.S. Open women’s title, but the cast of supporting characters is large and colorful. Here is an introduction to the principal players. [Photos courtesy of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).]
Out of the Lineup
In New York, both the men’s and the women’s singles draws are missing current Grand Slam title holders. For the women, two-time Slam winner Li Na of China (winner of the 2012 French Open and the 2014 Australian Open), is out with a knee injury. In Li’s honor, and as a tribute to her irrepressible spirit, here is her victory speech at this year’s Australian Open, which is surely one of the most entertaining champions’ speeches in tennis history.
The Favorites
Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are the most likely contenders for the women’s singles final on September 7. Between them, they have won 22 Slams (17 for Williams, 5 for Sharapova) and three of the last six Slams.
Nationality: U.S.
Height: 5’9″
Upside: Hard-hitting veteran and defending U.S. Open champion. Fierce competitor. When she is at her best, no one can rally with her.
Downside: Williams has failed to reach the quarterfinals at this year’s first three Slams and has a record of uneven results throughout the year.
Noise factor: Grunts at varying volumes and pitches. Uses her voice as an offensive weapon.
Upside: Very powerful shots. Great movement. One of the toughest fighters on the women’s tour. May lead the tour this year in “wins after dropping the first set.”
Downside: Does not always manage to intimidate her opponent into losing after she takes the first set. Has a terrible head-to-head record against Serena Williams.
Noise factor: Emits a horrific shriek whose volume she raises when matches are tight, as though she means to deafen her opponents into submission. This usually works.
Update: Sharapova lost her Round of 16 match to current world #11 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.
The Second Tier
Each of these women has made at least the final at one of this year’s three previous Slams, and each is great fun to watch.
Natonality: Romania
2014 Slam Highlight: Lost the French Open final to Sharapova in three highly competitive sets.
Noise factor: Very quiet player.
Update: Halep lost her third round match in straight sets to current world #119 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia.
Nationality: Czech Republic
Height: 6′
2014 Slam Highlight: Won the Wimbledon final over Eugenie Bouchard in a rout. Played brilliantly.
Noise factor: In years past, shrieked loudly whenever she won a point. Has broken that habit, to her great credit.
Update: Kvitova lost her third round match in straight sets to the current world #143 Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia.
Nationality: Canada
2014 Slam Highlights: Reached the semifinals or better in Australia, Paris, and Wimbledon. Lost the Wimbledon final to Kvitova.
Noise factor: Not noticeable.
Update: Bouchard lost her Round of 16 match in straight sets to current world #18 Ekaterina Makarova of Russia.
Nationality: Slovakia
Ranking: 13
2014 Slam Highlights: Defeated Sharapova in the Round of 16 at the Australian Open. Reached the final at that event, where she lost to Li Na.
Noise factor: Grunts occasionally. Has an irritating habit of yelling to pump herself up after every point.
Update: Cibulkova lost her first round match in three sets to 15-year-old American wildcard Catherine Bellis.
Tough Outs
Each of these women is highly entertaining to watch, and each is capable of upsetting one of the favorites.
Nationality: Poland
Notes: Relatively short for the Tour and therefore lacking in power, Radwanska wins through guile, variety, and speed. Through sheer force of will and deft shot selection, she beat the defending champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals at this year’s Australian Open. Nicknamed “Ninja” by commentators, Radwanska is one of the most enjoyable players to watch. Here she hits a reflex volley, one of the most breathtaking shots in all of 2013.
Noise factor: Quiet.
Update: Radwanska lost her second round match in straight sets to current world #40 Peng Shuai of China.
Notes: A few years ago, Wozniacki was ranked #1 in the world by virtue of consistency and defensive skills. Her ranking dropped in 2012 and 2013, but in the summer of 2014 she has exhibited terrific form. She will offer stiff competition to anyone in New York.
Noise factor: Grunts, but not loudly.
Nationality: Serbia
Notes: The 2008 French Open champion, Ivanovic has struggled in recent years with self-confidence. This year she has found wonderful form, beating Serena Williams in the Round of 16 at the Australian Open and returning to the Top 10 for the first time in five years.
Noise factor: With every shot, emits a distinctive nasal, “Heh – ENH!” which, while not loud, is nonetheless tiresome.
Update: Ivanovic lost her second round match in straight sets to current world #41 Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic.
Notes: A seven-time Slam champion who has struggled with injuries and health concerns, Venus Williams has recovered her best form in the summer of 2014. At Wimbledon and at an event in Canada two weeks ago, she played some of the best and most exciting women’s matches of the entire year. She will pose a formidable challenge to anyone at the U.S. Open.
Noise factor: Loud and variable.
Update: Williams lost her third round match in three sets to current world #14 Sara Errani of Italy.
These women are former Slam champions who for various reasons come into this year’s U.S. Open in questionable form. Given a clear draw and playing at her best, any of them could find herself in the final.
Nationality: Belarus
Slam Highlights: Australian Open Champion in 2012 and 2013.
Notes: Has not recovered her best form after an absence from the Tour due to a foot injury.
Noise factor: With every shot, Azarenka emits a unique whistle-like shriek that brings to mind incoming artillery fire. The shriek stops if her ball hits the net. It is because of Azarenka (and Sharapova) that many tennis fans wish for selective muting capabilities on their televisions.
Update: Azarenka lost her quarterfinal match in straight sets to current world #18 Ekaterina Makarova.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Height: 5’81/2″
Slam Highlights: 2004 U.S. Open Champion, 2009 French Open Champion.
Notes: Form is uneven, but competitive fire will probably carry her through at least a few rounds.
Noise factor: Loud, but no louder or more irritating than many of the male players are.
Update. Kuznetsova lost her first round match in three sets to current world #82 Marina Erakovic of New Zealand.
Slam Highlights: 2010 French Open finalist. 2011 U.S. Open Champion.
Notes: Stosur’s powerful play and strong skills at the net enabled her to defeat Serena Williams in the 2011 U.S. Open final. Since then she has struggled with confidence. If she can maintain belief in her skills, she is capable of upsetting almost anyone.
Noise factor: Not noticeably loud.
Update: Stosur lost her second round match in three sets to current world #49 Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
“We’re not friends.” – Eugenie Bouchard, in response to a question about Maria Sharapova.
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The Personality Game
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The Personality game is a game for up to 4 players (up to 8 players can play if two decks are used). Players act as Essences attempting to build personalities and gain Experience and Karma points as they pass through the Soul Ages. Setup There are three parts to setup: Setting the Soul Age Stack, Assigning Roles/Casting, and General Setup. The Soul Age stack is used to indicate the phases of the game. To set the Soul Age stack: Separate the Soul Age cards from the rest of the deck Remove the Transcendental and Infinite cards (#6 and #7) from the Soul Ages. These cards can either be removed from the game completely or can be returned to the main deck as a variation (see Transcendental and Infinite Cards for this variation). Keep the Soul Age cards face up and stack them in the following order from bottom to top: Old, Mature, Young, Baby, Infant. The Infant card should be on the top, as it is the first phase of the game. Next, each player is assigned their Role and Casting. The Role and Casting gives the players special abilities during the game (see Role/Casting Abilities). To assign Role/Casting: Separate out the seven Role cards and the two Wild cards from the deck Shuffle the nine cards face down. Each player is dealt or draws two cards from the pile. Remove any remaining, unused cards from the game. Each player then reveals their cards face up and keeps them nearby for the rest of the game. These are the player's Role and Casting and determine their special abilities for the game. They cannot be changed or traded. Role and Casting is optional. If players decide to not use Role and Casting, the Role cards are simply separated from the deck and removed from the game. Finally, the remaining setup is as follows: Shuffle the remaining deck of cards (the deck should no longer have any soul age, role, or wild cards in it). Deal six cards to each player. Place the deck face down in the center to form the draw pile. Flip the top card of the draw pile face up and place it next to the draw pile; this forms the discard pile and signals the start of the game. Play begins with the player to the dealer's left and moves clockwise. Gameplay The overall aim of the game is to create "Personalities." A Personality is a set of six cards made up of one card from each of the following overleaves: Goal, Mode, Attitude, Center, Body Type, and Chief Feature. At the start of the player's turn, the player draws one card from the draw pile and adds it to their hand. Then, if the player is able to form a whole Personality, they must play that Personality immediately. To do so, the player places all six cards of the Personality face up in front of them. The Personality is immediately scored for Experience and Karma points and then all six cards are sent to the discard pile. The player then draws six new cards from the draw pile to replenish their hand. When the player no longer has any Personalities to play, they then must discard one card from their hand, face-up, to the discard pile. This ends their turn. Turns continue as above until the end condition of the Soul Age phase is met (see Soul Age Phases). After the end of the phase, all the cards are gathered and the deck is reshuffled. The finished Soul Age card is turned face down and the next Soul Age is revealed. Hands are dealt as before and the next phase begins. If the draw pile runs out during gameplay, the discard pile is shuffled and placed face down to create a new draw pile. Scoring Personalities Each player has two scores: Experience points and Karma points. Both kinds of points are earned by completing Personalities. When a player completes a Personality, the following scoring takes place: The player automatically receives 20 Experience points, which are always added to their overall Experience score. The player then earns Karma points that are always equal to the combined face values of the cards in the Personality. For example, a Personality whose face values are 1, 7, 5, 7, 3, and 4 would earn the player 27 Karma points. Karma points are either added to or subtracted from the player's overall Karma score depending on the rules of the Soul Age phase (see Soul Age Phases) Soul Age Phases There are five phases of gameplay represented by five Soul Ages. The current phase is always indicated by the top face-up card of the Soul Age stack. At the end of each phase, the top card is turned face down and discarded, revealing the next top card and phase. The order of phases is always: Infant, Baby, Young, Mature, and Old. Each phase has its own end condition, determines how karma points are scored, and may have other bonus scoring rules. Infant Soul Phase Karma points are added to a player's Karma score. The Infant phase ends when the draw pile runs out (do not make a new draw pile this round). At the end of the phase, the total face value of the remaining cards in a player's hand is added to their Karma score. Baby Soul Phase Karma points are added to a player's Karma score. The Baby phase ends when each player has completed at least two personalities. At the end of the phase, the total face value of all remaining cards in all players' hands is added to every player's Karma score. Young Soul Phase Karma points are added to a player's Karma score. The Young phase ends when one player has completed seven personalities and "wins." The winner player receives a bonus of 25 Experience points. The player with the highest Karma score at the end of the phase also gets 25 Experience points. At the end of the phase, the total face value of all the remaining cards in every player's hand is added toward the winning player's karma score. Mature Soul Phase Karma points are now subtracted from a player's Karma score. Every time a player completes a Personality, that player must also give 10 Experience points to another player of their choosing. The Mature phase ends when a combined total of seven personalities have been completed among all the players. At the end of the phase, the total face value of all the remaining cards in a player's hand is subtracted from their Karma score. Old Soul Phase Karma points are now subtracted from a player's Karma score. The Old phase ends when one player has reached a Karma score of 0. This ends the game. All remaining cards in a player's hand are returned to the draw pile and do not count toward the Karma score. Winning At the end of the game, a player's resulting Karma score is subtracted from their Experience score, giving the player their final score. The player with the highest final score wins. Role/Casting Abilities Each player has two special abilities, known as their "Role/Casting" abilities. The players abilities are determined by the Role cards drawn or dealt to them at the beginning of the game. Some abilities must be played during the player's turn, while other abilities can be played at any time during a round. In either case, a player can only perform one Role/Casting action per round of turns. For example: if a player performs a Role/Casting action during or after their turn, they must wait until their next turn before they can perform another action. Role/Casting Abilities are potentially optional, and players can decide at the beginning of the game to not use Role/Casting Abilities or to assign only one ability per person. In either case, any unused Role or Wild cards must be removed from the game before starting. Server Card – At the start of their turn, the Server may draw from the top of the discard pile instead of the draw pile. Artisan Card - At the start of their turn, the Artisan may draw two cards from the draw pile instead of one. They must then choose one to keep and one to discard. Warrior Card – Once during their turn, the Warrior may discard one of the cards from their hand and draw a new card from the draw pile. Scholar Card – Once during their turn, if the Scholar creates a Personality containing one or more green (assimilation axis) cards, they may change the face value of one of those green cards to any number between 1 and 7. Sage Card – Once per round of turns, the Sage may, without looking, take one card from every player and mix them with their own hand. The Sage then decides what to keep and returns one card of their choosing back to each of the players. Priest Card – Once per round of turns, the Priest may look at another player's hand and swap one card from their hand with a card from the other player's hand. King Card – Once per round of turns, the King may request a specific overleaf from all of the other players. All other players must reveal any cards they have of that overleaf to the King. The King may then choose one of these cards and swap it with a card from their hand. Wild Card – At the start of the game, the player may choose the Role/Casting ability for their Wild Card and must announce it to the other players. Once every soul age phase, the player may change the Role/Casting for their Wild Card and must announce this to the other players. If a player has two of the same Role/Casting ability (for example, a player with a Server card and a Wild card declared to be Server), they may perform their ability twice per round (double Server and double Artisan would thus be able to draw twice at the start of their turn). Transcendental and Infinite Card Variation If the Transcendental and Infinite Soul Age cards are returned to the deck and included in the game, they can be used one of two ways: The player may add the Transcendental and/or Infinite Soul Age card to a completed Personality for 10 bonus Experience points each (though they do not contribute to Karma points). The player may instead use either the Transcendental or Infinite Soul Age card at any time to stop another player from performing their Role/Casting action. The target player cannot perform a Role/Casting action for the remainder of the round, but can resume the following round. In both cases, the Transcendental and Infinite cards must be discarded immediately after being used. The Transcendental and Infinite card can only perform one function at a time (for example, an Infinite card cannot be played as part of a Personality and cancel out another player at the same time).
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Truth, Love, or Energy
Truth, Love, or Energy is a variation of the game Truth or Dare that utilizes the overleaf cards. The game is for 2 or more players. Note that trust and consent are required for this game; players may not use this game to coerce or manipulate others into compromising or illicit situations. Setup Players sit in a circle and a dealer shuffles the cards. The cards are placed face-down in the middle of the players. The player to the left of the dealer begins the game. Simple Version On their turn, the player draws a card from the pile. Cards are either Truth (Expression axis), Love (Inspiration axis), or Energy (Action axis). Assimilation axis and Wild cards allow the player to choose either Truth, Love, or Energy. If the player draws a Truth card, they must truthfully answer a question. If the player draws a Love card, they must say/do something positive about/for another player (with consent from that player). If the player draws an Energy card, they must successfully act out or perform a dare. The player hands the card to the person on their right, who determines the specific question, task, or dare. This person hands the card back to the player after they have attempted or declined the turn. If the player succeeds, they keep their card, which is scored as a point. If they decline or are unsuccessful, they must return the card to the pile. Play then continues to the left. The game ends either when the stack has run out of cards or when the players decide to end the game. The winner is the player with the most cards (i.e. successful turns). The game may also be played without the use of scoring. Advanced Version In the advanced version, the player draws a card as normal. Along with the card’s axis, however, the overleaf of the card determines a specific category of task. If the player draws a wild card, they still decide Truth, Love, or Energy, but the person to their right decides the overleaf. The person to the right still determines the specific question, task, or dare, but must adhere to the categories as outlined below. Soul Age – relating to memory or knowledge. Role – relating to an activity, service, or job/activity. Goal – relating to a challenge, goal, or taste. Mode – relating to relationships, affection, or touch. Attitude – relating to opinion, philosophy, or sight. Centering – relating to repetition, habit, rotation, or sound. Body Type – relating to physical appearance, state, talent, or balance. Chief Feature – relating to fear or smell. For example, if a player draws a Soul Age card, the person to their right might ask them about a childhood memory (Truth), recall a fond memory of another player (Love), or be asked to recite the alphabet backwards without error (Energy). Tasks may also reference the overleaf directly. In the example above, the person to the right may also ask the player how they experience their Soul Age and Level (Truth), to guess the Soul Age and Level of another player (Love), or to act out a Soul Age stereotype (Energy). Three-Deck Version If all three design styles of the Overleaf Playing Cards are available, players may opt to combine these and play the three-deck version. In this version, the three decks are shuffled together into a single pile and placed in the middle of the players. When the player draws a card, however, the card’s style determines if it is Truth, Love, or Energy rather than the card’s axis. Classic-style cards act as Truth cards, Soul Spectrum (rainbow)-style cards act as Love cards, and Midnight (black)-style cards act as Energy cards. Wild cards and overleaf categories (as applicable) remain the same.
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Old Soul / Wild Card
Old Soul / Wild Card is a version of the card game Old Maid for the Overleaf Cards. The game is for 2 or more players. Setup is slightly different between the two variations, but gameplay is the same for both. Setup (Old Soul) Remove all Soul Age cards except for the Mature and Old Soul cards. (Wild cards may be kept or removed as desired) Shuffle the cards. Deal all of the cards out to each player until there are no more cards (some players may have more than others, but this is acceptable). Setup (Wild Card) Keep one of the Wild Cards in the deck and remove the other. Shuffle the cards. Deal all of the cards out to each player until there are no more cards (some players may have more than others, but this is acceptable). Gameplay After all cards have been dealt, players look at their cards and discard any Hands Across pairs that they have face up (any two Assimilation/green cards count as a pair, as do the two wild cards if applicable). The dealer then offers his/her hand face-down to the player to the left. That player takes one card from the dealer without looking and adds it to their hand. The player then sees of the new card forms a pair with any of their original cards. If so, the pair is discarded. That player then offers his/her hand to the player to their left and so on. Players are allowed to shuffle their hand before presenting it to the next player. Play continues in this way until all pairs have been discarded. Losing Once all pairs have been discarded, the player left with the unmatchable card loses. In Old Soul, it is the player holding the Old Soul card. With Wild Card, it is the player left with the singular Wild card. Other Rule Variants Players discard their pairs only after a round of gameplay has occurred (i.e. after the dealer has had the chance to draw a card). Players may enforce a "punishment" system. After the game has ended and the loser determined, the loser then shuffles the cards and draws a card at random. The card determines the player's punishment. An example might be: Soul Age - The loser must truthfully answer a question posed by another player. Role - The loser must perform a task decided by another player. Goal - The loser must play the next game with their dominant hand behind their back. Mode - The loser must play the next game in silence and communicate only by miming. Attitude - The loser must play the next game with one eye closed/blindfolded. Centering - The loser must play the next game standing on one foot. Body Type - The loser must play the next game on another player's lap or with another player on their lap. Chief Feature - The loser must play the next game from under a sheet or blanket. Wild Card - The loser escapes punishment.
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Go Tao
Go Tao is a Go Fish style game for the Overleaf Cards. Go Tao is for 2 or more players. Setup The entire deck is shuffled; wild cards may be left in or taken out as desired. Each player is dealt 5 cards. The rest of the cards are placed in the center between the players. Gameplay The game starts with the player to the dealer's left. On their turn, the player asks any other player for his/her cards of a particular axis/value. For example, Janet may ask Bobby, "Bobby, do you have any Ordinal Inspiration cards?" Players may also ask for cards by their axis value or color (for example, "Bobby, do you have any reds?" or "Bobby do you have any ones?"). Janet must already have at least one of that axis already in her hand. Bobby must then give all of his cards of that axis to Janet. If he has none, Bobby tells Janet to "Go Tao" and Janet must draw a card from the central pile. Play then proceeds to the left. If at any time a player obtains four cards of the same axis (for example, four Ordinal Inspiration cards) it forms a book and the player must place those four cards face up in front of them. Two books can be formed from each axis for a total of 14 possible books. If wild cards are included, then having the two wild cards form another book. Winning The game ends when all possible books have been played. The winner of the game is the player with the most books. Hands Across Fishing In the Hands Across Fishing variation, players form books from Hands Across Pairs rather than from four of the same axis. Assimilation axis cards pair with each other. Players still ask for a specific axis, but must have at least one card from Hands Across axis (for example, a player may ask for Cardinal Inspiration cards if they already have Ordinal Inspiration cards in their hand). Other Variations Players ask for a specific overleaf rather than an axis (for example, "Bobby, do you have the Warrior card?"). The player must already have either a card of the same axis or the Hands Across match of the asked for card, depending on variation. Players ask for an overleaf type rather than an axis (for example, "Bobby, do you have any goals?"). Players must not have any cards from the overleaf they are asking for. Players give only one card when asked rather than all of them. The first person to run out of cards wins.
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Axis Solitaire
Axis Solitaire is a modified form of clock solitaire, and is a single player game. Setup Remove Wild cards from the deck and shuffle the deck. Deal out seven stacks of eight cards each in a circle, with six stacks around the circle and one stack in the center: The stacks now represent the axes: the three top stacks are the cardinal axes, the three bottom stacks are ordinal axes, and the middle stack is the assimilation axis. The specific arrangement of the axes can vary, but two good arrangements are the Wild Card and reverse Wild Card. The first arrangement has the stacks corresponding to the axes as shown on the deck's colored Wild Card (you can use the wild card for reference). The second is simply a mirrored version of the Wild Card arrangement. You may also use the following images for reference: Wild Card Arrangement: Reverse Wild Card Arrangement: Gameplay Flip the top card from the assimilation stack (the one in the center) face up to start. Place the face up card, still face up, under the stack associated with its axis (for example, a red card would go under the red/ordinal inspiration stack, a blue card would go under the blue/cardinal expression stack, etc). Now turn the top card of that axis pile face up. Again, place the card still face up under the stack the card corresponds to. Continue in this way until there are no more possible moves. If a face-up card belongs to the same pile it was drawn from, place it face up under that pile, then draw the next card from the opposite axis (for example, if the card is from the Ordinal Expression axis, draw the next card from the Cardinal Expression axis). If the original pile is the assimilation axis, draw from that pile again. Winning The player wins when all the cards in the stacks are face up. However, the player loses if all the Assimilation axis cards in the center are revealed while there are still face down cards elsewhere OR if the player can no longer move (i.e. both the current stack and its opposite stack are all face up).
Sliding Greens
Sliding Greens is a Crazy Eights / Uno-style game for the Overleaf cards. Sliding Greens is for 2 - 7 players (A second deck can be added for larger groups). Setup Wild cards are removed from the deck (optional) and the deck is shuffled. A designated dealer deals out five cards to each player (or seven cards in a two player game). The remaining deck is placed face-down in the center as the draw pile. The top card of the deck is flipped face-up and placed beside the draw pile. This is the discard pile. Gameplay Started with the player to the dealer's left, each player must place one card face-up on the discard pile. The card they play (other than Assimilation cards, or "Greens") must match either the overleaf (symbol) or the axis (color/number) of the card showing on the discard pile. For example, if the top card of the discard pile is the Ordinal Inspiration Goal (a "red bulls-eye"), then the player must play a card that is either Ordinal Inspiration (red) or a Goal (a bulls-eye). Assimilation cards (or "Greens") can be played on any card. If a player plays a Green, they then slide to (declare) a new axis (color/number). The next player then must match the overleaf of the Green and the new axis. For example, a player can play an Assimilation Attitude (a "green eye") and then "slide to" Cardinal Inspiration (or "indigo" or "six"). The next player must then play either an Attitude (an eye) or a Cardinal Inspiration (an indigo/six). If a player cannot play, they must draw a card from the draw pile. If that card can be played, the player may do so. If not, the turn passes to the next player. If there are no more cards in the draw pile, the top card is removed from the discard pile and placed face up to start a new discard pile. The rest of the old discard pile is then shuffled and placed face-down, forming a new draw pile. Winning The first player to empty their hand of cards wins the game. The start of a game. The player here can play either the middle card (same overleaf/symbol), the next card to the right (a Green), or the card farthest to the right (same axis/color/number). --------------------------------------------- Variations Like with Crazy Eights, Sliding Greens is easy to make variations on. For the purpose of these instructions, three kinds of variations are given: Wild cards, trick cards, and Pole Sliding. Wild Cards Wild Cards can be left in the deck as a variation. Like Greens, Wild cards can be played at any time. If the colored axis wild card is played, the player nominates a new axis (color/number) and the next player must play any overleaf on that axis (any symbol of that color/number). If the gray overleaf wild card is played, the player nominates a new overleaf (symbol) and the next player must play any axis of that overleaf (any color/number of that symbol). Trick Cards Certain cards can be made to perform special functions when they are played. Examples include: Soul Age cards - A Soul Age card forces the next player to draw as many cards as the face value of the soul age card. Center cards - A Center card reverses the direction of play. Chief Feature cards - A Chief Feature card skips the next player. Pole Sliding Similar to uno, the Pole Sliding variation requires that, when a player is down to one card in their hand, they must call out the negative pole of that card. If they are able to play that card as their last card, they must then call out the positive pole as they play it. If a player fails to do either and is discovered, they must draw a card from the draw pile.
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Overleaf Card FAQs
Eric posted a topic in Overleaf Playing Card Club's Info Desk
Here are some frequently asked questions about the Overleaf Playing Cards. This is not an exhaustive list, and I may add more as time goes. If you have a question not answered, feel free to ask in the comments or message me. Q: What are these Overleaf cards? The Overleaf Playing Cards are a specialized playing card set created by me, Eric M. They were originally made to commemorate the first TLE Great Gathering in 2015. See About the Overleaf Playing Cards to learn more. Q: What do you do with the cards? The cards are made to mimic classic playing cards, and so are intended to be just as versatile. Most common card games can be modified to use the Overleaf cards, or one can also create one's own games with the cards. Examples of these can be found in the Games forum. They can be used as a tool for learning the Michael Teachings overleaf system, as visual aids or presentation, for magic tricks, or for building stylish Michael Teachings card houses. They can even be used for kindling if needed (though I hope it doesn't come to that). Q: Can the cards be used in divination or as tarot cards? Yes, the Overleaf cards can be used as a divination tool similar to tarot cards. However, they are designed to be playing cards rather than tarot cards, and so might be more like using regular playing cards for divination rather than tarot. If you'd like a more tarot-oriented deck, Michael-themed tarot cards do exist, such as Stephen Cocconi's Michael Motivation cards (found here). Q: How do I get some Overleaf Playing Cards? The cards are available for purchase through their creator, Eric M, while they last. Simply send me a message through my profile. Availability may change in the future, as I only made a finite supply in 2015 and once their gone, they're gone. At this time, I have two options. Option 1: a card deck (any style) and carrying pouch for $18. Option 2: a card deck (any style), carrying pouch, and a handmade booklet for $20. You can also get three card decks - any style and with or without booklets - for $50. Q: Why three different styles? Are the cards different in each style? Do I have to by all three? The Overleaf cards come in three different styles - reflecting Truth, Love, and Energy - in commemoration of the 2015 TLE Great Gathering. Each deck has the same cards regardless of style. The styles differ only in appearance and you do not need to have one of each to have a complete deck. Q: This isn't the word/term I'm familiar with for this overleaf/pole. What gives? The Michael Teachings are a broad, evolving teaching with many students and channels. As such, it is not uncommon to find words or terms that differ from one group to the next, even with something as basic and seemingly standard as the overleaf system. The terms used with the Overleaf Playing Cards are primarily drawn from the channeling of Troy Tolley via the TLE site, though they are not meant to override the terms a student or player may be familiar with. Q: The Centering cards don't look right. Why are the color/number associations wrong? Centering is a particularly tricky overleaf to nail down, as it draws heavily from other teachings and can be classified/associated in a number of ways. One of the most common of these is to correlate the centers to chakras and their associations, and this is often the way many students think of them. For the Overleaf Playing Cards, however, the decision was made to classify the centers according to their axis, in order to keep continuity with the overleaf/axis system of the cards. Thus, for example, the Instinctive center is often related to the root chakra, and so is associated with the number 1 and color red. However, because the Instinctive center is on the Assimilation axis, it is shown in the cards with the number 4 and the color green (associations of the Assimilation axis). This may seem odd or counter to what is familiar, but it is not incorrect, and again was done in order to keep the centers congruent with the other overleaf cards.
Pyramid Solitaire is a single player game. The object of Pyramid Solitaire is to remove pairs of cards from a pyramid arrangement into a discard pile until there are no more cards left in the pyramid. With the overleaf cards, there are three kinds of pairs that can be used: Axis Pyramid – In axis pyramid, two cards of the same axis and aspect (color and number) are removed as a pair. Overleaf Pyramid – In overleaf pyramid, two cards of the same overleaf (symbol) are removed as a pair. Hands Across Pyramid – In hands across pyramid, two cards on the same axis but opposite aspect (for example, Ordinal Expression with Cardinal Expression) are removed as a pair, regardless of the overleaves involved. Setup To build the pyramid, one card is dealt face up at the top. Then two cards are dealt below and partially covering the first. Then three are dealt below that, and so on ending with a row of seven cards for a total of 28 cards in the pyramid. The rest of the cards are put to the side as the draw pile. Gameplay Draw the first card from the draw pile. Match any pairs of exposed cards and move these cards to the discard pile. "Exposed" cards include the card drawn from the draw pile, the top card of the discard pile, and any card in the pyramid that is not overlapped/covered by one or two cards below it. At the start of the game, only the cards at the bottom of the pyramid are considered exposed and available for play. If the card drawn from the draw pile cannot be matched, it is moved to the discard. Repeat 1 - 3. Once the draw pile runs out and/or no more pairs can be made, the game ends. There are two variations on winning: Relaxed pyramid - In this variation, the player wins if they clear all the cards from the pyramid to the discard pile, even if there are still unpaired cards in the draw pile. Strict pyramid - In this variation, all cards including those in the draw pile, must be paired and in the discard pile to win. If the game ends and there are cards still in the draw pile, the player loses.
Incarnation Persuasion
Incarnation Persuasion is a game for 3-8 players. Setup Remove the Wild cards, the Transcendental, and the Infinite cards from the deck. Separate and make stacks out of the seven overleaf suits (i.e. a Soul Age stack, a Role stack, a Mode stack, etc). Keep the Soul Age stack in order from Infant to Old. Shuffle the other stacks and place them in the center between the players. Gameplay - Variation 1: Soul Ages In Variation 1, one of the players is selected to play the role of an incarnating essence, while the rest of the players are acting as 'salesmen' attempting to convince the incarnating player to use their suggested overleaves. To start gameplay: The Incarnating player takes the Soul Age cards and draws the first Soul Age (Infant), indicating that s/he is creating an Infant Soul lifetime. The Incarnating player then thinks up a brief scenario and Life Task or desired outcome for the lifetime (for example: “I will be a gatherer born into a jungle tribe and have a Life Task of Communing with Nature," or "I will likely be making karma as a thief," etc), and tells this to the group. The Incarnating player then chooses an overleaf stack and deals the cards to the other players (extra cards may be discarded or the players may receive more than one if possible and desired). The other players now look at their given overleaf(s) and take turns attempting to make a sales pitch to the incarnating player about why their overleaf would be best for that lifetime. Once each of the players has had the chance to make a pitch for their overleaf(s), the incarnating player selects a winner and gives the winner the Soul Age card. The winner keeps this card, representing a score point. The players recombine the dealt overleaves into a stack and the incarnating player takes the next Soul Age card and starts another lifetime. Lifetimes continue until the incarnating player has gone through all five Soul Ages (Infant, Baby, Young, Mature, Old). After the last lifetime, each 'salesman' player tallies the number and face value of the Soul Age cards they have collected as their score. The Soul Age cards are then regathered and the player to the left of the previous incarnating essence becomes the new incarnating essence. Play repeats until all players have been the incarnating essence (or until the players decide to quit). Gameplay - Variation 2: Round Robin The setup for Variation 2 is the same as Variation 1, except that the Soul Age cards are set aside and not used. One player is designated as the incarnating essence and creates the scenario and task/outcome for a single liftetime. The incarnating player then chooses an overleaf stack and deals the cards to the other players, same as Variation 1. The players take turns to pitch their overleaf(s) to the incarnating player, same as Variation 1. The incarnating player chooses a winner. The winner gets a single point and records the face value of their winning overleaf card (in case of a tie). The overleaves are recombined into a stack and the player to the left of the incarnating player becomes the new incarnating player. Rounds continue until all players have been the incarnating player at least once. Scoring In both variations, the player with the most points at the end of the game (either the most Soul Age cards earned or the most winning overleaf cards) is the winner. In the event of a tie, the player with the highest total face value of their Soul Age / winning overleaf cards is the winner.
Overleaf Solitaire
Overleaf Solitaire is a modified form of klondike solitaire/patience. It is a game for one player. Setup Remove the wild cards and shuffle the deck. Deal out five stacks of cards face-down from left to right, which each stack having two more than the stack to its left. You should thus end up with a stack of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 cards respectively. Flip the top card of each stack face up. Place the rest of the deck to the left above the stacks; this forms your draw pile. Leave space to the right above the stacks to form eight foundation piles (one for each overleaf symbol). Draw the first card from the draw pile to begin. Objective The objective of Overleaf Solitaire is to build a pile for each overleaf from 1 (red) to 7 (violet) on individual foundations. This is done by drawing, moving, and building on stacks of cards. Gameplay As with regular solitaire, Overleaf Solitaire begins by flipping the first card of the draw pile face up. The player may then place the draw card or move the face up cards on the five stacks: Face-up cards must be ordered from 7 to 1 top down (for example, 6 can go on top of 7, 5 can go on top of 6, etc). The only cards that can be placed in an open stack space are the 7s. Face-up stacks can be any arrangement of overleaves. A face up card that is under other face up cards can be moved if all of the cards, including the desired card, are in the top-down order. Cards must be placed on their foundations in order from 1 to 7. After the player has moved all they can, the draw card is left face up in a discard pile (if unused) and a new card is drawn from the deck. If the draw pile runs out, the discard pile can be shuffled and turned face-down to create a new draw pile. Play continues in this way until all the overleaf foundations are filled 1 through 7, or until the player has no more legitimate moves. Variations There are two ways to increase the challenge of the game: by increasing the number of cards drawn at once, or by limiting the number of times the player can pass use up the draw pile. Drawing Number - Instead of drawing one card at a time, the player may opt to draw three cards at a time. However, the top card must be used before the player can use the cards underneath. Stock Limit - Rather than reshuffle the discard pile and make a new draw pile indefinitely, the player may opt to limit the number of times they can go through the deck. For example, they may end the game when the draw pile runs out and they have no legitimate moves. Or they may opt to end after the second time the deck runs out. One can attempt to use the standard Klondike configuration with the overleaf cards (seven stacks instead of five, each one card more than the one to the left, etc). However, this makes the game incredibly easy to win, and is thus almost a longer way of organizing one's cards (though may be useful in that regard).
Hands Across Memory
Hands Across Memory is a memory matching game for one or more players. The goal is to match all the hands across pairs in an arrangement. A Hands Across pair is a pair of two cards of the same overleaf that is on the same axis, but opposite aspects (for example, an ordinal inspiration goal and a cardinal inspiration goal). Overleaves on the Assimilation axis have no opposites, and so instead pair with Assimilation axis cards from any other overleaf. Note: The Overleaf Playing Card deck comes with a special card that shows all the hands across pairs for easy reference. Setup Select two overleaves (for example, Goal and Mode) and separate all cards of those overleaves (14 cards total) from the rest of the deck. Set the deck aside and shuffle the 14 cards. Lay the cards out to form a column of three cards, two columns of four cards, and another column of three cards. Gameplay Begin the game by turning over one of the cards and then turning over a second card. If the cards form a hands-across pair, leave them face up. If not, flip both cards back over. Continue in this way until all cards are matched. Modifications For a greater challenge, the player may use four, six, or all eight overleaves, forming arrangements of 28, 42, and 56 cards respectively. For a multiplayer game, pairs are removed when found (rather than left face up) and placed next to the player to keep score. The player with the most pairs at the end wins. Hands Across Memory.m4v
About the Overleaf Playing Cards
The Overleaf Playing Cards are a specialized playing card set created by Eric M, originally commemorating the first TLE Great Gathering in 2015. The Overleaf Playing Card set takes the Michael Teachings overleaf system and applies it to the fun and familiar realm of card games. These cards are designed to be an enjoyable, alternative playing card set, while also providing players the chance to familiarize themselves with terms and concepts relating to the overleaf system. They can be used in a multitude of ways, including as flashcards, for playing original games or modified forms of classic card games, for building a Michael Teaching themed house of cards, or whatever else a player may think of. The Overleaf Playing Cards use overleaf types and axes in place of suits and ranks. Symbols represent each type of overleaf (Soul Age, Role, Goal, Mode, Attitude, Center, Body Type, and Chief Feature) while colors and numbers represent each axis (inspiration, expression, action) and aspect (cardinal or ordinal). Each card also displays the positive/inclusive and negative/exclusive extremes of the card’s overleaf, known as its “poles." There are 56 of these cards in each deck, plus two wild cards. There are three styles of card deck available, created in honor of the TLE Great Gathering. Each deck contains the same cards and differs only in appearance: Classic (Truth) - The Classic style emulates the look of classic playing cards by using bright symbols on a white background. This style sports a blue card back design with elements representing the influence of Truth. Soul Spectrum (Love) - The Soul Spectrum style creates a rainbow theme using color-gradient symbols and matching colored backgrounds. This style sports a rainbow card back design with elements representing the influence of Love. Michael Midnight (Energy) - The Michael Midnight style is a darker theme using vivid symbols against a black background. This style sports a black card back design with elements representing the influence of Energy. At this time, there are still card decks available. If you are interested in purchasing a card deck, or have questions about the cards not answered elsewhere, you can find and message me (Eric M) through my TLE profile. You can also visit the Overleaf Card FAQ for more info.
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The Search for Dwaraka
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeology, Before 1 CE, Hinduism on February 8, 2006| 1 Comment »
Few years back, Marine Archaeologist S R Rao found evidence of a city under the sea in Dwaraka and since some of the specifications matched the description of Dwaraka mentioned in Harivamsha, a prologue of Mahabharata, people thought that they had found Krishna’s Dwaraka.
There is a new article which tells the details of how scientists at the NIOT (National Institute of Ocean Technology, of the Department of Ocean Development) found the submerged city while working for British Gas in the Gulf of Cambay region.
Samples collected include artefacts, wood pieces, pottery materials, hearth pieces, animal bones. They ere sent to Manipur University, Oxford University, London, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hanover, Germany for analysis and dating. The results were astonishing. It was found beyond doubt that the samples belonged to a period varying from 7800 to 3000 years (BP) Before Present !
The even more flooring discovery happened soon. NIOT, which carried outside scan and sub-bottom surveys in the year 2002-03, established beyond doubt the presence of two large palaeochannels (river channels which existed once and later submerged under the sea) in the Gulf of Cambay. Alluvium samples were collected from different locations in the areas of the palaeochannels by the gravity core and grab method.
Prof.Gartia (The Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology, No.2 of 2005, Pg.144) after conducting extensive investigations concluded that Gujarat region had experienced at least three large killer earthquakes about 1500, 3000 and 5000 years BP respectively. Geomorphological evidences also show beyond doubt that the North-Western part of the Indian landmass was seismically active during the last 10,000 years. These killer quakes are likely to have caused the shifting of the rivers and sea level fluctuation including the sinking of the legendary city of Dwaraka, capital of the Lord-King Krishna. [How marine archaeologists found Dwaraka]
Other people have suggested that Krishna’s Dwaraka was not in Jamnagar, but in Junagad and apparently there are nine sites in Gujarat which claim to be Krishna’s Dwaraka.
The first farmer debate
Posted in Agriculture, Ancient History, Archaeology, Before 1 CE on February 7, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Archaeologists excavating in Lahuradeva in Uttar Pradesh have found remains of carbonised material containing grains of cultivated rice along with wild grass dating back about 10,000 years. If this is true, then Middle Ganga Valley could be the home of the first farmers in the world.
Previously it was believed that agriculture began in West Asia in a region known as the Fertile Crescent with the domestication of barley and wheat. Later a new Fertile Crescent was discovered in China where rice cultivation began much before agriculture in West Asia. In the Indian subcontinent wheat and barley cultivation began in Kachi Plain in Baluchistan(Pakistan) in the seventh millennium B.C.
The findings at Lahuradeva were discussed at an International archaeology conference in Lucknow last month.
But none of these theories is fully confirmed or accepted by everyone in the field, and P.C. Panth, former professor of archaeology with Benares Hindu University, pointed to just this as he made a bold claim. “It is possible that middle Ganga valley was the home of the first farmer,” he told The Telegraph.
State archaeology director Rakesh Tiwari echoed him: “The studies at Lahuradewa and Sanai tal (a nearby lake) indicate this settlement could be (the site of) the earliest genesis of agriculture developments than ever found before elsewhere in the world.”
The international experts — who included Professor Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University and Dorian Q. Fuller of the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London — were non-committal. But they agreed that agriculture may have begun at more than one site about roughly the same time. [Enter UP kisan in farm origin debate]
Biased against millets
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeology, Before 1 CE, Harappa, Science & Technology on January 28, 2006| 1 Comment »
Historians who do not believe the Aryan Invasion Theory say that folks who believe in it are biased towards Europeans. Folks who believe in Aryan Invasion Theory think that others are biased towards Indians. But in this biased word of history, have you heard of people who are biased against millets? Who can be so stone-hearted to be biased against those small-seeded species of cereal grown around the world for food and fodder?
Such evil people do exist and the people who do this are rice and wheat lovers. In fact, if you look at the history of millet farming you may be able to identify the period and place of the first farmer according to Steve Weber of Washington State University.
‘These are the facts. In Southern India, millets were being cultivated as old as 3000 BC to 2500 BC, while rice came into existence only by 500 BC. and in North India, millet cultivation was even there before it made an entry in South India” said Fuller. Weber added, “There have been sites in Gujarat, India, and even a few Harappan sites, which have been primarily millet-dominant.”
Weber says that since millets were more nutritious and were even drought- resistant, perhaps more and more people started cultivating them before anything else. “In India, China and South Africa, millets were the staple diet. And surprisingly, the so very Indian millets like ragi, jowar and bajra actually come from South Africa.”
“The British started researching with rice and wheat and even today, organisations like the UN and FAO concentrate on that. This may have been because rice and wheat are bigger grains and easier to identify, whereas millets were smaller and more time-consuming to find,” they opined. [Millets older than wheat, rice: Archaeologists]
A recent discovery of a grain of rice in India may prove Weber to be wrong. Excavations in Lahuradeva in Uttar Pradesh have shown that people of this region took to farming and domestication of animals about 10,000 years back.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Paschal reality of Christian death (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1689). In the celebration of the Eucharist, the Church most perfectly expresses her communion with those who have died. The celebration of the Eucharist at the funeral is an opportunity for the community of the faithful and the family to “learn to live in communion with the one who has ‘fallen asleep in the Lord’, by communicating the Body of Christ of which he is a living member and, then, by praying for him and with him” (CCC #1689).
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THE VIGIL FOR THE DECEASED
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THE FUNERAL LITURGY
In preparation for the Funeral Liturgy, the family should meet with the priest or parish staff person to select the day and time of the Funeral as well as the Scripture readings and hymns. The Funeral Liturgy is the central liturgical celebration of the Christian community for the deceased. At the Funeral Liturgy the community gathers with the family and friends of the deceased to give praise and thanks to God for Christ’s victory over sin and death, to commend the deceased to God’s tender mercy and compassion, and to seek strength in the proclamation of the Paschal Mystery. When one of the Church’s members dies, it is encouraged that the highest form of prayer, the Mass, is celebrated.
At the conclusion of Mass a family member or another individual may give a eulogy. If a eulogy is given the following norms should be observed:
The eulogy should be given by one person. Others who wish to speak may do so at the conclusion of the Vigil service or at a reception.
The eulogy should be of limited length.
The eulogy should always be written out to prevent forgetting thoughts or ideas which the speaker considers essential to relate.
THE RITE OF COMMITTAL
The Rite of Committal is the final ritual of the community of faith in caring for the body or cremated remains of the deceased member. By their presence at this rite, the community helps the mourners face the end of one relationship with the deceased and the beginning of a new one based on prayerful remembrance, gratitude, and the hope of resurrection and reunion. It is celebrated at the graveside, mausoleum, or cemetery chapel.
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SELECTION OF SCRIPTURE READINGS
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SELECTION OF MUSIC
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Boys Squash Falters in Final Matches Prior to Nationals
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Volleying the ball to the deep backhand corner of the court, seventh seed Jack Lee ’20 hammered the ball beyond his Brooks opponent’s reach, securing a 3-0 victory. Despite his win, Andover Boys Squash ultimately fell 5-2 to Brooks on Friday and 6-1 to St. George’s on Wednesday. The team’s record now stands at 7-8.
Prior to Friday’s match, Andover had already suffered a 5-2 loss to Brooks earlier in the season.
Captain David Tsai ’18 said, “Heading into the Brooks match, we all played with a chip on our shoulder. We had lost to them earlier this season at their courts, so we had to give everything we got playing them at home.”
In its rematch on Friday, Andover focused on maintaining a strong shot selection and mental stamina. In addition to Lee’s win, sixth seed Tsai won his match 3-1, with scores of 11-4, 11-9, 7-11, and 12-10.
Tsai said, “Jack Lee played a great match. He and I won our matches because we executed our game plan and wore our opponents down.”
The team’s inability to keep up with Brooks’ fast pace and fitness, however, prevented it from coming out with a win, according to Andover players.
Fifth seed Sean Kim ’18 said, “We need to improve our fitness. We are a young team, and improving our overall fitness should be our main goal as the season progresses.”
On Wednesday, the team continued to struggle with the pace of its St. George’s opponents, ultimately losing 6-1 with Andover’s lone victory coming from Lee. Out of all the players on the team, Lee currently has the highest winning percentage, winning eleven of his thirteen matches this season.
Despite fighting hard in his match, Kim ultimately lost in four games.
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Wednesday’s match was the team’s last competition before it heads to Connecticut for High School Nationals on Friday.
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Schwartz said, “We’re top of DIII, but every potential opponent is in similar area to us, no match can be taken for granted. We’ve beaten Choate twice, who is seeded first in our division, and are getting a rematch from last year versus Friends Academy, a match we lost last year but are favored to win this year.”
Tsai added, “We are looking forward to nationals and piecing together what we have been working on these last few weeks.”
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SRP discusses new plans, solar energy announcements
Danny Imes on 01/18/2019
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On January 9, the Economic Development Insider Series hosted Steve Lopez, Senior Director of Customer Strategy Integration, Salt River Project.
The Economic Development Insider Series, a bimonthly, hour-long program, is the Greater Phoenix Chamber’s exclusive series featuring insider information about the hottest economic and workforce development trends in the region.
During his presentation, Lopez provided an overview of SRP’s Sustainable Offerings and outlook, and illustrated how it’s part of SRP’s broader vision of a sustainable tomorrow that begins today.
For over one hundred years, SRP has worked to ensure a sustainable future for Valley communities. In 2004, SRP’s Board of Directors approved the Sustainable Portfolio, which set a target for meeting retail energy requirements from sustainable sources.
Over the years, SRP refined the Sustainable goals. Most recently, the SRP Board approved the 2035 Sustainability Goals in October 2017.
“SRP is one of the first electric companies in the country to implement sustainable goals,” Lopez said.
As part of SRP 2035 goals, SRP is committed to reducing carbon emissions from power generation by 33 percent by 2035.
“We are actively creating goals in these five areas: reducing our carbon footprint, ensuring water resiliency, modernizing our energy grid, promoting sustainable supply chains and waste reduction, and increasing our engagement in our communities,” said Lopez.
Currently, approximately 35% of SRP’s energy production is carbon-free and that is expected to grow in the coming decades.
“We’re in the process of implementing these goals into our businesses practices,” Lopez said.
He shared SRP’s announcement about adding 1,000 megawatts (MW) of new utility-scale solar energy to its system by the end of fiscal year 2025. The plan will accelerate both the pace and total capacity of SRP’s current solar energy resource plans by 700 MW.
The 1,000 MW of solar energy SRP will add by 2025 is in addition to SRP’s 200 MW of existing solar resources and represents a growing commitment to sustainability that is both reliable, affordable, and provides optimal value for our customers. These efforts are a part of SRP’s recent strategic plan.
“One component of this effort is the Sustainable Energy Offering program where we are working with our large commercial customers to deliver 200 megawatts of solar power from two solar plants to meet a portion of their energy needs,” said Lopez. “We recently announced our partnership with several companies and municipalities.”
This innovative offering allows commercial customers to have a say in the energy they use.
“Our goals in sustainability need to be demonstrated by our actions,” said Lopez. “As we look forward, we want to reduce our carbon footprint and these projects are a step forward.”
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Google to Demote Mobile Sites That Show Giant App Install Ads
As part of company’s growing efforts to make the Web more friendly for mobile users, Google has announced that interstitial app ads that cover a “significant amount of content” on Web pages will not be considered mobile-friendly anymore. Such pages will be demoted in mobile search results, Google added.
Many websites greet their viewers with a big ad placed to promote apps. Google is after those annoying ads. The Mountain View-based company has said that the mobile-friendly testing tools will start flagging these websites effective immediately, though it won’t be downranking them until starting from November.
The company has further announced that the latest filtering wouldn’t affect other types of interstitial ads including standard app install banners such as native Apple-supported Smart Banners and Google Chrome-supported ads, that is provided they are not taking much space.
“Sometimes a user may tap on a search result on a mobile device and see an app install interstitial that hides a significant amount of content and prompts the user to install an app. Our analysis shows that it is not a good search experience and can be frustrating for users because they are expecting to see the content of the Web page,” Google said in a blog post.
The latest move is one of the several pushes the company has made to its search engine, and to the underlying search algorithm to penalise several practices by webmasters on their websites that are degrading the overall Web experience of a user using services from a mobile device.
In April, the company started to roll out an update to the search engine, popularly known as “mobilegeddon,” wherein it was aggressively downranking websites that didn’t sport a properly optimised mobile version.
The company also recently changed the way it showcases apps in Google search results. The move comes amid the long investigation on the search giant by European Commission to check whether Google is gaming search results to favour its own products. Earlier this week, the company was accused by the CCI for unfairly rigging search results in favour of its own apps and services.
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2nd ‘Bloods’ member accused in murder-for-hire ‘hit’ at Bronx McDonald’s
Posted 3:42 PM, November 16, 2018, by Mary Murphy, Updated at 04:43PM, November 16, 2018
BROOKLYN — Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn Friday accused a second reputed member of the Bloods gang with a "murder for hire" hit on a 71-year-old associate of the Bonanno crime family.
Herman “Taliban” Blanco
Herman “Taliban” Blanco was named in a federal complaint. FBI agent Michael Zoufal stated Blanco and another reputed Bloods member, Bushawn Shelton, offered to pay a cooperating witness if he’d kill Sylvester Zottola and his son, Salvatore.
Salvatore Zottola survived an attempted hit that was captured on surveillance footage on July 11.
His father, Sylvester, was finally killed Oct. 4, fatally shot at a McDonald’s drive-thru, after multiple, previous attempts to kill him.
For more than four decades, Sylvester Zottola had controlled the “Joker Poker” games and other vending machines that were put into many bars and restaurants in the Bronx.
He was owner of DAZ Amusements, and his nickname was “Sally DAZ.”
Law enforcement sources said Albanian gangsters may have wanted to take over some of Zottola’s turf.
FBI Agent Zoufal happens to work for the squad that investigates Balkan and Middle Eastern organized crime.
The federal complaint stated that the plots to target Sylvester Zottola dated back to at least September 2017.
It says on Nov. 26, 2017, a dark van pulled up next to Zottola’s vehicle and then in front of it, forcing the elderly man to stop.
A masked man wearing gloves left the van and pointed a gun at Zottola, but Zottola managed to drive away unharmed.
Then, on or about December 27, 2017, three masked men, armed with guns, attacked Zottola as he entered his home in the Bronx. The men had gained access to Zottola’s home, stabbing him multiple times in the neck and chest and hitting him in the head. He was also robbed.
Sylvester Zottola survived the December attack, but his troubles weren’t over.
The complaint notes that in April 2018, a man pointed a gun at Zottola’s son near the son’s luxury home in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx.
Then, on June 12, Sylvester Zottola fired a shot at a gunman who showed up outside his house.
On July 11, surveillance footage showed a red Nissan Altima pulling up beside Zottola’s son, Sal, as he exited his vehicle outside his home.
A man in the passenger seat started repeatedly firing a gun at the younger Zottola, who rolled around on the ground behind his car, trying to avoid more bullets.
The gunman got out of the car and kept firing at Zottola. The shooter then got back in the Nissan, and an accomplice drove away.
Zottola survived the shooting and did not cooperate with authorities.
Finally, on October 4, Sylvester Zottola was fatally shot in his car, as he waited for coffee at a McDonald’s drive-thru on Webster Avenue in the Bronx.
The gunman fled the parking lot on foot and then hopped into a waiting car to get away.
A law enforcement source told us the most recent suspect, Herman Blanco, was paroled from state prison last year, after being sentenced to 12 and a half years for a vicious assault and burglary.
Blanco had been thrown back in prison last month for a parole violation.
He was set to be arraigned in the murder for hire plot Friday afternoon.
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Who Benefits? The Welfare State and the Middle Classes
October 22, 2015 Author by PoliticalSiftPosted in Have Your Voice Heard
The following was written by Sean Hodges | @Howdiddly
It’s been said that the name “benefits,” when used to refer to the British welfare system, is misleading. Actually, it’s a blatant attempt at political propaganda. Since coming to power in 2010 as part of the coalition, the Conservatives have launched an all-out attack on the social security system that they claim is costing the UK so much money. This attack is undoubtedly the cause of immense suffering amongst the poorer and more vulnerable members of the British population, and as of August of this year it has been revealed that thousands of people have died after their welfare payments were stopped. (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures)
Despite this, there are still a lot of people in the United Kingdom who believe all too easily the stories of “benefits scroungers,” feckless poor people who are too silly to manage their finances. Not like us, they say. Convincing people that the welfare system is worth protecting, when their prosperity and social class inure them to these hardships, is a huge political hurdle. After all, if the Daily Mail or the Telegraph tells them that the less fortunate are the cause of their own troubles, who are they to disbelieve that?
That’s why I’m writing this article. A quick confession before I continue; I’m no journalist, nor do I have any background in journalism. I don’t often write articles of any kind – as is probably clear, this is something of a first for me. What I am, however, is determined to destroy the poisonous narrative of benefit cheats and the stereotypes that come with it.
These stereotypes, I believe, are what make the myth so appealing. In recent years, it’s become extremely convenient to disparage “chavs,” the working class and recipients of social security. To people whose income places them in the middle classes, the idea of these vulnerable people being feckless with cash and thus reliant on taxpayer money fits right in with their preconceived notions. This allows them to dispense with empathy and support the ideology behind the cuts more wholeheartedly, and enables them to treat people on social security as one underserving homogenous mass.
This, I think, is why the story of my friend’s mother is so important. If ever there’s been a series of events which show just how hollow the idea of the feckless poor is, it’s hers.
Mrs. DM – we agreed that she’d be better served by anonymity – is about as comfortably middle-class as they come. She works in a London opera house backstage, enjoys Handel and Tchaikovsky when relaxing in the evenings and can even reportedly claim descent from Oliver Cromwell. That last one I’m not so sure about, mind you, but overall the point I’m making should be clear; Mrs. DM is a very typical Middle England person, with nothing that sets her apart particularly from millions of others. Unfortunately, the work she does is subject to the vagaries of the opera season. It’s pretty simple; no show, no work. Sometimes this means that she has no income for a month or more, and must scrape to get by. Even when she does get work, she often finds that London’s appallingly high rents stretch her resources to their limits, and given that her landlord inevitably raises said rents each and every year this is unlikely to change.
That’s where her experiences of the UK’s current welfare system come in. Trying to make ends meet, she applied for housing benefit. Having been accepted, things seemed like they’d be better for her – until she discovered that the Housing Benefit people had been taking lumps of cash out of her bank account with little warning. When they did see fit to notify Mrs. DM, their letters tersely explained that they’d overpaid her that month, and they felt justified therefore in taking back the money they were owed immediately. Sometimes she’d work more shows one month than she would the other. Entertainment work of this nature is highly variable, as anyone who’s ever tried to make a living in it can tell you, and that extends to the staff who do all the unseen work backstage.
Housing Benefit, however, found the idea of an irregular schedule of working hours difficult to swallow. Whenever there was a change in Mrs DM’s working schedule, they would invariably halt all payments until they were satisfied that she wasn’t defrauding them of money. Sometimes it would take weeks for them to resume. These were weeks that Mrs DM could not afford to lose money, especially with rent looming on the horizon. The last time she asked the landlord if they could come to an agreement over a later payment of rent, the response of the letting agency that mediates between them was simple; “let us know when you’re moving out, then.”
And so it continued. Change in schedule, stop in payments, anguish about how those bills were going to be handled. It seemed pretty endless, she told me. And it wasn’t just Housing Benefit that seemed out to get her, either.
Just a few weeks ago, Mrs DM got a letter from the Jobcentre. She’d used income support in 2013 and they’d decided to come knocking – in verbal form, thankfully – to collect the thousands of pounds they thought they were owed in unpaid tax from it. It was, of course, untrue; I advised her to check her bank statements, and to the surprise of no-one she didn’t owe the Income Support people a penny.
However, do you suppose they would have come to that conclusion on their own had she not fought back and shown them evidence that they were wrong? Let’s go even further with this train of thought. How many people, do you imagine, have received similar incorrect letters – and were so frightened by them that they immediately gave in and paid money that they didn’t owe? If you’re even halfway possessed of a social conscience, I reckon you probably just shuddered at the thought.
So why didn’t Mrs. DM just get another job? That’s what certain people would ask. What was keeping her there if the opera house treated her so badly? Well, I’m glad you asked. You see, the opera house used to offer her a robust permanent contract, until the Conservative government cut funding to the arts across the country. After that, her former employers decided they simply couldn’t afford to keep her under a permanent basis any more. They were, however, perfectly happy to employ her back on a zero-hours contract as one of their “casual” workers, and at sixty it would be very difficult for her to find alternate employment. The worst part of this? It could happen to anyone, as the steelworkers at Redcar could tell you.
Ultimately, the system of social security we have in this country is crumbling, and the parts of it that aren’t are transforming into a cruel regime of sneering advisors and sanction targets, a system designed to crush the people who dare to apply for its protection with shame. However, despite what the middle classes and the well-to-do might think, it affects them too. Mrs. DM is living proof of that; coming from a well-off family and having relatives who could afford to nip off to Munich every other weekend for a jaunt didn’t protect her from destitution. It didn’t shield her from the inhumane practices and negligence that now characterise the welfare services today, and it certainly didn’t encourage them to be more careful when making claims on Mrs. DM’s money – money, it would transpire, that they weren’t entitled to in the first place.
It’s this simple fact that we need to hammer home. It needs repeating again and again, until the truth of it becomes clear.
A nation with a strong welfare state is a much more prosperous and happy nation than one without
We can’t wait until the Tories destroy social security entirely for those who remain unconvinced of that to realise the truth, or more people like Mrs. DM will come to realise what they’ve lost after it’s gone.
By Sean Hodges | @Howdiddly
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Matt Nov 18, 17 culture
Earlier today as video was released that was filmed outside a Pennsylvania courthouse showing a man standing on the American Flag to Protest Racism.
Rashad McAdory, who said he was a Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, said he “will remain standing in front of the courthouse until his concerns about white supremacy and racial injustice” are addressed by the community that he calls home.
“It is not my flag,” McAdory said. “I want to see the system change and the laws and help for the black community.”
Here’s the video that has stirred a ton of controversy online.
McAdory’s sign reads:
“White supremacy works at Eerie County Courthouse. Systematic racism must end! Now!”
I’m all fine with protesting, but just like the NFL players taking a knee this goes beyond a protest into the arena of down right disrespect to the brave men and women who fought for our freedom.
A group of counter protestors showed up recently and had the following to say in response.
“I love America,” counterprotester Josh Castano said. “I appreciate his protest, but not standing on the flag. The national anthem and the flag are not foundations to stand on.”
“If you want to protest, fine,” counterprotester Benjamin Kage said. “But when you stand on the American flag, you lose momentum, you lose credibility.”
These counter protestors are correct. You have every right to protest, but not at the expense or disrespect of others. Comments on the Fox News post tend to lean toward this as well, and they are 100% right.
Maybe on of these days the Liberals will find a different way to protest. Until then I will cross my fingers and still stand up for the American flag and what it represents.
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WTF's Happening to the Erl?
The gas-pump price is currently visiting levels last seen 5 years ago, when there was still lots of 'accessible' world oil and the market was unaffected by 'green cars'. Now-a-days we're told there is still lots of oil, but it's not the Jed Clampett 'bubblin' spume' variety, and it costs a lot more to get out out of the ground and purify for the use of your transportation device.
So why, after decades of steadily rising gas prices, has 'the bottom' apparently fallen out of the market? You can bet yer gas can that oil speculators almost didn't see this one coming.
So what was 'this one', and why?
At face value we're expected to believe that the Saudis, and their oil-loving cousins in the UAE, took it into their minds to sell-off their oil for what it's worth, rather than the price 'the market' was willing to pay. After decades, again, of inflated oil profits, OPEC has decided to 'buy the world a coke' literally, if not figuratively. From an accepted world price of around $100 bucks a barrel , the Arabs have decided to let that barrel fall to the $45 per barrel level "on which their economy is based". Somebody mixed up a batch of special Kool-aid and the Arabs delightedly drank it. Or so we're told.
But why, along with the saga goes the foundation myth. apparently the middle eastern oil potentates have decided that now is the time to bring the North American frack industry - which threatens to put them right out of business - to a grinding halt. This is to be accomplished by reducing the cost of imported oil so low that the fracked stuff can't compete. The frack industry withers-up and, after all the rig and corporate structure has been bankrupted into paper losses, the price will resume it's natural ascension.
If the same logic wasn't also being applied to America's endeavor to knock Putin's 'Russian empire' for six, it might be almost credible. But it all flies in the face of God and human nature. Ain't nobody that good, or that stupid. And believing that a gas glut, now, will somehow stop fracking, or even boiling oil out of tar sands, is playing with less than a full deck.
There is still a finite supply of oil on earth, and burning it is screwing up the planet's ecosystem. That's the gospel here, the rest is 'ennertainment'.
What I think is going on is that the Saudis and the Emirates, which are phenomenally indebted to the World Bank, IMF and the USA, along with sitting on the 'rest' of their oil, are being threatened with the same sort of sanctions - for 'harboring' terror - as is Russia, Syria, Iran et al - with the essential difference being that sanctions WILL hurt Arabs, who spend a considerable amount of time and money in the west. The Arabs are just 'backing their friends in the west', again, this time with more substance than form.
The question is how long can it go on? And how much 'collateral damage' will be done to 'the innocent'? The bottom line for oil-producing nations is that the thirst for oil isn't being depleted by feeding it the cheap stuff first. Inevitably when the 'good stuff ' runs short, the market for the second-rate product will rise to make it 'worthwhile' again. What isn't sold-off cheap, will be available to sell-off at a better price. That includes fracked fuel, the hard-to-recover or the 'dirty' stuff.
Or at least that's what they say about supply and demand in "Economics for Dummies".
Fill-up cheap while you can. Don't think of the poor starving Russians, they certainly aren't thinking about you.
Posted by popsiq at 12:55 PM
Labels: economy, oil, Putin, US politics
Happy Maidan to You
Victoria Nuland could have said it any better .... to Chevron.
On the Maidan with Ms Vikki
This from the little lady who, almost single-handed, launched $6 billion dollars worth of the kind of 'assistance' that makes America great.
Some of America's 'investment' in EUkrainian freedom probably did do some good, somewhere, but if it's like any of the close to two trillion dollars the US has spent since 2001, nobodies know where it's all gone. The best places to look for the 'benefits' are in outback Montana and the ski zones of Utah, Cabo San Lucas, Panama, Costa Rica, Uruguay and the Dalmatian coast. America has made some wealthy people filthy rich. Including a few in Ukraine
Montenegro Y.C.
A year ago the three-times elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich 'welched' on a potential deal with the EU that would have seen an infusion of a paltry $15 billion dollars to prop-up the 'zombie' of what used to be a fairly-healthy country. Along with the 'deal' were a number of 'austerity' measures designed to make sure Ukrainians serviced their debt, before they serviced themselves. If there hadn't been a Maidan about 'joining Europe', there would have been a Maidan about losing the pensions and trimmed government salaries.
At the same time, the Russians were offering $15 billion without the strings. But that was a stop-gap and an "insult to the nation", one that 'real' Ukrainians could not stomach. It promised nothing but more of the same. A revolution was required. This time, one with imported flowers.
So as winter morphed into deep winter, the smoke rose from an increasingly violent Maidan until gunshots resulted in about 100 dead - the "heavenly Hundred' - Yanukovich 'fled' east and the 'appointed' government of old pols and Maidan 'leaders' took over - hailed by the USA and the west, as Ukraine's new voice of freedom. Within days the 'twins' - Prime Minister Yatsenuk and President Turchynov - who had floated to the top - started ruling by decree.
"America's choice - Yats and Turchy"
One of the first decrees blamed all the trouble on 'Russians', outlawed the language and effectively introduced a second-class citizenship. Crimea, largely-populated by potential second-class citizens, voted to leave Ukraine and asked to be received into the Russian Federation. The 'interim' government blamed this on Russian troops rather than the Russian majority and when similar separatist sentiments 'caused' increasing violence in the eastern cities, the 'interim' government declared a 'war' on (Russian) terror and ordered a mobilization.
Historically the revolution was 'in danger' and the people needed to be 'leveed en masse' to defend 'liberte, egalite and fraternite'. The tanks rolled east in May.
Since then a tentative advance, in some places stopped by local citizens reprising a Chinese road-block, turned into a 'drive-by shooting' experience when 'nationalist', and fascist, militias 'took the lead'. Much of the east was 'liberated' before the Kyiv forces closed-in and virtually encircled Slavyansk and other towns in the east. A period of shelling resulted in the retreat of eastern forces. Battles for regional airports at Lugansk, Slavyansk and Donetsk were fierce and, in the latter case, turned into in a long destructive slog. That one is 'on-going'.
By July the rebels had started fighting back, trapping some Ukrainian units against the Russian border and embarrassing them with some notable raids and strikes. At the end of August a 'counter-offensive' trapped a number of Kyiv forces in the Donetsk and Lugansk areas. Some surrendered, some were destroyed and some broke out to flee west. A new front was opened along the Azov littoral and Kyiv forces were driven back in a number of places, including around Mariuople.
The 'ceasefire' declared at the EU meeting in Wales, provided an opportunity for the Kyiv forces to withdraw for replenishment, the creation of newly-drafted units and the replacement of destroyed materials. The army was redeployed to the east by the end of October. To-date it is reported to be 'digging-in' to await the 'Russian offensive'. Like the related 'Russian invasion' one shouldn't hold one's breath. Shelling continues from both sides and small scale raids will probably dominate the winter months.
Xmas 'tankov' . Slav'Eukrainie!
Who knows what Springtime will bring but it's highly unlikely the Kyiv forces will improve during a winter at the front.
Posted by popsiq at 11:18 AM
Labels: Ukraine, War, winter
'Torcher' and 'Bus-tossin 101' - the Sophomores Take America!
It's out and it's 'transparent'. All 500 pages - or whichever ones haven't been 'redacted', or withheld, or censored - of the 'executive brief', of a more substantial report, on America's torturing terrorists.
The Congress wrote it, the White House read it, the forces o'justis got to delete, or black out the parts (starting on the front cover) that would have 'sapped America's strength'. And now the mall-trotters get to watch everybody important sucking their teeth and allowing as to how torture 'isn't a national value' and maybe we shouldn't do that any more, but how things were so bad back then, that extremism in defense of liberty was no vice - to paraphrase Barry Goldwasser. Or 'crime' for that matter, either.
Leading the counterattack is 'the best Veep money could buy' - the 'Dickmeister' Cheney - who would do it all again 'in a heartbeat' or even faster. The report according to him is "full of crap" - I''m inclined to believe him, for even if it was fiction, it doesn't describe America's better moments. More like what would happen of frat house hazers and the school bullies were given awards for what they do. Let's face it though, the 'real American' part was trying to 'reinvent' torture - which according to Hollywood, has been around for millennia - as a 'scientific' discipline, or a subject for Psych 201 term papers.
It turns out, lacking the obviously repellent detail, that a couple of US Air Force psych Majors (literally) got a little 'out of hand' on some desensitization survival training and something like the 'experiment' from Ghostbusters took place - i.e. people got 'shocked and awed' for little or no reason - a lot. For their services, a grateful nation was prepared to pay them - and their private consulting corporation - some 120 million smackeroos. But they were only paid $81 million before the wheels came off their cart. Enough for each of them to build the home of their dreams and retire on their 'service pensions'. The two have been 'outed', in a show of good faith. But the same mechanism that stopped them from being 'overpaid', also stops them from being prosecuted. They have better immunity than somebody who found the hidden idol.
I post their photos as example of the kind of non-monsters who approach torture the same way most people approach a pizza.
Mitchell on the left a 'defrocked' Mormon bishop lives in Florida, Jensen on the right has a multimillionaires' mansion somewhere the cowboys live.
If there's anybody to be blamed, these two 'bozeaux' are it. They took taxpayer money for what turned out to be 'bad intel'. But, hey, they've already been pardoned. So good luck trying to 'go after' the good guys.
The media has been having a field day over it all and public opinion is divided between 'necessary evil' and 'they deserve everything they get'. One of the feast-makers, Big John Brennan, head of the CIA and master-planner of the faery-feller's masterstroke in Kyiv, after declaring a couple of 'eus culpas' on behalf of the CIA has stated that the time has come to 'put it all behind us' and move on with the national business of voting the necessary appropriations to keep the government payroll keeping America safe. It's done. Over. Nothing to see here. Move along.
What seems apparent is that - for all the negativity, and cost and effort - the whole exercise was relatively fruitless. No demonstrable terrorism was stopped, no evil-doers caught, you can't say that vic'try was attained. And to-day someone is even saying that, for all the torture, there isn't an iota of proof that Al Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers like we thought they did.
AQ didn't do it?
Labels: AlQaeda, scapegoats, torture, War on Terror
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10 Reasons Why Lemmy Is God
Let the indoctrination begin.
Katy Irizarry
Motorhead Survivors Preparing Lemmy Tribute Shows
Guitarist Phil Campbell reveals he and drummer Mickey Dee will perform select shows with guests.
Three Years Ago: Motorhead Pioneer Lemmy Kilmister Dies
On Dec. 28, 2015, Motorhead mainman and rock 'n' roll legend Lemmy Kilmister passed away.
Jon Wiederhorn
Mikkey Dee: How Lemmy Kilmister Has Become 'Bigger Than Elvis'
It’s been a tough time for Motorhead fans, but longtime drummer Mikkey Dee is blown away by all the love for Lemmy.
Sunday, December 24: Tig's Rock Birthdays
Remembering Motorhead mainman Lemmy Kilmister today (Dec. 24) on what would have been his 72nd birthday. Other rock birthdays today include former Thin Lizzy keyboardist Darren Wharton (55).
Hear a Previously Unreleased Song With Lemmy Kilmister
Lemmy's Headcast bandmate Danny B. Harvey has released a new version of 'Trying to Get to You' featuring the Motorhead mainman and Annie Marie Lewis.
Ex-Morbid Angel Frontman Replaces Lemmy Kilmister in Headcat
The rockabilly power trio Headcat have decided to continue without Lemmy Kilmister, naming the former Morbid Angel vocalist / bassist as his successor.
Philip Anselmo Recalls Advice Given From Lemmy Kilmister
While Philip Anselmo was still in Pantera, Lemmy Kilmister gave him an incredibly value piece of wisdom regarding the music industry.
Lemmy Kilmister Solo Album Prepped for Potential 2017 Release
Skew Siskin's Jim Voxx revealed in an interview that he's in the process of completing a Lemmy Kilmister solo album that Lemmy had worked on before his death.
Mikkey Dee Visits Lemmy Kilmister Statue for First Time
For the first time since its unveiling in August, Mikkey Dee paid a visit to the statue of his old bandmate Lemmy at the Rainbow on the Sunset Strip.
Custom Lemmy Kilmister Fire Pit Is the Ultimate Tribute
One man in the Netherlands has constructed an awesome Lemmy Kilmister fire pit and it could be yours to own!
Airbourne Unleash Lemmy Kilmister Tribute 'It's All for Rock n' Roll'
Airbourne pay homage to the late Lemmy Kilmister with their new video for 'It's All for Rock n' Roll.'
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Counting Quail In Arizona
By Bob Corley
On Oct. 14, 2018 eleven members of the Southern Arizona Quail Forever volunteered to survey “treated” habitat in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Arizona with the cooperation of Zach May, QF chapter president, and under the supervision of Wade Zarlingo, small game program manager with the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
The Sulphur Springs Valley is a huge north/south area bordered by the Galiuro Mountains on the west and the Pinaleno Mountains on the east. Prior to the late 1800’s pioneers described the valley as having grass “up to the belly of a horse” with no trees. Pronghorn antelope and scaled quail were reportedly in abundance. Then came the cattle from Texas. It was an open range with no fences and early ranchers could run as many cattle as they wanted. And did. A true tragedy of the commons: The more cattle you ran, the more money you made.
Jonathan O’Dell, small game biologist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said that it was grazed down to a “moonscape.” Years of severe drought in conjunction with this overgrazing left the Sulphur Springs Valley barren for miles and miles. And then, slowly, after the cattle left and the rains returned, the habitat started coming back. But now an invasive species had arrived – mesquite from Texas.
Bringing Back the Grass
According to Wade Zarlingo, Arizona Game & Fish began a program to return portions of the grassland to its more historic, original condition by using an excavator (backhoe with tracks) to remove the invasive mesquites. On state trust public land as well as private sections, a total of 22,000 acres have now been “treated” in this way with the expectation that arid grassland species such as pronghorns and scaled quail will return. Treated and untreated transects have been pre-determined for survey each year to provide a means of scientific comparison. Each transect is basically a rectangle of 2.2 – 2.5 miles.
The Survey
So on the chilly, muddy morning of Oct. 14, 2018 eleven Quail Forever members and their dogs were set to run the transects. And what a menagerie! Muensterlanders, GSPs, German Longhair Pointers, Pudelpointers, britts, Labs, Vislas, retrievers, and my own little French britts.
And what did we find? The most prevalent plant on my transect as well as others was Russian thistle, or tumbleweed. Rana Tucker, regional game specialist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, who hiked with me as an observer and recorder, commented that the tumbleweeds should eventually be replaced by more native grass species through natural succession.
Scattered throughout the transect were excavated dead mesquite piles. And that was exactly where most of the birds were found. More pronghorns have been spotted recently and several teams found scaled quail, but smaller coveys and not really in abundance. My Britts pointed one dead mesquite pile that held 35 Gambel’s quail.
“Scaled quail habitat improvement efforts in other states such as New Mexico have taken at least five years or more before seeing any positive results,” said O’Dell.
With continued habitat projects and good rains, perhaps we will see the same in Arizona.
Quail Forever Forms 7th Alabama Chapter
Recipe: Caldo Tlalpeno, Mexican Quail Soup
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What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five
by Stephen Kimber
The history of U.S. efforts to undermine and overthrow Fidel Castro is chock full of bizarre assassination plots, economic sanctions, and enough bush-league spycraft to make for dozens of satirical TV series. While there have been some attempts at rapprochement, the virulence of Miami’s Cuban exile community, combined with an ever-vigilant security apparatus in Cuba, make for a continuous Cold War tangle that rarely receives sufficient news coverage.
In his new book, Halifax journalism professor Stephen Kimber examines a key flashpoint in the conflict: the case of five Cuban intelligence officers who, after infiltrating right-wing Florida groups in order to prevent terrorist actions against Cuba, were thrown behind bars in the U.S., some for life. It’s a plot worthy of John le Carré, played out against the backdrop of a schizophrenic North American superpower that condemns some terror attacks while celebrating anti-Castro vigilantes who have records of blowing up civilian airliners, planting explosives inside tourist hot spots, and receiving acquittals in the rare instances the perpetrators are charged. In Kimber’s hands, however, the novelist’s touch is missing, and what appears instead is a rather clunky chronological account of a complex web of spies and counterspies.
Kimber has done an admirable research job – combing through 20,000 pages of court testimony, conducting dozens of interviews, and doing his best to present the facts of a conflict in which both sides admit to lying – but his attempts to dramatize events tend to fall flat, reading more like a paperback potboiler than rigorous history. His extraneous editorial comments can be annoying, and the sheer volume of material may confound the reader, especially when the author introduces new plot elements, then warns that “we are getting ahead of ourselves.”
Despite the structural and stylistic problems, patient readers will unearth a useful history of America’s ongoing war against Cuba, marked by sometimes honourable men and women trying to defeat drug dealers, thugs, and other lowlifes. On the specific subject of the Cuban Five, Kimber is best when he sticks to an unadorned telling of the story and allows readers to come to their own conclusions.
Reviewer: Matthew Behrens
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Released: Aug.
Categories: History
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Tag: Josh Billings
Success Don’t Konsist in Never Making Blunders, But in Never Making the Same One the Seckond Time
Josh Billings? Henry Wheeler Shaw? Apocryphal?
Dear Quote Investigator: Making mistakes is unavoidable in life. There is an insightful adage stating that the key to success is not making the same mistake twice. Would you please help me to find a citation for this notion?
Quote Investigator: In February 1872 “The Daily State Journal” of Alexandria, Virginia published a miscellaneous collection of sayings under the title “General Items” including the following. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1
—Josh Billings says: “Success don’t konsist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the seckond time.”
Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw. He often employed nonstandard spelling to represent distinctive pronunciations.
Below are additional selected citations in chronological order.
Continue reading Success Don’t Konsist in Never Making Blunders, But in Never Making the Same One the Seckond Time
1872 February 2, The Daily State Journal, General Items, Quote Page 3, Column 2, Alexandria, Virginia. (Newspapers_com) ↩
Posted on March 29, 2019 Categories Josh BillingsTags Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings
It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So
Mark Twain? Josh Billings? Artemus Ward? Kin Hubbard? Will Rogers? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: The Oscar-winning 2015 film “The Big Short” begins with a display of the following statement:
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
The brilliant humorist Mark Twain receives credit, but I have been unable to find a solid citation. This quip is very popular. Would you please investigate?
Quote Investigator: Scholars at the Center for Mark Twain Studies of Elmira College have found no substantive evidence supporting the ascription to Mark Twain. 1
The observation has been attributed to several other prominent humorists including: Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw), Artemus Ward (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne), Kin Hubbard (pen name of Frank McKinney Hubbard), and Will Rogers. Yet, it is unlikely then any of them said it. The creator remains anonymous based on current evidence.
The saying is difficult to trace because it falls within an evolving family of remarks concerning faulty knowledge and memory. Three processes operate on members of the family to generate new members and ascriptions incrementally:
Statements are rephrased over time.
Statements are hybridized together to produce new statements.
Attributions are shifted from one prominent humorist to another.
The family contains some comments with genuine ascriptions. For example, in 1874 a compendium of wit and humor from Josh Billings was published. The work employed dialectal spelling which causes headaches for modern researchers who are attempting to find matches using standard spelling. The following pertinent item appeared in a section labeled “Affurisms”, i.e., “Aphorisms”. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 2
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.
Here is the statement written with standard spelling:
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
This remark partially matched the saying under investigation, and it acted as a seed in the evolving family of remarks.
Continue reading It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So
Website: Center for Mark Twain Studies, Article title: The Apocryphal Twain: “Things We Know That Just Ain’t So.”, Article author: Matt Seybold, Date on website: October 6, 2016, Website description: Center dedicated to fostering and supporting scholarship and pedagogy related to all aspects of Mark Twain based at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. (Accessed marktwainstudies.com on November 18, 2018) link ↩
1874, Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, Section: Affurisms: Sollum Thoughts, Quote Page 286, American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
Posted on November 18, 2018 March 29, 2019 Categories Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, Kin Hubbard, Mark Twain, Will RogersTags Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, Kin Hubbard, Mark Twain, Will Rogers
I Haven’t Got as Much Money as Some Folks, But I Have Got as Much Impudence as Any of Them, and That Is the Next Thing to Money
Creator: Josh Billings (pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw), celebrated U.S. humorist
Context: A collection of “Sayings of Josh Billings” appeared in “The Alleghanian” newspaper of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania in 1864. Billings employed phonetic spelling. Here were three of the sayings: 1
I havn’t got as mutch muny az sum folks, but i hav got as much impudence az enny ov them, and that is the next thing tew munny.
It aint often that a man’s reputashunt outlasts his munny.
Don’t mistake arroganse for wisdom; menny people hav thought they wuz wize, when tha waz only windy.
The sayings above also appeared in the 1871 collection “Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings” although the precise phrasing and spelling sometimes differed. For example, in the first expression “mutch” became “much”. Also, “havn’t” was incorrectly changed to “have”. 2
Image Notes: Picture of Josh Billings from Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University via Wikimedia Commons. Picture of money from QuinceMedia at Pixabay.
1864 October 6, The Alleghanian (The Ebensburg Alleghanian), Sayings of Josh Billings, Quote Page 4, Column 1,Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. (Newspapers_com) ↩
1871, Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings with Comic Illustrations, Chapter 39: Remarks, Quote Page 115, Carleton Publisher, New York. (Google Books Full View) link ↩
Posted on August 17, 2018 Categories Josh BillingsTags Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings
Observe the Postage Stamp—Its Usefulness Depends Upon Its Ability to Stick to One Thing Till It Gets There
Josh Billings? Elmira Gazette? Charles Frohman? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Soon people will be making resolutions for the New Year. The popular U.S. humorist Josh Billings reportedly made an apropos remark about steadfastness. Here are two versions:
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
A postage stamp is a mighty small thing, but it sticks to one thing until it gets there.
I have been unable to find a solid citation for Billings. Would you please help trace this saying?
Quote Investigator: The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in the “Elmira Gazette” of Elmira, New York in December 1893. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1
My son, observe the postage stamp—its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
The article containing the statement was titled “Jocular Jots”, and it included one other comical remark. No ascriptions were provided.
Josh Billings died in 1885, and based on current evidence he did not craft this saying although it was attributed to him by 1895. See the citation further below.
Continue reading Observe the Postage Stamp—Its Usefulness Depends Upon Its Ability to Stick to One Thing Till It Gets There
1893 December 27, Elmira Gazette (Star-Gazette), Jocular Jots, Quote Page 4, Column 2, Elmira, New York. (Newspapers_com) ↩
Posted on December 22, 2017 December 23, 2017 Categories Josh BillingsTags Charles Frohman, Elmira Gazette, Josh Billings
People Think They Are Thinking When They Are Merely Rearranging Their Prejudices
Edward R. Murrow? Knute Rockne? William James? William Fitzjames Oldham? Josh Billings? George Craig Stewart? Luther Burbank? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Changing deeply help opinions is very difficult. A brilliant and forceful quotation expresses this idea:
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
These words have been attributed to the prominent journalist Edward R. Murrow, the famous football coach Knute Rockne, and the influential psychologist William James. Would you please explore this topic?
Quote Investigator: The earliest close match known to QI appeared in 1906 in the religious periodical “Zion’s Herald” based in Boston, Massachusetts. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1
Bishop Oldham scored with his audience with a bon mot to the effect that some people “think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
The name “Bishop Oldham” was ambiguous, but his first name and middle initial were given in the August 24, 1904 issue of “Zion’s Herald”. 2 William Fitzjames Oldham served in the Methodist Episcopal Church and performed missionary work around the globe.
Knute Rockne used the expression in a newspaper column in 1926, but he disclaimed credit. William James received credit by 1946, and he did write a thematically similar passage in 1907 before his death in 1910. Yet, QI has found no direct evidence that James made a closely matching statement. Edward R. Murrow received credit by 1949, and he may have used it after it had been circulating for years.
Below are additional selected citations in chronological order. Continue reading People Think They Are Thinking When They Are Merely Rearranging Their Prejudices
1906 November 7, Zion’s Herald, Volume 84, Number 45, Notes (A miscellaneous collection of short items), Quote Page 1433, Column 2, Boston, Massachusetts. (ProQuest American Periodicals) ↩
1904 August 24, Zion’s Herald, Volume 82, Number 34, Personals, Start Page 1063, Quote Page 1064, Boston, Massachusetts. (ProQuest American Periodicals) ↩
Posted on May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 Categories Edward R. Murrow, Josh Billings, William JamesTags Edward R. Murrow, George Craig Stewart, Josh Billings, Knute Rockne, Luther Burbank, William Fitzjames Oldham, William James
It Is Better to Know Nothing than to Know What Ain’t So
Josh Billings? Artemus Ward? Will Rogers? Abraham Lincoln? Mark Twain? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Here are two versions of an expression I am trying to trace:
1) It’s better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
2) It is better not to know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so.
Should these words be credited to Mark Twain, Josh Billings, Artemus Ward, Will Rogers, or someone else?
Quote Investigator: In 1874 the following compendium was released: “Everybody’s Friend or Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”. The apostrophe in the name Billings was misplaced in the title. The work employed dialectical spelling which causes headaches for modern researchers who are attempting to find matches using standard spelling. One section was labeled “Affurisms” because it contained “Aphorisms”. The book included two thematically relevant statements: 1
A) I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.
B) Wisdum don’t konsist in knowing more that iz new, but in knowing less that iz false.
Here are the two sentences written with standard spelling:
A) I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
B) Wisdom don’t consist in knowing more that is new, but in knowing less that is false
QI believes that Josh Billings can be credited with the sayings above. There exists a large family of semantically overlapping expressions that form an inclusive superset, and QI will eventually examine some of the other members of this extended group.
Continue reading It Is Better to Know Nothing than to Know What Ain’t So
1874, Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, Section: Affurisms: Sollum Thoughts, Quote Page 286 and 430, American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut. (Google Books Full View) link link ↩
Posted on May 30, 2015 April 16, 2019 Categories Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Will RogersTags Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Will Rogers
The Person Who Never Makes a Mistake Will Never Make Anything
Theodore Roosevelt? Albert Einstein? Benjamin Franklin? Samuel Smiles? Josh Billings? Mr. Phelps? G. K. Chesterton? Robert Smith Surtees? Joseph Conrad? Will Rogers? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Mistakes are unavoidable in the life of an active and vital person. Several adages highlight this important theme:
1) A man who never makes a mistake will never make anything.
2) The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
3) A fellow who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
Many famous names have been linked to sayings of this type including Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Albert Einstein. Would you please examine this topic?
Quote Investigator: This is a large and complex topic. Below is a summary that presents a list of expressions that fit into this family together with dates and attributions:
1832: He who never makes an effort, never risks a failure. (Anonymous)
1859: He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. (Samuel Smiles)
1874: The man who never makes enny blunders seldum makes enny good hits. (Josh Billings)
1889: A man who never makes a mistake will never make anything. (Attributed: Mr. Phelps)
1896: It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes. (Joseph Conrad)
1900: The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. (Solid Attribution: Theodore Roosevelt)
1901: Show me a man who has never made a mistake, and I will show you one who has never tried anything. (Anonymous)
1903: The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all—doing nothing. (Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy)
1911: The fellow who never makes any failures, never makes any successes either. (Anonymous)
1927: Every man makes mistakes; they say a man who never makes mistakes never makes anything else. (G. K. Chesterton)
1936: The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all—doing nothing. (Flawed Attribution: Benjamin Franklin)
1969: The man who never makes a mistake must get plenty tired of doing nothing. (Anonymous)
1993: The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing. (Weak Attribution: Will Rogers)
1995: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Weak Attribution: Albert Einstein.)
Here are selected citations in chronological order.
Continue reading The Person Who Never Makes a Mistake Will Never Make Anything
Posted on December 16, 2014 March 29, 2019 Categories Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, G. K. Chesterton, Josh Billings, Theodore Roosevelt, Will RogersTags Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Josh Billings, Mr. Phelps, Samuel Smiles, Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers
Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do The Day After Tomorrow Just As Well
Mark Twain? Oscar Wilde? Josh Billings? Spanish Proverb? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Everyone is guilty of some procrastination. Even the industrious humorist Mark Twain was credited with a quotation sympathetic to the indolent:
Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Puzzlingly, this same quip has been ascribed to the famous wit Oscar Wilde. Who said it first?
Quote Investigator: In July 1870 an article by Mark Twain was published in “The Galaxy” magazine. One section of the article expressed unhappiness with the aphorisms popularized by Benjamin Franklin. Twain stated the following desire: 1
… snub those pretentious maxims of his; which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel …
Twain constructed a comical adage that he farcically attributed to Franklin:
Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.—B. F.
This is the earliest evidence QI has found for this type of quip from Twain or Wilde. The word “the” was omitted before the phrase “day after to-morrow”. A similar adage was credited to Oscar Wilde in a biography published in 1946, and the details are given further below. However, this evidence was weak because Wilde died decades earlier in 1900.
Continue reading Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do The Day After Tomorrow Just As Well
1870 July, The Galaxy, Memoranda by Mark Twain, Subsection: The Late Benjamin Franklin, Start Page 133, Quote Page 138, W. C. and F. P. Church, New York. (Reprint edition published in 1965 by AMS Press Inc., New York) (HathiTrust) link link ↩
Posted on January 17, 2013 October 5, 2018 Categories Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Oscar WildeTags Hesketh Pearson, Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Josh Billings? Josh Weathersby? Cal Stewart? Ring Lardner? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Individuals who complain often receive the most attention. There is a popular analogy about squeaky wheels that I think has been incorrectly attributed to the humorist Josh Billings who was a famous lecturer in the 1800s. (Billings was the pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw.) Here are three versions of the maxim:
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Some reference works credit Josh Billings, but none of these works present a solid citation. Would you please attempt to uncover the truth about the provenance of this adage?
Quote Investigator: Some books have suggested that the maxim appeared in a poem called “The Kicker” that was supposedly composed by Josh Billings circa 1870. But the careful and scholarly reference “The Yale Book of Quotations” remarked that the existence of “The Kicker” by Billings has never been verified. 1 Indeed, QI believes that the attribution to Billings is unsupported.
The earliest appearance of this expression located by QI occurred in a collection of stories published in 1903. The author Cal Stewart constructed a colorful raconteur character that he called Uncle Josh Weathersby. The saying under investigation was contained in an epigraph that was ascribed to this character: 2
“I don’t believe in kickin’,
It aint apt to bring one peace;
But the wheel what squeaks the loudest
is the one what gets the grease.”
—Josh Weathersby.
The word “kickin” was a slang term that referred to complaining or causing a disturbance..
Continue reading The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
2006, The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, Section Josh Billings, Quote Page 85, Yale University Press, New Haven. (Verified on paper) ↩
1903, Uncle Josh Weathersby’s “Punkin Centre” stories by Cal Stewart, Page 6, Regan Printing House, Chicago. (Google Books full view; also HathiTrust) link ↩
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New Adventures in Polling
It’s that time where we’re talking about the Goucher Poll again. And as is often the case, the Goucher Poll does not tell us everything that many folks think it does.
I’m not going to spend this entire piece burying the polling sample methodology, which Greg touched on yesterday and which we have discussed on multiple locations with multiple polls. The quick version: polls that are conducted of adults (not likely voters or even registered voters) using random digit dialing are not as statistically relevant and statistically significant as polls conducted using identified samples of likely voters. The registered voters in this sample (707 of the 808 respondents) are self-identified. But it is what it is and Dr. Mileah Kromer and her Goucher Poll team have to go to war with the army they have.
(Fun fact though: more Marylanders identify themselves as conservatives than progressives. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, lefties).
No, the big issue here is the questions that were asked of the respondents.
Let’s take a look at the six specific issue-based questions that were asked by the Goucher Poll team:
Do you think the state government spends [too much, too little, or about the right amount] to fund public education in Maryland?
Do you [support or oppose] raising the minimum age for the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in Maryland from 18 to 21?
Changing topics, do you [support or oppose] raising the state minimum wage to $15 dollars per hour?
Do you [support or oppose] making marijuana legal for recreational use in Maryland?
Do you [support or oppose] a statewide ban on Styrofoam products such as food containers, plates, and cups?
As you may have heard, a policy recently was proposed that would allow terminally ill patients to obtain a prescription for a fatal dose of drugs from a willing doctor. To be eligible, these patients would have to be diagnosed as having less than six months to live, be mentally competent, and self-administer the drugs. Do you [oppose or support] this policy?
The questions themselves are grossly simplistic. That’s not to say Dr. Kromer and company can be faulted for that. Their job in conducting the Goucher Poll is to get a snapshot in time on the issues. The only question which one could take serious umbrage with is the last question listed, which goes pretty much all the way around the barn to not use the word “suicide.”
The issue with this is the fact that these opinions are often delivered in somewhat of a vacuum. Respondents, many of whom may not be likely voters who actually pay attention to the things that are going on in Annapolis, are providing what basically amounts to an emotional gut-level response. There isn’t a lot of nuance or deep thought going into these responses.
Are the respondents aware how much money the state spends on education?
Did the respondents take time to consider what the juxtaposition of making cigarettes less accessible while making marijuana more accessible?
Did the respondents take into consideration not only the harm that a $15 minimum wage would bring to workers but how we got here in the first place?
Did the respondents take time to consider how harmful marijuana is?
Did the respondents take time to consider how the effects of what a styrofoam ban would actually mean? Not just in relation to the alleged environmental benefits but also the increased cost of food purchased in restaurants passed onto to consumers?
Do respondents know anything about the assisted suicide debate besides the emotional, sugar-coated version of things being reported in statewide media?
Again, the issue here is not with the Goucher Poll folks. They only have the attention of the respondent for so much time and again other than the obtuse question regarding assisted suicide the questions boil down the issue to its most basic level. The problem becomes with the informed electorate and the issue that we have been talking about for years regarding the lack of serious local news coverage in the state. In an era where people are getting a lot of information on Facebook and a lot of that information is centered on Washington, it’s hard to put a lot of faith in polling questions on specific state and local issues when questions are provided with as little context as these are. And that says nothing about the potential intensity of voters on these issues. Voters may have an opinion about these things and even with greater context, their opinion may match up with the numbers above. But do we really know how much they actually care? Not necessarily, because we don’t know how important these specific issues are to them.
The second part of the Goucher Poll released at midnight asked voters an open-ended question about what they thought was the most important issue facing Maryland. Education hit 16%, drugs 5%, envrionment 4%. Assisted suicide isn’t anywhere on the map. Even then, these percentages are just generalized buckets of topics and don’t necessarily relate to the specific questions polled above. So we really don’t know how important those six issues are to the electorate, but we know that those six issues don’t register anywhere near the top of the most important thing poll respondents think Maryland should be dealing with.
Another reason to doubt the true intensity and the true importance of these numbers came last November. Compare the support that these issues received to the platform of 2018 Democratic nominee Ben Jealous. Jealous supported more funding for education (64% of respondents), raising the smoking age (66%), raising the minimum wage (66%), legalizing marijuana (57%) and assisted suicide (62%). If you believe the poll, then Ben Jealous was tailor-made for Maryland’s electorate. Despite that, Jealous got demolished by Governor Larry Hogan on Election Day.
On top of the election results the new Goucher Poll approval rating of Governor Hogan, who either opposes or is agnostic on a lot of the issues discussed above, is 69%.
The key is context. When polling on issues the voter often does not know the context of the issue they’re being asked about. While local coverage of issues and campaigns is still not what it needs to be, voters do have more context and understanding of the candidates on the ballot and what they stand for. And when voters are presented with a statewide candidate who supports the issues that they ostensibly support they tend to reject that candidate in favor of a more conservative choice.
Democrats are doing what they do best which is overhype and overreact to polling results without stopping to understand the whole picture. But all of us need to understand that concerns with the inability to understand the respondents breadth of knowledge and their intensity on those issues should make anybody take a breath before relying on this data to show a true representation as to where the voters are.
Why Medical Professionals Oppose Physician Assisted Suicide
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Contradictions, Open Secrets and Feminist Faith in Enlightenment
Heather Lauren Hughes
Many feminists target ignorance of domestic violence as the main reason for judicial resistance to decisions that would punish abusers and redress battered women's harms. But feminist demands to educate courts - to create, for example, a reformed tort law system in which courts understand and take into account the complex situation of battered women litigants - seek an epistemological grounding from which to adjudicate the intractable contradictions in both legal discourse and cultural discourse about women. Domestic violence continues to co-exist with public condemnation of such violence by feminists and some lawmakers. Domestic violence is an open secret in our culture, fated to interface at common law with the open secret in American jurisprudence that the myth of an abstract rule of law is at the same time readily deconstructed, yet crucial and indispensable. Ignorance is not a cognitive darkness from which people emerge into the light of understanding. Rather, ignorance is pluralized and specified to correspond to various regimes of knowledge. For battered women, these regimes of knowledge include cultural mandates that women be intelligible in terms of pre-determined gender roles and sexual identities. For adjudicators, these regimes of knowledge include professional mandates to sustain the authority of precedent through appeals to a rule of law. The combination of (i) the utility to courts of an abstract rule of law, and (ii) social prescriptions for the intelligibility of women, fosters a privileged ignorance of violence against women that will not be erased through enlightenment.
Heather Lauren Hughes, Contradictions, Open Secrets and Feminist Faith in Enlightenment, 13 Hastings Women's L.J. 187 (2002).
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What is Road Danger Reduction?
The road danger reduction approach to achieving safer roads seeks to reduce danger at source. This calls for a recognition of the fact that the principal source of danger on the road is motor vehicles.Traditional approaches to road safety have taken casualty reduction as a measure of achievement. Initiatives, particularly in highway engineering, have been justified on the basis of predicted casualty savings.
The danger reduction approach presents a new perspective to road safety. Why should this new perspective be encouraged?
The Road Danger Reduction Forum has a vision of:
All road users being able to travel where they choose with a minimum of threat from other road users.
All road users taking full responsibility for the effects their transport choices have on others.
An environmentally sustainable transport system which provides equity and accessibility for all road users, permitting no disadvantage for those who choose not to own a car.
The RDRF is urging local authorities to adopt its charter, which will help to provide a framework for transport related policies and strategies.
The casualty reduction effort has taken place against a backdrop of increasing car use. There are many reasons for the increase in ownership and use of cars. Changes in the economy and lifestyles have led to more motoring, less cycling, motorcycling and walking.Although overall a reduction in fatal and serious casualties has occurred, part of this reduction is strongly linked with reduced levels of walking, cycling and motorcycling. It is therefore difficult to equate reduced casualties with safer roads. In fact, pedestrians, cyclists, older people, parents of young children and local communities in general are likely to perceive that there is now more danger on our roads. The volume and speed of motorised traffic are common daily concerns of the British public at large.
Levels of road accidents are therefore not alone an adequate measure of road safety. Why should people’s perceptions matter?
The broader dilemma
The need to encourage people to walk or cycle has been highlighted recently:-
Following concern about the effects of motorised transport upon the environment;
following concern about increased car use and lack of exercise.
This presents something of a dilemma when the roads are perceived as dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. This perceived danger is one factor which deters people from the attractions of walking and cycling. Ironically, it is this avoidance of danger which has achieved some measure of casualty reduction.
Perceived danger does matter, because it affects people’s behaviour.
Perceived Danger
If a road safety strategy concentrates less exclusively on casualty reduction, and more on achieving an ethos of genuine road safety, it begins to develop meaningful links and share common aims with transport policy and health issues.The key focus of the latter approach lies in considering the effects of perceived danger on human behaviour. The behaviour will in turn affect the actual safety outcome, depending on the road user type. For example:-
measures to decrease perceived danger for car drivers will result overall in greater hazards for the benign road users (pedestrians and cyclists). Car users are relatively well protected, and it is easy to fail to appreciate the hazards of speed presented to other people in the community.
increases in perceived danger (from motorised traffic) will prevent people from walking and cycling, as these road users are vulnerable when out and about.
A fundamental concern is now the unequal risk levels experienced by different road users.
This imbalance needs to be addressed by concentrating efforts on basic road safety principles such as:-
Minimising danger and risk levels to all road users by
reducing motorised traffic, and speeds
achieving a greater awareness of the risks imposed upon others by driving behaviour
giving full consideration to the needs of pedestrians and cyclists at all stages of transport planning, in order to decrease perceived danger for these benign users.
Road Safety Strategy
In devising a road safety strategy, an emphasis should be put on the desired future vision.A three stage process is recommended:-
Seek to define the basic objectives of road safety, which should operate as a central theme of transport policy and should relate to environmental and health issues. Develop a ‘desired future vision.’
Set targets
Devise measures to achieve the targets.
In this way, the danger reduction approach is consistent with today’s need for ‘verifiable data’ where appropriate.
Seek a genuine reduction in danger for all road users by identifying and controlling the principal sources of threat.
Find new measures to define the level of danger on our roads. These would more accurately monitor the use of and threat to benign modes (pedestrians, cyclists).
Discourage the unnecessary use of private motor transport where alternative benign modes or public transport are equally or more viable.
Pursue a transport strategy for environmentally sustainable travel based on developing efficient integrated public transport systems. This would recognise that current levels of motor traffic should not be increased.
Actively promote cycling and walking, which pose little threat to other road users, by taking positive and co-ordinated action to increase the safety and mobility of these benign modes.
Promote the adoption of the charter as the basis of both national and international transport policy.
The Road Danger Reduction Forum is a grouping of professionals from road safety and allied fields who wish to encourage critical analysis and promote the danger reduction approach through:
occasional seminars and conferences
publications of occasional research and policy papers
a bulletin, which will be produced at least twice a year
the promotion of the charter
By the end of 1996, 38 authorities had signed up to the charter, including 12 City Councils and 5 shire counties.
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Sandbox - 14mar19
[“USC, Yale University among colleges sued by Stanford students amid college admissions scandal” (more here and here) Boys and girls, this is going to get big, real big. gjr]
Obviously there's the notion of veering left in the primaries and then right in the general. Given how crazy the Blue Mob is, the campaign leading up to the primaries should be sweet.
They'll probably tear up Creepy Uncle Joe, but his gravitas is needed.
https://joebiden.info/
The long week in review in pictures. Lots of pictures......more than just Varsity Blues.
Visual aides for our comprehension impaired.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/the-week-in-pictures-varsity-blues-edition.php
Wally 9:20
"Even the ones who dreamed up AGW are admitting the scam"
Like who? An "expert" quoted on Breitbart like your guy who "started Greenpeace"?
I'm guessing your "sources" are the same who insist that poking a steak with a fork will cause it to exsanguinate, or that every household in Switzerland is mandated to have an automatic weapon, or that massive gun restrictions only allow New Zealanders to carry between their home and a gun range, or . . . . good lord you are full of most excellent "facts". I'm not making this up, these are all from your own mouth in the past few days alone!
Posted by: Ozz | 17 March 2019 at 09:42 PM
In search of truth, justice, and the American way.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/new-zealand-shooting-live-updates/2019/03/17/21bb0634-48ec-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
That's a big lima Oscar lima @ 942 with a I know NZ and you all don't. Shure you are right, didn't you tell us so?
;-0
"Ozz" 942pm
Walt's view of the origins of the AGW scare is no more warped than yours, Jeff... and it's only accidental that his "sources" are more right than yours.
Accidents of politics.
Give it up Ozzhole.. Remember" you said there were no shooting ranges in NZ.
Now tell us all when the climate didn't change. In the last 10,000 years the seas didn't rise.
I prefer the juices IN the meat, not at the bottom of the grill.
You can stick with your 3RD world cooking.
OK Folks, a few of you have had a sample of my cooking. Any complaints? The fatman wants to know!!
Nothing to see here. Yawn..
“The assailants reportedly split into three groups, the first of which fired upon the people, the second set fire to buildings, and the third chased down people fleeing from the scene. Victims of the assault included women and children.
Monday’s incident followed an attack the day before in the Ungwan Barde village in Kajuru, where 17 Christians were killed and dozens of homes were burned.
In the first week of March, Muslim extremists massacred more than 30 Christians in Karamar village, setting fire to several houses and a church. The terrorists reportedly shot at families trying to escape the fire, killing 32.
The spate of recent attacks against communities has taken place within the predominantly Christian Adara chiefdom of southern Kaduna.”
http://metrovoicenews.com/nigerian-muslim-militants-kill-120-christians-in-three-weeks-where-is-the-outrage/
Posted by: Billl Tozer | 18 March 2019 at 07:31 AM
Walt-
I'd rather never meet you in person, but I would cream your peas in a cook off. You are a hobbyist (who can probably knock out 4-5 tasty dishes on your grill, most people can). I have trained with some of the top chefs in the world and am considered by many to cook at a professional level. I cook with a food science background, not by wive's tales and the wisdom of weekend warriors such as you.
Posted by: Ozz | 18 March 2019 at 08:06 AM
OOZE 804
What a hoot. The guy is the prep assistant at an assisted living home where they buy their food pre-made at COSTCO. Chef? Not a chance.
Well we won’t solve the politicalized Climate Change debate here. I am more into longer term weather forecasts myself. So is my favorite weather forecaster.
“You can see how muddy the waters have become. The purity of what I love is being destroyed. How can this be? You are being told the numbers are out of control, yet I have provided four major metrics in which that is clearly not the case. I am not “cherry picking.” It is people pushing the issue that keep insisting that the opposite is happening, and they are using their claims to try to drive home a point that I believe is based on an agenda. Their claims are are clearly not in line with the examples shown above. Which is why I tell people that today’s dialogue on climate and weather in reality have little to do with climate and weather. That’s the biggest shame of all.”
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/61742-climate-crisis-four-major-metrics-that-say-otherwise?fbclid=IwAR2dwCRkB1s5jjJfKbRA8oDhpYUeii88qmop7Iii1ghrwCeiKmG-uGWmxnY
While some say we should pave paradise and put up a solar lot, I still look for signs of El Niino and weather patterns building up a year in advance. Helps to know if I should buy or not when I see rain gear or warm jackets or shorts in the bargain basement in some store. :). I was delighted to read that they found a fully intact Woolly Rhino with fur when the ice receded. Of course, where they found it the ground is in deep freeze hard with a window of extraction only a few days a year. Baby, it’s still cold outside there. Perhaps it’s a wee bit premature to start an organic farm in Greenland. Satellite imagery reveals there are thousands of acres of previously farmed land under that white stuff. Guess our ancestors moved out of Greenland to be closer to the grandkids. :)
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/27190?fbclid=IwAR2pzEmSz10GXPF4OoHdAJpu-7YT0FyRRAjywGXHL4QXG_ezZoijyCwgz1E
BT at 7:31 - There's no traction in that old story. Just more 'sectarian' violence. No way to tie it to Trump or the NRA. Yawn.. turn the page.
Posted by: Scott O | 18 March 2019 at 08:27 AM
The Steve Frisch hand is jammed up Ozz this morning I see! I imagine jeffy will wrest the sock away later and stick his chubby mitt inside at some point later so we can bask in his wisdom!
Food science……rahhh!
OOZE/Peeline?Swallows?Frisch, all the same. Now Frisch is creepying me on the Union and calling me some sort of slur having to do with German. What a hoot.
Todd 8:30
Consider it a compliment. It's the best you'll get from any honest person.
Scott @8: 27 am.
Yep, can’t tie it to the NRA. They usually use machetes to hack up the children, women, and men. Kinda like MS-13 who were brought here at no fault of there own. Listen to the. Children. Machetes are so much more violent and fun, plus the added benefit of not being caught with an unlicensed firearm. Always a silver lining.
You know, I read about a brutal killing and bust of MS-13 ‘chldren’ in AOC’s neighborhood. You would think she would be aware of what is going on in her district. Guess she hasn’t a clue. She keeps demanding to abolish ICE. Says ICE puts fear in people. Must be a terrorist organization or something.
Ozz | 18 March 2019 at 08:45 AM Actually I get a laugh a minute. I see you are not honest though as you are not doing that on the Union comments. I knew you were a dishonest troll.
Todd-
"I see you are not honest though as you are not doing that on the Union comments."
Have you ever considered using the preview button before posting? As they taught us over and over again in grammar school (yes, grammar), check your work. Your sentence structure is all over the map. It is incoherent rambling. I'd hate to see what your house looks like.
Rebanistas, please inform us how Trump's ordering GM to open a plant (and Harley and Carrier) simply to keep employment numbers up is not Socialism?
"Bbbbbbbut, what about Hillary and Obama??" Nope, not an answer.
Ozz | 18 March 2019 at 09:33 AM
Spell check is the best you trolls do. Nothing of substance. What a hoot!
Spell check?? Spell check?? You can't even comprehend my post Todd. Is Trump a socialist or not? Or do you know what that means?
"Rebanistas, please inform us how Trump's ordering GM to open a plant (and Harley and Carrier) simply to keep employment numbers up is not Socialism?"
I suppose one difference between capitalism and socialism is that in the former, the head of state can press for a business to do something, in the second you can order them.
It's all a matter of degree after all. Just remember that the intermediate stage between socialism and communism is alcoholism.
Trumps Saudi pal Crown Prince Salman is leading a campaign of torture against Saudi dissidents. Disgusting that we are doing business with this demented torturer and killer. But, what the heck, he's a pal of the Trump family so that makes it ok.
"A New York Times report from over the weekend claims that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a major crackdown of his political foes that includes multiple instances of kidnapping and torturing dissidents.
The report, which was based on the accounts of two U.S. officials who have read U.S. intelligence analyses of the Saudi government, claims that the kingdom has taken on at least a dozen operations against dissidents over the past two years, and that most of them took place before the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year.
In many cases, Saudi operatives kidnapped Saudi women’s rights activists who were living abroad and brought them back to the kingdom so they could be tortured and threatened with rape."
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/kushner-ally-crown-prince-salman-led-brutal-campaign-torture-saudi-dissidents-report/
Posted by: Paul Emery | 18 March 2019 at 11:22 AM
OOZE 1029
You are making no sense. But you are a troll so I'll give you a break as a moron troll.
Boy, the pinkos reallly hate being called the commie bastards that they are. Fat commmie basstarrds. I am getting away from the textbook definitions and calling a spade a spade. The pinko bastards have already bastardized words to such a degree that, of example, hate now means criticizing. Bernie, the ole shooll Leftinista Marxist Leninist, was running around yesterday trying to bettr explain “Socialism”, ROFLMO. Meanwhile, abolish the electoral colllege, alter the First Amendmentnt to protect people from being offended, protect the media from criticism, go after the 2nd Amendment...all without calling for a Convention of the States to constitutionally change things. Sweet.
—Back to definitions. It’s all a matter of degrees. The exact second a cucumber turns into a pickle, it don’t matter no more when taking to the control ffreaks.
-This poor sap tries to explain why the NZ shooter is not a nationalist. Waste of time, but bless his heart for trying.
“We should be looking for some explanation for the New Zealander’s violence other than nationalism. I submit that his perspective was a globalist, not a nationalist, one. The resemblances between this shooter’s violence and that practiced by the Islamic State (ISIS) are striking. They may give us the right clues to understanding his real motivation.
Like ISIS, the New Zealand murderer selected soft targets: the victims of his atrocity were innocent Muslim men and women at prayer. Like ISIS, he exploited to the full the resources of modern social media in order to call attention to himself and his actions. Like ISIS, he aestheticized violence: in his hands, the mass murder of the innocent, live-streamed as it was happening, was designed to be a work of art.
Most importantly here, his violence, like ISIS’s, was addressed to a global audience in the service of a global cause: in their case, the renewal of a caliphate subsuming all Muslims spread across the planet, the umma. In his case, the “white race” throughout the world, faced (in his view) with demographic catastrophe and extinction. He was in effect calling on his intended audience to grasp the seriousness of its condition and to meet its global danger.
Whatever name we give to this kind of motivation, “nationalism” is not adequate. It is absurd to maintain that the white race throughout the entire planet forms a single, unitary “people” or “nation” in exactly the sense that particular white ethnicities do. Such a position is intelligible only from the globalist perspective that this mass shooter held, in which the differences between (say) Anglo-Australians and ethnic Serb Bosnians are entirely blotted out.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/18/no-new-zealand-shooter-not-nationalist/
And Ilham 0mar does not speak for Muslim Americans. She speaks for Islamists. But, it’s all Trump’s fault. My goodness, is there anything that man cannot due?
But of course they are -
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2019/03/18/parents-killing-kids-life-skills-says-poll-showing-college-admissions-scandal-part-of-pattern/3198310002/
Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 March 2019 at 11:52 AM
These snowflakes are going to stand up to the ascendant communists in China? -
The survey also pointed to numerous causes of the frustration for this young segment. Many feel their overall stress level is caused by the accumulation of daily micro-stressors — seemingly trivial experiences — such as being stuck in traffic, waiting for appointments, or various smartphone issues.
https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-millennials-life-more-stressful-than-ever-before/
Paul Emery: "Trumps Saudi pal Crown Prince Salman is leading a campaign of torture against Saudi dissidents. Disgusting that we are doing business with this demented torturer and killer."
In further news: "Paul Emery's pals the 17 intelligence agencies lead a campaign of torture in black sites throughout the world. Disgusting that we listen to this friend of demented torturers and killers"
About as relevant and about as true/not true.
You probably should swing around full-circle to peaking up the skirt of Stormy Daniels, she probably has Russian connections.
How do these people get jobs in radio for God's sake?
The left eating its own -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/top-latino-columnist-unearned-beto-moniker-like-stolen-valor/
That is why I am voting for Pedro.
https://www.facebook.com/dailycallout/photos/a.1751223728479003/2268369793431058/?type=3&theater
Figured it out! A. Socialist believes government can take all your stuff. A Democratic Socialist believes in voting for government to take all your stuff.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1570567403077291/?type=3&theater
@ 12:22 pm
Yep, the Saudis are known as women haters. Their treatment of women is horrrifying. That is why we heard all the Women’s Rights and Woman’s Marchers screeched out in unison this past weekend. Sicking how they treat women. They have been going nuts over the issue. Omar, AOC, and the worse one, crying Rashida Harbi Tlaib. Opps, I forgot one of the always outraged, Ms. Linda Sor-sour. The silence was deafening. Guess they were too busy slamming Chelsea Clinton for saying anti-Semitism is wrong. How dare she! At least Chelsea is now being blamed for the NZ massacre. Takes some heat off Trump. Always a silver lining.
All is not lost. There is one very articulate and highly educated Muslim woman on the speakers’ circuit warning everyone who will listen about the atrocities against women in that region by Muslim men who considered their wives and females as chattel.
Glad our crack news director is speaking for alll the silent Feminist leaders.. Think we are witnessing the melding together of socialism and Islamism.
Repost: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216586829641719&set=gm.640970776358036&type=3&theater
A leftist is even questioning the double standards -
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/18/british-lawmaker-criticises-mainstream-media-ignoring-slaughter-christians-africa/
Moi @ 1:20
Forgot: That Muslim woman on the speakers’ scholar circuit has been listed by SLPC as a hater. Figures and explains why I haven’t heard from her in awhile. Warned against Sharia Law in the USA. She has been silenced.
https://www.facebook.com/BetsyLynnGross/photos/a.1079014962118121/2403462763006661/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
DB at 12:30 - Gotta love it! Senor O'Rourke hasn't 'earned' his nick name.
Maybe if he had joined MS-13 instead of that nerdy hackers group.
Meanwhile - https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/18/donna-brazile-hired-as-fox-news-contributor/
Fox got so fed up with being called liars they actually went out and hired one!
Posted by: Scott O | 18 March 2019 at 02:01 PM
Getting back to work! -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/food-stamp-usage-falls-37-million-first-time-october-2009/
Not even NY wants to coddle illegal aliens -
The latest Siena College Research Institute polling finds that, even in a deep blue state like New York, American voters oppose benefits for illegal aliens.
About 61 percent of voters said they oppose a plan to give state-issued driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Only 34 percent of voters said they supported the plan and five percent said they were unsure.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/siena-poll-6-in-10-new-yorkers-oppose-drivers-licenses-for-illegal-aliens/
They done pissed Devin off -
In a complaint filed in Virginia state court on Monday, obtained by Fox News, Nunes claimed Twitter wanted to derail his work on the House Intelligence Committee, which he chaired until 2019, as he looked into alleged and apparent surveillance abuses by the government. Nunes said Twitter was guilty of "knowingly hosting and monetizing content that is clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory – providing both a voice and financial incentive to the defamers – thereby facilitating defamation on its platform."
The lawsuit alleged defamation, conspiracy and negligence, and sought not only damages, but also an injunction compelling Twitter to turn over the identities behind numerous accounts he said harassed and defamed him. The lawsuit is separate from Nunes' work on the House Intelligence Committee, where he is now the ranking member.
“Twitter is a machine," Nunes' personal attorney, Steven S. Biss, told Fox News. "It is a modern-day Tammany Hall. Congressman Nunes intends to hold Twitter fully accountable for its abusive behavior and misconduct.”
Although federal law ordinarily exempts services like Twitter from defamation liability, Nunes' suit said the platform has taken such an active role in curating and banning content -- as opposed to merely hosting it -- that it should face liability like any other organization that defames.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-bombshell-defamation-suit-against-twitter-seeks-250m-for-anti-conservative-shadow-bans-smears
,,,Team Lefty infiltrates Fox News,,,
Donna Brazile will be kicking ass and taking names
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/donna-brazile-why-i-am-excited-to-join-fox-news-and-take-part-in-a-civil-and-sensible-debate
Posted by: AVMan | 18 March 2019 at 05:00 PM
Getting credit where credit is due to the St. Louis NCAAP. Hope they blame Trump for this, but that is asking too much.
“The denial of due process at Missouri’s colleges disproportionately impacts African American men,” Gaskin said, “And that’s why we call for immediate due process reforms.”
African-Americans are at a particular disadvantage in campus kangaroo courts. Multiple reports and scholars have noticed the high frequency that they are accused (especially by white women) and are often unable to afford the necessary legal action needed to save their reputation.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44752/st-louis-naacp-backs-state-bill-providing-due-ashe-schow?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
As if that's a good thing, they don't need to burn the books they just delete them from the internet -
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/03/18/julia-roberts-doesnt-think-pretty-woman-would-made-nowadays/3206843002/
The ECO brigade has some excuses to make..
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/18/aluminum-cans-recycling-china/
Aluminum cans just don't pay like they used to. Not all aluminum is is created equal.
"Used aluminum cans are piling up in scrap yards as the market for aluminum recyclables shrinks in size and profitability, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The price for used aluminum cans tanked 30 percent since the summer of 2018. Aluminum rollers are cutting recycled aluminum from cans out of their business models to prioritize more profitable areas of business. "
So what next? Blame the mining lobby?
AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE CIVIL WAR ON THE LEFT: TRANS AND PROSTITUTES VS. FEMINISTS......truscums, terfs, serfs. Lions and tigers and bears.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/18/civil-war-left-trans-prostitutes-vs-feminists/
Posted by: BillTozer | 18 March 2019 at 05:22 PM
That's a nice place to be rolling into an election -
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/03/18/cnn-poll-71-percent-of-americans-say-economy-doing-well-majority-credits-donald-trump/
Afternoon Walt.
Could you ever conceive even once in your life apologizing for how you were born? We righties have it easy compared to those wack jobs on the left. Apologize for who you are is screwy. Yeah, he finally apologized.
“CNN has discovered that Democratic presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke is a white male — and they are not happy about it. The cable network went into race-baiting overdrive following the announcement of O’Rourke’s candidacy, airing hours of feverish handwringing over whether Beto’s “white maleness” rendered him an unacceptable choice for the Democratic Party nominee.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2019/03/15/cnn-hammers-betos-white-maleness-52-times-one-day
More propaganda
https://www.facebook.com/TheFederalistPapers/photos/a.112478365457075/2351359218235634/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2406156932947390&set=a.1629416023954822&type=3&theater
Good evening my good friend Bill. Apologizing is for spineless Lefties. If they can't apologize their way out, they will find someone else to blame.
WOW!! Just seen Glenn Beck on the screen. He looks like he's trying out for the Col. Sanders gig... He wears it better than Dougy none the less.
I'm sure Nevada City won't like being outdone.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articleComments/San-Francisco-naked-nude-parade-love-Gypsy-Taub-13696989.php
FINE... Only when the temp drops below 40 deg. and raining heavy.
While the littlest commiecongress-critter has crashed and burned her personal rating she is the absolute winner in another poll in NY! -
The majority of New York voters see Amazon’s decision to back out as an economic blow to the state. The Amazon deal could have created between 25,000 and 40,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000. The state said total direct and indirect jobs could have totaled more than 100,000.
The poll found 67 percent of voters said Amazon’s withdrawal was “bad” for New York, and only 21 percent said it was “good.”
“And by a 2-to-1 margin, voters said they supported the agreement that would have allowed Amazon to receive $3 billion in government incentives in exchange for creating 25,000 jobs — 61 percent in favor and 30 percent opposed,” the Post reported.
A vast majority of New York voters said they believe the state is hostile to business, with 67 percent agreeing with the statement that the state government — run by Democrats — makes it hard for businesses to succeed. Even among Democrats, 53 percent agreed with the statement.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/poll-aoc-leads-pack-as-villain-responsible-for-amazon-new-york-city-pullout/
It does beg the question why do they elect those bozo's when they know its baaad for NY?
Why they generate graduates who know less history as seniors than the freshmen and spawn antifa thought police -
In the Times, Abrams wrote about original survey data of a “nationally representative sample of roughly 900 ‘student-facing’ administrators” which found “liberal staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12-1. Only 6 percent of campus administrators identified as conservative to some degree, while 71 percent classified themselves as liberal or very liberal.”
He added in the October opinion piece, “It’s no wonder so much of the nonacademic programming on college campuses is politically one-sided. … It appears that a fairly liberal student body is being taught by a very liberal professoriate — and socialized by an incredibly liberal group of administrators.”
Students claimed they were offended by the supposed “anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-woman bigotry” of Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and staged a large sit-in. They also presented demands, such as a “tenure review.”
He said Monday evening that his philosophy was not an attack on students: “Viewpoint diversity is asking that multiple viewpoints are considered on campus and in the classroom. So that means rather than simply attack capitalism and free markets without a deep understanding of history and teach socialism, we also teach the value of markets, choice and individualism.”
He said his ideology has been to teach students the realities of adult life: “Rather than teach that government needs to get bigger, and is the solution to poverty and improving the welfare of Americans, and this is often the only view taught, we need to also teach how capitalism has lifted millions up, and allowed markets to make the nation efficient.”
Abrams said 40 professors endorsed the demand list, and 12 percent of the faculty “endorsed the students’ demand to challenge my tenure and my right to free speech and the expression of ideas.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sarah-lawrence-professor-protested-over-conservative-op-ed-says-college-abandoned-him-to-fight-alone
I have a question, if a po' ol' fakenewsman has an ongoing solo rant does anyone hear or care? Is that communicable among current or wanna be press?
Don @ 7:53 pm
After finding this article (with quotes from 1912), I believe Bernie will not win the nomination. The Old Left Marxist vs the New Left. The old does not satisfy.
Word of the day: epiphenomenal.
“In his book Republocrat, Carl Trueman explores the dynamic between the Old and New Left within the context of “liberation.” It turns out that once one focuses on liberation from material deprivation and oppression within the rubric of class struggle, it may not be so easy to stop the progress of liberation with economic phenomena. As Trueman puts it, “Here lies the heart of the problem of the New Left: once the concerns of the Left shifted from material, empirical issues—hunger, thirst, nakedness, poverty, disease—to psychological categories, the door was opened for everyone to become a victim and for anyone with a lobby group to make his or her issue the Big one for this generation.” People seem to want to be liberated in epiphenomenal terms, too.”
Further yet down the road:
“When these fundamental realities are weaponized for partisan politicking, the bonds of society begin to dissolve. That’s in part what we’re seeing in political and (un)civil discourse in America today. Identity politics takes the organic diversity of society and absolutizes it, crystallizing it ultimately into an intersectional individualism.
“The end of identity politics is that you end up in a class of one. And that has always been a very vulnerable (and poor!) class to be in.”
https://blog.acton.org/archives/107152-class-struggle-and-the-end-of-identity-politics.html
Steele Dossier.
http://dlvr.it/R15tml
Aw shit, that makes too much sense to survive the creatures -
"We need to modernize our higher-education system to make it more affordable, flexible and outcomes-oriented, so all Americans, young and old, can learn the skills they need to secure and retain good-paying jobs," Ivanka Trump said on a call with reporters.
A primary goal of the proposal is to curb the growth of college tuition rates and reduce the nation's student debt load, which has reached nearly $1.5 trillion and has more than tripled since 2003.
The White House's proposed solution is to cap federal loan programs available to students' parents and to graduate students. The plan doesn't propose specific limits, but officials suggested it could vary based on academic program.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-proposes-caps-on-student-loan-borrowing/ar-BBUVLv1?ocid=spartandhp
My, things have changed in just two short months. Day of the thin skin Rage, day two.
“When 'centrists' care more about the GOP base than the Dem base, bigotry gets legitimized," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to a tweet on her ratings. "This is *the* playbook. GOP does it w/ virtually every Dem figure who isn’t a white male: otherize, demonize + splinter. It’s vital that we adapt & dismantle this approach, not cow to it."
"We can’t gloss over it, or quietly consider that the 'shrewd' thing to do is nominate someone who won’t be subject to bigoted attacks," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "Morally, we can’t give a pass to this dangerous tactic. But even politically, the Dem base is all the people you demoralize by not standing up."
-“No—this is *your* playbook," Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted. "You constantly & falsely claim the only grounds on which anyone in the GOP criticizes you is bigotry. In reality, you ignore their calls for policy convo/debate to avoid proving what we know: you’re not prepared to be publicly challenged on anything."
-“She really likes nailing herself to the cross, doesn't she?" Derek Hunter tweeted. "You aren't the victim; you're the perp."
-“Or the drop in approval numbers is a reflection that 15,000 votes in one district's primary doesn't make you, "the boss" of the rest of the country," Duane Patterson tweeted.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44810/ocasio-cortez-continues-meltdown-over-high-ryan-saavedra?fbclid=IwAR3-p6PqTE8w_2bNYxWfQJMWO5h2JVHHLDLXyRLzjt9LYQKu2aZG6SR2_GI
OOoooh……of whom does this remind us?
pa·loo·ka
/pəˈlo͞okə
noun INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
a stupid, clumsy, or uncouth person.
"these bearded, stumbling palookas in their peasants' breeches"
an inferior or average prizefighter.
"he was just another palooka trying to muscle in on the fight racket"
1920s: of unknown origin (popularized by the comic strip character Joe Palooka, a well-meaning but clumsy prizefighter).
https://www.politicsforum.org/palooka/
Yet another example about what a disgusting human being we have as President.
"Donald Trump: I Was ‘Never A Fan Of John McCain And Never Will Be’
The president keeps attacking the Arizona senator nearly seven months after his death.
Trump, who avoided military service as a young man, infamously mocked the decorated Navy veteran for having been held as a prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam War. "
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-john-mccain-oval-office_n_5c91255de4b071a25a878e52
Ahh…..Palooka……it was going to be a disgusting human being regardless of who won the general.
The masters of the universe keep putting their thumb on the scale -
White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino Jr., was recently blocked from commenting by Facebook which has yet to provide an explanation for the action.
Facebook recently blocked the Dan Scavino Jr., the White House Director of Social Media and Assistant to the President, from commenting on Facebook. So far, the social media giant has not provided an explanation for blocking Scavino’s commenting abilities. Scavino called Facebook out in a post to his page which included a screenshot of the notification he received when attempting to comment.
Scavino wrote: “AMAZING. WHY ARE YOU STOPPING ME from replying to comments followers have left me – on my own Facebook Page!!?? People have the right to know. Why are you silencing me??? Please LMK! Thanks.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/19/white-house-social-media-director-dan-scavino-jr-blocked-from-commenting-on-facebook/
WOW! Paul Emery is now foaming at the mouth about Trump. He is making America Great Again and all PE can do is cry and scream for a dirty panty full os him. Get a life.
Another SCOTUS win shows why holding the Senate will reverberate for 30 or more years -
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-notches-victory-in-immigration-battle-with-supreme-court-ruling
The Leftinista march towards Tryanny continues.
1) Stacking the court with more Justices. Recycling more of FDR’s ideas. The Left claims they believe in our institutions but the reality is they do not. No way. The Left has always replied on SCOTOS to get through their agenda instead of going through Congress. They have no faith in Congress or our institutions. Their faith is in SCOTUS to force their will on the all.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44794/multiple-democrat-presidential-candidates-say-ashe-schow?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
2) Eliminate the Electoral College.
The Electoral College worked exactly as our genius founders designed it in 2016. Exactly. Perfect. Now they are trying an end run around the Amendment process. Suppose in your state, the people vote for Candidate B. Candidate A wins the popular vote and suddenly all your state’s votes are nullified and the votes given to Candidate A.
Talk about massive disenfranchisement of voters on a statewide scale! Mob rule. Death of the Republic.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44836/elizabeth-warren-pledges-get-rid-electoral-college-emily-zanotti?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
Attacks on SCOTUS, attacks on the Electoral College, attacks on Voter ID, attacks of secure borders, attacks of free speech, attacks of the 2nd Amendment....the march towards Leninist Marxism gains steam by the hour.
From someone who has a real perspective -
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/damn-socialism-why-are-you-chasing-me-chinese-americans-see-ghost-of-communism-in-democrats-leftward-turn
Nice to see the court at the text of the statue/law passed by Congress and signed by a President.
“The court also ruled the government maintains broad discretion to decide who would represent a danger to the community in deciding who to release or detain.”
“Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, stating that "neither the statute's text nor its structure" supported the immigrants' argument. The court's conservative justices sided with the Trump administration, which argued as the Obama administration did, against hearings for those convicted of crimes and affected by the law.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-notches-victory-in-immigration-battle-with-supreme-court-ruling.amp
The Beto memes……
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BETO-1024x403-600x236.jpg
FISH that is too funny!
Yeah Todd you've made it clear that Trump is your idol and that you are a stud of his caliber that woman pay money to have sex with. How's business for a male hooker in Ne3vada County? There are reports of you dangling your worm at Friar Tucks and McGee's so business must be a little slow.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 March 2019 at 01:58 PM
Todd…..with Palookas ongoing degree of obsession regarding your…..ummm….."worm", one can only conclude that it's just simple jealousy at this point!
Congratulations are in order! I guess.
Fish 209, Paul Emery is obsessed. I think there is a swish? Anyway a gigollo is not a prostitute and Trump is not my idol. But he and I share good looks and a lot of appeal for women. Paul Emery is just a short little guy in his late 70's wearing a pony tail. All his life being rejected has led him to this tirade against his betters like me. Sad.
PaulE, it would really be neat if you would take an interest and give a substantive critique of any of Trump's policies that have made most Americans happy that we're out of the Obama doldrums. The stuff you like to discuss about our President can at best be described as exercising your prurient interests. Demonstrate that it isn't so.
The job of our New Moral Puritan is to stamp out any signs of people having fun.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CodmlmxpZeQ
Braying jackass: “I think what we have to do, and I will be doing it, is to do a better job maybe in explaining what we mean by socialism — democratic socialism. Obviously, my right-wing colleagues here want to paint that as authoritarianism and communism and Venezuela, and that’s nonsense.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders
Alpha Jackass: “Words have consequences, like saying we have an invasion on our border and talking about people as though they were different in some fatal way. I think that the public discourse from the president on down is a factor in some of these actions [such as the New Zealand shooting].” —Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Oops: “I’m told I get criticized by the new left. I have the most progressive record for anybody running for the — of anybody who would run. … I didn’t mean it.” —Joe Biden
Braying Jenny: “I disagree with most of what the vice president stands for, when he makes decisions about our LGBTQ community in a way that doesn’t understand that they should be entitled to full equality and all rights under the law as any other American. I disagree with him when he suggests it’s not possible to have meetings with women alone by himself. I think that’s ridiculous — the idea that you would deny a professional woman the opportunity to have a meeting with the vice president of the United States is outrageous.” —Sen. Kamala Harris
Non Compos Mentis: “Islamophobia is real. White supremacy is real. Hatred is real. From New Zealand to the U.S. or no matter where you live, we deserve better — we all deserve to live free from fear and violence.” —Planned Parenthood Action (Genocide of the unborn is real.)
Come again? “Of course [illegal immigrants] do reside in the United States. They reside in my district. They’re my constituents.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Belly laugh of the week: “When you’re out there on the world stage and dealing with people like Vladimir Putin, yeah, you want someone who’s tough.” —Sen. Amy Klobuchar seriously spinning her temperamental issues
And last… “In response to the university admissions scandal, AOC now supports abolishing the Electoral College.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
Sorry George I cannot get beyond what a disgusting person Trump is and I truly believe him to be mentally ill. Remember when the Republican Party made character such a big deal when Pappa Bush ran against Clinton? What happened to that Party George? They were actually right about Clinton because he was a slime but they show no interest in holding Trump to any standards of behavior that a President should maintain at least to be an influence to children and younger generations. I was a kid when Eisenhower was President and I remember feeling that he was a truly good man. What are kids supposed to think about Trump and the standard of behavior he demonstrates? Is that something they should emulate?
Even Republicans like Todd show public admiration for the way Trump treats woman.
George, the bus is waiting for respectable Conservatives like yourself to take charge and get that guy out of office. There is no option.
Give it a rest, Paul. Your situational ethics are noted.
Paul, meet Kay Summersby!
https://historycollection.co/8-presidents-affairs/4/
Translation of @325 - I have no intellectual contribution to the conversation, just a rotational cut and past of talking points for pink pussy hats/lefties. Talking points that are devoid of historical grounding as G demonstrated @349.
He is talking to you ya po' ol' fakenewsman -
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2019/03/18/ted-koppel-trump-not-mistaken-about-biased-liberal-media
Being a protected class will not protect you if you tell too much of the truth in the federal republic -
German armed forces commissioner Hans-Peter Bartels agreed on Tuesday with Grenell’s assessment that the new military budget is dangerously now. Bartels cited painful defects in German military hardware and said German soldiers believe their country’s pledge to NATO should be “predictably and reliably implemented.”
Germans who were critical of Merkel’s open-door refugee policies over the past few years will not be pleased to hear their government cite the soaring cost of refugee services as one of the primary reasons the military budget cannot be increased.
Grenell responded on Monday to advance word that Germany’s new budget plan calls for defense spending to peak at 1.37 percent of national income in 2020, but then begin declining to 1.25 percent by 2023.
NATO members are supposed to spend 2 percent on defense, a target the Trump administration has insisted upon much more vigorously than previous administrations. The Germans previously pledged to reach 1.5 percent by 2024, which is still much lower than their NATO commitment.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/19/germany-furious-u-s-ambassador-calling-out-low-defense-spending/
Would you recommend Trump as a role model for children?
FYI, reading the linked story that came up for Eisenhowers, ummm, extramarital doodling, I was fascinated by the babe JFK was passed by the Chairman of the Board himself, Sinatra. Judith Exner was the ex-wife of an actor who had two significant parts in the old Star Trek, William Campbell, who played a Klingon captain and the Squire of Gothos, Trelaine.
Ms. Exner was also screwing mobster Sam Giancana at the same time as JFK. Neither were full time or exclusive jobs.
There also is a quote from LBJ that he'd had more accidental dalliances than JFK had conquests, and he might have been right.
Paul, besides Eisenhower (LOL), which presidents do you think made good role models for children?
Shit hole, not shit hole? The locals seem to like safe walls too -
The concertina wire installed under the Trump administration to reinforce the U.S.-Mexico border is now being stolen and used to protect Tijuana residences as the city grapples with a surge in crime, officials confirmed Monday.
Thieves are stealing and selling the same concertina wire installed in November along the border by the Department of Homeland Security, and 15 to 20 arrests have already been made, city officials said.
Contractors were seen Monday at a border fence on the U.S. side of the Colonia Libertad neighborhood of Tijuana, replacing some of the stolen wire.
Some homes in the same area had identical wire installed in front of their homes, as an added layer of protection to their property lines and fences, but residents declined to comment about how they obtained the material.
“I don’t actually live here in this house, so I have no idea how that wire got here,” said one woman who declined to give her name in Colonia Libertad at a house where the razor wire was visible in front.
Tijuana was the most violent city in the world in 2018.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sd-me-concertina-wire-tj-20190318-story.html
It appears to me that Paul Emery has dementia. He keeps repeating himself expecting different results. Or is that insanity? People that worship goats innards do not have a high ground staked out.
Paul, and as a childless guy in his waning years, why do you even care about Trump's suitability as a role model for children?
Do you even think his opponent in the election, Ms. Clinton, was or is a good role model for children?
When choosing who to vote for, how significant should "Are they a good role model for children?" be?
Huh! Huh? Huh? Answer the question, Punch!!!
db 427pm
It would seem to me that there's an opportunity hiding in the Tijuana news. Amazon Prime should carry MilSpec concertina wire, the good stuff, in easy to deploy packaging. No need to steal it.
What's the goat thing you're obsessed with? Can you explain it to me ant other RR contributors.
Damn! Bezos beat me to it.
They even sell the gloves needed to handle the stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=concertina+wire&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=wwwcanoniccom-20
If you are pleased with Trumps character and consider it something that young Americans should emulate you need to say no more.
You know very little about me because if you did you would know I have a stepson that I raised for 20 years. Shut the fuck up if you don't know what you're talking about.
Here is an afternoon giggle -
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/03/19/street-artist-sabo-lampoons-orourke-for-drunk-driving-arrest-beto-runs/
Paul, before you take your own advice and stfu, which presidents, or presidential candidates, did you find adequate role models for the other guy's son?
Al Gore?
Now remember, google first.
"If you are pleased with Trumps character and consider it something that young Americans should emulate you need to say no more."
When did *you* stop beating your girlfriend, Paul?
The answer to the insinuation you made is, of course, that I don't select or judge Presidents by their suitability as good role models for the yutes of America, except as a byproduct of their Presidency. Nixon was a bad President, even though he may have been the most gentlemanly husband of any in my memory.
"Only Nixon could go to China"-Klingon Proverb
An alpa (hero in his own mind) fakenewsman sniveling as usual and as usual, wrong -
Following the press conference, Acosta accused Enjeti of asking Trump a softball question, but it seems the CNN reporter wasn’t paying close attention because the question was directed at the Brazilian president, as opposed to Trump.
“The question was asked in a way that really teed it up, like a game of tee-ball here in the Rose Garden. The president was just sort of served up a softball, there, when he was asked whether or not the Democrats are advancing a lot of socialist ideas. You heard Bolsaonaro go off on that as well,” Acosta said on CNN immediately after the press conference.
Acosta accused Enjeti of lobbing an easy question about socialism to Trump, but the Daily Caller reporter didn’t ask Trump the question about socialism.
After Enjeti asked Trump a pair of questions about the Supreme Court and social media, he directed his third question to Bolsaonaro.
“President Bolsaonaro, in another question on the 2020 election, a number of Democrats who are running to replace the president have embraced or considered socialist ideas. You’ve spoken critically of that in the past,” Enjeti said. “If a socialist, or a candidate who embraces socialism were to replace the president, how would it affect your relations with the United States?”
Bolsaonaro answered that he would respect whoever emerges as the next president but expect Trump to be re-elected. Trump did not respond to Enjeti’s question about socialism despite Acosta’s claim.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cnns-jim-acosta-complains-about-rose-garden-press-conference-after-not-getting-called-on
Boy, that Trump really likes to trigger the trolls and the Moral Puritans. They certainly are Addicted to Outrage. Quick, run to the Huff-n-Puff Farting Post.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/heres-why-trump-tweeted-a-100k-check-and-why-liberals-erupted-in-anger-over-it?fbclid=IwAR1_d2B-Yhg2KvFJcFlzftftKj4Z3HRnRfjrbBgtYU7TtgGsEYbjwu0MQv4
ROFLMAO. Note to self: post more Daily Caller
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/03/19/meltdown-acosta-trump-spreading-virus-against-media-right-has
ROFLMAO x2. Give ‘em hell Harry. Danger, danger. Critical mass has been reached.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/03/18/msnbc-trumps-tweets-are-sign-crisis-level-psychological
Posted by: Billl Tozer | 19 March 2019 at 05:09 PM
Rats fleeing the burning ship right before the subpoenas start flying -
The Daily Caller reported that Ocasio-Cortez, along with chief of staff and former campaign chair Saikat Chakrabarti, have been removed from the board of the political action committee after previously holding “legal control over the entity" in late 2017 and early 2018.
The Daily Caller had reported earlier this month on Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti's role with the PAC, noting that the congresswoman never disclosed to the Federal Election Commission that they "controlled the PAC while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign." Former FEC officials said at the time this could represent violations of campaign finance law.
It was Justice Democrats that helped catapult Ocasio-Cortez from obscurity to an upset primary win over then-Rep. Joe Crowley to an election win in November. The group runs a recruitment program by which activists can nominate grassroots candidates for office to challenge incumbent Democrats, and Ocasio-Cortez gave her support to that push in a video in January. The group has also backed her on issues such as "Medicare-for-all" and the Green New Deal.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-de-listed-from-board-of-justice-democrats-after-controversy
Presidents with good character, not necessarily good Presidents:
Obama, both Bushes, Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Johnson, Eisenhower, Truman-that's as far as I' ll go on this.
Gregory quote "for the other guys son" You have no class Gregory. Step dads raise millions of children every year, offer them love and care and nurture them into adulthood. You should apologize for that sad comment that reflects poorly on your character. You must ave been desperate for something to say.
Let me raise my tiny violin to you, Punch. When you're standing up punching... do you really not expect to be hit back?
You also didn't answer the questions.
Answers??? 5:27
Your response "for the other guys son" is an insult to all of us that devoted our lives to being stepdads.
Remember.........Palooka is upset about something.......that means all you guys need to scurry about in attempt to make him feel better!
THERE IS NO OPTION!!
Paul 543pm
No, it was a deserved insult to you and you alone.
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Where German parties stand on Europe
BERLIN — Germanys election on September 24 is not just about who will become chancellor — it will influence the future design of the European Union.
German voters have to decide whether Angela Merkel or her main challenger Martin Schulz — who lags by about 15 percentage points in polls — will lead the EUs most populous country and push her or his vision on issues such as eurozone reform, defense cooperation and migration during the next four years.
Also important for Berlins future position on Europe is whether any of the smaller parties end up in government as a junior coalition partner. Although Merkel has a comfortable poll lead and is widely expected to score her fourth victory in the national election, her conservatives will most likely need the support of at least one if not two other parties to govern.
The same is true for Schulzs Social Democrats (SPD), if the former European Parliament president defies expectations and overtakes Merkel.
With six groups expected to enter the Bundestag, the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens are potential coalition partners for the two big parties, while the far-left Die Linke and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) — a Euroskeptic party that could win seats in the national parliament for the very first time — are unlikely to be courted.
Its still possible there could be another “grand coalition” between Merkels Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU, with Schulzs SPD. However, the Social Democrats have made it clear they are not keen on serving another term in Merkels shadow.
Heres an overview of where German parties stand on the most pressing issues in Europe, based on campaign manifestos and interviews:
Security/defense
In a nutshell: All parties support European cooperation but disagree on border controls for the Schengen zone and how much Germany should pay for defense.
What that means: No matter who wins, expect them to push for a European defense union and a greater role for the EU border agency Frontex.
Ask high-ranking officials among Merkels conservatives how they plan to explain to the German public that their country is likely to pick up a sizeable chunk of the shortfall in the EU budget once the U.K. leaves in 2019, and they will tell you privately that its a matter of security.
“The times when we could rely on others are over to a certain degree,” reads the chapter on Europe in the CDU/CSUs manifesto, echoing Merkels beer hall speech from May when, after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump, she said Europe must “take our fate into our own hands.” The conservatives believe that for Germany to remain safe and prosperous, the EU needs to move toward a European defense union.
The SPD and FDP both go a step further and call for the creation of a European army. Even the pacifist Greens support further European cooperation on defense, while stressing that “civil crisis prevention” should always have priority.
When it comes to the details, however, party positions differ — especially on military spending. The CDU/CSU and FDP are committed to bringing Germanys military spending up to 2 percent of GDP by 2024, a guideline agreed by NATO members in 2014. The SPD, however, says “saber-rattling wont solve any conflicts” and leaves no doubt it will block such a push, as would the Greens.
Opinions also differ when it comes to internal security, particularly the border controls inside the passport-free Schengen area that were introduced at the height of the refugee crisis and are still in effect. While the Greens say they want a return to open borders in the Schengen zone, Merkels conservatives say that they will maintain border checks “until the protection of the EU external borders works.”
There is a high level of consensus regarding the future role of the EUs border agency Frontex.
The CDU/CSU, the SPD and the FDP all want to strengthen the agencys role. The Greens, who have previously been critical of expanding Frontex, dont mention it in their manifesto — which may signal that theyre open to compromise if they end up in government.
In a nutshell: Everyone agrees other EU countries need to show more solidarity but disagree on long-term responses to the refugee crisis.
What that means: Expect Germany to get tougher on other EU members who are reluctant to take in their share of refugees. What position Germany takes on reforming the EUs asylum system, however, will depend heavily on whos in government.
After the shock of coping with almost a million asylum seekers in 2015, all the parties except the AfD agree that other EU countries should be obliged to help Germany and other highly-affected countries carry the burden.
“Europe has a joint responsibility for refugees,” reads the conservative manifesto.
The SPD and FDP have the most radical proposals for enforcing that: the Social Democrats demand that countries who fail to take their quotas “should experience significant disadvantages,” while the FDP wants them to pay into a fund to help countries bearing the burden.
When it comes to long-term responses for how to deal with undocumented migration to Europe, the parties disagree sharply.
Merkels conservatives favor refugee deals with African countries like the 2016 agreement with Turkey. The SPD is vague, saying “cooperation and agreements with third countries open up chances to curb illegal migration,” while the FDP wants to reward countries like Lebanon or Jordan, who take in a lot of refugees, by facilitating trade with the EU.
Regarding the controversial idea of setting up “hot spots” in Northern Africa where asylum seekers applications could be processed without them setting foot on European soil, Merkels conservatives are evasive. The FDP doesnt address the issue directly but says: “To spare people the extremely dangerous journey we would like to make it possible to already file an application for asylum abroad.”
The SPD openly opposes the idea, saying “asylum applications [should] continue to be processed on European ground.” Similarly, the Greens say they “wont let the EU get rid of its problems by having refugees perish in the camps of Northern Africa.”
In a nutshell: All parties want to boost growth in Europe to stabilize the economy but disagree on issues such as Eurobonds and Greece.
What it means: Expect Germany to advocate a two-speed Europe during the next couple of years — and push for a Grexit if the FDP gets into government.
When it comes to potential reforms to the eurozone, Schulzs Social Democrats have the most wide-ranging and ambitious plans. The SPD wants a European finance minister who would “coordinate economic policy.” The position would be linked to the European Commission and monitored from within the European Parliament. The European Stability Mechanism would become a sort of IMF for the eurozone.
The conservatives are more cautious, speaking of “developing the eurozone further step-by-step … for example by creating its own monetary fund” — which Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, and more recently Merkel herself, say would give the eurozone the ability to respond to crises without having to involve the IMF. However, they remain adamantly opposed to any pooling of eurozone debt.
Nowhere are the differences between the parties more visible than when it comes to Greece and whether it should leave the common currency or not: While the SPD says “no member of the eurozone should be pushed to leave,” the FDP wants to “change the European treaties so that member states can leave the euro area in an orderly process without losing their EU membership.”
FDP party leader Christian Lindner told POLITICO earlier this summer that Greece should be granted debt relief and forced out of the euro on a temporary basis until its economy recovers.
Merkels conservatives, who have sent mixed signals to Athens, sidestep the issue in their manifesto.
Addressing the future of the EU in more general terms, there is broad consensus in support of empowering certain member countries to integrate more deeply than others in a “two-speed Europe.” While the SPD and FDP say this explicitly in their manifestos, the conservatives dont mention it but have embraced such ideas in the past. The Greens are open to the idea, if only “as a temporary solution.”
In a nutshell: All parties are sorry the U.K. is leaving the EU but want to make sure the Brits will be worse off after their departure.
What this means: Dont expect Germany to stick up for the U.K. during the negotiations.
One way or another, all parties echo Berlins official position that in order to enjoy the privileges of the EU, countries need to respect all four of its guiding principles: free movement of goods, people, services, and capital.
The SPD says there can be no “Europe à la carte;” the CDU/CSU write that anyone who leaves the EU must not be able to enjoy its benefits; the Greens want the interests of the remaining EU27 to have priority over Britains demands; and the FDP say there can be “no cherry-picking.”
The Euroskeptic AfD suggest that unless the EU is reformed drastically, Germany should follow the British example and leave the bloc. This remains a fringe position in a country where, according to recent polls, support for the EU is actually on the rise.
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Watch Full HD The Christmas Chronicles (2018) Online Free - SidiFlix
The Christmas Chronicles
The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream about.
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Animation
Actors: Kurt Russell, Oliver Hudson, Lamorne Morris, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Director: Clay Kaytis
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Animation, Musical
Director: George Dunning
When the music hating Blue Meanies take over Pepperland and freeze everyone within it, including the protectors, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Captain Fred and his Yellow Submarine recruit The Beatles to help save Pepperland. Along the way, they fall through the Sea of Time, Sea of Nothing, Sea of Holes and more. They meet Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D. and take him with them along the adventure. When at Pepperland, the Beatles "rally the land to rebellion" and take down the Blue Meanies, the four-headed Meanie dog and the Dreadful Flying Glove (with the songs "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Hey Bulldog", "All You Need is Love"). In the end, we see all four live-action Beatles singing "All Together Now".
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Biological Research
Biol. Res. vol.47 Santiago 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/0717-6287-47-64
Neutral space analysis for a Boolean network model of the fission yeast cell cycle network
Gonzalo A RuzI, II, *; Tania TimmermannI; Javiera BarreraI; Eric GolesI
IFacultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Av. Diagonal las Torres 2640, Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile
IICenter of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile
BACKGROUND: Interactions between genes and their products give rise to complex circuits known as gene regulatory networks (GRN) that enable cells to process information and respond to external stimuli. Several important processes for life, depend of an accurate and context-specific regulation of gene expression, such as the cell cycle, which can be analyzed through its GRN, where deregulation can lead to cancer in animals or a directed regulation could be applied for biotechnological processes using yeast. An approach to study the robustness of GRN is through the neutral space. In this paper, we explore the neutral space of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) cell cycle network through an evolution strategy to generate a neutral graph, composed of Boolean regulatory networks that share the same state sequences of the fission yeast cell cycle.
RESULTS: Through simulations it was found that in the generated neutral graph, the functional networks that are not in the wildtype connected component have in general a Hamming distance more than 3 with the wildtype, and more than 10 between the other disconnected functional networks. Significant differences were found between the functional networks in the connected component of the wildtype network and the rest of the network, not only at a topological level, but also at the state space level, where significant differences in the distribution of the basin of attraction for the G1 fixed point was found for deterministic updating schemes.
CONCLUSIONS: In general, functional networks in the wildtype network connected component, can mutate up to no more than 3 times, then they reach a point of no return where the networks leave the connected component of the wildtype. The proposed method to construct a neutral graph is general and can be used to explore the neutral space of other biologically interesting networks, and also formulate new biological hypotheses studying the functional networks in the wildtype network connected component.
Keywords: Neutral graph; Boolean networks; Evolution strategy; Fission yeast cell cycle; Attractors
The fate of a cell, and an organism as a whole, is determined by the functioning of a complex cellular machinery. An important part of this machinery, which determines the downstream information, are the gene regulatory networks (GRN). GRN represents the indirect interaction between genes by means of their products (proteins, micro RNA, etc.). Accurate and context-specific regulation of gene expression is essential for all organisms, because vital tasks such as cell differentiation and cell division, homeostasis, apoptosis, metabolism and signal transduction, depend on this regulation. Studies of several processes have been developed through the reconstruction and analysis of gene regulatory networks that underlie these processes. For example, the circadian clock of Neurospora and Arabidopsis thaliana[1], cell cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae[2], embryonic segmentation of Drosophila melanogaster[3], flower development of A. thaliana[4,5], T-lymphocytes activation of human immune system [6], mammalian cell cycle [7] and the SOS pathway of E. coli[8], among others.
The identification of the topology, regulatory nodes of these networks and the hierarchical relationship between them, is essential to understand a particular process (its behavior and dynamic). However, because the molecular interactions within a gene regulatory network are very complex, the functional integration of the network cannot be understood only by intuitive reasoning, therefore, the need to incorporate mathematical models for its study arises. One of the most popular models to describe and analyze the behavior of GRN are Boolean networks, introduced by Stuart Kauffman in 1969 [9]. Boolean networks give a first idea of the qualitative dynamics of a gene regulatory network represented by the temporal evolution of the protein states. In this network, each node represents a gene or protein, that can be either active (node value 1) or inactive (node value 0), and the edges represents regulatory relationships between genes. The dynamics of the network is computed by a set of Boolean functions for each node and an updating scheme (synchronous or asynchronous). For a Boolean network with n nodes, there are 2n possible states, and given the deterministic nature of this model, the network will converge to steady states, also known as attractors. There are two types of attractors, fixed point, where once the network reaches that state it can never leave it. The other is the limit cycle, where the network returns to a previous state with a certain periodicity. One can also consider a non-deterministic approach, using a fully asynchronous updating scheme, where nodes are updated randomly. Fixed point attractors are invariant to changes or the selection of the updating scheme, nevertheless, limit cycles and the size of basins of attractions may change drastically.
Boolean networks are used to investigate the organizational principles of a network and how this influences their robustness. This mathematical model is commonly reconstructed by three different approaches: (1) based on very detailed knowledge of the process to be modeled (regulatory relations identified in previous publications) [10], (2) from transcriptional analysis of a set of knockouts or mutants [11], and (3) from transcriptional time-series data of wild-type organisms [12]. Inferring the topology of a Boolean network from a set of experimental data involves two main steps: first, the experimental data (gene expression profiles or protein concentrations) must be discretized into maximally informative binary state transitions (0 or 1 values). The second step uses these binary profiles to learn the Boolean network that best captures the Boolean trajectories.
In this paper, we consider the Boolean network model for the fission yeast cell cycle [10]. The cell cycle involves four phases, G1 (Gap 1), S (Synthesis), G2 (Gap 2) and M (Mitosis). In the G1 phase, cells increase in size. Further, inside this phase there exist an important checkpoint, called "Start point" in yeast. G1 checkpoint makes the key decision whether the cell should divide (enter to the S phase), delay division, or enter a resting stage. This decision will depend on environmental conditions, that increase or not the cell size (final signal). In the S phase, DNA replication occurs, in order to duplicate the genetic material. During the gap (G2) between DNA synthesis and mitosis, the cell will continue to grow. The G2 checkpoint control mechanism ensures that everything is ready to enter the M (mitosis) phase and divide. Finally, when the cell enters into the M phase, cell growth stops and cellular energy is focused on the orderly division into two daughter cells. A checkpoint in the middle of the mitosis (metaphase checkpoint) ensures that the cell is ready to complete cell division. After the M phase, the cell comes back to the stationary G1 phase, waiting for the signal for another round of division. It is important to note that the progress through the cell cycle is unidirectional and irreversible, this ensures the proper functioning of the cell cycle.
Given the mathematical representation of the fission yeast cell cycle through a Boolean network, it is of interest to analyze the robustness of the model under perturbation. Previously, the dynamical robustness of this model has been studied in [13]. But not its topological (connectivity) robustness. An approach to study the topological robustness of a GRN, in the sense of modifying the connections (adding or removing edges) of the network, and analyzing the resulting function of the network is through the neutral space introduced in [14]. The neutral space consists of different regulatory networks that share the same function. It can be visualized and analyzed through a neutral graph (also known as a neutral network) developed in [15,16] that is an undirected graph where each node represents a regulatory network. If two nodes are connected in the neutral space this means that the Hamming distance (number of entries in which two adjacency matrices differ) between the interaction (adjacency) matrix of one network and the other is one. The connectivity of a neutral graph can give an insight of the topological robustness of the regulatory networks. A neutral graph with large connected components (nodes) can be considered of having high robustness whereas a neutral graph with many small connected components (or disconnected) can be considered of having low robustness [15].
In order to construct a neutral graph, we need to construct Boolean regulatory networks that have a certain property in common, this opens the opportunity to use intelligent computational techniques, in particular evolutionary computation and related techniques to construct networks with predefined properties. Evolutionary computation is a subfield of artificial intelligence, inspired from natural evolution, dedicated to solve complex optimization problems. It consists in a group of algorithms, that using the basic elements of biological evolution, explores the solution space through genetic operators like crossover and mutation, and selects the fittest candidate solutions. An example of these algorithms corresponds to Genetic Algorithms (GAs) introduced by John H. Holland in the 1970s [17].
Following this line of research, in [18] simulated annealing, which is based on the annealing treatment of solids consisting in the physical process of heating up a solid until it melts and cooling it down slowly until it crystallizes, changing the properties of the solid, was used to construct Boolean networks with predefined attractors for sequential updating mode only. The swarm intelligence technique called the bees algorithm, which is inspired in the food search strategies used by honeybees, has been formulated to construct Boolean networks with predefined attractors [19] and used to build synthetic networks of the budding yeast cell-cycle in [20], that promote cell proliferation for biotechnological applications. In [21], a reverse engineering technique was applied to the reconstruction of the mammalian cell cycle network using the binary gene expression data generated by the logical model in [7]. This reverse engineering method used an information theoretic approach combined with a modified version of the original bees algorithm. More recently, extensions to that work have been presented in [22] where synthetic networks are constructed that share the same limit cycles (of length seven) and the fixed point of the mammalian cell cycle network.
In this paper we explore the neutral space of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) cell cycle regulatory network. For this, we propose an evolutionary computation algorithm, in particular, an evolution strategy (ES), as a metaheuristic optimization algorithm that uses a mutation operator as its main search strategy (unlike GAs that use crossover and mutation) to generate a neutral graph of Boolean regulatory networks that share the same state sequences of the fission yeast cell cycle. We analyze the resulting neutral graph and compare characteristics of the regulatory networks that appear in the connected component of the original yeast cell cycle network with the networks that are not in the connected component, thus, given us a notion of the robustness of the model.
Proposed evolution strategy (ES) for neutral graph construction
As mentioned in the background, a neutral graph is a metagraph (network of networks) where each node represents a regulatory network that produces the same temporal evolution for a set of states out of the 2n possible configurations. In this paper, we considered the ten state sequences shown in Table 1. Following the terminology used in [14], regulatory networks that reproduce this temporal evolution will be called functional networks, while the original fission yeast cell cycle network will be called wildtype network, which is a functional network as well given the previous definition. Although the wildtype network and a functional network will share the same state sequences of Table 1, they do not necessarily share the dynamics produced by the remaining 210-10 states. The connectivity in a neutral graph is given by the Hamming distance of the interaction matrices (adjacency matrices) of the functional networks. Two nodes are connected if the Hamming distance of the respective functional network's interaction matrices are equal to one, i.e., both matrices differ in only one element. The search in the neutral space for functional networks is huge, which makes it a difficult problem. The search consists in finding the weight matrix elements wij and the threshold vector elements θi that can replicate the desired state sequences. To carry out the search for functional networks, we propose an evolution strategy (ES) illustrated in the flow chart in Figure 1. Preliminary results using this technique appear in [23]. In what follows we will describe each stage.
Table 1 Temporal evolution of sate vectors defining the fission yeast cell cycle
Figure 1 Evolution strategy (ES) flow chart. The proposed ES was used to search for functional networks that compose the neutral graph.
Initial random candidate networks
A user defined parameter popSize indicates the size of the initial population. These are generated in the following way. Using as a base the wildtype weight matrix and threshold vector, a new candidate network (solution) is obtained by changing ngh times the wildtype adjacency matrix and threshold vector. The parameter ngh is selected randomly in the range of [ 1,30], for every new candidate network generated. The wildtype weight matrix is changed using the following rule:
1. Select randomly a position (i,j) in the matrix.
2. If the position contains a non-zero number, then replace by a zero.
3. Else, replace with a value selected randomly from the following set {-2,-1,1,2}.
The wildtype threshold vector is changed using the following rule:
1. Select randomly a position i in the vector.
2. Replace with a value selected randomly from the following set {-2,-1,-1/2,0,1/2,1,2}.
both rules are repeated ngh times.
Fitness evaluation
Each candidate network is evaluated in a fitness function defined as follows. The fitness function for the Boolean regulatory network B, is computed by the deviation of the network's output, defined by oi for each node i, and the target value si (sequence of the cell cycle) for each node i:
where n is the number of nodes in the network, and 10 is the number of state vector sequences (from Table 1) that the network must contain.
Rank networks
Given that the fitness function defines the deviation of the network's output with respect to the desired target, the ES is formulated to solve a minimization problem, therefore, the candidate networks are ranked from the less deviated to the more deviated.
Select top m%
A user defined parameter m indicates the percentage of the ranked top solutions to be selected.
Using the top m% solutions, (popSize-popSize×m%)/2 new candidate networks are generated using the following rule:
1. Select randomly one of the top m% solutions.
2. Mutate the selected solution. This is done by applying Rule1 and Rule2 with ngh=1.
this is repeated until completing the (popSize-popSize×m%)/2 new candidate networks.
Random candidate networks
To complete the popSize, the remaining (popSize-popSize×m%)/2 is filled with random candidate networks generated using Rule1 and Rule2 with ngh selected randomly in the range of [ 1,30], for every new candidate network generated.
New candidate networks
The new population to be evaluated in the fitness function, thus, completing the loop, is composed by the top m% solutions + the networks generates by the mutation stage + the networks generated randomly.
The proposed ES was used to construct a neutral graph with functional networks that contain the fission yeast cell cycle state sequences of Table 1. In order to bound the search space, the elements of the weight matrices were constrained to the following integer values: {-2,-1,0,1,2}, and the threshold vectors to: {-2,-1,-1/2,0,1/2,1,2}. Also, popSize=20, m%=20% and max iterations =100.
The ES was used to find 10000 functional networks. Histograms of the resulting functional networks topologies are shown in Figure 2, where Figure 2A shows the distribution of the total number of edges (non-zero elements in the weight matrices) in the functional networks, Figure 2B shows the distribution of the number of positives edges and Figure 2C the distribution of the negative edges. If we consider that the wildtype network has a total of 27 edges composed of 8 positive edges and 19 negative edges, we can see from the histograms that in general the functional networks are mostly concentrated in these values but they can also have less or more edges then the wildtype.
Figure 2 Histograms of the functional networks topologies of the neutral graph. A Total number of edges; B Positive edges; C Negative edges; D Total number of edges in the wildtype connected component; E Positive edges in the wildtype connected component; F Negative edges in the wildtype connected component; G Total number of edges not in the wildtype connected component; H Positive edges not in the wildtype connected component; I Negative edges not in the wildtype connected component.
The distribution of the edges changes if we separate the functional networks that belong to the wildtype connected component and the functional networks that are not in the connected component. Figure 2D, E and F are histograms from the wildtype connected component, showing that they are more concentrated around the wildtype topology whereas histograms G, H, and I are from functional networks that are not in the connected component, showing a larger dispersion.
For visualization purposes we sampled 100 and 1000 functional networks from the 10000 found by the ES, to generate the neutral graph in Figure3A and Figure 3B respectively. The wildtype network appears in red (Color online). We notice that for functional networks not in the wildtype connected component, it is rare to see other connected components, in particular, in Figure 3B we see only one additional connected component besides the wildtype one, formed by two functional networks. From the wildtype connected component we notice that functional networks reach the wildtype in no more than 3 steps.
Figure 3 Neutral graph obtained using the proposed evolution strategy. (Color online) the red node represents the wildtype network. A Neutral graph using 100 functional networks; B Neutral graph using 1000 functional networks.
Biological robustness can be analyzed through the topological robustness of the functional networks in the wildtype connected component of the neutral graph. In particular, one can identify which of the edges of these functional networks appear more frequent, and which are less frequent. This can give a notion of the regulatory relations that are required, in a mandatory way in some cases, in order to complete the cell cycle sequence. For this simulation, out of the 10000 functional networks, 330 are in the wildtype connected component. From these networks in the connected component, the positive edge that activates the node Slp1 appears in 100% of the networks. This connection to Slp1 is necessary to ensure the integrity of the cell cycle, because slp1 mutant cells remain arrested in metaphase [24], therefore, the state sequences to complete the fission yeast cell cycle is interrupted in these cells. Another interesting case to point out are the double mutants rum1/wee1 and ste9/wee1 which are not viable [25], therefore, all the networks in the wildtype connected component contain the positive edges that activates Ste9, Wee1 and Rum1, whereas, 0.6% of the non-connected component networks do not present the edge that activates Ste9. In a similar way, 0.4% of the networks in the non-connected component do not present the edge that activates Wee1, and 0.5% do not present the edge that activates Rum1. Surprisingly, by analyzing the networks in the wildtype connected component, only one connection appears out of the norm, in 43,9% of the networks, this is a positive edge from Ste9 to Cdc25. This change in the topology of the wildtype network may allow the possibility to formulate new biological hypotheses which could be tested.
The density of the basin of attraction of the G1 fixed point of the functional networks in the wildtype connected component (blue/dashed line) and the rest of the networks (green/solid line) appears in Figure 4A for the parallel update, B for a block sequential update, C for a sequential update, and D for the fully asynchronous update. We can appreciate that both densities are quite different, regardless of the updating scheme, except for the fully asynchronous. For the deterministic updating schemes, we notice that while the functional networks in the connected component have a basin of attraction mostly concentrated between 700 ∼900 (the wildtype has a basin of attraction of size 762 using the parallel update), nevertheless, the rest of the networks show a density that stretches out more. For the asynchronous update, we notice that the size of the basin of attraction of the G1 fixed point does not concentrate in a specific range of values as do the deterministic updating schemes. It seems that each initial state converges to one of the different attractors with equal probability without having a particular preference for the G1 fixed point as in the other deterministic cases. Finally, Figure 5 shows the state transition graph for the wildtype network using the parallel updating scheme, Figure 6 shows the state transition graph for the wildtype network using a block sequential updating scheme, and Figure 7 shows the state transition graph for the wildtype network using a sequential updating scheme. From these state transition graphs, one can appreciate the large basin of attraction for the G1 fixed point.
Figure 4 Density of the basin of attraction for theG1 fixed points of the functional networks in the wildtype component (blue/dashed line) and the rest of the networks (green/solid line).A Using the parallel updating scheme; B Using the following block sequential updating scheme (Start,SK,Cdc2/Cdc13)(Ste9,Rum1,Slp1,Cdc2/Cd13 ∗)(Wee1/Mik1,Cdc25,PP); C Using the following sequential updating scheme (Start)(SK)(Cdc2/Cdc13)(Ste9)(Rum1)(Slp1)(Cdc2/Cd13 ∗)(Wee1/Mik1)(Cdc25)(PP); D Using the fully asynchronous updating scheme.
Figure 5 Sate transition graph of the wildtype network using the parallel updating scheme. (Color online) The fix point states are represented by red circles and limit cycle states are represented by blue circles.
Figure 6 Sate transition graph of the wildtype network using a block sequential updating scheme. State transition graph using the following updating scheme (Start,SK,Cdc2/Cdc13)(Ste9,Rum1,Slp1,Cdc2/Cd13 ∗)(Wee1/Mik1,Cdc25,PP). (Color online) The fix point states are represented by red circles.
Figure 7 Sate transition graph of the wildtype network using a sequential updating scheme. State transition graph using the following updating scheme (Start)(SK)(Cdc2/Cdc13)(Ste9)(Rum1)(Slp1)(Cdc2/Cd13 ∗)(Wee1/Mik1)(Cdc25)(PP). (Color online) the fix point states are represented by red circles.
An evolution strategy was developed to construct a neutral graph of Boolean regulatory networks that share the same state trajectory of the fission yeast cell cycle network [10]. Through simulations it was found that in the generated neutral graph, the functional networks that are not in the wildtype connected component have in general a Hamming distance more than 3 with the wildtype, and more than 10 between the other disconnected functional networks. We found that there are significant differences between the functional networks in the connected component of the wildtype network and the rest of the network, not only at a topological level, but also at the state space level, where significant differences in the distribution of the basin of attraction for the G1 fixed point was found for deterministic updating schemes, but not for the fully asynchronous updating scheme. From the results one can see that in general functional networks in the wildtype connected component, can mutate up to no more than 3 times, then they reach a point of no return where the networks leave the connected component of the wildtype.
Finally, although the proposed evolution strategy was used for the fission yeast cell cycle model, it can be used to construct a neutral graph of other biological models under the Boolean network formalism. Moreover, the neutral space analysis of GRNs, may allow us to formulate new biological hypotheses studying the functional networks in the wildtype connected component, for example, analyzing which edges are in common, yielding a core structure that could explain the preservation of the functionality of the network.
Boolean networks
Let x be a finite set of n variables, x={x1,…,xn}, with xi∈{0,1} for i=1,…,n. A Boolean network is a pair (G,F), where G=(V,E) is a finite directed graph; V being the set of n nodes and E the set of edges. F is a Boolean function, F:{0,1}n→{0,1}n composed of n local functions fi:{0,1}n→{0,1}. Furthermore, each local function fi depends only on variables belonging to the neighborhood Vi={j∈V|(j,i)∈E}. The indegree of vertex i is |Vi|. The updating schemes are repeated periodically, and since the hypercube is a finite set, the dynamics of the network converges to attractors which are fixed points or limit cycles, defined by
• Fixed point: xi(t+1)=xi(t) for i={1,…,n}.
• Limit cycle: xi(t+p)=xi(t) for i={1,…,n}.
where p>1 is a positive integer called the period. The set of states that can lead the network to a specific attractor is called the basin of attraction. There are many ways of updating the values of a Boolean network, some examples are:
• Parallel or synchronous mode: where every node is updated at the same time.
• Sequential updating mode: where in every time step, every node is updated in a defined sequence.
• Block-sequential: the set of nodes, for a given sequence, is partitioned into blocks. The nodes in a same block are updated in parallel, but blocks follow each other sequentially.
• Asynchronous deterministic: where in every time step, one node is updated following a defined sequence.
• Fully asynchronous: where in every time step, one node is selected randomly to be updated.
An alternative to working with arbitrary logical gates in each node, is to consider a threshold Boolean network, where updates of each node are computed by
with ωij the weight of the edge coming from node j into the node i, and θi the activation threshold of node i. The weights and thresholds are the network's parameters.
Fission yeast cell cycle network
Let us consider the Boolean network model for the cell cycle of the yeast species Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) studied in [10] shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8 The fission yeast cell-cycle threshold Boolean network. Using a similar configuration as [10], (color online) the green/solid edges represent positive weights (activations), the red/dashed edges represent negative weights (inhibitory). The red/dashed loops represent self-degradation.
Using a similar representation as in [10], the green/solid edges are positive weights (activations), the red/dashed edges are negative weights (inhibitory). The red/dashed loops are self-degradation, which are modeled mathematically by a negative weight. The gene updates are computed by a variant of (2), as defined in [10]:
The weight matrix and the threshold vector used in (3) to generate the same dynamics exhibited in [10] appears in Figure 9. A complete dynamical study of this model can be found in [13].
Figure 9 Parameters for the fission yeast cell-cycle threshold Boolean network.W represents the weight matrix and Θ the threshold vector.
In this model, three classes of molecules act: (1) The major role is played by a cyclin-dependent protein kinase complex: Cdc2/Cdc13 with Tyr-15, a residue of Cdc2; (2) positive regulators of the kinase Cdc2/Cdc13: an indicator of the mass of the cell that works as "Start", "Start kinase" (SK), a group of Cdk/cyclin complexes (Cdc2 with Cig1, Cig2 and Puc1 cyclins), and the phosphatase Cdc25; (3) antagonists of the complex Cdc2/Cdc13: Slp1, Rum1, Ste9, and the phosphatase PP. In the G1 phase, without the signal of cell size increase, the Cdc2/Cdc13 complex is inactive due to its antagonists. When the cell achieves a certain size, SK becomes active and a new round of cell division will begin by means of the accumulation of the Cdc2/Cdc13 complex. Cdc2/Cdc13 and SK dimers switch off the antagonists Rum1 and Ste9/APC in order to enter into the S phase. Moderate level on activity of the Cdc2/Cdc13 complex is enough for entering the G2 phase but not the mitosis, since proteins kinase Wee1 and Mik1 inhibits the activity of residue Tyr-15 of Cdc2. Then, to achieve the M phase, the activity of the Cdc2/Cdc13 complex must increase, and this occurs due to Cdc25 that reverses phosphorylation, removing the inhibiting phosphate group and increasing the activity of the complex. High activity of the Cdc2/Cdc13 complex is represented in the network by a separate node called Cdc2/Cdc13*. An elevated activity level of Cdc2/Cdc13* at the M phase, activates Slp1/APC (Anaphase-Promoting complex). Slp1 degrades Cdc13, therefore, the Cdc2/Cdc13* complex is inhibited. At the end of the M phase the antagonists of Cdc2/Cdc13 are reset and the cell reaches the G1 stationary state.
Using the parallel updating scheme, the cell cycle is modeled by starting from an initial state vector at time t=1 and then the dynamics of the network produces sequences of state vectors until t=10, where the network converges to a fixed point which represent the G1 phase. Details of the previous sequences are shown in Table 1.
GAR and EG contributed in the design of the study. GAR proposed and implemented the evolution strategy, and run the simulations. GAR, TT, JB, and EG analyzed the results from the simulations. GAR and TT wrote the article. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors would like to thank CONICYT-Chile under grant Fondecyt 11110088 (GAR), Fondecyt 1140090 (EG), CONICYT Doctoral scholarship (TT), and ANILLO ACT-88, for financially supporting this research.
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Chris Jericho Teases Match With Kenny Omega
by Josh Coulson
– on Oct 27, 2017
There are a few cities and states across North America renowned for producing great wrestlers. Minneapolis has had its fair share; there are more than you can probably name from the great state of Texas; Florida springs to mind, too. However, there's one town in Canada that often gets overlooked: Winnipeg, Manitoba. Although there aren't exactly an abundance of pro wrestlers hailing from there, when it comes to top class performers per square mile it may just have everywhere else beat.
There are three big wrestling names that have been proud to call Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada their home. The first was Rowdy Roddy Piper. Those are some pretty big shoes to fill for whoever came next - Chris Jericho, likely the name that springs to most fans' minds when they hear Winnipeg. The third man is one who has been making quite a stir on the wrestling scene over the last few years, and that man is Kenny Omega.
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It's strange how Winnipeg's three best wrestlers are all from different eras, but it would seem that the latter two are on a collision course. A Twitter war has been raging between the two for almost a week now. It began when Jericho responded to a tweet claiming that Omega was the best wrestler in the world, with Y2J writing that Kenny 'isn't even the best in Winnipeg'. Omega replied, of course, referring to Jericho as a 'corporate stooge'.
Best in the world? @KennyOmegamanX isn’t even the best in Winnipeg... #overrated https://t.co/2uXmebv2QI
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) October 21, 2017
Things have really spiralled out of control from there with the two of them tweeting insults back and forth ever since. Most of the jibes have effectively been Chris calling out The Cleaner for having never made it to the big leagues - aka WWE - with Omega responding that Jericho is a sellout for doing so. Now things like this don't normally happen out of nowhere, especially since Omega has been a guest on Talk Is Jericho and the two of them are friends, so what's it all about exactly?
Well jeez, what can I say? Never meet your heroes, folks, lest they be a corporate stooge. https://t.co/oGU6R9uCfZ
— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) October 21, 2017
With Jericho still very much a WWE guy and Omega still showing no interest in working under Vince McMahon a match between the two seems out of the question, if it weren't for one thing. Almost exactly a year from now Y2J is hosting a cruise, The Rock And Wrestling Rager. On that cruise Ring Of Honor will be holding a tournament, the winner of which will earn a shot at the ROH Championship. Since Omega is an ROH guy that means he and Jericho will be stuck on a cruise ship together along with a wrestling ring. So it would seem that this Twitter beef may be the beginning of a year long build to a match between two of Winnipeg's favorite sons.
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While in the WWE, Jericho has been a proponent of new talent and helping elevate some of the company's best recruits. By the sounds of it, he has effectively insisted on having matches with the likes of AJ Styles and Finn Balor, and always he gets what he wants. It helps the WWE, it helps his opponents, and Chris gets to add yet another great match to his resume. With that in mind naturally Jericho would want to wrestle Omega. However, Kenny isn't coming to WWE any time soon and Chris isn't getting any younger. If we don't see them wrestle on Jericho's cruise ship in 2018, it might never happen.
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Sears Losses Increase, Borrowing Millions from Eddie Lampert
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Posted By: David Stone August 25, 2016
Eddie Lampert, the manger of hedge funds, who operates Sears Holding Corp, is again ready to receive financing for the retail chain that continues to lose money.
ESL Investments, owned by Lampert, will be lending $300 million to Sears, the company based in Illinois said on Thursday in a prepared statement.
The new loan is to be secured by a lien against the inventory of Sears as well as its receivables and other forms of working capital.
This announcement comes following another three-month period of dropping sales and more losses, renewing the concerns about the chain’s future.
Sears lost close to $395 million equal to $3.70 per share during the period, in comparison to a $208 million profit equal to $1.84 per share for the same period one year ago.
The results from one year ago were helped by a spinoff of $2.7 billion in properties into a REIT. Sales at same stores were down over 5.2%.
Lampert, the CEO and largest shareholder at Sears, has sold assets as well as closed stores trying to stem the continued burning of cash by the company. Sears said as well that in May it would explore its different options for its Craftsman tools, DieHard batteries and Kenmore appliances brands.
That would continue a number of transactions that included its spinoff of clothing unit Lands’ End and the majority of its holdings in Sears Canada.
Under the proposal of ESL, Sears may seek new investors to lend up to $200 million on terms that are the same, said Sears. The financing should close in between 7 and 10 business days said company officials.
The terms of the deal were approved by board, with advice coming from legal and financial advisers to the board, said the company.
Sears stock was down 6.6% on Wednesday prior to the company reporting earnings. Stock has fallen over 29% during 2016 in comparison to a gain of 8.3% in the Russell 2000 Consumer Index.
Lampert pledged to make a leaner retailer that is focused on sales through multiple channels. He invested heavily in digital as well as loyalty programs for the company in an attempt to cope with mall traffic slowing down.
However, sales at same stores, a common metric used for determining performance, have not stabilized, dropping each quarter but one since the CEO merged Sears and Kmart over 11 years ago.
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Somali Officials Donate Blood After Al-Shabaab’s Jazeera Hotel Attack
By Tres Thomas on January 3, 2014 • ( 0 )
In the aftermath of al-Shabaab’s New Year’s Day bombings at the Jazeera Hotel in Mogadishu, Somali officials including Acting Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled and commander of the Somali police force General Abdikarim Dahir Said showed their support for victims by donating blood to Madina Hospital.
At least 12 people died and 37 others were injured in the blasts.
It was only days earlier when al-Shabaab’s “governor” for Banadir region Ali Mohamed Hussein (aka Sheikh Ali Jabal) issued a threat against “evil” Somali Diaspora, government officials, and troops and urged civilians to stay away from areas where these groups congregated–which arguably would include places such as Jazeera Hotel.
Al-Shabaab’s first major attack of the year occurred only hours after new Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed toured the Ministry of Defense and addressed new recruits at the likewise named Jazeera training camp, stating, “They serve their country despite the limited resources at their disposal and are an example to all of us.”
PM Abdiweli Visits Security Forces
PM Abdiweli’s comments stand out amid the irony of his visit to the heart of institutions responsible for building on advances against al-Shabaab in 2013 made with significant support from AMISOM and Ethiopia.
The Somali police force has been making gains of its own against al-Shabaab’s ability to carry out large scale attacks in the capital, including the recent capture of rocket-propelled grenades and other arms in Dayniile district.
But in 2014, Somali security forces will not be able to make sustainable improvements unless resources domestically and internationally are focused on building the capacity of the police force and army–which remain complicated tasks amid the increasing number of troops and funds spent to maintain AMISOM troops.
Meanwhile, PM Abdiweli faces the obvious task of appointing ministers in his new cabinet that can help to professionalize forces prone both to infighting, sporadically going without pay, and other shortcomings. The cabinet in partnership with commanders in the police and army equally will have to ensure that lessons from the past are used to prevent disasters in the future.
For example, after already hitting Jazeera Hotel in 2012 on the second day of President Hassan Shiekh Mohamud’s tenure, al-Shabaab in its most recent attack repeated its strategy of utilizing one suicide bomber to draw security forces in before detonating another.
As a result, Somali security forces in the new year will have to prevent al-Shabaab from targeting the same sites and using the same strategies that succeeded previously in order to reduce the scale of the group’s attacks in Mogadishu.
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Kobe Bryant No.3 on NBA All-Time Scoring List: Will he reach No.2?
December 14th, 2014 Jr. Williams
Courtesy of NBA.com
On December 14 during a road game versus the Minnesota Timberwolves, Kobe Bryant made a pair of free throws to give him 32,293 career points, moving past Michael Jordan to place him 3rd on the NBA All-time scoring list trailing only Karl Malone ( 2nd ) 36,928 and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( No.1) with 38,387 points.
In a brief ceremonious event, Kobe was congratulated by players from both the Lakers and Timberwolves. He was awarded the game ball and appeared to be very humble and thankful for the recognition.
The attention leading up to this moment has been covered extensively by major sports media outlets, and while Kobe is considered one of the greatest players in the current era, the Lakers have been on a downslope for the past few seasons and are among the worst teams in the Western Conference, however, an overtime win versus the Spurs has helped raised the confidence of the team.
Ironically, Kobe has surpassed the one player he patterned most of his game, style, and competitive nature after– (Michael Jordan), a player whose name continues to resonate with NBA stars and aspiring basketball players around the world. The only question left for Kobe is whether he can stay healthy long enough to chase the No.2 spot on the NBA All-time scoring list.
Laker fans, let’s tip our hats to the Timberwolves fans for giving Kobe a great standing ovation!
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) December 15, 2014
If healthy, Kobe is capable of scoring close to, if not more than 2,000 points per season, and he should be en route to finishing the season with well over 33,000 points. Meaning he would have to play at least 2-3 more seasons to even come close to surpassing Karl Malone, but were talking about a player with more than enough competitive juice to reach such a goal, therefore, its totally not out of the question.
A sixth NBA title has also eluded Kobe as he joins Tim Duncan on the chase to win another ring — tieing Jordan.
It takes a special type of player to surpass Michael Jordan on the All-time scoring list, and who better than Kobe Bryant. We’re speaking of a player who has worked hard his entire career to win at the highest level possible. There may not be a ton a positive talk about the Lakers as a whole, but when its all said and done, Kobe Bryant will be among the top-5 NBA greatest players of All-time.
Will Kobe Bryant reach No.2 on the NBA All-time scoring list?
Not a chance!
Yes, if healthy
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He can definitely catch Karl Malone..
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BA man charged in stabbings — (Tulsa World)
Author: CARY ASPINWALL World Staff Writer
A man who is accused of fatally stabbing and mutilating his mother and stepfather last weekend was charged Friday with murder.
Darren Craig Ellis, 27, faces two counts of first-degree murder for the slayings of Margaret and Troy Hefley.
Police discovered the Hefleys’ decapitated and disemboweled bodies Sunday at their Broken Arrow apartment after receiving a 911 call from Ellis stating that he had killed his parents and needed police help, court records show.
An affidavit filed earlier this week by Broken Arrow police gave details of a gruesome crime scene. Ellis has been hospitalized since he was found Sunday with a self-inflicted stab wound, police said.
First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond said Ellis was set to be discharged from the hospital Friday. He was booked into the Tulsa Jail on Friday night, records show.
The District Attorney’s Office has not decided whether it will seek the death penalty for Ellis, Drummond said.
A search warrant filed Friday shows that police collected from the apartment several knives and the prescription antidepressant Celexa and a sack that had contained Celexa and the anti-psychotic medication Risperdal.
Ellis apparently had been living with his mother and step-father since his release from prison in June.
He previously served time in prison for grand larceny, possession of a controlled substance and escaping from prison, court records show.
He also was convicted of mailing threatening letters to Creek County officials in 1998.
Since his release from prison, Ellis had been charged with a number of traffic violations and had also been detained for mental observation, police said.
Remarks he made to police following an automobile accident on Sept. 10 led to an emergency order of detention and treatment for Ellis, police said.
Cary Aspinwall, World staff writer, can be reached at 581-8369 or via e-mail atcary.aspinwall@tulsaworld.com.
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AFTER THE 2013 IF CAMPAIGN... WHAT NEXT?
On June 15th 2013 we in Fitzroy we hosted a Tearfund Fringe event to the big IF event that was happening that afternoon in Botanic Avenue. For many of us the Fringe event was the most powerful part of the day. We listened to Tearfund reps from many countries, we heard from Naomi Long MP, we reflected on God’s word, we prayed, we were inspired, we were challenged and we gave ourselves to making a difference.
What happened? What did it achieve? I never believe that we should confine the transformation to the statistics of change across the world. There can be an impact in the lives of those of us who campaign that gives an impetus to life changing behavioural patterns. That is not so easy to quantify. But what about the stats? Did IF make any difference? And, what now? Where can we go after IF?
These are the questions we will be pondering on this Sunday night in Fitzroy. With music from Dave Thompson, who was inspired to write a song at that Fringe event fifteen months ago and The Radiator Blues Band, videos and contributions from Ben Niblett, Tearfund Head of Campaigns, Alain Emerson from 24/7, myself and others we will be celebrating the past, asking where it leaves us now and praying about the future.
It will be a vibrant night that hopes to change the world in each of us that we might change the world around us.
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NAD(P)H-quinone oxidoreductase subunit L; NDH-1 shuttles electrons from an unknown electron donor, via FMN and iron-sulfur (Fe-S) centers, to quinones in the respiratory and/or the photosynthetic chain. The immediate electron acceptor for the enzyme in this species is believed to be plastoquinone. Couples the redox reaction to proton translocation, and thus conserves the redox energy in a proton gradient. Cyanobacterial NDH-1 also plays a role in inorganic carbon- concentration; Belongs to the complex I NdhL subunit family (138 aa)
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NAD(P)H-quinone oxidoreductase subunit L; NDH-1 shuttles electrons from an unknown electron donor, via FMN and iron-sulfur (Fe-S) centers, to quinones in the respiratory and/or the photosynthetic chain. The immediate electron acceptor for the enzyme in this species is believed to be plastoquinone. Couples the redox reaction to proton translocation, and thus conserves the redox energy in a proton gradient. Cyanobacterial NDH-1 also plays a role in inorganic carbon- concentration; Belongs to the complex I NdhL subunit family
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How The World Makes Art
Same as admission requirements for the BA Art History.
Art and architecture are forms of universal human expression. Across the world, in all ages, human cultures have produced architecture, painting , sculpture and drawings to give visible form to their dreams beliefs, dreams, fears or desires. They have also used art to act on its viewers: to inspire fear, love or admiration; or to express social, political or religious values and identities. In this introductory course to the study of art across the world we look at four major themes and functions of art: the power of art works to act on their viewers; art and religion; art and identity; and art and the afterlife. In a series of lectures we will show how these themes and functions occur across the world and in all ages. The lecture course will thus offer a panorama of the vast range of approaches to the study of art practised at Leiden University.
This course aims to create an awareness that art is an integral part of human life. In all cultures across time and space, the visual arts appear interwoven with crucial dimensions of being human – how we think of ourselves, what we believe, what we value, what we hope. Visual art both expresses and communicates such views, as this course sets out to demonstrate by means of in-depth case studies presenting examples drawn from a variety of cultures worldwide.
In this introductory course to the study of art across the world we look at four major themes and functions of art:
Art and Religion
Art and the Cult of the Dead
Art’s Agency
Art and Identity.
In a series of 12 lectures we will show how these themes and functions occur across the world and in all ages, from prehistory to the present day. Guest speakers from the National Museum of Antiquity and the National Museum of World Cultures will shed light on various topics against the background of museum collections. The course will thus offer a panorama of the vast range of approaches to the study of art practiced in Leiden, and the rich worldwide collections of both the University and the city’s museums.
Having some insight in and being able to value the richness, varieties and development of art across the world.
Being familiar with major forms and technical and physical aspects of the visual and applied arts and architecture from prehistory to the present.
Being acquainted with and able to make use of the main sources and handbooks on world art studies.
Having insight into the main scholarly approaches to world art studies.
Please note: for the final schedule refer to Collegeroosters / Timetable BA Art History on the Art History website.
Important: attendance to these lectures is mandatory. In case of no-show, the tutors should be informed about your absence prior to the actual lecture. Moreover this course cannot be successfully completed by students that were absent more than twice. Only in exceptional cases, the Examination Committee may consider the possibility of an additional or substitute assignment. See also the Course and Examination Regulations.
Course Load
Course load in summary: 5 ects (140 hrs)
24 hours: Attendance of the lectures: 2 hrs weekly x 12 weeks
40 hours: Required readings (c. 280 pages à 7 pages/hr)
30 hours: Preparing and writing the written assignment
46 hours: Preparation of a final written exam
A written assignment of 800-1000 words (explained in Lecture 1) (40%).
Written exam (60%).
Compensation: The weighted average of all assessments should be at least 6.0 and both parts need to have a grade superior to 5.5.
Resit: If the essay is graded below 5.5 it can be resubmitted once. There will be one general re-sit for the final written exam.
Exam review: How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Blackboard will be used to make course materials accessible.
James Ekins, Stories of Art. New York/London: Routledge 2002 isbn 0-415-93943-7
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Parking at Beauvoir
Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School, is located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral. The Cathedral is located at the intersection of Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues in the upper northwest section of Washington, DC.
In an effort to be a good neighbor, please attempt to find a legal parking space on the Cathedral Close before searching in the neighborhood that surrounds Beauvoir and the Cathedral. Beauvoir has 26 visitor parking spots within proximity to the School. A summer camp permit must be displayed on your dashboard.
The Cathedral has an underground parking garage, in which camp families are encouraged to park. Please enter and exit the garage from the main entrance off of Wisconsin Avenue. Pull a ticket and Beauvoir will validate parking for up to three hours during business hours.
2019 Parking Permit
Camp Front Desk: 202-537-6485
From June 17th to August 2th, the front desk is staffed Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m to 6:00 p.m.
Camp Nurse: 202-537-2938
Camp Address
Beauvoir Summer Programs
Media inquiries should be directed to the Associate Director of Communications, Jenny Towns at jenny.towns@cathedral.org
Directions to Beauvoir
From Downtown Washington
Take Massachusetts Avenue north to Wisconsin Avenue. Turn right onto Wisconsin Avenue. Turn right onto Woodley Road. Turn right onto 35th Street (this is actually Beauvoir's driveway). Beauvoir is at the top of the driveway. You will drive pass the National Cathedral School athletic facility at the bottom of the driveway on your left.
From Maryland and the North
Take I-95 to I-495 W towards Silver Spring. Take Exit 33, Connecticut Avenue, towards Chevy Chase. Take Connecticut Avenue to Van Ness Street. Turn right onto Van Ness and continue to Reno Road. Turn left onto Reno Road. Continue down Reno Road, which will turn into 34th Street. When you get to the light at Woodley Road, turn right. At the next stop sign, turn left into Beauvoir's driveway at the corner of 35th Street and Woodley Road.
From Virginia and the South
Take I-495 over the American Legion Bridge into Maryland and take the Wisconsin Avenue/Bethesda exit. Follow Wisconsin Avenue to Woodley Road. Turn left onto Woodley Road. Follow Woodley Road through two stop signs. At the third stop sign, make a right into Beauvoir's driveway at the corner of 35th Street and Woodley Road.
OR take the Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, bearing right onto Rock Creek Parkway. Follow Rock Creek Parkway to the Massachusetts Avenue exit, turning left onto Massachusetts Avenue. Then follow directions from Downtown Washington above.
From Virginia and the West
Take I-66 East to I-495 West, the Capital Beltway. Follow directions from Virginia and the South over the American Legion Bridge above.
Via Metrorail and Metrobus
From Tenleytown
Take the Metro Red Line to the Tenleytown/AU station.
Exit on the west side of Wisconsin Avenue.
Take any "30" series bus (#30, #32, #34 or #36) or the 96 bus going south on Wisconsin Avenue.
Ride approximately one and a half miles south on Wisconsin Avenue to the Cathedral. (This is a downhill walk, if you prefer to walk.)
Walk on South Road alongside the Cathedral to reach Beauvoir.
From Dupont Circle
Take the the N2, N3, N4 or N6 bus until you reach the intersection of Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues.
Walk north on Wisconsin Avenue one-half block to the Cathedral.
From Woodley Park
Take the 96 bus toward Tenleytown Station.
Get off the bus at the corner of Woodley and 35th Street.
Beauvoir’s entrance is at the corner.
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2. Hindu College (Delhi University)
3. Lady Shri Ram College for Women
4. Loyola College
5. Christ University
6. Hansraj College
7. St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous)
8. Madras Christian College
9. St. Xavier’s College
10. Mount Carmel College
11. Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce
Location: Delhi
Address: University of Delhi North Campus, Maurice Nagar, Delhi – 110007,
Admission Queries: admission@srcc.du.ac.in
Contact no: 011 27667905
Fees (INR): 93.3K
Website: http://www.srcc.edu/
Founded by Lala Shri Ram in 1926, SRCC is one of the top premier colleges affiliated to the University of Delhi granting undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. It is one of the most acclaimed and oldest institutes of higher studies of Commerce and Economics. It has one of the best infrastructures among all the colleges of Delhi University. SRCC is fully centralized along with Wi-Fi access all over the campus and it has a fully equipped sports complex having all sports facilities with swimming pool for students. The SRCC’s M.Com and PGDM courses are quite popular among students, who want to pursue commerce PG courses. The admission starts for Delhi University PG courses in the month of June.
Courses Offered:
B.Com (Hons.)
PGDM in Global Business Operation
M.A in Economics
B.A. (Hons.) in Economics
Address: C -1 Block, Mahatma Hans Raj Marg, Malka Ganj, P.O. Delhi University, North Delhi(T), North Delhi (Dist.), Delhi – 110007, India
Admission Queries: hinducol@del3.vsnl.net.in
Contact no: 27667184
Website: http://www.hinducollege.ac.in/
The infrastructure of Hindu College is under construction. There is no place on campus to conduct various activities and sports. For example, table tennis sports kit is available, but there is no place to play. Small gardens are there on campus. Hindu’s B.com Honors course attracts hundreds of applicants each year pushing its cut-off up to 98 percent. If you’re interested to apply, then you could go through Delhi University UG Admission guidelines here.
Address: Lala Lajpat Rai Rd, Lajpat Nagar IV, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi -110024
Admission Queries: lsrc@lsr.edu.in
Website: http://lsr.edu.in/
Lady Shri ram college for women is a dream place for every woman. College admin is very less responsive and poor in liabilities. Best college in South Delhi, infrastructure is great. There are projectors in all the classrooms. The library is well-equipped and even if some books are missing, one has the option of asking the librarian to order those books. Foreign language courses are also offered.
Address: Sterling Rd, Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600034
Admission Queries: admission@loyolacollege.edu
Contact no: 91-44 2817 8291/92/93
Website: http://www.loyolacollege.edu/
They have the oldest building which is built in 1925. It has a famous hall that is Bertram hall which has a capacity of 10000 people at a time. Loyola college is situated in 100 acres of land. It is one of the top colleges in India with good infrastructure and greenery. Loyola college, have its own best studies and cultural which takes place every interval respectively.
B.Com (General)
Master of Commerce
B.Com ( Corporate Secretaryship)
Location: Bengaluru
Address: Hosur Road, Bhavani Nagar, Suddagunte Palya, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Admission Queries: mail@christuniversity.in
Contact no: +91 8040129100/9600
Fees (INR): 1.5L
Website: https://christuniversity.in/
Christ college has the best infrastructure like other top private colleges. Christ has a wonderful class atmosphere in terms of infrastructure. In every class, there are projectors, Wi-Fi, speakers, and good ventilation. There are more than 19 canteens on the campus. The college is far away from the city, which adds no noise to you.
B.Com(Honours) in Strategic finance
Duration: 3 years.
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Commerce
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Commerce
Address: C-1 Block, Mahatma Hans Raj Marg, Malka Ganj, Delhi, 110007
Contact no: +91-11-27667747, +91-11-27667458
Website: http://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/
The infrastructure is also very excellent on the campus with the best labs which include the smart labs, and the labs are also air-conditioned. There are free Wi-Fi facilities on the campus. The library is also very vast with a wide range of books in it. The sports and the quality of the games are also very excellent. The canteen food is good and delicious at an affordable price and also the canteen food is also very healthy and fresh. There is also a medical facility available on the campus for all the students.
B.Com (Hons)
Address: 36, Langford Road, Langford Gardens, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560027
Admission Queries: desk@sjc.ac.in
Contact no: 080 2227 4079, 080 2221 1429
Fees (INR): 60K
Website: http://www.sjc.ac.in/
St.Joseph’s College is known for its huge sports complex, highly equipped laboratories, and technical rooms. There are two blocks for science and humanities, and the commerce block is under construction. Every building has got its Wi-Fi for the students to use whenever they need to. The college has its canteen which has almost all kind of foods served there, and there is also a canteen in the PG block. The PG block is just opposite to the main building. Each department has its lab which provides all the necessary equipment and every room has a projector. The college has only boys hostel which is located on the campus itself. However, you could search for PG or hostels nearby Delhi University North Campus.
Location: Tamil Nadu
Address: East Tambaram, Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600059
Contact no: 044 22390675/ 22396772 044-22390675 / 22396772
Website: https://www.mcc.edu.in/
The college has an 80-year-old campus which is spread across 365 acres. It is located near the Tambaram Railway station. It is easily accessible. There are 3 men’s halls(hostels) and 3 women’s halls within the college campus. Every classroom can hold to a minimum of 100 students. The clinic is available on the campus. Miller library is one of the best libraries you could ever find in a college. It’s a big library with Wi-Fi, restroom, internet, audio, video sections and indeed it has. Nobody could raise a question about the quality of labs, classrooms and even food available in the canteen.
B.com Regular
B.com Accounting & Finance
Location: Mumbai
Address: 5, Mahapalika Marg, Dhobi Talao, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Area, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001
Contact no: 022 22620661, 022 22659484
Fees (INR): 5.03K
Website: http://xaviers.edu/main/
St. Xavier’s stands on a 3 acres campus in the Fort locality of the South Mumbai. They have the famous, The Fell Gymkhana, built in 1954 and later named after it’s founder for. Fell, has celebrated its Golden Jubilee. It is now furnished with new equipment and other recreational facilities for staff and students of the college. In addition, the College has the use of a Cricket pitch across the road on Azad Maidan. The college has Lending library and reference library, the campus also has a leisure space known as “The woods”. And canteen, often known as “KHAU GALI”. There is a College Chapel people can go and meditate there.
Address: Fatima Block, 58, Palace Rd, Abshot Layout, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560052
Admission Queries: mounts@bgl.vsnl.net.in
Contact no:+91 80 22261759
Website: http://www.mountcarmelcollegeblr.co.in/
It’s good but not the best definitely. Wi-fi is there but it hardly works. Canteen is being reconstructed because the earlier one was not up to the mark. The hostel is available for only a few people mostly for Christian students. On the whole, the infrastructure is okay. The college has space to play games like basketball and other indoor games.
B.Com (Regular)
Address: Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune – 411004
Admission Queries: contact@symbiosiscollege.edu.in
Contact no: 020 256 53 903, 9011059219
Website: https://symbiosiscollege.edu.in/
The college has a good library along with a Wi-Fi facility for students. The classes are equipped with smart projectors and there are good medical facilities for students. The college also has a good canteen where one can get a variety of food items. But size does not matter when it comes to quality which is decent. Those who are looking for acres of campus or infrastructure then this is not the one.
B.Com (Accountancy)
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Comic Review: Injustice – Gods Among Us #1
This entry was posted on February 4, 2013 by supermarcey, in Comics, Other Reviews and tagged comic, dc, injustice, review. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment
Written By: Tom Taylor
Pencils: Jheremy Raapack (pgs 1-15), Mike S. Miller (pgs 21-30), Axel Gimenez (pgs 16-20)
Inks: Jheremy Raapack (pgs 1-15), Mike S. Miller (pgs 21-30), Marc Deering (pgs 16-20)
Colours: Andrew Elder
Letters: Wes Abbott
Issue #1 Cover: Jheremy Raapack and Tony Avina
Review: With my gaming consoles dating back to the 80’s and 90’s (aside from the Gen 1 Wii) I don’t often get to play new games. I long for something better, or for Mac’s to actually handle being a gaming machine (ha!). So needless to say that comics based around games aren’t something I usually delve into. I am not someone who doesn’t like gaming; in fact I was a heavy gamer back when I had a PC and a PS2. Money just doesn’t allow me to indulge in that passion, so why then did I feel the need to pick up Injustice: Gods Among Us the prequel to the game coming out this April? Well for starters it is DC and features characters I love and secondly the writer of this is Tom Taylor, an Australian treasure in the writing community.
I met Tom back in 2009 at the Supanova Convention, bought his work and was immediately sold on his talents. Since then, Tom has written Star Wars stories and his own baby The Deep (just to name a few), he has been a busy boy. I was rather excited that he was going to be writing this, and it felt like a good fit for him. Those instincts proved to be correct, because Injustice: Gods Among Us is absolutely fantastic, and I am sure it will surprise many because it feels more than just a game prequel.
Our story takes place here mostly 5 years prior to what I imagine is where the game is to be set. The future we see at the beginning does not look good, one of our heroes has changed drastically and we are going on a journey to find out how and why. Our central story here of 5 years earlier focuses on Superman, who is happy with Lois Lane and their relationship seems to be heading into a serious direction. Meanwhile the Justice League are dealing with troubles from The Joker (not a spoiler, he’s on the cover). But something tragic happens and I don’t think anything can prepare our characters or us as readers for what is to come.
Gods Among Us #1 feels like some kind of Shakespearian tragedy, which makes the stage feel so grand that it some how works. This is a story that is taking the ultimate risk, and for me it paid off and I can’t wait for more. What we have here isn’t based in any DC universe I’ve read, it seems to really be its own thing and I do believe that is a very good thing. It doesn’t need to be confined to anything, which allows for unlimited areas of where to go (well the end game is well the game, but this story allows the game to be extreme different with its story).
Tom Taylor again exceeds with his words, his writing is nothing short of excellent and yes it was heartbreaking. He really crafted something special here, and all I wanted was more, more, more. The artwork is great; with three different men working on the pencils it is a nice experience to see their different styles flow. Major kudo’s go to Mike S. Miller whose final pages really come to life to tell this story and left me reeling.
Whether or not you plan to play the game, you really need to read this comic! It is one of the best things I have read and experienced for quite some time, and it is a breath of fresh air for these characters. I can’t wait to pick up Issue #2, hold it in my hands and see where this story is going.
One thought on “Comic Review: Injustice – Gods Among Us #1”
www.racinggames.fr says:
A thank you for the review, I have heard related
issues iin regards to the game andd might be testing it for myself during the next month.
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Submissions Redux
FibS 2 years ago • updated 2 years ago • 2
Designing a submission system that supports artist-client commission relationships, artist-business content ownership relationships, the variation in whether contributors to an image want it in their galleries, and other novel "multiple people involved" scenarios - but removes duplicate uploads and consolidates all favorites et al into a single copy of the image.
EXAMPLE SITUATIONS
Artists and commission clients often both upload the resulting image.
Multiple artists who collaborate on an image often all upload it.
Drawing gift art for character owners often results in all relevant owners re-uploading.
I know one artist who uploads the same content to both his personal account and to a brand-name account similar to a company profile.
Submissions become independent pages similar to posts on an image board, rather than items attached to individual user galleries.
In addition to arbitrarily set-able values such as creation date etc., Submissions bear contributor roles which mark (with links):
characters and their owners (as you can make character profile pages)
licensees, companies, &/or brand names
contributors not covered above
...or other relevant positions. Any user in any of these roles may be marked as an intellectual owner of the submission's content, and any user in any of these roles may be given gallery permission.
The first person to upload the image is marked as Submission Administrator (separate from role), and has the penultimate authority over image category & tags, contributor roles, and gallery permissions. (Site Staff are the ultimate authority, of course, and can change who is the Submission Administrator too.)
User accounts given gallery permissions may toggle whether this Submission is listed in their galleries. Thus, everyone's gallery will show it like they had all uploaded it separately, but all clicks and all favorites, comments, etc. will go to the same 1 copy of the submission.
Each Submission page has multiple description tabs. Each is written by one of the gallery-permission users who has opted to display the image in their gallery, as though they had uploaded separately. When clicking on the submission from a specific user's gallery, that user's description tab will be active immediately.
When a new submission is uploaded, a dupe check will see if the submission already exists. If so:
If the Submission Administrator has already given the uploader gallery permissions, they will be given the option to immediately display the Submission in their gallery.
If the Submission Administrator has not already given gallery permissions and has not locked applications, the uploader will be given the option to apply for gallery permission (and a role if applicable.)
If the uploader does not have gallery permission and applications are locked, they're told to message the Submission Administrator or, if that doesn' t work, site staff.
In the event that a dupe exists and is not caught, Site Staff may manually merge Submissions. This should retain all comments, combine favorites, and host the newer version's description as per the above description tabs, while all other information is discarded.
SUGGESTED IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
Assuming that current Submissions cannot be plausibly "upgraded" into this system:
Leaving existing Submission system alone, develop new submission page as a "second Submission system" of sorts, available to admins, then testers, then the public
Once tested & stable, migrate existing Submissions to new Submission system by effectively "reuploading" them and checking for dupes.
The earliest uploader becomes Submission Administrator.
All subsequent uploaders are given gallery permissions and automatically checked as displaying the Submission in their galleries.
Everyone is listed under a catch-all "Contributor" role because the server can't reliably & mechanically tell who did what. They'll have to update it themselves, I'm afraid
Replace all old Submission functions & links with new Submission functions & links
Delete all old Submissions and keep all new system Submissions
Whistle and pretend the old system was never there
I hope this post hasn't been too confusing! Thanks for reading!
Digby (Community Manager) 2 years ago
FibS, thanks for sending this suggestion in to us! I took a look, and we have a fairly similar suggestion that we're going to talk to the devs about; it's a simplified version that would allow users to tag people involved as well as link to each others' submissions.
How many people would use this? A good amount based on the votes from the other thread.
How easy would it be to implement? Not very easy. We're looking at an overhaul of the submission system, and this would need to be done in a way that currently existing submissions aren't negatively affected. Even if a secondary system were created, checking for duplicates automatically would definitely put a large burden on the submission processor; it would also lead to a large development time.
How easy would it be for users to use? The new submission system could be intuitive if done right. However, if users were the ones choosing admins for their work, this opens the door for potential conflicts and drama.
How much work would it give staff after this is implemented? It depends. Depending on the accuracy of the duplication checker, it could give false positives. There's also the potential for staff needing to clear up conflicts.
I'm just thinking out loud, but it seems like allowing users to cross-list and tag other contributors would be less development work - we'd be using the same system with some small modifications. It could also possibly be easier to use, especially since other users on the site would be able to tag related submissions and the appropriate artists. I think there would be more moderation issues popping up from that. I'm leaning towards using the tagging system.
What do you think, FibS?
FibS 2 years ago
That suggestion would be an improvement over the current state of affairs and faster to implement than mine -- but I think despite that being suitable in the short-term, somewhere down the line making submissions their own independent pages with variable & modular owner accounts (or sets thereof) is an inevitable and ideal destination.
That suggestion and mine both feature user-audited contributor tags, which I have referred to as "roles", and which are roughly indistinct between the two, and that is a good step.
However, a mild modification to the current Submission system will not facilitate each contributor partial control over the submission, as it will remain a subpage exclusive to a single account. As my suggestion revolves around Submissions not wholly belonging to any one of the contributors, they include role-independent permission flags allowing certain powers over the Submission. Someone has to be the core submission admin, though, and by default that would have to be the first person to upload it, as at that time there won't be anyone else attached to the Submission. And of course, there may be select circumstances where that person isn't suitable and the staff are contacted to possibly change who is the core submission admin.
Without some form of duplication check, Furry Network cannot passively catch when multiple users - perhaps in well-meant ignorance - upload the same content, which I would consider the primary if not only point of implementing contributor tags in the first place. It does not go into much detail on how these contributor tags affect the permissions of other users to (among other privileges) host submissions in their galleries without splitting or duplicating views, favorites, et al.
I may have failed to include the vital detail that suspected duplicates should not be automatically denied - the user should be alerted and given the option to upload anyway. Because of this, I think that checking for duplicates may be as simple as comparing submission file hashes, since collisions will not be catastrophic as they would be in security. (I'm not sure how to most efficiently handle the possibility of Furry Network eventually hosting multiple files per submission.)
In short, I'm all for any adjustments to the existing system to improve it, but I'm quite convinced that the first art site to make submissions independent pages will see a significant advantage thanks to what can be done with them from that point onward.
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Tag Archive | Maggi Andersen
Maggi Andersen: What a Rake Wants (The Spies of Mayfair Series)
Interview With Maggi Andersen
Susana: What inspired you to start writing?
Maggi: I needed little inspiration I remember writing at a very young age. When I had the time to devote to a career in writing, I took it up seriously.
Susana: How long have you been writing?
Maggi: I began 15 years ago. I wrote my first book for my master’s degree. It was a murder mystery titled Murder in Devon.
Susana: What advice would you give to writers just starting out?
Maggi: Patience is something writers need in spades, although these days it’s not nearly as bad as it was years ago, when we had to post everything and wait months for a reply. It takes time to find your voice and learn your craft though. Don’t be too hasty sending off your work. Make sure it’s as perfect as you can get it. Put it aside for as long as you can and then look at it with new eyes. You’ll be surprised at the mistakes you’ll find, and what you can see to improve it. Wait a few weeks if you can. Another example of why we need patience! J
Susana: Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?
Maggi: No, never. I don’t believe in it. If I run out of ideas, I just start writing. The creative brain kicks into action and something will come. You can always edit the first draft. You can’t edit a blank page.
Susana: What comes first: the plot or the characters?
Maggi: When I first began writing it was plot driven, but now the characters drive the story. Sometimes, without me at the wheel.
Susana: Are you a plotter or a pantser?
Maggi: I tend to be a bit of both. I know the ending. It’s not hard it’s a romance! I plot a scene ahead but that can change as the characters lead me off somewhere surprising. I like the panster element in my writing because it can go off on tangents I would never have thought of plotting the story. A spy story or mystery needs more plotting. I like to end up with a reasonable first draft.
Susana: Tell us something about your newest release that is NOT in the blurb.
Maggi: Flynn, Lord Montsimon is playing the game of a rake due to the hurt he suffered as a child in Ireland. It takes a woman like Lady Althea Brookwood to show him his true feelings and melt his heart. My inspiration for Flynn came from Errol Flynn, the Australian actor. Despite his racy reputation, Flynn was known to be a cultured gentleman. I love his movies, who doesn’t like Captain Blood?
Susana: Are you working on something at present that you would like to tell us about?
Maggi: I’m writing another Regency series, The Baxendale Sisters. The first is Lady Honor’s story. The book is titled: Honor’s Debt.
Susana: What are you reading now?
Maggi: Not a historical. Slow Hand by Victoria Vane. It’s great!
Susana: What author or authors have most influenced your writing?
Maggi: Surprisingly, Harlan Coben. A suspense writer can learn a lot from the way he crafts his stories. My love of historials came from Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt, Eloisa James and Jane Austen. I like Julia Quinn and Anna Campbell too.
Susana: What is your work schedule like when writing?
Maggi: I spend long hours at my desk every day. (My husband is retired from the law and does the cooking). I don’t write at night, I join him to watch something on the television or read.
Susana: What did you want to be when you grew up?
Maggi: I dreamed of living in an English country village while writing. (My artist mother was born of English parents, and this was her dream too) I now live in a quaint, Australian country village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where tourists come to see the spring gardens. And I spend my days writing, so I guess I’ve come close to living my dream.
Susana: What is your favorite food? Least favorite? Why?
Maggi: My love of all kinds of cheeses, which comes from my Danish father. Least favorite, any kind of offal. I remember my Dad loved brains and my mother would cook them for him on his birthday. Yuk!
Susana: What is one thing your readers would be most surprised to learn about you?
Maggi: My first job was in a bank, and for a creative person like me, I found it difficult and boring. I can balance a check book though.
Susana: Is there a writer you idolize? If so, who?
Maggi: I’d have to say Mary Stewart who died recently in her 90s. She was a poet and wrote the first romantic suspense novels. I have her entire library.
Question for the Readers: What problem didn’t occur to Althea when she chose the gown she wore?
About What a Rake Wants
King George sends his private investigator, an Irishman, Kieran Flynn, Lord Montsimon, on a mission, the reason for which is unclear. Is it a plot against the Crown? Or something entirely unrelated? Flynn’s inquiries lead him to the widow, Lady Althea Brookwood. Known amongst the ton as a rake, Flynn is rarely turned down by a lady, and when Althea refuses not just him but many other men, he becomes intrigued.
After her neighbor, Sir Harold Crowthorne informs Lady Althea that he means to take her country property, Owltree Cottage, by fair means or foul, she must search for help. The first man she turns to is promptly murdered and the second lies to her. That leaves Flynn, Lord Montsimon, a man she has been studiously avoiding. But Montsimon is decidedly unhelpful, and more than a little mysterious. Her only option is to seduce him. Lady Althea has little confidence that she will succeed, especially as before her husband was killed in a duel, he often told her she was quite hopeless at intimacy.
When a spy is murdered, Flynn wonders just what Althea knows and what her involvement might be with the man the king wants Flynn to investigate.
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(Lord Montsimon and Lady Althea Brookwood are forced to share a bed for the night.)
The attic room had a low, sloping ceiling. A green hook rug covered the floor and a jug, basin, and towels had been placed on the tall dresser. A straight-backed chair sat in the corner and the bed against the far wall. Mrs. Fletcher’s description of the bed had been accurate: the small wooden bedstead was covered in a bright quilt and not designed for two. Althea stared at it, her throat tight with dismay, as Montsimon shut the door. His nearness in the small space was overwhelming.
Seemingly unaffected, Montsimon peeled off his coat and sat on the feather-filled mattress, which sank visibly under his weight. He looked annoyingly at home. He tugged at his cravat then undid the buttons on his shirt to reveal a strong throat and a glimpse of dark chest hair. She took in the male strength, the cleanliness and beauty of him and turned away to fuss with her cloak before hanging it over the chair.
“Would you help me off with my boots?”
“I’m hardly a valet,” she said, sounding peevish.
“Not as strong, but we shall manage,” he said with a grin. His waistcoat joined his coat on the chair. How much was he going to remove? She wished her breath would slow.
Althea took hold of the mud-splashed, black leather Hessian boot and pulled. It didn’t budge.
“Perhaps a bit harder?”
Annoyed by his manner, she gave a violent yank. The boot slid down Montsimon’s well-defined calf so fast she fell onto her derriere on the hard plank floor.
“Are you all right?” His grin widened as he leapt up.
“Perfectly.” She waved his hand away and climbed to her feet, resisting a rub of the damaged area. “Your other foot if you please.”
“If you’re sure?” he asked with a burst of laughter.
With a dismissive scowl, she planted her feet and taking a firm hold of the boot, eased it down more gradually. It slid off his leg without further mishap. There was something disturbingly intimate about his broad chest encased in white linen, the form-fitting grey trousers and his big stockinged feet. Had she ever seen Brookwood this way? He always came to her chamber dressed in his banyan and slippers. And she had dreaded the sight of him.
Montsimon stood, ducking his head under a beam. “You’ll never manage that dress on your own.”
She crossed her arms. “I’m keeping it on.”
“Such a pretty gown was meant for a drawing room, not for sleeping in.”
“Nevertheless, I shall sleep in it.” She perched on the chair and took off her shoes.
He frowned. “Give me a look at those.”
“Why?” She handed them to him.
He turned a shoe over in his big hands. The sole of one had worn through. “These are about to fall apart. I had no idea you wore such flimsy shoes.”
“They are meant for drawing rooms, my lord. As is my dress.”
“That gown will look like a rag in the morning. As you have nothing else to change into, you will have to bear it until we return to London.”
Why did he so often make sense? She brushed down her skirts, which were already dreadfully crushed, and was forced to agree. She wasn’t a shy, green girl; she just didn’t want to inflame Flynn’s passions. It would take very little, she suspected. But her underwear covered her and was perfectly modest. “The bed is too small. A gentleman would sleep in the chair.”
His eyebrows flew up. “It’s made of wood.”
He flapped a hand in dismissal. “I intend to sleep in that bed, my lady. Where you choose to sleep is entirely up to you. I’m going downstairs to wash at the pump. While I’m away, you can undress and hide beneath the covers.” He paused, one hand on the doorknob. “Again, do you require help to undo those impossible little buttons at your back?”
“Odd that this problem didn’t occur to me when I chose to wear it.” Her lips puckered in annoyance. While they were arguing, what remained of the night was passing. She turned her back. “If you will.” If he treated her like a servant, she would do likewise.
Her hair had begun to escape the topknot, and she swept it up out of the way, scattering pins. She tingled under the gentle touch of his fingers as they moved down her back. Her gown fell away. “What are you doing?”
“Unlacing your stays. You can’t sleep in this uncomfortable garment!”
“I had intended to,” she said, pulling away as he tugged at the laces. Too late, she felt them give.
“You have lovely hair, Althea,” he said softly.
His use of her name was very seductive. Her pulse skittered alarmingly. She spun around, clutching the bodice of her dress to her chest as her stays slipped to the floor.
Montsimon looked her up and down, warm approval in his gaze.
She backed away from him, longing for the shelter of darkness. “Once I’m in bed, shall I blow out the candle?”
“If you wish.” Montsimon closed the door behind him.
Maggi Andersen lives with her lawyer husband in a quaint old town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. She began writing fiction after raising three children and studying for a BA and an MA in Creative Writing.
When not creating stories, Maggi reads, enjoys her garden, goes for long walks and feeds the local wildlife. Her six kookaburras (Australian Kingfishers) prefer to be hand fed.
An Amazon bestselling Regency author, Maggi writes in several genres, contemporary and historical romances and young adult novels. Having grown up reading Enid Blyton and Georgette Heyer, Maggi’s romances are filled with adventure, mystery or intrigue, but always with a happy ending.
Her latest releases:
The Spies of Mayfair Series
A Baron in Her Bed
Taming a Gentleman Spy
What a Rake Wants
Historical Tidbit
Did you know that in the fifteenth century, only a few could afford glass windows? They became more common in the sixteenth but were still expensive. When people moved they took their windows with them! Tudor windows were small pieces of glass held together by strips of lead in a criss-cross or lattice pattern. To make a pane of glass, a blog of glass was blown into a cylinder-shaped bubble, which was placed on a cooling table. Then afer the bubble cooled, it was cut in half producing a small piece.
The poor, however, still had to make do with strips of linen soaked in linseed oil.
Hardwick Hall, owned by Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury, was famous for its Tudor windows. It inspired a rhyme: “Hardwick Hall more glass than wall.”
This entry was posted on August 28, 2014, in 19th dentury, Maggi Andersen, Regency, Steamy and tagged Maggi Andersen, Regency romance, Susana Ellis, The Spies of Mayfair Series, What a Rake Wants. 10 Comments
Maggi Andersen and “Taming a Gentleman Spy”
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About Taming a Gentleman Spy
John Haldane, Earl of Strathairn, is on an urgent mission to find the killer of his fellow spy. After visiting the young widow of one of his agents, Strathairn strengthens his resolve. A spy should never marry, and most certainly not to Lady Sibella Winborne, with her romantic ideas of love and marriage. Unable to give Sibella up entirely, he has kept her close as a friend. Then, weak fool that he is, he kissed her.
Lady Sibella Winborne has refused several offers of marriage since she first set eyes on the handsome Earl of Strathairn. Sibella’s many siblings always rush to her aid to discourage an ardent suitor, but not this time. Her elder brother, Chaloner, Marquess of Brandreth, has approved Lord Coombe’s suit. Sibella yearns to set up her own household. She is known to be the sensible member of the family, but she doesn’t feel at all sensible about Lord Strathairn. If only she could forget that kiss.
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Sibella’s brother Edward stood at her shoulder. “I’ve come to claim you for the next dance, before any of your admirers beat me to it.”
“I shouldn’t worry, many are losing interest,” she said crisply, rising from her chair.
He eyed her as they entered the dance floor. “Losing hope, more like.”
As they moved through the steps of the quadrille, he dropped quiet remarks in her ear.
“Give up on Strathairn, Sib.”
“I don’t believe, I—” They parted, and by the time the steps brought them back together, she’d given up protesting. Edward had inherited their mother’s astute nature.
“It’s not that I don’t like him. I do very much. But he’s not for you.”
“You needn’t worry. He doesn’t wish to marry.”
Her brother raised a black eyebrow. “Oh, I believe you could sway him toward marriage, if you set your mind to it. That’s not the reason.”
“Then what is the reason?”
“Chaloner hears things in the House of Lords. I can’t repeat them.”
“So he tells you but not me.”
Edward shrugged with a smile and moved away.
“Why does such mystery surround the Earl of Strathairn?” she hissed at him when she next got a chance.
He shook his head. She’d learn no more.
Maggi Andersen fell in love with the Georgian and Regency worlds after reading the books of Georgette Heyer. Victoria Holt’s Gothic Victorian novels were also great favorites.
She has raised three children and gained a BA and an MA in Creative Writing. After husband David retired from the law, they moved to the beautiful Southern Highlands of Australia.
Maggi’s free time is spent enjoying her garden and the local wildlife, reading, movies and the theatre. She keeps fit swimming and visiting the gym.
Maggi is a multi-published author, and writes mysteries and young adult novels as well as her Georgian, Regency and Victorian romances.
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This entry was posted on December 9, 2013, in Maggi Andersen, Regency, Romantic Suspense, Steamy and tagged Knox Robinson Publishing, Maggi Andersen, Regency romance, romantic suspense, Susana Ellis, Taming a Gentleman Spy. 9 Comments
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Teddy Adhitya Interview
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Think Before You Type is excited to share our very first bilingual interview. One of our main goals is to have a global impact, and we’re excited to take this step. We recently caught up with Indonesian singer Teddy Adhitya to talk about music, cyberbullying, and the internet.
Think Before You Type (TBYT): How would you describe your music?
Teddy Adhitya: My music is a place where I can tell stories and express feelings. If by genre, it could be said that my music is R&B soul.
Bagaimana cara Kak Teddy mendeskripsikan musik Kak Teddy?
Teddy: Musik gue adalah tempat gue cerita, mengekspresikan rasa. Kalo secara genre bisa dibilang secara general musik gue adalah R&B Soul.
TBYT: If you could play a show anywhere in the world, where would it be? (Jika Kak Teddy dapat konser dimana saja, Kak Teddy ingin konser dimana?)
Teddy: Obviously, Madison Square Garden!
TBYT: What is your favorite part about having a career in music?
Teddy: The creative process! In the studio crafting music and lyrics to be heard by a lot of people. And people relate with what I make. When on stage, people enjoy it, and I also enjoy being on stage. It’s the best!
TBYT: Bagian mana yang Kak Teddy sukai dalam berkarir di dunia musik?
Teddy: Proses kreatif! Masuk studio crafting musik dan lirik untuk didenger banyak orang. Dan orang relate sama apa yang gue bikin. Ketika diatas panggung orang ikut menikmati apa yang juga gue nikmati di atas panggung. Itu the best!
TBYT: People often forget it, but a little bit of kindness can go a long way. When was the last time a stranger made you smile?
Teddy: Often. They often smile back.
TBYT: Seringkali orang orang lupa bahwa sedikit kebaikan dapat berdampak sangat banyak. Kapan seseorang yang Kak Teddy tidak kenal memberikan senyum?
Teddy: Sering. Seringnya di senyumin balik sih. Hehe
TBYT: If you could speak to someone being cyberbullied, what would you say to encourage them?
Teddy: The freedom of expression on the internet is good if it is positive. Cyberbullying is often done by brave people who are hiding behind their accounts. Don’t take it seriously.
TBYT: Jika Kak Teddy dapat berbicara dengan orang yang terkena cyberbully, apa yang Ingin kak Teddy katakan?
Teddy: Kebebasan berexpresi melalu internet itu bagus, jika positive. Cyberbully dilakukan oleh orang2 yang berani karna mereka bersembunyi dibalik account masing2. Jadi, gausah dipeduliin juga.
TBYT: What’s one positive way that you would like to see the internet change?
Teddy: Make it easier access to express oneself. For spreading creations without much cost. A place to explore creation more widely.
TBYT: Apa salah satu perubahan positif yang ingin Kak Teddy lihat di Internet?
Teddy: Makin mudah akses untuk berekspresi. Untuk menyebar luaskan karya tanpa biaya yang besar. Tempat explore kreasi lebih luas.
TBYT: How do you deal with negative comments online?
Teddy: I don’t care. Even though sometimes it can be a reference to improve ourselves, but there is no one who knows us better than ourselves. So the negative comments are just like the wind. They surely will pass and don’t impact anything.
TBYT: Bagaimana kak Teddy menghadapi komentar negatif di dunia maya?
Teddy: Ga peduli. Meskipun kadang bisa dijadikan acuan untuk memperbaiki diri. Tapi yang kenal diri kita adalah diri kita sendiri. Jadi komentar negative itu kaya angin aja. Lewat doang. Ga memberi impact apa apa.
TBYT: What do you have coming up for the rest of the year?
Teddy: There will be a “NOTHING IS REAL” showcase at Salihara Theatre on June, 27 2018! So excited!
TBYT: Adakah hal-hal yang akan Kak Teddy bagikan di tahun 2018 ini?
Teddy: Akan ada “NOTHING IS REAL” Showcase di Teater Salihara tanggal 27 Juni 2018! So excited!
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Tagged anti-cyberbullying, Cyberbullying, Indonesia, Internet, Interviews, Music, musik, Penyanyi, TBYT, Think Before You Type
DYSN Interview
Photo Credit: Connor Gould
DYSN took some time off from his busy tour schedule to talk with us about his decision to limit his social media use, the freedom he found in letting the audience create his setlist, new projects, and much more.
Think Before You Type (TBYT): How is tour going so far? Where are you right now?
DYSN: We’re in Madison, Wisconsin, and it’s actually been great here. It’s one of our favorite cities so far. It’s very homey, and we’re all just relaxed here. It’s been great!
TBYT: You’re letting crowds decide your setlist for shows on tour, which is very unique. What made you decide to do that?
DYSN: To be completely honest, just not being prepared. I was rehearsing with tracks, and about a week before, I just decided that I didn’t have enough time to put something really cool together. I write everything on acoustic, so I was just like, “I’ll just ask people. I know them all, so it’ll be pretty easy.” It’s actually been working out. It’s a lot easier to do than the other way around.
TBYT: Does that make you nervous at all? Knowing that you’re putting your setlist in the crowd’s hands?
DYSN: It kind of takes the edge off in a weird way. I think the problem that I personally had with the last tour was that I didn’t know if people were enjoying the songs or if they were going to like what I did because it was only like five songs. It was pretty short and it was a lot of new stuff. So it gives them more of an opportunity to hear their songs that they want to hear. It’s actually less nerve-racking this time.
TBYT: How would you say that you’ve seen the internet play a role in your career?
DYSN: Pretty substantially. It’s where everything is at in my career thus far, so it’s kind of where it’s all invested into. I only use Instagram though. I don’t have any other platform.
TBYT: Why?
DYSN: I don’t know. I’m kind of weird with the social media stuff. I don’t really try to use it that much. It’s not that I don’t try. I’m just not really too drawn to it, to be honest. With the tour, I’m trying a lot more to be active and engage people to come to the shows and all that. But before the tour, I wasn’t really too active and it kind of like draws me away from the other ones because like if I’m barely posting on Instagram, I don’t even think about Twitter.
TBYT: Do you feel like that puts you at a disadvantage at all, or do you feel like you’re able to make that work?
DYSN: I haven’t really seen too much of an issue. I used to have Twitter and everything, and I kind of chopped it off recently. But yeah, it really hasn’t made too big of a difference because I kind of base everything off of the plays I’m getting, and I haven’t seen a change in that at all. If anything, it’s doing a little bit better just with the tour and everything.
TBYT: Do you feel like your life is different from that of other people in our generation because you get to experience more of the real world instead of being on social media all of the time?
DYSN: Definitely, I’ve noticed compared to when I had everything going all of the time and I was constantly engaging, I’m definitely more of a happier person when I’m just living life. I don’t have my phone out. It’s awesome. So it’s yeah, definitely a noticeable difference. I’m pretty used to it now, but at first, I felt like I detoxed in a weird way.
TBYT: What’s one city on this tour that you’ve enjoyed a lot or are looking forward to going to?
DYSN: Definitely Billings, Montana. I’m looking forward to the scenery, and I’ve never been to that area. I don’t know if I’ll be back for a while, so I think that’ll be cool. Toronto and New York are of course always amazing. They’re like my two favorite cities, so those are fun to go to. And surprisingly, Santa Fe as well. The New Mexico culture is so cool to me. And it’s not like something I’ve spent a lot of time around, so it’s always new to me.
TBYT: How would you describe your songwriting process?
DYSN: My writing process revolves around an acoustic guitar for the most part. It’s pretty rare that I’ll get an instrumental from someone and write to that. I’ll usually start with the guitar, and just build off of that.
TBYT: If you could collaborate with any artist in the world who would it be?
DYSN: It would be cool to do it with some bands. Maybe like The Walters or Beach House would be really cool. I really love their stuff. And MGMT because their new album was incredible.
TBYT: How did you get into music?
DYSN: It’s always been surrounding me. My grandparents all play, my parents both play, and my sisters all like sing and everything. So growing up I was always a part of a four-part harmony, just everyone singing. Then my dad bought a pawned super cheap drum kit when I was eight. That was when I kinda started understanding [music]. Then it kinda took off from there, off and on, and that’s pretty much where it started.
TBYT: So do you still play the drums now?
DYSN: I like to when I can. I still own a drum kit and everything, but I don’t ever really get to do it anymore because I’ve been taking this other part pretty seriously now. I don’t really have time, but I wish I did. I enjoy that more than anything.
DYSN: The new stuff is a lot more stripped down. It hasn’t come out yet, but it’s a lot more live instruments. I have strings, live pianos, every song is guitar based. It’s super broken down. I think one song has a drum kit playing live, and that’s it. That one is really me, I guess. You’ll see. The difference is pretty drastic.
TBYT: When is your new project going to be released?
DYSN: Hopefully in the summertime. Obviously the tour kind of put it off, but I’ll have the full month of May to finish it. It’s kind of like my personal deadline. All of the songs are written. I’ve been playing a few on the road. It’s just a matter of me getting into a studio and knocking them out.
TBYT: What inspired you to move onto something different and shift from your previous sound?
DYSN: I guess the old stuff wasn’t really as “me” as I wanted it to be. I was influenced by things that really don’t influence me now. I guess it’s just a growth. The things I’m inspired by now are a lot different. This sounds really weird, but more theatrical type stuff is inspiring me at the moment. More like storytelling. Along with bands like Beach House with more interesting sounds.
TBYT: Are there any specific musicals that are inspiring you right now?
DYSN: The one that I watched and I was like “I need to step up my game” was The Sound of Music. I’ve always loved it.
TBYT: As someone who started their career young, what would you say to young people who are out there who want to get out of the norm and make their own mark on the world?
DYSN: It’s the most cliche thing, but it’s just about finding what really makes you happy. I think the thing that has changed my music the most was when I started making stuff that really made me happy, and I think that it has had an impact on the people around me. They’re way bigger fans of the new stuff, and everyone tells me “that’s much more you.” It’s about finding the thing that really makes you happy and inspired and excited and not trying to make stuff for other people to enjoy. I know people talk about it and say, “oh music is for other people”, but I think if you’re trying to have a stamp, then it’s finding your own happy place.
TBYT: You mentioned that you have this new project that you’re working on that’s coming up. Are there any other goals that you have set for yourself in the near future?
DYSN: I definitely wanted to try to do two projects this year. I think that’s the only goal at the moment. I don’t look too far into the future. I try to be as present as possible. But I would say, yeah, have this project come out and make the other one as soon as I can. Maybe in the fall or winter with a completely different sound, which I already have the idea of. So I want to get them [out] pretty close together.
TBYT: What advice do you have for young people who are dealing with cyberbullying?
DYSN: Just try to stay away from whatever situation got you there. If you have to go private, block somebody, or if you’re engaging in comments that you don’t need to be. For me, it’s staying away. I guess my advice would be to stay away from whatever the situation is.
TBYT: You’re finishing up a tour and you have these new projects that you’re working on. Is there anything else that you’re looking forward to this year?
DYSN: Not anything for certain. Possibly more shows in the fall to start playing the new project and everything, but that’s a maybe of course.
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Tagged DYSN, Interview, live music, TBYT, Think Before You Type, tour
Lostboycrow Interview
Lauren from Think Before You Type sat down with Lostboycrow to talk about his current tour, the completion of his album “Traveler”, changing the culture online, and much more.
Lostboycrow also told us about a new project that he has “really put his heart and soul into.” Watch until the end to get the scoop!
Find Lostboycrow at:
http://lostboycrow.la/
Thanks for watching 🙂
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Tagged anti-cyberbullying, Interviews, lostboycrow, Music, TBYT, Think Before You Type
VISTA Interview
Photo courtesy of Holly Turner Photography
TBYT recently caught up with Hope, Wolf, and Brian from the band VISTA. We discussed a variety of topics including their new EP, musical influences, and personal experiences with negativity online.
Think Before You Type: VISTA is a recently formed band, can you tell us how you guys all met and what made you decide to start the band together?
VISTA: Hope had been a solo artist for about a decade, and Wolf was her touring drummer. Their musical brains just completely meshed right off the bat, and they made the decision to form a new band. Brian and Wolf had been in bands together previously, and they’ve been friends for years. Brian was actually supposed to be one of Hope’s new touring guitarists, so he came along on a weekend of shows to kind of get a feel for things and pick up on some of her songs. It was just a clear fit to ask Brian to be a part of VISTA!
TBYT: Sometimes the internet can be a really tough place. How do you deal with negative comments on social media?
Hope: The internet can be a really dangerous space. You can connect with people easily, which is super helpful as a musician, but I think it’s really important to remember that any negative comment you read is just a set of words on a screen. It’s digital, it’s not the real world. That’s always what I try to keep in mind. I know words on a social media site can be extremely, extremely hurtful. But lately I’ve been saying that I would much rather live my life off a screen than behind one, you know? Make sure to maintain good personal relationships.
VISTA: All of our influences run on a pretty wide range. We’re all huge fans of bands like PVRIS and Set It Off. Brian loves Periphery, and he’s actually a big Bieber fan, too. Hope’s got three main musical sets of influences: pop punk and alt. rock, 90’s pop, and classic rock. Wolf’s got some pop punk vibes too, and he also loves the Biebs.
TBYT: What’s one thing that people tend to misjudge or underestimate about each of you?
Hope: In the past, some people have gotten super confused or surprised when they see how I dress compared to my personality. I wear black almost exclusively, you can never wear enough black! I’ve always gravitated more towards darker colors, with pretty much everything, but my personality is really bubble and upbeat…. which kind of contrasts the stigma behind wearing dark clothes. I guess it’s just an interesting contrast!
Brian: Probably that most of the time, people think I’m off doing dumb things but at heart I’m a very down to earth and real person.
Wolf: People tend to underestimate how hard I’ll work to get to where I want to be.
TBYT: When you’re down, what song helps to pick up your mood?
Hope: Any Backstreet Boys song!!!
Brian: For some reason I really enjoy metal when I’m down. So one of the songs I listen to is “The Bad Thing” by Periphery.
Hope: You have such a broad taste in music, I can dig it. I’ve never heard of Periphery, now I have something new to check out.
Wolf: Anything by Set It Off!
VISTA: Twitter shouldn’t be as negative. It’s a cool idea, a cool space that should be used to connect with your favorite musicians, actors, athletes, your friends. That space seems to be pretty abused nowadays. The bullying online, tweet wars, and subtweeting is just ridiculous. It could be such an awesome place online, but we’d really like to see people use it the right way, the positive way.
TBYT: Who are your role models?
Hope: My dad was my top role model. But I think that right now, and especially most recently, my role model has been my brother. He’s 7 years younger than me, but that kid is one of the most kind-hearted, care-free, talented teenagers I know. The way he carries himself at just 16 is super inspiring to me and I’m always more than proud to be his sister.
Brian: My role model would probably be my mom. She taught me how to fight for the things I want and to never give up when things get hard.
Wolf: My boss at my job.
TBYT: What advice or encouragement do you guys have for young people who are being cyberbullied?
VISTA: Get off the computer or phone for a bit. Go outside, get some fresh air, real air. Live more of your life offscreen instead of behind one. It really does wonders. Words on a screen are just words.
TBYT: What do you guys have coming up in 2016?
VISTA: Our EP! We’re gonna try and push out as much content as possible besides just music. Videos, photos, just a bunch of different things. And we will definitely be on the road. It will happen!
TBYT: How do you define ‘beauty’?
Brian: Beauty is who you are on the inside. And who you are on the inside could change the world and make it a more beautiful place.
Hope: Brian honestly always has the most sentimental answers, it’s awesome.
Tagged Band, Cyberbullying, Interview, Music, TBYT, TBYT Media, Think Before You Type, VISTA
Delian Asparouhov Interview
L from Think Before You Type spoke with Thiel Fellow Delian Asparouhov about Nightingale (the app he co-founded), young people impacting the world, and positive internet use.
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Concept Interview
1. How did you guys get interested in making music?
Karim: I started singing when I was around 11 or younger, and was in to acting before we formed, Nathan had singing lessons through secondary school, Matt was into dance and used to do that quite a bit, Scott was into bands like Westlife and Ben played guitar a lot but privately at home. All of us had a passion for music just in different ways to begin with.
2. What has been your most influential fan encounter (online or in person)?
Matt: The most influential fan encounter we’ve experienced as a band was when we went on a school tour to promote anti drugs. Seeing the effect we had when delivering the message to the children really made us stop and think that what we do and say really has an impact on people.
3. Sometimes the internet can be a really tough place. How do you deal with negative comments on social media?
Nathan: I feel the best way to deal with these situations are to either ignore them completely or don’t play up to them, by replying with anger or replying at all only continues the situation, where as a short reply or no reply can cut off the comments completely. Try not to take anything to heart and believe in yourself.
4. What advice or encouragement do you guys have for young people who are being cyberbullied?
Scott: Everything will be ok, just ignore them and don’t let it get to you. They probably have their own insecurities and feel the need to take it out on someone. So just keep being yourself, and don’t worry about what others say.
5. What’s one thing that people tend to misjudge or underestimate about you (as individuals or as a band)?
Ben: A lot of people just think we are “another boyband” but we are more, being friends since the age of 4 and playing live instruments on stage sets us apart from other bands. I also think we can appeal to everyone.
6. When you’re down, what song helps to pick up your mood?
Karim: Spending time with my little brother, Myles, he’s a funny kid. When I’m with the boys and we have a laugh it’s always hilarious wherever we go together and obviously some chilled out music. A little bit of the 1975.
7. Who are some of your musical influences?
Matt: As a band we have such a variety of musical influences for instance mine would be people like Bastille and Ellie Goulding, because they have such a distinctive sounds as well as bands like The Eagles and The Clash, Ben is into more rock orientated music, Karim likes a bit of R&B, Nathan’s a fan of new alternative music and Scott loves his Pop. I think that fact we all love different genres really comes across in our voices which makes a really distinct blend.
8. We’re really passionate about encouraging other young people to use the internet for good. What’s one positive way that you would like to see the internet change?
Nathan: I think by having pages where people can anonymously talk to others about there issues looking for help would be one way to help people resolve their issues and become more confident.
9. What’s one thing you want people to know about Concept?
Scott: We are childhood friends, have grown up together and formed the band as friends before becoming band mates. And that we love our fans more than anything and appreciate everything they do for us.
10. What do you have coming up in 2014?
Ben: We have been hitting the studio to record some new original tracks as well as writing all of them, so hopefully will get them out there onto iTunes by the later stages of the year. Also definitely more Concept Cover Thursdays will be coming your way so check them out.
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Accel Partners to raise another $400M-$500M India focused fund
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture funds, Accel doubled down on seed-stage investments last year, writing numerous cheques for $500,000 to $1-2 million.Samidha Sharma | TNN | Updated: May 02, 2016, 14:30 IST
Venture capital firms may have cooled off from the heady investing days of the past two years, but they continue to shore up capital amid a slackening funding environment.
Flipkart’s early backer Accel, one of the most prolific venture investors in the country, is on course to raise a $400-500 million fifth India-focused fund, which is expected to close by the year-end, sources familiar with the matter told TOI.
Accel’s new fund comes at a time when the top six VCs have amassed more than $2.5 billion in the past year to be ploughed into Indian startups, raising hopes that the sluggishness in deal activity is temporary.
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture funds, Accel doubled down on seed-stage investments last year, writing numerous cheques for $500,000 to $1-2 million.
A majority of these startups will be in the market to raise subsequent rounds of financing at a time when entrepreneurs are being asked to batten down the hatches and spend every dollar judiciously.
“Initial conversations about the new fund have already begun with limited partners, or LPs (investors in funds). The amount is yet to be finalized, but it will be larger than their previous fund size,” a person privy to the information said. Accel had officially announced its Indian Fund IV in March last year. An emailed questionnaire sent by TOI to Accel on the new fund did not elicit a response.
In March, Accel US - famous for its early wager on social networking site Facebook in 2005 - announced it had raised around $2 billion, split between a $500-million early-stage investing corpus and $1.5 billion for later-stage, growth investments.
Most of the bigger sized venture funds are able to reserve far more capital for their existing portfolio companies and are able to participate in growth-stage financing rounds.
Accel began life in India in 2008 when it acquired Erasmic Venture Fund, and has since backed hundreds of companies like BookMyShow, Freshdesk and Myntra, besides its most famous bet on Flipkart where it put $1 million in 2009.
It is currently deploying its $305-million India Fund IV, which has invested in startups like food-delivery venture Swiggy, local services app UrbanClap, and rental marketplace RentoMojo.
Exits still few & far between
While these funds have bulked up with billions of dollars in dry powder for India investments, exits remain imperceptible for most VCs here.
“The lack of exits for investors in India is a symptom of the problem. The real problem so far was the lack of depth in the market. So a lot of money was invested without a deep enough market opportunity. However, looking out at the next ten years, investors in the VC asset class in India realize the market depth has arrived and exits shall follow. So one has to look forward, else it will be a rear-view mirror-based decision,” says Avnish Bajaj, MD at Matrix Venture Partners, an investor in transportation app Ola and online classifieds firm Quikr.
Matrix recently topped up its $300-million India fund by $110 million and will raise its third India fund of around $300-400 million after a year.
General partners who steer India-dedicated funds say LPs fundamentally believe in lndia’s internet story, buttressed by a growing smartphone penetration.
As against international outfits which invest from a global corpus like Norwest Venture Partners, India-focused funds have empowerment which gives them the speed and helps them adhere to the local nuances. India funds have a better construct and hence chances of better returns and exits, says a veteran VC who did not want to be identified.
Last year saw unprecedented fund-raise activity among venture funds in India as Kalaari Capital, SAIF Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Accel were awash with new capital to pump into the fast-growing domestic startup ecosystem. But the largest one of them all came in December last year when Sequoia Capital raised $920 million.
In 2015, these investors along with Tiger Global, SoftBank, DST Global and a posse of hedge funds provided a slug of money to consumer internet firms. Together, $7 billion was scooped up by these tech-based startups, according to Tracxn, which collects data on private companies. The first quarter of this year though has been evidently slow paced, with a drop of at least 50% in deal value at $301 million.
Tags : Startups, venture capital, Tiger Global, Softbank, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Venture Partners, investment, Avnish Bajaj, Accel
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7 Best Web Browsers for Linux OS – Best Linux Web Browsers
There’s no doubt that Linux is something! In the past years, Linux has become more or less a competitor for the paid Operating Systems such as Windows and Mac OS X. For that, the contribution of various Linux distributions out there such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. were critical. People used to have issues such as lack of software availability along with compatibility issues. Now, however, it’s all set — Linux offers a lot, from media players to coding.
Well, in this Internet era, you don’t need anything else if you have the best Linux web browser with you! Well, you’d heard us right. From watching movies to editing videos and coding your HTML site to running a virtual server, a good web browser will do the job. So, it’s all about whether you have the best browser for Linux installed on your system.
Top 7 Best Web Browsers for Linux OS – Best Linux Web Browsers
1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Opera
3. Chromium
4. Midori
5. QupZilla
6. Konqueror
7. Vivaldi
In this post, we are going to list out the best web browsers you can have for your Linux-powered computer! All these browsers come up with standard capabilities, but it’s up to you to choose the effective one. Considering the wide variety of factors like User Interface, compliance with technologies like HTML5 and all, you can have our help to find an answer for a question — what is the best Linux web browser?
Mozilla Firefox may be the pre-built web browser of your Linux distribution if you are using Ubuntu or something. If it is or not, Firefox is one of the best browsers you can get. From 2002, Firefox has been helping users to browse the web more smoothly, without consuming many resources. It’s worth noting that Mozilla Firefox is the third most popular web browser in the world, a lot of people using the same on other platforms like Windows and Mac OS X. That is having said; Firefox is better than many other browsers out there.
For instance, there’s a huge collection of Firefox add-ons you can install, to boost productivity. Also, since Firefox has become a standard, you can run almost every site or web app in this browser. Also, there’s protection from some privacy threats and tracking. When we count the element inspection and other tools, Firefox is developer-friendly Linux browser as well.
Download Mozilla Firefox Web Browser for Linux OS
Opera —a popular web browser available for different platforms — is one of the best Linux web browsers out there! Of course, apart from the simplified interface, Opera offers some impressive features. For instance, when compared to other web browsers for Linux, Opera seems to have a more stable version, and there are timely security fixes from the closed-source company. Also, as seen in Chromium, you can install various extensions in your Opera for Linux.
Availability of Opera Sync ensures that your browsing data — even of the last session — will be available in the Linux counterpart, while the browser offers standard browsing speed as well. Aimed at the pro users, Opera has included some features like support for BitTorrent, RSS, and email, etc. In addition to this, you will have to install Pepper API Adobe Flash plugin for accessing flash content. This one is noted for performance and speed. On top of all, the User Interface is commendable.
Download Opera Web Browser for Linux OS
Also Read: Top 7 Best Safari Extensions – Best Safari Addon Plugins for Everyone
If you like the interface of Google Chrome and want to bring it into your Linux device, you should try Chromium — a project based on which Google Chrome is made. When compared to Mozilla or other browsers, Chrome has sleeker design and interface, not to mention the developer-friendly options out there. Regardless the Linux distribution you have, Chromium will be available, thanks to the open-source initiatives. Apart from the best-in-class browsing speed, support for extensions, Chromium offers a lot more.
For instance, there’s Sync feature that can bring your apps, settings, and bookmarks from the cloud. Though you have an option to choose what needs to be synced, Chromium is capable of almost everything. When compared to Chrome for Windows, Chromium may fail to give you better integration with Google services. And the best part is that you’ll be free from Google’s tracking stuff. Some disadvantages include lack of H.264 support.
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When you need an ultra-minimal web browser for your Linux, you should go with Midori, which comes with a superb UI and support for various repositories. In various Linux distributions such as Manjaro Linux and elementary OS, it is the default web browser. Talking of the browser, it makes use of WebKit rendering engine as well as the GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 interface. You should never judge Midori by its looks because the browser offers some features also.
For instance, you get support for HTML5 pre-built in Midori, and so, CSS3 should work fine. Talking of browsing-based features, you get a tab-based interface with session management, Smart Bookmarks, a variety of extensions that can be used for pro users, support for Ubuntu Unity, private browsing and lots more. Midori also offers an enhanced level of support for services like YouTube and Spotify. Apart from Linux, Midori can be installed on Windows and Mac OS X.
Download Midori Web Browser for Linux OS
If you were looking for a Linux web browser that offers a native look but doesn’t compromise features, you could stop your search here. And, you can start using QupZilla, which comes with a simpler interface. Once installed in the Linux device, you get to know how integrated the performance is. The Linux browser is based on WebKit rendering engine, and there’s support for HTML5 and CSS3. Of course, you’ve some truly productive, time-saving features there.
QupZilla comes with a pre-installed version of AdBlock in it, and no ads are going to disrupt your browsing. And, if we are to compare QupZilla with other browsers, the resource consumption level is way too low. Other features of this browser include the Unified Library to read the content you like, Speed Dial for easier access to your favorite sites, etc. It is not a big-deal browser, but a good-to-go, minimal one for Linux.
Download QupZilla Web Browser for Linux OS
Konqueror isn’t just a Linux web browser. On the other hand, it’s a combination of web browser and a file explorer for your Linux-based device. Its File manager section for KDE lets you have access to FTP and SFTP servers. You also get a few options such as for ripping audio CDs and all. And, when we come to the case of Konqueror web browser, it has its base on KHTML rendering engine and is compatible with HTML5 and CSS3. There are some pre-built features too.
For instance, it comes with an inbuilt version of Adblock and the Pop-up blocker would make things simpler. Others among features include password manager, shortcuts for accessing sites, Split viewing option, integration option for spell checking, web page translation, etc. Despite all these, Konqueror has a truly minimal set-up regarding usability. After all, it’s good as a combo.
Download Konqueror Web Browser for Linux OS
You might be confused why Vivaldi is here! For one, Vivaldi isn’t a popular Linux browser, but for those who like one simpler interface and other productive features, this browser in beta version would do the job. You’ve to go on with the beta version for some time, and users say the Beta version is impressive enough. Vivaldi is supposed to redefine the way you browse the web, through smart actions, controls and lots more. As we said, there’s no scarcity of features as we come to the brand-new web browser.
Top-notch features of Vivaldi include the adaptive interface — which redesigns itself depending upon the site you’re visiting, special navigation methods, Sync options for multi-device access of content. Also, for those keyboard guys out there, Vivaldi offers some cool shortcuts too. Apart from these, there’s support for Email, integrated options for saving notes, etc. Altogether, Vivaldi is just the awesome web browser for Linux.
Download Vivaldi Web Browser for Linux OS
Also Read: Top 5 Best Bookmark Manager Tools to Manage Bookmarks Easily
So, you’ve seen our list of best Linux web browsers! While some of them like Chromium is an industry-standard web browser, some like Vivaldi are lesser-known ones. However, as we come to compare the features of both, we would go with Vivaldi. So, it’s up to you to choose the browser you want depending upon all the requirement of yours.
If you just want to browse a few news websites and relax, one like Midori would be sufficient. On the other hand, if you’re an all-time web-browsing person, you should go for Vivaldi or Opera. Talking of our favorite, we liked Vivaldi and Chromium a lot.
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HTC U11+ Review
A pleasant enough phone, but squeezable edges aren’t enough to justify its price or its heft. Read our HTC U11+ Review.
While all its major rivals jumped aboard the 18:9 screen bandwagon in 2017, HTC decided to go slow: it launched the squeezable HTC U11 last June, and we’ve had to wait until 2018 for the 18:9 ratio U11+. You might think this seven-month gap would mean internal upgrades too, but no such luck: this is a refresh not a rehash.
This isn’t cause for concern. It means the same excellent Snapdragon 835 processor, same squeezable edges and same UltraPixel 3 rear camera – although, oddly, the front camera is downgraded from 16-megapixels to eight. In tandem with the appearance of Android 8 Oreo, HTC has updated Edge Sense. Now, squeezing brings up a rotary wheel of shortcuts to your favourite apps, and it’s more customisable too.
The U11+ is currently only available in Ceramic Black, with the rear coated in the same mirror-finish rear panel topped with glass as the U11. It’s a marvelous sight, veering between a subtle reflective grey and a darker black, depending on where you catch the light.
You’ll be constantly wiping away fingerprints to keep it looking its best, though, and compared to the sleek Huawei Mate 10 Pro – one of the HTC U11+’s key rivals – there’s more heft (9g), more thickness (0.6mm) and more height (4.3mm), all of which are noticeable when you pick it up.
HTC compensates for the lack of a 3.5mm jack by bundling its own Usonic USB-C earphones, which include active noise cancellation. Too much bass and a muddy sound means they aren’t my top choice, so it’s just as well that HTC also includes a 3.5mm adapter. The phone is dust- and water-resistant to the IP68 standard, and it has a microSD slot that doubles as a second SIM card slot.
The phone’s front is dominated by its 6in QHD+ display (1,440 x 2,880). Unlike the Samsung Galaxy S8, you can’t lower the resolution; this is useful for smoothing out choppy frame rates in demanding games and eking out extra battery life.
Another difference between this phone and its key rivals is that it uses an IPS-derived Super LCD panel instead of an AMOLED one; that translates into slightly lower sRGB and DCI-P3 coverage rates of 89.7% and 87.3% respectively. In comparison with the S8, colours look wan and washed out.
A bigger problem, however, is the display’s brightness. I measured it at a maximum of 36scd/m2 in auto-brightness mode (it was even dimmer with adaptive brightness disabled) which means you’ll struggle to read the screen in bright conditions. The Samsung Galaxy S8 peaks at well above 500cd/m2 when displaying an all-white screen, while the Huawei Mate 10 Pro hit 570cd/m2.
I’ve no complaints about speed, though, with that Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and 6GB of RAM meaning it’s a match for the best
ABOVE The squeezy edges of the original U11 have had an upgrade, but it still isn’t enough to excite
LEFT HTC only offers black for now, but a blue version is due later this year
Even without HDR enabled, the HTC U11+’s camera picks up superb amounts of detail, and reproduces rich colours in low light
Android phones (see p69). With an Adreno 540 GPU, there isn’t much that fazes HTC’s big beast. Although the HTC U11+ didn’t perform particularly well in our video rundown benchmark, lasting 11hrs 29mins, in day-to-day use I found it typically survived for a day and a half from the 3,93omAh battery.
One disappointment is that although the Snapdragon 835 chipset supports Gigabit 4G speeds, the U11+’s speed is capped at 8ooMbits/sec – that’s a downgrade from the HTC U11.
Given that HTC is the company behind the superb Pixel 2, I expected a fine camera. And, largely, that proved to be the case. The 12-megapixel rear camera has an aperture of f/1.7, while dual-pixel phase-detect autofocus ensures snappy focus across the sensor. There’s also optical image stabilisation and a dual-tone LED flash.
With and without HDR engaged, the HTC U11+’s camera picks up superb amounts of detail, captures scenes of extreme dark and bright shades sympathetically, and reproduces rich colours in low light without too much noise spoiling the show.
For video, quality is excellent with the camera recording crisp, colourful 4K footage at up to 3ofps. Where it falls down is handheld shots: you can’t record 4K footage with EIS (electronic image stabilisation) applied, which results in shaky shots no matter how hard you try to hold the phone still.
And that’s the story with the HTC U11+ as a whole: it’s good but not amazing, and there are phones at least as good that cost less. The superior Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is now available for around £580, while the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is slimmer, looks nicer, has a superior screen and beats it for battery life. NATHAN SPENDELOW
HTC U11+ Review: SPECIFICATIONS
Octa-core 2.45GHz/1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor • 6GB RAM • Adreno 540 graphics • 6in Super LCD6 screen, 1,440 x 2,880 resolution • 128GB storage • 12MP rear camera • 8MP front camera • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Bluetooth 5 • NFC • USB-C connector • 3,930mAh battery • Android 8 Oreo • 74.9 x 8.5 x 158.5mm (WDH) • 188g • 1yr warranty
HTC U11 Plus (2Q4D100) 6GB / 128GB 6.0-inches LTE Dual SIM Factory Unlocked - International Stock No Warranty (Amazing Silver)
4G LTE Dual SIM ; 4G Works with AT&T, T-Mobile ; 3G works with AT&T ; DOES NOT work with Sprint, Verizon, U.S. Cellular and all other CDMA carriers ; LTE compatibility: This is international stock, varies per carrier (ensure to check with your carrier before purchase)
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Bachelor of Applied Science degree bill passed after cost debate
By Katie Roenigk
The Ranger
RIVERTON — Legislators speaking in support of a bill that authorized new academic programs at community colleges in Wyoming said it would be OK if the change results in an increased expense for the state.
Senate File 111 – now Senate Enrolled Act 80 – allows community colleges to offer Bachelor of Applied Science degrees. The BAS is a bachelor’s degree focused on career and technical education, offering additional credentials to students who have a two-year Associate of Applied Science.
In previous reports, Central Wyoming College president Brad Tyndall said the most common BAS is a degree in organization leadership and management that would allow someone with a vocational degree to advance in his industry. Costs Lawmakers wary of the proposal said they didn’t know how much it would cost, offering amendments to monitor the new programs, or limit the number of BAS degrees each college could offer. Those ideas failed, as did an amendment proposal from Wyoming Rep. Albert Sommers, RPinedale, that would have required that the BAS programs not incur any costs to the state.
Lawmakers who spoke against Sommers’ proposal noted that the BAS only will require more money from the state if the program attracts enough students to require recalibration of the community college funding model based on enrollments. They added that such a situation would represent a good outcome.
“What happens if this program becomes extremely successful, and we have people becoming extremely involved and excited about going to these programs?” Wyoming Rep. Landon Brown, R-Cheyenne, asked the House. “Well then we sit there and we hear, ‘You’re not going to get additional money from the state. Figure it out on your own.’ Is that really the message we want to send?”
Another amendment that failed would have barred funding for BAS programs from being incorporated into the state’s allocation model for community colleges.
Opponents of that proposal said it would be too difficult for community colleges to separate out the costs for their BAS programs, which may utilize instructors, advisors, facilities and other resources that already are incorporated into the state funding model.
Others resisted the general idea that the state shouldn’t contribute to the cost of the BAS.
“I think all of this discussion of the cost of this program is neglecting the benefits it’s going to provide for our communities, our industry and our people,” Wyoming Rep. Tim Hallinan, R-Gillette, said. “They need the education, and we need to pay for it.”
One amendment that did pass Feb. 25 requires the WCCC report annually on the status of the BAS programs, including the financial impacts to the community colleges and the state.
Part of an amendment proposal Wyoming Rep. Steve Harshman, R-Casper, introduced specified the types of BAS programs community colleges should consider offering, including health care provider programs, career and technical education training programs, and a baccalaureate program in education, specifically at Central Wyoming College and “right next to our Indian reservation.”
Harshman said CWC used to offer a baccalaureate program that he would like to see re-established in order to address issues of teacher turnover on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Wyoming Rep. Andi Clifford, D-Fort Washakie, responded to his mention of the reservation, saying that Wyoming’s tribes have taken their own actions to find teachers for reservation students.
“We’ve moved on,” she said. “We want programs in tribal leadership. …That’s what we want now.”
Wyoming Rep. Lloyd Larsen, RLander, said he was surprised at Clifford’s comments since, in his opinion, the current program on the reservation has not met the need for tribal educators. He also stressed that SF 111 will result in an increase in costs for community colleges.
“That’s always been the concern,” he said. “How (do) we pay for the cost of this? … I don’t want to buy a new car I can’t afford down the road.”
Wyoming Rep. David Miller, RRiverton, spoke in favor of SF 111, pointing to the logistical problems many rural residents face when seeking a four-year degree.
“It has been this way for a long time, and it has hurt economic development,” he said. “Businesses have to recruit out-of-state to get these kids with four-year degrees.”
Miller, Clifford, Wyoming Rep. Tim Salazar, R-Dubois, and Wyoming Rep. John Winter, RThermopolis, all voted for SF 111 on third reading Wednesday. Larsen voted against it, as did Wyoming Sen. Cale Case, RLander, who offered one of only two “nay” votes when SF 111 left the Senate last month.
“It is a money issue for me,” he said in an e-mail with The Ranger. “People are acting like we are out of the fiscal woods. Not true!”
Wyoming Sen. Eli Bebout, RRiverton, and Wyoming Sen. Wyatt Agar, R-Thermopolis, both voted for the file.
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Easily the city’s most iconic structure, the Gateway of India is symbolic of Mumbai. Gracing the waterfront of South Mumbai’s Apollo Bunder area, this compelling structure was built during the British Raj to welcome the arrival of King George V and Queen Mary when they visited India in 1911. Today it’s one of Mumbai’s most popular tourist spots, thronged by click-happy tourists and locals who want to take in unparalleled views of the Arabain Sea.
Mumbai is often called the city of dreams. A city where everything is possible and you can be whoever you want to be. Apart from being the country’s commercial and entertainment capital, Mumbai can also be safely called India’s most cosmopolitan city
Mumbai (or Bombay as it was formerly called) was a collection of seven islands which connected over a span of five centuries through land reclamation projects.
Mumbai is also a city that never stops and the most significant driving force that runs the city’s economy has to be the Mumbai local train that transports around four million people from their suburban homes to their workplace in Southern and Central Mumbai each day.
Mumbai is also the city that is known for being home to the world’s largest film industry- Bollywood. Here, we see a mural of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on a wall in Bandra, a hip suburb of Mumbai
If you’re a Bollywood junkie, you should surely drop by at Mumbai’s infamous Chor Bazaar or thieves market near Mumbai Central which retails everything from mobile phones to motorbike parts. It is also known to be a treasure trove of Bollywood memorabilia like old movie posters, LPs and rare books and magazines
This library has been a popular shooting location in Bollywood films where it has often been portrayed as the exterior of a High Court. Apart from the majestic Roman columns that define this learned society of Asian studies, this historic construction finds its roots over two centuries back. Located close to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, this is a popular sight for most tourists arriving to the city.
One of the reasons why Mumbai is called the financial capital of India is because it is home to the country’s stock exchange, called the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange). Located in South Mumbai’s Dalal Street, it is the 11th largest stock market in the world by market capitalisation. While it has a glorious present, it has humble roots and it traces its roots to 1855, when four Gujarati and one Parsi stockbroker would gather under banyan trees facing the city’s Town Hall. The location of these meetings was never fixed but as the number of brokers grew, they formed an organisation called 'The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association' and moved to Dalal Street. In 1958, BSE become the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Indian Government and in 1980 it moved to Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers in Dalal Street where it presently stands
One of Mumbai’s recent achievements would be the cable-stayed bridge linking Bandra to Worli. It is a part of the larger Western Freeway project which intends to link the suburbs to South Mumbai’s largest business district, Nariman Point. Being a city that thrives on local trains for daily commute, this was an attempt to encourage people to opt for the road. During peak hours, the sea link is said to reduce travel time between Bandra and Worli from 60-90 minutes to 20-30 minutes. Commuters can opt for single way or return toll options (if the return falls on the same day).
The Sanjay Gandhi National Park, located in the Mumbai suburb of Borivali offers Mumbaikars a quiet respite from the hustle and bustle of Mumbai. This forest reserve, apart from being a few degrees cooler than the rest of the city, is also less polluted. It is recommended to visit this place only during the day and it would be convenient to have a car to explore the forest and the many hidden spots that reveal stunning sights. This place comes alive during the monsoons, as the forest has several secret waterfalls which are seasonal and will surely excite the photographer in you. Find a stream that rocks your boat and plonk yourself on a rock next to it
This southern-most station on the Western line peaks in congestion during transit hours for the working class. As the closest station from corporate zones like Nariman Point, Fort and Colaba, it becomes the only option for people living on the Western line to commute through. While the station has 5 platforms, the best vantage point to take in the waves of humanity would be near the entrance to the station, facing all the train time indicators. While you’re at it, it would be recommended to try the filter coffee or munch on some freshly baked popcorn available here. Only advice: watch your back or you will be pushed around like you’re riding against the tide
South Mumbai’s Machchimar Nagar is home to several fishermen who belong to the Koli community. Interestingly, they are the original inhabitants of Mumbai and were responsible for naming most of the landmark places in the city. Just that the names they gave were distorted over time. Colaba was first called Kolbhat, Apollo Bunder was initially named Palva Bunder and perhaps their most crucial contribution would be naming Mumbai after the Mumbadevi temple in Dongri. Head to Cuffe Parade early in the morning and you can catch a glimpse of Koli fishermen returning with their daily catch
Apart from the Arabian Sea, Mumbai has few water bodies that could serve as a sight of visual delight. Powai Lake, an artificial lake located in the suburb of Powai is surely one. At a time, this lake was one of sources of water for the city but the quality of water has degraded extensively over the years and it has now been declared unfit to drink. Despite this, the lake continues to be a popular tourist spot. A good vantage point to enjoy this lake would be from the coffee shop of the Renaissance Hotel which overlooks the Powai Lake
If you’re one for the outdoors, the lush greens of this park would be ideal to stretch out with that book you’ve been meaning to complete. With Mumbai’s version of the Big Ben, Rajabai Clock Tower, the Oval Maidan is usually isolated and it’s easy to lose track of time when you’re kicking back here. This place is also ideal to check out amateur cricket matches or sights of budding cricketers practicing if you fancy the sport. The Oval Maidan is located near the Churchgate station on the Western Railway line
Mumbai’s infamous Chor Bazaar or thieves market near Mumbai Central retails everything from mobile phones to motorbike parts. It is one the largest flea markets in India and a major tourist attraction for those who want to explore places beyond the obvious. The word ‘chor’ means ‘thief’ in Hindi and Marathi and hence the name. Interestingly, the name of the market was originally called ‘Shor Bazaar’ meaning ‘noisy market’ and the current name is said to have come from a British mispronunciation. The market finds mentions in many popular novels. One of them being Rohinton Mistry’s ‘Such a Long Journey’, where he refers to the place as, “not a nice place”
South Mumbai’s most famous wholesale market, Crawford Market went into business in 1869. Today, the market has gone beyond vegetables and fruits and one can expect anything from spices, condiments to imported food items. Many big restaurants in Mumbai are said to source their ingredients from here, primarily for their wholesale rates and international quality of products. Drop by to check out the varieties of French cheese in stock or pick up some Belgian cooking chocolate
The festival of Dussehra is celebrated with a lot of fanfare in central Mumbai's Shivaji Park which draws a huge crowd to watch the effigy of Ravana being burnt
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When does the transfer window open and close? Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1
LIVE Transfer Talk: Neymar turns to Juventus for PSG exit
Frenkie De Jong has already agreed to sign for Barcelona from Ajax as of July 1. Getty
The summer transfer window in 2019 is similar to last year, with the English Premier League once again finishing earlier than the other major European leagues.
Here, we take a look at the transfer rules which govern each.
As Aug. 31 falls on a Saturday this year, the standard transfer deadline is pushed to Monday, Sept. 2.
Most transfer deals announced after the end of the season will officially complete on July 1, the usual start date for a player's contract.
In all cases, clubs are still able to sign players as free agents after the deadline, and as long as they are not officially attached to any club on Sept. 2.
Premier League transfer deadline
The official FIFA transfer deadline for England remains at Sept. 2, but clubs in the top two divisions voted for an earlier deadline to come into force before the start of the season.
The Premier League led the way in Europe last season in bringing forward the transfer deadline to before the first match. The transfer market will close at 5 p.m. BST on Thursday, Aug. 8 -- the opening weekend of Premier League fixtures follows straight afterwards.
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An earlier finish means an earlier start, too. The transfer window opened on Thursday, May 16 for domestic deals and on Thursday, June 11 for international transfers.
The Championship, whose season starts the weekend before the Premier League, decided to match the Premier League's date, like last season. The difference this year is that Championship clubs will not be allowed to loan players through to the end of August like in 2018. Clubs in League One and League Two will continue to work to a Sept. 2 deadline.
All English clubs will still be able to sell or loan players to leagues where the transfer market remains open after Aug. 8.
The winter window will run throughout January as usual.
La Liga transfer deadline
The window will officially open on July 1 and close at 11.59 p.m. CET on Monday, Sept. 2. Clubs can still sign free agents after this date and sell or loan players to leagues where the transfer market is still open.
The winter window runs from Jan. 2 to 31.
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The market will open on July 1 and is expected to close at 8 p.m. CET on Friday, Aug. 23 -- the day before the Serie A season kicks off. Free agents can still be signed, and clubs can still sell or loan players to leagues where the transfer window remains open.
Last season Italy was due to have a truncated winter window, closing on Jan. 18, but a few weeks before clubs voted to return it to a month-long window.
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German clubs have set their transfer window at 6 p.m. CET on Monday, Sept. 2. Clubs can still sign free agents after this date and sell or loan players to leagues where the window is still open. The window opens on July 1.
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Picture gallery: Sport prepares for life
Sport inspires and connects people all over the world – regardless of language, gender or religion. That is why German development cooperation uses sport to promote disadvantaged children and young people in developing countries and to achieve to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as education, health, peaceful societies and gender equality.
This approach is not about supporting professional sports. It is about teaching children and young people social skills through sport activities and playfully provide them with knowledge about topics such as violence prevention, health and gender equality.
The following photographs show, how sport in Colombia contribute to the peaceful coexistence of former combatants and victims of the armed conflict, how young people in the Palestinian Territories are qualified and interested for vocational training through sport, or how basketball and football trainings are used for HIV prevention in Namibia.
Children and adolescents form part of the majority of the population in many developing countries – and are therefore crucial for the future of their country. Sports teaches social competences and values, conveys life skills and can help young people to develop perspectives for their own lives.
Mozambique – 2014 (c) Oliver Becker
Sport builds trust
Within the framework of “Sport for Development” programs, sensitive issues such as contraception and alcohol abuse or fears and expectations can be discussed through sports pedagogical games. Sports that are widely used and do not require expensive equipment such as football, basketball or athletics are well suited for this cause.
Maputo, Mozambique – June 2014 (c) GIZ/Oliver Becker
Sport is attractive
The combination with sport makes the offers of vocational schools in the West Bank more attractive: movement games in groups, such as here in Ramallah, provide young people with information on vocational training and skills that help them in professional life and contribute to a more peaceful coexistence.
Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories – March 2015 (c) GIZ/Amani Awartani
Colombia: Solving conflicts peacefully
In Colombia, the method “Deporte con Principios” (Sports with principles) supports peaceful coexistence and re-integration of internally displaced people. What is more, former combatants are being educated to become trainers who can take over social responsibilities in the host communities.
Cúcuta, Colombia – November 2017 (c) GIZ/Thomas Wagner
“Deporte con Principios” has changed my life. The program gave me the opportunity to get out of my difficult situation and to go new ways. I am proud that I can now make a small contribution to advancing the peace process in Colombia. I can bring together former combatants and victims of the conflict, mediate and work with them through the training on a reconciliation. (Marcos Silva, “Deporte con Principios” trainer in Cúcuta, Colombia)
Sport prepares for life
In the “Girls Centre” of the Namibian Football Association (NFA) in Windhoek, marginalized girls and young women not only find safe spaces to do sports but can also make use of their educational offers. Supported by the German development cooperation, TUI Care Foundation and Futouris e. V. young women can do internships or even an apprenticeship in sustainable tourism.
Windhoek, Namibia – May 2016 (c) GIZ/Stefan Oosthuisen
“It's great to make my own money and be completely independent. In football, I learned how important teamwork and cohesion are. Through the vocational training, I also learned patience and serenity and to stick to what I really want. I really learned that for life.” (Gwen Joyce Narises from Windhoek, Namibia)
Namibia – 2018 (c) GIZ/Luise Haunit
Together against HIV
Sport does not only ensure physical fitness and but it also encourages a positive physical feeling. During basketball or football trainings, well-educated trainers can also talk about HIV/AIDS prevention and contraception.
Windhoek, Namibia – October 2014 (c) GIZ/Anja Arnemann
Physical education as an engine for development
Physical education for female students – what might sound trivial was unimaginable in Afghanistan for a long time. Under Taliban rule, physical education, if at all, was only theoretical. For this reason, a curriculum for sports education classes in Afghan schools was developed through the “Sport for Development” program. In addition, master trainers were instructed, who now train sports teachers in sports pedagogical approaches.
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan – June 2014 (c) GIZ/Oliver Becker
Sports grounds create safe spaces
In Jordan refugee camps and host communities, the “Sport for Development”-measures provide a safe environment for sports activities. Refugees and locals between the ages of 8 and 24 can reduce their fear of contact and learn how to resolve conflicts peacefully. In addition to promoting their sporting abilities, this nurtures respect, tolerance, discipline, empathy, fair play and self-confidence.
Jordan – 2017 (c) GIZ/Alea Horst
Sport connects
In Uganda, the “Athletics for Development programme” uses the basic athletic forms of running, throwing and jumping to get children moving. The aim of the project is, among other things, to promote social and societal cohesion in local communities. Olympic fencing champion Britta Heidemann supports the project as an ambassador for “Sport for Development”.
Apac, Uganda – May 2018 (c) GIZ/ DOSB
Learning playfully
Dribbling fast, stopping the ball, turning the card – with a memory game, which is easy to make, children and adolescents are being sensitized for topics like equality of the sexes or preventing violence – for example in a Sports Camp during the World Cup 2014 in Brasil.
Fortaleza, Brasil – June 2014 (c) GIZ/Florian Kopp
Team sport empowers
In sport activities such as workshops, which were held during the men’s football World Cup 2014 in Brazil, children and adolescents learned about hygiene, health, environment protection or are being motivated for civil participation and social engagement. At the same time values and social competencies like respect, tolerance and teamwork were transmitted.
Salvador da Bahía, Brasil – June 2014 (c) GIZ/Ramon Goncalves
A role model on the field and for life
Organizer, role model and person of trust: The “Sport for Development” trainers are the basis of the programs. The International Instructors Course, which is organized jointly by German Development Cooperation and the German Football Association (DFB), allows them to exchange ideas and learn new methods, which they pass on as multipliers in their home countries.
Hennef, Germany – June 2017 (c) GIZ/Josefine Fehr
Support through “Sport for Development”-ambassadors
For the implementation of “Sport for Development”-measures, BMZ and GIZ have strong partners: In addition to the German Football Association (DFB) and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) also the former football players Nia Künzer and Gerald Asmoah and Fencing Olympic champion Britta Heidemann support the projects.
Kamen, Germany – September 2018 (c) GIZ/Oliver Becker
The projects are implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
GIZ: Sport for Development
Beatrice Okello
This is really interesting to read. Here in Uganda, we established a local NGO/CBO called Acholi Sports and Culture Organization (ASCO) in 2004 which has similar objectives as this programme of GIZ. Unfortunately for us, the Acholi sub-region in Northern Uganda was just coming out of a 20 year civil unrest from the LRA war, and so development partners were unwilling to support activities to promote peaceful co-existence through sports or even consider engaging the returnees in cultural events to teach and remind them of cultural values of doing things - e.g. crop production, harvesting, preservation, storage, food preparation, etc. Emphasis was on rehabilitation of schools, health facilities, water infrastructure, roads and peace building and conflict training. And, there was preference to fund NGO/CBOs that had already been operating - and yet ASCO was only newly formed, but with brilliant ideas. The sponsored areas have not really 'gel-ed' the community - otherwise we would not be having people from same families killing themselves over property they have not even worked for! We believed then, and still believe that now, that having a pleasurable/happy activity that enjoins people would make them think more humanely than most of them grew up seeing - violently.
So to date the idea is still in my mind, and hopefully some day when I make enough money, I will be able to construct the Acholi Cultural Centre where I can give back to my people in form of traditional knowledge and practice. In this day we are seeing more and more people manifesting malnutrition - especially overweight and obesity among adults, and stunting among children. And yet traditional Acholi food is well balanced and rich in nutrients to produce healthy and productive people. The reason why Acholi were in the past seen as tough people and recruited in the uniformed forces to protect the nation. Acholi was a food basket - storing food for lean times and even selling without experiencing famine. But do they children, now adults, who grew up in IDP camps know this? Do they value this? Can we inculcate this in them? Yes!
Thank you for sharing this topic. It just strengthens my resolve to work hard to support my people.
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