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David Spade Says Jokes About Donald Trump Off-Limits On New Show: It’s ‘Just Piling On’ Now
(Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
David Spade said that jokes about Donald Trump will be off-limits on his new comedy show because it’s “just piling on” at this point.
“We are trying to do the coldest thing. We want to do stuff that no one wants to see,” the 54-year-old comedian joked Friday with Daily Mail when asked about his new show on Comedy Central and his plans to steer clear of commenting on Trump and politics of the day. (RELATED: Celebrate Kate Beckinsale’s Birthday With Her Best Instagram Looks [SLIDESHOW])
A post shared by David Spade (@davidspade) on Apr 26, 2019 at 6:57pm PDT
“I just thought when we talked to Comedy Central that it was sort of like what could we do with me and my sense of humor,” he added. “And maybe it is time for a non-political, fun show again making fun of whatever else is going on.”(SLIDESHOW: These Women On Instagram Hate Wearing Clothes)
“Gender reveals drive me crazy, anything going on in music and acting. There are so many funny things that we all make fun of,” Spade continued. “Get some comedians in and do that again instead of getting so heated about the country.” (RELATED: Celebrate Anna Kendrick’s Birthday With Her Hottest Looks [SLIDESHOW])
“The country is going to work or not work without me involved,” the former “Saturday Night Live” star explained. “So I will stay away and let all the other celebrities handle fixing that.”
A post shared by David Spade (@davidspade) on May 28, 2019 at 6:16pm PDT
When pressed further on if he worried about the ratings taking a hit because of his decision to not follow in the footsteps of late-night talk show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert attacking Trump, he said it would “be just piling on.”
“I mean you have to be,” Spade shared. “I will live or die with whether people think I am funny or not, because they have all done that so I don’t even know what I can even know what I could add to that. They are funny and smart and have good jokes about it.”
“At this point it would be just piling on,” he added. “It gets to be where after a few years Trump turned into an easier target, because at the beginning it is like ”Can you believe this guy?””
Spade continued, “And now it is like ‘yeah we can.’ It is sort of what it is day to day. So it is less shock value. I will just try other ways. There are ways to be funny.”
“Lights Out with David Spade” hits the air July 29.
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> Visa Bulletin
> Understanding Visa Bulletin Cut-Off Date Determination
Understanding Visa Bulletin Cut-Off Date Determination
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 | Cut-Off Date , Documentarily Qualified , DOS , Priority Date , Visa Bulletin
Role of DOS
The State Department (DOS) is responsible for the allocation of numerically limited immigrant visa numbers under the authority granted by section 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). These visa numbers are allocated based on congressionally mandated preferences that assign an overall total, limits for each category and per country limits within each category.
The Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division’s main responsibility is the administration of the complex series of annual numerical limitations on immigrant visas, subdivided by preference category and country, which are set by the INA. Where demand exists, DOS goal is to have the issuance level come as close as possible to 100% of the numbers available each year without exceeding the limits that Congress has established. DOS also want to maintain a steady flow of applications throughout the year to ensure appropriate use of government resources and to provide good customer service to applicants. Over the past years, DOS have a proven record of using over 95 percent of the annual worldwide numerical limit.
Role of USCIS
The Department works closely with United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) on data exchange to allow for maximum use of numbers under the annual limits, and in a stable, predictable manner. This is extremely important in the Employment based categories, where USCIS currently uses approximately 90 percent of all available visa numbers. Section 203(g) of the INA directs the Secretary of State to make reasonable estimates of anticipated number use in order to maximize number use under annual limits. When making such estimates it is necessary to take into consideration a number of variables based on the best information which is available when those estimates are being made. Should there be a change which could not be anticipated it can have an impact on number use. This makes the determination of the monthly cut-off date particularly difficult at the end of the fiscal year since there is little if any time to make any necessary adjustments. While DOS always strive to reach 100% goal of the numbers allocated, increasing percentage above 95 percent is difficult given that DOS is statutorily barred from exceeding the annual limits.
DOS working with USCIS, Consulates and Embassies
On any given day, immigrant visas are issued at about 130 embassies and consulates overseas. Adjustments of status (which use the same numbers) are granted at about 90 - 100 domestic USCIS offices. The State Department tracks visa number usage and requests from consular sections around the world and USCIS. On a monthly basis the Visa Office determines the number of visas which can be allocated in each visa category and to each country on a worldwide basis. The process developed for managing the numbers throughout the year requires that numbers are made available by adjusting the cutoff date for each category and each country on a monthly basis. Cutoff dates for all countries except China, India, Mexico and the Philippines are currently the same every month in every category. Because demand for numbers exceeds annual per-country numerical limits for these four countries, they have their own cutoff dates in some categories.
The monthly visa bulletin published by the Department and available on website at www.Travel.State.Gov explains the allocation of visa numbers by dates, the laws and the per country and per category limits.
As stated previously, DOS goal is to come as close as possible to the annual limit without exceeding it. The Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division maintains a database containing workload statistics for immigrant visas issued at Foreign Service posts worldwide, and adjustment of status cases at USCIS. DOS authorize numbers for USCIS applications as USCIS request them, usually on a daily basis.
DOS in past has received several inquiries about the allocation of Employment-Based Second Preference visa numbers to India and China. DOS want to make clear that India is not receiving all of the extra numbers. They are also available to China where the applicant’s priority date was earlier than the posted cut-off date and are also available to applicants in any other country with a current priority date and for which the interview is completed and all required clearances received. These numbers are being made available when current indications are that demand from “all other countries” will not be sufficient to utilize all available Employment First and Second preference numbers. Such numbers will be made available, as visa numbers are always provided, in priority date order (the date petition to accord immigrant status was filed with USCIS). India does have a larger number of older petitions pending and therefore is likely to receive a larger number of these visa numbers than China. The Department’s policy of making the extra numbers available in priority date order is mandated by Section 203(e) of the INA. This allocation of numbers based on priority date means that China and India Second preference applicants will be subject to exactly the same cut-off date.
VISA NUMBER Availability and Cut-Off Date Determination for Visa Bulletin
The Department of State is responsible for administering the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) relating to the numerical limitations on immigrant visa issuances. It is a process that has evolved through the years and will continue to do so as DOS use the best technologies to improve communication with posts, applicants and colleagues at USCIS.
At the beginning of each month, the Visa Office (VO) receives a report from each consular post listing totals of documentarily qualified immigrant visa applicants in categories subject to numerical limitation. Cases are grouped in three different categories: 1) foreign state chargeability, 2) preference and 3) priority date.
Foreign state chargeability for visa purposes refers to the fact that an immigrant is chargeable to the numerical limitation for the foreign state or dependent area in which the immigrant's place of birth is located. Exceptions are provided for a child (unmarried and under 21 years of age) or spouse accompanying or following to join a principal to prevent the separation of family members or in a foreign state of which neither parent was a native or resident. Alternate chargeability is desirable when the visa cut-off date for the foreign state of a parent or spouse is more advantageous than that of the applicant's foreign state.
Preference is the visa category that can be assigned as established by the Immigration and Nationality Act based on relationships to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Family based immigration falls under two basic categories: unlimited and limited. Preferences established by law for the limited category are:
Family First Preference (F1): Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens and their minor children, if any.
Family Second Preference (F2): Spouses, minor children and unmarried sons and daughters of lawful permanent residents.
Family Third Preference (F3): Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens and their spouses and minor children.
Family Fourth Preference (F4): Brothers and sisters of United States citizens and their spouses and minor children provided the U.S. citizen is at least 21 years of age.
Employment-based immigration also includes preferences; all of them are subject to a limitation.
The Priority Date is normally the date on which the petition to accord the applicant immigrant status was filed, normally with U.S. Citizenship and immigration Service.
Visa Bulletin Cut-Off Date Determination
The Department of State Visa Office subdivides the annual preference and foreign state limitations specified by the INA into monthly allotments. The totals of documentarily qualified applicants which have been reported to VO are compared each month with the numbers available for the next regular allotment. The determination of how many numbers are available requires consideration of several of variables, including: past number use; estimates of future number use and return rates; and estimates of Citizenship and Immigration Service demand based on cut-off date movements. Once this is done, the cut-off dates are established and numbers are allocated to reported applicants in order of their priority dates, the oldest dates first.
If there are sufficient numbers in a particular category to satisfy all reported documentarily qualified demand, the category is considered "Current". For example: If the monthly allocation target is 10,000 and DOS only have 5,000 applicants the category can be "Current”.
Whenever the total of documentarily qualified applicants in a category exceeds the supply of numbers available for allotment for the particular month, the category is considered to be "oversubscribed" and a visa availability cut-off date is established. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first documentarily qualified applicant who could not be accommodated for a visa number. For example, if the monthly target is 10,000 and DOS have 25,000 applicants, then the goal would be to establish a cut-off date so that only 10,000 numbers would be allocated. In this case, the cut-off in the ideal world would be the priority date of the 10,001st applicant.
Only persons with a priority date earlier than a cut-off date are entitled to allotment of a visa number. Possible cut-off dates are the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd of any given month, since the Visa Office groups demand for numbers under these dates. (Priority dates of the first through seventh of a month are grouped under the 1st, the eighth through the fourteenth under the 8th, etc.)
The Visa Office attempts to establish the cut-off dates for the following month on or about the 8th of each month. The dates are immediately transmitted to consular posts abroad and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and also published in the Visa Bulletin and online at the Bureau of Consular Affairs Web site (www.travel.state.gov).
Visa allotments for use during that month are transmitted to consular posts. USCIS requests visa allotments for adjustment of status cases only when all other case processing has been completed.
CLARIFICATION OF SOME FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD POINTS
Applicants entitled to immigrant status become “documentarily qualified” to apply for an immigrant visa (meaning they have all their documents necessary for a visa interview and, if approved, for issuance) at their own initiative and convenience. By no means has every applicant with a priority date earlier than a prevailing cut-off date been processed for final visa action. On the contrary, visa allotments are made only on the basis of the total applicants reported documentarily qualified each month. Demand for visa numbers can fluctuate from one month to another, with the inevitable impact on cut-off dates.
If an applicant is reported documentarily qualified but allocation of a visa number is not possible because of a visa availability cut-off date, the demand is recorded at the Visa Office and an allocation is made as soon as the applicable cut-off date advances beyond the applicant's priority date. There is no need for such applicant to be reported a second time.
Visa numbers are always allotted for all documentarily qualified applicants with a priority date before the relevant cut-off date, as long as the case had been reported to the Visa Office in time to be included in the monthly calculation of visa availability. Failure of visa number receipt by the overseas processing office could mean that the request was not dispatched in time to reach the Visa Office for the monthly allocation cycle, or that information on the request was incomplete or inaccurate (e.g., incorrect priority date).
Allocations to Foreign Service posts outside the regular monthly cycle are possible in emergency or exceptional cases, but only at the request of the office processing the case. Note that should retrogression of a cut-off date be announced, the Visa Office can honor extraordinary requests for additional numbers only if the applicant's priority date is earlier than the retrogressed cut-off date.
Not all numbers allocated are actually used for visa issuance; some are returned to VO and are reincorporated into the pool of numbers available for later allocation during the fiscal year. The rate of return of unused numbers may fluctuate from month to month, just as demand may fluctuate. Lower returns mean fewer numbers available for subsequent reallocation.
Fluctuations can cause cut-off date movement to slow, stop, or even retrogress. Retrogression is particularly possible near the end of the fiscal year as visa issuance approaches the annual limitations.
Per-country limit: The annual per-country limitation of 7% is a cap, which Visa issuances to any single country may not exceed. Applicants compete for visas primarily on a worldwide basis. The country limitation serves to avoid monopolization of virtually all the annual limitation by applicants from only a few countries. This limitation is not a quota to which any particular country is entitled, however. A portion of the numbers provided to the Family Second preference category is exempt from this per-country cap.
The American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act (AC21) removed the per-country limit in any calendar quarter in which overall applicant demand for Employment-based visa numbers is less than the total of such numbers available.
Applicability of Section 202(e): When visa demand by documentarily qualified applicants from a particular country exceeds the amount of numbers available under the annual numerical limitation, that country is considered to be oversubscribed. Oversubscription may require the establishment of a cut-off date which is earlier than that which applies to a particular visa category on a worldwide basis. The prorating of numbers for an oversubscribed country follows the same percentages specified for the division of the worldwide annual limitation among the preferences. (Note that visa availability cut-off dates for oversubscribed areas may not be later than worldwide cut-off dates, if any, for the respective preferences.)
Thanks CM for a great post, very detailed and informative. Thanks again...PK
These allocation rules were set years and years ago I presume. They seem to be too outdated. Isn't it time the DOS need a team of experts to analyze the Math behind all this and the supply/demand pattern that is here today? Looks like folks from AILA must raise their voice enough so the DOS makes some drastic changes here.
Or am I not making any sense at all here and way off in my thinking?
DOS has to realize that scores of people are from India, and they are PROFESSIONALS adding value to the economy and community here in the US. One doesnt have to look hard to realize the Indians have contributed to every sector of US economy.
Can you comment on abandoned cases. Some became impatient and went to other parts of the world and lived there permanently.
@Anonymous Thank you PK. I am glad it was helpful.
Only quick fix for coming years that we can expect is pre-registering of all I-485s so that no annual visa go wasted.
As far as I know most of the people who abandoned cases are from EB3-India after getting frustrated from this wait. Others from ROW-M-P-C-I before PD July 2007 in majority have EADs. Only people who are left are post 2007 with PDs in 2008 and 2009. Few of these could have lost jobs but majority who had lost job in first case would not have filed GC because if they were let go or their company were in middle of going belly up automatically company would not have invested in GC. So I feel most of the abandoned cases will be in noise, few two-three thousands out of 200k pending cases. Only people I know are getting impatient are recent graduates and individuals with PD beyond 2010 who still have long road to go. IMHO, starting next year spillover may reduce tremendously as economy will be back to usual. Some glimpse of it can be seen from rising EB2-ROW demand. Only hope is EB1 and EB5. But EB1-C will pick up in a year or two especially on ROW side where most of the petitions are genuine. With today's USCIS announcement it looks like EB5 program will also be enhanced tremendously to attract and cater investors personally. All we can do is keep our finger crossed.
Hi CM,
""""Only persons with a priority date earlier than a cut-off date are entitled to allotment of a visa number. Possible cut-off dates are the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd of any given month, since the Visa Office groups demand for numbers under these dates. (Priority dates of the first through seventh of a month are grouped under the 1st, the eighth through the fourteenth under the 8th, etc.)"""
Had a Question:
\My priority date : 09 March 2007
if the Monthly bulletin says : 08 March 2007
Will I be current or will i be able to submit my 1 -485 papers.
(reason : I'm asking is becuase your article above says that we can, but the first line of the paragraph says different.. I think i'm missing something here. your confirmation will be greatly appreciated)
As always , Thanks for all the work you do !!
As you may know by now that only individuals before PD 08 March 2007 (PD until 07 March 2007) are allowed to file I-485.
question said...
This months bulletin lists EB2-I at 41,700. Does this mean there are 41,700 Priority Date + Consular Demand? What constitutes a 'documentarily qualified immigrant visa"??
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Gauchos Clinch Series Sweep with 14-0 Shutout of Hartford
Hartford (0-3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
UC Santa Barbara (5-2) 2 1 5 0 2 1 3 0 X 14 18 0
Christopher Troye (Photo by Tony Mastres)
2B: Chris Sullivan; Nik Pagan; John Thrasher
2B: Andrew Martinez; Eric Yang 2; Armani Smith; Jason Willow
3B: Tevin Mitchell
HR: Tommy Jew; Kyle Johnson
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara baseball team wrapped up the series sweep in a big way on Sunday afternoon, scoring in all but two innings while racking up 18 hits in a 14-0 rout over Hartford at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
The Gauchos (5-2) had 10 different players record a hit in the game with six tallying multi-hit games, led by Eric Yang (3-for-4) and Armani Smith (3-for-5), who both finished with two RBIs apiece. Jason Willow led the team with three RBIs on a 2-for-5 day at the dish while both Kyle Johnson and Tevin Mitchell went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Kirtley scored a game-high three runs after going 2-for-4 with a walk and Andrew Martinez went 1-for-3 with two runs and an RBI.
On the mound, UCSB turned to sophomore Christopher Troye, who was dominant in his first career start. The Brentwood, Calif. native who made 19 appearances as a reliever last season, struck out seven while allowing just one hit and one walk while picking up his first win of the season.
It was a strong first inning all around for the Gauchos. After starting pitcher Troye (1-0) struck out the side in the top half of the inning, Tommy Jew hit a leadoff homerun deep over the scoreboard in left. Yang doubled later in the inning and Smith singled him home to give UCSB an early 2-0 lead.
Johnson kept the bats alive in the second, leading off the frame with a solo shot to right to make it 3-0, and Troye stayed dominant on the bump with two more strikeouts in the third.
In the bottom half of the third, Santa Barbara broke the game open for good with five runs on six hits to take an 8-0 lead. The Gauchos had five straight hits to start the inning, beginning with singles from Kirtley and Smith. Willow and Johnson promptly followed with back-to-back RBI singles before Mitchell cleared the bases with a two-run triple to the deepest part of the field in right center. Yang capped of the scoring in the inning with his second double of the game to bring home Mitchell.
Troye carried a no-hitter into the fifth before the Hawks finally connected for a base hit, but the sophomore right-hander struck out two of the next three to keep the shutout intact.
The Gauchos went right back to scoring runs in the fifth, tacking on two more courtesy an RBI double off the wall from Martinez and an RBI single from Yang, who stayed hot with this third hit of the day.
Alex Patterson relieved Troye in the sixth and, after allowing a leadoff double, struck out two of the next three to escape the inning.
With two runners on in the bottom half of the sixth for UCSB, pinch hitter Cole Mueller drove in Kirtley, making it an 11-0 advantage for Santa Barbara.
The Gauchos added three more on a two-RBI double from Willow and an RBI fielder's choice with the bases juiced from Smith, to cap of the scoring for the day.
Along with Patterson - Joshua Candau, Liam Steigerwald and Conner Dand each threw a scoreless inning of relief for UCSB.
Worth mentioning, the Gauchos were hit by a pitch five times on Sunday and 13 times in the three-game series.
Santa Barbara hits the road for a midweek matchup against USC this Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Dedeaux Field.
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Will Germany become the world's largest market for medicinal cannabis?
For two years, Germany has allowed cannabis cultivation for medical purposes
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
The use of medicinal cannabis has been allowed in Germany for two years now. But because domestic cultivation hasn't gotten off the ground yet, the plant has been imported, mainly from Canada. That might change soon. While Canadians were at the forefront of exporting the plant, "they have failed to deliver to all regions in Europe, and Germany for that matter," said Frankfurt-based entrepreneur Niklas Kouperanis. Bottlenecks have also been reported by Georg Wurth of the German Hemp Association (DHV). "At the moment, there's next to nothing coming in from Canada as companies there are preoccupied with their home market," he said.
cannabis industry | germany | canada | medical cannabis
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Greening the Rules of the Game
Policy Lever: Directing Finance Through Policy
Policy directed finance approaches introduce requirements or prohibitions that shift capital allocation. Such measures in effect introduce new performance criteria into financial decision-making, which might reduce or increase risk-adjusted returns. The Inquiry found that measures that change the legal requirements facing financial institutions are perhaps the most contentious, but are also widely used.
Examples in practice include:
Lender and other liabilities: legal liability regimes for lenders, fiduciaries and insurers (and responses in terms of due diligence for environmental risk).
Capital requirements: adjustments to capital ratios to enable lending towards critical sectors (e.g. for SMEs, green assets).
Priority sector lending: integration of environmental and social factors into priority lending programmes.
Prohibitions: restrictionson financial transactions due to excessive societal costs e.g. lending to illegal deforestation (Brazil) and pollution intensive industrial plants (China).
Directed service provision: requirements that financial institutions provide access to particular financial services such as basic bank accounts and insurance.
Mandatory purchase requirements: mandatory requirements for purchase of key financial services (such as insurance) that are essential for system resilience in the face of environmental stress.
Measures such as priority lending and strengthened environmental liability have a strong potential for driving change, but need careful design and market preparation to avoid unintended consequences.
Inquiry Publications
The Financial System We Need: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development
Date: 08-Oct-2015
Download the full report: [AR] [CH] [EN] [ES] [FR] [PT] [RU] Download the policy summary: [AR] [CH] [EN] [ES] [FR] [PT] [RU] This first edition of “The Financial System We Need” argues that there is now a historic opportunity to shape a financial system that can more effectively finance the development of an inclusive, green economy. This opportunity is based on a growing trend
Date: 29-Sep-2016
Download the policy summary: [AR] [CH] [EN] [ES] [FR] [PT] [RU] Download the individual chapters: Chapter 1: Mapping the momentum | Chapter 2: Harnessing financial technology for sustainable development | Chapter 3: Measuring performance | Chapter 4: Steps towards transformation Our follow-up annual report reveals a doubling in policy actions over the past five years to align the global financial system with sustainable
Date: 17-Apr-2018
The Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme to advance options to align the financial system with sustainable development. ‘Making Waves: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development’ is its final, global report. This report reviews the Inquiry’s core analysis, summarizes progress made in aligning
Date: 14-Dec-2016
The report, a companion to the second edition of “The Financial System We Need”, assesses how the financial system’s core functions are likely to be disrupted by financial technology (“fintech”) innovations and how they could help – or hinder – efforts to align financing with sustainable development. It considers ways to: Unlock greater financial inclusion by
Date: 15-Nov-2016
This report is focused on understanding how the growing number of policy and regulatory measures taken in the financial system can support a real economy in transition, seeking to answer the question: ‘what measures are most needed to deliver efficiency, effectiveness and resilience in ways that the financial system can contribute to specific sustainability priorities
The report finds that China – which put green finance on the G20 agenda during its 2016 presidency – is following through on its political commitment to boost the financing required to do this. The report looks particularly at progress since the State Council in August 2016 approved a set of recommendations for action on
Date: 06-Feb-2017
Italy’s Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, in partnership with UN Environment, launched the National Dialogue on Sustainable Finance in February 2016 to identify practical market and policy options to mobilize Italy’s financial system for sustainable development and climate action. The conclusions of the paper are: Italy faces a strategic opportunity to harness its financial
Bangladesh Country Report
Bangladesh has been a leader in developing policies to shape a greener and more inclusive financial system. It has a suite of green banking regulations and policies including concessional green refinancing, credit quotas for green finance and guidance and requirements on environmental due diligence. Green finance is growing but it remains modest compared to the scale of Bangladesh’s
France Country Report
This report highlights experience from France in improving the integration of sustainability issues into financial decision-making. A key area of focus has been on improving information and market analysis. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting requirements were first introduced in the New Economics Regulation law of 2001, and strengthened by the 2010 ‘Grenelle II’ law and 2015 the
This report outlines key concerns and needs of developing countries in relation to green finance, particularly focusing on developing countries that are not members of the G20. It also highlights emerging innovations, drawing in particular from engagement with practitioners and regulators from Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, Jordan, Kenya, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, Thailand
Economic Impact Analysis – Re-prioritizing Priority Sector Lending In India – Impact of Priority Sector Lending on India’s Commercial Banks
Nathan Associates Inc. (2013).
Explore Other Policy Levers
Upgrading Governance
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A fall and the aftermath
"Hi Lucas, it's David from school"
I didn't respond yet, waiting to hear the usual 'Smiler's fine" first, but it didn't come.
There was a certain tightness to David's voice, and although of course the head teacher of a special school is always under pressure, juggling budgets and staffing and LA and paperwork and building issues, he is usually able to keep a lid on it, and generally sounds pretty calm and laid back - but not today. The distinct lack of immediate reassurance made me stiffen in my seat as all thone dreaded possibilities flashed through my mind - a seizure? A bleed? Something else altogether?
"Smiler's had a fall in the playground. He has two first aiders with him, but it was eight minutes ago and we haven't been able to get him up yet..."
What do you mean, haven't been able to get him up? Did he hit his head?
"No, no, not exactly. He fell forwards - well, actually he was pushed by another student, which doesn't really help - but he'said very upset, and he doesn't seem to be able to use his arm... Everything might all be fine, but I just wanted to let you know what was happening. I'm going straight back out to him now, and I'll ring back on this number in five minutes."
Twenty five minutes later we met staff and Smiler at the local A+E. They'd had to hoist him from the ground into his wheelchair as even his favourite adults had been unable to convince him to let them help him up, and he'd been crying in pain the whole time. It wasn't difficult to see why.
(Excuse the dodgy mobile photos)
Smiler's left elbow has been dislocated and fused in place since birth, and so we've always been used to it not looking like an ordinary elbow, but his right - well, it's hypermobile, but generally elbow shaped.
But not today.
An hour later an x-ray had confirmed his elbow was not only dislocated, but also fractured. Unfortunately the A+E we were in couldn't sedate him to relocate it, so ordered a patient transport ambulance to take Smiler and I to the Children's Hospital which would pick us up within an hour. By the time it actually arrived to collect us, three hours later, Smiler was exhausted by the pain. Because of his haemophilia he can't have ibuprofen which would work on both the pain and the swelling, so he was only on paracetamol as he'd sneezed out the dose of dia-morph instantly it had been sprayed up his nose.
At the Children's Smiler was dosed up again but struggling still with the pain while the consultants debated whether to sedate him to relocate the joint or put him under a general anaesthetic instead. By 11pm he had a slot in theater, and as per the usual protocols, an arrow was drawn on the arm that needed attention...
...but Smiler was not a fan.
First a failed attempt to site a canula, followed by a successful attempt to put him under with gas. Anyone who has had to hold their panicking child - teenager - down, while they're screaming 'No! No mummy! No!' as loud as they can while an anesthesiologist does their bit will know how much that hurts. Three of us holding him down against the gurney, another steadying his arm while yet another tries to get the canula in - it was horrendous.
An hour or so later I was called to recovery, to find Smiler dozy but calm with his arm in a cast. Lots of obs through the night as there was mention of 'limb endangerment' and 'potential nerve damage', partly because the joint had been out for so long before it was relocated.
Next morning the orthopedic surgeon who'd got it back in checked in with us, letting us know that although the joint was technically back in place it was very unstable, and most likely has always had similar construction to his left elbow. So, although it wasn't quite dislocated like his left, it was very much on the verge of it all these years, probably partially dislocating every time he straightened it out but clicking itself straight back in again. Turns out that the most surprising part of all this is that it took so long for it to happen.
So now we're home. He has a follow up next week which will include more xrays, the cast will be on for three weeks followed by a splint which will restrict his movement so that hopefully it won't pop straight back out. By then we'll have more of an idea what comes next, which the consultant has warned may well be more surgery to position pins and plates to keep everything where it's meant to be. Anyone familiar with conversations with consultants will know how vague and non-committal they tend to be, which I find hugely frustrating - I'd rather know the possibilities so that I can do some research, get my head around it. By my reasoning the fact the Big Bone Cheese said he thinks it's highly likely that this will not be the end of it means it's pretty much a certainty, but exactly how big a deal this is going to be, I don't know.
Keep your fingers crossed for us on Tuesday - instead of going out to lunch to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary, Mr and I will be at an outpatients fracture clinic with Smiler hoping everything is still ... well, not where it's meant to be, as it's never been there, but where it's accustomed to being!
And in the meantime, if you have any ideas on how to entertain a tired, grumpy and hurting fourteen year old who can't use his dominant hand or arm, let me know!
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Labels: Smiler's story
The day for Dad
Around about this time of year the shops are filled with cards and signs and gifts in anticipation of Father's Day - (Sunday 19th June this year btw in case you haven't been paying attention), and it got me wondering how this works in other families.
Since the kids were teeny they've proudly presented Mr with cards covered in painty handprints and lopsided glittery clay tealight holders (or versions of) each year - made at toddler group, or nursery, or brownies, or Mencap junior club, or school. As the years went by the cards evolved from messy glittery lead by a grown up ones into construct (independantly) by numbers affairs, with pre cut shapes and 'here's one I made earlier' examples. After that they became a little more personal, with carefully thought out messages inside and instead of being wobbly addressed Dear Daddy it became a more solemn To Dad, and now they're all in secondary school it's only Smiler who brings one home at all - Petal and Noah tend to hole up in the kitchen for an hour or so together, sat up to the table surrounded with different colour pens, them emerge grinning while trying desperately to look cool and casual with a card behind each of their backs. Because of the different personality types Mr seems to get the same constellation each year - a painty handprint one from Smiler, an ernest message inside an 'I had a good idea but lost interest halfway through so only coloured in half the letters' type card from Noah, and a detailed desperately trying to please I love you so so so much one from Petal.
The accompanying gifts - well, the tangible teabag stapled inside a teapot shape card type naturally dropped off several years ago, and as a family we then gravitated towards 'I'll make you a cup of tea' or 'we'll do the washing up' or 'we'll make dinner' type rather than 'here's a huge teddy bear with a t-shirt that says I love my dad on'.
It's the same for Mother's Day to be fair, so I don't think it's just me being stingy and not wanting the kids to spend money on crap (although that definitely is a part of it), as Mr has led them to do similar - last year (back when we had an oven) Petal baked a batch of cupcakes completely by herself, and helped Smiler to help her ice them. Those cupcakes, for all the messy icing and sticky cases and dry insides were absolutely perfect, and what felt like the best bit for me was the pride beaming from her face as she told me she'd looked up the recipe herself, and that the only thing Mr had done was get the mixer down from the shelf. I know he felt the same when she made him biscuits last year, and when Smiler presented him with the bean he'd grown in a pot.
I get that others show their love by spending at the shops, but I'm glad that we have evolved our family traditions differently. I'd rather all three of my kids use their own words to tell their dad how much he means to them, rather than relying on a printed rhyming message in a card picked up in a supermarket. I'm glad that they want to fuss over him and sit with him and walk the dog with him instead of giving him a 'best dad' mug and then going off to do their own thing. Of course it needn't be all or nothing, but I know too many mums and dads who get precious little meaningful interaction from their offspring to be blasé about mine still (usually!) wanting a kiss goodnight.
So, for Father's Day this year Mr will be getting a lie in - which I imagine will be greatly appreciated as he is at a friend's stag do all day on Saturday; breakfast made for him by the kids - most likely coffee and cereal or toast as we're still without an oven; and then his choice of activities for the day, which will probably consist of trying to find a film that everyone will watch and taking Eli for a nice long walk. So long as there's plenty of hugs to go around, he'll be happy.
How about you? Any plans for the day or memories of days long gone?
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A day in the life of a carer
It's Carers Week and when I spoke to John Darvall on BBC radio Bristol yesterday he asked what I actually do, in real practical terms. I realised that so much of what I - and other carers - do is so automatic that you don't even realise you're doing it. It needs to be done, so you do it. To focus myself on what I actually do do, I'm noting down everything I do over the course of today. Plan is simple - only thing going on is a hospital appointment for Smiler at 12:20 - endocrinology.
6:20 Smiler awake, so I go in and help him untangle himself from his bed covers, get on his feet and put on his dressing gown.
6:30 Boiling the kettle for a cuppa for each of us. Smiler wants to sit up to the table in the kitchen, so I help him sit in his chair, adjust the footplate and push him in.
6:45 Warming up Smiler's weetabix and help him eat breakfast, singing along to the radio to make him smile.
7:00 Draw up Smiler's two oral meds into syringes, wipe the spilt weetabix off the table, hand him the syringes one at a time to take the meds. Mix another medication into his drink, remind him he has to drink it before he gets down.
7:15 Back into Smiler's bedroom, wash his face and brush his teeth in his bathroom, help him use the toilet.
7:25 Help Smiler get out of his pyjamas and into his school uniform, put on his splints and shoes so he can walk around the house more independently, and show Smiler again how to open his blinds.
8:15 Wash and cut up a pepper for Smiler to have as a snack in school, check he has a spare change of clothes in his school bag.
8:25 Get the wheelchair from the back of the van, put it up and help Smiler sit in comfortably.
8:30 Time to walk to school, waving at a lollipop lady on the way, making a mental note to check Smiler's room for his library books as we pass the library.
9:00 Handover Smiler to the class team, reminding them that he has a hospital appointment and we'll pick him up at about 11:45. Explain that he will probably have bloods done but he hasn't asked me yet, so if he asks them they should tell him that they aren't sure, and he'll have to ask me when I get there.
9:35 Back at the house, strip Smiler's bed and put the washing machine on, then sit down for a cuppa and to check emails.
9:45 Ring GP to make an appointment for Smiler - as we're new to the surgery he has to be seen before they issue any of his repeats for his regular meds. No appointments available (for the next two weeks), advised to ring back tomorrow at 8AM. I explain it's routine, not urgent, but there are no appointments available to book for two weeks, which is as far ahead as they tell me they can book.
9:50 Spend 15 minutes on the phone to the council, going around in circles in their phone system. Need the email address of someone in local taxation department to give to Smiler's (council employed) OT so she can email them explaining that we/the house meets the criteria for a band reduction for council tax. Get nowhere. Tweet @BristolCouncil to ask them for an email address.
10:10 Paint Smiler's bathroom ceiling.
10:35 Ceiling finished - woo hoo! Time for another cup of tea and a bit of sock knitting.
11:20 Hang up the washing and put another load on.
11:20 Make a packed lunch for Smiler and gather some toys to use as distractions while we're waiting.
11:30 Into the van to collect Smiler from school.
11:40 Into school to pick up Smiler complete with wheelchair, drive into town.
12:05 Mr drops Smiler and I outside the children's hospital while he goes to find a parking space.
12:15 Smiler called to be weighed, so shoes off, splints off, out of the chair, then splints and shoes back on. Squeeze down a hospital corridor with rows of chairs on both sides trying not to run over anyone's toes.
12:20 Smiler called to have his height measured, so shoes off, splints off, out of the chair, then splints and shoes back on again.
12:25 Set Smiler up with headphones on to watch Aladdin dvd while we wait to be called to see the consultant. Mr arrives, having finally managed to park the car.
12:50 Get called for appointment - detangle Smiler from the headphones and dvd player, maneuver into the room and on with the appointment!
13:15 Appointment over (no bloods! Yay!) and I take Smiler to the BRI to get his newly prescribed meds from the pharmacy while Mr goes to get the car.
13:25 Trying to occupy a very stressed Smiler while waiting for meds to be dispensed - time for packed lunch! Help Smiler eat his lunch, then decide he needs to switch off so headphones back on and Aladdin plays.
13:45 Pharmacist comes out, explains she can't dispense meds as Smiler is under 18 and she needs to talk to Smiler's consultant first. Can't get hold of him, so will have to come back for meds tomorrow, or else pick them up from another Boots. Arrange to collect tomorrow from a Boots out of town.
13:55 No point taking Smiler back to school so Mr drives us home instead.
14:20 Take Smiler to the bathroom, wash his face and hands and then settle him on the sofa to watch the end of his film.
14:30 Make Smiler's bed now his sheets are dry, and put another load of washing in the machine.
14:40 Smiler's film is finished so we go into his room to find his library books. Having only just moved house they could be anywhere, but Smiler finds one in a box of books as we unpack them and line them up on his shelf and I find the other.
14:55 Leave Smiler to chill out in his room looking at books while I try to get through to local taxation on the phone again - waste of time.
15:25 Herd Smiler into the kitchen for a quiet cuppa before his brother and sister get home from school. He asks for his shoes off so I undo his shoes, unstrap his splints, and rub his feet for a minute - they need to stretch out after being held stiffly for so long.
15:50 Hang up washing and talk doors with the builder - need to fit a door to his bathroom with a handle he can use independently.
16:25 House is invaded by Smiler's sister and her friends - Smiler potters about while they sort out drinks and apples for a snack.
16:30 Smiler trips over in the hallway - takes both me and Mr to get him up and to the sofa. Read to him to help him relax before we check him over to make sure he hasn't broken anything.
16:45 All seems fine, so Smiler listens to his radio in his room while I sort tea out for everyone.
17:05 Smiler brother returns from school and it's time for tea. I sit and chat with everyone while Mr helps Smiler with his food.
17:40 With tea finished I take Smiler with me to walk the dog - get the wheelchair out of the van and push him over to the field where he walks a little then asks to get back in his chair.
18:15 Mr already find the washing up so we have a cup of tea and a chat while Smiler spends some time in his room.
18:55 Read Smiler one of his long term favourite books (Giraffes can't dance) then help him tidy his room.
19:15 Help Smiler draw his blinds before taking his clothes off to get in the shower.
19:35 Get Smiler's pyjamas on and his dressing gown, and into the kitchen for meds.
19:45 Draw up Smiler's epilepsy meds into a syringe, hand it to him to take. Mix another medication into a drink, replace two slow release patches behind his ears, and check he can still use both arms/hands normally after falling earlier.
19:55 Smiler uses the bathroom, laughing as the wash/dry toilet does its thing - much preferable to me having to wipe and wash him!
20:00 I tag Mr in to do Smiler's teeth while I hand Petal's friend back to her mum.
20:05 Chatting interrupted by Mr calling me into Smiler's bathroom. His jaw has dislocated and I'm the only one trained to manually put it back in. First attempt fails, second succeeds.
20:10 Smiler comes into the living room so we can keep an eye on his jaw - he wants to go to bed but we persuade him by offering an episode of the Lion Guard (kind of a sequel series to Lion King).
20:20 After his jaw has fallen out twice while he was laughing Mr and I realise this will be a long evening with Smiler. I make some sandwiches as there's no point trying to have a 'proper' dinner in case we end up in A+E. Smiler's sister goes to bed, his brother stays downstairs watching the programme!
20:55 Another dislocation which I have to put back in - the amount of pressure you have to use is scary. Smiler vomits so Mr takes him to change his clothes and brush his teeth while I clean up in the living room. Noah decides to go to bed - I remind him we might have to take Smiler in to the hodpital and not to worry if he hears us bustling about.
21:10 Smiler is back in the living room in fresh pyjamas, I put on another episode of Lion Guard and cross my fingers.
21:35 No further dislocations, so I take Smiler to the toilet and we tuck him into bed.
21:40 Cup of tea! Fold the washing, and load the machine with Smiler's pyjamas and rinse.
22:00 Sneak a peek into Smiler's room - he's in bed snoozing with his mouth closed.
22:05 Put a load of washing on including the pyjamas and set the timer so it'll be finishing when I get up.
22:15 Watch TV for a bit with Mr - there are emails I should be writing but I'm knackered.
22:40 Smiler's still sleeping - mark the time on our white Smiler board, set my alarm for in an hour and Mr's for an hour after that, and go to bed.
23:40 Up and check the board - he was sleeping when Mr checked him an hour ago. I peek in, and Smiler's mouth still closed - I set the alarm for in two hours, Mark it on the board and go back to bed.
1:40 Up and check the board (fine), check Smiler (fine), write on the board that I'm done, and back to sleep.
😴 😴 😴
Carried over for tomorrow:
● check Smiler can use both arms after falling today
● ring GP surgery at 8AM to get a routine appointment for Smiler so they can issue his scripts
● tell school about the fall, the jaw dislocations and the late night
● chase up the medication that the pharmacist couldn't give us with the local Boots, if no joy then the BRI pharmacy and the consultant
● keep trying to put the council OT and the council local taxation in touch with each other
● check out door handles in B&Q to see what would work for Smiler
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Labels: a day in the life of a parent carer, carers week 2016, disability, Smiler
Next week is Carers Week
Being a carer isn't always straightforward - even if you're clear about the extra things you do that constitute caring, sometimes people around you don't get it. The first time I approached the reception desk at the gp surgery for example, and asked to be added to their Carers Register.
'So, who do you care for then?'
My son, Smiler.
'Oh they don't mean that kind of carer, it's just for people who care for someone with a disability'
Smiler has a disability.
'But you're his mum, not his carer'
I'm a parent carer.
'What's wrong with him then?'
He has a unique chromosome disorder
'I'm not sure that counts...I'll just check with someone.'
'No, I'm sorry, it just means people who are proper carers, for adults.'
And a week later, having checked with the Carers Support Centre that the gp Carers Register is intended to include ALL carers, I gave it another go.
'But children need so much looking after anyway, I don't think it matters if he's disabled'
Well, he's entitled to DLA, which means he needs "substantially more care than another child of the same age without a disability"
'What was it you said was wrong with him?'
Severe learning difficulties, epilepsy, haemophilia, microcephely, specific language impairment, sensory integration disorder, scoliosis. He's non verbal and doubly incontinent. He has nine consultants that's he sees at least twice a year (each), four different regular medications twice a day and another three that are PRN. He can't weight bear so is hoisted in and out of his wheelchair from bed or a beanbag.
'Oh. Okay. I'll tick the "carer" box on your records then.
But why does it have to be do hard? I don't want to have to list Smiler's health issues to a receptionist, and I don't see why I should have to. If I was caring for my elderly dad, or my partner, would I be expected to explain 'what's wrong with him'? I should point out that this conversation was years ago, but I regularly talk to other parent carers who face similar challenges. While (and I quote the surgery receptionist here) "proper carers", as in carers of visibly disabled adults, seem to be acknowledged, there's still a long way to go for the rest of us.
This is the first post in a short series that I'm writing for Carers Week, which begins on 6th June. For more info see the Carers Week website, and for events and general goings on next week in Bristol and South Glos check out the Carers Support Centre news page.
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Labels: carers week 2016, definitions, labels, parent carers
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The Experiences of Hong Kong Chinese Divorced Wives in Facing the Cancer Death of Their Ex-Husbands
M. L. Yeung
With the surge of divorce rate and male cancer onset/death rates, the phenomenon of divorced wives in the facing cancer death of their ex-husbands is not uncommon in Hong Kong. Yet, there is a dearth of study on the experiences of bereaved-divorced wives in the Hong Kong cultural context. This project fills the knowledge gap by conducting a qualitative study for having interviewed four bereaved ex-wives, who returned to ex-husbands’ end-of-life caregiving and eventually grieved for the ex-spousal’s death. From the perspectives of attachment theory and disenfranchised grief in the Hong Kong cultural context, a ‘double-loss’ experience is found in which interviewees suffer from the first loss of divorce and the second loss of ex-husbands’ death. Traumatic childhood experiences, attachment needs, role ambiguity, unresolved emotions and unrecognized grief are found significant in their lived experiences which alert the ‘double-loss’ is worthy of attention. Extending a family-centered end-of-life and bereavement care services to divorced couples is called for, in which validation on the attachment needs, ex-couple reconciliation, and acknowledgement on the disenfranchised grief are essential for social work practice on this group of clienteles specifically in Hong Kong cultural context.
Changing family, disenfranchised grief, divorce, ex-spousal death, marriage.
Barriers to Marital Expectation among Individuals with Hearing Impairment in Oyo State
Adebomi M. Oyewumi, Sunday Amaize
The study was designed to examine the barriers to marital expectations among unmarried persons with hearing impairment in Oyo State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. Purposive sampling technique was used to select one hundred participants made up forty-four (44) males and fifty-six (56) females, all with varying degrees of hearing impairment. Eight research questions were raised and answered. The instrument used was Marital Expectations Scale with reliability coefficient of 0.86. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics tools of frequency count and simple percentage as well as inferential statistics tools of T-TEST and ANOVA. The findings revealed that there was a significant relationship existing among the main identified barriers (environmental barrier, communication barrier, hearing loss, unemployment and poor sexuality education) to the marital expectations of unmarried persons with hearing impairment. The joint contribution of the independent variables (identified barriers) to the dependent variable (marital expectations) was significant, F = 5.842, P < 0.05, accounting for about 89% of the variance. The relative contribution of the identified barriers to marital expectations of unmarried persons with hearing impairment is as follows: environmental barrier (β = 0.808, t = 5.176, P < 0.05), communication barrier (β = 0.533, t = 3.305, P < 0.05), hearing loss (β = 0.550, t = 2.233, P < 0.05), unemployment (β = 0.431, t = 2.102, P < 0.05), poor sexuality education (β = 0.361, t = 1.985, P < 0.05). Environmental barrier proved to be the most potent contributor to the poor marital expectations among unmarried persons with hearing impairment. Therefore, it is recommended that society dismantles the nagging environmental barrier through positive identification with individuals suffering from hearing impairment. In this connection, members of society should change their negative attitudes and do away with all the wrong notions about the marital ability of individuals with hearing impairment.
Hearing impairment, marriage, marital expectations, barrier.
Vol:9, No:11, Year:2015
Stop Forced Child Marriage: A Comparative Global Law Analysis
Michelle J. Miller
Millions of girls are forcibly married during the transitional period between puberty and adulthood. At a stage of vulnerability cultural practices, religious rights and social standards place her in a position where she is catapult into womanhood. An advocate against forced child marriage could argue that child rights, cultural rights, religious rights, right to marry, right to life, right to health, right to education, right to be free from slavery, right to be free from torture, right to consent to marriage are all violated by the practice of child marriage. The author is this advocate and this paper will present how some of these rights are violated and establish the need for change.
Child marriage, forced child marriage, child rights, protection, religious rights, cultural rights, right to life, human rights.
Vol:9, No:1, Year:2015
The Relationship between Citizenship Acquisition and Ethnic Identity of Immigrant Women in Taiwan
Yuan-Yu Chiang, Yu-Han Tseng, Chin-Chen Wen
In the last few decades, many southeast-Asia women migrate to Taiwan by marriage, and it usually takes several years for them to acquire Taiwanese citizenship. This study investigates the relationship between their citizenship acquisition and whether they develop Taiwanese identities, and how does it affect their ethnical identity towards their original ethnics. Furthermore, the present study also explores that whether citizenship acquisition help the immigrant women to explore the host society further and make commitment to it, or the identification towards mainstream Taiwanese society is only symbolic and superficial? One hundred and ninety-two immigrant women were measured using Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure-Revised and a global 10-point ethnic identity question. Correlation tests, t-test, and hierarchical regression were performed to answer the above questions. The results revealed that citizenship acquisition does help immigrant women to identify with Taiwanese society, but it does not affect how they identify with their own ethnics. Furthermore, the results also indicated that acquiring citizenship would not help these immigrant women become involved in deeper cultural exploration of Taiwan nor would it encourage them to make commitments to the host society.
Immigrants, international marriage, ethnic identity, Taiwan.
Wedding in Thailand: Traditional and Business
Kingkan Pongsiri
This study is purely qualitative. The objectives of this study can be identified as two main factors: traditionally explanation and economically studying. The study of weddings, both in traditional beauty and the aggressively strong competitive in the wedding business market has limited population of the study only Thailand internal wedding consumers. Focus group with the new marriage couple and in-depth interview with fully experiences wedding businessman were used. Traditionally, Thai weddings are very various; therefore, the recent patterns were briefly concluded to be processes of traditional Thai wedding will be revealed and explained then give more details in the formal procedures. Economically, weddings business are related to many types of businesses from catering business, hospitality and tourism business, pre-wedding photography, and the complete full-serviced wedding organizer for examples. The situations, changes and obstacles of the wedding related business will be discussed.
Thailand, Traditional Marriage, Wedding Business, Wedding Consuming Behavior.
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Node Pair Selection Scheme in Relay-Aided Communication Based On Stable Marriage Problem
Tetsuki Taniguchi, Yoshio Karasawa
This paper describes a node pair selection scheme in relay-aided multiple source multiple destination communication system based on stable marriage problem. A general case is assumed in which all of source, relay and destination nodes are equipped with multiantenna and carry out multistream transmission. Based on several metrics introduced from inter-node channel condition, the preference order is determined about all source-relay and relay-destination relations, and then the node pairs are determined using Gale-Shapley algorithm. The computer simulations show that the effectiveness of node pair selection is larger in multihop communication. Some additional aspects which are different from relay-less case are also investigated.
Relay, multiple input multiple output (MIMO), multiuser, amplify and forward, stable marriage problem, Gale-Shapley algorithm.
Age at First Marriage for Husband and Wife between Muslim and Santal Communities in Rural Bangladesh: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Md. Emaj Uddin
Age at first marriage is a basic temporal term that is culturally constructed for marriage relationship between an adult male and an adult female intended to have sex, to reproduce and to adapt to environment from one generation to another around the world. Cross-cultural evidences suggest that age at first marriage for both male and female not only varies across the cultures, but also varies among the subcultures of the same society. The purpose of the study was to compare age at first marriage for husband and wife including age differences between them between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh. For this we hypothesized that (1) there were significant differences in age at first marriage and age interval between husband and wife between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh. In so doing, 288 couples (145 pairs of couples for Muslim and 143 pairs of couples for Santal) were selected by cluster random sampling from the Kalna village situated in the Tanore Upazila of Rajshahi district, Bangladesh, whose current mean age range was 36.59 years for husband and 28.85 years for wife for the Muslim and 31.74 years for husband and 25.21 years for wife for the Santal respectively. The results of Independent Sample t test showed that mean age at first marriage for the Muslim samples was 23.05 years for husbands and 15.11 years for wives, while mean age at first marriage for the Santal samples was 20.71 years for husbands and 14.34 years for wives respectively that were significantly different at p0.05) among the selected husbands and wives between the two communities. This study recommends that further cross-cultural researches should be done on the causeeffect relationships between socio-cultural factors and age at marriage between the two communities in Bangladesh.
Age at First Marriage, Age Difference at Marriage, Bangladesh, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Muslim, Santal.
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On the Quality of Internet Users- Behavioral Patterns in Using Different Sites and Its Impact on Taboos of Marriage: A Survey among Undergraduate Students in Mashhad City in Iran
Javadi Alimohammad, Zanjanizadeh Homa, Javadi Maryam
Regarding the multi-media property of internet and the facilities that can be provided for the users, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the users- behavioral patterns and the impact of internet on taboos of marriage. For this purpose a survey technique on the sample size amounted 403 students of governmental guidance schools of city of Mashhad in country of Iran were considered. The results showed, the process of using various internet environments depends on the degree of the users- familiarity with these sites. In order to clarify the effects of the Internet on the taboos of marriage, the non – internet parameters also considered to be controlled. The ttest held among the internet users and non-users, indicated that internet users possess lower taboos of marriage. Extraction of the effects of internet via considering the effects of non-internet parameters, indicate that addiction to the internet, creating a cordial atmosphere, emotional communication, and message attractive factors have significant effects on the family's traditional values.
Internet, taboos of marriage, family, masscommunication, computer mediate communication.
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Power is Relative: Runaway General Stanley McChrystal has to Go
Barack Obama has an easy choice to make: fire a general who has established a culture of insubordination and indifference toward civilian leaders and partners in government or defer yet again to a general who acquires power like medals every time he outwits or outmaneuvers the White House.
General Stanley McChrystal went over clear lines in the debate about the surge into Afghanistan with freelance comments he made in London. Recently, McChrystal stated that the move into Kandahar would slow and threw into doubt confidence in a July 2011 drawdown start date. He didn’t consult with anyone before a public redesign of US strategy.
And now in this Rolling Stone report, “The Runaway General” (pdf), McChrystal and his team are reported ridiculing Joe Biden, Richard Holbrooke, Jim Jones, just about everyone not in their groove on strategy.
McChrystal has gone over too many lines.
Obama needs to fire him. If he doesn’t, McChrystal’s brand will be validated and the environment of insubordination and unprofessional conduct will be reinforced.
If McChrystal survives his White House encounter, then Obama will be diminished.
That is what this has come to.
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89 comments on “Power is Relative: Runaway General Stanley McChrystal has to Go”
sandlugs says: July 23, 2010 at 10:52 pm
McChrystal was much more valuable to the USA than President O’Bama. O’Bama should have scolded McChrystal and brought him in line. That is what a true leader would have done. O’Bama should recall General Robert E. Lee recommending to a Field Commander that one of his junior officers should be promoted. The Field Comander told Lee that the junior officer did not speak well of Lee. Lee conveyed that what the junior officer thought of him of of no import, rather what the junior officer could contribute to the Southern cause. O’Bama does not appear to be a student of history, but only a student of politics.
kotzabasis says: June 26, 2010 at 5:23 pm
D(T)eary Carroll, sorry for the hit of the boomerang.
I missed saying in my above post that in none of the texts you posted above am I shown to be a racist and a glorifier of war and the latter being “self fulfilling,” as you explicitly accused me to be in your first post. So you continue to be a liar.
I’ve only one advice: The only place where you can use and practice at a great profit, but not without laboriously sweating, the loose meretricious charms of your spirituality, intellectuality, and morality, is in a red district.
PissedOffAmerican says: June 26, 2010 at 9:36 am
The guy is just effin’ wacko. Its no wonder he has attached his hitch to Nadine’s team.
kotzabasis says: June 26, 2010 at 5:44 am
Carrol
The evidence you collated against me is a boomerang that strikes you back. You must have an unconscious urge for cognitive hara-kiri.
Carroll says: June 26, 2010 at 12:57 am
Posted by kotzabasis, Jun 25 2010, 8:44AM – Link
Your wish is my command oh phony one…
Murdock evidently didn’t think enough your Muslim screed to archive it in the Daily Telegraph but here is a description:
“In the wake of the Sydney riot, Murdoch
PissedOffAmerican says: June 25, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Gee, Carroll has pulled Kotz’s covers pretty completely.
He is a strange one, isn’t he? I wonder if any of the roos in his nieghborhood are havin’ odd looking offspring?
Sleeping with your bete noirs is not the sweetest of bed fellows and obviously last night you had a sleepless and rough night. You compensate perfectly your desiccated intellect by profusely sweating your body in search of all my blogs on the internet. And in your passionate hateful animus you show what a pathological liar you are. Where in any of my blogs have I incited the Sydney riots against Muslims and where have I described war as
carroll says: June 25, 2010 at 2:47 am
Posted by kotzabasis, Jun 23 2010, 10:49PM – Link
I am not Jewish and least of all a “supremacist.” I was christened into a Greek Orthodox basin but I renounced my ‘orthodoxy’ and all religion at the age of thirteen
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Oh plezzze….you are well known as a racist and were denounced in Australia as a racist for your screeds against Muslims and your egging on of the Sydney riots against Muslims.
You’re the equivalent of the US David Duke and the old KKK.
Anyone interested can find all your rantings on google…your missives on how ‘inferior races’ naturally and quite rightly lose out in the world, war is glorious, the Jews are a mystical warrior race and ad nausum..
Anyone reading your crap will understand immediately why you are so taken with Israel and the zionazis on here….you both share the same racist, eternal war and revenge and hatreds….driven no doubt as theirs is by a massive inferiority complex which causes you to try and disguise your tiny brain by using Aristole’s “entelechy” and other misapplied philosophial terms to describe war as ‘self fulfilling”…how idiotic.
You’re just a ordinary garden variety racist wanting to be seen as a “enlightened warrior”.
And beside being a flaming racist you are a nutcase..what’s with all those blogs of yours at which you post all the comments you make here and then post all the replies here to your comments on your blog….and there are no comments by any others on any of your blogs? …it’s weird. And why are you posting Dan K.’s replies made to you here all over the net at other sites?
I’m sorry, I put before my reply to drew in the wrong thread.
You seem to place formality above entelechy, the vital part of war. Throughout history an ethic, no matter how laudable and worthy, in CRITICAL circumstances is degraded to a lower status if it is not made totally inutile. Winning the war is the primal goal and that can only be achieved by professionals, not by
drew says: June 24, 2010 at 6:37 am
Kotzabasis,
Firmly, irrespective of what one thinks of Obama, the ethic of
civilian control of the military must be sustained. There can be
no exceptions or some kind of ‘conditional civilian control’ of the
military.
I think it’s fine for Obama to fire McC., reassert the chain of
command, and then for the rest of us (as civilian opponents) go
back to work replacing the president. But we don’t need career
military working to undermine the executive branch. This is not
Paraguay.
McC. was losing the war and losing his men. Obama is losing
the country. Both men are smaller than their respective
institutions, though on occasion it appears that they don’t
realize that.
Drayborne says: June 24, 2010 at 5:43 am
Whether or not Obama should fire McChrystal for lack of judgement in the Rolling Stones interview (story) is not for us to decide. Obama is the man that must make that decision.
Has anyone looked into McChrystal’s financial holdings to see if he is part of the hundreds of military “hawks” who own stock in “Service Contract Companies” that are making millions off of the backs of U.S. Taxpayers by continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
It is a known fact that 83 cents out of every dollar we spend on the war goes to these “Service Contractors”.
If we spent as much on finding a way to rid ourselves of the dependency on foreign oil we wouldn’t be in such a mess.
One must be reminded that Obama is NO Clemenceau. If the latter would be alive today he would on the contrary say that war is too important to leave to politicians of the calibre of Obama.
“dakini/ekavira”
“I’d take a bullet for Obama because it is my job. I’d take a bullet for McChrystal because it would be an honor”
Well, after you figure out what you wanna call yourself, you can tackle the question about whether you want to take it between the eyes, or should we just make it a clean heart shot to put you out of your misery?
“Since when are we not to use our right to freedom of speech”
People this blithering ignorant should have their keyboards disconnected.
kotzabasis says: June 23, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I am not Jewish and least of all a “supremacist.” I was christened into a Greek Orthodox basin but I renounced my ‘orthodoxy’ and all religion at the age of thirteen.
Camp Runamuck says: June 23, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Hey Wiggers, change the fookin’ record would ya?
Get in the sack with your tag team oppo nadine, the Tossad operative, and give us all a break.
questions says: June 23, 2010 at 1:34 pm
KAYE,
Read the Constitution…. There’s nothing about generals’ being able to keep their jobs should they badmouth their pres….
Freedom of speech runs something like, ummm, let me think, ummm, “Congress shall make no law abridging….” — there are no laws, but when a political appointee serves at the will of the pres, that appointee can be fired at the will of the pres. Nothing about Congress here….
McC can say anything he wants, he just can’t do it as THE guy running the war in Af/Pak.
But he might get a really good book contract soon!
Neo Controll says: June 23, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Kaye, “he is fighting for our freedom . . .”
Get a better cliche writer.
Who will be the next neocon flack to wave the flag???
“ekavira” (10:12); “dakini (10:26)
Troll alert. Pure duplicates. Stuffing the ballot box.
And these idiots are still flogging “you have to be a military type” to get it.
Yeah, just like their neocon hero Dick “7 deferements”/”go fuck yourself” Cheney.
“Have any of you actually served in the military?” Cuts both ways dude. Had we a draft, there would be no Afghan war. And what makes your sorry ass think that most of the 60 somethings commenting here did not have their butts drafted, or fought that immoral war for reasons every bit as good (and right) as those who did serve.
KAYE says: June 23, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Since when are we not to use our right to freedom of speech. McChrystal said what he felt, he is in the fighting zone, Obama is not. The general has the right to speak his mind. Obama has made a lot of mistakes since he has taken office. Give credit where credit is due, Gen. McChrystal deserves more respect, he is fighting for our freedom
JohnH says: June 23, 2010 at 11:07 am
I have to laugh at the Jewish supremacists here (wigwag, kotz, nadine). The all champion the application of Israel’s failed policies to Afghanistan–if force doesn’t work, use more force!
But unlike Israel, the US does not have a sugar daddy eager to shower military toys on a failing project. Any successful Afghan project would carry a price tag that none of US would be willing to pay.
Reckless military adventurism has already put the US deeply in hock to China. Yet all the supremacists can do is advocate more recklessness, military, financial, and strategic.
nadine says: June 23, 2010 at 10:55 am
“But it’s not true there is no policy. After listening to all of the competing players for several weeks, Obama announced the policy in his West Point speech, and gave everyone their marching orders.” (Dan Kervick)
Dan, that’s like pointing to a CEO’s press releases to prove that he is managing the direction of the company well. And not a memorable press release either — I don’t remember Obama saying anything very coherent in that West Point speech. Much more important is the CEO’s vision and working relationship with his subordinates — one that is clearly lacking in this case.
“hile I do not respect any aspect
of Obama’s military outlook and leadership, this is not a problem
of Obama’s making. McC. created this mess and he should be
held accountable and summarily fired. ” (drew)
drew, however much of this is McChrystal’s doing (and there is less than meets the eye when you read the quotes in the actual article), you cannot absolve Obama. A leader who reacts to strong disagreements on strategy by saying: take some from column A, and some from column B, and half the resources you asked for, and you guys go away and figure it out yourselves (which is how I read Obama’s management so far) is more or less guaranteeing that his forces will work at cross-purposes.
dakini says: June 23, 2010 at 10:26 am
Thank you Wigwag, for the sole voice of reason.
Have any of the rest of you ever served in the military? Been to Iraq or Afghanistan? The “problem” here stems from the fact that our ostensible Commander in Chief has never served in the military and his innermost circle is similarly ill-equipped to understand what happens in war, much less how to lead. Gen. McChrystal is spot on. I’d take a bullet for Obama because it is my job. I’d take a bullet for McChrystal because it would be an honor.
ekavira says: June 23, 2010 at 10:12 am
Have any of you actually served in the military? Been to Iraq or Afghanistan? The “problem” here stems from the fact that our ostensible Commander in Chief has never served in the military and his innermost circle is similarly ill-equipped to understand what happens in war, much less how to lead. Gen. McChrystal is spot on. I’d take a bullet for Obama because it is my job. I’d take a bullet for McChrystal because it would be an honor.
DonS says: June 23, 2010 at 9:54 am
Good take, Drew. Obama needs not only to take the lessons from this event, but he needs to project it’s importance and execute well.
Yet the pundits are already up to their “should he or shouldn’t he/ will he or wont he” stuff. Reasonably good NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/world/asia/w24sanger.html?hp
Nadine, I think we need to let the meta-story (McC. is acting
strategically, McC. is a Obama’s truth-teller) rest. This is a
simpler situation.
McC. is insubordinate, and because of that, he has forfeited the
right to command men to their deaths. If Obama doesn’t can
him, then Obama will be responsible for plunging the front lines
into levels of despair and cynicism not seen since Viet Nam.
I think, further, that it is mistaken to assume that Obama knows
or cares about anything so arcane as COIN or rules of
engagement in same. The subject bores him, and he has spent
far, far more time on golf courses than with the soldiers fighting
this war.
There’s an awful lot of evidence that McC. had lost his credibility
with his soldiers owing to poor strategy, execution and
bureaucratic style — before this event. But everyone working
for him knows that he is now publicly insubordinate, and that
they themselves would be fired for equivalent behavior. If
Obama doesn’t fire this guy — who is held to be, now,
incompetent *and* insubordinate — we are in for disaster.
Is Obama enough of an executive to fire someone? Remember,
this is a guy who never ran a cash register at a 7/11 before
becoming president. To be honest, does he even know how to
fire somebody? Let’s hope someone holds his hand and walks
him through the process.
O: “General, did you make those remarks?”
McC.: “In the main, on balance … blah blah blah … most of
them and I’m certainly regretful of any … ”
O: “General, you are relieved of duty immediately and General
Jones would like to see you for a few minutes downstairs in the
White House gym for a private discussion.”
Clemenceau was right and war is too important to leave to the
generals. What we need here is a general willing to fight this
war, do so within the ethical boundaries of his profession, and
recapture the trust of his men. While I do not respect any aspect
held accountable and summarily fired. We are fighting a war,
not debating a cabinet appointee, and the country and its
soldiers (and allies) require coherence and leadership and
stability at the top. The country elected Obama so he is a given
for the next 2.5 years. Generals get fired all the time, as they
should be. This guy McC. may have already lost the war, which
many of his troopers already believe, and this stupid RS article
invalidates his claim to lead.
Dan Kervick says: June 23, 2010 at 8:24 am
Nadine, I agree that Obama made a poor decision last December when he decided to go for a difference-splitting compromise solution, giving everybody a little bit of what they wanted.
But it’s not true there is no policy. After listening to all of the competing players for several weeks, Obama announced the policy in his West Point speech, and gave everyone their marching orders.
Everybody involved seems to agree that the military advice Obama received from McChrystal was to the effect that the latter could accomplish the mission in 18 months. But I doubt that McChrystal ever really believed that. I suspect he was just scheming for more time by telling Obama what he wanted to hear, playing him for whatever troops and timeline extensions he could get at the time, knowing full well he would be back looking for more with a new sales pitch in early 2011. Due to recent setbacks in Afghanistan, the squabbling and salesmanship has just started early.
From the moment the policy was conceived, there was an element of punting in it. Many people suspected that the war couldn’t be won in 18 months, even with a few tens of thousands of additional troops, and the hard decision had just been pushed off until 2011. The lobbying has already begun with the Biden people and others in the administration insisting on sticking to the deadline, and others beginning to lobby for more time.
This war could easily go on for another nine years, and nine years after that, and it will probably only produce yet more of Afghanistan’s peculiar form of organized anarchy. The warlords might realign; the poppy fields might change hands; the gangs enjoying the largess and protection of the US government and US soldiers might change out. But the US cannot produce a state out of whole cloth from the fragmentation in Afghanistan. Only Afghans can do that, and they probably can’t do it with the distorting presence of the US.
McChrystal’s media foray was attempt to strike early in the campaign for an extension next year. He got away with these kinds of tactics the first time. Maybe Obama should have sacked him then. But it is hard to say that your chief officer in the field should be canned for a first-time offense of this kind. That would have seemed too insecure and thin-skinned. But now it is clear that McChrystal did not just err in judgment last year. There is a pattern.
above should read “For the record, of course I believe war and more war in Afghan, with more billions down the rat hole is misconceived from the jump”.
No one could ‘win’ that damn war, especially without a clear strategy to meet shifting realities on the ground. We are wasting our time and money there. It amazes me that some folks insist onmaking this about Obama and/or Bush instead of simply agreeing they were both friggin wrong to begin/continue/escalate for political reasons (a scenario that likely never would have emerged had the Iraq debacle not been engaged).
Stupid, misguided ways to destroy the US financially and morally. They’re all to blame.
1) If McChrystal was carelessly insubordinate of the entire administrative structure he needed to go
2) If McChrystal was manipulatively insubordinate and undermining of the entire civilian structure he needed to go.
Kotz’s “Is criticism by the military of some members of an inept and incompetent administration reason to dismiss a general who has the knowhow, tenacity . . .” answers itself: a)read all of the above comments acknowledging need for civilian control/military discipline and the fact that McChrystal went over the line according to virtually all (we will except the far right, Limbaugh, Beck and clones), b) McChrystal’s brilliance in COIN strategy that he sold Obama has been far less than successful; the myth far exceeds the performance. So my surmise is McChrystal threw this PR piece into the mix to try to save his own rep, even setting up the enigmatic pseudo conflict between staunch McChrystal COIN (failing for what reason that does not implicate McC??) and the ‘restrictive’ ROE that can be laid at Obama’s doorstep because he bought McC’s BS. So was/is McC’s angling for support for a more blazing guns strategy, and looking for civilian scapegoats to cover his own failures?
For the record, of course I believe war and more war in Afghan, with more billions down the rat hole is dfrom the jump. That most here seem to agree except for those who seem to love war under any circumstance as the way to get those islamofascists, blah, blah.
nadine says: June 23, 2010 at 2:01 am
Dan, one fact everybody can agree on is that Eikenberry and Holbrooke have been at odds with McChrystal for a long time.
If you like McChrystal, you are outraged at his being undermined. If you don’t like McChrystal, you are outraged that Eikenberry and Holbrooke weren’t listened to when they tried to “bravely warn” Obama about McChrystal’s problems.
But view the situation as you may, there is no getting away from the fact that Barack Obama is the President and the Commander in Chief, which means he is supposed to be in charge of the situation, which means deciding on some feasible policy and getting all the major players on board with it, or out. Instead nobody’s in charge and there is no policy, so faction-fighting smoulders on until it bursts into the open, as it just did.
In fact, Obama made the situation a lot worse by dithering for months over McChrystal’s requests, barely speaking to him, and mishandling the already paranoid Karzai so badly that he is ready to bolt to the Taliban.
Incompetence starts at the top in this administration.
Barry Rubin has a suggestion:
Now, let me pose a suggestion. Read the article but pretend that it is talking about President George W. Bush and his administration. What emerges then is not primarily a
I see it differently POA. Reviewing the facts, here’s how I think the McChrystal command has gone down:
1. McChrystal told Obama he could get the job done in 18 months.
2. It is obvious that he can’t get the job done, and that the counterinsurgency strategy is currently going nowhere. The representations to the President were pure BS.
3. With the writing of failure on the wall, McChrystal made a bold media play for an extension of the war past mid-2011, a play in which he appears to have used subordinates to attack his enemies – including Biden – who favor sticking to the timeline and getting out.
4. Another McChrystal enemy is Holbrooke, who has correctly sized up Hamid Karzai as a corrupt, erratic and fraudulently elected incompetent. Holbrooke apparently let Karzai have it in person, which threatened to expose the hollow promises of McChrystal’s fantasy-world counterinsurgency plans.
5. The always-wrong, crazed interventionist Hillary Clinton rushed to help paper over the outing of Karzai, and bandaged his boo-boos in public.
6. Another enemy of McChrystal is Eikenberry, who has also apparently seen through the general’s elaborate counterinsurgency fantasies for a long time, and attempted to warn Obama off them. Eikenberry has also pegged Karzai as a bad partner seeking permanent dependency on a perpetual US presence, and correctly understood that McChrystal’s grandiose counterinsurgency plans could only be implemented at “astronomical” costs to the United States.
7. Rolling Stone fact-checked the McChrystal article for two weeks, and McChrystal signed off on the quotes. He clearly ran this play on purpose.
8. McChrystal has done this sort of thing before, just last year.
9. Together with these two incidents, the final straw of the Pat Tillman incident cinches the case for McChrystal as a ruthlessly dishonest schemer and manipulator. Nobody should trust him and his promises; least of all Obama.
10. McChrystal’s apology is pure, insincere crap. He is still scheming and spinning to drag you, me and the rest of the country into several more years at least of endless and expensive folly in Afghanistan, and is counting on Obama being too unsure of himself to pull the plug on McChrystal’s command.
11. Even most of the people who defended McChrystal after the previous stunts appear to have had enough of this confabulating prima donna.
12. The hopeless doper-President Karzai has defended McChrystal, since McChrystal is apparently nicer to him and more indulgent than Holbrooke, who angrily smacked Karzai upside the head with the truth in a face-to-face meeting.
13. McChrystal is no bold truth-teller. He is a scheming, power-drunk rogue, who has no real idea how to win the eternal war he is in charge of, at least not in any way whose costs are remotely commensurate to the actual security value of Afghanistan.
14. Obama should see this episode as the clarifying, scale-removing incident it is. McChrystal, a dishonest and manipulative personality who has apparently surrounded himself by a sycophantic and mutinous cult of worshipful flunkies in Afghanistan, is very bad news. Obama allowed himself to be intimidated, played and talked into following out McChrystal’s counterinsurgency schemes once before. He should not get fooled twice.
Good comments, Wigwag.
You could also add: who is responsible for a full COIN/nation-building strategy in so unpromising a venue as Afghanistan in the first place?
Obama.
The unsated gratification of nipple-fed intellectuals is to replace the savvy and the strong with their own brand of weakness. This has happened to John Bolton and is now happening to Stanley McChrystal. The successful general who had killed thousands of insurgents and al-Qaeda fanatics and their leader Zarkawi in Iraq by his Special Forces operations which was the major contributing factor to the success of the Surge that had turned an American defeat into an American victory, is to be swept out by the anti-war animus of all the dilettantes of strategy and military affairs for his so called insubordination to his civilian superiors.
What McChrystal has done other than, according to his aides, express his disappointment about Obama and Holbrooke, and one of his aides saying that Jim Jones is a clown? And is it surprising for McChrystal in describing a Pentagon meeting in which among a coruscating constellation of generals of strength, tenacity, and success Obama with his weak character was found to be diffident and intimidated? And why McChrystal cannot express his view about the timorous Ambassador Eikenbery who is more concerned to cover
Wigwag is right. This is Obama’s fault. McCrystal led him into a trap, and Obama gladly took the bait. A year ago, McCrystal went public with his complaints, demanding Obama give him what he needed to be successful, or else. Obama could have fired McCrystal then and there. But of course, Obama caved, giving McCrystal what he wanted to prosecute a pointless, futile war.
Then, the predictable happened–the quagmire got worse. Perhaps Obama thought the military could be placated. Or perhaps, having given the military everything they said they needed for success, he had set them up, thinking that the American people would finally realize the pointlessness and futility of it all.
Now the military is frustrated at its own failure. The blame game has begun. Everything about Afghanistan is Obama’s fault, even though the military got what they said they needed for success.
Obama should have known better. The militarists have spent the last 35 years painstakingly rewriting the lessons of Vietnam to show that the fiasco was the politicians’ fault, not theirs. The militarists and their friends in the media are ready to crush any politician who might have the audacity to think that military solutions might fail.
Obama should have done the right thing at the outset and decided that Afghanistan was not worth it, particularly since he couldn’t articulate any compelling reason for being there. Instead he caved.
Obama has had a year to plan his defense for getting out of Afghanistan. But I expect he is totally unprepared for the coming onslaught of recriminations. And so I expect he’ll meekly submit to the flogging that is awaiting him.
jjm says: June 22, 2010 at 10:47 pm
What these remarks show me is that McChrystal was careless in
front of a reporter because he says things like this this all time–in
order to excuse away his own complete failure as a strategist.
Let’s hope this will put an end to his hopeless ‘counterinsurgency.’
A year ago, I mighta agreed with Steve. But I am now more inclined to think that this General might just be Obama’s Shinzeki. Certainly McChrystal has got to know a bit more about waging war than this media creation Obama does, eh? Who do YOU wanna march into harm’s way under the leadership of? Seems to me McChrystal sees the Afghanistan thing in a far more realistic light than this sack of shit Obama does. Difference is, Obama will just lie to us about it.
So McChrystal doesn’t respect this posturing fraud of a Commander in Chief??? Well tell me, what the fuck is there to respect?
And Biden??? McChrystal is less than infatuated with that overfilled gas bag?? So when did we start firing Generals for being good judges of character?
Mr.Murder says: June 22, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Afghanistan is a cannibal caravan of contractor fraud and abuse.
Nobody is really in charge of it. The situation is spiraling itself into chaos.
Ghosts of the mujahadeen are laughing.
WigWag says: June 22, 2010 at 8:58 pm
The contretemps over McChrystal’s remarks obscures the more important issue; the President’s Afghanistan policy is in disarray and the President himself is to blame.
The military leadership in Afghanistan and the civilian leaders in the White House (and the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan) have been taking more pot shots at each other than they’ve been taking against the Taliban. Who is to blame for this?
Vice President Biden gave an interview to Newsweek in which he said that by this time next year, the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan would be greatly reduced. Secretary of Defense Gates, responding to Biden said, “that has absolutely not been decided.” Who should be blamed for this?
Ambassador Eikenberry (the second biggest of the many morons who work for Obama after James Jones), never misses an opportunity to express his disgust about President Karzai. Meanwhile Secretary of State Clinton does everything she can to convince the press that the breach between the Administration in Washington and the Administration in Kabul has been patched up. Who screwed this up?
The President’s incompetence is putting American troops at risk and he’s making the nation he leads look foolish.
All the talk about whether McChrystal will or will not be fired misses the point. It’s not McChrystal who is weakening the United States; it’s the President who is doing that.
Jackson Diehl, who is usually another lame brain, has an interesting column in today’s Washington Post about this. It can be found here,
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/dont_blame_mcchrystal_blame_ob.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
JohnH says: June 22, 2010 at 8:55 pm
“we’d very likely see a different military.” And a very different country. Any number of Arab states (Saddam Hussein’s Iraq) or Lain American states from the 1980’s could serve as your guide to America would look like under military control.
Posse comitatus has already been nullified. Warrantless wiretapping has been accepted. The President can designate anyone a terrorist and disappear him.
Instead of conjuring up foreign bogeymen, enemies of the state would magically appear everywhere inside the country.
Those who celebrate a militaristic culture need to be careful: they might get what they’re asking for.
Sweetness says: June 22, 2010 at 8:35 pm
AFAIK, “civilian control of the military” refers to the President not Congress. One of the reasons the military behaves itself is that it is under civilian control. If the military controlled itself, unmoored from the citizenry, we’d very likely see a different military.
Ajaz says: June 22, 2010 at 7:42 pm
If President Obama lets General McChrystal off the hook, it will be an open invitation to other Generals to be insubordinate.
Obama must show leadership and not only fire McChrystal, but also initiate action against his insubordination.
McChrystal’s record was murky in Iraq and it was a huge mistake choosing him to lead the war in Afghanistan.
JamesL says: June 22, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Yes I found it. I mixed up Don S’s “resigned with Dan K’s “submitted his resignation”. I can’t see Obama refusing. Nor can I see a Palin McChrystal ticket. Unless she likes Bud Lite Lime too.
JamesL,
It’s all over the place, and has been characterized as a standard act on the part of the person in the center of the storm.
The real issue is whether or not the resignation will be accepted.
WigWag, what ever happened with Clinton and the whole DADT thing? My foggy memory sees parallels in terms of military insubordination against a non-military pres.
Dan Kervick: “UPDATE: McChrystal has submitted his resignation.”
The real solution is for McCrystal to resign or be “promoted” to command a black site (Bagram), where he would not be allowed access to any telecommunications outside of official channels.
Dwight D says: June 22, 2010 at 5:37 pm
If Obama doesn’t fire him then McChrystal is effectively a military Pres. with Hillary C in charge of diplomacy. Obama being rendered impotent.
LeaB says: June 22, 2010 at 5:31 pm
It’s McCrystal’s fault – who replaced Gen. McKirnen when it was his fault.
The latest in a long line of fall guys for the failings of this administration.
Afghanistan was the war that Obama wanted. At what point will this failed venture be his fault?
Dan Kervick says: June 22, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I don’t think the fallout will be all that lively. My sense was that there was already bipartisan frustration with McChrystal in Washington among the pro-war camp. Many of them seem to agree with a lot of McChrystal’s men, who want a loosening up of the rules of engagement so they can “get their gun on”. Obama will name a successor and the country will move on.
“If he fires McChrystal, the Republicans will skewer the President alive.”
Not necessarily. Byron York, for example, has already said this was beyond the pale.
Also, I suspect a lot of conservatives actually want to win the war in Afghanistan, and recognize McChrystal is not winning it.
UPDATE: McChrystal has submitted his resignation.
DonS says: June 22, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Sources reporting McChrystal resigns.
Wig, you may think the fallout will be ‘entertaining’. But should it be used to distract from the salient issue of civilian control. You give lip service to that but it seems like you are licking your lips to used it as a springboard to bash Obama some more. You talk about Mcchrustal having a sense of honor. What about wigwag? Any sense of decency or are all events opportunities to ride your personal anti-Obama hobby horse. You know damn well that fgew among commenters here arre big Obama fans; yet you set up that straw man time and again. Be honest. If you want to bash Obama do it on your own dime,not some straw man that you fabricate.
It’s interesting to reflect on what the political consequences would be if Obama actually summoned up the courage to fire McChrystal.
After all, the whole incident is already a political disaster for the President; he loses no matter what he does. Either he ignores McChrystal’s insubordination and keeps him in the job in which case Obama looks weak and feckless to everyone, especially the military.
Alternatively, if he fires McChrystal, his Afghanistan policy looks like its in even more disarray than it already is. Moreover, Obama will look like an elitist, out of touch President firing a General who put his life on the line in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Here’s a message for you President Obama; you’re no Harry Truman.
When Harry Truman fired MacArthur, Truman was a plain-spoken World War I veteran who brought World War II (specifically the War in the Pacific) to a successful conclusion.
Obama on the other hand decided to spend his formative years sipping Chardonnay between classes at Columbia and Harvard rather than serving in the military.
Come to think of it, maybe watching the fall-out from Obama firing McChrystal will be highly entertaining.
My real guess though is that Obama won’t have to ask for McChrystal’s resignation. I suspect that McChyrstal will end up doing the right thing and resign on his own without being asked.
Why would he do that? I suspect that McChrystal is everything that Obama isn’t; most importantly, unlike Obama, the General may very well have a sense of honor.
susan says: June 22, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Chris Bowers at openleft.com provides some history:
McChrystal situation is about military vs. civilian control of Afghanistan policy
David Sirota reminds us of how General McChrystal used the willingness of military and government elites to turn control of national security over to the military forced Obama’s hand on the troop build-up in Afghanistan:
The U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, says he wants more troops. His new memo calling for a bigger Afghanistan deployment prompted President Obama to begin carefully considering different ways forward – and Washington to hammer the White House for entertaining any alternative to McChrystal’s request.
Republicans lambasted Obama for letting
“political motivations…override the needs of our commanders,” as Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., said. Likewise, the Washington Post insisted that Obama’s failure to promptly back McChrystal’s surge proposal could “dishonor” America, while the New York Times said no matter what the president wants, “It will be very hard to say no to General McChrystal.”
The coordinated assault sharpens that question about who “the deciders” should be – elected officials or the military?
Before Obama had made his decision on whether to escalate in Afghanistan, McChrystal made it known that he wanted an escalation. This put Obama in a difficult political position, given that our national media seems to think the military should decide whether, when, where and for how long we send troops overseas. It also probably didn’t help that members of Obama’s cabinet seems to share that view
“Hillary had Stan’s back during the strategic review,” says an adviser. “She said ‘If Stan wants it, give him what he needs.”
I don’t mean to avoid casting any blame on Obama for the escalation, as though he did it unwillingly in the face of insurmountable public pressure to listen to McChrystal. He didn’t.
However, by stating his policy preference in public and playing off elite deference to the military on this area of foreign policy, McChrystal set a very dangerous precedent for any possible future time when a President may have different views on troop deployments than the top military commanders. If Obama had not wanted to escalate, McChrystal’s public statements would have put Obama in an extremely difficult political position.
This poses a threat to civilian governance of the military in America.
It is also worth noting that McChrystal may have even violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Artical 88 states:
“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
According to Rolling Stone, McChrystal was pretty contemptuous of Vice-President Joe Biden:
McChrystal wonders aloud what Biden question he might get today, and how he should respond “I never know what’s going to pop out until I’m up there, that’s the problem,” he says. Then, unable to help themselves, he and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner.
“Are you asking about Vice President Biden?” McChrystal says with a laugh. “Who’s that?”
If McChrystal were to continue on as the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, it would continue to call into question civilian governance of the military in America. The military does not dictate foreign policy, and it is subordinate either the Executive or Legislative branches of government. Or, at least it should be those things. But, if Obama were to allow McChrystal to stay on, it is probably about time to start using terms like Secretary Obama and President McChrystal.
oohindu says: June 22, 2010 at 4:21 pm
@JohnH
That’s an interesting theory, but McCrystal voted
Democrat in the last election and I doubt that he
has political ambitions. Still, he has to go, or
operationally, someone else should take over for
The McChrystal episode raises two questions: (1) Were the Generals comments politic or acceptable; (2)were the General’s comments correct?
The answer to the first question is pretty clear; the General’s comments were completely unacceptable. It is the civilian leadership under the Commander in Chief that runs the military not the other way around. The fact that the Commander in Chief is a clueless idiot changes nothing. Obama isn’t the first incompetent nitwit the United States has suffered under and he won’t be the last.
Of course neither Steve Clemons nor most of the people who comment at his blog expressed any outrage at the criticism that members of the military (and recently retired members of the military) directed towards either Bush or Rumsfeld. It wasn’t just Shinseki; Generals and retired Generals who criticized Bush, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld included: Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, General Anthony Zinni, Major General Paul Eaton, Major General John Riggs, Major General Charles Swannack and Major General John Batiste.
In addition to that, the Bush Administration faced a virtual insurrection from the CIA; all without a comment at the Washington Note.
None of this is to say that those criticizing Bush/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz weren’t completely right. Everything that they said might have been true. But what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Either it’s appropriate for currently serving and recently retired members of the military to criticize the civilian leaders including the President or its not.
The honest answer is that it’s not right. The behavior of the military leadership (and leaders in the CIA) was wrong during the Bush Administration just like McChyrstal’s behavior is wrong now.
The second question is whether McChrystal’s comments were accurate.
Is Jim Jones a disaster as the National Security Advisor? Absolutely! He may be the most clueless National Security Advisor in American history. It’s hard to imagine anyone worse for his job than Jones (except perhaps for Obama himself). Jones is so clueless that the security of the nation is literally put at risk every day he spends on the job. McChyrstal is right; Jones is a “clown.”
Is Richard Holbrooke exasperating? McChyrstal clearly thinks so. But so does Steve Clemons. After professing what a thankless job Holbrooke has and after saying how much he likes and respects Holbrooke; Steve has criticized Holbrooke relentlessly. It’s hard to believe that Kati Marton doesn’t have to slap her husband around every now and then just to keep his ego in check. I like and respect Holbrooke; but can anyone claim with a straight face that he isn’t exasperating?
Was Ambassador Eikenberry the right person for the job? Was it smart to select someone to be Ambassador to Afghanistan who publically opposes Obama’s Afghanistan policy and clearly can’t get along with the General in charge of the War? Does Obama believe that empowering a coiterie of rivals is the best way to win the war in Afghanistan? Give me a break!
Does anyone doubt that Obama is intimidated when meeting with McChyrstal and other senior members of the military? Given his lack of military service and given his lack of any accomplishment short of being elected President, why wouldn’t Obama be intimidated about meeting with men and women who actually got their jobs based on merit?
Considering how much Obama likes to cozy up to people who hate America and how cavalier he is about criticising American allies and those who share American values, maybe Obama really will summon up the courage to fire McChrystal. Maybe he even should.
But it’s not General McChrystal who is leading the United States in a profoundly wrong and dangerous direction; it’s Barak Obama doing that.
If McCrystal did this deliberately, he may well want Obama to fire him. Apart from rescuing him from ignominy in Afghanistan, he would instantly become a Tea Party cult figure and be well positioned to become Sarah Palin’s running mate.
“If Obama was a Republican, Steve Clemons would be lauding McChrystal as a brave whistleblower. Just look how the left treated Shinseki when he disagreed with Rumsfeld about the troop levels needed to invade Iraq. Power is relative indeed.” (nadine)
Comparing Shinseki’s substantive argument with McChrystal’s personal trashing in a magazine is beyond a far stretch, as well as the implication that Clemons is playing politics.
The point here is basic military discipline which has undoubtedly slipped in recent years, or even been used to to float policy. This episode is nothing of the sort, and your reduction of it to politics shows your blind obsession with politics over policy, and more war.
Ylour assertion that “McChrystal is deliberately suiciding his career for his men’s sake ” is beyond credulous or psycophanty. It is insane; get off your knees woman!
Quoting [even] Wigwag, “The principle of civilian control over the military is an important one; it
Carroll says: June 22, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I can understand why military men are disgusted…without necessarily agreeing with or endorsing their particular views.
The disrespect is just another indication of the overall ‘attitude’ everywhere today against “politicans.”….which is what Obama has turned out to be…just another politician.
And civilian control of the military isn’t all it’s cracked up to be….you really want the US military controlled by the Israeli war whores in our congress?
I think history shows we have had more war rouges in the civilian bodies than we have had in the military.
It was just 2 years ago we were praising a Commander who said he would resign before he would endorse a US attack on Iran.
No one, not even and probably especially the military, has any respect for DC these days.
The military does take seriously their oath to defend and serve where as the political sector’s only oath is to defend whatever serves their political careers and their big donors best.
So place your bets and spin the wheel…military, politicians, military, politicans….
Bart says: June 22, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Could this be McChrystal’s way of throwing in the
towel in Afghanistan, knowing that his is a fool’s
mission?
Also, the “Phoney War” was the period over the
winter of 1939-1940 as Britain was getting its act
together for the Battle of same.
Tom Ricks has very sensible comments on this flap:
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/22/farewell_to_mcchrystal_hello_to_mattis
I think Obama needs to act quickly here. He should sack McChrystal as soon as they meet, and appoint a new commander immediately so that the debate does not fester in the press for days.
My guess is that Obama is actually very frustrated by McChrystal’s approach and lack of progress in Afghanistan, and is happy for this chance to get rid of him.
jjm says: June 22, 2010 at 2:24 pm
In what has Obama demonstrated ‘incompetence’? Oh–he let 9/11
happen? No? He didn’t pass HCR? He didn’t begin to right the
economy wrecked by years of Republican misrule? He didn’t get BP
to cough up?
It may be that the fundamentalist Christianizing of the military
makes them assume automatic superiority over the rest of us,
including the CIC.
samuelburke says: June 22, 2010 at 2:10 pm
these militarist believe they are in a world where falling muslim
dominoes could mean the end of humanity.
Shinseki was testifying under oath to Congress. He was asked straight out for an estimate and gave it. He did so without disparaging, insulting or even mentioning any of his superiors. And he wasn’t speaking to Rolling Stone, or to an audience in London.
Maw of America says: June 22, 2010 at 1:40 pm
How frustrating! I just went to a lecture by Peter Beinart last night, and it would have been so much more interesting had this news broken a few hours earlier. The Q&A would have been downright insane!
McChrystal has become the real-life doppelganger of Colonel Jessup in “A Few Good Men.” Now we’ll learn if Obama et al can handle the truth.
We’re not there to win, we’re there to hack people off and get them to pick up a gun, whatever it takes to legitimize endless war. It’s about selling military hardware and not much else.
“The ten largest defense contractors in the nation spent more than $27 million lobbying the federal government in the last quarter of 2009, according to a review of recently-filed lobbying records.
The massive amount of money used to influence the legislative process came as the White House announced it would ramp up military activity in Afghanistan and Congress considered appropriations bills to pay for that buildup. All told, these ten companies, the largest revenue earners in the industry, spent roughly $7.2 million more lobbying in the fourth quarter of 2009 (October through December) than in the three months prior.
Such an increase in lobbying expenditures is partly a reflection of just how profitable the business of waging war can be. Each of these companies earned billions of dollars in defense contracts this past year. As the U.S. ramps up its military activities overseas, and the army is stretched thin by other ventures, it stands to reason that the contracts won’t dry up any time soon…
In mid-December, Congress passed a defense appropriations bill that totaled more than $635 billion. Shortly thereafter, the firm Northrop Grumman moved its corporate office to the Washington D.C. region to be closer to the heart of legislative action. Among the issues on which these ten firms lobbied, “appropriations” was the most frequently cited in lobbying forms.
“We’ve built Rome,” one longtime good-government official said of the symbiosis between contractors and the government.
On a related note, the Congressional Research Service released a report which showed that the number of private security contractors has bulged in the wake of Obama’s Afghanistan-surge announcement. Currently, contractors in Afghanistan make up between 22 percent and 30 percent of armed U.S. forces in Afghanistan.”
nadine says: June 22, 2010 at 1:28 pm
If Obama was a Republican, Steve Clemons would be lauding McChrystal as a brave whistleblower. Just look how the left treated Shinseki when he disagreed with Rumsfeld about the troop levels needed to invade Iraq. Power is relative indeed.
“But generals are supposed to keep those thoughts under their hats, and to pass their appropriate input up through the chain of command. ” (Dan Kervick)
That is true, Dan, and McChrystal is the kind to have done just that — and gotten the brushoff from Obama, and been forced into a losing war with impossible ROEs and timelines for exit which the enemy is waiting out (drew, I blame Obama, not McChrystal, for the ROEs). McChrystal is no desk jockey; he is a soldier-general. I think we may regard this as a calculated act; everybody who knows McChrystal says he is a careful man. McChrystal is deliberately suiciding his career for his men’s sake.
“I can’t believe you are still beating the drum for this extremely foolish and interminable war, and the demonstrably blind military leadership in Afghanistan.”
It was Obama who beat the drum for this war, over and over and over. He called it a good war, a war of necessity, the war we should be fighting instead of Iraq. Did he know or care what he was saying? No further than the immediate political advantage. Now he’s stuck. That’s what cheap demagoguery buys you.
Rich says: June 22, 2010 at 1:06 pm
JohnH has a good point but not the whole picture. It appears to me that the JCS have begun preparing for a take over since the days of FDR. The US economy governmental structure will collapse, due to the efforts of the Marxists revolutionaries in the White House in concert with the Cloward and Piven plan, various groups will be vying for control of the government. Would I prefer the military running the nation or a Marxist like George Soros or Obama?
I think so. The only hope for this nation to remain free is a Tea Party revolution at the ballot box.
Wigwag obviously doesn’t understand the role of the military in a democracy or what’s at stake when the military dictates.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2010/06/see-the-mcchrystal-post-on-30-may-2010.html#comments
Wigwag also fails to understand traditional Jewish wisdom: “If force does not work, use brains.” Her prescription: “If force doesn
Saadia Chaudhry says: June 22, 2010 at 12:58 pm
I haven’t heard of many generals who have insubordination within their own ranks.
But as far as his own disagreements or debates, can’t they try to establish a mechanism to express and/or address them in a better and perhaps more private way? It might set a good example.
As long as there is a genuine effort to resolve the problems in Afghanistan or elsewhere, it might be a good avenue to take first.
anirprof says: June 22, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Sadly, I do believe the statement that the RS article “won’t affect the way Eikenberry, Holbroke and McChrystal work together”….
Dan Kervick says: June 22, 2010 at 12:43 pm
WigWag, there are all sorts of things that might or might not be true about Obama or other people in the Obama administration. I think Obama made a mistake when he decided to be Mr. Compromise last year, and split the difference between getting out of Afghanistan or going in big to win.
But generals are supposed to keep those thoughts under their hats, and to pass their appropriate input up through the chain of command. You might think Obama sucks as a president; but if he fails to affirm the authority and maintain the discipline of the command structure of the US armed forces, whose apex is constitutionally located in the White House, then he will be doing an even worse job. Obama has already given McChrystal one pass on a fairly egregious first offense, so he has to bust him now.
The use McChrystal is making of the press to disparage administration officials is not just inappropriate. It is actually a court-martialable offense.
I can’t believe you are still beating the drum for this extremely foolish and interminable war, and the demonstrably blind military leadership in Afghanistan. The assessments and predictions McChrystal has given have turned out to be absurdly wrong. The progress and performance of his mission has fallen far short of his assurances. The counterinsugency strategy the Pentagon is pursuing requires a level of and insight and realism about political, cultural and social conditions in Afghanistan that McChrystal evidently lacks.
And now that his own incompetence has been exposed by a year of further reverses, he and his associates are attempting to take down others in the government by lashing out in the press.
Apart from the need to maintain the integrity of the chain of command, this latest case of McChrystal stepping out of line gives Obama an excellent opportunity to relieve McChrystal and put somebody else in charge.
susan says: June 22, 2010 at 12:34 pm
The Guardian’s reporters think McChrystal will stay:
“The official was unable to say how long the general would be away, but did say that McChrystal believed he had largely “sorted” the situation after immediately calling the people he had attacked in the profile to apologise.
Earlier today, McChrystal attended a meeting with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, Eikenberry and Richard Holbrooke, the US special representative who McChrystal also belittled in the magazine article.
A US diplomat said that while “the story sucked” and that McChrystal “running amok” was embarrassing, the row would not affect policy or the way the men worked together.”
http://tinyurl.com/34dk3fq
Pahlavan says: June 22, 2010 at 12:04 pm
It was just a few short months ago that McChrystal was the greatest thing since apple pie, but now all the Monday morning quarterbacks are out for his neck. Yet another clear indication that we are far from digging ourselves out of the mess they’ve got us into, and al thought the average American deserves better, things won’t change unless the masses intervene.
WigWag says: June 22, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Is it McChrystal who has to go or is it Obama? Is McChrystal a poor general or is Obama an incompetent President? Which of the two is unqualified for his job, McChrystal or Obama? Has McChrystal failed to make adequate progress in Afghanistan or has Obama failed to achieve any substantial accomplishments despite the fact that he’s more than one third into his first term? Who has done more to win the trust of the American people McChrystal or Obama? Is it McChrystal or Obama who can claim the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the perfect metaphor for his leadership skills?
What is it that McChrystal said that is so outrageous? Here are some of the remarks reportedly made by McChyrstal and his staff members in the now famous Rolling Stone article (these quotes are from the New York Times story on the controversy.)
“One of General McChrystal
This extremely important discussion is long, long overdue. As DonS says, “this will be a test of whether the majority of elected officials back civilian control of the military, and actually of government.” erichwwk adds “The larger issue is ‘who is in charge.'”
For me the video evidence came when Obama marched in lock step alongside the military brass at Dover AFB when dead CIA agents were returned from Afghanistan. He was definitely not the “Commander in Chief.” He was merely the new kid on the team.
erichwwk also says the “The ‘Presidency’ lost control of the military in the US, as in Pakistan, decades ago.” Bush 43 used to plead pathetically, “you have to give the generals what they need in Iraq.”
James Douglass’ extraordinarily well documented book “JFK and the Unspeakable,” spotlights the test of wills going on between the President and the CIA and military services 50 years ago. After the assassination, Johnson told the Joint Chiefs of Staff “Just let me get elected, and then you can have your war.”
The military and CIA took some knocks after Vietnam, but Bush 43, along with Cheney and Rumsfeld, unleashed them. Obama is almost certainly reminded of this regularly. And I’m sure the Teddy used to tell Obama stories about what happened to his brother…
Rich says: June 22, 2010 at 11:37 am
Obama has a tough job. He must find a general whose career is based on intelligence, honor and integrity, that is dumb, foolish and dishonest to enough to allow a politician to run the Iraq war for political gain.
Impeach Obama
drew says: June 22, 2010 at 11:31 am
McChrystal is held in contempt by his men doing the fighting,
and he should be fired for his restrictive ROE and the modest
fact that he just gave Kandahar back to the Taliban for another
year (he suspended the June Kandahar campaign until October).
If, instead, Obama wants to fire this bureaucrat for being stupid
with Rolling Stone, fine with me. I cannot figure out why
Petraeus has kept this guy, but I gather he has his own DoD
constituency.
Erichwwk, you don’t know squat about the Pacific war; nor,
apparently, do you know (nor have you known) anyone who
fought there. The USA had 50,000 casualties in Okinawa alone.
MacArthur, who had been prescient in his casualty estimates
prior to every island assault throughout the war, is the source of
the 1,000,000 casualty estimate for the beach assault of Japan.
I’m not sure why I do this, because all you have to do is open an
encyclopedia to secure the same information.
Michael Kahn says: June 22, 2010 at 11:26 am
Steve, I am so grateful to you for helping me keep my bearings
though all this. Many thanks. With great admiration,
erichwwk says: June 22, 2010 at 10:52 am
The 46,000 lost American lives refers to the Military of the lives that would be lost in an American invasion of the four Japanese islands, primarily Honshu and Kyushu.
Also, the spearheading propaganda organization was the American Heritage Junior Library, not the American Junior Heritage Library.
donj says: June 22, 2010 at 10:49 am
Agreed, he must be relieved of command for going public.
However, keep in mind that “his” strategy was restricted by the troop and support level the president and congress were willing, politically, to provide. McChrystal is correct when he says the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won by military force alone. What he needs, we (the American public – read “taxpayers”) are not willing to give him. He needs major investment in nation-building – roads, schools, hospitals, businesses to create jobs, water and power plants, and much more — and that takes a lot of money. He also needs many (many!) more troops in small units that can be put in place in dozens of cities and villages and kept in place for months until the infrastructure construction is completed and a reasonably uncorrupt governing authority securely established.
General McChrystal is in the unfortunate position of having taken over a losing war long after the American public’s patience with it waned. We are not a people who are used to long, complicated conflicts that, by their very nature, take decades to resolve. Nor are we very willing to understand other cultures that are organized on personal and tribal loyalties. We ignored that aspect to our detriment in Vietnam and are doing so again in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Still, bottom line, the arguement McChrystal and his subordinates are making are to be made in the War Room, not the media office.
General McCrystal is a symptom of a much larger problem. The larger issue is “who is in charge” when it comes to use of force? The President that Reagan elevated to “commander in chief”? Hardly.
Robert Gates made it crystal clear what his conditions were to continue as Sect. of Defense in his speech at Carnegie.
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/1028_transcrip_gates_checked.pdf
Just as in Pakistan, power does not emanate clearly through linear lines of command. Power is essentially a probability vector, with real world probabilities associated with any desired attempt to manifest ones will in regards to any one desired outcome in the bundle. The “Presidency” lost control of the military in the US, as in Pakistan, decades ago.
The condition I consider most important in the ones demanded by Robert Gates was continuation of the US “full spectrum dominance”, with nuclear weapons at the apex. Thus while many saw the Obama Prague speech as one suggesting a reduction in the role of nuclear weapons, those of us with long experience in this area saw it opposite- the speech was an assurance to the military establishment to INCREASE military expenditures, especially in regards to nuclear weapons. Thus Obama proposed an unprecedented increase in the NNSA budget, and here at Los Alamos recommended a new nuclear bomb factory at a scale which dwarfs previous capital expenditures, much larger than any other previous capital improvement project, in New Mexico, approaching the scale of ALL New Mexico interstate highway expenditures in the aggregate.
To change this will require an immense sustained effort on the part of American citizens. Sunday’s NYTimes editorial entitled ” “Congress defends the Big Guys”, detailing the way in which “financial reform is merely a smokescreen for “business as usual” and how our elected representatives are adding clauses to essentially negate the positives in the financial regulatory reform bill (Sen. Dodd’s proposal to require a 5% ownership stake as a condition of shareholder corporate board nominations is the sort of thing that is rampant).
How many Americans know that WWII was originally referred to as the “phony war”? That when FDR asked Churchill what to call the war, Winston recommended the unnecessary war? That the military estimates of 46,000 American lives lost was morphed to “over a million” by a propaganda effort led by American Junior Heritage Foundation to indoctrinate American students with this myth, that when the US had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons General David Jones, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before Congress that mutual shared destruction (MAD) was not US policy saying:
I think it is a very dangerous strategy. It is not the strategy that we are implementing today within the military… I do not subscribe to the idea that we ever had it as our basic strategy”.
The real US strategy was given by George Kennan in 1948:
“We have fifty percent of the world’s wealth but only 6.3 percent of its population….In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity….We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford the luxury of altruism and world benefaction….We should cease to talk about vague…unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
jjm says: June 22, 2010 at 10:43 am
Explains why the war is not going well–this general with deep
animus against the administration is running it.
Court martial?
Dan Kervick says: June 22, 2010 at 10:42 am
With acknowledgments to those noted national security thinkers Tommy James and the Shondells, my take on McChrystal’s pitch to Obama:
Look over Helmand; what do you see?
The sun is a-risin’, most definitely!
A new day is comin’ – people are changin’;
Ain’t it beautiful: McChrystal blue persuasion.
Cee says: June 22, 2010 at 10:34 am
I’m surprised that he wasn’t fired last year for calling Afghanistan Chaos-tan.
I happen to agree with him on that one.
NikkiS says: June 22, 2010 at 10:16 am
Please tell me how the Runaway General gets paid.
How does his current military position compensate him for military and diplomatic decisions he’s been assigned to do? Is it a contract of sorts he signs?
And how is his overall pay affected if he’s fired? Won’t he still be pulling down a whopping general’s military salary?
Lastly, how did such an insubordinate climb the lofty military ranks to be eligible for such a position? Are there no job reviews along the way?
anirprof says: June 22, 2010 at 9:56 am
100% right. Not only was McChrystal insubordinate but the RS article also has him profanely disparaging NATO allies and talking about how much he hates the alliance management side of his job. To do those things publicly is simply untenable for a senior NATO commander of the highest profile (and most controversial) mission in the alliances history.
That being said, I predict he does not get fired. The fact that I read the White House that way is a bad sign for the White House.
In the current political climate this will be a test of whether the majority of elected officials back civilian control of the military, and actually of government. If republicans, who have supported the Afghan war make an issue out of firing McChrystal, it will be a totally, unprincipled political move to weaken Obama.
At this point McChrystal is insubordinate. If he garners strong political support he becomes a surrogate for virtual coup; whether he remains just a symbol for coup or it’s functionary is too early to say.
McChrystal at this point has sought to walk back his criticism. If he is not successful in that, takes reassignment, retires or whatever, the danger is that it will escalate. A big question, which someone may know the answer to is, politicians aside, how much support does McChrystal have among the officer corps, especially the higher ups?
Apart from this guy’s proclivity for playing the press angles against his superiors, about which he received a fair rebuke and warning once before, his mission in Afghanistan is a clear failure. His political assessments of conditions in Afghanistan, which are vital to the counterinsurgency strategy they are pursuing, and his estimates of time frames and troop needs have proven to be woefully inaccurate and overly-optimistic.
His predecessors did no better. We have seen almost a decade of war in one overrated end-of-the world country, following a mission whose essential purpose was accomplished after a couple of months in 2001. The Pentagon and two administrations have been paddling up Clueless Creek since then.
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Tribute to Robbie Snowden 1948-2009
Posted by ken On December - 16 - 2009
Sadly Robbie Snowden passed away at 10.10 am on Tuesday morning December 15, 2009.
Born 10/10/1948 – Died 15/12/2009
Robbie Snowden at the TVW Reunion on October 18, 2009
This no doubt will come as a shock to the many who recently watched him perform on stage at the TVW Reunion on October 18th.
Little did the reunion attendees know how ill he was…
It was only on Monday December 14, 2009, that we were to learn from Australian Pop legend Normie Rowe that he was in palliative care at the Pindarra Private Hospital, on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
This sad news was conveyed to Johnny Young by Normie. It was John and his band who provided the backing for Robbie on the day.
Normie went on to say,
“Rob, has lived a good life and one that should not end in this way at such an early age. But we can’t pick our time, I guess.
As some of us may have been aware, Robbie had been in remission from an earlier cancer. He went to hospital last Saturday with a suspected bowel blockage, but the bad news came soon after.
Sorry to be the bearer of such sad news.
Make each day an important one.
Normie”
This video extract is taken from the TVW 50 Years Reunion Commenorative DVD
Johnny Young fondly remembers that…
Robbie started as an office boy at AJ Williams advertising, in the same building as 6IX where I was the office boy .. so Robbie and I had crossed paths early I went on to form my band Johnny Young and the Strangers and Robbie became assistant to Bruce Wishart the Account exec for Coke and Gest, sponsors of Club 17 at AJW.
Bruce W. was actively involved in the production of The Club and apart from assisting Bruce, Robbie also mimed and danced on the show.
It was only after I had recorded my fist hits at Clarion records that we discovered Robbie had a voice .. His first hit was the Wanderer then two more “No one really loves a clown” and “Sheila.”
Robbie was never really comfortable in his Popstar roll. He was a very humble kid more at home promoting and supporting others even though the Fans loved him .. great looks .. Bobby V type voice (hear him sing on you tube (no one really loves a clown ) short in stature Clean-cut and cute.
Robbie worked at 4GG on the Goldcoast and at the Goldcoast Bulletin in later years .. and also a long stint as a cruise director .. he looked great in his white uniform.
Robbie kept in touch with all of his mates .. Keith Bales and myself from the early TVW days. Normie Rowe, Ronnie Burns et all. His looks never changed and at the TVW7 reunion when he got up sang his hits it was like a time warp (see Robbie sing on the Reunion video) you would not have known he was so ill.
Rob made a lot of show business friends over the years even though he stopped performing in the early 70s. Of course we will miss him.. a genuine fella and proud West Australian with no EGO and happy to see his mates succeed..
Lovely bloke Robbie Snowden… its a mystery to me that the old saying “Only the good die young” is often so true it certainly applies to Robbie Snowdon.
Popular singer Ronnie Burns has emailed his condolences. Robbie was a prominent artist during the formative years of the Australian music industry and former lead singer of the Melbourne band The Flies and former member of Cotton Morris & Burns. Ronnie’s biggest national hit, “Smiley”, was written by Johnny Young.
From: Ronnie Burns
Date: 16 December 2009 5:42:33 PM AWST
Subject: Re: ROBBY SNOWDEN
Robbie – we all love you – and [together] we wish to bring you an enormous
amount of love and respect at this time.
We are all holding hands around you – to ensure the way ahead is illuminated with the compassion that you continued to show everyone who came to know you. That, never changed – never wavered …
Life calls to you, existence calls to you, and there is beauty, cooperation and purpose for you to delve into in this time of transition. Because when one is in the depths of Initiation, it is not always easy to move the energy and to understand the power of greater forces. But they are present – and so are we. Because, in the end, we conserve only what we love; and, through the inner journey and higherknowledge, we love only what we trulyunderstand.
Keep the love alive and awake within your heart my friend – keep that smile upon your face. For as the landscape changes, you will know what to do – it is all a matter of choice. And you can call upon friends you have not seen for some time.
For each one of us, will, in time, come to re-frame what we think is happening, as we reconfigure our life’s journey – and the heart’s we have touched along the way. We take that precious love with us – as you now are aware.
All my love Robbie ..
RONNIE BURNS
Ronnie’s earlier email….
Date: 16 December 2009 5:21:19 AM AWST
Subject: Re: Robbie Snowden
Normie advised me of Robbie’s condition yesterday.
He has always been a gentle soul – and will be grateful of the support being offered to him for the transition time ahead.
We met up [again] a few years back, when he came to see
‘Burns, Cotton and Morris’ perform on the Gold Coast.
I appreciate you keeping me in the loop …
Ronnie Burns - ‘Senior Tasmanian of the Year 2009’ Appin Hall Children’s Foundation – Director & Co-Founder
Web. http://www.AppinHall.com
In 1998, Ronnie and his wife Maggie (a former dancer whom he met on the set of the ’60s pop show Kommotion) founded Appin Hall Children’s Foundation, a refuge for orphans of war and children with chronic illness.
Entertainer and singer Marty Rhone echoed everyones sentiments in this email to John Young…
From: “Marty Rhone”
Very sad indeed. As you may or may not know Robbie & I were flat mates in Melbourne back in those heady days of the mid to late 60’s. Robbie was there when I met and courted my wife Rosa, so very fond memories. I have kept in touch with Rob ever since and saw him when I was on the Coast last April.
Ironically, I was in Tweed Heads last Saturday night for a show unaware of his swiftly deteriorating condition and only learnt of his imminent passing when I received an email from Normie Rowe yesterday morning. I was shattered and rang the hospital to try and speak to Rob. His wife Lol put the phone to his ear so I could say goodbye on behalf of my wife and I. Rob couldn’t speak but I heard his breathing become heavier and more intense and respond to my words. His wife said his eyes were fluttering in response. My wife said her goodbyes asking him to give her a beautiful smile with those flashing white teeth he had. He passed away an hour later.
He will always be in our memories.
Marty Rhone EMFIA CFRE FAMI CPM
www.fundraisingdynamics.com.au
As a singer, Jeff Phillips shared the TVW Reunion stage with Robbie Snowden and Johnny Young on Sunday October 18th, 2009.
From: Jeffrey Phillips
I am so sad to hear of the loss of my musical friend Robbie Snowden. Luckily we both sang at the TVW7 50th Reunion this October and we were able to laugh and reminisce about our musical beginnings.
Please share my thoughts with his many friends in Perth and Surfers Paradise.
Thank you for letting me know. He was a gentleman at all times.
Jeff Phillips
Jeff Phillips appeared on TVW Channel Seven during his early singing career and became known as an Australian TV show host/personality and pop singer of the 1960s to the early 1990s. Jeff took over as compere of Club 7 Teen, following Johnny Young’s move to Mebourne and National fame. Jeff too was to enjoy national singing and hosting fame and appear on British variety television shows.
Former managing director of the Surfers Paradise radio station 4GG Barry Ferber, had these kind words to say about Robbie…
From: Barry Ferber
Robbie worked with me at GG for over ten years and remained the best of friends he and Lol stayed with me in Vages last year for his 60th, Lots of pics back stage with Frank Marino and The Cast of Mamma Mia also Lol has shots of Rob with Impersonators Cher, Little Richard and Elvis I organized a dinner with them as a surprise. So sad I am still in shock have done apiece for the service Let me know what you need Barry.
Lol is Robbie’s lovely wife Lolita…
Barry Ferber kindly provided these words of farewell…
Robbie Snowden during his period working for Barry Ferber at Gold Coast Radio Station 4GG
Robbie Snowden Farewell.
I don’t believe there was a single person who didn’t like Robbie Snowden. Those of us fortunate enough to be his friend loved him.
After his career as a pop star came to a close he came to me for a job at 4GG. How could I not hire him, a guy in the business with a happy disposition and a willingness to work?. I liked him immediately. The only job I had was in promotions a kind of “no hour’s” job to which he said no worries, and it never was.
I told him if he did the right thing by the station he would be rewarded. Three years late having worked his butt off, with events like sand modeling Beach Girl quest and countless other promotions that were thrown at him, I surprised Rob and Loll with new car. They were thrilled but more importantly, so were the staff that loved him and were happy for him. Robbie was a role model for all other staff to follow.
I treasure his friendship and the times we spent talking shop or music over a few coldies.
Robbie Snowden was the epitome of loyalty and everything one wanted in a friend. Robbie always knew he had picked a winner in Lol. They were two peas in a pod.
I am so glad to have spent time with them in Vegas as recently as last year when they stayed with me for his 60thbirthday bash. They both loved Vegas. I took them back stage after Mamma Mia where Robbie delivered some Cherry Ripes to the leading lady.
Previously I set up supper after the show of Legends in Concert as a surprise, and there was the old rocker in the company of look-a-likes Cher, Little Richard and Elvis. Great memories.
If all of us could leave the world surrounded by the love and friendship Robbie Snowden attracted throughout his life we would indeed be proud.
I loved him as a person as a workmate but most of all as a friend, one who never changed and would always be there.
My heart goes out to Lol, the love of his life, who today stands tall as we celebrate the life of that wonderful man she married. We will all miss him but Lol will carry the biggest load as well as the biggest joy of living her life alongside our friend Robbie Snowden.
Farwell my friend, safe trip I will miss you.
Robbie’s 60th birthday bash in Las Vagas: Wife Lolita, Elvis impersonator and Robbie were guests of Barry Ferber
As a young DJ spinning vinyl for top Australian radio station 3DB in Melbourne, Barry Ferber was the first Australian DJ to play the Beatles song “Please Please Me” on the air. He was a 19-year-old announcer for 3DB in 1963 when he began receiving tapes from an unknown group out of Liverpool. Barry Ferber went on to management, first at 4GG at the Gold Coast in Queensland when it first went on air, and later at Radio Fiji. More recently, he’s filed columns from Las Vegas for the Gold Coast Bulletin. Barry Ferber was honored with an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) medal for his work in broadcasting.
Condolences from Marcie Jones, who has appeared on every national TV variety show in Australia over four decades…
From: “Marcie Jones”
Thank you for letting me know, we are a dwindling lot. Robbi was always such a darling he will be missed. Marcie Jones
Marcie Jones started as a teenager in the early ’60s. Performed with Normie Rowe’s band The Playboys and appeared on the “Go-Show”. She released five singles from 1965 to 1967. In 1967 Marcie teamed up with the Cook sisters, Margaret, Beverley and Wendy, who were performing as “The Cookies” to become the top female singing group in Australia. In 1968 they toured Australia as support act for overseas artists such as The Monkees. That same year ‘Marcie and the Cookies’ were presented the “Best Female Act for 1968″ award by national pop magazine Go-Set and were awarded the “Critics Award” for the top Australian vocal act. During 1969 and 1970, ‘Marcie and the Cookies’ toured extensively throughout Asia and Europe and toured the United Kingdom with Cliff Richard and the Shadows. On returning to Australia, Marcie resumed her solo career releasing an album and five singles between 1973 and 1976. Marcie has toured with The Seekers, The Monkeys, Cliff Richard, Tom Jones and supported Gene Pitney on five national tours. Marcie continues to perform in stage shows, clubs, concerts and tours supporting major overseas artists until the present day. In mid-2008, Marcie became a presenter on 100.7 Highlands FM, a community radio station based in the Macedon Ranges in Victoria.
TVW Promotions Manager Jill Glass also conveyed the sad news…
From: “Glass, Jill”
Subject: ROBBY SNOWDEN
I’m sure you’ve already heard this news. This is from today’s MediaWeek Morning Report.
The Gold Coast lost a proud local yesterday with the death of Robby Snowden, 61, former rocker and promotions man, report The Gold Coast Bulletin. Snowden was known around the Coast as The Gold Coast Bulletin promotions manager and relentlessly cheerful man about town. Long before that he was a rock star from Perth with a gaggle of groupies, thanks to hits such as “The Wanderer” and “No One Really Loves A Clown”. Snowden died at 10.10am in Pindara Private Hospital where he had been since his recent diagnosis with aggressive stomach cancer. The Bulletin’s managing director, Steve Howard, said: “He was a long-serving and loyal executive at our company and will be missed, not only by friends and former colleagues, but the wider Coast business and media community.”
Jill Glass
Promotions Manager | Channel Seven Perth
Former TVW Channel 7 Managing Director Kevin Campbell paid this sincere compliment…
From: “Kevin Campbell”
Thank you Jill for the early notice and Ken for both passing it on and for handling the post.
Another sad loss to both the industry and humanity.
Kev Campbell
Former TVW senior producer/director Keith Mackenzie was shocked to hear the sad news…
From: “Keith Mackenzie”
Thanks Jill, I’m really shocked to hear the news, especially seeing him so recently. Regards, Keith.
Keith directed the Club 7 Teen period when Jeff Phillips was the host. (Gordon McColl directed the Johnny Young period, whilst Max Bostock directed the Gary Carvolth period).
Back in the 1970’s, Annette Grennell (nee Purvis) was a young performer on STARS OF THE FUTURE and other shows. Later Annette worked in the TVW Publicity Department.
From: Annie Grennell (nee Purvis)
Dear Keith and Ken,
I couldn’t believe it when I opened your email….how tragic… wern’t we the lucky ones to have been blessed with the pleasure of his company in October at the reunion. He has given us all such great memories of our youth….he is now in “Rock & Roll Heaven”..
ANNETTE …
Noel McGrath’s now out-of-print Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop notes that Robbie Snowden was born in the UK but was raised in Australia since infancy. He started out recording advertising jingles for a Perth agency and appeared on Johnny Young’s TV show Club 7 Teen on Perth’s Channel 7. Signed to Clarion Records, he had a #1 in Perth 1966 with a version of Dion’s “The Wanderer” (which was also #7 Brisbane) and relocated to Melbourne in 1967.
Release Date Songs
Sep. 1966 “The Wanderer” “Take Your Time”
Feb. 1967 “No One Really Loves A Clown” “Talkin’ “
June 1967 “Sheila” “What Do You Want To Make Eyes At Me For”
Oct. 1967 “Sunshine Rides On A Trolley” “Do You Want To Dance”
Feb. 1968 “Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine” “Just A Little”
July 1968 “Freckles” “I Can’t Stop”
Robbie Snowden in 1966 with the Channel Seven Dancers singing “The Wanderer”
Janet Boyd (nee Ladner) who was one of the Channel Seven Dancers (seen to the left of Robbie in above photo) was also shocked to learn the sad news…
From: “Boyd, Jan”
Subject: Robbie Snowden
Robbie’s death has really shocked and upset us, he was such a sweet person.
Please ask Johnny to pass on our condolences to his family.
Jan Boyd
Robbie Snowden interviewed by Garry Meadows on the TVW Channel 7 “Seven is Seven” anniversary show in 1966
In the 70s, after leaving the music industry, Robbie Snowden became a Cruise Director on cruise ships, then went to work at a regional newspaper in Queensland. You can listen to two of Robbie’s numbers on YouTube by following the below links…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74P-oV9zEZM
Robbie Snowden – Nobody really loves a clown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOaa_Gbx6Mw
Robbie Snowden , Talkin’
Gold Coast Tribute to Robbie Snowden
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/12/16/170095_gold-coast-news.html
The Gold Coast Bulletin’s managing director, Steve Howard, said: “He was a long-serving and loyal executive at our company and will be missed, not only by friends and former colleagues, but the wider Coast business and media community.”
Originally from Farnborough, England, Mr Snowden grew up in Australia and after finding fame in Perth, then touring for six years on cruise ships, he settled on the Gold Coast.
He embraced the city and lifestyle and quickly became one of its most loved locals.
“He loved the Coast, he enjoyed what the Coast had,” said Mr Gordon.
A memorial service will be held early next week for close family and friends.
In Memoriam, People, TVW Reunion
15 Responses to “Tribute to Robbie Snowden 1948-2009”
Very Sad News indeed from both a local Television and the Australian Pop Scene – he will be sadly missed.
Is there a possibility that Robbie’s performance from the reunion can be uploaded as a tribute ? and also is there any TVW footage of him from Club 17 ?
Dave Power says:
Rob was someone who I met only on a handful of occasions but always made me feel as though we’d been friends a long time. Conversations we had are a fond memory to me now. Time spent with Robbie was time well spent and I truly consider myself privileged to have made his aqquaintance.
Carol and I send our deepest sympathy to Lol, keep your chin up Kid!
Dave Power
Bruce Wishart says:
It’s Christmas Eve and a phone call has informed me of the passing of Robbie Snowden, I remember a young man with a smile that couls light up the sky. Of an unrealised talent that surprised us all. He wasn’t a bad office boy either.
Farewell Robbie.
Happy memories – and now – sad moments Bruce Wishart
Viva says:
It was so sad hearing about Rob last month. My thoughts turned to 1968, and the flat Rob and Marty shared in East St Kilda, and long nights with too much beer, and Rob’s backing band of loony Tasmanians, and the stunning Rosa, and Michael Chugg, and the awful Harry Nilsson song “Freckles” that seemed to put a full stop on Rob’s career as a pop star.
I don’t need Youtube. I can hear Rob singing “Surrounded by a Ray of Sunshine” to this day.
Vale, Rob
Don Wood says:
I was lucky enough to work with Robbie on the Fairstar and the Minghua and we had a great time talking about the 60’s music scene over a quiet beer. He was always happy and loved life – so sad that he left so early.
kim newman says:
I have just heard of Robs death (8th Jan) I am shocked and saddened I only spoke to him briefly at the reunion
Back in 1965 I was a mimer on Club Seventeen and Rob was the 17 year old office boy at A J Williams I talked him into miming on the show. While he was extremely reticent the offer of 10 pounds was too bigger carrot. For his first appearance he mimed Down in the Boondocks the then current hit by Billy Joe Royal.
He was so popular on the show his foray into the pop world was inevitable. He wrote to me when I was overseas that he was on the cover of Everybodys magazine. It was typical of his modesty that he couldn’t comprehend his success. Great memories Sad loss
Ken Jackson says:
It was a big jump from the confines of Perth in the late 60’s to The Gold Coast in the mid 80’s but Robbie was the same ‘smiley face’ with the same totally unassuming attitude & boyish appeal. I worked with him at 4GG in 1986, while I was reading news & writing & producing station commercials he was ‘out front’ for the station doing the job he did so well of promotions. He seemed to me as though he had hardly aged in 20 years & his boyish enthusiasm hadn’t waned in the slightest. His work ethic reminds me of a quote:
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
God speed Robbie,
Ken Jackson
Laurie Baker says:
Sadly, I only found out today that Robbie had passed away, I find it hard to accept that only a few months ago at the Channel 7 Reunion I spent a couple of hours with Rob; he was tanned, looked great and enthusiastically sharing his future plans in his retirement. We discussed his earlier illness and he was so confident about the future and enjoying every bit of his life.
I was privileged to have worked with Robbie on Club 17 and to be counted as a close friend during those Perth years, he was always generous with his friendship and yet his humble and passionate disposition, brought him many friends and success. I will never forget those crazy times; the fun, the pranks, the music and the dreams we shared as the Club 17 gang.
Robbie, you were taken from us far too soon and your departure leaves a great void. God bless bud.
Francis Edwards says:
Back in the late 60’s, I was known as Chris James (stage name created by a manager who thought that my real name wasn’t good enough) and like Robbie, recorded on the Clarion label.
I was conscripted and sent to Vietnam. These days, being some 36 years later and issues behind me, I have been able to get back up and want to mention that Robbie in many ways contributed to this.
I met him while living on the Gold Coast a few years back when I was assisting a child protection charity group.
He asked if I had any recorded music and if I did, he said he would try and get me some exposure on the local radio station that he worked for.
I didn’t have any music at the time but will never forget the fact that he was willing to go to bat for someone who was a competitor back in the day. What a genuine and beautiful soul!
May he rest in the peace that he so justly deserves.
Linda O'Brien says:
I knew Robbie back in the late sixties, when he came to Brisbane he would visit me and my family. I am very saddened to hear of Robbie’s passing, he was such a gentleman with a kind heart. My deepest wishes for Robbie’s family.
Anne Floyd says:
I used to go to Club 17 every week and loved Robbie. I still have his singles (I am now 56) and moved back to England in 1967. I can’t believe I found all this about him and am so sorry to hear that he has passed away.
Keith Bird says:
Have just learned of Robbies’ passing and find it hard to believe.
I ran dances in Wagga Wagga and Griffith in the 1960s and hired Robbie on numerous occasions. He was a gentleman and I have fond memories of the time we spent together.
Many years later he found out that I owned a jewellery shop in Cairns and used to call in to say hi in his capacity as cruise director .
My condolences to his family .
ray bullock says:
Robbie Snowden was favourite of mine in the 60’s. I followed his career at the time, not quite sure whether “PRETTY FLAMINGO”, was a cover he released or a mimed song from those shows in those days. One funny thing was when i was at highschool was that,if I ever had to give a false name for whatever, I always used Rob Snowden. He was so popular in WA at the time……RIP
Fond memories, a privilege to have known you briefly xx
Tony Hart says:
This may sound very odd but my Mother had a cruise from the UK around Europe late summer in 1974 on the T.S.S Lenoid Sobinov around the Helsinki- Copenhagen-Southhampton route. And she had a..em Shall we say “an encounter” with a member of one of the entertainment staff is all i know.It can only be one of five or six people max! And here i am 39 years later. Long story short as i can.
I always thought i was never really my dads biological child, and when i was about eleven years young i found out this was true.
when i managed to speak to my mum properly about it years later i asked her. Are you sure? And she looked me square in the eye and said yes. So i asked. How are you so sure? And she replied. When you see him you will know because you look like his brother. (i am more than willing to send a photo)Quite alike i think. Lips and all!
Only the other day for some reason i got out the ships information that my mother kindly gave before she passed away bless her. I have spent some time going through the possibilitys and i think i have found him.
If anybody is willing to help me prove that this is so. or iliminate Robbie from the equation then any help would be greatfully recieved.
This is no prank and i do not wish any upset to anyone or cause trouble through this. I just need to know the truth. Love and light to you all.
I would love to speak to Ronnie Burns if possible. From his words to Robbie i think he’s on my wave length from his words to Robbie.
Sincearly Tony Hart x ( my mum’s name Sheila Hart by the way if that helps?)R.I.P
My email is hartt075@gmail.com
Mob UK 07508189432
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Located in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, GAIA Building has been constructed by Leppanen + Anker Architects as a new contemporary landmark for the city. The 14 storey, 15,000 sq.m. mixed-use building has commercial spaces on the lower floor, offices on the next four floors and residential units on the last nine.
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The boomers and their encore careers are taking off, at speed.
When 45% of the US population will be over 50 next year (2015) and when this demographic consistently demonstrates the highest rate of successful (still in business after 5 years) and sustainable (as in “green”) entrepreneurial activities, it is not a fluke.
Before Washington shut down for the latest blast of Mother Nature’s interference, an exceptional joint senate hearing of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship/Aging Committees took place. Having considered all the expert witness testimony, Senators Nelson (R) ME and O’Neill (D) FL characterized the hearing as "an eye opener" and "tremendous".
Hopefully, this signifies progress. The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality recently reported that the long-term unemployment rate for men and for women is nearing the all time high for the period since 2000. Even since the Great Recession of 2008-9, the economy is still not delivering enough jobs and a full recovery is unlikely without major labor market reform and intervention. Encore entrepreneurship for seniors represents the way forward. The hearing was held with the following key participants and an SRO audience.
Federal Government representatives:
Senator Nelson (D) FL, chairman, Special Committee on Aging
Senator Collins (R) ME, Ranking Member, Special Committee on Aging
Senator Landrieu (D) LA, outgoing Chair, Small Business and Entrepreneurship committee
Senator Risch (R) Idaho, Ranking Member Small Business and Entrepreneurship committee
Senator Scott (R) SC
Senator Casey (D) PA
Expert testimony by:
Tamika Montgomery, SBA (Small Business Administration) associate administrator
Kenneth Yancey, SCORE Association (Small Business Consultant) president
Conchy Bretos, CEO of MIA Senior Living Solutions activist based in Miami
Elizabeth Isele, co- founder of SEW (Senior Entrepreneurship Works) and eProvStudio.com
Dr Greg O’Neill, Director of the National Academy on an Aging Society
In opening comments, the significant degree of misunderstanding surrounding senior entrepreneurship was confirmed. Senator Collins admitted that before getting involved with this issue, she had no idea that more older people were starting businesses than younger people. In fact, between 1996-2010, nearly 40% of new businesses were started by those aged 55-64, compared to 26% started by those 20-34.
Senator Landrieu (D) LA, outgoing committee chair, commented that the term “encore entrepreneur” is apt because the combination of being wiser, calmer and older allows seniors another chance to think, to dream and to build great businesses.
As the baby boomers age and their numbers grow, it is therefore essential to create appropriate structures and facilitate senior entrepreneurship. This hearing sought to understand the barriers to senior entrepreneurship, in order to remove them.
Biggest impediments to expanding opportunities for senior entrepreneurship:
1. Capital constraints
a. Tamika Montgomery, Small Business Administration Entrepreneurial Development associate administrator reported that accessing capital is the biggest challenge. Identifying where resources exist is not always straightforward. Seniors don’t know what is available. SBA volunteers are there to identify, guide and assist entrepreneurs to appropriate resources.
b. Ken Yancey, SCORE is in partnership with the SBA. He said that less than 10% of SCORE clients were successful at getting bank financing. The majority self fund from savings. He emphasized he was not supporting borrowing from 401K’s or retirement savings to bootstrap entrepreneurship. He sees scope for micro lending for seniors.
c. Conchy Bretos, MIA, indicated that typically seniors have insufficient revenue to secure loans. In her case, after a 2 ½ year process (with a bank supported by the SBA), she was forced use her house as collateral for a $100k loan.
d. Elizabeth Isele, Senior Entrepreneurship Works, expanded on microloans as the way forward for seniors and starting out small. She identified agencies like Accion and Kiva as micro-lenders who help mitigate risks for senior entrepreneurs. She also used Kickstarter.com as an example of a strong player in the microloan market and as an example of a social media/online based resource. Isele emphasized that artisanal capital requirements for seniors are typically low, approximately 1K. As such, capitalizing senior entrepreneurs requires a small initiative that won’t take millions to get off the ground.
e. Dr Greg O’Neill, NAAS, spoke of the banker paradox. While seniors hold the majority of their assets in banks, the banks don’t have an understanding of the needs of this population. He echoed Isele’s comments with respect to micro-lending and crowd-funding stating they must be made accessible to older adults and specifically target the long-term unemployed, where older people are disproportionately represented.
2. Regulatory burdens, red tape and the existing tax code don’t lend themselves to succeeding and sustaining success for seniors.
a. Conchy Bretos, MIA, cites the silo mentality at the federal agency level, resulting in a lack of interagency cooperation. While the IRS and HUD both have capital programs, with subsidies and the HHS has Medicaid waivers, no national capital programs exist at the same time each state and agency has its own programs. She used this scenario to explain how tax credit regulations work against getting a license for an assisted living facility: “The tax credit regulations state that you can’t force services onto someone living in assisted living but if certain services are not provided, they can take the license to operate away.” The regulations are overwhelming and counterproductive and interfere with expediency.
b. Elizabeth Isele, SEW, highlighted the fact that people over 60 only have a 6% chance of being reemployed. Meanwhile, these people have to wait 18 months, reporting that they have been unsuccessful at finding a job, before they can start receiving benefits. Isele proposed an alternative; whereby, unemployment benefit subsidies are given out earlier, provided they are earmarked for entrepreneurial education and training programs designed to help make the unemployed older person re-employable or able to start their own business.
Specific questions posed by Senators:
1. Senator Casey asked: “What is one thing the House and Senate could do in the next year to foster better policy and bring about better opportunities for encore entrepreneurship?
a. Dr O’Neill offered the following on encore entrepreneurship. Approximately 1/3 of encore entrepreneurs come in to self-employment after 50, many of whom were “pushed” into entrepreneurship due to redundancy or scheduled retirement. As such, they are very different from other 2/3’s who have spent their entire careers in self-employment. Echoing Isele’s proposal above, he believes that the encore entrepreneur can use unemployment benefits to help them get them back into the productive labor force and back into making contributions to the tax base, to social security and to Medicare. O’Neill pointed out that the self-employed are shown to have longer work lives than salaried employees because they have a clear passion for their livelihood.
b. Elizabeth Isele’s number one priority would be to change government attitudes toward seniors. She challenged the government to view seniors as assets not liabilities and to downplay all the rhetoric about how they have ring-fenced entitlements for seniors due to its negative connotations.
c. Conchy Bretos, highlighted the need for better access to government and advocated changing policy, not necessarily introducing new legislation. She spoke of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, created under a mandate to identify human and financial capital to bring about community solutions. This is an organization which has been in place for five years, headed by a Mr Greenblatt but does not appear to have a phone number or answer email. This example illustrates the need for identifiable staff to connect senior entrepreneurs with federal government officials charged with coordinating the efforts of senior entrepreneurs.
2. Senator Nelson asked, how does the Affordable Care Act impact senior entrepreneurs?
a. Dr O’Neill highlighted the fact that the self-employment decision is inextricably tied to the phenomenon known as “job lock” or “job anchor”; when health insurance is tied to your workplace. Meanwhile, the risks of a health condition arising in the 55-64, high entrepreneurial group are greater as this group is more likely to have a pre-existing condition. Coincidentally, what stops people pursuing self-employment is the lack of health care outside of the workplace. He cited a recent survey by the Brookings Institution, which suggested that the introduction of the ACA could push some one million people into entrepreneurship. In addition, the age 64-65 transition has been researched extensively by the Kauffman Foundation. Their studies have shown that a big trigger for entrepreneurship is when Medicaid kicks in at 65, with an additional 13% of people moving into self-employment then. He concluded that while the overall net effects of ACA cannot be known yet, they could be substantial.
3. Senator Nelson next asked what are the economic benefits of senior entrepreneurs?
a. Dr O’Neill sees benefits as economic and social. Self employed individuals who enjoy what they are doing, stay in work longer and retire later and continue their contributions to tax revenues and social programs. Remaining in employment allows older people to increase their standards of living in retirement; particularly true for the long-term unemployed.
b. Conchy Bretos added that older people have a greater social conscience and strong desires to help circumvent and solve social problems.
c. Elizabeth Isele pointed to the fact that over 60% of the entrepreneurs she has worked with are involved in green business development.
4. Senator Nelson then asked the panel to comment on the lump of labor fallacy, the mistaken belief that employing older people takes jobs away from younger people.
a. Elizabeth Isele commented that senior entrepreneurship actually creates more jobs for young people when they get hired to help scale organizations. Additionally important, this also assists in expanding intergenerational connectivity opportunities because prosperity knows no age boundaries. Net effect, everyone benefits.
Take away’s:
1. Senators Landrieu and Nelson are introducing a new bill empowering seniors via the Encore Entrepreneur Act S1454 before Landrieu steps down to join the subcommittee on Energy.
2. The AEO, Association for Entrepreneur Opportunity has documented that if just one in three small businesses hired just one additional person, the unemployment rate in the US would be zero.
3. Senate bill 208, SCORE Act for 2014, will strengthen resources for entrepreneurs and improve services offered by SCORE volunteers to specifically include seniors.
4. Senator Collins is working with Isele and O’Neill to craft new legislation to adapt unemployment insurance benefits for long-term unemployed seniors so they can use their unemployment benefits to explore entrepreneurship.
5. Senator Collins was in agreement with Isele comment, “…we are not facing a silver tsunami, and we are looking at silver linings, that will yield golden dividends.” Collins plans to borrow the silver linings metaphor.
There is no room for confusion or doubt regarding the critical importance of senior entrepreneurship. Of course, there will be challenges but the advantages illuminated by this testimony are undeniable. The over 50 entrepreneur represents an untapped, unexplored, unsupported and key piston to the economic engine of the immediate future. Therefore, efforts to retool this enormous demographic and empower them to move past intimidation and fear to optimize their bonus decades makes physical, fiscal, psychological and economic sense. Meanwhile, the digital exclusion issue does remain relevant to this debate, particularly for those seniors who are intimidated or daunted by technology. In conjunction with debunking the lump of labor fallacy, perhaps the digital divide might be simultaneously addressed. Full employment across the life course and digital literacy both provide excellent opportunities for intergenerational connectivity.
In closing, in February 1970, the official report from the Senate Special Committee on Ageing opened with the following quote from the Honorable John E. Fogarty, House of Representatives. It was his opening address to a 1958 hearing, when he demanded that a conference on aging be set up. It took an additional three years but finally, in 1961, things got underway.
"In spite of the many surveys, books and conferences on aging, the greatest accomplishment to date has been the output of words."
In 50 years time, I hope that the results from the 12 February 2014 Senate hearing will not be viewed as another exercise in verbosity.
Posted by Deborah Gale at 01:38
Labels: Ageing, aging, boomers, Brookings Inst, entrepreneurship, eProvStudio.com, intergenerational conflict, Kauffman Found, MIA Senior Living, Natl Academy on an Aging Society, olderpreneur, SBA, SCORE, SEW
Marty 19 February 2014 at 11:43
You have illuminated a process that, to date, has been stationary/ immobile/ cemented in place (moving backward?). Being an early boomer who became an entrepreneur in 2000 (w/ an LLC that continues to this date), I look forward to the streamlining and authenticating of this process! The doubt and hesitation in the eyes of prospective bankers and accountants was squelched by my headstrong belief in myself followed by selection of a business attorney, a banker that did not blink, and an accountant who validated my business plan. By design or by chance, each of these professionals was female and had spent a number of successful years in her chosen field. I dream of a world in which a senior could access assistance to initiate a 'Second Act' with ease, dignity, and high hopes. As JFK once said, "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen!"
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Responding to and Preparing for Controversial Programs and Speakers Q&A
This Q&A offers strategies and resources for preparing your library to approach community concerns as well as reaction to potentially controversial programs, events, and speakers. Libraries are encouraged to look to their own institution’s policies regarding behavior, programming, and collection development, and to consult with legal counsel in the context of these issues. For additional information, contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom at oif@ala.org.
Representation of all views at library programs
Disinvited speakers and authors
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Security for programs and events
Why do libraries offer programs, events, and speakers?
According to “Library-Initiated Programs as a Resource: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights,” “Library-initiated programs support the mission of the library by providing users with additional opportunities for information, education, and recreation. Article I of the Library Bill of Rights states: ‘Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves.’”
How do libraries plan programs, events, and speakers?
Libraries should have written guidelines or policies, similar to a collection development policy, that have been drafted in consultation with legal counsel and approved by the governing body. Policies should outline the mission of the library, how speakers are chosen, the scope of the programs offered, how facilities are used, how programs will be advertised and by whom, and potential security needs. The policies should also refer to the library’s code of conduct and expectations for customer behaviors during library-initiated and -hosted events. Libraries should be receptive to community suggestions for programs, events, and speakers.
Do we need a broad representation of views in library-initiated programs?
As stated in “Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights,” libraries should strive to provide a full range of viewpoints in their programming and experiences, serving the needs of all members of the community. As with collection development, programs in libraries enhance the collection, support the institution's mission, and provide the community with access to diverse ideas and information.
How do libraries balance the representation of views in their choice of programs, events, and speakers?
Libraries may use a variety of criteria to select speakers. Common criteria may include current topics and interests, and information needs of the community. The availability of resources to present programs and speakers is also a factor. Libraries have a responsibility to represent diverse views and avoid bias. Libraries should be proactive and present programs that provide multiple viewpoints. Library-sponsored speakers should have some expertise, credentials, or credibility on the topic they are discussing.
What if an outside group wants to use a library meeting room to host an event, speaker, or program?
Article VI of the Library Bill of Rights states, "Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use." Libraries may not exclude groups from using meeting rooms based on the viewpoint of the speakers or the content and subject matter that will be discussed.
Libraries with meeting rooms should develop policies that clearly outline expectations and guidelines for use. See "Meeting Rooms: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights" for further guidance.
An outside group has reserved a library meeting room to hold an event that supports a specific point of view. Does the library have to plan a library-initiated program to educate the public on the alternative perspective?
The library is under no obligation to create programming balancing an outside group’s use of the space, nor is it prohibited from doing so, depending on community interest or relevance.
What if a library-initiated program causes controversy?
Libraries should not shy away from controversy. Staff should be aware of applicable library policies and the criteria for selecting programs and community use of library spaces. They should be prepared to explain the policy, as well as the bedrock principles of intellectual freedom.
How do we respond to community complaints about an upcoming library-initiated program, event, or speaker?
Complaints should be received respectfully. Many complaints can be resolved with a respectful conversation.
Every library should have a request for reconsideration policy and follow it. The principles of these policies also apply to programs, events, and speakers. Libraries can modify reconsideration policies to be applicable to programming. Information on reconsideration policies can be found in “Selection and Reconsideration Policy Toolkit for Public, School, and Academic Libraries” and the Intellectual Freedom Manual.
A library-initiated event may cause controversy, and staff want to make sure we create a civil environment that fosters respectful discussion. How can this be accomplished?
Generally speaking, user behavior policies apply to all library-initiated programs regardless of venue and should be provided to attendees ahead of time. As with any event held at the library, library staff should welcome all. Library staff should be courteous. Policies and procedures should be transparent, available to all, and equitably enforced. For library-initiated events, a library representative should set the tone at the start of the event to reflect shared values and community spirit, and outline clear expectations for frank but respectful dialogue.
What do we do if someone causes a disruption at an event in the library?
Expectations of behavior should be made clear before the event. If people violate acceptable behavior guidelines, they should be asked to cease that behavior or leave the library. If people fail to comply, the library should follow its appropriate behavior policy.
What if an audience member at a library-initiated event poses challenging or provocative questions?
Provocative and challenging questions are part of civil discourse and free speech. Libraries may establish time, place, and manner restrictions to limit the amount of time a questioner may speak. However, libraries support the right of individuals to ask uncomfortable questions. If there is concern the questions may detract from the program, alternative Q&A formats may be considered. Some libraries have found success in having audience members submit written questions to be read by a moderator. Libraries should not use this as a method to censor relevant questions.
When is it appropriate for a library to disinvite a speaker or cancel a program or event?
It may be appropriate to disinvite a speaker or cancel a program or event when there is a facility issue or inclement weather. It is not appropriate when the topic is controversial or if there have been complaints about the speaker, program, or event. If there is a credible public safety threat, library workers should consult with legal counsel and local law enforcement.
What if the speaker for a library-initiated event has controversial views on a topic or has been accused of something inappropriate but unrelated to their speaking engagement?
Article I of the Library Bill of Rights states, "Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation." “Materials” may include programs, resources, and speakers. “Background” may include alleged behavior, past publications, or expression of controversial views.
What are the ramifications of canceling a library-initiated speaker, program, or event due to controversy?
Canceling a speaker, program, or event because of real or anticipated controversy could negatively impact the reputation of the library and its ability to serve the community as a forum for the exchange of ideas. There could also be public relations, legal, financial, or other contractual implications.
People are upset about a program and want to organize a protest. What should I do?
Begin by recognizing the concerns the person has with the program, and take steps to address them with respectful and civil conversation. Staff should follow their reconsideration policy for programs, events, and speakers. Staff should also carefully review any publicity to ensure it describes the event accurately. A model response from the Darby (Mont.) Community Public Library is published in American Libraries Magazine.
We had the conversation, and they are still planning a protest. How do we prepare?
Library administrators should determine the maximum occupancy of the building and address any other building-safety issues (for example, clearing hallways and ensuring access to emergency exits).
Library administrators should ensure that the library has written policies that address disruptive behavior, including any protest inside the library that interferes with patrons’ quiet use and enjoyment of the library. Public libraries are not public squares and may restrict disruptive behaviors. Similarly, publicly funded school and academic libraries that open their facilities for use by the public should have written policies that address disruptive behavior, including any protest inside the library that interferes with patrons’ quiet use and enjoyment of the library. Publicly funded school and academic libraries that open their facilities for use by the public are considered to be a designated public forum. Strict scrutiny will apply to any restrictions placed on access.
Library administrators should communicate with leaders of the protest groups, and maintain an open line of communication with them. Ask the group leader to establish a tone of respect and civil discourse during the program. Inform them that libraries are not required to allow protests inside the library. People have a constitutional right to protest on the public sidewalk and other public spaces not controlled by the library. Remind group leaders to consult with local government regarding the permitting process for any organized protest/demonstration.
When there is an early indication of multiple protest groups attending, local law enforcement should be consulted about proper procedure. If there is any question of safety or sign that groups will clash, library administrators should request local law enforcement support. It is not the library’s responsibility to supervise or control the behavior of protesters on spaces that are considered traditional public forums. If protesters impede access to the library, local law enforcement should be notified.
The protesters are my friends and neighbors. How should I react to them?
Safety is paramount. Library management should consider in advance what level of interaction they are comfortable with, if any. There is no legal requirement to interact with protestors. Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.
What if community members express concern about the protesters? Is there anything the library can do?
So long as the protesters are engaged in peaceful protest on a public sidewalk and not impeding access to the library, they are entitled to exercise their First Amendment right to free speech.
What if protesters interfere with library users entering the library?
Libraries should notify local law enforcement if protesters are interfering with users entering the library.
What if someone has threatened violence?
Libraries should consult with relevant law enforcement or security officials to ascertain the credibility of the threat. Administrators should respond as circumstances require and plan for a range of responses for likely outcomes.
We are concerned that someone will bring a Nazi flag or banner with racial slurs to a protest event outside the library, which could lead to violence. Can we tell them they cannot display Nazi flags or banners because it may pose a public safety issue?
The First Amendment protects the right of individuals and groups to engage in peaceful protest, even if the protest includes expressive activities that are viewed as outrageous or offensive. If the library fears that the protest may become violent, they should notify local law enforcement.
Are there local, state, and federal laws to consider regarding protesters’ rights and responsibilities and protest procedures for the library?
Libraries are not required to allow protests inside the library. Public libraries, and publicly funded school and academic libraries that open their facilities to the public, should have written policies that address disruptive behavior, including any protest inside the library that interferes with patrons’ quiet use and enjoyment of the library. Publicly funded school and academic libraries that open their facilities for use by the public are considered to be a designated public forum. Strict scrutiny will apply to any restrictions placed on access. Libraries should contact their local government agencies or legal counsel if they have further questions about specific local requirements.
We’ve decided to hire security for an event. Who is responsible for paying the cost?
If an outside group is renting or using space for an event, the library could require them to pay the cost of security. This requirement should be spelled out in the approved usage of space policy. These policies should be reviewed by the library’s legal counsel to ensure they meet legal requirements. If it is a library-initiated program, the library would bear the cost.
How many security personnel should there be?
Libraries should consult with a security firm or local law enforcement for guidance.
How do we convey security expectations and library policies to hired security (and who is responsible for communicating them)?
Whether the event is being held at the library or another venue offsite, library administrators should communicate with security staff and any co-sponsoring organizations. There should also be a written agreement. If the venue is not library property, library administrators should convey to security personnel information about the library code of conduct, how it applies to the event, and who is responsible for enforcing it. If the facility where the event is being held has a code of conduct or security requirements that vary from the library’s, how these requirements are addressed should be mutually agreed upon prior to the event.
How can libraries protect the public and author/speaker without paid security personnel?
Libraries can help protect the public and the speaker by increasing staff coverage to assist attendees. Best practice should be to have a senior staff member at potentially controversial events. Library administrators should determine the maximum occupancy of the building and address any other building safety issues (for example, clearing hallways and ensuring access to emergency exits). A tone of respect and decorum at the meeting or event should be established at the start. It can be helpful to have a verbal and/or written plan for a discussion segment following the presentation. For example, a library director or other carefully chosen moderator may pose all discussion questions to the speaker with questions submitted in writing. Library administrators may notify law enforcement about the event and request police presence if such security measures are merited.
We decided not to hire security, but what do we do if something happens during the event?
Library staff have at least three options. First, they may notify law enforcement ahead of time, and request a visible presence. Second, staff might ask that officers be aware that they might get a call in the event of a problem. Third, whether or not law enforcement has been notified ahead of time, staff should always reach out to them if the health and safety of the public or staff are in danger.
Updated June 2018
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Northern Ireland Secretary passes buck on rape clause
21/11/2017 16/11/2017 by Graeme Sneddon
Alison Thewliss, MP for Glasgow Central, has highlighted that Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has sidestepped serious concerns raised about the operation of the two child policy and rape clause in Northern Ireland.
On Wednesday, the campaigning MP challenged the Northern Ireland Office on the interaction between Section 5 of the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 and referrals under the rape clause, as existing law in Northern Ireland results in automatic disclosure of rape allegations directly to the police.
The following day, the Northern Ireland Office issued a written statement which passed responsibility to the devolved Department for Communities in Northern Ireland, despite there being no Minister for that department since the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed in January 2017.
Speaking after the written statement was issued, Alison Thewliss MP said:
“The Northern Ireland Secretary clearly wasn’t listening carefully to the criticisms of the rape clause from groups such as the Northern Ireland Women’s Aid Federation, doctors, nurses, social workers and midwives, that I highlighted to him in Parliament on Wednesday.
“It is beyond farcical that the UK Government has passed the buck to a non-existent Northern Ireland Assembly; the reality remains that women and third party professionals risk criminalisation if they do not disclose rape to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Women in Northern Ireland should not be forced to choose between struggling to put food on the table or going through the full process of the criminal justice system.
“Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office cannot hide behind devolution – the only way to remove the risk of criminalisation is to ask their colleagues in the DWP to scrap the pernicious and mediaeval two child policy and rape clause once and for all.”
Northern Ireland Secretary must act to scrap rape clause
Budget 2017: A missed opportunity to scrap rape clause
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Google Allo update adding backup support and Incognito mode for groups
Google Allo is receiving an update that adds some oft-requested features to the mix. Unfortunately, those features aren’t a desktop application or SMS integration.
Amit Fulay, Head of Product for Google Allo, Duo, and WebRTC, tweeted out today that chat backup and restore is being added to Allo. In addition, Allo will also support the ability to launch an incognito mode for group chats. And finally, Allo will support link previews, a feature that has surfaced in other messaging apps, so its inclusion here isn’t too surprising.
At the time of publication, the update for Allo hasn’t arrived, so the features aren’t available just yet, but it should be arriving soon.
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BOOK ME: HOW GENIUS LOCI, A PASSION FOR PLACE, IS INVOKED BY POETRY AND CAN GET YOU INTO INTERESTING TROUBLE WITH THE LAW BUT IN A CIVIC HERO KIND OF WAY; POETRY AND THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OF HELPING SAVE THE EARTH; AND A CELEBRATION OF WRITERS OF WATERSHED . . . NOW MORE THAN EVER
Our show reviews a history of writing passionately about earth, with conscience and anguish and infinite belief in the reader to do act on behalf of earth, focusing on David Brower (Archdruid of John McPhee fame, and Sierra Club director) and John Muir, as activist poets, and T.S. Eliot and F. Scott Fitzgerald, with notes of Gilgamesh, James Fennimore Cooper, Nathanael Hawthorne, and William Faulkner. Of course we end with Emily Dickinson on the environmentally correct way to see earth (ponder . . . an Experiment of Green/as if it were his own). And thus earth says, somebody sees me! Saved! Saved!
Now more than ever:
There is but one ocean though its coves have many names, a single sea of atmosphere, with no coves at all, the miracle of soil, alive and giving life, lying thin on the only earth, for which there is no spare. We seek a renewed stirring of love for the earth. We plead that what we are capable of doing to it is often what we ought not to do. We urge that all people now determine that an untrammeled wildness shall remain here to testify that this generation had love for the next. We would celebrate a new renaissance. . . (“Credo,” David Brower).
The old one found a way to exploit. The new one has discovered the earth’s limits. Knowing them, we may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the earth’s music. We may see that progress is not the accelerating speed with which we multiply and subdue the earth nor the growing number of things we possess and cling to. It is a way along which to search for truth, to find serenity and love and reverence for life, to be part of an enduring harmony trying hard not to sing out of tune.
This is David R. Brower’s poem Credo welcoming you to our Poetry Slow Down, the news you need, the news you need, the news without which men die miserably every day, so says William Carlos Williams, poet and subject of the new film Paterson, named for the town in which he wrote and the title of his epic poem, we’re produced by Zappa yes as in Frank Zappa Johns, and I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, Dr. B, with news in between the headline, fast-breaking news, I like to say, revealing the poetry in that news, and so often the news itself is inextricable from poetry, and in these days we have headlines and editorials about our show topic, and we were talking about this on our show four years ago and eight years ago and to tell you the truth, this show is old as the hills which were first written about by our human poets—I say human because you could say that earth is a poet and trees are poems, ACTUALLY, a poet DID say this, Kahil Gibran, trees are poems the earth writes, and he’s not the only one . . . as I was saying, our show today has a topic of how poets talk about what’s going on with earth, . Our show today which I’ve been looking forward to for months celebrates a new book entitled Passion for Place,–so new that right after the show today I’m hopping right over to a book signing and reading by some of its authors—more on this anon–on how people in one community reflect on their watershed . . . through poetry and song and art . . .and reflect their passion for place, and so I wanted to lead us off with Credo . . .
With Professor Barbara Mossberg/Dr. B
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Tito Vilanova resigns as FC Barcelona coach
July 20, 2013 by Aaron
Tito Vilanova has stepped down as Barca coach and handed in his resignation after the sad news that his cancer has relapsed for a second time.
The Blaugrana coach confirmed last night the departure of coach Tito Vilanova who today handed in his resignation due to health issues. Last season Tito battled with his illness using Jordi Roura as number two coach for many games, only to return at the end of the season to lift the La Liga trophy alongside Eric Abidal.
Tito now has decided to put his health and family first after receiving confirmation of a relapse. He will soon depart for New York to undergo full time treatment on his cancer.
Barca president Sandro Rosell said in a brief press conference with sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta that the club hopes to unveil a new manager as early as next week.
The press conference was full of players with sad faces, full of anxiety. It looked like Tito Vilanova would not be returning to the club and the players knew it. The most important thing is for Tito to be strong and overcome this terrible blow.
The president tried to end the press conference on a somewhat positive note but failed to cheer up the room full of players. The news of a second relapse has hit the team hard and no words can describe how the Catalan team are feeling at the moment.
Rosell said: “I’m going to give a piece of news that I would never have liked to give. After evaluating the results of routine tests carried out on Tito Vilanova, he is to undergo treatment that will be incompatible with the role of coach.
“On behalf of Tito Vilanova and his family, I wish to ask for respect for his privacy.”
He continued: “In the coming days, the vice-president of the club, Josep María Bartomeu, and the sporting director, Andoni Zubizarreta, will present the new coach, probably at the beginning of next week.”
The president concluded: “This is a huge blow, but we have overcome many others.”
As a result of this tragic news, Barca will not be travelling to Poland tomorrow, where they were geared up to take on Lechia Gdansk in their first pre-season friendly game.
Barcelona will instead start their pre-season campaign next Wednesday, when they travel to Germany to face former coach Pep Guardiola and Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.
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My name's Aaron and I'm a great Barça fan. I like to tell it like it is and if there is something I don't like about the club or something that needs addressing, you'll know!
adetola omotola bolton says
Its a huge blow for barcelona to tito vilanova regins due because of his illiness I wish him well recovery ooooo
Bethel Mghu says
It is sad to learn this from the local media here in Nigeria. Focusing on the fight against his cancer, i know, will do him good. The team may not be better for it though.
Valora en Bitacoras.com: FC Barcelona gave some tragic news last night that Tito Vilanova will not be continuing on as coach. According to La Vanguardia, Tito handed in his resignation this morning after receiving news of a second relapse of his canc…..
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raydan CKA Uber
First of all, I said nothing about you so don't give yourself too much importance... and you should know by now that I'm always dead serious, I never mock.
For the record, I'm not a fan of crazy politicians, including Cortez. But logic says that if Trump could get elected president, she could get elected too.
stratos CKA Uber
But logic says that if Trump could get elected president, she could get elected too.
Thanks for a month worth of nightmares.
Politics only exists for the shits and giggles it provides me. I know I'll never be disappointed now.
Forget the weird side, forget the crazy side... join the fun side.
BeaverFever CKA Uber
BartSimpson wrote:
1. I never said anyone lost a job. That's all you.
That was Brah.
2. Amazon was going to receive an incentive package of about $3bn in tax exemptions and some direct subsidies. In return the city and state would net about $27bn in sales tax, income tax, and payroll tax revenues. Perhaps that's a massive subsidy but it also came with a massive return on investment.
3. By helping to kill the deal AOC also killed the incentives that Amazon was offering and those included infrastructure upgrades, improvements to local schools, improvements to parks, and Amazon was offering to help improve local transit to offset the impact of 25,000 workers. All of those benefits left NYC with Amazon.
There was no proof that any of those benefits, including the promised jobs, would actually materialize and no guarantees or penalties for Amazon if they failed to materialize. Amazon however was demanding guaranteed tax breaks in exchange for their vague promises. Also the deal was already causing a spike in real estate speculation that drives up rent and home prices.
4. I do oppose subsidies and here you are bitching about the Republicans when not one single Republican had a voice in the New York City deal. Democrats were in control of both sides of the issue because Democrats own and operate both NYC and NYS.
Yeah so? I’m talking about YOUR reaction to this story
5. And while I oppose subsidies and would love to stick it in the eye of the Democrats I have to concede that the proposed Amazon deal was GOOD BUSINESS unlike every goddam subsidy that gets squandered on stadiums for organized sports teams whose majority of employees typically earn just minimum wage.
As per #2 and 3 above.
N_Fiddledog CKA Uber
raydan wrote:
Prog logic maybe.
Not Prog, just plain logic... but you wouldn't know.
Thanos CKA Uber
I once asked them to understand that the only reason socialism is gaining in popularity in certain segments is because of the capitalism that's being run by financial sector criminals causing so much life-long damage and impoverishment to entire generations. I sensed that they simply couldn't understand this at all and imagined that, at the mere suggestion of the current system not being "teh awesomez!" for a lot of people, they all did the same thing a dog does with cocking it's head to one side in total confusion when it hears or sees something it simply can't comprehend.
Thanos wrote:
Fatalism is a heart-breaker, Ray. I don't recommend this lifestyle to anyone
BeaverFever wrote:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving role as Trump’s press secretary
By Kerri Breen
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, press secretary for U.S. President Donald Trump, is leaving her position.
Funny how the “greatest president in history” can’t seem to retain any employees and has what must be one of the worst staff turnover rates the country.
I wonder who will be his new Minister of Propaganda?
Heard yesterday: “Sanders is leaving? I’ll know it’s true when she holds a press briefing to deny it.”
Religious Americans who hate Trump... I like.
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DrCaleb CKA Moderator
Heading to G-20, Trump Once Again Assails America’s Friends
OSAKA, Japan — President Trump, arriving in Japan on Thursday, opened his latest foreign trip much as he did his last one, lashing out at America’s allies, including his hosts, just before sitting down with them to talk through differences on issues like security and trade.
In the hours before and after leaving for an international summit meeting, Mr. Trump assailed Japan, Germany and India. He complained that under existing treaty provisions, if the United States were attacked, Japan would only “watch it on a Sony television.” He called Germany a security freeloader and chastised India for raising tariffs on American goods.
The choice of targets seemed directly tied to the president’s schedule of meetings on Friday. He is set to sit down with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, the host of the annual Group of 20 gathering in Osaka, and then jointly with Mr. Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. Then he will meet separately with Mr. Modi. After that, he is scheduled to sit down with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.
By contrast, Mr. Trump said nothing critical about the fourth leader on his diplomatic schedule for Friday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose government waged a systematic campaign to interfere in American elections in 2016 and has arrested two Americans on what critics consider false charges.
Nor did he say anything negative about his breakfast date for Saturday morning, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who was just accused by the United Nations of having most likely orchestrated the murder and dismemberment of a Saudi journalist living in the United States.
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Of 2,669 children detained by the Border Patrol in the region, 826, or 31 per cent, had been held there longer than 72 hours. More than 50 children under age 7 were waiting to be moved to long-term facilities, some of them for more than two weeks. In one photo, women and children appeared to be sleeping on the ground under Mylar (thermal) blankets.
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Home | Business News | Automotive News | Franchise Holdings International, Inc. Defers Private Placement Offering
Franchise Holdings International, Inc. Defers Private Placement Offering
TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – October 04, 2017) – Franchise Holdings International, Inc. (OTC PINK: FNHI), the parent company of Truxmart LTD Inc., an innovative manufacturer of high quality, functional, and aggressively priced tonneau covers for the light truck market, has delayed its previously announced $1,000,000 private placement for inventory and revenue development. Steven Rossi, CEO of FNHI, believes “it can bring better shareholder value by raising capital in the near future when market conditions are better.” The planned new capital raise will target between US $1,000,000 – $2,000,000. It will occur after FNHI achieves the following:
Becomes current by filing Q1, Q2, and Q3 reports before the end of November, 2017
Resumes & Completes listing on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE), with GunPowder Capital
Relists with OTC:QB (with Blue-sky monitoring)
“Our market continues to grow rapidly,” Rossi commented. “Consumers, retailers, dealers, and distributors need an alternative to the present market leaders. As a result, the demand for our tonneau covers is overwhelming and requires new capital to meet it globally. Once we become current and achieve the CSE listing and OTC:QB quotation we will be ready to raise and deploy new funds and begin to achieve our highly ambitious growth plans and targets.”
Accredited investors interested in investing with FNHI can sign up in advance by visiting www.investfnhi.com, where there will be further details.
About Franchise Holdings International
Truxmart, Franchise Holdings International’s wholly owned subsidiary, was founded in 2011 to take advantage of the limited innovation provided by existing tonneau cover manufacturers. Tonneau covers have remained much the same in price and design since 2005 with one main company controlling a majority of the tonneau cover market. This dynamic market segment is in need of a new innovative manufacturer of high quality, functional, and aggressively priced tonneau covers. Truxmart has developed multiple products for all of the most prominent pick up trucks available in North America. Details of most products can be found at www.Truxmartcovers.com. Truxmart sells its products through master warehouse distributors, dealers, and online retailers in Canada and the U.S.
This document may contain forward-looking statements, relating to Franchise Holdings International Inc. operations or to the environment in which it operates, which are based on Franchise Holdings International Inc. operations, estimates, forecasts and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, and/or are beyond Franchise Holdings Internationals Inc. control. A number of important factors could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Consequently, readers should not place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Franchise Holdings International Inc. disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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West Midlands Combined Authority plans 5G demonstrators
TOPICS:5G5G DemonstratorsCentral GovernmentDigital TransformationeditorspickHomepage Top SectionTechnologyWest Midlands Combined AuthorityWMCA
Image: West Midlands Combined Authority plans 5G demonstrators. Photo: Courtesy of Alejandro Escamilla on Unsplash.
Author: Staff Writer May 10, 2019
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is planning to run four 5G demonstrators in a pre-selected city as part of the testbed programme for the networks.
WM5G, the company established to run the programme, has published a procurement notice on Contracts Finder website inviting applications from interested companies to identify and run the four Popup 5G demonstrations at a site in Birmingham city centre.
The request for offers stated that the 5G demonstrators will be taken up along with associated publicity as part of the Urban Connected Communities (UCC) project in the West Midlands.
The programme is intended to generate interest in the West Midlands for the 5G programme and to show the benefits of various use cases to invite further investment.
The UCC project is running six main workstreams, including Infrastructure Acceleration to help mobile network operators (MNOs) deploy 5G in partnership with local authorities; Application Accelerator to help end user organisation and technology companies to engage, explore and integrate with 5G and related technologies.
The workstreams include Citizen Wellbeing Testbed to run use cases covering health, social care and emergency services; mobility testbed to use cases related to transport and travel in an urban environment; manufacturing, related to industrial processes and logistics; and construction, which covers design and build.
The programme was launched in September 2018 when the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) awarded £25m to the WMCA to develop a 5G testbed in the region.
In the procurement notice, the WM5G said that it is seeking a technology company or an MNO to identify suitable demonstrations; set up the location and technology (using own equipment); run the demonstrations; and run PR/marketing in conjunction with UCC partners.
The demonstrations will be required to include at least some 5G New Radio.
The contract is worth £50,000 and applications will be accepted until 24 May 2019. Work under the contract will begin on 1 July 2019 and end on 30 September 2019.
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Kansas ranks low in providing summer meals to children
Hutchinson Advocates of providing summer meals to children in low-income areas say Kansas must find ways to provide more meals during the summer.
Kansas provides seven free summer lunches for every 100 school children who are eligible for free or reduced-priced lunches at school. Only Oklahoma ranked lower in providing free summer lunches, The Hutchinson News reported. Fifty percent of public school students in Kansas are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches.
A federal effort called Summer Food Service Program funds the meals for children up to age 18 but 35 counties in Kansas do not have a summer meals program site, with most of those counties in western Kansas, according to advocates who met this week in Hutchinson at the last of five summer meals summits held in recent weeks.
Rebekah Gaston, director of the Childhood Hunger Initiative with the Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit based in Lawrence, said the summits as a way to encourage communities to plan for summer meals programs next year. The Kansas Department of Education, which oversees the Summer Food Service Program in Kansas, participated in the meetings, and the Kansas Health Foundation funded the project.
Lynn Kasper, of Wilson, said the community of about 700 residents met the challenges of finding sites, volunteers and grants for the meals. The next goal is to fund transportation so children outside Wilson can receive meals, she said.
Transportation is one of the major barriers for summer meals programs because buses that bring children to school during the academic year aren't available.
The meals are provided at sites ranging from schools to churches to parks. The Hutchinson school district used a downtown splash park as a fifth meal site last summer and it drew about 50 children a day.
Advocates suggested an added activity such as arts or exercise will attract more children. While adults can pay to eat the meals, some suggested fundraising to cover the adults' costs.
"If you feed the parents, you're going to have more kids show up," said Debi Kreutzman, of the Kansas Food Bank.
All children, regardless of household income, are eligible for the lunches, which must be eaten on site. While some sites provide only lunch, the federal program offers an option of furnishing breakfast.
"I remember thinking, 'No way I can take that on,' " said Debbi Davidson, of the Arkansas City Recreation Center. That was more than a decade ago and the Arkansas City program now feeds 350 people a day during the summer.
"It is one of the most rewarding things for your community," Davidson said.
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In addition to sectionals, our unit hosts several unit games during the year. Just like sectionals, anyone can play in these events, even if you're not in our unit. (Some events, like the Round Robin, are better suited for locals, though!) Masterpoints are awarded for each event (including each individual game of the unit trifecta).
NewCOMER UNIT GAME
NEW FOR 2019! We are having a special unit game for newer players! If you have 0-20 masterpoints, please join us on Friday, April 26th at the Seattle Bridge Center. We will serve cake and have experienced players on hand to help you prepare for the Spring NLM sectional. More details to be announced soon! In the interim, email Ann Romeo if you are interested. (Experienced players - we’ll need your help, too!)
Yarington memorial Round Robin
The Yarington Memorial Round Robin is the perfect event for players who enjoy competitive bridge in a more friendly, social setting. Each team participating will be placed in a bracket (determined by number of masterpoints) and will play a handful of matches against other teams. Your team gets to set its own schedule, within the open play period.
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NYCFC Signs Cedric Hountondji
New York City Football Club announced the signing of Cedric Hountondji, a 23-year old Benin international defender who will join NYCFC for Preseason 2018, pending receipt of his P1 Visa and ITC.
A former French youth international, Hountondji is a tall, athletic central defender who joins NYCFC as a free agent after his contract with Gazelec Ajaccio came to an end.
Hountondji told NYCFC.com, “It’s an honor to be here, I am really happy. I am full of motivation and ready to give everything I have for the club.
“When I heard of the interest, I was very excited. I knew about NYCFC because I follow MLS. I don’t always watch the games because of the time difference but I am watching the highlights and sometimes I watch the games when I have the time.
“I followed their progress and I know that the club is progressing year after year and it’s really important. This year, I think the target is to win the title and that’s my personal objective too – that, and to help the team as much as possible.
“I am not coming here just to live in a great city. I am coming to NYCFC, to the club, to give it my all.”
Hountondji was born in Toulouse in France and came through the youth ranks at Ligue 1’s Rennes, making his first-team debut in the 2013/14 season vs. Nice. He went on to make 17 appearances in his breakthrough season before he continued his development with two season-long loan spells in Ligue 2, at Chateauroux and Auxerre in 2014/15 and 2015/16 respectively.
In total, Hountondji played 62 times across the two seasons before joining Gazelec Ajaccio on a permanent basis ahead of the 2016/17 campaign.
Head Coach Patrick Vieira admitted that NYCFC saw off competition from a number of teams for Hountondji’s signature and is delighted to have added him to his 2018 roster.
Vieira said, “Cedric is a strong player who is dominant aerially and physically, he is excellent in one-v-one situations and is calm on the ball as well. We were looking to strengthen our back four and Cedric is someone we were following for a long time.
“He’s a young defender with his best years ahead of him and there was a lot of interest in him. I think it says a lot that a young player in Europe wanted to come to us and believes in our project and the ambitions of our football club.
“With Cedric, we will be stronger and I’m really excited about having him with us and adding another quality player to our squad.”
Despite growing up in France and representing their U-16, U-17, U-18 and U-21 youth national teams, Cedric declared for the senior Beninese national team in 2017 and made his international debut in March of the same year, the first of five appearances to date.
Sporting Director Claudio Reyna said, “Cedric is a tall, athletic defender with a very good understanding tactically on how we want to play and will adapt with how we want to defend as a unit.
“For Cedric, this is a big move to come and play under Patrick at NYCFC. He’s someone who can compete for a place to play, will be able to adapt to MLS and will improve our team. He arrives very motivated for this new chapter in his career.”
Hountondji becomes NYCFC’s fifth offseason signing, following Jesus Medina, Saad Abdul-Salaam, Brad Stuver and Anton Tinnerholm to the Club.
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Montgomery Gentry Selected for Grand Ole Opry Membership
Montgomery Gentry will be inducted as Grand Ole Opry members during ceremonies in Nashville on June 23. Opry member Charlie Daniels surprised Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry by extending the invitation during Tuesday night’s (May 26) Opry performance. Daniels walked onstage and told the duo, “I have been chosen to do something very special. I have known you guys for a long time, and I am very proud of all your accomplishments. If you agree to it, on June 23, you’re gonna be made members of the Grand Ole Opry!” Gentry responded, “I’m speechless,” and Montgomery borrowed a handkerchief from Daniels to wipe his eyes. Montgomery Gentry made their Opry debut on March 3, 2000.
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Christmas Cheer Foundation Bring Jesus to the needy...and they will bring Jesus to you.
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Home>Our Story>Our Team
Meet the Christmas Cheer Team
Lucille Dalbis – President
Lucy was just a volunteer that came on Christmas morning to help with the meals. She asked if she could attend a meeting of the small core group and realized that if it was going to grow, it needed her organizational skills...and so it began.
She knew her work was cut out for her since Phil Calabrese refuses no one a meal, "If someone calls the day before Christmas and needs food, he gets it to them."
From delivering meals on small pieces of paper with the recipients address on it, Lucy developed their first routing system using Access (a Microsoft program). That was at the beginning when under 1,000 meals were going out. As it grew, volunteers with routing experience developed routing systems to handle the deliveries that are by town, by street and by number to make it manageable for volunteer drivers to do this wonderful endeavor on Christmas morning. Now that she is retired from full time work, she has developed many databases to monitor all of the volunteers, donators and social workers.
Lucy also developed power point presentations to be given to companies and groups interested in sponsoring Christmas Cheer
The "angels", as Lucy calls them, are the social workers in the schools that make Christmas Cheer work. They distribute the food forms to students to take home to their families to fill out. The privacy act prohibits us from soliciting information from agencies so the social workers send the forms to us.
Lucy says Phil is the outside guy and she is the inside gal. He feeds people and she works to make the volunteer experience one that families will savor and want to come back each year and help once again.
All of their families are involved as well as their grandchildren and that's the legacy they both of them have given to their family....the love for helping others.
"It never fails to work out," I used to wonder how it did work out, but since the CEO upstairs attends all of our meetings, it ALWAYS works.
Diane Goubeaux – Vice President
I was a Chicago Board of Education, Special Education teacher, for 34 years on the west side of the city. After I retired I needed something to do, especially during the holiday season.
Several years earlier, a friend of mine started to volunteer with CCF, so I decided to help that Christmas. I opened cans of mixed vegetables with a small 2 inch hand turned can opener. Needless to say, the following year, I returned to help, but I brought my own large can opener that worked much better.
My friend and I continued to work for CCF and as our relationship developed so did our relationship with CCF mushroom into greater and greater involvement. We got married and got more and more involved in Christmas Cheer. The Christmas Cheer Foundation is a large part of our lives and it will continue to be an even greater part in years to come with good healthy and God’s blessings.
Philip Calabrese – Secretary & Treasurer
Christmas Cheer didn’t start out as a foundation. Over two decades ago, it began in a basement of a Lutheran church in Oak Park serving a small community of “Meals on Wheels” recipients who do not receive meals on Christmas.
The charity began in Oak Park, the idea of a doctor who wanted to provide food for homebound elderly folks who couldn't get Meals on Wheels service on Christmas Day. When Phil Calabrese took the program over in the early 1980s, it was helping about 125 people.
Through Phil's encouragement, it has grown to serve thousands. He came to believe that there were many people in the Chicagoland area that needed to be fed. Because of Phi’s “heart of mercy”, no one is refused. If he receives a note or phone call for 1 meal or 800 meals, he (omit has) never says “NO”.
And grow it he did — quickly. The foundation enlisted social workers to refer people in need, and the list of Christmas Cheer recipients swiftly grew to 2,000. Then a few years later to 5,000. Then 10,000. And now 20,000, and still growing
We are the only charity in the Chicagoland area to deliver meals along with new childrens books and beanie books directly to the home on Christmas Day.
Phil raises most of the financial assistance. He virtually goes out to beg for the donations to fund this endeavor each year. When there is an abundance of donations of food or gifts, Phil will deliver to food pantries, food shelters, and other charitable organizations that help the needy.
Phil always says, "We're trying to do a really simple thing, feed someone"
You don't have to be around Phil Calabrese long to tell he has become addicted to his work, hooked on the very idea of finding ways to route more food to more people in need. It's as if something clicked back in the '80s, and the son of Italian immigrants saw that he could be a conduit for others' generosity.
"You're not just feeding the poor," said Calabrese, now retired . "You can see it in the volunteers; they just light up. We're serving the people who need food, and serving the people who need to help other people. People want to give back."
Christmas Cheer Committee
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Chef turns himself into Pooperman – waging a one man war on dog mess in his town
By Lucy Samson -
A CHEF has turned himself into Pooperman – by scooping up dog mess in his home town and posting the revolting pictures to local politicians.
Gavin Starkey goes out for 12 hours a week to clean up the streets and in three weeks has scooped up around 350 piles of poo, weighing in the region of 260lbs (120kg).
The dad-of-one, who doesn’t even own a pooch, makes three four-hour trips a week to hunt down dog dumps, plotting his route in advance on AA route planner.
He was inspired to take up his canine crap-fighting crusade after son, Lucca, seven, slipped in dog mess on his way to school.
Gavin’s war is on irresponsible dog owners who spoil the streets of his home town, Kelso, in the Scottish Borders. He hopes to shame councillors and local politicians into taking tougher action against regular offenders.
Gavin said: “I walk my son to school every Monday morning and a couple of weeks ago he slipped and fell in dog poo and that was the final straw for me.
“There was so much outside the primary school, and its disgusting and very dangerous from a health point of view.
“It’s been about three weeks now and I’ve picked up at least 350 bags of poo.
“I’ve never found it disgusting to pick up, I can wash my hands quite happily but there are young children and older people in the community who might not do that.”
Gavin has also spent about £45 of his own money buying biodegradable poo bags for his new venture.
The local community council has agreed to provide bags and he has teamed up with Borders Pet Rescue to raise money for them whilst he is on his patrols.
He said: “I’ve had a lot of support, obviously some friends and family think I’m fighting a losing battle but on the whole I’m going strong, just have to fight back.
“I want to get the mesage acrross, and I’m dedicating almost half the working week to this. That’s how passionate I feel about it.”
Gavin says he knows there are regular offenders in his area but has been warned by police not to get into any confrontations.
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In a video, he and his son tell viewers they have collected six bags in 50 yards, describing the extent of the mess as “unacceptable”.
Brian Johnstone wrote on Gavin’s Facebook page: “Kelso’s resident poopa scoopa. Why don’t some of you community councilors roll up your sleeves and help?”
Keith Rothwell wrote: “Brilliant effort. Hoping some people are ashamed of themselves. You shouldn’t have been put in this position. Hats off Gavin Starkey.”
Dan Yell wrote: “Well when I’m out and about I’ll be taking a few bags, if I see any lying I’ll bin them. Every little helps. BIG help is the owners just did it in the first place though.”
Conservative MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, John Lamont, wrote: “I admire you for tackling this issue. I have contacted Scottish Borders Council on your behalf to see how the council might be able to support you.”
Across the UK it is estimated that the nation’s eight million dogs produce 1,000 tonnes of mess annually, much of which ends up left on the streets.
Dog fouling has been an issue for councils across the UK. In 2014 Fife council wardens began using thermal imaging equipment to track the recent ‘products’ left behind by night-time dog walkers.
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Kövidinka has been presented
"No backdoor needs anymore, finally Kecskemét has its own wine" Gábor Zombor, the mayor of Kecskemét, started his speech so about the first presentation of Kövidinka, which has been chosen the wine of the town. And he said that Kövidinka proves, that this town is not prominent only with its world famous raw spirits, it has perfect wines as well. The Kövidinka is a real Hungaricum, this type of grape is grown only in the Kárpát-medence (Pannonian Plain). The workers of the Town Hall and the journalists could taste nice, luscious wines today afternoon at the court of the Town Hall.
It was a long procedure to select this masterful wine, produced by the Dimension Wineyard. As Gábor Szili, the plant-leader of the Wine-Culture Researcher Institute of Katonatelep of Corvinus University, said that the jury, consisited of professionals, civils and the members who are delegated by the town leaders, selected from the wines, which have already reached prominent positions on the local wine contest. This historical decision means, that this Kövidinka wine ( wine of the Wineyard having centre in Miklóstelep) can hold the Wine of the town of Kecskemét title for a year, until the next prizewill be invited.
About the winner type: the Kövidinka, in the second part of the XIXth century, has started its way of conquest from Bácska after the time of the filoxeria epidemic (which ruined the historical wineyards) –Dr. Hajdú Edit, scientific contributor of the Researcher Institute, has described a short historical story about the life of this type, which is grown only in the Pannonian Plan. She added that this pink coloured, tough and resistant grape has a perfect acid and sugar rate, and it has become very popular in a short time and its delicious taste thanks for the sandy land.
Is it really so? Everyone can control the facts described above. The guests of the county centre can control this and those who get a bottle from the town leaders as a present for this event. Morover Dimenzió Viticulture can impress the arm of the town, as well the title of the wine of the town of Kecskemét (having a real promotion value) upon 300 hundred bottles.
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Honda has a modular EV plan for the US
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Darren Murph
Talk about a revival story. Recently saved from the brink of disaster, Think Electric is back in a big way. Fittingly announced around the New York Auto Show, the company has revealed that it will begin selling its Think City -- one of the planet's first highway-capable electric vehicles, it'll have you know! -- in New York and "other select cities" later on in 2010. Think's currently working in conjunction with the US Department of Energy's local Clean Cities chapters to make it happen in the Big Apple, but exact details (you know, like an on sale date and MSRPs) are nowhere to be found. Considering this company's position just six months ago, though, we'll take whatever progress we can get.
Via: CNET
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Image credit: Daniel Cooper
Sony finally brings PS4 Remote Play to iPhone and iPad
Four and a half years after it first landed on Android.
Daniel Cooper, @danielwcooper
The latest update to the PlayStation 4 operating system has a feature that some users have craved for years. From today, the console will now properly sync with iOS devices, giving iPhone and iPad users the ability to game with the PS4 Remote Play app. Given that Sony first launched remote play (for its Xperia Z3) in October 2014, it's certainly been a long time coming.
Much like its forbears, setup is as simple as updating your PS4, downloading the app and pairing the two. The on-screen controls are overlaid onto the image, and like many mobile games, will probably play better with a third-party controller. Sadly, you can't connect a DualShock 4 to an iPhone unless you've jailbroken it, so third-party options are probably the way to go.
Of course, if you've really wanted to play PS4 games on your iPhone, you've been able to, just not without Sony's express blessing. Third party apps, like R-Play, have enabled this since 2017, although unlike Sony's offering, you had to pay $12 for the privilege. If that seems too steep, you can now grab the PS4 Remote Play app for iOS in the App Store (other territories are below).
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Source: App Store (UK), App Store (US), App Store (AU)
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Diana Kennedy on "Unknown Gastronomy of Mexico"
April 30, 2010, 10:01 am 9 Comments
Jamaica, or Hibiscus calyces for tea. Photograph: Reed Spirito
Last night, I went to see Diana Kennedy, self described "ethnogastronome" and author of many seminal volumes on Mexican cooking, speak at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin. Part of a series on Mexican Foodways celebrating the Mexican Bicentennial, the talk was titled "Unknown Gastronomy of Mexico" and was based on her research for her new cookbook titled Oaxaca al Gusto (buy it ), out in September.
I know I shouldn't beat myself up about this too much as the talk was on "unknown" dishes, but having lived in Texas for four years, I humored myself I knew a little bit about Mexican food. I can make salsas that doesn't use tomatoes! I have a kick-ass carnitas recipe! I made tamales, once! Turns out, I know absolutely nothing; jokes about things like atoles and epazote were met with dull ears (mine) and appreciative laughter (everyone else). My education in the real Mexican cuisine begins, in addition to some choice quotes from Ms. Kennedy, below.
Some Rural Mexican Dishes that will Blow Your Mind Burger
Atoles, or a porridge made out of ground corn, lard and berries blended together. Kennedy bemoaned the fact that people nowadays cheat and used premade masa, in which the corn has been treated with lime.
In Kennedy's town in Michoacán, quesadillas are not a cheesy happy hour snack, but instead a sweet dough filled with queso añejo, kind of like a cheese danish.
Posole de Trigo, a soup many are familiar with, but this time made with wheat kernels instead of the traditional hominy.
Tamales made with black corn and toasted corn silks. Kennedy also noted that corn silk teas were good for kidney problems — she is very interested in nutritional value and herbal healing.
Salsa made from wild plums.
Tamales de Espija — tamales made from ground, toasted corn pollen sacks and a fermented white flour mixture. Kennedy says the toasted pollen tastes like honey. This is when my stomach started growling.
Highland mushrooms ground and fried with onion, garlic and epazote as taco filling.
Begonia stalks cooked into a stew with a sour flavor.
Words of Wisdom from Diana Kennedy
"To hell with lard, you know, it's great...you have all these good ingredients and then you eat less, that's my theory."
"Some of these new chefs are putting [jamaica, aka the calyces of hibiscus,] in tortillas for tacos and I think that's perfectly horrible...you have to have a reason, or it has to be delicious."
"Never let me hear you say a cookbook is expensive...a novel you read once, a cookbook is on your shelf for 30 years."
She also said that she does not think she will be working on another cookbook after Oaxaca al Gusto; she is currently working with a foundation to record a database of the foraged foods of the indigenous peoples of Mexico.
—Paula Forbes
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Tags: Diana Kennedy, gastronomy, hibiscus, lectures, Masa, Mexico, Tamales
Thanks for this :)
April 30, 2010, 10:07 amReply
All of those dishes sound so delightful--I want fried mushroom tacos NOW.
Wild plum salsa? I'm sold.
April 30, 2010, 12:49 pmReply
Mmmmm. Those tamales sound good.
April 30, 2010, 1:09 pmReply
Ruth T.Alegria
Thank you for reporting on the person who has done more for the preservation of Mexican Cuisine for 40 years.
She's a force to be reckoned with when it comes to doing it right!
May 4, 2010, 5:23 pmReply
Ken Riley
Great report on a fascinating woman. I had the opportunity to meet her at a book signing in a small town in the mountains of central Mexico a few months back. She pulls no punches!
One thing that I think you might have gotten somewhat garbled here. Good masa is made with nixtamal, which is dried corn "slaked" with lime (not the fruit, the mineral). The crappy stuff is maseca which is about as close to maseca as the frozen crescent roll dough in a tube is to handmade dough for croissant.
Actually, Kennedy was saying that atoles should be made with plain ol' ground corn, and that the cheater's way is to use masa. (I'm sure she would consider maseca to be the extra double cheater's way.)
Mexico Cooks!
Oaxaca al Gusto is a glorious book, a worthy addition to the serious aficionado of Mexico's cuisines and la Sra. Kennedy's life work. Amazon.com has it for pre-order now at a fantastic price. Order it, you won't regret it.
Great article, Paula. Thanks for spreading the word about the traditional cuisines of Mexico.
I've had jamaica on tostadas and I really liked it. We also made a vegetarian lasagna adding jamaica to the sauce and it turned into this glorious fuchsia color and gave it a tangy taste which I loved.
May 10, 2010, 8:43 pmReply
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Greetings, friends,
I'm interested to note that I wrote this about LAST winter, not this one but if anything this winter has been even warmer and less like the winter we desire. There is a forecast for a winter storm for today, either snow or, less desirable, ice. If it comes to pass, it will be our very first storm of the long-delayed winter. We've all been surrounded by green grass and warm temperatures, a strange thing to complain about but none of us likes dramatic change and most of us who live in New England buck up to adversity. So, let it snow!
The Winter of a Thousand Springs
Winter brings with it an apprehension, a raised expectation. We consult the almanacs and listen to the prognosticators. Never mind that they are often wrong. We always want to know what to expect, hope we are ready. In general, we expect snow. And plenty of it.
Preparations begin in late fall. The screens are removed from the porch and the summer furniture stashed in the horse barn. In its place, three cords of wood are stacked. Onions, potatoes, squash, cabbages and apples are stowed in the cellar. The snow shovel rests beside the woodpile on the porch. The table thus set, we await the banquet.
I have a new neighbor, Anne, who is not a new neighbor at all. She has been here far longer than I, but always in the summer, never in the winter. Two years ago, she retired, prepared for herself a new home that would embrace her through the winter months, and moved up from the city. I worried that the long winters would be difficult for her. We have had some winters in the recent past that have been brutal. But last winter was mild and easy, a frustrating succession of calm days carrying balmy temperatures. At least twice, the hayfields turned green, this in January and in February. Lilies and bulbs poked up through the soft earth as the sun beat down. Roads remained clear and we drove here and there without regard for the forecast. Weathermen stumbled in their explanations, but these storms that I wait for never came.
Instead of snow, came wind. Up here on the hill, winds can reach the rate of a speeding car, tossing small objects into the air, toppling trees and pushing snow into massive drifts. But, because we who live here on this hill in the winter are not exactly a population center (pop. 3, up from 2), no notice of these storms are made, nothing recorded, only our memories of “the time when the lights went out.” And so they did, one cold day in February as the door of my car was nearly torn from my hand when I tried to make a quick exit that afternoon. By evening, the electricity was off at my house. I called Anne to see if she needed anything and found that she was perfectly fine. “I have a generator,” she said. “Would you like to come for dinner?” I accepted. Soon after that, several other nearby friends called to see if my lights were off and reported that theirs were, too. Apparently it was an area-wide outage. We all ended up at Anne’s new house, a glowing oasis in the storm, traveling up her long driveway, bearing contributions from our dark refrigerators. It was an unusual evening, wherein lamps seemed ingenious, as did the automatic heat. Good conversation flowed like the blessed water from the tap.
Soon enough our power was restored and then the weather turned mild again. That evening remained our single winter adventure. Plenty of wood was left on the porch and the snow shovel had hardly budged from its lean beside the door. I called it “the winter of a thousand springs.” The disappointing months turned to an imperceptible spring, leaving me hungry, a bit grumpy, as if that fine meal I’d been promised was never served.
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Introduce Yourself 30 Years
Introduce Yourself | The Mike Patton Version
What if Mike Patton had sung on Introduce Yourself.
Faith No More's second studio album celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. We have a selection of interesting articles and interviews to share with you.
Introduce Yourself is a groundbreaking and wonderful album, ahead of its time and a fusion of musical flavours brought into the mix by each individual member. Bill Gould's funk bass, Jim Martin's metal crunch, Roddy Bottum's new wave keyboard sounds, Mike Bordin's African beats and Chuck Mosley's skate punk 'Bowiesque' tones.
However as a fan of Chuck and of Mike Patton one can be forgiven for being curious as to how the recording of IY would've sounded with Patton on vocals. (Likewise how The Real Thing would've turned out with Chuck still at the helm. An future article.)
When Introduce Yourself was released Patton was happily studying, working in a local record store and gigging small venues around California with Mr. Bungle. He had attended a FNM show in 1986, that historic show at Humbolt University when Trey Spruance handed the band a copy of Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny.
But what if here we were to rewrite the history books and the fracture between Chuck and FNM had happened soon after the band recorded the record We Care A Lot?
Simply as an experiment, and in no detriment to the outstanding achievements of IY, let's imagine Patton had found his place as FNM's frontman two years earlier and recorded IY with the band.
** In reality it's unlikely Patton would taken the job at 18 years old. He was reluctant to join FNM at 20 and struggled to cope with the pressures of fame. **
Like The Real Thing, we could assume the music would most likely be complete and not differ from the classic sounds we hear on the album. Let us rule out any influence Patton would have on the music itself and concentrate on the vocals.
Patton's strengths as a singer and songwriter would no doubt have led to more defined melodies and rhythms. Certain songs would most definitely have had a more addictive chorus lines. However without Chuck the album would lose the raw post punk sound which added to its uniqueness in an age of wailing hair metal.
The lyrics would be quite different (with the exception of WCAL which was written mostly by Roddy), Patton has always created characters to express himself rather than voice direct personal experiences, his subject matter being twisted and often perverse. Whereas Chuck romanced about real life issues; love, hate, life and death. Frequently resulting in dark and emotional moments.
The delivery of the vocals on the record would be worlds apart. Patton's soulful nasal and sarcastic tones of the late 80s are a complete contrast to Chuck's punkish, sombre drones and fits of rage.
Patton's voice is more accessible than Chuck's so it is possible that the album would have been more successful. However the music on Introduce Yourself has overall a more forbidding mood than The Real Thing, much of success of that album is due to radio friendly songs like Epic and Falling To Pieces as well as FNM's change in vocalist.
FNM would of course continue to play songs from IY and WCAL after Chuck's departure and presented with Patton's unique voice they are given new life, sung with the same furious passion he does his own compositions. In fact in many cases these versions were the first time fans had heard them.
The songs Introduce Yourself, and We Care a Lot find themselves regularly in set lists, the latter along side Epic as one of the most often played FNM songs at their shows. The version recorded at Brixton Academy was actually a limited single release in 1991. Patton updates the sound by replacing Chuck's frenzied yells with rap styles.
Chinese Arithmetic is to this day one of the greatest FNM songs ever written, it was a staple track in FNM's live shows during TRT and Angel Dust tours. Patton's added soulful twist on the melody and witty impromptu segments of cover songs (which originated with Chuck) create a version that would happily find a place on TRT. So much so that FNM included a live Patton version as a b-side to Epic.
Death March was performed during TRT and KFAD tours but it was most prominent during 1992's AD tour as the second song in the set.
The Crab Song, another hugely popular FNM song which they have continued to play throughout their career, was dropped in 1997 but resurrected for the Second Coming tour. With light and dark elements, not dissimilar to Zombie Eaters, we can imagine a recorded Patton version would've been fantastic.
FNM stopped playing Spirit in 1988 before Patton's arrival, again to be resurrected for the Second Coming tour. Patton's first recorded performance of the song was at the Hollywood Palladium in 2010.
Blood, R n' R and Faster Disco were rarely played without Chuck, making it into their sets on brief occasions during the early 90s. A recorded version of Faster Disco would have been particularly interesting, the layered melodies would have allowed Patton's voice to resonate.
There is no evidence that Patton has ever sung Anne's Song live, but with the story of Anne being particularly personal to Chuck it seems right that Patton would not take this one on.
Below is a compilation of some of the most relevant recordings we could find of the Introduce Yourself track list, in some cases the only recording.
Enjoy our Mike Patton version of this amazing album.
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself (Mike Patton Version)
Faster Disco
Burgherrenhalle
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Live At The Wireless
Triple J Studios
Chinese Arithmetic
Death March
City Gardens
Trenton, NJ, USA
We Care A Lot
R n' R
Bogart's Club
Long Beach, CA, USA
The Crab Song
Rock In Rio II
Maracana Stadion
The Fillmore Detroit
Detroit, MI, USA
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2016 Bentley Bentayga Review
Wednesday, Jul 13th, 2016 16:02 EDT
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It’s not the first time Bentley has built an all-wheel drive vehicle. In fact, Bentley has a long history of building powerful cars that send torque to all four wheels.
This time around it’s different. This time, Bentley has developed an all-wheel drive vehicle capable of going off-road — majorly off-road. An all-wheel drive vehicle capable of tearing through corners and an all-wheel drive vehicle that has claimed the title of the world’s fastest SUV.
The Bentley Bentayga ushers in a new era for the British manufacturer that sees it produce its first SUV capable of not only tackling some of the toughest conditions, but also capable of blistering performance figures.
From the outside, the Bentayga’s design has been its main bone of contention. While it has all the proportions of a large, luxurious SUV, the design of the front end is challenging. With the right colour combination it looks better, but it’s a design that may take some getting used to. Styling is subjective, but for what it’s worth — we actually don’t mind the look of it.
This aside, the twin headlight cluster features a main adaptive LED beam, which is flanked by two circular LED daytime running lights that also serve as indicators. Within them is a headlight washer that deploys on command to clean the headlight lenses.
The standard 21-inch alloy wheels fill out the guards nicely, but the optional 22-inch wheels fitted to our vehicle help pronounce it as a sporting SUV. Thankfully, the huge brakes also fill out the wheels, measuring a mammoth 400mm at the front and 380mm at the rear. They need to be big, given the Bentayga’s kerb weight of 2383kg.
Powering the Bentayga is a monstrous 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged 12-cylinder petrol engine that produces 447kW of power and a mountainous 900Nm of torque. It sends all of its might through an eight-speed automatic gearbox, consuming an average of 13.1L/100km on the combined cycle.
Around the rear, LED taillights help define the stance, as do the wide exhaust outlets.
We haven’t looked at the price yet. It’s not cheap — far from it. The starting price of $420,600 (plus on-road costs) is only outdone by a limited First Edition, which is priced from $624,400 (plus on-road costs). Our vehicle, with a number of options fitted came to $610,650 drive-away.
Some of the notable options fitted to our vehicle include contrast stitching inside the cabin, rear privacy glass, a Linley Hamper by Mulliner, signature audio and the off-road equipment required to head seriously off-road.
At this price, there are a number of standard includes, such as night vision, digital radio, a full suite of safety aids (such as blind spot monitoring, lane assist, rear cross traffic alert and autonomous emergency braking), heated seats, 360-degree camera, ventilated seats with massage function and panoramic roof, among others.
As you step inside the cabin, it doesn’t feel like a traditional Bentley. The interior brings Bentley forward in comparison to the rest of its range with an 8.0-inch infotainment screen that features colour and a touchscreen, in addition to a colour LCD screen between the speedometer and tachometer clusters.
The new infotainment screen is a massive step forward for Bentley. It’s very easy to use, is fast and features a number of screens that further push the vehicle’s appeal, such as an off-road screen, tyre pressure monitors and a quick satellite navigation system with online search capability.
Temperature controls are contained within a glass-faced knob that offers a digital display. These controls look elegant and classy, living up to the Bentayga’s appeal.
The seats offer high levels of comfort and hug you in tightly. We spent over 500km behind the wheel of the Bentayga and were amazed with the lack of body fatigue while at the helm of it for extended periods of time.
Front leg and head room is excellent, with masses of room on offer for the front passenger. It’s the same story in the rear — this really is a big SUV. There’s enough legroom to stretch out and kick back.
Rear seat passengers get their own air vents, along with a remote controller that allows the control of the quad-zone climate control and heated seat functions.
As you poke around the interior, you begin to notice that it doesn’t quite feel as premium as it does on first glance.
The buttons surrounding the climate controls feel like plastic and have a harsh click with each push. Likewise the steering wheel controls also click in the same manner and feel like a plastic-cut button as opposed to a metal button or one that is soft with each click.
Sure, it feels luxurious, but not $600,000+ luxurious. When compared to a Range Rover, it feels on par and in some regards not as luxurious, especially when comparing switchgear and buttons.
It’s disappointing, given that the rest of Bentley’s range lives up to its reputation as the pinnacle of luxury motoring. The interior of the Bentayga simply isn’t quite there. Of the five or so people I ferried around during our time with the Bentayga, they all shared the same views.
Thankfully, this car isn’t all about its interior. With a jab of the starter button, the Bentayga’s huge powertrain fires to life and is ready on command.
The traditional gear level uses a Q7-esque gear shifter that defaults back to a central position with Park, Neutral and Drive either side of its central position. It works well and doesn’t take very long to get used to.
The drive selector allows the Bentayga to operate in several drive modes, including Comfort, Sport, Custom and Bentley. Each mode works in unison with the steering, gearbox and suspension to deliver a tailored drive.
Helping the Bentayga stay flat through corners is a combination of air suspension and electronically controlled anti-roll bars that utilise a 48 Volt electric system, co-developed with Audi.
The application of a 48V system is a world-first use in a car, which offers faster response times and increased computing power.
In Comfort mode, the ride is unlike any other SUV. In fact, it rides very much like a high-end Bentley sedan, as opposed to an SUV sitting on 22-inch alloy wheels. It doesn’t even flinch when thrown at a corrugated country road, or a pothole-riddled suburban street.
Steering comfort in this mode is also light, but can still be a bit heavy at lower speeds. It offers a little too much resistance during parking — it would be nice if it were a little lighter.
Arguably one of the handiest features is semi-automatic parking, which worked a charm. Just like a much smaller car, it’s simply a case of hitting the button and letting the car find a park and do the rest.
An element of the steering that isn’t Bentley-like is minor rack rattle over corrugations at low speeds. It shouldn’t exist on a car sitting in this price bracket.
While Bentley claims that the ‘Bentley’ driving mode offers “a careful blend of Sport and Comfort settings as recommended by our chassis engineers”, you’ll be hard pressed to notice a great deal of difference between Comfort and Bentley.
It’s the Sport mode that transforms the Bentayga from a comfortable first class lounge into a capable and perception-altering corner eater. The ride instantly firms and the ride hunkers down in preparation for pace.
Steering feel improves immensely, likewise throttle and gearbox response. The solid metal paddle shifters are cold to the touch and offer the perfect companion for cog swapping on the go.
Despite its huge weight, the turbocharged 12-cylinder engine offers incredible throttle response. The latest version of this twin-turbocharged engine is totally transformed from its predecessor.
It uses both direct and port injection, which it alternates between depending on performance requirements. In addition, the use of variable displacement now allows the W12 to offer between five to 90 per cent of its torque capacity within 1.1-seconds, which is remarkable for an engine with this capacity.
The result is sharp performance that is matched with dead flat cornering thanks to the electronically controlled anti-roll bars. You can literally tip the Bentayga into a corner, stand on the throttle and hold on as it barrels through at incredible pace.
The rear-biased all-wheel drive system makes the Bentayga surprisingly playful as torque is supplied to both axles. It’s progressive and communicative, which means there’s never any surprise as the car reaches its peak 900Nm torque figure.
Once you become aware and confident of the Bentayga’s size and road presence, it’s easy to place and fun to drive.
If you plan on heading off-road, Bentley has you covered. The optional all-terrain specification adds a number of features to allow the Bentayga to head properly off-road. The drive selector adds functions for Mud and Trail, Sand, Dirt, Gravel and Snow, along with Wet Grass and Ice.
These work in addition with a sump camera, underfloor protection and four height-adjustable suspension modes — low, normal, high 1 and high 2. These work in unison with an infotainment screen that displays pitch angle, steering angle and wheel articulation.
Our off-roading was limited to a muddy track, but Alborz went properly off-road at the vehicle’s launch. We were impressed with how the stability control managed the muddy surface and kept the car tracking straight, even under heavy throttle.
Bentley has managed to develop quite a capable SUV that’s at the pinnacle of engineering for the company. It goes off-road, it handles nicely on-road and it delivers performance in spades.
But, its main downside is that it doesn’t feel special enough to boast an asking price of over $600,000 in this trim.
While it may be the perfect addition to a Bentley owner’s collection, buyers could find themselves with a top-specification Range Rover and a stack of cash as an alternative.
Then again, a Land Rover doesn’t wear the iconic Bentley badge.
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Previously released on Blu-ray from Severin Films, Bloody Birthday (1981) gets a new 2K remaster and a few new extras in this deluxe Arrow release. A cult classic directed by Ed Hunt (The Brain), you can tell that it was made around the time of the original Friday the 13th film and they were aiming to get the same crowd as the music and the slasher formula of teenagers having sex before their gruesome deaths are a tad similar. However, this has got to be one of the better 'child murderer' films that I've seen, even if it tends to be a bit unrealistic at times.
Three little kids share the same birthday - (the height of the eclipse of the sun)... and all share a love of bloodlust and murder! While innocent on the outside, on the insides of these little darlings is pure evil! In this cult romp, on the children's tenth birthday they start this vicious cycle of murder, and even their own families become the victims! How many will have to die until their murderous plot will be exposed?
The film stars Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Joe Penny, and Bert Kramer.
Bloody Birthday is presented in 1080p high definition with a 1.85:1 widescreen aspect ratio and is that new 2K restoration from the original film elements thanks to Arrow. Paired with an original uncompressed mono audio mix, the film does look a tad bit better here than the previous release. Colors are vibrant and really pop, preserving the film look perfectly on disc.
Special Features include...
Brand new audio commentary with director Ed Hunt
Brand new audio commentary with The Hysteria Continues
Brand new interview with actress Lori Lethin
Bad Seeds and Body Counts - a brand new video appreciation of Bloody Birthday and the killer kid sub-genre by film journalist Chris Alexander
Archival interview with producer Max Rosenberg
Original Theatrical Trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Timothy Pittides and the original (and very awesome) one sheet art
and First Pressing Only: Collector's booklet featuring new writing by Lee Gambi
This movie is truly freaky at times and is a lot of fun to watch. If you haven't seen it before, then I would definitely check out this Arrow release. There's a few new extras here and the stellar looking transfer make it recommendable to anyone pondering an upgrade.
The Halloween saga continues with Halloween 4K (2018, but titled Halloween with no other suffix and could have used a more unique title), is in celebration of the original film's 40th anniversary. While a bit better than Halloween: H20, which celebrated the film's 20th anniversary, this reboot features Jamie Lee Curtis back again in her iconic role as Laurie Strode and ignores every sequel made after the first film, which had some fans in an uproar. Overly hyped online and throughout the horror community until its initial release, the end product seems like there were one too many cooks in the kitchen and gets more wrong than right, unfortunately. That's not to say that there aren't a few good moments and a fine performance by Jamie Lee, however, its not enough to not make this feel like a misfire and make one wonder what could have been...
Directed by David Gordon Green (George Washington, HBO's Vice Principals, Your Highness), the film also stars Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, and a cameo by original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle. The film is produced by Hollywood heavyweight Jason Blum (Blumhouse), co-written by Danny McBride, and the score by the saga's creator John Carpenter.
On that Halloween night in 1978, Michael Myers was eventually captured and contained in a heavily monitored mental facility. Forty years to the night, The Shape overcomes his keepers and escapes back into the sleepy suburban town of Haddonfield, IL. However, a no-holds-barred Laurie Strode (Curtis) is now ready for Michael and has an entire house dedicated tailored as one big trap for him. She doesn't have as tight of a leash on her daughter (Greer) or her granddaughter (Matichak), both of whom are running amok whilst this supernatural madman is on the loose and the bodies continue to stack up.
The film is presented in 2160p HEVC/H.265, HDR (10; Ultra HD Premium)-enhanced Ultra High Definition image disc with a widescreen aspect ratio of 2.40:1 and great sounding audio mixes in lossless DTS-X 11.1 (DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit) mixdown for older systems). When comparing the look of this film to previous sequels in the series, there isn't much of a contest as this is easily the best shot Halloween film since the original. Colors are vivid and crisp and more details are apparent with the HDR (high dynamic range).
John Carpenter's new score is center channel at all times and makes the film even creepier and more effective. It is worth mentioning though, that Carpenter didn't use many of the infamous 'stingers' that make Michael's sudden appearances so unnerving in the original. There's also quite a few scenes where Carpenter restrained himself of making the music as dominating as he did in the original, but I guess it boils down to a matter of preference. Overall, I wanted a little more about of this new Carpenter soundtrack, but I would definitely like to see him do more composing in the future.
Also included is a 1080p Blu-ray version of the film with the same widescreen and audio specs, though some compression issues evident when placing it side by side to the 4K Ultra HD. Also included is a standard digital copy.
Deleted/Extended Scenes
Back in Haddonfield: Making Halloween featurette
The Original Scream Queen featurette
The Sound of Fear featurette
Journey of the Mask featurette
and The Legacy of Halloween featurette
While there are a good number of featurettes, none of them are very long or go into any real detail about anything you can't find on the film's IMDb page. A few of the deleted scenes should have likely stayed in and made for a new un-rated version. In fact, I'm surprised they didn't do that with this as an extra cash grab. (Perhaps that's later as I've read there are more deleted scenes than featured on the disc) There's also plenty of advertising for the new 4K Ultra HD release of the original film, which is worth checking out if you haven't yet.
While it's better than the past several films in the franchise, Halloween '2018' is fun, but could have been much better. Still, I remain optimistic about the franchise's future as this is the closest to capturing the cinematic essence of the first two original films. Let's hope the next sequel spends less time paying homage to previous installments and focuses more on Michael doing what he does best.
What the franchise really needs, however, is John Carpenter to come back one more time and the studio to give him complete control... but who knows if that will ever happen.
And another classic franchise gets a reboot... and isn't much better.
Craig Lahiff's Heaven's Burning (1997) is now a curio because it features Russell Crowe before he became a big star (as was the film Spotswood, reviewed on DVD elsewhere on this site, with a much younger Crowe) putting him in the middle of trouble when he accepts money for being the waiting driver in a bank heist down under that goes very wrong. Before we meet him, we meet a Japanese couple where the wife (Youki Kudoh) runs away from her shocked husband after reporting she was kidnapped, but that becomes a reality when she turns out to be in the bank the crew Crowe is waiting for. Then he becomes interested in her!
From there it is a sometimes unintentionally hilarious, late Oz-Ploitation film (most of the films form the cycle ended by the later 1980s) and even when the film has dull moments, they do not last for long thanks to several twists, turns or outright riotous moments you cannot tell if the filmmakers intended certain things or not. Sometimes it is budget limits, but other times, who knows. Of course, this cycle is politically incorrect, so those having low tolerance for ignorance by some of the characters might not be able to handle this.
Needless to say Crowe more than holds his own and the film has aged in interesting ways. The rest of the cast is not bad and the action is not bad either. I like the locales and though there are mandatory scenes and formula here, that does not last for long spells. I definitely would recommend it for all those interested.
Though I saw a great Agfa Film sign on one of the buildings towards the end of the film in one of its last action sequences, that was not an ad placement as might be typical of a cynical Hollywood production. Instead, the 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer was shot in the Super 35mm format on Kodak Vision 35mm color negative film stocks on Arri cameras and looks pretty good throughout. This has been restored a bit, but still has the intended grit and some surprisingly good shots otherwise. Those who never saw the film before or for a long time will be surprised.
The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix of the theatrical Dolby Digital 5.1 release is not bad, but this was an early digital sound release and for a low-budget film, so there are still some limits and flaws here and there. A DTS-MA 2.0 Stereo version is also included, but is not as good.
Extras include a feature length AUDIO COMMENTARY with writer Louis Nowra and Producer Helen Leake, CAST & CREW INTERVIEWS w/Russell Crowe, Yuki Kudoh, Craig Lahiff, Al Clark and Helen Leake, DELETED SCENES w/ OPTIONAL COMMENTARY from director Craig Lahiff, SCRIPT TO SCREEN STORYBOARDS w/ OPTIONAL COMMENTARY from director Craig Lahiff, a BEHIND THE SCENES featurette, THEATRICAL TRAILER and CRAIG LAHIFF SHORTS & TRAILERS: LABRYNTH (1979), THE JOGGER (1980), CODA (Trailer, 1987), FEVER (Trailer, 1988), BLACK & WHITE (Trailer, 2002) and SWERVE (Trailer, 2011).
Monster Party (2018) is also a 'heist goes awry' thriller about a trio of teenage thieves who get more than what they bargained for. Whilst attempting to pose as waiters at a mansion dinner party, they realize that the people they robbed are psychotic maniacs. The battle for survival begins once the heist goes wrong and the teenage thieves are locked inside…
The film stars Julian McMahon, Robin Tunney (End Of Days), Sam Strike, Virginia Gardner, and Brandon Micheal Hall. Monster Party is directed by Chris von Hoffmann.
Presented on 1080p Blu-ray with a widescreen aspect ratio of 2.40:1 and a nice sounding DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix, the presentation is standard and looks consistent throughout. The film was obviously shot digitally, but well, and has a pretty cinematic feel that's slightly stylized.
No extras.
Monster Party kind of has a Get Out-style of vibe and certainly has a fare bit of gore. Some of the acting is a little iffy with many scenes too full of characters yelling obscenities to one another and lots and lots of begging and crying, however the overall concept isn't terrible. I was expecting the party guests to be vampires or something supernatural instead of just cold blooded killers, as that could have added a little more to their characters. Robin Tunney does what she can with the material and is a highlight of the film, though. Overall, it's a one timer.
Finally, Jennifer Garner steps back up as the badass female lead with Peppermint (2018), which is from the director of the original Taken film, Pierre Morel. While Garner has had a career full of family films and just plan bad films, she holds her own here in this action thrill ride not completely unlike Charlize Theron did last year with Atomic Blonde. While it's not as jaw dropping as the John Wick films (or Atomic Blonde for that matter), Peppermint will do if you're in the mood for some action.
The film also stars John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Richard Cabral, and Juan Pablo Raba.
Peppermint is a revenge thriller that pits a young mother named Riley North (Garner) whose forced into kicking butt and taking names when her family is gunned down by a drive by shooting in front of her. Desperate to find the tattoo faced killers responsible, Riley will do whatever it takes to avenge her family that was taken from her too soon. Smartly hiding right under the noses of the Police, Riley becomes a ruthless killer that isn't afraid to pull the trigger!
While the first half of the film is pretty standard revenge origin movie, the second act ups the ante with the violence with Garner blowing away any bad guy that gets in her way. One sequence where she invades their hideout is especially gory with her sounding off headshot after headshot.
The film is presented is 1080p high definition with a widescreen aspect ratio of 2.40:1 and a nice sounding English DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 7.1 lossless and lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo tracks, both of which are of a high quality for the format. Also included is an anamorphically enhanced standard definition DVD with the same widescreen spec and a lossy 5.1 Dolby Digital mix and a digital copy. The HD transfer is strong and has a fair share of texture and detail, which captures the film fine.
Commentary by Director Pierre Morel
and Justice - BTS Featurette
It's nice to see Jennifer Garner back in an action role after she has been in so many other films in lesser parts as of late. This demonstrates that she can still carry a film, and a return to her Alias days. As far as the film goes, it's nothing special plot wise, and stylistically akin to Taken with flash cuts and shaking action scene camerawork. That being said, Peppermint is a fine action flick, but nothing too groundbreaking.
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Dempsey is United's Boogeyman
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It's been half a season for Clint Dempsey in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur and it is deja vu all over again. Early in the campaign, the recently-signed American scored a game-wining goal for the Spurs versus Manchester United to give the White Hart Lane team its first victory over United in 23 years. Today, on a snowy evening, he did it again. "Deuce" scored in the 93rd minute to give his team a 1-1 scoreline and prevent the Manchester club from obtaining another impressive win.
It is now twice in one season that Manchester United has seen points erased by Mr. Dempsey and you can be sure this will not be forgiven or forgotten. That's a total of 5 points deducted from United this season courtesy of the American and he's showing no signs of stopping at 5 goals and 7 in all competitions. Little things like always scoring against the biggest teams tend to snowball into greater effects. Perhaps this is to be a trend for Dempsey? For now let's just say that the top English teams have categorized him as a major threat and Manchester United will look to double up on him from here on.
Much has been said recently about the former New England Revolution and Fulham FC player: he's better than Landon Donovan, he's the best United States player, he chose his team well. While the Donovan argument is just that, an argument, he is undoubtedly the best American player in the world at the moment, and yes, Tottenham was the right destination for him.
Aside from his exploits at the club level, Dempsey must now step into different shoes with the national team: he must be the one to carry the team into World Cup 2014, just as Donovan did for 2010. His partnership with Altidore must blossom in order to get the most out of what is potentially a high-scoring American attack. While Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones have significant knowledge of the game, their position is more withdrawn and their attacking communication with Dempsey is thus limited. Due to this, and in the absence of Donovan, players like Mixx Diskerud, Joe Corona, Graham Zusi, Brek Shea and Danny Williams will need to step up their game if they are to deliver the passes to Dempsey.
For now let's enjoy what the Texas native and Furman University product has to offer. Clint Dempsey is pure class and pure fantasy:
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Definitely a step forward in his development, he was never successful against United in the past.
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Wanted to cover a couple of quick things from yesterday ...
1. The Baseball Crank answered the "How many pitchers were ruined by a memorable postseason hit" challenge with an extended post on his web site. Let's just say that he covered every conceivable situation, although I wish he had separated the moments into levels of significance ... and only because there's a big difference historically between someone like Donnie Moore or Calvin Schiraldi and the Luis Sanchez's of the world. Still, it's a masterful, comprehensive list and worth your time if you like baseball.
2. After yesterday's "SNL" mini-rant, coincidentally, I received a copy of Aaron Sorkin's spec script, "Studio 7" -- his secret project that caused near-chaos in Hollywood when he suddenly started shopping it a few weeks ago. Everyone loved it, everyone said great things, and after reading it ... I couldn't agree more. It's already my new favorite show even though they haven't started casting it yet -- like "Larry Sanders," only if it was about "SNL." In a viciously clever way, Sorkin's pilot script pretty much obliterates SNL and everything that happened to the show over the past few years, as well as TV networks and the post-Janet Jackson/FCC Era in general. It's a masterpiece. It's perfect. I can't say enough about it. When this show debuts next year (or whenever), it will be impossible to take SNL seriously anymore. I'm telling you.
Just for the record, I hate playing the "jumped the shark" card, the most overplayed angle on the web -- everyone is in a big race to say that something or someone isn't good anymore, whether it's a TV show, movie, musician, writer, web site or whatever -- and that mentality ties into how hostile the Internet has become in general. Everything sucks, everyone sucks, everyone's mailing it in, and so on. You just can't win. In the case of SNL, because I still watch it every week, obviously it can't suck that much. On the other hand, I love sketch comedy shows, and let's face it -- SNL has a monopoly on this format. If I like late night talk shows but dislike Jay Leno (which is true), I can watch Letterman, Stewart/Colbert, Kimmel, Conan, even Carson Daly. If I enjoy a late night show with sketches, fake news and musical guests, I have SNL and that's it. So when the show stinks, there's nowhere else to turn ... at least until HBO wises up and challenges the SNL monopoly some day with a bawdier, riskier version of the show.
That's why I take SNL's demise so personally, and that's why others take it so personally, I think. Ever since Will Ferrell left the show, it's been consistently sub par -- unimaginative and uninspired -- and nobody over there really seems to care. It's almost like they're saying, "Hey, people are gonna watch, regardless, so screw it." Well, people are watching because A.) it's the only show out there like it, and B) they keep hoping it will get better. Nope. It's a stale and predictable show, the same two qualities that SNL always promised to avoid when it started back in 1975. I hate what has happened here. I really do.
Anyway, that brings us to this week's book recommendation, which isn't a sports book, but remains one of my ten favorite books of all-time, as well as the book I probably have read the most over the past 20 years. It's almost plays out like a sports book, because the original SNL cast and writing staff resemble a sports team in some ways, right down to the seasons, the championship year (1977-78), people leaving and everything else.
Here's the book: Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad.
Just to clarify: This is NOT the oral history that was released two years ago. As much as I enjoyed that book and all the stories, it doesn't even approach the Weingrad/Hill book, which was released in 1984 and painstakingly traces the first five years of SNL (as well as the debacle of the 1980 season and Eddie Murphy single handedly saving the show from 1981 to 1983). Six things stand out about this book, at least for me:
1. It's fascinating to read the nitty-gritty stuff about how the show started (the launch, all the censorship battles and everything else), then compare it to the predictable crap they're showing now. SNL meant something then, and Lorne Michaels in particular took great pains in weighing the show's cultural significance, as well as its place in cutting-edge comedy, with just about every decision he made. When you read these stories, you just get the feeling that 1975 Lorne Michaels would hang himself if he knew what would happen to the show 30 years later.
2. The Belushi stories. One of my all-time favorite people -- even 25 years later, there has never been anyone quite like him.
3. The Michael O'Donoghue stories. Absolutely the lost genius of that comedy era. Nobody even knows his name anymore. Read the book, you will understand.
4. The drug stories -- phenomenal. Who doesn't love a good drug story? About 100 pages of this book plays out like a fantastic "E! True Hollywood Story."
5. Even 20-plus years later, this remains the best book about what it's like to write for a late night TV show -- dealing with censorship, celebrities, constant pressure, lack of credit, lack of sleep, competitiveness, testosterone, egos and everything else. My experience on Kimmel's show was relatively tame compared to this stuff, but I think every TV writer deals with these same basic realities ... so if you ever want/wanted to write for a TV show, and you DON'T read this book, I don't know what to tell you.
6. The chapter about Chevy Chase's departure from the show, simply called "Fame," remains the best thing ever written about how becoming famous can screw up your mind and your life. That's one of the overriding themes of this book -- how becoming successful and famous can actually be one of the worst things that can happen to some people.
If you love the show, or even if you like the show, I can't imagine how you wouldn't enjoy this book. Sadly, it's out of print ... but you can find copies on Amazon.com, abebooks.com, and eBay. Good luck.
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Former All-Star pitcher Kevin Correia has agreed to a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners and was expected to report to spring training Monday.
The 34-year-old right-hander was 7-17 with a 5.44 ERA last year for Minnesota and Los Angeles Dodgers, who acquired him from the Twins on Aug. 9. He made 23 starts for Minnesota and three starts and six relief appearances for the Dodgers.
Correia is 76-95 with a 4.59 ERA in 216 starts and 137 relief appearances over 12 big league seasons. He also has pitched for San Francisco and San Diego, and was an All-Star with the Padres in 2011, when he was 11-7 before the break.
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Liverpool's Sadio Mane scores brace in opening win vs. West Ham
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English Premier League: Mohamed Salah (19') Liverpool 1-0 West Ham (1:23)
Sadio Mane had two goals for the first time since February 2017 and Mohamed Salah also scored as Liverpool opened their Premier League season with a 4-0 victory over West Ham United at Anfield.
Mane, who has now scored in each of his last three Premier League openers, and Salah, the league's Golden Boot winner last season with 32 goals, sealed Liverpool's victory in their first competitive game since they lost the Champions League final to Real Madrid in March.
Salah opened the scoring in the 19th minute after summer addition Naby Keita ran up the middle and passed to Andy Robertson on the left, drawing the West Ham defence away from the box. Robertson then connected with an unmarked Salah, who finished the low cross at the far post.
Trent Alexander-Arnold nearly doubled the lead five minutes later but West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski pushed his free kick away from the near post.
Sadio Mane celebrates scoring his side's third goal against West Ham. David Davies/PA via AP
Mane then struck in first-half injury time, finishing from a volley from James Milner at the byline. He appeared to be offside on his second goal, in the 53rd minute, as he pivoted away from defenders and received Roberto Firmino's quick pass near the spot to beat Fabianski.
Daniel Sturridge completed the scoring in the 88th minute, 24 seconds after coming on for Salah. Milner's corner glanced off Robert Snodgrass and toward Sturridge, who only had to get the inside of his right knee on the ball to direct it past Ryan Fredericks and into the net.
West Ham's best chance came in the 49th minute as Felipe Anderson flicked the ball to Michail Antonio, who volleyed it over the bar.
Keita, goalkeeper Alisson and substitute Xherdan Shaqiri made their first league appearances with Liverpool, while new West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini started five of their summer signings -- including former Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, who made his first league start in August in four years.
The win over West Ham was Liverpool's 27th in the league, more than they have against any other team, while West Ham have only won once at Anfield in 46 league games.
English Premier League Standings
1 Arsenal 0 0 0
2 Aston Villa 0 0 0
3 AFC Bournemouth 0 0 0
4 Brighton & Hove Albion 0 0 0
5 Burnley 0 0 0
6 Chelsea 0 0 0
7 Crystal Palace 0 0 0
8 Everton 0 0 0
9 Leicester City 0 0 0
10 Liverpool 0 0 0
11 Manchester City 0 0 0
12 Manchester United 0 0 0
13 Newcastle United 0 0 0
14 Norwich City 0 0 0
15 Sheffield United 0 0 0
16 Southampton 0 0 0
17 Tottenham Hotspur 0 0 0
18 Watford 0 0 0
19 West Ham United 0 0 0
20 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 0 0
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The New York Red Bulls have rebuffed transfer offers from an unnamed Premier League side for U.S. international Aaron Long, sources say.
Daniel Sturridge has been fined £75,000 and banned for six weeks, four of which are suspended, for breaching betting regulations.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Cup-champion U.S. women's soccer team is being invited to the Capitol, Congress' top Democrats said Monday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote to colleagues Monday that "by popular demand on both sides of the aisle," she has invited the players to the Capitol "to celebrate their inspiring victory." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he, too, has invited them, as he lauded them on the Senate floor for their "sustained level of excellence."
On Tuesday, Schumer tweeted he's heard that Megan Rapinoe has accepted his invitation.
I heard Megan Rapinoe @mPinoe-one of the #USWNT's co-captains and stars of the tournament-has accepted my invitation to come to the Senate to celebrate their World Cup victory.
I'm looking forward to scheduling a time when these inspiring women can come to the nation's capital. pic.twitter.com/Ne0cziZQdm
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 9, 2019
There was no immediate indication of when, or if, a visit might occur, as Rapinoe and the USWNT have yet to make an official response to the invitation. Alex Morgan, who scored six goals in the tournament, on Monday said the players hadn't discussed it.
"Of course, it would be great to do something as a team together like that, but we haven't even had time to talk about that," she told reporters in New York.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., also praised the team's "grit and teamwork and talent."
The U.S. team has captured the past two World Cups and has won four total, more than any other country.
Many players have been leading advocates of gender equity. Rapinoe has said she would not visit the White House if invited by President Donald Trump.
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WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections NewsNotesOpinionAnalysisDiscussionPodcastNFL DraftSalary CapNFL Free AgencyRumors2019 Buffalo Bills free agency2019 NFL Free Agency: Ezekiel Ansah to visit Buffalo Bills Cole Beasley Jerseys 2019 , per reportNew,24commentsThe Bills are looking at a talented but oft-injured edge rusher.EDTShareTweetShareShare2019 NFL Free Agency: Ezekiel Ansah to visit Buffalo Bills, per reportThe Buffalo Bills (and the New Orleans Saints) will host free-agent edge rusher Ezekiel “Ziggy” Ansah on a visit, according to a report from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Ansah will undergo a physical during the visit, important because he’s recovering from shoulder surgery.Ansah, 30, has played six seasons in the NFL, all with the Detroit Lions. During that time he notched 48 sacks White Robert Foster Jerseys , ten forced fumbles, and 218 combined tackles (60 TFLs). In recent years, a plague of injuries have affected his availability on Sundays. He’s dealt with ankle, back, knee, and shoulder injuries, and his most recent injury (a shoulder) limited him to seven games and only two starts in the 2018 season.The Lions franchise tagged Ansah after 2017, paying him $17 million for the past year. Before that Robert Foster Jerseys 2019 , he played through the entirety of his first round rookie contract. Pass rushers are highly valued in free agency (especially with the best players tagged and off the market), but Ansah might need to settle for a short term prove-it deal this year, and the Bills could be the benefactors. The Buffalo Bills are going with newly signed journeyman Matt Barkley as their starting quarterback, rather than provide turnover-prone Nathan Peterman another chance.The Bills ruled out injured rookie Josh Allen on Saturday and announced Barkley is expected to start against the New York Jets on Sunday. Barkley gets the nod ahead of Peterman despite having just two weeks of practice experience since signing Oct. 30.Barkley will become the fourth quarterback to start for the team this season, and third in three weeks. It will be his first start in two years since going 1-5 with the Chicago Bears in 2016.Allen will miss his fourth straight game since spraining his right throwing elbow in a 20-13 loss at Houston on Oct. 14. The first-round pick practiced on a limited basis this week and will get additional time to recuperate with Buffalo entering its bye week after playing the Jets.Veteran backup Derek Anderson had already been ruled out with a concussion.The Bills also announced starting rookie middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds has been cleared to play after missing one game with a concussion. They also promoted receiver Robert Foster from the practice squad and released linebacker Ramon Humber.Buffalo (2-7) has lost four straight and is off to its worst start since losing eight of its first nine games in 2010.The game between the two AFC East teams will feature a matchup of backups rather than first-round picks.The Jets (3-6) are starting 39-year-old Josh McCown with rookie Sam Darnold sidelined by a strained right foot. Darnold was drafted third overall, four spots ahead of Allen.Barkley is on his sixth team in six seasons since being selected by Philadelphia in the fourth round of the 2013 draft. He was most recently in Cincinnati before being cut by the Bengals in September after hurting his knee in a preseason game."It hasn't maybe been the plan I signed up for when I thought of going to the NFL," Barkley said of his pro career, which came after he set numerous school records as a four-year starter at Southern California. "But from what I've been able to learn along the way White Corey Bojorquez Jerseys , I think I'm in a great spot right now."Overall, Barkley has gone 159 for 266 for 1,911 yards passing with eight touchdowns and 18 interceptions in 11 NFL appearances.That's much better than Peterman's production since being selected in the fifth round of the 2017 draft.Peterman has thrown seven interceptions in four appearances this season, including three in a 41-9 loss to Chicago last weekend. Overall, he's thrown 12 interceptions in eight appearances and is best remembered for getting picked off five times in the first half of a 54-24 loss at the Los Angeles Chargers a year ago.The Bills offense has struggled no matter who's started this season.Buffalo has scored a league-worst 96 points and just two touchdowns in its past four games. The quarterbacks have combined for just three touchdowns passing and 16 interceptions, including five by Allen.
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An eastern seaboard US property business has split with its general counsel amid concerns over financial reporting and compliance regimes, the company announced within the last few days.
Washington: property portfolio
Bethesda-based First Potomac Realty Trust – which has a $1.7 billion property portfolio covering Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia – announced it had agreed a $172,000 severance package with former head of legal Joel Bonder.
According to a report in the Washington Business Journal, the company also agreed to cover $120,000 in legal fees of the law firm Mr Bonder had instructed to conduct an internal investigation into its financial reporting, Los Angeles-based Gibson Dunn.
Second exit
Mr Bonder had been on leave since the beginning of October, when, as the Journal reported, First Potomac’s chief executive, Doug Donatelli, had transferred responsibility for legal affairs to Mr Bonder’s deputy and outside counsel.
The Journal also pointed out that the general counsel is the second top executive to leave the company in the wake of the $2.5 million investigation into its financial controls; chief financial officer Barry Bass resigned last September.
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Long Island businesses, farmers markets and events.On Thursday, May 9, Hometown Flower Co.’s 1976 Ford 100 pickup will be setting up shop outside of Industry Market & Artist Space at 344 New York Ave. in advance of Mothers’ Day, the busiest weekend in the florist business.Beginning in June, the Hometown Flower Co. truck will be making weekly appearances at farmers markets in Roslyn and Babylon.The mobile florist concept is the brainchild of Jaclyn Rutigliano, a marketing consultant who grew up around her family’s florist business in Woodbury. That store, Jack & Rose Florist, was founded in 1943 by Rutigliano’s grandparents in Fresh Meadows.Rutigliano discovered how detached florists and consumers were from where their flowers came from and how they were grown.“I grew up around flowers, but had no interest in the industry,” Rutigliano said. “But after learning more about genetically modified tactics that make flowers look fake and have no smell, I saw a need for sourcing locally grown flowers from Long Island farmers.”Rutigliano is assisted in the business by her husband Marc Iervolino, a commercial construction project manager, who will be driving the company truck nicknamed Baby Blue.Besides its mobile component, Hometown Flower Co. also offers its flowers through its website, where customers can purchase a weekly, bi-weekly or m... https://libn.com/2019/05/02/pop-up-florist-to-debut-in-huntington/
How to Make Trader Joe's Flowers Look Expensive - Alstroemeria Bouquet Tutorial - HouseBeautiful.com
He styles the flowers for most HB shoots, so we decided to put him to the test: Could he take discount flowers from Trader Joe's and make them look as fabulous as the ones he gathers from New York's top flower markets? After scoring three bunches of Alstroemeria for $4 apiece—putting our total investment to $12—Robert grabbed a wide, low vase and got to work, creating a bouquet that rivaled ones you could spend $35-$40 on from a local florist. Here's exactly what he did. Brad Holland First, Choose Your Color Palette.A single color is always a safe bet, but for more of a conversation piece—which we were going for here—Robert recommends blending three shades of the same flower. Alstroemeria, or Peruvian Lilies, are a great choice, because they're eye-catching and will look fresh for over a week (ours lasted 10 days!). Plus, the blooms themselves are fairly large, so they'll fill up the space in a low, wide vase without requiring a ton of stems, keeping your overall costs down.Second, Cluster Similar Shades Together.For more of an impact, keep the blooms of each color together. Brad Holland Third, Prune Your Bouquet. Trim all of the stems so they're roughly two inches taller than the vase—at an angle, so they can drink in more water—and remove almost all of the leaves, except for a couple near the bloom itself. You want a few leaves, but not all of them, for a little variety and visual interest. Keeping them all can make your arrangement look cluttered and messy.Fourth, Don't Crowd the Vase.Once you've added the flowers to a water-filled vase, let them set... https://www.housebeautiful.com/entertaining/flower-arrangements/a27583792/trader-joes-flower-arrangement-tutorial-video/
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Here’s the sign-up.)Growing up, he seemed to be everywhere.Glowering as a stern Japanese military aide in “Pearl Harbor,” yelling at Carrie Bradshaw to pay for flowers as a Korean vendor on a New York City street, whispering menacing commands as a Chinese mob boss in “Home Alone 3.”And each time my mom saw him, she would say the same thing: “Hey, there’s Jimmy!”She went to grade school with that actor, James Saito, in South Los Angeles. Both are Japanese-American and they ran in overlapping social circles.Over the years, my mom has kept an eye out for her classmate, as if she’s playing some decades-long game of “Where’s East Asian Waldo?”That, more than any think piece or spirited Twitter thread, has crystallized for me what it means when people talk about Asian invisibility: Mr. Saito’s presence in such a diverse range of movies and TV shows underscored the scarcity of other Asian men on screen.Recently, I spotted Mr. Saito myself. He was stealing scenes as the laid-back, goofy father of Randall Park’s character in the Netflix romantic comedy “Always Be My Maybe.”This role was different. That he was Asian was part of his character, but it wasn’t defining. (As the film’s co-stars, Mr. Park and Ali Wong, have said, that was sort of th... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/us/james-saito-asian-representation-hollywood.html
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Susan (Moavero) Vontobel, daughter Amanda Vontobel, son Michael Vontobel and daughter-in-laws Erin Capuano and Nicole Harris.John was an avid collector of vinyl records and a dedicated New York Yankees fan. Aside from his passion for classic rock, motorcycles and classic cars he was a passionate animal lover and there wasn't anything he would not rescue. From snakes, lizards and turtles to cats and dogs, John always had a lost animal to save and his house was a safe haven for wayward pets.The family will receive family and friends at Lacerenza Funeral Home (8 Schuyler Avenue, Stamford) on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his memory to the Bennett Cancer Center. The family is truly thankful for their care and kindness during John's illness. https://patch.com/connecticut/stamford/obituary-john-m-vontobel-67-stamford
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Belgrade Reflections
by Trent Matthews on August 01, 2018
Trent Matthews and Pastor Matthew Bixler recently returned from the Acts 29 Europe “Elect Exiles” conference in Belgrade, Serbia. It was a wonderful time of worship, making new friends, hearing about and celebrating how the gospel is changing lives across Europe, and exploring ways for Grace Church to continue to support our brothers and sisters overseas as well as send out our people to serve alongside them. The “Back from Belgrade” series is a collection of stories, reflections, and responses to what they heard and saw in Belgrade from May 7 – 9.
It has been about two months since Matthew and I attended the Acts 29 Europe conference in Belgrade, Serbia. As a whole, the trip was enriching and encouraging. We received some great teaching from Matt Chandler on 1 Peter and Steve Timmis on the importance of Gospel Centrality. We heard updates from pastors who have planted churches all over Europe, and got to pray for them on the spot. I met and conversed with people from Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Russia, Serbia, the UK and more. Getting to see Robin and Claire in person for the first time since November was such a treat. We also got lost in downtown Belgrade one night with some new friends from the UK (you can ask me about this story in person)!
Matthew has already explained a lot about the conference in his recent blog posts (1, 2, and 3), but I have been asked to share about some of my experiences as well. While there is no way that I could possibly fit all the ways I benefited from those three days into a short blog post, I want to share one lesson that was a great encouragement to me.
This being an Acts 29 conference, I was surprised that the most helpful thing I learned didn’t have much to do (directly) with church planting in a European context. It came from a short “Take-Away” session with Philip Moore, the director of A29 Europe. At my cohort table, we had an opportunity to discuss and dissect the Parable of the Talents with each other. Here is the passage:
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.”
-Matthew 25:14-28
The Joy of the Master and the Third Servant’s Doom
Philip gave this question as a prompt for our conversation: How does the joy of my Master encourage, transform, and motivate me to invest my responsibilities, opportunities, gifts, and circumstances for the King?
It was in discussing this question that I saw two truths that I had never seen before in this parable. The first is this: how I see the Master has a direct influence on how I invest what he has given me. Notice how the third servant saw the master as a “hard man, reaping where [he] did not sow, and gathering where [he] scattered no seed.” His errant understanding of the master to be a hard man made him fearful to act—and thus was his doom. If he just saw the master and the joy that was to be offered him rightly, he would have invested like the first two!
This resonated so much with me because I often struggle to see the Lord rightly. Much of the time I see him as that hard man, who only makes demands on my life and waits for me to fail. Thus I go to bury my “talent”—all that he has given me—for fear of failure. What sweet news it is that God is not that kind of Master. In fact, he calls himself “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness” (Ex. 34:6; emphasis added). He delights in pouring out his mercy and grace. He overflows with love and faithfulness. He is not that hard man—one who only takes and demands from us. He is the one who invites us into the joy of knowing him. He freely gives himself to us in Christ. How I need to see the Lord rightly in this way!
No Wasted Investments
The other discovery that followed from our discussion was this: When Christians use their resources to invest in the Kingdom of God, they are guaranteed success. Let me explain this a little. Notice that the fault of the third servant was not that he went out to the marketplace and tried to increase the asset given to him, only to lose everything—it was that he did nothing at all. He buried that which the master gave him to use for his glory. The only other two examples given were those who invested what was given to them and received a successful return. There is no category in this parable for a servant who invested and failed. There is no fourth servant, who went out to the marketplace to trade and lost all he was given. I take this to mean that if you invest what the Lord has given you for his kingdom, you cannot fail. You will receive a return, whether you see it in this life or not. You will enter into his joy forever.
Now, I know what you’re thinking—“Guaranteed success? Trent, that’s crazy. Surely we all make mistakes and fail in our good works!” Yes, I agree, in part. Of course, we are imperfect investors. But God’s plans cannot be thwarted by our mistakes! His Word will not return to him void (Is. 55:11), and he makes all things work together for the good of those who love him (Rom. 8:28)—even bad things (Gen. 50:20). His Kingdom is unstoppable, and he invites us to participate and see the joy that is offered to us in obedience.
Blood-Bought, Guaranteed Return
To be clear, I am not talking about giving money to the church or the poor so that God will pay you back and make you rich. I’m talking about sacrifices for others, radical generosity, leaving comfort and security to take the gospel to unreached people. These are all things God will reward us for in the next life. It’s possible that we may never see these acts as “successful investments” in this life. Maybe you never saw that person you discipled come to Christ. Maybe that church plant you led never got traction and you had to call it quits after four years. None of it is wasted.
This was a great encouragement to me. It freed me up to look at all the Lord has given me—time, money, gifts, abilities, relationships, etc.—and invest it for his kingdom. There will be no wasted generosity, acts of love and kindness towards others, or risks taken for the Kingdom of God. Christ’s death on the cross has secured the success of his Kingdom and thus our success in investing in that Kingdom! We are then free to live in happy obedience to him—to lay up treasures in heaven instead of on earth, where everything will eventually be destroyed anyways (Matthew 6:19-20).
I hope this encourages you as much as it encouraged me. The Lord was gracious to teach this to me halfway around the world—with brothers and sisters from all over Europe. He is truly a good Master, and he is building his Church. Will you invest what he has entrusted to you for his kingdom?
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The Goblin King’s Masquerade Ball - The London Word
BY ALICE ANOKHINA ⋅ MAY 11, 2013
I’m sat on a cushion outside of the cloakroom in Islington’s Metal Works when a reverse centaur emerges from around a corner: top half elaborately adorned horse, bottom half fishnets and stilettos. ‘I sssssmell goat’, she hisses, sniffs, and disappears into the darkness of the corridor. I exchange looks with the faerie queen next to me, who shrugs it off and takes a sip of her drink.
The Goblin King’s Ball is Grimm fairytales come to life, now for the third year running. North London doesn’t do things by halves – every single person is in costume. Some of them – intricate rococo-style dresses, animal masks, hairstyles laced with entire gardens – had clearly been in the making for months. The venue itself, usually a haunt of metal-heads and rockers on the weekends, had been transformed into a cavern, an elven forest and a witch’s lair. God, there is glitter on everything.
The entertainment is in-vivo. Bands perform throughout the night in one of the room (a special shoutout to The Bohemianauts, a folk vaudeville ensemble inspired by Lovecraft – because why not?) and the main stage is host to dance, magic, burlesque, theatre and puppetry.
As the night wears on, we are treated to all things beautiful, grotesque, funny and just plain impressive. The acts themselves bleed into the crowd between performances. It’s hard to tell who’s there on business and who is just an especially enthusiastic punter. In the end, it doesn’t matter: everyone here has come to see and be seen. In fact, the ball may be crowned the single top spot for people watching in the capital.
The atmosphere is a blend of Lothlórien and Dark Crystal. People are very friendly (as tends to be the case at most alt nights) and the organisers avoid the common irritants of a too-packed venue or too-loud music. Having said that, the novelty and veneer wears off rather quickly. Bearing in mind that the Ball is a once-yearly masquerade and not a regular club night, it reads more like a sub-culture convention than a party. The Goblin Ball is an extraordinary and unique opportunity to inhabit an alternate universe for a night, but it’s a universe with which one has a very deep affinity.
Verdict: worth the £15 price tag if you’re really, really into Jim Henson.
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19 September 2014; Hanh Phuc - Hanh Phuc International Hospital,(HANH PHUC) the 1st Singapore Standard Hospital in Vietnam is proud to announce its collaborative partnership with Genea – a World Leading Fertility in Sydney, Australia through its appointed Joint Venture partner in Thailand Superior A.R.T. – a hi-tech assisted reproduction and genetics company in Bangkok, Thailand.
HANH PHUC has evolved itself from being just an International Women’s & Children’s Hospital to become an International Hospital devoted to healthcare for the family. The Fertility Centre in HANH PHUC was opened in October 2011. The state-of-the art facility resolves to adopt the best practices of assisted reproduction techniques in order to bring to Vietnam the very best of fertility treatments. In July 2014, HANH PHUC’s Fertility Centre achieved the RTAC Accreditation, thus endorsing itself as a Fertility Centre adopting and practicing International standards of reproduction techniques.
“Since the opening of Hanh Phuc’s business in Vietnam market in 2011, it has striven to bring all the medical quintessence from the world to Vietnam and to provide a high standard of clinical quality care to serve our patients in Vietnam.
Our Fertility Centre is no exception. The Centre is continually striving to bring the very best in assisted reproductive standards and technologies to Vietnam. The Centre sets high standards for observing patient safety and laboratory techniques. It has consistently achieved high success in pregnancy rates and has helped many couples in Vietnam fulfill their dreams of having a baby.
In July this year, the Fertility Centre was awarded the RTAC Accreditation, an international recognition and endorsement of the high standards it maintains for the patients and their procedures. Not one to rest on its laurels, the Fertility Centre continues to seek to improve and benchmark itself against other reputable international Fertility facilities.
Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce our collaborative partnership with Genea Australia, through their appointed Regional Joint Venture partner Superior A.R.T., Thailand. This partnership with Genea and Superior A.R.T. is the culmination of our efforts to fulfil the promise we make to our patients – to bring the region’s if not the world’s best to Vietnam.
The partnership is another milestone in HANH PHUC’s history- to offer to couples who have difficult in conceiving; in Vietnam and its neighbouring countries the hope of becoming parents through advance Science and Technology”, Chief Executive Officer of Hanh Phuc, Mrs. Thuc Anh Nguyen said.
Mr. Sarayuth Assamakorn, Managing Director at Superior A.R.T said, “We are very excited about this partnership! Superior A.R.T., a leading IVF and reproductive genetic provider in Thailand and Asia, has outstanding assisted reproductive techniques and know-how as a result of our affiliation with Genea and their vigorous standards in protocols, procedures and training, as well as their cutting-edge research and development. This venture projects our vision of Superior A.R.T. and its collaborative partners, such as Hanh Phuc, being a fertility hub in Asia, helping more people have healthy babies and complete their families”.
For more than 25 years, Genea has built a reputation as a pioneer of fertility treatment. Their research and technology development sets them as world leaders in assisted reproductive techniques and technology. Mr. Steven McArthur, Scientific Director at Genea, said “Genea takes 25 years of clinical insights at Genea Fertility and combines them with almost 25 years of investment in research and development to create and commercialize IVF laboratory technology for the global fertility market. This provides patients with success rates that are amongst the best in the world and will continue to improve”.
“In addition, Genea Biocells has developed the world's largest and most varied private bank of human embryonic stem cells, with cell lines representing almost 30 genetic diseases, enabling advances in research and drug discovery in areas of unmet medical need,” Mr. McArthur said.
It is the aim of this exciting collaboration between Genea through its joint venture partner Superior A.R.T. and Hanh Phuc International Hospital to allow their success to be extended to the Fertility Centre of HANH PHUC, to the benefit of patients in Vietnam and the surrounding region, significantly improving their chances of a healthier pregnancy and a healthy child.
About Hanh Phuc International Hospital:
Hanh Phuc International Hospital (HANH PHUC) is the first Singapore standard hospital in Vietnam. Opened in January 2011, HANH PHUC started as a Women’s & Children’s Hospital and in a short span of 3 years has successfully been granted a Multi-Specialty hospital status.
HANH PHUC operates a tertiary care private hospital located on the fringe of Ho Chi Minh City in the Binh Duong Province. Despite its Multi-Specialty hospital status, the 258-bed hospital continues to focus and expands its services for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics, with Specialist clinics for Women Cancer, Fertility and Cosmetic Surgery.
In 2013, our (493 square meters) clinic in Ho Chi Minh City moved to a new premise occupying all 9 floors of a building in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City providing both care and convenience to our patients.
HANH PHUC is continually raising the bar on clinical excellence; we believe in bringing the best medical and healthcare services from the world to the people of Vietnam. We are sensitive to our patients’ needs for a world class hospital experience and are dedicated to provide a family-oriented and personalized care to our patients.
About Genea
In the 1980s, Genea, then known as Sydney IVF were the IVF pioneers in Australia. Over the years, our scientists and clinicians have been at the forefront of world leading breakthroughs in fertility technologies as well as treatments.
These days, we provide services across states and countries well beyond Sydney and we do so much more than IVF - we lead the way in fertility technology and services.
As Genea, we maintain our proud tradition of investing in research and development, a commitment that means our fertility clinics are able to offer truly world leading science. No other clinic in Australia invests as much as Genea in fertility R&D.
And constantly striving to improve our technology and techniques has made a real difference to Genea patients – leading to a birth rate more than 40 per cent higher than the average of other clinics in Australia and New Zealand.
Genea Biomedx takes the clinical insights discovered by Genea Fertility and combines them with almost 25 years of investment in research and development to create and commercialise IVF laboratory technology to the global fertility market. Genea Biomedx is assisted by Genea Fertility to undertake rapid clinical verification and evaluation of these new technologies and in turn, these new technologies create improved chances for patients of Genea Fertility.
Under licensed embryo research projects, Genea Biocells has developed the world's largest and most varied private bank of human embryonic stem cells, with cell lines representing almost 30 genetic diseases. These cell lines are available for use to advance research and drug discovery in areas of unmet medical need, including in relation to the very genetic diseases that directly affect the families of Genea's PGD patients.
About Superior A.R.T.:
Superior A.R.T was founded to enable this groundbreaking assisted reproduction treatment and technology to be accessible to and benefit patients in the greater Eastern and South-East Asia region.
It has achieved world class pregnancy rates for both IVF and genetic patients. Superior A.R.T.’s highly successful PGD HLA matching program led to the selection of Asia’s first PGD selected thalassemia free and sibling HLA matched embryo, with birth, cord blood stem cell collection and curative bone marrow transplantation in a thalassemia affected sibling.
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FOOTBALL FRIDAY FINALS....
56TH TOMATO BOWL: PATRICK HENRY 17, LEE-DAVIS 14: Not a surprise, this was yet another classic close game in the long history between the Confederates and Patriots. And for the third time in their last four visits to Lee-Davis, Patrick Henry walked away victorious.
After each team traded turnovers on their opening possession, Patrick Henry marched 94 yards on their first touchdown drive of the season, capped by a 3-yard touchdown run from Hunter Hart, the freshman quarterback starter, to give PH a 7-0 lead at 3:12 left first quarter.
The Confederates responded in the second quarter, as Nathan Evans scored the first of his two one-yard touchdown runs. After a false start penalty moved the extra point attempt back five yards, Stephen Hall's kick was partially blocked, and the Patriots remained ahead 7-6. Evans' second TD run gave Lee-Davis a 12-7 lead, and Chase Mummau's pass to Chris Bundy converted the two-point try to make it 14-7.
The Confederates had a chance to make it a two-possession game on multiple occasions. Stephen Hall missed a 26-yard field goal from the left hashmark. Lee-Davis got the opening kickoff to start the second half, and couldn't get points.
The Patriots hung around, hung around, then started seeing their offensive line get holes up front. Bender Vaught approached 100 yards rushing for the first time in 2014. Down deep in the red zone, Hart called his own number again and scored from less than a yard out to tie the game at 14-14, with 3:28 left in the third quarter.
The fourth quarter was a back and forth battle, with PH almost making a fatal error. Lee-Davis got the ball when, on a punt, the officials ruled the ball touched a Patriot blocker before it hit Evans, giving the Confederates the ball at the Patrick Henry 45. But they couldn't get points again, an achilles heel that helped cost them the game.
The Patriots final drive made the red zone, but stalled at the ten. Enter Logan Bulthuis, who nailed a 27-yard field goal to take the 17-14 lead. Lee-Davis still had a shot.
They drove downfield quickly, using the no-huddle offense, trying to save timeouts. The best play was a third down when Mummau was flushed out of the pocket. Rolling right, looking as if he'd throw it away, he found Nick Winston, squatting near the 23. Winston caught it, turned left, beat two Patriots and made it to the 10-yard line. First and goal Confederates.
After a timeout to call the play, Mummau looked to connect on the back fade route in the far corner of the end zone. The only problem was the ball was thrown 3 yards too far to the right, more inside the end zone near the end line, and not at the pylon. Cade Harris saw it and made a leaping catch for the turnover.
When James Pinder gained 20 yards for a first down and the scoreboard showed a minute to play and just one Lee-Davis timeout, the celebration of the Ashland faithful began.
Hart's numbers were small, but his game management and positive attitude, as a freshman, in the midst of a Tomato Bowl, was impressive. Patrick Henry has had quarterback issues since Brandon Cash's final season in 2008, PH's last winning season. That may, may finally be over.
Vaught rushed for 87 yards, Pinder had 52.
For Lee-Davis, Evans rushed 20 times for 68 yards and the two scores. Mummau finished 12-of-22 for 146 yards and two interceptions.
Lee-Davis hosts Varina, now also 1-2 after losing to Hermitage, next Friday, while Patrick Henry, at 1-2, goes to 1-2 Mills Godwin.
#2 ATLEE 49, #6 DOUGLAS FREEMAN 7: For those who didn't believe Atlee deserved the #2 ranking in our poll, tonight should quell those thoughts. The Raiders defense was relentless, while Loumond Dandridge rushed for three touchdowns as Atlee ran away from Douglas Freeman by halftime, then methodically finished their work in the second half to move to 3-0. Atlee has outscored their opponents 168-27 as they head to battle fellow unbeaten Henrico next Friday. Rasharrd Harris through two touchdown passes, and Ethan Ratke hit seven more extra points. He's 24-for-24 so far this season.
HANOVER 28, HOPEWELL 14: In a battle of sophomore quarterbacks, Clayton Cheatham stole the show, rushing for three Hawks touchdowns, one putting the game away with 1:21 left to give Hanover a 3-0 start. Ryan Mallory scored earlier on a 57-yard run. Cheatham ended with 139 yards rushing.
The Hawks will face fellow 3-0 Highland Springs, #4 in our Top 10 Poll, in our Game of The Week next Friday, 6:30pm, on 102.9 FM WHAN Radio and online HERE at HanoverCountySports.net from HCS Media Network!
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An analytical exposition of the European policies on maritime economy from their inception to present day
by Ana Cristina Paixão Casaca
International Journal of Ocean Systems Management (IJOSM), Vol. 1, No. 3/4, 2012
Abstract: Since the establishment of the European Union, both European transport and maritime policies suffered from numerous ups and downs. Both of them came to be addressed on a continuous basis by the Council of the European Union, when the European Commission presented the 1985 Communication on the completion of the internal market where acknowledged that transport played an important role in the European economy. Since then and until today, numerous communications have been released to the extent that the transport infrastructure policy was split from transport policy, and today maritime transport falls within the scope of a broad integrated maritime policy. The present research work aims at investigating European transport and maritime policies from their inception to the very present day and at analysing their impact on the European maritime economy. The outcome of the paper shows that both transport and maritime policies increased their complexity due to the numerous background areas that they address today such as energy, environment and labour issues. Also, the present maritime policy contributes to devise a new maritime economy structure that can help the Europe Union to sustain its maritime role in the world economy.
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BHP : 459.3 BHP
Mileage : 8
Seats : 2
About FERRARI CALIFORNIA
The Ferrari California's design takes its inspiration from the 1957 250 California. The sleek aerodynamic styling is like the rest of the current Ferrari models while it also retains a number of signature Ferrari styling cues. The grille and slender air intake at the centre of the bonnet borrows traits from the 250 GT California. The car's signature feature is its retractable hard top made from aluminium panels and has a cast aluminium weight-bearing structure which has reduced its overall weight enabling the entire opening or closing process in just 14 seconds.
Utmost attention has been given to the design and in-car comfort of the Ferrari California's cabin, a perfect balance between luxury and comfort. In between the front seats, the car gets a new aluminium-trimmed centre console. The car's magnesium-framed seats are electrically adjustable. The instrument panel comes with analogue instruments like a tachometer and rev counter and features a four-screen TFT Multi-display. The new infotainment system with 6.5-inch touch screen also gets satellite navigation, USB connection, Bluetooth, hard disc, voice commands and IPOD connector.
The standard safety equipment includes front retractable airbags (driver and passenger sides) and side retractable air bags in door panels. New generation adaptive headlights known as AFS (Advanced Front lighting System) that offer improved visibility on the road are also available on request.
The Ferrari California is powered by the 4.3-litre naturally aspirated V8 engine producing 483 bhp and 500 Nm of torque. This comes mated to a seven-speed dual clutch gearbox. The car can do a top speed of 310 kmph and sprint from 0 to 100 kmph in 3.8 seconds.
Unlike the Aston Martin DB9 Volante and the Audi R8 Spyder, the Ferrari California is a very affordable luxury convertible and offers a lot of space for its passengers.
Petrol Variants of the car are:
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Petrol variants
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Power 459.3 BHP
Torque 49 @ 5,000 (kgm@rpm)
No Of Cylinders 8
Paddle Shift -
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«Sobibor» by Konstantin Khabenskiy submitted for the Academy Award for Best foreign language film
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ “Sobibor” movie premiered in 2018 directed by Konstantin Khabenskiy and starring Konstantin Khabenskiy as Alexander Pecherskiy has been submitted for the Academy Award for Best foreign language film of the year 2018 by The Foreign Language Film Award Committee of Russia presided by Vladimir Menshov. It was reported by producer Alexander Rodnyansky that «Sobibor» was voted by majority of the Commitee members. The nominees for the Academy Award will be announced on January, 22nd, 2019 and the 91st edition of the Academy Award will take place on February, 24th, 2019 at Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Earlier «Sobibor» was named by Roskino one of the most successful…
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Today: Konstantin Khabenskiy in «Share your Summer» Festival at the Palace Square, Saint-Petersburg
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ On August, 26th from 3 p.m. till 9 p.m. Konstantin Khabenskiy will take part in «Share your Summer» Festival at the Palace Square in Saint-Petersburg. A theater production of the «Little Prince» by Antoine de Saint-Exupery «Don’t Leave Yout Planet» will be read by Konstantin Khabenskiy, Rodion Gazmanov, Timur Rodriguez, actors of «Comic-Trust» and «Licedei» theaters, and participants from Konstantin Khabenskiy’s studios of creative development «Operenie». Games, contetsts, gigs and special DJ set by DJ Pechkin are in the program as well.
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Public Talk with Konstantin Khabenskiy will take place at Patriki Film Festival
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ Patriki Film Festival will take place in Moscow on August, 24th-26th. A Public Talk with Konstantin Khabenskiy with special screening of Sobibor movie will be held on August, 24th from 6 p.m. till 9.30 p.m. at Theater named after Pushkin branch hall (2/25, Sytinskiy pereulok, Moscow). Top Russian actors and directors will attend to the Festival having public talks with the audience, actual features will be screened.
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Tonight — Grand TV-Premiere of the «Selfie» thriller by Nickolay Khomeriki starring Konstantin Khabenskiy on air on «Russia 1» TV-Channel
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ Tonight at 10:55 p.m. (Moscow time) — Grand TV-Premiere of the «Selfie» thriller by Nickolay Khomeriki starring Konstantin Khabenskiy as a writer Vladimir Bogdanov on air on «Russia 1» TV-Channel! The «Selfie» is one of the most successful Russian features of the year 2018 presented by All Media company worldwide. In Russia it was released on February, 1st, 2018.
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Konstantin Khabenskiy dubbed episode 13 of 1968.DIGITAL screenlife mobile series
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ Konstantin Khabenskiy dubbed episode 13 of screenlife series 1968. DIGITAL «How I’ve disliked the nuclear bomb» about a Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov. The project had been created by The Future History creative studio of Mikhail Zygar and Karen Shainyan jointly with Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs Production. The project was presented at the Russian pavilion at Marche du Film-2018 in Cannes.
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Tonight at 9.30 p.m. (Moscow time) — the Grand TV-premiere of «Sobibor» by Konstantin Khabenskiy on Channel One Russia
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ Tonight at 9.30 p.m. (Moscow time) — the Grand TV-premiere of «Sobibor» by Konstantin Khabenskiy on Channel One Russia!
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Today at Wiener Konzerthaus — Konstantin Khabenskiy in «Eugene Onegin» author version by Yuri Bashmet
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ Today at 7.30 p.m. at Wiener Konzerthaus Konstantin Khabenskiy in the author version of «Eugene Onegin» by Yuri Bashmet. Based upon novel by Pushkin and opera by Tchaikovsky the author version by Bashmet combines the classical traditions of Russian music, the melody of poetry and the modern view keeping the atmosphere of the novel. TICKETS BOOKING
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Congratulations with Konstantin Khabenskiy name-day!
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ Congratulations with Konstantin Khabenskiy’s name-day! On this joyful day we wish to the actor and director health, happiness, love, harmony of soul, new wonderful parts, director’s works, cinema and theater productions! Let all projects be successful, beloved people provide joy, and good luck to all Konstantin’s start-ups! And some time for the rest not depending on the versatile creative and social activities! Congrats!
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Konstantin Khabenskiy will present “Sobibor” in Cannes
One of the most awaited films of the year – feature film “Sobibor” will be presented by its director Konstantin Khabensky in Cannes. The screening of the film will take place on May 10th during Marche Du Film. Previously “Sobibor” was screened in Warsaw, Washington, in UN headquarters in New York and in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. “Sadly, but the topic of Nazism and genocide will be always relevant”, – says Konstantin Khabensky. – We see that people hate and kill each other because of the “wrong” language, faith, skin color, eyes shape. Nazism is a maximum level of evil. It is the rebellion to such pure evil…
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«Sobibor» movie directed by Konstantin Khabenskiy premiered in Washington, D.C.
ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ On May, 1st, 2018 «Sobibor» movie directed by Konstantin Khabenskiy was premiered at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington, D.C. by the director himself. The special screening was attended by the representatives of the U.S. Department of State, diplomatic missions including the Embassy of the State of Israel to the USA, different social organizations, veterans of World War II, representatives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Ambassador of Russia to the United States Anatoly Antonov and former Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation John Beyerle were speeking to the audience. The screening of «Sobibor» was also attended to by Thomas K.…
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The Road Trip Issue
By JFP Staff Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:02 p.m. CDT
For some, a vacation just isn't a vacation unless they get on a plane, take a cab to a resort and spend their days baking at the pool. Putting aside the fact that I am the whitest human being on the planet—I turn a brilliant shade of cooked-crab red after 30 minutes in the sun—and bathing suits are my mortal enemies, that just sounds boring. Give me a good car, a good map and a convivial, adventurous traveling companion any time.
Road trips are just better than one-spot vacations. First, you get to choose your traveling companions. If you've ever been on a tour with a whiner, a hypochondriac or a general idiot, you fully understand this. There's nothing worse than listening to someone else's loud, obnoxious laugh or having to change your plans or pace because someone can't keep up (or slow down)—especially when you're stuck with them for the next seven days.
And speaking of pace, another reason that road trips are better is that you can change yours if your itinerary is too ambitious. On a road trip, it's much easier to take off earlier or stay longer when you want to make a spontaneous change. Try that when you're dealing with airlines and group tours.
Road trips, even with gas at $3 a gallon, are generally cheaper than other modes of travel, especially if you're flexible. Pack a cooler and find a roadside park instead of eating out. Pitch a tent instead of staying another night in a motel. In a pinch, sleeping in your car is a better option than falling asleep at the wheel. Just make sure you park somewhere safe. And speaking of flexibility, road trips always give you the option of exploring those out-of-the-way places and attractions that you'd never visit otherwise.
Of course, a great road trip is worth planning. You want to make sure your car is road-worthy. If it isn't, consider renting— and spending the extra money to add extra drivers. At the very least, check your oil, windshield wiper fluid and the air in your tires. You'll want a good map that shows as much detail as possible. Also, if you're as mechanically challenged as I am, a roadside assistance plan will pay for itself the first time you need it. And make sure to pack a basic first-aid kit and plenty of water.
Last but not least, road trips are better because I can do them by myself. I can just get in the car, point it in any direction and crank up the tunes. Or, I can turn off my phone and just enjoy the silence.
My car; my choice.
— Ronni Mott
Outlandos de 1982
by Andi Agnew
Photo by Darren Schwindaman
My inner 6-year-old was jumping up and down for joy as I purchased tickets to see The Police in New Orleans. Finally, years after my ferocious crush on Sting had mellowed out, and I had all but given up on him and his band ever getting back together, it happened. I couldn't believe they got together to play for the Grammys back in January, but going on tour? And stopping within a 500-mile radius of me? Get out of town, indeed!
My 40-ish boyfriend wasn't interested in going with me, citing the fact that he saw them the first time around on the "Ghost in the Machine" tour. "But I wasn't old enough then!" I protested.
Thankfully, my younger sister loves The Police as much as me and is also chronologically challenged, so she was all about it. We loaded up the car, she kissed her new baby girl goodbye, and we took off down I-55 for the Crescent City. I made a CD of Police tunes for the trip, and we sang along to "Roxanne" and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" as we drove across Lake Pontchartrain.
Downtown New Orleans seemed just as it was before Hurricane Katrina—bustling with people and full of unusual sights, sounds and smells. My sister and I had po-boys and fried oysters before heading to the show. The arena was packed with people when we arrived. Unfortunately, we could only afford the nosebleed section, and when we got to our seats and turned around, the effect was dizzying. The opening act was FictionPlane, a young group that was actually very good and well suited to open for The Police, considering that they, too, were a three-piece band with a pop-reggae sensibility.
Finally, the three guys I had been waiting to see appeared: Sting looked svelte as always, Andy Summers looked like a high school history teacher, and Stewart Copeland looked a bit like Christopher Lloyd with his mop of gray hair and wild-eyed expressions. The group immediately launched into "Message In A Bottle," and it was 1982 all over again.
As the show went on, The Police played each and every song I wanted to hear. Copeland is my new hero—he played with such vigor and jumped back and forth between his drum set and an assortment of percussion instruments behind him with just seconds to spare. Andy Summers made his playing look effortless, even throwing in a few jumps and kicks for fun. Sting's voice was just as amazing as ever, and as he played his well worn bass I realized that I had forgotten he was such a talented bassist.
My sister's need to go to the ladies' room near the end of the show was trumped by the fact that The Police came back for not one, not two, but three encores. It was as if they could not stay off the stage, and I really hated to see them go when they finally did. It was definitely one of the best rock shows I have ever been to, and that is saying something. Sis and I are total Police groupies now, and if we ever get the chance to see them again we will be there. That inner 6-year-old is now trying to convince me to quit my job and follow them around on tour, but she forgets we have bills to pay. I'll give her some Kool-Aid and cookies; she'll be all right.
Andi's (Quite Random) Road Trip Mix
"Get Right With God" Lucinda Williams
"A Minha Menina" A Band of Bees
"Danga Stranga" Leslie and the Lys
"Middle of the Road" The Pretenders
"Scarlet Begonias" Grateful Dead
"Trains to Brazil" Guillemots
"Afterglow 61" Son Volt
"Driven to Tears" The Police
"Black Mirror" Arcade Fire
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" Creedence Clearwater Revival
To New Orleans, With Love
by Caroline Lacy
Photo by Caroline Lacy
To commemorate a wonderful year of friendship and unconditional love, my boyfriend, Ray, and I decided to go to New Orleans to celebrate. We left Friday afternoon with my car full of boxes of shoes and a suitcase stuffed with an outfit for any occasion (because I never know what I will feel like wearing). Even the ride was relaxing. My car does not have a working radio so we talked instead, which suits me just fine because Ray never ceases to make me laugh.
My sister called when we were about halfway there. "Are you there, yet?" she asked in a strange tone, "I just wanted to give you a heads-up that your father is in New Orleans. I just got off the phone with him, so be careful and don't wear any bondage gear or anything crazy down Bourbon Street."
I have not seen my father in many years because of a sadly dwindling relationship that started the instant my parents were divorced when I was 19. Now, at age 31, I have realized how tremendously I need him in my life. The minute my sister told me he was in New Orleans, my heart stopped. I was excited and nervous. I called my father to let him know Ray and I were on our way there, and he seemed pleased. We decided to make plans the next morning to meet somewhere. My palms got sweaty as I stammered a few sentences to my father over the phone.
All I could think about as the city's skyline came into view was feeling my father's arms around me and feeling like everything was past us and that I was someone's daughter again.
It was so good to be heading somewhere different. Ray and I had separate ideas of what to do first. Ray wanted beignets, which sounded fine to me. He has tried several times to make the pastries at home, in a pan that he also uses to fry fish. Fish-flavored beignets are just not my idea of scrumptious. I, on the other hand, was looking forward to shopping. Needless to say, we went shopping first, but it was an easy compromise since the first store we walked by was the Hustler store. We then walked all over the French Quarter looking for beignets but couldn't find them, though we could smell them. Strange. We gave up, settled for McDonald's and went back to the hotel to get ready for a very long night of dancing and debauchery.
Ray and I are not fans of the whole lugubrious Emo scene that has swept Jackson away under its tsunami of angsty teenagers with skinny jeans and the commercialized, high-priced salon version of punk, so we were more than elated when we walked into The Dungeon, a punk/goth club with décor and atmosphere to perfectly correspond with its name. A wall made of human skulls surrounded a small window with access to a bartender behind steel black bars. There were two cages, one in which we observed a spirited couple exceeding the limits of tasteful erotic dancing. It was refreshing to hear The Cure, Danzig, Sisters of Mercy, Souxsie and the Banshees, and all the other bands we love but never hear anywhere in Jackson. We felt right at home. We made it an early night to preserve our energy for the next night, but coming home early in New Orleans means around 2 a.m.
I woke up the next morning with Ray in the sinfully cozy Hampton Inn bed with thoughts of meeting my father even more dominating than my instinctual first morning thoughts of coffee. I picked out a Dad-please-be-proud-of-me outfit and walked outside the hotel to see a gloomy gray morning sky. As we walked around in an attempt to find beignets again, it began to sprinkle. I called my Father while walking under the umbrella with Ray.
"So, when can we meet up? Maybe lunch or something?" I asked, trying not to sound 12 years old.
"Well," he said with a tone that foreshadowed a huge disappointment, "I am kind of on a tight schedule this time with friends coming in from out of town and such."
I felt my legs get weak as tears started to cloud my vision.
"We're going to be at Rudy Giuliani's party half the night so I just don't think I will have time."
I think my heart actually broke. I grabbed onto Ray tighter and tighter to hold back tears until I hung up the phone and broke down into a sob, wetting Ray's shirt more with tears than the rain. Ray said that it was the saddest thing he had ever seen: a sad girl crying in the rain in the middle of a New Orleans street. It was a moment that could have ruined my entire day had I not realized that I could trust my emotions with Ray, that he comforts me like no one else. That is one reason I love him. That realization, along with an entire day of shopping ahead of me, cheered me up.
After shopping until we literally wanted to drop, we got all dressed up for another night in New Orleans. The moon that night was absolutely incredible. It looked as if you could drive down the street and crash into the full, glowing orb with your car. This time we headed to The Whirling Dervish, another punk club off the touristy path of Bourbon Street. The bartender there was a transvestite in combat boots and dangly disco ball earrings who explained that the bandage on his head was from a very hard hit to the headboard the night before. He also enjoyed lifting up his skirt and flashing us. I congratulated him on his God-given blessing. We stayed out until 4 a.m., dancing and drinking and laughing.
New Orleans is a sensory city. The aesthetics are enough to appeal to every eye, from intricately detailed architecture to smatterings of graffiti on the bathroom door of the Café du Monde. You can take 10 steps in any direction and inhale a different aroma. Step past a bakery emanating the warm sugary smell of freshly made beignets and pralines, or a park full of the sweetest-smelling magnolias, and suddenly you are taken aback by a stench from a dark alley that smells something like a piss-covered dead fish with beer breath.
The daytime streets are filled mostly with the sounds of the city, along with an occasional trumpet or saxophone player. Walking down St. Charles at 10 a.m., you can hear the sound of newspapers rustling in one hand of a café patron while he holds the jingling leash of a panting pit bull.
When evening comes, people seem to come out of nowhere, and the noise they make grows increasingly louder until dawn. You can hear a different song playing from every door of every bar, tourist gift shop and restaurant. There are people up in the balconies shouting at the weaving pedestrians to flash for beads. A group of young black girls tapping until their feet are sore will yell at anyone who stops to watch and doesn't leave a dollar. As you pass by the locals, you can hear talk of the end of the world and stories of Katrina. It is hard to imagine meeting New Orleanians like our beloved transvestite bartender anywhere else.
Sunday morning came way too fast. We were exhausted and dreaded the drive back to Jackson, but we were definitely ready to be home. It's nice to have a city like New Orleans to visit and allow a little bit of irresponsibility and craziness, but I would much rather be at home eating Ray's perfected cinnamon toast in bed watching "South Park."
by Tiffany Fitch
Photo by Tiffany Fitch
"I thought Graceland was supposed to be like Disneyland, only funner," Henry, age 6, said at the top of his lungs last August, in a packed trolley that had broken down near Beale Street in Memphis. "It was boring and stupid."
Tourists decked out in Elvis shirts and caps turned to stare at us, and I wished I could drown in the sweat puddle forming under my rear.
"I hate Elvis. He hates me. Let's hang Elvis from a tree. With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Elvis can't say I love you. Cause he's dead. Dead, dead, dead," Henry sung to his audience, his entire face a grin, eyes glowing like the King's gold lamé jumpsuit.
"You don't really mean that, honey," I said loud enough for everyone to hear, lest they think I, too, was a traitor to the Elvis cause, and hang us both up as examples from the trolley handrails.
"Nope, I really do. He stinks! The only ride that place had was Lisa Marie's crappy swing set, and they wouldn't even let me play on it."
Georgie, 9, having recently decided she was too cool for our entire family, scooted down the bench away from us, flipping her hair behind her shoulder.
"That is sooooooooooooo rude! Pretend you don't know me."
I ignored them both, daydreaming about running away to Blue Hawaii in a pair of white go-go boots and a mini skirt with a Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love.
"Mama," Nicholas, 10, said, interrupting my reverie by poking me numerous times in the shoulder with his finger. "Isn't it just a little strange that the two U.S. cities with major fault lines both have trolleys? I find that suspicious."
"As if dirty looks from Elvis fans wasn't bad enough," I thought, looking up at the huge, old buildings destined to tumble down around us at any moment when the Big One hit.
Just the morning before, on our way to Memphis, Nicholas had informed me of the potential for catastrophe.
"Memphis is a time bomb waiting to happen," he said.
I spent the rest of the day planning our funerals while waiting for the ground to shake beneath us. That night, Nicholas woke me up at least 11 times by screaming "Earthquake!" every single time a guest on our floor shut their door. Finally, I realized we were more likely to crash to our death in the elevator of the Heartbreak Hotel—which stopped a good six inches from its destination and trembled and shook with a quick drop before the doors creaked open—than for the earth to swallow us whole a block away from Graceland. I also decided that if Nicholas woke me up one more time, I would personally kill him with my own two hands.
I guess he'd forgotten my ban on natural--disaster talk as time passed in the trolley. He proceeded to tell me every detail of each earthquake in the past 20 years.
"Mama, I'm hot," Henry interrupted us. "Can we go to Disneyland next year?"
I didn't think Memphis was so bad myself. We'd arrived the morning before, meeting up with my mom, grandma and brother Oliver at the Scottish Inn on Elvis Presley Boulevard. We dropped my grandma (who hates Elvis as much as Henry does) off at the Heartbreak Hotel and headed off to Graceland, four kids in tow.
Elvis' music assaulted us from all sides. People were everywhere, accents and languages spanning the globe, temperature only 447 degrees. I thought the fact that we'd escaped our first gift shop without making a purchase was a good sign, and we moved toward the bus line to the mansion.
"I wanted a picture of myself by the gates," Georgie whined, as the line crept slowly ahead. My mom and brother caught the bus before us, inducing another round of screams from the children left behind. I was tempted, briefly, to flee.
I didn't, though, and we squeezed in the next bus traveling across the street to the palace of the King. Mom had already disappeared inside. Two of the children bustled ahead, and the third trailed behind, listening to every moment of the recorded tour. I stayed with the slowpoke and prayed I wouldn't find Hannah hiding in the Jungle Room or Nick lounging on the yellow sofa in the TV room.
Five-hundred hours later we emerged, skipping the memorabilia entirely. The children surged forward, a bulging mass of giggling, skipping, pushing and arguing children moving toward the grave site. It was a solemn affair, full of quiet tears and millions of camera flashes, until we arrived.
"Which one is Elvis, Mama?"
"Is that a baby grave?"
"Whose baby is that?"
I made the mistake of answering.
"Poor Elvis, his brother died, and he died on the potty from taking too many pills."
I scrunched between two offended Germans, snapped a picture, grabbed the children and ran like hell to the bus line.
I sighed as the trolley shuddered to life. "Maybe it was a little bad," I thought.
Thirty minutes later we passed the pyramid and approached our stop. I pulled the cord to signal the driver but instead of slowing, the trolley seemed to gain speed. I yanked again as she went past our stop, and another and another, halting six long, treeless blocks from where we were parked.
"Disneyland, indeed," she huffed under her breath as we trooped past her. And I wished I had one of Elvis' scarves to choke her with.
Drinking at the Fountain of Faulkner
by Nick Judin
Photo by Nick Judin
Oxford is known, above all else, as the home of William Faulkner and other literary greats. As a young writer, I've heard that there's "something in the water" in Oxford that makes great writers.
Having no talent of my own, I decided to give the local tap a try.
I left Jackson on July 3 (my 17th birthday) and made the long drive north with my girlfriend, Wi, a photographer and Russian translator. We arrived late at night, and accomplished little more than picking up hamburgers and falling asleep watching "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and "Criss Angel." After waking up from strange dreams about supernatural bail-jumpers, we hurried to the Square. Despite the holiday, Square Books was open, so we sat on the balcony with coffee and did what you do in Oxford—we read. Specifically, "The Sound and the Fury."
Finding Faulkner's writing a little too hard to digest, we opted for the next most authentic thing—his gravestone. We took a moment to clean up the smashed beer bottles (for literary shame, people, it's supposed to be whiskey) and then recreated Kay Holloway's well-known photograph of Willie Morris. I actually look as tired as Willie did, and that kind of scares me.
After the graveyard we spent a couple hours in town and then headed to the Grove for the 4th of July celebration. It was a heartwarming sight: liberal-arts students and soccer moms mingling with country folk, the kind of guys with American flag shirts and Confederate flag tattoos. It was only while waiting in line so Wi could get on the Moon Jump that I pulled myself away.
Later that night, we found a parking lot on the campus where we could watch the fireworks. Wi and I sat on a hill and watched the show with about a dozen other people. The night was perfect for fireworks, and the sparkling lights, distant cheers and ringing clap of the explosions made for a very romantic night.
That was, until the show ended, and we realized we were two out of a couple thousand people about to get into a car and leave the campus. We hurried home, noted the party next to us being broken up by the cops, and had a candlelit dinner, starving-artist style (mini-bottles of "non-alcoholic" wine and leftover pasta).
The next day we had something special planned. We were told to head south down the highway and turn left at a red brick church. These directions turned out to be insufficient, we discovered, since in the South there are lots of churches, and apparently red brick is a favorite building material.
Once we found the place, "Old South Carriage of Oxford," we introduced ourselves to a Mr. Bubba Traylor and his father, Doyle. Next to us was a carriage, drawn by two tall mares. Bubba took us out on a carriage ride and told us a little bit about the horses and himself. It didn't look completely out of place in rural Oxford, but it definitely turned heads.
"I've been working with horses ever since I was born," he told me. "I started this buggy thing about a year ago." We rode across the countryside for about an hour, both Wi and I getting a chance to drive the carriage. If you know how hard it is to get one horse to listen to you, try two at the same time. For 15 minutes, I managed to avoid driving the cart off a cliff . We passed by some cars that decided it'd be a great idea to honk at the horses (note: it's really, really not), but thanks to our driver, we kept the wagon under control. Back at the ranch house, we said goodbye to Bubba and Doyle, and headed back into town.
All that was left to do was pack everything and head back to Jackson. It may be a little trite to say, but the best part of my road trip to Oxford were the people I met there. Whether it's one of the writers that put the town on the map, a college student trying to find his pants after a long night out or a friendly cowboy with an authentic Amish carriage, the people of Oxford make the town worthy of its literature.
To contact Old South Carriage for weddings, tours or special occasions, call 662-346-1682.
Wayfaring Preacher Man
by Robert Connolly
Photo by Christi Vivar
I experience road trips as pilgrimages into the Kingdom of God. Like any good theological venture, there are rules and regulations: Thou shalt avoid the Interstate Highway system at all costs. Thou shalt stop at any and all points of interest, or at the inclination of any of the vehicle's occupants. Thou shalt be mindful and intentional of everything in your field of senses. Thou shalt be in community with all that you encounter on the road. Thou shalt just stop and set a good bit. Thou shalt travel 250 miles per day, or less. And so on.
The Pilgrimages
Emma and I began our married life with an 18-day run from Jackson to New Mexico with the mantra, "I got a tank full of gas and an open mind." At the end of each day, we played the "What was your favorite part of the day?" game. Consistently our responses were seemingly mundane. My favorite part of the entire trip was watching Emma in her deep-blue flannel shirt, her golden hair flowing in the wind, gathering seeds from shoulder-high sunflower fields in western Kansas. (The photo is on my desk today.) We pulled into our home in Jackson after 18 days on the road, agreeing that with a couple loads of laundry and a thermos of coffee we would be ready to hit the road again.
The next year we took Highway 84—"The Road to Nowhere"—from Abilene to the Canadian border. My favorite part of that trip was driving through some 50 misty miles on rutted gravel roads, in a nature preserve north of Thedford, Neb.—totally isolated in the stark beauty, interrupted only by hawks, eagles and other winged creatures.
For the eight years I lived in Jackson, my annual treks up North became routine. I drove up the Natchez Trace to Tupelo in the evening dusk. The next morning, I would be on the road by 6 a.m., completing the parkway west of Nashville, snaking into Kentucky through the limestone-stacked fences and rolling hills where Thomas Merton came to rest. I know every pullover on that Trace.
In north Alabama, I sat patiently in the cold on a tree stump at mile marker 330 to see the ripples in the water as the beaver swam from their lodge checking the sturdiness of their construction. Beyond the Trace, I recognize the green pasture land and the rises where those seemingly out-of-place Roman Catholic convents and churches dot the Kentucky hills around Gethsemane.
I just returned from my annual trip up North. The problem is that I now live in Memphis and the ritual of driving along the Trace from Jackson doesn't work. The thought of driving I-40 to Nashville and then north on I-65 to Louisville is too much. So, I got out my Kentucky/Tennessee map, pen and ruler. I lined up Memphis, Tennessee with Newport, Ky., and drew a straight line. Hmm … Blue Highway 79 snaked a circuitous path 3/4 of the way through towns like Bells, Humboldt, Milan, Paris, India, Bethlehem, Cave Spring and Brandenburg. Then, Highway 42 just kind of winds along the Ohio River.
A new ritual is sanctified. The Kingdom of God is like a Blue Highway.
Stumbling Upon the Blues
by Cheree Franco
Photo by Cheree Franco
It all started when I met Jody. I was randomly taking pictures in Yazoo County, when this wiry older man caught my eye. Something in his stride reminded me of my grandfather, so I joined the group outside Jody's Snack Shop. Jody and I struck up a conversation, and he pointed out the Blue Front Café, well-known from Bentonia Blues lore. The shack sat unobtrusively between the railroad tracks and a rusted cotton gin.
"Come back June 16," Jody said. "Come back. That'll be a day."
June 16 arrives, and none of my friends can come with. So I guess it'll just be me and my camera-crutch. If I can hide behind my stealthy black-box, I have validation.
I put on my mom's vintage peasant skirt and roll down the car windows. The summer evening smells sickly-sweet. There's nothing but corn for miles, but I feel connected, like my body can recall my family's history on some genetic level. Before they moved to yuppie-burb, my family lived in Warren and Neshoba counties. Before they were executives, they were sharecroppers.
I turn off the highway and follow the tracks. Downtown Bentonia is a single block: a grocery store and combination police station/city hall. I had expected a shack full of country bluesmen. Whatever's going on here tonight, it's bigger than that.
At the sight of a stage and milling people, my artistic ambition pulses. Confidently, I stroll to the front, where some old-timer soulfully moans. I ask who he is, and am quickly informed that these guys have been at it since noon. The Bentonia Blues Festival, I learn, is an annual event, and the Blue Front's proprietor, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, has just taken the stage. I frame my shot, focus the lens and—nothing. I slide open a piece of plastic to reveal an empty cavity. I forgot to bring the battery—of course. Time to plop the camera in my car and survey the situation from afar.
It seems as if the whole town has turned out. One man's got a barbeque cooker, and ladies are selling homemade snacks off card tables. Back at the stage, I hesitantly begin to dance. Suddenly, there is a small, smiling girl at my side. As she shyly pantomimes my moves, the smile breaks into a full-fledged grin. I grin back, and together we dance. Then she is making up her own moves, and I am pantomiming her. By the end of the set, we are sweaty and giggly, the bottom of my skirt dragging and dusty.
Waiting in line for tropical ices, I learn that my new friend is named Andrill. We link hands walking back, and some guy winks and calls, "Can I hold your hand, too?"
"Gotta be under 10," I say, glibly. For the first time all day, I am happy.
Then, suddenly worried, I turn to Andrill. "How old are you?"
She grins. "You're good. I'm only 9."
For the rest of the evening, it's Andrill and me. Sometimes other kids join us for the dancing; sometimes it's just us. We're a team, and I feel blessed, knowing I need this, to remember that living's about the living, not about later writing about it. Andrill teaches me moves I've never attempted, moves involving quick hip-flicks and strange contortions, and I teach her the remnants of seventh-grade cotillion. I spin her in, she spins me out, and then she gets the bright idea to dip me, and people actually clap. Then I scoop her up behind the knees and dip her back, river-baptism-style, so that she gets a head rush and squeals.
In between sets, we teach each other hand claps, make up secret handshakes and test for ticklish-ness. She grabs my arm, loops it nonchalantly over her shoulder, and we stroll the grounds.
Eventually the music ends, but there are still people picking up trash and packing up tables. Andrill finds an unopened bag of chips. We get a group together and invent a game.
The big kids look out, going easy on the little ones. Passers-by are haphazardly thudded with wayward chips. And then Andrill's grandma comes to collect her, and she is gone.
The last of the families leave, and the party relocates to the Blue Front. Someone starts up a jukebox. By the time I leave Bentonia, it's 3 a.m. Even the trains have stopped running. The town feels perfect, like an unbroken set.
Back in my car, I turn off the music to make room for my thoughts. The early morning still smells of cornfields. I feel sticky and satisfied. It's a feeling of knowing that, despite my nomadic tendencies, Mississippi is home.
A New Chattanooga
by Candy Manning Hagwood
The trees seemed to sway like a church choir as our car crossed their path. I sat in the passenger seat daring myself to jump out of the window as Carly, my 5-year-old daughter, asked, "How much longer?" for the 26th time during the five-hour trip. Ten more miles to Chattanooga.
My 8-year-old son Spencer, thanks to his Nintendo DS Lite, no longer realized that he was on the same planet as the rest of us. For once, I was glad.
I hadn't been to Chattanooga since I was a kid in the 70s. The only memory I had was from a family photo of me standing in my favorite navy, terrycloth jumper pointing to the Ruby Fall's sign with my pre-braces bucktoothed grin.
I didn't have any expectations. We simply wanted to take the kids somewhere they had never been before, and it needed to be fairly close to Jackson since we only had a few days left before their spring break was over.
The sun was starting to set and as we drove down Market Street toward downtown to find our hotel, and I started to get a little nervous. "Are you sure that we're going the right way?" I asked my husband. "Downtown" was not the right direction for a "family" affair, in my experience. But this was not to be my usual experience.
As we drove further north, closing in on the Tennessee River, little white lights twinkled, outlining the tops of buildings. Horse-drawn carriages rode up and down the streets as pedestrians filled the sidewalks lined with patio dining for the local restaurants.
There were museums, an art deco-style movie theater, a bookstore, a Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream shop and the gigantic Tennessee museum. We had entered a hidden wonderland.
Like a pack of greyhounds, the four of us raced toward our hotel lobby to check in once we'd found a parking place. The clock was ticking! The thought of unloading our bags never crossed our minds.
We all agreed that it was the perfect night for a carriage ride. Not only were the skies clear and the temperature in the mid-60s, we knew that a tour of the city at a comfortable pace was exactly what we needed to come up with our agenda for the next few days.
Dressed in creased black pants, a white, button-down shirt and a red bow tie, our tour guide introduced himself as Dave. Then he introduced us to his beautiful, dark brown Clydesdale, June Bug, and his Dalmatian, Ivan.
With Ivan's spotted rear-end facing us, Dave had my kids in stitches when he placed a pair of sunglasses on the top of Ivan's tail, making his tail a "nose." As we meandered south down Broad Street, cuddled up in complimentary blankets, Dave shared some of the city's history with us.
Until 1988, he told us, most of downtown was deserted. Old, empty warehouses and decaying buildings covered most of the area. The only people that lived in the area were homeless. The city had been working for years against their "dirty" reputation given to them by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which in 1969 had ranked Chattanooga "the dirtiest city in America," due to air pollution.
The people of Chattanooga decided that it was time for a rebirth of their city. In November 1988, at the intersection of Broad Street and Riverfront Parkway, bulldozers started tearing down the old and ground-breaking for the new. The Tennessee Aquarium was the first of the "new" Chattanooga. It opened in 1992 and is the largest freshwater aquarium in the world. Everything else bloomed from there.
My husband and I sat silently enjoying our history lesson and observing the random lights watching over the city from the surrounding foothills of the Smoky Mountains. It was magical. For my kids, well … they were still obsessed with Ivan's tail.
After breakfast the following morning, my kids bounced up and down begging to go to the Creative Discovery Museum. It sat next to our hotel, and we had a bird's-eye view into the front windows. My children felt teased while eating their chocolate chip waffles as they watched other children already inside soaking one another with water spray jets.
Once in the museum, my daughter sang a few of her favorite tunes in the sound room/recording studio, fancying herself as the next Hilary Duff. My son, a self-proclaimed science lover, was mesmerized with the energy that his own body made while watching the lightning-rod lines as they followed his hands during the various kid-friendly experiments.
"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak" was the Hopi quote covering one large wall. The words of Albert Einstein, "Imagination is more important than knowledge," covered another.
"This is the bestest children's museum that I've ever been to, Mom," said my little girl, smiling. I had to agree with her.
There was more to do than we could fit into our two-day visit, but we tried our best. We made our way up Lookout Mountain to explore Ruby Falls. My children loved the rock formations, which resembled bacon and cacti. They giggled when my husband and I had to turn sideways to make it through the narrowing tunnels. Further up the mountain, we checked out Rock City. My son was amazed when we reached the top and he read that he could see seven U.S. states from where he stood.
It was here that I was finally flooded with my real childhood memories of Chattanooga. I posed as my husband took a picture of me pointing to the Ruby Fall's sign—minus the navy, terrycloth jumper of course.
That evening, we headed back downtown. We sat on the patio of the Big River Grille & Brewing Works, filling our stomachs with hazelnut-encrusted chicken and juicy steak as we watched other people pass by us, searching for their next adventure. Afterwards we walked a few blocks south to the Rock Point Book Store.
Inside, a fresh pot of coffee sat brewing on a side table under the exposed-beam ceilings, supported by red-brick walls. There were multiple places to sit and read, including an antique sofa, wingback chairs and several old church pews. My son ran toward an old truck parked in the children's section. The sign read "Joad's Truck from The Grapes of Wrath." Standing beside the truck was a bottle tree covered with bookmarks. As my husband sat on the sofa reading an article from Newsweek, my daughter made herself comfortable in an old school desk and thumbed through a picture book.
It was a Hallmark moment if ever I've seen one.
The last day of our trip arrived too soon. We checked out of our hotel and loaded our car before dedicating our morning to one last site—the 12-story Tennessee Aquarium awaited us.
Making our way down Broad Street, we could see the Aquarium's pyramid-shaped roof with its glass skylight towering above the other buildings. It was beautiful, all 56,975 square feet of it. Escalators led us through the corridors as we watched the sharks and giant sea turtles swim gracefully across the walls of glass. I watched Carly take gentle steps across the path of the butterfly garden, quietly begging a monarch to choose her for its landing site. "Mom! Look!" Spencer called to me from another room, knowing that I would be excited to see him pet a baby shark. I looked around, amazed. It was easy to understand how this was where the "new" Chattanooga began.
Later that evening, shortly before arriving back in Jackson, I turned toward the back seat and asked my children if they had enjoyed their trip. All smiles, my son said, "Yes! When can we go back?"
Yawning, with a look of "blah" across her face, my daughter asked (for the 27th time), "How much longer?"
The Road Trip Issue: Sidebar Stories
Just reading the articles relaxed me and for many of the stories, I got into some real visualization and imagery. -can't wait to get out there with my favorite riding buddy!
justjess
I took a road trip today down to the Gulf Coast. I hadn't been there since a year before Katrina struck. It's sad knowing that a lot of the beautiful, stately homes and the numerous hotels and restaurants that lined the beachfront along Hwy. 90 are gone. About a decade ago, I was thinking of buying a condo in Gulfport. Now, that's nothing but concrete slab. But all is not bad. There are signs of rebuilding, particularly with the rebuilt casinos, high-rise condos that have sprung up and seeing people on the beach. Overall, things didn't look as bad as I had feared. There's still a long way to go, but I know things will get even better as each day goes by.
Busting Out of Jail, by David McCarty
The Temple of Wilco
Ripa Vs. Aiken
Jill Conner Browne: Victory on Toys for Katrina Kids!
Southern-Fried Hip-Hop
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Prevalence of severe acute malnutrition and associated sociodemographic factors among children aged 6 months–5 years in rural population of Northern India: A population-based survey
Ajeet Singh Bhadoria1, Umesh Kapil2, Rahul Bansal3, RM Pandey4, Bhawana Pant3, Amit Mohan3
1 Department of Clinical Research, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3 Department of Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
4 Department of Biostatistics, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Prof. Umesh Kapil
Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110 029
DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_421_16
Introduction: National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 documented that nearly 57 million children are undernourished in India, which is one-third of the world's share. We planned a study to identify the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children aged <5 years in a rural population of Northern India. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at 2 blocks of District Meerut during 2012–2014. A total of 70 villages were identified and all children in the age group 6–60 months were approached through house-to-house visits. Data on sociodemographic profile and anthropometry were collected utilizing standards methods and equipment. The Z-scores for weight-for-age, height-for-age, and weight-for-height (WHZ) were calculated using the World Health Organization (WHO) reference data as standard. SAM (severe wasting) was defined as per the WHO criteria (WHZ score <−3 standard deviation or severe visible wasting or bipedal edema). Results: A total of 19,449 children were screened and 18,463 children (age, 32.6 ± 15.4 years, and 53.4% males) were enrolled, and 466 were excluded due to erroneous age estimation and physical deformities. The prevalence of SAM was 2.2%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.02–2.44%, (409/18,463). Multivariate logistic regression documented age (odds ratio [OR]: 0.97, 95% CI 0.96–0.98), nuclear family (OR: 1.25, 95% CI 1.01–1.54), lower occupation of head of family (OR: 1.29, 95% CI 1.05–1.59), and lower paternal education (OR: 1.49, 95% CI 1.16–1.91) as independent predictor of SAM. Conclusion: The prevalence of SAM was lower (2.2%) in this Northern district of India as compared to national prevalence (7.9%). Younger age, nuclear family, lower parental education, and poor occupation of the head of the family predispose a child to SAM.
Keywords: Nutritional indicators, severe acute malnutrition, under 5 children
Bhadoria AS, Kapil U, Bansal R, Pandey R M, Pant B, Mohan A. Prevalence of severe acute malnutrition and associated sociodemographic factors among children aged 6 months–5 years in rural population of Northern India: A population-based survey. J Family Med Prim Care 2017;6:380-5
Bhadoria AS, Kapil U, Bansal R, Pandey R M, Pant B, Mohan A. Prevalence of severe acute malnutrition and associated sociodemographic factors among children aged 6 months–5 years in rural population of Northern India: A population-based survey. J Family Med Prim Care [serial online] 2017 [cited 2019 Jul 18];6:380-5. Available from: http://www.jfmpc.com/text.asp?2017/6/2/380/220034
As per the sustainable development goal 3, target 3.2 talks about to end preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age and to reduce under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25/1000 live births by 2030 in all countries.[1]
Undernutrition is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children under the age of 5 years in developing countries. Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remains a major health threat to children, as the mortality rates among SAM children are nine times higher than those in well-nourished children.[2] SAM is diagnosed when the child has any one of the following criteria: weight for height (WFH) Z score <−3 standard deviation (SD), mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) <115 mm, malnutrition with bipedal edema or visible severe wasting (anyone).[3]
Despite economic growth and development in India, the prevalence of severe wasting among children is increasing.[4] The second National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-2 (1998–99) indicated that 6.7% of children aged 0–35 months were severely wasted, and it increased in 2006 when the NFHS-3 indicated that 7.9% of children below 60 months of age were suffering from severe wasting.[5],[6] According to NFHS-3, there are nearly 57 million undernourished children in India which is one-third of the world's share.[6] In India, 5 million children die every year due to the direct or indirect influence of malnutrition (1 child death for every 10 s).[6] The NFHS-3 also documented the prevalence of severe underweight, and severe stunting among children in India as 16% and 24%, respectively.[6]
According to NFHS-3, 7.9% of under-five children in India suffer from SAM.[6] With the current estimated total population of India has 1260 million, it is expected that about 8–9 million are likely to be suffering from SAM.[7] This is more prevalent in socioeconomically deprived communities.[8]
The reported sociodemographic risk factors for malnutrition from India includes are age, gender, parental illiteracy, income, occupation, and large family size.[9],[10],[11]
There was scarcity of data on the prevalence of SAM in Meerut District of Uttar Pradesh. Hence, we planned a cross-sectional survey with the primary objective to determine the prevalence of SAM among children in the rural population of 2 blocks of district Meerut. A secondary objective was to determine the prevalence of other malnutrition indicators such as moderate wasting, severe stunting, moderate stunting, severe underweight, and moderate underweight. We also planned to depict the sociodemographic risk factors of SAM.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, India during 2012–2014. District Meerut is located at 60 km from Delhi and has a population of around 3.4 million (as per the 2011 census). Out of this, 1.7 million lives in rural areas. The two rural blocks, namely (i) Parikshitgarh (0.17 million population) and (ii) Macchra (0.16 million population), were randomly selected and all the 70 villages, in these blocks were included in the study.
Preparatory phase
The administrative permissions were obtained from the Departments of Health and Family Welfare and Women and Child Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh. The Health and Integrated Children Development Services functionaries, namely, Anganwadi worker (AWW), auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM), and accredited social health activist (ASHA) at the district, block, and village levels were briefed about the aims and objectives of the project. All the villages in 2 blocks were enlisted, and maps were developed with important landmarks.
Five research teams were made including one research assistant, one field investigator, and one field attendant. All the research team members (RTM) were trained by the principal investigators (PI) and Co-PIs (Co-PIs) in the methodology of undertaking survey, anthropometric measurements, assessment of age using local event calendar (LEC). Induction training was also taken by external experts from the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
A project manual was developed which had the standard operating procedures (SOP) for (i) how to approach the family, (ii) taking consent of mother/guardian of child, (iii) methods for measurements of height, length, weight and MUAC, (iii) assessment of age, (iv) methodology of conducting nutritional counseling, and (vi) assessment of visible severe wasting and bipedal edema. All RTMs utilized same methodology and SOPs for data collection.
The study pro forma was developed, and field tested. Patient information consent form (PICF) and patient information sheet were developed to acquire well-informed consent from parents/guardians of each child. The PICF was also countersigned by the AWW/ANM/ASHA. A patient referral slip was also developed. The SAM children identified during the survey were referred (after obtaining the consent of the parents/guardians) to the nearest primary health center (PHC). A nutrition education pamphlet was given to all mothers of undernourished children after nutrition counseling.
Definition of severe acute malnutrition
SAM was diagnosed when the child has any one of the following criteria:[2]
WFH Z score <−3SD
MUAC <115 mm
Malnutrition with bipedal edema or visible severe wasting.
Steps undertaken for data collection
House-to-house visits were undertaken to locate the children. The mopping of each village was done for 2–3 days, to cover remaining eligible children before completing the survey of the village. This step ensured maximum inclusion of eligible children in the study from each village. The children were brought to Anganwadi Centers/Sub-Health Centers/Schools/Households, for anthropometric measurements, where adequate facilities of light and hard flat surface were available. Hard flat surface was ensured with the help of Water Level Meter.
The data on the sociodemographic profile of the child were obtained. The age of the child was determined by (i) birth certificate issued by a local health authority, (ii) Horoscope (Janam Patri), and (iii) any other valid Government document. If none of these documents were available, then the age of the child was assessed using LEC.
Each child was subjected first to measurement of length or height. For children <2 years of age, recumbent length was measured. Subsequently, MUAC and body weight measurement was assessed. The weight of the child was assessed in minimal clothing. The child was wrapped in a sheet of cloth with a known weight. The weight of sheet was subtracted from the total body weight of child measured.
After anthropometric measurement, the nutritional status of child was determined. The weight of the child was compared with height, and corresponding Z scores was calculated as per the World Health Organization (WHO) WFH Chart. Children having Z scores below −3SD were identified as SAM. A laminated sheet of WHO WFH reference chart was made available to each team to identify SAM child. Children classified as SAM were referred to nearest PHC after obtaining consent from their parents/guardian. The medical officer in charge of the local PHC was informed every week about the details of each SAM child identified during the survey in the Village, for further management.
At the end of each day, all RTMs assembled at the field headquarters (PHC). Each pro forma was examined for its completeness by RTMs.
Equipment utilized for assessment of anthropometry
To undertake the anthropometric measurements, following equipment were procured:
SECA 383 Weighing scale: to record variation up to 10 g
SECA 213 Stadiometer: to record Variation up to 0.1 cm
SECA 417 Infantometer: to record Variation up to 0.1 cm
SECA 212 MUAC tape: to record Variation up to 0.1 cm
SECA 201 Measuring tape: to record Variation up to 0.1 cm.
Internal quality control measures
The standard weights of 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg, and 10 kg were procured. The weighing scale instrument was standardized and calibrated each week before the start of the data collection. For standardization, the standard weights were kept on the weighing balance, and three readings were taken with each weight. Similarly, a standard one-meter rod made of steel was procured. The stadiometer and infantometer were calibrated by this rod.
A Log Book was maintained by each research team for the standardization of the weighing balance, stadiometer, and infantometer.
The exercise of assessing inter- and intra-observer variations was done as a part of the internal quality control process. All RTMs were subjected to inter- and intra-observer variation exercises, once in a month, to ensure the quality of anthropometric measurements.
Further, a checklist was developed including all steps to be taken during measurement of each of the anthropometric parameters. One supervisor (PI/Co-PI/research officer) observed the RTM while they were assessing the anthropometric measurements. The supervisor marked noted each of the specific step performed by RTM. Subsequently, the checklists were reviewed with RTMs. This step helped in determining missing steps/wrong steps/incomplete steps undertaken by RTM while they took anthropometric measurements of the child. The RTM were made aware of errors to improve the quality of data collection.
The research officer also took videos of RTM's when they were undertaking anthropometric measurements of the child. These videos were shown to RTM's to identify their deficiency if any. This step also made RTMs more diligent in taking anthropometric measurements.
External quality control measures
Supervisory visits were made by external expert and external monitoring agency to assess the quality of data collected in the study. The expert critically examined the different steps in the assessment of age, height, weight MUAC measurements performed by RTMs. The suggestions provided by an external expert to improve the data collection were shared with RTMs.
Calculation of sample size
The study documents the finding of a survey that was planned and conducted to validate MUAC against weight for height z-score to diagnose SAM among children of age 6-59 months. No sample size was calculated to estimate the prevalence of SAM. However, a sample size of 18463 children to document prevalence of 2.2% had a precision as narrow as 0.4%.
Inclusion criteria were children in the age group of 6–60 months, permanent resident of study area, expected to remain in the area during the study and consent of parents. Children with physical deformities such as spinal bifida, bow legs, spinal deformities, and knock knees were excluded from the study.
Data were collected and entered into Excel sheet by Data Entry Operator. Dual data entry was done. The entire data into the Excel sheet were checked for its validity and outliers were identified through different methods. The outliers were rechecked from the hard copies of pro forma and verified. The data collected in the study were compared with similar data set of NFHS-III belonging to lowest wealth index of Uttar Pradesh (2005–2006).[6] The comparison showed a similar trend of anthropometric parameters in the children of the present study and that of NFHS-III. This substantiated the validity of data collected. After the data were cleaned, it was freeze and subjected to statistical analysis. The tables were developed after the statistical analysis was undertaken.
Assumption made
The date of the birth was calculated using LEC in majority of the cases. The age was recorded in months. An assumption was made that if a child was born in any date in a month, say the month of July; he was considered to be born on 1st July. This was done to have uniformity in calculation of age of the children when local event calendar was utilized for assessment of age.
The WHO Anthro Software was utilized to calculate Z scores. SPSS for Windows version 22.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) was used to calculate mean, SD, proportion for descriptive statistics and Chi-square test, Student's t-test, and regression analysis for inferential statistics. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Ethical clearance was taken from the institutional ethical committee, and well-informed written consent was taken from parents or guardian of each child.
A total of 19,449 children were approached and screened. A total of 466 children were excluded from final data analysis due to erroneous age estimation (183), knock-knees (183, physically challenged (90), spinal deformities (5), and with unacceptable Z scores (2). Finally, we had 18463 children with complete data. The Mean age of children was 32.6 ± 15.4 years. Out of the total, 9863 (53.4%) children were males and 8600 (46.6%) were females.
[Table 1] describes the nutritional status of children as per different nutritional indicators. The children with low WFH Z scores are referred to determine different categories of wasting. The prevalence of SAM (WFH Z scores <−3SD) was found as 2.2%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.02–2.44%, (409/18463), which includes 8 children with severe visible wasting. One child was found to have bipedal edema. It was found that 2527 (13.7%) were suffering from moderate acute malnutrition (WFH Z scores <−3 to −2 SD). A total of 7160 (38.8%) children had WFH <−2 to −1 SD, and 8376 (45.3%) children had WFH Z score <−1SD.
Table 1: Distribution of children according to Z-scores of weight for height, weight for age, height for age, body mass index for age, and mid upper arm circumference for age
Different categories of underweight refer to low weight for age (WFA). In the present study, 2,254 children (12.2%) had WFA Z score <−3 SD (severe underweight), 5,515 (29.9%) had Z scores between <−3 and −2 SD (underweight), 6,822 (36.9%) had Z scores between <−2SD and −1SD and WFA Z scores <−1 SD were in 3880 (21.0%) children.
Different categories of stunting refer to low height for age (HFA). It was found in the present study that 3017 (16.2%) children were in the category of HFA Z score <−3SD (severe stunting), 5418 (29.1%) children between <−3 and −2 SD (stunting), 5950 (32.0%) between <−2 and −1 SD and 4207 (22.7%) children in WFH Z score <−1 SD.
It was found that 286 (1.5%) children had body mass index (BMI) for age <−3 SD, 1806 (9.8%) children had between <−3 and −2 SD, 6396 (34.7%) between <−2 and −1 SD and 9975 (54.0%) children had BMI for age <−1 SD A total of 201 (1.1%) children had MUAC for age <−3SD, 1344 (7.2%) had the Z scores between <−3 and −2 SD, 5665 (30.6%) children were<−2 SD to −1 SD, and 11,298 (61.1%) children were with Z scores <−1SD The percentage of severely malnourished children Z-score <−3SD identified by WFH, WFA, HFA, BMI for age, and MUAC for age varied significantly.
We have also analyzed our data to depict sociodemographic predictors of SAM. On univariate analysis, it was found that age, male gender, lower education of parents (<8th/ Middle class), occupation of head of family (semi-skilled, unskilled, and unemployed), child in a nuclear family with lesser number of family members (<8) and with lower socioeconomic status (middle, lower-middle, and lower class) was significantly associated with SAM [Table 2].
Table 2: Comparison of sociodemographic characteristics of children with and without severe acute malnutrition (n=18,463)
Multivariate logistic regression documented age (OR 0.97, 95% CI 0.96–0.98, P < 0.001), nuclear family (odds ratio [OR] 1.25, 95% CI 1.01–1.54, P = 0.036), lower occupation of head of family (OR 1.29, 95% CI 1.05–1.59, P = 0.016), and lower education of father (OR 1.49, 95% CI 1.16–1.91, P = 0.002) as independent predictor of SAM [Table 3].
Table 3: Multivariate logistic regression analysis to depict independent predictors of severe acute malnutrition
In this study, we screened a huge number of children aged 6 months–5 years to document the prevalence of SAM. We found that in a rural community of a district of Northern India, the prevalence of SAM was as low as 2.2% (95% CI 2.02–2.44%) as compared to national prevalence of 6.4%. In a similar community-based study from Puducherry, the authors reported the prevalence of SAM among children from slums in the similar age group (6 months–5 years) as 3.6% (95% CI: 1.9–6.1).[12]
In 2011, a survey was conducted, covering over 100 districts, representing over 160 million people and including areas at risk of malnutrition, documented the prevalence of severe wasting, severe underweight, and severe stunting as 3.3%, 16.4%, and 34.0%, respectively.[13] The India fact sheet of Rapid Survey on Children 2013–2014, which was jointly conducted by UNICEF and Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, documented the prevalence of severe wasting, severe underweight, and severe stunting as 4.6%, 9.4%, and 17.3%, respectively.[14]
In this study, on univariate analysis, it was found that younger age, male gender, lower education of parents, occupation of head of family, child in a nuclear family with lesser number of family members and with lower socioeconomic status was significantly associated with SAM [Table 2]. However, multivariate logistic regression analysis documented younger age, nuclear family, lower occupation of head of family, and lower education of father as an independent predictor of SAM [Table 3].
During the first few years of life, the risk of SAM is higher, as initials 2 years of life is a critical period for growth and development of a child. We found that the younger age was an independent predictor of SAM and similar results were documented by NFHS-3 report and other two published studies.[6],[11],[15]
Male gender was found to have higher odds and being more at risk for SAM as compared to female child. Similar findings were observed by few studies.[16],[17] However, in some studies, females were found to have more SAM, and this difference may be due to discrimination of female child regarding amount and nutritious content of diet and more attention given to growth of male child in the community.[11]
Few case–control studies also documented similar results in terms of family size, parental education, income, and occupation.[10],[11],[18]
The most important limitation of our study includes lack of information on many other risk factors for SAM such as birth weight, ANC visits, immunization status, breastfeeding factors, and childhood illness among our study population. We only commented on limited sociodemographic factors.
The prevalence of SAM was lower (2.2%) in this Northern district of India as compared to national prevalence (7.9%). Younger age, nuclear and small family, lower parental education, poor occupation of the head of family, and lower socioeconomic status predisposes a child to SAM. Improvement in our education system among vulnerable community and economic development might decrease the prevalence of SAM in India.
This study was funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
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ANNA JADOWSKA - She was born in 1973 in Oleśnica. She has studied Polish Philology at Wroclaw University. She debuted literarily in Burlington in 1973. Moreover, she has worked in Polish Radio Wrocław. In 1999 she started studies at Film and Television Direction Department of the Polish National Film School in Lodz. She is a co-director of a full-length feature film ‘Dotknij mnie’ shown e.g. at a Film Festival in Berlin. In 2005 her second film ‘Tylko ja’ was awarded at Polish Film Festival in Gdynia for her direction debut. Her next film ‘Dzikie róże’ is awaiting its international premiere.
MARCIN KOSZAŁKA - the author of shooting for numerous substantial works of Polish cinematography. He has received awards at Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and Camerimage and has been nominated for Orły awards three times. He is a member of Polish and European Film Academy and a director, screenwriter and editor of documentary and feature films. After having made two school etudes he debuted in 1999 as a director of ‘Takiego pięknego syna urodziłam’ - a documentary concerning relations in his own family. The film has been awarded in Berlin, Kraków and Nyon. The following Koszałka’s films have been numerously awarded in Karlovy Vary, Chicago, Cracow, Tampere, Teheran, Trento. His most popular films are: ‘Istnienie’, ‘Śmierć z ludzką twarzą’, ‘Cały dzień razem’, ‘Do bólu’, ‘Ucieknijmy od niej’, ‘Deklaracja nieśmiertelności’, ‘Zabójca z lubieżności’. The last documentary telling indirectly a story of a serial murderer from Bytom has been his inspiration for his debut feature film. This is how an artistic thriller ‘Czerwony pająk’ came into being and was met enthusiastically at film festivals in Karlovy Vary, Arras, Cairo, Chicago, Hajfa, Wiesbaden. The film was awarded at film festivals in Arras and Cairo, in Wiesbaden for direction and was nominated for the awards of Polish Society of Cinematographers and Polish Film Academy.
MAREK BUKOWSKI - a graduate of PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow. He has played a few dozen film and TV roles. He is a screenwriter and director of films and TV series. In 2016 he debuted as a writer of a crime story ‘Najdłuższa noc’. The next novel will be published in March 2018.
ANNA DUDA-GOCEL - a director, a screenwriter, a documentalist, TVP journalist, the author of many documentaries, reportages, educational films. She is also a publisher, a presenter, a doctor of legal sciences, a German specialist, a certified German translator. She works for TVP3 Lublin where she makes her programme ‘STOP!Kultura’. She has been a stipendist of science, film and media programmes in Munich, Mainz, Bonn and Amsterdam. Between 2013 and 2014 she was a stipendist of postgraduate Film and Television Documentary studies at University of Television and Film Munich. She has been awarded e.g. for a documentary ‘Wyślę wam kartkę’ (the film has received Butterfly award at European Film Festival ‘Integration You and Me’), ‘Jańcio Wodnik’ at National Film Art Festival, it has also been nominated for the main award at Polish Film Festival in Chicago and at Gdańsk DocFilm Festival. This autumn she will be making a documentary film in Cambodia in cooperation with Khmer Community Development.
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InvestigateWest interns take prizes in regional SPJ contest for universities
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Yahoo! We just received word that Alexander Kelly, InvestigateWest's correspondent at the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks, won first place in the online news category for universities in the annual contest of the Society of Professsional Journalists, Northwest region.
It brings back the bleary-eyed December nights Alex and I worked from different sides of the Atlantic — not to mention tireless toil by videographer Blair Kelly and photographers Mark Malijan and Christopher Crow. It was exhausting! We weren't doing it for a prize, but it sure feels good for Alex to win one.
It was the second award for InvestigateWest coming out of the climate summit. Malijan also won a National Press Photographers Association prize for the excellent photos he shot in Copenhagen. (In another Copenhagen update, Crow has produced an audio piece on the conference. It runs over 30 minutes, which might help explain why I haven't been able to download it and listen to it yet. If it gets posted on the web, I'll let people know.)
The Dateline Earth posts from Copenhagen that Alex submitted to SPJ focused on varied topics out of the international climate meeting including controversial Ethiopian strongman and alleged genocide perpetrator Meles Zenawi's role in the talks; criticism of a United Nations-brokered timber pact; and UN officials' exclusion of our journalists from the meeting hall where the negotiations were held.
The InvestigateWest quartet also did a great job covering the massive street protests, and brought home interviews with Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and then-Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.
Also pulling down a prize in the SPJ student regionals was current InvestigateWest intern Oliver Lazenby. The story that won in the non-fiction magazine article in the four-year college/university division was Oliver's look at mountain goats in the Cascade Mountains, which he showed me when we were discussing taking him on as an intern. You have to love the lede:
"Imagine living in a world where your only possible sexual partners are your relatives. For mountain goats in Washington’s Cascade range, that isn’t such a stretch."
Oliver is helping us launch a look at how building practices and codes and a series of legal rulings are likely to increase production of the Puget Sound region's No. 1 water-pollution problem, stormwater.
The SPJ northwest region includes Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Montana. Congrats are also in order for Oliver's classmates and professors at Western Washington University, where the Planet Magazine won first and third places in the student magazine category, and Klipsun Magazine won second.
Complete results are posted on SPJ's site.
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Port of Seattle offers Earth Day education
Who says fieldtrips to celebrate Earth Day are just for elementary school kids?One week after the release of their 2009-2010 Annual Environmental Report, the Port of Seattle gave adults a chance to reliving their days of educational outings, hosting a tour of two port-controlled West Seattle Parks Wednesday. The Port of Seattle’s Earth Day Park’s Tour, which emphasized the Port’s environmental stewardship initiatives, drew two busloads of Seattleites to Port headquarters at Pier 69 on Alaskan Way.The two and half hour event kicked with a presentation by senior environmental manager George Bloomberg. Bloomberg briefed attendees on some of the Port’s recent contamination clean-up projects and wildlife restoration efforts with a short slideshow. After the Port’s introduction it was off to Terminal 5’s Jack Block Park, located at 2130 Harbor Avenue Southwest. The 5.8 acre public shoreline access park boasts some stunning sights of the Seattle waterfront as well as trails for biking and walking.From a 45 foot-high viewing platform, port environmental managers discussed the environmentally conscious infrastructure redevelopment at the terminal: in adding 400 feet linear feet of container cargo pier, the port was able to enclose the majority of pollution at the site, preventing the spread contamination to Puget Sound waters. Though Terminal 5 is still classified as a superfund site—a location the federal government flags for clean-up because of its severe soil and ground water contamination—Bloomberg said the Port has managed to isolate 70 percent of pollutants in the area. Terminal 107, a public access park at 4700 West Marginal Way Southwest, was next up on the tour.
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Home Books Spiritual Insights into God, Religion and the Islamic Lifestyle Man and the Universe : An Islamic Perspective (Mostafa al Badawi)
Author: Dr. Mostafa al Badawi
Publisher: Awakening Publications (2010)
It is now obvious that something has gone very wrong in the West, and that psychological and social alternatives have become pressing issues. In this timely book, Dr Badawi reminds us that Islam has a historically verifiable track record for healing social chaos and individual tragedy. Sadly, the principles of Islam have all too often been suppressed by the deluge of educational materials, media and socio-economic strangulation from the West. Dr Badawi provides a powerful overview of Islamic metaphysics and unearths its spiritual, social and ethnic values as well as a diagnosis of modern man. This is an urgent piece of writing about what we are and where we are.
About the Author Dr Mostafa Al-Badawi is a Consultant Psychiatrist and member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He studied under many shaykhs, foremost among whom is the late Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. Dr Badawi is also one of the leading contemporary translators of Islamic books from Arabic into English.
Many thinking people now have an inward sense that 21st- century humanity faces stark and urgent challenges that demand wise and decisive responses. Profound illnesses call for profound remedies, and when nothing less than radical change will do, courage is essential to survival. Authentic traditional Islam provides a holistic and historically proven alternative.
In this timely book, Dr Mostafa al-Badawi shows that revealed knowledge is the source of traditional wisdom, and that the Islamic faith and civilization has a veritable 'track record' of healing individual and social disintegration. The author presents a penetrating diagnosis of the illnesses of humanity today, together with a fascinating overview of the Islamic metaphysic, unearthing its spiritual and moral values and its timeless relevance and applicability. Man and the Universe is a compelling and urgently needed piece of writing about what we human beings are, where we stand ‹ and what we can do about it.
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Calibre 71/72
Starting in 1904, IWC also produced a pocket watch with a particularly unusual movement — Calibre 71 and, for Savonette models, Calibre 72. Unlike IWC’s typical movements with three-quarter plates or finger-bridges, these movements had curved bridges and cocks that were almost lyrical in design. These movements are called “fishtail” because of their curved cocks, looking like fishtails.
The Calibre 71 and 72 movements were mostly produced with 16 jewels, a Breguet hairspring and with fine adjustment. They were 19 ligne (approximately 42.86mm) in diameter and with a height of 6.5 mm (in 1904) or 6 mm (in 1917).
Many collectors consider them among the most beautiful movements ever produced, but only 600 of each movement were made from 1904 until 1917, plus an additional 12 produced in 1923. These last 12 were made with 21 jewels and were observatory-rated in Neuchatel as Class I.
All IWC Calibre 71 and 72 watches are highly collectible, especially the Calibre 71 watches produced in 1917 in only 180 examples for the British Royal Navy.
Shown here is the dial from a rare Calibre 71 Lepine watch produced in 1917 for the British Royal Navy. The U.K. “broad arrow” or pheon is on the dial.
One can well see here the unique fishtail-shaped cocks in this image of the movement in the above watch.
This website is independent of, and without endorsement by, IWC International Watch Company AG , a division of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA
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The team of Creators designing LBPC: The Game have just released an official trailer for the pack. For those of you who don't know, LBPC: The Game is a massive LittleBigPlanet project created by members of LBPCentral, about LBPCentral. When released, there'll be 13 story levels and various minigames, making this one of the biggest LBP projects ever. The trailer itself was whipped up by Leather Monkey and jwwphotos, two LBPC regulars, but the pack was designed by a larger group of Creators. With RockSauron at the helm, RickRock_777, Lady_Luck__777, Takelow, XTrophX, MrsSpookyBuz, SLS10, Burnvictim42, and KoRnDawwg have all been working tirelessly to get this massive undertaking finished. We think it looks great - watch the video above and let us know what you think in the comments!
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We are proud to announce that the Pirates of the Caribbean Premium Level Kit, along with water, and the Pirates of the Caribbean Costume Kit will be arriving in time for Christmas, on December 22nd!
Rumours say that the fearsome Davy Jones and his mighty Kraken have come to LittleBigPlanet to wreak havoc and claim some sack folk to serve as Davy’s Crew. Once again, it’s going to fall to Sackboy to locate the only ship on LittleBigPlanet that has any chance of sending him back to the bottom of the sea.
Head deep into the Caribbean to battle The East India Trading Company and Pirates alike, find the legendary ship and take on the Kraken. This new kit features a set of six swashbuckling levels, each ...
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Tag: Digital Humanities
by Medievalists.net June 3, 2019
Spatial Reading: Digital Literary Maps of the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas
Digital literary maps in particular, or maps that produce spatial data from texts that are considered imaginative or creative as opposed to charters or historical records, offer new critical possibilities for visualizing and understanding the interaction between spatial and geographic knowledge in literary texts.
by Medievalists.net May 27, 2019
Lords of the Isles’ home reconstructed virtually
The lost medieval home of the Lords of the Isles has been reconstructed virtually by experts at the University of St Andrews.
by Medievalists.net April 16, 2018
Digital Mappa 1.0 now online – new digital resource for medievalists
A new digital humanities resource has been launched by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pennsylvania, geared to the medieval studies community to create research workspaces, editions, scholarship, collaboration and open access publications.
by Natalie Anderson March 7, 2018
Undergraduate research project finds connection between Chaucer and medieval astronomers
Senior English Literature major, Michael Walecke, is mapping collocations of one of Chaucer’s only prose works.
by Natalie Anderson January 26, 2018
Rock, Paper, Chisel, 3D Printer: Teaching Medieval Art with Technology
Teaching medieval art requires an invocation of students’ imaginations. The majority of the art we study has been decontextualized, removed from the portal, altar, or window for which it was made.
Science and the Future of the Human Past
Michael McCormick discusses how we can discover our ancestors and their lived experience, their successes and failures, and invent a new discipline, the Science of the Human Past.
by Natalie Anderson November 22, 2017
New game allows students to explore the art of 15th and 16th century Florence
A new course centered around a video game was launched this fall at Texas A&M University. The course uses the video game ARTé: Mecenas, in which students are transported to the 15th and 16th centuries to commission works of art as a Medici banker.
by Natalie Anderson November 1, 2017
The Digital Middle Ages: An Introduction
In the decades following the onset of the Index Thomisticus project, medievalists were often early adopters of the digital, and continue to play an important role in the development of a broader field, which came to be called digital humanities.
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Try SAKE!
Sake is the best known Japanese alcoholic drink made with the use of special sake rice. Sake comes in different kinds and varieties, depending on the brewing process, ingredients used and percentage of rice polishing.
GEKKEIKAN TRADITIONAL
The most popular Junmai-shu in the world! It embodies the typical Gekkeikan style and represents more than 370 years and 14 generations of experience in sake brewing.
Style: herbal with hints of grapefruit and light soil. Good acidity, mineral-driven, well-balanced with a clean medium finish.
FOOD PAIRING: It tastes well with tempura, full of the flavour of fish and crustaceans, fresh green vegetable dishes and Asian dishes based on coconuts. A perfect basis for stocks and marinades.
Serving suggestions: The universal sake may be drunk warm, at a room temperature or chilled. It is perfect for making sake cocktails and infusions.
GEKKEIKAN BLACK & GOLD
A unique blend of two types of sake, carefully selected from sake made of 60% or 70% ground rice by a sake master. It provides a rich and complex flavour.
Style: full-fat with a hint of honeydew, papaya, anise and roasted nuts. Well-brewed, with a long and smooth finish.
FOOD PAIRING: This universal SAKE goes perfectly well with duck, grilled chicken and pork, scallops and steamed crustacean dishes.
Serving suggestions: In order to fully enjoy the complexity and nuances of Black & Gold, it should be served mildly chilled or at a room temperature.
HORIN
The combination of fresh spring water, Yamada Nishiki rice (known as „the king of sake rice”), Gohyakumangoku rice ground in 50% and the skills of sake master that results in a classic example of Fushimi Junmai Daiginjo style… Horin has a delicate, fruity nose, subtle flavours are well-balanced, with an exceptionally long and pure finish.
Style: mild fruity aroma with delicate hints of overgrown cantaloupe, honeydew and honeysuckle. It is round and smooth on the palate, with medium creamy body. Long and smooth finish, with a hint of pear.
FOOD PAIRING: Delicate Horina aromas complement lightly seasoned snacks, salads, lobsters and mild fish dishes, glazed pork, fresh fruit, and lighter dishes.
Serving suggestions: Horin is highest-quality sake which tastes best when chilled.
NOUVELLE TOKUBETSU HONJOZO
Gekkeikan sake is chosen by the Japanese emperor palace. It is the highest quality honjozo, laureate of Monde Selection gold medal. Tokubetsu honjozo is made of highly-polished rice and ingredients of unique quality. It is made of a little alcohol in breweries and is sold in a broad bottle of a volume of 720 ml. It has a sophisticated smell and medium, lightly full taste. It should be served chilled.
GEKKEIKAN DAIGINJO SAKE
A perfect example of daiginjo sake. It has an unusually fruity aroma and refreshing finish. It is produced by one of the oldest breweries in Japan and is recommended to all those who are interested in discovering different styles and flavour profiles of Japanese sake. Sake Daiginjo is known for its aromatic, complex taste.
FOOD PAIRING: with slightly seasoned starters, salads, lobster and mild fish dishes, pork and fresh fruit. It should be served lightly chilled or at a room temperature.
SPARKING SAKE
Sweet and refreshing sake. Manufactured in Kyoto by Gekkeikan brewing masters. This “live” sake is naturally carbonated and contains no sulphites or preservatives.
FOOD PAIRING Thanks to hints of tropical fruit, it is an excellent addition to sushi, sashimi or seaweed salad.
It should be served at a temperature of 5°C-10°C to obtain the fullest and most refreshing taste.
The main advantage of this blended whisky is its composition of soft and mild Miyagiko distillates with rich, heavy, manly Yoichi hints. It has been made of several dozen different kinds of whisky, including those maize-based.
Nikka from the Barrel matures in bourbon barrels. When sniffed, fruity and flowery aromas can be felt, with hints of peat and smoke. When tasted, it feels lightly peppery, with an aftertaste of oak, vanilla and candied oranges. It is not cold filtered. A square bottle shape is supposed to emphasise its rich, distinct taste and aroma of whisky.
NIKKA 17 YO TAKETSURU
Excellent 17-year-old whisky which has been rewarded as best pure malt/blended malt whisky worldwide already three times. It is an exceptionally well-balanced composition of single malt whisky from Miyagikyo and Yoichi distilleries, maturing mainly in sherry barrels.
When sniffed, it feels like a combination of delicacy and spices, aromas of plums, peaches and chocolate which turn into dried fruit, leather and dried tobacco leaves. When tasted, it feels rich and creamy, with candied oranges and cherries, toffee, coffee and hazelnuts. Its long developing finish is filled with pralines, charred wood, cigar, citrus fruit, and dried herbs.
HIBIKI JAPANESE HARMONY
It embodies the harmony between Japanese nature and the population of the island. It is well-combined blended whisky, a composition of at least ten distillates from Suntory corporation distilleries – Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chita, maturing in barrels of five different kinds. Not only is Hibiki the most frequently and best rewarded Japanese blend but also one of the most prestigious whisky brands worldwide.
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Home GENERAL NEWS Kambwili castigates Milupi over water loan comments
Kambwili castigates Milupi over water loan comments
Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili
Chief Government Spokesperson, Chishimba Kambwili says government is disappointed with the sentiments by Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) President Charles Milupi that government was fooling the people of Western Province over the 14 million US dollar loan to improve water and sanitation.
Cabinet on Monday approved the acquisition of the US $14million from the OPEC Fund for International Development to improve water sanitation in 100 villages in 16 districts of Western Province.
However, Mr Milupe reacted to the announcement by saying it was ridiculous for President Lungu’s Cabinet to fool the people of Western Province that they will spend US$14million to provide water to 100 villages in Western Province.
Mr Milupe added that the Patriotic Front (PF) government had taken the country one step towards a failed state as evidenced by the nationwide power outage experienced on Monday.
ZANIS reports from Ndola that Mr Kambwili observed when he addressed journalists in Ndola today that Mr Milupi is scared because he had realized that government is now dominating the Western Province where he (Milupi) thought he was popular.
Mr Kambwili, who is also Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services added that there is no corruption involved in the US$14million loan meant to improve the livelihood of the poor people.
Mr. Kambwili further urge Mr. Milupi to apologize to the Zambian people for making such a statement which would bring chaos to the nation.
He noted that Mr. Milupi had teamed up with a group that is calling upon the secession of Western Province and has become the spokesperson.
He has advised the ADD Leader to concentrate on organizing his party than attacking government anyhow.-ZANIS
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A young female with subretinal thread-like structures
Koushik Tripathy1, Anupam Das2, Rohan Chawla1, Shreyas Temkar1
1 Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Dermatology, KPC Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Dr. Koushik Tripathy
Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029
DOI: 10.4103/ojo.OJO_152_2016
Tripathy K, Das A, Chawla R, Temkar S. A young female with subretinal thread-like structures. Oman J Ophthalmol 2019;12:67
Tripathy K, Das A, Chawla R, Temkar S. A young female with subretinal thread-like structures. Oman J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2019 Jul 18];12:67. Available from: http://www.ojoonline.org/text.asp?2019/12/1/67/251029
A 21-year-old female was found to have bilateral multiple irregularly branching interconnected subretinal thread-like black lines radiating from the optic disc [Figure 1]a and [Figure 1]b. Visual acuity was 20/20 in either eye. The fundus fluorescein angiogram (FFA) images are given in [Figure 1]c and [Figure 1]d.
Figure 1: (a and b) Fundus photographs of the right eye and the left eye. (c and d) Corresponding fundus fluorescein angiograms
Figure 2: The skin at the neck shows papules giving a “plucked chicken” appearance
Describe the findings in [Figure 1]
Would you like to look for any other systemic feature in such a patient?
[Figure 1] shows angioid streaks around the optic disc and typical peau d'orange appearance temporal to the fovea. FFA reveals window defects corresponding to the angioid streaks. The fovea is healthy, and there was no evidence of choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM)
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), Ehlers Danlos syndrome, Paget's disease, sickle cell anemia, acromegaly, diabetes mellitus, and other systemic diseases should be ruled out in patients with angioid streaks.[1] This female had asymptomatic coalescing yellowish plaques on the posterolateral side of her neck [“plucked chicken” appearance, [Figure 2]. Biopsy followed by hematoxylin-eosin and Verhoeff Van Gieson staining showed irregularly clumped calcified elastic fibers in reticular dermis confirming PXE. The patient was explained to follow-up with the ophthalmologist regularly and to report urgently in case of metamorphopsia or vision loss which may denote the development of a CNVM.
PXE is a genetic disorder involving multiple systems.[2] Histopathologically, it is characterized by the collection of calcified, degenerated, and fragmented elastic fibers in the Bruch's membrane, elastic media and intima of arteries, endocardium, and the dermis. Visual loss is generally due to the development of a secondary CNVM. Other retinal features include comet lesions, chorioretinal atrophy, pattern dystrophy-like changes, debris collection under the retinal pigment epithelium; reticular pseudodrusen; and subretinal fluid independent of CNVM.[3],[4] The plucked chicken (Moroccan-leather) appearance of the skin is most commonly seen at the neck, the axilla, and antecubital fossa. Involvement of the fragile arteries and the cardiac valves results in intermittent claudication, renal artery stenosis, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, hemorrhage from the urinary tract and brain; and mitral valve prolapse.
PXE is an important association of angioid streaks and should be ruled out in all such cases as it has various serious systemic implications.
The authors would like to thank Trina Sengupta Tripathy for her immense support for preparing the manuscript.
Georgalas I, Papaconstantinou D, Koutsandrea C, Kalantzis G, Karagiannis D, Georgopoulos G, et al. Angioid streaks, clinical course, complications, and current therapeutic management. Ther Clin Risk Manag 2009;5:81-9.
OMIM Entry - #264800 – PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; PXE. Available from: http://www.omim.org/entry/264800. [Last accessed on 2016 Mar 13].
Orssaud C, Roche O, Dufier JL, Germain DP. Visual impairment in Pseudoxanthoma elasticum: A Survey of 40 patients. Ophthalmic Genet 2015;36:327-32.
Gliem M, Zaeytijd JD, Finger RP, Holz FG, Leroy BP, Charbel Issa P, et al. An update on the ocular phenotype in patients with Pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Front Genet 2013;4:14.
Tripathy K
Das A
Chawla R
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Oneida Indian Nation Office of Economic Development Oneida 2019-04-01T13:21:17+00:00
Oneida Indian Nation Office of Economic Development Available to Assist Nation Members
Economic independence is a key component to building a stronger, more prosperous community for our Members and region unto the future generations
The Oneida Indian Nation is proud to provide our Members with myriad programs and services designed to benefit their health, education and cultural enrichment. Oneida Indian Nation leadership believes it is just as important to provide Nation Members with the resources needed to thrive economically. To provide further assistance, Nation leadership has created the Office of Economic Development (OED), a brand new service available to enrolled Oneida Indian Nation Members.
The Oneida Indian Nation OED is designed to provide Nation Members with the necessary tools to start their own small business on Nation lands and increase self-sufficiency and economic independence for the Nation’s community. The OED can assist Nation Members with the entire process of becoming an independent business owner with a focus on fundamental areas including business start-up, marketing, operations and finance.
The OED also is in the process of developing a mentorship program – in addition to online and onsite small business programs – for Nation Members that will provide training and technical assistance every step of the way.
Services available through the office include:
Project management from beginning to completion
Aid with successful execution and implementation of the proposed business plan
Resource planning and allocation, supply chain activities, execution of the marketing plan and human resources planning
Assistance with coordinating construction and development projects as outlined in the proposed business plans
Assisting the Nation Member in navigating the Nation’s codes, policies and procedures for business development on Nation Lands.
Enrolled Oneida Indian Nation Members interested in starting their own small business may contact the Office of Economic Development by calling 315-366-9545 or at 579A Main Street, Oneida NY 13421.
Click here for a PDF version of the announcement.
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Apple Store’s 5th Anniversary: Is it time for a Change Now?
Jasmina Lozevska July 12, 2013 0
It’s been five years ago when we first met Apple Store. When Apple introduced its market for applications it changed the whole process of downloading programs on our smartphones. App Store changed the whole spectrum and made the apps available to everyone. Last month Tim Cook, Apple CEO, said in a statement that nothing similar to the App Store existed before and it changed the world. He is right, but is it time for some changes now?
Apple is completely satisfied with the current number of downloads. Recently, App Store has reached a number of 50 billion application downloads with approximately 900,000 available programs. Apple pays $10 billion to developers. They are doing a great job attracting developers by being the non-reachable leader when it comes to developer revenues. Keeping this on mind, we must admit that Apple didn’t do anything to change its App Store and of course, the competition started heating up.
Apple was “showing off” with the number of available apps to its iOS devices but they are not on the first place anymore. Google Play has 975,000 applications available for their devices and more than 50 billion downloads. This was expected to happen sooner or later because Google has promoted the Android platform pretty aggressively and embraced all carriers worldwide. While AT&T was showing some great results selling Apple’s iPhone T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon were showing even greater results for selling Android and Google Play devices. This is what brought Android on the top of all smartphone OSs in the world. An IDC analyst, Hilwa, has said that Android apps are spreading through many platform based devices while Apple only has one.
And here comes the problem and maybe the proper solution. App Store has become huge and its known method for discovering apps doesn’t work anymore. According to Pandora’s Conrad, App Store must move beyond this browsing model and lean towards better and bigger opportunities. Apple has purchased Chomp last year, which is a company for search and discovery. However, Apple has never used Chomp search methods in its App Store. Users are having hard time finding required app and if app names don’t include the Facebook name, great developers are struggling to gain audience. Eddie Cue, iTunes chief executive, has mentioned something about working on a new way of discovering apps. This only meant adding Apps Near Me and age range based apps which have prevented older people finding apps for kids. Even this relies on popularity and Apple must find a way how to change that.
Apple is capable enough for bringing changes that will amaze its customers around the world. Maybe after Apple makes its new iOS 7 available for the public we will see some new changes. We can’t expect this to happen because Apple’s focus is turned towards making new devices.
Do you think that Apple’s App Store really needs these changes? Share with us your own thoughts.
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After a thorough, professional tooth cleaning, you know that your teeth look brighter and feel fresher. But tooth cleaning isn't just about appearances. It's the primary means of preventing and treating periodontal (gum) disease. Many studies have demonstrated a possible link between periodontal health and overall (systemic) health — which means regular tooth cleaning may benefit not just your mouth, but your whole body.
Why do teeth need special cleaning? Over time, dental plaque (a naturally occurring bacterial biofilm) and stains build up on tooth surfaces. Dental calculus (also called tartar), a harder deposit, can then form both above and below the gum line. A thorough dental cleaning removes these substances from the teeth, and helps keep disease-causing bacteria from proliferating.
Tooth cleaning is usually accomplished by the non-surgical technique of scaling, sometimes called “root debridement.” It's typically a relatively painless procedure in which small dental instruments are used to physically remove deposits from the surfaces of teeth. At one time, scaling was performed entirely with manual tools. But in the last several decades, the ultrasonic scaler has changed all that.
What Is An Ultrasonic Scaler?
There are different types of ultrasonic scalers, but all of them work in a similar fashion: electromagnetic forces in the unit's hand-held “wand” cause its tiny tip to vibrate rapidly. These vibrations, which occur at a rate faster than the speed of sound, effectively blast away plaque, calculus and stains from the tooth surfaces.
A small stream of water and/or antibacterial mouthwash, which emerges near the tip of the scaler, is called lavage. Lavage is used to cool the ultrasonic scaler's tip and flush away debris from the area being treated. The vibrating tip causes some of the water to break into millions of tiny bubbles, an effect called cavitation. This ruptures the walls of bacterial cells and helps create an environment that's less hospitable to harmful bacteria.
Ultrasonic Scaling vs. Hand Scaling
Studies show that a thorough ultrasonic cleaning takes about one-third less time as compared to hand scaling — which means you need less time in the chair. Many patients prefer ultrasonics to other types of scaling, possibly because it requires the clinician to use less force than a hand scaler to get the same effect. In ultrasonic scaling, only the tip of the tool touches the tooth surface, and only for a short time.
It's also possible to remove deposits of plaque and tartar from under the gum line by using an extremely small tip on an ultrasonic unit, which can cause less discomfort and result in a deeper and better cleaning. Sometimes an ultrasonic scaler is used first, and then any stubborn areas are scaled by hand.
The Experience of Ultrasonic Scaling
Anyone who has a substantial buildup of tartar or is prone to gum disease can benefit from ultrasonic scaling. It can also help to remove stains from coffee and cigarettes, for example. Yet, for all its power, most people experience little or no discomfort during the procedure.
If you have very sensitive teeth, it may be possible to alleviate some discomfort by using slimmer tips on the scaler. Alternatively, a topical anesthetic may be applied, or conscious sedation can be administered. The power range, the flow of lavage water and the frequency of tip vibration may also be adjusted for increased comfort.
Special tips are also available to clean composite or porcelain tooth restorations, titanium implants, or areas of demineralization (enamel loss) on your teeth. If you have a cardiac pacemaker, be sure to alert all dental professionals/personnel before ultrasonic scaling treatment, so precautions can be taken.
Dental Cleanings Using Ultrasonic Scalers Rapidly changing technology has revolutionized periodontal therapy with the integration of power scaling techniques resulting in improved clinical outcomes, patient comfort, and reduced time and physical demands on clinicians... Read Article
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International Game Developers Reach Out To Japan
Many people in the game industry worldwide have come together in an effort to help Japan, a country whose video games have inspired many designers and developers to be what they are today. This resulted in GamersHeartJapan, a project that urges everyone to donate to several organizations that are involved with Japan's recovery.
Here are some screenshots from their video:
Pictured above are just some of the most influential Japanese video game icons that some of the interviewees have named. Humble yet creative, they've pushed the video game industry beyond boundaries and convention. Can you guess who they are?
The evolution of Japanese video games. They also credited Japan for their animation, among so many other creative things. In the video, game people talked about what they loved most about Japan and many have mentioned food, aesthetics and most importantly, culture, which every Westerner seems to describe as an interesting mix of discipline, innovation and craziness.
Perhaps my favorite quote in the presentation was by Siobhan Reddy, Studio Director at Media Molecule:
"I love Japan because Japan is a total feast for the senses. Everywhere you go, everything you experience is just amazingly vivid..."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Do visit the GamersHeartJapan website to find out how you can help. Here's the complete video. It's about an hour long. Thanks to GM Tristan for the heads up!
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How to convert AMR files to MP3
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AMR - Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR-NB, AMR-WB i AMR-WB+)
AMR to MP3 conversion using Pazera Free Audio Extractor
Starting the program and adding AMR files to the processing list
Setting parameters of the AMR to MP3 conversion
Starting conversion
AMR is a multimedia container and audio compression format optimized for encoding human speech in order to transmit coded signals in telecommunications networks. AMR compression is widely used in GSM and UMTS systems.
AMR compression is widely used in mobile phones - voice recorders built into these phones very often record audio in AMR format. In addition, the phones that allows to record movies usually store them in a 3GP files, in which the audio stream is mostly encoded using AMR compression.
There are several variants of AMR compression:
AMR-NB (Adaptive Multi-Rate - Narrowband) - this is the basic and most commonly used method of AMR compression, which uses audio sampling frequency of 8 kHz, and bitrate 4.75, 5.15, 5.9, 6.7, 7.4, 7.95 , 10.2 or 12.2 kbit/s. Audio files with audio tracks encoded using this method of AMR compression usually have the extension .amr
AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband) - a newer version of AMR compression, which uses a 16 kHz of sound sampling and bitrates equal to 6.6, 8.85, 12.65, 14.25, 15.85, 18.25, 19.85, 23.05 or 23.85 kbit/s. The sound quality after AMR-WB compression is generally much better than with the AMR-NB compression. Audio files with audio streams encoded using the AMR-WB compression usually have the extension .awb
AMR-WB+ (Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband) - the latest variant of AMR compression provides high sound quality, which uses sampling frequency of 16, 24, 32 or 48 kHz, and a bitrates from 5.2 to 48 kbit/s.
AMR files can be played using some software players (eg VLC, MPlayer). Unfortunately, most portable players (except mobile phones) and almost all fixed players do not support AMR format.
This tutorial shows step by step how to convert AMR files to MP3 format. To conversion we will use the Pazera Free Audio Extractor, which in addition to extracting audio tracks from video files, can also convert music files.
This program is completely free (for personal and commercial use) and you can download it here.
1. Starting the program and adding AMR files to the processing list
When you install and run the program, the main window will appear.
The main window of the Pazera Free Audio Extractor
To convert AMR files, you must first add them to the processing list. To do this, click the Add files button and select some AMR files. They appear on the list. Files can be added also using drag and drop technique.
2. Setting parameters of the AMR to MP3 conversion
When you add files to the list, the next step is to set the output format to MP3 - MPEG-1 Layer 3 in the Audio section.
Then select the audio bitrate that will be used while conversion. You must remember that AMR files are usually encoded with a very low bitrates (AMR-NB up to 12.2 kbit/s, AMR-WB up to 23.85 kbit/s and AMR-WB+ up to 48 kbit/s), so the bitrate of AMR to MP3 compression is best to set to a relatively low value. On the other hand, the MP3 encoder not very good handles the audio compression at very low bitrates, so it is recommended to set a little bit higher bitrate than the value of this parameter in the source file. At least 24 or even 32 kbit/s.
If you set audio bitrate in the Auto position, the minimum value of the bitrate used during encoding to MP3 will be 32 kbit/s. If the source file has been encoded with a bitrate higher than 32 kbit/s, the program will automatically set the bitrate of audio encoding to the same value (or similar) as in the source file.
When you set the Sampling frequency and Channels to Auto, then the values of both parameters in the generated MP3 file will be the same as in the source AMR file (for AMR-NB: 8kHz and one audio channel).
Using the Volume slider you can adjust the sound level in the resulting MP3 file. When set to 100%, the volume will not change.
At settings suggested above, during conversion of AMR files to MP3 will be used very low values of bitrate and sampling frequency. If your player can not play MP3 file generated by the program Pazera Free Audio Extractor, check in the documentation the minimum bitrate and sample rate of MP3 files supported by this player.
If you do not have access to the documentation, try the conversion settings shown in the picture below:
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3. Starting conversion
When you add AMR files to the list and set all the necessary parameters, you can already start the conversion by clicking the Convert button. The Conversion window will appear, where you can track the progress of the operation.
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With default settings, the converted files will appear in the same directory that contains the source files. You can change output folder in the Output section. Generated MP3 files will have the same names as AMR files, only the extension is changed to .mp3.
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Day Off Trailer Reviews
(Please note, if you think I'm unduly harsh in my assessment of a film, particularly a film you're really looking forward to, that the point of a trailer is to make you want to see it, and these are my reactions to those efforts. Also, if you think I say mean things about these films, you should have seen the trailers I couldn't, in good conscience, inflict upon you.)
Pay Full Price
First Snow : This has a really good, strong cast, and it gives every appearance of breaking out of the usual thriller mode to provide an interesting look at notions of fate and destiny. They're not uncommon themes in the genre, but there's a certain mix of paranoia and self-fulfilling prophecies that promises a better crafted look at the notion than similar films.
The Valet : I will admit, I laughed at this. A poor schmoe forced to live with and pretend to be in love with a beautiful woman in order to hide from the paparazzi a wealthy man's philandering. It's been a good long while since the French put out a decent sex comedy.
I'm already almost depressed at the prospect of a terrible American remake. Probably starring Dane Cook.
The Host : A Korean horror-comedy about a horrible mutant monster. It simply looks fantastic, and from what I've seen has only been praised. (Okay, granted Ain't It Cool News is quoted in the trailer, but I won't hold that against the movie).
Zodiac : This is one of the upcoming films I'm most anticipating. It's been too long since Fincher had a good, intelligent film out, and it's getting horrendously rare to find a thriller with a strong cast and a strong visual sense. I'm particularly interested in the approach the film apparently takes that, because this is a mystery with no real solution, it is important to focus on why this case became important to these investigators and such a cultural touchstone.
Hot Fuzz : This is the other film I'm eagerly anticipating. Not just because just about everything Simon Pegg has done has been so good, but the comedic mystery has always been one of my favorite genre mash-ups. That the people who gave us the nigh-definitive horror comedy and the freshest sitcom in decades made it makes me tremendously giddy.
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Knocked Up : I'm going to set aside the obvious question this trailer raises, because I'm fairly certain that contemporary politics make it impossible to bring up in a comedy. Well, and the other obvious question the trailer raises, because that's even more of a hot-button issue for a comedy. But I trust Apatow. Plus, Paul Rudd.
I Think I Love My Wife : I'm finding myself oddly surprised that Chris Rock is no longer playing the obnoxious, loud-mouthed kid roles. Normally marital infidelity movies don't interest me, and I can't say I find myself particularly compelled by this one either. I'm just lacking the requisite puritanical outrage to be shocked or appalled by the suggestion that sometimes people stray or think of straying.
Amazing Grace : No sarcasm or cynicism here. A film about the English abolitionist movement, even if it wears its heart on its sleeve, is probably long overdue.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer : Well, it's not like it could be that much worse than the first one, right? Although, for me, this trailer fails on one fundamental level: it doesn't tell me enough about the movie. Okay, so the Silver Surfer will be in it. And? That's supposed to be enough, I guess.
Though, the fact that Pete will make me go see it in the theater makes my opinion as to the trailer's projection of the film's quality a moot point.
Across the Universe : Assembling Beatles songs into a musical? That plan could never fail. It looks pretty, though I often find myself wondering when writers and directors of a certain age are going to get over the Vietnam war. I'm not denying the profound psychic scars it left on the country, and it's been the inspiration for some truly stellar works of art: it's also been used for lots and lots of trite political short-hand.
The Abandoned : Yes! Ride that Russo-horror bandwagon! Follow in Nightwatch 's coat-tails. Oh, wait, hardly anyone went to see Nightwatch in this country. This may get a pass just for the haunted house angle.
Nancy Drew : I never liked the Hardy Boys (too white bread) and never even gave Nancy Drew a chance. I sort of skipped over the whole "young adult" phase of books anyway. This looks cute. Silly, somewhat superficial, but cute. It may be a "take the cousins out for a date and give the rest of the family a friggin' break" type of movie.
Sunshine : It's actually quite...refreshing...to see someone even attempting to make a science-fiction film that's actually a science-fiction film. And not an action movie in space. Or a western in space. Or anything other than God-forbid a science-fiction movie. Because, let's face it, the science-fiction audience doesn't want science-fiction, they want an action movie in space.
Seraphim Falls : For some reason, this put me in mind of Ravenous . It doesn't have the horror angle, but that taut, genre-bending mood seems to be the same as in this thriller.
The Lookout : It seems a bit late to me to be mining Memento for plot points for your crime drama, but there you go.
Shooter : Ah, the "Oswald was a patsy" theory translated into a big budget action-thriller. These sorts of things always beg the question with me: if the hero is smart enough to unravel and expose an international conspiracy by himself, how come he couldn't tell he was being set-up?
Blades of Glory : This will make Pete happy, a Will Ferrell movie I won't try to make him see. Largely because I don't care for Jon Heder in the slightest. But also because a broad farce about male figure skaters makes me think I should probably bring along something to keep a tally of the number of gay jokes.
Spider-Man 3 : Man, imagine how good these movies would be if anyone who could act was in them. Well, okay, they probably still wouldn't be very good because Spider-Man is a whiny little punk, but surely they'd be better, right?
Let Me Claw My Eyes Out First
Wild Hogs : Ah, is there anything better than a comedy about men playing dress-up and pretending to be bad ass bikers because they're in the midst of a mid-life crisis? Anything is better than that? Even yet another movie about a guy with daddy issues? And this particular trailer ends on a quasi- Brokeback Mountain joke. Because those are still cutting edge.
Mr. Brooks : I can still appreciate the serial-killer genre of thrillers, even if their ubiquity is troublesome. And I can even appreciate the effort of having two different actors play the different personalities of the lead character. Where you lose me, utterly, is Dane Cook. No film, by definition, can be worth watching if Dane Cook is in it.
Surf's Up : Yes, penguins are always cute, but too many assemblies as a child where we were "rewarded" with tedious surfing documentaries has killed any desire in me to ever see any film about surfers. Even cute penguin ones.
Full of It : Ah, a film for children about how your life improves if you lie a lot. Only in Bush's America.
Dead Silence : Now, I'm usually in the mood for a good haunted house/vengeful ghost type of horror story. It's probably darn close to my favorite genre within the genre. And the creepy dolls and prohibition on screaming angles make for both an old favorite and cool new twist, respectively. So I should really want to see this. But, see, where you lose me is this: "From the writers and director and producers of Saw." I hate the torture and gore porn school of horror. I hate that it's come to dominate the horror genre in film (well, that and stupid remakes and sequels). So, no, count me out. Your previous work in the genre leaves me with no confidence that you can make anything worth watching.
Grindhouse : No. Just because you Tarantino and Rodriguez grew up on shitty movies in the seventies is no excuse to make more.
Black Snake Moan : I'm left baffled by this. Is it meant to be some sort of bad taste comedy? Or is it serious and unintentionally funny? Or is someone working out their issues with women on film?
Live Free or Die Hard : Have I ever mentioned how much I intensely dislike the Die Hard franchise? Let's put it this way, the only action movie with Bruce Willis I enjoy is Hudson Hawk .
Please note I said "enjoy" not "think is good." It's the All Star Batman of action movies.
Fred Claus : I'm hard pressed to think of which actor has more worn out his welcome, Vaughn or Giametti. The combination of the two of them? Man, I'm feeling slightly nauseous just thinking about it.
The Hills Have Eyes 2 : It's probably best to just count-off the reasons why I'll refuse to see it. Torture porn. Sequel to a remake. Female soldiers screaming and panicking.
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Mountain Shadows Resort and Scottsdale Offer the Best in Arizona Golf
Leigh MacKay
With more than 200 golf courses in the Scottsdale area, year-round sunshine, dozens of luxury resorts like Mountain Shadows, Scottsdale is becoming one of the world’s top choices as a golf destination.
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – Now that the 2018-19 snowy, cold, and wet winter of our golf discontent has finally evaporated, it should be time for all avid New England golfers to anticipate a temperate return to our favorite layouts.
But, unfortunately, after April’s reneged promise of clemency—“the cruelest month” according to T. S. Elliot—and during the following cold-blooded moments that May also can entail, perhaps one last golf sojourn is in order. Call it the final week of spring training before the halcyon golf days of summer finally arrive.
And I have a highly recommended golf destination for you — Scottsdale, Arizona — the 2019 North American Golf Destination of the Year, according to the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO). This city in the Valley of the Sun boasts more than 50 championship courses, about 70 resorts/hotels, myriad dining experiences, boutique shopping, and incomparable fair weather. Because Scottsdale offers so many options for so much enjoyment, the visiting golfer needs a little advice, both for a base of operations and then for an itinerary. Just as important, all this advice will embrace five facilities and/or layouts that have undergone recent extensive metamorphoses and are primed to provide the best golf experiences possible.
Enlightenment at Mountain Shadows
I would suggest the base of operations should be Mountain Shadows, a favorite destination for decades and located in the heart of the appropriately named Paradise Valley. It’s only 15 minutes from Sky Harbor and easy to access. The benchmark for desert luxury and design since it opened in 1959, Mountain Shadows first catered to Hollywood stars, socialites, international travelers, and tourist families. Nestled between the iconic Camelback Mountain—a can’t miss spectacle to the north of Sky Harbor International as your plane descends—and Mummy Mountain—resembling a prone Egyptian mummy—the resort basks in the sun and the changing shadows throughout the day.
Mountain Shadows Resort offers an imposing view of Camelback Mountain, and its rooms and amenities are second to none in the Phoenix area.
From 2014-2017, Westroc Hospitality and Woodbine Development bought, re-envisioned, and revitalized the property for the 21st Century. The resort’s contemporary, upscale setup, with its 183 totally renovated and spacious rooms, exhibits the original style, class, service, and lavish amenities of the 1959 model. With view-framed pools, a fully equipped fitness facility, the Hearth ’61 Restaurant & Patio & Bar, Rusty’s Patio Restaurant & Lounge, surrounding green areas, and spectacular views, Mountain Shadows offers a vacation milieu that is unsurpassed.
The Short Course Is Long on Fun
In addition, and most importantly for the golfers among us, the resort’s guests get to play one of the country’s most admired executive golf courses and the only one in Arizona. The Short Course, with its seclusion and imposing desert backdrop, was designed in 1961 by Arthur Jack Snyder and totally refashioned by his mentee Forrest Richardson in 2015. When Richardson refurbished and modernized the course, a par 54, his redesign, which is easily walkable, was meant to emphasize the concept of “fun.”
The Short Course at Mountain Shadows wends its way between Camelback Mountain and Mummy Mountain and offers one of the most enjoyable executive course experiences in the country.
Each hole has its own moniker that highlights that par 3’s personality, and the three tees from 1735 to 2310 yards present the potential for a hole-in-one anywhere with a carry of 50 to 193 yards. “Plunge,” naturally, is the first hole, and “Climb,” the second gets you moving toward Camelback. Others such as “Biarritz,” “Halo,” “Punchbowl,” “Oasis,” “Mummy,” and “High Bar” give you a sense of the obstacle or view that you’ll be facing. The greens are most exacting with their undulations, buried elephants, and different levels adding greatly to the “fun.” You’ll be able to replay the course in your mind afterwards because the par 3’s are most memorable. The Short Course is the perfect appetizer to whet your iron game before heading off to the main courses. www.mountainshadows.com
The Feast at Papago, a Municipal Treat
Let’s begin the feast at Papago GC, owned by the City of Phoenix and only a long par 5 from Sky Harbor. Always considered one of the finest public golf courses in the state and in the Top 100 nationally, Papago was created in 1963 by Billy Bell of Torrey Pines fame and then totally overhauled and updated to the tune of $5.8 M in 2008 by Billy Fuller, who maintained Bell’s initial design integrity. The gently rolling terrain showcases the imposing views of the Papago Buttes, Camelback and South mountains, and the downtown Phoenix skyline.
Papago Golf Club is just a long par 5 from Sky Harbor International and is just one of the best public courses you’ll ever play.
The extensive restoration project included the re-turfing of all greens and fairways and rough, the installation of a new irrigation system, the removal of many trees to improve sight lines and views, and the reshaping and adding of bunkers. The par-72 layout is long—from 5,404 to 7,333 yards (with a CR of 74.8 and Slope of 129 from the back tees)—is extremely well bunkered, and has tough, undulated greens. The home of the Arizona State University golf teams, Papago sports a singular practice facility planned by ASU alum Phil Mickelson. And Lou’s Bar and Grill is a major part of the Papago scene in the upscale clubhouse. www.papagogolfcourse.net
The New Track at the Venerable Phoenician
Just a scant nine miles from Sky Harbor and situated at the base of Camelback Mountain is The Phoenician, a Scottsdale premier player since 1988 and a AAA Five Diamond luxury resort. The Phoenician is in the final phase of a massive, three-year innovation project. Nearly every aspect of the resort has been rejuvenated, especially the golf course, managed by Troon Golf, that architect Phil Smith has transformed from the first-opened 27 holes into the now superb and formidable 18-holes. The golf shop, locker rooms, and 19th Hole have also been updated, as well as the new Club Car fleet that has been outfitted not only with GPS but also with other high tech goodies, including Bluetooth connectivity, streaming music, and live sports and news.
The Phoenician’s brand new 18-hole layout is an impressive track and presents some of the best views of the Phoenix environs.
Smith’s previous renovations have included TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course, Desert Mountain, and other Troon Golf courses, most notably Troon North. At The Phoenician, Smith re-contoured the fairways and rebuilt and resurfaced every green with new TifEagle grass. Tees, fairways, and rough are 419 Bermudagrass. He kept the beauty of the Sonoran Desert inherent in each hole as he re-routed the course and provided the par-71 with five sets of tees that range from 4,594 to 6,518 yards.
Phil Smith said, “Our goal with the course redesign and renovation was to give each player the opportunity to make an informed decision before every shot by employing fundamental design strategies to create a great golf experience for resort guests and daily-fee golfers. Everything is now right there in front of the golfer, as there are no blind shots or blind hazards. We’re thrilled with how the golf course looks and plays.” www.thephoenician.com
The Sweet Ambiente and Padre Courses at Camelback Golf Club
Just down the street from Mountain Shadows are the two scenic and challenging Camelback championship courses, part of the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa. First opened in 1936, Camelback Inn was then purchased by Marriott in 1967 and became the corporation’s first all-inclusive golf resort. Ambiente has a distinctive desert links-style appearance without the ubiquitous rock outcroppings and cacti while Padre enjoys an exceptional parkland setting. However, both offer elevation changes, native grasses, lakes with outstanding water holes, lofty trees, and the “de rigueur” mountain views.
Ambiente at Camelback Golf Club is a unique layout, a clever combination of desert and parkland that is eco-friendly and sustainable.
Ambiente, née Indian Bend in 1970, received both the full attention of architect Jason Straka for two years starting in 2013 and almost $10 M in Marriott financing. Straka created a superlative eco-friendly and sustainable 18-hole “oeuvre d’art.” The renamed Ambiente reflects his purpose and goal, for the Spanish word means “existing in the surrounding environment.” Straka added 100 acres of native desert and grass areas that are not only striking but also require a third less water. The five sets of tees for the par 72 from 4,978 to 7,225 yards give ample opportunity to find the proper length for your game.
Padre opened in 1966, but it wasn’t until 1999 with Arthur Hills’ total redesign that required strategy and finesse that Padre garnered critical acclaim. Within its lush context, the Padre is always well manicured with its flawless rolling greens, fairways, and rough. Hills’ use of multiple lakes and well-placed fairway and greenside bunkers will also force you to play position golf. In fact, the par-5 18th hole was voted the “Best Water Hole” in the state by Arizona Golfer. Not as long as Ambiente, the par-72 Padre has four sets of tees from 5,023 to 6,868 yards. When you play Padre, “Vaya con Dios, mi amigo.” https://www.marriott.com/golf-hotels/phxcb-jw-marriott-scottsdale-camelback-inn-resort-and-spa/camelback-golf-club/5256759/home-page.mi
A Taste of the Wickenburg Ranch Lifestyle
If the appetizer is the Short Course and the entrees are Papago, The Phoenician, and Camelback, then dessert must be Wickenburg Ranch, although it’s not in Scottsdale. No, it’s an hour up the road in cowboy country, where the town of Wickenburg is a well-known rodeo haunt. Opened in 2015, Wickenburg Ranch is a 5-star resort and residential Trilogy community with unsurpassed amenities such as four signature restaurants and bars, four tennis courts and six pickleball courts and three bocce courts, a huge heated pool, a spa, a Lunar Lounge for telescoping the galaxy, and hiking.
Big Wick at Wickenburg Ranch sports immaculate Bentgrass greens and a singular array of challenging holes.
However, what makes Wickenburg Ranch most savory is its two golf courses managed by Troon Golf: Big Wick and Li’l Wick, both with immaculate Bentgrass greens. Big Wick was seven years in the making and continuously groomed and refined until that first official tee shot. A par 71 with six tees that range from 4,487 to 7,059 yards, its combination of holes—six par 3’s, five par 5’s, and seven par 4’s—is certainly unusual but is also certainly appreciated. Arizona Golfer wrote this about the Ranch when it opened in 2015: “Its artfully designed holes showcase vistas of Vulture Peak and the Prescott National Forest, each [hole is] a chapter in a larger story, with varying distances, compass directions, and skill requirements woven into the experience.” Big Wick has been one of the “Top Five Best Courses” to play in Arizona according to Golfweek, and Golf Advisor has listed it as #9 in the “Top U.S. Courses” and as #1 in the U.S. for “Course Conditions.”
Li’l Wick mixes golf with entertainment in a unique format. The 9-hole, par-3 layout maintains the same exceptional standards as Big Wick, and its comfortable length from 663 to 1,240 yards is an enjoyable test for everyone from beginners to low handicappers. The Watering Hole is Li’l Wick’s lakeside sports bar and grill that is centrally located so that golfers can stop for a quick bite or a cold one in between holes. Players can also swing to the music that is streamed around the course, walk around in flip flops and with a relaxed dress code, and get in nine casual holes as they see fit. When the “see fit” spills over into the evening, the final four holes are lighted for extended play. www.wickenburgranch.com
Scottsdale extends open invitations to all players who would like to escape their current golf doldrums for whatever reason. For a week’s getaway, few places can provide the pleasure and satisfaction that you would get at Mountain Shadows, The Short Course, Papago, The Phoenician, Camelback, and Wickenburg Ranch.
It’s time to put these Arizona venues high-up on your golf destination travel plans.
https://www.experiencescottsdale.com/
(All photography by Vicky MacKay except for Mountain Shadows Resort photo courtesy of Mountain Shadows Resort)
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As a caddie, greenkeeper, and Ouimet Scholar from Marshfield Country Club on Boston’s South Shore, Leigh developed his love for the game at an early age. The BA from Amherst College and MA from Dartmouth prepared him for his 36-year career in education, most of it teaching Advanced Placement English and coaching varsity golf. In 1986, a sabbatical from teaching students to writing stories for “Golf World” magazine prepared him for his second career in golf journalism. Leigh is a low-handicap golfer who has won the Golf Writers Association of America’s championship seven times. He is currently a member of Southers Marsh Golf Club in Plymouth, MA, and PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, FL.
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Boyce, mayors to discuss possible SPLOST renewal this month
By Jon Gargis jgargis@mdjonline.com
SMYRNA — Renewing the county’s current 1-percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax could bring the city of Smyrna an estimated $48 million in revenue over five years, from 2022 to 2026. But how the city could spend that money has yet to be settled, and City Council members are set to hear from department heads Monday their reasons for proposing projects to be funded.
Preceding the council’s regularly scheduled 7 p.m. meeting will be a 4 p.m. meeting that will have city staff go over their proposal to have a renewed SPLOST fund $53 million in projects over five years, or more than $58.9 million in projects if a six-year SPLOST is approved.
The biggest projects listed on Smyrna’s preliminary five-year SPLOST list include $15 million toward a municipal services annex, $6 million toward road resurfacing, $4.5 million for a downtown parking deck and $8 million toward an aquatic gymnastics and family learning library, with the latter proposed as a joint project with the county totaling $15 million.
“I feel that we should be spending a little more money on the people out there, and a little less money on our administration and things like that,” Councilman Charles Welch said during Thursday’s council meeting. “We were talking about a 40,000-square-foot municipal building, and that’s about twice as big as city hall. I can be convinced that some of these things are needed, but somebody’s going to have to convince me.”
Mayor Max Bacon said he too was not immediately convinced of the need for a $15 million annex facility.
“We need to put more money in here for traffic calming, and other things that are traffic and road-related,” Bacon said. “The SPLOST normally doesn’t pass with a great margin of approval, so you have to have things on here that the public (wants). One of them, I know we’ve had a lot of folks ask about the aquatic center, I know that’s very popular.”
VOTERS COULD WEIGH IN NEXT NOVEMBER
Cobb Chairman Mike Boyce and county staff laid a timeline in February for a November 2020 vote to renew the county’s 1 percent SPLOST.
Approved by voters in Nov. 2014, collections for the current 2016 SPLOST began Jan. 1, 2016, and spans six years, expiring on Dec. 21, 2021. Originally estimated to collect $750 million within six years, the collections had surpassed the halfway projection amount of $375 million by about 16.5 percent, the county reported just after the first of the year. Of the original $750 million estimate, Cobb’s six cities are to receive about $185 million, with those funds split based on population.
But Boyce is proposing a continuation of the 1 percent tax for another five years instead of the current six-year length.
“We have a six-year SPLOST right now. We’re going to bring in way more revenue than we anticipated, and it’s always dangerous to leave that kind of revenue in front of politicians,” Boyce said Friday. “We need to identify exactly what the projects are, no more and no less.”
Citing his previous experience doing six-year budgets at the Pentagon, Boyce said the first two years of such a plan “are the real money,” as revenues and costs can be priced out fairly accurately. “And then the money in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth years we called ‘funny money,’ because it’s really hard to project out, and the sixth year, they were placeholders,” he said.
“There’s no way you can project six years out,” Boyce added, “and actually, it’s more than six years, it’s almost eight years out, because we’re going to pass the SPLOST in November of 2020, but it doesn’t go into effect until January of 2022, so we’re really talking eight years out, and that’s not responsible budgeting to me.”
Bacon said Thursday that he was “fine” with Boyce’s proposed five-year SPLOST renewal, and said its passage was crucial for his and other governments.
“We have a tax that’s in place now, and it really helps out tremendously the local governments. If you don’t have that income coming in, you’re going to have to get the funds someplace else,” he said. “It’s usually been a pretty close vote, but if the public sees what we have and what we’re going to use the money for, hopefully they will support it.”
Boyce also underscored the importance of the sales tax, citing just one area of the county’s spending.
“We pay for all our road paving with the SPLOST. That’s between $35 million and $40 million a year,” he said. “If we don’t vote that in with the SPLOST, you’ve got to pay for that somewhere, and we all know that about $40 million is roughly about a 1.5-mill increase in your taxes, because you have to pay for roads.”
Road paving, Boyce said, is his top priority for the county’s SPLOST funds, adding that district commissioners will be responsible for proposing projects they want to see funded within their portions of the county.
Boyce has set a June 28 meeting with the mayors, while commissioners are still working on their proposed SPLOST lists, he said.
“By the end of the fall here, we’ll have some pretty good idea of what those projects are, so we can take them out and start doing our town halls on them,” Boyce said, going on to acknowledge that selling a SPLOST to voters has become key to Cobb’s and many other government bodies’ futures.
“Once you’re in,” he said, “it’s hard to get out.”
Follow Jon Gargis on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JonGargis.
Potential SPLOST renewal vote
Election date: Nov. 3, 2020
If approved by voters, new SPLOST would begin: Jan. 1, 2022
Sunset date: Dec. 31, 2026 (five-year length), Dec. 31, 2027 (six-year length)
Estimated collection (countywide): $135 million per year, resulting in $675 million over a five-year lifespan or $810 million over six years
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Blame Dishonest Democrats Who Created Obamacare And Lied About It
A Commentary By Charles Hurt
Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone
Schumer and Democrats Loyal to Illegals a Expense of Americans By Charles Hurt
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 14, 2017
Behold, this is your health care, run by the federal government.
Politicians far, far away in Washington — advised by armies of bureaucrats whose salaries you pay but you have never met — all huddled in Congress deciding what pills they will give you and how long is long enough for you to be on life support.
Also, they will decide just how much money you will pay for pregnancy insurance, even though you do not technically have a uterus and your name is not Caitlyn Jenner. (Isn’t it funny how the only way anybody buys something named the “Affordable Care Act” is if the federal government forces them to buy it?)
Oh, and they are deciding just how much of your money they are going to set aside to “stabilize the insurance market,” which is just the latest rosy euphemism for “dump trucks full of your tax cash given to massive insurance companies that you already despise.”
Meanwhile, throngs of cloaked lobbyists slither the hallways of Congress in search of legislative gems and baubles they can haul in dirty sacks back to their nests to be pawned off later.
The closest thing to you — actual American citizens — here in Washington these days are the hoards of screaming unwashed healthcare “protesters,” by which I mean people who somehow do not work yet somehow manage to loaf across the country to bang drums and caterwaul up and down the sidewalk outside the Capitol at all hours. (For every one of them, somewhere there is a mom and dad just glad to have them out of the basement for a couple of days.)
Yet, to listen to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer bark and howl over today’s debate about Obamacare, you would think this is not exactly what they signed up for when they jammed Obamacare through Congress with little debate and precisely ZERO bipartisan support.
Well, what the heck did you expect putting federal bureaucrats and spineless politicians in charge of the American people’s health care?
Of course it will be messy forever. Did you really think Washington was the place best suited in all of America to make all the decisions about the most intimate and personal health care decisions?
Here we find ourselves in the very sewer of political depravity where only the most depraved politicians would dare to be seen.
“The president would not be ‘letting Obamacare collapse,’” Mr. Schumer said Tuesday, after President Trump signaled the failure by Republicans to fix Obamacare. “He is actively trying to undermine the health care system in the country, using millions of Americans as political pawns in a cynical game.”
Like I said, only the most depraved and dishonest.
Again, Obamacare is circling the throat of the toilet and taking the economy, the American people and even insurance industry with it. And Mr. Schumer’s argument here is that Mr. Trump and Republicans are to blame for not FIXING the Obamacare that Mr. Schumer foisted on the American people?
Like I said, only the most dishonest weasels are capable of preening at times like this.
“He wants to throw up his hands rather than roll up his sleeves to work with us and solve the problem,” Mr. Schumer said of Mr. Trump as the sewage began filling in around him in the Senate chamber.
“The president is playing a dangerous game with the health care of this country,” he said.
No, Mr. Schumer, you and your democrats are to blame for this mess. And you are the ones who turned the American people into “political pawns.”
Now we’ll just see who it is the American people blame for this whole mess.
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Johannes Mehserle, working the 2009 New Year’s Eve shift had responded to a call of reputed fisticuffs on the public subway. The cement flooring of Fruitvale Bart, a historically Latino neighborhood, was the scene of a White on Black racially charged incident. Mehserle was “detaining” Grant by sitting on top of his back, when in an inexplicable act Mehserle drew his firearm and fired a shot into Grant’s back.
“You shot me,” Grant cried, his last public words before he died seven hours later at Highland Hospital, a public hospital in East Oakland known for taking in violent crime victims.
Filmed by onlookers with camera phones the event created a media meme for the residents of the Bay Area. The incident would have passed by largely unnoticed, like the recent murder of Gary King Jr., if the actions of Mehserle had not been taped. The video footage shed light not only on the corruption of the police but also on daily inner-city repression. What was apparent in the video is the public secret of the lives of the people in the working class neighborhoods of Oakland (or any city); racial profiling, heavy handed action by the police, and the blasé attitude of public officials for the lower classes.
During the days following Grants death protests of various stripes occurred, the highlight was a march of 250 people through downtown Oakland that turned into a riot causing $200,000 worth of damage. Journalists and city officials denounced the rioters as outside agitators, although the majority of participants were locals. The events of Oscar Grant’s demise galvanized people to express their anger over the police and the composition of the city environment.
Alameda County district attorney, Tom Orloff, decided to charge the former officer with murder. Mehserle pled not guilty and with the funds from a police union fundraiser was able to post bail. Along with bail, Mehserle’s defense was paid for by a statewide fund for police officers. Mehserle’s retained lawyer Michael Rains had a long history of defending police caught in untenable positions. Rains had previously defended a member of the Oakland Rider’s, the Riders were a group of rogue local cops whom were involved in the largest legal settlement in Oakland history. The plaintiffs shared 10.5 million dollars in their settlement. Rains also defended, successfully, the Corcoran 8, prison guards whom set up fights between prisoners for entertainment.
Mehserle claimed that he was reaching for his Taser, instead of his sidearm when he shot Grant. Modern Tasers weigh half as much as the standard police issued officer deployed guns and Mehserle wore his Taser on the opposite side of his body as his gun. It has also been claimed that the prostrate Grant, with officer Pirone’s knee on his head, may have been reaching for a gun in his waistband. No weapon was found on Grant’s corpse.
Rains argued successfully to move the trial from Alameda County to L.A. County where there would be an impartial jury. Historically juries have acquitted police officers in brutality cases. The jury was composed of eight women and four men, with seven being white, four being Hispanic and one being Asian. The jury underwent several changes throughout the deliberation process with the verdict held up by one juror who left their position to go on vacation, and another becoming ill. The deliberations were restarted twice due to these incidents but a verdict was reached swiftly on Thursday July 8, 2010. The jury had not deliberated together a full day.
The days preceding the verdict announcement were filled of media denunciations of potential violence. The East Bay Express, a local free weekly, covered their issue on 7 July 2010 with a picture of Grant. “Be Cool” the caption said, a brief paragraph warned protesters to not follow in Mehserle’s footsteps by losing their “cool” and that “Violence is not justice.”
Mayor Ron Dellums joined the spectacle in a public message announced a week before the verdict was given. Dellums in an attempt to recuperate the protests before they had started said; “We understand that the community is grieving, we are in this together.” Along with posting the message on the city website, Dellums suggested residents park their cars in secure locations and remove newspaper racks and other sidewalk signs from the street. The City of Oakland also listed a series of places where angered residents could go to express their emotions. These safe spaces were attempted safety valves on the tense pressure of an explosive situation. The City also sent letters out to business owners in downtown Oakland encouraging preparation and safety in the coming days, leading to boarded up store fronts starting two weeks before the verdict was released. Oakland’s downtown in the two weeks prior to the Mehserle verdict was to step into a war zone as downtown Oakland began to look like a vision of despair in preparation for the potential riots that would occur, creating a feeling of impending doom on the city streets. The OPD increased patrols in East and West Oakland. The streets, normally busy were nearly empty for the days before the verdict.
Many downtown non-profits were eager to join in the protection of capitalist interests as evident by Nicole Lee of the Urban Peace Movement’s widely spread email. Addressing “Friends and Allies,” Lee desired to “create organized events or avenues for young people and community members to express their frustrations with the system in constructive and peaceful ways.” She found it important to “inoculate” people in preparation for the verdict in order so that when the verdict did come out “outside agitators” wouldn’t so easily incite the crowd. Lee was part of an umbrella group (including the Ella Baker Center, and Oakland Rising,) of non-profits that sought to preemptively recuperate the protests of the verdict.
The jury found Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter and not guilty to second degree murder along with not guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Involuntary manslaughter is defined as the unlawful killing of a person without malice. It is separated from voluntary manslaughter by its emphasis on lack of intention. The jury also found Mehserle eligible for gun enhancement charges which may increase his prison sentence by ten years, make him ineligible for probation, and demand he serve 85 percent of sentence.
Historic in its charging of an on-duty officer with a murder, the verdict announcement had an immediate response by a horde of journalists immediately clustering after the airing in Downtown Oakland on July
8th. The spectacular quality of the atmosphere was made clear by local Bay area eccentric Frank Chu’s presence. Chu, a media hungry wingnut carries with him a large picket sign whose black background is covered over by an incomprehensible message attacking the “12 Galaxies.”
On Broadway, between the 12th Street and 14th Street, was the site of a largely peaceful protest. The Oakland Police Department (OPD) whose main building is located further south on Broadway made their presence immediately known by cordoning off the protest area on the south with a line of officers in riot uniforms on 12th Street. The peaceful protest was accompanied by a predictable speak out on the corner of 14th and Broadway that was largely ignored by the participants, instead people mingled. As the night wore on the police visibly blockaded the area setting ranks of officers on the east and west side of Broadway on Franklin (to the east) and Clay (to the west).
By 8pm the police had squared off the protest with a row of officers preventing free movement in all directions. At approximately the same time Footlocker, a popular chain shoe store, located on the corner of 14th and Broadway was looted by protesters within the cordoned off area. People smashed in the windows and stole shoes leaving the empty boxes of their new found treasures littered on the grounds of the downtown business area.
At 8:30pm the protest was declared an unlawful assembly. The police moved northward from their south position herding the protesters towards the north most blockade of officers. Night had fallen and the protesters flanking the northern cops, outside of the cordoned off square block were becoming increasingly agitated. A police officer’s vehicle was attacked and the formation of officers began to move northward on Broadway. The flanking protesters, approximately 200 in number, moved in pace northward with the police. Moving a half block up the street the protesters began to loot, smash, and spray graffiti in the uncontrolled space. As the police moved forward so did the protesters, keeping time with the OPD. When enough space was given between the protesters and the officers, the former would again engage in criminal activity.
A small “grill” shop, Gold Teeth Master, had its store front demolished and was broken into. A swarm of African American youth flocked inside the store for their grills and looted the store completely.
The looting took the capitalist promise of instant gratification to heart. Yet via purchasing, capitalist society keeps its stock of fabricated needs held out for those who can afford its prices; looting bypasses the erroneousness of purchasing commodities and reveals the schizophrenia of a society where the material goods for achieving one’s happiness are ever present but held at bay by the social relations of capital. The looting was finally a chance for the people to get the material goods they wanted and the price was right, a 100% sale while goods lasted.
Rioting, which was composed of small scale looting, and window smashing with graffiti, on a much larger scale, continued north on Broadway to West Grand. Businesses were attacked seemingly at random with a handful of shops targeted specifically; banks, jewelry shops, and bars. A popular downtown Sake bar had its windows smashed in and its on window display supply of sake was looted. The graffiti messages ranged from simple tags to anti-cop sentiments (fuck the OPD) to apolitical messages (Say no to work, yes to looting!).
On July 9th the morning after the riots, the media was quick to denounce the damage to the downtown area as done by outside agitators. Mayor Ron Dellums congratulated the police’s effectiveness and ability to control the crowd. Both the media and Dellums repeatedly stated that the arrestees of the events were made of people largely outside of Oakland and thus were outside agitators. There has been talk to civil suits against the 78 “rioters” that got caught hoping to make an example out of them and to recoup the costs of the police preparation, extra resources and overtime pay. The cost of policing the events has the potential to be more costly than the damages.
The argument of outside agitators being the instigators for the evening’s property destruction is an appealing and easy answer for the media and government spectacle, yet it ignores the dimensions of the protest. Grant, a Hayward resident, was on a Bay Area public transit rail in Fruitvale when he was murdered. The actions of the police concern not only the residents of Oakland, where the murder took place, but also anyone that uses Bay Area public transit in general. The latter group extends to people throughout California. Furthermore police actions against citizens concern everyone enmeshed in policed spaces.
Accusing the protesters as being outside agitators is false to the same degree that it is true. While the Bay area is a fluid region without specific boundaries, thus inviting a large population to the protest—Oakland is a central place not only of commerce but also of inner city repression—the outside agitators are correctly labeled as such for being against the prevailing bourgeois public sphere
The composition of the peaceful protests was diverse in age, gender, and ethnicity representing the diversity of Oakland and the Bay Area. The rioters were mainly inner- city youth, shown not only by their targets, Gold Teeth Masters, but also by photographs. Constant reference is made to anarchists as the main antagonists of the evening but it is clear from viewing the photos that they were a minority showing that the media accusation of protesters being outside agitators is unfounded.
Following the rioting in Oakland public unrest continued the next weekend. A Latino man in East Oakland was shot by five cops composed of OPD and BART officers, a white man in bullet proof armor opened fire on California Highway Patrol, and a sniper shot at OPD officers in west Oakland. Roughly ten percent of OPD’s force was laid off due to budgetary cuts, reducing the number of officers by eighty and adding to the mounting tension in Oakland. The OPD publically announced that they would no longer respond to calls in person to a variety of crimes including: grand theft auto, vandalism, vehicle collision and burglary.
Monday, July 20th, offered a short reprieve for the OPD when a rally was held in Walnut Creek, an affluent predominately white suburb north of Oakland. A crowd of 50 gathered to advocate for Mehserle, while a corresponding batch of 150 came to support Grant. The rally was held in Walnut Creek for its socio-economic role in the bay, in theory lending more support for Mehserle than the ethnically mixed working class area of Oakland would. The rally was quiet in terms of violence but the heat of Oakland was apparent in the words and numbers of Grant supporters.
Prepared for a war that never happened
The storm never landed. The rioting that occurred on the night of the verdict was small and isolated losing steam after only a few hours.
City governments increasingly view their role in society through the paradigm of risk-management. Each aspect of governance is framed through the identification and amelioration of risk. This is clearly evident in policing but finds its way to other area of government as well (Budgets, City Planning, etc). Carefully drawn plans were made for various departments and coordination occurred between various area police departments, country sheriffs and other law enforcement agencies. Even the National Guard was on standby. The role of city security is played not only by the police but by “community institutions,” such as Nicole Lee’s Urban Peace Movement.
The temporary re-organization of downtown life reflected the fear that both City Hall and local media fed to the public. There was no hard evidence that something catastrophic was likely to occur. The City’s previous experience with rioting the year prior was limited and inconsequential.
This moral panic has profound class content; it represents the fear of the bourgeoisie that future generations of workers will not accept their place in commodity society. By instilling a series of moral panics, increasingly emphasizing the nefarious consequences of urban life, the bourgeois seek to strengthen their hold on the public sphere by limiting working class access, and delimiting working class action of and on the street. In other words this is rhetoric allows those in power to define the streets as its own, delineating the permissible uses of public space, and castigating all resistance to the expansion of the capitalist urban order.1
The big lie that the city was ready to destroy itself created a palpable sense of panic. This doesn’t mean that the city wouldn’t destroy itself given the long history of police brutality and the number of disaffected youth. Disaster preparedness is a tacit recognition of urban warfare fantasy that COULD be unleashed had a not guilty verdict been given. Anticipation of disaster was part of a mutual compulsion to action; the police preparation guaranteed a response from Oakland’s residents.
The events have shown what is already publicly known—Oakland is viewed as violent city with a soft infrastructure that responds more to the potential of disaster than its actuality. Daily life has returned to its regularity and tomorrow, like today, will be business as usual.
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1-Moral panics have historical precedent as seen from Chris Ealham’s Anarchism and the City [pages 11-15]
Oscar Grant, there
a young black man, was detained on the BART platform. White police officer, Johannes Mehserle, working the 2009 New Year’s Eve shift had responded to a call of reputed fisticuffs on the public subway. The cement flooring of Fruitvale Bart, a historically Latino neighborhood, was the scene of a White on Black racially charged incident. Mehserle was “detaining” Grant by sitting on top of his back, when in an inexplicable act Mehserle drew his firearm and fired a shot into Grant’s back.
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Arcadia Group expands partnership with Klarna
Written by Anthony Strzalek
Arcadia Group has expanded its partnership with payments outfit Klarna, opening up more payment options to those who shop at the group’s various retail brands.
Shoppers across the Arcadia Group – whose brands include High Street retailers Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - can now use Klarna’s Pay later and Slice it to purchase products online.
The deal expands on Klarna’s existing partnership for online consumer finance with Arcadia Group, which was launched in September 2016.
The expanded partnership will give customers increased flexibility and convenience when purchasing. Pay later lets shoppers place an order entering only a few personal details, receive their goods and pay 30 days after delivery, interest-free and with no fee for the service.
Data is also saved so shoppers can experience a frictionless checkout when they make repeat purchases. With Slice it, shoppers can spread the cost of their goods over time for baskets over £60. This helps shoppers to make bigger ticket purchases by ‘slicing’ the cost into monthly payments.
Luke Griffiths, Klarna’s UK general manager, said: “We are delighted to expand our partnership with Arcadia and build on the success we have enjoyed over the past year. Together, we are giving payment choice and financial flexibility to Arcadia’s customer base, and it’s great to provide Klarna’s pioneering technology to such a wide and diverse audience.”
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Ripples International runs over 8 programs in Meru, Samburu and Isiolo in Kenya. We champion Children’s rights in Kenya. Our key objective is the rescue and rehabilitation of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). We run the Brenda Boone Hope Center (Tumaini) and New Start Center (Polaski Home). Our legal advisory service Adili (Access to Justice) helps the community understand and apply inheritance and family law matters. Boresha Health Clinic offers quality medical care and vaccination services to children. The Imarisha Community Services program empowers women and children in the poverty stricken areas through the development and coordination of self generating revenue activities, school feeding programs, and empowerment workshops.
New Kitchen/Dining Facility – Nahal Academy
Construction began in June 2016 for new Kitchen/Dining facility for Nahal Academy. The newly expanded dining hall facility will be able to accommodate our growing student population at Ripples International Christian Schools, Nahal Academy.
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The 160 Girls Project
The “160 Girls” project is a legal advocacy initiative that aims to achieve justice and protection against rape for all girls in Kenya. At the time this project was launched in 2011, the Centre had sheltered over 160 defilement victims, between the ages of 3-17 years of age, who needed access to justice.
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Loruko is one of the biggest success stories emanating from Samburu. Thanks to the diligence of self help groups, established in the area, Samburu women are discovering new sources of livelihood that enable them generate income to feed their families.
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The Zero Violence254 Initiative mobilizes all citizens to take a stand against domestic and election violence in Kenya.
This historic walk will create awareness on the newly enacted ‘Protection Against Domestic Violence Act’, Electoral Violence and also to raise funds for its Access to Justice Program, a legal initiative that assists the less privileged in society with free access to professional legal justice.
This targeted national level campaign will promote new behaviors, amplify the voices against domestic violence and electoral violence to create positive changes in the citizenry, and promote action against the various and merging forms of violence plaguing the nation.
As part of the legal outreach, the duo will facilitate group discussions for adolescent girls and boys to challenge attitudes, promote debate and undertake collective action against all forms of violence.
Ripples International has been instrumental in setting up over 79 women's groups in remote areas of Kenya. Our work has taken us into the Meru North and Samburu regions where we find some of the most impoverished people in Kenya. However, these communities are strong, positive and hardworking despite their harsh living conditions. In fact, no other community is as impressive as the Samburu community. Here, we have met the most beautiful women and children. We take time to understand their culture, their problems and challenges before we begin teaching them micro-financial solutions that they can implement to generate an income for themselves. By setting up self help groups, these women have been able to escape poverty, restore their self esteem and provide meaningful trade to the community. By understanding basic accounting skills, they are able to take loans, set up small businesses, begin active trade and build better houses, provide a better diet for their family and improve their lifestyle.
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I have been involved with Ripples International right from the onset and I can tell you this is a wonderful initiative. Mercy Chidi Baidoo, the Executive Director for Ripples International, is one of the greatest ladies you will ever meet anywhere in the world. She has given her life, love and time to rescue as many abandoned babies and traumatized girls in her community. Helping families deal with the trauma and stigma of HIV is a daunting task, but it is one that Mercy has bravely shouldered so that babies, children and families in the society can look forward to a life full of hope and love. This is especially true for babies abandoned by their families simply because they have HIV or poverty. When we met her with my husband over 15 years ago, we instantly feel in love with her vision and we decided that we would support Mercy with her vision for the rest of our lives. This Organization is trustworthy, noble and selfless. There is no greater joy than knowing that every contribution you give goes directly towards efforts to save one more sweet baby from certain death and hopelessness. We may be in the USA, but our hearts are with Mercy in Meru!
Tumaini Center Is A Haven Of Hope
I am Brenda Boone, and I am first of all honored to see the inspiring work Mercy is doing to rescue as many girls as possible from sexual abuse in Kenya. This is work that is close to my heart. In fact, a long time ago, when I met Mercy in USA and she shared what she wanted to do, I burst out into tears. Why? Because I too have been a victim of sexual abuse. And it took me several years to overcome the shame, stigma and trauma of that hideous act. Now, I have an opportunity to give back to thousands of girls who undergo this silent torture with no one to talk to, and no one to fight for justice on their behalf. Mercy told me about her efforts to establish a Center, a safe house, where girls who go through sexual defilement can come and get the healing and restoration they desperately need to function properly in life. That's how Tumaini Center was born. I personally contribute towards the running of the Center, and I am humbled by the number of girls who find healing at the center. A lot of the girls that go to Tumaini Center, Mercy will tell you, need reconstructive surgery. A number of them have ben defiled by their fathers and relatives and are too scared to talk to anyone about it. Thanks to Tumaini Center, they now have a chance to recover their dignity, fight for justice and be restored to the community. Over 3,458 girls have been rescued over the last five years and with our support thousands more will be rescued in the coming years. Mercy, from the bottom of my heart, 'Thank you for the work you do, and may God richly bless you.'
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Attitude: describes the airplane’s orientation relative to the horizon.
Movements: are the motions, called roll, pitch, and yaw that result in changes of attitudes.
Objectives of the lesson
Knowing the range of attitude use in normal flight.
Knowing the movement necessary to produce and maintain desired attitude.
Learn yaw and how to control it.
This basic principles that we need to learn, everything depends on it (climb, descent, turn, cruise attitude and straight-and-level flight).
Cruise attitude
It’s the REFERENCE ATTITUDE ALL OTHER ATTITUDES ARE VARIATIONS FROM THIS ATTITUDE
zero pitch attitude.
zero bank attitude.
Horizon in cruise attitude
The primary visual reference used is usually the appearance of the natural horizon or the ratio of visible sky to ground, when you are looking straight ahead.
The line of the dashboard are around three finger wide from the horizon line.
To maintain the cruise attitude keep the horizon at the proper location in the windscreen.
The wings remain parallel to the horizon.
Instruments indications in cruise attitude
The attitude of flight may be broken down in two groups:
Pitch attitudes: any attitudes of the nose of the aircraft above or below the reference datum (horizon). The attitudes above the datum are termed “nose up attitudes”, and those below, “nose down attitudes”.
Bank attitudes: any attitudes of the wings of the aircraft when inclined relative to the datum.
Pitch attitudes
Pitching movement:
Are produced and controlled by the elevators.
This movement is used to achieve pitch attitudes.
These attitudes are maintained by use of elevator.
The elevators are controlled by the movement of the control column forward or backward.
Movement about the lateral axis.
Bank attitudes
Rolling movement:
Are produces and controlled by the ailerons.
This movement is used to achieve bank attitudes. (15°max)
Roll is simply produced by rotating the control column left or right much like rotating the steering wheel of a car. Once the desired bank is obtained, the movement is controlled by reducing the rotation of the control column and simultaneously placing it in the neutral position.
Movement about the longitudinal axis.
The final movement is referred to as yaw, and unlike pitch and roll, it is usually an undesired movement that the pilot seeks to control through the application of rudder.
Control of yaw is visually confirmed by the pilot by maintaining the ball positioned in the centre on the turn coordinator.
Movement about the normal (vertical) axis.
If not controlled properly, yaw leads to roll movement and an eventual nose-down attitude.
Cause of yaw:
Torque effect
P-factor
Gyroscopic precession
“For every action , there is an equal and opposite reaction”
Torque is the result of the engine spinning the propeller. The prop spins clockwise as seen by the pilot. The force exerted by the engine causes the airplane to twist counter clockwise.
As the result of the torque, the plane will try to bank to the left.
A little right aileron will counter act the bank action.
This is something we have to do automatically. It must be become second nature to keep the wings level.
The torque effect (left-turning tendency) is greatest at low airspeed, high angles of attack, and high power, e.g., on takeoff.
Slipstream Effect
As the prop spins clockwise ( from the pilot’s view ), a swirl is created in the air behind the prop. The wind swirling around the plane comes in contact with the vertical stabilizer.
The slip stream striking the tail pushes the tail to the right. This yaws the plane to the left.
The right rudder is used to counteract the slipstream effect.
P-factor (asymmetric propeller loading) causes the airplane to yaw to the left when at high angles of attack because the downward moving blade of the propeller (as seen from the rear) has a higher angle of attack than the upward-moving blade and provides more thrust.
The right rudder is used to counteract the P-Factor effect (Yaw to the left).
Precession is the resultant action, or deflection, of a spinning rotor when a deflecting force is applied to its rim., when a force is applied, the resulting force takes effect 90° ahead of and in the direction of rotation and in the direction of application.
The resultant force acting 90° ahead causes a yawing moment to the left around the vertical axis.
Adverse Yaw
1) Tendency for an airplane to yaw opposite the direction of roll when initiating a turn
(2) when an airplane rolls into a turn, the wing is being raised creates more lift that the wing being lowered.
(3) the raised wing also creates more drag.
(4) because of the uneven drag components on either side of the longitudinal axis, the airplane wants to yaw towards the raising wing.
To counteract adverse yaw, correct rudder pressure must be applied when initiating a turn.
(5) Turns to the right display more adverse yaw than turns to the left because of the natural left turning tendencies our airplane exhibits, the adverse yaw is counteracted a bit more.
Moving the control wheel to the right causes the right aileron to deflect upward and the left aileron to deflect downward.
The upward deflection of the right aileron decreases the camber resulting in decreased lift on the right wing. The corresponding downward deflection of the left aileron increases the camber resulting in increased lift on the left wing.
Thus, the increased lift on the left wing and the decreased lift on the right wing causes the airplane to roll to the right.
Since the downward deflected aileron produces more lift, it also produces more drag. This added drag attempts to yaw the airplane’s nose in the direction of the raised wing. This is called adverse yaw.
Look out !!!
Collision avoidance, both in the air and on the ground, is one of the most basic responsibilities of a pilot flying in visual conditions.
The Scan techniques
Divides the sky into blocks, each spanning 10 to 15 degrees of the horizon, and 10 degrees above and below it—for a total of 9 to 12 blocks, or scan areas.
Side-to side scanning method: Start at the left of your visual area and make a methodical sweep to the right, pausing in each block of viewing to focus your eyes. At the end of the scan, return to the panel.
Front-to-side scanning method: Start at the center block of your visual field (center of front windshield); move to the left, focusing in each block then swing quickly back to the center block after reaching the last block on the left and repeat the performance to the right.
The clock code
The method of reporting the position of other aircraft you can see is based on the clock code.
Simply, an aircraft directly in front of the aircraft is known to be at 12 o’clock and one directly behind is at 6 o’clock.
To this direction you can also add ‘High’ or ‘Low’ depending on where the aircraft is in relation to you.
As an example, you see an aircraft flying below your left wingtip about 1 mile away. You would identify this aircraft as aircraft at 9 o’clock, low, 1 mile.
If the nose of the airplane is above the horizon (reference datum) we say that the aircraft is?
If it’s below we say?
How the wings are if the aircraft is in cruise attitude?
When backward pressure is applied to the control column the nose……?
When forward pressure is to applied to the control column the nose….?
When the aileron control is moved to the right the aircraft roll to the….?
What are the causes or yaw ?
What is the main control to counteract the yaw ?
If an airplane arrive in front of me, based on the clock code, where is it ?
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AZ--Crosiers Fathers and Brothers seek bankruptcy protection, Victims respond
Statement by Tim Lennon of Tucson, AZ, SNAP Volunteer Arizona Leader and board member, (415) 312-5820, tlennon@snapnetwork.org
When dioceses and religious orders seek protection in federal bankruptcy courts, they do so to protect their assets and embarrassing secrets from public sex abuse and cover-up civil trials.
he Crosiers’ decision today is no different. Church leaders in Phoenix and Minnesota must use every means at their disposal to publicize this bankruptcy and allow victims of sexual abuse plenty of time to learn about the bankruptcy’s deadlines. We urge them to be open and transparent about the process and make public all evidence of child sexual abuse in their files.
We also hope that the Crosier leadership does not use the bankruptcy to hide decades of abuse and cover-up, or to force victims into shame and silence because they did not learn of arbitrary court deadlines.
The Crosier Order trained and housed some of the most heinous predators who worked in the United States—men like Gerald Funcheon, who after abusing in California, Hawaii, Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida, and overseas as a chaplain, was finally banned from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for abusing children. Now is not the time for silence and secrecy.
(SNAP, the Survivors Network, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for victims of sexual abuse in institutional settings. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 20,000 members. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contact – Tim Lennon, (415-312-5820, tlennon@SNAPnetwork.org), Melanie Jula Sakoda (925-708-6175, melanie.sakoda@gmail.com), Joelle Casteix (949-322-7434, jcasteix@gmail.com), Barbara Dorris (314-503-0003, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org)
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Hands-on Review:
Bergara Premier LRP – Full Review
It is time to do a full review on the Bergara Permier Series LRP tactical rifle
By Melvin Ewing May 23, 2018
Manufacturer: Bergara
Model: Premier LRP
Model Number: BPR17-65C
Caliber: 6.5 Creedmoor (Test Rifle) as well as 6mm Creedmoor and .308 Win
Barrel: Bergara Stainless Steel
Barrel Length: 24" (610mm)
Twist: 1:8"
Magazine: AICS 5-Round Provided
Trigger: TriggerTech
Stock: XLR Industries Aluminum Chassis
Metal Finish: Cerakote Matte Black
Weight: 9.6 lbs (4.36 kg)
Overall Length: 43.5" (1105mm)
List Price: $ 2000
Bergara rifles have really become a big hit here in the United States with a lineup of rifles that have been shown to shoot very well and are built with excellent quality. While the popularity of their rifles has taken off recently, the history of the company is much longer. Bergara Barrels has been building high quality barrels for many decades at their factory in Bergara, Spain. Their barrels are known for their high quality and are used by many custom rifle builders from around the world. But we are not here to talk about their barrels, we are here to take a look at their rifles. Bergara has a standard line of rifles known as the B-14 which are very nice factory produced rifles that are built at their factory in Spain. Above the B-14 they have their high end Premier Series of rifles that are actually built here in the USA by a very unique team of rifle builders that are all former Military or DOD. If the Premier series is still not good enough for you, then they also offer a full Custom build service as well. For this review, we had the opportunity to perform a full evaluation on one of their Premier series rifles, known as the LRP chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor. Thanks to a loyal Sniper Central reader for making this review possible.
The LRP we had for review is a few years old and Bergara has changed a few items, which we will mention as we go through the review. Normally, when doing a rifle review we do not mention the actual case that the rifle comes in. Most factory rifles simply ship in a cardboard box. But as you go up in price, sometimes a hard case is used, such as with Steyr and others. When you go to the very high end custom built rifles, typically they will ship in something like a Pelican 1750 with cutout foam just for the rifle. In this case, we have a factory rifle, but built in their custom shop and it ships in a case that is not custom cut like a Pelican, but is rigid and custom made for the rifle, and it is nice. There are straps to hold the rifle in place, and a large enough scope area to fit a wide variety of scope options. Its may not be a Pelican or Storm case, but it is still very nice.
Included with the rifle is a small instruction manual and a test target, which we assume was fired at 100 yards, to verify accuracy. The LRP is available in several different chamberings, but our test rifle was chambered in the popular, and capable, 6.5 Creedmoor which means it has a bit longer barrel than the .308, but a bit shorter barrel than the 6mm Creedmoor. Everything else on the LRP is the same between the different cartridges.
The Premier LRP comes from the Bergara custom shop located here in the USA and is a chassis style of rifle. Chassis systems have become increasingly more common and it seems every rifle builder now has one. The chassis on the LRP is made by XLR Industries and is aluminum and built in conjunction with Bergara. The buttplate has a large rubber recoil pad to help manage the recoil and it is mounted on a buttplate that is adjustable for length of pull. The skeleton style buttstock area has a flush cup receiver as well as a rail mounting area on the bottom where a mono-pod was mounted on this test rifle.
The cheekpad is a hard curved Kydex piece that wraps over the top and is somewhat plain in design and appearance. It also has some soft rubber attached to it to provide comfort and a good gripping surface for your cheek. It works well in wet or sweaty conditions, though it is soft and appears like it may take a beating with normal tactical use. It is adjustable for height and can be tilted forward, or back to minor extent. The buttplate extension and cheekrest are mounted to a MSR style buffer tube assembly that does not fold. It is a straight forward design without much fancy stuff and seems to just simply work.
Like most all of the modern chassis system setups, the LRP utilizes an AR style pistol grip. In this case it is a contoured hard rubber grip with some aggressive texturing and a mild palm swell that fills the hand nicely. It is more than likely one of the common grips like a MOE or ERGO from a known manufacturers, but we were unable to determine which one. The aluminum XLR chassis appears somewhat boxy with lots of straight lines, but it is well made, rigid, and seems durable. The trigger guard is also blocky and rectangular but is large enough to use with gloved hands with plenty of room to spare. The bottom of the trigger guard has a lightening hole cut into it to help remove an ounce or two of weight
Bergara indicates that the current versions of the LRP utilize the excellent TriggerTech triggers, but our test rifle here had a Timney, also an excellent trigger, with a straight and wide trigger shoe. With the pistol grip, the hand is perfectly placed for excellent trigger control and the straight shoe helps even further. The trigger was set at an average pull weight of 2 pounds 13 ounces (2.81 lbs / 1.28 kg) according to our trigger scale, and broke very cleanly. At the front of the trigger guard a small magazine release lever protrudes down for easy access with the trigger finger. The AICS style magazines drop freely even when empty. The current LRP rifles ship with a 5-round Magpul PMAG, but this one had an offbrand steel AICS 10-round magazine.
The action on the LRP rifle is one of Bergara’s own Premier short actions. This action is built on the Remington 700 footprint, which makes it easier for parts selection such as the stock and trigger. But the action itself has several of its own unique design features and is made here in the USA. The rear tang of the action is the same as a Remington 700 action and as you would expect, the safety is the same as well since it uses Remington triggers. That safety is the traditional two position safety located on the right hand side of the tang. Forward for fire, rear to put it on safe.
On the left hand side of the action there is a bolt release lever that requires a hefty amount of pressure to push it in and then pull the bolt out of the rear of the action. The action has the same rounded profile as a Remington action but on the left hand side there is a flat area up near the top where they put the company name. The ejection port is closed on top, unlike on a Remington, and this helps create a stiffer action and should help contribute to better accuracy, but it is a bit more difficult to access the chamber area with fingers to remove brass or to single feed.
The action also has a shroud that covers the recoil lug between the barrel and the action which gives it a nice finished look, as if the barrel were mating direct to the action. There is one large gas port on the right hand side of the action to help protect the shooter in the event of a catastrophic failure. Bergara does not manufacture their bolts but another prominent machining company in the industry that has extensive experience making rifle bolts, does. The rear bolt shroud has an angled sharp look to it and features a cocking indicator that protrudes from the rear of the shroud when the bolt is cocked and ready to fire.
The bolt body is fluted, not only for aesthetics, but also to help the bolt cycle and expel foreign debris that may have found its way into the action. The bolt has two large lugs, like a Remington, which constitutes a 90 degree bolt rotation. Importantly, the extractor is a semi claw style extractor with a plunger on the opposite side of the bolt face. When combined, this makes a far better extractor setup than the Remington C-clip extractor. Additionally, the bolt head itself is a free floating style that allows for a bit of movement to help the bolt lugs mate up with the action lugs nicely without going to the extent of lapping and/or machining them perfectly. Personally, I like the concept of keeping the bolt a solid one piece and precisely machining and lapping the lugs, but this method works as well and also allows for easily changing the bolt head to change the bolt face diameter for different cartridges, saving costs. Savage does the same.
The bolt handle is a straight handle that cants back toward the operator ever so slightly and has a bolt knob that is slightly larger than a typical bolt knob, but would not be considered a large knob. The handle is matte black that matches the shroud, and the bolt body is bare metal. Cycling the bolt reveals a very smooth stroke indicating high levels of polished finish on the rails inside the action and the bolt. There is a little bit of movement of the bolt from side to side, slop if you will, which could be tighter, but does allow reliable operation in less than ideal conditions. Overall the action and bolt has a high precision quality feel to it, the same that is found on custom built rifles.
The forearm area of the chassis is blocky and is not really contoured for off hand use, but is setup for the attachment of rails and other accessories as needed. From the factory there is a single sling swivel stud up front to mount a Harris style bipod to. It is interesting to note that while the rear skeleton style buttstock has a flush cup receiver, there is not one on the front of the stock, rendering the one in the rear as pointless. Looking at the Bergara web pages reveals that the most recent pictures of the LRP rifle no longer shows the flush cups, so they probably realized the same pointless nature of having them there without one up front. The forearm of the chassis also has a very wide barrel channel which will insure a free floated barrel.
The barrel itself is one of Bergara’s own Permium 416 stainless steel barrels. The contour is a heavy Palma contour which they call a #5.5 contour. We are a fan of the Palma contours on tactical rifles as it allows for a good rigid heavy barrel but saves some weight over a straight taper contour. For those of you not familiar with a Palma contour, look at the barrel in the picture above and you can see where it has a definitive step down about three inches in front of the action and then carries an almost straight profile the rest of the way to the muzzle. Yes, technically the standard Remington heavy barrel profile is a Palma profile. It tends to work well on tactical rifles as well as Palma match rifles compromising weight savings and accuracy. The barrel length is 24″ on the 6.5 Creedmoor LRP rifles, 20″ for the 308’s and 26″ for the 6mm Creedmoor. At the muzzle, the LRP comes from the factory with a 5/8″-24 TPI threaded barrel with a cap. Our test rifle had a Dead Air Armament Keymount muzzle brake installed. This brake is a QD style brake used with the Dead Air suppressors.
The barrel and action are finished in a matte black Cerakote finish that is even and smooth everywhere it is applied and gives an excellent finished look to the rifle. The fit and finish of the rifle are way above factory production standard, as it should be since the rifle is marketed as a custom built rifle. The look of the rifle is that of a typical chassis based rifle and it certainly looks up to the task for tactical use.
So with the detailed examination complete, it was now time to see how the rifle actually does out at the range.
Our evaluation rifle already had a 20 MOA canted rail attached as well as a nice Leupold Mark 4 4.5-14x50mm LR/T scope with TMR reticle setup and ready to go. That made things easy for us and we headed out to the range with four different types of factory 6.5 Creedmoor ammunition. With the increasing popularity of the 6.5 CM, it has become easier to get different loads as there are a lot more options now available. This trend will likely continue. The four loads we tested with the rifle were the Hornady 147gr ELD, Winchester Match 140gr, Federal American Eagle 120gr OTM and the Choice Ammunition 130gr Berger. The Winchester load has become our standard load that we test in the all the 6.5 CM rifles we test and the American Eagle is our more affordable ammo selection. The other two provided further variety of bullet weight and style.
If you are not familiar with how we perform our rifle tests, please read our page How We Test Rifles and Scopes. The weather was a beautiful 54 degrees (F) with a 1-4 mph wind. The results of our 100 yard accuracy test are listed below.
Average Group
Best Group
Winchester Match 140gr 0.764″ (0.730 MOA) 0.484″ (0.462 MOA)
Fed. American Eagle 120gr OTM 0.849″ (0.811 MOA) 0.702″ (0.670 MOA)
Hornady Match 147gr ELD 0.762″ (0.728 MOA) 0.418″ (0.399 MOA)
Choice 130gr Berger 0.467″ (0.446 MOA) 0.262″ (0.250 MOA)
As is evident in the test results listed above, the rifle shot very much like a custom built rifle, excellent. The rifle ships with a test target, which with this rifle measured .501″ center to center, sub .5 MOA. We do not know what ammo they used or how the rifle was setup. The current web page indicates that they send all of that data with their rifles now, but this rifle is a few years old and it appears they have changed their procedures. Regardless, the rifle shot very well, especially with the Choice 130 gr ammo. Perhaps the biggest surprise was how well the more affordable American Eagle ammo shot. The AE ammo did not print any exceptional groups, but it was very consistent and still averaged well under 1 MOA. Speaking of 1 MOA, that is actually the only accuracy guarantee that Bergara offers on these rifles, even their Premier and Custom built ones, which seems a little odd for a $2000+ rifle.
The action continued to impress us through the tests with its smooth operation and precise feel, even when cycling it rapid fire. The magazine does rattle when it is in the chassis, which is a bit annoying and noisy, but that is a product of the chassis more than the rifle. If the magazine well was made smaller, or tighter, it would be more difficult to rapidly insert the mag, so there is a trade off. Ejection is very positive on the rifle with a firm ejection of the brass both backwards and out of ejection port. We never had any extraction issues, but once, during a slow bolt manipulation drill, a piece of brass ejected and bounced back into the chamber. It only happened once and we are not sure why or even how it happened. We chalk it up to a freak occurrence as we closely watched further extractions and could not replicate this event.
The recoil on the rifle was actually not as well tamed as many other rifles with similar style brakes and it had a sharp impulse to it. Don’t get us wrong, it was still a mild recoil with reduce muzzle flip and movement, but other multi-chamber brakes like this seem to do better. It would have been interesting to test the rifle with and without the brake on, but it was not our rifle to fiddle with. The trigger was very nice and we had no issues with it during our tests. One thing we did have some issues with was with the barrel heating up. The smaller Palma contour makes for a lighter and more handy rifle, but the barrel heats up quite rapidly. After the only seven shots, we began to fight with heat mirage in the scope caused by the warm barrel. We took our time testing to try and compensate for the mirage off the barrel and let the barrel cool, but it was a struggle we wrestled with throughout our testing. By the end of the shooting session, even the aluminum forearm was warm to the touch. This is certainly not a build quality issue, but just an observation that introduced a challenge. The combination of the hot 6.5CM cartridge and the thinner profile barrel combined to rapidly heat it up. We still like the benefits of that Palma contour for a tactical sniper rifle, but if you are looking for a competition rifle that will fire many rounds in a short period of time, you will need to make arrangements with a barrel band, long sunshade/tube for the scope, or some other solution. The rifle certainly would do well performance wise in competition. For sniping, firing only a round or two at a time, this is a non issue.
With the performance of the Choice ammo at 100 yards, it was an easy “Choice” (forgive the pun) as to which ammo to choose for our 300 yard rapid fire head shot test. It only took 4 MOA of up elevation to dial in to adjust for the increased range to 300 yards and a slight right correction (.5 MOA) for a slight right to left wind that had picked up. With the rifle setup and the ready to go and the stop watch waiting, we fired our test, all from the prone. We had let the rifle cool for about 30 minutes to try and help with scope mirage and the barrel was just warm to the touch, but the mirage came back a bit after those first two rounds and it effected our 300 yard group. The rifle functioned flawlessly and was easy to cycle and get back on target rapidly, taking only 20 seconds for the three rounds. The group measured 3.110″ (.990 MOA) with two of the rounds only 0.4″ apart. The smoothness of the action helped with bolt manipulation and the rifle fed very well from the magazine through all of our tests. Additionally, the rifle single feeds by just dropping a loose round in the empty chamber without any problem. Handy.
300y Head Target Test
Time Score (20 secs) 48
Accuracy Score (.990 moa) 60.6
Without a doubt, the rifle is capable of even better results at 300 yards, as the performance impressed us throughout the day. Overall, these Bergara Custom and Premier series rifles are quite nice and really can perform well. Due to our wrestling with the mirage constantly, we know there is even more performance in the rifle than our group sizes indicated… and those group sizes were already good.
So that brings us to the conclusion, where we need to step back, look at the rifle as a whole and decide if it is a rifle that can get the job done. Certainly it is. The size and weight are well within reason, especially for the capability the 6.5 CM provides. We have mentioned the barrel profile a number of times because it is worth mentioning, both the pros and cons. It saves a good amount of weight yet still provides the accuracy needed, which also is due to the quality of the barrel itself. That weight savings does come at a price though, that barrel heats up quick. On a whole, the rifle offers a great amount of capability with potential well beyond 1000 yards, yet it is still sized for serious sniper work in the field. If you like, or are in need of, a chassis rifle, this is one that should be looked at. $2000 is not cheap, but it is much more affordable than a full custom rifle and it has performance that is just as good. We are impressed enough with the LRP that we plan to look at one of the lower cost, non premier, Bergara rifles in the upcoming months. We are expecting good things from that rifle as well as the Bergara company.
Sniper Central 2018
Tags: 6.5 creedmoor, bergara, sniper rifle
John M Anderson May 23rd, 2018
Definitely take a look at the B14 HMR in 6.5 creedmor. Sub .5 MOA all day even with cheap American Eagle Ammo. If I could post a pic I would show you my setup. Thanks for the review! Look forward to the next one!
mele-02 May 23rd, 2018
Thanks, that is exactly the one we were looking at reviewing next. Not sure on caliber yet though
Morten Forsberg Holm December 5th, 2018
Do the 300WM… please
Brandon July 25th, 2018
I’ve been behind a few of these guns. They tend to favor a 130-140 class bullet. With Hornady 140 ELD Match, I’ve been seeing well under half minute groups consistently, occasionally breaking 1/4 MOA. Their stock guns tend to shoot slightly better than their chassis guns as well. Looking forward to the review guys!
Travis August 23rd, 2018
Would you guys opt for the lrp or do a tikka barreled action with the benchmark barrel from you guys and put it in a chassis ?
Annette December 10th, 2018
Where did you get the hard case that you displayed the rifle in. I love this gun but the soft case isn’t protective enough
mele-02 December 11th, 2018
This one came with the rifle. Not sure if they changed it up at some point
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TURTLE WATCH -- Sea turtle expert Roldán Valverde, an associate professor of biological sciences at Southeastern Louisiana University and current ISTS president, sits among hundreds of sea turtles on a Costa Rican beach where he conducts research. The turtles come to the Latin American nation every year to build their nests.
HAMMOND – A Southeastern Louisiana University biologist is lending his expertise to scientists gathering to study the global issue of short and long term environmental impacts on marine life.
"We're now approaching the fourth anniversary (April 20) of the worst accidental marine oil spill in the history of the U.S., and we're still assessing its effects on Gulf marine life," said sea turtle expert and Southeastern Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Roldán Valverde.
Currently the president of the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS), Valverde is coordinating the 34th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, where a group of several hundred scientists, conservationists, students and others will meet in New Orleans April 10-17 to address their common interests and objectives: the conservation of sea turtles and their environment.
Other topics included in the program are threats to sea turtle habitats, impact of fisheries bycatch, oil spills, climate change, and urban development in coastal areas. Special workshops will also be offered on sea turtle rehabilitation and health as well as on curriculum development on sea turtle conservation for K-12 educators.
Sea turtles—a group of seven species thought to have evolved more than 200 million years ago—are currently under significant stress, especially in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily as a result of human negligence and industrialization, explained Valverde.
Valverde said this is the first time the ISTS is meeting in New Orleans, and he sees this as an ideal opportunity to call attention to deterioration of the once abundant sea turtle populations in the Gulf. He and fellow scientists are still tallying the damage to the sea turtle population attributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.
How did the largest accidental marine oil spill affect the Gulf's sea turtles? Valverde and his fellow scientists have found the basic question difficult to answer because they lack precise historic data on turtle populations, particularly in Louisiana waters.
"In the Gulf of Mexico, the population of all the sea turtle species tends to be lowest in the north central Gulf of Mexico, around Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama," he said. "Certainly, these states were among the hardest hit by the oil spill. The reasons behind the decline are unknown, but signs point to industrial development and fisheries bycatch, combined with the lack of suitable nesting habitats."
Valverde said after the oil spill, many turtles were brought to the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans and other Gulf sites to recover.
"Many of these turtles were covered with oil, and many had ingested oil," he explained. "But if we say the spill was responsible for sea turtle deaths, we're asked for numbers. Nobody really knows because there weren't previous studies to determine the population status of the various species."
Valverde and other scientists are currently working to establish new population baselines in the Gulf of Mexico so scientists can use the data to determine impacts of disasters and changes as they occur in the future. He said the only turtle data currently available as far as impact from the oil spill is what was collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which determined that about 600 turtles had died during the spill.
"But that is only what was physically seen and counted," he added. "In actual fact, probably thousands of turtles died due to the spill. We could not count those because they probably sunk to the bottom of the Gulf before they could be counted."
There are five sea turtle species that inhabit the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and all are considered endangered. Among them, the Kemp's ridley sea turtle is considered critically endangered.
Sea turtles spend most of their lives in the oceans and open water, and females return to beaches to build their nests and lay eggs. While Louisiana is not a nesting ground, Valverde said it is an important area for the growth, development and feeding of these turtles. Most of the nesting takes place in Florida, Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula.
A major concern, he said, is that the sea turtle populations may eventually disappear from the Gulf of Mexico due to human negligence.
"This could cause significant impact on our marine ecosystem that we cannot predict at this point because we lack the data on how these species contribute to our ecosystem," he added.
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The State of Armada
I'm not sure where I got this picture, but it's a good one.
It feels weird writing this. When Legion was first coming out, I joked that it was the new hotness and was pushing Armada aside. Then the jokes started to feel more real. Locally, we failed to get enough people for our Quarterly Kit for the first time since... 2015? When Assault Frigates and VSDs were the biggest things you could put on the table, and squadrons were "bad" before some guy ran maximum A-Wings at Worlds.
So where is Armada now?
I really like where our meta is right now. The recent FAQ / Tournament Rule updates are a welcome relief to the days of 1 or 2 combat ships and a ton of unarmed transports. We have multiple great commanders on the Imperial side, and while the Rebels have Raddus, they also have quite a few other competitive commanders that haven't gotten the recent Raddus love. Really, there are only a few stinkers, out of 10 commanders per side. Commanders are different enough that fleets with the same ships and same upgrades change play significantly between them. Squadrons are viable. Double Large is viable. Multi-units even did well with Hammerheads and YT-2400s making a strong showing at US Nationals. An Interdictor based list won a recent major tournament.
Frankly, we are in a really good place right now, in terms of what the factions, and (most) commanders are capable of. Every ship has its role, and is viable with certain upgrades, certain commanders, or some combination of the two. We have SO MANY squadrons to choose from, it can be overwhelming.
I cannot wait to see what happens at Worlds. Raddus may be the front runner, but I'm waiting to see if something out of left field, like 3 AFII + A-Wings, The Clonisher, or JJ's Y-Wing Spam of ages past can take it home. Maybe someone breaks Konstantine open, and we're all planning how to beat that going forward?
If we aren't the best community in gaming, we're pretty darn close. I have been impressed with everyone from the start. Everyone is friendly, minimal arguments at tournaments, and even our most vocal critics on the Forums aren't TOXIC the way other games can be.
I've been listening to the L5R and Legion community, and each are very, very different than Armada. I've actually considered writing an article in the recent past about whether or not we want to be difficult to approach as a game, and whether the cost in cash and skill for entry to the game has been a good thing for us. The idea being that it is better for us as a community to be the Red Headed step child of FFG's Star Wars licences, giving us our own play space for Worlds, and overlapping us in such a way that you can't play our game and one of the other games easily.
But even beyond that we've had a great community with contributions from bloggers, podcasters, youtubers, forum members, vassal players, and just ordinary gamers showing up to their store and regional championships. There are too many people to mention that have made this community what it is, to the point that if I start naming people, I'm going to feel bad because I'm going to leave more people off the list than I'll be able to put down off the top of my head.
So I mean it, if we're not the best, we're darn close.
But we can't be the best everywhere, all the time. While our smaller size and niche market means that we have attracted and retained good people, it doesn't mean we will grow and thrive anywhere. And Pittsburgh, my local meta, has been hurting. At our peak, we had 8 players showing up to Store Championships, and 23 players coming from far afield for our Regionals. This doesn't make us "big" by any means, but at least respectable. We're average around 5-6 for our quarterly kits. You could show up on Wednesday and there'd be two tables in use. We had a successful Corellian Campaign, after the first one fizzled out.
But the elephant in the room is that there's not really that spark of excitement in Armada right now. A well balanced meta makes for a good game, but it doesn't exactly wow new people into joining, and it certainly doesn't bring people around when there are shiny things to look at somewhere nearby. And that brings us to the elephant in the room.
There really should be no competition here, aside from "they're both Star Wars games, and Miniature games, released by FFG." They don't play similarly, their fluff is completely different. Armada is a game of patience and careful planning. Legion is a game about reacting to the moment. About coming up with a Plan D on the fly after bad luck doomed Plans A-C.
But it is fun, and it has coming into it something I have never seen locally in Armada. Passion.
People are EXCITED to play Legion.
I mean, look at this. One of our local players made this. He built this, before Legion came out. Before he played more than just the demo game. Before he learned more than a basic understanding of the rules. Oh, and he's not an Armada player. Legion is the first miniature game he's ever played.
It's hard to explain what it is about Legion that is giving it that excitement, but it is something that Armada just has never quite had.
And Legion is fun to watch. It's fun to customize and paint. It's fun to make your army your own, in ways that Armada just never quite had that appeal. Let's look at two different pictures:
Picture #1: My Regional Fleet. I painted my squadrons and my MC80 - "The Compensator". They look okay. I've got some customization going. That's pretty cool. Corran Horn has a special squadron painted just for him.
Picture #2: I painted this. Everything about this army I made my own. There's a squad that is 1/2 Duros, because I sliced off the heads off some from other squads and glued them on. There's a squad that has camo colors because I wanted to see how that would look (okay). There's an AT-RT with a shark mouth that a cannon comes out of, and all of them have mud splattered on their "feet". Luke is dressed like a cross between cloud city and Return of the Jedi.
I even speckled mud on the barricades.
This is not to disparage Armada. It is the "better" game. It has the tighter rules. It has less randomness. It doesn't have #$@%ing defense dice. You know what the terrain is going to do. You know where the ships are going to go. You can plan your attack, and feel great when your plan is executed perfectly from Turn 0 through Turn 6.
To quote a developer of L5R, Armada actually does "provide you with a really interesting challenge and tactical board state, and that feels really rewarding when you do it right. It provides you with a puzzle that’s always fun in every iteration."
Armada is Chess. Legion is Risk: Legacy.
Armada is Crusader Kings. Legion is Smash Brothers.
Armada is a 5 course dinner. Legion is a build-your-own-burger bar.
It is hard not to be excited about Legion. It is infectious. It is a great game in its own right, and fun to build and play. And I can find people that want to play Legion while I'm struggling to find people willing to bring their Armada stuff for a tournament.
Armada isn't dead, but it also isn't anything else. It's Armada. It won't be flashy, exciting, or unpredictable. I can't imagine the "Big News" that is supposedly coming is going to make Armada suddenly exciting to a new fanbase. It won't make Armada exciting to watch. It won't make Armada an unstoppable juggernaut of the miniature world.
But I love the game just the same, and I love this community. Just a little over 2 years ago a challenge was issued, and we collectively rose to meet it. Let's see how much longer we can keep it rolling.
It's not like I'm going to just stop hosting World Cups after all.
Labels: Community, Star Wars Armada
Micah Grover April 21, 2018 at 12:11 PM
Thank you for this. It is true that we struggle, however, we are doing everything we can to invigorate or community and keep it fun.
Steven Gibb April 21, 2018 at 6:50 PM
You know I agree with everything you’ve said here, great article. With legion I find myself drawn to it more for the modelling side and the fact that it engages a range of new players I can’t play in armada, frankly legion is way better than IA so I’ve basically dumped that game but I’d still rather play armada than legion anyday.
I also wonder if the shine will disappear of legion soonish... I’m already feeling super limited in my design choices and the next few waves don’t do much for me so far. I think Leia and veers will be good but both new trooper types feel pretty dud and so does Han Solo. My point simply being that armadas first waves were slow but each of them did amazing things to the meta.... the legion ones just feel like shades of grey once you get past the new commanders. That’s going to make for a stagnant meta for a while...
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Let's Talk Tournaments
Kits are showing up for Legion, and Armada's Store Championships are in full swing. So lets take a look at the tournament structure of both, and look at some terms common to the tournament scene.
That's the old MOV list!
Key Concepts:
Control Your Destiny: Simply put, this concept is that you want to be able to win the tournament by your actions within your remaining games. No other game is important to your ultimate victory or loss, just your own actions. If you are currently in the lead with the most tournament points, you are typically in control of your destiny. In theory, all players should be in control of their destiny at the beginning of any tournament. You want to control your destiny until you are locked into position.
Locked: To be "locked" you are either guaranteed to place or not place at a certain point. Good if you're "locked" into first place or the cut, bad if you're locked out. In theory, no player should be locked into any position at the start of any tournament. By the end, every player is locked.
Seal Cub Clubbing Club: The fine art of getting randomly matched up with a bad player or bad match-up in Round 1, and clobbering them mercilessly. Depending on the system, this can be a great benefit. At the very least, it's an easy win.
Submarine - Used as a verb, to submarine is to lose an early round, and then win your way back into the winner's circle by playing worse opponents. Because of how Swiss style pairings work, Submarining can let someone down in the score board to vault up into contention late in the tournament. That being said, it has a much lower margin for error than sitting at the top tables, if only because another loss can lock you out of contention, and you might not even be in control of your destiny.
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Armada Tournaments:
Your typical Armada tournament is a 3 round affair, only expanding to 4 with a cut at the 28 player mark, and only then with Advanced Structure for the tournament. The game lives and dies by the Swiss. So, how well do you want to do?
If your goal is to win the Swiss round, either because there is no elimination round, or because that is frankly the best way to Control Your Destiny. So you want to win, and then to win big. In 3 round tournaments, there are usually too few players and too many variables to have a good idea of what you are shooting for in terms of points, but to win you'll most likely need to win out by at least a moderate amount. In 4 round (or greater) tournaments, they have historically had 8 points average per round be a safe bet for making it onward. Thus in the 4 round tournament, 3 big wins and a single small loss can get a player there, as can 4 solid wins.
Typically, if you are playing with that 4 round Swiss with a top 2 cut, the best player who never lost makes that cut, but then you have the question about who the second best player is. Because of the tournament point system in Armada favoring big wins and small losses, the second player could be someone who won big and dominated the top tables, and lost small in the final round to hang on to their #2 slot. But more likely, it is someone who had a small Round 1 (or Round 2) loss and Submarined back up by winning big at the slightly lower tables. This is unfortunately not a scoring system you can count on, but it does give players who managed to mitigate an early loss the chance to bounce back. It should never be a strategy to count on, as it gives up Control of your Destiny, since you will likely need the top tables to either have dominant victories (to boot one player) or play close (to sneak past both players) and for yourself to have a dominant victory.
The Bye is a Trap!
Well... kinda. Look at that 4 round tournament, and know that you're aiming for 32 points over 4 rounds. You need to average 8 points per round. If you look at it from the sense of minimizing risk, 8 points for the bye is exactly what you need out of each round. No need to play, no need to roll the dice. No need to take any risk, you're just 1/4 of the way there.
This is great if you're an excellent player, and confident in your ability to get 8 points per game on a regular basis, no matter who you are matched up against. Especially if you are in a higher level competition. If you are NOT one of the Armada elite, it is a dirty trap.
The other way to look at it is that you can only lose 8 points total over those 4 rounds, and by taking the bye you've given up 2 points right off the bat!
Consider the Regional level tournament. Let's suppose you are a solid but not World Class player. You've won your local store championship, but haven't won a Regional before, much less done well at Worlds / Nationals / Continentals. You've brought a solid list that can win big. Is the bye the right choice for you?
No. You're looking to win big, and the Regional means that your best chance to get that big win is Round 1. Anyone can enter a Regional, and you've got a decent chance to be paired against someone who's list and / or skill level match up really well against you. It is too long to go into, but as your skill level decreases, you want to increase your variance if you want a shot at the top, and make it so that if you get lucky, you can win big. After all, if you don't get lucky, then you're no worse off than if you played things safe. So, you want to chase that 10 point win, rather than take an 8 point bye.
Enter the Seal Cub Clubbing Club. As a good player with a good list, you're entering Round 1 hoping to be matched up against a Seal Cub - a player who is not good, or who doesn't have a good list. Someone you can win big against, and turn that 8 point bye into the 10 point win that lets you play safer in later rounds, and giving you a leg up against the competition. Then your goal is to win big at Round 2 as well, so that "just" winning Round 3 and 4 is enough to keep you at or above 32. A very viable strategy, which you can change up if you don't do as well Round 1 - you just know that you're going to have to Submarine your way back to the top.
Alternatively, you're a great player, one of the best. You know no matter who you match up with you're going to do pretty well. You can win big, but you're trying to minimize your swings, and the odds of matching up with a quality player or a bad list matchup (you've planned for what's going to be at the top tables, not random jank after all) outweighs the benefit of getting 10 points for sure.
The Interesting Case of Legion
Legion... isn't Armada. There are not variable tournament point lists, there is no MOV. There is only winning, and losing. The only stat that matters is WINS. I've said in the past that I'm not sure how great this game will work in a tournament setting, but FFG has found a large enough round hole to shove this square peg.
So let's look at what we want to do with Legion here.
It's easy enough to see how the wins / losses will shake out. For every round of gaming scheduled, take the total number of undefeated participants and divide by 2. Ties are not possible, after all. So, looking at Basic Structure - if you have 8 players, there are 2 rounds:
At the Start - 8 players
End of Round 1 - 4 undefeated players, 2 players with 1 loss
End of Round 2 - 2 undefeated players, 4 players with 1 win / 1 loss, 2 players with 2 losses
Whelp, that's the tournament. Who won? Good question, since there's 2 players who are undefeated. We're off to tiebreakers!
Tiebreaker #1 - Strength of Schedule. You're going to want to root for every player that you played along the way. The better they do, the better you will do in the tiebreaker. That guy you beat round 1? Better hope he won his game.
Tiebreaker #2 - Extended Strength of Schedule Well, let's say both the undefeated players played players that won Round 2 in Round 1. Now we take all the opponent's strength of schedules (so your opponent's opponents) into account. Oh god. Oh god why? Have fun doing this without a spreadsheet or some kind of computer program.
So, worst case scenario: 90 players. 5 rounds of play and "just" a top 2 cut. Obviously a major tournament with that many players, right?
At the Start - 90 players
Round 1 - 45 Undefeated Players
Round 2 - 22 or 23 Undefeated Players
Round 4 - 5 or 6 Undefeated Players
It becomes entirely possible that as an undefeated player, you don't get to play in the top 2 playoff, because the guy you beat Round 1 decided to drop after playing you. Or because you were the one that got randomly matched up against a "no win" player in Round 2 and because your SOS never recovered, you were always matched low. Now, this is a definite edge case, and you need a LOT of games to shake out this way, but let's look at something a little more likely:
At the Start - 24 players (3 Rounds / Top 2 Cut)
Round 1 - 12 Undefeated
Round 2 - 6 Undefeated
Again, you're going to be begging the guy you played Round 1 not to drop and get that Round 2 win. In an interesting way, this gives us the opposite of a Seal Cub Clubbing Club, in that you want to be beating quality opponents in early rounds, so that they will boost your SOS as the tournament winds down. Those early rounds, and the mostly random matchups you get there are going to be HUGE.
And what about byes? Well, SOS is calculated not as a sum, but an average. So you're ruling out the chance to play someone who goes winless. That's a HUGE leg up in eventual SOS - you've eliminated a lot of potential randomness you have no control over. Take that bye every single time.
Simply put, Legion is going to have some drama at some point in its competitive scene over it's tiebreakers and inability to sort players in early rounds. Also, better go undefeated, or you've got essentially no shot at the cut.
No cut for losers:
3 rounds / Top 2 - 16+ Players
Also, because of SOS tiebreakers, there's a pretty good chance the guy that lost to the undefeated guy in one of the later rounds gets in as the only 1 loss guy, just because they have someone with a undefeated record in their SOS.
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view now, but you can see the cadillac inside of the publix. police confirming one person killed, the driver. we just spoke to poice, and the driver was in his early 20s, dead on the scene, and his girlfriend, the passenger, was transported to the hospital where she is being treated, and the lieutenant will speak to us in just a few moments. polili are not cleared what caused the car to lose control, but when we speak to them we will ask about that. this)happened around 3:00 this right now the wesbound lane sides of hollywood boulevard. back out here live, as far as the building and where this happened, this is the backside of publix, and now that they have the lights on inside of the area, it appears this is a storage area where they kept beverages, like bottled waters and sodas, and given the time it happened nobody inside, and we are trying to get information as to whether or not this part of the build something structurally safe. we will be tweeting out and posting updates as well. for now, live in hollywood, >> this took a lot of people by surprise, and you think all of thee atte
view now, but you can see the cadillac inside of the publix. police confirming one person killed, the driver. we just spoke to poice, and the driver was in his early 20s, dead on the scene, and his girlfriend, the passenger, was transported to the hospital where she is being treated, and the lieutenant will speak to us in just a few moments. polili are not cleared what caused the car to lose control, but when we speak to them we will ask about that. this)happened around 3:00 this right now the...
News 6 at 5 pm : WKMG : March 10, 2016 5:00pm-5:30pm EST
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disturbing video at an orlando publix. the man accused of using his phone to look up the skirts of young girls. we'll hear from the man who helped police catch him. first, though, we're following breaking news in brevard county right now. we have learned two kids are hospitalized after a truck hit them. along courtney parkway and grove boulevard. this is happening right by merritt island high school. we're told the kids were flown to a local hospital. you can see a bicycle underneath the silver pickup truck. right now, we're working to learn more on the kids' condition. we'll continue to follow this story for you and bring you any updates as soon as we get them. >>> now to the man accused of taking upskirt videos of girls at a local publix. tonight that man is behind bars. this is news 6 at 5:00, getting results. i'm lisa bell. >> matt: i'm matt austin. we're learning the suspect too. orlando police tell us the incidents happened last month at the store on meeting place. that's in the baldwin park community. news 6 reporter troy campbell talked with police about this and joins us live. s
disturbing video at an orlando publix. the man accused of using his phone to look up the skirts of young girls. we'll hear from the man who helped police catch him. first, though, we're following breaking news in brevard county right now. we have learned two kids are hospitalized after a truck hit them. along courtney parkway and grove boulevard. this is happening right by merritt island high school. we're told the kids were flown to a local hospital. you can see a bicycle underneath the...
RightThisMinute : WPLG : March 5, 2016 11:30pm-12:00am EST
frosted to perfection ke our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. >> reporter: as we get deeper into march, the canes try to lock down a high seed and glin ch a share of the acc regular season title. today, the canes all that they have to do is take care of business at virginia tech, easier said than done, they were up for most of the game and opened to the three and, kansas 7-0, and the six and had no answer for justin and he knocks down three of the 19 canes, really bad day for them. now you are going to have to hope for hope, on the 17th ranked duke and taking on the rival, north carolina and they come to this guy, and bryce johnson, 18 points and 21 rebounds, and the tar heels win, and so they glin ch @he out right, acc regular, championship and they will be the third seed. >> and the woman's came down and hoping to help the 21st, canes and the ncaa resume, and so against, number two notre dame, and knocks down the three and miami was done just by one and one of the best teams in the land for a good reason and they pull away, andn lose,
frosted to perfection ke our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. >> reporter: as we get deeper into march, the canes try to lock down a high seed and glin ch a share of the acc regular season title. today, the canes all that they have to do is take care of business at virginia tech, easier said than done, they were up for most of the game and opened to the three and, kansas 7-0, and the six and had no answer for justin and he knocks down...
there as this man walked out of jail, accused of taking video of girls' skirts at a local publix. how local shoppers get results. >> lisa: and how voters get prepared to vote. coverage. good evening, this is news 6 at 7:00, getting results. i'm julie broughton. >> sachelle: i'm sachelle saunders. >> lisa: and i'm lisa bell. we'll check in with ginger gadsden in moments in miami. also -- because you've got to let them go. >> lisa: hard but also joyous. we'll take you to graduation day for a group of pups trained by that's coming up. >> julie: the top story for you right now, news 6 was there a short time ago as this man walked out of jail. he's accused of taking cell phone up the skirts of girls inside a publix. it happened at the publix on baldwin park neighborhood. news 6 reporter troy campbell was there. >> reporter: police say the man targeted this publix at least two times last month, but are still unsure how many more victims may be out there. >> it's just so disgusting. >> reporter: shoppers at this baldwin park publix, reacting to the arrest of 27-year-old scott irwin. on at le
there as this man walked out of jail, accused of taking video of girls' skirts at a local publix. how local shoppers get results. >> lisa: and how voters get prepared to vote. coverage. good evening, this is news 6 at 7:00, getting results. i'm julie broughton. >> sachelle: i'm sachelle saunders. >> lisa: and i'm lisa bell. we'll check in with ginger gadsden in moments in miami. also -- because you've got to let them go. >> lisa: hard but also joyous. we'll take you to...
WESH 2 News at 4:30AM : WESH : March 11, 2016 4:30am-5:00am EST
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president held a kinder debate. also, we asked a man about charges he exposed himself in a local publix. announcer: local, live, latebreaking. michelle: we will get to your weather forecast in a moment. first, breaking news. i-4 is shut down. ted: the detour right now is having traffic get off that far street and exit to clay street. clay street to fairbanks avenue and fairbanks back to lee road. a few minutes ago, we saw all wreckers were on scene. we hope the traffic should be flowing again. in the meantime, that is your detour. we will have another traffic update in a few minutes. amy: good morning. happy friday. we will see some sunshine. temperatures are going to be similar to yesterday. we are heading into the middle 80' s and most of our inland areas. we will be a few degrees cooler up and down the coast. a seven mile in daytona beach. we may see the fog and haze settling in. meanwhile, 50 99 a ocala. 61, sanford. 70 in melbourne. the clouds are streaming in. orlando to the coast. some of us will break up -- will wake up to more. temperatures will climb into the middle 80' s. 85
president held a kinder debate. also, we asked a man about charges he exposed himself in a local publix. announcer: local, live, latebreaking. michelle: we will get to your weather forecast in a moment. first, breaking news. i-4 is shut down. ted: the detour right now is having traffic get off that far street and exit to clay street. clay street to fairbanks avenue and fairbanks back to lee road. a few minutes ago, we saw all wreckers were on scene. we hope the traffic should be flowing again....
Local 10 News @ 5AM : WPLG : March 14, 2016 5:00am-6:00am EDT
out of hollywood, that's where aa car has crashed right into a publix. >> layron n vingston is live at the scene with what we know so far. >>reporter: yes, if you're headed into work this morning, you're going to want t avoid hollywood boulevard. that's east of this highway. that's where this shopping center sits, ere this car ultimately went into the back of this buiing. on the other side of young's circle. there's a walgreen's and of course this publix store and police. the publix store where this car has gone through the back of this building. it is still wedged inside the hole you see in the back of the wall of this complex. police and firefighters were inside earlier today. accident investigators were inside of the building or outside the building taking photographs as part of their investigation. we know the man w was driving that car is still inside of the car, unfortunately dead this morning and trapped under some debris as a result of this accident.we know his female passenger has since been taken to the hospital and we're still working to learn the extent of her injuries.
out of hollywood, that's where aa car has crashed right into a publix. >> layron n vingston is live at the scene with what we know so far. >>reporter: yes, if you're headed into work this morning, you're going to want t avoid hollywood boulevard. that's east of this highway. that's where this shopping center sits, ere this car ultimately went into the back of this buiing. on the other side of young's circle. there's a walgreen's and of course this publix store and police. the...
Local 10 News @ 11PM : WPLG : March 4, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EST
decators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. today, you cananlick in walk in, or call in to world class care. because cleveland clinic florida is here for you. anytime, anywhere. >> now to a one and only exclusive, a dog owarm and safe is in a forever home tonight, weeks after he was found living on the streets of miami. earlier this year, when an online campaign to help that pup far exceeded expectations. >> has been following joy we's journey from the start. >> about a month ago this dog was in a capable, and wouldn't let me come near him, and now look at this, all thanks to caring neighbors and caring staffs. he is on his way home. >> if and jumping and tail% wagging weren't obvious give aways this old dog's new smile. is no trick. >> what it shows is that you can't break them. >> julian is one of the neighbors who made sure he had brighter doggy days ahead. >> this dog could have ended up in a bad situation. >> flashback to a month ago, when they found the dog abandoned,
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cadillac crashed into the publix and this causing major delays in the area, and we have an active scene here, and to the east of us they shut down hollywood boulevard heading west, and police believe that's where the driver was coming from, and when we got herer on the scene 30 minutes ago, the sergeant who could talk to us was trying to gather information, and one person dead and another sent to the hospital, and we're trying to get an update on that person's this is east young circle where the publix is and walgreen's. we are hearing reports that given that the car crashed into it, the building may not be safe. and we are updating the story on facebook and also twitter and on the nbc 6 news and weather app. for now, live in hollywood, nbc 6 news, michael spears. > nbc 6 first to alert you of this breaking news on social media, talking about that car into the publix, make sure you follow us on twitter and like us on facebook so we can tell you when breaking news happens on any part of the day. >>> and then donald trump, he will go to tampa. >> last night he spoke to boca raton, a
cadillac crashed into the publix and this causing major delays in the area, and we have an active scene here, and to the east of us they shut down hollywood boulevard heading west, and police believe that's where the driver was coming from, and when we got herer on the scene 30 minutes ago, the sergeant who could talk to us was trying to gather information, and one person dead and another sent to the hospital, and we're trying to get an update on that person's this is east young circle where...
News 6 at 4p : WKMG : March 10, 2016 4:00pm-5:00pm EST
. captioning company.] >> lisa: now at 4:00, the local video inside a publix where a man took this video inside young girls' skirts. >> julie: but first breaking new details about a school bus driver's arrest. thank you for joining us. i'm julie broughton. >> sachelle: and i'm sachelle saunders in for ginger gadsden who is on assignment. >> lisa: and i'm lisa bell. person had to hitchhike home to davenport. justin warmoth has more on who was arrested and what know about this 13-year-old student in it polk county. deputies just wrapped up a news conference. what can they tell you? >> reporter: both the boy's parents and the polk county sheriff grady judd are appalled. this could have had a much different ending. the first time happened back on march 2nd. you can see the attendant walking in the aisle there in the bottom left of the screen, apparently not noticing the 13-year-old was sleeping in one of the seats. they both then leave the bus, locking it on their way out. then about 15 minutes later, deputies say the boy wakes up, realizes he's on the bus by himself, opens the emergen
. captioning company.] >> lisa: now at 4:00, the local video inside a publix where a man took this video inside young girls' skirts. >> julie: but first breaking new details about a school bus driver's arrest. thank you for joining us. i'm julie broughton. >> sachelle: and i'm sachelle saunders in for ginger gadsden who is on assignment. >> lisa: and i'm lisa bell. person had to hitchhike home to davenport. justin warmoth has more on who was arrested and what know about...
WESH 2 News at 5pm : WESH : March 10, 2016 5:00pm-6:00pm EST
at a local publix. he' s now facing charges of video voyeurism. wesh 2' s michelle meredith is live at the jail. michelle? michelle: police tell us when the suspect was caught, he did confess. we tease the desk we see that scott irwin is about to bond out of jail. presumably he is tried to wait for his ride. more than a police say this is surveillance video of scott park. -- in the publix in erwin park. he had a shopping basket with what appeared to be a box of the witness said he saw durant put his cell phone on top of the crackers, lower the basket under a girl wearing cutoff jean and look at it. >> he is observing, he was the and say something. michelle: the witness saw him do that again to a young girl about six or seven who is wearing a skirt. arm and left the publix in a hurry, but the witness try to catch him but could not. about 20 days later at the same publix, the witness saw or when a again, wants to 15 years old. this signed the staff got his tag number. police were able to track him down and arrest scott erwin. >> it gives me the creeps, because i shop year. i have alon
at a local publix. he' s now facing charges of video voyeurism. wesh 2' s michelle meredith is live at the jail. michelle? michelle: police tell us when the suspect was caught, he did confess. we tease the desk we see that scott irwin is about to bond out of jail. presumably he is tried to wait for his ride. more than a police say this is surveillance video of scott park. -- in the publix in erwin park. he had a shopping basket with what appeared to be a box of the witness said he saw durant...
News 6 at 7 pm : WKMG : February 29, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST
reveal who murdered a 21-year-old found shot to death outside a publix. the new clue that could lead to new tips. >> this caped criminal string of violent armed robberies has come to an end. >> ginger: deputies say this man held up a string of stores, sometimes dressed as batman. why he says his crime spree is a sign of a widespread problem here and statewide. good evening, everyone. this is news 6 at 7:00. i'm ginger gadsden. >> i'm julie broughton. >> and i'm lisa bell. the price hike could change when people come to visit the mouse in central florida. >> ginger: a lot of people are talking about that for sure. our top story right now, the batman robber is off the streets and under arrest tonight. we've shown you surveillance video from some of the crimes he's suspected of committing while dressed as the caped crusader. detectives say this is the man behind the mask. the 26-year-old man is linked to at least eight hold-ups. deputies tell news 6 reporter loren korn why his arrest is a symptom of a larger problem. >> reporter: deputies arrested the batman robber this morning after th
reveal who murdered a 21-year-old found shot to death outside a publix. the new clue that could lead to new tips. >> this caped criminal string of violent armed robberies has come to an end. >> ginger: deputies say this man held up a string of stores, sometimes dressed as batman. why he says his crime spree is a sign of a widespread problem here and statewide. good evening, everyone. this is news 6 at 7:00. i'm ginger gadsden. >> i'm julie broughton. >> and i'm lisa...
perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. . >> live, the one and only "local 10 news" starts right now. >> off the top, a bus stop becomes dangerous after an suv comes crashing through running over a woman on a wheelchair. this is not the first time this has happened and a business owner says something has to be done. tonight. >> reporter: this is not the first time or second or third time, but the fourth time that a car has come through this area, hit the building twice all within one year. this woman thanking her lucky stars. the suv goes off the road through a bus stop and takes >> before i knew it, i was on the floor with the car next to me. >> reporter: take a closer look, sitting o a wheelchair when the car takes out this bus stop. this is on 47th avenue. >> i'm lucky to be alive. >> reporter: the driver of the car says she was leaving the parking lot and claims another car was speeding, practically forced her off the road. fortunately, no serious injuries here, but local businesses say they are feded up. >> this has c
perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. . >> live, the one and only "local 10 news" starts right now. >> off the top, a bus stop becomes dangerous after an suv comes crashing through running over a woman on a wheelchair. this is not the first time this has happened and a business owner says something has to be done. tonight. >> reporter: this is not the first time or second or third time, but the fourth time...
WESH 2 News at 11pm : WESH : March 10, 2016 11:00pm-11:34pm EST
to a girl inside a local publix. the victim' s mother managed to call 911 right after it happened. new tonight, wesh 2' s chris hush asked the suspect his side of the story as he bonded out of the seminole county jail. chris: is there anything you what to say about the allegations? the 21-year-old is out of jail, walking out thursday night. he immediately try to dodge our camera and microphone. almost 20 four hours earlier, seminole county deputies say he flashed a 15-year-old girl at this publix in longwood off 434. that may have been caught on surveillance video. only wesh 2 was there to ask if it was all true. a 15-year-old girl is accusing you of showing her your privates. you didn' t do anything? so what happened in that publix? >> nothing happened. chris: anything else you want to say? >> lucky the police -- lucky i was not here, or the police would be coming to question me. chris: we spoke to her 15-year-old is still extremely upset about the incident. the victim' s mother was with the 15-year-old and called 911 when it happened. >> he is in the store with it walking out in
to a girl inside a local publix. the victim' s mother managed to call 911 right after it happened. new tonight, wesh 2' s chris hush asked the suspect his side of the story as he bonded out of the seminole county jail. chris: is there anything you what to say about the allegations? the 21-year-old is out of jail, walking out thursday night. he immediately try to dodge our camera and microphone. almost 20 four hours earlier, seminole county deputies say he flashed a 15-year-old girl at this...
Eyewitness News @ 11 : WFTV : March 10, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EST
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>>> a man accused of taking pictures up young girls skirts at a busy publix tried to avoid our cameras as he walked out of jail. >> what do you have to say to those parents? >> he had no response for our questions about his arrest. that suspect left jail just after 5:00 tonight. and dodged our questions as he walked down the street with no one there to pick him up. >> channel 9 tried to get our side of the story, but he wouldn't talk. you also talked to the shopper who says that he caught this guy in the act twice at the same publix. >> reporter: martha, he told me that that shopper is relieved and he also said that he doesn't want to go on camera because he now fears for the safety of his kids. and now tonight we also found out that that suspect lives about 10 miles away from this publix. and when we asked him about didn't say a word. eyewitness news was there when scott irvin bonded out -- irwin bonded out of jail after being inside for eight hours. orlando police say he recorded videos up girls skirts last month. some of those girls as young as five and as old as 13. so we a
>>> a man accused of taking pictures up young girls skirts at a busy publix tried to avoid our cameras as he walked out of jail. >> what do you have to say to those parents? >> he had no response for our questions about his arrest. that suspect left jail just after 5:00 tonight. and dodged our questions as he walked down the street with no one there to pick him up. >> channel 9 tried to get our side of the story, but he wouldn't talk. you also talked to the shopper...
NBC 6 South Florida News at 11pm : WTVJ : March 4, 2016 11:00pm-11:34pm EST
publix this pine crest. >> reporter: he stood before a judge today, months afterpolice started looking for him. surveillance cameras from a police say is hope walking in around 2:40 in the afternoon. police said that was right after the elderly victim. in the video you can see this man trailing behind the 94-year-old and then follow him down an aisle. police say that's when the pickpocketing occurred. >> do you have any money to pay for a private lawyer? i'll appoint the public defeer defenders off. >> reporter: he confessed to stealing is victim's wallet with $65 charge and credit card. he charged more than $6,000 on the card. investigators said the victim, who is a veteran, noticed his wallet missing when he went to pay for his groceries be p people who shop at this publix say pickpocketing is not something ey would expect. >> it's always a lot of people it's scary. the crimes are petty theft, grand theft and several fraud related ccrges. we talked to people shopping. they say the fact that the victim is 94 years old, it makes this kind of thing that much worse. >>> new details in ha
publix this pine crest. >> reporter: he stood before a judge today, months afterpolice started looking for him. surveillance cameras from a police say is hope walking in around 2:40 in the afternoon. police said that was right after the elderly victim. in the video you can see this man trailing behind the 94-year-old and then follow him down an aisle. police say that's when the pickpocketing occurred. >> do you have any money to pay for a private lawyer? i'll appoint the public...
Eyewitness News @ 11 : WFTV : March 1, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EST
publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. we have super tuesday results and florida finisher marco rubio won the republican caucuses in minnesota and the associated press called the race a few minutes ago. there you see the results and this is rubio's first victory in the 2016 race for president. >>> we could find out as close as tomorrow if a charter school will be built . a member of the planning and zoning commission, milton west owns the land charter school usa wants to build on and the resident filed a complaint saying that he is something to gain from the sale of the land and should not be part of the zoning discussion. west said he was cleared to participate but could not take suing the city of daytona beach timing that it will project significantly hurt their business in the businesses along orange avenue city lost customers when the city shut down the road and took several weeks to putting detours. some of the detours took drivers more than 1 mile out of their way. >>> sometimes people don't even deal with it and they come this wa
publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. we have super tuesday results and florida finisher marco rubio won the republican caucuses in minnesota and the associated press called the race a few minutes ago. there you see the results and this is rubio's first victory in the 2016 race for president. >>> we could find out as close as tomorrow if a charter school will be built . a member of the planning and zoning commission, milton west owns the...
cell phone to record up young girls' skirts at a local publix. news 6 reporter troy bridges joins us live outside the baldwin park publix where it happened. what have you learned about the guy? >> reporter: the 27-year-old suspect is from orlando, born and raised and does not have a single criminal record in orange county, but police say twice last month, at least twice, he targeted this publix here, using his cell phone to film underneath the clothing of young girls. >> our detectives talked to him this morning and he did confess. he confessed to videotaping, video voyeurism. >> reporter: the 27-year-old scott irwin, arrested on thursday as witnesses identified him as the man in this publix surveillance video. his cell phone inside a shopping basket while recording video on the phone. he placed the basket on the ground near several young girls, capturing images underneath their clothing. the two reported incidents were on february 3rd and again on february 24th. police seizing irwin's phone and computer. news 6 asked investigators how will they determine if the videos were shared an
cell phone to record up young girls' skirts at a local publix. news 6 reporter troy bridges joins us live outside the baldwin park publix where it happened. what have you learned about the guy? >> reporter: the 27-year-old suspect is from orlando, born and raised and does not have a single criminal record in orange county, but police say twice last month, at least twice, he targeted this publix here, using his cell phone to film underneath the clothing of young girls. >> our...
WESH 2 News at 4:00pm : WESH : March 10, 2016 4:00pm-5:00pm EST
the wesh 2 meredith: late breaking today, a publix customer is accused of recording video under the skirts and shorts of young girls under the age of 13-years-old. orlando police say the man is facing video voyeurism charges. michelle meredith is live outside the jail where the suspect could bond out soon. michelle: we understand the bonding process is well underway for the suspect, so he could come out in a few minutes or a couple of hours. orlando police say this is surveillance video of scott irwin in the publix. an alert witness saw him doing attention. box of saltine crackers in the basket. the witness says he saw her when put the --irw in pick up his he also did this to a girl around the age six years old or seven years old. publix employees try to catch him but could not. about 20 days later at the same publix, the witness saw him again, watched him following a girl 15 years old, this time the staff in the witness got his tag at number and police were able to track down and arrest him. if he had not done this, could he still be out there? >> sure. if not for the witness, yes,
the wesh 2 meredith: late breaking today, a publix customer is accused of recording video under the skirts and shorts of young girls under the age of 13-years-old. orlando police say the man is facing video voyeurism charges. michelle meredith is live outside the jail where the suspect could bond out soon. michelle: we understand the bonding process is well underway for the suspect, so he could come out in a few minutes or a couple of hours. orlando police say this is surveillance video of...
News 6 at 6.30pm : WKMG : March 6, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake all the right reasons. where shopping if you're going to say "better ingredients. better pizza." you better deliver. which is why i'm introducing our new papa's quality guarantee: love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. pget any large pizza up to 5-toppings pfor just $9.99. online only. at papajohns.com >> orlando city soccer lived it to its motto -- defy expectations. two goals in 30 seconds doesn't...
NBC 6 South Florida Today Saturday at 9am : WTVJ : March 5, 2016 9:00am-10:00am EST
pinecrest publix. nbc 6 reporter stephanie bertini is outside the store with more. >> reporter: an elderly man walking through a publix. police say the 94-year-old was pickpocketed by 56-year-old derrick hope. >> this is from a publix in pinecrest. >> reporter: hope stood before a judge months after police startelooking for him. surveillance cameras in the store caught this man who police say is hope, walking in around 2:40 in the afternoon. police say that was right after the elderly victim. in the video you can see this man trailing behind the 94-year-old and then follow him down an aisle. police say that's when the pickpocketing occurred. >> si do you have any money to pay for a private lawyer? >> no, ma'am. >> i will appoint the public defender's office for you. >> reporter: no money for a lawyer, but police say hope victim's wallet with $65 cash and credit cardsds police say he charged more than $6,000 on the cards. after the alleged crime occurred, the victim noticed his wallet missing when he went to pay for his groceries. people who shop at this publix regularly say pickpoc
pinecrest publix. nbc 6 reporter stephanie bertini is outside the store with more. >> reporter: an elderly man walking through a publix. police say the 94-year-old was pickpocketed by 56-year-old derrick hope. >> this is from a publix in pinecrest. >> reporter: hope stood before a judge months after police startelooking for him. surveillance cameras in the store caught this man who police say is hope, walking in around 2:40 in the afternoon. police say that was right after...
Local 10 News @ 6PM : WPLG : March 4, 2016 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
-493-tips. >> laurie: also publix pickpocket with an arrest made in connection with five separate cases of theft all of them happening a publix super markets. tonight we're hearing from one years old. >> victor: he spoke with our ane morejon and she is live now from pean crest. >> liane: judging from the amount of time this guy has allegedly committed other crimes, he's very comfortable. ai he targets elderly people, many times wearing the same outfit or same hat. when is thiss where the oldest of those victims was hit at publix in pinecrest. tonight we spoke with him. he sd he's happy this person was caught. pickpocket who targets our communities' most vulnerable. the 32-year-old derrick hope faces grand theft and theft on the elderly. >> the guy got me when i wasn't paying any attention. >> liane: 94-year-old air force veteran john b bd is one of hope's alleged victims. he is seen on surveillance video inners is a publix off us-1 and 134 avenue in pinecrest. police say hope took but are's wallet as he bent down for cat food. >> he took my credit cards rightht out of my pocket li
-493-tips. >> laurie: also publix pickpocket with an arrest made in connection with five separate cases of theft all of them happening a publix super markets. tonight we're hearing from one years old. >> victor: he spoke with our ane morejon and she is live now from pean crest. >> liane: judging from the amount of time this guy has allegedly committed other crimes, he's very comfortable. ai he targets elderly people, many times wearing the same outfit or same hat. when is...
10 News at 11:00pm : WTSP : March 6, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EST
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berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. (announcer): this is no ordinary salad, this is a florida berry and citrus salad. the mixing bowl, proudly welcomes the arugula leaves. lemon juice and olive oil drizzle down. fresh strawberries, blueberries and oranges tumble into place. dashed with cheese and topped with candied pecans. done. it's easy to turn local produce into...
WFOR (CBS)
CBS 4 News at Noon : WFOR : March 14, 2016 12:00pm-12:30pm EDT
by WFOR
live news. >>> a car slams into a publix grocery store. >> reporter: that driver was going at a very high rate of speed on hollywood boulevard. there's a big curve as you approach the publix shopping center. he missed the curb and went into the building. smashed up cars were pulled from >> i've heard it so many times that i jumped out of bed and i thought it was a bad accident. i couldn't see anything because the wall was blocking it. >> reporter: just before 3:00 a red cadillac slammed into the back of the publix in hollywood young circle. the driver was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. the passenger was transported to memorial regional hospital in critical condition. stephen scott says he has seen this happen way too much. >> i've heard it many times and it was 3:00 in the morning and i was pretty tired. obviously i wish i had come down now. maybe i could have helped. >> reporter: he was driving at a high rate of speed westbound on hollywood boulevard when he lost control and struck a median. the car crashed head on into the rear storage room of the public. curb where
live news. >>> a car slams into a publix grocery store. >> reporter: that driver was going at a very high rate of speed on hollywood boulevard. there's a big curve as you approach the publix shopping center. he missed the curb and went into the building. smashed up cars were pulled from >> i've heard it so many times that i jumped out of bed and i thought it was a bad accident. i couldn't see anything because the wall was blocking it. >> reporter: just before 3:00 a...
accused of video voyeurism in a local publix bonded out of jail just moments ago. scott irwin had nothing to say to reporters as he walked out of the orange county jail. irwin is accused of using his cell phone to shoot images up the skirts of young girls in the baldwin park publix on two occasions. this is surveillance video of irwin in the publix on february 24. a witness claims irwin put his phone on top of a box of crackers in his shopping basket then lowered the basket next to the girls. >> can you give us any this? >> think of those parents. jim: police say some of the girls were as young as six and seven. the video voyeurism charge is a felony. seminole county detectives have busted an alleged flasher, 21-year-old cook is saying he exposed himself in a public supermarket in front of 15-year-old reagan well she was shopping february 25 with her mother. this was inside the publix at the corner of 434 in wekiva springs road. the teen says he exposed himself and began talking to her. they called 911. her stepfather told wesh 2 news it she is still very upset. >> lucky i wasn' t
accused of video voyeurism in a local publix bonded out of jail just moments ago. scott irwin had nothing to say to reporters as he walked out of the orange county jail. irwin is accused of using his cell phone to shoot images up the skirts of young girls in the baldwin park publix on two occasions. this is surveillance video of irwin in the publix on february 24. a witness claims irwin put his phone on top of a box of crackers in his shopping basket then lowered the basket next to the girls....
News 6 at 5.30 pm : WKMG : March 10, 2016 5:30pm-6:00pm EST
>> sachelle: a shocked publix shopper calls 911 from the store. >> matt: what a man is accused of doing. a mom says it brought her daughter to tears, too. thank you for joining us tonight. i'm matt austin. >> sachelle: i'm sachelle saunders. ginger gadsden is covering the debates tonight. we'll have the story in a minute. first, changes are on the way after a hot start to the month of march. meteorologist candace campos is in for tom tonight and here with your pinpoint weather first at 5:30. it's hot! too hot. >> reporter: temperatures today orlando airport. 84 in sanford and 86 for folks in ocala and the villages. it was downright warm. the good news is we had the winds moving in. at least it didn't feel very hot and sticky at least. 79 was the high in new smyrna beach. 80 for you folks in daytona beach. we're not the only ones dealing with the heat. most of the southeast seeing 80-degree weather. the heat is on, thanks to the ridge of high pressure. how we doing when it comes to the almanac? we're certainly above average. the average for this time of the year is 77 degrees. the
>> sachelle: a shocked publix shopper calls 911 from the store. >> matt: what a man is accused of doing. a mom says it brought her daughter to tears, too. thank you for joining us tonight. i'm matt austin. >> sachelle: i'm sachelle saunders. ginger gadsden is covering the debates tonight. we'll have the story in a minute. first, changes are on the way after a hot start to the month of march. meteorologist candace campos is in for tom tonight and here with your pinpoint weather...
Eyewitness News @ 6 : WFTV : March 3, 2016 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. >>> >>> an >>> orange county >>> an orange man >>> an orange county >>> an orange county man arrested for child abuse twice in as many months was just arrested again. >> december the first set of charges were dropped. been accused of abusing his stepdaughter. carlo ray found out in a rare move today, the state decided to refile those charges. and you learned the evidence from his second arrest may have given prosecutors a stronger case. >> reporter: officials told us in january during that second arrest, it dealt with allegations that he abused his three biological boys. and today prosecutors told me that one of those boys said he witnessed the abuse of the stepdaughter as well. >> reporter: this latest is a rearrest after charges against him for allegedly abusing his stepdaughter were initially dropped. the 5-year-old girl's real father and stepmom have kept meticulous paperwork, showing repeated requests for injunctions, dating back years. even after c
perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. >>> >>> an >>> orange county >>> an orange man >>> an orange county >>> an orange county man arrested for child abuse twice in as many months was just arrested again. >> december the first set of charges were dropped. been accused of abusing his stepdaughter. carlo ray found out in a rare move today,...
WHNS (FOX)
FOX Carolina News Tonight : WHNS : March 1, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EST
by WHNS
perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. 3 the panthers place the franchise tag on greenwood native josh norman... however vit's of the non-exclusive variety... that means the all- pro cornerback's free to negotiate with other teams.. if he were to agree to a deal with another team, the panthers could either match it... or let him go... in which carolina would get two first round picks in return... assuming he stays put... he'll make just under 14-million next year.. 3 hey there, i'm ac... we'll keep tabs on that going on the hardwood though... where the tigers get yet another shot at a top-25 win with number four virginia in town... however the cavs ride a four-game winning streak over clemson... clemson...senior day for landry nnoko, josh smith and jordan roper... last home game at the well for the regular season... -wahoos hot to start... especially malcolm brogdon... hit four of his first five threes... finished with a team-high 18...-tigers trying to dig out of an early hole... jordan roper.. nice reverse for the senio
perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. 3 the panthers place the franchise tag on greenwood native josh norman... however vit's of the non-exclusive variety... that means the all- pro cornerback's free to negotiate with other teams.. if he were to agree to a deal with another team, the panthers could either match it... or let him go... in which carolina would get two first round picks in return... assuming he stays put... he'll...
clocking in at 46 miles per hour. >> victor: thank you. still ahead police butting a publix. cops say he whose stolen fromm r good deal details in a l le report at 6:00. >> laurie: and could this be the end of lost luggage? we're showing you new technology of your checked bags. don't miss today's calling christina all new at 5:30. >> victor: first ab a high school star wrestler down for the kuhnert he became infected during a match. from happening to anyone else. how do you stay on top of your health? ahh... ahh... ahh... cigna customers have plan choices and tools to take control. so they're more engaged, with fewer high health risks and lower medical costs. take control of your health >> laurie: technological the poor teenagers face as he spreading all over. he contracted it after a wrestling match last month, and now he's just hoping to prevent other student athletes from getting infected. it has been a trying ordeal for the family after their star athlete son was diagnosed with a form of herpes that left lesions on his face. blake flown said he was i iected after a high school tourna
clocking in at 46 miles per hour. >> victor: thank you. still ahead police butting a publix. cops say he whose stolen fromm r good deal details in a l le report at 6:00. >> laurie: and could this be the end of lost luggage? we're showing you new technology of your checked bags. don't miss today's calling christina all new at 5:30. >> victor: first ab a high school star wrestler down for the kuhnert he became infected during a match. from happening to anyone else. how do you...
truck i still sitting here wedged in the back of the publix grocery store just on the east side of young's circle here in hollywood. and police tell us that the man, the driver, was still in the car when we got on the scene and examiner showed up not too long ago, likely to removeis body. a female driver was taken to the hospital. hopefully we'll be able to get some information from police as soon as we can. we were able to get video of the car still inside the building once we saw that that taillight was still on and we saw firefighters working. also the structure of this building making sure they can remove that car safely and a soon as they possibly can but this accident investigation is still under way. we spoke with a neighbor who lives right across the street from where this happened. this car was traveling west on hollywood boulevard. unfortunately, this s s not the first accident she's seen or witnessed here at this particular location. >> and they just -- this is the fourth car that m aware of and it is like an illusion. people think they can go around but it goes so fast.
truck i still sitting here wedged in the back of the publix grocery store just on the east side of young's circle here in hollywood. and police tell us that the man, the driver, was still in the car when we got on the scene and examiner showed up not too long ago, likely to removeis body. a female driver was taken to the hospital. hopefully we'll be able to get some information from police as soon as we can. we were able to get video of the car still inside the building once we saw that that...
with fresh berries like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. >>> very early morning showers between 4:00 and 7:00 breaking up through central florida. 60s early on. pen then sunshine return. we're back to the upper 70s tomorrow, martha. and an extended period of dry and warm weather through next week. news this morning" starting at 5:00 to get your weather, news, and traffic updated toes, noses, eyes, hormones know, too. dogs know. kids know. st augustine knows. debs know. guys who peaked in high school know. he definitely knows. scotts bonus s. the number one trusted brand in the south. it' s good out here. lemme get a mcpick 2 check out the brand new mix on mcdonald's mcpick 2 menu! lemme get a mcpick 2. now, choose any 2 delicious for just $5 bucks. mix n match share n savor 2 for $5 name your flavor pick any 2 iconic tastes- a big mac made with 100% beef, flaky filet-o-fish, seared on the grill quarter pounder with cheese or crispy 10-piece chicken mcnuggets for just $5 bucks. grab your crew to
with fresh berries like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. >>> very early morning showers between 4:00 and 7:00 breaking up through central florida. 60s early on. pen then sunshine return. we're back to the upper 70s tomorrow, martha. and an extended period of dry and warm weather through next week. news this morning" starting at 5:00 to get your weather, news, and traffic updated toes, noses,...
fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. >>> we uncovered disturbing video of unsanitary cleaning practices as added -- at a disney world resort. the worker was coming camera using them up on the floors and >> this happened at the art of animation resort. we talk to the guest is all the dirty work. >> anybody with common sense can see that is unsanitary. >> reporter: jesse of california got out his cell phone and started recording. a member of the cleaning crew at disney world's art of animation resort can be seen mopping the floor. she then takes the same mop to wipe off restaurant. >> it was really disturbing that they're doing something like that and exposing us to diseases. there are thousands of people that walk those parts of day. >> reporter: areas complained the resort manager but it still bothered him. he started writing letters this week and never got a satisfying response. >> a spokesperson told me when they found out about the incident they immediat
fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. >>> we uncovered disturbing video of unsanitary cleaning practices as added -- at a disney world resort. the worker was coming camera using them up on the floors and >> this happened at the art of animation resort. we talk to the guest is all the dirty work. >> anybody with common sense can see that is...
RightThisMinute : WPLG : March 6, 2016 12:00am-12:30am EST
frfrted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. >>> closed captioning provided by: smoothes, softens. reduces bumps 72 percent. gold bond. ultimate skin. >>> this is my what in the h-e double hockey sticks video of the week. this woman is ramming her c c through the parking lot of an apartment building, and you see she took out those cars, and continues to drive. [ bleep ] [ speaking in foreign language ] >> people in the parking lot see all of this going down, and they pstart to approach the car, cell phone in hand, to get it all on camera. and i think they're just as confused as all of us are at first. these folks decide enough is enough. as they approach the car, you see she's on her cell phone. they're like, hey, calm down. we got you on camera, stop. here's where she flips them the bird, and then s takes off driving again. that she was intoxicated, because this just continues. >> with all the refusing of the engine, it's almost like someone is driving a manual that's never driven a manual, not understanding how it wor
frfrted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. >>> closed captioning provided by: smoothes, softens. reduces bumps 72 percent. gold bond. ultimate skin. >>> this is my what in the h-e double hockey sticks video of the week. this woman is ramming her c c through the parking lot of an apartment building, and you see she took out those cars, and continues to drive. [ bleep ] [ speaking in foreign language ] >>...
NBC 6 South Florida Today at 5:30am : WTVJ : March 14, 2016 5:30am-6:00am EDT
confirm the driver was unfortunately killed after crash into the back of a publix. this is brand-new videde and the taillights still ol and still inside o o the publix. we just spoke with a friend of the victim and confirmed the driver parently lost control the police have not confirmed that, and the friend of the victim also telling us the passenger was the driver's girlfriend and she was taken to the hospital as well, and we are working to get an update on her condition. all of this happening, unfolding around 3:00 this morning. the circumstances of why the driver may have lost control still unclear, and back out here live, it's still a very active scene. police have hollywood boulevard west, heading west from the beach area shut down, d they are diverting traffic as they work to piece together what happened. and we will still work to get information, and we have a sergeant that can speak to media and he is who we are waiting for and should have an update in the next 30 minutes or so. >>> we're going to do things that have never been done, and we are going to straighten our country
confirm the driver was unfortunately killed after crash into the back of a publix. this is brand-new videde and the taillights still ol and still inside o o the publix. we just spoke with a friend of the victim and confirmed the driver parently lost control the police have not confirmed that, and the friend of the victim also telling us the passenger was the driver's girlfriend and she was taken to the hospital as well, and we are working to get an update on her condition. all of this...
chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. lake county investigators are looking into whether a grow houses connected to a bigger drug ring. they found 300 marijuana plants worth more than $300,000 in a house. they arrested 2 guys and they received a tip about the drug operation and begin a two- month long investigation. >>> the search for gunman continues and we first told you about the shooting as it was breaking last night and it happened just after 8:30 pm added apartment complex and military avenue. they found this man shot and he died later at the hospital. they have not released his name . >>> the fight continues as prosecutors try and block bond for a man accused of killing another man who made sexual advances. they want gm will commissar to they say he was offended when kent wilbanks approached him. he beat the victim and left him to die in downtown melbourne on super bowl sunday. >>> fire officials are trying to figure out what caused this house to catch fire and you can see that this roof is charred and when crews arrived they sell flames coming
chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. lake county investigators are looking into whether a grow houses connected to a bigger drug ring. they found 300 marijuana plants worth more than $300,000 in a house. they arrested 2 guys and they received a tip about the drug operation and begin a two- month long investigation. >>> the search for gunman continues and we first told you about the shooting as it was breaking last night and it happened just after 8:30...
FOX 13 10:00 News : WTVT : March 5, 2016 10:00pm-11:00pm EST
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Local 10 News @ 4PM : WPLG : March 14, 2016 4:00pm-5:00pm EDT
. >> laurie: a deadly market trash. a driver lose control and slams into a publix. the man behind the wheel died when i will his passenger, a woman was injured. >> calvin: layron livington picks up the story. >> layron: police tell us 21-year-old roxanna via is in critical condition at region memorial, she was riding with 24-year-old david paul lamour. the two of them were headed west at a high rate of speed 1 sit that curb at the round about and went air boar into the back of this publix store. parts went flying hours after that red cadillac did. >> every day. >> layron: f fefighters worked to open up the call wall even more to ultimately get that car out of storage room it torpedoed into. >> driving like it's a speedway. >> reporter: a joyce newman lives near by? this is the fourth car ladies and gentlemen today she lit a not wearing his seatbelt, thrown from the car and pronounced dead on scene. police say the 20-year-old woman the in passenger seat was wearing a seatbelt. >> it went nitrite lane, lost control and crashed right into the wall of publix. >> layron: despite the or
. >> laurie: a deadly market trash. a driver lose control and slams into a publix. the man behind the wheel died when i will his passenger, a woman was injured. >> calvin: layron livington picks up the story. >> layron: police tell us 21-year-old roxanna via is in critical condition at region memorial, she was riding with 24-year-old david paul lamour. the two of them were headed west at a high rate of speed 1 sit that curb at the round about and went air boar into the back of...
Good Day Tampa Bay @ 8AM : WTVT : March 13, 2016 8:00am-9:00am EDT
. pthis is $4.49 at publix. pit's expensive, but it's good. pit's a new variety, eureka it's pcalled. pi guess they're promoting it. pso how you get the deal is when pyou have a publix -- the publix papp, you have a coupon for free. p>> alcides: so you have to pdownload the app? p>> or just go on the computer pand set up an account with your hone number, and then when you pget to the cash register you put pin your phone number where you pwould put the p.i.n. like your pdebit card. pit deducts it automatically. pi'll show you where to find it pon the app, because it's easy pand i don't have a computer to pshow. pwhen you're in the publix app, pjust click on digital coupons, pand then there's a little search pbutton you can search for bread. pcan you see it there? p>> alcides: people get the pidea. p>> search for bread and there it pis, eureka. p$4.49 off. p>> alcides: there has to be a plimit? p>> yes, one per account. pthe coupon is going to expire on pmarch 27th, so we have one week pon easter. pyeah, that's easter. pno, it's two weeks. pwe have two weeks. pit's march 27th. ptwo weeks t
. pthis is $4.49 at publix. pit's expensive, but it's good. pit's a new variety, eureka it's pcalled. pi guess they're promoting it. pso how you get the deal is when pyou have a publix -- the publix papp, you have a coupon for free. p>> alcides: so you have to pdownload the app? p>> or just go on the computer pand set up an account with your hone number, and then when you pget to the cash register you put pin your phone number where you pwould put the p.i.n. like your pdebit card....
10 News at 6:00pm : WTSP : March 3, 2016 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
joe's reigns supreme in customer satisfaction. publix and aldi go next. target is ten stores lower on the list. shopping online is forcing target and other stores to make big changes to lure you in. mascareas shows you why it is all about retail survival. >> reporter: the trend is clear. many shoppers prefer to have their fingers do the walking online instead of walking into a physical store. >> convenience, i think. the savvy consumers, a lot are busy. >> reporter: retailer are finding creative ways to bring customers back to the brick and mortar stores. j. c. penney offers one cent items. target is stepping up customer service. they are promoting faster shipping with store pickup and more premium lines in home, beauty and apparel and organic produce and groceries. >> it makes sense to offer that. people going back to work are ready to spend money. consumer confidence measures are up. it is smart. >> reporter: this economist says retailers are trying to survive. >> they start to see notable >> reporter: target's online sales jumped 34%. that's tough to compete with. >> maybe peopl
joe's reigns supreme in customer satisfaction. publix and aldi go next. target is ten stores lower on the list. shopping online is forcing target and other stores to make big changes to lure you in. mascareas shows you why it is all about retail survival. >> reporter: the trend is clear. many shoppers prefer to have their fingers do the walking online instead of walking into a physical store. >> convenience, i think. the savvy consumers, a lot are busy. >> reporter: retailer...
Eyewitness News @ 5 : WFTV : March 10, 2016 5:00pm-5:30pm EST
to october. >>> you're watching a crime at a publix store. how a quick-thinking shopper helped them catch a make taking pictures and videos up young girl's skirt. >> families trying to get information about bright future scholarships got viruses instead. >> new murals are wanting to be banned. the city's plan to >> warmest day so far of the wendy hates dirty lawn furniture. that' s why she uses scotts outdoor cleaner plus oxi-clean. it cleans all of wendy' s lawn furniture without damaging any of wendy' s lawn. >>> you're watching channel 9 eyewitness news at 5:00, coverage you can count on. >>> street art is becoming so popular in sanford that city leaders are trying to figure out how to control it. commissioners are looking at putting a moratorium on murals like the one you see behind me until they can create an ordnance that can regulate them. tim barber asked city leaders how they would determine what's art and what's not. >> some people look at this building and see a wall. others see a canvas. >> to make it beautiful you don't have to destroy it. you can refurbish it. >> that'
to october. >>> you're watching a crime at a publix store. how a quick-thinking shopper helped them catch a make taking pictures and videos up young girl's skirt. >> families trying to get information about bright future scholarships got viruses instead. >> new murals are wanting to be banned. the city's plan to >> warmest day so far of the wendy hates dirty lawn furniture. that' s why she uses scotts outdoor cleaner plus oxi-clean. it cleans all of wendy' s lawn...
WNCN (CBS)
North Carolina News at 11:00PM : WNCN : March 7, 2016 11:00pm-11:30pm EST
by WNCN
, publix is opening a new store in the eastern part of our state sometime next year. the chain made the announcement this afternoon, and publix started opening up in our area. >>> victoria mcgrath was near the finish line when bombs went off years ago. they used a t-shirt as a tourniquet. >>> a dying durham man and his dog can sleep a little easier tonight. his apartment wanted to raise his rent. with possibly only six months want to leave his home. they just wouldn't budge, but donations came pouring in. people have donated more than $12,000 for him and his friend, his dog, casey. >> i just want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. >> he said he'll only use the money for emergencies and for rent and bills. we will keep on this. you can see jack's full story on our website at wncn.com. >>> on his way out, peyton that's right. lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for $399 a month >>> this year, he got it winning superbowl 50. peyton announced his retirement. those he played with and against showed their respects. cam newton says he was honored to have played against him in his final ga
, publix is opening a new store in the eastern part of our state sometime next year. the chain made the announcement this afternoon, and publix started opening up in our area. >>> victoria mcgrath was near the finish line when bombs went off years ago. they used a t-shirt as a tourniquet. >>> a dying durham man and his dog can sleep a little easier tonight. his apartment wanted to raise his rent. with possibly only six months want to leave his home. they just wouldn't budge,...
store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. in 1934, steak 'n shake decided the world didn't need another hamburger. it needed a steakburger. so they used 100 percent beef. quick seared to seal in the flavor ... ... you'll only get from a steakburger. steak 'n shake, home of the original (singing) i just can't wait to meet you, sweet child you're on the way, i'm filled with expectation, and you're growing everyday... (instrumental) it's one of the most popular annual festivals in the bay area...the >> it's one of the most popular annual festivals in the bay area, the strawberry fix brings in more than half a million visitors during the 11 day fair. one of the main exits to the fairgrounds off of i-4, is under construction. >> but that exit may be your >> the thonotosassa exit off i-4, the main artery leading to the strawberry festival looks very much like an active construction zone but the lanes are open and fair goers say delay
store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. in 1934, steak 'n shake decided the world didn't need another hamburger. it needed a steakburger. so they used 100 percent beef. quick seared to seal in the flavor ... ... you'll only get from a steakburger. steak 'n shake, home of the original (singing) i just can't wait to meet you, sweet...
CBS Morning News : WTSP : March 2, 2016 4:00am-4:30am EST
decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. forecast in some cities around the country. >>> a chinese toddler's trip with grandpa becomes quite an adventure. the 2-year-old fell from a van and into traffic. the trailing driver recorded the scene and then saved the child. the grandfather said the trunk latch was broken in a fender bender. >>> serious accusation against espn in the erin andrews case and new details on osama bin laden as he hid in pakistan. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. >>> documents reveal osama bin laden feared that a tracking device may have been planted in the mouth of one of his wives. andrews latest testimony in her 75 million dollar suit against a nashville hotel. she said espn forced her to give a national interview about the nude video a stalker secretly recorded there. andrews says the hotel stays now fill her with fear. >> i instantly cover the peep hole and then i do check of the room. i look ever
decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. forecast in some cities around the country. >>> a chinese toddler's trip with grandpa becomes quite an adventure. the 2-year-old fell from a van and into traffic. the trailing driver recorded the scene and then saved the child. the grandfather said the trunk latch was broken in a fender bender....
News4 at 11 : WRC : March 23, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EDT
does, you probably heard them gush about publix. now it appears they're ready to open up shothop shop in our are >> it is washington's biggest race. we're talking about the marine corps marathon. join us in the morning. we'll tell you everything you need to know to get registered for the race and, of course, it is easter weekend. coming hotcakes. this place has hotcakes. so why aren't they selling like hotcakes? with comcast business internet and wifi pro, they could be. just add a customized message to your wifi pro splash page and you'll reach your customers where their eyes are already - on their devices. order up. it's more than just wifi, it can help grow your business. you don't see that every day. introducing wifi pro, wifi that helps grow your business. comcast business. built for business. >>> brush fires look the marked tracks today could cause major headaches for you tomorrow. service on the camden line will be severely limited tomorrow. just three trains will run. the 610 and the 8:05 departures from camden yards and the 8:00 a.m. departure from union station. trains were
does, you probably heard them gush about publix. now it appears they're ready to open up shothop shop in our are >> it is washington's biggest race. we're talking about the marine corps marathon. join us in the morning. we'll tell you everything you need to know to get registered for the race and, of course, it is easter weekend. coming hotcakes. this place has hotcakes. so why aren't they selling like hotcakes? with comcast business internet and wifi pro, they could be. just add a...
NBC 6 South Florida Today at 11am : WTVJ : March 14, 2016 11:00am-11:30am EDT
publix store. nbc 6 the first to tell you about the story as it was developing very early this morning. the driver died. the passenger is still in the hospital as of this midday. nbc 6 reporter michael spears is live in hollywood and we understand that you have some new information about the couple that was inside that vehicle when it crashed. >> > porter: yeah, we do, eric. hololwood police just identified the driver who died after crashing into this publix is david pablamor. his girlfriend roxanne in a. they went airborne and flew and we're told roxanne vegas remains in the hospital. the impact of the crash rattled air larms -- alarms in nearby buildings. >> i was dead asleep. it was 2:11 a.m. >> reporter: a cadillac barreling into the east circle public lix on monday. killing the driver and sending his girlfriend to the hospital according t t police. police say the driver, a man in his early 20s was heading west on hollywood boulevard. >> it went in a straight-line, lost control and crashed right into the wall of public. >> reporter: this is cell phone video taken right afte
publix store. nbc 6 the first to tell you about the story as it was developing very early this morning. the driver died. the passenger is still in the hospital as of this midday. nbc 6 reporter michael spears is live in hollywood and we understand that you have some new information about the couple that was inside that vehicle when it crashed. >> > porter: yeah, we do, eric. hololwood police just identified the driver who died after crashing into this publix is david pablamor. his...
WFLA (NBC)
News Ch8 Today at 4:00AM : WFLA : March 1, 2016 4:00am-4:30am EST
by WFLA
. they are looking for this couple caught on surveillance video using stolen credit cards at publix and a babies r us. if you know anything about the case, you could be eligible for a $3,000 reward from crime stoppers. >>> take a look at this guy here duck for cover. have you seen these sneaky suspects? they were caught on camera tampa business. let's give you a closer look here. you can see them driving the off in a four-door gmc truck with the trailer attached. and now police are looking for the masked thieves. the trailer is worth about $17,000. >>> hillsborough county deputies are increasing their presence at a high school after a serious fight. one student was beating up so badly, it landed him in the hospital. several students at the school tell 8 on your side there have been a number of fights at the school which has parents concerned. >> been like seven days in a row, just straight up fighting and stuff. >> to have to bring your child to school and see cop after cop after cop. they're not dropping our children off at jail. my daughter is in fear walking in and out of her cla
. they are looking for this couple caught on surveillance video using stolen credit cards at publix and a babies r us. if you know anything about the case, you could be eligible for a $3,000 reward from crime stoppers. >>> take a look at this guy here duck for cover. have you seen these sneaky suspects? they were caught on camera tampa business. let's give you a closer look here. you can see them driving the off in a four-door gmc truck with the trailer attached. and now police are...
like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping >> i was a snowboarding instructor, a bouncer in a nightclub. >> laura logan: and now 44-year- old justin trudeau is a world leader. the new prime minister of canada and his wife will be guests of honor at a white house state dinner later this week. crisis will likely be on the menu. while we were with trudeau we found out he loves to box and is not afraid of a fight. >> people think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. it's not. it's about how hard of a hit you
like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping >> i was a snowboarding instructor, a bouncer in a nightclub. >> laura logan: and now 44-year- old justin trudeau is a world leader. the new prime minister of canada and his wife will be guests of honor at a white house state dinner later this week. crisis will likely be on the menu. while we were with trudeau we found out he loves to box and is not afraid of a fight....
decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be rememred for all the right reasons. publix. [ cheers and applause ] >>> welcome back to the election center. i'm jake tapper. on cnn i pass for a bona fide hunk. [ laughter ] it's been a crazy week in politics, so if tonight's election results continue to roll in, let's take a look back at the past seven days. donald trump was endorsed by senator chris christie and dominated super tuesday. here's what he had to say at his celebratory press conference. [ laughter ] >> what a a great, great night. i really am running the best campaign, aren't i? they say they haven't seen anything like this not since
decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be rememred for all the right reasons. publix. [ cheers and applause ] >>> welcome back to the election center. i'm jake tapper. on cnn i pass for a bona fide hunk. [ laughter ] it's been a crazy week in politics, so if tonight's election results continue to roll in, let's take a look back at the past seven days. donald trump was endorsed by senator chris christie and dominated...
berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends said i should get fios because it's the fastest... i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (man) we're out of 2%. i wonder what else could be better around here? (man) i heard that. now get our best offer ever. super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv & phone for just $69.99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good? fios can do that. cable just can't. switch to better. >>> here's a look at what's coming up tonight. join us by the amazing raise, hawaii five o sx and stephen colbert. >>> this is a picture of the machine being hauled out of a creek. deputies say this isn't the first time they dealt with an atm. now that it's back on land, they're going to have to try from and who stole it. >>> a two-year-old girl called 911 for her pants. it's a mystery why she decided to call police to help her get dressed. th
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WSVN (FOX)
Channel 7 News at 4PM : WSVN : March 14, 2016 4:00pm-4:30pm EDT
by WSVN
, that building a publication publix, and that's where the driver just slammed intoa concrete building. i want to show you the pictures of those who were in the car first. this is 20-year-old roxna via. she is in the hospital. they say that she has several broken bones, but amazingly, she's expected to be okay. she was wearing her seatbelt. and the driver, according to the police, he was not wearing his seatbelt. this is 24-year-old david, killed on the scene, and police say his body was thrown from the car, and he passed away at the scene. this was 3:00 this morning, hollywood boulevard and the police say that he was westbound on hollywood boulevard. and he lost control and slammed into the publix there. we spoke with the sister of a woman who was in the car, and another woman left a candle at the scene. >> s s likes her nephew, she likes to play with them. >> someone passed away now, and the other person is hurt. and we just, we're praying, it. what else can you do? >> reporter: okay, so the driver killed, his passenger, roxanna villa is in the hospital. and the police say that the t
, that building a publication publix, and that's where the driver just slammed intoa concrete building. i want to show you the pictures of those who were in the car first. this is 20-year-old roxna via. she is in the hospital. they say that she has several broken bones, but amazingly, she's expected to be okay. she was wearing her seatbelt. and the driver, according to the police, he was not wearing his seatbelt. this is 24-year-old david, killed on the scene, and police say his body was thrown...
FOX 13 5:00 News : WTVT : March 8, 2016 5:00pm-6:00pm EST
decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. 3 a police department in illinois released a new "don't drink and drive" video with an unusual image... >>> a police department in illinois released this. that was in roselle. they are unphased by the tree that is stuck in the front of her car. yes, it reveals it is stuck in the grill. there you go. there is the picture. the officer stopped her. they say even the air bags had deployed after she hit the tree. she was arrested for dui. i was surprised that this was in illinois. >> it not funnyky not imagine how you explain that. >> i don't know how you explain that to anyone. lady a shining a spotlight on girl's education. it is as people around the world mark international women's day. >> reporter: on this day women strapped at the greek border appeal for help. the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says that nearly 2/3 of the refugees who arrived this year were women and children. >> we want to be let in. we have children. we don
decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. 3 a police department in illinois released a new "don't drink and drive" video with an unusual image... >>> a police department in illinois released this. that was in roselle. they are unphased by the tree that is stuck in the front of her car. yes, it reveals it is stuck in the grill. there you go. there is the picture....
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Last Call!! Save on Tickets for Talladega’s Tripleheader Weekend, April 26-28
Posted on 4.15.2019 in Talladega Superspeedway
There are only a few short days until Talladega Superspeedway’s highly-anticipated tripleheader weekend, April 26-28 – featuring the GEICO 500, MoneyLion 300 and the General Tire 200. Fans will not want to miss out on the opportunity to save up to $10 on tickets before race week pricing begins on Monday, April 22 at 8 a.m. CDT.
There are only a few short days until Talladega Superspeedway’s highly-anticipated tripleheader weekend, April 26-28 – featuring the GEICO 500, MoneyLion 300 and the General Tire 200. Fans will not want to miss out on the opportunity to save up to $10 on each ticket before race week pricing begins on Monday, April 22 at 8 a.m. CDT.
There any many different ticket options fans can take advantage of this week for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ GEICO 500, where reigning Cup Series champion and defending GEICO 500 victor Joey Logano will seek back-to-back wins to defend his title. Adults can receive a grandstand ticket for as low as $65 (before next week’s $10 race week increase), and Sunday tickets for kids 12 and younger start as low as $15, while special 2-Day packages for kids start as low as $10. The GEICO 500 is set to get the green flag on Sunday, April 28 at 1 p.m. CDT.
The action-packed weekend is loaded with an array of activities for fans, both on and off the track. Saturday’s (April 27) slate includes the running of the MoneyLion 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race (noon CDT) that will pit a mix of new, young drivers against the older guard, along with four drivers – Cole Custer, Tyler Reddick, Justin Allgaier and Austin Cindric – vying for the Dash 4 Cash $100,000 bonus. Also scheduled for Saturday is qualifying for the GEICO 500. Children 12 and younger gain FREE admission with the purchase of an adult grandstand ticket starting at $45 or tower ticket at $55, before next week’s $5 race week increase.
The traditional Saturday Night Infield Concert with headliner Granger Smith featuring Earl Dibbles Jr. kicks off just hours after the conclusion of the MoneyLion 300 at the intersection of Eastaboga and Talladega Blvds. Festivities are scheduled to start at 7 p.m. CDT and admission is FREE to all infield guests and anyone who purchases a ticket to the GEICO 500.
For the General Tire 200 ARCA Menards Series race on Friday, April 26, seating is general admission and regular pricing is $20 (before next week’s $5 race week increase). Kids 12 and younger receive FREE admission on Friday.
In addition to grandstand and tower seating, upgrades and camping are available for purchase at lower rates. Sunday Pit Passes and Pit Pass Upgrades, as well as the Kids VIP Experience presented by Children’s of Alabama are $5 off race week pricing.
For more information and to purchase tickets to the tripleheader motorsports weekend, April 26-28, fans are encouraged to visit www.talladegasuperspeedway.com or call (855) 518-RACE.
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Due to the proliferation of the automobile and the expansion of airline routes and airline availability, the railroad sector has suffered important losses in each the quantity of commuters and transportation of goods and supplies. The typical particular person would feel that injuries and fatalities associated to trains and railroads would stay at pretty much a continual low. That particular person would be incorrect.
Every single year hundreds of people today die, are injured, or are exposed to debilitating chemical substances even though operating inside this sector. Now that the sector has improved its commuter solutions due to advances in technologies, the threat of derailments, crashes, and other kinds of accidents rise as properly.
There are lots of distinct strategies an accident can happen, but some of the far more widespread strategies an accident happens is due to human error, defective tracks, broken or incorrect signaling, or train gear malfunction.
Railroad Employee Matters
Several workers who have been injured or exposed to damaging chemical substances are unaware of the rights they have beneath the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). FELA permits the use of legal solutions for railroad workers in matters that call for health-related expenditures, physical or emotional discomfort and suffering due to an accident or injury, or other matters involving short-term or permanent loss in the body’s regular functions. Of course, like any lawsuit, there will have to be important indications that the employer was conscious of a probably threat, violated precise federal regulations, or could have prevented the harm completed to the victim. In instances exactly where a automobile illegally passes a railroad crossing and causes a wreck, he or she is at fault.
Typical physical injuries that railroad workers obtain are central to the spine, shoulders, knees, back, and neck. Further ailments include things like exposure to asbestos, improvement of lung cancer, liver illness, liver cancer, and bronchitis. Some workers will have to be treated with emotional therapy immediately after he or she has witnessed or gone via an accident.
Compensation for damages, irrespective of whether punitive or compensatory, are dependent on the form of accident and other components involved with the accident. If the victim lost his or her life in an accident, there are legal authorities that will perform to acquire compensation for the loved ones of the victim.
There are lots of measures involved with the healing procedure that hopefully happens straight away immediately after the accident. For more sources on therapies obtainable and to discover out far more about employee rights, compensation, and advantages, make contact with the Las Vegas personal injury lawyers of William Palmer & Associates, P.C. nowadays.
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Aspen Healthcare deploys Meru Uninterrupted Care Network for seamless Voice Over Wi-Fi
Meru Networks, a leader in intelligent Wi-Fi networking, has announced that Aspen Healthcare has completed the deployment of its Meru Uninterrupted Care SDN-capable wireless network to enable seamless roaming and end-to-end quality of service for voice over Wi-Fi. The initial deployment at one hospital will ultimately be extended to three others and multiple clinics. The deployment also includes Meru Network Manager.
Aspen Healthcare is the owner and operator of four highly regarded private acute care hospitals in London and Sheffield, an outpatient cancer centre providing both chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and ambulatory surgical centres in Edinburgh and Solihull, West Midlands.
“The Aspen Healthcare portfolio is growing quickly and our goal is to provide patients and visitors with the very best facilities, including the wireless network,” said David Williams, IT director at Aspen Healthcare. “Wi-Fi is no longer a nice-to-have, but an essential service and an integral part of what we do as a business and as a healthcare provider. Our patients expect the best and this means fast, seamless data roaming and voice over Wi-Fi connections, whether as an outpatient in the waiting room or an inpatient in the hospital.”
Aspen Healthcare’s IT team worked with Meru Gold Partner Building Zones on a proof-of-concept at its Holly House Hospital facility after evaluating the Meru solution against other wireless networking providers, including Meraki. Meru’s high-density device-handling capabilities were an ideal match to the company’s ambitious plans to deploy a robust, future-proofed Wi-Fi infrastructure developed with voice and data mobility in mind.
The group’s use of Meru Network Manager helps its IT department maintain detailed visibility and control over its fast-expanding Wi-Fi network. Meru Network Manager is a centralised network management software application for Meru wireless LANs. It provides network-wide monitoring, end-to-end visibility and powerful control of wireless deployments. Its intuitive, web-based interface delivers superior ease-of-use and offers instant access to real-time and historical performance metrics on each managed controller, access point and client. Meru Network Manager is an integral component of Meru Center, a new software platform that gives organisations a central networked application provisioning engine and management dashboard.
The Meru ‘Uninterrupted Care Network’
Meru’s Uninterrupted Care Network (UCN) enables hospitals to create separate Wi-Fi channel layers. This allows hospitals to offer the benefits of mobility for Wi-Fi enabled “Life Critical” devices, such as telemetry, and to help ensure reliable connectivity for those devices on their own dedicated RF channels.
Three Layers of UCN:
• Life Critical: One set of wireless channels can be dedicated for “Life Critical” applications and devices like smart infusion pumps and Wi-Fi enabled telemetry devices and for carrying wireless traffic associated only with these applications. Centralised monitoring conducted by Wi-Fi enabled devices is not only designed to improve clinician productivity, but may also help hospitals improve patient safety.
Mission Critical: A second channel layer can be dedicated for “Mission Critical” applications and devices to provide reliable connectivity and QoS for mobile enterprise applications such as EMR, VoIP, Citrix-based CPOE and barcode medicine administration. This is designed to improve clinician productivity and increase patient satisfaction.
Consumer Critical: UCN can also provide a “Consumer Critical” layer, to enable patients to connect with friends and family using the Internet. Such family interaction has been shown to positively impact patient mood and treatment outcome, improving patient satisfaction scores.
“Aspen Healthcare’s deployment leverages Meru’s high performing SDN-capable intelligent Wi-Fi solution to provide uninterrupted healthcare,” said Sarosh Vesuna, vice president and general manager of Meru’s Enterprise Networking Business. “The Meru solution is a unique selling point for patients, clinicians, staff and guests, and offers a reliable and ubiquitous, mobile environment in which to provide the very best care. With the Meru Uninterrupted Care Network, Aspen can quickly and easily scale its wireless capacity and coverage to on-board new applications and users as it continues to expand its healthcare facilities.”
For more about Meru Uninterrupted Care Networks: http://www.merunetworks.com/industries/healthcare.html
About Meru Networks
Meru Networks (NASDAQ: MERU) is a leader in intelligent 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions delivering uninterrupted user experience for education, healthcare, hospitality and enterprise. The Meru open-standards-based architecture is designed to enable unified management of wired and wireless networks. Its end-to-end application QoS enables enforceable service-level agreements. Meru provides top performance and high capacity in high-density environments. Visit www.merunetworks.com.
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Author Interview: Kody Keplinger
Kody Keplinger:
I'm a 19-year-old college student and young adult author. My first book, THE DUFF, debuted on September 7, 2010. I write books for teenagers and strive to be honest and true-to-life. For more info, check out my website. --Goodreads
1. If The DUFF became a movie, who would you cast in the lead roles (Bianca and Wesley)?
For Bianca I'd either cast Mae Whitman (from Parenthood) or Ellen Page (Juno). Either would be perfect. Wesley, on the other hand, is a harder bit of casting. But I can see Jeremy Sumpter (Friday Night Lights) doing it well!
2. When did you first start writing?
I started writing before I could even write! I know that sounds crazy, but I would say my writing started with telling stories. The minute I was able to put down real words, the stories were written down. From there, I couldn't be stopped.
3. What were your influences to write this novel, The DUFF?
I'd say my biggest influences for THE DUFF were music (the song "I Can't Stay Away" by the Veronicas inspired the whole thing), and books by Judy Blume and Sarah Dessen really inspired me a lot, too. The honesty and humor both of them write with made a huge influence on me.
4. Where do you like writing? Where do you like reading?
My bedroom. For both. I do my best writing on my bed in my room. Same with reading.
5. If you were to describe your novel in three words, what would they be?
Funny, sexy, honest.
6. Who was your favorite character to create and write about?
Wesley was my favorite to write, hands down. I loved writing him so much! I was never sure exactly where his character would go.
7. Are you working on anything now? Can you tell us about it?
Well, I just finished final edits on my book SHUT OUT, which will be out in September! It's a romantic comedy, like the DUFF, but with a different feel to it. It's a modern reimagining of a Greek play - Lysistrata - about a girl who goes on a sex-strike to end a sports rivalry her boyfriend is a part of. I'm so excited for everyone to read it!
8. What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
My best piece of advice is to never give up. There are going to be obstacles - rejections, writers block, etc - but every author faces them, even the best authors. So just keep trying.
9. When you’re not writing, what do you like to do?
I love playing on the internet. It's a terrible bit of procrastination, but I"m addicted to social media. Does that count as a past time? Haha.
10. If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
The power to read minds. I am always wondering what others are thinking, and I'd love to just figure it out on my own with a little bit of magic.
1. Favorite Book: Harry Potter series
2. Favorite Movie: Cruel Intentions
3. Favorite Musical artist/group: Jack's Mannequin or Paramore
4. Favorite food: spaghetti
5. Favorite TV Show: Gossip Girl
I hope you enjoyed this great interview with Kody Keplinger. Do you love her as much as we do- check out her awesome website HERE. Want to know more about the really great book, The DUFF? Go HERE. And, among all that excitement, don't forget to check out our review on The DUFF HERE.
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I'm Jeanna!
I love books, coffee, cute planners, blogging, and everything in between. I don't want you to miss out on the fantastic books out there, which is why I talk about books and write reviews. My reviews may include lame jokes and a side of sass, that make you feel like you are sitting down with an good, old friend for coffee. So grab a seat and let's get chatting.
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Arthur L. Burnside Sr.
Arthur “Art” Lee Burnside Sr., 87, a resident of Beverly, passed from this life Wednesday, May 08, 2019, at Ruby Memorial Hospital.
Art was born Friday, July 10, 1931, in Suncrest, a son of the late Hoy Vance Burnside and Evelyn Marie Crawford Burnside.
On July 4, 1959, he was married to the former Anna Pritt, who survives. They had celebrated 59 years of marriage.
Also left to cherish Art’s memory are four children, Arthur Burnside Jr. and wife, Regina, of East Dailey, Steve Burnside and wife, Cheryl, of Valley Bend, Kenny Burnside and wife, Lisa, of Beverly, and Jeff Burnside of East Dailey, two brothers, Dave Burnside of Parsons, and Paul Burnside and wife, Carol, of Pennsylvania, 10 grandchildren, Erica, Megan, Emma, Daniel, Tanya, Heather, Josh, Katie, Malichi and Jake, 11 great-grandchildren, Gunner, Creelee, Jordan, Callie, Tanner, Kadence, Braydan, Cameron, Carter, Bethany and Shaylyn, and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding Art in death besides his parents was one daughter, Betty Burnside, five siblings, Norman Burnside, Mary Cogar, Dorla Croston, Lucille Martin and Pauline Tenney, and an infant brother, Hubert Burnside.
Art attended the schools of Randolph County and had served with the United States Army during the Korean Conflict. He worked as a stone mason; most notably doing the stone work on St. Brendan Catholic Church and Rectory. He enjoyed hunting, trapping and fishing, as well as playing cards and doing word searches. He loved meeting new people and riding around, exploring new areas.
Visitation will be held at Randolph Funeral Home on Friday, May 10, from 11 a.m. until noon followed by a graveside service at Pleasant Dell Cemetery in Selbyville. The Rev. A.H. Belt will officiate, and members of the Upshur County Honor Guard will conduct full military honors.
The Randolph Funeral Home and Cremation Services has been entrusted with the arrangements for Arthur “Art” Lee Burnside. Send online condolences to the family at www.therandolphfuneralhome.com.
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Manuelita Brown
Fine Art Sculpture
About Manuelita
My artwork has been described as eclectic and authentically personal, incorporating a range from subtle political statement to gentle, elegant form. My sculptures are figurative, yet they often have an emotional and conceptual basis. I hope that I have acquired a sensitivity to universal human experience, although my perspective as an African-American woman is often evident. It is my aim to connect with persons of any background or station. If the viewer remarks, “that’s me—I feel just like that” or “I remember that—I’ve been there” or “I know her” then I have achieved a major goal.
Selected Sculptures
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See Manuelita’s complete gallery of works.
My goal is to create bronze figurative sculptures that edify human beings and the human spirit. I represent ordinary people important in everyone’s life and extraordinary people with historical significance especially of African decent, though not exclusively. Due to its medium, my work will communicate with generations yet unborn. I want them to recognize the power in the people that I sculpt, and know that they embody the same power. In particular, I want the viewer of my work to respect the strength, character, and beauty of the descendants of African survivors in the Americas.
My work has been described as authentically personal, incorporating subtle political statement in expressive, graceful, elegant forms. I enjoy portrait sculpture—in people’s faces, I see the wonder, the promise, and the mystery and majesty of creation.
Read more on Manuelita’s complete bio page
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Encinitas, CA 92024
manuelita@tsahaistudio.com
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Alan Bissett's contribution to this season of "A Play, A Pie & A Pint" at Oran Mor is a prime example of that rare theatrical beast - a comedy that makes you think. It's also one of the few pieces of theatre I've seen in recent years that can genuinely lay claim to the overused 'Black Comedy' label.
While on tour in a Balkan-esque state, Scottish pop star Cameron (Ryan Fletcher) decides he wants to get out from his hotel room and meet some real people. His local record company escort (Simon Donaldson) duly obliges and takes him to the kind of bar tourists would avoid.
It's a beautifully simple set up and allows Bissett to make serious points in a manner that avoids any sense of superficiality or trivialisation. His targets include the Scottish belief that the world loves us; our continuing Scottish/British identity struggle; and our lack of knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the turbulent events in the recent past that formed many of the nations on our doorstep.
Bissett's wordplay with the 'local language' is genius - and I'm sure I missed picking out half of it. Fletcher plays Cameron to perfection and displays a musical talent that suggests that in the unlikely event of acting roles drying up he could quite comfortably make a move in that direction. Steven McNicoll as barman Vlad and Donaldson give magnificently steely eyed performances - and are crying out to be cast as the Evil Mastermind and his Chief Henchman respectively in a future Bond movie.
With its well pitched balance of light and dark, and snuggly fitting its 45 minute run time, "Turbo Folk" deserves to be another addition to the list of Oran Mor shows that gain a life beyond their initial run.
Turbo Folk runs at Oran Mor until Saturday 1st May
Image by Leslie Black Photography used with permission
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Confidential Document: Germany Now Expects 1.5 Million Migrants This Year
Category: Leadership Tags: Germany / migration / News
Germany's leader Angela Merkel has been both criticized and praised for her open-door refugee policy. (Image: Initiative D21/Flickr)
By James Burke, October 5, 2015
Up to 1.5 million people may seek asylum in Germany by the end of the year, says the country’s top-selling newspaper Bild, citing a confidential document.
This figure almost doubles earlier estimates made by German officials, reports the BBC.
The Bild reported that anonymous documents showed that German officials were now expecting to receive 920,000 new arrivals over the last remaining months of 2015.
“The migratory pressure will increase. For the fourth quarter, we expect between 7,000 and 10,000 illegal entries a day,” says part of the document, reported Bild according to AFP.
“This high number of asylum seekers runs the risk of becoming an extreme burden for the states and municipalities,” added the document.
The newspaper said the documents estimated that for each asylum-seeker who was successful in acquiring refugee status they could then bring in an average “four to eight” family members to Germany.
Based on that, the accepting of 920,000 migrants would then make it possible for “7.36 million people” to move to Germany because of family connections.
See a video below about the documents:
Last year, there were only 202,000 asylum claims in Germany.
German communities are already under pressure as increasing numbers of migrants arrive from war-torn and impoverished areas of the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and even the Balkans.
Germany’s leader Angela Merkel insists her country can manage the influx, but increasing numbers of Germans are disagreeing with her open-door refugee policy. A poll done late last week showed that the German leader’s popularity had dropped to its lowest level in nearly four years, reports Reuters.
Despite this, Merkel’s response to the migrant crisis sees her as being considered a “firm favorite” by some for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
As Germany marks 25 years of reunification, watch Merkel in the below video talk about how her country is facing “big challenges” with the migrant crisis:
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#TrendingTuesday: First Night of Fall Series Premiere Week Disappoints
Season 2 of Gotham and Season 9 of The Voice premiered last night, and newbies Minority Report and Blindspot made their debuts. They all sucked.
Okay, that's not true - however, they could have all been better. Or maybe my expectations were set too high. Regardless, I was not loving the first official night of fall series premiere week.
It's not all that fair to judge Blindspot, since I didn't even watch it. I'll get back to you on it in this week's edition of #TuneInThursday. BUT, I did watch Gotham, The Voice and Minority Report.
1) Gotham
Within 10 minutes of watching I ditched Gotham for The Voice because a) Ben McKenzie's hair is weird looking, and b) it just didn't capture my attention like every episode of season 1. I will give the actor that plays the joker some well-deserved credit. Maybe I'll tune in again when he's the main focus of the show.
2) Minority Report
Based on the infamous sci-fi film, there is no better timing than now, in the Hollywood reboot era, to air the series. I have a major confession: I only tuned in to see Nick Zano, my first celebrity crush back when he was on What I Like About You with my former idol Amanda Bynes. He plays one of the twins (they have split visions of murders before they happen - one sees what happens, the other gets the information). It didn't totally suck, but I did find myself contemplating tuning out in the beginning. The ending left me wanting more, so we'll see how I'm feeling after the next episode.
3) The Voice
I would have to say that reality competition shows are my guilty pleasure because don't like admitting that I'm a fan of something that has a big following (weird, I know). Blake Shelton and Adam Levine's bromance never gets old, and I am envious of Pharrell's effortless swagger. Also, Gwen Stefani is a waaaay better judge than diva Christina Aguilera. For the hour that I was around for (Minority Report started at 9, The Voice went until 10), I didn't have any strong feelings about the contestants or the judges. It was the same as every season. Sad story, happy story, inspirational story, Blake vs Adam, Gwen vs Pharell, etc. I will probably come back when the battles begin, as per usual, since that's the best part of the show.
On tonight's TV agenda: Scream Queens (Lea Michele, Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis) and The Muppets (don't lie, you're going to watch it too).
Now it's time for you to sound off: What did you watch last night? Which show are you ditching? Which shows are you head-over-heels for? Comment below, or tweet me @MissSaverinaS!
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2016 Hyundai Ioniq revealed – brand new pics of Toyota Prius rival
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Source : 2016 Hyundai Ioniq revealed – brand new pics of Toyota Prius rival
Rear quarter of Ioniq right now revealed in full; brand new type can be Hyundia’s first dedicated electric car – This specific will also be available as a PHEV in addition to petrol-electric hybrid
Hyundai has released brand new images of its electric, hybrid in addition to plug-in hybrid type called the Ioniq, revealing the rear of its outdoor in addition to its brand new Indoor.
The brand new car, which was spotted testing in 2015, can be the first car via any maker to be offered with three powertrain options within an individual Centeng type. This specific can be specified as a fully electric vehicle, a plug-in hybrid or a full hybrid, in addition to can be anticipated to rival the Toyota Prius when This specific can be launched later This specific year.
The brand new alternatively fuelled Ioniq will also offer “class-leading aerodynamics”, according to the Korean maker. Pre-orders for the brand new car are being taken in Korea right now; your vehicle can be due to make its world debut later This specific month before being revealed in to the West at the Geneva in addition to brand new York motor shows in March.
The vehicle’s outdoor styling, seen clearly in brand new images, can be said to make This specific very slippery through the air, thereby reducing drag in addition to enhancing fuel economy. At the front Hyundai’s hexagonal grille incorporates moving ‘flaps’ of which can direct airflow over your vehicle.
your vehicle’s Indoor has also been shown for initially. Hyundai has gone for a clutter-free approach, combining “efficient use of Indoor space in addition to a clear, logical approach can be applied to the format of control functions”. The cabin can be said to be con structured with eco-friendly materials, although the maker hasn’t elaborated on what those materials are.
Hyundai says the Ioniq “breaks the mold for hybrid vehicles. As the globe’s first type to offer customers the choice of three powertrain options, the Ionic combines class-leading fuel efficiency having a fun, responsive drive in addition to attractive design – a unique mix not yet achieved by a hybrid vehicle.”
The brand new type can be built on a brand brand new platform, which can be shared with sister brand Kia for the brand new Niro, also due to launch This specific year. Hyundai says the brand new type’s chassis has been optimised to deliver “responsive handling while remaining efficient in each of its three powertrain configurations.”
In its fully-electric form, power for the Ioniq can be drawn via a lithium-ion battery, while the electric motor can be joined by an efficient petrol engine for the plug-in hybrid variation. In hybrid form, the petrol engine can be used to charge the onboard battery. While Hyundai hasn’t specified which petrol engine will be used within the Ioniq, Autocar understands This specific will be the 1.6-litre four-cylinder unit already found within the i30.
Previous spy shots have shown of which development on the a few-door, a few-seat hatchback can be well underway. Photos of the test mule’s Indoor show the brand new type will receive a part-digital instrument cluster in addition to large central infotainment screen. Hyundai can be likely to give the cabin a premium feel to justify the higher cost tag typically associated with hybrid in addition to electric vehicles.
This specific’s no surprise to see Hyundai developing a dedicated hybrid type, as sales of alternatively fuelled vehicles continue to grow in Europe in addition to the UK. Figures via the Society of Motor Manufacturers in addition to Traders (SMMT) show of which sales of AFVs have grown by almost 80% year-on-year in This specific country.
The launch of a dedicated hybrid type will also help Hyundai to reach strict 95g/km CO2 regulations coming into force in Europe in 2020.
Head of Hyundai Motor R&D Center Woong-Chul Yang said: “We are proud to advance our eco-friendly car line-up with the introduction of Ioniq. Our vision for future mobility focuses on choice, having a variety of powertrain options to suit customers’ varied lifestyles, without compromising on design or driving enjoyment. Ioniq embodies Hyundai Motor’s vision to shift the automotive paradigm in addition to future mobility; IONIQ can be the fruit of our efforts to become the leader within the global green car market.”
Hyundai UK boss Tony Whitehorn has already said the best way to introduce more hybrid technology to the firm’s line-up can be to start having a dedicated car. Speaking to Autocar, he said: “Probably the best way to do of which can be having a stand-alone type, as Toyota has done. Toyota started off with the Prius in addition to has expanded of which range; This specific has said, ‘Let’s make a statement’ yet ultimately has taken of which technology [for additional versions].
“If you just restrict hybrid technology to one vehicle, you’ll never get the revenue. You have to put This specific in additional cars.”
Plans for Hyundai’s hybrid project go as far back as 2010, when the firm showed its Blue-Will concept car. of which type featured a 1.6-litre petrol engine working in conjunction having a 134bhp electric motor. Early-stage test mules were then spotted testing in August 2015.
Hyundai recently celebrated selling one million cars within the UK. Speaking at an event to mark the occasion, Whitehorn said low-emissions vehicles could be integral to the firm’s ongoing growth. Hyundai plans to introduce 22 such vehicles by 2020.
“Next year we are looking at hybrid in addition to EV technology coming out, in addition to of which will just escalate,” said Whitehorn. “I see electric vehicles, hybrids in addition to plug-in hybrids as a way of bridging the gap between the internal combustion engine in addition to pure fuel cell technology. How long of which bridge lasts for can be uncertain, yet This specific can be interesting to see manufacturers such as ourselves going for a variety of technologies.”
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Strategic Plan : Goals of the Strategic Plan
Goals of the Strategic Plan
Goal 2 : Action Steps
Mission, Values, and Vision
Details of the Final Plan, 2017
History of the Planning Process, 2014-17
Subcommittee Charges and Membership
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As you view the action steps, you will observe icons next to each step which indicate progress.
Goal 2: Develop and implement processes, facilities, and support services to meet the needs of a diverse campus community.
2.1. Strategy 1: Develop administrative and support processes that are effective and efficient and available at times and in places that students are likely to access them.
2.1.1. Continue efforts to convert all admissions, financial aid, bursar, and registrar processes to fully online formats, to support ease of access for students. This will include review of academic policies that impact signature approval paths, and a cost/benefit analysis of not accepting VISA. This will not include the elimination of face-to-face services when they are most appropriate.
2.1.2. Review schedules of tutoring, library hours, media services, IT&I help desk, and other academic support functions to meet the needs of day and evening students. Expand where possible. Revisions will include new scheduling models and the potential for online/interactive support systems.
2.1.3. Develop and implement a plan to ensure classroom and faculty technology replacement and expansion to support a 21st century institution.
2.1.4. Ensure all faculty and staff serving student support functions have adequate training to provide accurate and helpful information.
2.1.5. Develop a means of gathering real-time and annual feedback on processes and operations, and integrate feedback into operational plans.
2.2. Strategy 2: Advance advising practices that are student-centered and specific to the needs of a diverse student population.
2.2.1. Provide training for faculty and staff in the different needs and expectations of traditional undergraduates, under-prepared students, first-generation students, adult degree-completers, veterans, and graduate students.
2.2.2. Develop online advising strategies/protocols that meet the needs of the busy schedules of all student types.
2.2.3. Adopt a co-advising strategy that partners faculty advisors* and the academic advisement center to ensure accuracy of information and maximum availability of support.
*This is the re-establishment of a faculty advising representative. It will involve some reassigned time.
2.2.4. Include advising tutorials about process, accessing information, and deadlines in the First Year courses.
2.2.5. Monitor the tools available to advisors to ensure they are effective, accurate, and up to date.
2.3. Strategy 3: Support career development from admission to post-graduate placements.
2.3.1. Develop and require an employment practicum course (career explorations, resume writing, cover letters) as part of a second year program.
2.3.2. Add internships to four-year plans to highlight their importance and drive students to advisors and/or career services.
2.3.3. Work with each major to identify and promote internal (WCSU) and external internship placements for their students.
2.3.4. Host career panels featuring alumni in every department at least once a year.
2.3.5. Expand and incentivize participation in leadership opportunities (HSLP, LCCC) and student organizations.
2.4. Strategy 4: Develop a student-centered plan for facilities and food service that meets the needs of a diverse community of learners.
2.4.1. Create informal spaces in all buildings that support student collaboration and meet the needs of a commuter environment.
2.4.2. Develop formal learning spaces that support diverse pedagogies.
2.4.3. Ensure easy to follow signage everywhere (doors, digital, apps) to assist with campus navigation.
2.4.4. Develop a plan for recreational spaces, including clubs, athletics, and other co-curricular activities based on student input and expectations.
2.4.5. Align food services with student time constraints and dietary preferences.
2.5. Strategy 5: Support faculty scholarly activity by strengthening and streamlining access to university-based resources and providing administrative assistance to apply for and manage external grants.
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Robinson leads Kansas to 60-57 win over NC State
By DAVE SKRETTA, Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Thomas Robinson kept missing easy buckets. Tyshawn Taylor had a shooting performance he'd rather soon forget. Kansas made just two shots from outside 5 feet, and seemed to be in constant trouble against North Carolina State.
Yet a smile kept creeping across Robinson's face. Taylor spent most of the second half Friday night trying to calm down coach Bill Self, who was stomping along the Jayhawks' sideline.
"We haven't been a picture-perfect team all season," Self said later, "but that's one thing that's exciting. The guys take pride in not being perfect. They take pride in winning ugly."
They certainly won a muddy brawl against the Wolfpack.
Robinson had 18 points and 15 rebounds, Jeff Withey blocked 10 shots to finish one shy of the NCAA tournament record, and the second-seeded Jayhawks held on for a 60-57 victory. They advanced to play top-seeded North Carolina, led by former coach Roy Williams, which escaped with a 73-65 overtime victory over No. 13 seed Ohio earlier in the night.
All the upstarts have headed home.
It's the bluest of the bluebloods in a Sunday showdown for the Final Four.
"They're a great team, great coach, great program," Robinson said. "It's two great programs and when we do meet, I'm pretty sure it's going to go down as a big one."
It figures to be a little more sexy than their game against the Wolfpack.
Both teams struggled to make shots, run offense and get into a flow. Kansas (30-6) even squandered an eight-point lead in the final few minutes, failing to wrap up the win until Richard Howell's off-balance heave at the buzzer came up well short.
"The guys are tough. They're tough," Self said. "They find a way."
C.J. Leslie had 18 points to lead N.C. State (24-13), despite sitting much of the second half with four fouls. Scott Wood finished with 12 points on 2-for-10 shooting, though his biggest error wasn't a missed shot but the shot he never even got to attempt.
N.C. State had pulled within 58-57 on a transition layup by C.J. Williams with just over a minute remaining. The teams swapped possessions before Kansas managed to get a layup from Elijah Johnson off an inbound pass from Taylor with 13.5 seconds left.
The Wolfpack crossed midcourt and called a timeout to set up a play, which was designed to get the ball to Wood off a baseline pass. Instead, a skip pass went high and the sharpshooter stepped out of bounds trying to pull it in, giving the ball back to Kansas with 5 seconds to go.
Robinson was fouled and missed the free throw at the other end, but a pass down court and Howell's tightly guarded shot at the buzzer came up nowhere close, allowing Kansas to escape.
"We did not execute very well. The end of the day, that's my responsibility," Gottfried said.
Johnson finished with 11 points for the Jayhawks, who moved on despite a lousy performance by Taylor. Their second-leading scorer had six points on 2-for-14 shooting.
Kansas was just 1 for 14 from beyond the arc as a team.
"It gets frustrating, but I can't hang my head and get down. I've just got to be able to do other things to help my team win," said Taylor, who still managed 10 rebounds and five assists.
The Wolfpack took a page from Purdue's playbook over the first eight minutes, using constant double teams on Robinson inside and forcing Kansas to settle for jump shots.
They didn't go in, at least early on.
Just as they did against the Boilermakers last weekend, Kansas struggled to gain traction, and Leslie took advantage by scoring five of his 12 first-half points during an opening salvo.
Williams' 3-pointer gave the Wolfpack a 17-11 lead - their biggest of the half.
Kansas eventually clawed back, relying on defense during a 12-0 run. Withey provided most of it inside with seven blocks in the first half.
"I was just in a zone," he said. "After the first block I just got in a rhythm."
Leslie answered with back-to-back baskets for N.C. State, and his bucket on the heels of a 3-pointer by Wood gave the Wolfpack a 33-32 lead at the break - their last lead of the game.
Johnson, who provided the big shots that allowed Kansas to reach St. Louis, hit his only 3-pointer of the game out of halftime. It was the start of a 12-2 run during which Leslie was forced to the bench with four fouls and nearly 16 minutes still on the clock.
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Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of situations. These are examples of sexual harassment, not intended to be a
ll inclusive.
Sexual harassment includes many things...
Actual or attempted rape or sexual assault.
Unwanted pressure for sexual favors.
Unwanted deliberate touching, leaning over, cornering, or pinching.
Unwanted sexual looks or gestures.
Unwanted letters, telephone calls, or materials of a sexual nature.
Unwanted pressure for dates.
Unwanted sexual teasing, jokes, remarks, or questions.
Referring to an adult as a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey.
Whistling at someone.
Cat calls.
Sexual comments.
Turning work discussions to sexual topics.
Sexual innuendos or stories.
Asking about sexual fantasies, preferences, or history.
Personal questions about social or sexual life.
Sexual comments about a person's clothing, anatomy, or looks.
Kissing sounds, howling, and smacking lips.
Telling lies or spreading rumors about a person's personal sex life.
Neck massage.
Touching an employee's clothing, hair, or body.
Giving personal gifts.
Hanging around a person.
Hugging, kissing, patting, or stroking.
Touching or rubbing oneself sexually around another person.
Standing close or brushing up against a person.
Looking a person up and down (elevator eyes).
Staring at someone.
Sexually suggestive signals.
Facial expressions, winking, throwing kisses, or licking lips.
Making sexual gestures with hands or through body movements.
Referring to an adult as a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey
Whistling at someone, cat calls
Making sexual comments about a person's body
Making sexual comments or innuendos
Turning work discussions to sexual topics
Telling sexual jokes or stories
Asking about sexual fantasies, preferences, or history
Asking personal questions about social or sexual life
Making kissing sounds, howling, and smacking lips
Making sexual comments about a person's clothing, anatomy, or looks
Repeatedly asking out a person who is not interested
Telling lies or spreading rumors about a person's personal sex life
NON-VERBAL
Looking a person up and down (Elevator eyes)
Staring at someone
Blocking a person's path
Following the person
Giving personal gifts
Displaying sexually suggestive visuals
Making sexual gestures with hands or through body movements
Making facial expressions such as winking, throwing kisses, or licking lips
Giving a massage around the neck or shoulders
Touching the person's clothing, hair, or body
Hugging, kissing, patting, or stroking
Touching or rubbing oneself sexually around another person
Standing close or brushing up against another person
When an employee complains to a supervisor, another employee, or the Human Resources office, about sexual harassment, an immediate investigation of the charge should occur. Supervisors should immediately involve Human Resources staff. Employees need to understand that they have an obligation to report sexual harassment concerns to their supervisor or the Human Resources office.
Human resource managers at Nike ignored (sexual harassment) complaints from women employees for years.
By Alexia Fernández Campbell@AlexiaCampbellalexia@vox.com Apr 30, 2018, EDT
Women working at Nike’s Oregon headquarters had repeatedly complained to human resources managers about demeaning treatment and sexual harassment. They reported male supervisors who called them vulgar names and discussed their bodies, and even one who threw his keys at a subordinate and called her a “stupid bitch.” The women said the complaints to human resources didn’t change anything.
Instead, it took an unofficial internal survey of female employees to get the attention of the athletic apparel company’s top executives, according to a New York Times report, which included interviews with 50 current and former Nike employees.
The report, published Saturday, described a toxic work environment for women, with a boys’ club culture that excluded them from promotions and leadership opportunities. It’s also the latest example of how human resource departments are ill-equipped to investigate discrimination complaints and, in many cases, end up hiding abusive behavior committed by a company’s top executives.
The Times story shows that female employees — alarmed over the departure last year of three high-level female executives — decided to distribute an internal survey to see if women at the company had experienced sexual harassment and other forms of gender discrimination.
On March 5 2018, the survey ended up in the hands of Nike CEO Mark Parker. Though the details of the survey have not been made public, the allegations were bad enough to trigger an internal investigation and a major shake-up in the company’s top ranks, according to reports in March from the Wall Street Journal. Since then, at least six top male executives have left or said they were planning to leave the company, including the president of the Nike Brand, Trevor Edwards, and Jayme Martin, the general manager of global categories.
A spokesperson for Nike downplayed the severity of the allegations against male executives, telling the Times that the problem was limited to a small group of high-level managers who protected each other “and looked the other way.”
The Wall Street Journal first reported about the internal survey last month. Female employees began sharing it internally in the summer of 2017, after three female executives left the company and around the time the head of HR, David Ayre, was fired after several internal investigations into complaints about his condescending behavior.
Women who talked to the Times spoke about their frustration with the behavior and a culture that rewarded men over women. The newspaper reviewed a few of the complaints mentioned in the survey. In one instance, a female employee said she complained to HR about a work-related email from her supervisor in which he made a comment about her breasts. The supervisor was given a verbal warning, and the employee continued reporting to him.
In another case, a woman complained that her supervisor had magazines of scantily clad women on his desk even after he was asked to remove them. She reported him to HR and was admonished for not confronting him about it first.
At least three women had also complained about one manager, Daniel Tawiah, for allegedly berating them in front of their colleagues. Tawiah was promoted to vice president in 2017 and was among the executives who left suddenly in March.
The Times’s story credited a women’s “revolt” at Nike for the remarkable shake-up of the company’s top ranks. But it also prompted some cynicism about the company’s ability to address systemic problems.
“Why did it take an anonymous survey to make change?” Amanda Shebiel, a former Nike employee who left in September after five years at the company, told the Times. “Many of my peers and I reported incidences and a culture that were uncomfortable, disturbing, threatening, unfair, gender-biased and sexist — hoping that something would change that would make us believe in Nike again.”
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Pink Floyd, Echoes, Live at Pompeii
Posted in Pink Floyd, Youtube Favs on November 21st, 2011 by Willie
Pink Floyd has some lengthy songs. I think most of the time, it sounds like they rode in on a long traveling cosmic wave from Neptune. They made sure to reflect the journey accurately with long gentle harmonized verses and guitar solos that surge and bend like celestial orbits. “Echoes,” from the 1970 album Meddle, was credited to all four members of the group, and is a gorgeous galactic ballad about some undersea magic, or something. Originally, the song was about two planetary bodies meeting, but Roger Waters was concerned that the band would be pegged as a “space-rock” band, so he made sure to change the imagery to the more aquatic themed variety. Sorry Roger, the song still sounds like space-rock, and that’s how your band will forever be remembered, nice try though. Anyway, these clips of “Echoes” are culled from the 1972 film, “Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii,” probably one of the pompous cinematic events that greatly inspired the boys in Spinal Tap. I mean, the drummer Nick Mason looks exactly like Harry Shearer’s character Derek Smalls, no coincidence in my opinion. Want more “Echoes” fun facts? Ok, I got two. The first is the Waters’s claim that Andrew Lloyd Webber plagiarized the riff of the song for his “Phantom of the Opera” musical. In a great quote Waters said, “I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. It’s the same time signature, it’s 12/8, and it’s the same structure and it’s the same notes and it’s the same everything. Bastard. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.” Fun fact #2 is that one of my favorite bands Ween used a 5 second clip of “Echoes” for their song “Birthday Boy.” This was no plagiarism, it was a DIRECT LIFT! I have no idea how Ween got away with putting a Pink Floyd recording on their major label debut record, but sometimes miracles happen. Anyway, take a 15 minute break and enjoy “Echoes” parts 1 and 2 live in Pompeii, Italy.
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The Skies of Aurlin
Author: Caela Kings
She was just waking up. It was still raining; the sky was a sickly type of grey. She didn't say anything as she rose, just hefted her pack and began walking. Despite her sleep, her eyes were dull, her shoulders slouched. She was walking slowly.
The trees lost their dark-green hue as I progressed, turning a myriad of reds, yellows, and browns. Even the coniferous firs, as if premature winter had befallen it. The air was musty and slick as I flew under the canopy. Thankfully, for Iythara, a rudimentary path formed, an ill-kept thing of thin, tan stone. Years had cracked the tiles and reduced some to mere rubble. Dried, yellow weeds grew between them.
“Smells like death,” Iythara mentioned as she heard a slight rustling in the undergrowth. I couldn't help but agree—not only were the red shadows eerie, but the static of Eldritch was only growing stronger as we progressed. The buzz of Iythara's home was almost half compared to this. I would have shivered if I could while flying. From what I had noticed, the Eldritches often warded away animals. It touched some deep instinct within them which made them flee.
The rustling came again, louder. Iythara stopped, looking as an alert cat. She took another step, a hesitant, light one, making no noise as she walked. A large creature stepped from the woods, shaped vaguely like a deer. Its shaggy fur hung from loose skin a smoky tan, shading to a burnt orange at its hoofs. It sported a greasy black mane and tail and ruby antlers. Its nose was surprisingly large, and its mouth drooped in a perpetual frown. Its tongue was black as it lapped up some liquid from the ground. I'd never seen its like before, nor any sort of deer brave enough to be near such a large Eldritch.
Iythara's hand dropped to her sling, but she paused, considering. She was as put off by its appearance as I was, but the hesitation benefited none of us. A pebble rolled under her foot and the stag looked up, drooping brown eyes like that of an old hound's. It snorted, studying Iythara intently. I fluttered onto her shoulder to get a closer look. The deer had a disconcerting presence, similar to the static air, though not nearly as pervasive. The look in its dark eyes was far too intelligence.
But it did not appear aggressive. It went down to one knee, as though it were bowing to the two of us. Its head lowered, the red antlers pointed forward like spears. Iythara gave a thoughtful frown. I could tell she'd spent a good amount of time in the forests, around animals. Though she'd never been this far, no deer would act as this—normally. She approached it.
A howl cut through the air, and the deer stood sharply, ears back, nostrils flared, tail and mane bristling. It gave a trumpet of its own, neck bulging as it expelled the baritone note. A large, grey dog galloped down the path, giving another resounding bark. It stopped and hopped backward as the deer reared. The creature's fur stood on end, making it appear much larger; red spines were visible now, sticking out haphazardly along, hidden in the folds of its greasy fur. But by now, the dog's master arrived—a square-shouldered man wearing a lose, grey robe. He waved a red scarf over his head and shouted a panicked, wordless exclamation. The dog calmed as the man placed a hand on its angular head, and the deer, more interested in this newcomer lowered itself back to four legs. It snorted again, then stomped. It opened its mouth, supposedly to trumpet again, but instead a fog of faint, green fog came forth. The man waved the scarf all the more fiercely, and the deer backed off slightly, then bowed its head.
The man smiled for a moment, then wrapped the cloth around the deer's head. The creature reared again—or, attempted to. But now sightless and bound, it could do nothing but thrash upward. Its neck bulged as it attempted to howl or breath its mist, but the cloth, now held tightly around its muzzle, would not let it open. It continued to struggle in various ways, but the strange man was able to keep a steadfast grip on the thing. He hauled it forward, turning to Iythara.
“You must not be from around here,” he said, yellow eyes glinting. “This is a Bane's Deer and you are lucky its not breeding season, or you would be dead right now.” He laughed then, and it was not a pleasant sound. “They keep poison sacs here, hidden in their neck under their fur. The poison goes to more spines in their shoulders, ankles, and tails, and they can breathe it as an acid.” He gave the thing an appreciative look, even grabbing a handful of its fur.
“But... it's a deer,” Iythara managed to mumble. Then, belatedly, “Who are you?”
“Of course it's a deer!” he exclaimed, ignoring her latter question. “But this is Moonmire, dear. Nothing here is short of vicious. Can a deer outrun a flying manticora?” Iythara paled. “Ah, so you've heard of those ones, eh?” he asked. “They're nicer than you think. Just terribly hungry. Anyway, that's why the Bane's Deer has so many defenses—spines in the feet to attack anything from behind, and in the tail. Acid not only to be able to eat any plant in this forest, however poisonous, as the low nutrition in all the plants means he has to eat, a lot. But when given the opportunity, he can eat can eat meat too, and bones, or anything truly if he pleases, especially if he senses he needs the protein. But he's a scavenger, mostly, so he doesn't have many weapons in the front besides his breath. So, once his mouth is closed and I am on this side, he's a helpless little thing. They're easily tricked too, by size.”
The man paused, thankfully. “I'm rambling, aren't I?” His dog came closer—on further examination, the large beast appeared to be part wolf as well. He patted its head fondly.
Iythara seemed cowed. “A bit.”
“Sorry,” the man mentioned. “You look terribly hungry. But, just a moment.” He took a step closer to the forest, releasing the Bane's Deer from its restrains. It galloped away with a high-pitched trumpet. His sharp gaze turned back to Iythara. “Anyway—are you hungry? Tired? It must have taken you a mighty long time to get up here. You have the look of a Step on you.”
“A Step?”
“The Steps—the hills past Midmoon?”
Iythara frowned.
“The healthy forest,” the man supplied. “The dark one.”
“Nightside?”
“Is that what you call it?” he asked. “It's better than Midmoon, I guess. What is in the middle of a moon, anyway?” He shook his head as Iythara gave him an uncomfortable look. “Never mind. What is your name?”
“Iythara.”
He smiled. “ 'Little cat'?” he asked. “Did your mother do that on purpose?”
She looked horribly confused. “I... wouldn't know.”
“Ah, well,” he said. “I am Cane, and this beautiful bitch is my Tran.” He turned at his heels, walking along the path, large dog-wolf trotting beside him.
Iythara wavered. I think, under normal circumstances, she would not have followed him. However, I did come down to a single fact: this Cane had food.
So she sprinted up beside him, and he commented, “Pretty bird you have there.”
It was a collection of buildings, all small things of grey stone. They were in much the same condition as the tiled road—well made at one point, but now in a state of dejected decay. But these had a sort of civil look to them, if one studied it. None of the cracks or injuries affected necessities. In fact, the buildings were still as functional as any newly made cathedral. Or even moreso, considering anything distracting had already been stripped away by the elements.
But this was by far not the oddest thing. Despite the near constant buzz of the air, the ting along the wind, the taint of the soil, none of the people I saw harbored any of the deformities Iythara did. They were bare of any spurs, white hair, or patched skin. They almost seemed...
Normal.
But still, they looked like wraiths. The grey robes appeared a uniform, though there weren't many people around. They talked in quiet, closed circles, a couple with similar grey half-wolves trotting about.
“What is this place?” Iythara asked, voice little more than a breath. For a moment, I wondered why she was so awe-stricken. Her eyes were far away, lips parted just slightly—then, I realized all she'd ever known were those rough hill-caves. An actual building must have been the stuff of legend.
Or, perhaps, it was the people as well. The unmarred, unscathed people.
“Moonmire, little cat,” Cane said. “This way.” He led her to one of the buildings, picking himself carefully over the various bits of rubble strewn about. The door was a rickety thing and creaked as it opened to a small, but surprisingly well-kept room. It was bare, sported little more than a table and a few woven baskets in the corner. He dragged a chair over. “Sit.”
“I'd rather stand,” Iythara said. Compared to Cane's voice, her's was weak, like wind struggling to blow on a hot day.
Cane gave her an odd look as he ruffled through the baskets. “If you're eating my food, you'll sit at my table.”
Iythara continued to stand. With a sigh, Cane tossed an orange fruit to her. She caught it and examined it thoroughly before taking a bite.
“So,” Cane said. “Do those hurt?”
“What?” Iythara asked around a mouthful of fruit.
“The spikes.” Cane pointed. “Do they hurt.”
Iythara shrugged. “Sometimes.” He frowned.
That caught her attention. “Lately, strange animals have been wandering into my village's land. I'm here to find out why.”
Cane took the seat he'd previously laid out. He seemed extremely curious and I was reminded of a mathematician I know of, who'd get the same spark in his eyes when encountered with an interesting tidbit.“And they sent you?”
“Yes...”
“And gave you that mark on your cheek?”
Iythara's back straightened. “Yes.”
“The bird?”
“You can't give someone a bird,” Iythara replied. “Why are you asking these questions?”
“There's sometime odd about you, little cat,” Cane said. “Bane's Deer aren't the most timid things, but they rarely attack a human so boldly. You must taste incredibly good.” He laughed; “But the question is—why?”
Iythara frowned. “I don't want to taste good...”
Cane shook his head. “It hardly matters. But I'm afraid I don't have the answers you seek. We've been wondering for some time why the animals of Moonmire have been venturing down to the Steps. However, if everyone down there tastes so good, we might have an answer.”
“Why are we different, though?” Iythara asked. “Why don't you...”
“Have what you have?” Cane supplied. “The skin? The white?” He took a moment to think through his answer. “Have you ever noticed how, when all other animals flee, wolves always seem to remain unaffected?”
Iythara nodded.
“Well, we call ourselves the Wolves. Welcome to Moonmire, little cat.”
San gave him a strange look. “Good morning, Feld.” Feld snorted, avoiding her gaze and search the dining hall. It was as large as the ball room, edged in gold, trimmed in satin, and filled near to the brim with Aurlinites. Early morning light streamed in from the monstrous windows fitting in arches along the domed ceiling. The tables themselves spanned the length of the room, and the aroma of freshly cooked food wafted though the air. Small doors lay in the floor, where the subtle cooks rose form their kitchens with silver trays laden with breakfast. Amongst them, a few nobles specialized in cooking brought out their own work, chatting with other nobles with the same profession. That was one of the main purposes of the Gathering, to allow the transference of ideas and thoughts.
“How did you find me in this mess?” Feld asked, but the biologist ignored him.
“You look remarkably tired,” she mentioned. “Have you been sleeping well?”
“Quite well, thank you.” He tried not to frown, knowing it would only make San's behavior more unbearable. It was not that she was an unpleasant person, but she was too curious for her own good. Not of the world around her, but of people. Conversations with her were trying and her questions invasive. Only if he were feeling horribly sick would Feld have confided in the noblewoman, but the mundane drowsiness of this morning was nothing he'd concern anyone with.
“Have you seen Ali?” he asked.
“Not today,” San replied. They'd been at the Gathering for a total of three days and Feld still had no idea how to navigate a place filled with so many people. It was nothing like when he was a child—but he'd also been much shorter and much less noticeable. Ali had reassured him that after the initial week, once everything was sorted, it would be much less chaotic, but Feld had trouble imagining any sort of order instilled in this place. The only thing that sat still was the Regent, you looked a marble statue on his humble throne, as well as his honor-guard—a group of five men, all Risen servants, as a noble cannot wield iron.
San had been talking, though Feld missed most of it, “...thinking of observing them while... Feld, are you listening?”
“Not at the moment.”
She snorted. “Perhaps I should talk of something more interesting."
“Have you seen Ter?” Feld asked. He seemed knowledgeable enough, and not so preoccupied as Sovan or Warren during the large event. However, the enigmatic servant was out of sight for more of the time, and when he did show himself Feld barely had the chance to speak a few words to him before he made a disguised retreat. It was as though Ter could sense his thoughts and wanted nothing of them.
The din hushed a tad as a lutist waltzed before the Regent, playing a small, dainty tune. Even from here, Feld could hear the musicians friends shouting criticisms between their friendly laughter, pointing out an off-tune note, though Feld could not detect any of them.
“The servant?” San asked, eyeing Feld. “You must be sick. Might I feel your forehead.”
Feld took a step to the side, giving a slight cough. “Are you sure you don't want some breakfast, San?”
She nodded. “That is a splendid idea, Feld,” but instead of leaving the poet in peace, she took his arm in hers, and half-dragged him forward. Feld nearly tripped on his own feet at the unexpected lurch; he gave San a venomous glare, but she took no notice.
“I heard from a friend of mine there would be a young maid playing the harp today,” she mentioned, using the term for an ungraduated queen. “I'd love to hear her—can we sit up front? Oh!—look, there's Ali. Hello, dear!” The noblewoman waved to Ali, who turned halfway, giving the two a small smile.
“Don't you look like a cat with a mouse, San,” she commented. San rolled her eyes.
“Did Fella tell you about the little maid who's going to play for us?” she asked as she pounced on three free seats. “She's supposed to be divine.”
“She did not,” Ali replied, “but I'll take your word for it.”
The two women continued to talk, taking no heed of Feld's presence. Not that he minded—in fact, he preferred to be left out of their mindless chatter. They were like a pair of squirrels clucking in one's ear. Feld' wasn't sure how two females in the same room could ever be sufferable, and despaired at the thought of how many were in the room right now. There were nearly a hundred Aurlinites in the room, so he estimated around thirty women. The ratio was not always so even, but the Gathering hosted every woman in Aurlin, while only a few select men—and he wasn't counting the small children waking just now and heading to their classes. Gladly, a new class graduated each year, each with around two or three women with the possibility of a queen among them—but a generation died each year just the same.
Just the thought of all the people made him claustrophobic. It was terribly hot in the room—the reason, he suspected, why he no longer had an appetite—the tables crowded; even the air seemed physically cluttered as the din which rose from every direction. It had grown quieter to let the musicians play, but as the nobles grew bored of the soft, unclimatic songs, the noise rose once again.
By this point, though, both Ali and San had stopped talking. A young, honey-haired girl stood where the musicians once were, gazing out at the golden hall in awe. Children were rarely allowed in places such as this, and the rest of the school sported the same white walls and dark accents the rest of Aurlin did—she must have been mystified. She gathered her wits about her, however, and began to play a sad little song on her harp. It was light, flitting, and possibly better than the others in Feld's opinion—though it may have been because he was able actually hear it now that he stood near the front. He noticed absently that the Regent was no long seated in his throne—or anywhere near it, it seemed.
“I'll just be a second,” he murmured, standing. Ali flashed him a nod and small smile, though little more than that as she continued talking with San—and most of the nobles seated adjacent to them as well. A quick glance around the hall revealed a small door to the left, just outside the press of nobles. He doubted it was for actual traffic—there were the large, entrance doors for that, across the hall—but it wouldn't hurt to try it.
The crowd was not nearly as intimidating as Feld had originally thought, though he was still grateful once he was out of it. However, as he reached for the silver knob, he paused. There were voices coming from it, barely audible through the thick wall and over the crowd. Feld leaned closer, instantly curious.
“Are you nearly ready, my lord?” a small, feminine voice asked, followed by a tense moment of violent hacking.
“I'm ready when I say I'm ready,” a raspy voice replied, obviously meaning for there to be more venom in his words, though his bout of coughing left them weak and faltering. “Water,” he ordered with a sigh. This voice sounded vaguely familiar to Feld—but he couldn't place it. He frowned. Probably some miscellaneous noble he'd met earlier, stricken by some illness and embarrassed by it. It was not considered good manners to accompany someone while sick considering infection—though, if one could hide it well enough, others would not mind.
“Here you are, my lord.” A pause. “Are you fit to go back in?” This was not the inquiry of a common servant; it held a strange, but genuine concern which left Feld baffled. True, he'd heard stories of nobles who'd befriended others during their schooling, only to have on graduate and the other demoted to the life of a servant; a bond may still be held between the two, but he'd surely never seen it.
“Of course I am!” the man said, but the exclamation sent him coughing again. “I will; that is a fact. I am no invalid, bound to his bed, pitied in public and scorned by his fellows.” he said, stronger this time.
“Yes, my lord. I apologize, my lord.”
“Go back to the kitchens, Nel,” he said. “I can manage myself. Perhaps I can find some intelligent conversation here, instead of sitting up—”
“Sir?” this voice came not from behind the door, but behind Feld. The poet gave a start, turning and finding the Ter standing straight and poised, watching him with those intent eyes. “I apologize, my lord I did not mean to startle you.” His blue eyes held a strange light and they flickered for a moment towards the door. Feld shook his head.
“Why are you here, Ter?”
“Lady Sanginette told me you were looking for me, sir,” Ter said. “Might I ask why?”
Feld frowned. “You've been to the Gathering before. I figured you'd be of assistance.”
“My lady has been here before as well,” Ter said. “As have good number of your friends, my lord. More Gathering than me, I should think.”
Feld shrugged. “You're better company and I don't wish to bother them. Do you know how easy it is to stay clear of over-crowded rooms?”
“That is usually the point of a Gathering, sir,” Ter replied, an edge of confusion lacing his voice. “To be near as many people as possible.” Behind him, the harpist struck a foul—and annoyingly distracting—note.
“I know,” Feld said, frustrated. “But is there a way?” He heard another bout of coughing from behind the door and struggled to keep his curiosity down. Who is that? “Did you hear that?” Feld asked.
Ter stopped short—he had been talking, Feld realized. “Hear what?”
“Nothing. What were you saying?”
“The Avitorium is always a sanctuary,” Ter said. “As would be any of the observatories if my lord can find one empty. There's a good chance most people will be in whichever ball room the night's even is based, though, so you should not have any trouble then.” The servant's frown deepened, as if he'd just spotted a stray speck of dirt on some noble's shirt, but refused to say a word.
“His Lordship, the Regent, could take your absence as an insult, my lord.”
Feld snorted. “How would he even know? In this crowd—I could be anywhere!”
“You would be surprised, my lord,” Ter said, shifting his weight. Uncomfortable. Feld felt his suspicions rise. He remembered how the Regent had acknowledged Ter—with what he'd finally decided was the servant's true name; one never kept the entirety of his name if he did not graduate. Instead, he was given a three-letter version of it.
“And you would not be surprised, Ter?” Feld surmised.
“No, my lord.” Ter's eyes flashed. Every servant made an oath never to lie to a noble—but he certainly knew he did not have to say everything. He was smart; he could be more subtle, Feld knew. But he didn't need to be in this case. Feld was already getting a strangely foreboding feeling about the servant. It would be better simply not to ask.
“How long has that girl been playing?” Ter asked, looking over his shoulder. The maid was in the sort of trance players had when concentrating on an especially hard piece. Her hand slipped again, striking a high-pitched, inharmonious hum. Feld frowned. He wasn't be evasive, but genuinely confused.
“Too long?” Feld asked.
“She should be back to her classes by now,” Ter mentioned. “They wouldn't sacrifice more than a bit of her learning—she already needs to be extremely gifted to be taken out for a few moments; and it doesn't seem like she's very good at the moment.” He winced at another note, though Feld could only just detect a bit of fault in it. Ter abandoned him for the moment, addressing one of the other servants in a hushed tone. She shrugged and pointed to one of the musicians who gave her a pointed look before sighing and rising. This noble was abnormally tall and of stocky build—a combination which must have startled the poor girl when he addressed her. She jolted, looked at him, frowned, then continued to play.
“Disobedient child,” Ter murmured. “That other man has already talked to her—to no avail.” A ripple went through the crowd, just a slight wave of uncertainty. The musician's voice grew all the more insistent, but the harpist chose to ignore him instead and continue playing. However, she struck more foul than pure notes. The musician shrugged and looked to his companions.
One of the harp string's broke, striking the girl along the arm as it lashed outward. She didn't seem to notice it.
A member of the Regent's honor stepped forward, bodily grabbing the girl. She screamed, a piercing sound like the cry of a dying young bird. Blood rolled down her arm, three drops of it splattering on the floor as she was taken out of through the right door, one in symmetrical placement to the one Feld had just retreated to. It slammed shut with a crack which resounded through the now silent hall.
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