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DJ/ Producer “Ysquar3” Drops His Brand New EP ‘Perplexity’
By sufflemusicmagzine April 22, 2018 April 22, 2018
Ysquar3 is a next-generation groove house producer.Born on 21st may 1997 his young age never stopped him from taking the lead in the electronic music scene. This Indian DJ and Producer is supported by Denis Koyu, Promise land, Dirty ducks and many more.His remix of everybody shot into the stratosphere Continue Reading
Ultra Music Festival 2018 Full Sets
By sufflemusicmagzine March 26, 2018
Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is a massive electronic music festival in Miami. Started in 1999 and named after a Depeche Mode album, Ultra Music Festival is one of the biggest festivals in North America. This festival is known for two things: a perennially stacked lineup and an all-out party atmosphere. Continue Reading
Ananya Birla – Hold On
By sufflemusicmagzine March 3, 2018 December 17, 2018
Quite a hasty start of her career in music with- “Livin The Life” her first single which got remixed by Afrojack. From then on she caught up good and released “Meant To Be” and now her latest single came out “Hold On” with a tropical vibe. The track is Continue Reading
Corey James Is Back With Another Banger Find You (ft. Nino Lucarelli)
By sufflemusicmagzine February 27, 2018 December 17, 2018
DJ and Producer Corey James returns back with his new progressive house track “Find You”. The enchanting and euphoric track is released under “Protocol Recordings”. The lyrics to the track are from Nino Lucarelli taking it to a completely next level. Corey James, one of Protocol’s most promising artist holds Continue Reading
The Return Of Headhunterz
By sufflemusicmagzine February 20, 2018 February 20, 2018
Hardstyle heavyweight “Headhunterz” announces the release date of his album “The Return Of Headhunterz.” Headhunterz visited Dutch radio station SLAM! together with Wildstylez on 15 Feb 2018, where they have discussed their label – Art of Creation. Headhunterz’ long-awaited album is going to be released on his own label “Art of Creation”. The Continue Reading
Arty & Audien Collaboration In The Process
Audien and Arty need no introduction when music is a topic of discussion. They both have been on Anjunabeats for a couple of years now. Because of their busy schedule and lots of other stuff these two producers never seemed to have found the time to produce a record together. But Continue Reading
Krewella – Alibi
Krewella, DJ/Producer, a well known pair in dance music scene keeps the crowd entertained on and off the stage with new releases every now and then and yet again this pair has come back with great vocal track. A perfect valentine track to listen to.The classy hook and amazing vocals Continue Reading
Calvin Harris Not Interested In EDM Anymore ?
Calvin Harris kickstarted this year with his release ‘Nuh Ready Nuh Ready‘. The track is really different in comparison to his previous records. Calvin Harris fans are really supporting his style shift. With over 2 million streams on Spotify & having a huge number of views on various platforms like Continue Reading
Georvity & Taabz – Spacetime
Georvity releases a hard-hitting groovy track called “Spacetime” with Taabz on Sativ Records. Both the producers got out of their comfort zone to produce this groove style track. The track starts with a gentle build up, leading to a hard-hitting groovy drop. The break is made up of a unique Continue Reading
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Thermoelectric Generators
A thermoelectric generator is a solid-state device that works similar to solar panels but converts heat, rather than sunlight, directly into electricity. A thermoelectric generator is usually made of bismuth telluride semiconductor junctions that are only several millimeters thick. This differs drastically from the bimetallic junctions that were previously used, which were much thicker. Thermoelectric generators generally do not have any moving parts, except for a fan, and can be used in a wide variety of applications to generate electricity.
How Thermoelectric Generators Work
In a thermoelectric generator, heat is transferred through a piece of metal such as bismuth telluride, that has a high resistance to heat and low thermal conductivity. As the heat travels through the metal, it is converted into electricity and can then be transferred to a conductor or directly to an electronic device. Generally, many thermoelectric generators are connected to each other in a series in order to generate as much electricity as possible.
Thermoelectric generators are used in a wide variety of applications, but generally in situations in which there are few energy sources or a great deal of heat is otherwise wasted. Thermoelectric generators are most notably used in the aerospace industry to power space shuttles, space probes, and satellites with the heat generated from the radioactive decay that radioactive substances produce. This type of thermoelectric generator is known as a Radioisotope Thermal Generator (RTG). Experiments are currently being undertaken to also use thermoelectric generators in automobiles in order to utilize the wasted heat that exhaust fumes and cooling agents produce.
Thermoelectric generators are advantageous because they allow systems to retrieve heat that is otherwise wasted in the form of exhaust or mechanical waste. Thermoelectric generators also recover heat that occurs naturally, such as the heat that geothermal vents, volcanoes, hot springs, or high-atmosphere applications produce. Generally, heat is not intentionally produced for a thermoelectric generator, as this would lead to an overall loss of electricity or other resources. Thermoelectric generators are most efficient when retrieving heat over 250 degrees Celsius.
Thermoelectric generators are advantageous but they also have several disadvantages. Generally, thermoelectric generators only have an efficiency rate between five and ten percent. Also, thermoelectric generators require both high thermal resistance and low thermal conductivity. This means that it is more difficult for heat to travel across a thermoelectric generator, causing the poor efficiency rates mentioned above.
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Ultima: Exodus, known in Japan as ウルティマ 恐怖のエクソダス [Urutima Kyofu no Ekusodasu] "Ultima: Fear of Exodus", is a role-playing game originally developed by Origin Systems. This port was developed by Newtopia Planning and first released in Japan by Pony Canyon on the Famicom in 1987, then for the MSX2 in 1988, and later in 1989 in North America on the NES by FCI. This is a port of Ultima III: Exodus, and while the game is similar enough that it should be on the original game's page, I have such a history with it, it warrants its own page. The MSX port is nearly the same as the Famicom version, just with a slightly different color palette and sound due to the different hardware. This game was heavily advertised in Japan; the soundtrack was composed by a pop musician and released on vinyl, cassette, and CD, a single was released featuring the vocals of a pop singer who had an in-game cameo, several extensive hint books were made, and even comics and game books were written to introduce the Ultima series to the Japanese audience.
I first played this game after renting it from a video store around 1989 and loved it. I remember reading the poorly printed replacement manual that came with the game and seeing that there was "dragon armor," which I thought was so cool. Later, my step-brother brought his copy when he visited, and I played it more. I accidentally erased his save game file, and my brother and I tried to rush through the game to get back all the stuff he had, but were unable to, he was very mad. But we kept playing, and I amassed a lot of gold and raised each of the characters to level 5. This unleashed the pirates, and we made it to Ambrosia. I found a shrine, and, teasingly, my step-brother told me to try and donate all my gold to see what happened. I obeyed, but since I didn't see any benefit, I felt betrayed by him. Only later did I realize I was on the right path.
That winter, I asked for the game for Christmas, and got it. It was a used copy which didn't have the manual, but it did come with a nice transparent purple plastic case, which fit with the game's graphic art. I played it a lot, but didn't get very far into the story because the game has very little in-game direction. Later, my brother and I found a copy of the hint book at a Toys 'R Us, and he bought it for me. With it, I was able to get a lot farther and even max out the level of my party. However, as the hint book reveals, you have to grind like crazy to get far into the game, and after getting about two thirds through the story, I got sick of grinding and gave up. Years later, having gotten tired of it being a game that I really loved, and sunk hundreds of hours into, but couldn't beat, I sat down and spent even more hours grinding out gold and buying my stats (I ran the game at 2x speed in an emulator), and then finally beat it on 2017-07-08.
2.2 Bad
2.3 Ugly
3.1 Box Art
3.2 Documentation
3.4 Graphics
I own a complete-in-box copy of the game and a loose copy. I have beaten it.
Overall: 4/10
Best Version: NES
For the time, the graphics are pretty good, certainly better than any of the PC-based Ultima ports.
The game music is extremely well composed, having been written by professional Tsugutoshi Goto.
Hiding portions of the map that your character's can't see, while not very attractive to look at, is certainly more realistic than seeing through walls and roofs, which was common in most RPGs of the day.
The amount of effort Pony Canyon put into marketing the game was amazing. Multiple professionally made hint books, a manga, a soundtrack on CD, cassette, and record, and more.
There is a wide variety of classes and races which make it very easy to customize a party to your play style.
The spell list has a good amount of variation. There are attack spells for singular and multiple targets, spells for getting around in the dungeons, disarming traps, healing, resurrection, and so forth.
There is nice variety to the layout of the towns; each focuses on a particular terrain, and it's impressive to see varying age groups among the NPCs.
Having wind that affects how fast the ship can move in various directions was a nice touch.
The game engine moves too slowly. I found the game to be much more playable when run at double speed in an emulator.
The content of the towns are very redundant. Most of them have the same shops as each other, so they could be removed altogether. Also, most of the NPC dialogue is useless banter: "it's a good day for washing," "it's too late to play Ultima," etc. Some of the dialogue contains clues, but the majority of the clues are either unhelpful: "find the shrines," or incorrect: "dig here!"
Experience is poorly correlated to the difficulty of the monster. A full mob of skeletons can be defeated in a single round with a free Undead spell, yielding 32 XP, while a full mob of demons, who will leave your whole party injured and poisoned, only gives 64 XP. Also, the amount of XP needed to level up isn't exponential; it always take 100 XP to get to the next level, so you reach your level cap at only 2500 XP.
Gold is entirely random, and far too little is rewarded for difficult battles. There is a 50/50 chance that a single goblin will be carrying more gold than a pair of dragons!
Combat, though tactically superior to most RPGs of the time, is dreadfully slow.
Weapons are poorly factored. Weapons of a higher power level only do marginally better damage. Ranged weapons usually do the same amount of damage as melee weapons, but you have many chances to hit before the monsters can hit back, so the only reason to use a melee weapon is if the class can't use a ranged one.
Enemies can attack diagonally, but you cannot, even if your character is wielding a pole-arm.
If you pick the wrong menu item in combat, you have to forfeit your turn, you can't undo the menu option.
While most of the monsters in a group have different sprites, they're essentially clones of each other. For example, titans, giants, and golems are all identical in combat.
I don't care for the 3D dungeons because you can't tell where the enemies are, there are WAY too many traps, the layouts are ridiculous. And, like towns, their content is mostly redundant and half of them could be eliminated.
Turning on a trapped square in a dungeon makes you hit the same trap over again.
There are a couple game breaking bugs, but mercifully, they're rarely encountered.
The game requires an obscene amount of grinding. You have to grind monsters to get XP to raise levels, but levels only increase your maximum HP, not your stats. To raise stats, you must grind gold and donate 100 GP for a single stat increase at a shrine. Getting a single character to their optimal stats costs about 20,000 GP. But before you can tackle that, you have to equip your party with about 10,000 GP in weapons and armor, and buy food and healing along the way. All that grinding takes literal days to do.
The vast majority of the game is combat and aimless wandering.
Recovering HP after major combat takes forever. Inns don't heal your characters, they only save your game. Characters max out at 2550 HP. There is only one healing spell which gives a paltry 25-50 HP and affects only a single character. A tent heals 100 HP per character, but has a 100 GP price tag. Some hospitals will heal a character to full, but it costs 200 GP each, and there are only a couple in the game.
Although the manual gives detailed instructions for how to play the game, neither it nor the in-game characters give you useful direction for how to progress the story.
The original Japanese box is pretty great. It shows the fighter, cleric, thief, and wizard in cartoon style, in a dark realm, fighting monsters. Although, some of the monsters don't fit the game, the art is quite good and my favorite.
This is the MSX2 box. It uses the same art as the Famicom, but replaces the background with a boring red field.
The North American art is the same scene, only painted in a more Western style. The characters aren't as emotive, and the cleric looks more like a sissy, but it's still competently painted.
Game manual.
Japanese game manual. It's a shame ours wasn't this good.
Hint book.
Nintendo Power, part 1.
Perfect Solution Japanese hint book.
Perfect Solution Technique Japanese hint book.
Perfect Solution Technique (Revision) Japanese hint book.
Perfect Guidebook to Overcome Ultima: Exodus (Japanese).
Exodus Strike Back game book.
Ultima: Kingdom of Britannia Crisis game book.
Sosaria.
Lord British's Castle.
Royal City.
Yew.
Devil Guard.
Montor West.
Montor East.
Fawn.
Death Gulch.
Dawn.
Shrines.
Exodus's Castle.
Maps with details can be found here: mikesrpgcenter.com/ultima3.
Sprite sheet - Player icons.
Sprite sheet - Player characters.
Sprite sheet - NPCs.
Sprite sheet - Monsters.
Sprite sheet - Unused.
youtube.com/watch?v=aY4jsHZf3Yk - Speed run.
mobygames.com/game/nes/exodus-ultima-iii - MobyGames (NES).
mobygames.com/game/msx/exodus-ultima-iii - MobyGames (MSX).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_III:_Exodus - Wikipedia.
gamefaqs.com/nes/587740-ultima-exodus - GameFAQs.
vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Ultima:_Exodus_(NES) - Music.
thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php/Ultima:_Exodus - NES Hacker Database.
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Council adopts new ‘Toowoomb...
Council adopts new ‘Toowoomba Region Road Safety Strategy 2019 – 2023’
Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) has adopted the new ‘Toowoomba Region Road Safety Strategy 2019 – 2023’.
TRC Chair of the Infrastructure Committee and Deputy Mayor Cr Carol Taylor said the updated road safety strategy builds on the work of the previous strategic plan by aiming to deliver a further reduction of 12.5 percent in ‘all injury crashes’ across Council’s road network.
“Council’s 2011-2015 road safety strategic plan saw an overall reduction of 13 percent of ‘all injury crashes’ across Council’s road network with 12 blackspot projects completed with the support of the Federal Government,” Cr Taylor said.
“The 2019-2023 strategy will serve as an action plan that helps Council together with key stakeholders and the community to actively participate in road safety across the region.
“The updated strategy aligns with National and State Road Safety Strategies and aims to reduce the number of all injury crashes by 12.5 percent, reduce the number of fatalities by 30 percent and reduce the number of hospitalisations by 30 percent over the five-year life of the Strategy.
“With a network of more than 6,700 kilometres of sealed and unsealed roads, Council has recognised the need to embrace a more strategic approach towards road safety across the Region.
Cr Taylor said this strategic approach is in line with one of the key priorities from the 2019 Road Safety Week - ‘lead the way: drive to save lives’.
“The current crash statistics remain at an unacceptable level, and more needs to be done to improving the safe use of Council’s road network.
“Safer driving is something each one of us can focus on,” Cr Taylor said.
“Each year, around 1200 people are killed and another 35,000 are seriously injured in crashes on Australian roads.
“The loss of one life is unacceptable so it’s vital we make our roads safer,” Cr Taylor said.
The Toowoomba Region Road Safety Strategy 2019 – 2023’ will be publicly launched on 31st May to coincide with ‘Fatality Free Friday’.
For more information about the ‘Toowoomba Region Road Safety Strategy 2019 – 2023’ please visit www.tr.qld.gov.au/roadsafetystrat
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North Bethesda, MD Real Estate
North Bethesda is very similar to that of its sister community to the south. There is evidence of a colonial presence and rural farming activity from the late 17th to the late 18th century. Like Bethesda and other outlying communities of Washington, D.C., North Bethesda grew in size and scope with the arrival of light rail at the turn of the 19th century. The 1950s saw widespread development of planned, suburban communities.
North Bethesda remains a commuter suburb and a center for commercial activity. White Flint Mall is home to numerous retail stores and a Red Line metro station. North Bethesda features various home styles including apartments, townhomes, and contemporary single-family residences.
Pick up the Red Line metro at White Flint Mall and Grosvenor - Strathmore station. I-270 and I-495; Old Georgetown Road, Rockville Pike, and Randolph Road are major thoroughfares. North Bethesda is also located less than four miles from the Kensington MARC Station.
Washington Dulles International Airport: < 30 miles.
Baltimore Washington International Airport: < 40 miles.
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"The Miracle Man" - March 2010
Saturday 8th November 2008. That's the last time I had as much fun in a theatre as I did last night. Not since the magnificent "Midsummer" have I seen a play deliver laughs so strongly and consistently. We drove home with Waldorf scanning the scriptbook for the lines that had amused us the most - and discovering new ones we'd missed because we were laughing too much.
Created and presented as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's 'tfd' season of 'shows for young people', Douglas Maxwell's "The Miracle Man" appeals far beyond its stated audience. While set in a school with all it's associated girl/boy issues, the core of the piece is more about PE teacher Ozzy and his ill father than the pupils. Avoiding any sense of preaching, if there's a message for the 'young people' to take away it's that life can be pretty damn hard for adults too, and that they are every bit as capable of screwing things up as you are.
Maxwell throws plenty of issues into the mix - religion, race, death, loneliness, purity rings, body image and the weight of parental expectation. Some are treated with more depth than others and on occasion it does feel an issue is there to serve the comedy rather than vice versa but they all feel integral to the play. Maxwell also delivers some truly heartbreaking moments as he drip feeds us fragments of Ozzy's story.
Keith Fleming gives a wonderfully quiet and subtle performance as Ozzy, in sharp contrast to a riotously comedic portrayal of the school's headmaster by Jimmy Chisholm. Charlene Boyd, Shabana Bakhsh & Ross Allan are uniformly excellent as the students while Sally Reid shows here that she's capable of producing an impressive performance in a more serious, adult role than we're used to seeing her in.
With a run time of 2 hours 30 minutes (including interval) it amazed me how short this felt. It's beautfully paced, both in Maxwell's writing and Vicky Featherstone's direction and complemented by Georgia McGuinness' fabulous set and Natasha Chivers' lighting design. (And special thanks to those responsible for the revelation that there's more to "The Go! Team" album on our iPods than 'Ladyflash'.)
An outstanding piece of theatre for teenagers - and anyone who used to be one.
The Miracle Man has completed its run at the Tron and now tours to Musselburgh, Inverness and Aberdeen.
Image by Eamonn McGoldrick used with permission.
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Summary of recent criminal activity in Poland and Boardman
Mom pleads to felony child endangering after daughter, ...
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A summary of recent criminal activity in Boardman and Poland townships:
Identify fraud: A Boardwalk Driver woman reported two credit cards had been stolen and used fraudulently.
Assault: An employee with a business in the 6500 block of Poland Way told police of having been assaulted.
Breaking and entering: Someone broke into a residence in the 3600 block of St. James Way via a side door, then took two building levels.
Identity fraud: A 15-year-old Poland Seminary High School student realized his personal information had been compromised.
Arrest: A traffic stop on Mathews Road resulted in the arrest of Rex A. Pakalnis of Lockwood Boulevard, Boardman, on a charge of operating a vehicle impaired. Pakalnis, 60, refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test, a report stated.
Burglary: A woman reported the latest in a series of break-ins to her Glenbrook Road residence, from which about $2,500 worth of jewelry was taken.
Theft: Armony L. Yates-Moore, 19, of Weston Avenue, Youngstown, was charged with stealing nine items valued at $82 from Walmart, 1300 Doral Drive.
Domestic violence: Kenneth B. Bowman, 25, of Buckeye Circle, Youngstown, was charged with the crime after his mother, of Boardman, alleged Bowman had threatened on the phone to burn down her residence with others in the home.
Arrest: Authorities on Southern Boulevard took into custody David L. Spencer Jr., 31, of Kibler Road, New Waterford, upon discovering he was wanted on a warrant charging failure to appear in Struthers Municipal Court.
Fraud: A Niles woman found out $24,162 she had in an account at a township bank was distributed without authorization to pay bills and for other nefarious purposes, apparently after someone had created an online profile regarding the account.
Harassment: A West Boulevard woman said a man sent her several such text messages that also contained cryptic threats.
Theft: A Poland man noticed $350 missing from his wallet after having patronized a Southern Boulevard big-box store.
Theft/vandalism: A worker with Travelers Inn motel, 6110 Market St., reported entering a room to discover a 32-inch TV had been forcibly removed from a wall, leaving several holes. Also, a microwave oven was missing from the room.
Arrest: Police on Market Street pulled over and took into custody Kamala M. Belton, 25, of Monroe Street, Campbell. Belton was wanted on a warrant from that city charging violation of a court order.
Arrest: Police answered a call about a possibly intoxicated person at a South Avenue motel before arresting Paulette W. Lee, who listed Youngstown addresses on East Dewey and North Lakeview avenues, on a probation-violation charge. Lee, 46, also was cited on a charge of disorderly conduct while intoxicated.
Arrest: While dealing with a family problem on Mathews Road, police charged Devon M. Anderson, 37, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Youngstown, with resisting arrest, obstructing official business and intimidation of a public servant, a third-degree felony. Anderson refused to follow authorities’ commands, hampered their investigation and twice threatened an officer, a report showed.
Assault: An employee with a Youngstown-Poland Road fast-food restaurant alleged that while she was being trained, a supervisor forcibly grabbed the accuser’s shoulders from behind and moved her to the side.
Theft: A New Castle, Pa., man reported his sweatshirt stolen at Southern Park Mall.
Theft: Kelia S. Faulk, 22, of East Midlothian Boulevard, Struthers, was charged in the theft of $93 worth of property that included a comforter from Walmart.
Arrest: Officers responded to a report of a man likely slumped in a vehicle near Southern Boulevard and Meadowbrook Avenue, where they charged Brandon J. Fleshman, 37, of Maplecrest Drive, Youngstown, with operating a vehicle impaired. Fleshman registered a 0.117 blood-alcohol content, which exceeds Ohio’s 0.08 legal intoxication limit, a report showed.
Arson: A man in his 20s with dark-brown hair reportedly set a trash can on fire at a Shell gas station, 998 E. Western Reserve Road, evidently after having been angered that a clerk unable to verify his age refused to sell him alcohol.
Domestic violence: A 15-year-old Boardman girl faced two domestic-violence counts after her mother alleged the teen had pushed, punched and kicked her numerous times in the face and chest during an argument related to household rules. Also, the victim’s boyfriend alleged the girl had done the same to him.
Theft: A man noticed an $89 cellphone missing from his Market Street apartment.
Menacing: A Wildwood Drive woman told police a man engaged in a four-year pattern of harassment against her called the victim’s place of employment claiming to be a police officer and that he was conducting an investigation of her.
Citations: Police handed minor-misdemeanor citations charging Joshua Suarez, 21, of Buchanan Drive, Boardman; Richard J. Santucci Jr., 21, of Shields Road, Youngstown; and Kenneth P. Rose, 22, of South Cadillac Drive, Boardman, with disorderly conduct after a manager at Target, 417 Boardman-Poland Road, reported three men had sounded air horns in the store, which startled several employees.
Possible theft: A man reported his wallet lost or stolen at a Boardman-Canfield Road restaurant.
Theft: An Edenridge Drive woman discovered a .45-caliber handgun missing from her home.
Theft: Two women reportedly stole $60 worth of merchandise from Dollar General, 859 E. Midlothian Blvd.
Arrest: Police phone booked Hali V. Delgado, 25, on a charge of obstructing official business, related to a Feb. 13 investigation in which authorities alleged Delgado, of Richland Avenue, Youngstown, provided a phony date of birth to hide the fact she was wanted on a warrant from Miami.
Arrest: Police conducted a vehicle check in the 4000 block of Market Street, then took into custody Willie J. Stewart, 47, who listed Youngstown addresses on Hilton and Dorothy avenues and was wanted on a charge of violating a court order. In addition, Shaneta Kennedy, 37, also of Dorothy Avenue, was given a minor-misdemeanor citation charging her with having a small quantity of suspected marijuana in her jacket pocket.
Theft: A Poland man reported two tools missing from his work trailer in the 70 block of Newport Drive.
Harassment: An intoxicated man reportedly made six or seven such calls to a South Avenue nursing home and mentioned possibly blowing up the facility.
Arrest: Officers conducted a welfare check at a Market Street motel before picking up Richard E. Charlton, 40, of Indianola Road, Boardman. He was wanted on a warrant charging failure to appear in Boardman Area Court on Market Street.
Theft: A woman reportedly stole a 24-pack of condoms from CVS Pharmacy, 7230 Market St.
Citation: Police on Midlothian Boulevard pulled over Thomas Shepherd III, 21, of Mahoning Avenue, Youngstown, and charged him with having a bowl of suspected marijuana.
Domestic violence: Wilson D. Nadal of East Indianola Avenue, Youngstown, faced a domestic-violence charge after a Cook Avenue woman alleged Nadal, 23, had grabbed her throat and twice choked the accuser during an argument about their relationship.
Theft: Two Youngstown girls, 10 and 15, were accused of stealing about $200 worth of clothing from Macy’s in Southern Park Mall.
Theft: Police charged Joseph W. Kusior, 18, with theft after alleging Kusior, of Brushville Road, New Waterford, had stolen a phone-charging pad and a pack of gum from Walmart.
Assault: A Columbus man alleged that while at a South Avenue motel, his girlfriend slapped his head during a fight between them.
Arrest: While responding to a vehicular crash in the 6300 block of South Avenue, officers charged Bob E. Donathan, 57, of South Avenue, Boardman, with operating a vehicle impaired. Donathan’s blood-alcohol content was 0.138, a report showed.
Harassment: An Afton Avenue woman alleged her former boyfriend has made more than 100 such calls to the accuser and other family members of hers.
Theft: A woman reportedly took four boxes of earrings worth $200 from Kohl’s, 383 Boardman-Poland Road.
Theft: A 17-year-old Youngstown boy was accused of stealing a $10 pregnancy-test kit from Walmart.
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Theft: Someone in the 8000 block of Deerpath Drive removed about $1,000 worth of gift cards and $5 from a car.
Drug paraphernalia: While investigating a suspicious vehicle on Stanton Avenue, officers charged Sunni L. Guy, 25, and William K. Nichols, 50, both of South Avenue, Boardman, with possessing drug paraphernalia. Two suspected crack-cocaine pipes were found, police alleged.
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Theft: A man noticed 11 over-the-counter pills missing from his Erie Street home.
Theft: A nurse’s aide for a South Avenue nursing home reported a $600 iPhone stolen while at work.
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There were dangers we could go the Bangladesh way. Khalistan is declared any time. Pakistan recognises it. Crosses the border. The Punjab police desserts. Hindus from Punjab rush towards Haryana. The Sikhs from there rush towards Punjab. What does the Indian army do ?
Do they stop the Pakistani influx into our territory
Do they prevent the establishment of Khalistan
Do they disarm the Punjab police
Do they control riots as there was no police in Punjab at that stage
Pretty gripping isn't it, the operation is mounted to prevent a direct threat to the sovereignty of the state.
Interview with Gen KS Brar from 2012 who led operation Bluestar, this talk some time after he survived an attempt on his life during a visit in London
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Outlook was on the case before Trudeau even arrived
Panth And A Foreign Hand | Outlook | Feb 12 2018
A new real threat of Khalistani terror, fuelled and funded by foreign gurudwaras patronised by liberal white politicians, has revived memories of a blood-drenched era of Punjab’s history
USHINOR MAJUMDAR
For those who believe history moves in a straight line, and what’s past is past, some signs can set you thinking. Like you’re being awakened to a bad dream—a strangely familiar one—and bits and pieces of memory flash by, brought back to life. Words that recall a time of great tumult—Khalistan, Sikh radicals, Bluestar, 1984 pogrom—are abuzz again. If your attention has been focused elsewhere, little pieces of news are recalling an epoch filled with thousands of unknown victims, marking out new stirrings full of old forebodings.
‘The foreign hand’…rings a bell? It was one of the oft-heard phrases of the 1970s—both bogey and shadowy reality. Is it making a comeback of sorts, in a new avatar? Why are overseas gurudwaras banning Indian authorities—not just politicians, even diplomatic functionaries? Is there a new mistrust on all sides? What exactly is going on in Canada and the UK, two countries that host the Sikh community’s busiest hubs outside India?
The ban came, like a fort’s gates clanging shut, in December 2017, when the management committees of 14 gurudwaras in Canada issued a terse statement: “Pursuant to the Trespass to Property Act (1990), the management of these gurudwaras reserves the right to bar entry to officials of the Indian government, including but not limited to Indian elected officials, Indian consular officials and members of organisations who seek to undermine the Sikh nation and Sikh institutions.” The word ‘nation’, of course, floats ambivalently between the old sense of community and the more modern meaning.
Soon, similar declarations followed in the UK—forming a rather unprecedented chain of events. Apparently, these firmans formalise a soft ban that was already in place. Hardliners mince no words, saying it’s meant to prevent Indian mission officials from “running pro-India and anti-Khalistan propagaNDA”. That speaks of a much higher level of ideological hardening—and counter-engagement—than may have been suspected by common Indians. Even so, a ban is more of a statement, since no one could have addressed a gathering at gurudwaras without permission from the management anyway. And it’s a delicate line: despite the ban, an Indian official in the UK paid a personal visit to a gurudwara, which has not been barred.
What set off this new drawing of borders, if you like? One immediate provocation was the November arrest, in Punjab, of Glasgow-based Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal (Jaggi), who had come down for his wedding in October. Police suspect him of involvement with a series of political murders over the past two years, including of RSS/right-wing figures, but talk of Jaggi being implicated in a false case and custodial torture soon spread among the diaspora. Some UK gurudwaras protested the arrest: as British media kept up a sharp focus, even premier Theresa May had to mention it.
The first physical ban was in Melbourne where a Sikh stopped an Indian mission official from entering a gurudwara to protest Jaggi’s arrest. Then came the ban in Canada, followed by a similar ban by 96 gurudwaras in the US, which also extended it to members of the Shiv Sena and the RSS. The ‘Free Jaggi Now’ campaign is truly global.
Not all these voices are radical or secessionist—many Sikh rights groups openly disavow extremism—but it’s part of the spectrum, and a growing part. What lies behind this resurgence of Khalistani politics? Several factors. At one level, deep anger over the thwarted justice for the 1984 pogrom blends with the radical charter that predated it. Canadian politics, where migrant Sikhs are now major players, offers a hospitable space to cultivate this hard dissent towards India. If one end of it articulates genuine human rights issues, at the other there’s a whole ecology built around Khalistani politics and activism; indeed, an economy too. The UK differs perhaps only in the concentrated pitch of voices. Into this mire come accusations that Indian officials are into spying and manipulation of events in gurudwaras.
This offshore radicalism is also organically linked, and bleeds right back, to the narrative unfolding in Punjab. An extreme, religion-tinged language is never too far away from mainstream politics in the state—and this sector of opinion links back to Canada and the UK. Since the mid-1990s, when militancy faded out here, the public sentiment backing it also largely petered out. Strands simmered in the fundamentalist corners of panthic politics, occasionally manifesting itself—such as in incidents targeting the many Dalit religious and cultist movements. The recent killings too fall into these shadow zones. Some non-violent activist groups such as the Dal Khalsa have officially aligned with Kashmiri separatists in common demands for a referendum on self-determination.
In India, news of the ban was received with dismay. It’s being read as coming out of a view that equates Indian officials with Hindutva footsoldiers: an unfortunate collapsing of categories because the Indian State, while it has security concerns that are real and as valid as any other country’s, flows from a secular constitutional code. But its rejection is fairly pointed: the Canadian ban was declared on a day when gurudwaras were observing the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s assassins. Though, to be sure, some other gurudwaras have started to question the ban, saying places of worship are not meant for politics.
Yet, Khalistani separatism is no covert creed: its activists operate both underground and “overground”. Jaggi’s website neverforget84.com, an online database, is a regular haunt for sympathisers. It has no direct espousal of violence—only history, protest songs/poetry, writing on Sikh issues—but it’s coloured by Khalistani themes and a section describes slain militants as “Khalistan shaheeds” (martyrs). The roster features fallen members of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan, Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), Sikh Students Federation and ISYF, Khalistan Liberation Army and so on—many of them proscribed terrorist organisations.
Such online exhortations for solidarity also help create sentiment in favour of families of the slain extremists and those in jail, serving sentences or awaiting trial. Hardliners in gurudwaras routinely pass around donation boxes to raise money for their “welfare”. That’s the benign end; the keener edge moves below the radar. Its GPS map has to be inferred from piecemeal lines.
Sources in the police claim Jaggi was linked to Gursharanbir Singh, an alleged BKI member, and the two had met in France in 2014 shortly after the arrest of KLF chief Harminder Singh ‘Mintoo’ in Delhi. Gursharanbir regarded Mintoo’s arrest as a loss and decided to become more active in India. He is believed to have planned many of the recent attacks. Jaggi’s family and lawyers vehemently deny he had any direct or indirect links to terror activities.
Anyway, hardliners soon decided Jaggi’s arrest was a result of Indians spying on Khalistani sympathisers at offshore gurudwaras. Neutral observers believe RAW spooks do keep a watch on activities in these zones because of the extremist presence, but linking that to Jaggi’s arrest may be flawed reasoning. Punjab Police seems to have relied on traditional policing, ploughing its trail through arrests and interrogations. The police do not, as yet, think Jaggi was a “mastermind”, but are keenly following the spoor. A vital element that links the stories, with usual ingredients like handlers in Pakistan, is also money.
The old terrorism was fuelled differently—an ex-RAW man calls it a “simpler” matter of Afghan drug money funding the guns, logistics and livelihoods. Now, police tracking the flow of funds into Punjab’s radical circles trace it back to small donations in gurudwaras abroad, raised during regular cultural events: martial arts displays, kabaddi, wrestling, turban-tying competitions et al.
“Radicals have taken over most gurudwaras in Canada, the US and the UK, and organise events where the themes of Khalistan and persecution of Sikhs in 1984 are a running refrain,” says a senior police officer. The “cultural glorification of slain terrorists as martyrs in films and songs” is routine, he says.
The funds thus raised, he adds, go into supporting the families of those arrested in Punjab for terror activities—covering their education needs, livelihood and legal costs. “This is indirect support for terror. We have had some bank accounts seized and the NIA has filed an FIR against the Sikh Organisation for Prisoner’s Welfare (SOPW),” says the officer.
The taint hardly touches all Sikh support organisations: some are purely humanitarian, and play straight. The officer cites the globally active Khalsa Aid. Its separate wing for Punjab (Focus Punjab) did not kick off because it eliminated middlemen who made a cut, the cop says. “Khalsa Aid provides material help, not cash. It directly engages contractors to build/renovate houses, pay school fees…. Since it does not give cash doles that enable a payout to brokers, they didn’t find much popularity here,” he adds.
The more targeted donations flow in through charities, often evading mandatory FCRA clearances by using direct bank transfers. The UK-based Sikh Relief, for instance, runs a programme called the SOPW, which is currently under an NIA probe. Parminder Singh Amloh, who runs SOPW’s Punjab wing, has been summoned thrice to the NIA HQ in Delhi. A former stuntman, he was arrested in 2008 under the Arms Act for carrying bullets meant for Gurmeet Ram Rahim—he spent four years in jail.
In 2013, a former prison inmate introduced Parminder to UK citizen Balbir Singh Bains, who launched the UK-based Sikh Relief and SOPW. They have never met each other, Parminder discloses to Outlook. Both Parminder and Bains choose the beneficiaries.
Including Jaggi? “We help those who approach us and verify who really needs help,” says Parminder. “The NIA is yet to close the FIR. It should go and talk to Bains in the UK to clear things up.”
At the bare minimum, SOPW Punjab is caught in a regulatory tangle. “We applied for registration and were told categorically there were ‘instructions from upstairs’ that it would not be permitted. There’s no option but to approach the High Court,” says Parminder. And he has a clean line to offer. During his time in jail, he claims, drug-runners offered him work as a mule or peddler, but he declined.
Canadian Politics and Separatism
The Sikh rise in Canadian politics has been fairly visible over the years. It’s a rainbow-hued presence: Ujjal Dosanjh, as outspokenly moderate as they come, rose to be a provincial premier. But now, more striking than the four faces in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, is the newly ascendant Jagmeet Singh of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP). The first non-white figure to head a federal party, Jagmeet is a man of sharp politics: he was the one who proposed the motion to declare 1984 a “genocide”. But not just that.
The motion is yet to succeed federally; its big moment came in April 2017 when the Ontario legislature adopted it. But clouding the moment was its celebration at a gurudwara where photos of Talwinder Singh Parmar, mastermind of the 1985 Kanishka bombing, adorned the walls as a “martyr”. If there was any doubt, Jagmeet has maintained a studied silence whenever asked to condemn Parmar. Context: the NDP lost 59 seats in the 2015 federal elections and fell to third place nationally. The Sikh population, less than two per cent of Canada’s total but with significant concentrations across constituencies, is a real factor.
Canada has not played straight with its stand on terror, particularly in the context of the Kanishka case (see V. Balachandran’s column). It has made some token gestures like proscribing some Khalistani terror organisations. (ISYF chief Lakhbir Singh Rode, for one, had to shift from Canada to Lahore, where he runs a meat business.) This forms a delicate, controversial background ahead of Trudeau’s visit to India this month, which will include a stop at the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, often the target of ire at ‘cultural’ events in Canada’s gurudwaras, takes a no-nonsense stand (see interview) against both Sikh radicals and politicians soft to them. He has not minced words in reproaching Canadian ministers publicly—last year, he even called Canada’s defence minister, Harjit Singh Sajjan, a Khalistani sympathiser and announced on TV that he would avoid Sajjan on his India visit.
Sajjan, for his part, said Canada would help with crackdowns on any terror outfit based on real intelligence inputs and assist in evidence-based probes. That statement is set to be tested. Punjab Police have found links between two terror modules busted in 2017 and four Sikhs currently in Canada—Gurjit Singh Cheema, Sulinder Singh, Gurjinder Singh in Ontario and Gurpreet Singh in Vancouver—all wanted in connection with a May 2017 FIR lodged in Amritsar.
Article 25 Revisited
In a way, Canada only shows a mirror to Punjab’s own old-new politics, where mainstream patronage to radicalism waxes and wanes with the season. In January, ex-deputy CM Sukhbir Badal reprised the demand for amending Article 25—the one that says any “reference to Hindus shall be construed as including” a reference to Sikhs. In 1984, his father Parkash Singh Badal had first burned a copy of the document. Why now, after 34 years? Last year’s assembly poll, of course. The Akalis were ejected from power and clipped to 15 seats in a 117-strong house. Why not when Badal Sr was CM three times, a full 15 years? No answer. Even now, Sukhbir’s wife, Harsimrat Kaur, is a Union minister, sworn to protect the Constitution.
If that’s the mainstream, harder positions can be inferred. This is a zone where local and global blends seamlessly. There is, for instance, the Referendum 2020 demand, now backed by the Dal Khalsa, for the political and religious “self-determination of Sikhs”. (The year 2020 marks the centenary of the historic referendum of 1920, when Sikhs voted to eject Brahmin priests who controlled the Nankana Sahib gurudwara.) The referendum was first mooted in 2014 by the secessionist Sikhs for Justice (SFJ). The NY-headquartered advocacy group had presented its petition to the then Canadian PM Stephen Harper, asking him to share it with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, during his 2015 Canada visit. As the 2020 campaign picks up heat, five SFJ men (including its legal advisor from NY, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun) have been charged in Punjab for sedition.
Earlier, the SFJ has filed a complaint in Canada against Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. It also filed a suit in the US to proscribe the RSS for its alleged bid to convert India into a homogenous Hindu country, based on the ‘ghar wapasi’ campaign. Hindutva is seen with hostility by Sikh groups as an ideology partial to treating Sikhism as a sect of Hinduism.
Bullets Flying
It didn’t take long for ideological arguments to start flowing from the muzzle of the gun. The first incidents were in Ludhiana—a firing at an RSS shakha in January 2016, and an attempt to gun down Shiva Sena leader Amit Arora. Then came the killings: of Durga Das Gupta (Shiv Sena) in Khanna, Brigadier (retd) Jagdish Gagneja (state vice-president, RSS), Amit Sharma (preacher, Hindu Takht), Satpal Kumar and Ramesh Kumar (Dera Sacha Sauda followers), Sultan Masih (Christian pastor) and Ravinder Gosain (RSS functionary). In all, there were eight incidents in 22 months.
The CBI is probing Gagneja’s murder; the other seven cases have been handed over to the NIA. Punjab Police, says a source, would have found it tough to deal with authorities in other countries. Especially in the case of KLF operational head Harmeet Singh ‘PhD’, believed to be the handler of the two arrested suspects, Ramandeep and Hardeep ‘Shera’. PhD was a research scholar in Guru Nanak Dev University in 2008 when he skipped across the border to Lahore after getting mired in a drugs and arms smuggling racket in Amritsar.
Police zeroed in on Ramandeep after 40-odd arrests, and thence to the mysterious Shera: a muscular, six-foot-tall, Italian-speaking youth, who had a lion tattooed across his chest. For the killings, Ramandeep rode a mobike, while Shera rode pillion and shot at the targets. Yet the two were apparently never in direct contact. Shera would be merely picked up or dropped off at locations specified by PhD, via encrypted smartphone apps like Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram. Since Ramandeep had no details on Shera, it took a laborious manhunt (including across various gyms) before the shooter was nabbed on November 10, 2017.
It’s into this scenario that Jaggi Johal had walked in. “In April 2017, Jaggi was here to get engaged, but we weren’t aware of his activities,” says Dinkar Gupta, D-G (Intelligence), Punjab Police. “Information about his role in funding the procurement of weapons from J&K for terror activities in Punjab had been confirmed by Taljit Singh ‘Jimmy’ in October-November 2017.” Arrested after being deported from Coventry, Jimmy told the police Jaggi had allegedly passed on 1,000 pounds for the guns. That led to Jaggi’s arrest in late October, just days after his wedding, while he was out shopping with his wife in a mall. His family and lawyer deny such links and say he’s being targeted only because of his advocacy for Sikh rights.
The police put in some hard yards on the probe—first mistakenly treating it as pure crimes. But then they worked outwards—through the shadowy area of operational overlap between criminal gangs and radical groups—till they hit upon what they say are disturbing signs for Punjab. They speak of fresh recruits lying low in sleeper cells and eight new modules busted with the 45 arrests.
Meanwhile, according to Amritsar-based social scientist Harish Puri, “an SFJ video asking gangsters in Punjab to support separatism has gone viral”.
The resurgence of extremist violence has caught many by surprise. Outright Sikh radical politics had long been in hibernation in Punjab, showing up only occasionally, say in attacks on religious leaders around a decade ago or the 2009 killing of Rulde Singh, then chief of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, the Sikh wing of the RSS. Militancy had fizzled out by the mid-1990s though a powerful sentiment lingered in the minds of Sikhs, harking back to the army’s storming of the Golden Temple and the massacre of thousands in 1984.
Panthic orthodoxy, which has a Jat Sikh core to it, was also at loggerheads with many cults that emerged from the subaltern castes. Baba Bhaniarewala, for example, created a separate cult and even attracted politicians looking for Dalit votes in the early 2000s. His cult published an alternative text of the Sikhs’ holy book, with photos of him in Guru Gobind Singh’s attire. Angry reactions from all sections of Khalsa Sikhs—clergy, laity, an Akali regime—followed. Hardliner outfits carried out unsuccessful assassination attempts on the godman.
After 2007, the pattern repeated with Gurmeet Ram Rahim, and amid the sectarian heat, radical groups such as the KCF and the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) made their presence felt with assassination attempts. The 2009 attack in Vienna by the KZF on the Ravidassia saints, Ramanand Dass and Niranjan Dass, which led to the death of the former, also eventually saw the Ravidassia order declaring themselves separate from the Sikhs.
With an aggressive Hindutva on one flank and rebellious ranks among its subaltern castes, the Sikhs have reasons to be anxious. Then there’s the history—the original issues, Blue Star, and yes, the memory of a pogrom. The Indian State has done little to restore the community’s faith in the justice delivery system. The maple syrup is exacerbating the wounds.
Japan awaits Trudeau!
Originally Posted by Double Edge
For the benefit of all why don't you just come out and tell us ?
When was that photo taken, any ideas
He tried to be on the good side of the khalistani crowd but they dispatched him.
The elite Sikh class may not approve of Khalistan but the average lower and middle class Sikhs actually support the idea, sometimes just simply as a "form of protest".
The state of Punjab is not doing well. It currently ranks in the bottom ten.
Rank / State / Tax Revenues (INR Billions)
01 Maharashtra 4518
02 Andhra Pradesh and Telangana 3234
03 Tamilnadu 3149
04 Karnataka 2831
05 Delhi 2526
06 Gujarat 1796
07 Uttar Pradesh 1699
08 Rajasthan 1507
09 Kerala 1382
10 Haryana 1363
11 Madhya Pradesh 1272
12 West Bengal 1180
13 Chhattisgarh 724
14 Jharkhand 707
15 Odisha 662
16 Bihar 370
17 Jammu and Kashmir 346
18 Assam 322
19 Uttarakhand 322
20 Himachal Pradesh 274
21 Goa 233
22 Tripura 47.25
23 Meghalaya 45.92
24 Arunachal Pradesh 27.11
25 Punjab 269.85
26 Nagaland 17.76
27 Mizoram 15.47
28 Sikkim 15.68
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...y_tax_revenues
It may get worst
Last edited by anil; 25 Feb 18, at 14:20.
Originally Posted by Oracle
Expect it will go smoother than India or China
With no formal trade talks, Trudeau leaves international trade minister in Beijing | CBC | Dec 05 2017
The sticking points appear to be Canada's insistence that labour and gender rights be part of any deal.
Trudeau Leaves China Empty-Handed | Bloomberg | Dec 08 2017
Canada wants to fight populism by pushing progressive policies
But PM’s ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach fell flat in Beijing
Trudeau’s visit reveals an impasse globally between some of the biggest economies. The U.S. is championing protectionism, Japan is struggling to get its flagship deal past Canada, China is balking at “progressive” demands and Theresa May is occupied by Brexit. Canada had been something of a bridge -- pursuing the TPP and completing an EU trade deal all while trying to talk Trump off the ledge to save Nafta -- and now is doubling down on a new brand of trade that, so far, few others are buying.
China in December
India in Feb
Japan next month
He's had a busy quarter
Originally Posted by anil
Fine, as long as they keep it peaceful
2020 is when Canada goes to the polls next i suppose. If that 'New Democrat' party wins, with this Jagmeet guy then we're going to be in for a rocky time
It means there are unemployed and easy to manipulate from abroad
Last edited by Double Edge; 25 Feb 18, at 15:13.
Who says Trudeau didn't get a hug
Wife shaking hands
We do not 'faire la bise' in India just yet
At Rashtrapati Bhavan
The economy is not exactly the issue. It is a byproduct.
They have the same disease as their neighbour. Let's call it "culture".
Just like their neighbours, if they can't get what they want, they're willing to put it all to flames
I see some similarities at the separatist level but Punjab isn't as bad. That means things can improve faster. It wasn't like this in the past and i'm wondering when the downfall began. Was it downhill only from the 80s or did it begin after.
And by neighbour I take it you mean Kashmir & Pakistan
What i would like to see is the Sikh diaspora helping their native state instead of misleading youth. These people are immensely successful and can contribute a great deal. There is a reason you never see Sikhs begging on the streets
First of all, Khalistan is a dead issue. Whatever antics, whoever tries, wherever they might be, will have no significant impact on the territorial integrity of India. Now, how is the money flowing into India from the Gurudwaras abroad, unchecked? India needs to send a note to diplomats abroad to take this issue up with personnel of respective countries, that they should investigate, and let the law take its course. Sternly.
If we look at the drug problem in Punjab (the state is rotting with drug abuse), there is a direct link with Pakistan. India needs to focus on Punjab first. Investigate, arrest and jail the collaborators of this menace. Help the victims recover. Subsequently focus on the hawala links of the drug money and cut it off. Nothing can survive in vacuum. Authorities need to turn the tap off of funds. And expose Paks role in drug trade/ currency counterfeiting on the global stage. Wouldn't be any hard an issue, since they already are in the greylist of #FATF.
Did Canada’s obstruction of meet between radical Sikh groups and Ram Madhav in 2016 sour ties with India?
Failed November 2016 talks between radical Sikh groups and BJP leader Ram Madhav may not have been the only trigger. But it was among several incidents, key interlocutors involved in negotiations said, which contributed to the trust deficit between India and Canada.
Did the obstruction by Canadian authorities of a crucial meeting between radical Sikh groups and an interlocutor and senior BJP leader Ram Madhav in 2016 contribute to the frosty reception accorded to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his visit to India?
People familiar with the matter believe it may have been one event, and a very significant one, in a long list of incidents that have affected relations between the two countries.
In November 2016, Madhav travelled to Canada for a meeting with Sikh groups that had been arranged by UK-based Jasdev Singh Rai of the Sikh Human Rights Group. The plan was for Rai to travel from the UK to join Madhav in Toronto as the Sikh representatives were unwilling to hold talks in Rai’s absence.
Rai, a British citizen who had travelled to Canada at least 25 times and had kept the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the loop about his contacts with the Sikh groups, put in a request for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to Canada on November 17, 2016, thinking it would be a mere formality.
However, the ETA clearance – usually done within 24 hours – never came and Rai was unable to join Madhav in Canada, two people familiar with the developments said.
Madhav, who had earlier participated in similar talks with UK-based Sikh groups (also organised by Rai) and had plans to discuss the terms of a dialogue with Canada-based Sikh groups, was angered after he was left cooling his heels in Toronto, one of the two added on condition of anonymity.
In Rai’s absence, the key Sikh groups refused to join the talks and Madhav could only meet two representatives, Ranjit Singh and Parminder Singh, before he left Canada for the US after about 24 hours, this person added.
The second person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified, confirmed this turn of events.
Rai, currently in Geneva for meetings at the UN, on Wednesday accused the Canadian government of “sabotaging” the Indian government’s efforts to engage Sikh separatists in a dialogue. He said Canadian authorities had formally told him about his ETA being denied on “security grounds” only on January 27, 2017 – more than two months after he had applied for it.
“Trudeau should stop pretending that he is defending freedom of expression of Khalistanis and come clean that his government has obstructed the peace dialogue process between the Modi Government and Sikh separatists,” Rai said.
The second person familiar with the matter said Indian authorities had learnt that Rai had been denied a visa after pro-Khalistan groups lobbied Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan, a key member of Trudeau’s cabinet. Sajjan is understood to have played a part in blocking the visa, and India was not happy.
Both people maintained that Trudeau may not have been aware of all the details of the matter as he had been “misled” on the activities of the Sikh radical groups by Indian-origin members of his cabinet, particularly Sajjan and innovation, science and economic development minister Navdeep Bains, both Sikhs.
The Canadian prime minister’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Keeping the Khalistan issue alive in Canada helps some Indian-origin ministers get votes and this is crucial because Canada is set to go to the polls in 2019. Also, keeping this issue alive makes it appear to the constituents that these politicians are doing something on the matter,” said the first person.
Besides the scuppering of the planned talks with the Sikh groups, the case of Jagtar Singh alias Jaggi Johal has created tensions between Indian and Canadian security agencies. Johal, a British national who was arrested in Jalandhar in Punjab on November 4, has been linked to the targeted killing of eight people, including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Shiv Sena members, over the past two years.
Indian security agencies believe radical Sikh groups in Vancouver and Toronto were among the main financiers of Johal. However, other people familiar with the matter said Indian security agencies had received virtually no cooperation from their Canadian counterparts in investigating the sources of funding.
India raised the issue of stopping the funding from the Sikh groups during several recent meetings with Canada’s top security officials and agencies but is yet to see any action being taken on the ground, a third person said.
India’s efforts to reach out to Sikh separatists began before Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the UK in 2015, when the political dispensation in New Delhi decided it was important to “neutralise Khalistani propaganda”.
One way to do this was to reach out to UK-based Sikh groups directly and the BJP’s influential general secretary Madhav went to meet community leaders.
Given his role in organising community events during Modi’s visits to foreign capitals and his close interest in foreign policy and security affairs, Madhav was seen as a natural pick. Rai played a key role in facilitating the meetings in the UK. The effort paid dividends; some 30 Sikh representatives briefly met Modi and others later held talks with home minister Rajnath Singh. New Delhi also removed many leaders from a “blacklist” that prevented several overseas Sikhs, once active in the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) and the Khalistan movement, from visiting the country.
Following this success, it was decided that a similar effort should be made to reach out to Sikh groups in Canada. Rai went to Canada in March-April 2016 and managed to persuade leaders of the main Khalistani groups of the benefit of a dialogue, the first and the second person said.
The outreach happened with the knowledge and sanction of the Indian government but the denial of a visa to Rai stalled the process, they added.
The failed November 2016 talks may not have been the only trigger. But it was among several incidents, key interlocutors involved in negotiations said, which contributed to the trust deficit between the two governments.
Much has already been made of the cold welcome accorded to Trudeau when he arrived in India on February 17 for an eight day visit, only half-a-day of which has been set aside for official engagements, including a meeting with Modi.
Commentators in India and Canada have noted that Modi did not personally receive Trudeau at the airport, an honour he reserves for leaders of such statute, or posted a welcome tweet. Other aspects of Trudeau’s visit so far too have been very low key.
Why Justin Trudeau’s India tour turned out to be a diplomatic disaster
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has built a reputation as an ardent defender of progressive values, a global leader who is open, tolerant, liberal and colourful — well, at least his socks are colourful.
Trudeau is a self-styled feminist who takes political correctness to new heights, as was the case when he recently interrupted a young woman and instructed her to use the term “peoplekind” rather than mankind.
In Canada, many have grown sceptical of the prime minister’s antics. His popularity is on the decline at home: he just returned from a cross-Canada speaking tour that went anything but well. While explaining why his government was fighting a veterans’ group over pension payments, Trudeau told a wounded war hero that Canadian veterans were asking for more money than his government was willing to give. This left a sting given that Trudeau’s government awarded convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist Omar Khadr $10.5 million without going to court.
Next, Trudeau was asked why his government was welcoming members of IS back into Canada. Trudeau’s tone-deaf response was to equate IS terrorists with other waves of immigration to Canada, including Europeans who fled Nazi Germany during World War II. Canadians weren’t pleased. And scepticism towards Trudeau’s naive arrogance continues to mount.
Trudeau is treated differently, however, while travelling on the world stage. He’s enjoyed favourable media coverage and his long tour of India was supposed to be a fresh opportunity to capitalise on his international popularity. But, as we all know, Trudeau’s time in India has instead been a diplomatic disaster. So, what went wrong? In a word, narcissism — paired with superficiality and poor judgement.
The Canadian prime minister’s success to date can be traced more to his talents as a performance artist than to an understanding of statecraft, economics, or diplomacy. When posing in a costume, he is at his best. But without a scripted narrative to follow, he lacks the depth and the sophistication to grasp when the show has gone on too long.
The trip started off on a disappointing note, as the Trudeau delegation was received at the airport by a minister of state, not even a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet. International and local observers speculated that Trudeau was being snubbed, given the cold shoulder, over unscrupulous ties between his Liberal Party and Khalistani separatists and extremists.
Too Little, Too Late? The Liberals have a long history of votebank politics, pandering to illiberal groups in exchange for votes. Trudeau has further aligned his party with the powerful World Sikh Organisation; he has appointed several of its supporters to highranking government positions.
Trudeau’s partisan pandering went so far as attending a Khalsa Day parade in Toronto in 2017, where he gave a speech and was photographed in front of the yellow-andblue Khalistan separatist flag. Trudeau’s predecessor Stephen Harper refused to attend this event, and for good reason. These events feature militant Khalistani parade floats, posters and shrines dedicated to terrorists, and speakers calling for a violent upheaval in India. Trudeau’s poor judgement in attending this event was catching up with him in India.
Things turned markedly worse for Trudeau when news broke in Canada, led by my own investigation for the Toronto Sun, that Trudeau’s entourage included a convicted assassin and former Sikh terrorist.
After going to great length to convince Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh that his government did not associate with radicals, we learned that one such radical was part of his own entourage in India.
Jaspal Atwal was convicted of attempted murder in Canada in 1987 after he attempted to assassinate a visiting Punjabi cabinet minister, Malkiat Singh Sidhu, on Vancouver Island. At the time, Atwal was a member of the International Sikh Youth Federation — a terrorist group now banned in Canada.
The Trudeau government tried to distance itself from Atwal, saying it was all a “mistake”, blaming a backbench MP, and insisting the invitation had been rescinded. Too little, too late, said some observers.
Atwal was already in India, his official invitation to a state dinner was circulating on social media, and he had already been photographed with top Liberal officials and Trudeau’s wife Sophie.
The Trudeau government’s explanation was further refuted when more photos surfaced of Atwal with Trudeau himself, one at a 2015 Liberal Party campaign event in Vancouver, and another that appears to have been taken before Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party. Atwal is a longtime Liberal supporter and activist, he’s a former donor to the party and a former Liberal board member for the electoral district in Surrey, British Columbia. Atwal’s ties to the Liberals run deep, and there is no excuse for Trudeau’s continued relationship with a convicted criminal and former member of a terrorist organisation.
Trudeau’s time in India was criticised for its lack of official business, not to mention the excessive photo-ops and insensitive overuse of Indian clothing. To add insult to injury for Canadians, his tax-payer funded tour looked more like another lavish family vacation — including his own celebrity chef flown in from Vancouver — than a diplomatic bilateral meeting. But these criticisms pale in comparison to serious catastrophe of not only associating with a convicted terrorist assassin, but bringing him to India alongside his official delegation.
Many questions remain unanswered, including how Atwal received a visa and why the Prime Minister’s Office failed to vet the official invitation list. Trudeau will have plenty of explaining to do once he arrives back in Canada. Many Canadians, meanwhile, are deeply embarrassed and ashamed of Trudeau’s behaviour in India.
A grassroots petition has been launched for Canadians to show their support for a united India and apologise on behalf of our clueless prime minister.
Candice Malcolm is a journalist with the Toronto Sun and author of Losing True North: Justin Trudeau’s Assault on Canadian Citizenship Views are Personal
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The part about meeting Indian business leaders is correct though. The entire room would think they could play this idiot for the fool he is and that he will sell Canada out if they just put him on a poster.
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Facebook Pushes Back its Release of its ‘Clear History’ Tool yet Again
April 12, 2019 April 11, 2019 Ashley Lipman Facebook, Facebook Clear History tool, social media
Facebook has delayed its previously announced ‘Clear History’ feature, originally scheduled for release sometime last year…
During its annual F8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement. He revealed a new option called “Clear History,” which would give users the power to delete their account histories.
Facebook Clear History Tool Delayed again by the Social Network
The Facebook Clear History tool was supposed to go live last year. Then, it was delayed until “spring 2019.” Now, it’s been pushed back again, to the fall of this year, according to VP of Integrity Guy Rosen.
Rosen explains, “We’re working to reengineer our systems, and how we process that data so that we can do it right. That’s why it’s taking more time than anticipated.”
What’s curious is the time it’s taking to debut the feature, given its initial release schedule.
Currently, Facebook users can only delete their search histories. But, a more robust tool, like the one announced would do a whole lot more.
Just this week, Facebook also announced its latest plan to step-up its efforts in purging “problematic content.”
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Kingsbarns Distillery Wemyss Exclusives
Saturday was the rarest of days in Scotland; a glorious scorching summer occasion. This enticed us to jump into the #tormore4mobile and head around the Fife coast. The hub of St Andrews was a car no-go zone due to the hustle and bustle of events congregating over the weekend. Seeking a new destination for a bite to eat, relaxing atmosphere and a wee dram, we headed a couple of miles south towards the village of Kingsbarns and its distillery.
By coincidence I had just been sent two new distillery exclusives from Wemyss malts from Bunnahabhain and Glenrothes. These single cask editions are only available from Kingsbarns distillery and form part of the overall visitor experience.
Kingsbarns own whisky isn't available yet, as the maturing spirit is only a year and a half old as I write this article. This means its still only halfway through its maturation slumber before it can be bottled and legally called whisky. Even then we may have to wait until Wemyss is satisfied its the right time to be released. As seen in my recent Wolfburn single malt whisky review, bottling at the right moment is critical, as well as avoiding cask enhancement. When the time comes from Kingsbarns debut, I envisage a pure Lowland ex-bourbon cask whisky that showcases its true character.
For now you'll have to entertain yourself with the promise of the Kingsbarns new make spirit. Visitors to Kingsbarns also have a stable of Wemyss whiskies to experience and the excellent café offers an assortment of drams if you fancy a nip from the distillery shop selection. These include a well textured Aultmore and a fruit bomb Auchentoshan. Sitting outside the distillery, enjoying the sun, tasty food, good company and a handful of tasty whiskies is surely the way to spend an afternoon.
In the shop itself the star attractions are the single cask exclusives only available at this location and not via online retailers or other Wemyss distribution channels. My current favourite is the 1997 Smouldering Hickory from Bunnahabhain, which will sell out soon. Perhaps one of these new exclusives will topple the champ? There's only one way to find out...
East Neuk Dunes 1990 Bunnahabhain
bottled in 2016, 267 bottles, £139.95, 46% vol from a hogshead
Colour: lime juice cordial
Nose: a seaweed salty arrival with a minty freshness. Fresh bark, buttery popcorn and vanilla essence. Sandpaper and a hint of smoke in the distance.
Taste: rock salt carries right through the experience into the finish. Wet woodland foliage, aerosol cream topping a dirtier vanilla presence. Water adds new thrust to the salt aspect with the smoke arriving and beach sand.
Overall: a solid example of a Bunnahabhain, but still not a contender for the Smouldering Hickory that's still available at Kingsbarns and is half the price.
Lime Tea Infusion 1997 Glenrothes
bottled 2016, 337 bottles, £84.95, 46% vol from a hogshead
Colour: silver needle white tea
Nose: a bizarre character on display with wet Tweed, peppermint tea and that faint lime influence. Talc powder, icing sugar and wood shavings.
Taste: light and very refreshing with a pine needle and resin-like quality. A pristine texture with a used matchbox, white pepper, sugar cubes, white grapes and vanilla crème.
Overall: it's the oddity in the pack and as such one I enjoyed an evening with. Would I want to repeat every day? Probably not, but whiskies such as this provide entertainment and education on my ongoing Whisky Rover journey. Thanks goodness for the variety single cask bottlings provide us with.
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Acres and Acres
Director: Dan Kowalski
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Patient 001
A young-wife desperate to give her beloved comatose and dying husband a child considers her only option: cloning. Giving birth to a son fulfills her dream of having a family. But the arrival of the baby awakens a supernatural presence unleashing unexpected results. The family must make an impossible choice and live with a secret forever. (DCIFF)
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T cells and hypertension
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Is hypertension an autoimmune disease?
Jordan S. Pober
Department of Immunobiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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DC isoketal-modified proteins activate T cells and promote hypertension
Annet Kirabo, … , Jackson Roberts II, David G. Harrison
Oxidative damage and inflammation are both implicated in the genesis of hypertension; however, the mechanisms by which these stimuli promote hypertension are not fully understood. Here, we have described a pathway in which hypertensive stimuli promote dendritic cell (DC) activation of T cells, ultimately leading to hypertension. Using multiple murine models of hypertension, we determined that proteins oxidatively modified by highly reactive γ-ketoaldehydes (isoketals) are formed in hypertension and accumulate in DCs. Isoketal accumulation was associated with DC production of IL-6, IL-1β, and IL-23 and an increase in costimulatory proteins CD80 and CD86. These activated DCs promoted T cell, particularly CD8+ T cell, proliferation; production of IFN-γ and IL-17A; and hypertension. Moreover, isoketal scavengers prevented these hypertension-associated events. Plasma F2-isoprostanes, which are formed in concert with isoketals, were found to be elevated in humans with treated hypertension and were markedly elevated in patients with resistant hypertension. Isoketal-modified proteins were also markedly elevated in circulating monocytes and DCs from humans with hypertension. Our data reveal that hypertension activates DCs, in large part by promoting the formation of isoketals, and suggest that reducing isoketals has potential as a treatment strategy for this disease.
Annet Kirabo, Vanessa Fontana, Ana P.C. de Faria, Roxana Loperena, Cristi L. Galindo, Jing Wu, Alfiya T. Bikineyeva, Sergey Dikalov, Liang Xiao, Wei Chen, Mohamed A. Saleh, Daniel W. Trott, Hana A. Itani, Antony Vinh, Venkataraman Amarnath, Kalyani Amarnath, Tomasz J. Guzik, Kenneth E. Bernstein, Xiao Z. Shen, Yu Shyr, Sheau-chiann Chen, Raymond L. Mernaugh, Cheryl L. Laffer, Fernando Elijovich, Sean S. Davies, Heitor Moreno, Meena S. Madhur, Jackson Roberts II, David G. Harrison
T cells are required for significant blood pressure elevation in mouse models of hypertension. Recent evidence suggests that the treatments that raise blood pressure in these animal models also cause oxidation within DCs, resulting in formation of isoketal adducts of self-proteins, which activate antigen-presenting functions of these cells and serve as a source of modified self-antigens. T cells specific for these modified self-antigens then produce cytokines that promote blood pressure elevation, consistent with the idea that hypertension is an autoimmune response to altered self. Here, I will review the new evidence for this idea put forth by Kirabo and colleagues in this issue of the JCI, identify a number of as yet unanswered questions, and discuss some of the therapeutic implications.
Hypertension is the major modifiable risk factor for death in individuals with cardiovascular disease (1); however, this complication cannot be controlled in 8% to 12% of patients (2). Therapies based on new pathogenetic insights into the development of hypertension could have significant clinical value. One possibility is that hypertension is a form of autoimmunity (3). David Harrison and coworkers first showed in 2007 an unanticipated role for T cells in two common models of hypertension in mice (4). Specifically, treatment either with angiotensin II or with deoxycorticosterone acetate plus NaCl (DOCA-salt) barely elevated blood pressure in RAG1-deficient mice, which lack T and B lymphocytes compared with WT mice; however, adoptive transfer of syngeneic T cells in RAG1-deficient animals restored treatment-induced blood pressure elevation. The initial Harrison study linked increased blood pressure to T cell production of TNF-α, and subsequent work revealed that T cell–derived IL-17A is also required to sustain hypertension in animals (5). IL-17A targets vascular smooth muscle cells (5–7), but it is not clear whether this results in hypertension. IL-17A–mediated injury to the kidney is an alternative mechanism for the development of hypertension. Angiotensin II can increase cytokine production by T cells but only when the T cells are first activated by cross-linking the T cell receptor (TCR) for antigen with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (4), a widely used experimental surrogate for antigen recognition. If T cells are actually activated by recognition of a specific antigen in hypertensive animals, what might this antigen be? The study by Kirabo et al. in this issue of the JCI now suggests an answer (8).
To put the findings of Kirabo and colleagues into context, it is important to consider how T cells respond to antigen. Each naive T cell (i.e., one that has emerged following thymic development but has not yet encountered a specific antigen) expresses a structurally unique TCR that differs from every other TCR and is specific for a small number of closely related short peptides in a noncovalent complex with one of a number of highly polymorphic membrane proteins encoded by genes within the MHC. During thymic maturation, the repertoire of developing T cells is purged to eliminate both T cells that cannot recognize peptides from self-proteins bound to self-MHC and T cells that recognize peptides derived from self-proteins with high affinity. This maturation process leaves only the T cells that react poorly to self-peptides but can recognize with higher affinity peptides derived from nonself-proteins, typically those from invading microbes that bind to self-MHC (9). However, naive T cells that recognize structurally modified peptides derived from self-proteins are not eliminated. For example, some individuals possess T cells that recognize self-peptides in which arginine residues have been enzymatically modified to citrulline and are then displayed by the allelic forms of a specific class II MHC molecule (HLA-DR4). This recognition of modified self can result in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (10), explaining why there is a much stronger risk for developing RA in individuals who have inherited an HLA-DR4 allele. In general, a link to specific MHC alleles is a common feature of autoimmunity (11).
To initiate a T cell response, naive T cells must receive three distinct signals: specific antigen (the peptide bound to the MHC molecule that is recognized by its TCR); one or more antigen-independent boosters (costimulators) of T cell responses (such as CD80 or CD86, which engage CD28 on the T cell); and secreted cytokines that promote T cell expansion and differentiation (12). Specialized antigen-presenting cells, known as DCs, provide all three signals, but DCs must first be activated in order to elicit a response from naive T cells (13). DC-activating signals include molecules expressed by microbes, such as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), or molecules released from injured cells, known as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Both PAMPs and DAMPs function to localize DC activation to sites of infection or tissue injury, at which DCs acquire antigens prior to migrating to secondary lymphoid organs, in which the antigen is presented to naive T cells that express a relevant TCR. Antigen-activated T cells proliferate, producing a clone of daughter cells specific for the relevant antigen, and these differentiate into effector cells of various types. While there are very few naive T cells that can recognize a particular antigen, proliferation creates many effector cells that can do so. If the eliciting antigen is eliminated, most effector cells die off, but some become long-lived memory cells that can rapidly redifferentiate into new effector cells if the same antigen reappears, such as occurs during reinfection or in response to primary infection following vaccination. This expanded pool of memory T cells is the basis of immunological memory (14).
This background provides context for the current findings of Kirabo and colleagues. First, infusion of angiotensin II or DOCA-salt to produce hypertension generated ROS in DCs through phagocyte oxidase. Importantly, it is the mediators of hypertension, not hypertension per se, that stimulates ROS production, as normalizing blood pressure with hydralazine did not prevent ROS formation. Second, ROS in DCs caused lipid oxidation, resulting in formation of isoketal adducts of various self-proteins. These isoketal-modified proteins were detectable by immunostaining, and the specific scavenger 2-hydroxybenzylamine prevented their formation. Third, isoketal-modified proteins behaved like DAMPs, activating DCs to upregulate MHC molecules, costimulators CD80 and CD86, and cytokines IL-1, IL-6, and IL-23, all of which was preventable by 2-hydroxybenzylamine. It should be noted that Kirabo and colleagues found that isoketal adducts unexpectedly reduce rather than activate the ability of DCs to present a model antigen, an unexplained observation. Fourth, DCs pulsed with isoketal-modified self-proteins were able to activate in vitro proliferation and cytokine production of memory T cells from hypertensive but not control animals. Finally, transfer of isoketal-activated DCs raised blood pressure in WT animals that have T cells but not in those lacking them. Cumulatively, the findings of Kirabo and colleagues (8) suggest that peptides derived from isoketal adducts of proteins behave as modified self-antigens, activating naive T cells to become IL-17A–producing effector cells. Thus, hypertension, like RA, may be an autoimmune disease to modified self.
While the report by Kirabo et al. greatly advances the understanding of how hypertension-inducing stimuli may activate T cells to produce IL-17A, several questions remain unanswered. First, what type(s) of DCs are relevant for initiating this T cell response? This issue is complicated, as monocytes, macrophages, and DCs are heterogeneous and plastic, and their relationship to each other is disputed (15). Still, this question could be addressed by separation of activated DCs prior to adoptive transfer. Second, which DC receptors recognize isoketal adducts as DAMPs? Most (if not all) of the relevant receptors for PAMPs and DAMPs are known, and mice are available in which these receptors and their adaptor molecules have been knocked out; therefore, this question should be readily addressable. Third, what is the actual antigen recognized by the activated T cells? Not all citrullinated peptides activate T cells of patients with RA. This issue may be approached by isolating peptides from the MHC molecules on activated DCs and/or by testing synthetic isoketal-modified peptides. Fourth, do these observations in mouse models apply to hypertensive humans? Kirabo et al. found that circulating myeloid cells in hypertensive individuals (both controlled and uncontrolled) have measurable levels of isoketal protein adducts, which are not present in normotensive individuals. Fifth, are these myeloid cells activated to present antigens, and do hypertensive individuals have circulating memory T cells that are responsive to isoketal-modified proteins or peptides? Finally, if human hypertension is an autoimmune disease, is there a link to a specific MHC allele? Remarkably, although the MHC was not identified in initial GWAS of hypertension, the most recent GWAS report noted an association between hypertension and the HLA-DQB1 allele; however, this must be independently validated (16). Future studies should be able to test the hypothesis that antigen-presenting cells expressing HLA-DQB1 may be especially effective at presenting isoketal peptide adducts to T cells that share this allele.
The most important implications of the study by Kirabo and colleagues relate to the possibility of potential therapies for hypertension. If the isoketal-stimulated adaptive immune response contributes to human hypertension, could targeting this pathway reduce the blood pressure of patients refractory to current antihypertensive drug therapies? Antioxidants have failed to provide clinical benefit in heart disease (17), but this may reflect the fact that ROS mediate both beneficial and pathological effects. The mouse data presented by Kirabo et al. suggest that a specific scavenger of isoketals could be protective without interfering with beneficial ROS functions. While global immunosuppression may be far too high a price to pay for reducing blood pressure, observational studies of blood pressure in patients on immunosuppression therapy for other reasons may be highly informative. Specific IL-17A or IL-17 receptor blockades with monoclonal antibodies have shown positive effects in clinical trials for psoriasis (18). Some of these patients were undoubtedly hypertensive, and the effects of inhibition of IL-17A and IL-17 on blood pressure could be examined. Interestingly, high dietary salt intake, which increases sodium ion concentration in the interstitium of the secondary lymphoid organs without increasing plasma concentration, favors the differentiation of autoreactive IL-17A–producing T cells (19). Thus, salt restriction, already recommended for hypertensive patients for hemodynamic effects, may also be an effective immunomodulatory strategy. Finally, tolerogenic therapies for autoimmunity (20), such as stimulating regulatory T cells with self-antigen plus low-dose IL-2, appear to be on the horizon. Now that we have candidate antigens, perhaps this is an approach that could be safely translated to patients with refractory hypertension.
J.S. Pober is supported by a grant from the NIH (HL051014).
Conflict of interest: The author receives research grant support from AbbVie and Alexion.
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Movie Analysis: The film Doubt
The film Doubt is a 2008 Academy Award winning film including stars Amy Adams, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and Viola Davis. Set in 1964, when the culture tides are changing quickly in America, conflict arises in a small Catholic school in the Bronx, New York. Various relationships are challenged, morals and values are tested, and conviction and certainty are swaying in the wind.
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You will find a list of questions below to answer in regard to the film. I am looking for you to answer the questions thoroughly but be careful not to stray away from the question. Stay within the boundaries of each question. I would like for you to organize this paper just as I have below, by numbering your responses (but do not include the questions). If there are numerous questions, or sections of the questions, make it as organized and as easy to read and follow as possible. This is definitely a portion of your grade. Each question will earn up to 10 points. The follow up paragraph (instructions at the bottom of the page) will earn up to 50 points.
1) At the beginning of the course and addressed in Chapter 1 of Wilmot and Hocker it is explained that perception plays a major role in any conflict scenario. We know that our perception is constructed by our experiences, which shape our expectations about “how the world is supposed to be. For these particular characters share with me some insight into what your thoughts are on why these characters are who they are based on the above elements.
Father Flynn
Sister Aloysius
Mrs. Miller (Donald’s mother)
Sister James
2) Assessing these same characters, using your text, suggest what type of conflict style each of these characters seems to exhibit most frequently (Chapter 5, Hocker and Wilmot). Explain in detail using specific examples from the film to express how you came to this conclusion. Within each of these conflicts you will discuss, identify the interests and goals of the parties involved (Chapter 3, Hocker and Wilmot).
3) Chapter 2 of Wilmot and Hocker addresses culture as a factor in creating conflict. Talk about some of the examples of the cultural setting of the movie and how some of the scenarios might play out differently in our current culture. Do stereotypes play a role? Do assumptions play a role? What are some gender differences you see throughout the film?
4) Doubt writer/director John Patrick Shanley recently said, “We are living in an age of extreme advocacy, of confrontation, of judgment and verdict. Discussion has given way to debate. Communication has become a contest of wills. Public talking has become obnoxious and insincere. Why? It’s because deep down under the chatter, we have come to a place where we don’t know anything. But nobody’s willing to say that.”
Elaborate on this statement. What are your thoughts? What examples can you provide where you have seen this manifest?
5) Chapter 3 of Wilmot and Hocker covers positions versus interests. Since you understand the difference, who do you see in this film holding on to positions versus interests? When have you held a position in an argument past the point of comfort? Provide some examples. If you don’t feel you have any examples to share, or your answer is “I haven’t”, then talk about why you think you’ve managed to avoid this scenario up to this point. Is there something you KNOW you would absolutely hold your position on? What is it and why are you so convicted of it?
6) Upon her accusations that Father Flynn has engaged in questionable behavior with Donald, the altar boy, this exchange occurs: Father Brendan Flynn: “You haven’t the slightest proof of anything!”
Sister Aloysius Beauvier: “But I have my certainty! And armed with that, I will go to your last parish, and the one before that if necessary. I’ll find a parent.”
This exchange is one of the most intense of the film. When is certainty without proof enough? What is proof? Why do you think Sister Aloysius is so certain? Is certainty proof, or is certainty ammunition to find proof?
7) Chapter 4 Wilmot and Hocker of addresses the role of POWER in conflict. Discuss the types of power (or lack of power) that each of the main characters seems to hold.
8) Sister Aloysius is convicted to her beliefs and “how the world is supposed to be”, leaving little wiggle room for progress (as some would perceive it). For instance, she did not stand for the girls “dolling up” with barrettes in their hair, or ball point pens, or introducing secular music such as Frosty the Snowman into the Christmas Pageant. At what point do you stand on your own convictions versus “relaxing a little” in order to fit more with the world around you? What is a specific example you can share?
9) Emotions seemed to rule the conflict scenarios in this film, and emotions begin to complicate the communication efforts of the characters. Chapter 6 of Wilmot and Hocker discusses emotion in conflict; specifically reference the section on page 193, principles of emotion in conflict. There are six principles listed here, each example appearing numerous times throughout the film. Provide at least one example of each of the principles that appear throughout the film.
10) At the end of the movie Sister Aloysius says to Sister James “I have doubts. I have such doubts.” The entire film Sister Aloysius acts on her certainty. What do you think she means by this at the end?
**Those are all the questions I have specifically designed for you. I would like for you to now include any personal thoughts, questions, or insight that you have left for discussion. What are your final thoughts? (Please include a 500-word response that doesn’t simply rehash the questions above. 500 words is about a page double spaced.)
Here are some ideas of things to answer:
Do you think Father Flynn is guilty or innocent?
How do you think your experiences affected your perspective of the movie and its characters? I’m curious to see how positions might differ in considering a mother’s perspective, a man’s perspective, an African American’s perspective, a Catholic perspective, a teacher’s perspective, and so on.
This entire assignment should turn out to be about 5 pages in length. Anything shorter than that (by a great margin) will significantly reduce your grade.
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Research restrictions/suggestions: The respondents have differed profiles regarding age/years of experience, rank level and the businesses that they work in. These outcomes may not be generalizable to all workers in different associations in various businesses and geographic zones. Likewise, an expansive level of reactions have been gathered through the web which isn't an altogether precise and solid type of information accumulation. Viable ramifications: The exploration discoveries are relied upon to help the current associations in people in general and private area to make sense of purposes behind diminishing occupation fulfillment of the workers and devise approaches to enhance the view of authoritative help. Creativity/esteem: This paper contemplates the distinction in the connections displayed between Perceived hierarchical help, work trust and occupation fulfillment in the private and open area in the Indian setting. This is one of the primary endeavors towards concentrate the business parts on a similar premise. Catchphrases: Seen Organizational Support, Job Trust, Job Satisfaction, Public Sector, Private Sector Presentation: Employment Satisfaction is a measure of how content an individual is with his activity. Many models have been created keeping in mind the end goal to clarify circumstances and end results of occupation fulfillment, for instance, influence hypothesis, dispositional hypothesis, two factor hypothesis and the activity qualities show. For a considerable length of time specialists have been attempting to build up relationship among different parameters influencing the activity fulfillment, work responsibility, work devotion and occupation execution of the representatives in the associations. This is especially vital for associations with a specific end goal to enhance working conditions, make sense of the rousing components and accordingly increment representative profitability by making a sound workplace. Occupation Satisfaction is a marker of worker observations and emotions about their employments. It can likewise anticipate work practices like authoritative citizenship,absenteeismandturnover.Another imperative and pertinent research finding is the connection between life fulfillment and occupation fulfillment which is observed to be corresponding. It implies that a man who is happy with his activity might be very happy with his life and the other way around. Occupation fulfillment is accepted to decidedly influence the profitability of the worker which is indispensable to specialty units that are meaning to expand yields. Seen hierarchical help is typically thought to be a dynamic connection between the business and his workers. As per Rhoades and Eisenberger(2002) the partners share a corresponding relationship where higher POS is connected with earnest endeavors put in by the worker to accomplish hierarchical objectives. Research discoveries recommend that expert representatives will probably see higher authoritative help when they emphatically related to their working environment and a positive relationship was seen between work execution and POS (Heckman et al., 2009). Our exploration goes for dissecting the connection between saw hierarchical help and occupation fulfillment. Put stock in goes about as a go between in our model. Seen authoritative help is how much representatives trust that their association esteems their commitments and thinks about their prosperity. Trust is to trust the individual who you trust to do what you expect and work fulfillment portrays how content an individual is with his or her activity. This exploration endeavors to think about and build up connections between the develops for people in general and private division workers in India. There are different standard scales accessible to quantify every one of these parameters. In this investigation we have for the most part utilized the abbreviated rendition of the scales. Research foundation and Hypothesis Seen Organizational Support: The idea of hierarchical help has created enough enthusiasm for request to contemplate its effect on execution of the workers. The discernment a representative creates about his/her association esteeming his commitments and thinking about his interests and prosperity is named as Perceived Organizational Support (POS)(Eisenberger and Rhoades,2002). A meta-investigation has shown that three noteworthy classifications of desires that a representative has from his work association are related with POS. They are fairness of systems, support of the prompt unrivaled and execution related prizes and great employment conditions. Considering the businesses' desires from their representatives, they esteem commitment and dependability. Feeling driven perspective of hierarchical duty underlines that the feeling of solidarity felt by the representative and the qualities that he imparts to the association decide the execution and non-appearance levels, likelihood of leaving his place of employment (Mathieu and Zajac, 1990;Meyer and Allen, 1997; Mowday, Porter, and Steers, 1982). Social Exchange scholars express that work is a give and take relationship of commitment and reliability for substantial prizes and social advantages (e.g., Bateman and Organ, 1983; Brief and Motowidlo, 1986). The predecessors of POS and its results are clarified by the hierarchical help hypothesis which (Eisenberger, Huntington, Hutchison, and Sowa, 1986). This hypothesis accept that to decide association's availability to compensate representative endeavors and meet their socio enthusiastic requirements, worker shapes general convictions about the worry appeared and expected in future by his association towards him. POS is likewise viewed as an affirmation of the help that will be accessible to the representative in the midst of pain (cf. George, Reed, Ballard, Colin, and Fielding, 1993). Moves made by the operators of the association are illustrative of its goal and are not individual thought processes. The exemplification of the association is upheld by its good and lawful duties, culture, standards and approaches. Representatives frame discernments in light of the above pointers about the help they get from their work association (Levinson, 1965). This hypothesis additionally expresses that POS ought to build up some sort of a commitment in the representative to perform for the association and help achieve its destinations. The part acumen of representatives is accepted to rely upon the exercises that the association sees as important for effective employment execution (Porter and Lawler, 1968). Execution is required to increment with higher endeavors put in by the worker and the observation that such productive endeavors will be compensated (Campbell, Dunnette, Lawler, and Weick, 1970; Katz, 1964). >
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Report: Ronaldinho to play for Peru side
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Report: Ronaldinho to play June matches for Peruvian side
Barcelona and Brazil legend Ronaldinho is set to play two exhibition games for Peru second-tier side Cienciano in June, according to the club's administrator.
The 36-year-old former Barcelona and AC Milan star has been without a contract since he played nine matches for Fluminense between July and September of 2015 after leaving Liga MX side Queretaro.
He was reported to be near a new deal with the Brazilian side, but his brother and agent, Roberto Assis, last week said the former two-time FIFA World Player of the Year now is only considering MLS or China.
Ronaldinho recently played in a special one-off game for Ecuadorian top-flight side Barcelona in a money-spinning friendly against San Martin and is reported to have agreed to play another for fifth-division Las Vegas City (United Premier Soccer League) against Miami United (National Premier Soccer League) in June.
Cienciano published a short video on their official Facebook page featuring Ronaldinho and telling fans that he will soon wear the red shirt: "I'm going to wear the shirt.. soon we are going to be together."
Ronaldinho se pone la camiseta y Tú? pic.twitter.com/1sTR9RbuG5
- ADFP Club Cienciano (@ADFPCienciano) April 3, 2016
"It is in our plans to have Ronaldinho present for an event that will take place in June," Ludena told El Comercio newspaper. "But we have confirmed that he will play for Cienciano."
Ronaldinho won two La Liga titles and the Champions League while playing for Barcelona.
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Home Euro Clubs Arsenal bound to Europa League
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Premier League – matchday 35: Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
Arsenal dropped points to Tottenham in the London derby and now sit 17 points behind its rivals. At currently the 6th place in the League, Arsenal will likely play in the second tier of European’s clubs competition leaving the group of Europe’s best clubs. It was meant to be this season, with another and undisputed defeat against title contenders Tottenham Hotspur, the Gunners seemed outpaced and outclassed.
Arsenal has five games left in the League to clinch an unlikely Champions League ticket for next season and a Cup Final at Wembley against Chelsea to win a trophy and save another disappointing season. Can they do it? Find out and play your odds for the season final run at latestbettingsites.co.uk to crown Chelsea, Tottenham or Arsenal closing out the season on a trophy!
Over the course of the season and in particular in the last few weeks, Arsenal has lost all flavors and taste in its football. With Manchester United you have the two major dissatisfactions in the Premier League of the season while a club like Tottenham has been better year after year under Pochettino’s coaching and still fighting with Chelsea for the title [4 points between the two teams].
Coach Arsenal Wenger was very critical and commented:
“The points are the points. They do not come from heaven, you earn them on the pitch. That’s it. We have to fight. We have a cup final, we have still a chance to get into the top four and we have to recover from today and prepare for our next games”.
His opponent Pochettino reacted to the win and the chances for Tottenham with 4 games left:
“Together we have achieved finishing above Arsenal for the first time in 22 years, together we are second in the Premier League and still in the title race and that is most important for me.
I’m so proud because I’m here and fighting for this Club. The important thing is every time we play this season, we’re going to enjoy, and we enjoy playing football and enjoy playing together. That is a fantastic feeling. The players didn’t know about the result between Chelsea and Everton. I knew, I was watching. The important thing was they were free and they went out to play and enjoy the game.”
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Chosen Family, Chosen Name, Separatist, Safe Space, Expat, Invert, Homophile, Homestead
This work’s title is an assemblage of diverse strategies and terms that LGBT and other marginalized people have used over generations to mark the labor of making and naming home. Scaffolding operates here as a material metaphor for social constructions broadly. Cordial glasses further call to mind shared spaces where people come together to socialize. Ribboned text from the laser-cut marquetry bar top pronounces “We Must Take Ecstasy,” citing the conclusion of queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz’s nal book Cruising Utopia, in which the operative word is “Take” and the obligation of the communal “We” is to actively construct for ourselves a commitment to ecstatic experience as a tool to work towards a utopic future.
laser marquetry, poplar bar rail, plywood, lumber, scaffold, cordial glasses, velvet dress, velvet stanchions, 54”h x 42”w x 120”l
Battering Ram for Sylvia, for Marsha, for Stormé
This work, named for three trans elders present at the historic Stonewall Riots, reimagines components of that evening, including the iconically ever-present disco ball, and the ripped from the sidewalk parking meter that was subsequently used as a battering ram, into a yet more mobile and powerful instrument for access.
parking meter, mirror ball, steel, lumber, hardware
Ready-to-hand
The sculptor's tool for modeling, topped by a feminine/ effeminately raised pinky finger, offers a transportable model for labor and subjectivity.
cast bronze, steel, plywood
Our response to the colonizer who makes us live on the periphery or not at all
Five pairs of index and middle fingers point to the activism and penetrating analysis of archival structures by women who built and sustain the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Cast in iron from their fingers, these proxy library ladder brackets slide salaciously along a rail whose dimensions are unfixed. A quote from archives co-founder Joan Nestle is recast as the work’s title, further describing the archives politics around preserving access to lesbian history as a survival tactic, while drawing attention to the way that the work’s occupation of peripheral space in the gallery also encircles and frames the purportedly neutral white cube. Our response echoes the ladder and my permanent installation Archivist Fingers sited at the LHA in Brooklyn.
cast iron, steel, 2x4s
“You know it pisses you off, because like today, everything is so open and accepted and equal. Women, everyone goes to where they wear slacks, and I could just kick myself in the ass, because of all the opportunities I had that I had to let go because of my way. That if I was able to dress the way I wanted and everything like that I, Christ, I’d have it made, really. Makes you sick. And you look at the young people today that are gay and they’re financially well-off, they got tremendous jobs, something that we couldn’t take advantage of, couldn’t have it. It leaves you with a lot of bitterness too. I don’t go around to the gay bars much any more. It’s not jealousy, it’s bitterness. And I see these young people, doesn’t matter which way they go, whatever the mood suits them, got tremendous jobs, and you just look at them, you know, they’re happy kids, no problems. You say ‘God damn it, why couldn’t I have that?’ And you actually get bitter, you don’t even want to know them. I don’t anyway. ‘Cause I don’t want to hear about it, don’t tell me your success. Like we were talking about archives, you know where mine is, scratched on a shit-house wall, that’s where it is. And all the dives in Buffalo that are still standing with my name. That’s it, that’s all I got to show.” Kennedy, Elizabeth L., and Madeline D. Davis. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. Penguin Books, New York, 1994.
Ribboned text excerpted from an English translation of Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body scrolls across a series of panels whose scale and installation follow the conventions of urinal dividers. Reading Wittig’s text requires an enmeshed viewer to adopt a sidewards-glancing stare, condensing gender imperatives associated with cruising, and conjuring desirous looking. Laser-marquetry operates as a variation of wood-carving common to dive bathrooms, paying homage to Sandy, the title’s narrator, whose concept of a rhizomatic archive is generated out of resilience and refusal.
laser marquetry, fir rail, plywood, hardware
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Is Amry shade available in Yamaha FZS V2 Fi?
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Yamaha FZS version 2.0 is available in Matt Green shade, which was earlier called as the Battle Green shade on the version 1.0. The bike comes with impressive graphics like combination of Matt Black and Green, with Yellow decal on its body panels. The engine on the FZS is a 149 cc, 1-cylinder fuel injected motor, producing 12.9 BHP and 12.8 NM of torque. The motor has been refined and returns a mileage of 45 kmpl. The bike comes with 267 mm hydraulic disc brake at the front and a drum brake for the rear. The wide tyres have always been its pride and the Matt Green shade sells for INR 82,659 making it 1,000 over the other shades.
Quick Facts – Yamaha FZS Fi V2.0 Matt Green Edition
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Yes, they have recently launched it as special edition. I am buying the same one so can confirm it.
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RCWs > Dispositions > Title 29A > Chapter 29A.20
Chapter 29A.20.181 RCW Dispositions
QUALIFICATIONS, TERMS, AND REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTIVE OFFICES
29A.20.010 Preservation of declarations of candidacy.
[2003 c 111 § 501; 1965 c 9 § 29.27.090. Prior: 1921 c 178 § 1, part; 1915 c 11 § 1, part; 1907 c 130 § 1, part; 1889 p 402 § 7, part; Code 1881 § 3067, part; 1865 p 30 § 1, part; RRS § 5171, part. Formerly RCW 29.27.090.]
Recodified as RCW 29A.24.072 pursuant to 2013 c 11 § 93.
29A.20.020 Qualifications for filing, appearance on ballot.
[2004 c 266 § 11; 2003 c 111 § 502; 1999 c 298 § 9; 1993 c 317 § 10; 1991 c 178 § 1. Formerly RCW 29.15.025, 29.18.021.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
[2013 c 11 § 25; 2004 c 271 § 153.]
29A.20.030 Local officers, beginning of terms — Organization of district boards of directors.
[2003 c 111 § 503; 1979 ex.s. c 126 § 14; 1965 c 123 § 6; 1965 c 9 § 29.13.050. Prior: 1963 c 200 § 8; 1959 c 86 § 1; prior: 1951 c 257 § 6. (i) 1949 c 161 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 5146-1. (ii) 1949 c 163 § 1; 1921 c 61 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 5146. Formerly RCW 29.13.050.]
29A.20.040 Local elected officials, commencement of term of office — Purpose.
[2003 c 111 § 504; 1999 c 298 § 3; 1980 c 35 § 7; 1979 ex.s. c 126 § 1. Formerly RCW 29.04.170.]
29A.20.110 Definitions — "Convention" and "election jurisdiction."
[2003 c 111 § 505; 1977 ex.s. c 329 § 1; 1965 c 9 § 29.24.010. Prior: 1955 c 102 § 2; prior: 1937 c 94 § 2, part; RRS § 5168, part. Formerly RCW 29.24.010.]
29A.20.120 Nomination by convention or write-in — Dates — Special filing period.
[2003 c 111 § 506. Prior: 2001 c 30 § 2; 1989 c 215 § 2; 1977 ex.s. c 329 § 2; 1965 c 9 § 29.24.020; prior: 1955 c 102 § 3; prior: (i) 1937 c 94 § 1; RRS § 5167. (ii) 1937 c 94 § 4; RRS § 5170. (iii) 1937 c 94 § 10; RRS § 5170-6. (iv) 1907 c 209 § 26, part; RRS § 5203, part. Formerly RCW 29.24.020.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
[2013 c 11 § 27; 2006 c 344 § 4; 2004 c 271 § 110.]
29A.20.130 Convention — Notice.
[2003 c 111 § 507. Prior: 1989 c 215 § 1. Formerly RCW 29.24.025.]
[2004 c 271 § 189.]
29A.20.140 Convention — Requirements for validity.
[2003 c 111 § 508. Prior: 1989 c 215 § 3; 1977 ex.s. c 329 § 3; 1965 c 9 § 29.24.030; prior: 1955 c 102 § 4; prior: (i) 1937 c 94 § 2, part; RRS § 5168, part. (ii) 1937 c 94 § 3; RRS § 5169. Formerly RCW 29.24.030.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
29A.20.150 Nominating petition — Requirements.
[2003 c 111 § 509. Prior: 2001 c 64 § 1; 2001 c 30 § 3; 1989 c 215 § 5. Formerly RCW 29.24.035.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
29A.20.160 Certificate of nomination — Requisites.
[2003 c 111 § 510; 1989 c 215 § 4; 1977 ex.s. c 329 § 4; 1965 c 9 § 29.24.040. Prior: 1955 c 102 § 5; prior: 1937 c 94 § 5, part; RRS § 5170-1, part. Formerly RCW 29.24.040.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
29A.20.170 Multiple certificates of nomination.
[2003 c 111 § 511. Prior: 2001 c 30 § 4. Formerly RCW 29.24.045.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
29A.20.180 Presidential electors — Selection at convention.
[2003 c 111 § 512. Prior: 1989 c 215 § 6. Formerly RCW 29.24.055.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
29A.20.190 Certificate of nomination — Checking signatures — Appeal of determination.
[2003 c 111 § 513. Prior: 1989 c 215 § 7; 1977 ex.s. c 329 § 6; 1965 c 9 § 29.24.060; prior: 1937 c 94 § 6; RRS § 5170-2. Formerly RCW 29.24.060.] Repealed by 2004 c 271 § 193.
29A.20.200 Declarations of candidacy required, exceptions — Payment of fees.
[2003 c 111 § 514; 1990 c 59 § 103; 1989 c 215 § 8; 1977 ex.s. c 329 § 7; 1965 c 9 § 29.24.070. Prior: 1955 c 102 § 7; prior: (i) 1937 c 94 § 7, part; RRS § 5170-3, part. (ii) 1907 c 209 § 26, part; RRS § 5203, part. Formerly RCW 29.24.070.]
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Topic: Tiger Williams charged by MP's.
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CBH99
Re: Tiger Williams charged by MP's.
Quote from: Towards_the_gap on February 20, 2018, 14:35:39
I made much the same point on FB. 12 years between Brit and Canuck armies, and during that time, not once during any number of overseas deployment did the appearance of some C-list, past-their-prime, trotting out offering up lame jokes and the random cheerleader squad courtesy of the USO, improve my morale one iota.
These 'team canada' jaunts seem more to be self-aggrandising back-slapping on both parts, the leadership getting away from their desks and the random 'celebrities' for whom the red carpet is rolled out for.
Pte. Bloggins just wants new mukluks and better Wi-Fi at his location.
And cheerleaders. If we could get some new cheerleaders at our locations, that would be good too. *sigh* But better wifi to substitute for cheerleaders works too... *louder sigh*
Fortune Favours the Bold...and the Smart.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some Boondock Saints kicking around?
This is the story I saw on this.
Peeing in the seats? Military eyes air force alcohol ban after troubled VIP trip
OTTAWA—It was meant as a pre-Christmas morale booster, a trip by sports stars and senior military personnel to visit Canadian soldiers deployed overseas.
But the troubles started even before the military Airbus aircraft got off the ground in Ottawa when several of the passengers showed up for the 1 p.m. departure appeared to have already been drinking.
It went downhill from there.
By the time the jet arrived in Athens more than eight hours later, there was an allegation of assault against a former Maples Leafs star and complaints of drunken, boorish behaviour by others, including two people so drunk they wet themselves in their seats.
As the fallout of the ill-fated December tour continues to ripple, the military has cancelled plans for a March morale visit and is reviewing its policies for alcohol consumption onboard military aircraft.
Past goodwill tours have included entertainers, athletes and media figures who donate their time to visit soldiers overseas. But this most recent tour has left military brass shaking their heads. Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of defence staff, is said to be “extremely unhappy.”
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” one astonished defence official told the Star.
The Star has spoken to several defence department officials about what unfolded on the trip. They asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information and an ongoing internal investigation by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
One of the stars on this tour was Dave “Tiger” Williams, a former Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer and a regular participant on these goodwill visits. The military has refused to identify who else travelled with the contingent.
The trips are organized by the Strategic Outreach Team, which reports to Vance’s office. Vance has gone on these Team Canada trips in the past but skipped this one because of a scheduling conflict.
Two senior personnel went in his place — Lt.-Gen. Alain Parent, the vice chief of defence staff, and Chief Warrant Officer Kevin West, the most senior non-commissioned member of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Military flights usually have strict policies regarding the consumption of alcohol. But those rules are relaxed when civilians are carried onboard. On Team Canada flights, a small amount of alcohol is provided by the military and participants are also allowed to bring their own for consumption during the trip, which often involves lengthy overseas flights.
That was the case for this most recent tour, which departed Ottawa on Dec. 2, headed first to Athens, Greece to meet up with the crew of the frigate HMCS Charlottetown, then on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.
But several members of the tour who showed up for the mid-day departure had already been drinking, one source familiar with events told the Star.
“They showed up with their own alcohol and they were already inebriated,” the source said.
Once airborne, there was a “bit of a party going on,” the source said, with yet more drinking by a small group gathered at the back of the cabin.
One passenger invited a female steward to “sit on his lap,” the source said.
Another passenger tried to wrap his arm around a female steward. “They were grabbed like they were in a bar,” the source said, making the woman feel “uncomfortable.”
Two passengers were so intoxicated that they urinated in their seats. And yet another is alleged to have sworn at a steward.
It was during this flight to Athens — not the later leg to Latvia, contrary to earlier information provided by the military — that Williams is alleged to have assaulted a female steward. His lawyer, Michael Lacy, said in an earlier statement, that military police allege that Williams touched the victim on the buttocks.
Following their troop visit in Greece, the goodwill tour continued to Riga, Latvia — that flight too had a “lot of partying,” the source said.
While the alleged assault by Williams had been immediately reported to the first officer while the flight was still in the air to Greece, it wasn’t until after their arrival in Riga that the flight crew talked further about what had transpired and decided then to formally inform the chain of command. “It was not only unpleasant, it’s not okay. These women want a safe working environment,” the source said.
That delay partly explains why Williams was allowed to continue on the tour and participate in events in Latvia.
Once notified, commanders took steps to “distance the victim from the accused,” the military explained in an earlier statement. The victim and other female flight stewards all accepted an offer to return home on commercial flights.
“The bottom line is that we took care of the victim with respect and dignity, while dealing with the accused through a thorough and expedient police investigation,” the statement said.
Just over a week ago, the military police announced that Williams had been charged with one count of assault and one count of sexual assault.
“Tiger denies any wrongdoing and is confident he will be vindicated,” Lacy, the lawyer, said in his statement.
Over the past week, the military has been pressed to explain why Williams was allowed to continue on the tour even though the alleged misbehaviour occurred on the initial flight. And there have been questions about what, if anything, Parent and West knew about the activity on the plane. A senior source says they only became aware of the alleged assault later, after the tour was over.
In the wake of the charges and bad publicity, the military announced this week that it was reviewing its policy on serving alcohol onboard air force flights, whether to limit passengers to two drinks or eliminate it altogether.
“On this particular flight, like on commercial flights, alcohol was permitted and served to Team Canada guests — not aircrew,” defence department spokesperson Daniel Le Bouthillier said in an email.
“The intent behind this practice is to enable participants to enjoy a few beverages throughout the course of a long trip, not unlike a commercial flight,” he said.
“Much like passengers on civilian aircraft, participants on these trips are responsible for knowing their own limits, while air crew members are professionally trained to recognize sings of intoxication,” Le Bouthillier said.
The Royal Canadian Navy went through its own soul-searching about drinking onboard warships after several incidents of bad behaviour by sailors. The navy decided in 2014 to ban sailors from consuming alcohol while at sea.
Plans for future goodwill tours are also in limbo. A trip planned for March was already up in the air because of troubles rounding up entertainers and artists. It’s now been postponed and the military is weighing whether such trips are worth the effort and expense.
“Due to limited VIP availability, we have decided to postpone a previously scheduled visit for March to ensure the focus remains on providing deployed troops with a quality, relevant experience,” Le Bouthillier said.
He said that the Team Canada concept launched a dozen years ago to serve military personnel deployed in large numbers in Afghanistan is now under review.
“The morale of our deployed members is extremely important to the operational effectiveness of the Canadian Armed Forces, and Team Canada visits have been a unique way to show our appreciation for their personal sacrifices,” he said.
“We are also examining ways to enhance the program with the intent to always meet the needs of our people,” Le Bouthillier said.
Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions.
Towards_the_gap
'Just tell your wife, that she owes your life, to a muddy old engineer'
Quote from: Eye In The Sky on February 20, 2018, 16:46:08
Maybe a critical eye SHOULD be cast upon this program. I mean, what actual mission effects are enabled by Tiger Williams showing up on tour. Let's see some empirical evidence, hell, run a poll amongst deployed troops!
I mean, they are only away 6-8 months anyways, I could see the point back in the big war when guys spent 5-6 years overseas with the odd fling in London/Paris to relieve the monotony of training/frontline and mail took months to get back and forth. But now, with smartphones/wifi/satellite entertainment, the troops do just fine, sure the odd care package is nice but I really don't recall, as I sat behind a mud wall hearing AK rounds snap overhead, thinking 'damn, wish I could meet a retired NHL dude who I don't know right now, that would make this war so much more bearable'
To be fair not every, or even most deployments are like that now. They haven't been like that in a long time really.
I get the idea of wanting to do something to break up the monotony of a tour, but maybe the best answer isn't to send a flying party bus full of "stars" nobody has heard of. Maybe the better plan is to spend that money giving people a few days break in a close but safe location. I hear Germany is quite nice, not too far from Latvia either. The navy really doesn't require the same sort of break as most ports the crew get a day or two off ship to wind down and refresh themselves.
donaldk
Well the similar thread in the /r/CanadianForces group on a certain well known site sure implies these morale tours aren't well appreciated - however unless hell freezes over there isn't going to be an official gallop poll on this as that would be it's own fine PR disaster production. This topic over in that thread is practically a shooting galley with the blame finger pointed at the VCDS/CDS (frankly well deserved as their offices organized this crap show to begin with).
« Last Edit: February 21, 2018, 02:20:30 by donaldk »
Weinie
Sorry, but what is this certain "well known site" that you are talking about
"The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
- Admiral William Daniel Leahy (advising President Truman on the U.S. atom bomb project, 1945)
Quote from: Weinie on February 22, 2018, 14:45:59
PM inbound
Reddit; https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadianForces/
Hope is not a valid COA
Navy_Pete
Interesting to read the story after the constant messages down from the very top around OP Honour about looking out for each other, the bystander training, and the veiled threats of kicking people out that ignore something happening (alongside punishing the actual perpetrators).
Really helps their credibility and doesn't feed the existing cynicism.
Quote from: Navy_Pete on February 23, 2018, 15:06:35
Some stuff coming out about other guests on the plane, this only has one source but it is talking about Brian Burke also being intoxicated.
(Link removed)
Edit: not sure if it's satire or not but I'm hoping it is.
And there is video footage up now, oh boy!
« Last Edit: February 25, 2018, 03:41:32 by BeyondTheNow »
West coast best coast.
I get paid to travel. I just don't pick where.
Quote from: Humphrey Bogart on February 23, 2018, 15:25:27
Of *course* there is.
Philip II of Macedon to Spartans (346 BC): "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city."
Reply: "If."
LogOLife
Based on what I have heard from very reputable sources, Burke was supposed to be there and never showed up at the ship. Take from that what you will.
Quote from: Dimsum on February 23, 2018, 18:40:31
It's been removed from Facebook now. They had a sound system set up and were rocking out with a bunch of people up dancing and drinking. Looked like fun
Aside from the aircraft captain (who is responsible to a certain extent), the story I posted also indicated the VCDS and CF CWO were on board.
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Cambodia Landmine Museum, Siem Reap
Cambodia By Kelly Winder / 05-07-2015
Cambodia Landmine Museum
“The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. It is the perfect soldier.” — Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founding co-ordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Every now and again, an experience deeply moves you, and changes the way you think about life. The Cambodia Landmine Museum did that for me.
After visiting the Banteay Srey Butterfly Centre, located just 25 minutes from Siem Reap, we stopped into the landmine museum, which was closeby. What started with a few fun photos with some large defused bombs lining the entrance, ended in a very sombre and even sad journey into Cambodia’s history.
As soon as you enter the Cambodia Landmine Museum, to the right you can pick up a pair of headphones, so you can have a recorded tour, for free (highly recommended). On the left of the entrance, you’ll see the below whiteboard. It lists the needs of the centre, to help the young landmine victims and orphans they take care of. If you plan to visit, please take any of these things with you:
As you continue through the museum, you’ll see this big structure full of defused landmines on display. There are signs explaining the origin of the landmines, for example the US, Russia or Germany, as well as what specific purposes each landmine or weapon was used for.
To the left, there is a room which contains more displays of weapons, and facts about landmines.
Here we learned some interesting facts:
Anti-personnel mines first became extensively used during World War II
They were initially developed to protect anti-tank mines being removed by enemy soldiers
Mines were designed to maim and not kill, because it meant more resources were spent caring for wounded soldiers. They believed that a dead solider was cheaper and easier than an injured one
The use of landmines became pervasive. They were eventually used to terrorise communities and civilians, in order to deny access to farming land and to restrict movement
Marking and mapping landmines became increasingly difficult, especially as technology developed and mines were delivered via air
It’s believed to cost just $1 to make a mine. But locating one and destroying it can cost in excess of $1,000.
While many nations have stopped production and trade of mines, 13 countries continue — 9 of which are in Asia.
Probing by a skilled de-miner is the most effective way of detecting landmines:
It’s here where the images start pulling at your heartstrings, as you read about the realities of life for the affected Cambodian people. I don’t know any parent who wouldn’t be moved by this.
The next room contains more facts and the impacts of life for the Cambodia people.
It’s here we learned:
Cambodia has more than 45,000 landmine victims
Every month, there are 120 new victims
It costs $5 to purchase a mine, but $500+ to clear and destroy one
100-200 million mines are currently laid and activated around the world
52 countries are mined
Probably the most moving section for me was the room which presented the children’s experiences. Artwork hangs from the roof – painted square frames. On the inside, it represents their past and their experiences. On the outside, it represents their hopes and dreams for the future.
They were accompanied by stories which had me holding back tears.
Sot Vital’s story read:
“We were very young and didn’t know about the danger of mines as there were not so many in our area and our parents had not told us about this danger. My friends found a mine and picked it up because they thought it looked like a pineapple and wanted to play with it. I was quite a long way away from them, perhaps 20 metres. I didn’t know what they were playing with but a moment afterward the mine exploded. Pieces of mine hit my leg and I fell unconscious. When I woke up, I was in the hospital. My mother told me three of my friends had died and one lost her arm. When I heard about my friends dying I cried alot, and I cried even more because I lost my left leg.”
As a parent, I imagined my own children living with these distressing memories and experiences. Truly heart wrenching.
But, I don’t want to finish this piece on a sad note. The Cambodia Landmine Museum is doing such great work educating others, supporting victims and removing landmines from Cambodia. They have a display of non-live landmines, so people can see what an array of mines might look like, should you come across them.
An ex-child soldier, Aki Ra, is the museum’s founder. He had been suppressed into the Khmer Rouge army as a child. Following years of fighting, he courageously decided to return to the villages where he had planted thousands of mines. He began removing them by hand, before defusing them with homemade tools.
Aki Ra founded the Cambodia Landmine Museum in 1997 and currently spends around 25 days of each month removing landmines. It just goes to show you, just one person can make a massive difference to not only a community, but a whole country.
Visiting The Cambodia Landmine Museum
The Cambodia Landmine Museum is open from 7:30am to 5:30pm every day of the year. It’s 25 kilometres from town, and 7 kilometres south of the Banteay Srey temple. You do not need to pay for a temple pass to see the Cambodia Landmine Museum. You will go past a checkpoint, but you should not have to pay.
Entrance into the Cambodia Landmine Museum costs $5 USD for an adult, and children 12 or under are free.
Of the $5:
$1 goes towards efforts clearing landmines
$1 goes towards support programs in local villages
$3 is used to support the children who live at the museum, as well as paying the staff a fair salary
We paid $22 USD for a tuk tuk driver for half the day, to visit two locations.
You’re not allowed to visit the school or see the children, as the government has been shutting down orphanages for turning them into tourist attractions. But you can apply to volunteer at the museum and school, and you can also donate to the cause.
For more information, visit the Cambodia Landmine Museum website.
Kelly Winder
Kelly Winder is the creator of BellyBelly.com.au, a doula, writer and mother to three awesome children. Currently she's travelling the world for 12 months with her partner and three children, and hopes to inspire more families to do the same.
Kent Chau says:
Hi Kelly, awesome write up bout the landmine museum. Be they next week in Phnom Pen n Siem Reap. Hope have chance to go visit. Cheers fr Malaysia.
Kelly Winder says:
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment – you’ll love Cambodia 🙂
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Industry 4.0 vs Society 5.0
August 31, 2018 September 2, 2018 aziyati
The other day, we had a meeting with a Japanese counterpart on the mutual collaborations that we might be having for the next couple of years, we mentioned to him about adapting the approach of Industrial Revolution 4.0 into our work ethics and the applications that we might be able to benefit out of this era.
That Japanese man laughed hard. Left us puzzled. Did we say something wrong about it? Isn’t the Industry 4.0 as the thing right now? After a while, he gave us a reply that the Japanese weren’t keen about Industry 4.0 because they regard that as something to do with Germany’s work lifestyle. Not theirs. Left us feeling guilty of bringing up the topic. Left us to be much more careful as to what kind of approaches that we should discuss with them the next time.
After a week time, I have attended a workshop organised by a Japanese organisation which was also accompanied by another colleague. During our chit chatting time, she unintentionally mentioned about Industry 4.0 again to the Japanese representative with the expectation on how to move forward with practical project that we could plan. The Japanese counterpart wryly had to answer saying that, the Japanese are not in favour with the theme. They are actually having another revolution that they saw as better than the German’s Industry 4.0. That has made us rolling our eyes. She said, the Japanese are now looking forward towards realizing the revolution of Society 5.0.
Society 5.0! Well, at that point onwards, I began digging the scopes of this so-called Japanese Revolution.
(image source: http://analytics-magazine.org/industrie-4-0-analytics-everywhere/)
(image source: http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/society5_0/index.html)
As a matter of fact, the similarities that can be concluded from the two revolutions are:
Both have the themes of Internet-of-Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Smart Machines, Knowledge Management and Smart Web to represent their work connectivity.
Both emphasize on how people communicate with the machines and other people via the available Intelligent Machines.
Both have the strengths of doing multitasking via various kind of automated media and computational platforms.
Both are stressing on the work demand in this era as no more a single-job per man-hour, but always proceeded with another processes or as a medium to another procedures.
Both are stressing on the free movement of one process to another and less protocol needed to get the job done.
Both promote sustainability engineering in the midst of progressive materially-proned technology by ensuring the preservation of nature and ecology are still at their best.
On contrary, perhaps the differences that can be observed from these two ideologies are:
Industry 4.0 is emphasizing on how to let the job done. Where as the Society 5.0 is emphasizing on how to optimise the man-hour responsibility to get the job done.
Industry 4.0 is highlighting on the effectiveness of using the automated machines. Where as the Society 5.0 is highlighting on the effectiveness of optimising the knowledge worker with the help of the intelligent machines.
Industry 4.0 is about computerised communications by all means. Where as the Society 5.0 is meant for the harmonisation of work with the help of intelligent machines for the benefit of the workers.
Nonetheless, their similarities beat the differences that both are optimising the use of machines, networking and computational intelligence in their work ethics. What matter most, the eccentric values of the two revolutions are on the ways that those ideals are carried out and the work culture embedded by the people of Germany and the Japanese which have defined the pillars of their differences.
http://analytics-magazine.org/industrie-4-0-analytics-everywhere/
http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/society5_0/index.html
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mind-gap-industry-4-0-future-manufacturing-1665243
https://www.japan.go.jp/abenomics/_userdata/abenomics/pdf/society_5.0.pdf
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Wasitah Yusof says:
Komen dan pemerhatian yang bijaksana..jgn nafikan kepentingan masyarakat berilmu wp dalam era mana kita melangkah…sbb kejadian Allah itu hebat wp mesin itu semakin intelligent..
Syed Mahathir says:
Just remember, both trends that came from those countries have one common strategy. That is to create demand for their products and expertise. Capitalism at its best.. How about Malaysia? Well, as for us we will continue in the next decade as the product user, supply money & resources to those developed nations.
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Impulse Response in Audio Transducers
Authored by AEC Engineering
The structure of what we perceive as speech, music, and sound is determined by the nature of constantly changing sound-pressure waves. With some degree of certainty we can say that the only constant in this whole process is change itself.
Sound pressure clusters vary with such speed and level that the chance of the same waveform repeating itself is virtually nonexistent. It follows, then, that the challenge facing components in a sound reproduction chain is to convey these ever changing patterns in both electrical and acoustic form. Steady-state signals characterized by a constant wave-form do not for all practical purposes occur in nature. Picture #1 illustrates the structure of a single piano tone.
Audio transducers – loudspeakers – understandably face the greatest challenge in the sound reproduction sequence. Confronted by signals of extreme complexity their task is to convert these wave-forms from electrical to mechanical energy, then to an acoustical analogue of the original signal – a difficult task indeed. To precisely transform and recreate abruptly changing wave-forms and patterns one after the other is all but impossible for today’s loudspeakers. Even the simplest of sound patterns cannot be reproduced coherently over most of the audible range.
Why is it that two loudspeakers with nearly identical frequency response measurements very often sound quite different one from the other?
There is an underlying assumption, of course, to such a question; e.g., that frequency response is the most important determiner of sound; and that an examination of frequency response is fundamental to understanding the acoustical properties of a loudspeaker. While some claim to be able to make meaningful determinations about acoustic performance by analyzing a loudspeaker’s frequency response, by adding time – the fundamental element in change – as a third axis in the matrix of measurements it becomes clear there are important patterns only hinted at in the frequency response alone. It is the conclusion of this paper that although frequency response is one of several indicators that can be meaningful in an overall evaluation of loudspeaker performance, it is our contention that alone – or as a primary tool – it is no more than a finger pointing at the moon.
Moreover, we can be greatly misled by frequency response measurements. We often draw the wrong conclusions, and implement secondary design decisions aimed at improving measured frequency response, rather than making a better sounding more accurate loudspeaker. What we lose by analyzing a loudspeaker strictly in the frequency domain becomes all the more apparent when we understand that a frequency response curve is a simple two function mathematical calculation. In reality, however, every loudspeaker works in the time domain and does so with a very complex set of instructions. At its input is an electrical signal with varying amplitude – a time dependant variable. The loudspeaker then transforms this electrical impulse into magnetic energy and generates motion, moving a diaphragm as a function of time and mechanical driving force, ideally in exact relation to the input signal. The transducer’s diaphragm sets air into motion and these sound pressure variations reach our ear. It is only in the brain that this time dependant signal is transformed into the frequency domain. Otherwise we would perceive sound in terms of varying time constants, rather than hearing and recognizing certain pitches.
Most current measurements are such that this time/frequency transformation is taken for granted. It is assumed that since this transformation is commonly understood and intuitive by nature that it is of no significance where in the sequence of events we take it into account. We do so early in the process in order to produce a display that coincides with our common perception. And we do so by using steady-state constant tones. In this whole process we inadvertently create other problems; we ignore real issues, and make critical design decisions based on incomplete criteria or wrong assumptions.
Different time related functions of varied sound patterns can all result in the same measured amplitude response at a given frequency. Naturally, since only one very specific signal profile in the time domain represents the input correctly, other profiles that contribute to the same amplitude response actually, in fact, represent distortion. In the most ironic of ways, we often assume that when a frequency response measurement is “in the window,” we can move on to address other issues of concern, never being fully aware of the kinds of flaws we are actually rewarding in the process. This is one very important reason why speakers with nearly identical frequency response will most likely sound quite different one from the other.
Picture #2. A perfect electrical step signal. Exemplified by an infinite rise-time followed by a continuous level in the new plane. Picture #3. An ideal speaker response. Showing the effect of a band-pass with upper and lower limits. Ideally we would have an infinitely steep, rising wave-front followed by a gradual signal decay. Rise-time is proportional to the upper limit of bandwidth, while the duration of the decay is proportional to its lower limit and directly related to its cut-off frequency.
Despite amplitude response measurements that are consistently good, often exemplary, nearly all of today’s two and three way loudspeakers will distort an input signal in the time domain almost beyond recognition. This is confirmed by a close look at their short duration impulse response, and is due to inherent deficiencies in their time domain characteristics. In this type of evaluation we work with either a short duration step or a Dirac impulse. A step signal contains more energy than a Dirac impulse, providing a better signal to noise display. A step response also more clearly demonstrates distortions in the signal. Both have the same content and can be converted one to the other by means of differential and integral calculus.
In practical terms, an impulse signal much more closely approximates music than does a sinusoidal waveform. Music is characterized by an infinite succession of attacks and decays of sound patterns that give individual musical instruments their timbre and voices their characteristic sound. It is our belief that measurement of a speaker’s impulse response represents the primary and most fundamental method of analyzing transducer performance. Impulse testing is both repeatable and meaningful; it adds time domain considerations to the analysis, and most importantly it presents a loudspeaker with a signal that very closely resembles real music.
The use of impulse testing immediately reveals a common deficiency in nearly every multi-way speaker. In viewing the leading edge of an impulse as reproduced by a typical three way system, for example, we see stepped delays in its reproduction as it is crossed over from the high frequency driver to the midrange, and then again to the woofer. The high frequency information therefore arrives first, followed by that of the midrange and then the low frequency driver, each delayed successively by several microseconds. What we see are three or more individual responses to a single stimulus.
It is understandable, given these examples, that our hearing is constantly being challenged by time domain nonlinearities, additive distortions, and a wholesale reorganization of important cues. As a result the reproduction of music is at best only a rough approximation; merely hinting at what it was that was originally recorded. We ask a lot of our brains in the process, trying to coax recognition and appreciation from what is ultimately a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar cues.
Picture 4 Picture 6
This relates in some measure to the evolutionary development of our hearing mechanism. Originally human hearing was fine-tuned to decipher miniscule temporal sequences, like the sound of a breaking branch. Our life depended on recognizing what was happening, and in what direction and how far away, to avoid a possible life-threatening attack. Analyzing this important aspect of hearing, we now understand that the human auditory mechanism can perceive time increments in the order of a few 100,000th of a second. In that brief period we recognize the character of a sound (frequency content) as well as direction and loudness, giving us a clue as to distance. All of this is found in the leading edge of a wave-front. The steep rise of an impulse should be reproduced coherently and without temporal sequencing to recreate the sense of live information. In reality most transducers create a range of different and contradictory clues, making our brains work very hard to decipher the origin of these sounds. Hence the term “listener fatigue.”
To improve the reproduction of fine detail and to enhance spatial information many designers also opt to raise the overall level of the high frequency driver. The first arrival of unnaturally emphasized high frequencies, which in almost all cases are the delicate harmonics of fundamental tones yet to arrive, stresses many of the processes we as humans use to identify and recognize music. It is our contention that in the interest of creating a generally acceptable response curve, this actually undermines our recognition and appreciation of space and detail as they occur in nature.
Inverting one driver in relation to the overall system as discussed briefly above further complicates and convolutes the situation. This process simultaneously creates compression and rarefaction in two adjacent drivers, destroying dynamics in a wave-form, and altering the absolute level and frequency content of a sound cluster. This forces the brain to work increasingly hard at recognizing what it is that is being presented.
From our perspective it is clearly preferable to define driver parameters in the context of the overall system; and to design the system with coherence and time linearity as primary, not secondary, parameters. In such a system all drivers would work in phase and each would be given a set of instructions that would allow it to participate in the overall recreation of an impulse signal that is in tact and coherent. This is the approach taken in the AEC WTL loudspeaker design. Impulse response in this loudspeaker replicates as closely as possible the step input. It is also important to note that amplitude response is not at all neglected. It is simply put in perspective from a design standpoint; and its evaluation done with an understanding of where the time-frequency transformation occurs in the recognition and appreciation of music. The difference this approach makes is demonstrated in the ability to coherently reproduce natural musical timbre over a complete bandwidth, and to retrieve delicate spatial cues, lending a sense of live and natural to our perception of what is being reproduced.
As mentioned at the outset of this paper, pure tones comprised of constant and repeating sine waves simply do not occur in nature. While they form the basis for many important lab measurements, live acoustic music does not consist of these waveforms. Most importantly, what we hear and recognize as music is made up of a combination of fundamental tones and their distinctive harmonics that blend in time to give character to the sounds that we hear. To reproduce these sounds and to retrieve the delicate qualities that make music recognizable it is important that a transducer reproduces both the amplitude and a signal’s phase content coherently.
Harmonic structures are both delicate and complex. They are an integral part of sound from the very lowest frequencies to the upper limits of hearing and beyond. The key to deciphering most varied sounds in nature lies in the delicate arrangement of these harmonics. They differentiate one instrument from another and convey such things as the subliminal message of joy, anger or fear in the human voice. Their bandwidth is often quite wide, making coherency and integration through a speaker’s crossover essential. A transducer absolutely must have the ability to reproduce an impulse with one voice instead of a chorus. The ESS WTL (Wave-Form Transient Linearity) design accomplishes this and preserves delicate overtone structure in the following ways:
Relative to the listening position, bass, midrange, and high frequency drivers are precisely positioned to create a virtual point source. This eliminates one of the overriding causes of discontinuity.
Picture 7 The AEC WTL design preserves the delicate relationship between fundamental tones and their harmonics, not only on-axis but also off-axis as well. This is largely the result of carefully controlled dispersion, ensuring that reflected sound will be as integrated and coherent as the on axis information. Since most sounds reaching a listener’s ears in a typical listening room are reflective in nature this is a very important consideration.
Any discussion of coherency in sound reproduction must invariably include some general appreciation of the importance of linear phase response. This is one of the more difficult parameters to explain – as much for the expert to explain perhaps as the layman to understand. However, the effects of phase distortion are very audible, and they affect the coherency of reproduced sound not only in terms of the resolution of fine detail, but also in the reproduction of important spatial characteristics.
To illustrate this point, imagine an amusement park mirror that distorts images by elongating or compressing them. While the mirror may greatly change the visual perspective of images being reflected, it does not render them completely unrecognizable. This smearing of spatial characteristics, created at a carnival for fun, corresponds to the time distortion and phase anomalies created in the reproduction of music quite unintentionally. Phase distortion is not readily detectable with conventional amplitude measurements. It does not, after all, represent an additive or subtractive form of distortion, but more one of reorganization. While difficult to measure quantitatively, it is a deadly sin nonetheless; but one whose presence can be detected and confirmed by impulse measurements.
Since any crossover creates its own set of problems, many of them related to phase linearity, the fewer points of transition in a loudspeaker the better in many respects. This of course is said with the understanding that the individual drivers must themselves be predominantly linear over their useable bandwidth. ESS designs, based on such a philosophy, are exemplary in areas of fundamental importance such as time coherence; and outperform multi-way designs built around three and four driver complements significantly in these areas. Linear phase response corresponds to constant time coherence. This has been thoroughly researched in amplifier design by analyzing group delay through an amplification chain. We have seen the theoretical postulation of these precepts; and in pictures # 8 and 9 it is possible to see their actual implementation in ESS loudspeakers.
In analyzing real-world transducer performance in the frequency domain what we often see in response to a single stimulus (test signal) is an assembly of separate time interrupted signals. As we look at the spectral nature of the individual wave-forms in the reproduced sound, we see that we are looking at much more than the original stimulus –3000 Hz – as documented in the following display.
The analysis of these complex wave forms is aided tremendously by a new kind of impulse measurement, one that displays the steep rising wave-front and provides an enhanced view of decay patterns with new and different perspectives – in addition to the more traditional “waterfall” pattern display. We can now analyze complex structures by looking at them with regard to the time factor and can see how very different wave-form mixes can produce the same amplitude response – illustrating a fundamental precept of this paper, that even distortion products can contribute to a flat amplitude response.
As we look at the response of a transducer between 500 Hz and 5 kHz we can see the consistently changing character of reproduced sound in conventional speakers. We also see conclusive evidence that out-of-band problems do in fact modulate into the audible band to contaminate the reproduced spectrum with harmonically unrelated additive distortion. Being in the presence of an out-of-tune piano, most of us can relate to this phenomenon. While we recognize that it is a piano we are hearing, we are easily drawn into what becomes a fatiguing listening exercise in the effort to understand what is going on acoustically. We can often hear discordant tones within the mix of sounds created by the interaction of harmonically unrelated notes.]
Employing this new Dynamic Measurement System we can now add time considerations in a meaningful and repeatable way to the evaluation of audio transducers. Building on, but greatly enhancing, impulse measurement techniques of the past we can now analyze in consummate detail and with the speed of modern computers what is real and what is not. We clearly see the difference between source (test stimulus) and response and can develop a new level of understanding of what it is that lends a sense of live and natural to reproduced sound.
Coherency can now be seen and evaluated in a new and meaningful way. It is our contention that impulse testing, bringing time into the matrix of fundamental parameters in transducer performance, is integral to understanding the nature of reproduced sound. We believe that we have instrumentation that underscores the delicate balance between time and frequency in the creation and reproduction of live acoustic music; and that with our new Dynamic Measurement System we have turned the corner on the design of a whole new generation of audio transducers. The ESS WTL design, our standard bearer, is the first product of its kind to be wholly developed with this new level of design sophistication.
Picture #2. A perfect electrical step signal. Exemplified by an infinite rise-time followed by a continuous level in the new plane.
Picture #3. An ideal speaker response. Showing the effect of a band-pass with upper and lower limits. Ideally we would have an infinitely steep, rising wave-front followed by a gradual signal decay. Rise-time is proportional to the upper limit of bandwidth, while the duration of the decay is proportional to its lower limit and directly related to its cut-off frequency.
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Monday Indoor Volleyball: Tip! Tip! Hurray!
Indoor Volleyball / By Austin SSC
There’s one day left to register for Austin Sports and Social Club’s sand volleyball league! The fun begins next week at all of our North and South locations, so if you feel like taking your indoor skills outdoors, now’s the chance!
Monday night volleyball is the perfect mix of skills and social fun, and this past Monday was no exception! Three out of the four matches of the night ended in two sets, giving players plenty of time for some free play after their matches. Once again, Trump Nation got swept under the rug in a two-set knock out by Just The Tip. 2 Bump Chumps bumped Wentwoodies on over in two sets, and Hit It and Quit It did just that to the Volley Outlaws: they hit it, and quit it!
The game of the night goes to May the Spike Be With You versus Block Party! This was the only match that went to three sets and had everybody in the gym crowding around to watch the excitement and cheer on both teams. The first set had an awesome exchange of rallies that turned into a neck and neck race with May the Spike Be With You in the lead. The only downfall for Block Party in the first set was a couple of service errors. May the Spike Be With You was able to keep the lead and finish the set 21-19. The second set was probably the longest set ever to witness, as the entire game went point for point up to 20 points. Both teams have never looked so hungry for that victory. With Block Party in possession of the volleyball, they were able to put away two more points to take us all into the third set! The third and final set started off with May the Spike Be With You taking the lead, 6-1. Once they were able to get possession back, Block Party went on their own run and was able to tie the game 6-6. After that, it was deja vu of the second set with both teams trying to pull ahead, but still ending up tied. This set went down to the final cap point with the game tied at 16-16. Now we’re in a shoot out! May The Spike Be With You served the ball to begin the final rally. There were spikes and digs exchanged, but in the end Block Party was able to lay it down and earn that match point! I’m exhausted just writing about it! What an awesome game! Congratulations, Block Party!
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10/19/2016 10:00PM to 02:00AM
10:02PM Traxamillion “Face Neck (feat. Husalah)” from “My Radio” on Slapp Addict Productions / SMC Entertainment Local
10:03PM Vince Staples “Prima Donna (feat. A$AP Rocky)” from “Prima Donna” on Face the Music LLC/No I.D./IDJ
10:07PM Cam Gnarly “Cabbage” from “Cabbage – Single” on Cam Gnarly
10:10PM Edgewize & B.Lewis “P E $ O $” from “P E $ O $” Local
10:12PM ScHoolboy Q “Dope Dealer (feat. E-40)” from “Blank Face LP” on UMGRI Interscope
10:15PM Beejus “My Whole Team (ft. MollyBeCoolin)” from “No Time But to Mob” (2016) on FreeSpirit Local
10:19PM Caleborate “Kale” from “1993” on TBKTR / EMPIRE Local
10:25PM The Grouch & Eligh “Comin’ Up (feat. Mistah F.A.B.)” from “Say G&E! (Deluxe Edition)” on G&E Music Local
10:29PM Zion I “luv” from “True & Livin'” on Live Up Records Local
10:32PM HBK CJ “It’s Nothin ft. HBK Skipper” from “It’s Nothin ft. HBK Skipper” Local
10:35PM Ezale & DJ Fresh “Got the Game from the OG’s” from “Got the Game From the OG’s” Local
10:39PM HIMTB “ESPN ft. Iamsu, Esco Bestdro & Show Banga” from “ESPN ft. Iamsu, Esco Bestdro & Show Banga” Local
10:43PM Chuck Inglish “Swervin’ ft. Sir Michael Rocks x Polyester the Saint” from “Convertibles” on Federal Prism
10:48PM Cal-A “Broke No More (feat. Rexx Life Raj, Jay Ant & Caleborate)” from “Broke No More (feat. Rexx Life Raj, Jay Ant, & Caleborate) – Single” on Free Bread Local
10:50PM Clyde Carson “Let’s Get It” from “Let’s Get It – Single” on Moe Doe Entertainment Local
10:56PM Cousin Stizz “Living Like Khaled” from “Living Like Khaled”
10:58PM Nef The Pharaoh “Wake Up” from “Neffy Got Wings” (2016) on Sick Wid It Records Local
11:02PM San Quinn & Messy Marv “Wassup” from “Explosive Mode 2: Back 2 Business” on On Turbo Local
11:06PM Traxamillion “Cold World (feat. Dough Hello & Taj Withers)” from “The Tech Boom” (2016) on Slapp Addict Productions LLC Local
11:09PM Locksmith “Grime” from “The Lock Sessions” on Landmark Entertainment Local
11:12PM Down 2 Earth “Only Competition (ft. Steve Shankle)” from “wildfire” on Ineffable Records Local
11:16PM Gavlyn & Blimes Brixton “Adios” from “Adios – Single” on Peach House / Bad Taste
11:18PM Kamaiyah “Fuck It Up (ft. YG)” from “A Good Night in the Ghetto” (2016) on Kamaiyah Local
11:23PM Mibbs “Gospel (feat. T. Flexx aka Waju)” from “Killer of Sheep” on RBC Records
11:26PM Ve’ “Laid back” from “Laid Back”
11:30PM J. Lately “Shit Now ft. Space Cadet (prod. O.O.P.S.)” from “The Good Panda EP” Local
11:34PM Antwon “100k” from “100k – Single” (2016) on Anticon Local
11:37PM Mistah Fab “Survive (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Crooked I & Kobe Honeycutt)” from “Survive (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Crooked I & Kobe Honeycutt)”
11:39PM Earl Sweatshirt “Hive (feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies)” from “Hive (feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies) – Single” on Tan Cressida/Columbia
11:43PM Casey Veggies “On The West ft. Dom Kennedy prod. Scoop Deville” from “Customized Greatly Vol. 4”
11:46PM The Grouch “Bay to L.A. (ft. Murs)” from “Bay to L.A. (ft. Murs)” Local
11:55PM Mac Dre “Gangsta Mac ft. Yukmouth & Turf Talk” from “Gangsta Mac ft. Yukmouth & Turf Talk” Local
11:58PM Alex Wiley “Automatic (feat. Mick Jenkins)” from “Automatic (feat. Mick Jenkins) – Single” on Alex Wiley
12:02AM City Shawn “Complex (prod. Vybe)” from “Complex (prod. Vybe)” Local
12:04AM Keak da Sneak “There They Go (feat. Big Hollis & Goldie Gold)” from “CheddarCheeseISay” on RBC Records Local
12:07AM The Cool Kids “Running Man (feat. Maxo Kream)” from “Running Man (feat. Maxo Kream) – Single” on CAKE, LLC
12:12AM Asher Roth “Laundry (feat. Michael Christmas & Larry June)” from “Laundry (feat. Michael Christmas & Larry June) – Single” on Retrohash
12:15AM Masta Ace “Y.B.I. (Young Black & Intelligent)” from “Y.B.I. (Young Black & Intelligent)” (2016)
12:19AM Black Milk “The Fix” from “The Fix”
12:23AM Clams Casino “All Nite (feat. Vince Staples)” from “32 Levels (Deluxe)” on Columbia
12:26AM Your Old Droog “White Rappers (A Good Guest)” from “White Rappers (A Good Guest)” (2016) on Droog Recordings
12:32AM MindsOne & DJ Iron “Follow the Light” from “Follow the Light” (2016) on Ill Adrenaline Records
12:40AM Flatbush Zombies “Bounce” from “3001: A Laced Oddessy” (2016) on Glourious Dead Recordings
12:45AM Young Gully “You Know Who It’s For (ft. Tay Off the Top)” from “You Know Who It’s For (ft. Tay Off the Top)” Local
12:50AM Philthy Rich “Statue of Liberty (feat. E-40, Nef The Pharaoh & Ezale)” from “Statue of Liberty (feat. E-40, Nef The Pharaoh & Ezale)” (2016) on SMMLLC/Empire Local
12:56AM Ezale & DJ Fresh “We Out Here” from “We Out Here” Local
12:58AM Reks “Gone Baby Gone (prod. Large Professor)” from “The Greatest X” on Brick Records
01:01AM Nick James “Find A Way (ft. Rexx Life Raj)” from “Find A Way (ft. Rexx Life Raj)” Local
01:07AM Chuuwee “Education (feat. Del the Funky Homosapien)” from “Economics” on NCR
01:11AM IAMSU “Rock $Tar” from “6 Speed” Local
01:14AM Kontraband Beatz “Out Here in the Bay (feat. Ab, Rydah J Klyde, Beeda Weeda, Equipto & Alma Rosae)” from “Out Here in the Bay (feat. Ab, Rydah J Klyde, Beeda Weeda, Equipto & Alma Rosae) – Single” Local
01:19AM Elujay “We Don’t Mind (feat. Samaria & Caleborate)” from “We Don’t Mind (feat. Samaria & Caleborate) – Single” on Onetime! Local
01:24AM Atmosphere “Next to You (feat. deM atlaS)” from “Fishing Blues” on Rhymesayers – New Release
01:28AM Smino “Runnin (feat. Jay2AintShit)” from “Blkjuptr – EP” on Downtown Records
01:31AM Isaiah Rashad “Stuck in the Mud (feat. SZA)” from “The Sun’s Tirade” on Top Dawg Entertainment
01:38AM Jamila Woods “LSD (ft. Chance The Rapper)” from “HEAVN” (2016)
01:42AM Bas “Night Job (ft. J. Cole)” from “Too High To Riot” (2016) on J. Cole/DreamVille
01:45AM eLZhi “Misright” from “Lead Poison” on GLOW365 LLC
01:49AM Azizi Gibson “Issues (feat. Big K.R.I.T.)” from “A New Life” (2016) on 36BRICKHOUSE
01:55AM Skizzy Mars “What it Look Like” from “Alone Together” (2016) on PHM
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Bombshell spending allegations trigger calls for more transparency at B.C. legislature
Jon Woodward, Reporter, CTV Vancouver
@CTV_Jon
Published Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:26AM PST
Last Updated Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:20PM PST
The public wouldn’t have had to wait years to know about the allegedly audacious spending habits of two top legislature officials if the B.C. legislature was subject to the same transparency rules as most of the rest of government, advocates say.
The activities – and expenses – of the Craig James and Gary Lenz aren’t subject to Freedom of Information rules, which means they don’t have to regularly account to the public about the details of what they’re spending taxpayer money on.
“If there was an ability to do an FOI I’m sure this would have come out sooner,” said Sara Neurt, the executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association.
“FOI is like a public audit, where every citizen can participate. It’s one way to have confidence there’s transparency in government,” she said.
Read the full report on overspending allegations
A freedom of information request is a written request for government records, which can include receipts for travel and expenses. Most members of the government and the bureaucracy must provide those records on request, with some exceptions.
Information requests have been the source of several high-profile expense scandals, such as the $16 orange juice that was expensed by former federal Conservative minster Bev Oda.
In the United Kingdom, a freedom of information request in 2008 eventually found astonishing expenses from members of that country’s parliament – leading to investigations and prosecutions.
In B.C. the legislature is overseen by a committee of MLAs. But the committee rarely meets and does not demand the same transparency.
It took an investigation by an independent Speaker to suspend James and Lenz, and then public pressure led to the reveal of their report by that committee.
Watchdog IntegrityBC’s Dermod Travis says extending the disclosure rules to the legislature would mean officials would watch what they spend.
“When you know your expenses could be posted online, by receipt, suddenly you’re going to be more prudent,” Travis said.
Wood splitter, luggage and mustard: 10 surprising expense claims from Speaker's report
Legislature clerk, sergeant-at-arms suspended over 'flagrant overspending': report
Suspended legislature officials maintain innocence, renew calls for reinstatement
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Craig James is escorted out of the B.C. Legislature on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.
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Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition
Horst Woldemar Janson, Penelope J. E. Davies, Walter B. Denny
Prentice Hall, 2011 - Art - 1152 pages
For courses in the History of Art.
Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art.
Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Eighth Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist. Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. The History of Art, said Janson, was not just a stringing together of historically significant objects, but the writing of a story about their interconnections, a history of styles and of stylistic change. Janson's text focused on the visual and technical characteristics of the objects he discussed, often in extraordinarily eloquent language. Janson's History of Art helped to establish the canon of art history for many generations of scholars.
The new Eighth Edition, although revised to remain current with new discoveries and scholarship, continues to follow Janson's lead in important ways: It is limited to the Western tradition, with a chapter on Islamic art and its relationship to Western art. It keeps the focus of the discussion on the object, its manufacture, and its visual character. It considers the contribution of the artist as an important part of the analysis. This edition maintains an organization along the lines established by Janson, with separate chapters on the Northern European Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance, the High Renaissance, and Baroque art, with stylistic divisions for key periods of the modern era. Also embedded in this edition is the narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony.
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Penelope J. E. Davies is Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author of Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award.
Walter B. Denny is a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration.
Frima Fox Hofrichter is Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute. She is author of Judith Leyster, A Dutch Artist in Holland's Golden Age, which received CAA's Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award.
Joseph Jacobs is an independent scholar, critic, and art historian of modern art in New York City. He was the curator of modern art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, director of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, and curator of American art at The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.
David L. Simon is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he received the Basset Teaching Award in 2005. Among his publications is the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters.
Ann M. Roberts, Professor of Art at Lake Forest College has published essays, articles and reviews on both Northern and Italian Renaissance topics. Her research focuses on women in the Renaissance, and her most recent publication is entitled Dominican Women and Renaissance Art:The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa.
H. W. Janson was a legendary name in art history. During his long career as a teacher and scholar, he helped define the discipline through his impressive books and other publications.
Anthony F. Janson forged a distinguished career as a professor, scholar, museum professional and writer. From the time of his father's death in 1982 until 2004, he authored History of Art.
Title Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition
Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, Horst Woldemar Janson
Authors Horst Woldemar Janson, Penelope J. E. Davies, Walter B. Denny
Edition 8, illustrated, revised
Publisher Prentice Hall, 2011
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Sway - 30_hugs prompt
Title: Sway
Theme: #6, run away (and we’re halfway through!)
Characters and Relationship: Nathaniel Howe/Moira Cousland, romantic
Rating: PG for almost-makeouts
Summary: Moira gives so many gifts to everyone, yet doesn’t get anything in return. Nathaniel wants to fix that.
Note: Seductive!Nate makes my toes curl. That is all. *dreamy sigh*
Moira raised her knuckles to Nathaniel’s door to knock, but then stopped. Is this a good idea? she wondered, second guessing herself as she looked at the bow she had propped up against the wall. She had intended it to be a gift, but it was late; Nathaniel might already be asleep, especially after the day that they had. She shivered. The basement tunnels leading to the Deep Roads hadn’t been teeming with darkspawn, but she could sense more further on down past the doors they had sealed to protect the Keep. Oghren had made light of the situation, telling her that it felt like old times to be back underground, but she had hated it. After they came back, she had spent much of the evening outside, just enjoying the feel of the wind in her face and trying to erase the memory of walls that felt as if they would close in on them at any given time.
Velanna had done much the same, except she had gone past the walls of the Keep and out into the forests beyond. By the time Moira had come down from the battlements, the Dalish elf had still not returned. Yet where Oghren had been right at home and she and Velanna had been claustrophobic, Nathaniel had been oddly silent. In fact, he hadn’t shown any sign of distress save for his observation that the Keep seemed to be situated on top of crumbling foundations.
Biting her bottom lip, Moira took a breath and knocked. “Enter,” Nathaniel barked out from behind the door. Moira thought that he sounded irritated, so she left the bow out in the hallway. His gift could wait for another day, depending on his mood.
“Oh,” he said, looking up from the fireplace. “I thought you’d gone to bed already.” He was shirtless, and a quick glance told Moira he had just finished bathing, if the damp towel hanging on the rim of the tub was anything to go by.
“I couldn’t sleep.” She’d tried, but every time she shut her eyes, she caught a glimpse of the spirit that had been imprisoned under the Keep for who knew how long.
His mouth quirked upwards. “I should have known.” He gave a brief thought to tossing on a shirt, but then he noticed the subtle way Moira’s eyes were looking over him and he decided to indulge in a little self-torture. “So, that was the Deep Roads?”
She twisted her hands together. “A very small portion, yes.”
“It gets worse the further you go in, doesn’t it?” He was talking about the sickening pull at the center of his chest, and he knew that Moira understood what he was talking about when she nodded, her hand going to her sternum. “How did you manage going past the Deep Trenches?”
She looked up at him. “How did you know about that?”
“Oghren talks when you supply him with enough alcohol.” He shrugged. “Oghren talks even when you don’t, but he tends to say more when one is in his good graces.”
Her fingers unconsciously went to her hip. It wasn’t very noticeable – Wynne’s healing magic had taken care of that worry – but there was a slightly raised portion of skin where the Broodmother in the Deep Trenches had splashed her with acidic vomit. Her gorge rose as she remembered the stench of her flesh burning, how the pain had been so intense that the only thing keeping her upright had been the massive dose of adrenaline running through her system. “I’m surprised he would mention that; we fought his wife there.” Branka’s obsession with the Anvil had led her to destroy her entire house. Moira had never approved of that; had their places been reversed, Moira would have ventured out into the Deep Roads alone before subjecting her people to the horrors that awaited them. “I think today’s trip unnerved him a little more than he realized. Oghren’s usual way of coping with things that bother him is to either plow through them or ignore them completely.” It would account for the forced way he had acted, boasting that it was just like old times a little too much while killing darkspawn with even more violence than he usually employed.
“I think this visit unnerved him just as much as it did me.”
“You were bothered?” She hugged her arms. “You could have fooled me.”
He shrugged. “I tried to hide it. You didn’t need to worry about me when you had everything else on your mind.” He turned back to the fireplace, his hands braced against the mantle. His arm tensed when he felt her hand on his bicep.
“Alistair and I managed the Deep Trenches because we told the other how scared we were. Next time, let me know. We’ll get through it better together.”
His right hand went up and covered hers. “I’ll keep that in mind,” he said, turning so that he was facing her. Moira stared; the firelight cast shadows over his body, making her aware of the dips and valleys different muscles on his torso made.
“I have something for you,” she said quickly, forcing herself not to ogle. “I left it outside.” She was suddenly thankful that she had, because the way that he was looking at her had made her want to do something foolish, like jump into his arms and kiss him senseless. Retrieving the item gave her an opportunity to gather the wits he had an uncanny talent for scattering.
“Is that what I think it is?” he asked once she came back into the room with the bow in her hands. “It is, look! There’s the Howe crest burned into the wood!”
“I found it in a sack in the basements,” she explained.
“I don’t know why it would have been there, the last time I saw it was when it had been in the storage room.” He hefted it in his hands, testing the weight and balance. “This is my grandfather’s bow.”
“The one that was a Warden?” Moira remembered him talking about a grandfather that had joined their order, but had never returned to the family.
“That’s the one. Actually, this wasn’t his bow; it was made for another family member during the Exalted Marches.” The string would need replacing, but the nock tips were in excellent condition. His fingers ran over the wood, trying to find any cracks or warped areas, but everything was perfectly intact. “This was made to last; I’m certain that with a little care, it can still be used today.”
“It’s yours now, if you want it,” she said, smiling at the way he focused on his inspection. “There was also a leather quiver that was in the same bag, but I left that in my room.”
Very carefully, Nathaniel set the bow on top of his bed. “You’ve given me so many gifts recently,” he said. “First the lock picking tools, then the bronze sextant.”
“I thought you might need those,” she said, twisting a lock of hair in her fingers. “They both serve practical uses.”
“And what practical use do I have for the painted skyball or the vase?” She’d gifted him with the vase bearing his family’s mark just the other day, saying that she’d found it for sale in the market and had thought of him.
She blushed. She’d carried around the skyball since finding it in the Brecilian forest during the Blight, memories of the evenings over the years that they would sneak out of either Highever or Vigil’s Keep to stargaze. Watching the night sky was a flimsy excuse to curl up in the other’s arms, but it had gotten them past the guards or others that had come across their path without any trouble. “I thought you might appreciate it,” she mumbled, worrying her bottom lip between her teeth.
“Moira.” He tipped her chin up with his fingers, making her look up at him. “My point is that you’ve gifted me – all of us, actually – with so many things, but you’ve never asked for anything in return.”
“That’s not why I do it,” she told him, vaguely aware that she was slowly backing up towards the closed door. “I do it because it makes me happy to see everyone enjoy their gifts.”
“And yet I think you deserve more than a simple this is nice or I’ve always wanted one of these from me.” He reached out and bracketed his hands against the door on either side of her head. “For once I’d like to give you something.”
“It isn’t necessary,” she whispered, her breath hitching when he leaned in, his chest brushing against her breasts. Rational thought flew out of her head and she arched her back ever so slightly, teasing a groan out of Nathaniel, even as the move made her bite her lip to smother a gasp.
“You have no idea how maddeningly attractive that is,” he murmured, his thumb stroking her bottom lip.
Her eyes shut on their own accord. “Maddeningly?”
“Incredibly. It constantly drives me to distraction.” He leaned in even further, his mouth at her ear. “It makes me wish to be the one biting your lip instead.” He punctuated his declaration with a nip to her earlobe, which made Moira’s knees turn to water.
Holding onto his sides to keep her balance, she tipped her head. “You have quite the way of saying thank you,” she gasped, her nails gently raking across his ribs as he trailed his mouth down from her ear to the column of her throat. His back was hot under her hands and she couldn’t get enough of the feel of bare skin at her fingertips.
He smirked against her collarbone. “You should see how I say thank you very much.”
She let out a nervous bubble of laughter that turned into a moan at the feel of his teeth closing around the skin where her neck met her shoulder. She wound her arms around his neck, her mouth opening on a silent gasp when his hands dragged over her shirt to settle at her waist, his thumbs slowly running circles across the undersides of her breasts. “Nate,” she sighed, shifting so her leg could wrap around his. He murmured something unintelligible against her skin, but his hands moved from her waist to round against her backside, grabbing her firmly to press her close to him as his mouth found hers.
Kissing Nathaniel was like taking a deep breath of air after living in stifling conditions for eight years. She matched his intensity, threading her fingers through his hair and slanting her head to deepen their kiss. Her mouth muffled his moan but it didn’t stop the sound from vibrating through her body and making her shiver. She shook even further when his tongue reacquainted itself with the edges of her teeth, then as he made good on his promise when he nipped at her bottom lip. She felt herself go slack in his arms and was grateful when one of his hands went to the back of her head, otherwise she might have hurt herself when she used the door she was leaning against as leverage to press herself even that much closer to him. He all but growled out her name, thrusting his thigh between her legs and kissing her hard enough to bruise.
Deep in the back of her mind through the languorous haze of desire came a memory from the Deep Trenches. She and Alistair had been so shaken with the presence of darkspawn that they had clung to the other once they had reached Orzammar safely, if only to assure the other that they had survived the ordeal. While her and Alistair had only platonically embraced as friends, she and Nathaniel…
Moira blinked, coming back to her right mind. She turned her head away, Nathaniel’s lips scoring her cheek instead of their intended target. “I have to go,” she said, her voice throaty. She slid her hands around him until she was able to softly push against his chest, giving her enough space to think without the tempting scent of soap and leather and something distinctly male that clung to him fogging her senses.
He sighed, but moved aside a step. “Running away?” he asked, his voice a low rumble that did absolutely terrible things to Moira’s body.
Swallowing hard, she shook her head. “Tactical retreat,” she replied thickly, her hand groping for the door handle behind her.
“Is it a permanent strategy?” He hoped not. Raking his fingers through his still damp hair, he fought to stay where he was, seeing that distance was what Moira wanted at the moment. He’d regained so much ground in these past weeks that he’d hate to lose it all over one misstep. Yet kissing her…he swallowed. Kissing her again after so long made him feel as if some important piece of him that had long since been missing had finally been put back into place.
She opened the door. “Only a temporary one.”
“How temporary?”
She worried her lip, now noticing how his eyes zeroed in on her mouth. “Ask me again in a few days,” she told him. Using the speed she usually employed on the battlefield, she swooped in and pressed her lips against his for a quick, chaste kiss. She was gone before he could react, her footsteps echoing down the hall.
He peered down the hallway, the taste of her still lingering on his lips and wondering what had caused her to leave so abruptly. He had been standing at the fire before she had knocked on his door, wishing for some sort of human contact to erase the pull of darkspawn that had made his skin crawl. When she had arrived, all he had wanted to do was bury his face in her hair and hold her close, if only to keep the nightmares that were certain to arrive that night at bay.
Exhaling, he leaned his head against the doorframe. “Well, that explains it,” he said, his mouth tugging into a sardonic smile. At least one of them had seen what that sudden flash of need had been. He sighed. There had been a growing tension between them since…he frowned. He didn’t exactly know, perhaps the attraction he felt towards her had carried over from eight years ago, or maybe seeing her in this new light and slowly gaining respect for her abilities had triggered something. Whatever it was or whenever it had happened, he couldn’t deny the fact that there was something there.
He was about to curse his ill timing for ruining any future chances he might have with Moira when her words finally sank in. “Ask her again in a few days,” he mused, turning back towards his bedroom. His eyes fell on the bow lying across his bed. He hadn’t been lying when he said he wished to give Moira something in return for all the gifts she had given him. Picking up the bow, he carefully placed it on the weapons stand he had set up near his bed. It felt good to have something of his family that he could be proud of, and it felt even better knowing she had been the one to give it to him. Several days would give him ample time to go into town and find the dagger set he had seen Moira eye appreciatively before turning aside and using her money to purchase an armor upgrade for Oghren. He admitted that knives might not be the most popular of courtship gifts to give a woman, but they were practical and he was certain she would appreciate the gesture.
Besides, there would be plenty of time for gifts of the romantic variety later on.
Current Music:Phil Pritchett - Maria
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Buzz Bellmont: The Critic's Critic
Everything in the Garden at TSW is Delightfully Funny Fable
By Buzz Bellmont on April 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Edward Albee’s Everything in the Garden has been given a lovely if terribly biting production at Theatre Southwest.
Albee’s play is actually an adaptation of a British play by Giles Cooper, first produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company on 13 March 1962 at the Arts Theatre, London.
The American adaptation by Edward Albee, dedicated to the memory of Giles Cooper, was first performed in 1967 at the Plymouth Theatre, New York. The Albee version changes several aspects of the plot, including the names of some characters.
Albee’s little morality play about materialism and character takes place in an American suburb in the 1960s but could easily take place today.
Kevin Daugherty as Richard, Elizabeth Marshall Black as Jenny
Jenny and Richard are a sweet couple, not really struggling too much, yet still yearning to attain the level of affluence enjoyed by their neighbors. They smoke cigarettes they don’t like for the coupon premiums, know the difference between the cost of domestic and imported vodka, and watch every nickel to keep their teenaged son Roger in private school. Clearly they believe in upward mobility whenever possible. Their neighbor Jack is a bit eccentric, philosophical, introspective, and usually tipsy. Richard and Jenny don’t care that he’s a bit of an odd duck, and he functions both as legitimate character and metaphor. He’s wealthy enough to pay any conceivable debts, present and future, and thus able to sail through life without stress.
Enter Mrs. Toothe, a well-heeled British woman of the world, with an offer to Jenny to make some extra money in the afternoons.
Jenny accepts and Jenny’s and Richard’s lives change forever with the obscene amount of money flowing into their household. Finally, Richard finds out where the money is coming from and Jenny suggests they have a party to share their new-found wealth with their upwardly mobile friends and acquaintances.
Front Row: Jackie Pender-Lovell as Mrs. Toothe, Elizabeth Marshall Black as Jenny Back Row: Crys Hymel as Louise, Tyrell Woolbert as Beryl, Brenda Kuciemba as Cynthia
That’s all of the synopsis you’re going to get from this critic.
My only gripe about Albee’s writing is in the breaking of the fourth wall often by Jack, who wanders around the set making broad and unnecessary statements that are a bit preachy.
And the ending of the play, instead of ending with a bang, ends with a whimper, when Jack once again appears and meanders around to sum it all up, leaving us with nothing but a disdain for Albee’s awkward placement of this character and Jack’s unjuicy morsels of life that seem to drag on forever.
Jenny and Richard are fabulously brought to life by Elizabeth Marshall Black and Kevin Daugherty.
But the play belongs to the talented Jackie Pender-Lovell, who is so wonderful and juicy as Mrs. Toothe that we wait for her next appearance to savor her delicious performance.
Brian Heaton is good as Jack, if only I liked how his character were written.
Caleb Jacob Ortega could not be a better Roger, the teenage son who dutifully serves to remind us who the most moral character in the play is.
Justin Holloway, Crys Hymel, David Hymel, Gene Kato, Brenda Kuciemba, and Tyrell Woolbert are all perfectly delightful and wickedly nasty friends who come to Jenny’s and Richard’s home for an impromptu party.
Mimi Holloway’s direction could not be better paced and more throroughly engaging.
John Stevens’ set perfectly captures the upscale suburban sixties.
Set decoration and painted hardwood floors by Ananka Kohnitz make the set come alive.
Do not miss this very funny and satirically biting moral fable that is so relevant to our world today.
Everything in the Garden plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m and one Sunday matinee, April 15, at 3:00 p.m. at Theatre Southwest.
For tickets, please click on:
http://www.theatresouthwest.org/
Buzz Bellmont
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Astros on HoustonChronicle.com
Photos: Flood turns Astros’ minor league park into an island
By John Boyd on July 5, 2014 at 10:22 AM
Photo: Rich Guill / Quad Cities River Bandits
Flooding in the Midwest has turned Modern Woodmen Park, home of Astros Class-A affiliate Quad Cities River Bandits. The park sits on the north bank of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. Flood walls protect it from succumbing to the river during high water levels. less
Flooding in the Midwest has turned Modern Woodmen Park, home of Astros Class-A affiliate Quad Cities River Bandits. The park sits on the north bank of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. Flood walls ... more
This Thursday, July 3, 2014 aerial photo shows flooding along River Drive in Davenport, Iowa as the Mississippi River approaches the crest. The National Weather Service reported that the Mississippi River crested in Davenport at 20.89 feet â well above flood stage of 15 feet but nearly two feet below the record set in 1993. (AP Photo/The Quad City Times, John Schultz) MAGAZINES OUT; TV OUT; NO SALES less
This Thursday, July 3, 2014 aerial photo shows flooding along River Drive in Davenport, Iowa as the Mississippi River approaches the crest. The National Weather Service reported that the Mississippi River ... more
Photo: John Schultz / AP
Photos: Flood turns Astros' minor league park into an island
An Astros minor league ballpark has been turned into an island thanks to flooding in the Midwest.
Modern Woodmen Park, home of the Astros’ Class A affiliate Quad Cities River Bandits, sits on the north bank of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa.
According to the National Weather Service, the river crested Friday in Davenport at 20.89 feet, however water levels are now slowly receding.
Quad Cities River Bandits photographer Rich Guill said stadium flood walls prevented the ballpark from becoming inundated.
For more on Davenport’s epic flood, check out the video below.
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Browse: Home » 2010 » May » A Jury Verdict That Competitive Keyword Advertising Isn’t Trademark Infringement–College Network v. Moore
A Jury Verdict That Competitive Keyword Advertising Isn’t Trademark Infringement–College Network v. Moore
May 18, 2010 · by Eric Goldman · in Marketing, Search Engines, Trademark
College Network, Inc. v. Moore Educational Publishers, Inc., 2010 WL 1923763 (5th Cir. May 12, 2010). The jury verdict form from January 2009. The district court’s final judgment from June 2009.
In December, I blogged about the Fair Isaac v. Experian case, which I thought was the first jury verdict on trademarked keyword advertising. I now stand corrected on two fronts.
First, although the decision came after the jury trial, the judge made a bench ruling that Experian had not committed trademark infringement by buying competitive keyword advertising. Rebecca has some additional updates on the case.
Second, I’ve since discovered an earlier case, College Network v. Moore Educational Publishers, which had a January 2009 jury finding that competitive keyword advertising doesn’t constitute trademark infringement (see the qualifications below). This jury verdict appears to have gone unnoticed, as I could not find any press coverage of the district court proceedings. In fact, I learned about it only because the case was appealed and the Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of the trademark claims.
Unfortunately, the three documents linked in my intro paragraph don’t completely explain the alleged trademark infringement. The Fifth Circuit ruling summarizes the situation by saying that the advertiser “had purchased the phrase ‘The College Network’ from Google and Yahoo as a search-engine keyword to summon MEP’s sponsored-link advertising.” The advertiser responded that the trademark owner had bought the advertiser’s trademarks as well (which would be consistent with keyword advertising plaintiffs’ frequently duplicitous behavior), but this allegation wasn’t pursued and appears to be immaterial.
Now the provisos on the jury ruling: the jury verdict probably was skewed by the trial court’s ruling (pre-Rescuecom) that the advertiser did not make a use in commerce. So where the jury verdict form indicated that the advertiser didn’t infringe the trademark, it’s unclear if this was based on the jury’s finding of no likelihood of confusion or a lack of use in commerce.
On appeal, the Fifth Circuit sidesteps the use in commerce question and says that “the evidence does not compel a finding of likelihood of confusion”–a conclusion that the court weakly explains as it rejects many of the trademark owner’s arguments on procedural technicalities. However, in a footnote, the Fifth Circuit partially explains:
In any event, sufficient evidence supported the jury’s finding of no likelihood of confusion under the Fifth Circuit test. MEP and Moore presented extensive documentary evidence on the issue. The jury was permitted to view the keywordsearch process and visually compare the companies’ websites. TCN’s own expert testified as to lack of actual confusion. The evidence does not point so “strongly and overwhelmingly in favor” of TCN that a reasonable jury could not arrive at a contrary verdict.
I haven’t parsed through the lower court proceedings to see how the trademark owner’s expert (Otto Wheeler, presumably this gentleman) undercut his client’s case, but the Fifth Circuit’s characterization sure doesn’t sound good. Perhaps there should be a motto among litigation experts similar to a doctor’s ethical tenet: First, Do No Harm.
[UPDATE: I received a letter from Otto Wheeler saying that the Fifth Circuit opinion mistakenly identified him as the expert providing the unsuccessful opinions. He says he only opined on damages. Instead, he suggests Howie Jacobson, PhD provided the expert opinion which failed to impress the court.]
The trademark owner’s loss is doubly ironic because the Fifth Circuit mostly upheld the lower court’s conclusions that it owes the advertiser (and its principal) approximately $700k on a defamation counterclaim. Perhaps the advertiser would have sued the trademark owner for defamation no matter what, but a counterclaim was apropos once the trademark owner decided to dance in court. So once again, a trademark owner kicks off a keyword advertising fight only to end up writing a check to the defense. Smart move, guys.
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Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 3 – The Long Night
“The Night King is coming.”
“The dead are already here.”
Been waiting for a battle? Well, this week’s Game of Thrones should have satisfied, delivering the show’s longest ever ep, and it was pretty much all battle, all the time, from beginning to end. Exciting though that sounds, it does run the risk of being pretty one note; even carnage gets dull after an hour or so.
Fortunately, the direction was in the hands of Miguel Sapochnik, who did such an amazing job with the Battle of the Bastards a couple of years ago. Sapochnik, it’s safe to say, knows how to direct a battle. And the script, the first this season by showrunners Benioff and Weiss, strove to keep the battle varied, cutting from ground troops with flaming swords, to dragons battling in the air, to Winterfell’s inhabitants fighting off hordes of undead. Along the way, despite there being little room for dialogue, several of the characters’ journeys came to emotional ends.
Put like that, it sounds pretty spectacular. And fair’s fair, much of the time it was. At least, when the viewer could actually work out what was going on through the murky dark.
I get it, I really do. A battle against the Walking Dead, commanded by a Super Evil Entity called the Night King, was always going to take place in darkness. That just fits the concept. The trouble is, this show has always chosen to present the dark naturalistically, with no artistic licence like, say, excessive moonlight or blue filters to help the audience see what was going on.
That’s been frustrating enough before, but it felt doubly so here, when we were watching the culmination of eight years of storylines. Of late, all the screen caps I put in these reviews have been edited to turn up the brightness. Here, I’ve done that and some of them still look pretty unclear. Miguel Sapochnik once again interleaved close shots that placed the viewer in the melee of battle, with wide shots to ilustrate the battle’s overall progress. It worked well with the Battle of the Bastards, but that took place in daylight; here, it still felt unclear what was going on half the time.
Still, if you could cope with that (perhaps by turning up your brightness controls), there was a lot to like here. The show’s done spectacular battles before, and we know they do it well; here, we had hordes of flaming-sword-wielding barbarians charging against hordes of zombies, while dragons battled in the air and flame engulfed the battlements of Winterfell in an orange-hued hellscape of death.
But amidst all that, it was the well-judged quieter, more intimate moments that really impressed. Arya’s cat and mouse game with the wights in the darkened library was a superb set piece (even if it did call to mind the velociraptors stalking around the kitchen in Jurassic Park), and the ruminations of Tyrion, Sansa and Varys as they hid in the crypt was a welcome way to break up the non stop action.
Even amidst the action there were individual Moments of Awesome for individual characters – the most memorable undoubtedly being Lyanna Mormont’s heroic last stand against that undead giant. Lyanna, originally conceived as a one-scene character, has been so memorably embodied by Bella Ramsey that it felt fitting for her to go out in such a heroic way.
Theon too met a redemptive end, protecting his erstwhile victim Bran from the Night King to his very last breath. It was a touching moment when Bran told him, “you’re a good man, Theon. Thank you”. I think we’ve always known this was where Theon’s story would end, but it was done well even if it held no real surprise.
Likewise, I didn’t exactly faint with amazement at the return of Melisandre, the Red Woman, who turned up just in time to wield her usual mastery of flame in the service of the good guys. Again, it had been clear for some time that there would have to be a reckoning between her and Ser Davos, particularly after her burning of Shireen Baratheon; not to mention Arya, who was less than pleased with the way she treated Gendry.
In the end though, Melisandre’s demise felt anticlimactic, just wandering off to die now that her purpose was served. Yes, it made perfect sense within the plot, but it lacked the satisfaction of having her end with a confrontation with Davos or Arya. Plus, she’s been shown as pretty fallible before; she may have real magic, but she keeps getting things wrong, like her prophecy of Stannis’ ultimate victory. Her muted end here didn’t resolve the mystery of the Lord of Light, or address the question of how such an obviously powerful god is so error-prone.
Still, if Melisandre and Theon’s ends were fairly predictable, the script did serve up a few surprises when things didn’t end up the way it had always seemed they would. The most obvious – and it was pretty awesome – was the final demise of the Night King. It had always seemed likely that he’d end up incinerated by dragonfire, but that failing, his final confrontation seemed destined to be with Jon Snow, who had faced him in battle several times before.
And in the end, neither happened, Dany’s dragonfire left the demonic entity unscathed, while Jon barely even got near him, spending most of his time instead dodging through the crumbling, zombie-infested wreckage of Winterfell. So it was left to Arya to deliver the blow that saved the Seven Kingdoms, stabbing the glacial baddie in exactly the right place with her Valyrian steel dagger to leave him shattered to pieces.
Arya’s role as savior was both unexpected and rousing, and it felt like she deserved it way more than the ever-sulky Jon. It was a great moment, but it felt a bit convenient that killing the Night King also instantaneously took out all his followers. The wights, yes, they’d been reanimated by him personally, but surely the rest of the White Walkers weren’t so dependent on him?
It also meant that he went to his icy grave still an enigma, surrounded by unanswered plot threads. What was his ultimate goal? Destruction for its own sake? What was he planning to do after he achieved this? He was a man of few words (well, no words, in fact), so no explanations were offered besides those tantalising glimpses of his creation in previous episodes.
Still, for me the Unstoppable Supernatural Menace aspect of the plot has always been the show’s least original part, functioning more as a MacGuffin to motivate the really interesting conflicts between rival Houses and claimants to the Iron Throne. Unstoppable Supernatural Menaces are two a penny in fantasy epics, perhaps best incarnated by the daddy of them all, Sauron in Lord of the Rings. By that token, Game of Thrones did pretty well revisiting a well that should pretty much have run dry.
I think Benioff and Weiss realise this too, hence the decision to bring this plotline to a close with half the final season’s episodes still to go. Some people, I gather, were disappointed to see what they felt was a premature end for the show’s main antagonist. I’m not, because, powerful and scary though the Night King was, he never felt like the main antagonist to me. No, she’s still in King’s Landing, and we have another half of the season to bring her story to a close.
Roll call of the dead
As expected, we lost quite a few major characters this week – though after a long period without major character deaths, it still wasn’t enough for some fans. Nonetheless, major or minor, these were beloved characters and all their deaths were felt.
Edd Tollett. Dour Night’s Watch man “Dolorous” Edd Tollett was one of the show’s longest serving characters, and one of just about three survivors of the Warch overall. His heroic demise, stabbed while saving the incapacitated Sam Tarly, was the first in a heavy casualty list this week.
Lady Lyanna Mormont. A minor character who grew to a much bigger stature than her real height, thanks in part to Bella Ramsey’s magnificently fiery performance. Lyanna’s ultimate sacrifice, dying even as she killed a zombie giant, was a true David and Goliath scene, and made me punch the air while watching.
Lord Beric Dondarrion. A minor character maybe, but a long standing one. We first heard of Beric way back in season one, when Ned Stark dispatched him to investigate murky rumours of Lannister treachery. Later, he founded the outlaw Brotherhood Without Banners, converted to worshipping the Lord of Light, and kept coming back to life everytime someone killed him. His luck finally ran out this week, but as the Red Woman commented, he had served his purpose.
Theon Greyjoy. Perhaps the most heartbreaking death, Theon first appeared in the very first episode, went bad, went good, went to be horrifically tortured by Ramsay Bolton for what felt like an eternity. His redemption was hard won, and felt fitting.
Melisandre. The so-called Red Woman clearly felt she too had served her purpose for the Lord of Light and went for a wander into the wilderness, discarding her magic necklace to die of extreme old age in tasteful long shot. She might have helped in the end, but she did rather screw everything up on the way there. Doubtful she’ll be missed.
Ser Jorah Mormont. The aptly nicknamed ‘Ser Friendzone’ went out the way he probably would have wanted – dying to defend a woman he loved who never felt the same way about him. Still, it was a heroic end, and his last sight was of that woman crying at his loss. Probably cheered him on his way.
The Night King. Boo! Hiss! The longstanding baddie finally went completely to pieces, and will certainly not be missed. His death does leave quite a power vacuum in the North, but it’s doubtful even the Starks want to get that cold for such a desolate bit of territory.
On balance, I felt this was about the best way the show could have wrapped up this storyline (when I could actually see what was going on), and the best place in the season to do it. As I’ve said for years, we’ve all seen Unstoppable Supernatural Menaces in fantasy stories before, and while well done, this was really just another one. The show’s emotional heart isn’t in the battle between living and dead; it’s in the battle for the Iron Throne. And I think we still have plenty of excitement and drama in the remaining three long episodes while that one gets wrapped up.
Author Simon FernandesPosted on April 30, 2019 Categories Game of Thrones reviewsTags Arya Stark, battle, dragons, Game of Thrones, Miguel Sapochnik, Night King, The Long Night, Unstoppable Supernatural Menace, wights White Walkers, Winterfell
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Matier And Ross
Rose Pak makes royal Rolls-Royce return to SF
By Matier and Ross on May 24, 2016 at 6:45 PM
Chinatown powerhouse Rose Pak gets big welcome home after return from China for kidney replacement.
From the greeting by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and two former mayors to the Rolls-Royce ride — complete with police escort — it would be hard to imagine anyone from President Obama on down topping the welcome for Chinatown majordomo Rose Pak on her return to the city.
The 300 greeters who took the drive out to the airport Monday for Pak’s welcome–home from China, where she underwent months of kidney treatment, included former Mayors Gavin Newsom and Willie Brown, Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and David Campos, Public Defender Jeff Adachi and City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
Also there was Academy of Art University President Elisa Stephens — whom Herrera just sued, claiming the school has illegally converted 22 buildings in the city into student housing and other uses.
Even acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin made the pilgrimage.
Pak wasted little time tossing out barbs as she emerged from customs, with Herrera being the first target.
“Are you going to serve me papers?” Pak mockingly asked, referring to the scrutiny she and her Chinatown allies have received in the past mostly from the district attorney’s office over their campaign tactics. “Or are you here to serve the mayor papers?”
Pak also publicly chided Herrera for suing her pal Stephens. After such pleasantries, she joined Brown and Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru in a burgundy Rolls-Royce from the Academy of Art’s classic-car collection and headed to a Chinatown luncheon — escorted by SFPD motorcycle officers.
“It was a Fellini movie — if it had been filmed for reality TV, nobody would have believed it,” said San Francisco PR agent Lee Houskeeper, who was among the spectators.
“Every year, tens of millions come and go from San Francisco International, but this is the first time I’ve seen a civic event of these proportions at the airport,” Peskin said. “It was actually quite entertaining.”
The entertainment continued at the Far East Cafe, where Pak was flanked at a luncheon banquet by Brown, Chaplin and police Deputy Chief Garret Tom, a longtime Pak protege who has been mentioned as a candidate for the chief’s job.
Also at the head table were Campos, Kim and Peskin — who defeated Lee’s hand-picked candidate for his supervisor’s seat last year, with Pak’s help.
As for the mayor, he missed the banquet — instead catching a flight to D.C. for a gun-safety conference at the White House. In doing so, he missed Pak’s expletive-laden remarks at the luncheon, laying in to Brown for persuading her to push Lee to run for mayor back in 2011.
Pak got a new kidney as part of her treatment in China, and said her doctor told her she could expect to live another 40 years. She said she needed only 15 years, including 10 to get the Ping Yuen public housing complex in Chinatown rebuilt.
And the other five years?
“To get even with the people who wished me dead.”
San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross appear Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Matier can be seen on the KPIX TV morning and evening news. He can also be heard on KCBS radio Monday through Friday at 7:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. Got a tip? Call (415) 777-8815, or email matierandross@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @matierandross
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Why the Russell Westbrook-James Harden pairing is a match made of desperation
Vincent Goodwill
Yahoo Sports July 12, 2019, 5:39 a.m. UTC
LAS VEGAS — The pressure was mounting for the Houston Rockets, and Russell Westbrook’s frustration was simmering, thus creating this alliance between old teammates and current friends, a marriage of desperation.
No contract is untradable in the NBA — not even Chris Paul’s — and with James Harden using his influence to force dramatic change, this seemed somewhat inevitable even if it doesn’t make the most basketball sense for the Houston Rockets.
“James made this [expletive] happen,” a league source told Yahoo Sports. “He wanted Chris up out of there.”
Rockets GM Daryl Morey is the most analytically driven executive in the game, a pioneer of sorts. This deal would seem counter to his sensibilities, at least with Westbrook’s game and the risks that come with it.
If it’s desperation on all parties then the damage of failure could be devastating and the carnage far-reaching if the results don’t yield a deep run into June.
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The Harden-Paul relationship had run its course, a slight but sure window that couldn’t lead the Rockets to the apex. Westbrook’s time in Oklahoma City didn’t crash and burn, but a third straight first-round exit had him recalibrating his future as the clock on his prime ticked louder and louder.
He appears to be the direct opposite to Paul in some ways. Paul’s game meshed better with Harden’s than Westbrook’s likely will but their personalities didn’t. Westbrook’s personality and connection to Harden are unassailable, but the questions begin at the fit on the court.
The triple-double machine won an MVP in 2017 but little else tangibly, and he went to the place he felt it could work best. And the friendship he shares with Harden — dating back to their years as Los Angeles youths and strengthened in Oklahoma City when they were the dynasty that should’ve been — made Houston the perfect place for a last-chance run at something substantial in an NBA that has changed rapidly over the last two months.
Westbrook wanted out and his connection to Oklahoma City — his willingness to stay with the franchise when others wouldn’t — dictated the Thunder do right by him. He’s not going kicking and screaming, but presumably with eyes wide open at what’s ahead and what must change.
Russell Westbrook and James Harden are teaming up. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
It doesn’t look like it can work, at least not in the way that one would think of two recent MVP’s joining forces. Taking on Westbrook requires a lot of maintenance, and you can’t wait until he gets there to get your house in order.
The steel beams had better be reinforced because a Texas tornado is coming. Ball-dominant James Harden. Game-dominant Russell Westbrook.
What they have in common is a willingness to make it work, which isn’t always a given in these circumstances.
“I love everything [Westbrook] stands for from a competitive standpoint,” a league executive told Yahoo Sports. “He never cheats the game. He gives you a shot each and every night. I have great respect for that and that’s made him the player he is today.”
He still carries the mindset of a low-level recruit who did the daily chores of his best friend after he passed away in high school, the determined and undeterred collegian who was looked over at UCLA before becoming one of the league’s fiercest competitors.
“He plays so hard, almost violently, you’ll have some concern [about whether he can] stay at that level for the amount [he makes]. I think he’s good this year and the next year, where he’ll be 32,” the executive said. “Then when he’s making $44 [million] and $47 million [in 2021-22 and ’22-23, respectively], there’s concern. Can he play at that level? He doesn’t have the kind of game that ages well. He’s not a jump shooter. So much of what he does depends on athleticism. He still has that fire in his belly, but does he have the necessary skills to fall back on? I don’t think you want to gut your team to get him because he’ll be alone and he’ll be frustrated. You’ll need pieces around him for the things he doesn’t do.”
The good news is the Rockets didn’t gut their team for Westbrook, aside from trading future assets to a Thunder team that seemingly controls the draft for the next half-decade. The Rockets still have the shell of a championship contender, but whether Westbrook is an upgrade over Paul is an uneasy discussion, even with Paul’s inconsistent health.
And how much can coach Mike D’Antoni withstand? How long will Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta give him considering things didn’t look so well after the second-round loss to the Golden State Warriors?
Chemistry takes time and time is not on D’Antoni’s side, especially because he’ll be tasked with harnessing Westbrook to presumably take a backseat to Harden. Not that he’ll need to be tough on Westbrook, but the best thing former coaches Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan did with Westbrook was “letting Russ be Russ.”
That can’t be the strategy this time, or it’ll hasten the likelihood for disaster.
“The issue is he’s never had real coaching since he’s been in the league,” the executive told Yahoo Sports. “So how far gone is he? He probably would [buy] in, but you have to be willing to clash with him off the rip. Whether it’s front office or coach or player, you have to be willing to hold him accountable, to have that conversation. He’d respect you.”
Most league executives believed Miami was the best fit for Westbrook because it had three tenets of excellence: a strong front office led by Pat Riley, a battle-tested, a championship coach in Erik Spoelstra, and a locker room with an incoming player in Jimmy Butler who doesn’t back down from anybody.
Houston has successful figures at those spots, but is it stable?
“You better have some competitive guys, that’s for sure,” the executive said. “The guys that struggle to play with him, they don’t possess that. You need like-minded spirits who aren’t afraid to stand up to him when he’s wrong. He respects fighters, he respects toughness.
“That was the core of his rift with Durant: He knew he was more of an alpha male than KD.”
Rekindling the “woulda, coulda, shoulda” conversations should be the least of Westbrook’s and Harden’s focus. Maximizing this minute window that seems pried open with a plastic crowbar is all they can focus on.
It’ll require Westbrook to reverse a career trend that saw his shooting fall off a cliff, perhaps due to recovering from his third major knee surgery. The bull-in-a-china-shop approach that made him the people’s champ must be replaced by veteran savvy, the ability to pick his spots and a mature career perspective.
“He has the physical and mental makeup, I’m not sure he has the savvy for it. He’s got everything else,” another executive told Yahoo Sports. “But savvy leads championship teams. That’s why I think you need someone who knows time and score, etc., that he can defer to. Russ has never had to defer to anyone because his will was stronger than everybody. And he’s right. There’s not too many guys around.
“Dwyane Wade, in his prime. Paul George was never challenging the throne. Giannis [Antetokounmpo] is pretty headstrong. Kawhi Leonard, he ain't running from Russ. You have to be willing to fight him.”
Harden doesn’t seem to be the type, but the key is he doesn’t have to be. Their collective sweat equity, connection and downright desperation will have to be enough to keep this afloat because the present, the future and their legacies are riding on it.
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Fantasy: 9 handcuffs with league-winning upside
Justin Boone
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Get ready for your season with theScore's 2019 Fantasy Football Draft Kit and subscribe to push notifications in the NFL Fantasy News section.
Given the rate at which injuries strike the running back position, knowing who's next in line for carries is critical for fantasy owners.
Not all backups are created equal, and while the league-winning potential for players like Jaylen Samuels and Darrell Henderson may be obvious, there are many handcuffs who aren't getting the respect they deserve in fantasy drafts.
Here's a look at nine backups who have top-15 upside if their team's starter is sidelined, with notes on all 32 backfields below.
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James Conner Jaylen Samuels
While the Steelers have talked up a committee approach, beat writers aren't buying it. That makes Samuels an overqualified backup. In the three games where Samuels saw at least 15 touches last season, he was the RB11 in PPR formats.
Todd Gurley Darrell Henderson
Gurley's workload will be reduced in 2019, turning him into more of a low-end RB1 in fantasy while instantly creating a role for Henderson in one of the league's top offenses. If Gurley's knee causes him to miss time, Henderson would vault into the top 10 in my weekly fantasy rankings.
Damien Williams Carlos Hyde
Hyde's effectiveness has declined over his last few stops, but the Chiefs' running back-friendly system is a fantasy star-maker. It transformed Williams from career backup to late-season hero. Now, Williams enters the year as the clear starter, but if he struggles or is sidelined, Hyde could have a similar second-half surge.
Joe Mixon Giovani Bernard
Bernard is one of the most reliable replacements in the league, delivering borderline RB1 numbers whenever Cincy's lead back has missed time. In his two lone starts last season, Bernard racked up 182 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns. Heading into a contract year, this could be his final run with the Bengals.
David Johnson Chase Edmonds
Edmonds has impressed head coach Kliff Kingsbury, who said he expects a "really nice role" for the sophomore back. Still, it's unlikely Edmonds makes any real impact on Johnson's touches. Edmonds did show enough as a rookie for fantasy owners to stash him with confidence in the event he's thrust into a bigger role due to an injury. The Cardinals' new high-volume attack should benefit their running backs just as much as their receivers.
David Montgomery Mike Davis
Davis' comments since signing in Chicago suggests he's under the impression that he'll get regular work with his new club. However, the Bears used a third-round selection on Montgomery, who profiles as a three-down option, and dynamic pass-catching threat Tarik Cohen isn't going to be phased out anytime soon. On the plus side for Davis, his all-around skill set allows him to serve as the backup to both Montgomery and Cohen, giving him two paths to fantasy relevance in 2019.
Sony Michel Damien Harris
Harris' landing spot and draft capital make him very intriguing. An offseason knee scope kept Michel out of OTAs and has the fantasy community questioning his durability. It also might explain why New England used a third-round pick on Harris, just one year after drafting Michel in Round 1. The Patriots will continue to lean on the run as Tom Brady's career winds down, creating significant touchdown upside on the ground. Harris will be the next man up if Michel can't stay on the field, with James White handling passing-down duties.
Dalvin Cook Alexander Mattison
The Vikings' shift toward a run-heavy approach began late last year and was further choreographed by offensive adviser Gary Kubiak upon his arrival. With Cook's injury history - he missed 17 games over two seasons - fantasy owners need to become familiar with his new backup. Mattison, a surprise pick at the end of the third round, stood out against weaker competition in college, and while he doesn't offer elite talent, he has enough in his toolbox to produce in this scheme.
Kerryon Johnson C.J. Anderson
Similar to the division rival Vikings, Detroit has announced its intention to power the offense with the run, which started last season and progressed with the hiring of coordinator Darrell Bevell. Anderson proved he can still make a difference after the Rams signed him as Todd Gurley insurance in December. The veteran had at least 123 rushing yards and a score in three straight games before Gurley returned to the lineup. The Lions' attack isn't nearly as prolific as Los Angeles' and their offensive line won't be opening the same kind of holes, but Anderson needs to be owned in case he's called upon again as an emergency starter.
Other handcuffs to consider
Seahawks - Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny are more of a one-two punch heading into their second season together. The Seahawks led the league in rushing attempts last year and will challenge for that honor in 2019 as well, which could make both backs fantasy starters. Rookie Travis Homer is a sneaky name to monitor as a potential replacement if either Carson or Penny hit the trainer's table.
Saints - Like Penny, Latavius Murray doesn't really qualify as a handcuff since he'll have standalone value even with Alvin Kamara on the field. Murray will flirt with top-30 fantasy numbers in Mark Ingram's old role. If you're looking deeper, Javorius Allen appears to be best suited to back up Kamara, while Devine Ozigbo would step in for Murray.
Broncos - The gap between Phillip Lindsay and Royce Freeman might be closing as the former recovers from wrist surgery this offseason. Lindsay is still the better fantasy option, but with Freeman better suited to the new offense, this could be more of a committee approach than previously envisioned.
Eagles - Jordan Howard and rookie Miles Sanders will compete for touches in Philly. Many assumed the latter would start, but snaps might be divided fairly evenly now that Howard has gained ground after Sanders sat out OTAs with a hamstring injury. Corey Clement got his chance to shine when Jay Ajayi went down last year but did nothing with the opportunity.
49ers - Tevin Coleman has taken the lead with Jerick McKinnon and Matt Breida working their way back from injuries. That's likely the pecking order they'll be in to enter the season. Breida is worth a late-round fantasy pick, but he'll need another wave of injuries to strike the depth chart if he's going to be a fantasy starter again.
Colts - Indy's offensive line has reached a point where it might turn any ball carrier into a fantasy star. Marlon Mack is the starter with Nyheim Hines as his change-of-pace back, but keep Jordan Wilkins and Spencer Ware on your watchlist. Whoever wins that camp battle for the No. 3 job will be worth rostering.
Browns - Kareem Hunt is suspended for eight games, which makes him very difficult to stash unless your league has deep benches. Duke Johnson's status with the team is uncertain after he asked to be traded. So that leaves Dontrell Hilliard to potentially serve as Nick Chubb's backup for the first half of the year. Hilliard isn't worth drafting but could be a hot waiver wire pickup if something happens to Chubb.
Ravens - Mark Ingram is the man in Baltimore with rookie Justice Hill set to spell him. No team rushed the ball more than the Ravens once Lamar Jackson took over at quarterback, so Hill will be in consideration as a flex. Last year's fantasy darling Gus Edwards will need an injury to Ingram to get back into the lineup.
Chargers - Austin Ekeler might be able to sneak into your PPR lineups even when Melvin Gordon is healthy. Whether he can hold up as a feature back over an extended period remains to be seen. Justin Jackson was deployed in tandem with Ekeler when Gordon sat out a couple of games in 2018.
Jaguars - It's only a matter of time before Leonard Fournette gets hurt, so get ahead of the pack and invest in rookie Ryquell Armstead. Veterans Alfred Blue, Benny Cunningham, and Thomas Rawls don't offer the same upside.
Packers - Aaron Jones is the unquestioned starter now that Mike McCarthy is gone. The No. 2 job isn't quite as defined anymore after the Packers drafted Dexter Williams. Jamaal Williams has put in workmanlike performances when asked to start and is the favorite to handle that task yet again.
Dolphins - A new coaching staff in Miami means a fresh start for everyone. Kenyan Drake has never been asked to carry a full workload and it's unlikely Bill Belichick disciple Brian Flores will lean on a bell-cow back for 16 games. Kalen Ballage hasn't done much outside of a 75-yard touchdown, but he's the one to own behind Drake.
Falcons - Considering Devonta Freeman's recent injury history and the upgrades to the Falcons' offensive line, it's worth considering who can step up in the backfield. Ito Smith's versatility earned him a complementary role last season and gives him the advantage over power backs Qadree Ollison and Brian Hill.
Redskins - As much as you want to be excited about Derrius Guice's fantasy outlook, his ongoing rehab and the presence of Adrian Peterson and Chris Thompson should cap the enthusiasm. Even at 34 years old, Peterson can still get it done and his fantasy value can't be discounted until we know Guice is healthy.
Titans - Dion Lewis averaged a career-low 3.3 yards per carry in 2018. Heading into his age-29 season, his only value moving forward is as a pass-catching reliever behind Derrick Henry.
Texans - We continue to wait on D'Onta Foreman, who's trying to overcome an Achilles' tear suffered in 2017. Undrafted free agent Damarea Crockett's speed score is worth taking note of in a backfield that's desperate for a rusher who can complement or usurp Lamar Miller, who's in a contract year.
Cowboys - Rookies Tony Pollard and Mike Weber will engage in a camp fight to see who gets to back up Ezekiel Elliott. Pollard is the more intriguing of the two given his receiving skills.
Bills - It's possible that any of the Bills' four top backs - LeSean McCoy, Frank Gore, Devin Singletary, and T.J. Yeldon - ends up as the starter this year. McCoy isn't guaranteed to make the team, Gore has outlasted his doubters at 36 years old, Yeldon was added in free agency, and Singletary was a third-round pick in April. It's best to avoid this headache until we know more.
Panthers - Christian McCaffrey answered any questions about his ability to be a workhorse. Even so, he still plays the position that incurs the most injuries. Normally, fantasy owners would be actively seeking out his backup in case he breaks down, but it’s a wide-open competition behind McCaffrey between Jordan Scarlett, Cameron Artis-Payne, and Elijah Holyfield.
Buccaneers - Peyton Barber and Ronald Jones are a poor man's version of some of the better duos we discussed above. Further down the depth chart, Bruce Anderson has garnered a little buzz but remains a best-ball dart throw.
Jets - Elijah McGuire and Bilal Powell will battle it out for the right to be Le'Veon Bell's handcuff. McGuire should win the job, but he's not a back who can create for himself and would need the offense to prop him up.
Raiders - With Isaiah Crowell already on injured reserve, Jalen Richard and Doug Martin will be asked to insulate rookie starter Josh Jacobs. As we learned last year, your fantasy season is in trouble if you have to start Richard or Martin.
Giants - Wayne Gallman has company with the arrivals of Rod Smith and rookie Jon Hilliman. It's hard to imagine anyone from that trio excelling in the Giants' offense. Saquon Barkley's talent covers up so many holes and is impossible to replicate.
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Brigitte Gabriel – Open Letter to President Obama.
July 3, 2009 by cao2
Dear Mr. President,
You face difficult challenges in matters such as achieving peace in the Middle East and protecting America from the threat of radical Islam and terrorism. These are challenges that have vexed past presidents, going as far back as our second president, John Adams. I have no doubt you appreciate both the gravity of these challenges and the enormous obstacles that exist to solving them.
I also have no doubt that you and your staff understood that, no matter what you said in your speech last Thursday (June 4, 2009) in Cairo, there would be those who would take issue with you. That is always the case when attempting to solve problems that are as deep and emotionally-laden as these challenges are.
I am assuming it is your sincere hope that the approach you have chosen to take, as evidenced by what I’m sure was a carefully crafted speech, will ultimately prove successful. However, it pains me to say this sir, but, while you said in your speech that you are a “student of history,” it is abundantly clear that, in these matters, you do not know history and thus, as Santayana noted, you are doomed to repeat it. In doing so your efforts, however well-intentioned they may be, will not produce what you profess to hope they will produce.
A wise man once said that if you start with the wrong assumptions, no matter how logical your reasoning is, you will end up with the wrong conclusion. With all due respect Mr. President, you are starting with certain assumptions that are unsupported by history and an objective study of the ideology of political Islam.
You began in your speech by asserting that “tensions” exist between the United States and Muslims around the world, which, of course, is correct. Unfortunately, you then proceeded, incorrectly, to lay virtually all the blame for these tensions at the feet of America and the West. You blamed western colonialism, the Cold War, and even modernity and globalism.
A student of American history, who is not trying to reconstruct it to fit a modern politically correct narrative, would state that tensions between America and Muslims began with the unprovoked, four-decades long assault by the Muslim Barbary pirates against American shipping in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I find it telling that you mentioned the Treaty of Tripoli in your speech but <u>ignored</u> the circumstances that led to it. That treaty was but one of numerous attempts by the United States to achieve peace with the jihadists of the Barbary Coast who were attacking our shipping and killing and enslaving our citizens and our soldiers and who by their own admission were doing so to fulfill the call to jihad.
These jihadists were not acting to protest American foreign policy, which was decidedly isolationist, and there was no state of Israel to scapegoat. They were doing what countless Islamic jihadists have done throughout history, acting upon the hundreds of passages in the Qur’an and the Hadith that call upon faithful Muslims to kill, conquer or subjugate the infidel.
A student of world history would know that, for all the acknowledged evils of Western colonialism, these evils pale in comparison to the nearly 14 centuries of Islamic colonialism that began in Arabia under the leadership of Mohammed. The student of history would know that Islamic forces eradicated all Jewish and Christian presence from Arabia after Mohammed’s
death, and then succeeded in conquering all of North Africa, most of the Middle East, much of Asia Minor, and significant portions of Europe and India, eventually creating an empire larger than Rome’s was at its peak.
The number of dead and enslaved during these many centuries of Islamic imperial conquest and colonialism have been estimated to total more than 300 million. What’s more, the wealth of many of the conquered nations and cultures was plundered by the Islamic conquerors, and millions of non-Muslims who did survive were forced to pay onerous taxes, such as the
“jizya,” a humiliation tax to the Islamic caliphs. Indeed, in some areas Christians and Jews were made to wear a receipt for the jizya around their neck as a mark of their dishonor.
These facts have not been invented by Christian or Jewish historical revisionists, but were chronicled by Muslim eyewitnesses throughout the past 14 centuries and are available to be researched by any person seeking an objective understanding of how Islam spread throughout the world.
You say in your speech that we must squarely face the tensions that exist between America and the Muslim world. That is a laudable notion with which I agree, but by casting Islam as the historical victim and the West (and by implication, America) as the aggressor, you do not face these tensions squarely, but alleviate the Muslim world from coming to grips with the
jihadist ideology embedded in its holy books and acted upon for 1,400 years.
Even worse, you empower and embolden militant Islamists who regard your gestures as signs of weakness and capitulation.
The issue is not that all Muslims are terrorists or radicals or extremists. We all know that the majority of Muslims are not. We also know that many peace-loving Muslims are victims of Islamist violence.
The issue is this: what drives hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide to call for the death of Jews?
What drives millions of Muslims to riot, destroy property, and take innocent lives in reaction to the Danish cartoons?
What drives tens of thousands of Muslims to demand the execution of a British teacher whose only “crime” was allowing her students to name their teddy bears “Mohammed”?
What drives countless Muslims worldwide to actively participate in, or fund, or provide nurture to terrorist organizations?
What drives Muslims in mosques in America to proclaim and distribute materials that call for hatred of and the destruction of infidels?
What drives entire Islamic countries to prohibit the building of a church or synagogue?
To assume, as you apparently do, that what drives these actions is not an ideology embedded in the holy books of Islam, but rather other “root causes,” most of which you lay at the feet of America and the West, is at best naïve and at worst dangerous.
Lastly, I must address your statement that “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” Unfortunately, the examples you gave are the exception rather than the rule.
Historically speaking, I seriously doubt the Egyptian Copts, the Lebanese Maronites, the Christians in Bethlehem, the Assyrians, the Hindus, the Jews, and many others who have been persecuted by Islamic violence and supremacism, would agree with your assertion.
For instance, Christians and Jews became “Dhimmis,” a second class group under Islam. Dhimmis were forced to wear distinctive clothing; it was Baghdad’s Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, in the ninth century, who designated a yellow badge for Jews under Islam, which Hitler copied and duplicated in Nazi Germany nearly a thousand years later.
I witnessed first-hand the “tolerance” of Islam when Islamists ravaged my country of birth, Lebanon, in the 1970’s, leaving widespread death and destruction in their wake. I saw how they re-paid the tolerance that Lebanese Christians extended toward them. My experience is not an isolated one. When you make an unfounded assertion about the “proud tradition” of tolerance in Islam, you do a great disservice to the hundreds of millions of non-Muslims who have been killed, maimed, enslaved, conquered, subjugated or displaced in the cause of Islamic jihad.
Mr. President, those of us like me who are ringing the alarm in America about the threat of radical Islam would like nothing better than to peacefully co-exist with the Muslim world.
Most Americans would like nothing better than to peacefully co-exist with the Muslim world. The obstacle to achieving this does not lie with us in America and the West. It lies with the hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide, including many of their spiritual leaders, who take seriously the repeated calls to jihad in the Qur’an and the Hadith Who regard “infidels” as inferior and worthy of conquering, subjugating and forcibly converting.Who support “cultural jihad” as a means to subvert non-Muslim societies from within. Who take seriously the admonitions throughout the Qur’an and the Hadith to convert the world to Islam by force if necessary and bring it under the rule of Allah.
Unless you are willing to courageously and honestly accept this, your aspirations for worldwide comity and peace in the Middle East are doomed to fail.
Brigitte Gabriel
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How Do I Become a Robotics Engineer?
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Robotics engineers design robots, and research and develop programs and applications for robots. They also work in testing and product development, testing the robot’s components to create the final design. Robotics engineers are involved with the creation and development of tools, factory equipment, automated systems and toys.
Graduate high school. Take classes in math, computer science and drafting. These courses will help you to develop the skill that you will need to do well in college. In particular, you will need algebra, calculus, physics and computer science.
Apply to and graduate from an accredited university. You will need at least a Bachelor of Science to become a robotics engineer. Develop a strong knowledge in math, computer science and engineering. You will also need to take robotics theory, robotics laboratory, design and development. Specialize in mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineering. If possible, enroll in an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) program at your college.
Go to graduate school and earn a Master of Science in Engineering with a specialty in robotics. This will enable you to seek a higher paying position right after graduation than with a B.Sc. alone.
Look for a job as a robotics engineer. Recent graduates have the best chances of finding work with manufacturing companies, military agencies and other private organizations. Most online job boards, including CareerBuilder and Monster, list positions for robotics engineers.
When taking high school level courses, you should ideally take advanced placement classes. This will greatly enhance your chance of getting into a top college or university.
Make sure that you graduate with a high GPA as this will enhance your chances at finding a good paying entry-level job.
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Assembly notes - 2 May
Head Prefect asks the school to stand. Greets the school. Asks for silence as he does a prayer. He then announces the national anthem. Sing. He then asks the school to sit.
Tim Goodman
In the last week of the holidays the College sailing team took part in the Secondary Schools 420 class Teams racing Nationals in Northland. Six boats from two different teams raced in short 10 to 15 minute races with the aim of tactically defeating your opponent so that your combined team score when places are added together equal 10 or less for each race. After 40 races the College team won 15 races in total giving them 12th place out of 15 in the bronze fleet. Overall, the 33rd out of 36 participating teams after six continuous days of competition was a memorable and very rewarding experience for this young team of mostly year 10 and 11 boys.
The College Senior waterpolo side travelled to Wellington in the holidays for the National schools competition. College was the only representative from the South Island in the A grade. In pool play there were three defeats with two narrow losses to Auckland Grammar (8-6) and Mt Maunganui College (9-6). In playoff matches College then had two wins over Hamilton BHS and Mt Albert Grammar before a final loss to Kings College. Overall the College side finished 12th at their first National tournament in a number of years.
The winter season is well underway with a number of sports having preseason and competition matches.
The 1st XI hockey side travelled to Melbourne Grammar for a preseason tournament. The squad enjoyed a successful week and returned home as tournament winners. In pool play the team won all four matches before defeating Scotch College, Adelaide 5-2 in the semifinal. In the final the team played Hale School, Perth and in a tough match the College side eventually came out on top 3-1. The 1st XI will play their first local match on Friday against St Andrews while all other teams will also have their first matches of the season.
During the holidays the Canterbury U18 hockey trials were held with the following College players making the two teams – Louis Beckert, Lewey Heale, Nic Lidstone, Henry Phelps, Lars Dalley and Will Duston. Congratulations to these boys.
The 1st and 2nd XV travelled to Nelson last week for their final preseason camp before their first competition game. The 2nd XV played a preseason match against Nelson College 2nd XV and won a very close match by 17-15. The 1st XV played their first match of the UC championship and in an incredibly tight contest, College lost the match 22-21 to begin their season. This weekend is club day for the College rugby club with all teams playing at home. The 1st XV will play against St Thomas at 2.30pm.
Football has had three rounds of games to date with the latest round occurring on the weekend. The 2nd XI benefitted from a two day training camp at the end of last week to defeat St Bedes 2nd XI by 6-0. Goal scorers were Roberto O’Shannessey, Lachy Duff, Mitchell Sammut, Harry McGurk and two to Owen Rees. Other teams had close matches without managing to pick up a win with the 14A side drawing their match 1 all with Waimak United thanks to an Archie Franks goal.
On Wednesday the 1st XI side play their opening match of the season against Rangiora HS.
Four of the College basketball sides began their season on Saturday. The Senior A side are involved in both the U23 and U20 competition while there are teams in the U17 and U15 grades. Both the U23 and U20 sides were missing key players with the U23 losing by 97-70. Sam Julian played very well for the U20 side in their loss to Pioneer while Mason Whitaker played an outstanding game for the U17 side. Hamish Patterson shot a number of 3 pointers for the U15 side in their loss to Shirley Spartans.
It is a busy time at the start of the term with all winter sports getting organised for the season ahead. Please keep an eye on notices through email and on the sport noticeboard to ensure you are aware of meeting and practice times for your sport.
Student Speaker
Ben Aitken - speaking about the schedule for the Arts and Culture Committee for this term
Hey boys, my name is Ben Aitken, and i’m speaking as a representative of the arts and culture committee this year.
The committee aims to promote a student lead arts program around the school, which is not dependant on the work of a select group of boys. To ensure this each member of the committee will have specific role to play.
This also means you will have a boy in each house who you can go talk to surrounding any ideas you might have for arts and culture in the school.
This term, the arts committee will be holding an Arts Week in week 3, and will also be introducing art displays, and movie nights for boarders.
Arts week is a chance for boys to experience a side of college, they may not see on an everyday basis, and also gives boys a chance to demonstrate hidden talents. With that in mind i’m issuing a call to all boys interested in photography to choose some of your works be it, for school or personal and deliver the file to Mrs. Banks in the Library for printing and distribution around the school.
Stay tuned around school for more information on Arts Week - there may be some spot prizes to win.
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How to update security bulletin MS10-013 on a Windows Server 2000 box?
Prateek Kr Dubey May 28, 2010
While updating your Windows 2000 box with latest security fixes you may get a situation where you may be stuck with the security fix MS10-013 asking you to update the latest DirectX.
Basically this happens when you are doing a system update with the security patches released from Microsoft. The security update MS10-013 published on February 09, 2010, says to upgrade DirectX before applying this patch.
To update the latest DirectX on your Windows 2000 box please click the like below:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en
This link will take you to the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer which is supported on Windows 2000 as can be seen under the “System Requirements” section highlighted in yellow below.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Advanced Server; Windows 2000 Professional Edition ; Windows 2000 Server; Windows 2000 Service Pack 2; Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4;
Most of the details of this security update can be seen at the security bulletin from link http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-013.mspx.
This security update affects the DirectShow components:
1. AVI Filter (Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ba110440-10ce-40a0-884a-8b9afd45a3e3&displaylang=en)
2. Quartz (Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=16787c93-2c95-4c13-8492-be1db9d18146&displaylang=en)
More details of this security update can be found at the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975560/.
For Windows 2000, the files affected are:
Quartz in DirectX 9.0 (if you have installed DirectX 9.0) in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Msyuv.dll
Quartz.dll
For Quartz in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
1. What is "Msyuv.dll"?
Msyuv.dll is part of the Windows operating system and can convert the image data format from UYVY to RGB16 or RGB8 or to a Microsoft DirectDraw surface if the video card supports UYVY format.
2. What is Quartz.dll?
The core library for the DirectShow runtime is quartz.dll, located at %windir%\system32\quartz.dll. It contains the most important COM interfaces and coclasses for audio and video playback.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-013.mspx.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975560/.
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Non-diabetic bodies make a chemical called insulin to lower writing my papers high blood glucose, and a substance called glucagon to elevate low blood glucose. Translation demands several enzymes and factors for the approach. Animal cells shrink because of this.
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To the contrary, the rest of the part of the body is merely shrinking. Much like every time a construction provider creates blueprints before they actually begin a project, your entire body requires some sort of plan to achieve this. In reality, osmotic pressure has become the most critical supply of support in plants.
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After the selection of prospective codons exceeds 20, the genetic code is thought to be degenerate. That’s a fairly extensive classification. Never mind it will turn out to be around.
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Transition mutations are somewhat more common than transversion mutations and are not as likely to make a difference in the amino acid sequence in comparison with transversions. A gene is a certain segment of DNA. Moreover, prokaryotes frequently have abundant plasmids, https://www.roanestate.edu/owl/WritingLitAnalysis1.html which are shorter circular DNA molecules that might just contain one or a number of genes.
DNA includes four nucleotide bases that are paired with each other to provide DNA its double helical form. RNA and DNA are extremely similar molecules. Transcription employs a strand of DNA for a template to create a molecule called RNA.
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Each system has benefits and challenges, and picking the appropriate system for the particular application is essential for successful recombinant protein expression. For transcription to work, there have to be some method of identifying where the procedure should start and stop. You must interact with a client at each amount of translation approach.
Initiator tRNA initiates the translation whilst stop codons have zero tRNA. Dispersed transcription is easily the most typical mode of transcription in vertebrates. It refers to the process of creating proteins from an mRNA template.
When the RNA has reached the cytoplasm, there’s still no guarantee that it’s going to be translated. Distinct copies of RNA are made in transcription that is needed by the cell while the protein produced during the practice of translation is utilized by the various functions. The procedure is important for the cell while the principal requirement for it’s the RNA polymerase.
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When people, that are studying it, get confused about the very same sort of terms it can become very irritating. By going over the material in this manner, you’re not merely memorizing it, but you’re studying it in a sense that will permit the knowledge to stay with you for an extremely long moment. If you’re able to clearly explain the procedure to another person, then you truly know it.
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For translation to begin the start codon5’AUG has to be recognised. Translators don’t need to be concerned about source formats and other technical issues and can concentrate just on translating.
When the technical verification is finished, translations can further be reviewed by another translator. This approach is known as translation. In the same way, a translator may discover that it’s tough to differentiate between masculine and feminine nouns.
There’s no requirement of an adapter molecule in the procedure for transcription while an adapter molecule is needed for the procedure for translation. Clients may enjoy the complete power of our translation system, without needing to know paramount essays com its inner-working. This YouTube video indicates the molecular components involved with the approach.
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Transition mutations are somewhat more frequent than transversions. Now, it’s prepared to translocate. It’s crucial because each time a linear chromosome is duplicated, it’s shortened.
What you’re searching for is known as the central dogma of protein synthesis. Within this lab you transcribe and translate genetic sequences to decide which dog’s DNA you’ve received. Point mutations are the consequence of the substitution of one base.
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Their typical diffusion rate is predicted to depend upon that ordinary velocity, which provides a relative diffusion rate. Thus DNA has the ability to exert a controlling influence over the complete cell and in the long run, the full organism. All cells with a nucleus contain precisely the same exact genetic info.
There are various pore sizes of membranes utilized for reverse osmosis. It is a type of diffusion that, in biology, is usually related to cells. Plant cells rely on turgidity to keep up their rigidity.
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Marital status, widowhood duration, gender and health outcomes: a cross-sectional study among older adults in India
Jessica M. Perkins†1, 2,
Hwa-young Lee†3,
K. S. James4,
Juhwan Oh3,
Aditi Krishna5,
Jongho Heo3, 6,
Jong-koo Lee3, 7Email author and
S. V. Subramanian1, 5
†Contributed equally
BMC Public HealthBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201616:1032
Previous research has demonstrated health benefits of marriage and the potential for worse outcomes during widowhood in some populations. However, few studies have assessed the relevance of widowhood and widowhood duration to a variety of health-related outcomes and chronic diseases among older adults in India, and even fewer have examined these relationships stratified by gender.
Using a cross-sectional representative sample of 9,615 adults aged 60 years or older from 7 states in diverse regions of India, we examine the relationship between widowhood and self-rated health, psychological distress, cognitive ability, and four chronic diseases before and after adjusting for demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, living with children, and rural–urban location for men and women, separately. We then assess these associations when widowhood accounts for duration.
Being widowed as opposed to married was associated with worse health outcomes for women after adjusting for other explanatory factors. Widowhood in general was not associated with any outcomes for men except for cognitive ability, though men who were widowed within 0–4 years were at greater risk for diabetes compared to married men. Moreover, recently widowed women and women who were widowed long-term were more likely to experience psychological distress, worse self-rated health, and hypertension, even after adjusting for other explanatory variables, whereas women widowed 5–9 years were not, compared to married women.
Gender, the duration of widowhood, and type of outcome are each relevant pieces of information when assessing the potential for widowhood to negatively impact health. Future research should explore how the mechanisms linking widowhood to health vary over the course of widowhood. Incorporating information about marital relationships into the design of intervention programs may help better target potential beneficiaries among older adults in India.
Self-rated health
Psychological distress
Empirical research spanning several decades has demonstrated that married people experience a range of physical and mental health benefits and greater functionality, self-rated health, and longevity as compared to non-married individuals [1–6]. Previous research exploring mechanisms linking marital status and health outcomes has posited several ways that marriage and health are causally associated [1, 7, 8]. First, marriage may offer economic, social, and psychological benefits, which may promote good health. These mechanisms may include access to sufficient economic resources, social control of behaviors by one’s spouse, or a sense of social support within the marital relationship. Second, transitioning to widowhood may induce significant strain upon a sudden change in resources, a change which leads to negative effects [9]. Alternatively, assortative mating based on health may occur [10, 11]. Also, research has found that healthier people tend to get married and stay married while unhealthy people tend to become widowed or divorced [12–16]. Regardless of mechanism, longitudinal studies have provided evidence of links between earlier marital status states and marital transitions to later wellbeing, health-related outcomes, chronic disease and mortality, [2, 7, 17–24] though the direction and strength of associations vary across studies and outcomes. Moreover, associations between marital status and health-related outcomes have remained even after adjusting for various sets of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Widowhood is inherently a gendered and cultured experience as the salience of different mechanisms linking widowhood to health may depend on gender and on local norms [9]. Much of the formative research on marital status and health associations has been conducted in high-income countries where a substantial number of studies examining gender differences in the widowhood-health relationship have found evidence of worse outcomes for men, [5, 25–29] findings which are posited to be due to the loss of social and psychological support from the wife. However, results are mixed across the literature [30–33]. Moreover, research has provided evidence of variation in the relationships between marital status and health outcomes across cultures [9, 34–44]. Indeed, widowhood may differently affect men and women across contexts due to differences in gender norms and marriage traditions. For example, in some contexts widowhood may lead to increased financial strain for women while it may lead to increased household strain for men [45]. That relationship may differ in other contexts where roles and responsibilities differ by gender. Moreover, in patriarchal cultures, remarriage may not be a realistic option for women (particularly older women), thus forcing older women to remain widowed and without resources indefinitely [46]. In contrast, men may easily seek remarriage [44, 47]. If a woman is widowed from a young age without much ability to remarry due to cultural barriers (particularly if she already has children), then she may be economically disadvantaged for life. Alternatively, older men in some cultures where wives traditionally take care of men may be less able to cope with a loss of a spouse for longer periods whereas the existence of strong family ties (particularly other female familial relationships) may prevent negative effects in the short-term. In places where paternalistic norms are pervasive in everyday life (particularly in patterns of behavior related to economic opportunities, social activities, marriage traditions, and reputations), becoming widowed may severely restrict an individual’s ability to access financial, affective, informational, or physical resources, which in turn might affect health outcomes.
In India, a country with strict gender norms and traditional kinship systems, [48–50] widowhood is considered to be a dreaded phase of life among some groups, particularly for women [51]. Traditionally, the woman’s main role in India was to care for her husband. Upon losing her husband, the main purpose to life was lost. As she belonged to her husband’s family, in-laws frequent viewed widowed women as a burden. In the past, a traditional Hindu custom (which is the dominant religion in India) called for widows to commit suicide upon the death of their husband, [52] and although the practice is illegal now, it is still occurs (though obviously with lower frequency). More recently, the ‘city of widows’ in India has been highlighted, which is a holy site that is home to thousands of widowed women who live in dire circumstances and beg for money [53, 54]. In general, widowhood for women in India is a very tenuous period of life, highlighted by significant poverty, lack of social support, a lack of ability to remarry, and a greater risk of mortality [46, 55–57]. Widowhood for elderly women in India may be a highly stigmatizing and potentially public experience as, according to traditional customs, they may shave their heads, wear only plain or white clothing, eat only two or fewer meals per day, and not be permitted to attend social gatherings or to re-marry [58–60]. Thus, given historical precedent and India’s patriarchal society embodying strict norms, attitudes, and practices that typically affect the social status of the elderly, and women in particular, [61] widowed older women in India may face significant discrimination (experienced or perceived) as well as a lack of economic resources [51, 62–64]. These issues may in turn affect health outcomes. In this context, widowhood may present substantial disadvantages for women if the transition signifies a loss of resources, particularly in the long-term, though there may be differences by socioeconomic status and other demographic factors, as well as by region [65–67]. In contrast, widowhood may not be associated with health outcomes for men if other women in the family immediately take over the daily household chores and any care the widowed men may need.
Most studies examining health-related outcomes as a function of marital status among older adults in India have found worse health to be associated with widowed status as compared to married status [68–73]. These studies, however, adjusted for varying sets of covariates and many of the studies only focused on self-rated health as the outcome. Moreover, few studies have focused on the potential health effects of widowhood for men in India. Yet, as the aging population of India increases in a context where access to and affordability of social services is limited for older individuals, [74, 75] it is important to identify individuals who are more at risk for worse health outcomes among the general older adult population. Being widowed represents a relatively easy marker.
Thus, assessing whether there is evidence of a direct relationship between widowhood and multiple subjective and objective health-related outcomes and chronic diseases among older adults in India after adjusting for a large set of demographic and socioeconomic factors (such as caste, education, wealth, religion, living with children, rural/urban location, etc.) is warranted. Moreover, examining these associations separately for men and women is critical due to unequal gender norms in India and also because a higher proportion of men in India remarry while an increasing fraction of women remain widows [70]. Finally, no studies of which we are aware have examined how duration of widowhood is associated with outcomes among older adults in India. Yet, men and women recently widowed may experience worse outcomes than people widowed for much longer. For example, men who are more recently widowed may experience stressful transitions and immediate loss of a known daily support. In the long run, however, they are likely well-cared for by other female relatives. Alternatively, women who have been widowed for a long time may be the worst off due to long-term reduced access to resources and, perhaps, poor treatment by their husband’s family. Previous studies from other countries have revealed a relationship between duration widowhood and self-reported health, psychological wellbeing, or other health outcomes, [20, 26, 37, 76–78] though findings have differed across populations and outcomes.
The current study attempts to address these gaps in the literature by providing empirically descriptive answers to two questions: First, to what extent is widowhood associated with a variety of health-related outcomes and chronic diseases among older men and women, separately, in India, after adjusting for several demographic and socioeconomic indicators? Second, is there evidence that widowhood duration matters in these relationships? We hypothesized that being widowed (without regards to duration) would be associated with worse health outcomes for both men and women, even after adjusting for several indicators of socioeconomic status, living arrangement, and place, though we thought that the strength of the relationship would be greater among women. Moreover, we hypothesized that being widowed for longer would be associated with an even greater risk of poor health outcomes for women given a potential longer period of resource restriction.
We utilized a dataset called “Building Knowledge Base on Population Ageing in India”, [79] based on older adults aged 60 years or older from seven states in India (Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal). These states were purposely chosen during the design of this study as they represented all regions of India and had a higher prevalence of elderly individuals as compared to the national average. In each state, participants were drawn from 40 rural and 40 urban Primary Sampling Units (PSUs), which were systematically sampled according to a probability proportional to population size. 16 households including at least one 60 + year old individual were sampled per PSU, creating a sample frame of 1,280 households. More detailed information on how households were selected can be found in the BKPAI report [80]. All household residents 60+ years old were eligible for the study.
From May to September 2011, 8,329 household interviews were conducted in 560 PSUs (representing a 95 % household response rate) and 4,672 men and 5,180 women were individually interviewed (leading to a 93 % individual response rate). We only included adults who were either currently married or who were widowed (n = 9,615) as the sample sizes for women who were divorced, separated, cohabiting or never married were 1 % or less each. The final analytical samples for each outcome included respondents with no missing values across explanatory variables or the outcome. Figure 1 provides a flowchart of the final analytical sample sizes and the number of participants excluded. We chose to exclude individuals with missing data rather than impute values for missing responses as there were relatively little missing data. As the data used for this work were completely de-identified and publically available for secondary analysis, the first author’s institutional review board approved this study and deemed it to be exempt from full institutional review.
Flowchart of final analytical sample size for men and women included in this study
To capture self-rated health, respondents were asked to rate their current health status on a 5-point scale where 1 = excellent, 2 = very good, 3 = good, 4 = fair, and 5 = poor. The order was reversed for ease of interpretation with a value of 1 for poor health and a value of 5 for excellent health. A binary variable representing ‘poor health’ was also created where the responses fair and poor = 1 and excellent, very good, and good = 0. Psychological distress was measured using the General Health Questionnaire composed of 12 items [81, 82]. This tool has been widely used in mental health research and previous studies have demonstrated its validity and usefulness in several contexts, including India [83–85]. The items ask whether the respondent has recently experienced a particular stressful symptom or behavior. Each item was rated on a 4-point scale (0 = “less than usual”, 1 = “no more than usual”, 2 = “rather more than usual”, or 3 = “much more than usual”). Items were rescored using 0-0-1-1 responses as other studies have previously done. The items were then summed together with a total possible score ranging from 0 to 12, which was treated as continuous variable. A higher score indicated a greater degree of psychological distress. Probable ‘common mental disorder’ was derived from the psychological distress score by creating a dichotomous variable using a cutoff of 5 or less vs. 6 or higher with the latter indicating a probable common mental disorder’ [86]. Immediate recall of words was used to measure cognitive ability [87]. A list of 10 commonly used words was read out to the respondents, who were then asked to recall the words within two minutes. The number of words recalled (0 to 10) was recorded. Therefore, a higher score represented better cognitive ability.
Four chronic morbidity outcomes were measured by asking, separately, whether the respondents had ever been told by a doctor or a nurse that he or she had high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, arthritis, or asthma (yes/no responses). A binary variable indicating whether a respondent had been told that he or she had one or more of those four diseases was created.
Explanatory variables
For this study, marital status was indicated as either being currently married (reference group) or widowed. We also created a second marital status variable where the widowed category was split into three groups according to duration of widowhood: 0–4 years, 5–9 years, or 10+ years. The split between 4 and 5 years was based on previous rsearch showing differences between the more recently widowed and the longer-term widows, [37] and the split between 9 and 10 years was chosen because about half of people were widowed beyond that point. Age was divided into five-year intervals as 60–64 years (reference), 65–69 years, 70–74 years, 75–79 years, and 80+ years. Respondents indicated a caste (Scheduled Caste (reference), Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Caste, and other caste), and whether they stayed with children in the same household (reference) or not. Completed education was categorized as none (reference), 1–5 years, 6–10 years, and 11 or more years. Work status was a binary variable categorized as having worked during the past one year versus not having worked. Household wealth quintiles were calculated using information on 30 assets and housing characteristics [50, 80]. Location of the household in a rural or urban location and the state was also recorded.
Gender-stratified, multivariable, multilevel linear and logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the association between an outcome and widowhood (as compared to being married) while accounting for the clustering of observations at the PSU and district levels. Model 1 used the binary marital status variable and adjusted for age, caste, living with children, urban/rural location, and state. Model 2 adjusted for socioeconomic-based variables including education, work status, and household wealth in addition to the variables included in Model 1. Finally, Model 3 was equivalent to Model 2 except it utilized the marital status variable that was further categorized according to widowhood duration of less than 5 years, from 5 to 9 years, and 10 or more years.
Table 1 provides descriptive statistics about the sample and also the average scores of self-reported health, psychological distress, and cognitive ability across sub-categories of socio-demographic characteristics. For context, almost two-thirds of the sample population were within the ages of 60 to 69 years while about 10 % were 80 years or older. In addition, 4 % of men had been widowed for 0–4 years, 4 % for 5–9 years, and 6 % for 10 years or more. Among women, 14 % had been widowed for 0–4 years, 13 % for 5–9 years, and 34 % for 10 years or more. Table 2 provides the prevalence among the sample population of being diagnosed with each of four chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, and asthma), being diagnosed with at least 1 chronic disease, being in poor health, and having a probable common mental disorder. Among men, 30 % who were currently married vs. 36 % who were widowed for 10 years or more had at least one chronic disease, 49 to 57 % of men in those same groups reported being in poor health, and 24 to 35 % had a probable mental disorder. Among women, the prevalence of being diagnosed with at least 1 chronic disease, being in poor health, and having a probable common mental disorder, separately, was higher among married women than the associated prevalence among women who had been widowed for 5 to 9 years.
Descriptive characteristics of a representative sample of older adults (60 + years) across seven states in India in 2011 (N = 9,171)
Total N and % in sub-category
S.D
Currently Married
Widowed 0 to 4 years
Widowed 10+ years
Living with Children
Scheduled Caste
Schedule Tribe
Other Backward Caste
Work status (in the last 1 year)
< 5 years
≥ 11 years
Household Wealth Quintile
Prevalence of chronic disease, poor health, and probable mental disorder among older adults across seven states in India in 2011 (unit = %)
At least 1 chronic disease
Probable Mental Disorder
Table 3 displays the estimated relationships between widowhood and linear health-related outcomes (scores of self-rated health, psychological distress, and cognitive ability, separately), as well as between widowhood and binary health-related outcomes (being in poor health and having a probable mental disorder, separately) and binary indicators of chronic disease (diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, and 1 or more chronic diseases, separately) for men and women separately. The relationships between widowhood and all outcomes except for diabetes, arthritis, asthma, and having 1 or more chronic diseases were statistically significant in Model 1 for women with widowhood being associated with worse outcomes. The same pattern was found for men, but only for cognitive ability and having a probable common mental disorder. Adjusting for socioeconomic factors in Model 2 attenuated the relationships between widowhood and outcomes though most of the estimates remained statistically significant and in the predicted direction. There was no evidence of widowhood acting as a protective factor for either gender.
Linear and logistic regression estimates of the association between widowhood and health among older adults in India
Linear Outcome
(95 % CI)
Self-Rated Health (higher = worse)
Widowed (vs. married)
(−0.03, 0.14)
0.11***
Psychological Distress (higher = worse)
Cognitive Ability (higher = better)
−0.30***
(−0.43, −0.16)
−0.18**
−0.11*
Binary Outcome
Being in Poor Health
Having a Probable Mental Disorder
Diagnosed with Hypertension
Diagnosed with Diabetes
Diagnosed with Asthma
(0.90,1.54)
Diagnosed with Arthritis
Diagnosed with at least 1 chronic disease
* p < .05; ** p < .01; ***p < .001. Notes: Model 1 was adjusted for age, caste, living with children, urban/rural, and state. Model 2 was adjusted for all explanatory variables in Model 1 + education, work status, and household wealth quintile. For all models, estimates also accounted for survey design as a three-level (individual, primary sampling unit and district) random intercepts model was used
When the widowhood category of marital status was re-categorized by taking into account widowhood duration, estimates from Model 3 indicated that only some categories of widowhood were significantly different in terms of outcomes as compared to married individuals (Table 4). Among men, diabetes, cognitive ability, and having a probable common mental disorder, were associated with widowhood, but only for widowers of certain duration. For example, men who were widowed within 0–4 years were more likely to have been diagnosed with diabetes (AOR = 1.64, 95 % CI = 1.06 to 2.54); men who were widowed for 5–9 years were more likely to recall fewer words (b = −0.24, 95 % CI = −0.47 to −0.01) and, men who had been widowed for 10+ years were more likely to have a probable common mental disorder (AOR = 1.38, 95 % CI = 1.01 to 1.88).
Linear and logistic regression estimates of the association between widowhood accounting for duration and health among older adults in India
Widowhood Status (vs. married as the reference)
(−0.37, 0.001)
* p < .05; ** p < .01; ***p < .001. Notes: Model 3 adjusted for all explanatory variables in Model 2, but used a four-category marital status variable accounting for widowhood duration. Model 3 also accounted for survey design as a three-level (individual, primary sampling unit and district) random intercepts model was used
Among women, there was evidence of a role for duration for most outcomes (except for diabetes, and again arthritis and asthma). For example, women widowed for 4 years or less or for more than 10 years were more likely to report worse self-rated health (b = 0.14, 95 % CI = 0.06 to 0.22, and b = 0.09, 95 % CI = 0.02 to 0.15, respectively), and worse psychological distress (b = 0.51, 95 % CI = 0.21 to 0.80, and b = 0.37, 95 % CI = 0.12 to 0.62, respectively), as well as recall fewer words (b = −0.13, 95 % CI = −0.26 to −0.01, and b = −0.15, 95 % CI = −0.25 to −0.04, respectively) than married women, separately. In addition, hypertension was more likely among women who were recently widowed or who were widowed for a long time (AOR = 1.52, 95 % CI = 1.22 to 1.90, and AOR = 1.39, 95 % CI - 1.16 to 1.67, respectively). Overall, results indicated that mostly recently widowed women and long-term widowed women were at risk for worse health outcomes compared to married women whereas women who were widowed for 5–9 years were no different than women who were married.
Additional file 1: Tables S1–S4 provide the estimates for the relationships between the other explanatory variables and outcomes. Age was a strong predictor for all outcomes for both genders except for diabetes. Men and women with higher education and higher wealth status were more likely to have better health-related outcomes and lower odds of experiencing chronic disease. Wealth status showed no association with arthritis, asthma, or having one or more chronic diseases. Living with children was not associated with any of the outcomes for either men or women (Additional file 1: Tables S1-S4).
This analysis of marital status and health-related outcomes and chronic diseases among older adults across India suggests that, for women, widowhood (as opposed to being married) may be a risk factor for poor self-rated health, psychological distress and reduced cognitive ability, as well as having a probable common mental disorder and being diagnosed with hypertension, separately. There is no evidence of these associations among men except for with cognitive ability and having a probable common mental disorder. Results did not substantively change for men or women even after adjusting for several demographic and socioeconomic factors. Moreover, examining these associations through a widowhood duration lens provides evidence that the relationship between widowhood and health outcomes may be more nuanced than a simple binary effect (widowed vs. not widowed). For women, being widowed for a short amount of time or for the long-term seemed to be worse for many health outcomes as compared to married women. In contrast, the relevance of widowhood duration varied across health outcomes for men though the health of married men was, for the most part, no different than the health of widowed men regardless of widowhood duration.
More recently widowed older women in India may struggle to cope with new substantial losses in access to financial resources and a new (often diminished) social role within their in-laws or son’s household, which may negatively affect their health. Not only may women lose regular economic support when transitioning to widowhood, they may also be deprived of any inheritance rights and lose overall purpose within the household. In contrast, the health of women widowed for an intermediate amount of time (e.g. 5 to 9 years) may not differ from the health of married women because these widowed women have been able to cope (at least temporarily) with the passing of their spouse, have settled into a new household context, and are not yet facing the psychological prospect of having to live for many years without a new spouse nor having to yet address the long-term issues of not having access to resources that a spouse would provide. Perhaps they have found a way to survive by building new social ties or have taken on new responsibilities within their husband’s or son’s family. In addition, survival selection could be playing a role; women who survived to be widowed 5 to 9 years may, on average, be healthier than the same cohort of women when they had only been widowed 4 years or less as the unhealthiest women in that cohort may have died by the time this cohort of women became widowed for 5 to 9 years. Finally, the health of women who have been widowed for 10 or more years may have once again simply deteriorated in contrast to married women perhaps because they have both psychologically and physically remained without resources and spousal support for a decade, a situation which would likely continue until they pass away (as they are not likely to remarry). Critically, regardless of duration, older widowed Indian women may face an interwoven set of losses and challenges that affect their health outcomes [88].
Among men, the situation appears much more varied. For the most part in India, men’s access to resources does not change when they become widowed. Instead of marital status or duration of widowhood, marital quality might be a better predictor of health outcomes for men. Interestingly, however, more recently widowed men may be susceptible to diabetes-related risk factors, such as a change in diet as wives in India are typically responsible for household chores, including cooking. The death of a wife might lead to a worse diet and onset of diabetes at the beginning before another woman takes over regular preparation of food for the newly widowed man. In contrast, men who would have remained widowed for a long time might have already died or remarried (due to finding it too difficult) whereas the men who remain single long after being widowed are perhaps the most resilient. Importantly, the pathways through which health outcomes are affected at different points during widowhood for both men and women warrant further exploration.
Our findings about self-rated health are similar to previous studies in China and India [37, 70, 73]. In addition, our findings suggesting reduced cognitive ability among widowed men are similar to a study conducted in three countries in Europe [17]. However, the present results indicating a negative relationship between widowhood and a number of health outcomes for women and a lack of a relationship between widowhood and most health outcomes for widowed men are inconsistent with many studies from high-income countries, which have typically found a marriage benefit for men and none for women or for both men and women [1, 2, 4, 9]. The results may be dissimilar in some cases if different mechanisms are operating to link widowhood and health outcomes across contexts. When comparing India and high-income countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, there are significant differences in gender norms, economic mobility, marriage traditions, inheritance traditions, and the extent to which government takes care of certain groups within its citizenry (e.g. the widowed, the aged, the poor, etc.). Our result indicating no relationship between psychological distress and marital status for men was the opposite of the results from a study of older adults from Korea [35]. The findings may between these two countries due to potential differences in gender norms, treatment of wives, and response to the loss of social support.
An important limitation of this study was our inability to examine objective markers of health and disease. Therefore, there are likely undiagnosed cases of mental distress and chronic disease in our sample. Moreover, we were unable to adjust for pre-widowhood disease status, which is likely very important for assessing determinants of health outcomes after widowhood [27]. In addition, this study does not capture the effect of widowhood and widowhood duration on overall health as indicated by mortality. Critical to acknowledge in the interpretation of these results is that the widowed may be more likely to die than non-widowed. It could be that the men in this study are overall a much healthier population than they would be if the widowed men who had already died were still alive. Although the same could be said of the women, men are more likely to die earlier. Thus, this issue might more strongly bias the findings about men than the findings about women. Finally, given the cross-sectional nature of the data, we cannot infer causality from our associational estimates. Future studies may clarify the relevance of marital status to health outcomes among older widowed men and women in India by collecting longitudinal data and biomarkers as well as information on the quality of marital relationships and information about gender norms and sex roles within the household.
This is the first study to our knowledge that reports on the association between widowhood and several mental and physical-related health outcomes, as well as self-rated health, among a large sample of older adults across India, while adjusting for many demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Our study suggests important gender differences in how widowhood is associated with self-rated health, psychological distress, hypertension, and diabetes among older adults in India with recent and long-term widowhood predicting worse health for women, but not for men. Incorporating information about marital relationships into the design of intervention programs may help better target potential beneficiaries among older adults in India.
AOR:
Adjusted odds-ratio
PSU:
Primary sampling unit
The authors have no support or funding to report.
Data for this study were sourced from the “Building Knowledge Base on Ageing in India (BKBAI)” survey. These data will be made available upon request to Population Research Center at Institute for Social and Economic Change in India (demography@isec.ac.in).
JMP, SVS conceived the study. JMP wrote the first draft and led the writing. HL led the data analysis, and contributed to the literature review, interpretation and writing. KSJ, JO, AK, JH, JL and SVS contributed to interpretation and critical revisions. SVS provided overall supervision. All authors read approved the final manuscript.
Not applicable. No details, images or videos related to individual participants were obtained. In addition, data are available in the public domain.
This study was determined to be ‘Not Human Subjects Research’ by the IRB council of the Harvard Human Research Protection Program (IRB15-2220). This study only conducts secondary data analysis with de-identified data. The data are available in the public domain.
Additional file 1: Multilevel linear and logistic regression that estimates the relationships between explanatory variables and outcomes. (XLSX 56 kb)
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Massachusetts Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 71 Ihwajang-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-810, Korea
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Public Health Joint Doctoral Program, San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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Bolivia’s brutal cooperative mining conflict reveals the growing contradictions and perils of extractivism at the end of the commodities bonanza, as the government and popular sectors struggle to control a dwindling mining surplus.
by Emily Achtenberg
On August 25, Bolivia’s Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes was detained, tortured, and beaten to death, allegedly by a group of cooperative miners. The horrific incident, which shocked the nation and the world, followed several weeks of road blockades and violent conflicts with police that ultimately claimed the lives of five miners. The protests were led by Fencomin (the National Federation of Mining Cooperatives), a long-time political ally and bastion of support for President Evo Morales and Bolivia’s MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) government.
In the wake of these tragic events, Morales issued a series of far-reaching decrees to reign in the cooperative mining sector, reversing their 10-year history of privileges and benefits under his administration. A dozen cooperative mining leaders, including Fencomin’s former president, have been jailed and are awaiting charges in conjunction with Illanes’s murder.
The apparent rift with Fencomin marks a watershed moment in Bolivia’s “process of change.” Even in a country where the dynamic of road blockades, confrontation, police repression, and escalating violence is a familiar aspect of popular struggles—especially in relation to mining—the brutality of this conflict is unprecedented. As political analyst Pablo Stefanoni notes, not even during the 2003 Gas Wars was there such a display of aggression against a ranking government official.
What explains this savage conflict, its origins, and its dramatic political aftermath? As is often the case in Bolivia, events and actors are not exactly as they seem. The western media’s initial characterization of the mobilizations as a strike for workers’ rights fell wide of the mark—since the protesters were actually resisting perceived efforts by the Morales government to unionize cooperative workers. Equally unenlightening was Morales’s labeling of the conflict as a “right-wing conspiracy” to destabilize the MAS government.
The conflict and its consequences can best be understood in relation to the contradictions of Bolivia’s cooperative mining sector, especially as it has evolved over the past 10 years under Morales, and in the context of recent economic and political changes that have unleashed new tensions between the government and its popular bases.
Cooperative Miners and the MAS
Bolivia’s powerful cooperative mining sector is a legacy of the 1980s, when pressure from international financial institutions and a catastrophic fall in mineral prices led to a shutdown of the government mines, displacing 25,000 salaried miners. Privatization of the mines in the 1990s further weakened COMIBOL, the state mining company, and destroyed Bolivia’s miner-led revolutionary trade union movement, once the most combative in Latin America—and perhaps the world.
Encouraged by successive neoliberal governments to buffer the consequences of massive mining dislocations, the cooperative mining sector flourished. Through these informal, self-managed associations, ex-miners could eke out a modest subsistence by excavating the mineral-rich surface dumps left over from centuries of exploitation, and selling their unrefined product—predominantly tin, silver, zinc, and gold—to private operators.
In recent years, thanks to sky-rocketing mineral prices, cooperative mining has expanded dramatically. Today, there are more than 1,600 mining cooperatives in Bolivia, as compared to 500 in 2005. The country’s 120,000 cooperative miners vastly outnumber their counterparts in the state and private sectors, representing 90% of the mining workforce, although they generate only 30% of total mining exports.
Still, more than a few cooperatives have strayed far from their artisanal and egalitarian roots to become hierarchical business enterprises, fueling the wealth of a small class of member-owners who have joined the ranks of Bolivia’s burgeoning indigenous bourgeoisie. Most of the mining work is carried out by a temporary, low-wage labor force under extremely precarious conditions, without benefits. Some cooperatives have also subcontracted or leased their concessions to domestic and transnational mining companies, who provide capital, technology, and guaranteed markets in exchange for utilizing the sector’s privileges and benefits to increase their profits.
Politically, Fencomin was an important protagonist of the 2003 Gas Wars and other anti-neoliberal struggles of the era. Its relationship with Morales was cemented during the 2005 constitutional crisis after the resignation of then-president Carlos Mesa, when cooperative miners mobilized to guarantee a succession process that would include popular elections, paving the way for Morales’s presidency.
Morales’s first mining minister, a Fencomin leader, was replaced after a brutal confrontation between cooperative and state miners at Huanuni in 2006 left 16 dead, underscoring a bitter conflict between Bolivia’s popular mining sectors that persists to this day. In 2008, Fencomin played an important role in drafting Bolivia’s new constitution, gaining recognition for a plural mining economy (state, private, and cooperative) while Bolivia’s mining wealth was declared to be a patrimony of the state.
Historically, the Morales government has nourished, strengthened, and privileged the cooperative mining sector. Over the past 10 years, concession areas granted to mining cooperatives have increased more than 500%. Cooperative miners have enjoyed favorable tax treatment, paying only 2.5-5% in royalties and no taxes to the state—compared to 8% in royalties plus 37.5% in taxes paid by the state and private sectors. Mining cooperatives have also been effectively exempt from labor and environmental regulations.
Until recently, Morales turned a blind eye to the cooperatives’ pre-existing private contractual arrangements, allowing domestic and foreign mining companies continued back-door access to the sector’s benefits and privileges. The Morales government also approved some new contracts, which were legal under the mining law inherited from past neoliberal regimes, but arguably inconsistent with the 2009 Constitution. Morales has also respected the cooperative sector’s continued resistance to nationalization.
In exchange, Fencomin has delivered consistent electoral support for Morales and the MAS, backed by its powerful capacity for mobilization—an arrangement dubbed “votes for veins” by critics like the investigative research NGO, CEDIB. The cooperative sector has been fully integrated into the MAS party and government, with its leaders occupying several ranking ministry positions as well as seven seats in the national Congress, as elected MAS delegates.
A new mining law passed during the run-up to the 2014 presidential election, after considerable controversy, appeared to consolidate the cooperative sector’s “regimen of exception,” even criminalizing any activity that would impede mining operations. Still, the seeds of the current crisis were sown when the Bolivian Congress failed to include in the law provisions promised by Morales to Fencomin, to protect and expand the cooperatives’ rights to associate with private firms. The sector’s steadfast support for Morales in 2014, and again in the 2016 referendum, was predicated on the expectation that these deficiencies would be remedied at the earliest possible opportunity.
The Current Crisis
In early 2016, two events radically altered Bolivia’s economic and political landscape: the drastic decline in minerals prices, and the defeat of Morales’s referendum bid for a fourth presidential term. Perceiving the cooperative sector’s economic situation as increasingly desperate, and Morales as politically vulnerable, Fencomin mobilized its constituency to regain what they had been promised in 2014.
While the protests were initially sparked by Morales’s initiative to unionize telecommunications and other service sector cooperative workers—a measure viewed by Fencomin as a provocation, although it specifically exempted the mining sector—the sector’s demands soon broadened into a 10-point agenda. In addition to resisting unionization, Fencomin called for extending cooperative mining concessions into protected indigenous territories and national parks, redirecting mining royalties for the exclusive benefit of cooperatives, further relaxing environmental restrictions, and recognizing existing and future contracts negotiated by the cooperatives with domestic and foreign firms.
As anti-extractivist critic Eduardo Gudynas notes, the promotion of such an audacious, anti-popular agenda by a sector that views itself as part of Bolivia’s progressive, revolutionary left is a testimony to the sector’s contradictions, and to the power it has accumulated under the Morales government. For its part, the government, faced with a cooling economy and a worrisome decline in revenues, was determined to resist any further concessions.
Widespread popular revulsion to the assassination of Illanes—notwithstanding the brutal repression of protesters by police—provided Morales with an opportunity and a mandate to strengthen government control over the cooperative mining sector. Within days of the tragedy, Morales issued a series of decrees reverting both idle cooperative concessions and those subject to private subcontract and leasing arrangements to the state, subjecting mining cooperatives to detailed annual audits, and extending labor protections (including unionization and benefits) to all cooperative mineworkers other than member-owners.
Other edicts cut off funding support for Fencomin, excluded cooperative mining representatives from the Comibol board, and prohibited the use of dynamite—long a staple of miner-led protests—in mobilizations and marches. The latter provision was quick to provoke the wrath of state and cooperative miners alike, in a rare show of unity. “It is thanks to dynamite,” said Guido Mitma, leader of the COB (Bolivian Workers Central, the national trade union federation), “that Evo became president.”
Economic and Political Consequences
What is the Morales government seeking to accomplish with these new policies, and what are their likely economic and political consequences? The government has presented the measures as an anti-imperialist, revolutionary program to wrest control of the mining sector from transnationals, similar to the 2006 “nationalization” of hydrocarbons. Additionally, according to Vice-Minister of Social Movements Alfredo Rada, the extension of labor protections to some 100,000 cooperative mineworkers is the most important advance in labor rights of the past 10 years.
On the other hand, Bolivian sociologist Henry Oporto warns that the “draconian” decrees constitute a form of “shock treatment” for which the cooperative sector is unprepared. The new policies, he contends, are an act of political reprisal against a wayward constituency that the government itself has nurtured, fueled by a “media lynching” that has sought to blame the sector for all of Bolivia’s mining problems.
If strictly enforced, Oporto warns, these measures could destroy the cooperative mining industry, causing massive dislocations and undermining communities like Potosí, where 40% of the economically active population is dependent on cooperative mining. Neither the state nor the private mining sector can absorb the vast cooperative mining workforce. In other words, the remedy could be worse than the problem.
Oporto argues that the necessary formalization of the sector should be accomplished gradually instead of punitively, with massive government assistance. To date, the government has supported 49 mining cooperatives with $28 million in loans, mostly for equipment and machinery, but this has met only a fraction of the need.
For Pablo Villegas of CEDIB, the cooperative sector has become the scapegoat in a political process whose real purpose is economic: to allow the government to increase its share of the mining surplus, in response to the economic crisis. While the reviled “false” cooperatives that have associated with private firms (with the government’s knowledge, if its not blessing) will lose their concessions, the government now hopes to contract directly with the same transnationals on more favorable terms, i.e. increased taxes and royalties. The goal is laudable, but whether it’s feasible in the current economic environment remains to be seen.
As to the revolutionary scope of the program, Villegas notes that so far, only 31 contracts have been slated for revocation by the government, including 6 executed under Morales. Some of these, apparently, are no longer operational. Still, the at-risk list includes some high profile targets like Manquiri, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Coeur Mining Company, whose contracts with seven mining cooperatives in the Cerro Rico of Potosí encompass some 7,000 workers and members.
Politically, reconciliation between Morales and the cooperative sector is not out of the question, which could lead to a slowdown in enforcement, or even some mitigation, of the new decrees. The newly-elected Fencomin leadership has reopened dialogue with Morales, adopting a conciliatory tone and emphasizing the sector’s continued loyalty to Bolivia’s “process of change.” While the sector has voted to advance a new political party, it’s unclear whether it will contest the MAS candidate in the 2019 presidential election. Some prominent Fencomin affiliates have recently announced their endorsement of Morales for a fourth presidential term.
What Bolivia’s cooperative mining wars have revealed, in stark terms, are the growing contradictions and perils of an extractivist-dependent economy at the end of the commodities bonanza, as the government and popular sectors struggle to control a dwindling mining surplus. As Gudynas notes, the real debate should be over the mounting social costs of extractivism to local communities and to societies as a whole, including exploitation, environmental destruction, escalating violence, and now even kidnapping and assassination. Unfortunately, this is a reality and a challenge that will continue to shape Bolivia’s economic and political landscape for the foreseeable future.
http://nacla.org/blog/2016/11/22/what’s-behind-bolivia’s-cooperative-mining-wars
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There is no excuse on his part, nor his political party, 11 years with total control of state powers, the economic bonanza is over. We are left with a broken country as he managed to plow deception, racism, egocentrism among all Bolivian society.
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Start Simply… & Other Business Wisdom from Christy Wright
August 18, 2015 by Beth Anne Schwamberger 4 Comments
Is it possible to create a business with little start-up funds, and make money doing something you already love? Christy Wright says yes! Not only is she a Certified Business Coach, she's started two side businesses herself. Christy is so down-to-earth yet incredibly wise. You're going to love this farm-girl-at-heart's story and advice!
02:24 – What the Beach has to do with Big Goals
04:09 – 3 Tips for Going Pro as a Speaker
08:00 – 2 Tips for a Brand New Business Mom
10:41 – Remember that One Time When Christy was a Farmpreneur?
16:41 – Stop Selling and Start Sharing
20:35 – How to be Authentic
22:53 – The Wow Person and the How Person
26:09 – Juggling Tips (i.e. Keep your Eye on the Ball!)
31:29 – A Closet and Some Make-Up… why they could be the key to your productivity!
36:41 – Christy's Initiation into #MomLife
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What the Beach has to do with Big Goals
Every year, Christy and her girl friends go on a trip together. Several years ago, they were at the beach. They sat around and dreamed about what they wanted to do by the time they got together for their trip the next year. One friend wanted to buy a house, and one wanted to further her music career. Christy said she wanted to become a life coach.
Christy realized in that moment how much she loves to help people and work with them one-on-one to accomplish their goals. She's helped people to complete marathons and working for Dave Ramsey she works with people one-on-one to help them become debt-free.
Since Christy wanted to go all-in on this goal and make things official, she found the most credible organization she could for coaching. It's called The International Coach Federation. You can specialize in many different types of coaching, and Christy decided to become a certified business coach.
3 Tips for Going Pro as a Speaker
1. Just start! Give yourself permission to be a beginner. Christy says she spent more Friday nights than she can count speaking at Kentucky public libraries to an audience of 5 people. She's spoken in High School cafeterias, and even huge auditoriums meant to seat 1000 people where onlny 3 people showed up! (One person fell asleep and one person was on her cell phone…)
Christy loves the quote: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” She says that if you compare yourself to someone who's much farther down the road than you, you'll get discouraged. Just get tons of practice and experience, and you'll get better. Getting great at something takes time.
2. Video yourself. Set up a tripod with your iPhone, and give your talk. Practice by yourself with the camera or gather a few friends or family. Watching videos of yourself can be brutal, but it will make you so much more aware of any tics you have, words you always use, posture or fidgeting. It's eye-opening to see yourself on video.
3. Take notes. When you're at a conference or at church, and there's a great speaker, take notes! Don't just write about their content but on how they did it. Did they make you laugh within 2 minutes and get you involved in the talk within 7 minutes? What methods did they use to keep your attention and impact you with their words? Christy says there's a strategy and a science to speaking that we may not be aware of.
2 Tips for a Brand New Business Mom
When we've just come up with our great big idea or goal, it can feel overwhelming thinking about everything we need to do to get started. How can a busy mom get past the overwhelm and make progress?
1. Make a Plan. The unknown is the root of so much stress in our lives. Christy encourages women to make a simple list of everything they need to do to get going with their business. Make a plan for how you'll get started. When you have everything down on paper, you'll be so much less overwhelmed because you can clearly see what's in front of you.
Writing things out on paper also has another benefit. It keeps you focused. When you realize you've just spent 8 hours choosing themes, colors, and photos when your true priority is getting customers and revenue, having that plan with solid tasks will help you to stay on track Christy encourages women to just get started! You don't need anything fancy to get going. “Start simply.”
2. Get Others to Help. There are tons of people around you that probably have skills, resources, and connections that can help you reach your goal. Maybe you have a graphic designer friend. Or maybe when you mention your new business plan, an acquaintance will know someone great who can help. We have so many resources at our disposal than we realize.
Remember that One Time When Christy was a Farmpreneur?
Christy's had a few side businesses of her own, so we just had to ask her about them! (We're so glad we did!)
Christy started her first side business at 22 years old. She had just graduated college and was working full-time for a non-profit. She thought it'd be really great to move to a 40-acre farm! It had always been a dream of hers to live on a farm. There was a house and an 11-stall barn. But Christy couldn't afford the rent at this farm, so she decided to start a side business.
Instead of starting from scratch, Christy used what she had. She already knew how to take care of horses and she had an 11-stall barn at her disposal, so she started a horse-boarding businesses.
For years Christy was able to live the farm dream with this business! She had horses, goats, and a miniature donkey, but Christy also says she had to spend her weekends cutting and baling hay.
She'd love to live on a farm again someday, but she plans on having more money at her disposal so she can pay someone else to do all of the heavy lifting!
Christy's first side business offers a great tip for all of us: When it comes to starting a business, think about what you already have. What are you good at? What resources are at your disposal? You can remove the barriers to starting and growing a business when you don't have to start completely from scratch.
Stop Selling and Start Sharing
When Christy does research on women with side businesses, she asks them how they feel about selling. They say things like, “”I'm uncomfortable, I don't know how, I don't know what to say, or I don't want to be pushy.”
A couple of questions later, Christy asks them, “Tell me about why you want to do this” and the women would talk about the joy it brought them…little girls at church wearing dresses they made…. or websites going up that they designed. These same women just came alive when they shared their story. And just by listening to them, Christy immediately wanted to buy their product!
Start Sharing: When you're in your comfort zone and sharing your heart with people, the sale will follow.
Christy says that industries and companies portray sales as this evil thing, but it doesn't have to look that way. Sales is really influence, and you're already doing it all the time!
Are you married? That's sales! You convinced someone that you are awesome enough to marry!
Did your kids eat dinner last night? That's sales! You convinced them to eat their broccoli!
Use your influence to be likeable, persuasive, and share your story. The sale will follow.
Christy addresses so many of the issues women face when starting a business at her Business Boutique Event happening this Fall in Nashville.
How to be Authentic
Related to sharing our story, an important aspect of influencing others is being authentic. How can we do this when it comes to our business?
Christy believes that everyone should write out a mission statement for their business. Write out your big vision and goals. Why are you doing what you're doing? To keep that focus, Christy recommends the book, Start with Why by Simon Sinek. (Or you can watch his TED Talk.)
In “Start with Why” Sinek says that people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
Once you've decided on your “why” along with the big goals that will help you to get there, it will help you to stay on track. There are so many opportunities in the marketplace, but when we keep our mission in mind, we won't be so easily distracted.
The Wow Person and the How Person
Christy shared an adorable analogy that described Sarah and my work relationship so well!
In every relationship there's a Wow Person and a How Person.
The Wow Person is always saying things like, “Wow I have a new idea! Wow this is amazing!” But the How Person thinks, “How are we going to do this? How will it be executed? ”
(Can you guess who's the Wow and How Person between Sarah and I? Also, can you guess whether Christy or her husband is the Wow person?)
Christy's Advice to make the relationship work: When the Wow Person comes in with 5,000 ideas, the How Person should not ask any How questions for at least 24 hours. They just have to be excited. After 24 hours, if the Wow Person is still talking about the idea, then they can ask some questions! (But chances are, the Wow Person has already moved on to 5,000 new ideas!)
Juggling Tips (i.e. Keep your Eye on the Ball!)
Juggling life and work as a busy mom is not easy. Christy shared a few tips that have been so helpful to her as a new mom.
1. Focus on what's in front of you. If Christy focuses on what she left behind, for example – her son being at daycare – she won't be able to focus on the important work that's right in front of her. Conversely, if she's at home with her son and thinking about problems at work, the same thing happens. Christy chooses to look through the front windshield instead of in the rearview mirror.
2. Set goals for yourself to keep your priorities in line. This goes along with point #1. When you've decided what's most important to you, and you've set aside time for those most important things each week, you can leave the guilt behind knowing you've done what you set out to do.
For example, maybe you've set a goal to work on your business for 10 hours a week and spend quality time with your kids for 10 hours a week. Since the need is unending both in business and at home, you can eliminate the guilt if you've met your own goal for the week. Feel good about what you've done and how you've kept your priorities in line.
Maybe you didn't get to braid your daughter's hair tonight, but you're going shopping this weekend, did homework yesterday, and you went to her soccer game today. Feel good about meeting your goals.
Moms feel guilty no matter what path they choose. Women that work full-time jobs feel guilty for not spending more time with their kids. Women who stay home feel guilty about their identity and roles.
Don't compare yourself to other women and other moms, but decide for yourself what's important to you and focus on meeting your own goals. (Not anyone else's!)
A Closet and Some Make-Up… why they could be the key to your productivity!
Christy shared two great tips on how to make working from home work for you.
1.) Set aside some space. Create an area in your home that's dedicated to the business. Otherwise, you'll find yourself with piles of laundry…on top of orders… on top of takeout…on top of tax forms. It starts to feel like the business is taking over because visually, it is taking over! Block off a space in the house where you go to work.
That space trains your mind to get into work mode, and it also serves as a visual cue for your kids that Mommy is in work mode.
(If your space is tiny like Beth Anne's maybe it's just a corner of your closet!)
2.) Set a schedule. When you're working from home, it's easy to stay in your PJ's until 2 in the afternoon. But even if you got a few things done, you'll probably feel more scattered and distracted if you don't get up and get ready for your day. Create structure for yourself. Have a set time to “start at the office” and take a shower and get ready so you'll feel more energetic, productive, and focused.
Christy's Initiation into #MomLife
Tune into the podcast to hear Christy's funny story of her initiation into the real world of motherhood! It happened on her first day back at work… when she had a gig on TV….(of course!)
Stay in touch with Christy
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This Was Yesterday - Reel 4 1955
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Fantastic look back at entertainers, celebrities, theatrical entertainments, authors and artists.
This copy has been transferred from print - neg transferred on tape PM2869 - neg version will be better quality.
Pathe retrospective. This reel shows stars who made an early appearance in the Pathe Pictorial and artists. Library material used should be found in more complete versions elsewhere.
Reel 4.
01:22:09 A young Janette Scott stands in front of her dressing table mirror taking off her school blazer and unbuttoning her shirt and putting on her "very first party dress". She takes off her school socks and takes her "first nylons." out of the packet. We are then introduced to a young honeymoon couple - Susan Stephen and Lawrence Ward. Susan is brought a cup of tea in bed by her husband. He lights a fire. Susan has trouble brushing her hair so Lawrence does it for her. They look into the mirror then kiss.
01:23:47 Jean Simmons is seen grabbing a roll of bread off the breakfast table and running out in a hurry. We then see her at a deportment school. She walks along with a book on her head. We then see her grown up playing with her pet dog and smiling at her mother. "For many of the stars, the Pictorial is a family album". We see Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer sitting in the garden with their child. Margaret Lockwood and her daughter Toots (also known as Julia) are seen feeding some baby ducks and chickens. A very young Juliet Mills is sitting in a chair, her father John Mills picks her up. Laurel and Hardy are seen using a clothes brush to tidy themselves up.
01:25:05 Felix the Cat then appears, he is proclaimed to be the first star that appeared in Pathe Pictorial. (He was actually featured in Eve's Film Review which was the sister screen magazine to Pathe Pictorial so that is slightly misleading!) Extract from the Felix story about "very old cheese." Louis Wain is shown drawing one of his cats. Other artists are shown: Augustus John, Arthur Ferrier ("connoisseur of lovely women") and Norman Pett. Norman Pett draws a beautiful woman in underwear who takes off one of her stockings very seductively - she is Christabel Leighton-Porter, the original model for Jane. Giles is seen sketching outside. We see his cartoon.
01:24:48 "The film is a living record of our times and our contemporaries: artists, musicians, writers like J.B. Priestley have allowed the cameras into their lives so that they as well as their books can live on..." C/U of J.B. Priestley in his library smoking a pipe and looking at a book.
01:28:17 Enid Blyton is seen with her two daughters in their living room. She gives them some of her writing to read and sits with a typewriter on her lap typing away. Daphne du Maurier is seen walking in her garden. She sits on a bench and reads some of her notes for a new novel. A.P. Herbert "waterman, poet and writer or lyrics" is shown at his writing desk smoking a pipe
01:29:17 "Trilby" is announced to have been one of the first "star vehicles" at the theatre. Phyllis Neilson Terry was Trilby and Lyn Harding her Svengali. We see scenes from the show - very dramatic acting style. Trilby sings her famous song "Sweet Alice Ben Bolt". Billy Merson is seen in extracts from "The Whirl of the World" at The Palladium in London. Billy with a false moustache preening his hairdo, posing and flexing his muscles. We then see Nellie Wallace in C/U. Shots of the entire troupe. Narrator states that Nervo and Knox were also part of the troupe. They do lots of silly falling over acrobatics.
01:30:34 Excerpts from "Princess Charming" at the Palace Theatre, London with George Grossmith (faded from the memory of many present day theatregoers). He plays a soldier and there is much posturing and dramatic acting from his female co-star (Winnie Melville?). "The Lady of the Rose" at the Daly's Theatre where Phyllis Dare and Harry Welchman ham it up in a romance scene with chasing, coy behaviour, passionate kiss etc.
01:31:54 Moments from "Charlot's Masquerade" at the Cambridge Theatre are featured. We see Beatrice Lillie performing a comedy skit on roller skates. Then in "Thark" at the New Aldwych theatre we see Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn getting into bed together then fighting over the bedclothes. One of the duo falls out of the bed.
01:32:48 We then see Leslie Henson in "Kid Boots" at the Winter Garden Theatre in London. Leslie is given a very rough and tumble massage by a doctor played by Diana Wilson. We then see the "unforgettable moment when London discovered a new star - Gracie Fields" - we see Gracie playing a maid who trips up one of her employer's guests. These may be the missing shots from "Short Shots from "The Show's the Thing." Gracie Fields does lots of gurning and silly walks and gestures including sticking her tongue out at the guests. She cleans some glasses with a feather duster.
01:33:49 Miss Jose Collins allows us to peep at some of her frocks from "The Last Waltz" at the Gaiety Theatre. Various shots of Jose being mauled by an over-amorous suitor in a military uniform. He tries to kiss her. She gets down on her knees imploring him with many dramatic gestures. Another man appears and she is torn between the two of them. C/U of the three laughing. "Rose Marie" a musical at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane is featured - the female star is not identified, I believe it is Edith Day. Billy Merson does a funny little dance in front of the chorus girls.
01:34:47 Henry Ainley appears in "Hassan" at His Majesty's Theatre in London. He brandishes a large sword and poses as if about to strike Cathleen Nesbitt. Much dramatic acting, he throws down his sword and collapses on the ground, she falls down beside him and they embrace. C.B. Cochran's great star Delysia appears in "Mayfair and Montmatre" at the New Oxford Theatre in London. Various shots of the star in a glamorous revealing outfit tied up and writhing! The chorus dance around in ornate costumes. A man in a loincloth grabs Delysia and kisses her passionately.
01:35:57 Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge dance in "By the Way" from the Apollo Theatre in London. They are dressed in top hat and tails. Jack Buchanan and June dance in Boodle at the Empire Theatre in London. The Midnight Follies from the Metropole feature Bobby Howes and Tim O'Connor. One of the two does a tap dance (I think this is Howes - SL). The comedian playing the waiter (O'Connor?) slips around and almost drops the food. Vera Bryer does a high kick routine. Estelle Brody and Rupert Rogers dance together then he gives her a piggy back off stage.
Note: some of the material on this negative reel is original Eve's Film Review material STOLEN from the neg!
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Christabel
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Old Sussex Landmark
Gale demolished ancient windmill.
The Circus Is Coming To Town
Bertram Mills' circus rehearses for an upcoming show.
Hammer - Hammer - Hammer
Water wheel powers machinery to hammer red hot metal into shape - no soundtrack.
Old Mill House
A look at a house near Canterbury which has been converted from an old rubber mill. Kent.
Automation In Cotton
Footage of spinning mill near Nelson is first fully automated plant in Europe.
New Steel Mill Opened
Footage of new still mill opening in Durham.
Lancashire Cotton Mill
Various shots inside a cotton mill, Lancashire.
Plywood For Canadian Homes
Plywood plant in peak production for spring building boom. Good quality.
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A devoted wife and mother, Mally is known for her sparkling charm, bright smile, contagious enthusiasm and magnetic personality. When not developing new products in the lab or beautifying a member of the A-list, she is running after her daughters, twin 4-year-olds and a 1-year-old, spending time with family, watching Oprah on TiVo, cooking, enjoying her Louboutins and shopping.
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When Mally signed with Brooks Group in early 2009, her publicity needs were two-fold. 1) The brand’s mission, providing every day women with long-wearing products that deliver professional results, needed to be conveyed via product placement and brand stories. 2) We needed to strengthen her position as a leading celebrity makeup artist AND successful beauty entrepreneur.
As a veteran agency that has worked with countless beauty brands, The Brooks Group recognized that the cosmetic market is over saturated. Beauty Editors receive 50+ packages each day with the latest in cosmetics, skincare, haircare and tools. We needed to reinforce Mally Beauty as a trusted, accessible, high-performance makeup line. We were also charged with positioning Mally as the face behind the brand, elevating her profile as a business savvy entrepreneur. At the same time, we had to maintain her reputation as the leading expert for all things makeup. Due to her demanding schedule, in-person access to Mally is limited, so we needed to maximize her time to deliver the results the brand required.
While Mally developed relationships with Senior Beauty editors over the years, the newer crop of Editors and Bloggers knew “of” her but weren’t privy to the brand story. The Assistants and Associate Editors are responsible for presenting noteworthy products to their Directors. With this in mind, we planned an event just for them. The team executed a successful Mally Beauty 101 “class” where Mally was able to tell the brand story, spotlight existing collections, and introduce the latest launches. We branded a hotel suite in NYC, facilitated 3 group sessions and designed branded notebooks and mini desk white boards for each editor. The response was overwhelming and resulted in immediate buzz on blogs and social media platforms, as well as print placements and a mounting interest in the products.
Particularly in the beauty industry, the phrase “out of sight, out of mind” rings true. So, we make an effort to ensure the media has “face time” with Mally by coordinating strategic one-on-one meetings with Senior Editors. As a result, the team has secured impactful features in Glamour, Allure, O The Oprah Magazine, Shape , Lucky and more.
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Rugby 30.10.2017 07:22 am
The hits and misses of the latest Springbok squad
Heinz Schenk
Lukhanyo Am is surprisingly close to a Jan Serfontein replacement but Curwin Bosch will elicit mixed feelings plus there’s a dodgy tighthead.
Springbok coach Allister Coetzee on Sunday placed a premium on continuity by picking most of the players that have served him in 2017.
While it should give some of those men confidence given the faith showed in them, there are still glaring weaknesses in the squad.
Here are the men Coetzee should be lauded for selecting … as well as the questionable ones.
Lukhanyo Am:
The 23-year-old Sharks centre was in line to be involved against France earlier this year before an untimely broken jaw.
But that setback didn’t lead him to despair.
Instead, Am simply continued to perform consistently and now surely will get the look-in he deserves.
Much like Jan Serfontein, he’s not necessarily a flashy player but a reliable organiser that defends tightly.
Warrick Gelant:
Sometimes populism is a good thing, particularly in this instance.
The gifted Blue Bulls fullback has been the most talked about player in the Currie Cup campaign, where his eye for space and ability to ruin defences had tongues wagging.
In a Springbok backline that has been criticised for lacking creativity, Gelant provides some much-needed X-factor.
Curwin Bosch:
That drop goal in the Currie Cup final said it all: this 20-year-old has a remarkable calmness about him.
In European conditions, it’s never bad to have a kicker of his calibre and this tour could be an enriching experience for him.
THE MISSES
As much as he’s a hit, he’s also a miss.
No-one doubts that Bosch has a prodigious boot and every now and then surprises with a silky linebreak.
But his defence remains a major problem, a flaw exposed by Western Province in the Currie Cup final.
In a backline that already has a problem with dodgy defending on the wings, it’s the last thing the Springboks need.
Ruan Dreyer:
Despite his relative success at the Lions, the 27-year-old tighthead simply doesn’t look like a prop of international class.
His scrumming technique leads to far too many penalties and his underrated ball-carrying skills has gone missing in the Green-and-Gold.
With Coenie Oosthuizen back from injury and young Wilco Louw already ahead in the pecking order, his selection is strange.
Chiliboy Ralepelle:
When the Springboks returned from national duty for the Currie Cup run-in, the Sharks couldn’t be bothered to pick him.
It’s actually a bit of an embarrassing situation that a Springbok hooker still counts as the third-choice player in his position at his province.
Who’s fooling who here?
That said, Ralepelle’s selection isn’t necessarily shocking but rather an indictment on the depth in the position in general.
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Clemson Baseball
Tigers Host No. 10 NC State
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The Tigers host an ACC series for the second weekend in a row when No. 10 NC State comes to town.
SERIES SETUP
• Who – NC State (15-3, 2-1 ACC) vs. Clemson (16-1, 3-0 ACC)
• Best Rankings – NCS – No. 10 PG; CU – No. 2 CB
• When – Friday (6:30 p.m.), Saturday (4 p.m.), Sunday (1 p.m.)
• Where – Clemson, S.C. (Doug Kingsmore Stadium)
• Watch – ACC Network Extra
• Video Announcers – Ron Smith, Pete Yanity
• Listen – TigerCast, Clemson Tigers Network
• Live Stats – ClemsonTigers.com
• Social Media – ClemsonBaseball
• Tickets – ClemsonTigers.com, 1-800-CLEMSON
• Promotion (Friday) – The first 1,000 fans receive trading cards of Tiger players and coaches.
• Promotion (Saturday) – Young fans can stand on the field during the national anthem and run the bases after the game.
• Overall Record – Clemson leads 117-82-1 (1921-17)
• Record at Clemson – Clemson leads 59-27-1 (1921-16)
STARTING PITCHERS
• Friday – RHP Michael Bienlien (NCS) vs. LHP Jacob Hennessy(CU)
• Saturday – LHP Brian Brown (NCS) vs. RHP Brooks Crawford(CU)
• Sunday – TBA (NCS) vs. LHP Jake Higginbotham (CU)
CLEMSON OVERVIEW
• Clemson blanked Charleston Southern 5-0 at home on Tuesday behind a Tiger-record-tying three home runs by Grayson Byrd.
• The Tigers are averaging 6.9 runs per game and hitting .265 with a .390 on-base percentage and 11 steals.
• The pitching staff has a 2.68 ERA, .231 opponents’ batting average and 2.85 strikeout-to-walk ratio and Clemson is fielding .980.
NC STATE OVERVIEW
• NC State is led by 22nd-year head coach Elliott Avent.
• The Wolfpack won both midweek home games against UNC Asheville. They are hitting .341 and have a 3.11 ERA and .971 fielding percentage.
• Brett Kinneman is hitting .408 with 10 homers and 31 RBIs, while Evan Edwards is batting .375 with five homers and 13 RBIs.
• Clemson’s 16-1 start is its best since 2002 (26-1).
• Clemson has hit at least one home run in 12 of the last 14 games.
• Seth Beer has reached base via a hit, walk or hit-by-pitch in 22 straight games, which include the last five games of 2017.
BYRD TIES TIGER HOME RUN RECORD
• Junior infielder Grayson Byrd had one career home run, which came in 2017, entering the game against Charleston Southern on March 13.
• He hit three homers in his first three plate appearances and totaled a career-high five RBIs in Clemson’s 5-0 win over the Buccaneers.
• He tied the school record for homers in a game and became the 14th Tiger with three and first since 2010 (John Hinson vs. USC Upstate).
• He hit a solo homer to left in the second inning, a three-run homer to right field in the fourth and a solo homer to center in the seventh.
• The son of former major league pitcher Paul Byrd is hitting .283 with three homers, 11 RBIs and two steals in 14 games (12 starts) in 2018.
• In his two seasons as a Tiger, he is hitting .284 with four homers, 31 RBIs, 30 runs and five steals in 71 games (66 starts).
Clemson Announces Signing Class
2019 Season Review
Davidson Named ACC Baseball Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year
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March 15, 2013 / GO Brooklyn / Fort Greene / Theater
Zombies teach kids life lessons in existential play
By Jaime Lutz
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
Arghhhhhhhh: The Irondale Ensemble presents “All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Being a Zombie,” starring Nolan Kennedy, Meredith Cody, and Dave Publow.
Dining: Cooks battle to be crowned New York’s Brisket King
Theater: Waving goodbye: Play set underwater deals with displacement
Theater: Cold school! Fort Greene play is set in chilly New England winter
Theater: Play about nightmares taps into timeless fears
Theater: This ‘Dead’ play is very much alive
It’s like “Waiting for Godot.” But for kids. With zombies.
Prepare the hordes: for one day only, a Fort Green performance space is staging “All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Being a Zombie” — a new play that uses the undead to teach kids potentially life-altering lessons, such as “brains aren’t everything,” “you are what you eat,” and “what doesn’t kill makes you more alive.”
It is, in fact, a little existential.
“You hear what it’s like to be a zombie and how it’s different from being alive, and what they’ve learned from looking back on their life,” said director Amanda Hinkle, who is also the director of education at Fort Greene’s Irondale Center, which is producing the show as part of a monthly series of brand new works of children’s drama from up-and-coming playwrights.
One thing it isn’t, Hinkle promises, is too scary.
She and playwright Jason Pizzarello specifically worked to tone down a few scenes that were too creepy for youngsters. Still, the show doesn’t shy away from some serious topics — including death.
“There’s a funny scene about the grieving process,” she said about a scene in which the zombies must deal with problems that arise from being half dead and half alive.
“It could start a lot of conversations, as well as being entertaining.”
While the Irondale Center has other children’s programming too, including a summer theater camp, zombies should note: there are currently no classes available on brain-eating, jamming through barricades, or spreading viruses.
Undead life’s just not fair, kids.
“All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Being a Zombie” at Irondale Center [85 S. Oxford St. near Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 488–9233, irondale.org]. March 16, 2 pm, $5.
Reach reporter Jaime Lutz at jlutz@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-8310. Follow her on Twitter @jaime_lutz.
Coney Island: Power outage strikes Coney Island, Gravesend, and Bath Beach
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John Wasserman from Windsor Terrace says:
I'm sorry to be the one to say this, but: No, they don't.
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Rick Duthie Discusses How He Uses the Stage as the Platform for His Dissertation Research
The following excerpt is from Rick Duthie's interview with Mia Jensen from the Sudbury Star. The full article, "New Play Explorers Sudbury's Labour Strife" can be viewed online. He was also recently interviewed by Heidi Ulrichsen of Sudbury.com for the article "This PhD Student is Using the Stage to Explore City's Tumultuous Labour History".... More
Cristina Wood Featured in the Ottawa Citizen
Below is a short excerpt from the Ottawa Citizen article about Cristina Wood's research as part of her MA in Public History here at Carleton University. The full article by Tom Spears, "The Ottawa River's history re-told in musical notes," can be found online. To tell the history of the Ottawa River, Cristina Wood... More
Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at June Convocation
The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Peter James Richardson (BA General in History) for winning the President's Medal; Cristina Marie Wood (M.A. Public History, Specialization in Digital Humanities) for winning the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work - Master's Level; Samantha Kathleen Albanese... More
Garth Wilson Fellow Cristina Wood Describes Her Latest Research Interests
Through the Garth Wilson Fellowship in Public History offered by Ingenium, the federal Crown corporation which oversees museums related to science and technology, and the Department of History, MA student Cristina Wood will tell a data-informed story about the Ottawa River using song. Below is a short excerpt from Nick Ward's article "Telling... More
“In Podcasts We Trust?”. Cassandra Marsillo and Nathalie Picard publish article on Canadian History Podcasts
In December 2018 “In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts” authored by second year MA in Public History students Cassandra Marsillo and Nathalie Picard was published in Vol. 1.2 of the new online journal, International Public History. They highlight the exciting and growing historical podcast scene in Canada,... More
History student writes a play about mining strikes in Sudbury as a part of his thesis
Public History visits the Theatre! Give a quick listen to history grad student Rick Duthie's interview on CBC’s radio show Morning North in Sudbury. It aired the morning of a second staged reading performance of his play Sudbury Strike Stories on 15 October 2018. It includes a brief chat with him about his dissertation... More
Dany Guay-Bélanger wins Research Fellowship to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester NY
Dany Guay-Bélanger, currently in the second year of his MA in Public History, is working with the Canada Science and Technology Museum on its collection of video games going back to the 1980s. The problem, for Dany, is that many of these games are no longer able to be played – the cartridges have... More
Stuart MacKay writes in iPolitics about Confederate statues and historical memory
Ph.D. candidate Stuart MacKay has had an article published in iPolitics about Confederate statues and historical memory. Below is a short excerpt with the full article, "Those Confederate monuments are built on racist lies. Tear them down" available online. Despite Lincoln’s victory, Americans have always had a peculiar sort of amnesia when it... More
Carleton Public History at Ravenna
Between June 4-9, the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) held its 4th Annual Conference at the University of Bologna's campus in Ravenna, Italy. The History Department was one of the official sponsors of the conference, which was held alongside the 1st national meeting of the newly founded Associazione Italiana di Public History.... More
Congratulations! History Students Win Medals for Outstanding Achievement at the Undergraduate and Doctoral Levels
The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Corbin James Williams (BA Honours in History) for winning the University Medal in Arts at the Undergraduate Level; Siobhán B. Dundon (BA Combined Honours in History and Political Science) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the... More
Sandy Barron wins prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Award
The History Department congratulates Sandy Barron, a PhD candidate in History, who won the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Award worth $150,000 over three years. The Vanier is designed to attract and retain world-class PhD students. It is awarded to individuals with both strong leadership skills and very high academic achievement. Barron will... More
PhD Student Sandy Barron’s Research Featured in Grad Student News
PhD candidate in History, Sandy Barron, had his research on Disability History in Canada featured in the Current Grad Students news feature on the Carleton Graduate Studies website. Below is a short excerpt of the article by Mitch Jackson entitled "Grad Research: Disability History in Canada". The full article is available online. PhD Student... More
Carleton Welcomes Students From Across Canada for 23rd Underhill Graduate Colloquium
The 23rd Underhill Graduate Colloquium is around the corner, and Carleton’s Department of History is delighted to welcome student presenters from across Canada to the National Capital. Taking place from March 9-11, 2017, the theme for this year’s conference is “Revealing the Past.” It will be the site of numerous student presentations that... More
Phoebe Mannell Selected for Public History Fellowship
History student Phoebe Mannell has been selected as the Garth Wilson Memorial Fellow in Public History. Below is an excerpt from the full article on the Carleton Newsroom page. Ms. Mannell, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Public History at Carleton, will focus her research on the challenges and opportunities involved in curating... More
History PhD Student Melissa Armstrong Pitches a Silver Medal for Canada
This post originally appeared on the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs site. Pitcher Melissa Armstrong, a Ph.D. History student at Carleton University, helped Canada win the silver medal at the World Baseball Confederation’s World Cup in Gijang City, Korea. Armstrong pitched 5.2 innings in three games, posted a 2.47 ERA and had a... More
History Ph.D. Student Dorothy J. Smith Featured in “The Whys and Wherefores of the Beechwood Mausoleum”
The text below is from the article by Lin Moody entitled "The Whys and Wherefores of the Beechwood Mausoleum" article on the FGPA Grad Student Research page. About nine years ago, Dorothy J Smith toured Beechwood Cemetery as part of an undergraduate Carleton course on Gravestones and Cemeteries: Cultures of Death and Memorialization. She... More
Ph.D. Candidate Ian Wereley Publishes Article
Ian Wereley, Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, has just published an article in Humanities entitled "Extracting the Past from the Present: Exotic Prizes, Empty Wilderness, and Commercial Conquest in Two Oil Company Advertisements, 1925–2012". Earlier this year, Ian was also selected as a top finalist in the SSHRC Storytellers Research... More
Congratulations! 2016 PhD Grad Jane Freeland recipient of University Medal for Outstanding Work
Freeland did her doctoral work under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Evans, and her dissertation, "Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence, Citizenship and State-Making in Divided Berlin, 1969-1990," is available on Carleton's CURVE repository. As Freeland explains in her abstract, her dissertation is one of the first in depth historical... More
Ian Wereley’s talk on alternative energy is finalist in SSHRC Storytellers Challenge
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) today announced that Carleton’s Ian Wereley is among the top five finalists in its 2016 Storytellers challenge. Wereley is a doctoral candidate in Department of History who researches the history of oil and energy. His SSHRC Storytellers video, called Imagining Energy in Transition:... More
Grad Student Elise Bigley creates Holocaust Memorial Project video
https://youtu.be/CEb-8oeohPI The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) at the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton is documenting and preserving the testimonies of Ottawa Holocaust survivors to allow future generations to hear and see the people who experienced and witnessed the genocidal policies and crimes of the... More
Ian Wereley Among Top 25 SSHRC Storytellers
https://youtu.be/LLVhgsPbLHc The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced that Carleton’s Ian Wereley is among the Top 25 finalists in its 2016 Storytellers challenge. Wereley is a doctoral candidate in Department of History who researches the history of oil and energy. His SSHRC Storytellers video, called Imagining... More
Film on abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd by Allison Smith (MA 2015) to be released for International Women’s Day
“Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes from an Old House” is going to be launched on the Heritage Toronto website as a part of their programming for International Women’s Day on Tuesday March 8. The documentary was the central component of Smith's major research paper for her MA in Public History. The film is about... More
“To Crack the Historian in Half:” History and Theatre Meet in Emily Keyes’ “I Was Here”
It’s February 26, 2016. The ghosts of Robert McCaffrey and Maria Spearman argue before the heavy iron doors of the gallows. Love unrequited and families ruptured. Silence punctuated by the sound of gunfire. A woman half remembered. An unborn child, lost to memory. Throughout, the audience of this necromantic drama fade in and out... More
Carleton’s contributions to the World War Women Exhibit at the Canadian War Museum
Several Carleton alumni and grad students worked on the Canadian War Museum's new exhibit, "World War Women." The exhibit historian, Dr. Stacey Barker, completed her BA and MA at Carleton. Laura Brown, who received her MA here in 2013, Dr. Laura Brandon, who completed her doctorate in History at Carleton, and Sarah Hogenbirk, who is... More
Carleton History students create Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences digital timeline
Carleton University students have produced a digital timeline of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences from its beginnings in 1938 to the present. Their timeline has been posted on the Federation website to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Fourth-year undergraduate student Andrew Narraway says that the practicum provided him with... More
PhD Student William Tait Blogs About Master Class With Dr. Gil Loescher
As part of the the three-day workshop “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime,” held by Migration and Diaspora Studies from September 23-25, graduate students were invited to participate in a master class with preeminent historian of refugees Dr. Gil Loescher. Loescher has been a pioneer in the study of the relationship between... More
Carleton History at the Active History Conference
Carleton History will have a terrific presence at the Active History Conference taking place at Huron College, London, Ontario this weekend (October 2-4, 2015). John Walsh and our visiting fellow Jean-Pierre Morin will be addressing the future of Public History programmes, while John will also speak about student learning and Jean-Pierre on... More
Doctoral candidate Andriata Chironda featured in article on refugee research at Carleton
Chironda's research focuses on the history of international migration and refugee protection policy since the end of the Second World War. She is particularly looking at African refugees. “Government policies and programs affect and define people’s lives and my goal is to contribute towards producing knowledge which puts “people” at the... More
Allison Smith Presents “Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes From an Old House”
Allison Smith, who recently graduated with her Master’s in Public History, submitted a Master’s research project that comprised a 30-minute historical documentary film and a short reflexive essay. Her film is about a collection of letters to and from African American abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd between 1851 and 1863 – years that she lived... More
Finding Big Meaning in Small Histories
Since April 2014, Sara Spike’s Small History NS Twitter feed and Tumblr blog have reached hundreds of followers with daily news from rural and small-town Nova Scotia, c.1880-1910. Drawn from her dissertation research, these tweets chart seasonal rhythms of labour, leisure, land, and sea with updates such as: The first wild strawberries... A... More
History Grad Student Wins National Storyteller Award
We're pleased to announce that History M.A. student Kathryn Boschmann has won one of 25 Storyteller Awards provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her project "A Prairie Home: Migration of Winnipeg's Irish Canadians" explores how first generation Irish immigrants to Manitoba talked about and processed their... More
History, Smartphones, and Giving Back to Your Hometown: Sara Nixon Discusses Grimsby Timescapes on CBC
How can historians give back to their communities? Public History MA student Sara Nixon was on CBC Ottawa Morning on Monday January 19 to talk about just that. It's a topic she has explored in detail through the development of her smartphone application, Grimsby Timescapes. Through her blog, as well as her research, Sara... More
History, Social Work and Engineering Scholars Produce Virtual Exhibit on the Wheelchair
Researchers at Carleton have recently launched MobilityHistories.ca, a virtual exhibit on the history of the wheelchair. The exhibit is unique in that it brings together scholars from the fields of biomedical engineering, social work, and history. History doctoral candidate Dorothy-Jane Smith led the research efforts of a group supervised by Dr.... More
CBC’s Hallie Cotnam talks to Carleton faculty and students about their role in pitching design for new exhibits at the Museum of History.
Professor David Dean, and Emily Keyes, a student in the Museums, National Identity and Public Memory seminar, talk to CBC's Ottawa Morning about their collaboration with the Canadian Museum of History developing the museum's new gallery. Listen at http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Ontario/ID/2623116818/?page=2 For more... More
Active History blog by doctoral student, Christine Chisholm, “Thinking about Thalidomide in Transnational History: Canada and South Africa”
What was the global impact of thalidomide? On September 24th, the Department of History, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies/Disability Studies, and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University came together to host two speakers to Ottawa as part of a day-long meeting on the transnational history of the infamous drug thalidomide.... More
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The qualities of being human are examined through the investigation of evolutionary principles, non-human primates, human fossil record, and living peoples. The biological origin, evolution, and variation of humankind are explored. Lower division General Education Breadth Area B2, Natural Sciences-Life Forms. 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. This is an approved General Education course. (000490)
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Significant events in mankind's prehistoric cultural development and their relevance to the present. Human antiquity; the acquisition of culture during the Paleolithic; the beginning of early civilization. Introduction to the methods of archaeology and human paleontology. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (000491)
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The phenomenon of culture and its profound role in structuring the individual's experience of reality. The range of diversity in human socio-cultural institutions. Some explanations for similarities and differences in human cultures. Exploration of the contemporary relevance of anthropological perspectives, data, and methods. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (000493)
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A comparative analysis of the interaction of economic and political forces in societies of the non-western world. The diversity with which various cultures address scarcity, the distribution of goods and power. Transition from traditional economic and political institutions over time, and the impact of these changes on the values, attitudes, and lifestyles on developing urban populations. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (000495)
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An introduction to the people and cultures of Asia, emphasizing India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The course employs a multimediated approach to learning. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (000523)
ANTH 222 Archaeology and the Bible 3.0 FS
Students examine the early civilizations of the Levant with foundations in the Early Bronze Age. The class focuses on Middle and Late Bronze Age period Canaan, the development of villages, towns, and societies during the periods of Canaanite and early Hebrew settlement. The focus of the course is with the cultural, demographic, political, and economic emergence of the nation of Israel with comparisons in the Old Testament and extra-biblical accounts of the period. Tools used in the examination include interpretation of evidence from archaeological excavations, historical materials, biblical and other textual sources, and area studies. 3 hours lecture. (020211)
ANTH 261 North American Indians 3.0 FS GE USD
Survey of Native North America with emphasis on U.S. tribes, their cultures, rituals, and institutions. Brief examination of pre-history. The focus is on historical and contemporary people. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (000383)
ANTH 268 Indigenous People of Latin America 3.0 SP GE GC
Study of the Native peoples of South America, Mexico, and Central America from European contact to the present. The course emphasizes contemporary ethnography and interaction of indigenous people with colonialism and the modern nation-state. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (021187)
ANTH 280 Field Archaeology 4.0 F1
See ANTH 380. 1 hour lecture, 9 hours supervision. (000500)
ANTH 298 Special Topics 1.0 -3.0 FS
ANTH 301 Physical Anthropology 4.0 FA
Biological evolution and variation in humans, mankind's place in nature, origin, and antiquity as represented in the fossil record; recent studies of non-human primates; the beginnings of culture. 3 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. (000505)
ANTH 302 Archaeology 3.0 FA
Case study examination of fundamental concepts, methods, and changing theoretical orientations of archaeology. Archaeology in the contemporary world, and archaeology as a profession. 3 hours lecture. (000506)
ANTH 303 Cultural Anthropology 3.0 FS
Case study examination of fundamental concepts, methods, and changing theoretical orientations of cultural anthropology. 3 hours lecture. (000507)
ANTH 304 Language and Culture 3.0 FS
Language as a symbolic communication; structural, comparative, and sociolinguistics; analysis of English and non-western language data. 3 hours discussion. (000508)
ANTH 311 Survey of Forensic Science 3.0 FS
A survey of the relationship between science and society by noting the history and nature of the role of the expert witness and the forensic scientist in aiding to resolve various legal issues. 3 hours lecture. (000511)
ANTH 312 Cataclysmic Events in Human Prehistory 3.0 FS
Through selected case studies, this course examines a series of cataclysmic events, ranging from volcanic eruptions and droughts to massacres and societal collapse, which illustrate that change, even cataclysmic change, is and has long been part of the human experience. The theoretical perspectives which anchor this inquiry into cataclysmic events of the human past are evolutionary, anthropological, and archaeological. 3 hours seminar. (000512)
ANTH 333 Nature, Culture, Environment 3.0 FS GE GC
This course examines how societies create, understand, and resolve environmental problems. It uses anthropological methods to explore relations between cultural and natural orders in a wide range of human groups. It emphasizes new approaches that can contribute to the well-being and sustainability of living communities in the twenty-first century. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (020636)
ANTH 338 Culture and Tourism 3.0 INQ
This course examines the cultural diversity of tourism as a global phenomenon, focusing on non-Western cultures and the impact of culture change in the 21st century. The development of tourism as a global industry is discussed as well as an analysis of types of tourists and motivation for travel to various destinations, such as cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. Case studies illustrate the positive and negative impacts of tourism. 3 hours lecture. (000516)
ANTH 339 Cultural Images of Women 3.0 INQ GC
This course is also offered as WMST 339 .
This cross-cultural study of women emphasizes changing constructions of gender and gender relations from the Paleolithic period to the rise of the state. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (000517)
ANTH 340 Anthropology of Food 3.0 FS GE GC
This course examines the social and cultural contexts of food production and consumption in a cross-cultural, global and historical perspective, including contemporary social, environmental and policy issues associated with food. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (020625)
ANTH 340Z Anthropology of Food - Capstone 3.0 FS GE GC WI
This course examines the social and cultural contexts of food production and consumption in a cross-cultural, global and historical perspective, including contemporary social, environmental and policy issues associated with food. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education Capstone course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (021352)
ANTH 362 California Indians 3.0 FA USD
Native peoples of California, their origin, prehistory, languages, culture, and interaction with Europeans. Selected case studies, with special emphasis on the local area. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved US Diversity course. (000519)
ANTH 363 Arctic Cultures 3.0 INQ
Native peoples of the Arctic, range of material and social culture, problems of acculturation and stress, current policies of various governments in the economic and social development of the Far North. 3 hours lecture. (000520)
ANTH 373 Pacific Cultures 3.0 INQ
Case studies of peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Analysis of origins of indigenous peoples and cultures. Discussion of traditional cultures in this ecologically diverse area. 3 hours lecture. (000524)
ANTH 376 Africa: Continuity and Change 3.0 FS GE GC
An introduction to African societies in anthropological and ethnographic perspective. Comparative case studies in historical and regional context explore body and self, religious experience, expressive arts, environmental and political conjunctures, and social change across the continent. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (000525)
ANTH 376Z Africa: Continuity and Change - Capstone 3.0 FS GE GC WI
An introduction to African societies in anthropological and ethnographic perspective. Comparative case studies in historical and regional context explore body and self, religious experience, expressive arts, environmental and political conjunctures, and social change across the continent. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education Capstone course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (021353)
ANTH 377 Anthropology of the Islamic World 3.0 FS GE GC
This course examines Muslim cultures in the daily, national and global contexts in which Islam is practiced. Students read ethnography, fiction, history, and poetry in order to appreciate, respect and understand contemporary Islamic cultures. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (020635)
ANTH 377Z Anthropology of the Islamic World - Capstone 3.0 FS GE GC WI
This course examines Muslim cultures in the daily, national and global contexts in which Islam is practiced. Students read ethnography, fiction, history, and poetry in order to appreciate, respect and understand contemporary Islamic cultures. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education Capstone course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (021354)
Archaeological survey and excavation; research aims and strategies; archaeological mapping, photography, and recording. 1 hour lecture, 9 hours supervision. (000526)
ANTH 389 Internship in Anthropology 1.0 -3.0 FS
This course is an internship offered for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 3 hours lecture. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. (000531)
ANTH 399 Special Problems 1.0 -3.0 FS
This course is an independent study of special problems and is offered for 1.0-3.0 units. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (000533)
ANTH 405 Museum Administration 3.0 FA
The principles of museum administration, including staffing, finances, educational programs, and ethics. 3 hours lecture. (000545)
ANTH 411 Human Origins 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ANTH 111, ANTH 300, or ANTH 301.
Evolution of the human being as a biological entity and as a culture-bearing primate. Emphasis is placed upon ecological principles and problems as they relate to the fossil record. 3 hours lecture. (000552)
ANTH 412 Human Variation 3.0 INQ
The nature of human biological variation and an examination of its genetic and cultural basis. 3 hours lecture. (000553)
ANTH 413 Bioarchaeology 3.0 FS
Prerequisite: Anth 111 or ANTH 301, ANTH 302.
This course will familiarize the student with current applications, developments, and methods in bioarchaeology. The course will emphasize the value of human skeletal studies in the interpretation of past human lifeways, and will address theoretical developments that intersect subfelds within physical anthropology, cultural anthropolgy, and archaeology. Classes will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and student presentations. 3 hours lecture. (020600)
ANTH 414 Human Growth and Development 3.0 INQ
The individual from prenatal period through growth and sexual maturation to old age and death. Special emphasis upon the cross-cultural and holistic approaches to the study of people and their role in human evolution. 3 hours lecture. (000555)
ANTH 415 Forensic Anthropology 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ANTH 111, ANTH 300, ANTH 301, or ANTH 311.
Anthropological principles and knowledge applied within the legal system. Topics include the history of the field, biological parameters determined from the skeleton, postmortem interval, and ethics. 3 hours seminar. (000557)
ANTH 420 Origins of Early Civilization 3.0 INQ
An examination of the data and major theories concerning the rise of civilizations, using as case studies early Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Mexico, and Peru. The significance of food production, ecology, writing, and the centralized state in the evolution of complex societies. 3 hours lecture. (000561)
ANTH 421 Archaeology of North America 3.0 INQ
The study of prehistoric North America north of Mexico. An investigation of cultural origins, development, and differentiation based on the analysis of selected archaeological complexes and traditions. Case study examples of contemporary method and theory in American archaeology. 3 hours lecture. (000562)
ANTH 423 Human Behavioral Ecology 3.0 INQ
This course serves as an introduction to the evolutionary processes influencing human behavior grounded in the paleoanthropological study of foraging peoples and an examination of cross-cultural patterns in human behavior. Emphasis will be placed on an evolutionary ecological perspective where aspects of human adaptation are viewed as the result of long-term survival strategies. 3 hours seminar. (000570)
ANTH 424 California Archaeology and Prehistory 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ANTH 112 or ANTH 302, or permission of instructor.
This course provides an overview and examination of the historical development and prehistory of archaeology in California. Topics include archaeological method and theory, cultural chronologies, regional and temporal patterns in the archaeological record, important sites and their potential links to native peoples in California. Controversial issues and contributions to modern archaeology are also considered. 3 hours lecture. (000572)
ANTH 425 Historical Archaeology 3.0 INQ
This course examines the method and theory of American historical archaeology as it specifically relates to the broader study of American material culture and sociocultural experiences in North America from the period of European exploration to the recent past through archaeological and documentary evidence. 3 hours lecture. (000574)
ANTH 426 Geoarchaeology 3.0 FS
Geoarchaeology studies traces of past human behavior that are embedded in the subsurface rock and soil environment and how archaeologists uncover and interpret this evidence. It reconstructs past environments examining the physical context of sedimentary materials focusing on processes of dynamic physical enviornments. The course reconstructs processes of landscape evolution, human occupation of that landscape, cultural patterns in it, and the changes in human cultural materials and burials caused by long-term deposition beneath the soil. 3 hours lecture. (020604)
ANTH 432 Anthropology of Religion 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ANTH 303 or RELS 480 or instructor's permission.
This course examines the contemporary theoretical underpinnings of the anthropology of religion, considering especially performative, gendered, psychological, semiotic, and political aspects of religion in cross-cultural persepective. 3 hours lecture. (000577)
ANTH 435 Medical Anthropology 3.0 INQ
Surveys the relationships among disease, curing, culture, and environment. Topics include problems of adapting modern medicines to diverse cultures; explication of the social and cultural correlates of physical and mental health and disease; nutritional implications of culture change; anthropology contributions to health-policy decisions and makers in non-Western countries. 3 hours seminar. (000579)
ANTH 437 International Development and Globalization 3.0 S2
Explores the historical and contemporary global movements of people, commodities, technology and ideas. Surveys the impacts of colonial relationships on the contemporary world, post-colonialism and the rise of the development era, and contemporary trends resulting in the increased social and cultural integration and differentiation of individuals and groups around the world. 3 hours lecture. (000582)
ANTH 443 Visual Anthropology 3.0 SP
Prerequisites: ANTH 303 or faculty permission.
This course explores visual aspects of culture and the use of images for the description, analysis, communication, and interpretation of human behavior. Media examined include, photography, film, video, new media, and art. Students develop ethnographic projects based on original research and using available media technologies. 3 hours lecture. (000586)
ANTH 444 Material Culture Studies 3.0 INQ
This course introduces students to material culture studies, broadly defined as the study of human-made artifacts or objects that reflect the beliefs, values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions of a particular culture or society at a given point in time. This course investigates the rich potential of things and their interpretation from an anthropological perspective. 3 hours lecture. (000587)
ANTH 461 Museum Collections Management 3.0 FA
Offers practical training in collections management techniques, including registration methods, curatorial practices, and the care, preservation, and conservation of museum specimens. 6 hours activity. (000596)
ANTH 465 Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Resources 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
This course serves as an introduction to the method and theory of preserving objects for the purposes of exhibit, research, and for posterity. The course is structured in a seminar/laboratory format designed to familiarize students with the chemicals, equipment, and procedures used in treating artifacts. The course covers conservation ethics and guidelines, deterioration processes, and the conservation of organic and inorganic materials. 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. (000598)
ANTH 466 Exhibit Research and Design 3.0 SP
This course introduces students to all stages of the exhibit planning process, from the initial concept to the final product. Students are introduced to the methodologies and approaches of current museum practices, including industry standards in design and implementation, the importance of visitor studies, and the underlying educational foundation for developing interpretive museum exhibits. 6 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000619)
ANTH 467 Exhibit Installation 3.0 FA
This course focuses on the creation of an actual museum exhibit for the annual spring Museum of Anthropology student-created exhibition. Students are required to undertake all phases of the research and design process and final installation. 6 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000621)
ANTH 478 Zooarchaeology: Vertebrate Identification and Analysis 3.0 SP
Prerequisites: ANTH 112 or ANTH 302.
Zooarchaeology involves the identification and interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites. Topics covered include the nature of the archaeofaunal record, units of quantification, taphonomy, the selective utilization of animals and subsistence strategies. A variety of case studies will also be reviewed. Laboratory activity centers around the identification of archaeofaunal remains from selected locations in California. 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. (000602)
ANTH 480 Advanced Field Archaeology 4.0 F1
Prerequisites: ANTH 380.
Advanced individual training in archaeological fieldwork, including organization of projects, supervision of field crews, use of specialized field techniques, and preliminary analysis of field data. 1 hour lecture, 9 hours supervision. (000604)
ANTH 481 Human Identification 3.0 SP
Physical anthropological methods and techniques, such as anthropometry, dermatoglyphics, osteology, and paleopathology as applied to problems of human identification. Credit for repeating this course depends upon your taking it from a different instructor each time. 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000607)
ANTH 482 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology 3.0 S2
Independent supervised training in the methods of data description, interpretation, and presentation. Methods of describing, classifying, analyzing, and illustrating archaeological finds, and the preparation of reports for publications. 6 hours activity. (000609)
ANTH 483 Field Methods in Ethnography 3.0 FA
Prerequisites: ANTH 303 or permission of instructor.
This course presents theories and methods of ethnography as well as the ethics of ethnographic fieldwork. Students conduct supervised ethnographic research and present their results both orally and in written format. 6 hours activity. (000610)
ANTH 484 Archaeological Site Surveying 3.0 F2
Methods and techniques of locating archaeological and historical cultural resources in the field. Proper site recordation by means of photographs, drawings, maps, and appropriately filled-out site survey forms for cultural resource management purposes. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000613)
ANTH 485 Formal Methods for Anthropology 3.0 SP
A survey of selected mathematical and logical methods and models of relevance to various problems in anthropology. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of anthropological data. 3 hours seminar. (000530)
ANTH 487 Heritage Resource Planning 3.0 INQ
The social and institutional frameworks, legislative bases, procedures, and practices of prehistoric and cultural resources management taught by means of case studies of legislative documents, management studies, and environmental impact reports. The investigation of selected resources and preparation of appropriate descriptive, evaluative, and management reports. 3 hours lecture. (000617)
ANTH 489A Physical Anth Internship 1.0 -6.0 FS
This internship is offered in the area of physical anthropology. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (000622)
ANTH 489B Archaeology Internship 1.0 -6.0 FS
This internship is offered in the area of archaeology. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (020235)
ANTH 489C Cultural Anthropology Internship 1.0 -6.0 FS
This internship is offered in the area of cultural anthropology. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (020236)
ANTH 489D Museum Studies Internship 1.0 -6.0 FS
This internship is offered in the area of museum studies. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (020237)
ANTH 495 Proseminar in Applied Anthropology 3.0 S1
Applications of sociocultural anthropology to the understanding and resolution of contemporary social problems. Seminar format. 3 hours seminar. (000630)
ANTH 496 Proseminar in the History of Theory and Method in Anthropology 3.0 FA GW
Prerequisites: ENGL 130 or JOUR 130 (or equivalent) with a grade of C- or higher; ANTH 303.
Investigation of the history of the development of theory and method in anthropological thought and practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Seminar format. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (000631)
ANTH 496H Proseminar in the History of Theory and Methods in Anthropology - Honors 3.0 FA GW
Prerequisites: ENGL 130 or JOUR 130 (or equivalent) with a grade of C- or higher, ANTH 303, acceptance into the Honors Program.
This investigation of the method and theory of anthropological thought of the last century is directed to individual research interests and problem development for the honors thesis. Seminar format. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (000632)
ANTH 497 Anthropology Forum 1.0 FS
Examines current developments in theory and research in the entire field of anthropology through a series of presentations by a wide variety of individuals who are actively involved at the frontiers of anthropological knowledge. 1 hour lecture. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (000633)
This course is an independent study of special problems offered for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000638)
ANTH 499H Honors in Anthropology 3.0 SP
Prerequisites: ANTH 496H and faculty permission.
Independent study resulting in a piece of scholarly or creative work involving substantial research to be completed and publicly presented. The course must be taken during the second semester of your senior year, subsequent to successful completion of ANTH 496H. This course is not available to graduate students. 3 hours seminar. (000639)
ANTH 600 Core Seminar in Anthropology 3.0 FA
A critical examination of the basic foundation literature in the subdisciplines of anthropology. 3 hours seminar. (000640)
ANTH 601 Seminar in Physical Anthropology 3.0 FA
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in physical anthropology, and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in physical anthropology. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000645)
ANTH 602 Seminar in Archaeology 3.0 SP
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in archaeology, and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in archaeology. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000650)
ANTH 603 Seminar in Cultural Anthropology 3.0 SP
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in cultural anthropology, and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in cultural anthropology. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000657)
ANTH 605 Seminar in Museum Studies 3.0 INQ
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in museology and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in the museum field. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000658)
ANTH 689 Internship in Anthropology 3.0 FS
3 hours lecture. Credit/no credit grading. (000666)
ANTH 689A Internship Exhibit Research and Design 3.0 FS
Prerequisites: Consent of Museum Studies Coordinator.
See description below 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (000667)
ANTH 689B Internship in Museum Management 3.0 FS
See description below. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (000668)
ANTH 689C Internship in Curatorial Practices 3.0 FS
ANTH 689D Internship in Museum Education 3.0 FS
ANTH 689E Internship in Museum Conservation 3.0 FS
ANTH 689A - ANTH 689E: Work experience in off-campus museum designed for each student. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (000671)
ANTH 696 Candidacy Exam 1.0 FS
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
This course is for graduate students taking the Candidacy Exam only. 3 hours supervision. Credit/no credit grading. (015814)
ANTH 697 Independent Study 1.0 -3.0 FS
This course is a graduate-level independent study offered for 1.0-3.0 units. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (000673)
ANTH 698 Supervised College Teaching in Anthropology 2.0 FS
Weekly seminars and supervision for those students who plan to prepare themselves for a career in college teaching of anthropology. This course is acceptable for credit toward the Master of Arts in Anthropology. 6 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 4.0 units. (000672)
ANTH 699T Master's Thesis 1.0 -3.0 FS
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
This course is a master's study offered as a Master's Thesis for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 3.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. Formerly ANTH 399T. (000675)
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Pope Francis: Human trafficking is an open wound on society
Pope Francis with Cardinal Nichols, Theresa May and police chiefs Below: Francis arrives at the conference and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe signs the trafficking declaration while Cardinal Nichols watches on (Flickr/Mazur)
Meeting four victims of human trafficking, dozens of religious sisters and senior police chiefs from 20 countries, Pope Francis praised their coordinated efforts to fight against a “crime against humanity.”
“Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ,” he said.
The Pope spoke at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences earlier today to participants in an international conference on combating human trafficking, which was organised by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster.
Human trafficking “is a crime against humanity” that requires continued global and local cooperation between the Catholic Church and law enforcement, Pope Francis said.
The twin strategies of police cracking down on the criminals behind trafficking and Church and social workers aiding victims “are quite important,” he said, and “can and must go together.”
Pope Francis called the Vatican meeting “a gesture of the Church and of people of good will who want to scream, ‘Enough!'”
The April 9-10 gathering of 120 people representing national and international police agencies, women and men religious and humanitarian workers aiding victims was the second international conference on trafficking hosted by the UK bishops at the Vatican.
Three of the four victims attending the conference also spoke to the assembly about how they fell into in the snares of criminal gangs and escaped from their ruthless traffickers.
A woman from Hungary told attendees how her own sister had sold her into slavery. She was separated from her two-year-old daughter and was even “traded for a car” by her traffickers.
She was abused, beaten and bullied by the family housing her, including the family’s three-year-old boy, she said. She was forced to prostitute herself “24 hours a day,” seven days a week for three years.
The conference focused on showcasing a joint initiative between police and the Church that began in London three years ago; it’s a model the British bishops hope will be copied and adopted around the world.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland of Scotland Yard’s trafficking and organised crime unit explained in his talk on Wednesday how, when the police conduct raids on suspected brothels and potential crime scenes, they have group of nuns speak with the women found inside because the women often don’t want to talk to the police, but they do open up to the sisters.
The sisters pass on to police additional testimony they receive from the women while they are living under the sisters’ care.
Disclosures of rape and other crimes “led to immediate arrests” and the identification of perpetrators as well as brought down a major trafficking ring, he said.
Sacred Heart Sister Florence Nwaonuma of Nigeria told the conference today that because the world’s religious sisters are on the ground with the people they know “exactly what is happening” when it comes to victims, clients and traffickers.
“But we need the empowerment to challenge these unjust structures that are pushing our women out of Nigeria,” and they need more vocations to religious life “so we can continue our work,” she said.
Another Sacred Heart sister from Nigeria, identified as Sister Antonia, asked participants to think of ways the Church can help the men seeking prostitutes. “Most clients are Catholics and family men, even teenagers,” she said. She called for approaches that would help men see “that they are using these girls and that they are not objects.”
She and other religious said as long as nothing is done to amend the poverty and injustice that is rendering people more vulnerable to traffickers, the supply of people for sale will never end.
At the end of the meeting, “The Santa Marta Group,” an international group of senior law enforcement chiefs, was formally established.
The group — named after the Domus Sanctae Marthae residence where the conference participants stayed and where the Pope lives — will be led by Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.
More than 20 police chiefs signed the new group’s declaration of commitment today and pledged to meet again in London in November to share expertise, training and “practical things we can do” to fight human trafficking.
Hogan-Howe challenged the police chiefs, saying “the test” of the new initiative’s success will be seeing if “we all (will) be there in London if the Holy Father is not there,” a comment met with laughter from the people in the conference hall.
Ronald Noble, secretary-general of Interpol, said modern-day slavery is a huge business. The United Nations estimates 2.4 million people are trafficked at any given time and generate $32 billion in annual profits for criminals.
But he said, it’s the real human being, “a name, a face, a voice crying for help,” that should move people into action, not the statistics.
“Police and spiritual leaders have different roles, but walk the same streets” and need to work together, he said.
Cardinal Nichols said, “Only one percent of people in slavery are identified and rescued.” Even while one life is saved, there are still millions of women, men and children in the grips of traffickers, he said.
“We need legislation, concrete action and robust funding” to do more, he added. Hogan-Howe said more also needs to be done to encourage victims to not be afraid or embarrassed to come forward and denounce their oppressors to the police.
Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Lynch of Southwark, England, urged the world’s bishops “to have the confidence to approach the local chief of police” and urged local police chiefs “to have the confidence to contact the bishop” and find ways to work together.
Earlier this week, Cardinal Nichols and Home Secretary Theresa May, who also attended the conference, wrote a join article in the Daily Telegraph in which they warned that British companies must ensure that their suppliers were not in anyway connected to trafficking or exploitation.
They wrote that “modern slavery” can take many forms, from being “trafficked for cheap labour, into prostitution, domestic servitude or forced into a life of crime”.
Of those enslaved in Britain, they wrote, “some wish to return to their home countries, others were trafficked with the collusion of their own families and want to stay in Britain. But what they all tend to have in common is that they are socially and economically vulnerable, on the margins of society. Organised criminal gangs deliberately prey on and exploit people they perceive to have no voice. That is why we must all become their voice and speak loudly for them.”
Last week, Pope Francis and US President Barack Obama agreed to work together to tackle human trafficking and the Vatican said this week’s conference was a “practical step in fulfilling this aim”. The Pope has previously described human trafficking as a “scourge” of the 21st century.
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Justin Martyr
JUSTIN MARTYR, "The Dialogue with Trypho" (ca. 160) - excerpts
[Philip Schaff translation, courtesy of earlychristianwritings.com]
Chapter I.-Introduction.
While I was going about one morning in the walks of the Xystus, a certain man, with others in his company, having met me, and said, "Hail, O philosopher!" And immediately after saying this, he turned round and walked along with me; his friends likewise followed him. And I in turn having addressed him, said, "What is there important?"
And he replied, "I was instructed," says he "by Corinthus the Socratic in Argos, that I ought not to despise or treat with indifference those who array themselves in this dress but to show them all kindness, and to associate with them, as perhaps some advantage would spring from the intercourse either to some such man or to myself. It is good, moreover, for both, if either the one or the other be benefited. On this account, therefore, whenever I see any one in such costume, I gladly approach him, and now, for the same reason, have I willingly accosted you; and these accompany me, in the expectation of hearing for themselves something profitable from you."
"But who are you, most excellent man?" So I replied to him in jest. Then he told me frankly both his name and his family. "Trypho," says he, "I am called; and I am a Hebrew of the circumcision, and having escaped from the war [the Bar Kochba revolt] lately carried on there I am spending my days in Greece, and chiefly at Corinth."
"And in what," said I, "would you be profited by philosophy so much as by your own lawgiver and the prophets?" "Why not?" he replied. "Do not the philosophers turn every discourse on God? and do not questions continually arise to them about His unity and providence ? Is not this truly the duty of philosophy, to investigate the Deity?"
"Assuredly," said I, "so we too have believed. But the most have not taken thought of this whether there be one or more gods, and whether they have a regard for each one of us or no, as if this knowledge contributed nothing to our happiness; nay, they moreover attempt to persuade us that God takes care of the universe with its genera and species, but not of me and you, and each individually, since otherwise we would surely not need to pray to Him night and day. But it is not difficult to understand the upshot of this; for fearlessness and license in speaking result to such as maintain these opinions, doing and saying whatever they choose, neither dreading punishment nor hoping for any benefit from God. For how could they? They affirm that the same things shall always happen; and. further, that I and you shall again live in like manner, having become neither better men nor worse. But there are some others,7 who, having supposed the soul to be immortal and immaterial, believe that though they have committed evil they will not suffer punishment (for that which is immaterial is insensible), and that the soul, in consequence of its immortality, needs nothing from God."
And he, smiling gently, said, "Tell us your opinion of these matters, and what idea you entertain respecting God, and what your philosophy is."
[Justin relates how he had met someone who convinced him of the truth of Christianity.]
Chapter VIII.-Justin by His Colloquy is Kindled with Love to Christ.
"When he had spoken these and many other things, which there is no time for mentioning at present, he went away, bidding me attend to them; and I have not seen him since. But straightway a flame was kindled in my soul; and a love of the prophets, and of those men who are friends of Christ, possessed me; and whilst revolving his words in my mind, I found this philosophy alone to be safe and profitable. Thus, and for this reason, I am a philosopher. Moreover, I would wish that all, making a resolution similar to my own, do not keep themselves away from the words of the Saviour. For they possess a terrible power in themselves, and are sufficient to inspire those who turn aside from the path of rectitude with awe; while the sweetest rest is afforded those who make a diligent practice of them. If, then, you have any concern for yourself, and if you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may-since you are not indifferent to the matter. -become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated, live a happy life."
When I had said this, my beloved friends those who were with Trypho laughed; but he, smiling, says, "I approve of your other remarks, and admire the eagerness with which you study divine things; but it were better for you still to abide in the philosophy of Plato, or of some other man, cultivating endurance, self-control, and moderation, rather than be deceived by false words, and follow the opinions of men of no reputation. For if you remain in that mode of philosophy, and live blamelessly, a hope of a better destiny were left to you; but when you have forsaken God, and reposed confidence in man, what safety still awaits you? If, then, you are willing to listen to me (for I have already considered you a friend), first be circumcised, then observe what ordinances have been enacted with respect to the Sabbath, and the feasts, and the new moons of God; and, in a word, do all things which have been written in the law: and then perhaps you shall obtain mercy from God. But Christ-if He has indeed been born, and exists anywhere-is unknown, and does not even know Himself, and has no power until Elias come to anoint Him, and make Him manifest to all. And you, having accepted a groundless report, invent a Christ for yourselves, and for his sake are inconsiderately perishing."
Chapter IX.-The Christians Have Not Believed Groundless Stories.
"I excuse and forgive you, my friend," I said. "For you know not what you say, but have been persuaded by teachers who do not understand the Scriptures; and you speak, like a diviner, whatever comes into your mind. But if you are willing to listen to an account of Him, how we have not been deceived, and shall not cease to confess Him,-although men's reproaches be heaped upon us, although the most terrible tyrant compel us to deny Him,-I shall prove to you as you stand here that we have not believed empty fables, or words without any foundation but words filled with the Spirit of God, and big with power, and flourishing with grace."
Then again those who were in his company laughed, and shouted in an unseemly manner. Then I rose up and was about to leave; but he, taking hold of my garment, said I should not accomplish that until I had performed what I promised. "Let not, then, your companions be so tumultuous, or behave so disgracefully," I said. "But if they wish, let them listen in silence; or, if some better occupation prevent them, let them go away; while we, having retired to some spot, and resting there, may finish the discourse." It seemed good to Trypho that we should do so; and accordingly, having agreed upon it, we retired to the middle space of the Xystus. Two of his friends, when they had ridiculed and made game of our zeal, went off. And when we were come to that place, where there are stone seats on both sides, those with Trypho, having seated themselves on the one side, conversed with each other, some one of them having thrown in a remark about the war waged in Judaea.
Chapter X.-Trypho Blames the Christians for This Alone - The Non-Observance of the Law.
And when they ceased, I again addressed them thus: "Is there any other matter, my friends, in which we are blamed, than this, that we live not after the law, and are not circumcised in the flesh as your forefathers were, and do not observe sabbaths as you do? Are our lives and customs also slandered among you? And I ask this: have you also believed concerning us, that we eat men; and that after the feast, having extinguished the lights, we engage in promiscuous concubinage? Or do you condemn us in this alone, that we adhere to such tenets, and believe in an opinion, untrue, as you think? "
"This is what we are amazed at," said Trypho, "but those things about which the multitude speak are not worthy of belief; for they are most repugnant to human nature. Moreover, I am aware that your precepts in the so-called Gospel are so wonderful and so great, that I suspect no one can keep them; for I have carefully read them. But this is what we are most at a loss about: that you, professing to be pious, and supposing yourselves better than others, are not in any particular separated from them, and do not alter your mode of living from the nations, in that you observe no festivals or sabbaths, and do not have the rite of circumcision; and further, resting your hopes on a man that was crucified, you yet expect to obtain some good thing from God, while you do not obey His commandments. Have you not read, that soul shall be cut off from his people who shall not have been circumcised on the eighth day? And this has been ordained for strangers and for slaves equally. But you, despising this covenant rashly, reject the consequent duties, and attempt to persuade yourselves that you know God, when, however, you perform none of those things which they do who fear God. If, therefore, you can defend yourself on these points, and make it manifest in what way you hope for anything whatsoever, even though you do not observe the law, this we would very gladly hear from you, and we shall make other similar investigations."
Chapter XI.-The Law Abrogated; The New Testament Promised and Given by God.
"There will be no other God, O Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing" (I thus addressed him), "but He who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us, another for you, but that He alone is God who led your fathers out from Egypt with a strong hand and a high arm. Nor have we trusted in any other (for there is no other), but in Him in whom you also have trusted, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. But we do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as yourselves. But now -(for I have read that there shall be a final law, and a covenant, the chiefest of all, which it is now incumbent on all men to observe, as many as are seeking after the inheritance of God. For the law promulgated on Horeb is now old, and belongs to yourselves alone; but this is for all universally. Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one; and an eternal and final law-namely, Christ-has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy, after which there shall be no law, no commandment, no ordinance. Have you not read this which Isaiah says: `Hearken unto Me, hearken unto Me, my people; and, ye kings, give ear unto Me: for a law shall go forth from Me, and My judgment shall be for a light to the nations. My righteousness approaches swiftly, and My salvation shall go forth, and nations shall trust in Mine arm?' And by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: `Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt'). If, therefore, God proclaimed a new covenant which was to be instituted, and this for a light of the nations, we see and are persuaded that men approach God, leaving their idols and other unrighteousness, through the name of Him who was crucified, Jesus Christ, and abide by their confession even unto death, and maintain piety. Moreover, by the works and by the attendant miracles, it is possible for all to understand that He is the new law, and the new covenant, and the expectation of those who out of every people wait for the good things of God. For the true spiritual Israel, and descendants of Judah, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (who in uncircumcision was approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith, and called the father of many nations), are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ, as shall be demonstrated while we proceed.
Chapter XII.-The Jews Violate the Eternal Law, and Misinterpret that of Moses.
I also adduced another passage in which Isaiah exclaims: "`Hear My words, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people: nations which know not Thee shall call on Thee; peoples who know not Thee shall escape to Thee, because of thy God, the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified Thee.' This same law you have despised, and His new holy covenant you have slighted; and now you neither receive it, nor repent of your evil deeds. `For your ears are closed, your eyes are blinded, and the heart is hardened, 'Jeremiah has cried; yet not even then do you listen. The Lawgiver is present, yet you do not see Him; to the poor the Gospel is preached, the blind see, yet you do not understand. You have now need of a second circumcision, though you glory greatly in the flesh. The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not discerning why this has been commanded you: and if you eat unleavened bread, you say the will of God has been fulfilled. The Lord our God does not take pleasure in such observances: if there is any perjured person or a thief among you, let him cease to be so; if any adulterer, let him repent; then he has kept the sweet and true sabbaths of God. If any one has impure hands, let him wash and be pure.
Chapter XIII.-Isaiah Teaches that Sins are Forgiven Through Christ's Blood.
"For Isaiah did not send you to a bath, there to wash away murder and other sins, which not even all the water of the sea were sufficient to purge; but, as might have been expected, this was that saving bath of the olden time which followed those who repented, and who no longer were purified by the blood of goats and of sheep, or by the ashes of an heifer, or by the offerings of fine flour, but by faith through the blood of Christ, and through His death, who died for this very reason, as Isaiah himself said, when he spake thus: `The Lord shall make bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the nations and the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of God. Depart ye, depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, and touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her, be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord, for ye go not with haste. For the Lord shall go before you; and the Lord, the God of Israel, shall gather you together. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; and He shall be exalted, and be greatly glorified. As many were astonished at Thee, so Thy form and Thy glory shall be marred more than men. So shall many nations be astonished at Him, and the kings shall shut their mouths; for that which had not been told them concerning Him shall they see, and that which they had not heard shall they consider. Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have announced Him as a child before Him, as a root in a dry ground. He hath no form or comeliness, and when we saw Him He had no form or beauty; but His form is dishonoured, and fails more than the sons of men. He is a man in affliction, and acquainted with bearing sickness, because His face has been turned away; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. He bears our sins, and is distressed for us; and we esteemed Him to be in toil and in affliction, and in evil treatment. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. With His stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Every man has turned to his own way; and the Lord laid on Him our iniquities, and by reason of His oppression He opens not His mouth. He was brought as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before her shearer is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken away. And who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth. Because of the transgressions of my people He came unto death. And I will give the wicked for His grave, and the rich for His death, because He committed no iniquity, and deceit was not found in His mouth. And the Lord wills to purify Him from affliction. If he has been given for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed. And the Lord wills to take His soul away from trouble, to show Him light, and to form Him in understanding, to justify the righteous One who serves many well. And He shall bear our sins; therefore He shall inherit many, and shall divide the spoil of the strong, because His soul was delivered to death; and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sins of many, and was delivered for their transgression. Sing, O barren, who bearest not; break forth and cry aloud, thou who dost not travail in pain: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife. For the Lord said, Enlarge the place of thy tent and of thy curtains; fix them, spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; stretch forth to thy right and thy left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inherited. Fear not because thou art ashamed, neither be thou confounded because thou hast been reproached; for thou shalt forget everlasting shame, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood, because the Lord has made a name for Himself, and He who has redeemed thee shall be called through the whole earth the God of Israel. The Lord has called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, as a woman hated from her youth.'
Chapter XIV.-Righteousness is Not Found in Jewish Rites, But in the Conversion of the Heart Given in Baptism
"By reason, therefore, of this laver of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained on account of the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and testify that that very baptism which he announced is alone able to purify those who have repented; and this is the water of life. But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and profitless to you. For what is the use of that baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone? Baptize the soul from wrath and from covetousness, from envy, and from hatred; and, lo! the body is pure. For this is the symbolic significance of unleavened bread, that you do not commit the old deeds of wicked leaven. But you have understood all things in a carnal sense, and you suppose it to be piety if you do such things, while your souls are filled with deceit, and, in short, with every wickedness. Accordingly, also, after the seven days of eating unleavened bread, God commanded them to mingle new leaven, that is, the performance of other works, and not the imitation of the old and evil works. And because this is what this new Lawgiver demands of you, I shall again refer to the words which have been quoted by me, and to others also which have been passed over. They are related by Isaiah to the following effect: `Hearken to me, and your soul shall live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the nations. Nations which know not Thee shall call on Thee; and peoples who know not Thee shall escape unto Thee, because of Thy God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified Thee. Seek ye God; and when you find Him, call on Him, so long as He may be nigh you. Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will obtain mercy, because He will abundantly pardon your sins. For my thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are my ways as your ways; but as far removed as the heavens are from the earth, so far is my way removed from your way, and your thoughts from my thoughts. For as the snow or the rain descends from heaven, and shall not return till it waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread for food, so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return until it shall have accomplished all that I desired, and I shall make My commandments prosperous. For ye shall go out with joy, and be taught with gladness. For the mountains and the hills shall leap while they expect you, and all the trees of the fields shall applaud with their branches: and instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle. And the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and He shall not fail!' Of these and such like words written by the prophets, O Trypho," said I, "some have reference to the first advent of Christ, in which He is preached as inglorious, obscure, and of mortal appearance: but others had reference to His second advent, when He shall appear in glory and above the clouds; and your nation shall see and know Him whom they have pierced, as Hosea, one of the twelve prophets, and Daniel, foretold.
Chapter XV.-In What the True Fasting Consists.
"Learn, therefore, to keep the true fast of God, as Isaiah says, that you may please God. Isaiah has cried thus: `Shout vehemently, and do not spare: lift up thy voice as with a trumpet, and show My people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek Me from day to day, and desire to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the judgment of God. They ask of Me now righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God, saying, Wherefore have we fasted, and Thou seest not? and afflicted our souls, and Thou hast not known? Because in the days of your fasting you find your own pleasure, and oppress all those who are subject to you. Behold, ye fast for strifes and debates, and smite the humble with your fists. Why do ye fast for Me, as to-day, so that your voice is heard aloud? This is not the fast which I have chosen, the day in which a man shall afflict his soul. And not even if you bend your neck like a ring, or clothe yourself in sack-cloth and ashes, shall you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord. This is not the fast which I have chosen, saith the Lord; but loose every unrighteous bond, dissolve the terms of wrongous covenants, let the oppressed go free, and avoid every iniquitous contract. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and lead the homeless poor under thy dwelling; if thou seest the naked, clothe him; and do not hide thyself from thine own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy garments shall rise up quickly: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of God shall envelope thee. Then shalt thou cry, and the Lord shall hear thee: while thou art speaking, He will say, Behold, I am here. And if thou take away from thee the yoke, and the stretching out of the hand, and the word of murmuring; and shalt give heartily thy bread to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light arise in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon-day: and thy God shall be with thee continually, and thou shalt be satisfied according as thy soul desireth, and thy bones shall become fat, and shall be as a watered garden, and as a fountain of water, or as a land where water fails not.' ‘Circumcise, therefore, the foreskin of your heart,' as the words of God in all these passages demand."
Chapter XVI.-Circumcision Given as a Sign, that the Jews Might Be Driven Away for Their Evil Deeds Done to Christ and the Christians.
"And God himself proclaimed by Moses, speaking thus: `And circumcise the hardness of your hearts, and no longer stiffen the neck. For the Lord your God is both Lord of lords, and a great, mighty, and terrible God, who regardeth not persons, and taketh not rewards.' And in Leviticus: `Because they have transgressed against Me, and despised Me, and because they have walked contrary to Me, I also walked contrary to them, and I shall cut them off in the land of their enemies. Then shall their uncircumcised heart be turned. For the circumcision according to the flesh, which is from Abraham, was given for a sign; that you may be separated from other nations, and from us; and that you alone may suffer that which you now justly suffer; and that your land may be desolate, and your cities burned with fire; and that strangers may eat your fruit in your presence, and not one of you may go up to Jerusalem.' For you are not recognised among the rest of men by any other mark than your fleshly circumcision. For none of you, I suppose, will venture to say that God neither did nor does foresee the events, which are future, nor fore-ordained his deserts for each one. Accordingly, these things have happened to you in fairness and justice, for you have slain the Just One, and His prophets before Him; and now you reject those who hope in Him, and in Him who sent Him-God the Almighty and Maker of all things-cursing in your synagogues those that believe on Christ. For you have not the power to lay hands upon us, on account of those who now have the mastery. But as often as you could, you did so. Wherefore God, by Isaiah, calls to you, saying, `Behold how the righteous man perished, and no one regards it. For the righteous man is taken away from before iniquity. His grave shall be in peace, he is taken away from the midst. Draw near hither, ye lawless children, seed of the adulterers, and children of the whore. Against whom have you sported yourselves, and against whom have you opened the mouth, and against whom have you loosened the tongue? '
Chapter XVII.-The Jews Sent Persons Through the Whole Earth to Spread Calumnies on Christians.
"For other nations have not inflicted on us and on Christ this wrong to such an extent as you have, who in very deed are the authors of the wicked prejudice against the Just One, and us who hold by Him. For after that you had crucified Him, the only blameless and righteous Man,-through whose swipes those who approach the Father by Him are healed,-when you knew that He had risen from the dead and ascended to heaven, as the prophets foretold He would, you not only did not repent of the wickedness which you had committed, but at that time you selected and sent out from Jerusalem chosen men through all the land to tell that the godless heresy of the Christians had sprung up, and to publish those things which all they who knew us not speak against us. So that you are the cause not only of your own unrighteousness, but in fact of that of all other men. And Isaiah cries justly: `By reason of you, My name is blasphemed among the Gentiles.' And: `Woe unto their soul! because they have devised an evil device against themselves, saying, Let us bind the righteous, for he is distasteful to us. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked evil shall be rendered to him according to the works of his hands.' And again, in other words: `Woe unto them that draw their iniquity as with a long cord, and their transgressions as with the harness of a heifer's yoke: who say, Let his speed come near; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put light for darkness, and darkness for light; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!' Accordingly, you displayed great zeal in publishing throughout all the land bitter and dark and unjust things against the only blameless and righteous Light sent by God.
For He appeared distasteful to you when He cried among you, `It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves!' He overthrew also the tables of the money-changers in the temple, and exclaimed, `Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and rue, but do not observe the love of God and justice. Ye whited sepulchres! appearing beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.' And to the Scribes, `Woe unto you, Scribes! for ye have the keys, and ye do not enter in yourselves, and them that are entering in ye hinder; ye blind guides!'
Chapter XXV.-The Jews Boast in Vain that They are Sons of Abraham.
"Those who justify themselves, and say they are sons of Abraham, shall be desirous even in a small degree to receive the inheritance along with you; as the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of Isaiah, cries, speaking thus while he personates them: `Return from heaven, and behold from the habitation of Thy holiness and glory. Where is Thy zeal and strength? Where is the multitude of Thy mercy? for Thou hast sustained us, O Lord. For Thou art our Father, because Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel has not recognized us. But Thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: from the beginning Thy name is upon us. O Lord, why hast Thou made us to err from Thy way? and hardened our hearts, so that we do not fear Thee? Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance, that we may inherit for a little Thy holy mountain. We were as from the beginning, when Thou didst not bear rule over us, and when Thy name was not called upon us. If Thou wilt open the heavens, trembling shall seize the mountains before Thee: and they shall be melted, as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall consume the adversaries, and Thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries; the nations shall be put into disorder before Thy face. When Thou shall do glorious things, trembling shall seize the mountains before Thee. From the beginning we have not heard, nor have our eyes seen a God besides Thee: and Thy works, the mercy which Thou shall show to those who repent. He shall meet those who do righteousness, and they shall remember Thy ways. Behold, Thou art wroth, and we were sinning. Therefore we have erred and become all unclean, and all our righteousness is as the rags of a woman set apart: and we have faded away like leaves by reason of our iniquities; thus the wind will take us away. And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, or remembers to take hold of Thee; for Thou hast turned away Thy face from us, and hast given us up on account of our sins. And now return, O Lord, for we are all Thy people. The city of Thy holiness has become desolate. Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse; the house, our holiness, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire; and all the glorious nations have fallen along with it. And in addition to these [misfortunes], O Lord, Thou hast refrained Thyself, and art silent, and hast humbled us very much.'"
And Trypho remarked, "What is this you say? that none of us shall inherit anything on the holy mountain of God? "
Chapter XXVI.-No Salvation to the Jews Except Through Christ.
And I replied, "I do not say so; but those who have persecuted and do persecute Christ, if they do not repent, shall not inherit anything on the holy mountain. But the Gentiles, who have believed on Him, and have repented of the sins which they have committed, they shall receive the inheritance along with the patriarchs and the prophets, and the just men who are descended from Jacob, even although they neither keep the Sabbath, nor are circumcised, nor observe the feasts. Assuredly they shall receive the holy inheritance of God. For God speaks by Isaiah thus: `I, the Lord God, have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will strengthen Thee; and I have given Thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out them that are bound from the chains, and those who sit in darkness from the prison-house.' And again: `Lift up a standard for the people; for, lo, the Lord has made it heard unto the end of the earth. Say ye to the daughters of Zion, Behold, thy Saviour has come; having His reward, and His work before His face: and He shall call it a holy nation, redeemed by the Lord. And thou shalt be called a city sought out, and not forsaken. Who is this that cometh from Edom? in red garments from Bosor? This that is beautiful in apparel, going up with great strength? I speak righteousness, and the judgment of salvation. Why are Thy garments red, and Thine apparel as from the trodden wine-press? Thou art full of the trodden grape. I have trodden the wine-press all alone, and of the people there is no man with Me; and I have trampled them in fury, and crushed them to the ground, and spilled their blood on the earth. For the day of retribution has come upon them, and the year of redemption is present. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I considered, and none assisted: and My arm delivered; and My fury came on them, and I trampled them in My fury, and spilled their blood on the earth.'"
Chapter XXVII.-Why God Taught the Same Things by the Prophets as by Moses.
And Trypho said, "Why do you select and quote whatever you wish from the prophetic writings, but do not refer to those which expressly command the Sabbath to be observed? For Isaiah thus speaks: `If thou shalt turn away thy foot from the Sabbaths, so as not to do thy pleasure on the holy day, and shalt call the Sabbaths the holy delights of thy God; if thou shalt not lift thy foot to work, and shalt not speak a word from thine own mouth; then thou shalt trust in the Lord, and He shall cause thee to go up to the good things of the land; and He shall feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.'"
And I replied, "I have passed them by, my friends, not because such prophecies were contrary to me, but because you have understood, and do understand, that although God commands you by all the prophets to do the same things which He also commanded by Moses, it was on account of the hardness of your hearts, and your ingratitude towards Him, that He continually proclaims them, in order that, even in this way, if you repented, you might please Him, and neither sacrifice your children to demons, nor be partakers with thieves, nor lovers of gifts, nor hunters after revenge, nor fail in doing judgment for orphans, nor be inattentive to the justice due to the widow nor have your hands full of blood. `For the daughters of Zion have walked with a high neck, both sporting by winking with their eyes, and sweeping along their dresses. For they are all gone aside, 'He exclaims, `they are all become useless. There is none that understands, there is not so much as one. With their tongues they have practised deceit, their throat is an open sepulchre, the poison of asps is under their lips, destruction and misery are in their paths, and the way of peace they have not known.' So that, as in the beginning, these things were enjoined you because of your wickedness, in like manner because of your stedfastness in it, or rather your increased proneness to it, by means of the same precepts He calls you to a remembrance or knowledge of it. But you are a people hard-hearted and without understanding, both blind and lame, children in whom is no faith, as He Himself says, honouring Him only with your lips, far from Him in your hearts, teaching doctrines that are your own and not His. For, tell me, did God wish the priests to sin when they offer the sacrifices on the Sabbaths? or those to sin, who are circumcised and do circumcise on the Sabbaths; since He commands that on the eighth day-even though it happen to be a Sabbath-those who are born shall be always circumcised? or could not the infants be operated upon one day previous or one day subsequent to the Sabbath, if He knew that it is a sinful act upon the Sabbaths? Or why did He not teach those-who are called righteous and pleasing to Him, who lived before Moses and Abraham, who were not circumcised in their foreskin, and observed no Sabbaths-to keep these institutions? "
Chapter XXVIII.-True Righteousness is Obtained by Christ.
And Trypho replied, "We heard you adducing this consideration a little ago, and we have given it attention: for, to tell the truth, it is worthy of attention; and that answer which pleases most-namely, that so it seemed good to Him-does not satisfy me. For this is ever the shift to which those have recourse who are unable to answer the question."
Then I said, "Since I bring from the Scriptures and the facts themselves both the proofs and the inculcation of them, do not delay or hesitate to put faith in me, although I am an uncircumcised man; so short a time is left you in which to become proselytes. If Christ's coming shall have anticipated you, in vain you will repent, in vain you will weep; for He will not hear yon. `Break up your fallow ground, 'Jeremiah has cried to the people, `and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and circumcise the foreskin of your heart.' Do not sow, therefore, among thorns, and in untilled ground, whence you can have no fruit. Know Christ; and behold the fallow ground, good, good and fat, is in your hearts. `For, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will visit all them that are circumcised in their foreskins; Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Moab. For all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts.' Do you see how that God does not mean this circumcision which is given for a sign? For it is of no use to the Egyptians, or the sons of Moab, or the sons of Edom. But though a man be a Scythian or a Persian, if he has the knowledge of God and of His Christ, and keeps the everlasting righteous decrees, he is circumcised with the good and useful circumcision, and is a friend of God, and God rejoices in his gifts and offerings. But I will lay before you, my friends, the very words of God, when He said to the people by Malachi, one of the twelve prophets, `I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord; and I shall not accept your sacrifices at your hands: for from the rising of the sun unto its setting My name shall be glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place a sacrifice is offered unto My name, even a pure sacrifice: for My name is honoured among the Gentiles, saith the Lord; but ye profane it.' And by David He said, `A people whom I have not known, served Me; at the hearing of the ear they obeyed Me.'
Chapter XXIX.-Christ is Useless to Those Who Observe the Law.
"Let us glorify God, all nations gathered together; for He has also visited us. Let us glorify Him by the King of glory, by the Lord of hosts. For He has been gracious towards the Gentiles also; and our sacrifices He esteems more grateful than yours. What need, then, have I of circumcision, who have been witnessed to by God? What need have I of that other baptism, who have been baptized with the Holy Ghost? I think that while I mention this, I would persuade even those who are possessed of scanty intelligence. For these words have neither been prepared by me, nor embellished by the art of man; but David sung them, Isaiah preached them, Zechariah proclaimed them, and Moses wrote them. Are you acquainted with them, Trypho? They are contained in your Scriptures, or rather not yours, but ours. For we believe them; but you, though you read them, do not catch the spirit that is in them. Be not offended at, or reproach us with, the bodily uncircumcision with which God has created us; and think it not strange that we drink hot water on the Sabbaths, since God directs the government of the universe on this day equally as on all others; and the priests, as on other days, so on this, are ordered to offer sacrifices; and there are so many righteous men who have performed none of these legal ceremonies, and yet are witnessed to by God Himself.
Chapter XXXV.-Heretics Confirm the Catholics in the Faith.
And Trypho said, "I believe, however, that many of those who say that they confess Jesus, and are called Christians, eat meats offered to idols, and declare that they are by no means injured in consequence." And I replied, "The fact that there are such men confessing themselves to be Christians, and admitting the crucified Jesus to be both Lord and Christ, yet not teaching His doctrines, but those of the spirits of error, causes us who are disciples of the true and pure doctrine of Jesus Christ, to be more faithful and stedfast in the hope announced by Him. For what things He predicted would take place in His name, these we do see being actually accomplished in our sight. For he said, `Many shall come in My name, clothed outwardly in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.'" And, `There shall be schisms and heresies.' And, `Beware of false prophets, who shall come to you clothed outwardly in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.' And, `Many false Christs and false apostles shall arise, and shall deceive many of the faithful.' There are, therefore, and there were many, my friends, who, coming forward in the name of Jesus, taught both to speak and act impious and blasphemous things; and these are called by us after the name of the men from whom each doctrine and opinion had its origin. (For some in one way, others in another, teach to blaspheme the Maker of all things, and Christ, who was foretold by Him as coming, and the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, with whom we have nothing in common, since we know them to be atheists, impious, unrighteous, and sinful, and confessors of Jesus in name only, instead of worshippers of Him. Yet they style themselves Christians, just as certain among the Gentiles inscribe the name of God upon the works of their own hands, and partake in nefarious and impious rites.) Some are called Marcians, and some Valentinians, and some Basilidians, and some Saturnilians, and others by other names; each called after the originator of the individual opinion, just as each one of those who consider themselves philosophers, as I said before, thinks he must bear the name of the philosophy which he follows, from the name of the father of the particular doctrine. So that, in consequence of these events, we know that Jesus foreknew what would happen after Him, as well as in consequence of many other events which He foretold would befall those who believed on and confessed Him, the Christ. For all that we suffer, even when killed by friends, He foretold would take place; so that it is manifest no word or act of His can be found fault with. Wherefore we pray for you and for all other men who hate us; in order that you, having repented along with us, may not blaspheme Him who, by His works, by the mighty deeds even now wrought through His name, by the words He taught, by the prophecies announced concerning Him, is the blameless, and in all things irreproachable, Christ Jesus; but, believing on Him, may be saved in His second glorious advent, and may not be condemned to fire by Him."
Chapter XXXVIII.-It is Annoying to the Jew that Christ should be Adored. Justin Confirms It from Ps. XLV.
And Trypho said, "Sir, it were good for us if we obeyed our teachers, who laid down a law that we should have no intercourse with any of you, and that we should not have even any communication with you on these questions. For you utter many blasphemies, in that you seek to persuade us that this crucified man was with Moses and Aaron, and spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud; then that he became man, was crucified, and ascended up to heaven, and comes again to earth, and ought to be worshipped."
Then I answered, "I know that, as the word of God says, this great wisdom of God, the Maker of all things, and the Almighty, is hid from you. Wherefore, in sympathy with you, I am striving to the utmost that you may understand these matters which to you are paradoxical; but if not, that I myself may be innocent in the day of judgment. For you shall hear other words which appear still more paradoxical; but be not confounded, nay, rather remain still more zealous hearers and investigators, despising the tradition of your teachers, since they are convicted by the Holy Spirit of inability to perceive the truths taught by God, and of preferring to teach their own doctrines. Accordingly, in the forty-fourth [forty-fifth] Psalm, these words are in like manner referred to Christ: `My heart has brought forth a good matter; I tell my works to the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Fairer in beauty than the sons of men: grace is poured forth into Thy lips: therefore hath God blessed Thee for ever. Gird Thy sword upon Thy thigh, O mighty One. Press on in Thy fairness and in Thy beauty, and prosper and reign, because of truth, and of meekness, and of righteousness: and Thy right hand shall instruct Thee marvellously. Thine arrows are sharpened, O mighty One; the people shall fall under Thee; in the heart of the enemies of the King [the arrows are fixed]. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of equity is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hast hated iniquity; therefore thy God hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows. [He hath anointed Thee] with myrrh, and oil, and cassia, from Thy garments; from the ivory palaces, whereby they made Thee glad. Kings' daughters are in Thy honour. The queen stood at Thy right hand, clad in garments embroidered with gold. Hearken, O daughter, and behold, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and the house of thy father: and the King shall desire thy beauty; because He is thy Lord, they shall worship Him also. And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with gifts. The rich of the people shall entreat Thy face. All the glory of the King's daughter [is] within, clad in embroidered garments of needlework. The virgins that follow her shall be brought to the King; her neighbours shall be brought unto Thee: they shall be brought with joy and gladness: they shall be led into the King's shrine. Instead of thy fathers, thy sons have been born: Thou shalt appoint them rulers over all the earth. I shall remember Thy name in every generation: therefore the people shall confess Thee for ever, and for ever and ever.'
Chapter XXXIX.-The Jews Hate the Christians Who Believe This. How Great the Distinction is Between Both!
"Now it is not surprising," I continued, "that you hate us who hold these opinions, and convict you of a continual hardness of heart. For indeed Elijah, conversing with God concerning you, speaks thus: `Lord, they have slain Thy prophets, and dug down Thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seek my life.' And He answers him: `I have still seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.' Therefore, just as God did not inflict His anger on account of those seven thousand men, even so He has now neither yet inflicted judgment, nor does inflict it, knowing that daily some [of you] are becoming disciples in the name of Christ, and quitting the path of error; who are also receiving gifts, each as he is worthy, illumined through the name of this Christ. For one receives the spirit of understanding, another of counsel, another of strength, another of healing, another of foreknowledge, another of teaching, and another of the fear of God."
To this Trypho said to me, "I wish you knew that you are beside yourself, talking these sentiments."
And I said to him, "Listen, O friend, for I am not mad or beside myself; but it was prophesied that, after the ascent of Christ to heaven, He would deliver us from error and give us gifts. The words are these: `He ascended up on high; He led captivity captive; He gave gifts to men.' Accordingly, we who have received gifts from Christ, who has ascended up on high, prove from the words of prophecy that you, `the wise in yourselves, and the men of understanding in your own eyes,' are foolish, and honour God and His Christ by lip only. But we, who are instructed in the whole truth, honour Them both in acts, and in knowledge, and in heart, even unto death. But you hesitate to confess that He is Christ, as the Scriptures and the events witnessed and done in His name prove, perhaps for this reason, lest you be persecuted by the rulers, who, under the influence of the wicked and deceitful spirit, the serpent, will not cease putting to death and persecuting those who confess the name of Christ until He come again, and destroy them all, and render to each his deserts."
And Trypho replied, "Now, then, render us the proof that this man who you say was crucified and ascended into heaven is the Christ of God. For you have sufficiently proved by means of the Scriptures previously quoted by you, that it is declared in the Scriptures that Christ must suffer, and come again with glory, and receive the eternal kingdom over all the nations, every kingdom being made subject to Him: now show us that this man is He."
And I replied, "It has been already proved, sirs, to those who have ears, even from the facts which have been conceded by you; but that you may not think me at a loss, and unable to give proof of what you ask, as I promised, I shall do so at a fitting place. At present, I resume the consideration of the subject which I was discussing.
[. . . . Justin interprets Passover and the Temple sacrifices allegorically as foreshadowing of Christ . . . .]
Chapter XLIII.-He Concludes that the Law Had an End in Christ, Who Was Born of the Virgin.
"As, then, circumcision began with Abraham, and the Sabbath and sacrifices and offerings and feasts with Moses, and it has been proved they were enjoined on account of the hardness of your people's heart, so it was necessary, in accordance with the Father's will, that they should have an end in Him who was born of a virgin, of the family of Abraham and tribe of Judah, and of David; in Christ the Son of God, who was proclaimed as about to come to all the world, to be the everlasting law and the everlasting covenant, even as the forementioned prophecies show. And we, who have approached God through Him, have received not carnal, but spiritual circumcision, which Enoch and those like him observed. And we have received it through baptism, since we were sinners, by God's mercy; and all men may equally obtain it. But since the mystery of His birth now demands our attention I shall speak of it. Isaiah then asserted in regard to the generation of Christ, that it could not be declared by man, in words already quoted: `Who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth: for the transgressions of my people was He led to death.' The Spirit of prophecy thus affirmed that the generation of Him who was to die, that we sinful men might be healed by His stripes, was such as could not be declared. Furthermore, that the men who believe in Him may possess the knowledge of the manner in which He came into the world, the Spirit of prophecy by the same Isaiah foretold how it would happen thus: `And the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, Ask for thyself a sign from the Lord thy God, in the depth, or in the height. And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. And Isaiah said, Hear then, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to contend with men, and how do you contend with the Lord? Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and his name shall be called Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows or prefers the evil, and chooses out the good; for before the child knows good or ill, he rejects evil by choosing out the good. For before the child knows how to call father or mother, he shall receive the power of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in presence of the king of Assyria. And the land shall be forsaken, which thou shalt with difficulty endure in consequence of the presence of its two kings. But God shall bring on thee, and on thy people, and on the house of thy father, days which have not yet come upon thee since the day in which Ephraim took away from Judah the king of Assyria.' Now it is evident to all, that in the race of Abraham according to the flesh no one has been born of a virgin, or is said to have been born [of a virgin], save this our Christ. But since you and your teachers venture to affirm that in the prophecy of Isaiah it is not said, `Behold, the virgin shall conceive, 'but, `Behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son; 'and [since] you explain the prophecy as if [it referred] to Hezekiah, who was your king, I shall endeavor to [discuss shortly this point in opposition to you, and to show that reference is made to Him who is acknowledged by us as Christ.
Chapter XLV.-Those Who Were Righteous Before and Under the Law Shall Be Saved by Christ.
And Trypho said, "If I seem to interrupt these matters, which you say must be investigated, yet the question which I mean to put is urgent. Suffer me first."
And I replied, "Ask whatever you please, as it occurs to you; and I shall endeavour, after questions and answers, to resume and complete the discourse."
Then he said, "Tell me, then, shall those who lived according to the law given by Moses, live in the same manner with Jacob, Enoch, and Noah, in the resurrection of the dead, or not? "
I replied to him, "When I quoted, sir, the words spoken by Ezekiel, that `even if Noah and Daniel and Jacob were to beg sons and daughters, the request would not be granted them, 'but that each one, that is to say, shall be saved by his own righteousness, I said also, that those who regulated their lives by the law of Moses would in like manner be saved. For what in the law of Moses is naturally good, and pious, and righteous, and has been prescribed to be done by those who obey it; and what was appointed to be performed by reason of the hardness of the people's hearts; was similarly recorded, and done also by those who were under the law. Since those who did that which is universally, naturally, and eternally good are pleasing to God, they shall be saved through this Christ in the resurrection equally with those righteous men who were before them, namely Noah, and Enoch, and Jacob, and whoever else there be, along with those who have known this Christ, Son of God, who was before the morning star and the moon, and submitted to become incarnate, and be born of this virgin of the family of David, in order that, by this dispensation, the serpent that sinned from the beginning, and the angels like him, may be destroyed, and that death may be contemned, and for ever quit, at the second coming of the Christ Himself, those who believe in Him and live acceptably,-and be no more: when some are sent to be punished unceasingly into judgment and condemnation of fire; but others shall exist in freedom from suffering, from corruption, and from grief, and in immortality."
Chapter XLVI.-Trypho Asks Whether a Man Who Keeps the Law Even Now Will Be Saved. Justin Proves that It Contributes Nothing to Righteousness.
"But if some, even now, wish to live in the observance of the institutions given by Moses, and yet believe in this Jesus who was crucified, recognising Him to be the Christ of God, and that it is given to Him to be absolute Judge of all, and that His is the everlasting kingdom, can they also be saved? "he inquired of me. And I replied, "Let us consider that also together, whether one may now observe all the Mosaic institutions." And he answered, "No. For we know that, as you said, it is not possible either anywhere to sacrifice the lamb of the passover, or to offer the goats ordered for the fast; or, in short, [to present] all the other offerings."
And I said, "Tell [me] then yourself, I pray, some things which can be observed; for you will be persuaded that, though a man does not keep or has not performed the eternal decrees, he may assuredly be saved." Then he replied, "To keep the Sabbath, to be circumcised, to observe months, and to be washed if you touch anything prohibited by Moses, or after sexual intercourse."
And I said, "Do you think that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, and Job, and all the rest before or after them equally righteous, also Sarah the wife of Abraham, Rebekah the wife of Isaac, Rachel the wife of Jacob, and Leah, and all the rest of them, until the mother of Moses the faithful servant, who observed none of these [statutes], will be saved? "
And Trypho answered, "Were not Abraham and his descendants circumcised?"
And I said, "I know that Abraham and his descendants were circumcised. The reason why circumcision was given to them I stated at length in what has gone before; and if what has been said does not convince you, let us again search into the matter. But you are aware that, up to Moses, no one in fact who was righteous observed any of these rites at all of which we are talking, or received one commandment to observe, except that of circumcision, which began from Abraham."
And he replied, "We know it, and admit that they are saved."
Then I returned answer, "You perceive that God by Moses laid all such ordinances upon you on account of the hardness of your people's hearts, in order that, by the large number of them, you might keep God continually, and in every action, before your eyes, and never begin to act unjustly or impiously. For He enjoined you to place around you [a fringe] of purple dye, in order that you might not forget God; and He commanded you to wear a phylactery, certain characters, which indeed we consider holy, being engraved on very thin parchment; and by these means stirring you up to retain a constant remembrance of God: at the same time, however, convincing you, that in your hearts you have not even a faint remembrance of God's worship. Yet not even so were you dissuaded from idolatry: for in the times of Elijah, when [God] recounted the number of those who had not bowed the knee to Baal, He said the number was seven thousand; and in Isaiah He rebukes you for having sacrificed your children to idols. But we, because we refuse to sacrifice to those to whom we were of old accustomed to sacrifice, undergo extreme penalties, and rejoice in death,-believing that God will raise us up by His Christ, and will make us incorruptible, and undisturbed, and immortal; and we know that the ordinances imposed by reason of the hardness of your people's hearts, contribute nothing to the performance of righteousness and of piety."
Chapter XLVII.-Justin Communicates with Christians Who Observe the Law. Not a Few Catholics Do Otherwise.
And Trypho again inquired, "But if some one, knowing that this is so, after he recognises that this man is Christ, and has believed in and obeys Him, wishes, however, to observe these [institutions], will he be saved? "
I said, "In my opinion, Trypho, such an one will be saved, if he does not strive in every way to persuade other men,-I mean those Gentiles who have been circumcised from error by Christ, to observe the same things as himself, telling them that they will not be saved unless they do so. This you did yourself at the commencement of the discourse, when you declared that I would not be saved unless I observe these institutions."
Then he replied, "Why then have you said, `In my opinion, such a one will be saved, 'unless there are some who affirm that such will not be saved? "
"There are such people, Trypho," I answered; "and these do not venture to have any intercourse with or to extend hospitality to such persons; but I do not agree with them. But if some, through weak-mindedness, wish to observe such institutions as were given by Moses, from which they expect some virtue, but which we believe were appointed by reason of the hardness of the people's hearts, along with their hope in this Christ, and [wish to perform] the eternal and natural acts of righteousness and piety, yet choose to live with the Christians and the faithful, as I said before, not inducing them either to be circumcised like themselves, or to keep the Sabbath, or to observe any other such ceremonies, then I hold that we ought to join ourselves to such, and associate with them in all things as kinsmen and brethren. But if, Trypho," I continued, "some of your race, who say they believe in this Christ, compel those Gentiles who believe in this Christ to live in all respects according to the law given by Moses, or choose not to associate so intimately with them, I in like manner do not approve of them. But I believe that even those, who have been persuaded by them to observe the legal dispensation along with their confession of God in Christ, shall probably be saved. And I hold, further, that such as have confessed and known this man to be Christ, yet who have gone back from some cause to the legal dispensation, and have denied that this man is Christ, and have repented not before death, shall by no means be saved. Further, I hold that those of the seed of Abraham who live according to the law, and do not believe in this Christ before death, shall likewise not be saved, and especially those who have anathematized and do anathematize this very Christ in the synagogues, and everything by which they might obtain salvation and escape the vengeance of fire. For the goodness and the loving-kindness of God, and His boundless riches, hold righteous and sinless the man who, as Ezekiel tells, repents of sins; and reckons sinful, unrighteous, and impious the man who fails away from piety and righteousness to unrighteousness and ungodliness. Wherefore also our Lord Jesus Christ said, `In whatsoever things I shall take you, in these I shall judge you.'
Chapter XLVIII.-Before the Divinity of Christ is Proved, Trypho Demands that It Be Settled that He is Christ.
And Trypho said, "We have heard what you think of these matters. Resume the discourse where you left off, and bring it to an end. For some of it appears to me to be paradoxical, and wholly incapable of proof. For when you say that this Christ existed as God before the ages, then that He submitted to be born and become man, yet that He is not man of man, this [assertion] appears to me to be not merely paradoxical, but also foolish."
And I replied to this, "I know that the statement does appear to be paradoxical, especially to those of your race, who are ever unwilling to understand or to perform the [requirements] of God, but [ready to perform] those of your teachers, as God Himself declares. Now assuredly, Trypho," I continued," [the proof] that this man is the Christ of God does not fail, though I be unable to prove that He existed formerly as Son of the Maker of all things, being God, and was born a man by the Virgin. But since I have certainly proved that this man is the Christ of God, whoever He be, even if I do not prove that He pre-existed, and submitted to be born a man of like passions with us, having a body, according to the Father's will; in this last matter alone is it just to say that I have erred, and not to deny that He is the Christ, though it should appear that He was born man of men, and [nothing more] is proved [than this], that He has become Christ by election. For there are some, my friends," I said, "of our race, who admit that He is Christ, while holding Him to be man of men; with whom I do not agree, nor would I, even though most of those who have [now] the same opinions as myself should say so; since we were enjoined by Christ Himself to put no faith in human doctrines, but in those proclaimed by the blessed prophets and taught by Himself."
Chapter XLIX.-To Objections that Elijah Has Not Yet Come, He Replies that He is the Precursor of the First Advent.
And Trypho said, "Those who affirm him to have been a man, and to have been anointed by election, and then to have become Christ, appear to me to speak more plausibly than you who hold those opinions which you express. For we all expect that Christ will be a man [born] of men, and that Elijah when he comes will anoint him. But if this man appear to be Christ, he must certainly be known as man [born] of men; but from the circumstance that Elijah has not yet come, I infer that this man is not He [the Christ]."
Then I inquired of him, "Does not Scripture, in the book of Zechariah, say that Elijah shall come before the great and terrible day of the Lord? "And he answered, "Certainly."
"If therefore Scripture compels you to admit that two advents of Christ were predicted to take place,-one in which He would appear suffering, and dishonoured, and without comeliness; but the other in which He would come glorious. and Judge of all, as has been made manifest in many of the forecited passages,-shall we not suppose that the word of God has proclaimed that Elijah shall be the precursor of the great and terrible day, that is, of His second advent? "
"Certainly," he answered.
"And, accordingly, our Lord in His teaching," I continued, "proclaimed that this very thing would take place, saying that Elijah would also come. And we know that this shall take place when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come in glory from heaven; whose first manifestation the Spirit of God who was in Elijah preceded as herald in [the person of] John, a prophet among your nation; after whom no other prophet appeared among you. He cried, as he sat by the river Jordan: `I baptize you with water to repentance; but He that is stronger than I shall come, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and will gather the wheat into the barn; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.'154 And this very prophet your king Herod had shut up in prison; and when his birthday was celebrated, and the niece of the same Herod by her dancing had pleased him, he told her to ask whatever she pleased. Then the mother of the maiden instigated her to ask the head of John, who was in prison; and having asked it, [Herod] sent and ordered the head of John to be brought in on a charger. Wherefore also our Christ said, [when He was] on earth, to those who were affirming that Elijah must come before Christ: `Elijah shall come, and restore all things; but I say unto you, that Elijah has already come, and they knew him not, but have done to him whatsoever they chose.' And it is written, `Then the disciples understood that He spake to them about John the Baptist.' "
And Trypho said, "This statement also seems to me paradoxical; namely, that the prophetic Spirit of God, who was in Elijah, was also in John."
To this I replied, "Do you not think that the same thing happened in the case of Joshua the son of Nave (Nun), who succeeded to the command of the people after Moses, when Moses was commanded to lay his hands on Joshua, and God said to him, `I will take of the spirit which is in thee, and put it on him? '" And he said, "Certainly."
"As therefore," I say, "while Moses was still among men, God took of the spirit which was in Moses and put it on Joshua, even so God was able to cause [the spirit] of Elijah to come upon John; in order that, as Christ at His first coming appeared inglorious, even so the first coming of the spirit, which remained always pure in Elijah like that of Christ, might be perceived to be inglorious. For the Lord said He would wage war against Amalek with concealed hand; and you will not deny that Amalek fell. But if it is said that only in the glorious advent of Christ war will be waged with Amalek, how great will the fulfilment of Scripture be which says, `God will wage war against Amalek with concealed hand!' You can perceive that the concealed power of God was in Christ the crucified, before whom demons, and all the principalities and powers of the earth, tremble."
Chapter LXVI.-He Proves from Isaiah that God Was Born from a Virgin.
And I, resuming the discourse where I had left off at a previous stage, when proving that He was born of a virgin, and that His birth of a virgin had been predicted by Isaiah, quoted again the same prophecy. It is as follows `And the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, Ask for thyself a sign from the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height. And Ahaz said I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. And Isaiah said, Hear then, O house of David; Is it no small thing for you to contend with men? And how do you contend with the Lord? Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat; before he knows or prefers the evil he will choose out the good. For before the child knows ill or good, he rejects evil by choosing out the good. For before the child knows how to call father or mother, he shall receive the power of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria, in presence of the king of Assyria. And the land shall be forsaken, which thou shalt with difficulty endure in consequence of the presence of its two kings. But God shall bring on thee, and on thy people, and on the house of thy father, days which have not yet come upon thee since the day in which Ephraim took away from Judah the king of Assyria.'" And I continued: "Now it is evident to all, that in the race of Abraham according to the flesh no one has been born of a virgin, or is said to have been born [of a virgin], save this our Christ."
Chapter LXVII.-Trypho Compares Jesus with Perseus; And Would Prefer [to Say] that He Was Elected [to Be Christ] on Account of Observance of the Law. Justin Speaks of the Law as Formerly.
And Trypho answered, "The Scripture has not, `Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, 'but, `Behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, 'and so on, as you quoted. But the whole prophecy refers to Hezekiah, and it is proved that it was fulfilled in him, according to the terms of this prophecy. Moreover, in the fables of those who are called Greeks, it is written that Perseus was begotten of Danae, who was a virgin; he who was called among them Zeus having descended on her in the form of a golden shower. And you ought to feel ashamed when you make assertions similar to theirs, and rather [should] say that this Jesus was born man of men. And if you prove from the Scriptures that He is the Christ, and that on account of having led a life conformed to the law, and perfect, He deserved the honour of being elected to be Christ, [it is well]; but do not venture to tell monstrous phenomena, lest you be convicted of talking foolishly like the Greeks."
Then I said to this, "Trypho, I wish to persuade you, and all men in short, of this, that even though you talk worse things in ridicule and in jest, you will not move me from my fixed design; but I shall always adduce from the words which you think can be brought forward [by you] as proof [of your own views], the demonstration of what I have stated along with the testimony of the Scriptures. You are not, however, acting fairly or truthfully in attempting to undo those things in which there has been constantly agreement between us; namely, that certain commands were instituted by Moses on account of the hardness of your people's hearts. For you said that, by reason of His living conformably to law, He was elected and became Christ, if indeed He were proved to be so."
And Trypho said, "You admitted to us that He was both circumcised, and observed the other legal ceremonies ordained by Moses."
And I replied, "I have admitted it, and do admit it: yet I have admitted that He endured all these not as if He were justified by them, but completing the dispensation which His Father, the Maker of all things, and Lord and God, wished Him [to complete]. For I admit that He endured crucifixion and death, and the incarnation, and the suffering of as many afflictions as your nation put upon Him. But since again you dissent from that to which you but lately assented, Trypho, answer me: Are those righteous patriarchs who lived before Moses, who observed none of those [ordinances] which, the Scripture shows, received the commencement of [their] institution from Moses, saved, [and have they attained to] the inheritance of the blessed? "
And Trypho said, "The Scriptures compel me to admit it."
"Likewise I again ask you," said I, "did God enjoin your fathers to present the offerings and sacrifices because He had need of them, or because of the hardness of their hearts and tendency to idolatry?" "The latter," said he, "the Scriptures in like manner compel us to admit."
"Likewise," said I, "did not the Scriptures predict that God promised to dispense a new covenant besides that which [was dispensed] in the mountain Horeb?" This, too, he replied, had been predicted.
Then I said again, "Was not the old covenant laid on your fathers with fear and trembling, so that they could not give ear to God?" He admitted it.
"What then?" said I: "God promised that there would be another covenant, not like that old one, and said that it would be laid on them without fear, and trembling, and lightnings, and that it would be such as to show what kind of commands and deeds God knows to be eternal and suited to every nation, and what commandments He has given, suiting them to the hardness of your people's hearts, as He exclaims also by the prophets." "To this also," said he, "those who are lovers of truth and not lovers of strife must assuredly assent."
Then I replied, "I know not how you speak of persons very fond of strife, [since] you yourself oftentimes were plainly acting in this very manner, frequently contradicting what you had agreed to."
Chapter LXVIII.-He Complains of the Obstinacy of Trypho; He Convicts the Jews of Bad Faith.
And Trypho said, "You endeavour to prove an incredible and well-nigh impossible thing; [namely], that God endured to be born and become man."
"If I undertook," said I, "to prove this by doctrines or arguments of man, you should not bear with me. But if I quote frequently Scriptures, and so many of them, referring to this point, and ask you to comprehend them, you are hard-hearted in the recognition of the mind and will of God. But if you wish to remain for ever so, I would not be injured at all; and for ever retaining the same [opinions] which I had before I met with you, I shall leave you."
And Trypho said," Look, my friend, you made yourself master of these [truths] with much labour and toil. And we accordingly must diligently scrutinize all that we meet with, in order to give our assent to those things which the Scriptures compel us [to believe]."
Then I said to this, "I do not ask you not to strive earnestly by all means, in making an investigation of the matters inquired into; but [I ask you], when you have nothing to say, not to contradict those things which you said you had admitted." And Trypho said, "So we shall endeavour to do."
I continued again: "In addition to the questions I have just now put to you, I wish to put more: for by means of these questions I shall strive to bring the discourse to a speedy termination." And Trypho said, "Ask the questions."
Then I said, "Do you think that any other one is said to be worthy of worship and called Lord and God in the Scriptures, except the Maker of all, and Christ, who by so many Scriptures was proved to you to have become man? "
And Trypho replied, "How can we admit this, when we have instituted so great an inquiry as to whether there is any other than the Father alone?"
Then I again said, "I must ask you this also, that I may know whether or not you are of a different opinion from that which you admitted some time ago." He replied, "It is not, sir."
Then again I, "Since you certainly admit these things, and since Scripture says, `Who shall declare His generation? 'ought you not now to suppose that He is not the seed of a human race? " And Trypho said, "How then does the Word say to David, that out of his loins God shall take to Himself a Son, and shall establish His kingdom, and shall set Him on the throne of His glory?"
And I said, "Trypho, if the prophecy which Isaiah uttered, `Behold, the virgin shall conceive, 'is said not to the house of David, but to another house of the twelve tribes, perhaps the matter would have some difficulty; but since this prophecy refers to the house of David, Isaiah has explained how that which was spoken by God to David in mystery would take place. But perhaps you are not aware of this, my friends, that there were many sayings written obscurely, or parabolically, or mysteriously, and symbolical actions, which the prophets who lived after the persons who said or did them expounded." "Assuredly," said Trypho.
"If therefore, I shall show that this prophecy of Isaiah refers to our Christ, and not to Hezekiah, as you say, shall I not in this matter, too, compel you not to believe your teachers, who venture to assert that the explanation which your seventy elders that were with Ptolemy the king of the Egyptians gave, is untrue in certain respects? For some statements in the Scriptures, which appear explicitly to convict them of a foolish and vain opinion, these they venture to assert have not been so written. But other statements, which they fancy they can distort and harmonize with human actions, these, they say, refer not to this Jesus Christ of ours, but to him of whom they are pleased to explain them. Thus, for instance, they have taught you that this Scripture which we are now discussing refers to Hezekiah, in which, as I promised, I shall show they are wrong. And since they are compelled, they agree that some Scriptures which we mention to them, and which expressly prove that Christ was to suffer, to be worshipped, and [to be called] God, and which I have already recited to you, do refer indeed to Christ, but they venture to assert that this man is not Christ. But they admit that He will come to suffer, and to reign, and to be worshipped, and to be God; and this opinion I shall in like manner show to be ridiculous and silly. But since I am pressed to answer first to what was said by you in jest, I shall make answer to it, and shall afterwards give replies to what follows.
Chapter LXXI.-The Jews Reject the Interpretation of the Septuagint., from Which, Moreover, They Have Taken Away Some Passages.
"But I am far from putting reliance in your teachers, who refuse to admit that the interpretation made by the seventy elders who were with Ptolemy [king] of the Egyptians is a correct one; and they attempt to frame another. And I wish you to observe, that they have altogether taken away many Scriptures from the translations effected by those seventy elders who were with Ptolemy, and by which this very man who was crucified is proved to have been set forth expressly as God, and man, and as being crucified, and as dying; but since I am aware that this is denied by all of your nation, I do not address myself to these points, but I proceed to carry on my discussions by means of those passages which are still admitted by you. For you assent to those which I have brought before your attention, except that you contradict the statement, `Behold, the virgin shall conceive, 'and say it ought to be read, `Behold, the young woman shall conceive.' And I promised to prove that the prophecy referred, not, as you were taught, to Hezekiah, but to this Christ of mine: and now I shall go to the proof."
Here Trypho remarked, "We ask you first of all to tell us some of the Scriptures which you allege have been completely cancelled."
Chapter LXXII.-Passages Have Been Removed by the Jews from Esdras and Jeremiah.
And I said, "I shall do as you please. From the statements, then, which Esdras made in reference to the law of the passover, they have taken away the following: `And Esdras said to the people, This passover is our Saviour and our refuge. And if you have understood, and your heart has taken it in, that we shall humble Him on a standard, and thereafter hope in Him, then this place shall not be forsaken for ever, says the God of hosts. But if you will not believe Him, and will not listen to His declaration, you shall be a laughing-stock to the nations.' And from the sayings of Jeremiah they have cut out the following: `I [was] like a lamb that is brought to the slaughter: they devised a device against me, saying, Come, let us lay on wood on His bread, and let us blot Him out from the land of the living; and His name shall no more be remembered.' And since this passage from the sayings of Jeremiah is still written in some copies [of the Scriptures] in the synagogues of the Jews (for it is only a short time since they were cut out), and since from these words it is demonstrated that the Jews deliberated about the Christ Himself, to crucify and put Him to death, He Himself is both declared to be led as a sheep to the slaughter, as was predicted by Isaiah, and is here represented as a harmless lamb; but being in a difficulty about them, they give themselves over to blasphemy. And again, from the sayings of the same Jeremiah these have been cut out: `The Lord God remembered His dead people of Israel who lay in the graves; and He descended to preach to them His own salvation.'
Chapter LXXIII.-[the Words] "From the Wood" Have Been Cut Out of Ps. XCVI.
"And from the ninety-fifth (ninety-sixth) Psalm they have taken away this short saying of the words of David: `From the wood.' For when the passage said, `Tell ye among the nations, the Lord hath reigned from the wood, 'they have left, `Tell ye among the nations, the Lord hath reigned.' Now no one of your people has ever been said to have reigned as God and Lord among the nations, with the exception of Him only who was crucified, of whom also the Holy Spirit affirms in the same Psalm that He was raised again, and freed from [the grave], declaring that there is none like Him among the gods of the nations: for they are idols of demons. But I shall repeat the whole Psalm to you, that you may perceive what has been said. It is thus: `Sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, and bless His name; show forth His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all people. For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all the gods. For all the gods of the nations are demons but the Lord made the heavens. Confession and beauty are in His presence; holiness and magnificence are in His sanctuary. Bring to the Lord, O ye countries of the nations, bring to the Lord glory and honour, bring to the Lord glory in His name. Take sacrifices, and go into His courts; worship the Lord in His holy temple. Let the whole earth be moved before Him: tell ye among the nations, the Lord hath reigned. For He hath established the world, which shall not be moved; He shall judge the nations with equity. Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad; let the sea and its fulness shake. Let the fields and all therein be joyful. Let all the trees of the wood be glad before the Lord: for He comes, for He comes to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.' "
Here Trypho remarked, "Whether [or not] the rulers of the people have erased any portion of the Scriptures, as you affirm, God knows; but it seems incredible."
"Assuredly," said I, "it does seem incredible. For it is more horrible than the calf which they made, when satisfied with manna on the earth; or than the sacrifice of children to demons; or than the slaying of the prophets. But," said I, "you appear to me not to have heard the Scriptures which I said they had stolen away. For such as have been quoted are more than enough to prove the points in dispute, besides those which are retained by us, and shall yet be brought forward."
Chapter LXXVII.-He Returns to Explain the Prophecy of Isaiah.
Then Trypho said, "I admit that such and so great arguments are sufficient to persuade one; but I wish [you] to know that I ask you for the proof which you have frequently proposed to give me. Proceed then to make this plain to us, that we may see how you prove that that [passage] refers to this Christ of yours. For we assert that the prophecy relates to Hezekiah." And I replied, "I shall do as you wish. But show me yourselves first of all how it is said of Hezekiah, that before he knew how to call father or mother, he received the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria. For it will not be conceded to you, as you wish to explain it, that Hezekiah waged war with the inhabitants of Damascus and Samaria in presence of the king of Assyria. `For before the child knows how to call father or mother, 'the prophetic word said, `He shall take the power of Damascus and spoils of Samaria in presence of the king of Assyria.' For if the Spirit of prophecy had not made the statement with an addition, `Before the child knows how to call father or mother, he shall take the power of Damascus and spoils of Samaria, 'but had only said, `And shall bear a son, and he shall take the power of Damascus and spoils of Samaria, 'then you might say that God foretold that he would take these things, since He fore-knew it. But now the prophecy has stated it with this addition: `Before the child knows how to call father or mother, he shall take the power of Damascus and spoils of Samaria.' And you cannot prove that such a thing ever happened to any one among the Jews. But we are able to prove that it happened in the case of our Christ. For at the time of His birth, Magi who came from Arabia worshipped Him, coming first to Herod, who then was sovereign in your land, and whom the Scripture calls king of Assyria on account of his ungodly and sinful character. For you know," continued I, "that the Holy Spirit oftentimes announces such events by parables and similitudes; just as He did towards all the people in Jerusalem, frequently saying to them, `Thy father is an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.'
Chapter LXXVIII.-He Proves that This Prophecy Harmonizes with Christ Alone, from What is Afterwards Written.
"Now this king Herod, at the time when the Magi came to him from Arabia, and said they knew from a star which appeared in the heavens that a King had been born in your country, and that they had come to worship Him, learned from the elders of your people that it was thus written regarding Bethlehem in the prophet: `And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art by no means least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall go forth the leader who shall feed my people.' Accordingly the Magi from Arabia came to Bethlehem and worshipped the Child, and presented Him with gifts, gold and frankincense, and myrrh; but returned not to Herod, being warned in a revelation after worshipping the Child in Bethlehem. And Joseph, the spouse of Mary, who wished at first to put away his betrothed Mary, supposing her to be pregnant by intercourse with a man, i.e., from fornication, was commanded in a vision not to put away his wife; and the angel who appeared to him told him that what is in her womb is of the Holy Ghost. Then he was afraid, and did not put her away; but on the occasion of the first census which was taken in Judaea, under Cyrenius, he went up from Nazareth, where he lived, to Bethlehem, to which he belonged, to be enrolled; for his family was of the tribe of Judah, which then inhabited that region. Then along with Mary he is ordered to proceed into Egypt, and remain there with the Child until another revelation warn them to return into Judaea. But when the Child was born in Bethlehem, since Joseph could not find a lodging in that village, he took up his quarters in a certain cave near the village; and while they were there Mary brought forth the Christ and placed Him in a manger, and here the Magi who came from Arabia found Him. I have repeated to you," I continued, "what Isaiah foretold about the sign which foreshadowed the cave; but for the sake of those who have come with us to-day, I shall again remind you of the passage." Then I repeated the passage from Isaiah which I have already written, adding that, by means of those words, those who presided over the mysteries of Mithras were stirred up by the devil to say that in a place, called among them a cave, they were initiated by him. "So Herod, when the Magi from Arabia did not return to him, as he had asked them to do, but had departed by another way to their own country, according to the commands laid on them; and when Joseph, with Mary and the Child, had now gone into Egypt, as it was revealed to them to do; as he did not know the Child whom the Magi had gone to worship, ordered simply the whole of the children then in Bethlehem to be massacred. And Jeremiah prophesied that this would happen, speaking by the Holy Ghost thus: `A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and much wailing, Rachel weeping for her children; and she would not be comforted, because they are not.' Therefore, on account of the voice which would be heard from Ramah, i.e., from Arabia (for there is in Arabia at this very time a place called Rama), wailing would come on the place where Rachel the wife of Jacob called Israel, the holy patriarch, has been buried, i.e., on Bethlehem; while the women weep for their own slaughtered children, and have no consolation by reason of what has happened to them. For that expression of Isaiah `He shall take the power of Damascus and spoils of Samaria, 'foretold that the power of the evil demon that dwelt in Damascus should be overcome by Christ as soon as He was born; and this is proved to have happened. For the Magi, who were held in bondage for the commission of all evil deeds through the power of that demon, by coming to worship Christ, shows that they have revolted from that dominion which held them captive; and this [dominion] the Scripture has showed us to reside in Damascus. Moreover, that sinful and unjust power is termed well in parable, Samaria. And none of you can deny that Damascus was, and is, in the region of Arabia, although now it belongs to what is called Syrophoenicia. Hence it would be becoming for you, sirs, to learn what you have not perceived, from those who have received grace from God, namely, from us Christians; and not to strive in every way to maintain your own doctrines, dishonouring those of God. Therefore also this grace has been transferred to us, as Isaiah says, speaking to the following effect: `This people draws near to Me, they honour Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; but in vain they worship Me, teaching the commands and doctrines of men. Therefore, behold, I will proceed to remove this people, and I shall remove them; and I shall take away the wisdom of their wise men, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent men.'"
Chapter LXXXII.-The Prophetical Gifts of the Jews Were Transferred to the Christians.
"For the prophetical gifts remain with us, even to the present time. And hence you ought to understand that [the gifts] formerly among your nation have been transferred to us. And just as there were false prophets contemporaneous with your holy prophets, so are there now many false teachers amongst us, of whom our Lord forewarned us to beware; so that in no respect are we deficient, since we know that He foreknew all that would happen to us after His resurrection from the dead and ascension to heaven. For He said we would be put to death, and hated for His name's sake; and that many false prophets and false Christs would appear in His name, and deceive many: and so has it come about. For many have taught godless, blasphemous, and unholy doctrines, forging them in His name; have taught, too, and even yet are teaching, those things which proceed from the unclean spirit of the devil, and which were put into their hearts. Therefore we are most anxious that you be persuaded not to be misled by such persons, since we know that every one who can speak the truth, and yet speaks it not, shall be judged by God, as God testified by Ezekiel, when He said, `I have made thee a watchman to the house of Judah. If the sinner sin, and thou warn him not, he himself shall die in his sin; but his blood will I require at thine hand. But if thou warn him, thou shalt be innocent.' And on this account we are, through fear, very earnest in desiring to converse [with men] according to the Scriptures, but not from love of money, or of glory, or of pleasure. For no man can convict us of any of these [vices]. No more do we wish to live like the rulers of your people, whom God reproaches when He says, `Your rulers are companions of thieves, lovers of bribes, followers of the rewards.' Now, if you know certain amongst us to be of this sort, do not for their sakes blaspheme the Scriptures and Christ, and do not assiduously strive to give falsified interpretations.
Chapter LXXXIV.-That Prophecy, "Behold, a Virgin," Etc., Suits Christ Alone.
"Moreover, the prophecy, `Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, 'was uttered respecting Him. For if He to whom Isaiah referred was not to be begotten of a virgin, of whom did the Holy Spirit declare, `Behold, the Lord Himself shall give us a sign: behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son? 'For if He also were to be begotten of sexual intercourse, like all other first-born sons, why did God say that He would give a sign which is not common to all the first-born sons? But that which is truly a sign, and which was to be made trustworthy to mankind,-namely, that the first-begotten of all creation should become incarnate by the Virgin's womb, and be a child,-this he anticipated by the Spirit of prophecy, and predicted it, as I have repeated to you, in various ways; in order that, when the event should take place, it might be known as the operation of the power and will of the Maker of all things; just as Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs, and as all living beings were created in the beginning by the word of God. But you in these matters venture to pervert the expositions which your elders that were with Ptolemy king of Egypt gave forth, since you assert that the Scripture is not so as they have expounded it, but says, `Behold, the young woman shall conceive, 'as if great events were to be inferred if a woman should beget from sexual intercourse: which indeed all young women, with the exception of the barren, do; but even these, God, if He wills, is able to cause [to bear]. For Samuel's mother, who was barren, brought forth by the will of God; and so also the wife of the holy patriarch Abraham; and Elisabeth, who bore John the Baptist, and other such. So that you must not suppose that it is impossible for God to do anything He wills. And especially when it was predicted that this would take place, do not venture to pervert or misinterpret the prophecies, since you will injure yourselves alone, and will not harm God.
Chapter LXXXVII.-Trypho Objects with the Words: "And Shall Rest on Him," Etc. They are Explained by Justin.
Hereupon Trypho, after I had spoken these words, said, "Do not now suppose that I am endeavouring, by asking what I do ask, to overturn the statements you have made; but I wish to receive information respecting those very points about which I now inquire. Tell me, then, how, when the Scripture asserts by Isaiah, `There shall come forth a rod from the root of Jesse; and a flower shall grow up from the root of Jesse; and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and piety: and the spirit of the fear of the Lord shall fill Him: ' (now you admitted to me," continued he, "that this referred to Christ, and you maintain Him to be pre-existent God, and having become incarnate by God's will, to be born man by the Virgin: ) how He can be demonstrated to have been pre-existent, who is filled with the powers of the Holy Ghost, which the Scripture by Isaiah enumerates, as if He were in lack of them? "
Then I replied, "You have inquired most discreetly and most prudently, for truly there does seem to be a difficulty; but listen to what I say, that you may perceive the reason of this also. The Scripture says that these enumerated powers of the Spirit have come on Him, not because He stood in need of them, but because they would rest in Him, i.e., would find their accomplishment in Him, so that there would be no more prophets in your nation after the ancient custom: and this fact you plainly perceive. For after Him no prophet has arisen among you. Now, that [you may know that] your prophets, each receiving some one or two powers from God, did and spoke the things which we have learned from the Scriptures, attend to the following remarks of mine. Solomon possessed the spirit of wisdom, Daniel that of understanding and counsel, Moses that of might and piety, Elijah that of fear, and Isaiah that of knowledge; and so with the others: each possessed one power, or one joined alternately with another; also Jeremiah, and the twelve [prophets], and David, and, in short, the rest who existed amongst you. Accordingly He rested, i.e., ceased, when He came, after whom, in the times of this dispensation wrought out by Him amongst men, it was requisite that such gifts should cease from you; and having received their rest in Him, should again, as had been predicted, become gifts which, from the grace of His Spirit's power, He imparts to those who believe in Him, according as He deems each man worthy thereof. I have already said, and do again say, that it had been prophesied that this would be done by Him after His ascension to heaven. It is accordingly said, `He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, He gave gifts unto the sons of men.' And again, in another prophecy it is said: `And it shall come to pass after this, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, and on My servants, and on My handmaids, and they shall prophesy.'
Chapter LXXXVIII.-Christ Has Not Received the Holy Spirit on Account of Poverty.
"Now, it is possible to see amongst us women and men who possess gifts of the Spirit of God; so that it was prophesied that the powers enumerated by Isaiah would come upon Him, not because He needed power, but because these would not continue after Him. And let this be a proof to you, namely, what I told you was done by the Magi from Arabia, who as soon as the Child was born came to worship Him, for even at His birth He was in possession of His power; and as He grew up like all other men, by using the fitting means, He assigned its own [requirements] to each development, and was sustained by all kinds of nourishment, and waited for thirty years, more or less, until John appeared before Him as the herald of His approach, and preceded Him in the way of baptism, as I have already shown. And then, when Jesus had gone to the river Jordan, where John was baptizing, and when He had stepped into the water, a fire was kindled in the Jordan; and when He came out of the water, the Holy Ghost lighted on Him like a dove, [as] the apostles of this very Christ of ours wrote. Now, we know that he did not go to the river because He stood in need of baptism, or of the descent of the Spirit like a dove; even as He submitted to be born and to be crucified, not because He needed such things, but because of the human race, which from Adam had fallen under the power of death and the guile of the serpent, and each one of which had committed personal transgression. For God, wishing both angels and men, who were endowed with freewill, and at their own disposal, to do whatever He had strengthened each to do, made them so, that if they chose the things acceptable to Himself, He would keep them free from death and from punishment; but that if they did evil, He would punish each as He sees fit. For it was not His entrance into Jerusalem sitting on an ass, which we have showed was prophesied, that empowered Him to be Christ, but it furnished men with a proof that He is the Christ; just as it was necessary in the time of John that men have proof, that they might know who is Christ. For when John remained by the Jordan, and preached the baptism of repentance, wearing only a leathern girdle and a vesture made of camels' hair, eating nothing but locusts and wild honey, men supposed him to be Christ; but he cried to them, `I am not the Christ, but the voice of one crying; for He that is stronger than I shall come, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.' And when Jesus came to the Jordan, He was considered to be the son of Joseph the carpenter; and He appeared without comeliness, as the Scriptures declared; and He was deemed a carpenter (for He was in the habit of working as a carpenter when among men, making ploughs and yokes; by which He taught the symbols of righteousness and an active life); but then the Holy Ghost, and for man's sake, as I formerly stated, lighted on Him in the form of a dove, and there came at the same instant from the heavens a voice, which was uttered also by David when he spoke, personating Christ, what the Father would say to Him: `Thou art My Son: this day have I begotten Thee;' [the Father] saying that His generation would take place for men, at the time when they would become acquainted with Him: `Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten thee.'"
Chapter LXXXIX.-The Cross Alone is Offensive to Trypho on Account of the Curse, Yet It Proves that Jesus is Christ.
Then Trypho remarked, "Be assured that all our nation waits for Christ; and we admit that all the Scriptures which you have quoted refer to Him. Moreover, I do also admit that the name of Jesus, by which the the son of Nave (Nun) was called, has inclined me very strongly to adopt this view. But whether Christ should be so shamefully crucified, this we are in doubt about. For whosoever is crucified is said in the law to be accursed, so that I am exceedingly incredulous on this point. It is quite clear, indeed, that the Scriptures announce that Christ had to suffer; but we wish to learn if you can prove it to us whether it was by the suffering cursed in the law."
I replied to him, "If Christ was not to suffer, and the prophets had not foretold that He would be led to death on account of the sins of the people, and be dishonoured and scourged, and reckoned among the transgressors, and as a sheep be led to the slaughter, whose generation, the prophet says, no man can declare, then you would have good cause to wonder. But if these are to be characteristic of Him and mark Him out to all, how is it possible for us to do anything else than believe in Him most confidently? And will not as many as have understood the writings of the prophets, whenever they hear merely that He was crucified, say that this is He and no other? "
[Justin follows with numerous allegorical allusions to crosses in the scriptures and compares them with Gospel accounts of Jesus' death.]
Chapter CXIX.-Christians are the Holy People Promised to Abraham. They Have Been Called Like Abraham.
Then I said again, "Would you suppose, sirs, that we could ever have understood these matters in the Scriptures, if we had not received grace to discern by the will of Him whose pleasure it was? in order that the saying of Moses might come to pass, `They provoked me with strange [gods], they provoked me to anger with their abominations. They sacrificed to demons whom they knew not; new gods that came newly up, whom their fathers knew not. Thou hast forsaken God that begat thee, and forgotten God that brought thee up. And the Lord saw, and was jealous, and was provoked to anger by reason of the rage of His sons and daughters: and He said, I will turn My face away from them, and I will show what shall come on them at the last; for it is a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have provoked Me to anger with their idols; and I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a nation, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish people. For a fire is kindled from Mine anger, and it shall burn to Hades. It shall consume the earth and her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains; I will heap mischief on them.' And after that Righteous One was put to death, we flourished as another people, and shot forth as new and prosperous corn; as the prophets said, `And many nations shall betake themselves to the Lord in that day for a people: and they shall dwell in the midst of all the earth.' But we are not only a people, but also a holy people, as we have shown already. `And they shall call them the holy people, redeemed by the Lord.' Therefore we are not a people to be despised, nor a barbarous race, nor such as the Carian and Phrygian nations; but God has even chosen us and He has become manifest to those who asked not after Him. `Behold, I am God, 'He says, `to the nation which called not on My name.' For this is that nation which God of old promised to Abraham, when He declared that He would make him a father of many nations; not meaning, however, the Arabians, or Egyptians, or Idumaeans, since Ishmael became the father of a mighty nation, and so did Esau; and there is now a great multitude of Ammonites. Noah, moreover, was the father of Abraham, and in fact of all men; and others were the progenitors of others. What larger measure of grace, then, did Christ bestow on Abraham? This, namely, that He called him with His voice by the like calling, telling him to quit the land wherein he dwelt. And He has called all of us by that voice, and we have left already the way of living in which we used to spend our days, passing our time in evil after the fashions of the other inhabitants of the earth; and along with Abraham we shall inherit the holy land, when we shall receive the inheritance for an endless eternity, being children of Abraham through the like faith. For as he believed the voice of God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, in like manner we having believed God's voice spoken by the apostles of Christ, and promulgated to us by the prophets, have renounced even to death all the things of the world. Accordingly, He promises to him a nation of similar faith, God-fearing, righteous, and delighting the Father; but it is not you, `in whom is no faith.'
Chapter CXX.-Christians Were Promised to Isaac, Jacob, and Judah.
"Observe, too, how the same promises are made to Isaac and to Jacob. For thus He speaks to Isaac: `And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.' And to Jacob: `And in thee and in thy seed shall all families of the earth be blessed.' He says that neither to Esau nor to Reuben, nor to any other; only to those of whom the Christ should arise, according to the dispensation, through the Virgin Mary. But if you would consider the blessing of Judah, you would perceive what I say. For the seed is divided from Jacob, and comes down through Judah, and Phares, and Jesse, and David. And this was a symbol of the fact that some of your nation would be found children of Abraham, and found, too, in the lot of Christ; but that others, who are indeed children of Abraham, would be like the sand on the sea-shore, barren and fruitless, much in quantity, and without number indeed, but bearing no fruit whatever, and only drinking the water of the sea. And a vast multitude in your nation are convicted of being of this kind, imbibing doctrines of bitterness and godlessness, but spurning the word of God. He speaks therefore in the passage relating to Judah: `A prince shall not fail from Judah, nor a ruler from his thighs, till that which is laid up for him come; and He shall be the expectation of the nations.' And it is plain that this was spoken not of Judah, but of Christ. For all we out of all nations do expect not Judah, but Jesus, who led your fathers out of Egypt. For the prophecy referred even to the advent of Christ: `Till He come for whom this is laid up, and He shall be the expectation of nations.' Jesus came, therefore, as we have shown at length, and is expected again to appear above the clouds; whose name you profane, and labour hard to get it profaned over all the earth. It were possible for me, sirs," I continued, "to contend against you about the reading which you so interpret, saying it is written, `Till the things laid up for Him come; 'though the Seventy have not so explained it, but thus, `Till He comes for whom this is laid up.' But since what follows indicates that the reference is to Christ (for it is, `and He shall be the expectation of nations'), I do not proceed to have a mere verbal controversy with you, as I have not attempted to establish proof about Christ from the passages of Scripture which are not admitted by you which I quoted from the words of Jeremiah the prophet, and Esdras, and David; but from those which are even now admitted by you, which had your teachers comprehended, be well assured they would have deleted them, as they did those about the death of Isaiah, whom you sawed asunder with a wooden saw. And this was a mysterious type of Christ being about to cut your nation in two, and to raise those worthy of the honour to the everlasting kingdom along with the holy patriarchs and prophets; but He has said that He will send others to the condemnation of the unquenchable fire along with similar disobedient and impenitent men from all the nations. `For they shall come, 'He said, `from the west and from the east, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness.' And I have mentioned these things, taking nothing whatever into consideration, except the speaking of the truth, and refusing to be coerced by any one, even though I should be forthwith torn in pieces by you. For I gave no thought to any of my people, that is, the Samaritans, when I had a communication in writing with Caesar, but stated that they were wrong in trusting to the magician Simon of their own nation, who, they say, is God above all power, and authority, and might."
Chapter CXXI.-From the Fact that the Gentiles Believe in Jesus, It is Evident that He is Christ.
And as they kept silence, I went on: "[The Scripture], speaking by David about this Christ, my friends, said no longer that `in His seed' the nations should be blessed, but `in Him.' So it is here: `His name shall rise up for ever above the sun; and in Him shall all nations be blessed.' But if all nations are blessed in Christ, and we of all nations believe in Him, then He is indeed the Christ, and we are those blessed by Him. God formerly gave the sun as an object of worship, as it is written, but no one ever was seen to endure death on account of his faith in the sun; but for the name of Jesus you may see men of every nation who have endured and do endure all sufferings, rather than deny Him. For the word of His truth and wisdom is more ardent and more light-giving than the rays of the sun, and sinks down into the depths of heart and mind. Hence also the Scripture said, `His name shall rise up above the sun.' And again, Zechariah says, `His name is the East.' And speaking of the same, he says that `each tribe shall mourn.' But if He so shone forth and was so mighty in His first advent (which was without honour and comeliness, and very contemptible), that in no nation He is unknown, and everywhere men have repented of the old wickedness in each nation's way of living, so that even demons were subject to His name, and all powers and kingdoms feared His name more than they feared all the dead, shall He not on His glorious advent destroy by all means all those who hated Him, and who unrighteously departed from Him, but give rest to His own, rewarding them with all they have looked for? To us, therefore, it has been granted to hear, and to understand, and to be saved by this Christ, and to recognise all the [truths revealed] by the Father. Wherefore He said to Him: `It is a great thing for Thee to be called my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and turn again the dispersed of Israel. I have appointed Thee for a light to the Gentiles, that Thou mayest be their salvation unto the end of the earth.'
Chapter CXXII.-The Jews Understand This of the Proselytes Without Reason.
"You think that these words refer to the stranger and the proselytes, but in fact they refer to us who have been illumined by Jesus. For Christ would have borne witness even to them; but now you are become twofold more the children of hell, as He said Himself. Therefore what was written by the prophets was spoken not of those persons, but of us, concerning whom the Scripture speaks: `I will lead the blind by a way which they knew not; and they shall walk in paths which they have not known. And I am witness, saith the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen.' To whom, then, does Christ bear witness? Manifestly to those who have believed. But the proselytes not only do not believe, but twofold more than yourselves blaspheme His name, and wish to torture and put to death us who believe in Him; for in all points they strive to be like you. And again in other words He cries: `I the Lord have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will strengthen Thee, and will give Thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out the prisoners from their bonds.' These words, indeed, sirs, refer also to Christ, and concern the enlightened nations; or will you say again, He speaks to them of the law and the proselytes? "
Then some of those who had come on the second day cried out as if they had been in a theatre, "But what? does He not refer to the law, and to those illumined by it? Now these are proselytes."
"No," I said, looking towards Trypho, "since, if the law were able to enlighten the nations and those who possess it, what need is there of a new covenant? But since God announced beforehand that He would send a new covenant, and an everlasting law and commandment, we will not understand this of the old law and its proselytes, but of Christ and His proselytes, namely us Gentiles, whom He has illumined, as He says somewhere: `Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped Thee, and I have given Thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, and to inherit the deserted.' What, then, is Christ's inheritance? Is it not the nations? What is the covenant of God? Is it not Christ? As He says in another place: `Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten Thee. Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the nations for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.'
Chapter CXXIII.-Ridiculous Interpretations of the Jews. Christians are the True Israel.
"As, therefore, all these latter prophecies refer to Christ and the nations, you should believe that the former refer to Him and them in like manner. For the proselytes have no need of a covenant, if, since there is one and the same law imposed on all that are circumcised, the Scripture speaks about them thus: `And the stranger shall also be joined with them, and shall be joined to the house of Jacob;' and because the proselyte, who is circumcised that he may have access to the people, becomes like one of themselves, while we who have been deemed worthy to be called a people are yet Gentiles, because we have not been circumcised. Besides, it is ridiculous for you to imagine that the eyes of the proselytes are to be opened while your own are not, and that you be understood as blind and deaf while they are enlightened. And it will be still more ridiculous for you, if you say that the law has been given to the nations, but you have not known it. For you would have stood in awe of God's wrath, and would not have been lawless, wandering sons; being much afraid of hearing God always say, `Children in whom is no faith. And who are blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them? And the servants of God have been made blind. You see often, but have not observed; your ears have been opened, and you have not heard.' Is God's commendation of you honourable? and is God's testimony seemly for His servants? You are not ashamed though you often hear these words. You do not tremble at God's threats, for you are a people foolish and hard-hearted. `Therefore, behold, I will proceed to remove this people, 'saith the Lord; `and I will remove them, and destroy the wisdom of the wise, and hide the understanding of the prudent.' Deservedly too: for you are neither wise nor prudent, but crafty and unscrupulous; wise only to do evil, but utterly incompetent to know the hidden counsel of God, or the faithful covenant of the Lord, or to find out the everlasting paths. `Therefore, saith the Lord, I will raise up to Israel and to Judah the seed of men and the seed of beasts.' And by Isaiah He speaks thus concerning another Israel: `In that day shall there be a third Israel among the Assyrians and the Egyptians, blessed in the land which the Lord of Sabaoth hath blessed, saying, blessed shall my people in Egypt and in Assyria be, and Israel mine inheritance.' Since then God blesses this people, and calls them Israel, and declares them to be His inheritance, how is it that you repent not of the deception you practise on yourselves, as if you alone were the Israel, and of execrating the people whom God has blessed? For when He speaks to Jerusalem and its environs, He thus added: `And I will beget men upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and you shall be a possession for them; and you shall be no longer bereaved of them.'"
"What, then? "says Trypho; "are you Israel? and speaks He such things of you? "
"If, indeed," I replied to him, "we had not entered into a lengthy discussion on these topics, I might have doubted whether you ask this question in ignorance; but since we have brought the matter to a conclusion by demonstration and with your assent, I do not believe that you are ignorant of what I have just said, or desire again mere contention, but that you are urging me to exhibit the same proof to these men." And in compliance with the assent expressed in his eyes, I continued: "Again in Isaiah, if you have ears to hear it, God, speaking of Christ in parable, calls Him Jacob and Israel. He speaks thus: `Jacob is my servant, I will uphold Him; Israel is mine elect, I will put my Spirit upon Him, and He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any one hear His voice in the street: a bruised reed He shall not break, and smoking flax He shall not quench; but He shall bring forth judgment to truth: He shall shine, and shall not be broken till He have set judgment on the earth. And in His name shall the Gentiles trust.' As therefore from the one man Jacob, who was surnamed Israel, all your nation has been called Jacob and Israel; so we from Christ, who begat us unto God, like Jacob, and Israel, and Judah, and Joseph, and David, are called and are the true sons of God, and keep the commandments of Christ."
Chapter CXXIV.-Christians are the Sons of God.
And when I saw that they were perturbed because I said that we are the sons of God, I anticipated their questioning, and said, "Listen, sirs, how the Holy Ghost speaks of this people, saying that they are all sons of the Highest; and how this very Christ will be present in their assembly, rendering judgment to all men. The words are spoken by David, and are, according to your version of them, thus: `God standeth in the congregation of gods; He judgeth among the gods. How long do ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Judge for the orphan and the poor, and do justice to the humble and needy. Deliver the needy, and save the poor out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither have they understood; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. I said, Ye are gods, and are all children of the Most High. But ye die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God! judge the earth, for Thou shalt inherit all nations.' But in the version of the Seventy it is written, `Behold, ye die like men, and fall like one of the princes,' in order to manifest the disobedience of men,-I mean of Adam and Eve,-and the fall of one of the princes, i.e., of him who was called the serpent, who fell with a great overthrow, because he deceived Eve. But as my discourse is not intended to touch on this point, but to prove to you that the Holy Ghost reproaches men because they were made like God, free from suffering and death, provided that they kept His commandments, and were deemed deserving of the name of His sons, and yet they, becoming like Adam and Eve, work out death for themselves; let the interpretation of the Psalm be held just as you wish, yet thereby it is demonstrated that all men are deemed worthy of becoming "gods," and of having power to become sons of the Highest; and shall be each by himself judged and condemned like Adam and Eve. Now I have proved at length that Christ is called God.
Chapter CXXXV.-Christ is King of Israel, and Christians are the Israelitic Race.
"And when Scripture says, `I am the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who have made known Israel your King,' will you not understand that truly Christ is the everlasting King? For you are aware that Jacob the son of Isaac was never a king. And therefore Scripture again, explaining to us, says what king is meant by Jacob and Israel: `Jacob is my Servant, I will uphold Him; and Israel is mine Elect, my soul shall receive Him. I have given Him my Spirit; and He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, and His voice shall not be heard without. The bruised reed He shall not break, and the smoking flax He shall not quench, until He shall bring forth judgment to victory. He shall shine, and shall not be broken, until He set judgment on the earth. And in His name shall the Gentiles trust.' Then is it Jacob the patriarch in whom the Gentiles and yourselves shall trust? or is it not Christ? As, therefore, Christ is the Israel and the Jacob, even so we, who have been quarried out from the bowels of Christ, are the true Israelitic race. But let us attend rather to the very word: `And I will bring forth, 'He says, `the seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah: and it shall inherit My holy mountain; and Mine Elect and My servants shall possess the inheritance, and shall dwell there; and there shall be folds of flocks in the thicket, and the valley of Achor shall be a resting-place of cattle for the people who have sought Me. But as for you, who forsake Me, and forget My holy mountain, and prepare a table for demons, and fill out drink for the demon, I shall give you to the sword. You shall all fall with a slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not, and did evil before me, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.' Such are the words of Scripture; understand, therefore, that the seed of Jacob now referred to is something else, and not, as may be supposed, spoken of your people. For it is not possible for the seed of Jacob to leave an entrance for the descendants of Jacob, or for [God] to have accepted the very same persons whom He had reproached with unfitness for the inheritance, and promise it to them again; but as there the prophet says, `And now, O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord; for He has sent away His people, the house of Jacob, because their land was full, as at the first, of soothsayers and divinations;' even so it is necessary for us here to observe that there are two seeds of Judah, and two races, as there are two houses of Jacob: the one begotten by blood and flesh, the other by faith and the Spirit.
Chapter CXXXVI.-The Jews, in Rejecting Christ, Rejected God Who Sent Him.
"For you see how He now addresses the people, saying a little before: `As the gape shah be found in the cluster, and they will say, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for My servant's sake: for His sake I will not destroy them all.' And thereafter He adds: `And I shall bring forth the seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah.' It is plain then that if He thus be angry with them, and threaten to leave very few of them, He promises to bring forth certain others, who shall dwell in His mountain. But these are the persons whom He said He would sow and beget. For you neither suffer Him when He calls you, nor hear Him when He speaks to you, but have done evil in the presence of the Lord. But the highest pitch of your wickedness lies in this, that you hate the Righteous One, and slew Him; and so treat those who have received from Him all that they are and have, and who are pious, righteous, and humane. Therefore `woe unto their soul, 'says' the Lord, `for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying, Let us take away the righteous, for he is distasteful to us.' For indeed you are not in the habit of sacrificing to Baal, as were your fathers, or of placing cakes in groves and on high places for the host of heaven: but you have not accepted God's Christ. For he who knows not Him, knows not the will of God; and he who insults and hates Him, insults and hates Him that sent Him. And whoever believes not in Him, believes not the declarations of the prophets, who preached and proclaimed Him to all.
Chapter CXXXVII.-He Exhorts the Jews to Be Converted.
"Say no evil thing, my brothers, against Him that was crucified, and treat not scornfully the stripes wherewith all may be healed, even as we are healed. For it will be well if, persuaded by the Scriptures, you are circumcised from hard-heartedness: not that circumcision which you have from the tenets that are put into you; for that was given for a sign, and not for a work of righteousness, as the Scriptures compel you [to admit]. Assent, therefore, and pour no ridicule on the Son of God; obey not the Pharisaic teachers, and scoff not at the King of Israel, as the rulers of your synagogues teach you to do after your prayers: for if he that touches those who are not pleasing to God, is as one that touches the apple of God's eye, how much more so is he that touches His beloved! And that this is He, has been sufficiently demonstrated."
And as they kept silence, I continued: "My friends, I now refer to the Scriptures as the Seventy have interpreted them; for when I quoted them formerly as you possess them, I made proof of you [to ascertain] how you were disposed. For, mentioning the Scripture which says, `Woe unto them! for they have devised evil counsel against themselves, saying (as the Seventy have translated, I continued): `Let us take away the righteous, for he is distasteful to us; 'whereas at the commencement of the discussion I added what your version has: `Let us bind the righteous, for he is distaste fill to us.' But you had been busy about some other matter, and seem to have listened to the words without attending to them. But now, since the day is drawing to a close, for the sun is about to set, I shall add one remark to what I have said, and conclude. I have indeed made the very same remark already, but I think it would be right to bestow some consideration on it again.
Chapter CXXXVIII.-Noah is a Figure of Christ, Who Has Regenerated Us by Water, and Faith, and Wood: [The Cross.]
"You know, then, sirs," I said, "that God has said in Isaiah to Jerusalem: `I saved thee in the deluge of Noah.' By this which God said was meant that the mystery of saved men appeared in the deluge. For righteous Noah, along with the other mortals at the deluge, i.e., with his own wife, his three sons and their wives, being eight in number, were a symbol of the eighth day, wherein Christ appeared when He rose from the dead, for ever the first in power. For Christ, being the first-born of every creature, became again the chief of another race regenerated by Himself through water, and faith, and wood, containing the mystery of the cross; even as Noah was saved by wood when he rode over the waters with his household. Accordingly, when the prophet says, `I saved thee in the times of Noah, 'as I have already remarked, he addresses the people who are equally faithful to God, and possess the same signs. For when Moses had the rod in his hands, he led your nation through the sea. And you believe that this was spoken to your nation only, or to the land. But the whole earth, as the Scripture says, was inundated, and the water rose in height fifteen cubits above all the mountains: so that it is evident this was not spoken to the land, but to the people who obeyed Him: for whom also He had before prepared a resting-place in Jerusalem, as was previously demonstrated by all the symbols of the deluge; I mean, that by water, faith, and wood, those who are afore-prepared, and who repent of the sins which they have committed, shall escape from the impending judgment of God.
Chapter CXXXIX.-The Blessings, and Also the Curse, Pronounced by Noah Were Prophecies of the Future.
"For another mystery was accomplished and predicted in the days of Noah, of which you are not aware. It is this: in the blessings wherewith Noah blessed his two sons, and in the curse pronounced on his son's son. For the Spirit of prophecy would not curse the son that had been by God blessed along with [his brothers]. But since the punishment of the sin would cleave to the whole descent of the son that mocked at his father's nakedness, he made the curse originate with his son. Now, in what he said, he foretold that the descendants of Shem would keep in retention the property and dwellings of Canaan: and again that the descendants of Japheth would take possession of the property of which Shem's descendants had dispossessed Canaan's descendants; and spoil the descendants of Shem, even as they plundered the sons of Canaan. And listen to the way in which it has so come to pass. For you, who have derived your lineage from Shem, invaded the territory of the sons of Canaan by the will of God; and you possessed it. And it is manifest that the sons of Japheth, having invaded you in turn by the judgment of God, have taken your land from you, and have possessed it. Thus it is written: `And Noah awoke from the wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him; and he said, Cursed be Canaan, the servant; a servant shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.' Accordingly, as two peoples were blessed,-those from Shem, and those from Japheth,-and as the offspring of Shem were decreed first to possess the dwellings of Canaan, and the offspring of Japheth were predicted as in turn receiving the same possessions, and to the two peoples there was the one people of Canaan handed over for servants; so Christ has come according to the power given Him from the Almighty Father, and summoning men to friendship, and blessing, and repentance, and dwelling together, has promised, as has already been proved, that there shall be a future possession for all the saints in this same land. And hence all men everywhere, whether bond or free, who believe in Christ, and recognise the truth in His own words and those of His prophets, know that they shall be with Him in that land, and inherit everlasting and incorruptible good.
Chapter CXL.-In Christ All are Free. The Jews Hope for Salvation in Vain Because They are Sons of Abraham.
"Hence also Jacob, as I remarked before, being himself a type of Christ, had married the two handmaids of his two free wives, and of them begat sons, for the purpose of indicating beforehand that Christ would receive even all those who amongst Japheth's race are descendants of Canaan, equally with the free, and would have the children fellow-heirs. And we are such; but you cannot comprehend this, because you cannot drink of the living fountain of God, but of broken cisterns which can hold no water, as the Scripture says. But they are cisterns broken, and holding no water, which your own teachers have dug as the Scripture also expressly asserts, `teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.' And besides, they beguile themselves and you, supposing that the everlasting kingdom will be assuredly given to those of the dispersion who are of Abraham after the flesh, although they be sinners, and faithless, and disobedient towards God, which the Scriptures have proved is not the case. For if so, Isaiah would never have said this: `And unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.' And Ezekiel: `Even if Noah, and Jacob, and Daniel were to pray for sons or daughters, their request should not be granted.' But neither shall the father perish for the son, nor the son for the father; but every one for his own sin, and each shall be saved for his own righteousness. And again Isaiah says: `They shall look on the carcasses of them that have transgressed: their worm shall not cease, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.' And our Lord, according to the will of Him that sent Him, who is the Father and Lord of all, would not have said, `They shall come from the east, and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness.' Furthermore, I have proved in what has preceded, that those who were foreknown to be unrighteous, whether men or angels, are not made wicked by God's fault, but each man by his own fault is what he will appear to be.
Chapter CXLI.-Free Will in Men and Angels.
"But that you may not have a pretext for saying that Christ must have been crucified, and that those who transgressed must have been among your nation, and that the matter could not have been otherwise, I said briefly by anticipation, that God, wishing men and angels to follow His will, resolved to create them free to do righteousness; possessing reason, that they may know by whom they are created, and through whom they, not existing formerly, do now exist; and with a law that they should be judged by Him, if they do anything contrary to right reason: and of ourselves we, men and angels, shall be convicted of having acted sinfully, unless we repent beforehand. But if the word of God foretells that some angels and men shall be certainly punished, it did so because it foreknew that they would be unchangeably [wicked], but not because God had created them so. So that if they repent, all who wish for it can obtain mercy from God: and the Scripture foretells that they shall be blessed, saying, `Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not sin; ' that is, having repented of his sins, that he may receive remission of them from God; and not as you deceive yourselves, and some others who resemble you in this, who say, that even though they be sinners, but know God, the Lord will not impute sin to them. We have as proof of this the one fall of David, which happened through his boasting, which was forgiven then when he so mourned and wept, as it is written. But if even to such a man no remission was granted before repentance, and only when this great king, and anointed one, and prophet, mourned and conducted himself so, how can the impure and utterly abandoned, if they weep not, and mourn not, and repent not, entertain the hope that the Lord will not impute to them sin? And this one fall of David, in the matter of Uriah's wife, proves, sirs," I said, "that the patriarchs had many wives, not to commit fornication, but that a certain dispensation and all mysteries might be accomplished by them; since, if it were allowable to take any wife, or as many wives as one chooses, and how he chooses, which the men of your nation do over all the earth, wherever they sojourn, or wherever they have been sent, taking women under the name of marriage, much more would David have been permitted to do this."
When I had said this, dearest Marcus Pompeius, I came to an end.
Chapter CXLII.-The Jews Return Thanks, and Leave Justin.
Then Trypho, after a little delay, said, "You see that it was not intentionally that we came to discuss these points. And I confess that I have been particularly pleased with the conference; and I think that these are of quite the same opinion as myself. For we have found more than we expected, and more than it was possible to have expected. And if we could do this more frequently, we should be much helped in the searching of the Scriptures themselves. But since," he said, "you are on the eve of departure, and expect daily to set sail, do not hesitate to remember us as friends when you are gone."
"For my part," I replied, "if I had remained, I would have wished to do the same thing daily. But now, since I expect, with God's will and aid, to set sail, I exhort you to give all diligence in this very great struggle for your own salvation, and to be earnest in setting a higher value on the Christ of the Almighty God than on your own teachers."
After this they left me, wishing me safety in my voyage, and from every misfortune. And I, praying for them, said, "I can wish no better thing for you, sirs, than this, that, recognizing in this way that intelligence is given to every man, you may be of the same opinion as ourselves, and believe that Jesus is the Christ of God."
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Legend of the Five Rings: The Roleplaying Game
System inconsistency and how to combat it?
By watts.nicholas.a, March 29 in Rules Questions
watts.nicholas.a 2
This system is driving me a bit nuts and I could use some assistance in finding out if there are clarifications to some subsystems or if I am designing my own rules.
Incapacitated: It says I go unconscious if I take a critical strike, but what if I reduce that strike to 0-2 and it becomes a technical miss? Do I still go unconscious even though I wasn’t affected?
Poison and Jurojin’s Blessing: Jurojin’s Blessing halves recover time for poisons and supernatural afflictions. Most poison’s apply status conditions that go away when you refrain from a particular action. How does that interact with halving recovery? Are there any supernatural afflictions that you can naturally recover from where Jurojin’s Blessing actually applies?
NPCs: Almost every NPC has advantages and disadvantages that aren’t detailed at all. Are those rules defined anywhere?
More may follow, but right now I feel like I bought a system in beta. The rules seem like they were rewritten multiple times but earlier sections were never revisited when later subsystems were revamped. There are things I like about the system and I love the setting, but at least a quarter of the time I have to wonder if I am running this game correctly.
Edited March 29 by watts.nicholas.a
Grammar and better ending
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Avatar111 343
It is pretty much what you say it is...
The way to combat it is to make decisions as the GM. Do not doubt too much, just go with your guts.
The GM decide what is used for what and the players just deal with the GM's decisions.
This is a broken/unfinished system that requires a ton of GM's adjudication.
Does have some good foundations, they just never finished it nor do they care to finish it.
Edited March 29 by Avatar111
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NFK 102
Incapacitated: Yes, you still go unconscious on a Close Call result. Most likely it's a glancing blow.
Poison + Jurojin's Blessing: Keep in mind that all advantages and disadvantages have a narrative effect, and a mechanical effect distinct from that. That bit about the recovery time is narrative, so it applies whenever the group thinks it's relevant for enabling something on the PC's end or disabling something on the other side of the table. Compare this with the custom "Born Sailor" distinction on page 138, whose narrative effect is to guard against seasickness. Does the game have any rules for being seasick? No. But if the player says that they want it on their sheet then it should probably come up occasionally. (And if you still need a mechanical relation keep in mind that one already exists - the second effect of Jurojin's Blessing gives you the usual "reroll up to 2 dice" business.)
NPC advantages/disadvantages: There's a line on page 309 that talks about this:
Advantages and Disadvantages: NPCs can be given prewritten advantages and disadvantages (see page 99), but printed NPC profiles usually have specialized advantages and disadvantages that do not appear in that chapter. These are treated as distinctions (or adversities) that apply as the GM deems appropriate.
Just use them when they would seem relevant, based on their name and various tags. In that sense they're not unlike Aspects from Fate.
More generally, by default this game is not intended to have the mechanical heft of D&D or Shadowrun (for instance) where almost every interaction is mechanically scrutinized. Some of it will be (it reads like a crunchier version of Fate Accelerated), but some of it won't be as the situation merits. You can push the game to be heftier if you like (check page 289 for a sidebar that briefly outlines this), but the game doesn't regard it as necessary.
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Grimmerling 731
Long answer short: Yes, and with boundless creativity and unfailing verve.
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So the crutch of the issue is that I come from a gaming career dealing almost exclusively with rule intensive systems and I need to retrain myself on rules light games. Thanks for the guidance everyone, it was very helpful 😀.
P'an Ku reacted to this
Depends what you played before.
L5R is way more crunchy than D&D 5th.
But less than Shadowrun.
It also have broken and rough mechanics in many places, which is probably the core of the issue. The foundation is good, but some of the polishing/finishing is off, especially in the details.
Nothing that makes it impossible to play, far from it. But you will often raise an eyebrow when a mechanic fails to achieve a sensible result (for better or worse) or seems to be absurdly crunchy and gamey in the wrong places and very vague and undefined in places where it should require a bit more structure.
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I came from Shadowrun, DND 3.5, Pathfinder, GURPS and a myriad of others. Technically I came from 1st edition ADnD, but the last time I tried a game like that I wrote pages of house rules that effectively turned it into 3.5. Admittedly, I am headed that way now and that is how I am likely to overcome the snags I get caught in.
5 hours ago, Avatar111 said:
Any version of D&D is some degree of crunchy, even 5E. It attempts to scale things down (and ended up as the "ask your GM" edition), but when people can dig deeply into the combat math as expected by the Adventuring Day and reverse-engineer the monster stats I wouldn't call it anything but rules-heavy. Inversely much of what L5R 5E is doing is scaling up from rules-light foundations and adding crunch. The core mechanic starts with you figuring out an approach based on your intention; depending on that you might use any of the rings.
But going on more with that will just get us stuck in the weeds. From what I've seen from you on these forums your design goals for this game are notably different from what the designers have. And that's not a problem on its own - everyone has preferences - but you're viewing everything through this lens and using that to say that "[thing I don't like] is bad!" when maybe this just isn't the game for you. Sometimes I've seen you misunderstanding or misinterpreting some rule just so you can call it out.
Edit: Compare this edition to 4E, where the rules were more complex and yet they mostly served to push numbers around. Courtiers were a tossup between useful/niche and useless/niche, bushi varied between useful autoattacking and weird gimmicks, and shugenja were amazing knockoff wizards.
Edited March 30 by NFK
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4 hours ago, watts.nicholas.a said:
L5R 5th is a bit less crunchy than Shadowrun but it's certainly in the same ballpark as D&D 3rd ed or Pathfinder (then again, I tend to think of most RPGs as low to mid-heavy rules systems - it's not about how many skills, classes or spells there are, it's about how complex the mechanics everything is built on are). Skill use in L5R 5th is definitely more complex than in Pathfinder, for instance.
The big difference is that a Pathfinder or something similar has a fairly strict set of rules: if you want to do something, how you do it is more or less explicitly explained in a rule and it's by and large always the same. L5R 5th on the other hand, in terms of core mechanics, is a bunch of guidelines and a non-exhaustive list of examples. Whatever you want to do, I can probably point you to a page (or, in some unfortunate cases, several pages throughout the entire book) that tells you what should happen. How it happens often depends a lot on interpretation and ad hoc decision making. How TNs are determined is completely vague. Approaches are literally the GM deciding which ring you use based on how you tell him you want to do something (and he'll also have to decide whether that changes the TN you'll roll against). There are long lists of possible uses for opportunities, but the book makes it clear you can really use them however you want as long as the GM is ok with it. Whether an advantage or disadvantage applies (or applies if you flip it) to a given situation is something that will vary from table to table (and you're encouraged to create your own). A whole lot of effects depend on interpreting the norms and social standards of the empire.
Some of that was certainly already the case in previous editions as well. And it isn't necessarily a bad way to do things either. I really wish the guidelines were a bit better in several cases though (those variable TNs for sure) and things like the advantages and disadvantages being so inconsistent and open-ended are a pain. It's definitely a system that needs a GM to make it work. That doesn't mean it's a light system, however.
4 hours ago, NFK said:
Eh.
Skill use in D&D: I use this skill, I have these modifiers to the roll which always work uniformly so I can just add them up from my char sheet, I roll 1d20 plus or minus whatever, the GM checks for success or failure, done.
Skill use in L5R fifth: I pick the most applicable broad skill available (or the GM tells me which it'll be), I explain my approach, the GM tells me which ring corresponds to that, whether there are modifiers to the dice pool, and picks a TN based on both general difficulty and approach, I roll my dice pool, I check what I want to (and can) keep in terms of strife and opportunities, success/failure is determined and I probably get to use opportunities (regardless of success), which are often modified by a tech or school ability, done.
I may have missed a step here or there, but based on skill use I would definitely not call D&D the the rules-heavy system when comparing it to L5R.
Edited March 30 by nameless ronin
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19 hours ago, nameless ronin said:
I agree that L5R is procedurally more involved in adjudication of a roll. However, in D&D 3.5/Pathfinder, the provisions of those rolls are almost always outlined in the book itself. It is concrete. Whereas, in L5R, I am seeing a lot of input coming from the GM on what gets rolled. There is probably better terminology I could have used to explain myself there. However, that has been my hurdle, as it had been a very long time since I have played a system where the exact process of resolving an event hasn’t been spelled out in a source book. It will take some getting used to again, but I will get there and probably have a large set of house rules generated to facilitate gameplay at my table.
15 minutes ago, watts.nicholas.a said:
Whereas, in L5R, I am seeing a lot of input coming from the GM on what gets rolled. There is probably better terminology I could have used to explain myself there. However, that has been my hurdle, as it had been a very long time since I have played a system where the exact process of resolving an event hasn’t been spelled out in a source book.
That's pretty much it. It wouldn't be as bad if there was a bit more support for the GM to help with the adjudicating though. With some things, just having dealt with them once will make it easy in future occurences.
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Unfortunately I have to agree that this game is unpolished at best. I find it is a disaster to play at the table and has taken my group a LOT of work to get used too. After like 20 sessions I still find parts of it to be incoherent. Yet, we like the setting, and I LOVE the core concepts of the dice system.
BowelEvacuation 5
I went through the same thing I'm my mind. As i was nearing the end of the core rulebook I kept thinking I've missed some rules. I'm slowly coming around to embracing the loose structure. It's difficult because I've come from competitive tabletop games that don't leave anything to interpretation. At one stage I thought "Is l5r rpg just a way to play pretend?". Yet to be able to articulate the answer to that question in detail.
On 4/1/2019 at 4:40 AM, nameless ronin said:
I hope they do a GM sourcebook that concentrates more on general mechanical implementation. There's so much focus on lore, setting and "adventure seeds" but not enough tools for the GM to actually translate this content into a gaming session that players can interact with in a structured way. Some people are more creative than others as GM's so it may not be an issue for everyone.
UnitOmega 2,246
16 minutes ago, BowelEvacuation said:
"Is l5r rpg just a way to play pretend?".
Yes, this is RPGs in general, but also very much in the spirit of L5R. The developer of the first edition of the original RPG, John Wick, actually wanted it to be entirely diceless but was talked out of it by the original designer of roll & keep.
3 minutes ago, UnitOmega said:
Now that would have been interesting. I am coming around to embracing the idea (keeping the dice however!). I think of the saying "when you define what something is you also define what it isn't" so i interpret that the designers want people to make the game whatever they want it to be.
10 hours ago, BowelEvacuation said:
I personally wouldn't mind an even more story focused rpg with even less rules! I'd actually prefer it. The random factor (dice) is something I do enjoy but the weaker part of the system for our group is when the game tries to put too much crunch on stuff and it slows down the gameplay a lot, unfortunately, it can happen a lot. Some bloated technique design, constant resist checks, and some tactical opportunity usage overdose are mostly the culprit here. The best part of the game is definitely the ring/approaches, the way the players can alter the narrative via opportunity spending. Some other things are also very interesting despite requiring a bit of polish; advantages/disadvantages, damage vs critical strikes.
If somebody knows of a good rpg system that is heavily story focused and only uses very open and simple rules, with ways for the players to alter the narrative. Please let me know which one! We (our group) found ourselves much more interested in narrative gameplay rather than bugging down with too much crunch (but still want a very small amount of crunch to keep a random effect in the game and to define some conditions, health etc.)
JBento 214
1 hour ago, Avatar111 said:
I haven't had the chance (and probably won't, **** my gaming group) to get the actual rulebooks of Invisible Sun, but there's a free 55-page excerpt, and you can also check out the gameplay on Twitch. It seems to be very rules-light and very character-driven.
https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/invisible-sun-preorder/
Edited June 22 by JBento
Looks insanely good!
9 hours ago, JBento said:
Invisible Sun is a pretentious tire fire of a game. The primary gameplay loop isn't supported by the mechanics, everything is spread out over four books with deliberately poor layout, the mechanics are a balance mess where two stats out of eight are The Best, and the setting is a sophomoric mashup of Planescape and Magic: the Gathering. It's basically a Monte Cook work without any constraints or filters.
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On 6/22/2019 at 6:27 PM, NFK said:
Unfortunately, true.
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T_Kageyasu 46
When incapacitated you can't roll skill checks, so you can't reduce that critical hit to avoid going unconscious unless you spend a void point.
38 minutes ago, T_Kageyasu said:
You can still do Resist checks when incapacitated. You just cannot perform Actions that require a check.
Resist checks are not actions.
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Resist checks are not actions.
Huh, thanks for the clarification. I honestly thought *any* action involving rolling dice was not possible while incapacitated, only movement actions essentially.
Magnus Grendel 8,739
The Empire Needs You!
Although even a severity 0 critical strike is still a 'hit' for the purposes of applying the unconscious condition. Severity 0 doesn't stop it being a critical strike, it's just not a particularly bad one.
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'Eagles of Mull' - US TV premiere PBS Sunday May 3, 8pm Eastern - Mull Eagle Watch - Wildlife - The RSPB Community
Mull Eagle Watch 'Eagles of Mull' - US TV premiere PBS Sunday May 3, 8pm Eastern
'Eagles of Mull' - US TV premiere PBS Sunday May 3, 8pm Eastern
david sexton
The highly acclaimed film about a year on the Isle of Mull by our good friend Gordon Buchanan is to receive its US TV premiere on Sunday May 3 on the PBS TV network in the 'Nature' series. It will be shown at 8pm on the East coast, for other US time zones check your local TV listings. In the UK this BBC film for the Natural World is called 'Eagle Island' and is available to buy in local shops and online from Amazon. In the US it has been re-titled by PBS as 'Eagles of Mull'. Our amazing sea eagles Frisa and Skye star as do golden eagles, otters, dolphins, minke whales and basking sharks. We thought our supporters in the US would like to know about this TV event and if any of our other bloggers around the world have friends or family across the pond, perhaps they could let them know to tune in on Sunday evening. This is Homecoming Year in Scotland and we hope films like this show Mull and is wildlife at is best and encourage a few more folk to decide to visit. You'll be very welcome.
Meanwhile, here I am delighted to report that the female sea eagle featured in the 'Battle of the Titans' blog has made a good recovery from her clash with another sea eagle. And what's more, Yellow Black Spot and her mate have hatched their eggs and are feeding chick(s)! What a relief. The encounter wih the other female will have been a territorial fight and they are rare. Most top predators avoid each other as they know one of them may get hurt. But every now and then, they will fight. Occasionally it may end in serious injury, even death. Usually, it's a 'flash in the pan'. Luckily for YBS, she survived to live another day, hopefully another year, hopefully more. It's a tough world out there. For now, they have chicks to feed. The Eagles of Mull have a busy time ahead of them.
Dave Sexton RSPB Scotland Mull Officer
Gary over 10 years ago
PS Loved the programme:) What birds and what a place. Must get to Mull as soon as possible.
LizH over 10 years ago
I also bought the video for my Grandson some years ago. His mother reported that he often played it and wants to visit Mull. He is cross he cannot come with me next week as he has exams, but he is determined one day he will make his way to see the Sea Eagles. He's hoping to go to a Scottish University, and I strongly suspect large birds of prey has something to do with this!! Liz H
Glynis H over 10 years ago
Thanks for the update Dave, & glad to hear YBS is OK.
wee jeannie over 10 years ago
Thanks for the update, Dave- so pleased to know that YBS has recovered well and has sucessfully hatched her chicks. I'm relieved to learn these horrific battles don't happen often!
Another happy ending!
JanKTFA over 10 years ago
GaryS, I am certain you'll enjoy it, I bought the DVD a while back and have watched it many times, my family's pending trip to Mull can be blamed on that DVD! Glad to hear all is well with YBS and her mate, and chicks, and that the fight didn't have any horrible lasting effects.
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Home East Windsor New law grants temporary nursing licenses to qualified military spouses
New law grants temporary nursing licenses to qualified military spouses
Qualified spouses of military personnel who have been relocated to New Jersey can be granted temporary nursing licenses now that legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Herb Conaway, Jr., Cleopatra G. Tucker, Wayne P. DeAngelo, John S. Wisniewski and Celeste Riley has been signed into law.
The law (A-2889) directs the New Jersey Board of Nursing to establish criteria for the issuance of temporary courtesy licenses allowing nonresident military spouses to lawfully practice nursing in New Jersey on a temporary basis. A temporary license would be valid for six months, and could be extended at the discretion of the board for six more months upon request.
“Relocating is part of military life, but can make steady employment difficult,” said Conaway (D-Burlington). “This law is consistent with legislative efforts being made in other states to make it easier for qualified military spouses to maintain their professional nursing licenses and pursue nursing employment options as they move from one jurisdiction to another.”
Demand for nurses is expected to rise as the state’s population continues to age, and Tucker (D-Essex), who chairs the Military and Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said such a law would help meet that demand.
Military spouses must meet a set of requirements set forth in the law to receive their temporary licenses.
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Symbol H (Human Geosciences) » H-DS Disaster geosciences
[H-DS19] Tsunami and Tsunami Forecast
Wed. May 25, 2016 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 201A (2F)
Convener:*Yuichi Namegaya(Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Kentaro Imai(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chair:Hiroaki Tsushima(Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency), Takuto Maeda(Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo)
[HDS19-05] Data assimilation of high-density offshore pressure gauge observations for tsunami forecast simulation of the 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake
*Aditya Gusman1, Anne F. Sheehan2, Kenji Satake1, Mohammad Heidarzadeh1, Iyan E. Mulia3, Takuto Maeda1 (1.Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2.Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 3.Department of Ocean Civil Engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan)
Keywords:Tsunami data assimilation, Dense tsunami array, The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake tsunami, Tsunami forecast, Earthquake source model
Here, we use a total of 57 tsunami waveforms recorded on the DARTs and a dense array off Oregon and California from the 2012 Haida Gwaii, Canada, earthquake (Sheehan et al., 2015, SRL) to simulate the performance of two different real-time tsunami-forecasting approaches. In the first approach, the fault slip distribution of the earthquake is estimated by inversion of recorded tsunami waveforms. In the second approach, the recorded waveforms on the dense tsunami array are continuously assimilated to produce tsunami wave fields within the vicinity of the stations. These tsunami source model and tsunami wave fields are then used to estimate the tsunami along the coast of Oregon and California. The dense array provides critical data for both methods to produce timely (> 30 minutes lead time) and accurate (> 94% confidence) in both timing and amplitude of tsunami forecasts.
In the first approach, we use tsunami waveform inversion (Satake et al., 2013, BSSA; Gusman et al., 2015, GRL) to estimate the slip distribution of the 2012 earthquake. The fault geometry is based on the W phase solution for the earthquake. Large slip amounts (4 – 5 m) are located near the Haida Gwaii trench. The synthetic tsunami waveforms of the fault slip distribution match well the tsunami observations. Therefore, the fault model is suitable for tsunami warning purposes.
In the second approach, the tsunami waveforms are used in tsunami data assimilation method (Maeda et al., 2015, GRL), which does not require any assumption about the tsunami source mechanism. Tsunami wave field is created at every 1 sec, and it can be used as an input for tsunami forward modeling. Realistic tsunami wave fields begin to emerge after the tsunami passes through 5 stations. As more tsunami data are assimilated, the wave fields from this method are gradually become similar to that produced in the first approach that utilized tsunami waveform inversion.
High accuracies of more than 94% in average are produced from data-assimilation wave field at stations near the shoreline. As an example, using the 130 min data-assimilated wave field, the tsunami waveforms at station FS12B is forecasted with an accuracy of 98% about 30 min in advance. The tsunami data assimilation method that we present can be run continuously in real-time and does not require a fault model. Remarkably, the tsunami forecast accuracy from the tsunami data assimilation method is as good as that from the traditional tsunami forecasting method that assumes a fault model. Real-time tsunami data on dense arrays and data assimilation delivers a new generation tsunami warning system.
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The Reform advocate, Vol. 91
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Ford Focus - Review Of The Week
The Ford Focus has evolved, this MK4 version offering slicker looks, higher interior quality and extra technology. There's also greater efficiency beneath the bonnet thanks to the addition of a hi-tech range of petrol and diesel engines. The best part though, is that this car should still remain as rewarding to drive as it's always been. The Focus might have grown up but it certainly hasn't lost its spark.
Our test of this fourth generation Focus confirmed that the sharp driving dynamics that marked out previous models have been retained. That's aided by the standard inclusion of a driving modes system this time round with settings that can alter steering feel, throttle response and, if you've an auto variant, transmission response times. Talking of autos, there's a new 8-speed self-shifter on offer. Otherwise, you'll be swapping cogs with a 6-speed manual.
The engine range initially looks familiar, but closer inspection reveals that it's been heavily revised. As before, the range primarily hinges around Ford's familiar three cylinder 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol unit, which gets a new turbocharger and cylinder head and is available in 85, 100 and 125PS guises. There's also a new 1.5-litre EcoBoost petrol engine with 150 or 182PS. Plus a fresh 1.5-litre EcoBlue diesel with 95 and 120PS. And a 2.0-litre EcoBlue unit with 150PS. As for the suspension, well a little disappointingly, Ford has followed Volkswagen's lead in equipping lower-powered 1.0-litre petrol and 1.5-litre diesel variants with a cruder twist-beam set-up. If you want the more sophisticated independent rear double wishbone suspension system that's supposed to improve ride comfort, you'll need an estate, the 'Active' crossover version, top-spec 'Vignale' trim or a hatch with 1.5-litre petrol or 2.0-litre diesel power. The 'ST-Line' version gets stiffer, lowered suspension.
There's nothing particularly striking about the way this fourth generation Focus looks but the lines are crisp and pleasing, whether you opt for the five-door hatch body style or the alternative small estate. The overall length is 18mm longer than before and the car rides 15mm lower. Or at least it does in standard guise. The SUV-style 'Active' variant has a slightly higher ride height; the sporty 'ST-Line' model rides slightly lower than normal versions. As ever though, what's more important is the stuff you can't see: this Focus rides on the brand's latest 'C2' platform, which enables the wheelbase to be 53mm longer, freeing up extra cabin space.
You should certainly feel that inside. Rear knee room has increased by 56mm and, thanks to a re-profiling of the rear doors, the rear passengers' heads are now adjacent to glass rather than metal, so they'll be able to see out more easily. Up-front, as you'd expect, it all feels of much higher quality - the fascia now has half the number of buttons that were there before. And shoulder room is class-leading. The extra body length has freed up more boot space too. In the estate version, there's now a class-leading 1.14m of width between the wheel arches and overall load length with the rear seats folded (1,700mm) is up by 134mm. That means 1,650-litres of carriage capacity.
Has any car had more of an impact on modern era motoring than the Ford Focus? With over 16 million global sales on the board, it's hard to argue the point. Other manufacturers can better this car in some regards, but they still can't make their family hatchback contenders drive like a Focus.
True, this car is still far from perfect. There are cheaper rivals - and there are certainly more spacious ones. As an overall package though, it remains hard to beat. This car no longer depends solely on handling supremacy to justify its position at the top of the sales charts. Smarter and more sensible, it is, more than ever, number one for a reason.
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Spotlight on…Hilary Grant
The sub-zero temperatures in Dundee last week have me dreaming of cosy scarfs and mittens so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to shine a light on Dundee star, Hilary Grant with a spotlight article.
Hilary graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2007 and since then has made a name for herself as a textile designer, interning with designer Claire Tough, developing concepts for Lost Values and even creating embroidery designs for Alexander McQueen. Creative Dundee had a chin-wag with Hilary to get the low-down on her influences and inspirations as well as finding out why Dundee is a good place to get creative.
Where do you work from in Dundee?
I work in a home studio/workshop.
Who or what are your current influences?
A lot of my inspiration comes from really traditional fairisle knitting techniques and also a lot of menswear too. Paul Smith. I really like Margaret Howell, simple clothing e.g. A.P.C. and I get a lot of inspiration from street style photography like in the Sartorialist. I wouldn’t say these kinds of sources inspire me directly in terms of pattern design, but things like colour proportion and styling are key.
Which artists/creative do you most admire?
I admire lot of people. My friends, who are all out there in their first few years of their creative businesses and seeing how they all progress is really inspiring. My favourite designers for the last few years are Mina Perhoenen, Cooperative Designs, Marc Monzo, Clare Waight Keller, Masako Ban. I also love Alexander Wang as his approach is so understated and simple. This quote from him really sticks with me “Fashion should be something that should be understood, yet still be exciting. It’s art and commerce.” I like that idea.
You studied at Duncan of Jordanstone, what kind of support was available to you whilst you were a student?
There was a lot out there but it was very much down to you if you wanted to learn more and develop techniques beyond the basics. I guess that’s the same for everyone. Though the teaching was great, there is only so much the tutors and technicians can do for one person. It’s down to you to learn how educate yourself and get what you want from art school and how to develop your design progress beyond what’s prescribed.
What kind of support has been available to you since setting up on your own?
I got some financial help from Dundee City Council and Creative Scotland with the Dundee Craftmakers’ Award last year. That was a big boost. And also the Princes Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT) who have really helped me develop the business side of everything, with my accounts and writing up contracts. If anyone is interested in starting up a business I’d make PSYBT and Cultural Enterprise your first ports of call.
What has been your career highlight so far?
Lots of different little things. But I guess doing a tradeshow last year felt like a turning point between hobby business and real business.
What is your favourite Dundee landmark?
The McManus Galleries.
Where are your favourite places to hang out in Dundee?
TLC on Perth Road is my first stop if I’m needing to get out for fresh air and for a coffee break. It’s a good place to switch off.
What do you think about the creative scene in Dundee?
It’s such a great community and really supportive. Dundee’s a great place to start up a business.
What effect do you think the V&A will have on the city? How will this change the scene in Dundee?
I’m sure it’ll change Dundee in so many ways for the better I’m not sure where to start!
What’s next for Hilary Grant?
Just now I’m working on next winter’s collection. I’ll be starting to work more seasonally now as I’m going to be working with a manufacturer in the Borders so the way I run my business is changing too.
Any top tips for creatives?
Have some time off for once! You can’t expect to be switched on all the time if you never switch off.
View Hilary’ s website and online shop at: http://www.hilarygrant.co.uk or follow her on twitter @Hilary_Grant
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NETFLIX UK DARK TOURIST ATTRACTION. ‘WHERE GOOD & EVIL COLLIDE, WHERE FANTASY MEETS A BRUTAL REALITY’…. WITH THE BIRTH OF ISIS. IT’S ALL HERE AND MUCH MORE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, UK … A DISTURBINGLY VOLATILE MIX OF MYTH AND REALITY AS THE DARK SIDE AWAKENS IN THE FOREST OF DEAN.
ABOVE: OIL PAINTING BY LITTLEDEAN JAIL’S IN-HOUSE ARTIST PAUL BRIDGMAN HERE ON DISPLAY WITHIN OUR DARK TOURIST ART GALLERY .
PLEASE BE WARNED … THIS EXHIBITION ALONG WITH THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE EASILY DISTURBED OR OF A SENSITIVE NATURE ….
With some of the scenes from the new Star Wars film ” The Force Awakens” having been filmed at Puzzlewood here in Coleford ( not too far from Littledean Jail) , we have ourselves now added an intriguing and volatile mix of myth and reality with our own insight into THE FEDAYEEN SADDAM ( Saddam Hussein’s “Men of Sacrifice”) . This was an Iraqi paramilitary militia and personal bodyguard division formed by Saddam’s equally brutal dictator son Uday, who were accountable only to Saddam and Uday .
THE FEDAYEEN SADDAM ENFORCERS wore a helmet that was designed by Uday to mirror the helmet worn by Star Wars villain Darth Vader. Also the all black uniform , though without the “Darth Vader” cape .
Both Saddam and his son Uday were keen fans of Star Wars films . Even Saddams infamous “Hands of Victory ” monuments at the gateways to Baghdad, to celebrate the defeat of Iran in the Iran – Iraq War… were based on the “Empire Strikes Back ” film poster image (see below) depicting Darth Vader holding crossed Lightsabers .
Here on display at The Crime Through Time Collection , Littledean Jail , and new for 2016 … we have pieced together ” The Dark Side of the Fedayeen”exhibition, This to compliment Saddam and Uday’s fascination and interest with Star Wars phenomena . This being alongside various other Star Wars signed memorabilia , action figures and also on a more serious note, the brutal acts of the Fedayeen and the Iraqi regime .
NOT FORGETTING OF COURSE THAT AFTER THE FALL OF SADDAM’S REGIME IN 2003 , THE FEDAYEEN AND SOME 100 OR SO OF SADDAM’S CHIEF COMMANDERS BECAME THE FOUNDERS AND LEADERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS), FOR WHICH IS STILL VERY MUCH CONTROLLED BY SADDAM HUSSEIN’S FORMER CHIEFS SOME 13 YEARS OR SO LATER .
THE VIEW OF MANY IS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT SADDAM HUSSAIN’S IRAQI REGIME TO RULE IT’S OWN COUNTRY AS THEY FELT FIT TO DO SO . .
TO A GREAT MANY ….A SEEMINGLY COSTLY AND POINTLESS WAR AGAINST A CULTURE AND RELIGION THAT MOST OF THE WESTERN WORLD DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND YET HAVE SEEMED FIT TO INTERFERE IN.
THIS HAVING RESULTED IN A TRAGIC LOSS OF A GREAT MANY LIVES ON ALL SIDES. MANY ARGUE THAT WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE GOT INVOLVED IN THIS EQUALLY SEEMINGLY NEVER ENDING WAR?
Above from left: ORIGINAL STAR WARS FILM POSTER ADVERITISING “THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK” PICTURED HERE ALONGSIDE SADDAM HUSSEIN’S INFAMOUS “HANDS OF VICTORY ” MONUMENTS AT THE GATEWAYS TO BAGHDAD , IRAQ
Fedayeen Saddam (فدائيي صدام) was a paramilitary organization loyal to the Ba’athist government of Saddam Hussein. The name was chosen to mean “Saddam’s Men of Sacrifice”. At its height, the group had 30,000-40,000 members.
BELOW: THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS DARTH VADER HELMET ALONG SIDE AN ORIGINAL FEDAYEEN SADDAM ( SADDAM’S MEN OF SACRIFICE ) HELMET . THEY CERTAINLY MIRROR EACH OTHER AS WAS UDAY HUSSEIN’S WISH
BELOW ARE VARIOUS INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS AS FEATURED HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL , UK
ABOVE IS A SLIDESHOW OF SOME OF THE FEDAYEEN SADDAM ( SADDAM’S “MEN OF SACRIFCE”) UNIFORM AND OTHER ASSOCIATED EXHIBIT ITEMS ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL .
The Fedayeen Saddam was not part of Iraq‘s regular armed forces but rather operated as a paramilitary unit of irregular forces. As a result of this, the Fedayeen reported directly to the Presidential Palace, rather than through the military chain of command. Whilst paramilitary the Fedayeen were not an elite military force, often receiving just basic training and operating without heavy weapons. In this they were somewhat similar to the Basij of Iran or Shabbiha militia of Syria.
Much like other paramilitaries, the Fedayeen was volunteer based and the units were never given an official salary. As a result, most of the members resorted to extortion and theft of property from the general population, even though the members had access to sanction-evading trade and high quality services (i.e. new cars, hospitals reserved for officials, expensive electronics) and a general standard of living considerably higher than that of the average Iraqi of the time.However, they were ordered not to threaten or harm any government officials. This group wasn’t religious or anything so it had a mix of sunni and Shia minority.
ORIGINAL FEDAYEEN SADDAM UNIFORM ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL
The Fedayeen were among the most loyal organizations to the government of Saddam Hussein and were a politically reliable force against domestic opponents. The Fedayeen played a role in the 2003 war, resisting the American invasion.
BELOW: An original oil painting depicting notorious ISIS Executioner “Jihadi John” unmasked .
BELOW: An original oil painting depicting notorious ISIS Executioner “The Bulldozer ” unmasked .
The secret to ISIS’s success: Over 100 former Saddam Hussein-era officers run jihadi group’s military and intelligence operations in Iraq and Syria
Intelligence source said 100 to 160 former Iraqi army officers with ISIS
The 2003 US led invasion of Iraq led Saddam Hussein to allow foreign fighters to join the resistance against the invaders
ISIS’s deputy leader Abu Muslim al-Turkmani was an Iraqi army major
Once part of one of the most brutal dictator’s army in the Middle East, over 100 former members of Saddam Hussein’s military and intelligence officers are now part of ISIS.
Now they make up the complex network of ISIS’s leadership, helping to build the military strategies which have led the brutal jihadi group to their military gains in Syria and Iraq.
The officers gave ISIS the organization and discipline it needed to weld together jihadi fighters drawn from across the globe, integrating terror tactics like suicide bombings with military operations.
Self-appointed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the formation of an Islamic Caliphate in June 2014
While attending the Iraqi army’s artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words ‘God is great.’
‘It is forbidden by religion to bring the name of the Almighty into a defiled place like this,’ Omran recalled being told by Maj. Taha Taher al-Ani.
Omran didn’t see al-Ani again until years later, in 2003. The Americans had invaded Iraq and were storming toward Baghdad. Saddam Hussein’s fall was imminent.
At a sprawling military base north of the capital, al-Ani was directing the loading of weapons, ammunition and ordnance into trucks to spirit away. He took those weapons with him when he joined Tawhid wa’l-Jihad, a forerunner of al-Qaida’s branch in Iraq.
Now al-Ani is a commander in the Islamic State group, said Omran, who rose to become a major general in the Iraqi army and now commands its 5th Division fighting IS.
He kept track of his former comrade through Iraq’s tribal networks and intelligence gathered by the government’s main counter terrorism service, of which he is a member.
Surrounding al-Baghdadi, ex-Baathists continue to drive forward the group’s military strategy in Iraq and Syria
One of the most prominent former Iraqi Army generals within ISIS was Abu Muslim al-Turkmani (left) who led the terrorists’ operations in Iraq until he was killed in an American airstrike last November. Abu Ayman al-Iraqi (right), a former colonel in Iraqi Air Force intelligence now plays a leading role in ISIS’ military council
Tyrant: Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein built his regime and cult of personality through his use of fear
Deadly: Foreign fighters have flocked from around the world, attracted by the brutal group’s propaganda
They have been put in charge of intelligence-gathering, spying on the Iraqi forces as well as maintaining and upgrading weapons and trying to develop a chemical weapons program.
Patrick Skinner, a former CIA case officer who has served in Iraq, said Saddam-era military and intelligence officers were a ‘necessary ingredient’ in the Islamic State group’s stunning battlefield successes last year, accounting for its transformation from a ‘terrorist organization to a proto-state.’
‘Their military successes last year were not terrorist, they were military successes,’ said Skinner, now director of special projects for The Soufan Group, a private strategic intelligence services firm.
The group’s second-in-command, al-Baghdadi’s deputy, is a former Saddam-era army major, Saud Mohsen Hassan, known by the pseudonyms Abu Mutazz and Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, according to the intelligence chief.
Hassan also goes by Fadel al-Hayali, a fake name he used before the fall of Saddam, the intelligence chief, who spoke under the condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.
Targeted: Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi (left) – who had been the head of Baghdadi’s four man military council – was killed by a coalition warplane last year. Another militant reportedly killed in an airstrike was Abu Hajar Al-Sufi (right) who had been one of Baghdadi’s most trusted advisers on the Shura Council
US soldiers and Iraqi civilians pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein at the start of the 2003 Iraq War
ISIS’s strength of ideology in vowing to maintain an Islamic state governed by Shari’ah law, has attracted considerable support from Islamists
During the 2000s, Hassan was imprisoned in the notorious U.S.-run Bucca prison camp, the main detention center for members of the Sunni insurgency, where al-Baghdadi also was held.
The prison was a significant incubator for the Islamic State group, bringing militants like al-Baghdadi into contact with former Saddam officers, including members of special forces, the elite Republican Guard and the paramilitary force called Fedayeen.
In Bucca’s Ward 6, al-Baghdadi gave sermons and Hassan emerged as an effective organizer, leading strikes by the prisoners to gain concessions from their American jailers, the intelligence chief said.
Former Bucca prisoners are now throughout the IS leadership. Among them is Abu Alaa al-Afari, a veteran Iraqi militant who was once with al-Qaida and now serves as the head of IS’s ‘Beit al-Mal,’ or treasury, according to a chart of what is believed to be the group’s hierarchy provided to the AP by the intelligence chief.
Al-Baghdadi has drawn these trusted comrades even closer after he was wounded in an airstrike earlier this year, the intelligence chief said.
He has appointed a number of them to the group’s Military Council, believed to have seven to nine members – at least four of whom are former Saddam officers. He brought other former Bucca inmates into his inner circle and personal security.
Saddam-era veterans also serve as ‘governors’ for seven of the 12 ‘provinces’ set up by the Islamic State group in the territory it holds in Iraq, the intelligence chief said.
Iraqi officials acknowledge that identifying IS leadership is an uncertain task. Besides al-Baghdadi himself, the group almost never makes public even the pseudonyms of those in its hierarchy.
When leaders are killed, it’s often not known who takes their place – and several have been reported killed multiple times, only to turn up alive. Figures are believed to take on new pseudonyms, leaving it unclear if a new one has emerged or not.
Brutal: ISIS continue to carry out horrific public executions and floggings in Syria and Iraq
Gunned down: Iraqi army recruits were executed in the Speicher massacre last summer
No mercy: The militants have targeted religious minorities, particularly the Yazidis and rebellious tribes
‘IS’s military performance has far exceeded what we expected. The running of battles by the veterans of the Saddam military came as a shock,’ a brigadier general in military intelligence told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic.
‘Security-wise, we are often left unable to know who replaces who in the leadership. We are unable to infiltrate the group. It is terrifying.’
Estimates of the number of Saddam-era veterans in IS ranks vary from 100 to 160 in mostly mid- and senior-level positions, according to the officials.
Typically, they hail from Sunni-dominated areas, with intelligence officers mostly from western Anbar province, the majority of army officers from the northern city of Mosul and members of security services exclusively from Saddam’s clan around his hometown of Tikrit, said Big. Gen. Abdul-Wahhab al-Saadi, a veteran of battles against IS north and west of Baghdad.
For example, a former brigadier general from Saddam-era special forces, Assem Mohammed Nasser, also known as Nagahy Barakat, led a bold assault in 2014 on Haditha in Anbar province, killing around 25 policemen and briefly taking over the local government building.
Many of the Saddam-era officers have close tribal links to or are the sons of tribal leaders in their regions, giving IS a vital support network as well as helping recruitment.
These tribal ties are thought to account, at least in part, for the stunning meltdown of Iraqi security forces when IS captured the Anbar capital of Ramadi in May.
Several of the officers interviewed by the AP said they believe IS commanders persuaded fellow tribesmen in the security forces to abandon their positions without a fight.
Skinner, the former CIA officer, noted the sophistication of the Saddam-era intelligence officers he met in Iraq and the intelligence capabilities of IS in Ramadi, Mosul and in the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria.
‘They do classic intelligence infiltration. They have stay-behind cells, they actually literally have sleeper cells,’ Skinner said.
The process of giving former Iraqi commanders senior roles was started by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s predecessor Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (left) who was a former Iraqi Army officer nother former member of Saddam Hussein’s army turned ISIS commander, Abu Musa al-Alwani (right), has also been killed
Militant Islamist fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province in 2014
Bleek future: With their black flags and military gear, the new ISIS recruits graduate in Deir ezzor
‘And they do classic assassinations, which depends on intelligence,’ he said, citing a wave of assassinations in 2013 that targeted Iraqi police, army, hostile tribal leaders and members of a government-backed Sunni militia known as Sahwa.
In the run-up to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Saddam publicly invited foreign mujahedeen to come to Iraq to resist the invaders.
Thousands came and Iraqi officials showed them off to the media as they were trained by Iraqi instructors. Many stayed, eventually joining the insurgency against American troops and their Iraqi allies.
After the collapse of the Saddam regime, hundreds of Iraqi army officers, infuriated by the U.S. decision to disband the Iraqi army, found their calling in the Sunni insurgency. In its early stages, many insurgent groups were relatively secular.
But Islamic militants grew in prominence, particularly with the creation and increasing strength of al-Qaida in Iraq. Some Sunnis were radicalized by bitterness against the Shiite majority, which rose to power after Saddam’s fall and which the Sunnis accuse of discriminating against them.
Al-Qaida in Iraq was initially led by a Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and had a strong foreign presence in its leadership. But after al-Zarqawi’s death in a 2006 U.S. airstrike, his Iraqi successor, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, began to bring in more Iraqis, particularly former Saddam officers. That process was accelerated when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over after his predecessor was killed in a 2010 airstrike.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s first two deputies, who each played a major role in setting up what would become its sweep over Syria and Iraq, were both Saddam-era officers, according to those interviewed by the AP.
They were Sameer al-Khalifawy, an air force colonel killed in fighting in Syria in 2014, and Abdullah el-Bilawy, a former intelligence officer who was killed in Mosul by the Iraqi military in May 2014, a month before the city fell to the Islamic State group. He was replaced by the current deputy, Hassan.
‘It’s clear that some of these (Saddam-era officers) must have been inside the core of the jihadist movement in the Sunni triangle from the beginning,’ said Michael W.S. Ryan, a former senior executive at the State Department and Pentagon, referring to the Sunni-dominated area that was the most hostile to American forces in Iraq.
‘Their knowledge is now in the DNA of ISIS,’ he said, using an alternate acronym for the extremist group.
‘This melding of the Iraqi experience and what we might call the Afghan Arab experience became the unique ISIS brand,’ said Ryan, now a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.
‘That brand ultimately became more successful in Iraq than al-Qaida in Iraq … and, at least for now, stronger in Syria than al-Qaida.’
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Sunamganj to have largest solar power plant
‘The government will install a solar power plant in Sulla upazila of Sunamganj district [#Sylhet] aiming to give the people of remote haor (wetland) areas access to solar energy facilities.
The solar power plant will be installed under a project involving Tk 29 crore with finance from the Climate Trust Fund and the government of Bangladesh.’
Full story: UNB connect
Tags: bangladesh, Solar, sylhet
Categories : Environment, Renewable energy
Bangladesh Tourism: Sustainable Renewable Energy Solution
Bangladesh has immense potential for using renewable energy as a sustainable solution for the tourism destinations’ quest to become greener and efficient. There are viable levels of sources for renewable energy as well. However for constraints lying within renewable energy solutions must be taken care of.
Prof Dr Md Ashraful Islam Chowdhury, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka said this while presenting the keynote paper on “Greening Tourism Destinations of Bangladesh Is Renewable Energy a Sustainable Solution?” at award giving ceremony of Bangladesh Tourism Foundation.
Full story: The Bangladesh Monitor
Categories : Renewable energy, Tourism
New policy for solar energy business
A government policy to promote renewable energy has lured a large number of new entrants into the business, particularly for solar panel installations, sector people said.
In the last two years, nearly 100 firms and NGOs have appeared on the scene to sell technologies including solar home systems, water heaters, irrigation pumps, street lights and their accessories and batteries.
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UK power company plans expansion in Bangladesh
A UK-based power company plans to set up a solar panel manufacturing plant and a diesel-run power generator producing plant in Bangladesh to expand its business and help the country meet the soaring demand for energy, a top official said.
“My immediate plan is to do something quickly as Bangladesh is growing very fast and so the demand for solar energy products. I’m not going to wait,” said Steve Bandey, managing director of Transformers & Rectifiers Ltd (T&R).
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Quest for energy fix
Energy experts have suggested Bangladesh could exploit an array of solutions including the use of new technologies and alternative renewable resources to maintain its gas reserve and ensure long-term energy security.
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No To Tipaimukh Dam
The Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project is being constructed near the confluence of Barak and Tuivai rivers, in Manipur, India and within 100km of Bangladesh border. Costing Rs 6,351 crore ($1.35 billion) the 164 meter high dam will have a firm generation capacity of 401.25MW of electricity.
While Hydroelectric projects are typically considered greener than other power generation options in short term, it has significant long-term impact to the environment like changes in the ecosystem, destroying nearby settlements and changing habitat conditions of people, fish and wildlife. Especially in the densely populated countries like India and Bangladesh, where rivers are lifelines, projects like Tipaimukh will create adverse effect to a huge number of population and their habitats.
No wonder right from the start this project faced protests from potentially affected people in India, and from the downstream neighbor Bangladesh. The people of Manipur have been fighting legally to stop the project but have so far been unsuccessful. The Indian government is going ahead with the plan. The Sinlung Indigenous People Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) of India said that “the process for choosing it (the project premises) ignored both the indigenous people and the recommendations of the WCD (World Commission on Dams)”. Source
Tags: Barak, Dam, Government, Hydroelectric, Rivers, Tipaimukh, Tuivai
High Power, Higher Efficiency Solar Panel
SunPower Corporation has unveiled its newest solar panel. The new SPR-315 solar panel utilizes the company’s newly developed 22-percent-efficient Gen 2 solar cells and carries a rated power output of 315 watts.
The new SPR-315 solar panel is planned for commercial availability in the Spring of 2007.
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New Destiny Content, Cross-Platform Play and Division Final Thoughts
Posted on March 21, 2016 by Dan Fasulo
At the tail end of last week, while I was putting down my Call of Duty: Black Ops III tips, we got a couple pretty big pieces of news. So to start off this week, I thought we’d hit those big points, along with my final thoughts on The Division now that I’ve finished pretty much everything the game has in store.
Let’s start with The Division since it’s pretty fresh in my mind. The more and more I played through the story content, I can’t help but cool on the game. I loved the first third or so of the game – I thought the early game missions were tuned, difficulty wise, pretty much perfectly for the level scale. The second third though felt like a major turning point to me – the main missions slow down during that level 14-20 area and in fact the game directs through a whole neighborhood without a mission. Normally, I’m totally fine with an RPG steering you towards side quests, but the side content in The Division is so repetitive that it really felt more like an obligation. That feeling really got hammered home once I hit the final section of the game – those last few levels and missions. Once you hit level 30, any side mission is, from a reward standpoint, useless. Once the Base of Operations is fully upgraded, those encounters don’t give you loot that really makes sense. Side content only rewards up to Blue quality items – by the time you’re in those last few neighborhoods you’re chasing purple and higher, especially once you hit level 30. I honestly only finished all the side content in order to reveal all the collectibles on the map for the achievements to collect them all. Add in to that that the actual story content feels really hollow as it comes to conclusion and the last taste that The Division left in my mouth was really bland. The actual ending was so anticlimactic that I really don’t feel at all excited for the free content headed our way next month. And that kills me because the foundation that the game has is so damn good. I don’t know where along the lines the decision was made to keep an actual confrontation with Keener out of the game, but that is the big misstep that I think hurts the story the most. I feel like, while I’ve been avoiding comparing The Division to Destiny because the games are very different, I find myself now going back to the same thoughts I had with Destiny’s story ending. It’s so blatantly setup for future content that we know is right around the corner that it just takes away any sense of accomplishment for finishing the story. I still think The Division is the first really good game of the year, but I’ve definitely cooled on my opinion with it.
Moving on though, we got a piece of news last week that I’ve been waiting a long time for. Microsoft announced that cross-platform play is not only possible on the Xbox One, but is essentially here. We all expected Microsoft to eventually push cross-platform play with PC, but last week they announced that Rocket League will feature it, and it will be cross-console – that’s Xbox One and PS4. That’s pretty huge – it essentially kills the console war idea – both manufacturers realize that working together is way more beneficial than not. That’s not to say that exclusives and that sort of thing are going away, but we’re slowing moving toward the idea of gaming being unified as a whole. I look at it the same way I do with movies or music. I love music, but I don’t listen to one specific label or band – I wouldn’t do that with gaming, playing only one console or developer. It’s just silly. Now, there’s still a lot of hurdles to get over before this is the norm – but Microsoft has basically put the ball in Sony’s court. By saying that it’s up to the developers, and giving them the power to put it in, that’s a good move – and important for them after their stupid GDC party move. Microsoft has a big year I think this year – they’ve been lagging a little behind Sony so far, but with Xbox One going down to $300 for the Spring Sale, and a pretty damn solid lineup of games this year, they could be a good position.
Finally, rounding out the catch-up from last week, we finally – finally – got some concrete details about the next update coming for Destiny. We’ve known about this amorphous “spring update” for a while now, but the little breadcrumbs Bungie had been giving us were starting to get a little stale. Finally though we know not only when it’s coming, but we have a little bit more concrete idea of what it is going to contain. The new update – now called the April update – will be pushed live to the game on April 12. It’s bringing with it patch 2.2.0, which will feature the first major sandbox (meta) update since the end of last year. We got a little more cemented list of what to expect from the update – sort of. Bungie did their usual trick of being vague – new PvE challenges, new gear and new light levels – but did say we’re getting a new quest and strike coming. The biggest talking point among the community though has to be the image that Bungie used as a header for the weekly update: . It’s not too hard to see why we’ve been talking about this image since last week. To me, there are two big points that it raises. First, there’s the obvious visual look – those are guardians, and they are Taken. There’s a few possibilities to explain that – the boring, and probably right answer – is that it’s just a shader. A freaking cool looking shader, but still just a shader. The other options could be that that’s just how the armor looks – I doubt that is the case because of what that armor is, which we’ll talk about in a second. The third possibility is that this is a new enemy type. I think that eventually we’ll see enemy guardians in PvE – but I really doubt that we’re going to get that during Destiny 1‘s life. That seems like a perfect twist to put in for the sequel – which you might remember is something I said during my fantasy development for that game. The other major talking point from the image though is just what that armor they’re wearing is. If you’ve been playing Destiny since launch, that armor is probably very familiar to you. You were chasing it for most of last spring and summer – it’s the armor that was rewarded in the Prison of Elders. Hell the background of that image even looks like the Reef. That opens up a couple questions. Is the Prison of Elders going to be the new PvE activity that Bungie said is going to favor replayability? Again, that’s the boring answer, but probably right. The community has been asking for old raids to come back – technically, the challenge tiers of PoE were considered raids. Does that open the doors for the others? I actually hope not – as fun as the old raids were, I want to see the game moving forward. Add in that to make them work in the current PvE space would be a pretty involved undertaking, and I doubt that is something we’d see in a free update. I could see them adding the Taken into Prison of Elders as a new, selectable, tier – essentially acting as a new difficulty level for it. Since Bungie said that replayability is a big part of this new activity, I think that Prison of Elders is a good start, but definitely would need a little work. We’ll learn a bit more this Wednesday, and the next two after that, as Bungie does their usual livestream reveal thing. These are usually pretty solid watches, so if you can, I would tune in. I’ll offer up my thoughts on them afterwards of course as well. Regardless, Destiny definitely finally has some life injected back into it.
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The Under Appreciated Best Part of The Division
We’re officially one week in to the life of The Division. That means that the super hardcore community is going to start shifting focus around to nitpicking and going a little off the beaten path. We’re already seeing it in the Dark Zone with Level 30 players decked out in High End gear just focused on ganking lower level/geared players for the hell of it. That means that we’ll probably see a whole lot of communication between the player base and Massive in the next couple weeks or so about the game moving forward. But before that potential confrontation really shakes out, I want to stop and talk about the one aspect of The Division that I don’t know has been getting enough attention.
In the maybe 24 hours of playtime I’ve put into the game so far, I would easily say that the bulk of that time has been spent just roaming around Manhattan picking up all of the collectibles scattered around. And in doing that I’ve seen maybe the best job of crafting an atmosphere and world in a modern themed game since probably Grand Theft Auto V. Massive has done an incredible job of making New York City feel like it actually is the real deal. The little touches like the NPCs fighting over supplies, looters looking in the windows of abandoned cars, and even though they’ve kind of become a meme, the dogs wondering the empty streets. And that’s just little touches involving the inhabitants of Manhattan. The world itself feels alive even in the face of the pandemic. Walls covered in memorial posters for missing people – especially the ones that appear in safe zones – really help put the human impact of the Green Poison in perspective. With the story revolving around this super-bug, and the fact that such an outbreak is actually a very real and terrifying prospect in the real world, seeing how much work Massive put into the human side of the game is really impressive.
For me though, the most impressive part of building this world and making it feel alive is in the intel/evidence scattered around Manhattan. The intel pieces you get from completing the main story missions are visceral, dark, but still do a great job of explaining just what the hell is going on in the story. The Division isn’t a particularly gory or visually brutal game, but it is absolutely still an M-rated game thanks to the sheer brutality and realistic basis that the violence takes. The first Found Footage video you find, showing Cleaners clearing out a little bodega from the perspective of a terrified woman is so damn intense. It does an incredible job of advancing the overall narrative, and also outlining exactly what the Cleaners are all about – ruthless efficiency in destroying and burning the virus – all without any real dialogue. The phone recordings that are all over Manhattan are probably my favorite though. They’re written strongly across the board – even ones that could have easily been cheesy or goofy like the “On Fleek” recording come across as authentic. Add in that they’re acted well, with the voice work sounding much more like normal people instead of actors, and they come to life. I also like that Manhattan in full of different people with different lives – they aren’t all carbon copies. There are people of color, different economic classes represented, gay and straight, young and old all are in these phone conversations. They do a phenomenal job of giving the world of The Division before the outbreak a foundation, then as the outbreak happens and spreads, you can hear the panic and fear in the conversations. The collectibles were something that I was dreading a little going in to the game, just based on how damn many there are, but since there’s an upgrade you can take to mark them on the map, along with how well they’re organized in the HUD as well as how well they’re written makes them a big part of what I like getting in the game.
It’s still early on in The Division‘s lifespan – and in truth, I don’t know just how long the world they built will feel as strong as it does now – but regardless I am super impressed with Massive’s work here. I still think that The Division is the first really great game of 2016, and does a great job of setting the bar moving forward this year.
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Deeper Thoughts on The Division: Day Two
Yesterday I was able to get a little more in depth on The Division, hitting level 12, playing through some content that wasn’t in the beta, and playing around with my builds a little bit. A lot of what I wrote yesterday still stands – I am liking the game as a whole, but there still are a couple questions I have that are slowly getting answered. One thing that I forgot to mention yesterday was just how much I’m in love with the visuals in The Division – it’s definitely one of the best looking games on the Xbox One right now. The standout for me is the environmental effects – the weather in particular is spectacular; step out in a snow storm and you’ll be in for a vastly different experience than in clear weather.
What I really have been digging into is the real depth to the combat and potential variety in the builds. Only having three stats might seem a little simplified, but I think it actually helps drive players to realize that focusing on one or two stats makes you a lot stronger than trying to go Jack of all Trades. Even without explicitly talking about it, my group has already started to establish some different roles based around the builds we want. I’m focusing on raising my health and skill stats as much as possible – I am forgoing DPS a little bit in favor of being more of a medic/tank build. One of my buddies is going pure glass cannon – DPS and skill over health; he’s sitting around 2,000 health, while I have over double that. We have another who’s definitely building around per-bullet damage, with a strong marksman rifle and playing a little more defensive. That simplified nature of stats makes slipping into those builds really easy, and that’s why we didn’t even need to talk about the roles we wanted to take. It just happened, and that’s a sign of good game design. Sure a little of that was initialized by the random rolls we got in loot drops, but that’s easily changed as we progress.
In regards to those build choices, I think the two I mentioned – Glass cannon with high DPS and Skill, and Tank/Medic with high Health and Skill – are the best all around options. I think going high DPS and Health is tempting, and with the right weapons and group makeup could work, but it’s definitely a little trickier to use in difficult content. I think skill power might be the most important stat overall, since it dictates not only the actual results of your skill (healing power, damage from attacks that sort of thing) but it also impacts cooldowns, keeping you at full power more often. It’s really tempting to chase crazy guns trying to find two super strong weapons to run with, but with guns you’re stuck playing around reloads. You need those abilities to fill the down time and keep the enemies at bay while those reloads happen. If you’re playing in a group – which I certainly recommend – you’ll definitely want at least one guy with high skill power.
When it comes to ability selection, that’s where the depth really shines. Gunplay in The Division is solid, but pretty straight forward. SMGs, assault rifles and LMGs all fill the same basic roll – sustained DPS and suppressing fire, while shotguns and marksman rifles are your pure damage options. It’s your abilities that add the variety and, frankly, fun to the combat. We had a group of three yesterday running through a mission, set to Hard of course, where we were a little underleveled – but we were able to power though because we had a mix of abilities. Even early game when you’re really picking and choosing your Base of Operation upgrades carefully, it’s not hard to get a good mix of different abilities in a group. We had one running turret and heal, I ran sticky bomb and heal, and we had our third with upgraded pulse and sticky bomb. Now, I probably am going to change up my skills as I upgrade my Base (I’m eyeing seeker mine and support station right now), but that mix seemed to work pretty well to me. And with my focus on skill power, my heals do more, and they come back faster – that’s why I am playing the medic role.
There’s still a lot to discover in The Division – I’m not even halfway to the level cap yet, there’s still a lot of story content to play, a slew of collectibles and I haven’t even begun to explore the Dark Zone. But even this early on, I feel pretty confident in saying that The Division is the first truly great game of the year. It’s not flawless, but the flaws it does have are pretty minimal and at the end of the day, it’s a damn fun game to play.
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Tom Clancy’s The Division Launch Day Impressions
Posted on March 9, 2016 by Dan Fasulo
Yesterday saw the launch of what I would call the first big release of 2016, Tom Clancy’s The Division. It’s a game that I’ve been interested in for a while now, having played both the closed and open betas, so I’m excited to really dig into the world that Ubisoft and Massive have created. I played a good few hours yesterday, some solo, some with just one partner, and a little bit with a full group of four. There’s still a whole lot of game to get into, but I wanted to put down my first impressions, and some thoughts that I think will ring true for the whole game.
Firstly, I’m pretty pleased with the actual launch experience. I know that at midnight the servers were a little overloaded and there were plenty of posts about people not being able to log on, but by mid-day Tuesday (at least on Xbox One) there really weren’t any problems that I saw or had. In this day when games are persistently online and launches are always a shaky experience, it was nice to not have any major issues. The question now is how well the servers handle the full first week load as more players get their copies of the game and get logged on.
In terms of new content that wasn’t present in the beta, I only played a little bit last night. I ran through one full mission, unlocking the Security Wing for my Base of Operation in Manhattan, and obviously the tutorial section in Brooklyn. It’s not a huge sample size, but I will say that each mission I’ve played – the two in the Open Beta and now the Lincoln Tunnel Checkpoint mission – all felt very similar in their execution. The details differentiate them enough to the point where they have enough individuality, but I am a little curious at just how much variety they can put into the missions. That said, that security mission is definitely my favorite of those first three initial missions – running it a little underpowered made it challenging without being obscene, and the flow of it just felt really fun. It’s certainly worth running that mission as soon as possible though, as the reward for unlocking the Security Wing grants you a +10% boost to XP earned.
Where I’ve actually spent most of my mental energy with The Division is in looking at the abilities, perks and talents which weren’t available in the beta. In the two betas, you couldn’t even look at them – it just said “not available in beta.” Now that I’ve been able to look through the upgrades, perks, talents and abilities, I feel a little more confident that the combat and action will stay fresh thanks to the different build options. There’s a ton of variety in there – from damage boosting talents to keep your DPS guys strong, to great team healing buffs and cooldown reducers for your medic players supercharging the team. What I really like is that the perks you unlock with each upgrade to a wing of the Base of Operation are all passive abilities. You unlock them, and they take effect – you get stronger right away. It puts some value on grabbing some of the, maybe less powerful looking upgrades, to get perks that immediately help your whole team. If you’re coming into The Division from Destiny – which I’ve definitely seen a lot of audience crossover online – you’re probably in for a pretty big shock. This is very much an RPG first – stats and abilities/talents/perks all matter a lot more than thumbskill and shooting accuracy. If you have a background with RPGs – in particular ones like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, or maybe a bit of Diablo – you’ll be right in your element. Min-maxing is the name of the game here – you’ll be chasing gear not with high damage or armor values, but with high stats in either Firearms, Health or Tech values to charge your DPS, Health or Ability powers. As long as you go in with that in mind, I think you’ll definitely enjoy The Division.
Now, that said, there are a couple things that I’m still concerned about. I already touched on that I’m curious about just how much mission variety the rest of the game has. There’s also some little details in the actual gameplay that I’m less that thrilled about. The A.I. is pretty dumb – sure they’ll flank you, but it’s more of a bumrush than anything resembling a concerted flank. They’re a lot more content to sit back in cover and just shoot a lot at you. The other thing is that the game really isn’t super difficult, even on hard difficulty. With crafting added – which is a little over generous calling it crafting – it’s not hard to get solid gear, level appropriately and go in with a partner or two and suddenly the missions are pretty simple. I’m still unsure that any end-game content is going to be enough to keep me engaged after I complete it. With other looter/shooter/RPGs (Borderlands, Destiny, Diablo) completing the end-game/raid content once is just the tip of the iceberg. The fun comes from running them multiple times to get different and better loot. I don’t know, based on what mission content I’ve seen so far, that The Division is going to have that same feeling at the end, but we’ll see. Lastly, the Dark Zone is still a huge question to me. In a perfect world, I think the Dark Zone would be the perfect end-game area. It’s got the highest leveled enemies, at their highest tier, and has the potential for PvP engagements. The problem is that I think the ganking method – camping those extraction zones, waiting for everyone to bunch up and start putting their loot on then pouncing – is too potentially rewarding with not a huge downside. And going in as a solo player is even more punishing – if you wind up running into Rogue agents, especially if they’re in a group together, you’re pretty much done for. Now, because the Dark Zone is divided up into six zones, instead of just the couple from the beta, maybe lower level players can use that first zone to get a start on looting; but there’s really no guarantee. That’s putting a lot of power into the hands of the anonymous gaming community. Regardless, The Division is a really strong game – the action is fun, the depth is surprising, and the game itself looks gorgeous. If you’re on the fence, I recommend it – just know that it isn’t flawless.
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The Division Open Beta Impressions
The open beta for The Division went live on Xbox One yesterday, and I ran through up to the level 8 cap. It’s essentially the same as the closed beta from early February, just with one more story mission added in and updates to the Dark Zone to keep it fair and fun. With that said, there’s still enough there to talk about as we get closer to the game’s launch. So let’s look a little more in depth on this beta and the new content.
The open beta starts exactly like the closed beta did – you’re level 4, and I’m guessing, starting in media res. You set up the Base of Operations again, run through the Madison Field Hospital mission to unlock the Medical wing and Heal ability – just like in the closed beta. The side missions and encounters are also the same – enough to get you leveled up to the cap and unlock the second upgrade on the Medical wing. The new content is a second mission, set in the subway tunnels that have been overrun by the Cleaners – flamethrower wielding enemies set on burning away the infection in the city. Completing this mission will unlock the Tech wing of the Base, which unlocks a second ability in that tree – the mini-turret. There’s also enough Tech supplies to upgrade that wing one more time, unlocking the upgrades for the Sticky Bomb. Essentially what the open beta is adding is a full second ability to use, along with three ways to tweak the Sticky Bomb – adding variety to the combat. Sure, in a pure PvE setting there isn’t a lot of ways to really explore that combat, but that’s why you head into the Dark Zone.
Sure it’s still got a goofy name – Dark Zone still sounds like a bad show on late night cable to me – but the PvEvP zone is where the best gear in the game lives. We don’t get any new areas in the Dark Zone – the third area will have to wait until the full game launches – but Ubisoft did give the Dark Zone some attention between betas. I talked a little at the end of the last beta about a nasty exploit that let people run out their Rogue Status bounties by running into the boundary and being teleported back to the safe room. That exploit, along with a number of PC specific cheats, were fixed going in to this open beta. I spent a little bit of time in the Dark Zone – got a couple items, ran into a bunch of other players, and found the best weapon vendor in the beta – and I didn’t really encounter any huge issues. In truth, the Dark Zone felt a lot more populated than it did in the closed beta. I was at an Extraction Point with about 6 other players – who thankfully played nice and we all got our loot out. I saw AI enemies respawn at a rate that made it a lot easier to get loot to drop. I saw the chests in the Dark Zone actually have content in them more frequently. It’s a small sample size sure, but the Dark Zone feels a lot more fleshed out now, which really is a good sign moving closer to launch.
At the end of the day, this is still very much a beta. I had a couple weird lag issues that popped up that I didn’t notice in the closed beta – could be because the servers were dealing with more players. I actually got kicked from the game once last night too – but I chalk that up to the issues that Xbox Live was having last night. The loot is pretty limited, and it feels very much like Ubisoft tweaked the loot drops. In the closed beta, I was getting a much more even mix of weapons and gear – so far in this beta I’ve been getting a hell of a lot more weapons than gear; to the point where I was still wearing the default gloves even at level 8. I still think that the economy needs a little tweaking – credits are really hard to come by without selling loot. And my biggest question hasn’t changed at all – will this game have enough content to keep the playerbase engaged for longer than just March. Is the Dark Zone going to be deep enough to keep people playing? Is there going to be true end-game story content, or just capstone story missions? Is the full suite of abilities, traits and perks going to be deep enough over the course of the full game or are we going to be using Pulse and Heal the whole game? I don’t think any of those are invalid questions to ask, and I realize none of them could ever be answered by a beta realistically. But since The Division is the first real big launch of 2016 I think there’s a bit of extra pressure on Ubisoft to deliver here. Luckily we don’t have that long to wait to find out if they can – Tom Clancy’s The Division launches on March 8.
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Stop With the Negativity Please
Posted on February 3, 2016 by Dan Fasulo
Is Bungie killing Destiny? Will The Division be this year’s Destiny? Did Treyarch mess up the Awakening DLC launch? All questions that I’ve seen online over the last couple days. All coming from the same place – negative opinions about games we love. All questions that are kind of silly to even ask. I get that fans get super impassioned with the games that they love, but there’s a way to be critical without being overly negative.
Let’s start with the Bungie/Destiny questions. Yes, Destiny is in a really rough patch right now. But I highly, highly doubt that Bungie is willingly keeping content and communication away from the community to “kill” the game. I really think that a big part of what’s going on now is that Bungie is scrambling to actually figure out the plan for the year. The game has already undergone pretty seismic shifts in the year and a half it’s been out. In truth, my only real issue with what’s going on now is the lack of communication. All I need from Bungie is a Weekly Update saying “Look we know you want to know more about what’s going on, and we wish we could tell you; but we just don’t have the plan set in stone yet.” Acknowledge that there’s been some turmoil, understand that the community is ready to devour any new content and information, and I think you’d see the vitriol start to fade a bit.
After the beta on the weekend, The Division is all over the place now. It’s IGN’s game of the month that they’re covering. And I can’t tell you the number lazy posts/videos I’ve already seen comparing Destiny to The Division in a number of different ways. All that does, to me, is continue to confuse the general gaming audience about how The Division works. They’re both loot focused RPG’s with shooter mechanics for combat – that’s the end of it. Destiny is a shooter first, and it shows in pretty much every aspect of that game. The Division is an RPG first, and it’s clear with the min/maxing, numbers based combat that that is the case. Instead of pointing to the other current RPG/Shooter, I think there’s more to talk about in comparing it to the first Mass Effect game. But even that is something that I think we should wait for the game to actually be out to do.
All of this negativity is taking the easy way out as a community. It’s really easy to add to the echo chamber instead of taking a second to think about what’s actually going on. Wait before you post to reddit or make a YouTube video. We’re in the golden age of gaming right now – the best games are out there, looking better than ever before and we’re worried about whether a developer is purposely killing one of the biggest games out there. Relax, games are still really fun – just use your head a little when you criticize the world of gaming.
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The Division Beta Wrap-Up Thoughts
Today’s the last day of the beta for The Division after Ubisoft extended it 24 hours. I played a bit more since I last wrote about the beta, including a relatively extended stay in the Dark Zone, as well as playing the story mission on hard difficulty with my buddy. So since we’ve got about a full month before the launch of the game, I thought I’d wrap up my impressions on the beta.
The big question that I’ve been seeing over and over since the beta launched has to be “will The Division kill Destiny?” That question was really never a viable question – it was always going to be no. Games just don’t work that way – one game can’t “kill” another. Sure player bases might shift a bit, but that doesn’t mean a game is killed. The reason that has been coming up is twofold. First, it’s really easy to title a YouTube video with a crazy thumbnail and then do just what I’m doing here for a few minutes. Secondly, it’s the easy comparison to make right now. Both games are RPG’s with shooter trappings. But the execution of those mechanics are very different and really don’t put the games in the same place. The Division is an RPG first, Destiny is an FPS first, and that’s really all you need to know. A better comparison for The Division I think is Mass Effect, but we’ll talk a bit more about that when the game actually launches.
Let’s focus a bit more on what we got over the weekend. My biggest question going in to the beta was always one that was never going to get answered – end-game content. What the beta did was show that there might be a little hurdle to get over to even reach that end-game content. Leveling was a little slow, but that could be from the lack of beta content. The biggest thing to me though was that pretty much everything I did was all really, really similar. I worry that there might not be enough variety in the missions and side-quest content to keep the bulk of the player base invested to the end-game. That worry is compounded for me by the Dark Zone’s inherent wonkiness. Already in the beta people found a number of exploits, both on console and PC. PC players are going to need some kind of anti-cheat put into the game to combat some of what I was reading was going on. Aimbots, invisible players, infinite ammo and levels – all that in the beta. On consoles, people figured out that if you went Rogue and then reached the boundaries of the map, it would warp you to the safe rooms, where you could just wait your timer out. I really don’t see that making it to launch, but still, it’s a little worrisome.
What I did really like was pretty much everything else in the beta. The guns all felt like I would expect in a third-person cover shooter RPG; the abilities we got each had their uses, both in solo play and in team play; and the playspace had a pretty unique feel to it. My personal favorite parts though were the real little details – the weather system is amazing, in particular the snow storms; the snow actually will accumulate on your player character if you stand out in it. The enemy A.I. is surprising good, not content to just sit in cover and wait for you to move to shoot them, they’ll suppress you while rushers push up to whack you with bats. The inventory, weapons and stats all felt very much at home in a min/max style RPG. Trying to figure out gear to max out your stats in the right mix to get weapon talents is definitely something that I think gives the combat some depth. There’s a lot of really good gameplay headed our way in The Division, to me the questions more surround the story and end-game level stuff. There’s still a month before launch, plenty of time to iron out some of the beta wackiness and hopefully enough time to address some of the Dark Zone inconsistencies.
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Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
The single biggest misconception about iOS is that it’s good digital hygiene to force quit apps that you aren’t using. The idea is that apps in the background are locking up unnecessary RAM and consuming unnecessary CPU cycles, thus hurting performance and wasting battery life.
That’s not how iOS works. The iOS system is designed so that none of the above justifications for force quitting are true. Apps in the background are effectively “frozen”, severely limiting what they can do in the background and freeing up the RAM they were using. iOS is really, really good at this. It is so good at this that unfreezing a frozen app takes up way less CPU (and energy) than relaunching an app that had been force quit. Not only does force quitting your apps not help, it actually hurts. Your battery life will be worse and it will take much longer to switch apps if you force quit apps in the background.
Here’s a short and sweet answer from Craig Federighi, in response to an email from a customer asking if he force quits apps and whether doing so preserves battery life: “No and no.”
Here, from the official support document on forcing applications to close, is Apple’s own advice on when to use this feature:
When you double-click the Home button, your recently used apps appear. The apps aren’t open, but they’re in standby mode to help you navigate and multitask. You should force an app to close only when it’s unresponsive.
Update: MacDailyNews quotes a 2010 email from Steve Jobs:
Just use [iOS multitasking] as designed, and you’ll be happy. No need to ever quit apps.
Just in case you don’t believe Apple’s senior vice president for software, Apple’s own official support documentation, or Steve Jobs, here are some other articles pointing out how this habit is actually detrimental to iPhone battery life:
Fraser Speirs (back in 2012!): “Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking”
Thorin Klosowski: “Quitting All Your Apps in iOS Can Actually Worsen Battery Life”
Kendall Baker: “Stop Force Quitting Your iPhone Apps”
The Wirecutter: “What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do to Extend Your Phone’s Battery Life”
Kyle Richter: “The Force Quit Fallacy”
This thing about force quitting apps in the background is such a pernicious myth that I’ve heard numerous stories from DF readers about Apple Store Genius Bar staff recommending it to customers. Those “geniuses” are anything but geniuses.
It occurs to me that some of the best examples proving that this notion is wrong (at least in terms of performance) are YouTube “speed test” benchmarks. There’s an entire genre of YouTube videos devoted to benchmarking new phones by running them through a series of apps and CPU-intensive tasks repeatedly, going through the loop twice. Once from a cold boot and the second time immediately after the first loop. Here’s a perfect example, pitting a Samsung Galaxy S8 against an iPhone 7 Plus. Note that no apps are manually force quit on either device. The iPhone easily wins on the first loop, but where the iPhone really shines is on the second loop. The S8 has to relaunch all (or at least almost all) of the apps, because Android has forced them to quit while in the background to reclaim the RAM they were using. On the iPhone, all (or nearly all) of the apps re-animate almost instantly.
In fact, apps frozen in the background on iOS unfreeze so quickly that I think it actually helps perpetuate the myth that you should force quit them: if you’re worried that background apps are draining your battery and you see how quickly they load from the background, it’s a reasonable assumption to believe that they never stopped running. But they did. They really do get frozen, the RAM they were using really does get reclaimed by the system, and they really do unfreeze and come back to life that quickly.1
An awful lot of very hard work went into making iOS work like this. It’s a huge technical advantage that iOS holds over Android. And every iPhone user in the world who habitually force quits background apps manually is wasting all of the effort that went into this while simultaneously wasting their own device’s battery life and making everything slower for themselves.
This pernicious myth is longstanding and seemingly will not die. I wrote about it at length back in 2012:
Like with any voodoo, there are die-hard believers. I’m quite certain that I am going to receive email from people who will swear up-and-down that emptying this list of used applications every hour or so keeps their iPhone running better than it would otherwise. Nonsense.
As Fraser mentions, yes, there are exceptional situations where an app with background privileges can get stuck, and you need to kill that app. The argument here is not that you should never have to kill any app using the multitasking switcher — the argument is that you don’t need to do it on a regular basis, and you’re not making anything “better” by clearing the list. Shame on the “geniuses” who are peddling this advice.
And don’t even get me started on people who completely power down their iPhones while putting them back into their pockets or purses.
The other contributing factor to believing that force quitting is good for your iPhone are the handful of apps that have been found to be repeated abusers of loopholes in iOS, such that they really do continue running in the background, wasting battery life. Most infamously, Facebook was caught playing silent audio tracks in the background to take advantage of APIs that allow audio-playing apps to play audio from the background. They called it a “bug”. In those cases force-quitting the apps really did help, and I see no reason to trust Facebook. So if you want to keep force quitting Facebook, go right ahead. But don’t let one bad app spoil the whole barrel. The Battery section in the iOS Settings app can show you which apps are actually consuming energy in the background — tap the clock icon under “Battery Usage” and don’t force quit any app that isn’t a genuine culprit. ↩︎
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Magnetic Corps
Posted in FILM, Politics with tags Anthony Mann, Battle Beneath the Earth, Charles F Vetter, Charles Van Enger, Curt Siodmak, For the Love of Film The Film Preservation Blogathon, G-Men, John Alton, Kathleen Freeman, Martin Benson, Mongomery Tully, Richard Carlson, The Magnetic Monster on May 15, 2015 by dcairns
I thought Curt Siodmak’s THE MAGNETIC MONSTER was going to be good corny fun, the way BRIDE OF THE GORILLA certainly is — the title promises much. But it’s false advertising, as the film contains no monster, magnetic or otherwise, unless, like THE INVISIBLE MENACE it’s one that doesn’t register on film and stays well away from the main action.
Still, Robert Siodmak’s idiot brother deserves credit for attempting something with a bit more natural dignity than his previous Raymond Burr were-gorilla romp. This one concerns the activities of America’s A-Men, the Atom Men who police crimes of a scientific nature. The premise has potential and the name “A-Men” is amusing in a good way. The stylistic approach is borrowed from all those pseudo-documentaries like G-MEN, which I tend to find stodgy and unappealing, even with the added lift of Anthony Mann directing and/or John Alton lighting. This movie has neither: it has Curt Siodmak directing and steady workhorse Charles Van Enger lighting.
The ending, filmed in an impressive location — IMDb mentions the McCulloch Plant at Los Angeles International Airport — manages to look properly epic and science-fictional, even with stock-footage explosions spliced in, but what impressed me most was an appearance by Kathleen Freeman as the A-Men’s switchboard operator. Completely uncredited, the great comedienne has plenty of scenes and lots of dialogue, even if she’s basically only there to make a fat joke about herself. I realized, watching her, that a major problem of 50s sci-fi is the lack of people like Kathleen Freeman in them. I quite LIKE Richard Carlson, but he stepped out of a cookie-cutter at Central Casting, and so did most of the other players. Freeman is both more realistic and more extraordinary — one of those people who makes you smile with every appearance.
REDS UNDER THE BEDROCK
BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH suffers similarly from a lumpen, authoritarian and plodding sensibility — but it’s actually a British film from the untalented Irish hack Montgomery Tully — some of its interest comes from a deft use of stock footage and bit players to pull off an American setting fairly convincingly. But it’s best trait is the very opening, where a deranged scientist is discovered with his ear to the sidewalk in Las Vegas, raving about some unidentified other moving about beneath the ground “just like ants.” In a phildickian twist, the scientist is both crazy and correct, but Dick would never have settled for a storyline about a rogue Chinese general deploying digging machines to plant nukes under the USA.
The portrayal of the Chinese baddies isn’t as bad as you might expect — it’s worse, and far crazier. The lead villains are played by Caucasians in yellowface, not because the production wanted to cast movie stars — they’re unknowns — but presumably on the assumption that the Chinese can’t act. Tell that to Chow Yun-Fat, but then retreat rapidly before he punches your face in. Here, Martin Benson tries to suggest foreignness with a clipped delivery that makes him sound like Noel Coward. There are lots of lines about “the gods,” suggesting that screenwriter Chares F. Vetter didn’t know as much about Maoism as he should have.
The production design is hilarious — papier maché cave walls decorated with Chinese restaurant trimmings, set dressing from a Fu Manchu pic, orientalist nonsense. I like the tacky little calendar fixed to the wall, though — surely the art director was having a laugh. But if you’re a Chinese troglodyte on the wrong side of the world, you probably do want to keep track of the passing of time.
This has been a science fiction double feature for The Film preservation Blogathon, hosted by This Island Rod.
Un Moose Andalou
Posted in FILM with tags Luis Bunuel, Mabel Paige, Martin Kosleck, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Richard Carlson, Robert Siodmak, Salvador Dali, Someone to Remember, The Night Before the Divorce, Un Chien Andalou, West Point Widow on September 14, 2010 by dcairns
Following Glenn Kenny’s lead, I’ve written before about the strange and abiding influence of Bunuel and Dali’s UN CHIEN ANDALOU on the work of Robert Siodmak. But this is a weird one ~
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE DIVORCE is a very early American Siodmak movie, a marital comedy set in England, odd and not very sympathetic material for the German noirist.
[Of the early American period, my view is that WEST POINT WIDOW is dreary, with Siodmak’s every decision closely overseen by an interfering producer: “This picture is not good enough to be called a Siodmak picture,” the director finally told him.
FLY-BY-NIGHT is a very amusing spy thriller with Richard Carlson as an atomic scientist. The Hitchcock model is plundered completely, and Hollywood’s favourite Goebbels, Martin Kosleck, gets a rare sympathetic part.
MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY is lightweight but nice — the snowy settings allow Siodmak to flex his visual muscles, and it has a sweet perf by Richard Carlson as an “atom-smasher” — a physicist, again. Mabel Paige, in her first movie since 1918, has a small role, and the puckish Cecil Kellaway has a major one as a taxi driver with expertise in everything (he describes himself as agraduate of the University of Edinburgh!). A movie nice enough to make me forget I normally hate screenwriter F Hugh Herbert’s every word.
Then comes DIVORCE, then SOMEONE TO REMEMBER, the forgotten masterpiece that gives Mabel Paige her one starring role. Then comes SON OF DRACULA and the better known films, leading to THE KILLERS et al.]
The startling moment in THE NIGHT BEFORE THE DIVORCE comes during a dispute over which of the bickering protags is going to get custody of a moose head called Stinky. As the peevish hero attempts to prise Stinky from the wall, there’s a frightful crash, Mrs Bickering-Protag comes into the room, registers dismay, and we cut to her POV, a slightly tilted, expressionist angle on a pile of debris, including a spilled bottle. Tilt down from the bottle to THIS HORROR —
The spilled wine is making it look as if Stinky is crying, you see?
Since this “gag” isn’t particularly funny, and actually is disturbing and awful, it can only really be interpreted as a hommage to the rotting, honey-dripping burros in the piano in UN CHIEN ANDALOU. Am I right or am I right?
If I AM right, then it’s a startling reference to find in a middling American B-movie rom-com. Hooray for Siodmak. Hooray for Bunuel.
Posted in FILM with tags Charles Lederer, Fingers at the Window, Fly-By-Night, Laraine Day, Lawrence P Bachmann, Lew Ayres, Otto Preminger, Richard Carlson, Rose Caylor, The Front Page, Whirlpool on September 3, 2010 by dcairns
An epidemic of axe murders grips Chicago! Victims found with heads split open! Killers found beside bodies in state of catatonic schizophrenia! And so, the above is not an encouraging thing to find in your hotel.
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW is a rather delightful comedy-thriller from MGM, with poor old Lew Ayres as a crime-solving out-of-work actor and Laraine Day as a dumb dancer (“She hasn’t the brains of a pancake!”) and, all too briefly, Basil Rathbone as the Mabusean mastermind who hypnotises his incurable subjects and sends them forth to kill! Kill! Kill!
Always with the pleasure, a little malaise: the cops speak of rounding up every “derelict and moron” in the city, a mission later referred to as a “moron hunt.” At a conference on psychiatry a paper is read about insulin shock therapy, the brilliant and human procedure whereby the mentally ill were deliberately overdosed with insulin to put them in a coma, for weeks sometimes. All of which adds an uncomfortable tincture of historical nastiness to a basically light-hearted yarn.
In one amusing scene, Ayres must use his powers of dramaturgy to fake madness, convincing a Viennese quack played by Miles Mander, the only man wirier than his own hair. This kind of scene ALWAYS works, folks. It works when Cary Grant does it in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, and it works when Richard Carlson does it in Siodmak’s FLY-BY-NIGHT ~
Mr. Carlson shows of his collection of wedding bands in FLY-BY-NIGHT.
Mr Ayres serves as role model for the chimp in the end credits of Police Squad. “He’ll stop when he’s tired.”
And it certainly works when Ayres does it. He’s more convincing here than as a shrink in THE DARK MIRROR. And in fact he also gets to impersonate a head doctor here, adopting the name of Dr. Stephen Dedalus — perhaps the only James Joyce reference to appear in an MGM noirball? It’s part of a run of Irish gags, which extends to making all the cops in the film exceptionally dense.
This seems to be the only screenplay by Rose Caylor (playwright and wife of Ben Hecht) working with Lawrence P Bachmann, a specialist in medical subjects who reprised elements of this idea for Otto Preminger’s WHIRLPOOL. But this one is better! Director is Charles Lederer, better known for co-writing The Front Page with Hecht. Only an occasional director, Lederer does a good enough job here to make me wish he’d done more. The movie isn’t as ambitious as Hecht’s co-directing efforts, but it hits its modest targets more frequently.
Hear Your Heart Beat.
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Inherits: Camera < Spatial < Node < Object
A camera node with a few overrules for AR/VR applied, such as location tracking.
This is a helper spatial node for our camera; note that, if stereoscopic rendering is applicable (VR-HMD), most of the camera properties are ignored, as the HMD information overrides them. The only properties that can be trusted are the near and far planes.
The position and orientation of this node is automatically updated by the ARVR Server to represent the location of the HMD if such tracking is available and can thus be used by game logic. Note that, in contrast to the ARVR Controller, the render thread has access to the most up-to-date tracking data of the HMD and the location of the ARVRCamera can lag a few milliseconds behind what is used for rendering as a result.
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Dare Valley Country Park Dog Walk06 lake and flowing water - Dog Friendly Wales | Dog Friendly Hotel
Dare Valley Country Park Dog Walk06 lake and flowing water
Touring > Dog's Days Out Gallery > Dare Valley Country Park
Dog Friendly Walks South Wales - Dare Valley
The Park was opened in December 1973, built on land reclaimed from over a century of coal mining in the area. The land reclamation took two years and involved the clearing of coal tips and re-routing of the River Dare.
There are many historical remnants of the coal mining past to be seen in the Park, including colliery coal trams, and pit winding gear which forms part of a monument in the northern part of the Park.
In 1985 a Visitor Centre was established at the Park.
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Kogu teenitud raha läheb ühiskondlikesse tegevustesse.
Meie kliendid hindavad meie kortereid väga kõrgelt.
Meil ei pea muretsema oma ökoloogilise jalajälje pärast.
International evening "Meet the World": Insight to being a Muslim in Estonia 12.03.2014
For the first time in Meet the World's history this event was not about a country. Held on Wednesday evening, March 12th, it was about a religion, concerning mostly its cultural aspects. Two Estonian women –Kätlin Hommik-Mrabte and Kristi Ockba– came to Domus Dorpatensis to speak about what it's like being a Muslim in Estonia.
Since Kätlin was little, she wanted answers to questions such as “What will happen when you die?”. Later on she started realising that she doesn't agree with all the aspects of Christianism and instead found that Islam answered all of her questions. “I didn't convert to Islam, I just realised that I am a Muslim”, she said. Kristi's mother is from Estonia and father from Yemen, a Muslim. She always felt like she had to somehow choose between her parents. She didn't consider herself a Muslim as a kid but since she looked different, once even her best friend tried to convince her: “But you are a Muslim”. As a bit older, she did well in religious studies and was even a little embarrassed how much she loved this religion. It all evolved very naturally for her.
They had no tragic stories about them being a Muslim in Estonia. People here just don't care or at least don't show their emotions while walking past a traditionally-clothed Muslim. Kristi said that she gets along well with people and joked that perhaps people forgive her being a Muslim since she already looks different. Both women agreed that if you hang out with people who accept you as you are, then there aren't many problems. They admitted that in a sense it's even easier to live in an Atheist society because when you see someone that does know the Islamic law and still doesn't follow it, it's a little disturbing but in Estonia you don't have such expectations. By the way, it is also not that hard to find halal food in Estonia (we eat halal without even realising).They explained that the meaning of halal is to respect the animal, because it has given its life for you.
Both women emphasised that they don't want to do anything without understanding the point of it. Since they chose that religion, they constantly analyse things and try to find explanations. But how do they explain themselves things such as praying 5 times a day or wearing a headscarf? Kristi said that unlike common opinion, Islam doesn't mean “peace” but “submission”. She said that since you submit to God completely, you don't care what anybody else thinks about you and that makes you very free. Once she realised that Islam is not a noun but a verb, an action, everything made sense to her. She understands both– those who wear niqab and those who don't. It is not a decision you rush into. The idea is modesty to some extent, many wear it for cultural reasons. There are aspects of both logic and faith. Is it rational? Wearing a mini skirt at -20 degrees isn't rational either. Kätlin explained that she wears traditional clothing because in her opinion, hair is the most attractive part of her body. Also, she wants people to appreciate her the way she is: a Muslim.
Of course, women's rights came up as a topic. Sometimes people are concerned if their husbands are forcing them to dress like this and sincerely offer their help. Kätlin explained how in some Islamic countries, it is the culture's fault, not Islam's, if women are treated unequally. People there don't know about their rights and that's why religious education is important. For example women in Kuwait won their right to vote because they pointed out that nowhere in the Koran is written that it's forbidden for them. At the fact that men can have 4 wives they laughed “as if it's a blessing”. In fact, polygamy doesn't come from the Islam. Before it was regulated in the Koran, men could have as many women they financially managed. So this number was actually limiting to some extent. In western societies some men still change their wives for younger models, but in Islam you could make it legal. That way there is no hiding, all women are lawful. At the end of the day women don't let second wives happen quietly, without their permission.
The performers also said that suicide-terrorists are hand-picked people: those who are not knowledgeable and are vulnerable. Many of them aren't even religious. Because in the Koran it says that you are not supposed to kill yourself. If you kill one person– you kill the whole humanity. They are just told that it's for Islam, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Interestingly, they also said that Islam is more tolerant towards homosexuals than many other religions because for conviction you need 4 credible witnesses who have seen the act and that's quite impossible.
The round of questions ended with a heated debate over the fact that Islam was forced on Persians. The performers thought that it's a political question. Nowhere in the Koran says you have to invade other countries and force them this religion. Another person from the audience got the last word by saying that you can't blame the religion or the people for what their leaders did.
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ICBC Drives Cross-Border Financial Advancements
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Cross-border finance has become a new growth point for ICBC (Asia)
Cross-border finance is developing rapidly thanks to the opening up of China’s capital market, opportunities brought by “Belt and Road Initiative”, and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Take the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) as an example. ICBC (Asia) started its cross-border RMB business in 2013. By the end of 2017, the bank had established partnership with more than 500 enterprise customers, supported the settlement of near 20 currencies, processed more than CNY 36 trillion RMB settlements, had more than CNY 30 billion total deposits, and achieved double-digit growth in relevant businesses.
ICBC (Asia) is a licensed bank incorporated in Hong Kong and now has 57 retail outlets, serving as the flagship of overseas banking business for ICBC Group. The total assets of ICBC (Asia) amounted to HK $898.1 billion at the end of 2017. By implementing the business strategy of “Taking Root in Hong Kong, Connecting with Mainland China, Spanning Across Asia Pacific, and Facing the World”, ICBC (Asia) takes advantages of favorable opportunities of Hong Kong being an offshore RMB centre, keenly exploring RMB businesses, and cross-border banking services. In the future, ICBC (Asia) will provide diverse low-cost, cross-border financing (covering IPO and bond issuing), all-around cross-border RMB, and cross-border assets management services to promote the establishment of global assets management platforms in Hong Kong.
Technologies serve businesses and create value
Cross-border finance is developing rapidly, and customers’ needs on Internet finance and new payment methods increase drastically. This brings great opportunities to ICBC (Asia)’s cross-border finance business as well as challenges to ICBC (Asia)’s business systems and its ICT infrastructures. For example, customers may require the bank to deliver high-quality cross-border services in different modes.
By adhering to the objective of “Technology Serving Business, Technology Creating Value” ICBC (Asia) gradually explores a path to develop innovative applications using biometric recognition, blockchain, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and cloud computing technologies. To better serve its customers, ICBC (Asia) understands customers’ needs by providing VIP recognition services, precise sales and marketing strategies, customized products recommendations, and differential pricing. Smart risks prevention and control helps detect transaction frauds, credit risks, and operating risks. In addition, the “management dashboard” supports decision-making, abnormal capital flows warnings, incidents prevention, and risks management.
In 2016, ICBC (Asia) started to plan and deploy innovative systems by using the latest ICT technologies like virtualization, Big Data, cloud computing, and DevOps. With the help of new architectures, ICBC (Asia) secured an advantageous position for future market competition. Based on ICBC (Asia)’s business and technology development requirements, Huawei provided a number of cutting-edge solutions, such as the Digital Multimedia Banking Solution, the Safe Financial Cloud Solution, and the CloudFabric Cloud Data Center Network Solution.
Improving customer experience in cross-border finance
To address the cross-border services issue, ICBC (Asia) developed “mVTM system” based on Huawei’s IP Contact Center (IPCC) Solution, allowing customers to have video conferences with their financial advisors via the ICBC (Asia) Apps, and getting professional financial advice anytime and anywhere. The solution has many unique features, such as multimedia access, automated service processes, and an intelligent routing platform that can assign incoming calls to the most appropriate agents. With the above unique features, the IPCC will provide text messaging, voice calls, and even video interaction services. This not only greatly improves customer experiences, but also enables service back tracking to ensure the service provided fulfilled regulatory compliance.
In the future, ICBC (Asia) will develop a 24/7 omni-channel intelligent customer service system to answer customers’ inquiries. This Chatbot system will be able to process voice commands in Mandarin, Cantonese (the principal language of Hong Kong), and English, improving ICBC (Asia)’s service operating efficiency and customer service quality.
Focusing on both security and agility
Banks are in constant pursuit of security and agility, while these two needs were somehow a conflict in the past. Take document encryption and internet safety as examples, cyber-attacks threaten banks’ Intranets and sensitive data while daily work data sharing to third parties may lead to confidential information leakage that will bring significant loss to both the bank and its customers. For this situation, ICBC (Asia) worked with Huawei to improve employees’ working experiences and protect internal sensitive information security at the same time. Huawei is the only vendor in the industry to provide holistic ICT solutions that cover from desktop cloud protocol software, to virtualization software, servers, storage, firewalls and networks. Huawei deployed more than 100,000 desktop cloud accounts internally, served 180,000 of its employees, and accrued extensive experience during the process.
With Huawei’s assistance, ICBC (Asia) achieved fine-grained security management (by user, region, and resource), security authentication and verification, as well as sliced data transmission and storage. Huawei’s comprehensive “Cloud-Pipe-Device-Control” security protection system improves service systems’ reliability in management nodes and user connections. The new O&M system features rich functions and simplified wizard operations, maximizing O&M efficiency and lowering relevant costs.
ICBC (Asia) staff can back up important files and data to Onebox regularly for easy data protection. This is the first trial of the cloud office infrastructure transformation which dramatically improved security and efficiency of ICBC (Asia)’s office works. In the near future, Huawei will use desktop virtualization technology to help ICBC (Asia) isolate browsers from service systems and the Intranet from the Internet. This will effectively protect ICBC (Asia)’s ICT systems from cyber-attacks and prevent disclosure of sensitive data (such as customer cross-border financing data and global assets data).
Building a strong neural network system
The growth of cross-border finance introduced higher requirements on the data storage reliability, data center network speed, and overall system stability. Statistics show that China’s large commercial banks and insurance companies have an average of more than 100 TB data in their databases. To address the Internet finance challenges, financial institutions are now using data to drive business innovation. Data centers, that once served banks as support centers, now shoulder the responsibilities of creating value and profits.
ICBC (Asia) built its service systems based on traditional data centres and classified service sectors by business, formulated complicated security strategies. The rapid increase of service types and capacities brings new requirements on flexible deployment, dispatching, migration, and management of service resource pools. The traditional network architecture becomes a choke point that hinders business development. ICBC (Asia) leverages standard, open network technologies, and new data centre architectures to set a solid foundation for a strong neural network system.
ICBC (Asia) breaks the constraint by replacing non-standard technologies. Its existing data centre and production backbone network used traditional solutions and closed private technologies like EIGRP and PVST+. From the network equipment aspect, Huawei provides CloudEngine, USG Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), and other devices that feature open architectures, standard network control protocols, and standard interfaces.
From the controller perspective, Huawei deploys its Software-Defined Network (SDN) controller and Agile Controller based on the open-source architectures, such as Open Network Operating System (ONOS) and OpenDaylight (ODL). ICBC (Asia) used Huawei’s Agile Controller to replace its existing private network architecture and protocols. This protects ICBC (Asia) from vendor lock-in and allows more top-notch ICT companies to participate in the bank’s network development. ICBC (Asia) is now able to access the OpenStack-based cloud platform, share computing resources and value-added services across data centers, enjoy multi-service convergence, and flexibly expand and upgrade its solution in the near future.
Based on existing equipment, Huawei developed the data center network that supports linkage with virtual platforms and evolution towards cloud-network collaboration. With Huawei’s solution in place, ICBC (Asia) can upgrade its network and retain many of its legacy network devices. This maximizes the return on ICBC (Asia)’s historical investment, meeting the bank’s requirements on long-term development.
Huawei’s solution, based on the spine-leaf architecture, uses the Agile Controller and CE Series Switches to help ICBC (Asia) smoothly complete cloud computing evolution. The project is carried out phase by phase and will not involve mass software or hardware replacement. In the future, ICBC (Asia) can choose to reshape its data centre network and build an SDN. Should this happen, service systems will be able to share network hardware resources. That is to say, these systems will be logically isolated from each other to ensure security, and share IT resources to improve resource usage and service deployment efficiency.
Tang Bin, General Manager of IT department of ICBC (Asia), said that ICBC (Asia) recognized Huawei’s technologies and product quality, and was satisfied with Huawei’s support and service abilities. “Huawei helped ICBC (Asia) build more open and stable ICT infrastructures”, Tang Bin said, “It allows the Bank’s business departments to work safer and easier. With Huawei’s solution in place, ICBC (Asia) achieved a major breakthrough in the diversity of Data Center network products, laying a solid foundation for private cloud transformation in the future. ICBC (Asia) looks forward to more extensive cooperation with Huawei in cloud computing, Big Data, and other sectors.”
ICBC (Asia) is using scientific innovation and the latest technology to drive business upgrades and development, and promote the extensive convergence of modern information technology, and banking business operations and development. Hong Kong is now actively developing FinTech. ICBC (Asia) will leverage this opportunity, work hard to build its ICT systems into its core strengths, and provide important support in offering financial services. With Huawei’s technological support, ICBC (Asia) is confident to achieve all-around improvement in management, services, and innovation, also to meet the increasing needs on customer services, internal management, and external regulatory compliance. ICBC (Asia) will continue its endeavor on improvement and strives to become the preferred bank in cross-border finance.
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GMA News’ #IMSocial off to Ateneo, DLSU and UP Diliman
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ederic.net in Internet at Blogging, Kapuso, Social Media | January 25, 2016
After a successful launch last year at University of Santo Tomas, GMA News is back with another round of #IMSocial sessions. This time, the team is bringing the much-awaited discussions to Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University-Manila, and University of the Philippines-Diliman.
“#IMSocial: The Think Before You Click and Youscoop Sessions” aims to inspire students, netizens, and other media practitioners to use social media responsibly.Kapuso journalists will share how they use social media in news coverage. Social media personalities, meanwhile, will talk about how social media changed their lives, while YouScoopers share how social media can be used for social good.
On January 25, the Ateneo leg of #IMSocial will feature heritage advocate Ivan Henares for heritage conservation and education, Top Gear Philippines’ Vernon Sarne for user-generated content in the world of social media, and multi-awarded reporter Pia Arcangel for GMA News’ “Think Before You Click” campaign. The event will start at 5 p.m. and will be hosted by GMA News reporter and Ateneo alumna Mav Gonzales.
Another #IMSocial session will follow on January 27 at De La Salle University and will be held at the Multipurpose Hall of Henry Sy Sr. Building at 2 p.m. Youtube star and online personality Lloyd Cadena will give a talk on how he uses social media for fun. He will be joined by Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation’s Jay Jaboneta, who will discuss how social media can be used for a cause. Multi-awarded TV host Tonipet Gaba, on the other hand, will share his experience online for the “Think Before You Click” segment. The event will be hosted by GMA News reporter Rida Reyes.
The last leg of the seminar will be at University of the Philippines-Diliman, on January 28 at 4 p.m. TV reporter and university alumna Athena Imperial will host the event at the Malcolm Hall in U.P. College of Law Building. She will be joined by U.P. Department of Political Science Asst. Professor Robert Go. Guest speakers for the said event include COMELEC’s James Jimenez for social media and the 2016 Elections, Save Philippine Seas’ Anna Oposa for social media and advocacy, and YouScooper Sedricke Lapuz for social good. Both Oposa and Lapuz are alumni of U.P. Manila. Broadcast journalist and U.P. Diliman alumnus Ivan Mayrina, meanwhile, will be the speaker for GMA’s “Think Before You Click” campaign.
Around 200 students attended the first #IMSocial session held on August 27 in UST. Its official hashtag, #IMSocialxUST became the fourth top trending topic in the Philippines on Twitter.
The speakers in the #IMSocial UST leg included Jay Jaboneta, IGersManila founder Carl Lozano, and UST political science student Justin Decastro, who was featured on a viral photo while selling books on the street to pay for his studies. GMA News Online editor Jaemark Tordecilla discussed how journalism is changing due to the rise of the Internet and social media, and GMA News anchor Howie Severino encouraged the students to “Think Before You Click.” UST alumnus and iJuander host Cesar Apolinario and UST journalism student Samantha Belmonte emceed the event.
While the events are exclusive to students of the participating schools, netizens and other audience may tune in live via www.gmanews.tv/imsocial or follow the Facebook and Twitter accounts of GMA News (@gmanews) for live updates. — GMA News Online
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U.S. hospitals grapple with prolonged injected opioid shortage
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By Linda A. Johnson AP Medical Writer
Sunday, July 8, 2018 4:18 AM
A pharmacy technician prepares syringes containing fentanyl in the sterile medicines area of the inpatient pharmacy at the University of Utah Hospital, in Salt Lake City. Amid the nation’s opioid epidemic, hospitals are struggling to get widely used injected pain medicines because of ongoing supply shortages. The shortages affect just about every corner of the hospital, from the operating room and emergency department.
Rick Bowmer/Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. – There is another opioid crisis happening in the U.S., and it has nothing to do with the overdose epidemic: Hospitals are frequently running out of widely used injected painkillers.
Manufacturing shortages are forcing many doctors and pharmacists to sometimes ration injected opioids, reserving them for the patients suffering most. Other patients get slower-acting or less effective pain pills, alternatives with more side effects or even sedation.
Medical groups are urging regulators to help, saying some people having surgery, fighting cancer or suffering with severe burns are getting inadequate pain control. They also say shortages frequently cause medication switches that could lead to deadly mistakes.
In June, the American Medical Association declared drug shortages a public health crisis, saying it will urge federal agencies to examine the problem as a national security threat and perhaps designate medicine factories as critical infrastructure.
Injected opioid shortages have happened before, in 2001 and 2010, but they weren’t as acute and long-lived, experts say. This one started almost a year ago and is expected to last into next year.
“It’s definitely the most severe I’ve seen in tracking drug shortages for 17 years,” says Erin Fox, a University of Utah Hospitals pharmacist. She tracks national medicine shortages and recalls two patients dying due to medication errors during the 2010 shortage.
Such shortages steal time from patient care, increase hospitals’ costs and affect just about every department, including operating rooms, emergency departments and cancer clinics. Doctors occasionally find opioids missing from emergency carts and surgery supply trays, “borrowed” by colleagues needing them for other patients.
Vials of the local anesthetic lidocaine, currently in short supply, are shown in the inpatient pharmacy at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City.
The shortages started hitting hospitals last summer, after the Food and Drug Administration found sterility and other serious problems at a Pfizer factory in Kansas. The company, which makes 60 percent of the country’s injected opioids, had to slash production to fix the problems.
By January, shortages were so bad hospitals started creating teams to manage their supplies, said Michael Ganio, director of pharmacy practice at the 45,000-member American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
The group’s April survey of 343 hospital pharmacists found 98 percent had dealt with moderate or severe shortages of the key opioids for treating serious pain: morphine, fentanyl and hydromorphone, better known as Dilaudid. Many hospitals were completely out of at least one.
Shortages of generic injected drugs have become normal. Profit margins are tiny, so only a handful of companies make them, and none can dramatically increase production when a rival stops manufacturing.
With the opioid shortages lingering, hospitals and medical groups have set guidelines for stretching supply, including transferring injected painkillers from large vials into several smaller ones or syringes.
Some worry such workarounds invite mistakes.
Michael Cohen, president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, an independent group that compiles voluntary error reports, says mix-ups also occur when nurses or pharmacists substitute unfamiliar painkillers or ones with different concentrations than normal.
Cohen recently received several reports of surgical patients who stopped breathing. Some had overdosed when fentanyl wasn’t available and they were mistakenly given the same amount of much stronger sufentanil. Those patients were saved.
Hospitals also are grappling with shortages of regional anesthesia – local injections of lidocaine, bupivacaine and a third painkiller standard for eye surgery, orthopedic procedures and knee and hip replacements.
Dr. Ruth Landau, director of obstetric anesthesia at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, says maternity wards for months have faced a critical shortage of the fast-acting version of bupivacaine.
That’s risky because if a woman in labor starts bleeding or her baby isn’t getting enough oxygen, obstetricians must perform an emergency cesarean. Anesthesiologists sometimes have had to use a slower-acting bupivacaine version, which may delay delivery and could harm mother or baby.
“We’re playing with fire,” worries Landau, a vice president of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.
In the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Dr. Ali Raja recently had an appendicitis patient who needed intravenous morphine or low-dose Dilaudid. Instead, he had to resort to fentanyl, which wears off quickly, so additional doses were needed frequently.
“He was lucky. The nurses were free to do it, and so he wasn’t in more pain,” Raja recalls.
He tells patients he’ll try pain pills first and switch to IV medication if they don’t work, but “by then, the patient has had pain for longer.”
That’s not an option for the many hospital patients who are sedated, intubated, vomiting or too frail to swallow pills. And because pills can take 45 minutes to start working, they’re a poor choice for patients with broken bones, internal infections and stabbing or gunshot wounds.
Often, patients need a slightly higher opioid dose than one vial holds, but opening a second vial requires discarding the unused portion to avoid contamination.
“Having to choose between underdosing the patient or not having a medication to treat another patient later that day is incredibly frustrating,” Raja says.
At MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, palliative care specialist Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah now devotes extra time to choosing painkillers as availability changes. She says already-distressed advanced cancer patients need reassurance when she is forced to take them off a scarce injected painkiller that was working.
“Cancer pain can be absolutely excruciating, more than what a pill can manage,” Subbiah notes.
At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health Care, outpatient surgery facilities and cancer clinics are as affected as acute-care departments, and which painkillers are scarcest varies constantly, says chief pharmacy officer Sabrina Cole.
Valerie Jensen, FDA’s head of drug shortages, says the shortages triggered by Pfizer’s problems may ease slightly in the next few months.
The three much-smaller makers of injected opioids – Fresenius Kabi, West Ward and Akorn – have begun making more. They’re putting factory workers on overtime, adding more shifts and switching some manufacturing lines from less-crucial medicines to injected opioids.
The FDA has been expediting approvals those companies need to make more opioids, including allowing new product formulations.
The agency also let Pfizer distribute some glass syringes prefilled with opioids that were held back because of possible particle contamination and cracks in stoppers. Hospital pharmacists have to examine each syringe closely and then filter the contents in a complex, multi-step process.
Meanwhile, Pfizer Inc. doesn’t expect to have most of its injectable opioids back in full supply until the first quarter of 2019, says John Kelly, the firm’s head of manufacturing quality.
The New York-based company acquired the McPherson, Kansas, factory when it bought the drugmaker Hospira in 2015. To fix the plant’s troubles, Pfizer decided to replace production lines and other technology, particularly huge equipment-sterilizing machines called autoclaves that can take two years to build, install and test. It’s spent more than $300 million so far.
Planned shutdowns last summer to start upgrades took longer than expected, FDA inspectors found other problems that needed fixing, and product demand rose, triggering shortages, says Kelly. He says production now is increasing somewhat each week.
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Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Television/radio coverage
← 23rd
25th →
The 24th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1982, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television. The event recognized the accomplishments of musicians during the year 1981. Quincy Jones was the major recipient of awards with a total of five Grammys.[1][2]
The much coveted Album of the Year award went to Jack Douglas, John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Double Fantasy, and Song of the Year went to Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon for "Bette Davis Eyes".
1 Award winners
1.1 Children's
1.2 Classical
1.3 Comedy
1.4 Composing and arranging
1.5 Country
1.6 Folk
1.7 Gospel
1.9 Jazz
1.10 Latin
1.11 Musical show
1.12 Music video
1.13 Packaging and notes
1.14 Pop
1.15 Production and engineering
1.16 R&B
1.17 Rock
1.18 Spoken
Award winners[edit]
Record of the Year
Val Garay (producer) & Kim Carnes for "Bette Davis Eyes"
Jack Douglas (producer), John Lennon & Yoko Ono (producers and artists) for Double Fantasy
Donna Weiss & Jackie DeShannon (songwriters) for "Bette Davis Eyes" performed by Kim Carnes
Children's[edit]
Best Recording for Children
Dennis Scott & Jim Henson (producers) for Sesame Country performed by The Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn & Tanya Tucker
Classical[edit]
Best Classical Orchestral Recording
James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Richard Bonynge (conductor), Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti
Best Opera Recording
James Mallinson (producer), Charles Mackerras (conductor), Jiri Zahradnicek, Ivo Žídek, Václav Zítek & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Janáček: From the House of the Dead
Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
Neville Marriner (conductor) & the Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Chorus for Haydn: The Creation
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
Zubin Mehta (conductor), Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman & the New York Philharmonic for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
Vladimir Horowitz for The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80
Best Chamber Music Performance
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
Best Classical Album
Comedy[edit]
Best Comedy Recording
Richard Pryor for Rev. Du Rite
Composing and arranging[edit]
Best Instrumental Composition
Mike Post (composer) for "The Theme From Hill Street Blues"
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
John Williams (composer) for Raiders of the Lost Ark
Best Instrumental Arrangement
Quincy Jones & Johnny Mandel (arrangers) for "Velas" performed by Quincy Jones
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Jerry Hey & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Ai No Corrida" performed by Quincy Jones
Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices
Gene Puerling (arranger) for "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" performed by The Manhattan Transfer
Country[edit]
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
Dolly Parton for "9 to 5"
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
Ronnie Milsap for "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
The Oak Ridge Boys for "Elvira"
Best Country Instrumental Performance
Chet Atkins for Country After All These Years
Best Country Song
Dolly Parton (songwriter) for "9 to 5"
Folk[edit]
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
There Must Be a Better World Somewhere-B.B.King
Gospel[edit]
Best Gospel Performance, Traditional
The Masters V for The Masters V
Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational
The Imperials for Priority
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional
Al Green for The Lord Will Make a Way
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary
Andrae Crouch for Don't Give Up
Best Inspirational Performance
B.J. Thomas for Amazing Grace
Historical[edit]
Best Historical Album
Michael Brooks & George Spitzer (producers) for Hoagy Carmichael - From Stardust to Ole Buttermilk Sky
Jazz[edit]
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
Ella Fitzgerald for Digital III at Montreux
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male
Al Jarreau for "(Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo à la Turk"
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
The Manhattan Transfer for "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)"
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
John Coltrane for Bye Bye Blackbird
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group
Chick Corea & Gary Burton for In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
Gerry Mulligan for Walk on the Water
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
Grover Washington, Jr. for Winelight
Best Latin Recording
Clare Fischer for "Guajira Pa la Jeva"
Musical show[edit]
Best Cast Show Album
Quincy Jones (producer) & Lena Horne for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Music video[edit]
Michael Nesmith for Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts
Packaging and notes[edit]
Best Album Package
Peter Corriston (art director) for Tattoo You performed by The Rolling Stones
Best Album Notes
Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for Erroll Garner - Master of the Keyboard performed by Erroll Garner
Pop[edit]
Best Vocal Performance, Female
Lena Horne for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Best Vocal Performance, Male
Al Jarreau for Breakin' Away
Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
The Manhattan Transfer for "The Boy from New York City"
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Larry Carlton & Mike Post for "The Theme from Hill Street Blues"
Production and engineering[edit]
Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner, Jerry Garszva & Roger Nichols (engineers) for Gaucho performed by Steely Dan
Best Engineered Recording, Classical
Andrew Kazdin, Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Ray Moore (engineers), Zubin Mehta (conductor), Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, & the New York Philharmonic for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
Producer of the Year
Classical Producer of the Year
James Mallinson
R&B[edit]
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
Aretha Franklin for "Hold On I'm Comin'"
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
James Ingram for "One Hundred Ways"
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Quincy Jones for The Dude
Best R&B Instrumental Performance
David Sanborn for "All I Need Is You"
Best Rhythm & Blues Song
Bill Withers, Ralph MacDonald & William Salter (songwriters) for "Just the Two of Us" performed by Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers
Rock[edit]
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
Pat Benatar for "Fire and Ice"
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
Rick Springfield for "Jessie's Girl"
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
The Police for "Don't Stand So Close To Me"
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
The Police for "Behind My Camel"
Spoken[edit]
Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
Orson Welles for Donovan's Brain
^ "Grammys go to music's best". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 25 February 1982. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
^ "1981 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
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Grammy Museum
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Atlantic Division (NBA)
Inaugural season
1970–71 season
No. of teams
Most recent Atlantic Division champion(s)
(6 titles)
Most Atlantic Division titles
(22 titles)
The Atlantic Division is one of the three divisions in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The division consists of five teams, the Boston Celtics, the Brooklyn Nets, the New York Knicks, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Toronto Raptors. All teams, except the Raptors, are located on the East Coast of the United States. However, Toronto sports teams have over the years enjoyed rivalries with teams in the Northeastern United States (particularly, Toronto teams also share divisions with Boston teams in Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, with the former also containing a team in New York City).
The division was created at the start of the 1970–71 season, when the league expanded from 14 to 17 teams with the addition of the Buffalo Braves, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers. The league realigned itself into two conferences, the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference, with two divisions in each conference. The Atlantic Division began with four inaugural members, the Celtics, the Braves, the Knicks and the 76ers.[1] The Celtics, the Knicks and the 76ers all joined from the Eastern Division.
The Celtics have won the most Atlantic Division titles with 22. Nine NBA champions have come from the Atlantic Division. The Celtics have won six championships, while the Knicks, the 76ers and the Raptors have won one championship each. All of them, except the 1972–73 Knicks, were division champions. In the 1983–84 season, all five teams from the division qualified for the playoffs. In the 1982–83 season, all teams in the division had winning percentages above 0.500 (50%). The current division champion is the Toronto Raptors, their sixth division title.
1 Standings
2 Teams
2.1 Former teams
2.2 Team timeline
3 Division champions
3.1 Titles by team
4 Season results
5 Rivalries
5.1 Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks
5.2 Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers
5.3 New York Knicks vs. Brooklyn Nets
5.4 New York Knicks vs Philadelphia 76ers
Standings[edit]
Main article: 2018–19 NBA season
y – Toronto Raptors 58 24 .707 0.0 32–9 26–15 12–4 82
x – Philadelphia 76ers 51 31 .622 7.0 31–10 20–21 8–8 82
x – Boston Celtics 49 33 .598 9.0 28–13 21–20 10–6 82
x – Brooklyn Nets 42 40 .512 16.0 23–18 19–22 8–8 82
New York Knicks 17 65 .207 41.0 9–32 8–33 2–14 82
y – Clinched division title
x – Clinched playoff spot
Teams[edit]
Boston Celtics Boston 1970 Eastern Division
Brooklyn Nets (2012–present)
New Jersey Nets (1977–2012)
New York Nets (1976–1977) Brooklyn, New York City
Piscataway/East Rutherford/Newark, New Jersey
Uniondale, New York 1976 ABA
New York Knicks New York City 1970 Eastern Division
Philadelphia 76ers Philadelphia 1970 Eastern Division
Toronto Raptors Toronto 2004 Central Division
denotes a team that merged from the American Basketball Association (ABA).
Former teams[edit]
Current division
Buffalo Braves (1970–1978, now Los Angeles Clippers) Buffalo, New York 1970 — 1978 Pacific Division
(as San Diego Clippers) Pacific Division
Charlotte Hornets (1988–2002; 2004–present, formerly Charlotte Bobcats) Charlotte, North Carolina 1988 — 1989 Midwest Division Southeast Division
Miami Heat Miami 1989 Midwest Division 2004 Southeast Division Southeast Division
Orlando Magic Orlando, Florida 1991 Midwest Division 2004 Southeast Division Southeast Division
Washington Wizards (1997–present)
Washington Bullets (1974–1997) Washington, D.C.
Landover, Maryland 1978 Central Division 2004 Southeast Division Southeast Division
denotes an expansion team.
Team timeline[edit]
Denotes team that is currently in the division
Denotes team that has left the division
Division champions[edit]
^ Had or tied for the best regular season record for that season
Playoffs result
1970–71 New York Knicks 52–30 (.634) Lost Conference Finals
1971–72 Boston Celtics 56–26 (.683) Lost Conference Finals
1972–73 Boston Celtics^ 68–14 (.829) Lost Conference Finals
1973–74 Boston Celtics 56–26 (.683) Won NBA Finals
1976–77 Philadelphia 76ers 50–32 (.610) Lost NBA Finals
1977–78 Philadelphia 76ers 55–27 (.671) Lost Conference Finals
1978–79 Washington Bullets^ 54–28 (.659) Lost NBA Finals
1980–81 Boston Celtics^ 62–20 (.756) Won NBA Finals
1982–83 Philadelphia 76ers^ 65–17 (.793) Won NBA Finals
1984–85 Boston Celtics^ 63–19 (.768) Lost NBA Finals
1986–87 Boston Celtics 59–23 (.720) Lost NBA Finals
1988–89 New York Knicks 52–30 (.634) Lost Conference Semifinals
1989–90 Philadelphia 76ers 53–29 (.646) Lost Conference Semifinals
1990–91 Boston Celtics 56–26 (.683) Lost Conference Semifinals
1993–94 New York Knicks 57–25 (.695) Lost NBA Finals
1994–95 Orlando Magic 57–25 (.695) Lost NBA Finals
1995–96 Orlando Magic 60–22 (.732) Lost Conference Finals
1996–97 Miami Heat 61–21 (.744) Lost Conference Finals
1997–98 Miami Heat 55–27 (.671) Lost First Round
1998–99[a] Miami Heat 33–17 (.660) Lost First Round
1999–00 Miami Heat 52–30 (.634) Lost Conference Semifinals
2001–02 New Jersey Nets 52–30 (.634) Lost NBA Finals
2003–04 New Jersey Nets 47–35 (.573) Lost Conference Semifinals
2004–05 Boston Celtics 45–37 (.549) Lost First Round
2006–07 Toronto Raptors 47–35 (.573) Lost First Round
2011–12[b] Boston Celtics 39–27 (.591) Lost Conference Finals
2015–16 Toronto Raptors 56–26 (.683) Lost Conference Finals
2017–18 Toronto Raptors 59–23 (.720) Lost Conference Semifinals
2018–19 Toronto Raptors 58–24 (.707) Won NBA Finals
Titles by team[edit]
^ Denotes team that has left the division
Season(s) won
Boston Celtics 22 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2016–17
Toronto Raptors 6 2006–07, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19
New York Knicks 5 1970–71, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2012–13
Philadelphia 76ers 5 1976–77, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1989–90, 2000–01
Brooklyn Nets 4 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06
Miami Heat^ 4 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00
Orlando Magic^ 2 1994–95, 1995–96
Washington Bullets^ (now Washington Wizards) 1 1978–79
Season results[edit]
^ Denotes team that won the NBA championships
+ Denotes team that won the Conference Finals, but lost the NBA Finals
* Denotes team that qualified for the NBA Playoffs
Team (record)
1970: The Atlantic Division was formed with four inaugural members. An expansion team, the Buffalo Braves, joined the division. The Boston Celtics, the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers joined from the Eastern Division.
1970–71 New York* (52–30) Philadelphia* (47–35) Boston (44–38) Buffalo (22–60)
1971–72 Boston* (56–26) New York+ (48–34) Philadelphia (30–52) Buffalo (22–60)
1972–73 Boston* (68–14) New York^ (57–25) Buffalo (21–61) Philadelphia (9–73)
1973–74 Boston^ (56–26) New York* (49–33) Buffalo* (42–40) Philadelphia (25–57)
1974–75 Boston* (60–22) Buffalo* (49–33) New York* (40–42) Philadelphia (34–48)
1975–76 Boston^ (54–28) Philadelphia* (46–36) Buffalo* (46–36) New York (38–44)
1976: An American Basketball Association (ABA) team that merged with the NBA, the New York Nets, joined the division.
1976–77 Philadelphia+ (50–32) Boston* (44–38) NY Knicks (40–42) Buffalo (30–52) NY Nets (22–60)
1977: The New York Nets relocated and became the New Jersey Nets.
1977–78 Philadelphia* (55–27) New York* (43–39) Boston (32–50) Buffalo (27–55) New Jersey (24–58)
1979: The Washington Bullets joined from the Central Division. The Buffalo Braves, who relocated and became the San Diego Clippers, left to join the Pacific Division.
1978–79 Washington+ (54–28) Philadelphia* (47–35) New Jersey* (37–45) New York (31–51) Boston (29–53)
1979–80 Boston* (61–21) Philadelphia+ (59–23) Washington* (39–43) New York (39–43) New Jersey (34–48)
1980–81 Boston^ (62–20) Philadelphia* (62–20) New York* (50–32) Washington (39–43) New Jersey (24–58)
1981–82 Boston* (63–19) Philadelphia+ (58–24) New Jersey* (44–38) Washington* (43–39) New York (33–49)
1982–83 Philadelphia^ (65–17) Boston* (56–26) New Jersey* (49–33) New York* (44–38) Washington (42–40)
1983–84 Boston^ (62–20) Philadelphia* (52–30) New York* (47–35) New Jersey* (45–37) Washington* (35–47)
1984–85 Boston+ (63–19) Philadelphia* (58–24) New Jersey* (42–40) Washington* (40–42) New York (24–58)
1985–86 Boston^ (67–15) Philadelphia* (54–28) Washington* (39–43) New Jersey* (39–43) New York (23–59)
1986–87 Boston+ (59–23) Philadelphia* (45–37) Washington* (42–40) New Jersey (24–58) New York (24–58)
1987–88 Boston* (57–25) Washington* (38–44) New York* (38–44) Philadelphia (36–46) New Jersey (19–63)
1988: An expansion team, the Charlotte Hornets, joined the division temporarily for one season.
1988–89 New York* (52–30) Philadelphia* (46–36) Boston* (42–40) Washington (40–42) New Jersey (26–56) Charlotte (20–62)
1989: The Miami Heat joined from the Midwest Division. The Charlotte Hornets left to join the Midwest Division temporarily for one season, then the Central Division permanently thereafter.
1989–90 Philadelphia* (53–29) Boston* (52–30) New York* (45–37) Washington (31–51) Miami (18–64) New Jersey (17–65)
1990–91 Boston* (56–26) Philadelphia* (44–38) New York* (39–43) Washington (30–52) New Jersey (26–56) Miami (24–58)
1991: The Orlando Magic joined from the Midwest Division.
1991–92 Boston* (51–31) New York* (51–31) New Jersey* (40–42) Miami* (38–44) Philadelphia (35–47) Washington (25–57) Orlando (21–61)
1992–93 New York* (60–22) Boston* (48–34) New Jersey* (43–39) Orlando (41–41) Miami (36–46) Philadelphia (26–56) Washington (22–60)
1993–94 New York+ (57–25) Orlando* (50–32) New Jersey* (45–37) Miami* (42–40) Boston (32–50) Philadelphia (25–57) Washington (24–58)
1994–95 Orlando+ (57–25) New York* (55–27) Boston* (35–47) Miami (32–50) New Jersey (30–52) Philadelphia (24–58) Washington (21–61)
1995–96 Orlando* (60–22) New York* (47–35) Miami* (42–40) Washington (39–43) Boston (33–49) New Jersey (30–52) Philadelphia (18–64)
1996–97 Miami* (61–21) New York* (57–25) Orlando* (45–37) Washington* (44–38) New Jersey (26–56) Philadelphia (22–60) Boston (15–67)
1997: The Washington Bullets was renamed the Washington Wizards.
1997–98 Miami* (55–27) New York* (43–39) New Jersey* (43–39) Washington (42–40) Orlando (41–41) Boston (36–46) Philadelphia (31–51)
1998–99[a] Miami* (33–17) Orlando* (33–17) Philadelphia* (28–22) New York+ (27–23) Boston (19–31) Washington (18–32) New Jersey (16–34)
1999–00 Miami* (52–30) New York* (50–32) Philadelphia* (49–33) Orlando (41–41) Boston (35–47) New Jersey (31–51) Washington (29–53)
2000–01 Philadelphia+ (56–26) Miami* (50–32) New York* (48–34) Orlando* (43–39) Boston (36–46) New Jersey (26–56) Washington (19–63)
2001–02 New Jersey+ (52–30) Boston* (49–33) Orlando* (44–38) Philadelphia* (43–39) Washington (37–45) Miami (36–46) New York (30–52)
2002–03 New Jersey+ (49–33) Philadelphia* (48–34) Boston* (44–38) Orlando* (42–40) Washington (37–45) New York (37–45) Miami (25–57)
2003–04 New Jersey* (47–35) Miami* (42–40) New York* (39–43) Boston* (36–46) Philadelphia (33–49) Washington (25–57) Orlando (21–61)
2004: The Toronto Raptors joined from the Central Division. The Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic and the Washington Wizards left to join the Southeast Division.
2004–05 Boston* (45–37) Philadelphia* (43–39) New Jersey* (42–40) Toronto (33–49) New York (33–49)
2005–06 New Jersey* (49–33) Philadelphia (38–44) Boston (33–49) Toronto (27–55) New York (23–59)
2006–07 Toronto* (47–35) New Jersey* (41–41) Philadelphia (35–47) New York (33–49) Boston (24–58)
2007–08 Boston^ (66–16) Toronto* (41–41) Philadelphia* (40–42) New Jersey (34–48) New York (23–59)
2008–09 Boston* (62–20) Philadelphia* (41–41) New Jersey (34–48) Toronto (33–49) New York (32–50)
2009–10 Boston+ (50–32) Toronto (40–42) New York (29–53) Philadelphia (27–55) New Jersey (12–70)
2010–11 Boston* (56–26) New York* (42–40) Philadelphia* (41–41) New Jersey (24–58) Toronto (22–60)
2011–12[b] Boston* (39–27) New York* (36–30) Philadelphia* (35–31) Toronto (23–43) New Jersey (22–44)
2012: The New Jersey Nets relocated and became the Brooklyn Nets.
2012–13 New York* (54–28) Brooklyn* (49–33) Boston* (41–40) Philadelphia (34–48) Toronto (34–48)
2013–14 Toronto* (48–34) Brooklyn* (44–38) New York (37–45) Boston (25–57) Philadelphia (19–63)
2014–15 Toronto* (49–33) Boston* (40–42) Brooklyn* (38–44) Philadelphia (18–64) New York (17–65)
2015–16 Toronto* (56–26) Boston* (48–34) New York (32–50) Brooklyn (21–61) Philadelphia (10–72)
2016–17 Boston* (53–29) Toronto* (51–31) New York (31–51) Philadelphia (28–54) Brooklyn (20–62)
2017–18 Toronto* (59–23) Boston* (55–27) Philadelphia* (52–30) New York (29–53) Brooklyn (28–54)
2018–19 Toronto^ (58–24) Philadelphia* (51–31) Boston* (49–33) Brooklyn* (42–40) New York (17–65)
Rivalries[edit]
Main article: National Basketball Association rivalries § Atlantic Division
Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks[edit]
Main article: Celtics–Knicks rivalry
Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers[edit]
Main article: Celtics–76ers rivalry
New York Knicks vs. Brooklyn Nets[edit]
Main article: Knicks–Nets rivalry
New York Knicks vs Philadelphia 76ers[edit]
Main article: Knicks–76ers rivalry
a 1 2 Because of a lockout, the season did not start until February 5, 1999, and all 29 teams played a shortened 50-game regular season schedule.[2]
b 1 2 Because of a lockout, the season did not start until December 25, 2011, and all 30 teams played a shortened 66-game regular season schedule.[3]
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, the NBA canceled the April 16 game scheduled in Boston between the Celtics and the Pacers; the game was not rescheduled because it would have had no impact on either team's playoff seedings.[4]
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Knowing All about Hunan
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OVERSEAS HUNANESE
Film trailer highlighting family bonds wins praise online
Editor:李莎宁
Source:chinadaily.com.cn
Updated:2019-01-21 11:01:58
Peppa Pig [Photo/Weibo.com]
An upcoming film's trailer has garnered huge attention on China's social media platforms, with many netizens dubbing the short video as the "best commercial video of 2019".
The 5-minute trailer is advertising the upcoming animated filmPeppa Celebrates Chinese New Year, which is set to hit big screens on Feb 5, the first day of Chinese New Year and the first day of the Chinese zodiac's Year of the Pig.
The trailer revolves around the question "Who is Peppa?" and tells a touching story that highlights Chinese families.
The question "Who is Peppa" confuses the senior man in the trailer. [Photo/Weibo.com]
In the beginning, a senior man named Li Yubao living in a remote rural area asked his grandson on the phone what gifts he wanted for the Spring Festival, but only heard the word "Peppa" due to the poor mobile signal. Therefore, the man begins an interesting journey to discover who Peppa is.
With the help of neighbors, the senior got closer to the answer, created a Peppa Pig model using metals and his own intuition, and surprised his grandson.
At the end of the story, the man found out Peppa was a cartoon figure and enjoyed the film with the whole family during the holiday season.
The short video encourages people working outside to come back home often and accompany family members to spend a happy and warm Spring Festival holiday.
"After watching the trailer, I want to go to my hometown immediately. I have not seen my family for almost one year, and I miss them very much," said Sina Weibo user Yu Xiaojia.
"Though it is a short commercial video, I have to say it really touches the bottom of my heart, as family bonds play an irreplaceable role in Chinese people's daily lives," said another Sina Weibo user Fan Xiaobing1924.
The storyline of the film was written to directly correlate with Chinese New Year and incorporates some of the hallmarks of the celebration including dragon dancing, making dumplings and traditional Chinese costumes. The Peppa Pig movie will also introduce new characters, the Panda Twins.
The animated film is co-produced by British film and TV company Entertainment One and Alibaba Pictures.
"The Peppa Pig series emphasizes the importance of family values, which will deeply resonate with Chinese audiences," said Zhang Dapeng, director of the film, adding the film is a good opportunity to promote cultural exchange between the East and the West.
Peppa Pig, the television cartoon show that has been a hit with younger children around the world, has taken China by storm since last year. On the internet, the Peppa Pig buzz is even bigger.
Countless memes, jokes and videos have gone viral. People dub it in different dialects, and many have coined slang phrases. It's still a trendy thing to show off your Peppa Pig merchandise.
A wholesome meme featuring "four generations" has also attracted enormous attention in China, and around the world. [Photo/Weibo.com]
Actually, with the Lunar New Year holidays approaching, there is a particular emphasis on reuniting with family and being together with loved ones. After all, family bonds are the most significant thing in Chinese people's hearts.
Several days ago, a wholesome meme featuring "four generations" has also attracted enormous attention in China, and around the world.
In Chinese culture it is common for multiple generations of a single family to live together under one roof.
The "four generations" meme begins with a child walking into a room and calling back to their parent, who in turn walks into the same room and calls back to their parent and so forth until four generations of family members have entered the room.
The meme started from Douyin, China's answer to the popular video app TikTok, and now families from around the world, including the Philippines, India and United States have all shared their own "four generations" videos online.
Many foreign online users have commented that the videos are the most heartwarming ones they have seen in recent years, as it makes them miss their own grandparents, who may have died.
Contact the writer at zhangxingjian@chinadaily.com.cn
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International CSR Summit
Much About Mangrove
Ricoh (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
A total of 1005 Rhizophora mecronata mangrove saplings were planted in KSNP, with all exhibiting a low mortality rate based on the health checks conducted
As a leader in total office and business solutions, Ricoh (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd’s business operations are inevitably dependent on the earth’s ecological blessings. With a jarring loss of over 52,745 hectares of mangroves between 1980 and 2013, the North-central Selangor Coast Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) was labelled as one of the 2 most threatened crucial sites in Malaysia known for the conservation of migratory water birds and mangroves. These coastal mangroves have now been reduced to key ‘pockets’ such as the Kuala Selangor Nature Park (KSNP) housing 150 species of birds, small animals, fishes and many more. This revelation sparked a tripartite long-term partnership between the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), Ricoh Malaysia (and Japan) as well as BirdLife Asia Division in July 2011, birthing the ‘Much about Mangrove Project’. Forming the ‘pillars’ of the partnership include restoring an alternative high-tide roost for migratory water birds, mangrove planting, monitoring selected biodiversity as well as perform Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness (CEPA) activities, all synergised to catalyse and support local and national mangrove conservation initiatives.
FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY
The project first identified a suitable area to recreate a high-tide roost for migratory waterbirds with the guidance and assistance from the MNS-BCC Waterbirds Group. The team then began restoring the lake ecosystem in KSNP, which includes monitoring the water quality in order to prevent the mangrove ferns from recolonizing the cleared patch and rendering it unsuitable once more. 3 mangrove replanting sessions were held in 2011, 2012 and 2013, involving over 160 Ricoh Malaysia staff members and customers, who harnessed their energy collectively to restore and plant mangrove saplings around KSNP. In 2014, a team of 56 staff and customers were taken on an edifying journey, “Ricoh Eco Programme-Beyond the Mangroves” revealing the bigger picture – how the wetlands, birds and livelihood are interdependent. Marking the last component of the project is the implementation of CEPA activities – this predominantly carried out in KSNP involving seven schools, 425 students and 22 teachers, exposing them to several environmental activities to promote a better understanding of the importance of mangroves and its biodiversity.
ACHIEVEMENT AND IMPACT
A total of 1005 Rhizophora mecronata mangrove saplings were planted in KSNP, with all exhibiting a low mortality rate based on the health checks conducted. An encouraging increase in sightings of several species of migratory shorebirds such as Whimbrels, Common Redshanks, Greenshanks and sand-plovers were also recorded resting and feeding on the restored lake.
Additionally, KSNP’s lake system and adjacent mangroves not only transformed into a more viable location for Smooth Otters to utilise the area, but also presents a good environment for fireflies to thrive. Since the inception of the project, baseline firefly species identification and population mapping have identified Colophotia praeusta, Pteropytx valida and Pyrocoelia spp. as the three main species populating the KSNP mangrove area.
FUTURE DIRECTION
Looking ahead, Ricoh Malaysia aims to roll out the “Bring Back the Birds Campaign” whereby a perpetual effort to monitor, conserve and enhance areas to enrich the conditions of the lake, and subsequently improving biodiversity through the caring for the mangroves, replanting of more saplings, nursery maintenance and creating a conservation area for the endangered mangrove species in the park.
Strengthening CEPA too has been weaved into Ricoh’s future vision where more CEPA outreach activities to the schools and communities will be carried out including the hosting of local and overseas seminars, allowing the programme to spill over and educate across borders. To further substantiate efforts, a nature booklet series along the Flyway are in the works to be published and disseminated to key stakeholders. Eventually, all efforts of the project are designed to prepare KSNP in its walk towards attaining the world-renowned Ramsar status.
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.
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The role of talk shows on pro-Kremlin TV
8 June 2017 | News and analysis
Out of the approximately one billion USD the Kremlin allocates annually for the media it controls, around one third finances foreign language outputs, such as Sputnik and Russia Today (RT). The remaining two thirds are spent on ensuring that the Kremlin’s political line reaches Russia’s 145 million strong population. Obviously, this generous subsidy can allow the state-controlled TV stations to develop and refine those formats that can strengthen the impact of pro-Kremlin narratives on public opinion. Among different television genres, one stands out: the talk show.
At a first glance, the talk show format on pro-Kremlin TV can seem to provide audiences access to a diversity of viewpoints. Indeed, as a rule, a small number of “dissidents”, e.g. an opposition activist, a Ukrainian or even a “token American” will be invited into the studio, but these will always be massively outnumbered and yelled at by the majority of talk show participants, who hold pro-Kremlin views, and who are traditionally backed both by the studio audience and, crucially, the host. The role of the dissenting voice is thereby reduced to being a scapegoat, or even an instrument in legitimising mobbing: The limited diversity of opinions becomes a fig leaf that can keep up the appearance of at least some sort of public debate; in reality, it becomes a model of a society where dissenters and foreigners are, and should be, treated with hostility.
But apart from the systematic attacks on views that do not coincide with the Kremlin’s, talk shows also serve a different, and no less strategically important function, namely to spread incorrect information – a practice which inscribes itself in the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign. The Disinformation Review, which we publish every week, (sign up here) seeks to keep track of the disinformation relayed in the talk shows. Members of our network report cases where incorrect information appears in the show – both when voiced by a participant or by the host, as everything which is said affects public opinion, while it at the same time reflects the views the Kremlin has permitted to be expressed in the system of guidelines known as “temniki” – no viewpoint voiced can be considered “accidental”.
Below we have selected a number of examples, all of which have appeared during the past two months, either on state-controlled TV – Pervy Kanal, Rossiya-1 – or on privately owned, but no less Kremlin-loyal nationwide NTV. Among the many topics reported in our review, we decided to pick those which concern Ukraine. With the Kremlin’s behaviour in Ukraine having resulted in condemnation and sanctions from the international community, the Ukraine narrative remains a very high, if not the highest priority in the Kremlin’s media narrative, at least judging from the scope of attention Ukraine gets in the talk shows. At the same time, after having read through these examples, one might wonder to which degree this kind of language on state-controlled television can be said to be of support to the process of creating peace in Eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine is destroying people based on their ethnic origin: http://bit.ly/2ruTM1u “Vremya Pokazhet” Pervyi Kanal, 26 May 2017 (watch from 1:16:36)
NATO organised the Ukrainian revolution to establish a new military base in Crimea. http://bit.ly/2saAhrk “Mesto Vstrechi” NTV, 25 May 2017 (watch from 1:20:44)
Petro Poroshenko plans to kill several million people in Donbas. Angela Merkel is his accomplice, because she is silent about this plan: http://bit.ly/2saFVcN “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervy kanal 22 May 2017 (watch from 1:34:46)
The EU has provided Ukraine with a visa-free regime in order to “milk” it; taking its forests, fertile land and other resources: http://bit.ly/2qlmn7q “Mesto Vstrechi”, NTV, 12 May 2017 (watch from 44:23)
Nazism is taking revenge in Ukraine and Russia is the main target of it: http://bit.ly/2pQ6cvg “Pervaya Studiya”, Pervy Kanal, 10 May 2017 (watch from 1:09:47)
The Ukrainian people are under EU occupation: http://bit.ly/2qoTplw “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervy Kanal, 11 May 2017 (watch from 10:47)
A new Ukrainian nation is being created now with only one reason for its existence – the hatred for Russia: http://bit.ly/2qoTplw “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervy Kanal 11 May 2017 (watch from 1:14:12)
After the introduction of a visa-free regime with Ukraine, tens of thousands of neo-Nazis of Ukraine will pour into Europe: http://bit.ly/2qlmn7q “Mesto Vstrechi”, NTV, 12 May 2017 (watch from 42:31)
The street protests in Ukraine during Victory Day on 9 May showed that in Ukraine there is a Nazi government and a basically anti-fascist people: http://bit.ly/2qkWTYv “Vecher s Vladimirom Solovyovym”, Rossiya-1, 10 May 2017 (watch from 49:44)
Russophobia is the nature of the current Ukrainian state: http://bit.ly/2pWIp0n “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervy Kanal 28 April 2017(watch from 1:08:13)
Russia does not participate in the military conflict in Donbass: http://bit.ly/2pVUHUm “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervy Kanal, 17 April 2017 (watch from 15:26)
Ukraine is a ‘colonial empire’ that has captured Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian territories: http://bit.ly/2pYvRUc “Pervaya Studiya”, Pervy Kanal 27 April 2017 (watch from 50:05)
Just before the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine had started a secret nuclear project with the help of Germany and France in order to create its own nuclear weapons – building a factory close to Chernobyl reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for the weapon plutonium: http://bit.ly/2p9bdQV 18 April 2017, “Vremya Pokazhet, Pervy Kanal (watch from 11:37)
The authorities of Ukraine have moved from the policy of genocide to the cleansing of ethnic Russians in the region of Donbass: http://bit.ly/2pVUHUm ‘Vremya Pokazhet’, Pervy Kanal’, 17 April 2017 (27:29)
The US is designing military threats – the war in Ukraine, Daesh and a conflict with North Korea – in order to take Russia and China: http://bit.ly/2owQPHN “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervy Kanal, 12 April 2017 (watch from 02:59)
The authorities of Ukraine are carrying out a programme to ban the Russian language, which was developed by (Nazi propagandist) Goebbels: http://bit.ly/2pJOj2n “Vremya Pokazhet”, Pervyi Kanal, 10 April (watch from 57:36)
The Ukrainian state cannot exist without hatred towards Russia, which helps the Ukrainians to isolate themselves from Moscow: http://bit.ly/2p6CMdn “Vremya pokazhet”, Pervy Kanal, 3 April 2017 (watch from 1:13:13)
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Developers Up Security for IoT implementations
SANTA CRUZ, CA August 14, 2018 More than two thirds of developers working on applications for IoT and / or mobile devices are currently optimizing their deployments for security according to Evans Data’s newly released IoT and Mobile Development Survey. This is especially true for those working with IoT implementations that also involve mobility where over 80% spend time optimizing for security.
The July 2018 survey also showed that over 70% of those working with IoT systems have suffered some kind of security breach within the past year, thus compelling them to scrutinize their security systems.
Authentication is a critical component of any security system and 78% of IoT developers report they currently use device to device authentication while 59% use device to service (note; developers could select either or both options). For authenticating or authorizing connectivity to a centralized service (cloud, edge etc) developers are most likely to use Secure Remote Password Protocol (47%) followed by Constrained Application protocol (37%).
“While it’s clear that IoT has a very compelling need for security optimizations,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “there are also new advances that help developers secure their connected device projects. For example, we found that biometric authentication has come a long way recently with now over a quarter of IoT developers implementing some biometric authentication and another 40% working on projects that are planned to have that capability.”
Conducted every 6 months, the Mobile and IoT Development Survey explores developers’ activities and perceptions surrounding Mobility and Internet of Things. It’s focus includes topic areas such as; Demographics, Development Approaches, Platforms, Device Hardware, Enterprise Development, AI and ML, Security, Monetization and Payment Solutions, Technology Adoption, Language Use, and more.
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Jamie Oliver Deli by Shell opens at Extra Motorway Service Areas
31st January 2019 20th February 2019 / News
Shell announced the launch of its new range of food on the go, which has been created with chef Jamie Oliver. From 31 January, over 80 new products will be available at more than 500 of Shell’s service stations across the UK, ensuring that Britain’s drivers have a bigger, better choice – with fresh ideas, fantastic flavours and clever twists.
The new Jamie Oliver deli by Shell range includes classic items, such as sandwiches and wraps, that have been given a Jamie update, alongside a brand new selection of delicious products including salads, sushi, hot pots and a mealbox just for kids. There’s something for everyone, including revamped indulgent items alongside these new, healthier alternatives.
As people increasingly look to save time in their busy lives, providing better choices on the go is even more important. This long-term partnership is announced as a recent IPSOS Mori* survey reveals that over half (56%) of UK drivers want healthier choices at forecourts.
Jamie Oliver and Shell have injected more fruit, veg and colour into the range, to give people what they’re asking for – exciting, tasty, healthier food to choose from on the road. This includes 69% more fruit and vegetables across the sandwich range, which will contribute to an estimated 1.2 million additional portions of daily fruit and veg, annually.
István Kapitány, Executive Vice President Shell Retail, says: “Across the UK we’re seeing a growing trend towards healthier food, but it has to taste good and be convenient. Working with Jamie and his team, this exciting new range has been designed to give our customers the choices they want when they’re on the move.”
Jamie Oliver says: “I’m incredibly excited about this partnership. It requires creativity, imagination and serious determination to change food systems and working together we will give millions of Shell customers each week the opportunity to enjoy tastier, healthier and more varied food choices.
“Food on the go is going to become a far bigger, more normal part of everyone’s busy, modern lives – so it’s essential we make it more enjoyable through better-quality ingredients and exciting flavours. My pledge is to keep listening to what Shell’s customers want, keep improving standards, and be as useful as I possibly can be for Britain’s busy motorists.”
Through an increased focus on choice, health and flavour, the range makes it easier for Britain’s busy motorists to choose quality, delicious food on the go wherever they’re heading.
Examples of the Jamie Oliver deli by Shell range are:
Black pepper mayo BLT – You’ll find plenty of juicy tomato in this sandwich – so delicious with black pepper mayo. The perfect match with bacon and crispy lettuce, it’s the dream combo
Mediterranean roast veg & ricotta wrap – Including one portion of your daily fruit and veg, this rainbow wrap is the perfect balance of sweet roast veg and creamy ricotta – it really hits the spot
Beetroot, houmous, falafel & couscous salad – An epic mix of sweet potato falafel, warming harissa dressing, giant couscous and earthy beetroot houmous – every mouthful is different
Smoked cheese & slaw spicy chipotle chicken sandwich – This combo of chipotle ketchup, slaw, smoky cheese and tender chicken will delight and surprise you. Plus, we’ve included a handful of fresh spinach to boost your daily fruit and veg
Horseradish & red onion tuna mayo sandwich – Sweet-pickled red onion, fresh rocket and a punchy mayo take this classic sandwich up a notch
For families, a new kids’ mealbox will feature a rye bread sandwich, fruit, vegetables and a dip. The two kid’s meal boxes will be available from 14th of Feb.
The new chilled Jamie Oliver deli by Shell range will be available from 31 January, at 500+ service stations in the UK. Over the course of the year, five new hot food stores will open each week from 31 January onwards
As part of the drive to make it easy for people to make an informed choice, the Jamie Oliver deli by Shell front-of-pack labelling will be easy to understand and prominently feature traffic-light labelling on all packaging. The traffic-light label shows the fat, saturated fats, sugar and salt content of the products, using traffic-light signals for high (red), medium (amber) and low (green) percentages for each of these ingredients
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Italian Bread Soup (Pancotto)
by: Emiko
Every Tuesday, Italian expat Emiko Davies is taking us on a grand tour of Italy, showing us how to make classic, fiercely regional dishes at home.
Today: A simple, comforting peasant dish that spans almost every region in Italy.
“The most elemental dish in the world” is how Florentine Painter-Chef Guido Peyron once described this rather medieval dish of bread cooked in water with garlic, known in general as pancotto (which literally means "cooked bread"). It's enough to make a filling, satisfying, and comforting soup and is one of the most ancient of Italy's peasant cuisine that survives today.
Over the centuries, as borders changed and new ingredients became more readily available (such as tomatoes during the Renaissance), this essential soup transformed (and improved) and now appears in some form or another throughout all of Italy. It takes on a different personality as it moves from region to region, incorporating local staples such as breads, cheeses, seasonal vegetables, spices, or herbs.
In the northeast, in Friuli, where the soup is known as panade, it's almost as simple as its medieval version: stale bread cooked with bay leaves and water and garnished with Montasio, a mountain cheese. In the Veneto, they do a similar panade with beef stock, for flavor, and cinnamon (a very Venetian addition), for a sweet spice.
In Liguria, on Italy's northwest coast, it's kept simple: Water is flavored with garlic and oregano and slices of bread are gently added right at the end of cooking so they don't lose their shape. The version found on the island of Sardinia, pane frattau, is made with a thin Sardinian flatbread called pane carasau. The bread is softened in water, but not enough to lose its shape, and it is garnished with tomato sauce, grated cheese, and a poached egg on top.
In Rome, a creamy pancotto is often enriched with some fresh tomatoes and basil. Way down south, in Puglia, the rustic soup takes on yet another entirely different look: Cubes of bread are tossed last minute into a broth of diced potatoes and greens such as arugula, green beans, and zucchini -- perhaps with some pancetta and chile for added flavor.
Tuscany also keeps things quite medieval with this traditional pancotto below. Stale bread is cooked in a broth made with the classic trilogy of chopped carrot, celery, and onion -- the bread becoming creamy as it melts in the soup. Chili and Pecorino Romano cheese add flavor, fresh herbs (typically nepitella, or calamint) add color. But it remains a simple, comforting dish -- not much different from its peasant origins -- that warms and fills bellies on cold nights.
More: You may recognize this soup as the predecessor of one of Tuscany's most famous dishes.
Just as it evolves from region to region, this soup can be adapted as you wish. Pare back for more simplicity, or add a few extras for more oomph: You could use beef or vegetable stock instead of water (or you may like to use half-and-half), more garlic, or perhaps add chopped pancetta with the celery, carrot, and onion. The important thing is the bread. It should be a delicious, white, quite dense country loaf with a good, crunchy crust -- and it should be a couple days old. It doesn't have to be dry as a bone, but it shouldn't be too fresh and springy. If you do have fresh bread and you'd still like to make this recipe, slice it into thick slices and dry it out slightly in a very low temperature oven; try not to toast it, as it will affect the taste.
Tuscan Bread Soup (Pancotto)
1/2 pound (250 grams) stale white bread (Italian style loaf), crusts on
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, plus more for serving
1 small carrot, finely chopped
1/2 celery stick, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled but left whole
1 teaspoon dried chile (or chopped fresh chile)
4 cups (1 liter) water or stock (vegetable or beef)
3/4 cup (80 grams) grated Pecorino Romano or Parmesan cheese
Handful of fresh herbs, such as oregano, marjoram, or parsley
Photos by Emiko Davies
Christine Marte
Liz Lehfeldt
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Written by: Emiko
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The Australian-Japanese cookbook author has lived in Florence (where a visit to a cheese farm once inspired her to start a food blog) for over 10 years with her Tuscan sommelier husband. Her second cookbook Acquacotta: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany's Secret Silver Coast (Hardie Grant Books), is out now.
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Christine M. November 9, 2018
I'm trying to figure out the origin of a dish my Italian/American Mum made on holidays. It has the consistency of a loose polenta made with breadcrumbs, stock and tons of black pepper. She called it "peydah" (sp). Any ideas?
Liz L. February 3, 2015
wondering if it could work--even if it's not the traditional style--with whole wheat bread?
Emiko February 3, 2015
It would still work, although the texture and flavour will be a little different from the usual.
Sue February 3, 2015
USA spells it chili too.
Yes, that's mentioned below! ;)
Sue November 9, 2018
yes it is but it wasn't there when I responded. 😊
I guess it was there,sorry
Maryellen February 1, 2015
My computer and dictionary do not recognize "chile". Is it supposed to be a chili pepper?
Correct. 'Chile' is also spelled "chili" or "chilli" (the latter is the way I usually spell it, as an Australian!) but the first two are US spellings.
notoriousBiC January 28, 2015
Haven't tried this, but I do love a hearty pappa al pomodoro.
It's the ancestor of pappa al pomodoro so no doubt you might like this too!
Ellie B. January 27, 2015
Daaaaaaaang this is amazing!!!!! I never EVER would have thought of bread becoming soup, definitely pinning this. 0_0 <3 It's too bad I don't have stale bread (or any bread) right now, haha. And I always love learning some cultural wisdom so thank ya. ;)
Marian B. January 27, 2015
I have a whole bunch of stale bread cubes at the moment -- now I know what to do with them! And way to make a bowl of bread mush look beautiful. xx
Emiko January 27, 2015
hahaha thanks Marian :)
Matilde January 27, 2015
Here in Portugal, we have a traditional dish quite similar to pancotto: it is called açorda and it is typically made in Alentejo. You can make it with virtually everything (though my favorite is definetly seafood açorda) and it is seasoned with coriander, giving its very characteristic taste.
This is a very common recipe:
http://algarve.kazulo.com/9301/acorda-a-algarvia-seafood-breadsoup.htm
Panfusine January 27, 2015
Perfect, I have 1/2 a loaf of 3 day ol Pane siciliano > this soup sounds perfect for a snow day, thank you Emiko!
Rebecca @. January 27, 2015
I love the idea of a poached egg on top. I had to laugh about using stale bread though. When I made stuffing for Thanksgiving, I bought fresh baked loaves of bread, only to cut them up and let them go stale before using them. It seems like a waste until you try the finished dish, then that's no longer a concern :)
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Controlling the Vector
Les épidémies - la dynamique des maladies infectieuses
Université d'État de Pennsylvanie
Not so long ago, it was almost guaranteed that you would die of an infectious disease. In fact, had you been born just 150 years ago, your chances of dying of an infectious disease before you've reached the tender age of 5 would have been extremely high. Since then, science has come a long way in understanding infectious diseases - what they are, how they spread, and how they can be prevented. But diseases like HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, or the flu are still major killers worldwide, and novel emerging diseases are a constant threat to public health. In addition, the bugs are evolving. Antibiotics, our most potent weapon against bacterial infections, are losing their power because the bacteria are becoming resistant. In this course, we'll explore the major themes of infectious diseases dynamics. After we’ve covered the basics, we'll be looking at the dynamics of the flu, and why we're worried about flu pandemics. We'll be looking at the dynamics of childhood diseases such as measles and whooping cough, which were once considered almost eradicated, but are now making a comeback. We'll explore Malaria, and use it as a case study of the evolution of drug resistance. We'll even be looking at social networks - how diseases can spread from you to your friends to your friends' friends, and so on. And of course we’ll be talking about vaccination too. We’ll also be talking about how mobile phones, social media and crowdsourcing are revolutionizing disease surveillance, giving rise to a new field of digital epidemiology. And yes, we will be talking about Zombies - not human zombies, but zombie ants whose brains are hijacked by an infectious fungus. We're looking forward to having you join us for an exciting course!
Biology, Microbiology, Public Health, Vaccine Development
It is a wonderful course , I have gain and updated my Knowledge in the area of Epidemics and Infectious Disease, Thanks to the Course organizers and most effective presentations . Dr Shivaji
I thoroughly enjoyed this course and learned a great deal of information in the process. I found the interviews to be very helpful in bringing it all together for me. Thank you professors!
Control Mechanisms
In module 6 of the course, you will learn about mechanisms involved in controlling epidemics. In these lectures, we will discuss what control mechanisms are trying to do, such as breaking the chain of transmission, and many ways by which animals and humans attempt to achieve control. These means include pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions, appearing at individual or population levels. We will describe examples of great successes in eradication, and the reasons why control efforts fail.
Behavioral Avoidance6:29
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Dr. Ottar N. Bjornstad
Professor of Entomology and Biology
Dr. Rachel A. Smith
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Professor of Biology
Dr. David P. Hughes
Assistant Professor of Entomology and Biology
Dr. Peter Hudson
Willaman Professor of Biology
Dr. Matthew Ferrari
Assistant Professor of Biology
Dr. Andrew Read
Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences, and Professor of Entomology
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Some of the most important diseases of humanity are transmitted between
people by other animals like fleas, snails and in particular, mosquitoes.
Mosquito-borne diseases have changed history, so is the control of them.
The French failed to build the Panama Canal because
of the ravages of diseases like yellow fever and malaria.
Only after the Americans controlled mosquitoes could the canal be built.
Even today 200 million people get malaria
a year, 100 million get dengue, 200,000 yellow fever.
Most of these diseases are in the
tropics but there are also rarer important diseases
like west Nile virus and chikungunya that can
be transmitted by mosquitoes even in rich countries.
For vector-borne diseases like malaria, there are two options for control.
One is to try to cure the disease
with drugs or protect the patient with vaccines.
This patient-centered approach is more natural
for physicians and is the approach which
has attracted the most research and attention.
But the other option is to go after the mosquitoes.
This has been the most successful approach
historically and that success continues to this day.
To explain why, I am going to focus on malaria.
But the general issues apply equally to
other mosquito born diseases including viral diseases
like Dengue, West Nile and Japanese Encephalitis,
and the mosquito born worms that cause Elephantiasis.
Part of the reason that mosquito control can be so
successful, is that the patient centred approach isn't always an option.
There are good drugs to treat malaria, but there is currently no vaccine.
For yellow fever, there is a good vaccine, but no drugs.
For dengue there are neither drugs nor vaccines.
And even when we do have drugs, as in the malaria case,
many people can have the parasites in their blood, and not be sick.
These asymptomatic carriers are very hard to find.
They can maintain the parasites
in the community.
The idea of mass drug administration, where everyone in a region is given
drugs, can work, but immigrants moving into
an area can reintroduce the malaria parasite.
So malaria control with drugs alone is tough.
But the main reason mosquito control can be so
effective at controlling vector-borne diseases comes from the biology.
For transmission to work, a lot of things have to line up.
For instance, mosquitoes have to get infected in the first place by biting
on an infectious person, not an uninfected person,
or a cow that won't have human malaria.
And then, to cause a new case of malaria, infected mosquitoes have
to bite a susceptible person, not a cow or an already infected person.
Those two bites have to line up.
Moreover, those two bites have to line up at the right times.
Something I find incredible is that all the important vector
one pathogens take some time to develop in the mosquito.
During that time, they are not infectious.
For malaria, this period varies between ten days
and many weeks, depending on a lot of things.
But particularly the temperature experienced by
the mosquito while she's incubating the parasite.
Two weeks is pretty average. Think about what that means.
For two weeks after she got infected with malaria parasites.
A mosquito is not dangerous to humans.
Only after the parasites, finally, buried away into her
mouth parts, is she capable of starting a new infection.
Two whole weeks.
In most places in the world, that is longer than the average mosquito lives.
It is one of the great
of malaria, most mosquito populations do not live long enough to transmit malaria.
Hardly any mosquitoes will ever encounter malaria, maybe just a few percent, and
of those, hardly any will survive long enough to pass it back to humans.
So lots of reasonably improbable events have
to line up for malaria transmission to occur.
A mosquito has to get malaria in the first place, then she has to live long
enough to become infectious, then she has to
bite on a susceptible person, and so on.
This means that if you can reduce the number of
mosquitoes, if you can shorten the mosquito lifespan some more, or
if you can reduce the chances they will bite a
person, then you can have a big impact on malaria transmission.
This is all because if you make a lot of low probability
of even less likely the multiplicative effect would be very large and
that is why mosquito control can be such a good way of
controlling a vector borne disease and
often way more effective than treating patients.
And there are lots
of ways to do mosquito control. You can try to reduce mosquito densities.
One important way to do that is to attack mosquitoes at their breeding sites.
Mosquito eggs and larvae live in water bodies.
Large scale environmental changes like draining swamps can be highly effective.
This is how malaria was eradicated from much of Europe and the United States.
It is also possible to systematically poison larvae.
In 1930, in northeast Brazil, the African
malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, was accidentally
introduced off ships from west Africa.
It spread across an area the size of Switzerland, and
led to vast malaria epidemics, with hundreds of thousands of cases.
Perhaps 20,000 deaths and mass panic where people just ran away.
Incredibly the Brazilian Government and the Rockefeller Institute
set out to get rid of every last mosquito.
Fred Soper, one of the heroes of tropical medicine, organized a vast army of people
to put insecticides in every puddle in the area remember the size of Switzerland.
And after several years it worked.
They got rid of every last mosquito.
Of course, that begs the question of why that can't be done today.
The insecticide they used then, something called
Paris Green, would be considered environmentally damaging today.
But we do have organic pesticides available now.
Now the biggest hurdle is the logistics involved
in mapping and treating and continuing to treat
every last puddle.
It is hard to imagine that in the
political climate of today Such logistics could be achieved.
So that's an example of successful larval control.
From a disease transmission perspective, however, even
more bang for buck comes if you can
go after the adult mosquitoes when they come
into houses at night to feed on people.
They can be blocked from biting people with bed nets or window screens.
The can be killed or repelled with insecticides or bed nets Or
insecticides sprayed on walls.
Insecticide solutions can be very effective.
A challenge is the need to reapply them every few months at least on walls.
These days the insecticides on bed nets can be made
to last as long as the bed nets, about five years.
But the main problem is that
the mosquitoes become resistant to the insecticides.
In the 1950s, DDT was hailed as a solution to malaria.
It was miraculous
what happened to mosquitoes, when it was sprayed on house walls.
But it was only a few years before people started to see mosquitoes walking around
on DDT treat, treated surfaces that killed all
of those mosquitoes only a few years earlier.
Today the search is on for alternatives. New chemistry and new technology.
Thomas and I, here at Penn state are working on a fungus we can spray
on the walls, that will that penetrate into
mosquitoes and eat them from the inside out.
And there are other approaches being worked on
from infecting the mosquitoes with bacteria that make
them immune to a malaria, to genetically modifying
the mosquitoes so that they cannot reproduce themselves.
Or to make mosquitoes that produce compounds
that kill any malaria infections they pick up.
But you might be wondering if there are all these options and a vector
control can be so effective. How can we still have malaria?
Well, first of all we don't have malaria in many places we used to.
Its gone from Europe, from North America, Taiwan, Russia.
So, vector control can work.
The problem is the places where it still remains.
Usually they are grindingly poor.
Malaria is easy to eradicate if you have enough money.
Well sealed air conditioned hotels are not the place you get malaria.
Malaria today is a disease of poverty.
What makes things worse, is that in those places with
malaria, they often have an awful lot of malaria transmission.
There are parts of Africa, for example, where people are
getting bitten by infectious mosquitoes three or five times per night.
That's right, they get exposed to malaria three or
five times per night, that's 1500 infectious bites per year.
With transmission
that intense, we'll imagine control measures
that drop the number of infectious mosquitoes
by 99%, something that could be achieved only with a huge amount of money.
They would still leave 15 infectious bites per person, per year.
Still a huge amount of transmission, a huge amount of disease.
So the bottom line, vector control could be highly effective, and even lead
to eradication, so long as the transmission
is not too intense to start with.
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Compagnies Membres
Voyages d'affaires
oneworld IT hub in the clouds smooths airberlin's addition
oneworld®, the premier global airline alliance, has implemented a new information technology (IT) hub, making it easier, more efficient and faster to link new airlines into the alliance - with airberlin the first of its recruits to benefit.
The oneworld IT hub takes advantage of latest "cloud" and web-based technology, supported by Dell Boomi, one of the leading providers of application and data integration platforms built "in the cloud".
Initially, it has been used to support all frequent flyer programme IT systems. Linking these platforms together has historically been the most time consuming and expensive part of integrating a new recruit into the alliance, with the massive amount of coding and testing necessary to ensure every member airline can securely share data with all partner carriers through an intricate network of one-on-one connections.
The oneworld IT hub has substantially reduced the complexity, cost and time involved. All existing member airlines of the alliance have now plugged in to the hub in the "cloud", meaning that recruits simply have to link too to the hub rather than connecting separately to each individual alliance partner.The alliance expects other information technology applications and activities to switch to the oneworld IT hub in the future.
oneworld IT Director Jouni Naskali said: "The development of this new hub is one of the most significant alliance IT developments since oneworld was established more than a decade ago.
"We have looked several times before at the potential of developing an IT hub for linking our member airlines' IT systems, but the cost of doing so using previous technologies meant it could not be justified, particularly with oneworld's more limited membership numbers and with seven of our 11 existing carriers using the same IT platform, Amadeus.
"This new facility dramatically speeds and simplifies the addition of new airlines to the alliance, making the entire process substantially more efficient and, thanks to the latest technology, more cost effective both for the new joiners and for our established carriers."
airberlin's Senior Vice-President Alliances and Cooperation Stephen Nagel added: "The oneworld IT hub has enabled airberlin to join oneworld's many months sooner than if we had had to link up our systems with our alliance partners using the old one-on-one procedures, significantly simplifying our integration. This has meant we can offer the benefits of oneworld to our customers and start enjoying the additional revenues it will deliver to our company earlier than would previously been the case and for a significantly smaller capital investment."
About airberlin
Since its launch in 1978, airberlin has grown into Germany's second largest airline - and the sixth biggest in Europe in terms of passengers boarded - after taking over dba and LTU and gaining stakes in Austria's NIKI and Switzerland's Belair.
It serves 162 destinations in 40 countries, carrying more than 35 million passengers in 2011. Its fleet comprises 170 aircraft with an average age of five years, making it one of the most modern and fuel efficient fleets in Europe, contributing towards a long-term reduction in emissions. The group employs 9,200 staff.
It has developed from its origins in the shorthaul leisure market to cater also for business travellers with its Euro Shuttle service providing high frequency connections between many of the continent's key destinations and now also flies longhaul. It offers the full-range of services associated with a full-service network carrier, including its frequent flyer programme topbonus, and, for Business Class passengers and top tier cardholders, lounges, priority check-in and, for all passengers, free drinks and meals or snacks on every departure.
Sur ses services courts/moyens-courriers, elle offre des cabines à classe unique. On its longhaul routes, it offers two-classes, with a premium business cabin and individual in-flight entertainment screens for each passenger.
airberlin's hubs are Berlin Tegel (moving to Brandenburg in June), Dusseldorf, Palma de Majorca and Vienna. Among its international destinations, it serves oneworld hubs Helsinki, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Moscow Domodedovo and New York JFK.
A propos de oneworld
oneworld aims to be the airline alliance of choice for the world's frequent international travellers. It brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business - airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Qantas, Royal Jordanian and S7 Airlines, and around 20 affiliates including Austria's NIKI, American Eagle, Dragonair, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador and LAN Peru. Malaysia Airlines is on track to join later in 2012, with India's Kingfisher Airlines also a member elect. Malév Hungarian Airlines and Mexicana are inactive members of the alliance.
Between them, oneworld's active member airlines:
Serve some 800 airports in 150 countries, with more than 8,750 daily departures.
Offer more than 550 airport lounges for premium customers.
Carry almost a million passengers a day on a combined fleet of nearly 2,500 aircraft.
Generate some US$ 100 billion annual revenues in total.
oneworld enables its members to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network and more airport lounges. oneworld also offers more alliance fares than any of its competitors.
oneworld is current holder of more international awards for airline alliances than any of its competitors - named the Best Airline Alliance by Global Traveler in its GT Tested Reader Survey 2011 Awards for the second year running, the World's Leading Airline Alliance in the 2011 World Travel Awards, for the ninth consecutive year, and the Best Airline Alliance 2011 in Australian Business Traveller's debut awards.
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Former CNN Contributor: Mainstream News Outlets Are ‘Zionist Organizations’
Has history of anti-Israel comments
Graham Piro
Marc Lamont Hill, a Temple University professor and former CNN commentator, said that mainstream news outlets are "Zionist organizations" that create "Zionist content" during an appearance at a progressive conference.
Anti-Semites Abroad: Ellison and Corbyn Meet in London
Both have ties to anti-Semitic leaders and have been accused of anti-Semitism
Nic Rowan
Former congressman Keith Ellison met with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday, with the American praising the Brit as a "true grassroots organizer."
Booker Refuses To Rule Out Meeting With Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
Former Obama Friend, Catholic Priest Invites Louis Farrakhan to Speak at Church
A radical Catholic priest and former adviser to Barack Obama invited Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to speak at his Chicago parish.
The Democratic Party’s Puzzling Connection to a ‘Far-Right Extremist’
Journalists are writing stories about Instagram's decision to ban a number of prominent "far-right leaders" and "right-wing extremists" in an effort to crack down on misinformation and dangerous online behavior.
Ilhan Omar Comms Director: ‘Anti-Semitism Is a Right-Wing Force’
Jeremy Slavin, the senior communications director for freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), claimed that “anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.”
Sanders Rehires Aide Who Said Omar Was ‘Unfairly Vilified’ for Calling Out AIPAC
Claire Sandberg, who was recently hired to Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I., Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, said freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) was right to call out AIPAC and encouraged Democrats to give monthly donations to her reelection campaign.
Sarsour Slams ‘Typical White Feminist’ Pelosi Over House Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism
Women's March leader Linda Sarsour slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) Monday for being a "typical white feminist upholding the patriarchy" in response to a House resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
Farrakhan Praises Omar for Anti-Semitic Language: ‘You Have Nothing to Apologize For’
The Democrats Have an Anti-Semite Problem
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Opinion /
By Jörg Heiser
How are Algorithms Changing the Way Art is Seen?
Jörg Heiser on the Soviet sci-fi classic Planeta Pur, algorithmic bias and the limits of artificial intelligence
In the Soviet sci-fi classic Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms, 1962), a robot accompanies cosmonauts on a mission to Venus. His name is not Alexei or Ivan but John, and he attempts to save two of the scientists exploring the planet’s surface, carrying them across a lava stream. Yet, halfway through, John announces that, because of the heat, carrying the load any further would be hazardous to his mechanics. The scientists try to turn off his self-protection program – a switch on the robot’s back. Their attempts to do so cause John to malfunction, and he starts to play American big-band jazz like a jukebox. The two are eventually rescued by their comrades.
The message is clear: Western capitalism may produce superior technology, but its ethics tend towards egotism and cruelty; socialist comradeship will win. We know it didn’t, but that doesn’t undermine John’s warning. What need to be kept in check today are not just speaking tin cans with arms and legs but algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) – the invisible operators hidden in the depths of our networked world. The former hedge-fund analyst and big-data expert Cathy O’Neil describes these, in the title of her recent book, as Weapons of Math Destruction (2016). What she has seen in both finance and IT, she writes, is a ‘widespread use of imperfect models, self-serving definitions of success and growing feedback loops’, leading to algorithms that amplify social inequality or reinforce sexism and racism. For example, a Google AI designed to police online comments rated ‘I am a gay black woman’ 87 percent toxic compared to 20 percent for ‘I am a man’.
Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms), 1962. Courtesy: Alamy
Algorithmic biases leading to crass discrimination or even deaths – as in the case of a Pentagon operation that underestimated the number of civilian casualties of anti-ISIS airstrikes in Iraq by a staggering factor of 31 – are not just technical defects: they are based on human prejudice. Against that background, asking about the effects of algorithms on the art world seems negligible. But art is not isolated from everything else. News-feed algorithms favouring populist vitriol for its click-bait quality have had comparable effects on debates around art. Museum scandals, calls to close exhibitions and to destroy or remove artworks – which are quick to draw parallels with Nazi censorship – are sure to gain online traction instantly, dividing the public sharply into opposing camps. Attempts to discuss complication and nuance, or what we actually see in an artwork, are trolled or buried under heaps of self-righteous, often slanderous rhetoric.
Hence, how handy it is that seeing, processing and creating images can now be delegated to AI. Google’s Art & Culture app has made the rounds with its novelty effect of pairing faces with museum paintings, matching ginger-haired art critics from Germany with portraits of 17th-century Dutch gentlemen – while a colleague of African descent may be twinned with casually racist depictions of servants and slaves. Last year, researchers from Rutgers University collaborated with Facebook to devise an AI that generated new imagery from more than 80,000 paintings from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Hired as evaluators, people working for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – a crowdsourcing marketplace that brokers human intelligence – predominantly interpreted these images as handmade. According to one of the researchers, the AI was programmed to make something with ‘arousal potential’ so that it wouldn’t be ‘considered boring’, something ‘novel, but not too novel’. In other words, the machine produced what a second-rate, market-conforming artist would make – mildly quirky abstractions, in this case. And those who evaluated them did not necessarily have an interest in art, much less a serious commitment to it. There seems to be an algorithmic bias against imagination at work, and against serious engagement.
So, what to do? Compliance to ethical standards needs to be established in IT companies and AI conception should not be left exclusively to programmer geeks. Even more importantly, the three laws of robotics devised by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov must be put into practice, politically and juridically. First introduced in the 1940s, they state that robots must not harm humans, that they must obey humans (unless it would break the first rule), and that they must protect their own existence – provided there is no conflict with laws one and two. John, in Planeta Bur, broke all three. Equally, an algorithmic bias could be read as harmful to humans, while its mechanics usually remain hidden. Marc Rotenberg, a US law professor, therefore suggests adding two more laws: the fourth, under which a robot must be able to identify itself to the public, and the fifth, under which a robot must be able to explain its decision-making process. In other words, no more secret codes and no more AIs whose actions aren’t even understood by their programmers. Art can afford to be ambivalent, even mysterious; science and technology can’t.
This article appears in the issue 194 April 2018 print edition, with the title Artificial Stupidity.
Jörg Heiser is director of the Institute for Art in Context at the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany.
First published in Issue 194
Google Arts & Culture App
Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern Review: Spectacle in an Age of Climate Crisis
Peter Strickland’s Demon Dress Horror ‘In Fabric’ and the History of Killer Fashion
How the Art World Can Fight a ‘Culture of Censorship’
How Partial Blindness Showed Johann König How to Be a Gallerist
‘Dirt was as important as gold’: An Oral History of Robert Rauschenberg
We’re All Tired of Biennials – So What Comes Next? Part 1: A Report on the Inaugural Edition of osloBIENNALEN
The Poor-Shaming Vision of Pride in Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need to Calm Down’
The Art of Selling Luxury
Vivian Maier: The Strangeness of Selves
Why Manga Shouldn’t Pretend to Be High Art
The Radical History of Sesame Street
How ‘Pokémon Sleep’ Promises to Commodify Our Dreams
A Heat-Wave Dispatch from Hydra
Memories of a Meteorite
How Murals Have Served as Mirrors for Political Change
Operation Night Watch is Revealing Rembrandt’s Secrets (And You Can Watch Live)
Why in an Age of Climate Crisis, the Art World Must Shun Oil Sponsorship
How a Beach Opera at the 58th Venice Biennale Quietly Contends with Climate Change Catastrophe
58th Venice Biennale Review: Brilliance and Bluster
How Artists Are Using the Power of Personal Histories to Tackle the Legacy of Colonialism
Janiva Ellis’s Paintings of Bodied and Disembodied States
Mark Hollis (1955-2019): from Synthpop Outrider to Post-Rock Pioneer
How Paint and Perception Collide in the Work of Late Surrealist Dorothea Tanning
Stories of Finnish Art
Ateneum Art Museum
‘Conflicts and Adaptations. Estonian Art of the Soviet Era (1940–1991)’
Dea Trier Mørch
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebaek
‘Touch: Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection’
EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
‘Bryk & Wirkkala Visible Storage’
‘I'm a Believer. Pop Art and Contemporary Art’
Lenbachhaus München
Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin
Laurie Parsons
Museum Abteiberg
Chen Ching-Yuan
‘Who Are You? Two centuries of portraits’
Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum
Rebecca Warren
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4 posts categorized "Science"
Government 2.0: Citizens take the lead
Look at this nifty and useful Google Calendar implimentation on Greg Kowalski's FRANKLIN TODAY blog:
This is exactly the kind of useful content that a community blog should offer. Bonus feature: If you have a Google Calendar account (and/or iCal on a Mac), you can subscribe to Greg's City of Franklin Calendar and have those events integrated into your own calendar and automatically updated.
That's pretty handy.
The official City of Franklin website has a calendar module as well, and it isn't so bad. It looks like this:
Clicking "View all Events" sends you to a page with a longer list of city events as well as links to agendas and meeting minutes.
I think, however, the city could stand to emulate Kowalski's use of free Google services so citizens can subscribe, for instance, to meetings covering certain TOPICS and ISSUES as well as gathering of specific commissions and committees.
Inching closer to transparency ....
Posted at 07:00 AM in Close to Home, Commentary, Community Concepts, Good news, Recommended site, Science, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How could the mortgage crisis get worse in suburbia? How about some BRAIN SWELLING DISEASE?
Via Slate: The Big Money:
Filmmakers Andrew and Leslie Cockburn discuss a scene from their new documentary American Casino. The scene shows how a sea of abandoned swimming pools in California has become a mosquito Club Med.
Posted at 12:59 PM in Bad news, Bad Planning, Current Affairs, McMansions, Problems, Science | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
"Uneven Pavement" indeed: Shoppes at Wyndham Village Parking Lot
Shoppes at Wyndham Village Parking Lot - 03, originally uploaded by John Michlig.
Click for a series of photos depicting Mother Nature reasserting herself.
Posted at 04:38 PM in Bad Planning, Close to Home, Franklin Photos, Problems, Retail design, Science, Shops at Wyndham Village | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
While some local Councils turn to new media, Franklin still flipping cassettes
GoogleMap image uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
We have a fairly serious transparency problem here in Franklin. The city website is fairly incomprehensible, and staffing shortages mean that it'll be a long time before resources can be devoted to making it easier for people to know what meetings are upcoming and what projects and developments are pending.
Want to follow a development or issue through myriad meeting and committees? Forget it; the city of Franklin website assumes that you have time to search through EVERY POSSIBLE AGENDA (in PDF format - so you have to download them first) for your development or issue rather than simply list developments and then add to it every meeting and document that is related (see it done right at the city of Davis, California website).
Of course, I highly suspect that not everyone in local government wants information and processes to be easily accessible. The emergence of local blogs has been a source of extreme discomfort for many longtime local pols, and has arguably contributed to the resignation of more than one of the "old boys" who did not appreciate the extra scrutiny.
I also suspect this is why we still see city meetings stop regularly - in the year 2009! - so someone can flip the cassette used to record the meeting!
Still, they're slipping 'em by us now and then.
For instance: Did you know the city might actually spend stimulus money (with Greendale) to, inexplicably, widen 51st street to four lanes between Rawson and College Ave.? AND, did you know that St. Paul's Church (see above; it's beautiful even in a GoogleMaps screenshot) will have to be torn down to accommodate that folly? (More on that later).
District 3 Alderperson Kristen Wilhelm sends out regular emails alerts (the only reason I know about 51st Street) and updates her website; it may be time to get her and the other council members Twitter accounts so they can send and be sent news during meetings.
In the UK, they seem to be on top of the possibilities of new media in keeping local government answerable to the people:
Councils turn to new media:
Local authorities have been using social media to keep residents informed about how the heavy snowfalls have affected services.
Authorities including Lichfield and Babergh district councils used micro-blogging site Twitter to announce canceled bin collections while Newcastle city council used its Twitter account to keep parents informed about school closures.
Other councils including Barnet, Southwark and Hillingdon had regular website updates. Increasing numbers of councils and councillors are turning to social media to communicate with residents. Latest figures suggest more than 20 councils and a further 40 individual councillors have Twitter accounts and Newcastle city council recently became the first to use Twitter to announce the results of a by-election.
Alastair Smith, communications advisor at Newcastle city council, believes the use of new media is part of the democratisation of information and can lead to greater openness and transparency.
He said: “It’s a great way to engage with the citizen. Rather than it being a one-way communication, it’s two-way. If you are putting a message out there, it’s important to hear what people think about it.”
The use of online media is growing. Over the past year the use of Twitter has rocketed nearly 1,000%. Mr Smith believes that with the number of traditional news sources diminishing it will be increasingly important for councils to maintain an online presence.
“While it is important to maintain a relationship with traditional media, if people are looking at YouTube we need to be there. We need to have a presence where our customers are,” he said.
Communicating in a Digital Age
Increasing numbers of councils and councillors are turning to social media to communicate with residents and to keep up to date with what is happening in their local communities. Alison Purdy looks at how councillors are getting to grips with the digital age.
Is social media a useful tool for councils and councillors to communicate with residents?
Twitter is one of the latest social media buzzes. Although it has been around for a while it is now starting to gain more widespread popularity as more people as increasing numbers of people start to use it. Celebrities from Stephen Fry to Barack Obama use Twitter accounts to update their fans. Nationally the Conservative party is on Twitter, along with No 10, the Foreign Office and Parliament. But there is also a vibrant community of people posting updates who are involved in local government and a number of councils using Twitter as part of their engagement drive.
Latest figures suggest that more than 20 councils are using Twitter with a further 40 individual councillors regularly posting their own personal messages, known as tweets. Newcastle city council became the first local authority in the UK to announce election results in real time through the social networking site. The Fenham ward by-election results were sent to ‘followers’ of the council – people signed up to read their messages – through the website or on their mobile phones as soon as they were announced.
And more recently councils around the country used Twitter to keep residents up to date with the latest weather situation and the impact the snow storms were having on council services. Here are some examples of how councillors are using Twitter and other social media to get their message across.
Cllr James Cousins (Con) Wandsworth council Twitter is often portrayed in the media as a festival of celebrity banality but it is a valuable medium, where diverse people congregate, contribute and discuss. I first became aware of its power through Twitter conversations about local government engagement, and from there it was an obvious step to use it as a councillor. My approach, in short, has been to ‘be human’. I use my personal account and try to avoid too much about the town hall, which I suspect even I would find dull. Instead I try to make my ‘tweets’ either encourage discussion or be informative, but that doesn’t stop me discussing TV or celebrating my team’s rare wins.
What is surprising is not just how many local people were tweeting, but how many were eager to engage and use Twitter to communicate with their councillor. While I often sit in a draughty library with no-one attending my surgery it is quite the reverse in the ‘Twitterverse’ where people are keen to ask questions or air local issues with me. In the past week alone parks, parking, traffic, policing and business issues have all been raised with me via Twitter. Like any dialogue, you get out what you put in. For me, Twitter has been incredibly rewarding
Cllr Daniel Cox (Con) Norfolk county council Norfolk county council recently used Facebook as a tool in our campaign to get the government to bring forward the dualling of the final single carriageway stretch of the A11 – a major route into, and out of, Norfolk. Our two-month campaign resulted in 16,000 people signing either a hard copy, or the online, petition, with an additional 3,200 joining our Facebook group.
The business community regarded the dualling as vital for boosting competitiveness and improving the perception of Norfolk as a great place in which to do business. The economic benefits of dualling the road are estimated at £600m – far outweighing the cost of construction. Thousands of people who live in Norfolk, or have links with the county, have Facebook accounts and many Norfolk-related groups already existed. This gave us an opportunity to reach an existing online Norfolk community – many of whom had direct experience of this section of the A11.
Different audience
Some of these people may have kept in touch with news via the local media, and some may have seen the petition in our libraries, or on our website, but many wouldn’t have, and Facebook provided us with a direct way of reaching a different campaign audience. We linked up with a number of groups, including Norfolk live music venues – stressing the benefits it could bring in terms of bands and DJs finding it an easier and quicker location to reach.
We also targeted online football forums – mainly related to Norwich City football club, but also forums of teams who were heading into Norfolk to play during the time we ran the campaign. Ultimately we were able to access groups of people who conventionally would have shown little interest in local government campaigns – personalising the benefits for their specific interests. The result was that transport secretary Geoff Hoon announced that dualling would be brought forward to 2010 – the first road scheme he has announced since being in office.
Cllr Maureen McGarvey (Con) Blackburn with Darwen council. I’m the first to admit that I still use one finger to type on my computer keyboard. But when it comes to trying new ways of connecting with our community I’m all in for it – even if I don’t always fully understand the tool being used. We were recently awarded the top possible ‘four score’ corporate assessment rating. It’s not easy to engage staff and the wider public with something like an inspection report. That’s why I was pleased to see some creativity with the communications.
Our chief executive was filmed being questioned in a journalistic style. His answers and relevant images from the borough were used to make a three-minute video. The idea was to show the story behind the Audit Commission rating. The video was posted on YouTube and the link was sent to staff and members via e-bulletins and further ‘seeded’ (I’m told that’s the right term) by emailing to partners and adding to relevant social message boards. Information about the video was given out on our website and the local paper ran a story. Innovation was one of our inspection strengths so it was only right that we did the same with celebrating the success. I believe we’re pioneers with the use of video in inspection communications and I’d recommend it to other councils. It certainly got people talking and that’s half the battle. The video can be found at www.youtube.com/BwDCtube
Cllr Clive Hudson (Lab) Wakefield council As Wakefield’s environment champion I have created an online diary to chronicle my family’s attempts to become greener and our switch to the new alternative weekly bin collection scheme. This blog is also an opportunity to try to encourage people who live, work and visit the district to take care of their environment. My family and I are very involved with keeping the district clean and green and as part of this we have changed to a more environmentally-friendly family car.
I live in Altofts which has now joined the new bin collection scheme. This encourages everyone to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and, in turn, helps people to think about the amount of packaging they use. When I was asked if I would be interested in creating the blog it seemed the perfect time to get to grips with new technology and set-up an online diary so people can see how we are attempting to become greener and help the Wakefield district continue to be a place we can all be proud of.
Wakefield has so much to offer and I’m a strong believer that if we all work together, take pride in our places and say no to litter and waste, we can strengthen the area as a beautiful place to live, work and visit. Visitors to the online diary – at http:// cleanergreener.wakefield.gov.uk – can see how I have been preparing for the change, including getting rid of most of the bins at home.
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Yobetit to Sponsor Malta Pride – From Riots to Rainbows
Yobetit has partnered with Allied Rainbow Communities in Malta to sponsor Malta Pride Week ‘From Riots to Rainbows’ in hopes of remembering the past and shaping the future. The Maltese iGaming company Yobetit continues to demonstrate its commitment to the LGBTQ+ community and is thrilled to be part of such an important event.
Malta is fast becoming one of the world’s friendliest LGBTQ+ destinations and continues to encourage equality. Malta even topped the European Rainbow Index as the best destination for LGBTQ+ and holidaymakers for the fourth year in a row. The sunny island has surpassed 48 other countries with just over 90% of the votes confirming that Malta respects human rights, and encourages full equality.
Malta Pride week will take place from 6th – 15th September, with the Pride March scheduled to happen on 14th September. The March will take place in Malta starting at The Granaries, Floriana, and ending in St.George’s Square, Valletta – where a concert will kick off until 11 pm CET. Everyone is welcome to join at any point during the day for the festivities and celebrations.
“We’re excited to have Yobetit be our Main Partners this year and have them support the LGBTQ+ community not just during Pride Week but throughout the year. Pride is a time where visibility and recognition is given to a minority and a time where we can express ourselves in great numbers without feeling judged. Companies like Yobetit enable us to grow this movement each year to reach out to more and more people who are at the fringes of society and to help us to give a voice to those who are underrepresented. We look forward to take this partnership in ways that is of mutual benefit to all involved.” Clayton Mercieca Malta Pride Coordinator
“We’re committed to doing everything we can to influence equality not only in the iGaming industry but in the community too. We are very excited about this partnership and look forward to what is to come.” CEO Nikolai Livori
More information on Pride week can be found here.
This is a Syndicated News piece. Photo credits or photo sources can be found on the source article: Yobetit to Sponsor Malta Pride – From Riots to Rainbows
Bragg Gaming Group Reports First Quarter Results
Sinitic Shortlisted for Rising Star at 2019 EGR B2B Awards
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Fallout 76 hotfix addresses issues with update 11, Meat Week in-game event detailed
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The Moon in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep will be twice the size of the original
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17th century exploration was a major inspiration for GreedFall
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Etherborn brings gravity shifting puzzle action to Xbox One, PS4, Switch and PC
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Play Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition free this weekend with Xbox Live Gold
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GTA Online’s Diamond Casino & Resort opens next week with new missions, minigames, and loads more
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New paid DLC adds Street Racing machines to RIDE 3
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Monster Hunter World ships 13 million, Capcom giving away free stuff in-game
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Latest MXGP 2019 feature trailer reveals Track Editor and new game mode!
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FIA European Truck Racing Championship rolls on to Xbox One, PS4 and PC
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Adventures of Bertram Fiddle Episode 2: A Bleaker Predicklement Review
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The Sims 4 Island Living Sails to Xbox One
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Paddy Power pays out on Massive 19 Match Accumulator!
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Dublin man has won big on an amazing 19 match accumulator bet on the Paddy Power Site!
Accumulators are great fun, they up the tension of every game extraordinarily. Not only are you betting on one game to go a certain way but you are hoping that every game that you have placed a bet on will go your way or else you will lose your stake. And that’s where the thrill of it comes in, these accumulator bets are the definition of high risk – high rewards betting and when they do pay out it can be a fantastic moment for the punter.
That is why it was absolutely stunning to both the punter and the bookmaker Paddy Power when on Thursday the 10th of August 2017 a huge 19 bet accumulator or ACCA as they’re sometimes known managed to make its way across the finish line and earn the lucky punter, who has decided to remain anonymous but is from the Dublin Area. a sweet €41,081 prize for his initial €50 stake!
The man made his bet on Paddy Power’s online betting site where making accumulator bets is quick and simple. This particular accumulator branching over a varying number of different competitions and pre-season games with many different clubs which, according to Paddy Power made it all the more impressive: “At this early stage of the season there’s little or no form to read into so to land a 19-team accumulator is genuinely remarkable.”
The first game in the accumulator bet was the UEFA Super Cup Showdown between Real Madrid and Manchester United in which Real Madrid won in some comfort which would have definitely emboldened the punter and given him confidence. The endeavour could have very easily gone south for the Dublin man soon after however when the game between Barnsley and Morecambe came ridiculously close with a 3-3 draw in injury time until a 95th-minute goal by Ryan Hedges saw Barnsley go home with the win and let the mystery punter continue his accumulator.
The accumulator continued to survive with correct bets on winning teams through sixteen more games, each one no doubt more nerve wrecking than the last, until the final match of the accumulator… lucky number 19. The game was between Bury and Sunderland in the Football League Cup (Carling Cup) First Round, it was the first time the teams had met in over ten years with the previous encounter seeing a then much weaker Sunderland walking away as losers after being beaten 2-0. Fortunately, Sunderland having improved over the years were able to avoid a repeat of this result and won the game 1-0.
At the time of the final whistle, it would be no surprise if the exact opposite emotions were being felt by Paddy Power, a massive win for the punter and a rather sizeable loss for the betting giant. Thankfully though Paddy Power have been great sports about the whole thing and will gladly pay out to the punter noting:
“I don’t use the term often but this is weapons-grade punting…
“He may have cleaned us out but we hope that he enjoys his winnings and we’re only too happy to pay for the celebrations.”
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New York City based jazz guitarist Charlie Apicella is the founder of IRON CITY. He is a ZT Amplifiers Official Artist and a ZOHO Music recording artist.
His love of Guild Guitars began in high school when he acquired a 1977 Starfire IV; this is the guitar he had signed by his idol BB King. Charlie now favors the Guild Aristocrat. “My initial reaction to playing this guitar was pure joy. It is very well balanced in my hands for such a small guitar, as I usually play archtop guitars. The pickups are powerful and smooth in all registers and this guitar has a ton of different sounds I can call upon. I am in love with the classic look and the craftsmanship is flawless.”
What Others Have to Say About Charlie
“Apicella is a lithe, swinging guitarist with an affinity for the contrasting styles of both Grant Green and Wes Montgomery…An all-around impressive debut by a guitarist of substance.” – MARK GARDNER, Jazz Journal
”Apicella is a no-nonsense player of unquestioned chops and whose soul drips from each note… This is “organic” music, and Apicella is an exciting young player…Apicella immediately brings to mind Grant Green. He’s funky, he’s bluesy, and he’s not afraid to get dirty at times. The perfect illustration of how great this band is together is Charlie’s “64 Cadillac.” Apicella and band have that perfect jazz rapport that allows them to be tight as hell and play off each other beautifully.” – JOHN HEIDT, Vintage Guitar Magazine
“Apicella’s playing shines…[he] is aware of the straight-ahead tradition, showcasing his Wes Montgomery influence…Apicella’s guitar sound is bright and clean, and easily cuts through the huge sound of the organ.” – TIM FISCHER, Just Jazz Guitar Magazine
Charlie’s Gear
M75 Aristocrat in Antique Burst
F-150 Demo Starfire IV ST Maple Demo with R. J. Ronquillo
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Another ally of the Chevron Shakedown bails out
Jazz ShawPosted at 5:21 pm on September 3, 2015
Talk about persistence. The ongoing saga of the Ecuador Chevron Shakedown has been playing out for years now but it’s still not over. Even though Big Apple attorney Steven Donziger has been knocked down repeatedly in the courts and seen a judge declare his efforts to grab billions of dollars from the energy giant a massive fraud, Chevron isn’t done with either Donziger or his associates in the scheme. They have been going after the various firms which fund major lawsuits in exchange for a share of the profits if a judgement is achieved and one after another has fled the field of battle.
That trend continued this week as a California litigation services firm bowed out.
Chevron Corporation (CVX) has reached a settlement agreement with H5, a California-based e-discovery and litigation services firm. In the settlement, H5 has withdrawn its support from the litigation against Chevron in Ecuador and has assigned its 1.25 percent interest in the $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment to Chevron. In 2014, Chevron obtained court-ordered discovery from H5 for the company’s role in supporting and advancing the lawsuit led by Steven Donziger, which a federal judge found to be tainted by fraud.
“Chevron is pleased that H5 has ended its association with this scheme,” said R. Hewitt Pate, Chevron’s vice president and general counsel. “Chevron is also pleased that H5 has taken the further action of disclaiming any interest in the Ecuadorian judgment and relinquishing its interest to Chevron. It remains Chevron’s intent to hold accountable those responsible for what a federal judge found to be a fraud.”
The key portion of this agreement is not that H5 is backing out, but that they are signing over any interest they had in the settlement to Chevron. Even if there were to be some sort of judgement awarded to the petitioners at this point (which is unlikely in the extreme) a significant portion of the award would be going back to Chevron anyway.
H5 is only the latest to follow this pattern. As we reported earlier this year, Woodsford Litigation Funding Limited, Temeraire Limited, Kohn, Swift & Graf, Burford Capital LLC, Stratus Consulting and Russ DeLeon all dropped out under similar circumstances and signed over their share of the proceeds to Chevron. This is starting to look like it’s going to take the better part of a decade, but the company is clearly willing to go the full nine yards and chase every last participant back to their home offices. And it’s not over yet.
Chevron still has claims pending in Gibraltar against Amazonia Recovery Ltd., a Gibraltar-based company set up to receive and distribute funds resulting from the Ecuadorian judgment, and Pablo Fajardo, Luis Yanza and Ermel Chavez, who are directors of the company. Chevron has alleged that Amazonia is merely a vehicle to perpetuate the ongoing fraud.
Gee… do you think the name “Amazonia” was a bit of a dead giveaway? They set up an entire company for no other purpose than to vacuum up some of Chevron’s money if Ecuador and Donziger had prevailed. I wonder who eats the losses on that one now that the entire outfit’s raison d’etre has melted away?
In case you’re new to this story, you can catch up with all of our coverage of the Chevron Shakedown saga dating back further than I’d care to remember here.
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Comptroller Update
The emergence of acting county executive Adele Reiter and SUNY New Paltz accounting professor Rief Kanan as candidates for interim appointment as county comptroller now brings the list of known contenders in a crowded field to five. And time is rapidly running out.
The county legislature’s law and rules committee will meet on June 10 to recommend a candidate to the full legislature which will meet just 24 hours later to appoint a comptroller to serve for the rest of the year. Twenty-four hours. They should post a sign outside the county office building: Public be Damned.
Kanan is probably the best qualified and the most independent, but Reiter, as always, remains the most intriguing.
Former county executive Mike Hein’s chief of staff for ten years, Reiter was seen as the brains of the administration, “the great leveler” to the mercurial chief executive. Content to remain in the shadows, she only recently emerged via former legislature chairman Ken Ronk’s ringing endorsement of her heretofore publicly unknown interest in the job. Pat Ryan will be sworn in as county executive on Friday.
Reiter as “watchdog” – what former comptroller Elliott Auerbach liked to call himself – over a county government she once dominated as Hein’s chief of staff, raises some troubling speculation.
As nothing came of it, like so many “big stories” in the modern news cycle, readers may or may not recall last year’s “spy wars” episode between Auerbach and Hein. Both accused the other of tapping into respective computer systems, to what end was never revealed. For the record, it cost the county legislature (that’s us taxpayers) some $40,000 to hire private-sector sleuths to investigate the comptroller. Auerbach from his own funds, he said, spent a similar amount to investigate Hein.
All this dissipated like methane in the wind, but what if Reiter, as comptroller, with full access to all its records, discovers something untoward on her former boss’s administration. The assumption is, she won’t because if Auerbach had anything, he would have used it. But what if? Which raises the larger question: where will Reiter’s allegiance lie, to her new job or to her old boss? Just asking.
I had not been aware that Ronk, who was deposed as chairman by Tracey Bartels in January and is now Republican minority leader of the legislature, held Reiter in such high regard. Her administrative experience and training (she’s a lawyer) make her the best candidate for the interim appointment, he says.
Ronk-like, he also added an intriguing element. “Walls” had been built up between the executive and the comptroller’s offices, he noted, blaming Auerbach for being a “gotcha!” politician of little substance. Reiter could break down those walls, he said.
I coughed up my cornflakes when I read that line in the morning daily. For better or worse, Reiter was part and parcel to everything Hein did, I told him, which he knew. He insisted Adele built no walls. Maybe not, I conceded, but did Adele mix the cement? Can we now call her “Redi-Mix?”
And speaking of rock-solid, the state senate confirmed Hein on Monday as commissioner of state rehab. Accolades to follow.
Meanwhile, comptroller candidates have to figure out a way to get 12 votes from a divided legislature with a gun (timing) to its head.
Evan Gallo, Auerbach’s chosen interim successor, claims he’s not really interested, in part, because he knows he has no chance. Anybody coming out of the comptroller’s office would be anathema to the legislature.
Bartels feels it somewhat improper for someone in the office (as chairman) for only a few months to be reaching for the brass ring this soon. Bartels refuses to enroll in a political party for good reason: she’s not very political. Good for her.
A number of legislators have said they won’t endorse either of the two announced candidates for the interim position because it would give an undue advantage going into the Democratic nominating convention on June 27. “We don’t want to put our thumbs on the scale” sums up that position. Again, cornflakes. Politicians are forever seeking influence, thumbs on scales, elbows, feet, butts. But not this time? Mercy.
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Katie Weasley: Is This The End or Just the Beginning by Weasley_Katie27
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by Weasley_Katie27
Three months later, Katie is now six and a half months pregnant. It was also a couple days till Katie's seventeenth birthday. Katie couldn't help to think that on her birthday, it'll be the first party without Ginger, and without Draco by her side. Also Katie's mother Katherine had the twins, Katelyn and Elizebeth on Halloween.
Michael and Paige are now together. They got together a couple of days after Paige and Katie talked in the Room of Requirement. Katie was happy for them.
Katie went to her second doctor's appointment a couple weeks ago, and everything was perfect.
It was Friday and Harry had a supper planned out for Katie. It was their fifth month anniversary. Katie didn't know anything about it.
“Katie!” Harry called, running after her. Katie turned around and smiled.
“Hi Harry. Happy Anniversary.” Katie told him.
“Happy Anniversary.” He said catching his breath. “I want you to follow me.” Harry said taking her hand.
“Ok.” Katie said following Harry.
When Harry got them to their destination, the room had a table set for two. There were also candles that lit the room with elegance. When Katie saw everything, she was stunned.
“Wow, Harry, is all of this for me and you?” Katie asked.
“Yup it is, Happy Anniversary again.” Harry said giving her a kiss on the cheek.
“It's amazing and only a couple more months until my baby is born.” Katie said with a sigh.
“I can't wait to see the little bundle of joy too.” Harry said guiding her to the table.
“So what's on the menu chef?” Katie asked Harry.
“Roast beef, potatoes, carrots, pumpkin juice and cake for dessert.” Harry told her.
“Mmm, sounds good.” Katie said back. Katie got a pain in her abdomen. But Katie knew it was the transferring of magic.
Harry looked at Katie. “Are you all right?” He asked.
“Yeah, the magic is transferring to the baby.” Katie told him. He nodded in understanding.
After supper Katie and Harry started to walk back to the common room. Pansy met them in the hall.
“I heard the news.” Pansy said.
“Oh, yeah?” Katie asked.
“Yeah, Draco told me. He is the father right?” Pansy asked.
“Yeah, he is the father.” Katie replied. “Why do you care?”
“Just asking, because in the future I could be your kids step mom.” Pansy said.
“That would be hell.” Harry mumbled under his breath.
“What did you say Potter?” Pansy asked.
“I said if you married Draco, that would be hell for Katie's baby.” Harry said louder.
“You better watch your mouth Potter.” Pansy told Harry.
“Please stop it.” Katie asked them.
Pansy pushed Katie, luckily Harry caught her. “Why did you do that Pansy?” Harry asked Pansy.
“Sorry, la de da.” Pansy said.
“Ow.” Katie said clutching her stomach.
“Katie, is everything all right?” Harry asked.
“No, take me to the hospital wing.” Katie cried.
“Ok. Pansy help please.” Harry said.
Pansy did putting her arm around Katie and walked to the hospital wing.
Madame Pomphry examined Katie. “Mr Potter, go fetch Professor Dumbledore.” She ordered, after they left she continued. “Katie, you are going into labor, so I'm going to send an owl to your doctor.”
“Ok, will she get here on time?” Katie asked.
“Oh, don't worry dear, she will make it.” Madame pomphry said with a smile.
A few moments later Dumbledore, Harry, Paige, and Draco walk through the doors of the hospital wing. Draco ran over to Katie's side.
“Katie is everything ok?” Draco asked. Paige stood next to Harry and glares at Draco.
“I don't know, all I know is I'm going to have my baby...tonight.” Katie told Draco. Katie looked at Harry and her eyes asked him to be by her side. Harry came up to her side and took her hand.
“You're going to be fine. Everything is going to be fine.” Harry reassured him.
Then Dr. Stang came in. “Ok, only the father of the baby and the godmother is allowed to stay.” She ordered.
“Paige you stay your the godmother, but can't Harry stay he's my boyfriend.” Katie asked the doctor.
“Yes, he can stay too.” the doctor agreed. “Okay, Madame Pompfrey, this baby is premature, so we'll be taking every precaution.”
Three hours later, Katie gave birth to a baby girl. Katie held her baby, Karly, has blonde hair and she has the features of both her mother and father. Katie looked at Draco. “Would you like to hold her?” Katie asked.
“Yeah, I would.” Draco said picking Karly up. As Draco held his daughter he said, “Well maybe for her sake, we should get back together.”
“No.” Katie said looking at him.
Draco looked at her with hurt. “But what about her future?” Draco asked.
“Harry and I are her future.” Katie told him, as she looked at Harry.
“Ok.” he paused handing Karly back to Katie. “Well have a good future.” He said.
“I will Draco. But I'm glad to see that you came to see Karly.” Katie told him. He nodded
and left.
Paige came up to Katie. “So how come I'm the godmother?” Paige asked.
“You're my best friend, and if your sister was still here she'd be a godmother too. Harry is going to ask Ron and Michael if they'll be godfathers.” Katie explained.
“So since Ginger isn't here. Is Ginny the other godmother?” Paige asked.
“Yeah I think so and Hermione too.” Katie said.
“So are you getting out of here?” Paige asked.
“Either Tomorrow or the day after.” Katie said.
“Ok, so if your not out tomorrow, ask Ginger and Hermione to come here?” Paige asked.
“Yeah that would be great, thanks Paige.” Katie said.
“You're welcome. Wll I'm going to go to bed. Good night. Get some rest.” Paige told her.
“I will. Good night.” Katie said.
After everyone left, Katie lay in bed exhaused. Karly was asleep and in an hour or so she'll be up to eat. Katie soon fell asleep.
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In category 1.A.5 - Other: Military emissions from military fuel combustion (stationary and mobile) within Germany are reported.
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D Default
RA Reference Approach
T1 Tier 1 / Simple Methodology *
T2 Tier 2*
T3 Tier 3 / Detailed Methodology *
C CORINAIR
CS Country Specific
as described in the EMEP/CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook - 2007, in the group specific chapters.
AD - Data Source for Activity Data
NS National Statistics
RS Regional Statistics
IS International Statistics
PS Plant Specific data
AS Associations, business organisations
Q specific questionnaires, surveys
EF - Emission Factors
Activity Data
The Energy Balance of the Federal Republic of Germany (AGEB) provides the basis for the activity rates used. Since the Energy Balance does not provide separate listings of military agencies' final energy consumption as of 1995 – and includes this consumption in line 67, under "commerce, trade, services and other consumers" – additional sources of energy statistics had to be found for source category 1.A.5.
For source category 1.A.5.a, use is made of data of the Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg), which has reported the "Energy input for heat production in the German Federal Armed Forces", by fuels and as of 2000 to the Federal Environment Agency. These figures are deducted from the figures in Energy Balance line 67 (commerce, trade, services) and are reported in 1.A.5, rather than in 1.A.4.
For source category 1.A.5.b, military-fuel (diesel fuel and gasoline) and aircraft-fuel (kerosene, aviation gasoline) consumption data, until 1995, were drawn from a special analysis of the Working Group on Energy Balances (AGEB). For the years as of 1996, official mineral-oil data of the Federal Republic of Germany (Amtliche Mineralöldaten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), prepared by the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA), were used. The consumption figures given in units of [1000 t] are converted into [TJ] on the basis of the relevant heating statistics published by the Working Group on Energy Balances.
For more information, please see the sub-categories chapters linked above.
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