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Watch Vampire Weekend cover Crowded House’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’
Written by Zanda Wilson on June 16, 2019
Vampire Weekend have been breaking out some surprising but awesome covers on their current international tour.
Touring in support of their latest album Father Of The Bride, the band treated a crowd in Cleveland to an encore with an Aussie twist.
Ezra Koenig and co gave a rendition of the 1986 Crowded House classic ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’.
Other covers they’ve performed on the global tour so far have included Paul Simon’s ‘Late In The Evening’ and Laura Branigan’s ‘Gloria’, as well as turning ‘M79’ into a cover of the theme song from Parks and Recreation.
Vampire Weekend’s current US tour follows dates in Europe, and will take them through to early October.
Let’s hope and pray that they’ll throw their Aussie fans a bone and we might see them in 2020.
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MitoCom O2k-Fluorometer
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K-Regio project 2011-2014: O2k-Fluorometer
Willkommen bei MitoCom Tyrol (Deutsch)
1 K-Regio Project MitoCom O2k-Fluorometer
2 Financial support
3 Partners
3.1 Oroboros Instruments (Oro)
3.2 WGT-Elektronik (WGT)
3.3 Lead partner: D. Swarovski Research Laboratory (DSL), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
3.4 Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology (HMM), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
3.5 Departmentof Orthopaedic Surgery (ORT), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
3.6 The Institute of Sport Science (ISW), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (LFU)
4 Diagnostic concept
5 Mitochondrial competence. Regional and international cooperation for establishing new standards in functional mitochondrial diagnosis
K-Regio Project MitoCom O2k-Fluorometer
The aim of the project was the successful development, evaluation and application of a new high-resolution instrument, the O2k-Fluorometer, which builds upon the Oroboros O2k developed and extended since 2001 by Oroboros Instruments and WGT-Elektronik. The O2k provides the instrumental basis for [[High-resolution respirometry] (HRR) and represents world-wide the technologically leading instrument for diagnostic evaluation of mitochondrial respiratory function. The integration of optical devices (O2k-Fluo LED2-Module) into the O2k opens up the potential for the analysis of various diagnostically significant cellular functions, simultaneously with the measurement of mitochondrial respiration. In particular, HRR is now combined with the fluorometric detection of reactive oxygen species (ROS; oxidative stress) and mitochondrial membrane potential using established fluorescent dyes. This innovation further established our technological leadership, and extends a growing market (presently the O2k is represented in 49 countries. The technological ‘sole source’ status is systematically secured, as a decisive feature for the successful world-wide export of a high-end diagnostic instrument.
Applicant: Medical University of Innsbruck, A.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Gnaiger
Application: 2011-04-15; Granted: 2011-07-13 (total budget € 1.05 Mill)
Project duration: 2011-05-01 to 2014-07-31
The project MitoCom O2k-Fluorometer was partially supported by K-Regio:
Förderung von Wissenschaft, Forschung und Entwicklung (Programm K-Regio); EU-Regionalförderungsprogramm "Stärkung der regionalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Tirols 2007-2013; Landes- und EU-Förderung
EU funding: € 283,295.97 State funding at the expense of the economic funding by the state Tyrol: € 283,295.97 Funding in total: € 566,591.95 Basis of assessment of the fundable costs: € 1,049,010.70
Landesrätin Patrizia Zoller-Frischauf
The MitoCom consortium consists of 4 members, comprising two Tyrolean SMEs (Oro,WGT), the Medical University Innsbruck (MUI) with three research groups (DSL, HMM, ORT) and the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (LFU) with one group (ISW).
Dr. Erich Gnaiger (MUI) is the project coordinator, and MUI is the lead partner.
Oroboros Instruments (Oro)
Oroboros Instruments GmbH (Innsbruck, Austria) provides the world-wide leading concept and technology of high-resolution respirometry applied for the functional diagnosis of mitochondrial defects. The company is fully scientifically oriented, with emphasis on continuous innovation, improvement, scientific support and validation. Oroboros Instruments is established as setting the gold standard in high-resolution respirometry (HRR). The main focus in instrumental development is the combination of the Oroboros O2k with additional electrochemical sensors (simultaneous measurement of pH, NO, mitochondrial membrane potential, Ca2+).
The O2k is established internationally, with more than 1500 publications (July 2015) in the scientific literature. ORO has organized more than 70 International O2k-Workshops. The close link to the Medical University of Innsbruck emphasizes the direct relation between research and instrumental development. International links are emphasized by the WorldWide MiPNet on high-resolution respirometry - the Mitochondrial Physiology Network (close to 200 Oroboros Reference Laboratories). Cluster Life Sciences Award Tyrol 2010.
The managing director of Oroboros Instruments GmbH is A.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Gnaiger, who is project coordinator in his capacity as a faculty member of the Medical University of Innsbruck (DSL). Dr. Mario Fasching is the head of the instrumental development group at ORO (senior scientist; 3 years experience with MultiSensor development for the O2k), and is the responsible contact person for the project partner ORO. Our long-term experience in software development for HRR (DatLab) is based on close collaboration with the company Lukas Gradl, software security networks (Innsbruck, Austria). A collaboration on spectrophotometry (redox states of cytochromes) has been initiated in 2008 with Dr David K Harrison PhD (Dundee, UK; Dr Med Habil, Erlangen, Germany; CSci, FIPEM).
WGT-Elektronik (WGT)
WGT-Elektronik GmbH & Co KG (Kolsass, Tyrol) is specialized in finding optimum electronic solutions for problems not addressed by industrial solutions. Their competence spans from circuit design of analogue and digital electronics, printed circuit board layout, mechanical construction for instruments and electro-mechanical devices, to programming of microcontrollers or PLC-systems. As a diversified company they are capable to deliver a complete electronic instrument as a one-stop solution.
At WGT the key individuals are Philipp Gradl (CEO, electronic engineer, >20 years experience), Martin Gollner (electronic technician, >20 years experience), and Hannes Schwaninger (Electronic technician, 10 years experience). Dipl. Ing. Thomas Gantioler (specially certified engineer for electrical engineering, >15 years experience) works for WGT on a self-employed basis. WGT collaborates with Oroboros Instruments since 2001.
Lead partner: D. Swarovski Research Laboratory (DSL), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck.
In this project, DSL will provide the scientific expertise in mitochondrial physiology and pathology, for development and application of experimental protocols for functional mitochondrial diagnosis.
A.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Gnaiger (project coordinator) has scientific and technical expertise in the fields of mitochondrial physiology and pathology, microcalorimetry and biological thermodynamics, contributing fundamentally to the understanding of mitochondrial respiratory control by oxygen, and development and application of high-resolution respirometry to cellular bioenergetics and the diagnosis of mitochondrial defects, particularly in relation to hypoxia, cold storage and ischemia-reperfusion injury. He is initiator (2003) and chairman of the International Mitochondrial Physiology Society, and has organized numerous conferences (particularly MiP2003, MiP2005 and MiP2010 in Austria), workshops (more than 70 international workshops on high-resolution respirometry), and training courses on mitochondrial physiology, bioenergetics and biological thermodynamics, and is editor of several proceedings of international meetings. The international teaching activities range from non-equilibrium thermodynamics for chemical engineers (EU-level training; member of the IUPAC steering committee on biological thermodynamics) to mitochondrial physiology (Innsbruck Summer School 1991; initiator of the MiPsummer Schools 2007, 2008 in Austria; 2009 in Louisiana, US; 2010 in Lithuania; 2012 in Cambridge, UK).
Dr. Andrea Eigentler has joined the group of E. Gnaiger specifically in the context of the K-Regio Project MitoCom Tyrol, and is responsible for Workpackage 2 (Evaluation of the Instrument in Mitochondrial Applications and Standard Operating Procedures, including application for ethical approval to study human muscle samples obtained during orthopedic surgery; in cooperation with ORT).
Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology (HMM), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
The HMM has a well equipped laboratory with an area of 525 m² and consists of one Full and 4 Associate Professors, 2 University Assistants, several PhD-students, bachelor-students and 5 technical assistants.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Cornelia Lass-Flörl heads the Division since 2010. Her research focuses on fungal infections with a special emphasis on the diagnosis, prevention and therapy of invasive infections and antifungal drug resistance. Susanne Perkhofer is university assistant at the HMM. Her research focus is on the interaction of human platelets and antimycotic substances with Aspergillus species, thereby with a main focus on the identification of fungal mitochondrial alterations and mode of actions. Apart from basic equipment needed for standard molecular microbiology and cell culture work the laboratory is further equipped with class 2 tissue culture facilities, a light-cycler for performing quantitative RT-PCR, fluorescence microscope, confocal microscopy, electrophoresis apparatus for RNA/DNA and protein blotting and lab facilities for immuno-histochemistry and Western blotting etc., a FACS and capillary sequencing apparatus. HMM has also an animal facility at the Division where animal studies can be performed.
Departmentof Orthopaedic Surgery (ORT), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Krismer - martin.krismer@uki.at. An ethics committee application will be filed for the experimental use of small samples of muscle tissue (vastus lateralis) derived from hip surgery.
The Institute of Sport Science (ISW), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (LFU)
The ISW is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science. The primary objective of the department of sport science is basic and applied research relating to health, performance, and equipment of alpine sports. The research fields include physiology, psychology, biomechanics and motor control. The aspects of alpine sport are explored in an integrated and multidisciplinary approach. All members of the department are focused on the same common goal.
The focus of the exercise physiology research group is the investigation of exercise responses during alpine sports. In the last years particularly the effects of acute and chronic altitude exposure and intermittent hypoxia on exercise performance were studied in field and laboratory (nomobaric hypoxic chamber) experiments. The biomechanics research group of the department has a long tradition in the development of alpine sports equipment. On behalf or in cooperation with several manufacturers, scientific studies have been undertaken to improve skis, ski bases, ski bindings, ski boots, flex poles, crash protection equipment etc.
Key techniques available at the department in context of this application are simulation software, ski dynamometers, accelerometers, GPS, measurement systems for the different motor abilities, electromyography, cycle and treadmill ergometers, mobile gas and blood analyzing systems, body temperature and body humidity sensors.
At the Department of Sport Science the key individuals are Univ.-Prof. DrDr. Martin Burtscher (Director of the Department) and Mag. Hannes Gatterer.
Diagnostic concept
Diagnosis of mitochondrial functions and mitochondrial injuries represents a current challenge for biomedical research and development. ROS production is an essential component of many cell signalling pathways. But ROS also induce oxidative stress in combination with diminished antioxidant capacity, as a potential cause of genetic and functional damage leading to ageing-related degenerative diseases, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and cancer. The direct collaboration and feedback between specialists in mechatronics and biomedical science is of eminent importance for the targeted development, evaluation, and optimization of the new O2k-Fluorimeter, complete with protocols, instructions for quality control, and references to applications in sports science and clinical diagnosis.
Mitochondrial competence will play an increasing role in therapeutic and preventive medicine, with exercise and caloric balance providing the most effective measures for the reduction of several age-related health risks and degenerative diseases. MitoCom Tyrol is a gateway and milestone to better diagnose, support and treat patients in our modern, rapidly ageing society.
Mitochondrial competence. Regional and international cooperation for establishing new standards in functional mitochondrial diagnosis
Martin Burtscher,1 Hermann Dietrich,2 Hannes Gatterer,1 Erich Gnaiger2,3,* David Harrison,3 Daniela Karall,2 Martin Krismer,2 Cornelia Lass-Floerl,2 Walther Parson,2 Susanne Perkhofer,2 Dominik Pesta,2 Michael Schocke,2 Zuzana Sumbalova,3 Anita Wiethüchter3
MitoCom Network Tyrol, 1Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck,2Medical University of Innsbruck, 3Oroboros Instruments A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Email: erich.gnaiger@i-med.ac.at; Tel: +43 512 566796; Fax: +43 512 56679620
This is an Abstract presented at UMDF Mitochondrial Medicine; 2011 June 15-18, Chicago, USA
Diagnostic methods for the evaluation of functional mitochondrial competence (MitoCom) are applied in diverse areas of clinical research, including inborn diseases, ageing, degenerative neuromuscular disorders, ischemia, cancer, and pharmatoxicology. Such investigations of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) play an increasingly important role in relating mitochondrial health to life style (exercise and nutrition), mitochondrial haplogroups and heteroplasmy, and individual training programs of competitive athletes.
Clinical mitochondrial physiology shares common problems: lack of a comprehensive and standardized diagnostic methodology, limited implementation of quality assurance procedures, and the difficulty of delineating healthy controls. Without a more complete understanding of the mitochondrial physiology in tissues of healthy humans and animal models, there is limited diagnostic potential to analyze a disease and monitor scores of mitochondrial health. Appreciation of tissue and species diversity of mitochondrial function from mouse to man1 has been concealed by a focus on unifying biochemical concepts but insufficient integration into the living systems. This is the challenge of present developments in systems biology, which is at the heart of mitochondrial physiology as applied to enhancing our understanding of the complexity of mitochondrial health, and which will provide a gateway to better diagnose, support and treat patients in our modern, rapidly ageing societies.
Mitochondrial capacity and control of OXPHOS (oxygen consumption and ATP production)1 needs to be related to tissue performance (PCr depletion and Pi accumulation by 31P-NMR, contractile muscular function and PCr recovery), and cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular functions (oxygen supply to the tissue).2 The need for such interdisciplinary efforts, has led to international studies to investigate the complexity of the respiratory cascade from lung to the intracellular environment together with the mitochondrial electron transfer and phosphorylation system.3 Translation into the clinical diagnostic setting requires the establishment of regional centers with inter-departmental cooperations and new partnerships, to overcome conventional barriers between academia and industry and between scientific innovation and implementation into the healthcare system (www.bioblast.at/index.php/MitoCom). Appreciation by politicians and communication with an aspirational general public are essential to benefit from world-class research, for comprehensive mitochondrial and exercise testing and implementation of exercise as a medicine, and the development of a scientific foundation that may allow us to translate the complex diagnostic results into a patient-related mitochondrial score, based on cooperation in regional and international mitochondrial networks, exchange of expertise and standardization of diagnostic approaches, in a joint effort to helping mitochondrial patients and making a difference to society.
1Gnaiger E (2009) Capacity of oxidative phosphorylation in human skeletal muscle. New perspectives of mitochondrial physiology. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 41:1837–45.
2Burtscher M, Schocke M, Koch R (2011) Ventilation-limited exercise capacity in a 59-year-old athlete. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 175:181-4.
3Boushel R, Gnaiger E, Calbet JA, Gonzalez-Alonso J, Wright-Paradis C, Sondergaard H, Ara I, Helge JW, Saltin B (2011) Muscle mitochondrial capacity exceeds maximal oxygen delivery in humans. Mitochondrion 11:303-7.
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‘Riverdale’ Will Dedicate All Future Episodes to Luke Perry
When Riverdale returns to the air tonight with its first new episode since the death of series star Luke Perry following a massive stroke, it will include a dedication to the late actor. In fact, series producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tweeted earlier today that “all episodes ... for the rest of [the show’s] run” will be dedicated to Perry:
Aguirre-Sacasa wrote:
Going through pictures on my way to set. From the early days. With Luke in the middle. Our heart, always. Tonight’s episode of #Riverdale finds Fred doing what he does best--helping Archie. It is dedicated to Luke, as all episodes will be for the rest of our run.
Previously, Aguirre-Sacasa had tweeted this about Perry’s death:
Riverdale airs at 8PM eastern on The CW. There’s still no word on how the show will deal with the character of Fred Andrews moving forward now that Perry has passed away. No matter what happens on Riverdale tonight or for the rest of its run (it’s already been renewed for a fourth season), Perry will be sorely missed.
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Smart packaging keeps the Air-33 folding eBike small and light
Scott Collie
The Air-33 folding eBike is weatherproof
When it comes to folding bikes, smaller and lighter is better. Although adding electric power to the package makes it easier to sweep through town sweat-free, batteries are generally heavy and bulky. ElectroBike thinks it has managed to perfectly mix electric power and portability with the Air-33, which packages a usable range in a reasonably priced, lightweight package.
At the core of the Air-33 is a 36V, 8Ah lithium-ion battery offering 25 mi (40 km) of range in the base model, and a 10 Ah Panasonic unit good for 35 mi (52 km) in the Air-33 Plus. The slim battery is integrated into the bike's frame, where it locks into place with a key. When it's dead, owners are able to take it out and slot another one in, or charge it up in just two hours using a fast charger.
In spite of the battery squeezed into the top tube, the bike is completely weatherproof.
As is the case with most eBikes, there are a few different riding modes on offer. Along with unassisted pedaling, there's a hybrid setting that gives riders a bit of gentle electric assistance when they pedal. The third is a fully electric mode, allowing riders to use the Air-33 like a compact electric motorbike up to 16 mph (26 km/h) on the entry level bike, and 20 mph (32 km/h) in the top spec.
Riders are able to keep track of their speed and battery charge using a compact unit on the left of the handlebars that also allows riders are able to switch through six different levels of pedal assistance, and there's a small throttle for pedal-free electric riding alongside the seven-speed shifter on the right-hand grip.
When it comes time to pack the bike up, it folds in the middle of the frame. ElectroBike says it's just a two-step process - unhooking the middle of the frame, and then folding the handlebar stem. It looks dead simple in the video, and roughly halves the length and height of the bike, making it easy to cart up stairs and on public transport.
Along with its compact size, the Air-33 should be relatively easy to carry thanks to its light weight. It tips the scales at just 15 kg (33 lb), which is less than the Peugeot eF01 but (ever so slightly) more than the Xiaomi Mi Qicycle.
At the moment, the Air-33 is on Kickstarter, where it's raised more than US$60,480 of its $75,000 goal with 16 days remaining. Pledges start at $799 for a base model Air-33, and jumping to $999 is enough to put your name on a longer-range Air-33 Plus. All things being equal, the two models will retail for $2,299 and $2,499 respectively, with shipping expected to start in January/February 2017. Of course, the usual cautions apply with any crowdfunding campaign and you should adjust your delivery expectations, as delays in these types of product releases are rampant.
On top of the base pledges, there are a few options on the list. Things like rear fenders, lights and a suspension saddle are all on offer, but keeping things simple is more in tune with this bike's lightweight ethos.
Check out the ElectroBike Air-33 in the Kickstarter pitch video below.
Source: ElectroBike
The throttle on the Air-33 eBike sits with the seven-speed Shimano shifter on the right handlebar
The ElectroBike Air-33 is compact and light
The battery pack slots into the frame, and takes just two hours to charge
The fully folded Air-33 eBike
The bike is compact, and weighs less than the Peugeot eF01 we covered last month
Kenda 20-inch wheels make for a smooth, quiet ride
The Air-33 eBike's range varies on the model chosen
ElectroBike is seeking funding on Kickstarter
There's a seven-speed rear derailleur, controlled by a simple shifter on the right handlebar on the Air-33 eBike
The small speedometer on the left handlebar can be used to change the level of electric assistance on the Air-33 eBike
There are a few optional add-ons for the Air-33 eBike
Fully folded, the Air-33 eBike fits into apartments and elevators with no trouble
The battery takes just two hours to charge with a quick charger
The Air-33 eBike is on its way to being funded on Kickstarter
The Air-33 eBike weighs 33 lb
Folding the Air-33 eBike takes just two steps
The electric assistance can be controlled through the handlebars on the Air-33 eBike
The Air-33 on the road
The Air-33 is fully weatherproof
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LIVING THE QUESTIONS ESSAYS INSPIRED BY THE WORK AND LIFE OF PARKER J PALMER
Download Living The Questions Essays Inspired By The Work And Life Of Parker J Palmer ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to LIVING THE QUESTIONS ESSAYS INSPIRED BY THE WORK AND LIFE OF PARKER J PALMER book pdf for free now.
Author : Sam M. Intrator
ISBN : PSU:000058029565
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
"Anyone who has read Parker J. Palmer's books knows that he evokes something significant from deep within every reader. In Living the Questions, powerful and moving testimonies of such evocations of spirit show us how Parker's influence ripples out into the lives and work of many good people." --Craig Dykstra, vice president, Lilly Endowment Parker J. Palmer--who for forty years has written and spoken about subjects ranging from contemplation to community, the inner life to public life, education to social change--is known as one of the nation's most thoughtful voices, calling us all to ways of being in the world that honor the human heart and promote a humane society. Living the Questions, a celebration of Palmer's long and distinguished career, explores the dynamic interplay between the inner life of spirit and the outer life of work. The equally distinguished contributors, who come from a wide range of professions--university presidents, scientists, physicians, religious leaders, business consultants, public school educators, philanthropists, and community organizers--bear witness to the depth, breadth, and reach of Palmer's work. All of them have been personally touched by his courage and determination to live a life congruent with the ideas and principles he writes about and by his candor in acknowledging his own flaws. These intimate essays and stories shed new light on some of the most important topics of our time--living an integral life, teaching and learning for transformation, creating community, and contributing to nonviolent social change. Living the Questions challenges all of us to take a journey inward and a journey outward, preparing ourselves to offer the right action and authentic leadership that the world so deeply needs.
Student Conduct Practice
Author : James M. Lancaster
"I recommend it for those who are entering the field of student conduct practice as well as for those who are seeking more depth in their understanding of the student conduct process." --The Review of Higher Education "Includes the thinking of notable experts in the profession and offers a smorgasbord of practical, insightful, up-to-date information for student conduct and larger student affairs community. The editors have compiled an astute guide that can be read from cover to cover or referenced as a particular issue arises. I highly recommend this guide as a source for practical guidance, relevant information and food for thought."--Journal of College Student Development
The Courage To Teach Guide For Reflection And Renewal
Author : Parker J. Palmer
"Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life is difficult to do alone or without guidance for reflecting on what THE COURAGE TO TEACH means to the reader. This guide is a welcome resource for those who wish to extend their exploration beyond just reading the book, individually or within a study group. Includes online video content featuring an interview with Parker Palmer discussing the crisis in education, the heart of a teacher, ways of knowing, the importance of relationship in teaching and learning, teacher renewal, and spirituality in education"--
Relational Leadership In Education
Author : David L. Giles
When is leadership not relational? When is education not relational? When is life not relational? Relationships always matter to our living, educating and leading. Relational Leadership in Education considers this ‘Relational Leadership’ within the context of education, critiquing the current ideological ‘context’ and contemporary understandings of its influence. Employing a phenomenological approach, this book explores the relational nature of education, Relational Leadership, and the organizational culture to provide a more sophisticated exploration of practice-based wisdom. It offers an extensive range of activities for further thinking on the experiential nature of Relational Leadership, grouped around a number of themes: Relational Leadership and sensibilities; organizational culture; professional development; curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; and the reconstruction of a postgraduate Educational Leadership and Management programme for experienced, emergent and aspiring leaders. ‘Relational Leadership’ is not about describing yet another style of leadership but rather about a relational way of being in leadership that utilizes refined relational sensibilities. ‘Relational Leadership’ is also a reminder of what is critical in a leader’s practice — leadership is always relational, and relationships are the essence of leadership.
The Heart Of Higher Education
A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education. From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being—mind, heart, and spirit—an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time. The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades. Presents Parker Palmer’s powerful response to critics of holistic learning and Arthur Zajonc’s elucidation of the relationship between science, the humanities, and the contemplative traditions Explores ways to take steps toward making colleges and universities places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff Offers a practical approach to fostering renewal in higher education through collegiality and conversation The Heart of Higher Education is for all who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.
Healing The Heart Of Democracy
Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous and practical work—intensely personal as well as political—is not about them, "those people" in Washington D.C., or in our state capitals, on whom we blame our political problems. It's about us, "We the People," and what we can do in everyday settings like families, neighborhoods, classrooms, congregations and workplaces to resist divide-and-conquer politics and restore a government "of the people, by the people, for the people." In the same compelling, inspiring prose that has made him a bestselling author, Palmer explores five "habits of the heart" that can help us restore democracy's foundations as we nurture them in ourselves and each other: An understanding that we are all in this together An appreciation of the value of "otherness" An ability to hold tension in life-giving ways A sense of personal voice and agency A capacity to create community Healing the Heart of Democracy is an eloquent and empowering call for "We the People" to reclaim our democracy. The online journal Democracy & Education called it "one of the most important books of the early 21st Century." And Publishers Weekly, in a Starred Review, said "This beautifully written book deserves a wide audience that will benefit from discussing it."
Out Of The Box Leadership
Author : Paul D. Houston
In this handbook that combines research and reflective exercises, recognized experts discuss transformative leadership, leadership alternatives, improvements in school reform, and challenges in leadership roles.
When Blood And Bones Cry Out
Author : John Paul Lederach
Around the world communities that have suffered the trauma of unspeakable violence--in Liberia, Somalia, West Africa, Columbia, and elsewhere--are struggling to recover and reconcile, searching for ways not just to survive but to heal. In When Blood and Bones Cry Out, John Paul Lederach, a pioneer of peace-building, and his daughter, Angela Jill Lederach, show how communities can recover and reconnect through the power of making music, creating metaphors, and telling their extraordinary stories of suffering and survival. Instead of relying on more common linear explanations of healing and reconciliation, the Lederachs demonstrate how healing is circular, dynamic, and continuing, even in the midst of ongoing violence. They explore the concept of "social healing," a profoundly important intermediary step between active warfare and reconciliation. Social healing focuses on the lived experience of those who have suffered protracted violence and their need to give voice to that experience, both individually and collectively. Giving voice, speaking the unspeakable, in words and sounds that echo throughout traumatized communities, can have enormous healing power. Indeed, the Lederachs stress the remarkable effects of sound and vibration through tales of Tibetan singing bowls, Van Morrison's transcendent lyrics, the voices of mothers in West Africa, and their own personal journeys. And they include inspiring stories of transformation: a mass women's protest movement in Liberia that forces leaders to keep negotiating until a peace agreement is signed; elders in Somalia who walk between warring clans year after year to encourage dialogue; former child soldiers who run drum workshops and grow gardens in refugee camps; and rape victims in Sierra Leone who express their pain in poetry. With equal measures of insight and compassion, When Blood and Bones Cry Out offers a promising new approach to healing traumatized communities.
40 Day Journey With Parker J Palmer
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Gazans are ‘ho-hum’ about the deaths of relatives — NYT’s Rudoren
Philip Weiss on November 20, 2012 121 Comments
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Jodi Rudoren, the New York Times correspondent who has been in Gaza for several days now, has an active Facebook page on which she has lately posted some critical observations about Palestinian culture that are reminiscent of Mitt Romney’s comments last July that got the former Republican presidential candidate in such hot water.
Rudoren’s comments include the statement that Israelis are more “traumatized” by projectile fire than Palestinians because Palestinians, having a culture of martyrdom, “have such limited lives than [sic] in many ways they have less to lose.” Here’s an excerpt of that post (screenshot above):
So great to hear from all these new people, and to see how FB makes the world such a shtetl. Thanks for your compliments and thoughtful questions. I’ll try to address a few and then am going to try to get some sleep…
In terms of Sarah Sanchez’s q about effects on civilians, the strange thing is that while death and destruction is far more severe in Gaza than in Israel, it seems like Israelis are almost more traumatized. The Gazans have a deep culture of resistance and aspiration to martyrdom, they’re used to it from Cast Lead and other conflicts, and they have such limited lives than in many ways they have less to lose. Both sides seem intensely proud of their military “achievements” — Israel killing Jabari and taking out so many Fajr 5s, Hamas reaching TA and Jeru. And I’ve been surprised that when I talk to people who just lost a relative, or who are gathering belongings from a bombed-out house, they seem a bit ho-hum.
Rudoren’s comment that Gazans who have just lost a relative “seem a bit ho-hum” in interviews is sadly reminiscent of the assertion by Israel supporters that Palestinians love their children less than Israelis do.
In another post (screenshot above), Rudoren ennobled western reporters over Middle East reporters in commenting on the Israeli attack on the Gaza office of Al Quds TV, a Lebanese organization:
On the media thing, Miriam Krezner: There are some local journalists here with real independence and integrity, and many of them partner with us foreigners and really make our work possible. There are also outlets, as there are throughout the Arab world, that are wholly own subsidiaries of the regimes. The spokesman for Al Quds television, the office hit hardest yesterday, talked about news coverage as part of the Palestinian struggle, which is certainly different from the Western media ethic, and that makes the Israeli assertion that these agencies are part of the government/military agenda more understandable, at least.
Rudoren is endorsing the Israeli governmental view of the matter. Washington Post:
A second strike hit the Lebanon-based Al Quds TV in a second media center, causing some damage. Al Quds TV is seen as sympathetic to Hamas…
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev alleged that both Al Aqsa and Al Quds “are integral parts of terrorist military organizations.”
He said those working for the two outlets “are not journalists by any meaning of the word.”
Her critique of Middle East journalists is a bit rich when you consider how important the New York Times was to supporting and furthering the disastrous war in Iraq, with reporting that turned out to be questionable or wrong, and editorials banging the drum that editors have since regretted.
Finally, Rudoren noted (below) that her “first tears in Gaza” were for a friend’s children back in Israel. In that instance, she linked an article on Slate by Dahlia Lithwick, about coming to Jerusalem to be with her parents, who live there:
Dahlia Lithwick is an incredible writer, and person. My first tears in Gaza came just now reading her piece about what it’s like to be in Jerusalem, where she brought her 2 sons for “a year in which their world became bigger and more complicated, since everything in their lives up until now had been measured out in equal units of comfort and Lego.”
Rudoren was posted to Israel last June with her family, and we have a couple of times now (here and here) commented that she seems culturally bound inside the Israeli experience. These observations in the Facebook shtetl support that view.
chinese box on November 20, 2012, 7:49 pm
OK…so how much longer do we keep giving Rudoren the benefit of the doubt?
seafoid on November 21, 2012, 1:03 am
ee cummings nailed the mental landscape of the Rudorens of the world in 1944
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/cummings.ygUDuh.html
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tear-stained uzi on November 21, 2012, 12:31 pm
Brilliant! Reads like a dimadok comment.
Les on November 20, 2012, 7:49 pm
Who does she blame/credit for making the lives of Palestinians cheap?
dimadok on November 20, 2012, 7:59 pm
Truth hurts, isn’t it?! How about counter arguments for Palestinians, especially in Gaza, not enforcing martyrdom. I’ll be very grateful to see some- it would show for me that not everything is a lost cause there.
Pamela Olson on November 20, 2012, 9:00 pm
I have a feeling you will end your days bitter and bewildered, like old folks in the South who wish Jim Crow were still around, long after the rest of the world has blessedly moved on.
seafoid on November 21, 2012, 12:52 am
Dim- do you realise how inane you sound? Will you condemn the cult of the idf cemetery on mt herzl and the day of the fallen, yom ha whatsitcalled while you condemn the gazans?
marc b. on November 21, 2012, 10:47 am
do you realise how inane you sound?
no, he doesn’t. he can’t. the artificial mental landscape he’s built would collapse around him if he experienced a moment of objectivity. just like rudoren. she planted herself in the middle of the carnage and it has no more impact on her than if she were reporting from a movie set. her commentary is just mind numbingly ignorant and her reporting feckless. what skill set does she allegedly have that qualifies her as a journalist, in the true sense of the word, not as ‘journalist’ as propagandist? i don’t see any. she wears her biases proudly on her sleeve, and is a piss poor writer to boot. maybe weiss is waking up a bit. i don’t see any of the ‘saving the jewish soul’ schmaltz that is his usually part of his routine. rudoren is just presented unflinchingly as the revolting personality that she is. but then again, she’s managed to do most of the heavy lifting in that regard all on her own. and can we put to rest completely any hope of unbiased reporting from the NYT? anyone who posts a comment urging readers to give the next rudoren ‘a chance’ to prove themselves should lose posting privileges for a day.
Mooser on November 25, 2012, 4:43 pm
Do you realise how significant it is that nobody (no other Zionist or Israeli, that is) ever tells Dimmy: “Look, bubele, you’re nopt helping, and you’re making us look bad into the bargain. Why don’t you back off.”
One of the things which fascinates me about Mondoweiss is the relationship between the far-right Zionists, and the “liberal Zionists” and the “not-a-Zionists”.
Funny how two of those feel not the slightest need to indicate they know Dimmy exists. Can’t say a word to him. And I thought silence indicated consent. Oh well, what do I know?
eljay on November 21, 2012, 8:06 am
>> How about counter arguments for Palestinians, especially in Gaza, not enforcing martyrdom. I’ll be very grateful to see some- it would show for me that not everything is a lost cause there.
What a strange demand, coming from a hateful and immoral Zio-supremacist even as he and his supremacist state continue to oppress, steal, destroy, cleanse, colonize and kill.
Basilio on November 21, 2012, 8:18 am
You do know there’s a blockade and siege of Gaza, a place with limited connections to the outside world. Thus, they have grounds to fight their oppressors. Maybe you wouldn’t fight your oppressors and would be happy in such a situation, but many human beings all over the world would not.
aiman on November 20, 2012, 8:07 pm
Rudoren: ‘…which is certainly different from the Western media ethic.”
Having read plentiful books on ‘objectivity’ let me just call this as dishonest as it gets. Proves beyond doubt how the so-called ‘mainstream media’ functions as subsidiary to a favoured state. There are only a few truth-tellers in journalism, many have been shunted as ‘beyond the pale’ by even the liberal-left establishment. The ‘Eastern’ media ethic, if one can call it that, is more honest and reliable than the Western media ethic. The so-called Western media ethic espouses dishonesty and politenesss at once. Why are Chris Hedges and John Pilger treated as pariahs while immoral slobs like Tom Friedman are tolerated? Why is it so rare when a journalist breaks from the mould and questions a dishonest spokesman is a pressroom? Exceptions are sources like mondoweiss and http://www.medialens.org/.
James on November 20, 2012, 8:13 pm
one can only imagine if she were to say ‘israelis’ have aspiration to martyrdom.
on the other hand, maybe she is saying that if hamas were to refer to the new york times for example as part of israel( or the usa government/military agenda, it would be okay for them to bomb the new york times where she works.. bottom line – nothing she says makes any sense especially when you flip it around..
yourstruly on November 20, 2012, 8:15 pm
what’s this about israelis being more traumatized by projectile fires, because palestinians, having a culture of martyrdom have less to lose? and the supposed palestinian “ho-hum about the death of loved ones?
such racist jibberish is so remniscent of what was said about the japanese during ww ii – “death means nothing to them & “they’d gladly die for their emperor.” in wartime it’s part of the demonization of the enemy. here in america we’ve had more than our fill of such nonsense, but what’s striking here is that an american reporter (Rudoren) writes like she’s bought into the israeli demonization of the palestinian. distance/objectivity ms rudoren, where has it gone?
There is no shortage of English speaking gaza psychologists who can explain the mass trauma visited on the kids of the strip by israeli nihilism. Dehumanising the victims makes things simpler. It’s like breathing on a respirator.
G. Seauton on November 21, 2012, 1:28 am
such racist jibberish is so remniscent of what was said about the japanese during ww ii….”
It’s not just racist gibberish — though it certainly is that, as well; it typifies U.S. journalists’ inability to know or understand anything beyond their narrow profession: they know only journalism, according to the current rules in force in America. So many know virtually nothing else.
You might almost ask how one can even be human and think that the “Other” is less traumatized from being victimized because that “Other” has a less opulent life.
just on November 20, 2012, 8:16 pm
It’s all there in black and white now. Thanks, Phil.
Disgusting, Jodi.
I just posted a link to a very good piece by EdwardTeller on another thread here.
It also speaks to the bombing of the media:
http://my.firedoglake.com/edwardteller/2012/11/19/gaza-brings-up-two-questions-when-are-journalists-legitimate-military-targets-are-any-israel-vs-nazi-comparisons-apt/
“Finally, Rudoren noted (below) that her “first tears in Gaza” were for a friend’s children back in Israel.”
That is permissible. In contrast when the humanist Barbara Plett of the BBC was traumatised by Arafat’s death, it raised hell and fury and led to the BBC commissioning “a wider ranging study into the BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestine conflict”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/26/bbc.radio
David Doppler on November 20, 2012, 8:20 pm
The “ho-hum” description calls to mind Meriwether Lewis’s description of Sacagawea, as recounted in Ambrose, Undaunted Courage (260, 276), as showing a stoic lack of “normal” female emotion during the trip [without noticing that the affect could result from being the only Indian, the only woman, the only teenager among White men led by Lewis himself], then separately noting, without making any connection, that when she was suddenly rejoined with her long lost brother as they were crossing the continental divide, how overcome with emotion she was. We’ve all seen real human emotion among mourning Palestinians, so it’s hard to read this “ho-hum” passage without wondering at how insidious bias can be.
philweiss on November 20, 2012, 8:50 pm
thank you for expanding the historical/ethnic frame. fabulous reference
David Doppler on November 21, 2012, 1:46 am
So she takes heart, doubles down, by calling you a blogger, who commits the sin of taking her out of context (I guess your not in her shtetl). Not her finest hour. Mondoweiss: first class; New York Times: not so much.
pineywoodslim on November 21, 2012, 12:25 am
From the opening chapter of the 1935 original version of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “The Little House on the Prairie”:
“There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no people. Only Indians lived there.”
The language was altered in the 1952 version to read:
“There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.”
There are many images and videos of Palestinians screaming with grief, but some have been numbed after many years of occupation to where it’s hard for them to express their emotions, but they still care. They’re deeply scarred, but she’s too much far away from human compassion to understand.
dbroncos on November 20, 2012, 8:33 pm
How can Rudoren look at the grief and destruction all around her in Gaza and talk about it in such pedestrian terms: “less traumatized”, “…they’re used to it from Cast Lead and other conflicts”. What a shallow and hollow little person. Her lack of perception and concern for Palestinian life tell me alot about why she got the job.
RoHa on November 20, 2012, 8:54 pm
And I bet they don’t feel pain the way we do, either.
And she’s IN GAZA. She’s there. Right there. Under the freaking bombs (although since they’re nice Israeli bombs, she doesn’t mind).
And still. Nothing.
That’s plain terrifying if you ask me.
MRW on November 20, 2012, 9:06 pm
Here’s your answer. She wrote it herself:
So great to hear from all these new people, and to see how FB makes the world such a shtetl.
She’s having an entre-nous conversation with members of the/her tribe. It’s Facebook. She doesn’t have to be a journalist.
What’s instructive is that we get to see where she’s coming from, where she writes from au fond.
Web 2.0 tends towards mental shtetls and fractured audiences, self reinforcing echo chambers and information that is prejudice confirming . The climate change non debate in the us is the example par excellence. Tropical storm sandy must have been a liberal conspiracy. Israel is a very special shtetl separated from the world by hebrew.
jewishgoyim on November 21, 2012, 9:49 am
Yes. And what strikes me is what is “au fond”: sheer tribal stupidity.
I mean above a certain level, I would have expected Israeli supporters to know they are mistreating Palestinians in order to expand territory and that they would not fall for this kind of racist crap.
I mean I expect most high level Israel supporters to know they are f—- over the Palestinians and that it’s impossible to do that and look good at the same time. So they are in full damage control mode thinking and that the end justify the means.
Thinking that a NYT reporter abandons herself to run of the mill racism to escape this inconvenient truth is a testament to how stupid tribal allegiance will make you. It shows how self righteousness takes roots in stupidity. I thought a NYT reporter would be too smart and too educated to fall for that.
It makes me think I’m too kind to journalists in general. I think they are evil manipulators when most of them are manipulated, clueless tools. Most of them believe their entire career the crap they and their friends are spouting out. Most of them don’t even know they are vile servants to power.
justicewillprevail on November 20, 2012, 9:08 pm
An absolute classic case of projecting your own feelings on to others. Because this naive and prejudiced ‘journalist’ lacks any feeling or empathy for others who belong to a different culture to her, she blithely and ignorantly declares that it must be ‘them’ who have none or ‘limited’ feeling, when it is crystal clear that is her who is an utter failure at understanding or assessing other people’s emotions and feelings. How do such incompetent, useless people get the jobs they do? No curiosity, no desire to understand, just a report of her own ignorance and shallowness as reflected in her perceptions of the world. It is hardly Palestinians who have ‘limited’ lives – despite their lack of material wealth they have far more understanding of the world around them than cosseted bimbos from the US who demonstrate the real limited vision of people who live in a superficial bubble – no wonder she can only empathise with those who exhibit the same traits as her, ie Israelis.
Castellio on November 20, 2012, 10:11 pm
Yes, I think you have it.
James on November 20, 2012, 11:31 pm
..”How do such incompetent, useless people get the jobs they do?”
hey, she works for the nyt, lol..what do you expect!
peeesss on November 21, 2012, 3:13 am
Well said, JWP. May I make a , possibly, simplistic comment about the racist FB entry of Rudoren. In my youth in Brooklyn the loudest mouth shouting profanities and jumping on the weak turned out to be the most “traumatized” “fearful ” when somebody actually stood up to them. It reminds me of the Israelis who sip their soft drinks in TelAviv or on the hilltops surrounding Gaza, laughing and ranting about “flatten the whole place”, “kill them all”. But a loud noise scares th s..t out of them . Of course , they will be treated for “shock”. To have this ” journalist” belittle , mock thePalestinian people ,the mothers and fathers as they pick up the pieces of their blown to bits children is disgraceful and sickening . That a human being can show such insensitivity and ignorance is dispicable. 1. 800,000 people “live” , I say that loosely, on this G0d forsaken land 50% under the age of 15. Those children have never scene a day of peace. of “normality”. They see their mothers , fathers, friends being blown to bits. Does Rudoren think, just possibly, these children might be “traumatized”, they might have mental/emotinal issues. And then to listen to these contemptible “spokesmen” and women for the State of Israel dismiss their suffering as their own fault, their parents fault, their need for “Matrydom.” Rudoren is in good company. And , of course, she brings us “all the news that fit to print. “
on November 21, 2012, 4:10 am
It’s like “proving” British servants deserved their lower station because they never engaged in conversations with the swells they served during banquets.
American on November 20, 2012, 9:10 pm
“”The spokesman for Al Quds television, the office hit hardest yesterday, talked about news coverage as part of the Palestinian struggle, which is certainly different from the Western media ethic, and that makes the Israeli assertion that these agencies are part of the government/military agenda more understandable, at least””
ROTFFLOMFAO……different from the western media ethic? Really …the western media has ethics? Like you and your newspaper aren’t outlet organs for Israel? These people like Ruderon are so unconscious in their narcissistic tribal cocoon they have no idea how repugent they sound to others. Seriously, they are like drug addicts who are on reality and mood altering drugs all the time. I’ve never seen anything like it, like a communicable disease among them.
foresomenteneikona on November 20, 2012, 9:19 pm
I guess Rudoren missed this:
http://972mag.com/life-in-gaza-letter-from-a-palestinian-woman/60493/
One can’t help wondering if Rudoren has actually talked to many Gazans since she arrived in Gaza.
David Green on November 20, 2012, 9:35 pm
Jodi’s pathetic response:
“A blogger just posted this incredibly unfair analysis of my Facebook posts, taking everything out of context to support his agenda. Luckily, he included fat excerpts of my posts, so people will be able to see how it was twisted; his analysis just does not stand up to scrutiny. There are many, many depressing things about this conflict, of course, deep-seeded depressing things about two peoples profound distrust and misunderstandings of each other. But a perhaps less important one that I find equally depressing is the way upper-class international intellectuals so blatantly and purposely distort in order to inflame. Sometimes, it really seems like no one in the world actually wants to solve it.”
aiman on November 20, 2012, 10:17 pm
Amazing that Jodi Rudoren prefaces her response by trying to discredit Phil as a “blogger” and ends on “upper-class international intellectual(s)”. As opposed to what? Her shining, noble “Western media ethic”? Everyone outside the stone-faced establishment is a “blogger” and distorter of Rudoren’s enlightened, profound thoughts.
pineywoodslim on November 20, 2012, 11:26 pm
That term, “upper-class international intellectual(s)” or very similar ones, historically was used to slander Jews.
What’s next? Phil as a cosmopolitan?
Taxi on November 21, 2012, 12:39 am
Phil as International Man of Mystery Media – a “blogger”!!
I note that Jodi Rudoren, a supposedly literate, well-educated, and well-read person — a “journalist” even — doesn’t realize that the word is “deep-seated,” not “deep-seeded.” Really, this comment shouldn’t be considered pedantic: her error is clearly not a typo. It’s ignorance.
So it’s now even less surprising that she has such ignorant views about Palestinians — the “Other.”
Mooser on November 26, 2012, 12:10 pm
Not even spel-chek can help you if you don’t know which word you want.
Why, I bet Rudiren doesn’t know the difference between “drawing out” and “calling out”!
American on November 21, 2012, 7:53 am
“about two peoples profound distrust and misunderstandings of each other. “…….says Ruderon
Their is no ‘misunderstanding’.
Get off their land
Quit stealing their resources.
Quit raping their economy
Quit blockading them
I can count on one hand the number of times the media has mentioned WHY the I/P conflict exist.
Theo on November 21, 2012, 8:12 am
“upper class individual” ???
Hallo?? Are we in England with its “upper class” snobs?
Or in the USA where we do not have an “upper class” where you are born into?
Better educated, yes, but upper class?
Edward Q on November 21, 2012, 8:34 am
No self-reflection from Rudoren.
dbroncos on November 21, 2012, 10:38 am
“… taking everything out of context to support his agenda.”
So now Rudoren is concerned about context!?! That’s rich. Think for a moment, Jodi, about referring to your place in Gaza as part of a world shtetl:
Is there a context in which such a metaphor for your place as a reporter in Gaza is acceptable? I suggest having a look at the recent history of shtetlments in Gaza.
bilal a on November 20, 2012, 9:35 pm
Does this make Rudoren an enemy colloborator-propagandist, like Anwar Al Alwaki, and under Israeli American rules of engaagement, subject to drone missile attack by the government in Gaza (to protect lives) ?
I hope not, I hope the Ghazans have a broader sense of freedom of the press and speech.
Xpat on November 20, 2012, 9:46 pm
the Israeli assertion that these agencies are part of the government/military agenda more understandable,
Israeli journalists know all about serving a government agenda. In such a small country, particularly considering its active censorship laws, any military reporter who wants access has to serve his government master.
Avi_G. on November 20, 2012, 11:03 pm
Nevermind access, Elliot.
As you probably know, the military censor decides what gets out and what doesn’t. That office also decides what disinformation or propaganda must be put out during a state of emergency — Israel loves its emergency laws.
bijou on November 20, 2012, 9:51 pm
Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of psychology should be able to grasp that the enormity of the trauma of Cast Lead would cause dissociation, a natural human response to unbearable life-extinguishing experiences. Here is a relevant passage:
Our instinctive reactions to an assault are fight or flight. However, neither works when children are abused by sadistic adults [or civilians by armies that bomb them in penned in areas – Ed.]. The only option left is to freeze, and take flight through the mind. A common initial coping mechanism is to escape the body. It is the beginning of clinical (amnestic) dissociation, which allows a shutting out of an unbearable reality. It is held unassimilated—in effect, frozen in time. A dissociated experience can be split up to store the emotions separate from bodily sensations, and the sensations separate from the knowledge of an event. In dissociating an experience, children split off a part of their self to hold the trauma. In some cases the dissociated aspects of self, immediately or over time, form their own and separate sense of self.
A dissociated identity, like a dissociated experience, can hold the entire event or parts of it. Alters may hold only a bodily feeling, only an emotion, or only the knowledge. One hundred abusive/traumatic incidents may be held by one identity or by one hundred or more identities….
http://www.hiddenhurt.co.uk/dissociation.html
The lack of responsiveness, if indeed her observations were correct and not seen through some Orientalist lens, most likely means they are more traumatized, not less.
Inanna on November 20, 2012, 11:05 pm
Not to mention that these events are so recent that people are either in shock or anger. Doesn’t she know anything about how people respond to traumatic events?
Pamela Olson on November 21, 2012, 7:50 am
This is so obvious it truly boggles the mind how she could have interpreted it any other way.
tear-stained uzi on November 21, 2012, 10:55 am
Even apart from the psychological factors you note, what reasonable human would expect that traumatized and grieving Gazans would naturally just open up emotionally to a Jewish reporter from the NYT asking them how do they feel, having just lost their family? It’s clear now from Rudoren’s FB posts that she is culturally insensitive, a quality that her interview subjects would quickly detect, causing them to be guarded in their responses — a “ho-hum” affect, in her interpretation.
Can you imagine what she would’ve written about Palestinians if, in their raw anguish, they had (G-d forbid!) replied with bitterness or anger? Rather than “aspiring to martyrdom,” we would’ve been treated to the whole “culture of hate” meme. Depressing.
DaveS on November 20, 2012, 10:11 pm
Wow! Rudoren is making us all long for the good old days of Ethan Bronner! I’m sure she would have felt that blacks were more accustomed to misery than whites in apartheid SA. After all, they had less to lose. Even if she thought these things, how clueless could she be to say them in public, though I’m glad she did rather than keep her racist insensitivity secret. And how would she feel if the Gazans among whom she is living considered her to be a “wholly owned subsidiary” of the US or Israel or both, thereby making her an “understandable” target of military attack. They certainly could cite her facebook entries as evidence of her lack of independence and integrity. How disappointing! I didn’t have great hopes but I expected a lot better than this.
MRW on November 21, 2012, 4:28 am
@David, re: she would have felt that blacks were more accustomed to misery than whites in apartheid SA. Closer to home, it reminds me of the adults I heard arguing around me that blacks rioted during the civil rights era because it was hot and they didn’t have air-conditioning.
Apparently Rudoren responded and she’s peeved at Phil’s cut & paste. David Green captured a graf at November 20, 2012 at 9:35 pm above. Her response shows she will never be an honest broker for the NYT/Americans. Can’t be. She’s embedded, with prejudice. Rudoren’s assignment is proof that the once-honest practice of newspapers placing only non-attached foreign correspondents in foreign countries was the morally correct and intellectually ethical route. I’ve been reading her communiques from Israel. She doesn’t have the balls to be a David Binder (NYT-43 yrs) or Chris Hedges (NYT-15 yrs), because she’s not the Other reporting from a foreign land.
If you’re reading this Jodi, get your facts straight. For starters. Your readers are miles ahead of you. Then apply some moral insight.
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/4-myths-about-the-israeli-attack-on-gaza.html
“Even if she thought these things, how clueless could she be to say them in public, though I’m glad she did rather than keep her racist insensitivity secret. … How disappointing! I didn’t have great hopes but I expected a lot better than this.” — David Samel
Agree totally. Better to know the truth, I suppose, but truly discouraging, nonetheless. Being an “improvement” over Ethan Bronner isn’t adequate.
I can’t believe such trash is being printed. She even got an NYT article out of it, where she used the lovely term ‘culture of martyrdom’.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/middleeast/gazans-mourn-dalu-family-killed-by-israeli-bomb.html?ref=middleeast&_r=0
ckg on November 20, 2012, 10:32 pm
As’ad AbuKhalil weighs in
A most racist piece by Jodi Rudoren, who is proving that she can be as zealous in propaganda for Israel as her other colleagues
So Palestinians don’t cry and they don’t mourn their children. This is the kind of trash that colonialists used to write about the natives back in another century. “There were few if any visible tears at the intense, chaotic, lengthy funeral on Monday of Jamal and seven relatives…But the tone, far more fundamentalist than funereal, was also a potent sign of the culture of martyrdom that pervades this place, and the numbness that many here have developed to death and destruction…the mourners, except for a few close relatives inside the mosque, were neither overcome with emotion nor fed up…” Ms. Rudoren came close to maintaining that the Palestinians expressed gratitude to the Israeli army for killing their children.
OT, but related–
Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada does an excellent take down of the Al-Jazeera anchor during a live interview.
In my personal opinion, I think the condition for Al-Jazeera English (AJE) to broadcast widely in the U.S. was for the network to significantly water-down its coverage, to make it more pro-Israel.
The fact of the matter is that Al-Jazeera English (AJE) was broadcasting openly in Israel for several years while it was being vilified in the US.
But with the Arab Spring, with new developments in the Persian Gulf emirates like Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, I started to notice that AJE’s coverage often veered into pro-U.S. propaganda.
AIPAC fears a well-informed US public; for example, Ha’aretz can print reports critical of Israel’s conduct, but the NYT would never entertain printing similar reports.
And we’re seeing the effects of that these days with such blatant pro-Israel propaganda on AJE.
MRW on November 21, 2012, 12:36 pm
@Avi,
I remember reading about three or four years ago that an Israeli bought AJE. An overseas paper reported it. It was before the Arab Spring happened in Feb/11. I didn’t download it so I have nothing to refer to. I read “bought.” Could it have been “invested in”?
Maximus Decimus Meridius on November 21, 2012, 1:57 pm
AJE’s coverage of Gaza is nowhere near as good as it was in the last Gaza war, but it’s still way better than any of the other English language channels. Last time, they had Ayman Moyhedin and Shireen Tadros reporting with great bravery from inside Gaza. Not saying their current reporters aren’t doing a great job, but they are not as passionate yet calm as these two were.
BTW I heard that Moyheldin has since joined a US channel (NBC I think) and has watered down his journalism considerably, in the interests of meeting a US channel’s idea of ‘balance’ of course. Anybody have more info?
Hostage on November 21, 2012, 10:41 pm
I remember reading about three or four years ago that an Israeli bought AJE.
Haim Saban, the Executive Chairman of Univision, and Saban Entertainment brands, like the Power Rangers considered trying to buy a stake in Al Jazeera, but I think that’s as far as it went.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/egypt-born-jew-looks-to-buy-50-of-al-jazeera-1.6471
Egypt-born Jew looks to buy 50% of Al-Jazeera
Haim Saban first showed a reported interest in the Doha -based network after a visit in 2004.
Cliff on November 22, 2012, 5:05 am
I read that Haim Saban wanted to buy a ton of shares in AJ.
It’s not as if AJ is always going to last. Inevitably it will become Establishment propaganda. Too much pressure.
Mayhem on November 20, 2012, 10:55 pm
Surely many people around here are aware of Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ which postulates human needs as being ordered in a prepotent hierarchy? A pressing need would need to be largely satisfied before someone would give any attention to the next highest need.
That is all Rudoren is effectively saying, so I don’t understand the fuss.
Please explain precisely where Rudoren’s postulated ‘culture of martyrdom’ fits into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
I would have thought the two blatantly contradict each other, no?
MDM: You don’t think the little contretemps at Masada settled the question of a “culture of martyrdom”?
And what about Palestinians consistently referring to all the Palestinians killed in the Holocaust as martyrs? No, they’re gonna have to own that one, huh?
piotr on November 20, 2012, 10:56 pm
May be Israeli ARE more traumatized by a single missile that Gazans by the rain of death.
Having career of “town beat”, Rudoren is perhaps not exposed to the fact that different cultures show emotions differently, and verbalize differently, so one has to take allowance for that. However, Israeli do seem to be unusually hysterical about security threats.
RoHa on November 20, 2012, 11:32 pm
Not just Israeli humans.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=292648
I’ve seen many a sympathetic Western ‘news’ story, also back during Cast Lead, about large numbers of terrified Israelis being treated for shock; not from injury or blood-loss, but from fright.
The implication in such articles is always that Israeli Jews simply feel and experience life much more richly than do Arabs; they are the “civilized man,” after all, surrounded by brutal “savages.”
This is NOT exclusive to the NYT.
There appears to be a concerted effort to put out such false claims about Palestinians
Tonight, the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, usually a levelheaded, knowledgeable and professional journalist who knows and understands the Middle East very well, used in his report a similar phrase, “Culture of martyrdom,” he said.
This indicates a directive from the top, most likely the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The directive seeks to prepare public opinion — nay to justify — the mass killing of innocent civilians in Gaza.
This also hints at the likelihood that the ongoing talks to reach a truce will fail, intentionally, mind you.
Israel will emerge and announce that the two parties did not reach an agreement due to Hamas’s reluctance and intransigence.
Israel intends for such a development to be a public relations coup.
For those interested in the context of Bowen’s report, he was talking about a Palestinian female child whose father and other members of the family were killed by an Israeli airstrike.
The young girl was not crying so Bowen pontificated that her lack of grief was due to a “culture of martyrdom”.
Apparently, reporters are now psychologists, too. Was the child in shock? Was the child still in denial? Not everyone deals the same with grief.
But that didn’t factor into Bowen’s statement. He was merely interested in making the “Culture of martyrdom” statement.
MHughes976 on November 21, 2012, 5:10 am
I didn’t see Bowen’s report but the attitude he describes seems not unlike the attitude of Londoners under the bombing raids that was publicised and romanticised in 1940.
Maybe Murdoch’s tweet worked.
Kathleen on November 21, 2012, 8:06 am
Seems like this “the Palestinians like it, they want to be beaten” promotion is permeating the MSM right now. You know the neighbors and relatives of a beaten woman “she asked for it” phenomena. Richard Engel going with in on Rachel Maddow’s last night.
Very little about the ever expanding illegal settlements crimes being committed in the West Bank. Well on Up with Chris Hayes..Sunday..t
gamal on November 20, 2012, 11:15 pm
how can one forget Lieutant Wynkoop (sp?) in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, being astonished when an Indian (sic) chief shed a tear at the burial of his daughter, good to see that some Americans are keeping the old ways alive, as Chomsky has remarked that the lower orders feel no pain is a constant of racist discourse. I like the “elite” as pejorative, as if she is writing for horny handed sons of the soil, the common people who are so assured of their greater humanity, so what fraction of an actual human being are Ahmad and Leila, funny how an old vicarious trauma can explain so much and a live real happening before our eyes trauma is not even incidental. I can remember an NGO person working in an African warzone explaining to me that his charges had weird behavior which he ascribed to culture rather than trauma and also explained to me that his NGO did not offer psychological services as Africans didnt need them, very hip guy, tattoes and piercings, expensive hair cut, like a cyborg i thought.
Nobody lives forever, Memento Mori, as the christian mystics used to say, as aid to compassion and courage. Have you seen the interview between Rantisi and a young blond American girl who asks him about fear of death and the threat that hung over him, she wont accept his very clear and simple answer. Perhaps they are all fatalistic, I am sure someone is going to say that all Muslims believe in predetermination.
Maximus Decimus Meridius on November 21, 2012, 11:41 am
I’m not sure it’s even a religous thing, though it may play a role.
Fact is, people like Rantissi live with the shadow of death hanging over them at all times. That’s part of the job description. They know Israel could (and did) unleash a missile over his head at any time. So they have to be stoical about it, if they weren’t, they would have chosen some more mundane line of work. Same with any high-ranking militants, anywhere in the world. They know they could be ‘taken out’ in an instant. They have to live with the risk, so no point fretting over it.
Donald on November 20, 2012, 11:28 pm
“And I’ve been surprised that when I talk to people who just lost a relative, or who are gathering belongings from a bombed out house, they seem a bit ho-hum.”
It makes one appreciate the late Anthony Shadid all the more. I defended her months ago, but the kindest thing one could say here is that this is a pretty stupid thing to say. Maybe Gazans don’t want to open up to her.
By the way, despite the fact that I’m geographically very far away from that conflict and despite the fact that the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2009 tore me up to emotional pieces at the time, this time around I feel as though I cannot bear to get too worked up about what is happening on the ground right now.
It’s a form of defense, of self-preservation. I feel as though I am protecting my soul from long-term damage. In addition, I am too tired, emotionally, to deal YET AGAIN with another Cast Lead murder of hundreds of children and innocent lives.
I hope I’m not coming across as conceited, but if an outside observer can feel that way, I can only imagine how Palestinians feel after 45 years of pummeling and SIX whole years of living in an open air prison courtesy of Israel.
People get tired, even from grief. So they may cry for an hour, or a day, or a week. But at some point, one can become so exhausted that he or she cease to cry.
Sumud on November 21, 2012, 1:08 pm
You’re not Avi. Sometime I just can’t bring myself to look at another video of some zionist screaming “death to arabs” or some IDF soldiers terrorising the locals or some Palestinian man or women holding up the shattered corpses of their dead children, courtesy IDF. I berate myself because how can it even begin to compare to what it must be like to live under the Israeli jackboot??
On reflection I think any comparison is pointless. It is one kind of horrible to live under Israeli occupation, and an altogether different kind of horrible to constantly be witness to it.
I’d like to see Rudoren ‘live’ in Gaza for 6 years and see just how she feels about Israel and Palestine by then.
bintbiba on November 26, 2012, 8:17 am
Avi G, Sumud, My tears are flowing…..over and over …..
There but for the Grace of God go I..
Your humanity graces these pages.
“People get tired, even from grief. So they may cry for an hour, or a day, or a week. But at some point, one can become so exhausted that he or she cease to cry.”…Avi_G
Nothing wrong with you, that is what happens. People who have suffered lose after lose of life or anything else important don’t stop caring or grieving, they just learn to carry it inside in a private place or they couldn’t go on.
ahmed on November 20, 2012, 11:31 pm
While I admire that Rudoren is actually in Gaza, she appears unable to shed her biases. Her shameful article on the Dalu massacre makes basically these same points: there are no tears, victims are hailed as martyrs, a militaristic culture, cries of la illaha and allahu akbar
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/middleeast/gazans-mourn-dalu-family-killed-by-israeli-bomb.xml
And remember that she’s IN Gaza. She’s attending the funerals and speaking (or her translator is) to ‘actual’ people, as she describes them. And yet she cannot see the Palestinians as real human beings, with thoughts and feelings not so very different from hers. After all, they don’t have fancy houses or play Billy Joel at their weddings, so they MUST be only half-human, eh?
If this woman, who isn’t even Israeli, can show such callousness after having experienced their suffering first-hand, it’s hardly surprising how so many Israelis seem to think Palestinians have less value than their pets.
The new nyt public editor Margaret Sullivan is very proactive; we should write in.
Avi_G. on November 21, 2012, 12:05 am
I should also add that it seems to me, at least from an Israeli PR perspective, that Israel understands and realizes that the Human Shields schtick doesn’t work anymore.
So to explain away Palestinian deaths, especially of young Palestinians, Israel needs to claim that they ASPIRE to become martyrs. One can find similar rhetoric online at various websites and in the comments sections of various YouTube videos; the argument is that when a Palestinian sees an opportunity to die, he will jump into the line of fire, onto an unexploded bomb, or charge at an Israeli military checkpoint in order to accomplish one single thing, become a martyr.
If Israel can imprint that type of spin into the minds of viewers and readers around the world, then it can go on killing as it sees fit.
Israeli Hasbara would have one believe that Palestinians are magnetized and that they cannot help but to be naturally drawn toward danger, weapons, or bombs.
This is the new spin that came out of Tel-Aviv a mere day after Israel killed an entire family in Gaza, an incident that received worldwide coverage and further tarnished Israel’s already tarnished image.
radii on November 21, 2012, 12:56 am
Rudoren did not have her eyes opened by spending that much time in Gaza … and she thinks she’s being objective (or skillfully hiding her bias) … instead she has had her bias hardened and she seems more shrill … tribalism at its worst
Taxi on November 21, 2012, 1:23 am
Jimmy Carter: ‘Israeli Policy Is to Confiscate Palestinian Territory’
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/289-134/14641-jimmy-carter-israeli-policy-is-to-confiscate-palestinian-territory
anonymouscomments on November 21, 2012, 1:34 am
considering there is daily “collateral damage”, is it wrong to hope that someone indifferent to the gazan plight, become a part of said plight?
really, i consider all life equal, rudoren’s as well. but if another child can die, or her…. which death would actually alter the landscape of the conflict?
hmmm…..
of course i’m sure she spends >95% of her time in the gaza “green zone” around internationals with limited/no bombings, perhaps with a GPS beacon for the IDF for all i know.
[let me reiterate, i consider all life equal, i even raise combatants to the same level as civilians, on both sides; each lost life is a tragedy…. and assuming such, when holding up two equal lives…. which life lost would alter the landscape of the conflict immeasurably, and which life lost would have *no* effect on the conflict, and simply be one of hundreds….]
iResistDe4iAm on November 21, 2012, 2:42 am
Apologists for Israeli occupation/colonisation cannot rationally justify perpetual war crimes, so they typically resort to immoral and racist justifications.
Unfortunately for Israeli apologists, they must justify every forcible eviction, every home demolition, every uprooting of crops, every depopulation of a village, every revocation of residency, every deportation, every denial of travel for medical treatment, every arbitrary arrest, every kidnapping of a child from bed, every torture, every imprisonment without trial, every summary execution without trial, every curfew, every roadblock, every checkpoint, every impenetrable wall & fence, every walled-in ghetto, every segregated colony & road, every theft of land/water/other resource, every banned import & export, every act of collective punishment, every siege & blockade, every bomb, every missile, every cluster & phosphorus munition, every blitzkrieg, every massacre, every dead man woman & child…
NickJOCW on November 21, 2012, 3:42 am
This is complete nonsense. In fact it’s worse than nonsense, it’s wilful stupidity. We all have a capacity to adjust to our environment. I recall London during the blitz, not just the bombs that drove us to shelter in the subways but the constant state of alertness. These threats were not tolerated because Londoners had less to lose but because, like Palestinians today, they were strong and resilient and life must go on.
By the way, Hitler’s purpose with the Blitz was to destroy London, demoralise us and force us to come to terms. The word blitz is a shortened form of the German word blitzkrieg, a swift, sudden military offensive. If it sounds familiar perhaps it should be dusted down to describe these indiscriminate Israeli attacks.
I wasn’t there but I was brought up to be proud of the stoical patience with which the Blitz was met. Ms. Rudoren’s later remarks include the word ‘stoical’, I see, which has resonances opposite to those of ‘cult’ – rational patience vs. crazed indifference.
jon s on November 21, 2012, 5:17 am
Breaking news: explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv.
Woody Tanaka on November 21, 2012, 9:11 am
Breaking news: shit has been exploding for a week in Gaza. There’s a war on and you people don’t spare civilians, judging by the numbers, so why do you expect your victims to spare busses?
There are also [news] outlets, as there are throughout the Arab world, that are wholly own [sic] subsidiaries of the regimes. The spokesman for Al Quds television, the office hit hardest yesterday, talked about news coverage as part of the Palestinian struggle, which is certainly different from the Western media ethic, and that makes the Israeli assertion that these agencies are part of the government/military agenda more understandable, at least.
[Rudoren quote]
A tweeter excoriated Anderson Cooper late Monday night:
“@andersoncooper Report a fair story. Report facts. Why not talk about the rockets being fired FROM Gaza?!?”
Anderson answered:
“@Pamela_ Weiss perhaps spend less time tweeting about coconut flan and more time actually following the news.” (Cooper checked her tweets.)
It’s as if the NYT has sent a Pammy to Tel Aviv. Ms. Rudoren, if you’re reading this, a reminder:
UNESCO document: “Press freedom: safety of journalists and impunity.”
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/publications-and-communication-materials/publications/full-list/press-freedom-safety-of-journalists-and-impunity/
Further, from the French UN website:
2. UNSCR 1738
At the instigation of France and Greece, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution S/RES/1738 (2006) on the protection of civilians in armed conflict aimed at preventing acts of violence against journalists.
Resolution 1738, which is the first Security Council text devoted to the protection of journalists in armed conflicts, expresses the Council’s concern regarding the lack of adherence to existing rules and recalls the relevant body of legislation applicable. It therefore reaffirms the basic principles of the protection of civilians in UNSCRs 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000), 1674 (2006) and states that this protection includes journalists, media professionals and associated personnel.
So the purpose of UNSCR 1738 is not to fill a gap in the law but to remind parties to a conflict (states and non-state entities) of their obligations with respect to protection, prevention and the fight against impunity.
UNSCR 1738 also provides for the UN Secretary-General to devote a section of his reports on the protection of civilians in periods of armed conflict to the safety of journalists.
This resolution has become the point of reference for the protection of journalists and has been cited in a number of Security Council resolutions on this issue, in particular UNSCRs 1910 on Somalia (2010), 1973 on Libya (2011) and 1974 on Afghanistan (2011).
Hostage on November 21, 2012, 7:28 am
DALLAS (AP) — A freight train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 17 others as the float drove through a West Texas railroad crossing on its way to an honorary banquet, authorities said. http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/11/15/deadly-train-accident-in-midland-kills-4-injures-16/
Why are we parading around wounded or disabled vets, except to pander to our own “culture of martyrdom” right here in the US? For the past decade, every time some member of Congress would suggest putting an end to one of our wars of aggression, the majority would put an end to the debate by advancing the ludicrous proposition that we needed “to stay the course” in order to “support the troops” (who ended up being killed, maimed, or traumatized in the subsequent fighting).
That mentality is on display whenever the US uses its veto in the Security Council or Congress adopts resolutions or military assistance bills to give Israel a free hand to carry-out sustained attacks on neighboring civilian populations. The problem originates right at our own doorstep. There’s no need to blame the poor victims in Gaza.
Dan Crowther on November 21, 2012, 7:42 am
NY Times vs The New Yorker: Who ya got?
pnkfloid on November 21, 2012, 7:51 am
“which is certainly different from the Western media ethic,” – yes, ha, ha, ha, very funny Jodi. Now tell us about the ethic of journalists embedding with the US military and the oh so high quality journalism it produces.
Her statements are right in line with Netanyahu’s and other present and former Israeli lives who only mention the death of Israeli children over and over again but NEVER Palestinian children etc. Her words reflect this elitism and this disregard for Palestinians lives that is pervasive amongst Israeli’s and US media outlets.
I have never bought one New York Times after they printed Judy “I was fucking right” Miller’s lies about Iraq. And their more subtle push for an attack on Iran. Never give them another dime. New York Bloody Times.
Phil last night (Tuesday) on Rachel Maddow’s Richard Engel was selling the idea that Gazans would like to see Israel invade on the ground. More of this “they have less to lose” promotion idea. More “ho hum” As if MSNBC or Rachel Maddow etc would ever show the world the sobbing Palestinian parents, the Palestinian baby burnt to death, or those who have lost limbs etc in this latest slaughter by Israel. Just so “ho hum”
Ho Hum
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VYIoih_0vl0/UKhFyvQDGuI/AAAAAAAAAok/u0NErYM5meE/s1600/gaza_dead_baby0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://askwhyblogger.blogspot.com/&h=307&w=614&sz=56&tbnid=dcnX7JWZjpO4LM:&tbnh=60&tbnw=120&zoom=1&usg=__RIQ9XaSvSgmFHdHsTNItEiMCBME=&docid=mwNsmUs-kcgsbM&sa=X&ei=aM6sUJWvHcTKiwLc6IC4BA&ved=0CEIQ9QEwBA&dur=9622
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/20/skirmishes-in-the-israel-palestine-battle-over-photos-of-killed-children/
We all know Rachel Maddow etc barely ever whispers about the human rights crimes being committed by Israel. Well let’s just be honest…Never. But will say on Maddow’s program last night they actually put up a map for a few seconds that had the settlements on the map. Just for a few seconds
This is also the link to watch Engel pushing the idea that Palestinians in the Gaza would like it if Israel invaded on the ground in the Gazahttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/
I can’t watch him — he is such a smug Zionist tool. He was on Chris Hayes’ show once and he really dragged down the intellectual level of the conversation with his constant immature snarkiness about Arabs and Persians, not to mention his aggressive, me me me attention-whoring.
Richard Engel, Zio-diva.
Jodi has responded more at length — some interesting places where she backtracks, and some interesting places where she doesn’t. And it’s interesting what she says here that was in no way implied by her comments or articles. Almost kind of a split personality forming (as it must, when one is forced into not believe one’s own eyes because it would be bad for one’s career). I’m glad Mondoweiss was at least able to shake her up for a moment. Maybe one day the contradiction will become too much to bear.
From Jodi Rudoren:
Good morning from Gaza City, where the night was quiet after that huge, close bomb that blew out windows at Al Deira and especially the Beach hotel. Thank you for a round of very thoughtful, honest, smart although certainly tough to read comments about my FB posts and Mondoweiss’s critique of them, which also got tons of Twitter traffic overnight. I’d like to try and address some of it, though I know some people would say I can only make it worse.
First, a note about tone. My feeling is that my posts on social media have to adhere to the same fairness standards as my work in the NYT itself, but not to the same tone or content standards as I try to bring a bit of reflection/behind the news. So while people are right that I would absolutely never use a term like ho-hum in the newspaper in this situation, I might well use a different word, and probably many more of them, to describe what I have experienced as a kind of numbness and, frankly, strength in the face of all that is happened to the people here. Steadfast probably would have been a much better choice.
I did not at all mean to imply that people were indifferent to the suffering, or uncaring, or unfeeling — they are passionate about their cause, deeply connected to the land being destroyed, with incredibly close extended families loved and honored above all else. What I meant was that their reaction to the literal things that had been happening this week was (mostly) outwardly calm, even, stoic. There is little panic and little public display of emotion (whether sadness or anger) that you might see in other cultures. Talking to people has made me think this is a mix of resignation, routine and resistance, along with a religious viewpoint that views death in this context as a sacrifice, of course, but also a worthy one. [Um… did you mean to forget to mention trauma beyond anything you can begin to imagine?]
Regarding the “limited lives” comment: Virtually every Gazan I met in my trips before this one as well as this week have talked about the ways Israel’s occupation/blockade/airstrikes have limited their lives — their mobility, their educational and economic opportunity, their electricity, their futures, their hopes. The incredible Andalib Shehadeh I profiled recently described this as the “psychological siege.” This is one of the main complaints about the situation I hear here (and also in the West Bank, though less and in a different way; mobility being the main focus). I truly did not mean to judge their lives against mine or anyone else’s, I was (trying to) speak of their own assessments.
I also think that the poverty, import limits and the cycles of loss and violence have made many people less attached to material things than people in say, Brooklyn or Tel Aviv are, so that leaving a small, not very personalized home that UNWRA built for you after yours was destroyed in an attack four years ago — I’m talking about an actual person I met over the weekend, moving out after a bombing three houses down the road that killed a neighbor — maybe hits less hard than….than I don’t know what, actually, but I also didn’t mean to suggest this was a bad thing. On the contrary, people here (like some in other places, of course) seem to very much embrace the notion in the Billy Joel song “You’re My Home” (incidentally, my wedding song) that it is the people that make the home not the stuff.
One of the main themes I am hearing from people on the street here is about how this escalation is different from others, more like an actual war, because of the pain Gaza has been able to inflict on Israel, the paralysis to society in the south and the shock of sirens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. While the death counts and destruction tallies are lopsided by any objective measure, Gazans (and I) see what a powerful impact the rockets are having in Israel even when they do not hit anything or hurt anybody (and of course many have). There is no way to measure such impact, of course, or compare it, but I think in terms of the pressures on the leaderships of the two places to come to terms, the pressures from within their populations, I think Gazans may be willing to yet take a lot more in exchange for their aspirations for freedom, the end of the blockade, a state. The cultural, political, sociological roots of this are truly complex, but unraveling them and explaining them feels like a part of the job.
As for my accusation that Weiss had taken the posts out of context, that was wrong. What I should have said was that he provided his own inaccurate context or embellishment, rather than doing what any good journalist — any decent person? — would have, which is to ask what I meant.
Maximus Decimus Meridius on November 21, 2012, 9:19 am
OK, where to start?
”I did not at all mean to imply that people were indifferent to the suffering, or uncaring, or unfeeling ”
Whether you ‘meant to’ or not, that’s precisely what you did.
”What I meant was that their reaction to the literal things that had been happening this week”
WTF is a ‘literal thing’? Is it differnt from an ‘illiterate thing’?
”There is little panic and little public display of emotion (whether sadness or anger) that you might see in other cultures”
Oh yeah?http://mondoweiss.net/images/2012/11/Gazawomen.jpg
” I’m talking about an actual person I met over the weekend,”
An actual person? So Palestinians are ‘actual’ people now? Well, that’s progress. Of sorts.
”moving out after a bombing three houses down the road that killed a neighbor — maybe hits less hard than….than I don’t know what, actually,”
You don’t know what, actually? So why should anyone listen to you if by your own admittance you don’t know what?
”the Billy Joel song “You’re My Home” (incidentally, my wedding song) that it is the people that make the home not the stuff.”
Aww…… cute. Oh, and given that you’re (in theory) a war reporter, not a wedding planner, why would anyone care what song was played at your wedding?
”One of the main themes I am hearing from people on the street here is about how this escalation is different from others, more like an actual war,because of the pain Gaza has been able to inflict on Israel”
‘An actual war”??? Yeah I reckon it is. So for you ‘war’ only begins when someone in Tel Aviv had their beach party interuppted? Glad we got that straight.
”the paralysis to society in the south and the shock of sirens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.”
‘the shock of sirens’ eh? Not as big a shock as having your home blown up with you and your family inside it.
” Gazans (and I) see what a powerful impact the rockets are having in Israel even when they do not hit anything or hurt anybody (and of course many have). ”
Oh, spare me! ”Gazans” are too busy digging through the rubble of their destroyed home, burying their dead and fleeing the next indiscriminate bombing to worry about the ‘powerful impact” rockets are having in causing ‘shock’ among Israelis.
”The cultural, political, sociological roots of this are truly complex”
For once, I agree with you. It is indeed complex. Which is why a sheltered, culturally narcissistic and profoundly biased individual like you should never have been let within a million miles of this story.
I reckon the JP’s ‘story’ on Israeli pets being ‘freaked out’ by sirens would be more on your level.
Oh, and BTW, Ms Rudoren, there’s no such people as ”Gazans”. They’re Palestinians.
Chu on November 21, 2012, 10:45 am
I’m not sure she can walk-it-back on calling Weiss a upper-class international intellectual blogger and then try to apologise. Credit her for the effort,
but the damage is done.
Remind me why people use Facebook? Jodi should delete her account.
“any decent person? — would have, which is to ask what I meant.”
Ah yes, ‘indecency’ must be the only motivation for assuming you, as a, well, you know, writer, meant what you wrote. And know how to write what you meant. Now really, is that ‘indecency’, or just a simple case of asking too much?
“As for my accusation that Weiss had taken the posts out of context, that was wrong.”
ROTFLMSJAO!! ‘It was wrong, but since making the “out-of-context” accusation gambit is always my first move, I decided to stick with tradition. And you know what comes next, right?’
Is this cage match really fair? I mean, we have a little girl from the Shtetl up against an international upper-class intellectual.
>> … while death and destruction is far more severe in Gaza than in Israel, it seems like Israelis are almost more traumatized. The Gazans have a deep culture of resistance and aspiration to martyrdom, they’re used to it from Cast Lead and other conflicts, and they have such limited lives than in many ways they have less to lose.
Makes sense:
– Israelis are generation-to-generation, fear-scarred Chosen People – a tiny blue Jewish drop in a sea of Islamic green – who have collectively survived the Holocaust, returned to the Promised Land and made the desert bloom!
– The Gazans are just Arabs with nothing but limited lives, a culture of resistance and a Nakba that doesn’t even come close to being as good as “The Bestest Genocide Ever!”(c) Hell, they can’t even love their children more than they hate Israelis!
” ….it seems the israelis are more traumatized…”
Bullies, who for a long time terrorize their neighborhood, usually are surprised when they get punched out by a smaller and weaker foe. They always believe noone will ever dare to oppose them, until it happens.
“former Israeli leaders”
Accounts like this make me think of Soviet Apparatchiks uttering party-approved inanities. The NYT is America’s Pravda.
Let’s face it, the NYT has about as much value on the Middle East as Pravda had on the USSR. And this spoiled brat says Arab journalists are unethical? Ha ha! No really, it’s not funny – journalists (real journalists, not trash like Rudoren) have died because for Israel, Palestinians – ALL Palestinians – might as well have a big target sign on their heads.
Her article is racism, pure and simple. The same nasty, insidious tripe that has characterised Zionism right from the start. ‘We’ll never forgive the Arabs for making us kill their children”, ”the Palestinians love death but we love life” and all the rest of the schlock which, over the years, has dehumanised Palestinians and given the impression that unlike peaceful, reasonable and oh-so-Western Israelis, they do not love their children as much as they love ‘martyrdom’, whatever that is.
It’s actually quite evil, when you think about it.
The funny thing is remembering when the NYT switched out the zio mouthpiece Bronner for this woman and how everyone hoped that this one would be less a fully-owned subsidiary of zionism, Inc. Ha ha. I guess we’re the fools for believing that the NYT would ever anyone but a racist hack in that post. Afterall, as the zionist-booster-club newsletter and Nakba cheerleader, NYT knows who pulls its strings and it ain’t justice or the Palestinians.
W.Jones on November 21, 2012, 7:31 pm
Even Fox News claims it is “balanced.” Why should Rudoren’s self-image settle for less?
kalki on November 21, 2012, 10:29 am
Her prejudices simply run too deep, so deep in fact that all she is trying, or able, to do is obliterate the humanity of the other side in her effort to make her views sound credible. There is desperation running all the way through her writing (I don’t want to use a more appropriate but rude word) and I am fearful of the future, not just in the ME, but in the wider world. We are going back in time in more ways than we are imagining and it is indeed a frightening prospect when the vastly more powerful live on the brink of insanity.
Here’s a Ho-Hum photo.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/873007/thumbs/r-ISRAEL-GAZA-CEASEFIRE-huge.jpg
Taxi on November 21, 2012, 1:50 pm
Call me the goof from hell but I sure as shucks am enjoying this cat fight!
And I don’t wanna hear any purring from you Phil!
I wanna hear you go khkhkhkhkhkhkhkh!
seafoid on November 21, 2012, 3:29 pm
I think Ms Rudoren just swallowed a fur ball.
Haha Phil is just ‘the upper class cat’ doing his daily rounds around roofs and hedges. He likes to walk among people. Rudoren is the jealous cat that lives in the glass tower high above and does not know the world and scoffs at Phil for his alleged waywardness. Rudoren then chides the songbirds outside.
DICKERSON3870 on November 21, 2012, 9:53 pm
RE: “Rudoren’s comment that Gazans who have just lost a relative ‘seem a bit ho-hum’ in interviews is sadly reminiscent of the assertion by Israel supporters that Palestinians love their children less than Israelis do.” ~ Weiss
FROM WIKIPEDIA [Learned helplessness]:
[EXCERPT] Learned helplessness is the condition of a human or animal that has learned to behave helplessly, failing to respond even though there are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive rewards. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.[1] Organisms which have been ineffective and less sensitive in determining the consequences of their behavior are defined as having acquired learned helplessness.[2]
The American psychologist Martin Seligman’s foundational experiments and theory of learned helplessness began at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, as an extension of his interest in depression. Quite by accident, Seligman and colleagues discovered that the conditioning of dogs led to outcomes that opposed the predictions of B.F. Skinner’s behaviorism, then a leading psychological theory.[3][4]
In the learned helplessness experiment an animal is repeatedly hurt by an adverse stimulus which it cannot escape.
Eventually the animal will stop trying to avoid the pain and behave as if it is utterly helpless to change the situation.
Finally, when opportunities to escape are presented, this learned helplessness prevents any action. The only coping mechanism the animal uses is to be stoical and put up with the discomfort, not expending energy getting worked up about the adverse stimulus. . .
SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
iResistDe4iAm on November 21, 2012, 10:12 pm
Is there any particular reason why the heading for this article was changed?
from: Gazans aspire to martyrdom and lead such limited lives they have less to lose than Israelis — NYT’s Rudoren
to: Gazans are ‘ho-hum’ about the deaths of relatives — NYT’s Rudoren
Given the content, the context and reader comments, I thought the first heading was more appropriate.
catherinewriter on November 23, 2012, 5:28 pm
She’s a real pip, isn’t she? Not smart to count on anything from the NYT.
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Shelter: N.D.G. resident downsizes so she can stay in her neighbourhood
Her previous apartment was on the top floor and she had to lug her laundry and groceries up three flights of stairs. Plus, her rent kept creeping up.
Helga Loverseed, Special to the Montreal Gazette
The blue mid-century chair belonged to Rina Kampeas's mother. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette
Rina Kampeas lived for many years in the Eastern Townships, but a decade ago, she decided to move back to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. She grew up in that neighbourhood and she was missing city life, so she packed up her sizeable house in Lennoxville and found a two-bedroom apartment on a street bordering the city of Westmount.
Kampeas, who is now 65 and a semi-retired freelance translator, loved the idea of being close to the Westmount Library and Sherbrooke St. W. with its interesting boutiques and restaurants.
After a while, however, she realized that she had been in too much of a rush to find a place in town. Her apartment was on the top floor of the building and she had to lug her laundry and groceries up three flights of stairs. Moreover, she was using one of her bedrooms as storage space, rather than as a living area, and her rent kept creeping up, finally to a point beyond what she could afford.
In 2014, Kampeas decided it was time to downsize once more. She sold off the furniture and other belongings that had been stored in her second bedroom and started looking around for another place, this time farther west in N.D.G., but still close to Sherbrooke St. (Kampeas volunteers as a discussion leader at the Thomas More Institute, which is on Atwater Ave.)
She found a place that fit the bill — a studio apartment in the basement of a high-rise building. The rent is reasonable at $495 per month. The laundromat is on the same floor. There is an elevator and “nice amenities” such as an outdoor pool and access to an indoor pool in a neighbouring building owned by the same landlords.
The teak table with the inlaid ceramic tiles dates back to 1958. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette
Q: How did you find your studio apartment? Did you see a “for rent” sign in the street?
A: I did do a bit of wandering along the streets and driving around with a friend, to give me a sense of what was on offer, but I actually found my place online, via the landlord’s website.
Q: You’ve certainly crammed a lot of things into your small space. Are those the items you didn’t want to part with?
A: Absolutely! I’ve still got some old documents stored in those boxes along the wall but other than that, these are things I like to have around me.
Q: I see you’re using your blue steamer trunk as a substitute for a sideboard. Are the framed photos on top of it members of your family?
A: They are. My family is all over the place. My brother lives in the United States. My sister is out West. My married daughter Kathleen is in Toronto and until recently, I had elderly relatives in Istanbul. I also lived abroad for a while. I studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University so I lived in the U.K. for a couple of years.
An old shipping trunk acts as a table in Rina Kampeas’s studio apartment. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette
Q: Where did your electric samovar come from? Turkey?
A: Samovars are used in Turkey, but this one is from Iran. It was given to me by a friend. He bought it at Akhavan.
(Akhavan is a nearby supermarket that specializes in Middle Eastern food — another reason Kampeas, with her Turkish connection, likes living in this area of N.D.G. We walk over to a white shelving unit that doubles as a work area. It has a pullout desk and on the top of the unit is a motley collection of ornaments and objets d’art. Above the unit and on most of the walls hang paintings, and other original artworks.)
Q: What’s the story behind all your knick-knacks?
A: They’re not valuable but they all mean something to me and they bring back memories from different periods of my life. The collection is miscellaneous — elephants, a little Buddha, an owl — and they don’t come from a single source. The house that holds a tea light came from Kathleen. She also did the painting above the shelf.
Q: Was that when she was young?
A: Yes. She was a teenager at the time. More recently, she gave me that beautiful book about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It was a gift for either Christmas or my birthday.
“They all mean something to me and they bring back memories from different periods of my life,” Rina Kampeas says. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette
Q: And this little blue and white porcelain vase?
A: I bought it at Debenhams when I was living in Oxford. I went to visit my aunt in Turkey and this was a gift for her. After she died, I took it back. The copper pot was hers as well. It’s for making Turkish coffee.
Q: You mentioned that your mid-century grey-blue chair with the tapered legs and the coffee table came from your parents?
A: The chair was in my mom’s apartment here in Montreal. The teak table with the inlaid ceramic tiles dates back to 1958. My parents bought it when I was little and they were still together. I remember it being in our family home.
If you would like your home to be considered for Shelter, please contact hloverseed@sympatico.ca.
Rina Kampeas’s family is scattered around the world, but she keeps them close with framed photos. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette
Shelter is a series featuring a conversation with tenants or condo owners.
Occupant: Rina Kampeas, 65
Location: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Size: All-in-one studio apartment
Rent: $495 (includes Hydro)
Been there: Since October 2014
Rina Kampeas’s daughter Kathleen gave her this book about Frida Kahlo. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette
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Zambia Wins Africa Cup Of Nations Title
First time in history, the Zambia National Soccer Team, Chipolopolo, won the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title that was hosted in Gabon after beating the Ivorian team with famous professional footballers in a penalty shootout. Straight into the game, the Zambian team displayed confidence, brilliant tactics, held their composure and gave their all to what they believed to be their moment to shine.
The Chipolopolo Boys have done Zambia proud! Win or lose the euphoria that was in the air since the mid-week (Wednesday, 8th Feb) win against Ghana certainly left Zambian fans in hope that we could bring the Africa Cup of Nations trophy home to Zambia!
The game was intense and exciting… Many Zambians watched on the edge of their seats as the young team soldiered on with nerves of steel. The nation took to the streets in wild celebrations when Sunzu scored the winning penalty during the sudden death shootout. They sang, danced and chanted the slogans “Zambia! Zambia!” and “Chipolopolo! Iye!” Vuvuzelas (blow horns) and whistles echoed as the entire country displayed their delight, joy and pride of being Zambian.
Winning the trophy is a great achievement and the team has dedicated it to the honour of the former Zambian National Team that died in a plane crash off the coast of Gabon on 27th April 1993 as they travelled to a FIFA World Cup Qualifier. Congrats Zambia!!! You are the soccer giants of Africa… Now we look forward to bringing the World Cup home 🙂
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NA officials visits General Vo Nguyen Giap
In Uncategorized on January 8, 2011 at 4:07 am
QĐND – Friday, January 07, 2011, 21:31 (GMT+7)
PANO – National Assembly Chairman, Nguyen Phu Trong, and Vice Chairpersons Tong Thi Phong, Nguyen Duc Kien, Huynh Ngoc Son and Uong Chu Luu, on January 5th, paid a visit to General Vo Nguyen Giap on the 65th anniversary of the Vietnam National Assembly’s first General Elections.
General Vo Nguyen Giap, who was a member of the National Assembly from the first congress to the seventh, together with other former leaders nurtured and made significant contributions to the development of the Vietnam National Assembly in the past.
The NA Chairman, on behalf of the NA Standing Committee, briefly reported NA activities, its achievements and progress in recent time and wished the General good health during the visit.
General Vo Nguyen Giap shook hands with the NA officials, expressed his joy at the development of the Vietnam National Assembly and asked them to continuously heighten the NA responsibilities and to better serve people.
Translated by Thu Nguyen
Source: QDND
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NA deputies passes resolution on completion of Dung Quat Oil Refinery
In Uncategorized on November 26, 2010 at 1:50 pm
QĐND – Friday, November 26, 2010, 20:40 (GMT+7)
The NA deputies passed a resolution on completion of Dung Quat oil refinery at the 8th session of the 12th National Assembly which closed in Hanoi on November 26.
The resolution states that the Dung Quat Oil Refinery Factory Project No 1 has been basically completed and is producing initial results.
The resolution asks the government to continue with a package of measures aimed at ensuring raw materials for the factory to operate steadily in the long-run, and improving the project’s socio-economic efficiency as well as its impact on the key economic zone in the central region.
It also asks relevant agencies to ensure absolute security and safety for the factory under the legal regulations and pay due attention to training hi-tech human resources for the oil refinery industry as well as stabilizing the people’s production activities in the surrounding areas. More importantly, it is necessary to implement the audit of the whole project under the legal regulations.
The same day, NA deputies approved another resolution on the results of supervising the implementation of administrative reform in areas related to citizens and businesses under an overall programme on state administrative reform in the 2001-2010 period.
Source: VOV
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12th NA concludes its eighth session in Hanoi
After a full month of intensive work with a democratic spirit of renewal and a high sense of responsibility, the 12th National Assembly (NA) closed its eighth session in Hanoi on November 26.
At this session, NA members reviewed the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and the State budget for 2010, worked out a new plan for socio-economic development and the State budget for next year, carried out law making and supervisory programmes, and made decisions on important national issues.
In his closing speech, NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong said the NA agreed that this year, the entire Party, people and soldiers spared no efforts to overcome every difficulty and challenge in order to fulfill the targets of socio-economic development. Most of the set targets have been reached and the national economy has recovered from recession and posted a relatively high growth rate. The State budget’s revenues have increased while social welfare continue to see improvements.
However, NA deputies admitted some weaknesses and limitations such as unsustainable growth, slow economic restructuring, poor competitiveness, high trade deficit, high budget overspending and public debts, and low investment efficiency.
In addition, inflation controls have proved ineffective. The price of essential goods is not yet under control and the gold market and the foreign exchange rates still face instabilities.
Regarding the 2011 plan for socio-economic development, NA deputies underlined the need to stabilise the economy, control inflation along with renewing the growth model and restructuring the economy, attain a higher economic growth rate than 2010, and increase the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the national economy.
It is essential to ensure social welfare, improve people’s living standards, maintain political stability, national defense and security, and increase the efficiency of foreign affairs- related work and international integration.
The NA approved 9 draft laws and one resolution, including the Environmental Protection Tax Law, the Consumer Rights Protection Law, the Minerals Law (revised), Amendments and Supplements to some Articles in the Securities Law, the Insurance Business Law, the Law on the Election of NA and People’s Council members and a resolution on tax policy for agricultural land use.
They also held debates on 9 other draft laws, including the Independent Auditing Law, the Capital Law, the Complaints & Denunciations Law, the Measurement Law, the Anti- Human Trafficking Law, the Archives Law, the Cooperative Law (revised), and Amendments and Supplements to some Articles of the Civil Procedure Code.
The NA questioned four ministers with the participation of two deputy ministers and six other ministers who also explained related issues. The Prime Minister also directly answered queries raised by NA deputies and clarified a number of major issues relating to the government’s management and guidance.
The NA’s question and answer sessions focused on key issues of great concern to NA members and voters such as price fluctuations, the trade deficit, management and operational efficiency of groups and State corporations (the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group known as Vinashin is for example), power supplies and safety, and the efficiency of a bauxite project in the central highlands.
Q&A sections continued to be improved, obtain practical results and were conducted in a frank, open, and constructive manner. Many NA members admitted their sectors’ weaknesses and limitations and clarified their individual responsibility.
In conclusion, NA Chairman Trong said the eighth session discussed many important issues with heart-felt opinions from NA deputies and thorough preparations of the NA and relevant agencies.
Before the closing ceremony, the NA voted for the approval of a resolution on the Dung Quat refinery project. By a 90.26 percent vote, the NA adopted a resolution on the implementation of administrative procedures relating to citizens and businesses under an overall administrative reform programme in the 2001-2010 period.
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PM answers NA deputies’ queries at the Q & A session
QĐND – Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 20:31 (GMT+7)
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung answered NA deputies’ queries at the 8th session of the 12th National Assembly on November 24.
The PM presented six major issues including the bauxite exploitation project in the central highlands, the restructuring of Vinashin and the development of the electricity sector.
Regarding the Tan Rai and Nhan Co bauxite exploitation projects, PM Dung said that during the project’s pilot phase, he directed relevant ministries, the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Group (Vinacomin) and localities to strictly implement the Party and State policies. He also directed the construction, evaluation, processing and use of bauxite ore in the 2007-2015 period.
Vinacomin is the main investor of both projects Tan Rai and Nhan Co. China Aluminum Group is the EPC contractor and will hand over the factory to Vinacomin when construction is completed in two years’ time.
PM Dung added that the exploitation of bauxite will create favourable conditions to improve soil for commercial crops and forests in the central highlands.
After the red mud incident in Hungary, the PM asked relevant ministries and agencies to supervise the project’s construction and solutions for red-mud reservoirs.
The government has also asked Vinacomin to employ foreign consultants to re-evaluate the project and perfect the design of its red-mud reservoirs. At the same time, he also directed the Ministry of Industry and Trade to send a team to conduct a survey at the red-mud spill in Hungary.
The PM said that the survey team has delivered a report which says that technological and management solutions at Tan Rai red-mud lake have been assessed as very modern and safe. He will make a decision on how to go ahead with project once environmental safety is confirmed by foreign consultants.
Regarding the Vinashin Group, the PM said, the government inspectors are urgently trying to complete a comprehensive conclusion on Vinashin. Independent auditors are checking this year’s business results and the group’s leaders are also supervising and updating the group’s financial accounts and assets, related data to ensure accuracy.
The government has also reviewed and analyzed reasons and responsibilities of related agencies and mapped out a detailed plan to create favourable conditions for Vinashin to stabilise and recover production and business activities. The government also focused on perfecting a mechanism for increasing the responsibility and efficiency of State management for state-owned enterprises to avoid such incidents as Vinashin.
As head of the government, the PM is responsible for Vinashin’s shortcomings and he is seriously considering every responsibility for clarification along with his deputies and other ministers involved.
The PM also said that it is difficult to implement a restructuring plan for Vinashin and the government needs the support and supervision of NA deputies.
To strengthen management and improve the efficiency of economic groups and state corporations, the PM will continue to improve the management mechanism for investment and the use of State capital and property to help businesses take responsibility for their activities.
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NA deputies query hot transportation issues
National Assembly deputies on Nov. 23 queried a number of hot transportation issues related to the North-South Railway Express, infrastructure, traffic jams and the restructure of the Vietnam Shipping Industry Group (Vinashin).
Regarding the North-South Railway Express project, Transport Minister Ho Nghia Dung said his ministry would not invest in the project as the NA refused to approve earlier this year. However, he said, in accordance with the Prime Minister’s instruction, the ministry would continue studying the feasibility of the project.
“We will not study the whole route but only several sections such as a flyover railway on the third belt road connecting the centre of Hanoi to the Noi Bai Airport, and sections from Hanoi to Thanh Hoa and Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City,” he said, adding that all works are now only studying and developing project.
Dung also answered deputies’ queries on punishment to contractors that caused traffic jams and accidents during their construction process, the effectiveness of the Ho Chi Minh Highway, and plans to develop coastal roads combined with sea dyke system to cope with climate change and tides.
Regarding the near-bankrupt shipbuilder Vinashin, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung, head of a steering board to oversee Vinashin’s restructuring process, assured that it would be able to pay off its debt of 86 trillion VND (42 billion USD).
According to him, the restructure began in 2008 by withdrawing Vinashin’s investment capital and reducing its projects from 185 to 28 and focusing on only 13 projects.
He said the shipbuilder was making progress in both production and sales. It’s 28 shipbuilders have resumed operation and this year, Vinashin will build 66 vessels to earn almost 600 million USD, the Deputy PM said, affirming that the group would gross revenues of around 14 trillion VND (6.83 billion USD) and would reap benefit from 2013.
Source: VNA
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NA adopts State budget estimates for next year
In Uncategorized on November 11, 2010 at 6:57 am
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Ba Na communal house to be rebuilt
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NA sets high target for 2011 GDP growth
In Uncategorized on November 9, 2010 at 12:19 am
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NA Chairman hails UK ambassador’s contributions
In Uncategorized on October 24, 2010 at 4:03 pm
QĐND – Sunday, October 24, 2010, 20:4 (GMT+7)
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong received outgoing UK Ambassador to Vietnam Mark Kent in Hanoi on October 23.
NA Chairman Trong applauded major contributions of the UK ambassador to boosting the two countries’ relations in the fields of politics, economics, education and tourism as well as the two nations’ legislative ties. He said projects launched by the UK have helped increase the capacity of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Office and other NA’s agencies.
The Vietnamese top legislator expressed his wishes that cooperative ties between the two legislative bodies would continue developing in the future.
Chairman Trong also expressed his belief that in the new position, the UK ambassador would make more contributions to the friendship and cooperation between the two nations.
For his part, Ambassador Mark Kent said he considers his tenure in Vietnam a milestone in his diplomatic cause, during which he had chances to visit many cities and provinces across the country.
He is pleased with multi-faceted friendship and cooperation between the two countries and wishes that the bilateral ties would further develop in the future.
Source: VNA, photo: VOV
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NA to impose environment tax on plastic bags
In Uncategorized on October 22, 2010 at 7:57 am
The Vietnamese National Assembly Thursday discussed the bill on environment tax that intends to impose a levy on plastic bags and several more products.
Environment activists have launched some campaigns to call on people not to use plastic bags.
The bill adds more products to the list of term affected by the tax, including petrol, coal, HCFC, plastic bags, herbicide, insecticide, bactericide… In the future the NA’s Law Committee will add more terms to the list of products affected by the law if needed.
The bill will impose VND50,000 tax (US$2,5 ) on one kg of plastic bags while NA members asked to increase higher tax on plastic bags because the use of the product needs to be put on alert, causing seriously environment pollution.
Some NA members raised concern over tax upon petrol as inflation in the country has sharply increased. They said that tax upon petrol would impact on prices of essential goods, leading to CPI increase.
Relating to tax calculating measures, the bill says that tax payment depends on quantity of tax-affected products.
In the current law, products have to be under the influence of environment fees and the fees are not enough to recover environment. As a result, environment is critically polluted by productive activities.
The law will not aim to increase the national budget but target businesses’ responsibility to environment, said Chief of NA Financial Committee Phung Quoc Hien.
Source: SGGP
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Located in Mundelein, Illinois, in the northwestern suburb outside Chicago, Fremont School District 79 (SD 79) is composed of three schools: elementary, intermediate and middle. The district enrolls over 2,200 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, covers a 36-square-mile area, and draws from seven neighboring communities.
Fremont SD 79 is known for its spirit of continuous quality improvement, with open, transparent communication with the public about school performance. The priority is to create a safe learning environment to further its mission of “preparing today’s child for tomorrow’s world.”
As Mike Tanner, their Director of Business Services points out, in the aftermath of an alarming number of incidents of school violence around the nation, their district placed even greater emphasis on tightening campus security and creating a culture of increased safety for students and school personnel.
A variety of factors prompted the district to adopt a more robust and reliable solution than incumbent push-to-talk cellular. They discovered that the combination of the MOTOTRBO digital two-way radio system and Teldio telephone interconnect application would provide real-time communications – and a direct connection to 9-1-1 dispatchers – to increase school safety.
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Rosen Hotels & Resorts Seamlessly Connects Staff, Boosts Security Response And Improves Productivity
Rosen Hotels & Resorts run and operate seven quality properties at the hub of Orlando’s theme parks. Their ongoing commitment to exceptional guest satisfaction has fueled their growth for over 40 years.
Stepping up to their unwavering commitment to guest satisfaction became challenging with an aging communications system. To meet this challenge, Rosen Hotels decided to upgrade their existing radios to a MOTOTRBO system for improved coverage and audio clarity. Their centralized guest relations team also leverages DAPage to dispatch work order tickets and WAVE for Voice Dispatch. This unified Team Communications solution enables every department to instantly communicate from anywhere to meet guest expectations.
Download the case study to learn how Rosen Hotels & Resorts elevated their guest experience by ensuring all team members from guest relations to security, housekeeping, kitchen, and beyond communicate instantly and with added intelligence.
Major North American Processing Plant Excels Under Daily Pressure
Aux Sable is one of the largest natural gas liquid (NGL) extraction and fractionation facilities in North America. A major player in the midstream gas processing business, Aux Sable operates facilities and pipelines in some of the most active shale positions on the continent, including Alberta, Canada, and North Dakota.
For over 15 years, Aux Sable has been extracting and fractionating natural gas at its 70-acre facility in Channahon, Illinois, at the terminus of the Alliance Pipeline. This operation processes 2.1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas and can produce approximately 107,000 barrels per day of NGL products – including ethane, propane, butanes and pentanes.
Natural gas processing is a complex operation that involves large volumes of natural gas and NGLs transported in pipelines, process equipment and storage vessels. Safety is imperative for all plant employees, compliance with regulations and the well-being of the local community.
As Aux Sable expanded its Illinois facility to increase NGL production, it wanted to add to and enhance its MOTOTRBO digital radio system not only for regular employees, but for teams of outside contractors. MOTOTRBO’s platform offered a safe and productive way to meet their changing communication requirements.
The Kearney Companies, Inc. (KCO) is one of the largest third-party logistics (3PL) providers on the Gulf Coast. Operating from the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, the family-owned company has a rich history of warehousing and 3PL services that spans four generations.
Today, KCO oversees more than 700,000 square feet of rail-served warehouse capacity and over 45 acres of yard capacity in the New Orleans region. From rolled paper to steel products to cotton for export, KCO transports, warehouses and distributes millions of tons of international cargo.
“Every day we move cargo from the Port of New Orleans to eight different facilities,” says David Kearney, President. “As our truck drivers (draymen) transport containers, we need constant communication between our dispatch office, drivers and warehouse locations for large-scale efficiency.”
With the growth in export and import container business through the Port of New Orleans and an increase in drivers that travel outside New Orleans, KCO knew it had to expand radio communications to improve efficiency and customer service. The company quickly embraced the operations-critical benefits of Motorola’s digital technology with MOTOTRBO radios and MOTOTRBO Connect Plus commercial network.
Connexus® Energy Extends Workforce Communications Anywhere With WAVE™
Based in Ramsay, Minnesota, Connexus Energy is electrifying the community with reliable power that is competitively priced. As the largest customer-owned electric cooperative in Minnesota, it provides electricity to nearly 130,000 homes and businesses. Connexus Energy consistently ranks among the top utilities in the U.S. and is heralded for its power reliability by the American Customer Satisfaction Index survey.
MOTOTRBO and WAVE are unifying communications to help Connexus Energy reduce downtime, optimize efficiency and keep personnel safe. Where previous hardware issues created costly delays and impacted power reliability, today, collaboration throughout the utility is seamless, crew workers are more effective and response times are faster.
The benefits of extending radio PTT to broadband devices go far beyond internal operations. “For our customers, it is bringing reliability and safety to our people and also bringing service, productivity and financial gains to those using the commerce,” says John Rono. The combined power of MOTOTRBO and WAVE are connecting Connexus Energy like never before – so they can elevate customer service and help their community thrive.
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3M Responding to California Wildfires with N95 Respirator Donations, Supplies
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ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M is responding to communities affected by the wildfires in California to provide needed relief and recovery supplies through our teams on the ground and humanitarian aid partners.
The fires have become the deadliest in California’s history. Air quality alerts have been issued for dozens of California cities and surrounding areas. Emergency service departments recommended that people try to remain indoors to avoid exposure to smoke and ash, and wear a N95 respirator to help reduce exposure to airborne particulates when outdoors.
“Our hearts go out to the people in California who have suffered terrible losses in the fires,” said Michael Stroik, Director of 3Mgives. “To help those in need, 3M has donated more than 380,000 N95 respirators to our humanitarian aid partners American Red Cross and Direct Relief.”
3M is a leading provider of NIOSH-approved N95 respirators. Used properly, the N95s filter out 95 percent of the particulate from smoke and ash, said Nikki McCullough, Global Application Engineering and Regulatory Affairs Manager at 3M’s Personal Safety Division.
“People who choose to use N95 respirators really need to follow the fitting instructions carefully. It’s important that the particles go through the filter, and not around the edges of the respirator,” McCullough said.
Respirators need to be securely strapped, with both bands in the right place, fit snugly to the face and formed around the nose to be effective, McCullough said. You have to wear the respirator as the User Instructions indicate.
The American Red Cross is distributing 3M™ N95 respirators at 17 open shelters in Northern and Southern California, and has shipped additional respirators for distribution in the community once authorities determine it’s safe for residents to re-enter their homes.
3M emergency response team members are also meeting daily with American Red Cross and county officials to monitor need as well as to help in relief and recovery efforts. N95 respirators can also be purchased at most home improvement supply stores, industrial and safety supply stores and online retailers.
Along with providing support in the wake of natural disasters, 3M works with humanitarian aid partners to pre-stock warehouses with supplies commonly used during relief operations. To date, 3M has donated more than 500,000 respirators for various natural disasters in 2018 and provided more than $1.5 million in cash and product donations.
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For Marie-Eve, who is from Montreal, travel holds no more secrets. Having lived in London and France, she has spent the past nine years quenching her thirst for adventure and discovery. Twenty-nine countries later, Marie-Eve continues to travel the world.
As part of its expansion, 5Continents, which is home to international receptives and specializes in group travel, told PAX exclusively that it will add TUI China to its list of clients.
The receptive will install its offices at 5Continents to better accommodate North American travellers to China.
"This is major, because it gives access to circuits guaranteed in French to Quebec travellers at really great prices, without having to worry about the validity of the product," said David Boigné, founder of 5Continents. "TUI is the largest tour operator on the planet, after all. It's really a big mark of confidence for 5Continents."
During the past few months, tourism to China has been tumultuous, due in part to the legal escapades of one of Quebec's main tour operators, Vacances Sinorama.
"We know that TUI China will not disappear tomorrow morning, it's really solid," Boigné said. "In addition, as it is an international brand, there is some quality control in terms of standard that is respected."
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As “Restless Daughter” tracks Mitchell’s musical development and her battles for creative control on tour and in the recording studio, its readers come to understand how much integrity was required for her to allow her love for jazz (never the most lucrative genre) to exert an increasing influence on her work,” the piece reads. “Equally admirable is her resilience in overcoming setbacks — dimwitted reviews, disappointing sales, an unproductive flirtation with 1980s synth-pop — and her struggles with substance addictions, among them a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit that affected her voice.”
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Saaho: Neil Nitin Mukesh wraps up shooting for Prabhas starrer
New Delhi, News24 Bureau, June 16: Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh has wrapped up shooting for "Saaho" and called the upcoming film a "beautiful journey".
"Two years since this beautiful journey started and it's a wrap for me on the sets of 'Saaho'. Thank you Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor, my brother Sujeeth and the entire team," Mukesh tweeted on Sunday.
Recently, the teaser of Saaho dropped on the online platform and it was appreciated widely by all. The teaser opens with a shot of Shraddha saying that she has nobody to share her happiness or sorrow. Prabhas replies that he is there for her.
Cut to the next shot, we see Prabhas standing on the tip of a skyscraper and we get a wide shot of the city that is filled with high-rise buildings. From here on, the teaser is full of quickly edited shots that tease us with the scale of action used in the film.
From shots of hand-to-hand combat to car and bike chases to monster trucks and choppers, "Saaho" promises to take us on a thrilling ride when it hits the screens this Independence Day.
From performing bike stunts and chasing enemies and beating them to the ground, Prabhas looks wrathful in the action avatar.
But if you thought "Saaho" is all about Prabhas, you're wrong. The teaser features a beautiful shot where we see Prabhas and Shraddha form a tag team and fight.
The teaser, which has been released in four languages, promotes "Saaho" as India's biggest action thriller film and going by the visuals, one can't doubt what the makers have set out to deliver.
The teaser also confirms that Ghibran has been roped in as composer, as a replacement for the composer-trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
Directed by Sujeeth, "Saaho" has an ensemble cast of Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Mandira Bedi, Chunky Pandey, Mahesh Manjrekar, Arun Vijay and Murali Sharma.
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Home Entertainment Books High-Octane Author Fires Second Rocket, ‘BIG Wallet, NO Pants!’
High-Octane Author Fires Second Rocket, ‘BIG Wallet, NO Pants!’
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NASCAR racer/author Robert Bakke pulled off a publishing miracle last year by self-publishing his way to a #1 ranking on Amazon (Prayer at Full Throttle). Now he’s at it again with an inspirational comedy entitled, “BIG Wallet, NO Pants!”
According to Bakke, BIG Wallet, NO Pants! will take the same rocket ride that Prayer at Full Throttle took, for two reasons. First, because the book will prove that people are smarter and more capable than they are being given credit for, and when they receive that revelation, look out.
“This is America and don’t ever forget it,” says Bakke, “Don’t listen to Washington politicians or anyone else who tells you that you can’t do something, or that you’re a victim of someone else’s success. This is America, where anyone can achieve anything when given the encouragement to try. BIG Wallet will do just that, and put a smile on your face while it happens.”
Secondly, Bakke is banking on success because of e-book technology. “Struggling authors need to spool up on e-book technology,” says Bakke, “We used it last year to accomplish what the mainstream publishers said was impossible.”
Bakke hopes the success he and his books have found will serve as motivation to people in all fields.
He states, “People are being led to think that wealth and those who have acquired it have done something unfair. It’s ridiculous. Some of us have risked thousands of our own dollars and worked countless hours in order to succeed. America is bursting with opportunity for those who have the guts to take a risk and the ambition to make their dreams, real.”
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Are you an budding entrepreneur, innovator or a researcher looking for an opportunity to help take off your bright idea off the ground? The Wits Enterprise is looking for potential candidates to enter the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation Funding Competition which will see some big ideas in line to receive financial and mentorship support.
The Wits University is investing over R2.5-million in seed capital available to help get winning start-up ideas off to a good start. Those who believe they have what it takes to impress the judges are invited to attend call to entry and information session on Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11H00 at the Wits PDH Building. Potential candidates looking to attend the session are required to register by emailing makhosi.cebekhulu@wits.ac.za.
“We are looking for people who are working on novel technologies that will improve the efficiency of government service delivery, increase the competitiveness of the local economy and enhance the quality of life of ordinary citizens,” says Wits Enterprise innovation support manager, Anne Gabathuse.
Entries are open in four categories; ICT, medical, biosciences and green economy. The Wits Enterprise’s Innovation Hub will assist participants who have attended the Business Basics Workshop to put together their applications. The deadline for applications to the funding competition is May 31, 2019.
The Wits Enterprise is investing over R2.5-million in seed capital to support innovative ideas
Winners will share in seed funding and cash prizes, as well as receive incubation services with technical and business mentors and access to a broad network of industry and government partners.
About Wits Enterprise
Wits Enterprise is the Wits University entity established in response to South Africa’s socio-economic challenges and the urgency to prepare young people for the Fourth Industrial Revolution among other things. The entity is tasked with marketing and commercializing the institution’s intellectual capital, research and innovations. Offering customized short courses accredited by Wits University, it comprises of four units dealing with innovation, research, short courses and entrepreneurial development. For more information, visit www.schoolofrock.com/centerstage.
Kickstart your music career; Cape Town’s School of Rock
An exciting opportunity exist for budding local musicians, courtesy of the world renowned Cape Town’s School of Rock. The South African chapter of the world acclaimed music institution is offering teenagers of all ages a once-in-lifetime opportunity to showcase their musical talent before an esteemed American record label executives as part of a worldwide artist search, Center Stage.
Budding SA singers aged 13 to 19 years have until June 30 to submit a five-minute audition video in the hope of securing a spot among a total of 25 individuals to be flown to Los Angeles for a one of a kind industry experience.
Selected individuals will perform in front of Atlantic Records and Artist Partner Group (APG) executives at a private artist showcase. They will record songs at APG’s studios with coaching assistance from a group of industry experts. In addition to the main prize for the winning vocalist, 100 other applicants who show promise will receive a scholarship to a School of Rock camp of their choice.
Marketing director of School of Rock Claremont (in Cape Town), Leigh Spaun, had this to say: “South Africa has limited opportunities to expose up-and-coming musicians, and with this competition, Center Stage gives talented artists the potential to reach their biggest audience yet.”
Applicants do not need to be School of Rock students in order to participate in Center Stage programme. For more information on who’s elegible to enter, visit www.schoolofrock.com/centerstage
About School of Rock
Arguably the world’s leading music incubation programme offering students “out of class lessons” and putting them on to the stage, the School of Rock has been the leader in performance-based music education for more than two decades. The institution (formerly known as The Paul Green School of Rock Music) budding musicians with tools they need to thrive in life. Originally founded in Philadelphia, PA in 1998 by, the school has grown rapidly with more than 230 international franchises in ten global markets. It has gone from 4,000 to a whopping 35,000 plus students currently.
Recycle, Reuse and win: The Park Boulevard Centre
One of its kind opportunity awaits primary school learners who are as passionate about the environment and believe that wonderful things can be made out of waste. The Park Boulevard Centre in Durban invites grade 1 to 7 learners to enter this unique recycling competition, where one gets to reuse items from recycled materials to create something truly unique.
Recycle, repurpose & reuse
The competition focuses on the 3R’s of the waste hierarchy’ – recycle, repurpose & reuse – and goes a long way a way in fostering a concern for the environment and sustainable habits early. With this competition, raising children who will be more aware of environmental issues – while having fun – is no longer a pipe dream but a close reality. And what better way to do than getting them to create either 2D or 3D reproductions, using only recycled materials.
Entries are open until Friday, May 24. Impressive creations will judged based on their effective use of repurposed materials and creativity. The winner will get his / her work displayed at The Park Boulevard Centre’s Etchings Gallery, and taking R1 500 cash and R5 000 for their school.
For more info on how to enter, go to www.parkboulevard.co.za.
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China’s iQIYI Signs Content, Channel Pact With Malaysia’s Astro
June 19, 2019 News
Astro Malaysia, Malaysia’s leading pay-TV operator, has struck a strategic agreement with Chinese streaming platform iQIYI.
Astro obtains the exclusive rights to deliver iQIYI content on TV, on-demand and via OTT in Malaysia. It will launch the first iQIYI-branded channel comprising iQIYI’s extensive slate of original content from drama to variety shows and movies. Astro will also take the lead in customer acquisition, marketing and media sales, the companies said.
iQIYI’s slate of original dramas and variety shows, includes “Story of Yanxi Palace,” “The Golden Eyes,” “The Legend of White Snake,” “Tang Dynasty Tour,” “The Rap of China,” “Hot-Blood Dance Crew,” and “Qing Chun You Ni.” The deal will also cover new content such as “The Rap of China 2019,” “Sword Dynasty,” “The Files of Teenagers in the Concession.”
“We are excited about the incredible opportunity that iQIYI presents in technology leadership and content innovation. This partnership enables us both to leverage on the strength of our brands and skillsets to extend our reach in the content world which is increasingly personal and digital,” said Henry Tan, CEO of Astro.
Having converted many Chinese viewers from free access to paid subscriptions, China’s streaming giants are increasingly looking to overseas markets for growth. In April, NASDAQ-listed iQIYI told Variety that it is planning to be active in ten South East Asian territories. Rival, Tencent Video recently launched its service in Thailand.
https://variety.com/2019/digital/asia/china-iqiyi-malaysia-astro-1203247128/
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Gun-wielding man attacks victim in broad daylight
By Stephanie Pagones
September 12, 2018 | 11:23am
A gunman was captured on surveillance video approaching a man on a Bronx street and whacking him on the head with the weapon during a botched robbery attempt — two days after he flashed his gun to swipe a bike, authorities said.
The suspect
The unsuspecting victim had just walked out of a store on Morris Avenue near East 149th Street in Melrose around 12:45 p.m. Sept. 1 when the stranger followed behind him and bumped into him, video released by police Tuesday shows.
The cigarette-smoking man pulls out a gun and points it at his victim, 53, demanding money — while bystanders look on and scurry out of the way.
After backing him into a corner, the gunman continues to demand money to no avail. He then swats his victim in the forehead with the gun, according to the footage.
Police said the crook then put his gun away and tried to slice the man with a box-cutter, but the victim was able to get away from his attacker, who also fled.
On the night of Aug. 30, the same man went after a cyclist just blocks away on Bergen Avenue, police said. He approached the 22-year-old victim, displayed his gun and demanded the bike.
The thief then rode away on the bike, heading north on Bergen Avenue, police said.
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime #5 (Light Novel)
Title: That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime #5
Author: Fuse
Rimuru is off on his tour of the surrounding nations, so Benimaru and the other residents of Tempest are doing their best to run everything like normal. Only there are various plots afoot, and without Rimuru, Tempest is poorly equipped to manage them . . .
It’s really hard to summarize this without spoiling some of the best twists. This book covers some of my favorite material in the overall story.
The prologue alone sets out the more ambitious scope of this book: the Beast Kingdom allied with Tempest is under attack . . . by Milim? But explanations will have to wait for much later.
Mjurren, a magicborn working to carry out some of those plans, gets a lot of focus. I actually like the love triangle that unfolds around her because it’s so silly—one of her would-be suitors is determined to win by waiting for the other one to age to death. For her part, she views Yohm and his comrades more like a babysitting job, where she’s the only adult in the room.
And I love watching Rimuru break down and go more than a little crazy when he finds out what happened when he was gone. It’s all the little things he does that betrays his raging heart. And then he decides he’s putting his foot down. No more pretending the world is full of nothing but people with good intentions.
Raphael is another favorite. “It’s just your imagination.” The snarky little quips go almost entirely over Rimuru’s head. I love how Raphael is developing as a character, and the conflict between emotions and logic as sentience grows where no personality should even exist.
Overall this is a very solid continuation for the series, as it provides a lot of character development for everyone around Rimuru, introduces interesting new characters (and brings back one welcome old friend), and paves the way for a rather unexpected journey. I rate this book Highly Recommended.
This entry was posted in Young Adult and tagged alternate world, fantasy, highly recommended, humor, light_novel, shapeshifters on April 25, 2019 by aelvana.
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime (Anime)
Title: That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
Episodes: 1-25
Mikami Satoru was an ordinary man, until the day a mugger ends his life and sends his spirit to another world. Reincarnated as a slime monster named Rimuru Tempest, he fumbles his way through meetings with dragons, goblins, ogres, and more in this brand-new world.
So now that the first season is completely over, I thought I’d throw a few thoughts out there.
The first two major arcs are definitely the strongest. The initial exploration of this new world, culminating in meeting Shizu, and the Orc Lord arc were both a lot of fun whether it was anime, manga, or light novel portraying them.
The last two arcs, unfortunately, are a step down in several respects. I never liked the Milim arc much, and cutting down the number of episodes adapting it doesn’t help an already weak plot with Charbydis. The major characters here basically show up, fail to pose a credible threat, and resolve much too fast.
Similarly, the last big arc with Rimuru turning teacher doesn’t have enough focus on the kids who are supposed to be at the center of it all. In both cases, the weaknesses were present in the light novels, but not as strongly because of other interesting content to balance it out. I still hope Rimuru’s journey to the capital gets animated as an OVA, as that had several amusing encounters that the anime completely cut out.
The last two episodes are special episodes. One is a standalone episode about Shizu and a particular demon who will later meet Rimuru, and the last is a recap of the series with Veldora and Ifrit voicing some of the scenes from Veldora’s diary (the short stories at the end of every manga volume). I liked Shizu’s episode better, as it at least provides some new material. Veldora’s diary was a recap coming right on the heels of another episode with a lot of recap (plus they skipped some of the funnier bits of his diary anyway, like how he found manga through Rimuru’s memories and took it as sacred texts).
Overall I still enjoyed my time each week with the show, but I think after the Orc Lord arc the quality does go down a lot. That said, I’m looking forward to season 2, which has already been announced, as it will cover some of my favorite moments in the web novel. (The light novels covering those arcs haven’t come out yet in English.) I rate this series Recommended.
This entry was posted in Anime and tagged alternate world, dragons, fantasy, recommended, shapeshifters on April 2, 2019 by aelvana.
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
Title: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
JP Title: Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi
Not linking because this is getting published. Amazon has a good-sized sample. I read chapters 1-129.
Mukouda was a regular office worker who got caught accidentally in the hero summoning of three teenagers. Excusing himself from the situation, he goes off to find a job somewhere more peaceful than his arrival point, but his journey out is interrupted by a fenrir who insists on joining him for his cooking. Now he’s stuck trying to fill up his eternally-hungry companions, but at least he’s got an ability to buy things from an online supermarket.
I read the web novel version, so I’m not sure how much this changes from the novel version. The set up alone is amusing. Mukouda can see what’s coming as far as “heros” are concerned: war. Since he’d rather just be left alone to live a peaceful life, he asks for an allowance and high-tails it out of there. It’s a pity a legendary beast smells his cooking and gets addicted to being fed.
But Fer turns into an amusing ally, even if Mukouda has to work not to be bullied. Pretty much nothing can stand against the fenrir, who is willing to kill anything he deems tasty. So Mukouda does get a more-or-less peaceful life. He keeps gaining allies, as well, both in other people and more familiars. Ironically, they think of him as a legendary Tamer, and the few glimpses we get of the teenage heros confirms Mukouda has gotten far, far stronger than they have, despite all their Hero bonuses.
This is much more of a slice-of-life novel, with a great deal of attention devoted to the various meals Mukouda is preparing. Because of that, the pacing can feel really slow at times. I enjoyed the various bits of humor, but I do wish the story had included recipes, because it doesn’t get in depth enough to follow along.
Overall, this isn’t going to be a story for everyone. But for those who enjoy a quieter travel story about a boy and his (completely oversized and ridiculously overpowered) dog, this would be a good one to check out. Recommended.
This entry was posted in Young Adult and tagged alternate world, dragons, fantasy, light_novel, recommended on March 24, 2019 by aelvana.
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Vol. 6 (Light Novel)
Title: Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Vol. 6
Author: Ryo Shirakome
Hajime never intended to get involved in the war between the demons and the humans, but when the royal capital is attacked while he’s in it, he can’t help but get caught up in things. In addition, conspiracies are multiplying like crazy: Aiko’s been kidnapped because of what Hajime told her, some of the people around the palace have been acting very strangely, and some classmates are not what they seem.
This volume continues the trend of excellent fight scenes. Some of them are the expected curbstomps—the invading army was pretty much doomed when it picked a city Hajime was in—but Hajime is starting to attract the attention of higher-level fighters who can match or exceed him in combat, which keeps the overall book more interesting.
Aiko had some good moments too, although I still dislike how she’s basically falling in love with Hajime over something he did while she was dying.
I’m a bit mixed on the other student conspiracies, though. Some of this has been set up over the course of a few books now, and it was nice to see how that plays out, but others just felt like the author went “Welp, you need to be evil now.” I don’t entirely buy the reason or the behavior because there was just no clue ahead of time. (And no, the nameless student segments hinting that someone is evil don’t really count for me, since we can’t see it in the person’s behavior otherwise, and those scenes could just as easily apply to others.)
Overall if you’ve been enjoying the series so far, this is another good entry. I rate this book Recommended.
This entry was posted in Young Adult and tagged alternate world, dragons, fantasy, light_novel, recommended, shapeshifters on January 20, 2019 by aelvana.
It’s time for Hajime to return Myu to her mother—but new locations inevitably mean new problems. An oasis town is suffering from a contaminated water supply. Two new dungeons await, pushing Hajime and his companions to their limit.
For the first time, we have a good look into the demon’s perspective. And Hajime meets someone he can’t overpower or avoid, who is competing with him to conquer the ancient labyrinths and obtain their powers.
I also liked the way Hajime gets roped into helping out around town far more than he originally wanted to. Certain types of problems are very easy for him and his party to solve, which makes him feel like it’s not a big deal, even though it’s still things others find impossible to duplicate.
I’m still not a fan of the harem antics, but at least there’s enough other stuff going on to balance it out. Myu’s mother is of course added as another candidate, and Kaori is working on integrating herself with the group.
Overall, if you’ve liked the previous ones this is a good next step. It throws a few more interesting things into the mix, namely the demons, and has plenty of good action scenes. I rate this book Recommended.
This entry was posted in Young Adult and tagged alternate world, dragons, fantasy, light_novel, recommended, shapeshifters, vampires on January 5, 2019 by aelvana.
Hajime has rescued Will from an army of monsters, but no sooner are they home then the trouble starts all over again. This time it’s Myu, a small slave girl Hajime inadvertently rescues. And she’s not the only one in trouble—Kouki and the strongest of the transplanted students are still pressing towards the bottom of the Great Orcus Labyrinth, and they’ve stumbled into far more than they can handle.
Given that last book only a few of Hajime’s classmates found out he’s still alive, this book has a second (and equally amusing) reunion—this time including Kaori, the girl who never stopped believing he’d survived.
I really like how Hajime challenges Kouki’s heroism. To some extent, Kouki has the Hero class because he really is heroic. But his weaknesses are equally glaring, and have been pointed out since the first book: his inflexible thinking, his inability to even see things that don’t match his assumptions, and his lack of resolve. I love that Hajime points out Kouki’s unwillingness to kill an enemy has more to do with his own unwillingness to see someone die and not compassion or mercy.
Endou’s stealth skills were also good for several laughs. “And just who are you calling the king of invisibility!? I’ll have you know that the automatic doors at stores open for me one-third of the time!”
Kaori’s crisis at seeing Hajime alive but almost totally different was one of the best parts of the book. She’s waited and suffered so much for this moment, and yet it’s nothing like what she wanted it to be. She can’t keep her promise to protect him. In fact she’s rejecting who he is now more than anyone except Kouki.
Overall this is one of the better books in the series, as it mostly eschews the pandering for some solid plot development, intense action scenes, and strong character moments. I rate this book Recommended.
This entry was posted in Young Adult and tagged alternate world, fantasy, light_novel, recommended, urban, vampires on January 5, 2019 by aelvana.
When Hajime takes on a request to find a lost adventurer, the last thing he expects is to run into some of his old classmates. At least with the monsters he’s on more familiar ground. For his classmates, it’s a shocking revelation that Hajime even survived, let alone how much he’s changed.
This volume contains the moment I was hoping for since the end of the first book: Hajime’s reunion with his classmates. And it was every bit as funny as I anticipated. Hajime immediately goes rather grumpy and close-mouthed, possibly trying to tone things down for the teacher who’s been so distraught over his situation. But he can’t change the obvious fact of his current strength, which in its own way says more than words ever could.
I like that we get the perspective of Aiko, his teacher. She can’t help but see herself as responsible for all these kids, and the fact that they’re now in a world where death is just around the corner bothers her to no end. She doesn’t even have a combat class that she could train to keep them safe. And because Hajime knows this, it makes their reunion even more awkward, because she’s one of the only people he can respect.
Q: After you fell from the bridge, what happened?
A: I went through hell.
Q: How come your hair is white now?
A: Because I went through hell.
Also a major highlight is the continual shock and awe tactics Hajime pulls off. The battles are a lot of fun—and I love how Aiko accurately calls him out on what he didn’t say when she originally asked him about the army.
But it’s not entirely a volume without problems. Yet again we have medical procedures interpreted as kissing, and I’m doubly annoyed that this time it’s with his teacher. Tio, however, was even more eye-rolling. She was better before she joined the party, because once she does she’s yet another flat character whose whole existence becomes getting Hajime to sleep with her (and also punish her, because she’s into S&M). Which means yet another character has a really annoying behavior pattern that’s constantly popping up.
Overall, if you liked the first book I would say give this one a shot because it makes a nice benchmark to show how far Hajime has come. I rate this book Recommended.
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Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions [duplicate]
Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5 13 answers
At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question. (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as duplicate, think of normal users here, not the people that read Meta)
It is better for Stack Overflow if a link to the duplicate is posted as a comment, or the user votes to close the question as a duplicate. However, the user gets more rep if he/she posts the easy answer quickly.
I'm thinking of something along the lines of:
First person to post a comment that points to possible duplicate gets some rep if the question is closed as a duplicate and at least 2 of the other closers chose that same dupe question.
Whenever someone votes to close as a duplicate, a “possible duplicate” comment should be posted with a link to the other question, if there is not already a link to it in a comments. (The system now does this)
As Ether said, The removal of reputation earned from answering a question that is later closed as a duplicate would at least remove the negative incentive, but is that enough to correct this behaviour?
Is a “duplicate finder” badge part of the solution?
A bronze badge for being the first person to vote to close a question as a duplicate with the same “duplicate of” question chosen as most closers choose.
A silver badge for doing the same 25 times.
See also Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication
Improve tools for closing as duplicate, would also help.
Now that the duplicate can be marked by the OP as helpful, we have another trigger to consider for awarding badges and/or rep.
feature-request questions duplicate-questions incentive
Ian RingroseIan Ringrose
marked as duplicate by Rory Alsop, Monica Cellio♦ feature-request Users with the feature-request badge can single-handedly close feature-request questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. Dec 12 '18 at 1:28
I know you were just throwing ideas out there, but I think this might work better as a badge instead of giving rep for it. – Jon Seigel Jan 29 '10 at 18:53
Not sure if these suggestions will work, but right now the incentives encourage rather than discourage duplicates, so I would like to see something done. – dmckee Jan 29 '10 at 18:58
One way would be to disable adding new questions. 485,397 should be enough for anyone. – Craig Stuntz Jan 29 '10 at 19:00
I've seen people (mostly, moderate rep users: 1-5k) post duplicate links as "answers". This should be discouraged IMHO. I've no practical solution at the moment though. – xmm0 Jan 29 '10 at 19:49
@Jon, the advantage of giving rep is that new users see it on the page of how to get rep; I don't know if badges motive anyone. However there is no reason not to have a badge(s). – Ian Ringrose Jan 29 '10 at 20:39
I tried this, it got nowhere meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9686/… – waffles Jan 29 '10 at 22:10
In the case of duplicate questions, I usually say "as was said in so-and-so's answer on this similar question [link], check this, do that, and record the other. I, too am frustrated at the repeats... – gWaldo Sep 28 '10 at 15:19
What about an incentive for intentionally writing a question that could collapse a collection of closely-related (exact duplicate or not) questions? The idea of curating a smaller set of more "canonical" questions and answers for themes that repeat themselves constantly would make the site easier to use. The original questions could be linked (or merged, as appropriate) to a distinguished Q+A, for which the curator receives additional rep (maybe by counting incoming links from other questions?), perhaps. – andersoj Nov 5 '10 at 3:51
@Craig Stuntz: I love that joke. It doesn't even need the "640K should be enough" backstory, though that does make it even better. – j_random_hacker Nov 24 '10 at 11:36
A hundrer upvotes and no official comment from the powers-that-be? That seems odd. – MPelletier Nov 28 '10 at 15:26
See Jeff Atwood's insightful comment on the effects of this on participation, at blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/…. – Andy Thomas Jan 7 '11 at 23:29
I'll just leave this here. This is where we burn dupes. – Reno Mar 4 '11 at 7:32
@Reno: See here for more info on the new flagging system. – John Mar 7 '11 at 15:36
@Mehrdad: I've started a posse to clean those up. Over 600 have been removed so far. – hammar Aug 30 '11 at 19:11
If we're going to reward rep for linking to SO Documentation, we should reward rep for duplicate closures. – Jeffrey Bosboom Oct 28 '16 at 22:33
I'd also like to see the removal of reputation earned from answering a question that is later closed as a duplicate. Currently there is little incentive to post an answer on the original question (or merely post a link to the original), rather than re-answering the question. It's tiresome seeing the same answers again and again, and seeing this behaviour awarded with reputation.
edited Nov 4 '10 at 7:06
EtherEther
This is one of the best ideas I've heard for this problem in a long time. However, at The Great Rep Recalc (if it ever happens), I can imagine a sudden surge in Meta questions from relative newbies wondering where their hard-earned Internet dollars went. Still think this is a great idea, though. – John Rudy Jan 29 '10 at 20:46
This was wrong. See Jeff's comment below. <strike>The reputation gained for answers to closed questions does get removed eventually, when reputation is recalculated.</strike> – Bill the Lizard Jan 29 '10 at 23:16
@Æther: We just need to get Jeff to do global recalcs more often than once in the history of the site. :) – Bill the Lizard Jan 29 '10 at 23:23
@Bill: aye, or schedule targeted recalcs on users if they are affected by various things like being involved in a closed or deleted question. – Ether Jan 29 '10 at 23:56
@Bill: what I find interesting is that an upvote on a post that has already been closed still results in a rep gain. No wonder so many people lose tons of rep on a recalc... – Ether Feb 1 '10 at 23:39
@bill that is not correct -- reputation is only removed on recalc from deleted posts. We still need some duplicate questions around to cover users who have the uncanniest ability to ask the same exact question using zero words in common. – Jeff Atwood Feb 2 '10 at 4:26
@Jeff: except that's rarely the cause: it's far far more probable that they either failed to search, or the search algorithm failed them (seems like more the former than the latter, these days). – Ether Feb 2 '10 at 4:32
@Jeff: Thanks for the clarification. – Bill the Lizard Feb 2 '10 at 4:48
@Ether: if you think the users search first you are delusional :P If you think that they should then I probably agree but the reality is that they don't, so what they should do is irrelevant. – Thomas Bonini Feb 7 '10 at 19:34
Jeff is against this, so it ain't gonna happen: blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/… – Andrew Grimm Jan 6 '11 at 7:05
@Andrew: well it wouldn't be the first time that Jeff is wrong :) – Ether Jan 7 '11 at 18:30
I'm so tempted to flag this as 'Not an Answer' :P – Doorknob Feb 5 '13 at 14:00
This would effectively solve this problem. How many times would a user have to see the message "Reputation removed because you answered a question which turned out to be a duplicate. Click here for more details." before they started searching for duplicates BEFORE posting an answer? – lnafziger Jul 12 '13 at 15:52
I would be in favour of this, provided that there is an increase in merging of answers and that any answers merged into the original question get to keep their reputation. This means we don't penalise a really useful answer simply because an (obscure) duplicate wasn't noticed immediately. – Duncan Jones Apr 30 '14 at 13:40
I would only do this if the question is closed shortly after being asked. I have dupeclosed questions asked like 5 years before. At that point sometimes the older one has been less popular for some reason, so I close it as a dupe of the newer. That would be wrong if the first answerers lost their rep. And closing the newer but more popular one would be fighting against the community. – Oriol Jun 12 '16 at 22:40
I'm reviving this thread because I'm surprised there's no badge offered for this. Looking for duplicates requires more effort than other types of close vote and we're always saying that badges should be encouraging positive behaviour on the sites.
I propose the following badges:
Seeker - First question closed as a duplicate of another question you found.
Scout - 50 questions closed as a duplicate of another question you found.
Reconnoiterer - 200 questions closed as a duplicate of another question you found.
The underlying criteria would require at least 3 of the total close votes to concur with the found duplicate. Reconnoiterer could possibly be a repeatable to encourage continued behaviour. I can't see any "gaming" issues arising from this, because it requires agreement from other members of the community.
Clarification: "found" equates to finding a duplicate and casting a vote to close on that duplicate, or flagged for review with the appropriate duplicate chosen.
Andy EAndy E
How would you propose tracking who found a dupe? It would be easy if you also had close vote privileges, but what if someone without close rep -- not saying "3k" because of the betas -- found one and submitted it via a mod flag, or something? – Pops Sep 28 '10 at 14:13
@Popular: I guess the wording could be a little better (I was trying to make it consistent with the current set of badges *wink*). This would apply only to user who cast the first close vote identifying that particular duplicate. So, to clarify, User A votes to close a question with Dupe A. User B comes along and votes with Dupe B instead, then 2 other users agree with him and 1 agrees with User A. User B's dupe has 3 votes, User A's has 2, so only User B's count towards these badges is increased. – Andy E Sep 28 '10 at 14:26
I like your idea, but I'm not sure I can get on board with badges only for people with close-vote rep, especially if they're doing something that anyone can do (finding dupes). Closing dupes... well, that's its own reward. – Pops Sep 28 '10 at 14:49
@Pop: There's a few other badges that require rep. Copy Editor and Strunk & White require editing privileges, which is only 1000 less than closing privileges. Hell, Legendary requires a minimum of 30,000 reputation ;-) – Andy E Sep 28 '10 at 15:05
@Andy, yeah... not a huge fan of Copy Editor/Strunk & White either. As a former copy editor, I think they reward a desperately needed behavior, but it does bother me that you can't even start working towards them for a while. Legendary, at least, you can start working on on day one... but it's really its own animal. – Pops Sep 28 '10 at 15:22
I fully support this, I'm constantly hunting dupes and I find very depressing to see that some users prefer answering obvious dupes to get some easy rep instead of closing, diluting existing (good) stuff. The system really needs to encourage the "right" behavior with some incentive. – Pascal Thivent Sep 29 '10 at 5:41
It seems to me that the easiest way to link the duplicate to the "finder" is to expand the options under "flag" to include "duplicate" with a required field for the URL of the duplicate. – ale Nov 4 '10 at 0:22
I like what jdv come up with with looking in comments for the first link to the duplicate if it predate the first close vote. – Ian Ringrose Nov 23 '10 at 17:19
I prefer: Scout/Sharpshooter/EagleEye – yhw42 Nov 24 '10 at 13:53
@yhw42: the names aren't intended to be set in stone, and I expect that if these badges were implemented the team would think up their own names if they didn't like these ones. However, Sharpshooter implies a standard of accuracy rather than the ability to find things. Bloodhound might be a better alternative. – Andy E Nov 24 '10 at 14:26
"I can't see any "gaming" issues arising from this, because it requires agreement from other members of the community." I can. You could easily create a new account or even several new accounts and start posting duplicates and then with your real account you will be the first one to report them as duplicates. – Erik B May 2 '11 at 16:22
@Erik: something like that could be picked up on fairly quickly by moderators (same IP posting question as first to vote; same person first to vote on all the OP's closed questions, etc). I would say there are more complex anti-gaming mechanisms in place on SO already. – Andy E May 3 '11 at 10:19
@Andy, It doesn't really matter. All I'm saying is that it's gameable and nearly impossible to detect by mechanisms and/or moderators. Users that are actively searching for dupes would have the same usage patterns as the ones who are gaming the system to get these badges. However, I wouldn't consider it worth my time to create 200 accounts from 200 IP-addresses and post a duplicate question from each of these accounts just to earn three badges. – Erik B May 3 '11 at 11:23
I absolutely agree, we need some badges (at least) to give an incentive for closing as duplicate. – ChristopheD Apr 27 '12 at 17:23
"Reconnoiterer" => "Master Locator"? – T.J. Crowder Apr 29 '14 at 7:53
I'm wondering if it doesn't make sense to lower the reputation threshold to vote to close as a duplicate. Unlike other votes to close, there is already a bit of a check on this; you have to actually point out which question this is a duplicate of. That discourages (at least a little) people from doing it casually. So unlike "subjective and argumentative," where it's really a matter of opinion, and makes sense to restrict to higher reputation users, it would be good to have more participants in fighting duplicate questions.
Regarding your second point, the site already marks questions as possible duplicates after a certain number of votes. Perhaps it could do so (less intrusively, maybe) after the first vote?
Tyler Carter
Craig StuntzCraig Stuntz
or maybe a lower rep limit needed for the first person to vote to close as a duplicate, so low rep users don't just "jump on the band wagen", but can still help in the process of controling duplicates – Ian Ringrose Apr 29 '10 at 8:50
I agree the rep should be lowered, but not just for the first user to vote... that seems to be just asking for the first disagreeing person to vote it down. But I'm surprised that voting as a duplicate requires such high rep - surely if I can already flag the moderator.... I can also vote for duplicate. – Taryn East Jun 7 '11 at 17:54
Send us a package of cookies for every 100 duplicates we vote as duplicate.
No rep gaming issues, no badge gaming issues, no problem!
Adam DavisAdam Davis
You're only adding to the obesity problem then. – random Feb 2 '10 at 1:47
@random - but... but... cookies! – Adam Davis Feb 2 '10 at 3:15
@random - what obesity problem? if anything, you'd be helping to fix my constant near-malnourishment. – quack quixote Feb 7 '10 at 19:07
I ordered Girl Scout cookies (A US only phenomenon I suspect) a few weeks ago and they still haven't arrived! Bonus cookies from SO would be warmly received. – Adam Davis Feb 8 '10 at 16:12
@Polly, your cookies were redirected to other users who have submitted more dupe reports than you have; there will be no jumping the queue – Pops May 12 '10 at 15:07
Don't forget that old bird that only allows 10 cookies per request – alexanderpas Jun 19 '10 at 5:11
That would be quite the cometishian – Tom Nov 24 '10 at 12:05
@random - sheldoncomics.com/archive/101026.html – Adam Davis Jan 5 '11 at 21:20
I'm assuming that you are volunteering yourself as the person to pay for all those thousands and thousands of cookies. – John Militer Aug 27 '17 at 20:25
I am all for rewarding closevotes (not only finding duplicates). If reputation
is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you; it is earned by convincing your peers that you know what you’re talking about.
it is illogical that only answering increases reputation but closevoting doesnt. If I supply a closevote and people follow it, I have effectively convinced them that I know what I am talking about, too - namely that a particular question should rather be closed than answered.
Moreover, even if a question is closed, it will usually have received some answers before. The reputation gained on these remains unless the question is deleted. Deletion rarely happens due to the 20k requirement. But if it remains it implies they gained trust, while those that closevoted dont gain anything at all, although they did the right thing and those that answered did the discouraged thing.
So if reputation really is a measure of community trust, closevoting should gain reputation as well. This is true for all the additional privileges gained. If we want more people to use them, we have to reward them for it. Currently, the only reason why a 3k+ user would closevote is because s/he understands the necessity of it. Unfortunately, there is even a lot of high rep users who dont see that and repwhore on whatever they can answer. Are those really the people we trust?
Regarding the problem of incorrect closing I am quite sure that this is only a minor issue. I've seen far more correctly closed questions than reopened ones. The few false positives could be further mitigated by allowing to uv/dv on the votes instead, e.g. cast a closevote and have people vote it up or down until a threshold is reached. +5 will close, -5 will fade the vote. And allow people to revoke their vote please.
Regarding rewarding and badges, I dont see why we cannot have both. Someone who continuely does her/his community duty and closevotes should be rewarded for it with a badge or two. Badges are not enough to encourage closevoting though, because once you got the badges, you dont have an incentive to closevote anymore. So we also need some reputation gain.
GordonGordon
I think it should only be the first person to cash the "close as duplidate" vote, but the rep should only be given when the question is closed. The first person had to do the real work in finding the duplicate, the rest of the close votes take very little work. – Ian Ringrose Nov 14 '11 at 13:03
Vote to delete is a 10k privilege. – Josh Caswell Nov 14 '11 at 16:44
@Josh true, but you need 20k to delete immediately. All others have to wait for two days, which makes deletion happen rarely because no one heads back to a closed question. – Gordon Nov 14 '11 at 16:57
I like your reasoning about getting rid of the rep earned by people who answer questions that are later closed as dupes. But FTR I see a steady trickle of questions closed as dupes when really they're only superficially similar. – j_random_hacker Apr 20 '13 at 17:19
Another possible solution might be to separate the problems of flagging duplicates and voting to close the duplicates. What if anyone (or almost anyone) could flag a duplicate using the functionality presently built into "close as duplicate?" Then "close as duplicate" would be enabled for higher reputation users once the first duplicate has been flagged.
I was thinking along these lines, but with an incentive as well. However I wish to be able to see the list of possible duplicates on a question before it gets closed. – Ian Ringrose Jan 29 '10 at 20:43
This is a terrible idea. There, let me be the first to put in a negative answer.
I have had to reopen some questions because not all SOpedians are as smart as the next bloke. They see some similar words, and think it must be a duplicate.
There also seems to be some moths that are driven to brackets around Close(n) and see their call of civic duty to blindly follow where others have gone before.
Similar to my advocating against this: Should the sportsmanship badge be awarded multiple times?, I'd like some hard numbers for % of questions actually closed as duplicates.
Let's say theoretically
0.1% closed as duplicates
0.12% failed attempts to close
0.016% reopened
no badges
I reckon you will see the close/reopen buckets both increase significantly (more towards close since it is incentive-ised) and failed attempts go through. My reasoning is simple - human nature. Just as people will cast votes for opposing answers for a week and never again for sportsmanship and vote solidly for another 17 days* after for electorate (and also thereafter rarely vote again).
*If you don't believe me, just go to https://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=voters They stick out like a sore thumb with votes an exact multiple of 30.
Disclosure: I'm guilty too, but I actually continue voting as much because I do really read that many questions!
RichardTheKiwiRichardTheKiwi
Therefore the electorate badge need to be redefined so it needs high voting over a long timer, e.g. count only 10 votes on each day. +1 for some good points – Ian Ringrose Mar 4 '11 at 9:30
Thank you! Finally some sense. – user139018 Jun 7 '11 at 19:44
I would suggest heavy penalty for wrongly closing a question as a duplicate. Something that exceeds reward by two or three times. This will make the users careful closing as duplicates – One Face Feb 13 '15 at 8:46
Not sure this is a great idea. On the surface it sounds interesting, but often times people simply skim the question and then vote to close not realizing that there are differences in the questions. It then is much harder to get the question reopened and basically an uphill battle.
RSolbergRSolberg
maybe if more people votes to close as duplicate, there could be a requiment for more votes to close??? – Ian Ringrose Jan 29 '10 at 20:41
The incentive will only be for the first person that finds the dupilcate, so the other 4 votes to close will be as now – Ian Ringrose Jan 29 '10 at 20:42
The trick is to find a system that only rewards work. My proposal:
When (say) 5 people have identified a question x as a duplicate of question y, award rep to those 5 people and close the question.
Don't reveal which questions have been suggested as duplicates before a question is closed.
The 2nd point is important to avoid triggering a close-as-dupe epidemic. It means that people individually have to do the work (searching for dupes) to get the rep. You have to be fast (otherwise 5 other people will get there first), and you have to be right (pick the dupe that others picked).
Inspired by: The ESP Game from Games With A Purpose (from about 22:30 onwards, though it's all fascinating stuff!)
Thoughts? Are there ways that this system could be abused?
UPDATE 2/5/2012: Eliminating Cheating
Jeff's comment raises a valid concern that people could easily game this system by voting to close a question as a dupe and then writing a comment mentioning the other dupe; others will then vote to close as the same question. I can see this happening because there's positive feedback at work here -- both the original comment-writer and subsequent close-voters stand to make some quick rep. But I think I now have a solution to that:
To prevent people "dropping hints" about dupe-parents in comments/answers, you could simply forbid people from both identifying a question as a dupe and commenting on or answering that same question -- i.e. as soon as you do one, you can't do the other(s).
Think about it: if you see a question and immediately recognise it as a dupe of something else, there's no need to comment on/answer it. The only scenario I can think of where this might be too hard-line is when someone uses a comment to ask for clarification, and only recognises the question as a dupe after receiving that clarification, but this would be pretty rare. In the unlikely event that this turned out to be a common problem, the system could just be changed to waive the restriction for users above $SOME_THRESHOLD_REP.
edited May 2 '12 at 4:43
j_random_hackerj_random_hacker
I think the second point here would result in very few questions actually being closed as a dupe. A lot of genuine dupes are closed as a direct result of a link to the found duplicate being displayed in the comments. This would probably result in duplicates for niche tags almost never successfully reaching those 5 votes. – Andy E Nov 24 '10 at 12:20
@Andy E's head: That is a factor, but wouldn't you agree that it would do a good job on the most common dupes? Which (by virtue of being the most common dupes) are the ones we're most interested in eliminating? Also this system offers rep as an incentive, something that's not present in the current system. – j_random_hacker Nov 24 '10 at 12:30
The problem is we allready have so many duplicates, that everyone could choose a different quesion as the "parent" – Ian Ringrose Nov 24 '10 at 12:36
@Ian Ringrose: I agree that's a problem. What if there was a standard way to choose which parent is preferable, e.g. the oldest or the one which has already had the most dupes assigned as "children"? ("Number of children" could be a per-question property -- it would definitely help "canonicalise" questions I think.) – j_random_hacker Nov 24 '10 at 12:43
@Ian Ringrose: Another possibility would be to reveal all suggested parents if the number of suggestions gets to a certain number without any clear winner appearing. In this case no rep would be awarded, but community-minded folks or moderators would have a useful selection of dupes to choose from and could close as dupe "traditionally". – j_random_hacker Nov 24 '10 at 12:49
Just had another idea: When X is marked as a dupe of Y, the question Y gets a +1. Rationale: (1) A question that is asked many separate times is an important question; and (2) it makes it easier for people to identify which of several roughly-equal candidates they should nominate as the dupe-parent -- just nominate the highest-scoring one. This will fold the "number of children" aspect I mentioned above into the dupe-parent-selection decision without having to separately track this quantity (which would be messy and confusing). – j_random_hacker Jan 26 '11 at 5:46
This is a great idea, except it's easy to cheat: just post a comment containing the identified dupe and 5 users can paste it in. I don't know how you could prevent that or if it is even possible to prevent. – Jeff Atwood Mar 4 '11 at 9:58
@Jeff: See what you mean. You can't prevent side-channel communication completely (e.g. if someone was determined enough, they could set up a separate site just to game it) but you can raise the "effort barrier" to the point where most people will just not bother. How about this: only award points for dupe nominations whose question digit strings (e.g. this one's is "37466") do not appear in any comment. If someone does put such a digit-string in a comment, you could pop up a warning box ("Are you sure? No points will be awarded if the question is closed as dupe!") to pre-empt rage. – j_random_hacker Mar 5 '11 at 3:29
@JeffAtwood: To really prevent people "dropping hints" about dupe-parents in comments/answers, you could simply forbid people from both identifying a question as a dupe and commenting on or answering that question -- i.e. as soon as you do one, you can't do the other(s). The only scenario I can think of where this might be too hard-line is when someone uses a comment to ask for clarification, and only recognises the question as a dupe after receiving that clarification, but this would be pretty rare. (And you could even waive this restriction for users above $THRESHOLD_REP.) – j_random_hacker May 2 '12 at 4:27
Your suggestion will actually lead to less duplicates being closed. I don't automatically know a Q is a duplicate when I see it, nor do I immediately start searching to see if it is. Duplicates get closed because one person notices a dupe, links to it, and then others check to see if it actually is, and then vote to close. With your suggestion, you would need five people to independently recognize that something is a dupe. This will cause less questions to be closed as dupes. – HodofHod May 25 '12 at 12:25
@HodofHod: I agree that's a factor, but I doubt it's the overriding one. One of the reasons why you don't immediately start searching to see if a question is a dupe under the current system is because there's no reward for doing so -- and what I'm proposing would change that. I think my way is also less likely to result in the "piling on" effect that we sometimes see (i.e. when the question's not really a dupe but gets closed-as-dupe anyway, because overly-officious people don't bother to read the other question carefully). – j_random_hacker May 26 '12 at 13:54
Do not forbid to comment and flag for the same question. Just do not give award points for flagging, if the user also add a public comment for this question or referring to this question. I personally prefer to add comment to link questions together even if moderators would not agree, that it is an exact duplicate. – Michael Freidgeim Apr 19 '13 at 22:44
@MichaelFreidgeim: Good idea -- we want the least restrictive measures that prevent cheating. However I think it's necessary to prevent others from getting rep in this situation too, since without this it becomes tempting for others to quickly hit "Close as dupe" without thinking it through. – j_random_hacker Apr 20 '13 at 17:02
Agreed. After 2 questions are linked together, reporting them as duplication should NOT be rewarded. It's too easy :). – Michael Freidgeim Apr 20 '13 at 19:09
You might be interested in my script Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes which makes this more easy.
An example of its effectiveness, where otherwise the link would be hidden somewhere in the side bar:
Of course, we can't enable this for all users.
Tamara WijsmanTamara Wijsman
The key to any community-based, "Duplicate Task Force" is opening and simplifying the process.
First, provide 1k+ rep users with a "flag as duplicate" option, which will allow for a single link to be provided. This makes it easy and painless to report.
Display the flag and the duplicates found to the asker (and others? Debatable.). This makes the process open, and will help the asker.
Then, facilitate moderators' (or 10k+ rep users') job by providing them with a list of duplicate-flagged questions. Allow sorting by number of duplicates found. This makes the process manageable.
Finally, provide the users who flagged the question with one duplicate or another (it's not a game to get the right one) with a small incentive. Lock down rewarding after question has been closed as duplicate. That makes finding duplicates rewarding.
MPelletierMPelletier
this is possible now with blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/improved-flagging – Jeff Atwood Jan 24 '11 at 4:38
@JeffAtwood: Alright! And thanks for finding this itty bitty suggestion and replying. How will the new improved-flagging help simplify warnings of duplicates? Besides there Newgrounds-style whistle level, which is pretty neat by the way. – MPelletier Jan 24 '11 at 11:46
another option possible duplicate of could've been added! – Harish Jan 25 '11 at 12:05
For new users, few questions are duplicate. Both new answerers and new askers get frustrated when they are trying to do the right thing, but it gets closed as a duplicate. Their initial reaction is not: "Thanks for pointing me to the right question", but: "Why are you rudely interrupting my conversation?"
The irony is that the old users enjoyed the very same thing they are denying to the new users. With the very same questions, and the very same answers: the only difference is the timestamp on the question.
Even more irony is that most high-reputation users got high reputation by answering questions instantly. The fact that they can answer instantly is a strong indicator that the question has been asked before, and is on the top of their tongue. In other words: most high reputation users are very good at answering duplicates.
At the end of the day, the fact that only a small number of duplicates gets closed means its not a big problem. But until duplicates are closed in a socially acceptable way, I think it would be a very bad idea to reward or even encourage more duplicate closes.
AndomarAndomar
The questions should merge somehow – joojaa May 29 '15 at 5:17
Almost all the statements that are presented as facts are dubious at best. – ivan_pozdeev Mar 14 '16 at 5:37
We should just give a badge for 'Closing as Duplicate' enough times (when it's the confirmed close reason). I do not want to disincentivize good answers even to duplicate questions. All questions deserve good answers.
And sometimes the duplicate status is not at all obvious. I've searched for and failed to find duplicates, then answered the question, only to then have somebody find a dupe using different search terms that I hadn't thought of. That doesn't reduce the value of my answer. – Monica Cellio♦ Jul 12 '13 at 16:07
I think this is a great idea. Especially the "duplicate finder" badge. It has been argued that this may require a feature to mark duplicates, but that may not be needed. Anyone who has sufficient privileges to add comments can add the link to the duplicate in a comment. If the question is closed, the Stack Overflow engine can harvest the URL, and award a badge to the user who was the first to link the question with the duplicate, albeit through a comment, or through a close vote.
Some of the other answers argue that questions are closed as duplicates, where the question is not actually a duplicate. This is true. And this may happen more often if duplicate finding is encouraged.
But this is not a problem.
If the person asking the question disagrees, she can always compose a better documented question, referring to the other questions, and point out why her question is not a duplicate. I don't expect this to happen more than a few times in every hundred duplicates, so we should not worry that this will flood the site with more duplicates.
Peter Mortensen
jdv-Jan de Vaanjdv-Jan de Vaan
One way to incentivize finding duplicate questions would be to make it easier to find them. A tab could be added to the review section for "Possible Duplicates".
When you type in the title for a new question, you see "Questions that may already have your answer". The functionality that creates that list could be adapted.
New questions that meet a certain threshold of commonality with existing questions could be shown along with the list of "Questions that may already have your answer" that met the threshold.
codewagglecodewaggle
There's already a panel suggesting possible duplicates when you're typing a question. – ivan_pozdeev Mar 14 '16 at 5:25
@ivan_pozdeev Yes, I said that in my 2nd paragraph "When you type in the title for a new question, you see "Questions that may already have your answer". The functionality that creates that list could be adapted." – codewaggle Mar 14 '16 at 22:10
We could implement this in much the same way as the vote to close system. A user could submit an "answer" that is somehow marking this question as a duplicate and all other users could see it, and respectively vote if it really is a duplicate. 5 votes closes the question, and maybe gives -5 rep to the asker (seems fair to me if they can't search).
SeniorShizzleSeniorShizzle
Not all duplicates are the result of failing to use teh google. – Andrew Grimm Jan 6 '11 at 7:08
I know its tiresome to see duplicate questions but I am guilty of this as it is sometimes hard to find the duplicate in the sea of questions. I wanted to ask a question about deleting my own posted question, I did a search for this and came up with 50 pages of questions with the same search parameters. I looked at the first few pages...but this got me thinking that sometimes users post duplicates because they need the answer but don't want to search through the sea of questions as this would take more time than posting a question. I like the idea of rewarding the finding of a duplicate to the first person who finds it then it gets put up to vote and if enough votes agree then it gets merged into the old question answer.
JPMJPM
Count me in on the idea to reward for finding duplicates.
Though I suggest to instead reward with reputation rather than a badge (rationale follows):
Upon closing a question as a duplicate, award N rep (see below for considerations regarding the amount) to the user who first suggested the duplicate
The rep is retracted if the question is later reopened
Does not apply to own questions
Does not apply to closures that aren't subject to peer review (by mods/golden badge holders)
Discussable: what to do with the normal accept mark:
count as well
forbid/delete (the duplicate takes precedence)
retract the rep for the duplicate if present (normal acceptance mark takes precedence)
The user who found the duplicate essentially answered the question
This will eliminate the current ill motivation to re-answer: re-answering (incorrect/suboptimal course of action) yields reputation while finding a duplicate (correct course of action) doesn't
The incentive to game the system is limited by the fact the reward is limited to just the amount awarded at closure
the OP does not participate in the award, thus it violates the principle that "acceptance means it has helped the OP the most"
not necessarily: if the OP did not protest the marking, this means they are satisfied with the "answer"
allows users to conspire by intentionally asking duplicates, akin to upvoting rings (this is nothing new but it means the algorithms will have to be adjusted)
allows rep-whores to spam "looks similar" suggestions hoping that voters overlook the differences. This would also be cluttering the already overloaded Close review queue (again, statistical analysis will have to be updated to detect and stop this pattern).
escalates (as it exists already) a flavor of the Fastest Gun in the West Problem - once a question is closed, it's nign-impossible to re-open and re-close it with another reason - e.g. if a more fitting suggestion arrives.
Even the official position is that if a question is closed, and shall stay closed, it should not be reopened even if the reason currently stated is not the most appropriate one (anymore).
this may be solved by treating duplicate suggestions as answers to some degree: e.g. a preferred one could be selected by an OP. I'm not the first one to get this idea: Show duplicate suggestions as answers .
Considerations regarding the amount
Finding a duplicate is a noticeable to significant amount of work, but still less than composing an own answer.
On the other hand, the closure cannot bring further rep from upvotes.
Still, answers to duplicates bring little rep as a rule
The reward amount shall make duplicate searching be seen as an easier course of action than re-answering reward/work ratio-wise. Still not much enough to justify aggressive "partial-duplicate" spamming hoping that voters will overlook the differences.
If not 15, maybe 12 rep will be seen adequate (note the word "seen"). 10 appears too little already - answering a question straight is more than just "being useful".
ivan_pozdeevivan_pozdeev
15 seems like a bit much... edits are only 2... I have a difficult time seeing marking something as a dupe being as valuable as having an answer accepted. – Catija♦ Mar 14 '16 at 4:31
@Catija the basic idea is that doing research on the question's subject is a noticeable amount of work. What can I do if the research's result turned out to be that there's already an answer (more specifically, there's already an answer on the same SE site)? Sure, referring to an already-written answer is not quite the same amount of work as composing one's own, so the specific amount to award is fully discussable. – ivan_pozdeev Mar 14 '16 at 4:38
@Catija on the other hand, 1)rewarding less will not eliminate the motivation to re-answer; 2)the reward is already limited by not allowing to get any further rep from upvotes. – ivan_pozdeev Mar 14 '16 at 4:47
I have some ideas for gamifying the process instead of just giving rep incentives and would like to know where the potential holes are for promoting exploitation of badges/reputation. Each one of these suggestions have the goals of:
Reduce existing duplicates that have not yet been identified
Reduce rep-hunting against low-hanging dupe-fruit
Identify users who answer duplicates
I don't like the idea of awarding reputation points for these kinds of things, but I also know that reputation is a valuable metric to many users, so many of these potential suggestions are more geared towards badges than rep.
Tackling #1
New Badges
Potential Name: Death by a thousand cuts || Hirudotherapist
Purpose: A hard-to-achieve badge to encourage dupe-hunting
Tiers: 1; metal-grade, flexible (probably gold)
Unlocked with: 1,000 questions closed as duplicates by actions of the user
Rationale: Whether they're normal users or moderators, this is something that can be worked towards over time to better the site(s).
Potential Name: Justice never sleeps || Mold-Hunter
Purpose: Cleaning out the old dupes that snuck past us already
Tiers: 3, threshold values flexible
Bronze Tier 1 Unlocked with: 1 question closed as duplicate by actions of the user for a question older than 6 months
Silver Tier 2 Unlocked with: 25 questions closed as duplicate by actions of the user for a question older than 6 months
Gold Tier 3 Unlocked with: 500 questions closed as duplicate by actions of the user for a question older than 6 months
Rationale: Even old dupes can hurt. If we encourage badge-hunters to start from the back and work their way up, it could have the nice effect of not overlapping badge-hunters with users just trying to do the right thing as they come across them.
My hope with these two badges is that anyone looking to do badge-hunting with these will try to tackle both the backlog of dupes while not completely ignoring incoming dupes.
Also, with the thresholds being so high, the more people that participate will make it harder to achieve them, making these eventually a sort of status-symbol badge for those who threw themselves to the task, first.
I'm not sure what all is in place for #2, so these are less concrete gamifications than conceptual musings.
Rep Changes
Are we already taking away earned reputation from upvoted answers to questions closed as duplicates? If not, I think we should revisit the idea. This is a very straight-forward way to stop #2, but I admit that it is quite rep-invasive. Maybe a 24-48 hour window for losing rep while an alternative addresses potential dupes in that window.
The alternative might be to freeze rep-acquisition for all answers as soon as the question is flagged as a potential duplicate; this would be invisible to most users until actually marked as a duplicate, if I understand it correctly. Upvotes would still "count" but the user getting the upvote only gets the rep if the flag ends up not being accurate.
Another potential dupe penalty if not already enforced is decrementing the tag's badge score increase when the question is closed as a dupe. I'm pretty sure that only applies to accepted answers, but the psychological price would still be there.
With or without rep changes, I think next badge can might help with #2
New Badge
I'm a big fan of this next badge, as it rewards casual and hardcore reviewers with different tiers with timing and quantity instead of just quantity. I think it's a potential candidate for a new set of badges across SE regardless of how you feel about the rest of my suggestions.
Potential Name: Quick-Draw || The Fastest Gun in the West
Purpose: Reduce new duplicates, encourage review-queues, encourage experienced/knowledgeable users to find existing answers instead of re-answering them
Bronze Tier Unlocked with: 1 question closed as duplicate by actions of the user for a question less than 6 hours old
Silver Tier Unlocked with: 100 questions closed as duplicate by actions of the user for a question less than 3 hours old
Gold Tier Unlocked with: 1,000 questions closed as duplicate by actions of the user for a question less than 1 hour old
Potential Name: Good Intentions || Paving the Road to Hell || Doh!
Purpose: Identify users capitalizing on answering dupes while not exactly calling them dunces, rep-moochers, or menaces
Tiers: 1, a new one each time it occurs
Bronze Tier Unlocked with: Had an accepted (and/or up-voted) answer for a question that was closed as a duplicate
Rationale: An accepted answer to even a duplicate question added value somewhere, but not the kind of value that SE wants to encourage. The more badges a person has of this, the more that it will stick out by sheer count compared to other badges for people that make a habit of doing this kind of rep-hunting against low-hanging fruit likely already addressed in another question
I'd like to point out or at least disclose that I have a bad habit of doing #3; I never do it on purpose, but knowing that I would be getting something like this would encourage me to look for existing answers even more thoroughly instead of blindly answering something that I know off-hand.
Some might be asking why the emphasis on people contributing to dupes and dupe-hunting instead of penalizing the people writing the dupes in the first place. My rationale is this: getting downvoted and your question closed is fairly demoralizing as it is. It has happened to me several times, and each time it does I get more encouraged to research further before asking. I really don't think this aspect of tackling dupes can be improved by much, as the Similar Question mechanic when writing out a new question I feel works fairly well, at least for me.
kayleeFrye_onDeckkayleeFrye_onDeck
what does "by the user" mean? the user voting? or does that require the author to agree with the closure (dupe hammer closures would therefore bypass that) – Kevin B Jul 6 '18 at 23:10
@KevinB It means whatever the user does directly contributed to it being closed as a duplicate, be that directly closing/dupe-hammer, flagging, or other means. – kayleeFrye_onDeck Jul 6 '18 at 23:11
I think that a combined approach would be the best solution.
Andy E's badge suggestion looks promising, but I think it would be much more effective when combined with removing rep earned by answering dups as Ester suggested and possibly even awarding some small amount of rep for successfully closed dups like Gordon suggested.
Above and beyond these measures I suggest:
Making the Related Posts column visible in the First Posts Review queue, so that obvious duplicates stand out and can hopefully be caught as a part of the review process.
Adding "asking too many duplicate questions" to the list of reasons that one could be question banned, even if those duplicates have not been deleted.
Apparently there's no way to find out whether asking an excessive amount of duplicate questions is currently taken into account in the auto-ban equation. If they are please disregard.
apaulapaul
I'm pretty sure it is already taken into account, but there's no way to confirm. – Aza Jul 10 '13 at 17:56
@EmrakultheAeonsTorn I know deleted questions are, but I couldn't find any indication that duplicates were. – apaul Jul 10 '13 at 17:58
There won't be; the algorithm is a closely guarded secret. – Aza Jul 10 '13 at 17:58
I know, but when looking at meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/… duplication doesn't seem to be mentioned as a possible reason for a ban – apaul Jul 10 '13 at 18:00
I would be surprised if it were ignored, since it detracts from the site, but I'm not going to preclude the option that it isn't. – Aza Jul 10 '13 at 18:01
This answer is more for consideration purposes if/when implementing this feature-request:
The binding vote-to-close (and re-open) for gold tag-badge holders should be considered here. For now questions closed as a duplicate (or re-opened after being closed) may be excluded from any consideration for badge-worthiness.
There is distinct difference between how Stack Overflow is hammered with close votes in comparison to other network sites. So this may be a non-issue to start with. After all, tag gold badge users are considered trusted in that "field".
Another thing to consider is how mods are affected by finding (obvious) duplicates. As they possess the ultimate dupe-hammer, they may never be able to attain these badges.
WernerWerner
why should such questions be excluded? If I go and dupehammer enough questions to get this badge or rep or whatever the prize is, but they should never have been closed, flag me. I think people with gold tag badges have proven themselves pretty trustworthy, and MOAR CLOSING AS DUPE is exactly what we want from them. – Kate Gregory May 17 '14 at 15:40
@KateGregory: I do mention "for now"... I know that Stack Overflow is a different beast compared to the other networks. There closures are a problem since people just seem to pile any old question on the community. – Werner May 17 '14 at 16:28
Yes, you mention "for now" but you don't mention why. You seem to think it's obvious since you say "without a doubt" - but I don't know why you think they should be excluded, and I am asking you to explain it. – Kate Gregory May 17 '14 at 16:38
@KateGregory: I've lightened my opinion with a mild caveat. – Werner May 17 '14 at 16:43
I am sorry that there are people in the world who say "why do you want X?" when they mean "I don't think you should want X." If I was one of those people, then "for now" and "maybe" would mollify me. I am not. You are free to want and support whatever you want. Perhaps I will join you in wanting that if I have any idea why it is good. I am asking for your reasons because I can't think of any and if some exist, I want to learn them. I am not asking you to back away from your opinion, but to share more of it with me for my enlightenment. – Kate Gregory May 17 '14 at 16:45
@KateGregory: No worries. I know there are robo-reviewers out there. And I was concerned about that. Non-Stack Overflow networks don't get review audits (or at least I've never seen one on TeX - LaTeX where I'm active). I was just concerned that someone with a dupe-hammer that doesn't have the sense to properly review get to just run wild... Of course, this may be a very cynical view on things, since the community will step in to correct this behaviour. I was erring on the side of caution. – Werner May 17 '14 at 16:49
I'd rather give badges if the duplicate was marked by the OP as helpful – as you probably know, when you suggest a duplicate, the OP can mark it as helpful or editing the post to explain why it is different. This makes sure that people won't suggest harmful duplicates as they wouldn't be rewarded anyway. I'd rather not give rep.
I suggest the badges:
bronze – 1 duplicate accepted by the OP
silver – 25 duplicates accepted by the OP
gold – 100 duplicates accepted by the OP
Badge names are all over the post. I don't have an original suggestion for them.
wythagoraswythagoras
It does not make me sure, because badge-driven robo-reviewing is a well-known problem. Nobody gets rep for reviews, and yet... – user259867 Aug 2 '15 at 16:33
Maybe you could add "flag as possible duplicate" as a top-level option in the flag-moderator box? (with a requirement for a link).
That makes it more obvious promoting it happening more, and opens it up to lower-rep people to flag as possible duplicate, without directly voting for duplicate.
answered Jun 7 '11 at 17:55
Taryn EastTaryn East
That's a good idea that already exists! "Flag" -> "Doesn't belong here" -> "Exact Duplicate". – yhw42 Jun 7 '11 at 18:16
Thanks for letting me know. That is extremely non-obvious to me. "doesn't belong here" smells to me of offensive language or spam... I would not click on it unless I found a particularly noisome question. Especially given that this thread is about promoting duplicate-post flagging, I'd consider adding "duplicate" as a top-level flag option to make it more obvious. – Taryn East Jun 7 '11 at 19:17
I was looking at Show duplicate suggestions as answers . I think if the candidate duplicate is offered as an answer, then the person that posted this should get rep credit for people that upvote this "duplicate" answer. Possibly the finder gets 2 points of rep per upvote, and the author of the original answer gets 3 points of rep per upvote. This should be a strong incentive for identifying a duplicate.
Once a question has been determined to be a duplicate, all the provided answers should be deleted, leaving only the duplicate answer candidates. That would remove the rep gained from providing a new answer to a duplicate question. This should be a strong disincentive for answering a question that is likely duplicate.
jxhjxh
I'm very much in favor of awarding rep to those who post links to previous answers to the duplicate question. I'm less in favor of giving rewards to simply flagging questions as a duplicate.
ancientcampusancientcampus
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Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5
Give less reputation on answers when question is marked as duplicate
Reducing the amount of duplicate questions on Stackoverflow
Encouraging duplicate question 'vote to close' instead of 'duplicate answering' with a badge
badge for marking n questions as 'exact duplicate' correctly
How to make “exact duplicate” close reason to work?
Accept score for the duplicate finder
Another kind of Disciplined badge
Reputation for finding an exact duplicate
Proposal: Gain reputation for identifying duplicates
Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted
How do I get attention for one of my own questions without a good answer?
Why aren't people voting for questions?
How should duplicate questions be handled?
Exit strategies for “chameleon questions”
Gold tag-badge holders and moderators can now edit duplicate links
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Weekend WIP Excerpt–For Sparrow
Published on March 25, 2017 by Pandora Spocks4 Comments
It feels like it’s been forever since I posted an excerpt! Today, I’m giving you a sneak peek at FOR SPARROW, my current work in progress, and Book 3 of The Dream Dominant Collection. Since it’s a Dream Dominant book, you know there are some things you can count on: a stand-alone story featuring a smart redheaded leading lady, a drop dead sexy Dominant man, light BDSM themes, and romance with plenty of heart.
In FOR SPARROW, Jessi Crenshaw, at forty-five, is a shell-shocked young widow. Although her husband of twenty-five years had survived a health scare in the past, she couldn’t have imagined that he’d be gone so suddenly. Having lived the last several years as Graham’s submissive, she’s lost not only her husband, partner, lover, and friend, she’s lost her Master.
But it turns out that Graham had had an inkling that his health was in decline, and he made provisions for Jessi, in the form of hunky fire rescue paramedic Judd Farris, whom the older man had mentored in the BDSM lifestyle. Graham made Judd promise that in the event of his death, Judd would look out for Jessi, at least until she got back on her feet.
Could it be that Graham’s intentions went beyond a temporary solution?
Here’s a brand new excerpt from For Sparrow.
Jessi held herself together while the kids were home. No sense having them worry about her. They needed to get back to their lives. She certainly didn’t want them feeling as though they needed to babysit her.
Adam left for Orlando on Friday morning. By the time Jessi dropped off Cara at Palm Beach International on Friday afternoon, she was exhausted. She hadn’t been able to keep food down since she’d gotten the news about Graham. She also hadn’t been able to sleep. Now, with the house to herself, she finally let herself fall apart.
In the hamper in the master bath she found an undershirt of Graham’s. It smelled of his cologne and dirty clothes. She undressed, shrugged into the ‘wife-beater’ tank top, and crawled into bed. There, she cried for hours, screamed for a while until her voice was gone, and ranted at the universe for letting her down. When the tears dried up, she curled into a ball and found herself in a sort of twilight not unlike subspace, but rather than feeling safe she simply felt empty.
Eventually, disoriented and having no idea of the time, Jessi headed downstairs to the kitchen. The clock on the microwave blinked 2:34.
Must be a.m. It’s dark outside, she thought vaguely.
Checking the fridge, she saw that it was still half full of casseroles she couldn’t bear to uncover, let alone try to eat, so she closed the door and headed to the liquor cabinet in the dining room, choosing the first bottle her hand touched. It happened to be a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels. Uncapping the whiskey, she took a long pull and coughed as the warm liquid hit her raw throat.
Unable to bear the emptiness of her bedroom, she took the whiskey with her and let herself out the back door, choosing a lounge chair by the pool where she proceeded to drain the rest of bottle before passing out.
Slowly, Jessi became aware of the noise of some sort of lawn equipment.
Damn neighbors. She tentatively cracked open one eye and wondered at the gecko staring back at her.
Holy shit, I slept outside. She carefully peeled her cheek from the seat cushion and pushed herself to a sitting position on the lounge chair, immediately regretting the sudden movement.
“Oh, my God,” she groaned, reaching to hold her head. Still, the relentless sound of trimmers echoed in her ears. From her position at the edge of the pool deck she could see past the end of the house, and to her surprise, a stranger was in her yard.
Ignoring the pounding in her head, she stood and walked toward the source of the sound. A tall muscular man with dark brown hair was trimming her hedges. He was dressed in a white t-shirt, khaki cargo shorts, and worn brown leather work boots.
“Excuse me!” Jessi shouted, the effort sending pain shooting through her head. The man didn’t respond.
Moving closer she tried again, holding her head with both hands to prevent it from blowing apart. “I said, excuse me!”
Startled, he jumped and turned off the offending machine, his brown eyes made larger by surprise. “I’m sorry, did I wake you?” he asked.
“What are you doing here?” Jessi asked.
“I’m trimming these hedges.”
Jessi frowned. “Yeah, I can see that. I mean, why are you on my property, trimming my hedges?”
The man frowned as well. “Um, I mentioned to you that I’d be here today to help out with your lawn.”
“Who are you? When did we decide that you’d come here to do my hedges?”
He smiled in a friendly way. “I’m Judd. Farris. We spoke at the funeral? I said that I’d be over today to help out.”
Jessi blinked at him, trying desperately to recall ever having had a conversation with this…Judd person.
“Out by your pool? I know, there were a lot of people here. It probably all runs together.”
You have no idea, she thought. “Oh, you were friends with Graham?”
He grinned broadly. “Exactly. Graham and I used to go for coffee every once in a while.”
Jessi aimed for a kind smile. “Well, look Judd, I appreciate your thoughtfulness. But you really don’t need to come over here and trim the hedges. It’s very nice of you, but I’ll be okay.”
Judd shook his head. “I promised Graham I’d check in on you, take care of things like this.”
“That’s great of you, but there’s no need. I release you from your promise,” Jessi said, her patience wearing thin.
“It was a promise I made to Graham. You have nothing to do with it,” he said reasonably and he prepared to continue with his work.
“I have everything to do with it. Graham isn’t here. You’re dealing with me, now.”
Judd let the trimmer hang down at his side and looked at her intently. “You look like shit, if you don’t mind me saying so. When is the last time you combed your hair? You have little leaves in it.”
Jessi’s eyes went wide and she started to reply, but he cut her off. “You do realize you’re standing in your yard wearing only a stained men’s undershirt, right? I was trying to ignore it, but damn. A guy can only keep his eyes averted for so long.”
Jessi glanced down to see Graham’s undershirt, which barely covered her panties and clung to her breasts like Saranwrap in the humidity of the morning. “Shit!” she swore.
“No worries, Jessi. I’ll be out of your hair as soon as I’m done with these hedges,” Judd said as he started the trimmers again and returned to his work.
Jessi hurried back to the pool deck and into the house.
I’m still hard at work on FOR SPARROW. Stay tuned for news on a cover reveal and a release date. In the meantime, check out the first two Dream Dominant books, LUKE & BELLA and LOST & BOUND.
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Watch This Space–Unorthodox Therapy by Lilah E. Noir
Published on March 24, 2017 March 22, 2017 by Pandora SpocksLeave a comment
Okay, y’all, you probably remember way back when I helped promote Lilah E. Noir’s Unorthodox Therapy when it first launched. But at the time, I hadn’t actually read the book. Now that I have, I need to revisit this recommendation again, because HOLY COW this is a great book!
Unorthodox Therapy is about tough, no-nonsense corporate CEO Lina Riley, who has her company and her whole life under control. Her addiction to cigarettes is her only vice. But a hot young programmer, her former personal assistant Thomas Jett, has an idea of how to help her curb her nasty habit.
Have a peek at my review:
Lina Riley is a woman in control. As CEO of her own tech company, she runs a tight ship and is the very definition of calm, cool, and collected. But she also has a vicious nicotine addiction.
Thomas Jett, formerly her personal assistant and currently a rising software developer within her company, has an unusual solution for the one vice Lina can’t seem to control. All she has to do is submit to his Dominance and he’ll guide her to replace the nasty habit with new thoughts and behaviors. She’s at once repelled and intrigued by the idea. Could it possibly work? And is it really about the cigarettes? Or does she have a deep need to relinquish control to someone stronger?
As the Unorthodox Therapy progresses, Lina’s shocked to realize how much she craves Thomas’s control, but she’s terrified–what if the company or their clients find out about her private predilections?
I love the way we get a sense not only of Lina’s misgivings about giving up control to Thomas, but we also understand his concerns and fears about being the kind of Dom Lina needs. The BDSM sex is hot and steamy, but let me tell you, about 3/4 of the way through, a sudden turn of events had me flipping pages so fast I nearly blew up my Kindle. By the end, I was breathless and dying to read the next installment.
Don’t miss Unorthodox Therapy! Lilah E. Noir, write like the wind! I need to know what happens next for Lina and Thomas. 5 HUGE STARS!
The title of my review is “Literally Left Me Breathless,” because that’s exactly what it did. Of course, the BDSM sex is sultry and then some, but beyond that, we feel for Lina and Thomas as they each struggle with their own demons. The suspense that’s introduced, however, pushes the whole story over the top, and I’m not kidding when I say that I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.
Now, notice that the subtitle is Unorthodox Trilogy Book 1. All I’m saying is, I absolutely cannot WAIT for the next installment.
This is a great book that you should NOT miss! Trust me on this. Here’s where you can get your hands on Unorthodox Therapy.
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An Amazon’s Equal By Fionna Guillaume #InLust #Fantasy #Erotic
Published on March 22, 2017 by Pandora SpocksLeave a comment
Today, the ever-sexy Siren Allen is spotlighting one of my favorite erotica authors, Fionna Guillaume. Check it out!
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The Madly In Lust event continues with a seductive scene from ‘An Amazon’s Equal’ by Fionna Guillaume. Enjoy this naughty excerpt. I did!
In a society of Amazon warriors, Pyrena dares the impossible… she falls in love.
Greek legends call them Amazons, but Pyrena and her sisters are not merely warrior women. Wise mistresses of their forest home, they share everything: friends, war, work, meals…and captive men. Love has no place in their community; the men they keep are strictly for pleasure. It seems idyllic, yet
Pyrena can’t help feeling there is something missing in her world.
Astrastos marches into battle with one intention: to claim a fiery Amazon for his bed. When he is captured instead, he discovers more than he ever imagined. As they share erotic delights and passionate conversations, he realizes Pyrena is the woman he wants for life.
As they fall inevitably, unstoppably in love, the…
Watch This Space–She Marches Through Fire by A.M. Manay
Published on March 21, 2017 March 18, 2017 by Pandora Spocks2 Comments
Color me excited! She Marches Through Fire, the third and final novel of A.M. Manay’s November Snow trilogy, is just about to be released. I’ve already read an advance copy, and it’s mind-blowing. Here’s what it’s all about:
Psychic vampire November Snow must battle grief, injury, and her own family as she fights evil on all sides. She seeks a cure for the poison sapping her strength and a fairy weapon as powerful as it is dangerous to wield. When it is time to save the innocent and gain justice for her maker, will she find the strength to march through the fire?
As we count down the final days to the March 28th release of She Marches Through Fire, I wanted to share an excerpt with you. As you can imagine, November gets into some pretty sticky situations in Book 3. If you want to find out how this one turns out, you’d better get that pre-order in. Happy reading!
November attempted to join the fight, but it was like swimming in syrup. A burly, bearded vampire had his arm around her waist and a knife at her throat before she could even get the stake out of her boot.
“Drop it unless you want to lose the girl,” a gravelly voice warned Raina. “Nobody else needs to die here.”
November shot Raina an apologetic look. “Sorry. I was too slow.”
“Not your fault, chère,” Raina absolved her. “It’s the wound and the morphine.” She placed her weapon carefully on the bedspread. “What do you want?”
“Luka and whatever it is he’s here to get,” he replied. He turned to his blond companion, a twitchy beanpole with a crew cut who put November in mind of a teenaged delinquent. “Tucker, text Casey. Tell him we’ve got them, but we lost Marcia.”
Tucker laid down his crossbow and pulled out a phone.
“You have made a grave error in judgment,” Raina warned them.
“Whatever, lady,” Tucker snorted.
“How long have you been a vampire, son? Five minutes?” Raina retorted. “That your maker, there?” Tucker’s nervous glance at his leader answered both her questions. “What kind of a maker takes his newborn to go after the most powerful creatures on the continent? How many do you think he’s gone through before you? How long did Marcia last?”
“Ignore her, Tuck.”
Tuck nodded anxiously and worried at his lip as he completed his text and awaited a reply. “Frank, Casey says that if we don’t hear from him in 10 minutes, we should kill them.”
“Good luck with that,” Raina said, rolling her eyes.
Tucker picked up his crossbow and pointed it at Raina. “I’m pretty sure I’ll manage,” he retorted.
“Don’t know why you’d want to,” November piped up. “Frank, here, will probably just kill you after. That’s what he usually does after a big score. Gets rid of the babies, keeps their shares of the money. Make new ones before the next major job. Lather, rinse, repeat.” As she spoke, she slowly slid her hand into the pocket of her hoodie. “Isn’t that right, Frankie?”
“Shut up,” Frank growled. He pressed the flat of his blade against November’s neck. The silver burned her skin, but she didn’t even flinch. “She’s just making up stories,” he told Tucker.
“Probably why he sent Marcia in first. Cannon fodder,” Raina nodded, putting on a sad face. “Shame. You know who that is, there, right? That’s November Snow. The Oracle. She’s never wrong. Never.”
“The one Luka took? The one from D.C.?” Tucker asked, voice cracking. His head swiveled back and forth, bouncing from Frank to Raina and back again.
“Don’t listen to them,” Frank ordered. “Don’t worry about what they’re saying. I order you as your maker.”
Tucker’s face went blank, his eyes cloudy. After a moment, he shook it off, and his brow furrowed once again.
“See. He’s had so many progeny that he can’t even compel you. You make too many, you see, it dilutes your blood magic. You shook that command off so easily. Got to have been an awful lot of them, wouldn’t you say, Raina?” November asked.
“Oh, dozens. At least,” Raina agreed. “Maybe a hundred.”
Tucker’s crossbow now pointed toward Frank rather than Raina. He took a step toward his maker. “What are they talking about?” he demanded.
“Keep it together, Tucker. We won’t have to work for years if you just hold it together,” Frank urged. He pulled his knife away from November and pointed it at his offspring, but he kept a tight grip on his captive, careful to keep her body between himself and Raina.
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Weekend Excerpt–Just One Night
Great news! Just One Night is now available everywhere, and it’s only .99! Yes, it’s no longer available on Kindle Unlimited. But now, whether you read your ebooks on a Kindle, an iPad, or a Nook, you can get Just One Night for the low everyday price of .99.
In Just One Night, teacher Katie is on a summer cruise with her best girlfriends from high school. Fresh from a bad breakup, she’s determined to find a man for just one night of anonymous passion. She meets Mac, traveling to Mexico for his brother’s wedding. He’s in, more than willing to go along with her plan. But can he convince her that what they have together is worth more than Just One Night?
Here’s a little teaser…
The pair parked themselves at a tiny table at the edge of the piano bar, the first place they’d come to in their search for a cocktail. Katie watched him as he approached the bar and ordered for them. She couldn’t get over how handsome he was, how he’d come outside looking for her. This was exactly what she needed to take her mind off of her man problems back home.
She smiled up at him as he returned to their table carrying a margarita for her and a Scotch for himself. “Cheers,” he said, raising his glass to hers.
“Cheers,” she murmured in return, and she sipped gratefully, counting on the liquid courage her glass offered.
“You know, we’ve gone about this all backwards.” He rested his drink on the table and offered his right hand. “My name is—“
“No! No names,” Katie quickly interrupted.
Mac blinked in surprise. “No names. Why no names?”
“Just…because,” she stammered. “No names, no personal information, we’ll just…keep it casual.”
“Keep it casual.” Mac frowned. “Okay.” He gave her a curious look. “Do you want me to leave?”
She shook her head, red curls swinging. “No, I’d like you to stay.”
He gave a relieved smile. “Good, because I’d like to stay. So…no personal information. Do you want to talk about work?”
“Oh, hell no!”
“Um, how about that weather? That’s some pretty great weather out there tonight.”
Katie laughed lightly. “I don’t mean to be a pain.”
Mac smiled back. “You’re not a pain, exactly. I just have to figure out the rules. And you’re here with three other women?”
“You could see that in the dining room. Where you were staring,” Katie observed.
“You know that because you were staring back,” he countered.
“And you’re here with two other men.”
Mac nodded. “My brothers. Oops! Was that personal?”
“Now you’re making fun.”
He smiled ruefully. “Maybe just a little bit. This is kind of a bachelor party. My kid brother is getting married.”
“A bachelor party?” Katie laughed lightly. “Shouldn’t you be getting back to the debauchery?”
Mac laughed. “Not much debauchery with those two. My older brother’s been married for years and Tommy’s head over heels for his fiancée.” He glanced up at Katie. “Oops! More personal information.”
Katie sighed and sipped her drink. “My friends and I get together for a week every summer. We’ve known each other since high school.”
“There now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?”
Katie nodded firmly. “We’re even, that’s all.” She rested her forearm on the table and toyed with her glass. Mac did the same, and as he did, his arm brushed against hers. She made no effort to move away from him. He intentionally rested his arm against hers, noting the electric charge he felt, wondering if she felt it, too.
Glancing up, he saw that she was watching him intently. “So…you don’t want any personal information. You don’t want to talk about work. You don’t want me to leave.”
Katie shook her head.
“Okay, well we’ve got that settled. What do you want?” He watched her expectantly.
She stared at her glass as she swirled the remainder of her margarita. Her buzz from the dinner wine combined with the icy cocktail made her feel bold. She looked back up at Mac.
“Do you really want to know what I want? I want just one night. Just one night of anonymous, no-holds-barred, red-hot, no-strings-attached sex. That’s what I want.” She fixed him with a challenging stare.
“Whoa,” he breathed, eyes wide.
Katie looked down at her glass again. “Too blunt?”
Mac leaned back in his chair, lips forming an O. “That was blunt, all right, but I can respect that. I’ve gotta ask, though.” He sought out her eyes. “Is there some guy at home waiting for you to come back?”
Katie shook her head. “I’m not cheating on anybody. You?”
He shook his head, too, and laughed humorlessly. “What was it you said earlier? Oh, hell no.”
She lightly stroked his arm as it rested on the table, delighting in the goose bumps that appeared there. Her gaze traveled from there to his lap, which seemed to be taking an interest in the proceedings if the growing mound there was any indication. She shifted her focus, sliding her gaze up his torso to those lips she’d noticed earlier. God, I just want to suck on that lower lip.
She met his eyes again, saw the fire there, and knew it matched her own. “So what do you say?”
“I say, have another margarita. I just need to run to the little shop and pick up some… Well, I didn’t actually expect that I’d need…” He smiled apologetically.
Her voice was soft. “I’ll wait right here.”
He took her hand and gently brushed his lips across her knuckles, gave her a wink, and left the bar.
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Luke & Bella by Pandora Spocks #InLust #BDSM #Giveaway
So thrilled to be featured in sexy author Siren Allen’s Madly in Lust!
Welcome to the Madly In Lust Blog Event. Today we’re featuring a seductive scene from Luke & Bella by Pandora Spocks. Enjoy the ride!
Strong-willed ginger Bella Grant is a take-charge television journalist with an appetite for adventure. Handsome and sexy Luke McGillicutty is a world-weary photographer coaxed out of premature retirement with the promise of traveling the world with a smart, spunky redhead. They’ve been paired up to create a new brand of television travel program.
Traveling to romantic destinations, staying in first-class hotels, finding adventure at every turn, it’s not surprising that the two fall in love. Luke is stunned to realize that Bella is the woman he’s looked for his whole life. She’s beautiful, smart, funny, and courageous.
The only thing is, Luke hasn’t been completely up front with her. He hasn’t told her that he’s into BDSM. He could play it safe, keep the relationship going…
On Writing Great Characters
What is it that makes for a great romance story? Interesting plot lines, right? Sexy settings. Hot love scenes. All true. But for me, I have to care about the characters if I’m going to get into a story. I need to feel their emotions, to relate to their motivations. And while we are sometimes invited into their thoughts, it’s really the words of characters that tell us about them.
So how do you write great characters? Make them relatable, believable? They have to have great dialogue. I think the thing you have to do is to listen to people. A lot. Listen to conversations around you, listen to characters in movies and on television. I’d bet that every character you write has his or her origin in someone you know. Delve into the motivations of that person to give your characters believable reasons for what they do, what they say, and how they are.
Characters have back-stories, whether or not you include them in your book. But those back-stories inform the way the characters are in the present. Inhabit the minds of your characters, feel their emotions, then express them in the character’s own words.
I rehearse conversations between my characters before I ever write them. I run lines while I’m in the shower. I hold entire conversations while I’m driving through town. I can only hope that other drivers think I’m singing along to the radio.
I always try to make sure that a character’s words are authentic to his or her personality. Sometimes, characters have potty mouths. You don’t plan it, it just turns out that way. Maggie Flynn, from Rannigan’s Redemption, is like that. And although it’s not the way I talk, day in and day out, I couldn’t shy away from it just because it’s not me. It’s Maggie. Backing off of that rings inauthentic.
Here’s an example from Book 1 of Rannigan’s Redemption, Resisting Risk:
It was noon when Maggie exited the elevator on the 50th floor. She’d dressed in a purple turtleneck and charcoal slacks, a scarf with a purple paisley design accenting her neck. Karen wasn’t at her desk. Probably at lunch, Maggie thought, and she went directly to her office.
Opening the door, she started to toss her bag on the desk when she realized someone was sitting there. Her arm stopped mid-swing, her eyes wide, and she looked back at the door, frowning. “May I help you?” she asked.
The guy was about her age with brown hair and eyes. He looked startled. “Um, no, thanks. I’m okay for now.”
Maggie raised an eyebrow. “You’re in my office.”
“Oh, you must be Maggie,” he said. “Mr. Rannigan said you wouldn’t be in until tomorrow.”
“And yet, here I stand today,” Maggie replied in an irritated tone. She turned and marched down the hall to Michael’s office. At his closed door she hesitated. He might be with a client, she considered. Fuck that! Some dude is in my office.
She threw open the door with enough force to swing all the way open and it crashed into the wall behind it.
Michael, seated at his desk and concentrating on his computer, jumped.
“What the fuck, Michael?!” Maggie demanded.
“And it’s nice to see you, too, Mags,” he replied with a grin. “Welcome back. We didn’t expect to see you until tomorrow.” He met her at the door and ushered her into the reception area.
“I can tell you didn’t expect me until tomorrow. I didn’t expect some guy to be in my office today,” Maggie ranted.
Michael put up both hands in defense. “Calm down, Mags, everything’s okay.”
Maggie shook her finger in his face. “Don’t you tell me to motherfucking calm down! If you were going to fire me…”
“Fire you?” he frowned.
“You could at least have done it on Wednesday instead of waiting until I come in and find my office occupied by some…”
Michael continued to guide her down the hall. “That’s Josh, we just brought him up from downstairs,” he explained calmly.
“I don’t care where he came from, he can just take his skinny little ass right back…”
“Because as far as I know I still have a contract…”
“You can’t just push me out, I’ve worked way too hard…”
“Mary Margaret! Stop talking,” Michael interrupted. They’d stopped in front of the door to what used to be John Hemphill’s office. He pushed it open. “This is your new office.”
Maggie stopped mid-sentence. She was looking into the most beautiful room she’d ever seen. It was a confection of lavender and cream and eggplant. On the far side of the room next to the floor to ceiling windows, there was a silver chandelier over a small ecru French desk. On the desk was a white and purple orchid in a shallow lavender bowl. Purple drapes and cream sheers framed the wall of glass. Nearer the door there was a seating area with a cream sofa accented with lavender and purple pillows fronted by a glass coffee table. On the other side of the room was a small glass conference table and four purple upholstered chairs. The new pale hardwood floor was arranged in a herringbone pattern.
“It looks like an office in Paris,” Maggie breathed. She crossed the room to examine a pair of large framed photographs. Gasping, she looked back at Michael.
He smiled at her. “Florence,” he said. “This is why I wanted you to wait until tomorrow. The furniture was delivered this morning. We literally just got it finished.”
Maggie’s eyes were wide. “I don’t understand,” she said.
“Let’s go to lunch. We’ll talk about everything,” Michael said.
Great characters are believable. You can relate to them because you understand their feelings and motivations. And you gain that insight from meaningful, authentic conversations.
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How to Buy Swiss Government Bonds
By: Bradley James Bryant
How to Buy Government Bonds
The Swiss franc (CHF) has always been known as a bastion of safety for money. Switzerland takes a neutral stance on most political issues, and so its currency and bonds are less susceptible to interest rate risk than those of other countries. Buying bonds directly from the government is difficult, however. Unlike in the United States, it is difficult for noninstitutional investors to purchase bonds in a public exchange. However, there are several bond funds that hold Swiss government bonds.
Buy Swiss Government Bond Funds
Go to Yahoo! Finance. See Resources for a link.
Enter RPIBX in the "Get Quotes" box. This is an international bond fund managed by T. Rowe Price. Familiarize yourself with the price performance by studying the price chart for a 6-month, one-year and two-year time frames.
Research other international bond funds that hold Swiss government bonds. You can start with LUX, a fund managed by UBS, or BCV Dynagest International Bond Expo denominated in CHF by inputting security number 2388558 into Yahoo! Finance's "Get Quotes" box.
Decide on which fund you would like to purchase. These are all mutual funds, so you only need to purchase one.
Purchase shares by contacting your stockbroker. If you do not have a broker, sign up with E-trade or Fidelity. See Resources for a link.
This is not to be construed as investment advice.
UBS (Lux) Bond Fund Explanation of Holdings
Working as a full-time freelance writer/editor for the past two years, Bradley James Bryant has over 1500 publications on eHow, LIVESTRONG.com and other sites. She has worked for JPMorganChase, SunTrust Investment Bank, Intel Corporation and Harvard University. Bryant has a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from Florida A&M University.
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Lori Loughlin’s Daughter Olivia Jade Said She 'Didn't Care About School' in YouTube Video Before Mom's Arrest
By Stephen Andrew - March 12, 2019 02:42 pm EDT
Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade said she didn't "really care about school" in a YouTube Video posted before her mom's arrest.
The clip was posted to Jade's YouTube channel in 2018 just after she had been accepted to attend the University of Southern California.
In the video, the 19-year-old said, “I don’t know how much of school I’m going to attend, but will talk to my deans and everyone,” in reference to her busy business schedule that requires her to travel a lot.
She later said that she was certainly looking forward to the “experience of game days” and “partying,” before then confessing, “I don’t really care about school, as you guys know.”
Many took to commenting on Jade's video by criticizing her about her attitude toward college, with one person writing, "I love you but it bothered me so much when you said you don’t care about school but the game days and stuff why go to college and not care about your studies? That’s the whole point of college (getting an education)."
"I love you Olivia I really do, I've been a subscriber since the beginning so I really hope you don't take this as hate but more of constructive criticism. I honestly found it very disappointing when you said you care more about parties and tailgates rather than your education," someone else said. "If you hate school so much why go to college? You can go to parties and tailgates whenever you want you don't have to go to college."
Jade eventually issued an apology video and asserted that she was very grateful for the opportunity to go to a good college.
Loughlin is currently being sought by police in connection to a bribe scandal wherein she is alleged to have submitted bribes in order to get Jade into USC.
According to ABC 11, legal documents state that Loughlin and her husband "agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team -- despite the fact that they did not participate in crew -- thereby facilitating their admission to USC."
UPDATE: Actress Felicity Huffman is in Federal custody after being arrested at her home without incident. There is an arrest warrant out for actress Lori Loughlin, who was NOT in Los Angeles this morning when Federal agents went to her home per officials familiar.
— Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) March 12, 2019
Actress Felicity Huffman has also been implicated in the scam. She is currently in custody, but authorities reportedly have an arrest warrant issued for Loughlin.
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Peru teenager wins international climate award
Michael Krumholtz
Article Updated: November 14, 2018
We talk a lot about environmental awareness, but as the effects of climate change continue to be seen throughout the world, there needs to be some incentive to help deter these possibly apocalyptic changes. One 13-year-old Peruvian is trying to help provide that incentive with his idea of an eco-bank that would more directly transform recycling into a currency.
José Adolfo Quisocala recently won the 2018 Children’s Climate Prize for his idea. The international award given out by the Swiss energy company Telge Energi was announced Sunday and the Peruvian teenager will receive his trophy in an official ceremony on Tuesday.
The youngster from Arequipa actually founded his eco-bank when he was 7 years old. It was founded off the idea that fellow kids could pay at a store with items that can be recycled, so that kids learn the value of money and environmental protection at the same time.
“My project is a bank for young people that provides financial education,” Quisocala says as part of his winning pitch. “We teach entrepreneurship in a practical and experimental way by using financial transactions and solid waste.”
The idea is based around children helping to ensure that the planet has a long and healthy future.
“Children can generate the change our climate needs,” he adds.
Judges for the Children’s Climate Prize was very complimentary of Quisocala’s idea.
“Jose’s eco-bank is a brilliant way of linking economy and climate impact, both in thought and practice. The system clearly illustrates that the planet’s common resources are limited and that we must be climate-conscious and recycle the products that we no longer use,” a judge said. “It creates awareness of consumption. This way caring about the environment becomes an investment. A system that gives children both economic independence and power to influence the climate. The potential impact is amazing.”
Watch the full video here where Quisocala explains his award-winning project:
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Council advances two bikeway projects
By OC Tribune Staff on January 17, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
TWO NEW BIKEWAYS, along with landscaping and other improvements, are coming to northwest Westminster (Luka Siemionov/Pexels)
Outdoor recreation and local history will be sprouting on local streets as the Westminster City Council on Wednesday approved engineering design contracts on two projects bringing bikeways and heritage to an northwest area of the city.
The council voted 5-0 to award two contracts to Mark Thomas for the Mendez Historic Trail and Green Street Bikeway ($386,697) and the Garden Grove Complete Street Project ($365,704).
In Mendez project, intended in part to commemorate the historic school integration court case of Mendez v. Westminster, a two-way “protected bikeway” will be constructed along the west side of Hoover Street between Garden Grove Boulevard and Bolsa Avenue. It will use a raised median along the west side of Hoover to create a physical separation between bicyclists and motor vehicles.
The revamp of Hoover will reduce the street from two lanes in each direction to one, and will include a two-way left turn lane. Construction of the bikeway is expected to be in early 2020.
Complementing the Hoover project will be the Garden Grove Boulevard project, which will create a protected bikeway on the north side of the street between the San Diego/Garden Grove freeway ramps to the west and Edwards Street.
Additionally, Edwards Street will be redesigned between Garden Grove Boulevard and Trask Avenue, and Trask between Edwards and Hoover.
Eliminated will be one lane eastbound on Garden Grove Boulevard, one lane in each direction on Edwards Street and one lane in each direction on Trask Avenue.
Funding for the projects comes primarily from state grants. Other improvements such as landscaping and pavement repair and replacement are planned.
The next meeting of the council will be on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
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Mixing A Track From Start To Finish
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Remember These Names: 12 Democratic Senators Pushing Anti-Christian Bigotry
In the past two years, Democrat-aligned senators have launched inquisitions into the religious beliefs of President Donald Trump's nominees for judicial and administration positions. "The senators asking these questions are more interested in painting the nominees as partial because of their religious convictions, rather than actually pursuing the truth," Alexandra McPhee, Esq., the Family Research Council’s director of religious freedom advocacy and author of the report, told PJ Media. She argued that the questions senators posed to nominees "show a distrust of religion." These senators "are probing beliefs of nominees that have nothing to do with whether they are able to carry out their duties faithfully." Read more: https://pjmedia.com/faith/remember-these-names-12-senators-pushing-anti-religious-bigotry/
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Loaded with lead
A Seattle Times investigation
Toxic ranges win federal contracts
To train their officers, federal law-enforcement agencies have awarded contracts to contaminated commercial gun ranges, riling unions and sparking calls for reform.
Marcus Yam / The Seattle Times
Champion Arms in Kent, with dozens of lead violations, won a contract with the air marshals.
By Christine Willmsen April 13, 2015
More from the series
Part 1: Lead poisoning is a major threat at America’s shooting ranges, perpetuated by owners who’ve repeatedly violated laws. →
Part 2: The nation’s worst known case of shooting-range lead poisoning happened in Bellevue. →
Part 3: Twenty youngsters test positive for lead overexposure at a Vancouver, Wash., shooting club. →
Part 4: Police agencies across the country have put their officers in harm’s way. →
In early November 2008, state workplace-safety inspectors slammed a contaminated commercial gun range in Kent with 15 violations, including failure to fix previous lead hazards, and fined it $42,400.
The very next day, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) awarded Champion Arms in Kent a five-year contract worth $205,200 for the Federal Air Marshal Service to use the indoor gun range for training.
Federal law requires agencies to follow health and safety standards.
But for years, the Federal Air Marshal Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons put hundreds of their employees in danger by having them undergo firearms training at two lead-contaminated commercial ranges where owners have sickened workers and repeatedly violated safety and health laws.
Neither agency here has its own gun range.
Champion Arms and Wade’s Eastside Guns in Bellevue each had outstanding violations for inadequate ventilation and lead-contaminated surfaces while benefiting from the contracts.
“It’s disgraceful and it’s so egregious,” said Frank Terreri, president of the Federal Air Marshal Agency, which represents the air marshals.
Air marshals, who provide armed security on certain flights, must prove their proficiency with a service firearm at least four times a year, he said. “We don’t have a choice where they send us to shoot,” said Terreri, a supervisory air marshal in San Francisco.
Terreri said this problem could be a national one because nearly all of the agency’s regional offices don’t have their own gun ranges, and marshals have to train elsewhere.
He wants to know why the TSA entered into the contract and why workers weren’t warned about potential risks. He became aware of the issue when interviewed by The Seattle Times.
Several hundred Bureau of Prisons employees from the SeaTac detention center trained at Wade’s gun range during what public-health officials have called the nation’s worst-known case of lead contamination at a commercial gun range.
Joe Mansour, the national health-and-safety union representative for prison employees, has demanded that the Bureau of Prisons investigate how this happened. He has asked the SeaTac facility to notify all staff members about the potential exposures and offer blood tests to those who are concerned.
46 workers overexposed
On Oct. 22, 2012, a group of Federal Bureau of Prisons employees from the SeaTac detention center entered the shooting range at Wade’s Eastside Guns.
Among them was Mansour, a case manager at the center, who recalled that Wade’s resembled a construction site, with plastic covering sections of the building.
That fall, 46 workers at Wade’s had been overexposed to lead during the remodeling.
Inspectors from Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I), which enforces workplace-safety laws, would find 18 violations, mostly related to high lead levels on surfaces and in the air, poor ventilation and lack of safety training.
“I wasn’t aware of the lead contamination,” Mansour said in a recent interview.
That October day at Wade’s, prison employees spent about two hours in a classroom there and about two more hours shooting in the range.
Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times
Owner Wade Gaughran kept Wade’s Eastside Guns open during a renovation that overexposed 46 workers to lead; federal employees who shot there at the time weren’t notified.
L&I tested the air in the range weeks later. It was so concentrated with lead that state officials asked owner Wade Gaughran to close it down until the lead was abated, L&I records show. “Based on those results, the public and law enforcement employees would only have to be in Bay 1 for 49 minutes to be exposed to airborne lead above the PEL (Permissible Exposure Limit),” an L&I supervisor wrote to Gaughran.
No one alerted administrators at the SeaTac detention center about the toxic workplace. Gaughran didn’t immediately close the range. He had no comment for this story. L&I said he has fixed all violations.
Mansour said he was shocked the Bureau of Prisons wasn’t checking the safety record of commercial gun ranges before awarding contracts.
He also said he was outraged Wade’s managers didn’t inform detention-center employees about the lead hazards before they spent hours inside the Bellevue range.
As the union’s national safety representative, Mansour is demanding that all federal detention centers that contract with commercial gun ranges provide proof that Bureau of Prisons employees are shooting in hazard-free ranges. In some cases, that may require an inspection.
Employees at the SeaTac detention center have used Wade’s for firearms re-certification since 2008. In 2010, the state cited Wade’s for seven violations, mostly for lead.
“How do I know these people aren’t going to lie again?” Mansour said. “I’m going to make sure we don’t go back there.”
Federal contracts like these typically include such language as “the indoor range shall possess air-condition, heating and approved ventilation system in conformance with existing OSHA standards. If an award is granted and OSHA standards are not in accordance with regulation, the government has the unilateral right to terminate contract.”
Jill Sjodin, public information officer for the SeaTac center, declined to answer questions about lead contamination at Wade’s. Violations, fines and other information about company inspections are publicly available on OSHA’s enforcement website.
National loophole
“It’s disgraceful and it’s so egregious.”
Frank Terreri,
Federal Air Marshal Agency president, whose members trained at gun ranges in Bellevue and Kent that were contaminated with lead
Congress and the Obama administration have tried to tackle the issue of companies being awarded federal contracts despite a history of violating workplace-safety laws.
Last year, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, which takes effect in 2016. It requires companies seeking federal contracts to disclose previous safety violations. However, the order has a loophole — it applies only to contracts larger than $500,000.
Champion Arms and Wade’s Eastside Guns won’t have to disclose violations because their contracts are much smaller.
The TSA awarded a contract to Wade’s in 2004, with annual contract renewals for four more years.
In 2008, however, a Federal Air Marshal Service employee showed up at the Bellevue range and tested the air and surfaces, Sean Eals, an instructor at Wade’s at the time, told The Times.
The marshals didn’t shoot there again, Eals said.
“The fourth option year was not exercised … at the discretion of TSA,” Michael Pascarella, assistant supervisory air marshal in charge, wrote in an email.
“A new solicitation was announced and a different vendor was chosen.”
He refused to say exactly why TSA didn’t renew the Wade’s contract. The Times has not received public records it requested about the contract.
Terreri, a national representative for the air marshals, said that if TSA didn’t pick up the option for the fourth year because of lead hazards, it should have immediately notified any of its employees who trained at Wade’s to have blood-lead tests.
‘Worse’ vendor
Listen to ‘Reveal’ segment
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, with The Seattle Times, talk about the dangers police face from lead contamination at gun ranges.
TSA’s “different vendor” turned out to be Champion Arms, which has racked up dozens of lead violations and had two employees overexposed to lead.
“This is the worse (sic) indoor firing range … investigated certainly recently and potentially ever,” Cheryl Christian, a state L&I expert wrote in an email to a state lawyer as they contemplated shutting the range down in April 2009.
Records show the ventilation system at Champion Arms hadn’t worked properly from 2005 until May 2010.
A 2006 L&I inspection found 15 violations, almost all of them posing a substantial probability of death or serious physical harm to workers, records show.
The air marshals started shooting there in 2009. Another L&I inspection revealed 10 more violations in 2011.
TSA contracted with Champion Arms in 2013, with renewal options through 2018. Owner Maria Geiss didn’t return phone calls for comment. L&I said she has corrected all violations.
Before employees ever set foot in any gun range, Terreri said, TSA should first independently check the violation history and ventilation to determine if it is safe.
“If they are still qualifying there and it’s been shown they violated OSHA there needs to be a cease and desist,” said Terreri. “These employees need to be aware. We will follow up.”
Christine Willmsen: cwillmsen@seattletimes.com or 206-464-3261. On Twitter @christinesea. Lewis Kamb contributed reporting.
Part 4: Lead endangers officers
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Home REPORTS Weekly Reports Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory...
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (02 – 08 Aug. 2012)
Palestinians Passing Through Bethlehem Checkpoint on
their Way to Pray at al-Aqsa Mosque
Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian
Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
In a
new extra-judicial execution crime, the IOF killed a Palestinian activist and
wounded another.
IOF used
force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the
West Bank.
Palestinian civilians, including a journalist, were wounded in the Kafr Qaddoum
demonstration, northeast of Jenin.
conducted 36 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
arrested 17 Palestinians, including 4 children.
has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT, and has isolated the Gaza
Strip from the outside world.
established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank and hindered the movement of
Palestinian civilians.
arrested two children at a checkpoint in the old town of Hebron.
have continued to target civilian objects.
fired artillery shells at the vicinity of Gaza International Airport, but no casualties
were reported.
have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have
continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
settlers blew up a Palestinian vehicle in the Senjel village, north of Ramallah.
violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued
during the reporting period (02 – 08 August 2012):
During the reporting period, a Palestinian
activist was killed and another was wounded when an IOF aircraft targeted them
in the south of the Gaza Strip. The IOF
also wounded many Palestinian civilians and Israeli and international human
rights defenders in peaceful demonstrations in protest of the annexation wall
and settlement activities in the West Bank.
On 05 August 2012, the IOF
positioned at the border with Israel near Karm Abu Salem crossing in the south
of Rafa fired shells at the vicinity of Gaza International Airport and the
eastern outskirts of Rafah. Helicopters flying in the sky of the area also
opened fire for approximately two hours. The local population panicked, but no
casualties were reported.
During the reporting period, the IOF
used force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest of the
construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West
Bank. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were wounded, including a journalist,
Ashraf Abu Shawish (42), who sustained wounds from a tear gas canister to his
right leg. The other civilian sustained
wounds from a tear gas canister to his right hand. Dozens of demonstrators also suffered from
tear gas inhalation.
Incursions:
the reporting period, the IOF conducted at least 36 military incursions into
Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
During these incursions, the IOF arrested 17 Palestinians, including 4
on Movement:
had continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe
restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
The illegal Israeli-imposed closure
of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a
disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.
The illegal closure has caused not only
a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of human rights and human dignity for the
population of the Gaza Strip. Measures
recently declared to ease the blockade are vague, purely cosmetic and fail to
deal with the root causes of the crisis, which can only be addressed by an
immediate and complete lifting of the closure, including lifting the travel ban
into and out of the Gaza Strip and the ban on exports. Palestinians in Gaza may no longer suffer from
the same shortage of goods, but they remain economically dependent and unable
to care for themselves, and socially, culturally and academically isolated from
the rest of the world.
The IOF have continued to impose
severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians throughout the
West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinian civilians from the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue to be denied access to Jerusalem.
has continued its settlement activities in the OPT in violation of
international humanitarian law, and Israeli settlers have continued to attack
Palestinian civilians and property.
Thursday morning, 02 August 2012, a number of Israeli settlers from the “Giv’at
Ariel” settlement, north of Ramallah, tried to blow up a car belonging to a
Palestinian. The car, belonging to Abdul
Kareem Khalil, was parked in the yard of a house. The settlers put flammable materials under the
vehicle, where they also put cigarettes with matches fixed at the end; as a
result, when the cigarette is finished the matches start and blow up the
vehicle. The cigarette was put out and
nothing happened. The settlers wrote on
the walls of the house Hebrew statements that mean “Get away from our land,
paying the price.”
Violations Documented during the Reporting Period (02 – 08 August 2012)
1. Incursions into
Palestinian Areas and Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip
At approximately 02:00, the IOF
moved into Bartaa al-Sharqiya, southwest of Jenin, behind the annexation wall. They raided and searched a shop belonging to
Shadi Kmeil. Before withdrawing, they
arrested Hamza Yehya Zayoud (23), from Silat al-Harithiya, who was in the shop.
moved into al-‘Oja village, northeast of Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time
and withdrew later. No arrests were
reported.
moved into al-Jiftlek village, north of Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time
and withdrew later. Neither house raids
nor arrests were reported.
At approximately 00:30, the IOF moved into Jericho.
They patrolled in the streets for some time and then they drove to the
south and raided the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp. They patrolled in the refugee camp for some
time and withdrew later. Neither house
raids nor arrests were reported.
moved into al-Tira village, southwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Bidia village, northeast of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time
and withdrew at 14:30. Neither house
moved into al-Zawya village, northwest of Salfit. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Azzoun village, west of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Beit ‘Or al-Tahta village, southwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into Qalqilya. They patrolled in
the streets for some time and withdrew later.
Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.
moved into the Bidia village, northwest of Salfit. They patrolled in the streets for some time
and withdrew at approximately 15:40.
moved into the Kafr Addik village, west of Salfit. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Bitello village, northwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Kherbtha al-Mesbah village, northwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Deir Jarir village, northeast of Ramallah. They provocatively patrolled in the streets
for some time and withdrew later.
moved into the Marj Ghazal village, north of Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time
moved into the Solwad village, northeast of Ramallah. They raided and searched 2 houses. Before withdrawing, they arrested 2 children –
Alaa Abdul Karim al-Kharraj (16); and Ahmed Raji Ayad (17) – and transferred
them to the Ofer’ military detention center.
moved into Halhoul, north of Hebron.
They patrolled in the streets for some time and raided the house of
Mohammed Abdul Hadi al-Baw and delivered him a notice requiring him to appear
before the Israeli intelligence. The IOF
withdrew later and no further incidents were reported.
moved into the Barqa village, east of Ramallah.
They provocatively patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew
later. Neither house raids nor arrests
At approximately 19:10, the IOF,
of Rafah, fired shells at the vicinity of the Gaza International Airport and
the eastern outskirts of Rafah. Helicopters flying in the sky of the area also
opened fire for approximately 2 hours. The local population panicked, but no casualties
moved into the Taqou’a village, east of Bethlehem. They ambushed Muthallath al-Halqoum in the Taqou’a
village, and arrested Ahmed Mohammed Jebril (17) and Hisham Khalil al-‘Omour
(19) and transferred them to the the Israeli police station in the Kriat Arbaa
settlement. Jebril and al-‘Omour were
released the following day, 06 August 2012.
At approximately 02:00, the IOF moved into Dora, southwest of Hebron.
They patrolled in the streets for some
time, and raided and searched the house of Ahmed Abdul Hamid Mohammed Aberyoush
(27). Before withdrawing, they arrested Aberyoush.
At approximately 02:30, the IOF moved into the Safa village, west
of Ramallah. They patrolled in the
streets for some time, and raided and searched the house of Khaled Akram Zaki
Mansour (30). Before withdrawing, they arrested Mansour.
At approximately 05:00, the IOF moved into al-‘Oja village,
northeast of Jericho. They patrolled in
At approximately 23:20, the IOF moved into the Deir Estia village,
north of Salfit. They patrolled in the
streets for some time and withdrew at approximately 00:30. Neither house raids nor arrests were
At approximately 00:30, the IOF moved into Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time
At approximately 01:30, the IOF moved into the Borham village,
northwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in
At approximately 02:00, the IOF moved into Salfit. They patrolled in the streets for some time
and then raided the house of the Arram family, claiming that they were searching
for Mohannad Fawzi Arram (24). Mohannad
was not in the house. Before
withdrawing, IOF delivered a notice to the Arram family requiring Mohannad to
appear before the Israeli intelligence in the Israeli Military Liaison Office
in Qalqilya. At approximately 08:30, Mohannad
headed to the Israeli Military Liaison Office, where he was arrested.
At approximately 02:20, the IOF moved into Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets while firing
sound bombs and tear gas canisters at Palestinians, claiming that they were
subjected to stoning. They then raided
and searched a number of houses. They
withdrew at approximately 03:15 and no arrests were reported.
At approximately 03:45, the IOF moved into the Kafr Qaddoum
village, northeast of Ramallah. They
patrolled in the streets for some time.
Before withdrawing, they arrested 3 Palestinians, including a child:
1. Mamoun Rafiq Mustafa Eshteiwi (33);
2. Moahmmed Saleh Yousef Eshteiwi (23); and
3. Qusai Marwan Mahmoud Aqel (17).
At approximately 07:30, the IOF moved into al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya
patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were
At approximately 10:00, the IOF moved into the Bartaa al-Sharqiya
village, southwest of Jenin, which is located behind the annexation wall. They raided and searched a shop selling
agricultural supplies owned by Hadi Mohammed Nyaz (20). Before withdrawing, they arrested Nyaz.
At approximately 02:00, the IOF moved into the Kafr Ra’i village,
southwest of Jenin. They patrolled in
the streets for some time. Before
withdrawing, they arrested 2 Palestinians: Munib Mohammed Munib al-Sheikh
Ibrahim (32); and Munjed Jamil Ahmed al-Sheikh Ibrahim (38).
At approximately 04:00, the IOF moved into the Beit Ummar village,
north of Hebron. They raided and
searched 2 houses. Before withdrawing,
they arrested Alaa Mousa Hassan Zaaqiq (22) and Taqi Addin Abdul Fattah Jawabra
(21) and transferred them to the military detention center in the Kfar Etzion
settlement.
At approximately 17:00, the IOF moved into the Muthallath
al-Shuhada village, south of Jenin. They
raided and searched a car repair workshop owned by Nabil Subuh. Before withdrawing, they arrested Subuh.
2. Use of
Excessive Force against Peaceful Demonstrations Protesting Settlement
Activities and the Construction of the Annexation Wall
the reporting period, the IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations
organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights
defenders in protest of the construction of the Wall and settlement activities
in the West Bank. As a result, 2
Palestinian civilians were wounded, including journalist Ashraf Abu Shawish (42),
who was hit by a gas canister to his right leg and another gas canister to his
right hand. In addition, dozens of
demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation and others sustained bruises.
Following the Friday Prayer on 03 August 2012, dozens of Palestinian
civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders organized a
peaceful demonstration in the Bil’ein village, west of Ramallah, in protest of
the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities. They moved towards areas of the annexation
wall. They called through megaphones for
Israeli settlers in the Mitityahu settlement to leave Palestinian land. Israeli soldiers stationed in the area fired
rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the
demonstrators. As a result, a number of
demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.
Also following the Friday Prayer on 03 August 2012, dozens of
Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders
organized a peaceful demonstration in the Ne’lin village, west of Ramallah, in
protest of the construction of the annexation wall and settlement
activities. The demonstrators moved
towards areas of the annexation wall.
Immediately, Israeli soldiers stationed in the area fired rubber-coated
metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators. As a result, some demonstrators suffered from
Also following the Friday Prayer on 03 August 2012,
dozens of Palestinian civilians and Israeli and international human rights
defenders gathered in the center of the Nabi Saleh village, northwest of
Ramallah, to start the weekly peaceful protest against the construction of the
annexation wall and settlement activities. The protesters walked towards
the gate erected by the IOF near the entrance of the village and leading to
Palestinian lands that Israeli settlers from the nearby Halmish settlement are
trying to seize. Israeli soldiers, who had been extensively deployed in
the area and near all the entrances of the village since the morning, began to
confront the protesters who wanted to walk towards the affected lands.
Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber-coated bullets, sound bombs and
tear gas canisters at the protesters. As
a result, some demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation and others
sustained bruises.
At approximately 13:15, also on Friday, on 03 August 2012,
Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders organized a
peaceful demonstration in the Kufor Qaddoum village, northeast of Qalqilya, in
protest to the continued closure of the eastern entrance of the village by the IOF. They moved towards the entrance. Immediately, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas
canisters and sound bombs at them. As a
result, 2 Palestinian civilian were wounded, including journalist Ashraf Abu
Shawish (42), who was hit by a tear gas canister in his right leg and another
tear gas canister in his right hand.
3. Extra-judicial
killings
the context of extra-judicial killings, on Sunday, 05 August 2012, the IOF
killed a member of the Palestinian resistance, seriously wounded another member,
when their motorbike was targeted in Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, southern
Gaza Strip. The IOF later declared that
they targeted 2 Palestinians under the pretext of their affiliation to “Global
Jihad” who were planning and implementing attacks against the IOF.
to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 14:00 on Sunday, 05
August 2012, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a motorbike that was ridden
by 2 Palestinian resistance members.
They were close to Canada Well in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah, southern Gaza
Strip. As a result, Eid Nadi Eid Okal (20),
from Rafah, was killed due to shrapnel wounds throughout his body and Ahmed
Salem Sa’id Isma’il (22), from al-Toffah neighborhood in Gaza City, was wounded
by shrapnel throughout his body.
Isma’il’s health conditions are serious.
He was transported to the Abu Yusef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, but due
to his serious wounds, he was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan
Yunis. Medical sources in Nasser
Hospital state that Isma’il sustained second degree burns and his left leg was
amputated.
IOF’s statement that was published on their website mentioned that, as a result
of their cooperation with the General Security Service, the Israeli Air Forces
attacked a group of (terrorists) in the southern Gaza Strip who belong to the
Global Jihad movement. The target was
precisely attacked. That statement added
that a member of the group, Ahmed Sa’id Isma’il, is a member of the Global
Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip and Sinai. In addition, he participated in the attack
that was carried out on 18 June 2012 at the Israeli-Egyptian borders, which led
to killing an Israeli person.
4. Continued Closure
of the OPT
Israel has continued to impose a tightened closure on the OPT and
imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel has continuously closed all
border crossings to the Gaza Strip for nearly 5 years. The illegal Israeli-imposed closure of the
Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous
impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.
The IOF
have tightened the closure of the Gaza Strip and essentially made Karm Abu
Salem crossing the sole commercial crossing for the Gaza Strip, although it is
not appropriate for commercial purposes in terms of its distance and
operational capacity.
have continued to apply their policy aimed at tightening the strangulation of
the commercial movement in the Gaza Strip, including imposing total control
over the flow of imports and exports.
total closure of al-Mentar “Karni” crossing on 02 March 2011 has created a
bitter situation that has seriously affected the Gaza Strip. Following this closure, all the economic and
commercial establishments in Gaza Commercial Zone were shut off. It should be noted that al-Mentar crossing is
the biggest crossing in the Gaza Strip, in terms of its operational capacity to
absorb the flow of imports and exports.
The decision to close al-Mentar crossing was the result of a series of
decisions to totally close Sofa crossing, east of the Gaza Strip, in the
beginning of 2009, and Nahal Oz crossing, east of Gaza City, which was
dedicated for the delivery of fuel and cooking gas to the Gaza Strip, in the
beginning of 2010.
have continued to impose a total ban on the delivery of raw materials to the
Gaza Strip, except for very limited items and quantities. The limited quantities of raw materials
allowed into Gaza do not meet the minimal needs of the civilian population in
the Gaza Strip.
cooking gas crisis which erupted last November has continued to affect the Gaza
Strip. This crisis was created when the
Israeli occupation authorities totally closed, on 04 January 2010, Nahal Oz
crossing, which used to be dedicated to the delivery of fuel and cooking gas
supplies to Gaza, and shifted fuel and cooking gas supplies to Karm Abu Salem
crossing, which is not technically equipped to receive Gaza’s needs of fuel.
The Karm Abu Salem crossing, with its maximum absorptive capacity, can
receive only 200 tons of cooking gas per day.
80% of Gaza civilians continue to depend on aid provided by UNRWA and other
relief agencies, the rate of families who are living below the poverty line
have continued to rise and approximately 40% of Gaza’s manpower has continued
to suffer from permanent unemployment as a result of the shutting down of the
majority of Gaza’s economic establishments.
have continued to impose a total ban on the exportation of Gaza’s products,
especially industrial products, leading to the undermining of any real chance
to start up economic establishments again.
The situation has been aggravated, especially after making the Karm Abu
Salem crossing the Gaza sole commercial crossing and the repeated closure of
this crossing, which negatively affects the quantity of Gazan products that
were allowed to be exported last April.
For approximately 6 consecutive years, the IOF have continued to
ban the delivery of construction materials to Gaza. During the reporting period, the IOF approved
the delivery of a limited quantity of construction materials for a number of
international organizations.
Israel has continued to close the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing for
Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip.
The IOF only allowed the movement of limited groups amidst severe
restrictions, including long hours of waiting in the majority of cases. The IOF have also continued to adopt a policy
aimed at reducing the number of Palestinian patients allowed to move via the Beit
Hanoun crossing to receive medical treatment in hospitals in Israel or in the
West Bank and Jerusalem. The IOF denied
new categories of Gazan patients permission to access hospitals via the
crossing.
Approximately 3 weeks ago, the IOF allowed the families of
Palestinian prisoners detained in prisons in Israel to visit their relatives
after 5 years of denying their right to family visitation, in violation of
international humanitarian law.
The Rafah crossing continued to be open for Palestinian patients
seeking medical treatment abroad, Palestinian students enrolled in
international universities and those who have international residency permits. Facilitations were announced to allow men
above the age of 40, women of all ages and children under 18 to move via the
crossing. Up to this moment, the
crossing has not witnessed any normal movement reflecting the announced
facilitations. The crossing has been
totally closed since 06 August 2012 in the wake of incidents that took place in
the Sinai, resulting in the death of Egyptian soldiers. The recent closure of the crossing has created
a crisis due to the increasing numbers of persons wishing to leave Gaza,
especially pilgrims and those who came from abroad to visit their relatives in
Gaza. This has also affected the health
of Palestinian patients who need medical treatment abroad.
at Border Crossings during the Reporting Period:
at the Rafah International Crossing Point
Coming into Gaza
Returned into Gaza
Note: The Rafah Crossing Administration did not publish a daily
report on 05 August 2012 because the crossing was closed on Monday morning, 06
August 2012, and the staff members did not go to work. The Rafah crossing was closed by the Egyptian
authorities in the wake of the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers and wounding of
another 7 soldiers after an unknown armed group attacked an Egyptian military
post near Rafah city in the Egyptian side. The members of the armed group also seized 2
armored vehicles belonging to the Egyptian army and drove them to an Israeli
military post close to the Palestinian-Egyptian borders in the southeast of
Rafah, southeast of the Gaza Strip. One
of the vehicles exploded near the border and the other was destroyed when it
was targeted by an Israeli aircraft.
Movement at the Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) Crossing
PCHR apologies for being unable to include the movement at the Karm
Abu Salem crossing for the reporting period, due to technical problems. PCHR will include the movement at the crossing
for this reporting period in its next weekly report.
at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing
Arabs from Israel
International Journalists
International Workers
Travelers abroad
Economic Meetings
Security Interviews
Ambulances to Israel
Ambulances from Israel
Note: At approximately 05:45 on Monday, 06 August, the IOF positioned
at the Beit Hanoun crossing allowed 54 Palestinians who have relatives detained
in Israeli jails to pass through the crossing to visit their relatives in jail.
It should be noted that this is the fourth
group of Palestinians who have been allowed to travel via the crossing after 6
years of denial of the right to family visitation.
Israel has imposed a tightened closure on the West Bank. During the reporting period, the IOF imposed
additional restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians.
There are approximately hundreds of permanent roadblocks and manned
and unmanned checkpoints across the West Bank.
When complete, the illegal annexation wall will stretch 724 kilometers
around the West Bank, further isolating the entire population. 350 kilometers of the wall has already been
constructed. Approximately 99% of the
wall has been constructed inside the West Bank itself, confiscating more
Palestinian land.
Many of the main roads that lead to Palestinian communities in the
West Bank are closed or fully controlled by the IOF.
The IOF have continued to restrict the access of Palestinian
civilians from the West Bank to East Jerusalem, through a strict system of
permits and a network of checkpoints.
The IOF have completely controlled access to the Jordan Valley
through 4 permanent checkpoints established at its entrances. Palestinians living outside the area are not
allowed to enter it without permits.
Settlement activities and the expansion of settlements impose
The IOF have continued to restrict access to gunfire areas and
natural reserves, which constitute about 26% of the total area of the West
Israeli military checkpoints restrict the movement of goods
throughout the West Bank.
Palestinian civilians continue to be harassed by the IOF in
Jerusalem and across the West Bank, including being regularly stopped, searched
and even arrested in the streets by the IOF.
additional restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians:
Jerusalem: The
IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian
civilians to and from the city. Thousands
of Palestinian civilians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been denied
access to the city. The IOF have
established many checkpoints around and inside the city. Restrictions of
the movement of Palestinian civilians often escalate on Fridays, preventing
young Muslim Palestinians from praying at al-Aqsa Mosque.
Friday, 03 August 2012, the IOF imposed restrictions on the movement of
Palestinians wanting to perform the Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque. The Israeli occupation police announced that
they would allow Palestinians from the West Bank who are above the age of 4 to
have access to the Mosque without permits. They also announced they would allow women of
all ages and children under the age of 12 to have access to the Mosque. This is not applicable to Palestinians from
the Gaza Strip, who are denied access to the al-Aqsa Mosque during the Holy
Month of Ramada for prayers.
this context, the IOF deployed thousands of policemen and members of the border
guard to different parts of Occupied Jerusalem, especially the old town and the
vicinity of the al-Aqsa Mosque and at checkpoints at the main entrances of the
city. They also closed main streets and
roads adjacent to the walls of the city and in neighborhoods near the city.
and al-Bireh: The IOF have continued to
impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. At approximately 08:30 on Friday, 03 August
2012, the IOF re-established their presence at ‘Attara checkpoint, north of
Ramallah. At approximately 20:00, the IOF
established a checkpoint at the Beit ‘Aur al-Tahta intersection, southwest of
Ramallah. They stopped Palestinian cars
and checked passengers’ ID cards. The 2
checkpoints were removed later and no arrests were reported.
approximately 09:00 on Sunday, 05 August 2012, the IOF re-established their
presence at the ‘Attara checkpoint, north of Ramallah. At approximately 11:30, they established a
checkpoint near the entrance of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya village, northeast of Ramallah. At approximately 21:30, they established a
checkpoint near the ‘Oyoun al-Haramiya intersection on the road between
Ramallah and Nablus. They stopped
Palestinian cars and checked passengers’ ID cards. The checkpoints were removed later and no arrests
Qalqilya: The IOF have continued to impose severe
restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. At approximately 15:40 on Thursday, 02 August
2012, the IOF established a checkpoint at the eastern entrance of Qalqilya. They established another checkpoint at
approximately 16:30 at the entrance of the ‘Azzoun village, east of
Qalqilya. A third checkpoint was
established at approximately 22:55 near the Nabi Elias village. The 3 checkpoints were established on the Qalqilya-Nablus
road, east and northeast of Qalqilya. The
IOF checked passengers’ ID cards and searched Palestinians’ vehicles and
luggage. The checkpoints were removed and no arrests were reported.
approximately 02:10 on Friday, 03 August 2012, the IOF established a checkpoint
between the villages of al-Funduq and Jinsafout. They established another checkpoint at
approximately 02:15 near the intersection of the Imatin village and a third
checkpoint at approximately 14:55 at the eastern entrance of Qalqilya. They re-established a checkpoint at the
eastern entrance of Qalqilya at approximately 23:55. The 4 checkpoints were established on the Qalqilya-Nablus
luggage. The checkpoints were removed
and no arrests were reported.
approximately 03:00 on Saturday, 04 August 2012, the IOF established a
checkpoint near the Jit village. They
established another checkpoint at approximately 10:30 at the intersection of the
Jinsafout village and a third checkpoint at approximately 17:10 at the entrance
of the Kafr Laqef village, east of Qalqilya. A fourth checkpoint was established at
approximately 21:45 at the entrance of the Azzoun village. The checkpoints were
established on the Qalqilya-Nablus road, east and northeast of Qalqilya. The IOF checked passengers’ ID cards and
searched Palestinians’ vehicles and luggage. The checkpoints were removed and no arrests
Jericho: The
civilians. At approximately 21:00 on
Thursday, 02 August 2012, the IOF established a checkpoint at the southern
entrance of Jericho. They prevented
Palestinians from moving via the entrance.
They searched vehicles and checked passengers’ ID cards. They created a severe traffic crisis. The checkpoint was removed later and no
arrests were reported.
checkpoint at the entrance of the Ein al-Dyouk village, north of Jericho, while
another checkpoint was established at approximately 11:30 at the southern
entrance of the city.
approximately 08:30 on Sunday, 05 August 2012, the IOF established a checkpoint
at the entrance of al-Zbeidat village, north of Jericho. At approximately 19:00, the IOF established a
checkpoint at the southern entrance of the city. At approximately 21:30, the IOF established a
checkpoint at the entrance of the Marj al-Na’ja village. No arrests were reported.
Arrests at Military Checkpoints
On Sunday, 05 August 2012, the IOF positioned
at the Abu al-Reesh checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque in the old town of
Hebron arrested 2 brothers, Mohammed ‘Atef Hamdan Taha (14) and Mahmoud (13),
who were transported to an unknown destination.
Activities and Attacks by Settlers against Palestinian Civilians and Property
Kareem Khalil, was parked in the yard of a house. The settlers put flammable materials under
the vehicle, where they also put cigarettes with matches fixed at the end; as a
Recommendations to the International
1. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva
Convention to fulfill their legal and moral obligations under Article 1 of the
Convention to ensure Israel’s respect for the Convention in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory. PCHR believes
that the conspiracy of silence practiced by the international community has
encouraged Israel to act as if it is above the law and encourages Israel to continue
to violate international human rights and humanitarian law.
Convention to convene a conference to take effective steps to ensure Israel’s
respect of the Convention in the OPT and to provide immediate protection for
Convention to comply with their legal obligations detailed in Article 146 of
the Convention to search for and prosecute those responsible for grave
breaches, namely war crimes.
4. PCHR calls for the immediate implementation of the Advisory Opinion
issued by the International Court of Justice, which considers the construction
of the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank illegal.
5. PCHR recommends that international civil society organizations,
including human rights organizations, bar associations and NGOs, participate in
the process of exposing those accused of grave breaches of international law
and urge their governments to bring the perpetrators to justice.
6. PCHR calls upon the European Union to activate Article 2 of the
Euro-Israel Association Agreement, which provides that Israel must respect
human rights as a precondition for economic cooperation between the EU states
and Israel. PCHR further calls upon the
EU states to prohibit import of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements
in the OPT.
7. PCHR calls on the international community to recognize the Gaza
disengagement plan, which was implemented in September 2005, for what it is –
not an end to occupation but a compounding of the occupation and the
humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
8. In recognition of the ICRC as the guardian of the Fourth Geneva
Convention, PCHR calls upon the ICRC to increase its staff and activities in
the OPT, including the facilitation of family visitations to Palestinian
prisoners in Israeli jails.
9. PCHR appreciates the efforts of international civil society,
including human rights organizations, bar associations, unions and NGOs, and
urges them to continue their role in pressuring their governments to secure
Israel’s respect for human rights in the OPT and to demand Israel end its
attacks on Palestinian civilians.
10. PCHR calls upon the international community to pressure Israel to
lift the severe restrictions imposed by the Israeli government and its
occupation forces on access for international organizations to the OPT.
11. PCHR reiterates that any political settlement not based on
international human rights law and humanitarian law cannot lead to a peaceful
and just solution of the Palestinian question.
Rather, such an arrangement can only lead to further suffering and
instability in the region. Any peace
process or agreement must be based on respect for international law, including
international human rights and humanitarian law.
For further information please visit
our website (www.pchrgaza.org) or contact
PCHR’s office in Gaza City, Gaza Strip by email (pchr@pchrgaza.org) or telephone (+972 (0)8
282 4776 – 282 5893).
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Living in Balance
Living in Balance was open from May 20, 1995 through June 3, 2013.
The culture and cultural perspectives of four Native American peoples of the Southwest are the focus of this exhibition, which opened 20 May 1995. Specifically, it examines the sacred and cultural connection that the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Apache have with their environment. It features an Apache tipi, a Navajo hooghan framework, an illuminated walk-in sky theater, and more than 300 objects from the Museum's extensive archaeological and ethnographic Southwest collections.
As early as the 1890s the Museum was actively acquiring collections made by explorers, travelers, government officials and museum personnel. A few years later more than 3,000 archaeological objects recovered from John Wetherill and other explorers were purchased through funds provided by Phoebe Hearst. In 1901 and 1902, Museum Director Stewart Culin, funded by Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker, made expeditions to Hopi villages, Zuni Pueblos and other Rio Grand Pueblos to purchase ethnographic material.
An Exhibition with a Native American Perspective
Guest Curator and Research Associate Dr. Dorothy Washburn held extensive consultations with representatives of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache peoples in order to develop an exhibition which would present a native peoples' perspective. The exhibition focuses on the distinctive Native American view of knowledge, which restricts expertise and performance of different rituals to those who are initiated and trained, as well as on the highly networked nature of Native American society which functions in balance only if every individual carries out his or her family obligations and ritual responsibilities.
Specific rituals and activities unique to the cultures of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache peoples are presented to highlight the philosophical perspective that sees everything in the universe as alive. People, rather than being in a dominant relationship with this universe, are seen as one more part of it; their goal is to live, with the help of rituals, in balance with their environment.
In keeping with this perspective throughout the exhibition, a towering "tipi" houses objects, drawn from a Western Apache girl's puberty feast, that bespeak the importance of life transition stages and community cohesiveness; an octagonal "hooghan" (house) framework encloses objects which relate to the different kinds of knowledge the Navajo believe reside in mountains in the four sacred directions; a complete Hopi bride outfit symbolizes the extensive network of inter-family obligations and responsibilities which have enabled the Hopi to prosper in an arid land; and a scale model of the Zuni kick stick race metaphorically attests to the fundamental importance of rainwater to these agriculturists.
Sun, Land and Sky
One of the most important aspects of Native American life in the American Southwest is the way the Hopi and Zuni agriculturists coordinate their activities with the sun's yearly movements, marking the turning points in their calendars around the summer and winter solstices and the spring and fall equinoxes. The exhibition features a small, walk-in fiber optic computer-driven sky theater with music and narration. In the theater, an animated pathway of the sun's travels in the summer and winter skies illustrates how seasonal changes in the amount of sunshine are directly related to the timing of Native American planting and harvesting schedules. A voiced narration explains how the movements of the planets and constellations, illuminated in a night sky, continue to be used by the Apache and Navajo to schedule nighttime ceremonies.
One food which accompanies every Hopi ceremony, a wafer thin bread called "piiki," is featured prominently in the exhibition. A video detailing the "piiki"-making process looks at the important role the making and giving of this bread occupies in the ceremonial process. Visitors can touch an actual "piiki" stone on which the bread is cooked, experiencing its unique glassy surface.
The Changing Nature of the Landscape
The Hopi and Zuni perspective and the archaeologist's perspective of the Pueblo prehistoric past are juxtaposed. Detailed studies of the changing hydrologic potential of the Colorado Plateau has clarified the growth and movements of these prehistoric cultures. An extensive exhibition of the black-on-white and polychrome wares of the Anasazi and Mogollon peoples who inhabited the area from 200 to 1700 CE provides the introductory backdrop for the presentation of the natives' perspective of their way of life in this changeable land.
Sense and Sensibilities of the Native American Universe
Large-scale color murals of the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona and other local mountains form a backdrop on the gallery walls, just as these sacred mountain peaks delimit the Native Americans' world and contain the knowledge, shrines and homes of the spirit beings vital to them in the conduct of their daily lives. The exhibition design incorporates images and colors particularly significant to Native Americans' sacred directions. Through touchable objects such as the glass-smooth "piiki" stone and soft buckskin clothing, the Navajo sheep bells and the metal tinklers on Apache dance dresses, visitors can gain a feel for the textures and sounds of daily life. In this way the exhibition directs the visitor's attention to everyday things which carry significance in the lives of Native Americans.
Living in Balance was exhibited in the Ruth and Earl Scott Gallery off the Main Entrance. The exhibition was made possible by a generous gift from Ruth and Earl Scott; by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency; the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; and by the support of the Women's Committee of the Penn Museum.
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How to maintain a safe workplace and minimise legal risks
How to maintain a safe workplace and minimise legal risks by HRD. Available from <http://www.hcamag.com/hr-business-review/workplace-relations/how-to-maintain-a-safe-workplace-and-minimise-legal-risks-242946.aspx> [October 30, 2017]
Work-related injury and disease costs the Australian community $61.8 billion a year. This means that poor work health and safety costs $5000 per worker each year and equates to 4.1% of Australia’s gross domestic product.
These statistics are particularly important given October is National Safe Work month and many employers are still failing to take proper action before it is too late.
Clyde & Co Partner Alena Titterton said that Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) laws have been in place for more than five years in a number of jurisdictions around the country.
“If your organisation has not attended to the following activities in the last two years, it is time to take action to minimise legal liability," she said.
Employers should firstly have organised a Due Diligence Refresher Briefing for the board and executive team and review the adequacy of corporate governance frameworks for health and safety, Titterton added.
Organisations should also have conducted a WHS Legal Compliance Audit of their operations, and close out any gaps that may have arisen through the audit.
Finally, employers should have reviewed their incident response and investigation protocols to ensure they capture incident notification and site preservation legal requirements across the jurisdictions, as well as strategies to respond to the increasing use of general criminal law processes in fatalities.
According to Titterton, there are five mistakes employers in Australia make when it comes to workplace safety:
Thinking that safety people 'do' safety
If you look at every prosecution for health and safety duty of care offences around Australia, common themes emerge.
Every prosecution represents failures in effectively implementing some aspect of the safety risk management process (or its entirety).
Indoctrinating a proactive safety risk management culture throughout an organisation is fundamental.
Failing to effectively manage change
As part of a proactive safety risk management approach, organisations need to understand when circumstances have changed and revisit their assumptions around whether their systems and control measures are still effective.
Many organisations will charge ahead without thinking through safety ramifications of strategic changes, reacting when it's too late.
A failure to appreciate and plan for change is a consistent aspect of the story told in a significant number of serious incidents we investigate.
Failing to proactively manage how your operations interact with others
Sophisticated organisations have systems to manage their own operations, however significant risk often arises where operations overlap with others.
Failing to proactively manage who is responsible for what in the area of overlap leads to misunderstandings and often gaps between systems, leading to incidents.
Understanding areas of operations where multiple parties intersect and how is an important precursor to implementing strategies to manage the overlap.
We don't spend enough time exploring success
There are many days without incident but typically investigations only happen when serious incidents occur.
This means that the majority of our conversations around safety are negative ones. Organisations should spend more time learning from success when things do not go wrong.
This can lead to greater engagement and understanding around what really works for safe outcomes in practice.
Thinking that compliance equals bureaucracy
Conversations in the safety profession in Australia at the moment seem to pit the concepts of practical safety management and legal compliance against one another.
In reality, they are not mutually exclusive concepts. Achieving legal compliance is something that can be managed in the background as part of the process of collaborating with workers in developing more streamlined and practical health and safety management systems.
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NAF destroys Boko Haram vehicles in Borno
File source: Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Air Force says the Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has tracked and destroyed some Boko Haram Terrorists vehicles as they were attempting to launch fresh attacks on ground troops locations at Gudumbali and Damasak in Borno.
NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said that the operation was carried out in the early hours of the day (Saturday).
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He explained that the mission was initiated following intelligence reports indicating that a convoy of BHT vehicles had been sighted within the Damasak – Gudumbali axis.
“Accordingly, a Nigerian Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance platform was dispatched to search for and locate the convoy of vehicles.
“The ISR aircraft spotted vehicles at a location 24 Km SW of Gudumbali heading in a northwards direction. Consequently, a helicopter gunship was scrambled to attack the convoy.
“The helicopter arrived the location and was vectored to the position of the vehicles, which, at the time, were about midway between Nigerian Army locations at Metele and Arege.
“Following communications with ground troops, the BHT vehicles were positively identified, isolated and attacked by the helicopter gunship in successive strikes.”
Daramola said that in the process, four of the vehicles were immobilized and their occupants neutralised.
“The ISR aircraft continued to track the remaining 5 vehicles, which initially dispersed but later regrouped and continued their retreat to Tumbun Rego.
“They were subsequently attacked at their harbour location by the freshly rearmed helicopter gunship; with 3 direct hits recorded on the vehicles,” he said.
He said that a follow-up attack on the newly discovered insurgents’ logistics base in Tumbun Rego was conducted by 2 Alpha Jet aircraft later in the morning.
“The makeshift buildings and other facilities in the base were accordingly destroyed in the air strike.”
The NAF spokesman said that the NAF, working in concert with surface forces, would sustain the momentum of operations with a view to destroying vestiges of the insurgents in the Lake Chad green fringes and other areas in Northern Borno.
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Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand
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Across the Pacific in Auckland, New Zealand two rap groups, Homebrew and @Peace, are contributing to a theoretically rich and socially conscious Hip Hop scene. Their music critically questions commercialism and conformity in a culture shaped by a history of colonialism. This makes their message starkly opposed to the normative values of New Zealand. The musicians of Homebrew and @Peace, a mix of Polynesian and Pakeha (people of European descent), employ methods of decolonization theory through the use of storytelling and focus on indigenous values. In a country that has adopted the neoliberal beliefs that competition drives human relations, and redefines citizens as consumers, Homebrew and @Peace use their music to resist these messages by valuing the individual over the almighty dollar. Straddling between worlds, one of urbanization and the other of indigeneity, Homebrew and @Peace show how this rift is a result of neoliberalism.The perceived benefits of urbanization and capitalism conflict with indigenous values. Currently, Polynesian, and specifically Maori, have disproportionately higher rates of disadvantage in almost every life outcome compared to Pakeha. Intense competition and the commodification of education and land are cited by Homebrew and @Peace as causes for feelings of alienation. They powerfully connect the political to the personal, which can inspire youth to become their own cultural theorists.
Rogers, Mariel Lopez, "Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand" (2017). Master's Theses. 250.
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AEI Banter Podcast #353
Jessica Trisko Darden on ‘Insurgent Women’ and ISIS brides – Banter: An AEI Podcast
Hosted by Ceci Gallogly, Spencer Moore
Why do women wage war? Jessica Trisko Darden, co-author of the new book “Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars,” joins the show to shed some light on this often overlooked but important topic. Then, how should the West respond to the attempted return of the so-called “ISIS brides”? We discuss the ongoing debate over the legal status of these women, how the United States and Europe are coping with the situation, and what should be done.
Jessica Trisko Darden is a Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an assistant professor of international affairs with the School of International Service at American University. Her latest book “Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars” examines three important aspects of women’s participation in non-state armed groups: mobilization, participation in combat, and conflict resolution.
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What is Kosher Salt, Anyway?
By Redmond Life One Comment
Ever stood in front of the salt display in the grocery store trying to divine the difference between table salt and kosher salt? What is kosher salt, anyway? When should you use it? Do you ever really need to use it? Is it only for Jewish people?
There’s a prevalent thought that kosher salt is so named because it is in compliance with Jewish dietary laws about food preparation and the types of food that may be consumed, and that perception is not exactly accurate. In fact, kosher salt isn’t even necessarily certified kosher—though if it is to be used in a kosher meal, it has to be.
What we commonly called kosher salt is actually coarse koshering sea salt, so named because salt of this size is used in koshering meat for adherents of Jewish kashrut (dietary laws). For some reason, the ing on koshering was dropped along the way by a few companies, and the change became the new normal. So in this context, kosher refers to the size of the grain. When you buy kosher salt, you know you’re getting a larger salt grain that is flat or pyramidal. This is the ideal size of salt grain for koshering meat, as its greater surface area allows it to draw out more blood.
Koshering meat is a multi-faceted process that ensures that the protein is fully compliant with kashrut. Once butchering is complete, kosher preparation involves soaking the uncooked meat in water and then coating it in salt to draw the blood, as consuming the lifeblood of the animal is prohibited in Judaism. The salted meat hangs for one hour, and then is washed three times in clean, cold water until no salt remains. Following this, the butcher can dry it and further prepare it for selling.
For salt (even kosher salt) to be certified kosher, a product is vetted by the proper authority and found to be in compliance with the requirements and restrictions of kosher law. That authority then grants the kosher designation so consumers can choose a product that aligns with their religious standards. If you keep kosher, it is important to look for the designating symbol on your coarse kosher sea salt.
Now that you know what kosher salt is, there are a few more things you need to know.
For starters, while kosher is an approximation of size, actual size measures differently from brand to brand. Variations in size and shape can result in slight variations in measuring, so we recommend tasting as you go whenever possible if you’re using a brand you’re not yet familiar with.
On that same note, it’s crucial to remember that kosher salt and table salt are chemically the same, but NOT 1:1 interchangeable in recipes. Don’t try it. Disaster—or poorly seasoned dishes—may ensue. Kosher salt is larger and more irregularly shaped than table salt, so it doesn’t pack as densely in measuring spoons. It’s counterintuitive, but you’ll need more kosher salt to reach the same level of saltiness as a smaller portion of table salt. Generally, you’ll need twice as much kosher salt as table salt, but again, taste as you go.
If you are baking, we suggest not using kosher salt unless it is specifically called for for two reasons: it doesn’t always dissolve evenly and baking requires very precise amounts of ingredients to achieve desired chemical reactions. That said, kosher salt can make an interesting and delicious finishing touch on baked goods. Some people like to sprinkle it on sweets like cookies for a pop of salty contrast (which also adds complexity to the sweet flavors), and it’s perfect for topping homemade soft pretzels or bagels.
Other popular uses for kosher salt include rimming margarita glasses, making spice rubs, coating meats, sprinkling on coffee grounds before brewing, and canning. Professional chefs prefer it in most dishes because its larger crystals make it easier to grab a pinch and control its distribution, while many home cooks like to add it as a finishing touch or place a bowl of it on the table for those at the meal to use to taste.
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Good article. I knew that kosher salt is basically just a marketing term for most home cook applications but that being said it is good for final seasoning not for pickling, baking, or most recipe preparations. Its rather expensive as well.
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Talia Tkachev. Veritas.
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Post by Mach2 » Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:25 am
"Truth and control. That's real power."
Natalia Irina Tkachev
Preferred Name
Blue. Striking.
"I am not a hero."
Natalia Irina Tkachev was born in 1993 to a first-generation immigrant family, who she hasn't seen or spoken to since the age of five. To this day, she maintains the firm stance that the only good thing they ever gave her was her name. But that's hardly their fault. It took most of her adult life to come to terms with it, but she realizes now that her parents could never have been prepared to raise her.
A child is challenge enough. But a child whose very presence demands absolute honesty? A child whose gaze turns her words into law? An impossible task. Talia was this child, and as a result, she never had a hope of a normal childhood.
She entered the system at a young age, and progressed from one home to the next with shocking rapidity. The pattern established itself. There would be a period of peace, where her foster family would try to make the most of the situation. Some praised her abilities. Some simply chose to ignore them. But the pattern always persisted. The weeks would drag on, and the tension would grow. Praise would fade, and ignorance would wear thin.
Other children resented her. If she was in the room, it was impossible for them to lie about any of their wrongdoings. Yes, Marcus had been fighting others at school. No, Jessie hadn't been at her friend's house last night. But it was far worse when she unveiled the lies of adults. In the worst cases, foster families would use her, taking advantage of her presence to uncover truths about their friends, coworkers, or partners. Truths which, often, would have been better off remaining buried. She strained friendships, betrayed secrets, and even ended marriages...all without saying a word. When she spoke, she had even more power.
It took years for Talia to realize that what she did wasn't normal, that the abilities she was born with were not inherent to every other person. Self-awareness struck in second-grade, during playground games at elementary school. During a game of tag, one of her friends asked Talia how she always avoided getting tagged.
"Why don't they ever come after you?"
"What do you mean? I just tell them not to."
The bewildered silence from her classmate was explanation enough.
From then on, she learned to keep her commands hidden. She learned to speak with care, so as to never arouse suspicion. When she was shunted from one foster home to the next, it was always because of her honesty-inducing presence. Never because of the commands. Even at a young age, Talia was sure that her powerful words would not garner positive reactions from most.
She worked her way through adolescence, through high school, even through college for a bachelor's degree in computer science. Something that didn't require much talking to people. And always, always she was painstakingly careful about her gifts. She tested her commands, learned how they worked. She explored the extent of her influence, and the range of her honesty. But it never lead anywhere. No one ever liked her when they learned what she could do. To maintain secrecy, she always erased her trail, disposing of whichever individual she'd decided to reveal her commanding presence to. And waiting, oh so patiently, for an opportunity to arise. An invitation to use her powers for something, anything, instead of constantly biding her time and guarding her words.
Real Power
Talia's presence fills whatever room she's in. When she's around, people find it impossible to lie. The range is close, usually restricted to the size of a large room. Walls and barriers dampen the range. With focus, she can extend it slightly, but rarely faces circumstances where this is required.
There are certain workarounds, but the honesty-inducing presence is stringent. The truth can be omitted, usually through silence. Direct questions are more difficult, and must be answered plainly, or not at all.
Thanks to this ability, Talia became accustomed to honesty at a very young age. She is capable of lying, but doesn't often partake in the activity herself.
More powerful than her presence are her words. Any command given by Talia must be obeyed. The only caveat is a requirement for eye contact. Dark sunglasses nullify the power of her gaze, but glass windows and mirrored reflections do not. If you can see her eyes, you will follow her commands.
Talia's commands leave little room for rationalization. It is the intent behind her words that matters. Should she command a person, "Don't touch me", they would be unable to touch her. Nor would they be able to poke her with an object, or grab her arm through the sleeve of her shirt. While not technically making physical contact, both of these actions are quite clearly included under the umbrellaed intent of the phrase 'don't touch me'.
The only exception to this is for true and honest misinterpretations. If a person truly and entirely believed that Talia only meant 'Do not make skin-to-skin contact with me', then they would be able to prod her with a stick, or grab her clothed arm. However, Talia has learned to choose her words carefully over the years, and such a level of misinterpretation rarely occurs.
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Instructor: Asst. Prof. Timothy Hack
Office: D-210B
Office Hours: By Appt. In most instances, you can see me before or after class. If my office door is open, I am available. Otherwise, contact me to make an appointment. For online students, I will be available remotely by clicking on the "Conferences" features during my office hours. I can also meet via this link if necessary.
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A college course rule of thumb: for every hour you spend in class you should spend 2 hours preparing (that is 7-1/2 hours per week for an online course). History courses at the college-level involve extensive reading and writing – at least 50 pages of reading a week and 20 pages of writing by semesters’ end. I do not expect you to understand everything you read, but I do expect you to work hard and give it your best.
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Students with Disabilities: If you have a documented disability that may have an impact on your work in this class please contact me via email or during my office hours. Students must provide documentation of their disability to the ADA coordinator (see student handbook) in order to receive special services and accommodations.
Tutoring: SCC has a free tutoring program for students seeking assistance in this course. Smarthinking is an online service that will help with writing in particular. The services’ link can be found on SCC’s homepage. Anyone who uses this service when writing their paper will receive FIVE points added to their paper. You must cut-and-paste and submit it to me. You will not receive credit just by logging on or only tacitly engaging the process.
Technology Requirements: Students are expected to have a grasp of the use of basic internet applications such as Youtube, Google, etc. Students should also know how to upload files. MIcrosoft applications such as PPT and Word documents will also be used.
Technical Support: Canvas provides 24/7 technical support as well as forums and guides for most any problem. See the Help icon on the top right-hand side of the homepage and navigate to your desired level of support.
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Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. Something about cyberspace makes it easy for people to forget that they are interacting with other real people. The following bullet points cover some basics to communicating online:
Be sensitive to the fact that there will be cultural and linguistic backgrounds, as well as different political and religious beliefs, plus just differences in general.
Use good taste when composing your responses in Discussion Forums. Swearing and profanity is also part of being sensitive to your classmates and should be avoided. Also consider that slang can be misunderstood or misinterpreted.
Don’t use all capital letters when composing your responses as this is considered “shouting” on the Internet and is regarded as impolite or aggressive. It can also be stressful on the eye when trying to read your message.
Be respectful of your others’ views and opinions. Avoid “flaming” (publicly attacking or insulting) them as this can cause hurt feelings and decrease the chances of getting all different types of points of view.
Be careful when using acronyms. If you use an acronym it is best to spell out its meaning first, then put the acronym in parentheses afterward, for example: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). After that you can use the acronym freely throughout your message.
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Assignments and Assessment
The nature and content of exams and assignments are subject to change during the course of the semester.
You are expected to follow the SCC guidelines on academic honesty. Violations discussed in the Student Handbook, including plagiarism, fabrication, or cheating on any assignment or examwill be reported. Cutting and pasting anything from the internet without proper citation is plagiarism. All forum posts and test answers will be screened for plagiarism. Taking quizzes and exams in groups is also cheating. I catch a good number of people each year; do not let it be you. At the very least, the work in question will receive a failing grade (anywhere from zero to 59 points, at my discretion). Multiple incidents WILL result in the failure of the course, and disciplinary action by the college.
Handing in assignments:
Late work
While I understand that on certain isolated occasions you may be unable to complete an assignment on time, I will penalize late work by 10 points unless I have granted an extension to an individual BEFOREthe due date. If you need an extension on an assignment, email me well ahead of time. If you are granted an extension on an assignment, you must remind me of my consent when you turn in the late assignment. All late work must be handed in by the last class of the semester in order to receive credit.
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If you wish to appeal a grade, you must follow these procedures:
Write a short, typed paragraph (more if necessary) explaining why you think the grade should be changed. Please be specific and provide examples. Hand in your assignment with the written appeal no later than one week after the day on which assignments have first been returned. When you turn in your appeal, make an appointment with me to discuss the assignment. I will not consider appeals submitted more than one week after the papers have first been returned.
Discussions Posts and Module Assignments – 35%
Lecture Exams (3) – 30%
Chapter Quizzes (14) – 20%
Papers (1) – 15%
Discussion Posts (35%)
Discussion short writing assignments will be given throughout the semester and will be posted in most modules. Your grade will be assessed as follows:
A – The post reflected a clear understanding of the readings. Provided multiple examples as evidence in answering the question(s). Answered question clearly and fully.
B – The post reflected a good understanding of the readings. Provided at least one example as evidence in answering the question. Answered question clearly and fully.
C – The post reflected a basic understanding of the readings. Provided a generalized answer to the question. Answered most of the question, but either inferred or left out information.
D – The post showed little understanding of the readings. Provided a very general and/or vague answer to the question(s). Missed key points of the question.
F – Clearly didn’t read. Provided a vague, general answer to the questions. Failed to answer the question adequately.
Lecture Exams (30%)
After reviewing 4-5 lectures and completing the readings, you must complete a Lecture Exam. These will be posted in the Modules on Course Canvas. I will use the above criteria to assess your answers.
Chapter Quizzes– 14 (20%)
You are responsible for completing 14 Chapter Quizzes, one for each chapter. These are located in the modules.
Paper: (1200 words minimum)
Papers MUST have 1” margins all-around and be double-spaced. Your name should appear at the top of the paper, followed by a title, and then your text. Please, no more than two lines between your name and the title, and no more than two lines between your title and opening paragraph. In addition, please skip the cover pages and plastic covers. Do not double-space between paragraphs. 12 pt font please, and no SUPER LARGE font styles please. Cite your work in the manner you feel most comfortable (MLA, Chicago, etc.). Include a bibliography if using sources outside of those assigned in the course (this does not count toward your page total). Feel free to ask me any other questions in regards to the paper at any time.
Paper topics: Choose (15%)
After reading the Return of Martin Guerre and the articles by Davis and Finlay, as well as, viewing the movie write an essay that addresses the following question: Is the story of Martin Guerre as constructed by Davis an objective account of what happened?
Papers MUST be at least 1200 words, have 1” margins all-around, and be double-spaced. Your name should appear at the top of the paper, followed by a title, and then your text. Please skip the cover pages and plastic covers. Use 12 pt font. Cite your work in the manner you feel most comfortable (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.). Include a bibliography (I urge you to use http://www.easybib.com/ to save some time).
*The professor reserves the right to alter the schedule.
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Paper Rubric Some editorial abbreviations you may see in your papers: Passive voice (PV), Verb Tense (VT), Significance (Sig.), Awkward statement (Awk.), Unclear (?), Good point (Gd), Thesis (th), Wordy (wor.).
Thesis/Intro 20% A Strong thesis; clearly stated. Original, creative, thoughtful. Interesting (answers the “so what” question). Broad enough to convey importance of discussion to follow, narrow enough to support with available materials 18-20
B Clearly Stated. Interesting (answers the “so what” question). Factually correct. 16-17
C Ambiguous or unclear wording. Simply describes topic of the paper. Does not answer the so-what question. Factually correct. 14-15
D Ambiguous or unclear wording. Topically unfocused. Does not answer so what question. Factually correct. 12-13
F Missing, unrelated to topic, factually incorrect 0-11
Argument/ Analysis 30% A Persuasive, well organized and balanced. Develops and supports thesis. Contains cogent analysis that demonstrates a command of interpretive and conceptual tasks required by assignment and course material. 27-30
B Persuasive, well organized and supports thesis. Few to no factual errors. Solid understanding of the texts, ideas, and method of assignment. Minor gaps in reasoning. 24-26
C Fair organization. May not move logically from paragraph to paragraph in support of thesis. May contain minor factual errors or omissions of historical specifics. Shows an understanding of the basic ideas and information involved in the assignment; a tendency toward recapitulations or narration of standard chronology 21-23
D Simply recounts chronology or series of events with little effort to form argument in support of thesis. May be factually correct, but lacks relevance and/or importance. Inadequate command of course material. Fails to respond directly to the assignment 18-20
F Simply recounts chronology or series of events with little effort to form an argument in support of thesis. Contains major factual errors, omissions, or both. Does not understand class material. Essay may not respond to question. 0-17
Development and Support 30% A Excellent choice of examples relevant to thesis. Insightful analysis or interpretation of relevant portions of chosen documents that play an important role in the argument. Does not neglect documents relevant to thesis. 27-30
B Accurate use of examples relevant to thesis. May have neglected other relevant documents. Exhibits clear understanding of the meaning and significance of the documents and attempts to integrate them into argument. 24-26
C Refers to examples, but does not integrate them into argument in support of thesis. Overlooks important documents relevant to the thesis in favor of less relevant documents. Or, makes accurate use, as in B above, but with only one document. 21-23
D Use of document(s) out of historical context or contrary to their historical meaning. Discursive and undeveloped. May digress from one topic to another. 18-20
F Neglects documents altogether. Little or no development. Lists of vague generalizations or misinformation. 0-17
Grammar and Structure 20% A Essay moves easily from one point to the next with clear, smooth, and appropriate transitions, coherent organizations, and fully developed paragraphs. The author employs sophisticated sentences effectively, chooses words aptly, and observes all conventions of English grammar to craft an eloquent essay. 18-20
B Clear transitions and the development of coherent, connected ideas in unified paragraphs. A good command of English, though with occasional stylistic or grammatical problems. 16-17
C Some awkward transitions and weak or undeveloped paragraphs not clearly connected to one another. A tendency toward wordiness, unclear or awkward sentences, imprecise use of words, grammatical errors, and a vagueness of meaning brought on by the passive voice. 14-15
D Simplistic or discursive, tending to vague summations and digressions from one topic to another. Major grammatical problems such as subject-verb disagreement, obscure pronouns, and sentence fragments. Language 12-13
F Numerous grammatical errors that frustrate the reader’s attempt to understand the paper’s argument. 0-11
* AVOID does not mean never. Periodically you may find it impossible to discuss your point(s) without breaking one of these rules.
1. Avoid the first person (I, me, we, us).
a. I believe the United States should abandon bilateral drug diplomacy. We all know that drugs are a major problem. Revised: The United States should abandon bilateral drug diplomacy.
2. Avoid wordiness.
a. In essence, after much pondering and peer group discussion on the topic, I feel that this is a case where the CIA has involved itself in some major clandestine activity to accomplish a goal that involved matters in which our government (but not necessarily the majority of its represented constituents) thought to be of greater importance than limiting overseas drug production. Revised: The CIA has involved itself in some major clandestine activity to accomplish a goal thought to be of greater importance than limiting overseas drug production.
3. Avoid floating quotes.
a. The CIA gave the Corsicans the "umbrella of protection" to stabilize their international drug trade.
b. In no way is it possible to "seal the borders."
4. Avoid passive construction. Nearly all of you are guilty of this. By correcting it your writing will improve exponentially. Ask yourself: Who or what is doing the action?
Even the United States Senate was kept uninformed of these activities. Revised: The CIA kept the US Senate uninformed of their activities.
The supply of opium to the drug labs in Marseille was shut down. Revised: Government forces shut down the supply of opium to the drug labs in Marseille.
Communism was viewed as the enemy. Revised: The American people viewed Communism as the enemy.
5. Avoid contractions and abbreviations.
a. The U.S. has always been bold and aggressive.
b. Past policies didn't work.
c. The United States compensates for past wrongs through affirmative action, Indian reservations, etc.
6. Avoid words and phrases that convey uncertainty and doubt. Possibly, Probably, Most Likely, Maybe are just a few examples.
a. It appears that maybe it is time to change strategies.
b. It seems that proper measures could be very effective.
7. Say it, don't talk about it.
a. I have pondered what can be done about the drug problem, and I will attempt to express my thoughts on the matter.
b. As we have already seen. . .
c. In this essay, we shall argue. . .
8. Avoid rhetorical questions.
a. Will we ever have a secure future with long-term goals and hopes for our children?
b. Why not cut our support of the problem at its source and thereby save money fighting it?
9. Limit usage of the verb "to be.” Be creative. Use verbs that illustrate your point better.
a. The drug problem today is not one of just inner cities. It is a problem of the suburbs. It is a problem of the entire world. Drugs are a global commodity. Revised: The drug problem today transcends the inner cities.
10. Watch punctuation.
a. These, however, constitute small victories, the war remains to be won. Revised: These constitute small victories; the war remains to be won.
b. And yet, as the President of the United States you claim to have a war against drugs, you stand to represent integrity and goodness, you speak for law and order. Revised: The President, in name of law and order, claims to conduct a war against drugs.
11. Avoid extensive and awkward quotations. Don’t pull quotes from secondary sources unless you are supporting/challenging a specific point of an author, or it is a quote an author used from a primary source.
a. McCoy maintains that narcotic regulation should occur in four specific areas: “1. Treatment and education to reduce U.S. domestic demand; 2. short-term, bilateral interdiction efforts aimed at reducing but not eliminating, drug shipments bound for America; 3. increased cooperation with UN narcotics agencies to gradually reduce global drug supply; and 4. control over CIA covert operations to bar future agency alliances with powerful drug lords.”
b. The CIA denied complicity in the drug trade. "On the whole, their reaction was a mix of embarrassment and apathy." CIA operatives justified their actions in the rhetoric of anti-communism.
12. A void clichés, slang, and foreign words.
a. History shows us that reduced supply has led to fewer addicts. The CIA's complicity was a major – coup de tat
b. The CIA was given the green light in whatever operations they chose.
13. Keep verb tenses consistent.
a. This network flourished-(past tense) until 1968 when Turkey put a ban-(present tense) on poppy production. This development combines-(present tense) with a crackdown on the heroin producing laboratories and contributed-(past tense) to the downfall of the network.
14. Don't feel, argue!
a. I feel we should concentrate most on the domestic problems of drug use.
15. Avoid awkward punctuation that breaks the flow of the narrative.
a. That seems to be the least beneficial narcotics/foreign policy scenario.
b. The CIA should no longer promote narcotics trafficking to advance their cause(s).
16. Avoid "it" and "there".
a. There is documentation in McCoy's book. . .
b. It is clear that the CIA has dealt with narcotics traffickers in the process.
17. Avoid parenthetical statements.
a. I would like to see our government let them know (with force, if necessary) that the days of smuggling are over.
b. The CIA could have has an extremely positive impact, being powerful enough (according to McCoy's findings) to have some major rings practically shut down.
18. Avoid unnecessary words of emphasis.
a. Many of these groups were deeply involved in the production of heroin. Any such policy must start wholly internationally.
19. Avoid "this" and "that".
a. The inner cities of our country are not promising places of upward mobility. This leads to two routes for escape for many young people, and they both involve drugs.
20. Use parallel construction.
a. The CIA assisted opium farmers, heroin production plants, drug transporters, and smuggling operations.
21. Do not substitute "while" for "although."
a. While legalizing drugs would ultimately dismantle the drug cartels and reduce drug related violence in the cities, history shows that legalization will do little to curb the addiction rate.
22. Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
Each paragraph should begin with a sentence that announces in the most general terms your main point. Following the topic sentence should be (a) evidence for the main point; (b) possible qualifications and amendments to the main point, including evidence for these; (c) if necessary, reasons why the main point holds nevertheless; (d) if appropriate, subsidiary implications of the main point. When there is another point, make another paragraph. If b, c, or d above are major in their implications, give each their own topic sentence and paragraph. Writing in this manner will force you to find and clarify your main points.
23. Organization. Outline before you write.
24. Clarity, simplicity, and brevity.
25. Avoid wordy sentences with numerous and confusing clauses.
26. Use your thesaurus sparingly. Write within your vocabulary. Do not try to impress by using words you do not know.
Before You Hand Your Paper In:
Revise, read it aloud, and find a reliable second reader! Once you have learned to write without these cruxes you can implement some of them, sparingly, back into your writing.
Guidelines for Evaluating Primary Documents
Primary documents are the raw materials of history. They are small pieces that the historian hopes to assemble to create a larger, coherent picture, and they must be examined carefully to determine where they fit. Each piece provides some information in itself, but it must also be placed in its proper context. As you examine documents for any historical research project, keep a number of questions and issues in mind.
1. Determine whether a given document is a primary or secondary source. Historians use both kinds of sources in their research to answer questions about the past.
Primary documents are records and evidence that have survived from the past. Some primary documents are materials produced by people who were directly involved, either as participants or witnesses in the event or topic that you are studying. These can be diaries, letters, and newspaper articles from the time, speeches, interviews, photographs, or film or videotape recordings. Official records such as census data, marriage records, and police and court records are also primary documents. Material objects such as furniture, clothing, and toys can also yield important evidence about the culture and attitudes of the past.
Secondary documents are books and scholarly articles that interpret and explain primary sources. Secondary works are extremely helpful in trying to understand primary evidence, but you should examine the original materials themselves whenever possible in order to draw your own conclusions.
Sometimes secondary sources can be used as primary evidence. For example, U.S. history textbooks written in the 1950s are secondary works; they collect primary evidence to tell a story of the past. However, they also reflect the biases and assumptions of the 1950s, when fear of the Soviet Union pervaded American society. If you are interested in the ways Cold War anticommunism shaped Americans’ views of the past, you could use those textbooks as primary documents.
2. Carefully evaluate and analyze primary documents that you work with to understand each document’s value and limitations, detect the biases embedded in each document, and glean the information that you need from each source. As Mary Lynn Rampola points out, “If sources always told the truth, the historian’s job would be much easier-- and also rather boring,” (A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 1998).
To understand the value and limitations of a source, try to answer the following questions: Is this source a firsthand account, written by a witness or participant? Was it written at the time of the event or later? Is the account based on interviews or evidence from those directly involved?
Be alert to the biases imbedded in primary sources. Every document is biased, whether deliberately or unconsciously, by the point of view of the person who wrote it. Determine as much as possible about the author of the document and his or her relationship to the events and issues described. Did the author have a stake in how an event was remembered? Did he or she want this issue to be perceived in a particular way? Also consider for whom the document was created. Was the author writing for a specific audience? Was the document meant to be private, like a diary; to communicate with a small audience, like a letter or internal report; or to reach a bigger audience, like a speech or a published autobiography? Take note of the author’s vocabulary. What judgments or assumptions are imbedded in his or her choice of words?
Compare the accounts of one event provided by different primary sources to evaluate the reliability of each document. When sources conflict, consider possible explanations for the differences. When they concur, the account provided may be more accurate – especially if the authors have different points of view. Do not assume that one type of document is necessarily more reliable than another. A published newspaper article, for example, may reflect the biases of a reporter or editor. An impassioned speech may contain kernels of information.
Working with primary sources offers a remarkable window into other worlds, as well as an opportunity to construct your own vision of the past. Careful evaluation and interpretation of those sources is at the core of the historian’s craft.
Guidelines for Evaluating Visual Evidence
Visual evidence is an important source for historians. However, as Jules Benjamin notes in A Student's Guide to History, gathering information from old paintings, drawings, and photographs can be more difficult than it may seem. You need to do more than look at them. First, you need to recognize the actual information that they present-- what Columbus's ships looked like, how Hiroshima appeared after the explosion of the atomic bomb. Then you need to interpret them. This involves an effort to understand what the artist or photographer is 'saying' in the work. (This advice applies also to film and to any visual form.) When an artist draws something and when a photographer takes a picture, he or she is not simply recording a visual image but is sending a message to anyone who looks at the work. In this way, artists and photographers are like writers whose written work needs to be interpreted." In order to best evaluate visual evidence, ask some or all of the following questions:
1. Note the identity and any biographical details about the artist who created the image. Also record the date of its creation and the medium by which it was captured. The medium of the image-- whether paint, pencil, or photograph-- can help reveal aspects of the message of the image: is the image realistic (like a photograph), fantastic (like a painting of an imagined place), or expressive (like a sketch or caricature)?
2. Next carefully examine the entire image. Note the central subject of the image. Then, list or make a table of all the items you see. Do any details stand out? Are others obscured or peripheral to the main action?
3. Consider the overall setting of the photograph, for example, an urban street scene, a room in a private residence, or a factory. What is the time of day, the season, or the ambiance of the scene? How might the needs of the artist and the restrictions on the medium have affected the choice of setting?
4. What is the central message or story of the image? What was the artist's purpose or point of view? The message of an image can be literal (a picture of a government building) or metaphorical (the architectural style of the building alludes to the democracy of ancient Greece), but you should always pay attention to both levels.
5. For what audience might the image have been intended? Where would the image have been seen? Was it made for private consumption, as in a family portrait, or for public commentary, as in a political cartoon? Sometimes the intended audience or viewer will be suggested by the content of the image; other times, the image’s purpose will reveal itself first.
6. Explore the historical context for the image. Images are historical productions often made in conversation with or in reaction to the very subject the picture depicts. Ask what broad historical trends might intersect with this subject, for example, immigration, the rise of great cities, or the changing nature of warfare. Is the image made in a moment of rapid change or dislocation? Alternatively, is the image made in a moment of relative calm, social, and political consensus?
7. Finally, analyze the image for the issues it does not raise, the objects and people not included, as much as for what is included. Does the image raise questions that are left unanswered about the scene?
Guidelines for Evaluating Aural Evidence
For the most part, historians rely on visual evidence, either in the form of text or images. However, aural evidence—taken in through the ear—can offer insights unavailable through other kinds of sources. Musical recordings are cultural artifacts that can take listeners to another time and place, recordings of speeches bring historical figures to life, and other recordings broaden the context in which historians examine public events. Aural evidence exists in the form of sound recordings, and just as visual sources demand particular ways of seeing, sound recordings require critical ways of listening. Building on the kind of analysis required for visual documents, we must learn to consider both who or what was recorded (e.g., a singer, a speech) and who was doing the recording (e.g., a producer, a record company). These two levels of analysis are inseparable, and to look at one without the other is to miss half of the story. We must also bear in mind that sound recording technology was invented relatively recently, in 1877, and that the existence of a sound recording is more the exception than the rule of historical source material. We must ask not only “What is the singer, speaker, or musician trying to communicate through this recording?” but also “Why does this recording exist at all?” To help you develop these critical listening skills, consider some or all of the following questions. In some cases your answers will be speculative, but even speculative answers can be insightful and instructive.
1. Before listening, discover what information is available about the recording. Who is the performer or speaker? What is the title (if any)? Are there any notes or supplementary material? When and where was the recording made? Who made this recording (for example, who was the producer)? Do you have any biographical information about any of the people involved?
2. After listening to the recording one or several times, consider what you hear (a) in terms of the recording’s physical and technical properties, (b) from the perspective of the performer or speaker, and (c) from the perspective of the person or people who controlled the recording process.
3. How would you characterize the sound quality of this recording? How would you characterize where this recording was made (for example, is it a studio recording, a field recording, a recording made from a radio broadcast)?
4. Why was this recording made? Was it intended as a commercial release? An educational tool? A historical document? Part of an ethnographic study? A piece of political propaganda? If you are listening to a musical recording, was this a new piece of music being recorded for the first time? Or was this an older piece being preserved for posterity? Or perhaps an older piece being “revived” for contemporary audiences? If you are listening to an oral history, an interview, or a speech, who was the intended audience? What impact did the speaker or the recorder expect the actual speech or narrative to have on audiences? What impact did they expect the recording to have on future audiences? Were there diverse audiences at the time of the recording? What audiences developed for the recording as time progressed?
5. If you are listening to a musical recording, describe the musical style. Is it religious or secular? Is the music of rural or urban origins? If there is singing, is the singer a man or a woman? In what language are the lyrics? What are the lyrics about? Describe the musical instrumentation. Does it suggest anything about the time period when the recording was made or the ethnic character of the music?
6. What message was the singer, musician, or speaker trying to convey? Is there one central message, or are there several, simultaneous messages? Keeping in mind that only in rare instances does the singer (or speaker) control the recording process, was the singer’s message in the recording the same as that of the producer or record company? If the messages were different, how would you characterize the relationship between the messages (complementary, in competition, coincidental)? Who do you think decided what was going to get recorded and how?
7. Who do you think would have listened to this performance and under what circumstances? Did they listen privately, at home, in big groups, or in public?
8. Do you have access to any additional printed or visual information about the recording, such as cover art, liner notes, or a picture of a record label? Do you have any biographical information, text or images, information for the speaker, or is there material on the event where the recording took place? How does this information inform your overall understanding of the recording? Does it help you answer any of the above questions? Are these materials reliable as sources?
9. If you could not hear this recording but only read a transcription of what is sung or spoken, how would your experience be different? What do you hear on the record that cannot be easily translated into words?
10. What does this recording tell you about the historical time period when it was made? What else do you know about the time period? Was it a period of turbulence or rapid change, or was it a period of relative stability? Are there prejudices or biases you can detect on the part of the performer (or speaker) or the producer? Is there evidence of these in the recording?
11. What kinds of issues can't you hear on this recording? Did anyone make money from this recording? How might different social groups respond to this recording?
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Darrell Lechman
Darrell created and founded Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Inc. (SCYAP) in June 2001. His experience working as a personal development coach for Aboriginal youth, in combination with his admiration for the unbridled talent of graffiti artists, pushed him to answer his own questions: “How can we give these young, at-risk Aboriginal youth, and the underprivileged an opportunity to have equal access to arts training? How can we take these talented graffiti vandals and have them re-channel their talent to positive initiatives and mainstream galleries?” His answer was the creation of SCYAP.
Darrell has over 30 years experience in youth program development and small business management. A few of his many experiences include developing and coordinating a group home for special needs youth with behavioural issues for Protega Homes of Edmonton, coordinating youth programs for the City of Edmonton and coaching youth personal development with the Boy’s & Girl’s Club of Edmonton. Darrell has also been a Youth Skills Instructor with Winnipeg School Division #1, and was a facilitator/instructor with Frank Olson’s internationally recognized Street Proofing Our Kids (S.P.O.K. Inc) program in Vancouver. Darrell also brings 14 years of front line work experience in Federal Corrections at Stony Mountain Penitentiary. During that time he was involved in security, case management, recreation, and was a member of the Dog Unit,and the Emergency Response Team.
Darrell has given numerous presentations, lectures and Keynotes for various companies and schools including TEDX, Communicating Power Inc. of Edmonton, Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT), Saskatoon Tribal Council, Saskatoon Public School Division, Frontier College, Saskatoon Health Region, Ignite Art Conference – Toronto, Green Economic Conference – Indigenous Peoples Program, Tags Anti- Graffiti National Conference, and the University of Saskatchewan.
Due to SCYAP’s well known success, Darrell was recently sought out by the Government of Canada’s Department of Heritage, the Laidlaw Foundation, McMaster, McGill and York Universities for consultation on “best practices” for youth engagement. Darrell’s information was used in Policy making for granting of funds through the Federal Government as well as for content in a text book for the above mentioned universities. In addition to, researchers from the Ministry of Culture for the Province of Ontario contacted SCYAP for “best practices and strategies in engaging youth in arts, sports and leadership”, to be used in a major Ontario governmental report called “Routes of Violence Review”. As well representatives from cities across Canada, and from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis – St. Paul in the United States of America, have contacted Darrell to learn about developing a project such as SCYAP’s Urban Canvas and linking youth to community economic development.
In 2005 the government of Saskatchewan honoured Darrell for his work with SCYAP by presenting him with the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to society and honours outstanding achievements.
In 2006 the City of Saskatoon and CTV Television selected Darrell as one of Saskatoon’s “100 People 100 Reasons”. A city centennial honour given to one hundred people who have made Saskatoon a better place to live.
Darrell was recently asked by the Canadian Urban Institute in Toronto to join Giles Bugailiskis (chief advisor to Winnipeg City Council), Kevin Stolarick (Research Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute) and Peter Stoicheff (President of the University of Saskatchewan) to form a four person advisory Board for a major initiative that involves a proposed Cultural Plan for the City of Saskatoon.
SCYAP has also been recognized with the Lieutenant Governors Art Award for innovation in the Arts, and the National EVA Award for innovative programming for the homeless.
Darrell has been involved in numerous Saskatoon community initiatives including the following:
Boards and Committees:
* Saskatoon Housing First Task Force
*CIBC – National EVA Awards Review/Adjudication Committee – Saskatchewan Representative
*Saskatoon Health Region Community Grants Adjudication Committee
*RIC Aboriginal Employment Strategy Steering Committee
*National Learning Committee for Youth Homelessness – Saskatchewan Representative
*City of Saskatoon Community Support Officers Advisory Committee
*Community University Institute for Social Research Review Committee
*Aboriginal Human Resource Council Workforce Connex Advisory Committee
*People for Action against Homelessness
*Premiers Project Hope
*Saskatoon Communities for Children
*Saskatoon Mediation Service’s Consultation Committee
*STC Urban First Nations Youth Detox Centres
*Caswell Community Association
*Caswell Art in Park Committee
*Canadian University Institute for Social Research
*Injection Drug Use Stakeholders Committee
*U of S Health Sciences Interdisciplinary Population Health Project Preceptor/Mentor
*Families against Meth
*Flicks Film Festival Stakeholders
*Saskatchewan Literacy Network
*CNYC Advisory Committee for the Rebuild
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Expo to explore First Nations opportunities in seafood value chain
Over 40 First Nations and Indigenous communities are now directly or indirectly involved in farming seafood in Canada. By SeaWestNews The BC Seafood Expo next month will examine business opportunities for First Nations communities along the entire aquaculture and fisheries value chain. Over 40 First Nation and Indigenous communities are now directly or indirectly involved […]
New lab, Indigenous program to build B.C’s fisheries future
Traditional knowledge and a new lab at Vancouver Island University will help boost economic, social and spiritual well-being of coastal communities. By SeaWestNews The new Centre for Innovation in Fish Health on Vancouver Island plans to support the next generation of scientists who will ensure B.C.’s fisheries are healthy for the long term. The new […]
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Urban Salmon Project was a three-year effort to document where B.C.’s iconic species hang out in the Metro Vancouver area. By SeaWestNews Drawn by a passion for salmon, international biologist, photographer and storyteller Fernando Lessa has documented where B.C.’s iconic species hang out in the Metro Vancouver area. “Our precious wild, Pacific salmon are constantly […]
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Why the herring...
‘Majority of the herring are left in the water for our chinook and our southern resident killer whales to eat.’ Guest CommentaryBy Jonathan Wilkinson Our ocean is a complex ecosystem, and Pacific herring are a vital food source for chinook salmon and southern resident killer whales. It speaks to the importance of these iconic species […]
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Having more constructive discussions about aquaculture will require that we are forthright in our use of information, says Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson in an op-ed By SeaWestNews This op-ed by Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson was originally published in the Georgia Straight to correct misinformation spread by anti-fish farm activists By Jonathan Wilkinson We’re all familiar […]
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Mega-salmon farm in the cold waters of the Yellow Sea to feed China’s growing appetite for fresh seafood. By SeaWestNews China will launch a mega-salmon farm in the cold waters of the Yellow Sea to feed its growing appetite for fresh seafood. The deep sea farm, about 130 nautical miles off the shore of Rizhao […]
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“Unfortunately, some Canadian government non-medical researchers aligned with US and Canadian activists are attempting to make this mostly innocuous virus the scourge of the seven seas.” By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews A Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) science panel has concluded that the Piscine Orthoreovirus (PRV) poses minimal risk to Fraser River sockeye salmon, contrary to the […]
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“After taking a few courses on aquaculture and integrated farming, I started to really grasp the potential of a meaningful and enjoyable career in the aquaculture sector,” Wesley Chase, Council of Emerging Leaders in Aquaculture. By Samantha McLeodSeaWestNews Aquaculture in Canada today generates $5.16 billion in economic activity and employs over 25,000 people. As one […]
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As Iceland moves to bring wild fishers and fish farmers together, a conflict looms between the two sides in America. By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews Iceland’s fish farmers have joined forces with the country’s deep sea fishers to address threats to the health of its oceans and strengthen the economic prosperity of Icelanders. The Icelandic Federation of […]
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Canada’s new Food Guide recognizes the health benefits of eating fish and seafood By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews Canada’s new Food Guide to support healthy dietary choices and practices wants you to substitute protein sources containing saturated fats in favour of those with unsaturated fats. At a news conference today, Canada’s Minister of Health, Ginette Petitpas Taylor […]
“Part of the reason I like aquaculture is because we are not an industry that gets to rest on our laurels. We have engaged stakeholders and communities who push us to do better every day,” Kathleen Allen, Council of Emerging Leaders in Aquaculture. By Samantha McLeodSeaWestNews Aquaculture in Canada today generates $5.16 billion in economic […]
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“Currently, over 90% of the planet’s wild fish stocks are being either fished to the legal maximum or overfished. It is clear the world needs aquaculture.” A note from Jonathan WilkinsonMinister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard We’re all familiar with the old sayings: “Better safe than sorry” and “An ounce of prevention […]
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Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics (Book)
Title: Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics
Author: Soyica Diggs Colbert
Abstract: Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post–Jim Crow, post–apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation. Soyica Diggs Colbert argues that in the late twentieth century race went “underground,” and by the twenty-first century race no longer functioned as an explicit marker of second-class citizenship.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam (Book)
Title: Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam
Author: Sylvia Chan-Malik
Abstract: For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts of resistance, what she calls affective insurgency. In negotiating the histories of anti-Blackness, U.S. imperialism, and women’s rights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Being Muslim explores how U.S. Muslim women’s identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and universal faith tradition. Through archival images, cultural texts, popular media, and interviews, the author maps how communities of American Islam became sites of safety, support, spirituality, and social activism, and how women of color were central to their formation. By accounting for American Islam’s rich histories of mobilization and community, Being Muslim brings insight to the resistance that all Muslim women must engage in the post-9/11 United States.
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From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures? (Article)
Title: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures?
Author: Brian Connolly, Co-editor
Author: Marisa Fuentes
Abstract: This special issue of the journal asks how the violence of the archives of slavery contributes to the production of a history of our present. What is at stake in revisiting the devastation and death contained in the documents of slavery? And is such a revisiting even possible? As several of the authors note, all archives are incomplete—such historical accounts written primarily by the most powerful have overwhelmingly informed our understanding of the past. But what is it about the archives of slavery, the more than 400-year span of forced labor and death of Africans that requires that we pause to consider their particular silences? It is partly about violence—the varied forms of violence on black bodies in slavery that created the conditions by which they are made invisible, mutilated and difficult to reach; they are not easily articulated or narrated in the historical accounts. Even as we formulate new methods that challenge archival power, some things remain unrecoverable, silent. We have irretrievably lost the thoughts, desires, fears, and perspectives of many whose enslavement shaped every aspect of their lives.
Primary URL: http://historyofthepresent.org/6.2/index.html
Periodical Title: History of the Present
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1923-1957 (Book)
Title: Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1923-1957
Author: Nancy Mirabal
Abstract: The largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted “being Cuban” remained in flux and often, suspect. Suspect Freedoms is the first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an “unthinkable history.”
Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community (Book)
Title: Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community
Editor: Ernest Morrell
Editor: Ansley T. Erickson
Abstract: Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community despite consistent neglect and structural oppression. Contributors investigate the individuals, organizations, and initiatives that fostered educational visions, underscoring their breadth, variety, and persistence. Their essays span the century, from the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance through the 1970s fiscal crisis and up to the present. They tell the stories of Harlem residents from a wide variety of social positions and life experiences, from young children to expert researchers to neighborhood mothers and ambitious institution builders who imagined a dynamic array of possibilities from modest improvements to radical reshaping of their schools. Representing many disciplinary perspectives, the chapters examine a range of topics including architecture, literature, film, youth and adult organizing, employment, and city politics. Challenging the conventional rise-and-fall narratives found in many urban histories, the book tells a story of persistent struggle in each phase of the twentieth century. Educating Harlem paints a nuanced portrait of education in a storied community and brings much-needed historical context to one of the most embattled educational spaces today.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Type: Edited Volume
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Leopold Conservation Award
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Three Finalists Selected for Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award
Three finalists have been selected for the prestigious 2019 Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award®.
Given in honor of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, the award recognizes private landowners who inspire others with their dedication to land, water and wildlife resources in their care.
In Kentucky, the $10,000 award is presented annually by Sand County Foundation, the Kentucky Agricultural Council, and the Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts.
The finalists are:
Dr. James W. Middleton of Munfordville in Hart County: Dr. Middleton turned former row crop fields into pastures, native grasslands, and alfalfa and clover hay fields. He has planted more than 800,000 hardwood seedlings along the Green River. Areas designated for wildlife and insect pollinator habitat have been developed. In addition to raising beef cattle, a commercial hunting business and timber sales from managed forests provide additional farm revenue.
F.L. Sipes Farm of Ekron in Meade County: Fred Sipes raises tobacco, soybeans, corn, wheat, hay, produce and beef cattle. He has reduced soil erosion and improved water quality by installing grassed waterways, planting cover crops, and implementing crop rotations and no-till practices on his land. He uses rotational grazing practices to feed his cattle. These conservation practices have improved soil health, and wildlife habitat found on the farm.
JRS Angus Farm on Lawrenceburg in Anderson County: James R. ‘Buddy’ and Sandie Smith grow cover crops and use rotational grazing to feed their herd of beef cattle. Conservation practices have been implemented across the farm’s pastures, hay fields, and forests to reduces soil erosion and improve water quality. In addition to raising pumpkins, the Smiths have also planted areas in vegetation that attract wildlife and insect pollinators.
The award will be presented at the Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Convention on July 9, 2019.
“The Kentucky Agricultural Council is proud to once again partner with the Sand County Foundation and the Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts to recognize exceptional stewardship and conservation practices among Kentucky’s private landowners,” said John W. McCauley, Kentucky Agricultural Council’s immediate past chair. “The finalists for the 2019 Leopold Award are extraordinary.”
“KACD and conservation districts promote the sound management of all our natural resources and we are excited to join Sand County Foundation and the Kentucky Agricultural Council in recognizing these well deserving landowners in Kentucky,” said Shane Wells, Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts President. “The Association and conservation districts work daily to assist private landowners in their efforts to adopt sound soil and water conservation practices on their land that benefit us all.”
“Leopold Conservation Award recipients are at the forefront of a movement by America’s farmers and ranchers to simultaneously achieve economic and environmental success,” said Kevin McAleese, Sand County Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer.
The Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award is made possible thanks to the generous support and partnership of Kentucky Agricultural Council, Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts, Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Kentucky Corn Growers Association, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Kentucky Woodland Owner’s Association, Kentucky Tree Farm Committee, Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association, AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky, Kentucky Pork Producers, The Nature Conservancy in Kentucky, and the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Sand County Foundation presents the Leopold Conservation Award to private landowners in 20 states for extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation.
For more information on the award, visit www.leopoldconservationaward.org.
LEOPOLD CONSERVATION AWARD PROGRAM
The Leopold Conservation Award is a competitive award that recognizes landowner achievement in voluntary conservation. Sand County Foundation presents the award in California, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont). www.leopoldconservationaward.org
SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION
Sand County Foundation inspires and enables a growing number of private landowners to ethically manage natural resources in their care, so future generations have clean and abundant water, healthy soil to support agriculture and forestry, plentiful habitat for wildlife and opportunities for outdoor recreation. www.sandcountyfoundation.org
KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL
The Kentucky Agricultural Council is a 501(c)(3) organization consisting of some 80 agricultural organizations representing all sectors of Kentucky agriculture. The membership is composed of commodity groups, state and federal agricultural organizations, agricultural trade organizations and the state’s institutions of higher education that serve Kentucky agriculture. The KAC functions as an umbrella group and hub for its members, disseminating information and promoting coordination among all agricultural organizations and sectors. Since 2006, the KAC also has served as the “steward of strategic planning” for the future of Kentucky agriculture and Kentucky’s rural communities. www.kyagcouncil.net.
KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
The Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts is 501(c)(3) organization consisting of Kentucky’s local conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts. KACD encourages the exchange of information relating to the administration and operation of conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts; to affect cooperation between districts and agencies and organizations concerned with any and all phases of soil and water conservation; to promote the welfare of conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts and the people therein; and to maintain strong and active membership in both KACD and the National Association of Conservation Districts. http://www.kyconservation.com/
Johnson Farms to Receive South Dakota Leopold Conservation Award
Heidi Peterson to Lead Sand County Foundation’s Ag Research, Conservation
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I'm fascinated by the silence surrounding IE8. It suggests two possibilities: they're silent because there's nothing happening at all, or they're silent because they're cooking up something astounding. Both seem improbable; the latter, because Microsoft likes to advertise broadly and early to developers, and the former, because what was the point of waking up to do IE7 and then going back to sleep again?
Either way, they're showing little interest in implementing new Web standards such as ES4 or the WHATWG APIs (nor old ones such as CSS2.1 or DOM Events). Since ES4 is backwards compatible with ES3, the argument that it would break compatibility is bogus, but nevertheless that's their line. We heard the same thing during the IE team's three-year holiday between IE6 and IE7, interestingly enough --- the "compatibility matrix" made it too hard to do anything. Sometimes they seem to argue that they were right the first time, IE7 was a mistake and it actually was too hard.
Attitudes to compatibility are actually very interesting. Microsoft seems to take the position that any change that negatively affects a Web site is bad. Mozilla --- and our friends at Apple, Opera and elsewhere, I think --- insist that when sites rely on a bug that clearly violates a standard, we will fix the bug even if it hurts sites. (In some cases, we might push to change the standard instead, but only if the "bug" is at least tolerably sensible behaviour.) So for every major release we fix a lot of bugs, and we risk breaking sites.
I always expect Web developers to grumble about this, and every time I meet some, I ask them whether our relaxed compatibility causes them problems. The answer is invariably "no"! Or at least, the developers I meet prefer us to fix the bugs because although it may break things here or there, overall our more consistent behaviour makes it a lot easier to develop Web apps for Firefox than for IE. Almost everyone tells me they develop their sites first in Firefox, and when everything's working, they backport it to IE. (For some reason I always feel shy when I hear this.) I guess if you're going to iterate your site design, you want to do that with the browser that's easiest to work with.
Actually I think both attitudes are right, because we're addressing different sets of users. I suspect when Microsoft talks about compatibility they're largely talking about intranet sites inside corporations, which are often maintained poorly or not at all, so anything that's broken by a browser change will remain broken forever. And it's easy to see how the needs of large corporate customers can come to dominate the thinking of a software organization --- they're large accounts with focused contact and are used to getting what they want. (Hey, I worked at IBM!) As another example, we've seen how Microsoft's slow security update cycle trades off the security of home users against the convenience of large customers.
Maybe the time has come for Microsoft to split (at least at the engine level) the "intranet" browser from the "Internet" browser. Otherwise they actually risk painting themselves into a corner, where more and more Internet sites are optimized for Firefox or anything but IE. It sucks to be late to the party and having to be the third or fourth implementor of a bunch of new APIs; you've lost your say in how those APIs are designed and may be compelled to reverse engineer the behaviour of other browsers (although thanks to Ian I hope the latter is less of a problem than it used to be!).
Of course, there's a whole other perspective on this: Silverlight and .NET. "Compatibility constraints" in IE make a handy brake on the evolution of the open Web, very useful when pushing a competitor to the Web*. (Many have pointed out the big joke about Microsoft's ES4 objections, namely that C# has gone through two huge revisions in the last few years.) Shiny new platforms like Silverlight and WPF don't have to worry about compatibility now, but it will be interesting to see how they handle compatibility going forward. We're in a marathon, not a sprint, it will be a few releases before they get traction, and if they have to ship side-by-side Silverlight assemblies, one for each version they've released, it's not going to be a small download or a mobile-friendly footprint.
* It's uncouth to speculate that Microsoft's representatives might act in bad faith. Unfortunately, history shows it's a real possibility. I want to be polite, but not naive.
Chris 7 November 2007 at 16:32
Personally I think we should be more open to browser innovation in HTML, CSS, and javascript, provided it plays by the rules.
After all, we learnt so much from the innovation in IE4 (e.g. Ajax, CSS filters, timing, VML). That type of innovation can help the standardisation process later on, provided of course there's a) commitment to standardise, b) it doesn't break anything and c) it's clearly marked as an experiment, e.g. using the -moz- prefix. MS didn't follow these innovation rules, but other browser makers could, and it would spur innovation across the web.
But bug fixes do NOT count as innovation. They should happen anyway, unless they've become generally used as a 'feature'.
As an example of innovation that plays by the rules (so far!), I would be interested to hear Mozilla's take on the new Safari CSS extensions, CSS animation and CSS transformations. It would be great if a -moz- version could be added to the wishlist for Firefox 4, alongside ES4!
Brendan Eich 7 November 2007 at 18:09
Something is coming in IE8, but it's being kept out of view, probably for a couple of reasons:
1. Avoiding over-promising, as happened with Vista.
2. Wow effect when the wraps come off.
Whatever is coming, it's not likely to involve ES4 and WHAT-WG web apps stuff in force.
I know stuff is coming because some gurus I trust have confided in me that they've been invited, under NDA, to Redmond for a dog-and-pony show. Oh, and some kind of covert anti-ES4 blog-spin campaign has been going on for a month or so, involving an unimpressive ES4' (formerly ES3.1) sketch. But that's all being done in the dark.
A few top web developers I know are convinced that IE8 will have two engines, Trident and a brand new one. I find that hard to believe, unless the brand new one is simply a mutated clone of Trident. It seems likelier to me that Silverlight goodness will be infused (CLR, DLR, fancy text and graphics) into Trident. But who really knows?
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Nicolas MONNET 7 November 2007 at 18:59
What you say WRT intranets compatibility is absolutely true. I know a thing or two about it: my company develops a mozilla-based automated browser, Benefit, that automates access to insurers' extranets for insurance brokers.
Since the user base is small, they are in a state of derelict that borders on the apocalyptic. We had to develop dynamic filtering proxies (10 years of Perl hacking came in handy) to correct the bugs for our users. Most of them are minor, but render all sites useless. They usually stem from a completely misguided and useless form of dynamic HTML. All sites break because of poorly thought-out and implemented roll-over menus that already looked retarded in 1997.
One of my favourite example, from an insurance company worth dozens of billions of euros , breaks on Firefox because of 10k of buggy JavaScript loaded on every page hit. What does it do? Well, it mainly ensures compatibility with IE4 and Netscape 4. And incompatibility with Firefox, Safari and Opera as a side-effect.
But here's the kicker: the extranet was put in production use in late 2004, long after the last NS4 user was crushed under the Chixulub meteorite.
In the mean time, most of these site force people to stick to IE6, and advise in big flashy letters on their homepage against upgrading to IE7.
[BTW I can't type the euro sign, your form messes it up: €]
Al Billings 7 November 2007 at 19:53
I will point out that from the IE point of view, the WHATWG does not produce anything that can be called a "standard." Standards for HTML and the like come from the W3C (we'll leave aside what IE does with them in an alley afterwards).
The hyperfocus on compatibility is real and Chris Wilson and I discussed it over lunch before I started at Mozilla back in April when I happened to be visiting Seattle. The logic there is both the one that you outline above (focusing on corporate customers) but also one where they are aware that IE is still the dominant browser.
If you have, say, 82% market share and that is hundreds of millions of people and you make a change that affects .5% of sites, how many people are impacted by this? When this happens, who do the end consumers blame? The site for being badly coded or their browser for "not working" right?
That's what makes them gun shy about change as much as any other motives.
Anonymous 7 November 2007 at 21:44
It is my firm opinion that Microsoft has absolutely no clue what to do with MSIE. Zip. Nada.
MSIE has not recived any substantial improvements in the last few years. Everybody else supports advanced CSS stuff, AJAX, client-side-storage, what-have-you. MS is just sitting there on its big market share and hopes Firefox does not eat too much into it. Web developer inertia and ActiveX-heavy intranet sites are the biggest assets of Microsoft.
Robert O'Callahan 7 November 2007 at 22:56
Al: Fair enough, but at this point the number of users affected by an IE compatibility break is not an order of magnitude more than the number of users affected by a Firefox compatibility break. I expected to see compatibility as a major problem for us as our market share rose, but I haven't.
Eamon Nerbonne 8 November 2007 at 00:56
Why do people develop first for firefox and then backport to IE? Because of predictability, debuggability (owing in large part to extensions) and the reduced mental friction they entail.
However, developing apps for .NET or java is incomparably easier. The instant something like Silverlight, Adobe's AIR, or any other platform gain functional parity with AJAX the game will be over and everyone will (quite happily) use HTML simply for documents and simple dynamic websites, and not for applications - for the same reason people prefer firefox now.
Functional parity in this context includes distribution of the viewing client (a sticky issue), equal or better performance even in odd corner cases (that includes startup time, and usage in a heavily cached situation), good text rendering (i.e. unlike flash), good integration with the host windowing system (including copy-paste, focusable UI-elements, perhaps styling of UI elements like buttons) and it might never happen.
As an application developer, I hope someone, anyone, gets critical mass rather sooner than later. Personally, I'd favor silverlight given the attractive DLR and open-ness of the platform, and given microsofts skill in wooing developers with good tools, but its the principle that counts: a developer wants a predictable, reasonable API with a large community.
If IE8 is a critical update pushed with usual monopolistic disdain, and full of bugs and horrible compatibility issues, I'll still be jumping with joy if if provides a good silverlight experience out of the box.
Silverlight is not open in the sense we use the word. It belongs entirely to Microsoft.
I agree we need better tools for the open Web. We also need better debugging and diagnostics in the browser. Hopefully Snapdragon and work in Gecko itself can help.
ADAXL 8 November 2007 at 08:19
@Robert O'Callahan:
The posting dated November 7, 2007 6:53 AM, was not made by Al Billings. I made it. I filled out my name and E-Mail address correctly, and went back and forth between preview and edit mode a couple of times to kill typos. I have no clue how Al Billings name was connected to the posting. I don't even know who he is.
nul 8 November 2007 at 13:14
"I will point out that from the IE point of view, the WHATWG does not produce anything that can be called a "standard." Standards for HTML and the like come from the W3C (we'll leave aside what IE does with them in an alley afterwards)."
WHATWG doesn't have any Standard, only proposals (Working Drafts), but you are aware of http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ ?
My posting is the one that begins with "It is my firm opinion that Microsoft has absolutely no clue what to do with MSIE." It appears I misread the line above it and believed the software had linked my posting to Al Billings name. Sorry.
Ahem. Actually, the post about IE's attitudes towards WHATWG standards and compatibility is by Al Billings and I am he. Please.
"ADAXL", you're confusing the signature attribution on your post (which is blank and follows mine) with the one on my post, which immmediately precedes yours. The name and timestamp on a comment here *follows* the comment. It doesn't go above it.
Jeff Schiller 9 November 2007 at 00:30
Ironic that the closest I get to real news about IE8 is from a Mozilla lead (Eich).
Anyway, I'll agree with ADAXL that roc's blog could use some reformatting, considering how it's also a pain to link to comments too.
Daniel S 10 November 2007 at 18:58
I only know two bits of information what IE 8 (or Next, which I think it's still called) may inlcude:
1. Improvements to JScript (there was a post at the WaSP some time ago about the meeting with the IE devs)
2. Chris Wilson said they're working hard on the layout engine part (of Trident I guess) in a recent interview.
If I understood Wilson right, IE will get a full standard compilant mode like other browsers. This mode shall be accessed by the HTML5 doctype or some special opt-in for HTML4 documents.
Both sound great, but I wonder what we'll eventually see.
Oh, about Intranet: Where I work we got Firefox 1.0.4 installed (yeah..) and It works well with our Intranet (whichs merely is a website pointing to some documents). file.//-links don't work and not everything is displayed "correctly" but it works.
Yet another thing: I think Firefox needs some MSI/GPO work before companies can use it widely.
Laurent Szyster 13 November 2007 at 17:34
To Eamon Nerbonne who wrote: "developing apps for .NET or java is incomparably easier."
Sure, that's why ActiveX and Applets where such formidable successes. And that is why the term AJAX was not coined, why the web 2.0 never took off, why ES4 is not such a frightening threat to Microsoft and Sun languages and why the first came up with Silverlight while the second is now pushing a JavaScript look-alike called JavaFX.
kL 13 November 2007 at 18:09
Chris Wilson seems severly traumatized by IE7's bug-compatibility problems and just goes on and on with the "don't break the web" mantra, which taken to that extreme becomes "don't touch anything! ever!".
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft wasn't doing anything in IE and was just waiting to see what happens.
It's not a bad strategy, given that everyone just has to support IE6+, HTML5 is designed with all IE6/IE7's bugs and quirks in mind, so all will sortof work as long as they do nothing.
Michiel Trimpe 13 November 2007 at 18:50
Slightly off topic, but I _love_ the three column layout. If you could adopting it for the comments as well this blog would be my favorite example of great usability!
P.S. If you copied it from somewhere else, you still have great taste!
Chris S 13 November 2007 at 19:28
Columnar layout for web-based delivery is idiotic.
Redesign the layout of your site ok?
fakebillgates 13 November 2007 at 20:25
IE is off-strategy for MS. The "thick-client" folks still run the show. The vista disaster hasn't changed any opinions yet. After Netscape was killed the IE team shrank to 3 total engineers (lol). Antitrust fears is the only motivation for upper mgmt to spend any resources on it.
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"It is never too late to be who you might have been".
George Eliot, quoted in The Times
"I have never been guilty of method acting, or even any acting".
Roger Moore, (on his career), quoted in the Daily Mail
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning".
Catherine Aird, quoted in the Savannah Morning
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness".
Bertrand Russell, quoted in The Courier-Mail
"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home".
David Frost, quoted in The Washington Post
"Civilisation begins with distillation".
William Faulkner, quoted in the Los Angeles Times
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate".
Charles Dickens, quoted in the Peoria, Ill., Journal
"You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic".
German transport campaign, quoted in The Guardian
"When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose?".
Don Marquis, quoted in Forbes
"The value of an industry is inversely proportional to the number of awards it gives itself".
Blogger David Burge, quoted in The Weekly Standard
"Accentuate the positives, medicate the negatives".
Actress Amy Sedaris, quoted in The New York Times
"He that doesn't tooteth his own trumpet, doesn't get his trumpet tooteth".
Old Tennessee adage, quoted on RealClearPolitics.com
"Man Finally Put in Charge of Struggling Feminist Movement".
Headline in satirical magazine, The Onion,quoted in The Independent
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than bad memory".
Franklin Pierce Adams, Journalist, quoted on NewYorker.com
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car".
Kenneth Tynan, quoted in The Times
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realise what's wrong with it".
Rex Harrison, quoted in The Buffalo News
"A journey of self-discovery starts with a single step. But so does falling down a flight of stairs".
Kathy Lette, quoted in The Independent
"Breasts are still our cheapest special effect".
Hollywood saying, quoted in The Guardian
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet".
Keith Richards, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare".
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, quoted in The Buffalo News
"The only difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets".
Will Rogers, quoted in The Times
"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing".
William James, quoted in the St Paul Pioneer Press
"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide nothing can be done".
Fred Allen, US Humourist, quoted in the Guardian
"Behind every successful man there is a surprised woman".
Maryon Pearson, quoted in the Chicago Tribune
"There are many things in life that are more important than money. And they all cost money".
Fred Allen, quoted on CNN.com
"The only thing statesmen learn from history's past mistakes is how to make new ones".
A.J.P. Taylor, quoted in The Daily Mail
"Any party that takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought".
Dwight D. Morrow, quoted in The Independent
"All progress is based upon universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income".
Samuel Butler, quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"Education is what's left when what has been learnt has been forgotten".
Psychologist B.F.Skinner, quoted in The Independent
"What is the point in growing old if you can't hound and persecute the young?".
Kenneth Clarke, quoted in The Times
"It just seems to me that the left hand don't know what the extreme left hand is doing".
Gordon Brown, on his left-wing rivals, quoted in The Independent on Sunday
"Learn from others mistakes. We don't have time to make them all ourselves".
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in The Huffington Post
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style".
Quentin Crisp, quoted on CNN.com
"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family: there are no massage parlours with ice cream and free jewellery".
Jerry Seinfeld, quoted in the Denver Post
"Being famous is my job. When I leave the house I'm clocking in".
Noel Gallagher, quoted in The Times
"A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air".
Franklin D. Roosevelt,, quoted in The Independent
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level".
Quentin Crisp, quoted on CNN
"Chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane".
Bill Hartston,
Former British Chess Champion,
"Never eat more than you can lift ".
Miss Piggy,
"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry".
John Jensen,
Danish Soccer Star,
"It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return other dog's phone calls".
Woody Allen, on Hollywood,
"History is just one damn thing after another".
Arnold Toynbee,
"A newspaper is a device unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation".
"Youth might be wasted on the young but university is definitely wasted on students".
Ian Hollingshead,
"Fame is like watching someone ride past very fast on a horse. It looks exciting and you think: 'I want to do that' but the actual experience can be frightening or a substantial pain in the arse".
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see".
Arthur Schopenbauer,
quoted in The Boston Globe
"I support gay marriage because I believe they have the right to be just as miserable as the rest of us".
Kinky Friedman,
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse".
Henry Ford,
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way".
Albert Camus,
"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?".
Tony Hancock,
"Thanks to my devoted wife, without whose unquestioning faith and support this book was nevertheless written".
Rupert Morgan, a dedication in one of his novels,
"Winston has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches".
F.E. Smith,
"If it weren't for the fact that the TV and the fridge are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all".
Joey Adams, Comic,
quoted in the New York Post
"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell".
Jean Paul Richter, German Writer,
"Politics is an honest effort to misunderstand each other".
Robert Frost,
quoted in the Los Angeles Times
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm".
Winston Churchill,
"When asked what wine he liked, Diogenes replied:'That which belongs to another' ".
"Don't be afraid not to follow the herd - because where the herd's gone, the food is already eaten".
Bob Dylan,
quoted on OpenDemocracy.com
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy you the wag of his tail".
Henry Wheeler Shaw,
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
The adage know as Hanlon's Razor,
cited in The Daily Telegraph
"What you have to remember is that civil servants use vagueness and ambiguity with razor-sharp precision.".
Senior Civil Servant,
quoted in letter to The Times
"Whenever I date a guy, I think:'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?".
Rita Radner, US Comedian,
"If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, "That's because everytime I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit".
Clement Freud,
on combating 'fat-ism' on Radio 4's Just a Minute
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you; it's the things you know that ain't so".
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific".
Lilly Tomlin,
quoted in the Calgary Herald
Bertrand Russell,
"I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will".
quoted in The Mail on Sunday
"Men are always asking what women want in bed. The answer is breakfast".
Kathy Lette,
"The man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything".
Theodore Roosevelt,
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows".
Dwight Eisenhower,
quoted in the Illawarra Mercury
"I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".
Nick Helm,
Most popular joke at the Edinburgh Fringe
"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth".
African Proverb,
"The thankless task of drowning other people's kittens".
Cyril Connolly's definition of book reviewing,
"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's just too much fraternising with the enemy".
Henry Kissinger,
"I hate housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again".
Joan Rivers,
"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes".
Oprah Winfrey,
quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Other players are involved in tennis, but I'm committed. It's like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed".
Martina Navratilova ,
"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old".
Writer Jean Kerr ,
quoted on WashingtonPost.com
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor, quoted in the Guardian
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"
W. Somerset Maughan, quoted in the Herald, Monterey County, Calif
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant".
Charles de Gaulle, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells".
"Economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions".
Old Joke, quoted in the Times
"The art of diplomacy is letting the other fellow have your own way".
Anonymous Indian
diplomat, quoted in the Times
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Jason Halcombe
Issue 9914-7/4/19
Leftover Chinese food and straight to bed sounds like a blessing to most adults and all parents (Magan: “Can I do that, every night?”), but a curse to any child less than two weeks into summer vacation.
That’s what stared Jesse straight in the face after an epic fail in attempting to draw a rise out of his older brother at a computer coding class hosted by our local library.
The library was an occasional stop for us when I was a child, typically to pay off a forgotten late fee or look over maps since the AAA wasn’t open for dad to pick up his free road atlas.
Now, most library patrons come for the free internet access, or to further their genealogy research, than to actually check out books.
We are contrarians in that regard, checking out so many books that the librarians recently raised our book limits to levels unheard of in the modern era.
Magan has also taken advantage of the library’s summer reading and activity programs to supplement and avert any summer swoon, hence the computer coding class.
When Magan’s phone rang and showed “Noah” on the screen, I picked it up expecting a report of Atari-style stick figures shooting a basketball or, those same figures performing some sort of bodily function. (They are boys, after all.)
Me: How’d they do?
Noah: They did okay. Jesse made a man with a bow and arrow and had it shooting at a man with an apple in his mouth. One of the moms said, “Well, isn’t that violent.”
Me: Do what?!
Jesse walked through the door with a sour look on his face, already aware that I was not very pleased.
“Jesse, why on earth did you code that?” I asked.
“I thought it was funny,” he said.
“Where did you get an idea like that?”
“The apple in the mouth was from Spongebob, but I thought it would make Simon laugh.”
“Well there’s nothing funny about that. If somebody didn’t know you well, they’d think you had anger issues. You can eat supper and go straight to bed.”
Jesse received a second talking to from his mother, who proceeded to use his digital retelling of William Tell to reinforce her disdain for the “blame thing” (TV). The collateral damage of Jesse’s choice was real, especially for his pops.
Simon had falsely assumed that his testimony against Jesse had served as a plea deal, but only delayed and distracted Magan and my attention from his own coding faux pas.
The usual recipient of similar constructive criticism and early trips to bed had survived the evening relatively unscathed until it was revealed that his stick figure had been coded to say, “Whoopsie, I (broke wind).”
“Simon Anthony, that’s unacceptable,” Magan said. “Y’all are going to have people thinking that’s all we talk about around here, and give homeschoolers a bad name. You should be ashamed.”
It was honestly hard for me to keep a straight face through all of it because I did much, much worse than either of our boys when I was their age, but Magan and I wanted them to understand that their vain attempts at humor said the wrong things about who they are as people, and also misrepresent their faith.
The boys were facing a challenge all of us have to constantly combat: to be in the world but not of the world.
Instead of being focused on pleasing others through vulgar humor, the Bible calls for us to put our focus on being pleasing to God in our thoughts, acts and words.
Psalm 119:9 says, “How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word.”
By the weekend, the dust had settled and a failed search for a new desk led to a stop for hot eats and cool treats. As our pile of people barreled toward the front door, Jesse broke away from the pack to open the door for everyone, including several other couples, and the store manager.
The manager was so impressed with Jesse’s chivalry, and our other children’s overall politeness, that he gave each a token for a free Dilly Bar.
I made sure Jesse saw the juxtaposition of his behavior from one day to the next, and how something far greater than ice cream awaited him in heaven if he kept focused on being a good example.
Then Isaac announced that he had broke wind, and I realized I’ll be having these talks for years to come.
Jason Halcombe has five sons and two daughters. He and his wife, Magan, are members of Immaculate Conception Church, Dublin.
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KXIP vs CSK 55th T20 Match Prediction and Dream 11 Team 5th May 2019
May 4, 2019 By Admin2 Leave a Comment
Who will win Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings 55th T20 Today Match Prediction in Indian Premier League 2019 series? KXIP vs CSK 55th T20 Cricket Prediction held on 5th May 2019. Who will win Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings 55th T20 Cricket Match Prediction is available here?
KXIP vs CSK 55th T20 Match Prediction
1 KXIP vs CSK 55th T20 Match Prediction
2 Prediction
3 Kings XI Punjab Team Squad
4 Chennai Super Kings Team Squad
Kings XI Punjab are all set to take on Chennai Super Kings in the 55th T20 match for IPL 2019. Before this match, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Kings XI Punjab by seven wickets in the 52nd T20 match. So now, KXIP stand at the bottom of the points table with ten points. Whereas, Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Capitals by 80 runs in the 50th T20 match. At this point, CSK top the points table with eighteen points. The 55th T20 match Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings will be held at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali on 5th May 2019.
Finally, the boring campaign for Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2019, as they play their final match against Chennai Super Kings, before they head home. KXIP engaged in thirteen IPL T20 matches so far and won only five of these games. Hence, they mark ten points at the last place on points table. In the previous match, Kings XI Punjab posted 183 for 6 runs total, while batting first against Kolkata Knight Riders. But, KKR run down this total in the 18th over with seven wickets to spare. Now, KXIP will meet Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2019 for one last time.
Whereas, Chennai Super still stand at the top of the points table with eighteen points, even before playing this match they have already qualified for the play offs. They played thirteen game so far in IPL 2019 and won nine of these matches. So, they mark eighteen points at the first place on the points table. In the previous match, Chennai Super Kings posted 179 for 4, while playing first against Delhi Capitals. But, DC failed to chase this total and badly collapsed at 99 in the 16th over. As a result, CSK won this match by 80 runs. Now, they will challenge Kings XI Punjab before heading to the play offs.
Chennai Super Kings will win. Even though, CSK have already qualified for the play off stage, but this victory will boost their confidence before the big games. Moreover, the previous IPL T20 history for CSK vs KXIP also indicates that, Chennai Super Kings have won twelve matches against Kings XI Punjab in head to head meet ups. So, CSK will be looking forward to win this match.
On the other side, Kings XI Punjab will be eyeing on victory too in this game. Though, they have already been kicked out of IPL 2019 title race and result will not matter to them. But, still this victory will bring joy to their distressed fans. All in all, it is going to be a historical T20 match for the IPL cricket fans.
Kings XI Punjab Team Squad
Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Nicholas Pooran(w), Chris Gayle, Lokesh Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Karun Nair, David Miller, Simran Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ankit Rajpoot, Hardus Viljoen, Mayank Agarwal, Mandeep Singh, Sam Curran, Andrew Tye, Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Darshan Nalkande, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar.
Chennai Super Kings Team Squad
MS Dhoni(w/c), Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Scott Kuggeleijn, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Karn Sharma, Mitchell Santner, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Sharma, KM Asif, Monu Kumar.
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Stafford residents will soon have new commuter options to Washington, D.C., thanks to a partnership between Fredericksburg Regional Transit, the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration and Marine Corps Base Quantico. Starting May 1, 2019, new bus routes are being offered between Aquia Town Center, the north VDOT commuter lot on Route 610/Garrisonville Road and the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) in Quantico, VA. Best of all, riders may try the service for free for May and June.
“One of my constituents asked if these bus routes could be a possibility and I am delighted that we were able to work to make these bus routes a reality,” said Supervisor Jack Cavalier, Griffis-Widewater District. “I am grateful to all our partners for helping us to find ways to give our residents as well as those who commute to Stafford more flexibility.”
Stops on the bus service to/from the Quantico VRE include FRED Stop #36 at Aquia Towne Center, the FRED shelter at the north VDOT commuter lot off Route 610/Garrisonville Road, FRED Stop #502 at the intersection of Garrisonville Road and Acadia Street, Quantico Corporate Center and Marine Corps Base Quantico at the Marsh and Davis buildings.
The new routes will also allow travelers to connect at the VRE station with OmniLink bus service to Prince William County operated by the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC).
Fares are free for May and June 2019. Beginning July 1, 2019, the one-way fare will be $1.75. Monthly passes will be available for $60.00. Senior citizens 65 and over, Medicare recipients, and the disabled travel at a half fare or $0.85 per trip. All FRED buses are wheelchair lift equipped.
For more details, visit www.rideFRED.com.
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Home » News » First trial flight lands at Kannur Airport
First trial flight lands at Kannur Airport
Mysuru: Flights from Kannur International Airport in Mattanur, Kerala will begin from November and the trial runs are already taking place at the airport. The first plane, as part of the trial run, landed at the airport on Aug. 31 and it was a glitch-free landing. The first plane carried technicians from the Airport Authority of India, New Delhi. The team inspected the entire airport, landing facility and the facilities offered at the counters and also the air traffic control section. The team is expected to give clearance soon and the regular flights are scheduled to be operated from November.
The Kannur International Airport has come up on a plot of 1,900 acres atop a hill at Mookapramabu, just 32.4 km from the border town of Makutta and 58.3 kms from Virajpet, Kodagu and about 90 kms from Madikeri. Nearly 1,200 acres of land on the hilltop has been levelled and the work on the airport has been completed at a cost of Rs. 1,892 crore. Another 700 acre of land has been acquired for future expansion.
The Kannur Airport will join the elite group of airports with a 4,000-metre runway. This will be the fourth international airport to be in the same class as Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi (4,430 metres), Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad (4,260 meters) and Bengaluru International Airport (4,120 metres)
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Sampath says:
This is another disaster in the making, levelling a hill for 1900 acres of land, and with the recent rain, flood and landslide devastation how is this airport ecologycally safe is anyone guess. With landslides, roadblocks how will passengers reaching the airport be benefited, it appears kerala government lobbied for the airport but failed to foresee the risks. They played the same trick in construction of rail lines cutting forest from Nilumbur and Mysore this is on temporary halt, sooner this project will also be picked up with huge lobby. End result is destruction of environment and inviting natural disaster / calamity to end all this home run of developmental projects. Only better sense should prevail, and ensure Mysore airport is given its due consideration and expansion as the proximity and ecological benefit is higher with Mysore. Hope authorities are listening to ecologists and focus on Mysore than elsewhere.
Fiyo says:
This was the first thought I had when I went through the same.I am someone from Kannur and am extremely glad for this new gateway but equally frightened foreseeing the outcome.Ter s no question about the potentiality of an airport in Kannur .But the issue is will it survive the changing course of nature.
Stupid and stupidity
Keralian says:
First, your argument is rather dumb and has no correlation to the recent natural disasters.
Secondly, Kannur is the ideal location for an international airport of this size with huge traffic of international flights to the gulf region expected. Add to that, it’s strategically located near the Indian Naval Academy and the new Indian Coast Guard academy and hence IAF & Indian Navy has reportedly taken up hangars for colocation of their flights within the airport.
Third- Mysore, while a wonderful town for retirees is not going to serve any purpose having an international airport. There’s Bangalore and Mangalore airport for you or now you can drive to Kannur International Airport and fly if the traffic to Bangalore is too much. At best, Mysore can be developed into a local/regional airport but that’s already been tried and failed due to poor acceptance by general populace.
Fourth, stop being a cry baby and learn to accept the reality of life. Kannur is on track to develop into a flight hub, strategic armed forces location and a cargo hub.
As expected a typical response, no point in arguing with people who successfully destroyed western ghats and are reeling under its curse now.
Rama sena, Hanuman sena, Siva sena and what all fucking senas you have! stupids.
Moncy says:
Why fight for petty interest. Mysuru has failed as an airport concept as mentioned and Mattanur has potentiality,so accept the fact and now improve the facilities.
It is quite evident that Mysore being the city of heritage and tourism spotlight of the country, it has not got the kind of support from the political side. However this does not take away the fact that Mysore needs to be given the importance it is due sooner, the potential Mysore has is much bigger.
Srinivas D Chakravarthy free says:
It appears that the Kerala Government has overlooked the ecological aspect by going ahead with the construction of the Kannur international airport by the levelling of over 1900 acres of the hilly region.In the public interest it should appoint a committe of experts to study and confirm that it is ecologically safe for thousands of air passengers.This is essential as the people of Kerala are still reeling under the havoc due to floods and landslides pointing an accusing finger at wanton environmental degradation.
Absolutely, kerala government has been destroying western ghats and they have already faced the wrath of natures fury, they have kept lobbying for various different projects against the nature and if this is not stopped soon kerala will be seen only in maps. People blindly supporting this lobby need to understand that no one can stand against natures fury.
Agara R says:
So far as I am concerned, Keralites can have Kannanur Airport and many more. But Kannadigas should not allow any railway line to be built to connect with Mysuru, by destroying OUR natural heritage, for the convenience of Keralites! In my opinion, we have too much influx of Keralites to Karnataka already!
Sandeep says:
The idea of an airport in Kannur was first conceived by a Karnataka based politician, CM Ibrahim, during Deve Gowda’s tenure aa PM.
Spectrographix says:
it is a real good idea!
Kannur, also known as Cannanore is a beautiful city located in northern part of Kerala State, India. Kannur, a beach town, is the largest city in the northern region of Kerala and the administrative headquarters of Kannur district consisting of many towns and villages which includes Thalassery town (called as Thelicherry during the colonial era), the first heritage town of Kerala due to its historical significance. Kannur often was known as the “crown of Kerala” because of its natural treasures is edged by the Western Ghats in the east, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts in the south, Lakshadeep Sea (Laccadive Sea) in the west and Kasargod in the north. Kannur is popularly known as the city of Looms and Lores because of the loom industries functioning in the district and ritualistic folk arts called Theyyam held in temples. Kannur has a rich culture, history, and traditions that are often connected with many scholars and legends from this region.
As Kerala offers many popular tourist destinations, Kannur is considered one of the best tourist spot in north Kerala. Kannur, on the other hand, is the 4th largest city after Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, and Kochi. As per the latest survey, the total population of Kannur district is 2.5 million.
It is estimated that currently 13% of the district population is employed overseas which is forecasted to be increased is a considerable rate in the coming years. The government of Kerala has developed the Fourth International airport at Kannur which is being built, owned and generated by Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL).
Visit the offical website of Kannur Airport > [http://www.kannurairport.in/][1]
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Legends articles, Ossus locations, Parks and gardens
Gardens of T'alla
3996 BBY[1]
Ossus[1]
Builder(s)
T'alla[1]
Jedi Order[1]
The Gardens of T'alla were a place of reflection and peace overlooking the Great Jedi Library on the planet Ossus. Consisting of flowered gazebos, rock gardens, fountains, and pillars, the Gardens were one of the most peaceful places on Ossus.
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Millennia before the Great Sith War, the Neti Jedi Master T'alla founded the Gardens high in the mountains of Ossus to serve as a place of reflection and philosophical discourse. When her project was completed, T'alla planted herself at the heart of the Gardens and stood sentinel for thousands of years of the peaceful grounds. A the Gardens grew around her, visitors sought this peaceful retreat to contemplate the Force and learn from the great Masters of the era. The Jedi Agricultural Corps built greenhouses in the Gardens where they studied plants and experimented with new seeds. Constructing vast hedge mazes and exotic flower beds, the rock garden would eventually inspire the Muntuur stones that would be found in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant after 4000 BBY.[1]
At the beginning of the Great Sith War, the Jedi Exar Kun spoke to a crowd of fellow Jedi gathered in the Gardens to join him in his journey to Yavin 4 on an expedition for greater understanding of the Force. Beguiled by Kun's charm, the unsuspecting Jedi that followed him were quickly seduced to the dark side of the Force and helped Kun form his Brotherhood of the Sith through which he attempted to bring the Jedi Order to its knees. Like everything else on the surface of Ossus, the Gardens of T'alla were destroyed when the Cron Supernova washed across the planet and ended the Jedi's dominion over the world.
Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 1: Edge of the Whirlwind (First appearance)
"Straight from the Horse's Mouth: A Guide to the Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Universe, Part 2"—Star Wars Insider 27
Star Wars Encyclopedia
The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
The Official Star Wars Fact File 87 (OSS1, Ossus)
Nexus of Power
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nexus of Power
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Education Groups Come To Tony Bennett’s Defense
Kyle Stokes / StateImpact Indiana
Education Commissioner Tony Bennett is under criticism for emails revealing he worked to change Indiana's school grading system in 2012.
The Foundation for Florida’s Future and Michael Petrilli, writing at The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, are defending Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett’s decision to change Indiana’s school grading formula while leading Hoosier State schools in 2012.
The change boosted a notable charter school to an A grade from an initial C grade. Emails published by the Associated Press showed Bennett and staff scrambling to find a solution and concerned about the fallout if they didn’t.
Bennett said he was trying to preserve the integrity of the state’s formula. In a statement, foundation director Patricia Levesque said Bennett fixed an error:
“Commissioner Bennett and his department found and corrected a mistake that would have unfairly penalized 13 schools missing data for grades they did not even serve. They fixed a problem to be accurate and fair – any accusation otherwise is false and politically motivated.
“A-F school grading empowers parents to know how well schools are serving their children, in a transparent and easy to understand way. In 2012, Indiana was in its first year of its new school grading calculation, and there is always a learning process when implementing a policy new to a state.
“The best thing to do is to lay out the facts, which is what Commissioner Bennett is doing. Political attacks will come and go. The focus must remain on ensuring every student has access to a high-quality education that prepares them for success.”
Bennett is a member of Chiefs for Change, a group of state superintendents related to the Foundation for Florida’s Future.
Petrilli argued the public should wait before judging Bennett’s decision. Petrilli also believed Bennett’s version that the change was necessary to preserve the integrity of the school grading system.
So Bennett worked to fix the problem—not, I believe, because the school was connected to a donor, but because no one would trust an accountability system that labeled even excellent schools as worthy of C’s or worse. (As I said the other day, we reformers need to be as worried about slandering the reputations of good schools as we are about letting bad schools off the hook.)
Bennett’s political enemies will ascribe impure motives to his actions. The rest of us should refuse to join along.
A handful of groups, including The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, have called for Bennett’s resignation or replacement.
Changing Chiefs: Tony Bennett Takes Over As Florida Education Commissioner
Foundation For Florida's Future
Patricia Levesque
The Fordham Institute
A Look At The Indiana Charter School At The Center Of Tony Bennett’s Resignation →
← Florida’s School Grading Formula Allows Districts To Check State’s Work
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National & Personal Exceptionalism (DVD)
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This phrase, first coined by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville in his “The Republic of the United States of America” simply means that our system of freedom and our values have produced something exceptional; not perfect, not infallible, and certainly not indestructible, but something exceptional…meaning different results than any other nation in history. Another way to say it would be to say that the American experiment in freedom has been extraordinary, which means EXTRA-ordinary, or NOT ordinary, not normal, beyond normal…something different.
Find out what principles have been applied to make our nation successful and the stories of of individuals who have applied these principles personally to benefit people throughout the world.
DVD and MP3 audio combination set. 60 minutes.
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The Birth of Freedom (DVD/CD)
Building on the American Heritage Series (6 DVD Boxed Set)
Constitutional Defense of Your Family And Freedom DVD Series
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Our American Story (book)
The Leader’s Edge: Power of Purposeful Communication Package (DVD, CD, and Workbook Combo)
The Leaders Edge: Living Your Purpose CD Package (Audio CDs and Digital Workbook)
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Swachhta Ambari, A Roving Vehicle To Spread Cleanliness Message On Mysuru’s Roads
The Swachhata Ambari vehicle will roam around the city, displaying video messages, audio clips and pictures on various cleanliness related topics
Karnataka, News, Waste Management
| August 03, 2018 6:14 PM |
- in Karnataka, News, Waste Management
The Swachhata Ambari vehicle will go around Mysuru, spreading awareness on cleanliness
Swachhata Ambari was launched as a pilot project in October 2017
The vehicle will display messages on cleanliness
Swachhata Ambari will bring behavioural change, says Mysuru's Civic Body
New Delhi: Sustaining cleanliness is as important as achieving the Swachh target and civic bodies across India are coming up with innovative measures to sustain their clean statuses. Mysuru, which was recently recognised as the cleanest medium city (southern zone) in the Swachh Survekshan 2018, has rolled out Swachhata Ambari, the cleanliness vehicle that will move around the city and educate citizens on cleanliness and waste management. Developed by the non-profit organisation Clean Mysuru Foundation, the vehicle is slated to visit every nook and corner of the city and encourage citizens to continue to keep their surroundings clean.
The vehicle, a customised and modified mini-truck has been fitted with LED screens that display messages and videos related to Swachhata. It costs an estimated Rs 11,000 daily to operate the vehicle. Given the high costs, the MCC is presently operating only one vehicle and is on the lookout for sponsors so that a few more vehicles can be rolled out in different parts of the city.
The launch of Swachhata Ambari has been initiated under information, education and communication (IEC) activities undertaken by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC). The idea of a vehicle going around was discussed by the MCC in October last year and the vehicle was launched on a pilot basis. Based on the positive responses received, the MCC has decided to go ahead with the vehicle roving around the city with videos, photos and audio messages on cleanliness and waste management playing continuously. The vehicle can be modified to display messages related to special occasions, such as including video messages encouraging people to avoid buying Ganesh idols made of plaster of paris on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.
We started this programme in October last year and the idea of a vehicle going around the city spreading messages on Swachhata resonated well with people. Seeing the success, we worked further on the vehicle with Clean Mysuru Foundation and included more messages and videos so that people become aware of their cleanliness responsibilities, said K.H. Jagadeesh, Municipal Commissioner, Mysuru.
Apart from creating awareness on cleanliness, the Swachhata Ambari also encourages people to use the Swachhata app launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in December last year. Using the Swachhata app, people can notify their local civic bodies about unclean places, irregular waste collection and open defecation. Swachhata Ambari aims to bring people closer to the civic body so that they can keep the MCC updated about irregularities throughout the city.
“The main agenda of Swachhata Ambari is to bring in behavioural change. Many people do not know about the Swachhata app and how useful it can be to make the city cleaner. People can simply download it and use it to report any irregularity in cleanliness around them. Using Swachhata Ambari, we are reaching out to more people and urging them to maintain the cleanliness that Mysuru has been rewarded for in surveys,” said S Madhukesh, Secretary of Clean Mysuru Foundation.
The MCC plans to screen four to five video messages daily, two to three minutes in length, on various topics. The priorities will be waste segregation, eradicating littering, encouraging people to use public toilets and requesting them to stop using plastic. Mr Jagadeesh said that 90 per cent of Mysuru’s bulk waste generators have stopped discarding waste and taken to composting and recycling. The municipality aims to take the number to 100 per cent and participation of every individual is necessary to achieve that. The MCC hopes that Swachhata Ambari will bring in required behavioural change in people, a much-needed trait to transform the open defecation free (ODF) city of Mysuru to ODF plus.
Also Read: Starvation Free India: “Right To Eat, Not To Waste” As His Objective, This 43-Year-Old Government Employee Provides Food To The Hungry In Mysuru
NDTV – Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign lends support to the Government of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). Helmed by Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, the campaign aims to spread awareness about hygiene and sanitation, the importance of building toilets and making India open defecation free (ODF) by October 2019, a target set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014. Over the years, the campaign has widened its scope to cover issues like air pollution, waste management, plastic ban, manual scavenging and menstrual hygiene. The campaign has also focused extensively on marine pollution, clean Ganga Project and rejuvenation of Yamuna, two of India’s major river bodies.
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15,000 Discarded Plastic Bottles Used To Build A ‘Wall Of Hope’ In Mussoorie
The 'Wall of Hope' aims to spread the message of keeping surroundings clean, has been designed by Subodh Kerkar, Founder, Museum of Goa with the help of more than 50 volunteers from schools and colleges across Mussoorie
Waste Warriors
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To Promote Tree Plantation, Bhubaneswar Gifts Upcycled Seed Pens As Souvenirs To Tourists
Worried With Country’s Dependence On Plastic Polythenes, This Man From Ahmedabad Has Started Making Stylish Eco-friendly Bags
Made Out Of Recycled Cardboard, This Mumbai Café Has A Message For The Environment In An Out Of The Box Way
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Clear skies and cool days
Make for chilly mornings. 4'C this morning, one cat refusing to go out.
I've cut out comments
Since Haloscan are going belly-up shortly. Apparently no-one knows the answer to why google comments don't work. You'll know if I get them working again.
Oxford 26th August.
There might be more later.
Do you ever wonder about marketing people?
Especially when they are trying to shift computer parts etc?
www.aria.co.uk carry a range of base units and mini systems that someone is trying to sell just too hard. They are just a bunch of slightly dull black and grey boxes, somewhere between the size of a shoebox and a midi tower, so how do they get names like hellspawn, hellscream, punisher etc?
It's just a grey and black box with some commonplace electronics inside designed to run Windows beige-world 7.
Even the kids that live in their parents basements and play WoW and MW3 are going to be cynical, let alone anyone who has actually had a job. Sometimes it feels like people actually believe the things they invent.
And there's a penny dropping moment.
Men have always wanted to invent things that needed to be worshiped, creating rules and scenarios in which to frame and sell their ideas. Only now instead of worshipping in darkened caves and temples, it's spare rooms and cafes.
I'm quite torn about the whole computing and the internet aspect of modern life. There is so much potential good, and yet there is such a strong draw, and I very much recognise my own weakness to that, to spend too much time just on the computer, not talking or sharing face to face, but in simulated company. There's a side of me that would love to just ditch computing completely, but it IS so useful.
Of course the challenge is to handle these things well, just like food and drink, just like reading and socialising. For those things society has created expectations and training from a young age, and we can see the effects of their failure in obesity as much as alcoholism, in those who live to escape and those who cannot stop themselves talking. Would future generations develop their own social limitations to internet use, if the internet were to be around for another 150 years?
So we just went to dinner.
Last night, after a day of stuff.
Up at 6.30 (as always) putting songs together for worship at the church.
Into work at 10am to print off sheets about forgiveness.
In church at 10.30am, setting up for the morning meeting (not too hard, since cups already out and urn on).
Around 2.30 Chris out for cream teas and networking at a local village event, me cutting grass.
4.00 through the shower and quickly out to see our good friends and amazing people of God Mike & Liz Beaumont before they left for 9 months in Vancouver. We both come away, having met some of the other guys in leadership in Oxford Community Church realise what we've been missing - the wisdom, the depth of faith, the family and the trust between men of God who have chosen to walk openly with each other. It was just as if we'd never been away, and some of the guys we were only passing acquaintances with.
6.05 (oops) back at Heyford Park for the evening prayer meeting. A good time sharing stuff - almost too much sharing, then prayer where I really became aware of the Spirit of God moving, and catching a bit of His heart.
7.45 Done for the day and into Bicester. So we just went to dinner at Anica (I want to call the place either Arnica or a knicker) which is a decentish curry house. We've been out to dinner a number of times recently, which is unusual for us, since money has been tight, but there has always been a purpose and always in company. It's good to just be the 2 of us, together. No need to make conversation, but able to talk about almost anything that we want to. I need times like this with my wife, who is also my friend.
Chris has been asking when I get a sabbath, and the answer is that I get by. Sabbath has begun to happen, even though I have lots of work on in the lab right now. Tuesday night there's another meeting, but it *feels* like sabbath has already started in preparation for the holiday.
Ben might be home tonight, after HIS holiday. That will be nice.
Confession and forgiveness
Sometimes messages are easy to write, and I have felt almost guilty to be completed in 2 or 3 hours.
Sometimes they just don't flow *easily* and require some real work.
So I'm speaking on confession and forgiveness tomorrow. This has been real work. I hope it is actually useful.
And maybe they'll forgive me. ;-)
I'm having trouble enabling blogger comments
As can be seen, the Haloscan comments that I used for the last 9 years are being discontinued in October. I have enable google comments in the settings, but cannot see anything that suggests they are actually working. Do I have to use a new blogger template for them to work, or are comments exclusive (i.e. if I have external comments enabled does that disable blogger comments)?
Suggestions welcome.
Y'know how some mornings the sun shines
.........and it's all great.
Cat sick on the kitchen floor, and it was raining first thing.
We just feel really battered this morning, mostly because we went to bed last night feeling battered. We did the 'Are you OK. Yes, are you?' thing, but the feelings obviously remained, though for me they are seeping away now I'm starting to do stuff.
Some stuff isn't fixed easily, but one thing's for sure; we're not getting any more cats.
The Stainless Steel Rat
.... can rust in peace.
Goodbye Harry Harrison.
A week on, I'm pleased with the SSD upgrade.
I'd been thinking about doing this for at least 6 months, and wish I'd done it sooner, although prices have plummeted in that time. It's simply a much nicer machine to use, and everything just seems to work better. How much of that is Mountain Lion, how much the SSD I'm not sure, but it doesn't go all jerky like it would sometimes before.
One thing I should say is that it is NOT amazingly quick. Applications do open much more promptly than before, but the OS feels like it's deliberately slowed down so that everything is greasy-smooth, rather than 'instantly' snapping open.
As for ML, the changes of 10.5 seem quite small really, and mostly cosmetic. I know they aren't, but apart from a couple of 'change for changes sake' alterations, it works very similarly to the way it did before. It seems there is a monitor control issue in ML, and hopefully that will get patched soon. Battery life is likely to be quite a bit shorter, though it's hard to tell because the time remaining in hours and minutes has been replaced with a % remaining value, and that's meaningless. The machine gets VERY hot when connected to an external hard drive (even when idle) but that would also cause heat with 10.5 and degrade performance noticeably too as it ran out of RAM.
So if you're considering the upgrade I'd definitely recommend it. If you own a Mac then the recommended drives are the Crucial M4 and the Samsung 830, maybe an Intel 520 series. Prices have dropped a long way, and I wonder now about one for a home computer.
Ever come home from work with your head full of crapspeak?
I remember being in project meetings where people (well, the boss) would talk all sorts of old rubbish, and the language would worm its way into my head. When I got home sometimes I'd talk to Chris about implemention something or trajectory the other, then apologise for the crapspeak I'd just inflicted on her tender ears.
This episode of the BOFH brought it all back.
Eventually said boss was 'let go to pursue other interests' and we all breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn't stupid, but he was a nasty bully, inclined to emotional blackmail. I'm told that outside a work context he was a lovely guy, kind and generous to a fault. Wonder what drove the work persona?
Day 4 of OSX 10.8 AKA Mountain Lion
Monday I mentioned having put a Samsung SSD in the Macbook instead of the original drive (now nearly 4 years old, although for 1 year not in use due to 'upgrading' with a Western Digital drive that wasn't much faster but vibrated and made a lot more noise and then failed in use - the warranty replacement vibrates even more!).
It's been an uncomfy 3 days since.
ML downloaded overnight (4.4 Gb) and after saving the application, ran the install which took about 30min. I then restored my data from a Time Machine backup, keeping a spare so I could revert (Apple updates will work in 1 direction only, and they will not let you go back) restoring data only but no applications.
Initial reactions were mostly along the lines of 'why did I bother' except that updating now might mean holding off obsolescence for another 18 months. Macbooks made in August 2008 were already too old and no longer have an OS upgrade path. Not necessarily a big deal unless you need to use a more recent piece of software or hardware, in which case it becomes a very big deal indeed. There are a couple of features that seem neat, like reminders of calendar dates, and I can see the cross over with iDevices.
I've not really figured out the point of mission control yet. There presently seem several systems for displaying applications, open windows etc spread across the desktop, all of which are a mess and don't work as well as a windows style taskbar for finding open application windows. I can see these making more sense on a small device that doesn't have a mouse, where you won't run many apps open at the same time - it makes no sense on a desktop and never did. The application icon is shown at the bottom of each window, again confirming that this is designed for a device with a small screen so you can see which window is a browser, mail, calendar etc. On a 20" monitor where you have 8 spreadsheets and 6 word docs open it may not be so useful. Choice is good, but only where those offered are intelligent and useful.
Some have complained about short battery life and overheating. For the first day it was running really hot, fans humming away and battery capacity dropping rapidly. Yesterday that seemed to stop, and it was running cooler (not checked battery life again) an explanation from the Apple forums being that the OS was indexing all the data for spotlight, and that would seem reasonable.
The app launcher is OK - familiar from Pear Linux. For reasons that I've not yet investigated, all the Microsoft applications have been placed on the second launcher page while other apps like Firefox and Libreoffice were added to the first page (where there's still a lot of space). I keep Office in the dock, along with any other apps I'd normally use, so it doesn't matter, but it's an odd thing to do. That side of things all seems to work normally and just like it ever did, so no problems there.
Hiccups?
I mentioned an uncomfy 3 days. Well getting it to talk to my Samsung 2043NW monitor has been difficult. Initially the monitor would occasionally flicker if monitors were set to mirror, showing the same resolution as the laptop screen despite being set to 1680X1050. When set up as a separate monitor behaviour was erratic over resolutions and in any case that was not how I needed it to work. After much hunting I found a piece of software - SwitchresX4 - through a link on the apple forum where other users had seen similar problems with 10.6.3. This enabled me to adjust the individual sync settings for the monitor - so now it would remain on, but the Macbook signal was sent mirroring the screen res at 1280X800. :p Sometime after the first day the icon for screen control in the top toolbar disappeared too. Finally, trying to start it in clamshell mode was totally ineffective - it would display the grey 'booting' screen on the external monitor for a few seconds, then the screen would go black and the macbook would go to sleep.
I'd wrestled with it too much and eventually gave up, just using it as a laptop sat on my desk because I needed to be productive, promising myself that I would find a replacement as soon as Windows 8 was out.
This morning I came in, thought "wonder if I can get that screen control icon back" and started it in clamshell mode again. The monitor went grey, then black & I thought it must have gone into sleep mode. Suddenly voila! There was my desktop, a bit fuzzy and with wonky colours, but back at native resolution and the Macbook running with closed lid. It's nice to have enough space again, to give my eyes a break too. I've since recalibrated the display but fonts are just plain fuzzy, almost certainly due to screen sync, but I'm reluctant to adjust further since it does actually work.
As for the SSD, it has made the system more responsive, although I've noticed that after a couple of days programs open less quickly and boot no longer seems so strikingly rapid - probably just all part of the way an OS slows down after first install and updating. there is distinctly less beachballing, and the machine is less frustrating to use. So that's good. Definitely an upgrade I'd recommend.
Worth putting some context on this - going from Leopard to Snow Leper made the machine almost useless (i.e. printing was no longer possible). Guess I should be grateful this particular service pack for OSX has been so well behaved.
Haven't posted a pic for a while.
Restored!
But a time is coming for an update.
Talking of which, it's nice to have the Macbook boot in around 10-15 sec instead of a minute+, when it can finally get its backside in gear. Just installed Office and now going for 198Mb worth of update. It seemed like a better idea to do that first, so that when Hill Cat gets added the latest version is already waiting for it. The installs were nice and snappy too, with 10.6 going on in about 30min instead of 50min and Office in around 5min instead of 10.
The install is happening
1.3Gb of updates for Snow Leopard now happening. This is like downloading a whole new Linux distro, and in many ways, that's very likely just what it is.
Why do I need several hundred meg of iTunes?
Ever thought you knew what would happen?
When you allowed something to update?
Update template.
Irreversible.
Tramsmash.
Pox!
I'll try to repair the damage over time, but blogger tools seem to be total poo compared to editing directly into the full HTML template. How stupid am I?
The Samsung SSD 830 for my Macbook.
Now I want to know, why are Macs so slow using USB devices these days, and why do they seem to infect USB devices with slowness? I'm backing up to an external HDD and it's running apparently at around 10Mb/sec. I've only got 77Gb on the drive, but it seems to be taking forever.
The *plan* is that I'll pop the SSD in, create a fresh install of Leopard, then update, then install Snow Leopard on top, then update again to 10.6.8, then download & install Mountain Lion + updates. Then install Office 2008.
At that point I will have to decide whether to system restore from Time Machine, putting everything back as it was, or whether to reload manually. Right now the last option is looking favourite, simply so I can ditch some stuff that I'm sure is cluttering the Macbook up, hopefully losing the memory leak at the same time and keeping the benefits of a fresh install.
For security I will have the original HDD & 2 Time Machine backups, 1 at work &1 at home, so that IF I choose the restore option then I still have 1 backup that is compatible with 10.5.8 and can defeat Apples scorched earth policy to legacy.
In other news, I'm still trying to recover strength. A couple of weeks back I did a cycle ride that completely exhausted me, but probably made me fitter. Now the same thing is happening with my mind, being stretched and pulled to the point where, sometimes, it's just exhausted but cannot relax & rest. Greater mental fitness will come, but it's a painful uphill struggle, and the body is tired too. We'll get there.
Curious how things go - wonder if I've used that title before?
2 Sundays ago I spoke about salvation and the choices we make: how we can chose the things that line up with God, that do us good, help us live in freedom and at peace. It was in the context of working out our salvation instead of waiting for God to just change us spontaneously.
A name has recently come to my attention through a professional contact system, and it still makes me shudder a bit.
So I find there is unforgiveness in my heart, sitting there beside the scars. So I'm thinking about what choices I can make to undo that, to be free of the hurt and to see them as they are, separate from the history we have. Even if no-one else listens, hopefully I can preach to myself.
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Caption from LIFE. Through tall corn Murray Blackman drives two Belgian horses while "Ace" Markowitz, another Land Corps boy, distributes the last forkful of hay over the wagon.Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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How Summer Jobs Once Kept America’s Farms From Failing
Eliza Berman
The summer of 1942 was not looking good for the American farmer. Half a year into the war effort, resources were low and demand was high. As the Columbia Daily Spectator reported in April of that year, “deprived by war needs of much of the transient labor he normally uses, he has nevertheless been asked to hit new highs in output.”
Inspired to action by the impending crisis, the influential journalist Dorothy Thompson conceived of the Volunteer Land Corps, a program that would offer basic army wages ($21 per month) to young men and women who went to work on farms in New Hampshire and Vermont for the summer. LIFE profiled the 600 “pioneering youngsters” at the close of that summer, noting that the program benefited participants as much as it did the farmers. “Under their sun-bleached mops of hair the youngsters carry a new understanding of rural America,” the magazine declared.
Many of the young workers were from the New York City area and had never seen a farm. They spent their summer days pitching hay, milking cows and husking corn, but beyond the daily rigors of farm life, LIFE weighed in, they had the opportunity to “learn firsthand what American really is.”
Thompson told the Spectator that she was pleased with the response from the privileged youths: “They have been quite easily persuaded that they might as well pitch in with a pitchfork as with a golf stick. The work on the end of the fork, however, will be just a bit heavier. And there won’t be any caddies.”
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.
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Connecting the anniversary
Tonight is the fourteenth of Kislev, the Rebbe's wedding anniversary, and in honor of that Rabbi Chaim Schapiro, who has received plenty of praise on this blog in the past, deigned to farbreng with us, his faithful students. It was of course an excellent farbrengen, and if course it would be impossible to give it over to you the way I got it. Whether this is a chisaron in me or whether it's unavoidable I haven't yet determined, but be that as it may, I suppose I'll just write down whatever it is that I can. Oh, and whoever it is that was by the farbie also, please, add whatever I skipped out.
There was once a bochur who visited someone or other in Miami who, when he he found out who exactly it was that was visiting him, said, "What? A Lubavitcher apikores?" The bochur asked why exactly he was an apikores. The guy related that he had heard a story of two bochurim on Merkos Shlichus who were stuck in some kosher food forsaken place, and they were getting desperate. Eventually they came to a grocery store, and prepared to buy some food that, while kosher, wasn't exactly up to Lubavitch's standards. One of the bochurim, as he pulled his money out of his wallet, saw a picture of the Rebbe and ceased and desisted, realizing that he could continue to live on bell peppers and apricots for the foreseeable future.
The bochur who was listening to this story was impressed, but the story teller wasn't. "Of G-d, who says that this food is kosher, he's not afraid, but of a Rebbe, a man of flesh and blood who says that it is ossur, he's afraid? Apikorsus!"
The bochur said, "What's the problem? We have a clear proof for such behavior from the Torah itself! Yosef the tzaddik, when he was about to sin, saw his father's face, and he too stopped himself. Are you calling Yosef an apikores?"
The point, my friends, is that we are people, and we relate to people. It's all very good to have a big G-d up there, but if we can't internalize it, or even relate to it, what good will be done?
A chossid once came to the third Rebbe of Lubavitch, the Tzemach Tzedek, and complained that he didn't believe in the existence of G-d. The Tzemach Tzedek said, "Tell me, you ever saw the czar?" The chossid answered that he had not. The Rebbe then asked him if he believed in the existence of the czar. The chossid answered affirmatively. The Rebbe asked him how he knew. "Well," said the chossid, "I know Ivan the furrier, and his cousin's third brother thrice removed and four times reconstituted saw the czar in S. Petersburg once. So, obviously he exists." The Tzemach Tzedek answered him then, "If so, you can take it on my word that there is a G-d."
This is similar to another story, with much the same plot, though presumably with a different chossid. The Rebbe asked his chossid, "Why do you care if you believe in Hashem or not?" "But Rebbe," cried out the chossid, "a Jew has to believe in Hashem!" The Tzemach Tzedek said, "If that's your answer, then you'll be okay."
Once by farbrengen the Tzemach Tzedek mentioned a special hell that is looks exactly like this world, so the soul thinks it's in this lowly world of ours, but in fact it's totally fake. One chossid (and I'm undoubtedly a gilgul of this guy), said, "But Rebbe! How do we know that this world isn't that fake world in hell?" The Rebbe said, "Fool! Would I be here if that was the case?"
There are many different types of people with a connection to Lubavitch, and the question has therefore arisen, "Who is a Lubavitcher chossid?" The answer is very simple: whoever can make a chilul Shem lubavitch, can desecrate the name of lubavitch, is a lubavitcher.
Money is like a toilet. It's a wonderful thing to have, very useful too, but at the end of the day, it stinks pretty badly, and anyone who spends too much time involved with it has issues.
So once the good Rabbi was reading a "litvish" magazine for bochurim, and it mentioned tips for bein hazmanim. It recommended that you always have a mesechta ready to claim as the one you're learning, and furthermore, to say that you're learning one of the later dafim, e.g. 80, because everyone knows the first few dafim of a mesechta well, but after that you should be safe. But just be careful that the mesechta you choose actually has a daf 80!
These were the words of the good rabbi. All right, he said a lot more, but unfortunately my recording instrument at the time losses it's capability's to record because of insufficient battery power. Oh well. Just know that he farbrenged well, even if he did focus a bit too much on what comes after smicha, which I have no interest in discussing right now...
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Elisheva said...
Why live in the future when you're perfectly happy in the present?
What comes after smicha, law school?
Reminds me of a story of A"R’s chossid who said that he survived (in ruchniyusdike sense) in Peterburg only through ga’ava. Every time his y"h urged him to do something inappropriate, he asked himself, “How can I, a chossid of the Alter Rebbe, do this?”
I don’t think it’s true that somebody necessarily needs an image of a teacher to remind him of Eibeshter. See the story of T"T and his former melamed who asked a brocha that his grandson should be a chossid because his father and grandfather is a chossid. (T"T reacted negatively to that.) You can learn Chassidus and remember Eibeshter. So, why have a picture of the Rebbe in your wallet (bichlal, why the Rebbe, not your father)? Because — who is the source of Chassidus?
Elisheva: or as I say, "don't burn your bridges until you come to them.
Nemo: Whatever it is, this particular Peter Pan ain't interested in it.
Crawling Axe: who is this TT of which you speak?
And I think it's like the famous line, "let your fear of heaven be the same as your fear of man."
Although, I think it should be noted that one can live by the policy of burning one's bridges before getting there without being completly imprudent. Just my $0.63.
Though of course such a policy might lead to crossing your bridges after you've burned them, and then where would you be? In the drink, with the hulk of a burned bridge above you, and spectators lining the banks giving unhelpful advice to your would-be rescuers.
No, much better to just follow my plan, and burn together with the bridge, a rapturous Indian experience that few have survived to tell of. So it must be good.
I'll just agree, because I'm not quite sure what in the Queen's Kingdom you were speaking of.
TT = Tzemach Tzedek.
“The same” but not “come from”. At least that’s not the best we can do.
In the story with Yosef, it’s not like he was afraid that Yakov Avinu would come to Egypt and punish Yosef or that he would find out and Yosef would become embarrassed. It was the memory of his father, his teachings, his example that gave him strength in his yiras Shomayim.
So, the correct answer to the guy’s protest would be that the bochur too was afraid of G-d, not the Rebbe, but image of the Rebbe gave him strength to feel that fear more acutely — because from where do we know what it means to fear G-d?
Actually, yosef saw his father in a vision, and his father told him that he would lose his spot on the choshen if he sinned. Yosef obviously didn't want this to happen, he was afraid of it, and he expelled his seed through his ten nails.
So, it appears that seeing the Rebbe can be a valid motivator or guilt inducer.
I'm just impressed the dude didn't go nuts about why a Luabavitch guy would consider a reliable frumme hechsher to be "treiff." I'll bet the story was about a can of Starkist tuna ...
Actually, Rabbi Shapiro mentioned something about pas akum.
I just felt the need to comment. I was sitting at my computer (actually my neighbor's computer) and needed something to distract me. I saw that the TRS label in my inbox had an unread message and gleefully opened it, anticipating some distraction. To my dismay, it contained nothing that interesting. But I just distracted myself anyways. In a few months, I'm going to come across this comment and cringe. Oh well.
Save yourself the trouble and cringe now.
Even worse! You know what the Rama says about Pas Palter? He says to eat it ... and comes this smart ass Lubavitch boy and decides it's not kosher enough for him.
Yeah, there is a G-d in the world.
What did that mean?
The rama says that you can eat pas palter nochri without a second thought, even where there's pas yisroel available. Look it up. Y"D 112 if I remember correctly.
Ahh, but we're better than thou.
fab girl... said...
BS"D
I like this whole post. The tidbits of "Farbrening" were very enjoyable, thanks for posting them.
My pleasure. For more pleasure on your part, just search, in the top left hand corner, "farbrengen". You should find a great many posts like this one, filled with inspiring words and other somesuch things.
eliezer, i vehemently disagree. i found this post of farbrengen tidbits both interesting and entertaining.
especially the tidbits with the zing, lie the chillul lubavitch quote. ouch.
speaking of better than thou - at a yud tes kislev farbengen in a certain yeshiva in a certain city in a certain state in a certain country, which my brother attended, a rabbi said that lubavitch is the ultimate of judaism. (not lubavitchers, just lubavitch.) any comments?
I'll say this much- almost every Jewish group thinks the same thing.
I'll say this much- almost every group thinks the same thing.
What are you disagreeing about? I never said I'd cringe from the post. I said I'd cringe from my comment.
"To my dismay, it contained nothing that interesting."
i disagree. clear?
Gut gezokt, Cheerio. In that case, we shall agree to disagree.
Usually when people say, "Let's agree to disagree," they really mean, "You're goddamn wrong. I just don't have the energy to fight anymore." It was very satisfying to use the agree-to-disagree expression properly. Thanks, Cheerio!
always a pleasure.
TRS I don't know if you look back at old posts for comments, but this was a great post. Please do this often.
Every comment that's written on here I read, but lav davka do I respond. There's a much more posts like this, if you search you will find, and tonight I'm posting a great one we just had with ephraim piekarski.
great, thanks.
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Zopo Speed 8 : World’s First Deca-Core Processor Smartphone
Zopo, a Shenzhen based mobile company launched its brand new Zopo Speed 8 at an event in Delhi, India. The company claims that this is the first smartphone with Helio deca-core processor globally. Other than this, Zopo Speed 8 boasts high-end components and awesome functionalities to deliver great performance.
The price of the phone doesn’t fit into the category of mid range smartphones. Though, it has some exciting features such as excellent display quality, nice camera and the best thing is its deca-core processor which differs Zopo Speed 8 with other established brands of Indian market.
Without further adieu, let’s have a look at the features and specifications of Zopo Speed 8 that will help you to make your decisions whether you want to buy it or not.
Zopo Speed 8 Build & Design
Zopo Speed 8 is an aesthetically designed smartphone, which has curved body and brushed metal look of the back panel to provide solid grip. The phone has a large 5.5 inch display along with 5 points IPS capacitive touchscreen and Full HD resolution gives clear visuals.
The dimensions of the phone are 152.5mm x 76.35mm x 9.8mm and it weighs 164 grams only so can be considered as a light weighted phone. It also includes a USB Type C port which is reversible. The phone has a three-piece design and curved edges, audio speakers in front give a bold look to the device. The phone ships in black and white colours.
Zopo Speed 8 Specifications
Zopo Speed 8 is powered by highly efficient 2Ghz Helio X20 64-bit Deca-core CPU that deliver fast processing and excellent performance. This is first time any mobile manufacturer has introduced deca-core processor in their device and we have to see its performance once it will be old in the market.
The phone offers 4GB RAM and 32GB internal storage, which is expandable up to 32GB via micro SD card. The phone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow which saves power and give smooth mobile experience. The phone comes with a fingerprint sensor to unlock it quickly and to avoid unauthorized access.
The phone is equipped with NFC that enables communication with the nearest device without using the internet connection. This technology lets consumers use their device as a digital wallet for transactions of money and can be used to transfer other kind of data as well.
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Zopo Speed 8 is equipped with 21MP Rear Camera and 8MP front shooter to take clear and crisp pictures. The Camera is coupled with Sony IMX230 sensor which includes PDAF technology and allows users to capture phenomenal images. Fast focus triggers itself in 2/10 of a second only. The Speed 8 features dual-LED flash on the rear and front LED flash which lets user take perfect pictures in low light situation by adjusting the brightness.
Zopo Speed 8 Battery and connectivity
Zopo Speed 8 is packed with a strong 3600mAh Li-Polymer Battery which provides decent endurance with 10 hours of talk time and 120 hours on standby. The power efficient components of the phone also help the battery to last longer.
It also features MediaTek’s own fast charging technology, which is known as Pump Express Plus, so users have no need to wait for a long time to charge the phone completely. The phone supports 4G LTE network band and includes all standard connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS.
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Zopo Speed 8 is priced at INR 29,999 in India. The device is being rolled out through online and offline retailers across the country from 20th July 2016.
The smartphone market in India is growing day by day, but a lot of world-class companies have already introduced their mobiles with amazing qualities and features. There is a cut-throat competition in the market and being a new brand in the market, Zopo needs to work hard to dig in their feet. Although Indian customers aren’t brand conscious and always give more importance to their need, yet many people don’t tend to buy new phones without hearing anything positive about them.
However, we think that World’s first Deca-Core processor in Zopo Speed 8 along with its powerful 21MP camera will differ it from other brands and consumers could buy it because of these powerful features.
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Pope Francis to sing My Lovely Horse in touching Father Ted tribute
Pope Francis looks set to honour Ireland’s top ‘Golden Cleric’ during his visit to the country this weekend, The Ulster Fry has learned.
It is understood that the Pontiff hopes to make a special pilgrimage to Craggy Island where he intends to upgrade The Holy Stone of Clonrichert to Class One Relic, the holiest of all relics in the Catholic faith.
“His Holiness wishes to pay tribute to Father Ted,” said Italian Cardinal Juan Cornetto. “He recognises the important contribution that Ted and his companions Dougal and Jack made to the work of the church in Ireland, particularly their stand against the blasphemy of the Passion of Saint Tibulus.”
This will be acknowledged in a special blessing, where the traditional response of “Peace be with you”, “And also with you” will be replaced with “Down with this sort of thing,” “Careful now.”
For the faithful, the sight of Pope Francis being joined on stage by Father Dougal, the last surviving member of the ‘Holy Trinity’, is destined to be a moving experience.
“They will sing My Lovely Horse together, in Latin,” says Cornetto. “Mea Equus Amabilia, or something like that anyway.”
The Cardinal has refused to be drawn on rumours that both Fathers Ted and Jack will be elevated to Sainthood during the visit. “It’s too early to say, we’re still trying to assess if being on TV every day for the last 20 years counts as a miracle, as we might have to make Eamonn Holmes a saint as well.”
However he did confirm that there would be a permanent tribute at the Vatican.
“We’re painting over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,” he told us, “with a big picture of Ted kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse.”
From our religious correspondent, Helena Hancart.
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Research reveals the dual poison-antidote role of wtf genes
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A collaborative study by researchers at Stowers Institute for Medical Research and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center reports an exceptional genetic survival strategy of wtf4 gene. The respective study appeared in the journal eLife in 2017. It highlights how the wtf4 gene found in S. kambucha fission yeast acts as both a poison and an antidote, ensuring its transmission into the next generation, and to eliminate its competition.
Wtf genes, also known as selfish genes, are parasitic in nature. Their main function is to survive and spread. Particularly, the wtf4 gene is a meiotic drive selfish gene which interferes with the process of meiosis.
Meiosis is the form of cell division that creates sex cells, called gametes, like eggs and sperm. Gametes contain only one copy of each chromosome. However, the cells that generate gametes contain two copies, one from each parent. Meiosis ensures equal distribution of chromosomes to the gametes. For example, males with an X and Y chromosome produce 50 percent X-bearing and 50 percent Y-bearing sperm.
The meiotic drive genes stack the odds in their favor by destroying the gametes that don’t carry them. For example, if the male has a gamete-killing meiotic drive gene on his X chromosome, the sperm carrying the Y chromosome are killed. It this way, the competition to fertilize the egg reduces to half. In this case, wtf genes poison their prey.
The dual role of wtf genes
Wtf selfish genes act as a poison to all the developing gametes. However, they keep the title “antidote” for themselves as well. The gametes inheriting the selfish genes, when exposed to the poison, don’t succumb to it. This is because they have the antidote. On the other hand, the gametes that don’t inherit the selfish gene are destroyed.
In a 2014 study, the researchers discovered the actions of multiple independent meiotic drivers in fission yeasts. However, they were unaware of the responsible genes and how they destroyed gametes that didn’t inherit the genes. In order to learn more, the research team used genetic mapping to reveal the complex landscape of multiple meiotic drive genes on chromosome 3 of S. kambucha.
It was found that wtf genes made two different RNA messages,
A short message which encodes the poison
A long message which encodes the antidote
The cells were imaged during meiosis with the poison protein tagged green and the antidote protein tagged red. The research team observed the poison everywhere in the image. This might mean that every cell was exposed to the poison however; the antidote was present only in the spores that inherited the wtf gene. Resultantly, the gametes lacking the wtf genes died.
The combination of the genetics experiments and imaging studies provide plentiful evidence that wtf genes make both a poison and antidote. Moreover, the researchers also found that wtf4 is a member of a large family of selfish genes. Their findings are specifically interesting from an evolutionary perspective.
The wtf genes make a poison that potentially kills everything, including them. On the other hand, their role as an antidote is the way they figured out how to selectively eliminate their competition. The study expands the current understanding of the nature of gamete-killing meiotic drive genes. The findings may also guide future discoveries of meiotic drive genes in other organisms, such as crops or humans.
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2016 Lexus RC
Many people out there who fell in love with the Lexus RC wished that the automaker could bring an RC with a cheaper entry price. You can now smile as we can confirm that Lexus is extending its strategy of downsizing its engines to the RC.
The trend started with the IS sedan moved over to the GS lineup and now the automaker has introduced the trend to the second series of the RC line. The RC now features drive-train options similar to the 2016 Lexus IS.
2016 Lexus RC Exterior
To say the least, the 2016 Lexus RC coupe is elegant. Generally, the vehicle features a low profile, a wide stance and fender flares. The coupe stretches 184.8 inches long with a width of 72.4 inches and a height of 54.0 inches. The vehicle has a wheelbase of 107.5 inches.
The model features redesigned triangular headlights which borrow from the LF concept car. At the back, the cope features stunning taillights that will leave you drooling after it zooms past you.
The rear fascia also features two air outlets each on either side which give it an aggressive rear look. It also features elegantly designed exhaust tips. The coupe will ride on large aluminum wheels. Buyers will chose between two wheel options i.e. 10-spoke, 19-inch wheels or 5-spoke, 18-inch wheels. Both options feature black and platinum center caps which complement its general look.
2016 Lexus RC Interior
Sliding to the cabin, drivers and other passengers will love its stylish and sporty 2+2 coupe interior. The cabin features luxurious material finish and up-to-date technologies. The cabin is well lit by LED lights. Standard features include a 10-speaker Lexus Premium Audio system which is integrated with a 7-inch display screen, XM Satellite Radio and Bluetooth connectivity.
The cabin also comes with dual-zone automatic climate control system. Front seats are upholstered in NuLuxe and are power adjustable. The front seats and the steering wheel are also heated for increased comfort. The rear seats have a 60/40 split fold-down functionality which expands cargo capacity.
Other standard features include keyless entry, Push Button start, Lexus Smart KEY System, a HomeLink universal transreceiver, water repellent door glass and the automaker’s signature analogue clock which is illuminated by LED light. For those in need of extra tweaks, the RC 300AWD and the RC 350 AWD offer F Sport packages with additional features at an extra cost.
New for 2016, is a 2.0 L, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine which will be featured on the new RC 200t. The engine delivers 241 hp and an amazing amount of torque i.e. 258 lb-ft of torque at only 1,650 rpm. The 200t is expected to be the fan favorite and could account for over 50% of the RC sales. The engine will be paired with an 8-speed automatic transmission system and power will be channeled to rear wheels only. The engine has an estimated fuel economy rating of 26 mpg in combined drives.
2016 Lexus RC 200t Engine
Lexus has also introduced an AWD variant i.e. the RC 300. Dubbed as the ‘all-weather RC”, the model uses a downsized 3.5 L V6 unit paired to a 6-speed automatic transmission system. The engine comes good with 255 hp and 236 lb-ft of torque. The RC continues to offer the RC 300 RWD and RC 350 which features a 3.5 L V6 engine that produces 306 hp and 277 lb-ft of torque. This model is available in both AWD and RWD.
The RWD RC 350 moves from 0-60 mph in only 5.8 seconds and has a top speed of 143 mph, the AWD RC 350 completes the 0-60 mph run in 6.0 seconds and has a top speed of 130 mph while the AWD RC 300 makes the run in 6.3 seconds but with a similar 130 mph top speed while the base RC 200t takes 7.3 seconds for the 0-60 mph run and manages a 143 mph top speed. Motorists looking for a dose of sporty drive can opt for the F Sport package which comes with adaptive suspension and rear-wheel steering.
Alternatively, they can opt for the high performing RC F which features a 5.0 L V8 engine good for 467 hp and 389 lb-ft of torque. This model is however reviewed separately.
2016 Lexus RC 300 awd
The base 2016 Lexus RC 200t has a MSRP of $ 39,995 while the top trim 2016 Lexus RC 350 with the F Sport series 1 package carries a MSRP of $58,250. The base 200t and the 300 AWD are already on sale. However, the 350 will follow soon after this winter.
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Frances nudges up 2020 deficit forecast to 2.1%
FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 2019. Koji Sasahara/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - France expects its public sector deficit to reach 2.1% of economic output next year, up from the 2.0% forecast prior to tax cuts promised in response to the “yellow vest” protest movement, a government budget projection showed on Sunday.
President Emmanuel Macron announced plans at the end of April to reduce income tax by 5 billion euros (£4.48 billion) as part of measures to defuse months of protests over issues such as fuel levies, weak purchasing power and perceptions that Macron’s administration was arrogant.
Budget Minister Gerard Darmanin said last week the government was still aiming for a deficit of about 2% next year and had identified savings to offset the upcoming tax cuts.
But France’s public audit office has said the government is in danger of missing its fiscal targets unless it makes spending cuts.
Macron’s pledge to reduce the income tax burden by 5 billion euros came on top of a 10 billion-euro package of social measures unveiled in December at the height of the “yellow vest” unrest.
The updated public finance forecasts, posted on a government website, also slightly increased the deficit projections for 2021, to 1.7% from 1.6%, and for 2022, to 1.3% from 1.2.%.
The government maintained its previous forecast of 3.1% for the 2019 deficit, a temporary spike linked to a change in corporate taxation.
Reporting by Myriam Rivet, writing by Gus Trompiz
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Issued: March 30, 2016
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The Boswells School comes fifth in national Jack Petchey Glee Club
Challenge final
Twenty-eight students from The Boswells School took fifth place when they competed against 11 other groups in the national final of the 2016 Jack Petchey Glee Club Challenge.
The group gained a place in the Grand Final at the IndigO2 in London after winning the Essex Regional Final.
The students, from Years 10 to 13, rehearsed after school, in the evenings and at weekends to prepare themselves for the competition.
Head of Performing Arts Paul Butler said: "This was our fifth year in the competition and our fourth grand final so we were excited and also very prepared.
"The students worked really hard and came together as a very close group – which has been excellent to see.
"There was a team of four staff involved to help coach the group and the experience of performing at such a prestigious venue such as the O2 was excellent for the students."
The team was supported by more than 170 supporters from the school, made up of family, friends and staff as well as Chelmsford Mayor Councillor Paul Hutchinson who cheered the group on.
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How To Eliminate Piles Naturally Danny
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PBS Signs Up For Nielsen Ratings
TV By The Numbers December 20, 2009
We’re occasionally asked why we don’t have ratings for PBS shows (except for special events like a Presidential addresses). The reason was that PBS shows were not rated by Nielsen (or to put it otherwise, PBS had not paid for them to be rated by Nielsen).
Now, to provide more information to the sponsors of its shows it has signed up with Nielsen for its shows to be rated and appear in the weekly ratings reports. So while we will not see them in our Overnight ratings reports, presumably their ratings will be in the weekly TV ratings reports we receive on Tuesdays.
The public broadcaster will announce on Monday that, for the first time, it has subscribed to full-time television ratings from the Nielsen Company. The subscription provides PBS sponsors with detailed information about the audiences for “Antiques Roadshow,” “Frontline,” “Sesame Street” and dozens of other programs
The deal with Nielsen does not entirely level the playing field between PBS and commercial networks. PBS isn’t signing up for overnight ratings; it won’t be comparing “Masterpiece Theatre” with “The Mentalist” anytime soon. Instead, it is ordering weekly ratings, because some of the programs it provides to member stations are shown at different times.
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NFL Pro Bowl Averages 12.3 Million Viewers; Highest-Rated Pro Bowl in a Decade
TV By The Numbers February 1, 2010
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ESPN Delivers Highest-Rated and Most-Watched NFL Pro Bowl in a Decade
Last night’s 2010 Pro Bowl telecast on ESPN delivered the highest-rated and most-viewed NFL all-star game in a decade. Based on fast national ratings, the Pro Bowl delivered an 8.2 household coverage rating (7.1 U.S. household rating), 8,123,000 households, and 12,297,000 viewers — making it the highest-rated and most-watched NFL Pro Bowl since the 1999-00 game on ABC (8.6 household rating, 8.7 million households, 13.2 million viewers).
ESPN’s 2010 Pro Bowl — a 41-34 AFC victory over the NFC All-Stars — out-delivered NBC’s 2009 telecast by 32% among households and 40% among viewers. ESPN’s rating was 40% greater among the key male and adult demos, including 72% higher among viewers 18-34.
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Iran Motor Sport – Little Schumacher
You would never dream of associating the name Schumacher with Iran, but Laleh Seddigh has earned the title “Little Schumacher”, Trained by by former national champion Saeed A’rabian, she has been recognized as the best female racer in the country. In a male dominated world of racing, this alone is an extraordinary achievement. She has been hear to quote: “Resistance from men does not bother me. Once I get on the track I like to use my technical skills, take control and dominate the other drivers.”
She has had her share of disappointment too, back in 2006, she was not allowed to defend her title, The federation’s vice-president, Hossein Shahryari, said Seddigh had been barred because of a government circular restricting women to female-only events. That decree has now been lifted, he said.
But he added: “Women are speaking highly of themselves and that causes men who sacrifice their lives in this sport disappointment. Women are not champions in this sport, they are only participants. If they observed Islamic regulations more they would not have such problems.”
Her extraordinary achievement was captured in a BBC TV documentary called “Girl Racer”. She started her rally careet back in 2000. She was crowned women Champion 2003 and again in 2004. As captain of Proton rally team, she completed 28 rallies with 7 Podium position and 3 First place position.
Laleh also started car racing in 2004. It seemed that the winning streak was not just confined to her rally career, she completed 5 races (Peugeot 206, 1600 cc & Proton 1500 cc) with 7 Podium finishes, five 1st Places and the icin on the cake was being crowned National Champion Peugeot 206 – 1600c.
The young lady who had to get a special permission from local “ayatollah” to participate in the men world of motor sport, has come a long way and now the iconic racer is training other female drivers to follow in her footsteps.
Although racing is an expensive sport which limits participation, I can also safely say, you will be hard pressed to find a family as supportive as hers due to Iran’s male dominated society who are reluctant to step away from old and redundant traditions. This is changing with more of our women taking the centre stage in last few years. Laleh has mentioned in the passing “the situation is better today for them. They do not have to face the limitations I did at the beginning, because I have travelled down that road. They are just following me and all they have to do is practise and give their best”.
At time of writing this article, this humble writer is waiting to hear from Mrs Seddigh and I hope to be able to provide further insight to our stunning national treasure, so stay tuned.
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Terrorism Victim Gets Cybernetic Arm
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1 POSTED: 13 Dec 2008 16:50
A victim of the 7/7 bombing has been given a new lease on life with a battery-operated prosthetic arm that fuses metal and flesh.
Cyborgs have long been a staple of the sci-fi genre, but Kira Mason, who lost an arm in the London terror attacks, has become a real-life Bionic Woman with a pioneering prosthetic limb.
The procedure, called intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthesis, or ITAP, encourages the patient's tissue to fuse with a titanium rod fitted into the bone and does away with the need for the cumbersome straps and sockets normally associated with prosthesis, as well as avoiding the infection and pressure sores that have occurred with previous attempts to fuse metal and bone.
The prosthetic itself is operated by flexing muscles in the upper arm and allows Mrs. Mason to grip objects with a surprising degree of precision.
"It's taken a bit of getting used to but now I can control my arm much better as well - I can hold both a knife and fork to eat and even do delicate tasks such as holding a squidgy cake or opening a packet of butter without squashing it," she said.
Norbert Kang, the plastic surgeon who carried out the procedure is hopeful that this technique will benefit many more people in the future, saying, "We've been able to prove that we can get osteocutaneous integration - that's to say the soft tissue fuses with the surface of the metal... We can create a new generation of reconstruction."
Source: BBC and Daily Mail via Gizmodo
BobisOnlyBob
And thus it begins. May the developments only accelerate from here; my sympathy for the woman who lost her arm, and my gratitude for her accepting this next technological step forward for the whole of humanity.
fluffylandmine
BobisOnlyBob:
"Sometimes something must be lost in order for the light to be found"
Blayze
as well as avoiding the infection and pressure sores that have occurred with previous attempts to fuse metal and bone.
Fantastic. That -- as far as I see it -- was the biggest obstacle that needed to be overcome.
meatloaf231
Alright, it's official. Science is awesome.
meatloaf231:
Isn't it just? :)
Now if they can wire the nerves into wires, giving her brain control, we just need the Megacorporations to take over and we're all set
One step closer to Shadowrun. I'm just waiting for the moment when someone says "Yes sir, we *can* make Wolverine."
Spooky_101
now she can use her newfound powers to gain revenge on those who wronged her
Hunde Des Krieg
10 POSTED: 13 Dec 2008 19:07
Getting closer to ghost in the shell... I can feel it, now we just need brain-computer interfaces to go mainstream and less creepy and bingo!
NeedAUserName
Ah, I thought you meant like Will Smiths in iRobot. Still pretty cool though, I want two Cybernetic Arms, just below my real ones.
cainx10a
Hunde Des Krieg:
oh, I sure want a cyber brain and the camouflage system that comes bundled with it. =D
cainx10a:
Hell Yeah! I wish I lived in that universe. So awesome.
mokes310
Wow, amazing tech there!
fix-the-spade
nilcypher:
As long as it's not being used to blow people up (when they don't deserve it), agreed.
stompy
For some reason, the first thing that popped into my head was auto-mail from Full Metal Alchemist. Hopefully, the procedure won;t be as painful as auto-mail, though.
KaZZaP
I'm stuck wondering what a "squidgy cake" is...
Hankage
Yeah, but does it have a built-in machine gun?
Gimme an arm with weaponry and we'll talk.
Mstrswrd
KaZZaP:
That's what I was wondering. Anyway, wasn't there a story about an war Veteran from Iraq who got one of these? It was several months ago. Either way, this is awesome.
Given the fact that she's in London, she's probably referring to this: http://www.squidgycakecompany.co.uk/
O maestre
Blayze:
agreed, im stuck wondering how... i mean the very thought of fusing it to the bone would cause all kinds of internal complications alone. must have been a delicate process indeed
bud myers
Aardvark:
Shadowrun anyone?
Shiuz91
I feel so good for this woman. I only hope these new developments in prosthetic limbs doesn't get out of hand (case of extreme out of hand watch Appleseed Ex:Machina).
I've seen Appleseed Ex Machina, and ignoring the inherent issues dealt with in the course of the plot, I saw nothing wrong with the society created - only the issues produced by a lack of caution in their implementation, and allowing singular individuals to control or manipulate such technology. The danger is also the same issue we have now in the internet with spambot-viruses running amok; the internet was (and the devices that connect to it were) never designed with safeguards against such things.
Also, that movie uses just about every cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and general trope it can get its cybernetic hands on. It's a jenga-block tower of cliches that comes together perfectly. :D
12th_milkshake
Living in the past ppl!
cybernetic arms! pfft just grow it back! watch this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7354458.stm
RAKtheUndead
Now, these are the sorts of things which make me proud to be working towards a career in cybernetics. The ability to give a new lease of life to people is a noble cause, and I greatly respect the scientists and doctors who worked on this and the woman herself for accepting the device.
Hooray for Cybernetic limbs!
I know they already made a cybernetic eye that attaches to the retina and has a camera where the lens used to be, which I might add can see in infared (super sweet). Now they are working the kinks out of fusing metal to bone without complications.
It can't be long until someone figures out how to attach to the nerves and give direct brain control.
That is super sweet.
One step closer to create a guy named Gray Fox.
curlycrouton
My other thoughts exactly.
There's my hourly brain report for you.
Soon, Skynet will rise. We can only hope Arnie has being practising after the poor showing in T3.
Although seriously, great news for the whole field of replacement limbs.
hellthins
Yes! Yes! Yes! I can't make quasi-orgasmic noises enough!
Elurindel
Congratulations for Ms Mason. It's great to know that she's got a new arm, and that technology marches onwards. Anyone up for a round of Deus Ex?
TsunamiWombat
Now she can give Al Quaeda the finger with both hands again! Yay science!
Frybird
Haven't you guys seen Ghost in the Shell 2 / The second season of GITS Standalone Complex, where some of the characters had some kind of "Insta Hack Guns"?
Someone could creep up on you, shove some device in your Dataport Thingie and upload some badly written C++ Program into you to get you stuck in some kind of infinite loop crash paralysis.
Not exactly something i'm dreaming of...
Samurai Goomba
Maybe I can look forward into being Batou once I hit forty. I'd go for that.
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25 Best Golf Trips from New York City
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New York City provides an excellent jumping off point for reaching many golf courses via short day trips, like Buck Hill Golf Club in nearby Pennsylvania, or Hanah Mountain Resort & Golf Club in upstate New York. Whether it’s the challenge, history, or scenery golfers seek, these 25 courses are the perfect place to start.
1.Buck Hill Golf Club
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Buck Hill Golf Club is a premier golf club that is located in the Pocono Mountains, in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. The course is approximately a 90-mile drive northwest from downtown New York City. Buck Hill Golf Club has a rich and storied past. The first nine holes of the course were opened to the public in 1907, quickly establishing itself as a one of northeast Pennsylvania’s top courses. As golfers play their way through the course’s wooded and rolling mountainside terrain, they’ll experience the timeless, 27-hole masterpiece designed by legendary architects Robert White and Donald Ross. They’ll appreciate Buck Hill’s ridgeline silhouettes, classic subtleties, and relentless undulations.
270 Golf Drive, Buck Hill Falls, PA, Phone: 570-595-7511
2.Catskill Golf Resort
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Catskill Golf Resort is a public championship golf course that is located at 27 Brooks Lane in Catskill, New York. This sprawling, 18-hole layout is one of Mid-Hudson Valley’s most challenging and scenic golf courses. As golfers enjoy their rounds, they’ll be taking in spectacular views of the surrounding Northern Catskill Mountains. This premier golf resort is also equipped with a sensational restaurant – Bistro 27, as well as a shimmering swimming pool for refreshing dips during the summer time. Golfers will appreciate the resort’s Catskill Golf Club Pro Shop, an attractive shop equipped with a plethora of golf items that include footwear, apparel, equipment, bags, and accessories.
27 Brooks Lane, Catskill, NY, Phone: 518-943-0302
3.Championship Golf at the Blackhead Mountain Lodge & Country Club
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Championship Golf at the Blackhead Mountain Lodge & Country Club is a magnificent, par-72, 18-hole championship golf course that is located on Crow South Nest Road in Round Top, New York. The course was originally designed by Nicholas Psiahas, with the first nine holes of the course opening in 1990, and the second nine being added in 1999. The course requires a great deal of strategical shot placement, with its narrow, tree-lined fairways, two-tiered greens, doglegs, bunkers, and water hazards. When golfers get the opportunity to take a quiet moment away from the fun and challenging golf course, they’ll enjoy breathtaking views of the surrounding Catskill Mountains.
75 Crow South Nest Road, Round Top, NY, Phone: 518-622-3157
4.Christman’s Windham House Country Inn and Golf Resort
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Christman’s Windham House Country Inn and Golf Resort is a gorgeous hotel and championship golf course that is situated just off of State Route 23 in Windham, New York. There are four features of the course that Christman’s puts an emphasis on; that is the 7,150-yard Mountain Course, the 9-hole Valley Course, golf school and practice facility, and club fitting with a professional staff. The Mountain Course is kept in tournament-level condition, offering its players rewarding golf shots and spectacular scenery on every hole. The Valley Course has been in operation since 1965 and features lush-green, wide-open fairways, beautiful mountain views, and a quick 1.5-hour-round playing time.
5742 Route 23, Windham, NY, Phone: 518-734-6990
5.Colonial Golf Club
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Colonial is a marvelous public golf course that is located just off of Main Street in Tannersville, New York. Situated within the Great Northern Catskills, this 9-hole, par-35 course stretches to 2,591 yards in total length. The course was designed and constructed in the early 1920s using the natural contours of the land, boasting many characteristics that are similar to traditional layouts. Golfers will have the opportunity to join leagues, take lessons from Class-A PGA teaching instructors, and enroll in course memberships. Colonial is also equipped with a bar, café, golf carts, and a fully-stocked pro shop. Golfers will appreciate the course’s lush-green, tree-lined fairways, immaculate greens, and breathtaking views of the Catskill Mountains.
6245 Main Street, Tannersville, NY, Phone: 518-589-9807
6.Country Club of the Poconos Municipal Golf Course
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Country Club of the Poconos Municipal Golf Course is a gorgeous public golf course that offers excellent playing conditions with affordable rates in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, about 83 miles northwest of New York City. This 18-hole championship golf course if perfect for all skill levels, and is a great way to spend the day in idyllic weather. The course is set against the Pocono Mountain foothills and the Allegheny Plateau, offering breathtaking scenery in every direction. It provides many challenges; hills to climb; wetlands to carry; strategically placed sand traps and elevated greens, to name just a few. It’s also equipped with a fully-stocked pro shop and charming bar/grill area.
1445 Big Ridge Drive, East Stroudsburg, PA, Phone: 570-223-8099
7.Doral Arrowwood
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Doral Arrowwood is a challenging and uniquely designed golf course that is located in Rye Brook, New York. This Westchester 9-hole golf course was beautifully designed by Robert von Hagge – the talented mind behind the creation of the famed Blue Monster course in Miami, Florida. Doral Arrowwood has been recognized as one of the most challenging courses in the country, with its extreme undulations and elevation changes, slippery greens, and strategically positioned hazards. Golf in the fall is simply magnificent, with the fairways sharp green and rolling, and all of the leaves on the trees turning wonderful reds, yellows, and oranges. The resort is also equipped with several dining options, including Mulligan’s Outdoor Café, overlooking the ninth green.
975 Anderson Hill Road, Rye Brook, NY, Phone: 844-211-0512
8.Hanah Mountain Resort & Golf Club
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Hanah Mountain Resort & Golf Club is an elegant resort with a stunning, 18-hole championship golf course in Margaretville, New York. The resort is situated approximately a 2 ½-hour drive north from downtown New York City, just far enough from the big city’s hustle and bustle. Golfers will enjoy misty mornings and expansive mountain views of the Catskill Peaks. This 18-hole championship course was designed in the year of 1958 by renowned Architect Ferdinand Garbin. The signature 13th hole was dubbed “The Terminator” by Golf Digest, playing as one of the most difficult holes in the United States. Golfers can head to the ‘19th hole’ afterward for a juicy burger and refreshing pint to cap off the perfect day.
576 West Hubbell Hill Road, Margaretville, NY, Phone: 845-586-4849
9.Hideaway Hills Golf Club
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Hideaway Hills Golf Club is a premier, par-72, 18-hole, 6,933-yard golf course that is located in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania. Golfers looking to escape the chaos of New York City while working on their swing, will want to check out the lush-green, rolling hills of Hideaway Hills in the Pocono Mountains. This well-manicured golf course offers plenty of challenge and beauty, from the 60+ sand traps to the four shimmering lakes, and the signature Island Green to the spectacular elevation changes. The course also provides excellent practice facilities in the form of a chipping green, two-tiered driving range, and undulating putting green. Golfers a sure to enjoy a relaxing round filled with marvelous scenery at Hideaway Hills.
159 Golf Course Road, Kunkletown, PA, Phone: 610-681-6000
10.Jack Frost National Golf Club
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Stretching over 7,200 yards, Jack Frost National Golf Club is a large, championship golf course that is located in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, about a 2-hour drive northwest from New York City. The course embraces the marvelous Pocono Mountains, with its impressive elevation changes and magnificent vistas. Unlike most mountain courses, Jack Frost provides easily identifiable target areas, wide fairways, no blind shots, and few uneven lies. The beautiful oak forest frames the intricate movements of each unique golf hole. The course also features a newly revamped practice area that includes a two-tee area for short game, a chipping green, full driving range, fairway bunker, and an immaculate putting green.
1 Jack Frost Mountain Road, Blakeslee, PA, Phone: 570-443-2414
11.Mohonk Mountain House
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Mohonk Mountain House is a Scottish-inspired, 9-hole golf course that’s surrounded by lush-green rolling hills in New Paltz, New York. The course was named a “Dream Eighteen” destination by The Poughkeepsie Journal, and one of the “Top 10 Environmentally Friendly Courses in the United States” by Links magazine. This historic course has been open since 1897, making Mohonk Mountain House one of the nation’s oldest golf courses still in operation. The course’s golf shop provides grip repair, golf apparel, bag storage, club cleaning, and electronic handicapping. Golfers can also pick up rental clubs, snacks, and beverages there. It’s a well-designed golf course for all skill levels, and with its spectacular scenery, a must-play for all.
1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY, Phone: 855-883-3798
12.Mount Airy Casino Resort - Golf
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Mount Airy Casino Resort – Golf is a magnificent 18-hole championship golf course that is located in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. Each hole is uniquely inspired by Sports Illustrated’s “Best 18 Holes in America,” which was perfectly reinterpreted by golf architect Hal Purdy. Many locals in the area consider this 6,500-yard track to be ‘The Champion’ of Pocono Mountain courses. Golfers of all levels will be challenged with the strategically placed sand traps, dramatic elevation changes, and slick greens. While players make their way around this wonderfully-scenic course, they’ll have the opportunity to take in breathtaking views of mountain vistas, lush meadows, and bubbling streams.
312 Woodland Road, Mount Pocono, PA, Phone: 877-682-4791
13.Pocono Hills Golf Course
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Pocono Hills Golf Course at The Villas is a fairly short, tight mountain golf course that’s been designed by architect Nicolas Psiahas within the Pocono Mountains in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. This par-71, 18-hole championship golf course is known primarily for its lush-green, rolling fairways and challenging greens. The fairways on the front nine are lined with trees that lead to mid-sized, undulating greens, while the back-nine fairways are lined with beautiful villas. The course yardage ranges from 4,550 to 6,200 yards, making it the perfect course to play for all skill levels. Additional amenities include stay and play packages, golf carts, club rentals, a fully-stocked pro shop, and onsite restaurant.
124 Golf Drive, East Stroudsburg, PA, Phone: 888-337-6966
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14.Pocono Manor Resort & Spa
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Pocono Manor Resort & Spa is a sprawling, five square-mile, mountain-top resort that is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Located in Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, this 18-hole Championship East Course was designed by highly-acclaimed architects William Flynn and Donald Ross. Pocono Manor has welcomed golfers of varying skill levels for a number of years, even testing dozens of professionals during pro-am and tournament events. The course offers plenty of unique challenges, in the form of water hazards, multiple sand traps, elevation changes, and tree-lined fairways. Pocono Manor also provides golf club rentals, a full-length driving range, two practice greens for putting, and an award-winning pro shop.
1 Manor Drive, Pocono Manor, PA, Phone: 570-839-7111
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15.Rainbow Golf Club Inn and Suites
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Rainbow Golf Club Inn and Suites is a USGA-rated, 18-hole golf facility that is nestled into the sprawling foothills of the Northern Catskill Mountains in Greenville, New York. The course is situated just a short driving distance from the Kingston/Saugerties area and Albany Capital District, and about a 2-hour drive from New York City’s metropolitan area. Despite its challenging layout and having one of the only island greens in the area, the course remains one of the Capital District’s best kept secrets. This par-71 championship course is also equipped with a full-length driving range, full-service kitchen and bar, and an outdoor dining deck.
3822 County Route 26, Greenville, NY, Phone: 518-966-5343
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16.Rip Van Winkle Country Club
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Rip Van Winkle Country Club is a family-owned, Donald Ross-designed golf course that is located in Palenville, New York, approximately 10 minutes from Catskill, Hunter, Woodstock, and Saugerties. Rolling, tree-lined fairways allow golfers to easily walk the course and soak in magnificent views; motorized carts are also available. Rip Van Winkle’s wonderfully-unique, 9-hole course is the perfect starting point for beginners, as well as a challenge for the experienced and low-handicap golfers. The course is equipped with a full-service restaurant and a pro shop that features the latest apparel, equipment, and accessories. Golfers will enjoy lush-green, well-manicured fairways, true-rolling greens, and spectacular mountain views.
3200 State Route 23A, Palenville, NY, Phone: 518-678-9779
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17.Skytop Lodge Golf Course
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Situated atop of a peak on a high plateau, Skytop Lodge Golf Course is an award-winning golf course that is open for public play in Skytop, Pennsylvania. The course was proudly given a rating of 4 out of 5 by Golf Advisor; it’s also partnered with the Preferred Golf Club, a division of the Preferred Hotels & Resorts. This Pocono Mountains-style track is spread over a marvelous rolling terrain that features large, tree-lined fairways and smaller greens that can challenge golfers of all skill levels. The Skytop Pro Shop carries everything any golfer would need, from apparel to footwear to equipment to accessories. The course also offers golf schools, re-gripping of golf clubs, and tournament management.
1 Skytop Lodge Road, Skytop, PA, Phone: 855-345-7759
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18.Split Rock Golf Club
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Split Rock Golf Club is located within the magnificent Pocono Mountains in Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania. The course is easily accessible just off of the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 80. Split Rock offers 18 holes of Footgolf and 27 challenging holes of traditional golf. The course is well-known for its majestic 585-yard, par-5 11th hole, which boasts one of the prettiest views in all of the northeast, let alone any modern golf course of today. Golfers will have the opportunity to enter tournaments; take lessons from PGA-certified pros; and shop for some of the newest gear in the course’s well-stocked pro shop.
140 Wolf Hollow Run Road, Lake Harmony, PA, Phone: 570-722-9901
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19.Sunny Hill Golf Course
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Sunny Hill Golf Course is a resort-style, championship golf course that is located in Greenville, New York. The course features wide fairways, immaculate greens, perfectly-sanded bunkers, and breathtaking views of the Great Northern Catskills Mountains in every direction. This course is well-suited for both the beginner and experienced golfer, providing a casual and relaxing golfing experience. Sunny Hill offers PGA-certified golf lessons for adults and kids, where they can learn about the game’s fundamentals, course management, and etiquette. The resort also offers magnificent all-inclusive golf packages for visitors to look into, providing comfortable lodging, two daily meals, and unlimited golf privileges with a motorized cart.
352 Sunny Hill Road, Greenville, NY, Phone: 518-634-7698
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20.The Country Club at Woodloch Springs
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The Country Club at Woodloch Springs is an 18-hole, par-72 championship golf course that is located within the Pocono Mountains in Hawley, Pennsylvania. This golfer’s paradise winds its way through 6,579 yards of broad upland meadows, lush wetlands, and fern-carpeted forest. With alternating pin placements, four different sets of tees, undulating greens, and plenty of elevation change, the course presents a variety of challenges that are perfect for all skill levels. GOLF Magazine has named it “one of the finest courses in America,” while Golf Digest has listed the course among their “Best Places to Play with a 4.5 Star Rating.” Golfers will enjoy a perfectly-manicured course, exceptional service, and stunning views on every hole.
732 Woodloch Drive West, Hawley, PA, Phone: 570-685-8102
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21.The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort
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The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort offers an exceptional hotel and 27-hole golf course that is located mostly on an island within the Delaware River. Shawnee is the first-ever golf course design by famed architect A.W. Tillinghast. The course is uniquely flat and classically designed in comparison to its counterparts within the Pocono Mountains. Shawnee is an excellent course for golfers to walk due to its minimal elevation change, giving players plenty of time to soak in the marvelous river and mountain views. The resort is also home to a full-length driving range and a Chip n’ Putt course that was designed by architect Tom Doak, featuring six fun little par-3 holes of varying distances.
100 Shawnee Inn Drive, Shawnee on Delaware, PA, Phone: 570-424-4000
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22.Thunderhart Golf Course and Resort
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Thunderhart Golf Course and Resort is a challenging, par-72 championship golf course that is situated within the Catskill Basin, in Freehold, New York. This 6,482-yard course features narrow, tree-lined fairways, 15 strategically placed sand traps, and 11 shimmering ponds. The front nine offers a more traditional golf experience, while the back nine delivers a Parkland-style feel, as each hole is beautifully cut through the forest of the Catskills. With the Fireside Lounge, Clubhouse Grille, and outdoor Pavilion all located next to a picturesque pond, Thunderhart offers an idyllic setting for grabbing a pint and bite to eat after a memorable round, or just enjoying a fun group outing.
2740 Country Route 67, Freehold, NY, Phone: 518-634-7816
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23.Windham Country Club
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Windham Country Club is a beautiful golf course that is situated high atop the Catskill Mountains in Windham, New York. This 18-hole golf course is open to the public, but delivers an opulent private club atmosphere. Windham is a challenging and wonderfully-scenic course that features immaculate fairways and greens, offering magnificent views of the Great Northern Catskills and Batavia Kill creek. This sprawling course stretches to 6,268 yards in length and is a par 71. Golfers will appreciate the condition the course is kept in, with its well-manicured bunkers, greens like velvet pool tables, and tightly-mown fairways. Mulligan’s Pub is attached to the clubhouse, offering delicious food and an outdoor deck.
36 South Street, Windham, NY, Phone: 518-734-9910
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24.Wolf Hollow at the Water Gap Country Club
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Wolf Hollow at the Water Gap Country Club is a very scenic mountain course that once hosted a Major event, located in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania. This historic course was constructed in the 1920s and has had many legendary golfers walk its lush-green fairways. Rich in tradition and history, this links-style course was designed by the PGA’s first president, Robert White. It’s a shot-makers course where golfers will have the opportunity to hit some big drives and clean approaches; mishits are penalized severely, making it a challenging test for all skill levels. Golfers will enjoy marvelous views of the rolling mountains, surrounding woodlands, and local wildlife. There’s also a pro shop for any quick needs before the round.
288 Mountain Road, Delaware Water Gap, PA, Phone: 570-476-4653
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Buck Hill Golf Club, Photo: Buck Hill Golf Club
Catskill Golf Resort, Photo: Mikael Damkier/stock.adobe.com
Championship Golf at the Blackhead Mountain Lodge & Country Club, Photo: Championship Golf at the Blackhead Mountain Lodge & Country Club
Christman’s Windham House Country Inn and Golf Resort, Photo: LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS/stock.adobe.com
Colonial Golf Club, Photo: Colonial Golf Club
Country Club of the Poconos Municipal Golf Course, Photo: Country Club of the Poconos Municipal Golf Course
Doral Arrowwood, Photo: Doral Arrowwood
Hanah Mountain Resort & Golf Club, Photo: Hanah Mountain Resort & Golf Club
Hideaway Hills Golf Club, Photo: Hideaway Hills Golf Club
Jack Frost National Golf Club, Photo: Jack Frost National Golf Club
Mohonk Mountain House, Photo: demerzel21/stock.adobe.com
Mount Airy Casino Resort - Golf, Photo: Batman57/stock.adobe.com
Pocono Hills Golf Course, Photo: photogolfer/stock.adobe.com
Pocono Manor Resort & Spa, Photo: Pocono Manor Resort & Spa
Rainbow Golf Club Inn and Suites, Photo: Nmedia/stock.adobe.com
Rip Van Winkle Country Club, Photo: Rip Van Winkle Country Club
Skytop Lodge Golf Course, Photo: Skytop Lodge Golf Course
Split Rock Golf Club, Photo: Split Rock Golf Club
Sunny Hill Golf Course, Photo: Sunny Hill Golf Course
The Country Club at Woodloch Springs, Photo: freebird7977/stock.adobe.com
The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort, Photo: The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort
Thunderhart Golf Course and Resort, Photo: Thunderhart Golf Course and Resort
Windham Country Club, Photo: Windham Country Club
Wolf Hollow at the Water Gap Country Club, Photo: Jacob Lund/stock.adobe.com
Cover Photo: Andy/stock.adobe.com
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Austin — For auds and buyers searching for the next “Sugar Man,” there’s no better place for one-stop shopping than the SXSW Film Festival, which intersects with its sister music fest midweek and finds a whole new buzz-generating crowd eager to sample a music docu slate packing both celeb heat and little-known-story gems.
The fest’s world preem-packed 24 Beats Per Second program bowed docu contenders like Lily Keber’s “Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker” (about the 1960s-70s era musician Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced”), Reuben Atlas’ “Brothers Hypnotic” (about the family dynamic and career trajectory of the eight-man Chicago jazz/hip-hop brass ensemble — all sons of jazz legend Phil Cohran) and Sini Anderson’s “The Punk Singer,” an intimate “whatever-happened-to?” portrait of outspoken riot grrrl movement figure Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre).
The fest’s dedicated music strand also screened Morgan Neville’s “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” which was snapped up by TWC after its Sundance bow, and Greg Camalier’s Sundance-preeming “Muscle Shoals,” that inked theatrical (Magnolia) and TV (PBS’s “Independent Lens”) deals announced during SX.
“With our ongoing primary focus on feature docs we know these music-themed films are going to do well in the marketplace and awards season,” said Submarine’s Josh Braun, who repped both pics as well as last year’s Oscar-winning “Searching for Sugar Man.”
“Distributors are becoming more open because they see how films like ‘Sugar Man’ resonate with audiences, so well theatrically and have a vibrant life as they move through ancillaries,” he continued.
At SX, Braun is repping Ryan White’s “Good Ol’ Freda,” a crowd-pleaser that world-preemed Saturday and tells, for the first time, the story of Fab Four’s loyal secretary Freda Kelly during the heady days of Beatlemania. Pic has momentum with buyer offers. “We don’t necessarily expect a sale during Southby but are confident our expectations will be realized in the weeks ahead,” said Braun.
“Freda” and AJ Schnack and David Wilson’s “We Always Lie To Strangers” (repped by Cinetic), which world-preemed Monday, are pics that — while not specifically music-focussed — tap into auds’ appetite for showbiz behind-the-scenes glimpses while delivering highly cinematic, character-driven narratives that should see both thrive on the fest circuit and find good buyer homes.
“Strangers” offers a sweeping Altman-esque portrait of contemporary America by following the members of two prominent showbiz families and a few other fascinating working performers in Branson, Missouri, a town frequently referred to as the “Las Vegas of the Ozarks.”
Wilson, who founded the True/False fest in Columbia, Missouri, in 2004, and Schnack, who started the Cinema Eye docu awards in 2008, filmed “Strangers” over five years and were “imbedded” in the town in 2008. While it’s tough for docus that don’t tackle prominent issues or include celebrities to find auds beyond the festival circuit, the co-helmers have good reason to smile.
“Just look at the films that won the documentary Oscar the past two years in a row,” said Wilson, referring to “Undefeated” and “Sugar Man.” “They’re both so different from the kinds of films that usually win and both were embraced by filmgoers.”
While SXSW provides plenty of space for little-known stories and potential breakouts, the fest also makes sure the stars align.
Musician and director of Sundance docu buzzer “Sound City” (which also screened here this week) Dave Grohl hits the Stubb’s stage Thursday night with the Sound City Players, featuring an all-star lineup including Stevie Nicks. Thursday afternoon the Fleetwood Mac chanteuse appeared at the screening of making-of docu “In Your Dreams,” which she co-directed with producer Dave Stewart. Earlier this week a one-day theatrical release (April 2) of “Dreams” in more than 50 cities was announced by distributor Abramorama.
Friday delivers similar film/live-show synergy with the afternoon world-preem of Doug Hamilton’s “Broadway Idiot,” about Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong’s prep for the bow of his musical “American Idiot,” with a much-anticipated concert by the band at Austin City Limits Live on deck for the evening.
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Drilling rig Nanhai-9. Photo: Rosneft
No fortune for Statoil in Russian wells
The Norwegian company might have spent $300 million on its two joint wells with Rosneft in the Sea of Okhotsk. They were both dry, reports say.
Expectations were high as the Chinese rig «Nanhai-9» in early June spud the Ulberikansky well in the Sea of Okhotsk. The well is located in the Lisyansky area, one of two licenses areas included in the cooperation agreement between Statoil and Rosneft.
Later, the rig followed up with the drilling of a well at the Magadan-1 license area.
Now, sources in the involved operations say to newspaper Vedomosti that both wells did not reveal any oil.
That is not confirmed by the companies. In a comment to the Barents Observer, Head of Media Relations in Statoil, Bård Glad Pedersen, says that the two partner companies are still in the process of analyzing results.
«Results from the wells will clarify the potential of the Sea of Okhotsk, which is a new and poorly explored area».
According to Vedomosti, the drilling operations might have cost up to $150 million for each of the wells. That was all covered by the Norwegians, in line with the cooperation agreement from 2012.
Two joint ventures, the Magadanmorneftegaz and the Lisyanskneftegaz, were established ahead of the operations. The Norwegians control a 33 percent stake in both.
In addition to the Magadan-1 and Lisyansky licenses, the cooperation agreement includes the Perseyevsky license in the Barents Sea.
With the wells, Statoil pushes the limits of the sanction regime against Russia. The sanctions prohibits western companies’ engagement in drilling in Russian waters on depths below 150 meters.
According to Statoil, the drilling at the Ulberikansky is not a violation of the regulations.
«Drilling will be conducted in shallow waters, less than 150 meter depths, and is consequently not in conflict with the sanctions», company press spokesman Knut Rostad underlined to the Barents Observer in May this year.
He added that the wells are located approximately on the same latitude as the North Sea and that there will be no ice in the area at the time of drilling.
Rosneft, Statoil spud joint well
Getting ready for joint Russian-Norwegian offshore drilling
Rosneft, Statoil discuss joint drilling
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The Golden Calf by M. E. Braddon
THE ARTICLED PUPIL.
‘Where is Miss Palliser?’ inquired Miss Pew, in that awful voice of hers, at which the class-room trembled, as at unexpected thunder. A murmur ran along the desks, from girl to girl, and then some one, near that end of the long room which was sacred to Miss Pew and her lieutenants, said that Miss Palliser was not in the class-room.
‘I think she is taking her music lesson, ma’am,’ faltered the girl who had ventured diffidently to impart this information to the schoolmistress.
‘Think?’ exclaimed Miss Pew, in her stentorian voice. ‘How can you think about an absolute fact? Either she is taking her lesson, or she is not taking her lesson. There is no room for thought. Let Miss Palliser be sent for this moment.’
At this command, as at the behest of the Homeric Jove himself, half a dozen Irises started up to carry the ruler’s message; but again Miss Pew’s mighty tones resounded in the echoing class-room.
‘I don’t want twenty girls to carry one message. Let Miss Rylance go.’
There was a grim smile on the principal’s coarsely-featured countenance as she gave this order. Miss Rylance was not one of the six who had started up to do the schoolmistress’s bidding. She was a young lady who considered her mission in life anything rather than to carry a message—a young lady who thought herself quite the most refined and elegant thing at Mauleverer Manor, and so entirely superior to her surroundings as to be absolved from the necessity of being obliging. But Miss Pew’s voice, when fortified by anger, was too much even for Miss Rylance’s calm sense of her own merits, and she rose at the lady’s bidding, laid down her ivory penholder on the neatly written exercise, and walked out of the room quietly, with the slow and stately deportment imparted by a long course of instruction from Madame Rigolette, the fashionable dancing-mistress.
‘Rylance won’t much like being sent on a message,’ whispered Miss Cobb, the Kentish brewer’s daughter, to Miss Mullins, the Northampton carriage-builder’s heiress.
‘And old Pew delights in taking her down a peg,’ said Miss Cobb, who was short, plump, and ruddy, a picture of rude health and unrefined good looks—a girl who bore ‘beer’ written in unmistakable characters across her forehead, Miss Rylance had observed to her own particular circle. ‘I will say that for the old lady,’ added Miss Cobb, ‘she never cottons to stuckupishness.’
Vulgarity of speech is the peculiar delight of a schoolgirl off duty. She spends so much of her life under the all-pervading eye of authority, she is so drilled, and lectured, and ruled and regulated, that, when the eye of authority is off her, she seems naturally to degenerate into licence. No speech so interwoven with slang as the speech of a schoolgirl—except that of a schoolboy.
There came a sudden hush upon the class-room after Miss Rylance had departed on her errand. It was a sultry afternoon in late June, and the four rows of girls seated at the two long desks in the long bare room, with its four tall windows facing a hot blue sky, felt almost as exhausted by the heat as if they had been placed under an air-pump. Miss Pew had a horror of draughts, so the upper sashes were only lowered a couple of inches, to let out the used atmosphere. There was no chance of a gentle west wind blowing in to ruffle the loose hair upon the foreheads of those weary students.
Thursday afternoons were devoted to the study of German. The sandy-haired young woman at the end of the room furthest from Miss Pew’s throne was Fräulein Wolf, from Frankfort, and it was Fräulein Wolf’s mission to go on eternally explaining the difficulties of her native language to the pupils at Mauleverer Manor, and to correct those interesting exercises of Ollendorff’s which ascend from the primitive simplicity of golden candlesticks and bakers’ dogs, to the loftiest themes in romantic literature.
For five minutes there was no sound save the scratching of pens, and the placid voice of the Fräulein demonstrating to Miss Mullins that in an exercise of twenty lines, ten words out of every twenty were wrong, and then the door was opened suddenly—not at all in the manner so carefully instilled by the teacher of deportment. It was flung back, rather, as if with an angry hand, and a young woman, taller than the generality of her sex, walked quickly up the room to Miss Pew’s desk, and stood before that bar of justice, with head erect, and dark flashing eyes, the incarnation of defiance.
‘Was für ein Mädchen.’ muttered the Fräulein, blinking at that distant figure, with her pale gray-green eyes.
Miss Pew pretended not to see the challenge in the girl’s angry eyes. She turned to her subordinate, Miss Pillby, the useful drudge who did a little indifferent teaching in English grammar and geography, looked after the younger girls’ wardrobes, and toadied the mistress of the house.
‘Miss Pillby, will you be kind enough to show Ida Palliser the state of her desk?’ asked Miss Pew, with awe-inspiring politeness.
‘She needn’t do anything of the kind, ‘said Ida coolly. ‘I know the state of my desk quite as well as she does. I daresay it’s untidy. I haven’t had time to put things straight.’
‘Untidy!’ exclaimed Miss Pew, in her appalling baritone; ‘untidy is not the word. It’s degrading. Miss Pillby, be good enough to call over the various articles which you have found in Ida Palliser’s desk.’
Miss Pillby rose to do her employer’s bidding. She was a dull piece of human machinery to which the idea of resistance to authority was impossible. There was no dirty work she would not have done meekly, willingly even, at Miss Pew’s bidding. The girls were never tired of expatiating upon Miss Pillby’s meanness; but the lady herself did not even know that she was mean. She had been born so.
She went to the locker, lifted the wooden lid, and proceeded in a flat, drawling voice to call over the items which she found in that receptacle.
‘A novel, “The Children of the Abbey,” without a cover.’
‘Ah!’ sighed Miss Pew.
‘One stocking with a rusty darning-needle sticking in it. Five apples, two mouldy. A square of hardbake. An old neck-ribbon. An odd cuff. Seven letters. A knife, with the blade broken. A bundle of pen-and-ink—well, I suppose they are meant for sketches.’
‘Hand them over to me,’ commanded Miss Pew.
She had seen some of Ida Palliser’s pen-and-ink sketches before to-day—had seen herself represented in every ridiculous guise and attitude by that young person’s facile pen. Her large cheeks reddened in anticipation of her pupil’s insolence. She took the sheaf of crumpled paper and thrust it hastily into her pocket.
A ripple of laughter swept over Miss Palliser’s resolute face; but she said not a word.
‘Half a New Testament—the margins shamefully scribbled over,’ pursued Miss Pillby, with implacable monotony. ‘Three Brazil nuts. A piece of slate-pencil. The photograph of a little boy—’
‘My brother,’ cried Ida hastily. ‘I hope you are not going to confiscate that, Miss Pew, as you have confiscated my sketches.’
‘It would be no more than you deserve if I were to burn everything in your locker, Miss Palliser,’ said the schoolmistress.
‘Burn everything except my brother’s portrait. I might never get another.
Papa is so thoughtless. Oh, please, Miss Pillby, give me back the photo.’
‘Give her the photograph,’ said Miss Pew, who was not all inhuman, although she kept a school, a hardening process which is supposed to deaden the instincts of womanhood. ‘And now, pray, Miss Palliser, what excuse have you to offer for your untidiness?’
‘None,’ said Ida, ‘except that I have no time to be tidy. You can’t expect tidiness from a drudge like me.’
And with this cool retort Miss Palliser turned her back upon her mistress and left the room.
‘Did you ever see such cheek?’ murmured the irrepressible Miss Cobb to her neighbour.
‘She can afford to be cheeky,’ retorted the neighbour. ‘She has nothing to lose. Old Pew couldn’t possibly treat her any worse than she does. If she did, it would be a police case.’
When Ida Palliser was in the little lobby outside the class room, she took the little boy’s photograph from her pocket, and kissed it passionately. Then she ran upstairs to a small room on the landing, where there was nothing but emptiness and a worn-out old square piano, and sat down for her hour’s practice. She was always told off to the worst pianos in the house. She took out a book of five-finger exercises, by a Leipsic professor, placed it on the desk, and then, just as she was beginning to play, her whole frame was shaken like a bulrush in a sudden gust of wind; she let her head fall forward on the desk, and burst into tears, hot, passionate tears, that came like a flood, in spite of her determination not to cry.
What was the matter with Ida Palliser? Not much, perhaps. Only poverty, and poverty’s natural corollary, a lack of friends. She was the handsomest girl in the school, and one of the cleverest—clever in an exceptional way, which claimed admiration even from the coldest. She occupied the anomalous position of a pupil teacher, or an articled pupil. Her father, a military man, living abroad on his half pay, with a young second wife, and a five-year old son, had paid Miss Pew a lump sum of fifty pounds, and for those fifty pounds Miss Pew had agreed to maintain and educate Ida Palliser during the space of three years, to give her the benefit of instruction from the masters who attended the school, and to befit her for the brilliant and lucrative career of governess in a gentleman’s family. As a set-off against these advantages, Miss Pew had full liberty to exact what services she pleased from Miss Palliser, stopping short, as Miss Green had suggested, of a police case.
Miss Pew had not shown herself narrow in her ideas of the articled pupil’s capacity. It was her theory that no amount of intellectual labour, including some manual duties in the way of assisting in the lavatory on tub-nights, washing hair-brushes, and mending clothes, could be too much for a healthy young woman of nineteen. She always talked of Ida as a young woman. The other pupils of the same age she called girls; but of Ida she spoke uncompromisingly as a ‘young woman.’
‘Oh, how I hate them all!’ said Ida, in the midst of her sobs. ‘I hate everybody, myself most of all!’
Then she pulled herself together with an effort, dried her tears hurriedly, and began her five-finger exercises, tum, tum, tum, with the little finger, all the other fingers pinned resolutely down upon the keys.
‘I wonder whether, if I had been ugly and stupid, they would have been a little more merciful to me?’ she said to herself.
Miss Palliser’s ability had been a disadvantage to her at Mauleverer Manor. When Miss Pew discovered that the girl had a knack of teaching she enlarged her sphere of tuition, and from taking the lowest class only, as former articled pupils had done, Miss Palliser was allowed to preside over the second and third classes, and thereby saved her employers forty pounds a year.
To teach two classes, each consisting of from fifteen to twenty girls, was in itself no trifling labour. But besides this Ida had to give music lessons to that lowest class which she had ceased to instruct in English and French, and whose studies were now conducted by Miss Pillby. She had her own studies, and she was eager to improve herself, for that career of governess in a gentleman’s family was the only future open to her. She used to read the advertisements in the governess column of the Times supplement, and it comforted her to see that an all-accomplished teacher demanded from eighty to a hundred a year for her services. A hundred a year was Ida’s idea of illimitable wealth. How much she might do with such a sum! She could dress herself handsomely, she could save enough money for a summer holiday in Normandy with her neglectful father and her weak little vulgar step-mother, and the half-brother, whom she loved better than anyone else in the world.
The thought of this avenue to fortune gave her fortitude. She braced herself up, and set herself valourously to unriddle the perplexities of a nocturne by Chopin.
‘After all I have only to work on steadily,’ she told herself; ‘there will come an end to my slavery.’
Presently she began to laugh to herself softly:
‘I wonder whether old Pew has looked at my caricatures,’ she thought, ‘and whether she’ll treat me any worse on account of them?’
She finished her hour’s practice, put her music back into her portfolio, which lived in an ancient canterbury under the ancient piano, and went to the room where she slept, in company with seven other spirits, as mischievous and altogether evilly disposed as her own.
Mauleverer Manor had not been built for a school, or it would hardly have been called a manor. There were none of those bleak, bare dormitories, specially planned for the accommodation of thirty sleepers—none of those barrack-like rooms which strike desolation to the soul. With the exception of the large classroom which had been added at one end of the house, the manor was very much as it had been in the days of the Mauleverers, a race now as extinct as the Dodo. It was a roomy, rambling old house of the time of the Stuarts, and bore the date of its erection in many unmistakable peculiarities. There were fine rooms on the ground floor, with handsome chimney-pieces and oak panelling. There were small low rooms above, curious old passages, turns and twists, a short flight of steps here, and another flight there, various levels, irregularities of all kinds, and, in the opinion of every servant who had ever lived in the house, an unimpeachable ghost. All Miss Pew’s young ladies believed firmly in that ghost; and there was a legend of a frizzy-haired girl from Barbados who had seen the ghost, and had incontinently gone out of one epileptic fit into another, until her father had come in a fly—presumably from Barbados—and carried her away for ever, epileptic to the last.
Nobody at present located at Mauleverer Manor remembered that young lady from Barbados, nor had any of the existing pupils ever seen the ghost. But the general faith in him was unshaken. He was described as an elderly man in a snuff-coloured, square-cut coat, knee-breeches, and silk stockings rolled up over his knees. He was supposed to be one of the extinct Mauleverers; harmless and even benevolently disposed; given to plucking flowers in the garden at dusk; and to gliding along passages, and loitering on the stairs in a somewhat inane manner. The bolder-spirited among the girls would have given a twelve-month’s pocket money to see him. Miss Pillby declared that the sight of that snuff-coloured stranger would be her death.
‘I’ve a weak ‘art, you know,’ said Miss Pillby, who was not mistress of her aspirates,—she managed them sometimes, but they often evaded her,—’the doctor said so when I was quite a little thing.’
‘Were you ever a little thing, Pillby?’ asked Miss Rylance with superb disdain, the present Pillby being long and gaunt.
And the group of listeners laughed, with that frank laughter of school girls keenly alive to the ridiculous in other people. There was as much difference in the standing of the various bedrooms at Mauleverer Manor as in that of the London squares, but in this case it was the inhabitants who gave character to the locality. The five-bedded room off the front landing was occupied by the stiffest and best behaved of the first division, and might be ranked with Grosvenor Square or Lancaster Gate. There were rooms on the second floor where girls of the second and third division herded in inelegant obscurity, the Bloomsbury and Camden Town of the mansion. On this story, too, slept the rabble of girls under twelve—creatures utterly despicable in the minds of girls in their teens, and the rooms they inhabited ranked as low as St. Giles’s.
Ida Palliser was fortunate enough to have a bed in the butterfly-room, so called on account of a gaudy wall paper, whereon Camberwell Beauties disported themselves among roses and lilies in a strictly conventional style of art. The butterfly-room was the most fashionable and altogether popular dormitory at the Manor. It was the May Fair—a district not without a shade of Bohemianism, a certain fastness of tone. The wildest girls in the school were to be found in the butterfly-room.
It was a pleasant enough room in itself, even apart from its association with pleasant people. The bow window looked out upon the garden and across the garden to the Thames, which at this point took a wide curve between banks shaded by old pollard willows. The landscape was purely pastoral. Beyond the level meadows came an undulating line of low hill and woodland, with here and there a village spire dark against the blue.
Mauleverer Manor lay midway between Hampton and Chertsey, in a land of meadows and gardens which the speculating builder had not yet invaded.
The butterfly-room was furnished a little better than the common run of boarding-school bedchambers. Miss Pew had taken a good deal of the Mauleverer furniture at a valuation when she bought the old house; and the Mauleverer furniture being of a rococo and exploded style, the valuation had been ridiculously low. Thus it happened that a big wainscot wardrobe, with doors substantial enough for a church, projected its enormous bulk upon one side of the butterfly-room, while a tall narrow cheval glass stood in front of a window. That cheval was the glory of the butterfly-room. The girls could see how their skirts hung, and if the backs of their dresses fitted. On Sunday mornings there used to be an incursion of outsiders, eager to test the effect of their Sabbath bonnets, and the sets of their jackets, by the cheval.
And now Ida Palliser came into the butterfly-room, yawning wearily, to brush herself up a little before tea, knowing that Miss Pew and her younger sister, Miss Dulcibella—who devoted herself to dress and the amenities of life generally—would scrutinize her with eyes only too ready to see anything amiss.
The butterfly-room was not empty. Miss Rylance was plaiting her long flaxen hair in front of the toilet table, and another girl, a plump little sixteen-year-old, with nut-brown hair, and a fresh complexion, was advancing and retiring before the cheval, studying the effect of a cherry-coloured neck-ribbon with a gray gown.
‘Cherry’s a lovely colour in the abstract,’ said this damsel, ‘but it reminds one too dreadfully of barmaids.’
‘Did you ever see a barmaid?’ asked Miss Rylance, languidly, slowly winding the long flaxen plait into a shining knob at the back of her head, and contemplating her reflection placidly with large calm blue eyes which saw no fault in the face they belonged to.
With features so correctly modelled, and a complexion so delicately tinted, Miss Rylance ought to have been lovely. But she had escaped loveliness by a long way. There was something wanting, and that something was very big.
‘Good gracious, yes; I’ve seen dozens of barmaids,’ answered Bessie Wendover, with her frank voice. ‘Do you suppose I’ve never been into an hotel, or even into a tavern? When I go for a long drive with papa he generally wants brandy and soda, and that’s how I get taken into the bar and introduced to the barmaid.’
‘When you say introduced, of course you don’t mean it,’ said Miss Rylance, fastening her brooch. ‘Calling things by their wrong names is your idea of wit.’
‘I would rather have a mistaken idea of wit than none at all,’ retorted Miss Wendover, and then she pirouetted on the tips of her toes, and surveyed her image in the glass from head to foot, with an aggravated air. ‘I hope I’m not vulgar-looking, but I’m rather afraid I am,’ she said. ‘What’s the good of belonging to an old Saxon family if one has a thick waist and large hands?’
‘What’s the good of anything at Mauleverer Manor?’ asked Ida, coming into the room, and seating herself on the ground with a dejected air.
Bessie Wendover ran across the room and sat down beside her.
‘So you were in for it again this afternoon, you poor dear thing,’ she murmured, in a cooing voice. ‘I wish I had been there. It would have been “Up, guards, and at ’em!” if I had. I’m sure I should have said something cheeky to old Pew. The idea of overhauling your locker! I should just like her to see the inside of mine. It would make her blood run cold.’
‘Ah!’ sighed Ida, ‘she can’t afford to make an example of you. You mean a hundred and fifty pounds a year. I am of no more account in her eyes than an artist’s lay figure, which is put away in a dark closet when it isn’t in use. She wanted to give you girls a lesson in tidiness, so she put me into her pillory. Fortunately I’m used to the pillory.’
‘But you are looking white and worried, you dear lovely thing,’ exclaimed Bessie, who was Ida Palliser’s bosom friend. ‘It’s too bad the way they use you. Have this neck-ribbon,’ suddenly untying the bow so carefully elaborated five minutes ago. ‘You must, you shall; I don’t want it; I hate it. Do, dear.’
And for consolation Miss Wendover tied the cherry-coloured ribbon under her friend’s collar, patted Ida’s pale cheeks, and kissed and hugged her.
‘Be happy, darling, do,’ she said, in her loving half-childish way, while Miss Rylance looked on with ineffable contempt. ‘You are so clever and so beautiful; you were born to be happy.’
‘Do you think so, pet?’ asked Ida, with cold scorn; ‘then I ought to have been born with a little more money.’
‘What does money matter?’ cried Bessie.
‘Not very much to a girl like you, who has never known the want of it.’
‘That’s not true, darling. I never go home for the holidays that I don’t hear father grumble about his poverty. The rents are so slow to come in; the tenants are always wanting drain-pipes and barns and things. Last Christmas his howls were awful. We are positive paupers. Mother has to wait ages for a cheque.’
‘Ah, my pet, that’s a very different kind of poverty from mine. You have never known what it is to have only three pairs of wearable stockings.’
Bessie looked as if she were going to cry.
‘If you were not so disgustingly proud, you horrid thing, you need never feel the want of stockings,’ she said discontentedly.
‘If it were not for what you call my disgusting pride, I should degenerate into that loathsome animal a sponge,’ said Ida, rising suddenly from her dejected attitude, and standing up before her admiring little friend,
‘A daughter of the gods, divinely tall And most divinely fair.’
That fatal dower of beauty had been given to Ida Palliser in fullest measure. She had the form of a goddess, a head proudly set upon shoulders that were sloping but not narrow, the walk of a Moorish girl, accustomed to carrying a water-jug on her head, eyes dark as night, hair of a deep warm brown rippling naturally across her broad forehead, a complexion of creamiest white and richest carnation. These were but the sensual parts of beauty which can be catalogued. But it was in the glorious light and variety of expression that Ida shone above all compeers. It was by the intellectual part of her beauty that she commanded the admiration—enthusiastic in some cases, in others grudging and unwilling—of her schoolfellows, and reigned by right divine, despite her shabby gowns and her cheap ready-made boots, the belle of the school.
The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour
The Girl at The Halfway House by Emerson Hough
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Sunny Leone Joins Team Hauterfly And Reveals Another Side To Her In This Powerful Video
Hauterfly has launched a full fledged flight into an exciting space of beauty, lifestyle and fashion with none other than, Sunny Leone as the brand ambassador who is now also as an equity investor in Fork Media Group.
And to celebrate the collaboration, we found the perfect way to host this amalgamation of talent and substance through a video that went live, just yesterday and introduced us to a side of Sunny that perhaps not many of us have seen.
The video walks us through the different faces of Sunny, in each aspect of life, starting with her confident self. Where no matter how her hair looks like, she wears it as a crown, as should we. Followed by talk about the shushed conventions of the world on topics such as menstruation. She smashes such taboos. The red is not just on the lips, it’s in the veins, it’s in every woman’s passion as well. Sunny shows her bold self with this.
The video treads along to say how what women wear, is purely their choice and wild is the colour we like best. This is the bindaas woman. Going on to address the pay inequality that exists in the system, Sunny reveals that she wants loyalty, because she can pay for herself. This is her unabashed self.
The video then goes on to talk about the empowered woman, who is well versed with the concept of ‘my body, my rules’ and does not measure her worth with the size of her waist. To finally come to the last statement that the video makes, talking about how whom we love, a man or a woman, is purely our own business and should be left at that, because we are always going to unapologetic about who we are and what we want.
The message that Hauterfly and Sunny Leone and as a matter of a fact, every woman on the block wants to convey is just that before the society goes on to tell us who we are or what we are supposed to be, they should know, that we already know better. And who better to convey that message, than a woman who has broken through all the conventions to stand tall and successful and extremely satisfied with the decisions she has taken in life.
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Tag: Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen Will Push For Nancy Pelosi as Next Speaker of the House
August 22, 2018 August 21, 2018 Chris Butler
If Democrats retake the U.S. House of Representatives this fall then U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, said he’ll support Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House yet again. Cohen made his remarks on MSNBC this past weekend. While there, he also called Republican President Donald Trump “a maniac.” No one…
NewsMarsha Blackburn, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, Peter Strzok, Steve Cohen5 Comments
Tennessee Democratic Spokesman Calls Evangelical Christians Racist
August 22, 2018 August 21, 2018 Jason M. Reynolds
The Daily Caller is calling out Tennessee Democratic Party spokesman Mark Brown’s offensive language against Republicans, evangelical Christians who support President Donald Trump and even country music. Brown also serves as spokesman for Phil Bredesen’s U.S. Senate campaign. “Many of Brown’s most offensive tweets have been deleted but have been…
News, Politics2018 Republican Gubernatorial primary, 2018 Tennessee U.S. Senate race, Democrats, Mark Brown, Phil Bredesen, Steve Cohen4 Comments
Commentary: Mainstream Media Is a Watchdog on Republicans, But a Lapdog for Democrats
This week mainstream media reporters nationwide took a posture against President Donald Trump and asserted they act with integrity and objectivity and that his attacks on them are attacks on democracy itself. Hook people in the mainstream media up to polygraph machines and ask them if they really believe that.…
Commentary, NewsDemocrats, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, John Ashcroft, Kathleen Sebelius, mainstream media, media bias, Memphis, Obamacare, Republicans, Steve Cohen2 Comments
Marsha Blackburn Blasts Phil Bredesen, Who Was in the Audience, for Not Calling Out Steve Cohen for Bridge Jumping Comments
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) spoke to Fox & Friends Wednesday about her Democratic counterpart Steve Cohen’s violent remarks about wishing she would jump off a bridge. The interview is available here. Ainsley Earhardt played the Huffington Post’s audio of U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) saying he wished President Donald…
News, Politics2018 Tennessee U.S. Senate race, Democrats, Marsha Blackburn, Memphis, Phil Bredesen, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Steve Cohen, Steve Cohen1 Comment
Democrats Double Down on Personal Attacks Against Marsha Blackburn: She ‘Can Swim’
Marsha Blackburn “can swim,” a Democratic consultant said Sunday in response to U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen’s violent remark about wanting President Donald Trump to tell the Senate candidate to jump off a bridge. Cohen (D-TN-09) made the remark last month to a group of pastors at a prayer breakfast meant…
News, Politics2018 Tennessee U.S. Senate race, Democrats, Marsha Blackburn, Phil Bredesen, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Steve Cohen, Steve Cohen6 Comments
Marsha Blackburn Responds to ‘Hurtful’ Violent Remarks Steve Cohen Made About Jumping Off Bridge
Ed Henry of Fox News interviewed Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Friday about U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen’s violent remarks about her. Henry remarked, “It seems like incivility in politics is growing worse by the day.” He then played audio of Cohen (D-TN-09) saying he wished President Donald Trump would…
News, Politics2018 Tennessee U.S. Senate race, Democrats, Marsha Blackburn, Memphis, President Donald Trump, Rep Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07), Rep. Steve Cohen, Steve Cohen6 Comments
Rep. Steve Cohen Wants President Trump to Tell Rep. Marsha Blackburn to Jump Off a Memphis Bridge
Just as you can count on the sun to rise tomorrow, you can expect U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen to make an inappropriate statement. Now, he has ratcheted it up by saying he wants President Donald Trump to tell U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn to jump off a bridge, The Huffington Post…
News, Politics2018 Tennessee U.S. Senate race, Democrats, Marsha Blackburn, President Donald Trump, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Steve Cohen, Steve Cohen, Steve Gill4 Comments
Tennessee Kids Awarded Federal Money for Hunger and Obesity
August 10, 2018 August 9, 2018 Chris Butler
Up until at least 2014, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, complained too many of Tennessee’s kids were malnourished and starving and only government could step in to fix the problem. And, yes, Cohen got grant money for that. Now we have the reverse. This year, according to Cohen’s office, too…
NewsMemphis, Steve Cohen, Tennessee, USDA3 Comments
Feds Give Memphis Airport $43 Million, Despite Traffic Decrease
August 9, 2018 August 8, 2018 Chris Butler
Federal taxpayers will shell out $43.3 million to improve the Memphis International Airport, despite reports traffic has fallen dramatically in recent years. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, announced the funding, which came from the Federal Aviation Administration. Exactly $28.5 million of that will reimburse airport officials for reconstructing two taxiways.…
NewsFederal Aviation Administration, Heidi Shafer, Memphis International Airport, Steve CohenLeave a comment
Taxpayer-Funded Program Didn’t End Homelessness in Tennessee
Five years ago, Nashville officials launched an initiative to end homelessness as we know it. The program, part of the “How’s Nashville” campaign, promised homelessness would end before 2017. Seeing as how we’re more than halfway done with 2018 it’s time to assess — did the program do what Nashville…
Local, NewsHomelessness, Memphis, Nashville, Steve Cohen, Tennessee4 Comments
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Austria, Portugal, and the UK win Imagine Cup 2013, taking down $50,000 each
This evening in St. Petersburg Microsoft announced the winning teams of its Imagine Cup student competition. The winning teams from each of the three main tracks will take home $50,000. The gaming award was won by Team Zeppelin Studio of Austria. The World Citizenship award was won by Team For A Better World from Portugal. And Team Colinked from the United Kingdom won the Innovation award.
Among the teams competing for the top gaming prize, Solite Studio of Indonesia and Bonzai Lightning of France won second and third place, taking home $10,000 and $5,00 each. Second and third place for teams focusing on ‘world citizenship’ are Team Omni-Hearing Solution of Taiwan, and of Team Confufish Royale of Australia. They too will take home $10,000 and $5,000 respectively. Omni-Hearing is an app that hears higher and lower frequencies to help those with damaged hearing.
Finally, silver and bronze for the ‘innovation’ track are Team DORA of Slovenia, and Team MYRA of Thailand. $15,000 will be awarded to them as well. DORA is a tool that allows doctors to use Kinect to use their hands without touching to view medical documents during surgery. This prevents them from needing to take time rescrubbing.
The first place winner of the Windows Phone challenge, Team vSoft Studio of Singapore took down $10,000 for their voice notes app that syncs across the cloud to other platforms.
Winning the Azure challenge, also taking down $10,000 was Y-Nots, who built ‘Zoink It!,’ a social networking app that connects people in the same city with the same interests.
The Windows 8 challenge was won by TeamNameException of Italy, snagging $10,000. That team brought several trophies to its country.
Continuing the theme of women in technology, the Women’s Empowerment Award, in cooperation with Microsoft and the United Nations was won by Team Code 8 from Uganda, and Team Omni-Hearing Solution from Taiwan. First place will take home $12,000, and second place $8,000. Team Code 8 worked on an idea that can detect malaria infection, sans the need for a blood sample.
Finally, by far the most finger-licking of the prize menu was the KFC Russia Award, won by Sano, a Canadian team. They have built a training application to cut down on being too sedentary when working on a computer. It’s a $10,000 check and will see the team’s work featured in KFC’s ‘flagship’ location in Moscow.
Microsoft also announced hat the next Imagine Cup finals will take place in Redmond, Microsoft’s home domain.
Top Image Credit: Microsoft
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Tag - Disney Junior Live on Stage!
CONFIRMED: Disney Junior Dance Party Replacing Show at California Adventure
Starting May 26th, 2017, guests traveling with little ones to California Adventure can find some new show experiences inspired by some hit shows on Disney...
RUMOR: Disney Junior – Live on Stage Removing Puppets to Become Screen-Based Show
The Disney Junior: Live on Stage show at Disney California Adventure will be closing for several weeks later this year to undergo a major overhaul that should...
Jose Castillo’s 4/1/15 Hollywood Studios Photo Report (Toy Story Midway Mania, Doc McStuffins,
WDWNT Reporter Jose Castillo visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios this past weekend and has some great newsworthy photos to share with us from his trip:...
VIDEO: Sophia the First and Doc McStuffins Join Disney Junior: Live on Stage at Hollywood Studios & California Adventure
Over the last few weeks, the Disney Junior: Live on Stage show at both Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure was updated to include...
Dirk Wallen’s 2/23/13 Walt Disney World Resort Photo Report
WDWNT Reporter Dirk Wallen takes us to all 4 Walt Disney World theme parks this time around, stopping to check progress on the Seven Dwarfs’ Mine Train...
New Stories Coming to Disney Junior- Live On Stage!
By Shawn Slater on The Disney Parks Blog: As a father of twin boys, the Disney Junior – Live on Stage! show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney California...
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The Gear S3 is a serious smartwatch that enhances how you use your smartphone.
Reviewed By: Logan Strain on February, 17th 2017
The Samsung Gear S3, the Korean company’s latest smartwatch, has to accomplish two things. First, it has to prove that it has meaningfully improved over the earlier Gear S2. There’s no reason to launch a brand new device if you’re just going to rest on your laurels, after all. Second, it has to prove that it can go toe-to-toe with the 125 gram gorilla in the room: the Apple Watch Series 2.
As part of their never-ending quest to be the consumer electronics leader, Apple brought their A game in improving the second iteration of their smartwatch. Samsung has to do likewise if they expect anyone to favor their similarly-priced Gear S3.
So how does the successor stack up?
Samsung Gear S3 Features
Like other smartwatches, you can control the Samsung Gear S3 through voice commands, buttons, and tapping and swiping on the multi-touch display. But it also maintains one of the standout features of the Samsung Gear S2: the rotating bezel. That adds up to four different ways to interact with the watch, which is more than any other watch. That might sound excessive, but it gives users the option of using the watch in a way that feels comfortable and intuitive for them.
The bezel is a particularly inspired innovation. It lets you speed through menus and interact with apps in ways that aren’t possible with other smartwatches. There are subtle features of the bezel, such as the way it locks in place with each increment you twist it, that make it a more fluid and tactile way to use the smartwatch. By itself, it overcomes many of the interaction limitations that are inherent with such a small touchscreen.
Samsung’s voice recognition system, S Voice, is another story. If you’re accustomed to either Siri or OK Google, it will feel a little clunky. It misheard me more frequently than I’m used to when using either of those systems. And even when it did hear me, unusual spellings tripped it up. For example, my wife’s nickname is spelled “Kimi” in my contact list. But when I asked S Voice to “Call Kimi,” it failed to dial her up because it wasn’t spelled “Kimmy.” OK Google on my phone, however, has never had a problem figuring out who I’m talking about when I give the same voice command.
I was also slightly disappointed that the program doesn’t read back answers when I perform a search. When I ask OK Google or Siri a question, like “Who is the president of Nicaragua,” they read me back the answer (Daniel Ortega). But S Voice isn’t as chatty: it simply displays the answer in text.
If you want to finally act out your Dick Tracy fantasies, you can call someone and actually talk to them through your phone. It was super convenient when I needed to make a quick call while driving, and the voice is surprisingly clear on both ends of the line. But a word of warning: until smartwatches become as common as smartphones, chatting with someone in public by talking into your wrist will make you look like a giant dweeb.
Mostly, the whole experience is intuitive. Though it comes with an instruction booklet, I was able to pair it with my phone, organize the widgets, and start downloading and using apps without glancing at the instructions.
Unlike the Apple Watch Series 2, the Samsung Gear S3 can’t go for a dip in the pool for an extended period of time. It is water-resistant, however. According to Samsung, it’s safe to dunk it down to 1.5 meters of water for up to 30 minutes. That means you can take into the shower (a fact I confirmed). But don’t expect to use it to track your 100 meter backstroke time.
Samsung Gear S3 Software
The Gear S3, in the spirit of Apple-like dedication to controlling its software, uses Samsung’s own Tizen operating system. In fairness, that comes with a set of advantages. The OS is fast and responsive, sometimes even faster and more responsive than my Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone. Dismissing a notification, loading an app, or scrolling through information always feels smooth and intuitive.
But it also comes with one major drawback: relatively few apps. App developers rush to create cool new features for the Apple Watch or Android Wear, but the still-small audience for the Samsung Gear isn’t nearly as tempting. If you’ve ever browsed the bounty of apps for other watches, you’re going to feel a little deflated by the options on the Samsung Gear S3.
The upside is that the few apps that are available are excellent.
Samsung Gear S3 Apps
A surprise standout Samsung Gear S3 app is Samsung S Health. It uses many of the included sensors, like the heart rate monitor, GPS sensor, and altimeter, to perform classic fitness tracking functions. You can choose from a huge variety of different activities to get fit, such as running, cycling, or even yoga. It includes guided workouts, and you can choose to have the watch shout encouragement at you, if you need some extra guidance in your journey to health. Within the S Health app, you can check your sleep schedule to see how much shut-eye you’re getting, and you can quickly log how much water and cups of coffee you have through the day.
Other apps add a touch of convenience to the apps that already exist on your phone. Why order an Uber on your smartphone when you can summon one by tapping on your Gear S3? Why set reminders on your phone when you can save a few seconds by performing the same function on your smartwatch? Why check the weather on your phone when your wrist displays the week’s forecast?
There are also a few games, but it’s obvious that game creators are still struggling to figure out how to develop on this new platform. With the possible exception of the puzzle game Rolling Hams, most feel gimmicky.
The watchfaces, both free and paid, are abundant. Whether you want something that imitates an analog watch, or a futuristic display that feeds you whatever information you want along with the time, you’re bound to find something that’s worthy of showing off.
Samsung Gear S3 Battery Life
The bigger 380mAh battery allows you to squeeze three full days of life out of the watch before it needs more juice (two if you find yourself fiddling with it throughout the day). That kind of sustained use outperforms the pervious Samsung Gear S2. And it definitely knocks out the Apple Watch, which can’t go longer than a day before needing to be recharged.
The watch automatically turns off the display, and turns back on whenever you touch it or flip your wrist to look at it. You have the option of leaving the screen on constantly, but that naturally causes the battery to drain much faster. When starved for power, you can set it in “power saving mode.” This allows you extend the life of the watch further, but it basically turns the Gear S3 into a simple watch with a black-and-white display. If you want to use your apps, you’re going to have to find a power outlet.
It comes with a wireless recharging station. It’s easy to place it on the dock and let it charge back up to a full battery in roughly an hour and a half.
Samsung Gear S3 Design
The smartwatch offers two different designs, both of which are better than the Gear S2. The first is the “Classic,” which is modeled after analog dress watches. The second is the “Frontier,” which sports a more modern, sleek design.
The Samsung Gear S3 classic looks nice, but doesn’t have a lot of personality. A few of Samsung’s competitors have released much more distinctive devices. The Apple Watch, for example, has square display and slight, futuristic curves that make it unmistakable. The Garmin Fenix 3 HR has a burlier appearance thanks to its dark steel bezel and visible bolts.
The Gear S3, on the other hand, has a silver bezel and case, simple lug ends, and an old-school dial ring. Replace the miraculously miniature computer and sensors with gears and an analog watchface, and it looks like something you could pick up at Macy’s for fifty bucks. (In fairness, however, that might be the point.)
However, if you want to class up your Gear S3, you can replace the included watch bands with something more fancy.
The watch itself is bulky and sports a 1.3 inch display, which is a hair bigger than the 1.2 inch display of the S2.
The 360 x 360 AMOLED display is always clear and bright, even in direct sunlight. The colors are sharp and crisp — so much so that even videos on the Xenozu app look pretty good. It’s not as sharp as a modern smartphone display, but it’s within striking distance of that quality.
The Post Phone Era
For me, the ultimate test of a full-featured smartwatch is a “phone in pocket” test. That is, how often do you perform a task or function on your watch, simply because it’s faster and more convenient than pulling out the phone your pocket?
By that standard, the Samsung Gear S3 proves its worth. When listening to music on my phone, I flipped through songs on the watch and adjusted the volume using the rotating bezel. When in need of a distraction, I found myself reflexively flipping through news headlines using the Gear’s Flipboard app. When I needed to fire off a quick text message, I just used the Gear’s voice commands (once I figured out how to get around its kinks).
In terms of speed, style, and just plain usefulness, the Samsung Gear S3 is an unquestionable upgrade from the Gear S2. It still retains some features that make it stand out from all other smartwatches, such as the rotating bezel. But it does have some noteworthy drawbacks when compared to the Apple Watch Series 2 — chiefly, it isn’t waterproof, it has sub par voice recognition, and it hosts fewer apps.
Despite that, the Gear S3 is advanced enough to feel like you can see the role smartwatches might play in our lives. They aren’t smartphone replacements — they’re smartphone companions. They make some smartphone functions feel more natural and seamless, allowing us to enjoy the convenience of the connected age without being glued to our phones all the time. If that’s where these devices are headed, then the Samsung Gear S3 is a firm stride toward that glorious post-phone era.
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Chirico, R.D.; Gammon, B.E.; Knipmeyer, S.E.; Nguyen, A.; Strube, M.M.; Tsonopoulos, C.; Steele, W.V., The thermodyanmic properties of dibenzofuran, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1990, 22, 1075-1096. [all data]
Ambrose, D.; Tsonopoulos, C., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 2. Normal Alkenes, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1995, 40, 531-546. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Ambrose, D., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 3. Aromatic Hydrocarbons, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1995, 40, 547-558. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Ambrose, D., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 6. Unsaturated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1996, 41, 645-656. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Ambrose, D., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 3. Aromatic Hydrocarbons, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1995, 40, 547-58. [all data]
Ambrose, D.; Tsonopoulos, C., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 2. Normal Alkanes, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1995, 40, 531-46. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Tan, Z., The critical constants of normal alkanes from methane to polyethylene. II. Application of the Flory theory, Fluid Phase Equilib., 1993, 83, 127-38. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Heidman, J.L., From the virial to the cubic equation of state, Fluid Phase Equilib., 1990, 57, 261-76. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Dymond, J.H.; Szafranski, A.M., Second virial coefficients of normal alkanes, linear 1-alkanols, an their binaries, Pure Appl. Chem., 1989, 61, 1387-94. [all data]
Chirico, R.D.; Nguyen, A.; Steele, W.V.; Strube, M.M.; Tsonopoulos, C., Vapor Pressure of n-Alkanes Revisitied. New High-Precision Vapor Pressure Data on n-Decane, n-Eicosane, and n-Octacosane, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1989, 34, 149-56. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C., AIChE J., 1987, 33, 2080-3. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Heidman, J.L., High-pressure vapor-liquid equilibria with cubic equations of state, Fluid Phase Equilib., 1986, 29, 391. [all data]
Heidman, J.L.; Tsonopoulos, C.; Brady, C.J.; Wilson, G.M., High-temperature mutual solubilities of hydrocarbons and water. Par II: ethylbenzene, ethylcyclohexane, and n-octane, AIChE J., 1985, 31, 376. [all data]
Gray, R.D.; Heidman, J.L.; Springer, R.D.; Tsonopoulos, C., VLE predictions for multicomponent hydrogen systems with cubic equations of state in Proc. 64th Annu. Conv.-Gas Process. Assoc. p 289 1985, 1985. [all data]
Mraw, S.C.; Heidman, J.L.; Hwang, S.-C.; Tsonopoulos, C., Heat capacity of coal liquids, Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. Dev., 1984, 23, 577. [all data]
Mraw, S.C.; Heldman, J.L.; Hwang, S.-C.; Tsonopoulos, C., Heat capacity of coal liquids., Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. Dev., 1984, 23, 577-86. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C., Second virial cross-coefficients: correlation and prediction of kij, Adv. Chem. Ser., 1979, 182, 143-62. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Coulson, D.M.; Inman, L.B., Ionization Constants of Water Pollutants, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1976, 21, 190-3. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C., An Enperical Correlation of Second Virial Coefficients, AiChE J., 1974, 20, 263-71. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Prausnitz, J.M., Activity coefficients of aromatic solutes in dilute aqueous solutions, Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam., 1971, 10, 593-600. [all data]
Tsonopoulos, C.; Prausnitz, J.M., Fugacity coefficients in vapor phase mixtures of water and carboxylic, Chem. Eng. J. (Lausanne), 1970, 1, 273. [all data]
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Cyclohexanol, 4-methyl-, cis-
InChI=1S/C7H14O/c1-6-2-4-7(8)5-3-6/h6-8H,2-5H2,1H3/t6-,7+
IUPAC Standard InChIKey: MQWCXKGKQLNYQG-KNVOCYPGSA-N
Cyclohexanol, 4-methyl-
(.+-.)-4-methyl-1-cyclohexanol
Cyclohexanol, 4-methyl-, trans-
Other names: cis-4-Methylcyclohexanol; 4-Methylcyclohexanol, (Z)-; 4-Methyl cyclohexanol, cis-; 4-Methylcyclohexanol
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
C7H13O- + =
By formula: C7H13O- + H+ = C7H14O
rH° 1559. ± 8.4 kJ/mol CIDC Haas and Harrison, 1993 gas phase; Both metastable and 50 eV collision energy.; B
rH° 1555. ± 9.2 kJ/mol G+TS Majumdar, Clairet, et al., 1992 gas phase; Acidity adjusted to 1987 acidity scale; B
rG° 1531. ± 8.8 kJ/mol H-TS Haas and Harrison, 1993 gas phase; Both metastable and 50 eV collision energy.; B
rG° 1528. ± 8.8 kJ/mol CIDC Majumdar, Clairet, et al., 1992 gas phase; Acidity adjusted to 1987 acidity scale; B
By formula: C7H14O = C7H14O
rH° 1.7 ± 0.5 kJ/mol Eqk Kabo and Frenkel, 1983 gas phase; ALS
rH° 1.7 ± 0.5 kJ/mol Eqk Frenkel and Kabo, 1979 liquid phase; ALS
By formula: C7H14O = H2 + C7H12O
rH° 63.8 ± 2.5 kJ/mol Eqk Fedoseenko, Yursha, et al., 1983 gas phase; At 493 K; ALS
Haas and Harrison, 1993
Haas, M.J.; Harrison, A.G., The Fragmentation of Proton-Bound Cluster Ions and the Gas-Phase Acidities of Alcohols, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., 1993, 124, 2, 115, https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1176(93)80003-W . [all data]
Majumdar, Clairet, et al., 1992
Majumdar, T.K.; Clairet, F.; Tabet, J.C.; Cooks, R.G., PAs of halogenated uridines, J. Am. Chem . Soc., 1992, 114, 2897. [all data]
Kabo and Frenkel, 1983
Kabo, G.J.; Frenkel, M.L., Thermodynamics of diastereomeric transformations of alcohols with different carbon-skeleton structures, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1983, 15, 377-381. [all data]
Frenkel and Kabo, 1979
Frenkel, M.L.; Kabo, G.Ya., Thermodynamics of stereoisomeric transformations of methylcyclohexanols, Termodin. Org. Soedin., 1979, 104-106. [all data]
Fedoseenko, Yursha, et al., 1983
Fedoseenko, V.I.; Yursha, I.A.; Kabo, G.Ya., Equilibrium and thermodynamics of cyclohexanol dehydrogenation reactions, Dokl. Akad. Nauk BSSR, 1983, 27, 926-929. [all data]
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Heptane, 3,5-dimethyl-
Formula: C9H20
InChI=1S/C9H20/c1-5-8(3)7-9(4)6-2/h8-9H,5-7H2,1-4H3
IUPAC Standard InChIKey: DZJTZGHZAWTWGA-UHFFFAOYSA-N
«alpha»,«beta»-3,5-dimethylheptane
3,5-Dimethylheptane, erythro
3,5-Dimethylheptane, threo
3,5-Dimethylheptane, (L)
Other names: 3,5-Dimethylheptane
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BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny, director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
Tboil 409.2 K N/A Weast and Grasselli, 1989 BS
Tboil 408.65 K N/A Maurel, Choque, et al., 1964 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 1. K; TRC
Tboil 408.05 K N/A Treshchova, Tatevskii, et al., 1953 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 1. K; TRC
Tboil 409.15 K N/A Fenske, Braun, et al., 1947 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 0.5 K; TRC
vapH° 43.3 kJ/mol N/A Reid, 1972 AC
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Data compiled by: Rolf Sander
Henry's Law constant (water solution)
kH(T) = k°H exp(d(ln(kH))/d(1/T) ((1/T) - 1/(298.15 K)))
k°H = Henry's law constant for solubility in water at 298.15 K (mol/kg*bar)
d(ln(kH))/d(1/T) = Temperature dependence constant (K)
k°H (mol/kg*bar)
d(ln(kH))/d(1/T) (K)
0.00020 Q N/A missing citation give several references for the Henry's law constants but don't assign them to specific species.
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NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, 1990.
NIST MS number
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Capillary Squalane 100. 834. Heinzen, Soares, et al., 1999
Capillary Squalane 25. 832. Hilal, Carreira, et al., 1994
Capillary DB-1 60. 837.4 Lubeck and Sutton, 1983 Column length: 60. m; Column diameter: 0.264 mm
Capillary DB-1 60. 837.3 Lubeck and Sutton, 1983 60. m/0.259 mm/1. «mu»m
Capillary Squalane 60. 834.4 Chretien and Dubois, 1976
Capillary Squalane 100. 834.6 Lulova, Leont'eva, et al., 1976 He; Column length: 120. m; Column diameter: 0.25 mm
Capillary Vacuum Grease Oil (VM-4) 35. 828. Sidorov, Petrova, et al., 1972
Packed Squalane 50. 833.7 Takács, Szita, et al., 1971 N2, Chromosorb W; Column length: 3. m
Capillary Squalane 60. 834. Matukuma, 1969 N2; Column length: 91.4 m; Column diameter: 0.25 mm
Capillary Squalane 30. 833. Tourres, 1967 H2; Column length: 100. m; Column diameter: 0.25 mm
Capillary Apiezon L 831. Louis, 1971 N2, 1. K/min; Column length: 50. m; Column diameter: 0.25 mm; Tstart: 60. C
Capillary Petrocol DH-100 845.6 Haagen-Smit Laboratory, 1997 He; Column length: 100. m; Column diameter: 0.2 mm; Program: 5C(10min) => 5C/min => 50C(48min) => 1.5C/min => 195C(91min)
Capillary DB-1 839. Hoekman, 1993 60. m/0.32 mm/1.0 «mu»m, He; Program: -40 C for 12 min; -40 - 125 C at 3 deg.min; 125-185 C at 6 deg/min; 185 - 220 C at 20 deg/min; hold 220 C for 2 min
Capillary Squalane 834. Korol and Lysyuk, 1980 Program: not specified
Capillary Petrocol DH 840.2 Censullo, Jones, et al., 2003 50. m/0.25 mm/0.5 «mu»m, He, 35. C @ 10. min, 3. K/min, 200. C @ 10. min
Capillary OV-101 837.6 Yin, Liu, et al., 2001 N2, 1. K/min; Column length: 80. m; Column diameter: 0.22 mm; Tstart: 30. C; Tend: 130. C
Capillary Petrocol DH 837.20 Subramaniam, Bochniak, et al., 1994 100. m/0.25 mm/0.5 «mu»m, He, 1. K/min; Tstart: 30. C; Tend: 220. C
Capillary Petrocol DH 856. White, Hackett, et al., 1992 100. m/0.25 mm/0.5 «mu»m, He, 1. K/min; Tstart: 30. C; Tend: 220. C
Capillary OV-101 838. Wu and Lu, 1984 Program: not specified
Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, isothermal
Capillary OV-101 50. 837. Wu and Lu, 1984, 2
Capillary Polydimethyl siloxane: CP-Sil 5 CB 838. Bramston-Cook, 2013 60. m/0.25 mm/1.0 «mu»m, Helium, 45. C @ 1.45 min, 3.6 K/min, 210. C @ 2.72 min
Capillary OV-101 834. Du and Liang, 2003 Program: not specified
Capillary Polydimethyl siloxane 834. Junkes, Castanho, et al., 2003 Program: not specified
Capillary Polydimethyl siloxanes 838. Yin, Guo, et al., 2001 Program: not specified
Capillary Squalane 831. Petrov, 1984 Program: not specified
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Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]
Maurel, Choque, et al., 1964
Maurel, R.; Choque, A.; Pecque, M., Preparation of diastereoisomeric Saturated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons, C. R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci., 1964, 259, 2650. [all data]
Treshchova, Tatevskii, et al., 1953
Treshchova, E.G.; Tatevskii, V.M.; Fainzil'berg, A.A., Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1953, 27, 1564. [all data]
Fenske, Braun, et al., 1947
Fenske, M.R.; Braun, W.G.; Wiegand, R.V.; Quiggle, D.; McCormick, R.H.; Rank, D.H., Raman Spectra of Hydrocarbons, Anal. Chem., 1947, 19, 700. [all data]
Reid, 1972
Reid, Robert C., Handbook on vapor pressure and heats of vaporization of hydrocarbons and related compounds, R. C. Wilhort and B. J. Zwolinski, Texas A Research Foundation. College Station, Texas(1971). 329 pages.$10.00, AIChE J., 1972, 18, 6, 1278-1278, https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.690180637 . [all data]
Heinzen, Soares, et al., 1999
Heinzen, V.E.F.; Soares, M.F.; Yunes, R.A., Semi-empirical topological method for the prediction of the chromatographic retention of cis- and trans-alkene isomers and alkanes, J. Chromatogr. A, 1999, 849, 2, 495-506, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9673(99)00530-0 . [all data]
Hilal, Carreira, et al., 1994
Hilal, S.H.; Carreira, L.A.; Karickhoff, S.W.; Melton, C.M., Estimation of Gas-Liquid Chromatographic Retention Times from Molecular Structure, J. Chromatogr. A, 1994, 662, 2, 269-280, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(94)80515-6 . [all data]
Lubeck and Sutton, 1983
Lubeck, A.J.; Sutton, DL., Kovats retention indices of selected hydrocarbons through C10 on bonded phase fused silica capillaries, J. Hi. Res. Chromatogr. Chromatogr. Comm., 1983, 6, 6, 328-332, https://doi.org/10.1002/jhrc.1240060612 . [all data]
Chretien and Dubois, 1976
Chretien, J.R.; Dubois, J.-E., New Perspectives in the Prediction of Kovats Indices, J. Chromatogr., 1976, 126, 171-189, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9673(01)84071-1 . [all data]
Lulova, Leont'eva, et al., 1976
Lulova, N.I.; Leont'eva, S.A.; Timofeeva, A.N., Gas-chromatographic method of determination of individual hydrocarbons in catalytic cracking gasolines in Proceedings of All-Union Research Institute on Oil Processes. Vol.18, All-Union Research Institute on Oil Processes, Moscow, 1976, 30-53. [all data]
Sidorov, Petrova, et al., 1972
Sidorov, R.I.; Petrova, V.I.; Ivanova, M.P., Qualitative analysis of wide-boiling fraction C5-C10 with capillary chromatography in Processes in chromatographic columns. Vol.17, 1972, 14-25. [all data]
Takács, Szita, et al., 1971
Takács, J.; Szita, C.; Tarján, G., Contribution to the theory of the retention index system. III. Retention index and molecular structure. Calculation of retention indices of paraffin hydrocarbons on the basis of their molecular structure, J. Chromatogr., 1971, 56, 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9673(00)97771-9 . [all data]
Matukuma, 1969
Matukuma, A., Retention indices of alkanes through C10 and alkenes through C8 and relation between boiling points and retention data, Gas Chromatogr., Int. Symp. Anal. Instrum. Div Instrum Soc. Amer., 1969, 7, 55-75. [all data]
Tourres, 1967
Tourres, D.A., Structure moléculaire et rétention en chromatographie en phase gazeuse. Influence de la température sur l'indice de rétention d'alcanes isomères, J. Chromatogr., 1967, 30, 357-377, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9673(00)84168-0 . [all data]
Louis, 1971
Louis, R., Kovats-index-tafeln zur gaschromatographischen analyse von kohlenwasserstoffgemischen, Erdoel Kohle Erdgas Petrochem., 1971, 24, 2, 88-94. [all data]
Haagen-Smit Laboratory, 1997
Haagen-Smit Laboratory, Procedure for the detailed hydrocarbon analysis of gasolines by single column high efficiency (capillary) column gas chromatography, SOP NO. MLD 118, Revision No. 1.1, California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, El Monte, California, 1997, 22. [all data]
Hoekman, 1993
Hoekman, S.K., Improved gas chromatography procedure for speciated hydrocarbon measurements of vehicle emissions, J. Chromatogr., 1993, 639, 2, 239-253, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(93)80260-F . [all data]
Korol and Lysyuk, 1980
Korol, A.N.; Lysyuk, L.S., A New Thermodynamic Method for Calculating the Retention Indices of Isoalkanes on Squalane, Theor. Exp. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1980, 6, 577-584. [all data]
Censullo, Jones, et al., 2003
Censullo, A.C.; Jones, D.R.; Wills, M.T., Speciation of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in solventborne aerosol coatings by solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography, J. Coat. Technol., 2003, 75, 936, 47-53, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02697922 . [all data]
Yin, Liu, et al., 2001
Yin, C.; Liu, W.; Li, Z.; Pan, Z.; Lin, T.; Zhang, M., Chemometrics to chemical modeling: structural coding in hydrocarbons and retention indices of gas chromatography, J. Sep. Sci., 2001, 24, 3, 213-220, https://doi.org/10.1002/1615-9314(20010301)24:3<213::AID-JSSC213>3.0.CO;2-4 . [all data]
Subramaniam, Bochniak, et al., 1994
Subramaniam, B.; Bochniak, D.; Snavely, K., Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in supercritical reaction media, Lawrence Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (DOE/PC/92532--T7), United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994, 8, retrieved from http://www.NTIS.gov. [all data]
White, Hackett, et al., 1992
White, C.M.; Hackett, J.; Anderson, R.R.; Kail, S.; Spock, P.S., Linear temperature programmed retention indices of gasoline range hydrocarbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons on cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane, J. Hi. Res. Chromatogr., 1992, 15, 2, 105-120, https://doi.org/10.1002/jhrc.1240150211 . [all data]
Wu and Lu, 1984
Wu, J.; Lu, W., Hydrocarbon analysis by open-tubular column chromatography with programmed temperature for straight run gasoline, Anal. Chem., 1984, 12, 7, 572-578. [all data]
Wu and Lu, 1984, 2
Wu, J.; Lu, W., Kovats indices of C4-C10 hydrocarbons in apolar quartz capillary OV-101, Chin. J. Chromatogr., 1984, 1, 1, 11-17. [all data]
Bramston-Cook, 2013
Bramston-Cook, R., Kovats indices for C2-C13 hydrocarbons and selected oxygenated/halocarbons with 100 % dimethylpolysiloxane columns, 2013, retrieved from http://lotusinstruments.com/monographs/List .... [all data]
Du and Liang, 2003
Du, Y.; Liang, Y., Data mining for seeking accurate quantitative relationship between molecular structure and GC retention indices of alkanes by projection pursuit, Comput. Biol. Chem., 2003, 27, 3, 339-353, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1476-9271(02)00081-6 . [all data]
Junkes, Castanho, et al., 2003
Junkes, B.S.; Castanho, R.D.M.; Amboni, C.; Yunes, R.A.; Heinzen, V.E.F., Semiempirical Topological Index: A Novel Molecular Descriptor for Quantitative Structure-Retention Relationship Studies, Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design, 2003, 2, 1, 33-49. [all data]
Yin, Guo, et al., 2001
Yin, C.; Guo, W.; Lin, T.; Liu, S.; Fu, R.; Pan, Z.; Wang, L., Application of wavelet neural network to the prediction of gas chromatographic retention indices of alkanes, J. Chinese Chem. Soc., 2001, 48, 739-749. [all data]
Petrov, 1984
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Tboil Boiling point
d(ln(kH))/d(1/T) Temperature dependence parameter for Henry's Law constant
k°H Henry's Law constant at 298.15K
vapH° Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
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Structure for (E)-2,3-Dimethyl-3-hexene
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Additional information about this structure
Collection (C) 2016 copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the United States of America. All rights reserved.
Computation date:
Ashley Zhang
Computational method:
B3LYP/6-31G*
Computational software:
Gaussian 09, Revision D.01
Electronic energy:
-314.481186188 hartree
Dipole moment:
0.0002 debye
Rotational constants:
3.04310 GHz
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Crosby hits FG as time expires, Packers beat 49ers 33-30
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A pick, a beneficial penalty and a game-winning kick.
Quite a final minute for the Green Bay Packers.
Mason Crosby kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired to cap an 81-yard drive set up by Kevin King's interception with 1:07 left, and the Packers outlasted the San Francisco 49ers for a 33-30 win on Monday night.
The final drive was extended after 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman was flagged for illegal contact on third-and-15 that wiped out a sack of Aaron Rodgers with 43 seconds left.
Rodgers rushed up the middle for a 21-yard gain on the next play. The two-time NFL MVP completed two more passes for 19 yards to set up Crosby's game-winner for Green Bay (3-2-1).
The veteran kicker was perfect a week after missing four field goals in a loss at Detroit.
"It's very appropriate, what he went through last week, (for) the team to stick with him," Rodgers said. "And then he responded."
Rodgers threw for 425 yards and two scores, both to Adams. The second came with 1:55 left from 16 yards to tie the score at 30.
C.J. Beathard passed for 245 yards and two long touchdowns to speedy receiver Marquise Goodwin for the 49ers (1-5).
For a while it looked like the 49ers might hold on for their first victory since quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was lost for the year in Week 3 with a torn ACL.
Turnovers hurt them again — three more on Monday night, but none bigger than King's pick at the Packers 10.
"Very disappointed. We had a chance to win that game," coach Kyle Shanahan said. "It hurts."
The second-year cornerback was locked in 1-on-1 coverage with Goodwin, who had burned the secondary all night. This time, King kept up and pulled in a ball that looked slightly underthrown by Beathard.
Then Rodgers went to work, aided by the penalty on Sherman, who was covering Davante Adams.
Rodgers was 25 of 46. Adams had 10 catches for 132 yards, one of three Packers receivers to go over 100 yards.
The Packers scored 10 points in the final 2 minutes, capped by Crosby's fourth field goal of the night.
"This week was a grind, it was one of the tougher weeks of my career," Crosby said about bouncing back from his awful game last week.
It's just what the Packers needed going into their bye week.
The late flurry overshadowed another troubling start by the defense.
The Packers had 17-7 lead when Rodgers connected with Davante Adams for a 9-yard touchdown with 1:58 left in the first quarter.
Then San Francisco just brushed past Green Bay.
Beathard connected with Goodwin for the 67-yard score down the middle of the field on the ensuing series.
The 30-yard score came with 6:05 left in the second. Goodwin celebrated by mimicking a long jump in the end zone.
He finished with four catches for 126 yards. Beathard was 16 of 23.
San Francisco also got more pressure after the first quarter, forcing the Packers into more third-and-long situations.
Rodgers figured out the Niners in the end.
"We had every opportunity to finish and win that game and we didn't get it done," Shanahan said.
KEY PLAY
The 49ers looked like they were in good shape after Adams' second touchdown, starting their series at their own 47 with 1:55 left after a 32-yard return by Richie James Jr., and a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty on Tony Brown.
But on third-and-3 from the Packers 46, Beathard unloaded under pressure.
"It wasn't really what we wanted. The all-out blitz stuff, we had to get rid of it," Shanahan said. There (are) four options on the play, but that wasn't the one we wanted."
King picked a nice time for his first career interception.
"I've just got to stay the course, keep doing your job, keep it going, and those types of plays are going to come," King said.
NO TAKEAWAYS
Another game without a takeaway for the Niners dropped them to an NFL-worst minus-11 in turnover differential. The defense has generated a league-low three takeaways coming into the night, which had been the fewest total for the franchise after five games since 1977.
"It doesn't matter if you agree with the call. It's not like, 'Oh, I didn't agree with the call, they're going to pick it up.' They called it. I've got to find a way to do better." — Sherman on the illegal contact penalty.
Goodwin appeared to be the only player on either team with an apparent sign of protest during the national anthem, raising a right first in the air.
49ers: Host the unbeaten Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.
Packers: After a bye week, Green Bay visits the Rams on Oct. 28.
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Thank you for your interest in our Internet presence. The protection of your personal data (hereinafter also “data” or “PI”) is a very important concern for us. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms of Services, located at: https://www.a2hosting.com/about/policies#Terms-Of-Service.
Controller, contact, data protection officer
Controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106
It is represented by the CEO Bryan Muthig.
You can also contact us through the email address [email protected]
In case of questions or comments concerning this Privacy Policy, please contact our data protection officer at the following email address: [email protected]
EU-US Privacy Shield Framework
A2 Hosting complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. A2 Hosting has certified that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation, Access, and Recourse, Enforcement and Liability. If there is any conflict between the policies in this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification page, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
Among other things, the Privacy Shield Principles describe our obligations with respect to personal information that we transfer to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. A2 Hosting remains responsible and liable as provided in the Principles if the third party processes the personal information in a manner that is not consistent with the Principles, unless A2 Hosting proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage. Please note in detail:
A2 Hosting is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission.
Among other things, the Privacy Shield Principles describe our obligations with respect to personal information that we transfer to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. A2 Hosting remains responsible and liable as provided in the Principles if the third party processes the personal information in a manner that is not consistent with the Principles, unless A2 Hosting proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
If we transfer your PI to third parties, we will remain responsible and liable to you if the third party processes your PI in violation of the Privacy Shield Principles, unless we prove we were not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
Under certain conditions, you may also have the right to invoke binding arbitration before the Privacy Shield Panel to be created by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission or Swiss Government.
In compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Principles, A2 Hosting commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information free of charge. European Union or Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy should first contact A2 Hosting at:
Web: https://www.a2hosting.com/contact/
A2 Hosting has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles to BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, a non-profit alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers/ for more information and to file a complaint.
Please note that if your complaint is not resolved through these channels, under limited circumstances, a binding arbitration option may be available before a Privacy Shield Panel.
If we make any significant changes to this policy we will notify you by email, post a notice of such changes on the Site or flag our Privacy Policy on the website as updated. You agree to our use of electronic communications with you for purposes of this policy.
General Information about information we collect
We may use PI as required or permitted by law, including in response to service of legal process (court order, summons, subpoena, and the like). We may disclose PI to law enforcement or regulatory authorities as part of an investigation into activity at the Site (such as a suspected breach). We shall use commercially reasonable measures to limit disclosure and use of such PI. We may use PI in connection with the establishment or defense of legal claims. Any information sent to us will not be deemed to be confidential, and may be shared by us with any other individual or entity, regardless of whether you mark it confidential.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that their child under the age of 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information, they should contact us.
Legal bases for processing of your data
If the legal basis is not listed in the Privacy Policy, the following applies:
Insofar as we obtain the data subject’s consent for processing, Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis.
In case of processing of personal data necessary for the fulfillment of a contract, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. b) GDPR.
Insofar as processing of personal data is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. c) GDPR.
In the event that vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person require a processing of personal data, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. d) GDPR.
If processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests of our company or of a third party and if the interests, basic rights, and basic freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh these legitimate interests, the legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. f) GDPR.
The data processed by us is erased or its processing is restricted in compliance with statutory requirements, in particular Art. 17 and 18 GDPR. Unless expressly stated otherwise within the scope of this Privacy Policy, we erase data stored by us as soon as such is no longer required for the intended purpose. Data will be retained beyond the time at which the purpose ends only if such data is necessary for other, legally permissible purposes or if the data must continue to be retained due to statutory retention periods. In these cases, processing is restricted, i.e. it is blocked, and will not be processed for other purposes.
Server log data
For the informational use of our Internet presence it is generally not required that you actively disclose your personal data. In this case we instead collect and use only the data automatically transmitted to us by your Internet browser. This includes:
date and time of your retrieval of one of our websites;
your browser type;
your browser settings;
utilized operating system;
your most recently visited site;
the transferred data volume and access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.);
your IP address.
The data is stored on our servers. This data is not stored together with other personal data except those stated above. The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to allow delivery of the website to the user’s computer. For this purpose, the IP address of the user must be stored for the duration of the session. We create so-called log files from this data. The created log files are stored to safeguard the security of our IT systems. A personal evaluation of the data, in particular for marketing purposes, does not take place.
Processing of the above data is required for technical reasons to offer a website pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. b), lit. c), lit. f) GDPR in order to correctly display our website to you and to safeguard stability and security. In particular, log files are created to verify attacks on our systems. We erase server log data from our systems at the latest after 7 days.
Shopping cart and my.a2hosting.com
If you wish to place an order through our shopping cart, it is necessary for the conclusion of a contract that you disclose your personal data, which we require to process your order. Mandatory information necessary for processing of contracts is marked separately, additional information is voluntary. We process the data disclosed by you to process your order. We may also forward your payment information to our bank. We may also process the data disclosed by you in order to inform you of additional interesting products in our portfolio, or to send you emails with technical information. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. b GDPR.
There will be set up a customer account through which we can store your data for additional future purchases. You can also use the log-in area to manage and set up your contracts and purchased products. You can manage change and delete information in your account. The legal basis for the creation of a customer account is Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR. We are furthermore authorized to retain your utilized IP addresses as well as the time of registration and confirmation in order to verify your registration and to clarify a possible abuse of your personal data, if necessary. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. c and f GDPR.
To prevent unauthorized access of third parties to your personal data, in particular financial data, the ordering process is encrypted through TLS technology.
In case of contacting by contact form, email or telephone, your data is processed, depending on the content of the request, for purely informational inquiries based on your (assumed) consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. a) GDPR or pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. b) GDPR, insofar as contacting is connected to contractual performance obligations. In case of contacting through our form, we require only your name and email address in order to reply to you. Your information may be stored in a customer relationship management system (“CRM system”).
We delete your contact requests immediately after they are processed, unless statutory retention periods require additional retention.
With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter in which we inform you of our current interesting offers.
We used the so-called double opt-in process for registration to our newsletter. This means that after your registration, an email is sent to the disclosed email address, in which we ask you to confirm your request to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration through the hyperlink within 24 hours, your information is blocked and erased after the expiration of one month. We furthermore retain your utilized IP addresses and the time of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this process is to verify your registration and clarify a possible abuse of your personal data, if necessary. Only the disclosure of your email address is required to receive the newsletter. All other disclosed information is voluntary and will be used to allow us to address you personally. After your confirmation, we store your email address for sending you the newsletter. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. a) GDPR.
To unsubscribe from the newsletter, you can click on the link provided in every newsletter email, send an email to [email protected].
Please note that we analyze your user behavior when sending the newsletter. For this analysis, the emails sent by us contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel images that are stored on our website. For the analysis we combine the data listed under “Server log files” and the web beacons with your email address and an individual ID.
You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in your PI by contacting us as set out below. For security purposes, we may request PI from you in connection with such access. You may also: (i) modify your information through your control panel in your account, or (ii) ask that information regarding your inquiries be deleted by contacting us through our contact form at https://www.a2hosting.com/contact/
You may request that we delete your PI, and we shall attempt to accommodate such requests. However, we may retain and use PI for such periods of time as required or permitted by law or best business practices.
Nevertheless, you can assert the following rights under the GDPR free of charge:
Right to access by the data subject (Art. 15 GDPR);
Right to rectification and erasure (Art. 16 and Art. 17 GDPR);
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR);
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR);
Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR).
You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority concerning the controller’s processing of your personal data.
Social media presences
We maintain presences in social media in order to communicate with customers and prospective customers there and to keep them informed. When retrieving the relevant networks, the terms and conditions of the operators apply.
Third Party Agents (Processors and data recipients)
In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data, which are bound to our instructions. They were selected and commissioned by us with care and they are monitored regularly. The orders are based on data processing agreements pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. The processor does not independently process data for its own purposes.
We use a hosting provider to operate this web offer, who processes inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, utilization data, metadata, and communication data from visitors or customers of this web offer within the scope of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of this online offer pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. f), 28 GDPR. If we transfer your data to third parties, we will remain responsible and liable to you if the third party processes your data in violation of the Privacy Shield Principles, unless we prove we were not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage. In any case, we oblige third parties to protect your privacy at least to the extent specified in this data protection declaration.
HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) does not apply to the service we provide. We are not a “Covered Entity” or a “Business Associate” as those terms are defined by HIPAA. As HIPAA does not apply, our service does not need to and may not meet the standards set forth in HIPAA. Accordingly, using the service should not be used submit, store, or disclose information that would be subject to HIPAA in a manner that is compliant with HIPAA and its requirements.
Pursuant to our Terms of Service (located at https://www.a2hosting.com/about/policies#Terms-Of-Service), you may provide us with an Endorsement in connection with your use of the Services. We may, at our discretion, use the Endorsement to promote our Services as specified in our Terms of Service. In connection with our use of your Endorsement, you hereby agree that we may use your first name, last initial, home state, voice or likeness, and/or contact information in connection with its publication of the Endorsement. If, at any time, you want us to stop using your Endorsement, please contact us using the contact information in Section 19 of our Terms of Service and we will cease using the Endorsement soon after processing your request. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
B. Cookies and integrated third-party offers
We use cookies in our Internet presence. Cookies are small text files that within the scope of your visit of our website are transmitted from our web server to your browser and are stored by your browser on your computer for later retrieval. You yourself can determine, through settings in your browser, the extent to which cookies can be placed and retrieved. Persistent cookies may be stored on your computer after your visit and our website can access them every time each time you visit our website (so-called “ID cookies”). Some cookies that are stored during your visit of our website can be stored and retrieved by other companies.
We use so-called session cookies (also called “temporary cookies”) as cookies that are exclusively stored for the duration of your use of one of our websites. It is necessary for technical reasons to permit session cookies to fully use all functions of our Internet presence. It is the purpose of these cookies to identify your computer during your visit of our Internet presence when changing from one of our websites to one of our other websites and to determine the end of your visits. Persistent cookies are deleted automatically after a specified duration, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can at any time delete cookies in the security settings of your browser.
Legal basis for the use of cookies is Art. 6 (1) Clause 1 lit. f) GDPR unless specified otherwise.
I. Third-Party-Cookies
You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note the following with regard to third-party cookies.
1. Google Analytics, Double Click
Google Analytics is a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information concerning the use of the user’s online offer generated through cookies is generally transmitted to and stored at a Google server in the USA.
Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Treaty and thus offers a guarantee that it complies with the European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).
We inform you that, on this website, Google Analytics was expanded by the code “anonymizeIp” in order to guarantee anonymized capture of IP addresses (so-called “IP masking”). By activating IP anonymization on this website, your IP address within member states of the European Union or other contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area is first abbreviated by Google. The full IP address is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. Google uses this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to create reports concerning website activities, and to provide other services in connection with website use and Internet use vis-à-vis the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data held by Google. Pseudonym profiles of users may be created from the processed data. The IP address transmitted by your browser is not combined with other data held by Google.
You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Further information concerning data used by Google, settings options, and opportunities to object are available on Google‘s website under https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners and under http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads and http://www.google.de/settings/ads
DoubleClick by Google (“DoubleClick”) is a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). DoubleClick uses cookies to display most relevant advertisements. Google keeps track of the advertisements you have seen and which of them you have actually viewed. Using the DoubleClick cookies allows Google and its advertising network to serve advertisements based on your previous web page visits (or even apps). Google will transmit information generated by the cookies to a Google server for analysis and storage. You can prevent cookies from being saved by setting your browser software accordingly. You can also prevent Google from collecting data generated by the cookies and pertaining to your use of the web page as well as processing this data.
For more detailed information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection, please visit: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
2. Facebook Pixel
When using our web page, we place a visitor action pixel of the social network Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”) on your computer. This allows us to track your behavior when you click on a Facebook advertisement and are then redirected to our web page. The service helps to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements in order to optimize future advertising measures. The data will remain completely anonymous to us and cannot be traced back to the respective person. However, Facebook will store and process the data and hence establish a connection between the data and the user's Facebook profile. For more information about Facebook's data processing, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
If you wish to object to this procedure, please click here: http://optout.aboutads.info/#/
3. Bing Ads
We use the conversion and tracking tool “Bing Ads” from Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. Microsoft stores cookies on your device in order to enable an analysis of the use of our online offer by the users if users have accessed our online offer via a Microsoft Bing display (so-called “conversion measurement”). Microsoft and we can recognize in this way that someone has clicked on an ad, has been redirected to our online offer and has reached a previously defined target page (so-called “conversion page”). We only see the total number of users who clicked on a Bing ad and were then redirected to the conversion page. No IP addresses are stored. No personal information about the identity of the user is communicated.
Microsoft is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000KzNaAAK&status=Active).
If you do not wish to participate in the Bing Ads tracking process, you can use Microsoft's opt-out page: http://choice.microsoft.com/de-DE/opt-out.
Users can find further information on data protection and the cookies used at Microsoft Bing Ads in Microsoft's data protection declaration: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
Our web page also utilizes the analysis software “Hotjar” by “Hotjar” Ltd., Level 2, St. Julian's Business Centre, 3 Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta.
Hotjar enables you to measure and analyze your web page usage (clicks, mouse movement, scroll depth, etc.). The collected data is transmitted to a Hotjar server in Ireland and stored there. The following data is collected:
IP address - prior to storage your IP address is anonymized by setting the last octet to zero to prevent personal identification. The first three octets of the IP address will only reveal the user’s geographical region;
Your email address, including your first and last name, if you have made it available to us via our web page;
Screen size of your device;
Device type and browser information;
Geographic position (just the country);
The preferred language to display our web page.
The following data is automatically generated by our servers when Hotjar is used:
Referring domain;
Visited web pages;
The preferred language to display our web page;
Date and time of web page access.
Hotjar uses this information to analyze your use of our web page, to create reports on its use and to provide other internet analysis services.
The cookies set by Hotjar are stored for different lengths of time depending on the cookie; but no longer than 365 days. For more information, please visit: https://www.hotjar.com/cookies
To prevent Hotjar from collecting data, please click on this link and follow the instructions: https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out
5. Glassdoor
Glassdoor uses cookies and transfers data about your visit to our site directly to Glassdoor. If you have a Glassdoor account, your visit to our site can be directly connected to your account. For more information, visit https://www.glassdoor.com/about/privacy.htm
6. Social Plugins
For data protection reasons we have deliberately decided against using direct plug-ins from social networks on our websites. Generally, if you retrieve our websites, no data is automatically transmitted to social networks. Your Internet browser will create a connection to the servers of the respective social network only once you actively click on the respective button, i.e. by clicking the respective button (e.g. “Like”) you consent to your Internet browser establishing a connection to the servers of the respective social network and to transmit usage data to the respective provider of the social network.
Data transmitted through clicking the respective buttons may possibly be connected to existing accounts and profiles. The providers also create usage profiles. We have no influence on data processing or data retention after transmission of the data to the stated providers. In case of questions concerning data processing after transmission, please note the following Privacy Policys of the providers and contact them directly in case of questions.
The transmission of data to the relevant provider is subject to Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR based on your consent.
The following services are integrated:
Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
LinkedIn, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland.
YouTube, YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
Twitter,Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland.
All providers are subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.
C. Data security
We have implemented technical, physical and administrative safeguards designed to protect your data against loss and against unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. Passwords are stored on our server in encrypted form. We have personal information retention processes designed to retain personal information as necessary for the purposes stated above or to otherwise meet legal requirements. Unless this Privacy Policy states otherwise, our employees are required to keep the information set out here confidential.
For this purpose, this site, among other things, uses SSL encryption for the secure transmission of data. The common SSL process (Secure Socket Layer) is used in connection with the respective maximum encryption level supported by your browser.
This policy was last updated May 23, 2018
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2019 SOSA, CCE-EFM, and Tragen Awards
Nominations of direct-hire employees and family members are solicited for three awards:
The Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad (SOSA)
The Champions of Career Enhancement for EFMs (CCE-EFM) Award
The Tragen Award
SOSA and CCE-EFM are sponsored and administered by the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW), a non-profit community organization for Foreign Affairs spouses, partners and employees.
The Eleanor Dodson Tragen Award is sponsored and administered by DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals.
The SOSA, CCE-EFM, and Tragen awards will be presented at the annual AAFSW awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. Deadline for nominations for all awards is July 15, 2019.
Award descriptions, criteria, and eligibility:
SOSA Award
The Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad (SOSA) was created in 1990 by AAFSW at the suggestion of Secretary of State James Baker and Mrs. Susan Baker. Funding for the award includes donations from former Secretaries of State, AAFSW members, the Center Family Foundation, and an annual donation from the Green Family Foundation which is administered by the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.
The SOSA Award recognizes volunteer efforts at posts overseas in the following areas:
1) remarkable service to the mission community;
2) outstanding activities directed towards the host country;
3) exceptional service in emergency situations.
Evaluation factors considered in the selection process include: scope and reach of activities, sustainability, ingenuity, and leadership. A recipient is chosen from each regional bureau for his or her volunteer achievement. Winners will receive a cash award of $2500, a certificate signed by the Secretary of State, and a pin commemorating the November event. Travel to Washington for the awards ceremony will be paid by the individual bureaus.
Eligibility: All active American USG direct-hire employees, their spouses and family members over the age of 18, their EFM domestic partners, and their members of household (MOH) are eligible. Previous nominees can be reconsidered if an updated summary statement is included.
CCE-EFM Award
The AAFSW & Champions of Career Enhancement for Eligible Family Members Award (CCE-EFM) was developed by AAFSW’s EFM Employment Committee to recognize and incentivize those who go above and beyond their job descriptions and routine daily activities to promote the cause of employment and career development for Foreign Service family members.
The recipient(s) will be chosen for his/her/their individual or collective efforts, above and beyond any regular work duties, to adopt best practices and innovations that expand and elevate individual job opportunities and long-term career enhancement for Foreign Service family members. The winning individual or group will receive a cash award of $750 and will be honored at the November 20th awards ceremony.
Eligibility: All active American USG direct-hire employees, their spouses and family members over the age of 18, their EFM domestic partners, and their members of household (MOH) are eligible. Any of the above also may nominate an outstanding Locally Employed Staff (LES) member, Personal Services Contractor (PSC), or third- party contractor who has significantly exceeded work requirements to expand job opportunities and/or long-term career enhancement for Foreign Service family members. Previous nominees can be reconsidered if an updated summary statement is included.
Eleanor Dodson Tragen Award
The Eleanor Dodson Tragen Award honors a spouse, family member, EFM domestic partner, or member of household (MOH), who has effectively advocated and promoted rights, programs, services, and benefits for Foreign Service families in the tradition of the AAFSW and its members, as did the late Mrs. Tragen.
Criteria: The recipient will be chosen for his/her volunteer efforts to enhance, improve,
broaden, or make more effective services, rights, and benefits provided to FS spouses, families, EFM domestic partners, and household members. The initiative to be recognized should benefit more than just a specific mission activity at one post, but offer promise of replication or application throughout the Foreign Service. Nominees must agree to attend the November awards ceremony if selected. The winner will receive the cash award of $2,000, funded by the income from an endowment established by DACOR Bacon House Foundation, and if posted outside of Washington, DC, two nights free lodging at DACOR Bacon House.
Eligibility: Nominees must be spouses, family members, EFM domestic partners, or members of household (MOH) of FS employees, active or retired. Previous nominees can be considered if an updated justification sheet is included.
Nominations and Selection Process:
Nominations for all awards are not to exceed 3 pages double spaced and must include
the following information:
— The nominee’s name including middle initial
— The relationship to the direct-hire employee or retiree
— The nominee’s e-mail address
— The nominator’s name and relationship to nominee
— A justification for the nomination including specific actions and qualities that fulfill the
award criteria; and the name of the nominee’s hometown newspaper and U.S.
representative in Congress.
Nominations for the SOSA and CCE-EFM awards may be sent to the AAFSW Office by e-mail (Word documents only) to office@aafsw.org. Additional supporting materials such as letters of commendation or photos may emailed to office@aafsw.org. Nominations for the Tragen Award may be sent to DACOR by e-mail to John Bradshaw at jbradshaw@dacorbacon.org. Nominations for all three awards must be received no later than July 15, 2019.
The SOSA and Tragen Awards are given for volunteer activities only. Only nominees who are serving or have served abroad under the authority of the Chief of Mission or are abroad in involuntary Separate Maintenance Allowance (ISMA) status are eligible.
Posts or individuals may submit as many nominations as they wish provided the nominees meet the criteria. Rather than submitting several nominations for the same individual from one post, AAFSW recommends a group nomination for that person. The selection committee for the SOSA Awards will include representatives from AAFSW, FLO, and the Executive Directors of the regional bureaus. The winner of the CCE-EFM Award will be selected by members of the AAFSW EFM Employment Committee and a FLO representative. The selection committee for the Tragen Award will include representatives from DACOR, AAFSW, AFSA, and FLO. All nominees will be notified as soon as the selections are made.
Contacts: For additional information on the SOSA and CCM-EFM Awards, contact AAFSW at office@aafsw.org, or by phone at 703-820-5420. For additional information on the Tragen Award, contact DACOR Executive Director John Bradshaw at jbradshaw@dacorbacon.org or by phone at 202-682-0500, ext. 14.
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North Korea responds to Security Council sanctions with short-range barrage into sea
Posted March 03, 2016 15:13:14
Photo: North Korea's Kwangmyong 4 rocket launch triggered expanded UN sanctions. (AFP: North Korean TV/Yonhap)
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Map: Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of
North Korea has fired several short-range projectiles into the sea, hours after the United Nations Security Council voted to impose tough new sanctions on the isolated state.
The firing escalated tensions on the Korean peninsula, which have been high since the North's January nuclear test and February long-range rocket launch, and set the South's military on a heightened alert.
South Korea's Defence Ministry said it was trying to determine if the projectiles, launched from the North's east coast, were short-range missiles or artillery fire.
North Korea faces harsh new sanctions for its nuclear weapons program under the resolution passed unanimously by the Security Council on Wednesday, drafted by the United States and backed by the North's main ally China.
The response by the North to the expanded package of sanctions could have been further aggravated by South Korean President Park Geun-hye's vow to "end tyranny" by the North's leader.
UN Security Council sanctions:
Arms embargo tightened: Prevents sale of small arms; bans military and police cooperation
Sanctions blacklist: 16 individuals and 12 entities added to list
Expelling diplomats: States required to expel North Korean diplomats
Cargo inspections: States required to inspect all cargo; bans flights and vessels suspected of carrying illicit goods
Export ban: Coal, iron and iron ore exports banned unless for "livelihood purposes"; exports of rare minerals and gold banned
Financial sanctions: Asset freeze extended to all funds held abroad by the government; tightens restrictions on North Korean banks
Luxury goods: Snowmobiles, luxury watches added to list of banned items
Ms Park has been tough in her response to the North's recent actions, moving from her earlier self-described "trustpolitik" approach to instead welcome the move by the Security Council and repeat her call for the North to change its behaviour.
"We will cooperate with the world to make the North Korean regime abandon its reckless nuclear development and end tyranny that oppresses freedom and human rights of our brethren in the North," she said at a Christian prayer meeting.
South Korea has also now adopted a long-delayed security law to set up an anti-espionage unit and another aimed at improving human rights in North Korea.
Last month, Seoul suspended the operation of a jointly run factory project with the North that had been the rivals' last remaining venue for regular interaction.
In its latest barrage of insults against the South's leader, the North's official media carried a commentary on Wednesday likening Park to an "ugly female bat", fated to "die in the dreary cave, its body hanging down".
Topics: intergovernmental-organisations, nuclear-issues, unrest-conflict-and-war, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of, korea-republic-of, china, united-states, asia
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Cameron Bancroft opens up on life after Australia's ball-tampering scandal in letter to himself
Updated December 22, 2018 11:06:16
Photo: Cameron Bancroft's ban for ball-tampering ends on December 29. (AAP: Tony McDonough)
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Cameron Bancroft has described, in a letter to his younger self, how he almost turned to teaching yoga amid his soul-searching during his nine-month ban over the ball-tampering scandal.
Bancroft wrote the letter to the version of himself sitting in the Cape Town change rooms after the ball-tampering scandal
He says he turned to yoga during his time off, and contemplated quitting cricket to teach it full-time
Throughout, Bancroft repeated the mantra "have faith and embrace uncertainty"
The letter, published in The West Australian on Saturday, explains how he became involved in teaching yoga and doing community service with the Kyle Andrews Foundation after he was suspended over the incident in South Africa in March.
He says a crucial moment was missing the Western Warriors' pre-season trip to Brisbane and thinking he may never play cricket again.
"Until you are able to acknowledge that you are Cameron Bancroft, the person who plays cricket as a profession, and not Cameron Bancroft the cricketer, you will not be able to move forward. This will become a defining moment for you," Bancroft wrote.
"As the Warriors squad prepare for a pre-season trip to Brisbane, you will be told that you are not included. Yes, you won't be going, plus you can't even play!
"Banned and suspended. Not a big deal some would think, but it will be huge for you."
Video: Watch the full speech: Cameron Bancroft asks for forgiveness over role in ball-tampering scandal (ABC News)
Bancroft reflected on his return to Australia, when he tearfully fronted a press conference at the WACA.
"The arrival back to Perth will be tougher than anything you could ever imagine. Reporters and cameras will be lined up at the airport trying to get a glimpse of you as you return home," he wrote.
"You will be ushered out the back of the airport to see the familiar face of [Justin Langer]. The reality and the enormity of this event will have set in by now.
"Stay strong as you prepare for your press conference at the WACA. Speak honestly and from the heart.
"You will step out of that room feeling imprisoned, sad, lost and yet strangely hopeful."
Photo: Bancroft received a nine-month ban, while Steve Smith and David Warner copped a full year. (AP: Themba Hadebe)
The 26-year-old even considered dedicating his life to teaching yoga to help others after taking a training course in Melbourne in September.
"You learn about anatomy, how to teach poses, alignment, the philosophy but most importantly you learn that you can use your life to a greater purpose," Bancroft wrote.
"New friends will be made, great people with similar interests. Maybe cricket isn't for you, you'll ask yourself ... will you return? Yoga will be such a fulfilling experience. It's hard to feel this reality could exist.
"You meet people fighting battles greater than you can understand, but through your own hardship and journey you can inspire others in the form of yoga."
But returning to playing tough grade matches at Willetton District Cricket Club rekindled his love of cricket.
Photo: Bancroft has played in the Northern Territory and for his local club during his ban. (ABC News: Tom Wildie)
"You wear a blue cap, it won't be a Baggy Green, but the enjoyment is the same. You love the game. That's the heart of all passion. Cricket is still well and truly a part of who you are," the opener wrote.
Bancroft also forgave himself for the ball-tampering scandal, describing how over the past nine months he had changed as a person, particularly in his outlook on life.
"Many people will judge you as a cheat, but that is OK. Always love and respect everyone. You will love those people because you forgive them. Just like you're going to forgive yourself," Bancroft said.
"Have faith and embrace uncertainty."
ABC/AAP
Topics: cricket, sport, australia
First posted December 22, 2018 11:02:11
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