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Independent News and Media
BBC confirms Chris Evans to lead new Top Gear line-up
by DAVID HUGHES
CHRIS Evans has signed a three-year deal to lead a new presenting line-up on Top Gear, the BBC has confirmed.
The BBC Radio 2 and One Show presenter and motoring enthusiast had been hotly-tipped to replace Jeremy Clarkson following Clarkson's sacking by the BBC in March.
Initially, Evans had played down the speculation, telling listeners to his morning radio show: "Not only is it not true, it's absolute nonsense", adding that it was "never going to happen".
However, a BBC statement confirmed that Evans, who had Clarkson as a guest on a recent special 20th anniversary edition of TFI Friday on Channel 4, would indeed be taking the helm with filming starting in the next few weeks.
Evans said: "I'm thrilled, Top Gear is my favourite programme of all time. Created by a host of brilliant minds who love cars and understand how to make the massively complicated come across as fun, devil-may-care and effortless.
"When in fact of course, it's anything but and that's the genius of Top Gear's global success.
"I promise I will do everything I possibly can to respect what has gone on before and take the show forward," he added.
Following the confirmation, Evans tweeted to assure fans that his BBC Radio 2 slot is not in jeopardy, and to praise former presenters Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
Kim Shillinglaw, controller of BBC Two, said Evans is the "perfect choice" to take the show forward, citing Evans' "well-known" knowledge and passion for cars, and his "sheer inventiveness and cheeky unpredictability".
It is unknown who will join Evans in the all-new line-up.
However, the announcement comes after DIY Sos presenter Nick Knowles revealed that he has been in talks with the BBC about joining the team.
Knowles told the Radio Times: "I'm a BBC regular and I've had conversations with people at the corporation about it
"But with all the work I've got on it's not something I can do at the moment.
"Getting the new team right is very important. And no, I won't speculate on who will get it!" he said.
Earlier this year, Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins was forced to quit Twitter after she was targeted by trolls amid rumours she would join the Top Gear presenting team.
Former X Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary, and model Jodie Kidd are also household names rumoured to be in the running.
Fans of Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will get one last chance to see them in action on the show when they drive off later this month in a farewell appearance screened on BBC2.
The previously unseen footage, which was put on hold after Clarkson hit the headlines for "a fracas" with producer Oisin Tymon, will feature in a one-off 75 minute show on Sunday June 28.
Viewers will see Clarkson, Hammond and May behind the wheel of classic cars and beaten-up 4x4s in their final challenges as a trio.
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Fox News analyst quits after finally realizing it's a 'propaganda machine'
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By Brian Koerber 2018-03-20 23:11:53 UTC
Life comes at you fast.
Ralph Peters, a retired Lt. Col. for the army and until recently a Fox News strategic analyst, decided to leave his post at the station after finally having a moment of clarity.
SEE ALSO: What the hell is up with those bizarre Fox News Apple alerts?
Peters' departure was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which obtained a copy of an email announcing his departure and detailing his reasoning to his colleagues.
"Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers," Peters wrote in the email. "Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed."
Peters continued by saying he thought that Fox News "degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration."
Hard to believe it took him this long to realize it, but be assured he hasn't had a total change of heart. Peters, who was briefly suspended from the network several years ago for calling then President Obama a "total pussy" on live TV over his terrorism strategy, used his goodbye letter to take a dig at him one last time while simultaneously bashing Trump and Fox News' hosts.
"As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign," Peters wrote.
Fox News wasn't just going to let Peters trash talk the network, however, saying he was using his opinion "as a weapon in order to gain attention."
NEW - Statement from Fox News on Ralph Peters email: "Ralph Peters is entitled to his opinion despite the fact that he's choosing to use it as a weapon in order to gain attention. We are extremely proud of our top-rated primetime hosts and all of our opinion programing.”
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) March 20, 2018
The full email from Peters to his colleagues at Fox News can be read below:
On March 1st, I informed Fox that I would not renew my contract. The purpose of this message to all of you is twofold:
First, I must thank each of you for the cooperation and support you've shown me over the years. Those working off-camera, the bookers and producers, don't often get the recognition you deserve, but I want you to know that I have always appreciated the challenges you face and the skill with which you master them.
Second, I feel compelled to explain why I have to leave. Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer. I swore to "support and defend the Constitution," and that oath did not expire when I took off my uniform. Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.
In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts—who have never served our country in any capacity—dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller—all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of "deep-state" machinations— I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.
As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign. Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the "nothing-burger" has been covered with Russian dressing all along. And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true—that's how the Russians do things.. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.
I do not apply the above criticisms in full to Fox Business, where numerous hosts retain a respect for facts and maintain a measure of integrity (nor is every host at Fox News a propaganda mouthpiece—some have shown courage). I have enjoyed and valued my relationship with Fox Business, and I will miss a number of hosts and staff members. You're the grown-ups.
Also, I deeply respect the hard-news reporters at Fox, who continue to do their best as talented professionals in a poisoned environment. These are some of the best men and women in the business..
So, to all of you: Thanks, and, as our president's favorite world leader would say, "Das vidanya."
Topics: Culture, Fox News, Politics
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"Elvis" and the Graham Geddes Collection
The news that the Roman "Elvis" sarcophagus fragment was to be sold at Bonhams in London this coming October has generated quite a bit of publicity. But who is the present proprietor?
The press release quotes Chantelle Waddingham (Rountree), Head of Antiquities at Bonhams, who describes Graham Geddes as an Australian "collector and dealer".
A profile of Geddes appeared in 1996 (Zinta Jurjans Heard, "Making history", The Age [Melbourne] April 15, 1996). At that time he was described as having "the largest private antiquities collection in the world". Heard expanded, "he is one of the world's premier antique dealers and one of the world's leading authorities on antiquities, the passion of his life". His main "speciality" was described as "Southern Italian and Greek vases and Greek and Roman sculptures".
His antiquities collection contained "reputedly the largest collection of Southern Italian vases in the world put together by Mr Geddes with Professor A.D. Trendall, an internationally regarded specialist" (Susan McCulloch, "Out with the old for antiquities collector", The Weekend Australian August 10, 1996). (For Trendall see the obituary from the Society of Antiquaries.)
Geddes had dispersed part of his collection before. At the time it was reported (Antonia Williams, "Simply the best; Lots & Lots", Sydney Morning Herald September 19, 1996):
Twenty years ago, Geddes began assembling antiquities with friend and mentor Professor A.D. Trendall and, no hint of tomb robbery here, these objects come wreathed in academic approbation and provenance. Some of the proceeds, seller's and auctioneer's, will be donated to the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe. Christie's expert Christine Insley Jones believes all the heavy collectors will be on the alert, particularly for the Attic red-figure Column Krater c 610 BC [sic.] estimated at $175,000 and climbing.
Geddes has been a benefactor; pieces from his collection have been on loan with university museums and other institutions. Rita Erlich ("For sale, the Geddes collection", The Age October 12, 1996) stressed this point when quoting Geddes:
"I prefer to buy items with provenance," he says. "Most of my vases and pieces of sculpture that I currently have have been in situ in various universities and collections."
It will be interesting to see the catalogue of the 2008 sale in due course.
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Distressed Real Estate
Kushner Cos and The Distressed Properties it Owns in Manhattan – Reason to Stick with What You Know
June 25, 2019 June 25, 2019 LostMessiah New York, Real Estate and Leasing Charles Kushner, Distressed Real Estate, Jared Kushner, Kushner Companies, New York City
Debt, Conflict and Vacancy Imperil Kushners’ Times Square Dream
By Caleb Melby and David Kocieniewski
Jared Kushner’s family averted disaster last year when a Canadian asset manager swooped in to buy their skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, which had been hemorrhaging millions of dollars. Now they’re facing a similar crisis a few blocks away.
At the former New York Times building on West 43rd Street, a graying property in Times Square, the pattern is uncannily similar: Buy at a steep price, pile on too much debt, run up big losses, fight with tenants and flirt with default.
It’s the latest example of overreach for a family that built a fortune on suburban rental properties, only to have its urban ambitions stymied. Kushner Cos. bought the first six floors of the Times building for $296 million in 2015, envisioning a multifloor amusement park in the heart of Times Square. Four years later, a toxic brew of debt, conflict and vacancies has put their investment in jeopardy.
Tenants at the Kushner-owned property include a bowling alley, a guitar store and an ocean-themed exhibit.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
Think of the building as a vertical mall with three-story neon signs beckoning tourists. There are tenants the Kushners inherited: a sprawling sushi restaurant, a below-ground Guitar Center store and a two-story bowling alley with thumping music. And ones they brought in—in the basement, National Geographic Encounter, an exhibit about oceans with humpback whales and sea lions cavorting on digital screens; on the second floor, Gulliver’s Gate, featuring detailed miniatures of the Colossus of Rhodes, the Empire State Building, Jerusalem’s Western Wall and other famous sites, complete with miniature trains and glowing skyscrapers.
The Kushners’ new tenants have a few things in common, including ticket prices exceeding $30, underwhelming crowds and financial trouble. The National Geographic exhibit has paid only partial rent since August, and the Kushners are looking for a new tenant. Gulliver’s Gate paid irregularly, prompting a legal battle that resulted in its rent being cut by almost half this year. Take a walk around the back of the building, and there’s a dusty unfinished space meant for a champagne bar. It never opened. Kushner Cos. has traded lawsuits with the proprietor, an operator of airport restaurants that is alleging fraud, claims the Kushners have denied.
A spokeswoman for the National Geographic exhibit confirmed that the attraction wasn’t paying full rent, but she declined to provide details. Gulliver’s Gate founder Michael Langer said he was “happy we were able to work together for an amicable agreement.” A spokesman for OHM Concession Group, which leased space for the champagne bar, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Leased tenants at 229 West 43rd St. at time of 2016 loan
Rental income lower than projected in 2016
Currently empty
Office Condo
Bowlmor Lanes
After trading lawsuits, got rent cut by nearly half
Gulliver’s Gate
Haru Sushi
Los Tacos No. 1
American Market
by Todd English
Never moved in
Replaced by The Ribbon
Guy’s American Kitchen+Bar
National Geographic Ocean
Hasn’t paid full rent since August 2018
Subcellar
Sources: Loan prospectus, Bloomberg research
The missteps have added up. Kushner Cos. assumed that all these tenants would be paying rent when it piled $370 million of loans onto the building in an October 2016 refinancing, most of it from Deutsche Bank AG. In March, the company defaulted on one high-interest chunk of its debt to other lenders, and the property has often run at a loss after accounting for loan payments, according to data compiled from disclosures to investors. While there’s always room for improvement, spaces for so-called experiential retailers require custom designs and can take years to fill.
The story of how the Kushner family purchased a Times Square building only to see it founder during an economic boom is one of zealous overconfidence and a passion for trophy properties, according to more than a dozen people interviewed by Bloomberg News. It’s also a tale of how the real estate market encourages excessive risk-taking, rewarding those who use steep leverage on speculative properties even as they pass potential losses to others. Most of the debt on the Times building has been transferred to investors – it’s their problem now. Meanwhile, Kushner Cos. allocated some of the loan to pay itself $59 million, according to public filings.
Wells Fargo & Co., which manages the loan, has placed it on a watchlist for troubled debt and taken control of the property’s accounts. At one point, the building also drew the attention of federal prosecutors. The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York subpoenaed records about the refinancing in 2017. What investigators were looking for, whether the Kushners were a subject and if the matter is ongoing is unclear. Spokesmen for Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo declined to comment, as did Jared Kushner’s attorney, Abbe Lowell. Representatives for Kushner Cos. didn’t respond to numerous requests for comment.
Top: National Geographic’s exhibit, where the fish are digital. Bottom: The shoe-rental counter at Bowlmor Lanes.
Photographers: Bryan Bedder/Getty and Yeong-Ung Yang/The New York Times
The former Times building and Kushner Cos. were both struggling when they came together in 2015. The 18-story landmark with a mansard roof had been the newspaper’s headquarters for almost a century, until the company moved a few blocks away in 2007. That same year, Africa Israel Investments Ltd. bought the building at 229 West 43rd St. for $525 million and began searching for a way to repurpose it, exploring everything from luxury condos to a Disney-themed hotel. When those plans fizzled, the company, led by Russian-Israeli diamond merchant Lev Leviev, decided to sell part of the site as a retail complex.
The rapid growth of internet shopping made many real estate investors skeptical. But Charles Kushner, founder of the company that bears his name and father of now-presidential adviser Jared Kushner, was still bullish on retail when Leviev’s brokers pitched him. He had reason for his optimism. In 2011, as Kushner Cos. was straining under a mountain of debt at its 666 Fifth Ave. skyscraper, selling the building’s stores for $1 billion helped pay off some of it and buy time.
Four years later, 666 Fifth Ave. was again operating at a loss. The Kushners were supposed to have improved the property and raised rents. Instead, they had been shopping a plan to knock it down and build a glittering high-rise twice as tall with a five-story shopping center at its base.
The Kushners needed an infusion of cash, and the bottom six floors of the Times building offered a tantalizing opportunity. Tens of thousands of peoplewalk by daily. The building was about half leased, but if the family could fill it quickly and bolster its rent rolls, Kushner Cos. could refinance at a higher valuation, taking any gains as profit.
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Louis Groarke Ph.D.
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Shifting the Paradigm: Alternative Perspectives on Induction
Induction, which involves a leap from the particular to the universal, has always been a puzzling phenomenon for those attempting to investigate the origins of knowledge. Although traditionally accepted as the engine of first principles, the authority of inductive reasoning has been undermined in the modern age by empiricist criticisms that derive notably from Hume, who insisted that induction is an invalid line of reasoning that ends in unreliable future predictions.
The present volume challenges this Humean orthodoxy. It begins with a thorough consideration of Hume’s original position and continues with a series of state-of-the-art essays that critique the received view while offering positive alternatives. The experts assembled here draw on a perennial historical tradition that stretches as far back as Socrates and extends through such luminaries as Aristotle, Aquinas, Whewell, Goethe, Lonergan, and Rescher. They inquire into the creative moment of intellectual insight that makes induction possible, consider relevant episodes from the history of science, advance scholarly exegeses of historical interpretations of inductive reasoning, and reflect critically on the scientific and logical ramifications of epistemological and metaphysical realism.
© 2019 Louis Groarke. All rights reserved.
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Archives for : RSA
Ham Radio Links
Posted by :Derek On : November 29, 2009
Category: Amateur Radio
Tags:access, Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Amateur Radio, amateur radio operator, antenna, AREG, ASP, Australia, Australian, bar, Barossa, broadcast, Cafe, Card, Chip, circuit, Communications, Corporate, data, Debit, DES, Digital, DNS, dream, Dust, EDR, EFT, Electronic, Enterprise, Ford, frequency, GHz, Guide, hack, hardware, HSM, interface, Internet, Iphone, ISP, Mall, network, online, phone, php, Pin, Protection, Radio, RSA, SAP, School, server, SLA, Stirling, support, Technical, technology, telnet, text, transmission, utility, web
Amateur Packet Radio Australian
Aussiewide Packet Radio Network http://www.ampr.org.au/
AAPRA http://members.optusnet.com.au/aapra
Queensland APRS Users Group http://www.tech-software.net/
VK2KFJ’s Packet Radio Links page http://www.qsl.net/vk2kfj/pacradio.html
VK4ZU http://www.users.on.net/~trevorb/
VK5 AX25 Packet Network Map (VK5AH) http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/wavetel/vk5pack.htm
Winlink
Amateur Packet Radio Gateways http://www.ampr-gates.net/frame_e.htm
Amateur Packet Radio, net 44, and AMPR.ORG `http://www.ampr.org/
American Febo Enterprises http://www.febo.com/index.html
BayCom http://www.baycom.org/
FUNET http://www.funet.fi/pub/ham/packet/
FUNET ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/ham/packet/
F4DAY http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jf.fourcadier/index_e.htm
F6FBB http://www.f6fbb.org/
GB7DIP TNOS/PBBS http://www.qsl.net/gb7dip/access.html
G4JKQ TCP/IP Telnet listing http://www.qsl.net/g4jkq/tcp.htm
G7JJF TNC Driver Support (WINTNC) http://www.g7jjf.demon.co.uk/
High speed packet http://hydra.carleton.ca/articles/hispeed.html
High Speed Packet radio http://www.lmrgroup.com/ke3ht/hspr.html
High-speed Packet Radio http://cacofonix.nt.tuwien.ac.at/~oe1kib/Radio/
KE5FX http://www.qsl.net/ke5fx/
K4ABT (home page) http://www.packetradio.com/
Linux® / Amateur Radio Information http://delbert.matlock.com/linux-radio.htm
Linux AX25-HOWTO http://tldp.org/HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO/
PA3CGO http://www.qsl.net/pa3gco/
Packet Info and Downloads http://www.packetradio.com/
Packet Links http://www.stack.serpukhov.su/~victor/hamradio/packet/packet.html
Packet Net (VK5 packet map) http://www.packetnet.org/
Packet Net (FBB software) http://www.packetnet.org/fbb.htm
PAcket Digital Amateur Network (PADAN) http://www.weaksignals.com/
Radio-TNC Wiring Diagrams http://users3.ev1.net/~medcalf/ztx/wire/
RST http://www.qsl.net/on1blu/
Slovenian ATV/Packet http://lea.hamradio.si/~s51kq/
Sound Card Packet http://www.qsl.net/soundcardpacket/index.html
TAPR http://www.tapr.org/
TNC-X http://www.tnc-x.com/
TPK http://www.f6fbb.org/f1ebn/index.htm
TNOS Central http://www.lantz.com/tnos/
TVIPUG http://www.tvipug.org
WA4DSY 56k RF Modem http://www.wa4dsy.net/
Yet Another 9k6 Modem http://www.microlet.com/yam/
Sound Card Packet
ILINKBOARDS.com http://www.ilinkboards.com/
Sound Card Buddy http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SoundBuddy.htm
Soundcard Interfacing http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/interface.html
Sound Card Packet AGWPE (KC2RLM) http://www.patmedia.net/ralphmilnes/soundcardpacket/
Sound Card Interface with Tone Keyer (WA8LMF) http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/ham/tonekeyer.htm
QDG sound card interface
Winlink! 2000 http://winlink.org/
Aussie Winlink http://www.aussiewinlink.org
Pactor Communications Australia http://www.pca.cc/
Winpack home page http://www.peaksys.co.uk/
Winpack info http://www2.tpg.com.au/users/peteglo/winpack.htm
TNC information
Setting Your TNC’s Audio Drive Level http://www.febo.com/packet/layer-one/transmit.html
TNC and Radio mods http://www.johnmather.free-online.co.uk/tnc.htm
MFJ-1278B Care and maintenance http://www.qsl.net/ke4mob/
AEA radio and TNC mods http://www.k7on.com/mods/aea/mods/aeamod.txt
BYONICS http://byonics.com/
Fox Delta http://www.foxdelta.com/
Kantronics http://www.kantronics.com/
PacComm http://www.paccomm.com/
The DXZone Digital and Packet Radio http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Manufacturers/Digital_and_Packet_Radio/
Tigertronics http://www.tigertronics.com/
Timewave http://www.timewave.com/amprods.html
TNC-X – The Expandable TNC http://www.tnc-x.com/
Amateur Packet Radio Gateways http://www.ampr-gates.net
G4JKQ http://www.g4jkq.co.uk/
The Gateways Home Page http://www.ampr-gateways.org/
High-Speed Digital Networks and Multimedia (Amateur)
North Texas High Speed MultiMedia group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntms-hsmm/
Also take a look at the wireless LAN pages
Aus APRS http://www.radio-active.net.au/vk2_aprs.html
APRS http://www.radio-active.net.au/web/gpsaprs/aprsrept.html
APRS http://aprs.rutgers.edu/
APRS http://www.cave.org/aprs/
APRS in Adelaide http://vk5.aprs.net.au/
AVR-Microcontroller http://www.qsl.net/dk5jg/aprs_karten/index.html
APRS in the UK http://www.aprsuk.net/
aprsworld http://www.aprsworld.net
APRS.DE http://www.aprs.de/
APRS-Berlin http://www.aprs-berlin.de/
APRS-Frankfurt http://www.aprs-frankfurt.de/
BYONICS (Electronics Projects for Amateur Radio) http://www.byonics.com/
CanAPRS http://www.canaprs.net/
Dansk APRS Gruppe http://www.aprs.dk/
findU.com http://www.findu.com/
France APRS http://www.franceaprs.net/
Kansas City APRS Working Group http://www.kcaprs.org/
KD4RDB http://wes.johnston.net/aprs/
Live Australian APRS data maps http://www.aprs.net.au/japrs_live.html
NIAN http://nian.aprs.org/
Tri-State APRS Working Group http://www.tawg.org/
Other Digital Modes
HF-FAX http://www.hffax.de/index.html
ZL1BPU http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/
CW Operators’ QRP Club Inc. http://www.users.on.net/~zietz/qrp/club.htm
Fists Down Under http://fistsdownunder.morsekeys.com
LEARN MORSE CODE in one minute ! http://www.learnmorsecode.com/
MRX morse code http://www.mrx.com.au/
Not Morse Code, Slow Scan , Packet or APRS
HamDream by HB9TLK (digital radio) http://www.qslnet.de/member/hb9tlk/
JE3HHT, Makoto (Mako) Mori http://www.qsl.net/mmhamsoft/
PSK31 and other PC Magic http://www.psk31.com/
WSJT ACTIVITY IN AU (follow link) http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/vk7wia/
Amateur Digital Radio
AR Digital Voice Communications http://www.hamradio-dv.org/
Australian National D-Star http://www.dstar.org.au/
Ham Radio digital info http://www.hamradio.com/pdf/dstar.pdf
ICOM America digital http://www.icomamerica.com/amateur/dstar/
Temple University Digital Voice Project http://www.temple.edu/k3tu/digital_voice.htm
Temple University Vocoder Redux http://www.temple.edu/k3tu/VocoderRedux.pdf
WinDRM – HF Digital Radio Mondiale http://n1su.com/windrm/
Australian D-Star information http://www.dstar.org.au/
D-Star wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR
ICOM America D-Star Forums http://www.icomamerica.com/en/support/forums/tt.asp?forumid=2
FlexRadio Systems Software Defined Radios http://www.flex-radio.com/
Rocky software for SoftRock-40 hardware http://www.dxatlas.com/rocky/
SDRadio – a Software Defined Radio http://digilander.libero.it/i2phd/sdradio/
SoftRock-40 Software Defined Radio http://www.amqrp.org/kits/softrock40/index.html
The Weaksignals pages og Alberto I2PHD (software) http://www.weaksignals.com/
BBC digital Radio http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio/
Digital Audio Broadcasting http://www.digitalradio.ca/
Digital Radio Broadcasting http://happy.emu.id.au/lab/info/digradio/index.html
Digital Radio http://www.magi.com/~moted/dr/
DRDB http://www.drdb.org/
DRM – Digitaler Rundfunk unter 30 MHz http://www.b-kainka.de/drm.htm#dritte
Amateur Radio Direction Finding
Amateur Radio Direction Finding and Orienteering http://vkradio.com/ardf.html
Amateur Radio Direction Finding Webring http://www.qsl.net/vk3zpf/webring1.htm
Homing In http://members.aol.com/homingin/
RON GRAHAM ELECTRONICS (ARDF and more) http://users.mackay.net.au/~ron/
Victorian ARDF Group Inc. http://www.ardf.org.au/
Repeater Linking
There are currently There are 5 internet linking projects that I know of :-
IRLP, iPHONE, iLINK, eCHOLINK and WIN SYSTEM (May 2005)
EchoLink http://www.echolink.org/
Hamlink (K1RFD) http://www.hamlink.net/
KWARC (live audio) http://www.kwarc.org/listen/
Internet Linking http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi/index2.html
IRLP http://www.irlp.net/
IRLP status http://status.irlp.net
WIN SYSTEM http://www.winsystem.org/
G4CDY-L Internet Gateway http://www.g4cdy.co.uk/
iLink http://www.aacnet.net./
VA3TO iLINK INTERFACE http://www.ilinkca.com/
VK2JTP iLINK gateway http://www.qsl.net/vk2jtp/
WB2REM & G4CDY’SÂ iLINK boards http://www.ilinkboards.com/
WB4FAY http://www.wb4fay.com/ilink_FAQ.html
A R Laser Communications http://www.qsl.net/wb9ajz/laser/laser.htm
Australian Optical DX Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Optical_DX/
Driver Enhancements http://www.misty.com/people/don/laserdps.htm#dpsdepm
European Laser Communications http://www.emn.org.uk/laser.htm
Ronja http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/ronja/
Amateur Radio Licence
radiofun http://www.alphalink.com.au/~parkerp/gateway.htm
Worldwide Information on Licensing for Radio Amateurs by OH2MCN http://www.qsl.net/oh2mcn/license.htm
Amateur Radio Clubs and Organisations
Also see ATV link page
and VHF link page
Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society http://www.qsl.net/vk5bar/
Amateur Radio Victoria http://www.amateurradio.com.au/
Barossa Amateur Radio Club VK5BRC http://www.qsl.net/vk5brc/
Brisbane Amateur Radio Club http://www.qsl.net/vk4ba/index.html
Brisbane VHF Group
Central Coast Amateur Radio Club http://www.ccarc.org.au/
Central Goldfields A R Club http://www.cgfar.com/
CHIFLEY A R CLUB http://chifley.radiocorner.net/
Coffs Harbour & District Amateur Radio Club http://www.qsl.net/vk2ep/index.html
Eastern and Mountain District Radio Club http://www.emdrc.com.au
Gold Coast AR Society http://www.gcars.com.au/
Healesville Amateur Radio Group http://www.harg.org.au/
Historical Wireless Society of South East Queensland http://www.hws.org.au/
Ipswich Metro Radio Group http://imrg.ips-mesh.net/
Lockyer Valley Radio and Electronic Club Inc http://www.qsl.net/vk4wil/
Manly-Warringah Radio Society http://www.qsl.net/vk2mb/
NWTARIG http://vk7ax.tassie.net.au/nwtarig/
QRP Amateur Radio Club International http://www.qrparci.org/
RADAR Club Inc http://radarclub.tripod.com
Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club Australia Inc http://www.raotc.org.au/
Radio Sport http://www.uq.net.au/radiosport/
Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania http://reast.asn.au/
Riverland Amateur Radio Club http://www.rrc.org.au/
South Australian Packet User Group Inc. (SAPUG) http://www.sapug.ampr.org/
SERG http://serg.mountgambier.org
South Coast AMATEUR RADIO Club http://www.scarc.org.au/
SOUTHSIDE AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY http://www.qsl.net/vk4wss/
Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club http://vk4wis.org/
VK Young Amateur Radio Operator’s Net http://www.geocities.com/vk_ya/
VK3APC http://www.mdrc.org.au/
VK3BEZ (WIA Eastern Zone Amateur Radio Club) http://www.qsl.net/vk3bez/
VK4WIL http://www.qsl.net/vk4wil/
West Australia Repeater Group http://www.warg.org.au
WESTLAKES AR Club http://www.westlakesarc.org.au/
WIA VK4 Qld http://www.wiaq.com/
WIA VK4 QNEWS NEWSROOM http://www.wiaq.com/qnews/upload/qnews.htm
WIA http://www.wia.org.au/
WICEN Australia http://www.wicen.org.au/
WICEN Brisbane Qld
NZART http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/
Papakura Radio Club http://www.qsl.net/zl1vk/
Wanganui Amateur Radio Society Inc. http://www.zl2ja.org.nz/
Wellington VHF Group http://www.vhf.org.nz/
American QRP Club http://www.amqrp.org/index.html
ARRL http://www.arrl.org/
Clear Lake Amateur Radio Club http://www.clarc.org/
FRARS http://www.frars.org.uk/
HKAR http://www.hkra.org/
HRDXA http://www.qsl.net/vr2dxa/
KIDSHAMRADIO http://www.kidshamradio.com/
K2MFF Amateur Radio club http://www-ec.njit.edu/~k2mff/
North TeXas Repeater Association http://www.ntxra.com/main_page.htm
N0WGE http://www.sckans.edu/~sireland/radio/
The Repeater Builders Technical Information Page http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/index.html#main-index
Richardson Wireless Klub http://www.k5rwk.org/
RADARS http://www.mbc.co.uk/RADARS/
RSGB http://www.rsgb.org/
SARL http://www.sarl.org.za/
Submarine Veterans Amateur Radio http://w0oog.50megs.com/
Southgate AR club http://www.southgatearc.org/index.htm
TEARA http://www.teara.org/
The 500 KC Experimental Group for Amateur Radio http://www.500kc.com/
Tucson Amateur Packet Radio http://www.tapr.org/
W6DEK 435 Los Angeles http://www.w6dek.com/
Australian AR Repeater Map http://vkham.com/australimaps.html
AMATEUR RADIO WIKI http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net
HAM SHACK COMPUTERS http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/vk6pg/
Ham Radio in Australia with VK1DA http://members.ozemail.com.au/~andrewd/hamradio/
HF Radio Antenna Tuners http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/eagle33/elect/ant_tuner.htm
Queensland AR Repeater listings http://vkham.com/Repeater/vk4map.html
Radioactive Networks: Ham http://www.radio-active.net.au/web/ham/
Tony Hunt VK5AH (Home of Adelaides 10m Repeater) http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/wavetel/default.htm
VK1DA’s Amateur Radio Web Directory vk1da.net/radlink.html
VK1KEP http://www.pcug.org.au/~prellis/amateur/
VK1OD owenduffy.net
VK2BA (AM radio) http://www.macnaughtonart.com/default.htm
VK3PA http://www.vk3pa.com/home.asp
VK3UKF http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/vk3ukf/index.html
VK3XPD http://www.users.bigpond.com/alandevlin/index.html
VK3YE’s Gateway to AR http://www.alphalink.com.au/~parkerp/gateway.htm
VK3ZQB http://members.datafast.net.au/vk3zqb/
VK4CEJ http://www.hfradio.org/vk4cej/hamlinks.html
VK4TEC http://www.tech-software.net/
VK4TUB http://www.vk4tub.org/
VK4ZGB http://members.optusnet.com.au/jamieb/index.html
VK5BR http://users.tpg.com.au/users/ldbutler/
VK5KK http://www.ozemail.com.au/~tecknolt/index.html
VK8JJ http://www.qsl.net/vk8jj/
Micro Controller Projects for Radio Amateurs and Hobbyists http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/micro/index.htm
Precision Frequency Transmission and Reception http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/micro/Precision/index.htm
ZL3TMB http://www.hamradio.co.nz/
AC6V’s AR & DX Reference http://www.ac6v.com/
Amateur radio with Knoppix http://www.afu-knoppix.de/
Amateur Radio Soundblaster Software Collection http://www.muenster.de/~welp/sb.htm
AM fone.net http://www.amfone.net
AMRAD Low Frequency Web Page http://www.amrad.org/projects/lf/index.html
DL4YHF http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/
Direction finding http://members.aol.com/homingin/
DSP Links http://users.iafrica.com/k/ku/kurient/dsp/links.html
Electric-web.org www.electric-web.org
EI4HQ http://www.4c.ucc.ie/~cjgebruers/index.htm
EI8IC http://www.qsl.net/ei8ic/
EHAM http://www.eham.net/
eQSL (electronic QSL) http://www.eqsl.cc/qslcard/
HamInfoBar http://www.haminfobar.co.uk/
Felix Meyer http://home.datacomm.ch/hb9abx/
FUNET http://www.funet.fi/pub/ham/
Gateway to Amateur Radio http://www.alphalink.net.au/~parkerp/gabra.htm
Grid Square Locator http://www.arrl.org/locate/grid.html
G3PTO http://www.qsl.net/g3pto/
G4KLX (The [ON/]G4KLX Page) http://www.qslnet.de/member/g4klx/
HAM RADIO EQUIPMENT & ACCESSORIES http://www.area-ham.org/library/equip/equip.htm
Ham-Links http://www.k1dwu.net/ham-links/
HAMUNIVERSE.COM http://www.hamuniverse.com/
Hamview DSP software http://www.qsl.net/k3pgp/Hamview/hamview.htm
Homebrew RF Test Equipment And Software http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/appendixF.html#10
KB4VOLÂ Â link site http://pages.prodigy.com/kb4vol/
KF6VTA & KG4TBJ http://www.geocities.com/silensiosham/index.html
KU4AY ham radio directory http://www.ku4ay.net/
K1DWU http://www.k1dwu.net/
K1TTT http://www.k1ttt.net/
K1TTT Technical Reference http://www.k1ttt.net/technote/techref.html
K3PGP http://www.k3pgp.org/
K3TZ Ham Radio Experimentation http://www.qsl.net/k3tz/
K6XC (links) http://home.earthlink.net/~rluttringer/
Lighthouses (International Lighthouse/ Lightship Weekend) http://illw.net
Links2go http://www.links2go.net/more/www.ampr.org/
Mels AMATEUR RADIO LINK’S http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/melspage/amlinks.htm
Michael Todd Computers & Communications http://www.arcompanion.com/
MoDTS http://www.m0dts.co.uk/
NT8N http://www.qsl.net/nt8n
NW7USÂ Â (Amateur and Shortwave Radio) http://hfradio.org/
N3EYR’s Radio Links http://www.isrv.com/~joel/radio.html
PD0RKC http://www.qsl.net/pd0rkc/
PI6ATV (ATV, Antenna, software, info) http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/software.htm
Radio Links http://www.angelfire.com/ri/theboss1/
Radio Corner (forum) http://www.radiocorner.net
Ray Vaughan http://rayvaughan.com/
Reference http://www.panix.com/~clay/ham/
streaming radio programs http://live365.com/home/index.live
The Elmer HAMlet (information) http://www.qth.com/antenna/index.htm
VE1XYL and VE1ALQ http://www.qsl.net/ve1alq/downloads/tetrode-ps/pwrsup.htm
WB6VUB (links) http://www.mpicomputers.com/ham/
WL7LP http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/3782/wl7lp.html
W2XO http://www.w2xo.pgh.pa.us/
XE1BEFÂ (DX, mods, links and more) http://www.geocities.com/xe1bef/
Andrews Communication Systems http://www.andrewscom.com.au/
AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE INDUSTRIAL http://www.spin.net.au/~aeitower/
BENELEC www.benelec.com.au
Bushcomm www.bushcomm.com.au
G. & C. COMMUNICATIONS www.gccomm.com.au
Hamak (RM Products Italy) http://www.hamak.com.au/
Hamshack http://www.hamshack.com.au
KENWOOD Australia http://www.kenwood.com.au/
Kyle Communications http://www.kyle.com.au/
ICOM Australia http://www.icom.net.au
Mini-kits http://www.minikits.com.au/
OZGEAR http://www.ozgear.com.au/
Radio-Data (links) http://www.radio-data.net/
Radio Specialists (equipment connectors and antenna) http://www.radiospecialists.com.au
STRICTLY HAM http://www.strictlyham.com.au/
TET-EMTRON www.tet-emtron.com
Townsville CB& Communications http://www.vk4tub.org/tcb/tcb.html
TTS Systems http://www.ttssystems.com.au/
VK4-ICE Communications http://www.vk4ice.com
WiNRADiO (PC based receivers) http://www.winradio.com.au
MFJ http://www.mfjenterprises.com/index.php
Vertex Standard http://www.vxstd.com/en/index.html
W7FG VINTAGE MANUALS CATALOGUE http://www.w7fg.com/index.html
Z Communications Company (repair of old radio equipment) http://home.comcast.net/~zcomco/
See also Kits and components
Radio mods, cables, connection info
batlabs (Motorola radio connection, cable info) http://www.batlabs.com/
Hall Electronics http://www.hallelectronics.com/getech/proglink.htm
Radio Mods http://www.mods.dk/
WWW.ham.dmz.ro (mods info and more) http://www.ham.dmz.ro/
W4RP IC-2720H Page http://www.w4rp.com/ic2720/
Please also look at manufacture’s sites
www.DaStrike.com (video and links) http://www.dastrike.com/
K9WK Amateur Radio http://www.k9wk.com/litenin.html
Lightning Protection Institute http://www.lightning.org/
Marine Grounding Systems http://www.sailmail.com/grounds.htm
Moonraker boat lightning information http://www.moonraker.com.au/techni/lightning-marine.htm
NLSI http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lhm/effect.html
PolyPhaser http://www.polyphaser.com/
RFI Lightning protection http://www.rfindustries.com.au/rfiproducts/lightning/lightning.htm
Amateur Spread Spectrum
Spread Spectrum Scene http://www.sss-mag.com/map.html
Spread spectrum http://www.amrad.org/projects/ss/
SS Info http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~radionet/1997_workshop/wireless/notes/index.htm
Call-sign finders
The DX Notebook http://www.dxer.org/callbook.html
QRZ http://www.qrz.com/
QSL.NET http://www.qsl.net/
Equipment suppliers and manufacturers
Easy-radio (your DNS server may have problems finding this site) http://www.easy-radio.co.uk/
Kits and Components
Australian and selected international suppliers
ACRES ELECTRONICS http://www.acreselectronics.co.nz/product.htm
Allthings http://www.allthings.com.au/
Altronics http://www.altronics.com.au/
Antique Electronic Supply http://www.tubesandmore.com/
Antenna Systems and Supplies Inc. (sm) http://www.antennasystems.com/
Av-COMM http://www.avcomm.com.au/
BYONICS http://www.byonics.com/
Clarke & Severn Electronics http://www.clarke.com.au
Cliff Electronics (Aus) Pty. Ltd http://www.cliff.com.au/
Computronics http://www.computronics.com.au/tools/
David Hall Electronics http://www.dhe.com.au
Dick Smith Electronics http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront
Digi-Key http://www.digikey.com/
Dominion Electronics http://www.dominion.net.au/
Electronics http://www.michelletroutman.com/index.htm
Elliott Sound Products http://sound.westhost.com/index2.html
Farnell http://www.farnell.com/
G1MFG.com (ATV and more) http://www.g1mfg.com/index.html
Hammond Mfg http://www.hammondmfg.com/
Hy-Q International http://www.hy-q.com.au
IRH Components http://www.irh.com.au/index.htm
Jaycar http://www.jaycar.com.au/
Microwave Dynamics http://www.microwave-dynamics.com/
MicroZed Computers http://www.microzed.com.au/
Mini-Circuits http://www.minicircuits.com/
Mouser Electronics http://www.mouser.com/
NEWTEK ELECTRONICS http://www.newtek.com.au/
Oatley electronics http://www.oatleyelectronics.com/
Ocean State Electronics http://www.oselectronics.com/
Ozitronics http://www.ozitronics.com/
pacific DATACOM http://www.pacificdatacom.com.au
Picaxe http://www.Picaxe.com.au
Prime Electronics http://www.prime-electronics.com.au/
Radio Parts http://www.radioparts.com.au/
R.C.S. Radio (circuit boards) http://www.rcsradio.com.au/
RF Modules Australia (ZigBee) http:\www.rfmodules.com.au
RFShop (Brisbane) http://www.rfshop.com.au/
Rockby Electronics and Computers http://www.rockby.com.au/
RS Components http://www.rsaustralia.com/
Semtronics http://www.semtronics.com.au/
Sicom http://www.sircom.co.nz
Silvertone Electronics http://www.silvertone.com.au/
South Island Component Centre (New Zealand) http://www.sicom.co.nz/
Surplus Sales of Nebraska http://www.surplussales.com/
Surplustronics (New Zealand) http://www.surplustronics.co.nz/
Tandy (Australia) http://www.tandy.com.au/
Teckics http://www.techniks.com/
WB9ANQ’s Surplus Store http://www.qsl.net/wb9anq/
Wiltronics http://www.wiltronics.com.au/
Worldwide Electronic Components http:/www.iinet.net.au/~worcom
13cm.co.uk http://www.13cm.co.uk/
Also look at the ATV links
PCB layout and schematic programs baas electronics LAYo1 PCB http://www.baas.nl/layo1pcb/uk/index.html
Easytrax http://www.cia.com.au/rcsradio/
Electronics WORKBENCH http://www.ewbeurope.com/Franklin Industries http://www.franklin-industries.com/Eagle/starteagle.html McCAD http://www.mccad.com/ OrCAD http://www.orcad.com/downloads.aspx TARGET 3001! http://www.ibfriedrich.com/english/engl_vordownload.htm Tech5 http://www.tech5.nl/eda/pcblayout TinyCAD http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/ VEGO ABACOM http://www.vego.nl/abacom/download/download.htm
Amateur Satellites and space
AMSAT http://www.amsat.org/
AMSAT-DL http://www.amsat-dl.org/
AMSAT-ZL (kiwisat) http://www.amsat-zl.org.nz/
CSXT Civilian Space eXploration Team http://www.civilianspace.com/
electric-web.org http://www.electric-web.org
esa http://www.esa.int/esaCP
Heavens-above http://www.heavens-above.com/
ISS fan club http://www.issfanclub.com
SATSCAPEÂ Â Â (free satellite tracking program) http://www.satscape.co.uk/
Satellite tracking software http://perso.club-internet.fr/f1orl/index.html
Satsignal http://www.satsignal.net/
Space.com http://www.space.com/
UHF-Satcom.com http://www.uhf-satcom.com
NOAA http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
IPS Radio and Space Services http://www.ips.gov.au/
ITS http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/
Near-Real-Time MUF Map http://www.spacew.com/www/realtime.php
Radio Mobile (path prediction) http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html
VK4ZU (Propagation) http://www.users.on.net/~trevorb/
KANSAT http://www.kansat.com.au/
KRISTAL electronics http://www.kristal.com.au/index.html
Lyngsat http://lyngsat.com/
Nationwide Antenna Systems http://www.uq.net.au/~zznation/index.html
Satcure http://www.satcure.com/
SAT TV http://www.sattv.com.au/
Radio and Scanning
Brisbane Radio Scanner http://www.angelfire.com/id/samjohnson/
Extreme Worldwide Scanner Radio http://members.optushome.com.au/extremescan/scanning.html
Newcastle Area Radio Frequency Guide http://scanhunter.tripod.com/index.html
RADIO FREQUENCIES AND INFORMATION http://www.qsl.net/vk1zmc/information.html
Kiwi Radio http://kiwiradio.blakjak.net/
NZscanners http://www.nzscanners.org.nz/
Wellington Scanner Frequencies http://wsf2003.tripod.com/
ZLScanner http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/lovegrov/
ZL3TMB (Christchurch NZ) http://www.hamradio.co.nz/
Frequency guide http://www.panix.com/~clay/scanning/
Incident Broadcast Network (including Australian feeds) http://www.incidentbroadcast.com
Radio H.F. (some ham stuff) http://www3.sympatico.ca/radiohf/
RadioReference.com http://www.radioreference.com/index.php
Amateur Radio DX and Contest
AA1V’s DX Info-Page http://www.goldtel.net/aa1v/
Australian contesting http://www.vkham.com/index.html
Buckmaster callsign database http://www.buck.com/cgi-bin/do_hamcall
DX Greyline http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p
DX Summit http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/
DX 425 News http://www.425dxn.org/
EI8IC Global Overlay Mapper http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/
German DX Foundation-GDXF http://www.gdxf.de/
GlobalTuners (provides access to remotely controlled radio receivers all over the world) http://www.globaltuners.com/
Ham Atlas by SP6NVK http://www.hamatlas.eu/
Kiwi DX List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kiwidxlist/
Oceania Amateur Radio DX Group Incorporated http://odxg.org/
Oceania DX Contest http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/
QRZ.COM http://www.qrz.com/site.html
The AM Window http://www.amwindow.org/index.htm
The Daily DX http://www.dailydx.com
IARU QSL Bureaus http://www.iaru.org/iaruqsl.html
International DX Association http://www.indexa.org/
Internet Ham Atlas http://www.hamatlas.eu/
IOTA http://www.425dxn.org/iota/
IOTA groups and Reference http://www.logiciel.co.uk/iota/shtlist.html
IOTA RSGB http://rsgbiota.org
IOTA 425 http://www.425dxn.org/iota
Island Radio Expedition Fondation http://www.islandradio.org/
LA9HW HF Contest page http://home.online.no/~janalme/hammain.html
NG3K Contest/DX Page http://www.cpcug.org/user/wfeidt/
Northern California DX Foundation http://www.ncdxf.org
Simple phrases in European Languages http://web.onetel.com/~stephenseabrook/
SUMMITS on the AIR http://www.sota.org.uk/
Telnet Access to DX Packet Clusters http://cpcug.org/user/wfeidt/Misc/cluster.html
The DX Notebook http://www.dxer.org/
VE6OA’s DX Links http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/agirard/dxlinks.htmVK Contest Club http://www.vkcc.com
World of DK4KQ http://www.dl4kq.de/
XE1BEFÂ DX and links http://www.geocities.com/xe1bef/
Logging Software
VK Contest Log (VKCL) http://web.aanet.com.au/mnds/
VK/ZL Logger http://www.vklogger.com
WinRD+ logging program http://www.rjmb.net/rd/index.htm
AR-Technology AB5K.net http://www.ab5k.net/Home.aspx
Clusse http://he.fi/clusse/
CLX Home page http://clx.muc.de/
DX CLUSTER programs http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/html/English/DXClusters.htm
DXCluster http://www.dxcluster.org/
DXCluster.Info http://www.dxcluster.info/
DxNet http://www.dxnet.free.fr/
DX PacketCluster Sites on the Internet http://www.n4gn.com/cluster.html
DXSpider – DX cluster system is written in perl http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/dxspider.html
Packet Cluster user manual http://www.yccc.org/Resources/ysa/manual/
The DXSpider User Manual http://www.dxcluster.org/main/usermanual_en.html
VE7CC-1 Dx Spider Cluster http://www.ve7cc.net/
Short Wave DX
AUSTRALIAN RADIO DX CLUB http://www.ardxc.info/
Electronic DX Press (HF, MW and VHF) http://members.tripod.com/~bpadula/edxp.html
Contesting.com http://www.contesting.com/
CQ World Wide DX Contest http://www.cqww.com/
K6XX http://www.k6xx.com/
Longwave Club of America (also Ham) http://www.lwca.org
NIST time stations http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/stations/wwvb.htm
OK1RR DX & Contesting Page http://www.qsl.net/ok1rr/
Prime Time Shortwave http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/
Radio Interval Signals http://www.intervalsignals.org/
shortWWWave http://swww.dwerryhouse.com.au/
SM3CER Contest Service http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/index.htm
The British DX Club http://www.bdxc.org.uk/
Yankee Clipper Contest Club http://www.yccc.org/
Radio Scouting
Scouts Australia JOTA/JOTI http://www.international.scouts.com.au/main.asp?iMenuID=9071085
The history of the Jamboree On The Air http://home.tiscali.nl/worldscout/Jota/jota history.htm
World Organization of the Scout Movement http://www.scout.org/jota/
Australian Regulator
ACMA http://www.acma.gov.au/
International Regulator
ITU http://www.itu.int/home/index.html
Electronic Information and technical reference
AC6V’s Technical Reference http://www.ac6v.com/techref.htm
Chip directory http://www.embeddedlinks.com/chipdir/abc/s.htm#simm
Circuit Sage http://www.circuitsage.com/
CommLinx Solutions Pty Ltd http://www.commlinx.com.au/default.htm
Computer Power Supply Mods http://www.qsl.net/vk4ba/projects/index.html
Discover Circuits http://www.discovercircuits.com/
Electronic Information http://www.beyondlogic.org/
Electronics Links and Resources http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~pleelave/electronics1.html
Epanorama (lots of links) http://www.epanorama.net/
Electronics Tutorials http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/
Electronic Theory http://www.electronicstheory.com/
GREG’S DOWNLOAD PAGE http://www.rfcascade.com/index.html
Hobby Projects (electronic resource) http://www.hobbyprojects.com/tutorial.html
Hittite http://www.hittite.com
Information site http://www.epanorama.net/
ISO Date / Time http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/iso.htm
Latitude/Longitude Conversion utility – 3 formats http://www.directionsmag.com/latlong.php
New Wave Instruments (check out SS Resources) http://www.newwaveinstruments.com/index.htm
Paul Falstad (how electronic circuits work) http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
PINOUTS.RU (Handbook of hardware pinouts) http://pinouts.ru/
PUFF http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~mmic/puffindex/puffE/puffE.htm
RadioReference http://www.radioreference.com/
RF Cafe http://www.rfcafe.com/
RF Globalnet http://www.rfglobalnet.com
RHR Laboratories http://www.rhrlaboratories.com/#Software
rfshop http://www.rfshop.com.au/page7.htm
RS232 Connections, and wiring up serial devices http://www.airborn.com.au/rs232.html
RF Power Table
Science Lobby (electronic links) http://www.sciencelobby.com/
Tech FAQ http://www.tech-faq.com/
The12volt.com (technical information for mobile electronics installers) http://www.the12volt.com/
Electronic service
Repair of TV Sets http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/tvfaq.htm
Sci.Electrinic.Repair FAQ http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/tvfaq.htm
Service engineers Forum http://www.e-repair.co.uk/index.htm
Cable Data
Andrews http://www.andrew.com/default.aspx
Belden http://www.belden.com/
CO-AX CABLE DATA http://www.electric-web.org/coax.htm
Coaxial cable data http://www.qsl.net/kc6uut/coax.html
Coaxial Cable Page http://www.cdi2.com/build_it/coaxloss.htm
HB9ABX http://home.datacomm.ch/hb9abx/coaxdat.htm
HB9HD http://www.hb9hd.ch/PDF/coaxcable.pdf
KC6UUT http://www.qsl.net/kc6uut/coax.html
NESS Engineering http://www.nessengr.com/techdata/coaxdata.html
RF Industries cables http://www.rfindustries.com.au/rfiproducts/cablesConnectors/coaxialCables.htm
THERFC http://www.therfc.com/coax.htm
Times Microwave http://www.timesmicrowave.com/
VK3KHB http://www.gak.net.au/vk3khb/atv/coaxchrt.html
W4ZT http://w4zt.com/coax.html
X.net Antenna cable chart http://www.x.net.au/antenna_cable.html
50 W Coaxial Cable Information http://www.dma.org/~millersg/coax50.html
Alan Lord http://www.dundeecoll.ac.uk/sections/cs/staff/al_radio/
Antique Radio http://antiqueradios.com/
Apex Jr http://www.apexjr.com/
Archives of Boatanchors http://www.tempe.gov/archives/boatanchors.html
Australian Vintage Radio MK II http://www.southcom.com.au/~pauledgr/
Australian Wireless (OZ-Wireless) Email List http://www.clarion.org.au/wireless/
AWA and Fisk Radiola http://203.44.53.131/Radiola/AWA1b.htm
Crystal Radio http://www.crystalradio.net/
Glowbugs http://www.mines.uidaho.edu/~glowbugs/
Hammond Museum of Radio http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/
Historical Radio Society of Australia Inc. http://www.hrsa.asn.au/
JMH’s Virtual Valve Museum http://www.tubecollector.org/numbers.htm
John Rose’s Vintage Radio Home http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jrose/radios/radiomain.htm
Klausmobile Russian Tube Directory http://klausmobile.narod.ru/td/indexe.htm
KK7TV http://www.kk7tv.com/kk7tv.html
Kurrajong Radio Museum http://www.vk2bv.org/museum/
Links to Vintage Radios (Amateur) http://www.qsl.net/ka4pnv/vrlinks.htm
Mike’s Electric Stuff http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/electric.html
Nostalgiar Air http://www.nostalgiaair.org/
Phil’s Old Radios http://antiqueradio.org/
Radio A’s Vintage Radio Page http://www.mnsi.net/~radioa/radioa.htm
Radio Era http://www.radioera.com/
Rap ‘n Tap http://www.midnightscience.com/rapntap/
Replacing Capacitors http://antiqueradio.org/recap.htm
Savoy Hill Publications http://www.valvesunlimited.demon.co.uk/Noframes/savoy_hill_publications.htm
South East Qld Group of the HRSA http://seqg.tripod.com
SEQG of the HRSA Crystal comp http://www.clarion.org.au/crystalset/
SEQG One Tube Radio comp http://seqg.tripod.com/onetube/onetube.html
TEARA’S VINTAGE RADIO LINK PAGE http://www.ipass.net/~teara/vin.html
The Vintage Radio Emporium http://www.vintageradio.info/
The Wireless Works http://www.wirelessworks.co.uk/
Triode Tube Data http://www.triodeel.com/tubedata.htm Tubesworld (Valve Audio and Valve data) http://www.tubesworld.com/
Vintage Radio http://www.vintage-radio.com/index.shtml
Vintage Radio Times http://www.vintageradiotimes.com/Page_1x.html
Vintage Radios and programs http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/agirard/VINTAGE.HTM
Vintage Radios UK http://www.valve.demon.co.uk/
Vintage Radio and Test Equipment Site http://www.geocities.com/eb5agv/
Vintage Radio World http://www.burdaleclose.freeserve.co.uk/
Vintage Radio and Audio Pages http://www.mcallister.simplenet.com/
VMARS http://www.vmars.org.uk/
Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio http://ei5em.110mb.com/museum.html
Valve Audio and Valve data Ake’e Tube Data http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87127076/index.htm CVC http://www.chelmervalve.com/index.html
Data Sheet Locator http://www.duncanamps.co.uk/cgi-bin/tdsl3.exe/
Eimac http://www.cpii.com/eimac/index.html
Frank’s Electron tube Pages http://home.wxs.nl/~frank.philipse/frank/frank.html
Hammond Manufacturing http://www.hammondmfg.com/
House of Tubes http://www.house-of-tubes.com/home/Library.asp
High Voltage Tube Archive http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/electrical/tesla/tubes/
Kiewavly http://home.mira.net/~kiewavly/audio1.html
Industrial Valve Data http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/data.html
Machmat http://www.machmat.com/
NJ7P Tube Data Search http://hereford.ampr.org/cgi-bin/tube?index=1
RCA-R10 Data http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~reese/RC10/
SAS Audio Labs http://www.sasaudiolabs.com/
Sowter Audio Transformers http://www.sowter.co.uk/
Spice Valves http://www.duncanamps.com/spicevalves.html
Tubetec http://www.tubetec.freeserve.co.uk/
TUBEWORLD INC. http://www.tubeworld.com/
Tube datasheets http://www.wps.com/archives/tube-datasheets/index.html
Vacuum Tube Links http://www.michelletroutman.com/tubes.htm
Valves and Tubes http://www.euramcom.freeserve.co.uk/tubes.html
Valve Data Links http://www.thevalvepage.com/links/valvdata.htm
Valve Data http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop/referenc.htm
Valves Unlimited http://www.valvesunlimited.demon.co.uk/Noframes/links.htm
Valve and Tube Supplies http://www.valves.uk.com/
Valveamps.com http://www.valveamps.com/
Audio Calculators and Links http://www.audioscientific.com/Audio Calculators & References Links.htm
BKC GROUP http://www.bkcgroup.fsnet.co.uk/
Car Audio Australia http://www.caraudioaustralia.com/
DIY Audio http://www.diyaudio.com/
Duncan’s Amp Pages http://www.duncanamps.com/
Elliott Sound Products http://sound.westhost.com/audiolink.htm
GM ARTS http://users.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/
Norman Koren http://www.normankoren.com/Audio/
Rane http://www.rane.com/
The Self Site http://www.dself.demon.co.uk/
The Class-A Amplifier Site http://www.gmweb.btinternet.co.uk/
DUBUS (VHF magazine) http://www.dubus.org/
Elektor Electronics http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/
Harlan Technologies (Amateur Television Quarterly) http://www.hampubs.com/
Radio & Communications Monitoring Monthly http://www.monitoringmonthly.co.uk/
SILICON CHIP http://www.siliconchip.com.au/
VHF Communications Mag http://www.vhfcomm.co.uk/
SETI http://www.setileague.org/homepg.htm
SETI Australia http://www.seti.org.au/
Nmap Examples
Posted by :Derek On : September 2, 2009
Category: Infrastructure, Internet
Tags:data, DES, DNS, EFT, Hidden, Internet, ISP, network, Pin, RSA, security, server, text, type, web
Some Nmap examples I thought I would post.
Scanning past Watchguard Firewalls: nmap -sS -iL targetlist.txt -P0 -sV -T4
Verbose Scan: nmap -v
This option scans all reserved TCP ports on the target machine. The -v option enables verbose mode.
nmap -sS -O /24
Launches a stealth SYN scan against each machine that is up out of the 256 IPs on “class C†sized network where Scanme resides. It also tries to determine what operating system is running on each host that is up and running. This requires root privileges because of the SYN scan and OS detection.
nmap -sV -p 22,53,110,143,4564 198.116.0-255.1-127
Launches host enumeration and a TCP scan at the first half of each of the 255 possible eight-bit subnets in the 198.116 class B address space. This tests whether the systems run SSH, DNS, POP3, or IMAP on their standard ports, or anything on port 4564. For any of these ports found open, version detection is used to determine what application is running.
nmap -v -iR 100000 -PN -p 80
Asks Nmap to choose 100,000 hosts at random and scan them for web servers (port 80). Host enumeration is disabled with -PN since first sending a couple probes to determine whether a host is up is wasteful when you are only probing one port on each target host anyway.
nmap -PN -p80 -oX logs/pb-port80scan.xml -oG logs/pb-port80scan.gnmap 216.163.128.20/20
This scans 4096 IPs for any web servers (without pinging them) and saves the output in grepable and XML formats.
Instead of limiting ourselves to scanning just one target., let’s broaden our horizon’s to bigger and better things. In example 2 we used our IP address to base a scan against. Using that address again we can get a look at numerous targets in our “community”. At the command line type the following (substituting a valid address of your choice of course):
nmap -sT -O 206.212.15.0-50
What this does is instruct nmap to scan every host between the IP addresses of 206.212.15.0 and 206.212.15.50. If you happen to find many interesting feedback results from this or a larger scale scan then you can always pipe the output into your choice of a human readable file or a machine parsable file for future reference by issuing the following option:
To create a human readable output file issue the -oN command into your nmap string so that it would look similar to this:
nmap -sT -O -oN sample.txt 206.212.15.0-50
Rather have a machine parsable file? Enter the -oM to pipe the output into a machine parsable file:
nmap -sT -O -oM sample.txt 206.212.15.0-50
*Back when I was becoming aquatinted with all the nmap options, I ran my first large scale scan against 250 consecutive machines using an arbitrary number (nmap -sX -O -oN sample.txt XXX.XXX.XXX.0-250).To my great surprise I was confronted with 250 up and running virgin Linux machines. Another reason why Linux enthusiasts should NEVER become bored.
-I This is a handy little call that activates nmap’s TCP reverse ident scanning option. This divulges information that gives the username that owns available processes. Let’s take a look (Note that the host has to be running ident). At the command line issue this command against your target, in this case our default Eve running Linux:
-iR Use this command to instruct nmap to scan random hosts for you.
-p Port range option allows you to pick what port or ports you wish nmap to scan against.
-v Use verbosity to display more output data. Use twice (-v -v) for maximum verbosity.
-h Displays a quick reference of nmap’s calls
Now that we have looked at nmap’s three basic usage types and some of it’s other options, let’s mix and match them.
nmap -v -v -sS -O 209.212.53.50-100
This instructs nmap to use a maximum amount of verbosity to run a stealth scan and OS detection against all machines between IP addresses 209.212.53.50 and 209.212.53.100. This command will also require root privileges due to both the -sS and -O calls. Of course this will display a very overwhelming amount of data so let’s log our results into a human readable file for future reference:
nmap -v -v -sS -O -oN sample.txt 209.212.53.50-100
Now let’s make nmap run a stealth scan and instruct it to look only for machines offering http and ftp services between the addresses of 209.212.53.50 and 209.212.53.100. Once again we will log the output (I’m a log junkie) for future reference into a human readable file called ftphttpscan.txt:
nmap -sS -p 23,80 -oN ftphttpscan.txt 209.212.53.50-100
Remember the -iR option mentioned previously? Let’s use it to take a random sampling of Internet web servers using the verbatim example from nmap’s man page:
nmap -sS -iR -p 80
Last but certainly not least, while gleaning information, don’t forget to nmap yourself. Just type at the command line: nmap 127.0.0.1 This is especially useful and recommended if you’re a newcomer to Linux and connected to the Internet via DSL or cable modem.
Detect promiscuous network devices or sniffers on a network
Old versions nmap –script=promiscuous 10.0.1.0/24
New Versions nmap -sV –script=sniffer-detect 10.0.1.0/24
Scanning past Watchguard Firewalls
The EDinburgh Great Shiraz Challenge
Posted by :Derek On : July 5, 2009
Category: Environment & People, Food & Wine
Tags:Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, arenberg, artful dodger, ASP, bar, Barossa, barossa shiraz, biodynamic, Cape Jaffa, cheap wine, cooter, Corporate, d'Arenberg, EDinburgh Cellars, EFT, Great Shiraz Challenge, Hidden, Kerry, Lengs and Cooter, Lengs and Cooter Wines, Mall, Mike Press, Penfolds, Pin, record crowd, RSA, Shiraz, SouthCorp, sparkling shiraz, Telstra, Veronique, Whistler, Wine, wine companies, wine group, wine maker, Woodstock, Yelland & Papps
Kerry and I went along to the EDinburgh Cellars Great Shiraz Challenge.
Between Kerry and I we tasted more than 25 great wines over a harrowing 2.5 hours of hustle and bustle in a huge tent in the ED’s carpark. It was great, we both thought that it was well worth the $30/head entry fee.
One of the great things was the amount of large and small wine companies presenting their spoils. Refreshingly many of the tasting areas were manned by the wine maker, winery owner or someone of similar stature. This made for great conversations and allowed us to find other great non-mainstream wineries on the day.
As Kerry (Wine group – 9yrs) and I (Corporate) both worked for SouthCorp (Prior to Fosters), we agreed that we would be looking for the special wines of the day. Well we did grab an RWT on the way out as the last tasting for the day – we are not stupid.
We had a great day overall and purchased and ordered some great wins at the Cellars after the event.
It was great catching up with Barb and Karel from Lengs and Cooter Wines and taste some of their great wines. Barb used to work at SouthCorp for many years and Karl worked at Telstra, but Kerry and I agree that they make great wines.
Of the wines in the winning list below our favourites are:
2006 Woodstock “The Stocks” Shiraz
2004 Bullers Caliope Shiraz
2006 Hentley Farm “The Beast” Shiraz
2005 d’Arenberg Dead Arm Shiraz
2006 Glaetzer ‘Bishop’ Shiraz
Other top votes from us for the day are:
2008 Mike Press Adelaide Hills Shiraz (It’s been a long time since we’ve tasted such a good cheap wine)
2007 Honey MoonVineyard Adelaide Hills Shiraz
2004 Lengs & Cooter Old Vines Shiraz
2004 Lengs & Cooter Reserve Shiraz
2005 Artful Dodger Barossa Shiraz
2007 Veronique Regions Shiraz
2006 Cape Jaffa La Lune Biodynamic Shiraz
2006 Ceravolo Sparkling Shiraz
2007 Yelland & Papps Greenock Shiraz
Results – Shiraz Challenge
Shiraz Day 2008 was a massive hit, with a record crowd of over 900 slurping through a field of just over 300 Shiraz. As always, we ask attendees to vote for their favourite wine of the day, and congratulations goes to Clarendon Hills for their superbly compelling 2006 Liandra Shiraz. Here’s the full list of the Top 20:
2006 Clarendon Hills Liandra Syrah
2005 Torbreck Factor Shiraz
2005 Langmeil Freedom 1843 Shiraz
2006 Hentley Farm ‘The Beast’ Shiraz
2005 Whistler Reserve Shiraz
2006 Penfolds RWT Shiraz
2005 Wild Witch Shiraz
2005 Dutschke St Jakobi Shiraz
2006 Woodstock ‘The Stocks’ Shiraz
2006 Brick Kiln Shiraz
2006 Hentley Farm ‘The Beauty’
2005 Pikes ‘The E.W.P’ Shiraz
2004 Paracombe Somerville Shiraz
2006 Kalleske Greenock Shiraz
2005 Bendbrook Goat Track Shiraz
2004 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz
2004 Bethany Wines GR9 Reserve
2005 Paxton EJ Shiraz
TOP 20 UNDER $30:
2005 Tin Shed Melting Pot Shiraz
2004 Carlei Estate ‘Green Vineyard’
2004 Majella Shiraz
2007 Torbreck Woodcutters Shiraz
2005 Hugo Shiraz
2006 Tar & Roses Shiraz
2004 Whistler Shiraz
2005 2 Mates Shiraz McLaren Vale
2005 d’Arenberg Footbolt Shiraz
2006 Mitolo Jester Shiraz
2006 Guichen Bay Vineyards Reserve
2006 Pirathon Shiraz by Kalleske
2006 Scarpantoni Block 3 Shiraz
2006 Naked Run Barossa Shiraz
2006 Bird in Hand Shiraz
2006 O’Leary Walker Shiraz
2007 Paxton Quandong Shiraz
2006 Trevor Jones ‘Boots’ Shiraz
2005 Dutschke Gods Hill Road Shiraz
d’Arenberg
Breaking VISA PIN
Category: Banking & EFTPoS, Security
Tags:access, algorithm, atm cards, attack, bank, Banking, Banking and EFTPoS, bar, Card, conclusion, Credit, CVV, data, Debit, debit card, debit cards, DES, difference, easy money, EFT, Electronic, encryption, hack, Hacking, Internet, ISP, logarithm, magnetic stripe, Mall, Material, mathematics, money, permutation, personal ethics, php, Pin, probability, PVV, Reader, RSA, script, security, Shiraz, something, technique, technology, text, transaction, TSP-PVV, type, Verification, VISA, weak point
Below is an article I found recently. This one of the most comprehensive descriptions of PIN Verification Value (PVV) hacking.
I thought I would replicate it here for my local reference.
As comments have been made regarding the grammar used in the original text, I have corrected some of the obvious errors whilst maintaining the context of the original material.
http://69.46.26.132/~biggold1/fastget2you/tutorial.php
——– Original Text ———-
Have you ever wonder what would happen if you lose your credit or debit card and someone finds it. Would this person be able to withdraw cash from an ATM guessing, somehow, your PIN? Moreover, if you were who finds someone’s card would you try to guess the PIN and take the chance to get some easy money? Of course the answer to both questions should be “no”. This work does not deal with the second question, it is a matter of personal ethics. Herewith I try to answer the first question.
All the information used for this work is public and can be freely found in Internet. The rest is a matter of mathematics and programming, thus we can learn something and have some fun. I reveal no secrets. Furthermore, the aim (and final conclusion) of this work is to demonstrate that PIN algorithms are still strong enough to provide sufficient security. We all know technology is not the weak point.
This work analyses one of the most common PIN algorithms, VISA PVV, used by many ATM cards (credit and debit cards) and tries to find out how resistant is to PIN guessing attacks. By “guessing” I do not mean choosing a random PIN and trying it in an ATM. It is well known that generally we are given three consecutive trials to enter the right PIN, if we fail ATM keeps the card. As VISA PIN is four digit long it’s easy to deduce that the chance for a random PIN guessing is 3/10000 = 0.0003, it seems low enough to be safe; it means you need to lose your card more than three thousand times (or losing more than three thousand cards at the same time 🙂 until there is a reasonable chance of losing money.
What I really meant by “guessing” was breaking the PIN algorithm so that given any card you can immediately know the associated PIN. Therefore this document studies that possibility, analyzing the algorithm and proposing a method for the attack. Finally we give a tool which implements the attack and present results about the estimated chance to break the system. Note that as long as other banking security related algorithms (other PIN formats such as IBM PIN or card validation signatures such as CVV or CVC) are similar to VISA PIN, the same analysis can be done yielding nearly the same results and conclusions.
VISA PVV algorithm
One of the most common PIN algorithms is the VISA PIN Verification Value (PVV). The customer is given a PIN and a magnetic stripe card. Encoded in the magnetic stripe is a four digit number, called PVV. This number is a cryptographic signature of the PIN and other data related to the card. When a user enters his/her PIN the ATM reads the magnetic stripe, encrypts and sends all this information to a central computer. There a trial PVV is computed using the customer entered PIN and the card information with a cryptographic algorithm. The trial PVV is compared with the PVV stored in the card, if they match the central computer returns to the ATM authorization for the transaction. See in more detail.
The description of the PVV algorithm can be found in two documents linked in the previous page. In summary it consists in the encryption of a 8 byte (64 bit) string of data, called Transformed Security Parameter (TSP), with DES algorithm (DEA) in Electronic Code Book mode (ECB) using a secret 64 bit key. The PVV is derived from the output of the encryption process, which is a 8 byte string. The four digits of the PVV (from left to right) correspond to the first four decimal digits (from left to right) of the output from DES when considered as a 16 hexadecimal character (16 x 4 bit = 64 bit) string. If there are no four decimal digits among the 16 hexadecimal characters then the PVV is completed taken (from left to right) non decimal characters and decimalizing them by using the conversion A->0, B->1, C->2, D->3, E->4, F->5. Here is an example:
Output from DES: 0FAB9CDEFFE7DCBA
PVV: 0975
The strategy of avoiding decimalization by skipping characters until four decimal digits are found (which happens to be nearly all the times as we will see below) is very clever because it avoids an important bias in the distribution of digits which has been proven to be fatal for other systems, although the impact on this system would be much lower. See also a related problem not applying to VISA PVV.
The TSP, seen as a 16 hexadecimal character (64 bit) string, is formed (from left to right) with the 11 rightmost digits of the PAN (card number) excluding the last digit (check digit), one digit from 1 to 6 which selects the secret encrypting key and finally the four digits of the PIN. Here is an example:
PAN: 1234 5678 9012 3445
Key selector: 1
PIN: 2468
TSP: 5678901234412468
Obviously the problem of breaking VISA PIN consists in finding the secret encrypting key for DES. The method for that is to do a brute force search of the key space. Note that this is not the only method, one could try to find a weakness in DEA, many tried, but this old standard is still in wide use (now been replaced by AES and RSA, though). This demonstrates it is robust enough so that brute force is the only viable method (there are some better attacks but not practical in our case, for a summary see LASEC memo and for the dirty details see Biham & Shamir 1990, Biham & Shamir 1991, Matsui 1993, Biham & Biryukov 1994 and Heys 2001).
The key selector digit was very likely introduced to cover the possibility of a key compromise. In that case they just have to issue new cards using another key selector. Older cards can be substituted with new ones or simply the ATM can transparently write a new PVV (corresponding to the new key and keeping the same PIN) next time the customer uses his/her card. For the shake of security all users should be asked to change their PINs, however it would be embarrassing for the bank to explain the reason, so very likely they would not make such request.
Preparing the attack
A brute force attack consists in encrypting a TSP with known PVV using all possible encrypting keys and compare each obtained PVV with the known PVV. When a match is found we have a candidate key. But how many keys we have to try? As we said above the key is 64 bit long, this would mean we have to try 2^64 keys. However this is not true. Actually only 56 bits are effective in DES keys because one bit (the least significant) out of each octet was historically reserved as a checksum for the others; in practice those 8 bits (one for each of the 8 octets) are ignored.
Therefore the DES key space consists of 2^56 keys. If we try all these keys will we find one and only one match, corresponding to the bank secret key? Certainly not. We will obtain many matching keys. This is because the PVV is only a small part (one fourth) of the DES output. Furthermore the PVV is degenerated because some of the digits (those between 0 and 5 after the last, seen from left to right, digit between 6 and 9) may come from a decimal digit or from a decimalized hexadecimal digit of the DES output. Thus many keys will produce a DES output which yields to the same matching PVV.
Then what can we do to find the real key among those other false positive keys? Simply we have to encrypt a second different TSP, also with known PVV, but using only the candidate keys which gave a positive matching with the first TSP-PVV pair. However there is no guarantee we won’t get again many false positives along with the true key. If so, we will need a third TSP-PVV pair, repeat the process and so on.
Before we start our attack we have to know how many TSP-PVV pairs we will need. For that we have to calculate the probability for a random DES output to yield a matching PVV just by chance. There are several ways to calculate this number and here I will use a simple approach easy to understand but which requires some background in mathematics of probability.
A probability can always be seen as the ratio of favorable cases to possible cases. In our problem the number of possible cases is given by the permutation of 16 elements (the 0 to F hexadecimal digits) in a group of 16 of them (the 16 hexadecimal digits of the DES output). This is given by 16^16 ~ 1.8 * 10^19 which of course coincides with 2^64 (different numbers of 64 bits). This set of numbers can be separated into five categories:
Those with at least four decimal digits (0 to 9) among the 16 hexadecimal digits (0 to F) of the DES output.
Those with exactly only three decimal digits.
Those with exactly only two decimal digits.
Those with exactly only one decimal digit.
Those with no decimal digits (all between A and F).
Let’s calculate how many numbers fall in each category. If we label the 16 hexadecimal digits of the DES output as X1 to X16 then we can label the first four decimal digits of any given number of the first category as Xi, Xj, Xk and Xl. The number of different combinations with this profile is given by the product 6 i-1 * 10 * 6j-i-1 * 10 * 6k-j-1 * 10 * 6 l-k-1 * 10 * 1616-l where the 6’s come from the number of possibilities for an A to F digit, the 10’s come from the possibilities for a 0 to 9 digit, and the 16 comes from the possibilities for a 0 to F digit. Now the total numbers in the first category is simply given by the summation of this product over i, j, k, l from 1 to 16 but with i < j < k < l. If you do some math work you will see this equals to the product of 104/6 with the summation over i from 4 to 16 of (i-1) * (i-2) * (i-3) * 6i-4 * 16 16-i ~ 1.8 * 1019.
Analogously the number of cases in the second category is given by the summation over i, j, k from 1 to 16 with i < j < k of the product 6i-1 * 10 * 6j-i-1 * 10 * 6k-j-1 * 10 * 616-k which you can work it out to be 16!/(3! * (16-13)!) * 103 * 6 13 = 16 * 15 * 14/(3 * 2) * 103 * 613 = 56 * 104 * 613 ~ 7.3 * 1015. Similarly for the third category we have the summation over i, j from 1 to 16 with i < j of 6 i-1 * 10 * 6j-i-1 * 10 * 616-j which equals to 16!/(2! * (16-14)!) * 102 * 614 = 2 * 103 * 615 ~ 9.4 * 1014. Again, for the fourth category we have the summation over i from 1 to 16 of 6i-1 * 10 * 616-i = 160 * 615 ~ 7.5 * 1013. And finally the amount of cases in the fifth category is given by the permutation of six elements (A to F digits) in a group of 16, that is, 616 ~ 2.8 * 1012.
I hope you followed the calculations up to this point, the hard part is done. Now as a proof that everything is right you can sum the number of cases in the 5 categories and see it equals the total number of possible cases we calculated before. Do the operations using 64 bit numbers or rounding (for floats) or overflow (for integers) errors won’t let you get the exact result.
Up to now we have calculated the number of possible cases in each of the five categories, but we are interested in obtaining the number of favorable cases instead. It is very easy to derive the latter from the former as this is just fixing the combination of the four decimal digits (or the required hexadecimal digits if there are no four decimal digits) of the PVV instead of letting them free. In practice this means turning the 10’s in the formula above into 1’s and the required amount of 6’s into 1’s if there are no four decimal digits. That is, we have to divide the first result by 104, the second one by 103 * 6, the third one by 102 * 62 , the fourth one by 10 * 63 and the fifth one by 64 . Then the number of favorable cases in the five categories are approximately 1.8 * 1015, 1.2 * 1012, 2.6 * 1011 , 3.5 * 1010, 2.2 * 109 respectively.
Now we are able to obtain what is the probability for a DES output to match a PVV by chance. We just have to add the five numbers of favorable cases and divide it by the total number of possible cases. Doing this we obtain that the probability is very approximately 0.0001 or one out of ten thousand. Is it strange this well rounded result? Not at all, just have a look at the numbers we calculated above. The first category dominates by several orders of magnitude the number of favorable and possible cases. This is rather intuitive as it seems clear that it is very unlikely not having four decimal digits (10 chances out of 16 per digit) among 16 hexadecimal digits. We saw previously that the relationship between the number of possible and favorable cases in the first category was a division by 10^4, that’s where our result p = 0.0001 comes from.
Our aim for all these calculations was to find out how many TSP-PVV pairs we need to carry a successful brute force attack. Now we are able to calculate the expected number of false positives in a first search: it will be the number of trials times the probability for a single random false positive, i.e. t * p where t = 2^56, the size of the key space. This amounts to approximately 7.2 * 10^12, a rather big number. The expected number of false positives in the second search (restricted to the positive keys found in the first search) will be (t * p) * p, for a third search will be ((t * p) * p) * p and so on. Thus for n searches the expected number of false positives will be t * p^n.
We can obtain the number of searches required to expect just one false positive by expressing the equation t * p^n = 1 and solving for n. So n equals to the logarithm in base p of 1/t, which by properties of logarithms it yields n = log(1/t)/log(p) ~ 4.2. Since we cannot do a fractional search it is convenient to round up this number. Therefore what is the expected number of false positives if we perform five searches? It is t * p^5 ~ 0.0007 or approximately 1 out of 1400. Thus using five TSP-PVV pairs is safe to obtain the true secret key with no false positives.
Once we know we need five TSP-PVV pairs, how do we get them? Of course we need at least one card with known PIN, and due to the nature of the PVV algorithm, that’s the only thing we need. With other PIN systems, such as IBM, we would need five cards, however this is not necessary with VISA PVV algorithm. We just have to read the magnetic stripe and then change the PIN four times but reading the card after each change.
It is necessary to read the magnetic stripe of the card to get the PVV and the encrypting key selector. You can buy a commercial magnetic stripe reader or make one yourself following the instructions you can find in the previous page and links therein. Once you have a reader see this description of standard magnetic tracks to find out how to get the PVV from the data read. In that document the PVV field in tracks 1 and 2 is said to be five character long, but actually the true PVV consists of the last four digits. The first of the five digits is the key selector. I have only seen cards with a value of 1 in this digit, which is consistent with the standard and with the secret key never being compromised (and therefore they did not need to move to another key changing the selector).
I did a simple C program, getpvvkey.c, to perform the attack. It consists of a loop to try all possible keys to encrypt the first TSP, if the derived PVV matches the true PVV a new TSP is tried, and so on until there is a mismatch, in which case the key is discarded and a new one is tried, or the five derived PVVs match the corresponding true PVVs, in which case we can assume we got the bank secret key, however the loop goes on until it exhausts the key space. This is done to assure we find the true key because there is a chance (although very low) the first key found is a false positive.
It is expected the program would take a very long time to finish and to minimize the risks of a power cut, computer hang out, etc. it does checkpoints into the file getpvvkey.dat from time to time (the exact time depends on the speed of the computer, it’s around one hour for the fastest computers now in use). For the same reason if a positive key is found it is written on the file getpvvkey.key. The program only displays one message at the beginning, the starting position taken from the checkpoint file if any, after that nothing more is displayed.
The DES algorithm is a key point in the program, it is therefore very important to optimize its speed. I tested several implementations: libdes, SSLeay, openssl, cryptlib, nss, libgcrypt, catacomb, libtomcrypt, cryptopp, ufc-crypt. The DES functions of the first four are based on the same code by Eric Young and is the one which performed best (includes optimized C and x86 assembler code). Thus I chose libdes which was the original implementation and condensed all relevant code in the files encrypt.c (C version) and x86encrypt.s (x86 assembler version). The code is slightly modified to achieve some enhancements in a brute force attack: the initial permutation is a fixed common steep in each TSP encryption and therefore can be made just one time at the beginning. Another improvement is that I wrote a completely new setkey function (I called it nextkey) which is optimum for a brute force loop.
To get the program working you just have to type in the corresponding place five TSPs and their PVVs and then compile it. I have tested it only in UNIX platforms, using the makefile Makegetpvvkey to compile (use the command “make -f Makegetpvvkey”). It may compile on other systems but you may need to fix some things. Be sure that the definition of the type long64 corresponds to a 64 bit integer. In principle there is no dependence on the endianness of the processor. I have successfully compiled and run it on Pentium-Linux, Alpha-Tru64, Mips-Irix and Sparc-Solaris. If you do not have and do not want to install Linux (you don’t know what you are missing 😉 you still have the choice to run Linux on CD and use my program, see my page running Linux without installing it.
Once you have found the secret bank key if you want to find the PIN of an arbitrary card you just have to write a similar program (sorry I have not written it, I’m too lazy 🙂 that would try all 10^4 PINs by generating the corresponding TSP, encrypting it with the (no longer) secret key, deriving the PVV and comparing it with the PVV in the magnetic stripe of the card. You will get one match for the true PIN. Only one match? Remember what we saw above, we have a chance of 0.0001 that a random encryption matches the PVV. We are trying 10000 PINs (and therefore TSPs) thus we expect 10000 * 0.0001 = 1 false positive on average.
This is a very interesting result, it means that, on average, each card has two valid PINs: the customer PIN and the expected false positive. I call it “false” but note that as long as it generates the true PVV it is a PIN as valid as the customer’s one. Furthermore, there is no way to know which is which, even for the ATM; only customer knows. Even if the false positive were not valid as PIN, you still have three trials at the ATM anyway, enough on average. Therefore the probability we calculated at the beginning of this document about random guessing of the PIN has to be corrected. Actually it is twice that value, i.e., it is 0.0006 or one out of more than 1600, still safely low.
It is important to optimize the compilation of the program and to run it in the fastest possible processor due to the long expected run time. I found that the compiler optimization flag -O gets the better performance, thought some improvement is achieved adding the -fomit-frame-pointer flag on Pentium-Linux, the -spike flag on Alpha-Tru64, the -IPA flag on Mips-Irix and the -fast flag on Sparc-Solaris. Special flags (-DDES_PTR -DDES_RISC1 -DDES_RISC2 -DDES_UNROLL -DASM) for the DES code have generally benefits as well. All these flags have already been tested and I chose the best combination for each processor (see makefile) but you can try to fine tune other flags.
According to my tests the best performance is achieved with the AMD Athlon 1600 MHz processor, exceeding 3.4 million keys per second. Interestingly it gets better results than Intel Pentium IV 1800 MHz and 2000 MHz (see figures below, click on them to enlarge). I believe this is due to some I/O saturation, surely cache or memory access, that the AMD processor (which has half the cache of the Pentium) or the motherboard in which it is running, manages to avoid. In the first figure below you can see that the DES breaking speed of all processors has more or less a linear relationship with the processor speed, except for the two Intel Pentium I mentioned before. This is logical, it means that for a double processor speed you’ll get double breaking speed, but watch out for saturation effects, in this case it is better the AMD Athlon 1600 MHz, which will be even cheaper than the Intel Pentium 1800 MHz or 2000 MHz.
In the second figure we can see in more detail what we would call intrinsic DES break power of the processor. I get this value simply dividing the break speed by the processor speed, that is, we get the number of DES keys tried per second and per MHz. This is a measure of the performance of the processor type independently of its speed. The results show that the best processor for this task is the AMD Athlon, then comes the Alpha and very close after it is the Intel Pentium (except for the higher speed ones which perform very poor due to the saturation effect). Next is the Mips processor and in the last place is the Sparc. Some Alpha and Mips processors are located at bottom of scale because they are early releases not including enhancements of late versions. Note that I included the performance of x86 processors for C and assembler code as there is a big difference. It seems that gcc is not a good generator of optimized machine code, but of course we don’t know whether a manual optimization of assembler code for the other processors (Alpha, Mips, Sparc) would boost their results compared to the native C compilers (I did not use gcc for these other platforms) as it happens with the x86 processor.
Here is an article where these techniques may have been used.
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/could-a-hacker.html
Technology is always being challenged
Category: RFID
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I read a very interesting paper created by the University of Massachusetts, RSA Laboratories and Innealta, Inc.<<
This paper primarily relates to the compromise of contact less payment technologies (RFID) if the RFID and/or reader have not been implemented correctly or the solution provider has used an inappropriate type of RFID and discusses the challenges around Chip and Pin with respect to financial transactions e.g. EMV standards and compliance.
Additionally, the paper describes a RFID relay method which is being discussed within many forums around the world and we have now begun to see equipment being produced for the RFID skimmers/clonners to use for malicious means.
The overarching point of this paper is to use an appropriate RFID & Chip solutions which supports the security/privacy of the user and purpose of the transaction (financial or non financial)<<
The paper can be found at http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/papers/RFID-CC-manuscript.pdf
In modern payment RFID & Chip solutions, newer devices can be used which possess a high degree of processing power and are therefore able to execute strong cryptographic methods (such as digital signatures) to protect the identification and payment information whilst the transaction is occurring.
These systems often utilise bidirectional authentication between the RFID/Chip scanner and the RFID tag/Chip prior to performing the transaction. These methods and cryptographic algorithms are accepted and proven to work within the traditional payment markets.
As mentioned in the paper, some solution store static digitally signed and/or encrypted data which is provided to the RFID/Chip reader when queried, but this data never changes from one transaction to another. This may allow a malicious individual to capture and re-inject the data into the reader at a later stage. The alternative to storing static digitally signed and/or encrypted data is to negotiate a key exchange at the time of the transaction in which the card/value information is encrypted and subsequently transmitted. With this method the transmitted data
changes on every transaction and therefore even if a malicious individual was to capture the encrypted transaction data from one transaction, this would not be accepted by the reader if re-injected at a later stage.
Although this is the case today, older RFID/Chip solutions often use technologies which are not appropriate for financial transactions and therefore may be compromised easily and in some cases without the knowledge of the card holder, merchant or acquirer.
I find this interesting how some of these less secure solution have been approved for use by acquiring banks and the card schemes around the world (if they were told) in recent years, where it has been seen that these solutions have utilised techniques or deployment methods which can be compromised. These technologies and techniques would never be approved within the Point of Sale (PoS) or traditional banking markets.
It can only be assumed that the need to get product to market quickly at the expense of proper testing, understanding and with due consideration to industry lessons learnt has succeeded again.
Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data
Posted by :madrock.net On : March 24, 2008
Category: Bluetooth, Security
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In November 2003, Adam Laurie of A.L. Digital Ltd. discovered that there are serious flaws in the authentication and/or data transfer mechanisms on some bluetooth enabled devices. Specifically, three vulnerabilities have been found:
Firstly, confidential data can be obtained, anonymously, and without the owner’s knowledge or consent, from some bluetooth enabled mobile phones. This data includes, at least, the entire phone book and calendar, and the phone’s IMEI.
Secondly, it has been found that the complete memory contents of some mobile phones can be accessed by a previously trusted (“paired”) device that has since been removed from the trusted list. This data includes not only the phonebook and calendar, but media files such as pictures and text messages. In essence, the entire device can be “backed up” to an attacker’s own system.
Thirdly, access can be gained to the AT command set of the device, giving full access to the higher level commands and channels, such as data, voice and messaging. This third vulnerability was identified by Martin Herfurt, and they have since started working together on finding additional possible exploits resulting from this vulnerability.
Finally, the current trend for “Bluejacking” is promoting an environment which puts consumer devices at greater risk from the above attacks.
The SNARF attack:
It is possible, on some makes of device, to connect to the device without alerting the owner of the target device of the request, and gain access to restricted portions of the stored data therein, including the entire phonebook (and any images or other data associated with the entries), calendar, real-time clock, business card, properties, change log, IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity [6], which uniquely identifies the phone to the mobile network, and is used in illegal phone ‘cloning’). This is normally only possible if the device is in “discoverable” or “visible” mode, but there are tools available on the Internet that allow even this safety net to be bypassed[4]. Further details will not be released at this time (see below for more on this), but the attack can and will be demonstrated to manufacturers and press if required.
The BACKDOOR attack:
The backdoor attack involves establishing a trust relationship through the “pairing” mechanism, but ensuring that it no longer appears in the target’s register of paired devices. In this way, unless the owner is actually observing their device at the precise moment a connection is established, they are unlikely to notice anything untoward, and the attacker may be free to continue to use any resource that a trusted relationship with that device grants access to (but note that so far we have only tested file transfers). This means that not only can data be retrieved from the phone, but other services, such as modems or Internet, WAP and GPRS gateways may be accessed without the owner’s knowledge or consent. Indications are that once the backdoor is installed, the above SNARF attack will function on devices that previously denied access, and without the restrictions of a plain SNARF attack, so we strongly suspect that the other services will prove to be available also.
The BLUEBUG attack:
The bluebug attack creates a serial profile connection to the device, thereby giving full access to the AT command set, which can then be exploited using standard off the shelf tools, such as PPP for networking and gnokii for messaging, contact management, diverts and initiating calls. With this facility, it is possible to use the phone to initiate calls to premium rate numbers, send sms messages, read sms messages, connect to data services such as the Internet, and even monitor conversations in the vicinity of the phone. This latter is done via a voice call over the GSM network, so the listening post can be anywhere in the world. Bluetooth access is only required for a few seconds in order to set up the call. Call forwarding diverts can be set up, allowing the owner’s incoming calls to be intercepted, either to provide a channel for calls to more expensive destinations, or for identity theft by impersonation of the victim.
Bluejacking:
Although known to the technical community and early adopters for some time, the process now known as “Bluejacking”[1] has recently come to the fore in the consumer arena, and is becoming a popular mechanism for exchanging anonymous messages in public places. The technique involves abusing the bluetooth “pairing”[2] protocol, the system by which bluetooth devices authenticate each other, to pass a message during the initial “handshake” phase. This is possible because the “name” of the initiating bluetooth device is displayed on the target device as part of the handshake exchange, and, as the protocal allows a large user defined name field – up to 248 characters – the field itself can be used to pass the message. This is all well and good, and, on the face of it, fairly harmless, but, unfortunately, there is a down side. There is a potential security problem with this, and the more the practice grows and is accepted by the user community, and leveraged as a marketing tool by the vendors, the worse it will get. The problem lies in the fact that the protocol being abused is designed for information exchange. The ability to interface with other devices and exchange, update and synchronise data, is the raison d’être of bluetooth. The bluejacking technique is using the first part of a process that allows that exchange to take place, and is therefore open to further abuse if the handshake completes and the “bluejacker” successfully pairs with the target device. If such an event occurs, then all data on the target device becomes available to the initiator, including such things as phone books, calendars, pictures and text messages. As the current wave of PDA and telephony integration progresses, the volume and quality of such data will increase with the devices’ capabilities, leading to far more serious potential compromise. Given the furore that irrupted when a second-hand Blackberry PDA was sold without the previous owner’s data having been wiped[3], it is alarming to think of the consequences of a single bluejacker gathering an entire corporate staff’s contact details by simply attending a conference or camping outside their building or in their foyer with a bluetooth capable device and evil intent. Of course, corporates are not the only potential targets – a bluejacking expedition to, say, The House of Commons, or The US Senate, could provide some interesting, valuable and, who’s to say, potentially damaging or compromising data.<<<
The above may sound alarmist and far fetched, and the general reaction would probably be that most users would not be duped into allowing the connection to complete, so the risk is small. However, in today’s society of instant messaging, the average consumer is under a constant barrage of unsolicited messages in one form or another, whether it be by SPAM email, or “You have won!” style SMS text messages, and do not tend to treat them with much suspicion (although they may well be sceptical about the veracity of the offers). Another message popping up on their ‘phone saying something along the lines of “You have won 10,000 pounds! Enter this 4 digit PIN number and then dial 0900-SUCKER to collect your prize!” is unlikely to cause much alarm, and is more than likely to succeed in many cases.
Workarounds and fixes
We are not aware of any workarounds for the SNARF or BLUEBUG attacks at this time, other than to switch off bluetooth. For permanent fixes, see the ‘Fixes’ section at the bottom of the page.
To permanently remove a pairing, and protect against future BACKDOOR attacks, it seems you must perform a factory reset, but this will, of course, erase all your personal data.
To avoid Bluejacking, “just say no”.
The above methods work to the best of our knowledge, but, as the devices affected are running closed-source proprietary software, it not possible to verify that without the collaboration of the manufacturers. We therefore make no claims as to the level of protection they provide, and you must continue to use bluetooth at your own risk.
Who’s Vulnerable
To date the quantity of devices tested is not great. However, due to the fact that they are amongst the most popular brands, we still consider the affected group to be large. It is also assumed that there are shared implementations of the bluetooth stack, so what affects one model is likely to affect others. This table is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but without the cooperation of the manufacturers (which we currently do not have), it is not possible to conduct more extensive validation.
The devices known to be vulnerable at this time are:
Vulnerability Matrix (* = NOT Vulnerable)
Make Model Firmware Rev BACKDOOR SNARF when Visible SNARF when NOT Visible BUG
Ericsson T68 20R1B
20R2A013
20R2B013
20R2F004
20R5C001 ? Yes No No
Sony Ericsson R520m 20R2G ? Yes No ?
Sony Ericsson T68i 20R1B
20R5C001 ? Yes ? ?
Sony Ericsson T610 20R1A081
20R1L013
20R3C002
20R4D001 ? Yes No ?
Sony Ericsson T610 20R1A081 ? ? ? Yes
Sony Ericsson Z1010 ? ? Yes ? ?
Sony Ericsson Z600 20R2C007
20R5B001 ? Yes ? ?
Nokia 6310 04.10
5.50 ? Yes Yes ?
Nokia 6310i 4.06
5.51 No Yes Yes Yes
Nokia 7650 ? Yes No (+) ? No
Nokia 8910 ? ? Yes Yes ?
Nokia 8910i ? ? Yes Yes ?
* Siemens S55 ? No No No No
* Siemens SX1 ? No No No No
Motorola V600 (++) ? No No No Yes
Motorola V80 (++) ? No No No Yes
+ We now believe the 7650 is only vulnerable to SNARF if it has already been BACKDOORed.
++ The V600 and V80 are discoverable for only 60 seconds, when first powered on or when this feature is user selected, and the window for BDADDR discovery is therefore very small. Motorola have stated that they will correct the vulnerability in current firmware.
What is the Philosophy of Full Disclosure, and why are we providing the tools and detailing the methods that allow this to be done? The reasoning is simple – by exposing the problem we are achieving two goals: firstly, to alert users that the dangers exist, in order that they can take their own precautions against compromise, and secondly, to put pressure on manufacturers to rectify the situation. Consumers have a right to expect that their confidential data is treated as such, and is not subject to simple compromise by poorly implemented protocols on consumer devices. Manufacturers have a duty of care to ensure that such protection is provided, but, in practice, commercial considerations will often take precedence, and, given the choice, they may choose to simply supress or hide the problem, or, even worse, push for laws that prevent the discovery and/or disclosure of such flaws[5]. In our humble opinion, laws provide scant consumer protection against the lawless.
After 13 months, and in consideration of the fact that affected manufacturers had acknowledged the issues and made updated firmware available, Full Disclosure took place at the Chaos Computer Club’s annual congress – 21C3, in Berlin, 2004.
Slides from the disclosure talk can be found here: http://trifinite.org/Downloads/21c3_Bluetooth_Hacking.pdf
Proof of concept utilities have been developed, but are not yet available in the wild. They are:
bluestumbler – Monitor and log all visible bluetooth devices (name, MAC, signal strength, capabilities), and identify manufacturer from MAC address lookup.
bluebrowse – Display available services on a selected device (FAX, Voice, OBEX etc).
bluejack – Send anoymous message to a target device (and optionally broadcast to all visible devices).
bluesnarf – Copy data from target device (everything if pairing succeeds, or a subset in other cases, including phonebook and calendar. In the latter case, user will not be alerted by any bluejack message).
bluebug – Set up covert serial channel to device.
Tools will not be released at this time, so please do not ask. However, if you are a bona-fide manufacturer of bluetooth devices that we have been otherwise unable to contact, please feel free to get in touch for more details on how you can identify your device status.
The above vulnerabilities were discovered by Adam Laurie, during the course of his work with A.L. Digital, in November 2003, and this announcement was prepared thereafter by Adam and Ben Laurie for immediate release.
Adam Laurie is Managing Director and Chief Security Officer of A.L. Digital Ltd.
Ben Laurie is Technical Director of A.L. Digital, and author of Apache-SSL and contributor to many other open source projects, too numerous to expand on here.
A.L. Digital Ltd. are the owner operators of The Bunker, the world’s most secure data centre(s).
e: adam@algroup.co.uk
w: http://www.aldigital.co.uk
e: ben@algroup.co.uk
w: http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
Further information relating to this disclosure will be updated at http://www.bluestumbler.org
http://www.bluejackq.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33781.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3237755.stm
http://www.palowireless.com/infotooth/tutorial/lmp.asp
www.outlaw.com
bluesniff
btscanner
redfang
http://www.babt.com/gsm-imei-number-allocation.asp
http://www.mobiledia.com/glossary/68.html
BBC News Technology Page
ZDNet UK (Original Coverage)
ZDNet UK (Nokia response)
ZDNet (Sony Ericsson response)
The Times (Palace of Westminster)
The Bluetooth SIG.
Bruce Potter’s Defcon-11 presentation [Powerpoint].
@Stake’s Bluetooth Discovery Paper [PDF].
Marcel Holtmann’s German papers.
Marcel Holtmann’s other papers.
Bluetooth Device Security Database.
Martin Herfurt’s CeBIT snarfing expedition.
Slides from Blackhat/DEFCON talk.
Nokia releases patches.
Bluetooth Wireless Specification
Category: Bluetooth, Radio General, Security
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This article is about the Bluetooth wireless specification. For King Harold Bluetooth, see Harold I of Denmark
Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs).
Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices like personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers and digital cameras via a secure, low-cost, globally available short range radio frequency.
Bluetooth lets these devices talk to each other when they come in range, even if they’re not in the same room, as long as they are within 10 metres (32 feet) of each other.
The spec was first developed by Ericsson, later formalised by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The SIG was formally announced on May 20, 1999. It was established by Sony Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Toshiba and Nokia, and later joined by many other companies as Associate or Adopter members.
* 1 About the name
* 2 General information
o 2.1 Embedded Bluetooth
* 3 Features by version
o 3.1 Bluetooth 1.0 and 1.0B
o 3.2 Bluetooth 1.1
* 4 Future Bluetooth uses
* 5 Security concerns
* 6 Bluetooth profiles
* 7 See also
* 8 External links
About the name
The system is named after a Danish king Harald Blåtand (<arold Bluetooth in English), King of Denmark and Norway from 935 and 936 respectively, to 940 known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Bluetooth likewise was intended to unify different technologies like computers and mobile phones. The Bluetooth logo merges the Nordic runes for H and B.
A typical Bluetooth mobile phone headset
The latest version currently available to consumers is 2.0, but few manufacturers have started shipping any products yet. Apple Computer, Inc. offered the first products supporting version 2.0 to end customers in January 2005. The core chips have been available to OEMs (from November 2004), so there will be an influx of 2.0 devices in mid-2005. The previous version, on which all earlier commercial devices are based, is called 1.2.
Bluetooth is a wireless radio standard primarily designed for low power consumption, with a short range (up to 10 meters [1], ) and with a low-cost transceiver microchip in each device.
It can be used to wirelessly connect peripherals like printers or keyboards to computers, or to have PDAs communicate with other nearby PDAs or computers.
Cell phones with integrated Bluetooth technology have also been sold in large numbers, and are able to connect to computers, PDAs and, specifically, to handsfree devices. BMW was the first motor vehicle manufacturer to install handsfree Bluetooth technology in its cars, adding it as an option on its 3 Series, 5 Series and X5 vehicles. Since then, other manufacturers have followed suit, with many vehicles, including the 2004 Toyota Prius and the 2004 Lexus LS 430. The Bluetooth car kits allow users with Bluetooth-equipped cell phones to make use of some of the phone’s features, such as making calls, while the phone itself can be left in a suitcase or in the boot/trunk, for instance.
The standard also includes support for more powerful, longer-range devices suitable for constructing wireless LANs.
A Bluetooth device playing the role of “master” can communicate with up to 7 devices playing the role of “slave”. At any given instant in time, data can be transferred between the master and one slave; but the master switches rapidly from slave to slave in a round-robin fashion. (Simultaneous transmission from the master to multiple slaves is possible, but not used much in practice). These groups of up to 8 devices (1 master and 7 slaves) are called piconets.
The Bluetooth specification also allows connecting two or more piconets together to form a scatternet, with some devices acting as a bridge by simultaneously playing the master role in one piconet and the slave role in another piconet. These devices have yet to come, though are supposed to appear within the next two years.
Any device may perform an “inquiry” to find other devices to which to connect, and any device can be configured to respond to such inquiries.
Pairs of devices may establish a trusted relationship by learning (by user input) a shared secret known as a “passkey”. A device that wants to communicate only with a trusted device can cryptographically authenticate the identity of the other device. Trusted devices may also encrypt the data that they exchange over the air so that no one can listen in.
The protocol operates in the license-free ISM band at 2.45 GHz. In order to avoid interfering with other protocols which use the 2.45 GHz band, the Bluetooth protocol divides the band into 79 channels (each 1 MHz wide) and changes channels up to 1600 times per second. Implementations with versions 1.1 and 1.2 reach speeds of 723.1 kbit/s. Version 2.0 implementations feature Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate (EDR), and thus reach 2.1 Mbit/s. Technically version 2.0 devices have a higher power consumption, but the three times faster rate reduces the transmission times, effectively reducing consumption to half that of 1.x devices (assuming equal traffic load).
Bluetooth differs from Wi-Fi in that the latter provides higher throughput and covers greater distances but requires more expensive hardware and higher power consumption. They use the same frequency range, but employ different multiplexing schemes. While Bluetooth is a cable replacement for a variety of applications, Wi-Fi is a cable replacement only for local area network access. A glib summary is that Bluetooth is wireless USB whereas Wi-Fi is wireless Ethernet.
Many USB Bluetooth adapters are available, some of which also include an IrDA adapter.
Embedded Bluetooth
Bluetooth devices and modules are increasingly being made available which come with an embedded stack and a standard UART port. The UART protocol can be as simple as the industry standard AT protocol, which allows the device to be configured to cable replacement mode. This means it now only takes a matter of hours (instead of weeks) to enable legacy wireless products that communicate via UART port.
Features by version
Bluetooth 1.0 and 1.0B
Versions 1.0 and 1.0B had numerous problems and the various manufacturers had great difficulties in making their products interoperable. 1.0 and 1.0B also had mandatory Bluetooth Hardware Device Address (BD_ADDR) transmission in the handshaking process, rendering anonymity impossible at a protocol level, which was a major set-back for services planned to be used in Bluetooth environments, such as Consumerism.
In version 1.1 many errata found in the 1.0B specifications were fixed. There was added support for non-encrypted channels.
This version is backwards compatible with 1.1 and the major enhancements include
Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH), which improves resistance to radio interference by avoiding using crowded frequencies in the hopping sequence
Higher transmission speeds in practice
extended Synchronous Connections (eSCO), which improves voice quality of audio links by allowing retransmissions of corrupted packets.
Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI)
Host Controller Interface (HCI) support for 3-wire UART
HCI access to timing information for Bluetooth applications.
This version is backwards compatible with 1.x and the major enhancements include
Non-hopping narrowband channel(s) introduced. These are faster but have been criticised as defeating a built-in security mechanism of earlier versions; however frequency hopping is hardly a reliable security mechanism by today’s standards. Rather, Bluetooth security is based mostly on cryptography.
Broadcast/multicast support. Non-hopping channels are used for advertising Bluetooth service profiles offered by various devices to high volumes of Bluetooth devices simultaneously, since there is no need to perform handshaking with every device. (In previous versions the handshaking process takes a bit over one second.)
Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) of 2.1 Mbit/s.
Built-in quality of service.
Distributed media-access control protocols.
Faster response times.
Halved power consumption due to shorter duty cycles.
Future Bluetooth uses
One of the ways Bluetooth technology may become useful is in Voice over IP. When VOIP becomes more widespread, companies may find it unnecessary to employ telephones physically similar to today’s analogue telephone hardware. Bluetooth may then end up being used for communication between a cordless phone and a computer listening for VOIP and with an infrared PCI card acting as a base for the cordless phone. The cordless phone would then just require a cradle for charging. Bluetooth would naturally be used here to allow the cordless phone to remain operational for a reasonably long period.
In November 2003, Ben and Adam Laurie from A.L. Digital Ltd. discovered that serious flaws in Bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data (see http://bluestumbler.org). It should be noted however that the reported security problems concerned some poor implementations of Bluetooth, rather than the protocol itself.
In a subsequent experiment, Martin Herfurt from the trifinite.group was able to do a field-trial at the CeBIT fairgrounds showing the importance of the problem to the world. A new attack called BlueBug was used for this experiment.
In April 2004, security consultants @Stake revealed a security flaw that makes it possible to crack into conversations on Bluetooth based wireless headsets by reverse engineering the PIN.
This is one of a number of concerns that have been raised over the security of Bluetooth communications. In 2004 the first purported virus using Bluetooth to spread itself among mobile phones appeared for the Symbian OS. The virus was first described by Kaspersky Labs and requires users to confirm the installation of unknown software before it can propagate. The virus was written as a proof-of-concept by a group of virus writers known as 29a and sent to anti-virus groups. Because of this, it should not be regarded as a security failure of either Bluetooth or the Symbian OS. It has not propagated ‘in the wild’.
In August 2004, a world-record-setting experiment (see also Bluetooth sniping) showed that with directional antennas the range of class 2 Bluetooth radios could be extended to one mile. This enables attackers to access vulnerable Bluetooth-devices from a distance beyond expectation.
Bluetooth uses the SAFER+ algorithm for authentication and key generation.
Bluetooth profiles
In order to use Bluetooth, a device must be able to interpret certain Bluetooth profiles. These define the possible applications. Following profiles are defined:
Generic Access Profile (GAP)
Service Discovery Application Profile (SDAP)
Cordless Telephony Profile (CTP)
Intercom Profile (IP)
Serial Port Profile (SPP)
Headset Profile (HSP)
Dial-up Networking Profile (DUNP)
Fax Profile
LAN Access Profile (LAP)
Generic Object Exchange Profile (GOEP)
Object Push Profile (OPP)
File Transfer Profile (FTP)
Synchronisation Profile (SP)
This profile allows synchronisation of Personal Information Manager (PIM) items. As this profile originated as part of the infra-red specifications but has been adopted by the Bluetooth SIG to form part of the main Bluetooth specification, it is also commonly referred to as IrMC Synchronisation.
Human Interface Device Profile (HID)
Hard Copy Replacement Profile (HCRP)
Basic Imaging Profile (BIP)
Personal Area Networking Profile (PAN)
Basic Printing Profile (BPP)
Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)
SIM Access Profile (SAP)
Compatibility of products with profiles can be verified on the Bluetooth Qualification website.
Bluechat
Bluejacking – a form of communication via Bluetooth
Bluetooth sniping
Bluesnarfing
Blunt – Bluetooth protocol stack for Newton OS 2.1
Cable spaghetti – a problem wireless technology hopes to solve
LibertyLink
OSGi Alliance
Toothing
Universal plug-and-play
Wireless dating
Wireless AV kit with Bluetooth for modern LCD TV and computer displays.
ZigBee – an alternative digital radio technology that claims to be simpler and cheaper than uetooth, it also needs less power consumption.
Bluetooth Tutorial Includes information on Architecture, Protocols, Establishing Connections, Security and Comparisons
Bluetooth connecting and paire guide
The Official Bluetooth® Wireless Info Site<SIG public pages
Howstuffworks.com explanation of bluetooth
The Bluetooth Car Concept
A series of guides on how-to connect devices like mobile phones, PDAs, desktop/laptops, headsets and use different Bluetooth services
Mapping Salutation Architecture APIs to Bluetooth Service Discovery Layer
Bluetoothâ„¢ Security White Paper
Laptops, PDA and mobile (cell) phones with Bluetooth(TM) and Linux
Bluetooth qualified products
Bluecarkit discussion forum about Bluetooth car handsfree
Bluetooth in spanish
Radio-Electronics.Com – Overview of Bluetooth and its operationi>
Bluetooth Background information about bluetooth (German)
Bluetooth.org – The Official Bluetooth Membership Sitei>
Visa Competes with Payment Systems
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Tags:bank, Banking and EFTPoS, Card, Credit, development, Electronic, money, payment, RSA, Shiraz, transaction, VISA
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The New System will be Offered to 20 Banks<br>Yesterday, at a press conference dedicated to the five-millionth visa card issued by Sberbank, Visa International representative Oliver Hughes announced that a project introducing a system of card-to-card money transfers in Russia has launched its third stage. The project, called Visa Money Transfer (VMT), is now being tested in six Russian banks. Also yesterday, Rosbank announced its intention to participate in the trial. Twenty credit organizations have expressed interest in joining the program, of which ten will be included in the project within the next year. The trial phase of the program will last another six months, after which the VMT system is expected to be unveiled in its full form. The VMT system allows any Visa cardholder to electronically transfer or receive funds to or from another Visa cardholder via an ATM transaction. To make the transaction, all that is needed is the other cardholder’s card number. Though the company “at this point is not positioning the new service as an alternative to the system of traditional money transfers,” VMT promises to be competition for that system. The only restriction is that the laws of the Russian Federation permit such transfers to be made in Russia only in rubles. Market analysts believe that the success of the system will depend on Visa’s commission policies. Bank commissions for transfers stand at around 1%, and if Visa’s commission is more than 0.5%, it is predicted that banks will find it hard to do business within the project. According to some sources, the commission earned by the bank whose client sends the transfer will be 1% of the transfer sum. The bank whose client receives the money will make $0.48 on each transaction. The commission charged by the payment system will be $0.05 + $1. Many Russian banks have expressed interest in the project, but most for now are observing the program’s development from the sidelines, preferring to judge for themselves its power to attract customers. http://www.kommersant.com/photo/75/DAILY/2006/180/KMO_032838_00111_1h_t75.jpg
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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. 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So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. 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1.4 TRUDON (formerly known as TDS Directory Operations) with subsidiaries:
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(b) TDS Directory Operations Namibia (Pty) Ltd;
1.5 The main business of TRUDON (formerly known as TDS Directory Operations) is to provide:
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(b) internet directory services;
(c) talking yellow pages (10118).
(d) mobile directory services.
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Hello Hero: Epic Battle (MOD HP/Attack)
Publisher: Fincon
Category: RPG
Update: November 13, 2018 at 9:10 am
Hello Hero: Epic Battle is a super awesome 3D graphics game that will be available on Facebook for mobile players from around the world. The game has now opened for pre-registration and players in Southeast Asia have been able to experience this game before. The European version will probably be available in a few months.
Will legend come back?
The game was developed by Fincom – the father of popular names on mobile platforms and webs like Hello Hero or Angle Stone. Besides, the game is known as the elf of Hello Hero – a blockbuster raining on Facebook with more than 20 million downloads. This is the next product under the hands of developers from Korea beautiful country. With the original Hello Hero: Epic Battle has a whole new storyline, the game’s context will be 15 years later than the first version. So, everything is new, but the substance to build the brand name Hello Hero is still the same.
Like many card games, card collectors are available on the market today. Hello Hero: Epic Battle will also give us hundreds of unique options that are different heroes. You can choose to train and train so that they can become powerful heroes. But the highlight of the game is that the heroes are built on the different plot. Each one has its unique origins and strengths that are unmatched by anyone else.
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The difference is that the game is better than the current one on the market that is “portrait mode.” This mode allows players to customize and track their characters in all directions. Besides, players can freely customize their characters using the outfits available in the store including hats, glasses, wings, or even pets … Also for a reason This battlefield of Hello Hero: Epic Battle will be different colors.
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Welcome to IMAGE 3.0 Documentation
From IMAGE
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IMAGE is an Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment.
The IMAGE modelling framework has been developed by the IMAGE team under the authority of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. IMAGE is documented on this website (including updates) and in the IMAGE 3.0 book. In 2014, IMAGE has been reviewed by an international advisory board (International review of IMAGE3.0). The development strategy for the period 2015-2020 is elaborated in the IMAGE strategy document.
What is IMAGE?
IMAGE is an ecological-environmental model framework that simulates the environmental consequences of human activities worldwide. It represents interactions between society, the biosphere and the climate system to assess sustainability issues such as climate change, biodiversity and human well-being. The objective of the IMAGE model is to explore the long-term dynamics and impacts of global changes that result from interacting socio-economic and environmental factors.
Navigate the website
Below, we briefly indicate some of the information available on this website.
To become acquainted with the IMAGE framework:
Introduction to the framework and Integrated Assessment Modelling.
Framework summary of drivers, models, impacts and policy responses.
Policy-related pages:
Climate policy, Air pollution and energy policies and Land and biodiversity policies comprise the policy response components.
Policy interventions overview provides access to the Policy issues pages of the models.
Projects/applications overview links to projects in which the IMAGE framework has been applied.
Model-related pages:
Model components overview links to all components (e.g. drivers, core models, impact models and policy responses).
Data flow overview links to the input/output of all components.
Assessment-related pages:
Projects/applications overview
All references lists the references used on this site.
IMAGE related publications overview lists publications related to IMAGE framework.
Integrated Assessment Model Consortium (IAMC)
IMAGE is part of the global IAMC, an organization of scientific research organizations that pursues scientific understanding of issues associated with integrated assessment modeling and analysis. Several IAMs including IMAGE are documented on the IAMC models website. The IMAGE model framework can be compared to other IAMs through the standardised comparison table with the key model characteristics: Model Comparison
Availability of data results
All scenario data (>200 indicators) for major projects are available for download and for viewing in a User Support System (USS)The Download page explains how to download and use the USS for IMAGE scenarios. USS is a viewer showing the scenario indicators (>200) of a number of projects.
At IIASA (RCP Database (version 2.0)) the IMAGE scenario results are part of the database of Integrated Assessment scenarios. At this website many indicators can be viewed and compared.
Availability of models
Most of the models, currently, are not available as downloadable software. They are too complex and require expert use.
The IMAGE 3.0 book
The contents of this website originates from the IMAGE 3.0 book. The website extends and actualises all information on the IMAGE framework.
What's new in IMAGE 3.0
What's new in IMAGE 3.0 summarises the changes in IMAGE (version IMAGE 3.0, released in 2014) compared to the earlier version IMAGE 2.5.
Retrieved from "https://models.pbl.nl/image/index.php?title=Welcome_to_IMAGE_3.0_Documentation&oldid=31477"
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Digital Organization
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Google has Left its Roots Behind
Thomas Euler
Google’s moves announced at this weeks #madebygoogle event have been analyzed a great deal. The announcements’ essence: Sundar Pichai declared the 4th computing age is the AI first era (after PCs, the web and mobile). Plus, Google launched a bunch of hardware products — among it the Pixel Phone and Google Home — which are home to their Google Assistant. Also, Google (basically) builds the devices itself. This, effectively, means they created a new business model which renders them an integrated hard- and software company similar to Apple. For an insightful look at the business ramifications of the move, I encourage you to read Ben Thompson piece and/or listen to this podcast.
I want to add one aspect to the discussion: Focusing the company on machine learning and betting big on intelligent assistants also means Google is undergoing a massive cultural shift.
I wrote at length about the implications of virtual assistants in The Last Touchpoint: The Future Of The Web As Imagined by Google. I stated:
“…the assistant — and therefore the user — is indifferent to where a piece of information comes from. The assistant aggregates, processes and presents it anyway. It is, in an ideal state (as envisioned by Google & Co., not by me),the single touchpoint with the user.”
Google as we know it has been built on optionality. When you searched something, Google The Search Engine presented you with a list of results you could choose from. Though you usually didn’t visit the tenth (or 2nd) results page, you did have the option. Google The Intelligent Assistant is a different animal. It must be. The whole value of voice-based assistants is that they immediately provide the answers to questions or solve problems. Gone is the optionality (or it’s at least drastically reduced; while offering three different options might be viable, giving you thirty isn’t).
The Mission Shift
This presents a rather drastic cultural shift. Google’s mission from early on has read:
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
This was certainly true for Google The Search Engine. Could you come up with a fancy, rhetorical argument to let the current moves appear as in line with it? Sure. A more realistic statement for Google The Intelligent Assistant, however, would read:
Google’s mission is to aggregate and understand the world’s information in order to present our users those which have the highest probability to suit her or his needs
While Google has always been a business, it also was a company that thought differently (pun absolutely intended). For it was built based on the existence of an open web, its whole culture was one that favored openness.
Jonathan Rosenberg, then the Senior VP Product Management, wrote a piece in 2009, The meaning of open, which is a great testament of that attitude. He writes:
At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses.
In an open system, a competitive advantage doesn’t derive from locking in customers, but rather from understanding the fast-moving system better than anyone else and using that knowledge to generate better, more innovative products.
You can certainly find examples in the past were Google opted against openness but you’ll find plenty that substantiate the rhetoric. And there was good business sense in doing so: Google’s advertising core business was based upon the existence of an open, fragmented web. The web, however, is changing and so is Google. Neither do I want to turn this into an ethical discussion about the open web nor judge Google’s new strategy. Instead, I want to highlight that Google The Search Engine was predicated on a very different mindset than Google The Intelligent Assistant.
Swapping Mankind for Users
The very idea of Google The Search Engine is at least somewhat idealistic and aimed to be beneficial to society. Organizing the world’s information and making it accessible to everybody is a huge deal. As information is power, there is a certain radical appeal to it. It was a service designed for mankind.
Google The Intelligent Assistant, on the other hand, is made for individual users. As Pichai noted: The very idea behind it is to give every user her own Google. It is a service designed for convenience through and through. Though I tend to avoid such oversimplified generalizations, one could even argue that intelligent assistants (which reduce optionality¹) are detrimental to society: By locking-in users they constitute an enormous aggregation of influence and catalyze negative effects such as the filter bubble. I don’t fully subscribe to this line of reasoning because reality is more nuanced but admittedly the potential exists.
So, the essential shift is this: Google transitioned from being an incredible idea with the potential to improve the world which — not accidentally but kind of as a positive byproduct — lent itself to become one of the world’s most successful business models to being an incredible business that is now in search of new ways to better cater to its customer base. Note that this makes total business sense. Yet, when you buy into my framing here, it represents not a minor cultural shift.
It’s not a secret: Culture has a huge influence on companies and their success. Thus, I’m really curious what the strategy and business model transition is going to mean for Google’s culture. Mind you: Google has always prided itself as a very mission-driven company. As this mission is shifting, it’s almost certainly going to have effects internally. They might or might not become noticeable to the outside world but it will certainly be interesting to watch the transition closely. After all, Google is on a journey and they are leaving some of their roots behind.
¹ Note this interesting contradiction: Reducing optionality might well be in the interest of the individual user. In case the assistant works well and presents one or a select few, very relevant option(s), it’s freeing the user from the stress of (too much) choice. On the other hand, the same capability might present a downside for society from a macro-perspective.
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Dylan Walsh Is ‘The Stepfather’
Dylan Walsh Is The Stepfather
B. Alan Orange
— November 11th, 2007
Nip/Tuck's Dylan Walsh will star in the remake of the 1987 thriller The Stepfather. According to Variety, Sela Ward and Penn Badgley will round out the family tree, with Adrianne Palicki also in negotiations to join the horror project.
The film is a Hitchcockian-style suspense yarn that revolves around a teenage boy's relationship with his psychotic stepfather. Things take a turn for the worse when the boy (Badgley) discovers that his new dad may have killed his previous family. Ward will star as the mom, while Palicki will play Badgley's girlfriend.
Nelson McCormick is directing this new version of the cult classic. The project will begin shooting March of 2008.
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Universal picks up ‘Outcast’
Universal picks up Outcast
— May 9th, 2005
According to Variety, Universal has acquired screen rights to the young adult fantasy novel series "Outcast" and set Charlie Mitchell to write the script.
Mitchell will produce with Donaldson/Sanders' Peter Donaldson and Circle Of Confusion's Jason Lust.
The "Outcast" books, by Christopher Golden and Thomas Sniegoski, explore a young adult world of magic a la "Harry Potter" and "Shadowmancer" (the latter also is being developed by Universal).
Outcast takes place in Arcanum, where everyone except a young boy named Timothy possesses some magical power.
The series began with book "The Un-Magician" and continued with "Dragon Secrets" and "Ghostfire," published by Simon & Schuster.
Mitchell, who is currently writing "Sinbad" for Sony (Rob Cohen directs Keanu Reeves), did an uncredited rewrite of Cinderella Man and wrote "Children of the Dustbowl," a film to star and be produced by Jim Carrey.
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Momentum Bullying
Last week a leak from Momentum revealed that Jon Lansman needed to discipline Momentum activists after some inappropriate behaviour. This was not an accurate representation of what occurred.
Instead activists confronted Lansman and ‘senior representatives’ in Momentum after being subject to bullying and intimidation.
It’s likely that the ‘leak’ in the press came from Lansman himself in an effort to avoid the truth coming out.
Organisers are upset and angry. These events have revealed a lack of experience and expertise in handling the responsibility of an important political role.
Within this document we will provide evidence of bullying of Momentum Organisers, bullying of a young activist and a failure to investigate this bullying, and of an organisation that is not what it appears.
We are Labour Party members and activists
We care strongly about Momentum and want to see it be used as a democratic organisation to allow ordinary party members to get involved with the Labour Party.
Prior to these events, we assumed that those in charge were acting responsibly and with the best intentions for Labour Members - and trusted them with the responsibility of setting the direction of Momentum.
Considering some of the abusive behaviour by Jon Lansman some of his associates and failure to investigate allegations of bullying, we are concerned of their ability to represent members in Momentum.
1. Organising
After Momentum was announced groups popped up all around the UK by activists keen to get involved in their communities. People started Facebook pages and began organising meetings. A group of organisers got in touch with the headquarters in London and began to coordinate their efforts. A system was set up by grass-roots organisers whereby Momentum groups were required to ‘register’ with the Headquarters in London to be official (and to avoid rogue Momentum groups misrepresenting the organisation). Representatives from HQ were present during these discussions on national organisation. These representatives included some of the faces you have seen in the media discussing Momentum (eg. James Schneider).
Often discussions took place in a Facebook group where Momentum organisers discussed ideas for leaflets and campaigns to run locally.
In Dec, people started reporting that a number of individuals had began taking over Momentum Facebook Pages.
Some of the people organising through Momentum were new to the getting involved in organising, worked full time and did some activism on the side, or needed support - so additional help was gladly received. A group of individuals would offer help, and then would remove all other people from administrative roles on the pages. Repeatedly the name Alex Elhrich and Alex Halligan came up - we didn’t know who these people were.
James Schneider was consulted by organisers to some success - Momentum Bristol managed to get their page back from these individuals. However, many pages are still under their control.
It was also discovered that these individuals had gained access to all Momentum Youth pages, and were bulk posting the same posts on all social media accounts.
One young Labour member had established a youth page for Momentum. They reported to other organisers that they had been subject to intimidation by Alex Halligan and Cllr. Leigh Drennan in order to relinquish the page. For the members anonymity, they are referred to as ‘D’ in the comments below.
As we were not familiar with these people or their motives, there was increasing concern amongst Organisers about the agenda of these individuals taking over pages. James Schneider also reported that he was not aware of what was occurring and was attempting to fix the situation.
Alongside this there were increasing reports of individuals being subject to defamation when attempting to organise and get involved in Momentum. Some were blocked from Facebook pages after attempting to contact about setting up their own local branch for Momentum, others were subject to attempts to discredit them by spreading associations with ‘hard left’ groups like the SWP or Communist Party. Others were accused of infiltrating in order to undermine Momentum for Progress. In our experience - individuals that we came across were just trying to organise in their community, give out leaflets and get more people involved in the Labour Party.
Other allegations were made about Halligan and his friends harassing and intimidating members, but these are not supported with evidence and so we will not discuss them here.
One individual was accused of acting in a ‘cloak and dagger’ fashion after setting up a Momentum Chorlton page.
3. Bullying
In Mid December, the organisers became aware that Alex Halligan had been appointed as a formal organiser for Momentum by Jon Lansman. The take over of Facebook Pages had been a coordinated attempt to regain control over these pages. Alex Elhrich and Alex Halligan appeared to share a Facebook page.
On hearing of this news, Organisers were concerned on the appointment of this individual into a senior role considering his lack of previous consideration for organisers who had spent time building local support. As other senior roles were made public, concern was also raised that these posts were all filled with white men, appointed on their connections rather than expertise. Questions were also raised about equal opportunities. As Momentum is funded through crowd sourced money, we wanted to ensure that this money was spent properly.
On reading these criticisms, Jon Lansman added a number of individuals into an online discussion. Many of us were not aware of who these people were (some of us had only recently started to get involved in the Labour Party again after a long hiatus), and had only heard of Alex Halligan, Samuel Wheeler, Max Shanly, etc through the complaints raised by Momentum Organisers.
These individuals then proceeded to unleash abuse at the organisers on the forum, accusing them of plotting to overthrow Momentum and personally attacking them. We had not previously known who any of these people were. They then attacked the records of organisers, accusing them of attempting to undermine Momentum, bullying Labour party members and belonging to other political parties. Shanly features prominently in the attacks below as he was one of the most vocal and aggressive:
Lansman added (as per the leak) that he was ‘disturbed’ by the behaviour of some members as per the report in the Telegraph. (see:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12054911/Momentum-founder-admits-being-disturbed-by-members-behaviour-and-warns-against-personal-attacks.html)
Not reported in the telegraph were the responses from Organisers, where people accused Lansman of ‘spin’ and attempting to intimidate organisers through the individuals he added. These responses were met with further abuse of Lansmans friends.
4. Silencing complaints
The complaint from the young activists about intimidation was ignored and dismissed by Lansman and his friends and instead they attempted to discredited the young activist by claiming that he was a Liz Kendall supporter attempting to undermine Momentum. Sam Wheeler posted a screenshot of a comment he made that propertied to show Islamophobia. They threatened to report him to the Labour Party for Islamophobia if he went public with the comments made to him or spoke to the press.
Max Shanly attacking ‘D’:
Regardless of an individuals political affiliation with the Labour Party, Organisers felt that this allegation should be investigated and not dismissed by Lansman and his friends.
Lansman defending the attack on ‘D’ and ignoring his complaints of bullying:
Other organisers also pushed Lansman to investigate the accusation of intimidation, but he continued to dismiss the complaints from the Young Activist.
In a statement to the group, Halligan echoed Lansman’s comments.
5. Failed reconciliation
Some of the organisers attempted to reconcile with Alex Elhrich and Jon Lansman, believing that their intentions had been misconstrued. Others were angry and stated that they did not want to get involved in the party any longer, accusing organisers of misleading members about Momentum. Organisers were upset.
Elhrich, Shanly and Lansman however remained silent and refused to talk to organisers.
The conversation was then stopped after an announcement that some of the information had been leaked to the press. The article in the Sun and Telegraph appeared shortly afterwards - entirely missing the points raised by activists and suggesting that Lansman had stepped in to address unruly behaviour.
Organisers are now no longer involved in discussions about Momentum - and a small group of individuals appointed by Lansman continue to set the agenda.
The above events raise concerns on the experience of these people to deal with complaints and organisational duties - or highlights an agenda that is more focused on self-promotion than grassroots activism. Either of which could undermine the hard work that activists are putting in to help get a Labour win in 2020.
6. The Leak
When the abuse began we leaked information to the press. They were not interested. We sent an email to Ben Riley-Smith outlining what had happened. Instead he reported the story above that appears to paint Lansman in a far better light.
We have since contacted Ben to enquire on this, with no response.
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Questions about Sampling Strategy ETFs (index funds)
1) If I understand correctly, a Sampling Strategy ETF is an index fund in which:
100% of assets are allocated in <100% of the companies composing the index.
<100% of assets are allocated in <100% of the companies composing the index and the rest of the assets are allocated in different areas.
If my understanding correct?
One example is the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM B+). IWM invests 90% of its assets in stocks from the underlying index. Its remaining assets are invested in products such as futures, options and swap contracts, as well as securities not included in the underlying index. This is done because the fund manager feels these instruments will create a more efficient replica of the original than trying to purchase every stock in the index. Rather than buying all 2,000 stocks that compose the Russell, and then have to exactly match the weightings of each security, the fund manager uses approximately 10% of assets to replicate the index with derivatives.
I do not understand how "these instruments will create a more efficient replica of the original than trying to purchase every stock in the index." Do they mean that investing in every single company will prove too complicated since some are not listed on big exchanges? And when talking about replicating "the index with derivatives" do they mean the growth rate in "the index with derivatives" would be the same as in the real index? How does the fund manager choose these other investments that will "replicate the index" ?
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1) Yes.
2) So all index ETFs attempt to replicate an index but some indices are easier than others to replicate. While most of the stocks included in the index are likely on exchanges, some of the small-cap stocks can be thinly traded and have high trading costs. Therefore a full replication of the index could be rather expensive as when the index changes month to month the costs from buying and selling all these small stocks adds up. This is what Russell is trying to fix when they talk about efficiency.
What Russell does instead is replicate the return stream (day-to-day returns) of the index as best they can while at the same time minimizing the cost. They generally start by buying all the stocks that are cheap to trade in the amount that the index specifies. Then they look at the remaining thinly traded stocks both individually and in groups and attempt to find stocks that have similar characteristics and similar return streams but are cheaper to trade. Finally they employ derivatives to "true up" their replication portfolio return stream to the index return stream and to track the hardest to replicate stocks. The result can replicate rather well if they do a good job but there will likely be some differences.
There are some more steps but that is a broad outline of how it works. Note the last sentence in the quote you is confusingly written it might be more understandable as "... the fund manager deploys approximately 10% of assets in derivatives to help replicate the index."
EDIT (in response to questions):
The ETF does invest directly in the company through their stock. However, when buying/selling stock there are some costs involved that you can think of as (more or less) paying a broker to find someone that wants to sell when you want to buy. Those costs can be significantly higher for small, lightly traded companies.
The details of how these ETFs work are usually proprietary but in this case I can guess. If you look at the detailed holdings of IWM (Portfolio tab) all the way near the bottom you can see they hold only a single derivative Russell 2000 Futures (RTYH8). Think of this as being lazy, the futures contract in this case is just an agreement that the ETF custodians pay another party and that party gives them the returns of the Russell 2000 index in the next couple months. It's like pawning the problem to someone else. These futures contracts are relatively expensive, so that is why they use only a small amount (way less than the 10% max they could possibly deploy). Still, they are cheaper than trading the most expensive of the stocks in the index.
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Where do the trading costs originate from? Doesn't the fund invest directly in the companies? Could you explain in more detail how are the derivatives choosen and how do they mimic the index? – Louis Feb 3 '18 at 14:59
I think when you said Russell in the first two paragraphs, you meant the ETF manager, "Blackrock". "Russell" is the index. – Ben Voigt Sep 4 '18 at 1:35
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Monster’s Pick: Jaws (1975) on the Big Screen
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Stephen Spielberg’s “Jaws” is an undisputed masterpiece of true terror, and nothing compares to seeing it on the big screen in all its original glory.
When it comes to the pillars of horror, few films have had a lasting impact on the genre. While many have left their mark, only a handful are responsible for shaping what we see today. They’re indelible pieces of cinematic history and still remain in constant heavy rotation to this date.
No single film has earned more respect or helped sculpt cinema like the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic, Jaws.
With its terrifying premises and intoxicating score by the legendary John Williams, it’s no wonder the film is still a fan favorite decades later. It’s the original wide release “Summer Blockbuster” after all.
Certain films were made specifically to be seen in a theatrical setting. And thanks to the amazing crew at the Alamo Drafthouse Phoenix, fans were gifted a chance to catch the 1975 classic on the big screen, in 35mm — the way it was meant to be seen. There’s simply no movie going experience in the world like seeing the immortal great white spill the blood of beachgoers on Amity Island.
Jaws is arguably the greatest film of all time.
If there was ever a film made to be seen in the theater, this is it. The bigger the better. There’s nothing like watching a three ton, twenty five foot shark dismember tourists and townees at will. The film’s created tension and suspense unlike any other before, nor since. It’ll literally have you on the edge of your seat, gasping in horror. It’s shocking, gruesome and just bad f’ing ass!
Everything about it is beautiful. The lovely, effective ocean shots, detailed costumes, and phenomenal gore. Not to mention the gorgeously fabricated mechanical sharks. There’s no denying its brilliance. With its experienced cast and crew, award-winning editing and sound, and original score, the film is bound to continue to scare and invoke new fans for decades.
You can’t imagine the ocean without thinking of a shark attack. However, you are way more likely to get in a car accident on your way to work than you are to get attacked by a shark while swimming in the big blue.
With its menacingly score and ferocious attack sequences, Jaws continues to terrify audiences generation after generation.
The film is responsible for creating a fear that still lingers deep in the subconscious of society today.
It’s the only slasher shark in all of film. The film was such a success it spawned three sequels. No other shark has its own franchise, nor as many sequels. No one can dethrone the king of the dark underworld. Although it would be nice to see someone try. Or at least give fans one more sequel for the series.
There were some really cool trailers that helped add to the excitement of the event before it began. Old school trailers from films like Monster Shark 1984 (aka Devil Fish), Mako: The Jaws of Death 1976, Blue Water White Death 1971, and a commercial for the Shark Attack board game from 1988. They also played the trailers of Jaws 2 1978, and Jaws 3D 1983, which was cool because fans got to see scenes from the films in the theater.
There’s nothing as exhilarating or intense, as watching Jaws on the big screen.
To be able to see the film the way the original filmmakers intended was a dream come true. You couldn’t ask for a better experience. It’s recently begun playing at a few select independent theaters, as well as some drive-ins here and there. If you get the opportunity, I highly suggest you check it out.
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The Blarney Castle & Cork tour features a guided coach tour of the Irish countryside, a visit to the world famous Blarney castle with its Blarney Stone. You will also visit the medieval Cahir Castle as well as an introduction to a historically significant monastic site called the Rock of Cashel once the home of the King of Munster before it was given to the church.
Blarney Castle, built by the McCarthy clan over 600 years ago, still retains its old world charm with its towers, battlements and gated entrance built on a rocky outcrop. Kiss the Blarney stone, situated on the parapets of the castle, to gain the gift of eloquence - that is the ability to persuade people and being able to talk yourself out of trouble… Discovery Travel Channel lists kissing the Blarney Stone amongst its 99 things to do before you die! Rock close is a magical garden filled with enchanting druidic rock formations, water features and exotic plants. The grand Scottish baronial style Blarney House is reflects a bygone era of wealth and statesmanship. The Rock of Cashel is a multi-period monastic site, which was a fortress before it became the seat of the bishop of the diocese of Cashel, and venue where the historical Synod of Cashel was held. Visit the Great Cathedral, the Hall of Vicars Choral, Cormack's Chapel (with one of Ireland's best preserved Irish frescoes and Romanesque architecture) and a Round tower, all perched on a solid rock ringed by a curtain wall- most of it dating back from before the Cambro-Norman conquerors came to Ireland in the late 12th Century. Cahir Castle was once the stronghold of the powerful Butler family, the castle retains its impressive keep, tower and much of its original defensive structure. It is one of Ireland's largest and best preserved castles. It is situated on a rocky island on the River Suir.
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Assam Finance, Health & Family Welfare, PWD minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced a special old-age pension scheme for the individuals above the age of 60.
He announced the scheme at a meeting in Jorhat on Sunday.
According to Sarma, the new pension scheme will be named after brave commander of Ahom kingdom Lachit Borphukan, known for his leadership in the 1671 Battle of Saraighat.
Those above 60 will be covered under the Old Age Pension scheme.
Government is likely to announce the launch of the new old-age pension scheme on the occasion of birth anniversary of Lachit Borphukan on November 24.
In the meeting, on behalf of Assam Government, Sarma handed over a cheque for Rs. 1 Lakh 25 thousand to Runjun Pegu – the Majuli girl, who clinched Gold medal in National Javelin throw championship.
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PS5 games news: If PS4 successor is this good then PlayStation fans are in for a treat
PS5 gamers may be about to play some state-of-the-art titles if the PS4 successor is this good.
We know the PS5 is coming, the question is when Sony will release their follow-up to the PS4.
Sony bigwigs are expected to reveal to PlayStation fans the PS4 successor in either 2019 or 2020.
The PS5 is rumoured to offer 60FPS gaming at 4K and will allegedly have a games list featuring a number of cross-gen PS4 titles.
It’s also expected to support a brand new PSVR 2 headset that’s currently in the works which features a built-in camera and upgraded controllers.
Specs are currently unknown for the PS5, but some are claiming that the PS4 successor may even be able to output to 8K.
While nothing concrete is known about the PS5, apart from its existence, that may all be about to change in the near future.
Sony aren’t holding a PSX event this year and won’t be attending E3 next year.
These big no-shows have fuelled speculation that Sony could be about to hold a major event announcing the PS5 in 2019.
In fact respected analysts Ace Securities believe the PS5 could be “introduced” by the end of 2019.
If that’s the case then it won’t be much longer until fans finally get to see what the PS5 is capable of.
But in the meantime, they may have been given an insight into what the next generation of consoles can do.
And the results are truly stunning.
The official CRYENGINE Facebook page has showed shots of what the latest version of the graphics engine is capable of.
For those not in the know, builds of CRYENGINE in the past have been used to make games such as Crysis, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and the first Far Cry.
And the screenshots of what the latest version is capable of is truly astounding.
The pictures show piles of chopped wood created with CRYENGINE, but the graphics are virtually photorealistic.
In a post online, DSOGaming said they’re “pretty sure that this is achievable with photogrammetry on the current high-end graphics cards”.
And if this is achievable with the next generation of consoles then gamers could soon be seeing a huge leap in terms of the quality of graphics.
Recently Sony also showcased what Gran Turismo would look like running in 8K and at 120 FPS.
Off-screen footage was recorded of the high-spec version of GT in-action at an event in Tokyo.
And the results were truly breathtaking.
The footage emerged after Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi previously said that the PS5 may be able to output to 8K.
He reportedly said: “It takes six months to create a single car. It’s over-specced for PS4 Pro.
“So we are building for future versions of the console rather than the one we see today. I think it would be no problem to run it at 8K even.”
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“What States’ Rights?”: House GOP Fights For Food-Stamp Cuts
Ordinarily, when conservative policymakers complain about “fraud” and “cheating” in federal programs intended to help poor people eat food, they’re referring to individuals accused of abusing the system unfairly. But over the last few days, congressional Republicans are using familiar rhetoric in an unfamiliar way.
Republican leaders are threatening to take congressional action to stop state governors from flouting the food stamp cuts contained in the 2014 farm bill.
The governors of at least six states – New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Montana and Oregon – have now taken measures to protect more than a combined $800 million in annual Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and more states are expected to follow suit. Their actions threaten – over time – to wipe out the more than $8 billion in cuts over 10 years to the food stamp program that were just passed by Congress as part of the 2014 farm bill.
But those who initially supported the food stamp cuts are warning that retaliatory actions may be coming.
As a policy matter, the underlying change is a little tricky. Republicans successfully cut food aid to the poor – though not nearly as much as they’d hoped – which mostly affected 17 states that participate in the “Heat and Eat” program, which connects federal LIHEAP (Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program) assistance with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
At last count, six of the affected governors – five Democrats and one Republican – have decided to start fiddling with the books, moving money around so low-income constituents won’t lose their food benefits. Other governors appear eager to do the same.
And this has apparently outraged Republicans on Capitol Hill. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters late last week that he wants Congress to “try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing.” Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), who helped write the relevant legislation, wants a full congressional investigation and new measures intended to guarantee food-stamp cuts.
Remember, the “cheating” and “fraud” is in reference to state officials trying to help low-income residents access food.
For its part, the Obama administration seems a lot less concerned than Congress.
Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) expressed anger Friday over the possibility that none of the cuts to the SNAP program would be realized and asked USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack during an appropriations hearing whether he had any inside knowledge that states would nullify the benefit reductions.
Vilsack said he didn’t know or suspect what the states would do, but defended their right to take action.
“Frankly, as a former governor and former state senator, I respect the role of governors and legislatures to make decisions that they think are in their state’s best interests,” Vilsack said.
GOP lawmakers found this unsatisfying. Expect to hear quite a bit more about this in the coming weeks.
By: Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog, March 17, 2014
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NEW JERSEY SECTION
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
REVISED CHARTER
Hyperlinks in this document are provided for convenience and do not constitute part of the document.
Name and Boundaries
LAST REVISION: November 2005 (Andy Soos and Tom Smith)
Article I – Name and Boundaries
– The name of the organization is the New Jersey Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Hereinafter referred to as the Section). The National AIChE designates the Section as “local section 032”.
– The district which this Section serves includes all of Union County and those parts of Middlesex, Somerset, and Monmouth County of the State of New Jersey which are designated by the National American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Hereinafter referred to as the Institute) as being included in the Section’s district.
Article II – Objectives
The objectives of this Section shall be:
1. The advancement of the profession of chemical engineering and the maintenance of high professional standards among its members.
2. The formation of closer personal and professional standards among its members.
3. The furtherance of the aims and purposes of the Institute.
4. The promotion of cordial and helpful relations between the members and the communities within or containing our district, and nearby industries employing chemical engineers, and the faculty and students of nearby institutions that offer courses in chemical engineering.
Article III – Obligations of the Institute
– The activities of the Section and its members are subject to the provisions of the Constitution and Code of Ethics of the Institute.
– The Section shall not have the authority to act for or in the name of the Institute, nor shall it incur any financial obligation in the name of the Institute.
– The section shall submit an annual report of its activities, as required by the Institute.
– The Charter and the by-laws (if any) of the Section, and all amendments thereto, are subject to approval by the Council of the Institute.
– The membership of the Section shall be limited to Fellows, Members, Associate members, Affiliates or Student Members of the Institute and also to those other engineers who, although not currently members of the Institute, do apply for and qualify for one of the limited classes of membership in the Institute within two years of applying for membership in the Section. Nothing in this Charter, however, shall be construed to prevent non-members from attending general meetings or functions of the Section.
– Any member of the Institute or other engineer residing or employed in the district covered by this Section may become a member of the Section by payment of the New Jersey Section dues. Individuals who are not members of the Institute, or who neither reside nor are employed within the district, may file an appropriate application with an officer of the Section or the Chairperson of the Membership Committee. Such applications for membership in the Section are subject to review by the Membership Committee and acceptance or rejection by vote of the Executive Committee.
– All members of the Section shall have the rights and privileges of membership.
Article V- Dues
The dues of the Section and all regulations regarding payment of dues, and the penalties for non-payment of dues, shall be as determined from time to time by majority vote of the entire Executive Committee and recorded by the secretary of the Section.
Article VI – Elected Officials
– The elected officials of the Section shall be a Chairperson, a Chairperson-elect, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and up to six Directors of the Section. Elected officials shall be Fellows, Members, Associate Members of the Institute, as well as members in good standing of the Section.
– The Chairperson-elect, the Secretary, and the Treasurer shall be elected biennially for a term of two-years beginning January 1st following their election. The Chairperson-elect shall also automatically serve as Chairperson for a term of two years following their term as Chairperson-elect.
– Directors shall be elected for a term of two years.
– The Chairperson or, in his or her absence, the Chairperson-elect or, in his or her absence, the Secretary or, in his or her absence, the Treasurer shall preside at all meetings of the Section and of the Executive Committee. The Chairperson will prepare the annual report for the Institute.
– The Chairperson-elect shall assist the Chairperson in leading the Section.
– The Secretary shall:
A. Write and present minutes of all meetings of the Section and the Executive Committee.
B. Handle all official correspondence of the Section.
C. Maintain the permanent records of the Section.
– The Treasurer shall be responsible for the collection and disbursement of funds as authorized by the Executive Committee and for the keeping of appropriate records thereof. The Treasurer shall present a report of the finances of the Section at the first Executive Committee meeting of the fiscal year, and shall update it at each succeeding Executive Committee meeting. The Treasurer shall also present a report of the Section finances to the membership at the annual meeting.
– Directors shall serve as Chairperson or Co-chairperson of standing or special committees of the Section, as appointed by the Chairperson of the Section.
– The Chairperson shall declare vacant the office of any elected official who is absent from three consecutive Executive Committee meetings, unless such absences are excused by the Executive Committee. The Chairperson may then appoint a new officer to serve for the duration of the absent officer’s position subject to the review and approval of the Executive Committee.
– Upon the installation of new officers, the Chairperson shall appoint an Audit Committee of two members in good standing to audit the books of the Treasurer. The Audit Committee shall report back to the Executive Committee within two months from the date of the installation of Section officers, and to the general membership at the next annual meeting.
– The Chairperson may appoint members to the post of Director Emeritus which is a lifetime appointment based on the merit of their service to the Section. This is subject to approval of the Executive Committee.
Article VII – Committees
– There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the officers of the Section, the most recent past Chairperson, Rutgers University AIChE Student Chapter liaison, and the Directors. This committee shall be charged with conducting the general business of the Section, and the supervision and care of all its property. This committee shall meet at the call of the Chairperson of the Section or at the request of three of its members.
The Chairperson of the Section shall also serve as the Chairperson of the Executive Committee. Five members of the committee shall constitute a quorum. The meetings of the Executive Committee shall be open to all members of all active committees of the Section, and its minutes shall be made available to any Section member upon request.
– The Executive Committee may prepare and adopt a set of By-laws which, together with the Charter, shall govern its procedures and those of the Section. Such By-laws shall be adopted or may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the Executive Committee, provided prior written notice of such action will be given to the members of the committee.
– The Executive Committee shall designate such standing committees as may be necessary to conduct the on-going business of the Section. Such other temporary special committees as may also be required shall be established by the Chairperson, with the approval of the Executive Committee.
The Chairpersons of all such committees shall be appointed by the Chairperson of the Section.
– The Executive Committee may authorize the organization of sub-sections within the Section district under such regulations as it may formulate.
– In the fall of the second year of the term of the officers the Chairperson shall appoint a Nominating Committee. The past Chairperson, if available, shall be a member of and chairperson of the Nominating Committee. The duties of the committee are described in Article IX.
Article VIII – Meetings
– There shall be at least five general meetings of the Section each year, at times and places determined by the Executive Committee.
– Notice of all meetings shall be sent to the members in advance of such meetings.
– A quorum for the transactions of business at an Executive Committee meeting shall consist of five officers, except that no quorum is required for the presentation of reports by the officers of the Section, or from the Audit Committee or the Nominating Committee. Any Section business may be conducted electronically or at meetings. A plurality of members present or voting shall be sufficient to pass a motion or vote.
– The order of business at meetings of the Section and the Executive Committee shall be
A. Reading of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting
B. Reports of Officers and Committees
C. Old Business
D. New Business
E. Adjournment
– Roberts Rules of Order shall be followed in all matters of parliamentary procedure insofar as they are in conformity with the provisions of this Charter.
Article IX – Elections
– The Nominating Committee shall submit the names of candidates for each prospective vacancy to the Executive Committee by October of the last year of the term.
– All elected officials shall be elected by a simple majority of the votes cast from a single ballot to be sent to the membership of the Section in October, to be returned and counted within four weeks from the date of the mailing. All successful candidates shall automatically take office the first day of January following thereafter.
– Officers shall hold office for two years or until their successors are elected and take office. Directors shall hold office for two years. Immediately after the annual election, the Secretary shall forward the names of the newly elected officers to the Secretary of the Institute.
– Should a vacancy occur in any position, the Chairperson, with the approval of the Executive Committee, shall appoint a member in good standing to fill the unexpired term.
– No member shall be eligible for nomination or election to more than one position at any one time.
– In case of a tie vote, the majority of outgoing officers and Directors shall decide by secret ballot.
This Charter, with the exception of Article III, may be amended at any general meeting or by any other balloting method by an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting provided that notice of the intended change in the Charter has been sent to the members of the Section at least two weeks prior to the meeting or vote, or by a mail ballot affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the members responding under conditions approved by the Executive Committee, and subsequent approval by the Council of the Institute.
Article XI – Dissolution of the Section
Upon the dissolution of the New Jersey Section any assets of the New Jersey Section remaining thereafter shall be conveyed to such organization then existent, within or without the district of the Section dedicated to the perpetuation of objectives similar to those of the Institute, or to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, so long as whichever organization is selected by the governing body of the Section at the time of the dissolution shall be exempt under Section 501 ( c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended or under such successor provision of the Code as may be in effect at the time of the Section’s dissolution.
Following are our 2014 Officers:
Office Email address Office Holder Organization Phone
Chair nair@belcotech.com Dr. Chandra Nair Belco Tech 973-515-8931
Vice Chair – Chair Elect jss1703@netzero.com Jacqueline Sibbles 908-531-4029
Secretary andysoos@optonline.net Andy Soos Troy Chemical 908-604-2693
Treasurer ForgangPK@cdsmith.com Patty Forgang CDM Smith 732-225-7000
Director – Programs nair@belcotech.com Dr. Chandra Nair Belco Tech 973-998-1934
Director – Membership davidg14@me.com David Greene Greene Associates LLC 908-757-8183
Director – Website hspharma@aol.com Howard Stamato BMS 732-227-6519
Director kcarlson76@aol.com Ken Carlson
Director pmpop38@aol.com Phil Messina Retired 732-388-9290
Past Chair toddsalamon@gmail.com Todd Salamon Alcatel Lucent 908-582-8766
Director laturci@ashland.com Laura Turci Ashaland 908-243-4214
Student Liaison fuat.celik@rutgers.edu Dr. Fuat Celik Rutgers Eng’g 848-445-5558
You may ask: What does each officer do and where do they do it? Typically, all officers may be expected to spend 1.5 hours per month (for ten months of the year) at the Executive Committee meetings in Scotch Plains, NJ. Additional time may be spent either on the phone or by email working on the various local AIChE activities. Total time may be up to 5 hours a month but may be as low as 2 hours. Brief descriptions of Officer duties are as follows (note: * marks an elected officer):
Chair*: Presides over all meetings. Often implements selected activities. Section coordinator. (5 hours per month)
Vice Chair*: Chair-Elect, serves as backup to Chair. Follows up on project progress (2 hours per month)
Secretary*: Takes Exec Committee meeting minutes, distributes. Prepares newsletter twice a year. (3 hours per month)
Treasurer*: Maintains checking account, reconciles accounts, pays all bills, prepares quarterly reports to the Exec Committee on Finances. (4 hours per month)
Program Director: Arranges for speakers at all meetings, plant tour, Student Night. Communicates meeting details to Membership Director for preparation of the meeting notice. (3 hours per month)
Website Director: Maintains, revises, and updates website. Posts meeting notices, newsletters, revises historical records, post meeting pictures, etc. (2 hours per month)
Membership Director: Maintains, revises and updates membership list. Receives the data from AIChE National regarding changes in order to maintain the Section database. Prepares meeting notices and e-mailings and hard copy mailings. Includes the Newsletters in the hard copy mailings. Provides meeting notices to the Website Director for posting to the site. (4 hours per month)
At Large Director: Attends Executive Committee meetings, provides advice, and may assist others on special projects, meetings and seminars. May serve as membership, program or website lead. Generally a learning position for becoming an elected officer. (< 1 hour per month)
Please contact any Section officer for more details. If you are interested in becoming involved and helping lead your Section, please do so! Inquiries can be made to secy@njaiche.org.
Newsletter+ June 25 – Exec Meeting
May 16 Student Posters & Biologics Consortia – Joint Meeting with NJPhAST
April 24 Rutgers Student Awards
April 9 Meeting Cost Estimation
March 21 – Pressure Relief
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Hearing Aide: The Magic Beans ‘Casino Cabaret’
Album ReviewsColoradoJam/Progressive
By Jared Lindquist On May 3, 2018
Denver-based jam outfit The Magic Beans recently released their second full length LP this past March—also the second studio effort featuring Chris Duffy on bass—focusing in on a new sound the band calls Neo-Jam (a merging of the Neosoul and Jam genres), while also staying true to their Space-Funk roots. The group is comprised of Scott Hachey (guitars/vocals), Chris Duffy (bass/vocals), Casey Russell (keys/vocals), and Cody Wales (drums). The album provides studio versions of songs that have been in the band’s live rotation for some time now, and allowed them to expand the sound of the songs with the help of saxophonist Clark Smith, trumpeter Matthew Wilkolak, and percussionist Will Trask.
The whole of Casino Cabaret is very groove-driven, with Chris Duffy and Cody Wales working together in a powerful rhythm section. Duffy’s tasteful bass playing is showcased all across this record, especially on tracks such as the title track itself, “Casino Cabaret.” The song has a very spy thriller-y sound to it, and heavily features Scott Hachey and Casey Russell’s ability to work as a duo when laying down the melody.
“Mr. Scientist” is another choice selection from the album, featuring more of that classic “space-funk” sound fans are familiar with. Some of Russell’s intriguing synth tones are shown off in an impressive solo about halfway through the song, as well as the main melody throughout the track. This song also features Duffy’s extremely impressive slap-bass skills, and some of Hachey’s super tasteful lead playing.
Another of the standout tracks on the album is “Hanky Panky,” which as Hachey put it during a live show, “…is a song about sex!” There’s no actual explicit lyrics besides the band yelling “Hanky Panky!” during the chorus section of the song. The song has a very fun, upbeat sound, and really showcases keyboardist Casey Russell’s skills on the Hammond Organ, as well as the band’s ability to groove along as a unit of funk soldiers. Casino Cabaret is an impressive studio release from The Magic Beans that features a wide variety of great, soulful music. Catch some of these songs live during their upcoming sets at Domefest in Bedford, PA and pick up the album on their Bandcamp.
Key Tracks: Mr. Scientist, Inventor, Casino Cabaret, Hanky Panky
Casino Cabaret by The Magic Beans
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Jared is a musician and journalist from southern New Hampshire. He runs the gear-based website Behind the Gear, which focuses on the musical equipment that musicians in the jam scene use.
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Lyric Video Premiere: Berwanger – “Why Are You So Strange”
We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Berwanger’s lyric video for their song “Why Are You So Strange” (watch it below). The track is taken from the band’s EP Demonios, which is available now through High Dive Records.
Upcoming Show:
July 5 – Kansas City, MO at The Rino
Josh Berwanger (Radar State, The Anniversary, Only Children) is set to release his fourth album next year, as well as a split 7″ with Casey James Prestwood and the Burning Angles (Casey from Hot Rod Circuit) in November, followed by a tour with the band.
In anticipation, Berwanger will open his music video vault and will premiere a new video each week in July, with the last one being the lead single from the upcoming album.
Berwanger says of the video project:
“For the past five years I have been making music videos for different songs from each of our albums and EPs and I just never did anything with most of them. However, last month I randomly found a video we did on a hard drive and that inspired me to edit it and search for all the other video footage we have made and edit them to release.
Some of them are definitely ‘B-Movie’ quality. But, who doesn’t love movies with budgets as big as ‘Troll 2’ and ‘The Eliminators’?
Connect with the band:
Facebook | YouTube | Instagram
BerwangerHigh Dive Records
Author Tony Shrum
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Song Premiere: Those Far Out Arrows – “Be Alright”
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European Commission Grants Conditional Marketing Approval for AbbVie's VENCLYXTO™ (venetoclax) Monotherapy for Appropriate Patients with Difficult-To-Treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
- VENCLYXTO™ (venetoclax) monotherapy is indicated for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) in the presence of 17p deletion or TP53 mutation in adult patients who are unsuitable for or have failed a B-cell receptor pathway inhibitor1
- VENCLYXTO monotherapy is also indicated for the treatment of CLL in the absence of 17p deletion or TP53 mutation in adult patients who have failed both chemoimmunotherapy and a B-cell receptor pathway inhibitor1
- In a Phase 2 clinical trial of VENCLYXTO in 107 patients with previously treated CLL with 17p deletion, overall response rate (ORR) was 79 percent1
- In a second Phase 2 clinical trial of VENCLYXTO in 64 patients with CLL who had been previously treated with and failed ibrutinib or idelalisib, combined ORR was 64 percent1
- VENCLYXTO is the first approved BCL-2 inhibitor in Europe
NORTH CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorization for VENCLYXTO™ (venetoclax) monotherapy for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) in the presence of 17p deletion or TP53 mutation in adult patients who are unsuitable for or have failed a B-cell receptor pathway inhibitor; and for the treatment of CLL in the absence of 17p deletion or TP53 mutation in adult patients who have failed both chemoimmunotherapy and a B-cell receptor pathway inhibitor.1 The EC approved VENCLYXTO as a first-in-class, oral, once-daily medicine that selectively inhibits the function of the BCL-2 protein.1 BCL-2 prevents the natural death of cells, including CLL cells.1 VENCLYXTO is being developed by AbbVie and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group. It is jointly commercialized by the companies in the U.S. and by AbbVie outside of the U.S.
"The European approval of VENCLYXTO is an important step forward for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in Europe," said Richard Gonzalez, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AbbVie. "AbbVie has led the way in researching ways to block BCL-2 activity, and, as the first approved BCL-2 inhibitor in Europe, VENCLYXTO delivers on AbbVie's promise to develop cancer medicines where an unmet need exists."
CLL, a cancer of the bone marrow and blood, is typically a slow-progressing cancer.2 The 17p deletion, a genomic alteration in which a part of chromosome 17 is absent, is found in 3 to 10 percent of previously untreated CLL cases and up to 30 to 50 percent of relapsed or refractory CLL cases.3 A TP53 mutation occurs in 8 to 15 percent of patients at first-line treatment and up to 35 to 50 percent of cases in refractory CLL.3 Those with the 17p deletion or TP53 mutations often have a particularly poor prognosis3 and a median life expectancy of less than two to three years with current standard-of-care regimens.4
Conditional marketing authorization is granted to medicines that address an unmet medical need, where the benefit of its immediate availability to patients outweighs the risk of limited data availability, and where comprehensive data will be provided.5
"Results from the clinical trial program show that VENCLYXTO provides significant overall response among both patients with previously treated CLL with 17p deletion and patients with CLL who had been previously treated with and failed a B-cell receptor inhibitor," said Stephan Stilgenbauer, M.D., Ulm University, Germany, investigator in the VENCLYXTO clinical trial program. "While advances in treatment over the past few years have been meaningful for patients in Europe living with CLL, new options are still needed."
"The approval of VENCLYXTO represents an innovation in treatment options for people living with CLL who may harbor the 17p deletion or TP53 mutation and typically have a poor prognosis," said Michael Severino, M.D., executive vice president of research and development and chief scientific officer, AbbVie. "With this approval, we are pleased to be able to bring a new treatment option to patients in more countries around the world with this difficult-to-treat cancer."
In October 2016, AbbVie announced the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) granted a positive opinion for the conditional marketing authorization of VENCLYXTO.6 Additionally, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted Orphan Drug Designation to VENCLYXTO for the treatment of multiple myeloma,7 a type of cancer that forms in plasma cells in bone marrow,8 and for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL),9 an aggressive type of lymphoma and the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).10 Previously, the EMA granted Orphan Drug Designation to VENCLYXTO for the treatment of CLL6 and for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML),11 the most common type of acute leukaemia in adults.12 Orphan Drug Designation is granted to therapies aimed at the treatment, prevention or diagnosis of life-threatening diseases that affect no more than five in 10,000 persons in the EU and for which no satisfactory therapy is available. The medicine must also provide significant benefit to those affected by the condition.13
VENCLYXTO Clinical Trial Program
Study 1: Previously treated patients with CLL harboring 17p deletion
The safety and efficacy of VENCLYXTO was evaluated in a Phase 2, single arm, open-label, multi-center study in 107 patients (main cohort) with previously treated CLL with 17p deletion, with an additional 51 patients in a safety expansion cohort. Patients followed a 4- to 5-week dose-titration schedule starting at 20 mg and increasing to 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg and finally 400 mg once-daily. Patients continued to receive VENCLYXTO 400 mg once daily until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity was observed. The median time on treatment at the time of evaluation was 12 months (range: 0 to 22 months) for the main cohort. The median time on treatment for the combined cohort (main cohort plus safety expansion cohort, N=158) was 25 months (range: 0.5 to 50 months). The main cohort was assessed by an independent review committee, while the combined cohort was assessed by the investigators. Results showed:1
The primary efficacy endpoint, overall response rate (ORR), was 79 percent (95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 70.5, 86.6) in the main cohort and 77 percent (95% CI: 69.9, 83.5) in the combined cohort.
Median duration of response (DOR) was not reached in the main cohort and was 27.5 months (95% CI: 26.5, NR) for the combined cohort.
Median progression-free survival (PFS) was not reached in the main cohort and was 27.2 months (95% CI: 21.9, NR) for the combined cohort.
Complete remission (CR) plus complete remission with incomplete marrow recovery (CRi) was achieved in 7 percent of patients in the main cohort and 18 percent of patients in the combined cohort.
Partial remission (PR) was reached in 69 percent of patients in the main cohort and 53 percent of patients in the combined cohort.
Nodular partial remission (nPR) was reached in 3 percent of patients in the main cohort and 6 percent of patients in the combined cohort.
Minimal residual disease (MRD) was evaluated in 93 of 158 patients who achieved CR, CRi or nPR with VENCLYXTO. MRD negativity in peripheral blood was achieved in 27 percent (41/158) of patients, including 15 patients who were MRD negative in the bone marrow. MRD negativity is an exploratory endpoint.
Study 2: Patients with CLL who have failed a B-cell receptor inhibitor
The safety and efficacy of VENCLYXTO was evaluated in a Phase 2 open-label, multi-center, non-randomized study in patients with CLL who had been previously treated with and failed ibrutinib (median number of prior oncology treatments was 4 [range: 1 to 12]) or idelalisib (median number of prior oncology treatments was 3 [range: 1 to 11]) therapy. Patients received VENCLYXTO via a recommended dose-titration schedule. Patients continued to receive VENCLYXTO 400 mg once daily until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity was observed. At the time of data cut-off, 64 patients were enrolled and treated with VENCLYXTO. Of these, 43 patients had received prior ibrutinib therapy (Arm A) and 21 had received prior idelalisib therapy (Arm B). Of the patients, 91 percent (39/42) in Arm A and 67 percent (14/21) in Arm B had relapsed on or were refractory to ibrutinib and idelalisib, respectively. Chromosomal aberrations were 11q deletion (30%, 19/62), 17p deletion (36%, 23/61), TP53 mutation (26%, 16/61) and unmutated IgVH (86%, 36/42). At the time of evaluation, median duration of treatment with VENCLYXTO was 11.7 months (range: 0.1 to 17.9 months). Results showed:1
The primary efficacy endpoint, ORR, was 67 percent (95% CI: 51.5, 80.9) in Arm A, 57 percent (95% CI: 34, 78.2) in Arm B and 64 percent (95% CI: 51.1, 75.7) in the total study population based on investigator assessment. The efficacy data were further evaluated by an IRC demonstrating a combined ORR of 67 percent (Arm A: 70 percent, Arm B: 62 percent).
The ORR for patients with 17p deletion/TP53 mutation was 71 percent (15/21) (95% CI: 47.8, 88.7) in Arm A and 50 percent (1/2) (95% CI: 1.3, 98.7) in Arm B.
For patients without 17p deletion/TP53 mutation, the ORR was 68 percent (15/22) (95% CI: 45.1, 86.1) in Arm A and 63 percent (12/19) (95% CI: 38.4, 83.7) in Arm B.
Median PFS and DOR were not reached with median follow-up of approximately 12 months for Arm A and 9 months for Arm B.
CR plus CRi was achieved in 7 percent of patients in Arm A, 14 percent of patients in Arm B and 9 percent of patients in the total patient population, per investigator assessment.
PR was reached in 56 percent of patients in Arm A, 43 percent of patients in Arm B and 52 percent of patients in the total patient population, per investigator assessment.
nPR was reached in 5 percent of patients in Arm A, zero percent in Arm B and 3 percent in the total patient population, per investigator assessment.
The safety of VENCLYXTO is based on pooled data of 296 patients treated in two Phase 2 studies and one Phase 1 study. In all, the studies enrolled patients with previously treated CLL, including 188 patients with 17p deletion and 92 patients who had failed a B-cell receptor inhibitor. The most commonly occurring adverse reactions (?20 percent) of any grade in patients receiving VENCLYXTO were neutropenia/neutrophil count decreased, diarrhoea, nausea, anemia, upper respiratory tract infection, fatigue, hyperphosphatemia, vomiting and constipation. The most frequently reported serious adverse reactions (?2 percent) were pneumonia, febrile neutropenia and tumour lysis syndrome (TLS). Discontinuations due to adverse reactions occurred in 9.1 percent of patients. Dosage adjustments due to adverse reactions occurred in 11.8 percent of patients.1
About VENCLYXTO™ (venetoclax)
VENCLYXTO™ (venetoclax), an oral B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) inhibitor, is indicated for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) in the presence of 17p deletion or TP53 mutation in adult patients who are unsuitable for or have failed a B-cell receptor pathway inhibitor; and for the treatment of CLL in the absence of 17p deletion or TP53 mutation in adult patients who have failed both chemoimmunotherapy and a B-cell receptor pathway inhibitor.1 It is also being evaluated for the treatment of patients with various blood cancer types.1,14,15,16,17 The BCL-2 protein prevents apoptosis (programmed cell death) of some cells, including lymphocytes, and can be overexpressed in CLL cells.1 VENCLYXTO, which is given once-daily, is designed to selectively inhibit the function of the BCL-2 protein.1
VENCLYXTO is being developed by AbbVie and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group. It is jointly commercialized by the companies in the U.S. and by AbbVie outside of the U.S. Together, the companies are committed to BCL-2 research with venetoclax, which is currently being evaluated in Phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment of relapsed/refractory CLL, along with studies in several other cancers.
In April 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval of VENCLEXTA™ (venetoclax) tablets for the treatment of patients with CLL with 17p deletion, as detected by an FDA-approved test, who have received at least one prior therapy.18 The FDA approved this indication under accelerated approval based on overall response rate, and continued approval may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial.18 Venetoclax is also currently approved in Argentina, Puerto Rico and Canada. AbbVie, in collaboration with Roche and Genentech, is currently working with regulatory agencies around the world to bring this medicine to eligible patients in need.
Important EU Safety Information
Concomitant use of strong CYP3A inhibitors at initiation and during the dose-titration phase due to increased risk for tumour lysis syndrome (TLS). Concomitant use of preparations containing St. John's wort as VENCLYXTO efficacy may be reduced. Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients is contraindicated.
Special Warnings & Precautions for Use
Tumour lysis syndrome (TLS), including fatal events, has occurred in patients with previously treated CLL with high tumour burden when treated with VENCLYXTO. VENCLYXTO poses a risk for TLS in the initial 5-week ramp-up phase. Changes in blood chemistries consistent with TLS that require prompt management can occur as early as 6 to 8 hours following the first dose of VENCLYXTO and at each dose increase. Patients should be assessed for risk and should receive appropriate prophylaxis for TLS. Blood chemistries should be monitored and abnormalities managed promptly. More intensive measures (including hospitalization) should be employed as overall risk increases.
Neutropenia (grade 3 or 4) has been reported and complete blood counts should be monitored throughout the treatment period.
Live vaccines should not be administered during treatment or thereafter until B-cell recovery.
CYP3A inhibitors may increase VENCLYXTO plasma concentrations. At initiation and dose-titration phase: Strong CYP3A inhibitors are contraindicated and moderate CYP3A inhibitors should be avoided. If moderate CYP3A inhibitors must be used, physicians should refer to the SmPC for dose adjustment recommendations. At steady daily dose: If moderate or strong CYP3A inhibitors must be used, physicians should refer to the SmPC for dose adjustment recommendations.
Avoid concomitant use of P-gp and BCRP inhibitors at initiation and during the dose titration phase.
CYP3A4 inducers may decrease VENCLYXTO plasma concentrations. Avoid coadministration with strong or moderate CYP3A inducers.
Co-administration of bile acid sequestrants with VENCLYXTO is not recommended as this may reduce the absorption of VENCLYXTO.
The most commonly occurring adverse reactions (>=20%) of any grade were neutropenia/neutrophil count decreased, diarrhoea, nausea, anemia, upper respiratory tract infection, fatigue, hyperphosphatemia, vomiting and constipation.
The most frequently occurring adverse reactions (>=2%) were pneumonia, febrile neutropenia and TLS.
Discontinuations due to adverse reactions occurred in 9.1% of patients and dosage adjustments due to adverse reactions occurred in 11.8% of patients.
VENCLYXTO may cause embryo-fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Advise females of reproductive potential to avoid pregnancy during treatment. Advise nursing women to discontinue breastfeeding during treatment.
This is not a complete summary of all safety information. See VENCLYXTO full summary of product characteristics (SmPC) at www.ema.europa.eu. Globally, prescribing information varies; refer to the individual country product label for complete information.
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Fear for Barclays jobs as Tim Throsby disappears
by Sarah Butcher 27 March 2019
Say what you want about Tim Throsby, but it would be hard to argue that he hasn't been a great thing for jobs at Barclays' investment bank, both in London and in New York.
In the two years since Throsby became CEO of Barclays' investment bank, the business has been on a hiring binge. Between January 2017 and February 2019, Barclays added over 30 managing directors to its 'banking' (M&A, ECM and DCM) business and over 50 managing directors to its markets business.
Many of those hires were initiated by Throsby himself. - In May 2017, rumours began circulating that Throsby wanted to hire between 50 and 100 people to Barclays' investment bank. In a subsequent presentation in September 2017, Throsby outlined his strategy to build-out the markets division, to regain Barclays' position in rates and credit, to 'restore' its excellence in electronic equities, to take more risk and to allocate more capital to the business.
Throsby's aspiration was to achieve a 10% return equity at Barclays' investment bank. The hope was that all those hires, all that risk taking, and all that new capital would drive higher revenues and that these in turn would feed through to higher returns.
Fast forward sixteen months and the divisional return on equity at Barclays' investment bank is still just 7.1%. Equities revenues were up 29% on 2016 last year, but - after all that hiring - fixed income currencies and commodities revenues were down 18%.
In his statement today on Throsby's exit, Barclays' CEO Jes Staley said the bank needs, "a more granular execution focus" on the corporate and investment bank if it's to drive returns above the cost of capital. For the moment, Stephen Dainton, global head of equities, will be head of markets - but Barclays is open to hiring externally for the role longer term.
Inside Barclays, Throsby's exit has come as a surprise. He and Staley worked together previously at Barclays and the exit has a whiff of filicide. One MD professed to be "shocked" by the move. Others muttered about recent trading losses and compliance failings. Suddenly, the golden child is no more.
The fear now has to be whether all Throsby's hires will survive his exit. At least 80 MDs in Barclays' investment bank now have reason to look over their shoulder. Rumours are already circulating that key Throsby hires - most notably Guy Saidenberg, whom Barclays hired as head of distribution and structuring from Goldman Sachs in November 2017, are also on their way out.
Barclays declined to comment.
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(Matt Demlein, WRVA)
Hope Backs Off Impeachment
Had Spent Weekend Circulating Resolution
By ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FINLEY , Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia lawmaker on Monday backed off his plans to swiftly introduce an impeachment bill seeking the ouster of the state's leading black elected official as Democrats struggled to address revelations of past racist behavior and allegations of sexual assault roiling its highest levels of office.
The effort to impeach Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was prompted by the emergence of two women who accused him of sexual assault in the 2000s. Fairfax has vehemently denied the claims and called for authorities, including the FBI, to investigate.
Democratic Del. Patrick Hope tweeted early Monday that he got "an enormous amount of sincere and thoughtful feedback" from colleagues after circulating a draft of his impeachment bill, and that he sees that "additional conversations ... need to take place before anything is filed."
There's been little sign of broad appetite for impeachment, with lawmakers set to finish this year's session by the month's end. But the Legislature is swirling with questions about lines of succession and the political fallout for Democrats should their governor, lieutenant governor or attorney general leave office, willingly or not.
Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring are still trying to regain their political standing after awkwardly acknowledging that they each once wore blackface as young men in the 1980s . Calls for Northam's resignation raised the prospect of Fairfax taking over, which prompted his accusers to come forward.
All three scandals involve events that happened long before these leaders took office, but they've become a full-blown crisis for Democrats. The party counts on the support of black voters and has taken an almost zero-tolerance approach to sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era. A housecleaning could be costly: If all three Democrats resign, Republican state House Speaker Kirk Cox would become Virginia's governor.
Northam, a pediatric neurologist, said that he considered quitting, but has decided he's "not going anywhere" because the state "needs someone that can heal" it.
Northam said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that it's been a difficult week since a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced, showing a person wearing blackface next to another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe. Northam initially said he was in the photo, then denied it the next day, while acknowledging he did wear blackface to a dance party that same year.
"Virginia needs someone that can heal. There's no better person to do that than a doctor," Northam said. "Virginia also needs someone who is strong, who has empathy, who has courage and who has a moral compass. And that's why I'm not going anywhere."
Political considerations will be key to what comes next. Virginia is among a handful of states electing lawmakers this year, and Democrats had hoped to flip the Republican-controlled General Assembly.
Democratic Del. Patrick Hope said he wants to introduce articles of impeachment Monday against Fairfax, who is black. Meredith Watson and Vanessa Tyson have accused him of sexual assault and offered to testify at any impeachment hearing.
The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but both women have come forward voluntarily.
Watson alleges Fairfax raped her while they were students at Duke University in 2000, her attorney said in a statement. Tyson, a California college professor, accused Fairfax of forcing her to perform oral sex on him at a Boston hotel in 2004.
The lieutenant governor issued a statement Saturday again denying he ever sexually assaulted anyone and making clear he does not intend to immediately step down. Instead, he urged authorities to investigate.
"Frankly, we really want any entity with comprehensive investigative power to thoroughly look into these accusations," Fairfax spokeswoman Lauren Burke said. "There needs to be verification of basic facts about these allegations. It feels like something bigger is going on here."
Some political observers noted that the threshold to start an impeachment process is remarkably high in the House of Delegates. The lawmakers are set to leave town before February ends, and have limited time and resources to immediately take on the complicated issue.
Still, "a clear sign of the depth of LG Fairfax's political crisis is the near-absence of voices in Virginia politics this weekend publicly urging him to remain in office," University of Mary Washington political science professor Stephen Farnsworth said in an email.
If the Legislature is in session, the House would need a simple majority to vote to impeach Fairfax, said A.E. Dick Howard, a University of Virginia law professor. The Senate would then review evidence and hear testimony. That chamber would need a two-thirds vote to convict among senators who are present.
Another possibility: Fairfax simply hangs on as he disputes the allegations.
"Before Donald Trump, I would say with this kind of stuff, it's impossible for a person to just hang on, put their head down and ignore it," said Quentin Kidd, a political science professor at Christopher Newport University. "Post-Donald Trump, I think what elected officials are willing to do has changed in some ways. So can he hang on? Certainly he can hang on."
If Fairfax were to leave, it's unclear who could replace him. Northam may try to appoint a Democrat, while Republicans could mount a legal challenge with the goal of getting Senate Pro Tem Steve Newman to serve as both a voting senator and temporary lieutenant governor.
The attorney general's future also remains in question. Herring, who would become governor if both Northam and Fairfax leave office, initially made a forceful call for Northam to step down, but then he too acknowledged wearing blackface at a party in 1980. Herring has apologized but has not indicated he would resign.
Asked Sunday for his opinion on his subordinates, Northam told CBS it's up to them to decide whether they want to stay. He said he supports Fairfax's call for an investigation into the sexual assault allegations. Of Herring, he said that "just like me, he has grown."
Northam's pledge Sunday to work on healing Virginia's racial divide was his second in as many days. In his first interview since the scandal erupted, he told The Washington Post on Saturday that the uproar has pushed him to confront the state's deep and lingering divisions, as well as his own insensitivity. But he said that reflection has convinced him that, by remaining in office, he can work to resolve them.
"It's obvious from what happened this week that we still have a lot of work to do," Northam said. "There are still some very deep wounds in Virginia, and especially in the area of equity."
Finley reported from Norfolk, Virginia. Contributing to this report were Associated Press reporters Steve Helber in Chilhowie, Virginia; David McFadden in Baltimore; and Julie Pace and Michael Biesecker in Washington.
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Panthers do one thing about as well as anyone in the NHL
By James O'BrienAug 13, 2018, 9:25 AM EDT
Each day in the month of August we’ll be examining a different NHL team — from looking back at last season to discussing a player under pressure to focusing on a player coming off a breakthrough year to asking questions about the future. Today we look at the Florida Panthers.
Hockey nerds, would you like a fun activity? C’mon, the season is far away, you know you want one …
[Looking back at 2017-18 | Building off a breakthrough | Under Pressure | Three questions]
Ask yourself a question: what are the best contracts in the NHL, under two parameters:
1. The contract must have some term on it. It was a great run, Erik Karlsson, Tyler Seguin, and Max Pacioretty. (Pours one out for John Tavares‘ ridiculous, recently expired deal.)
2. It can’t be a rookie contract, because that’s cheating.
Waits …
Waits some more …
Pencils up, you can stop scouring Cap Friendly now.
For my money – it’s not my money, I can barely afford to run a team in DFS – the best contract in the NHL is probably that of Nathan MacKinnon. He was a (deserving) Hart finalist for the low-low price of a $6.3 million cap hit. If that wasn’t enough, MacKinnon is somehow just 22, and his dirt-cheap cap hit runs for five more seasons.
(Joe Sakic just took a second to stop smirking about the Matt Duchene trade to smirk about MacKinnon’s contract.)
One can debate this topic from dawn until dusk – heck, Hart Trophy winner Taylor Hall‘s deal is in the discussion, too, though not for much longer – but I’d argue that the Florida Panthers rank among the teams who boast the most great contracts.
Specifically, this franchise is doing a wonderful job of signing fantastic forwards to equally fantastic deals. They’re paralleling what the Nashville Predators are doing with their defensemen: sign guys, usually with proactive extensions, to fairly long-term deals before they’ve fully blossomed.
The result: a slew of contracts that give a budget-conscious team a real chance to compete.
(Yes, it’s more than a little bit amusing that the Panthers biffed the expansion draft by giving away Reilly Smith [a nice $5M value even then] and Jonathan Marchessault [who signed a team-friendly deal in the middle of his first Vegas season, also for $5M per year], yet Florida still boasts so many great deals. There are advantages, you see, to being bad for a long time, not to mention operating in a state that gives sports teams certain tax advantages.)
Take a look at the great deals, and ones that at least qualify as good.
Aleksander Barkov – Panthers fans might have been screaming “Barkov” during that MacKinnon/Hall/etc. discussion, and with good reason. You could make a strong argument that the rising Selke-caliber forward’s deal is the biggest steal at $5.9M through 2021-22.
Like MacKinnon, Barkov is just 22, as he was selected one spot after the speedy Avs center. It turns out Florida was quite smart in doing so, despite the mild surprise.
Barkov set a ton of career-highs (27 goals, 51 assists, 78 points) despite seeing his usage flip-flop from beginning about 60-percent of his shifts in the attacking zone before to beginning close to 60-percent of his shifts in the defensive zone in 2017-18.
He’s a legitimate, tide-turning top-line center, and Barkov’s making a relative pittance. He’s also not alone in being a bargain, even if he’s the best value of this bunch.
Jonathan Huberdeau‘s cap hit matches Barkov’s $5.9M, although Huberdeau’s deal runs through 2022-23. In this way, Huberdeau-Barkov parallel Johnny Gaudreau – Sean Monahan as players with similar deals, with both being great values, even if one shines brighter than the other.
We’ll probably move Huberdeau up the bargain rankings more if he can stay healthy, as he did in playing all 82 games in 2017-18. So far, he’s shown the ability to drive puck possession in his own right, seeing a similar increase in defensive work last season. He matched Barkov’s 27 goals, and while he didn’t score as many points, 69 is still a new career-high.
Vincent Trocheck – For a while there, Trocheck was Florida’s other best-kept secret, behind Barkov.
It’s going to be tough for the underrated center to slip under the radar if he matches or exceeds last season’s 31 goals and 75 points, though. Trocheck’s possession stats slipped after some masterful years, yet those could very well go up if Huberdeau stays by his side, as was the case late in last season.
Trocheck is another fantastic steal at just $4.75M through 2021-22.
Evgenii Dadonov – It might seem weird for a 29-year-old to break through, but it makes a lot of sense when you consider how fantastic Dadonov was during his first season after a KHL sojourn.
Other GMs might not feel like it makes sense – or is fair – that a guy who just scored 28 goals and 65 points is making just $4M per year for two more seasons, but it fits into the pretty picture Florida is painting.
Nick Bjugstad – You could knock Dadonov, and also Bjugstad, for enjoying their best days when they landed on Aleksander Barkov’s line. It’s certainly a factor to consider, as Barkov clearly makes his linemates better.
Should the Panthers really care, though? Like Dadonov, Bjugstad suddenly seems like a bargain if he can stick on one of those top lines, maybe more so than trying to carry a line by himself. Bjugstad’s season totals weren’t amazing (19 goals, 49 points), but consider that he scored 10 goals and 27 points in just 35 games following the All-Star break.
Cooking with fire once he landed with Barkov suddenly makes his $4.1M for three more seasons look like quite the boon.
Mike Hoffman? – It’s too early to tell how Hoffman will fit in with the Panthers, as discussed in greater detail here.
Still, a guy who’s scored 20+ goals for four straight seasons and at least 56 for three consecutive years is probably at least a solid value at $5.188M per year (through 2019-20). Chances are, if Hoffman hits the Barkov lottery – or clicks with Trocheck – then he’ll look like a steal, too.
So, to review, here are the good-to-great forward deals:
Barkov: $5.9M, four more seasons
Huberdeau: $5.9M, five more seasons
Hoffman: $5.188M, two more seasons
Trocheck: $4.75M, four more seasons
Bjugstad: $4.1M, three more seasons
Dadonov: $4M, two more seasons
This gives the Panthers quite the window to compete, and maybe thrive at a level many aren’t expecting. That’s especially true if these steals coincide nicely with rookie contracts for Henrik Borgstrom and Owen Tippett, and if the veterans on this team can hang on for a few more seasons.
Panthers management received well-earned ribbing for mismanaging the transition back to GM Dale Tallon, and Tallon’s stumbled a time or two.
Even so, between “The Computer Boys” locking up some good contracts, and Tallon helping with a Dadonov here and Hoffman trade there, the Panthers are in an awfully interesting position.
Now they just need to actually put it all together, and preferably for a full season, instead of a few months.
James O’Brien is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @cyclelikesedins.
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Two men have plunged 40ft to their death while trying to take a selfie at a tourist destination in Spain.
The incident happened at a beauty spot at the Punta Prima Beach, near the town of Torrevieja.
A 25-year-old man died at the scene despite paramedics’ efforts to resuscitate him, and a 20-year-old died after he was airlifted to hospital with head injuries, according to health sources.
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It was reported that the men were taking a a selfie when they fell over a security barrier and plunged to the concrete below.
Simon Davenport, who arrived at the scene as paramedics battled to save the older Brit, said, “There were some older local ladies there when these blokes had tried to take some photos. They said [the men] were trying to take selfies.”
Mr Davenport added: “They had fallen off the balcony even though there is a big handrail there.
The Brits disregarded the security barrier and they fell
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“One of them had died at the scene.
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Oh! That Film Blog / May 29, 2014
My first contact with Maleficent came in the form of the trailer, which I have to say was one of the most exciting and intriguing trailers I have seen for a long time. The sinister atmosphere that was conveyed combined with the new melancholy take on Once Upon A Dream by Lana Del Rey gave the promise of something substantially better than Disney’s other recent ‘retelling’ narrative, the rather disappointing Oz The Great And Powerful. With a seemingly well chosen cast list and the potential for interesting perspective on a well known fictional figure, I went in to Maleficent with a great deal of hope that this would not be a case of a film’s trailer trumping its feature content.
Sadly, as the minutes ticked by it became increasingly clear that my fears were to become a reality. The film begins more or less solidly, setting a strong premise and laying down the roots of the ‘story behind the story’ with regards to Maleficent, originally a kind hearted fairy who turns to vindictive and evil practices after a betrayal by her human love, Stefan. The plot then starts to intertwine with the well known story of Sleeping Beauty, beginning with a faithful and enjoyable reconstruction of the infamous curse scene, but from there the narrative separates from the one we know so well and attempts to show the audience a side to Maleficent that is altogether more amiable and three dimensional. The film clearly owes a great creative debt to Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, but there are also striking resemblances in parts to both Frozen and Hocus Pocus without ever being as enjoyable as either of them. The story the filmmakers have chosen to tell is undeniably an interesting one, but the key problem throughout is that the picture never really settles on a solid and estabished tone. The narrative is at its best when serious, sinister and melancholy, but there are sequences of awkward humour that fail to tickle the funny bone and serve only to break the tension and atmosphere that is created so well in parts. This constant changing of tone results in a rather unbalanced viewing experience, with another hindrance, in my mind, being the inclusion of a number of superfluous action sequences that feel tailor made just for 3D, an option I decline to take up whenever I can. The film draws to a solid enough conclusion, but too many unnecessary detours are taken for a picture only ninety seven minutes in length, leaving the middle section to become rather bloated and baggy in comparison to the relatively tight beginning and end.
One thing the filmmakers did get absolutely right is the casting of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent. Jolie has the perfect aesthetic look for a live action version of the iconic character and is clearly having a ball in the role, at times verging on camp but never straying over the line of credibility. Some of the more revealing moments at the beginning of the film are played with great sympathy and vulnerability, and the protagonist’s journey remains within the realms of contextual believability thanks to Jolie’s commanding performance. In all honesty the rest of the cast are of no real importance when it comes to one’s enjoyment of the film, with Jolie pretty much carrying the weight of the entire picture throughout. Elle Fanning is suitably blonde and suitably bland as Princess Aurora, whose character is only really present for catalyst purposes in this instance. Sam Riley gives an interesting but underdeveloped performance as Diaval, a shape-shifting raven and Maleficent’s faithful sidekick. Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville give pleasant but rather out of place performances as the fairies charged with taking care of Aurora until her sixteenth birthday, with the three actresses providing most of the comic relief that so detrimentally confuses the tone of the film. The only casting decision to which I take real exception is Sharlto Copley as Stefan, who as well as looking much too old in the context of his role, performs rather forgettably and one dimensionally when put up aside the arresting presence of Angelina Jolie who seems almost born for the part.
Overall, Maleficent is a spirited attempt to retell a much loved and universally known story, but it falls just short of being wholly satisfying. Angelina Jolie is everything you would wish her to be in the lead role, but the rest of the film fails to live up to her performance, of which half the brilliance is purely down to her enchanting aesthetic. The confused tone of the combating drama and humour make for an uneven watch and aside from Jolie’s screen presence there is very little memorable content. My fears about the trailer besting the picture were affirmed. My advice? It’s worth a watch and far from terrible, but the mystical tone set by Lana Del Rey’s Once Upon A Dream is, unfortunately, never truly realised.
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Flashback/Backslide says:
The trailer for this does look great and I shared your fears about it being non-representative. I may still have to see this just for Jolie’s performance which you describe here. I have never been a big fan of her wotk and any evidence to change my mind is always welcome.
MovieManJackson says:
Planned on passing with this, but I am a huge Copley fan, though what you described of him makes me sad. Great review.
Honestly, I feel kind of relieved that you gave the film a lukewarm review. I didn’t want to feel obligated to see it! Now I have the perfect excuse. (P.S. Not to be fussy, but I believe you meant “tailor-made,” not “taylor made” in the second paragraph).
Oh! That Film Blog says:
Indeed I did! Thanks for spotting. 😉
Davide Perretta says:
Elle is bland? Damn, she’s the only reason I have any interest in this.. 😦
In fairness, it’s the role that is bland.
You know, this is pretty much what I was expecting from it, so I’m not all that disappointed to hear it was a little underwhelming. Still wanna see it, though – for the good that you mentioned.
Bill Meeker says:
Well-written review!
Jenna and Allie (@FlickChicksBlog) says:
Great review. I still haven’t seen Maleficent, but I’m still in no rush. I sort of felt like I should as a Disney fan, but the trailer never really gripped me.
By the way, we’ve added Oh! That Film Blog to our blog roll 🙂
– Allie
Thanks a lot, Allie! Really appreciate it!
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05apr(apr 5)9:00 am29sep(sep 29)9:00 pm"Impressionism" Creative Arts School Exhibitions(april 5) 9:00 am - (september 29) 9:00 pm
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The Creative Arts School highlights instructors and students with four exhibitions each year in the Crest Theatre galleries. Come and see the amazing art works, in a variety of media, that are
The Creative Arts School highlights instructors and students with four exhibitions each year in the Crest Theatre galleries.
Come and see the amazing art works, in a variety of media, that are created in all our classes every term!
“Impressionism” – Creative Arts School Exhibition
Crest Theatre Galleries (2nd floor of the Crest Theatre Building, Instructor work, 1st floor Producer Lounge and Library)
Exhibition Dates: April 5, 2019 – September 29, 2019
Open House – April 6, 2019 12:30 – 3:30
Opening Reception: April 6, 2019, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Featured Photography by Instructor, Irene Hill
Seven Solos Exhibition Cornell Art Museum 51 N. Swinton Ave. Delray Beach, Florida 33444
26apr(apr 26)10:00 am05oct(oct 5)5:00 pmSeven Solos Exhibition(april 26) 10:00 am - (october 5) 5:00 pm
April 26 (Friday) 10:00 am - October 5 (Saturday) 5:00 pm
51 N. Swinton Ave. Delray Beach, Florida 33444
Seven Solos departs from the traditional group exhibitions at Cornell Art Museum by featuring only seven artists; each creating a unique, site-specific, immersive experience in six galleries plus
Seven Solos departs from the traditional group exhibitions at Cornell Art Museum by featuring only seven artists; each creating a unique, site-specific, immersive experience in six galleries plus the Margaret Blume Atrium space. These art installations can only be seen at the Cornell Art Museum here in Delray Beach!
Installation by Jacob Fisher
Artists featured in this exhibition have shown their work in galleries and museums worldwide. Come see art work by: Miya Ando, Giannina Dwin (in collaboration with Freddy Jouwayed), Jacob Fisher, Frank Hyder, Brookhart Jonquil, Shinduk Kang and Alex Trimino.
Seven Solos will be on view through October 6, 2019.
Museum Hours are Tues-Sat, 10AM to 5PM. Closed Mon., Sun. and holidays.
Admission is $8 (general); $5 (seniors 65+ and students with ID);
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Spotlight Gallery: 6X6 Exhibition Cornell Art Museum 51 N. Swinton Ave. Delray Beach, Florida 33444
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The Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square will feature the 6th Annual 6x6 Exhibition in the Spotlight Gallery through July 25th. This exhibit features hundreds of 6x6
The Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square will feature the 6th Annual 6×6 Exhibition in the Spotlight Gallery through July 25th. This exhibit features hundreds of 6×6 art works donated by artists from around the country! Works include paintings, collage, mixed-media, glass, wood, photographs and more!
All 6×6 art works will be available for purchase at the Cornell Art Museum’s 6th Annual 6×6 Art Sale on Thursday, July 25th, 6-8 pm.
The Sale will start promptly at 6:30pm.
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6x6 Exhibition & Sale Cornell Art Museum 51 N. Swinton Ave. Delray Beach, Florida 33444
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It's that time again... Cornell Art Museum is excited to announce its 6th ANNUAL 6x6 EXHIBITION & SALE! All artists, aspiring, professional and hobbyists, are invited to submit original artworks
It’s that time again… Cornell Art Museum is excited to announce its 6th ANNUAL 6×6 EXHIBITION & SALE! All artists, aspiring, professional and hobbyists, are invited to submit original artworks – any medium – in the 6″ x 6″ format for this all-inclusive art experience! All art must be ready to hang on the wall.
All pieces are shown as the Spotlight Gallery feature exhibition for the month of July, opening during Delray Beach’s First Friday Art Walk on July 5, 2019 and will remain on view until the 6×6 Art Sale.
All submitted artworks are sold for $30 each on July 25 in an auction-style sale. Doors open at 6pm with the Sale starting promptly at 6:30PM. All proceeds will benefit the Cornell Art Museum programming.
Submission Forms: Get the form HERE or pick up your form at Cornell Art Museum or Creative Art School/Crest Theatre at Old School Square. Forms and supplies are also available at Hands Art Supply on Atlantic Avenue. ARTWORK DEADLINE IS SATURDAY, JUNE 22ND BY 4PM!
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Prep & Sports presents an Acts of Life Production written by Christine LeShay BE READY is
Prep & Sports presents an Acts of Life Production written by Christine LeShay
BE READY is an inspirational stage play, written and directed by Christine LeShay Ferguson. It’s about a family’s intimate struggle when shattering past experiences keep resurfacing and they desperately try to deal with them the only way they know how. Riley Blue is battling with a secret. Her husband Chico won’t let go of it and their daughter Gracie is suffering because of it. To overcome, they must find a way to get past it, but are they ready?
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Field Hockey Defeats Lehigh, Brown With Two Shutouts
Published: Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:41
Written by CHRIS FITZSIMMONS | STAFF WRITER
The field hockey team came away with two impressive victories this past weekend to end a two-game losing streak. The Hawks handily defeated Lehigh on Friday afternoon by the score off 7-0 and followed suit on Sunday by beating Brown 9-0. With the two wins the Hawks improve to a 4-2 record on the season and have won 15 straight regular season home games.
Friday’s tilt against Lehigh began as a defensive slugfest, with both teams limiting each other’s chances. Senior forward Meg Donahue opened up scoring in the 12th minute by netting a loose ball located in the circle. The Hawks offense wasted little time and followed up four minutes later. This time it was junior forward Elyssa Okken who buried another loose ball in front of the net.
Action slowed at this point and it would take another ten minutes before a goal would be scored. Sophomore forward Josephine van der Hoop was responsible for the goal as she scored her first of the day right before the half to make it 3-0 Hawks.
Monmouth wasted little time extending their lead coming out of the half. Van Der Hoop registered her second of the day off a fast break assisted by senior midfielder Rachel Konowal to pull ahead 4-0. The Hawks did not look back from there and would register three more scores before the clock hit zero to win in an impressive matter.
“It was a great win after a tough weekend in Virginia. We were working on a few tactical things this week that showed today as we continue to get ready for conference play which is just a few weeks out, but today was a complete team win,” Head Coach Carli Figlio on the win.
Monmouth rolled to their second victory of the weekend by recording a 9-0 shutout over Brown. Senior forward Meg Donahue and sophomore forward Josephine van der Hoop both registered hat tricks on route to an impressive win.
Senior defender Julie Laszlo made her presence felt early by registering the first goal of the game at the 2:03 mark. Not be overshadowed, van der Hoop scored the following two goals to put the Hawks ahead by three. Monmouth tallied four more before the half and took a seven-goal advantage into the half.
Men’s Soccer Falls to UMBC in Overtime
Written by EVAN MCMURTRIE | STAFF WRITER
In their fifth match of the new season, Monmouth men’s soccer was defeated by UMBC, 2-1, in heartbreaking fashion just two minutes into overtime at Hesse Field on the Great Lawn on Saturday night.
“I thought that tonight UMBC deserved to get something out of the game for sure,” said Monmouth head coach Robert McCourt. “They were really hungry and competitive and we knew they were a good team coming in.”
Redshirt senior midfielder and captain Colin Stripling said, “We’ve got to be better in a sense of taking positives out of everything. We moved the ball well at times and the goalkeeping and back four was great.”
The match saw its first action fifteen minutes in when a looping header put Retrievers sophomore forward Tre Pulliam through on goal, but his shot was saved by Monmouth junior goalkeeper Bobby Edwards. The resulting corner kick saw Pulliam fire a header at Edwards from point-blank range, but once again the keeper stood tall and parried the shot away from danger.
The Hawks replied to the early pressure from UMBC when sophomore midfielder John Antunes picked up the ball in midfield, danced past a couple of defenders, and fired a shot that forced freshman goalkeeper Ciaran O’Loughlin into a diving save.
Moments later, Pulliam won the ball in the air and rushed down the left wing before sending a cross into the box on the ground. Senior midfielder Cormac Noel’s first time shot went wide as he stretched to get a foot on the ball.
Edwards was forced to make yet another save when senior midfielder Gregg Hauck fired a header on goal from a UMBC corner kick. The Hawks immediately burst down the other end of the pitch and had a shot on goal themselves, but it was saved by O’Loughlin.
As both sides looked to grab a goal before halftime, Monmouth sophomore midfielder Geoffrey Schaefer cut the ball back onto his left foot and ripped a shot from outside of the box that flew over the crossbar. The Retrievers had another shot at Monmouth’s goal when senior midfielder Sammy Kahsai found space inside the box for a shot, but it was an easy save for Edwards.
Women’s Soccer Wins After Ross’ Goal With Five Seconds Left
Written by MARK D’AQUILA | CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Monmouth University women’s soccer team won in dramatic fashion thanks to senior forward Rachelle Ross’ goal with five seconds left in the game to beat Drexel 2-1 Friday night at Hess Field on The Great Lawn.
“I knew the moment and was prepared whether Gibby (sophomore forward Madie Gibson) gave her the ball or not,” said Ross. “It was a flashback to last year against Seton Hall.”
The last time MU had a game winner was last season’s 1-0 win against Seton Hall when the then senior forward Alexis McTamney scored with five seconds left.
In the first half, both teams would exchange scoring chances but the half would end scoreless thanks to excellent goalie play and active defense by freshman forward/midfielder Sarina Jones.
In the second half, Drexel would break through and score the first goal in the 60th minute past sophomore goalkeeper Amanda Knaub.
Drexel’s defense was errorless until sophomore midfielder/forward Lexie Palladino was able to find the back of the net on the assist from sophomore midfield/defender Jessica Johnson to tie the game with 22 minutes left in the game.
After unsuccessful scoring chances by both teams, the game was destined for overtime until senior midfielder Sophie Centi took control of the ball.
With only ten seconds left, Centi sent a far pass to Gibson who dribbled the ball toward the box and dished it out to Ross who found the back of the net with just five seconds remaining on the clock.
“Going down 1-0 and coming back to win was huge for us,” Head Coach Krissy Turner said. “This was a terrific win against a very good team. I am very proud of the daily improvement of this team.”
Football Opens Kessler Stadium 2-0 After Defeating #19 Ranked Lehigh
Written by ZACH COSENZA | SPORTS EDITOR
In the 25th season of Monmouth Football, the Hawks opened the brand new $16 million Kessler Stadium and the 2017 season with a 2-0 record, including a 46-27 win over #19 ranked Lehigh on Saturday.
The Hawks’ running game was firing on all cylinders, rushing for a combined 351 yards and six touchdowns. Junior running back Devell Jones rushed for three touchdowns, while sophomore running back Pete Guerriero rushed for 192 yards and added two touchdowns.
“I can’t say enough about the job our offense did,” Head Coach Kevin Callahan said. “Rolling up 350 yards on the ground and throwing for over 200 yards, it is just an outstanding performance.”
In his first two games of collegiate football, Guerriero has rushed for a combined four rushing touchdowns and 338 rushing yards. He credited the experience of the offensive line for his hot start.
“It definitely makes it a lot easier. The running backs and offensive line are really close with each other. Every single day at practice we talk about being patient and running behind them. They open up holes that is like running through a tunnel. It is great to be behind such an awesome five.”
The blue and white started the game in Lehigh territory thanks to a 70 yard kick return by Guerriero on the opening kickoff. That drive ended with the first of three rushing touchdowns by junior running back Devell Jones.
After Lehigh turned the ball over on downs in Monmouth territory, Guerriero ran for a 71 yard touchdown. After a two-point conversion by Jones, MU had an early 14-0 lead.
Lehigh would then answer with back-to-back touchdown passes to end the first quarter, tied 14-14.
The Hawks would later add two field goals, while Lehigh added a touchdown, to make it 21-20 at the half.
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reflections caught at daybreak
Philosophy funnies
We’re doing something completely different in CoPhi today: we’re all supposed to find funny, philosophically-provocative (or at least interesting) things online to discuss in class. I have a few suggestions of my own. Just remember: “if it bends, it’s funny…”*
Football (soccer) philosophy (M.Python)
“Don’t grovel!” (Holy Grail)
Monty Python & Philosophy
Python slides
Football vs. baseball (Carlin)
Carlin on religion
Galaxy Song (M.Python)
Argument Clinic (M.Python)
HHGTG “Hello, ground!” – cosmic semantic whale
HHGTG Ultimate answer
HHGTG Vanishing in a puff of logic
Mr. Deity and the Evil
Philosophy cartoons
Philosophy comics
Philosophy jokes
Philosophy & humor slides
Philosophical humor
Plato & a Platypus
Mark Twain on “the reasoning animal”
Woody Allen & Philosophy*
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The Happy Planet Index
Final report presentations begin today in SOL, with Brian on the World Happiness Index (aka Happy Planet Index, or HPI). Makes sense to me. Robert Kennedy said it best: GNP “measures everything except that which makes life worth living.” Nic Marks is right, “happiness should not cost the earth.”
His TED Talk is one of many addressing the theme “What Makes Us Happy?” including Amy Purdy‘s remarkable account of overcoming the loss of her legs as a teenager, Daniel Kahneman on experience and memory, Randy Pausch on achieving childhood dreams, Daniel Gilbert on how bad we are at predicting what will make us happy, Chip Conley on Bhutan, the” joie de vivre index,” and measuring happiness (“What really counts is when we use our numbers to truly take into account our people”-tr], Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech urging the inestimable value of impassioned work (“Don’t settle!”), and lots of Buddhists (including Matthieu Ricard).
Eric Weiner, the Geography of Bliss author, has written an intriguing essay on his current God project which includes this observation: “I know from my research into happiness that it is our binding, our inter-dependence, that fulfills us.” [Iceland…Iceland Redux…happiness is]
We’ve heard that from so many sources now. Have any happiness researchers concluded that man is an island, or that we must imagine Crusoe happy? We always picture Sisyphus* struggling with his boulder alone, but if not at the office he must have had a strong support network at home. That may be what Woody Allen’s Professor Levy was missing. The point is to live, and (as Viktor Frankl said) to live meaningfully. [Frankl, Why to believe in others]
Also of interest, and to close the circle as our course winds down: “Just how powerful IS positive thinking? Ehrenreich on Sunday Morning” http://bit.ly/tn28p0
*Last word goes to Camus: “Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to the present.” [Generosity…2…3]
NOTE TO STUDENTS: 1. All presenters, please let us know your topic and suggested readings by tomorrow if possible. 2. I’ve begun reading Sisela Bok’s Exploring Happiness. It’s really good so far, I recommend it. (When this class comes around again in a couple of years, I’ll probably require it.)
Tags:Albert Camus, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Weiner, Nic Marks, TED
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The end of “Doubt”
We wrap up JMH’s Doubt today in CoPhi. [Remember, STUDENTS, final report presentations begin Wednesday and Thursday.] She says we’d all be a lot clearer if we’d just
avoid using believer, agnostic, and atheist and just try to say what you think about what we are and what’s out there.
Lots of different views are out there, along with the world they more-or-less accurately engage. But we should resist labeling them, or ourselves, even with better labels like sectarian, “one-of-many,” meaning and science spiritualist, Skeptic, perplexed, ritualist, science secularist, doubter.
Note, though, that to doubt is not necessarily to repudiate or excoriate. It’s simply to remain open to a new thought when it comes. But all labels aside, it seems clear enough after nearly 500 pages of Doubt that what we are is a species that has always had its doubters. Some of us embrace uncertainty, some shrink from it, all benefit in the long run from an honest and collaborative exchange of views. What’s out there is a big cosmos, and we’re in it. There’s room in it for all kinds, so long as we’re willing to share the space. But labels probably do serve more often to reinforce our worst exclusionary and judgmental tendencies, than to elicit a more expansive cosmopolitanism.
A story in yesterday’s Times about black atheists (which doesn’t quote Hubert Harrison) quotes Neil deGrasse Tyson echoing the point:
Am I an Atheist, you ask? Labels are mentally lazy ways by which people assert they know you without knowing you.
Right. But labels can be constructively clarifying and instigating, too. It’s easy to conform to a pattern to which you didn’t know there was an alternative. That’s why we’ve been reading JMH, to disabuse ourselves of that common error. Dozens of undeservedly obscure names (like Hubert Harrison’s) crop up again and again in the history of doubt, challenging the easy faith of those who entirely exclude the spirit of skepticism from their radar simply because they never read or heard a word about it.
According to the Pew Forum 2008 United States Religious Landscape Survey, 88 percent of African-Americans believe in God with absolute certainty, compared with 71 percent of the total population.
Believing anything “with absolute certainty” just looks a lot shakier when you come to realize that thoughtful humans have always doubted and always will. How can it possibly be considered more acceptable to be a church-going drug dealer than to be an atheist? Only by not really being considered at all.
Consider a recent Tyson tweet:
Thanksgiving dinner, a few years ago, each in turn thanked God for food. I thanked scientists for improved farming. Got booed.
An appropriate response by Tyson at that moment, in the face of such uncomprehending intolerance, might very well have included a bit of explanatory self-labeling. He wasn’t just being obtuse, he was representing a proud and ancient human tradition of alternative belief.
Wittgenstein might have reminded Tyson’s obdurate, intransigent cousins (and mine) that “reality does exist and limits the kinds of games that can be played.” The gratitude game “bewitches the intelligence” of those who won’t acknowledge its real sources in our shared experience. But he would also remind Tyson that science is not “the only approach to investigating the world,” and that “doubting, by its nature, is done within the realm of believing something.” Again, there’s room at the feast for all kinds.
“We inhabit a world of belief and cannot see out of it.” We cannot really doubt that we’re awake, when we think we are. That’s mostly a good thing, “belief is one of the best human muscles” (because it moves us to act) but it’s also the explanation of our intolerance. We need to work on that, but is it really “crazy” for theists and non-theists alike to challenge one another’s arguments? We have to try harder to “see out of” our respective belief-bubbles and even to pop them when they prevent mutual understanding. If it’s true that “we can speak of the world only in our language game,” we need to develop a more inclusive language. The language of doubt, perhaps?
Sartre again. “There is no human nature because there is no God to have a conception of it.” That still just strikes me as a premature judgment, even for atheists. Why can’t the “blueprint” of our nature(s) be a work perpetually in progress? Why can’t human nature be fluid? And why, if you agreed with Sartre, would you also acknowledge “an intense command upon us to be moral”? An intense feeling of responsibility, sure. But is a feeling a command? Not usually.
So, by “hell is other people” maybe he means the others who don’t respond to the same felt “commands” we do. But in Sartre’s own terms isn’t there a whiff of “bad faith” here, if we objectify our mutual responsibilities as externally imposed commands rather than choices we’re always at risk of neglecting? Too bad we can’t cross the channel to settle that with the man himself.
Sartre said he settled the God question to his own satisfaction at age 12. His partner Simone de Beauvoir was 14 when she (with Balzac’s assistance) declared her own independence. Were they precocious, or premature? His command was her need: “in a godless universe there is a desperate need for each of us to be moral.” (The Second Sex 25 years later)
Albert Camus‘s great theme was the absurdity of living in a world of repetitive meaninglessness, only then to die. That’s Woody Allen‘s theme too. (“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work or my children. I want to achieve it by not dying”…Prof. Levy) Not dying is precisely the Sisyphean task Camus said should make us happy. “Acknowledging the absurdity of the human condition is what saves us, and ‘one does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness.'” Or at least produce novels, plays, and films. “It’s our ballgame.”
For many of us, life was most emphatically shown to be in our hands by the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel‘s cri de coeur for the nocturnal silence of the death camps sums it up.
…after another hanging, Behind me, I heard [a] man asking: “Where is God now?” And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows.
Viktor Frankl‘s amazing story and the message of his life was nicely summarized by a student once as both Nietzschean and Beatle-esque: we need meaning, and for that we need love. (quotes)
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future…And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
The Cold War and Joe McCarthy put god on our currency and in our pledge in the 1950s. That mindset, the falsehood that “an atheist American is a contradiction in terms” and the preposterous proposal that “atheists should not be considered citizens or patriots” (Bush Sr.) is light-years removed from the transcendent Gaian sensibility of poet/statesman/Velvet revolutionary Vaclav Havel. More respect, for one another and for the “miracle of the universe,” is still (we may hope) the history of the future.
Is the evangelical atheism of the so-called New Atheists “harsh” and “coarse”? Or is it an inevitable backlash against religious bigotry? The vaunted Four Horsemen are Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens*, and Dan Dennett. But there are many more riders in their posse, some of whom have delivered riveting TED Talks. Don’t miss Julia Sweeney, my favorite New Atheist. (If you’re a Deepak Chopra fan, you might not like this.)
(Sweeney transcript… *Hitchens-Blair transcript)
So, to be clear: the end of Doubt, the point of doubting, is to live. Its purpose is to summon as much freedom and dignity as befits a questioning, questing, aspiring social species. “The only thing such doubters really need, that believers have, is a sense that people like themselves have always been around, that they are part of a grand history.” Point taken. May the conversation continue.
Tags:atheism, Hubert Harrison, Julia Sweeney, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Viktor Frankl
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Thanksgiving 2011’s rainbow
Something else for the gratitude list: the return of the Muppets, still seeking the rainbow connection. (We continued our Black Friday family tradition yesterday, of hitting the multiplex instead of the mall.) The new guy learned an important lesson about self-confidence. “Rainbows are visions, but only illusions” – Don’t believe it, Walter. I hope the kids were listening too.
As a Happy Pragmatist I tend not to make Ingratitude Lists, though I do think about how to ameliorate the sources of ingratitude in our lives in the future. Still haven’t come up with a good solution for voluble Country Cousin, always the most obnoxiously inescapable pietist in the room and (of course) always called on to bless the turkey. At least I can be grateful not to have to deal with him again soon. Paraphrasing one of the Muppets, we get to wait “almost a whole year” before we’re again obliged to grin and bear the misplaced gratitude of people we regret but can’t avoid or challenge without violating rigid social proprieties.
I am sincerely grateful, though, to have made it through the entire day without laying eyes on a single down of football. And I’m grateful as always for pie.
Tags:Thanksgiving
the only home we’ve ever known
“Like it or not, the Earth is where we make our stand.” We’re not just tourists here, this is home.
A lovely new tribute to Sagan, Voyager, and cosmic perspective. I like it.
Tags:Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
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It’s a pot luck class today in SOL: those of us with For the Benefit of All Beings will finish it, others will bring whatever they please. You never know what you’re gonna get.
First, though, a bit of good news. I revisited our school’s curriculum committee Friday afternoon. The results this time were quicker and happier than back in April: Philosophy of Happiness now enjoys a permanent designation of its own, and a place in the course catalog as “PHILOSOPHY 3160.” The committee also approved PHILOSOPHY 3310, Atheism and Philosophy (Catalog descriptions).
So it’s official: happiness endures.
We’re reading the Dalai Lama because several of us thought he had sharp insights into happiness to share. And he does. [Quotes…more…more] The “secret” is to live with kindness and compassion “for all beings,” and to understand that no “single source” can make us happy. But the personal pursuit of happiness is not “the most important thing”:
We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever… So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives.
In their different ways, all of the authors we’ve read this semester– Ehrenreich, Ricard, Hecht, Russell– have said roughly that. I cited Bertrand Russell in CoPhi yesterday in the course of making a very similar point. “Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end.” It’s no more an illusion than life itself is an illusion. Of course that’s something we’ve been trying to clarify, with our Buddhist readings this semester. DL says elsewhere (in Universe in a Single Atom, or Meaning of Life, or Art of Happiness…) that Buddhism’s claim is not that life is an illusion but that it’s like an illusion. Hmmm.
Anyway, my position is that we should do all we can to extend, enrich, and intensify life on our planet, and fill the interim with happy purpose. We should set goals and strive to achieve them, as the cartoon I posted yesterday implied. Our goal should be to make it real, and enjoy the pursuit. There’s finally no other cure for birth and death than to enjoy the interval. (GS)
Yesterday’s conclusion fits today’s text even better: the future of life need be no illusion, and the vitality of our interest in that future will be as real as we choose to make it. The “good real things of life–work, love, children and play”– may just be good enough.
Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important thing is to be a good human being.
Our happiness is inseparable from our goodness, and that’s bound up with the happiness of all beings. We’re here for the sake of one another, not strictly for ourselves. HHDL’s wisdom, finally, looks much like Mr. Einstein’s. “Strange is our situation here on Earth…” Happiness is within our grasp. Guess we should be grateful.
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Americana, Black Socrates, Einstein, Freud, Russell
It’s the 20th century already in CoPhi, we must be getting very near the end. But what has concluded, that we may conclude? Absolutely nothin’… Collaboration in the “philosophy of ‘co'” is (almost) never-ending. So it must just be the end of the beginning we’re running up on, this Thanksgiving week. (Remember, STUDENTS, our Thanksgiving break begins Wednesday.)
Today we read of “secular nations, Americana, Evolution & Einstein, Freud, and Bertrand Russell,” among others.
JMH says Ludwig Wittgenstein set the tone for this century when he wrote, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” I don’t know about that, as a 20th century mantra. The professional occupation of philosophy does not reward silence, and not many of my colleagues have been known to hold their tongues in public. We all talk too much, that’s the game we’ve been hired to play. William James did it too, and periodically confessed his self-revulsion for feeding the PhD Octopus.
What an awful trade that of professor is,” James complained at term’s end in 1892, “paid to talk, talk, talk! …It would be an awful universe if everything could be converted into words, words, words.
And yet, on the mundane plane of existence and survival, unemployment just might be worse. Whatcha gonna do, sit silently in a circle and intuit? Meditate? Be?
Speaking of secular Americana (something we readers of Doubt now know to be real and legit, not oxymoronic in Jefferson‘s and Adams‘s and Franklin’s and Paine’s America), it’s nearly Thanksgiving. Lots of people around these parts think of it as a religious holiday, when we’re all supposed to thank god for the turkey and stuffing, but it really did begin as a non-religious festive ritual. Same for July 4, Memorial Day, and all the other public occasions when religion and politics (and football in Fall) all run together. So, for all who find themselves in stifling company on Thursday and called on to grace the excess, here’s a little Thanksgiving prayer. But if that was too much, here’s a more conventional one. [gratitude…Ford…lucky…thanks a lot…thank goodness…gratitude is good for you (Tierney)]
“Unifying communal experiences” are a good thing, but can be more of a challenge this time of year for those of us who’ve given up football. Penn State was the final nail in the coffin, for me (for it). NCAA collegiate athletics is corrupt (“The Shame of College Sports“) and football at every level is unconscionably violent (“Offensive Play“). But I’m not entirely inflexible on this: raise a generation or two of kids who understand all the risks they run of brain damage, mental illness, permanent disability, premature death etc., and if they still want to play then that’s their choice. I’ll still be boycotting. (Hockey & boxing too, of course.) But pass the turkey, please. And the pie. Let’s talk hot stove baseball.
Thomas Mann was wrong, religion must be separated from politics in a pluralistic democracy. But there’s still something to be said for putting social life “on the altar” (and not the sacrificial altar, either). That’s what John Dewey was doing when he said “the things in civilization we value most are not of ourselves” etc. We are a part of something larger than ourselves: nature, society, and history. The vital question of what life will ultimately make of itself is compelling, and inspiring. “A better life here upon earth” is a sacred goal, and shouldn’t be consigned to the scrap-heap of Marxist-Leninist history. Lenin did say everyone should be free to practice whatever religion they pleased, or none. Tragically he merely said it. So did Walter Rauschenbusch, with his social gospel (“Thy will be done on earth“) and commitment to a just future.
Turkey’s secular experiment (no pun intended) fizzled, but how much bloodshed might we have been spared at this end of that century if people had heeded Ataturk‘s observation that fighters (and terrorists) are more willing to die and kill when they think their reward will be heaven and its oddly-earthy perqs. (How many virgins, again? But aren’t all angels virginal, by definition?) The social gospel should exclude the society of angels.
The Nazis and Fascists did get religious about politics. (The present GOP has precedent.) But the oft-repeated claim about Hitler’s irreligion is false. “I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty…” You could look it up.
But closer to home, how about that Thomas Edison! “Have faith and go forward,” he said, but faith in what exactly? “I cannot see any use of a future life.” For ourselves as continuous individuals, that is, in an eternal heaven. (Picture lightbulbs popping.) His hero Paine is another iconic American whose true views are not True Blue. But both understood Dewey’s version of naturo-socio-historical continuity very well indeed.
Hubert Harrison, the “Black Socrates,” defies the stereotype of unblinking theism among African-Americans. He also admired Paine, noted errors in the Bible, and embraced Agnosticism (“such an agnostic as Huxley was”). He said he had no intention of bowing down to a lily-white god or worshipping a Jim Crow Jesus. He was more than a little literal when he also embraced Nietzsche’s repudiation of “slave ethics.” Admitting that reason alone did not meet his every need, he still preferred “to go to the grave with my eyes open.” That’s a really good personal credo, “eyes open.” Mind too.
Emma Goldman, Mother Earth matriarch and “an exceedingly dangerous woman,” found doubt a source of happiness. The negation of gods is also an affirmation of humanity, an “eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.” [Quotes]
Margaret Sanger‘s slogan is (was?) penciled into the concrete of our stairwell in JUB: “No Gods, No Masters.” The fatherly anecdote of a casual rhetorical question about God’s baking skills serves as a sobering reminder to parents and teachers: the smallest throwaway remark can change a child’s life. Be careful.
Mark Twain was one of my earliest mythic heroes. Like the Cardinals, he came with the territory where I grew up, just a little southwest of Hannibal MO. It’s little appreciated, amongst the legions of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn readers across the land, that he was an acerbic and gnostical freethinker: “There is only one father cruel enough to afflict his child with… disease.” And: “If Christ had really been God, He could have proved it.”
“Twain believed in God, but not one that cared for us.” Not a god of charity, kindness, mercy, or compassion. We humans may have invented heaven, he says, but we really don’t want to go there. All the fun people would have to be at the other place, if only it were real as well.
There’s more in today’s reading about the Scopes Trial. Remind me to tell you again about my childhood hero and favorite magician Winterton Curtis, one of those scientific witnesses who went down to Dayton and was denied an opportunity to testify for science and truth and Clarence Darrow, “attorney for the damned“. (It was Darrow, btw, not Richard Dawkins, who first said everybody’s an agnostic/atheist with respect to something or other.) Yet Dr. Curtis retained admiration for the natives, as do I. (And as did Charles Darwin’s descendant Matthew Chapman, btw.) (Damned Yankee in Columbia… Don’t Tell Me the Lights are Shining… Scopes 7…)
“God does not play dice with the universe,” but maybe Einstein just meant that dice (“chance”) doesn’t get played period. Again,
I believe in Spinoza’s God… I do not believe in a personal God… I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Yet he affirmed a sense of mystery and wonder, beauty and sublimity. “Strange is our situation here on Earth…”
Strange, too, is our situation as diagnosed by Herr Doktor Professor Freud (who’s been interestingly juxtaposed, by Armand Nicholi, with C.S. Lewis over the “question of god“). “Human morality and civility [are] a thin covering over a mass of blind hungers and needs,” and “religion gives most people their only inkling of the philosophical world.” We can do better, maybe people can “handle the shock of the truth.” Eventually, anyway. Grandma possibly can’t on Thursday, though. Pick your battles, keep the peace ’til the pie’s been served.
Bertrand Russell says J.S. Mill wakened him from his youthful dogmatic slumbers.
I for a long time accepted the argument of the First Cause, until one day, at the age of eighteen, I read John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography, and I there found this sentence: “My father taught me that the question ‘Who made me?’ cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question ‘Who made god?'”
I’m no Russell or Mill but I do recall rehearsing a similar line of thought myself, at about age fifteen. It’s what Carl Sagan was saying on his Day, too. “If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world.” Why not?
Well, some will resist that move because they prefer not to face the prospect of ego-annihilation and personal “rot.” But Russell’s view is appealing. It provides a solid riposte to the Buddhist emphasis on existence-as-illusion, one I think most renunciators can agree with (or should): “Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end.” Should we do all we can to postpone the end, and fill the interim with happy purpose? I vote yes. (Did you see the cartoon I posted yesterday?) There’s no other cure for birth and death than to enjoy the interval. (GS)
The future of life need be no illusion, and the vitality of our interest in that future will be as real as we choose to make it. The “good real things of life–work, love, children and play”– may just be good enough.
Tags:20th century philosophy, Emma Goldman, football, Hubert Harrison, Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Dewey, Thanksgiving, Thomas Edison
roads to freedom
In a silly mood this morning, for some reason. Speaking of J-P Sartre’s Roads to Freedom,
Marie was noting, in connection with yesterday’s SOL discussion of the Dalai Lama and the question of emptiness at the core of human existence, that Sartre wrote (and wrote and wrote) of “the desire to be good…or if you prefer the desire to be god”…
Well, as Woody Allen said: I gotta model myself after someone.
Sartre was wordy. Did anyone ever write more about Nothingness? But he was very terse when Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion crossed the channel to ask him about freedom.
Tags:Dalai Lama, Monty Python, Sartre
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patience, attentiveness, unreality
The book we voted more than a month ago to read in SOL has proved mysteriously elusive for many of us. Not for me, though, amazon delivers. So I have a few thoughts, and more than a few questions, about the Dalai Lama’s prescription for happiness. Mostly I need to understand why he repeatedly speaks of the illusory nature of existence when he really seems to mean its transitoriness and ephemerality. “Everything, whether friendly or hostile, is an illusory display.” Why do Buddhists treat impermanence as unreality? (And why has wordpress removed all my carriage returns?!)
His call for patience, the only force strong enough to neutralize corrosive anger, is particularly fortuitous. (I suppose I can live without carriage returns.)
We must make an effort to remain in a relaxed state of mind. Because unless we get rid of this unsettled feeling, it will feed our hatred, causing it to grow and eventually destroy us… we have to make a great deal of effort to obtain happiness, while suffering comes naturally. (But) A wise person can achieve happiness…
And suffering’s not all bad anyway, it helps us “lose our sense of self-importance” and gain greater compassion for others. Isn’t that really the goal here: lose the self-importance, retain the compassionate self?
Marie writes:
If we perpetuate the notion we are independently arising phenomena, it is not possible to reflect on our emptiness. Instead of looking inward at emptiness, we see a mental projection of the “I”. If we reflect on our own inherent emptiness, much of the daily attachments we form to people and things we deem tantamount to happiness can slowly dissolve. Attachment to our own conceptions of things is the cause of afflictive emotions. As the Dalai Lama frames it, attachment will lead us to afflictive emotions, as if by a ring in our nose.
That’s very well put. I still struggle, though, with understanding whose conceptions of things I should attach to, if not my own. No one’s? Is that because “attachment” is inherently distortive and misleading? And is my emptiness not filled by precisely those attachments to people (and maybe some things) that have personal importance to me?
In chapter 2, DL says human life is a “fortunate rebirth.” I don’t buy reincarnation (is he selling?), but I’m pleased with “fortunate.” He’s no pessimist, if you can trust the adjective. I’m puzzled, though. I thought it was the ultimate object of Buddhist practice to put a stop to those fortunate rebirths, always a harbinger of suffering.
Nagarjuna said it was ignorant to believe that phenomena are real. DL elaborates: “all concepts, including that of emptiness, must be abandoned.” That would just leave percepts, but they’re not “real” in Buddhist terms. Where are we now to stand? “We should never go contrary to common sense,” but we’re really not in Kansas anymore with all this talk of rebirth and unreality coupled with a repudiation of the conceptual tools required to elucidate our meaning.
No matter, “may all beings be happy” is a wonderful affirmation, as is the will to “be good people and good examples.” Likewise, the caution to be careful, not squander our days, not feed negative emotions.
What, though, of the repeated judgment that “all phenomena, outer and inner, are like a dream or an illusion”? Like? Or just are? But not all phenomena are as illusory as others.
Attentiveness and mindfulness tame the drunken elephant of the mind. They reinforce the selflessness of regarding oneself as a ghost, haunting a world where we and our associates and loved ones are “entirely devoid of reality.”
In the very next statement, DL says “Human life is a unique and favored opportunity.” I think so too, but I don’t have the problem of reconciling that view with the dearth and hollowness of reality. What does it really mean to say that we lack an essential core or underlying essence? When Sartre and the existentialists say it, it’s an injunction to do something, create an identity, inhabit a persona. But that would be inimical to the Buddhist program of displacing substantial selfhood, it seems.
I once wrote this, and have been trying ever since to understand what’s wrong with it. I hope the class will help me with that today:
It’s not enough to be “present” in some Zen-like fashion of transparent and selfless purity at our most compellingly significant experiences; we must bring ourselves, our persons, our peculiarities and idiosyncracies, our histories, and our anticipated futures—in a word, our subjectivity—with us to our most transcendently stirring moments. Only thus may our lives accumulate concrete significance in their particularity. The purity of pure experience is not that of renunciation in the eastern sense, of personal desires and attachments. James was quite at home with the idea that we are the particular bundles of wants, preferences, valuations, and (especially) experiences, and actions that uniquely individuate each of us. As they change and grow, or stagnate, so do we. The
people, places, and things to which we sustain voluntary attachments are the most important constituents of our respective identities. To renounce them, or detach from them, would be to die.
Put less dramatically, I wonder how it is that we can “be master of ourselves,” “appreciate others’ positive deeds,” and the like, while fully regarding ourselves and them as “self-less apparitions.”
I await further enlightenment.
But let me close this post on a note of appreciation for one very practical piece of wisdom from HHDL I intend to continue following:
We should lie on our right side, with our head toward the north, as did the Buddha when he passed into nirvana, and be ready to rise promptly in the morning.
I’m ready!
uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts
For the record: when you get promoted at my school they give you a really nice letter-opener, your picture taken with the provost, and all the spinach-infused finger food you can swallow. Plus, a live piano player and the alleged admiration of a grateful campus. But milestones are intrinsically important, right? If anything is? And it was awfully sweet of my wife to come down and lend moral support. She can borrow my letter-opener whenever she likes.
Students, don’t forget to let me know ASAP if you’re planning to do a final presentation (beginning after Thanksgiving), and to key your questions in to the study site. And for those of you who study squirrel philosophy, did you see Frazz the other day?
Anyway, it’s back to the 19th century in CoPhi: Atomism & anthropology, Auguste Comte, Charles Bradlaugh, Robert Ingersoll, and some poets.
This section begins with Marie Curie, who put radioactive flesh on the atomic bones Epicurus, Lucretius, and Democritus could only guess at. The geologist Lyell had a huge impact, insisting that immense stretches of time were necessary to move continents and reconfigure landscapes… and given the evidence, were sufficient too. Lamarck proposed the inheritance of acquired characteristics, a view now substantially disposed of by evolutionary science.
I jumped the gun on evolution the other day– I couldn’t wait!– so to repeat: Herbert Spencer (who was the only sibling of nine to survive, JMH notes) was a Social Darwinist. Charles Darwin was not. That is, Spencer emphasized the dog-eat-dog quality of a world in which struggle and suffering outpace insight, cooperation, and progress. What we need is a “doggy-dog world” (if you’re a fan of Modern Family you might get that reference) in which both the strong and the sweet (in Darwin’s own words “the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive” and flourish. “There is grandeur in this view of life,” and”light will be shown on the origins of man.”
As for the evolution and development of humanity, Darwin did not think wealth, power, or social status were marks of fitness. He favored cooperation, empathy, charity, kindness, and compassion. He opposed slavery, and favored our emancipation from all forms of inherited, acquired, ancient prejudice. He is widely misunderstood in America, thanks to a constant plethora of creationist misinformation emanating from pulpits and popular culture. I was shocked by a student comment the other day, to the effect that if we evolved then our ancestors must have mated with wolves. It’s the old “If humans descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” nonsense. Scopes (Inherit the Wind)… Are We Still Evolving?… God (“respect”)
“Darwin’s Bulldog” T.H. Huxley gave us agnosticism. “Agnostics reject superstition and doubt supernaturalism but “totally refuse to commit” to its denial. There may just be Saturnians, and until we prove otherwise we should keep our belief-ledger open. In “Evolution and Ethics” he warned against Social Darwinism and the conflation of nature with society. ”Of moral purpose I see not a trace in nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture.” One of our better productions.
Does “brain matter define personality” any more than nature delineates ethics? Well, it’s surely related. But the relation is non-reductive. The brain secretes thoughts, sure enough, but it takes an astonishingly un-pin-pointable portion of that brain to know them from the inside.
Auguste Comte‘s “antireligious ‘religion'” was called positivism, and it curiously rejected atheism. Entire freedom from theistic religion means not taking any precise stance towards its claims. Nobody calls herself an asantaclausist, or an a-easterbunniest. Positivists turn instead to how, not why, thinking the latter a childish question. The “classic Comtian” is epitomized by the Flaubert character who professes the God of Scorates, Franklin, and Voltaire, advocates for free, public, science-spirited secular education, and studies society sociologically. He’s a Deist. But Flaubert thought they were out of touch with life’s perennial mysteries. One person’s mystery, of course, is another’s ho-hum.
“Religion is not about knowing the world factually but about feelings and experience.” That’s a common view in some schools of divinity, and amongst sociologically-inclined students of religion like Durkheim. It’s less common among ordinary believers.
Dostoyevsky “did not like the look of the moral world without God.” Everything is permitted in a Godless world, he said. Surely that’s false.
Charles Bradlaugh was “thorough!” It got him locked up in London’s clock tower, but like Comte he was over the whole debate. “I cannot deny that of which I have no conception.”
Bradlaugh and Annie Besant wrote The Freethinker’s Text Book, then she wrote the ironically-titled Gospel of Atheism.
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner died defiantly, cursing “worse than useless gods and godlings.”
Robert Ingersoll spoke the agnostic’s deepest prayer: “Let us have the courage and candor to say We do not know.” Nice complement to sapere aude.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a wunderkind poet, dead at 30 and convinced that “other people’s words” and “witnesses other than ourselves” are no proper basis for anyone’s belief. He didn’t like the philosophers’ abstract gods either. But, he was ok with Spinoza’s.
John Keats’s negative capability is a skill worth acquiring, given the likelihood that uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts will always be with us.
Emerson may have been the first “spiritual, not religious” American, at least after breaking with Unitarianism. But the UUs aren’t really that religious these days either. Emerson’s pal Margaret Fuller, another friend of native Americans, had little sympathy for missionaries.
Who doesn’t love Emily Dickinson? I gave her the last word in my James book: “Hope is the thing with feathers” etc. My favorite of hers remains this one, though:
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—
The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As Sponges—Buckets—do—
The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—
Up@dawn 2.0
Up@dawn was launched in April 2009. Its mirror & successor as of June 2013 is Up@dawn 2.0: http://jposopher.blogspot.com/
The new site is a successor in several senses. It will bear whatever initial revisions it may occur to me to make in my dawn posts. The old site will thus stand as an uncorrected, unvarnished record of dawn's earliest light, as I've reflected it, and of my earliest daily errors. "Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things," as James said in "Will to Believe."
This site, as of May 2017, will also serve as an archival repository of posts, tweets, re-tweets, and whatever other dispatches can be easily shunted here.
So, the two sites may also stand together as a record of their fallible author's occasional self-correction and growth. "If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, that's success for me." (Paula Scher)
Both sites will remain dedicated to the Thoreauvian proposition that morning "is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.”
And as for versions 3.0 and beyond? My intent is that they will one day pop up between hard covers.
Meanwhile, may we all have a good day!
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Wishing upon stars
In CoPhi, Fantasyland comes to Disney. And Disneyland only makes sense, of course, in a world of fantasy capable of Disney-fying itself and deliberately adopting a theme-park identity. That's not all bad, Kurt Andersen thinks; otherwise we'd have nothing resembling historic preservation at all.Celebration, FL ("ruined by mold and shoddy constr […]
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Have dog, will write July 15, 2019
Or will at least think about it, while walking the dog. Solvitur ambulando, solvitur cogitem...NYT:You might be surprised to learn how many authors on the current best-seller lists have had help — well, sort of — from their dogs. (Note to cat people: Please don’t be offended. We’ll investigate writers and their felines another week.)As Jennifer Weiner — whos […]
Royce May 15, 2019
Vanderbilt is hosting and the Royce Society is sponsoring a conference on the philosophy of Josiah Royce in October. Perhaps I'll be there.TITLE: The Spirit of Modern Philosophy Revisited: A Committed Jamesian Reconsiders RoyceABSTRACT: As a callow undergraduate four decades ago I somehow won an essay contest on a subject whose opacity continues, to thi […]
One Step at a Time April 25, 2019
"Hippocrates...warned against being incorrectly medicated and emphasized that no medication could have such a broad effect as simply putting one foot in front of the other. 'Walking is man's best medicine.' I believe that walking has played a much more meaningful role in human health than all of the medicines that have been consumed throu […]
Henry the HR king April 8, 2019
#OTD- Aaron breaks HR record. "What a marvelous moment for the country & the world. A black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep south for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. And it is a great moment for all of us, & particularly for Henry Aaron." -Vin Scully pic.twitter.com/FUQFXhwWn8— Dugout Legends (@DugoutLegends) A […]
Henry the saunterer April 8, 2019
"I think I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and fields absolutely free from all worldly engagements." #Thoreau #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay— Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) April 7, 2019
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Morning air!
...let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world. -Thoreau
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. -HDT
Why do we bother with the rest of the day, the swale of the afternoon, the sudden dip into evening, then night with his notorious perfumes, his many-pointed stars? This is the best— throwing off the light covers, feet on the cold floor, and buzzing around the house on espresso— maybe a splash of water on the face, a palmful of vitamins— but mostly buzzing around the house on espresso, dictionary and atlas open on the rug, the typewriter waiting for the key of the head, a cello on the radio, and, if necessary, the windows— trees fifty, a hundred years old out there, heavy clouds on the way and the lawn steaming like a horse in the early morning. -Billy Collins
Strong coffee, whanging sun, skimming gulls
How at the mercy of bodily happenings our spirit is. A cup of strong coffee at the proper moment will entirely overturn for the time a man's view of life. Our moods and resolutions are more determined by the condition of our circulation than by our logical grounds. *** Remember when old December's darkness is everywhere about you, that the world is really in every minutest point as full of life as in the most joyous morning you ever lived through; that the sun is whanging down, and the waves dancing, and the gulls skimming down at the mouth of the Amazon, for instance, as freshly as in the first morning of creation; and the hour is just as fit as any hour that ever was for a new gospel of cheer to be preached. I am sure that one can, by merely thinking of these matters of fact, limit the power of one's evil moods over one's way of looking at the cosmos. -William James
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In Love With Life
Last Days of Socrates Usefully annotated and hyperlinked edition of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
Pale Blue Dot: a vision of the human future in space Carl Sagan’s spiritual vision of our future. He likes William James’s definition of religion, ” a feeling of being at home in the universe.” But “if we mean the real universe, then we have no true religion yet.”
Passion for Wisdom
Pragmatism: a new name for an old way of thinking
Principles of Psychology (1890) Full text of William James’s classic introduction to the young field he helped to pioneer.
Simon Critchley's "Book of Dead Philosophers" Lots more fun than it sounds…
Six Questions of Socrates: A modern-day journey of discovery through world philosophy Chris Phillips goes global in his search for Socrates.
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy Chris Phillips’ first book “in search of Socrates” in the contemporary world.
The Demon-haunted World: science as a candle in the dark Carl Sagan
The Greatest Show on Earth The evidence for evolution, masterfully assembled by the former Oxford “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.”
The Really Hard Problem: meaning in a material world Owen Flanagan says the problem of meaning is soluble without fantasy, and we can be happy. “I recommend joyful optimistic realism. Life can be precious and funny.”
The Varieties of Religious Experience WJ’s Gifford Lectures
The Varieties of Scientific Experience Carl Sagan’s Gifford Lectures
Trials of the Monkey: an accidental memoir Darwin’s descendant (great-great grandson) Matthew Chapman’s memoir, couched in a funny and ultimately sympathetic road trip to Dayton TN for the the Scopes Trial reenactment
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder “Spirituality” from atheist Richard Dawkins
William James's "Springs of Delight" Limited digitized version of a pretty good book…
William James: in the maelstrom of American Modernism Robert Richardson’s bio of WJ
350.org Bill McKibben’s global activist group
Climate Debate Daily Looking at all sides of the climate change debate.
Dot Earth Andrew Revkin’s climate blog
Eaarth “making a life on a tough new planet” – Bill McKibben
Environmental Ethics an anthology edited by philosopher Andrew Light
Environmental Ethics “The Big Questions” – David Keller
Indigenous People's Literature Weblog “Dedicated to all peoples of the World”
IPCC Intergovernmental panel on climate change
Native American Wisdom Quotes reclaiming the indigenous wisdom of native America
Native Environmentalism Native Americans and the Environment
Native Pragmatism “rethinking the roots of American philosophy” – Scott Pratt
Orion Magazine “America’s finest environmental magazine”
RealClimate A commentary site on climate science by working, blogging climate scientists.
The Daily Climate A publication of environmental health sciences.
The Primal Roots of American Philosophy “Pragmatism, phenomenology, and Native American Thought” – Bruce Wilshire
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophical Dictionary A useful dictionary of philosophers and ideas, with links to other articles and additional info.
Pop Culture and Philosophy Open Court’s growing series (including “Jimmy Buffett & Philosophy”)
Pop Culture and Philosophy 2 Blackwell Publishing Co.’s pop culture series
Squashed philosophers Short, clever distillations of the famous philosophers, not too misleading…
The 'ism book All about ‘isms, from absolutism to pragmatism to stoicism to Zoroastrianism.
The Skeptic's Dictionary Dozens of topics in logic, perception, science, and philosophy…
Writing a Philosophy Paper: guidelines Helpful tips on writing philosophy.
Writing Center, MTSU
Writing Philosophy Philosophy Pages’ Guide to Studying and Writing Philosophy, with useful info on electronic resources.
"Open Your Eyes" “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones…” Richard Dawkins, UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW
American Philosopher a film by Phillip McReynolds
Cosmopolitanism Kwame Anthony Appiah, in “The Examined Life,” on the ethical philosophy of global/cosmic citizenship.
Cosmos Carl Sagan’s documentary history of science and human exploration. Visionary, inspiring, fresh.
Darwin- bbc
Evolution-pbs
Football (soccer) philosophy Greece vs. Germany (Monty Python)
Football vs. Baseball George Carlin
Pale Blue Dot We are here. -Carl Sagan
Philosophy TV A video website devoted to philosophical thinking
Symphony of Science: Our Place in the Cosmos Sagan, Dawkins et al “sing” of cosmic curiosity and perspective
TED Talks “Ideas Worth Spreading,” originally focused on Technology, Entertainment, & Design, now on just about everything.
The Five-Minute Philosopher Videos from CUNY Professor Massimo Pigliucci
The Problem of Evil Peter Singer on the problem of evil, or suffering
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Where to Buy Now: East Hintonburg/ West Centretown
BY Laura Byrne Paquette. Photo: Hintonburg Park — @houses.of.hintonburg
POSTED April 16, 2018 12:07 pm
Read the full Where to Buy Now feature online or in the Real Estate 2018 print issue of Ottawa Magazine
Unless you live there already, you may have driven through this area without seeing the commercial activity blooming away from the main streets. The rebirth of City Centre is perhaps this area’s best-known success story, but on the other side of Somerset Street, another former industrial area is also evolving. Along Breezehill and Loretta avenues, businesses ranging from a CrossFit studio to a craft brewery have emerged.
Getting between these two hubs is difficult: the LRT Trillium Line cuts off pedestrian traffic, and City Centre is accessible to drivers only via Albert Street. However, that could change if the proposed Gladstone Village mixed-income development is built on former government lands north of Gladstone and west of Preston (no construction dates or detailed plans have been announced). Some residents hope that project will spur the city to build pedestrian/cycling bridges over the Trillium Line similar to those over the tracks south of Gladstone, knitting Little Italy and Hintonburg together more closely.
“It would be easier if there were a pedestrian bridge,” says Jay Baltz, a board member with the Hintonburg Community Association. “That would also help with keeping things like the Happy Goat [café] going because there would be a lot of foot traffic going by.”
The development of LeBreton Flats to the north might also affect both pedestrian and transit links. A single project — Trinity Development Group’s Trinity Centre at Bayview Station — will add 130,000 square feet of retail space, 200,000 square feet of office space, and 1,400 residential units by 2020. That might make a proposed LRT station at Gladstone near Preston more viable, says Baltz, and spur demand for pedestrian access.
He warns that the area’s grassroots vibe may not last, as developers have been assembling large parcels of land with an eye to redevelopment. “I think the sort of small, cool establishments that are happening now are, unfortunately, transitional. And I’m not sure how long we’ll be able to keep that.”
What’s For Sale?*
390 Booth St., Unit 108
1-bedroom, 1-bath apartment
Walk Score: 94
Transit Score: 86
Bike Score: 100
Meet the Neighbours: 52% of the population is single, separated, divorced, or widowed
152 Spruce St., Unit D
Meet the Neighbours: 57% own, 43% rent
74 Bayswater Ave., Unit A
3-bedroom, 3-bath, 3-storey row house
Bike Score: 94
Meet the Neighbours: Median age 33
*These listings may no longer be available and should be used as a range of what is potentially available in this neighbourhood
What’s There?
Happy Goat Coffee Company, 35 Laurel St.
Attached to the Happy Goat’s roastery, which processes beans from small-scale farmers, this funky café is a popular hub for both millennial creative types hunched over laptops and caffeine-craving parents. “Everyone who drops off kids at Devonshire school goes there,” says Jay Baltz.
Discount Shop
Dollarama, 1050 Somerset St.
There are dollar stores, and then there is the huge discount emporium that is the Hintonburg Dollarama. In 13 packed aisles, you’ll find craft supplies, gardening gear, mixing bowls, notebooks, reading glasses, party favours, condiments, batteries — just about anything you might imagine buying for less than $5. Lots of brand-name stuff too.
Art Is In Bakery, 250 City Centre Ave., Unit 112
If you’ve never tasted Art Is In’s Dynamite baguette, rosemary-garlic bread, or potato-dill loaf, you’ve either just moved to Ottawa or you haven’t been to a local farmers’ market, upscale grocery store, or posh restaurant in the past decade or so. This is the bakery’s only dedicated café.
What’s Missing?
Green space! Sure, you can walk or cycle to the Ottawa River along the Trillium Pathway beside the O-Train line, but it’s quite a bit outside the neighbourhood. Inside the ’hood, park choices are limited to pocket-sized Hintonburg Park and Plouffe Park.
Where to Buy Now: 4 ‘hoods to watch in Ottawa’s intense real estate market
Photo: Ruivobrown / LoveOttawa
Pauline Mousseau and her daughter, Payton Morris
Public servant, Indigenous rights advocate, chair of Girls + Skate 613
Home: Two-bedroom apartment on Railway Street; renovation in 1980s to back of house added large living room with fireplace and skylights
Years in the ’hood: 13; 2½ in current home
Why she moved here: A good friend needed a reliable tenant, and Pauline needed more space.
Favourite shops: Moonroom and Two Six Ate for late nights. (“But I really miss Cozy’s.”) “I can afford good cuts of meat at the Marché Hintonburg because I get my milk, yogurt, and butter at Giant Tiger. Now if GT would move the food to the main level, they’d better serve the people who like to shop there for food staples. I mean, I can barely navigate the stairs with a shopping cart — imagine the elderly!”
Flock and Twiss & Weber for clothing. “Some of the best pieces I own come from Flock and T&W … the pockets are key! The best part of shopping at these shops is knowing I am supporting local owners and makers. Plus, the humans behind these two shops are exceptional community supporters and all-round lovely.”
Mint for hair. “Walking in is like walking into the hub of the neighbourhood. I feel like it’s where you can catch up on all the local goings-on. Let’s face it — Kristen [Atkinson, owner] is like the King of Kensington. She knows everyone and she’s always welcoming.”
Favourite public spaces: The O-Train path. “I just wish it was a bit more safe. It’s somewhat isolated, so walking at night is pretty scary and I do not let Payton walk alone.” Odawa Native Friendship Centre. “If you walk in, someone will help you find what you are looking for. I want to go for language courses there eventually.”
What’s missing: “I would love to see more low-income housing. How are people who are single or widowed going to live downtown? We would lose the diversity. The neighbourhood has changed so much. There’s [also] a need for a reasonably priced grocery store.”
The Emerging ‘Hoods of 2018:
Old Ottawa East
East Hintonburg / West Centretown
Old Chelsea
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Archive for the ‘press releases’ Category
Take the poll at KIEM! Raise wages in Eureka! Channel 3 News on Fair Wage Act
Posted in California, Eureka, CA, interview, northern california, organize, poor people, press releases, social justice, updates, tagged $12, channel 3, Eureka California, Eureka Fair Wage Act, Fair Wage folks, higher minimum wage, KIEM, labor, Minimum Wage Ordinance, News, Northern california, poll, workers on February 12, 2013| 1 Comment »
KIEM is Channel 3 in Eureka area.
Here’s a link to the February 8, 2013 6:00pm story on the Fair Wage Act http://kiem-tv.com/node/4758
Take the poll about the Eureka Fair Wage Act! http://kiem-tv.com/node/4756 .
If it just shows you results then it has already counted your vote.
Thank you! Tell all your friends to vote!
A People’s Initiative for a
$12.00 An Hour Minimum Wage for Large Employers
http://fairwages.org
http://eurekafairwageact.wordpress.com
info@fairwages.org
United Nations: Sacramento [many cities] Violating Human Rights of Homeless
Posted in Arcata, CA, California, civil liberties, class war, environment, Eureka, CA, homeless, houseless, human rights, interview, landless, northern california, poor people, press releases, rights, social justice, updates, tagged Arcata, CA, Catarina de Albuquerque, decommissioning of water fountains, dignity, Eric Tars, Eureka CA, fundamental human rights, health, homeless, houseless, human rights, human rights abuses, human waste issues, International Pressure, lack of clean water sources, lack of drinking water, Legal Services of Northern California, living in public eye, Mayor Kevin Johnson, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, no public bathroom, Sacramento, Safe Ground, targeted closings of public restrooms, UN report, UN Special Rapporteur, United Nations, violation of human rights of homeless persons on August 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Law Center’s Advocacy Creates International Pressure
February 06, 2012: In an unprecedented letter to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the United Nations has delivered a clear message: by not providing sanitation and safe drinking water, the city is violating the human rights of homeless persons.
The letter, sent by UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque, cites targeted closings of public restrooms, decommissioning of water fountains, and a lack of other clean water sources as blatant violations.
Albuquerque visited Sacramento in February 2011, as part of a fact-finding mission organized by the Law Center and Sacramento-based Safe Ground and Legal Services of Northern California. She heard direct testimony from homeless campers, who are forced to rely on makeshift privy systems to deal with privacy and human waste issues.
“The UN has delivered a powerful message: the U.S. doesn’t get a free pass on its human rights violations. Sacramento must take immediate steps to address the needs of its homeless population, ” said Eric Tars, human rights program director at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (the Law Center). “Access to water and sanitary facilities is one of the most fundamental of human rights — essential to everyone’s health, dignity, and continued life. ”
To read the full letter to Mayor Johnson, click here.
To read the UN’s report, click here.
http://www.nlchp.org/news.cfm?id=178
The organization has a newsletter, free, online subscription.
www.nlchp.org and WDC ph. 202-638-2535
Over $4.5 Million Awarded By Jury in Wrongful Death Case Against Eureka Police
Posted in California, civil liberties, class war, criminalizing, discrimination, Eureka Rescue Mission, Eureka, CA, homeless, houseless, human rights, incarceration, Martin Cotton, northern california, organize, poor people, press releases, rights, social justice, updates, tagged Adam Laird, baton strikes, beat to death, civil rights victory, civil rights violations, Dael Galipo, Eureka CA, Eureka Police Department, fatal beating, Gary Whitmer, Humboldt County Correctional Facility, indybay, interview, Justin Winkle, Martin Cotton, Oscar Grant Committee, police brutality, police murder, police mureder, press conference, Redwood Curtain CopWatch, Siehna Cotton et al v City of Eureka, verdict, Vicki Sarmiento, video, wrongful death on September 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Eureka Officers Viciously Beat Martin and Left Him to Die in Jail Cell
Eureka, CA: A jury delivered a resounding victory for plaintiffs in a police misconduct civil rights case by awarding the total sum of $4,575,000 against the City of Eureka and Eureka police officers Adam Laird, Justin Winkle, and Gary Whitmer for the death of Martin Cotton II. Punitive damages were assessed against the three officers. Mr. Cotton, a 26 year-old man living on the streets died of blunt force head trauma. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys Dale K. Galipo and Vicki I. Sarmiento of Los Angeles County, were Mr. Cotton’s 5 year-old daughter and his father. The jury found that Officers Laird and Winkle used excessive force, and that all three officers failed to provide medical care.
On August 9th, 2007, Eureka police officers Winkle, Laird, Whitmer, and five others were involved in beating an unarmed Martin Cotton II to death. In broad daylight, officers pummeled Mr. Cotton’s head and body then brought Mr. Cotton to jail, failing to seek medical assistance for him. Expert testimony presented by the plaintiffs established that timely medical care would have saved Mr. Cotton’s life. Mr. Cotton died in the jail cell within two hours.
Painful video of Mr. Cotton dying in jail was presented during the trial.
The fatal beating of Mr. Cotton occurred outside the Eureka Rescue Mission. Police were dispatched to the Mission for a disturbance involving Mr. Cotton. When they arrived, Mr. Cotton was no longer in the Mission and was alone and defenseless. Laird and Winkle claim they ordered him to put his hands behind his back and he did not move. Both officers pepper sprayed him, Officer Winkle kneed him in the ribs and forced him to the ground where the officers beat him. Mr. Cotton made no moves against the police and remained prone on the concrete. Officer Whitmer (the third officer on the scene) gave a running kick to Mr. Cotton, battered him with a baton, and pepper-sprayed him. More officers arrived and joined in the beating. The trial of Siehna Cotton et al v. City of Eureka included police readily admitting they they sat on Mr. Cotton, forced his head onto the concrete throughout the beating, kicked him, hit him with a metal baton, kneed at his vulnerable organs, deployed pepper spray three times, and did not seek medical assistance for him afterward. The officers, however, denied hitting Mr. Cotton in the head, most likely because blunt force head trauma was determined as the cause of death. Crucial testimony came from two civilian witnesses who bravely reported that they had indeed seen at least Officer Winkle pounding on Mr. Cotton’s skull multiple times on the concrete. One witness said he heard “fist-to-skull”, “bone-on-bone” from those head strikes.
The verdict was announced September 23, 2011 after a two week trial and 7 hours of jury deliberation in Federal Court in Oakland. Siehna Cotton was awarded $1,250,000 for the pain her father suffered and $2,750,000 for wrongful death damages. Marty Cotton Sr. was awarded $500,000, which required plaintiffs to show that the officers’ actions “shocked the conscience.” The jury also found that the officers acted with “malice, oppression, or reckless disregard” to the decedent’s or plaintiffs’ rights, and assessed punitive damages, $30,000 from officer Winkle, $30,000 from officer Laird, and $15,000 from officer Whitmer.
Mr. Cotton was one of many people killed by police in the Humboldt region from fall 2005 to fall 2007.
Attorney Vicki Sarmiento hopes the verdict sends shockwaves to other officers who may consider committing such atrocities in the future. “We don’t want this to happen to anyone else. We as a community, we as a society, cannot tolerate it.” Ms. Sarmiento speaks of the victory, “The jury’s decision showed respect for Martin Cotton’s life. They acknowledge the wrong that occurred and acknowledge that Martin’s life had value. The issue of human dignity and humanity is what this is about, and that everyone has a right to have that.”
VICTORY AGAINST POLICE TERROR IN EUREKA
Posted in California, civil liberties, class war, criminalizing, discrimination, Eureka Rescue Mission, Eureka, CA, homeless, houseless, human rights, incarceration, interview, landless, Martin Cotton, mental health, mental illness, murder, northern california, organize, poor people, press releases, protest, rights, social justice, updates, tagged Adam Laird, baton strikes, beat to death, civil rights victory, civil rights violations, Dael Galipo, Eureka CA, Eureka Police Department, fatal beating, Gary Whitmer, Humboldt County Correctional Facility, indybay, interview, Justin Winkle, Martin Cotton, Oscar Grant Committee, police brutality, police murder, police mureder, press conference, Redwood Curtain CopWatch, Siehna Cotton et al v City of Eureka, verdict, Vicki Sarmiento, video, wrongful death on September 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Martin Cotton Family Awarded Over $4.5 Million in Trial Against Eureka Police (VIDEO included)
This link will also bring you to the video-taped interview from after the verdict. Video is also below.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/23/18691150.php
The resounding jury decision could not have happened without the years of dedication by Redwood Curtain CopWatch; the courage, strength, and graciousness of Marty Cotton Sr.; the critical solidarity and organizing of the Oscar Grant Committee; the generosity of a few righteous Oakland attorneys; the networking and sharing of resources by Berkeley CopWatch; the bravery of the civilian witnesses to tell the truth; and the sharp, brilliant, hard work from the Cottons’ attorneys, Vicki I. Sarmiento and Dale K. Galipo.
Solidarity from people in and near Oakland throughout the trial – some being folks in the IWW, the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, the SDS and MDS – has been so important.
Having read yesterday’s article from the Eureka Times-Standard, I want to make something clear. Contrary to how the local Humboldt mainstream media would like to misconstrue reality, the Eureka cops, through their brutal punches and slamming of Martin’s head on the concrete, then throwing him in a cell without medical help, killed Martin. The cops caused his painful death and used their hands to do it. And the jury got a grave understanding of that, and decided on a “wrongful death” verdict.
This federal jury decision in the Cotton case is a victory and gift for the people. I hope that people who live outside, live on the streets in and around Eureka can breathe easier; feel proud for the marching, protesting and speaking out about Martin’s death; and also feel some vindication because the brazen intimidation and violence that the cops inflict on people living on the streets has been officially recognized.
Thank You, Martin “Fred” Cotton.
We will continue to work together for DIGNITY for all lives.
Long Live Martin Cotton! Long Live Troy Davis!
Long Live the Strength of the People and Power of the Truth! ~Verbena
Below is a great summary.
Martin Cotton Family Awarded Over $4.5 Million in Trial Against Eureka Police, Interview: Video
by dave id Friday Sep 23rd, 2011
On August 9th, 2007, Eureka police officers Justin Winkle, Gary Whitmer, Adam Laird, and five others were involved in beating an unarmed Martin Cotton II to death. Eureka police pummeled Martin Cotton’s body and head in broad daylight, using pepper spray repeatedly. Martin Cotton was then sent to jail without being offered medical treatment. He died in jail within about an hour. A federal civil rights lawsuit in Oakland was filed to seek justice for Martin on behalf of his young daughter. The case, Siehna Cotton et al v. City of Eureka, included the testimony of police readily admitting they beat Martin Cotton all over his body and did not seek medical assistance for him afterward. The police however denied that they hit Martin Cotton in the head, most likely because blows to the head were determined to be the cause of death.
At about 1pm on September 23rd, the verdict was announced for the two-week trial. A seven-person jury found unanimously in favor of the plaintiffs, big time. Siehna Cotton was awarded $1,250,000 for the pain Martin Cotton suffered at the hands of Eureka police and $2,750,000 for wrongful death damages. Additionally, Marty Cotton Sr. was awarded $500,000, which required plaintiffs to meet the highest burden of proof in a civil trial, that is that the murder of Martin Cotton “shocked the conscience.” A rare award of punitive damages against the three officers required a finding of “malice, oppression, or reckless disregard” to the decedent’s or plaintiffs’ rights, for which the jury assessed $30,000 from officer Winkle, $30,000 from officer Laird, and $15,000 from officer Whitmer, who arrived at the scene late but joined in on the beating.
Crucial to the verdict was the testimony of two witnesses who bravely reported that they had indeed seen at least officer Winkle striking Martin Cotton’s skull. Painful video of Martin Cotton dying in jail was presented during the trial which obviously effected jurors, four of whom wore black in solidarity with the family today as the verdict was read.
In the video below, Cotton family attorney Vicki Sarmiento and Verbena Lea of Redwood Curtain CopWatch speak about the verdict re-establishing Martin Cotton’s humanity and the shockwaves they hope the decision will send through the ranks of police who may consider committing such atrocities in the future.
[Pictured above: Verbena Lea of Redwood Curtain CopWatch and Cotton family attorney Vicki Sarmiento]
Quote from MDS, SDS, and Oscar Grant Committee:
“This victory uplifts our spirits and gives us strength to step up the struggle against police violence, brutality, murder and other forms of state repression that occur on a regular basis. One victory , many battles
still to be fought”
http://www.indybay.org/js/flowplayer/FlowPlayer.swf
Video-Taped Interview from after the Verdict
Also, the below links are to video from the Sept. 21st press conference held in front of the Federal Building in Oakland:
http://www.redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/907.
CURRENT! Civil Rights Trial in Oakland about Fatal Police Beating of Martin Cotton II
Posted in California, civil liberties, class war, criminalizing, discrimination, Eureka Rescue Mission, Eureka, CA, homeless, houseless, human rights, incarceration, landless, Martin Cotton, mental health, mental illness, murder, northern california, organize, police brutality, poor people, press releases, protest, social justice, updates, tagged Adam Laird, beat to death, Bryan Hall, civil rights, correctional officer, Eureka CA, Eureka Police Department, Eureka Rescue Mission, fatal beating, federal trial, Gary Whitmer, homeless, houseless, Humboldt County, Humboldt County Correctional Facility, Humboldt County Sheriff's Department, jury trial, Justin Winkle, Martin Cotton, Mental Health, Oakland CA, Oscar Grant Committee, police brutality, police cover-up, police murder, police violence, rally, rideshare on September 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
TRIAL BEGAN SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 at 8:30am
[RALLY at 7:30am on 12th, first day of trial]
Trial Wed (9/14), Thurs (9/15), Friday (9/16), Wed (9/21)
Must have U.S. ID or Passport to go in
READ UPDATES: 1 2 3
Please join Redwood Curtain CopWatch in attending the trial. We are organizing with groups in the Bay Area also. If you are interested in going to Oakland for any part of the trial, please get in contact: copwatchrwc@riseup.net 707.633.4493
More on Martin’s death here.
TO DOWNLOAD ABOVE FLIER: http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/files/Flier_CottonTrial.jpg
*JURY TRIAL in FEDERAL COURT in OAKLAND*
begins Monday, Sept 12th 8:30am
1301 Clay St. 4th floor, Courtroom #1
U.S. District Court- Northern District
PLEASE JOIN SEPT 12 RALLY OUTSIDE COURT 7:30AM
Be PRESENT at the trial:
Mon 9/12 Wed 9/14 Thurs 9/15 Fri 9/16 Wed 9/21
Dignity for ALL… Justice for Martin Cotton!
http://www.redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/900
Redwood Curtain CopWatch: 707.633.4493 copwatchrwc@riseup.net
Oscar Grant Committee: 510.655.5764
RALLY To Stop Highway Expansion Through Richardson Grove This Monday, February 21st
Posted in California, class war, gentrification, northern california, organize, press releases, protest, Richardson Grove, rights, self determination, social justice, updates, tagged ancient redwoods, CalTrans, CalTrans District 1, corporate invasion, demonstration, Department of Defense, development, Federal Highway Administration, federally funded project, Garberville, Garberville Town Square, gentrification, Highway 101, highway expansion, militarization, misinformation, old growth forest, people power, protest, rally, redwood curtain, Richardson Grove, Richardson Grove Action Now, Save Richardson Grove, Southern Humboldt, STAA trucks, STRAHNET, Strategic Highway Network on February 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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Richardson Grove Action Now invites all to a rally on Monday, February 21st, to stop the highway expansion through Richardson Grove State Park.
Expose CalTrans’ lies and misinformation campaign!
Monday’s rally will begin at NOON in the Garberville Town Square.
Bring anything you want to express yourself!
Resist Invasion!
For more info contact Richardson Grove Action Now, call
(707) 602-7551 or email rgroveactionnow@gmail.com.
Fliers and Handbills will be available Friday Feb 18, 2011!
Richardson Grove Action Now literature exposing CalTrans LIES and misinformation coming soon!
Richardson Grove Action Now pamphlet: http://www.box.net/shared/6xyyml02vu
Mon, Feb 7th: RALLY at CalTrans, NO Highway Expansion Through Richardson Grove!
Posted in autonomy, California, class war, Eureka, CA, gentrification, human rights, landless, northern california, Oregon, organize, press releases, protest, rights, safe haven, self determination, social justice, updates, tagged ancient redwoods, Bob Marley, CalTrans, CalTrans District 1, corporate invasion, demonstration, Department of Defense, Eureka CA, Federal Highway Administration, federally funded project, Garberville, Highway 101, highway expansion, militarization, Northern Humboldt, old growth forest, people power, protest, rally, redwood curtain, Richardson Grove, Richardson Grove Action Now, Save Richardson Grove, Southern Humboldt, STAA trucks, STRAHNET, Strategic Highway Network, Wabash and Union on January 29, 2011| 1 Comment »
Mass RALLY at CalTrans in Eureka
NO Highway Expansion THROUGH RICHARDSON GROVE!
Protect the forest and our future. Resist Invasion.
Monday, Feb 7th NOON
1656 Union St. (Union and Wabash)
For info or to get more involved contact Richardson Grove Action Now: (707) 602-7551, rgroveactionnow@gmail.com
READ the pamphlet from Richardson Grove Action Now: http://www.box.net/shared/6xyyml02vu
Here are links to Fliers to download and post:
Flier with tank
Flier with forest root web
Sunday Feb 6th, the day before the rally…
If you’re in Southern Humboldt, go to the Garberville Town Square at noon for Bob Marley’s birthday celebration and a craft-making event in preparation for Monday’s mass rally at Cal Trans District 1 Headquarters. Organize rideshares and rally spectacles!
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Review: The Bittersweet Brilliance of Toy Story 4
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Woody’s News Round Up! 12/28/14
We hope everyone had a festive, restful holiday! With 2014 coming to a close, we have a list of Pixar news you may have missed over the past couple of weeks.
Luxo Jr. added to the National Film Registry: The 1986 short, directed by John Lasseter and Bill Reeves, was one of 25 films selected for the 2014 registry. As part of the Library of Congress, the film registry is dedicated to highlighting films for their “cultural, historical or aesthetic significance.” The iconic short, featuring two lamps come to life, was nominated for an Academy Award and was the first 3D animated film to do so. The smaller of the two even became Pixar’s mascot as the instantly recognizable bouncing lamp in the studio’s logo. “Luxo Jr.” joins two other Pixar films in the registry, the 1988 short “Tin Toy” and the 1995 feature Toy Story.
Navajo translation of Finding Nemo underway: Disney-Pixar are partnering with the Navajo Nation Museum to release a Navajo version of 2003’s wildly popular Finding Nemo. The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American population in the U.S., with more than 300,000 members, yet the language is virtually unspoken among children. Tribal leaders are optimistic that a Navajo Finding Nemo will encourage children to become enthusiastic speakers. To learn more about their efforts and just how crucial the language is to this Native American community, continue reading here.
New Inside Out still and concept art: Inside Out is now roughly 6 months away! With two teaser trailers, as well as character introductory videos for the five emotions, and their own individual character posters, there will be plenty more to look forward to in the upcoming months as the film’s release date edges closer. The newest still from Entertainment Weekly features Joy (Amy Poehler) in what appears to be the memory storage room of the mind. The bottom image of Joy is concept art by Ralph Eggleston and Albert Lozano with the glowing memory orbs. Thanks to the Inside Out tumblr page as well as Sammax883 on twitter for the EW image. We’d also like to thank Pixar Post for sharing this new bit of concept art.
Be sure to check back here for more Pixar news in the new year and have a happy 2015!
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I AM ONE!…
SAY IT ISN’T SO BABY GIRL!!!…
Well, the time has arrived…Little Miss Turned One Year Old…sigh.
Her mommy, made this adorable one year old banner.
Unfortunately, she has the families gene of a MAJOR sweet tooth…we literally heard moans!
You can see her saying, MMMMMM………
Learning to be silly…it doesn’t take long does it?
I think she loved turning one!…I can’t say the same for her Grammie!
I am already missing our cuddle times in bed…when she would lay still and just coo at me…smile.
Nowadays, we have to be on the go, every moment…no rest for the weary!
She spends part of her day, chasing around our furry friend…Dalton.
He is learning to be quick on his feet…smile.
What a year it has been for her and I.
The time here will be treasured forever.
Just 3 more months are left…tick, tock.
PS…thank you for every lovable comment, you have left here in the last couple of weeks.
Our family has enjoyed them immensely!
Tags: Baby girl turns one years old, forever in pink, I AM ONE, one year old birthday dress, pink party birthday glasses, Smash cake session
37 thoughts on “I AM ONE!…”
Imelda on April 5, 2016 at 6:07 pm said:
How adorable! 🙂
The icing is the best part of the cake, of course. 🙂
smackiland on March 24, 2016 at 6:26 pm said:
Personality plus! What gorgeous photos ……
janellmithani on March 15, 2016 at 3:08 am said:
She is adorable! Time sure does fly…
jandinewall on March 14, 2016 at 7:09 am said:
these are fantastic! happy birthday to your precious granddaughter! may her 2nd year be just as wonderful! ❤
elizabeththomasphotographyofcapecod on March 13, 2016 at 10:53 pm said:
Oh my gosh, already? The time goes by too fast and they grow up before you know it!
anotherday2paradise on March 9, 2016 at 2:31 pm said:
Thanks for sharing your precious photos, Laurie. She’s such a cutie-pie. 🙂 Happy 1st birthday to your Little Miss. ❤
lissaforbes on March 9, 2016 at 3:46 am said:
These pics made me giggle out loud, Laurie. The first one made me thing, “Gerber baby!” And wow, she puckers up so sweetly.
Lissa A. Forbes on March 9, 2016 at 4:15 am said:
I’ve been out of the loop for a while. I really must get back to your blog to see what you’re doing.
Sorry for so many comments. I’m having trouble getting back in the swing of things and getting my comments to link properly. This isn’t the site I want to link to, but it will do.
YellowCable on March 9, 2016 at 1:19 am said:
She is so adorable. I want to just hold her 🙂
Resa on March 9, 2016 at 1:11 am said:
How sweet it is to be loved by Grammie! I’ll never forget my Grammie Love … ever!
blondie63 on March 9, 2016 at 12:18 am said:
Happy Birthday miss cutie pie
Lisa Gordon on March 8, 2016 at 11:51 pm said:
I cannot believe she is already a year old, Laurie!
It all goes by too quickly.
She is absolutely precious, and it looks like she had a wonderful first birthday.
norasphotos4u on March 8, 2016 at 10:32 pm said:
She is so cute!!
Joyce on March 8, 2016 at 9:17 pm said:
How precious! She’s a sweetheart!
wildsherkin on March 8, 2016 at 8:22 pm said:
Laurie, she is absolutely adorable. Happy birthday wishes from Ireland. 🎈
Clanmother on March 8, 2016 at 7:57 pm said:
Happy happy Birthday!!! Life is so precious…
Tamar on March 8, 2016 at 6:07 pm said:
So precious!!! Happy birthday to her!!
melaniphotography on March 8, 2016 at 4:45 pm said:
Happy birthday, beautiful girl!
Sherry Galey on March 8, 2016 at 4:35 pm said:
So special! The one with the glasses made me laugh out loud. Happy birthday Little Miss!
Hanna on March 8, 2016 at 3:56 pm said:
She is nominated for an Oscar 🙂 Happy Birthday ❤ ❤ ❤
John on March 8, 2016 at 3:47 pm said:
Oh my, sooooo adorable!!!!! My eyes are watering!! Happy birthday little lady!!
Alexander Lautsyus on March 8, 2016 at 3:40 pm said:
Happy 1st Birthday to your princess!
The Coastal Crone on March 8, 2016 at 3:36 pm said:
Happy birthday, little one! I can believe she is one either. So precious!
lensandpensbysally on March 8, 2016 at 3:17 pm said:
Grand memories captured.
marcus dilano on March 8, 2016 at 2:56 pm said:
Little Man’s little sis is adorable! Congrats to you and your family 🙂
Amy on March 8, 2016 at 2:46 pm said:
What a special day! Happy Birthday!! 🙂 ❤
Beautiful, darling photos. Thank you so much for sharing with us. 🙂
Kaye Epps on March 8, 2016 at 2:11 pm said:
Absolutely adorable. They grow up too fast but memories last forever and keep us young.
imagesbytdashfield on March 8, 2016 at 1:52 pm said:
Happy 1st day to you!!!!! 🙂
Harmony on March 8, 2016 at 1:51 pm said:
At one year, she is to crunch as the wonderful cake that she has set everywhere. 😀
restlessjo on March 8, 2016 at 1:14 pm said:
Still adorable with her face covered in gook! Don’t think about passing time, Laurie. Just love her with all you’ve got. 🙂 Hugs, darlin’.
kmSalvatore on March 8, 2016 at 1:13 pm said:
LOOK AT THOSE EYES:) shes so adorable. just had my Daughters baby shower, we will be g’parents for the first time next month, we are so excited, and seeing this little one only adds to my excitement Laurie 🙂
Cate Franklyn on March 8, 2016 at 12:55 pm said:
Happy First Birthday!!!! The second to the last photos just takes first prize in my book. What capture!!!!
Dina on March 8, 2016 at 12:48 pm said:
Great photo story, thanks for letting us all taking part, dear Laurie.
A Very Happy 1st Birthday!! ❤
Kathy on March 8, 2016 at 12:16 pm said:
Happy 1st Birthday to Little Miss … what a cutey and looks like she enjoyed every moment!
ledrakenoir on March 8, 2016 at 12:06 pm said:
Wonderful photos… 🙂
Judy @ NewEnglandGardenAndThread on March 8, 2016 at 11:42 am said:
What fabulous photos and memories. My granddaughter’s first birthday was a ‘Bear in the Big Blue House’ celebration. It seems like yesterday – to me. Today, she is a tall, slender, beautiful 15. The years fly. Grab every cuddle you can. 🙂
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Steven Crowder versus Vox/Carlos Maza
Thread: Steven Crowder versus Vox/Carlos Maza
Dan Druff
Steven Crowder is a conservative YouTube comedian who I enjoy watching.
Carlos Maza is a flamboyantly gay content creator for Vox, who makes a lot of left-wing videos for the site.
Over the past 2 years, Crowder has done several "debunking" videos featuring commentary on Maza's.
A good example is the one he just did recently:
Note that, while Crowder sometimes insults Maza and makes gay jokes, the majority of the 23 minutes is spent on the actual topic being discussed.
That's what most of these debunking videos are like. However, I won't deny that Crowder has uttered a lot of gay-related insults in Maza's direction, including calling him a "lispy queer".
Maza finally had enough and put forth a series of tweets calling out Crowder for this, including a montage of Crowder insulting him over the years:
https://twitter.com/#!/x/status/1134264395717103617
Anyway, while it's easy to feel sorry for Maza and see him as the victim, a lot of his logic doesn't hold up if you look at it closely.
First off, Maza isn't a private citizen. He is a public figure who does provocative, controversial political videos for a living. In general, I have a big problem with public figures who make a lot of money riling people up, and then cry foul when people on the internet are mean to them.
Second, what bad thing has happened to Maza, aside from getting insulted in comments sections? It seems that the worst thing was a barrage of 100 text messages from some troll, saying "Debate Crowder". Okay? Doesn't sound like the end of the world to me, nor is Crowder directly responsible for this.
Furthermore, Maza's own Twitter has "Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist" in his bio. So it's cool to write that type of thing about Carlson (who recently got harassed while dining out), yet you cry foul when people on the internet call you a "lispy queer"?
Here's Crowder's response:
YouTube has since confirmed that they are "investigating" Crowder, but will not provide further detail, which has further pissed off Maza.
Make no mistake about it, this is indeed an act of attempted censorship. Maza wants Crowder's channel shut down, to send a message to all conservative content creators that they had better be nice to him, or else lose their livelihood.
why do you always stick up for bad people?
JimmyG_415: Exactly, the guy can't write an unbiased sentence....
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Originally Posted by MrTickle
Why are you literally retarded ?
MumblesBadly
In the many threads of this forum
Druff, calling someone like Tucker Carlson a “white supremacist” is not in any way comparable to calling someone like Carlos Maza a “lispy queer”, and Tucker Carlson doesn’t get harassed in response to a particular media personality’s specific and bigoted targeting.
Also, how quickly would you ban someone from this site if after they repeatedly posted inflammatory responses to new threads you had created in which that user demanded that you answer his calls into the radio show, that you also started receiving a barage of text messages on your *personal* phone telling you to “Take [so-and-so]’s calls to the show”?
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WHAT A FUCKING CRY BABY. YOUTUBE IS A PLATFORM FOR ALL, NOT JUST LGBTBBQ CREATORS. OF COURSE YOU AREN'T GETTING SPECIAL TREATMENT.
AND OF COURSE WE HAVE MUMBLES WITH THE FALSE EQUIVALENCE BULLSHIT.
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I’ve only watched a few Crowder videos you’ve posted. Never saw the other guy. Here’s the thing. Crowder, iirc, kind of fashions himself a comedian and social commentator. The insults are lowest common denominator shit. Why do it? You seem to really like him and find him talented. If he’s talented, they seem unnecessary. They add nothing to his critique of the opposing view. They are only funny in the way bullying is.
I either have to believe Crowder is retarded, or he wants exactly this. It’s impossible to not know the world you live in. That YouTube answers to advertisers, and that this isn’t differing views, but something companies can’t be associated with in 2019. Established and successful comedians, world famous guys like Seinfeld have chosen to quit playing colleges and shit because the crowd is too sensitive, and their stuff falls a million miles short of this guys insults.
Crowder knows exactly the world he lives in. He is throwing that shit in on purpose.
Here’s an alternative take.
I remember making a post probably 11 years ago about a guy I met who ran a call center. This call center raised money for conservative politicians, religious organizations, Catholic charities, etc. He was laying out how much they generated every day and it was staggering amount of $ per shift. The big case at the time involved some atheist named Michael Newdow and Jay Sekulow representing some organization. It was some issue like taking one nation under god out of the pledge. They had multiple battles of a similar sort. I thought these were organic battles. That they just naturally occurred. From what this guy explained, these were essentially coordinated battles. Not saying the participants didn’t have the view they advocated, but like their camps sat down and decided which battles to have and how to fundraise off of them, insofar as writing the solicitation scripts in tandem.
Like if we were both political advocates who had the power to change policy, you as the head of some conservative movement, and me the inverse, we’d agree to disagree, and figure out a way to argue where we could raise millions of dollars. We argue politics here for free. If we could do it and raise millions, we’d be idiots not to, right?
I see this as a similar situation. Maybe it’s an organic fight, but that would require me to think of Crowder as retarded and doesn’t understand the world. Maybe it’s collusion where they didn’t need to coordinate. Maybe it’s like knocking guys out of sit-n-goes where everyone naturally colludes out of self-interest, but both these guys profit from this fight or they wouldn’t be having it. They make their living preaching to their particular choirs. Crowder knows this is part of the game. Maybe he gets banned for a month and he’ll be back. Maybe not. He can play victim if he is to his choir. The gay guy is playing victim now and can if they don’t ban him, or they eventually let him back. Either way, I had never heard of the other guy, so that’s a win for him. I wouldn’t have ever heard of Crowder if not for you posting about him. This is all professional wrestling symbiosis. No one should feel bad for anyone regardless of the outcome. Crowder wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t a world that may ban him for this shit. That we are a pc culture is why anyone knows his name. If not for guys like him to vilify, the other guy doesn’t exist.
They both win regardless of any YouTube decision.
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Steven Crowder is a conservative YouTube comedian
I'm not jumping into this dumpster of a conversation except to point out that Steven Crowder is not
a comedian in the true sense of the word.
He is a political commentator who uses some comedic tools to make his points.
A true comedian can and does make fun of everything which is a rare talent.
The "comedy" that has blossomed under the Republican administration is because
the story in itself is ridiculous and the leader of the band is the court jester.
You don't have to be funny to tell a funny Trump story.
The reason Crowder has a number of followers is because half your nation
is starving for someone to agree with.
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Referee Yves Lavigne admits he screwed up
March 10, 2009 March 10, 2009 by Dusty Adams
As PRO MMA (promma.info) was covering UFC 96 this past Saturday night, we were witness to one of the strangest moments inside the Octagon in recent memory. The curious thing is, it had nothing to do with the actions of a fighter, rather it had to do with a peculiar call made by referee, Yves Lavigne, during the match between Matt Brown and Pete Sell.
Brown started the fight with a head kick that was partially blocked, but then hit Sell with a big left right combination that dropped him. Brown continued to land punches until Lavigne stepped in between the fighters and grabbed hold of Matt Brown to stop the assault, but then Lavigne seemed to have a change of heart and backed off after he saw Sell moving and starting to recover. Then much to the shock of Brown and everyone else, he ordered the fight to continue.
Clearly Sell was hurt, but Brown had no choice but to continue and after more kicks and punches Sell went down again only to somehow get back to his feet where he met more punishment. By this time Brown was pleading with the ref to stop it which he finally did. Dana White’s video blog later showed White and other people ring side out of their seats yelling at the referee to stop the fight.
Yves Lavigne is an experienced referee and has called innumerable UFC fights. This was not some kid in there at his first rodeo. So what happened? Around The Octagon caught up with Lavigne after the bout and he took full responsibility for the error:
“I screwed up. There’s not much to say. I screwed up the fight. I made a rookie mistake at the beginning and stopped it way too soon. I kind of restarted the fight. It wasn’t over at that point and I made the decision to look like a fool and say OK, keep going. I may have deprived Mr. Brown of an early victory but we’ll never know because of me.”
“I feel really bad. Fighters deserve the best. Instead of talking about Mr. Brown’s great win people are talking about a ref. Mr. Brown won with athleticism and tools he has and I’m taking the spotlight away because of my mistake. I feel really bad about it. He deserves better. He worked hard for that win.”
MMA fans never like to see a fight stopped too early. But it is even worse to see a fight stopped too late. If the fight is stopped early, at least the fighter on the losing end can come back and fight another day. However, when a fighter can no longer intelligently defend himself and that fight is allowed to continue, there can be grave consequences for all involved, not to mention the damage it could potentially have on the sport as a whole.
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Buhari campaign organisation accuses US, other ambassadors of supporting Atiku
Festus Keyamo
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja
The Spokesman for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), has accused the United States Ambassador, Stuart Symington, and other western ambassadors of partiality and tacit support for the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
Keyamo said this in a statement while reacting to threats by Symington that persons who indulge in hate speeches would be dealt with.
Symington had also warned public officials not to obey unlawful directives issued in the name of the “boss”, saying any politician whose utterances incite people to violence would be held to account for the crime.
The ambassador’s warning came a day after Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State threatened that foreign persons who interfere in the elections will leave in body bags, a statement that was defended by the Presidency.
However, Keyamo said the utterances of western powers are giving the impression that Buhari is planning to rig Saturday’s elections.
The campaign spokesman also questioned the decision of the US Government to issue a Visa to Atiku despite being accused of corruption.
The statement read in part, “We take the view that the constant statements by Ambassador Symington and the other diplomats are implicit attacks against the government of Nigeria. These statements imply the Nigerian government is inclined to rig the election in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is unfair and unacceptable to us. President Muhammadu Buhari has never been accused of electoral malpractice all his life. However, in contrast, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar publicly boasted a few months ago that he rigged the 2003 election in the Southwest States. Here, we have an open confession of blatant electoral malfeasance by the PDP candidate. But in all of these, there seems to be no concern by Ambassador Symington and other diplomats about this well-acknowledged proclivity of the main opposition.
“We expected that such open confession to rigging in the past would have drawn condemnation from the United States. Rather what we witnessed recently was the ignoble act of giving such a self-confessed rigger with a decade-old indictment in America for corruption hanging over his head a special status to enter the U.S for a few days. Such is the double standard that America now displays for the whole world to see.
“We are deeply concerned about many of the expressions of the United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador W. Stuart Symington and other Western Diplomats which have been directed towards Nigeria’s upcoming elections. Whilst we laud and whole-heartedly welcome their interests in the elections, many of these expressions have been notably off-key. The continued warnings about ‘flawed elections’ is capable of casting an unwarranted cloud over the process. Instead of encouraging our country toward credible elections, such statements undermine public confidence. It would appear that these envoys seem to have discredited the election before it has even taken place.”
Keyamo said threatening to deal with persons who make certain utterances was an abuse of free speech which is guaranteed by both the Nigerian and the United States constitutions.
He said contrary to insinuations, it was the PDP that rigged in 2015 especially in the South-South geopolitical zone where the party won.
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Soyinka’s choice of Moghalu: It’s Nigerians’ endorsement that matters —Sowore
Professor Wole Soyinka, prresidential candidates, Omoyele Sowore and Kingsley Moghalu.
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the only endorsement he has interest in is that of Nigerians.
He made this statement against the backdrop of the endorsement of the Young Progressives Party presidential candidate, Professor Kingsley Moghalu by Professor Wole Soyinka and his group, Citizen’s Forum earlier on Friday.
In a statement issued by the Director-General of Sowore 2019 Campaign, Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi, the AAC candidate made it clear that he had actively traversed cities in Nigeria and shared with Nigerians his plans for “birthing a vibrant and prosperous nation”.
The statement read, “For the past year, Omoyele Sowore, leader of the Take it Back Movement and presidential candidate of the AAC has travelled across the six geopolitical zones, travelled to over 200 cities and towns within Nigeria, and engaged extensively with Nigerians at home and abroad to share his vision for birthing a vibrant and prosperous nation. Those consultations and engagements have created the broadest coalition of Nigerians that our nation has ever seen.
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“On our platform, those previously considered inconsequential – the voiceless, the teeming poor and the forgotten youth – have found a voice and an outlet for the realisation of a nation that works for all of her people.
“We have said from the beginning that we do not believe in the politics of godfathers, godmothers or endorsements. Indeed, we seek to create a nation where the only opinions that matter, and where the only voices of influence are not those of privilege, power, status, or fame. The only endorsement that matters to us is the one the Nigerian people have already given us. We are the voice of the Nigerian people, and the only organic platform that will represent the interest of the Nigerian masses.
“For the avoidance of doubt, there is no presidential candidate that can boast of the antecedents, the history of principled engagement, and the sacrificial participation in the struggle to move Nigeria forward that Omoyele Sowore has displayed over the last 30 years.
“From the fight to reverse the annulment of the June 12th 1993 elections, to the restoration of democracy in 1999, to the truncation of Obasanjo’s 3rd term bid, to the exposure of the Yar’Adua cabal’s bid to deny a constitutional transfer of power to a minority president, to the courageous real-time release of the 2015 poll results that helped to safeguard and ensure free and fair elections, Sowore has been at the forefront of pivotal political events of in country.
“No other candidate has had this level of engagement. No other candidate can speak of a thirty-year consistency in their service to the nation. No other candidate has worked for the Nigerian people as thoroughly and comprehensively as Sowore has done. No other candidate speaks to the aspirations of the Nigerian people with the authenticity that Sowore does. That authenticity is what has powered our party to becoming one of the three largest parties in the nation.
“We want to assure Nigerians that on February 16th, the African Action Congress will be on the ballot. On that day, Sowore and the AAC will get the only endorsement that matters when the Nigerian people vote to elect him as the next president of Nigeria. On February 16th 2019, the Nigwrian people will speak with one voice, and that onerous voice of reason will trounce the dictates of godfatherism.
“Nigeria, our dear Nigeria, is on the March to greatness,” the statement concluded.
Sowore had recently revealed that the Nobel Laureate, had refused to endorse his presidential candidacy. He, however, said that “While I might disagree with his decision, I have great respect for the Nobel Laureate and urge ‘TakeItBackers’ to accord him the utmost respect at all times.”
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Miospores from the Brigantian stratotype section at Janny Wood, Cumbria
Duncan McLean, Bernard Owens, David J. Bodman and Finlay D. McLean
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 62, 89-100, 31 August 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2017-004
Duncan McLean
MB Stratigraphy Limited, 11 Clement Street, Sheffield S9 5EA
For correspondence: mbstratigraphy@gmail.com
Bernard Owens
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN
David J. Bodman
Finlay D. McLean
Miospores from the clastic intervals between the Robinson Limestone and the Peghorn Limestone in the Brigantian (Mississippian) stratotype section at Janny Wood, Cumbria, are assigned to the Tripartites vetustus–Rotaspora fracta (VF) Assemblage Biozone. The species Murospora parthenopia, normally considered to be restricted to the underlying Raistrickia nigra–Triquitrites marginatus (NM) Biozone, is also recorded. Tripartites vetustus is recorded from the stratigraphically deepest sample, meaning that the base of the VF Biozone lies within the Asbian and not at the base of the Brigantian. The base of the VF Biozone cannot be proven in Janny Wood. A review of independent palaeontological controls on the age of the first appearance of T. vetustus in Britain indicates a lack of stratigraphical precision at the local level.
Supplementary material: A full biostratigraphical range chart and a spreadsheet of biostratigraphical data are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4199306
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Home 2nd Quarter Sales Land for New Discount Tire Store Sells at Tucson Marketplace at the...
Land for New Discount Tire Store Sells at Tucson Marketplace at the Bridges
Karen Schutte
TUCSON, Arizona – Scottsdale-based Halle Properties, LLC (Bruce Halle) doing business as Discount Tire/America’s Tire, the world’s largest tire and wheel retailer, purchased 1.08 acres at 3025 S Kino Parkway, located to the north of Culver’s, in Tucson Marketplace at the Bridges for $875,000 ($18.58 PSF), .
The company currently operates more than 925 stores in 33 states, having opened its Virginia location in November and in Louisiana this month. Discount has set a target for six additional stores in Arizona over the next two years, including this one at the Bridges. This will make its 15th store in metro Tucson.
Founded in 1960 by Bruce Halle, Founder and Chairman of the Board, the company remains privately owned.
Tucson Marketplace at the Bridges, located between Park and Campbell at I-10, is a 114-acre project that will have approximately 1 million-square-feet of shops, pads, entertainment and anchors when fully completed. It has experienced some exceptional growth this past year with over 121,000-square-feet of new retail.
Costco, Walmart, McDonald’s, Great Clips, Mattress Firm, Sports Clips, Sprint, Verizon, Starbuck’s and Culver’s were there at the start of the year, and this past year delivered a 25,000-square-foot Planet Fitness and a 53,678-square-foot Century Theatre with 14 screens in addition to a 12,550-square-foot Lin’s Chinese Buffet. A 30,000-square-foot Dave & Buster’s opened this month and there is a 2,844-square-foot Popeye’s restaurant under construction.
Discount Tire will add an additional 7,680-square-feet to the project and has just received approved development plans by the City of Tucson to proceed. Opening date is expected for Q1 2018.
Randy Titzck and Chad Russell of Land Advisors Organization in Phoenix represented the seller, Fullerton Tucson Kino Parkway, LLC in the transaction. Alan Tanner with Bourn Advisory Services in Tucson represented the buyer.
For additional information, Titzck and Russell can be contacted at 480.483.8100. Tanner should be reached at 520.323.1005.
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Bourn Advisory Services
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Tucson Marketplace at the Bridges
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Japan: Radioactive Food Fears Grow
Japan is continuing to deal with a nuclear emergency as fears of food contamination grow and high levels of radioactive substances are found in seawater near the crippled Fukushima plant.
The news comes amid another setback in efforts to cool the earthquake-crippled nuclear plant, with officials spotting grey smoke coming from the roof of the No. 3 reactor.
Some workers were temporarily evacuated from the nuclear plant, 250km north-east of Tokyo, but there are reports smoke can no longer be seen rising from that reactor.
The World Health Organisation says the detection of radiation in food is a more serious problem than first expected and food contamination is not a localised problem.
Four prefectures have been singled out, but it says there is no evidence of contaminated food from Fukushima reaching other countries.
Shipments of spinach and similar vegetables will be banned and exports of milk from Fukushima prefecture will also be curtailed.
Speaking through a translator, chief government spokesman Yukio Edano maintained there was no health threat.
“For a precautionary measure we are taking these actions. Please don’t panic,” he said.
Tap water with increased radiation levels has also been detected in some towns, which WHO says is a serious concern.
Meanwhile, abnormally high levels of radioactive substances have been detected in seawater near the Fukushima plant.
The substances were sampled about 100 metres south of the facility, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) official said, stressing it was not a threat to human health.
“Normally, such radioactive substances are not detected in the area,” said Naoki Tsunoda, adding that the company will continue monitoring at the same point and in other areas.
TEPCO says the level of iodine-131 is 126.7 times higher and caesium-134 is 24.8 times higher than government-set standards.
The company has confirmed power cables have been connected to all six nuclear reactors at the stricken power plant.
A 9.0-magnitude quake and ensuing tsunami on March 11 devastated Japan’s north-eastern Pacific coast, knocking out the plant’s cooling systems and leaving it on the brink of a catastrophic meltdown.
Helicopters and fire trucks have been deployed to pour water over heating fuel rods at the plant since Thursday.
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Home Health New Protein Research May Discover Key to Living Longer
New Protein Research May Discover Key to Living Longer
by Paul-Martin Foss September 26, 2017 0 comment
Researchers studying Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome have discovered protein functions that could help healthy people live longer lives. Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes its victims to age must faster than normal. It manifests itself during the first few months of a child’s life, with additional symptoms becoming readily apparent at between 18 and 24 months. Those who suffer from HGPS experience symptoms that generally only affect the elderly, such as degeneration of muscle and joints, joint stiffness, hip dislocations, etc. Mental development and motor skills typically remain normal.
HGPS is thought to be caused by a rare mutation in a protein within the body known as LMNA. It is estimated to occur in 1 in 4 million births. There are currently 100 known cases in the world, with 140 cases having been reported in medical history. Victims of HGPS rarely live to child-bearing age, as most die before their 13th birthday. Therefore the disease is rarely transmitted from parent to child, occurring in the overwhelming majority of cases as a one-off mutation.
Researchers looking into protein synthesis among HGPS sufferers found that it wasn’t just LMNA that was affected. Other proteins in the body showed signs of overactive protein synthesis, the process by which the body’s cells generate new proteins. Since research in mice and roundworms suggests that slowing down protein synthesis might lead to lengthened lifespans, this latest research might point to accelerated protein synthesis as a source of aging, not just among HGPS patients but also among the general population. Treatments that could slow down the process of protein synthesis could potentially benefit those who suffer from HGPS as well as slow down the aging process among the healthy.
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Acacia Mining says Barrick offer undervalues the company – by Noor Zainab Hussain and Nichola Saminather (Reuters U.S. – June 24, 2019)
June 24, 2019 in Africa Mining, Barrick Gold Corporation, Canada Mining, Gold and Silver, International Media Resource Articles
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(Reuters) – Acacia Mining on Monday strongly disagreed with majority shareholder Barrick Gold Corp’s valuation of the company, saying Barrick’s proposal undervalued its life of mine plans and appears to have ignored the value of its exploration and development assets.
However a fair value buyout offer from the world’s No. 2 gold miner would be attractive, it added.
Barrick’s proposal to take full control of its African unit to resolve a long-standing tax dispute with Tanzania has drawn the ire of Acacia’s minority shareholders, who may have the ultimate vote on a deal.
Toronto-based Barrick’s May 21 share-for-share proposal valued Acacia at $979 million as of Friday’s close, versus $787 million when it first proposed the deal, thanks to a 27% jump in Barrick shares. Barrick said last week its proposed offer is “more than fair” and will engage with Acacia’s board and minority shareholders to win them over.
Barrick shares rose 0.8% to C$20.73 in early trade in Toronto. Acacia shares were little changed at 182.2 pence in London, bringing gains since before Barrick’s offer to 14.4%.
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Claire McIlroy
Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education, School of Humanities
Emailclaire.mcilroy@uwa.edu.au
Research Output (3)
Australian Academy of Humanities Publication Grant 2004
Fourteenth-century English mystics
Middle English devotional literature
History of religious solitude
Medieval rhetoric
Gender identity in literature
History and criticism of mysticism
Richard Rolle of Hampole (c.1290–1349)
Gender Identity Arts & Humanities
Rhetoric Arts & Humanities
Medieval Period Arts & Humanities
Solitude Arts & Humanities
Religion Arts & Humanities
History Arts & Humanities
Devotional Literature Arts & Humanities
Middle English Arts & Humanities
European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Scott, A. (ed.), Hiatt, A. (ed.), Wortham, C. (ed.) & McIlroy, C. (ed.), 2011, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 314 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Only the Lonely: The Solitary Life in Richard Rolle's The Form of Living and Julian of Norwich's A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love
Mcilroy, C., 2007, In : Magistra. 13, 2, p. 29-40
The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle
Mcilroy, C., 2004, Cambridge: Brewer, D.S.
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Network for Research Development in Medieval and Early Modern European Social and Cultural Studies.
Lynch, A., Maddern, P., White, R., Sharpe, P., Broomhall, S., Crawford, P., Scott, A., Tunley, D., Wortham, C., McIlroy, C., Haskell, Y. & Burrows, T.
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The Top Five Cyber Security Vulnerabilities
Posted in General Security, Incident Response on July 2, 2015
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In the last weeks, the hack of the Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM), apparently tied to Chinese sponsored hackers, raised the discussion about the potential catastrophic damage caused by the exploitation of a cyber-security vulnerability. Part of the cyber-security community has considered this last incident the equivalent of a cyber-9/11. Millions of data belonging to the Government personnel were compromised and there is the concrete risk that the stolen data could be used by threat actors in further cyber-attacks against Government agencies.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack must serve as a wake-up call for reorganizing cyber security posture of the country.
To do this it is essential to profile the threat actors, understand their motivation, learn the way they operate and adopt the necessary countermeasures, a very simple strategy to theorize, but very difficult to achieve.
Let’s try to think which could be the Top Five security vulnerabilities, in terms of potential for catastrophic damage.
Before listing the Top Five security vulnerabilities, let’s try to understand the possible motivation of a potential attacker. Hackers act to steal sensitive data (i.e. corporate secrets, personal information, and intellectual property) or to sabotage. Recent events demonstrate that cyber espionage is still considered the most dangerous threat for Governments; APT groups worldwide constantly search for vulnerabilities to exploit on a large scale in order to gather sensitive data.
We cannot underestimate the action of cyber terrorists and cyber criminals, financial firms, retailers, and companies in the health care industry are constantly under attack. Early this year, a criminal ring dubbed Carbanak cyber gang was discovered by the experts at Kaspersky Lab, the hackers have swiped over $1 Billion from banks worldwide
The financial damage to the world economy due to cybercrime exceed 575 billion dollars, the figures are disconcerting if we consider that are greater than the GDP of many countries.
Another danger posed by group of hackers on a global scale is represented by the possibility of cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure, such as gas pipelines, water facilities, and smart grids.
The majority of processes in modern infrastructure are controlled by SCADA systems that were exposed on the Internet for maintenance purposes without the necessary attention to the cyber security.
It is not a problem of maintenance of SCADA components, instead the lack of security by design for these systems expose the entire infrastructure to the risk of cyber-attacks.
Let’s analyzed the top five cyber security vulnerabilities
Injection vulnerabilities
Injection vulnerabilities occur every time an application sends untrusted data to an interpreter. Injection flaws are very common and affect a wide range of solutions. The most popular injection vulnerabilities affect SQL, LDAP, XPath, XML parsers and program arguments.
As explained in the OWASP “Top 10” guide, the injection flaws are quite easy to discover by analyzing the code, but frequently hard to find during testing sessions when systems are already deployed in production environments.
The possible consequences of a cyber-attack that exploits an Injection flaw are data loss and consequent exposure of sensitive data, lack of accountability, or denial of access.
An attacker could run an Injection attack to completely compromise the target system and gain control on it.
The business impact of an Injection attack could be dramatic, especially when hacker compromise legacy systems and access internal data.
SQL injection vulnerabilities are among most exploited flaws, despite the high level of awareness on the various techniques of hacking that exploit this category of bugs the impact of such attacks is very serious.
A study released by the Ponemon Institute in October 2014 titled “The SQL Injection Threat Study” investigated on the reply of organizations to the SQL injection threat.
The study revealed that despite about one-third believing that their organization has the necessary technology to detect and mitigate the cyber threat, the success rate of SQL injection attacks is too high.
Injection vulnerabilities could affect various software and their impact depends on the level of diffusion of the vulnerable application.
A classic example of the possible effect of the presence of injection flaws is the critical vulnerability dubbed Bash Bug affecting the Linux and UNIX command-line shell. The flaw, coded as CVE-2014-6271, is remotely exploitable and affects Linux and Unix command-line shell potentially exposing to risk of cyber-attacks websites, servers, PCs, OS X Macs, various home routers, and many other devices.
The vulnerability has existed for several decades and it is related to the way bash handles specially formatted environment variables, namely exported shell functions. To run an arbitrary code on affected systems it is necessary to assign a function to a variable, trailing code in the function definition will be executed.
The critical Bash Bug vulnerability, also dubbed Shellshock, affects versions GNU Bash versions ranging from 1.14 through 4.3, a threat actor could exploit it to execute shell commands remotely on a targeted machine using specifically crafted variables.
Such kind of vulnerabilities could have a dramatic effect on a large scale, let’s think for example to the dangers for the Internet-of-things devices like smart meters, routers, web cameras and any other device that runs software affected by this category of flaws.
Buffer Overflows
A buffer overflow vulnerability condition exists when an application attempts to put more data in a buffer than it can hold. Writing outside the space assigned to buffer allows an attacker to overwrite the content of adjacent memory blocks causing data corruption, crash the program, or the execution of an arbitrary malicious code.
Buffer overflow attacks against are quite common and very hard to discover, but respect the injection attacks they are more difficult to exploit. The attacker needs to know the memory management of the targeted application, the buffers it uses, and the way to alter their content to run the attack.
In a classic attack scenario, the attacker sends data to an application that store it in an undersized stack buffer, causing the overwriting of information on the call stack, including the function’s return pointer. In this way, the attacker is able to run its own malicious code once a legitimate function is completed and the control is transferred to the exploit code contained in the attacker’s data.
There are several types of buffer overflow; most popular are the Heap buffer overflow and the Format string attack. Buffer overflow attacks are particularly dangerous; they can target desktop applications, web servers, and web applications.
An attacker can exploit a buffer overflow to target a web application and execute an arbitrary code. He can corrupt the execution stack of a web application by sending specifically crafted data.
Buffer overflows affecting widely used server products represent a significant risk to users of these applications, in the last years, many buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in a number of SCADA components.
Considering that the number of cyber-attacks against SCADA is increasing even more it is likely that these buffer overflow vulnerabilities will be exploited with increasing frequency.
A number of crimeware kit could be sold in the underground ecosystem to attack this particular category of targets causing serious damages.
Sensitive data exposure occurs every time a threat actor gains access to the user sensitive data.
Data could be stored (at rest) in the system or transmitted between two entities (i.e. servers, web browsers), in every case a sensitive data exposure flaw occurs when sensitive data lack of sufficient protection.
Sensitive data exposure refers the access to data at rest, in transit, included in backups and user browsing data.
The attacker has several options such as the hack of data storage, for example by using a malware-based attack, intercept data between a server and the browser with a Man-In-The-Middle attack, or by tricking a web application to do several things like changing the content of a cart in an e-commerce application, or elevating privileges.
The principal sensitive data exposure flaw is the lack of encryption for sensitive data, but even if encryption mechanisms are implemented, other events concur to the exposure of information. The adoption of weak key generation and management, and weak algorithm usage is very common in many industries and applications.
A number of incidents recently occurred have demonstrated the critic of this category of flaw, let’s think to the wrong implementation of encryption algorithms and the lack of encryption for mobile and cloud solutions.
In September 2014, the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University (CERT/CC) published the results of the tests conducted by its experts on popular Android applications that fail to properly validate SSL certificates.
The failure of the certificate pinning procedure exposes users to the risk of MitM attacks and consequent theft of sensitive information.
The CERT confirmed that the problems is widespread, the circumstance was confirmed by another study conducted by security experts at FireEye that evaluated the level of security offered by 1,000 of the most popular free apps offered on Google Play.
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FireEye provided shocking results. 68% of the apps don’t check server certificates and 77% ignore SSL errors. According to the CERT, the applications are using vulnerable libraries, such as the Flurry and Chartboost ad libraries. For this reason, Android users are exposed to the risk of attacks. Despite the fact that FireEye the developers about the flaws, the CERT pointed out that only a few companies took steps to secure their products.
As highlighted by the numerous studies of the topic, attackers typically don’t break crypto directly; they operate to exploit a sensitive data exposure flaw. This means that threat actors operate to steal encryption keys, run man-in-the-middle attacks, steal clear text data off the server, while in transit, or from the user’s browser.
The exploitation of sensitive data exposure flaw could be dramatic for every organization in every industry, the principal losses for data breaches are related to the business value of the compromised data and the impact to the reputation of the victim organization.
Sensitive data exposure attacks could be run by any category of attackers, including cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists, in the majority of case this kind of attacks are part of a first stage offensive that involve also other hacking techniques.
Every organization that manages sensitive data (i.e. healthcare and banking data, personal information) is potentially exposed to the attacks that could involve a large number of users; millions of users are already open to cyber-attacks.
Broken Authentication and Session Management
The exploitation of a broken Authentication and Session Management flaw occurs when an attacker uses leaks or flaws in the authentication or session management procedures (e.g. Exposed accounts, passwords, session IDs) to impersonate other users.
This kind of attack is very common; many groups of hackers have exploited these flaws to access victim’s accounts for cyber espionage or to steal information that could advantage their criminal activities.
As explained by the OWASP, one of the main problems is related to the custom implementation of authentication and session management schemes, in the majority of cases these schemes result flawed and hackers are able to compromise them. This category of flaws affects web applications, in the majority of cases functionalities such as the logout, password management, remember me, timeouts, secret question, and account update are affected by broken authentication vulnerabilities.
The bad news is that once this kind of flaw is successfully exploited, the attacker can impersonate the victim doing anything he could do with the privileges granted to his account.
Unfortunately, the exploitation of a broken Authentication and Session Management flaw is hard to mitigate due to the large number of authentication schemes implemented by each victim. Not all authentication and session management systems are equal, complicating the adoption of best practices on a large scale.
There are several ways to bypass authentication mechanisms, including “Brute-forcing” the targeted account, using a SQL Injection attack, retrieving a session identifier from an URL, relying on the session timeout, reusing an already used session token or compromising a user’s browser.
The most popular attack scenario relies on the session, authentication mechanisms are usually based on tokens associated with each session on the server side. An attacker that is able to retrieve the session identifier could impersonate victims without providing login credentials again.
The possible business impact of broken authentication and session attacks is severe because an attacker could takeover users account and impersonate him to conduct various malicious activities.
Such practice is very common in both cyber-criminal ecosystem and state-sponsored hacking.
I consider this category of vulnerability the most common and dangerous. It is quite easy to discover web servers and applications that have been misconfigured resulting in opening to cyber-attacks. Below some typical example of security misconfiguration flaws:
Running outdated software.
Applications and products running in production in debug mode or that still include debugging modules.
Running unnecessary services on the system.
Not configuring problems the access to the server resources and services that can result in the disclosure of sensitive information or that can allow an attacker to compromise it.
Not changing factory settings (i.e. default keys and passwords).
Incorrect exception management that could disclose system information to the attackers, including stack traces.
Use of default accounts.
The exploitation of one of the above scenarios could allow an attacker to compromise a system. Security misconfiguration can occur at every level of an application stack. An attacker can discover that the target is using outdated software or flawed database management systems.
In many cases, it is quite easy for an attacker to search for this kind of vulnerability. The availability of automated scanners on the market allows the detection of systems not correctly configured or correctly patched.
Security misconfiguration vulnerabilities could have a dramatic impact when systems targeted by hackers are widely adopted. For example, the presence on the market of routers with hardcoded credentials or network appliances using default SSH keys that allow an attacker to establish remote and unauthorized connection to the device.
These kind of vulnerabilities could have a severe impact for the new paradigm of the Internet of Things, poorly configured IoT devices could be exploited by hackers to compromise the software they run and recruit them in large “thingbot.”
Recovery cost could be very expensive and the impact on the organizations that are using flawed devices could be severe.
Security misconfiguration is very insidious for any organization and cause incident difficult to mitigate that can have catastrophic impact.
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project#tab=OWASP_Top_10_for_2013
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/24094/cyber-crime/ponemon-sql-injection-attacks.html
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/28615/hacking/bash-bug-critical-risk.html
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Buffer_overflow_attack
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A2-Broken_Authentication_and_Session_Management
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/28151/hacking/cert-test-android-apps.html
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A5-Security_Misconfiguration
Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi Paganini is CTO at Cybaze Enterprise SpA Pierluigi is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group, member of Cyber G7 Workgroup of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor and Director of the Master in Cyber Security at the Link Campus University. He is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines.
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Great article but would patching the vulnerabilities solve the problems? many vendors of the application take time patching…
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My chat with an MRA
Last week, a video was shared with me that left me livid.
It’s a female from the United States saying she declares war on feminism and uses every clichéd, pedestrian and privileged argument to denounce the existence of things like rape culture – all because of her hate of radical feminism. She uses the tried and tested view of rape victim-blaming to drive that message home and it’s all delivered in a slow and patronising tone. Her final suggestion is that we arm all women with guns against a rape culture she just spent minutes saying doesn’t exist. Go figure.
I found it extremely difficult to finish watching, because of my growing indignation, but I needed to see the full package of dangerous delusion.
So I left a lengthy comment about her persecutive on rape because otherwise, I’m just like everyone else who thinks in the customary oppressed manner – that ‘nothing’s going to change with my opinion’.
It’s exactly our silence that is more crippling than those who regurgitate their ‘rightful’ toxic mindset.
I got a response; not from her but from an MRA – a Men’s Rights Activist.
Their arguments always revert to the same script, about how bad males have it too and how females don’t have anything to complain about – because we’re equal.
My basic argument was that I thought the video was a dangerous one when discussing rape and rape culture to which he purported simply does. not. exist. in the United States (ha!), that 50% of rapes are suffered by males and that I should stop being annoying about it all.
So I wrote the following (please note I call him ‘kind’ and ‘just’. Wrong.):
I’m not equating slut-shaming to rape culture; it contributes to it. So. many. factors play into this toxic underworld. The continual conversation, predominantly spotlighting the actions of the female only, also contributes to it – as this video also does.
The culture is an attitude and it’s very negative towards females; it’s created through a variety of avenues. Of course most people you know believe rape is abhorrent (as do all the people who surround me) because you’re probably a kind and just person and around likewise thinking people.
But in a stupid crowd – things are different. It’s always been there, but now it’s worse – it’s spreading. I’m a high school teacher who sees a lot of what’s going on in reality and I also research this topic.
In 1990, I was followed back to my dorm room (a walk across a small courtyard and into the building – 3 mins tops) by a guy I had never met before nor had spoken to at the party we were coming from. He used to live there and was visiting friends. I knew ‘of’ him. I made polite conversation thinking he was going back to his room – as I would if it were a female walking alongside me – aka another person.
He followed me to my room – innocently enough; it’s just another person, after all – a female in his place would be just as capable to hurt me if she wanted – but he then walked in after me, closed my door and locked it. He attempted to rape me and was pushing me down by my neck saying he didn’t want to have to hurt me.
I have never been more terrified in my life and he didn’t actually succeed. Imagine if he had? You have no idea of the violation I felt just with that experience and knowing that now I had real fear instilled in my future existence.
Some questioned my actions and I was also called a slut. I didn’t deserve that but you know what? It’s his word against mine; hers against his and today the general population (like the girl in this video) swings the way of the male – gives him the benefit of the doubt. Why?
What about the girl in Steubenville (US) who was carried around to different parties, unconscious, repeatedly raped, sodomised (filmed) urinated on, left naked on a lawn for dead, laughed about for 15 mins on a video by a male who watched that done to her egged on by his mate filming it (have you seen it? I have a link), a girl seen in danger by dozens of people at the parties, including coaches of the footballers and who call themselves ‘The Rape Crew’? NOONE DID ANYTHING. The rapists got one year. One of the two got another year for publishing the evidence; THE EVIDENCE of brutal and unspeakable acts and they got ONE year. What does someone have to do to a fellow human being before there’s outrage? Not THAT obviously – Why? Because she was drunk. Probably a ‘slut’ too.
That’s rape culture. There have been too many stories similar to this coming from the US and – as a species – we argue for the males – the ones who suffer one rape out of the 9 women do (and that’s just on the reported ones).
Not 50%.
https://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims
If you can’t understand from the above that this video perpetuates a very real rape culture by excusing it as not existing because it hasn’t been a part of her experience (although she has to carry a gun to protect herself against it somehow) – then I shrug my shoulders despondently and know there’s just one more person who won’t help.
He mocked my attempted rape and called him a ‘stalker’. When I expressed how insensitive that was, he continued to refer to him as a stalker. The brotherhood is strong.
To counteract his argument that in the US, rape is treated ‘worse than murder’ (Classic!) – I logically pointed out (above) that one of the most abhorrent cases of rape in the US (Steubenville) that went to court, saw the rapists only get one year and therefore is not treated at the important level he claimed.
But my retorts, which included rebuttals and a debate using statistics and personal experiences, (unsurprisingly) fell on deaf ears.
You can look at the conversation yourself (below the video) but it got so incredibly pointless that I just left it with him having the ‘last word’. He used words such as ‘proved’ and ‘debunked’ when he had done no such thing.
But the following two comments – in his ‘last word’ – encompass the MRA arguments to a tee:
‘I sure as hell don’t see any protests or anything substantial from feminists that involve ANYTHING related to helping men. In fact the contrary is what i find. Name the most important thing you did to fight for women in another country.’
(So I have to start fighting for the minority and also justify what I do for women before my argument will be taken seriously by this MRA)
‘If you think you have it worse than men you’re pretty ignorant to the bullshit men have to deal with too. I already proved to you all the things men have to deal with and you act like scantily clad women in the media is sooo bad. Give me a break. You’re equal and I demonstrated that this is true and you made no rebuttal to most of my points.’
As I wrote in my comments to him – I fight for an equal existence for ALL, but when statistics look at how much worse it is for females to navigate through a world that is steeped in violence against them – I’m going to logically start there.
Are males oppressed? Yes – however, not as much as females.
Are males used unfairly for their strength? Yes but not as much as female vaginas, anuses and mouths are used for penises.
Are males raped? Yes. Out of every 10 rapes; 9 are female – one is male…and generally by another male.
Do I think males need help? ABSOLUTELY!
A conversation on social media had the following comment:
‘When you are surrounded by people who say the only way to do manhood correctly is to kill and maim and torture, is it a shock that some people would distance themselves from manhood out of shock and a deep-seated unwillingness to see themselves as being of the same class of people they’d seen held up as men?’
If we’re going to play the accusatory gender swap game, I still don’t know how males can complain that females degrade them in an equal fashion.
Clementine Ford expressed it perfectly when she wrote:
‘We live in a toxic culture, and violence crosses a broad spectrum of behaviours. I can’t think of any female codes that enforce the systematic physical and mental degradation of men and certainly none that are supported, accepted and even celebrated as part of mainstream culture.’
How do we participate in intelligent discourse when confronting big issues like rape culture?
I was told by everyone I mentioned this conversation to, that I shouldn’t waste my time with ‘people like that’. The thing is, though, that the people who commonly comment are ‘people like that’ – regardless of gender. Remember that the video is based on the perspectives of feminism by a female. It’s curious how THAT’S the moment males come out of the woodwork and say, ‘SEE? A woman said that!’
Are ‘people like that’ ultimately stupid?
If they are, then we’re doomed – especially if we’re not supposed to engage with ‘them’ and ‘they’ can spread their hate, while ‘we’ sit mute.
Question #201: Actually – why do ‘we’ sit mute?
Well I’m not going to because my voice is all I have.
I’m still proud I said something.
The hope I have is that those who agree ALSO say something. Hope.
I have to say, though, that it perplexes and disheartens me as to why – if we’re such an intelligent species (apparently) – the conversation predictably goes like this:
Deep frustrated breath.
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2 Responses to “My chat with an MRA”
Leone said
Love the last cartoon!
The whole fight is exhausting, isn’t it? But it needs to be repeated and often. You may not have got though to MRA boy but what you wrote will be read by others and start to get through.
Don’t stay mute!!
Thanks so much, Leone.
I’d like to think that it’s worth it for the exact reasons you described.
It’s hard for me to be quiet, but YES, it can exhaust and dishearten often.
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Quiz: What Dog Breed Are You, Based on Your Emotional Responses to These Situations?
What Dog Breed Are You, Based on Your Emotional Responses to These Situations?
By: Brian Whitney
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Dogs are emotionally complex. If you know a lot about dog breeds, you know a couple of things for sure. You know that dogs are ridiculously awesome no matter what breed they are, and you also know that each dog breed has a totally different vibe. This is especially true when it comes to emotional situations. Some breeds are workers. They don't dwell in emotions; they just like to keep themselves busy and get things done. Other dogs are all about being friendly. No matter what emotional situation they might find themselves in, all they want to do is make you happy. Other dogs are super chill and are almost too lazy to deal with any emotional situations in the first place, and on the other end of the spectrum, others might get just a little aggro if you push their emotional buttons.
We all know that life isn't just about laying in the sun, getting belly scratches and chasing balls around. Sometimes there are emotional things that come up for all of us and we have to deal with them. What dog breed would you be, based on how you react emotionally to certain situations? Would it be a Golden Retriever, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Bull Mastiff or a Pug? Take this quiz to find out. Good boy.
You're starting to feel that your significant other doesn't love you anymore. How do you feel?
Optimistic that things will work out
I'm sure things will be fine.
Meh. Who cares?
Do you feel anything emotionally when you look at a full moon?
Yes, so cool
It just reminds me that I have to go to bed.
Yes, it's magical.
I am always inside when it's dark out.
Dogs are loyal. Are you? Have you ever thought about cheating?
Yes, but I never would
Yes, and I do
No, that is too much work.
How would you feel if someone called you a good boy or girl?
I would be mad.
I would be insulted.
I would be so happy!
Ahh, who cares?
Do you feel really sad at the thought of possibly being alone?
A little, I suppose
No. life isn't about that.
I sure do
I don't worry about that.
How many times have you had your heart broken in your life?
More than once
I've never been in love.
Do you get really excited when making a bet on a sporting event?
I do, kind of.
I totally do.
No, but I get nervous.
I never bet.
You just saw a really sappy commercial. Does it affect you emotionally?
No, not even a little bit
I never watch commercials.
It sure does
Maybe a little
Sometimes we all get too many treats. If you gain a few pounds, do you tend to feel unattractive?
No, but I work out and lose weight.
I never gain weight.
No, I feel more attractive.
What do you do if someone cuts in front of you in line at the store?
Confront them
Cut in front of them back
Nothing, they are probably having a bad day.
Nothing, I am not in a hurry.
If you're mad at your roomie, which member of Jersey Shore are you most likely to act like?
Do you ever feel sad at giving up your old car when you buy a new one?
No, that's silly.
Yes, I am going to miss it.
Dogs love to have pals. When you see a friend you haven't seen for a while, how do you greet them?
With a fist bump
With a handshake
With a giant hug
With a nod
You just got fired from a good job. How do you react?
Get angry
Find another job right away
Take a few weeks and relax
Take six months to chill out
Do you think you'd enjoy having a ball thrown to you?
Are you joking?
No, but I would get it anyway.
I sure would
Are you a deep thinker? Do you spend a lot of time trying to figure out life and what it means?
I think about that sometimes.
I don't get what you're talking about.
Do you like people to see you for who you really are?
No, I try to avoid that, if possible.
I don't care what other people think of me.
Yes, if they're nice people
Do believe that some people are luckier than others in life?
We all make our own luck.
There is no such thing as luck.
How would you feel if it was your first day at a new school?
I would be a little wound up.
I would be excited to get started.
I would be excited to meet new people.
I would be dreading it.
You really like someone. How do you ask them out?
I just go up and ask.
I try to get to know them better.
I act really nice to them and hope they ask me out.
I don't. It's too much work.
Your best friend has been gossiping about you. How do you handle it?
Call them out
Find a new best friend
I assume I must have done something wrong.
I ignore it.
What would you do if you won $10,000 in a lottery?
Invest it
Go on a vacation
Quit my job
Your significant other didn't get you anything for Valentine's Day. How do you feel?
Fine, I hate holidays.
Fine, because I forgot it was Valentine's Day.
Your friend is on vacation and you haven't heard from him or her in days. What emotion does that trigger in you?
I am fine. I am sure they're just busy.
I feel sad.
I don't even notice.
If you're sad, do you tend to let it all out and cry?
No, I keep that inside.
Yes, if I am really frustrated
I never get sad.
Your home city's basketball team just won the national title. How do you feel?
Pretty excited
I could care less.
Very excited
My city has a sports team?
How do you feel every day when it's time to have dinner?
So excited, it's unreal.
Do you believe that we all have one true soulmate?
Do you feel sad when bad things happen to people you don't know?
To a point, I do
No, who cares?
I do very much
It depends on how bad it is.
What do you look for when it comes to a lifetime romantic partner?
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Which Dog Breed Is Your Soul-Pet?
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“Oh Joon-Sung Drama Concert” – with performances by Bobby Kim, Mario& and SHINee! [01.02.2010]
Have been missing in action for a while, since it’s kind of hard to juggle eight dramas a week, on top of work, dance, Korean and Japanese classes, but I’m finally back – and mostly because today has been the BEST NIGHT of my life so I couldn’t possibly go to bed without letting everyone know!
This is old news on the K-entertainment sites like Omona by now, but just a short recap – The Esplanade (Singapore) brought in Oh Joon-Sung (Korea’s most sough-after composer/lyricist) to perform pieces that he has written for the soundtracks of several famous dramas, including: Boys Before Flowers, My Girl, Great Inheritance, My Love, Witch Amusement, The King and I, Get Karl! Oh Soo Jung, Dream, The Queen Returns, and Heading for the Ground.
This is what the blurb from the official SISTIC site says:
The Korean wave sweeps to Esplanade in February for two special evenings of songs and instrumental pieces from soundtracks of some of the most popular Korean drama series written by composer, arranger and lyricist, Joon-Sung Oh.
Considered one of Korea’s most sought-after composer/lyricist, Joon-Sung Oh, will direct his 9-piece band, Green Cacao and a 23-piece orchestra specially put together for the concert. Some of these songs will be accompanied by music videos from the dramas. Joining them will be Korean popstars Bobby Kim, Mario& and Shinee who will perform their signature tunes from the dramas, Dream, My Girl and Boys Over Flowers respectively.
So it’s not too hard to guess what I was doing tonight – I’m still on an adrendaline high from coming back from the concert.
I loved all the songs – Mario& was fantastic, Bobby Kim was great especially since he could actually speak English and we actually understood him, Oh Joon-Sung was hilarious, and if I hadn’t mentioned it by now, I’m also an absolute fangirl of SHINee, who performed two songs (Countdown in Dream, and Stand By Me in Boys Over Flowers). I’ll give a quick review of the concert (I’ll try to do the quick account on another post), which I thoroughly enjoyed and was worth the $130 I had to fork out for a Circle 1 AA row seat. The view from there was pretty good (I highly recommend either Circle 1 or Stall seats for those trying to figure out the best view for Esplanade’s Concert hall) and the acoustics were excellent. Not to mention Mario& were really strong live performers – their voices were brilliant, and basically held us spellbound. They did most of the singing – Bobby Kim came out for one song called Live or Die in Dream.
I didn’t have high expectations for the concert originally – I mean, I liked all the dramas that were highlighted in the programme, but I hardly expected to be entertained by all the “instrumental” pieces, yet I was. It also helped that they had a projection screen at the back that flashed drama scenes of whichever drama they were performing to – although there were two dramas in there that I’d never watched (amazing, considering my appetite for dramas), I determined to watch them as soon as possible. (In case you were wondering which dramas I was referring to, it’s “The King and I” and “The Queen Returns” – I’ve watched everything else.)
Oh Joon-Sung was also highly entertaining, although he spoke almost zilch English…perhaps, because he spoke almost zilch English and could only keep saying, “I love Singapore! I love Singaporeans”, to which we all cheered like mad. He also kept saying, “Thank you!” and “Music start!”, and when it came to Heading to the Ground (a drama led by DBSK’s leader, U-know Yunho), he asked us, “You know Yunho?”. Obviously, the immediate screams that accompanied that question answered it for him (I think it’s adorable how fangirl/boy-ing is internationally recognised). Upon hearing our response, he continued throwing out, “Dong Bang Shin Ki? [cue: fan screaming] Sunny? [repeat fan screaming] Yuri? [ditto the screams] SHINee? [cue: volume of fan screaming trebles! …including my own. Here, he actually had to pause for quite a while for us to calm down] Bobby Kim? [seriously I thought he said barbeque, and I bet that’s what half the crowd thought too cos there was an immediate drop in screaming…everyone was just going, huh? Why’s he talking about Korean food?]”
It’s quite hilarious because after he realised that about eighty percent of the crowd were here for SHINee, he kept telling us, “SHINee my best friend! Bobby Kim my best friend!” which was all sorts of win since everyone got worked up every time he threw out their names. (Poor Mario& just got sidelined. I honestly didn’t recognise them until I went home and pored over the programme.) There was a short interview in between, with the effectively bilingual host Li Yi, asking Oh Sung-Joon how he came up with his pieces (he told her that it was basically through experience and inspiration) and why he tries to intertwine classical pieces into his compositions (he said it was because he wanted to engage everyone faster by using something that they were already familiar with).
By this point in time, I was also really impressed by Mario& (I need to mention them, since I really do love their voices, and their live performance was just mindblowing) and Bobby Kim. Li Yi also came out to interview Bobby Kim (probably because he was the only one in there who could speak English) and the first thing she asked was, “Are you enjoying yourself in Singapore?” and he replied, “I love Singapore! [cue: fan screaming] Oh, and I love chilli crab! [cue: volume of fan screaming doubles…honestly, I was extremely pleased as well since it’s a dish we pride ourselves on.]” Apparently, Bobby Kim also realised that about eighty percent of the audience were SHINee fans because he then yelled out, “All the SHINee fans, hello!” […or something to that effect. The minute he mentioned SHINee, we lost our minds and yelled like mad, so I could hardly hear him over the noise]
After his song, before SHINee came on, Li Yi came out to introduce them. It was a bit of a joke because she barely said two words before the fans started screaming down the roof, and she was all like, “But…I haven’t even introduced them!” She then said, “For all the nunas in the crowd – I’m sure you know their song Nuna nomu yeppeo!” [Please just assume there’s consistently massive screaming going on everytime anyone even says SHINee]
Now, technically there’s supposed to be no photography or videography in the Esplanade – but c’mon. You kidding me? These are fangirls. They’re like, a right unto their own. I’d like to see the Esplanade staff try to stop a hundred people whipping out their cameras for SHINee’s performance (I think they only let us get away with it because we only did it during the last song, which was Stand by Me). Unfortunately they didn’t let us take photos (although I still did secretly…the photos came out quite badly though because I was trying to take without looking at my camera since I was afraid the Esplanade staff would confiscate my camera or something if she found out).
From right to left: Onew, Taem, Jong, Minho (Key got cut off because I wasn't aiming this properly since I was afraid the Esplanade lady would confiscate my camera)
But apparently even my camera realises that I have a Key bias, so even though I was snapping randomly without checking, it got me this beautiful shot of Key
I felt a little terrible because right after SHINee performed their last song, there was a mass exodus of people – because there was an autograph session with all the performers after the concert that was to last for about 30 minutes. Obviously all the SHINee fans left, and I struggled with myself for one whole song whether I wanted to leave…and made up my mind to go just as the song ended (there was only one other song left, which was Paradise and I hate that song). It was a good thing though, because I managed to rush down in time to join the queue for the autograph session – and got to meet ALL OF THEM UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. My only regret was that Bobby Kim wasn’t there but I guess I shouldn’t be too greedy, since it was good enough I got SHINee’s autographs on my program (it has now been laminated and will be kept forever and ever).
For a good while I was really worried I wouldn’t make it, since the Esplanade shortened the autograph-ing session to 25 minutes, for the sake of the celebrities (I do think they were exhausted, poor things). Fortunately, I made it past the screen so I knew I had a damn good chance of getting the signatures, and I basically started having silent panic attacks when it was my turn to get the program signed. I wanted to say a lot to them, but my brain shut down when I saw the boys smiling in my direction (their grins are lethal). I did manage to thank Oh Joon-Sung for the concert, and said his music was brilliant (which it was, no regrets about the $130 – would’ve been worth it even without the autograph session, although the autograph-ing just made it 10,000 times better).
When I got to Onew, and he looked up at me and smiled and said, “Thank you.” I swear my heart stopped for a moment. My friends and I did this collaborative polaroid book project for SHINee in commemoration of their trip to Singapore, by building them a ‘trail of photos’ through Singapore. We even made sections specifically for each member, tabbing the colours to what they wore in Nuna nomu yeppeo.
Our book project - I honestly hope the boys get to read it because we spent a week and heaps of money on it, and it's frankly quite amazing, even if I do say so myself
We even prepared a fancy ribbon for it!
So anyway, when Onew smiled at me, I lost my mind and shoved the book at him, to which he politely placed aside since he still had to sign my program (and then a staff took it and gave me this look…like she was frankly amazed at all the various efforts people go to for them). To be honest, the first impression I had of Onew was that…he was actually larger than I thought he would be in real life. (Makes a girl feel oh-so-secure and warm, doesn’t it??!)
When I finally got to Key, my bias, I almost couldn’t breathe – I wanted to reach out to stroke his hair because of the colours. Despite the temptation, I managed to keep my hands to myself, and then he looked up at me and said, “Hi!” in that fabulous voice of his and I seriously almost lost it. I think I was screaming inside.
Taemin was cuter than I thought in real life, and so absolutely precious – he smiled shyly and thanked me after signing my program really quickly (his was probably the fastest signature since Onew had to draw a smiley face on his, and Key, being Key, just took up the biggest space on the program and made his signature really complicated looking).
I got to Jonghyun next – and that boy practically glows. I have to hand it to him – he’s either got a better skincare routine than me…or just damn good genes (or both). As he signed my program lazily, he looked up at me and STUCK HIS TONGUE OUT (in that “Merong” manner he does in Hello Baby). I was honestly a litte star struck. Okay, a lot star struck.
When I got to Minho, I think I couldn’t stop smiling, and he was such a sweet boy he smiled back really brightly. In real life, his eyes are huge, and really, really beautiful, and his voice is quite amazing. I think I couldn’t stop saying, “Thank you very much!” to all of them.
After they signed, Mario& signed and I was a little less star struck by them (considering I didn’t know who they were – I’m sorry!! But they’re actually really fantastic!) so I managed to tell one of the vocalists, “Your voice was really good!” (or something to that effect. I honestly can’t remember after having lost my mind so many times.)
I managed to hold myself in until I left the building…and then I jumped up and down like a wayward teenager (which I haven’t been for years, unfortunately). A few real teenagers gave me this look, especially since I was dressed really inappropriately to be hopping up and down so. I realised I had a really good vantage view of them from the outside, so whipped up my camera to take one last video…which turned out to be really clear and had a really good view of them signing the last few autographs and then leaving. (Thank goodness I lost the struggle with my morals when I did, because if I left any later I wouldn’t have been able to get the signatures! Or seen them in real life!)
If you want the video, leave a comment, because I’m not sure how to load it up on my blog. If I figure it out later, I’ll try to upload the video. It’s seriously quite excellent. I even managed to capture their manager hyung, Yoonduk (I recognised him from the disastrous episode I had trying to catch them at the airport. That didn’t work very well. I didn’t even manage to get to see them at the fansigning…but this concert COMPLETELY made up for it, and was like an extra bonus I didn’t expect! I was almost ready to quit the fandom, but this has completely resuscitated me).
All in all, an excellent night – the music was the rousing, the vocals were fantabulous, the people were hilarious, and I got to meet my favourite K-boyband. I am ready to take on the world!
P.S. Will update soon with more stuff I’ve been thinking of blogging but haven’t gotten around to.
[Edit: Took down the video because I am not pleased with hypocritical fans who get on their high horses and say they will NEVER do these kinds of things due to concert etiquette…my ass. Normally I would never, either, and I’m not proud that I have done, and did, but to hurl judgemental comments like that…all I can say is, that doesn’t reflect very well on their maturity EITHER.
Have closed off all comments. Sorry, this is my world, you can listen to me rant, but you can’t rant back, thanks.]
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Ordinance banning polystyrene and plastic straw use on City of Sarasota property tentatively scheduled for first City Commission reading on July 15
July 4, 2019 July 4, 2019 by Rachel Brown Hackney, Editor & Publisher
Straws to be available upon request
A graphic shows the timeline Sarasota city staff and the City Commission have followed in working toward a prohibition on single-use plastics on public property. Image courtesy City of Sarasota
If all goes as planned, five months after the discussions of the topic began at the Sarasota City Commission dais, the board will take its first vote on prohibiting the distribution of Styrofoam products and single-use plastic straws on public property, unless a customer specifically requests a plastic straw.
With final direction from the commissioners on June 17, Sustainability Manager Stevie Freeman-Montes said an ordinance should be ready for the board members to consider as part of their July 15 agenda.
She added that staff’s recommendation is to begin enforcement with sidewalk cafés in January, when the businesses renew their city permits for use of that outdoor space. In the meantime, Freeman-Montes added, staff would work to encourage businesses to adopt the new policy.
For businesses that lease city property, she said, the regulation would go into effect upon renewal of the lease.
Finally, with special events, she noted, a clause in the ordinance would explain that a violation of the prohibitions would be grounds for city staff to deny the applicant a permit in the future.
In making the motion for staff to proceed with its work on the new regulations, Vice Mayor Jen Ahearn-Koch also called for the ordinance to address a concern Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie raised earlier that day.
Pointing to language in a similar ordinance put into effect in the city of Orlando, Freeland Eddie asked for an exception that would allow people gathering in city parks for family reunions, for example, to be able to bring in their own polystyrene containers and straws, as long as they took the materials with them when they left.
She did not want to see the City Commission adopt regulations that would make it more difficult for people to use city parks, Freeland Eddie added.
Stevie Freeman-Montes and Jeff Vredenburg address the City Commission on June 17. News Leader image
During her June 17 presentation, Freeman-Montes reminded the board members of the discussion they conducted on Feb. 4, following a staff presentation on plastic pollution. The board members ended up asking staff to bring back recommendations on how an ordinance could regulate polystyrene and plastic straw use on public property.
On March 18, Freeman-Montes continued, she appeared again before the commissioners. One concern that arose at that time, she noted on June 17, was the filing of House Bill 771 in the Florida Legislature. That bill sought to pre-empt municipalities from regulating plastic straw use in any way; no measures in effect before the state bill became law would receive “grandfathering” status, she added.
In May, Freeman-Montes pointed out, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed that bill.
Therefore, she continued on June 17, she and Jeff Vredenburg, the Sustainability Program educator, were back before the commissioners to determine how to proceed on drafting the city ordinance.
This diagrams known mechanisms of transport and integration of microplastics into biological communities as provided by current scientific literature. Image by Mantareina via Wikimedia Commons
“Lots of community members … have met with us,” Freeman-Montes told the commissioners. “We have a massive plastics problem, both locally and globally.” For example, she pointed out, microplastics “are being found in the depths of the ocean and all around and being ingested by wildlife.”
A 2015 study showed that of 142 deceased loggerhead turtles on which Mote Marine Laboratory staff conducted necropsies, 72% were found to have microplastics in their digestive systems, she said.
Just within the past month, she pointed out, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had reported that a deceased dolphin found on the shoreline in Fort Myers had two plastic bags in its gut.
Outreach to businesses
In conducting research about potential effects of the proposed ordinance, Freeman-Montes continued, she and Vredenburg had determined that 45 businesses hold city sidewalk café permits and seven food service providers lease city land. Additionally, she said, the city issued 87 permits for special events in 2018, and 85% of those are recurring functions.
During their outreach to the businesses, Vredenburg told the commissioners, they visited 47 locations, spending 5 to 10 minutes at each place to talk with a manager or the owner. They also left flyers about the proposed regulations, he said, along with their contact information. Further, they encouraged business owners or managers to come to the June 17 City Commission hearing.
Staff sent surveys to another 22 businesses, he said.
They learned that 60% of the affected businesses already have ceased using polystyrene. Additionally, he noted, “Twenty-six percent were offering alternatives to plastic straws.”
A graphic shows details related to city staff outreach on the use of polystyrene on public property. Image courtesy City of Sarasota
Only one business “had some contentious points,” Vredenburg explained. That involved straw use as a matter related to personal hygiene, he said: Some people do not want to put their lips on a glass. As a result, he continued, staff recommended the language in the ordinance to allow plastic straw use upon request.
However, as Freeman-Montes noted in the memo she provided to the commission ahead of the meeting, “[S]ustainability staff feels strongly that an upon-request policy should include all types of straws, not just those that are plastic. Encouraging the replacement of one single-use item with another single-use item (even if made of paper) would not provide meaningful impact and awareness on the negative environmental impacts of single-use items in general,” the memo said. “By supporting a policy that includes straws of all materials and pairing it with an educational campaign, a larger reduction of plastic use will likely be felt.”
Moreover, Vredenburg pointed out to the commissioners, none of the business owners or managers indicated that they would have to raise prices if the city ordinance were approved.
He also told the board members that staff research indicated that switching to containers made of material other than polystyrene would result in an increased expense of about 10 cents per item. Yet, eliminating almost all use of straws, he added, would save businesses money.
Staff members also contacted their counterparts in other jurisdictions that had enacted regulations similar to those under review by the Sarasota City Commission, Vredenburg noted. No one in the other municipalities had heard about businesses charging more for food after the regulations went into effect, he said.
A graphic provides details about anticipated impacts to businesses of the proposed city prohibition. Image courtesy City of Sarasota
Nonetheless, he continued, staff had talked with representatives of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program, who said they might be able to offer grants to assist Sarasota businesses in making the transition away from single-use items.
Yet another factor they took into consideration in their outreach, Vredenburg and Freeman-Montes pointed out, would be the impact on people with disabilities. When they met with the city’s Disability Advisory Board, Vredenburg said, they learned that the members’ preference would be for the ordinance to include language stating that restaurants must provide plastic straws upon request. That should eliminate the potential for a disabled person to draw unwanted attention to himself or herself by having to explain the need for a straw, they indicated.
Finally, Vredenburg and Freeman-Montes talked about the emphasis the ordinance would put on educating the public about the new city regulations.
A summer intern at City Hall who attends Ringling College is researching a potential public art campaign to encourage people to reduce their use of single-use plastics, Freeman-Montes said.
Public encouragement
This chart provides details about enforcement of the ordinance, if it is approved. Image courtesy City of Sarasota
Four members of the public who addressed the commissioners about the proposed regulations on June 17 strongly encouraged them to proceed with the ordinance.
Polystyrene containers “are used for an average of 12 minutes each,” Cat Dillard of Sarasota said. “These are convenience items. … There are plenty of alternatives.”
“I really believe it’s time to think globally and act locally, Sharon Jurasuk, a member of an organization called Rethinking Plastic, told the board.
A city resident representing the Manatee-Sarasota Sierra Club, Crista Lohr added, “We’re finding out more and more and more” the devastating effects of single-use plastics on wildlife and water.
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Calcium ion fluxes induced by the action of alpha-adrenergic agonists in perfused rat liver.
Phenylephrine (2.0 microM) induces an alpha 1-receptor-mediated net efflux of Ca2+ from livers of fed rats perfused with medium containing physiological concentrations (1.3 mM) of Ca2+. The onset of efflux (7.1 +/- 0.5 s; n = 16) immediately precedes a stimulation of mitochondrial respiration and glycogenolysis. Maximal rates of efflux are observed between 35 s and 45 s after alpha-agonist administration; thereafter the rate decreases, to be no longer detectable after 3 min. Within seconds of terminating phenylephrine infusion, a net transient uptake of Ca2+ by the liver is observed. Similar effects were observed with vasopressin (1 m-unit/ml) and angiotensin (6 nM). Reducing the perfusate [Ca2+] from 1.3 mM to 10 microM had little effect on alpha-agonist-induced Ca2+ efflux, but abolished the subsequent Ca2+ re-uptake, and hence led to a net loss of 80-120 nmol of Ca2+/g of liver from the tissue. The administration at 5 min intervals of short pulses (90 s) of phenylephrine under these conditions resulted in diminishing amounts of Ca2+ efflux being detected, and these could be correlated with decreased rates of alpha-agonist-induced mitochondrial respiration and glucose output. An examination of the Ca2+ pool mobilized by alpha-adrenergic agonists revealed that a loss of Ca2+ from mitochondria and from a fraction enriched in microsomes accounts for all the Ca2+ efflux detected. It is proposed that the alpha-adrenergic agonists, vasopressin and angiotensin mobilize Ca2+ from the same readily depleted intracellular pool consisting predominantly of mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum, and that the hormone-induced enhanced rate of mitochondrial respiration and glycogenolysis is directly dependent on this mobilization.
Reinhart, PH; Taylor, WM; Bygrave, FL
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Rocky Mount, NC Revitalization: Cheers to the New Brewmill Project
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Historic Rocky Mount Mills lies just 45 minutes away from Raleigh, halfway between New York and Florida. For years the area has been dormant, but that’s all about to change.
Capital Broadcasting has owned the property since 2007 and has been searching for just the right renovation project; they found it in the Rocky Mount Brewmill, a revitalization endeavor that will support local economic development, create jobs and breathe new life into a charming, historic mill town. The Brewmill will become North Carolina’s first incubator for craft-beer makers.
“The gist of it is, making craft beer is an economic development tool for eastern North Carolina,” says Margo Knight Metzger, executive director of the N.C. Craft Brewers Guild. “Eastern North Carolina, including Rocky Mount, has struggled economically for quite a long time. I think this project has the potential to put Rocky Mount on the map for manufacturing again, as well as make it a bona fide tourism destination.”
What Is An Incubator?
An incubator helps an amateur go pro. A talented home brewer might be ready for the next step but will often find himself struggling with the business side of opening a craft brewery: marketing, branding, distributing, etc. It’s one thing to make an excellent brew – it’s quite another thing to get that brew into the hands of buyers. The incubator solves that problem. It’s a shared space where craft-beer makers can use equipment, collaborate and learn what it takes to start and manage a brewery.
The Brewmill also plans to team up with Nash Community College to offer a brewery education program. This Brewmill Institute will include a state-of-the-art brewhouse, a laboratory space where students can break apart brewery equipment, a replica packaging system, office space for teachers and an area to host larger conferences or events.
A Rocky Mount Neighborhood Reborn
The soon-to-be-remodeled mill village sits on the Tar River. The thirty six original mill homes that dot the 80-acre campus will be restored and offered for rent to folks working at the Brewmill. Every house will come with its own bar and draft system!
Hilarie Vetere of the Rocky Mount Telegram states: “The Historic Mill Houses make up just one neighborhood that surrounds downtown Rocky Mount. I have described them as gems, and I believe they are about to become diamonds in the rough!”
Tourism for Rocky Mount, NC
In addition to the creation of jobs and tax base growth, microbreweries could attract more tourists to the Rocky Mount area. Visitors to the Brewmill will be able to see the entire brewing process, from barley malting to canning and bottling. And of course, tasting will be included!
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco Feels Like Something Utterly New
This Sundance-winning debut is a movie like no other about a city like no other.
By Inkoo Kang
June 04, 20194:16 PM
Danny Glover and Jonathan Majors in The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
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There aren’t enough houses to go around in San Francisco. This is certainly true today, with the city’s sky-high rents fueling a steady stream of hair-raising headlines, an intractable homelessness crisis, and countless eulogies for a lost San Francisco. It’s indisputable that the city used to be more hospitable to the middle and working classes, as well as to artists and writers and seekers of all kinds. But there’s something ugly, too, about the current nostalgia that papers over the city’s many historical injustices, especially against racial minorities. The new film The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a love note to the city, but one that’s honest enough to admit that, even in eras that seemed more welcoming, there were always people who bristled when others dared to call it home.
Shot in a warm but elegiac sunset-orange, Last Black Man garnered first-time feature helmer Joe Talbot this year’s directing award at the Sundance Film Festival. Its showy visuals, tale of unsustainable male friendship, and concern with racism and hyper-gentrification in the Bay Area may remind some of 2018’s Blindspotting. But the films that Last Black Man recalled for me were those of Barry Jenkins, who tackled themes of black extinction in San Francisco in his first film, Medicine for Melancholy, more than 10 years ago—and whose languid romances (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) reach their wrenching intensity in part through intimate close-ups of actors looking just shy of straight into the camera. And yet, this magnificent debut often feels like something utterly new.
Last Black Man is also a love story, of a sort. The one-sided adoration at the heart of the drama is between Jimmie Fails (played by newcomer Jimmie Fails) and the periwinkle-gray Victorian mansion built by his grandfather, who is rumored to be have been the first black man in San Francisco. Though his father (Rob Morgan) lost the house—and with it, its pipe organ, stained-glass windows, wood-paneled library, and witch’s hat turret—in the ’90s, Jimmie, accompanied by his spacey wannabe-playwright friend Montgomery (Jonathan Majors), skateboards to the residence every day. (Ignoring the taunts about their close relationship from the other twentysomething men in their run-down neighborhood, Jimmie and Montgomery sometimes ride the former’s skateboard together, their legs moving in perfect tandem—a vision of relaxed, synchronized bliss.) Once there, Jimmie—to the consternation of the current (white) tenants, who just want to be left alone—rakes the garden, paints the windowsills, and tuts at all the maintenance projects they won’t do. But San Francisco’s cruelty, while not colorblind, doesn’t impact only people of color. Before long, the elderly occupants are evicted following a family dispute, leaving the house empty for Jimmie and Montgomery to move in.
While there’s some mild tension about whether a nosy (white) neighbor might call the cops on the duo, Last Black Man refuses to adhere to a conventional plot, even as an obtrusive score portends melodrama around every corner. Instead, we follow Jimmie as he visits his dad, his aunt (Tichina Arnold), and Montgomery’s grandfather (Danny Glover), excavating his family history, which is intertwined with the city’s history. Screenwriters Talbot and Rob Richert, working off a story by Talbot and Fails (San Francisco natives both), revive memories of the “Harlem of the West” that the Fillmore District (traditionally the city’s black neighborhood) used to be called—then complicate the picture almost immediately by suggesting the role that Japanese internment may have played in his grandfather’s success. But the film doesn’t dwell on that possibility, and neither does Jimmie: He already knows what his family’s contributions to San Francisco are, and without them, there’d be no point in living in a city that rejects people like him so baldly.
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Last Black Man is about the urgency and the pitfalls of family legends, the erasure of black history, alternate modes of masculinity, and the many cool shots you can get when you combine skateboards and slo-mo. But it’s also about so many other issues—landlord arson, subprime mortgages, environmental racism, homelessness, shootings over insults—that reflect harrowing news stories but are alluded to in such oblique fashion that the film feels both timely and timeless. Racism’s manifestations are dizzyingly legion and sometimes frustratingly diffuse. Last Black Man captures what it’s like to confront a cloud that can make you feel like you’re suffocating but that you can hardly tackle directly. That lack of tactility can translate to the viewing experience. I was initially left unmoved by the film’s emotional circumspection and elliptical conclusion but found myself in great admiration of it after a few days’ thought.
The tech industry is mostly invisible in this version of San Francisco, but we don’t need to see it to feel its effects. In its place is a lush verdancy we rarely associate with the city, along with the usual suspects: those ludicrously steep hills, the occasional naked man, and, more recently, the ubiquitous açai bowls. San Francisco may be waging war against its most vulnerable residents, but if you can enjoy its beauty, as Jimmie and Montgomery do for a magical few days, its unique picturesqueness makes it easy to love. Even when the city betrays him, Jimmie gets angry when a stranger treats it as interchangeable with any other city. He’s right: There’s no other place like it.
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Home Tech Why $249 is an unsustainable price for the first all-digital Xbox – Ars Technica
Why $249 is an unsustainable price for the first all-digital Xbox – Ars Technica
Enlarge / Microsoft needs to give customers a better deal to convince them to give up discs for good.
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Today’s announcement of the previously rumored “All-Digital Edition” of the Xbox One S is one of the few instances when a redesigned version of a home console is, from a features perspective, strictly worse than the version that came before it. The removal of the disc drive means the All-Digital Edition can’t play Blu-rays, DVDs, or old disc-based games you (or GameStop) might have lying around, and it won’t let you resell any games you might buy for it. The new box isn’t even any smaller, even though the bulky optical drive has been removed.
Microsoft intends to make up for this loss of features with a lower price point for the new unit, which will sell for a $249 MSRP starting May 7. But that suggested price point—while technically lower than the official $299 MSRP for a 1TB Xbox One S bundle—doesn’t seem likely to convince many people to invest in the disc-free console future.
An old low price?
To understand why $249 is such an odd MSRP for this new, less-capable Xbox One, we have to look back at the history of Xbox One pricing. After a higher-than-expected $499 launch with a bundled Kinect, the Xbox One saw some relatively rapid price reductions after the 2014 Kinect unbundling. By September 2016, players could already get into the Xbox One ecosystem (with a bundled game) for the low, low price of $249.
Yes, that price was for the bulkier original Xbox One design, and it only included a 500GB hard drive. But that unit, available 32 months ago at $249, plays all the same games as the “All-Digital” Xbox One announced today for the same MSRP. And the old unit can play those games on disc, to boot.
Similar pricing for the redesigned Xbox One S—disc drive and all—has not been hard to find in the past. The 500GB version of the system was available for as low as $249 in Black Friday bundles back in 2016. After the holidays, Microsoft again offered an official 500GB, $249 Xbox One S bundle with Minecraft in March 2017. In summer 2017, you could spend $249 for a 500GB Xbox One S and get a $50 gift card, too. By the end of that year, 500GB systems were going for $189 during Black Friday closeouts.
Sure, the All-Digital Edition has twice the hard drive space as those old deals. But 1TB Xbox One S systems, with disc drives, were being offered at $249 with a bundled game nearly a year ago. And though $299 is the “official” MSRP for a 1TB Xbox One bundle these days, there has been an extended, de facto price drop to $249 at all major retailers (including Microsoft’s own stores) since late January.
This is the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. Sure looks like an existing Xbox One S, doesn’t it?
The existing Xbox One S and its new, no-disc sibling. Other than that solid panel where the disc drive slot used to be, they’re identical.
New box, seen from the front.
DISC-FREE GAMING. DISC-FREE GAMING. DISC-FREE GAMING.
It appears Microsoft forgot to put the French and Spanish translations on this North American box mock-up. English repeats three times in every slot for some reason.
Unlike a temporary holiday sale, the multiple months that have been spent at the lower $249 price are going to make it hard to convince customers (and retailers) to ever go back to the “actual MSRP” of $299. That becomes even harder when you consider that a 1TB Xbox One system with Battlefield V is currently available for $199 from Walmart or $219 from Amazon.
And yes, the All-Digital Edition comes with three downloadable games rather than the single disc usually bundled with disc-drive-enabled Xbox One S units. But those games—Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 3, and Minecraft—are low-priced legacy titles that were released one year, 2.5 years, and 4.5 years ago, respectively. All three digital games are available for free through an Xbox Game Pass subscription, as well. The bundles Microsoft is currently offering for the original Xbox One S, meanwhile, let customers choose from more recent (and higher-priced) hits: The Division 2, Anthem, Fallout 76, Forza Horizon 4, Battlefield V, and NBA 2K19.
The unenforceable MSRP
Historically, console makers have been able to enforce their MSRPs with an iron fist. Companies like Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft would impose “minimum advertised price” requirements on distributors and retailers, then refuse to provide future stock to any stores that dared attempt to undercut the competition.
By officially keeping the full-featured Xbox One S at a $299 MSRP, Microsoft gets to keep its slower-selling hardware in parity with Sony, which has sold 1TB PS4 bundles at that price for a while now. But with the de facto retail price for an Xbox One being lower across the board, things get a bit weird. Yesterday, when I asked my Twitter followers what the MSRP for a 1TB Xbox One S bundle was, almost half of them picked the $249 price. That’s not a scientific survey or anything, but it’s also not that surprising, considering $249 is the price retailers have been charging for the system for months.
That’s a perception problem that Microsoft Platform and Devices GM Jeff Gattis told Ars he was “painfully aware of.” But the official pricing of the newer system doesn’t show such awareness. For this new hardware to really make an impact, Microsoft should have launched it at a $199 MSRP, trumpeting console hardware that breaks through the $200 barrier (before sales pricing) for the first time this generation. That could have been packaged with an official drop to $249 for the disc-drive version of the Xbox One S, locking in a price that has been the de facto standard at retailers for months now.
As it stands, this kind of below-MSRP pricing is likely what we’re going to see happen at retail anyway. Stores that currently sell an Xbox One with a disc drive for $249 can’t really get away with selling the same console without a disc drive for the same price. If they do, they’ll soon find customers ignoring the All-Digital Edition until the price comes down below Microsoft’s unsustainable MSRP.
We’ve long argued that there’s a market for an all-digital console that’s priced aggressively compared to the competition. But for that kind of pricing to work, Microsoft has to stop pretending that the 1TB Xbox One S is still a $299 system in practice.
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McMahon Pairing
Keywords: Tournament
McMahon Pairing is a TournamentFormat, i.e. a method of pairing players in a tournament. Developed by Lee McMahon and Bob Ryder in the 1960's as a club ladder system, its advantage over Swiss Pairing is that it avoids the problem of severely unbalanced pairings in early rounds. McMahon pairing generalizes Swiss Pairing by assigning different initial scores to various players. McMahon pairing has become the default choice for amateur Go tournaments in Europe and America. (Chess tournaments still use the Swiss system.)
McMahon Pairing Method Details
Assigning initial bands
Single rank bands
Multiple rank bands
Fixed Size bands
Tournament Placings
Problems with McMahon Pairing
Before the tournament
Computer Programs for McMahon Pairing
Before the First Round
Order the field of players by strength. Divide the field into bands of players based upon number of rounds and the distribution of players strengths. Players in the same band will be paired against each other in the first round. There are several ways to do this, for details refer to the section on assigning initial bands. The highest group is generally referred to as the "top group", the lowest as the "bottom group".
Assign starting McMahon Scores
There are two main ways this is done. The first is to set the McMahon Score of the top group to 0, with all other bands starting at a negative score. So the next weaker band is -1, down to the weakest band which is -(M-1) for M bands. The other is is to set the McMahon Score of the bottom group to 0, with all other bands receiving a positive initial score. In effect, the early slaughter rounds of the Swiss pairing are replaced by assigning a number of virtual won games to stronger players. The stronger the player the greater the number of won virtual games assigned to that player.
Pair players within the bands according to one of the methods outlined in Group Pairing. Each player that wins their game has one added to their McMahon Score. The McMahon Score of players that lose does not change, while a tie results in half a point for each player. Players that do not play in one or more rounds are generally also awarded half a point per round. Note that by assigning the top band an initial McMahon Score of 0, the score among the top players is the same as if the tournament was a Swiss pairing tournament.
All Subsequent Rounds
Pairing players with the same McMahon Score against each other using one of the methods outlined in Group Pairing. The process is repeated until all rounds have been played (Note: Some tournaments stop when exactly one player from the top group is left with a perfect undefeated record).
There are several ways that can be used to assign initial bands. These are:
This is by far the most common system. For every additional kyu and/or dan rank, a player recieves an extra point. If a 10 kyu has 0 points, then a 5 kyu gets 5 and a 1 dan gets 10. This system usually contains two bars, the top bar and the bottom bar. The top bar defines the strength above which all players are in the same band. This band contains the strongest players, who are said to be above the bar, and should contain all players that are thought to have a chance to win the tournament (for more details see BarTheory). The bottom bar functions the same way, but defines a playing strength below which all players are in the same bar, usually to avoid large gaps in the starting bands.
Ranks are divided into groups, and each higher group gets an additional starting score. This system makes for a narrower range of initial scores, and thus results in a wider range of skill for the opponents a player is likely to meet. An example is the 2005 Iberoamerican Go Tournament which, at the suggestion of Fernando Aguilar, divided the players onto the following bands:
7d - 1d 3 McMahon points 14 players
1k - 6k 2 McMahon points 44 players
7k - 13k 1 McMahon points 43 players
14k - 20k 0 McMahon points 37 players
This method of assigning bands is regularly used in Turkish go events. (example: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=T091219D) It was also used in the Korean Prime Minister's Cup.
If, in addition to rank, extra criteria such as ratings are available to further sort the participants of a tournament, the field can be divided into bands of equal size. For example, for a five round tournament, the field might be divided into bands of exactly 8 players each. If the number of players is not a multiple of 8, the lowest group will be smaller.
This system has the advantage that it minimizes the need to pair players with different McMahon scores, a practice known as "pairing up/down", which is undesirable, as it often influences tie breakers.
Placings are usually based upon McMahon Score and one or more tie breakers. Prizes for players other than those at the top are often awarded based on either scoring well (e.g. winning 4 games in 5 rounds) or by comparing a player to other players from their initial band (e.g. prize for best 1st kyu).
Dividing the field into bands requires the tournament director to make decisions that are based, at least in part, on discretion and experience rather than a fixed, known algorithm.
A number of programs apply additional criteria when creating the pairings. The main programs are
EPM - Finland
GoDraw - UK
Gotha and OpenGotha - France
MacMahon - Germany
MacTD - US
AutoKorsak - Ukraine
The system is named after Lee McMahon of New York Go Club, but it was spirited out of NY into Britain where it (eventually) found its current form.
Tim Hunt writes...
"The remarkable thing about the history of the McMahon system is that such a successful tournament system arose as the result of a transatlantic misunderstanding. According to Francis Roads (revered BGA member) who was there at the time, this is what happened:
The first three British Go Congresses (1968, 1969 and 1970) were run as handicap, or open + handicap tournaments. Then for the 4th (1971) BGC they tried the McMahon system, because they wanted a system where most games were approximately even games, but where everyone was really playing in the same tournament, rather than being split up into different classes. The McMahon system they used was loosely based on and named after the McMahon system used by the New York Go Club. What the British did not realise was that the New York system was, in fact, a club ladder/grading system, not a tournament system. Anyway, the BGA used it as a tournament system and, apart from one small bug (later) the first time around, it seemed a success. So much so that eventually it spread to Europe and back to America.
The bug: the mistake they made the first time around was to say if you win you move up one, and if you lose you go down one (rather than staying the same). This meant that if your McMahon score was even in the first round then it was odd in the second round and vice-versa and similarly in later rounds. This meant that people who started with an even McMahon score (almost) never played people with an odd McMahon score and so effectively they had two separate tournaments going on side-by-side. Oops! They got it right the second time around."
It is often called MacMahon too, but nobody is quite sure why. The BGA Journal Feb 1978 refers only to MacMahon for example. Although a few years previous to that, McMahon was exclusively mentioned. Of course it should be noted that both Mc and M are originally abbreviations of Mac.
In the AGATDGuide, written by Ken Koester, we find the following description of the system's origin.
'' The Swiss-McMahon was invented by Lee McMahon and Bob Ryder of Bell labs in the early 1960’s for the New Jersey Open, at a time when player ratings were wild approximations of actual strength, and "open" meant that everyone played in one giant section. Strong and weak players had to suffer through boringly predictable early round games with each other; misrated players never got the games they deserved. The Swiss-McMahon instead allowed a player's effective rating to change during the tournament, and preset the number of losses weaker players could expect to have suffered relative to strong players had they been matched in the early rounds of a KO, thus skipping those early “slaughter” rounds. When the larger tournament fields of the Eastern and Western championships came along in the 1970’s, the McMahon seemed just the thing to take care of them ''
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Tournament Directing Software
McMahon Example
British Go Association McMahon Tournament Pairing Rules
AGA tournament standards highly recommended
Christoph Gerlach's thesis (PDF file, in German)
Cambridge Go club page on McMahon
Geoff Kaniuk on McMahon
Olli Lounela's description of McMahon ( Wayback machine link (2002) to Olli Lounela's page )
McMahon explained by Christoph Gerlach
According to page 95 of the 1986 Ranka Yearbook (at least as quoted here), the original McMahon system was invented by Lee McMahon and Bob Ryder of Bell Labs.
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Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience > Earth History Approach > Teaching the Central Themes of Science > Evolution
"We can only understand macroevolution - the comings and goings of species and higher taxa through time - if we link the microevolutionary processes studied by geneticists with Earth's dynamic environmental history."
- Knoll, 2003 , Life on a Young Planet.
Evidence for evolution is often taught using the fossil record and biogeography whereas the mechanisms of evolution are generally taught from a genetic and molecular/cell biology perspective. Taught together, modern biology and Earth history can be used to teach a well-rounded basic unit on evolution or to deal with particular important and problematic topics such as:
The origin of life: We're eager to learn how life formed on the early Earth, because we are now searching for extraterrestrial life and trying to decide what kinds of worlds to look at. How the first cells formed is purely hypothetical at this stage, but the hypotheses depend greatly on what geology can tell us about the Earth's early atmosphere, the chemistry (and stability!) of the oceans. How early? We're not sure, but the search for the earliest fossils and biomarkers continues.
Taxonomy: Modern taxonomists are working out lineages and revising older taxonomies by combining information on the morphological characters of living species within a group and their extinct fossil relatives with genetic information on the living species. Without the data from fossils, it is impossible to work out consistent relationships among many living species. Interestingly, many taxonomists are primarily stratigraphers, working to correctly identify index fossils in order to work out accurate stratigraphic relationships.
Rates and mechanisms of speciation and extinction: Estimations of past biodiversity and changes in rates of appearance and disappearance of taxa from the fossil record help us understand the processes of speciation and extinction. This information in turn is invaluable for determining the extent of the current biodiversity crisis. Taxonomic training is also important for this project.
Human evolution and the question of race: Recent molecular studies indicate that modern humans have a recent common ancestor and that this person is likely to have lived in Africa. However, the "Out-of-Africa" theory is also based on the distribution of fossil human remains controversial. A New Perspective on Race
The above list is by no means complete.
As evolution is a very broad topic, a variety of different courses on the subject will use Earth history in different ways.
One of the most familiar is Invertebrate Paleontology, since many invertebrate lineages have excellent fossil records.
An Earth history approach has also become a valuable tool for studying Biogeography.
See also the Mechanisms of Evolution Links
Below are web resources relevant to the specific subjects described above.
NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). This site provides information on NAI research, a library of publications, sections for teachers and students, and an Ask An Expert section. The student section features Astro-Venture, where students can search for and build a habitable planet; Habitable Worlds, to search the solar system for planets that might support life; and Mysteries of Microbes, containing videos and biographies of astrobiologists. The teacher section contains an astrobiology-related resource catalog of NASA sites. (more info)
The Astrobiology Web. This site contains astrobiology news and links about: astrochemistry, bioinformatics, biosatellites, gravitational biology, hydrothermal vent communities, genomics, astropaleobiology, radiation physiology, the search for exterrestrial intelligence (SETI), extremophiles, exopaleontology, cell biology, evolution, planetary protection, and space medicine. There are also links to NASA TV and video feeds, astrobiology press releases, and an introduction to what an astrobiologist is. (more info)
Bryant's online book: Biodiversity and Conservation: A Hypertext Book (more info)
Speciation and Extinctions
Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions (more info) This article provides a model for climatic change and relates climatic cycles with major extinction events in the history of the Earth. It discusses the mechanisms behind modern climate zones (circulation, storm systems, seasons), astronomical models, climatic models (obliquity conditions, rising sea levels, current conditions), and mass extinctions and model timing (causes of extinction events, predicted vs. documented extinctions, and extinction-driven evolution). A geologic time scale provides a reference for climatic conditions at different periods in Earth history. References are provided for additional information.
Extinction: Forest Fires Among the Trees of Life ( This site may be offline. ) This outline of a presentation on extinction reviews the various catastrophic events that could lead to extinction and lists the five great mass extinctions. Climate change is identified as the linking factor and recovery is also explained.
Tracking the Course of Evolution: Extinction (more info) This essay on mass extinction events (Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous) in the geologic record is a chapter from History of Life, a book written by Richard Cowen, in which he discusses the general geologic body of knowledge surrounding each mass extinction event. Additionally, the author provides thirty-two (32) bibliographic references (primarily peer-reviewed science journals) on these mass extinction events.
Understanding Evolution From the University of California Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley, this site includes links to Evolution 101 which features extensive information on evolution, K-16 teaching materials, a resource library, and news articles and highlights.
A Guide to the 8 Orders of Trilobites (more info) : a marvelously detailed site!
What Is an Earth History Approach?
Why Teach with an Earth History Approach
Teaching the Central Themes of Science
Human Race
How to Organize an Earth History Course or Unit
Addressing Creationism
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Mo Keeps On Running
Written by runABC Scotland on Thu 22 Mar 2018
West Dumbartonshire runner Maurice Donohue is taking the fight to dementia as he makes great progress on yet another challenge. To help support the battle against dementia and celebrate the part that sport can play in this battle, Maurice is undertaking a unique series of fundraising efforts.
He has already completed 365, 10k runs in 365 consecutive days as well as 25 races in his 27 half marathon challenge. Next up for the dedicated fundraiser is a trip to Holland where he will tackle the Zandvoort motorsport track on the 25 March. He will then complete his final half in Germany on the Nurburgring track to conclude the challenge which is in honour of Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart and the work he is doing with the ‘Race Against Dementia’ project. 27 half marathons is significant as it marks the number of F1 races won by Stewart during his distinguished career.
Maurice hopes that his efforts will help raise awareness of dementia and encourage people across the globe to get active and ‘Run with Maurice’ – either by joining him on runs or getting active by taking a walk as an individual or as a group to follow the motor racing career highlights of Formula 1 Champion Sir Jackie Stewart with a virtual walk – World Walking.
The virtual walk route is a celebration of Sir Jackie's achievements, but it is also there to encourage people to be a little more active in their lives by walking, raise awareness of dementia, help out more about Sir Jackie and ultimately have a bit of fun along the way.
You can find more information on Maurice’s fundraising efforts here while further information on Sir Jackie Stewart’s World Walking project is available here.
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#Turquie: Interdiction de quitter le territoire pour tout les enseignants-chercheurs.
#Turkey: all the academics are banned from leaving the territory.
#coup #universitaires #chercheurs #Turquie #coup_d'Etat #nettoyage #purge
Et une amie à ajouté :
nos collegues ont interdiction de quitter leur ville, pas seulement le pays
Turkey’s education board demands 1,577 university deans resign
Turkey’s High Education Board on Tuesday ordered the resignation of 1,577 deans at all universities, state broadcaster TRT reported, part of a wide-ranging purge of dozens of state institutions following a failed coup attempt.
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/turkey-security-universities-idUSI7N1A1000
#putsch
EUA Statement condemning the forced resignation of 1577 university deans
Following Friday’s coup attempt in Turkey the education sector, including the higher education sector, has been targeted, as have many other public sectors.
▻http://www.eua.be/activities-services/news/newsitem/2016/07/19/eua-statement-condemning-the-forced-resignation-of-1577-university-deans
#université #doyens
Turkey coup: Purge widens to education sector
More than 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended after last week’s failed coup, as a purge of state officials widens still further.
La France et l’Europe doivent accueillir les universitaires turcs persécutés
Une chape de plomb s’abat sur la Turquie, en guise de réponse à la tentative de coup d’Etat du vendredi 15 juillet. Il est de notoriété publique que Recep Tayyip Erdogan rêve de se tailler une Constitution présidentialiste à la taille de son appétit de pouvoir, et d’être toujours à la tête de l’Etat en 2023 pour commémorer le centième anniversaire de la fondation de la République turque. Pour ce faire, les événements lui ouvrent une formidable fenêtre d’opportunité.
►http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/07/22/la-france-et-l-europe-doivent-accueillir-les-universitaires-turcs-persecutes
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Et le président de la République a fort bien compris la leçon de son lointain prédécesseur. Mustafa Kemal avait instrumentalisé la révolte kurde et islamique de Cheikh Saïd, en 1925, pour instaurer un état d’exception et traîner devant les tribunaux tous ceux qui résistaient ou échappaient à son autorité. A commencer par les Jeunes-Turcs du Comité Union et Progrès (CUP), qui avaient préparé la guerre de libération dès 1916, avant qu’il ne la préempte pour son propre compte. De la même manière, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, qui impute à la néoconfrérie des fethullahci, avec laquelle il est en conflit depuis 2010, la responsabilité du coup de force du 15 juillet, ratisse large. Quand on veut noyer son chien… C’est ainsi que les arrestations parmi l’armée, la police, la magistrature se comptent par milliers, sous prétexte de défense de la « démocratie ».
Lire aussi : Turquie : la purge du président Erdogan s’étend à l’enseignement
La plupart d’entre eux ont fait des études dans nos facultés, écrivent notre langue, partagent nos valeurs et notre pensée
Là où la démesure de l’homme fort de la Turquie pointe son nez, c’est quand il s’en prend à l’enseignement supérieur et à l’éducation nationale. Certes, l’imam Fethullah Gülen, 75 ans, qui dirige la confrérie, a bâti sa stratégie d’influence – assez comparable à celle de l’Opus Dei – en créant de nombreux établissements scolaires et universitaires. Mais, en janvier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan avait déjà fait l’amalgame entre les « terroristes » du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK) et les signataires d’une pétition en faveur de la reprise du processus de paix dans le Sud-Est du pays. Quand on veut noyer son chien, etc. Les universitaires étaient particulièrement visés, et des mesures administratives ou financières, des non-renouvellements de contrat, des licenciements, des instructions judiciaires furent décidés à l’encontre de centaines d’entre eux, à la demande explicite du chef de l’Etat, et au mépris de l’autonomie des universités autant que des libertés publiques.
Lire aussi : La Turquie dérogera à la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme
Les précédents de Gaulle et Pompidou
Désormais, la mise au pas des universitaires passe par l’allégation de leur connivence supposée avec l’« Etat parallèle » – la néoconfrérie Hizmet (Service) de Fethullah Gülen, dans la novlangue du parti au pouvoir. Le 19 juillet, recteurs et doyens ont été invités à démissionner. Les enseignants se sont vu ordonner de ne pas partir en congé et de ne pas quitter le territoire. Ceux d’entre eux qui sont à l’étranger, y compris dans le cadre de coopérations internationales du type Erasmus ou autres, sont rappelés en Turquie. Ces mesures ubuesques, qui discréditeront durablement le pays, ou plutôt son régime, sur la scène académique internationale, donnent une idée de la purge à laquelle va être soumis le système universitaire turc dans les prochaines semaines.
Lire aussi : Turquie : l’UE observe l’état d’urgence « avec inquiétude »
Jamais, depuis le coup d’Etat militaire de 1980, ce dernier n’a connu pareille tourmente. Les universités européennes vont examiner les contre-mesures appropriées, de nature à répondre au gouvernement turc sans pénaliser leurs collègues. Mais les gouvernements de l’UE, à commencer par le gouvernement français, doivent lancer un plan d’urgence pour accueillir les universitaires turcs persécutés et leur offrir l’asile scientifique. Le général de Gaulle l’avait fait après le coup d’Etat des colonels en Grèce, Georges Pompidou après celui de Pinochet au Chili. François Hollande doit le faire après le coup de force civil de Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Il s’agit, dans les meilleurs délais, de délivrer des titres de séjour, de créer des postes temporaires et de financer des programmes de recherche au bénéfice du nombre, sans nul doute important, d’universitaires turcs qui devront prendre le chemin de l’exil. Il s’agit aussi de faciliter l’accès à nos établissements des étudiants turcs, désormais privés d’universités dignes de ce nom. A l’échelle de l’Union européenne, le défi financier n’est pas considérable. Dans le contexte dramatique que nous vivons, cette hospitalité s’impose à l’égard d’enseignants-chercheurs qui, pour la plupart d’entre eux, ont fait leurs études dans nos facultés, écrivent dans nos langues, partagent nos valeurs et notre pensée, et à l’égard de leurs étudiants qui y aspirent.
Lire aussi : La dérive autoritaire s’accentue en Turquie
Jean-François Bayart et professeur à l’Institut des hautes études internationales et du développement de Genève
Finnish students wary of studying in Turkey
Finnish students are currently thinking twice before agreeing to study in Turkey under exchange programmes, according to Mikko Nupponen, the person in charge of Erasmus programme at the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO).
▻http://www.finlandtimes.fi/education/2016/07/24/28780/Finnish-students-wary-of-studying-in-Turkey
Turchia: Milano-#Bicocca aderisce alla dichiarazione dell’EUA
Il nostro Ateneo condivide la dichiarazione dell’EUA Immagine Link Esterno - European University Association, a condanna delle forzata estromissione di 1577 Alte Cariche delle Università turche e oltre 15.200 docenti sospesi, a forte sostegno di tutta la comunità accademica internazionale per sostenere i valori di democrazia, libertà, cultura e conoscenza.
▻http://www.unimib.it/open/news/Turchia_-Milano-Bicocca-aderisce-alla-dichiarazione-dellEUA/1707056504501609664
Opinion: Erdogan is draining Turkey’s brains with purge
Universities in Turkey are being systematically brought to heel. Hundreds of academics are being sacked. Soon the country will face a brain drain, with very serious consequences, DW’s Judith Hartl writes.
▻http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-erdogan-is-draining-turkeys-brains-with-purge/a-19424041
31 academics detained over failed coup attempt
A total of 31 academics from Istanbul University, including a number of professors, were detained as a part of the ongoing operations against members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (#FETÖ), which the ruling Justice and Development Party (#AKP) says was behind the July 15 failed coup attempt. The operation, which was carried out in five different provinces, was based in Istanbul.
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/31-academics-detained-over-failed-coup-attempt-.aspx?pageID=238&n
Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Jale Saraç tutuklandı
Fetullahçı Terör Örgütünün (FETÖ) darbe girişimiyle ilgili soruşturma kapsamında gözaltına alınan Dicle Üniversitesi Rektörü Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Jale Saraç tutuklandı.
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▻http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/prof-dr-aysegul-jale-sarac-tutuklandi-40166798
Commentaire vu sur twitter, par rapport à cette news, que je ne comprends pas car écrite en turc :
Head of Dicle University, Diyarbakir arrested - first (I think) university in Turkey to teach in Kurdish...
Turkish academics abroad facing stark choices
President Erdogan has demanded researchers working abroad come home to Turkey. The scientific community in Germany is concerned and angry about the infringement on lecturers’ and students’ rights.
▻http://m.dw.com/en/turkish-academics-abroad-facing-stark-choices/a-19433047
Finnish universities circle wagons around Turkish academics
Universities say they may extend the contracts of Turkish researchers working at Finland while the situation in their homeland remains turbulent. Around 100 Turks are employed by Finnish universities.
▻http://yle.fi/uutiset/finnish_universities_circle_wagons_around_turkish_academics/9069189
Le università milanesi e la Turchia: Erasmus sospesi, docenti controllati
Gli studenti italiani rimpatriati ed è probabile che gli stranieri il prossimo anno non tornino: «Istanbul rischia di perdere la sua atmosfera internazionale». Per i docenti turchi c’è il divieto di espatrio; tanti presidi di facoltà sono stati rimossi fino al 5 agosto
▻http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/16_luglio_24/turchia-6f9241d2-517e-11e6-a1bb-4fa8da21b0a1.shtml
My Father, Academic, Arrested In Turkey Purge
As the massive crackdown on critics was in full-swing across Turkey, we did not rule out that our father could be the next victim. But it was unbearable, overwhelming grief when I saw my handcuffed father, an academic for 30 years, escorted to a prison.
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▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/my-father-academic-arrested-in-turkey-purge_us_57a8fb19e4b02251db3fd
Turquie : plus de 27.000 employés licenciés dans l’éducation
La Turquie a retiré le permis de travail de 27.424 employés du secteur de l’éducation dans le cadre des enquêtes visant le mouvement du prédicateur Fethullah Gülen accusé d’avoir fomenté la tentative du coup d’Etat du 15 juillet, a annoncé jeudi le ministre de l’Education Ismet Yilmaz. « Ce personnel ne sera plus autorisé à travailler dans les institutions d’éducation publique ou privée », a-t-il ajouté.
▻http://live.lesechos.fr/52/0211198454352.php#xtor=RSS-8
In University Purge, Turkey’s Erdogan Hits Secularists and Boosts Conservatives
Crackdown, which has snagged associates of imam Fethullah Gulen and others, is designed to remake country’s higher education in president’s image
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▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-failed-coup-turkeys-erdogan-is-purging-universities-of-potential-enemies-
2346 universitaires licenciés par décrets
▻http://www.kedistan.net/2016/09/02/2346-universitaires-licencies-decrets
Les intellectuels turcs contraints à fuir leur pays à cause des purges
Les intellectuels, professeurs d’école ou d’universités et les journalistes sont parmi les groupes les plus visés par les purges en Turquie. Ces personnes perdent leur emploi du jour au lendemain, parfois leur maison et même leur liberté. Du coup, tous ceux qui le peuvent quittent la Turquie.
▻http://www.rts.ch/play/radio/tout-un-monde/audio/les-intellectuels-turcs-contraints-a-fuir-leur-pays-a-cause-des-purges?id=802854
Turkey arrests 26 more academics, university staff over coup links
A total of 26 academics and university personnel from Eskişehir Osmangazi University (ESOGÜ) have been arrested on coup charges.
Last week police detained 35 university staff members and academics from the university in simultaneous raids. An Eskişehir court arrested 26 of them on Friday while releasing the rest pending trial.
Among the arrestees are 11 professors and nine assistant professors, according to local media outlets.
In addition to numerous arrested academics, a total of 6,337 were purged from their positions by means of decrees issued after an abortive coup on July 15.
▻http://www.turkishminute.com/2016/12/31/turkey-arrests-26-academics-university-staff-coup-links
Turkish Prisons Are Filled With Professors — Like My Father
A Turkish professor who was my father’s colleague and frequently visited our house is now incapable of counting right amount of money to pay for a bottle of water at a prison canteen. He is traumatized as a result of days of harsh treatment during the interrogation. He is sharing a prison cell with my father, longtime friends, in western Turkey.
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▻http://theglobepost.com/2016/10/11/turkish-prisons-are-filled-with-professors-like-my-father
Turkey’s Boğaziçi University dismisses its first academic, bringing total to 7,317
#Noémi_Levy-Aksu, an assistant professor of history at Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University, has been dismissed from her position, the GazeteDuvar.com news website reported on Thursday.
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▻https://www.turkishminute.com/2017/03/09/turkeys-bogazici-university-dismisses-first-academic-bringing-total-7
Turquie : de la #répression au #suicide
Un jeune assistant chercheur s’est jeté du 7e étage. Sa signature au bas d’une simple pétition pour la paix lui avait ôté tout avenir dans son pays. Les #universitaires ne sont pas les seuls ciblés. Les purges en cours signifient souvent une #mort_sociale.
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▻http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2017/03/09/turquie-de-la-repression-au-suicide_1554581
#Mehmet_Fatih_Tras
En Turquie, deux enseignants en grève de la faim depuis 67 jours pour dénoncer les purges
Victimes des purges après le coup d’Etat manqué en Turquie, l’universitaire #Nuriye_Gülmen et l’instituteur #Semih_Özakça jeûnent, dans l’indifférence des autorités turques.
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▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2017/05/14/en-turquie-deux-enseignants-en-greve-de-la-faim-pour-denoncer-les-purges_512
Turchia, quando il sapere è messo all’indice
Nel gennaio del 2016 poco più di mille accademici appartenenti a diversi atenei della Turchia hanno firmato e diffuso un appello dal titolo “Noi non saremo complici di questo massacro”. Il massacro cui si riferiva l’appello è quello provocato dal conflitto in atto tra le forze armate dello Stato e la guerriglia del Partito dei Lavoratori del Kurdistan (PKK). Un conflitto che si protrae da più di trent’anni e che, nonostante due anni di tregua nell’estate del 2016, è purtroppo ripartito, in un modo violento più che mai. Con quest’appello gli accademici invitavano lo Stato a interrompere le operazioni, sospendere il coprifuoco e tornare al tavolo delle trattative, interrotte pochi mesi prima.
▻http://caffedeigiornalisti.it/turchia-quando-il-sapere-e-messo-allindice
Turkey crowd taunts coup suspects at mass trial near Ankara
In the crackdown, police have arrested two teachers who are on hunger strike.
Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca reported their own arrest during the night in tweets. They are among more than 100,000 public servants sacked after the botched July 2016 military coup.
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▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39998049?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Ils ont apparemment twitté leur arrestation à partir de leur compte (en turc...) :
▻https://twitter.com/SemihOzakca
Two Turkish teachers on 75-day hunger strike detained by police
Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have been on strike after losing their jobs in purge that followed coup attempt
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/two-turkish-educators-on-hunger-strike-detained-by-police
How to Liquidate a People? Academic Freedom in Turkey and Beyond.
▻http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2017.1325171
Turkey: Academics facing terror charges reach 90 days on hunger strike
Turkey’s authoritarian shift has been unmistakable this past year. Following the coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of state institutions has led to mass dismissals, including over 8,000 academics. Similarly, over 2,000 schools, dormitories and universities have now been shut down, causing great concern for Turkish education.
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▻https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/06/turkey-academics-hunger-strike
RIG Turquie #1 : la grande purge d’Erdogan : les universitaires
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▻https://buzzles.org/2017/04/13/rig-turquie-1-la-grande-purge-derdogan-les-universitaires
Deux profs victimes des purges au seuil de la mort
Nuriye Gülmen et Semih Özakça sont en grève de la faim depuis 104 jours.
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▻https://www.lecourrier.ch/150397/deux_profs_victimes_des_purges_au_seuil_de_la_mort
La résistance des intellectuels turcs à l’étranger
Asli Erdogan, romancière turque accusée de propagande terroriste, n’est pas, et de loin, la seule intellectuelle turque à être victime des purges qui ont suivi le putsch manqué du 15 juillet 2016. Nombreux sont celles et ceux, chercheurs, universitaires, qui ont fui leur pays et qui, de l’étranger, organisent la résistance intellectuelle. Ils dénoncent la répression du président Erdogan et demandent la paix au Kurdistan. Il y a quelques jours, ils ont lancé un appel au boycott, pour mettre fin aux collaborations avec les universités turques jugées complices. Ces chercheurs demandent aux facultés du monde entier d’accueillir les intellectuels persécutés. En #Suisse, Daphné Gastaldi (@daphne) a rencontré deux académiciens à l’origine de ce combat.
▻http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20170623-turquie-intellectuels-resistance-erdogan-asli-accusee-propagande-terror
#exil #chercheurs #Université_de_genève #Cagla_Aykac #Engin_Sustam
Nuriye Gülmen et Semih Özakça vont mourir et ce silence est encore une torture.
Depuis deux jours que je suis rentré d’Istanbul, j’ai peur d’apprendre dans les journaux la nouvelle de leur mort. Après 110 jours de grève de la faim, emprisonnés depuis plus d’un mois en Turquie, Nuriye Gülmen et Semih Özakça vont mourir dans l’indifférence de l’Europe. Pour avoir refusé de se soumettre au terrorisme d’État, pour être devenus les éclaireurs d’une résistance populaire.
Nuriye et Semih sont dans un état de faiblesse irréversible, incapables de marcher ou de parler. Leurs cœurs vont cesser de battre et nous, peuples d’Europe, nous n’aurons rien fait pour empêcher qu’ils meurent d’avoir désobéi à un tyran.
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▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/tieri-briet/blog/260617/nuriye-guelmen-et-semih-oezakca-vont-mourir-et-ce-silence-est-encore
#Aysen_Uysal, politiste en Turquie, empêchée de se rendre au 14e Congrès national de science politique à Montpellier
L’AFSP vient d’apprendre avec beaucoup d’émotion la suspension du passeport d’Aysen Uysal, professeure de science politique à l’Université Dokuz Eylül en Turquie. Aysen Uysal s’apprêtait à se rendre au congrès de l’Association Française de Science Politique dont elle est une habituée depuis le début des années 2000.
▻http://www.afsp.info/aysen-uysal-politiste-en-turquie-empechee-de-se-rendre-au-14e-congres-nationa
Turquie : deux enseignants en grève de la faim, symbole des purges
Nuriye Gülmen, une universitaire, et Semih Özakça, un enseignant, ont été limogés par des décrets-lois émis dans le cadre de l’état d’urgence instauré à la suite du putsch manqué du 15 juillet 2016, imputé à la confrérie du prédicateur Fethullah Gülen.
Par ailleurs, ils refusent d’être examinés par l’équipe médicale envoyée par l’administration pénitentiaire depuis qu’elle a menacé de les alimenter de force. Et les autorités ont refusé qu’ils choisissent leurs propres médecins, selon M. Kozagaçli.
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▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/turquie-deux-enseignants-en-greve-de-la-faim-symbole-des-purg
“Academics for Peace” in Turkey: a case of criminalising dissent and critical thought via counterterrorism policy
On 11 January 2016, 1128 academics in Turkey and abroad signed a petition calling on Turkish authorities to cease state violence in mainly Kurdish populated areas of the country, which had been under curfew and an extended state of emergency. The petition received an immediate reaction from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who accused the signatories of treason and terrorist propaganda. He subsequently demanded that public prosecuters launch an investigation. Criminalisation of the petition has been exacerbated by disciplinary action by universities against many of the signatories. Many have suffered insults, arrest, detention or suspension as a result of the ensuing smear campaign. This massive crackdown on academic freedom has been masked by discourses of counterterrorism, which have also been deployed to criminalise dissent more generally in Turkey as a part of a process of rapid “democratic retrenchment” since 2013. This article is an attempt to put the criminalisation of academics within the larger framework of human rights violations, increasing curtailments of academic freedom and rising authoritarianism in Turkey. It argues that the prosecution of the signatories of the petition is an extension of an established tradition of targeting academic freedom in times of political crisis in Turkey but is also a product of growing authoritarianism under the ruling party and President Erdoğan. It shows that counterterrorism laws can be extended far beyond eliminating security threats by instrumentalising them to suppress dissent in a declining democracy.
▻http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2017.1326559?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Turkish educators on hunger strike taken to hospital by ‘force,’ lawyer says
Imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça were taken to Ankara’s Sincan Prison Campus Hospital “by force” on the 143rd day of their hunger strikes early on July 29 although the authorities did not have their consent, the educators’ lawyer Ebru Timtik said.
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▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-educators-on-hunger-strike-taken-to-hospital-by-force-law
Ozakça libéré, Gülmen reste en prison
Les proches des deux enseignants en grève de la faim ne masquent pas leur dépit après la décision rendue vendredi par la justice turque. L’inquiétude est grande pour l’état de santé de Nuriye Gülmen.
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▻https://www.lecourrier.ch/153681/ozakca_libere_guelmen_reste_en_prison
Nuriye Gülmen libérée, Semih Özakça acquitté
L’enseignante en grève de la faim a pu retrouver les siens vendredi après six mois de détention, mais elle est condamnée à six ans et trois mois de prison.
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▻https://www.lecourrier.ch/154794/nuriye_guelmen_liberee_semih_oezakca_acquitte
Turquie : l’Université et la recherche sacrifiées sur l’autel de la répression
Depuis la tentative de coup d’État de juillet 2016, les purges ont touché 148 000 fonctionnaires, dont près de 6000 à l’Université. Tous les établissements liés au mouvement Gülen ont été fermés, leurs enseignants limogés et souvent traînés en justice, tout comme beaucoup de signataires de l’Appel des universitaires pour la paix. Subsiste-t-il encore des espaces de liberté dans la recherche ? Une pensée critique peut-elle encore trouver refuge à l’Université ?
▻https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Turquie-l-Universite-et-la-recherche-sacrifiees-sur-l-autel-de-la
v. aussi : ▻http://seen.li/dx2h
Fin de la grève de la faim de Nuriye Gülmen et Semih Ozakça, après 324 jours de grève de la faim
Turquie : résistance contre Erdogan
Ils sont les visages de la résistance en Turquie : les deux enseignants Nuriye Gülmen et Semih Ozakça ont annoncé vendredi qu’ils mettaient un terme à leur grève de la faim partielle entamée il y a près d’un an pour protester contre leur limogeage dans le cadre des purges lancées après le putsch manqué.
« Nous arrêtons aujourd’hui notre grève de la faim, à son 324e jour. Mais notre combat continue », a déclaré l’universitaire Nuriye Gülmen, qui apparaît amaigrie au côté de l’enseignant Semih Ozakça dans une vidéo diffusée par leurs soutiens sur Twitter. Comme plus de 150 000 fonctionnaires, les deux enseignants ont perdu leur travail lors des grandes purges orchestrées par le gouvernement après la tentative de coup d’État du 15 juillet 2016. Ils étaient accusés par les autorités d’appartenir au DHKP-C, un groupuscule d’extrême gauche classé « terroriste » par Ankara ainsi que Bruxelles et Washington.
Leur grève de la faim a fait des deux enseignants l’un des symboles des purges lancées par les autorités turques dans le cadre de l’état d’urgence instauré en Turquie après la tentative de coup d’Etat du 15 juillet 2016 contre le président Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
▻https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/079700-000-A/turquie-resistance-contre-erdogan
13 teachers detained over Gülen links in Turkey’s Samsun
At least 13 teachers were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Turkey’s southern province of Samsun, media said Friday.
Police carried out operations in several locations in the Black Sea province of Samsun and detained all the suspects.
12 of the 13 teachers were earlier dismissed from their jobs over alleged affiliation with the Gulen movement, according to media.
Meanwhile, detention warrants were issued for another 70 teachers as part of a separate investigation into the Gulenists in the capital, Ankara, state-run Anadolu news agency said the same day.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/12-teachers-detained-gulen-links-turkeys-samsun
Turquie, les universitaires solidaires
Lorsque je prends contact avec elles, Asli et Gizem me préviennent : « si c’est pour raconter une nouvelle fois que nous sommes de pauvres universitaires en danger et muselés, ce n’est pas la peine ». Lassées du misérabilisme, ces deux universitaires veulent avant tout raconter comment la résistance s’organise en Turquie : « nous travaillons et luttons plus qu’auparavant, et nous n’abandonnons pas », précisent-elles. Au lendemain de la tentative du coup d’état du 15 juillet 2016, l’état d’urgence est proclamé. Le gouvernement turc émet alors des décrets lois qui ne sont pas encadrés par le pouvoir parlementaire. Un régime qui ne fait qu’aggraver les nombreuses pressions pesant déjà sur l’institution judiciaire ou sur les universitaires. Médecins, juges, procureurs, enseignants, policiers, plus de 100 000 fonctionnaires sont exclus. Dans le monde universitaire, une pétition pour la paix, lancée en janvier 2016 pour l’arrêt des violences dans le Sud-Est du pays, donne un prétexte au gouvernement pour étendre sa purge. Les signataires de la pétition subissent des pressions ; révocations, licenciements, mises à la retraite d’office… Plus de 450 perdent leurs postes. Au-delà de la perte de leur emploi, c’est leur place dans la société et leur liberté qui est atteinte, puisqu’une révocation par décret loi entraîne par exemple la confiscation du passeport et empêche donc toute sortie du territoire. Au total, plus de 5 000 universitaires et 60 000 enseignants (enseignements primaire, secondaire et supérieur confondus) ont été renvoyés ou interdits d’exercer à la suite d’un décret-loi. D’après les données fournies par les réseaux de solidarité étudiante, près de 450 étudiants sont actuellement en détention pour des raisons politiques.
Comme l’explique Asli et Gizem, les universitaires d’habitude peu enclins à l’action collective, ont été contraints de faire front commun et d’apprendre à lutter ensemble. Pour créer du savoir autrement, des académies solidaires sont créées dans tout le pays à l’initiative de quelques 200 universitaires. « L’objectif est de permettre à chacun de participer à la création du savoir et de pouvoir y accéder. Nous souhaitons également initier de nouvelles méthodes de travail en dépassant les clivages et divisions interdisciplinaires », expliquent-elles. Asli et Gizem sont elles-mêmes membres d’une des premières universités solidaires, l’« académie sans campus », qui travaille depuis le printemps 2016 et organise notamment des ateliers et des rencontres autour des questions de genres ou de l’histoire sociale du capitalisme, et vise à renouveler les méthodes d’apprentissage et de partage de savoir dans le monde. Pour pouvoir être étendu et prolongé, le mouvement fait appel à la solidarité afin par exemple de voir des bourses de recherche délivrées à certains enseignants, d’encadrer les mémoires et les thèses des étudiants dont les directeurs de thèse ou de mémoire ont perdu leur poste en Turquie, ou encore d’assurer un accès aux sources et ressources documentaires et bibliothécaires des universités étrangères.
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►https://www.1538mediterranee.com/2018/01/30/eveiller-des-consciences-sous-etat-durgence
24-year-old Boğaziçi University student arrested over Gülen links
A fourth-year international relations student at Istanbul’s Bogazici University, identified as M.N., was put in pretrial detention over his ties to the Gulen movement.
Milliyet newspaper reported Feb 15 that the 24-year-old student was detained after a police raid at his home, on Dec 6, 2017. While police seized his electronic devices including computer and cell phone, he was formally put in pretrial detention on Dec 13, after spending a week in police custody.
An indictment prepared subsequently seeks between 10 to 15 years in prison for M.N., also the president of the university’s student union, OTK between Nov 2014 to Dec 2017.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/24-year-old-bogazici-university-student-arrested-gulen-links
Owner of now-defunct Izmir University detained for funding intercultural dialog events
At least five businessmen were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Izmir, according to media.
State-run Anadolu news agency said Feb 20 the detention warrants were issued for 7 people for having funding intercultural dialog events organized by the Izmir Cultural Dialog Center (IZDIM).
Several academics, bureaucrats and businessmen living abroad earlier travelled to Izmir as part of IZDIM events, Anadolu said.
While 5 of the suspects were detained, the remaining two were reported to be abroad.
Those detained include Ismail #Selim_Doğanata, the owner of the Izmir University and Fatih College.
Both the two schools as well as IZDIM were earlier shuttered over links to the Gulen movement.
Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 failed coup while the latter denies involvement.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/owner-now-defunct-izmir-university-detained-funding-intercultural-dialo
#Selim_Doganata
Teacher with 25 years of experience working as hotel receptionist after dismissal
#Ismet_Sözen, an elementary school teacher until he was dismissed by a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule in 2016, is now earning his keep by working as a night-shift receptionist at a hotel in Bursa province.
According to Cumhuriyet newspaper, Sözen was dismissed by the government decree, like some 40,000 other teachers.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/teacher-25-years-experience-working-hotel-receptionist-dismissal
History teacher, died of torture in police custody, reinstated to job 19 months after his death
#Gökhan_Açıkkollu, a history teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen movement, was found innocent one-and-a-half years later and “reinstated” to his job.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/history-teacher-died-torture-police-custody-reinstated-job-19-months-de
#Gökhan_Acikkollu
Leftist rights activist visits grave of teacher tortured to death after coup
Veli Saçılık, a sociologist and leftist human rights activist, has visited the grave of #Gökhan_Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen group.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/leftist-rights-activist-visits-grave-teacher-tortured-death-coup
Recep Tayyip Erdogan University’s former rector sentenced to 4 years in jail
#Arif_Yilmaz, a medical professor and the former rector of the Recep Tayyip Erdogan University (RTEÜ), has been sentenced to 4 years and two months in jail.
Accused of links to the Gulen movement, Yilmaz spent 11 months in pretrial detention before being released on TL100,000 [$30,000] bail in July 2017.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan-universitys-former-rector-sentenced-4-years-jail
Detention warrants issued for 300 teachers in a month in Ankara
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants in the past month for 300 teachers who worked in schools owned by people close to the Gülen movement, the tr724 news website reported.
▻https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/03/11/detention-warrants-issued-for-300-teachers-in-a-month-in-ankara
Purged computer teacher commits suicide days after his release from prison
#Mehmet_Kosar, a father of two and a 38-year-old computer teacher in Mugla’s Fethiye who was dismissed from his job over links to the Gulen movement, has killed himself days after he was released from prison pending trial over connections to Gulenists.
Local media said that Kosar hanged himself to an iron bar attached to the ceiling of his bedroom. Kosar killed himself due to physiological problems, according to the same source.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/purged-computer-teacher-commits-suicide-days-release-prison
La chasse aux intellectuels en Turquie
Le putsch raté de juillet 2016 a fourni au pouvoir turc l’occasion d’un gigantesque contre-coup d’État. Le régime de Tayyip Erdoğan, qui cherche à mettre au pas de vastes secteurs de la société civile, parviendra-t-il à gagner sa guerre culturelle contre l’université ?
►http://www.laviedesidees.fr/La-chasse-aux-intellectuels-en-Turquie.html
Meliksah University rector sentenced to 10 years in jail
#Mahmut_Dursun_Mat, a professor of mechanical engineering and the last rector of the now-defunct #Meliksah_University, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/meliksah-university-rector-sentenced-10-years-jail
Erdoğan calls Boğaziçi University students involved in Afrin protests ’terrorists’
Turkey’s president on March 24 has criticized anti-war students at a top university, calling them terrorists following a fight there.
Speaking in the northern Black Sea province of Samsun, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that “communist, traitor youth” tried to mess up a student stand opened by “religious, nationalist, local youth” at the public Boshporus, or Boğaziçi, University.
Erdoğan announced an investigation and said “we won’t give these terrorist youth the right to study at these universities,” the Associated Press reported.
On March 19, a group of students opened a stand distributing sweets dubbed “Afrin delight” to commemorate fallen soldiers in Turkey’s cross-border operation in Syria. Another group protested against them, holding anti-war banners.
Turkey’s official Anadolu Agency said a fight broke out and 12 people were later detained.
Turkey launched “Operation Olive Branch” on Jan. 20 to clear People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants from Afrin. On March 18, the Turkish armed forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) declared full control over the city.
Turkey considers YPG to be the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Four Turkish soldiers were killed on March 22 in eastern Turkey and Syria’s northwestern district of Afrin in two separate instances involving the YPG and the PKK, officials have said.
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/erdogan-calls-bosporus-university-students-involved-in-afrin-prot
Under pretrial detention for 20 months, academic Sedat Laciner says ‘miss my home, children, wife, friends, students and books’
Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. #Sedat_Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a military coup on July 15, 2016, has stated that “I respond to what is said about me, and I don’t run from either prosecution or debate. But the accusations must be a bit rational and fair. I got used to the lynching, but at least the accusations should make sense. Have a heart! I am also a human being.”
Turkish online news outlet T24 has published a letter sent by Professor Laçiner, who as of March 25 has been in prison for 610 days over alleged links to the Gülen movement, to veteran journalist Hasan Cemal, saying that he wants his previous life back.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/pretrial-detention-20-months-professor-sedat-laciner-says-miss-home-chi
#Sedat_Laciner
Turkish couple, both teachers, under police custody in post-coup crackdown: report
H.B., a teacher of Turkish literature; and his wife S.B., a French teacher have been detained over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, according to media.
Kronos online news portal reported Saturday that the Samsun-based couple is accused of membership to the Gulen movement, blamed for the July 15, 2016 failed coup by the Turkish government.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/turkish-couple-teachers-police-custody-post-coup-crackdown-report
2,500 schools, dormitories confiscated as 30,000 teachers dismissed during post-coup emergency rule: ministry
Turkish Education Ministry Undersecretary Yusuf Tekin on Sunday said they have completed a purge of Gülen movement members and institutions in his ministry, the DHA news agency reported.
“The fight against Fetö [a derogatory name used by the Turkish government for the Gülen movement] in the Education Ministry in accordance with a state of emergency declared following July 15 [coup attempt] has been completed. Some 2,500 schools, prep schools and dormitories linked with Fetö have been closed and confiscated and given to the service of the nation. About 30,000 Fetö-linked teachers and staff working for the ministry have been dismissed,” Tekin said during a visit to the Yusufeli district of Artvin province.
Tekin also said Gülen movement goals of infiltrating the curriculum and textbooks have been dealt with.
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▻https://turkeypurge.com/2500-schools-dormitories-confiscated-30000-teachers-dismissed-post-coup
[VIDEO]Police detain 7 Bogaziçi students for participating in protest against Turkey’s Afrin operation
At least 7 student have been detained by police at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University for participating in protests agains Turkey’s Afrin operation, the Dİken news portal reported.
Detentions came only a day after Turkish President Recep Erdogan said on Saturday that the government will “clean communist and terrorist students” out of Turkish universities.
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Yet another 12 teachers detained in Turkey’s Bilecik
At least 12 teachers were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Turkey’s southern province of Samsun, media said Wednesday.
Police carried out operations in several locations in Bilecik and detained all the suspects.
The teachers were earlier dismissed from their jobs over alleged affiliation with the Gulen movement, according to media.
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Teacher couple detained while hiding from gov’t witch-hunt
A Samsun couple, both teachers with outstanding arrest warrants, was detained while hiding in a neighboring province of Amasya in bid to ditch the government’s post-coup witch-hunt against suspected Gulenists.
Media reported Wednesday that 36-year-old elementary school teacher, identified as S.K., and his wife, a 35-year-old Turkish literature teacher, were rounded up at an apartment in central Amasya where they have hidden to avoid arrest over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement.
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Invitation à la conférence de presse
SUP-DDHT
Solidarité avec les Universitaires pour la Paix et défense des droits humains en Turquie
Le silence quasi absolu des dirigeants européens face aux violations des droits humains en Turquie permet au président Erdogan d’ intensifier ses actes de répression en définissant comme “terroristes” tous ceux qui ne cèdent pas et qui s’opposent à sa dérive autoritaire. Le 19 mars dernier, le régime a pris pour cibles les étudiants de l’Université de Bogazici, à Istanbul, qui disaient "NON” à la distribution de loukoums pour célébrer les massacres de l’invasion d’Afrin. Nous, membres du bureau de
Solidarité avec les Universitaires pour la Paix et défense des droits humains en Turquie (SUP-DDHT), serons Place de la Sorbonne, le 30 Mars 2018, à 14h30, pour dénoncer une répression qui menace nos valeurs démocratiques et nous appelons les enseignant.e.s et étudiant.e.s et leurs syndicats à nous rejoindre.
Répression à l’université Boğaziçi :
la guerre avance, la démocratie recule
En Turquie, la politique guerrière étouffe de plus en plus les libertés démocratiques. Le 19 mars, à Istanbul, une vingtaine d’étudiants de la prestigieuse université Boğaziçi ont distribué des loukoums (Turkish delight) pour célébrer la victoire militaire turque d’Afrin contre les populations kurdes en Syrie. En réponse, environ vingt-cinq étudiants ont organisé une contre-manifestation pacifique avec des banderoles comme : « le palais veut la guerre, le peuple veut la paix », ou « pas de loukoums pour les massacres de l’invasion ! ».
Le président de l’université Boğaziçi a dénoncé cette contre-manifestation comme une atteinte à la liberté d’expression des soutiens de la guerre. Le 24 mars, le président Erdoğan est allé plus loin : pour lui, ces « communistes » sont des « terroristes » et « des traîtres à la nation » ; et de menacer : « Nous n’allons pas donner le droit à ces jeunes terroristes d’étudier à l’université ! »
La plupart de ces étudiants ont été arrêtés à l’aube, chez eux ou dans les dortoirs universitaires, d’autres ensuite lors d’une manifestation de soutien. Au moment de leur arrestation et pendant leur détention, la police n’a pas hésité à recourir à la violence. Actuellement, onze sont toujours en prison.
Cette attaque contre la liberté d’expression au sein de l’université vient après beaucoup d’autres. Déjà, fin 2016, il y avait plus de 69 000 étudiants emprisonnés en Turquie. Les chiffres ont beaucoup augmenté depuis lors. Aujourd’hui, 262 procès sont en cours contre les Universitaires pour la paix (BAK). Trois condamnations (à 15 mois de prison avec sursis) sont déjà tombées. Et deux collègues sont en prison : Serdar Başçetin et Onur Hamzaoğlu.
En janvier 2016, ceux-ci avaient publié un texte contre la guerre intérieure sur le territoire de la Turquie : « nous ne serons pas complices de ce crime ! » Depuis, le régime a enclenché en janvier la guerre en Syrie ; il a annoncé le 25 mars que des opérations étaient engagées en Iraq, à Sinjar ; le même jour, la Grèce a exprimé son inquiétude devant l’expansionnisme de la Turquie.
En même temps que la guerre avance, la démocratie recule. Les élus d’opposition, les syndicalistes, les journalistes, les avocats, les universitaires, et tant d’autres qui expriment ou sont susceptibles d’exprimer des désaccords avec la politique du régime sont menacés. La répression contre les étudiants de l’université Boğaziçi marque une nouvelle étape : les universités internationalement les plus reconnues ont longtemps été épargnées. Ce n’est plus le cas aujourd’hui. Au nom de la lutte contre le « terrorisme », tout est permis pour le régime, et rien pour qui voudrait le contester – ni liberté d’expression, ni droit de manifester.
Notre association, Solidarité avec les universitaires pour la paix et défense des droits humains en Turquie (SUP-DDHT), conformément à sa mission, exprime sa solidarité avec les étudiants de l’université Boğaziçi : nous demandons aux autorités de respecter les libertés de pensée, d’expression et de manifestation qui fondent la légitimité universitaire, en Turquie comme partout dans le monde.
Nous condamnons les atteintes aux droits humains en Turquie dont cette répression n’est que l’exemple le plus récent. Nous alertons l’opinion publique sur les menaces que fait peser aujourd’hui cet expansionnisme, en Turquie et dans toute la région. Et nous interpellons le gouvernement français, mais aussi les responsables de l’Union européenne, à l’heure où celle-ci finance des opérations militaires de la Turquie pour rejeter les Syriens à ses frontières. Pour notre part, nous refusons d’être complices d’un régime autoritaire dont la politique met en danger et la paix et la démocratie.
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Teacher diagnosed with cancer after dismissal from job dies
#Ayşe_Çalışkan, a Sakarya teacher who was dismissed from her job in September 2016, died of stomach cancer on March 30.
A mother of two was diagnosed with cancer nearly a month after she was purged as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown.
She had a surgery in Istanbul in June 2017; since then her medical condition has only worse off.
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27-year-old teacher infected with HIV virus while in prison: lawyer
A 27-year-old Turkish teacher who was earlier jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, was infected with HIV virus while he was in prison, according to his lawyer.
Lawyer Salih Koçak told Cumhuriyet newspaper on March 31 that his client, a teacher imprisoned over his alleged use of ByLock who wants to remain anonymous, was healthy when he was first arrested on Dec 9, 2016.
Spent 11 months in pretrial detention, the teacher was released in October 2017. During his time in prison, the teacher and 15 cellmates were taken to dentist for 4 times
“[After being released from prison, he got sick and] had a blood test in March. According to results from the Kocaeli University hospital, he was infected with HIV virus. That characteristic of this virus is that it hatches 6 months to 2 years after your body gets infected. If you count down the days, [it turns out] my client was in jail when he was infected,” the lawyer said.
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9 Bogaziçi students sent to prison for participating in protest against Turkey’s Afrin operation
9 Boğaziçi student have been arrested by an İstanbul court while 6 others released pending trial after participating in protests against Turkey’s Afrin operation, the T24 news portal reported.
On March 19, a group of students protested other students who had set up a stand at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University campus to distribute Turkish delight in memory of Turkish soldiers killed during the Turkish military’s operation in Afrin, Syria. Police identified 17 of the protestors and detained 15 of them.
Detentions came only a day after Turkish President Recep Erdogan said on March 20 that the government will “clean communist and terrorist students” out of Turkish universities.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/breaking-9-bogazici-students-sent-prison-participating-protest-turkeys-
Turkish professor gets 15 months in prison for signing 2016 peace declaration
Professor #Füsun_Üstel, one of the academics who signed a peace declaration in early 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern Turkey, has been handed down a prison sentence of 15 months on terror propaganda charges.
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Police seal off Furkan-affiliated student houses in Adana
Turkish authorities have begun to seal off the houses affiliated with the faith-based, government-critic Furkan foundation in Adana province.
Early on Friday morning, police teams reportedly raided the apartments that are reportedly belong to students affiliated with the foundation which has recently been targeted by the Turkish government due to its critical stance. Students were forcefully evacuated and the buildings were sealed off by the police.
An Adana court in early February appointed trustees to the management of the foundation, and arrested at least 21 people including Alparslan Kuytul, president of the foundation.
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Students Protesting Massacre Occurred in University Campus Detained
The students who have protested a research fellow murdering four people at #Osmangazi_University have been detained in Eskişehir and Ankara.
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Turkish court arrests 3 more Boğaziçi students, bringing total to 13
Three of four Boğaziçi University students who were detained for their views critical of Turkey’s operation in the Afrin region of Syria have been arrested by an Istanbul court, bringing the total number of students under arrest to 13, Gazete Duvar reported.
According to the report, one of the students was released on judicial probation.
An Istanbul court on Tuesday put nine students in pretrial detention on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda after they protested a military offensive being conducted by Turkey in northern Syria.
A student who had protested their arrest was detained and arrested following the court decision.
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‘Gülenist’ teacher extradited from Malaysia gets 18-year jail sentence on coup charges
A high criminal court in the Turkish capital of Ankara has handed down a jail sentence of 18 years to #Alaaddin_Duman, a teacher who was extradited from Malaysia to Turkey due to his links to the Gülen group in 2016, on terror charges.
Duman was given the jail sentence by the Ankara 15th High Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of membership in a terrorist organization.
In the final hearing of his trial, Duman denied the terror charges and said he was self-employed in Malaysia and did not use the mobile phone application ByLock, which Turkish authorities say is the top communication tool among followers of the Gülen group.
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Families of jailed #Boğaziçi students: Everything is a crime in Turkey
So far, 13 Boğaziçi student have been sent to jail by an İstanbul court while 6 others released pending trial after participating in the protest.
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Turkish academic gets 18 months in prison over ‘Gülen propaganda’
#Koray_Çalışkan, an associate professor who was put in house arrest on July 10 as part of an investigation into 20 university academics, has been sentenced to one year, six months and 22 days in prison for disseminating the propaganda of Gülen movement on social media.
According to the pro-government Sabah daily, the ruling was made by the Istanbul 24th High Criminal Court.
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Turkish petition for peace puts academic freedom on trial
“Police are on campus, they are arresting students from the dormitories, and they check IDs in the library - this is what’s happening.”
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Ankara prosecutor issues detention warrants for 48 teachers
Detention warrants were issued for a total of 48 teachers as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on Friday.
Police carried out operations in 11 provinces to detain the suspects upon the warrants issued by an Ankara prosecutor.
The suspected teachers used to work for the schools which were closed down by the government over Gulen links.
Turkish government accuses the movement of being behind the failed coup of 2016 while the latter denies involvement.
At least 34 teachers were rounded up at the time of writing.
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Report : Teacher dies in prison due to lack of medication
#Halime_Gülsu, who was arrested on Feb. 20, 2018 for allegedly helping the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Saturday in prison in Mersin province, reportedly due to deprivation of the medication she took for lupus erythematosus.
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5822 ACADEMICS LOST THEIR JOBS SINCE JULY 15, 2016.
Since July 15, 2016 coup attempt, a total of 5822 academics were dismissed by gov’t decrees No. 672/673/674 issued on Sept. 1, 2016, No.675/676 issued on Oct. 29, 2016, No. 677/678 issued on Nov. 22, 2016, No.679/680/681 issued on Jan. 6, 2017, No.686/687 issued on Feb. 7, 2017, No.689 issued on April 29, No.692 issued on July 14, 2017, No.693/694 issued on August 25, 2017. Also, immediately after the failed putsch, the Turkish government passed a decree ordering the closure of 15 universities and 800 student dorms across Turkey. The shutting down of the universities has left 61,382 students in academic limbo.
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#Academics_for_Peace Granted 2018 Courage to Think Defender Award
2018 Courage to Think Defender Award has been granted to Academics for Peace due to their extraordinary efforts to form solidarity at universities and encourage academic freedom, freedom of questioning and peaceful exchange of ideas.
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[VIDEO] Dormitory manager, teacher wife jailed over Gulen links in Turkey’s Karabuk
A Karabuk couple, both educators who earlier lost their jobs in the face of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown, has been jailed pending trial over Gulen links.
Y.E., the manager of the now-defunct student dormitory that was closed over Gulen links, and his wife E.E., a teacher removed from her job over similar charges, have been arrested, media said Thursday.
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Warrants issued for 93 prep school teachers, employees in Ankara
Detention warrants were issued for a total of 93 people as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Ankara, on Thursday.
The suspects consist of teachers and other staff who used to work at FEM Dersanesi, a prep schoold that the government earlier closed over its links to the Gulen movement.
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Turkey’s post-coup crackdown leads to climate of fear, self-censorship in academia: HRW
A Turkish court has sentenced 64 academics and former staff members of the Denizli-based Pamukkale University to between 18 months and nine years in prison.
The Denizli 5th High Criminal Court held the final hearing on Friday of a trial stemming from an investigation into the Gülen movement’s alleged network within Pamukkale University. Sixty-four of 115 defendants were given prison sentences of between 18 months and eight years, nine months, mostly on charges of membership in the Gülen movement. Forty-eight of the suspects were acquitted of the charges, with the cases of the remaining three separated from the others.
Meanwhile, a 31-year-old teacher identified as A.Y.C. who was earlier dismissed from his job as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown has been detained along with his wife, D.C., while reportedly on their way to escape further persecution in Turkey.
The couple was picked up when gendarmes stopped the bus they took in an attempt to go to Greece in Tekirdag’s Malkara district, Turkish media reported. Arrest warrants were issued for the couple over their alleged ties to the Gülen movement six months ago, according to the media.
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#Rapport:
Turkey: Government Targeting Academics
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Turkish court sentences 64 academics, university staff to prison over Gülen links
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Paralyzed teacher being held in Manisa prison for 22 months over coup charges
#İsa_Kara, a 54-year-old teacher who was fired from his job after a coup attempt in July 2016, has been held in a Manisa prison since October 2016 on coup charges even though he is partly paralyzed and suffers from a serious heart problem as well as other ailments.
According to an email sent to Turkeypurge.com editors on Monday, Mr. Kara had worked as a teacher in the Manisa province of Turkey for 34 years. He was fired from his job with a decree issued by the Turkish government on September 1, 2016. He was also arrested by a Manisa court later the same month and has been held in pre-trial detention since then.
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Academic #Busra_Ersanli sentenced to 15 months in prison for signing 2016 peace petition
Turkish academic Büşra Ersanlı was sentenced to 1 years and 3 months in prison for signing signing a petition in 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern Turkey.
An Istanbul court convicted Ersanli on charges of making propaganda on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Tuesday.
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Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı Sentenced to 1 Year, 3 Months in Prison Without Deferment
Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı, who has been tried for having signed the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”, has been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. The prison sentence of Ersanlı has not been deferred.
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[VIDEO] 4 teachers, 4 children detained while fleeing from Turkish gov’t to Greece
A total of nine people including 4 children and 4 teachers were detained while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greece.
Dogan news agency reported Saturday that the group was rounded up in a restricted military zone near #Evros river in #Edirne, a small province along Turkey’s Greek border.
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Computer science professor given 6 years in jail over terror charges
A Kayseri court sentenced a computer science professor, identified as K.A.P., to 6 year and 3 months in prison over terror charges.
A former academic at the now-defunct Meliksah University, the professor was standing trial without arrest as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement
Media reported Tuesday that the evidence against him include his alleged use of ByLock mobile app and his money transactions at Bank Asya.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/computer-science-professor-given-6-years-in-jail-over-terror-charges
Turkish academic who signed peace petition set to go to prison for 15 months
A Turkish academic, who was given a 15-month jail sentence for signing a petition calling for peace in south-east Turkey, has had her sentence upheld and now faces prison. She is likely to be the first academic to be imprisoned for signing the petition.
Zübeyde Füsun Üstel’s 15-month jail sentence, originally imposed in April 2018 for signing a petition drafted by Academics for Peace, was upheld by the Turkish Court of Appeals on 25 February 2019. Üstel is a retired professor from Galatasaray University in Istanbul.
This decision by the appellate court means that she is in danger of being imprisoned very soon.
The peace petition — We Will Not Be a Party To This Crime — was initially signed by 1,128 academics and grew to 2,020 in the weeks after it was released in January 2016. Since then, the signatories have been subjected to a range of actions against them, including criminal and administrative investigations, detention, dismissals and revocation of their passports. As of December 2017, more than 400 academics have been dismissed and hundreds of PhD students have lost their scholarships.
Academics for Peace is an organisation of university professors and graduate students who drafted and launched the petition, which denounced the human rights violations committed by the government in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, demanded access to these areas for independent national and international observers, and called for a lasting peace to be secured.
“I think Professor Fusun Üstel’s case is a new illustration of the criminalisation of free speech in present-day Turkey,” said Noemi Levy-Aksu, a Turkish professor who lost her job for signing the petition.
Üstel was the first academic to refuse the legal provision the courts offer when prison sentences are less than two years. The provision involves suspending the pronouncement of judgment for a period of five years, during which the defendant is supposed to refrain from committing further “crimes”. Since what constitutes a crime in Turkey can be arbitrarily changed or determined by the political establishment, this provision aims to discipline defendants by placing them under supervision by the government. However, the advantage to the provision is that the suspect is left with no criminal record, barring their good behavior.
In her court hearing in April 2018, Üstel refused the offer of a suspension and was consequently sentenced to 15 months in prison. She appealed, but it was rejected on 25 February. She could become the first academic to be imprisoned since the trials began in December 2017. Nine other academics have refused the suspension provision and are waiting to appear before the court of appeals, according to the Academics for Peace website.
Following the confirmation of Üstel’s sentence, new initiatives have been started to raise awareness about her and all of the other Academics for Peace cases.
“An open letter has been endorsed by Academics for Peace-US and UK, academic and human rights organisations and more than 1500 academics from all around the world. Other initiatives are ongoing, especially in Germany, France, the US and the UK, where many academics from Turkey are now based,” said Levy-Aksu.
Investigations were opened by the government individually against each petition signatory on charges of “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organisation.” This is the charge professor Üstel is currently facing, as per the Article No. 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law No. 3713.
Some judges, including one dissenting judge in Üstel’s appeal case, believe the academics should not be tried under the anti-terror law on the charge of propagandizing for a terrorist organisation. Instead, they argue that Üstel’s and other cases should be considered as per the Article 301 of the Turkish penal code on the charge of “degrading the state of the republic of Turkey”.
“From the beginning, the trial of the Academics for Peace relied on very shaky grounds, both in terms of procedure and substance. The inconsistency of the decisions taken by the different courts show the arbitrariness of the process. Verdicts have been erratic and varied from 15 to 36 months imprisonment,” said Levy-Aksu.
Almost 600 of the signatories are currently undergoing trials on grounds of engagement in “propaganda for a terrorist organisation.”
Üstel published a series of articles in Turkey-based and international journals of social sciences. Her articles have mostly focused on the history of Turkey, nationalism and issues of identity.
Since its founding in 2012, Academics for Peace has organised different actions to highlight attacks on the Kurds in south-east Turkey, and to call for the Turkish government to change its policy towards the Kurds. In 2012 it issued a statement showing support for Kurdish prisoners’ demands for peace in Turkey. This statement was signed by 264 academics from over 50 universities.
Since January 2016 when they published the peace petition, the Academics for Peace case has remained a symbol of the ongoing crackdown on the right to protest and speak out against the government in Turkey.
“In the current circumstances this will highly depend on governmental policy. The other venue to challenge the decision is the European Court of Human Rights, before which several applications have already been brought,” said Levy-Aksu.
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David Pearce Snyder is a data-based forecaster whose thousands of seminars and workshops on strategic thinking have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as hundreds of local and federal government agencies, educational institutions and trade associations. Before entering private practice as a consulting futurist in 1981, Mr. Snyder was Chief of Information Systems, and later, Senior Planning Officer for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, where he designed and managed the IRS Strategic Planning System. He was also a consultant to the RAND Corporation, and has served as an instructor for the Federal Executive Institute, and for Congressional and White House staff development programs.
David Snyder has been Contributing Editor of The Futurist magazine for over a quarter century. In addition, he has authored hundreds of studies, articles and reports on the specific future of a wide range of U.S. institutions, industries and professions, and on the socio-economic impacts of new technologies. He is the editor/co-author of five books, including Future Forces and a sequel, America in the 1990s, both published by the American Society of Association Executives. He also serves on the Editorial Board of On the Horizon, and has appeared on Nightline, The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the BBC World Service.
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DELEVERAGING AMERICA
The World’s Largest Economy Shifts Gears
To paraphrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the current generation of Americans has a “rendezvous with austerity” as tighter credit and stagnant income combined with rising taxes and increased savings rates constrain consumer spending – prolonging the current “Jobs Recession” by forcing most U.S. households to “live within their means.” For the foreseeable future, Americans will spend less on housing, cars and cruise ship holidays, and more on infrastructure, healthcare and home entertainment, while suburban sprawl grinds to a halt and high-rise apartments spring up along mass-
transit lines throughout an increasingly urbanized nation.
Meanwhile, the current economic slump is accelerating the “information revolution!” Confronted by stagnant sales, businesses are using information technology to cut costs, permanently eliminating millions of jobs in the process. The resulting productivity improvements are boosting profitability, but will forestall significant reductions in unemployment, further delaying full economic recovery.
Economic historians are confident that within 5 years, maturing high-tech industries – including bio-engineering, nano-materials, robotics, low-carbon energy and infopreneurships – will begin to leverage new mass market prosperity that will “lift all our boats.” Until then, however, U.S. equities markets will largely experience “sideways growth,” and investors will increasingly pursue more robust returns in the modernizing economies of the developing world.
Consulting futurist David Peace Snyder will present an Instant Pre-Play of what will happen in the American workplace during the next 5 years – as the world’s largest economy “shifts gears” for the 21st Century.
WELCOME TO THE “NEW NORMAL”
STRATEGIES FOR CONSUMER BANKS IN CHANGING TIMES
At a time when we are all preoccupied with our short-term economic circumstances, it is important not to lose sight of the long–term demographic, econometric and technologic trends and developments that will predictably determine the markets for consumer financial services over the next 5 to 10 years.
In this lively illustrated program, futurist David Pearce Snyder spells out the
forecastable realities that will shape the markets for community banks in a “New Normal” world of economic austerity, technologic innovation and social change, and details 4 marketing strategies for acquiring new clientele and expanding services to existing depositors.
OLD ECONOMY + NEW TECHNOLOGY = PROSPERITY
History has shown that the most potent socio-economic effects of a new
technology do not occur until 60 to 70 years after its invention. This means
that the coming decade will see the most transformational applications of
computing power in daily life and work. Some of these innovations –
including social networking, cloud computing, mobile connectivity and data
mining – are already changing the operating environment for all forms of
public and private enterprise.
Consulting Futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how rapidly-maturing
information technologies will give us cashless commerce, paperless processes and conversational computing in less than 10 years, while revitalizing the deleveraged American economy by creating new businesses, boosting productivity and changing the ways by which consumers are served, products are marketed, enterprises are organized, and human resources are managed and developed.
Barry Nalebuff
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PBA: TNT knows it will 'doubly hard' as they face San Miguel on Saturday
Philip Matel on Jun 13, 2018 10:57 PM
Nash Racela offered to share his take on the game, and it was not positive.
For the TNT KaTropa, sporting a 6-2 record is not enough if they want to hold and clinch one of the top two spots in the 2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup playoff race.
And if they want to get win #7, they will have to go through a very tough opponent in defending champions San Miguel on Saturday, in their first face-off since the Finals last year, where they lost in six games.
Both coming off losses, the two teams will obviously have a chip on their shoulder, but San Miguel will be more motivated, as they aim for a third to sixth spot, holding a 3-4 record.
As Roger Pogoy and Terrence Romeo said, their goal is to make the top two in order to enjoy a twice-to-beat advantage in the quarterfinals. However, with their matchup Saturday, it may just have to wait for a game longer.
"It all depends on the next three games of course but we really need to focus still on the next one. San Miguel, they lost earlier 'no? Which makes it doubly-hard to play them. But that's a challenge I think for both teams, having to play coming from losses," the former FEU coach said after the game.
Even though they were ahead by as much as 12 in the first half, the KaTropa ultimately lost after the Hotshots blew the game wide open in the fourth, leading by as much as 24 points.
Racela offered to share his take on the game, and it was not positive.
"Actually the whole game hindi maganda. Even when we were leading in the first half hindi rin naman maganda tinatakbo namin. We just felt that the energy was down today, that's why."
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MS Dhoni Not To Play In Vijay Hazare Trophy
Sportzwiki Editor, 9 months ago 2 min read 257
Despite his recent batting struggles, MS Dhoni has decided not to turn up for Jharkhand in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy. While seeing Dhoni in the domestic circuit has been rare since his international debut, many were expecting him to play for Jharkhand after retiring from Tests.
His poor form in recent times had also made many speculate that the former India skipper would try to get some much-needed match practise by playing for Jharkhand. He had featured in all the six games of Vijay Hazare Trophy last year but has decided to not turn up this year.
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“Dhoni has been training with the team since September and has been involved in all aspects of the game. He has been playing the role of mentor. It hardly matters if a player of his stature takes part in the Vijay Hazare Trophy,” Jharkhand Cricket Association secretary Debasish Chakraborty told Mirror.
But there are slight possibility of seeing Dhoni plying his trade for Jharkhand if the team makes it to the knock-out stage. Right now Jharkhand are on top of Group C and will play their last group game on October 11 against Services. Jharkhand are likely to make it to the next stage.
MS Dhoni has decided to skip the Vijay Hazare Trophy (Credits: Getty)
They will top the group if they win. They can still finish in the top two if they lose. Jharkhand will be ousted only if Services beat them in addition to winning their second match against Rajasthan, and Haryana beat Tamil Nadu.
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Playing in the Vijay Hazare Trophy will be beneficial for both the parties. While Jharkhand will definitely be bolstered by Dhoni’s presence, the latter would get some confidence before turning up for India again.
The 37-year old has been attracting severe criticism for his poor batting since the tour of England. He is likely to be seen in action again when India take on West Indies in the ODIs later this month.
MS Dhoni (Credits: Getty)
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University of Sydney Research
University of Sydney Research Outputs
Title: Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis
Authors: Woodward, Mark
Astor, Brad C
Atkins, Robert C.
Coresh, Josef
de Jong, Paul E
et al, various
Gansevoort, Ron T
Levey, Andrew S.
Matsushita, Kunihiro
Tonelli, Marcello
van der Velde, Marije
The George Institute for International Health
Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group
Citation: Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis, The Lancet, vol.375, 9731,pp 2073-2081
Department/Unit/Centre: The George Institute for International Health
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Dominic Rai and Caroline Goffin
Dominic Rai and Caroline Goffin have collaborated for many years in discovering and sharing the experiences of the sepoys on the Western Front inspired by Mulk Raj Anand’s novel. They are co-directors of Salt of the Sarkar, a project of MánMelá Promotions Ltd.
I could never have imagined what an amazing journey it would be when Dominic and I first met in South East London in 1993. I’ve written down my thoughts about our personal journey to share with you. Thank you for stopping by to share our story. – Caroline
Dominic Rai
Dominic Rai is a writer, director and founder of the Mán Melá Theatre Company.
His commissioned work includes a drama about honour-based crimes for 43 police constabularies, two bilingual community health plays about diabetes and cancer awareness for NHS Derby City and librettist for the Ballad of Bethnal Green for the BBC Singers. Two key themes of his work are the story of Indian soldiers in World War One and the Partitiion of British India and creation of Pakistan in 1947: A Lifetime on Tiptoes by Mazhar Tirmazi and Panjab 1947 – A Heart Divided, creative director to the National Archives project about the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan.
Dominic Rai was born in Sansarpur a village famous for hockey in East Panjab and grew up in Birmingham.
His working life started as an actor with Tara Arts in London. He has worked with the BBC Singers as a writer on the Ballad of Bethnal Green, produced two bilingual community health plays in Derby and a training film for the UK police ‘Her Choice Your Duty to Protect’ on so called honour killings filmed in South Wales.
As Artistic Director of Mán Melá Theatre company in London, Dominic developed The Cornershop ,with three Asian writers, which toured Scotland and England.
In 1998 Dominic wrote to Mulk Raj Anand, who was then in his 90s and living in Bombay, to adapt his 1940 novel Across the Black Waters for the stage. This is the only novel by a major Indian writer about soldiers from Undivided India who fought for Britain in The Great War. This novel shows the Western Front was as culturally diverse as Britain is today and that people of different ethnicities and religions can work together for the common good, as they did over 100 years ago. Something worth reminding ourselves of today.
Dominic has been living in Cardiff since 2007 and served as a trustee of Chapter Arts Centre till 2015, and is currently an observer on the board of Cardiff Community Housing Association.
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Salt of the Sarkar brings Hidden History to LifeThis post was written by Dominic Rai. Dominic is co-director, with Caroline Goffin, of Salt of the Sarkar. Salt of the Sarkar brings Hidden History to life with: A Pop-up Exhibition, Public events and Mulk Raj Anand’s...
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Revealed: “Next Level” logo belongs to Winthrop University professor, used “without permission” by APC
Buhari/Osibanjo Next Level 2019
At the beginning of the Buhari’s regime in 2015 he made a speech that got everybody talking but the talks did not fade before its was made known that the then trending “I belong to nobody” line was Charles De Gaulle’s; just as the “Change begins with me” was another case of plagiarised quote of Barack Obama.
November 18, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari launched his campaign document he titled “Next Level” with a logo of ‘level’ written in capitals having the ‘next’ also in capitals directly on top of it. A good sign with the lower part forming the ‘V’ in the word LEVEL and upper part forming one part of the ‘X’ stroke in NEXT.
Barely 24 hours after the launch of the ‘Next Level’ campagn document, news have it now that the brain behind the Next Level logo was actually a Winthrop University professor who has now expressed his displeasure over the use of the logo without permission.
Social media is now awash with a copy of the original document where the Next Level logo was first used by Dr. Kelly M. Costner, an Associate Professor of Winthrop University. The NEXT LEVEL was actually an acronym for “NETwork for Leading Education that Values English Learners”
Meanwhile the All Progressive Congress or the Presidential Candidate of the party has not made any statement with respect to this new finding. It should also be worthy of note that given the desperation associated with this campaign that just commenced barely 24 hours, it is possible that things like this could be fabricated to gain cheap political points.
The onus is now on President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress to put this matter to rest in whatever way possible.
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Signal Oops
Posted by Dan Thurot
One of my earliest attempts at writing here on Space-Biff! was on the superb Atom Zombie Smasher, which I argued was the “most frightening” thing I’d played that year thanks to the way it made its players complicit in the ruthless containment of a zombie outbreak by a remote authority with a surfeit of power and a shortage of conscience. Just thinking back to the leveling of entire blocks of healthy city to keep them from falling into the hands (and mouths, more critically) of the approaching horde gives me the chills.
So when I heard that Signal Ops, the new indie title from Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation, intended you wrap its players in the shadowy cloak of Big Brother himself, I had little choice but to refill my censor’s pen, charge the old police scanner, and prepare for all the history-rewriting, evidence-planting, and dissident-sacking I was sure it would provide.
The menu screen. Chills.
The very first visual, presented by the opening menu screen of all things, sets the tone: a gray-haired man with a tightly-cropped mustache, a hook in place of his left hand, and features pinched from decades of scrutinizing the microscopic fonts of official documents, reclines uncomfortably upon a worn mattress in a room decorated with nothing but a typewriter, an assortment of communications equipment, and informative notices. This is your avatar in the smoky, detached world of Signal Ops: a mid-level government thug of sufficient rank to order around lesser thugs (those fit for field duty, which you definitely are not), but not important enough to know the location of the base his superiors have stashed him in.
Critically, although he is you, you aren’t viewing that cramped room through his eyes. Rather, you’re high above, watching everything through the unblinking glass eye of a camera. Later on, although Signal Ops will regiment your perspective to this little man’s eyes to such an extent that you’ll never for a single moment leave the confines of this slender bunker even when going about the business of commanding your authoritarian forces in (possibly) distant towns, whenever you hit the escape key, the game will pause with another view from another unblinking eye affixed to the facility’s ceiling. It’s as though Signal Ops is responding to Juvenal’s famous question with a flippant,
“More watchers. Duh.”
Being Big Brother.
This is, I believe, Signal Ops’ first metaphor: that the innermost circle of government intelligence may be something like a fraternity, but it isn’t so concerned with brotherhood that its members won’t peek into each other’s journals as often as possible. For those who consume and breathe distrust and suspicion, it’s no surprise that there might be a camera mounted in the corner of one’s bedroom. The rest of us might be mortified at such blatant intrusiveness, but these are the sorts of men who aren’t quite able to grasp why.
The second metaphor has to do with the game’s perspective. I mentioned above that other than the menu screen’s omniscient angles, the rest of the game is played out through the eyes of your hook-handed protagonist, a trick Signal Ops handles by showing the perspective of all your little soldiers on a screen — and not your screen, but the split-screens of the bunker that show you what your agents see, all at once. You are, in effect, a man commanding a man commanding a handful of men.
One wonders, then, who is controlling you? But that’s the first metaphor talking again.
Three agents go about their business.
Once the tutorial is out of the way, having filled your head with a pile of information on how to switch between the abilities of multiple agents, you’re given your first mission. The briefing is deliciously sinister: your task is to plant evidence in the rooms of suspects so that they can be arrested by the regular police. You’re permitted three agents: a Bolt, who takes care of the transponder that keeps all your soldiers’ cameras transmitting and their earpieces receiving orders; a Wrench, who can open locked doors; and a Spy, who has the good sense to dress in regular clothes so he can distract the many patrolling policemen without raising their suspicions. With these three goons, you’ll sneak across town, avoiding patrols and secreting folders and banned books into the houses of unsuspecting civilians. Your nefariousness of your order is mildly dulled by the detail that they can’t merely order the police to look the other way, but gameplay must arise somewhere.
Back to that second metaphor. I believe it has to do with the game of telephone that’s inevitably played as orders are relayed and the clarity of the message becomes ever more muddled. One wonders whether your agents have any thoughts or qualms with their questionable work, just as one wonders whether your own superiors have a broader view of the job they’ve assigned you. Whatever greater purpose your actions might be striking at has been lost somewhere along the wire. The man who delivers your briefing seems quite jovial about the prospect of rounding up folks for interrogation based on conjured evidence — dark humor, or twisted amusement? It’s hard to tell. And what are your own thoughts as you continue to explore the bunker between missions, finding misplaced briefs that round out the misdeeds of your ill-lit fraternity?
Either way, at this moment, Signal Ops stands poised to deliver one hell of an interesting game. The setup has been brilliant so far, and it’s been more thought-provoking in fifteen minutes than most games manage across hours.
Which is tragic, because then it falls on its face.
Whatever their purpose, they certainly weren’t helping out YOUR mission.
The tutorial sows the seeds of doubt as poor pathfinding, broken AI, and tedious gameplay rear their ugly heads. In the moment, taking in the richly layered dank of the bunker and the thrill of the task before you, it’s easy to think that maybe the tutorials were added later, tacked-on. Unfortunately, the main missions are even worse offenders.
That Bolt agent, the guy who transmits the signal that relays the agents’ visuals and your orders, is perpetually carrying around a transmitter the size of a recliner, and the instant your men travel outside of a radius around him, their signal degrades to static. Worse, for this sofa-backpack to have any sort of worthwhile distance to its broadcast range, it has to be plugged in. Which means two things: for one, your Bolt agent spends about 90% of his time standing at an electrical outlet. Sure, you can have him unpack the receiver and leave it there while he goes and does something useful, but you’ve already got the all-purpose Wrench agent taking care of the general stuff, and you’re going to have to tend to that signal anyway, so you might as well leave him be. Which brings us to our second point, that when it’s time for your men to advance, you’ve got to rush your Bolt forward to the next outlet like a relay runner, trying your best to weave him through clipping doorways and outside the indeterminate sight radius of patrolmen. This is never once fun, let alone doing it a dozen times in the first level just to keep your agents from standing around like dazed cows.
Needing to constantly keep everyone huddled around your Bolt agent ruins the game on its own, but there are plenty of other problems just as determined to take first place in the Ruin Signal Ops Contest. The AI is horrible, and it’s painfully noticeable when it comes to your agents, especially in the early levels where they’re equipped so poorly that it’s silly to think they work for a shadowy grocer, let alone a clandestine government organization. They drop like flies at the first sign of trouble, and the fact that an agent’s death can be remedied by calling for another agent from off-map rather than having to reload the game doesn’t do much to remedy it. A light jog causes enough noise that policemen will abandon their patrol to investigate, raising the question of how anyone in this country gets around, and traveling across the map in a sneak-crouch is so cumbersome that your men might as well be moving via slow-motion duck walk. Through molasses. Even the lowliest civilian won’t leave you alone, running off to alert the nearest cop at first sight of anyone but your Spy. Even if you do manage to get a drop on your enemies, and even if by some good fortune you win the fight with the police and the wonky controls, more will arrive from spawn points to further annoy you.
Not that you’ll survive, since your enemies will see you before you see them, because the screens are so damnably tiny that it’s nearly impossible to make out what’s going on even with a large monitor. The game’s murky visuals, while distinct and interesting and good at concealing the game’s indie budget, compound the problem. Keeping track of just three agents can be a chore, and it only gets worse as you pick up more in later missions.
All of these things add up to one big fat cardinal sin of gaming: it’s tedious. Everything, from moving to shooting to sneaking to using your agents’ abilities, feels like a job. There are only nine missions, but they drag on — even on the first, you’ll be planting evidence in eight houses when three would have sufficed to get the point across.
He just stands there.
As much as I enjoy writing negative reviews, I’m not happy to say I didn’t like Signal Ops. It has the strongest opening I’ve seen in an indie game this year, and its theme was enough to push me through most of the game even though I wasn’t really enjoying myself. The thick intrigue, the mysteriousness of my own agency, and the ill deeds it saw me perpetrating, were all fascinating. But in the end, there wasn’t a good enough game at the heart of Signal Ops to keep me interested.
I began with a comparison to Atom Zombie Smasher, so I’ll end with that as well. I’ve seen some reviews claim that this is just like that magical brand of older games that were bold enough to not bother with patronizing hand-holding, but that it instead throws you into the deep end and lets you figure out its puzzles for yourself. That assessment doesn’t strike me as accurate. It’s one thing to provide a challenge; it’s another entirely for that challenge to be that your game is boring and glitchy. The challenge should be in the beating of a level, not in wrestling with the controls, fighting off boredom, or micromanaging repetitive actions. Atom Zombie Smasher was, in addition to being chilling and meaningful, a smooth little game that never outstayed its welcome.
Unfortunately, Signal Ops does precisely that. So as much as I’d like to fool myself into believing it’s a flawed nugget, I’m sad to say this one is pyrite.
Posted on June 25, 2013, in Reviews and tagged Indie, Signal Ops, Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Just Dale | June 26, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Well, that’s too bad. I was hoping this one would be good.
Josh Enes | June 26, 2013 at 9:44 pm
Thanks (from one of the developers) for taking the time to play and write about Signal Ops!
Just wanted to let readers know that we have done numerous patches to address some of the issues described. For example the original release had some bugs with pathfinding and agents getting stuck, which are now fixed.
We understand that what for one person might be a welcome extra layer of challenge could be tedious for others. To remedy this, we’ve added difficulty modes in the latest patch. These are not difficulty modes like most games that make enemies hurt you more, but actually changes the gameplay mechanics surrounding the radio. You can opt to have a permanent radio signal in the areas of the level you have already visited, or even do away with the need to plug in the radio completely.
It is good to see that the atmosphere we were going for came through.
Just Dale | July 1, 2013 at 2:51 pm
I went out and got Signal Ops anyway, with the newest patch, and here are my thoughts:
The new patch does help, especially if you play with easy or normal difficulty to alleviate the tedium of having your team sticking to your radar-man so closely, but it still has problems. For one, there’s still a lot of clipping, getting stuck on the environment, NPCs having trouble rounding corners, etc. And for another, the game is just BORING for the most part. The second mission, for example, is like eight circuitous fetch-quests, with a tedious guesswork puzzle thrown in for good measure, while enemies hunt for you. There are some fun levels, like the sniper one, but for the most part it’s just really really dull.
Though getting rid of the radar mechanic by playing on easy does make it tolerable.
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Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory Celebrates 20 Years of Excellence
Marc Boucher January 31, 2018 Business, Earth Observation, News, Technology Leave a comment 3,405 Views
NEMO-HD integration at SFL. Credit: Space Flight Laboratory.
The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies is celebrating 20 years of excellence in the nanosatellite and microsatellite market.
During those years SFL has had one director, Dr. Robert Zee, who along with others, has guided the Laboratory from a small lab working on one satellite, to developing a world class facility and taking new ideas and turning them into industry leading innovative products.
It all started with the Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars (MOST) telescope built on a new microsatellite platform. According to SFL, it “designed and built entirely new hardware and software technologies customized to the unique requirements of smaller satellites. These breakthroughs include advanced attitude control for precise pointing and tracking, modular power systems for multiple spacecraft sizes, and cold/warm gas propulsion systems tailored to sub-100kg platforms.”
SFL has developed and launched 22 nano and micro-class satellites in the past 20 years and currently have 11 new satellites under development.
Some of the satellites built by the Space Flight Laboratory over the last 20 years. Credit: Space Flight Laboratory.
Other small satellite milestones highlighted by SFL include:
NorSat-1 and -2 microsatellites launched by Norway achieved significant improvements in maritime ship monitoring shortly after their 2017 launch, resulting in SFL being awarded the development contract for NorSat-3 in 2018.
CanX-7 nanosatellite, launched in 2016, successfully demonstrated aircraft tracking followed by drag sail deployment for orbital debris mitigation.
GHGSat-D microsatellite launched in 2017 by GHGSat Inc. to demonstrate that point sources of greenhouse gas emissions on Earth could be detected from orbit, leading to SFL being contracted to develop GHGSat-C1 and -C2 for commercial operations.
CanX-4 and -5 nanosatellites launched by Canada in 2014 became the first satellites of their size and ultra-low cost to achieve precise, autonomous formation flight with centimeter-level knowledge and sub-meter level control accuracy in low Earth orbit.
In a press release, Dr. Zee said “for two decades, SFL has been delivering big returns for our clients by developing smaller satellites on tight schedules at a fraction of the cost of larger satellites. Our missions have successfully carried out Earth observation, RF communications, atmospheric sensing and other applications traditionally performed by larger satellites.”
Next month at the Canadian Space Commerce Association’s Canadian SmallSat Symposium in Toronto, Zee will present a “Perspective on 20 Years of Small Mission Breakthroughs at SFL.”
Last November SpaceQ interviewed Zee. In a wide ranging interview you’ll learn a little of SFL’s history, their innovations, future plans and some of the challenges they face as small satellites go beyond low earth orbit.
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Does your business needs an outside accountant?
It all depends. If you require an audited or reviewed financial statement, then, yes, you need a CPA. In any event, it is always a good idea to maintain a relationship with an accountant no matter how small your business. Whether your accountant is a CPA is up to you. The real question is: To what extent do you need outside accounting services? That also depends on you and the nature of your business.
I always start with the admonition: The Buck Stops With You! You cannot afford to dissociate yourself from understanding the meaning of your financial statements. If you solely rely on your accounting staff or accountant for completely accurate financial data, then you are asking for trouble. If you are going to own or manage a business, then you have a responsibility to learn how to speak the language of business. The language of business is accounting knowledge.
How involved you become in the accounting process will be determined by time schedules, your mental pre-disposition, desire for control, cash flow, etc. One scenario, if you can afford it, is to hire an internal accounting staff to prepare financial statements on a monthly basis and have an external accountant check them over. Another common scenario is to prepare part of the compilation yourself, such as preparing a sales journal and a cash disbursements journal, and then hire an outside accountant to prepare a bank reconciliation and the financial statements for you. Some do this on a monthly basis, others quarterly. Some business owners do the books themselves all year and turn them over to the accountant at the end of the year to verify the balances and do the depreciation entry for tax purposes.
There are numerous ways to work with an accountant. Regardless, you should learn enough about accounting to be able to communicate intelligently with your accountant. Since you are intimately involved in your business you may recognize danger signals that not even your accountant will see.
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Relying on the yellow pages to find an accountant can be risky. The best way to find any professional is by a referral. However, you need to interview prospective accountants before signing on. One of the first priorities is to find out what their experience level is. Your business may have very specific accounting and tax issues that require a certain amount of expertise. Perhaps you have a manufacturing concern. What does the accountant know about raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory accounting? Does the accountant know how to set up job-costing and overhead burdens? Ask for references from other like-kind businesses.
Keep in mind, that you may go to an established firm with a good reputation, but with whom are you going to have a relationship? Is your account large enough to warrant a relationship with a partner? You need to feel confident with the person assigned to your account. Perhaps a smaller firm with four or five accountants who are all seasoned veterans might work better.
You will also want someone with whom you can relate. The ability to communicate is a crucial factor. Your accountant may be technically proficient but can you understand what he or she is telling you? Does he or she listen when you ask questions? Dont be afraid to ask for someone else if you are having difficulty communicating.
Another important criterion is accessibility. Is your accountant too busy to talk to you? Can you get your questions answered within a reasonable period of time? Do you feel important to him or her? Situations may arise where you need information immediately to make an important business or tax decision, will your accountant respond quickly?
Last, but not least, are the accountants billing practices. Billing practices vary from firm to firm. Some firms are very aggressive and put tremendous pressure on staff and partners to bill every minute they can. Some firms require a review process before any work goes out the door. This means that every person who performs any work on your account, including the person who puts the stamp on your envelope, bills you for it.
Find out in advance what happens if you call the firm to ask a simple question that takes less than five minutes to answer. Are you billed for five minutes or are you billed in increments of fifteen minutes even though you only talked for five? Some firms justify this increment billing by explaining that you are paying for the accountants expertise that may have taken years to acquire, therefore, they say, its worth it.
Some accounting practitioners charge a flat rate for services rendered or a combination of flat services and hourly charges. For instance, an accountant might charge $200 a month to prepare a monthly financial statement but charge $100 an hour for special projects. Within the monthly fee, the client can call to ask questions that last fifteen minutes or less for no additional charge. This way the client is not reticent about calling. Getting your question answered may prevent little problems from later becoming bigger more expensive problems.
Very often projects take longer to complete than anticipated. Complications arise and the practitioner should be paid for his or her work. Always insist that, if there are going to be additional charges over and above what has been agreed upon, that the accountant gets your approval first. Be sure to clarify these procedures before engaging an accountant in an engagement letter. This is a document that spells out the responsibilities of both parties and how the relationship is going to work.
Remember, there is absolutely no reason to be intimidated by your accountant. After all, you are paying for the services, and I promise you, the accountant wants your business.
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Affiliate! Corny, but "super affiliate" is the new buzzword for affiliates who are both ambitious and successful at affiliate marketing. There are wild claims online about affiliate marketing: Make Millions Overnight! Never Work Again! Unfortunately, these claims are usually false. To go from being a plain affiliate to super affiliate takes a lot of work. In short, you need to be an affiliate of steel.
The vast majority of affiliate marketing sites online are run by people who have no great interest in turning a huge profit. For example, you'll find thousands of blogs where people put up a few Amazon listings and/or Google links on the off chance that a passing browser will click on them. That's all well and good, but this is no way to make a dent in the affiliate marketing game. To be a super affiliate, you need to treat affiliate marketing as a job, not just something that you do on the side to put a couple of bucks in your pocket.
There is a misconception that affiliate marketing is not a real business. After all, the affiliate is not putting out a product. This is patently false. Even though an affiliate marketer is not manufacturing a product, he or she is still offering the product up for sale. An affiliate marketer still needs to be in charge of search engine optimization, custom content, quality web design, financial management, and everything else that goes into running a successful e-business. As with any business, an affiliate marketing plan is only as strong as the amount of work you put into it.
A super affiliate will be able to turn as hefty a profit as a standard businessseveral sales a day on a number of different fronts. Remember, successful affiliate marketers don't necessarily stop at one site. They set up a variety of affiliate sites with a good web address, quality web design, and lucrative affiliate marketing opportunities. Additionally, once you start selling at an accelerated rate, some affiliate programs will promote you from regular affiliate to super affiliate. If you start sending sales and traffic to a business, they will reward you with better terms.
This isn't an easy proposition, but it is possible. Make sure that an affiliate program has a corresponding super affiliate program in placebetter terms for more sales. Even if they don't, an affiliate with good terms up front can really pay off if you're able to make a several sales a month. Affiliate programs with great terms are also sometimes referred to as super affiliates. Find these and you know you'll have a good marketing in place at the start.
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Entrepreneurs make up only about 15% of the working population in the US. Far fewer actually succeed than those who attempt to become self employed business people and venture out on their own. So what makes people decide to take the entrepreneurial path, when so few actually make it a reality?
Is the American dream a possibility for anyone, or, does it take more than most to become a successful entrepreneur?
The success of an entrepreneur does depend on their mindset. A large percentage of business owners will quit in their first five years in business. What is needed is the fortitude and belief that goes with attaining success.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers and dreamers. The difference between the dreamer and the entrepreneur though, is that the entrepreneur takes actions based on their dreams. They persist through the hardships and never give up! Many entrepreneurs start with an idea. Their success is determined by their belief that they can create something greater than simple monetary success. Often, it is about creating something which will benefit the world.
James Dyson, for example, came up with the idea of the bagless vacuum cleaner. Despite multiple set backs, over 5000 prototypes and not being able to get any manufacturers or distributors to accept his idea, he persevered. It was over a decade after his initial idea when his concept came to fruition. Even then, it was after a lot of difficulties and hardship due to the vacuum replacement bag industry, which was worth £100 million in the UK.
In Simon Sinek's book 'Start With Why', he suggests that the biggest companies in the world are so because of their "why?" - their reasons for building a business in the first place. In all cases, it wasn't just to make money, or make technology better, or some whimsical ideology.
The Wright Brothers, for example, became known as the pioneers of the first manned flight. But their competition was much better funded and well connected - Samuel Pierpont Langley had worked at Harvard, had a number of powerful connections, including Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell. The War Department funded his project with a $50k grant, a seemingly massive advantage to the unconnected Wright Brothers who had no money or influence. However, their passion and devotion to change the world with this new technology drove them to attain the first flight in history in 1903.
Desire for material things and monetary wealth can only carry someone so far. Unless you have a goal or passion which is bigger than that, you may lose the momentum and fail to maintain your enthusiasm for any length of time.
The entrepreneurial mindset is one which taps into your purpose. Without a purpose driven goal or aim, it can't take long before disillusionment kicks in. With a mindset which takes into account a larger purpose, entrepreneurs can build huge businesses because they 'saw' a vision of what they wanted to create. If the purpose is greater than the obstacles which lie in the path of attaining it, no amount of setbacks will stop you from achieving your goal.
On the other hand, if you set out to do something and something gets in the way and stops you, your initial reason, (your "why?"), may not have been strong enough to endure all the battles along the way.
Entrepreneurial mind frame (or mindset) therefore, must be aligned with both your vision, your values and your purpose. If your values are not in alignment with your purpose and vision, you'll come up against road blocks which will stop you from achieving your goal.
How many new products and inventions can you dream up with in thirty minutes? At least a few if you know the techniques of innovation and creative problem solving. The following are thirty minute's worth, with some notes at how they were arrived at.
New Products and Inventions From Old
A fast way to invent new things is to start with existing concepts and find new applications. With the concept of inflatable things, the first thing that comes to my mind is inflatable shelters for emergency situations, such as after earthquakes or hurricanes. Such shelters could be transported easily, and erected quickly with a simple air pump. A basic large tent design, but with inflatable ribs instead of poles might work.
We can always find new products and inventions for babies. Inflatable cribs or playpens come to mind. Deflated, they could be folded up and stored almost anywhere. A simple design for a playpen might be a plastic floor with a simple wall that surrounds it and is attached to it. Think of air mattresses for swimming, set on their sides, connected end to end and wrapped into a circle and you'll get the idea.
When we used to go "tubing" down rivers in Michigan, we were forever trying new ways to carry a cooler with us while keeping it convenient to get a soda or beer out of it. A solution could be an inflatable bar. It might have a cooler built into it, have can and glass holders, and maybe even a secure place to set snacks. It could be used in a pool, lake or river.
Many people drive into water and die each year. One solution to this problem might be inflatable flotation that is activated when the car begins to sink. They would quickly inflate in an accident involving submersion, and would keep the car afloat. Put one in the trunk, and another inside the car, or have them come out from the wheel wells. To avoid accidental inflation, the triggering device would be activated by water, but be in a place where rain and car washing water couldn't reach.
Vending Machine Products and Inventions
When I considered the concept of vending machines, the first thing that came to mind was a beer machine. It could only be used in a bar that was restricted to adults, of course. A big benefit is that it would lessen the need for bartenders, since half of all the drinks sold in a bar are just simple beers. It is an innovation that could be implemented tomorrow, using beer in cans in existing pop machines.
A vending machine for books and magazines might do decent business in an airport, bus station or other places where people are forced to sit for hours. They may already exist, but I haven't seen them yet. Add some padding to the drop chute, and existing snack vending machines could be used.
They sell phone cards everywhere now, but I haven't yet seen them in vending machines. You could also sell those collapsible umbrellas from a machine. There are dozens of other things that could be profitably sold from vending machines. Use simple techniques like this extension of existing concepts, and there are also thousands of other new products and inventions waiting to be made.
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Home » Drug War Chronicle » Issue #502
Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, September 21, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #502)
[Spanish] Policial: Las historias de policías corruptos de esta semana
[Portuguese] Polícia: As estórias de policiais corruptos desta semana
Not just your usual weekly batch of law enforcement miscreants, although we do have the mandatory crooked jail guard or two. Let's get to it in chronological order this week:
In Galveston, Texas, a Port of Galveston police officer was arrested September 12 for financing the drug habits of prostitutes and driving them to crack houses to score. Officer James Roland Chapman, 53, now faces three prostitution counts. He faces up to two years in jail and the loss of his peace officer's license if convicted.
In Gunnison, Utah, a Sanpete County sheriff's deputy was arrested September 12 for stealing drugs from the evidence room for his own use. Deputy John Earl Stevens, 28, has allegedly admitted to using cocaine and methamphetamine. The admissions came after a search of his home found a meth pipe, burned tinfoil used in smoking it, and several "empty sealed evidence bags." Stevens is a drug dog handler and was assigned to a central Utah drug task force. He also allegedly admitted stealing drug samples used to train drug dogs. He is now charged with suspicion of drug possession and evidence tampering. He is on administrative leave and out on $1,500 bail.
In Slidell, Louisiana, a former Slidell police officer turned himself in on drug charges September 13 after evading authorities for a day. Former officer Alan Roy, 42, is charged with possession with intent to distribute Schedule III narcotics, possession of Schedule II narcotics, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Authorities said a mid-August work incident aroused suspicions about Roy, leading to an August 20 search of his house that turned up 10 ampules and 170 tablets of anabolic steroids, more than half a gram of methamphetamine, and more than 100 hypodermic syringes. Roy resigned from the force four days later. He had agreed to turn himself in on September 12, but failed to show up until the following day. He faces up to five years in prison.
In Worthington, Kentucky, a Worthington police officer was arrested September 13 on drug trafficking charges. Sgt. Thomas Bradley was arrested by agents of the Fivco Area Drug Enforcement Task Force and was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance. He was last reported being held at the Greenup County Detention Center on $15,000 bail.
In Eddyville, Kentucky, a state prison guard was arrested September 14 for smuggling drugs to inmates. Kentucky State Penitentiary guard Timothy Short, 29, went down after co-workers said they saw him give marijuana to a prisoner. He was arrested by state troopers and is charged with bribery of a public servant, which is punishable by up to five years in prison, and promoting contraband.
In Schenectady, New York, a former Schenectady police officer was sent to prison for stealing and selling drugs from the department evidence room. At his September 15 sentencing, former officer Jeffrey Curtis got four years for drug possession, one-to-three for tampering with evidence, and one year probation. Curtis pleaded guilty and admitted stealing and selling drugs, but said he had been stressed out and should have been the target of an intervention, not an investigation.
In Toledo, Ohio, a guard was arrested September 16 for sneaking drugs into the Lucas County jail. Lucas County corrections officer Edward Drane, 43, went down after jail officials used an inmate to set him up. No word yet on charges or what drugs were involved.
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investigation OVERDUE
by Anonymous, September 22, 2007, 02:25am
MIFFLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, LEWISTOWN, ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKERS (SALARIED AND ELECTED) ... AND THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT 'BOGAS' PROGRAM TO AID LAW ENFORCEMENT TO UNCOVER 'DRUG DEALERS'...THIS AREA IS OVERDUE FOR A HOUSECLEANING....
Kern County Sheriffs department abuse of authority?
by Anonymous, September 23, 2007, 10:21pm
Does anyone out there have any stories involving the KCSD involving illegal search and arrests? Does anyone out there know anything about the KCSD being investigated for corruption and abuse of authority?
KCSD involving illegal search and arrests?
by Anonymous, May 20, 2008, 02:25pm
yes, i am a victim of their illegal practices, they hate me. They lie on the stand, tamper with evidence....
dont have anySheriff's Department has to do something to do with
by April Muniz (not verified), April 13, 2014, 08:13pm
Kern County Sheriff's Department deputies saying that I give a statement that that I did not. deputies were able to be investigating officer and acomplain witness and the deputy was able to stay in the courtroom and listen to all statement from all witnesses during trial. Also was able to give the state of mind of the defendant. Also from attempted murder was the charge and it went from attempted murder to voluntary manslaughter how can a charge get switched up like that during a verted reading who does that only kern county
KCSD scare tactics in small town of Frazier Park, CA-
Law inforcement authority has gone to their heads. The officers in this town seem to think they can do what ever they want under the authority of their badges. The worst part about this is that most people that live in this town have for years heard that this is the place where they send officers that have disciplinary problems. Along with this, the District attorneys office seems to be allowing these officers to get away with the things that they do and unduly tie up the court system that already is over burdened.
Utah cop stealing drugs
by Anonymous, November 29, 2007, 02:19pm
It's no wonder there are several recent stories in Utah of cops thinking they are above the law. They have teachers at the police academy like this guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzzQOqVi-zM
Keith Stoney is a former police officer, teacher at the police academy, paid domestic violence lecturer and current justice court judge for West Valley City Utah.
Worthington Police
by Anonymous, February 27, 2009, 07:48pm
I dont know what happened to him, but he is a good man, drugs are over taken this country and nothing is ever going to stop it. Aslo my CAPTCHA Validation word was PORN, lol something wrong with this site or what
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Snik in Stavanger, Norway for Nuart
UK Street Art duo Snik have kicked off this year’s Nuart Festival with an incredible hand-cut stencil drawing on influences from British art movement the Pre-Raphaelites. The piece, titled ‘Gone Believer’, is designed with the surrounding ivy in mind, which over time will grow back to create a living, breathing, organic artwork perfectly in tune
“A truth that is beauty. A beauty that is truth.” by Ricky Lee Gordon in Stavanger
Nuart festival just rounded up their 17th edition in Stavanger this weekend, and we’re bringing you exclusive shots of the new large wall painted by Ricky Lee Gordon in collaboration with Amnesty International. “A truth that is beauty. A beauty that is truth.” was painted as a part of Amnesty’s Brave campaign and it was
Sasha Bogojev
“The Last Traveler” by NIMI in Stavanger, Norway
Nuart’s program has just got a new addition called “The Last Traveler” by Bergen-based artist NIMI. This was their new initiative to produce work outside of Nuart’s annual flagship festival. NIMI who originates from South Africa is an architect and street artist who likes to experiment with a variety of techniques, mediums and creative processes in
Street Art Buses in Stavanger, Norway
Renowned the world over for it’s annual “Street Art” Festival Nuart, the city of Stavanger recently commissioned the world’s first curated series of “Street Art” Buses. The first 8 buses include works from national and internationally renowned artists Ernest Zacharevic (Lithuania), Add Fuel (Portugal), Martin Whatson (Norway) and Hama Woods. The regional bus company Kolumbus
Welcome to NUART’s “Post Street Art” Exhibition
Last Saturday we had the opportunity to assist to the inaugural exhibition of one of the most highly anticipated events this year, the renowned NuArt Festival in Stavanger, Norway. Titled “Post-Street Art” the exhibition features unique artworks specifically created for the event inside the gallery. The idea of a “Post-Street Art” movement has been adopted to describe artworks, artists and events
Ella & Pitr for Nuart in Stavanger, Norway
Following the overwhelming success of Ella & Pitr’s collaboration with Nuart Festival in 2015, the much-loved French couple returned to Stavanger recently to leave their mark across the region again. The industrious duo painted a new mural during a two-day snowstorm on a dilapidated four-story building in Stavanger centre. Titled “La fonte des glaces” (or
Ernest Zacharevic unveils new pieces for Nuart ’15 in Stavanger, Norway
Ernest Zacharevic recently spent some time in Stavanger, Norway where he was invited to paint for the Nuart 2015 Street Art Festival.The Lithuanian artist brought to life a large mural composed by cross stitches and depicting what you would expect to find on a X-mas Sweater. The other piece shows Johanna and Broremann, two children
Nuart ’15: Icy & Sot paint new pieces in Stavanger, Norway
Iranian duo Icy & Sot are currently in Norway where they were invited to participate in the 15th edition of the always excellent Nuart Street Art Festival.Painting on the streets of Stavanger, the Brooklyn-based duo worked on several new stencil-based pieces which are featuring some of their signature imagery. The biggest one shows the hybrid
Jufe "Madonna"
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Tag: Joy FTW
Other mambos..., Sifot Reviews
Tender Grasp EP (2018) #1 – Sifot Review
The Tender Grasp EP is here, so let’s check it out. For those who don’t know, their track “Can’t Wait” was featured in the last post. This is my first review in a loooooong time… probably since the ones I did on Infektion Magazine. Yes… a metal magazine. Anyway, I’ll try to make this in a methodical way (would this be my academic heritage?). Once the project is only five tracks I find it is cool to go one by one.
Original art by Francisco San Payo
What you need to know first is that Tender Grasp is a portuguese Future Funk duo from Lisbon, Iminente and Combo Capsule. I’m not going to explain what FF is, primarily because I did it in the previous post, and secondly due to my lack of confidence in explain it further than that. I’m learning ok? But music is music, so let’s take a look to this new EP.
Structure wise you get five tracks in the following order:
1) Online Crush
I find that this opening track was the best to fit the place. I know Portugal is still facing winter, but as I’m in Brazil, this speaks summer all over the place. The song is uplifting due to its tempo, vibrant brass and bass lines, and makes you want to dance… or if you’re like me, just shake your head back and forward. It’s cool to see little variations and details on the samples along the track, which are probably Iminente’s hip-hop background mischief. I just realized that this is probably a good motivation song for workout… but because I don’t do that shit I’ll wait for others to endorse that point.
Iminente
2) Can’t Wait
There is no point in making this long, once I talked about “Can’t Wait” in my last post. Thus, I consider this more of a night life track, with slower tempo than “Online Crush” but still a danceable vibe. We have, again, great bass line, atmosphere and sample trick-lining.
3) Right on Time
Let me brag a bit about “timing”, once Sifot got previous access to the EP… I’m listening to it continuously. Moving on, this track is the one I liked the least. I recognized the potencial in the idea, with all those breaks and stuff but, what could have been great, and I mean the constant changes which create several different sections on the same song, was just ok and not that inspiring. I also feel that, although all seems in place, there is a lack of harmony between the samples used and the beat. Some of those look a bit thrown into the multitrack to fill in. All and all its a decent track, but not as striking as the others on the project.
4) Megane (featuring Lé Real)
Combo Capsule
For me this is their most radio track… What before were details of Iminente’s background on hip-hop is now a more notable choice on the sample cuts and bass line pattern. The rapper Lé Real entered in the flow of Combo Capsule’s beat that brings you back to that FF feel. This could be Tender Grasp’ signature, mixing both producers backgrounds regularly to create something with a stronger identity and, at the same time, less generic.
5) Joy
Maaannn, this is my favorite by far! First, the structure… This song is almost divided in three. The first part goes until around the minute mark, giving you a solid work in similarity of what was done in tracks as “Online Crush” or “Can’t wait”. Then it migrates to a more breakbeat feel with awweeesome use of the samples. You get a sort of bridge/chorus and then, around the 1:50 mark, a new variant of the track appears. Now more obscure with minimalist drums and post effects on the samples. Fucking love it! The downside of this song is not being twice as long, but hey… there’s always the repeat mode. It works for me.
For what I heard of this genre, Tender Grasp has enough to make something great. It doesn’t run away from the genre but it doesn’t stay still either. In just five songs they’ve made familiar FF but also mixed things up. The quality is there. On the other hand, I would say that tracks as “Online Crush” and “Megane” ended a bit on the uninspired side. There were better options than a simple fade out, specially in the latter. But these points are totally minor.
Grade: Go listen to “Joy” in repeat mode!
The whole playlist can be listen for free here:
You can download for free (or by choosing to donate whatever amount you want) on their Bandcamp page. You can also follow Iminente or Combo Capsule individually.
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Book Reviews Fred Sessoms 2018-04-29T21:32:54+02:00
The World Goes On
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:12:58+02:00 December 31st, 2017|
László Krasznahorkai's newest collection of stories is yet another ode in his ongoing courtship of oblivion.
To the Back of the Beyond
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:11:58+02:00 November 5th, 2017|
In Peter Stamm's latest novel, a loving husband takes a walk from which it seems he never returns.
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:11:15+02:00 September 29th, 2017|
Irish writer Claire Louise Bennett's idiosyncratic "Pond" is a small masterpiece of cranky solitude.
Knots; Stories
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:10:47+02:00 September 2nd, 2017|
Gunnhild Øyehaug's stories, first published in 2004, take the idea of entanglement to unsettling extremes.
I Am the Brother of XX
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:10:39+02:00 September 1st, 2017|
Fleur Jaeggy's latest book is a stunning collection of short stories in which the living exist to seek exit.
The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:10:11+02:00 August 7th, 2017|
Osama Alomar's latest collection of stories in miniature prove his worth as a Mideast magical realist.
Men Without Woman
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:09:44+02:00 July 22nd, 2017|
Haruki Murakami again revels in tales of mysterious woman (and sad men) in his latest story collection.
My Cat Yugoslavia
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:09:11+02:00 June 18th, 2017|
Pajtim Statovci's novel of personal and family displacement (and odd pets) is a shining debut.
The Last Days of New Paris
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:08:24+02:00 May 13th, 2017|
China Miéville reinvents postwar Paris in a clever but stilted homage to Surrealism.
By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T20:08:05+02:00 April 28th, 2017|
In her latest novel, Rachel Cusk can't enough of playing disappointment's biographer.
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The Book Staff consists of a handful of writers who contribute regularly review and a few who chip in from time to time. Names are withheld because books matter more than the names of their reviewers.
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Will Indonesia’s ban against IS-linked JAD dismantle the group?
September 4, 2018 3.44am EDT
Chaula Rininta Anindya, Nanyang Technological University
Chaula Rininta Anindya
Research Analyst, Indonesia Programme, Nanyang Technological University
Chaula Rininta Anindya does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Police escort the Indonesian leader of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), Zainal Ansori (centre), during his recent trial in Jakarta. Bagus Indahono/EPA
Indonesia has banned Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a homegrown terrorist group affiliated with Islamic State (IS), in a recent court ruling.
The ruling is the first to implement the newly issued Antiterrorism Law. The JAD’s indictment is expected to be followed with similar bans against other IS-affiliated organisations, such as Jamaah Ansharut Khalifah.
JAD is the second terrorist organisation to be banned by the court. In 2008, the South Jakarta District Court banned Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), an al-Qaeda-linked group that orchestrated the deadly 2002 bombings in Bali.
However, despite the court ruling, JI still managed to launch a large-scale terror attack in Jakarta in 2009. This raises questions over the effectiveness of such court rulings in dismantling terrorist organisations in Indonesia.
Understanding JAD
JAD is an umbrella group for Islamic State sympathisers in Indonesia. It was established through a meeting in Batu, Malang, East Java, in November 2015. The meeting appointed a former leader of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in Lamongan, East Java, Zainal Anshori, as the chief. JAD’s initiator, Aman Abdurrahman, became its spiritual leader.
Unlike JI, with its collective decision-making process, JAD has a loose chain of command. JAD members can take independent actions without the consent of top leadership.
JAD’s operation is divided into regions, branches and cells across the country. Its membership structure is unclear as the line between formal JAD members and its sympathisers is blurred.
JAD regularly held Quran recital meetings for people who shared similar ideologies and showed sympathy for the cause. Police claim that three families linked to a series of attacks in East Java earlier this year were part of JAD.
The families had attended one of the JAD meetings organised by Cholid Abu Bakar. Cholid is an IS sympathiser who planned to go to Syria but was arrested and deported back to Indonesia in 2017. If you look at JAD’s organisational structure, Cholid is nowhere to be seen.
Due to its fluid organisational structure, banning JAD might not be effective. First, sympathisers could still launch individual attacks without specific instructions from JAD key figures. Second, they could form a new splinter group to evade legal prosecutions.
The police should also be careful when conducting operations against terrorist suspects who are believed to be affiliated with JAD. Such actions must be based on strong evidence, otherwise these could potentially backfire.
JAD may use any baseless persecution to galvanise support from public. Careless investigations may fuel resentment among JAD members at grassroots level. The dissatisfied members might be provoked to join other terrorist activities, which will probably be hard to control due to JAD’s unclear organisation structure.
Prison management
Since the 2018 Antiterrorism Law was issued, the police have arrested 283 alleged JAD members. They were arrested as terrorist suspects in the aftermath of bomb attacks in Surabaya, East Java.
The police have detained these suspects in local police stations. However, the prisons’ limited capacity may pose a challenge in the future.
Therefore, a special prison for terrorist inmates is being built in Cikeas, Bogor, West Java, in anticipation of a surge in terrorist arrests. The prison is designed to house 340 inmates and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.
The national police chief, Tito Karnavian, said the prison would use Spain’s container system to hasten its construction.
The prison will be a maximum-security complex that restricts interactions between inmates and visitors, including family. It is built to prevent terrorist inmates from orchestrating terror attacks, or radicalising and recruiting others.
However, such isolation risks intensifying the inmates’ feeling of marginalisation. This would further legitimate their us-versus-them belief.
Deradicalisation programmes
Apart from imprisonment, the biggest challenge for terrorist inmates is to provide them with deradicalisation programmes. A prison sentence is a short-term solution for terrorist inmates while deradicalisation programmes are long-term.
Initial efforts to distance inmates from a radical environment can start within prison, such as providing alternative social networks.
Omar Patek, a JI member, stated that he altered his radical beliefs due to his interaction with his family and prison staff. Prison staff can help deradicalise inmates by building mutual trust. Therefore, psychological training for the staff is important so they know how to build effective communication with terrorist inmates.
Neutralising JAD
Arresting JAD members or banning the group is ineffective at completely neutralising JAD’s influence because its weakness is not in the organisation’s structure, but in its ideology.
Therefore, the best way for the Indonesian government to counter JAD is through deradicalisation programmes.
However, experts have criticised Indonesia’s deradicalisation programmes. Solahudin, a researcher from Universitas Indonesia’s Center for Terrorism Studies and Social Conflict, has pointed out that the National Counter-terrorism Agency (BNPT)‘s deradicalisation programmes are not optimal.
He also criticised the programmes for targeting only individuals who are no longer involved in violent acts.
The government should find a more effective way to approach radicalised individuals to tame their radical thinking.
While an ideological debate remains challenging, social and psychological efforts can become a solution at the forefront. These efforts include providing 24-hour personal mentors to offer support when the radicalised individuals encounter problems.
This approach has proved effective at the Ministry of Social Affairs’ social shelters that host deportees. Highly radicalised deportees at first refused to communicate with social workers, but they became more open due to social workers’ patience and 24-hour companionship.
The Surabaya bombings demonstrated a worrying trend of women and children being used as suicide bombers. The government should reform its policy to prevent the spread of radical ideologies in any group. To monitor radical movements at grassroots level, the government should provide support for women’s organisations through online and offline engagement.
Indonesia can also address this issue via the education system. The government can emphasise a religious curriculum that promotes tolerance. The children of the Surabaya church bombings perpetrators attended normal schools despite some research suggesting that JAD members send their children to JAD’s Islamic boarding school or homeschooling.
An improved religious curriculum, designed to promote tolerance at schools, might be effective in countering radical teachings at home.
El Salvador forges new relationship with China – it isn’t the first nor will it be the last nation to be wooed by Chinese investment. How Hwee Young/EPA
Beijing’s gains in Latin America leave US foreign policy toward China in need of a rethink
Demonstrators in Berlin demand justice for Namibian victims of German genocide. Joachim Zeller
Namibian genocide victims’ remains are home. But Germany still has work to do
Reuters journalist Wa Lone is escorted out of the Insein township court in Yangon. EPA/Lynn Bo Bo
As Myanmar sends journalists to jail, pressure mounts on Aung San Suu Kyi
A medieval engraving of the persecution of witches: historians are increasingly demonstrating that belief in witchcraft survived in Western Europe well into the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries. Wikimedia Commons
Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?
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CBS All Access Renews 'Strange Angel'
CBS All Access announced today that Strange Angel has been picked up for a second season. The good news comes six weeks after the conclusion of the historical period drama's 10-episode summer run, …
'Luke Cage' Cancelled At Netflix
Another hero has fallen at Netflix. The streaming service confirmed this evening that Luke Cage has been cancelled after two seasons. The news comes just one week after fellow superhero drama Iron …
'Magnum P.I.' Nabs Full Season Order
It is being reported that Magnum P.I. has been added to the list of new shows to receive a full season order from CBS. The network has topped up its freshman run with an unspecified number of episo…
Netflix Cancels 'Iron Fist'
It is being reported that Netflix has cancelled Marvel's Iron Fist after two seasons. The sad news comes a month following the release of the drama's sophomore run. The show aired a total of 23 epi…
'The Resident' Earns Full Season 2 Order
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The CW Renews 'The Outpost'
One week after its freshman finale, The Outpost has been renewed for Season 2. The fantasy adventure drama debuted this summer with little buzz, airing 10 episodes that garnered mixed reviews. …
Hulu Revives 'Veronica Mars'
It's official: Veronica Mars is returning to television. Hulu has ordered eight new episodes of the detective series with star Kristen Bell on-board to reprise her role as the titular character. A …
NBC Ups Episode Count For 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'
NBC announced today that it is increasing its order for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, adding five episodes to the comedy's debut outing on the network. Slated for a mid-season run in 2018-2019, the half-hour…
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USA Network Cancels 'Shooter'
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V – The Series (1985) – The Rescue, and The Champion
Posted by TD Rideout on March 2, 2019 February 12, 2019
How the mighty have fallen. V The Series continues this week, and is barely recognizable when compared to the two miniseries that inspired it. It is now all about the melodrama, and has lost any of its credibility as a struggle for the planet Earth.
The Rescue was written by Garner Simmons and debuted on 1 February, 1985. With Nathan Bates (Lane Smith) now gone, Los Angeles is turned into a war zone, and the Resistance is under full assault by the Visitors.
But instead of solidifying their attacking forces the Visitors are struggling with infighting and power struggles. Charles (Duncan Regehr) sees Diana (Jane Badler) as a threat so he forces her to marry him, as their culture dictates that she must return home to bear his children.
Lydia (June Chadwick) is upset by this development, considering her own feelings for Charles, and has a plan of her own to remove Diana from the picture.
Terence Knox makes a guest appearance in this episode as a father who has seen the Resistance on television, and wants his old friend Julie (Faye Grant) to help deliver his wife’s baby… cause she’s the only doctor in the city?
The wedding ceremony is ridiculous, and why are some of the Visitors in their true skin, but the bride and groom aren’t? And how can they have a ceremonial mouse? Wouldn’t mice be from Earth only?
Of course Lydia’s plans fpr Diana backfire and she soon finds herself in some serious trouble which leads into the next episode…
The Champion was written by Paul F. Edwards and debuted on 8 February 1985. Lydia is raced towards speedy justice for the murder of Charles with the poison that was meant for Diana.
Martin’s twin brother, Philip (Frank Ashmore) to oversee the case, and decides there isn’t enough evidence to convict Lydia, as Diana had her own reasons to want Charles dead. And so the two decide to resolve their differences with ritual combat…
… but Philip finds evidence that suggests someone else may have been involved, and orders the two combatants to look after one another until the case is finally resolved.
Meanwhile, Donovan (Marc Singer) and Kyle (Jeff Yagher) work with a local town Resistance, even if it means dealing with some less than honest local constabulary.
The show has truly fallen from what was created by Kenneth Johnson, and you can tell, just by watching, that the end is near. There are five episodes left to go, and personally with the way the stories are going, I’m kind of looking forward to it, which is sad, considering how much love I have for the two original miniseries.
This episode features a new introduction with voice over introduction, new music, new credits, and the removal of those cast members who are no longer on the show.
The battle for Earth continues for a little while longer next week, with V – The Series…
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Tsai welcomes president of Honduras on state visit to Taiwan
October 3, 2016 taiwanwireservice.com Business
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is in Taiwan on a state visit. Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen welcomed him with a military ceremony at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in downtown Taipei.
Tsai thanked Hernandez for being the first leader to congratulate her when she took office in May. She also spoke about how Taiwan and Honduras have enjoyed strong diplomatic ties, which have lasted for over 75 years.
We appreciate Honduras for upholding justice and for supporting Taiwan in the international community. [The two countries] share the values of freedom, democracy, and peace, and we will continue to strengthen our partnership. Taiwan is confident that, by working with allies such as Honduras, we can make important contributions to issues of global concern," said Tsai.
President Hernandez also spoke at the ceremony, thanking Taiwan for its help boosting Honduras' economy. He said he hopes Taiwanese businesses can help Honduras' efforts to expand several key industries, including tourism and agricultural product processing.
Source: Radio Taiwan International
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The Navy Is Finally Giving Sailors A Break Amid Growing Pressure Over Collisions
Sleep deprivation is a silent killer, especially in the military. Now, the service is scrambling to address the vicious cycle of exhaustion and overwork within the 7th Fleet that officials see as the root cause of the USS Fitzgerald and the USS McCain collisions that claimed the lives of 17 sailors over the summer.
The Navy will start with changing its sleep schedules, according to Naval Surface Force-Pacific commander Vice Adm. Tom Rowden’s on Sept. 19, giving overworked sailors a chance to actually get some rest between long watches.
“We will institute circadian rhythm” — which typically means an acknowledgment of the body’s 24-hour cycle — “in our watchbills and shipboard routines,” said Rowden, who is retiring early for reasons unknown. “Many units are already utilizing circadian rhythm, and I realize the pace of operations might dictate some modifications to the manner in which circadian rhythm is implemented.”
For Rowden, the needs of the sailors have too long been overlooked, and his remarks came a day after lawmakers, led by Sen. John McCain, grilled Navy officials regarding the routine burdens of the 100-hour work-week frequently faced by sailors.
“As stated in previous warfighting serials, personal readiness is equally important as material readiness,” Rowden said. “Additional guidance and implementation tools will be forthcoming.”
According to memos uncovered by Navy Times, skippers have been granted a number of options for watch schedules, which will better adhere to the sailors' natural rhythms.
The Navy’s exhaustion is no secret. The RAND Corporation performed a two-year sleep study of the services in 2015, and found “a high prevalence of insufficient sleep duration, poor sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and nightmares,” Task & Purpose previously reported in August. And the Navy was among the hardest hit: In particular sailors with multiple prior deployments “had greater sleep-related daytime impairment” than those without.
For Navy officials, this is an obvious problem for a 7th Fleet tasked with keeping a bellicose North Korea at bay. “Fatigue has measurable negative effects on readiness, effectiveness and safety,” Rowden said of the Navy’s sleep schedules in 2016. “After a day without sleep, human performance drops to dangerously ineffective levels.”
The Navy isn’t just taking a long, hard look at lack of sleep. On Sept. 18, two senior officers — Rear Adm. Charles Williams and Capt. Jeffrey Bennett —in the 7th Fleet were also removed for "a loss of confidence in their ability to command," CNBC reported. These departures follow a perceived lack of leadership in Williams, chief of the Navy's largest battle force, and doubts that Bennett could continue commanding the destroyer squadrons under the 7th Fleet.
Training remains a major issue. By June, a third of warfare training certifications for the Navy's destroyers and cruisers in Japan had expired, CNN reported after obtaining numbers from a Government Accountability office study on the Pacific Fleet was released. And Rowden said the Navy is taking all these issues into account.
“We must take every opportunity to evaluate how we are executing our core competencies, and improve at every turn,” he said. “As a community, we will always make the course corrections necessary to safely conduct operations at sea.”
(Update: This post has been correct the fact that Vice Adm. Rowden’s comments came from an All Naval Surface Forces Memo dated Sep. 19, not a Sep. 20 farewell address. It has also been updated to reflect that Rowden’s request for early retirement would release him from the service several months before his planned separation date, not a year early, as was previously stated.)
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For 2018 I’m extremely proud and excited to be racing with the UNNO Factory Racing, It’s a full World Cup and National series scheduled and I can’t wait to get going…
My love of everything on two wheels started when I got my first motorbike aged five for Christmas, I quickly got into racing Motocross at quite a high level and enjoyed some success competing at British Schoolboy Nationals and some International competitions. In 2008 My Dad opened a local Bike shop and it wasn’t long before I was also hooked on Mountain Bikes and within no time Downhill Racing became my new focus and a fresh challenge for me.
My first real success came at WDMBA Rheola racing at one of my first Youth events, getting a taste for the podium here kick started everything and before long I had some great support from some great people and companies alike. Shortly after I got a string of wins which included 1st at Rd5 of the IXS European Cup, British Downhill National victories in rounds 4, 5, and 6 as well as the overall title, 1st place in the Extreme DH Summer Series at Llangollen and the British National Champs Youth title.
By 2013 I had signed with the GT Factory/Atherton team for my Junior years racing alongside Marc Beaumont Gee and Rachel Atherton and my focus was solely on contesting the Downhill World Cup series… That first season was rather eventful to say the least, but luckily I managed to wrap up the British Downhill Series title early on that year and showed great promise seeding fastest at my 1st ever World Cup only to puncture on my race run. After this everything went a bit haywire and a run of crashes and pretty bad injuries happened, the worst being a near career ending crash at Crankworxs DH Air that potentially ended my chance of any further success as a Junior.
After initially being told by numerous doctors that I would be at least 18 month off the bike and against all the odds some very special people got me the chance to get back racing for 2014, I went into that season under strict team orders to “take it easy and see how it goes” before I knew it I was pushing for a podium spot at the 3rd round, then I won a World Cup at Windham USA and then going in to the finals I had a small outside chance of robbing a title, In the end it was 3rd overall in the World Cup series but it felt so good just to be back!
After missing out on World Champs in 2013 due to the spinal injury it made getting to Hajfel Norway a year later that much better, I was in with a pretty good chance too, seeding 2nd in Qualies in-between Loris Vergier and Luca Shaw was promising but like so many of the other top seeds I crashed out early on in that one too.
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Future bright for Sillinger with WHL’s Tigers
Medicine Hat still eliminated from playoffs in OT heartbreaker
Cole Sillinger turned heads in the WHL playoffs with the Tigers.
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – The month of March has been a whirlwind to say the least for Cole Sillinger.
The 15-year-old Regina, Sask., product started the month trying to help his hometown Regina Pats Canadians win the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League championship after topping the circuit with a 33-7-2-2 record in the regular season.
In helping the Pats earn a first place finish, Sillinger, who is a skilled forward, led the SMAAAHL in scoring with 31 goals and 45 assists for 76 points in 39 regular season appearances.
The Pat Canadians were eliminated in a best-of-five SMAAAHL semifinal series dropping a 5-2 decision in a series deciding Game 5 at home on March 20 to the Notre Dame Hounds. The Hounds moved on to with the SMAAAHL title for a second straight year.
Cole Sillinger (#44) drives a shot on goal for the Tigers.
After the Pat Canadians season game to an end, Sillinger was called up to play for the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL playoffs. He joined the Tigers on March 23 helping them earn a 2-1 victory in Game 1 of their best-of-seven first round series with the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Alberta capital.
On Sunday, the Tigers season came to an end as they dropped a heartbreaking 4-3 decision in overtime before 2,872 spectators at the Canalta Centre to the visiting Oil Kings.
Edmonton netted the winner at the 2:43 mark of the extra session when captain Trey Fix-Wolansky fed linemate Vince Loschiavo with a perfect pass on a two-on-one break and Loschiavo buried the game and series winner.
While the ending of Sunday’s contest was obviously tough to take for Sillinger, he was thankful he played in all six of the Tigers post-season games.
Cole Sillinger scored his first goal with the Tigers in the playoffs.
He believes he can hit the ground running, when he joins the team next season as a 16-year-old rookie.
“I can kind of get into a routine,” said Sillinger, who stands 5-foot-11 and weighs 173 pounds. “I can just come in here with lots of confidence and just know that I can play. That will be huge for me.”
Sillinger comes to the Tigers as a highly touted prospect. The Tigers selected him in the first round and 11th overall in last year’s WHL Bantam Draft.
Of course, Sillinger’s father, Mike, played 17 seasons in the NHL from 1990-91 to 2008-09 with 12 different teams.
As he wasn’t eligible to play full time in the WHL, Sillinger continued to lift his status with how he performed with the Pat Canadians. In leading the SMAAAHL in scoring, Sillinger collected a host of league awards.
Cole Sillinger, left, cuts to the net on an offensive rush for the Tigers.
He was named the circuit’s most valuable player, rookie of the year, top forward and a first team all-star.
In the final contest of the SMAAAHL regular season on Feb. 27, Sillinger score a short-handed overtime winning goal to give the Pat Canadians a 3-2 victory over the Blazers in Saskatoon to lock up first place in the league.
While he played with the Pat Canadians, Sillinger was called up to play four regular season games with the Tigers, where he collected two assists.
Cole Sillinger jets up ice for the Tigers.
In the WHL playoffs, Sillinger scored his first career goal netting the Tigers first tally in their 5-0 victory in Game 3 of their series with the Oil Kings last Tuesday in Medicine Hat.
“It was just a huge goal for me, and I will remember it forever,” said Sillinger.
Sillinger played significant minutes for the Tigers in the post-season, and Tigers head coach and general manager Shaun Clouston was pleased with how well Sillinger fit in.
“He is a great player,” said Clouston. “He is a great kid.
“He works hard. He is smart. He plays with confidence with the puck.
“He understands how the game needs to be played. He was good for us in the games that we called him up.”
Clouston was comfortable enough to call up Sillinger for a key regular season game at the Canalta Centre on March 9 against the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings. Sillinger finished that contest with a plus-one rating in the plus-minus department helping the Tigers pull out a 4-2 victory that really helped them get a lot closer to eventually clinching a playoff berth.
Vince Loschiavo scored the OT winner for the Oil Kings.
“It was great to see him score his first goal in the post-season,” said Clouston. “He has a bright future.”
Sillinger said one of his biggest early hurdles in joining the Tigers for the WHL post-season was getting over the disappointment of the fact the Pat Canadians were eliminated from the SMAAAHL playoffs.
“I was in the (Tigers) lineup, so I think I had to get that out of my head really quick,” said Sillinger. “I can’t sit on that loss (with the Pat Canadians).
“I can’t wish that I was going to win a national championship with my midget team. I think that was just the biggest thing. I had to just get that out of my head and then just have the chance to extend my season with the Tigers and do something special with the guys.”
Captain James Hamblin scored a pair of goals for the Tigers.
Sillinger believes he did a good job of quickly moving on to focus on what he needed to do to help the Tigers. He said he hasn’t even reflected on what it was like to win all the major individual awards he did with the SMAAAHL.
“I can’t thank my teammates enough for those,” said Sillinger. “I haven’t really been thinking of those.
“It has been all Tigers and all WHL and focusing on the Edmonton Oil Kings and focusing on what we have to do to win the series.”
As for Sunday’s game, the Tigers fell behind 1-0 at the 4:09 mark of the first period, when Fix-Wolansky scored a short-handed goal with a backhand shot on a breakaway.
Captain Trey Fix-Wolansky celebrates his first period goal for the Oil Kings.
Just 1:45 later, the Tigers evened things up at 1-1 on a goal from 17-year-old rookie left-winger Corson Hopwo.
Early in the second, Tigers captain James Hamblin scored two goals 27 seconds apart from each other to put the hosts up 3-1.
Just 25 seconds after that surge, Oil Kings defenceman Wyatt McLeod scored to cut the Tigers edge to 3-2.
Offensive defenceman Conner McDonald netted the equalizer for the Oil Kings to force a 3-3 tie 31 seconds into the third period. That set the stage for Loschiavo to net the winner in overtime.
Mads Sogaard made 33 saves to take the setback in goal for the Tigers. Todd Scott turned away 26 shots to pick up the win in net for the Oil Kings.
The fans at the Canalta Centre salute the Tigers.
The result of Sunday’s game brought an end to the WHL careers of the Tigers overage players in Ryan Jevne, Dylan MacPherson and Linus Nassen.
The Oil Kings finished first in the Central Division with a 42-18-4-4 record and were favoured to beat the Tigers, who placed fourth in the Central with a 35-27-4-2 mark.
“I guess when you don’t win it is disappointing,” said Clouston. “I think we battled.
“I think there were times where it looked like Edmonton was going to take the series right over early, but they didn’t. We were able to continue to battle. I’m proud of our effort and disappointed in the final outcome.”
The Tigers and Oil Kings engage in post-series handshakes.
Sillinger said he learned how important it is to keep battling in the WHL playoffs no matter what was happening to his team.
“One thing I am going to take away from it is just never give up,” said Sillinger. “That is one thing we did all series.
“You can’t get too high with your emotions. You can’t get too low, when you are down. I think that is something that we did tonight.
“I think that will be the biggest thing I’ll take away from the experience of playoffs.”
The Oil Kings celebrate their OT victory and first round series win.
Edmonton advances to a best-of-seven WHL Eastern Conference semifinal series to play the winner of the first round series between the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Calgary Hitmen.
The series between the Hurricanes and Hitmen is tied 3-3 and will require a series-deciding Game 7 to be held on Tuesday in Lethbridge.
Next season will be the Tigers 50th anniversary campaign in the WHL, and Sillinger can’t wait to hit the ice for that unique season.
“That will be something special,” said Sillinger. “We’ll for sure have high goals for that.
“We’ll have lots of these guys back. We’ll be really hungry.”
Ridley could reach 4,000 games next season
Bob Ridley called his 3,935th game as the Tigers play-by-play voice.
When the Medicine Hat Tigers play through their 50th anniversary season in 2019-20, one of the biggest celebrations might revolve around Bob Ridley, who is the only play-by-play voice the team has ever had.
Ridley, who will be 75-years-old during the 2019-20 campaign, is in position to call his 4,000th game as the Tigers play-by-play voice next season.
In the 49 campaigns the Tigers have played, Ridley has called 3,935 of the club’s 3,936 games. That tally includes action in the regular season, standings tiebreaker games, WHL playoffs and the Memorial Cup tournament.
Ridley has called 3,503 of the Tigers 3,504 regular season games, the one standings tiebreaker game the club has appeared in, all of their 411 games in the WHL playoffs and all 20 of their contests in the Memorial Cup.
At the moment, the Tigers 65th game in the upcoming regular season would be Ridley’s 4,000th game.
Of course, Ridley drove the Tigers team bus for most of that stretch.
No one has called more games as the play-by-play voice of one hockey team at any level as Ridley has.
Labels: Bob Ridley, Canalta Centre, Cole Sillinger, Corson Hopwo, Edmonton Oil Kings, James Hamblin, Mads Sogaard, Medicine Hat Tigers, Mike Sillinger, Shaun Clouston, Todd Scott, Trey Fix-Wolansky, Vince Loschiavo, WHL
The dream is alive like in 1985 right now in P.A.
The Raiders celebrate a goal in their post-season sweep of the Rebels.
For the Prince Albert Raiders and their faithful, this has been the season they have long been waiting for.
Since the Raiders last made the WHL Eastern Conference championship series as part of “The Run” in 2005, fans in “Hockey Town North” have been anxiously waiting for their team to once again be good enough to get to that point in the post-season. Fans in P.A. have dreamed about the chance to cheer on a Raiders team that carried a romanticized aura from the era of legendary head coach and general manager Terry Simpson in the 1970s and 1980s.
That type of dream seemed to be way too far out of reach for the most optimist supporter of the team.
Over the past two seasons, people in Prince Albert watched a core of likeable and personable players grow with the Raiders under the watch of head coach Marc Habscheid and general manager Curtis Hunt.
Brett Leason, right, was big in the Raiders win in Game 4 versus the Rebels.
Both Habscheid and Hunt are popular with the citizens of Prince Albert, who hoped the hand of fate wouldn’t step in and wreak the hard work of this veteran hockey duo.
Then something special happened.
The Raiders jumped out to a 7-0 start this season. They returned home from an early October road trip sporting an 8-1 record to host the Red Deer Rebels on Oct. 13 for their fourth home game of the 2018-19 campaign.
People in Prince Albert realized this was it. This group of boys they watched grow up was going to be special on this Raiders team.
The faithful returned to the Art Hauser Centre in droves. They were ready to show the rest of Canada that the song in Prince Albert is and always will be “Go Raiders Go.”
Ian Scott has been stellar in goal for the Raiders.
The Raiders beat the Rebels that night 2-1 on a third period goal by Brett Leason, where he banked the puck on a dump in off the boards to himself in perfect shooting position to net the winner. The win came before a standing room crowd of 2,727 spectators at the 2,580 seat Art Hauser Centre.
The Raiders gift store was busy through most of the contest.
That became the norm for most of the rest of the season in Prince Albert as the fans took every opportunity to soak in and enjoy the present. The club averaged 2,615 spectators per game for their 34 regular season home dates.
The Raiders rolled to finish first overall in the WHL with a 54-10-2-2 record and were rated second in the final CHL Top 10 rankings. It marked the second time in team history they finished on top of the overall WHL regular season standings.
The fans have packed the Art Hauser Centre to support the Raiders.
The only time they posted a better regular season record came when they finished first overall in the 1984-85 campaign with 58 wins, 11 losses and three ties. The Raiders went on to celebrate a Memorial Cup championship in just their third campaign in the major junior ranks.
This year’s Raiders team carries the aura the club had under Simpson’s guidance during the squad’s time in the junior A ranks in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and in the WHL.
The Raiders play with great skill and can make finesse plays that lift fans out of their seats. Up front, Leason topped the team in scoring with 36 goals and 53 assists for 89 points.
Overage centre Noah Gregor had an outstanding year placing second in team scoring with 43 goals and 45 assists for 88 points.
The Raiders have lots of toughness seen here from Justin Nachbaur (#29).
It seems like anyone on the Raiders four forward lines can put the puck in the net at any given time with Cole Fonstad, Parker Kelly, Dante Hannoun and Sean Montgomery carrying big reputations for offensive prowess.
They have a sound unit on defence that is also surprisingly mobile. The starting six of captain Brayden Pachal, Max Martin, Jeremy Masella, Zack Hayes, Kaiden Guhle and import Sergei Sapego are arguably one of the best blue-line units the WHL has seen in recent years.
Prince Albert has received top quality goaltending from 19-year-old veteran Ian Scott, who along with Leason were members of Canada’s last world junior team.
Overall, this team has the physical toughness that can overwhelm any foe. In other words, opposing players can expect to get a few bumps and bruises from playing the Raiders.
When the regular season ended, Scott was named the top goaltender for the Eastern Conference, while Habscheid was named the coach of the year for the conference and Hunt claimed executive of the year honours for the conference.
Noah Gregor has had a stellar season for the Raiders.
In the first round of the playoffs, the Raiders swept away the Red Deer Rebels 4-0 in a best-of-seven first round series. The Rebels posted a 33-29-4-2 record during the regular season and played with heart in the post-season, but were ultimately overwhelmed by the Raiders.
The two games in Prince Albert saw the Raiders draw 3,093 spectators for their 3-0 victory on March 22 in Game 1 and 3,152 spectators for their 6-4 victory last Saturday in Game 2.
The biggest bump in the road came during the Game 2 win, when Leason was kicked out of the game in the second period for taking a major penalty for checking from behind. The Raiders felt a major penalty wasn’t warranted as Rebels winger Cameron Hausinger quickly returned for the ensuing power play after taking the hit from Leason.
Ultimately, Leason was suspended for one game and missed the Raiders 4-2 victory over the Rebels in Game 3 on Tuesday in Red Deer. He returned to make a huge impact in the Raiders series clinching victory in Game 4 in Red Deer on Wednesday.
The Art Hauser Centre faithful salutes the Raiders after their Game 2 win.
With the Raiders and Rebels tied at 1-1 going into the third period, Leason scored the series winner 58 seconds into the third and added an insurance marker at the 11:27 mark of the frame to put Prince Albert up 3-1. Fonstad scored into an empty net with 3:34 remaining in the third to round out a 4-1 victory for the Raiders.
Now, the Raiders will take on their archrivals, the Saskatoon Blades, in a best-of-seven WHL Eastern Conference semifinal series. Game 1 of that series is slated for this coming Friday at 7 p.m. at the Art Hauser Centre.
The Blades finished fourth overall in the WHL with a 45-15-8 record and were an honourable mention in the final CHL Top 10 rankings. The Raiders will find that the Blades are a formable test.
For the fans in Prince Albert, the sight they love the most is when their Raiders send the Blades “Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon.”
Brayden Pachal, left, and Parker Kelly do their victory handshake.
Knocking the Blades out of the playoffs this season will be something Raiders fans will always savour.
The Raiders and their fans are enjoying every moment in the present, and hopes are high they can go all the way and bring the Memorial Cup back to “Hockey Town North.”
The impossible dream feels like it can be real this year.
Labels: Brayden Pachal, Brett Leason, Cole Fonstad, Curtis Hunt, Ian Scott, Marc Habscheid, Noah Gregor, Parker Kelly, Prince Albert Raiders, Red Deer Rebels, Saskatoon Blades, Sean Montgomery, Terry Simpson, WHL
WHL playoffs thing fitting Blades just fine
Blades captain Chase Wouters (#44) in embraced by Dorrin Luding.
You have to love it when the WHL playoffs experience is all new again.
Skating in the post-season for the first time since 2013, the Saskatoon Blades are finding a new love affair with the WHL post-season. Due to the fact it has been so long since they have been in the playoffs, the current Blades are writing their own post-season story on a clean slate.
Everything for “the Bridge City” bunch is an open road again.
Due to finishing fourth overall in the WHL regular season standings with a 45-15-8 record, the Blades have created some buzz in Saskatoon.
With having made numerous community appearances throughout the campaign, captain Chase Wouters and his teammates including the likes of Kirby Dach, Riley McKay, Kyle Crnkovic, Max Gerlach, “Uncle” Gary Haden, Nolan Maier, Dawson Davidson, Brandon Schuldhaus, et al have laid the groundwork to create an image that they are a likable bunch, and they can be “the boys” in “Toon Town.”
Kristian Roykas-Marthinsen had the OT series winner for the Blades.
One of the signs that interest is going up in the team comes from the fact the Blades are making some healthy sales at their Frozen Pond gift store with novelty T-shirts featuring Haden, McKay, Crnkovic, Gerlach, Dach and Maier.
In the first round, they swept a best-of-seven series with the Moose Jaw Warriors, who finished seventh overall in the league at 40-20-6-2. The sweep was completed on Wednesday when the Blades posted a 4-3 overtime victory in Game 4 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw.
Norwegian import winger Kristian Roykas-Marthinsen had the honours of scoring the series winner at the 4:36 mark of the extra session.
Along the way, the fans are returning to the SaskTel Centre for Blades home games. At the WHL Christmas break, the Blades were averaging 3,658 spectators per game after 15 home dates.
If that average attendance number held up, the Blades would have posted their lowest average attendance since the 2003-04 campaign, when they averaged 3,361 spectators per game in a season where they posted a franchise worst record of seven wins, 52 losses, 11 ties and two overtime setbacks.
Max Gerlach has sniped big goals for the Blades.
As the Blades remarkable regular season continued with the team winning 15 out of their final 17 regular season games, they bumped their average attendance mark for the regular season up to 3,911 spectators. The figure was an improvement over the average attendance figure of 3,851 per game for the team last season.
In their first two home playoff dates, the Blades drew 5,193 spectators for their 3-2 Game 1 overtime victory over the Warriors last Friday and 6,022 supporters for their 3-1 victory in Game 2 last Saturday. The team will always open the doors for all new supporters that want to join them.
For the Blades players, they have already experienced moments of euphoric highs. All those moments have done is created more motivation to create more of those moments.
Kirby Dach made a few highlight reels with his goal in Game 4.
The Blades started experience the euphoric highs on a grand note in Game 1. They fell behind the Warriors 2-0 early in the second. If the Blades went down to defeat there, a loss could have been chalked up to nerves.
Instead, it was time to cue the comeback.
Gerlach sniped his first of the post-season to help the Blades exit the second period down 2-1. With 8:12 remaining in the third, McKay, who became a fan favourite for his style of play that gets under the skin of opponents, netted the equalizer to tie things up at 2-2 and force overtime.
At the 3:23 mark of overtime, Wouters put home a backhander on a rush that gave the Blades a 3-2 victory and their first win in the WHL playoffs since 2011.
The captain who turned 19-years-old in February and is a career member of the team capped the victory. It was a romantic storyline moment for the Blades.
The Blades keep getting more supporters as every game passes.
The storyline moment was the result of work that was put in during the season, and the previous campaigns of building. Good teams that do all the right things will experience romantic playoff moments like the Wouters had.
For recent examples, just look at the performance of now graduated Regina Pats stars Adam Brooks and Sam Steel from the 2016-17 WHL playoffs and now graduated Swift Current Broncos stars Glenn Gawdin and Tyler Steenbergen in helping their club capture the WHL title last season.
In Game 2, Gerlach hammered home a pair of goals, while Dach netted his first of the playoffs in the Blades 3-1 victory that night.
Riley McKay, left, celebrates scoring a big goal for the Blades in Game 1.
In Game 3 on Tuesday in Moose Jaw, Gerlach broke the hearts of the Warriors and their faithful firing home the winner with 4:21 remaining in the third period to break a 2-2 tie and give the Blades a 3-2 win.
Before Roykas-Marthinsen came thought with his OT series winner in Game 4, Dach had a huge moment putting the Blades up 3-2 with 4:25 remaining in the third with a sensational short-handed goal.
On his coast-to-coast effort, Dach passed the puck to himself around first Warriors star captain and defenceman Josh Brook and another Warriors star defenceman in Jett Woo to spring himself on a breakaway. Dach tucked home his third of the playoffs on a smart deke move past Moose Jaw netminder Adam Evanoff to give the Blades the lead.
Netminder Nolan Maier has kept rolling for the Blades in the post-season.
Dach’s superhuman effort was another romantic post-season moment for the Blades.
A short time later, Warriors overage centre Tristin Langan scored to force overtime.
That set the stage for Roykas-Marthinsen to come through with his series winner for Saskatoon in the extra session.
Over the course of the sweep, Blades first year head coach Mitch Love has looked like an experienced veteran top bench boss with how he has guided his players knowing when to let them enjoy things and knowing when to pull them back to focus on the next moment or game.
General manager Colin Priestner, who has led the charge in building the current Saskatoon roster through the WHL Bantam Draft and a number of smart trades, has to feel a mix of pride, excitement and relief with what his team has accomplished to this point.
Dawson Davidson has done it all on the back end for the Blades.
Now the Blades move in to face their archrivals the Prince Albert Raiders in a best-of-seven WHL Eastern Conference semifinal series. That series will begin with Game 1 on April 5 at 7 p.m. at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert.
The Raiders are playing through a spectacular season finishing first overall in the WHL with a 54-10-2-2 record in the regular season, being ranked second in the final CHL Top 10 rankings and sweeping the Red Deer Rebels, who were 33-29-4-2 in the regular season, in the first round of the playoffs.
The Blades, who were honourable mentions in the final CHL Top 10 rankings, will be the underdogs against the Raiders.
Still, the Blades are building the belief that they can be the ones that advances to the Eastern Conference Championship series and possibly the WHL Championship series.
While the Raiders will bring their huge contingent of fans to each game of this series, it appears the Blades won’t be going into those contest by themselves.
A pure excitement is building in Saskatoon for their likable WHL team. The Blades have marketed Saskatoon as being #BladeCity.
Blades players like Riley McKay want to share big moments with their fans.
In the early going, there were a lot of skeptics that scoffed at that notion.
For a team that is making the impossible look possible, Saskatoon may legitimately become #BladeCity after all.
Labels: Chase Wouters, Colin Priestner, Dawson Davidson, Gary Haden, Kirby Dach, Kristian Roykas-Marthinsen, Max Gerlach, Mitch Love, Moose Jaw Warriors, Nolan Maier, Prince Albert Raiders, Riley McKay, Saskatoon Blades
Expect Blazers to battle to bitter end in SMAAAHL final
Rhett Gibson breaks in on a scoring chance for the Blazers.
Don’t expect the Saskatoon Blazers to let a special season die easily.
On Wednesday at the Rod Hamm Memorial Arena, the Blazers fought tooth and nail to try and claim a pivotal Game 3 of the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League championship series against the Notre Dame Hounds. Locked in a 2-2 tie after 40 minutes of play, Hounds 15-year-old defenceman Maxwell Joy scored the only goal of the third period to deliver the visitors to a 3-2 victory.
With that result, the Hounds took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series. They will be looking to close things out on Friday, when the two sides meet in Game 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Duncan McNeill Arena in Wilcox.
For the Blazers, the setback in Wednesday was a tough one to take. They took Game 1 of the SMAAAHL title series last Saturday at home 3-0. The Hounds rebounded to take Game 2 with a thrilling 3-2 double overtime result in Wilcox.
Max Gudnason (#25) had a goal for the Blazers on Wednesday.
The Blazers will be facing their third elimination game of the post-season. Of course, they won the first two way back in the first round with victories in Games 4 and 5 to take their best-of-five set with the rival Prince Albert Mintos 3-2.
The Blazers had a strong regular season posting a 31-10-3 regular season record to finish third overall in the league. They finished five points in the standings behind the first place Regina Pat Canadians.
The Pat Canadians fell to the Hounds in a series deciding Game 5 in the semifinal round.
Nolan Allan has been a force on the blue-line for the Blazers.
The Hounds, who are the defending SMAAAHL champions, finished fourth overall in the league’s regular season standings with a 28-12-2-2 mark.
While the Blazers have had a strong season, they have encountered adversity points. Any time an adversity point hits, they face it head on.
Saskatoon appeared to be poised to top the SMAAAHL standings. Weather literally wreaked havoc on their late season schedule resulting in postponements of three games.
As a result, the Blazers had a roller-coaster final seven games of the regular season winning three times, falling three times in regulation and falling once in overtime.
The overtime loss closed their regular season schedule on Feb. 27 at Rod Hamm, when the Pat Canadians posted a 3-2 win with star forward Cole Sillinger scoring the winner while short-handed.
After falling behind the Mintos 2-1 in the first round, the Blazers rallied to take that series 3-2.
In a best-of-five semifinal series, they downed the Tisdale Trojans in four games.
The Blazers celebrate a goal from Hayden Wilm on Wednesday.
Even on Wednesday, it seemed the Blazers would find a way to win.
The Hounds went ahead 1-0 at the 4:26 mark on a goal by star forward Coalson Wolford. Less than two minutes later, the Blazers tied things up at 1-1 with a short-handed goal coming from the stick of veteran forward Max Gudnason.
Forward Drew Englot put the Hounds back on top 2-1 near the midway point of the second.
The Blazers battled back with a power-play goal from rookie forward Hayden Wilm with 3:57 remaining in the second.
Joy scored his winner at the 5:48 mark of the third. While the Blazers had the puck for the majority of the time for the rest of the third, their shots on goal were limited due to the defensive work of the Hounds, who trapped up the centre ice zone efficiently.
Cole Nagy played a physical game for the Blazers on Wednesday.
Matthew Pesenti turned away 22 shots to take the setback in goal for the Blazers. Thomas Wardle had an outstanding game making 29 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Hounds.
The Blazers had great efforts from a number of their standouts. The most noticeable was 15-year-old rookie offensive defenceman Nolan Allan, who was selected in the first round and third overall in the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft by the Prince Albert Raiders.
Allan was a force at both ends of the ice, and he had serious control of the play, when he had the puck. He has six goals and 15 assists in the Blazers 12 playoff games after posting 12 goals and 23 assists in 39 regular season games.
Veteran 17-year-old forward Cole Nagy played a physical game. He topped the Blazers in regular season scoring with 26 goals and 39 assists appearing in all the team’s 44 regular season games.
Forward Josh Nagy had dangerous moments in the offensive zone.
Keenan Allan breaks into the offensive zone for the Blazers.
He finished second in Blazers regular season scoring with 21 goals and 27 assists in 43 regular season games.
Sophomore forward Carter Stebbings flowed to smart areas on the ice. He had 13 goals and 32 assists appearing in all of the Blazers 44 regular season games.
Speedy Rhett Gibson brought a lot of energy to the contest. In 38 regular season games he had 17 goals and 21 assists.
Head coach Scott Scissons always seems to find a way to help the Blazers hit another gear.
Overall, the heart of this Saskatoon side can never be questioned. It always shows through.
Head coach Scott Scissons and the Blazers aim to force a Game 5 on Sunday.
The Blazers have their backs to the wall, but they are far from finished in the SMAAAHL final. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see them return home to host a series deciding Game 5 this coming Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Rod Hamm.
Labels: Coalson Wolford, Cole Nagy, Drew Englot, Hayden Wilm, Matthew Pesenti, Max Gudnason, Maxwell Joy, Nolan Allan, Notre Dame Hounds, Rod Hamm Memorial Arena, Saskatoon Blazers, Scott Scissons, SMAAAHL, Thomas Wardle
Stars build SFMAAAHL dynasty, win fourth Fedoruk Cup in last five years
Anna Leschyshyn, right, lifts the Fedoruk Cup, while Ashley Messier cheers.
It felt like it was just a matter of time before the Saskatoon Stars championship pedigree was going to rise to the surface.
On Tuesday, the Stars were looking to sweep the best-of-five Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Championship series in a Game 3 clash against the Regina Rebels at Merlis Belsher Place. The host Stars seemed to start a little slow coming out of the gate, and the Rebels held a slight edge in play holding a 10-8 edge in shots on goal over the first 20 minutes.
At that point, the Stars hit another gear.
Just nine seconds into the second period, Stars star veteran winger Anna Leschyshyn blew home a power-play goal to the top corner of the Regina goal to give the Stars a 1-0 advantage.
Anna Leschyshyn had the Stars first goal on Tuesday.
The Rebels evened things at 1-1 just 29 second later on a goal from 15-year-old forward Neena Brick, who was the SFMAAAHL’s rookie of the year this season.
Saskatoon responded with two goals before the second frame ended to go up 3-1 and cruised to a 3-2 victory.
With the win, the Stars swept the SFMAAAHL title series 3-0 and captured the Fedoruk Cup as league champions for the fourth time in the last five years.
“It is obviously really special,” said Stars veteran captain Grace Shirley. “We’ve kind of been working for this ever since the beginning of the season.
“It is really awesome that we could get the win. It is pretty special, because it is my last year. I kind of wanted to go out of the league on a winning note.
Neena Brick scored for the Rebels on Tuesday.
“It is obviously super special, and I’m excited for what’s next.”
When the Rebels evened the game up at 1-1, the Stars didn’t get rattled. They controlled the majority of the play for the rest of the contest.
At the 4:12 mark of the second, Shirley put the Stars ahead 2-1 when her seemingly innocent backhand shot had eyes and found its way past Rebels netminder Chantel Weller.
Shirley said her goal was a lucky one, but despite the luck, her team found its edge offensively.
“I think started just like playing our game offensively and getting shots and chances,” said Shirley. “Once we started to do that, they started to go in for us, so it was good.”
Captain Grace Shirley had a goal for the Stars on Tuesday.
With 1:37 remaining in the second period, rookie forwards Halle Helperl and Kaylee Baun teamed up to set up 17-year-old veteran linemate Kaitlin Jockims for a goal to put the Stars up 3-1.
The Rebels were held to just two shots on goal in the third period, but one of those shots resulted in a goal from veteran 17-year-old forward Samantha Sichkaruk that cut the Stars lead to 3-2 with 8:50 remaining in the frame.
During the dying seconds of the third, the Rebels had a huge chance to tie the game, but a final desperate shot by Brick from in close on the left side of the Saskatoon goal went just wide of its mark.
Rookie Stars forward Haylee Kos, who turned 15-years-old in early February, said her team’s confidence was still high even after the Rebels closed to within 3-2.
“There was a little bit of nervousness, because we got so close,” said Kos. “I think we all had some pretty good composure.
Sydney Pedersen brings the puck up ice for the Rebels.
“We kept our defence up.”
When the third period clock hit zero, Kos said she screamed and jumped over the boards as fast as she could to celebrate with her teammates. She said this was a dream moment during her journey in her rookie campaign.
“It is absolutely incredible,” said Kos. “It was a little bit chaotic at first adjusting to everything, but I think once I got used to it, it was one of the best experiences of my life.”
Arden Kliewer made 15 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Stars. Weller turned away 24 shots to take the setback in net for the Rebels.
Saskatoon finished first in the SFMAAAHL regular season with a 27-1 mark, which was the best record the team ever posted in regular season play. Regina was second with a 17-7-4 record.
The Stars begin celebrating their SFMAAAHL title win.
Greg Slobodzian has guided the Stars to all four of their SFMAAAHL title victories as head coach.
The Stars claimed the league crown in 2015, 2016 and last season. He said it is always special to finish as the top team in the province and that all of the Stars SFMAAAHL championship victories had equal meaning.
“They are all great,” said Slobodzian. “This one is really nice, because you’re with this group of girls for so long, like the other ones too.
“We’ve got a pretty big graduating class this year. We’ve got some young girls here that I am so happy that they get a chance to experience this. They are all great.
The crowd at Merlis Belsher Place salutes the Stars for their title win.
“This one is just like all the other ones. I’m going to be enjoying it for a long time.”
The Stars will now host the Manitoba female midget AAA champion Westman Wildcats from Hartney in a best-of-three Western regional playdown series. The dates and times of that series are still to be announced. It is expected the series will start around April 5.
The winner of that series advances to the Esso Cup female midget AAA national championship tournament to be held April 21 to 27 in Sudbury, Ont.
The Stars pose for the traditional team championship photo.
Saskatoon has advanced to the Esso Cup the three previous times it has won the SFMAAAHL title.
Shirley is pumped to get the chance to play in another regional playdown series.
“It is awesome,” said Shirley. “I think any time you get to play more games it is good.
“I think we are just going to keep getting better and see where that takes us.”
Labels: Anna Leschyshyn, Arden Kliewer, Chantel Weller, Fedoruk Cup, Grace Shirley, Greg Slobodzian, Haylee Kos, Kaitlin Jockims, Neena Brick, Regina Rebels, Samantha Sichkaruk, Saskatoon Stars, SFMAAAHL, Westman Wildcats
Stars one win away from SFMAAAHL title repeat
Jockims’ monster night gives Saskatoon 4-1 win in Game 2
Kaitlin Jockims had three points for the Stars on Monday.
Kaitlin Jockims took her turn to become the latest star to step up in a big moment for the Saskatoon Stars.
On Monday at the Co-operators Centre in Regina, Jockims had a pair of goals and an assist to help the visiting Stars erase a 1-0 first period deficit and down the host Rebels 4-1 in Game 2 of the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League championship series.
With the win, the Stars take a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. They will have their first chance to close out the series and win the Fedoruk Cup for a second straight year in Game 3 on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Merlis Belsher Place on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon.
In Monday’s game, the Rebels opened the scoring at the 10:51 mark of the first period on a goal from 15-year-old sophomore defender Sydney Pedersen.
The Stars evened things up at 1-1 at the 3:34 mark of the second, when Jockims netted her first of the contest.
With under three seconds to play in the second period, Jockims teamed up with captain Grace Shirley to set up Anna Leschyshyn for the go-ahead goal on the power play to give Saskatoon a 2-1 advantage.
Sydney Pedersen scored for the Rebels on Monday.
Jockims proceeded to score a huge insurance marker to give the Stars a 3-1 edge with 2:50 remaining in the third period. Sophomore forward Calli Arnold rounded out the Stars scoring with an empty-net goal inside of the final 50 seconds of the third.
Arden Kliewer made 20 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Stars. Chantel Weller turned away 23-of-26 shots to take the setback in net for the Rebels.
Saskatoon finished first in the SFMAAAHL regular season with a 27-1 mark, while Regina was second with a 17-7-4 record.
The Stars are trying to win their fourth SFMAAAHL title in the last five years. The Rebels won their lone SFMAAAHL title in 2013.
If the Rebels win Game 3 on Tuesday to stay alive in the series, they would force a Game 4 to be held in Regina on Thursday at 7:45 p.m. at the Co-operators Centre. If a series-deciding Game 5 is required, it will be held on Sunday at 5:15 p.m. at Merlis Belsher Place.
Labels: Anna Leschyshyn, Arden Kliewer, Calli Arnold, Chantel Weller, Co-operators Centre, Fedoruk Cup, Grace Shirley, Kaitlin Jockims, Merlis Belsher Place, Regina Rebels, Saskatoon Stars, SFMAAAHL, Sydney Pedersen
Arnold OT hero for Stars in Game 1 of SFMAAAHL final
Calli Arnold netted the OT winner for the Stars on Saturday night.
Calli Arnold stepped into the spotlight for the Saskatoon Stars on Saturday night.
The 15-year-old sophomore winger netted the winning goal at the 3:26 mark of overtime to give the Stars a 2-1 victory over the Regina Rebels in Game 1 of the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League championship series at Merlis Belsher Place. Game 2 of the best-of-five series is slated for Monday at 7:45 p.m. at the Co-operators Centre in Regina.
Arnold’s goal was her first tally of the playoffs with veteran linemates Anna Leschyshyn and Joelle Fiala picking up assists.
Going into the post-season, Arnold, who is from Dodsland, Sask., had a breakout out year netting 12 goals and 15 assists appearing in all of the Stars 28 regular season games.
Chantel Weller made 29 saves in goal for the Rebels on Saturday.
The Stars jumped out to a 1-0 lead in Saturday’s contest as offensive-defender Ashley Messier netted a power-play goal at the 2:12 mark of the first period.
Veteran forward Lauren Focht, who turned 17-years-old in January, scored for Regina at the 14:48 mark of the opening frame to force a 1-1 tie.
The goaltenders for both sides had stellar performances in the SFMAAAHL title series opener.
Arden Kliewer made 32 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Stars. Chantel Weller turned away 29 shots to take the setback in goal for the Rebels.
Saskatoon finished first in the SFMAAAHL regular season with a 27-1 mark, while Regina was second with a 17-7-4 record. The Stars won three out of the four head-to-head regular season games with the Rebels.
Game 3 of the series is set for Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Merlis Belsher Place.
Stars alums Clark and Shirley win NCAA title with Badgers
Worth the wait. NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
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Saskatoon Stars alums Emily Clark and Sophie Shirley experienced a career highlight they will never forget.
On Sunday, the two skilled forwards helped the University of Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team win their fifth National Collegiate Athletic Association title in team history. The top seeded Badgers blanked the second seeded University of Minnesota Golden Gophers 2-0 in the championship game of the women’s Frozen Four at the People’s United Centre in Hamden, Connecticut.
Clark is a senior forward with the Badgers who was playing in her final NCAA career game. Shirley is a freshman with the Badgers.
Both were held off the scoresheet in the championship final.
Sophia Shaver and Annie Pankowski netted singles for the Badgers.
Kristen Campbell, who is from Brandon, Man., made 27 saves to earn the shutout win in goal for the Badgers, who finished with a 35-4-2 overall record. Alex Gulstene turned away 30 shots to take the setback in goal for the Golden Gophers, who finished with a 32-6-1 overall record.
Sunday’s win marked the first time the Badgers captured the NCAA title since 2011. A national championship in NCAA women’s hockey was first awarded in 2001.
The Badgers blanked the fourth seeded Clarkson University Golden Knights 5-0 in a semifinal game on Friday. Clark had an assist in that contest.
The Golden Knights won the NCAA title in each of the previous two years.
Both Clark and Shirley are members of Canada’s national women’s hockey team program. Clark skates with the senior women’s team, and Shirley is a member of the national development team.
Clark, who played for the Stars from 2009 to 2012, missed time at the beginning of the season due to an injured left leg. Skating in her fourth and final season with the Badgers, Clark has appeared in 34 overall games recording 14 goals, 14 assists and a plus-25 rating in the plus-minus department.
Shirley, who played for the Stars from 2012 to 2015, had had an outstanding rookie season with the Badgers appearing in 41 overall games recording 20 goals, 18 assists and a plus-36 rating.
The Golden Gophers blanked the Cornell University Big Red 2-0 in Friday’s other semifinal.
Stars alum Willow Slobodzian is a sophomore defender for the Big Red. In 36 games with the Big Red this season, Slobodzian, who played for the Stars from 2014 to 2017, had four goals, eight assists and is a plus-22.
Willoughby captures Clarkson Cup with Inferno
All smiles from the 2019 Clarkson Cup Champs! pic.twitter.com/SgeQZAWTFh
— Hockey Hall of Fame (@HockeyHallFame) March 24, 2019
Kaitlin Willoughby capped her rookie season as a professional hockey player in championship style.
The speedy winger helped the Calgary Inferno win the Clarkson Cup as Canadian Women’s Hockey League champions with a 5-2 win over Les Canadiennes de Montreal in the circuit’s title game in Toronto, Ont., on Sunday.
Willoughby wasn’t able to collect any points in Sunday’s final Ricoh Coliseum, but she still finished a year playing key minutes on a stacked Inferno squad this past season.
The Inferno led Sunday’s clash with Les Canadiennes 2-0 after the first period and 3-2 after the second framed before cruising to a three-goal victory.
Zoe Hickel scored twice for the Inferno, while Halli Krzyzaniak, Brianna Decker and Rebecca Johnston had singles. Ann-Sophie Bettez scored both goals for Les Canadiennes.
Alex Rigsby turned away 25 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Inferno. Emerance Maschmeyer stopped 26-of-30 shots taking the setback in goal for Les Canadiennes.
The Inferno topped the CWHL regular season standings with a 23-4-0-1 record. Les Canadiennes finished second with a 21-6-0-1 mark.
Willoughby has appeared in 27 regular season games with the Inferno collecting one goal and five assists. On March 11, the 23-year-old forward from Prince Albert, Sask., who originally hails from Canwood, Sask., captained Canada’s women’s hockey team to a silver medal win at the FISU Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Canada fell 2-0 in the gold medal game to the host Russian side. In six games at the tournament, Willoughby had a goal, three assists and was a plus-five.
Before joining the Inferno, Willoughby was a star for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s hockey team from 2013 to 2018 finishing as the squad’s second all-time leading scorer posting 50 goals and 61 assists for 111 points in 132 career regular season games.
From 2008 to 2013, Willoughby appeared in 96 regular season games with the SFMAAAHL’s Prince Albert Northern Bears piling up 34 goals and 63 assists for 97 points.
While playing for the Inferno and for Canada at the FISU Winter Universiade, Willoughby is competing her studies in nursing at the U of Saskatchewan.
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Life expectancy in years, at birth and for age groups
95% Lower Confidence Limit
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Urban Rural Classification
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Life expectancy in years, at birth and for age groups. Breakdowns are also given for deprivation (SIMD) and Urban Rural classification.
Life expectancy refers to the number of years that a person could expect to survive if the current mortality rates for each age group, sex and geographic area remain constant throughout their life. This is referred to as ‘period life expectancy’ and does not usually reflect the actual number of years that a person will survive. This is because it does not take into account changes in health care and other social factors that may occur through someone’s lifetime. However, life expectancy is a useful statistic as it provides a snapshot of the health of a population and allows the identification of inequalities between populations.
Further details are available on the NRS website
These data are quality assured by a statistician who was not involved in the publication. The council level data were also compared against those produced by ONS.
Life expectancy at birth is an estimate which is subject to a margin of error. The accuracy of the results can be indicated by calculating a confidence interval within which the true underlying life expectancy would be expected to lie. The National Records of Scotland (NRS) have published research papers assessing the quality of the administrative data sources that are used in the production of mid-year population estimates.
Time-series comparisons are currently appropriate at the council level.
Care should be taken with comparisons at the NHS Board level until the time-series has been updated to include the corrected 2012 to 2014 mid-year estimates and the new 90 years and over upper age group.
Urban Rural and SIMD Classifications change over time. Comparisons are suitable when the life expectancy estimate uses the same version of the classification as it will refer to the same areas.
Further information can be found in Life Expectancy for Areas in Scotland, 2014-2016 publication on the NRS website.
There are differences between complete life tables (calculated for single year of age) and abridged life tables (calculated for grouped ages). The Scotland level figures presented in this publication are calculated using abridged life tables to allow for comparison with the subnational figures. The definitive life expectancy estimates for Scotland are published in the national life tables on the NRS website.
Used in monitoring and investigating health inequality issues within Scotland, setting public health targets, informing pensions policy, research and teaching.
The estimates are based on the mortality probabilities indicated by the death records for the three years prior to the date of publication. For example, the 2014-2016 estimates were published in December 2017. The most recent estimates were published on the pre-announced date
The estimates used in the 2014-2016 publication were calculated using corrected mid-year population estimates for 2012, 2013 and 2014 which were published by NRS in April 2016..
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UK Anime Network - Anime Reviews
Author: Andy Hanley
Andy has been writing for UK Anime since 2006, and was the site's editor-in-chief until August 2017. Contrary to popular belief, Andy is not actually a robot.
Overlord - Complete Series Collection
DVD £24.99; Blu-ray £34.99; Collectors £44.99
In this modern world where huge swathes of our lives are represented and carried out digitally, the thought of a virtual world that you've poured thousands of hours into being obliterated in the blink of an eye is a terrifying one, almost akin to facing the prospect of death itself. All of those people that you'll never see again; the places you can't revisit; the defining moments and experiences that are now relegated to fading memories. No wonder that the final day of an online service can, for some, be treated like a funeral - a moment to celebrate a glorious life, but also to bid a sad farewell to things that you'll never see again.
In Overlord's case, we join the story of its protagonist - known as Momonga - on the final day of a so-called DMMORPG (the D stands for dive, incidentally) called Yggdrasil which has been a prominent part of his life for many years. A fully levelled-up and powerful guild leader in the game, Momonga has made peace with the end of this virtual world - after all, his former guild mates have all moved on from the game thanks to the pressures of real life, and the contents of the world at this point is almost as skeletal as the visage of Momonga's user-created character. Such is the paucity of the game's userbase that Momonga's farewell to Yggdrasil is a lonely one for the most part, leaving him to simply toy with the user-created NPCs that adorn the home of his guild and reflect upon his achievements. The seconds tick down, midnight rolls around, and the end of Yggdrasil is nigh... or is it? The specific time for the shutdown comes and goes without Momonga being booted from the now-defunct game server, although it seems that none of the in-game menus work any more. Our protagonist has been... (wait for it)... trapped in a video game world!
Not that Momonga seems particularly nonplussed by this. Beyond his surprise that NPCs can now talk freely with him like actual humans (and admonishing himself for changing the character description of one of them in a way which eventually gives him all kinds of headaches over the course of the series), our protagonist accepts his new reality without so much as a shrug. There are no questions here of how to escape, or of what death might mean in this new world so closely tied to the virtual one he knows so well - he simply gets on with the task of being a supreme leader of his guild in largely the same way that he always has.
It's this lack of interest in the big questions which is precisely what makes Overlord so dull. Take a look through the numerous successful "trapped in a fantasy RPG world" anime of recent years, and the thread that runs through them all is how it uses the mechanics of that world - usually as it pertains to death - as a major driver of its drama and the questions it wants to ask. Sword Art Online gives importance to every action thanks to in-game death leading to real-life death; Log Horizon has its own unique spin on what death means in its world; Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash uses death as a mirror to hold up to our own society; and so the list goes on.
Instead, Overlord serves up nothing but bland self-insert wish fulfilment from beginning to end. Ainz Ooal Gown (who I ended up referring to in my head as Ainz Own Goal) - as he becomes to be known after his former guild's name - only exists for almost every other character to remark upon how powerful, how intelligent and how unceasingly incredible he is in everything he does. Those who don't talk about how perfect he is are instead simply the fodder that he uses to demonstrate his abilities, often brutally despatched for some vague "greater good" that the series really doesn't have time to explain, as it's time to talk about how wonderful our protagonist is again. Oh, and he finds himself with a harem from the first moment the world shifts from a virtual to a real one, of course. Because let me tell you, this big bulky skeleton-man is soooooo dreamy.
Admittedly, this isn't particularly new for the genre - Sword Art Online's Kirito is a prime example of a self-insert heroic protagonist himself, but at least that series allows us to follow his journey and builds up a body of evidence that he's earned the admiration foist upon him, however unlikely it might ultimately be. Not so here - our hero (if he can really be called that) is basically a fully-formed god from the first moment, and there's never any real danger of his power being usurped. He's effectively Saitama from One-Punch Man without the funny bits. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
The real tragedy of this is that the show's singular focus on its amazing protagonist means that what could have been other interesting facets of the series get frittered away. How does Momonga feel to be left to fend for himself without his friends? What's his relationship with a world he spent so long within in a virtual form now it's made real? What's it like to hang out with NPCs crafted based upon the proclivities of his guild buddies? Some of these moments get touched on agonisingly briefly, and then pushed to one side to return to the boring, paint by numbers fantasy action-adventure show Overlord desires to be.
Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if the series managed to craft some compelling villains and eye-opening, spectacular battles - but it doesn't do that either. There's only one villain we overtly get to see strutting their stuff, and she's just your run-of-the-mill crazy antagonist, and given that the final ten minutes of the series are just a massive, constant sequel hook that spits out plot points left and right you're ultimately left with the feeling that this series was just a warm-up act.
The show doesn't acquit itself particularly well visually either - there's far too much subpar CG that ruins any immersiveness it might boast, and although there are some striking character designs the overall feeling of Overlord's world is one that you've seen a hundred times before. If you're going to give me a boring, predictable protagonist doing dull things, at least give me something eye-catching to look at.
Both English and Japanese voice casts acquit themselves well - in particular, both language tracks do good work with Momonga's voice as he switches from a slightly weedy inner monologue that represents his "real voice" compared to the more booming voice he uses to exert influence as the world's supreme leader that he is. Subtitles are also good throughout, although for some reason the ending credits censor the word "fucking" in the credit subtitles; odd for a show that has no qualms throwing around other swear words within the series itself. We haven't seen the physical Collector's Edition release of the show at the time of writing, so can't comment on the qualities of that aspect of the release here.
I came into Overlord quite excited to see what it had to offer - as over-used though it is, the genre it represents does have plenty to offer and ideas it can dig into, and having heard such positive noises about it I was looking forward to digging into what it could bring to table. Sadly, having watched it all, I'm sat at the table with a rusty spoon and a plate of self-raising flour in front of me, and I really couldn't be much more disappointment. There are so many far, far better examples of the "trapped in a fantasy RPG world" genre out there and readily available in the UK that it's difficult to find any reasons to recommend Overlord over and of them. If all you want is some paint by numbers self-insert wish fulfilment then I suppose the series is functional, but whether you want to engage your brain or simple enjoy some spectacle then other series that I've name-checked in the body of this article will serve you far better.
English 5.1 and Japanese stereo audio with English subtitles. Extras consist of audio and video US cast commentary tracks, Play Play Pleaides feature, collection of episode previews, textless opening and closing credits.
This by the numbers series is as lifeless as its undead protagonist, and does nothing to stand out in a crowded genre of notable contenders for your time.
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City in Switzerland Comes Together to Fight Hunger
Written by Kate Kardol - 14 August 2018 - 3 min read
In the Swiss town of Basel, hundreds of residents came together for the second year in a row to fight against hunger in a campaign called ‘Basel gegen Hunger’. The goal was to raise awareness and funds for the hunger crisis in South Sudan.
It was a fantastic example of the power of people in numbers – as individuals our impact can be strong, but together we are stronger.
It started with a spark
It all started with a couple from Basel who wanted to do something to relieve the suffering of the people affected by the famine in South Sudan. In South Sudan, children and other particularly vulnerable groups repeatedly flee from danger; they lose loved ones; face hunger, malnutrition, and drink unsafe water; and grow up without schooling. It takes a severe toll on the physical and emotional well-being of millions of the country’s most vulnerable people.
Hearing about the everyday struggles of people living amidst a conflict that continues to tear their country apart, they could not sit idly by. In response, they organised a city-wide campaign together with the Medair team to raise money for Medair’s nutrition programme in South Sudan where severely malnourished children and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers are treated on a regular basis.
The campaign kicked off with a 3-days Photo Exhibition on South Sudan by renowned Swiss photographer, Dominic Nahr. In total, more than 365 people participated, using small cans to collect donations for the nutrition programme. With the can, people raised money in their neighbourhoods, at their workplaces, in their schools, and around their communities.
A spark ignited a flame
The energy and passion to take action was contagious and spread to some unlikely places.
Just one of several examples is a local church in Basel who organises a food distribution for people in need every Tuesday. This initiative serves people living in Basel in need of social assistance. Many of the recipients are refugees.
The volunteers decided to get the recipients of the distribution involved. At the welcoming desk, a volunteer welcomed people in and explained what they were doing to raise money for South Sudan.
Most all of the recipients gave what they could, despite their tough personal circumstances, to support the efforts.
“A lot of them were willing to support our campaign, which is really impressive and shows that people, even if they have very limited finances want to be generous and give something back to others in need,” said Noah Kaiser, Communications Officer at Medair.
“Over five weeks they collected close to 550.- CHF for our nutrition programme!”
James Gruntz performs a charity concert with more than 350 attendees.
But that wasn’t all. Across the city, participants organised bake sales, charity lunches, and flea markets to raise money. Others used their daily work to gather donations – like Samuel and Damaris Glaser who for the second time organised a charity lunch for the employees at Swiss Life, the largest life insurance company in Switzerland. The combined amount was then doubled by the company’s foundation.
Over the course of six weeks, participants raised more than 53,000.-CHF!
We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all who participated and committed themselves to the people of South Sudan. Your inspiring and creative action really makes a difference in the lives of countless vulnerable people.
For more campaign information and photos, visit the Basel Hunger Facebook page.
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MMXIX Vol. 285 - April 11, 2019
Bibi's New Collation?
Bibi Netanyahu Can Name His Team and His Price
Bibi wants a broad coalition as he heads into his legal battles. He can’t expect his Blue and White colleagues to defend him, but it would be very awkward for Gantz and his party to publicly criticize their own prime minister.
Silence is sufficient. The mere presence of Blue and White ministers in the government will make them, ipso facto, character witnesses for the prime minister. Bibi’s defense is based largely on trivializing his alleged crimes. The willingness of his most vitriolic political opponents to serve alongside him would, inevitably, support this argument.
The negotiations for the sweet surrender of Blue and White are already underway. There will be the usual posturing, bluffs and threats that accompany coalition politics, but in the end, I believe Bibi will make them an offer they could refuse, but won’t.
Huge Netanyahu Victory,
Israeli Left Trashed, Orthodox Judaism Rules
Netanyahu also got exactly the kind of majority he was praying for: the Haredim at a stunning 16 seats combined – 8 to United Torah Judaism and 8 to Shas; Bennett below the threshold vote, slated for disappearance; the two Arab factions down from 13 to 10 seats combines; and Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut also below the vote threshold.
For one thing, he has several proposed paths at this point to evade prosecution altogether in three expected corruption indictments, with his coalition partners ready and able to legislate whatever Bibi needs to stay alive politically. And the only coalition partner who might object, Moshe Kahlon, can always drop whatever portfolio he receives and leave – Bibi would still be sitting pretty on 61 seats.
it must be noted that in Israel’s 21st Knesset the second largest faction is made up of 16 Haredi MKs. It is truly a first, and sure to reshape Israeli society. With the 5-seat religious Zionist faction led by Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich, 21 Knesset seats are occupied by devoted Orthodox Jews, with at least ten more yarmulke-wearing Likud MKs. The 21st Knesset will not only be the most right-wing in Israel’s history, but also the most Orthodox-Jewish and Haredi.
The Future of the Two-State Solution Is at Stake
This government’s composition would not be all that different from Netanyahu’s current coalition, but it may pursue a very dangerous path by opting to start annexing parts of the West Bank. Such a decision would lead to irreversible steps that make it impossible to form a contiguous and viable future Palestinian state and could lead to the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority, which was established to create a pathway for Palestinian statehood. In short, this outcome could mark the end of the possibility of a two-state solution.
Annexation of parts of the West Bank is overwhelmingly popular in Netanyahu’s Likud party. But until now Bibi has been smart enough to oppose it, recognizing that this irreversible step could have profound implications for Israel’s international standing—bringing harsh international condemnation, isolating it from even its closest partners, and jeopardizing any possibility of warming relationships with its Arab neighbors.
However, two things have changed. First, Netanyahu’s primary motivation in forming any coalition will be to protect himself from legal jeopardy. What he wants more than anything is to form a right-wing government that would pass new legislation to shield a sitting prime minister from criminal prosecution. In exchange for such a promise, he would be willing to give almost anything to his coalition partners , including giving in to demands on the far right to annex parts of the West Bank. And indeed, this weekend Netanyahu declared he would do just that if elected.
Binyamin Netanyahu promises
to start annexing the West Bank
In an interview on April 6th he offered Israelis something new: annexation of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Mr Netanyahu specifically promised to extend Israeli sovereignty over Maale Adumim, a large settlement bloc on the outskirts of Jerusalem. How annexation would proceed after that he left vague, but his message was clear: “I will not uproot even one settlement and make sure we rule in the territory west of the Jordan River.”
'Gantz is crawling to Netanyahu like he crawled to Hamas'
The New Right party, led by Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, responded on Tuesday to the recordings a conversation in which Blue and White leader Benny Gantz can be heard contemplating sitting in a government led by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
"Gantz is crawling towards Netanyahu like he crawled towards Hamas," they said. "As we said a while ago, a moment after the elections, Gantz will crawl into Netanyahu's government, on the silver platter of US President Donald Trump's 'deal of the century.'"
Bibi to Establish His Fourth
Consecutive Coalition Government
While it appears that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be establishing the next coalition government, Bibi’s task will be a formidable one as he will have to turn to parties including Yisrael Beitenu, whose chairman resigned from the last coalition, abandoning his senior post as Defense Minister. The bad blood that exists between them and the likelihood that Lieberman will once again demand the Defense Ministry, will possibly complicate matters.
As for the chareidim, it is likely that Yahadut Hatorah will insist on continuing to control the Knesset Finance Committee, as well as the two deputy ministerial slots; Health and Education, and most likely another post as the party gained a seat; now with eight. Regarding Shas, which increased from seven to eight as well, Deri’s appetite will be difficult to quench and he already announced he has his sights on the Interior and Religious Ministries, and there will undoubtedly be additional demands.
The United Right-Wing has five seats and party chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz announced he will ask for the Education Ministry, but PM Netanyahu already announced he will keep that slot in the Likud camp.
Secular Humanism Is Atheistic Utopia
The decline in the fabric of American society has been progressing for decades. This assessment is grounded upon the tenants of traditional heritage. However, a much different viewpoint is shared by those who adopted the secular humanism ethos. For these romantic utopians, the surrender to the will of God is the greatest impediment to the advancement of the human race. Contrast this outlook with the remaining stable factions of society and it becomes obvious that the relativism zealots march to the heavy metal of their Black Sabbath mob. Achieving Arcadia is established upon the nihilism which imbues atheism. Examine the pattern that has been developing.
Read the entire guest article on the "Utopia" archives
Greater Israel Setback from Iranian Agreement
Israel has never been a victim. Zionist belligerents work diligently to expand their control in the region. This objective is not widely accepted in mainstream political circles since critical criticism is a risky endeavor when confronting truth to power. The turmoil in Egypt and subsequent regime change, the over throw and elimination of Gaddafi in Libya and the ongoing Israeli ISIL induced conflict in Syria all benefit the Khazar usurpers. Well before the NeoCons commandeered U.S. foreign policy, Jewish influence over their Congressional puppets and administration stooges was prevalent, awaiting the time when U.S. forces would be used to serve the designs of Zionism inroads.
Read the entire article on the "Reign of Terror" archives
Land Destroyer: Battlefield Libya: Fruits of US-NATO Regime Change – Tony Cartalucci
Apr 10, 2019 10:07 am | SARTRE
Forces under the control of Khalifa Haftar – a former Libyan general under the government of Muammar Qaddafi – turned opposition during the 2011 US-led NATO intervention – turned “opposition” again against the UN-backed “Government of National Accord” (GNA) seated in Tripoli – have most recently reached Tripoli’s airport. The confusing chaos that has continually […]
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On Brexit, Joe Biden, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Gauleiters trying to win the Iron Cross | Non-Intervention2 – Michael Scheuer
A good many important events are swirling around, most unreported by the mainstream media. The marvelous ongoing destruction of the reign of the French emperor Macron by twenty-one weeks of the yellow-vests’ activism — seasoned with increasing police violence against them — is virtually unknown to Americans. Ironically, interested Americans have to depend on big, […]
America Is No Longer A Nation – PaulCraigRoberts.org
The America in which I grew up and lived my early adult life was a nation. Over the course of my life I have watched my country turn into a Tower of Babel. Homogeneity and shared values permitted us to understand one another. This doesn’t mean that there was uniformity or that things were perfect. […]
How Many 3rd World Immigrants Does It Take Until America Is the Newest 3rd World Country? | The Common Sense Show
The head of UN immigration, boldly and inappropriately stated that the United States should be celebrating mass immigration. The UN is championing the fact that Europe has been overrun by millions of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East from cultures that do not assimilate with the West. The leaders of Western governments are ignoring […]
Cardinal Robert Sarah: Mass Migration is ‘New Form of Slavery’ | NumbersUSA
Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, last week told a French publication that mass migration is “new form of slavery” and “It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration. God never wanted these rifts,” according to Fox News. Cardinal […]
What Democrats really think about presidential tax returns
Bernie Sanders is refusing to disclose his tax returns, yet the same Democrats who for the past four years have angrily demanded to see Donald Trump’s taxes are suddenly mute.
Democrats have been waxing indignant over President Trump’s refusal to make his own returns public, calling it a threat to democracy. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee formally requested his returns for the last six years. So their silence on Sanders’ stall is rank hypocrisy.
And Sanders isn’t the only 2020 hopeful who has grown bashful. Neither of the most recent Democratic flavors of the month, Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg, has released his returns, while Cory Booker and Kamala Harris have made public only limited info.
Eric Swalwell jumps into presidential race
“I see a country in quicksand, unable to solve problems and threats from abroad, unable to make life better for people,” Swalwell told Colbert in a clip released on social media. “None of that is going to change until we get a leader who is willing to go big on the issues we take on, be bold on the solutions we offer, and do good in the way we govern. I’m ready to solve these problems, I’m running for president of the United States.”
Orwellian Hate Crime Database to Be Set Up For Thought Criminals
Only in a world where the novel 1984 has become the evening news can we get a state’s Attorney General working with the Department of Civil Rights to create a database for people committing “hate and bias incidents that don’t rise to the level of a crime or civil infraction.”
This “hate crimes unit” apparently comes on the advice of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which issued a report about a rise of extremism and hatred within the state of Michigan. This itself is more than ironic, since it was reported last year that the organization had to pay $3 million for falsely labeling the Quilliam Foundation as an example of “anti-Muslim extremism. ”
Global NATO: A 70-Year Alliance of Oppressors in Crisis
The celebration of NATO’s 70 years of existence provides another opportunity to unearth the real history of the ideas, practices and destruction wrought by this military alliance. Even with the clear exposure of the cooperation between NATO, the CIA and the British MI6 to spread terror and psychological warfare in Europe immediately after the formation of this military alliance, the mainstream media, academics and policy makers remain silent on activities of the ‘stay behind armies’ and ‘false flag’ operations that distorted the real causes of insecurity in the world after 1945. The evidence of the manipulations of the peoples of the world to ensure the continued survival of NATO has been well documented in the fraudulent interventions and bombings in the Balkans right up the present multiple wars against the peoples of Iran.
Stephen Miller, the architect behind
Kirstjen Nielsen's resignation
The announcement of Nielsen's departure follows top officials at the Department of Homeland Security, including Nielsen, being caught off guard by the White House’s sudden move Thursday night to pull the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Vegas News | Stratosphere Sold, Station Casinos Evolving, Big Week Ahead For Vegas Golden Knights
Posted by: Marc , June 18, 2017
Happy EDC weekend!
The annual electronic dance music festival makes this one of the busiest weekend’s of the year in Las Vegas. The Electric Daisy Carnival had 140,000 people on the first night of the festival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Las Vegas was packed all week long with people looking for a party. It seems as if everyone has been having a great time despite traffic everywhere.
This is a great weekend to visit Las Vegas if you enjoy being here when the city is full of people just looking for fun. The people watching is fantastic and the people in Las Vegas for the festival are typically just looking for fun. Let’s get to the Las Vegas news from the past week.
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Stratosphere Sold To Owners Of PT’s Pub
This is probably a bigger deal for Las Vegas locals than tourists. Golden Entertainment purchased the American Casino & Entertainment Properties last week for $850 million in cash and stock. Golden Entertainment owns of PT’s Pub and more while American Casino & Entertainment owned the Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie’s (both locations), and Aquarius Casino in Laughlin.
According to their investor presentation, this purchase will put Golden Entertainment closer to Las Vegas locals casino giants Red Rock Resorts/Station Casinos and Boyd Gaming. The company will cross-market the Stratosphere with all 50+ taverns they own throughout Nevada. This would allow gamblers the ability to earn players club points for a Vegas Strip property all over town.
The thrill rides atop the Stratosphere Tower shouldn’t be going anywhere. Golden Entertainment says that the rides attract millennials – the target demographic of every business today. PT’s Pubs draws a mix of Generation X customers and Millennials and Golden Entertainment is going to look to bring those customers to the new casinos.
Expect to see food, beverage and entertainment options that focus on a slightly different customer than the Stratosphere.
Station Casinos Evolving
Like every other business, Station Casinos is looking for the customer of the future. Vegas Seven uses lots of buzzwords to vividly describe the new social experience team that Station Casinos has added. The vision for the future of Station Casinos feels a lot like a modern plan that is similar to how the Maloof brothers opened the Palms.
Palms, Green Valley Ranch and Red Rock Resort will be the first three Station Casinos properties that will see changes. The majority of what this team does will skew to attracting younger customers. The challenge will be to keep things at each property that the older locals enjoy. When the Palms first opened they did this very successfully. As a tourist, I had no idea that there was a parking garage. We just wanted to roll the dice and check out the club.
Vital Vegas is reporting that the Clique restaurants at Green Valley Ranch and Red Rock will be leaving each property. The changes have been rumored since Station Casinos purchased Palms last year. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the rumor and fact-based information was revealed on the same day.
As someone who visits Red Rock Casino a few times a week (I’m actually writing this in the casino), I look forward to the changes.
Big Weeks For The Vegas Golden Knights
This week the Vegas Golden Knights will start to become a reality. The NHL expansion draft will take place on Wednesday and will help fill much of the Golden Knights roster. Later in the week, the NHL will hold its entry draft for new players. The team will also debut their uniforms during the week.
Last week The D announced a partnership with the Vegas Golden Knights. The D Las Vegas is now the official downtown Las Vegas casino of the Vegas Golden Knights. The partnership will include player appearances at The D, an annual fan fest and more. The Longbar at The D is already the place to watch sports in downtown Las Vegas. Is there a better match for hockey fans than a downtown Las Vegas casino? I don’t think so.
Stanley Cup Visiting Las Vegas
The Stanley Cup and some other NHL awards will be on display at the Park Theater Retail Store at Monte Carlo until Tuesday. You can read more at NHL.com.
Mayweather vs. McGregor Fight Almost Set
After a day of heavy rumors, Floyd Mayweather and the UFC both confirmed that the long-awaited fight with Conor McGregor will happen. The fight will take place on August 26th. The venue still hasn’t been made official yet but is expected to be T-Mobile Arena even though there’s already an event scheduled there.
This fight has been anticipated almost as much as when Floyd Mayweather fought Manny Pacquiao in 2015. Much like it did 2 years ago, hotel room prices skyrocketed when the fight was confirmed. ESPN is reporting that hotel room prices increased 79% overnight after the fight was announced. Prices dropped a few days before that fight after squatters had to cancel their reservation without penalty.
Tickets aren’t on sale yet for the fight and watch parties haven’t been announced. Parties to watch the fight will be limited to bars, restaurants, and ballrooms at MGM Resorts properties. If I had to guess, I’d say that the watch party price will start around $100 per person.
Minor Expansion At Cosmopolitan
The Cosmopolitan will be expanding the 24-hour convenience store. The store will add 800 square feet by utilizing the space formerly occupied by the Identity Players Club desk. Earlier this year we detailed the new and improved Identity desk.
Las Vegas Convention Center Expansion And Renovation Approved
The $1.4 billion expansion and renovations will take place over many years in different phases. The first phase is expected to be completed by 2021. This phase will be for a 1.4-million-square-foot addition next to the existing convention center. The second phase will be a renovation of the existing 3.2 million-square-foot convention center. This phase is expected to be complete by 2023.
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Toy Story 4 UNO Review (Mattel)
Your favorite toys are now part of your favorite card game with Toy Story 4 UNO. This version features a carnival lights theme and images of all the characters, old and new, from the new movie. It plays like the original but with the addition of a new action card.
As a refresher, each player takes turns matching a card from their hand to the top card on the discard pile, either by number, color, or symbol. If you don't have a match, you've got to draw one card from the draw pile.
Most of the cards have numbers on them, from 0 to 9, and you'll find character images of Woody, Forky, Buzz, and Bo Peep, among others. But then there are action cards. This version includes your standard Draw Two, Reverse, Skip, Wild, and Wild Draw 4. But it also includes a Wild Duke Caboom card. (There are four in the deck.) When you play this card, you get to mix up the hands of any two players and then equally deal the cards back to them. This means that one player will end up with more or less cards than they had.
Don't forget to yell "UNO!" when you play your next-to-last card to let everyone know you have one card left. If you don't, you're subject to drawing two extra cards.
Once a player has no cards left, the round is over, and that player receives points for all the cards left in his opponents' hands. Play until one player reaches 500 points.
This has the same easy gameplay as before, but we do like that an extra card was added to spice things up and offer a little more differentiation than just having Buzz and Woody on the cards. If you're an UNO fan and a Toy Story fan, this game could be a good addition to your next game night.
Toy Story 4 UNO is for two to 10 players ages 7 and up. If you're a fan of the original UNO and the new Toy Story 4 movie, then you'll love adding this themed version to your game collection.
The game comes with 112 cards and instructions.
A Toy Story 4 Magic 8 Ball is also available and sold separately.
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