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Carbonaceous chondrites shed light on the origins of life in the universe
A study of the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) discovers that the minerals which make up this type of meteorite can synthesise certain complex organic compounds in the presence of water and formamide
MAGIC observes a gravitational lens at very high energies
Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory report the discovery of the most distant gamma-ray source ever observed at very high energies, thanks to the “replay” of an enormous flare by a galactic gravitational lens as foreseen by Einstein’s General Relativity.
Two microlenses in the arms of the Milky Way, image of the week of the Gaia mission
The detection of these events has been possible to the collaboration between Gaia and about thirty terrestrial observatories among which is the OAdM
IEEC celebrates its 20th anniversary with the lecture series “Discovering the Universe” at CosmoCaixa
The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) turns 20. Two decades dedicated to know the universe. The four units that form the IEEC: The Institute of Cosmos (UB) Science, the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC), the Centre for Studies and Space Research (UAB) and the research group in Science and Technology of the Space (UPC) have participated during these 20 years in various space missions of different space agencies and have contributed significantly to the knowledge of astrophysics and astronomy.
NVDIA grants a project from the Gravitational Astronomy group at the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CISC)
NVIDIA Corporation, an American Technology company specialised in the design and development of graphics processing units (GPUs), has as awarded a GPU Grant of its Academic programs, proposed by Lluís Gesa and Carlos F. Sopuerta project, researchers from the Gravitational Astronomy group at Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC).
More than 400 visitors during the OAdM open days
On Sunday May 1st, the Montsec Astronomical Observatory (OAdM) first opened its doors to the public with a series of open days. During the summer months, the OAdM repeat those visits six more sundays
Gaia presents the most accurate map of the Universe
Wednesday September 14, the European Space Agency (ESA) has published the first data for Gaia mission, an astrometry mission aiming to create the most precise map of stars of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
The most precise 3D map of galaxies supports the standard cosmological model
A team of researchers from the collaboration Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) have presented this week the latest results obtained from the map obtained by the consortium with data collected over the past ten years. The analysis of the data has been carried out by researchers of this collaboration, including a team from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB, IEEC-UB).
The Joan Oró Telescope obtains the Gaia-GOSA certificate
Asteroid Day. Are we able to divert potentially hazardous asteroids?
Next June 30 is the Asteroid International Day which celebrates the largest asteroid impact known until now on Earth. It was Tunguska in 1908. In this context, the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), the Royal Academy Science and Arts of Barcelona, the Academia Europaea and the Astronomical Association of Sant Cugat-Valldoreix (AASCV) have organized an outreach event about initiatives undertaken by scientists and space agencies to increase our ability to predict and mitigate the effects of potential impact of an asteroid on Earth.
The Festival of science, an opportunity to bring research to all audiences
More than 14,000 people visited this weekend the Festival of Science, innovation and technology which was held in the Ciutadella Park in Barcelona. There they found workshops to extract their own DNA or telescopes to observe the sun safely.
LIGO detects gravitational waves from second pair of colliding black holes
The Group of Relativity and Gravitation at the University of the Balearic Islands,associated to IEEC, participates through the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in identifying a second event of gravitational waves in data-LIGO detectors Advanced.
Scientists reconstruct the collisional history of the most primitive asteroids
A study by researchers at the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), in collaboration with the University of Braunschweig, Germany, reveals that most asteroids do not remain intact since its formation but they have suffered many impacts, some huge since its formation 4,565 million years ago. The work which has been published in the journal Astrophysical Journal presents a description of the physics of these processes and a statistical model to reconstruct the history of these collisions.
Francesc Vilardell: “Living in Antarctica is the closest thing to live in another planet”
The astronomer Francesc Vilardell of Observatori Astronòmic del Montsec (OAdM) of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) has lived a unique experience after spending thirteen weeks at the Concordia base in Antarctica working on the telescope IRAIT.
Great attendance to the guided visits to the Observatori Astronòmic del Montsec
On Sunday May 1, the Observatori Astronòmic del Montsec (OAdM) first opened its doors to the public. The initiative has been well received and in fact, the three shifts of visits to be held one Sunday a month until September are already complete.
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Airtel gets a New Brand logo
Indian and African telecom giant Airtel on Thursday unveiled it’s new logo,a source said Airtel dons the new look In a bid to consolidate its global presence and to promote its offerings in 3G, telecom giant, Airtel has got a new brand identity with a new logo and positioning.
Talking about the new brand identity, Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Airtel, says, "Fifteen years ago, Bharti Airtel started its journey in India with a promise of delivering world-class and affordable services. Airtel is in now present in 19 countries - 16 African countries, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India."
Mittal adds that the brand was so far known as Zain in Africa and Warid in Bangladesh. "Thus, the idea was to give the brand a uniform presence across all these markets. Also, the world is moving towards digitalization. From now, it's also going to be about social media, commerce and 3G. Therefore, keeping the evolution of the telecom business as well as our expansion in mind, we decided to take brand Airtel to the next level."
Designed by London-based brand agency, Brand Union, the new logo is the letter 'a' in lowercase, with 'airtel' written in lowercase under the logo.
Explaining the new look in detail, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, Bharti Airtel states that the new identity underlines Airtel's willingness to embrace everything that is new.
He adds, "The logo type is modern, vibrant and friendly and signals our resolution to be accessible to our customers and stakeholders. And the lowercase is our recognition for humility. The red colour, which is an integral part of the brand, continues to represent heritage, energy and passion. The new curved and the gentle highlight almost gives the impression of a living object; at the same time, it represents a dynamic force of unparalleled energy, brings us closer to consumers and is a symbol which will help ensure instant recognition across diverse international markets."
Meanwhile, the telecom company's creative partner, JWT has worked on the new positioning, which says, 'Dil jo chahe pass laye'
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SK Telecom's Three Pillars for Expansion
HOME KOREAN EDITION Column
SK Telecom chief executive Kim Shin-bae, who joined the carrier in 1995, has proved himself in many conflicts as he took the company's top job against a slew of SK lifers. But a more interesting story began after he took the reins of SK Telecom last March as he catapulted the company into the ranks of Korea's most profitable firms.
However, the 51-year-old is not resting on his laurels and continues to intently search for new cash cows to lead the company into the future. "These successes in the past bring us great pride, but they do not ensure success in the future. Today, SK Telecom is fully prepared to take a leading role in the new ubiquitous and convergence era," he said. The visionary CEO has handpicked global business as one of the three major pillars to lead the firm into the future, the other two being a new growth engine and the telecombroadcasting convergence business. "From our strong foothold at home, we have branched out into the global market. This includes areas such as Vietnam, China and a host of other countries," he noted. The next target is the United States, where SK Telecom seeks to start the mobile telephony business early next year under a business alliance with a local broadband operator, Earthlink. Kim says the core competency of the firm accumulated over the past 20 years will be the cornerstone for success in the international arena. "Keeping the difficulties and efforts of the past in mind, we will write a new chapter in global mobile communications, with a sprit of challenge, passion and creativity," Kim said. Under the stewardship of Kim, SK Telecom also started providing short messaging services to overseas Korean travelers in cases of an emergency in May. This effort was recognized in a big way last week as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade presented a plaque to Kim to recognize his services.
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Save Your Soul - Pray the Rosary daily!
Jesus Our Teacher
The 10 Commandments
Jesus The Way, The Truth, The Life,
Doctrine and Truth
The End Of Our Times
Maria Our Teacher
Maria Mother and Teacher
Maria Explains the Apocalypse
The Lady of All Nations
Our Lady of Anguera Prophecies
Messages of Our Lady of Anguera
St. Michael’s Prophecies
Our Lady of Light Prophecies
Words from Jesus: Endtimes Prophecies
Lily of the Holy Face of Jesus Prophecies
Luz de María: Messages and Prophecies
John Leary’s Prophecies
Holy Love Prophecies
Jesus of Nazareth: Prophecies
Prophecies of Marjorie Sampair
Messages and Prophecies of Enoch, Colombia
Valeria Copponi: Messages of Jesus and Mary
Opportunities of Sure Salvation
The Saints: God’s Heroes
Signs from Above
Know Your Enemy: Satan
Freemasonry Unmasked
Abortion: Child Sacrifice to Satan
Demons Teach Catholic Faith
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Prophecy on The Two Popes
I saw also the relationship between the two popes. . . I saw how baleful (harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome). The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness…”
“I saw very clearly the errors the aberrations an the countless sins of men. I saw the folly and the wickedness of their actions, against all truth and all reason. Priests were among them, and I gladly endured my suffering so that they may return to a better mind.”
“I had another vision of the great tribulation. It seems to me that a concession was demanded from the clergy which could not be granted. I saw many older priests, especially one, who wept bitterly. A few younger ones were also weeping. But others, and the lukewarm among them, readily did what was demanded. It was as if people were splitting into two camps…”
“I saw also the relationship between the two popes. . .
I saw how baleful (harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome). The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness…”
“Then the vision seemed to extend on every side. Whole Catholic communities were being oppressed, harassed, confined, and deprived of their freedom. I saw many churches closed down, great miseries everywhere, wars and bloodshed. A wild and ignorant mob took violent action. But it did not last long…”
“Once more I saw that the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect [Freemasons], while storms were damaging it. But I saw also that help was coming when distress had reached its peak. I saw again the Blessed Virgin ascend on the Church and spread her mantle [over it].”
“I saw the Holy Father surrounded by traitors and in great distress about the Church. He had visions and apparitions in his hour of greatest need. I saw many good pious Bishops; but they were weak and wavering, their cowardice often got the upper hand…Then I saw darkness spreading around and people no longer seeking the true Church.”
August to October, 1820
“I see more martyrs, not now but in the future…I saw the secret sect relentlessly undermining the great Church. Near them I saw a horrible beast coming up from the sea… All over the world, good and devout people especially the clergy were harassed oppressed and put into prison. I had the feeling that they would become martyrs one day.”
“When the Church had been for the most part destroyed, and when only the sanctuary and altar were still standing, I saw the wreckers enter the Church with the Beast. There they met a Woman of noble carriage who seemed to be with child because she walked slowly. At this sight, the enemies were terrorized, and the Beast could not take but another step forward. It projected its neck towards the Woman as if to devour her, but the Woman turned about and bowed down [towards the altar], her head touching the ground. Thereupon, I saw the Beast taking to flight towards the sea again, and the enemies were fleeing in the greatest confusion…. Then, I saw in the great distance great legion approaching. In the foreground I saw a man on a white horse. Prisoners were set free and joined them. All enemies were pursued. Then, I saw that the Church was being promptly rebuilt, and she was more magnificent than ever before….” [After the Warning with billions of converts]
“I see the Holy Father in great anguish. He lives in a palace other than before [notice how Pope Benedict XVI no longer lives in the Papal residence?] and he admits only a limited number of friends near him. I fear that the Holy Father will suffer many more trials before he dies. I see that the false Church of darkness is making progress and I see the dreadful influence it has on the people. The Holy Father and the Church are verily in so great a distress that one must implore God night and day…”
“I have been told to pray much for the Church and the Pope…The people must pray earnestly for the extirpation (rooting out) of the dark church.”
“Last night I was taken to Rome where the Holy Father immersed in his sorrow, is still hiding to elude dangerous demands (made upon him). He is still very weak, and exhausted by sorrows, cares and prayers. He can now trust but few people. That is mainly why he is hiding. But he still has with him an aged priest who has much simplicity and godliness. He is his friend and because of his simplicity they did not think it would be worth removing him. But this man receives many graces from God. He sees and notices a great many things which he faithfully reports to the Holy Father. It was required of me to inform him while he was praying, of the traitors and evil doers who were to be found among the high ranking servants living close to him, so that he might be made aware of it.”
“I do not know in what manner I was taken to Rome last night, but I found myself near the Church of St Mary Major, and I saw many poor people who were greatly distressed and worried because the Pope was to be seen nowhere, and also on account of the restlessness and the alarming rumors in the city. These people did not seem to expect the Church doors to open; they only wanted to pray outside. An inner urging had left them there individually. But I was in the Church, and I opened the doors. They came in, surprised and frightened because the doors had opened. It seems to me that I was behind the door, and they could not see me. There was no office on in the Church. But the sanctuary lamps were lit. The people prayed quite peacefully…”
“Then I saw an apparition of the Mother of God, and she said that the tribulation would be very great. She added that people must pray fervently with outstretched arms, be it only long enough to say three Our Fathers. This was the way her Son prayed for them on the Cross. They must rise at twelve at night, and pray in this manner; and they must keep coming to the Church. They must pray above all for the Church of Darkness to leave Rome…”
“She (the Holy Mother) said a great many others things that it pains me to relate: she said that if only one priest could offer the bloodless sacrifice as worthily and with the same disposition as the Apostles, he could avert all the disasters (that are to come). To my knowledge the people in the Church did not see the apparition, but they must have been stirred by something supernatural, because as soon as the Holy Virgin had said that they must pray God with outstretched arms, they all raised their arms. These were all good and devout people, and they did not know where help and guidance should be sought. There were no traitors and enemies among them, yet they were afraid of one another. Once can judge thereby what the situation was like.”
“I saw the Church of St Peter: it has been destroyed but for the Sanctuary and the main altar. St Michael came down into the Church, clad in his suit of armor, and he paused, threatening with his sword and number of unworthy pastors who wanted to enter. That part of the Church which had been destroyed was promptly fenced in with light timber so that the Divine office might be celebrated as it should. Then, from all over the world came priests and laymen and they rebuilt the stone walls, since the wreckers had been unable to move the heavy foundation stones. And then I saw that the Church was being promptly rebuilt and She was more magnificent than ever before…”
“I saw a strange church being built against every rule…No angels were supervising the building operations. In that church, nothing came from high above…There was only division and chaos. It is probably a church of human creation, following the latest fashion, as well as the new heterodox Church of Rome [one world church of the False Prophet], which seems of the same kind…”
“I saw again the strange big church that was being built there (in Rome). There was nothing holy in it. I saw this just as I saw a movement led by Ecclesiastics to which contributed angels, saints and other Christians. But there (in the strange big church) all the work was being done mechanically (i.e., according to set rules and formula). Everything was being done, according to human reason. I saw all sorts of people, things, doctrines, and opinions. There was something proud, presumptuous, and violent about it, and they seemed to be very successful. I did not see a single Angel nor a single saint helping in the work. But far away in the background, I saw the seat of a cruel people armed with spears, and I saw a laughing figure which said: ‘Do build it as solid as you can; we will put it to the ground’.”
“I saw that many of the instruments in the new Church, such as spears and darts, were meant to be used against the living Church. Everyone dragged in something different: clubs, rods, pumps, cudgels, puppets, mirrors, trumpets, horns bellows – all sorts of things. In the cave below (the sacristy) some people kneaded bread, but nothing came of it; it would not rise. The men in the little mantles brought wood to the steps of the pulpit to make a fire. They puffed and blew and labored hard, but the fire would not burn. All they produced was smoke and fumes. Then they broke a hole in the roof and ran up a pipe, but the smoke would not rise, and the whole place became black and suffocating. Some blew the horns so violently that the tears streamed from their eyes. All in this church belonged to the earth, returned to the earth. All was dead, the work of human skill, a church of the latest style, a church of man’s invention like the new heterodox church in Rome.”
“I saw deplorable things: they were gambling, drinking, and talking in church; they were also courting women. All sorts of abominations were perpetrated there. Priests allowed everything and said Mass with much irreverence. I saw that few of them were still godly, and only a few had sound views on things. I also saw Jews standing under the porch of the Church [the Jews who will accept the Antichrist – John 5:43]. All these things caused me much distress.”
“The Church is in great danger. We must pray so that the Pope may not leave Rome; countless evils would result if he did. They are now demanding something from him. The Protestant doctrine and that of the schismatic Greeks are to spread everywhere. I now see that in this place (Rome) the (Catholic) Church is being so cleverly undermined, that there hardly remain a hundred or so priests who have not been deceived. They all work for destruction, even the clergy. A great devastation is now near at hand.”
“In those days Faith will fall very low and it will be preserved in some places only.”
“The Little Black Man in Rome, whom I see so often, has many working for him without their clearly knowing for what end. He has his agents in the New Black Church also. If the Pope leaves Rome, the enemies of the Church will get the upper hand. I see the Little Black Man in his own country committing many thefts and falsifying things generally. Religion is there so skillfully undermined and stifled that there are scarcely 100 faithful priests. I cannot say how it is, but I see fog and darkness increasing … All must be rebuilt soon; for everyone, even ecclesiastics, are laboring to destroy (and) ruin is at hand. The 2 enemies of the Church who have lost their accomplice are firmly resolved to destroy the pious and learned men that stand in their way…”
“When I saw the Church of St Peter in ruins and the manner in which so many of the clergy were themselves busy at this work of destruction – none of them wishing to do it openly in front of the others – I was in such distress that I cried out to Jesus with all my might, imploring His mercy. Then I saw before me the Heavenly Spouse, and He spoke to me for a long time…He said, among other things, that this translation of the Church from one place to another meant that she would seem to be in complete decline. But she would rise again; even if there remained but one Catholic, the Church would conquer again because she does not rest on human counsels and intelligence. It was shown to me that there were almost no Christians left in the old acceptation of the word.”
“As I was going through Rome with St. Francis and the other saint, we saw a great palace engulfed in flames from top to bottom. I was very much afraid that the occupants would be burned to death because no one came forward to put out the fire. As we came nearer, however, the fire abated and we saw the blackened building. We went through a number of magnificent rooms (untouched by the fire), and we finally reached the Pope. He was sitting in the dark and slept in a large arm-chair. He was very ill and weak; he could no longer walk. The ecclesiastics in the inner circle looked insincere and lacking in zeal; I did not like them. I told the Pope of the bishops who are to be appointed soon. I told him also that he must not leave Rome. If he did so, it would be chaos. He thought that the evil was inevitable and that he should leave in order to save many things beside himself. He was very much inclined to leave Rome, and he was insistently urged to do so. The Pope is still attached to the things of this earth in many ways…”
“The Church is completely isolated and as if completely deserted. It seems that everyone is running away. Everywhere I see great misery, hatred, treason, rancor, confusion and utter blindness. O city! O city! What is threatening thee? The storm is coming, do be watchful!…”
“Among the strangest things that I saw, were long processions of bishops. Their thoughts and utterances were made known to me through images issuing from their mouths. Their faults towards religion were shown by external deformities. A few had only a body, with a dark cloud of fog instead of a head. Others had only a head, their bodies and hearts were like thick vapors. Some were lame; others were paralytics; others were asleep or staggering. I saw what I believe to be nearly all the bishops of the world, but only a small number were perfectly sound. I also saw the Holy Father – God-fearing and prayerful. Nothing left to be desired in his appearance, but he was weakened by old age and by much suffering. His head was lolling from side to side, and it dropped onto his chest as if he was falling asleep He often fainted and seemed to be dying. But when he was praying, he was often comforted by apparitions from Heaven. Then, his head was erect, but as soon as it dropped again onto his chest, I saw a number of people looking quickly right and left, that is, in the direction of the world…”
“Then I saw that everything pertaining to Protestantism was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence. Most priests were lured by the glittering but false knowledge of young school-teachers, and they all contributed to the work of destruction. In those days, Faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families which God has protected from disasters and wars…”
“I also saw the various regions of the earth. My Guide (Jesus) named Europe and pointing to a small and sandy region, He uttered these words: ‘Here is Prussia (East Germany), the enemy.’ Then He showed me another place, to the north, and He said: ‘This is Moskva, the land of Moscow, bringing many evils’.”
“I see many excommunicated ecclesiastics who do not seem to be concerned about it, nor even aware of it. Yet, they are (ipso factor) excommunicated whenever they cooperated to [sic] enterprises, enter into associations, and embrace opinions on which an anathema has been cast[i.e. become Freemasons]. It can be seen thereby that God ratifies the decrees, orders, and interdictions issued by the Head of the Church, and that He keeps them in force even though men show no concern for them, reject them, or laugh them to scorn.”
“I saw that many pastors allowed themselves to be taken up with ideas that were dangerous to the Church. They were building a great, strange, and extravagant Church. Everyone was to be admitted in it in order to be united and have equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics sects of every description. Such was to be the new Church…But God had other designs…”
“I see that when the Second Coming of Christ approaches, a bad priest will do much harm to the Church. When the time of the reign of Antichrist is near, a false religion will appear which will be opposed to the unity of God and His Church. This will cause the greatest schism the world has ever known. The nearer the time of the end, the more the darkness of Satan will spread on earth, the greater will be the number of the children of corruption, and the number of the just will correspondingly diminish…”
“They built a large, singular, extravagant church which was to embrace all creeds with equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, and all denominations, a true communion of the unholy with one shepherd and one flock. There was to be a Pope, a salaried Pope, without possessions. All was made ready, many things finished; but, in place of an altar, were only abomination and desolation. Such was the new church to be, and it was for it that he had set fire to the old one; but God designed otherwise….”
“I came to the Church of Peter and Paul (Rome) and saw a dark world of distress, confusion, and corruption, through which shone countless graces from thousands of saints who there repose…”
“I saw the fatal consequences of this counterfeit church: I saw it increase; I saw heretics of all kinds flocking to the city. I saw the ever-increasing tepidity of the clergy, the circle of darkness ever widening…”
“Again I saw in the midst of these disasters the twelve new Apostles laboring in different countries, unknown to one another, each receiving streams of living water from on high They all did the same work. They know not whence they received their tasks; but as soon as one was finished, another was ready for them…”
“The Jews shall return to Palestine, and become Christians toward the end of the world.”
“Very bad times will come when non-Catholics will lead many people astray. A great confusion will result. I saw the battle also. The enemies were far more numerous, but the small army of the faithful cut down whole rows of enemy soldiers. During the battle, the Blessed Virgin stood on a hill, wearing a suit armor. It was a terrible war. At the end, only a few fighters for the just cause survived, but the victory was theirs…”
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, German Stigmatic and Victim Soul (1774-1824)
Anna Katharina Emmerick (or Anne Catherine Emmerich in English) was born on September 8, 1774 at Flamske, Westphalia, West Germany, to a small farming family. Her parents, Bernard Emmerich and Anne Hiller, were poor peasants, but very devout and pious. Anne Catherine was baptized at the St. James Church at Coesfeld. As a child, she spent alot of her time as a maid and seamstress until her entrance into the Augustinian Order on November 13, 1803.
At age 29 she joined the Convent of Agnetenberg at Dulmen, Westphalia. Even during these youthful years, Anne was extraordinarily gifted with ecstasies and visions of Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, her guardian angel, and many of the saints. Although never given an adequate education, Anne had perfect recollection of her childhood days, and she seemed to understand Latin beginning in her very early years. Almost from infancy Anne reportedly had the gifts of discerning holy from unholy objects, consecrated objects or locations, and the identification of relics and from which saints they came. Also during these early years, Anne was often seen making the entire Way of the Cross in her bare feet, even when the snow had covered the ground.
Anne receives the Crown of Thorns
The following is the account she herself has given of the circumstances under which she received the crown of thorns:
“About four years prior to my admittance into the convent, that is in 1798, it happened that I was in the Jesuits’ Church at Coesfeld, at about twelve noon, kneeling before a crucifix and absorbed in meditation, when all on a sudden I felt a strong but pleasant heat in my head, and I saw my Divine Spouse, under the form of a young man clothed with light, come towards me from the altar, where the Blessed Sacrament was preserved in the tabernacle.
In His left hand he held a crown of flowers, and in His right hand a crown of thorns, and He bade me choose which one I would like to have. I chose the crown of thorns; He placed it on my head, and I pressed it down with both hands. Then He disappeared, and I returned to myself, feeling, however, violent pain around my head. I was obliged to leave the church, which was going to be closed. One of my companions was kneeling by my side, and as I thought she might have seen what happened to me, I asked her when we got home whether there was not a wound on my forehead, and spoke to her in general terms of my vision, and of the violent pain which had followed it. She could see nothing outwardly, but was not astonished at what I told her, because she knew that I was sometimes in an extraordinary state, without her being able to understand the cause. The next day my forehead and temples were very much swelled, and I suffered terribly. This pain and swelling often returned, and sometimes lasted whole days and nights. I did not remark that there was blood on my head until my companions told me I had better put on a clean cap, because mine was covered with red spots. I let them think whatever they liked about it, only taking care to arrange my head-dress so as to hide the blood which flowed from my head, and I continued to observe the same precaution even after I entered the convent, where only one person perceived the blood, and she never betrayed my secret.’
Anne receives the Stigmata
In 1811, Anne was forced to leave her convent along with all the sisters when King Jerome Bonaparte closed all of the Religious houses during his reign. Four years before the suppression of her convent, Anne made a visit home with her family in Flamske. One day while she was kneeling and praying for hours before the Cross of the Church of St. Lambert at Coesfeld, Anne had asked our Lord for a share in His Passion as a sacrifice for the sake of her convent. From that time on, she began experiencing terrible pains in her hands, feet and side, an indication that God had given her the invisible stigmata.
On August 28,1812 (the Feast of St. Augustine), Jesus appeared to her in a vision and imprinted a cross-shaped wound on her breast directly above the heart. Later that same year, specifically on the 29th December 1812, at about 3pm she was lying on her bed in her little room, extremely ill, but in a state of ecstasy and with her arms extended, meditating on the sufferings of her Lord, and beseeching him to allow her to suffer with him. She said five Our Fathers in honour of the Five Wounds, and felt her whole heart burning with love. She then saw a light descending towards her, and distinguished in the midst of it the resplendent form of her crucified Saviour, whose wounds shone like so many furnaces of light. Her heart was overflowing with joy and sorrow, and, at the sight of the sacred wounds, her desire to suffer with her Lord became intensely violent. Then triple rays, pointed like arrows, of the colour of blood, darted forth from the hands, feet, and side of Jesus, and struck her hands, feet, and right side.
When she recovered her senses she was astonished when she beheld blood flowing from the palms of her hands, and felt violent pain in her feet and side. It happened that her landlady’s little daughter came into her room, saw her hands bleeding, and ran to tell her mother, who with great anxiety asked Anne Catherine what had happened, but Anne begged her not to speak about it. She felt, after having received the stigmas, that an entire change had taken place in her body; for the course of her blood seemed to have changed, and to flow rapidly towards the stigmas. She herself used to say: ‘No words can describe in what manner it flows.’
In 1813, Anne was examined by a group of both medical and Church authorities; an inquiry which lasted for five months. The examiners found Anne to be mentally sound, and they could not find any medical or temporal explanation for the wounds of the stigmata.
Anne lives off the Eucharist alone for 12 years
From the moment she received the Sacred Wounds until her death, Anne Catherine Emmerich took no solid food, existing only on the Sacred Host. In fact, when she would try to eat or drink she would have a severe reaction and would vomit violently when attempting to consume food, even broth. She was however able to consume the Holy Eucharist and her diet consisted only of the Eucharist.
In 1819 she was once again investigated by high-ranking secular authorities. She was taken away from all of her acquaintances and moved to a house in the country belonging to one of the authorities. They referred to her as ‘The Imposter’. She was locked up for three weeks with the authorities watching her 24×7 in 6 hour shifts. Much to the aggravation of her captors, she still consumed no food and bled through her Stigmata even though she prayed not to bleed so they would release her. After three weeks, she was finally sent back to her home in Dulmen by her frustrated captors. Two of them became very sympathetic to her cause. During her last few years, she did not sleep at all, a miracle in itself according to the testimonies of many doctors. She was given shelter by various charitable people in the area, and was bedridden for the rest of her life. God had chosen this gifted soul to become His victim, and she voluntarily suffered and sacrificed as a means of atonement and expiation for the souls that were living in sin.
Because of the great trouble caused by her visible stigmata, Anne implored our Lord to remove them, a prayer which was granted – at least partially – starting in 1819. Over the next seven years, her wounds became less visible until finally they disappeared, except for on special occasions or particular feast days of the Church calendar. They would reappear and continue to bleed, however, during each Lenten season, particularly on Good Fridays. There were other occasions when Anne Catherine Emmerich’s wounds would manifest and bleed severely, including some Holy Thursdays and a few Fridays outside of Lent. Yet she was never without the stigmata, for the rest of the time they were invisible but equally as painful.
Her remarkable visions
It is though that the most extraordinary gift that Anne possessed was that of her extraordinary visions, also known as ecstasies. She was given visions of almost the entire life of Jesus, and most of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary also. These private revelations of Jesus and Mary’s life included the most intimate details and can be considered a complete vision of the Gospel story. The visions of the life of Jesus as witnessed by Anne Catherine are compiled and published in the popular book “The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ” which many view as a true treasure, and her visions of Mary are published under the title “The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary- From The Visions Of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich”.
Other visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich include those of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory along with intimate details in the lives of many Saints. Many of these Saints she conversed with, and she often witnessed events in their lives as if she were right there beside them. The list is truly impressive so only some of their names will be mentioned here: Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, her own guardian angel, St. Agnes, St. Agatha, St. Emerentiana, St. Paula, St. Dorothea, St. Apollonia, St. Benedict, St. Scholastica, St. Paschal, St. Cyprian, St. Isidore, St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, St. Nicodemus, St.Clare, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Perpetua, St. Felicity, St. Justina, St. Denis, St. Ursula, St. Hubert, St. Gertrude, St. Cecilia, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Augustine, St. Francis de Sales, and St. Jane Frances de Chantal. And this is far from being a complete list. In addition to all of this, she also received many prophecies about future events. Many of these revelations have come true, sometimes with remarkable accuracy.
Anne Catherine Emmerich was favored since her childhood with the guidance and protection of her guardian angel. God allowed her to entrust her will to this angelic creature, who in turn enlightened her to God’s designs upon her soul. Anne even revealed that her angel often took her to various places during her ecstastic moments, throughout all of Europe and even to the Holy Land. Often too, this favored soul would communicate with the poor souls in Purgatory via the guidance of her angel, who led her safely through this place of purification in order that she might visit those who implored her aid. In turn, Anne would pray and suffer in order to help free them from their pain and to help gain their entrance into the heavenly kingdom.
And in regards to the Angels, Anne Catherine stated:
“I see the angels without aureolas (ie. “halos”). They appear to me, indeed, under a human form with faces and hair, but they are more delicate, more noble, more beautiful than men. They are immaterial, perfectly luminous and transparent, but in different degrees. I also see blessed souls surrounded by a material light, rather white than resplendent, and around them a many-colored glory, an aureola whose tints correspond to their kind of purification , I see neither angels nor saints moving their feet, excepting in the historic senses of their life upon earth, as men among men. I never see these apparitions in their real state speaking to one another with the mouth; they turn to one another, interpenetrate one another …. “ (p. 419-420.)
Her Angel guides her in bilocation
“The angel calls me and I follow him to various places. He takes me to people I know or who are complete strangers. We cross the sea as quickly as thought travels. It is he who took me to see the Queen of France in prison. When he comes to take me on a journey, I see a glimmering light, then his luminous form appears before me like a flash from a lantern open in the dark. As we journey along in the darkness a faint light floats over our path. We pass over countries in distant regions, passing over roads, deserts, rivers and seas. We always travel on foot, my knees and feet ache. I often have to climb mountains. My guide is in front of me or at my side. I never see his feet move. ”
“He is silent, he makes few motions, sometimes he follows his replies by gestures of the hand or inclinations of the head. He is transparent. He is grave but very kind. His hair is smooth, flowing and shining. His head is uncovered and his long white robe, like a priest`s. I address him freely and never look him fully in the face. I never ask him many questions, as I am satisfied just being near him. I call to him to go to the Angel of the person for whom I am praying. I say,’Now I shall stay here, but do go to such or such place where thy help is need and then I see him go’. When I come to broad waters and know not how to cross, I find myself all at once on the other side and I look back in wonder.”
For chosen souls like Anne Catherine who receive mystical graces, our Lord often allows them to be attacked and assailed by the demons, so as to keep them from being prideful and to teach them complete trust in God. Anne Catherine knew all too well the attacks that spring forth from the devil. She once received blows to the face from a demon who appeared to her in the form of a great, black dog. Another time, the evil one tried to hurl her down a ladder. She even experienced icy-cold hands grabbing at her feet with the intention of throwing her to the ground.
In 1813, Anne Catherine was subjected to intense ecclesiastical and medical evaluations lasting for five months. This is only natural, for anyone so highly favored with frequent states of ecstasy and hundreds of supernatural visions needs to be evaluated by the proper Church authorities; yet a Dr. William Wesener, upon examining her, said the following: “In our communications, I always found Sister Emmerich simple and natural, kind and gracious toward everyone” (March, 1813).
And here is a statement from an ecclesiastical authority:
“Not only in the spiritual life was Sister Emmerich passive and obedient to her confessor, but in everything, without exception, she sought to regulate her conduct by his directions. Her longing for religious obedience had increased with her inability to practice it due to the frequent ecstasies that would bring her consciousness out of this world and into the next. Her humble forgetfulness of self led her friends to look upon her as being relatively healthy, when in fact she was suffering physically in a variety of ways. Simple, obliging and industrious, she never aspired to be noticed”. –Rev Father Carl E. Schmoger, C.SS.R
Hierognosis- The ability to discern blessed objects
Hierognosis is a gift which involves the ability to discern holy things from those which are not holy, including the following: whether or not a Host has been consecrated; if an object has or has not been blessed; the presence of a good or evil spirit; and the ability to find lost or hidden objects and holy relics. This charism is closely related to the gift of kardiognosis, and is very common among God’s stigmatists; therefore, it is only fitting to believe that souls who are unusually holy themselves would be able to sense when a holy presence is in their midst.
Anne Catherine Emmerich was unusually gifted in the discernment of holy things. Her remarkable ability to sense when an ordained priest was near (even when she did not see him), or the identification of relics or their whereabouts is well-documented.
Father Carl E. Schmoger, C.SS.R., described some of these discernments in his study of this most unusual stigmatist:
“With the gift of prophecy, Sister Emmerich had also received the power of discerning holy objects, even by the senses. Bells that had been blessed by a priest had for her a melody all their own, a sound essentially different from every other that struck her ear; her taste detected the blessing imparted to holy water as readily as others can distinguish water from wine; her sense of smell aided her sight and touch in recognizing the relics of saints; and she had as lively a perception of the sacerdotal benediction (blessing of a priest) sent her from afar, just as if it were given in her presence…” (The Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich: Volume II, p. 394.)
Anne herself explained these holy things which she was able to distinguish, such as blessed objects or relics:
“I see the blessing and the blessed object endowed with a healing and helping power. I see them as luminous and radiating light; while evil, crime and malediction appear before me as darkness radiating darkness and working destruction. I see light and darkness as living things, enlightening or obscuring …. (p. 395.)
“I feel irresistibly drawn to look for these relics. They are attracted to me, and I sighed for them! It is easy to recognize them at such times, for they shine with a different light. I see little pictures like the faces of the saints to whom they belong, toward which rays of light dart from the particles. I cannot express it! It was a wonderful state! …” (p. 417.)
House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus, Turkey found through Emmerich’s visions
How the House of the Blessed Virgin Mary (House of the Dormition) was found due to Anne Catherine’s descriptions of the location taken from her visions
In 1891, Anne Catherine’s writings of one of the visions she received of the House of the Virgin Mary (the house where the Virgin Mary allegedly lived in towards the end of Her life) led a group of Lazzarist priests from the city of Izmir, Turkey to set out to try to find the place Blessed Emmerich described in Ephesus, or, in the case of one of the priests, to demonstrate that Blessed Emmerich was wrong.
The Lazzarist priests spent two hot summer days looking around Ephesus, finding nothing. When their water ran out, they asked some local women where they could find a well and were directed up the hill to the “monastery.” There they found a spring next to the ruins of a little chapel half hidden by the trees in a scene almost exactly as Blessed Emmerich had described.
Afterwards, excavations led to the conclusion that the chapel was built no earlier than the seventh century, but that part of it was erected on the foundation of a much older building, one constructed with materials that the archaeologists said were similar to those used in the first centuries.
Anne Catherine Emmerich died at 8:30pm on February 9, 1824. It was only during the last five years of her life that she began to write down the history of her visions which have become a treasury for many of the faithful. She was Beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II.
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, pray for us!
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Just consider these benefits:
No sudden, violent, by air, land, sea accident, by drug, by war, by natural disasters Death. You will be 100% prepared and at peace. The Grace of God, in Person and through the Sacraments, will assist you at the very last instant of your life on Earth. Read the Magnificent Promises. Take advantage of these Opportunities of Sure Salvation that death cannot destroy. You are destined to Heaven. Nothing on Earth deserves your ambition: SAVE YOUR SOUL.
IMPORTANT, READ!
PROTECT YOUR HOME WITH THE HOLY FAMILY: JOSEPH, JESUS and MARY
Message of God the Father: "My son, Listen and write. I recommend (translation) that this message be communicated to everyone and everywhere that you have preached in United States and in Canada. Remember the night when Padre Pio brought you into Heaven to see the Holy Family. It was a teaching for you and for the people who have heard you. It was also a sign to recall the night when my Beloved Son Jesus was born into the world. Remember how my Evangelist Matthew wrote by the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit how the star stopped over the place where My Baby Son Jesus was born. It was a sign for the Wise men. Today, it is a sign for you and for all Christians and for all the nations. The Holy Family is a sign for every family, and we should model ourselves after them. I recommend (translation) that every family, who receives this message, should have a representation of the Holy Family in their home. It can be an Icon or a statue of the Holy Family, or a permanent Manger in a center place in the home. The representation must be blessed and consecrated by a priest. As the star, followed by the Wise men, stopped over the Manger, the chastisement from the sky will not hit the Christians families devoted and protected by the Holy Family. The fire from the sky is a chastisement for the horrible crime of abortion and the culture of death, the sexual perversion, and the cupidity (lust) regarding the identity of man and woman. My children seek their perverted sins more than Eternal life. The increasing blasphemies and persecution of my just people offend Me. The Arm of my Justice will come now. They do not hear my Divine Mercy. I must now let many plagues happen in order to save the most people that I can from the slavery of Satan. Send this message to everyone. I have given Saint Joseph, My representative on earth, as a protector of the Holy Family, the authority to protect the Church which is the body of Christ. He will be the protector during the trials of this time. The Immaculate Heart of My daughter Mary and the Sacred Heart of my Beloved Son Jesus, with the Chaste and Pure Heart of Saint Joseph, will be the shield of your home, your family, and your Refuge during the events to come. My Words are my blessing over all of you. Whoever will act according to my Will, will be safe. The powerful love of the Holy Family will be manifested to all." —Tuesday, October 30, 2018 (Fr. Michel Rodrigue message)
I AM your Father, These words are Mine!"
PRAY FOR THE CHURCH
Just pray if you are in doubt or you do not understand what happened to Pope Benedict and the role of Pope Francis (he is pope even if you may not see him as such) and the confusion in the Catholic Church and in the world. The enemies of the Church: the children of darkness are smarter than the children of Light, they want to destroy what Jesus created. Do not help them by criticizing the actual Pope and the Consecrated ones, be careful about what you read in the news or on Internet. Pray, Pray, Pray, with sincere heart for discernment to understand the hidden side of the unfolding events in these end times. Ask God and the Blessed Mother to help you know the truth and to be at peace. Pay attention to the words of the Consecration, during Mass. The one (it can be a Pope, a Cardinal, a Bishop, a Priest), who changes those words has embraced heresy and Jesus is not present on the altar. Leave that church and look for a traditional Priest. Do not let satan and his demons fool you. The next pope will serve the antichrist.
Avoid Sacrileges At Holy Mass
In 1950, 87% believed in the Real Presence. Today, that number has plummeted to a mere 34%. The abusive and hurried manner in which the practice of Communion in the hand was imposed after Vatican II lead to a widespread lack of reverence for the Eucharist and caused great pain for many in the Church. It disoriented many people, who with real justification — especially in light of the recent and overwhelming loss of faith in the Eucharist as the real presence — feared that the very heart of Catholic belief had been compromised. (Read More)
"No more Communion in the hand, no more lay to distribute Communion because this sacrilege is causing the loss of many souls!"
"Children of My Heart, the Peace of the Lord be with you all. My little ones, many blasphemies are being committed with the Holy Eucharist. My Son is reviled in His Divinity through the impure and unworthy hands of My lay children. As mother of the son of God and Mother of humanity, I ask My beloved children, to put an end to this abomination! No more of extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist, no more of Communions in the hand! The Body and Blood of my Son, are outraged by many lay people who give themselves tasks that belong only to priests and other consecrated Ministers such as: the Pope, the Cardinals and Bishops. No hand that has not been consecrated through the ministerial Priesthood, can touch My Son...
Little children, it is impressive the amount of Eucharistic violations that are committed by those defined in this way: Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist. Many of my lay children with the complacency of the Priest, exercise the Ministry of the Eucharist in many churches; their pride is common in many of them and it is reaching the point where many of the decisions that are taken by the priest, are being delegated to the laity. What a suffering I feel in My Heart, in seeing that many of My lay children desecrate sacred objects, taking from the Tabernacles, with their unworthy hands, the Cup where the consecrated hosts are present. I say to you: Only the consecrated hands of My beloved ones can touch the Chalice with the Consecrated Hosts, and only their hands may distribute Communion!
I beseech you beloved Children (the Priest): do not delegate anymore this sacred Ministry to My lay sons; do not make them guilty of sinning. Leave your conveniences and fulfill the Ministerial Priesthood that has been conferred on you! I ask my beloved ones: what are you going to respond tomorrow to My Father, for all the abuses and the outrages that many of you are committing with the Divinity of His Son? Heaven is crying with Me, in seeing how outraged and disfigured Jesus is in the Blessed Sacrament in many of His Houses.
My opponent enjoys any desecration that My Son receives. Many Consecrated Hosts get lost to end up into satanic churches for the celebration of black masses. My opponent has infiltrated in many of my Son's Houses, many extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist that betray Him by stealing consecrated hosts which are used to perform satanic cults. Thousands of Consecrated Hosts are sold and depending on the Minister of the Church who consecrated Them, in order to determine their price. A Consecrated Host by the Pope, by a Cardinal or by a Bishop, is sold at a high price and with these, they make a satanic special rite to cause damage to the Eucharistic Body of my Son, represented in His Church.
Satanists are destroying religious and priestly communities, with these Hosts Consecrated by the high rank Ministers of the Church. My beloved ones, I ask you to stop this outrage to the Divinity of My Son that is being carried out by my lay children. Every insult and desecration that My Son receives is a sword piercing My Heart. Many of my favorites lie in hell who in life have allowed these abuses to the Divinity of My Son, and with them many lay people, extraordinary ministers, whose spiritual pride did not allow them to repair and to ask for forgiveness from God for such a vile abuse. As Mother of the consecrated souls in my dedication as Mystic Rose, I ask you with all My Heart, My beloved children, to stop as soon as possible this abuse and outrage that is being committed against my Son's Divinity, because tomorrow you do not have to lament from it. Little children, no more Communion in the hand, no more lay to distribute the Communion, because this sacrilege is causing the loss of many souls! Your Mother, Maria the Mystic Rose."
Appeals of Mary the Mystical Rose to Her beloved children and to God’s people —January 27 2016
Avoid Sacrileges AT CHURCH
“The church is God's house. It is forbidden for men to enter here with bare arms and wearing shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter wearing trousers, bare headed, with short, low-necked or sleeveless dresses —St. Father Pio.”
Dress Properly the Day of your Wedding
Dress Properly in God's House
Give Honor to God in His House
Wash Your Soul
with the SACRAMENT of CONFESSION
Go to have a Confession, cleanse your soul. Save your soul! No need to live with the big rock of your sins tormenting you all your life. It is easy: see a Catholic priest. Give yourself a new beginning before it is too late.
"If you knew, how you shine after having properly approached the Sacrament of Confession.
As He (Jesus) is in the Confessional and where He listens to every word, sees in every corner of your heart and He is longing to bestow the Graces inherent to His forgiveness.
My children, while My Son is truly present hidden behind the person of the Priest Confessor, equally real is the Grace of Absolution and of Forgiveness from the Lord."— Maria, Mother of Jesus
Parents, be very attentive!!
"Parents, be very attentive of your children as my adversary wants to destroy families. Be very careful with what your children see, read, listen and play. I tell you this because the instruments of Evil, are using technology to slowly poisoning young souls through games, music, movies, videos, TV shows and literature loaded with subliminal messages that are driving many to spiritual and even physical death"
"Parents, correct the ways if your family, have much dialogue with your children, make time to listen to them as many homes are being lost due to lack of love, dialogue, understanding and most specially for not inviting God. Take God back into your homes, pray my Holy Rosary, as the family that prays together stays together."
Do not Put Tattoo Marks on Yourselves
"My children, to tattoo your bodies is a pagan practice that goes against God's Holy Word which reads: Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves (Leviticus 19,28). Remember that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit and you should not defile, destroy or burn it. I remind you that all those body markings come from my adversary and are evil instruments that only seek to defile God's creation and take you away from the path of salvation." —Mary Mother of Jesus
NO game where one requests information from the afterlife is good
"My children, playing ghosts, charlie – charlie, or scissors and spiral notepad are the same as playing ouija. It is same as opening your soul's doors so that my adversary and his demons can enter and possess you. NO game where one requests information from the afterlife is good. Don't think that by invoking the souls of your departed loved ones it will be them who will come responding to your call. I tell you that by doing this what you are opening are the doors of Hell. You know very well that my adversary is astute and disguises as an Angel of light to mislead you in order to take your soul. Many children and young adults are being trapped by my adversary by playing games where they request information and assistance form occult sources. My little children, when playing those apparently innocent games what you are really doing is opening your soul to my adversary so that he may possess you." —Mary Mother of Jesus
Parents, pay much attention to the video games your children play
"My little children, when playing those apparently innocent games what you are really doing is opening your soul to my adversary so that he may possess you. Parents, pay much attention to the video games that your children play as many of them are filled with occult rituals and actions with the sole purpose of opening the minds of your children and youth to violence, trespassing, sex, drugs, homosexuality, prostitution and murder." —Mary Mother of Jesus
Control the cartoons that your children watch
"[Parents] control the cartoons that your children watch as many are loaded with subliminal messages of violence, sex and all other sins of the flesh that will lead your children to lose their moral and spiritual values, and the saddest of all: the distancing from God and family. Awaken from your passiveness parents! Don't continue to be so permissive with your children. Remember that you are living in times of darkness and must be attentive with all that your children see, play read and listen. This so that tomorrow you won’t regret their misbehavior, and worse losing their souls!." —Mary Mother of Jesus
Act of Consecration
to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
ALL KNEEL AND PRAY TOGETHER.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus
who made known to St. Margaret Mary
Your great desire to reign over Christian families
we are gathered here today
to proclaim Your complete dominion over our family.
From now on we promise to lead a Christlike life:
we will strive to develop in our home
all the virtues which bring with them the peace that You promised
and we will not compromise with the spirit of secularism
which You have so strongly denounced.
You will rule over our minds through our deep and living faith.
You will be King of our hearts by our generous love for You;
and we will cultivate this love
by the frequent reception of You in Holy Communion.
Divine Heart of Jesus,
preside over our family gatherings;
bless all our family undertakings, both spiritual and temporal.
Sanctify our joys and comfort us in our sorrows.
If any member of our family should have the misfortune to offend You seriously,
please remind him, O Sacred Heart of Jesus,
of Your infinite love and mercy for the penitent sinner.
And when the hour of separation comes,
when death brings its sorrows into our family,
whether we go or whether we stay,
we humbly accept Your divine will.
At the same time we will console and comfort ourselves with the thought
that the time will come when our whole family
will be united lovingly with You in heaven forever.
There we shall sing a hymn of praise
to the infinite mercy and love of Your Sacred Heart.
We ask the Immaculate Heart of Mary and our glorious protector,
St. Joseph, to offer You this family consecration of ours.
May the memory of this consecration be with us always.
We will say one
Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be
for the intentions of the Holy Father
and for absent members, living and dead.
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
0 Virgin Mary, most powerful Mother of Mercy,
Queen of Heaven and earth,
in accordance with your wish made known at Fatima,
I consecrate myself today to your Immaculate Heart.
To you I entrust all that I have, all that I am.
Reign over me, dearest Mother,
that I may be yours in prosperity,
in adversity, in joy and in sorrow,
in health and in sickness, in life and in death.
Most compassionate Heart of Mary,
Queen of Virgins, watch over my mind and heart
and preserve me from the deluge of impurity
which you lamented so sorrowfully at Fatima.
I want to be pure like you.
I want to atone for the many crimes committed against Jesus and you.
I want to call down upon this country
and the whole world the peace of God in justice and charity.
Mindful of this consecration,
I now promise to strive to imitate you
by the practice of the Christian virtues
without regard for human respect.
I resolve to receive Holy Communion
on the first Saturday of every month when possible,
and to offer daily five decades of the Rosary,
with all my sacrifices in the spirit of penance and reparation. Amen.
I, . . ., a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy Heart,
O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism;
I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works;
and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ,
the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life,
and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary,
in the presence of all the heavenly court,
I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress.
I deliver and consecrate to thee, and to thy Immaculate Heart,
as thy child and slave of love, my body and soul,
my goods, both interior and exterior,
and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future;
leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me,
and all that belongs to me,
without exception, according to thy good pleasure,
for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.
Catholics be prepared. Go to Confession, receive the Holy Eucharist; pray the Holy Rosary daily to keep the faith. Seek the LORD, time is running out. Mankind is entering the Great Tribulation: cataclysms, plagues, WW3, One World Order, antichrist, to devastate our planet. Non-Catholics: follow The 10 Commandments
Mother Mary, "Refuge of Holy Love" pray for us
"I will refuse no one their chance to petition My Heart under this title. None will be left unaided. My special attention rests upon those devoted to Me as Refuge of Holy Love."
Mother Mary, "Protectress of the Faith" protect my faith
"Today, I ask clergy and religious to rely upon the Protectress of the Faith to safeguard the treasure of their vocations which are so greatly under attack."
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A Kiss Of Blood
June 24, 2013 by Jeaniene 24 Comments
I was able to get an early copy of A Kiss Of Blood by Pamela Palmer and I loved it. Below is the cover and description:
Only one woman can save Vamp City…
One of the few humans who managed to escape the deadly twilight world of Vamp City, Quinn Lennox vows never to return. But the vampires want her back, for only she has the power to renew the magic of their crumbling world and free the vampires trapped within.
When the dangerous and all-too-seductive Arturo Mazza comes for her, Quinn knows she can never trust him after the betrayal she suffered at his hands. But with her beloved brother’s fate hanging in the balance, and her own power beginning to emerge, she chooses to risk all on yet another perilous journey back to Vamp City. And though she tries to deny it, her heart begins to hold hope that even a ruthless vampire can learn the meaning of true love…
Normally when I love a book, it’s easy to tell readers why. But with A Kiss Of Blood, I found myself in somewhat of a quandary. You see, I can’t talk about what I loved in this book without contrasting it against what I didn’t like about its predecessor, A Blood Seduction, and normally I don’t post about things I don’t like in other books.* Add me being friends with the author, and I was very reluctant to dissect my issues with ABS in public.
I broached these concerns with Pamela Palmer. Since her skin is thicker than an alligator, she told me to go for it. So here goes, though I’ll start with what I liked about A Blood Seduction.
Palmer does great multi-layered worldbuilding. A Blood Seduction is set in modern times where an alternate version of Washington, D.C. called Vamp City (or Washington, V.C.). exists alongside the regular one. Vamp City was originally created by a sorcerer as a haven for vampires because it’s always night there. It’s an 18th century parallel of the regular Washington, D.C., where most of its inhabitants still get around by horse and carriage instead of cars. The vampires in V.C. also feed from emotions as well as blood. Some are fear feeders, some lust feeders, and some pain feeders. In addition to vampires, there are supernatural creatures called Traders, Rippers, and werewolves.
Vamp City might be a haven for its supernatural inhabitants, but if you’re a human, it’s hell on earth. Humans are brought there to be food, slaves, or both. Some arrive by accidentally stumbling through the brief openings between the worlds, as did Quinn and her brother, but once they’re there, they can’t leave. And anyone in their right mind would be desperate to leave. Slavery from a less-than-sadistic master is the best a human can hope for in V.C., and most who arrive aren’t that lucky. There’s a scene in ABS where a pain-feeding vampire rapes a human slave in a horrifying way, and from the reaction of other characters, it wasn’t an unusual occurrence.
And here’s where my personal baggage as a reader comes in. Some readers love when an author goes no-holds-barred on the grittiness, which is why there’s an audience for every novel. Rape and slavery are already knee-jerk issues for me, so seeing both through the unflinching lens that Palmer points at her world was difficult. I would have preferred fade-to-black instead of detail in this and other violent scenes, but again, that’s me bringing my subjectivity to the table.
Back to the heroine, Quinn. I felt so bad for her. She wasn’t only trying to save her own life after tumbling into this brutal world; she was trying to save her younger brother, too. They were separated after arriving and through most of the novel, she doesn’t even know if he’s alive or dead, but she never gives up her search for him. I admired her for that. What I wanted to shake her over – even while understanding it – was her reaction to the hero, Arturo. You’ve probably heard the phrase “any port in a storm.” Well, Arturo wasn’t Quinn’s “any” port in Vamp City – he was her only port, and she responded to him with all of the reckless trust and gratitude you’d expect from someone who knew her other options were torturous death and more torturous death. Arturo’s sexiness further mired Quinn’s emotions in a Stockholm Syndrome-sort-of quicksand. She knew she shouldn’t count on him – he told her enough not to – but she kept doing it because in a world of monsters, he was the only one not actively trying to chew her up and spit her out.
And here was my biggest problem with ABS: Arturo. I understood why Quinn did what she did with him, even though I wanted to send her to the nearest qualified therapist for it. But his interactions with Quinn were rooted in selfishness. When he was kind to her, it was because he wanted something. He exploited her love for her brother and betrayed her, plus was content to keep Quinn as a slave because, well, that’s what ALL humans were in his world. If not for his one good act at the end of A Blood Seduction, I would have written him off as completely irredeemable.
To be honest, I think I did despite that one good act. Which is why, if Palmer would’ve told me before I read the next novel, A Kiss Of Blood, “You’ll like Arturo by the end of this,” I would have bet her my car that she was wrong.
For the record, if I would’ve made that bet, I’d owe Pamela Palmer a Jeep Cherokee.
*mild spoiler warnings for A Kiss Of Blood*
This book took everything about the characters and world and turned them on their head. When A Kiss Of Blood opens, Quinn is back home with her brother, who’s dying from some mysterious, magical ailment. But her brutal experiences in ABS have toughened her instead of broken her, and she’s ready to take the offensive since she knows the villain of ABS will soon be after her. She’s spent her brief respite in her own world trying to ready herself mentally, physically, and magically. If I wanted to shake her while reading ABS, in A Kiss Of Blood, Quinn shook herself for me and has no illusions about Arturo when he shows back up on her doorstep. Despite her (well-earned!) anger with him, she partners with Arturo because she needs to return to V.C. to find a cure for her brother, and he needs her to renew the failing magic that’s destroying his world.
At the start of AKOB, I was rooting for Vamp City to be destroyed, preferably with Arturo in it. But as Quinn and Arturo navigate the deadly world together, some important truths are revealed. The first is that not every supernatural creature is an appalling sadist. Some, for example, are secretly involved in an Underground Railroad to transport humans back to their own world. More side characters like Quinn’s brother, Zack, and a young woman named Lily round out the plot in interesting ways (I love it when side characters are as three-dimensional as the protagonists). The other significant revelation was that the sorcerer who created Vamp City had an ulterior motive: he wasn’t really making a haven for vampires, he was making a death trap for them. Unbeknownst to the vampires, the magic fueling V.C. was always intended to fail, but before it did and doomed them, it would corrode their souls, one evil deed at a time.
That’s why Vamp City is such a brutal place by the time Quinn stumbles into it. The magic has almost completed its two-fold task and all but the strongest vampires are now cruel shells of their former selves. Quinn’s magic as a sorceress, however, counteracts the damage to those in close proximity with her, as Arturo is. Arturo, as though waking up from a nightmare, is wracked with guilt when he realizes the horrible person he’d transformed into over the centuries. He resolves to make it up to Quinn even as he fights the poison still eating at his soul. It was actually heartbreaking to watch him view his once-close friends through his reawakened conscience and wonder if there was any hope that they, too, could be returned to their former selves. I have to hand it to the original sorcerer, Blackstone: it’s one thing to devise a long-term plan to kill your enemies. Quite another to kill them only after rotting their souls until there’s nothing left. For that, Blackstone wins the Diabolical prize, in my opinion.
Speaking of Blackstone, more of Quinn’s magical background is revealed, explaining why she’s such a powerful sorceress on one hand and yet can’t control her magic on the other. I really enjoyed that twist. It added more depth to her character as she does whatever she can to master her magic in time to save the city and her brother. Quinn’s refusal to blindly fall back into a relationship with Arturo also got a big thumbs up from me despite my changed opinion of him. AKOB does bring on heavy heat between the two, though this time, her attraction to Arturo felt genuine instead of influenced by desperate circumstances. As for Arturo, his feelings for Quinn shone through so when he apologized – repeatedly – for what he’d done in book one, I believed him instead of thinking he was saying it for selfish reasons. Another thing I really appreciated was that despite the personal developments, Quinn and Arturo continued to try and save others no matter the personal sacrifice entailed. That made me root like mad for them, and I can’t wait to see what happens in book three.
In short, I heartily recommend A Kiss Of Blood. I’ll go even further to say that if you have the same issues I do with certain themes, you may not want to read A Blood Seduction first. Palmer recaps enough of what happens that you shouldn’t feel lost, and A Kiss Of Blood has the same world complexity without detailing “on page” the harshest aspects of Vamp City.
A Kiss Of Blood releases tomorrow, June 25th. If you’re interested, here are some ordering links because I’m helpful like that ;-). Amazon, B&N, Indiebound, BooksAMillion.
*For a detailed explanation of why I don’t review books I dislike, go here.
Hquinzelle says
Thank you so much for this review! I have been trying to figure out if I wanted to read it, so I looked at some reviews on GoodReads and I wasn’t sure, but I am definitely going to give it a chance now. Have you read Cat Devon’s Sleeping with the Entity? I enjoyed that one.
Haven’t read Sleeping With the Entity yet. Thanks for the recommendation!
Delilah says
Thanks for the review Jeaniene. The violence of the world didn’t bother me too much. I don’t watch horror movies but can read them and not be bothered. I too was at the shake the heroine in this series. Glad to know she toughens up.
Heh, I’m the exact opposite. Horror movies don’t get in my head but books do :).
I am the same way lol
Jackie (Literary Escapism) says
I was just going to ask if you would recommend reading ABS before jumping into AKOB. Mmmm…I have some of the same issues, and any type of Stockholm Syndrome relationship tends to quirk me out.
BUT do you think a reader would enjoy Arturo and Quinns relationship the same without reading ABS? Do you think your reactions to AKOB would have been different if you hadn’t read ABS? Do you think what they went through in ABS was essential for their relationship to develop into what it is in AKOB?
Disclaimer: I REALLY have knee-jerk issues with the themes I mentioned, so part of me wishes I hadn’t read ABS first. Then I wouldn’t have felt conflicted about the picking up A Kiss Of Blood to begin with and could have simply enjoyed it for the great book I thought it was. So please keep that in mind with my responses to your questions.
Re-“do you think a reader would enjoy Arturo and Quinn’s relationship the same without reading ABS?”
Yes. Possibly more so, because then some readers won’t want Arturo to die through the first quarter of AKOB like I did ;-).
“Do you think your reactions to AKOB would have been different if you hadn’t read ABS?”
As detailed above, I think I may have enjoyed it more.
“Do you think what they went through in ABS was essential for their relationship to develop into what it is in AKOB?”
Personally, no, but then I didn’t believe in their relationship in ABS. At all. So instead of starting from scratch with AKOB, I was starting with a very negative feeling about the couple. If I had a choice between having that negativity or not having it, I’d rather not have it, so again, my recommendation to people like me is to skip ABS.
Siretha says
Enjoyed your review enough to what to read both books. It’s a relief to know that I’m not the only reader, who really wished they could “shake” someone I’m also glad you mentioned the first books “relationship issues” fore warned is fore armed.
Thanks. Nerve-wracking to write a review. Hat’s off to bloggers who do this every day!
I’m with you some characters are just so……
Take the Game of Thrones series: You know that character that every one was so upset died at the end of the first book? I cheered. Couldn’t stand him or his gross incompetence and refused to read the rest of the series in case I had to put up with more characters like him that didn’t bite it.
kara m. says
Your book review was so thorough, eloquent, and just plain excellent! Its no wonder since your books are made of awesome! Thanks for introducing another author to read, was beginning to worry I read every vampire book out there. 🙂
Happy to spread the vampire love!
Thanks for writing this review. The description for AKOB didn’t pull me in, but your write up of why you liked it convinced me to give it a try. I’m looking forward to reading Arturo and Quinn’s story!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Shelley Fletcher says
I’m so excited for A kiss Of Blood….ty for the review…..I think Pamela Palmer did an excellent job with describing the alternate universe she created in A Blood Seduction…I can’t wait to see what Vamp City 2 brings us….
Palmer’s worldbuilding is so detailed and multi-layered in this book. I have writer’s envy, lol.
Thank you for the honest review – more tempted to get the 2nd book since after the first book was just not sure about buying the next one. Your review cleared up some issues I had with the first book also.
I’d never heard of this author or series until recently and have been waffling on giving this a try. Rape scenes are problematic. (As long as I’m not in the head of the victim and the violence of the act isn’t overyly disturbing – one self-pubbed book still haunts me.) Anyway, what your honest critique sold the book. Thanks!
I’ve read both and have got to say that was a pretty good description. And now I’m enthralled and can’t wait for the next…. But I think if you like the Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson you’ll like V.C
. and visa versa.
Exidor says
Thank you for your very informative review of “A Kiss Of Blood”. I was leary about reading this book, as I had many of the same issues as you with the first book (“A Blood Seduction”); however, at the same time there was something about the series that hooked me and made me not want to give up on it. (I am thrilled to hear that Arturo’s character is changing for the better…that was a big issue for me in the first book. Also am glad to hear that Lily is in the sequel…was worried she was forgotten). Now I look forward to the read. There is also a short story in the “Vamp City Series” called “A Forever Love” which appeared in “Vampires Gone Wild” (published between books 1 and 2) …It was this story that lead me to the Series.
I have read both books. I did have the same issues with AKOB. When I finished the book I had such mix feelings about it. The book stayed with me in my thoughts long after the book ended. Part of it was because of the things that happened in the book . However the world building and writing was soooooo good I had to pickup the second book. Im so glad I did !
Her worldbuilding is first rate. Glad you enjoyed the books!
sthecat says
Ms. Palmer has a good friend in you. I had issues with the first book and was not planning on reading the sequel. After reading your blog, I gave it a chance and was glad something made me give it a second look.
Glad to hear that you liked the second book!
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Cycling in Spain: Basque Country - St. Michel (France) to Elgeta (Spain) - 164kms
Feeling a tinge of regret that the French Pyrenees would soon be at my back, I started out on the D15 towards the summit of the Izpegi Pass, and Spain. A short 10-kilometre ride to the foot of the climb, at Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry, it’s another nine to the Spanish border. But first you must negotiate the 5.8 percent average gradient which gradually increases in steepness towards the top, a petty admonishment for abandoning the eminent Pyrenean passes of the French Grand Tour for its Spanish understudy.
But I couldn’t think of a better way to reacquaint myself with a country on a bicycle than by descending 17 kilometres at a near-three percent gradient. All you have to do is guide your handlebars without falling asleep. A lone figure on a bike, I was soon met by a small herd of horses lazing nonchalantly by the side of the road, a pleasant reminder that the Pyrenees belongs to all creatures, not just the human variety.
Carrying a ‘trusty’ map and having ridden this section of the route before-though from the opposite direction-I held little fear of getting lost. After all, I just needed to follow the main road, the N-121-B through Elizondo, before turning onto the NA-170 towards Leitza. From there it was just a matter of another 75 kilometres to our overnight accommodation at the Casa Rural Maialde, in Elgeta.
Lying between my present location and the village of Elgeta were an array of small climbs. Sometimes they’re termed ‘puertos’ and on other occasions ‘altos’. In fact, due to its undulating landscape, the Basque countryside is crammed with almost as many road passes as there are roads themselves, most in the vicinity of between five and seven hundred metres high. The Basque Mountains are considered by some to be a separate, slightly smaller range, between the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains that stretch more than 300 kilometres across northern Spain. Others simply regard it as the eastern foothills of the Cantabrian Range.
While gliding along, presently without a care in the world, I mulled over the subtle differences between a puerto, an alto, a pico and even a collado, the four words used most often to name a Spanish mountain peak or pass. Though I’d climb many of each during the weeks ahead, telling the difference was almost as challenging as getting to the top; of at least some anyway. In all of my fifty-nine years, I’d never given it any consideration whatsoever, except for being partial to the words ‘puerto’ and ‘alto’ in comparison to ‘mount’ and ‘hill’, the titles we afford here in Australia to anything higher than a sand dune caused by a fierce northerly wind. For me, the words ‘puerto’ and ‘alto’ have a more positive air about them, certainly when compared with their deadpan Australian equivalents. Give me the thrill of climbing an alto in preference to a hill any day!
No more difficult than Grade Four Geography, the Spanish terms ‘pico’ and ‘alto’ should be easy enough to understand. Like their French counterpart ‘mont’, they simply mean ‘the very top of a mountain’. Likewise, the French term ‘col’ and its Spanish equivalent ‘puerto’, translate to a mountain with a road over it, or if you like, ‘mountain pass’, terms patently used on each side of the Pyrenean border. But here lies the ambiguity. Sometimes an alto can turn out to be a mountain pass as well as a dead end. As for a ‘collado’ meaning a ‘mound’ or at best a ‘hill’, so too can they.
While no closer to an understanding of these subtle Spanish nuances it seemed as if I’d travelled more than 50 kilometres in no time at all. It’s fascinating the thoughts you while away the hours with when you’re on a bike. The Basques had it covered in any case.
It was noticeable as I wound my way up and down the network of secondary roads that guided me to the summits along the route, that most of the signs simply inscribed the name of the pass. Possibly alert to the fact that its difficult enough to get over the top of a climb without confusing cyclists with what they’re climbing in the first place, ‘Artaleku 494m’, ‘Deskarga 510m’, ‘Bidania 510m’, ‘Iturbiru’ 550m’ and finally ‘Pagatza 475m’ at the end of a long day’s ride, was as much information as I needed. Hungry, weary and covered in sweat, the sight of Roz, her arms outstretched and shouting “Bienvenido a España” (“Welcome to Spain”) from the window of our well-appointed third storey apartment above me, was all I wanted to hear.
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2. Ethical SEO
2.1 How a search engine actually works
Search engines use automated software programs, known as spiders or crawlers, to explore the Web and build their databases; a spider analyses page after page following the links which connect them each others. Then every page is added to a giant database, sometimes called the catalog, indexing it with its major keywords. A keyword is a word which is relevant to the content of the page itself or it is an expression which describes it. Usually the spider starts its research from the most relevant pages already in the database, so that pages already highly ranked are examined more frequently. When a new site is created the webmaster should submit a form to the major search engines to speed up the time to be included in the result list for the relevant searches. Anyway since the Web include a quite fair amount of pages, if you changed something in your site to increase its ranking, it might take a month or even more the effects to be seen in its ranking.
After a page is in the database it is ready to be presented in a search, as a result every time a query is made, there is a program inside the search engine which sifts through the millions of pages, recorded in the index, to find matches to the search.
The final step is retrieving the results: after a user makes a query the indexed pages are present to him in the ranking order, it appears already clear that the title of the page, which will be shown in the list of results, is important in the ranking of the page, for that reason a page is penalized if title and content mismatch. There are several different ranking algorithms used by different search engines, in fact the same query on different engines will usually have a different result. These algorithms are kept secret to avoid that studying them will help to find an easy way to get better position in the result list, so, if the general rules we will consider further on, can be considered always valid, you should keep in mind that achieving the top ranks requires optimizing in different way for different search engines. For instance roughly Google considers more important the links, Yahoo the keywords; links and keywords are in somehow relevant in both the search engines but with a different weight, thus what may be a good keywords optimization for Yahoo, will probably be over optimization for Google.
I have just described how the so called crawler based search engine works; actually there are at least other two kinds of source of information: the human-powered directories and the Hybrid Search Engines. In the first case the page are inserted in the database by humans, consequently the SEO rules has no power to increase the ranking which is driven by the quality of the websites; an example is Yahoo directory. In the second case, like suggested by the name, both the mechanisms can be used. For instance in the 2002 MSN Search presented human-powered listings from LookSmart but it also used a crawled based search for the more obscure queries. This hybrid category is disappearing but some minor search engines still adopt this approach.
Nowadays the three main search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN and they are all crawler based. During July 2006, it is calculated that about 50% of the global searches are run by Google; about the 25% by Yahoo and 10% by MSN thus the space for the other dozens of search engines is really thin. Google is considered the outstanding best engine, no surprise if since it was born its ranking algorithm influenced forever the ranking algorithms of all the other search engines, therefore no dissertation about the working mechanisms of a search engine can avoid to speak about it.
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One of my long standing questions about Tesla’s cars has been about battery longevity. Specifically, what kind of wear and tear results on the batteries if you charge them frequently. Lithium ion batteries are not supposed to suffer from memory effect, but we all know that charging and discharging them on a daily basis takes a toll. Phones and laptops show that no battery is immune.
So how is a thousand pound lithium ion battery going to work out over 100k or more miles? No one is going to run that thing down to near zero. You don’t dare. Not when the consequence is being stranded far from home with no alternative than a flatbed tow back home.
This post finally gives some interesting insight. I’m not sure I have full confidence in the figures around the compared maintenance costs… that said, the info about battery life and wear and tear are insightful.
When TechCrunch inquired about the eHawk, after it hit 200,000 miles, Tesloop said the Model S only lost about 6 percent—despite receiving a full charge every day.
Read the story:
http://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-put-300-000-miles-on-a-te-1798662230
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Another amazing “every man” thriller from Joe Finder! What would a normal guy do after making an amazing discovery hidden in his long abandoned family home? Well, if the guy is a bit of a screw up in the first place, odds are he’s going to get himself into some trouble before he sorts out what’s going on. Then he’ll have to get his act together and try to sort things out. But can he do it before he’s in too deep? Probably not. That’s not how life works. At least not the lives of people worth reading about. Thankfully, Mr. Finder constantly delivers novels that are as plausible as they are entertaining. Each one an energetic adventure and frenetic thrill ride. The Fixer is no exception. This is another compelling book that is nearly impossible to put down. I found myself reading long after I should have gone to bed. The ultimate compliment, in my experience.
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Apple’s CarPlay solution does fantastic things for the daily commute by bringing the iOS experience to the dashboard. Many car manufacturers have already signed up to bring CarPlay support to their lines in the near future. Some have already integrated CarPlay into existing models. It’s a technology to consider if you’re in the market for a new car. But many will be interested in adding CarPlay to their existing ride by way of a third part, or aftermarket, headunit. Numerous aftermarket stereo manufactures have already released systems that support CarPlay. The most recent hardware supports CarPlay as well as Google’s alternative: Android Auto.
In an effort to cope with an 2 hour+ commute each day, I added a Pioneer AVH-4100NEX to my 2007 Trailblazer. An impressive aftermarket car stereo, it has a fast, responsive touch screen and excellent CarPlay support. Siri can be activated with a long press of a button on the bezel of the headunit. As is the case with all of the current Pioneer models, the iPhone must be attached to the headunit via a cable in order for CarPlay to work. Apple has added Wireless CarPlay to recent versions of the iOS but Pioneer models such as mine lack the wi-fi capabilities required to leverage the wire-free version of CarPlay. So, in the case of my AVH-4100NEX, the USB cable is my friend.
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This is book #10 in the series and a truly outstanding release. Over the course of the first 9 books, David Golemon created characters his readers feel at home with. With the Mountain, he mixes things up in new and interesting ways. Much of the book takes place in the past—pre-Event Group. Historic characters, during the time of the American Civil War, are explored for much of the book. It gives Golemon a chance to introduce some powerful and dynamic new characters while teaching readers things we never knew about the present day Event Group. The experience is well conceived, skillfully executed, and results in an exceptional tenth book in the series.
I’ve always believed that it’s the characters who make any book great. Love them or hate them (you can do both), if the reader feels something for the characters, you have the makings of something special. In fact, this magical world has a great deal of character of its own. The Legend of the WinterKing is an epic fantasy tale with captivating heroes and foes pushed into a thrilling and mysterious adventure. The story uses traditional elements like pixies, ogres, trolls, and elves to create a rich, non-traditional and unique realm with countless secrets. The mystery of the Great Divide and separation of worlds is a fantastic concept. And the way we, as readers, learn of the characters and explore the world keeps the pages turning well into the night.
Sin by J.M. LeDuc
It’s hard to take a topic like human trafficking a write a compelling thriller that doesn’t leave the reader feeling gutted and angry at the word. It’s too sensitive of a topic, and one that cuts us to the bone. That’s why I felt some trepidation when I thought about reading Sin by J.M. LeDuc. I thought I knew what I was in for and I wasn’t entirely sure I was ready to walk down this particular avenue. Still, reviews of this book had been stellar and if the buzz was any indication, this was a book that I simply had to read.
By the end of the first chapter, I was digging the book. The by end of the second chapter, I didn’t even realize that I was already starting the third. Things never slowed down from there. Not only did I love this book, I drank it in. There was a solid mystery to keep things moving, and there was enough action and suspense to satisfy fans of that genre as well. But the heart and soul of this book is, as it should be, its main character: Sinclair O’Malley. That’s alright, everyone just calls her Sin for short.
Sin is a powerful female protagonist who’s just dripping with character. She’s written with a sharp wit, a strong moral campus, and a propensity for harsh language. Add that up and you’ve got yourself a commanding female lead character that will leave you wanting more.
Haywire by Justin R. Macumber
Like science fiction? Are you a fan of old school action/adventure stories? If this is you, Haywire is a must-read book. This story is science for the sake of fiction, and that’s what makes it shine. It’s a fast paced novel that doesn’t get bogged down in the technical aspects of space travel or try to sell you on the plausibility of technology that exists in this futuristic look at our world. The story doesn’t spend time explaining the politics of the future or try to tell a less that subtle cautionary tale of what’s to come. Haywire is, from page one, a quick moving story about interesting characters. Space is the setting for this book. There’s no dull, heavy handed lesson in science or technology to slow the pace of the story. If you’re looking for an in-depth explanation of space travel, or how wormholes helped humanity reach out into the stars, you won’t find it here. That’s not what this book is about. It’s far more grounded in the lives of the characters, and that’s what I loved about it.
When an alien race attempted to invade our solar system, the people of Earth created an army super soldiers who were powerful enough to drive them back to where they came from. What happened after that is entirely unknown. 100 years passed and no one on Earth knows what became of the aliens or Earth’s super soldiers. At least, until one of those soldiers returns home. She is sick with an alien infection, and she is the only one with a chance of stoping the next great threat to Earth.
Xom-B by Jeremy Robinson
This is, by far, one of the more unique genre fiction novels that I’ve had the pleasure of reading. And while the title implies a zombie based plot, the book is more distinctively science fiction than it is horror. Set in the not distant enough future, this is at its core a cautionary tale— an all too plausible, “what if” scenario that at first seems somewhat farfetched. But by the end of the book, odds are that you’ll find yourself no longer considering the events of this book as implausible as they might have first seemed.
First and foremost, Xom-B is the tale of one man’s wide-eyed and innocent discovery. It’s told from the first person-present perspective. While at first this point of view was a little jarring and unfamiliar to me, it soon became more comfortable. I have no doubt that it was the right perspective from which to tell this particular tale. So much of what happens is made much more effective by the real-time first person point of view, and I think my initial discomfort from the perspective came simply from the fact that so few books utilize this perspective.
Influx by Daniel Suarez
Influx, the latest novel from Daniel Suarez is certain to be another smash hit. Daniel’s first book, Daemon was a bestseller and foretold technologies that are only currently seeing the light of day. Modern tech like Goole’s still-in-production Google Glass, and lesser altruistic advents such as the recently dismantled Silk Road. Part two of Daemon was titled Freedom™, and was another massive success. This was followed by Kill Decision which proved to be only moments ahead of its time since it dealt with drone warfare and posed a question that is becoming crucial at this very point in time: should automated systems or artificial intelligence be allowed to make critical life and death decisions?
Book number four from Mr. Suarez, Influx, deals with a fictional government agency who’s mandate is to police leaps in technology that are deemed disruptive. The BTC, or Bureau of Technology Control, is proactive in its efforts, striking at scientist and innovators before they can bring key innovations to market— innovations that are certain to change the world in some profound way. When such a technology comes to the attention of the BTC, the innovator behind the discovery is offered membership into the unique and secret organization. But only if he or she agrees to keep their discovery from the world and continues development while working for the BTC. But what happens when someone refuses?
The Best Way to Blanket a Home in Wi-Fi
A recent Facebook post started me thinking that this was a subject worth covering. Here’s the original question:
JR: Computer people, what is the absolute, most amazing and powerful wi-fi extender I can get? My current extender is slow and totally unreliable, needing to be reset frequently. I’ve read reviews online, but can’t seem to come up with an obvious choice.
It’s a great question with a few possible answers. First, let’s make some assumptions about the environment. Like most folks in this situation, I’m betting that this is a larger house with the router located at one end and that the wi-fi reception on the opposite end is the real problem. Upstairs and downstairs variations are likely not the issue. There could be obstructions in the middle of the house the interfere with the signal. These are typically kitchen related. The refrigerator and stove can really tank a wi-fi signal.
So what’s the best way to extend the range of the wi-fi router? There are extenders, but as the question suggests, your mileage may vary. What are the alternatives?
Option 1: Replace the Router
Replacing the main wireless router with an 802.11n or an 802.11ac version could be the ticket. If the original router was 802.11a, 802.11b, or 802.11g, then these newer versions offer greater ranger in most situations. But there’s a catch. To take full advantage of that greater range, the wireless adapter that’s part of your computer should also be 802.11n or 802.11ac. If it’s not, you’re not going to get the full range extension. And upgrading the hardware at the computer could be impractical (adding a card of some kind) or impossible (some laptops, and all tablets). At some point, the price becomes an issue and option 1 might not be the best route if you’re dealing with legacy hardware.
Also keep in mind that 802.11n and 802.11ac routers drop in performance to match the requirements of the oldest connecting device. This means that, if you have an old device (only 802.11b 22Mb), your super fast 100+Mb wi-fi will down-step the performance of the entire network to accommodate that old device. Some of the latest hardware circumvents this issue by putting the older hardware on a different frequency, but in far too many cases, having an old device on a modern network will cause the entire network to slow down. Worse yet, depending on the router, it might also limit the range of your wi-fi network as it works to accommodate those older specifications. Few people see that coming. It’s difficult to anticipate and even more difficult to diagnose, so be aware.
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A Superior 'Bloodline' Has Been Identified, But Did The Right 'Challenge' Team Win?
It was a long time coming for the first-place team.
The first leg of this “Challenge” season’s final mission shook Cara Maria and Jamie’s family tree to it roots, but after buckling down on the game’s remaining four installments, the cousins proved to carry the competition’s superior bloodline. The question is: Did they deserve first place?
On tonight’s season finale, which began with a feast of traditional German dishes (blood soup, pig lard and tongue, among them), Jamie’s iron stomach helped his team to earn a decisive part-two victory. Jenna and Brianna, who sat down to the meal with a commanding lead, struggled to contend with their finicky gag reflexes and wound up falling to third place. Finally, Cory and Mitch, who came into the mini-game trailing their competition, placed second and slowly chipped away at their deficit.
And the players’ reward for spending the afternoon speckling each other’s outfits with vomit? Being forced to spend the night standing upright in a cold, abandoned train station (“The Challenge” will hardly do favors for area tourism). As Brianna patiently waited for daybreak as part of the finale’s third heat, she hoped she and Jenna hadn’t done irreparable damage to their chances at a win and reflected on all that they’d been through.
“This is probably gonna be the only time that I ever do something like this,” she said. “And I really want it to be worth it. If I come in first, that would be so awesome. Me and Jenna had a rocky start in the beginning. We want it so bad.”
But wanting it wasn’t quite enough for the lone remaining girl-girl team, which settled for another last-place finish in the game’s fourth heat: a leisurely 10-mile canoe journey up the Spree River. Again, Cara Maria and Jamie placed first, while Cory and Mitch continued to hover in the middle.
Finally, as part of the game’s fifth and final heat, TJ tasked the teams with completing a numbers puzzle, at which point they’d enter Berlin’s famed Olympiastadion and run two miles around its track. Then, each team’s cumulative time across the mission’s five heats would be added up, and a winner would be named.
After flying under the radar through the game’s preceding jobs, Mitch and Cory tore through the end of “Bloodlines” in a blaze of glory, blowing the other two teams out of the water.
“There was never a time where I thought I’d be sharing this moment with my cousin,” Cory said, as he remembered his team’s highs in the game and his and Mitch’s near-elimination. “You cannot beat that.”
Unfortunately, one team could beat that, and they did. The lead Jamie and Cara Maria had garnered through Heat 4 was so marked that they still managed to take the game’s gold medal -- Cara’s first victory in eight tries and across five years as a “Challenge” contestant.
“I’m in complete disbelief,” Cara said. “Having this moment in this arena, and being surrounded by all these people in such an epic place. You can do literally whatever you want to do if you put in the work.”
So, Cara finally got the W with her cousin by her side, but should it have been hers? Or did second-place finishers Cory and Mitch or third-place finishers Brianna and Jenna deserve it more? Share your thoughts on the “Bloodlines” finale below!
The Challenge: Bloodlines
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Monthly Archives March 2009
NZ Bermuda TIEA Signed
March 31, 2009 New Zealand Taxation No comments
New Zealand and Bermuda are set to sign a Taxation Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) on the 16h of April.
The TIEA will be New Zealand’s second agreement of such a nature, following the first which is Netherlands Antilles. According to Revenue Minister Peter Dunne others are already under negotiation. This is on top of New Zealand’s 35 Double Taxation Agreements. The TIEA will be signed at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC.
According to Mr. Dunne, the TIEA will make it easier for the partner countries to access information about someone residing in either country, for taxation purposes. This will also aid in the process of discovering any assets that have not been disclosed to governments on either side.
Business Tax Relief Passes Parliament
The tax relief package introduced by Parliament on the 10th of February has passed through its final stages of Parliament approval and requires only Royal assent.
The business tax relief package which was introduced by the National led Government and aimed at bringing tax relief to the small and medium enterprises (SME) of New Zealand, has been passed through parliament. According to Revenue Minister Peter Dunne, the 96% of New Zealand businesses which are SMEs will find this package useful in weathering the current economic downturn and also in easing up some cash flow problems that they might be experiencing.
If the package receives Royal assent from the Governor General, it will include changes like the removal of the 5% increase in Provisional Tax estimates, along with changes to some...
Dunne Wants to Delay Tax Change
Peter Dunne is advising that the government delay the series of tax reforms that it is set on implementing on the 1st of April.
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne has voiced his concern in regards to the Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and Remedial Matters) Bill, introduced last July. According to him, there are numerous business owners and their tax advisors that are not necessarily ready or fully comprehend the changes that are set to occur on the 1st of April.
Peter Dunne has proposed the following changes. Reform of international taxation will proceed as planned except for those with balance dates before the 30th of June. Proposed changes to life insurance and PIE schemes are to be deferred to a date set by consultation with industry representatives...
Tax Policy Program Announced
The New Zealand Government has released statements in regards to a tax policy work program which aims to alter New Zealand taxation matters with the aim of raising New Zealand’s status in the world’s economy.
There are a number of changes proposed in the taxation review, the most obvious of these is the previously mentioned 30/30/30 rule. This would see personal, company and trustee tax aligned to the maximum rate of 30%. Double taxation agreements are also on the plan, with updating some double taxation agreements and aiming to create new ones being the main goal. Imputation credits are set to be reviewed also.
The complete list of changes can be viewed at the Inland Revenue Department’s tax policy website, here.
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FORBES AFRICA’S “MY WORST DAY WITH PEACE HYDE” GOES GLOBAL
Nkonkonsa.com May 28, 2019 2:16 pm August 12, 2019 0
The leading business talk show on the number one business magazine platform, Forbes Africa My Worst Day with Peace Hyde, is set to launch its third instalment and this time, the program has a lineup of powerhouse business tycoons from the global business world.
The show which is renowned for interviewing the African continents billionaires and millionaires on their most challenging day ever in business has raised the bar by venturing into global business world to assemble a league of some of the richest and most successful African American moguls.
Reprising her role as creator, producer and host of the show that reaches some 60 million homes across 16 countries in sub Saharan Africa, Peace Hyde is set to take the award-winning show global. Successful editions have of the show has been syndicated in Ghana and South Africa drawing in an enviable guest list of some of the most powerful people in African business.
Some of the guests on this line up include, Eddie Brown, one of the wealthiest philanthropists in Baltimore and founder of Brown Capital Management investment firm with over $9 billion of assets under management; Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder and CEO of $925 million ActOne, provider of workforce solutions including temporary staffing; Cathy Hughes, media mogul and founder of TV One and Urban One launched in partnership with Comcast with 53 stations across 16 markets and Bishop TD Jakes of TD jakes Enterprises to name a few.
From London, the prestigious shortlist includes the powerlist most powerful person of African and Caribbean heritage for 2017 and 2019, Tom Ilube and Ric Lewis respectively. Tom Ilube is a millionaire tech entrepreneur and education philanthropist who is the founder of AIM listed Crossword Cybersecurity and also a non-executive director of the BBC and sits on the Royal Ban of Scotland’s technology Advisory Board. Ric Lewis is a CEO of Tristan Capital Partners, an independent London headquartered real estate investment management boutique with $10 billion of assets under management.
“We have interviewed some of the most powerful people in Africa and for this season, we decided to seek out people all over the world with African heritage and explore how they overcame their most challenging day in business. When we started 3 years ago we didn’t realise how big the show will be and we have had overwhelming feedback from all over the world and hence the reason why we are going global with this season,” says Peace Hyde.
The show has previously featured Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote alongside other billionaire moguls like Africa’s second richest woman, Folorunso Alakija, South African millionaire and Mayor of Johannesburg Herman Mashaba, AFDB President Akinwumi Adesina and Ghanaian millionaire moguls Paa Kwasi Nduom. The third season of the show is sponsored by leading real estate company, Nedcomoaks.
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The Objective Reader
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Author: David K. Shipler
Publisher: 2004, Vintage Books
Lexile Measure: n/a
Classification: Non-fiction
In this nonfiction work by Pulitzer prize-winning author David Shipler, Shipler discusses the problem of poverty in the United States. He does so by following the lives of numerous working poor Americans for several years. He then presents their stories to illustrate the complexity of the problem of poverty and examines the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of our society’s attempts to address it.
This is a nonfiction work. Profanity is present only when in a quote by one of the subjects. The author uses none of his own. Examples of language used are:
h*ll (pp. 35, 104, 105, 106)
cr*p (p. 208)
God (p. 49)
sh*t (pp. 90, 103, 106, 113, 234)
p*ssing (pp. 103, 183)
*ss (p. 149)
d*mn (p. 175)
b*tch (p. 234)
Drug and Alcohol Use:
References to drinking, smoking, and drug use are really too numerous to mention. As an example, however, pp. 33-38, discuss a young couple with children who smoke and drink while their neglected children play in an unsafe and unclean environment. See also, pp. 43-44, 55, 122, 175.
The book references use of marijuana, cocaine, and other illegal drug use on pp. 46, 113, 119, 122, 152-153, 156-157, 267-269. 271-274. Drugs are discussed not to glorify them or their use or sale but, instead, to demonstrate the negative impact they have on the people using them, their families and friends, and their neighborhoods.
Again, drug and alcohol use and abuse is discussed repeatedly.
Violence and Crime:
The Working Poor discusses crimes committed by the subjects of Shipler’s interviews and others in their environments. These include drug use, theft, domestic violence, rape, sexual abuse of minors, drunk driving, and prostitution. Crime is not glorified; instead it is examined as one of the causes and effects of poverty.
The book discusses illegal immigrants and the businesses that employ them in a chapter entitled “Harvest of Shame.”
In the chapter entitled “Sins of the Fathers,” the book discusses sexual abuse of children (including one instance of anal sex), abortion, and domestic violence. It also discusses rape of a prostitute by her pimp and the assault of a teenager who was tied to a bed and raped while people laughed (see, pp. 270-271).
Sexual Content:
Sexual conduct is referenced throughout The Working Poor. Examples are too numerous to detail.
The book discusses the sexual abuse of a child by her father (pp. 58-59).
Prostitution and drug abuse are discussed throughout.
Many of Shipler’s case studies involve women who have children out of wedlock, often with multiple men. Ex. p. 123. See also, Chapter 6, “Sins of the Fathers.”
Chapter 6, entitled “Sins of the Fathers,” contains a lot of graphic, but not gratuitous, sexual content. It discusses the large number of women in poverty who have been sexually abused and the impact of the abuse on their lives, including promiscuity and abortion.
Descriptions of abuse include fondling of minors, rape, anal sex (with a second grader), a matter-of-fact description of an aborted fetus in a jar, the rape of a prostitute by her pimp, women who have had multiple children out of wedlock with numerous men as the fathers, and child abuse and neglect.
The Working Poor presents the author’s analysis of capitalism’s pros and cons and notes that the system does not work equally for everyone and that, perhaps, all people are not presented with a level playing field.
Shipler argues that the United States has the resources, but not the political will, to address the problems of poverty. For a summary of his opinions, readers should turn to Chapter 11, “Skill and Will.” There, Shipler points out that poverty is not a simple problem to solve and that both political parties have misguided beliefs about how to solve it.
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A Note on the Fires in Athens
Yesterday, on Monday, 23 July, two major fires broke out in or near the Attica region. The first was at Kineta, near Megara. This fire broke out in a forested area along the national road.
The second fire or fires broke out along the shoreline to the north east of the capital, in the area between Rafina and Mati. This is a heavily-forested urban area, where houses, apartments and hotels are located between the shoreline and national road, and above the national road on the foothills of Mount Penteli.
A few items of interest:
a. High winds and dry weather: The winds yesterday were exceptionally strong, with wind gusts of up to 85 km/hour reported. These were seen first hand even in the centre of Athens. These are absolutely fatal conditions for a fire.
b. In the Rafina / Mati area, winds change direction rapidly due to a number of geomorphological, marine and climactic factors.
c. While I do not know the Kineta area, I am very familiar with the entire stretch between Rafina and Schinias. This area is characterized by very narrow streets and is totally covered with pine trees. There are also a number of steep valleys or gulleys that often block road access and are conduits for flames.
Photos taken in the aftermath of the fires show burnt cars blocking roads. We can assume that as people fled, traffic barriers and heavy smoke would have impeded their flight. As the wind changed, the fire would have moved more rapidly than a running person, leaping from pine tree to pine tree. The trees would have ignited immediately, together with the entire ground which is usually covered with pine needles and other dessicated plants and shrubs.
According to Kathimerini and Skai News, one group of 26 people were fleeing towards the sea when they were stopped by flames approximately 30 meters from the waves. I can only imagine the terror induced by the heat, the high smoke and the panic. All 26 died.
During the fire, and in the aftermath, two theories broke out:
a. The first was that this was an act of arson by propery developers, who want to burn the land in order to build on it. I can’t see this happening in Rafina – Mati. This area is within an urban area, so the practice of burning and then squatting would not normally be a motivating factor. I presume that enough of the land plots are registered in the national cadaster. I can also attest that every serious buyer today looks very carefully at whether a land plot falls in the forest area or not, and makes their decisions accordingly. Finally, I remind everyone that Greece remains in a deep economic depression despite recent headline macro numbers, and I find it improbable that new building is taking place given the vast number of unsold properties on the market.
b. The second was that this was an act of arson by a specific foreign country which wanted revenge over a recent diplomatic incident. I give very little credence to this scenario.
I do not know if arson or politics were involved. But I do know that every year, fires are started everywhere in Greece by drivers throwing lit cigarette butts out their car window. I have witnessed this happening, and I have also witnessed the aftermath.
I have also heard many voices blaming the state, and its lack of preparedness. Normally, I am one of the harshest critics, as this blog attests. However, I can also state that this terrain is simply very difficult, if not impossible, to protect against fire. Both streets and lots are literally covered with pine trees. The lots and streets are small, and narrow, so it is very easy for fire to leap from tree to tree, which it does with alarming speed.
Together with the high smoke, the wind speed and the wind direction change, I am not sure any fire brigade could have coped with this event. And unless residents were prepared to cut down pine trees (which are cherished for their shade), I don’t see how effective fire breaks could have been prepared, absent razing built up areas to create 30- or 50-meter wide fire breaks.
While we could take further measures to mitigate the risks of fires of this kind, we should be under no illusions as to the social cost and cohesion needed to do so. Even Japan, which has invested hundreds of billions in disaster preparedness, has not been able to perfectly plan for every disaster. And Greece is far from being Japan in terms of social and government planning.
There is aerial footage of the burnt areas here:
http://www.iefimerida.gr/news/432976/skiniko-apokalypsis-sygklonistika-vinteo-apo-elikoptero-apotyponoyn-tin-tragodia-apo-ti
The death toll currently ranks at above 50, while many media are claiming above 60. It is a human tragedy which is incomprehensible in our current times. It is a tragedy which sadly occurs every summer, though not in these numbers. The last time the toll was so high was in 2007.
I would like to respectfully suggest that we resist the natural impulse to rage at unknown figures, or the state, or engage in conspiracy theories until further information comes to light.
In the meantime, the Hellenic Red Cross is collecting donations for the survivors. I hope you will join me in making a donation to them.
http://www.redcross.gr/default.asp?pid=40&la=1&artId=1231
© Philip Ammerman, 2018
Unelecting Trump, or the Dark Course of American Democracy
Sometime in late October, I mentioned in a conversation on Facebook that one main concern I had about Donald Trump is that it would be impossible to unelect him. His authoritarian tendencies, which have also been exhibited by the Republican Party in the past 16 years, mean that the rules would be changed to such an extent as to return either the same candidate or his surrogate to power for a long time to come.
How would this be possible? Anyone controlling the Presidency, the Congress and soon the Supreme Court has extraordinary power to influence elections, even though voting is a state responsibility.
Here is a simple catalogue of the alarming trends that are occurring:
1. Voter Suppression
Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from voting. (Wikipedia)
Voter suppression has been actively used in key battleground states like Florida (famously in the 1999/2000 vote recount) and Ohio. A complete list of voter suppression techniques seen in the United States can be found on Wikipedia.
The Center for American Progress has a detailed list of actual cases of what it claims are voter suppression in a well-documented article here. Together with the fact that over 6 million convicted felons cannot vote, it is clear that a significant number of the American people are systematically being deprived of their right to vote.
Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the electoral result, stating that he won by “millions of votes”, and suggesting that voter fraud is the reason he lost the popular vote despite all evidence to the contrary (to date). Given this approach, it is easy to understand how a Trump Administration will choose to ignore further activities in voter suppression in key states.
2. Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the process by which a state sets its voting district boundaries in order to achieve a disproportionate political result for certain groups. Several states in the US have extremely complex voting districts which have been defined as a result of partisan gerrymandering.
For more information on this, please see:
The Guardian article on North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District
Washington Post article on what US voting districts might look like without gerrymandering
Harvard Political Review brief on gerrymandering
Partisan gerrymandering is illegal according to both the US Constitution and subsequent US law. As Wikipedia notes:
Various constitutional and statutory provisions may compel a court to strike down a gerrymandered redistricting plan. At the federal level, the Supreme Court has held that if a jurisdiction’s redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause or Voting Rights Act of 1965, a federal court must order the jurisdiction to propose a new redistricting plan that remedies the gerrymandering. If the jurisdiction fails to propose a new redistricting plan, or its proposed redistricting plan continues to violate the law, then the court itself must draw a redistricting plan that cures the violation and use its equitable powers to impose the plan on the jurisdiction
How would a Trump Administration enhance gerrymandering? Three ways:
a. By packing the Supreme Court
b. By weakening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, for instance by creating for intrusive needs for voter registration and reducing the franchise
c. By refusing to actively enforce these acts through the Attorney General’s office.
Jeff Sessions, who was recently confirmed as Attorney General, has already been rejected by a Senate confirmation panel in 1986 due to allegations of voter intimidation of blacks in Alabama. Mr. Session was, at that time, being nominated as a federal judge.
It is sadly notable that conduct that condemned Mr. Sessions in 1986, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, is considered acceptable in the Senate during Donald Trump’s first term.
3. Fake News / Terrorism
Donald Trump has, both during his campaign but also as President, repeatedly trumpeted fake news, and has conflated or wrongly attributed incidents of terrorism.
The list of fake news is now too long to catalogue, but several parties have made valiant attempts. Here are some:
The New York Times inventories some of the fake news spread by Donald Trump since 2011.
CNBC focuses on fake news during the 2016 election
Buzzfeed reporting on hundreds of pro-Trump websites managed from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Kellyanne Conway recently referred to a non-existent “massacre”, the Bowling Green Massacre, to justify the travel ban on refugees and citizens of 7 foreign countries
Why does this matter? Donald Trump has now normalised the fact that he spreads fake news. Prior to his inauguration, this was considered acceptable by the people who voted for him. He is now President of the United States, and it is clear that fake news is not going to go away anytime soon.
How will fake news affect future elections?
a. It will be spread not only by the usual ecosystem of political surrogates and trollers, but increasingly by elected officials. This is already occurring.
b. The virulence of attacks on people for refusing to believe in fake news is now at an all-time high. Note the language of Donald Trump’s recent twitter attacks on John McCain over the Yemen raid.
c. It will increasingly conflate anti-terrorism with patriotism and with supporting Republic candidates. This is an old script, first pioneered by George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks, and repeatedly enhanced since by the Republican party.
4. The Family Business
Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest are increasingly well-documented. He remains involved in the Donald Trump Organisation, and has assigned management of this to his two sons.
The Trump organisation has hundreds of business relationships with both foreign countries and with key lenders such as Deutsche Bank, that the US government is currently involved with in regulation.
His daughter Ivanka, who has her own business interests, remains an advisor, as does his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The Trump organisation has announced plans to expand nationally.
Trump’s past record of work in dealing with complex property development codes and requirements in New York, as well as his record of strategic bankruptcies and non-payment of suppliers indicate that he knows how to use the public sector.
USA Today has counted 4,095 lawsuits against Donald Trump over the past 30 years. How will a US District or Federal Court rule in a case where the ultimate defendant is a sitting President?
It is apparent that the incentives for using the Presidency to expand the personal wealth of Donald Trump and his family members are fully aligned.
5. The 1930s Playbook
Nearly every aspect of Trump’s business policy as expressed today could have been taken from a 1930’s authoritarian playbook:
Condemn US companies for “moving jobs abroad”
Condemn free trade, when recognising that more American jobs will be lost by pulling out of key trade agreements such as NAFTA, particularly in key US sectors such as automotive assembly and agricultural exports
Threaten successful foreign exporters, such as BMW, with a 35% tariff, while refusing to recognise that Germany can retaliate with the same tariff
Ignore the tremendous inequality in the US tax system and household earnings by promising yet more tax cuts for the very wealthy
Appoint ideological members of Cabinet who are intent on sabotaging and destroying the very entities they have been appointed to lead
Condemn the press for “fake news” and “fake polls”
Condemn specific companies for failing to carry Ivanka Trump’s clothing line
Create an unspecified foreign enemy (all refugees, all Muslims, all Chinese, all Mexicans) and promise a grateful and impoverished nation protection and strength.
The list is long, and will no doubt continue to grow in the next few years.
6. Draining the Swamp and Lobbying
The United States government is the largest financial organisation in the world. It is also the world’s largest single debtor (at the Federal level) and the largest absolute debtor when combining the Federal Government, 50 State governments, municipalities, the Federal Reserve, and organisations such as Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
The incentives of doing business with the US Government, as well as seeking regulatory abatement from it, are simply too high to counteract. Donald Trump is a billionaire who is appointing a Cabinet of billionaires. Does anyone really believe that the business interests that gain so much from the government will suddenly change their course?
If anything, they will be emboldened. This pattern has been repeated throughout history.
The question is really why this is being done. The Republicans control all three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial (at least embodied in the Supreme Court). This sets the stage for a period of time in which they will be able to implement their policy agenda, subject to the limit where internal Republican conflicts interfere with the process.
Given where things stand now, I increasingly believe that protecting and extending political power is as important as policy making for this Party. We see this in the patterns of gerrymandering and voter suppression in Republican-controlled states.
We also know what happened when the Democrats lost the House in the first mid-term elections in 2010 the Senate in 2014.
We see no hope of a rational policy debate or voting system in the United States, and we see growing corporate interests and other special interests influencing policy and voting results.
We see that these interests flourish regardless of the political party in power.
As a result, I am increasingly pessimistic as to whether the United States can ever unelect Donald Trump, or someone like him.
As I have written in another post, the United States resembles to me the Roman Republic in its final days. We have just elected our man on a horse. Such men never go quietly.
Labels: Current Events - Greece, Donald Trump, US Presidential Election 2016
The Irrelevance of Resistance in the Senate Confirmation Hearings
I find the Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s cabinet interesting but a mainly a distraction. Far too many friends and colleagues are investing themselves in blocking this nominee or that. They are free to do so, of course, but it is something of a fool’s errand.
Donald Trump has won the election, and the Republican party controls:
The Senate (52 seats)
The House (241 seats)
This means that no matter what, if the Republican Party maintains voter discipline, it passes its candidates by simple majority vote.
This should hardly be controversial. The American voters have spoken, according to the rules of the Electoral College and voting tradition. There is a new government in Washington. This government has every right to form a cabinet and begin the process of governing.
In a parliamentary system, this corresponds to a vote of confidence upon announcing a cabinet. It happens all the time.
The Senate confirmation hearings are useful in reviewing personal priorities or opinions or past history, but that is all these can achieve. Yes, the current crop of nominated secretaries may be controversial or repugnant to some. But they have every political right to take office. That’s the result of an election, given the duopoly in the US political system.
A Parliamentary system with more than 2 parties might bring about a more serious confirmation process, but even this is uncertain given the elected representatives we see in many countries.
Anyone expending their time and energy on trying to block Betsy Devos or Jeff Sessions should understand this. A party elected by majority has a mandate to govern, with the candidates it selects.
If these candidates happen to be dangerous ideologues not fit to manage a corner store … well … that’s the reflection of the Electoral College’s will. When you examine campaign finance and voting records: is Congress any different?
If people are really that angry, it may be far better for them to invest time and energy in something tangible, like organising for the 2018 mid-term elections. The confirmation hearings are a theatrical diversion that offer nothing more than reinforcement bias.
(c) Philip Ammerman, 2017
Labels: Current Events, US Presidential Election 2016
I see a constant stream of frustration, disgust and anger on Facebook and many other channels tonight as President Donald J. Trump takes office. Certainly, there is much to be disgusted about.
Let’s look beyond the anger. The question is, as individuals, what can any one individual do in the face of a system such as the one we find ourselves in?
Politics is disparate, and something of an equilibrium. Donald Trump and the Republicans control Congress for the next 2 years. If you are angry, mobilise now and win a Democratic majority in Congress in 2018.
The next elections are on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are included, as are 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2018
If you are angry at Trump and his election, then one creative and positive outlet you have is to organize now for November 2018.
But while you are doing this, it’s important to reflect on a couple of things.
First of all, don’t define yourself solely by what you are against. Define yourself as well by what you are for. You will find that this is more difficult, particularly when you ask others to stand for the same things, and vote together.
So compromise is essential in politics.
Second of all, reflect that many of the voters who voted for Trump have a serious reason for doing so (and I’m not referring to the lobbyists or billionaires seeking tax breaks or public contracts). I’m referring to the middle class and the blue collar families, who have really been left behind.
Ironically, Hillary Clinton’s policies would have been much more beneficial for most in this group. Trump won because his supporters believed he would do a better job (and he won the Electoral College math).
Whatever the case, the United States faces drastic problems in terms of debt, falling tax revenue, loss of economic competitiveness, monopoly situations in many sectors (including start-ups), an abysmal national healthcare policy, an unbalanced military policy, and many other problems.
These are not going to be easy problems to solve. At least not sustainably, or rationally.
So your first job is probably to try to understand what the current situation is, what the root causes are, and what the possible solutions are.
These solutions are going to cost money. Unless you are prepared to pay for them (or force others to pay for them), they will be difficult to solve.
Finally, if I can share one point from my personal experience: Back in 1999/2000, I was equally horrified by the Florida vote recount and George W. Bush’s election.
Much of what I feared from that time materialized. Most of this was due to an incredible ignorance among the governing class, as well as the mendacity of those who support and enable it.
In 2017, this is now infinitely worse. It is institutionalized.
My advice is: make sure you are taking care of yourself. We are now in a very “risk-on” world. You simply can’t take anything for granted. Do whatever is possible to survive and evolve, especially financially. Protect your assets. Improve your employability. Make sure you are as flexible, nimble and agile.
The issues we are seeing now are only leading indicators of a far more serious and deleterious situation, and one that is practically impossible to reverse.
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Studies Shed Light on New Treatment Approaches, Future Targets for Clot Busting
(Orlando, FL, Dec. 7, 2019) - Three studies being presented today during the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando help advance the treatment of adult and pediatric patients at risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE), the formation of blood clots in the veins that can lead to heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism, disability, and death.
The first study, which included people with atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart rhythm - or a history of VTE, found that taking an aspirin in addition to a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) led to more bleeding episodes, but similar rates of stroke, VTE, and heart attacks compared with taking a DOAC alone.
'Many people are on several anticoagulants and blood thinners simultaneously, but we are seeing a big shift in medicine to embrace 'less is more,'' said press briefing moderator, Mark Crowther, MD, of McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. 'This study adds to our understanding and underscores the need to actively review what patients are taking and what ideally is needed to both reduce the risk of blood clots and minimize bleeding.'
For children who develop blood clots, a phase III study established, for the first time, an easy-to-administer liquid formulation and dosing regimen for the DOAC, rivaroxaban. Dr. Crowther added that, while rivaroxaban is not yet approved for pediatric use, the data confirm it can be used safely and effectively in children and the oral formulation will likely be much preferred to daily injections, which have been the standard of care.
In a third study, researchers used cutting-edge technology to develop an artificial blood vessel to examine how blood clots form and resolve over time either naturally or in response to various anticoagulant medications. Researchers say the study is yielding useful insights that can help inform future studies and ultimately inform clinical practice aimed at reducing VTE. 'Ultimately, these innovations may reduce the need for experiments in animals and may make studies in humans easier as they will allow greater insights into drug behavior before they are used in humans.' Dr. Crowther said.
'Taken together, these studies advance our understanding of how to more effectively approach blood clot prevention and treatment in adult and pediatric patients.' Dr. Crowther said.
ASH recently released a comprehensive series of clinical practice guidelines on VTE to help the medical community better manage this serious condition. The most recent guideline was published this week and focuses on prevention of VTE in surgical patients. ASH plans to release additional VTE guidelines in 2020.
This press conference will take place on Saturday, December 7, at 9:30 a.m. in the ASH press briefing room W221DE.
More Bleeding Events Seen in Patients Taking Aspirin Plus a DOAC Than a DOAC Alone
#787 Impact of Adding Aspirin to Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy without an Apparent Indication
Patients with atrial fibrillation or a history of VTE who take a daily aspirin in addition to a prescribed DOAC to treat or prevent blood clots had significantly higher rates of bleeding complications compared with those taking a DOAC alone, according to a new report from six anticoagulation clinics across the state of Michigan. Researchers also found no differences in stroke, heart attack, or blood clots between the groups after one year.
'The role of aspirin in combination with the newer DOACs is not well understood,' said lead study author Jordan Schaefer, MD, of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan. 'Based on our findings, adding aspirin may do more harm than good for some patients, increasing bleeding rates without improvements in the incidence of thrombosis.'
Of the 2,045 patients initially followed for the study, nearly one-third (647) were taking aspirin even though there was no clear indication to do so, such as a recent heart attack.
'We continue to see high numbers of patients taking aspirin, which is readily available over-the-counter, and that means clinicians may not know a patient is taking it,' Dr. Schaefer said. 'There must be careful consideration of the relative risks and benefits of adding or continuing aspirin for patients on DOAC therapy.'
DOACs such as apixaban, dabigatran, edoxaban, and rivaroxaban are a newer group of blood thinners that are frequently prescribed to prevent stroke in people with atrial fibrillation, a common and serious heart rhythm disorder, and treat or guard against repeat episodes of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. Records did not indicate whether aspirin therapy was initiated by the patient or recommended by a clinician.
Of the total number of patients, researchers focused their analysis on two groups of 639 matched patients that had similar demographics, co-morbidities, and concurrent medications. Of the patients taking aspirin, most (90.3%) were taking low dose aspirin (≤ 100 mg per day). Compared with patients taking a DOAC alone, those taking a DOAC plus aspirin had 319 versus 261 bleeding events, a 22% jump in bleeds, over an average follow-up of 15 months. This difference was largely driven by clinically relevant non-major bleeding events, which were nearly 40% higher with dual therapy. Bleeding sites were most commonly bruising, intestinal bleeding, or bleeding through the urinary tract. Observed rates of thrombosis (stroke, VTE, and heart attacks) were similar between patients taking both medicines and those only on a DOAC (19 and 18 events). The only two fatal bleeding events were seen among patients on DOACs only. Patients on combination therapy had more emergency room visits and hospitalizations mostly due to bleeding, but these differences did not reach statistical significance.
'For patients prescribed a DOAC, whether to add or continue aspirin is a common clinical question. For some patients, we didn't see a clear benefit,' Dr. Schaefer said. 'It's really important for clinicians to assess whether patients are using aspirin and, equally, it's important that patients not simply take a medicine because it's easy to get over-the-counter, but rather talk with their doctor about whether it's safe and whether there is an important need for it.'
He said he hopes these data will raise awareness within the medical community and lead to interventions aimed at reducing the number of patients inappropriately on aspirin perhaps by instituting electronic medical record alerts or leveraging local anticoagulation experts.
The current study further bolsters earlier research by Dr. Schaefer and his team published in JAMA Internal Medicine that found that some patients using aspirin and warfarin, a different type of anticoagulant, experienced a higher rate of bleeding events compared with those taking warfarin alone. Similar to the current study, there were no observed difference in rates of heart attack, stroke, or VTE. Further study is needed to determine whether DOACs plus aspirin is safer than warfarin plus aspirin and to be able to compare bleeding events and the outcomes of the individual DOACs.
Although the study is limited to Michigan, researchers said the mix of clinics were representative of different patients, geographic regions (urban, suburban, and rural), and academic and community centers. Because of the small size of the study, the researchers caution that they were not able to fully assess for differences in clotting outcomes or evaluate some important subgroups, including those that might benefit from adding aspirin.
Jordan K. Schaefer, MD, University of Michigan will present this study during an oral presentation on Monday, December 9, at 2:45 p.m. in Valencia BC (W415BC).
Trial Establishes Dosing and Delivery Protocols for Direct Oral Anticoagulant in Children
#164 Rivaroxaban for Treatment of Pediatric Venous Thromboembolism an Einstein-Jr Phase III Dose-Exposure-Response Evaluation
A phase III clinical trial confirms that children with dangerous blood clots known as VTE can be safely and effectively treated with the direct oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban using formulations and dosing regimens that are tailored for children from birth to age 17.
While direct oral anticoagulants have been approved for treating adults for nearly a decade, the trial is the first to develop a liquid formulation suitable for use in young children.
'This clinical trial program was meant to bring a newer, easier-to-administer, more effective, and safer medication for children - basically, a win-win-win,' said lead study author Guy Young, MD, of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer and Blood Disease Institute and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. 'We identified the right dose for every single age group and body size from 2 kilograms to almost 140 kilograms, and all the results were within the same range of exposure and efficacy as that seen in adults.'
The trial reported safety and efficacy results in mid-2019, finding that children treated with rivaroxaban had similar rates of recurrent VTE and clinically relevant bleeding as those receiving standard pediatric anticoagulation therapy. The new results shed light on the appropriate dose, schedule, and formulation for administering rivaroxaban to children of various ages and body sizes.
Expanding the use of a drug from adults to children is complicated. One reason is the enormous differential in body size between a newborn baby and an adult-sized teen. In addition, children metabolize drugs differently than adults, which can necessitate giving two to three smaller doses over the course of a day rather than a single larger dose. For drugs like rivaroxaban that were originally developed as a tablet, it is also necessary to create a liquid formulation for young children.
The trial was conducted from 2014-2018 and administered rivaroxaban to 365 children from birth to 17 years old. About 38% of participants received rivaroxaban in tablet form and 62% received the liquid formulation. Participants received the drug once, twice, or three times daily.
The study's dosing protocols were found to result in a similar level of exposure and similar outcomes in terms of efficacy, bleeding, and adverse events compared to adults receiving a 20 mg tablet of rivaroxaban daily. Imaging results indicated VTE was stabilized or improved in about 80% of children taking rivaroxaban, while just 0.6% experienced symptomatic recurrent VTE. The liquid formulation was also found to be acceptable and palatable.
Children who suffer VTE typically have serious illnesses such as cancer, heart problems, or gastrointestinal disorders, making it challenging to avoid drug interactions when using anticoagulants. Standard options such as coumadin and heparin can be difficult to use alongside other drugs and often require frequent injections and laboratory monitoring. Direct oral anticoagulants are advantageous because they have few drug interactions and are simple to administer, Dr. Young said.
Guy Young, MD, of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer and Blood Disease Institute and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, will present this study during an oral presentation on Saturday, December 7, at 12 noon in W314.
Artificial Blood Vessel Gives Glimpse into How Blood Clots Form, Resolve, and Respond to Blood Thinners
#441 Monitoring the 'Lifetime' of a Thrombus over Long Timescales by Leveraging a Novel Microvasculature-on-Chip Thrombosis Resolution Assay
New technology is allowing researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine to grow blood clots in a controlled environment and examine the life-cycle of thrombosis that commonly leads to heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and other life-threatening events, to ultimately better target therapies. Researchers are using a novel assay, which they have dubbed a 'vascular avatar' as a stand-in for an actual blood vessel to gather fundamental knowledge about how a thrombosis resolves and to test how different drugs or a cocktail of drugs might accelerate the process.
'The way we typically treat blood clots is to give medicines that cause someone to bleed to restore blood flow and avoid ischemic injury, but we don't want to cause excess bleeding, so it's always this delicate balance,' said lead study author Yongzhi Qiu, PhD. 'This is the first assay to allow us to really understand what happens during the lifetime of a clot - looking at it from the time it forms, to see how clots get better, either on their own or when adding different clot-busting drugs.'
With this technology, the team engineered microvasculature on a chip. It is similar to when skin cells are cultured on a two-dimensional slide, but here researchers grow endothelial or blood vessel cells in a tissue-like material to form a three-dimensional micro-vessel with branches in a petri dish. The technology models the biophysical microenvironment, such as vessel size, geometry, wall stress, and the tissue stiffness surrounding the blood vessels. The artificial blood vessels are grown over several weeks and the clots are then studied over days to weeks, which mirrors the typical duration seen in patients. The researchers are able to examine how the cellular and biochemical composition of the clot changes and how hemodynamics (blood flow) affect the process.
Dr. Qiu said they have already made some interesting discoveries. For example, inflammation seems to induce protein deposits that initiate clot formation. As clots start to resolve, platelets are mostly undetectable after one day. In addition, if blood vessels are less inflamed, endothelial barrier function restores in one day after the inflammatory insults are removed, and the clots resolve in about 10-14 days. However, if blood vessels are severely inflamed, neutrophils and fibrin persist and may continue to block blood flow and prevent blood vessel cells from recovering. Researchers explained that this may suggest that clinicians do not need to be as hesitant to give anti-platelet therapy before clots form and that not all blood clots are the same.
They said that this assay may warrant broad application in studying thrombosis associated with inflammation that occurs in many conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, or other autoimmune diseases, as well as many cancers.
'This is the first time we've been able to look at the clot for this long of a duration and under these controlled circumstances to model different disease states. What we are learning is that not all clots are created equal, and not all clots should receive the same type of therapy - some therapies are going to be better for certain clots than others,' Dr. Qiu said. 'We're also seeing that certain antithrombotic medications seem to improve the leakiness of the blood vessel cells so not only is it busting the clot, it's also helping the blood vessel get better.'
He said the implications of this finding are fairly broad because it could mean that even if a person does not have a clot yet, but they have evidence of inflammation, anticlotting medication may play a role in preventing blood clotting and may keep the blood vessel healthier. Clot resolution also appears to be dependent on the extent of inflammation, suggesting that the application of anti-inflammatory medicine might facilitate the clot resolution. Of course, more study is needed.
The researchers say they are hopeful that this assay may help clinicians better target anti-thrombotic and anticoagulant therapies and open new opportunities for therapeutic interventions. They are looking into how to scale the technology for broader use.
This study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Yongzhi Qiu, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine will present this study during an oral presentation on Sunday, December 9, at 12 noon in the Sunburst Room.
The study authors and press program moderator will be available for interviews after the press conference or by telephone. Additional press briefings will take place throughout the meeting on sickle cell disease, inclusive medicine, CAR-T and beyond, and late-breaking abstracts. For the complete annual meeting program and abstracts, visit www.hematology.org/annual-meeting. Follow @ASH_hematology and #ASH19 on Twitter and like ASH on Facebook for the most up-to-date information about the 2019 ASH Annual Meeting.
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) (www.hematology.org) is the world's largest professional society of hematologists dedicated to furthering the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting the blood. For 60 years, the Society has led the development of hematology as a discipline by promoting research, patient care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. ASH publishes Blood (www.bloodjournal.org), the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field, which is available weekly in print and online. In 2016, ASH launched Blood Advances (www.bloodadvances.org), an online, peer-reviewed open-access journal.
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HISTORY OF THE CIRCLE DUG RANCH
THE TEXAS RANGER KILLING SEASON
ADOBE WALLS: A RIMROCK PRESS REVIEW
HARRIS AND SADLER'S TEXAS RANGERS
Wednesday, August 3, 2005, 11:36 AM
Occasionally I run across a Texas history book that is an absolute pleasure to read and review. These exceptional books usually have in common two basic elements: first class research and good writing. "Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post" ISBN 1-58544-176-7 published by Texas A & M University Press is such a book. Authors T. Lindsay Baker and Billy R. Harrison combine their considerable expertise in history and archeology in a manner that those of us involved in recording Texas past would do well to learn from.
The 413-page book is divided into two sections. Historian T. Lindsay Baker begins by telling the fascinating story of Adobe Walls from the historical perspective. The 1874 Texas Panhandle trading post and buffalo hunting camp of Adobe Walls was located just north of the Canadian River in today's Hutchinson County. Actually there were two Adobe Walls, the first being the site of an 1864 Indian battle at the abandoned location of Bent's Fort on the Canadian where the famous frontiersman Kit Carson and some four hundred men took on a large force of Comanche and Kiowa Indians. Baker and Harrison's book is not about that clash. It is about the more significant fight that took place a decade later with a cast of Texas frontier characters that puts a lot of western epics to shame. These include Bat Masterson, Billy Dixon, the mysterious Comanche prophet Isa-tai and the last great chief of the Comanche, Quanna Parker. Much like the battle of the Alamo, the history of the second battle of Adobe Walls is so interwoven with myth and conflicting accounts that most interested folks end up walking away scratching their heads as to what really happened and why. Baker does a masterful job of sorting through the various accounts; some penned many years after the battle. We learn from Baker who actually participated in the battle, what really happened and why it is important historically.
The second battle of Adobe Walls proved the last major attempt by Plains Indians to drive the hated white man from their precious buffalo hunting grounds of the Texas Panhandle. It led to the Red River War in which Native Americans of the Texas Panhandle were finally driven from their lands and placed in the Indian Territory of today's Oklahoma. Some became prisoners of war and found them selves shipped off to Florida. While Baker makes the plight of the Indians clear, he also deals effectively with the technology aided defense of the buffalo hunters. It has been said that the famous shot that hide hunter Billy Dixon made when he knocked a warrior off his horse nearly a mile away at the battle could not have been possible. Baker makes his case that Dixon probably did exactly what he claimed and that the Indians were clearly amazed at the range and power of the Sharps buffalo gun.
Billy Harrison's thorough archaeological study of the Adobe Walls site is quite detailed and interesting. In the archeological section of the book the reader will find hundreds of details about the Indians and the buffalo hunters. The Adobe Walls site is unique and Harrison gives his readers a fascinating snapshot of what life must have been like for buffalo hunters during their brief heyday.
Finally, it should be said that the old adage, don't judge a book by its cover, continues to be true. Don't let the uninspired cover or fuzzy photos not printed on photo grade paper discourage you from reading and learning from this book.
For permission to use this review contact editor@rimrockpress.com
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005, 03:28 PM
Harris and Sadler's Texas Rangers: A Rimrock Press Review
Walk into any Texas bookstore carrying Texana and you may well discover more books written about Texas Rangers than you really wanted to find in the first place. Happily, however, a new Ranger book by Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler stands out on the already overcrowded shelves of the genre. Published by the University of New Mexico Press, The Texas Rangers And The Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910 is a meticulously researched and well written account of the Texas Rangers during the bloody years of the Mexican revolution.
Harris and Sadler, two retired University of New Mexico history professors, made considerable use of the countless documents relating to the Rangers in the files of the Nettie Lee Benson Collection and the Barker Texas History Center and the Texas state archives in Austin. In addition, the massive 673-page book contains thousands of references from all sorts of state and federal files. Among the more revealing is Record Group 65, the now declassified "Old Mex. Files" from Records of the Bureau of Investigation (today's Federal Bureau of Investigation) held in the National Archives in Washington, D. C. These records document the numerous investigations conducted by the bureau into the lucrative arms for cattle trade that sprang up during the revolution along the border. It is an amazing fresh resource full of reports and once secret correspondence written by agents in the field.
The authors unearth a number of remarkable revelations about this particularly dark period of Ranger history. First, during those years, the state Ranger force became highly politicized especially during the governorship of James Edward Ferguson. During this decade, there were never that many regular Texas Rangers on the payroll in the entire state. Harris and Sadler point out that in 1910 there were only twenty-five regular full time Rangers. The following year, their numbers increased to forty-two. Eight years later, the Rangers still numbered only eighty-seven officers. Rangers owed their jobs to the governor of Texas and political corruption in the ranks continued unchecked. In order to protect the Texas border during the civil war in Mexico, the ranks of the Rangers swelled by the swearing in of Special Texas Rangers or Loyalty Rangers. Local Sheriffs could appoint men to be Special Rangers and these appointments led to vigilantism across the state. During World War I, the Special Rangers numbered 400 while twice that number of Loyalty Rangers added to the ranks. Loyalty Rangers came into the picture in 1918 and created to act as a secret service branch of the Rangers. Regular Rangers suffered from poor pay. The pages of the book are full of examples of drunkenness and oppression among their ranks. These Rangers intimidated Hispanic voters, murdered newspaper editors, dabbled in the stolen Mexican cattle market and generally behaved in ways that we find shocking today.
Harris and Sadler dismantle a number of Walter Prescott myths from the 1930's and long held to be gospel by more than a few Austin historians. The New Mexico professors see the Porvenir Massacre to be just that, a massacre and say so. In the Bureau of Investigation records, the authors bring to light that after being fired for taking an active part in the Porvenir massacre at least four of these same Rangers from Captain Fox's Ranger Company B held up and robbed a Carrancista paymaster near Fort D. A. Russell in Marfa in 1919. The thieves got off with a reported $22,600 in loot. The Lone Ranger and Tonto wouldn't have liked these guys.
Harris and Sadler's book is a solid contender to be the definitive history of the Rangers, at least during the Mexican revolution years. Anyone interested in Rangers or in the Big Bend will find something of interest here.
OCHOA: FIRST SPANISH MISSION EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE ?
Monday, July 11, 2005, 06:32 PM
Presidio County has more than its share of abandoned communities. Little out of the way places that somehow prospered briefly before fading away. Some folks call them ghost towns and doubtless a sprit or two inhabit these places. Probably the oldest known abandoned historic community in the western part of the county is the tiny abandoned village of Ochoa. Ochoa is located ten miles northeast of Presidio on F.M. 170. Only an old whitewashed graveyard and a few empty buildings mark its location along the highway making it an easy place to miss. A few hundred feet west of the pavement at Ochoa, a large granite marker sits amidst the cactus and mesquite facing the mountains of Mexico. It seems curiously out of place. But if you are brave enough to climb a barbed wire fence and venture on you will discover it to be an official Texas Historical Marker, placed at Ochoa in 1936. The marker reads "Approximate Site of Mission San Francisco de los Julimes". When the Texas Historical Commission placed the marker in the 1930's it sat on the side of the road. Later highway construction passed it by.
Ochoa had its beginnings more than three hundred years ago when a remarkable event in Big Bend history took place there or at least near there. In the fall of 1683, Chief Juan Sabeata journeyed to El Paso del Norte, the present location of Juarez, Chihuahua, leading a delegation of his followers. Sabeata is the best known of the Jumano chieftains in the closing years of the seventeenth century. Sabeata was also the last prominent Jumano leader recorded in Spanish accounts before the tribe vanished into obscurity. Little about Sabeata as a youth is known; although, he was said to have been born in Mexico and received baptism at San Jose Parral in present Chihuahua. One source noted that Sabeata was a Tawaehash chief from the mouth of the Rio Conchos. At El Paso del Norte, the cunning chieftain approached Spanish authorities asking Governor Cruzate to establish missions among the Jumano. To entice the Spanish, Chief Sabeata told the governor that thirty-three Indian nations, including the Jumano, eagerly awaited baptism. According to the chief, the reason for this outbreak of religious fervor among the Indians was the result of a miracle that changed the course of a fierce battle with the Apache. The Apache greatly outnumbered the Jumano. Sabeata said the Jumano and their allies were few, "while their enemies numbered more than thirty-thousand." Just when it looked as if the Jumano were going to be defeated, a cross mysteriously appeared in the sky allowing Sabeata's followers to win a bloodless victory over their enemies.
Juan Sabeata like his predecessor One Eye, did not make such a startling revelation known to the Spanish simply for religious reasons. In fact, the chief's story about the appearance of the cross during the battle was pure fabrication. A Tejas Indian who traveled with Sabeata apparently conceived the story. The chief later admitted the story of the miracle as being untrue, but he used it because the Jumanos faced a desperate situation, one, which eventually led to their demise. For better than a century, the cow people had been engaged in a war with the Apache who by late in the seventeenth century had almost driven the Jumano from their source of livelihood, the buffalo hunting grounds of West Texas. Apache raiders struck deep into Jumano territory. They terrorized villagers along the Rio Grande, at La Junta, and in the Chinati Mountains. In addition, the Jumano needed protection from the slave hunters who were always on the lookout for Indians to work the mines of Chihuahua. Sabeata proved himself a pragmatic, resourceful headman who knew that if the Spanish authorities sent priests to live among his people also would come soldiers who the chief hoped would provide a defense against Apache raiders and Spanish slave hunters. The grand chief knew the Spanish well and had no small amount of knowledge about the Catholic religion. As earlier noted, he received baptism as a youth at San Jose Parral where the priests gave him the Christian name Juan. While the chief professed a deep religious faith, the plight of his people motivated his actions. The chief has been described as, a master at frontier intrigue. Sabeata's ruse apparently worked. At the very least, if the chief was not directly responsible for the establishment of missions at La Junta, his actions at least prodded the Church and Spanish military into action. Governor Cruzate reacted positively to Sabeata's petition and ordered Lieutenant General Juan Domnguez de Mendoza to assemble an expedition to the Jumano country. Mendoza was a capable military man with more than thirty years experience serving the Spanish military in present West Texas and New Mexico. To minister to the religious requests of the Jumano, Fray Nicolas Lopez, an official of the Franciscan Order, approved the building of several missions near La Junta and made arrangements to personally join the expedition. Following his petition to the governor, Juan Sabeata journeyed to La Junta in advance of the expedition but returned to El Paso del Norte a short time later to serve as an escort and guide for the priests. Within a few months of Chief Sabeata's petition, the Mendoza expedition set out for La Junta.
The priests led the way down river to the Jumano country. On December 1, 1683 Fray Lopez and a party of church officials left Paso del Norte and headed south down the Rio Grande in advance of Mendoza and the soldiers. Two weeks later, Mendoza and the main body of the expedition followed. Along the way to La Junta, Mendoza passed through many Indian villages and the Indians made the Spaniards welcome. A short distance below Paso del Norte the expedition was welcomed by the chiefs of the Zuma Indians. Mendoza observed that the Zuma were a poor people who subsisted by eating, "mescal which is baked palms". Mendoza noted that not only the Jumano had been threatened by the Apache, "All these rancherias asked of me aid and help against the common enemy, the Hapaches [sic] nation, alleging generally that most of them were already disposed to becoming Christians. In fact a considerable portion of them were already reducing themselves to settlements and alleging that the Apache did not allow them in their lands."
The expedition made its way downstream from Paso del Norte on the western side of the Rio Grande. Mendoza forded the river entering present Texas a few miles from a place Mendoza called Senora del Rosario. Some evidence suggests the crossing took place in the vicinity of the present Ruidosa, Texas. On December 29, the expedition came to a Julime village near the river a few miles southwest of the Chinati Mountains. Mendoza called the place La Navidad en las Cruces Chief Sabeata had told the Spanish that the cross appeared in the sky near La Junta and the Spanish called the place La Navidad en las Cruces. At the village, Fray Lopez awaited Mendoza. Mendoza described the place. These rancherias are the people of the Julimes nation; they are versed in the Mexican language, and all sow maize and wheat. Here we overtook the reverend fathers, Fray Nicolas Lopes, custodian and ordinary judge of the provinces of New Mexico, Fray Juan de Sabaleata,
commissary of the Holy Office, and Fray Antonio de Asebedo. Generally all these Indians asked for the water of baptism, and more than one hundred persons were baptized. All the meadows of the river are very spacious, and have good lands, good climate, and abundant pasturage and wood. At this settlement the Spanish must have been surprised to find that the Indians had constructed, a good-sized church, built of reeds, with an altar the size of that in the church in El Paso.
While it is not possible to pinpoint the exact location of the place Mendoza called Navidad en las Cruces, it likely was situated at or near the abandoned community of Ochoa located some ten miles northwest of Presidio on F.M. 170. Historian Carlos E. Castaneda wrote of the place, "the settlement or pueblos of the Julimes must have been slightly above present day Presidio and Ojinaga." According to a State of Texas historical marker placed at Ochoa in 1936, Fray Lopez established the Mission San Francisco De Los Julimes at Ochoa in 1683-1684. Little is known of the mission for it remained in operation for less than a year. In later times, the Ochoa community grew around the site and a church was built there. Today the place is once again abandoned although descendents of the Julimes are still said to live just across the river in Chihuahua.
The Mendoza expedition remained at Navidad en las Cruces for several days to allow time for the men and horses to rest. The priests ministered to the Indians in several nearby by rancherias. Father Antonio de Acevedo elected to remain at the mission to, minister to the Indians. Guided by Juan Sabeata, the expedition set out again on December 29 traveling 7 leagues or about 19 miles to a place Mendoza called Apostol Santiago (the Apostle Saint James) This location is thought to be at or near Fort Leaton about a mile southeast of present Presidio on F.M. 170. Again the Spaniards found another church the Indians had prepared for them. This church was described as being, "larger and more carefully made, and a dwelling made for the priests." Here the Fray Lopez established the Mission Del Apostol Santiago near the mouth of Alamito Creek. Like the Mission San Francisco De Los Julimes, the mission only remained in operation for a short time before the priests were forced to flee for their lives.
The priests led the way down river to the Jumano country. On December 1, 1683 Fray Lopez and a party of church officials left Paso del Norte and headed south down the Rio Grande in advance of Mendoza and the soldiers. Two weeks later, Mendoza and the main body of the expedition followed. Along the way to La Junta, Mendoza passed through many Indian villages and the Indians made the Spaniards welcome. A short distance below Paso del Norte the expedition was welcomed by the chiefs of the Zuma Indians. Mendoza observed that the Zuma were a poor people who subsisted by eating, "mescal which is baked palms." Mendoza noted that not only the Jumano had been threatened by the Apache, "All these rancherias asked of me aid and help against the common enemy, the Hapaches [sic] nation, alleging generally that most of them were already disposed to becoming Christians. In fact a considerable portion of them were already reducing themselves to settlements and alleging that the Apache did not allow them in their lands."
The expedition made its way downstream from Paso del Norte on the western side of the Rio Grande. Mendoza forded the river entering present Texas a few miles from a place Mendoza called Senora del Rosario. Some evidence suggests the crossing took place in the vicinity of the present Ruidosa, Texas. On December 29, the expedition came to a Julime village near the river a few miles southwest of the Chinati Mountains. Mendoza called the place La Navidad en las Cruces Chief Sabeata had told the Spanish that the cross appeared in the sky near La Junta and the Spanish called the place La Navidad en las Cruces. At the village, Fray Lopez awaited Mendoza. Mendoza described the place. "These rancherias are the people of the Julimes nation; they are versed in the Mexican language, and all sow maize and wheat. Here we overtook the reverend fathers, Fray Nicolas Lopes, custodian and ordinary judge of the provinces of New Mexico, Fray Juan de Sabaleata,
commissary of the Holy Office, and Fray Antonio de Asebedo. Generally all these Indians asked for the water of baptism, and more than one hundred persons were baptized. All the meadows of the river are very spacious, and have good lands, good climate, and abundant pasturage and wood. At this settlement the Spanish must have been surprised to find that the Indians had constructed, "a good-sized church, built of reeds, with an altar the size of that in the church in El Paso."
While it is not possible to pinpoint the exact location of the place Mendoza called Navidad en las Cruces, it likely was situated at or near the abandoned community of Ochoa located some nine miles northwest of Presidio on F.M. 170. Historian Carlos E. Castaneda wrote of the place, "the settlement or pueblos of the Julimes must have been slightly above present day Presidio and Ojinaga". According to a State of Texas historical marker placed at Ochoa in 1936, Fray Lopez established the Mission San Francisco De Los Julimes at Ochoa in 1683-1684. Little is known of the mission for it remained in operation for less than a year. In later times, the Ochoa community grew around the site and a church was built there. Today the place is once again abandoned although descendents of the Julimes are still said to live just across the river in Chihuahua.
Juan Sabeata guided Mendoza up Alamito Creek passing east of the Chinati Mountains. They crossed the Pecos River probably not far from Horsehead Crossing and a little later encountered several Buffalo herds that provided the expedition with meat. On January 17, 1684 the expedition came upon a jediondo (ill-smelling) Indian village and made a remarkable discovery. Mendoza wrote of the encounter, "Their chiefs and other people came out to received us with much rejoicing, most of them on foot, others on horseback, carrying a holy cross very well made, which apparently must be two and a half long, of somewhat heavy timber, painted red and yellow, and fastened with a nail which they call. The holy cross showed that they had made it some time before. They also brought forth a banner of white taffeta, a little less than a long; in the middle of the banner were two successive crosses of blue taffeta, very well made. At the time of meeting us they fired several shots, Don Juan Sabeata firing with a fuse a harquebus barrel without a lock; and I ordered the salute returned on our part with two volleys."
For more about Chief Sabeata see Chapter One, "Little Known History Of The Texas Big Bend". www.rimrockpress.com
AMERICAN LYNCHING AND THE PORVENIR MASSACRE
Monday, June 27, 2005, 09:55 AM
I recently received the following email from Gode Davis, director of the film "American Lynching". This is a very worthwhile and important film that very much needs to be finished and its story made public. For more information check out Gode's website at: http://americanlynching.com/. Please take a look at Gode's comments and help if you can. Gj
Hi Glenn: It was great to speak to you again today. As I mentioned on the phone, as director of "American Lynching: A Documentary Feature" I have initiated our first grassroots funding campaign. Every little bit will be helpful in making our project -- the only feature-length lynching film ever undertaken at this level -- a reality. We have completed about 75% of principal photography in several states. Interviews with witnesses, a survivor (H.James Cameron who survived the wrath of an Indiana mob in 1930),"friends and descendants of victims, and even perpetrators -- have been shot and are in the can. You witnessed one of our crews working with the family of Juan Bonilla Flores (who turns 100 tomorrow) as he is the last surviving witness of the Porvenir (TX) mass lynching event in January 1918. That event claimed his father Longino and 14 other men and teenaged villagers. In the short term -- to restore momentum this summer -- we need to raise several thousand dollars for production of a new WIP (work-in-progress) tape and support my full-time involvement in the project this summer. We are seeking modest contributions ($25.00-$500.00) and they should be mailed to me at: Gode Davis, 10 Saint George Street, West Warwick, RI 02893 and made out to our not-for-profit entity, Bitter Fruit Productions, Inc. Can you please help? Maybe you also know of a few others who might wish to help our project as we will insist upon historical accuracy -- a rarity in documentary filmmaking."
Hasta luego,
Gode Davis
Director and Co-Producer
Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 01:36 PM
Good stuff, Glenn. Glad to see you still kicking.
Just an update: BORDER BANDITS aired on Texas PBS stations on May 16 and pulled a good audience. We now have the documentary available on DVD. Go to our web site, www.borderbanditsmovie.com to order online, or send in a check.
You saw the film in Fort Stockton, Glenn, so you know what kind of product we're laying out there. It's rather dark and unromantic, but it's all true.
Hope to see you soon. I'll be at the place outside of Stockton over Memorial Day. We'll burn a steak and think about you.
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River City Cards
Louisville Sports Corner
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cards shock nation against
florida state
By Mike Gilpatrick
Photo by Wade Morgen
Cards Shock Noles, Nation
During an interview with ESPN in July, Louisville Head Coach Bobby Petrino said that Louisville’s goal is to win a championship, and that this team believes it can do it. Most critics didn’t agree, partially because Louisville hasn’t had that one win against a nationally ranked team that makes a statement. But that all changed on Saturday.
That game wasn’t just a statement, it was a book. For starters, this game was supposed to be a close game, it ended up being 63-20 Louisville. NFL Scouts were there to watch Dalvin Cook as a potential draft pick, He was held to 54 yards on 16 attempts. Florida State was supposed to walk out of Louisville with a quality road win and solidify its position as the ACC front-runner and BCS Playoff team; Louisville embarrassed them and caught the nation’s complete attention.
And rightly so. For starters, the Cardinals did to Florida State exactly what it did against Charlotte and Syracuse: score over 60 and make sure it isn’t a close game. This game against Florida State had exactly the opposite feel as games in previous years, in that Jimbo Fisher could not figure out a way to gain traction against a Louisville team firing on all cylinders.
Of course, the player that stood taller than all others was Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson. He made it to where it was almost impossible to defend against him, and he kept the defense guessing on every single drive. He ultimately finished the game with five touchdowns, four rushing and one passing, and 362 total yards. This performance solidified him as the Heisman front-runner, and as the face of College Football.
On the other side of the ball, Louisville kept the pressure on Deondre Francois, as he was sacked five times, and couldn’t do much against the front seven of Louisville. As for the Heisman candidate for Florida State, Dalvin Cook was also contained extremely well, again with only 54 yards rushing.
Louisville’s offense, on the other hand, couldn’t be contained at all, as the Cards exploded for 521 total yards and nine touchdowns, the most that Florida State had allowed in program history.
But this game was more than just a regular-season game. It was the win that Louisville needed to solidify itself as a serious competitor, and the one that saw the Cards jump up to no. 3 in the AP poll. But it brings up the question: Where will this team finish?
With only three games into 2016, it’s way too early to tell, but it’s pretty safe to bet that Louisville will get into a New Year’s Six Bowl game at the very least. According to ESPN’s Football Power Index, Louisville is the top team in the country, with a 57.7 percent chance of winning the ACC, and a 26.3 percent chance of winning out.
The next big ACC match-up comes in week five, against Clemson. FPI gives the Cards a 55.3 percent chance of winning, which had increased since last week. The national championship odds have also increased since the beginning of the season, going up to 5-1 from 60-1 in August.
Bobby Petrino said that this team could win a championship for Louisville, and the Florida State Game just made the critics start to believe.
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Baja 1000: Kings of the Dust
November 22, 2011 By Robb Pritchard
Cacti, sombreros, dodgy moustaches… and an 850bhp truck on 40 inch tyres slewing sideways through the centre of Ensenada… it can only be the Baja 1000, home of the fast, the hardcore and the bizarre… and the construction truck that had crashed across the course just outside of town was only the beginning of the things that the drivers had to deal with. First guy out was Jesse James and someone joked his ex-wife Sandra Bullock had hired the truck driver to block his way, but once the race was re-started it was rocks, gulleys, washouts, holes that the crews had to contend with for the 705 miles… as well as locals digging ramps into the tracks and I even heard of someone throwing a live rattle snake at one of the cars…!
Coming from Europe I am more used to the FIA Cross Country World Cup where everyone always talks about driving conservatively to save the car, being careful about what’s over the next dune… but here constantly and absolutely flat out is the only strategy the teams have. This is the 44th straight running of the Baja and it is a race taken extremely seriously by the top teams. There have been enough years of development and enough money involved that the top machines can take 15 hours of this none stop brutal punishment!
Of course, being so spread out and run in the middle of nowhere across the empty desert of northern Baja California it’s hard to follow what’s happening… It’s not like a circuit race where every tyre lock-up is captured on film and every pit stop is timed to the second, but standing by the constantly rough track you do see plenty of action. With suspension designed for masses of travel and the insanely powerful engines the trucks have they literally fly and because the competition is so close every corner is taken on maximum attack… and even on an easy looking turn just after a crossroads Troy Herbst span wide and much to the joy of the cheering spectators, rolled it onto the side…
I was in a chase car for the friendly Desert Assassins team so of course saw the event through their eyes and by the time we got back to Ensenada the top guys had already crosesd the line and long gone with only a few rumours hanging around the press centre about what had happened out in the inaccessible desert… In the end, after an incredible 14 hours of none-stop action the three top trucks tore around the streets of central Ensenada to the finish within a minute of each other, but the first truck wasn’t the winner… The start was staggered, with each truck being flagged off 30 seconds after the one in front, so it was actually second over the line, father and son team of Andy and Scott McMillin in the number 31 Ford F-150 who were declared the winners, just a scant 2 and a half minutes ahead of Nick Vanderwey and Curt LeDuc in their Chevrolet Silverado.
This is what Andy McMillin had to say as he climbed out of his car. “I got a pretty quick pace off the starts and splashed fuel at mile 77. Menzies was out front and I got by Kory Scheeler on the silt bed and I just started putting my pedal forward. I knew we were going to change drivers at Borrego and put my dad in so I wanted to get a couple of minutes on everyone just in case. Unfortunately, we had a three-and-a-half minute pit stop and we took off out of there in third and my dad had a flat tire. My dad did a great job on the San Felipe loop. We kept our pace and kept our position and Bryce was doing work out front and was running away with it. Luckily he had a little issue and we were able to make up time. I got back in the truck and Bryce pulled over for fuel and we got around them. That was the most intense race I’ve ever been a part of. I was 30 seconds to them and Bryce was 30 seconds to me on the beach. It was a freight-train free-for-all. It was such a blast. It was so much fun. I’m glad to win my second Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 with my dad. It means a lot.”
And second placed Nick Vanderway: “What a race, holy moly! We started sixth and Curt (LeDuc) set an easy pace, wanted to take it easy and got over the summit and then he threw on the boosters and took off. I’m still catching my breath. This was something else. Thank goodness we got some fog in San Matias and at the Mike’s turnoff, we practically had all of our lights off and saw McMillin’s yellow light and made a beeline for it and by a miracle we got by him. It was all I could do to keep him behind me the rest of the way. It was ‘be careful what you wish for’ next time. It was intense racing. We hit so many rocks it was just unbelievable what these tires will take. This win goes to my brother John, the crew chief, the only one that doesn’t get in the truck, but he put a great pitting plan together and that’s what got us in front.”
One of the pre-race favourites and a living-legend with the local crowd was NASCAR racer and Dakar driver Robby Gordon. His bright orange truck got the biggest cheer and there were plenty of fans wearing his Speed Energy Drink T-shirts… but the race didn’t quite go to plan… “We missed a turn at the 390-mile mark on a fast graded road and it spiralled and we crashed it. We were running 130 before that so we probably hit the ground at 100 and it was a big one. I haven’t crashed that hard in a long time. [And then] literally two miles from the finish line, the drive shaft broke but I’m sure it broke because of the crash. The back of the truck moved over about three inches because of the crash so the drive shaft probably got jarred pretty hard.” He came in 10th overall.
In Class 1, home of the monstrous open-wheel buggies it was 18 year old Justin Davis who came home first, in 6th overall… and did the whole entire 705 mile course on his own… over 16 hours straight behind the wheel!! “There was lots of water and mud and the car doesn’t run when it gets wet. It runs on six cylinders. We steadily moved up as everybody started to break off and then it seemed to work out at the end. We knew we had to finish (to win the championship) but at end when we knew we could win, we went for it. We just took the risk and it turned out well. We won the championship and won the biggest race of the year. It was definitely a challenge and I’m looking forward to doing it next year. Maybe we’ll go three in a row.”
In the Production Mini class (Class 6 which is basically a slightly scaled down Trophy truck, a few inches thinner, shorter and V6 engines with only 500bhp instead of 850) it was Josh Quintero and Chris Taylor who came home first with a time just over 20 hours. But coming away with the Class 6 SCORE championship was Heidi Steele of the Desert Assassins, the team who adopted me and drove me around in their chase truck. It was touch and go a few times as they had to finish a minimum of one place behind championship rival Marc Burnett… something that didn’t seem too likely as they sat in the dark for 3 ½ hours with a broken gearbox… but Marc had his own troubles too and so Heidi’s co driver Rene Brugger followed him in to take 5th in class. (A full ‘insider’ report on the Desert Assassins will be coming soon).
But as ever, the true heroes of the event are those racing on a budget and living the dream. On the start line I found a team running in a Range Rover that they’d pulled out of a scrap yard for $400… Pretty much everything on the car was standard, yet they left the startline full of confidence for the massive 1000 km of rough desert waiting for them. I found them in Ensenada a day after the race and Elias Christeas was still buzzing with energy even after only having a few hours sleep over the last 3 days. “It was so amazing,” he smiled. “We were actually leading the class for a long while and we were overtaking Trophy Trucks. One guy in our class had a tubeframed Bronco that must be worth about $100,000 and we were beating him in a $400 Rangie! Man, there are so many stories… We got to mile 410… no, write down 411! The tracks were so rough that we didn’t even know that we were driving on a flat tyre for who-knows how many miles… and we only noticed that something was wrong with the suspension when the strut started poking through the bonnet. We were still going into the second night but heard that people were falling off the cliff in front of us… and we were just about out of time, so we called it quits… but we’re already talking about next year. And the biggest memory, the thing that I will take away from this… being part or the Baja racing community where the best of human nature comes out. Total strangers helping you out! Every difficulty and hardship we went through was worth it to experience that!”
And so the dust settles, the traffic goes back to normal in Ensenada… it’s only 363 days until the Baja 1000’s 45th anniversary and Mr Baja, Sal Fish has promised something special for 2012.
1. Andy McMillin/Scott McMillin, Ford F-150, 14:51:36 (47.11 mph)
2. Nick Vanderwey/Curt LeDuc/Larry Vanderwey, Chevy Silverado, 14:54:11 (46.97 mph)
3. Bryce Menzies/Ricky Johnson/Larry Job, Ford F-150, 14:55:40 (46.89 mph)
4. Mark McMillin/Daniel McMillin/Chuck Hovey, Ford F-150, 15:19:53 (45.66 mph)
5. Clyde Stacy/Juan Carlos Lopez/Justin Matney, Chevy Silverado, 15:40:38 (44.65
6. Justin Davis, ESM-Chevy, 16:17:55 (43.26 mph) (Class 1)
7. Jesse James, Chevy Silverado, 16:24:02 (42.68 mph)
8. Ronny Wilson/John Herder, Jimco-Chevy, 16:27:31 (42.83 mph) (Class 1)
9. Ken Losch/Greg Nunley, Chevy Silverado, 16:28:36 (42.48 mph)
10. Robby Gordon, Chevy CK1500, 16:47:15 (41.70 mph)
Dessoude and the Dakar: 30 years together
Frétigné: "Just being at the starting line is a triumph for me"
André Dessoude made his Dakar debut on January 1, 1982. He has participated in each and every edition of the rally since...
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Facebook goes public...
And I don't mean an IPO. Facebook finally opened their doors. They declared war on the MySpace empire. Now, anyone can sign up, join a network, and be on Facebook.
Good thing or bad? Most college kids don't like the idea of it. But screw them, right? It's overall registered users and page views that matter. And most pundits agree the move will boost both, thus increasing the site's overall value.
However, I feel their analysis could be a little superficial. Today, college kids make up the vast majority of Facebook users, especially the avid ones that sign in almost every day. How will this move affect them?
Well, their non college friends will be able to get on the network, so more friends means more time on the site right? Not necessarily. As an example, today I received a friend request from a someone I used to work with.
And the dilemma hit. Clicking accept would give this guy insight into the college-me. The partying, off-color joke making, irresponsible, immature me. Not the image I want this guy seeing. Or any potential employer. Or certain family members. The list goes on and on.
So what does this mean on a large scale? This move could simply take the "social" out of Facebook's social network. When Facebook was college-exclusive, its members felt safe. Facebook was their place, where they could express themselves and not worry about who was looking over their shoulders. So they did, and did so often, giving Facebook a very active user base.
But now Facebook is open. To me the problem is real - do I strip my profile down to the bare bones (a picture, name, and email), removing the social aspects of the site (my wall and photos, for example)?
And how many other people are pondering the same thing? Sure, not many today. But the question will spread, because at the end of the day, it's not actual privacy that concerns people, it's perceived privacy. The company can implement all the privacy restrictions it wants, but people are only as safe as they feel. And when a freshman with a profile picture of himself drinking a beer gets a friend request from his Mom, he's going to reevaluate how much social "expressing" he really wants to do on Facebook.
And when the site's members feel they can't express themselves freely, they'll stop. No more posting pictures or writing on each other's walls. No more creative profiles. And Facebook will be reduced to a glorified address book, if that.
OK, so I'm not saying all of this will necessarily happen. But I am painting a picture of a possibile future. And the crux of the issue rings true - Facebook enjoys an active, avid user base primarily because college kids have deemed it an acceptable online outlet for social expression. If that changes for any reason (real or imagined), Facebook could fall out of popularity very quickly, at least with the college audience.
At the end of the day, the move will probably help the company compete directly with MySpace and other social networks. However, its consequences may lead to it backfiring if Facebook's heaviest users decide the site is not secure or exclusive enough for social expression.
And, if they do decided that, could it be that the site's total page views could, gasp, go down? No one knows, but as always, time will tell... Thoughts?
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Apple/Google Partnership
We've seen this one before, right? Two up and coming companies (or in this case one that is regaining some of its luster from the 1980's) teaming up to take on the the titan, Microsoft. More than a decade ago, Sun and Oracle, led by Microsoft-loathing Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison, respectively, teamed up to take on the behemoth. Today, both are shadows of their former selves, yet Microsoft marches on, barely scathed from the onslaught.
And now Apple and Google's flirting have them headed in a direction to attempt to finish what McNealy and Ellison could not. Eric Schmidt joined Google's board about a month ago, and the companies recently entered talks - the pieces are in motion. The topic has been a hot one in the Valley - Om, Robert Young (who writes for GigaOm), and Michael Arrington (of Techcrunch fame for you east coasters who don't know...), to name a few, have all blogged about it recently.
Their general consensus has been positive - Om warned competition about the companies' synergy in the media distribution market, Young pointed out that Google's internet-platform focus fits nicely with Apple's hardware/software core competency, and Arrington mentioned Google Video on Apple's upcoming iTV as an intriguing possibility.
My take on it isn't so rosy, and it's not just because I love flying in the face of conventional wisdom (well ok, maybe it is a little bit...).
To start off, synergy in media distribution (i.e. watching a movie on Google Video and then buying it through iTunes, etc.) breaks down when the market is thoroughly examined. The hallmark of the online media industry is razor thin margins. Thus, though partnering could reach a wider audience, in the end, vertical integration gives the most potential for profits. For example, if SoapBox and Zune both take off, the two could be linked to increase video sales for Microsoft. It's not a surefire strategy, but it hints that perhaps Apple would be better off not having to share profits with Google and attempting to vertically integrate rather than partnering. Still, Om astutely points out that there are certain overlaps between Google's search capabilities and iTunes that make a potential partnership valuable (linking song searches to buying songs, for example). So maybe A/G can add some real value this way.
But the real groundbreaking potential of the partnership lies in what Young delved into - aiming a dagger at Microsoft's heart, Windows - the Holy Grail that McNealy and Ellison chased for years. Making a pretty penny of media would be great, but taking down the juggernaut has to be the ultimate goal. But how? Young argues Apple's hardware/software approach juxtaposes nicely with Google's internet platform applications.
And to an extent, he's right. As he states, the next step in computing is the bridge. The future is headed towards an online OS and the "dummy terminal" dream that has launched and failed so many times. Some day, our computers will be simple ports from which we can access all of our data, instantly, via the web. But because technology has not yet brought us to that point, today we must aim for a hybrid of local and online apps, a set of goals that seemingly aligns nicely with Apple's and Google's core competencies.
So A/G could potentially join forces to bring us that bridge. Apple provides the hardware and a sweet OS, while Google keeps churning out web-based applications. A close partnership could lead to well-knit integration that adds seriously value in terms of UI.
Of course (and here is where I take the position that makes you scratch your head and wonder if I'm crazy), I just don't think they will win. Hear me out. Yes, they can build some pretty cool stuff and yes, they have a bunch of very smart people working away at it. But here's the dirty little secret that's slowly getting out: Gates is one step ahead. Boss man Bill is at it again - he's realized his weakness, as great leaders and minds often do, and rectified it via the creation of Live, Microsoft's next gen series of web applications.
And to be blunt, Live is awesome. Sick. Dope. Ridic. Even the Microsoft haters admit it. Microsoft was vulnerable, sure, but the key word in that statement is was. The core of the A/G partnership would be the integration of desktop features with web applications (the so-called "webtop"). For example, there could be an icons on the desktop that open Google applications (spreadsheet, maps, etc.) and other tie-ins between offline and online programs.
But Microsoft beat them to it. If they've got half a brain (admittedly questionable as of late), the boys from Redmond (thats Microsoft you east coasters) will integrate Vista (their new OS) with their Live applications.
At that point, A/G's attempt begins to smell a lot like the one from a decade ago (or two decades ago with Mac vs. Windows) - too little, too late. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think Microsoft has them outfoxed. Furthermore, Microsoft has a clear advantage in terms of integration between the OS/desktop and web apps because it owns both, whereas Apple and Google are two separate companies who will have to collaborate. To top it off, a serious partnership would be somewhat contingent on Apple regaining market share, and for all the hype they've been getting recently, they still own an extremely small segment of the computer industry.
My conclusion - the A/G partnership is a nice thought, but they will suffer the same fate as Sun and Oracle. Many have tried to dethrone Gates and Co., but none of have succeeded. Media distribution could be a cool card trick, but attempts at winning the OS/platform war will fail.
Then again, Jobs should be used to it.
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MySpace vs. MTV
Om wrote a great article on Murdoch and Redstone and the battle they are fighting for control of the various media industries. Om Malik is the man behind GigaOm, an immensely popular Silicon Valley blog, and is currently starting a media-related company after relinquishing his position as senior editor at Business 2.0. And from what I gleaned from a dinner over the summer, he's a really good guy as well.
The post is the kind of piece I aspire to write (and have tried to many times on this blog as you loyal readers know), but his analysis is obviously far superior. Stay tuned for a similar article (by me this time) on the merits of the possible Google/Apple partnership.
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Barked Dogster Inc., as they formally announced the completion of a $1 million Series A round on Thursday. The firm, which has grown to 10 employees, had been raising money for the past few months and finally reached their goal of $1 million.
The occasion holds special significance to me - my boss over the summer, Scott Rafer, is an adviser for the company, and I was lucky enough to meet the men and women behind Dogster and spend a few days at the office. Jeff Clavier, who I was fortunate enough to meet this summer and is one of few VCs who is a truly great guy, wrote a great piece on the company on Thursday when the news broke.
But the biggest reason the news is so joyful is what it represents. At its outset, Dogster was a few guys with a dream - to unite dog owners and give them a place to express and share their love. But their story isn't just a feel good one - they followed a winning strategy: "thinking small." It seems counterintuitive, but it just may be the recipe for success in the Web 2.0 world.
Conventional entrepreneurial thought tells us the individual shouldn't be afraid of going all out, of thinking big. One guy can change the world, right?
Maybe, but that isn't always the healthiest attitude for a start up to take. The founders of Dogster identified a problem, built the solution, and concentrated on getting it out fast, rather than adding a lot of features. They weren't trying to take over the world, and thus they didn't try to build a product to do so. Rather, they focused on a niche they intimately understood and immersed themselves in a labor of love.
And, in many cases, that is what being an entrepreneur is about. We shouldn't be starting our companies to flip to Google or Yahoo, we should be doing it to make our own little dent in the world. As Web 2.0 continues to revolutionize our life, many of the companies that succeed will be the ones born out of passion.
As Clavier points out in the article, Dogster's numbers look great, and their future is bright, but, for me at least, it all starts with love. And they really love dogs. Their "office" is a room big enough for 10 desks and a couple couches with no less than 4 dogs running around. Forgive me for sounding like Steve Jobs, but Dogster's employees don't just work for a company, they work for a cause.
So what does it all boil down to? Of course, start ups need a sound business plan and product. But though it may sound cliche, at the end of the day, success starts with passion, and that passion can be harnessed by "thinking small," by not worrying about the big picture and focusing on your niche.
Godspeed, Dogster.
("Thinking Small" was a presentation at Comdex a few months back, one that my boss preached to me as a strategy for approaching a project of my own. A video of the presentation and the slides can be found here.)
Zune launch
Microsoft announced a press conference scheduled for tomorrow regarding their new Zune line of products (which I blogged about a while back). Stay tuned (or just go to TechCrunch) to get details. Interesting timing though, a few days after Apple's Showtime event.
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Apple unveils...
A bunch of stuff at the Apple Showtime event in San Francisco. It's late and I don't feel like giving details, but basically Apple enabled movie downloads off iTunes, added some features (but nothing great to the iPod), and, coolest of all, a little device that enables viewing on your TV of content on your computer. The iTV, as it will be called, is the yet another to bring computer content to the television but could easily be the most successful.
For the full story, check out TechCrunch's article.
My 2 cents: by all accounts, Steve Jobs was at it again. He worked the room in true form. His status as a genius has often been debated, but theres no denying he's a master showman. More than 2 decades after the legendary Mac launch, he can still capture the hearts and minds of Silicon Valley and the world.
I decided to name this post after the episode of Entourage where Ari leaves his old agency, as it alludes to the dark underbelly of almost any organization: betrayal, mutiny, and treachery. Such scheming can be the undoing (or salvation) of any organization, but its effects are greatly magnified when it comes to start ups due to their small size.
We've all heard stories - VCs replacing the CEO with their own man, founders turning on each other to increase their own equity, and many more. Conventional wisdom frowns on such practices, but my I'd like to question that.
At what point is the backstabbing ok? Granted, it's never the preferred option, but sometimes it must be necessary, right? Otherwise, it would never happen. (Yes, that's debatable, but stick with me for a bit.)
I'd contend that the survival and success of a company always comes first. The organization is above the individuals, and its salvation is of utmost importance. To that end, the founders who oust one (or more) of their own are somewhat justified. Sometimes the circumstances and people involved leave no other path - trying to openly solve via discussion just puts a band-aid on the would, one that will inevitably come off.
But making the decision is hard. Most early stage start ups are comprised of people who are already friends. When your company has 10 people, all of whom you know well, how do you gather the courage to fire the bad apple? And what if that bad apple is your CEO?
It's tough. But I firmly believe that the members of the company have an ironclad duty to the firm as a whole, one that supersedes ties to individuals, and that they must do the right thing for the team, regardless of the consequences and any apprehension. That's the sign of true strength in an organization.
Of course, it's easy for me to sit here and write this. When you face this problem, good luck executing. (Yes, that was a pun.)
Why, Microsoft, Why?
Microsoft has unveiled a YouTube competitor, Michael Arrington reported today on Techcrunch. SoapBox, as it is rumored to be called, will basically be a YouTube clone, offering a similar set of video sharing services.
Arrington rightly wonders why they are launching the service under the MSN brand, rather than the Live brand. The Live set of products are it - the next generation applications that will enable Microsoft to stay atop the market over the next few years. It's really, really cool stuff (a post on it to come shortly). But then why launch SoapBox as an MSN product? MSN has labored for years to be the type of all-in-one portal that Yahoo is, without much success. Launching on Live would give SoapBox traction much faster, crucial for a service that derives its utility from its user base.
However, in my mind, the more obvious is question is "Why?" Why launch a video sharing service in the first place? It just doesn't make sense - YouTube already owns the market by a wide margin. Just as importantly, the space is crowded - really crowded. How many video sharing sites have sprang up since YouTube gained popularity? Google and AOL have already joined the rush, not to mention countless start ups. Does Microsoft really think its SoapBox can pull a number on YouTube like its Explorer did on Netscape?
It's not going to happen, and this will probably be yet another failed experiment on Microsoft's part. But the move really makes you wonder - what are they thinking? Has the the preeminent tech company of our generation really fallen so far? Do they really believe their minuscule chance of success is even worth the effort? And even if they do succeed, what will they have gained? The reward is almost non existent, regardless of the risk.
The "chicken with its head cut off" syndrome has become far too common place at today's tech titans. I don't even think this post is all that insightful - I think I'm just stating the obvious, that SoapBox is a horrible idea. But that's the point - it's so obvious, but Microsoft is still doing it. The market leaders keep churning out these pointless projects and clones rather than sticking to the ingenuity that made them leaders in the first place.
But I guess it's not so bad - at least it leaves room for you and me to make our own little dent in the world...
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Ethanol Debate
Robert Rapier, co-author of The Oil Drum, recently wrote a scathing post on Vinod Khosla's stance on ethanol. For those who don't know, Vinod Khosla is one of Sun Microsystem's four founders and currently runs a prominent VC fund in the Valley, Khosla Ventures, which he started after leaving his post as general partner at Kleiner Perkins. Rapier co-authors the fairly prominent blog and proclaims environmentally friendly aspirations despite working for an oil company. (The two don't seem as much at odds after reading his post.)
To summarize, Khosla has been pushing ethanol as an alternative energy source for a while now, claiming many benefits. As stated above, Rapier blasts Khosla's stance with solid economic and technical arguments. VentureBeat has a great summary of the debate here.
I'll throw my lot in with Matt Marshall and VentureBeat - I think Rapier makes better points and generally wins debate as Khosla needs to fall back on moral arguments to have a case. From what I know about ethanol from a scientific perspective (granted, not much), it doesn't seem to be The Answer to the energy debate. The economics just don't add up, but read the debate all the same.
Cool side note (as told to me by Rahmin, who has been previously mentioned in this blog and is co-founder of Involver): Ethanol is only around because of socialist policies our government put into place in the 1970s. Basically, laws were created to protected domestic corn producers, offering subsidies to help support the declining demand for their crops. Over the years, this led to an overabundance of corn until some brilliant scientist discovered it could be used to produce ethanol. It'd be interesting to see what would have happened had the government let the Invisible Hand do its thing.
(To be clear, the above paragraph is most certainly NOT meant to be complimentary towards the government. Because they didn't have the guts to make the farmers find new crops, we're stuck with a mediocre un-solution to the energy problem thats draining manpower and resources. I'm very much against the governmental aid for ethanol for which Khosla is lobbying.)
Facebook (update)
The wrath has been harsh and swift. Reactions to facebook's new design have been extremely negative, with more than 100,000 joining a group called “Students Against Facebook News Feed.” And that's just one such group - there are tons more out there to the same tune.
Oddly enough, most of the preeminent tech blogs were praising the changes as a quantum leap in social networking, as written below. (Ok, maybe not a quantum leap, but you get the point.)
There probably is a middle ground in terms of new features and maintaining some level of privacy from stalkers, but time will tell if Facebook can find it. In Zuck's own words: "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you." A little condescending, but at least they realize they have a problem.
So Facebook finally did something. Most of you have already noticed and probably formed some sort of opinion. The tech blogs are ablaze about it, of course, with the majority of the feedback being positive. TechCrunch, SiliconBeat (which has actually been renamed VentureBeat as of late) and GigaOm are all fans, to varying degrees (in that order).
To summarize, there are two new features added. The first is an RSS feed-type aggregation of what your friends have been up to (writing wall posts, friending, joining/creating events, etc.) and the second is a mini-feed that appears on your own personal page about what you have changed on Facebook.
My thoughts on it all are mixed. I think they've taken a fairly unique approach to social networking, and the new layout offers a plethora of information at users' fingertips. It's nice to keep up with friends, especially those you don't see much. From a business standpoint, the features will probably result in increased page views, as users now have more to look at. Quite simply, Facebook has become a more interactive social experience, so people will probably spend more time on it, especially the moderate to heavy users who currently spend much time "facebook stalking." (However, an alternative theory could be that since the info is all there, people won't spend more time looking for it and thus page views will decline. Thoughts?)
On the flip side of all this is a very real worry about privacy. The (few) people I've already talked to have echoed these concerns. For example, I may not want everyone to know when I've signed a wall or friended someone. Facebook was already a privacy nightmare, and the new design has only exacerbated the situation. The facade of protection that came from requiring college email addresses has long since evaporated, as employers and many others are already on the site. In regards to the new features, "it's too much" seems a be a popular response.
Another interesting note is the launch of the redesign coincides very closely with YouTube's announcement of a college section on its site. Though the move received mixed reviews, it is clearly the first real competition Facebook has faced. Oddly enough, the current Facebook design doesn't include video sharing, which is the logical response to YouTube's move. Time will tell what, if anything, Facebook does to directly address YouTube's threat.
But I want to conclude with an interesting angle that (I believe) hasn't really been considered yet. My first take on the redesign was that, with a little more work, it could be a fantastic events portal. The events scene has been getting a lot of attention generally (Upcoming getting bought out, Zvents, Eventful, etc.) and personally with my boys Rahmin and Matt launching Involver recently (which will garner a full post once I get the time to poke around the site thoroughly). But if people start using the events functionality on facebook, the new interface would be great for keeping track of whats going on and who is going where - the long sought after, first true social events network.
But then again it's doubtful people will really start using the events, and it's more doubtful Facebook will gear their site around events.
As always, and especially with this topic, your thoughts are highly encouraged...
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Guess who's back
I finally got my laptop back, so the posts should be coming frequently now. I'm going to need a little bit to catch up with what is going on (as I am, unfortunately, in Philadelphia) and settle down here, but basically all is well on this end.
I'm also attaching this blog to facebook, so hopefully it can reach a some people who wouldn't otherwise read it. And keep the comments coming.
All in all, I'm back.
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Rick's Cabaret licenses Vivid name for its new 37th Street New York City gentlemen's club
NEW YORK CITY - (March 19, 2013) – Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc. (NasdaqGM:RICK), the premier publicly traded group of gentlemen’s clubs, has obtained a license from Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film company, to use Vivid Cabaret as the name for its new midtown Manhattan venue. The agreement marks the first time Rick’s Cabaret has licensed a third party brand name for one of its clubs and the first time Vivid has licensed its name for a gentlemen’s club.
The Manhattan cabaret is located at 61 West 37th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in New York City’s fashion district. It is near Bryant Park, Fifth Avenue shopping, numerous leading hotels, and is an easy walk from Times Square. A subsidiary of Rick’s Cabaret earlier this month finalized the purchase of the business. The building is currently undergoing renovation and is expected to open by October.
“Vivid is by far the finest adult company and has great brand-name awareness,” said Eric Langan, President and CEO of Rick’s Cabaret. “Using the Vivid name fits perfectly with our ‘cabaret concept,’ which features a little trendier music and feels as much like a nightclub as a strip club in terms energy level. The New York City club will be a perfect complement to our flagship Rick’s Cabaret just four blocks away, and we’ll be able to cross-promote seamlessly.”
“We’ve worked with Rick’s Cabaret for several years on various promotions but licensing our name certainly takes the relationship to a dramatic new level. We want to work with only elite gentlemen’s clubs and Rick’s certainly meets that test. We could not be more excited to work with their team,” said Vivid founder/co-chairman Steven Hirsch. “We'll be able to promote Vivid Cabaret on VividTV, which will reach over 40-million households by the time the club opens this Fall. Vivid performers will make appearances at the club and we'll also hold movie auditions there. Our fans will love Vivid Cabaret," he added.
Vivid is the strongest internationally recognized franchise of the modern adult entertainment era. The company is best known for the distribution of high quality movies sold in more than 50 countries, including the best-selling Vivid SuperXXXheroes parodies, Vivid-Ed educational adult videos and Vivid-Alt videos, plus the famous Vivid-Celeb sex tapes featuring well-known celebrities. The company was a pioneer in signing top actresses to exclusive contracts with its world famous Vivid Girls. Its Vivid.com website continues to attract new subscribers. More recently the company introduced the VividTV network, the VividTouch mobile app and Vivid Cams. The company’s licensed products range from Vivid Vodka to Vivid Condoms. Vivid has the largest adult film archive of any studio and is the most awarded company in the history of the industry. According to Adult Video News founder Paul Fishbein, “Steven Hirsch and Vivid have single-handedly moved adult entertainment into the mainstream.”
About Rick’s Cabaret: Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc. (NasdaqGM: RICK) is home to upscale adult nightclubs serving primarily businessmen and professionals that offer live entertainment, dining and bar operations. Nightclubs in New York City, Miami, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Minneapolis, Indianapolis and other cities are named "Rick's Cabaret," "XTC," “Club Onyx” and “Tootsie’s Cabaret” and other brand names. Sexual contact is not permitted at any locations. Rick’s Cabaret also operates a media division, ED Publications. Rick’s Cabaret common stock is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol RICK. For further information contact ir@ricks.com or visit www.ricksinvestor.com. Twitter: @rickscabaret; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rickscabaretintl.
Forward-looking Statements: This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the company’s actual results to differ materially from those indicated in this press release, including the risks and uncertainties associated with operating and managing an adult business, the business climates in cities where it operates, the success or lack thereof in launching and building the company’s businesses, risks and uncertainties related to the operational and financial results of our Web sites, conditions relevant to real estate transactions, and numerous other factors such as laws governing the operation of adult entertainment businesses, competition and dependence on key personnel. Rick's has no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of future events or circumstances. For further information visit www.ricksinvestor.com.
Media Contacts: For Rick’s, Allan Priaulx, 212-338-0050, allan@ricks.com; for Vivid, Jackie Martin, 800-762-4761, jackie@vivid.com.
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A Word from the Chair
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PAST EVENTS / SIPA 2015 / Planning Committee
The SIPA Annual Conference steering committee plays a vital role in planning and shaping the event. We thank the following thought leaders for their work on the 2015 conference:
Cindy Carter, President, FDANews
Cindy Carter is president and CEO of FDAnews, an information company serving the pharmaceutical, medical device and clinical trial communities. She also is a partner and past president of Healthcare Intelligence Network, a joint venture of several healthcare publishers.
Ed Coburn, Chief Strategy Officer and Lead Consultant, Mequoda Group, LLC
Ed Coburn is Chief Strategy Officer & Lead Consultant for the Mequoda Group, where he works with a wide range of publishers on digital publishing and marketing programs. A past president of SIPA and a member of the SIIA Content Division Board, he has spoken at numerous media and publishing conferences on a wide range of topics. Previously Ed was at Harvard Health Publications where he was the Publishing Director, Managing Director at Circadian Information, Group Publisher at Cutter Information Corp., and a marketing manager at Cahners Publishing Company. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. You can find his profile on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/EdCoburn.
Benny Dicecca,CEO, Wellesley Information Services, a division of UCG
Benny DiCecca is the Chief Executive Officer of Wellesley Information Services (a United Communications Group company) based in Dedham, MA. Benny joined WIS in 1999, and has since held senior management and leadership positions of increasingly responsibility. Benny was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer in 2005 before assuming overall responsibility as CEO in 2007.
Benny has more than 25 years of experience in sales and marketing and 15+ years of experience in the events industry. Early in his career, he was infused into struggling companies’ sales and marketing organizations, tasked with re-establishing positive cash flow and productivity. Benny created a reputation for taking on these near-bankrupt companies and restoring them to profitability by increasing sales, instilling process and personnel efficiencies, and reducing expense. He built his unique management style and business acumen by embracing these challenges and growing successful, profitable organizations.
Heather Farley, Divisional President, Access Intellegence
Heather leads the strategic direction and revenue growth objectives across AI. She works closely with her division leaders to identify, acquire and integrate synergistic businesses as well as create strong organic growth through new product launches. Additionally, as a member of Access Intelligence’s Board of Directors, Heather plays an integral role in ensuring that the vision and mission of AI’s core strategic initiatives are successfully executed across all operating units. Heather is a recognized leader in the b2b community and a member of the SIPA Board of Directors. In her tenure at AI, Heather has worked on more than two dozen acquisitions and countless product launches. Her expertise in both direct marketing and paid content have been instrumental in the company’s dynamic transition from a traditional b2b media provider to an integrated global media company comprised primarily of face-to-face events and online members-based communities. Prior to Access Intelligence, Heather was a senior vice president and group publisher with Phillips Publishing International, where she began her publishing career in 1988.
David Foster, CEO, BVR
David Foster is the CEO of Business Valuation Resources, the Portland, OR-based publisher of transaction, legal and other databases for the business valuation profession. Much of BVR's recent growth results from the reinvention of sales, marketing, product development, technology, editorial, pricing, and every other part of operations—changes BVR shares with many SIIA members.
In addition to BVR, Foster was the co-founder of IOMA, Inc., a management publisher he sold to the Bureau of National Affairs in 1998. He has served on the Boards of 14 information industry companies, as well Copyright Clearance Center. He speaks on management and financial trends in the information industry, and he won SIPA’s Hall of Fame Award 2000.
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tv Eyewitness News This Morning ABC October 23, 2015 6:00am-7:00am EDT
>> and the boys are back in town, how you can help cheer on the mets in person before they depart for the world series. and good morning, i'm lori stokes. >> good morning, and good morning to you. i'm ken rosato. thank you for joining us, it is friday. that's the good news, october 23rd. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. meteorologist bill evans with the weekend accuweather forecast. >> looking more like fall. it's going to feel more like fall. it's going to feel chilly after yesterday's high of 75. that down the jersey shore it's 54. over towards sayreville, and somerset county down to her ser county, 52, 53 degrees. we've got these wind profiles out of the northwest today, it's sill learn going to be a windy day. kiddos at the bus stop, about to head out this morning, grab a coat. it's going to be chilly and windy. heather's looking at your commute. >> we still have those delays as you head through queens.
let's go right over to a webcam. i'll show you the accident activity as you head southbound side on the van wyck expressway trying to get into jfk expressway. we still have that entire area closed down. all traffic's being diverted off the area, and you have a very heavy amount of traffic coming back all the way back to at least liberty avenue down into the area of jfk airport. if you have to go to the airport and catch a flight or pick somebody up, you want to think about that one. we'll head over to our maps, and i'll also tell you we have this problem on route 9 both ways between nepperhan avenue and wells avenue with ongoing fire department activity. our street cleaning rules are in effect. 6:01. we are going to start with breaking news in westchester county. a massive 4-alarm fire tearing through businesses in the heart of yonkers. that fire began overnight on broadway near main street, and right now fire investigators are trying to determine whether this fire was an accident. eyewitness news reporter rob nelson is live now for us in
lori, it has been a wet and messy and smoky morning here in downtown yonkers. let me step out of the way and give you a live look at the scene. firefighters now in the 7th hour of trying to bring this blaze under control. and all this started before 11:00 last nigh. the fire quickly shot up to 4 alarms, almost 5 here in the getty square area. at this hour, we understand that several businesses in this area have suffered heavy smoke and water damage. on top of that, one very large building in this area which housed several businesses including a dollar store and mcdonald's has been completely gutted. this fire still not under control seven hours later, and the windy conditions this morning not helping matters as smoke continues to billow throughout the area. though we have seen some progress in the last half hour, so not quite as smoky. so clearly firefighters making progress now. one silver lining in all of this, fire officials say that st. john's church was in
serious jeopardy of catching on fire as well, but firefighters here worked very hard to protect that historic structure. it is a church more than 200 years old and a very special part of this community that was almost lost this morning. >> one major building with several businesses and the church took on significant smoke damage, as well as there's a row of stores on main street that took on significant smoke damage as well. >> reporter: you can see the steeple of that church, st. john's church. again, that church did suffer some smoke damage but basically was saved by firefighters. we understand it really was in serious risk of burning down. yonkers would have lost one of its most historic landmarks, so damage not too bad. firefighters still fighting some hot spots through the air on those ladders, but, again, no residential injuries in all of this. a few firefighters were injured for those of you who live out
here in yonkers, be forewarned that several streets are closed as they continue to fight this fire. we're seven hours into this. progress has been made. it's a little less smoky than when we got ear at 3:30 this morning. the good news no residential injuries but certainly a hit for several businesses here, at least five to eight businesses at the best case scenario have been damaged in all of this. so those folks of course waking up to some horrible news this morning in terms of their businesses. we'll have another report coming up later in this hour. reporting live in yonkers, rob nelson, channel 7 eyewitness news. 6:04, a bus and truck collision near the french city of bordeaux that killed at least 42 people, most of them elderly. police found just a handful of survivors. some survivors severely burned by a fire that erupted right after the crash. we have new video this morning as police search for a killer of a brooklyn live cab driver.
overnight police released the surveillance image of the suspect in the murder of rafael veras. he stabbed to death as he sat in his cab last month. police don't have a motive for the killing. they say nothing was stolen from veras. police are searching for the person who intentionally set fire to a brownstone killing two people. that building on hancock street in bed-stuy is boarded up after flames tore through tuesday night. investigators are calling the fire suspicious. they say it was intentionally set. 56-year-old tyrone corely was on the top floor at the time. he jumped out of a window as he tried to escape the flames. >> the people who were in the building, they were screaming in the back because the front building was blocked, the fire was in the front of the building and they could not get out. so nobody could come out. they were trapped in there. >> corely who works as a deejay was killed. another man died in the fire. three of the building's
now that hillary clinton has completed eight hours of testimony, senior democrats may boycott the republican led committee investigating the 2012 benghazi attacks. yesterday's session ran late into the night with clinton in the hot seat for most of it. the panel's work is likely to stretch into the election year. its hottest moments came with republican after republican trying to score a gotcha moment with the former secretary of state. >> you had two ambassadors that made several requests, and here's basically what happened to their requests. they were torn up. >> well, that's just not true congressman. >> in spite of the many hours in the spotlight, clinton was cool and deliberate, not rising to any political bait from republicans. he was the tall candidate on the far right of the democratic debate stage, but how much longer will lincoln chafee stay in the race. he says he will address the future of his campaign this morning in a forum set up by the democratic national
committee. former senator jim webb quit the race earlier this week. on to baseball and mets fans may be going into a little bit of withdrawal with a spot in the world series secured after a sweep of the cubs, they won't see their team on the field until tuesday. of course that leaves a lot of time for shopping and mets merchandise has been flying off the store shelves in the tri- state area. for some fans it's been an all day job. >> i was here at 6:00 in the morning, and the place was going nuts. >> and you're back again. >> i was in time square at the mets clubhouse shop looking for these hats and these hats are like the nottest thing in the world. >> -- hottest thing in the world. >> in the world. >> fans are invited to cheer on their favorite team at the hometown rally for the mets monday afternoon. the event is free, open to the public. it is at queensboro hall in kew gardens. blue and orange wear is strongly encouraged. >> very, very cool. lets go mets. it is 6:07. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic.
meteorologist bill evans and the weekend accuweather forecast. >> we look from our camera on the fort lee new jersey side of the george washington bridge at the very top there is where heather lives, and we'll be going to her house this weekend. clean the place up, will you? >> it's always cleaned up for you guys. >> last time there were pizza boxes everywhere. >> that's cleaned up isn't it? 54 degrees is our temperature right now. clear skies, a northwest wind flow back to the great lakes. the wind dies down tomorrow and a front will come through out of winnipeg. that slides through the area sunday morning. it will be kind of dry, not a whole lot of showers with that. 56 by noontime, 60 trees this afternoon. normal high is 61. we're right at that. today we have a big old wind out of the north at 10 to 20 miles an hour. so kiddos at the bus stop, you need jackets and the sweaters, it's going to be a little chilly this morning and windy. heather i give it a c for bright and brisk. >> it should be chilly but
that's all right. we have news copter 7 up above. shannon sohn has found that earlier truck fire that was reported a while ago. it's still out there. good morning shannon. >> reporter: good morning, it's here on the eastbound side of 78 as advertised in in those local lanes. it is all off to the shoulder and the fire for the most part out. we saw a little smoke when we pulled up. the tractor-trailer, they separated the cab from the trailer so it wouldn't catch fire. this all off to the right shoulder, not causing too much traffic. if this stays out here you can imagine we will see rubbernecking delays. also we should tell you that on the other side of the roadway, westbound side about a half mile before this an accident in the express lanes. only the right lane gets through. not too bad yet. >> so this is the lincoln tunnel. you can see in the middle of your screen right to left traffic is moving slowly. that's the traffic going into the lincoln tunnel. let's go to our maps.
lincoln tunnel center tube is temporarily closed down as they're out there trying to clear away that construction. as a result it's 20 minutes inbound, minor delays george washington bridge and the holland. then we have this problem on the van wyck expressway, south, the ramp to jfk expressway, remains closed with an accident. mass transit doing very well. ken and lori over to you. >> thank you. breaking news this morning on long island. a group of men storm a home in suffolk county of one man severely injured, what police are telling us about the violent attack. >> a nurse quarantined by doctors over fear of ebola. >> and we are keeping an eye on a monster hurricane feared to
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breaking news this morning on long island, police are trying to find the suspect in a possible machete attack during a home invasion in suffolk county. this happened just after 2 a.m. in central islip. two people were hurt. one suffered a severe hand injury, and police do not have a motive. democrats in new jersey have managed something they haven't done in five years voting to override a veto from republican governor chris christie. the legislation would require the prospective gun buyers
notify law enforcement if they try to seal their mental health records. the measure passed both houses unanimously. governor chris tie vetoed it. some republicans in the state senate joined in last night's vote. the assembly votes next. new details on the nurse who governor christie ordered quarantined during last year's ebola scare. she's suing the governor for damages of at least a quarter of a million dollars. kaci hickox says she was held against her will illegally. she also claims governor christie's move was driven by fear and politics. state of emergency is in effect in several parts of mexico's west coast as hurricane patricia becomes a powerful category 5 storm. patricia is being called the most powerful system recorded in the western hemisphere with maximum sustained winds of 200 miles per hour.
land tonight near the tourist resort overpert villar that. check out this video of flood waters sweeping away a home in rankin about 50 miles from the mexican border. parts of the lone star state are dealing with strong storms. no one was in the homes at the time. police managed to evacuate the park before the flood waters came rushing through. it is 6:15. time to check that accuweather forecast. >> let's check in with bill evans. hey bill. >> happy friday everybody, it feels great. it's a nice fall day. it is a little windy. grab a jacket or sweater. headed to the bus stop, headed of the subway, getting the kids to school, it's a little chilly. yesterday 75, today a little closer to normal for this time of the year. we'll be right at 60 degrees. here's a look outside, a beautiful sunrise headed your way in about 30 minutes it's 54 degrees, dry humidity, northwest wind at 7. pressure's steady. temperatures around 50, 51
these numbers are a little warm for the overnight hours. should be around 42 around the five boroughs. it's getting there. we have a north to a northwest wind from about 7 to a 13 to a 24 miles an hour wind, and we're looking off to the west as that northwest wind is coming our way. cold front comes our way. that's not until sunday. tomorrow we're at 58. there comes that front. we're going to get a brief shower sunday morning, and then the sun comes out sunday afternoon. great viewing for the fall colors this weekend. we're going to be seeing them peeking out above i-287, i-84 with a temperature today of 60 degrees, which is normal. 61's our normal high. tomorrow sunshine, 58 degrees, a beautiful day on saturday. now we are looking at a couple of showers sunday morning, and then as the front goes by, the sun comes out in the afternoon. then we have normal, beautiful weather to start the week. from patricia we might have some rain on wednesday, thursday.
time for friday when the world series begins here in new york at citi field. mets will take on i believe the kansas city royals myself. there are no dogs here this morning. how about that, can you believe that? >> how can that happen? >> there are no dogs here this morning. >> it's three dog day. >> oh, my gosh. >> good morning, we have maximus and this is joy and this is siri, and then i lost two. hey, i got snacks for everybody, gang, come on in here. >> they're hungry. >> you know, these are from fresh pad, i don't know what it is about them. it's the cool air, it's the snacks, and it's -- >> better watch your hands there. >> you're going to get injured. >> all right sir. >> scared for you. >> let's go over to heather. >> we have some major lincoln tunnel issues and we have shannon sohn. she just zipped from 78 right over the lincoln tunnel to show us this mess that we have.
what's happening is what was happening at the lincoln tunnel is they had that center tube temporarily closed down, and that's because they're in the process of clearing that overnight construction we had, so it looks as though if we could go over to a camera shot, i want to show you that traffic is -- here's the helix as you come southbound. it's actually starting to move again. that may mean that they have finally finished what they were doing, but we'll head over tour maps and i can tell you that the inbound side of the lincoln tunnel was already up to a 30 minute delay, and the george washington bridge and the holland do have minor delays. this might start easing out at the lincoln tunnel now that it looks like traffic is moving again. van wyck, that's an accident. that very heavy delays from at least liberty avenue into the area with that accident being cleared away. we have alternate side of the street parking rules in effect, and our mass transit is looking good. ken and lori, over to you. thank you. if you're still wracking your brain for a trendy halloween
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minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with your accuweather forecast. >> i'm coming. i was just setting up the big board here. i'm looking at some temperatures this morning running around crazy. as a matter of fact, look at the north wind. if you're taking the ferry over from staten island this morning, you've got a little bit of wind in here out of the north gusting up to about 16 miles per hour, and if you're going to be taking the ferry over from bridgeport, a northwest wind, and the water temperature about 60 degrees here. we are going to be looking at temperatures that are cool today. we're looking at after school today kiddos, 60 degrees, it will feel like 50 with that wind out there. heather loves this kind of weather. she's been dancing around the traffic may pole all morning long. >> i was at the beach, it was nice and warm, i said what is this about. come on. we have news copter 7 up above. shannon sohn is showing us this accident on the west side highway southbound near 96th street. she didn't quite get there yet. let's go right over to our maps. we'll talk to you about the
lincoln tunnel. the center tube has been reopened. however, you now have a 40 minute delay inbound lincoln. the george washington bridge is 5. the holland is a 10 minute delay, and then as you go on to the van wyck expressway heading on to the southbound side near the belt parkway, still have that accident being cleared away and very heavy delays southbound on the van wyck as a result. our mass transit is doing great. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect. thank you heather. we're learning new details this morning about the moment before lamar odom was found unconscious at a nevada brothel. according to search warrants, investigators believe odom overdosed on cocaine and other drugs at the love ranch. two prostitutes told police that the queens native went into a bathroom to do cocaine. odom is recovering in los angeles. 6:25. just over a week to go before the annual halloween parade in the village. we think you might find this year's grand marshal interesting. it's a character featured in
the most interesting man in the world. yes, the director of the parade says he embodies the mystery and intrigue of the parade. the 42nd edition of the celebration will showcase hundreds of puppets, dozens of bands and plenty of colorful costumes. it happens next saturday evening, halloween. >> we're closing in on 6:30. a live picture once again from yonkers and a large number of fire crews still trying to get a handle on a 4 alarm blaze that ripped through the center of town, and we are looking into the big question of how that fire began. >> dive crews heading back into the water searching for one piece of evidence in the murder
more than 40 people killed in a fiery bus crash in france. the nation's deadliest road accident in years. >> also breaking this morning, one man is dead after a shooting at a college campus in tennessee, and we're just learning what sparked the gunfire.
>> plus fierce flames engulf a building full of stores in yonkers damaging a church nearby. good morning, i'm ken rosato. >> and i'm lori stokes. thanks for starting your morning with us. it is friday october 23rd. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and bill. >> we're going to be looking at temperatures starting out around 7, 8:00 at 53 degrees. by the time we get to noontime we're looking at 56. later on this afternoon, we're going to be looking at 60 degrees. really cool temperatures today considering yesterday was 75 degrees and we're going to be looking at what's going to be a cool morning out here this morning. at the bus stop kiddos, can't tell you enough how cool it is dress warmly. it's weather then heather who is in charge of the bus stop >> that's right. you took my lunch way too many times. i took over the job. >> you have good lunch. >> let's go right over here to news copter 7, shannon sohn is up above this accident i was telling you about on the west
side highway as you head to the southbound side near 96th street. you can see the right lane is closed down. if any lane is closed on the west side highway you know it's a nightmare. you have traffic bumper-to- bumper all the way back to the george washington bridge. shannon tells me that the delays go back across the upper level of the george washington bridge on to the west side highway. may want to hop on over to riverside drive or the east sided in to try to avoid this mess that we have. let's go over to our maps. i can tell you that the george washington bridge is 10 into the tolls. lincoln is still 40. the holland tunnel is a 10 minute delay, and then we have that lincoln tunnel center tube reopened, that earlier overnight construction has been cleared away, and the van wyck going south right at the bell parkway, that accident, our street cleaning rules are in effect. our mass transit is running on or close to schedule. thank you. get this, we are following three breaking stories right now. first we go to france where at least 42 people have been
killed in the deadliest road accident in years. they died in a fiery collision of a tour bus and track. and that happened in the southwestern city of bordeaux. we received this picture of the destroyed bus a few hours ago. most o. victims were elderly. police say they only found a handful of survivors. those people fought their way out of the bus through broken windows. at least four passengers were severely burned. now on to more breaking news back at home in tennessee, one person dead after a shooting on a college campus. investigators say gunfire broke out at tennessee state university in nashville over a dice game. three female students who happened to be walking past were wounded in the shooting. a man who was not a student at the school was killed. in yonkers now, and firefighters are still on the scene of a massive fire. several businesses were destroyed when a large commercial structure went up in flames overnight. eyewitness news reporter rob nelson just received new information for us. good morning rob. >> reporter: good morning, lori.
we just learned in the last few minutes actually that officially this fire is under control almost eight hours after it began. let's give you a live look now at the ongoing work here to put out those final hot spots here in downtown yonkers. and of course as the sun comes up in a few minutes, we will get a better idea of just how much damage this fire has left behind right here in the commercial heart of yonkers. now this is video from overnight showing just how intense the flames got as the fire quickly rimpled up to 4 -- ramped up to 4 alarms, all of this began before 11:00 last night, so firefighters now eight hours into what was a stubborn fire. minutes ago this was brought under control. we understand several businesses have suffered significant water and smoke damage, and as you said, one large building that housed several businesses including a dollar store and a mcdonald's has been totally destroyed. luckily no residential injuries to report. a few firefighters were hurt in all of this. they are now being treated. the best news is that
firefighters did manage to save st. john's church. that's an historic building more than 200 years old. it was in serious danger of burning. that church only suffered some smoke damage and the deputy fire chief talked about how important it was for his men to save that building. >> it's a real icon in the city of yonkers, st. john's church. concerns. it did sustain heavy smoke damage. we kept the fire out of there. the crews worked hard to keep the fire out of there. >> so, again, just got word a few minutes ago, this fire is officially under control. as you can see they're still fighting the fire from the air. those ladders still high up there. dousing the building with water. things beginning to wind down here in yonkers. again, this is a big hit to really what is the commercial heart of this community. so the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but, again, under control and no residential injuries to report, but a big question is exactly
hopefully some answers will come later this morning. reporting live in downtown yonkers, rob nelson, channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you. at 6:35, and tops on our news app right now, a former nypd officer accused of killing his estranged girlfriend with a machete outside her home in new jersey. investigators released this picture of suzanne bardzell overnight. she was stabbed to death in midland park by her estranged arthur lomando. we have learned this morning both of his legs had to be amputated. bardzell had filed a restraining order against lomando earlier this month. >> wile there is evidence of a history of domestic violence between ms. bardzell and the assailant, it appears that she did not notify police and did not come in and file complaints with the police department up until just recently. >> bardzell is the mother of two teenage sons.
lomando is at harlem hospital this morning. 6:36. nypd dive crews will be back in the water searching for the weapon that took the life of a housing cop in upper manhattan. the man charged with murdering randolph holder remains in custody. eyewitness news reporter dray clark live in east harlem with that story. >> reporter: good morning, ken, we'll talk more about mayor de blasio's news conference in a moment. first a look outside psa5 where there is a large and still growing memorial for fallen police officer randolph holder. you can see a number of flowers and cards and candles and even at this early morning hour, people are still coming by leaving words of condolences. all this while elsewhere the nypd dive team continues their search overnight in the east river to find the gun that may have been used to kill officer randolph holder. it is a very meticulous search in the east river. dive team members are searching
to find the 40 caliber gun that was used to kill officer holder. officers did recover a knife that they believe may have been tossed in the river by accused cop killer tyrone howard. howard is accused of shooting and killing officer holder in east harlem during a foot pursuit tuesday night. there are many who questioned why howard was on the street. he's a violent offender with 18 prior arrests and he was even wanted for a shooting in september. also last year howard was one of 19 people arrested in a drug sweep in east harlem. instead of being sent to jail, diversion program. city leaders question how someone with howard's rap sheet could avoid jail time. among those expressing serious concerns, police commissioner william bratton. >> our understanding is he may have been held on a diversion program, that if ever there was a candidate not to have been diverted it would be this guy. he's a poster boy for not being
diverted. it's unfortunate that there are people in our city, in our society that despite our best efforts that are going -- they're criminals, and many of them are violent criminals and we need to separate them from the rest of us. >> back here live outside psa5, so many words of condolences, this one coming from the harlem prep elementary school. school students have been coming by here referring to officer randolph as one of the faller heroes. meanwhile, again, that news conference mayor de blasio was planning will happen later on this morning to call for reforms to state laws on those diversion programs. it was earlier this week when mayor de blasio held that news conference and he said if there was anyone that should not have been walking the streets of new york it was tyrone howard. he's in jail accused of killing a police officer. we're live in east harlem, dray clark channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you.
held next tuesday at the greaten allen ame cathedral in new york in jamaica queens. his funeral will follow wednesday afternoon. officer holder's body will be flown to his native country of guyana where he will be buried. you're never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic beginning with meteorologist bill evans and the accuweather forecast. >> here we go, we take a look outside and we have clear skies. we have a cool morning, and it is crisp and it is going to be a great start to have the day. check out some of these temperatures, 55 around laguardia, a northwest wind making for a chilly day. we've got clear skies, a beautiful sunrise on the way. that is going to come up after we get to about 7:14 this morning. we have a day where you need the warm stuff at the bus stop, 53 degrees. it's weather then heather every 7 minutes as the bus rolls up. it's a little tricky.
let's go to a couple of webcams, as you travel on 78, we had that earlier fire, and an accident. very heavy delays as you travel on 78. this is the gowanus expressway on the bqe. we're jam packed. you have an accident on the bqe and the van wyck going southbound jam packed from the grand central parkway we'll explain what's going on. southbound van wyck near the bell parkway. that accident is still being cleared away. west side highway south at 96th street. you have an accident, delays go across the george washington bridge, upper level heading on to the inbound side on the west side highway. mass transit is doing great. street cleaning rules are in effect. lori over to you. you think thank you. still ahead on eyewitness news this morning, a startling discovery beneath one of america's largest cities. we're going to take you inside an elaborate drug tunnel. >> one suspect wanted for two armed robberies near columbia university. >> and return to sender, how
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system to carry drugs nearly a half mile between tijuana and san diego. dozens of similar tunnels have been found along the border in recent years. new this morning, police are searching for the man responsible for two armed robberies in upper manhattan. this surveillance video shows the suspect threatened a 28- year-old woman with a knife after following her into an apartment building in morning side heights. police say the same man robbed a 63-year-old woman one week earlier in the same area. in both cases he got away with cash. police in new jersey are taking an unusual approach in catching a drug dealer. 50 pounds of pot were delivered to a home addressed to somebody who didn't live there. the resident informed police right away and investigators released a public message on facebook. the message goes if you were expecting these packages and you'd like to come claim them, we're hanging on to them at police headquarters. so far nobody has taken them up
on their offer. an update into the newsroom. hurricane patricia just off the coast of mexico is now the strongest storm ever recorded in the western hemisphere. good morning america is covering this story. george stephanopoulos is joining us from time square. >> good morning lori. ginger's going to have the latest on that, 200 miles an hour sustained winds, and already in texas 10 million people are under flash flood watches and gearing up for the aftermath. going to have the latest on hillary clinton's long day on capitol hill more than eight hours of testimony, getting pretty good reviews on that. john carl here to report on that this morning, and finally do you know what's in your medicine cabinet. the nutrition super store gnc is accused of selling supplements that could have been spiked with synthetic drugs.
details on that and joe joe jonas is going to sing for us. >> talking about that hurricane, we might be getting some rain from that wednesday, thursday next week. ginger's going to talk about this. it's coming right into the mountains, so it loses a lot of its punch. it will certainly bring 10, 15 inches of rain to mexico and it will bring us much needed rain next week. first off a look outside, sun's coming up. we're at dawn, and a lone little stratus cloud hangs across midtown manhattan this morning. we're looking at 54 degrees, a dry humidity, a northwest wind, a pressure that's steady. yesterday's high was 75, we're going to be looking at much cooler temperatures today, which are more normal, because it was so warm yesterday, these numbers feel cool with the wind out of the north. these numbers actually overnight are warmer than
normal. 42 in the five boroughs, to 32 north and west. a lot of wind out here this morning, out of the north, 10 to 20 miles an hour is going to be that range of wind with winds out of the northwest. today we're going to have high pressure building in. it will slide across tomorrow, give us two great fall weather days before this cold front in the great lakes comes into the area and slides north, south across the area. here's our futurecast. our computer model shows a couple of sprinkles early on sunday morning, and the sun comes out sunday afternoon. we've got sunshine this morning, and windy cool weather. kids put on a jacket or sweater. you'll need that. after school it's 60 degrees. we're going to be looking at a brisk and cooler day today than yesterday which is 75. 58 tomorrow but we'll be minus that wind. here's the accuweather forecast for your fall colors, looking
60 today, clear tonight, low 44 right around the city and 34 in the suburbs. tomorrow we're at 58 degrees with some sunshine across the area. here is your accuweather seven- day forecast. saturday 58, a shower sunday morning, we're right around 66 degrees, and then we're going to be looking at there's going to be nice weather to start off next week. normal temperatures and there's that rain from patricia next week on wednesday. thursday just in time for the world series to start on friday. >> what's going on? >> what is this? >> hey, knock it off >> thank you! your thing. >> timing is everything in >> these guys are great. they're working out here early weather. >> you guys have a great >> you too. >> a little bit of an issue with new jersey transit trains, about 15 minute delays north jersey coastline, keep that one in mind. metro north new haven line you
have that track work ongoing. the west side highway southbound at 96th street that accident is being cleared away. we have delays back to the george washington bridge. the inbound george washington bridge is very heavy across that upper level into the city. 45 minutes inbound lincoln, the holland is a 20 minute delay. then we have the bqe northeast, you have delays back to the gowanus. the gowanus is jam packed into the area of 79th street. the van wyck is jammed. grand central to the belt parkway. subways are doing okay. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect. thank you. it's 6:49. weekend travel plans. the long island railroad installs a new bridge this weekend in west bury, and that it going to mean delays for buses will replace trains on the main line. that starts at midnight going until midnight sunday.
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now the whole thing was caught on surveillance cameras in the school's gym. the 14-year-old collapsed while running laps. some of the students thought he was joking but once the gym teacher realized what was happening, he jumped into action along with several other administrators. >> he was gone. i mean, for the most part from what we saw, he was gone, and so, you know, we just did what we were trained to do. anybody in that situation i think would have done the same thing. >> ten days earlier the entire staff at the school went through cpr and first aid training, with the lessons fresh in their mind they resuscitated the student. he is now being treated for a previously undiagnosed heart condition. a nashville shop is cleaning up after a city bus went through the shop. the store's manager and owner noticed the bus rolling towards the store. yikes they got up and backed up just in time as the bus went through the window.
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in the last few minutes, firefighters have just put a massive fire under control in westchester county. >> eyewitness news reporter rob nelson is live at the scene. you've seen the progress made rob. >> lots of progress ken as you just said, the fire just in the
last half hour officially brought under control. before it was brought under control it tore through a series of businesses right here in the heart of downtown. take a look at video from earlier. you see how intense the flames were. this fire began about 11:00 last night, went up to 4 alarm, several businesses suffering smoke and water damage. one very large building that housed several businesses was totally destroyed. no residential injuries but a few firefighters were hurt. they will be okay. the good news too is that the historic st. john's church which is more than 200 years old was in danger of burning down as well but was saved by the very quick work of firefighters. the cause of the blaze still under investigation, still no idea exactly what sparked all of this. certainly this is a big hit to the heart of this commercial area here in downtown yonkers. reporting live in yonkers, rob nelson channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you rob, and breaking news in new jersey, news copter 7 is over rock away near interstate 80. >> let's check in now with shannon sohn. >>
>> reporter: you guys can see that the ramp from the westbound side of the route 80 to exit 37 here for high bern yay avenue is shut down after a pedestrian on a bike was struck earlier this morning. this was a hit and run accident. it happened at 6:30 this morning. the condition of that bicyclist in unknown condition. there is an ongoing police investigation here that is going to shut down this ramp for some time. reporting live over rockaway, shannon sohn channel 7 eyewitness news. >> all right, shannon. thank you. >> so shannon was over the west side highway. now she's over route 80. it's still with us. it's an accident on the west side as you go down into 90th street. we'll head to a camera and show you how that's looking. we'll look at what's happening on the gowanus expressway on to the bqe. we'll tell you that this accident on the west side highway was right near 96th it's still with us.
in fact, you're very heavy getting across the upper level going across the span, and it's 20 minutes inbound, 45 at the lincoln, the holland is 20. mass transit is doing okay. that includes our subways. >> all right. >> thank you very much. >> hope you have a great weekend. going to have a great fall weekend coming at you. right now we have beautiful sunrise in progress, temperature in the 50s. should be about 42 to 46 degrees. we're looking at 53, warmer than normal. that temperature hangs rightly. 61 is our normal high for this time of the year. tomorrow we're at 58. a sprinkle with a cold front going by. we'll have sunshine sunday afternoon and sunshine into next week. all right. >> we've got it. >> have a great weekend. >> thank you bill. >> that's the news for now. i'm ken rosato. >> and i'm lori stokes. thanks for being with us this morning. have a terrific weekend. we're back in about 25 minutes with another update.
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Spotlight on PETER HAIN
MP for Neath 1991 -2015
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Peter Hain's hobbies and leisure activities include motorsport, rugby football, soccer, cricket and music.
Examination of the MPs Register of Financial Interests reveals the following declarations:
30 June 2013 - Two tickets for British Grand Prix Value £980 (RAC Motor Sports Association)
7-8 July 2012 - Two tickets for British Grand Prix Value £962 (RAC Motor Sports Association)
9-10 July 2011 - Two tickets for British Grand Prix Value £782 (Motor Sports Association)
10-11 July 2010 - Five tickets for British Grand Prix Value £1955 (Motor Sports Association)
20-21 June 2009 - Hospitality from Motor Sports Association at British Grand Prix
5-6 July 2008 - Hospitality from Motor Sports Association at British Grand Prix
10-11 June 2006, attendance at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone at the invitation of the Motorsport Association
9-10 July 2005, travel to and attendance at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone at the invitation of the Motorsport Association.
21-22 May 2005, travel to and attendance at the Monaco Grand Prix at the invitation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile and the Automobile Club de Monaco. (Registered 26 May 2005)
10-11 July 2004, travel to and attendance at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone at the invitation of the Motorsport Association and Williams Grand Prix Engineering
24-26 May 2002, travel to and attendance at the Monaco Grand Prix at the invitation of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile and the Automobile Club de Monaco
23-25 November 2001, to attend the Network Q Rally, Wales, at the invitation of the Motor Sports Association and the Motorsport Industry Association
2 September 2001, hospitality at the Belgian Grand Prix provided by the Belgian Automobile Club
16 September 2001, hospitality at the Italian Grand Prix, Monza, provided by the Automobile Club Italia
22-23 April 2000, to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone at the invitation of the Motorsport Association and Williams Grand Prix Engineering
24-26 November 2000, to attend the Network Q Rally, Wales, at the invitation of the Motor Sports Association
20 June 1999, training and entry to Lords v. Commons Charity Race provided by Vauxhall Motors Ltd and Jim Russell Racing Drivers School, to raise money for charity
10-11 July 1999, to Silverstone at the invitation of the Motorsport Association
21-22 November 1999, attended the Network Q Rally, Wales, at the invitation of Vauxhall Motors Limited
11-12 September 1999, to Italy to attend Italian Grand Prix at the invitation of Williams Grand Prix Racing and the Italian Automobile Club
Training and provision of RACMSA Competition Licence, and entry in the House of Commons versus the House of Lords Motor Race at Donington Park in May 1998 provided by Jim Russell Racing Drivers' School and Motorsport Industry Association
11-12 July 1998, attended the British Grand Prix at Silverstone at the invitation of the Royal Automobile Club
It would seem that for as far back as records go (17 years) Mr Hain has benefited every year from corporate hospitality with regard to the motor sports industry. This has predominantly been attendance at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone but has also included numerous sponsored trips to Grand Prix abroad, including Monaco, Italy and Belgium.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/mar/03/formulaone.formulaone200313
According to the Daily Mail (link below) Peter Hain was the personal guest of Max Mosely at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2005.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1016628/A-man-shame-How-sex-scandal-F1-boss-Max-Mosley-paint-injured-party.html
He attended Silverstone again in 2014 with the following being recorded in the Register of Financial Interests.
Name of donor: The Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association
Address of donor: Motor Sports House, 1 Riverside Park, Colnbrook SLG 0HK
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets for British Grand Prix 6 July 2014, value £962
Date of receipt of donation: 6 July 2014
Date of acceptance of donation: 6 July 2014
Donor status: company, registration 1344829
(Registered 21 July 2014)
When donors to Peter Hain's Deputy Leadership bid were finally published, one of the donors was Patrick Head who gave £2,000 to the Hain campaign. Patrick Head was co-founder of the Williams Formula One team and was their technical director for over 25 years. He resigned from the Williams team in 2012.
http://www.motorsportmumblings.co.uk/msm/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=10106&start=0
http://www.britsonpole.com/f1-head-named-in-hain-donations-scandal-post305
Early Day Motions relating to Motorsport
Peter Hain has in the past signed in support of Early Day Motions in Parliament relating to motorsport.
In 2007/2008 he signed an EDM praising Lewis Hamilton for becoming Formula One World Champion.
In 2012/2013 he was one of 16 signatories to an EDM supporting National Motorsports Week.
In 2013/2014 he did not sign EDM 1194 which opposed the Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix for 2014 being held there on account of the human rights violations within that country.
Peter Hain regularly "tweets" in support of British successes in Formula 1. He has presented awards to racing drivers at Silverstone on several occasions, and his MP's website contains photographs of such events.
http://peterhain.org.uk/2014/07/gp2-race-at-silverstone/
Peter Hain also attended sporting occasions in his capacity as a Secretary of State or Minister, these though at the expense of the taxpayer rather than a corporate sponsor:
http://seren.blogspirit.com/tag/Peter+Hain
Hain is the President of Neath RFC having previously been its Vice President.
He is also the President of Resolven RFC.
He is a keen Ospreys supporter as well.
Hain was the President of Neath FC, which was wound up at the High Court on 28 May 2012.
He is a keen supporter of Chelsea FC and has been since he was a young man. He has tweeted that he did not think a court case should have been brought against John Terry for allegedly racially abusing an opponent on the football field.
WARNING - THE LINK BELOW CONTAINS REFERENCES TO THE ACTUAL WORDS ALLEGEDLY USED BY JOHN TERRY. DO NOT OPEN THE LINK IF EASILY OFFENDED
https://twitter.com/PeterHain/status/223773935697797122
The MPs Register of Interests reveals he has accepted hospitality from SKY Sports to attend Chelsea Football Club for some of Chelsea's home matches.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/wales/6264095.stm
In May 2012, when Chelsea won the Champions League Cup, Peter Hain called for Frank Lampard to get an OBE for his service to football.
He said: “That would be a fitting tribute not just to the great triumph at Munich which he led but also to a long and distinguished career of high class football played with flair and respect.”
Hain is a Patron of Ynysygerwn Cricket Club.
He is a fan of the Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol and Coldplay
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/19/cuba.oliverburkeman
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/hains-a-snow-patrol-fan-2292653
It is not known if Peter Hain's views on Gibraltar had anything to do with three Gibraltar pop bands being denied a gig in Council premises in Neath.
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When Color Broke Free
Fauvism and then the rise of abstract art in the early 20th century had one particularly significant consequence. They freed color itself.
Of course color had already been used to spectacular effect before the 1900s, but never by itself, and never for its own sake.
Abstraction freed color from being used only to represent objects. It allowed color to be itself completely, and this greatly increased the visual power of western art.
The dynamics of color were first extensively explored by Robert Delaunay in his 1912-1913 Simultaneous Windows series on color contrasts:
Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Windows (1912), Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Windows (2nd Motif, 1st Part) (1912), Guggenheim Museum, New York
Paul Klee also became fascinated with the relationship between colors and the effects they could produce, which led to his series of “magic squares.” In some of them, he even worked on the relationship between the vibration of colors and music, in what he called “polyphonies”:
Paul Klee, Ancient Sound (1925), Kunstmuseum, Basel
Paul Klee, Polyphonic Setting for White (1930), Paul Klee Center, Bern
Paul Klee, Polyphony (1932), Kunstmuseum, Basel
This work on color made later major artists possible, and chief among them is Mark Rothko.
For Rothko, however, color is not the subject. Color is not an end in itself, but a means to an end, which is to express powerful, raw emotions. Some of his paintings are quite dark and full of tragedy, but many are radiant, full of life and energy:
Mark Rothko, Orange and Yellow (1956), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
The point is that abstract art unleashed the true power of color in the early 20th century, which led to some of the most visually stunning works ever produced. These include spectacular color squares and show that not all western art had stopped being beautiful.
That’s what happened when color broke free.
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Infiniti Prices Out 2017 QX30 Subcompact Crossover
Mercedes-Benz Bones Offered for Less Than 30k
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Once Japan’s sportiest luxury brand, Infiniti has been in a bit of a funk as of late. A confusing new naming scheme, disconnected driving dynamics, and price creep have worked against the brand, driving sales downward compared to the brand’s heyday in the mid-2000s. However, thanks to emotive new styling and some fresh metal in the showroom, Infiniti closed its best-ever sales year in 2015, a feat it may repeat this year as well.
Photo 2/26 | 2017 Infiniti QX30 Rear Side View With Building
The all-new 2017 QX30 will no doubt help with that goal. Slotting into the hotly contested subcompact crossover segment, the QX30 takes much of its structure from the similarly shaped Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class. Infiniti buyers can expect something of a bargain, however, as the QX30 will start at less than $30,000.
Photo 3/26 | 2017 Infiniti QX30 Rear Side View
Front-wheel-drive QX30s will be available in base, Luxury, Premium, or Sport trim levels, priced between $29,950 and $38,500. Luxury and Premium trims can also be optioned with all-wheel drive, and those models will demand $34,400 and $37,700, respectively. Curiously, the top-spec Sport model is a front-driver. Infiniti may be saving an all-wheel-drive Sport for a midyear update.
Photo 4/26 | 2017 Infiniti QX30 Rear Hatch Open
Whatever trim is chosen, all QX30s are powered by 2.0L turbocharged I-4 producing 208 hp and 258 lb-ft. That engine is mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automated transmission, resulting in a powertrain package that is identical to that of the aforementioned GLA-Class. An engine-idle stop system and standard paddle shifters split the difference between efficiency and sportiness quite nicely, and the Infiniti ought to be a sporty little crossover.
Photo 5/26 | 2017 Infiniti QX30 Front Side View
With a body structure and powertrain donated from Mercedes-Benz (Infiniti’s parent company has a strategic partnership with the German brand), the QX30 represents a bargain compared to its corporate sibling. The GLA-Class starts at $32,850 ($2,900 more than a base QX30) with front-wheel drive, while all-wheel drive gets on for $34,850, or $450 more than a comparable Infiniti.
Photo 6/26 | 2017 Infiniti QX30 Side Motion View On Road
Furthermore, the QX30’s price undercuts that of almost every competitor in the subcompact luxury crossover class. It comes in several thousand dollars cheaper than the BMW X1, Audi Q3, and Lexus NX, and only the less powerful, stodgier Buick Encore is cheaper. While beauty is subjective, we like the QX’s upscale-Japan styling better than the others, too.
Photo 7/26 | 2017 Infiniti QX30 Front Side View Mountains
Furthermore, Infiniti will offer early adopters of its new baby an interesting reservation package. Customers who reserve their QX30s now will receive a special gift from Infiniti when they take delivery. Reservation Program perks include the customer’s choice of a GoPro Hero4 Silver, a shopping card to Gilt, a one-night stay at a Starwood resort, Bose wireless headphones, or a curated dining experience. Each gift is worth around $400.
Infiniti’s new base model will hit U.S. showrooms later this year, and we’re eager to give it a shakedown.
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2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit Announced
WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2017 – The third Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS), jointly organized by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), will be held July 18-20, 2017, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Based on the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering, the GGCS series aims to spark global collaborations that lead to innovative ways of addressing critically important engineering challenges and opportunities and inspiring the next generation of change makers. Previous summits were held in London and Beijing. The 2017 GGCS will focus on the four themes of the NAE Grand Challenges — sustainability, health, security, and joy of living — as well as education and public engagement. Highlighted topics include virtual reality and artificial intelligence, engineering and health care, climate change, and reverse engineering the brain.
“The NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering are the first global engineering vision for the planet. They inspire us about what engineering needs to contribute to people and society,” said NAE president C.D. Mote, Jr. “The Summit will rouse students’ creativity in their solutions to forge a better future.”
“Engineering has been a critical driving force in the progress of human civilization, and it will play an even more prominent role in addressing the grand challenges facing humankind,” said CAE president Ji Zhou. “Common challenges call for joint efforts. The Summit has become a perfect platform for engineers, the public, and the younger generation from different countries to interact and cooperate on how to address the grand challenges through engineering efforts.”
“The challenges facing our world are not restricted by national boundaries – and neither are the solutions,” said RAE president Dame Ann Dowling. “Engineering is critical to solving these challenges and we see fantastic results when engineers the world over come together to share their expertise, ideas, and innovations. The Global Grand Challenges Summit is a tremendous opportunity to inspire engineers, students, and other members of the public to work together to build a better world.”
A keynote address will be given by Rajiv Shah, recently named president of the Rockefeller Foundation and previous administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). With more than 20 years of experience in business, government, and philanthropy, Shah is an expert in creating public-private partnerships that support initiatives to improve quality of life throughout the developing world.
Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Oculus
Deanne Bell, host of CNBC’s “Make Me a Millionaire Inventor”
Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for the United Kingdom
Jeffrey Dean, Google senior fellow
Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur, and founder of FIRST Robotics
Christof Koch, president and CSO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Rikky Muller, co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley
Molly Stevens, professor of biomedical materials and regenerative medicine at Imperial College London
Ding Yihui, senior advisor of China Meteorological Administration
Wu Zhiqiang, vice president of Tongji University
Representatives from The Boeing Company, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the Northrop Grumman Corporation
The Summit will also feature a session highlighting the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program — a combined curricular and extracurricular program with five components designed to prepare college students for solving the grand challenges facing society in this century. More than 40 schools across the nation have implemented the program. The session will include both students and educators, and will be moderated by Thomas Katsouleas, provost of the University of Virginia.
In addition, the Summit includes an opportunity for university students to present research posters related to the 14 Grand Challenges. The poster session will provide a chance to network and to brainstorm in small groups.
On July 18, five teams of undergraduate students from each of the host countries will compete in Student Day, presenting ideas and business plans for addressing one or more of the NAE Grand Challenges. Winning teams will receive monetary prizes and be recognized during a special session of the GGCS on July 20. In addition, a panel of representatives from industry will talk about their work focused on the NAE Grand Challenges.
The NAE, RAE, and CAE are hosting the 2017 Summit in conjunction with the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, at which robotics teams of high school students from nearly 160 countries will compete in a contest on the NAE Grand Challenge to “Provide Access to Clean Water.” They will be tasked with accomplishing an engineering assignment such as the storing of drinkable water, filtering of contaminated water, and procuring of new sources water. The event will take place July 16-18 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. Each year, this event will be held in a different nation’s capital and focus on a new challenge.
The Global Grand Challenges Summit is sponsored by the Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company Charitable Trust, the Northrop Grumman Foundation, and Shell Oil Company. View the Summit’s promotional videos here. Additional information can be found online at www.ggcs2017.org.
About National Academy of Engineering
The mission of the National Academy of Engineering is to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. The NAE is part of the National Academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine, an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science, technology, and health.
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Daniel Taradash
January 29, 1913(1913-01-29)
February 22, 2003 (aged 90)
Madeleine Forbes (1945-2003)
Daniel Taradash (January 29, 1913 - February 22, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter.
Taradash's credits include Golden Boy (1939), From Here to Eternity (1952), Rancho Notorious (1952), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Désirée (1954), Picnic (1955), Storm Center (1956), which he also directed, Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Morituri (1965), Hawaii (1966), Castle Keep (1969), Doctors' Wives (1971), and Bogie (1980), a film biography of Humphrey Bogart.
Daniel Taradash was born in Kentucky and raised in Chicago and Miami Beach. He attended Harvard University where he met his future producing partner Jules Blaustein. He graduated with a law degree and passed the New York State bar. But when his play "The Mercy" won the 1938 Bureau of New Plays contest (the two previous winners were Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams), a career in theater was launched. He moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a scripter. His first assignment was as one of four credited writers on the screen version of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" (1939).
His theater career was interrupted when during WWII Taradash served in the US Army and eventually underwent training in the Signal Corps Officer Candidate program. He was assigned to the Signal Corps Photo Center and worked as a writer and producer of training films.
After the war, Taradash attempted to find success on Broadway with an American version of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Red Gloves", but the show folded quickly and he returned to Hollywood. He had more success as the co-writer (with John Monks Jr) of the Humphrey Bogart vehicle "Knock on Any Door" (1949). The Fritz Lang Western "Rancho Notorious" and the psychodrama "Don't Bother to Knock" (both 1952). Performers included Marlene Dietrich and Arthur Kennedy in the former, Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe in the latter. Taradash's adaptation of James Jones' massive novel "From Here to Eternity" (1953), was a big success and earned him an Oscar. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann. His subsequent film work was generally in adaptations, including "Desiree" (1954), about Napoleon and Josephine, "Picnic" (1955), from the William Inge play, and "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958), from John Van Druten's stage comedy.
In the mid-50s, Taradash and Jules Blaustein formed Phoenix Corporation. He also tried his hand at directing with "Storm Center" (1956), about a librarian fighting censorship. Taradash and Zinnemann had planned to make two films from James Michener's massive novel "Hawaii" but were unable to raise the financing. (When George Roy Hill did make the film in 1965, he utilized Taradash's script with emendations by Dalton Trumbo.) By the 70s, Taradash's efforts produced his final two scripts for the soap operas "Doctors' Wives" (1971) and "The Other Side of Midnight" (1977).
Taradash won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for From Here to Eternity, and received a WGA nomination for Picnic.
Taradash died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles.
Daniel Taradash Achievements
1937 = Passed New York bar exam
1938 = Won the Bureau of New Plays nationwide playwrighting contest previously won by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
1939 = First feature credit as one of four credited screenwriters on the film adaptation of "Golden Boy"
1941 = Served in the US Army
1948 = Debut as a Broadway playwright, "Red Gloves", adapted from the work by Jean-Paul Sartre
1949 = Breakthrough screen credit as co-writer of "Knock on Any Door"
1953 = Earned Academy Award for his screenplay for "From Here to Eternity", adapted from the James Jones novel
1956 = Adapted William Inge's "Picnic"
1956 = Directorial debut, "Storm Center" (also wrote)
1958 = Wrote the screenplay adaptation of "Bell, Book and Candle"
1959 = Made one-shot return to Broadway as playwright of "There Was a Little Girl", starring Jane Fonda
1966 = Received co-writer credit on "Hawaii"; originally he and director Fred Zinnemann had hoped to make two films based on the James Michener novel but financing could not be raised
1971 = Scripted "Doctors Wives"
1977 = Final screenplay credit, "The Other Side of Midnight"[1]
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DATE OF DEATH 2003-2-22
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles, California
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How much money do you need to join the super-rich?
February 3, 2015 - OFFBEAT
These days it is not enough just to be a millionaire to count yourself as one of the super-rich – you need to be worth between $50-100m (£33m-£66m).
While $50m is the starting point for serious wealth, “in reality your spending power and investing power really gets to the next level when you get to around $100m”, says Catherine Tillotson.
Ms Tillotson is joint managing partner of Scorpio Partnership, a London-based firm which advises the super-rich on how to manage their assets, and she says there is a reason for this dividing line between the wealthy elite and the rest of us.
“This is the point at which families will start to think about employing people purely to help them manage their financial affairs,” she says.
There may now be more multi-millionaires and billionaires than ever before in the world, but since the 2008 global financial crisis the wealth gap between the world’s top 1% and the rest of us has grown.
This increasingly stark division between haves and have-nots is leading to increasing rancour towards the very wealthy, say many social commentators.
Neuroscientist to banker
Robert Kuhn is better placed than many to understand this hostility – a former investment banker and corporate strategist, he is himself among the world’s wealthy elite.
“I think much of it is justified,” he says, perhaps surprisingly, “and I think we should describe why that’s the case.”
One of the main reasons for this, he says, is the web. “We have a very highly wired world with the internet, people are more aware of things – and I think that’s a good thing.”
Mr Kuhn is coy about his own net worth. When asked if it is “tens of millions” of dollars, he replies, “I would not like to be too specific, but I wouldn’t contradict what you just said.”
Trained as a neuroscientist, Mr Kuhn became an investment banker and then in the early 1990s sold his mergers and acquisitions firm “at the right time”.
He says he worked hard, “but if I don’t acknowledge there was a lot of luck involved I would be fooling myself”.
He wants to encourage more and more people to become wealthy, but also to place limits on the amount of wealth that can be passed on to the next generation.
“That gives each generation a chance to have higher social mobility.”
Growing divisions
But given that the gap between rich and poor has reached its widest level for 30 years in most developed countries, according to says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) group of developed nations – that social mobility is getting harder for many.
In the 1980s, the richest 10% had incomes seven times greater than the poorest 10% in the average industrialised country.
Now, in those same countries, the richest have incomes nine-and-a half times greater than the poorest, on average. The actual figures vary widely across the 34 OECD’s member states.
In Denmark the top 10% earn about five times more than the bottom 10% – in Mexico they earn 30 times as much.
How much more do the top 10% earn than the bottom 10%?
Denmark: 5.3 times more
Norway: 6.1 times more
Netherlands : 6.6 times more
France: 7.4 times more
Ireland: 7.7 times more
UK: 9.6 times more
Italy: 10.2 times more
Greece: 12.6 times more
Spain: 13.8 times more
USA: 16.5 times more
Chile: 26.5 times more
Mexico: 30.5 times more
Source: OECD (2011)
Hindering growth
Other organisations, too, are highlighting this discrepancy between rich and poor. A report this month from the charity Oxfam says the world’s wealthiest 1% will own more than 50% of the world’s wealth by 2016.
“This is something that we should be very worried about,” says Mark Pearson, the OECD’s deputy director of employment, labour and social affairs.
If countries want to boost their economic growth, then they need to take steps to narrow this wealth gap, says the OECD.
This goes against the longstanding free market argument that rising wealth at the top will trickle down to everybody else.
But, the OECD research suggest that the reverse is true. “Our finding is that by reducing income inequality, you can boost economic growth,” Mr Pearson told BBC World Service’s Business Daily programme.
An increasing wealth gap hinders economic growth because it limits investment in a country’s labour force, argues the OECD.
Poorer people cannot afford to spend as much as the rich can on their children’s education.
And that lack of investment in education means a less educated and less flexible workforce in the long run, says the group in its research.
Crisis, what crisis?
It is not just the super-rich that are doing well – those whose business is dealing with super-rich customers are profiting too.
Alex Cheatle is chief executive of Ten Group, a lifestyle concierge service that can helps its clients get that exclusive restaurant table, sell-out theatre ticket – or finds that vintage sports car in a particular colour.
Ten will even do your window-shopping for you, if you are too rich or famous to be able to do it yourself.
“Very often they will want us to take a picture of the window and get it to them, so they do their window shopping as and when they want to,” says Mr Cheatle.
“There hasn’t really been a crisis for many of our members. Business is booming for us, we’ve grown every year since 2008 – growing at an average rate of 25-30% a year.”
When you consider how much the super-rich spend, that growth is perhaps not surprising.
Over the course of a year, it’s reckoned the world’s top 1% spend a staggering $45bn (£30bn) on travel and hospitality, $40bn (£26bn) on cars, and $25bn (£16bn) each on art, jewellery and watches.
Or course, the ultimate statement of wealth is to have your own super-yacht – complete with helicopter pad, speedboat tenders and even a submarine or two.
The world’s biggest such boat is currently the Azzam, 180m (590ft) long, launched in 2013 at a reported cost of up to $600m (£400m) – and the sector has certainly weathered the global slowdown better than many others.
Taxing the rich
So with the wealth gap rising should the rich pay more tax, and if so would that help?
Robert Kuhn – now business and financial commentator – argues that countries that decide to increase taxes on the rich may not see any benefit.
He believes increasing income taxes to too high a level would “inhibit the creation of new wealth which is detrimental to society”.
“I’m just worried about the behaviour and implications if you put too high a tax rate, what that will do to current generations in their energy and focus to create new wealth,” says Mr Kuhn.
At Scipio Partnership, Catherine Tillotson says that focussing on tax misses out the contributions made by many rich patrons to philanthropic and charitable causes.
“The tax question is hugely complicated,” she says.
“Most families that I’ve met will say that it is absolutely critical to them that they pay the right amount of tax according to the rules.”
However, “in many ways those dollars spent on philanthropic passions may be doing more good than they would have done in the tax system”, she says.
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Yet ever since the financial crisis of 2008, and subsequent global economic slowdown, politicians have come under increasing pressure to increase tax contributions from the richest in their societies.
Protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street, which started in 2011 and has since spread to many other countries, have highlighted concern over social and economic inequality worldwide.
For his part, Robert Kuhn is not convinced that a widening wealth gap matters in economic terms, but “it matters in social stability for sure”, he agrees.
“It matters in terms of social mobility of subsequent generations.”
“To me that’s the biggest problem, for any country,” he says. “And many countries are facing that.”
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Grenada tourist arrivals jump 18.6pc
Grenada tourist arrivals have jumped 18.6 per cent in the first half of 2014, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organisation. The CTO’s figures show that, after a period of tightened purse strings, visitors are going back to the Caribbean once more.
Indeed, the region has recorded growth of 5.2 per cent during H1 2014. Winfield Griffith, the CTO’s director of research and information technology, has revealed that almost half of those visitors – 6.87 million of the total 14 million long-stay tourists – were from the US.
Griffith comments: “There is enough evidence to suggest that there is growing economic confidence in the region’s biggest neighbor and this is releasing much pent-up travel demand caused by a long recessionary period.”
This pent-up demand has also been released in Canada and Europe, with those regions showing visitor number increases of 4.3 per cent and 6 per cent.
As the world’s economic situation continues to improve, visitor numbers to the Caribbean look set to do the same, with Grenada in particular standing out as the region’s leading island.
While some islands have been over-developed in the face of mass tourism, Grenada has maintained a boutique approach, argues Ray Withers, Chief Executive of investment specialists Property Frontiers, which is known on Grenada for its stunning 5* Cinnamon Suites at Bacolet Bay.
Indeed, that exclusive image is emphasised by the fact that Grenada has just 0.7 per cent of the total beds available in the Caribbean, with less than 2,000 on the island.
“Grenada is definitely the destination of choice for those looking for a more exclusive Caribbean experience,” says Withers. “It blends ultimate luxury with breath-taking scenery to create the perfect level of appeal to tourists who demand nothing but the best.”
The Cinnamon Suites at Bacolet Bay certainly fit with this ethos. Available for investment from £248,500 (25 per cent below independent real estate valuation), the well-appointed hotel accommodation forms part of a leading resort, with financial returns of 10.5 per cent average projected NET yield per annum.
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Two Comedies from Israel & Australia at Chicago International Film Festival
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Two comedies have been screened for critics at the 53rd Annual Chicago International Film Festival during this lead-up week. ”Ali’s Wedding” from Australian director Jeffrey Walker, reminds most of the recent hit “The Big Sick.” “Maktub” (“Fate”) from Israel director Oded Raz featured Guy Hamir and Hanon Savyon, both Israeli television stars in such TV series as “Scarred,” “Asfur” and “Ma Bakarish.”
The Australian film “Ali’s Wedding” starred the real Ali (Ali Basahri) just as “The Big Sick” was written and performed by the real person who lived that story, Kumail Nanjiani. In this lighthearted film, Ali, the son of a popular Muslim cleric, is expected to do well on the examinations to become a physician.
When Ali does not score high enough, he conceals that fact and lets the congregation think he has scored the second-highest score on the exams—in the 90s when he was only in the 60s. Ali even attends classes, although not technically admitted. Ali also is hiding his love for Dianne Mosen, the daughter of the Lebanese fish and chips merchant, who has a very over-protective single father.
It is only a matter of time before the house of cards (lies) that Ali has begun to tell will collapse and trap him, causing anguish for him, his family, and his friends. There is even an “arranged” marriage with another girl that Ali somehow becomes entrapped in, when all he wants is to be with Dianne. Dianne did score high enough to enter the University of Melbourne, but her father has grave misgivings about a girl going off to the University of Melbourne to become a doctor.
Don McAlpine was the Director of Photography and the 3 brothers in Ali’s family represent modern-day influences on Muslim youth, while the old traditions attempt to be enforced by the Muslim elders. In that respect, there was another similarity to “The Big Sick,” with its tale of the many eligible girls who would be suitable mates for Kumail in an arranged Indian marriage, as they are invited to “drop by” for dinner by his meddling parents.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra provided the score and the film opens with Ali (Ali Basahri) driving an out-of-control tractor through an Australian field. The many situations that Ali gets himself into are both amusing and also telling of the ongoing cultural battle between the old and new order in a modern country like Australia.
Israeli comedy screens at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival.
“Maktub”, by contrast, has two fast friends (Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon as Stephen and Chuma), who are mob enforcers for a small-time gangster named Kaslassy. The destiny of these two small-time enforcers for a Jerusalem mob protection racket irrevocably changes when they survive a suicide bombing in a restaurant. The $400,000 in a suitcase carried by another member of the gang remains intact, but the large criminal with the glass eye that the briefcase was attached to is toast. Recognizing their great good fortune in surviving, Steven and Chuma wind up fulfilling the wishes of those who leave notes at the Wailing Wall.
Some of the humor comes from the fact that women are only allowed to approach certain parts of the Wailing Wall and men go to a different area. Therefore, in order to access the women’s side, each man is seen in drag at various points and the assumption, for humorous purposes, is that one or both men have become “trannies”.
There is a backstory involving Steve’s small son by his ex-girlfriend Doniasha. The boy may or may not be Steve’s biological offspring. Steve is loathe to parent the winsome child. Since Steve was once told he was infertile by a fertility clinic, he refuses to believe that the cute little boy who only wants his father to attend his soccer game is really his son and does not do the right thing in parenting him. Chuma tries to cover up the fact that Steven does not believe the child is his and, while paying frequent visits to Doniasha, finds himself attracted to her.
Zaful, the large Telly Savalas look-alike who provides muscle for Boss Kaslassy, has a wife who longs to have a child, but is 40 and fears it will never happen. All these random components come together at the climax of the film, to prove that “Maktub” (“Fate”) really can step in and change one’s life. Apparently “mitzvahs” (good deeds) can (sometimes) change one’s life.
Ali's Wedding Guy Hamir Hanon Savyon Jeffrey Walker is director of Ali's Wedding Australian film Maktub Oded Raz director of Maktub
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Connie (Corcoran) Wilson (www.ConnieCWilson.com ) was the Quad City Times film and book critic for 15 years and has continued reviewing film uninterruptedly since 1970. She also publishes books (31 at last count) in a variety of genres (www.quadcitieslearning.com), has taught writing or literature classes at 6 Iowa/Illinois colleges or universities as adjunct faculty, was Yahoo's Content Producer of the Year 2008 for Politics, is the author of It Came from the 70s: From The Godfather to Apocalypse Now, and writes on a variety of topics at her own blog, www.WeeklyWilson.com.
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JDRF and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Increase Funding of ViaCyte
New York, NY and San Francisco, CA, February 13, 2013 – JDRF, the world’s largest non-profit supporter of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), California’s stem cell agency, announced that they are providing additional funding for the development of a novel stem cell therapy by San Diego-based ViaCyte, Inc.; JDRF and CIRM will each contribute $3 million to further advance the project.
“One of the most important elements in bringing promising therapies to clinical trials is a strong partnership, and that’s what we have with CIRM, JDRF, and ViaCyte,” said Ellen Feigal, M.D., senior vice president for research and development at CIRM. “Working together, we can help ensure that the most promising therapies stay on course for timely entry into clinical trials. This additional commitment of funding and support by JDRF is a reflection of the hope we all have that this therapy will transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes.”
ViaCyte’s innovative product is designed to deliver to patients immature pancreatic progenitor cells developed from a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line; over time, these cells develop into mature pancreatic cells that are capable of producing pancreatic hormones, including insulin. These cells are encapsulated in a device that isolates the cells from the host but allows free flow of oxygen, nutrients, and other factors, so that the cells can respond to blood glucose and release hormones like insulin while being protected from the patient’s immune system. The combination product is designated VC-01. The benefit of such a breakthrough would be the ability to provide a patient with a new source of insulin-producing cells to replace those destroyed by the autoimmune response that is a hallmark of T1D.
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Tornier Names David H. Mowry President and Chief Executive Officer
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AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tornier, N.V. (NASDAQ: TRNX), a global medical device company focused on providing surgical solutions to orthopaedic extremity specialists, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed David H. Mowry as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Sean D. Carney, Chairman of Tornier, commented, "Dave has demonstrated an intensity and concentration in executing on the key initiatives in his charge since joining Tornier in July 2011 as Chief Operating Officer. That expertise, combined with his extensive industry experience and outstanding leadership qualities, make Dave the right executive to continue to build Tornier's strong brand and reputation in the extremities market."
David H. Mowry commented, "Tornier's industry expertise, broad product portfolio, and cadence of delivering innovation position the Company as a recognized global leader in the large and growing extremities markets. We believe the increased focus on execution of our US sales channel alignment, OrthoHelix integration, and delivering through our strong product pipeline will return Tornier to double-digit, constant currency revenue growth on a pro forma basis. I am grateful to the Board of Directors for the opportunity to lead Tornier, and I am excited to work with the talented and dedicated Tornier team."
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Features October 2013 Issue
Earlier Diagnosis of Addison’s on the Horizon
Dr. Markus Rick of Michigan State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine performs an ACTH stimulation test on one of his dogs, a beagle-briard-corgi mix named Blanket, to see if he has Addison’s disease.
Addison’s disease is “already far along” by the time a dog’s owner notices something is wrong,” says Tufts veterinarian Orla Mahony, MVB. “At diagnosis, all Addisonian dogs have already lost more than 90 percent of their adrenal gland function. That’s why by the time it’s picked up, a dog needs replacement hormones for the rest of his life.”
In a certain respect it’s the same for humans. Clinical signs of Addison’s disease do not occur until the adrenal glands are about 90 percent destroyed. But there’s one difference. For people, antibodies that kill off cortisol-secreting adrenal tissue can be identified in the blood early in the disease process, which means fewer people end up in the emergency room because of advanced Addison’s, and the disease is easier to control because it hasn’t had a chance to get out of hand. Could such a diagnostic tool ever be available for dogs, who sometimes die because their Addison’s disease has progressed too far before it is noticed?
That’s what veterinary researchers at Michigan State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine are trying to find out. And it looks like, at least for some dogs, the answer may be yes. When Markus Rick, Med Vet, PhD, of Michigan State’s Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, conducted work on Addisonian dogs, 30 percent of them had the telltale antibodies. The finding can potentially lead to quicker treatment of certain dogs in the future. It can also reduce the number of dogs out there who develop Addison’s. “There’s a genetic component,” Dr. Rick says. “So when an animal is identified with the antibody, a decision can be made not to use it for breeding.”
The work Dr. Rick has conducted so far has been to identify the antibody in dogs who already have the disease. “Our next step,” he says, “is to screen dogs of susceptible breeds to see if we can detect the antibody before an animal becomes sick.” He may find a greater percentage of pre-Addisonian dogs with the antibody, he says, “because it’s possible that antibody levels return to zero once the disease becomes full-blown and the adrenal glands are completely destroyed.” That’s the case with hypothyroidism — antibody levels go down after complete destruction of the thyroid glands. “The dog then becomes clinical, and I suspect the same may be true for Addison’s,” Dr. Rick comments.
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Ed Schultz Returns to Television Via RT America. Former MSNBC personality – and longtime talk radio host – Ed Schultz is heading back to the little screen via the cable network RT America. He’ll do an 8:00 pm nightly show titled, “News with Ed Schultz.” Schultz has been podcasting since ending his syndicated radio show more than a year ago. On joining RT America, Schultz says, “I am very excited to be joining RT. The network is firmly established outside of US corporate media and is not afraid to give a platform to diverse voices, stories and perspectives to its viewers, even if it ruffles some mainstream feathers. I can’t think of a better fit than a news broadcaster that bullishly pursues issues that matter to hardworking Americans.” RT America is financed through the Russian government.
Joey Hudson Named Salem Greenville GM. Upstate native Joey Hudson is appointed general manager for Salem Media Group’s Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina stations news/talk WGTK-FM “Conservative Talk 94.5” and classic hits WRTH, “Earth FM.” He’s worked with Salem and SRN’s Mike Gallagher for many years.
Cashin Picks Up ‘ESPN Palm Springs’ PD Duties. At the Alpha Media cluster in Palm Springs, California, Paul Cashin is adding programming duties for sports talk “ESPN 103.9” K280CV, Cathedral City to his duties. He also programs news/talk “K-News 94.3” (simulcast on KNWQ-AM and K232CX, Desert Hot Springs). Cashin comments, “I am thrilled that we have added ESPN Radio as a great brand here in Palm Springs. Combined with our already dominant ‘K-News 94.3,’ we are primed to dominate sports and news for the Coachella Valley.”
NBC Sports Radio Announces New Daily Lineup. Effective February 8, NBC Sports Radio is launching a new daily program schedule that includes a new Eastern Time afternoon drive program hosted by Chris Mannix. The other big change is the move of “ProFootballTalk Live with Mike Florio” into the AM drive slot (live on the East Coast from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and delay broadcast on the West Coast). “Voices of the Game with Newy Scruggs” moves into the 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm ET daypart. “Under Center with Mark Malone” shifts to the 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm ET timeslot followed by “Going Deep with Amani Toomer and Dan Schwartzman” from 10:00 pm to 1:00 am. The Scott Seidenberg show debuts in the 1:00 am to 3:00 am slot and Jon Stashower moves to the morning show as the network’s lead update anchor from 6:00 am to 11:00 am ET.
Odds & Sods. Tomorrow (1/15), Westwood One begins presenting reports on the 25th anniversary of the Persian Gulf War. Operation Desert Storm – to free Kuwait from the Iraqi invations – ran through the end of February 1991, when President George H.W. Bush declared an end to combat operations. Westwood One News is providing affiliates a series of one-minute reports looking back on the fighting and what it meant at the time and in historical context. Westwood One News national security correspondent Chas Henry (left) – an officer in the U. S. Marine Corps during the operation – conducted interviews with former Secretary of State Colin Powell (right), who was an Army general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a senior military adviser to President George H. W. Bush. The series will also address the health issues many veterans of the conflict complained of suffering, now recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and bundled under the term “Gulf War Syndrome.”…..A new podcast from content producer DGital Media debuts former NFL stars Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Jamie Dukes. A fresh “Ochocinco and Dukes” podcast will be published each Tuesday and can be found on iTunes, Stitcher and the TuneIn…..The nationally syndicated program “The Motley Fool Money” with host Chris Hill is added to the program lineup at STARadio’s KINX-FM, Great Falls, Montana…..Sports media pro Aaron Jackson is named to “The Drive” afternoon sports talk show on Townsquare Media’s WEZQ, Bangor, Maine “The Ticket.” He’ll work with Jim Churchill and Jeff Solari, replacing Wes Hart. Jackson previously worked in the market as sports anchor on WFVX-TV “FOX 22.”
Covering the Benghazi Movie Premiere. Pictured here at the enormous AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas is Salem Radio Network VP of news & talk programming Tom Tradup. He was among the press filing live reports from Tuesday evening’s world premiere of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi as 30,000-plus turned out.
Obama’s State of the Union Address, Presidential Race, Iran-U.S. Sailors Incident, Sean Penn-El Chapo Interview, Record $1.5 Billion Powerball Jackpot, Sinking Oil Prices/Financial Markets Activity, Al Jazeera America to Shutter, and NFL Playoffs Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (1/13). Critique of President Obama’s final State of the Union Address and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s response; the activities of the candidates for president; Iran’s capture and release of U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf; actor Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman; the record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot; sinking oil prices and the activity on the world’s financial markets; news agency Al Jazeera’s April closing of its American brand; and this weekend’s NFL playoffs were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS magazine.
MIW Radio Group’s 2016 Mentoring Program Kicks Off. This will be the 15th year of the Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) group’s Mildred Carter Mentoring Program that matches up-and-coming women in the radio industry with female professionals recognized as leaders in all aspects of radio. A total of four candidates from the radio broadcasting industry within the sales, marketing, programming and digital disciplines – will be selected for this year. Of those, at least one spot will be designated for a programming candidate, and one spot designated for a digital candidate. Lindsay Cerajewski is the 2016 MIW Radio Group’s Mentoring Committee and Director, Partnership Marketing & Branded Content for Emmis Digital in Chicago. She says, “We look forward, each year, to this application process. Not only do we anticipate hearing from many qualified applicants, we are encouraged by the caliber of radio professionals reaching out to us for this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights, knowledge and access to some of the most influential women in radio.” For mentee criteria and instructions on how to apply, you can visit: http://tinyurl.com/goqgjlb. The deadline to apply is Friday, February 5, 2016.
TALKERS | September 25, 2014
WGN, Chicago to Challenge WBBM’s News Dominance. From a story by Robert Channick published in the Chicago Tribune comes word of some of WGN, Chicago’s programming tweaks that are designed to capture more of the news-hungry radio users in the market and, presumably take some ears away from market radio news leader WBBM. Among the additions are the first hour of the 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano show becoming “The Business Lunch,” and focusing on Chicago business stories. CBS RADIO’s WBBM airs “The Noon Business Hour” with Sherman Kaplan and Kris Kridel at the same time. Additionally, former WMAQ-TV and WFLD-TV news anchor and reporter Anna Davlantes joins the station to host “The Big Story” – a 90-second news segments that will air during the Steve Cochran morning show and be a jumping-off point for show. The same segment will air in the afternoon with WGN managing editor of radio news Judy Pielach hosting. WGN Radio president Jimmy de Castro also tells the paper the station plans to add staff to the news department in the future.
Smaldone and Gold Named Hosts of ‘America Weekend.’ Radio pros Valerie Smaldone and Leslie Gold are named new hosts for the Envision Networks-syndicated weekend talk radio program “America Weekend.” Envision’s show airs on both Saturdays and Sundays and the network says it’s “designed to be a break from the usual brokered programming and political fare of most news/talk stations,” covering “the lighter side of news and lifestyle issues facing today’s on-the-go talk listeners.” Smaldone and Gold join current “America Weekend” talent Mike Bennett, Ed Kalegi, Smith and Sabatino, and Dave Graveline. Envision VP of programming Michael Lichtstein says, “We couldn’t be more excited to have Valerie and Leslie join the team of hosts on ‘America Weekend.’ Each brings a breadth of radio experience to the show and together they set a new bar when it comes to delivering compelling and thought-provoking conversation.” Smaldone adds, “I am delighted to be working with the fabulous Leslie Gold as we host a weekly show together focusing on fascinating personalities and celebrities, trends and curiosities.” Gold says, “‘America Weekend’ presents an opportunity to talk about the stuff that intrigues, amuses and vexes all of us. Hosting the show with my real-life friend Valerie Smaldone makes it an immense pleasure for me. We pledge captivating talk by two veteran broadcasters who are also true friends. It should be much fun.”
Radio to Be on Hand at Advertising Week Conference in NYC Next Week. When Advertising Week kicks off in New York City next week, radio will be a segment of the media industry presenting during the four-day conference. One of the panel highlights will be titled, “Voices of the Original Social Media,” hosted by the RAB and moderated by RAB president and CEO Erica Farber, on Tuesday, September 30 at 11:30 am ET. This session will feature both nationally syndicated air talent and local stars relating their experiences with listeners and brand partners and how that’s being leveraged over the airwaves and on digital platforms. The panel will include: NBC Sports Radio Network’s Amani Toomer, Premiere Networks’ Bobby Bones, WQHT, New York “Hot 97” morning personality Ebro Darden, and WMIB, Miami “103.5 The Beat” midday personality Angie Martinez. iHeartMedia chairman and CEO Bob Pittman will take part in a panel titled, “Loss of Serendipity” on Wednesday, October 1 alongside MediaLink chairman and CEO, Michael Kassan and Google SVP global marketing Lorraine Twohill during which they will “explore the flip side of data-tailored content creation and distribution by considering the importance of serendipity.” Entercom president and CEO David Field will moderate a panel titled “Evolution or Revolution Part II” on Thursday, October 2. His panelists will include: Enterprise Group president Jim Doyle, The New York Times EVP of advertising Meredith Kopit Levien, TBWA president and CEO Troy Ruhanen, Centaur Media CEO Andria Vidler, and Shelly Palmer of Shelly Palmer Digital Living. They will talk about “disruption, real-time reinvention, retaining and growing share, and balancing today with tomorrow.”
Limbaugh Goes on the Offensive. Brandishing a new tactic to fight the StopRush campaign being waged against his Premiere Networks-syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh and official show spokesman Brian Glicklich issued a press release yesterday (9/23) with the purpose of “outing” the forces behind what Limbaugh calls a “conspiracy.” TALKERS readers are well aware of the campaign – led by Media Matters for America – to hit Limbaugh (and others) where it hurts most: in their advertising revenue. That organizations aligned with Media Matters are conducting digital campaigns to harass advertisers on Limbaugh’s program is not disputed, but yesterday’s release attempts to flesh out the tactics and the people involved in the campaign. The release says, in part, “The StopRush group claims to be made up of ordinary consumers unhappy with Rush Limbaugh’s comments. The group claims to be ‘grassroots,’ just concerned consumers who won’t shop at businesses that advertise with Rush Limbaugh. In truth, however, there are no potential customers here, just a small number of hardcore political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, EVP of Media Matters for America. It’s remarkably tiny. Only 10 Twitter users account for almost 70% of all StopRush tweets to advertisers, amplified by illicit software. In addition, almost every communication from a StopRush activist originates from outside the state of the advertiser. Thus, these activists are not and never would have been customers… their only role is to harass small businesses in an attempt to interfere with their operations, as long as they are advertising with Rush. ‘A small number of politically motivated out-of-state activists are distributing target lists indiscriminately, and annoying small businesses until they give up the advertising deals that help them grow, or risk being unable to conduct business at all. It’s not even activism… it’s blackmail,’ according to Brian Glicklich. Meanwhile, Carusone issues the following statement in response to Limbaugh’s press release, which you can read in its entirety here. “Rush Limbaugh’s show has reportedly lost millions of dollars in revenue for radio companies, thousands of advertisers big and small refuse to run ads on the program and radio stations are dropping the show. After initially insisting there were no troubles with advertisers, two years later Limbaugh’s crisis team comes out with a report attributing this massive exodus to just 10 people? The numbers just don’t add up. This is a grassroots effort that grows every day. Instead of attacking people on the internet, Limbaugh’s team would better fill their role by advising their client not to excuse rape in some situations (as he did just last week). Rush Limbaugh is bad for business — and the only thing Limbaugh has to blame for that is his own repeated conduct.” In addition to the press statement, Limbaugh published on his website the names of nine people he says are leaders in the campaign, complete with Twitter IDs and, in some cases, emails.
Margery Punnett to Leave ‘myTalk 107.1’ in Minneapolis. Announcing via the Hubbard Radio female-targeted talk outlet’s website, Margery Punnett (left) says she’ll leave her midday talk show position at KTMY, Minneapolis “myTalk 107.1” in November to join her husband (and former KTMY co-host) Ian Punnett in Phoenix. Margery Punnett – who currently co-hosts the midday show with Elizabeth Ries (right) – says she’ll move to Phoenix to join Ian who’s there studying at the graduate level at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Ketelaar Exits WOC-AM, Quad Cities. According to a story in the Quad Cities Times, WOC-AM Quad Cities morning drive host Steve Ketelaar has left the station. It’s not clear if Ketelaar was let go or if he left of his own accord. In the story, Jim O’Hara, operations manager for the iHeartMedia Quad Cities cluster, tells the paper, “He is going to pursue his voice-work career full time, which is…pretty successful already. He’s looking forward to doing it 100% of the time.” Ketelaar co-hosted the morning show with Dan Deibert who remains co-host of the morning show on WOC-AM. He’s being joined by the company’s Dan Kennedy as co-host.
Hearst Baltimore’s Cecil to Exit. Director of sales Bob Cecil has shared his decision to leave Hearst Baltimore’s two-station combo. President and general manager Cary Pahigian comments that Cecil has “contributed immeasurably” to the Baltimore tandem “for several decades,” but “after careful consideration” he will “step away and enjoy time with his family. We thank Bob for his extraordinary efforts and wish him only the best.” In a staff memo, Cecil writes, “It has been a great privilege teaming with the Ravens, Orioles, Naval Academy, and so many other terrific business partners throughout my career. I am appreciative of the support of Cary Pahigian and look forward to his – and your – great success in the years ahead.” Hearst Baltimore consists of WIYY “98 Rock” and talker WBAL. Cecil joined the stations 14 years ago; his last day there will be one week from Friday (10/3).
Salierno Named Interim GM of Star Radio Group. Longtime radio sales executive Ralph Salierno is promoted to interim general manager of the Star Radio Group based in Fredericksburg, Virginia. For the past two years, Salierno has served as director of sales for the station group. He’s also worked in the industry in Orlando, Virginia Beach, Oklahoma City and Memphis. Star Radio Group is part of The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company which was purchased at a bankruptcy auction in May of this year by Sandton Capital Partners for $30.2 million. The radio stations are: country WFLS, hip hop WVBX, classic rock WWUZ, and news/talk WNTX-AM and translator W243BS at 96.5 FM. Free Lance-Star and Star Radio Group publisher and CEO Gene Carr states, “Ralph has been a key member of the Star Radio group and has earned this internal promotion. In his new duties as interim GM, he will continue to serve as the director of sales as well. Ralph has done a great job in driving revenue growth.” At the same time, the station announces Jeff Beck is promoted to program director for WFLS and WWUZ. He’ll also have a supervisory role over WVBX and WNTX. Carr adds, “Jeff brings years of service and industry knowledge to the team. This new management team will help to position the company for further growth.”
SOCO Radio Adds LMA of Pueblo Stations. Announcing the local management agreement between his SOCO Radio and United States CPP LLC, SOCO principal Mike Knar takes control of news/talk KWRP, Pueblo, translators K230BB, Fowler, Colorado (93.9), K262BB, Boone, Colorado (100.3) and oldies KFVR-FM, Beulah, Colorado. Knar states, “These are assets I’ve coveted since I left Cumulus in 2011. We plan on driving a very hard local message in Southern Colorado. SOCO also controls AC KFEZ, Walsenburg, Colorado and hip hop KJQY, Colorado City. Knar announces his firm is seeking talent for his stations, especially broadcasters who can work on air and sell. Contact him at: mike@socoradio.com.
Kissing the Cup! It’s almost hockey season and CRN Digital Talk Radio CEO Mike Horn (left) and VP of affiliate sales and marketing Jennifer Horn (right) are getting into the spirit as they kiss the Stanley Cup, currently being held by the 2014 champion Los Angeles Kings. The Horns had the opportunity to check out the NHL championship trophy at Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Miller’s Stanley Cup celebration.
U.S. ISIS Policy/Syria Strikes, NFL Domestic Violence Cases/ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons, Emma Watson UN Speech/Nude Pix Threat, UN Climate Change Conference, Hillary Clinton Presidential Prospects, Mid-Term Elections, Iran Nukes Negotiations, and Hannah Graham Case Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (9/24). The Obama Administration’s ISIS policy and the recent air strikes in Syria; the ongoing discussion about the various domestic violence cases involving NFL players and ESPN’s decision to suspend Bill Simmons for his rant against NFL commissioner Roger Goodell; actress Emma Watson’s speech before the UN about feminism and women’s rights and the subsequent threat by hacktivists to reveal nude pictures of her; the UN Climate Change conference and President Obama’s speech; the prospects for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run; the looming mid-term elections and speculation about majority changes in Congress; the negotiations with Iran over fighting ISIS and the country’s nuclear program; the case of missing Virginia college Hannah Graham were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS.
KFI’s Internal Shuffling “Replaces” Limbaugh. Rather than bringing in another host to cover the gaping hole left by Rush Limbaugh, it looks like Clear Channel, Los Angeles talker KFI will adjust the times of some of its existing personalities. Morning talent Bill Handel will apparently get to sleep an extra hour, as he will handle 6:00 am – 10:00 am duties (from 5:00 am – 9:00 am), while Bill Carroll will adjust to 10:00 am – 2:00 pm from 12:00 noon – 3:00pm. In place of their 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm shift, afternoon drivers John & Ken will extend one more hour to 7:00 pm. Tim Conway Jr. remains at 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, with syndicated talent George Noory following until 5:00 am. As of today, Gary Hoffmann debuts the 5:00 am – 6:00 am “Wake-up Call.” These moves are necessitated owing to Limbaugh transitioning from powerhouse KFI to co-owned, newly re-branded KEIB “The Patriot” (formerly KTLK-AM).
Gann Going to San Antonio as WOAI – KTKR PD. Brian Gann is leaving Journal Broadcast Group Tulsa to program Clear Channel San Antonio news/talk WOAI and sports KTKR “The Ticket.” According to president and market manager Marlene Trevino, “We are very fortunate to have Brian join our team in San Antonio. He brings a wealth of experience to WOAI and KTKR and we look forward to the bright future ahead under his leadership.” Gann comments, “I am excited to have the opportunity to help lead WOAI and ‘The Ticket.’ There is a terrific team in place there and I am honored to be able to join them.” While in Tulsa, Gann was operations manager of adult hits KBEZ “Bob FM,” KFAQ “Tulsa’s Talk Radio,” CHR KHTT “K-Hits,” KVOO “Today’s Country Variety,” and classic country KXBL “Big Country.” He starts his San Antonio assignment in one week (1/30).
Mark Arum Gets Nightly Show at WSB, Atlanta. Traffic reporter Mark Arum is taking over the 10:00 pm to 12:00 midnight daily show at Cox Media Atlanta’s news/talk WSB after handling weekend and fill-in roles at the station. This new gig comes in addition to his traffic reporter roles at WSB-TV, news/talk WSB-AM and hot AC WSB-FM “B98.5.” As reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Rodney Ho, Arum replaces Adam Goldfein who exited the late show role at the end of 2013 for personal reasons. Arum tells Ho that he’s been wanting a daily show since his arrival at WSB in 1997. Cox Media did give him a chance to host a daily show at its Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut stations back in 2008 and he says it provided “invaluable experience.”
Learfield’s Worsham, Boman, Heim Elevated to Senior Positions. Missouri-based Learfield Communications promotes Aaron Worsham, Tom Boman, and Jennifer Heim. Worsham advances from vice president to senior vice president of affiliate relations and operations; broadcast manager Boman is boosted to vice president of broadcast operations; and corporate controller Heim becomes vice president/corporate controller. Worsham and Boman manage the company’s sports operations division, which oversees all aspects related to broadcast talent and station relationships for Learfield Sports’ radio networks as part of its multimedia rights partnerships with university athletic programs. Senior vice president/chief content officer Joe Ferreira comments, “Aaron and Tom have exhibited outstanding leadership and execution skills throughout their tenure at Learfield Sports and have taken our industry-leading audio business to great heights. Producing and managing thousands of broadcasts annually for our 50-plus networks, key flagship and affiliate partners and digital distribution networks is a daunting task. These well-deserved promotions reflect growth and success in all areas.” Meanwhile, chief financial officer Matt Hupfeld states, “Jennifer is a true professional who has proven to be an excellent asset to Learfield. She is well deserving of assuming the vice president role and we know she will continue to do an outstanding job.” Worsham has been with Learfield since 1999. Prior to joining the company in 2006, Boman was a producer with the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network and Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles. CPA Heim’s background includes being a financial manager for Brookstone and a senior auditor for several companies.
Michael Smerconish to Publish First Novel About Conservative Talk Show Host. The book is titled, Talk (Cider Mill Press 2014) and is due out in May. But as Michael Smerconish tells the Washington Post, “My highest purpose is to entertain…a lot of it is fake.” Still, readers of the book about a fictional conservative talk host from Florida who finds himself in the thick of a hotly contested presidential race, will probably find a lot of what transpires culled from the reality of the talk radio business in which Michael Smerconish has dwelt during his career. Now working at SiriusXM after years on AM/FM radio, Smerconish ruffled some feathers when he left for satellite radio saying, in effect, he felt the requirement talk hosts on AM/FM be easily pigeonholed was holding him, and the industry, back. Previews of the book indicate that while this is fiction, Smerconish just may be taking a few shots at the facet of the industry he left behind as he tells his story.
Opinion: Hang On A Minute, Bill. Weighing in on the Bill O’Reilly’s recent “promotion” for Pandora, TALKERS managing editor Mike Kinosian observes: “On the positive side, Bill O’Reilly last week let known his partisanship for one particular iconic American vocal group on his Fox News Channel television program. Conversely, terrestrial music radio programmers just might remember certain comments he made should O’Reilly ever look to them to plug his next book or project on that platform. In an approximately 45-second “Tip of the Day” segment, the “O’Reilly Factor” host gave a thumbs-up to Pandora over terrestrial radio. “Do you like music,” he queried. “I do [and] there are plenty of free ways to get it. The easiest way is to turn on the radio.” So far, so good. Then O’Reilly said, “The problem with the radio is that for every good song there are three bad songs. So, you can hear [good songs] like The Beach Boys‘ ‘Help Me Rhonda,’ [and] ‘Fun, Fun, Fun.’ [Those are] good songs, but then you’ll hear ‘Hang on Sloopy’ – painful.” Off-camera laughter was audible as O’Reilly winced at the thought of The McCoys‘ song. His advice was to have his audience “check out” Pandora.com’s free website. In amazement, he remarked about the logistics of typing “the song you like and you get the song played to you. Then, you get other songs similar to it [so] you are basically creating your own radio station. Let me know what you think.” After having mentioned Pandora by name three times in under one minute, O’Reilly insisted he “had no interest in that website at all.” His motive was to tell his audience because, “I like you.” Not to nitpick the host, but his mention of “Help Me Rhonda” and “Fun, Fun, Fun” sounded like one run-on title, especially since he said, “That is a good song.” Moreover, he was only able to cite one “painful” tune, compared to two good ones. Whether or not by coincidence, the three specific titles O’Reilly mentioned were from the mid-1960s. We wonder if he has heard of YouTube yet.
Plans Underway for Ron Ruth Memorial Benefit. The event celebrating the life of Ron Ruth will take place next month (Tuesday, 2/25) at the New York Friars Club and is being organized by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) in conjunction with the Broadcasters Foundation. Actively arranging the festivities for their late broadcast colleague are The Friends of Ron Ruth Memorial Benefit Committee consisting of Erica Farber, Norm Feuer, George Hyde, Bill Moyes, Herb McCord, Jeff Smulyan, Jim Thompson, and Erle Younker. A portion of the proceeds from the $250 ticket price will be donated to the Ron Ruth Memorial Fund at the Broadcasters Foundation of America. Ruth was executive vice president of stations for the RAB for 19 years. He held sales manager positions for Unistar Radio Networks, as well as at the local level in markets such as New York (WOR-FM), Chicago (WNUS), Washington, DC (WGMS), and Buffalo (WYSL). Ruth left Unistar to join the Radio Advertising Bureau in 1992. Most recently, he was consulting the RAB. He died of a heart attack this past November 16 in Florida.
New York Festivals International Radio Competition Announces Call for Entries. Now through March 19, the New York Festivals is accepting entries for the 32nd annual “World’s Best Radio Programs” competition. This competition is unique in that entries are received from between 30 and 50 nations across the globe each year. Competition executive director Rose Anderson tells TALKERS managing editor Mike Kinosian that global scope is important, “One thing that is most important to us is that we make New York Festivals Radio Program Awards a destination for people all over the world who are creating radio that is interesting, innovative, and of very high quality.” Anderson adds that the grand jury members (judges) enjoy the high quality of radio they review. “They have consistently written comments that the quality of the entries is fantastic. People are entering material in drama, news, documentaries, talk, and music that continues to make new ways of telling stories. We have had entries from Radio Free Asia; from folks on the scene who described the riots in Cairo; and people from Romania who submitted amazing audio of drama.” With 130 headings, the scope of the competition is wide. To find out more about the New York Festivals Radio Program Awards, click here.
Cumulus ‘Big Game’ Party. The scene here is the Roseland Ballroom in New York City yesterday as Cumulus Media’s hot AC WPLJ; country WNSH “Nash FM 94.7,” and news/talk WABC come together to put on a ‘Big Game Party’ in honor of the NFL’s championship being decided in the nearby Met Life stadium in two weeks. Sunday’s event was hosted by Todd Pettengill of WPLJ. The venue was filled to capacity with over 3,000 guests enjoying a sports expo, playoff viewing party, station games, and food. Former New York Giants wide receiver and NBC Sports Radio Network personality Amani Toomer was on hand meeting the many loyal listeners! Pettengill states, “The first annual Cumulus Big Game Party was an absolute example of synergy. Three radio stations with different audiences, air staff’s, came together to make the perfect circle of success. I can’t wait for next January!” The evening concluded with a performance by Daughtry.
WCBS, New York Producer/Engineer Silva Dies. Radio producer and engineer Carlos Silva died at age 50 after a battle with stomach and esophageal cancer in Lutz, Florida on Sunday (1/19). Silva worked for CBS RADIO’s WCBS, New York where he produced New York Yankees broadcasts. He had also worked game broadcasts for ESPN Radio, the Orlando Magic, Philadelphia Phillies Spanish-language broadcasts, and the old New Jersey Nets.
Cool Job Opportunity. Syndication Specialist Needed – The Dave Ramsey Show, now the 3rd largest syndicated talk show in the nation with more than 530 affiliates, is in need of a Go-Getter willing to take on this growing demand. This person will work with our small- and mid-sized markets. Duties will consist of new market development as well as serving existing affiliates and building relationships. Our organization has been voted Best Place to Work in Nashville for six years in a row for a reason. If you think you have what it takes and are interested in working in an environment where you can learn and grow, we need to talk. Interested candidates apply at: http://www.daveramsey.com/company/view-all-jobs/
TALKERS | July 16, 2013
Hubbard to Buy 10 Sandusky Stations for $85.5 Million. The deal gives Hubbard Radio five stations in the Phoenix market and five in Seattle. It includes Phoenix outlets: classic rock KSLX, active rock KUPD, rock KDKB, oldies KAZG-AM, and sports talk KDUS-AM; and Seattle stations: standards, KIXI-AM, CHR KQMV, talk KKNW-AM, AC KRWM, alternative KLCK. Hubbard board chair Ginny Morris says in a statement, “This is an exciting opportunity to expand Hubbard Radio into two top 20 markets. We have known and respected the Rau/White family, Sandusky’s owners, for many years. We admire what they have accomplished and we are honored that they would agree to sell us these established stations. We are committed to maintaining the dedication to excellence and to community that Sandusky has made such an important part of their radio operations.” This sale signals the end of the radio business interests for Sandusky as the company turns its total focus to its print and digital operations. For Hubbard, it bumps the number of stations it will own from 20 to 30. Hubbard president and CEO Bruce Reese says, “Hubbard is excited about the chance to add these great stations to our existing operations in Chicago, Washington, DC, Minneapolis/St. Paul, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Sandusky runs very successful radio stations and we plan on continuing that precedent. We look forward to working with our new colleagues.”
Wait Is on to See if Greater Media Flips AC WMGC, Detroit to Sports Talk. Rumors have been heard in Detroit for a few months now that Greater Media is considering a format flip to sports talk for moribund soft rock “Magic 105.” Now, those rumors are getting hotter and Crain’s Detroit Business reports in a story by Bill Shea that sources say that switch could happen next month. The publication notes that WMGC’s ratings have been in decline since longtime morning host Jim Harper retired 19 months ago. But the switch would mean taking on CBS Radio’s highly rated WXYT-FM – no easy feat, even in a market most would consider a “sports town.” Shea’s report cites insiders saying Greater Media is talking with former employee Drew Lane who – along with partner Mike Clark – were not renewed for the morning show at the company’s rock WRIF two months ago, although they had good ratings and enjoy excellent credibility in the market. In his piece, Shea states that, “WXYT’s rating dominance is largely because it has the rights to air live all four of Detroit’s professional sports teams’ games. The radio contracts for the Detroit Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons don’t expire until 2015, meaning it would be more than a year before a flipped WMGC could theoretically pursue and air pro games.” Although the value of play-by-play is real, and there’s no doubt the combination of excellent talk show talent and game broadcasts is a winning formula, TALKERS would hesitate to say the station’s success is largely because of play-by-play. Ultimately it’s all about revenue and rights to those games are very expensive while WXYT’s personalities and the advertising rates they command are extremely valuable to the station.
Dave Ramsey Show Jumps to KXLY, Spokane. Nationally syndicated financial talk star Dave Ramsey’s program moves to Queen B-owned news/talk outlet KXLY, Spokane after years on Clear Channel’s crosstown KQNT. Dave Ramsey vice president of broadcast Brian Mayfield says, “We are excited to have the Dave Ramsey show as part of the lineup on KXLY in Spokane. We are equally excited at the opportunity to partner with the team at Queen B Radio in bringing Dave to town with his latest ‘Legacy Journey Live Event’ on October 17.” Premiere Networks’ Sean Hannity show is moved from KXLY to crosstown KQNT and KXLY Radio Group VP Brian Paul Lubanski states, “We were one of the early adopters of Sean’s show and thank Sean for 12 great years on KXLY. I’m very excited to have Dave on our station, he’s kicked our butt in the ratings in the 12:00 noon to 3:00 timeslot the past couple of years!”
Larry Wilson’s L&L Broadcasting to Acquire YMF Media’s Jackson, Mississippi Cluster. The six-station Jackson station group Larry Wilson’s L&L Broadcasting is set to buy includes three FMs and three AMs: urban contemporary WKXI “Kixie 107 FM,” hip hop WJMI “99 Jams,” sports talk WRKS “ESPN 105.9 The Zone,” news/talk WJNT, gospel WOAD, and oldies WJQS. No price has been announced yet but in a statement, Wilson says, “The YMF Media cluster in Jackson will be a great addition to our Mississippi footprint. As the state capital, Jackson is an energetic and thriving city with endless opportunities for growth. We’re excited to bring these heritage stations into the L&L family.”
MEDIA BROKER SPOTLIGHT: George Kimble of Kozacko Media Services. In this week’s installment of Media Broker Spotlight, Sandi Bergman of RadioTVDeals.com interviews media broker George Kimble of Kozacko Media Services in Tucson, Arizona. Kimble has been in radio since he was 13, as his father was a station owner. By the time he was 17 and a senior in high school, he was also the morning man at his local hometown station. He went on to be a radio and television station owner himself for some 40 years. Kimble agrees with the editorial philosophy expressed in this trade publication that there are indeed opportunities for displaced, experienced radio management in local ownership if they are willing to roll up their sleeves and personally work all ends of it. He states, “There are plenty of good opportunities available. The prices have come down to the lowest in years — so NOW is certainly the time for action. While there are no national financial sources of money — local banks will still back an on-scene, experienced operator with the help of the SBA. And, seller financing is available in a number of smaller market opportunities.” Kimble shares several hot listings in this piece. To read the entire installment of Media Broker Spotlight, please click here.
Thom Hartmann to Receive Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Goddard College. Nationally syndicated talk show host Thom Hartmann will receive the honorary degree in September from the Plainfield, Vermont-located school. Goddard College president Barbara Vacarr writes to Hartmann: “This award is designed to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to both the worlds of academe and activism and who, through their work and study, help propel the ideals and aspirations of Goddard College: to advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world. By bestowing you with this honorary doctorate, Goddard College wishes to honor your lifelong work as an author, commentator, entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist, academician, radio talk show host and lifelong learner. Your impact is deep and far reaching in a wide array of areas. Your extensive and groundbreaking work and writing on the subject of ADD would by itself qualify you for this doctorate. Coupled with your lifelong activism and creativity in the fields of broadcast journalism, communications, progressive politics, and humanitarianism, you are truly an outstanding example of an American citizen actively engaged in engendering civil discourse that is provocative and designed to be.”
NBC Sports Radio Shows to Broadcast from Celebrity Charity Golf Tourney. The American Century Championship, the “premiere celebrity golf tournament,” is owned and produced by NBC Sports and sponsored by American Century Investments. The annual tournament (in its 24th year) features some of the sports and entertainment world’s biggest celebrities and raises funds for local and national charities including Expect Miracles Foundation and American Cancer Society‘s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. To date, American Century Investments and NBC Sports have raised more than $4 million through the American Century Championship. Celebrities scheduled to play for the $600,000 purse include: NBC Sports Radio host Rodney Harrison and NBC Sports Radio senior contributor Chipper Jones, as well as Emmitt Smith, Charles Barkley, Aaron Rodgers, Ozzie Smith, Ray Romano, John Elway, Jerry Rice, Marshall Faulk, Goose Gossage, and many more. Both “Under Center with McNabb & Malone” featuring Donovan McNabb and Mark Malone, and “Amani and Eytan” with Amani Toomer and Eytan Shander will be broadcasting live from the event this Thursday and Friday from the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Former Talk Host Patrick Kiley Sentenced in Ponzi Scheme. Seventy-five-year-old Patrick Kiley was the fourth of a group of defendants to be sentenced for his part in a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say defrauded victims of $194 million. He was sentenced by a Minnesota judge to 240 months in federal prison. Kiley hosted a nationally syndicated radio program called “Follow the Money” distributed by the Worldwide Christian Radio Network. According to WCCO-TV, in Minneapolis, Kiley and co-conspirators “Trevor Cook, Jason Bo-Alan Beckman, Gerald Joseph Durand and Christopher Pettengill – were all solely and jointly ordered to pay $155,359,411 in restitution to their victims.” Kiley was convicted of 12 counts of wire and mail fraud.
Opie & Anthony Host Robert Zimmerman, Jr. In the aftermath of the verdict in the case of George Zimmerman, SiriusXM Satellite Radio hosts Opie & Anthony had Zimmerman’s brother Robert Zimmerman, Jr. in the studio for an extended interview. During the program, Zimmerman blamed the media for the way the story evolved, saying, “I think when this happened in the beginning, there was just George and Trayvon Martin — for about a day. And I think that after, in my view, Ms. Fulton and Mr. Martin had grief like any parent would. I think their grief was exploited — that’s really what I feel in my heart — by Mr. Benjamin Crump and Ms. Natalie Jackson. And they started a race narrative, a smear campaign that the media was all too happy to…[be a part of].” Pictured here are (from l-r): Opie Hughes, Zimmerman, Jr., Anthony Cumia, and Jim Norton. Photo: Erik Nagel
National Media Personalities to Star in Eighth Annual New York’s Funniest Reporter Show Sponsored by TALKERS. The eighth annual New York’s Funniest Reporter Show (www.nyfunniestreporter.com) will take place this Sunday, July 21 at 5:00 pm at Comic Strip Live comedy club on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It will feature seven media professionals each doing five minutes of stand-up comedy in order to raise money for the Humane Society of New York. At the end of the night, a winner will be declared. Competing in the show this year will be: Peter Schiff of the Peter Schiff Radio Show, Magee Hickey of WPIX Channel 11, Laurie Dhue of Glenn Beck‘s TheBlaze TV, Charles Payne of Fox Business Channel, Janice Dean of Fox News Channel, Bob Bodwon of Choice Media, Chris Serico of Newsday, and Dr. Manny Alvarez of Fox News Channel. 2012’s NYFR Show Champion Clayton Morris of Fox News Channel will be performing but, not competing. Hosting the show will be comedian Mark Anthony Ramirez. Show judges will be Jane Velez-Mitchell of HLN, and Mark Goldman and Ryan McCormick of Goldman McCormick PR. All participants are offered the opportunity to work with a professional comedian and receive a crash course in stand-up comedy. The Comedy Mentor also helps them to prepare their material and iron out and pre-stage nervous jitters. The cost of admission is $20. To make a reservation, please call (212) 861-9386.
KIDO, Boise’s Kevin Miller Cowboys Up. KIDO morning drive host Kevin Miller is pictured here with the Idaho Rodeo Queens during a recent broadcast live from the Snake River Stampede.
Zimmerman Verdict, Edward Snowden Status, Jenny McCarthy Joins ‘The View,’ ‘Glee’ Star Dies, and SyFy’s ‘Sharknado’ Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (7/15). The aftermath of the “not guilty” verdict for George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin; the uncertain status of former NSA consultant Edward Snowden; Jenny McCarthy replaces Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View,” “Glee” star Cory Monteith dies in Vancouver, BC hotel; and the sensation over SyFy channel’s “Sharknado” movie were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS.
Fisher Communications to Be Acquired by Sinclair Broadcasting for $373.3 Million. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. announces that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Fisher Communications, Inc. for $373.3 million. The deal will see Fisher shareholders get $41 in cash for each share of Fisher common stock. That’s 44% over the closing price of Fisher stock on January 9 of this year. Fisher only owns three radio signals – hot AC KPLZ “Star 101.5,” all-news KOMO-AM and news/talk KVI (it manages South Sound Broadcasting-owned KOMO-FM as a simulcast of KOMO-AM). It owns 20 television stations. Sinclair president and CEO David Smith states, “We are excited to acquire Fisher and expand our coverage westward, especially in the two key markets of Seattle (DMA 12) and Portland (DMA 22). Started in 1910, Fisher’s history of operating television and radio stations in the northwest corner of the U.S. has played an important role in its communities and in producing high-quality local news. We look forward to expanding upon those traditions and improving the cash flow of the stations through the benefits that come with our scale.” Sinclair began selling off its radio stations in the 1990s and sold the final bunch in 2000. It seems very likely that the TV-centric company would turn around and sell the Seattle radio stations, however it has not indicated its intent regarding a return to radio.
KNX, Los Angeles to Celebrate 45 Years as All-News Outlet. On Monday, April 15, CBS Radio’s KNX, Los Angeles will recognize its 45th year as an all-news radio station. As the company notes in a statement, “A stunned nation was still in shock following the assassination of Martin Luther King when just 11 days later on April 15, 1968, CBS-owned KNX-AM significantly increased the time it devoted to news coverage, essentially launching an all-news format that continues today…Less than two months after the King shooting in Memphis, KNX would be covering another national tragedy, this one with indelible ties to Los Angeles, when Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was killed at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard. Before the 60s drew to a close, KNX would cover a moon landing and a Manson massacre, symbolic of the mix of prominent national and local events that were to become the fabric of KNX’s dedication to reporting major news stories.” KNX director of news and programming Andy Ludlum says, “Since 1968 we’ve seen eight U.S. presidents, six California governors and five L.A. mayors. We’ve had riots, fires, earthquakes, mudslides, hosted the Olympics, lost a couple of football teams, rooted the Lakers to 11 titles, watched OJ run wild on the freeways and recently endured a nightmarish hunt for a fugitive cop-killer. And through it all, KNX has embodied trust, integrity and credibility. We all feel a sense of responsibility to follow in the footsteps of so many great KNX news people like Bill Keene, Alex Sullivan, Jon Goodman, Barry Rohde, Beach Rogers, Dave Zorn and Harry Birrell, to name just a few. You hear the pride in the great heritage of KNX in the work of today’s anchors like Dick Helton, Vicky Moore, Tom Haule, Linda Nunez, Diane Thompson, Jim Thornton and Chris Sedens.”
Roby Wiener Joins Courtside Entertainment Group. Ad executive Roby Wiener becomes part of the Courtside Entertainment Group in a newly created position: executive vice president of client strategy. Courtside says that in this post, Wiener will oversee branding, client strategy and market research for all of Courtside’s divisions, including radio, Launchpad Digital Media and PodcastOne.com. She will be based in New York and will report directly to Courtside chairman Norm Pattiz. Pattiz states, “I can’t think of a better person to communicate the value of the changes that are going on in media today. I’ve known Roby longer than I’ve known my wife and I love her almost as much. I couldn’t be happier to have her as a part of our team on this very exciting ride.” Wiener most recently served with Dial Global, joining the company after its merger with Westwood One which she’d been with since 2006 as chief marketing officer and EVP of marketing. Previously, Wiener served as executive vice president client strategies & services for the Premiere Radio Networks for eight years and spent over 11 years at Warner-Lambert, a leading consumer product company that was among the top five largest national radio advertisers, as senior media manager of the company’s Advertising Services Department. She says, “Technology continues to shape the way people share ideas and my passion has always been to help advertisers be an important part of that dialog. Launchpad’s communication platform provides a remarkable new approach for advertisers to tell their stories with an authenticity that truly resonates with consumers, engaging with them on their terms. I have had the pleasure of working with both Norm Pattiz and Dan Yukelson at various stages of my career and I am eager to collaborate with them and the team in this new venture.”
Longtime Bubba the Love Sponge Producer Brent Hatley Exits. The man who’s been Bubba the Love Sponge’s right-hand man for the past 13 years tells the Tampa Bay Times that there is no acrimony between he and Bubba the Love Sponge – he simply wants to branch out into other things and he’s unable to pursue those interests while continuing to work on the program. Bubba told his audience that Brent Hatley would be leaving, admitting he’s surprised by the move but saying the door is always open to Hatley coming back should he choose to. In the meantime, Shannon Burke – former WTKS, Orlando talk show host and current personality on Bubba’s online radio channel Radio IO – will get a weeklong tryout to take over Hatley’s role with the WHPT, Tampa-based program.
KFWB, Los Angeles Adds Sports Programming. L.A. news/talk outlet KFWB announces it is adding sports talk content to its news and talk programming. Using content from CBS Sports Radio Network and NBC Sports Radio Network, the station will air Jim Rome’s commentaries (CBS) as well as the Amani & Eytan show (NBC) with Amani Toomer and Eytan Shander for the 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm slot plus the Eric Kuselias program (NBC) from 3:00 am to 5:00 am. KFWB is also adding the locally produced “KFWB’s Sports Knight with Michael Knight” for the 10:00 pm to 12:00 midnight slot. Knight serves as an anchor with the station. KFWB general manager Valerie Blackburn says, “As the flagship station of the Los Angeles Clippers, we want to give our sports fans more of an opportunity to be part of the sports conversation. We continue to look for ways to give our listeners and clients the best possible programming options available.”
Local Group to Buy Five-Station Santa Rosa Cluster. The investors – Sonoma Media Group — is headed by former owner of the stations, Lawrence Amaturo, who sold the cluster in 2000 for almost $30 million. The price to re-acquire the stations from Connecticut-based Maverick Media is $4.5 million according to a piece in the Press-Democrat. The stations include news/talk KSRO, classic rock KVRV “The River,” CHR KHTH “Hot 101.7,” country KFGY “Froggy 92.9,” and hot AC KMHX “Mix 104.9.” Amaturo tells the paper, “The opportunity was irresistible. More than half of this community is listening to these stations each week…They’re more popular than when I sold them in 2000, but their revenue is down and their profit is down. I’m able to reinvest in these radio stations, in programming and promotion, which the current owners were not able to do. There was too much debt.” Amaturo says he has no plans to make changes to the stations and may consider bringing local programs that were recently cancelled back to the air.
IP Codecs, Transmitters, the Future of AM and other Cool Stuff. These are the topics addressed in this week’s column by TALKERS technical editor Tom Ray, inspired by his visit to the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas. According to Ray, “Just about everything I saw at the NAB was IP, IP, IP.” The engineering wizard also shares his seasoned insights into the revitalization of AM approaching the subject from angles ignored by most industry observers. On the subject of transmitters (yes, we still use them in radio), Ray says the trend is to deliver more in less space. Read the entire installment of the engineering column that “isn’t just for engineers because in today’s radio environment programmers and management have to worry about engineering a lot more than they used to” by clicking here.
Southern California Radio Writer Gary Lycan Dies at 68. The longtime Orange County Register radio columnist had been battling prostate cancer for the past several years and died in his sleep on Tuesday at age 68. Gary Lycan’s final column ran in the OC Register on Saturday. He began his career with the paper in 1962 as a copy boy and worked his way up to assistant managing editor for features – a post he held until he left his full-time position with the paper in 2002. Since that time and up to his death, he continued to write his radio column as a freelancer. It was widely regarded as a special window into the radio and media world for Southern California readers.
Dave Ramsey Enters the Hall of Fame. At the NAB Show Luncheon on Tuesday, nationally syndicated talk show host Dave Ramsey was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He’s pictured here (r) with NAB chief executive officer Gordon Smith (l) accepting a commemorative plaque.
Gun Legislation Proposals, Immigration Overhaul Bill, North Korea Missile Threats, Mitch McConnell-Ashley Judd Case, and Obama’s Budget Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (4/10). The continuing efforts to pass gun legislation; the immigration overhaul bill offered by Senate Democrats; tension over North Korea’s missile threats; the controversy over the recording of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell’s Ashley Judd strategy; and President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS.
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marcia | January 3, 2013
Part Two of a Special Feature
By Mike Kinosian
Managing Editor/West Coast Bureau Chief
LOS ANGELES — As sure as 2013 has arrived, personal resolutions have been made, and a plethora of prognostications will bombard us.
Equally as predictable is that not long into this brand new year, those well-meaning self-promises will be severely compromised, and one’s forecasting ability becomes cloudy-looking, at best.
Here, however, is something that could actually be a trend this year: Don’t be surprised if clusters with multiple talk stations jettison one of those signals to sports.
Associated with that, we very well might witness a spate of under-performing (primarily talk) outlets transition to sports.
TALKERS | August 29, 2012
Other Defendants Named in Mark Masters’ TRN Lawsuit Against Dial Global Claiming Monopoly Practices. As reported yesterday (8/28) by TALKERS, these companies, referred to generally in the industry as Talk Radio Network (TRN), include The Original Talk Radio Network, Inc., Talk Radio Network Enterprises, LLC and Talk Radio Network-FM, Inc. They have initiated the filing of a Federal action against Dial Global, Inc. and multiple other parties, asserting antitrust, anti-monopoly and other claims. The complaint, which demands a jury trial, is titled “Complaint for Violations of the Sherman Act and the Cartwright Act, and for Fraudulent Inducement, Interference with Contract and Interference with Prospective advantage.” In addition to Dial Global, it specifically names: Excelsior Radio Networks, Triton Radio Networks, Triton Media Group, Oaktree Capital Management, Verge Media Companies, Courstide, LLC, Compass Media Networks, Compass Media Marketing, and WYD Media Management. Individuals named include Spencer Brown, David Landau, and Ken Williams of Dial Global, Ron Hartenbaum of WYD, Peter Kosann of Compass, and Norm Pattiz of Courtside. To see the entire complaint click here.
Big Staffing Changes at Federated Media in Fort Wayne. Last week TALKERS reported the departure of WOWO, Fort Wayne program director Gregg Henson and his replacement by Woody Zimmerman. Now, after almost 18 years with Federated Media, chief operating officer Mark DePrez announces his departure from the company. Brad Williams, who had been overseeing the Indiana markets of South Bend, Elkhart and Warsaw, will also be in charge of the company’s Fort Wayne and Auburn, Indiana markets as he becomes COO. But that’s not all, as Indiana Radio Watch reports national sales manager Mary DePrez, production director Steve Starbrelz (this November would mark his 35th year there), classic hits WMEE, Fort Wayne middayer Zack Skyler, country WQHK, Fort Wayne GSM Suzee Leavell and several sales staffers have also left the building. IRW also reports Clint Marsh becomes GM of the South Bend properties. On his tenure with Federated Media, DePrez states, “After almost 18 years I’m leaving Federated Media. We accomplished great things in Fort Wayne but all good things must come to an end. I am grateful to the Dille family for the four promotions over those 18 years including my recent tenure as COO. For a decade it has been my distinct honor to be the custodian of such iconic brands as WOWO, WQHK (K-105) WMEE and more recently WBYR (98.9 The Bear). I am immensely proud of the talented team we assembled and know they will continue to do great things.” DePrez is available for his next challenge. He says, “For employers looking for an executive obsessed with top line performance and profit optimization they can contact me at markdeprez2@gmail.com or 260-385-2574.”
ESPN and Major League Baseball Agree to $5.6 Billion Deal. The new contract between ESPN and MLB goes through 2021 and runs an average of $700 million per year for TV, digital, radio and other rights. ESPN is currently paying about $305 million per year for TV and about $50 million for radio rights. The new contract would almost double that but gives ESPN more flexibility, some playoff game rights as well as international rights. For radio it means increased ESPN Radio rights, including the additional right to co-exist during two Saturday windows per team, per year.
Patt Morrison’s Southern California Public Radio Show Cancelled. The popular Southern California public radio figure will remain with the organization but Patt Morrison’s six-year-old afternoon program will end on September 10. The move is part of a series of programming changes at KPCC, Pasadena that include the expansion of the Brand & Martinez program and the addition of the “BBC News Hour” and “The World.” KPCC VP for content Russ Stanton is quoted telling the Los Angeles Daily News, “While the show may be leaving, Patt isn’t. What we’re trying to do is take a lot of the segments that she’s produced – which are very popular with a large part of our listening audience – and spread those a little more throughout the programming day when there are a lot more listeners than there are in the 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm slot.” SCPR notes Morrison will still cover the Democratic National Convention for the organization.
NBC Sports Radio and Dial Global Announce More Sports Talk Hires. As NBC Sports Radio continues to prepare for the September 4 launch of the new network, more hosts and sports anchors are being hired. Former NFL star Amani Toomer will team with Eytan Shander (most recently with SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Radio) for a 10:00 am to 1:00 pm ET sports talk show. Dan Schwartzman — who’s worked for WPEN, Philadelphia and ESPN in New York – will host an overnight show from 1:00 am to 5:00 am ET Tuesdays through Saturdays and Kay Adams joins the network as sports anchor working the 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm shift Monday through Friday. Dial Global is NBC’s partner in ad and affiliation sales and distribution.
Forbes Releases New Highest Paid Celebrities List. Four radio stars landed on the Forbes list of the most recent Highest Paid Celebrities. Of the 21 celebs noted this time around, Howard Stern is the highest at #7 (although he makes a ton of cash from his SiriusXM gig, the NBC TV job helps!); Glenn Beck comes in at #11; Rush Limbaugh lands at #15 and Ryan Seacrest follows at #19.
Larry King to Host Coverage of the RNC on YouTube’s Elections Hub Channel; Premiere Networks’ Andy Dean Joins King on Panel. Longtime CNN star and broadcasting icon Larry King is now working with Ora TV – the digital on-demand TV network funded by Mexican media magnate Carlos Slim Helu – and Ora TV is partnering with YouTube to produce the Elections Hub channel. Tonight, King will host coverage of the Republican National Convention live from Los Angeles featuring a roundtable of well-known celebrities and guests on the special series “Ora 2012 with Larry King” from 11:00 pm to 12:00 midnight ET. Premiere Networks nationally syndicated talk host Andy Dean will take part on the panel.
Entercom and University of Florida Enter into Sales Agreement. The college and Entercom Communications have struck a deal which will have Entercom provide sales for the school’s two radio stations – country WRUF-FM and sports talk WRUF-AM. It’s a seven-year deal that begins in September. The university notes that the deal “will provide the College with a guaranteed monthly revenue. Additionally, the stations will participate in a revenue share agreement with Entercom that allows for additional revenue to flow to the stations based on monthly sales performances. In addition to the joint sales agreement, Entercom is launching an academic enhancement initiative to create internships and student opportunities for the College’s students at the company’s stations in Gainesville and around the country. These student involvement opportunities, subject to faculty approval, will include sales, digital marketing programming, news, sports, public relations, strategic communications and promotions.” The stations’ operations director, Jerry Butler, will stay on and co-ordinate the relationship between the stations and Entercom.
Hundreds of Talk Show Hosts from Across Country Broadcasting from RNC. The invention of the “radio row” – largely developed in the modern talk radio era by Washington, DC-based Talk Radio News Service – has really come into its own at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Numerous networks and syndicators have set up shop in elaborate clusters of tables, microphones, remote equipment, banners and, of course, big talking personalities on both sides of the mic. One of the biggest of these assemblages is again hosted by Talk Radio News Service for its affiliates which include the likes of Rusty Humphries, Phil Valentine, Roger Hedgecock and many more. TRNS bureau chief Ellen Ratner tells TALKERS, “We have more stations than ever – about 40 stations and programs. The RNC gave us a prime spot, right next to their booking office. We are not in the arena but in the building next to it that houses all the press. Other than press conferences, some longer television interviews and hall confrontations between the news media, radio row is the only place to have an in-depth conversation. Radio might have lost some of its audience to the internet, but you would never know it from radio row. Big time politicians want to be there and obviously feel they will get a chance to say what they want. It is still the spot to be and the place to be heard.”
WMAL Morning Hosts on the Scene in Tampa. The final day of the Republican National Convention is today and talk radio and the national press have been busy bringing the political talk home to their constituents. Pictured here are WMAL-AM/FM, Washington morning drive team Brian Wilson (c) and Bryan Nehman (r) interviewing former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton (l).
Republican National Convention, Tropical Storm Isaac, and Iran-Syria Connection Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (8/28). The progress of tropical storm Isaac and the activity from the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay were two of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio. The growing connection between Iran’s military and the violence in Syria was also a major topic.
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, Published: May 18, 2017
Day one of Google’s annual three-day developer conference brought together industry experts from all across the world and a spate of announcements from Google. During the keynote address, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company has reached the milestone of getting two million Android users.
Google is already thinking about how to get the next two billion users. It plans on using a lightweight version of its popular mobile operating system to expand into developing countries. Named Android Go, the system can work on cheaper phones with lower specifications.
Held in San Francisco, Google I/O 2017 also announced the company’s future roadmap for many of its technologies and showcased more practical applications of existing technologies.
The company is introducing Google for Jobs, a search engine that can use technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to help you look for all types of jobs. The company has tried to sidestep being seen as a direct competitor to existing job search engines such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor by announcing a partnership with them. Google for Jobs will allow you to find the right job by pulling listings from numerous other career websites in one go. The job search engine will be launched in the United States in the coming few weeks while more countries might also be added in the future.
Google Lens was one of the most popular announcements made during the conference. The company is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make your phone smarter. The application uses image recognition to identify an object that is showing up in front of your camera lens in real-time. A useful application of this technology is that if you point your phone camera at the wifi password written on the back of your router, it can connect you to the network automatically without you having to input the long password yourself. The company has not mentioned a release date for Google Lens yet.
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Improvements are also being made to Android devices to make them better than ever. The new Android will have a better battery life, start faster and be more secure.
Everyday 1.2 billion photos are uploaded on Google Photos, which has 500 million users to date. The application has introduced tools such as suggested sharing, shared libraries and photo books that can be printed, to encourage people to do more with their pictures. It also uses AI and machine learning to remove unwanted objects from your images.
Google’s virtual reality Daydream headset that was launched last year worked with your smartphone strapped in the device at eye level. Google will now be launching two standalone headsets that are not powered with smartphones. Their new VR headset will now be compatible with Samsung Galaxy devices too. No release date has been given yet.
The company has used its Tango project to come up with a visual positioning system (VPS) that overcomes the accuracy limitations of the global positioning system (GPS). VPS claims to use sensors to work out your location within a building with an accuracy of up to a few centimetres.
More features are being added to Google Home to compete with Amazon’s Alexa. The smart speaker can soon be used as a phone for outgoing calls in the United States and Canada. Using its voice recognition capability, different family members will be able to use the device to make hands-free calls from their own separate numbers. Google Home will now offer more “proactive assistance” and can be used as a Bluetooth speaker. It also offers visual responses by displaying requested information on your Chromecast-connected tv or phone.
Starting today, Google Assistant will be available for use in not just Android phones but iOS as well. No need to say goodbye to Siri yet since it won’t be able to replace it as the default application but be available as a separate option altogether.
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As two ballots come to a close, Jo Grady urges UCU members: “If you don’t use your vote, your employer gets your voice”
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UCU general secretary Jo Grady © Jess Hurd
Becoming a general secretary has been a baptism of fire for Jo Grady.
The 35-year-old Yorkshirewoman – elected UCU leader in May with a massive majority – has two national ballots on her plate: one over pensions, the other over pay, equality, workload and job security.
Her employer, Sheffield University, generously gave her two days a week to learn the ropes of her new role until she officially started in August. But from then it’s been non-stop.
I meet her at Hart’s Bakery, a cafe hidden under arches outside Bristol Temple Meads. She’s in the city to speak at a rally at Bristol University, drumming up support for the strike ballot. The previous day she was in Newcastle. This week she’s in Belfast, Ulster, Cardiff and Oxford, having already chalked off Dundee, Sussex, Strathclyde, Leeds, Bangor and a dozen others.
“I’ve seen thousands of members,” she says. “The ultimate success of any strike ballot is to beat the threshold to take action – and that’s quite tight right up until the deadline to know if it’s gone your way or not – but one of the good things about the tour is it’s really energising people.
“People are the meetings are angry. Not in a defeated way, but in a ‘We have to do something’ way, which is important.”
The ballot results are due to be announced next Thursday (October 31), so there’s not much time left for people to vote – something Jo’s very keen for her members to do.
“Since the 2016 Trade Union Act there is no hiding in disputes, and if you don’t use your ballot, your employer gets your voice,” she stresses. “Do not underestimate how important this is and allow someone else your voice by not voting.
“The two issues we’re balloting over are some of the worst, some of the most serious issues that affect our sector, and we are the only ones who are asking the employers to do something about them.
“They’re not offering to talk to us about how we go about closing race, gender or disability pay gaps. We’re asking to nationally negotiate on those issues, on workload, which accounts for billions of pounds of unpaid labour in the sector and casualisation, which is a moral stain in the way in which we treat people in that we give them a teaching timetable for a semester but not a contract.”
It seems the only person not surprised when Jo won the GS election was Jo herself. When I ask her why she, as a young woman, decided to run in the election, she bristles.
“I have to say to me it’s never occurred to me I couldn’t do anything I wanted to do,” she replies, curtly.
I apologise and rephrase the question, explaining I was reflecting on trade unions’ domination by, mostly, older men.
“The idea that because the trade union movement is a masculine environment that I shouldn’t stand didn’t figure on my radar,” she says, the smile coming back. “The UCU has more women members than men members anyway, and the key people leading the union were women.”
Jo grew up in a political household – more of that tomorrow – and became active in the union as a postgraduate. She became involved at committee level, and later at national level.
“In the last five years, my involvement really accelerated and I think that was alined with the marketisation of higher education,” she says. “We were having to stand up in the department and battle against quite aggressive employers.”
At the time of the election, Jo had recently joined the union’s EC and her high profile through her campaigning over pensions proved a vote-winner.
“I sort out came straight through the shop floor and broke through the middle,” she says. “One of the conversations that didn’t dominate, but was asked a few times during the campaign, was ‘What about experience?’ and I said ‘I’ve been in this sector since 2006’.
“That is a hell of a lot of experience in every single level as an academic, but for all the other members UCU covers in HE, from professional services, people working in the library, in counselling services, the various roles I’ve done means I’ve worked with almost everybody you would come across in HE, and I’ve been friends with people who have been burned by the system, that have worked not as academic members but as all the other members the UCU covers.
“The more technocratic experience and the more managerial experience you can learn but you can’t learn quickly what it’s like to work in a sector that has been transformed so quickly, as I have.
“I have’t worked in FE, so I can’t claim the same sort of experience there, or in prison education but I have done quite a bit of adult education, but when you talk to people who have worked in that sector, the common experience of being burned out, of being attacked, of having your professionalism weaponised against you so that you shouldn’t stand up for things that you know are to the detriment to your own professionalism or your own well-being, it’s a common story and for us as educators and professionals that work within education, having someone who genuinely knows what it’s like to struggle in that sector and also dearly love and want to see it thrive and really want to fight for it, you couldn’t get that experience working for decades in the movement but not in the sector.”
In part two read about Jo’s plans for the union … and how she found out she’d been elected GS
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HOW DISUNITY AFFECTS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS by Ken Howell
posted 12 Apr 2016, 07:28 by Gerry Kangalee
It would be difficult to deny the fact, that a united trade union movement can and does have influence on the state of industrial relations. The national strike in 1989 demonstrated this quite clearly. What followed on the heels of that display of unity and solidarity was a return to the bad old days of disunity and opportunism, as was demonstrated in a National Trade Union Centre (NATUC) Annual Conference of delegates held at the OWTU head office in San Fernando in 1995.
From that time to the present, its role and influence on the state of industrial relations leave a lot to be desired. Efforts to bring about unity in the movement, was replaced by open displays of leftist infantile behaviour on the one hand and, on the other, backward displays of pro-capitalist anti-worker bantering.
As a consequence, the movement remained mired in a quick sand of ideological bankruptcy. This state of affairs has nourished a desire held by certain elements with political ambitions. Such persons have no interest in building a strong movement but are very bold in their attempt to capture the movement and use it to serve selfish political ends.
As a result of this sad state of affairs, no effort is made to bring about unity in the movement on such issues as collective bargaining, organising and so on. Even on the question of inter-union solidarity and solidarity in struggle with other unions there is silence.
Clearly, unions have drifted far away from their moorings because they seem to be rejecting the blood which gave the movement life. Trade unionism is built on the foundation of unity and solidarity. That is why they are described in law as combinations.
It is as a combination of workers that they face the employers across the negotiation table. And it is in recognition of this fact that unity must be maintained. We must be clear in our minds that trade unions are not political parties and, therefore, they should not be measured with the same tape as political parties on the question of unity. That ultra-leftist, anti-union, anti-worker position has done serious damage to the movement over the years.
Because of this, unions have reverted to individual approaches when it comes to collective bargaining.
This position is supported by the absence of any available research being carried out and or distributed by the NATUC to its affiliates. In addition to this, the leading trade unions seem to have removed research, education and on the job training from their list of priorities. As a result, what passes for serious industrial relations on the union’s side in some cases, if not in all, is the absence of a coordinated approach to this business of collective bargaining.
Fortunately, however, some unions are able to settle Collective Agreements, but very few, outside of the Industrial Court. When it comes down to the question of how effective is the Shop Steward in treating with grievances in the work place, the answer is clear. Very few matters are settled at that level. But that is where the relation between the workers and the employer is tested on a daily basis. That is where industrial relations can be viewed in its rawest form. That is where the unity of the workers on the shop floor gives the union leadership the initiative at the negotiation table.
When the whole movement achieves unity from the ground up; when it is united in the task of adhering to its true mission, then and only then it can win the war. For the time being, it will only win small skirmishes. Therefore, the task of building labour unity and solidarity must be the number one priority for the movement.
But in order to achieve this, the individual egos of those leaders who believe that their respective union is their play thing with which to do as they please must be eliminated from the equation; then and only then can the movement regain the initiative in the industrial relations arena.
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Xinjiang has been part of China since ancient times. The Uygurs, together with other ethnic groups, have opened up the region and have had very close economic and cultural ties with people in other parts of the country, particularly central China.
Xinjiang was called simply "Western Region" in ancient times. The Jiaohe ruins, Gaochang ruins, Yangqi Mansion of "A Thousand Houses," Baicheng (Bay) Kizil Thousand Buddha Grottoes, Bozklik Grottoes in Turpan, Kumtula Grottoes in Kuqa and Astana Tombs in Turpan all contain a great wealth of relics from the Western and Eastern Han dynasties (206 B.C. -- A.D.220). They bear witness to the efforts of the Uygurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang in developing China and its culture.
Zhang Qian, who lived in the second century B.C., went to the Western Region as an official envoy in 138 and 119 B.C., further strengthening ties between China and central Asia via the "Silk Road." In 60 B.C., Emperor Xuan Di of the Western Han Dynasty established the Office of Governor of the Western Region to supervise the "36 states" north and south of the Tianshan Mountains with the westernmost border running through areas east and south of Lake Balkhash and the Pamirs.
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Developing an award program for children's settings to support healthy eating and physical activity and reduce the risk of overweight and obesity
Suzy Honisett1,
Suzi Woolcock1,
Creina Porter1 &
Ian Hughes2
BMC Public Health volume 9, Article number: 345 (2009) Cite this article
This paper aimed to identify the best way to engage, motivate and support early childhood services (ECS) and primary schools (PS) to create policy and practise changes to promote healthy eating and physical activity. This information would be used to develop a suitable program to implement within these children's settings to reduce the risk of childhood overweight and obesity.
The Medical Research Council's (UK) framework for the design and evaluation of complex interventions was used to guide the development of the healthy eating and physical activity program suitable for ECS and PS. Within this framework a range of evaluation methods, including stakeholder planning, in-depth interviews with ECS and PS staff and acceptability and feasibility trials in one local government area, were used to ascertain the best way to engage and support positive changes in these children's settings.
Both ECS and PS identified that they had a role to play to improve children's healthy eating and physical activity. ECS identified their role in promoting healthy eating and physical activity as important for children's health, and instilling healthy habits for life. PS felt that these were health issues, rather than educational issues; however, schools saw the link between healthy eating and physical activity and student learning outcomes. These settings identified that a program that provides a simple guide that recognises good practise in these settings, such as an award scheme using a health promoting schools approach, as a feasible and acceptable way for them to support children's healthy eating and physical activity.
Through the process of design and evaluation a program - Kids - 'Go for your life', was developed to promote and support children's healthy eating and physical activity and reduce the risk of childhood overweight and obesity. Kids - 'Go for your life' used an award program, based on a health promoting schools approach, which was demonstrated to be a suitable model to engage ECS and PS and was acceptable and feasible to create policy and practise changes to support healthy eating and physical activity for children.
Childhood overweight and obesity are significant public health issues. Recent prevalence data show 17% of Australian children (2-16 years) are overweight and 6% are obese [1]. These prevalence figures are predicted to increase, such that 34% of boys and 37% of girls 5-9 years of age will be overweight and/or obese by 2025 [2]. The current Victorian statewide prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity appear to be in keeping with national trends. However, current primary school aged figures vary across the state, with prevalence measured at 27% in one rural Victorian area [3] and higher (30%) in an inner urban, culturally diverse population [4].
Childhood obesity is an important predictor of adult obesity [5], leading to significant long-term health consequences. Rising levels of overweight and obesity produce an enormous burden through decreased life expectancy and reduced quality of life as a result of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, sleep apnoea, osteoarthritis, psychological disorders and social problems [6].
To prevent obesity in the general population it is important to focus on children and their maintenance of healthy weight as an effective public health approach. Children's settings, such as primary schools, kindergartens, child care and family day care services, are key places that can enhance public health gains. These settings provide an opportunity to: reach children from all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds; expose children to nutritional and physical activity opportunities; involve parents in nutrition and physical activity education; and involve stakeholders from the broader community in the work of these settings, such as local dietitians to run parent healthy eating information sessions [7].
Systematic reviews of heterogenous school based interventions implementing strategies to improve healthy eating and/or physical activity present findings on their effectiveness that remain largely inconclusive, although they suggest a combination of nutrition and physical activity interventions may help prevent overweight [8] and assist in weight reduction [9]. Evidence from multi-facetted interventions within schools using a health promoting schools approach to increase healthy eating and physical activity behaviours in children show this is an effective approach to improve health knowledge and most likely to improve health related behaviour, such as dietary intake [10]. A health promoting schools approach, endorsed internationally by WHO, includes embedding healthy eating and physical activity within school policies, the schools' physical environment, curriculum and community links to ensure effectiveness and sustainability. The health promoting schools approach can be adapted and may be appropriate for early childhood services, such as kindergartens, child care and family day care.
Built within the health promoting schools approach, healthy award schemes have emerged. Award schemes provide a structured framework, health-related targets and provide external support. These schemes offer recognition for achieving key elements of a health promoting schools approach and can be used to motivate healthy changes and as marketing tool to position the school as a desirable choice for families. The award scheme has become popular among European countries to monitor systems and recognise achievement [11] and is present in some Australian schools and early childhood services. The evaluation of award schemes, so far have demonstrated award-related changes in terms of children's health behaviours and the schools healthy eating and physical activity policies and practises [12].
Within Victoria, Australia, primary school attendance is compulsory for children from five years of age. There is a range of education options available, including government, catholic and independent schools. Access to schools is not restricted by residential geography or zoning. Prior to school attendance, kindergartens provide a one-year education program for children aged four years and child care is available for children aged up to six years.
These children's settings are primarily focused on learning and development outcomes, as directed by government policy [13]. Therefore, the challenge is to develop a program that engages and motivates a majority of children's settings to effectively promote and support health behaviours that will reduce the risk of overweight and obesity in children.
The Victorian Kids - 'Go for your life' program aims to improve healthy eating and physical activity levels of children and in doing so reduce the risk of overweight and obesity. To achieve this aim Kids - 'Go for your life' works with primary schools and early childhood services, such as child care, family day care and kindergartens, to support healthy eating and physical activity through an award program, using a health promoting schools approach. The award program provides a comprehensive, yet simple, guide for early childhood services and schools to create healthy environments that support children to be active and eat well. Schools and services join the program as members and receive a range of resources, training and support as they work through a number of criteria to improve their policies and practices and reach award status. Once awarded schools and services receive a sign for their front gate to show to their community their commitment to children's healthy eating and physical activity.
The paper aims to describe the design of the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program operating in early childhood services and primary schools within Victoria and the methods that lead to its development.
To develop an appropriate program for early childhood services and primary schools three phases of evaluation were undertaken. These phases were based on those of the Medical Research Council (UK)[14] framework for development and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health. These involved; a theoretical phase, identifying the most appropriate model; modelling phase, determining what components would make this model successful; and trialling phase, testing the feasibility of this model within settings. The formative evaluation methods and outcomes are described below for each of these phases.
These evaluation methods were approved through the Department of Human Services Victoria, Human Research Ethics Committee (54/07) and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Victoria, Research in Schools Committee.
Theoretical phase
The initial phase of development aimed to answer the question - 'what is the most appropriate model for a physical activity and health-eating program for primary schools and early childhood services in Victoria?' A number of methods were employed to answer this question.
Eight key stakeholders, who had a vested interest and expertise in healthy eating, physical activity and childhood obesity, were involved in a strategic planning session. These stakeholders represented non-government health organisations, research institutes, a tri-partisan statutory health promotion organisation and a health consultant. The stakeholders identified key health outcomes that they envisioned the program should achieve in 10 years and listed gaps and opportunities in achieving these outcomes. From this process strategic themes were drawn from the discussions and the model of an award program for early childhood services and primary schools was proposed as an appropriate and achievable model to engage settings to make changes in policy and practice that would support healthy eating and physical activity. The success of programs such as SunSmart schools [15] and Be Active Eat Well [16] in engaging schools, promoting healthy school policies and practices and changing children's behaviours guided and supported this decision.
A subsequent brief review of published award or multi-strategy health promotion programs operating within children's settings across Australia and internationally was undertaken, to identify program designs, theoretical approaches used and successful features. Where possible discussions with key staff members of these programs assisted understanding of the key features of these programs that contributed to their success. Common features were identified across these programs and included; sustainability; utilising a health promoting schools approach; targeting specific behaviours; providing recognition to settings for their achievements; streamlining settings' access to on-the-ground support and resources; consulting with settings; provision of support through local partnerships; integration and support of settings' existing structures and requirements to reduce added burden; and the ability for settings to progressively work toward change.
The award model would also be required to support existing state and national policies for nutrition and physical activity. Relevant polices and regulatory requirements were identified and included; mandated provision of physical education and sport, and curriculum frameworks within government schools; national guidelines for non-government schools on the provision of physical activity; state licensing standards and national accreditation standards for early childhood services relating to nutrition and physical activity; and national government guidelines on physical activity and healthy eating for children 0-12 years.
The outcome of this phase was that an award program, that provided recognition to settings for their achievements and was based on a health promoting schools approach, was developed and implemented to engage and drive change within children's settings. This program would focus on improving healthy eating and physical activity policies and practises, be aligned with relevant national and state policies and consider the key success elements of other existing programs.
Modelling phase
The modelling phase aimed to define the detail of the award program and any supporting materials. The initial methodology for this phase included twenty-six in-depth interviews with settings staff, including school principals (10), assistant principals (1), teachers (4) and early childhood centre managers and coordinators from family day care (5), long day care (3) and kindergartens (3) to ascertain:
• Underlying rationale, and therefore the marketing strategy, that would motivate settings to be involved in the proposed award program.
• Features that would appeal to settings to motivate them to be involved and create healthy eating and physical activity changes.
• Feasibility of the proposed design of the award program.
• Support that settings would require when undertaking the award program.
Snowball sampling was used to identify relevant interviewees from metropolitan, rural, high and low socio-economic areas, catholic, independent and government schools. All interviews were undertaken either in person or by telephone and taped. Interviews were then reviewed by three people to ascertain common themes emerging from interviewee responses under each of these question areas (see Table 1 for interview questions). The interviewee responses to the feasibility of the award program were further investigated through the trialling phase of evaluation.
Table 1 In-depth interview questions for early childhood service and primary school staff
Early childhood services identified that healthy eating and physical activity were important issues for children's health, and instilling healthy habits for life provided a strong rationale for their involvement in an award program.
Many schools felt that obesity was not prevalent in their own student community and tackling obesity was considered a health issue, rather than an educational issue, which was identified as their core business. However, schools saw the link between healthy eating and physical activity and student learning outcomes, therefore improving these behaviours to increase educational outcomes provided a rationale for involvement in the award program. It was also important for schools that the award program be linked to existing policies and government requirements and not seen as additional or extra, but core to what they were required to do.
Recognition, provided through certificates and other means, was identified as an important element by a majority of settings; however, schools did not want an award program to create competition between schools. While most settings said a sign on the front gate would be beneficial one school stated:
"To be blunt, we don't go through these processes to put a sign on the gate, we are far too busy for that".
Professional development for staff and supporting resources, such as information for parents and curriculum support were identified as critical. Local support, such as linking with a local dietitian or school nurse, was also identified by schools as important.
There was positive feedback from early childhood services and schools about the perceived feasibility of the draft award program, with most identifying it as a clear and simple structure that was "very doable".
It was identified that service managers' and principals' support would be essential to initially drive the award program. Within a school environment it was recognised that although the principal would initiate involvement in the program a champion teacher would be required to drive and implement the actions of the award program.
Expert opinion was gathered through an early childhood and a primary school stakeholder working group to comment on the award program design, including the key success features outlined in the theoretical stage, and criteria for the award program. Stakeholders in each of these groups represented key statewide child health, development and education organisations working in the early childhood and primary school sectors. The primary school working group also had a representatives of a government primary school.
Stakeholders supported the design and key elements of the award program; however, they reinforced essential considerations, such as consistency of terminology to reduce any confusion for settings, the provision of local support to assist settings, getting a balance between what is ideal and what is practical and ensuring equitable access and support for the program.
The working groups initially brainstormed possible strategies that could be implemented in early childhood services and primary schools. These strategies were grouped under each key healthy behaviour (increasing fruit, vegetable and water consumption, reducing consumption of high fat, salt and sugar foods and drinks, increasing participation in physical activity/active play, reducing sedentary behaviour, such as screen time, and increasing active transport) and under key health promoting schools approach elements, such as policy, information provided to parents and inclusion in curriculum and program planning. From the list of strategies grouped under each of these areas the two working groups chose one strategy, based on available evidence of effect, through their knowledge and in their experience, they felt was feasible and likely to produce the best behavioural outcomes. See additional file [Additional file 1] for the final award criteria.
It was important to engage stakeholders early in the process of defining the award program to ensure ownership and buy-in and subsequent promotion and support for the award program.
On completion of the design and selection of criteria, supporting resources were developed, based on the information from the in-depth interviews to ensure appropriate language and themes to engage and motivate settings. These resources were developed with extensive feedback from the early childhood and primary school working groups, who commented on each draft of the documents. These resources detail rationale for action, tips on how to make healthy changes, tips to support behaviour change with parents and other supporting resources and organisations.
The outcomes of the modelling phases confirmed the structure of the award program. This phase also assisted in choosing the best and most relevant criteria and developing supporting resources for settings.
Trialling phase
The trialling phase aimed to explore the broader acceptability and feasibility of the award program for settings within a defined geographical area of Victoria and provide feedback and allow refinement of the model prior to statewide implementation.
The methods for this trial included sending letters to all primary schools (62) and early childhood services (84) residing in one outer metropolitan local government area of Victoria. This local government was chosen due to the high number of children's settings within the defined geographical area. Information on the socio-economic position and cultural diversity of children and families was only available at the local government level, rather than by suburb or school level, therefore this information was not available to compare schools or early childhood services involved in this feasibility trial and presents a limitation of this feasibility and acceptability data.
Each school and early childhood service within the trialling local government area were sent a letter promoting the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program and requesting that they join as members. Primary school principals within this local government area were also presented the award program and asked to join at a regular principals' network meeting. Subsequent reach of the program uptake was measured via the collation of membership forms received from schools and services. Membership forms also requested settings to self assess their current status against each award criteria. From these membership forms baseline policy and practise data were collected. Self-assessments against each award criteria was not validated, and therefore, poses a limitation to the validity of the baseline data.
Membership uptake was followed by semi-structured telephone interviews with key contacts from a sample of children's settings that had joined the award program as a member to determine reasons for involvement in the program, their comments on the award program design and criteria, and comment on supporting resources. Interviews were planned with 3 primary schools, 3 kindergartens and 3 child care centres. While the planned numbers of interviews were achieved with primary school and kindergarten contacts, only 2 child care centre contacts were interviewed. Of the available child care centre contacts there were only 2 that either consented to be interviewed or were available.
Semi-structured telephone interviews were also held with representatives from a sample of children's settings that had not joined the award program as a member to determine the reasons for not being involved and what would encourage them to join the award program. Interviews were conducted with representatives of 3 primary schools, 3 kindergartens and 3 child care centres.
Within four weeks of promoting the award program 26% of primary schools and 23% of early childhood services in the local government had joined the award program, demonstrating a reasonable level of early acceptability and feasibility for the award program (Table 2).
Table 2 Children's settings in trialing local government area that became members of the Kids - 'Go for your life' program
For primary schools that had joined the program the criteria relating to restrictions on energy dense, nutrient poor canteen food (criteria 4) saw a relatively low percentage of schools self-assessing as having already achieved this (31%), or achieving it within 6 months (19%) (Table 3).
Table 3 Self-assessment against award program criteria for primary schools
Development of a whole school curriculum plan consistent with statewide standards (criteria 7) and the promotion of active travel (criteria 8) also saw relatively low percentages of schools self-assessing as having already achieved these (38% and 31% respectively). Within six months, providing the self-assessments are accurate, the majority of schools indicated they would have achieved these criteria (Table 3).
The majority of early childhood settings reported in their self-assessments either having already achieved, or planning to achieve within 6 months, most of the program criteria. Ensuring nutritious meals and snacks (criteria 1) had the lowest percentage of settings claiming to have achieved this already (61%), but the majority was planning to have achieved this within 6 months (Table 4).
Table 4 Self-assessment against award program criteria for early childhood services
Reasons for involvement in the program
Interviews with representatives from participating schools reported that they saw benefits for students joining the award program. All reported that their school had a commitment to encouraging healthy eating and physical activity for students and many had relevant initiatives happening at their school.
"When you work with kids, your interests lie with the kids, so it was a direct benefit to the students. Also we are experiencing a fair bit of social, cultural and economic disadvantage - for many kids, the model they have at home is not always a strong one as far as eating."
Interviewees from early childhood services reported they were more interested in improving the health of the children in their care than in recognition for their efforts through an award program, and this was their motivation for being involved.
Comments on the award program design and criteria
All interviewees felt that the award program and the material supplied were clear and well designed. All liked the idea of the award program, and in some cases as a form of recognition of what the school was doing:
"I think it gives the parents something to look at and the parents are grateful that we're trying to support what they're doing at home. I find a lot of the parents are having difficulty trying to get children to eat correctly in the first place, and having the support at school makes it that bit easier for them".
One interviewee, the Principal of the school, provided an interesting perspective on the award program, "Schools become very isolated, very insular, even though you might have a school no more than 3 or 4 blocks away, you're very isolated because schools have been forced to become very competitive. So you don't always get to know how you're going against what's happening in the broader scene. So it's useful for benchmarking...".
Two school interviewees felt that they would be able to meet all the criteria in the award program within 12 months. The other school felt that achieving the criteria wouldn't be difficult except for the canteen changes required.
Overall the award program and materials received were considered clear and easy to understand. All of the early childhood setting interviewees felt that the criteria in the award program were very achievable, and that they were already well on the way to meeting most:
"I think I ticked most of them. I think there were only a couple that I didn't tick".
Feedback from settings not yet involved
All Principals interviewed were interested in the award program and could see that it fitted with existing initiatives and programs the schools were involved in:
"A lot of what we are already doing fits in with the focus of Kids - 'Go for your life' as well. It would just be a matter of acknowledging that we are already doing a lot of things that fit in with the program".
Two of the Principals pointed to the difficulty of taking on something additional at this stage and felt that it was something they would take on later. One spoke about a major rebuilding project underway at present, including a new gymnasium, which was occupying his time and also that of the Physical Education Coordinator. The consistent theme was competing priorities at this point in time:
"We have a number of competing priorities to implementing something new at this stage. It is certainly something that is worthwhile, but needs to be implemented in a coordinated way".
Early childhood settings
All interviewees expressed an interest in getting involved, but reported a variety of reasons for not joining as a member:
"We haven't discussed it as a staff, and so haven't decided yet". (Pre-school)
"We have put it to our committee of management and the staff are reviewing it to make sure we meet the criteria. It was talked about at the meeting last month, but we are scheduled to meet again in a couple of weeks. Our cook, who is here part-time, wants to get involved with it. So it is something we definitely want to do, it is obviously just practicalities of actually getting the paper work done". (Child care centre)
In one case the coordinator/teacher was leaving the pre-school shortly and felt that it would not be appropriate to commit her replacement to something like Kids - 'Go for your life', but was planning to refer the information on. In another case the coordinator of one child care centre was shortly taking leave for an overseas holiday, but thought it would be something she would address when she returned.
Kids - 'Go for your life'award program design
Victorian early childhood services and primary schools volunteer to become a member of the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program. To become a member, they are required to fill in a member form identifying what criteria they have already achieved, or are planning to achieve. The manager of the early childhood service or principal of the primary school signs the member form making a commitment to work toward reaching each award criteria (see Additional file 1 for the list of criteria). Early childhood services and schools are then sent comprehensive information packs detailing rationales and ideas to assist them to meet each criterion.
When settings achieve all criteria they complete and lodge an application form with supporting documentation (policies, menus, copies of newsletters sent home to families). If all criteria are met the setting will be awarded with a large metal outdoor sign to hang on their front fence to show that they are a Kids - 'Go for your life' service or school. Local media is offered to the setting to promote their achievements to their community.
The Kids - 'Go for your life' award program is promoted to Victorian early childhood services and primary schools through a range of public relations and communications activities, including, print community service announcements and articles in relevant journals and newsletters, local and statewide media, presentations at relevant forums and conferences and cross promotion with organisations and programs promoting similar or supporting messages.
Member and awarded settings are also provided with a range of additional supports. These supports include links to local health professionals who are available to support them to reach each criteria and become awarded, and in 10 local government areas Kids - 'Go for your life' have funded positions within local governments to support local settings to become members and work toward becoming awarded.
There are many examples of programs promoting healthy eating and physical activity within schools, using a health promoting schools approach [10], or award schemes [11] and, therefore, many of these interventions will be implementing similar strategies to the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no published evidence of using a health promoting schools approach or award schemes supporting healthy eating and physical activity within early childhood services. One recently published prevention study investigated a comprehensive multi-strategy approach through kindergarten settings [17] using social learning theory. This study intervention included many elements of a health promoting schools approach; however, it did not include healthy eating and physical activity within kindergartens' policies, a key element of a health promoting schools approach. Therefore, the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program provides an innovative approach within an early childhood setting, using well-established components of the health promoting schools approach embedded within an award scheme.
The formative evaluations that inform the development of programs within schools or early childhood services are not often published, so the motivations and rationales for these settings' involvement are not well known or documented. While this was only a small-scale evaluation, it provided important information on: children's settings' motivations and rationales to become involved in healthy eating and physical activity programs; how the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program has been developed; and the acceptability and feasibility of this program by children's settings.
There has clearly been a level of success through the award program developed to encourage children's settings to join the program in the pilot local government area. Success with primary schools was greater than that with early childhood settings, therefore, the award program may need to be promoted and 'sold' more actively to these settings.
Concern for the health of children in their setting was the main reason for early childhood services and primary schools to become a member rather than the recognition through the award program. In this sense the program is seen as a way of bringing about change and obtaining support to do this. There was generally a positive reaction to the award program, criteria and materials received.
The feedback gathered through interviews with representatives of children's settings that had not responded to the invitation to join the program, indicates that there is a high degree of interest in the program. It is clear, however, that there are a number of competing priorities for settings and reasons for delaying involvement. As a result the need for ongoing promotion targeted individually to settings and through local media is critical, to ensure settings that are committed to other priorities at the moment are reminded of the program into the future.
It is significant that the majority of children's settings that joined as members had generally scored themselves quite well against the award program criteria in their self-assessments. This is particularly the case with the early childhood settings, which mostly saw themselves as either having already achieved, or planning to achieve within 6 months, most of the award program criteria. This may reflect an overestimation of settings current status and is a limitation of this evaluation. However, it is likely that the program has been successful in attracting those settings that are already committed and working actively to improving the health of children in their care, through improved nutrition and increased physical activity and active play. The challenge will be to also secure participation of those settings less willing, or feel less able, to join the program.
Through the process of design and evaluation outlined in this paper Kids - 'Go for your life' was developed to promote and support children's healthy eating and physical activity and reduce the risk of childhood overweight and obesity. Kids - 'Go for your life' used an award program, based on a health promoting schools approach, which was demonstrated to be a suitable model to engage early childhood services and primary schools and was acceptable and feasible to create policy and practise changes to support healthy eating and physical activity for children.
The upcoming evaluation for the Kids - 'Go for your life' award program will now focus on the reach of the program across a range of demographic categories, including rural and metropolitan areas and areas of low socioeconomic positions. A major focus of the evaluation will also determine if and how the award program affects the policies and practices within children's settings and whether these changes impact on children's healthy eating and physical activity behaviours.
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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://0-www.biomedcentral.com.brum.beds.ac.uk/1471-2458/9/345/prepub
This program was developed and is managed by Diabetes Australia - Vic and Cancer Council Victoria and funded by the Victorian Government, through the Go for your life initiative. We would like to thank staff of these organisations that have supported the development and continue to support the implementation of this program. We would also like to thank all of the stakeholders involved in the Kids - 'Go for your life' advisory and working groups and the staff from early childhood services and primary schools who participated in interviews and meetings. We would also like to thank the City of Casey for their support piloting the program.
Kids - 'Go for your life', Diabetes Australia - Vic and Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Suzy Honisett
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Dynamic Outcomes Pty Ltd, St Andrews, Australia
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Correspondence to Suzy Honisett.
SH, SW, CP and IH have made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data and analysis and interpretation of data. SH, SW, CP and IH have all been involved in drafting the manuscript, revising it critically for important intellectual content and have given final approval of the version to be published.
Suzi Woolcock, Creina Porter and Ian Hughes contributed equally to this work.
Additional file 1: Kids - 'Go for your life' award program criteria. The table included lists all criteria for primary schools and early childhood services to become awarded. (DOC 30 KB)
Honisett, S., Woolcock, S., Porter, C. et al. Developing an award program for children's settings to support healthy eating and physical activity and reduce the risk of overweight and obesity. BMC Public Health 9, 345 (2009) doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-345
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Double burden of malnutrition: increasing overweight and obesity and stall underweight trends among Ghanaian women
David Teye Doku1 &
Subas Neupane2
Overweight and obesity are among the leading causes of mortality globally, and although previously they were mostly prevalent in developed countries, recent scanty evidence suggests that overweight and obesity in developing countries have reached high levels. Trends in overweight/obesity (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) and underweight (BMI < 18 kg/m2) from 1993 to 2008 and associated factors were explored among 15 to 49 years old women in Ghana.
Nationally representative data were used from four Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Ghana in 1993 (n = 4562), 1998 (n = 4843), 2003 (n = 5691) and 2008 (n = 4916). The data were analysed using logistic regression.
Over all, underweight increased by 28.57 % (from 10.5 %, 95 % confidence interval (CI) = 9.61–11.39 in 1993 to 7.5 %, 95 % CI = 6.76–8.24 in 2008) and 134.85 % increase in overweight and obesity (from 13.2 %, 95 % CI = 12.22–14.18 in 1993 to 31 %, 95 % CI = 29.71–32.29 in 2008) over the fifteen year period were found. Overweight was much more common in urban women (36.8 %, 95 % CI = 35.78–37.82) compared to rural women (15.6 %, 95 % CI = 14.93–16.27). Women of urban residents were more likely of being overweight (OR = 1.43, 95 % CI = 1.25–1.63) but less likely to be underweight (odds ratio (OR) = 0.33, 95 % CI = 0.30–0.36) compared to those of rural residents. Furthermore, older age, higher education, multi-parity and being rich were associated with overweight/obesity among Ghanaian women.
Overweight and obesity are becoming a common phenomenon among Ghanaian women while underweight still remains a problem. Our study demonstrates an emerging double burden of malnutrition among Ghanaian women. Promotion of physical activity and encouraging healthy dietary habits are urgently needed to curtail obesity and overweight trends while underweight among rural women, those without higher education and those with lower wealth index can be improved through poverty reduction measures.
Overweight and obesity are regarded as one of the leading causes of mortality in the world [1] The prevalence of overweight and obesity have previously been higher in developed countries but in recent years the prevalence in many low and middle-income countries has reached the levels in developed nations [2, 3]. The rapid emergence of overweight and obesity in low and middle-income countries has been recognized as a major public health problem.
Some of the earlier studies have explored temporal trends in overweight and obesity based on nationally representative data. In Bangladesh, for example, Shafique et al. [4] collected data on 15–45 year old women with children under 5 years of age and found that overweight/obesity (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) increased among rural women from 3 to 6 % and among urban poor women from 7 to 9 % between 2000 and 2004. Balarajan and Villamor [5] investigated the trend in overweight and obesity in Bangladesh, India and Nepal and found that the prevalence of overweight/obesity had increased among ever-married 15–49 year old women from 3 to 9 % in Bangladesh, from 11 to 15 % in India and from 2 to 10 % in Nepal by 2006. However, Balarajan and Villamor [5] in the same study observed that the prevalence of underweight (BMI < 18 kg/m had decreased in Bangladesh and India (34 % in 2004 and 33 % in 2006, respectively). One of the recent studies from Nepal shows that the prevalence of overweight increased from 6 % in 2001 to 14 % in 2011 [6].
Overweight and obesity are becoming more prevalent also in many African countries as a result of urbanization, nutritional transition, adoption of western lifestyles and demographic transition [7]. Time trend analyses in an earlier study indicated that prevalence of obesity in urban West Africa has more than doubled (114 %) over 15 years [8]. Urban residents and women have particularly high risk of overweight/obesity and obesity is rising fast in women. In Ghana, the DHS surveys indicate that the percentage of women aged 15–49 overweight/obese grew from 25 to 30 % between 2003 and 2008 with the highest values among urban women [9].
Obesity is a natural consequence of over nutrition and sedentary lifestyle. However, overweight and obesity tend to be strongly associated with gender and socioeconomic status but the direction of these associations varies according to the levels of economic development [10, 11]. Contrary to high-income countries, the prevalence of overweight/obesity has frequently been highest among the wealthier, more educated and urban people in low and middle-income countries [12, 13]. Age, relative wealth, being married, having grown up in an urban environment and having parity >2 are associated with higher risk of overweight/obesity in an earlier small study in the Accra Metropolitan area in Ghana [14]. A recent review in 37 developing countries showed that obesity is occurring at a faster pace among persons of lower socioeconomic situations in countries experiencing economic development [14].
The public health consequences of the rise in obesity in West Africa are evident. However, studies examining trends in obesity and overweight and their determinants in West African countries, particularly, those using national representative sample data are scanty. Earlier studies on this subject are prevalence studies on individual countries and are often not based on representative samples, and their findings may not be applicable to the entire population. Therefore, reliable information on these trends is needed to contribute to the evidence on the menace in order to stoke up national and regional debates aimed at prevention of morbidity and associated mortality in these countries where huge disease burdens also exist in contrast to dwindling health budget. The aim of this study was to examine the trends in overweight/obesity (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) and underweight (BMI < 18 kg/m2) from 1993 to 2008. Additionally, we explored the associations between socio-demographic factors and overweight/obesity in 2008 among 15 to 49 years old women in Ghana. We used a high quality nationwide data, which were collected using standardised questionnaire developed for investigating demographic and health survey in several developing countries. We were also interested in studying the association between underweight and overweight and socio-demographic status among rural and urban residents.
Data (N = 20,012) for this study were collected from the female questionnaire of the 1993 (N = 4562), 1998 (N = 4843), 2003 (N = 5691) and 2008 (N = 4916) Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (GDHS). The Ghana Demographic Health Survey is a nationwide survey with a representative sample of women and men aged 15–49 and 15–59, respectively. All the surveys used a two stage sample based on the Ghana Population and Housing Census to produce separate estimates for key indicators for each of the ten regions in Ghana. The first stage involved selecting sample points or clusters from an updated master sampling frame constructed from the Ghana Population and Housing Census. The second stage of selection involved systematic sampling of 30 of the households listed in each cluster. This was done to ensure adequate numbers of completed individual interviews to provide estimates for key indicators with acceptable precision and to ensure a sample large enough to identify adequate numbers of under-five deaths to provide data on causes of death. The clusters were selected using systematic sampling with probability proportional to size. Each household selected for the GDHS was eligible for interview with the household questionnaire. In half of the households selected for the survey, all eligible women aged 15–49-year-old were interviewed with the women’s questionnaire. In 2008, data was not administered in one cluster due to security concerns. The data collection took place over a 3-month period, from early September to late November. The response rates were generally very high, for example, 93.8 % and 95.8 % for 2003 and 2008 respectively. The main reason for non-response was the failure to find individuals at home despite repeated visits to their household. A consent statement was read to the eligible respondent or to the parent or responsible adult for young children and unmarried women age 15–17. All who agreed to participate in the study signed a consent form either by themselves or their representatives in case of the minors and those who could not write. Ethical approval for the study protocol was given by the Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Committee in Accra, Ghana.
Trained personnel measured height and weight using a standardized procedure. Body mass index (BMI) was the dependent variable. It was calculated by dividing body weight (kg) by height squared (m2). BMI was categorized into four namely; underweight-18.5 kg/m2, normal weight-18.5–24.9 kg/m2, overweight 25.0–29.9 kg/ m2 and obese-30.0 kg/m2 according to WHO recommendation (WHO, 1995).
The independent variables used in this study included place of residence (urban and rural) and age categorised as 15–19, 20–24, 25–29, 30–34, 35–39, 40–44 and 45–49 years. To increase the power for the study, age was re-categorised as 15–24, 25–34 and 35–49 years for the logistic regression analysis. The rest of the independent variables were parity (zero, one, two, three, four, five, six and seven or more), marital status (never married, currently married and formerly married), household wealth, represented by wealth index (in five categories from poorest to richest). The wealth index was constructed using data on a household’s ownership of selected assets, such as televisions and bicycles; materials used for housing construction and types of water access and sanitation facilities. The wealth index was constructed using principal components analysis. The index places individual households on a continuous scale of relative wealth. It was then categorized into five (poorest, poorer, middle, richer, and richest). Details on the construction of the wealth index and other variables can be found at http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR221/FR221%5B13Aug2012%5D.pdf
In addition, education (coded as; no education, primary, secondary and higher) was used. In Ghana, primary education is 6 years of schooling (from age 6 to age 12), secondary education is 6 years of schooling (from age 13 to age 18) and higher education from age 19 upwards.
Descriptive analysis was done to show the relationship between socio-demographic status and BMI among Ghanaian women (Table 1). Next, bivariate (Table 2) and multivariate multinomial logistic regression analyses (Table 3) were conducted to assess the association between women’s socio-demographic characteristics and BMI which has three categories namely normal weight, underweight and overweight/obesity. Overweight and obesity were combined as one category to ensure enough cases for the logistic regression analysis. To examine the spatial disparities in BMI, the data were stratified into rural and urban and in the multivariate multinomial logistic regression models (Tables 3). In addition, we investigated the 15-year trend in BMI graphically and this was also done by rural and urban as well to assess disparity in the phenomenon by place of residence. Odds ratios (OR) at 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) were used to present the results of the logistic regression analyses while the trend analyses were presented using bar and line graphs. Sample weight was applied to the data to remove bias due to unequal selection probabilities. The SPSS statistical package was used to conduct data analyses.
Table 1 Body mass index in relation to socio-demographic characteristics among Ghanaian women aged 19–49
Table 2 The association between body mass index and socio-demographic status of Ghanaian women aged 19–49
Table 3 The association between underweight and overweight, and socio-demographic status of Ghanaian women aged 19–49 in a multivariate multinomial logistic regression analysis
Table 1 shows the distribution of body mass index in relation to socio-demographic characteristics of Ghanaian women age 15–49 years. The prevalence of underweight in the latest survey (2008) was 7.5 % (95 % CI = 6.76-8.24) while 31 % (95 % CI = 29.71–32.29) of Ghanaian women were either overweight/obese. This represents 28.57 % decrease in underweight (from 10.5 %, 95 % CI = 9.61–11.39 in 1993 to 7.5 %, 95 % CI = 6.76–8.24 in 2008) and 134.85 % increase (from 13.2 %, 95 % CI = 12.22–14.18 in 1993 to 31 %, 95 % CI = 29.31–32.29 in 2008) in overweight and obesity over the fifteen year period. Consistent socio-demographic gradients were found in the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity.
In general, underweight was highest (13.8 %) among the youngest (15–19 years) age group of women, lowest (6.7 %) among the middle age group (30–34 years) while the oldest age group (45–49 years) had 8.6 % prevalence of underweight. On the contrary, overweight was highly prevalent (21.8 %) among the older age group (40–44 years) of women while the lowest (7.7 %) was among the youngest age group (15–19 years). Obesity was also highly prevalent (14.8 %) among women of age group 40–44 years and the least (1.4 %) was among the youngest (15–19 years) age group. Overweight and obesity were found to be positively associated with age. The prevalence of underweight increased with decreasing educational status of women with the highest prevalence among women with no education (10.4 %). Women with higher education had the highest prevalence of overweight (32.3 %) and obesity (18.9 %). It was found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity decreased with decreasing educational status.
The women with 7 children or more had the highest prevalence (9.7 %) of underweight, while the lowest (6.2 %) was found among women with 2 children. The prevalence of overweight was highest (20.4 %) among the women with 2 children and the lowest (15.3 %) among women who had only one child. Moreover, the highest prevalence of obesity (11.4 %) was found among women with 4 children while the lowest prevalence (5.8 %) was found among women with one child. Never married women had the highest prevalence of underweight (11.4 %) than currently married (7.6 %) and formerly married (8.8 %) women. The highest prevalence of overweight (20.2 %) and obesity (9.3 %) was found among formerly married women and the lowest among never married women. The prevalence of underweight was found to be highest (12.1 %) among women with the poorest quintile wealth index and decreased with increasing quintile of wealth index, while the highest (27.7 %) prevalence of overweight and obesity was found among women of the richest quintile of the wealth index and the lowest among the poorest (8.7 %). Women residing in rural area had higher prevalence (10.6 %) of underweight, whereas the women of urban residents had high prevalence of both overweight (23.7 %) and obesity (13.1 %).
The prevalence of underweight decreased from 10.5 % in 1993 to 7.5 % in the latest survey (2008). Similarly, the prevalence of overweight had increased by more than two times (9.8 % in 1993 vs. 21.5 % in 2008) and obesity (3.4 % in 1993 vs. 9.5 % in 2008) by almost three times since 1993.
Table 2 shows the association between BMI and socio-demographic status of women in bivariate analysis. Age was associated with overweight/obesity even as women of the oldest age group (35–49 years) were less likely (OR = 0.77; 95 % CI = 0.67–0.88) to be underweight. Compared to women with secondary school education or higher, women with no education were less likely to be overweight/obese (OR = 0.18; 95 % CI = 0.14–0.23) but more likely of being underweight (OR for women with no education = 3.56, 95 % CI =1.63–7.77). Similarly, parity, marital status, wealth index, place of residence and survey year were all associated with overweight/obesity. The correlation between educational attainment and wealth index was low (0.333, p < 0.001).
Figure 1 clearly shows that the prevalence of overweight and obesity had increased linearly in each survey. Although, not as steep as overweight/obesity, the prevalence of underweight has also decreased steadily since 1993. Figure 2 shows the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity among rural and urban residents in each survey. The prevalence of underweight had decreased among both rural and urban residents. However, the lowest prevalence of underweight was found among urban residents in the year 1998. Similarly, the prevalence of overweight had increased among women of both rural and urban residents. On the other hand, the increment in the prevalence of overweight and obesity was higher among women of rural residents.
Prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity by year of survey
Prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity by year of survey and type of residence
The associations of underweight and overweight/obese with socio-demographic status of women among rural and urban residents from multivariate analysis are presented in Table 3. Older age was found to be associated with overweight/obesity among both rural and urban residents. However, the association was stronger among urban residents. Women with primary or no education had lesser likelihood of being overweight/obese, especially among rural residents. Women with no education were also less likely of being overweight/obese among urban residents. Women of urban residents with 2 to 5 children had higher probability of being overweight/obese compared to women who had only one child. Currently married women were found to be associated with both underweight and overweight in urban area. Poorer women of rural areas as measured by quintile of wealth index had significantly higher odds of being underweight and lower odds of being overweight/obese. Also, poorer women of urban area had lower odds of being overweight/obese. As compared to the first survey, women of rural area had significantly higher odds of being overweight/obesity in the recent surveys. However, among urban residents women had lower odds of being underweight in the latest survey and at the same time they had higher odds of being overweight/obese except in the 2008 survey year.
The trend and factors influencing BMI (overweight, obesity and underweight) among Ghanaian women was investigated using a large sample size data collected nation-wide over a 15-year period. This is the first study to report trends in the prevalence of overweight and underweight among women in Ghana using nationally representative sample. Disparities in overweight, obesity and underweight were found by age, level of education, parity, marital status, wealth index and survey year. Furthermore, there were rural–urban differences in both underweight and overweight. In the general Ghanaian women population, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has consistently increased over the 15-year period (1993–2008). However, the prevalence of underweight was nearly the same between 1993 and 1998, and slightly decreased thereafter. By rural–urban stratification, it was observed that the prevalence of overweight and obesity have consistently increased from 1993 to 2008 in urban settings. The only exception was that in 1998 the prevalence of overweight in urban areas decreased slightly.
Obesity is a well-known risk factor for several chronic illnesses including type II diabetes, hypertension and scores of cardiovascular diseases. Underweight on the other hand, particularly, among women have direct effect on their health e.g. anaemia and indirectly contributes to maternal and infant mortality. The relative high prevalence of overweight and obesity found among Ghanaian women and the increasing trends observed warrant public health attention. Ghana and many African countries are battling with many existing infectious diseases including malaria, tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS.
Socio-demographic differences in underweight and overweight/obesity by level of education, parity, marital status, wealth index were similar to those found in the Accra Metropolitan area [14]. The increasing prevalence in underweight and overweight/obesity may be explained by the changing nutritional and lifestyle patterns in Ghana. Many African countries have experienced rapid economic growth and development over the past one and half decades. This rapid growth has led to urban lifestyles including changes in food consumption pattern such as consumption of refined food due to the globalisation of the food market [10, 11]. Economic growth, modernisation and globalisation may have also contributed to involvement in more sedentary lifestyles such as motorised lifestyle in Ghana, particularly, in the urban areas. With respect to the association found between wealth index and obesity and overweight, one plausible explanation could be the cultural perception in Ghana, and in Africa in general, which favour large body size [15].
Although in Western countries, overweight is more prevalent among the less educated and those at the lower end on the socioeconomic ladder, in developing countries, a different picture emerged from the literature. Education is positively related to overweight and obesity and the higher a person’s socioeconomic status, the higher the probability of being overweight or obese [12, 13]. The present study confirms this relationship found in developing countries.
Apart from economic growth and modernisation, the contextual meaning of body size might be playing a role in the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity. In Ghana, cultural values favour large body size [15]. Being fat is often misconstrued as a sign of wealthy living. What is intriguing is the fact that whereas overweight and obesity are increasing, underweight generally remained the same over the period, and among rural women, there has not been any significant change in underweight. This study reveals a double burden of malnutrition that has been reported in other developing countries [5, 6]. With regards to the rural–urban differences, our finding is similar to a recent study from Nepal, which also reported marked differences in the phenomenon among women by rural–urban setting [6]. Several plausible explanations could account for the rural–urban disparities reported here. In the rural areas women mostly engage in agricultural and other activities, which are physical and therefore unlikely to gain as much weight as the urban women. Moreover, women in rural areas are less exposed to western lifestyle and the nutritional transition in the urban areas is not likely to be prevalent in the rural setting. Furthermore, it seems that whereas urban women have more than enough to eat, women in rural have less.
Our study has some strength. Firstly, the data were based on large nationally representative surveys conducted at four time points and the response rate was very good (93 to 96 %) among the eligible women in all four surveys. Therefore, the results are considerably generalizable to the whole country. Secondly, data on the body weight and height were measured by trained study personnel with similar measurement equipment making the data comparable. Thirdly, the surveys used standardized methods comparable to multiple countries. There are also some limitations that are worth discussing. We did not have data on waist circumference which would have allowed examination of trends in abdominal obesity. Additionally, no data were available on behavioural or other factors that could have explained the observed changes in the prevalence of overweight among women.
In conclusion, double burden of malnutrition, comprising overweight/obesity and underweight exists among Ghanaian women. Moreover, overweight and obesity have continuously risen at the same time underweight did not significantly reduce during the 15-years period. Older age, higher education, parity, rich quintile in wealth index and urban residents were associated with overweight/obesity problems among Ghanaian women. These finding suggest that unless malnutrition is addressed, in the future there will be inequalities in overweight and underweight related morbidity and mortality. On one hand, national level strategies of promoting healthy lifestyle to prevent further increase in overweight and obesity and consequently in the incidence of the related chronic diseases should urgently be developed and implemented. On the other hand, strategies are needed to prevent underweight among Ghanaian women.
No ethical approval was required for this particular analysis since ethical clearance was already obtained from the Ghana Health Service for the conduct of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey.
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We are most grateful to Macro International for granting us the permission to use the data. The authors would also like to express profound gratitude to all who have contributed in various ways towards the success of the Measure DHS data collection, particularly the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which has been funding the Measure DHS project.
Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Private Mail Bag, University Post Office, Cape Coast, Ghana
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Correspondence to David Teye Doku.
DD and SN conceived of the study. DD conducted the statistical analysis. DD and SN drafted the manuscript. DD and SN were involved in the interpretation of data and the critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. Both authors approved the final version to be published.
Doku, D.T., Neupane, S. Double burden of malnutrition: increasing overweight and obesity and stall underweight trends among Ghanaian women. BMC Public Health 15, 670 (2015) doi:10.1186/s12889-015-2033-6
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Broken Bow Man Sentenced for Cyberstalking
BY US Attorney Joe Kelly | August 16, 2019
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Courtesy/ Custer County Sheriff's Office. Marshal Marshall.
Lincoln, Neb. — United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that 37 year old Marshal Marshall, formerly of Broken Bow, Nebraska, was sentenced Thursday in Lincoln, Nebraska, to the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf. Marshall had previously entered pleas of guilty to cyberstalking. In addition to his prison sentence, Marshall will be required to serve 3 years on supervised release.
In December, 2017, the principal of a public school district in Broken Bow, Nebraska, reported to the FBI that someone was sending persistent and escalating threats of violence to a teacher working for the school district. The person issuing the threats was at times impersonating other teachers in the district over school email.
Investigation revealed that Marshall was impersonating teachers, friends, and family members of the victim, in order to harass, pressure, and coerce the victim into taking him back, ceasing her cooperation on a state felon in possession case, and taking other actions that he desired the victim to take. The communications caused substantial emotional distress, made the victim feel like she was being followed or surveilled at all times, and placed her in fear of actual bodily harm. She also faced threats to her reputation in the community, both professionally and personally.
Marshall conducted the cyberstalking by both text and email communication. Eventually he began to illegally wiretap the victim by breaking into her residence, placing recorders in her home and placing a motion sensor activated camera in her bedroom. The FBI recovered these devices and tied them forensically to Marshall.
Text messages from Marshall’s cell phone demonstrated he had solicited multiple men, his sister, and two minors, to aid him in the cyberstalking.
This case was investigated by the Broken Bow Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Mollie Tibbetts: Timeline of Iowa student's death; Cristhian Bahena Rivera updates
BROOKLYN, Iowa -- More than a month after Mollie Tibbetts was last seen, authorities announced they found her body and that Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, had been charged with murder.
RELATED: The latest on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation
Here's a detailed timeline of the entire case dating back to her disappearance.
Tibbetts' funeral was held at the gymnasium of BGM High School in Brooklyn. AP reports that "several hundred people" came to pay their respects.
ABC News learned that Tibbetts and Rivera's girlfriend went to the same high school and were friends on Facebook. Investigators said this does not necessarily mean they know each other and that they could have simply connected because they went to the same school in a small town.
Plans were announced for Tibbetts' funeral, which will be Sunday, August 26.
In reference to the debate surrounding Rivera's immigration status, Mollie's aunt, Billie Jo Calderwood, told CNN "I don't want Mollie's memory to get lost amongst politics" but said she is only speaking for herself.
Also on Thursday, the Iowa Department of Transportation confirmed that Rivera did not have any type of state-issued ID, including a license, KCRG reports.
A preliminary autopsy report found that Tibbetts died of "multiple sharp force injuries," indicating she was stabbed to death.
Tibbetts' family released a statement:
"Our hearts are broken.
On behalf of Mollie's entire family, we thank all of those from around the world who have sent their thoughts and prayers for our girl. We know that many of you will join us as we continue to carry Mollie in our hearts forever.
At this time, our family asks that we be allowed the time to process our devastating loss and share our grief in private.
Again, thank you for the outpouring of love and support that has been shared in Mollie's name. We remain forever grateful."
Also on Wednesday, Rivera made his first court appearance. He did not enter a plea.
His bond was set at $5 million, cash-only. His next hearing will be on August 31.
Rivera's lawyer, Allan M. Richards, said in court documents that Rivera was in the country legally. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services responded to say there is "no record" that Rivera is here legally.
RELATED: Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera worked under fake name
Amid this confusion about Rivera's immigration status, the White House released a video suggesting that Tibbetts' case highlighted a need for immigration reform.
Also on Wednesday, a vigil was held for Mollie at the University of Iowa.
Tuesday, August 21: Body Found
Authorities found her body. Mollie's father, Rob, told ABC News he did not have any comment at this time.
A medical examiner arrived at a rural area near Guernsey, about a 15-minute drive south of Brooklyn, KOI reports.
Police said Rivera, who they said is an undocumented immigrant, was charged with murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts.
Rivera's employers, Yarrabee Farms, said on Tuesday that Rivera had passed a government background check called E-Verify. They held a press conference on Wednesday to correct this information, stating that an older system had been used and that Rivera had been working under a fake name.
Rob Tibbetts told KCRG he's "very reluctantly" returning to California. Law enforcement had encouraged the family to return to their normal lives and let investigators continue with the search. Tibbetts said they had moved their sons into college earlier in the week and that they had passed by the place that was supposed to be Mollie's home for her sophomore year.
The family met with Vice President Mike Pence on Air Force Two. The vice president took a moment during a speech at an America First Policies "Tax Cuts to Put America First" event to pause and focus on Tibbetts. He emphasized that the federal government would continue to provide resources to the search.
"As a father I can't imagine what the family of Mollie Tibbetts is going through," he said. "We will continue to work and we will continue to pray for Mollie's safe return."
At a press conference, officials urged the public to think back to the days surrounding her disappearance and note any strange behavior by others.
"Often there are individuals who are unknowingly associated with the offender of a crime and may be in a position to observe behavioral changes in that person," said Mitch Mortvedt of DCI. "They will recognize the change, and may even question them about it, but will not relate the change to that person's involvement in a crime."
Authorities announced a website to help with the search, which resulted in more than 1,500 new tips in the first day.
Marry Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI profiler, told KCRG on Sunday that she believes it's likely that Tibbetts left with someone she knew.
"I think the most likely scenario is that Mollie was at least somewhat familiar with the person that she went with, or the person that she went with was someone that she viewed as non-threatening to her," she said.
On Sunday evening, friends gathered in the Bay Area, where Tibbetts lived as a young child, to hold a prayer service.
Brooklyn man Devin Riley told ABC News he believes he was possibly the last person to see Tibbetts. He believes he saw her jog past her home the night she went missing. When he realized the missing woman looked like the woman he saw, he contacted authorities.
"I wish I did know more, but I dread that maybe I was the last person to see her," he said. "I remembered seeing her that night. I just felt very weird. Who knows when she was taken in that timeline, but I don't know what happened."
As the $300,000 reward for information continues to climb, friends and family are sharing new videos that show Mollie's playful nature.
Video taken by Mollie Tibbetts' friend shows the missing college student's fun-loving personality. The first clip was taken the day before she went missing.
Mollie's father Rob shared a new theory with ABC News. He believes someone who knows Mollie took her, and he's pleading with them to send her home safe.
"It's totally speculation," he said, "but I do believe that Mollie is with someone who she knows, probably someone who cares about her. But that relationship was misguided, misinterpreted and went wrong, and I think they're in a place with Mollie and don't know how to get themselves out of this horrible situation."
Authorities found the body of a white female in her 20s about 100 miles from where Tibbetts lives, but authorities later said it was not Tibbetts. The reward is now up to $260,000.
It was announced that the reward fund has climbed to $200,000.
In a press conference, authorities said they did not have updates for the public about the search for Tibbetts and would not give information as to whether there is a person of interest or whether the investigation has confirmed any foul play. The investigation continues to be treated as a missing person case.
A representative from the Iowa Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse said that it is unusual for a missing person to be categorized as "involuntary." There are only 26 cases listed as "involuntary disappearance" out of the 390 people listed in the state database. The involuntary disappearances date back to 1976.
Tibbetts is currently categorized in the database as "Other adult missing."
Mollie's family held a press conference with Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa to discuss the "Bring Mollie Tibbetts Home Safe Reward Fund," which had grown to $172,000. The tipline that has been set up is anonymous.
Tibbetts' father, mother and boyfriend spoke at the press conference. Her dad said he hopes the money will convince someone to share information even if they think it's too small of a detail or might incriminate a loved one.
"Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is trivial," he said."If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. So come forward, share that information with authorities, and let's bring Mollie home."
On Thursday afternoon, there was a large police presence on a highway between Guernsey and Deep River, a little more than a dozen miles from Brooklyn. A homeowner near the police presence said that it had to do with the Tibbetts case, KCRG reports.
On this day, Tibbetts was scheduled to leave with Jack for his brother's wedding in the Dominican Republic. She was supposed to be the maid of honor, her mom said.
The groom, Blake Jack, once joked to his brother that he should propose to Tibbetts on the trip, he told the Associated Press.
The reward for Tibbetts' safe return jumped from $2,000 to $30,000.
Blake Jack told the Associated Press that his wedding plans were postponed. He said that's nothing compared to what Tibbetts family is going through.
At a press conference, Kevin Winker, director of investigative operations for the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, declined to share additional details in the interest of the case. Authorities have followed upwards of 200 leads. They are still receiving and following new tips and encouraged the public to continue using the tipline.
Rob spoke to ABC News, begging the public to focus on the efforts to find his daughter and to send in any information they could think of.
"It doesn't matter what we're going through," he said. "We just need people to think. Somebody knows something, and they don't even know it's important."
The reward for information that helps find Tibbetts increased from $1,000 to $2,000. That's because a power utility company in Brooklyn, TIP Rural Electric Cooperative, made a pledge to double the existing reward, KCRG reports.
The latest post in the Facebook group said there is no new information and asked members to keep sharing about her story to get the word out.
Laura Calderwood spoke to ABC News again to express her hope that Tibbetts will be home soon.
"If it were me that were missing, Mollie wouldn't give up hope," she said. "You won't see me giving up hope. That's not an option."
In a press release, Iowa DCI said there are no suspects yet.
"With the aide of the public, investigative leads continue to be investigated and a multitude of individuals have been interviewed," the statement said. "Additionally, a number of searches have been conducted to include ground, air and K-9 searches."
DCI encouraged anyone with information to continue to send in tips. They told KCRG they are still treating the investigation like it's Day 1 of the search and emphasize that it's still considered a rescue mission, not a recovery mission.
"We think she's still alive," a DCI rep told KCRG.
Mollie's father Rob, who lives in Fresno and works in the Bay Area, spoke out to ABC30. Rob Tibbetts pleaded for anyone with information to send in tips.
"We are a tough, resilient family. We're fighting like hell. This isn't about us, this is about Mollie," he said.
Rob said Mollie was the best man at his wedding in early June.
On this day, police in Kearney, Missouri responded to a possible sighting of Tibbetts at a truck stop. They conducted a search and interviewed witnesses before sending a report to investigators in Iowa. One individual claims to have seen her, and police could not find any surveillance video to confirm the report, according to ABC News. The woman turned out not to be Tibbetts, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Mike Krapfl confirmed to the Associated Press on August 2.
Authorities searched two hog farms about 15 minutes outside of Brooklyn, KCRG reports. Agencies continue to receive tips but there are still no suspects.
"You know, as long as we still have information coming in and we feel that we're being productive, which we feel that we are, there's been no talk about that amongst the investigative group with all the agencies involved," said Iowa DCI agent Mitch Mortvedt.
Tibbetts' family told WOI that they are spreading out across the state to distribute posters and spread the word.
Kriegel gave WOI an update on the investigation. He said investigators are working with hundreds of tips that are coming in and that he also believes there will be useful information from her Fitbit.
When asked whether there is a reason to believe she may have been abducted, Kriegel said, "Well we are worried about that."
Kriegel told ABC News that Jack's alibi was confirmed and he is not a suspect, and neither is his brother. Tibbetts' two brothers have also been cleared and are not suspects.
Tibbetts' brothers, Scott and Jake, expressed their hopes and their worries in an interview with ABC News.
"It's been a whirlwind," Jake said. "We've gone from sad to worried to just anxious and clueless. We've been to every emotion there is. Now it's just patience. That's the hardest one, probably."
Jake said they'd been getting up at 5 a.m. to look for her "in every field, every ditch, every creek."
Scott said he knows that wherever his sister is, she's trying to get home.
"She's a better fighter than anyone I know," he said. "So whatever situation she's in, it's not like she's going to sit there and give up."
An update on the Facebook group thanked everyone for the support and said there are no updates.
Jack spoke with WOI and ABC News. He said he's optimistic that Tibbetts will be home soon and that if she can hear him he wants her to know that "I miss you so much, and I love you."
Jack said he is continuing to send text messages to Tibbetts, though they all remain unread.
Tibbetts' mother, Laura Calderwood, also spoke to the media.
"She is just such an outgoing, fun, loving life, loving person," she told ABC News. "She was getting ready to move into her first apartment."
She added that there are "no words to describe how you feel when you don't know where or how your child is."
She also said Jack's brother is scheduled to get married in the Dominican Republic on August 2. Tibbetts had been planning to go with Jack to the wedding and she is close to the bride and groom, her mom said.
Poweshiek County Sheriff Thomas Kriegel told ABC News this is the longest anyone in the tight-knit community has been missing in his memory. He said in addition to the searches on foot, a plane, a helicopter and kayakers have gone out looking for her.
"We're surrounded by farm ground -- corn and soy beans. Right now the corn is probably eight, nine feet tall. The only way you can search it is basically walk down every other row," he said. "It's difficult. Even the planes flying over have a difficulty looking down in the corn row."
A Facebook group called "Finding Mollie Tibbetts" was created to help find her. The group is used to distribute fliers and organize the search.
WOI reports that hundreds of people turned out to help with the search. The public is asked to contact the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office with any tips.
The University of Iowa, where Tibbetts is due to be a sophomore, releases a statement that they are monitoring the situation and offering support where needed.
Our thoughts are with Mollie Tibbetts’ family and friends. The University of Iowa is monitoring the situation and will offer support as needed. More information: https://t.co/NmtZv0Djqs
— University of Iowa (@uiowa) July 20, 2018
Authorities said there is no new information. Tibbetts' case gains more attention on social media, including tweets from notable figures with ties to Iowa such as actor Tom Arnold, NBA player Harrison Barnes and NFL rookie Josey Jewell.
PLEASE help us find this young Iowa woman. She’s been missing since July 18. My family has a home in Brooklyn IA & she is a Hawkeye. Look at her pic if you’re passing through IA on Interstate 80 also. #MollieTibbetts #IowaStrong 1-800-346-5507 https://t.co/C8AaT7ZG7w
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) July 22, 2018
Please spread the word especially if you’re from Iowa. #bringmolliehome https://t.co/40AofsCINv
— Harrison Barnes (@hbarnes) July 22, 2018
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— Josey Jewell (@josey_jewell) July 22, 2018
Thursday, July 19: Reported missing
Morning: Jack sent Tibbetts a message, but he said he didn't notice it went unread.
Afternoon: Tibbetts worked at a day camp. A coworker of Tibbetts' called Jack to tell him she hadn't shown up for work and also hadn't called in sick. Jack began calling loved ones, none of whom had seen her at any time on Thursday.
Later Thursday: Tibbetts' family reported her missing to police on Thursday.
Wednesday, July 18: Night of the murder
5:30 p.m.: Tibbetts' older brother, Jake, dropped Mollie off at her boyfriend's house, where she was still staying alone with the dogs. Investigators said Jake Tibbetts is not a suspect.
7:30 p.m According to a "reasonable timeline" constructed by authorities, Tibbetts went for a jog around this time and was seen running on the city streets of Brooklyn.
8:30 p.m. Brooklyn man Devin Riley said he saw a woman jog past his home around this time that he later believed to be Tibbetts. When he realized what he had seen, he contacted authorities.
RELATED: Everything we know about the Mollie Tibbetts case
Prior to Rivera's arrest, loved ones had told the press that authorities believed she may have returned home from her run, but Rivera told authorities that he remembers "making contact" with a woman who was out running. It is unclear what time this occurred.
According to court documents, Rivera "blocked out" a part of his memory. He said he remembers running alongside her and Tibbetts threatening to call police, but he does not remember what happened next.
Rivera said he then remembers being in his car and realizing there was a woman in the trunk. He then left Tibbetts, who was bleeding, in a cornfield, according to court documents.
10 p.m. Jack opened a SnapChat from Tibbetts. The snap contained a selfie Tibbetts took, and Jack said she appeared to be inside. It's unclear what time the photo was taken, but investigators believe it was taken on Wednesday.
Tuesday, July 17: Her boyfriend leaves town
Jack drove to his job at a construction company about 100 miles away, according to ABC News. Tibbetts was living with Dalton and his brother, Blake, for the summer.
Her boyfriend was still away when Tibbetts was discovered missing. Blake was also away visiting his fiancee in Ames, he told the Associated Press. Tibbetts was watching Blake's dogs for him.
Early in the case, police cleared both Dalton and Blake Jack as suspects.
Also on this day, video of Mollie was taken by a friend in which she shows her playful personality.
This was the last day Dalton Jack, Tibbetts' high school sweetheart, said he saw his girlfriend in person.
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Cox, James Charles (1834–1912)
by Ruth Teale
This is a shared entry with Edward King Cox
James Cox, c1910
State Library of New South Wales, 21573
Edward King Cox (1829-1883), grazier, and James Charles Cox (1834-1912), medical practitioner, were the eldest and third sons of Edward Cox, M.L.C., of Fernhill, Mulgoa, and his wife Jane Maria, daughter of Richard Brooks, and grandsons of William Cox. Both were born at Mulgoa, Edward on 28 June 1829 and James on 21 July 1834. Until James was about 13 the boys lived at Mulgoa and attended the parish school of Rev. Thomas Makinson; in 1847 they went to The King's School at Parramatta for about three years.
After leaving school Edward lived on his father's sheep stations at Rawdon, Rylstone, in the Mudgee district, and his leases on the Namoi. In 1852 he accompanied his brother to Europe where he studied sheepbreeding and inspected the principal flocks in England and on the Continent. At Tralee, County Kerry, on 19 May 1855 he married Millicent Ann, daughter of Richard J. L. Standish. Soon afterwards he returned to take charge of his father's stations.
Edward was an outstanding breeder of stud stock. He inherited his father's merino stud at Rawdon, Rylstone, and by careful breeding won world renown as 'the great improver of the Australian Merino'. He won awards in many countries for his wool, particularly the grand prize at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878. Edward brought together at Fernhill, Mulgoa, his stud Shorthorn cattle and thoroughbred horses in 1868. His chief sires, Yattendon and Darebin, both won the Sydney Cup; he also imported stud mares from England and bred the Melbourne Cup winners, Chester and Grand Flaneur. In 1873, with John Agar Scarr, Edward was joint editor of The Stud Book of New South Wales.
In July 1874 Henry Parkes appointed Cox to the Legislative Council in the squatting interest, although he was 'as yet an untried man in public life'. Because of arthritis and a trip to England he was never active in politics. He died on 25 July 1883 at Mulgoa, survived by his widow, who died on 11 March 1902 aged 70, five sons who followed his pastoral interests, and a daughter Mary, who in September 1881 married John Archibald Anderson, a grazier, of Newstead, Inverell. Cox's estate was valued at £95,572. His home, Fernhill, still stands, a fine example of Georgian architecture, built by his father in 1840 of local sandstone.
As a child in the bush around Mulgoa James had played with Aboriginal children from whom he learnt the lore of native birds and animals. He showed such interest in natural history that his father determined to make him a doctor and apprenticed him for three years to Henry Grattan Douglass at a fee of 300 guineas. At the Sydney Infirmary he learnt dispensing, acted as a clinical clerk, assisted at post mortems and in 1852 witnessed an early operation performed under chloroform. In his last year of apprenticeship he became assistant to Professor John Smith, who had just begun chemistry lectures at the University of Sydney in what became the Sydney Grammar School. Cox also made himself useful in setting up the museum next door. He then continued his studies at Edinburgh (M.D., 1857; F.R.C.S., 1858) and returned to New South Wales where he registered as a medical practitioner on 1 February 1859.
Through his social, government and vice-regal connexions Cox enjoyed a very extensive private practice. He became recognized as a leading physician in Sydney and was for many years medical adviser to the Australian Mutual Provident Society. In 1875 he joined other prominent doctors in defending their profession against his former tutor, Professor Smith, who as dean of the Sydney medical faculty had allegedly reflected on the skill, qualifications and sobriety of colonial medical practitioners.
Cox's contributions to medical education began at the Sydney Infirmary where he was honorary physician in 1862-72, honorary surgeon in 1877-79 and honorary consulting physician in 1873-76 and 1880-1911. His attempts to effect some reform in the technical management of the hospital were at first frustrated, and the pharmacopoeia he compiled in 1870, based largely on London editions, was not accepted till the late 1870s. But his services to Sydney Hospital were remembered in the dedication of Frederick Watson's The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911 (Sydney, 1911), as one 'who, for sixty-one years, has watched and assisted [in its development] as student, hon. physician, hon. surgeon, hon. consulting physician and director'. In 1883-1901 Cox lectured at the University of Sydney on medical principles and practice and was an honorary physician at Prince Alfred Hospital in 1889-1901. A student later recalled 'the noble old face, with its gentle and courtly expression, the well-known stoop, the slightly bowed legs, the soft elastic-sided boots of French kid, and the dentures that never quite fitted … His great kindness of heart, his hatred of anything mean, and his extreme care in avoiding any possible hurt to anyone's feelings, endeared him to everyone'. He was particularly remembered by final year students for his annual picnics at Newport or the Spit.
Cox retained his early love of natural history all his life. On his return from Britain in 1859 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (then the Philosophical Society). He was first president in 1862 and long a member of the New South Wales Board of Fisheries, and a trustee of the Sydney Museum, to which he left his collection of Australian land shells. He was first secretary of the Entomological Society formed in 1862 and, after it became the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1874, was its president in 1881-82; in 1868 he had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. His contributions to the journals of these societies were mainly on the conchology of Australia and the South Sea islands, but he also wrote on such subjects as the government regulation of oyster beds, and Aboriginal drawings, wax figures and stone implements. Among his works of reference published in Sydney were Catalogue of the Specimens of the Australian Land Shells (1864), A Monograph of Australian Land Shells (1868), An Alphabetical List of the Fishes Protected Under the Fisheries Act of 1902 (1905), and an Alphabetical List of Australian Land Shells (1909).
As a member of an old colonial family Cox took an antiquarian's interest in Australian history. He was first president of the Australasian Pioneers' Club, a member of the Australian Club for over fifty years, and a founder of the Historical Society in 1901. Although an obituarist in the Sydney Morning Herald considered him 'very reticent in regard to himself' and reluctant to write his autobiography, he was always good company at the leading Sydney clubs where his after-dinner speeches recalled early colonial days and the exploits of his family.
In Scotland on 29 September 1858 Cox married Margaret Wharton, daughter of John Maclellan, a merchant of Greenock, and his wife Jane, née Wharton. Of their four sons, James Wharton (1859-1911) and Allaster Edward (1864-1908) graduated in medicine at Edinburgh; Arthur Brooks (1866-1924) studied in London (M.R.C.S., 1890) and practised in Sydney as a dentist; the eldest of their six daughters, Millicent, married in 1890 Montague Peregrine Albemarle Bertie (twelfth Earl of Lindsey), who had been aide-de-camp to the governor, Lord Carrington, in 1885-88. Cox's wife died on 21 February 1876 aged 36, and on 18 March 1878 he married Mary Frances, daughter of Dr William Benson, a medical practitioner in Hobart, and his wife Louisa Frances, née Lakeland; she died childless at 52 on 1 October 1902. Soon afterwards Cox married a widow, Emma, whose first husband was a grandson of John George Gibbes; they had one daughter. Cox died at his home in Mosman, Sydney, on 29 September 1912 and was buried in the family grave at Mulgoa.
Two portraits of J. C. Cox, one by Herbert Beecroft, are in the Australasian Pioneers' Club.
Report of a Meeting of the Medical Profession held at Sydney on Tuesday, 2nd June, 1875: To Take into Consideration the Speech Recently Published by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the Sydney University on the Proposed Medical Bill for New South Wales (Syd, 1875)
Z, ‘Reminiscences. James Charles Cox’, Sydney University Medical Journal, Mar 1913
G. H. Abbott, ‘The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital: Some History and Some Recollections’, Year Book (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Medical Officers' Association), 1935, pp 9-17
Empire (Sydney), 16 July 1874
Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 1883, 30 Sept, 1 Oct 1912
printed sources catalogue under J. C. Cox (State Library of New South Wales)
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Cox, James Charles
Cox, Margaret Wharton (wife)
Cox, Mary Frances (wife)
Cox, Emma Sarah (wife)
Lindsey, Lady (daughter)
MacLachlan, Elinor Mary (daughter)
Galletly, Margaret May (daughter)
Livingstone-Learmonth, Marcia Lilian (daughter)
Cox, James Wharton (son)
Cox, Oswald Maclellan (son)
Cox, Allaster Edward (son)
Cox, Arthur Brooks (son)
Gibbes, Frederick Charles (stepson)
Cox, Laura Richmond (daughter-in-law)
Cox, Jane Maria (mother)
Cox, Edward (father)
Benson, Frances Maria (mother-in-law)
Cox, Edward King (brother)
Cox, Richard William (brother)
Terry, Isabel Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Cox, William (uncle)
Cox, James (uncle)
Cox, George (uncle)
Cox, Eliza (aunt by marriage)
Maddox, Emma Elizabeth (aunt by marriage)
Lakeland, John Thomas (uncle by marriage)
Lakeland, James Gordon (uncle by marriage)
Cox, William (grandfather)
Brooks, Richard (grandfather)
Miller, James Cox (cousin)
Youl, Eliza (cousin)
Cox, George Henry (cousin)
Lamb, Jane (cousin)
Stephen, Rebecca Maria (cousin)
Smith, John (work colleague)
Scarr, John Agar (colleague)
Douglass, Henry Grattan (teacher)
Ruth Teale, 'Cox, James Charles (1834–1912)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cox-james-charles-3344/text4973, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 22 January 2020.
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How the Nintendo Amusement Park Works
by William Harris
Image courtesy Dan Albritton, Noah Shibley & Quanya Chen
In the 1982 movie "Tron," a programmer goes into a computer world, where he must compete in the gladiator-style games he helped design. For many gamers, possessing the powers, living the life and fighting the battles of their favorite characters would be a dream come true. Virtual reality can make this possible, but it's not the only solution. What if you could build a video-game environment in the real world with a system that would allow you to perform all of the game's actions and moves in real time and space? A team of three New York University students -- Daniel Albritton, Quanya Chen and Noah Shibley -- is doing just that with one of the most popular video games ever produced: "Super Mario Bros." They're calling their creation "Nintendo Amusement Park," and with it, they're helping to evolve a new area of science known as physically-augmented reality.
In this article, we'll give you a behind-the-scenes tour of the Nintendo Amusement Park and explain the differences between augmented reality, physically-augmented reality and virtual reality. We'll also describe how the parts of the Nintendo Amusement Park work together and take a look at some similar projects.
The name "Nintendo Amusement Park" is actually a misnomer, because an amusement park is a collection of rides, games and other forms of entertainment. It's really a single "ride" -- a real-life interactive adventure that allows players to dress up as Mario or Luigi, enter the Mushroom Kingdom and perform the actions that the heroes perform in the video game. Players can jump over obstacles, land on and ride moving platforms, and smash enemies. They can even collect gold coins and punch power-up boxes.
How do you give normal human beings the superhuman abilities Mario and Luigi have in the video-game world? You help them jump, of course -- and jump high. Jumping is just one requirement, though. The other is the world itself -- the Mushroom Kingdom complete with its moving platforms, obstacles and enemies. The designers plan to use a variety of mechanical systems and objects to duplicate these effects and create a large, navigable obstacle course. When complete, the Nintendo Amusement Park will be a 100-meter-long course that fully replicates the side-scrolling, platform action of "Super Mario Bros." To simulate the various worlds and levels of the video game, the designers will build different challenge areas -- or courses.
That's the ultimate vision, anyway. Right now, the park exists as a much simpler prototype, with plans for a gradual, phased implementation of the more complex gaming environment. Let's look at the prototype in greater detail.
The Prototype
The Nintendo Amusement Park prototype recreates the core elements of "Super Mario Bros" on a smaller, simpler scale. Although it's fairly crude, the prototype demonstrates the basic principles and technologies necessary to recreate "Super Mario Bros" in the real world. Those parts are:
A motorized truss that acts as a support structure and attachment point for the suspension system.
A suspension system that boosts players' jumps.
A harness that connects players to the suspension system.
An obstacle course that replicates the physical challenges of the video game. The obstacle course in the prototype consists of inflatable objects and foam props placed on the ground, balloons attached to the background sheet and boxes suspended on wires from the overhead truss.
While the player has great vertical mobility in this system, he doesn't have much forward or lateral (side-to-side) mobility because the suspension system is attached to fixed points on the truss. The farther he moves from the fixed point, the more the bungee cords pull him back. This makes it difficult to have an interaction that takes place over a long horizontal distance, a defining characteristic of "Super Mario Bros." To solve this problem, the designers have several modifications in mind for future versions of the game. In the next section, we'll look at these modifications.
Thanks to Michael D. Belote for his assistance with this article.
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by Editors of Consumer Guide
Browse the article Great Basin National Park
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©2006 Publications International, Ltd. The Great Basin National Park features the Snake Range mountain peaks. See more pictures of national parks.
100 Great Basin National Park
Baker, NV 89311
www.nps.gov/grba
Between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in a corner of the vast territory that stretches across the West, an unexpectedly rugged landscape suddenly rises above the floor of the desert and into the blue sky of eastern Nevada. These mountain peaks are part of the Snake Range, one of the main attractions at Great Basin National Park. Visitors also enjoy candlelit tours through the fascinating cavern system of Lehman Caves. Great Basin is situated approximately halfway between the Las Vegas and Salt Lake City airports.
Entrance fees: Admission is free. There is a fee for cave tours.
Visitor center: The visitor center is open daily, except January 1, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25.
Lower Lehman Creek Campground. Open year-round. First-come, first-served.
Baker Creek Campgound. Open mid-May through September. First-come, first-served.
Grey Cliffs Campground. Open Memorial Day to Labor Day. First-come, first-served.
Upper Lehman Creek Campground. Open From mid-May through September. First-come, first-served.
Wheeler Peak Campground. Open June through September. First-come, first-served.
Primitive campgrounds. Open year-round. First-come, first-served.
Visiting Great Basin National ParkFor decades before the Great Basin became a national park in 1986, the Snake Range of Nevada was known for its soaring peaks, bristlecone pine groves, and extensive natural caverns. The range is part of the extensive system of fault-block mountains -- more than 100 exist -- that sharply wrinkle the otherwise flattened landscape of the Great Basin Desert.
One of the main attractions for sightseers is the extensive labyrinth of underground tunnels and rooms that comprise Lehman Caves. To read about exploring the caverns and other Great Basin highlights, see the next page.
Great Basin National Park Facts
Activities: Ranger-led nature walks and talks, campfire programs, cave tours, candlelight cave tours, and spelunking trips; Wheeler Peak scenic drive, hiking, fishing, climbing, cross-country skiing, and backpacking
Sightseeing at Great Basin National Park
©2006 National Park Services The high country receives 30 inches of annual precipitation, resulting in lush green meadows.
Most visitors to Great Basin National Park come to see either the soaring granitic spires of Wheeler Peak or the well-known Lehman Caves. These extensive caverns are something to see, with fantastic displays of stalactites, stalagmites, sculpted stone columns, rock curtains, and even mushroomlike rock formations.
The centerpiece of the park is Wheeler Peak, Nevada's second tallest mountain at 13,063 feet. The main park road travels up to its 10,000-foot level. From there, a trail leads to a stand of bristlecone pines, the world's oldest living trees.
While the surrounding lowlands of sagebrush and creosote receive only about ten inches of annual precipitation, the high country of Snake Range receives three times that, resulting in grassy meadows, thick forests, and lingering snowfields.
Hikes From Wheeler Peak
Great Basin's only glacier lies near the 13,063-foot summit of lovely Wheeler Peak, close to a stand of bristlecone pine trees. The summit can be reached by car and by foot.
From the main park road, visitors follow a trail that leads up the mountain to the Wheeler Peak Campground. Along the way the environment changes from a pinon and juniper forest, which is able to withstand drought, to a high-altitude world of spruce, pine, and aspen. At the 10,000-foot level, visitors have a choice of several trails into the park's backcountry or a trail to the peak's summit 3,000 feet above.
One of the most popular hikes is the 2.7-mile Alpine Lakes Loop Trail. It leads to a spectacularly scenic alpine setting, with a ragged mountain ridge rising high above a lake. Another trail follows the ridge up to the summit, which is populated by pikas and marmots and decorated with wildflowers poking out of niches in the rock.
Exploring Lehman Caves
Lehman Caves are on the lower slopes of Wheeler Peak, at an altitude of around 6,800 feet. The caverns are an underground wonderland filled with intricate and spectacular formations. Rangers lead visitors through approximately one and a half miles of trails.
The caverns are filled with latticed columns, undulating draperies, helicites, and stalactites. These formations are so dense that the caves' first explorers took along sledgehammers to clear a trail.
Great Basin National Park Photo Opportunities
The Snake Range provides an excellent backdrop for the sweeping meadows and alpine lakes scattered throughout Great Basin National Park. Here are some can't-miss photo opportunities:
Lexington Arch: Rising from the floor of Lexington Canyon in the southeast corner of Great Basin, Lexington Arch is a stunning natural limestone formation. Because most arches in western America are formed from sandstone, there is speculation that the Lexington Arch may once have been part of an underground cave system.
Wheeler Peak Summit: The trail to the summit of Wheeler Peak winds through five miles of rugged terrain and climbs 3,000 feet in elevation -- so only hearty sightseers should attempt this hike. But the panorama from 13,063 feet is stunning.
Lehman Caves: With underground pools, latticed columns, and unusual cave shields, the Lehman Caves offer intriguing sights around every bend. Be sure to bring a camera with a flash.
The Lehman Caves contain a high concentration of cave shields, an unusual and fascinating rock formation. On the next page, we'll take a closer look at this unusual geological phenomenon. In addition, read about the park's bristlecone pine groves, where the oldest trees in the world grow.
Great Basin National Park Geology and Wildlife
©2006 National Park Services At the limit of the timberline, 4,000-year-old bristlecone pines survive in an incredibly hostile climate of harsh winters and lengthy annual droughts.
Great Basin National Park was named by John C. Fremont, who led the first party of white explorers into this territory in the mid-19th century. Although maps make it look like a basin, the region actually consists of more than 100 valleys. One of the newest national parks within the 50 states -- it was established in 1986 -- Great Basin takes in only a small part of this vast expanse of land, which includes some of the nation's most geologically fascinating terrain as well as some fascinating plant life. Here are the highlights:
Cave Shields
Among their many treasures, Lehman Caves contain excellent examples of cave shields. These large and somewhat rare disks grow out of ceiling cracks where seeping mineral-laden water deposits sediments in flat circular shapes. The shields grow at odd angles from the ceiling, floor and walls, and may be decorated with popcorn or helictites along a central crack.
Bristlecone Pines
The bristlecone pines look ancient indeed with their twisted, gnarled trunks and their bark carved and polished like rock by eons of wind, snow, and ice. The trees are vestiges of a Pleistocene forest that once covered the region.
Bristlecones are survivors; they continue to live even after most of their trunks and branches die, sustained by minuscule amounts of moisture. Scientists estimate that some of the bristlecone pines in the range are more than 4,000 years old.
Prior to the establishment of the park, one tree named Prometheus lived for 4,844 years, according to its annual growth rings, before it was cut down in 1964. That tree began its life a long time ago -- before Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, Ramses, Moses, or any other well-known individuals from early human history. Touch one of those primeval trees, and you are touching something exceedingly ancient from a human perspective.
Great Basin National Park offers visitors plenty of solitude, as well as sweeping views of the basin and range country that sit within and outside its boundaries. As numerous visitors find out each year, there are many wonders to behold in this desert-surrounded park.
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Geography Corvo
The archipelago Santa Maria São Miguel Terceira Graciosa São Jorge Pico Faial Flores Corvo
Geography History Nature Experiences Heritage Festivities Food and Drinks Accommodation Getting around Getting here
Caldeirão Lookout
A 300-metre deep crater with a diameter of 2.3 km. Some say that, inside, you can see the outline of the nine islands of the Azores.
Nossa Sr.ª dos Milagres Church
Dedicated to the patron saint of the island, whose feast is celebrated on 15 August. Inside, the statue of the saint which dates back to the sixteenth century can be found.
Areia Beach
Also known as Portinho da Areia, this beach is characterised by being the only sand beach on the island of Corvo. The beach is formed by small grains that originate in the decomposition of volcanic rocks, in volcanic ash and in myriads of small shells of sea creatures that, for thousands of years, have built up in this sheltered spot of the coast.
Influenced by Mediterranean designs, they are smaller than those influenced by Northern European models. In these black stone constructions, the domes and the triangular sails constantly rotate to face the direction of the wind.
Corvo Wild Birds Interpretation Centre
The Corvo Wild Birds Interpretation Centre is a mandatory stop for those who wish to get to know the Nature Park, as well as the Corvo Island Biosphere Reserve.
Here you can discover the wild birds that occur in the archipelago, and know a bit more about the practice of birdwatching, the tourism activity that places Corvo Island as a location of high importance in the context of international birdwatching.
In this exhibition, visitors have access to several multimedia equipment, which allow them to obtain information related to the Nature Park and the Azores birdlife, including a sightings’ registration screen, a hologram and a book with illustrations of wintering, migratory, nesting and accidental birds. They also have the opportunity to "travel" along the island through a virtual reality experience, for a better understanding of the interaction between Man and the environment.
The Centre also includes Corvo's last mill where, until the beginning of the 60's, was carried out the island's main flourishing process.
pncorvo.centroambiental@azores.gov.pt
http://parquesnaturais.azores.gov.pt/pt/corvo/o-que-visitar/centros-ambientais/…
The smallest island of the Azores is 6.24 km long and has 3.99 km at its maximum width. This oval shaped island stretches from north to south and has an area of 17.1 sq. km, with 430 people (2011 data) living there. The island of Corvo and the island of Flores, 17.9 km away, make up the Western Group of the archipelago. The highest point of the island, at an altitude of 720 m, is located in the area known as Estreitinho at 39°41'58'' latitude north and 31°06'55'' longitude west.
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LSU’s Ed Orgeron is AP college football coach of the year
By RALPH D. RUSSODecember 17, 2019 GMT
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2019, file photo, LSU coach Ed Orgeron celebrates after the team's win over Georgia in an NCAA college football game for the Southeastern Conference championship, in Atlanta. Top-ranked LSU has the SEC’s coach of the year in Ed Orgeron, as The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference football team was announced Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (C.B. Schmelter/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)
Ed Orgeron of LSU is The Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading the top-ranked Tigers to a Southeastern Conference championship and their first College Football Playoff appearance.
Orgeron received 33 of 56 first-place votes from Top 25 poll voters and a total of 130 points for the award presented by Regions Bank and announced Tuesday.
Baylor’s Matt Rhule, who led the Bears to an 11-2 record and an appearance in the Big 12 championship game, finished second with 14 first-place votes (86 points). Ohio State’s Ryan Day was third with five-first-place votes (45 points) and Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck was fourth with three first-place votes (40 points).
Orgeron is the third different LSU coach to win the award since it was established in 1998, joining Nick Saban in 2003 and Les Miles in 2011. Saban and Miles both led their teams to the BCS championship game, with Saban winning and Miles losing.
Orgeron and the Tigers will face No. 4 Oklahoma in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 28 at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta.
This is Orgeron’s third full season as LSU coach and the Tigers’ record has improved each year. He was elevated to interim coach during the 2016 season after Miles was fired and eventually landed his dream job.
The Louisiana native is 38-9 at LSU with a 23-7 record in the SEC. The 58-year-old Orgeron was a longtime assistant coach, part of national championship staffs with Miami in the late 1980s and early ’90s, and with Southern California in the early 2000s. Along the way, he gained a reputation as one of the best recruiters and defensive line coaches in the nation.
His first stint as a head coach was in the SEC at Mississippi. That lasted only three seasons and 10 victories. He was interim head coach at USC in 2013, going 6-2 but it wasn’t enough to keep the job.
Orgeron landed at LSU as an assistant to Miles in 2015. He faced some skepticism when he was first given the job by then-athletic director Joe Alleva, but over three years he has proved to be a perfect fit. A week after his team landed the top seed in the playoff, he spent the weekend watching his quarterback, Joe Burrow, win the Heisman Trophy.
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Ascend Finalizes Plan for $175 Million Project in Decatur, Ala.
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 23, 2019--
Ascend Performance Materials has finalized an agreement with the state of Alabama for economic incentives related to the construction of cogeneration units and expansion of adiponitrile capacity at its Decatur, Alabama, site. The $175 million project will expand ADN capacity, reduce the site’s environmental footprint and create new jobs.
Ascend is set to invest $175 million at its Decatur, Ala., plant to increase ADN capacity and install cogeneration units. (Photo: Business Wire)
Ascend’s board of directors approved the project, subject to finalized agreements with the state, Morgan County Economic Development Association and the City of Decatur. Construction will create 150 skilled jobs during construction, 10 high-end manufacturing jobs by project completion and reduce emissions by 60 percent. Ascend currently employs over 400 people in the state of Alabama.
“The Decatur community is at the heart of our business,” said Phil McDivitt, Ascend’s president and CEO. “The ADN produced there is a critical building block for nylon 6,6, a high-performance plastic used in a variety of products from life-saving vehicle airbags to high-voltage electrical connectors.”
“Ascend Performance Materials’ facility has been an important part of Decatur’s business community for decades, and I’m pleased to see the company build on the partnership it has formed in Morgan County with this major investment,” Governor Kay Ivey said. “It’s always great to see a world-class manufacturer like Ascend decide to include Alabama in its growth plans.”
President of the Morgan County Economic Development Association Jeremy Nails added, “Morgan County is quickly becoming a center of excellence for manufacturing. We’re pleased that Ascend chose the city of Decatur to expand and help grow its economy.”
MasTec Power Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE), was selected to serve as the prime contractor for the project and will bring its 35 years of experience to provide innovative turnkey engineer, procure and construct (EPC) solutions and support. Construction will begin in the second quarter of 2020 and end in late 2021.
“MasTec Power Corp. is pleased and proud to be a part of this state-of-the-art power project that maximizes power and heat recovery, reduces Ascend’s carbon footprint and boosts the economies of Decatur and Morgan County. We anticipate this project will bring roughly 150 skilled jobs to the Decatur area in 2020 and 2021,” said Michael Donmoyer, executive vice president, MasTec Power.
Ascend’s site in Decatur is one of only four plants in the world that produce ADN on a large scale.
About Ascend Performance Materials
Ascend Performance Materials is a global premium provider of high-quality plastics, fibers and chemicals and is the world’s largest integrated producer of PA66 resin. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Ascend has nine global locations, including five fully-integrated manufacturing facilities located in the southeastern United States and an engineering plastics compounding facility in Europe, all dedicated to the innovation and safe production of polyamide 66. With three of the world’s largest chemical processing facilities, Ascend’s materials form the building blocks for products used in everyday applications from apparel to airbags, cable ties to circuit boards and carpets to car parts. Ascend’s 2,600-person global workforce is committed to making a difference in the communities we serve and leading the development of material solutions that inspire everyone, everywhere, every day.
Together, we’re making a difference.
Together, we’re inspiring everyday.
More information about Ascend can be found at www.ascendmaterials.com
Alison Jahn, +1 713-210-9809,ajahn@ascendmaterials.com
KEYWORD: TEXAS ALABAMA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENGINEERING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS MANUFACTURING
SOURCE: Ascend Performance Materials
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Recommended to Receive $14.9 Million to Develop Promising Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease
Government Relations Committee”Public Relations Committee”
The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) today announced that the Empire State Stem Cell Board (NYSTEM) has recommended approximately $14.9 million in funding be awarded to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to develop an innovative stem-cell therapy that is predicted to increase motor control and coordination in patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
“The recommendation to finance this promising research is yet another outstanding example of the effectiveness of New York’s stem cell program, NYSTEM,” said Dr. Lorenz Studer, principal investigator (PI) and Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “This funding will allow our team to advance our novel cell therapy quickly and bring the project to the level of clinical trials within four years. NYSTEM funding is absolutely critical at this stage as no other funding source is available.”
Once the project enters the clinical trial phase, researchers hope to permanently alleviate or reverse the debilitating symptoms of the disease in Parkinson’s patients.
“This recommended funding is critical to advancing Parkinson’s disease research,” said State Health Commissioner, Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H. “These resources will enable the outstanding team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to continue their vital efforts to halt the progression of Parkinson’s disease.”
The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation defines Parkinson’s disease as a chronic and progressive movement disorder, meaning that symptoms continue and worsen over time. Nearly one million people in the U.S. are living with Parkinson’s disease. The cause is unknown, and presently there is no cure.
Parkinson’s involves the malfunction and death of vital nerve cells in the brain, called neurons. Neurons produce dopamine, a chemical that sends messages to the part of the brain that controls movement and coordination. As Parkinson’s progresses, the amount of dopamine produced in the brain decreases, leaving a person unable to control movement normally.
“After extensive efforts and many years of frustrating studies in labs across the world, our team has finally made a breakthrough discovery that enables the derivation of nearly unlimited numbers of authentic midbrain dopamine producing neurons from stem cells,” said Dr. Studer. “The NYSTEM funding will enable our team to develop these neurons and ultimately prepare them to be safely reintroduced to patients with Parkinson’s, replenishing their dopamine levels.”
While pharmacological, gene therapy and surgical therapies have been developed for Parkinson’s, none of those approaches can restore proper dopamine neuron function, and long-term disease control for patients is limited.
The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation estimates the combined direct and indirect cost of Parkinson’s, including treatment, social security payments and lost income from inability to work, to be nearly $25 billion per year in the United States alone. Medication costs for an individual with Parkinson’s average $2,500 a year, and therapeutic surgery can cost up to $100,000 per patient.
“Quickly advancing this project could potentially save patients and the state millions in medical care costs, while improving the health and well-being of millions of Parkinson’s patients across the globe,” said Dr. Studer.
In 2007, New York State allocated $600 million over 11 years to NYSTEM, making it the second largest publicly financed stem cell program in the country. To date, New York has awarded nearly $200 million and has recommended an additional $62.2 million to support stem cell research for the purpose of exploring innovative cures and treatment to life threatening and chronic illnesses.
According to a 2012 AMSNY report, the state’s investment has been a tool for economic development by creating more than 400 jobs at New York’s medical schools since the program’s inception. In addition, NYSTEM is unique in that it funds early stage projects that have not been able to access other funding sources such as those granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NYSTEM also is distinct among other research grants in that it provides funding for capital projects and equipment, allowing institutions to develop or expand their stem cell research infrastructure.
“Not only are physicians and scientists making progress towards understanding how to effectively treat Parkinson’s disease, they are also generating jobs, attracting promising young women and men into medical and scientific careers here in New York, and enhancing our state’s leadership in biomedical research,” said Jo Wiederhorn. “None of this would have been possible without NYSTEM.”
AMSNY is New York’s voice for medical education. It is comprised of the sixteen public and private medical schools in NYS. Its members are:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, SUNY
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Deborah Fasser
dfasser@corningplace.com
Stem Cell Board Recommends $14.9 Million for Parkinson’s Project
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Rosacea affects an estimated 16 million Americans. Dr. Golub was the principal investigator of the research leading to the development of Oracea. The drug delivers a dose of doxycycline that is not strong enough to kill bacteria, but that will reduce lesions and inflammation.
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Alaska History, Vol. 26, #1, Spring 2011
Alaskana is an annotated listing of recent publications on the North featured in Alaska History, the journal of the Alaska Historical Society.
Compiled by Teressa Williams, Anchorage Museum.
Hall Anderson, Still Rainin’ Still Dreamin’: Hall Anderson’s Ketchikan (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010), 118 pp., softcover, $35.00, ISBN 9781889963907. A pictorial history of three decades of life in Ketchikan from a Ketchikan Daily News staff photographer.
Susan B. Andrews and John Creed, editors, Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North: Stories from 23 Rural Alaskans (Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2011), 304 pp., softcover, $17.95, ISBN 9781935347101. An anthology of short stories written by Alaskan writers from the remote regions of Alaska
James A. Barker, Ann Fienup-Riordan, and Theresa Arevgaq John, Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup’ik Ways of Dancing (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2011), 237 pp., hardcover, includes a DVD, $50.00, ISBN 9781602230828. This book won the 2011 Alaskana award from the Alaska Library Association.
Anthony Brandt, The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 464 pp., hardcover, $28.95, ISBN 9780307263926. A history of the search for the Northwest Passage.
Douglas Brinkley, The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 (New York: HarperCollins Publishing, 2011), 592 pp., hardcover, $29.99, ISBN 9780062005960. A history of conservation of Alaska’s wilderness.
Terrence Cole, Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star: C. W. Snedden and the Crusade for Alaska Statehood (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010), 502 pp., hardcover, $30.00, ISBN 9781883309060. The story of how C. W. Snedden helped Alaska become a state.
James W. Davis, The Raven and the Double Eagle (Xlibris Corporation, 2010), 146 pp., softcover, $19.99 plus shipping, ISBN 9781456819668. To purchase a copy call the Sitka Historical Museum at 907-747-6455. This book looks at the relationship between the Russians and the Tlingits in the early 1800s.
David H. DeJong, Plagues, Politics, and Policy: A Chronicle of the Indian Health Service, 1955-2008 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), 250 pp., hardcover, $70.00, ISBN 9780739146033. History of the health challenges of American Indians and Alaska Natives over the past fifty years.
James C. Foster, Bong Hits 4 Jesus: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska’s Capital (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010), 373 pp., softcover, $29.95, ISBN 9781602230897. High school student Joseph Frederick and friends held a banner reading “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS” during the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay in Alaska which sparked a U.S. Supreme Court case affecting the First Amendment speech rights.
Amy Gulick, Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest (Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 2010), 176 pp., hardcover, includes a CD, $29.95, ISBN 9781594850912. A look into the ecology and history of the Tongass National Forest.
George Harbeson Jr., Homesteaders in the Headlights: One Family’s Journey from a Depression-Era New Jersey Farm to a New Life in Wasilla, Alaska (Walnut Creek, CA: Hardscratch Press, 2010), 312 pp., $21.50, ISBN 9780978997984. Biography of the Harbeson family from the 1950s to the ‘60s.
Linda Johnson, The Kandik Map (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2011), 232 pp., softcover, $19.95, ISBN 9781602230422. The story of how and why Native American Paul Kandik and French explorer Francois Mercier created the Kandik map.
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass, The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010), 331 pp., hardcover, $50.00, ISBN 9780295989624. History and transformation of the art in totem poles from the eighteenth century to the present.
Jeffery A. Jones and Laurie Hoyle, Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010), 173 pp., hardcover, $55.00 ISBN 9781602230880. A pictorial view of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Preston Jones, City for Empire: An Anchorage History, 1914-1941 (Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press, 2010), 232 pp., $26.95, softcover, ISBN 9781602230842. The story of Anchorage’s development and its diverse inhabitants.
Steve Kahn, The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 224 pp., hardcover, $22.95, ISBN 9780803232686. Anecdotes on the great outdoors in Alaska.
Matti Lainema and Juha Nurminen, A History of Arctic Exploration: Discovery, Adventure and Endurance at the Top of the World (London: Conway and New York: Sterling Publishing, 2010), 352 pp., hardcover, $60.00, ISBN 9781844860692. The stories of explorers searching for the Northwest Passage and the race for the North Pole.
Huw Lewis-Jones, Face to Face: Polar Portraits (London: Conway Publishing, 2010), 288 pages, hardcover, $39.95, ISBN 9781844860999. Photographs and portraits from the Scott Polar Research Institute of polar explorers.
Robert Lyon, editor, Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum Historic Structure Report ([Anchorage]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, 2010), 125 pp., spiral bound, request from the National Park Service Alaska Regional Office 240 West 5th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. A detailed chronological history of the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum and recommendation of treatment to preserve the building.
Gwenn A. Miller, Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), 216 pp., hardcover, $55.00, ISBN 9780801446429. The history of the early Russian colonization of Kodiak.
Rod Perry, Trailbreakers: Pioneering Alaska’s Iditarod, Vol. II: Most Daring Iditarod Adventure of All Time: Founding the Last Great Race on Earth (Chugiak, AK: Rod Perry, 2010), 350 pp., softcover, $19.95, ISBN 0982373015. Available from the author at www.rodperry.com. History of the Iditarod sled dog race.
Ken Tape, The Changing Arctic Landscape (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010), 56 pp., hardcover, $35.00, ISBN 9781602230804. A comparison of historic photographs to pictures of the present of arctic landscapes and the changes in the ecosystem that have taken place.
Spike Walker, On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 288 pp., hardcover, $24.99, ISBN 9780312286347. The account of a cargo ship that ran aground off the Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004 and the heroic efforts to rescue the crew.
Sara Wheeler, The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 336 pp., hardcover, $26.00, ISBN 9780374200138. Story of Sara Wheeler’s adventures of traveling around the North Pole through Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.
Glyndwr Williams, Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 462 pp., hardcover, $34.95, ISBN 9780520266278. The history of explorers searching for the Northwest Passage.
Roxanne Willis, Alaska’s Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010), 186 pp., hardcover, $34.95, ISBN 9780700617487. An examination of the battles between environmentalists and developers, including the Alaska Highway, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the Rampart Dam.
Alaska History, Vol. 26, #2, Fall 2011
James K. Barnett, Alaskan History – In Brief (Anchorage: Todd Communications, 2010), 208 pp., softcover, $16.95, ISBN-10 1578335175, ISBN-13 9781578335176. Contact Todd Communications, 611 E. 12th Ave, Suite 102, Anchorage, AK 99501-4603, or email at sales@toddcom.com or at www.alaskabooksandcalendars.com. A succinct overview of Alaska’s history, including Alaska Native peoples, Russian America, World War II in the territory, Statehood, and other important topics.
Kenneth E. Bingham, Seabee Book, the U.S. Navy Seabee Alaskan Oil Expedition 1944: With Additional Alaskan World War Two History, Construction Battalion Detachment 1058 (Binghamus Press, 2011), 270 pp., softcover, ISBN-10 1461028248, ISBN-13 9781461028246. Contact jorden2323@msn.com. This self-published book looks at the Naval Seabee Construction Battalion Detachment 1058 (NCBD-1058) that explored for oil on the North Slope of Alaska, as well as other Seabee units that were involved with World War II in the Aleutians, the Alaska Scouts, and the construction of the ALCAN.
Howard Blum, The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush (New York: Crown Publishers, 2011), 432 pp., hardcover, $26.00, ISBN-10 0307461726, ISBN-13 9780307461728. This book tells the lives of Charlie Siringo, a cowboy turned businessman turned Pinkerton detective; Jefferson “Soapy” Smith, criminal and gangster in Skagway; and George Carmack who is credited with the discovery of gold that set off the Klondike Gold Rush.
Jane Bryant, Snapshots from the Past: A Roadside History of Denali National Park and Preserve ([Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 2011), 204 pp., softcover. A pictorial history of Denali National Park following the park road from the east entrance to the west at Kantishna.
Gladys Dart and Alfred Wright, In Deed, Indeed: Teaching and Learning in a One Room School (Denver: Outskirts Press, Inc., 2009), 145 pp., softcover, $32.95, ISBN-10 1432739565, ISBN-13 9781432739560. Gladys Dart, a former teacher, administrator, and regional school board member, related her story and educational philosophy to Alfred Wright, a student at the Gladys Dart School whose classroom assignment turned into this book.
Leonard H. Delano, Sunken Klondike Gold: How a Lost Fortune Inspired an Ambitious Effort to Raise the S.S. Islander ([Newberg, OR]: Delano Publishing, 2011), 176 pp., softcover, $24.95, ISBN-10 1450736602, ISBN-13 9781450736602. It was thought that the Islander had gold worth $3 million when it sank off the coast of Juneau in 1901, and it was resurrected in 1934 with one thing in mind, to find the missing gold.
Bonnie Demerjian, Wrangell (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011), 127 pp., softcover, $21.99, ISBN-10 0738574988, ISBN-13 9780738574981. As part of the Images of America series, this publication looks at the history of Wrangell, Alaska.
Aaron Glass, editor and Mique’l Askren and others, contributors, Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast: Selections from the American Museum of Natural History (New York: Bard Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2011), 256 pp., softcover, $40.00, ISBN-10 030017442X, ISBN-13 9780300174427. This book explores the change in material culture of Northwest Coast peoples in the late nineteenth century from the perspective of objects from the American Museum of Natural History.
Jay S. Hammond, Diapering the Devil: How Alaska Helped Staunch Befouling by Mismanaged Oil Wealth; a Lesson for Other Oil Rich Nations (Homer, AK: Kachemack Resource Institute, 2011), 63 pp., softcover, $12.00, ISBN-13 9780979744280. Contact Kachemack Resource Institute, 1520 Lakeshore Dr., Homer, AK 99603, or email lestate@gci.net. Governor Hammond’s last manuscript before he passed away in 2005, with his thoughts on Alaska’s Permanent Fund and how to prevent the mismanagement of Alaska’s petroleum wealth, unlike many of the world’s oil rich countries.
Michael D. Hall, Robert Davidson, and Pat Glascock, Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles 1880-2010 (Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 2011), 223 pp., hardcover, $60.00, ISBN-13 9780295991498. Contact the University of Washington Press at www.washington.edu/uwpress/. This book is based on an exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Canada which traces the history of model totem poles from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Steven C. Levi, The Clara Nevada: Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska’s Inside Passage (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011), 128 pp., softcover, $19.99, ISBN-10 1609492889, ISBN-13 9781609492885. The story of the sunken steamer, the Clara Nevada, in the Lynn Canal in Alaska’s southeast in 1898 and how it may have been due to murder and greed.
Amber Lincoln with John Goodwin and others, Living With Old Things: Iñupiaq Stories, Bering Strait Histories ([Anchorage]: National Park Service, [Alaska Region, Shared Beringian Heritage Program], 2010), 43 pp., softcover. Contact the Shared Beringian Heritage Program, National Park Service, 240 W. 5th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501; or ebook at http://www.nps.gov/akso/beringia. An exchange of stories and knowledge from Iñupiat elders and museum personnel of artifacts tcollected by the British Naval Ship HMS Blossom in 1826-1827 from the Bering Strait area and stored in three British museums.
Frederick G. Lyman, All This and Attu (Lyman Family, 2011), 88 pp., softcover, $8.95, ISBN-10 1460936388, ISBN-13 9781460936382. Frederick Lyman’s memoir of his time spent serving in the Aleutian Island campaign during World War II.
Michael McGuire, Angels to Ashes: Largest Unsolved Mass Murder in Alaska History (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010), 152 pp., softcover, $11.95, ISBN-13 9781452038254. Contact http://www.authorhouse.com. As the author was personally involved with the case of the murders of eight people aboard the fishing vessel Investor, he sheds light on new evidence in this gruesome crime.
Barb Mee, Senator Ted and Mee (Anchorage, Alaska: BAM Publishing: Todd Communications, 2010), 208 pp., softcover, $19.95, ISBN-13 9781578335022. Contact Todd Communications, 611 E. 12th Ave, Suite 102, Anchorage, AK 99015-4603, or email at sales@toddcom.com or at www.alaskabooksandcalendars.com. Memoir by one of Senator Ted Steven’s long time staffer’s Barbara Mee.
Linda Millard and Nycole Gizinski, The Legacy of Saxman: Looking to the Future Through Out Past ([Juneau]: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Region, Branch of Regional Archeology, 2011), 61 pp., softcover. This publication looks at the history to the present of the Tlingit people of Saxman, Alaska.
John M. Miller, The Last Alaskan Barrel: An Arctic Oil Bonanza that Never Was (Anchorage: Caseman Publishing, 2010), 193 pp., softcover, $19.95, ISBN-10 0982878001, ISBN-13 9780982878002. The author analyzes if the fifty year investment into the North Slope oil fields is worth the investment for the companies and shareholders; and what the future of oil and natural gas might be in Alaska.
Hannah Moderow, The Frozen Trail: Alaska’s Iditarod National Historic Trail (Anchorage: Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance, 2011), 28 pp., softcover. Contact the Iditarod National Historic Trail, PO Box 232, Seward, AK 99664. This book gives a historic overview of the Iditarod Trail from its inception during Alaska’s Gold Rush era, to the Serum Run and to what it has become today.
Lael Morgan, Eskimo Star: From the Tundra to Tinseltown the Ray Mala Story (Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2011), 144 pp., softcover, $19.95, ISBN-10 1935347128, ISBN-13 9781935347125. The story of Ray Mala, from his life in Alaska to overnight stardom as an actor, and his ability to adapt between two cultures.
Amy Mow, editor, Snapshots of Seward: A History in Photos (Seward, AK: Seward Community Library Association, 2010), 102 pp., softcover, $16.95, ISBN-13 9780615333090. A selection of historic photographs depicting the history of Seward.
Alice Rearden, translator, and Ann Fienup-Riordan, editor, Qaluyaarmiuni nunamtenek qanemciput = Our Nelson Island Stories: Meanings of Place on the Bering Sea Coast (Anchorage: Calista Elders Council; Seattle: in association with University of Washington Press, 2011), 441 pp., softcover, $50.00, ISBN-10 0295991356, ISBN-13 9780295991351. Contact University of Washington Press, c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Services., PO Box 50370, Baltimore, MD 21211-4370 or http://www.washington.edu/uwpress. Nelson Island elders tell the story of their worldview and subsistence lifestyle from the 1940s to the present, depicting the dramatic changes in the environment that have taken place in the last sixty years.
Stanley Reed and Alison Fitzgerald, In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took it Down (Hoboken, NJ: Bloomberg Press, 2011), 226 pp., hardcover, $24.95, ISBN-10 0470950900, ISBN-13 9780470950906. This book explores the environmental disasters that have taken place at a number of BP operations from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, and examines why they have occurred and what the future entails for BP.
Anne K. Salomon, Henry Huntington and Nick Tanape Sr., Imam Cimiucia Our Changing Sea (Fairbanks, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, 2011), 105 pp., hardcover, $39.95, ISBN-10 1566121590, ISBN-13 9781566121590. With the fear of their traditional subsistence practices and knowledge becoming lost, the Sugpiaq elders of Port Graham and Nanwalek collaborated with other residents, a social scientist and a doctoral student in marine ecology to weave together archaeological data, historical records and traditional knowledge to explore the decline of the bidarki, a type of shellfish that is an important subsistence resource for the Sugpiat.
Stephen J. Spurr, In Search of the Kuskokwim and Other Great Endeavors: The Life and Times of J. Edward Spurr (Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2010), 220 pp., softcover, $17.95, ISBN-10 1935347047, ISBN-13 9781935347040. In 1896 and 1898, the U.S. Geological Survey commissioned J. Edward Spurr to explore and map the Yukon and Kuskokwim regions.
Tim Troll, Sailing for Salmon: The Early Years of Commercial Fishing in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, 1884-1951 (Dillingham, AK: Nushagak-Mulchatna/Wood Tikchik Land Trust, 2011), 60 pp., softcover, ISBN-10 0615470505, ISBN-13 9780615470504. Contact Nushagak-Mulchatna/Wood Tikchik Land Trust, PO Box 1388, Dillingham, AK 99576. A pictorial history of early commercial fishing in Bristol Bay.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Battle for the Aleutians: A Brief Illustrated History ([Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, 2011), 36 pp., softcover. A pictorial history of World War II in the Aleutians.
John H. Venables, Journey to Statehood – Alaska Becomes Our 49th State (Alaska Litho, Incorporated, 2011), 72 pp., softcover, $20.00, ISBN-10 061542709X, ISBN-13 9780615427096. John Venables, a resident of Haines, relates the stories of William H. Seward, Judge James Wickersham, and E. L. Bob Bartlett regarding the journey to statehood.
Ilya Vinkovetsky, Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 272 pp., hardcover, $49.95, ISBN-10 0195391284, ISBN-13 9780195391282. A look at how the Russian Empire controlled its Alaskan colony from 1741 to 1867 under the rule of the Russian-American Company.
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PASCHA, 1901
by Paul D. Garrett
The Word Magazine
“Haqqan qam!” — “Alethos aneste!” —”Indeed He is risen!” As millions of New Yorkers all around slept soundly April 14, 1901, 5,000 voices echoed the Good News down Washington Street. Hundreds of rounds of rifle fire provided joyous accompaniment to the first strains of Paschal hymnography as was the custom in the Middle East. Caught up in the sheer animation of the moment, the police assigned to cordon off the block joined in the shouting and discharged blank rounds from their service revolvers. Christ was risen in a truly unique celebration in the nation’s largest city. 1
A month earlier the trustees of the Holy Trinity Greek Church in New York had most inopportunely turned out their pastor, Archimandrite Agarhodoros (Papageorgopoulos), spiritually stranding some 5,000 parishioners too loyal to the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece to turn to their sister parish, Annunciation, which was under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. With Pascha drawing near they turned to Archimandrite Raphael (Hawaweeny), head of the Syro-Arab Mission for the fulfillment of their religious needs.
This solution was in a sense most natural. The Archimandrite’s primary education had been in the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Theological School in Halki, so his Greek was fluent. In addition, his parishioners were accustomed to singing some hymns in Greek. Raphael, however, was a key member of the Russian Mission in America, and as such had fallen frequent target to the Greek press; their experience would not allow them to share his certitude that Russia would eventually prove their protection and salvation against the Turks. Their hostility had been especially fanned in 1899 when the Russians engineered the election of an Arab, Meletios, to the Patriarchal throne of Antioch.2 A lesser man than Raphael might well have borne a righteous grudge; he never hesitated in welcoming his co-religionists. He offered their chantors a position of honor on the left kleros in his cramped apartment-church (St. Nicholas Cathedral on Pacific Street, Brooklyn, would not be ready for occupancy for another year), and Fr. Raphael promised to chant several litanies, prayers and Gospels for them in Greek in addition to Arabic.
Holy Week began. Attendance was meager through the first half of the week. Palm Sunday was rainy; even Greek Independence Day failed to draw many out. On Wednesday the Archimandrite bore the pastoral burden of hearing an additional 200 confessions as the Greeks began arriving. At Matins of Holy Thursday, Greeks outnumbered Arabs by two to one, and the passion Gospels and hymns were chanted in alternating languages. On Friday, the crowd already overflowed into the streets; the church was hot and airless as services continued until 11 P.M.
The priest began to fear the crowds which would gather on the next night. The low-ceilinged wooden building with limited access up a narrow stairway would be a deathtrap in the event of a fire. When he arrived on Washington Street at 11 P.M., Fr. Raphael had to be passed hand-over-hand into church, and people were still gathering. Tempers were on the rise among those unable to draw near enough even to hear the service. The regular parishioners were incensed at having to yield their positions to the Greeks, and confronted their pastor in the altar. With the weather good, Raphael obtained permission from the police to celebrate matins outdoors to accommodate all. . . As one participant observed, it was “a wonderful hymn of Christ’s victory,” unforgettable, unique. All were satisfied, all delighted. True to Sr. John Chrysostom’s admonition, no one went
away hungry. Liturgy was celebrated inside the church for those who remained, and at its conclusion Raphael intoned “Many Years” to the Russian Tsar, the American President, the Greek King, the Russian Holy Synod, Patriarch Meletios of Antioch, Bishop Tikhon, and all Orthodox Christians. At Vespers 2 P.M. on Sunday (Deutera anastasis) the Gospel was proclaimed in Arabic, Greek, Church Slavic, Russian, English, French, Italian, Turkish, and Maltese.
March 13, 1984, marked the eightieth anniversary of the Episcopal consecration of this remarkable man, and all Orthodox Christians would do well to contemplate his example of forgiveness, toleration, and compassion. 3 Throughout his ministry he transcended that narrow nationalism which too frequently poisons and vitiates the practice of the Orthodox Faith, and embodied St. Paul’s admonition to be “all things to all men,” in order to “save some of them by whatever means possible,” (I Cor. 9:22).
1Compiled primarily from Bp. Raphael’s “Sviatye dni Strastnoi Sedmitsy i Paskhi v Siro-Arabskoi N’iu-Iorkskoi tserkvi” (The Holy Days of Holy Week and Pascha in the Syro-Arab Church of New York), Amerikanskii pravoslavnyi vestnik 5:8 (1901), 168-9; a number of other background materials in the same periodical, and Vasileios Th. Zoustes’ Ho en Amerike Hellenismos kai he Drasis Autou (Hellenism in America and its Activities) (New York, 1954). See also an unsigned article. “A Study of the Greeks in Chicago,” in American Journal of Sociology (November 10, 1909) which describes a similar, contemporaneous scene: if an American were to visit this (Greek) neighborhood on the night of Good Friday when the stores are draped with purple and black ,and watch at midnight the solemn procession of Greek men march down the streets carrying their burning candles and chanting hymns, he would probably feel as though he were no longer in America; but after a moment’s reflection he would say that this could be no place but America, for the procession was headed by eight burly Irish-American policemen and along the walks were ‘Americans’ of Polish, Italian, Russian, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Puritan ancestry watching with mingled reverence and curiosity this celebration of Good Friday; while those who marched were homesick and mourning because ‘this was not like in Tripolis.”‘ (quoted in Melvin Hecker and Heike Fenton, eds., The Greeks in Amerca, 1528-1977 (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana
Publications, 1991). 77-78)
2 A particularly pointed and painful example is seen during Raphael’s 1899 visit to Chicago. There he was accosted by a Greek archimandrite from Australia, Dorotheos, for his loyalty to Russia and charged with “deny(ing) your Greek heritage.” Dorotheos declared the election of Patriarch Meletios “contrary to the principles of the Orthodox Church” and threatened that soon we’ll declare all Syro-Arabs schismatics as we did with the Bulgarians — then let Russia help you.” Raphael dismissed such foolishness, replying calmly that he doubted that “the Greek Patriarchs will decide on such an ill-considered step, all the more so since the Antiochian Church has from apostolic times been independent of the other autocephalous Orthodox Churches, and cannot, therefore, be compared with the Bulgarian Church which consisted of a simple diocese of the Constantinopolitan Patriarchate.” He countered the charge of Russian indifference towards the Greek clergy in America by decrying the latter’s aloofness (Amerikanskii pravoslavnyi vestnik 3:17 (1899), 473-4).
3 0n Christmas Eve, 1910, by then Bishop Raphael again demonstrated his pastoral zeal for his non-Arabic brothers in Christ. Archbishop Tikhon had not yet returned from Russia, and the parishioners of St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral were melancholy at the thought of celebrating the feast deprived of the splendor of a hierarchical service. Raphael officiated at a full vigil on 97th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues, then raced across town to Brooklyn for midnight vigil and liturgy. The Russians took pains most effusively to thank him for taking this added burden on himself (Amerikanskii pravoslavnyi vestnik 14:2 (1910), 19-20).
Paul Garrett is the Librarian at St. Vladimir’s Seminary and is currently teaching a course on Orthodoxy in America. Mr. Garrett, extremely interested in the place of Bishop Hawaweeny in our Church in America, has honored THE WORD with this unique translation.
Are You A King, Then?
By Father James C. Meena
In the prophesies of Isaiah, we find the following statement: “For there is a Child born for us, a Son given to us — and dominion is laid on his shoulders and this is the name they gave him: Wonderful — Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Wide is his dominion in a peace that has no end, for the throne of David and for his royal power, which he establishes and makes secure in justice and integrity,” (Isaiah 9:5-7).
This prophesy refers to the royal line of David in a mystical manner that defies immediate understanding. One who would look on the surface would think that Isaiah is talking about someone fulfilling the lineage of David in a temporal monarchy, yet if we read the prophesy carefully we find that the implications are very clear, that the monarchy of which he speaks transcends earthly dominions and domains. It is a universal Kingship, beyond all time, all space.
When Jesus was brought before the Sanhedrin and confronted by Caiaphas, the High Priest, He refused at first to answer him. The High Priest said to Him “I put you on oath by the living God to tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus answered, “The words are your own. Moreover I tell you from this time onward you shall see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven”, (St. Matt. 26:59-65). Notice that Caiaphas did not ask him, “Are you a King?”, because the Priesthood of Judaea was more concerned about the coming of the Messiah than they were about an earthly king because the Messiah promised to bring with Him peace everlasting and dominion of the people of God.
However, it was Pilate who asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”. Jesus replied to Pilate, “Do you ask this of your own accord, or have others told you this of Me?”. Pilate said, “Am I a Jew that I should know these things? Of course others told me about you.” Jesus answered. “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, My men would have fought for Me”. Pilate asked Him again, “So then, are You a King?’ Jesus answered flat out, “Yes, I am a King. It is you who has said so. I was born for this and I came into the world for this to bear witness to the truth and all who are on the side of truth shall listen to My voice”, (St. John 18:33 -40).
You will please notice that Jesus did not circumvent the question the second time. Yet He answered it in such a way that it was no answer at all because Pilate wanted to know, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus sidestepped that question, but when he asked Him, “Are You a king, then?”, He said, “You have spoken. You say that I am a King. And I say to you that for this reason I was born, for this reason I came into the world.” So it is not the Kingdom of Judah with which Jesus is concerned for He had said many times, “My Kingdom is not of this world.” He has said to Pilate, “If My Kingdom were of this world My men would have fought for Me”. After all, other leaders had militias of men to protect them. We read about several revolutionaries of that time who, when their leaders died, the rebellions died with them, (Acts 5:33-39).
Jesus made it very clear. His Kingdom had long since been established by His Father with Whom He is co-eternal and consubstantial. Long before the earth was ever created or conceived, He is King. Nonetheless, in the minds of men, then and now, there is the insistence that we reduce things to a level that we can understand and sometimes, in that process of reduction, we fall way from the truth. When Jesus entered into Jerusalem, the people called out to Him, “Hosanna, blessings on the King of Israel, Who comes in The Name of The Lord”. The people had not fully understood the spiritual teaching of the prophesies. They were looking not for a Messiah, but for a king, a King for Israel, someone who would come and help them get rid of all foreign intruders and re-establish the Throne of David. And you and I, although we don’t live in a monarchy, often think in the same terms as the children of Israel and the members of the tribe of Judah thought two thousand years ago. Sometimes we are so concerned about the earthly Kingship of Jesus that we forget that the Kingdom that He brought to us is the Kingdom of Heaven. “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be granted unto you”, (St. Matt. 6:3 3).
We worry a lot about things, our future, about educating our children. So many earthly things concern us, and I suppose we should have a normal concern. I don’t think God wants us to totally abandon all utilization of our common sense or our need to make provisions for ourselves and for the needs of our families. But I think what God objects to is when we reverse our priorities and put these “things” first, when glorifying God comes after all other “things,” when we don’t seek the Kingdom of God until after we have sought all these other “things”.
When Jesus says, “Behold the lilies of the field, they neither sow nor do they reap, yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not adorned as one of these”, He doesn’t expect us to be nourished by the sun and sink our roots into the earth and suck up the vitality that we need. He is telling us, allegorically, that we, as the rest of creation, should be more dependent upon God and less dependent on our own talents and abilities. While we develop those talents and abilities to their highest point, we do so under the Dominion of God as citizens of His Kingdom.
“Art Thou A King, then?”. My Kingdom is not of this world. I am a King of eternity. I am a King of all the universe and I am a King of all that which transcends time and space. Seek ye first My Kingdom and everything else will be forthcoming. The Resurrection of Jesus is living proof of His concern for our welfare. The Kingdom was established for our welfare.
Christ is risen, and the tomb is emptied of the dead; for Christ, having risen from the dead, is become the firstfruits of those that have fallen asleep. To him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.
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Guatemala is due to host the Special General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) on September 19, 2014, and OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza arrived there on Friday, May 16, to discuss plans for that meeting.
On the occasion, Insulza also addressed the ongoing territorial differendum with Belize, as part of an agreement between Belize and Guatemala to hold national referenda so that their electorates could decide whether the dispute should be finally adjudicated at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Guatemala’s Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera was also present at the meeting, at which Guatemala media reports said the investigations into the March 2014 shooting death of Tomas Desdicho Ramirez, 26, who was said to be farming corn illegally inside the Chiquibul, were also discussed.
Belize’s Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, and Guatemala President Otto Pérez Molina, had issued a joint statement agreeing that the incident happened inside Belize, but the Guatemalans have questioned whether the Belizean military officer who shot Ramírez was “culpable” for the death.
An AFP news report said that Carrera had also confirmed that they had talked with the OAS about advancements made on the differendum between Belize and Guatemala.
Prensa Libre quotes Insulza as saying that much remains to be done, and so the parties continue to meet to reach an accord on a new date on which the simultaneous referenda could be held.
Insulza noted that Belize Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington and Carrera had prepared an agenda which he hopes won’t be interrupted by “difficulties.” In January, Belize and Guatemala, under the auspices of the OAS, set out a new roadmap which the parties said would lead to the referendum, previously aborted by Guatemala.
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On 7 April, World Health Day, the World Health Organization marks its 70th anniversary. Over the past 7 decades, WHO has spearheaded efforts to rid the world of killer diseases like smallpox and to fight against deadly habits like tobacco use.
This year, World Health Day is dedicated to one of WHO’s founding principles: “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.”
“Good health is the most precious thing anyone can have,” says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “ When people are healthy, they can learn, work, and support themselves and their families. When they are sick, nothing else matters. Families and communities fall behind. That’s why WHO is so committed to ensuring good health for all.”
With 194 Member States, across six regions, and working from more than 150 offices, WHO staff are united in a shared drive to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere – and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring “healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages”.
The tagline for this year’s World Health Day is “Universal Health Coverage: everyone, everywhere”. WHO offices worldwide are organizing events to mark the day, with Dr Tedros joining celebrations in Sri Lanka.
Globally, life expectancy has increased by 25 years since WHO was established. Some of the biggest health gains are seen among children under-5: in 2016, 6 million fewer children died before they reached their fifth birthday than in 1990. Smallpox has been defeated and polio is on the verge of eradication. Many countries have successfully eliminated measles, malaria and debilitating tropical diseases like guinea worm and elephantiasis, as well as mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
Bold new WHO recommendations for earlier, simpler treatment, combined with efforts to facilitate access to cheaper generic medicines, have helped 21 million people get life-saving treatment for HIV. The plight of more than 300 million people suffering from chronic hepatitis B and C infections is finally gaining global attention. And innovative partnerships have produced effective vaccines against meningitis and Ebola, as well as the world’s first ever malaria vaccine.
Producing international reference materials
From the very beginning, WHO has brought together the world’s top health experts to produce recommendations and international reference materials. These range from the International Classification of Diseases – currently used in 100 countries as a common standard for reporting diseases and identifying health trends, to the WHO Essential Medicines List ̶ a guide for countries on the key medicines that a national health system needs. In the coming weeks, it will publish the world’s first Essential Diagnostics List.
Making a difference on the ground
For decades, WHO staff have worked alongside governments and health professionals on the ground. In the early years, there was a strong focus on fighting infectious killers like smallpox, polio and diphtheria. The Expanded Programme on Immunization, for example, set up by WHO in the early 1970s, has, with the help of UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and others, brought lifesaving vaccines to millions of children. WHO estimates that immunization averts 2-3 million deaths every year.
Responding to new challenges
In recent decades, the world has seen a rise in noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. These diseases now account for 70% of all deaths. So WHO has shifted focus, along with health authorities around the world, to promote healthy eating, physical exercise and regular health checks.
The Organization has run global health campaigns on the prevention of diabetes, high blood pressure and depression. It also negotiated the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a formidable tool to help reduce disease and death caused by tobacco.
Using data to target our efforts
Tracking progress in all of these areas requires a strong monitoring system. Data collected from countries across the world is stored in and shared through WHO’s Global Health Observatory. This powerful tool helps countries get a clear picture of who is falling sick, from which disease, and where, so they can target efforts where they are needed most.
Remaining on constant alert
Every year, WHO studies influenza trends, to work out what should go into the next season’s vaccine. And it remains on constant alert against the threat of pandemic influenza. One hundred years after the flu pandemic of 1918, WHO is determined that the world should never again be subjected to such a threat to global health security.
A renewed commitment to prevent outbreaks from turning into epidemics, and to respond better and faster to humanitarian emergencies, has spurred the creation of a new health emergencies programme that works across all three levels of the Organization. WHO is currently responding to outbreaks and humanitarian crises in more than 40 countries.
Next month, at the World Health Assembly, the Organization will propose a bold new agenda that builds on lessons learnt and experience gained over the past 70 years. It will focus on achieving universal health coverage for 1 billion more people; protecting 1 billion more people from health emergencies and enabling 1 billion more people to enjoy better health and wellbeing – by 2023, the halfway point to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda deadline.
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History is made by our achievements. We have come a long way to make the impossible possible: from the control of fire, to life-saving vaccines to landing on the moon. Our next historic achievement is right in front of us: health for all humankind. What if everyone had access to the health services they need? What if they were not pushed into poverty paying for the services? Together, we can make universal health coverage happen in our lifetime.
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New Bouwkunde Arch School Proposal Swoops Like a Skateboard Ramp
By MikeChino
Oct 20, '09 12:21 PM EST
Back in 2008, a devastating fire tore through the Bouwkunde building where the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology resided, resulting in a loss of more than just a structure, but also a home base for many students and faculty. To put the tragedy in the past, the university set out to start anew with a design competition to rebuild the Bouwkunde that would focus on community, sustainability, and adaptability. One of the most impressive design proposals is from Adam Wojtalik, who has envisioned a solar-panel clad structure that resembles the biggest skateboard ramp you’ve ever seen.
Back in 2008, a devastating fire tore through the Bouwkunde building where the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology resided, resulting in a loss of more than just a structure, but also a home base for many students and faculty. To put the tragedy in the past, the university set out to start anew with a design competition to rebuild the Bouwkunde that would focus on community, sustainability, and adaptability. One of the most impressive design proposals is from Adam Wojtalik, who has envisioned a solar-panel clad structure that resembles the biggest skateboard ramp you’ve ever seen. Inhabitat
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what i find interesting in this 'story' is that it has been picked up at all. it is one of many many entries.
it was shown on dezeen as part of their Polish design special and now gets coverage on various blogs.
i have nothing against that, but there were many other entries that didn't get exposure. good one you Adam.
thats the internet and blogs.
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U.S Imports from Mexico by AZ BPOE »
What is the significance of fresh produce imports from Mexico?
Arizona border ports of entry have a long tradition of serving as the primary gateway for fresh produce originating in Sinaloa and Sonora. This is particularly true for the Nogales port of entry. Aside from climate-related seasonality, the dynamics of fresh produce movement through Arizona’s border ports of entry reflect the composite effects of agricultural production in Mexico, and competition in U.S. markets. The physical and human infrastructure capacities of border ports of entry to facilitate efficient and secure movement of fresh produce across the border are also reflected in the movement dynamics. Among Arizona’s six border ports of entry, Nogales facilitates the largest volume and value of imported agricultural products from Mexico. San Luis is distant second, followed by Douglas.
What is measured?
U.S. imports of agricultural products from Mexico include both fresh produce and fruit. Fresh produce comprises the largest share of imported agricultural products from Mexico. Data include all imports of fresh produce that are destined for Arizona’s markets, as well as for other U.S. states. U.S. imports of agricultural products from Mexico are shown for each Arizona border port of entry. Totals for AZ BPOE reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in this category include Tucson and Phoenix, as they serve to facilitate imports from Mexico by air freight.
How competitive is Arizona?
To gauge Arizona’s relative competitiveness in the U.S.-Mexico border region, data are provided for a selected number of major ports of entry in Texas and California. Values expressed in percent change allow for comparison of trends in imports of agricultural products at individual ports, as well as for the state as a whole.
The table on this page summarizes the movement of fresh produce imports from Mexico via Arizona and other major Border Ports of Entry on a monthly basis. Data are updated following release by the U.S. Census Bureau via USA Trade Online. Click on any title to graph that series, and export. Or, click "download" at the base of the table to download the dataset, or customize based on a specified range.
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The table on this page summarizes the movement of fresh produce imports from Mexico via Arizona and other major Border Ports of Entry on an annual basis. Data are updated following release by the U.S. Census Bureau via USA Trade Online. Click on any title to graph that series, and export. Or, click "download" at the base of the table to download the dataset, or customize based on a specified range.
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Air Canada Signs for Up to 75 Bombardier CSeries
by Roberto Leiro
MIAMI — Bombardier and Air Canada announced today the subscription of a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the purchase of up to 75 CSeries CS300. The deal contemplates 45 firm orders plus 30 options, and includes conversion rights to the CS100 under certain circumstances. Based on the list price, the order is valued at approximately US$3.8 billion.
At a press conference held in Saint-Laurent, Québec, Calin Rovinescu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Air Canada, along with members of his leadership team were hosted by Alain Bellemare, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bombardier Inc, Fred Cromer, President, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and Rob Dewar, Vice President, C Series Aircraft Program.
The announced aircraft order comes as part of the narrowbody fleet renewal plan of Air Canada, which started in December 2013 with the acquisition of 61 Boeing 737 MAXs. The plans outlines the retirement of 45 Embraer E190s. 20 of these will be taken by Boeing as part of the 737 MAX deal, while the remaining 25 aircraft will be replaced by the CSeries. The Boeing 737 MAX deliveries are scheduled to begin in late 2017 and extend to 2021, while the deliveries of the CSeries are scheduled to start in late 2019 and extend to 2022.
“The renewal of our North American narrowbody fleet with more capable and efficient aircraft is a key element of our ongoing cost transformation program —plus the enhanced passenger cabin comfort provided by the CS300 will help us to retain Air Canada’s competitive position as the only Four-Star international network carrier in North America” said Rovinescu.
Fred Cromer highlighted the order as a “strategic marker” for the program, and added that the company is “looking forward to further strengthening a relationship that spans 30 years.” To date, Air Canada Express regional partners operate a mix of over 120 regional jets and turboprop aircraft, mostly comprised by Bombardier models.
Air Canada and Bombardier executives at press conference in Montréal. (Credits: Bombardier)
According to Rovinescu, Air Canada was “one of the launch customers for the Canadair Regional Jet, and today’s announcement reflects our continued support for Canada’s aerospace industry and for the new technologies the industry may develop.
With this agreement, the Montréal-based manufacturer has now received 678 firm orders and commitments for the both variants of the CSeries —the CS100 and the stretched CS300. Swiss will be the launch customer of the CS100, and the aircraft is expected to enter service in the first half of the year. Last December, the CS100 obtained its certification type, and the CS300 is on track to receive it in the next months.
Air Canada is posed to be the first North American carrier to operate the CSeries. Although Porter Airlines planned to rely on the CSeries for its expansion, the elected Liberal Canadian government reiterated its commitment to not allow jet aircraft at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport, home base and largest hub for this regional carrier.
Also, in this week WestJet CEO Gregg Saretski commented that the CSeries was “too small” for the airline, and “too big” for its regional operator Encore.
A recent tour of the CSeries to the United States has spurred rumors in the industry about a potential order from United and Delta Air Lines. In the case of United, the airline has signaled that it could place an order for up to 50 CS100s, while Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson commented that the Atlanta-based carrier is “taking a very serious look” at purchasing the aircraft.
For Bombardier, the order represents a major victory for the CSeries program, marred with financial problems. Last October, the Government of Québec announced a US$1 billion investment in the program, plagued by ever-increasing cost-overruns and a schedule running two years behind the Entry Into Service (EIS). According to Bellemare, the order “will be the catalyst for future orders in North America and around the world.”
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Listening to Winds On Alien Worlds Is More Complicated Than it Sounds
InSight’s recording of Martian winds isn’t what you’d hear if you were on the planet yourself
Artist’s impression of the European Huygens lander that descended through Titan’s atmosphere and landed on the Saturn moon’s surface [ESA]
We live in a world where spacecraft are now routinely landing on other worlds and recording their sounds. Soviet probes aimed at Venus captured the thunder and howling winds on the volcanic world, giving us the first ever audio recording captured beyond Earth. We’ve been able to reconstruct the sound of alien rain on Saturn’s moon Titan. And now, for the first time, we get to hear the low hum of Martian winds sweeping down the planes. Except not exactly. You see, while InSight did in fact record a 10 to 15 mile per hour draft on Martian, the recording’s pitch had to be dialed up and its frequency sped up roughly 100 times for the human ear to make any real sense of it. But why is it so hard to hear them otherwise?
Unlike Venus or Titan, Mars has an extremely thin, barely there atmosphere stripped away by solar winds and with virtually no protection from its weak magnetosphere. It’s so thin and fragile that it might actually make the planet impossible to terraform if we ever wanted to try to make it even a little more like our world. Even hurricane force winds would feel like a gentle breeze because there’s just not enough air to impart any meaningful kinetic energy. So, if you were able to stand on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit, you’d probably hear and feel nothing, hence NASA had to help us out so we could get some appreciation of what they were able to record, which is still exquisitely haunting and beautiful in the end.
What about winds on other planets and moons?
With extremely thick atmospheres, you’d have absolutely no problem hearing and feeling the full force of the wind on worlds like Venus, Jupiter and the other gas giants, and of course, Titan. In the turbulent clouds of gas giants, the winds would never stop and without anything solid to act as a brake, gusts can howl at astonishing speeds. Neptune boasts the fastest winds in the solar system at 1,200 miles per hour, with Saturn not far behind as 1,118 mile per hour gales whip around its equator, making Jupiter seem almost inert by comparison with peak wind speeds of 384 miles per hour around its Great Red Spot.
Exactly how hard that wind would hit you will depend on your altitude in the gas giants’ vast atmospheres but analogies with the impacts of anything between a tornado and a freight train come to mind. At this point, we would consider the kinetic energy of winds on Venus and Titan because they have solid surfaces and very thick atmospheres, but on both worlds, a very odd and interesting thing happens as you descend through the clouds. That atmospheric thickness means that gasses are compressed as you get close and closer to the surface and winds very quickly die down under the mass of the air through which they have to move.
On Titan, winds reach maybe 2 miles per hour at ground level at their strongest. On Venus, they peak at 3 miles per hour. Still, because there’s so much mass in motion, they would feel like a stiff breeze of 20 to 25 miles per hour if we note that the gusts in question are strong enough to scatter small rocks and use the Beaufort scale to translate that into comparable conditions right here on Earth. You would certainly hear it as well, deeper and more ominous than you’d expect, with absolutely no need to increase the pitch or speed up frequency for your ear to know what’s happening.
So, in case you ever look at the night sky and wonder about how different other planets are from the one on which you’re standing, consider that something seemingly as simple as the sound of moving air can be vastly different from world to world, what you’d consider a gentle breeze could be imperceptible on one planet and blow an umbrella out of your hand on another, and that sometimes, to appreciate what our robotic probes are detecting, we need to specially process the data they’ve gathered so you can even start making sense of it.
[This article originally appeared on World of Weird Things]
Author Greg FishPosted on December 14, 2018 December 15, 2018 Categories Mars, Planets, SaturnTags Atmosphere, InSight, Moons, NASA InSight Lander, science, World of Weird Things2 Comments on Listening to Winds On Alien Worlds Is More Complicated Than it Sounds
Rolling Stones May Have Given Phobos its Enigmatic Grooves
The impact crater Stickney (and the smaller crater Limtoc) as imaged by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008 [NASA/JPL-Caltech]
Earth has them. So does the Moon. As does Mars. And now we know dwarf planet Ceres has them, too. Could a Martian moon also have them? Well, according to new research, they could explain the mystery behind Phobos’ strange lines that are carved into its dusty surface.
What am I talking about? Boulders. Specifically boulders that have been on the move. Boulders that — in the presence of a gravitational field, no matter how weak — roll and bounce, leaving their grooves on some of our most beloved celestial bodies.
“These grooves are a distinctive feature of Phobos, and how they formed has been debated by planetary scientists for 40 years,” said planetary scientist Ken Ramsley (Brown University) who led the work, in a statement. “We think this study is another step toward zeroing in on an explanation.”
Ever since NASA’s Mariner and Viking missions spied Phobos’ lines in the 1970’s, scientists have debated what could have created them. The ancient natural satellite of Mars is only 27 kilometers wide and possesses long, etched lines that, in some cases, loop around the entirety of the moon’s circumference.
A popular hypothesis for these lines focused on the possibility that Phobos is a dying moon; the tidal forces from Mars ultimately pulling the body apart. In this scenario, the lines are a sign that the moon’s interior is crumbling, creating fault lines in the surface that our space robots have been able to image. Another idea is that the lines were created by crater chains; multiple impacts by smaller rocks that etched out long lines around Phobos’ surface.
However, according Ramsley’s study, which is published in the journal Planetary and Space Science, the real mechanism that created Phobos’ stripes is far more elegant, and more familiar to us Earthlings. What’s more, it was one of the original hypotheses that was posited when the lines were discovered over 40 years ago.
In 1998, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor imaged Phobos’ stripes [NASA/JPL-Caltech/LLNL]
You see, Phobos has a huge, nine-kilometer-wide crater on one side, called Stickney (named after Angeline Stickney who motivated the search for Mars’ natural satellites in the late 19th Century), that was excavated by a massive impact in the moon’s ancient past. Using computer models, the researchers simulated what would happen post-impact and where the excavated material (including some hefty boulders) would have ended up. Although a huge quantity of material would have been lost to space during the Stickney impact, a few large rocks may have been kicked across the moon’s surface — these boulders would have rolled slowly, slow enough to be held in contact with Phobos, but fast enough, in some cases, to make more than one trip around the moon.
But many of these lines intersect one another and don’t appear to be radially blasted from the crater. Also, there are regions on the surface where the lines entirely disappear. Ramsley’s simulation explains these oddities.
The simulations show that because of Phobos’ small size and relatively weak gravity, Stickney stones just keep on rolling, rather than stopping after a kilometer or so like they might on a larger body. In fact, some boulders would have rolled and bounded their way all the way around the tiny moon. That circumnavigation could explain why some grooves aren’t radially aligned to the crater. Boulders that start out rolling across the eastern hemisphere of Phobos produce grooves that appear to be misaligned from the crater when they reach the western hemisphere.
This also helps to explain why many of these lines cross and superimpose themselves on one another: Grooves that were laid down by boulders rolling immediately after the impact were crossed by boulders that completed a complete traverse of the globe of the moon, some ending up where they started, minutes or hours later. This also explains why Stickney itself has grooves inside its crater basin.
The dark surface of Phobos with Mars as the backdrop, as seen by the European Mars Express [ESA]
But there’s a blank area on Phobos that appears to contain no grooves, a phenomenon that the simulation also addresses. This region is located at a comparatively low elevation part of Phobos, surrounded by a higher-elevation lip. “It’s like a ski jump,” said Ramsley. “The boulders keep going but suddenly there’s no ground under them. They end up doing this suborbital flight over this zone.
“We think this makes a pretty strong case that it was this rolling boulder model accounts for most if not all the grooves on Phobos.”
As a fan of rolling boulders on other worlds, I particularly enjoy imagining the lumbering slow roll of these massive rocks that circumnavigated Phobos. They had to keep their roll slow so not to achieve escape velocity, but fast enough to leave their indelible marks for humans to ponder their origins.
Author Ian O'NeillPosted on November 23, 2018 Categories Mars, PlanetsTags Mars, mars moon, martian moon, Moons, mystery, phobos, rolling rocks1 Comment on Rolling Stones May Have Given Phobos its Enigmatic Grooves
Weird Form of Alien Life May Be Possible on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Artist’s impression of Titan’s surface and atmosphere (credit: Benjamin de Bivort, debivort.org / CC BY-SA 3.0)
Titan is a very strange moon.
Orbiting the ringed gas giant Saturn, Titan is the only moon in the solar system that sports a thick atmosphere. Although the moon is extremely cold, its atmosphere is very dynamic; exhibiting seasons, precipitation and even creating vast seas.
Although this may sound very much like Earth’s atmosphere — where water evaporates from the oceans, condenses as clouds and precipitates as rain, forming rivers that flow back into the oceans — Titan’s atmosphere is dominated by a methane cycle, not a water cycle.
This may sound like the antithesis of Earth’s life-giving chemistry, but astrobiologists have been gradually finding clues to Titan’s habitable potential and today (July 28) scientists have announced the confirmation of a key molecule that could be the proverbial backbone to a weird kind of “alternative” alien life on Titan — based not on liquid water, but on liquid methane.
“The presence of vinyl cyanide in an environment with liquid methane suggests the intriguing possibility of chemical processes that are analogous to those important for life on Earth,” said astrochemistry researcher Maureen Palmer, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Palmer is lead author of a study published in Science Advances describing the detection of vinyl cyanide (also known as acrylonitrile) at Titan using the awesome power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NASA
Previous observations of Titan’s atmosphere by NASA’s Cassini mission and chemical modeling of the moon’s surface have hinted that it is the ideal environment for vinyl cyanide to form. But it was only when analysis of archived data collected by ALMA between February to May 2014 was carried out that its presence was confirmed. And there appears to be a lot of the stuff.
So what is vinyl cyanide and why is it so important?
The molecule (C2H3CN) has the ability to form membranes and, if found in liquid pools of hydrocarbons on Titan’s surface, it could form a kind of lipid-based cell membrane analog of living organisms on Earth. In other words, this molecule could stew in primordial pools of hydrocarbons and arrange itself in such a way to create a “protocell” that is “stable and flexible in liquid methane,” said Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University) who, in 2015, was a member of the team who modeled vinyl cyanide and found that it might form cell membranes.
“This is a step forward in understanding whether Titan’s methane seas might host an exotic form of life,” Lunine, who wasn’t a member part of the team that announced today’s results, said in a statement.
Life As We Don’t Know It
When studying Titan’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere, ALMA detected three unambiguous millimeter-wavelength signals produced by vinyl cyanide that originated from 200 kilometers above Titan’s surface. It is well known that the moon’s atmosphere is a vast chemical factory; the energy of the sun and particles from space convert simple organic molecules into more complex chemistry. These chemicals then cycle down to Titans rich hydrocarbon surface.
But speculating about life on Titan is a hard task. The moon’s atmosphere is often compared with that of early Earth’s, but there are some huge differences. Titan is crazy-cold, averaging around 95 Kelvin (that’s an incredible -178 degrees Celsius or -288 degrees Fahrenheit); at no time in history has Earth’s atmosphere been that cold. Also, it’s thought that early Earth had large quantities of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, Titan does not. As for water? Frozen. Oxygen? Forget about it.
So this research underpins our quest to find the chemistry of life as we DON’T know it, using the building blocks that follow the pattern of life that we do know, but swapping out key components (like water) to see if an analog of life’s chemistry can under very alien conditions.
“Saturn’s moon, Enceladus is the place to search for life like us, life that depends on — and exists in — liquid water,” said Lunine. “Titan, on the other hand, is the place to go to seek the outer limits of life — can some exotic type of life begin and evolve in a truly alien environment, that of liquid methane?”
Perhaps it’s time for a return mission to Titan’s extreme surface.
Author Ian O'NeillPosted on July 28, 2017 July 28, 2017 Categories Astronomy, Planets, Solar SystemTags alien life, astrobiology, astrochemistry, Chemistry, Moons, Saturn, Titan1 Comment on Weird Form of Alien Life May Be Possible on Saturn’s Moon Titan
This Super-Hot, Super-Weird Space Doughnut Could Be a New “Planetary Object”
The structure of a planet, a planet with a disk and a synestia, all of the same mass (Simon Lock and Sarah Stewart)
Pluto is going to be pissed.
After studying computer simulations of planetary collisions, scientists have discovered a possible phase of planetary formation that has, so far, been overlooked by astronomy. And they think this phase is so significant that it deserves its own planetary definition.
After two planetary objects collide, researchers from the University of California Davis and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., realized that a bloated, spinning mass of molten rock can form. It looks a bit like a ring doughnut with the hole filled in. What’s more, it is thought that Earth (and other planets in the solar system) probably went through this violent period before becoming the solid spinning globes we know and love today.
They call this partly vaporized rock “synestia” — “syn-” for “together” and “Estia” after the Greek goddess of architecture and structures.
Over a range of masses and collision speeds, planetary scientist Sarah Stewart (Davis) and graduate student Simon Lock (Harvard) simulated planetary collisions and focused on how the angular momentum of colliding bodies might influence the system. Their study has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Basically, when two bodies — with their own angular momentum — collide and merge, the sum of their momenta must be conserved and this can have a dramatic effect on the size and structure of the merged mass.
“We looked at the statistics of giant impacts, and we found that they can form a completely new structure,” said Stewart.
After colliding, the energetic event causes both planets to melt and partially vaporize, expanding with a connected ring-like structure. And this structure — a synestia — would eventually cool, contract and solidify. It could also form moons; post-collision molten debris in the synestia doughnut ring may emerge in a stable orbit around the planet.
The synestia phase would be a fleeting event in any planet’s life, however. For an Earth-sized mass, the post-collision synestia would likely last only 100 years or so. But the larger the mass, the longer the phase, the researchers theorize.
So, giving this theoretical “planetary object” a classification might be a little generous — a move that would raise recently “demoted” Pluto’s eyebrow — but as telescopes become more advanced, we might one day be lucky enough to spy a synestia in a young star system where dynamic instabilities are causing planets to careen into one another.
Author Ian O'NeillPosted on May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017 Categories Planets, Solar SystemTags astrophysics, Moons, planet collisions, planetary evolution, planetary science, synestiaLeave a comment on This Super-Hot, Super-Weird Space Doughnut Could Be a New “Planetary Object”
Mars May Have Once Been a Ringed Planet — and It Could Be Again
Mars’ moons were likely formed by a ring of debris blasted into space after the Red Planet was hit by a massive impact and, when the moon Phobos disintegrates in 70 million years, another ring may form.
Sunrise over Gale Crater as seen by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity and how it might look if the Red Planet had a ring system (NASA/JPL-Caltech-MSSS, edit by Ian O’Neill)
Mars is currently known as the “Red Planet” of the solar system; its unmistakable ruddy hue is created by dust rich in iron oxide covering its landscape. But in Mars’ ancient past, it might have also been called the “Ringed Planet” of the inner solar system and, in the distant future, it may sport rings once more.
The thing is, we live in a highly dynamic solar system, where the planets may appear static over human (or even civilization) timescales, but over millions to billions of years, massive changes to planetary bodies occur frequently. And should there be a massive impact on a small rocky world — on Mars, say — these changes can be nothing short of monumental.
In new NASA-funded research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, planetary scientists have developed a new model of Mars when it was hit by a massive impact over 4 billion years ago. This catastrophic impact created a vast basin called the Borealis Basin in the planet’s northern hemisphere and the event could be part of the reason why Mars lacks a global magnetic field — it’s hypothesized that a powerful impact (or series of impacts) caused massive disruption to the Martian inner dynamo.
But the impact also blasted a huge amount of rocky debris from Mars’ crust into space, ultimately settling into a ring system, like a miniaturized rocky version of Saturn. Over time, as the debris drifted away from Mars and settled, rocky chunks would have formed under gravity and these “moonlets” would have clumped together to form larger and larger moons. So far, so good; this is how we’d expect moons to form. But there’s a catch.
Phobos as imaged by Europe’s Mars Express mission (ESA)
After forming in Mars orbit, any moon would have slowly lost orbital altitude, creeping toward the planet’s so-called Roche Limit — a region surrounding any planetary body that is a bad place for any moon to hang out. The Roche Limit is the point at which a planet’s tidal forces become too great for the structural integrity of an orbiting body. When approaching this limit, the closest edge of the moon to the planet will experience a greater tidal pull than the far side, overcoming the body’s gravity. At some point, something has to give and the moon will start to break apart.
And this is what’s going to happen to Phobos in about 70 million years. Its orbit is currently degrading and when it reaches this invisible boundary, tidal stresses will pull it apart, trailing pieces of moon around the planet, some debris falling onto the Martian surface as a series of meteorite impacts, while others remain in orbit.
The research, carried out by David Minton and Andrew Hesselbrock of Purdue University, Lafayette in Indiana, theorizes that mysterious deposits of material around Mars’ equator might have come from the breakup of ancient moons that came before Phobos and Deimos.
“You could have had kilometer-thick piles of moon sediment raining down on Mars in the early parts of the planet’s history, and there are enigmatic sedimentary deposits on Mars with no explanation as to how they got there,” said Minton. “And now it’s possible to study that material.”
According to their model, each time a moon broke apart to create a ring, the next moon would be five times smaller than its predecessor.
In short, Mars and its moon may appear to be pretty much unchanged for billions of years, but the researchers think that up to seven moon-ring cycles have occurred over the last 4.3 billion years and Mars is on the verge (on geological timescales) of acquiring rings once more. Fascinating.
Author Ian O'NeillPosted on March 21, 2017 March 21, 2017 Categories Mars, PlanetsTags impacts, Mars, Moons, phobos, planet impacts, planetary science, rings, roche limitLeave a comment on Mars May Have Once Been a Ringed Planet — and It Could Be Again
Venus is Lonely. Very, Very Lonely
Venus is a hellish world. Although the planet is nearly the same size of Earth, that’s where the similarities end. Having said that, it does have an atmosphere, but it’s not the kind of atmosphere you would ever want to spend time breathing in. Composed of a dense carbon dioxide/nitrogen mix where clouds are made from sulphuric acid, you can forget about Venus as a tropical holiday destination. Even if you found a way to ‘breathe’ on Venus, you’d need to prepare yourself for the scorching 470°C surface temperatures and bone crushing pressures 100 times the pressure we are used to on Earth.
Doesn’t sound like a very nice place does it? Certainly an interesting world, providing us with invaluable science (after all, the reason for the extreme temperatures on Venus is due to a run-away greenhouse effect, it could help us understand the growing problems we are facing with our comparatively mild global warming woes), but an unlikely candidate for human colonization (unless we lived in the clouds).
Venus might not be a popular world for mankind to live on, but it doesn’t seem to be a popular world for natural satellites to orbit around either. It doesn’t have any moons, and astronomers are a little confused as to why this is the case. The only other planet without moons is the innermost terrestrial planet, Mercury. Every other planet in the Solar System has at least one natural satellite.
For hundreds of years, astronomers have been on the lookout for anything orbiting Venus but they’ve had little luck. However, some of the earliest observations of Venus appeared to indicate the presence satellites (in 1645, F. Fontana mentioned the possibility of a satellite discovery, followed by further observations in the late 1600’s and 1700’s). Since 1768, there have been no further reports of any satellite sightings. 1956 was the last published survey for Venusian satellites, using photographic plates, and that survey (published by Gerard Kuiper in 1961) drew up blanks for any satellites measuring over 2.5 km wide.
The lack of Venusian moons is puzzling, as a Venus-moon interacting mechanism has often been invoked as the reason why Venus has a retrograde spin (i.e. viewed from the ‘top’ of the Solar System plane, Venus has a clockwise rotation, whereas the rest of the planets, apart from Uranus — that spins on its side, bizarrely — have an anti-clockwise, or prograde, spin). Perhaps Venus once had a moon, but it has since been lost due to gravitational interactions with other Solar System bodies, or due to tidal instabilities, the innermost terrestrial planets collided with their large satellites a long time ago.
This is where Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Chadwick Trujillo from the Gemini Observatory (Hawaii) step in. In a recent publication titled, “A Survey for Satellites of Venus,” Sheppard and Trujillo pick up where Kuiper left off, and carry out a systematic survey searching for any natural satellites around Venus. Only this time, by using the cutting-edge 6.5 meter telescope and IMACS wide-field CCD imager at Las Campanas observatory in Chile, they looked for objects only a few hundred meters in diameter.
The researchers scanned the interior of the Venusian ‘Hill Sphere’ to see if any undiscovered tiny moons were lurking. The Hill sphere is the volume of space surrounding a planetary body where natural satellites can orbit without being destabilized by the gravitational effects of the Sun. If there are any unforeseen moons, they should be found in stable orbits within the Hill sphere.
Sheppard and Trujillo have drawn blanks. Although a few errant asteroids were detected, no natural satellites down to a diameter of 600 meters were discovered. They surveyed 90% of the Venusian Hill sphere, and 99% of the inner Hill sphere (0.7rH) — the volume of space predicted to contain the stable orbits of natural satellites.
This new survey improves the non-detection of satellites down to a factor of 50 on previous studies, thereby proving Venus either, a) never possessed any satellites over 1km in diameter, or b) the orbits of past large satellites have become unstable and crashed into Venus or flung into space.
Either way, Venus remains alone, with only the ESA Venus Express for company…
Source: A Survey for Satellites of Venus, Sheppard & Trujillo, 2009. arXiv:0906.2781v1 [astro-ph.EP]
Author Ian O'NeillPosted on June 20, 2009 December 15, 2018 Categories Astronomy, Featured Articles, PlanetsTags Astronomy, Hill sphere, Moons, Satellites, Venus, Venus Express8 Comments on Venus is Lonely. Very, Very Lonely
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Women’s Tennis Closes out Trip to Ohio with 7-0 Loss to No. 26 Grand Valley State
Copyright 2018; Wilmington University. All Rights Reserved. Photo by Frank Stallworth. October 6, 2018 vs. USciences.
STOW, Ohio - - The No. 26th ranked Grand Valley State team was too much to handle for the Wilmington University women's tennis team on the final day of its trip to the Latuchie Tennis Center, falling 7-0, on Sunday morning.
The Lakers took all three doubles matches to star the contest, earning the doubles' point. They then took all six singles matches, despite a battle from Tess Paya at No. 4 singles.
After falling 6-0 in the first set, Paya fought back to win the second set in a tiebreaker, 7-2, to force a super set in the third. But Paya was unable to complete the comeback, falling in the third set, 10-4.
The Wildcats come back to Delaware and have one more game scheduled before the NCAA Division II East Region Tournament in May. The Wildcats will face off against Indiana (Pa.) next Saturday at the Delcastle Tennis Center. The program's first Senior Day will begin with a 10:30 a.m. first serve.
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The Life of Mr. W.T. Stead: Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette
John Kensit (1885)
His fame on all the winds had flown;
His words had shaken crypt and throne;
Like fire on camp and court and cell
They dropped and kindled as they fell.
For peace or rest too well he saw
The fraud of priests, the wrong of law,
And felt how hard between the two
Their breath of pain the millions drew.
These lines, from the pen of Mr. J. Whittier, the celebrated American poet, are particularly applicable to Mr. William Thomas Stead, Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. To Mr. Stead may also be applied the following description given by himself of his father, the late Rev. William Stead:—"He was emphatically a healthy man— healthy and whole-souled—with a sovereign hatred of shams and fine phrases, which was kept from being rancorous by a fine spirit of charity and a hearty human sympathy... I think he was the heartiest laugher I ever knew.. There was a fine spirit of inflexibility about his notions of duty. It was not a question of 'ought' with him, but merely one of 'must.'" Thus wrote Mr. William Thomas Stead of his father, a few days after the death of the latter in February last year. Those who enjoy the acquaintance of the son can hardly fail to be struck by the description of the father just quoted, applying as it does with literal accuracy to the son himself.
"In that grimy spot, befouled and bemired, poisoned by chemical fumes, and darkened by the smoke of innumerable chimneys, known as 'Howdon-on-Tyne,'" as the subject of our notice calls it, the Rev. William Stead laboured for forty years as Congregational Minister. Writing on the Sunday after the death of his father, Mr. William Thomas Stead says:—
"Of his fidelity to his conception of the duties of the pastorate, all can speak whose lot has been cast for long or short time in that grimy spot, of his preaching and visiting, of his teaching and his counsels, of his quiet and unostentatious services on committees and public bodies, I will make no mention. Of his sermons, of which in the course of a forty years' ministry he had accumulated a store of several thousands, a holocaust was made a few days before his death, by his express request. Of all that voluminous pile of MSS., every page of which was penned with eager anxiety to benefit, to instruct, or to inspire the souls of men, there now remains not a single fragment. His message has been spoken. His sermons have gone up in flame, and such memory of them as still lingers in the minds of his hearers will soon pass away. But that which will never pass away is the effect of that spoken word, reinforced by the example of that faithful life, on the characters of those among whom he laboured, and especially on those of his children.""
This beautiful tribute to his father's memory, written on the occasion referred to for the Jarrow Guardian, is not by any means the only testimony to the same effect that can be produced. "The true Church of England," Carlyle wrote some years ago," at this moment lies in the editors of its newspapers. These preach to the people daily, weekly—admonishing kings themselves; advising peace or war, with an authority which only the first Reformers, and a long-past class of Popes, were possessed of; inflicting moral censure, imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification." Without committing ourselves to the proposition that the press has superseded the pulpit, it must be admitted that in some respects the functions of a journalist are analogous to those of a clergyman—unless the lowest view be taken of journalism. But the position of Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and that of a dissenting minister in a small provincial town, are sufficiently dissimilar in their surroundings, functions, and extent of influence, to render the resemblance of the son to the father an instance of heredity which sticklers for that principle should prize.
Mr. William Thomas Stead is the eldest son of a family of three sons and two daughters, and was born at Howden-on-Tyne thirty-five years ago. His brothers have, like himself, although in different spheres, already proved men of marked ability, the elder of them—Mr. John Edward Stead—being an eminent analytical chemist in the north of England, and one of the first authorities on the manufacture of iron and steel, while the younger brother—the Rev. Herbert Stead, M.A., late of Airedale College—was last year, after a successful collegiate career, ordained to his first charge— that of minister of Gallowtree Gate Congregational Church, Leicester.
Shy and timid as a child, mixing little with the other youngsters of the village, William Thomas Stead may, like Lord Beaconsfield, be said to have been born and brought up in a library. Here, in Mr. Stead's own words, extracted from his article on his father, is the story of his childhood:
One of my earliest recollections is that of constructing stables for my toy horses with Hume and Smollett's calf-bound History of England as building materials, under the table on which father was writing his sermons. One of the earliest traditions of the household is the lament that I raised when but two years old, when my father was from home, that there was " no yire in 'tuddy" (no fire in the study) and as a consequence, being shut out from my accustomed haunt, I was miserable. My father possessed a rare gift of concentration, and could write and study undisturbed by the noisy chatter of his children, who were making doll houses or riding a rocking-horse at the other end of the room. That rocking-horse—what memories it recalls! It was of his own making. Accustomed from youth to manual labour— he served his apprenticeship as a cutler in a Sheffield forge in the days when rattening was an ordinary incident of the cutler's life—he was never at a loss to make what he had not the means to buy. This rocking-horse was fearfully and wonderfully made, with four legs as straight as bedposts, a neck of unplaned deal, and a tail of rags; but it rocked as well as the best, and it only succumbed at last when some six of us attempted to ride it at once. My father taught me almost all that I ever learned, sitting on his knee at the table. I never went to school until I was twelve, and my two years' schooling, although invaluable in other things, added comparatively little to my grasp of the instruments of knowledge—except, perhaps, in algebra and mathematics. He taught us Latin almost as soon as we could read, and we were reading in the Old Testament before we were five. I learned the Latin grammar before the English, and well I remember my disgust when I first discovered that in the English the substantive had only three cases, as against the six of the Latin. My elder sister and I were taught together. In every respect we were educated alike.
The actual teaching was, however, but one branch of our education. To be with our father day after day, at every meal except supper, to play in his study when it was wet, to go out walking with him when it was fine, to live constantly under the stimulating and inspiring shadow of his presence, this was an education in itself. We were constantly encouraged to inquire. No question was too absurd to be disregarded; no theory too wild not to be treated with kindness. Our father could not sneer, least of all at the blunders of a child. Where other parents suppress their children's questionings as troublesome or impertinent, he was ever ready to encourage. We talked to him about everything, and he told us about everything. Always studious and fond of reading, and possessing a singularly retentive memory, he was to us a perfect library, the volumes of which always opened themselves at the right place whenever we sought information. When we had to wait for a train at a railway junction for a couple of hours, he used to while away the time by weaving out of his head fascinating and endless stories of the adventures of some imaginary hero, in whose career we were soon intensely interested, who in the most natural way in the world was always visiting places or making discoveries or happening misfortunes, which led to the imparting of immense stores of information.
But it was not merely in supplying information in a most attractive form that we found invaluable assistance in the development of our mental faculties. To educate is—philologically—to bring out far more than to pour in; and for promoting reflection and stimulating thought in his children I never knew his equal. To begin with, he made us feel absolutely on an equality with himself. Not one of us ever felt the least awe of him so as to be afraid to ventilate an opinion in his presence. No one was snubbed for ignorance, or silenced for presumption. Each one was taught that his opinion was worth having. In our little commonwealth every citizen had a right to a voice, the only unpardonable thing was not to have an opinion at all. To outsiders, admitted for the first time into the vehement democracy of our household, the first impression was naturally one of scandal.
Pre-eminent among the means by which he quickened our wits and familiarized us with dialectic was the Sunday morning breakfast. Each of us—and in those days there were six, besides father and mother, making eight in all—had to commit to memory one verse of Scripture, each selecting a chapter and taking the verses consecutively. At breakfast the youngest began by repeating his verse; every member of the family, from the youngest upwards, had to give his or her interpretation of the text; and so on until all the eight had said their texts, and given their explanation of their own and of each other's. Of course, the very young ones did not contribute much to the polemic, but father, mother, and the elder ones contrived to raise almost all the issues of religion and morality in these discussions at the breakfast table. There were two distinct tendencies. My sister represented that of Arminianism—the gospel and the miraculous; I led the party in favour of Calvinism—natural law and rationalism. The ramifications of these tendencies were infinite, and the younger disputants waxed as hot and fierce as if they had been mature theologians discussing in a synod or general assembly. Each one had to speak in turn, but the order of debate was frequently broken in upon by youthful impetuosity not to be restrained, and then the breakfast table for a time became a miniature bear garden, until the cheerful firmness and genial good nature of our father restored peace and order out of warring chaos. Whatever may be thought of the propriety of beginning the day of rest with so vehement a polemic, there can be no doubt as to its value as a means of stimulating thought, familiarizing the mind with the practice of debate, and training the intellect to detect flaws in argument. There was no beating about the bush. Each one went to the root of the matter with a zest. Since these old days I have had some little experience of discussions with all sorts and conditions of men. I have had to discuss face to face with the foremost men of our time the most pressing questions of our day. But never in all my recent experience have I ever had such consciousness of intense mental activity, such an eager strain of every intellectual faculty, as that which I used to feel when discussing in the old family circle the great problems of the world. The experience that came nearest to it— although it did not equal it—was that of the fierce half-hour in which my late editor and I used to discuss the affairs of the universe every morning before we settled down to work. But my editor was only one, whereas at home each had to hold his ground against half a dozen.
Another most useful habit which my father inculcated was that of remembering the leading points of whatever we heard, and repeating them over to him when he came home. Many a painful moment I have had when I forgot the heads of a sermon, but the training was most useful. Afterwards, when we grew older, we were set to take notes. My brother Herbie taught himself shorthand in this fashion. I, less fortunate, was confined to longhand; but the habit of taking a condensed précis of a speech or sermon stood me in good stead in after life. To this hour, if I want a condensed report of a speech, I would rather have my longhand summary than the cut-down report of the most efficient reporter. These reports at first were read over on Sunday night to the family—criticised, approved, or condemned, as the case might be.
Mr. Stead, after spending two years at school, under Dr. Bewglass, at Silcoates, was employed as a clerk at Newcastle-on-Tyne, by a merchant there—Mr. Smith—who was also vice-consul for Russia. It was while in this situation that Mr. Stead made one of his earliest efforts in journalism, by offering, in 1870, to the Northern Echo, an article urging the importance of the better organization of charity and the repression of mendicity. The article was accepted and printed by the acting editor. Some subsequent articles on Democracy and Christianity, and a series on America and the Americans, attracted the attention of the proprietor of the Northern Echo, Mr. J. Hyslop Bell, who recognised in them the work of a writer of rare ability for politics, remarkable capacity for obtaining facts, and analytical powers of no common order.
"I understand you," says Carlyle," to be able to worship the fame of talent, the power, the cash, or other success of talent, but talent itself you never saw with your eyes. The manliest and ablest man that ever you saw going in a ragged coat, did you ever reverence him? Did you so much as know that he was manly till his coat grew better?" It is to be feared that there are comparatively few who could truthfully answer these questions in the affirmative, for it is not only the case that, as the same writer says, "the true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it," but "the true eye for talent" is in itself talent; and this Mr. Bell displayed by "discovering" Mr. Stead, whom he hastened to call upon personally. An interview of considerable length confirmed Mr. Bell's favourable impression of the young writer, and before it had terminated he had persuaded Mr. Stead that journalism was his true sphere; but, said Mr. Bell in narrating the incident, "like the good boy he was," Mr. Stead would not accept an offer of employment on the literary staff of the Northern Echo till he had consulted his parents. Their consent does not appear to have been very readily obtained, for, in writing of his father, Mr. Stead says, "He doubted at first whether I should go on the press." The result of the interview referred to was, however, that Mr. Stead joined the literary staff of the Northern Echo, and both as editor and leader-writer more than realised Mr. Bell's most sanguine anticipations. Here Mr. Stead remained till 1880, when invited by Mr. John Morley to join the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette.
To revert to Mr. Stead, whose earliest triumphs were won on this journal, "never read on any subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it, and never write on it until you have read yourself full of it," is the advice of a famous author, and appears to have been at the outset taken to heart by Mr. Stead, whose articles, more especially those on political subjects, were singularly free from the imperfections which too often characterise the hurried productions thrown off at midnight by journalists who have to deal with all kinds of subjects. Bold and searching criticism, remarkable vigour and facility of expression,
Sound sense, deep feeling,
passions strong,
A hate of tyrant and of knave,
A love of right, a scorn of wrong,
Of coward and of slave.
Such were the distinguishing features of Mr. Stead's literary work in Darlington, which gradually placed him, long before he had obtained the age of thirty, in the foremost ranks of journalism. Mr. Stead's denunciations of the Bulgarian atrocities and of Turkish misrule generally, can be placed second only to the eloquence of Mr. Gladstone in arousing popular indignation on those subjects. At this period, Carlyle said, "Tell that good man, Stead, to get on with his work;" Untiring in his exposure of the ludicrous blunders committed by the London newspapers in attempting to palm off as the feeling of the country the feeling of the Metropolitan Clubs, Mr. Stead was abundantly justified by the results of the General Election of 1880, which surprised so many. Geraint's remark to the armourer, in Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King,
Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg,
The murmur of the world,
conveys a rebuke not applicable only to rustics. In the attachment to the little spot of earth to which we belong lies, no doubt (as Burke pointed out), the foundation of patriotism. It is a very natural error to mistake local for general opinion, particularly in the English capital; and still more particularly in London clubs, which, having members from all parts of the three kingdoms, and in some cases from all parts of the British Empire, may be supposed to be free from local prejudice. But the mistake referred to is one, which, in attempting to guage (sic) the public opinion of the country, as expressed at any rate by the constituencies, has so frequently upset the most elaborate calculations that the danger of its being repeated is now comparatively small. Under the extended franchise it is more true than ever, that to ascertain what the verdict of the constituencies is likely to be you must ascertain what the working classes are thinking. The centre of such hives of industry as are spread over the county of Durham, Darlington was a singularly favourable place in which to estimate the feeling of the masses.
The county of Durham was, and is, so thoroughly Radical in its political proclivities, that it was a congenial locality to Mr. Stead, who, marrying in 1873 the second daughter of Mr. H. W. Wilson, of Howdon-on-Tyne, cared little for society, and devoted most of his time to his work, his family, and his studies, but contrived to give some attention to the affairs of the Congregational Church, of which his father had been a respected minister, and himself from early life a devoted member and Sunday school teacher.
Late every evening, except that of Sunday—for although the publication of a paper on Monday morning necessitates a certain amount of Sunday work, Mr. Stead has ever held that "works of necessity and mercy," as distinguished from the routine of daily toil, should occupy the hours of that day—he was to be met riding into Darlington to the office, and in the small hours of the morning the hoofs of his pony could be heard clattering through the silent and deserted streets.
Mr. Stead's fame as a journalist had, as already indicated, spread far beyond the northern counties, and nobody was surprised when, on Mr. John Morley taking the editorial chair of the Pall Mall Gazette, in 1880, he invited Mr. Stead to assist him. That the North should have kept Mr. Stead so long is creditable to the North and to himself, the explanation being partly his warm attachment to his father, to whom he was near while there, partly his preference for the country, and partly that he was appreciated where he was. Mr. Stead's father, when consulted as to the invitation to join the Pall Mall Gazette, "doubted" whether it ought to be accepted, and Mr. Stead doubted himself. "Why can you not remain where you are? I don't see why you should be changing," said the parent, shaking his head. Speaking from one of the platforms at the recent demonstration in Hyde Park, Mr. Stead remarked, "I am a North country man, and North country men, as a rule, do not think much of Londoners. This is partly the fault of London; it is such a huge, amorphous, anarchic, multitudinous mass of houses and streets, that persons who think of London think of a place without a soul, without a heart, without a voice."
The Pall Mall Gazette entered upon a new era when Mr. Stead joined the staff towards the close of 1880. Mr. Stead added to the value of a feature which Mr. Gladstone has declared enabled him to estimate public opinion more correctly than he otherwise could without great and careful labour in collating. This feature was the epitome of London and Provincial press opinion, which was marked by an impartiality, a discrimination, a comprehensiveness of selection such as had never before been seen in London. This feature not only gave public men a more correct index of public opinion than they had ever had before, but, like the results of the General Election, showed that the opinion of the Metropolitan press is not to be depended upon as that of the country at large, the organs of the great centres of industry in the Provinces being in this respect more trustworthy. These features did not exhaust Mr. Stead's capacity for work. He virtually became Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette when Mr. John Morley was elected a member of Parliament for Newcastle-on-Tyne. Mr. Morley soon after resigned the Editorship of that paper altogether, and Mr. Stead became Editor in name as well as in fact. Articles signed by the most eminent men of the day, who were also, as a rule, the principal authorities on their respective subjects, now became another feature of the Pall Mall Gazette, which under Mr. Stead's guidance soon became in the opinion of the better educated Liberals, by far the most readable evening paper in London, while the Pall Mall Gazette "extras," in the form of small pamphlets, giving, for instance, an illustrated description of the Academy, the Inventions Exhibitions, &c., secured for the paper a welcome from men of every shade of politics and in every sphere of life.
The Christian Chronicle in an account of Mr. Stead says:—
Mr. Stead refuses to be chained in the beaten track of journalism, but boldly takes up and thoroughly investigates whatever subject the public is interested in. He has dared to make an effective use of interviewing. We may cite, as an example of his dash and enterprise, his famous "discovery" of Gordon. But that is by no means an isolated instance. Conversing with an eminent member of the Belgian Government about the Congo scheme of the King of the Belgians, Mr. Stead asked, "Do you think the King would grant me an interview?" The reply was, "Undoubtedly." Without waiting in London for a reply to his telegram, Mr. Stead set off on a Saturday for Brussels, saw the King, and talked the matter over with him for two hours on Sunday forenoon; then off back again immediately, he crossed the sea, and was in the Pall Mall office on Monday morning. We may expect to hear a good deal more of a man capable of a journalistic feat like this.
Mr. Mark Fooks, a well known North country journalist, who knows Mr. Stead well, and was for some time his colleague on the Northern Echo, and is beloved by all who know him as one of the most amiable and conscientious of men, has favoured us with the following:—
Until the advent of the Eastern Question Mr. Stead had not achieved more than a local reputation in connexion (sic) with the Northern Echo. The intensity of his political convictions, as shown by the fervour of his writings, had been previously manifest to Liberal political circles in Durham and Yorkshire and adjacent counties. The advent of the struggle between Russia and Turkey—the political pour-parlers and discussions which preceded and accompanied the war, and especially the conviction that the action was right which was taken by Mr. Gladstone in what was known as the Bulgarian atrocities, and in antagonism generally to the course pursued by Lord Beaconsfield's Government— first brought Mr. Stead into recognition amongst the leading statesmen of the Liberal party. On all those questions he wrote strongly and he wrote well. It was not only with Mr. Gladstone himself with whom the clever young editor was in frequent personal and epistolary communication, but he rapidly made the acquaintance of nearly all the Liberal leaders, who, while they recognised his high journalistic ability, were impressed, as all are who come into contact with him, by his singular earnestness and sincerity of character, and the candour, frankness, unconventionally and charm of his manner.
Though not devoid of the logical faculty, his forte is not so much in hard logic, as in a ready grasp of facts. With the facts before him, conclusions are formed almost simultaneously. Hence, the ordinary evolution of thought required to mature conclusions, which is common to nearly all public writers and thinkers, seems hardly to be requisite with Mr. Stead. The deduction is made, the opinion is formed, almost instanter upon the presentment of the fact, and a ready pen, rushing over folio after folio, presents in little over an hour from its inception, the idea of the writer in a column of leader. There is no hesitation shown—no doubt. The statement is authoritative, didactic, forceful. The style, judged by the very highest literary standards, may not be of the purest, but this is of secondary importance to this literary Vulcan, who beats out his sentences—frequently at white heat—in such clear, sharp, nervous English, that he who runs may read, and can never fail to understand. Mr. Stead does not write for the purpose of filling out an allotted space of the leading columns of his journal, in the laissez-faire, gingerly fashion of too many of his brethren of the press. He has something to say, and he says it. He is clearly not studying the convictions or prejudices of his reader. The reader must take his chance; and, as Mr. Stead would say, in his plain and vigorous Saxon, can like it or lump it. There is a lesson to be taught, a duty to be enforced, a government to be warned, an administrative weakness to be shown up, an evil to be exposed. The readiest means to the end are taken; there is no beating about the bush; the fewest words are employed; point and directness are visible through all that is written.
Everyone who has come into private or professional contact with Mr. Stead, from the time when, as a very young man in the country, working his way as an unknown editor, to his filling the editorial chair of one of the leading London journals, invariably has nothing but praise for his personal and official bearing. No man can be more considerate towards his colleagues and subordinates; no one more ready to give an encouraging word or a helping hand. His frankness, uniform kindness, equality and evenness of temper, place all who are associated with him at their ease, whilst they have nothing but admiration for his untiring and restless energy, which they may strive but vainly to emulate. At a fair computation, Mr. Stead is capacitated to do, and ordinarily does, the work of two or three men. Is a fact to be verified? a statement to be proved? none can equal the industry and ardour with which he sets about the task. Much that might be delegated to subordinates, of little more than mechanical labour of this description, is done by himself. He either will not wait, or cares not to delegate the duty. Hence, in the earlier stages of his connection with the Pall Mall Gazette, while Mr. Morley was editor, he gained the soubriquet throughout the office of the "irrepressible." When connected with the Northern Echo, at Darlington, there were critical occasions when he was known to have written half the paper himself.
Mr. Stead has what is of surpassing value to him as a journalist—an unusually retentive memory. On one occasion he was noticed at a meeting—his reporter being absent—to be listening to a speech of a member of Parliament. He is not a shorthand writer. He had only a half sheet of note paper, and filled but one side of it with less than a dozen lines, merely giving the subjects, and their order, upon which the speaker dwelt. Next day he had elaborated a speech of a column and a half entirely from memory. This, reading wonderfully like the utterances of which it purported to be a transcript, the question was asked of a professional shorthand reporter who was present whether it were an accurate report. The reply was, "Wonderfully so; I compared the more important portions with my notes, and found it just about verbatim." This marvellous reproductive power of memory is neither accidental nor exceptional. On another occasion some three or four columns of a leading statesman's speech were reproduced nearly all in the same manner from a few stray-notes. This retentivencss of memory seems to be equally-marked as regards remote as well as immediate events and occurrences. No leading politician can offer an opinion or announce a policy which does not seem to be for years after registered upon the mind of the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. Many a time are inconsistencies pointed out where public men have tripped, or swallowed their former professions, by means of this unfailing tablet upon which the data are recorded. Repeated instances of this surprising faculty on one occasion elicited from the former brilliant literary chief who presided over the Northumberland Street oracle—Mr. John Morley—the observation, "Why, Stead, you arc the most dangerous man to politicians in all London." That the Pall Mall Gazette has practically introduced the system of "interviewing" into-English journalism, had its inception, there is little doubt, in the extraordinary memory of Mr. Stead who it is well known has done the leading interviews himself, and from memory. This was the case with General Gordon who was intercepted at Southampton on the eve of what proved to be his last departure from English shores. Not a note, I believe, was taken, or but the merest fragment, at the time of the interview, and Mr. Stead on his return to London at midnight dictated with marvellous fidelity to a shorthand writer the very lengthy and intensely interesting communication of the opinions of the Soudan hero which shortly after adorned the pages of the Pall Mall.
It may easily be conceived that a man of this mould who believes in himself and in a higher power, who regards himself as a politico-moral daily teacher of, and a preacher to, men—one who has a mission to fulfil—who inherits in himself in some degree the sacred fire which animated the old Prophets, as the Rev. Price Hughes has said—who is moved to perform his work from motives in which personal and ordinarily material considerations have but so small a share, is one well cut out for a Reformer, and a martyr if need be. He does not court martyrdom, but few men could suffer it with such grace and placability should it befall as an accident or concomitant of his position or work. For him, "stone walls do not a prison make," especially with the knowledge he has of the sympathy and love of the great mass of the weakest and the poorest of the men and women of the land whose daughters he stretched forth his hand to save when there was none to succour. It is from such men that the world's heroes are made. Like the Apostle of old, or Garibaldi or Mazzini in modern times, they "counsel not with flesh and blood." "The call of duty is the call of God," said Mr. Stead in his speech in Hyde Park, "whenever a call comes home to your heart to do some unselfish thing for your sister or your brother be they never so poor, and miserable, and vile, remember that that call comes to you from the great heart of God, and if you turn a deaf ear you deny Him and are none of His."
Those who know Mr. Stead's character and inner life most intimately, are unanimous in the statement that no man or scarcely woman can be more sensitive even to idealism in all that relates to moral purity. Ever since his introduction to journalism he was one of the most pronounced advocates for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. The journal of which he was the Editor at Darlington, was made conspicuous as a vehicle in promotion of repeal, and for everything which tended to the increase of moral purity. The honour of womanhood is with him a kind of Gospel. It was under the influence of such high moral sanctions that he was, doubtless, led to face the dangers—personal, professional, and otherwise—involved in the work of the "Secret Commission." Like Caesar's wife, above suspicion himself, he must have suffered deeply in exploring what he termed "The London Inferno." No pruriency of motive, no desire of notoriety, no expectation of profit from the extra sale of his journal entered into his calculations. Here was the road of duty. Hard and dark, hideous and dangerous though the way might be it must be traversed. Writing at the time, in a private letter, he made this characteristic remark, referring to the work of the revelations:—"But oh, the agony of the thing! You know what a woman I am in these things, and therefore can judge how I suffered."
Such is the testimony of Mr. Mark Fooks—a man whose veracity is unquestionable—and who, in reply to a letter about remuneration for the foregoing, writes to us, "I have not written it for pay, but out of love for Stead, who is a noble fellow—one of the few God-like men in this world." That Mr. Stead practises what he preaches, that he himself obeys what he has termed, in the passage quoted by Mr. Fooks, "the call of God," there is abundant evidence to prove.
My Father by W.T. Stead
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God is the most superior being and Gods are very strong. Even if his existence is not proved many people believe in the God. People follow religions, and every religion has their gods. Every religion teaches us the same thing- that is love, and many Gods in different religions can be similar as well. One of the most followed religion is the Hindu religion. The books of this religion are well-written and indulging. Many people follow Hinduism, and they have a lot of Gods, and all of them are strong.
Today I made a list of the strongest Gods of The Hindu religion. Even though you don’t believe in the god, this list will still be entertaining because even if the Gods are just a story, this story is very well written. The Hindu Legend has its legacy, and everything in it produces a lot of curiosity. Every God in the religion has their superpowers which make it more compulsive to know about them. So let’s look at the 10 of the strongest Hindu Gods.
The most powerful god in Hinduism is Lord Shiva. He is the god of destruction. Shiva has various other names- Mahadeva, Pashupati, Nataraja, Vishwanath, Bhole Nath. Lord Shiva is believed to have a third eye, which has an immense amount of power. If he opens his eye, no other beings can compare to Shiva. Shiva destroyed various demons by opening His third eye. The most destructive weapon in Hindu myth, the Pashupatastra is actually of Lord Shiva. He owns this weapon in the form of Pashupatinath, the savior of all living creatures. Once, he also defeated Lord Yama and brought him back to life.
Besides that, if Shiva dances which dance is known as Nataraja, he will destroy everything. He has the crescent moon in his hair. Shiva’s Bahan is a bull, Nandi. In his Sharabha form, Lord Shiva becomes a half bird and half lion, during that time, he is the most voracious. Lord Shiva is also the blue throat God. That’s because he once consumed poison for the sake of the world and still, he didn’t die. People worship Lord Shiva in various times- Shiva is also worshipped by other Hindu deities. Lord Shiva is worshipped in his temple apart from other deities- and the biggest Shiva temple is in Nepal, the Pashupatinath.
The second most powerful God in the Hindu mythology is Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu is the Preserver and Protector of life. He is the peace-loving deity of the Hindu Trinity. When the peace in the world is hampered, Lord Vishnu takes birth in various avatar to manage the situation on earth. Vishnu has ten major avatars. Lord Krishna and Lord Rama were also one of them. All other avatars of Bishnu were Matsya(Fish), Kurma(Tortoise), Varaha(Boar), Narasimha (Man-Lion), Vamana (Dwarf), Parasurama (Rama with the Axe), Rama of Ayodhya (Ramachandra), Krishna.
The last avatar of Vishnu, Lord Kalki is yet to take birth, and he is supposed to destroy the Earth. Even Lord Buddha is considered as one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu. Narasimha, one of this avatars, is in the form of Half Human and Half Lion. In that avatar, he has the most rage. Lord Narasimha killed a demon and in his anger, still created havoc in the world, and even the deities were alert. In this case, Lord Shiva helped to cool the situation down. Vishnu is worshipped in several occasions. His wife is Mata Lakshmi- the Goddess of wealth. The God Vishnu is certainly one of the most important and most powerful Deities in the Hindu Mythology.
Lord Brahma
Lord Brahma is the architecture of the Gods. In Hinduism, Lord Brahma is the creator of the universe. Hindus believe Lord Bramha brought everything into existence. One of the strongest weapons in the Hindu mythology, the Bramhastra is owned by Lord Bramha. He is the spouse of the Goddess of knowledge, Mata Saraswati. But, he is not worshipped. This was because of the curse from Lord Shiva. Once, there was competition between Lord Brahma and Vishnu to who should be worshipped first. During this competition, Lord Brahma told a lie and tried to trick Lord Vishnu. After witnessing this, Lord Shiva cursed Lord Brahma not to be worshipped by anybody. There are also other stories associated with why Lord Brahma is not worshipped. There is only one Bramha temple, which is the Pushkar temple in Rajasthan, India.
Brahma has the highest level of knowledge anyone can ever acquire. Bramha, being the one who created everything, knows everything. He has entire knowledge of the four Vedas and knows all the yogas, Lord Bramha knows the cure for every illness, and he knows the time Still, the Hindu mythology says Lord Bramha is arrogant. When he creates anything, he wants to own it. Brahma is very possessive. He believes he has the possession to everything he created. That may be the reason he is not worshipped as the other deities are.
Ganesha is the elephant, God. He is the younger son of Lord Shiva and Mata Parvati. Lord Ganesha is the god of prosperity, power, and wisdom. Before any Hindu rituals, it is mandatory to worship Lord Ganesha. He is easily recognized from his elephant trunk. He is the younger son of Lord Shiva and Parvati. Ganesh is wisest of the gods. He considers his parents to be his world. The weapons of Lord Ganesh are Paraśu (ax), pāśa (noose) and aṅkuśa (elephant goad). This strong god has four hands. His Bahan is a mouse. He also had a lot of knowledge, and he was the one who wrote the Mahabharata. Mata Parvati created Ganesha from sandalwood.
She posted Ganesha on guard duty at the door while she was taking a bath. After a while, Shiva came home, but Lord Ganesha didn’t let him go in. Infuriated Lord Shiva ordered his army to kill the boy, but they could not match the power of Lord Ganesh. Shiva didn’t know Lord Ganesh was his son. Then Lord Shiva slashed the head of Ganesha and threw it. After awhile Mata Parvati knew this. She was angry, and Lord Shiva realized his mistake. So, He fitted the head of an Elephant in his son’s neck. And after that incident, Lord Ganesha has had an elephant head.
Lord Hanuman is the son of Bayu, the Wind. He is one of the biggest devotees of Lord Ram. Hanuman was the disciple of Lord Sun. People believe that no weapons can kill Lord Hanuman. Lord Hanuman can change his size at will. Also, he was one of the central characters of Ramayana. He was blessed by various gods. Hanuman will always be happy, and he has lord Ram and Sita in his heart.
Hanuman can create fire at Will and will never be hurt by fire; he can also do the same with water. Lord Hanuman is an immortal god. He destroyed entire Lanka by himself by setting it on fire. He helped Lord Rama during the war. Lord Hanuman fetched the Sanjivani Buti for Laxman. Lord Hanuman also can fly. His power is considered as equal as to Lord Ganesh. His weapon is the Gadha and can kill 10 thousands of enemies during a war. He is said to have no fear, and every apparition is afraid of him. In the Hindu mythology, he is one of the most important gods. He is also said to help Kalki to destroy the world. People worship Lord Hanuman on different occasions.
Mata Laxmi
Laxmi is the Goddess of wealth. Mother Laxmi is the spouse of Lord Vishnu. She helped Lord Vishnu in his Avatars. Mother Laxmi took birth as Mother Sita to help Lord Rama to destroy Ravana. People should worship her if they want wealth and prosperity. She is a very beautiful woman, she has four hands, and she sits or stands on a cozy bed of Lotus. The Hindu people worship her during Deepavali in the parts of India and mostly in Tihar in Nepal. She holds a lotus bead in one of her four hands. There are various temples dedicated to Mata Laxmi. Her pictures are in every Hindus house, and people try a lot to make her happy.
The day and the number associated with Laxmi are Friday and six respectively. She will accompany Lord Vishnu in every task to protect the world. Besides that, she is also a very devoted wife. Every woman wants to be like Mata Laxmi, and other Gods respect Mata Lakshmi as well. She is also the Shakti of Lord Vishnu that means she is his energy. People who worship her are lucky as she is also the Goddess of fortune. Hence, Laxmi is one of the most powerful Gods in the Hindu religion.
Mata Saraswati
Saraswati is the Goddess of knowledge. She is next to the kin to Lord Brahma. Every book is considered to be a form of Mata Saraswati. Her Bahan is a Swan. She is also the Goddess of music in the Hindu mythology. Her favorite musical instrument is Veena. She can play every other musical instrument as well, and she is very fluent in flute, and she taught Lord Krishna how to play it. She is very kind and filled with beauty. Her birthday is the Saraswati Purnima where people worship her and celebrate it. She is dressed in all white and sometimes sits on a bed of Lotus.
She knows all the science and art. There are many avatars of goddess Saraswati. Her other forms are Savithri and Gayathri. There are various temples of Mata Saraswati. Hindu children are made to write their first word on the day of Saraswati Poornima. Every student worships their teachers as they believe that the teachers are a form of Mata Saraswati. Hindu people also worship every item related to education as they are also of a form of Mata Saraswati. various schools start with a prayer of Saraswati. Hence, we can say that Saraswati is one of the strongest Gods Of The Hindu religion.
Mata Parvati
Mata Parvati is the spouse of Lord Shiva. She is the mother of Lord Ganesh. Mata Parvati is easily one of the strongest Gods Of The Hindus. She is the Goddess of love, fertility, and devotion. Some people also argue she the sister of Lord Vishnu.
Mother Parvati had various manifestations. Her forms are Durga, Kali, Chandi, Mahavidyas, Sakthi, Nava Durga, Meenakshi, Kamaxi, Lalitha, and Annapurna. Akhilandeshvari, the Goddess of water is also a form of Mata Parvati. Mother Durga fights the Demons, and she is worshipped during Dashain. The most fearful form of Mata Parvati is Kali. She can’t control her rage when she is Kali. She meditated and prayed for a lot of years to be the spouse of Lord Shiva. Mata Parvati has so much power that she can destroy the entire Earth at once. She is also Worshipped a lot by the Hindus and every wife want to be devoted like her. She wears a red saree. There are a lot of temples associated to Mata Parvati.
King Indra
Indra is the king of Hindu deities. Lord Indra is very mighty. He is one of the strongest gods. His wife is Sachi. Not only in the Hindu mythology but he is also worshipped in Buddhism and also Jainism. Indra’s main weapon is the Basra that is Thunderbolt. King can also use bows and arrows. The Hindu books say he battled with a stone serpent just after his birth. He is never afraid of anything and sometimes can be careless. He is very Brave. May Hindu people say Lord Indra is the most courageous God. He is also one of the greatest Kings in the Hindu mythology.
Indira is similar to Lord Zeus in the Greek mythology. King of the heavens, he is very devoted to his people. Every god respect Lord Indra. He is the king of thunder and sometimes is reckless. But anyway Lord Indra is not worshipped a lot. There may be various reasons behind that, but most of them are not clear. Indra also has the complete authority over the sky. Hindu people believe that India is the one who makes rain. If it does not rain in a place for a lot of time, then that is a rare instance of Indra being worshipped. Anyway Lord Indra is one of the strongest Gods in the Hindu mythology and will continue to be one of the most respected Hindu Gods as well.
King Yama
In number 10 in the list of strongest Gods Of The Hindu mythology, here is Lod Yama. Yama is the Hindu king of the purgatory. He is the God of death. Actually, he doesn’t kill people but actually decides whether they are sent to Hell or Heaven. His Bahan is the wat buffalo, and his weapon is known as the Danda. Even if he is only known as the god of death, people also believe that he provides them with power. Lord Yama is very strong. Even if he is portrayed as very fearful, he is not. Lord Yama does not look like a demon. He looks badass, but you don’t expect him to look like an old villain or something.
Lord Yama is the Hindu version of Saint Peter’s. He is kind to the people but is not so much to the bad ones. Lord Yama is one of the sons Of The Sun god. People also call him the lord of Justice. Lord Yama is also existent in the Buddhism. He is a close friend of the Fire. In the Mahabharata, Lord Yama is the father of 5 Pandavas. If you have done nothing wrong, you have got no reason to fear, but if you have done wrong things, then you need to remember that you have to meet him someday. So don’t try to piss him off otherwise you may have yourself in a lot of trouble after your death.
The concept of the God itself is not so elucidated. Whether you believe in him or not all up to you.
Some people think that God is everything while some believe that the concept of God is useless. Still believing in the God can push us to keep on doing the right things, even if heaven is the motivation. All we need to get is that the thing behind Gods is for us to make right decisions and make everyone around us happy. The faith in something can lead to its success. So even if you believe in him, we should not be entirely dependent on the God, but we should try our best to make things good for ourselves.
So how did you like my list? The strongest Gods in the Hindu mythology are really strong. Which God would you want to meet? What power of which god is your favorite? You can share your views and thoughts below and have a good day ahead.
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Posted on July 16 by Benjamin Park
Though my first, and still primary, attachment to Mormon history focused on the movement’s first two decades, I originally became familiar with the field in the midst of the Mountain Meadows Massacre battles. The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed several of the most significant books on the topic since Juanita Brooks’s classic 1950 work, and the conflicting interpretations were often explosive. Was Brigham Young responsible for orchestrating the killing of 120 unarmed men, women, and children? It was a hotly contested question. Though outside my field of study, I devoured everything I could on the topic, and attended a number of public lectures and debates while I lived in Utah. And anyone somewhat familiar with these developments would have been well-acquainted with Will Bagley, a western historian known for his dogged research, lively prose, and well, let’s call it “lively” personality.
I was intrigued, then, when I saw that he had written a memoir, River Fever: Adventures on the Mississippi, 1967-1971, that Signature had published just in time for this year’s MHA. Knowing I’d need some reading material for a coming trip, I picked up a copy and dove in.
Though my “to read” pile was already ridiculously high, I decided to move River Fever to the top of my list for two reasons. First, even when I disagree with Bagley’s conclusions, or am annoyed with his antics, I find him a fascinating character, and I, of course, know he’s a very talented writer. And second, having recently finished my book on Nauvoo, as well as being a longtime fan of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, I’m always intrigued by any narrative of traveling the mighty Mississippi River. Happily, the memoir proved both entertaining and rewarding, and I devoured it in only a few sittings. Read More
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Posted on June 25 by Benjamin Park
Among the small number of African Americans who converted to the Mormon faith during the nineteenth century, Jane Manning James is perhaps the best known. Born free to a woman who had been born enslaved, Jane’s life exhibited many of the complexities associated with racial discrimination during the era. She joined the LDS church in Connecticut, migrated–mostly by foot–to Nauvoo, lived in Joseph Smith’s home as a housekeeper, and was part of the vanguard company that entered Utah in 1847. She did not die until 1908, which granted her enough time to leave several reminiscences of her unlikely life. By all accounts, her story is a hallmark of dogged faith and preservation.
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New Article: “Joseph Smith’s Kingdom of God: The Council of Fifty and the Mormon Challenge to Democratic Politics”
Posted on February 22 by Benjamin Park
In 2016, the LDS Church released, for the first time, the minutes kept in the Council of Fifty. Known as the “kingdom,” the council was created by Joseph Smith in his last few months as a new political order that would return God’s rule to earth. Though the council has been long-known, its minutes have always been deemed confidential and sequestered from researchers. Their publication, then, allowed scholars to reconstruct one of the most audacious moments in Mormon history.
I was fortunate enough to get an early copy of the published volume, which allowed me to write an essay for Religion and Politics that was timed with the book’s release. But then I also got to work on two new scholarly projects. The big project was a book manuscript on Nauvoo’s political history, which should be released early next year by W. W. Norton/Liveright, and directed at a general audience. (More details soon!) The other was an scholarly article that contextualized the council for the academic community.
I’m thrilled to share that the article was just appeared Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, a premier journal in religious history that is published by Oxford University Press and affiliated with the American Society of Church History. Here is the synopsis for the article:
This article contextualizes the origins and development of Joseph Smith’s secretive Council of Fifty, a clandestine assembly whose minutes were sequestered from public access since their creation in 1844 and were only made available in September 2016. Organized by Smith, the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, only months before his death at the hands of a mob in June 1844, the council was destined to introduce a new form of world governance. Colloquially named the “Council of Fifty,” it blended democratic principles with theocratic rule. More than a significant moment in the development of America’s largest home-grown religion, however, Joseph Smith’s controversial organization and the ideals it represented hint at broader anxieties over the nation’s cultural disunity and democratic excesses in the wake of disestablishment. While many embraced the democratization of religious authority, the Mormons and some of their contemporaries countered that it only introduced cultural and political chaos. Examining how groups such as the Mormons grappled with these implications—through orchestrated electoral participation, appeals to higher laws, and revisions to democratized authoritative structures—sheds light on this dynamic challenge of political self-rule during America’s antebellum period.
Put simply, this article was a way for me to make the dense academic arguments that my larger book mostly sets aside.
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Constructing the Mormon Williamsburg
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Nauvoo is constantly on my mind. Has been for a while, actually. Before starting The Kingdom of Nauvoo: A Story of Mormon Politics, Plural Marriage, and Power in Nineteenth-Century America—which I’m pleased to share is moving along in the line-editing stage right now, with an early-2020 release date—I was a BYU student participating in their “Semester at Nauvoo” program. For four months I got to live fifty yards from the Nauvoo Temple, where I could learn about the city’s history while walking its streets, touring its homes, and enjoying its gorgeous sunsets. From then on, Nauvoo has always claimed a piece of my soul, which is partly why I jumped at the opportunity to write about it. Read More
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Narrating America’s First Saint
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When Elizabeth Bailey Seton arrived back home in New York in 1804, her life was akin to a maelstrom. She was returning from an extended trip to Italy, where she had hoped the temperate climate would heal her ailing husband. It didn’t work. William, her intellectual and spiritual companion, died shortly after their landing in Europe. His economic success had already died a couple years prior: he ran a successful trade with his father, but after his father’s death, William was unable to keep things afloat. So when he himself passed a couple days after Christmas, 1803, in a foreign land, he left his young wife without many prospects. She would have to find a way to scrape by with her five children, all under the age of ten. When she disembarked the ship after the long voyage, and was greeted with the four children she had left behind (only one made the trip to Italy), Elizabeth must have faced a number of difficult emotions.
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This accounts for just a small sliver of Seton’s engrossing life, all told in exhaustive detail by Catherine O’Donnell in Elizabeth Seton: American Saint (Three Hills, 2018). Read More
Fighting in Congress, Then and Now
Posted on September 17, 2018 by Benjamin Park
The confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh have reaffirmed something that has become standard today: America’s congressional system, included the senate, is a very partisan space. While the vote is expected to follow strict party lines, both sides have lobbied insults and accusations at one another, party leaders have used shady mechanisms to get their way, and opponents have declared the moral depravity of the other. But at least they haven’t started to throw swings at one another.
(Yet, anyway; if they ever do, then perhaps this is the realm where Jeff Flake’s training might actually come in handy.) Read More
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Does smoking weed make people creative, or do creative people smoke weed?
A new study investigates if pot smokers outperformed nonsmokers in creativity.
Seth Rogan and James Franco smoking the "apex of joint engineering" in Pineapple Express, Sony Pictures, 2008
Does marijuana boost creativity, or are creative people drawn to marijuana more than others?
A new study published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition suggests the latter: The results showed that pot smokers (sober at the time) outperformed nonsmokers at one of the two tests researchers used to measure creativity, and that the difference in creativity is most likely due to personality traits rather than pot itself. The study worked like this:
Researchers used the Big 5 model of personality to measure the personality traits of 979 undergraduate students. They then asked the group to self-report their own levels of creativity, and also objectively measured creativity among the students using two separate tests.
Two kinds of creative thought processes were measured to assess participants' levels of creativity:
Divergent thinking — a thought process used to generate many possible solutions to a problem, like brainstorming. To measure divergent thinking, participants were asked to complete the Alternate Uses Test, in which they had one minute to generate as many uses for common objects as they could imagine.
Convergent thinking — a thought process that involves judging a finite number of solutions to arrive at one “correct" answer, like a multiple choice test. To measure convergent thinking, participants completed a Remote Associates Test, which “consists of three unrelated stimulus words, which are associated with a solution word." For instance, the solution word for “cottage," “Swiss," and “cake" would be “cheese."
The results showed that, while there was no significant difference between the two groups on the divergent thinking test, cannabis users outperformed non-users on the Remote Associates Test that measured convergent thinking.
What's causing stoners to excel in this dimension of creativity? It's mainly a personality trait called “openness to experience." The researchers suggested:
“While mainstream media has propagated the idea that cannabis expands the mind and enhances creativity, our results show that the link between cannabis and creativity is largely a spurious correlation driven by differences in personality (i.e., openness to experience) that are related to both cannabis use and augmented creativity."
As one of the dimensions in the Big 5 model of personality, openness to experience is characterized by active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity. People high in this trait are also more likely to be liberal, extraverted, and tolerant of diversity.
Ultimately, the results don't necessarily suggest that marijuana use has no effect on creativity.
“The answer isn't black and white," said Dr. Alice Weaver Flaherty, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School who specializes in deep brain stimulation and the brain's relationship with creativity, to Artsy. “Marijuana is a stimulant. And most stimulants, in the short term anyway, boost output of all kinds."
Flaherty argues that the question of whether marijuana use boosts creativity largely depends on the personality of the artist.
“A very anxious creative person may get some benefit from cannabis. In calming them down, it could help their creativity," Flaherty said. “But for someone who's already in the zone, and who's not too anxious to work, it might push them into a place of being too laid back."
Pot in the Creative Process
Looking beyond the scientific literature and into firsthand accounts, many artists claim marijuana plays a key role in their creative process. Alanis Morisette said smoking pot was a great way to get “clarity" and new perspectives when writing songs. Steve Jobs claimed smoking pot made him feel “relaxed and creative." And comedian George Carlin deemed weed a “value-changing" drug that could open up “doors of perception," as Alexxa Gotthardt notes in her article for Artsy.
Gotthardt's article also features an interview with artist Gina Beavers, who proposed something that seems key in this debate about drugs and creativity: Getting high can sometimes be good for the idea-generation part of the creative process, not necessarily the execution of those ideas.
“If I smoke weed and then go to bed, I'll have mild hallucinatory effects as I'm drifting off to sleep and get creative ideas...A few times, I've been mulling over how to solve some issue and weed will give me ideas, but not always ones I go with. I have to wait and look at the solutions in the light of day."
Considering the plethora of mind-altering substances in the world — from Ayahuasca to Budweiser — should we think there's anything special about marijuana when it comes to creativity? Couldn't alcohol help artists be more creative, too?
Possibly. One hypothesis is that, because drugs can lower our inhibitions, they help to silence the self-editor that tends to harshly criticize what we create, allowing us to overcome writer's block or simply the fear of creation.
Jason White, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who likes to compose songs while drinking a glass of bourbon on his front porch, summed it up like this:
“I'm drinking to stop the noise in my head so I can express what I'm feeling in my heart."
There's an interesting caveat to White's career: Although he was more of a whiskey drinker than a pot smoker, his biggest success in songwriting was influenced by marijuana and not alcohol, as Adam Wernick and Michael May wrote for PRI:
“Years ago, a friend left a marijuana bud on his coffee table. White wasn't a pot smoker, but he popped it into a corncob pipe, lit it up, and in forty minutes wrote a song called Red Ragtop. The song became a huge hit for country singer Tim McGraw."
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Scientists Give Animals Consciousness
Nicholas Clairmont
Scientists have given animals consciousness. Not through complex manipulation of the brain or through genetic manipulation, but by publicly acknowledging the consensus, for the first time in such a straightforward way, that non-human animals, including some of our evolutionarily distant cousins, have awareness and experience like we do.
The declaration, called The Cambridge Declaration On Consciousness, was signed at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference of Consciousness in Human and Non-Human Animals in the presence of Stephen Hawking in July in Cambridge, U.K. by an international group of scientists including cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists.
What do they mean by consciousness? The Declaration treats it as the same as the phrase, "subjective experience." Philosophers who share this view of consciousness with the scientists often say that something is conscious if there is "something that it is like" to be that thing. So, according to this, a rock is not conscious, because there is nothing "that it is like to be a rock."
The signing marked the first formalization of the scientific consensus about the consciousness of several non-mammals, including birds, octopuses and even bees.
Octopuses are a remarkable addition to this list, not only because they are the only invertebrate included, but also because the way their brain evolution has progressed is so dissimilar from humans. The most notable dissimilarity is the lack of the neocortex that was long believed to be the biological foundation of human conscious experience.
The bases for the assertions of consciousness are, condensed, that:
1) "The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures." This means that animals with brains which have evolved differently from or less than humans can experience brain states that are "rewarding and punishing."
2) Studies of birds including mirror self-recognition tests indicate that they have a striking neurological similarity to "humans, great apes, dolphins and elephants." Even though their brains evolved parallel to our own, the "neural substrates" of birds appear to grant them the same sort of experience that we have.
3) "Pharmacological interventions in non-human animals with compounds known to affect conscious behavior in humans can lead to similar perturbations in behavior in non-human animals." This is an interesting one. What it means, really, is that animals respond to hallucinogenic and traditionally recreational drugs in the same ways that human do, indicating that their experience is modified, which implies that they have experience at all. (As an aside: Scientists have all the fun. Who else can justify giving monkeys recreational drugs as a noble quest for knowledge?)
What's The Significance?
The signatories have indicated that we cannot, at least certainly not for the reasons we have been giving, ignore the fact that animals have the same type of experiences that gives us a reason to treat other humans humanely.
Beyond the ethical ramifications, this declaration is another step in a long line of conclusions that the animal brain displays remarkable plasticity and is able to accomplish highly complex tasks in multiple ways.
While anyone who has gone to a zoo or owned a pet has at least temporarily thought of animals as conscious, there is still a large contingent that strongly believes that humans are exceptional in some morally and scientifically significant way. But, as Christof Koch, who co-presented the declaration notes, "The belief in human exceptionalism, so strongly rooted in the Judeo-Christian view of the world, flies in the face of all evidence for the structural and behavioral continuity between animals and people."
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For other uses, see Charly (disambiguation).
Charly is a 1968 film which tells the story of a mentally retarded man, working at a bakery, who becomes a subject of an experiment to increase his mental capacity. As he reaches genius level, he realizes that the treatment is temporary, and that he will soon revert to his previous mental ability. It stars Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney and Dick Van Patten.
The movie was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It was directed by Ralph Nelson.
Cliff Robertson won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in this movie.
Robertson had appeared in many television versions of screenplays that had gone on to be made into movies starring other actors (most notably Days of Wine and Roses, which had starred Jack Lemmon). So, when he saw a television version of Flowers for Algernon, he bought the rights so that he would be sure to make the movie.
Flowers for Algernon was made into a 2000 television movie starring Matthew Modine, Kelli Williams, Bonnie Bedelia and Ron Rifkin. It was adapted by John Pielmeier and directed by Jeff Bleckner.
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Do We Have to Play There? The Top Five Places NBA Players Dread to Play
Bob Evans@@TheRealBobEvansTwitter LogoCorrespondent IAugust 20, 2010
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Welcome to the list that Joakim Noah of the Chicago Bulls would appreciate.
Noah, as many of you know, decided to have a war of words with the city of Cleveland after proclaiming that he hates the city because there is nothing going on there, during the playoffs.
Noah is just one of many athletes to discuss their displeasure of having to play games in certain cities in the NBA.
Whether they don't like the long plane ride, the atmosphere, the nightlife, the food, the culture, or just don't like the state: athletes all have different reasons for not wanting to play in different cities.
With that said, I made it my personal job to find out which cities were really the top five worst places to play for NBA players.
I started out by looking at message boards and player interviews to narrow my list to 12 NBA cities/teams.
The 12 teams and their corresponding cities that were chosen are as follows: Utah, Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Denver, Toronto, Indiana, Sacramento, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Golden State, and Memphis.
After choosing the 12 teams that will be evaluated, I decided to implement the Bob Evans formula that I have used in many rankings in the past.
For those of you that are not familiar with the formula, allow me to explain.
For this evaluation I took the 12 teams and ranked them from 1 to 12 based on five statistical categories.
The higher their score, the worse they performed in the category.
In order to evaluate the teams/cities, I chose the following categories: Attendance, Weather, Nightlife, Free Agent Signings, and Free Agents Leaving.
All of these were based on the 2009-2010 season and 2010 off-season. And the weather was based on a mid-season average in each city.
After ranking each of the 12 teams in each category, I added them up, and the highest five totals designated the worst cities to play.
The free agent signing and leaving category was based on impact players leaving versus impact players signing. I also took into account whether a team had cap room, or the need to sign a player in this market.
After evaluating all of the categories, I finally came up with a real top five for NBA players to dread during the NBA season.
So as usual....sit back, relax, and don't forget to comment with your most hated cities and experiences!
The Honorable Mentions
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When creating a list, there are always teams that come up just short of the rankings.
In the case of this list, it was good to be on the outside looking in.
Since there was a three-way tie for fourth place on the top five worst places to play list, the honorable mentions list only contains five teams instead of seven.
10. Golden State- The Warriors and the city of Oakland were the furthest away from making this list. Out of the teams who made the cut of 12, the Warriors had the best free agent signing in David Lee, and own the rights to the best weather mid-season.
9. Milwaukee- The Bucks and the city of Milwaukee kept their names out of the top five because of a stellar off-season. Not only did the bring in Drew Gooden, Corey Maggette, and Jon Brockman, but they managed to keep swing-man John Salmons.
8. Charlotte- The Bobcats were a surprise to not make this top five on this list because of their loss of Raymond Felton. But thankfully the city has a nice nightlife and great weather to make up for their free agent shortcomings this off-season.
7. Denver- The Nuggets were one of the teams that got a pass on their off-season activities because they really didn't need to do much, and didn't lose any impact players. The fact that they were second highest in worst weather nearly put them on the top five, but the other figures kept them down.
6. Sacramento- The Kings ranked dead last in attendance out of the 12 teams on this list, and didn't sign any impact players this off-season. However, thanks to their weather and things to do in the city, they just missed the cut.
And without further interruption......let's take a look at the top five (well seven because of ties).
5. Memphis
Coming in at fifth on our list was the city of Memphis and the Grizzlies.
Memphis came in at second to last in league attendance out of the 12 teams and ranked second to last in nightlife.
The city has it's nice weather and solid young core to present to players thinking about coming to Memphis to play for the Grizzlies.
But when it comes to making opposing players happy, and providing them with something to do while in the city....let's just say Memphis doesn't make the cut.
I wonder if these were the Nashville Grizzlies if they would have made the list?
As one person put it, "I'm not sure why they moved the Grizzlies from a beautiful city like Vancouver to a pit like Memphis".
I cannot vouch for this saying as I have never been to either city, but based on their overall score of 32, Memphis is our fifth place finisher.
4. Tie- Utah
When you are talking about arenas to play in, I'm sure opposing players cannot stand the noise and atmosphere of Energy Solutions Arena in Utah.
The Jazz boast a high ranking in overall attendance, but cannot really do much else on this list.
They lost Carlos Boozer, Kyle Korver, and Wes Matthews to free agency. While only bringing back Raja Bell for a second tour of duty with the team.
Combine that with the fact that there is little to do in Salt Lake, and the weather is terrible for most of the season, and that makes for some cranky players in Utah.
Utah was one of three teams who tied with an overall score of 36.
But don't worry Jazz fans, making this list doesn't project for a poor season, you still have Deron Williams.
4. Tie-Toronto
A friend of mine told me that Toronto was one of the most cultured, beautiful cities he has ever been to.
And this is coming from a guy who only lived there for a few years of his life.
Like many of the professional athletes that come to Toronto, his stay was rather short in the city.
While Toronto boasts the top nightlife ranking on the list, they also boast the worst weather ranking.
I mean, when your average temperature is 30 degrees in February, players just don't want to be there.
Who wants to freeze when walking from their car to grab a bite to eat when visiting the city?
Nobody, or as NBA player Jared Dudley put it...."Toronto is one of the cities that I know I'm getting room service in".
Toronto, like Utah, came in at a ranking of 36, which was not a shocker considering they just lost their biggest ticket in Chris Bosh.
If I could add in history I'm sure Toronto would have led this list.
Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, and Chris Bosh are three of the franchises biggest named players, and they all bolted when they could sign max contracts with the team.
I just hope that the NBA doesn't allow Toronto to go the way of Vancouver and move their team back into the states any time soon.
4. Tie- Philadelphia
I've heard Philadelphia has the best cheese steaks in the country.
Too bad having one of the best sandwiches in the country doesn't carry more weight with NBA players.
Philadelphia has history, they have passionate fans, but they just don't have what it takes to stay off this list.
Philly came in near the bottom in attendance, and their inability to add any impact players due to salary restraints really hurt them.
I took into consideration that they did land Evan Turner in the draft, but until they rid themselves of Elton Brand's bloated contract, they won't be able to attract any free agents.
Furthermore, they are losing franchise attendance ticket Allen Iverson who is on the downside of his career, which means that Philadelphia just isn't a desirable place for players any more.
Add in the fact that Philly is under 40 degrees during the bulk of the NBA season, and players just aren't excited to go there during the season.
Philadelphia came in with a ranking of 36 just like Utah and Toronto, which keeps them out of the top three on this list.
3. Indiana
The city of Indianapolis is a great place to be, if you play football.
While the city boasts one of the best NFL teams in professional sports, their basketball team just can't seem to make it back to relevance.
Even though they feature one of the games top scorers in Danny Granger, the team can't seem to break through in the weak Eastern Conference.
Indianapolis also has one of the coldest temperatures of the cities on this list, which makes it all that less appealing to free agents and other NBA players.
The Pacers have not brought in a big name free agent in as long as I can remember, and it seems that the only way they are going to break into the playoffs is through trades.
It's sad to say, but the 38 overall ranking places Indiana at number three on our list, even though the city is as beautiful as the picture above.
Don't worry Pacers fans....you finally got a real point guard this off-season!
My poor city.
The Indians are terrible, LeBron James just left, the Browns haven't had multiple winning seasons in recent history, and now they grace this list at No. 2.
If I had done this list last year or two years ago, Cleveland may not have cracked the top five.
But because LeBron James bolted, and our big free agent signing is Joey Graham....you can see why they are so high.
Add in the fact that Cleveland has the ninth worst weather of the 12 teams, and the seventh worst nightlife and you can see why they are one of Joakim Noah's most hated cities to visit.
If it wasn't for their highest attendance level out of the 12 teams, the Cavaliers probably would have been number one overall.
It doesn't seem like marque free agents want to come to Cleveland because of its weather and lacking of things to do in their eyes (a point I will soon debate), and that must be why LeBron James "took his talents to South Beach".
An overall total of 40 out of 60 earns Cleveland their second title, and it is a sad, sad day when Cleveland goes from one of the NBA's elite, to one of their worst places to play.
On a side note, I'm not sure if Noah is blind or cannot read a directory, but there are plenty of restaurants, night clubs, and much more to take in while in Cleveland.
Unfortunately for Cleveland, basketball isn't played here in July and August, which are two of the best months to be out and about in the city.
I'm not going to lie, just looking at that picture makes me not want to go to Minnesota.
I mean, the water looks like it would be fun to boat on, but how many players are grabbing their jet skies while they are in town for a visit?
The rest of the teams thank Minnesota for still being in the league because as long as David Kahn is running the show and the Timberwolves are still in Minnesota, none of them will ever grace number one on the list.
Minnesota has the worst nightlife, the second to worst weather, one of the worst in attendance, and they have no signs of getting better.
They just traded the team's best player to Utah, their top draft pick from the 2009 Draft would rather stay in Europe to play, and they had to overpay Darko to stay on their team.
If it wasn't for Jonny Flynn and Kevin Love, I would say Minnesota doesn't attract more than 8,000 fans per game this season.
I think I'm starting to see why Kevin Garnett felt he would never win with this franchise, and would like to give him credit for sticking it out so long in this city.
If Noah feels that Cleveland is such a bad city, I would LOVE to get his input on visits to Minnesota.
Thank professional sports for the Twins and the return of Brett Favre, right Minnesota?
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New Edition of Pritchard's Anthologies
Princeton University Press has released a new, single-volume edition of The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, edited by James B. Pritchard. It is available in hardback ($81 at Amazon) or paperback ($26 at Amazon).
With more than 130 reading selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this volume provides a stimulating introduction to some of the most significant and widely studied texts of the ancient Near East, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Creation Epic (Enuma elish), the Code of Hammurabi, and the Baal Cycle. For students of history, religion, the Bible, archaeology, and anthropology, this anthology provides a wealth of material for understanding the ancient Near East. (publisher's website)
When we heard about this, we thought there might be a few questions.
Q: What’s the difference between this and ANET?
A: ANET is short for Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. It was also edited by J. Pritchard, but it is larger and contains more texts. The first edition of ANET was published in 1950, the second edition in 1955, and the third edition in 1969.
Pritchard also published a companion volume to ANET entitled The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament, commonly known as ANEP. The first edition of ANEP was published in 1954 and a second edition was published in 1969.
Pritchard subsequently edited two volumes of anthologies which are abridgments of ANET and ANEP. The first volume, The Ancient Near East, An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, was published in 1958, and the second volume, The Ancient Near East, A New Anthology of Texts and Pictures, was published in 1975.
This new Princeton edition has combined and reformatted the material of these two abridged anthologies. From our perusal of chapter one in Amazon’s “Look Inside!” it appears almost nothing has changed, including even footnotes and cross-references to ANET and the Bible. The differences between this new volume and ANET are: (1) ANET and ANEP contain more translated texts and pictures, (2) they cost a lot more, and (3) the layout of this new anthology will make it easier to find what you are looking for.
Q: Where can I find more information about this?
A: The Princeton University Press page includes the table of contents and a pdf of chapter one, which is John Wilson’s translations of “Egyptian Myths and Tales.” You can also read portions at Amazon and at Google Books.
While we're on the subject of anthologies of ancient text translations, Kevin Edgecomb a few years ago helpfully compiled a comparison chart listing the translations included in ANET and COS. The chart shows that ANET includes many texts that did not make it into COS. According to Edgecomb's blog, ANET has 221 texts not included in COS, and COS has 525 texts not included in ANET.
posted by A.D. Riddle at 5:25 AM
I'm happy the list has proven useful!
The two "Little Pritchards" were great, the first volume orange, the second volume blue. It's much more convenient to have them in one volume. They're assured of sales in the textbook market.
By Kevin P. Edgecomb, at Tue Feb 15, 01:02:00 PM
Jericho's Neolithic "Skyscraper"
Sad News from Cairo Museum
Oriental Institute Works Online
Grant Awarded for Research of Ancient Villages
Archaeology in Saudi Arabia with Google Earth
The Temple Altar and the Dome of the Chain
History of American Colony Photography Department
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Evidence-based analysis and commentary on European politics
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Cyprus ‘peace water’ project: how it could affect Greek-Turkish relations on the island
A water pipeline between Turkey and northern Cyprus was recently completed, despite criticism from some Greek Cypriot politicians that the project would increase Turkey’s influence over the north of the island. Rebecca Bryant writes that the project represents part of Turkey’s long-term strategy to increase development in the north, preparing it for an agreement to end the division of the island, but also making it prepared to stand on its own. She argues that Greek Cypriots nevertheless carry some of the blame for Turkey’s growing influence over northern Cyprus and that they should focus on developing new and urgent policies regarding the north rather than delaying engagement until after a solution is reached.
On 17 October, on a bluff overlooking the north Cyprus shore, supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish Cypriot nationalists, and the simply curious gathered to watch Turkish and Turkish Cypriot leaders inaugurate the ‘project of the century.’ As women who had waited too long for Erdoğan’s arrival began to faint from the heat, leaders gave speeches and opened a pump, as they had done only a couple of hours earlier in the Turkish city of Anamur. This was ceremonial, however, since water was already gushing, making its way across 66.5 kilometres of sea and filling a dam in north Cyprus the size of a small city.
Cypriots quenching their thirst with the water brought in from Turkey via the newly constructed water pipeline. Credit: Rebecca Bryant
When Erdoğan first announced the plan more than four years ago, Turkish Cypriots looked on it sceptically. Since the 1950s, Cypriots have dreamed of bringing water from Turkey, whose Taurus Mountains in the south feed rivers that flow into the sea. Following the Greek-backed coup and subsequent Turkish military intervention that divided the island in 1974, Turkish Cypriots began again to discuss bringing water from the country that in those days they still considered their ‘motherland’. But in a classic case of crying wolf, Turkish Cypriots had imagined the water for so long, and had been so often disappointed, that it took them some time to understand that when Erdoğan says a project will happen, apparently it has to happen.
This unprecedented project began in Turkey, where two villages were displaced to construct the dam that would be the source. Suspended pipes were strung over the course of more than two years, often against strong waves and currents. The countryside and many of the roads in north Cyprus have been torn apart to lay the total of 478 kilometres of pipes that will deliver the water throughout the island. It is expected that the pipes will deliver 75 million cubic metres of water every year for approximately the next fifty years. Half of this water will be for domestic and industrial use, half for agricultural use.
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı declared during the inauguration that the water would make Cyprus the Green Island again, referring to its name in medieval literature. Other Turkish Cypriot politicians claimed that it would change the parameters of ongoing negotiations to reunify the island. Still others proclaimed this one-of-a-kind engineering feat as a proof of the greatness of the Turkish nation.
All the leaders called it ‘peace water’, referring to Turkish claims that it may become a liquid inducement for Greek Cypriots to negotiate a settlement to reunify the divided island. In the island’s south, however, right-wing Greek Cypriot politicians fumed, characterising the project as ‘a third invasion’, while the Republic of Cyprus foreign ministry claimed that it would ‘augment Turkey’s influence and control over Cyprus’.
This claim is certainly true, and it has been a source of disagreement between Turkey and Turkish Cypriots, the latter of whom have considerably mixed feelings about this generosity. On the one hand, water is a critical concern, as the average rainfall for the island as a whole is only 480 millimetres. In the north, misuse, especially as a result of tourism and a boom in holiday home construction for foreigners, has dried up certain aquifers and left parts of the central plain with trickling water supplies that have a distinctly salty taste.
There is no water conservation programme in the north, where water is normally supplied to homes only every few days but everyone has water tanks to collect it. Water delivery services drain wells in an unregulated way. Environmental groups charge that the key to solving the water problem is not flooding Cyprus with water from across the sea but rather with devising local solutions. There are also concerns about the project’s potential effects on the sea as a whole – a question that has been insufficiently studied.
Figure: Location of the water pipeline from Turkey to Cyprus
Source: Republic of Turkey Government Water Works website
Turkish Cypriots, however, have been especially vocal about the project’s management. While Turkish Cypriots argue that the project was part of Turkey’s aid package to north Cyprus and should be used both for their benefit and profit, Turkish leaders are reluctant to put a project on which they spent 1.6 billion Turkish lira (approximately £358 million) into the hands of the municipalities and local water authority, as Turkish Cypriots are asking. Turkish Cypriots not only want to reap the financial benefits of the water but also do not want to have their autonomy impinged upon by the potential threat of cutting it off.
And here we come to the crux of the matter. Although north Cyprus is often portrayed as a province or colony of Turkey, until the arrival of the AK Party Turkish Cypriots actually had considerably more autonomy than they do now. Former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Raif Denktaş was highly respected in Turkey and close to the Turkish military, and he could normally manipulate the latter to get his way.
After the AK Party came to power in late 2002 with a platform of Europeanisation in Turkey and, as a consequence, a solution in Cyprus, Denktaş and his military cronies were all sidelined. The checkpoints dividing the island opened in 2003, allowing Cypriots to move around the island for the first time in almost three decades, and in 2004, Cypriots voted in a referendum on a United Nations plan that would have reunited the island. They went to the polls only one week before the Republic of Cyprus would accede as an EU member state.
Although Turkish Cypriots supported that plan, Greek Cypriots resoundingly rejected it. While negotiations have continued in fits and starts since then, the Republic of Cyprus has continued a policy of isolating the north, impeding the various kinds of ‘openings’ that Turkish Cypriots had expected as a result of the referendum. In Greek Cypriot discourse, cooperation with any institution in the north, including its academic institutions, constitutes ‘recognition by implication’, meaning that although doors opened in the island, these were not doors that connected Turkish Cypriots to the world.
Instead, middle-class Turkish Cypriots saw the lives of their Greek Cypriot counterparts and asked why they could not have the same. And not long after the U.N. plan’s defeat, Turkish politicians began to formulate a Plan B regarding Cyprus: Making it as strong an entity as possible. Of course, having an economically strong north Cyprus is important for any eventual reunification, as one of the main reasons Greek Cypriots voted against it in 2004 was that the poorer north would be a financial burden to them.
However, the Republic of Cyprus also does everything it can to impede that development, leaving Turkish Cypriots stuck: If they cannot develop in advance of a solution, how can they keep from being either swallowed by the Greek Cypriot majority or a financial burden to them? And if the Greek Cypriot leadership blocks that development at every turn, what choice do they have but to develop via Turkey?
In the past ten years, Turkey is a growing regional economic giant that is leaving its imprint more and more on the island’s north in the name of ‘development’. Global chains have arrived in the island via Turkey, while large, five-star resorts with Turkish owners now fill its coasts. Turkish Airlines now flies to hundreds of locations, and the unrecognised Ercan airport connects Cypriots to them through a short commuter flight to Istanbul.
The water project, then, is only the culmination of a longer-term plan to ‘develop’ the north, preparing it for a solution but also making it prepared to stand on its own. This is the Plan B: Making north Cyprus into a stronger entity so that, in the event negotiations fail yet again, the Turkish side can argue for its recognition. All of this happens, however, in a ‘Turkish’ way, while the water project is interpreted by many Turkish Cypriots as tying them ‘from the belly’ to Turkey, like an umbilical cord ties a child to its mother.
The water project is now a fact, though an untested one. The rush to complete it casts some doubt on its construction. However, if Greek Cypriot politicians are to complain that this cements Turkish occupation, they should also understand their own complicity. The effect of the ‘recognition by implication’ rhetoric has been like squeezing a balloon: The air is going to gather somewhere else. If Greek Cypriot leaders are serious about stopping further Turkish intervention, there need to be new and urgent policies regarding the north that do not delay all engagement until after a solution that until now has proven elusive.
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Rebecca Bryant – LSE, European Institute
Rebecca Bryant is a Senior Research Fellow in the LSE’s European Institute. She is a political and legal anthropologist whose work focuses on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices, transitional justice, and contested sovereignty in Cyprus, Turkey, and more recently the south Caucasus.
October 28th, 2015|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, LSE Comment, Rebecca Bryant|21 Comments
John Andrea, LLM (International, European and Comparative Law) October 28, 2015 at 10:49 pm - Reply
There is no doubt that the pipeline is detrimental to a solution to the Cyprus issue, and this is a reason for the project. In my opinion the author does not understand the Cyprus Problem. The Cyprus is in essence a problem of having a rogue state, namely Turkey which has invaded and ethnically cleansed the northern part of Cyprus and then proceeded to obliterate the Cypriot culture that existed for thousands of years. Today such acts are the work of entities that call themselves Islamic State. The solution to the problem is not an agreement sponsored by the UN and tailored by Turkey and their allies, to circumvent the rule of law, it is simply the application of the rule of law. Turkey and the Turkish military currently by force are not allowing the rule of law and therefore there is a vacuum where International, European and Domestic law simply does not apply. For example, Turkey does not recognise the judgments of the ECtHR, it does not recognise the EU legislation or the acquis communautaire, it does not recognise the UN resolutions, and it does not respect domestic Cypriot law and the rights of Cypriots. The water pipeline is a new obstacle the Turkish Cypriots will have to deal with along with the settlers that have been brought to Cyprus from Turkey in contravention of the IV Geneva Convention. The Turkish Cypriots are not putting themselves in a position as a community so they can be reintegrated into the Republic. Perhaps purposely so, but you can not expect the rest of the Cypriots to simply accept the appropriation of their property and their patris and recognise their illegal racist ‘state’.
Peter Carter October 31, 2015 at 3:23 pm - Reply
As the article clearly points out that the Greeks Cypriots rejected the UN plan to unite the island. The Greeks Cypriots want to dictate only their conditions forgetting the clashes between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots since the independence from Britain. The present division of keeping both sides separate is the best solution to keep the peace on the Cyprus Island.
Hüseyin Özkaram November 4, 2015 at 11:57 am - Reply
I think you don’t know what you’re talking about John Andrea.Obviously it is you who does not understand the Cyprus problem.
Kufi seydali October 29, 2015 at 8:09 am - Reply
Actually, the comment by the Greek Cypriot John Andrea show that the Greek Cypriots want to forget history and what they did to the Turkish Cypriots up to 1974. The Cyprus issue is not a geological event, it is something that came about the Greek side doing all those things they now accuse Turkey. I would recomned Mr. Andrea to read the article by Loucas Charalambous in the Cyprus Mail of 22. May 2013 with the tittle “50 years later, we still don’t accept what we did in 1963”. Another interesting article is a more recent one from ex-Cypriot Foreign Minister Nicos Rolandis.
John Andrea, LLM (International, European and Comparative Law) October 29, 2015 at 6:38 pm - Reply
Kufli, I have spent a life time studying the history of Cyprus, I have no interest to hide any part of it, in fact quite the opposite. I think all of Cyprus’ history should be know, especially the recent past from 1945 on wards as it is still important to understand what has happened and what is happening today. I have given many facts in my comments here but perhaps the most important events that we must all remember is night of the 7th of June 1958 when the Turkish Cypriots encouraged by the Turkish false flag operations (the bomb in the information bureau), first attacked the rest of the Cypriots. This started the inter-communal violence, which Turkey knew was a necessary precursor to the partition of the island.
Erol Asim October 29, 2015 at 8:51 am - Reply
I don’t understand how Turkey is supposed to respect judgements of the ECTHR when it isn’t even part of the EU especially when Europeans don’t want them within it with emphasis to Greek and Creek Cypriots who have blocked negotiations – you cannot have your cake and eat it as well. Don’t know why someone would use that in their argument. Don’t also see how Cypriot law should be applied to the North when there is no peace settlement – there’s a tacit suggestion that one community should have de facto rule in Cyprus – hardly democratic itself. I should find it no surprise that given the pipeline is a project to improve the arid climate of the North – Greeks try to politicise this achievement as an obstacle to peace. Given the closed minded attitudes of many in the South are common with the one expressed by John Andrea, a peace deal or Island unity looks hopeless and North Cyprus should look to campaigning for International recognition based on the Greeks reluctant attitude to unify the Island.
Erol Asim October 29, 2015 at 12:35 pm - Reply
I should also add, you have to question the sincerity of John Andrea’s arguments – he seems to quote history from a nationalistic perspective, rather than a factual one which also supports the view of many Greek Cypriots of being closed minded and uncompromising.
Photis October 29, 2015 at 1:34 pm - Reply
I was raised in a Greek Cypriot family, but that doesn’t mean I was raised to be nationalistic in any way. Yes education was very nationalistic when I was growing up, but my family taught me both sides of the story and what their experiences were from that time. Painting all Greek Cypriots with the same brush is misleading and counterproductive, just as assuming that all Turkish Cypriots have the same attitude towards Turkey. I would say, to some extent, Greek Cypriots are more close minded about the removal of the status quo because they managed to thrive despite it, whilst the Turkish Cypriots suffered because of it.
Erol instead of trying to detract from my comments accusing me of not being factual, why do you not give us you version of the facts?
Erol as you addressed me I will address you. You start your comment with “I do not understand…” that is right you do not understand and that is the only correct statement you have managed to make. Your comment was not made to enlighten us but to at best to mislead us due to ignorance and at worst to deceive us because you find the truth to be too unpalatable. If you do not know, look it up, don’t make it up!
The ECtHR was established on the 21 January 1959 on the basis of Article 19 of the European Convention on Human Rights when its first members were elected by the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. Turkey ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1954.
And another thing the ECtHR has noting to do with the EU.
Now concerning the EU, it is not Greece or Cyprus that is blocking Turkey’s accession to the EU, it is Turkey who is blocking Turkey’s accession, because they can not make the necessary reforms and respect international law and human rights, That includes withdrawing the occupation troops from Cyprus.
Now for the ECtHR … The European court of human rights (ECHR) has ordered Turkey to pay €90m (£73m) in compensation for some of the events of its 1974 invasion of Cyprus. The court’s largest-ever damages award is based on earlier ECtHR judgments ruling that the invasion and subsequent occupation of the northern third of the island was illegal. There will be more damages to follow as the damages are only for specific issues. Millions more are due for the destruction of Famagusta. So far Turkey has refused to pay and is now due to pay interest too.
Do you really think a country that has no respect for the Convention on Human Rights has a place in the European Union? And would it be wise for Cypriots to become involved with Turkey in any way?
As far as domestic Cypriot law and European law is concerned, the jurisdiction is the whole of Cyprus but the law is suspended in the north as it is not under government control.
Bayar Rahmi October 29, 2015 at 9:18 am - Reply
My commend the author .
With all due respects to John Andrea his comments do not refer to the history and the issues of The Republic of Cyprus. Declared on 16 August 1960 that the constitution was 70 % GC and 30 % TC partnership together with other acknowledgement .
On 22 December 1963 known as THE BLOODY Noel GC forced their partner out of Parlement together with Cunta From Greece and occupied the. Republic Of Cyprus.
Cyprus problem began in Deceber 1963 , not 20 July 1974 as Greece an Greek Cpriots Claim.
Turkish Cypriots suffered , humiliated and without the supply of food and other necessary requirements Turkih Cypriots would have died from hunger. ( Palestine problems. .? )
Rebecca Byrant is right. Turkey As one Of the three Garantors intervened under the Treaty Garanty Agreement , because Grrek Cypriots under Nicosia Samson declared the Island of Cyprus ” The Helen Republic of Cyprus ” on 15 July 1974 !!!
Turkey intervened on 20 July 1974 , and stop the Blood shed and cenoside against Turkish Cypriots under The AKRITAS PLAN .
Ioannis Leontiades October 29, 2015 at 9:50 am - Reply
John Andrea could not have expressed it in a better way! Rebecca Bryant does not understand the Cyprus problem. Take it from a Cypriot who lives in Cyprus and has lived during the Turkish invasion in 1974. Prior to 1974 Cyprus had a population of around 700,000 (78% Christian and 18% Muslim). There was no division of North or South. On July 20th 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus by landing on the island 40.000 Turkish troops.By killing over 3,000 Christians (men, women or children did not matter to them), taking thousands as prisoners (out of those more than 1,200 were “lost” and their fate was unknown until recently when mass graves of assassinated victims are being discovered and DNA links them to the missing prisoners of war) and by raping hundreds of women and young girls, they forced 200,000 Christians leave their home and the land their ancestors lived for thousands of years and settle to the South part of Cyprus. 38 % of Cyprus has been occupied by Turkey. Then by threatening another invasion forced the Muslims that lived in the South to move to the North. Of course even though these Muslims were given by the Turkish army much more than what they had, (home, land and property taken by force from the Christian population) they chose to leave Cyprus rather than live under Turkey’s occupation. More than !000,000 Muslims from Cyprus moved to the UK and other European countries. In order to fill the gap Turkey brought over 100,000 illegal settlers from Turkey. Now they claim a separate State. Please Rebecca, do some research before you write articles.
mehmet October 29, 2015 at 6:02 pm - Reply
do you think there was no problem between muslims and christians at 1974 and Turkey just came Cyprus and divided country. First you need to know what EOKA want and what EOKA did. And if south wants be together again with north why did south said no at 24 April 2004 with %75, while north saying yes with %65?
Nat October 30, 2015 at 9:42 am - Reply
They said no because if you read the plan it was to sell out there country the fact is that the Turkish troops have been there since 74 i believe it is time to leave they have no right to be there they invaded a country and want to stay there. Its 2015 they shouldn’t be allowed to
Raymond Fetts October 29, 2015 at 8:37 pm - Reply
It is odd that apart from John Andrea, no one else commented about the Turkish Cypriots umbilical cord, the pipeline, that joins the baby to the mother. When will the Turkish Cypriots grow up and own up to the mistakes of the past, and take responsibility like adults. Rejoin their fellow Cypriots and share a bright future while they still can. Stubbornly condemning themselves to limitation of living in an illegally occupied state will get them nowhere and the time to rejoin Cyprus is running out fast, there will come a time when the Cypriots will not want them back. Let hope they enjoy the water at least until the bill comes in, for I fear they will pay a high price,
LEVENT October 29, 2015 at 8:49 pm - Reply
Greek Cypriot leader arrived in New York and pleaded at the UN on 19 July 1974 to stop Greek Cypriot massacres of innocent Turkish Cypriots……as required by The 1960 Treaty of Guarantee. Britain refused to act, but Turkey intervened to protect Turkish Cypriot interest.
Ioannis Leontiades October 31, 2015 at 6:40 pm - Reply
Mr. Levent, don’t you find it strange why Britain or Greece refused to act but Turkey showed so much “sensitivity”? Prior to the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus in the massacres as you call them, do you know the number of Turkish Cypriots killed, why and by whom? Why do you think more than 100,000 Turkish Cypriots left the North occupied part and went to other European countries (not Turkey) when they had 40,000 Turkish troops to “protect” them? Why more than 100,000 illegal settlers from Turkey came to replace Turkish Cypriots? Food for thought Mr. Levent! I would suggest to read my previous comment for the atrocities that the so “sensitive” Turkish army committed in Cyprus. This might help wake up the very few Turkish Cypriots who stayed in the North and empower them to join the rest of the Cypriots in order to drive Turkey out of Cyprus.
Marcus November 20, 2015 at 12:42 pm - Reply
The Turks have been genocidal for over 100 years. Remember 1915 when 3 million Christians who exterminated by the Turks in what went down in history as the Armenian Genocide.
In reality the Turks exterminated 1.5 million Armenians, 1 million Greeks and 500,000 Assyrians.
So it should be known as the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocide. But as the old saying goes, “What goes round comes round”, another saying, “Sow and so shall you reap”.
The time is fast coming when there will be an explosion in Turkey. This is not 1915 a time when the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian were deceitfully disarmed. It is now 2015 and a time when Turkey as an enemy on each of her borders. It is a time when Turkey is under a major threat from the likes of the Kurds who have access to modern weaponry.
The Kurds and their allies are going to take the battle right up to Erdogon’s 1000 room palace.
Ankara and Instabul are far from safe, pity the poor innocent civilians who are going to lose their lives in the cross fire.
History shows that Turkey has had a turbulent history. On the 17 September 1961 Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes who had been the Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960 was executed by hanging together with two of his cabinet ministers.
If I was Erdogon and his cronies I would have already adopted an exit plan, because soon it may be too late.
I must agree with Ioannis Leontiades when he said that John Andrea could not have expressed it in a better way.
John March 7, 2016 at 4:00 pm - Reply
As a Greek Cypriot, I must say, from our point of view, the best and only way forward is forgiveness. I am also a Christian (before being Greek), and so for me that means I have to forgive. Jesus gave me that example. My whole family had to move from the North to Limassol and Larnaca. Did Turks in the past do wrong by invading? Did Greek Cypriots do wrong before even that againt Turks? I don’t know fully story, as I live in England. But I know Jesus said “love your enemies”. That’s not a choice if you call yourself a Christian. And for the Turks, all I can say is that I am not their judge. And I do long for unity and peace as well- together.
BURHAN November 25, 2018 at 9:28 am - Reply
I read the comments and many of them from Greek part of the Island and England.
English don’t speak about the terror events against and Turkish Cypriots and the English management of the İsland by the greek cypriots .
Greek cypriots don’t want to remember and speak about these . Also never speaks about the coup of Nicos SAMPSON against the government of CYPRUS REPUBLIC which was built according to the agreements in 1960.
As if these events never happend people speaks here without having sincerety.
The reality is that: Greeks and greek cypriots wanted to unite the island to Greece like the other islands in Aegean sea despite the agreements 1958-1959 London and Zurich.
Turkey used it’s rights according to the treaties and agreements under the international law.
The AKRITAS PLAN to unite the island to Greece collapsed. So Greeks did not like it. Uniting Project failed. ENOSİS collapsed.
Greeks and greek cypriots should think where they did mistakes by doing a coup against bishop president Makarios and peace of the whole island.
Water Project is because of the humanitarian need for water of Turkish republic of Northerh Cyprus citizens in the North.
If the South thinks to continue to prevent the basic needs of Turkish republic of Northerh Cyprus citizens like water by building water dams through Trodos mountains it is unaviodable Turkey to help the North with this kind of projects.
By reading this article I again understood how the reuniting of two society of the Cyprus island is impossible.
Turkey is really a big country that Greek Cypriots, Greeks and Europeans can never understand….
And never let the enemies do bad massacres against Turkish Republic of Northerh Cyprus citizens again such in the past…
People live the life they deserved…
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Roughly Half the Nation Feels Legalized Sports Betting Calls Integrity of Games into Question
South Orange, NJ, May 16, 2018 — Concern over the integrity of sports results has gone hand in hand with the question of legalized gambling over the years, and Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, which ended the federal ban on sports wagering, has intensified the discussion even further.
The most recent Seton Hall Sports Poll (conducted April 23-25 among 736 adults in the U.S. with a +/- 3.7% margin of error), found that 48% feel legalized sports betting would negatively impact the integrity of sporting events.
This was consistent with a poll taken by the SHSP in 2014, when 49% answered affirmatively to the same question. When the question was posed in 2012, 53% said the sports integrity would be negatively impacted.
“People tend to be in favor of gambling on games, but a large number – nearly half the population, believes the outcome of games could be subject to questioning,” noted Rick Gentile, director of the poll, which is sponsored by the Stillman School of Business and its Sharkey Institute. “ Whether the games are fixed or not isn’t the question so much as whether public confidence is eroded. That’s a big problem for sports leagues.”
The Official Seton Hall Sports Poll podcast discussing this topic with Seth Everett and Rick Gentile can be found at https://itunes.apple.com/mt/podcast/seton-hall-sports-poll/id1053266467.
This poll was conducted by telephone April 23-25 among 736 adults in the United States. The Seton Hall Sports Poll is conducted by the Sharkey Institute, with cell phone interviewing provided by Braun Research.
The results of Seton Hall’s April poll:
Would you be in favor of legalized betting on sports events?
(IF NO TO ABOVE SKIP TO QUESTION 3)
Would you be in favor of betting on just professional events or should betting on collegiate events be legal as well?
Just professional 36
Both professional and collegiate 49
Do you think legalized sports betting would negatively impact the integrity of sporting events?
The US Supreme Court is about to rule on whether states should be allowed to legalize betting on sports events or whether it should be up to the federal government to decide. Do you think sports betting should be under state control or federal control?
State control 62
Federal control 27
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Supreme Court Decision on Sports Betting Aligns with Poll Findings
South Orange, NJ– May 14, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the ban on sports betting is unconstitutional and leaving the decision in the hand’s of individual states, is in line with the Seton Hall Sports Poll’s findings on sports betting in America.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of New Jersey and, ultimately, in favor of legalized sports betting. By a margin of 55% – 35%, a full 20 points, the American public favors legalized betting on sports events, according to a poll conducted three weeks ago by the Seton Hall Sports Poll.
“The Supreme Court ruling is in synch with the trend the Seton Hall Sports Poll has tracked for several years now,” noted Rick Gentile, director of the poll, which is sponsored by the Stillman School of Business and the Sharkey Institute. “Our respondents more and more, are in favor of legalized sports betting and, moreover, want it out of the hands of federal government.”
The poll was conducted over landlines and cellphones to 736 randomly selected people across the country, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.7%.
The poll also asked whether people think that sports betting should be controlled by individual states, or by the federal government.
62% said sports gambling should be under state control, with
27% saying the federal government should control it.
Broken down by gender, men are much more inclined to support legalized betting,
with 63% saying yes.
Only 47% of women favored legalized betting.
Approval fell significantly by age, with 68% support from ages 18-29, down to 37% at age 60 and over. Similarly, the support number fell based on level of education, with 71% supporting legalized gambling among those who did not finish high school, to 39% for those with post-graduate degrees.
Those who favor legalized betting think it should cover both professional and college sports by a margin of 49% – 36%.
The results can be found here
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Attitudes Toward NFL Cheerleaders and Restrictive Team Policies
Public Widely Disagrees With Team Policies Banning Personal Religious Social Media Posts or Fraternization with Players
South Orange, NJ, May 3, 2018 — A huge majority of Americans disagree with the policies of a number of NFL teams who ban their cheerleaders from using social media for posts of a religious nature. And a similar majority opposes team policies on fraternizing with players.
By 73%-20% respondents disagreed with the ban on religious posts on the cheerleaders’ personal social media accounts, equally divided among men and women.
And by 72%-20%, respondents disagreed with the banning of fraternization with players at restaurants, bars and clubs. Again, the response was equal between men and women.
The poll was conducted last week, among 736 Americans on land lines and cellphones, with a margin of error of +/- 3.7%. The Seton Hall Sports Poll is conducted by the Stillman School of Business and its Sharkey Institute. Rick Gentile is the director.
Men and women disagreed on questions of provocative costumes and posing for provocative photos.
On the question of cheerleader costumes, by 56% to 31%, Americans disagreed that they were too provocative. But on this question, women were equally divided (44%-43% saying too provocative, while men disagreed that they were too provocative by a 69%-19% divide).
On the question of a ban on cheerleaders posing provocatively on their own social media accounts, the public disagreed with the ban by 50%-40%, but it was again much different broken down by gender. Women approved of the ban by 53%-41%, while men disapproved of the ban by 59%-35%.
The poll also asked how people felt about the Los Angeles Rams adding male cheerleaders, and on this there was approval by 66%-20%, with men and women largely approving, women even more so. (Women 71%-16% approval, men 60%-23% approval).
On the matter of male cheerleaders for the Rams, 79% of those ages 18-29 approved, and the number declined to 59% for those 60+.
This poll was conducted by telephone April 23-25 among 736 adults in the United States. The Seton Hall Sports Poll is conducted by the Sharkey Institute.
Do you think the outfits worn by NFL cheerleaders are too provocative?
Yes 31 (m-19%, w-43%)
No 56 (m-69%, w-44%)
Don’t know/No opinion 13 (m-12%, w-14%)
NFL teams have rules that limit their cheerleaders behavior. After each rule tell me if you approve or disapprove: Cheerleaders cannot post religious views or content on their own social media accounts.
Approve 20 (m-20%, w-20%)
Disapprove 73 (m-74%, w-72%)
Don’t know/No opinion 7 (m- 5%, w- 8%)
Cheerleaders cannot post provocative or suggestive pictures of themselves on their own social media accounts.
Cheerleaders cannot fraternize with the team’s players, banning them from being in the same restaurant, bar or club as the players.
The LA Rams have hired men to perform the same dance routines along with the women cheerleaders during games. Do you approve or disapprove?
This entry was posted in Football, General News, Poll Results, Sport, Women and tagged Cheerleaders, Discrimination, Football, Fraternization, Poll Results, Religious Views, Seton Hall Sports Poll, Sharkey Institute, Team Rules on May 3, 2018 by Michael Ricciardelli.
Baseball Games ‘Feel’ Faster with Limited Visits to the Mound (2 to1), But Length of Game, Drugs, Declining Interest, Big Market Advantage Are Still Problems for Baseball
South Orange, NJ, May 1, 2018 — By a 2-1 margin, and In the first measurement of “speed-up” rule changes initiated this year by Major League Baseball, 46% of Americans believe that these changes, especially limiting visits to the mound, will make the game feel like it’s going faster. Only 24% said it would not feel faster, (31% had no opinion).
The Seton Hall Sports Poll, conducted last week after three weeks of this season had concluded, presented a positive endorsement for MLB of its changes.
The Poll was conducted by landline and cell phone at 736 adults across the country, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.7%.
The poll showed 53% saying games took too long, with 40% disagreeing. When the same question was asked by the Seton Hall Sports Poll in 2011, only 44% said the games took too long, with 51% disagreeing.
“The balance has shifted,” noted Rick Gentile, director of the poll, which is sponsored by the Stillman School of Business and its Sharkey Institute. “More fans now believe the games are too long, but MLB should be pleased to see that about half the people at least ‘feel’ they are faster paced.”
The “feel” of the games having a faster pace was important to officials at MLB during the winter, when the changes were approved.
By 3 to 1, a rule that was implemented only on the minor league level was soundly booed by respondents. The minors are experimenting with allowing a runner to be stationed at second base to start an extra inning, but only 20% said they favored that at the Major League level, and 60% disdained it.
Baseball still has at least a perception problem when it comes to performance enhancing drugs, with 39% saying they believe the problem still exists, with 31% disagreeing.
Asked if big market clubs have an advantage in acquiring the best free agent players, 80% said yes, compared to 84% when the poll asked the same question seven years ago.
The poll asked whether there are not enough African-American players in the Major Leagues, a question that was also asked in 2011. Attitudes have shifted over seven years:
There are not enough African-American Players in the Major Leagues
Agree Disagree No Opinion
Among white respondents this year, 27% felt there were not enough; while 43% disagreed. Among African-American respondents, 61% agreed while only 19% disagreed.
By a 4-1 Margin, Ages 18-29 Say They Are Less Interested in Baseball
Asked whether they were more interested, less interested, or “about the same” regarding interest in baseball, by a 4-1 margin, those ages 18-29 said they were less interested in the game. 23% of that age group said they were less interested, and only 5% said they were more interested.
As an aggregate, 13% of total respondents said they were more interested, 21% said less and 60% said their interest was about the same as in the past. Broken down by gender, 15% of women said they were more interested, and 15% said less. But 11% of men were more interested vs. 27% less interested.
In 2011, the aggregate poll found 17% more interested, 18% less interested, 58% about the same.
More interested, less interested or interest in baseball about the same:
More interested Less Interested About the Same
“The numbers are not shifting in a positive way for baseball,” said Gentile.
With regard to your interest in baseball, are you more interested, less interested or is your interest in baseball about the same as in the past?
More interested 13
Less interested 21
I’m going to make some statements about baseball. Please tell me if you agree or disagree with the statement: The games take too long.
Agree 53
Disagree 40
Don’t know/No opinion 8
Big market teams have a better chance of acquiring the best free agents than smaller market teams
Disagree 7
There are not enough African American players
Agree 32 (w-27%, A-A 61%)
Disagree 39 (w-43%, A-A 19%)
Don’t know/No opinion 29 (w-30%, A-A 21%)
Too many players use performance enhancing drugs
6. Do you think changes to the rules of baseball this year — particularly limits on visits to the pitcher’s mound — will make the game feel like it’s going faster?
The minor leagues are experimenting with starting each extra inning with a runner on second base. Would you like to see this rule implemented in the major leagues?
8. More home runs were hit in the major leagues last year than ever before. If home run numbers significantly declined would your interest in baseball increase, decrease or remain the same?
Increase 4
Decrease 12
Remain the same 76
This entry was posted in Baseball, Baseball, College, Poll Results, Professional, Sport and tagged Baseball, Big Market Advantage, Declining Interest, Length of Games, MLB, Mound Visits, PED, Race, Rule Changes, Seton Hall Sports Poll, Sharkey Institute on May 1, 2018 by Michael Ricciardelli.
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Westmont in Haiti
Friday – Saying Goodbye
March 17, 2017 /0 Comments/in Westmont in Haiti /by Eaton Center
This morning we went to see our entrepreneurs for the last time. Right when we got there, Edna our entrepreneur, had her food stand all set up with a nice shelter and some fresh produce. Kami and I were so impressed and proud of the way she had taken full advantage of her loan and the opportunity she has been provided. After praying with her and saying goodbye, we went and visited other entrepreneurs and played with kids. When we caught our last moped to head back to the hotel, I felt sad as I realized how much I looked forward to going home to a life of comfort when the people I met in Port de Paix don’t have that same luxury. Living in Port de Paix would be hard. I don’t think I could do it. It will still be hard work for these entrepreneurs despite the hand up they’ve been given. Leaving Edna today though, I felt confident that she would be successful.
After we left our entrepreneurs, we waited around getting ready for what we hoped would be an uneventful bus ride across Haiti in the middle of the night. That’s what we thought it would be. We waited for the bus to show up…and we waited…and waited. Pretty soon it was 12:30 a.m., over three hours past when the bus was supposed to get us. We finally got on the bus, annoyed with the three-hour delay and the bus driver’s excuse of having to bribe a police officer and change two tires before he came to get us. I made my way to the back of the bus, the only open seat, when we finally started moving. Kyla and I turned to each other and started laughing when we realized how ridiculously bumpy the next 8 hours were going to be. About 10 minutes into the drive we stopped. We didn’t move again for another hour as our bus driver attempted to bribe a police officer to let us pass. Our money bribes weren’t working, as the policeman wanted to ride with us to Port de Prince. At this point we thought there’d be no way we could make our flight on time. It was 2 a.m. and we had to catch a flight at 8 a.m. Finally, miraculously, we made it out of Port de Paix. At this point I was pretty confident that there would be no way we could make our flight. The drive normally takes 8 hours and our flight left in 6. Throughout the drive I couldn’t sleep, and just focused on not getting sick. Our driver was speeding through the uneven, pothole filled roads in order to make up time. Despite all the drama, we somehow made our flight. Praise God! We were the last ones on the flight, but all of us were just relieved to be headed home.
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The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan Railroad Project: The Prospects of the New Silk Road
By Oleg Salimov (the 27/11/2013 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The challenges of economic development and regional integration in Central Asia have given rise to a number of projects in various spheres. Among these, the “Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan” railroad is directly aimed at stimulating the participating countries' economies through the creation of a better transportation system for easy access to new markets. The project's goal is to expand regional infrastructure, connect the landlocked countries with seaways, and eventually link Eurasian and Southeast Asian markets. The ability of the participants to successfully finalize construction of the railroad, provide security, and incite an interest from other countries will determine whether this project can mark the beginning of a new Silk Road.
BACKGROUND: The construction of the railroad officially started on June 5, 2013, in Turkmenistan. The expected total length of the railroad is projected to reach 500 kilometers or longer. The three versions of the project envision around 90 kilometers of railroad in southern Turkmenistan, between 230 and 350 kilometers in northern Afghanistan, and between 50 and 160 kilometers in southern Tajikistan, at cost estimates starting at US$ 400 million. The project is developed as part of the Central Asia Regional Cooperation Program primarily financed by the Asian Development Bank, with completion expected in 2015.
The railroad echoes the strategy for regional development through a network of highways, railroads, and energy-supply lines envisioned by the U.S. in its “New Silk Road Strategy” from 2011. However, the U.S. has sustained criticism for its passivity in implementing its own strategy and for relying on investments from parties immediately affected by the outcome. Although ambitious, the strategy has not proven sufficient to address the challenges involved, in Central Asia and beyond, a problem compounded by reluctance on part of the U.S. to get deeply involved in the region beyond Afghanistan.
At least two of the participating countries are in desperate need of a better transportation system within the region. Afghanistan and Tajikistan are both economically depressed and largely isolated from world markets due to their landlocked geography and lack of interstate roads. Tajikistan's transportation infrastructure is mostly oriented northwards and depends greatly on Uzbekistan, which frequently restricts Tajik transit traffic. In Afghanistan, due to its long lasting turmoil, most of the transporting infrastructure is completely destroyed or in poor condition.
Tajikistan’s frequent disputes with Uzbekistan over land and water have led Tashkent to routinely disrupt or halt all transit traffic to and from Tajikistan. This limits Tajikistan’s access to gasoline, heating oil, consumer goods, and food products, which it imports from Russia. Tashkent also prevents Tajikistan from exporting its own main products: cotton and aluminum. These constraints not only hurt Tajikistan’s economic development but also create humanitarian dangers in the country.
Afghanistan shares long borders with Turkmenistan and Tajikistan (750 and 1,300 kilometers respectively) but has never had strong transport connections with them. Currently, Afghanistan and Tajikistan are reinforcing their cooperation in counterterrorism, social protection, energy, border security, and economy. According to Afghani experts, the trade between the two countries grew to US$ 130 million in the last ten years. In 2010, the European Trade Committee estimated the value of Afghanistan’s trade with Tajikistan to 69.6 million Euros and its trade with Turkmenistan to 163.1 million Euros. The initiated trans-regional railroad project is likely to increase these numbers.
According to Turkmenistan's official media, it is one of the few countries maintaining continuous economic cooperation with Afghanistan in the last 20 years due to its policy of “positive neutrality.” In its cooperation with Afghanistan, Turkmenistan stresses energy supply and the development of transportation connectivity. Having recently started construction of its part of the railroad, Turkmenistan considers the project to be highly lucrative - in addition to its existing access northward and westward via the Caspian Sea; the railroad will provide southward connections.
IMPLICATIONS: All three participants have significant stakes in the project's success. It promises access to new markets for Turkmenistan, an opportunity for Tajikistan to circumvent the transportation constraints imposed by Uzbekistan, and a means for Afghanistan to break out of its isolation and integrate with the Central Asian region. There are also economic and political reasons for extra-regional actors to endorse the project. For example, it will provide South Asian countries with a shortcut to the Caspian and the region's oil and gas resources and is in line with the U.S. political agenda for reducing Russia's influence in Central Asia, not least through alternative transportation networks.
However, the railroad also gives rise to several risks. One is the spread of drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Another is the continuing insurgency in Afghanistan and attacks on targets affiliated with the U.S. or NATO. The recent U.S.-Afghanistan security agreement stipulates U.S. training and funding of Afghan forces and a U.S. presence of about 8,000 troops until 2024. The question arises whether Afghan forces and the remaining U.S. military contingent will be able to provide the security needed for the railroad’s completion and operation.
Tajikistan relies heavily on exploiting its water resources in stimulating the economy. The railway project is crucial for Tajikistan as it will allow for completion of the Rogun and Sangtuda hydropower plants, which are in part postponed due to the logistical difficulties imposed by Uzbekistan. Still, Tajikistan can be considered the weakest link in the chain and the most likely drop-out of the project. Although Tajikistan is actively seeking to bypass Uzbekistan, Azhdar Kurtov from the Russian Institute of Strategic Research believes that the country is unlikely to complete the project. He considers the railroad construction as a pre-election move by President Rakhmon and that building a railroad in the high-mountain terrain of southern Tajikistan is unreasonably challenging and expensive.
In addition, Tajikistan's geographic location is not favorable to the project’s long-term goals. The railroad from the Caspian region to South Asia would go south of the Tajik border, making Tajikistan an adjunct point. Simultaneously, the Pamir mountain range would prevent Tajikistan from extending the railroad into China, leaving the country cut off from the main transport routes. None of Tajikistan’s previously announced railway projects were actually realized, mostly due to a lack of financing.
Turkmenistan, the initiator of the project, will likely become the most prominent beneficiary of the railroad regardless of the outcome. First, the projected railroad connects the southern part of Turkmenistan with the rest of the country. Second, Turkmenistan has maintained economic relations with Afghanistan regardless of the political situation and is expected to continue them in the future. Third, the South Asian markets are not the only but an additional source of income for Turkmenistan. While Afghanistan is considered to be the crossroads of Asia, it still depends on other countries to use its territory for transit purposes. Therefore, as one of the prerequisites, Afghanistan’s ability to provide secure transit can determine its future economic development.
The railroad could have an ambiguous effect on the interests of other political players in the region. The potential for Afghanistan to become more self-sufficient and reduced Russian dominance in Central Asia may present appealing prospects in a U.S. perspective. However, the economic penetration of Iran and China into the region could be considered a counterproductive side effect. At the same time, China seeks persistently to develop its eastern regions and easy access to the oil resources and markets of the Caspian and Gulf countries would be a conceivable breakthrough in this regard.
CONCLUSIONS: While the railway project holds considerable prospects for economic development in Central Asia, it is still marked by several uncertainties. It is understood that the projected railroad could end Afghanistan's economic isolation, alleviate Tajikistan's transportation predicament, increase regional trade, and provide wider access to Turkmen gas resources. At the same time, Afghanistan's instability and its upcoming transition to autonomous governance constitutes a challenge to the security of the construction as well as the later operation of the railroad. Also, Tajikistan could abruptly withdraw from the project for various reasons. The reaction to the project from other interested countries such as the U.S., Russia, China, and others as well as the leverage they will apply are yet to be seen.
AUTHOR'S BIO: Oleg Salimov holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Public Administration, Political Science, Education, and Sociology) from the University of Montana.
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Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit1995
Ghazali v. Moran
Ghazaliv.Moran
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth CircuitJan 24, 1995
46 F.3d 52 (9th Cir. 1995)
Woods v. City of Scottsdale
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holding district court did not abuse discretion by summarily granting unopposed motion to dismiss pursuant to local rule that permitted but did not require dismissal
Summary of this case from Harris v. Cnty. of San Diego
Summary of this case from Jah Healing Kemetic Temple of Divine Church, Inc. v. Cnty. of San Diego
Submitted January 11, 1995.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed.R.App.P. 34(a); 9th Cir.R. 34-4.
Decided January 24, 1995.
Cyrus Ghazali, pro se, for plaintiff-appellant.
Melissa Collins, Rawlings, Olson Cannon, Las Vegas, NV, for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
Before WALLACE, Chief Judge, HALL and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.
Cyrus Ghazali, a federal prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court's dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that his constitutional rights were violated while he was a pretrial detainee at the Clark County Detention Center. The district court dismissed Ghazali's action pursuant to a Nevada district court local rule because Ghazali failed to file an opposition to the motion of Sheriff Moran and the Commissioners to compel/motion to dismiss. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
We review the district court's dismissal pursuant to its local rules for abuse of discretion. United States v. Warren, 601 F.2d 471, 474 (9th Cir. 1979) "Only in rare cases will we question the exercise of discretion in connection with the application of local rules." Id.
Under the Nevada local rule, "[t]he failure of the opposing party to file a memorandum of points and authorities in opposition to any motion shall constitute a consent to the granting of the motion." Dist.Nev.R. 140-6.
Failure to follow a district court's local rules is a proper ground for dismissal. Warren, 601 F.2d at 474 (upholding comparable Dist.Ariz.R. 11(g)). Before dismissing the action, the district court is required to weigh several factors: "(1) the public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage its docket; (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases of their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic sanctions." Henderson v. Duncan, 779 F.2d 1421, 1423 (9th Cir. 1986). If the district court does not consider these factors explicitly, we review the record independently to determine whether the district court abused its discretion. Id. at 1424.
An independent review of the record demonstrates that the district judge did not abuse his discretion in entering the judgment of dismissal. Although Ghazali contends that he did not receive a copy of the motion to dismiss, the record indicates that Ghazali received notice pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(b). Moreover, Ghazali was given ample time to respond to the motion to dismiss.
Although we construe pleadings liberally in their favor, pro se litigants are bound by the rules of procedure. King v. Atiyeh, 814 F.2d 565, 567 (9th Cir. 1987). Ghazali did not follow them, and his case was properly dismissed. A motion for summary judgment, which on its face does not even address the issues in the case and point out to the district court that there is an absence of evidence to support the case of the party with the burden of proof, cannot be granted simply as a sanction for a local rule violation, without an appropriate exercise of discretion. Marshall v. Gates, 44 F.3d 722, 723, 724-25 (9th Cir. 1995); Henry v. Gill Industries, Inc., 983 F.2d 943, 949-50 (9th Cir. 1993); see Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 325, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 2553-54, 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986). But this proposition does not help Ghazali. Marshall and Henry address only summary judgment motions, not motions to dismiss.
Therefore, we hold that the district court did not abuse its discretion by entering the judgment of dismissal. See Warren, 601 F.2d at 473-74.
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How Shakespeare Dramatically Presents Power And Authority In The Relationship Between Men And Women In Much Ado About Nothing
How Shakespeare Dramatically Presents Power and Authority in the
Relationship Between Men and Women in Much Ado About Nothing
One of the key explorations of power and authority in “Much Ado About
Nothing” is the relationship between Hero and Leonato as father and
daughter. The play was written in Elizabethan England, and social
attitudes of the period, together with long standing tradition,
influence Shakespeare’s portrayal of the “proper” relationship between
father and daughter, and duty they owed to each other. In “Much Ado
About Nothing” it is very much a patriarchal society, where rank and
position rule supreme and women are submissive position to men,
whether fathers or husbands. This “male dominance” is most acutely
represented by the nature of arranged marriage. When the suspicion
that the Prince wants to woo Hero is born, Leonato instructs her in
what she must do. Indeed, Antonio believes that Hero “will be ruled by
your father”. He automatically assumes that Leonato has the right to
command Hero. He decides who she will marry, amply demonstrated again,
when after Claudio’s denunciation of her he still gives her to him in
marriage. Even stranger, to us as a modern audience, is Hero’s passive
acceptance of what her father decides her fate should be. This is a
central point in understanding Shakespeare’s representation of social
structure at the time, since the authority Leonato had over Hero was
absolute, and she as a daughter was indeed completely submissive to
her father.
This idea, however, is refuted by Beatrice’s comments in Act 2, Scene
2, by her statement that although Hero must “curtsy, and say father as
it please you”, she should also ensure that her husband is a “handsome
fellow” or she should make another curtsy and say “father as it please
me”. However, while Beatrice does publicly denounce the more stringent
aspects of arranged marriage, and displays herself as a thinking
character, there is an indication in the play that both Leonato and
Antonio dismiss her view e.g.“she is too curst” This shows that older
men didn’t hold a woman’s opinion in much value, which might be the
reason for Hero’s reluctance to offer her opinion in front of men.
Beatrice championing this view of female choice, not Hero, only
further serves to distinguish the positions of the two women in
relation to male power. On first view, Hero is the obedient female
character, while Beatrice is the abrasive character. However, this
position is challenged by Hero’s firmness in dealing with other women
“my cousin is a fool, and so are you”. Indeed, both men and women have
much more different patterns of behaviour when outside each other’s
company. Hero is covert, silent and publicly unassertive in front of
men, because she doesn’t believe that she will be listened to.
Beatrice is the only female...
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AEG Presents are delighted to announce that Britain’s best-loved rockers Status Quo are following on from their triumphant Hyde Park ‘Radio 2 Live’ show and coming back to reclaim their position on the live circuit – with the ‘Backbone’ UK Winter Tour in 2020 - where Quo will be performing hits from across their five decade career, and of course the latest hit album ‘Backbone’.
If the ‘Backbone’ tour represents the return of the quintessential live rock act, then the ‘Backbone’ album itself marks something of a new dawn. These live dates will feature a brand new set including all the classics but also songs from the first album not to feature the late great Rick Parfitt; some being played live for the first time ever, ‘Backbone’ demonstrates a refocusing and a sharpening of the creative edge.
Francis Rossi said, “The pressure was on: this set of new songs had to be strong enough to take their place in that amazing catalogue of Quo classics. With songs like ‘Liberty Lane’ and ‘Backbone’ already road tested at massive shows in Hyde Park and on the Lynryd Skynryd tour, there’s no doubt that the new material stands up! We can’t wait to get back on the road in the UK.”
These 2020 dates are a chance for Britain’s greatest rock band and their loyal army of fans to reconnect. With ‘Backbone’, Status Quo have propelled themselves back into the charts, back to the top of the rock tree and now back onto UK stages…
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Flamingods – Interview
Jeff Hemmings
Categories: Q&A Interviews
Tags: Flamingods
Unusual band, the Flamingods. From Bahrain, and made up of Kamal Rasool, Charles Prest, Karthik Poduval, and Sam Rowe, for many years they had been beset by visa issues, to the extent that they could hardly make music together as a band, instead getting together for the odd tour and gig, whilst exchanging files over the internet in concocting their heady fusion of upbeat middle eastern psychedelia. Regular visitors to Brighton – they recently performed at Mutations – they have a fourth album Levitation, the first one they have recorded fully as a band, and will be here for this year’s The Great Escape. Kamal took some time out from a band rehearsal to chat about Bahrain, the new album, and being an Exceptional Talent…
Hi! How’s it going!?
I’m at my pad in Forest Hill, in London. We’re doing a little practice. We’re lucky, at the end of my garden there is a shed that we’ve converted into a little music room, and above it there’s a concrete garage which traps a lot of the sound. And we have friendly neighbours. We’re having little tea breaks in the sun. Everyone’s here going through some troublesome bits…
Is the band the same line up as always?
It’s the same line up that we’ve always had, apart from one member Craig Doporto who left around the time we finished out last album.
Been gigging the new album at all?
We’ve been doing a few gigs here and there. We played in Iceland, and we’ve just got back from Marrakesh and Barcelona. We have a new band member that will be joining us for our May tour, Serra Patele, a multi-instrumentalist as well, and an absolute monster behind percussion, guitar and bass.
Tell me about the Morocco Trip
We were playing this festival called Beat Hotel, run by the same people who do that stage at Glastonbury. We decided to go over and stay for a bit extra, and stayed for about five or six nights. It was a really good experience and quite inspiring.
We’ve got a bit of a cool history with Morocco. I’ve been quite a few times, and I wrote most of the album’s lyrics in Tangiers, last summer. When we were in Marrakesh, we hooked up with the Gnawa Academy. They got in touch with us, and invited us over to their place for a jam. It’s quite a different rhythm that music, so we were getting attuned to each other’s different rhythms. We invited them to play with us on stage for the last few songs. That was quite special.
I can’t quite believe Levitation is your fourth album…
We tend to think of our first two records… you know how rappers put out mix tapes, it feels a bit like that, especially with our second LP, Hyperborea. It wasn’t even recorded in a studio, it was a very lo-fi affair. Either way, this is our fourth record, and feeling good about it!
You played the West Holts stage at Glastonbury, my favourite stage, in 2015. That must have been a moment, one of many I presume!
It was an honour to play that stage. It’s definitely also my favourite stage, and all the artists who play on that stage are incredible. It was raining really hard, and it wasn’t that busy, I don’t think…
Tell me about this album.
This one was done completely differently. We were all living on the same continent again. With Majesty and Hyperborea I was having visa issues, and I was living out in the Middle East. Charles joined me for a little bit. But for three or so years, we were living away from each other, and communicating online, sending things back and forth and not really being then in the same room writing. Now having sorted out my visa we just really wanted to make a record where all four of us were in a room, writing every aspect of the record together, putting our collective minds together, to create the exact sound we wanted. It’s definitely a different approach and something we were happy to finally be able to do.
It’s a full sound, and quite live sounding…
That was another thing. We really wanted to capture that live energy. We were playing the songs all live together, in the studio, which was something we hadn’t really done before. We’ve known each other for a very long time. We grew up with each other, in Bahrain, as childhood friends. We’ve been making music together since we were 15. So, there’s definitely a musical telepathy going on which we were finally able to tap into on this LP.
Why did you call the album Levitation?
It was words that were related to most of the themes going on the record. We were going through a bit of rough patch leading up to writing the record, and even whilst we were writing the record we were struck by a few tragedies, like KP’s (Karthik Poduva) father passing away, which definitely went into the record. We wanted to make a positive thing, out of all the negativity that had been engulfing us, and Levitation seemed to be a word that symbolised that lifting us up, and reaching for that higher plane of happiness. It was a word that seemed to tie everything together. The title track is dedicated to KP’s father.
It was produced by Capital K. He runs the studio where we recorded, and he did our past two LP’s.
I love the track ‘Koray’, what does that refer to?
We love Turkish psychedelic music, and that was a huge influence when we were writing the record. And one of our favourite musicians is Koray Avci. We named the song after him.
There’s lots of instrumentation on Levitation….
Man, there’s so much on it. I don’t know if people have realised this about us, but we are very much maximalists. There’s a lot of vintage synths on there, a lot courtesy of the synth collection at the Total Refreshment Centre (TRC), where we recorded the album. We got a turkish baglama saz, played on tracks like ‘Astral Plane’. There’s an instrument called the taishogoto harp that we’ve been playing in the band for years, and for this record I figured out I could use a bow. The final three songs are very string heavy, because of that new trick we learned. And we were able to tap into a lot of Middle Eastern and South Asian textures with the addition of that. We also had a huge variety of guests, string sections, Alabaster de Plume, choir sections from Jenny Moore.
And there’s also Mikey from Snapped Ankles.
Yeah, Mikey! He plays on ‘Paradise Drive’ He has a studio at TRC. Every time we went there to record there was such a wide variety of people hanging out. ‘Why don’t you come and record this!’ Mikey was one of those, and so was Alabaster de Plume, and Danalogue, who is in The Comet Is Coming.
The Total Refreshment Centre seems to be such a hub of creative activity…
A lot of people associate it as a jazz establishment, but there’s also a lot of outsider bands that call that place their home, such as us, and Snapped Ankles. It’s an inspiring place, where you’re around all these like minded outsiders.
You’ve got an unusual backstory, with all of you from Bahrain. Tell me about that country.
I’m not really nationalistic in any way, but I do have fond memories of the place, for sure. It’s a pretty mad place, a melting pot of all these different cultures. There’s a huge South Asian and a huge South East Asian community. There’s also loads of Europeans there, and Middle Eastern people. Growing up there you’re being smacked in the face with all of that, all at once. You can imagine how that could make us the musicians we are. I would say that growing up in that environment has probably led to that. In that respect it’s a cool place. My parents still lives there and my brother puts on festivals and gigs, and he’s trying to re-invigorate the musical scene, because that was pretty much non-existent when I was growing up there. Just Metallica cover bands! Which was actually amazing… I’ve leaned to dig that quite a bit.
It’s definitely more liberal than a lot of Middle Eastern countries. It has this reputation of being a bit of a party island. It is an island, so you get that laid back party island vibe.
So, you’ve sorted out your visa issues and can now go back and forth at will?
I got the Exceptional Talent visa about two years ago. It’s great, I used to get questioned so much coming into the country, and now I just give them this card, and they look at me, like who’s this fucker in a band!
Website: flamingods.com
Facebook: facebook.com/flamingodsmusic
Twitter: twitter.com/flamingods
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Will Morris once more jump (and sing) the stars from the sky ?
Three years ago, Pole Vaulter Sandi Morris was the author of one of the most memorable moments in the history of the AG Memorial Van Damme. She phenomenally leapt over a bar at 5m00. Her musical press conference afterwards was at least as legendary. Will the American be jumping (and singing) the stars from the sky again this year in Brussels ?
Three pole vaulters have already qualified for the IAAF Diamond League Final in Brussels: Anzhelika Sidorova, Katerina Stefanidi and Sandi Morris. After the remaining qualifying meetings in Birmingham and Paris, the rest of the field will get a 'Q' added to their name.
Both Stefanidi (reigning World and Olympic Champion) and Morris (reigning World Indoor Champion) keep good memories of the AG Memorial Van Damme. The Greek crowned herself as the Diamond League Champion two years ago and in 2016 Morris proved to be the best in a roaring King Baudouin stadium with a massive jump over 5m00, a new meeting record.
In that very 2016 Morris had to settle for silver at the Rio Olympics, but for Morris her victory at the Memorial is more valuable. "Brussels was the most memorable competition of my life, even better than the Olympic Games. It was a very special evening. All events were finished, only the Pole Vaulting was still going on... and I was the only athlete left. All spectators remained in the stadium, including the Belgian Royal Family. There were more than 40,000 spectators."
"The sound, the encouragement, it is indescribably. It was very loud and it was just for me ! When I jumped over 5m00 and landed back on the pitch, it felt like the world was silent for some 5 seconds. But when I looked back at the video, it turned out that it only took a split second for the audience to go crazy. The loudest scream of all time ! This was a significant moment in my career. I then realized that this is what I’m doing it all for !"
Just as memorable was Morris' press conference afterwards. Before the competition she promised that she would sing a song if she would break the meeting record. And she kept her word. Brilliantly.
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Top Government MBA Colleges in Hyderabad accepting CAT score in 2018
Each year Careers360 ranks and rates the Top Government MBA Colleges in Hyderabad accepting CAT score. The ranking is based on factors like quality of students, research output, industry interface, publications, academic productivity and so on. Read more here - Ranking Methodology.
City <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-new-delhi-accepting-cat-score">New Delhi (4)</a> <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-mumbai-accepting-cat-score">Mumbai (3)</a> <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-hyderabad-accepting-cat-score">Hyderabad (3)</a> <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-raipur-accepting-cat-score">Raipur (2)</a> <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-ranchi-accepting-cat-score">Ranchi (2)</a> <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-tiruchirappalli-accepting-cat-score">Tiruchirappalli (2)</a> <a href="https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2018/top-government-mba-colleges-in-chennai-accepting-cat-score">Chennai (2)</a> <a 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In Govt. National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, Hyderabad
Score: 249.71
Rating: AAA+
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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
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ELECTION 2018: A second Sixth District challenger steps up
Chris Stevens marblehead@wickedlocal.com @MheadReporter
Jul 13, 2018 at 12:40 PM Jul 13, 2018 at 12:40 PM
Independent Mary J. Charbonneau hopes to unseat U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton in November
Mary J. Charbonneau will challenge incumbent Seth Moulton this fall for his 6th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Charbonneau, who is running as an Independent, joins Republican Joseph Schneider, of Beverly, in her hopes to unseat the two term congressman.
“I have been an independent voter since I could vote,” said Charbonneau in a prepared statement. “Independents have a different approach to life; hopefully, for the best interest of society as a whole.”
Charbonneau called herself part of the Baby Boomer generation and said that particular generation “and generations before them are the backbone of this country.”
A fifth generation Lynner, she was schooled in Lynn and Salem and has held a Real Estate license since 1979. She said her expertise is problem solving and calls herself “a creative thinker with keen perception,” a professional salesperson and people oriented. She also likes to travel and enjoys arts and crafts of all sorts, she said.
The daughter and sister of Marines, she described her family as “disciplined and hardworking people.”
Charbonneau has one son, born in Salem. She said it took all her stamina and discipline to make sure he was not short-changed on his education.
“It is important not to allow, if possible, anyone to oppress our children's success,” she said. “It is, actually, our obligation to protect their best interest. I hope, as your representative, the road to your children's education will be a lot smoother.”
After spending five years traveling across the country, “without a driver’s license and without a job, basically looking for a new life,” Charbonneau said she has collected multiple experiences “and a great deal of wisdom.” She said she put her problem solving and sales skills to good use and called the time one of the best five years of her life.
“There are many experiences too numerous to mention earning myself a Master’s Degree in Life,” she said.
Charbonneau said accountability is necessary and laid out her agenda as follows:
Interest free student/parent loans
Capping the early retirement penalty: “It should not be a lifetime penalty,” she said. “Once the full retirement age has been reached, the penalty should cease.”
Sustainable Energy: Charbonneau said the East Coast and U.S., in general, is lagging behind and it’s time for the Sixth District to “focus on what nature has to offer” and that is sun, wind and water.
“These three sources of energy will not pollute nor will we ever run short of; they are inexhaustible,” she said.
Healthy Learning: Charbonneau believes students should be introduced to fruits and vegetables in the first grade, because “the best time to learn, obviously, is at the youngest grade level - where the best 'seeds' of learning should be planted.”
Medical care: She hopes to create a new system with a simple priority of caring for the best interest of the patient.
Creating a medical knowledge bank: Charbonneau envisions a computerized medical bank that would allow doctors across the country to tap into proven knowledge, acquired by specialists, in the fields of rare diseases. It would be most helpful to doctors in remote areas, she said.
The elderly: Charbonneau said they are the backbone of the country and should be respected and appreciated but it’s a segment that needs more attention.
Charbonneau, who said she personally collected approximately 2,275 certified signatures to get on the ballot, said she hopes everyone will come out to vote on Nov. 6 and she hopes they will vote for her.
“Everyone should understand the importance of the vote,” she said. “Whether you own nothing - or, you own everything - you, only get one vote. So never say your vote does not matter.”
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Butterfield opposes bill to change to SNAP requirements
The U.S. House passed updates to the Farm Bill last week in a 213-211 vote that includes proposals to change the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP.)
In a Tweet on Thursday, Democrat Congressman G.K Butterfield, whose 1st Congressional District includes Vance and Warren counties, said he’d vote against the bill.
In his first Tweet, Butterfield said the bill cuts $23 billion from SNAP.
“SNAP is our most effective anti-hunger program, helping 1 in 8 Americans — mostly children, seniors, or people (with) disabilities — put food on the table,” Butterfield tweeted.
In a follow-up Tweet, following the vote, he characterized the act as “shameful.”
“This fight isn’t over,” he said. “Now we must work even harder to make sure this bad bill doesn’t become law.”
Titled the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, or House Resolution 2, it would toughen work requirements for food stamp recipients.
It proposes requiring able-bodied adults ages 18 to 59 to work or participate in job training for 20 hours a week to receive food stamp benefits that average about $450 a month for a family of four. Government auditors estimate that in 10 years, the SNAP caseload would shrink by about 1.2 million people in an average month if the bill becomes law.
According to a January 2018 profile of SNAP households released through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, SNAP provided about $2.25 billion in food benefits to a monthly average of more than 1.56 million North Carolinians in the fiscal year 2016.
The profile assessed that every dollar in new SNAP benefits results in $1.80 in total economic activity.
The report provided data from the American Consumer Survey, which provided data about each congressional district in 2016.
According to the survey, Butterfield’s district had 57,858 households receiving SNAP assistance.
Of those households, 50.6 percent were with children younger than the age of 18, and 43 percent were with disabled individuals.
Vance County’s Department of Social Services had 5,979 cases related to SNAP at the end of May this year, and 12,743 participants.
Democrats have argued the changes for SNAP would cause food insecurity for millions of Americans.
The USDA defines food insecurity as “the household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”
According to data from the Food Bank of Central East North Carolina, of Vance County’s 44,829 population between 2016-2017, 10,520 residents were food insecure.
Of the 10,520, 2,800 were children under the age of 18, and 997 were residents older than 65 living in poverty.
At the time, Vance County’s unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in June 2017.
The latest numbers released in May from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, assessing April’s data shows 1,000 Vance County residents were unemployed at that time at a 5.6 percent rate.
Of Warren County’s 20,468 population, 4,770 were food insecure, with 1,010 children under the age of 18 and 649 residents older than 65.
At the time, Warren County’s unemployment rate was 6.4 percent.
The N.C. Department of Commerce’s report assessing April’s data shows 398 Warren County residents were unemployed at that time, at a 5.9 percent rate.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the changes in the bill will “close the skills gap, better equip our workforce, and encourage people to move from welfare to work, so more Americans have the opportunity to tap into the economic prosperity we’re seeing right now.”
The measure also renews the safety net for farmers.
A news release through the House Committee on Agriculture said the legislation “addresses economic challenges facing the nation’s farmers and ranchers, while making significant investment opportunities” for SNAP.
“It was about providing certainty to farmers and ranchers who have been struggling under the weight of a five-year recession and about providing our neighbors in need with more than just a hand out, but a hand up,” said Michael Conway, R-Texas, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.
The House bill differs from the Senate’s proposed companion bill, which proposes adjustments to existing agriculture programs but does not contain the same proposed cuts related to SNAP.
The current farm bill expires Sept. 30.
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Ronald W. Carlson
Ronald William Carlson
Location: Frisco, Colorado
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Ronald W. Carlson is a principal and co-founder of the firm. Mr. Carlson focuses his practice on business and real estate including related specialties of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability family partnerships, real estate development, homeowners associations, mechanics liens, and construction-defect litigation.
A graduate of Oakland University with Honors and Wayne State University Law School, Mr. Carlson was Law Clerk to two Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court, the late Honorable John B. Swainson and the Honorable James L. Ryan, now Senior Judge United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Ret.).
Mr. Carlson served as a Senior Assistant Public Defender in Washtenaw County, Michigan including the cities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. He tried dozens of felony cases including capital offense cases of murder and armed robbery. Mr. Carlson was appointed an Assistant Attorney General by Michigans longest-serving Attorney General Frank J. Kelly. In his seven years in that office, Mr. Carlson served as counsel to the Michigan Insurance Commission Tom Jones, advised the offices of State Employer and Public Elections, gained extensive Federal Court experience in 42 USC 1983 cases and prosecuted civil audits of Medic aid Fraud cases.
Mr. Carlson then joined the private practice of a major Health Care Planning and Medical Malpractice firm in Detroit, Michigan Fremet, Bellary & Gilchrist and later returned to Ann Arbor as a member of a malpractice and personal injury firm, Bishop & Shelton.
In 1989, Mr. Carlson joined the Denver, Colorado medical malpractice and personal injury firm of Kripke, Epstein & Lawrence. It was his privilege to try cases under the tutelage of Norm Kripke, one of the co-founders of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and recognized by the Colorado Bar Association as One of Colorados Greatest lawyers, and with the late Scott Lawrence who served as a distinguished District Court Judge for Colorados 14th District of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties.
Mr. Carlson moved with his wife and firm co-founder Judith Carlson to Summit County, Colorado in 1990, initially practicing in another real estate and transactional firm and later co-founding the present firm in 1993.
Mr. Carlson has served on various boards and community organizations. He is a former Planning Commission member and former Prosecutor for the Town of Frisco, as well as current Prosecutor for the City of Leadville. He currently serves as the part-time Frisco Municipal Court Judge. He is licensed to practice in Colorado, Arizona, and Michigan.
Mr. Carlson is the author of a number of publications and articles including Rule 16 and New Duties of Colorado Election Law in the Colorado Lawyer and co-author of Motions Before Trial in Michigan.
Mr. Carlson is an avid skier and snowboarder, enjoys hiking, camping, golf, and fly-fishing. He currently serves on the Board of the Continental Divide Land Trust.
Wayne State Law School
Limited Liability Family Partnerships
Construction Defect Litigation
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U.S. District Court District of Colorado, 1990
U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1980
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1979
"Election Preview: New Statutory Duties to Investigate Ineligible Voters & Fraud", August 1998
"Rule 16 Reality Check", Colorado Lawyer, March 1998
Co-Author, "Motions During Trial," Michigan Civil Procedure During Trial, ICLE, 1989
Instructor, Regis University, 1991 - 1998
Instructor, Colorado Mountain College, 1993
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One more transfer story
This, because it encapsulates the mindset of major college athletics perfectly:
… [Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe] Castiglione said that not every transfer request could be resolved the same way because of “the uniqueness” of each case. Et cetera.
Afterward, Castiglione took questions from a small huddle of reporters who wanted him to tell the story of how he had lured Oklahoma’s basketball coach, Lon Kruger, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2011. Castiglione, who is an entertaining storyteller, told a long tale about how he had approached Kruger a number of times and finally persuaded him to agree to the move, even though Kruger and his wife had just moved into their dream house in Las Vegas. (It helped that Castiglione gave his new coach a seven-year, $16.6 million contract.)
When I asked Castiglione about the transfer rule, he told me that Oklahoma tried not to stand in the way of athletes who wanted to leave. But he also brought up the case of Baker Mayfield, the Sooners’ current quarterback, who walked on to the Texas Tech team as a freshman, then transferred to Oklahoma, where he walked on to its football team, too. Mayfield not only had to sit out a year but also lost a year of eligibility because of a Big 12 rule that punishes players who dare to move to a different college within the conference. The fact that Mayfield didn’t have an athletic scholarship made no difference.
Although Castiglione made it clear that he thought transferring should be easier for the players, he also worried, he said, about “people tampering with our current student-athletes to get them to transfer.”
The reason I say perfectly is because I doubt Castiglione even recognized the contradiction in the two situations as he spoke.
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9 responses to “One more transfer story”
Hey these unrestricted transfer rules are great when they work to our benefit, BUT LET’S NOT GET CARRIED AWAY HERE!
I didn’t hear it, but I’ll bet he did recognize the contradiction, and it’s exactly why he’s “afraid.”
Dawg in Austin
Let’s not forget why Baker was able to do that. He comes from a family who could float him a year in school without the scholarship money. Few other families of football players can do the same. Which is why the comments from coaches and ADs comparing players’ ability to “go anywhere they want” (like coaches and ADs can) is such BS.
Excellent point DIA and not to mention that even though he hasn’t received a nickel in scholarship money (yet) from either school, it still cost him a year of eligibility just for moving to another Big 8 school. Can you imagine the uproar if someone decided to transfer from Valdosta State to UGA and was told they’d have to wait a year before they could get any HOPE scholarship money.
The more apt comparison is transferring within state because you prefer the program at another university (let’s say math, for examples sake) and being told that not only can you not accept HOPE scholarship money for a year, you also aren’t allowed to take any math classes. But yeah – keep on telling me they’re students just like anybody else.
Yep. They want them to be students sometimes and football players sometimes. Just depends on what helps the coach the most.
DawgByte
Blutarsky – You’ve missed your calling. You’d make a great hippie Greenpeace leader.
Free markets, baby!
At this point I shouldn’t be surprised since I think we know where everybody that comments here stands on the subject, but it’s incredibly amusing how many right-leaning folks become total socialists when the topic is college athletics.
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High School French Teacher
Keystone School
Keystone school has been a haven for bright, motivated students since 1948. A Keystone student is taught to ask questions, to pursue knowledge, and to love learning. We believe that when given the opportunity, encouragement, and means to think more deeply and comprehensively, young people will respond with the enthusiasm and energy to go beyond the demands of a standard curriculum. Within the context of a balanced and supportive environment, our challenging and thoughtful college-preparatory program, enriched with many opportunities for physical, social, creative, and ethical growth, challenges students to develop diligence, inquisitiveness, independence, self-discipline, and responsibility.
Keystone is a nationally recognized, multi-cultural, college-preparatory school where academic excellence and student individuality are honored. Our small, accelerated classes and co-curricular activities prepare our students to succeed academically and socially at the nation’s best colleges and universities.
Keystone School seeks a full-time French instructor with a start date of August 2020, for the 2020-2021 school year. We welcome applicants committed to teaching French in an accelerated, diverse, and inclusive environment.
Successful candidates will have strong experience instructing nearly fully in the target language, possess inspiring pedagogy to build student confidence in conversing in French, and demonstrate a solid foundation in French grammar and Francophone culture.
Required qualifications and experience include:
A commitment to Keystone School's mission
Three to five years French language instruction experience, including AP French
Exceptional oral and written communication skills in both English and French
Exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills
Preferred qualifications include:
Experience working with advanced and gifted students
Experience teaching a third language
Competitive salary and benefit package.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three to five references by Friday, January 31st.
Keystone School welcomes candidates for admission or employment, regardless of age, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, national or ethnic origin, and does not discriminate on the basis of any category protected by law in the administration of any of its programs.
For more information about Keystone School, please visit www.keystoneschool.org
About Keystone School
Keystone school has been a haven for bright, motivated students since 1948. A Keystone student is taught to ask questions, to pursue knowledge, and to love learning. We believe that when given the opportunity, encouragement, and means to think more deeply and comprehensively, young people will respond with the enthusiasm and energy to go beyond the demands of a standard curriculum. Within the context of a balanced and supportive environment, our challenging and thoughtful college-preparatory program, enriched with many opportunities for physical, social, creative, and ethical growth, challenges students to develop diligence, inquisitiveness, independence, self-discipline, and responsibility. Keystone is a nationally recognized, multi-cultural, college-preparatory school where academic excellence and student individuality are honored. Our small, accelerated classes and co-curricular activities prepare our students to succeed academically and socially at the nation’s best colleges and universities.
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App Strategy Day
Healing Money Trauma with Mindy West
Links Mentioned in the Podcast:
Mindy’s “Stop Blocking Money” Course
Mindy’s Love Cacao (stop drinking coffee and drink this amazing cacao instead!!!)
Podcast Transcript:
Carla: 00:00 And you are listening to a special series of the g spot where we talk about gratitude, giving back grace in God, and this is one of the three part series. This is part number two of the three part series where we are talking about money. So in part number one, we talked about money, trauma, and how in our subconscious events from our childhood can affect our adult relationship, wouldn’t money. So if you didn’t get that episode, I highly recommend you listen to it, but in this episode to really make a leap through that money trauma, I have a special guest. Her name is mindy West in she works with the energy that you hold around money. Now if you’re going, okay, this step isn’t for me, it’s about energy and healing and all that stuff. Listen Up. I was the exact same way. But the interesting thing is is we’re mostly made of energy and I’m. Part of me is just kind of curious about this stuff like it. Does it actually work? Well? Listen Up. You’re in for a special treat with mindy. I’m going to share my personal experience that I had with her, how you can work with her and other ways that you can improve your clarity, energy, and focus and really go into 2019 as a new person. So you’re going to enjoy this one.
Mindy West: 01:29 Yeah. I would say I do specialize in shifting your energy around money so that way you become magnetic to it. I like to say that I’ve made people money magnet and it starts from the inside.
Carla: 01:41 Okay. So here’s my experience with mindy. Um, when I heard about what she did, I quickly wanted to jump on a call with her. In fact, she says I bugged her, get at a golf and when we got on a call, um, what we did was nothing like what I expected we would do. So we, um, I had to recognize different areas of my life where I’m holding myself back and because of those areas I had to bring them in, uh, the individuals and the people in, um, into my life in a different manner and presence. And I know that all sounds kind of crazy and hard to follow. Like what did you do? Um, but the long and short of it was, is we didn’t really even talk about money but more so we talked about my getting help, like, like opening up to the health that’s already out there and allowing it into my life.
Carla: 02:43 And to me that, that was really surprising because I didn’t realize I had a problem with like at reaching out for help. And um, what happened after that? So that was about 10 days ago that we had that call in. In those 10 days, there was one really big event and a number of smaller events that I don’t know if they’re linked together. I kind of believed they are, but obviously I had to put certain things in place first. So the big event, the biggest one that happened was I got this golden ticket and the golden ticket is like the Willy Wonka chocolate factory, golden ticket. There’s a gentleman in California who has what he calls the profit making factory. So he helps entrepreneurs really launch their businesses with strategy and execution. And he’s doing a offer based on Willy Wonka. And He sends out these golden tickets and these packages with a lot of great information and I’m and I am all of these 500 packages going out.
Carla: 03:50 There’s five golden tickets and two or three days after mindy and I had our little session together, a golden ticket arrived in my mailbox. Now I had to order that in advance and I ordered it before Monday arrived. But here’s the kicker. Here’s the interesting thing that happened when I woke up that morning. It was last Sunday when I woke up, I had this overwhelming presence that things are gonna change in. I could. I had one or two choices. It was like the red pill or the blue pill and I can take the red pill or the blue pill. Like I could wake up and step into the person that I was becoming. Or I could wake up and step back into the person I always thought I was. And it was a really overwhelming feeling that I’d never had before. And it was really fun and euphoric and not threatening at all.
Carla: 04:45 So I decided to step into the person that I’m becoming and had to really consciously be aware that as I went through my day, um, we went to church because it’s Sunday morning and for some reason I leaned over to my son out of nowhere and said, hey, do you want to go to San Diego? And this is where the golden ticket will take me to San Diego. And I had no idea that I had a golden ticket in my mailbox. But I said that to him. I said, do you want to go to San Diego because he has family in San Diego. So, um, and then we got home, I go to the mailbox, get the mail that was delivered the day before it, and there’s that golden ticket. And that was a larger one. Now there were a whole bunch of other little events that were just like that, that happened. And um, yeah, yeah, like little ones where I would meditating and I couldn’t get my mind off of the next step of what I had to do, um, for my business. And then after I’d get done meditating and I’d go into a private facebook group that I’m a member of and I go in there, there were people offering to help with the exact same things that I was looking for a Chabad, and then they helped me out. Twenty hours later
Mindy West: 05:58 I was moving on it. It was stuff that I would’ve spent a week or two fighting about. So thank you for that. Mindy M, I don’t know how you do it, but let’s talk about your, your magical gift. What is it, you know, like what, what is the mindset that people are in right now and where do you take them? Well, first of all, I have to say, Carla, you didn’t tell me these things and I’m so excited to hear that because that’s amazing. That’s exactly what happens when we do this mindset work when we do this energy work, right? Like, I’m so excited for you. I just can’t get over it. Listening to that, I’m so excited for you. It’s, it’s so fun and magical, right? Like I always think that the word magic. It’s funny like I put it into my marketing because it’s funny because it’s like the only way to explain the kind of work I do, everyone starts at a different mindset, a different level of abundance, of prosperity, fears, beliefs, traumas, and what I do with people both in my one on one client sessions and through my courses that have energy healing, guided met at well, like healing meditations, activations like it kind of works in the same thing.
Mindy West: 07:13 They work together that we go from wherever they are and pull out all the fears, traumas, belief patterns, energetic patterns that are holding them back. And the way we do that really it’s through energy work. It’s through getting really clear on what exactly is holding you back. Generally there’s one big relationship or two big relationships that have been stifling money coming in, um, in some way and not intentional. That’s like none of this stuff is intentional, but it’s stuff that we take on and it’s also in our collective, in our collective consciousness of our cultures and societies of fear and lack and money doesn’t grow on trees and you have to work really hard to make money and you gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you have to hustle. Especially entrepreneurs. We love hustling, right? But hustling as a choice. And so what I do with these through these various different ways is basically Paul this stuff up and out and release it.
Mindy West: 08:12 Letting go of these beliefs is the majority of my work and the way I do that comes in different ways, but it’s ultimately letting go because at your core, at your essence, you have, you’re totally abundant. Like you can call on anything you need and it will show up. It’s just in this human condition. We have all these beliefs that we’re not good enough. We don’t deserve money. We don’t, um, we aren’t, who am I to do this work? And getting through that and releasing that allows you to go and take action on opportunities. So I often say like I’m not going to work with you and money magically reins out of the sky like because if it did that would be really cool. But more often than not it brings opportunities to you and it’s your choice to take action on those. Like having the face people in the facebook group offering you help. It’s like you chose to take action that, that basically folded time and made you go ahead a week. Sorry. That’s all right. We can just cut that out. Right? I thought I turned. I turned on do not disturb everyday and then I forgot this morning. So I’m sorry about that
Carla: 09:27 because mine mind might be the same. Who knows? I never know if I have everything turned off in so many ways they can sneak through that. Um, okay. So, so opening and being open to the opportunities, being open to the opportunities is really huge because sometimes opportunities are not how we expect them to be or tell. Tell. Let’s talk about that because sometimes like I think we’re getting opportunities all the time and because of interrupting the schedule that we’re on, we dismiss them and we go, no, that’s too much, or we’re grabbing too many opportunities because we got the shiny object syndrome where we’re just like gotta have. That might be it or that might be under that. So talk to me about opportunities.
Mindy West: 10:19 Yeah, opportunities. That’s the way we receive our path to abundance, right? It’s like your golden ticket. Could it be interrupting or could it be an opportunity? Right, and the difference is how aligned is it with what you’re trying to do? How aligned is it with your path and purpose? How does it feel in your body when you received that? If you received it with so much joy and excitement, like that’s the opportunity you want to take action, but if you’re just looking around like, oh, isn’t this isn’t this isn’t this isn’t this? Yes, things will come to you, but here’s the different. The differences. Alignment. So when we are in overwhelm and stress and chaos, like that’s actually in our energetic field and that’s what we’re attracting. So we’ll track all these different things, but just like grasping for something and part of the work I do with people’s giving out of overwhelm and getting out of chaos because then all the shiny objects syndrome, it will fade away so that way they’re true opportunities will present themselves and be really able to like feel like, yes, this is it, this is what I need to do.
Mindy West: 11:24 And you always feel it in your heart and your gut and your body. It’s not with your minds, right? The opportunities that come to you to to make you help. You get ahead. You’ll know in your body.
Carla: 11:36 Like if you’re just seeing the people who end up joining my coaching program, they all say they felt it. They felt something inside of them that moved up and they always tend to be a really good fit. Like it’s. And I’m an insane when I a program or
Mindy West: 11:53 approach somebody, it’s if it’s, if it doesn’t feel right, then it tends to be a burden in the end. And especially with how life is. CCS weren’t bombarded every few minutes with opportunity opportunities, right? Like things that could potentially help us. But what is it taking away what in our time and our resources first, what’s it bringing to us? Right? So the real alignment opportunities will give us so much more than it takes away from us. So how long have you been doing this? Uh, well I started on this spiritual path and started doing energy healing and life purpose stuff about five years ago. But working specifically with money, I realized maybe three years ago that, that was really my gift. And it’s kind of funny because as a kid my parents say that my first word was cash and I switched. I said best like wasn’t really cash. And we’re like, yeah, we think it was cash stick with it. That’s a good story.
Mindy West: 13:04 So I always loved money growing up and I was very good at money collecting money and making money and saving money for awhile. I got away from it because, you know, as you become a teenager and you’re like, I’m going to be different and I’m to like, let go of that and I don’t need money. And then as it swung back around, it’s like, no, this is who I am, this is what I really loved. And I realized at one point it was quite a difficult time in my life that energy and money are connected. And I had to go through a really dark like divorce and then ended up getting myself in debt, dark night of the soul. Really painful to a point of complete surrender of like please help. I don’t know what to do. And I started realizing I had all these money blocks and uh, that I had collected over the past few years.
Mindy West: 13:50 And in a moment I was able to shift it. And four hours later I got a new opportunity and new consulting project. A few weeks later I got another opportunity that another one is dissolved my debt and put me back on the path of prosperity. So I had to have that, that dark difficult time, I think to realize the complete connection between what I had loved my whole life of the money and the spiritual work in the energy work and the mindset and everything that was going on in that to make the connection to pull them together. So.
Mindy West: 14:26 Okay. So what’s in a very short period of time. So what did you let go of like you said, you surrendered it. I think a lot of people who are listening will go surrendered every member surrendering. And you know what, I didn’t have a break, like nothing really came. So like, can you describe that a little bit more with that? Letting go and surrendering is like. Yeah, definitely. I was um, I just moved back to the states after I’d lived in Peru and I took some really bad financial advice. I had a, I had been taught how to manifest in a way that did not manifest. So I followed some bad advice and I got myself $30,000 in debt because you know, believe it will come and quit your job because that’s not your purpose and if I like that, but I sat one day on my meditation cushion and I was just so upset like how did I get myself into this point?
Mindy West: 15:23 And I just sat there. I was like, God, Angels Guides, please help me, help me. And I’m crying, you know, I probably put my son to bed and I just crying and I saw these missions have one money block from my that I had taken off from my ex husband. Another one that I’d taken on from my parents telling me, you’re too young to make six figures. You don’t work hard enough. And you know, another block of single moms have to suffer. Like I just could feel these coming out of my body. No, it wasn’t after I put my son to bed. It was actually morning after I dropped him off to school and I just felt it come out of my body and I felt that released enough. You know, I dry my eyes and got up and it’s like, Whoa, that was a 10.
Mindy West: 16:07 Yeah. And that’s when things started shifting because I. and then of course, like four hours later I got a call from my consulting for to get another project is super easy, like autopilot and then I got more and more and more than that it’s like this is amazing. So I became obsessed and it’s like if I did that and this is what happened, then I’m just going to keep doing this and doing it and doing it. Then I became obsessed with like how much money could I make, but how much freedom because I don’t want to work a lot. I want to have the freedom with the money comes the ideal lifestyle. So yeah, it was, I think that surrender always can benefit us when we’re really authentic about it. And how fast is the result happen? It just depends. It depends on the person.
Carla: 16:55 I will tell you, um, when we had this conversation, it was on the cusp of a black Friday offer that I was releasing. Remember I was just about to launch my first black Friday offer, which is pretty big and I also had a major life change opportunity that it was coming down the pipeline as well and it was going to get that life changing opportunities. So the black Friday special, I don’t know if I shared with you but I definitely didn’t get the sales I wanted. The life changing opportunity that I thought I wanted did not come through and sometimes like I look back and I think, okay, well maybe those were going to hold me in a, in a place like I, that’s not what I want. I want to accelerate to a different location or a different place that not physically location but a different mental, spiritual place and because those didn’t come through so sometimes like it’s not always an opportunity that comes to you. It’s one that’s like close the doors closed at this one. No, you’re not supposed to go through that door. Is that right? Or did.
Mindy West: 18:13 No. I can be as much of a blessing to not receive things as it is to receive them. Now if you with your life changing opportunity, that would have taken up a lot of time. I know that with our session you became aligned with a much higher income potential. Right? So we had actually shifted things. Your income potential became much higher then had you been, had you been doing those other opportunities? Right. So sometimes we see we start to do energy work and then things happen. You lose your job, a loss of a partner relationship, something major starts to shift in life and it’s like, what’s happening? Because I’m want to go, well why do I have to go through this hard part? But it’s making space. What happened for you is you just made a whole lot for more to come in.
Carla: 19:10 Yeah. It feels like that. It does. It feels like, okay, I’m was Kinda glad because otherwise I would have been in this decision. I had to make this decision because sometimes. I mean I’m sure everybody listening to this, you’ve been in this decision and you’re like, I don’t know whether to take it or not and I’m kinda scared not to take it. Yeah. You’re making the decision at a beer rather than out of excitement and enthusiasm and.
Mindy West: 19:34 Right, right.
Carla: 19:37 Super Cool. Okay. So, um, when you talked about that release that happened to you that I can. That I think I felt after our session later on that day, like, I don’t know, I can’t remember if we finished up and then I went off to get my kids. Um, but I did sort of feel drained like, yeah, is that normal or. Okay.
Mindy West: 20:05 It can, it does happen a lot after we do an initial session because so much energy is moved and your body has to let it go. Like it has to go and after we moved a lot of energy, you need time to rest and recuperate and drink a lot of water. And if you do that and then you’re go, go, go, go, go. You’ll feel it. Right. But you can’t expect to do. You wouldn’t get to surgery and then not take a break. Right. This energetic surgery that we’re taking out of you and you didn’t take a break afterwards. So
Carla: 20:39 I was just so funny because I’ve been feeling like, Carla, you got to take a break, like in the back of my mind this past week. It’s like, take the kids, okay, let me talk more about this golden ticket is what this gentleman named Brian Delaney and his profit factory and it’s going to take all this product creation that I’m doing for my audience. You know, these videos and podcasts and groups and clubs and offers that are making. He’s going to put them all in line with where I want to go with my business and help me strategize that. And so now after that golden ticket came through, I’m kind of like a deer in headlights going, well, which way do I go? Because I want to be able to execute in the right direction. And in the back of my mind it’s just, why don’t you just take a break and,
Mindy West: 21:28 well, you need to make. You need to let your everything reset because you went through a huge adjustment. Let it reset and then you’ll be able to take inspired action instead of chaotic action. Right? We just need that. Recently we turn on and off our phones when it’s getting a little like a clouded up. We need to do the same for ourselves and making space is. It’s got to be the best part of all of this because if you’re just constantly running, running, running, running, running where where’s everything going to come into? Right? Where’s all the abundance gonna come into? So taking a day off or two days off or spend the weekends relaxing. I’m going to the hot springs later today. Do I have a whole lot to work until 9:00 at night on a Friday? Sure I do, but I’m going to go to the hot springs with my son and take a reset. Let it come in because that’s when you’re quiet is when the ideas come, right? We can’t be chaotic and let the ideas come in and if you want to take action instead of just go, go, go. You need that quiet for the inspiration to come.
Carla: 22:38 Yes, and that is the difference between an no matter if you’re an entrepreneur or have a career or whatever, everybody is in that busy mode. I mean, everybody is so busy and um, I always advise, don’t just take action taking inspired action, but knowing the difference, it’s such a subtle difference in just because sometimes people just can’t stop. They feel like they’re going to. It’s fearful to stop,
Mindy West: 23:10 right? Yeah. Right. And our bodies are so wound up all the time. It takes a good week for people to be able to slow down if they’re not used to it. So they’re like, they feel this anxiousness, anxiousness, anxiousness because they’re not going, but really it’s just the slow unwinding process of that stress energy we’d have, right? Our bodies run on stress now for most people and it takes a while to unwind, but the difference between the action and inspired action, it’s the same as we were talking about earlier. Inspired action comes from your heart, from your gut, from that knowing, and I’m just action. Action. Action comes from your head down and feel your heart and feel what feels right, but you can’t do that if you’re in stress and overwhelm and chaos. You just can’t make. You can’t distinctly wish.
Carla: 24:03 Well, it’s also when you’re in stress and overwhelming cashier in a High Beta state, right? And then you’re just in reaction mode rather than the inspired mode that the Delta State, uh, that our children are in this more creative. Right, right. Interesting. Okay. So, um, you said it initial, we had an initial session, so normally what do you do an initial session and then do follow ups,
Mindy West: 24:35 Chiropractic adjuster or like how does this work? Well, it really depends on what people are looking for, what they need, what their goals are. For me, I do take on a few high end, like high level one on one clients for coaching, for continuous energy work in coaching and like let’s make big things happen in life. Uh, I also sell a courses. So like my magical money multiplier courses, shifting the energy within each major energy center in your body, each Chakra in order to start attracting money. There’s a collective consciousness plants which is basically pulling off all the collective crap that we’ve been taking on. So we can be our authentic selves, which is the highest, fastest way to become abundant is by being you. Right? So it really just depends what we did together was an initial session and if we were to work together as coaching, we have to keep doing things like that, but depending on what you know, what your goals are, where you’re going in life, like if it’s strict energy healing or if it’s coaching or strategy and I know, you know, all the strategy stuff and the coaching stuff, so it would be energy work, but um, it really depends on what someone’s looking for, right?
Mindy West: 25:51 It’s all about. And it’s like I have an offering of services, but it’s about the client for people when they’re just starting. My recommendation is go by the energy healing the healing meditations because that’s going to be your fastest way to shift things right at the. That the lowest cost, right? If you’re really struggling with money, maybe have $7, but you don’t have 3000. It just depends on where people are and what they’re looking for A. Right, right.
Carla: 26:23 That’s awesome that you create something for everybody out there then so they don’t have to because they can start with the $7, get rid of some of the blocks, they can certainly work their way up to that potential. And my goal through this money awareness series is for everybody to discover that they have an extra dollars out there in the universe waiting for them to come into their life if they allow it. So the first, yeah, the first part and if you, you can listen to the podcast if you want to hear more about this, but it was just having money. Trauma, like something happened earlier in your life. Like for myself, I grew up on a farm and money was always an object of mother nature, like so much money goes into the cracks and everything else. And Mother Nature could get pissed off in 15 minutes and blow everything.
Carla: 27:15 And there’s your, there’s your revenues for the year. Right? And so money was really a touchy subject. Um, and what I did later on in life because what I discovered is I’ll get a bill and the bill will sit on my desk and I’ll go, oh, I’ll pay attention to that later. I’ll open it later. And then like three months later I’ll go, oh, I know that bill. And so I obviously was having a bad relationship with numbers of my downloads for my app. I wouldn’t look at it how many downloads I get. It just like numbers were just like, it makes my palms sweaty and my heart go. So, um, what I did instead is money was, is another child, it’s my third child. And if I neglect my child, like if I just set him in the corner of the room and don’t pay attention to him, he all seen those children that are set in front of a TV.
Carla: 28:11 And that’s how they learn how to talk is because I’ve only been exposed to a TV. And you see how that affects them in the same way with money. Your relationship with money. If you just ignore it, it’s going to turn. It wants your attention. It wants to be loved, it wants to be held and appreciated and enjoyed and I’m not considered something like a pain in the butt or hard to deal with or anything like that, you know, like you see it like your child, which I think you could or I could, you know, any sort of parent out there could do. Then it just shifts the whole perspective of money. So that’s the first one is first thing, that good relationship. Yeah, you can use it and everybody to you. So like, sure you have that good relationship now. But um, let’s talk about those, those records. What were you, what were you calling those records? The. Oh, then we went into the akashic records for the Akashic records. I always forget that word. It’s a Sanskrit word. Um, let’s, can you share a little bit about, because. So what we did is we went into the Akashic records when they’re done with other energy healers, um, has been phenomenal and um, uh, I’ve never really researched or what all that is. So I think depending on who you talk to, they have a different perspective
Mindy West: 29:42 on what it is and how it works, like anything right, but to me the Akashic records are the. When you open up the Akashic records, you access all the information about your soul, past, present and future, and we get to speak directly to your masters, teachers and loved ones. So that would be like your angels and your guides and it means that we get really clear channel to tap into you. How was I able to know such personal things about you within an hour
Carla: 30:11 because of them? It wasn’t even an hour. Within two minutes you went straight to the one.
Mindy West: 30:18 It was spooky how you did that, right? It’s because the masters teachers in level to have known you your whole life, your whole soul’s evolution where they’re telling me, ask this, ask that. Go here, show her this, bring her to this image. Right? So when I’m able to follow that and be that channel for you, that’s when we get really deep. And then I combine that with energy healing that I have various sources that I’ve been working with and have been developing over the last few years and were able to get super deep and doing the energy healing within the Kashic records one times by my math teachers. Loved once, they told me, if you do energy healing outside of the records, it’s good. We work on this time and space, but if you do it in the records, we’re working on all time spaces and dimensions. So it’s so powerful. That’s why in one hour we get huge results for you. Right? Whereas if we were to just chat and I’d be like, Hey, what’s what’s going on? Right? One B would not be the same because it’s like that whole energetic psychic surgery. We’re literally taking the blocks out of your body, out of your energetic fields and replacing it with abundance, with prosperity, with a whole new mindset, a whole new energetic pattern. So it’s fascinating
Carla: 31:42 out of your energetic field, because that to me, I understand where all energy, but I also kind of. Then my brain goes, but what about my subconscious? In the 95 percent of my brain and my actions that are based on my sub punches, does it look like go in there and dig into that happened between like wetting my pants and first grade, second grade, like those traumatic events? Does it go in there and pull that out or what does it do
Mindy West: 32:16 exactly? That’s exactly what it is because it doesn’t pull out the memory. We never take away the memory. We take away the energetic impact of the memory that’s still going on inside of you. So the way I see it is like we have all of these patterns that I’ve been imprinted in us imprinted in our subconscious imprinted in our energetic field are, or if you to say that, so we have these memories that caused these patterns and these patterns like we met our pants in first grade and then that starts going, going, going, going, going. That’s what drives your subconscious, your subconscious just feeding off all these memories and energetic patterns that we have. So when we. This is why I actually have a hard time using the word mindset because people think, oh, if I just change how my mind is working, that everything will change to me.
Mindy West: 33:05 I’m like, no, you need to change how your energy is working, how the patterns are working within you, which will then change how your mind is thinking. Like don’t start in the middle of eating is energetic pattern. So when we do the healing, we’re taking away the limiting effects of those memories, of those traumas of those disbeliefs disconnecting you from maybe what your parents thought while your culture thought, your society thought, like pulling all that out of you so that way you become more of a clean slate and it is a process, right? It’s not like in one hour we’ve changed every single money mindset were had. No, but we took out a big chunk and we got you started and now you actually tools that you can do all the time, right? We love you. Now know what are these things that I can do to shift instantly? Well, I dunno. I’m going to have a follow up session with you to do that too.
Mindy West: 34:09 Okay, so when mindy and I jumped on this call, she was actually working with another product. She was finishing up some work with another product, so she does energy work around money, but let’s show you a second product that you offer. Well, one of my big passions is cacao, which is unprocessed chocolates and I just love it so much. So on the physical level. Cookout is amazing for your body weight. Always think chocolates so bad for you. Well, it’s not the processing of the milk and the sugar that’s not so good for you itself. The Cacao paste itself or the nibs, they have so many antioxidants that Ah, it’s just so good for you. Magnesium and all these amazing properties like you could live off chocolate alone if you had to. It’s that balanced. It’s one of the super foods in the world, right? But on the energetic level, it’s very hard opening.
Mindy West: 35:08 It opens your heart, it opens your mind. It helps you focus with creativity. Like if you’re a writer and you can normally write for an hour with two cow if you drink, some of it are consumed, that you could write for two hours if you’re a meditator, you can get two, three, four times as long and as deep of a meditation when you consume it because the plant itself works both on the physical and the energetic properties to open you up. And so I love. I’ve started importing cacau from Guatemala, from these beautiful indigenous women. They have the only indigenous run a woman run business in their town and they go and peel it all by hand and toasted and put it over the fire and put it through the mill and make it into the cacao paste. And you could just feel the love inside of each fight of it that they’ve infused into the cacao itself. And that is, yeah, it’s amazing. And I use it both for morning meditation throughout the day and to hold the cow ceremonies. So the ceremonies.
Carla: 36:06 Yeah. And I just, as soon as I heard about it, I went instantly on her website and butts. Um, and I will put links in the show notes and share all the links so you can access mindy and Oliver. Wonderful products. Tell me, um, there was another party or Cacala that you haven’t shared in that is you give back
Mindy West: 36:27 some of the plans. This is half of all the profits go back to Guatemala to support the indigenous community where it’s sourced from. So not only do they get an amazing living wage when they do this, I buy this at the price that they asked for, which is great. They’re able to live off very well and half the profits then go back. Right now we’re currently working to build a birth center for the community because safe birth is something I’m very passionate about. Our centers built. We’ll move on to supporting another project in the community. And it’s a, this, this community is amazing. If you ever have a chance to go to Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth. It’s really incredible.
Carla: 37:17 Awesome. Well thank you for that tip. I’ll just speak Spanish. So we’ll go there.
Mindy West: 37:27 That Spanish is their second language and you can go there and they speak their indigenous languages and they’re like, I speak Spanish, but I still can’t communicate. Makes it fun.
Carla: 37:41 Somehow you managed to score a deal with them. So. So, um, so what you offer is the cacao, but then you also teach people how to have these ceremonies because you can have the cacao, like you could make a explain how you make one little cup of cocoa for yourself in the morning.
Mindy West: 38:00 Yeah. So to start my morning I make the cacao. I just put about a cup of hot water in my vitamix and put about a teaspoon of cow and some other flavors. So either cinnamon and vanilla or I like to do essential oils if I’m working on abundance. So use wild orange or maybe cardamom or ginger if I’m working on like solar plexus stuff. Confidence and the kick. How can be infused with other energies to work on specific things or just to make it taste a little different. It’s either way, it’s like just putting these things in the blender and mixing it up with the hot water. You’re done in less than a minute, right? It’s, yeah, it’s such a great way to start the day and uh, considering like coffee, right kind of ads that anxiety energy, right. But whereas to cow you drink it in your heart opens, new expands.
Carla: 38:55 So you also do these ceremonies, so to. Which sounds super cool to explain what those, I guess in comparison. So that’s one little one serving in the morning, but in her ceremonies to.
Mindy West: 39:08 Yeah, totally different things. So the ceremony’s will come together. I actually, I hold my cow ceremonies online and in person or at retreats and so of course online versus in person is a different experience, but when we come together and we drink the cow in a more like a higher dose, you would do about three tablespoons of cacao. Her dose. It’s incredible how quickly you can open up your energy and how deep we can get kick. How can be used with, with sound healing, with Yoga, with meditation. For me, of course I’m an energy healer, so I love to open people’s energy up and go really deep and make some credible shifts within them. So that way their whole life has changed from the ceremony, but it’s, I love it because you get all of your senses, right, you get the taste from the cacao, you get your hearing from music, you get smell from the incense, the Kupol, the sage. It’s a very sacred process. We open up the energy, we hold the space for transformation. It’s not just sitting down and having a cup of hot chocolate and watching someone play some music. It’s, this is like sacred, sacred ceremonial space where we come to for transformation and it’s so much fun. And I’ve started teaching people how to hold these ceremonies to, which is one of my upcoming courses is so passionate about it because it’s odd. So, um, impactful and safe.
Carla: 40:40 Right? And it opens up areas that everybody needs to open up. Whether you’re writing a book or an entrepreneur or anything. Everybody needs to open up these energy centers to allow for the life that they’re meant to have rather than the life that they’re, you know, they need to thrive rather than. That is so cool. I want to participate. I’m like your biggest fan right now.
Mindy West: 41:10 I’ll have to schedule another online ceremonies so you can participate.
Carla: 41:16 We’ll get a whole group of my listeners and fan base to so we can all do it together. That’ll be super fun. Special ones. So um. Alright. So Mindy, can you tell me where people can find you online and um, you know, learn more about what your offerings. I’m sure a lot of people are gonna wanna talk to you. So how can they find you?
Mindy West: 41:40 Yeah. So to get started with q cow visit [inaudible] dot com and there you can order cacao and soon I will have information about the upcoming ceremonialist course for money. The best place to start is stop locking money.com and that’s where you can start with for just $7, get a money mindset itself, which will take out your top three money blocks. Um, yeah. So just $7 to get started. That recreates that point of surrender that I talked about earlier. That shifted the whole course of my life and then to contact me directly or see a bit more of my offerings. Mindy West Dot Com.
Carla: 42:22 Nice, awesome. Well I will put all of that in the show notes and put links to all these sites and went. Mindy, anything else you want to share with us as we go and close out a year and enter into a new one? Like it’s always such a poignant time for people to make big changes in their life and it’s such a good side. So do you have any suggestions for people?
Mindy West: 42:47 Yeah, I think as much as we want to bring in, we need to let go up so start with letting go before you bring more in, more in more overwhelmed with chaos, but if you do a huge let go of what are the relationships I need to like grow up, what are the activities, the habits, the thoughts, the feelings, the beliefs. Just do a complete release before the end of the year. Your New Year. We’ll start out. So I’m such a higher vibration, so much better. So much more good will come in when you have that space.
Carla: 43:19 I love that. That’s such a great topic. In fact, I think I might have to make this into a four part series, like go, like go into your closet and let go of those skinny jeans that are going to go for now.
Mindy West: 43:37 Exactly. Exactly. All. Only come in their space.
Carla: 43:42 Yeah. Yeah, because when we read dead where you remodeled her house and just like punching out those walls and all that was all new energy and space and we were very selective about what we put back like so much of it going because it just didn’t have the right energy for it. Yeah, but you guys don’t have to remodel to do that. Just know everything in. Yeah.
Mindy West: 44:13 Quick goodwill will run or even more important than the physical stuff. As the emotional inventory. Do you an emotional inventory. Where are you at right now? What is it that you need to let go emotionally and that would be huge.
Carla: 44:26 Yeah, right? Yeah.
Mindy West: 44:29 On all levels. Really emotional, physical, spiritual, mental,
Carla: 44:34 and if you need help, call me and she’ll get you there.
Mindy West: 44:41 We’ve done this before
Carla: 44:44 so. Well, thank you so much, mindy. You’re awesome and I can’t wait to have our next session.
Mindy West: 44:51 I really appreciate it. This has been wonderful. Thank you for having me.
Carla: 44:55 Awesome. Well, I’m sure we’ll have you again.
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Food Insecurity in War-Torn Syria: From Decades of Self-Sufficiency to Food Dependence
Regional Insight
Summary: Food security has been eroded in Syria over the last few years, with production of main crops falling by varying degrees mainly due to the impact of the conflict on fertilizers, the disruption of trade routes, and the reduction of subsidies on fuel.
This piece was prepared as part of the 2013–2014 Syrian Economic Reconstruction Project run by the Carnegie Middle East Center, which sought to help map the social, political, and institutional dynamics that will be generated when postconflict reconstruction begins in Syria. This piece was drafted in 2014 and updated in March 2015.
Before the March 2011 uprising, Syria was the only country in the region that was self-sufficient in food production and especially in staple agricultural crops such as wheat and barley. It had even turned into a regional exporter before a major drought in 2008–2009 forced the country to import large quantities of wheat for the first time in many years.1
After four years of devastating conflict, the country is turning into a net importer of wheat, with dwindling production of fruit and vegetables. In the years before the uprising, Syria had witnessed higher yields due to improvements in land and crop management practices that helped it capture major markets in neighboring countries and the Gulf.
Huge strategic wheat reserves that were a cornerstone of the Baath Party’s food security policy to create self-sufficiency and mitigate any impact of Western-led economic sanctions now appear to have run out or been substantially depleted.
Although few figures are available, analysts say the country’s wheat stocks have diminished to less than a few months’ worth of consumption, a far cry from wheat reserves that before the crisis were enough to cover the country’s consumption for at least one year.2 Much of its estimated 3.5 million tons of reserves were stored in over 140 silos located in areas that the regime has lost to opposition forces. Currently, only one-third of the silos are operating.
Syria’s farming sector had seen sizable public and private investment in fast-growing modern farming techniques and infrastructure before the crisis in 2011. In northeastern Syria, the authorities were even beginning to invest in sprinkler irrigation in many of the larger state-run projects, as was the case with some large private investments.
Today, much of this infrastructure is either damaged or lying idle.
The longer the conflict endures, the more costly it will be for the agricultural sector to recover. Although there are signs that the sector has at least adapted, in some areas the lack of fertilizers and cheap fuel has had such a detrimental impact that it will require years for the country’s agriculture to recover.
Shifts in the Rural Economy and Accentuating Social Disruptions
The impact of the Syrian crisis on agriculture is particularly important because the sector is the main source of income for a large proportion of the population. According to local Syrian experts and UN agricultural economists, up to 40 percent of livelihoods in Syria are connected to agriculture in one way or another.
The erosion of wealth of farmers’ communities will play a determining role in the postconflict socioeconomic landscape, especially since the marginalization of the countryside in the decade of liberal economic reforms that preceded the 2011 revolt is considered one of the economic factors that fueled the uprising.
Reduced areas of cultivation have lowered the living standards of rural farming communities that once depended on agriculture and livestock.
The militarization of the uprising has also meant that many of the youths who were employed in the agro-industry and on land are now part of a war economy on which they are increasingly dependent. They are on the payrolls of opposition armed groups that have their own sources of income from banditry, theft, and seizing state assets.
The shrinking role of the agricultural sector will take a toll on key health and nutrition indicators as more people are fed less because of diminishing food stocks. The unavailability of food, unhygienic and overcrowded living conditions, inaccessible or limited healthcare services, and reduced immunization coverage for children under five years old have increased the risk of communicable diseases and have serious implications on the nutritional status of those children and pregnant and lactating women.
Rebel-Held Areas’ Growing Reliance on Food Imports, Mainly From Turkey
An alarming consequence of the four-year conflict is that greater numbers of Syrians have become unemployed and more dependent on food parcels brought across the border by Syrian expatriates, Gulf charities, and UN agencies such as the World Food Program (WFP). These groups are now turning into the main sources of food supplies.
This is especially true in rebel-held areas, although many of the people displaced by the conflict and living in the state-controlled areas of Aleppo and Damascus are dependent on WFP handouts distributed through government channels.
In northwestern Syria and along the Turkish border, many families who inhabit makeshift shelters or tents depend heavily on the flow of food donations from Turkey- and Gulf-based aid agencies/charities and benefactors.
Daily trailers cross the two main border crossings of Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh to deliver food handouts to villages across rebel-held areas, with people and traders becoming accustomed to living in conflict areas and adapting to the changes in trade routes.
Syrian traders who are importing via Turkish ports to supply these regions are also playing a crucial role, according to residents of towns in rural Idlib and Aleppo.
Even in mainly Kurdish areas along the northern and eastern border that are less affected by the conflict, such as the city of Afrin, and in Raqqa, the border crossings with Turkey—such as Tal Abyad—have been crucial conduits of food supplies and goods.
The growing reliance on Turkey as a food lifeline stems from the near collapse of industrial activity in Aleppo, the country’s economic capital that once provided the inhabitants of the region with most of the basic consumer items. In many ways, that has meant that these areas have effectively become an extension of the Turkish market.
Loss of Productivity of Arable Land
The conflict has led to the shrinkage of sown areas for a combination of reasons—power cuts, damage to irrigation canals, and the high cost of fuel. The rotation of cereals with food and feed legumes can help restore or sustain soil nutrients and reduce the risks of pests, but that has been neglected, which is also a serious problem.
The intense fighting in the country is in the heart of the main crop cultivation area, stretching along the western Mediterranean coast and eastward following the northern border with Turkey. The disruption in food production in conflict-torn Ghouta has also affected both the availability of fresh produce in the capital and prices.
One of the unexpected consequences of the conflict has been the breakdown in tight controls over the misuse or excessive exploitation of underground water aquifers. Farmers in rebel-held parts of the country drill new underground wells to irrigate farmland that would otherwise have not been sown or harvested with existing rainfall levels.
The impact of the depletion of aquifers as farmers exploit the crisis to pump water from new wells is a problem that will accentuate the country’s long-term water crisis, with a trend in declining water tables. In the short term, however, it has been one of the factors of resilience of rural communities that has helped them grow enough food in local areas and mitigate the disruption of trade routes.
Although many farmers in areas less affected by conflict have sought to maintain crop cultivation as much as possible despite the hostilities, the low rate of return of local produce, the shortages in fertilizers, and the high cost of fuel have all hurt productivity levels, according to agricultural economists interviewed for this publication.
The nature of the fighting from one village or town to another has created havoc and bottlenecks in supply chains and delays on roads used to transport produce to markets. But in many cases, de facto arrangements on the ground have ensured the continued flow of vital food and energy supplies from state-controlled areas to opposition territory with relative ease—an example of how, even in conflict, the human will to survive outweighs any other consideration.
Some internally displaced farming communities from rural Homs and Damascus have moved to farming villages such as Tafas and Yadouda in the fertile southern Hauran, where they have taken shelter in depopulated towns whose inhabitants had fled to Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp.
It is clear, however, that there is little that can compensate for the loss of much of the production of fresh vegetables and fruit—from cucumbers to tomatoes and tree crops—that the fertile Hauran plain generated before the crisis in a thriving multimillion-dollar export business to the Gulf.
This also applies to other key agricultural areas in the Ghab plain and in Idlib and Aleppo.
Destruction of Syria’s Agro-Industry
One of the major effects of the crisis will be an incremental and growing dependence on imports of basic foodstuffs—at least one-half of the productive capacity of the country’s once-thriving food processing and packaging agro-industry is out of operation.
The war has reshaped Syria’s economic geography, with businesses and industries retrenching in more secure parts of the country or heading for safety abroad.
Relatively low-intensity conflict areas like the Mediterranean port city of Latakia and in the southern city of Sweida, where outlying farmland and orchards have not been affected, continue to export some of their surplus of fresh produce to neighboring markets, including Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, to get much-needed foreign exchange. The improved rainfall that has brought better yields is expected to boost exports.
The war has brought sharply contrasting economic landscapes, with the farming sector’s ability to survive under extreme conditions one facet of the many contradictions that the crisis has created.
In southern Syria, once the country’s main vegetable- and fruit-producing region, whose exports to the Gulf earned the country hundreds of millions of dollars in hard currency, the shift toward safer areas has been very marked.
Sweida, which has escaped the wide-scale damage in nearby Daraa, has now replaced Daraa as the main center of the agro-industry in the south of Syria.
Brisk trade continues to flow from southern Syria to Jordan and from Lebanon to Syria, where trucks unload produce for export from farmland that is just kilometers away from areas of military conflagration.
Investors and leading businessmen in the agro-industry seeking to salvage some of their lost output have also acted aggressively by either shifting manufacturing to “safe” areas or relocating to industrial parks near the borders in Turkey and Jordan. The Al-Durra food company, which now exports to its former markets from Jordan’s northern industrial park, is a notable example.3
State Policies to Enhance Food Security and Its Use as a Weapon of War
The state has gradually lifted restrictions on the imports of food such as potatoes, red meat, and poultry, which the country was formerly self-sufficient in, to help bolster food security and to ensure that at least part of the dwindling subsidy system is still functioning.
Reducing the soaring food prices in areas under the government’s control is, indeed, crucial to staving off wider public discontent and maintaining loyalist support.
The state has also encouraged private importers to use more of their capital to finance food imports to ease pressure on its scarce foreign currency, limiting trade finance that offered merchants dollars at preferential rates.
The authorities have also sought to activate credit lines with Iran and Russia to help finance imports of basic foodstuffs to cover the shortfall after the rebels took control of the major grain silos in northwestern Syria and the Jazira region—Hasakah, Raqqa, and rural Deir Ezzor—where the bulk of strategic reserves were stored.
This financing and aid has helped mitigate some of the adverse impact of Western sanctions, even though a $1 billion credit line offered by Iran to Syria ended up mainly benefiting private traders associated with the ruling strata.4
Ultimately, it was the savvy Syrian businessmen who saved the day for the state, securing enough grain imports from the Black Sea area and food supplies from neighboring countries that helped put the brakes on the increase in prices fueled by the erosion in the value of the Syrian pound.
The ability of the state’s grains-procurement agency to supply part of the market’s needs through an elaborate state consumer chain of outlets has not only prevented food shortages but also checked inflationary pressures.
The fiscal demands on the authorities have forced them to further lift subsidies on fuel and, partially, on other basic commodities, with the authorities importing fewer food supplies than under the once-lavish system.
The gradual lifting of aid to rebel-held areas and redirecting what is left of the country’s subsidy system to loyalist areas has also helped ease the financial burden.
Intermediaries associated with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have also benefited from access to cheap, subsidized food and fuel items to resell or smuggle to areas that have fallen into the opposition’s hands.
This has eased the pressure on the regime in terms of meeting the needs of populations in rebel-held areas and focusing on food security in its own heartland.
The relative abundance of wheat and fuel in government-controlled parts of Aleppo, Damascus, Latakia, and Tartus contrasts sharply with shortages and hunger in areas besieged by the regime, which are mostly located in the countryside. The disparity in supplies can only deepen the historic urban/countryside split.
In addition, the channeling of most UN food aid through the authorities has helped the Syrian regime in some ways, allowing it to enhance food security on its territory.
UN insiders say food agencies like the WFP have no means of determining whether the regime has fairly distributed its food packages. Conditionality terms force the aid to go through Syrian NGOs that are cleared by the Syrian security services, raising doubts on the fairness of aid distribution.
What is certain is that both food sent by the WFP to Latakia’s port for redistribution under the aegis of the state as well as goods delivered through Turkey to rebel-held areas in northern Syria by Gulf charities are contributing to easing the burden on the authorities and reducing the state’s overall food import needs.
The use of food as a tool to attain the regime’s political and military ends in besieged areas such as Homs, Mouadamiya, and eastern Ghouta in Damascus could become more widespread.
So far, this “starve into submission” policy, which in specific areas has led to brokered ceasefires—where rebels hand over weapons in return for easing army sieges and allowing the entry of goods and food—is an exception rather than the rule. In the future, its widening use as a tool of war could worsen food conditions in more areas, affecting tens of thousands of people.
Long-Term Consequences of Worsening Food Insecurity
The chaos and conflict in Syria has also led to the depletion of Syria’s livestock, which was estimated in 2010 by the Food and Agriculture Organization at 15.5 million sheep and 2.0 million goats but is thought to have fallen by at least 40 percent.5 The poultry sector, which was a mainly private sector investment with significant exports of meat and eggs, has lost almost 70 percent of its production according to Abdul Salam Ali, deputy minister of economy and foreign trade.6
The consequences of the pillaging of Syria’s livestock through smuggling of live animals across the Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Turkish borders have increased the cost of red meat; Syria is now scrambling to import from Brazil, India, and Romania for the first time in many years. New agricultural laws have lifted restrictions on imports of red meat, an indication of the shortfall.
The gradual dismantling of the subsidy system and the government’s weakened capability to encourage cereals production through high procurement prices will also have social implications.
The conflict has severely disrupted the traditional food supply chains and replaced central markets with small retail markets on city outskirts. It has also led to the opening of new trade patterns and routes geared toward Turkey that could reshape the economic landscape of the northern provinces. For example, some of that region’s harvested cotton and olive oil goes to Turkey.
The scaling down of government wheat-collection centers is a direct consequence of the loss of control of much of the rural northern and eastern areas, and the security risks posed by transporting wheat also mean that local farmers are turning to Turkey as an alternative market.
The destruction of large parts of the manufacturing sector and the severe rupture of agricultural production in the northern, western, and eastern parts of Syria have increasingly made these parts of the country, where most of the country’s arable land is located, more integrated with the Turkish market.
In the long term, how much of this will become an extension of the Turkish market, if the crisis continues, remains an open question. Examples abound of the reliance on the flow of goods and of semi-finished materials from Turkey to offset the loss of goods in rural markets that were once supplied by Aleppo’s industrial plants.
Rural parts of northwest Aleppo were the breadbasket for local agricultural markets that satisfied the higher and more diverse demands of urban dwellers in Aleppo.
Already, the ease in the flow of goods and human capital has transformed the economic landscape of these border areas—the rejuvenation of Turkish border cities is a direct consequence of the transfer from Aleppo and its hinterland.
In urban centers across the country that are still under state control, such as Deir Ezzor, Hama, Homs, Idlib, and parts of Daraa, a pre-2011 state-command economy continues to play a determining role in commercial activity. Remaining production capacity from existing plants in the Adra and Hessia industrial parks, near Damascus and Homs respectively, which have been much less affected than Aleppo’s Sheikh Najjar industrial zone, continues to supply some of the demand for products in state-run areas.
Meanwhile, the flow of goods, tents, and more from Gulf charities to rebel-held areas is creating its own dynamic in terms of growing food dependence from outside Syria due to the paralysis of wider economic activity that could have untold consequences in the future. This could possibly destroy the accumulated experience of several generations of farming.
Initial Conclusions/Observations
Syria’s relative food security resilience so far is largely due to the country’s well-developed farming sector before the crisis and a state-command economy that focused on wheat as a strategic food commodity and was helped by a lavish subsidy system to boost the production of wheat.
A centuries-old agrarian tradition continues to help the ancient Mediterranean country to avert large-scale food shortages in local produce that other countries, which have undergone lesser upheavals, have experienced. In fact, four years into the crisis, there have not been any incidents of starvation (except regime-engineered sieges of certain areas), partly due to the accumulative resilience of agricultural communities.
Much of the credit also goes to Syria’s business community that has continued to play a leading role in supplying most of the imported foodstuffs sold in government-held areas even though the state has stepped up its role as a direct buyer, although it is much less effective.
However, the longer the crisis lasts, the bigger the losses to the country’s well-developed farming infrastructure, with a sharp contraction in yields that will turn the country into a net importer of many basic food items that were previously produced locally. From potatoes to live poultry, meat and dairy products to olive oil, Syria had been among the world’s largest producers.
Suffice it to say, the dependence on food handouts from international agencies and charities will affect even more Syrians as long as the human toll of the conflict grows. Since the crisis, the country has been forced to import more food, with nearly 6 million Syrians dependent on food aid, according to the UN.7
The flow of goods to rebel-held areas is creating its own dynamic of food dependence that arguably is a temporary phenomenon, which should diminish when the fighting ends. Still, it is difficult to firmly grasp the amount of human capital lost by a generation of farmers who have endured most of the ongoing conflict.
In Hauran and parts of northwestern and eastern Syria, the breakdown of irrigation systems due to the conflict, as well as power shortages, has worsened food security.
Water scarcity, which is already affecting many urban centers and the countryside, is expected to worsen and become a challenge for agriculture, especially for irrigated farmland. Saving groundwater will be strategic for Syrian agriculture.
In addition, expected shortages of agricultural products due to the decline in production will bring soaring prices that will worsen livelihoods and the socioeconomic plight of a majority of Syrians.
Local economies whose mainstay is the war economy that consolidates Syria’s fragmentation along ethnic and sectarian lines will further hamper a speedy postconflict sustainable recovery.
The crisis could force growing economic dependence by the state on key allies who now shore it up mainly with political and military help—Iran, Russia, and to a lesser extent Iraq—for credit and preferential trade deals. Iran has so far supported the regime with a $3 billion credit facility. But the limited scale of consignments of frozen chicken and flour are more of a token gesture than an effective easing of bottlenecks and show the limits of how far the Assad regime’s biggest regional ally can help in food security.
In the short and medium term, Ukraine’s troubles with Russia could also disrupt the food security policy of the regime that relies on friendly Eastern European states and Russia to offset wheat shortages. This is because Western sanctions could make it more difficult for Syria to switch to alternative markets to cover grain shortfalls.
Syrian farmers’ traditional resilience in the face of adversity will be a major factor that will help the sector to recoup a good measure of its losses in the event of a postconflict settlement, with farmers renowned for their enterprise.
Many of the country’s wealthy expatriate community, with billions of dollars of assets, are expected to play a leading role in reconstruction. The agricultural business is no doubt one of the sectors whose internal rate of return would be attractive for many investors in view of the huge pent-up demand and loss of capacity.
Ultimately, food security has been eroded in Syria over the last few years, with production of main crops falling by varying degrees mainly due to the impact of the conflict on fertilizers, the disruption of trade routes, and the reduction of subsidies on fuel.
Phone interviews conducted with several farmers in Idlib, Aleppo, and the Daraa countryside, January–February 2014.
Interview with Naked Khamis, seed expert/consultant with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, who went on several missions to Syria after 2011.
Phone interview with Mwaffak Chikhali, expert head of Earth Link & Advanced Resources Development, Syria.
“Agricultural Livelihoods and Food Security Impact Assessment and Response Plan for the Syria Crisis in the Neighbouring Countries of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey,” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, March 2013, https://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/download.php?id=1831
“Monitoring and Evaluation Report, Syria Crisis Response,” World Food Program, April 2013.
Interview with Ahmad Zain, a leading Damascus-based commodity trader and agro-industrialist.
1 Francesca de Châtel, “The Role of Drought and Climate Change in the Syrian Uprising: Untangling the Triggers of the Revolution,” Middle Eastern Studies 50, no. 4 (2014): 521–535.
2 “Syria: 2012 Wheat Production Outlook Is Favorable Despite Ongoing Conflict,” United States Department of Agriculture, published on June 12, 2012, http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/highlights/2012/06/Syria/.
3 Interview with Al-Durra Food Products executives.
4 Alaa Shahine and Donna Abu-Nasr, “Syria Counts on $1 Billion Iran Fund to Support Pound,” Bloomberg Business, June 18, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-18/syria-counts-on-1-billion-iran-fund-to-support-pound.
5 “FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to the Syrian Arab Republic,” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program, July 5, 2013, http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/aq113e/aq113e.pdf.
6 Interview on Syrian television with Abdul Salam Ali, deputy minister of economy and foreign trade.
7 “Life-saving Food Aid in Jeopardy for Millions of Syrians, Warns UN Agency,” UN News Center, September 18, 2014. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48745#.VTf0JJ3F_Tp
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Did the New England Colonies Have Slavery?
By Brian Gabriel ; Updated June 28, 2018
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Slavery existed throughout the American colonies and states until the Civil War period. It is well-known that Southern colonies had slaves, but the New England colonies also practiced slavery from the early 17th century. Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island had the largest slave populations in New England. The Medford Historical Society estimated that there was one African for every four white families in these three states.
Slave Population Sizes
Although some cities in New England, such as Boston and Newport, had more than 20 percent of their population as enslaved laborers at the time of the American Revolution, the overall slave percentage in New England was around 2 to 3 percent. While slaves had been sold in the American colonies since 1619, they did not become a large part of the labor force until the last quarter of the 17th century. The slave populations varied considerably in the New England colonies, with Rhode Island having the highest proportional slave population. South Kingston in Rhode Island had 30 percent of its population as slaves at the start of the American Revolution.
Early Slavery Laws
Slavery became recognized as a legal institution in New England years before it was recognized as legal in the South.The first official recognition of chattel slavery came in the Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641. This law legalized the slavery of people who were taken captive in just wars and those who voluntarily sold themselves. Connecticut and New Plymouth adopted this statute two years later in the Articles of the New England Confederation. Rhode Island separately passed a similar law in 1652.
Anti-Slavery Laws
Vermont became the first colony to ban slavery outright on July 2, 1777. In addition, Vermont’s legislature provided full voting rights to African-American males. Rhode Island and Connecticut had banned overseas slave importation in 1774, but they continued to allow a regional slave trade within the colonies. Anti-slavery sentiment continued to mount in the colonies. A network of safehouses emerged to assist black people escaping slavery, and abolitionists pushed for changes in law. Personal Liberty Laws were passed giving runaways the right to a jury trial before being released back into the custody of a slaveowner claiming a property right.
Free Blacks
Some of the New England colonies treated free blacks quite poorly despite being emancipated. The harshest treament for free blacks occurred in Connecticut. That state passed a series of laws both before and after the Revolutionary War that made it illegal for free blacks to own property, or enter a business establishment without prior permission. After the laws were passed, free blacks owning property had to turn their land over to the government.
Medford Historical Society: The First African Immigrants
Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture: Vermont 1777: Early Steps Against Slavery
Teaching History: Slavery in Colonial British North America
History.com: Fugitive Slave Acts
Brian Gabriel has been a writer and blogger since 2009, contributing to various online publications. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in history from Whitworth University.
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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie Still a “Very Big Possibility”, Says Director
by Vinnie Mancuso April 30, 2019
Back in 2017, it was reported that Quentin Tarantino was developing a Star Trek film with an eye to direct, based on an idea he shared with producer J.J. Abrams. Since then, Tarantino has been pretty hard at work on his 1969-set drama Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—which is not a Manson movie!—and we haven’t got much of an update on the Star Trek film in the interim.
But fear not, Tarantino hopefuls. While speaking to SlashFilm about turning his Hateful Eight into a mini-series for Netflix, the filmmaker noted a script has been written and a trip to the final frontier is still a “very big possibility. He’s just got to finish that pesky Golden Age of Hollywood epic first.
It’s a very big possibility. I haven’t been dealing with those guys for a while cause I’ve been making my movie. But we’ve talked about a story and a script. The script has been written and when I emerge my head like Punxsutawney Phil, post-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, we’ll pick up talking about it again.
Tarantino also said he’s currently in the audio mix stage on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which puts him toward the tail-end of production. (The film is scheduled to hit theaters on July 26.)
Should it happen—and someone in Hollywood wouldn’t just throw out the phrase “very big possibility” lightly, right?—a Star Trek movie directed by Tarantino would be a game-changer on a few levels. It would mark the director’s first foray into an IP outside his original ideas, as well as his tenth film. (Tarantino has said in the past that he plans to call it a career after making ten movies.) Of course, it’d be a departure for the Star Trek franchise, too, which has never had an R-rated entry.
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The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses Blerd Chat with Monique and Ramp Your Voice’s Vilissa Thompson
By Monique on Monday, January 23, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, PBS aired The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, and while there were great moments in the miniseries, there were some not so great moments, chief of which being Benedict Cumberbatch’s Richard III.
I recently held a Google Hangout chat with Ramp Your Voice! founder Vilissa Thompson about the miniseries. As you’ll read below, we discuss the problematic portrayal of Richard, including how his outward appearance (due to a kpyhosis) became linked to villainy, and how King Henry’s (Tom Sturridge) exhibition of Highly Sensitive traits go unrecognized or looked down upon by other characters. We also talk about how Sophie Okonedo stole the show.
Vilissa Thompson (VT): Richard III is truly something else. I finished the rewatch of Part 3 today, and I wrote down some of the ableist things he said about himself, & what others said/referred to him as.
Monique Jones (MJ): Where do you want to start? I suppose we could start with his big speech at the end of Part 2. His first monologue was the beginning of the end for me.
VT: It was. To hear him call himself cursed, and describe the occurrences of his birth was troubling for me.
MJ: I found it fascinating in a macabre way how the same ableist sentiments he said about himself—about how no one loved him because of his appearance is why he’s evil, for instance—are the same tropes repeated today. I don’t know why I thought things would have been different back in the day, but I was shocked at how 21st century Richard’s speech still sounded, esp. when you compare it to movies like Split and Don’t Breathe.
VT: The ableism didn’t surprise me, but the fact that he became the evil he was seen as was like a self-fulfilling prophesy. And his fascination to acquire the crown was his means of obtaining “heaven,” which meant that people had to respect him, and he goes beyond the disdain reputation he has and internalized. The ableism of viewing oneself and disabled body as curses/inconveniences are real. That kind of internalization is so common in our community, and even harder to unlearn. It makes you wonder how many times Richard heard about the circumstances of his birth, and how that transformed him into the “monster” he was, in both body and brutality of violence.
MJ: Yeah. I did feel sympathy for him because his internal dialogue seemed like something that was internalized from what he’s heard from everyone else. He was actually a sad, broken soul who just decided to become what he felt everyone else viewed him as. His ambition is understandable—he wants the respect he’s never gotten from people, including his family–but I just wish there was 1) a character who actually wanted to get to know him 2) if Shakespeare had delved more into Richard’s character with more sympathy. What I hated was that there was no serious investigation into Richard as a person. He was just a plot device.
VT: I agree with you. I think the myths/superstitions surrounding the disabled prevented that closeness to occur. I think having a genuine and meaningful human relationship, even if platonic, would’ve changed things tremendously for him. He was. He was the misshapen being who was blood and power thirsty. There was no depth to his character besides what he desired.
MJ: I don’t know how you feel about Tyler Perry, but to me, Shakespeare is the Tyler Perry of the 1600s. He’s almost always comically broad with his characterizations. Benedict Cumberbatch’s broad acting didn’t help matters.
VT: I can see that comparison. The depiction does nothing to expand understanding of how complicated people are, or dispel stereotypes about people who are underrepresented on the stage (or big or small screen, in Perry’s art).
And the cripping up of the role by allowing Benedict to play Richard definitely doesn’t help at all.
MJ: Yeah. That reminds me: I really didn’t like how in an early part in Part 3 portrayed Richard as body horror. Like, how the camera was revolving around his naked torso in near darkness. Didn’t like that at all.
VT: That was a gross display of his body. That scene was solely to shock at his form; to pair with how you feel about his schemes for power. That scene was hard to look at – it made the disabled body look grotesque, when it’s not.
There is nothing sensational or horrifying about the disabled body.
MJ: Right. I was really turned off by the whole thing; I wish the director hadn’t gone that route. But the whole thing made me feel more sympathy for Richard; that’s the gaze the world has probably had on him his whole life.
VT: It does make you sympathize with him. I did feel for him; you can tell he hated himself and how that kind of hate manifested to hating people who had what he wanted – power, respect, love, a family – things that seemed unattainable to him.
MJ: Yep. What was the nail in the coffin for me was when everyone started calling him “The Dog.” It was much more about his appearance than his actual evil deeds as to why they were calling him that, and at that point, I was just like, “OKAY, SHOW, I GET IT.”
VT: They also called him a bunchbacked toad, a beast – all of these names stripped him of his mere humanness. The dehumanization of Richard with the name-calling was more disturbing than his actual plots.
All of the names we didn’t need to see how they saw him as a “thing” and not as a person.
MJ: Yep. What’s so aggravating is that everyone in the entire story are awful people (save for the kids), but he’s the only one put on a sub-human level. If he didn’t have his condition, he’d be accepted just like everyone else, despite the fact that he’s a killer. Case in point is how Margaret becomes allies with the new queen and the Queen Mother, even though Margaret killed the Queen Mother’s son and husband. But the past gripes go out the window just to get rid of “The Dog.”
VT: I agree. Focusing on Richard’s disability allowed them to separate their evil actions & doings from his – he’s evil because his body is deformed, & I’m better than him… though I’m not. The hypocrisy of all the characters was stark.
Honestly, that mentality about thinking you’re better than a disabled person, regardless of whether they’re a good person or not, is real. The “I may be this, but at least I’m not crippled/disfigured” thinking is common.
I think that Shakespeare perfectly illustrated ableism before the term existed.
MJ: Yep. I know we talked a little bit about Cumberbatch’s acting, but what did you think of his performance overall? I was a little let down, honestly. He’s much better in “Sherlock.”
VT: I wasn’t impressed at all. I think he was as evil in the role as he needed to be, but the cripping up factor made it more offensive and underwhelming for me. The fact that there is no true substance for Richard, & all you feel is pity/sympathy for him instead, makes the character very bad for disability representation. I’m not against disabled characters being evil or vicious, but I am against characters not having depth and relying solely on stereotypes/misconceptions about what having a disability is.
MJ: Yeah. The whole “putting on a disability as a costume” was bad, and Cumberbatch’s acting as a whole was Snidely Whiplash. I had expected him to at least add another layer of depth to the character, which is what a lot of actors do when they get 1D characters. But no, not him. He was just evil. The glimmers of another aspect to Richard weren’t explored nearly enough. And again, the “Creature Feature” aspect of the direction was gross.
VT: It was profoundly gross. To see that driven home by almost every character was hard to watch. Shakespeare’s embodied exactly why non-disabled writers/playwrights shouldn’t write disabled actors – their inability to add depth, humanness, and realism are deep. These depictions end up doing more harm to better seeing disabled people as equal and not curses or sub-human.
MJ: Indeed. The fact that this is supposed to be one of Shakespeare’s “greatest plays” makes me even more suspect of Shakespeare’s supposed mastery of the art of writing than I was before. I already side-eyed Shakespeare just because we are always taught literature from a Eurocentric point of view, but now I’m even more secure in my belief that Shakespeare isn’t all he’s cracked up to be. I do like Othello and Hamlet, but that’s about it.
VT: I feel the same. I think if we were to analyze his plays, we’d see a lot of problematic depictions, themes, and lack of masterful writing. Those are the two plays I like as well.
MJ: Is there anything we haven’t covered? I guess I do want to touch on King Henry a little bit; Henry’s arc was a lot more subtle than Richard’s, but it seemed like Henry was Richard’s foil in many ways–in temperament, but also in disability or perceived disability. Henry’s delicate mental state was often showcased as a detriment to his ability to rule, which could be some kind of commentary on mental disability or just a difference in thinking. Like, I read Henry as being Highly Sensitive (like me), which some people might perceive as a type of disability. I don’t think so, but a study is trying to place it on the autism spectrum [a 2011 theory on introversion also links it to the autism spectrum]. In any case, a big deal was made about the fact that he took things to heart more deeply than other people.
VT: Henry’s mental state and the criticism of how sensitive he was stood out to me too. I think his sensitivity made him more human than the rest of the characters – he held up a moral mirror of sorts to the evils they wanted to enact and justify. I think depicting him as weak because of his sensitive nature allowed for ableism to exist regarding his capabilities to lead. I think his attachment to religion compounded the ableism with his sensitive nature. Henry wasn’t perfect, but he did have a heart, moreso than the others.
MJ: Right. And also, women like Joan of Arc, who are in the same mental ballpark as Henry (Joan’s a little extreme, though) were seen as villains because of ableism and just because they were women.
VT: Exactly. Joan represented resistance to male power, & her religiosity was used against her to declare her mental state unstable. Sexism in Shakespeare’s plays are prevalent, and the status of women and those who are considered too strong or weak are well seen.
MJ: Yep. In a way, France comes out looking good because they actually allowed themselves to be led by Joan. But I wonder if that’s also some sly propagandized statement about what England thought about France—as weak-willed, frilly people.
VT: I think that’s an accurate guess. France, like women, got in their way of things, & needed to know their place.
MJ: To go back to Henry a bit, it’s unfortunate that Henry’s mindset is viewed as a detriment, esp. since that Henry’s way of thinking is still ridiculed today—Highly Sensitive People (HSP) are often told by Western societies specifically that they’re too weak, when our way of being is actually hardwired into us–our nervous systems that take in information a completely different way than non-HSPs. To write HSPs off in that way is completely erasing an entire population of people just because they feel things more intently. And often, folks who are sensitive make great leaders, so Henry had all the tools to be a terrific king.
VT: As someone who is sensitive, I think I had more sympathy for Henry than I did for Richard. I know for me, I try to hide how sensitive I can be to matters because of the fear of being misperceived incorrectly. To have the ability to see beyond yourself and to empathize with the world you live in is a powerful ability. My sensitivity makes me more conscious of suffering, pain, and how to support people who need it. I think Henry’s sensitivity was a gift that he wasn’t given the safe space to nurture in his role as King, and was chastised severely.
MJ: Yep. In many ways, he was a man ahead of his time. He existed in the wrong time period, to me. I mean, 2017 isn’t that equal for sensitive folks, either, but at least there’s more knowledge about sensitivity out there and more of a community and scientific study.
VT: I agree. Our society still isn’t safe to care for sensitive people, but is way better than the times Henry lived in, for sure. I think the hesitation to value sensitivity rests on the idea that if we’re in touch with our feelings, that relinquishes power and makes us vulnerable. I find that a lot of people who are anti-sensitivity are the main ones not comfortable with expressing themselves and allowing vulnerability to be seen by others.
MJ: Yeah. And in turn, that can make sensitive people internalize anti-vulnerability attitudes since (at least with some of my experiences) you feel like you’re going to get shunned anyway. I guess it goes back to Richard, too–if the world sees you in a certain way, then you’re going to start believing it’s true until someone else tells you otherwise or you yourself start realizing the world is full of BS.
VT: Preach it. I know that the fear of being shunned if I display my sensitivity is something I’m working on (esp when it comes opposite sex interactions). The internalization, whether due to disability, sensitivity, or both, can be detrimental to us in so many ways. Richard represented what that looked like regarding disability, & Henry represented what external forces look like for sensitive individuals.
MJ: Yeah, definitely. I can identify with Henry’s wish to just be left alone and study the Bible; I’ve actually thought “Maybe I should just become a nun” several times. At least my solitude would be seen as a noble thing and not a weird/hermit thing.The world gets too overwhelming sometimes, especially if you’re a sensitive person. But the world doesn’t respect the sensitive person’s boundaries or the fact that they’re just as capable of the loud extrovert.
Not that all extroverts are loud, but you get what I’m saying—it’s those qualities that are lauded more than contemplation.
VT: I agree. I go back and forth with being introverted and extroverted, but I do crave my alone time, especially when I’m feeling down. I need the space to vent feelings/emotions, but working it out in my head alone is how I cope with things. For me, because I’m a social person, it’s sometimes hard to tell people to back off & let me be. Being an only child, I’m used to being alone and it doesn’t bother me. There are times when I need a lot of noise & people, but when I need quiet & solitude, I have to have it or I can’t function.
MJ: I’ve always been introverted, some of it by my environment, but most of it is my personality. I’d rather be alone, writing or drawing, only choosing to be around people when I feel like it. People really drain me a lot. Henry looked pretty weary through most of the show, and I understand why—dealing with the demands of society is tough.
VT: It is. I could relate to that draining feeling he displayed. Though I love people, the older I’ve gotten, the more I can see myself drained. For someone who is a social worker, that’s part of the reason I’m not a traditional one – having to deal with people with such intensity would be too much emotionally (this is why I could never work with kids or the elderly, their needs are so great and I’d fear not saving them all). With Henry, he didn’t have the support he needed to be King effectively to his liking, or to his country. That added extra strain to an already stressful predicament.
MJ: And the one person who was there to help him, who seemed to realize he needed an extra arm, so to speak, to deal with the world was his uncle, who those scheming factions had killed. That left Henry even more defenseless.
VT: Exactly. Who knew that the Hollow Crown would have so many problematic layers?
MJ: Yep. It was even more problematic than I realized at first!
VT: I know!
MJ: I think we’ve about covered everything. Is there anything you think we left out of the conversation?
VT: I think we covered it all.
MJ: The reason it caught my interest was for the actress playing Queen Margaret, a Black woman in that role intrigued me greatly. She played her role well.
VT: I know it may sound scandalous, but I’m sure Somerset was the father of her son.
MJ: I totally think Somerset is the father, too!
VT: I don’t see her willingly engaging with Henry to give him a heir
MJ: Yeah, me neither!
VT: I wished something about the paternity of the son would’ve came up… Henry couldn’t have been that naive.
MJ: Right. There should have been a non-canonical thing thrown in there just to let us know that Henry knew. He had to have known.
VT: I think we got that inkling when Somerset was beheaded that he knew she wouldn’t have grieved for him as she did for Somerset… but that could’ve been easily missed if you weren’t paying attention. But I think not allowing that knowledge to be made public goes back to Henry being perceived as weak and not catching on to things. But Henry had to know, as we both indicated.
MJ: Yeah. I wish that line or Margaret’s reaction to that line were amplified in some way. Something just wasn’t explored like it needed to be. But I do have to say that Sophie Okonedo was the GOAT in that role. She really put her foot in it.
VT: She really did. You loved her, you hated her… perfect portrayal. But I agree—that scene should’ve been explored further, that could’ve given us that hint.
MJ: It seemed like she was the only one who got the right tone for Shakespearean play. She was broad/campy enough without going overboard, and she was just serious enough to make Margaret believable.
VT: And near the end, the haunting of Margaret as the prophetess was perfect.
MJ: Yeah, that was so good. Such a good role. I’d say Hugh Bonneville was great too. He’s always kinda Shakespearean in his acting. He really knows how to chew scenery.
VT: I agree. If it wasn’t for Queen Margaret/Sophie O playing that role, I don’t think the series would’ve held my attention as well as it did.
MJ: Yep. That was the only reason I kept tuning in, to see what she was going to do.
VT: Lol… me too girl. Glad it wasn’t just me!
MJ: Nope, definitely not! I could have just tuned out after the first episode once Hugh Bonneville died. But I remembered Sophie was going to be in all three parts, so I stuck with it.
VT: Thank god for Margaret, the real MVP of the Hollow Crown
MJ: When she killed Plantagenet, she was so amazingly cruel. Loved it.
VT: The villainess we needed. So unapologetic about it, too
MJ: The villainess who would have had all of England on lock if she had a chance to rule.
VT: Oh yes, Queen Margaret would’ve been legendary. Imagine her rule… goodness.
MJ: There needs to be a show like this! Someone needs to make a Queen Margaret show. I’d watch that every day.
VT: YAS!!!
MJ: I’ll have to put a pin in that–another idea I need to utilize my screenwriting abilities for.
VT: DO IT!!!! I need this in my life.
MJ: Maybe that’ll be my claim to fame! I’m totally getting some ideas now. WGA, here I come!
VT: Girl, go get that fame, & write!
MJ: YES! Well, with that, I think we’ve covered every inch of The Hollow Crown. Thanks so much for agreeing to do this! It was a lot of fun!
VT: It was! I had a true blast!
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Sherlock S4 recap: A cavalcade of WTF?
By Monique on Thursday, January 19, 2017
Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films/BBC
Sherlock Season 4 | “The Final Problem” | Aired Jan. 15, 2017
So…what was that?!
Look, let me say upfront for the diehard fans that there were parts of “The Final Problem” that actually started tugging at my heartstrings and had me visibly scared and tense. The treatment of Eurus’ tests was over-the-top (more on that), but the emotional effects, as shown through Sherlock, John and Mycroft’s conversations, were what sold the scenes. I do have to give it up to Benedict Cumberbatch for handling his share of volatile emotions in this episode. This was the episode where we finally saw Sherlock break down all of his walls to once again become that emotional little boy he was at his ancestral home many years ago.
But let’s get real, here—this episode was a head-to-toe mess. I read a Daily Mail review by Christopher Stevens, and he’s not wrong. This episode featured Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss at their most indulgent, most self-congratulatory, and possibly most offensive. Let’s go through each thing I’ve got to say with bullet points.
•The treatment of women: We already know Moffat has a record of strange treatment of his female characters. But I have to say that the treatment of women throughout this season in particular was largely rudimentary at absolute best, and paternally coddling at worst. I’m not sure if that last description gets truly at the heart of what I’m trying to put into words, but the jist of it is that the women characters in this season were mostly written to provide (as Eurus kept saying) emotional context to the men (and the default Stars-with-a-capital-S) of this series.
Every woman exists because of how they serve the emotional arc of a man. Mary was underwritten so as not to completely get in the way of John and Sherlock’s friendship/romance/bromance, but then she was also hilariously written as a spy. We never get to know her well enough to know why she ever fell in that line of work, which makes the whole “She’s a spy!” exercise pointless. Yes, there should be well-rounded, tough women on screen, but they can’t just be doing stuff for the sake of doing it; they have to be actual characters with 3D emotions. The case with Mary was that she was never made to be a well-rounded character. We never get to know her, her motivations, her likes or dislikes–all we know is that she loves John, impossibly and immediately loves Sherlock (even Sherlock came back from the dead during their date) and is besotted with the idea of matchmaking her husband to his best friend (like, what even was that last DVD message?). Does any of that make sense for a married woman’s emotional motivation or characterization? Not to me, it doesn’t. Then, to top it off, Mary’s death occurs to give John an emotional character moment and to bring John and Sherlock back together as a team (or more, seeing how Mary kept trying to get them together).
Mrs. Hudson is also loosely defined as a “tough” woman character, even though we never get to know her really. Like Mary, she’s largely an archetype, something that will play well on Tumblr and other social networks where the hardcore fans will eat up her mannerisms and almost non-sequiturs as witty British humor. IT’S NOT WITTY BRITISH HUMOR! It’s ill-defined characterization! As much as Mrs. Hudson might say she’s not their bloody houskeeper, she’s still their bloody housekeeper. More accurately, she’s their bloody mom. Her whole character is designed to take care of Sherlock without question. That’s such a limiting position to be in for her character.
Molly is much in the same vein, but to a more tragic degree. Molly is the person Sherlock has an emotionally abusive relationship with. For much of the earlier seasons, it seemed like he only took delight in making her upset. Now, we’re supposed to believe that Sherlock and Molly are all right? Especially after this particular episode, when Sherlock had to get Molly to say something she didn’t want to say because she didn’t want to get hurt? There’s no fallout from that?
Molly was in literal tears during this episode, and are we supposed to believe that even though she showed backbone during that scene and finally had enough of Sherlock’s games (at the wrong time, of course—Eurus was threatening to kill her) that Molly is still an eternal well of support and love for Sherlock at the very end of the episode? SIGH. All of the emotional depth she showed in that scene, which did define Molly as an individual character with feeling, got erased when we see her at the end, smiling, seemingly having forgotten all of the trauma Sherlock put her through (in order to save her, I know, but still…) It also puts Molly in the position of acting as a Female Companion to Prove Sherlock Is Not Straight, something I’ll get into later.
Even Eurus, who was the smartest woman in this series (even more so than Irene, who is also designed just to serve as an emotional counterpoint to Sherlock) ends up serving the men in this story. For much of the episode, we see Eurus as someone who can’t understand emotion and therefore creates horrifying games and experiments to study human interaction. For much of the episode, she’s completely in control. But when we actually need to get the mystery solved, she becomes a completely different character.
Sherlock finds out that all Eurus wants is her brother to pay attention to her, and her mind seems to regress back to the state of a child. But whereas we should be focusing more on Eurus’ mental distress, we’re focused more on how this news affects Sherlock. Eurus might be the killer here, but she’s also the one who’s been in mental distress for decades, locked in her own head, whereas Sherlock at least had the mercy of grief distorting his memories. While we hear Eurus talk about her distress, we always see Sherlock live his–we see his memories as he pieces them back together. We see through his eyes all the time. We only see Eurus, whether in adult or flashback kid form, as an observer looking in.
The women could have been written stronger, and I think this lack of character strength really brings down the entirety of the season. If you’re going to have women on your show, make them actually autonomous beings with their own end goals. Don’t make them solely serve the character arcs of the men.
•The treatment of mental illness: I’m saying upfront that I’m not clinician when it comes to mental illness, so forgive me if I get some things wrong, but I’m also someone who researches, so I’m linking to everything I’m using for this particular segment.
To me, it seems like there was a conflation of ideas when it came to autism and clinical psychopathy. First, let’s get into autism and autism spectrum disorder, which doesn’t have just one defined way of appearing in a person. As WebMD states:
Autism is a complex neurobehavioral condition that includes impairments in social interaction and developmental language and communication skills combined with rigid, repetitive behaviors. Because of the range of symptoms, this condition is now called autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Symptoms of autism include, according to WebMD:
Social interactions and relationships. Symptoms may include:
Significant problems developing nonverbal communication skills, such as eye-to-eye gazing, facial expressions, and body posture.
Failure to establish friendships with children the same age.
Lack of interest in sharing enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people.
Lack of empathy. People with autism may have difficulty understanding another person’s feelings, such as pain or sorrow.
Verbal and nonverbal communication. Symptoms may include:
Delay in, or lack of, learning to talk. As many as 40% of people with autism never speak.1
Problems taking steps to start a conversation. Also, people with autism have difficulties continuing a conversation after it has begun.
Stereotyped and repetitive use of language. People with autism often repeat over and over a phrase they have heard previously (echolalia).
Difficulty understanding their listener’s perspective. For example, a person with autism may not understand that someone is using humor. They may interpret the communication word for word and fail to catch the implied meaning.
Limited interests in activities or play. Symptoms may include:
An unusual focus on pieces. Younger children with autism often focus on parts of toys, such as the wheels on a car, rather than playing with the entire toy.
Preoccupation with certain topics. For example, older children and adults may be fascinated by video games, trading cards, or license plates.
A need for sameness and routines. For example, a child with autism may always need to eat bread before salad and insist on driving the same route every day to school.
Stereotyped behaviors. These may include body rocking and hand flapping.
You can also visit The Babble Out for more about autism, its symptoms, and management.
Conversely, clinical psychopathy is defined, according to William Hirstein, Ph.D of Psychology Today, involves these symptoms:
Being uncaring and showing a lack of empathy, exhibiting shallow or lack of emotion, such as guilt, embarrassment, fear, and shame, insincere speech (aka lying), the inability to take blame for their actions, overconfidence and a narrowing of attention. Kara Mayer Robinson for WebMD goes further and says that psychopaths, not sociopaths, don’t have a conscience.
A psychopath doesn’t have a conscience. If he lies to you so he can steal your money, he won’t feel any moral qualms, though he may pretend to. He may observe others and then act the way they do so he’s not “found out,” [L. Michael Tompkins, EdD. of the Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center] says.
To me, it seems like the writing tried to make Eurus fall in between a flat reading of autism (what with Eurus saying several times that she has trouble reading emotions and body language) and psychopathy. In other words, the writing took the “greatest hits,” if you will, of both conditions and used that to create a villainous character that they tried to humanize by the end, despite the fact that her claim to villain fame was being a cold-blooded killer.
But did it have to be this way? It’s really a cliche at this point to make the psychopath or a sociopath a killer, when not everyone diagnosed as such becomes a criminal. Most of the time, they’re only out to meet their own needs or wants. To quote Robinson:
In movies and TV shows, psychopaths and sociopaths are usually the villains who kill or torture innocent people. In real life, some people with antisocial personality disorder can be violent, but most are not. Instead they use manipulation and reckless behavior to get what they want.
“At worst, they’re cold, calculating killers,” [Aaron Kipnis, PhD, author of The Midas Complex] says. Others, he says, are skilled at climbing their way up the corporate ladder, even if they have to hurt someone to get there.
The stereotype of the clinical psychopath as a killer is pervasive in our culture. Now, I’m not saying we have to excuse behavior, but it would be cool of a show decided to not make their killer have some kind of mental issue or, as you’ll see below, be linked to queerness.
•The treatment of high- and low-key LGBT themes in this episode and throughout the entire four seasons: I could go into deep detail about every moment in the series that queerbaits the audience, but this season both provides Johnlock shippers with a Johnlock ending while still providing the men with women-as-beards (yet again utilizing women as props for the men’s character development). This season, we have Molly that becomes the last beard for Sherlock (of course, there’s still Irene, who’s mentioned in this episode in relation to love) and the last beard for this series.
There’s no way Sherlock actually loves Molly outside of friendship, and there’s no way Sherlock and Irene would ever make sense as a couple, just like Mary and John’s relationship made no sense. First, it doesn’t help that the women are written within cookie-cutter parameters. But what also doesn’t help is how Mark Gatiss himself has said that he indulges in teasing the audience about the will-they/won’t-they aspect of Sherlock and John’s relationship. Or better yet, he indulges in teasing about whether John realizes he is along a sexual spectrum and how okay he is with that. As I wrote recently, Irene’s conversation with John in Season 2 basically acted as a canonical way of telling John that he does, in fact, have feelings for Sherlock. The fact that this conversation is never brought up again is a character development moment that went undefined.
But outside of John and Sherlock’s relationship, we have Moriarty, who has been confirmed as being, if not gay, bisexual or pansexual. Also, Sherlock insinuates that Eurus may have raped a female guard. First, the fact that rape is casually discussed in this season is appalling by itself. But also disturbing is how LGBT characters are linked to criminality and violence, once again associating queerness with villainy. That’s a trope that has long been beaten to death, so it’s sad that it’s happening in a show of supposedly high caliber as Sherlock.
Lastly, the seeming dismissal of the fans by the creators is little irritating. You can’t bait the audience and then get mad when they don’t get what they were expecting. There is a reason Sherlock Holmes books and this show are at the center of queer media critique, and there should be a level of respect for that type of decades-long scholarship.
•The actual episode itself: Overall, I think the characters were largely all over the place. Perhaps the most consistent character was Mycroft, but that’s also because he’s broad. But Sherlock was uncharacteristically emotional, even considering the fact that his proverbial walls were coming down, and John was back to the old John before Mary, which seemed to show just how throwaway Mary ended up being as a character.
The editing tried to make up for the fact that there were gaping plotholes in the plot. How do they survive the jump from 221B after the explosion? How did they end up on that boat? How did Eurus get the glass removed and suspend the signs? How could Sherlock not realize there wasn’t glass when there were never reflections? How did things like that get past the writers? And why were the transitions, which were clearly made to distract you from the bad plot, so bad? Particularly bad was that transition after John gets pistolwhipped after Eurus tried to first kill Sherlock. The screen spins around as if it was an Adam West Batman sequence. I was floored. Equally floored was the freeze-frame ending featuring John and Sherlock running towards the next case. I have seen bad stuff before, but that was horrendous. Worse, it was lazy, for all of the effort put into it.
Final thoughts (since this might be the series finale): The acting is the only thing that carried this finale through. But the treatment of the characters, particularly Sherlock, is really sad. If you think back to the first-ever episode, you can tell how well-defined the characters are. They are also characters defined by the real world; there would have never been an Eurus who can control people (how?) and seemingly electronics (again, how??). Instead, what we had was Sherlock who was tied to his mobile phone, Mycroft and his assistant, disaffected government officials who also live on their phones. Lestrade and his police crew who can’t live with Sherlock and can’t live without him. All of these characters, even Sherlock, seem like someone you could possibly run into (perhaps you might only run into someone like Sherlock or Mycroft at a MENSA meeting or something, but that’s also me devolving into stereotype). What I’m saying is they were relatable, regardless of how extraordinary they were. They were human and they were developed characters.
What we’ve gotten now is a show that is so satisfied with itself that it’s gotten lazy. For me the coup the grace was the level of nepotism involved in the later seasons’ cast. Cumberbatch’s parents as Sherlock’s parents, Amanda Abbington—Martin Freeman’s partner—as Mary, and Gatiss, one of the co-writers as one of the main secondary characters? That’s a lot. The writing also seems to take itself too seriously, thinking it’s so funny, so insightful, so witty. The gag is that the script isn’t saying anything new, even though it thinks it is. It’s just an exercise in ego. As Stevens said in his review, the show has become twee, to an antagonizing degree.
Overall, this last episode was largely crap, with only golden moments clumped together towards the middle. It’s a sad way to end the series.
Update: Information on autism now from WebMD to reflect concerns over the ethics of AutismSpeaks
Sherlock S4 recap: Sherlock and John make up over death
By Monique on Monday, January 9, 2017
Sherlock Season 4 | “The Lying Detective” | Aired Jan. 8, 2017
Talk about an episode!
I really liked this second episode of Sherlock Season 4, “The Lying Detective”. The pacing and the amount of story depth took me right back to earlier seasons, and for that I couldn’t be happier. Also great: The Dynamic Duo are back together again, both a little worse for wear, but still in fighting form.
Let’s talk about the big bad of this episode, Culverton Smith, who I think rivals Jim Moriarty in terms of villainy. Culverton, though is a little scarier to me than Moriarty actually; Moriarty was a broad villain. But Culverton is someone who loves existing in plain sight (as Sherlock said twice in this episode). He’s a philanthropist billionaire who also loves awful puns at his own expense. If I’m being accused of murder, I wouldn’t then think to brand myself “the cereal killer” to sell what looks like a box of straight-up oats. But then again, I’m not Culverton, who thinks he can get away with anything…even murder (said with a Dr. Evil-esque hand gesture to the mouth).
Also, there was something a bit more eerily human about Culverton’s villainy. I feel like there could be an argument made about whether Culverton is another villainous portrayal of someone with narcissistic disorder, which could go in line with other stereotypes of people with mental disorders (see the upcoming movie Split for another depiction of a villain with a mental disorder). This could be its own post, since many villains throughout media history have been portrayed as such because of a general fear of mental illness. Of course, I’m not excusing Culverton’s penchant for killing people; he is a murderer and should be in jail. But I’m just raising a point to think about.
In any case, Culverton is someone who relishes in being a serial killer, or does he? He does seem to have a bit of conflict about killing people, even though he enjoys it. As he tells Sherlock, it’s something he’s just compelled to do; it makes him happy. That’s already disturbing, and even more disturbing is how excited he is to tell Lestrade all about it. What he craves is power and glory, and becoming a world-famous serial killer is something that appeals to that narcissistic side of himself (again, we’re going back to a clinical mental disorder as a trait of villainy).
What I found most intriguing about this episode is how it was actually John’s time to grow as a character, not Sherlock. What I’ve found is that over the course of these seasons, some episodes are just set up to have Sherlock act as the emotional McGuffin, leaving us to forget, then be surprised by, John’s own mental turmoil that he has to work through. This time, Sherlock-as-McGuffin was for us to see how much Sherlock’s been affected by John’s absence to a theatrically expansive degree, only to be surprised to remember how much John has been quietly suffering over his choice to have a texting affair with the woman on the bus. John’s grief, while not as explosive as Sherlock’s, is just as deep, if not more so, and we finally see John reach the depths of his sorrow when he finally admits to Mary’s ghost (inside his head) that he cheated on her. Seeing Sherlock console John is just what this episode needed; Sherlock might be the star of the show, but he’s come far enough to learn when to give someone else an emotional moment. It was nice to see that growth within the character. It’s nice to see how much Sherlock actually cares for John.
It was also interesting to see how Sherlock completely deteriorated because John wasn’t in his life, and his deterioration also acted as a self-punishment because he felt like he killed Mary. I’m glad John finally tells him he didn’t actually kill Mary, because he didn’t. I found it personally amusing that when Sherlock shows up at John’s therapist’s house, and John eventually asks him what’s wrong, Sherlock’s answer is that he’s “burning up.” There’s a fanfiction I read that had Sherlock saying kinda the same thing and for a similar reason—he was apart from John because of a big boo boo—but the line in the fanfiction, “I’m on fire,” was because Sherlock was in love with John and couldn’t stand to be a day without him, much less weeks. I doubt Steven Moffat read that fanfiction and decided to paraphrase the scenario of Sherlock pushing John away from him by accident, but that’s what the scene in this episode reminded me of. Long aside, I’m sure, but that moment in the show just tickled me.
I have to say, though, that the storyline bugs the longer I think about it, despite my being thoroughly entertained. It made for great drama, sure, but when you start thinking about it, it gets kinda How to Get Away with Murder-ish; it’s entertaining, but does it make any sense for real? Not really. Why did Sherlock have to save John by nearly killing himself? Why go through such lengths to nearly be offed by a serial killer? That’s a lot for a friendship. But, of course, Sherlock isn’t about normal people salvaging their friendship by telling each other “You’re not at fault for your wife’s death.” Otherwise, we might as well watch something like This Is Us, right?
What also still bugs me is that Mary is still advocating for Sherlock and John to be together, if not in a romantic sense (which the show is going through great pains to make clear), in a platonic-soulmate sense. But why? Mary didn’t really know Sherlock that long or that well. Why is Mary always advocating for John to be with Sherlock? Even weirder—why is Mary-in-John’s-head advocating for him to be with Sherlock?
To me, this show is once again going through a lot of hoops to say “Sherlock and John aren’t gay for each other.” Okay, I guess. I mean, yeah, John got married and and yeah, Sherlock’s supposedly still texting Irene Adler. But did the women in their lives really mean anything aside from giving certain fearful audience members an excuse to believe that Sherlock and John don’t have some underlying tension? On the surface, I get that they’re really good friends, but even without the romantic element, their souls are two that are tied to be together in some way, shape or form. I wish the show didn’t feel like it had to rely on women characters to allow for John and Sherlock to be close, whether that’s in a brothers-in-arms type of way or an actual romantic way. Two men can be close; the world won’t fall apart because Sherlock’s hugging John.
In any event, the show isn’t helping itself by having John have an affair with the woman on the bus, who turned out to be John’s new therapists, who turned out to be none other than Sherlock and Mycroft’s long lost sister. John is having an affair with the female version of Sherlock. Let that sink in.
Again I ask: Why is this show so afraid of same-sex attraction and homoeroticism? Having “the sister” of a male character as the love interest for the best friend of that male character is a little beyond cliché, don’t you think?
However, John did beat Sherlock up over Mary out of grief, so I don’t know how a relationship, much less a friendship, can recover from that.
Anyways, they’re back together because they can’t leave each other alone, and we the audience are better for it. We wouldn’t be able to take a lot of moping John and moping Sherlock because seeing them apart is no fun. Without John, Sherlock acts like a maniac and without Sherlock, John acts like a boring, normal person, like the rest of us.
Even still, I have to assert my disappointment with the treatment of Mary. Much like Irene in this episode (who thankfully didn’t make a guest appearance), Mary is a fridged woman, only there to help the man move on and surge ahead in his life. Even after John admits his dalliance to her, what does Mary-in-John’s-head say? Something to the effect of, “Well, you best get moving along.” Okay….what? Couldn’t fake Mary be mad at least, not sad-yet-understanding? Understanding of what, pray tell? That your husband cheated on you while you were taking care of your baby? Sigh.
And for Sherlock to tell John that it was only texting? Well…it’s only texting if you don’t have anybody, like how Sherlock texts Irene. But John was emotionally cheating on his wife, and while it wasn’t physical, it was still cheating. John is right to chide himself because he’s completely in the wrong.
And can we talk about Mycroft possibly having a love connection? No. That shouldn’t be happening in my book. Why?
It sounds like I didn’t like this episode, but I actually did. I thought the writing was much tighter than the first episode of this season, there were much less of the strange transitions, and I think Toby Jones played Culverton spectacularly. I’m intrigued to see how Sherlock and Mycroft’s sister will be handled in the next episode. Hopefully she won’t become a fridged woman as well.
What did you think of this episode? Give your opinions in the comments section below!
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Rogue One smacks of Star Wars‘ obsession with aggressive appropriation
By Monique on Thursday, January 5, 2017
As you might have read from my Rogue One review, I enjoyed it very much. But with the good comes the bad, and I had some gripes with it. One gripe I forgot to mention in my review was the uber-aggressive Arab world coding they were doing in it. It had gotten so aggressive on Jedha that I was literally taken out of the movie at points and was like, “Where’d they film this?!”
I was reminded of my distaste for these films when I saw Twitter user Dina’s thread on the subject. Key takeaways:
From garb to environment to “primitive devout culture”, all of the usual suspects of stereotyping and denigrating arabs are there.
— Dina✨ (@PetiteMistress) December 28, 2016
Seriously, are you kidding me? From color palette to sand to cables and chaos, every “savage Arab” stereotype coded right in. pic.twitter.com/GwZfXNj4IF
For reference how Hollywood “codes arab” and “actually Arab” are completely different things. Like this from Homeland (the series). pic.twitter.com/lFdLLev2M0
On left is what media wants you to think the Middle East looks like, carefully curated (shot in Israel), on the right is the real Hamra st.
I’m Lebanese born and bred. I’ve hung out in Hamra, gone shopping, met friends for drinks. It’s a lovely, normal street in the Middle East.
So key questions to ask here are 1) Why did the film get this aggressive with its coding, 2) How hurtful is it to the average American’s international knowledge, and 3) How can Hollywood wean themselves away from projecting the same stereotypes on foreign places?
1: Why did the film get this aggressive with its coding?
Star Wars has a history of being slightly aggressive with coding planets with real world analogs. Tatooine is basically the Sahara Desert, but was actually filmed in Tunisia and America’s Death Valley. Yavin 4 is a lush jungle planet, which was represented by Guatemala’s Tikal ruins and the forests the ruins reside in. For every planet, there’s a real world place. But beyond just the filming locations, other parts of the planets crib from real life as well. For instance, George Lucas got the name “Tatooine” from the real Tunisian city Tataouine. Similarly, as Dina points out, The planet Jedha gets its name from Jeddah, a city in Saudi Arabia.
Of course, seeing how this film is made by terrestrial humans who have never been to space, much less to other galaxies and off-world terrains, it’s understandable why the planets (which, if we’re being honest, act more like moons than actual planets with different continents and climates) feel familiar to us. It’s because they, in many ways, are familiar. They’re a collection of earth’s coolest/most awe-inspiring places, launched into a space opera.
However, using a desert for a desert planet is benign. When you start cribbing parts of cultures while layering stereotypical imagery onto planet’s people, then we have a problem.
Let’s get into what makes Jedha troublesome.
• Jedha as Mecca: The official description of Jedha is that it’s a holy city for those who are disciples of the Force. Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has described it, quite literally, as Mecca. To quote him (via MTV News):
“If A New Hope is kind of like the story of Jesus, there must be a whole religion beyond that,” he said. “We felt like, for 1,000 generations, the Jedi were kind of these leaders of the spiritual belief system. It’s got to be like a Mecca or a Jerusalem, but in the Star Wars world.”
In the story of Star Wars, it makes sense that there should be a holy city. But does it have to be quite literally a city that takes all of the stereotypes of the Arab world and mash them together? Take a look at these pictures, culled from various press junkets and collections of official Star Wars images and screenshots:
Do these images seem familiar? Well, you might have seen some of their other brothers in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
and The Phantom Menace.
There are other tropes like this found throughout film and television. Dina notes Homeland, which is a great example, as well as Season 4 of Sherlock:
And Lawrence of Arabia:
Hollywood’s fascination with what I’m calling “the bazaar aesthetic” is something that’s throughout film, and sure, bazaars exist throughout the Middle East and India, as shown below. But even then, there’s varying difference between bazaars; they don’t all look the same.
Hyderabad bazaar
near Charminar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Ryan/Flickr Creative Commons)
Grand Bazaar in Kapali Carsi, Istanbul, Istanbul (Antti T. Nissinen/Flickr Creative Commons)
But that’s not all to the Middle East. Take for instance Jordan, where some of the Jedha desert scenes were filmed. What Rogue One used were Jordan’s deserts for the outskirts of Jedha. That’s cool. But let’s also look at what else Jordan has to offer in the real world aside from its deserts:
Jordan Trip (Christian Heilmann/Flickr Creative Commons)
Amman, Jordan (Alicia Bramlett/Flickr Creative Commons)
Aqaba Street, Jordan
The main street along the sea front in the centre of Aqaba, Jordan. (Rob/Flickr Creative Commons/www.bbmexplorer.com)
Of course, the main Jedha scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios in London, but I’m using these images of modern Jordan because the tropes of Jedha reflect on the Middle East as a whole. Hollywood would have you believe that the Middle East is all desert and open-air markets, but surprise! The Middle East is just like the rest of the world; full of paved roads, cars, and buildings.
• Seriously aggressive sartorial references to the Middle East: It’s worth pointing out that the headscarves and ceremonial robes found in Jedha reference today’s headscarves, hijabs, niqabs, and burkas worn in various parts of the Middle East. Not that there wouldn’t be an outer space city that might have a cultural tie to head coverings, but it’s especially noteworthy that a place designed to be Space Mecca also has clothing with such overt references to Islam. Did the allegory have to be taken this far in Star Wars, to the point that we forget a little that we’re watching a film about distant planets?
Also, the act of using Islamic sartorial choices goes along with Star Wars‘ other practice of cribbing cultural and ethnic styles and arranging them in a mish-mash to “create” something otherworldly. This practice goes all the way back to Princess Leia’s “cinnamon buns,” the style stemming from Lucas supposedly using Revolutionary-era Mexican women freedom fighters, or soldaderas, as inspiration. However, there’s been contention with that statement, and some now link Leia’s hairstyle to the hairstyles worn by the women of the Hopi tribe. But the appropriation-as-inspiration practice was at its height during the years of the Star Wars prequels, in which Padme/Queen Amidala had styles ranging from Japanese geisha to ancient Mongolian elite, to African updo to actual Hopi hair buns.
Inspiration: Geisha
Inspiration: Mongolian headdress
Inspiration: Hopi hairstyle
Inspiration: The hairstyles of the Mangbetu women of the Congo
I get that these styles are “cool,” but they aren’t just cool for cool’s sake; there’s are complete cultures these styles are attached to, and to rob them of their actual context by putting them in a “cultureless” space opera whitewashes these styles to a certain degree.
2: How hurtful is it to the average American’s international knowledge?
The answer is simple: Americans already believe in too many stereotypes as it is. Due to what the media tells us about foreign locales, we believe that cities that aren’t in the Western world are behind the times or haven’t been affected (for better or worse) by westernization and capitalism.
Another example of a modern movie casting a “noble savage” light on a foreign place: Doctor Strange. As I wrote in my review of the film, the film posits Nepal as a place that still hasn’t been touched by the effects of the 21st century.
The film portrayed Nepal as some mystical place without roads or modern transportation. Everyone looked like they were mere seconds away from getting on their knees to pray. Religion might be a huge part of a country, but that doesn’t mean everyone in the country have to look like devotees. The film shows a side of Nepal that looks like this:
Kathmandu, Nepal–Asan Tole Market by Juan Antonio F. Segal (Flickr/Creative Commons)
This picture looks similar to the types of crowds Stephen Strange came upon as he was looking for The Ancient One. But Nepal also looks like this:
Shiddha Pokhari by Dhilung Kirat
“This centuries old pond is situated at Dudhpati-17 the entrance of the ancient city Bhaktapur. This 275m×92m pond was built in the early fifteenth century during the reign of King Yakshya Malla. It is considered as the most ancient pond in Bhaktapur which is known to have many myths associated to it. Nowadays, the pond of both religious and archeological importance has been one of the popular hangout and dating destinations in Kathmandu valley.”
(Flickr/Creative Commons)
Kathmandu Valley Sunset by Mike Behnken (Flickr/Creative Commons)
Kathmandu , Nepal,Himalayas,Everest by ilkerender (Flickr/Creative Commons)
Boats at Lake Phewa in Pokhara, Nepal by Mario Micklisch (Flickr/Creative Commons)
Nepal, Kathmandu, Boudhanath by SCILLA KIM (Flickr/Creative Commons)
The point is there’s a lot more to Nepal, to just Kathmandu, than the film suggests. Is there time to visit every locale in Nepal? Of course not. But there was enough time to not give Nepal the “noble savage” treatment, which means, according to Wikipedia:
A noble savage is a literary stock character who embodies the concept of an idealized indigene, outsider, or “other” who has not been “corrupted” by civilization, and therefore symbolizes humanity’s innate goodness. In English, the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden‘s heroic play The Conquest of Granada (1672), wherein it was used in reference to newly created man. “Savage” at that time could mean “wild beast” as well as “wild man”.[2] The phrase later became identified with the idealized picture of “nature’s gentleman”, which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism. The noble savage achieved prominence as an oxymoronic rhetorical device after 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for a satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, whom some believe may have wished to disassociate himself from what he viewed as the “feminine” sentimentality of 18th and early 19th-century romantic primitivism.[a]
Even though the film didn’t have any of the extras speak, it clearly showcased Kathmandu as an idealistically mystical, Othered space, with closeups on holy men and temples. The extras also weren’t wearing Western clothes, something that further separated them from actual depictions of 21st century Nepalese people. Western exports have made their way all around the globe, including Nepal, and as you can see in the above pictures, folks are wearing leather jackets, hoodies, polo shirts, slacks and jeans. Even the woman with the shawl on in the first picture is wearing Westernized sandals, a long-sleeved red shirt and some green pants, and one of the men buying her wares, the guy with the leather jacket, has an iPod. If you took a shot of the extras in the Kathmandu sequence and put it in black and white, it could act as a shot from a film about Nepal in the 1800s, not the 21st century. This is not to say that portraying Nepalese people wearing traditional clothing is anachronistic; what I am saying is that painting a picture of the Nepalese as a people who haven’t been affected by world commerce and capitalism is a false picture.
The “noble savage” idea wasn’t explicit, but it was very subtly implied in order to make Kathmandu seem like a perfect place for The Ancient One and to act as further contrast to Stephen’s New York sensibilities and, indeed, his whiteness.
When movies decide to portray places in a stereotypical fashion, it’s too easy for the stereotype to be accepted as the truth. It’s even more dangerous to use stereotypes in science fiction; when a place can look like anything and be anything, why rely on stereotypes? But when stereotypes get used in science fiction or fantasy, they’re usually couched in the excuse of “Well, it’s not real anyway! It can look however the creator wants it to look.” But when we’re limiting what’s possible in the imagination, we’re also dulling our senses to what actually exists in reality.
3: How can Hollywood wean themselves away from projecting the same stereotypes on foreign places?
The quickest answer is for Hollywood to start using a bit more imagination when coming up with a look for a futuristic place. Too often, science fiction relies on stereotypes or cultures-as-backdrop to do much of the heavy lifting in a scene. For instance, Blade Runner, in which an aggressive Japanese undercurrent can be seen in futuristic San Francisco.
Actress Alexis Rhee portrays the geisha depicted in Blade Runner. (Warner Bros.)
Of course, it can be explained away that San Francisco has a high Japanese population, so perhaps San Francisco would embrace more of Japan the more futuristic it gets. However, there’s hardly an Asian person in Blade Runner–Alexis Rhee, who is the billboard geisha, and James Hong as Hannibal Chew, round out the film’s Asian population. So the whole effect comes off as a cynical costume for a huge audience payoff.
Currently, we have Ghost in the Shell coming in where the original Blade Runner left off, using Japan itself as a costume for a film lacking in Japanese characters.
It literally uses the same billboard idea from Blade Runner. (Paramount Pictures)
Hollywood has got to stop relying on tired tropes like these. It only helps keep America in the dark about its neighbors, and it keeps movies themselves from having an even greater impact than they could have.
Star Wars images: Lucasfilm/Disney
Bottom line: we’re all problematic, actually
By Monique on Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Problematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, Camus. Revised Edition, University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition was 1963, Random House (Gwydion M. Williams/Flickr Creative Commons)
If there’s one thing I’ve thought a lot about, it’s how to be a fighter for social justice while being a “perfect” person. In other words, how does one become the perfect symbol of resistance without having a few issues you have to fix within yourself?
This thought came to a head this week, as I thought it an opportune moment to admit that even though I have a website dedicated to representation in entertainment, I too have some work to do.
In a small Twitter thread, I wrote about how I realized that I still harbored some fear-based ableism around blindness. As a small child, I was scared stiff of going blind because of my own near-sightedness. An elementary school nurse had scared me into wearing my glasses, and after school, I thought, “What if I don’t wear my glasses and go blind?” I was afraid of the dark, which I equated with blindness. And what took root was a fear of blindness I never truly resolved, despite my conscious knowledge of ableism and how it’s not right.
Something that’s always taught me about life, for better or worse, is entertainment, and it took something like Rogue One to make me confront that neglected part of myself.
Sometimes I write fanfiction to practice “writing for real.” Have I published anything outside of what I publish on this blog? Nope. But I write fanfiction just the same. This time, I was trying my hand at a Chirrut Imwe/Baze Malbus Rogue One modern day alternate universe story (Why alternate universe? Because I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan and I don’t feel like looking things up every five minutes.) The thing I didn’t know how to depict was blindness. So I decided I needed to do some research. Of course, I’d never be able to accurately portray blindness, since I didn’t live it, but I wanted to write something beyond the standard “he saw darkness” line.
What I learned was, in short, that what I thought I knew about blindness was not at all right. Darkness is not all that blind people see. It’s a much more layered experience than that, and it varies depending on the person and their type of blindness. But a development that is just as important is that I had come face-to-face with my own ableism, and I was fairly annoyed at myself. Since I’m a semi-public figure, I thought this was a good teaching moment to share.
However, after posting about it, I soon started having dread. What if everyone who followed me began to hate me because I admitted to a fault I needed to correct? What if I started being seen as the dreaded “P” word—problematic?
I didn’t want to be problematic. Not only would I become an internet pariah, but any chance at a lucrative blogging career would be gone. (Or at least, the chance the blogging career I’d like to have.)
The term “problematic” is something I’ve always disliked, simply because it’s often used as a way to block others from sitting at the proverbial “Cool Kids Table.” It’s a way to create an in crowd, a bureaucracy of sorts, and if you’re not in the in crowd, then you’re a nobody. I haven’t liked how in many cases, online “wokeness” involves someone elevating themselves to a loftier position and never revealing when they themselves have been “problematic.” To admit that would be faced with being kicked out of the Cool Kids group.
The term “problematic” is also associated solely with clearly racist or discriminatory people. It’s easy to call them problematic, but what about everyday problematic things, like casual misogyny, or like my personal example of being afraid of blindness? Aren’t well-meaning folks and folks who do their part to advance society in a positive direction also capable of being problematic? Of course.
The fact is that we are all “problematic” on some level. We have all said or done something that we are not proud of. We have all marginalized someone, even if that someone is just ourselves. We all have something to work on. For me, some of that work includes snuffing out some remaining ableism as I continue on the quest to become a more inclusive person in both thought and action. While we all strive to be at the Cool Kids Table, we’ll definitely all have a seat at the Problematic Table. If you’re alive and making mistakes, there’ll be no way you can escape that hot seat, so we might as well become at peace with that fact. I know I have to come to terms with that, regardless of how right I try to be.
But just because we disappoint ourselves sometimes doesn’t mean we’re intrinsically problematic, though. All it means is that we are human, and as humans, we are going to fail. But what’s truly problematic is if we don’t learn from our mistakes and strive to do better in the future. If you can learn and work on becoming more aware of your own biases, then that’s the road towards socially-conscious success. I’m taking my own advice, especially since I’m on the visually-impaired spectrum myself. If anyone should have more sensitivity about sight-based disabilities, it should be me.
I’m sharing my thoughts with you to show that yes, even those of us who fight for representation make mistakes too. I, like everyone in this fight, am an imperfect messenger. But hopefully the message I want to spread is coming through, despite my imperfection. If you want to spread the message of social justice, but are afraid of doing something that could be seen as problematic, don’t feel scared to try to fight the good fight; just embrace the fact that you will do something “problematic.” But if you can learn from it and become better for it, then you can have a seat at the Cool Kids Table, too.
“Sherlock” recap: Suddenly, death comes to 221B [SPOILERS]
Courtesy of Todd Antony/Hartswood Films 2016 for MASTERPIECE
“Sherlock” Season 4 | “The Six Thatchers” | Aired Jan. 1, 2017
When the Season 4 premiere of Sherlock, “The Six Thatchers,” finished, I tweeted that I thought it was a “solid episode.” But nearly 24 hours later, I’m rethinking what I saw and what some of the problems were that were forgotten in the midst of John’s surprising indiscretions and the emotional ending.
If you are here reading this and you don’t want any spoilers, first, why are you reading a recap? Second, you might want to leave and come back to this when you’ve watched the episode.
Mary’s death was something that I was hoping for since last season, if I’m being honest. It’s not so much that she’s a woman as to why I was hoping she’d die–I feel like I must point this out, because her death goes along with so many other fridged women in entertainment. Did I think she ruined the dynamic between John and Sherlock by marrying John? Yeah. But I wanted her to die for two reasons:
1) It was canonical, and if they kept her around to keep the show “Happy Fun Times,” then it wouldn’t be a Sherlock Holmes show. The amount of happy fun times in Season 3 was jarring and irritating enough as it was; I didn’t want happy fun times to be dragged into the next season.
2) Mary as a character was weirdly conceived, and that’s a real shame, since on some level, it seems like she was only built up the way she was only for her character’s death to have the most impact for John, and not so much for us the audience when looking back on her life.
I’ve never really liked Mary’s backstory—something about it has always felt false to me. I feel like as a relatively blank character, there was a lot Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss could have come up with. But they decide to make Mary a spy? An unrealistic one, at that? They also decide that John should have yet another person close to him to lie to his face?
Look, Mary didn’t have to be an agency-less person, but making the extreme jump from basically nothing to international spy is a quite a leap. Also, it’s a leap that could have been made successfully if there weren’t so many jarring aspects to her and John’s relationship. In effect, Mary lied throughout their entire courtship. That should have made John angry as f***! In fact, it did make him angry as f***, but the writing for the scene in which John forgives Mary is so…disturbing in how easily John decides to brush stuff under the rug.
I’m thinking to myself as I’m writing this if I would still feel this way about Mary’s double life if Mary were a man. I think I would, and I have proof of this—Moriarty himself. During the first season, he pretended to be Molly’s boyfriend just to get close to Sherlock. When I found out that was Moriarty, I was devastated for Molly, who only wants love in her life, and angry at Moriarty for breaking poor Molly’s heart. Similarly, I feel devastated for John, who only wants love and normalcy to balance out his wild ride with Sherlock.
What irks me is that John does deserve some normal moments in his life; he clearly gets overwhelmed by all the zaniness around him even though he does crave it sometimes. Mary could have been that. She could have been normal, but just off-kilter enough to mesh with Sherlock’s Sherlock-isms. The fact that John has no one in his inner circle willing to share their whole selves with him, including his own wife, is really disconcerting.
Equally disconcerting is when John randomly decides to cheat on Mary. We hadn’t seen them quarrel or anything, and you don’t have to have quarreled to cheat on someone, but what was the impetus for John’s decision? Was it because he felt like he really didn’t know his wife after all? Was it because she was spending too much time bonding with his best friend Sherlock? (Was it because he actually wants to be in a relationship with Sherlock but can’t handle outing himself so he acts out his lust on other women?) WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?! John has never acted so out-of-pocket before, so this woman has to mean something to the story further down the line. Otherwise, the writing room needs to check themselves before they wreck themselves like this again.
Onto the comedy. Or “comedy.” Was it comedy? Or was it just very annoying attempts at comedy that didn’t really gel well with the rest of the proceedings? I think what was supposed to be “comedy” became a lot of comedic-sounding padding to fill out a movie-length show. Did we need to see all of those mini-cases? Did we need to have the banter between John, Mary and Sherlock happening as much as it did? I don’t know what I’m saying here, but what I’m getting at is that the first season, as most first seasons of most shows are, was the most concise and succinct version of Sherlock we’ve seen. It knew what it wanted to do and it did it. Now that we’re three seasons in and in the fourth season, the writing has become relaxed to the point of a dramedy that leans too much on “sitcom” than it does “drama.” If the writing can get back to just focusing more on the cases, that’d be cool.
There were also a lot of weird transitions. Again, it seemed like a lot of padding for the time allotted. We didn’t need all of those weird wipes and artful transitions. All together, it made the episode seem even more disjointed, like it didn’t know where it wanted to go or what story it wanted to tell.
So now the real question: How much culpability does Sherlock have in Mary’s death? One might say, “none,” and indeed, that’s what I said to myself when the deed actually happened. But Mary’s death also informed Sherlock’s emotional growth, too (once again, the woman’s death helps only the men in the story). Sherlock finally learned that his braggadocios lifestyle could actually get someone he cared about hurt or, in this case, killed. He has thought himself to be in control of everything, and finally, just as the therapist said, his world is crashing around him. He didn’t have to take it that far with that old secretary; he and Mary already knew the old woman was the culprit. But Sherlock, being who he is, had to take it to that next deadly step.
So what did I think about this episode overall? Well, I thought that even though I didn’t like Mary, I feel really bad for her. She was always going to be a sacrificial lamb, unfortunately. But I wish Mary had been treated with a little more care throughout the last season and the beginning of this one. Mary always seemed like a character that was meant to be both an avatar for the most rabid of fangirls who love to Tumblr-squee over John and Sherlock (which is something Mary did to a certain extent), and a sketch of a woman who could be John’s wife and could be a second sidekick to Sherlock, but was never solidly thought out as either.
There was a level of authenticity to her that I just never got. Maybe it’s because we came in on her and John’s relationship right when they got engaged. We never really got to know Mary the way I would have liked to. I feel like there was a lost opportunity with her character on some level. Even more saddening is that her brief life and death aided in the emotional exploration of the men in the episode instead of us getting closer to Mary through her life and her experiences, which would have allowed us to truly mourn her when she died.
My thoughts are jumbled. I turn it over to you; what did you think? Give your comments below!
Sherlock’s obsession with queerbaiting is more frustrating than ever
By Monique on Sunday, January 1, 2017
Sherlock Season/Series 4 is upon us! I’m sure there are a ton of us excited for Sunday’s first episode of the new season on PBS Masterpiece, which I shall be livetweeting via my personal Twitter handle @moniqueblognet. But before we flip out as we watch the first movie-length episode, I need to flip out about some things I’m already annoyed with.
First, let’s watch the two teasers together.
Okay, so what am I flipping out about, you ask? First, Moriarty’s alive? Come on now. Now, I’m a beginner-to-intermediate fan of the Sherlock Holmes literature, but there are other villains aside from Moriarty, right? I know he’s the biggest big bad Sherlock’s ever faced, but since Sherlock diverges from the canon all the time, why not make some other lesser known villain a supreme big bad for the screen? I don’t know, just some thoughts. I just hate seeing story ideas/plot devices get repeated.
Also, isn’t the basic “Moriarty” character now typecasting Andrew Scott in the ultimate way? Almost every time I see or hear him lately, he’s playing a skeevy character. He’s been so typecast, that even when he was in Garrow’s Law as an actual victim, his character was still lying through his teeth. Sure, he was lying to protect his lover at the time, sure, since this show is set in the 1700s when same-sex relationships were outlawed, but still, the character still painted himself as a skeevy villain.
Anyways, this Moriarty thing isn’t even the biggest concern I have. My ultimate pet peeve right now is when shows decide to queerbait vulnerable audience members, and Sherlock is the British king of queerbaiting.
In the second trailer, you see Sherlock telling someone, “I love you.” Previous to that, you have Toby Jones’ Culverton Smith saying that Sherlock will have to reveal his deepest, darkest secret. For big fans of the show, and particularly big fans who are also well aware of Sherlock‘s gay subtext, the trailer wants you think that Sherlock’s biggest, deepest, darkest secret is that he’s in love with someone so meaningful to him, that if he tells this person his truest feelings, it could wreck their entire friendship and, indeed, Sherlock’s entire world. The only person who fits that description is John.
There was a time when I was quite heavy into exploring the subtextual story in both the original Sherlock Holmes literature and Sherlock the show. A lot of that scholarship (if you wish to call it such) is still available via the Wayback Machine. But the jist of it was discussing why the show indulges in queerbaiting when it doesn’t have to. With the UK being in the 21st century and with Mark Gatiss—a gay man who seems to understand the subtext of the subject matter—as 1/2 of the executive producing/writing duo, there’s no reason why Sherlock has to be coy about asserting the queerer aspects of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
The most queerbaitiest of Sherlock episodes ISN’T the first episode ever, in which Sherlock thinks John is asking him out over a candelit Italian dinner, although that’s a popular example. The most queerbaitiest episode is actually the first episode of Season 2, when Irene Adler comes to town.
Irene is used as both a beard for Sherlock (by the writers) and as confirmation for the audience’s belief about/confusion surrounding John’s amorphous feelings over his friend and flatmate. Irene’s purpose as truth-teller to the audience comes when Irene realizes John is obviously jealous over Sherlock’s surprising interest in her.
To quote myself from 2012:
Thanks to livejournal user bizarremain, we have the transcript of what exactly was said during this scene:
Irene: “You jealous?”
John: “We’re not a couple.”
Irene: “Yes, you are.”
John: “Who the hell knows about Sherlock Holmes? But, for the record, if anyone out there still cares, I’m not actually gay.”
Irene:”Well, I am. Look at the both of us.”
What she’s saying is that she and John are both two people who aren’t attracted to men. Yet, here they are, attracted to one man, not because he’s a man, because he’s this amazing being. What Irene was getting at is that it doesn’t matter what Sherlock is, it’s that he is who he is what’s so attractive and magnetic. It’s not so much that he’s the magical male that can change Irene into a heterosexual–the episode never says she’s changed to a heterosexual woman; it’s that she’s attracted to him, no matter what he is, and that’s what makes the whole thing interesting.
…By alluding to [sexual fluidity], Irene is also saying that John is in the same boat as she is. …Irene is saying to John that he needs to analyze what is going on with him and Sherlock and realize that even though he’s attracted to women (just like she is), he’s just as attracted to Sherlock. In fact, Irene is also intimating that Sherlock might be the one for John. Never once does she say that she’d actually like to have a relationship with Sherlock. She’s mostly just got a mixture of intrigue and lust when it comes to him. To me, Irene summed up John’s relationship with Sherlock in just a few words.
To piggy-back off that, John is getting a lot of hints from the universe that he is meant to be with Sherlock, whether as friends or as more-than-friends. Sherlock is naked in a sheet–John takes a look before even asking Sherlock if he’s naked under it. John’s new girlfriend breaks up with him–the umpteenth girlfriend to do so. She says to his face that he’s a better boyfriend to Sherlock than he is to her. The whole Irene scene I just blabbed on about. And, frankly, I think Irene herself is a big clue to John that there’s more to his relationship with Sherlock than he even realizes yet. By Irene constantly asking him if he’s jealous of her and telling him that he’s in a relationship with Sherlock, coupled with his string of bad relationships due to his dependence on Sherlock, John slowly seems to be mulling over how his relationship with his friend is perceived, which is interesting.
And yet, the season progresses without much mention of this illuminating moment again. After this, probably the most progressive moment in Sherlock, the writing seems to have swung towards a weird place where either the writers, the characters, or both are afraid of admitting that the subtext is more than likely text.
For instance, John’s wife Mary calls John out on treating Sherlock like his boyfriend all the time, such as when she clocks him for getting spruced up more often once Sherlock comes back from the dead. However, Mary is also unnervingly okay with this, which strikes me as a little disingenuous, particularly because her characterization was basically acting as an avatar for the Tumblrites who want to squee over John and Sherlock.
Also, Sherlock acts like he’s completely happy at John’s wedding, but later on, we see that he’s clearly not. That’s keeping with his own dependence on John as his soundboard and wingman-of-sorts, but then we later see him act wildly out of character, even for Sherlock, by “getting a girlfriend,” only to later use said girlfriend’s emotions to crack a case. Even Sherlock of Season 1 would think that was going a little too far. The writing in this season both provides Sherlock and John with beards, as if to say, “SEE, BBC VIEWERS!? THEY’RE TOTALLY NOT GAY!!” But when they are with their respective significant others, nothing about the relationships seem real (and in the case of Sherlock’s, it actually isn’t real).
(If I can go on a tangent—The writing for that season wasn’t particularly strong; it was more about filling out the character beats the Tumblr fans wanted, to me, than it was about properly building character and realistic character moments. Out of that season, the only person who came out looking sane was John, who was rightly frustrated with the fact that everyone around him has lied to him in some way. Talk about gaslighting! The mental abuse John suffered during the third season is another reason why I don’t like it.)
Now here we are with Season 4, with Sherlock telling someone that he loves them. Chances are it’s not John, and that’s not even because John is standing behind him when he says it. For all we know, “I love you” could be another “I am Sherlocked.” (Also: If Irene was worth her salt as a dominatrix hardcore woman, she would never use such teeny-bopper language as “I am Sherlocked” for a cell phone passcode.)
The show loves baiting its audience and has gotten good at raising expectations only to have them tied in knots later on. Gatiss has said that he likes playing with the latent homoeroticism in Sherlock, but there comes a point when playfully exploring a theme becomes hanging a dangling carrot over fans heads, only to yank it away each season. I say either the show decides Sherlock actually loves John, and not in a platonic brother-in-arms kind of way, or it quits using homoeroticism as a crutch to keep people tuned in. At this point in time, the media we ingest, including Sherlock, can no longer have it both ways.
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If you visit a Singapore government website in the near future, chances are you’ll be using a chatbot to access the services you need, as part of the country’s Smart Nation initiative. In Australia, Deakin University students now access campus services using its ‘Genie’ virtual assistant platform, made up of chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI), voice recognition and predictive analytics.
It takes bold visionaries and risk-takers to build future technologies into realities. In the field of chatbots, there are many companies across the globe working on this mission. Our mega list of artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and chatbot companies, covers the top companies and startups who are innovating in this space.
NBC Politics Bot allowed users to engage with the conversational agent via Facebook to identify breaking news topics that would be of interest to the network’s various audience demographics. After beginning the initial interaction, the bot provided users with customized news results (prioritizing video content, a move that undoubtedly made Facebook happy) based on their preferences.
One of the most thriving eLearning innovations is the chatbot technology. Chatbots work on the principle of interacting with users in a human-like manner. These intelligent bots are often deployed as virtual assistants. The best example would be Google Allo - an intelligent messaging app packed with Google Assistant that interacts with the user by texting back and replying to queries. This app supports both voice and text queries.
Using this method, you can manage multiple funnels of content upgrades, and even convince your users to take the next step in the buyer journey directly within Messenger. In the example below I just direct the user to subscribe to content recommendations via Messenger, but you could push them to book a meeting with a sales rep, take a free trial or directly purchase your product.
"From Russia With Love" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-12-09. Psychologist and Scientific American: Mind contributing editor Robert Epstein reports how he was initially fooled by a chatterbot posing as an attractive girl in a personal ad he answered on a dating website. In the ad, the girl portrayed herself as being in Southern California and then soon revealed, in poor English, that she was actually in Russia. He became suspicious after a couple of months of email exchanges, sent her an email test of gibberish, and she still replied in general terms. The dating website is not named. Scientific American: Mind, October–November 2007, page 16–17, "From Russia With Love: How I got fooled (and somewhat humiliated) by a computer". Also available online.
A virtual assistant is an app that comprehends natural, ordinary language voice commands and carries out tasks for the users. Well-known virtual assistants include Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana. Also, virtual assistants are generally cloud-based programs so they need internet-connected devices and/or applications in order to work. Virtual assistants can perform tasks like adding calendar appointments, controlling and checking the status of a smart home, sending text messages, and getting directions.
It didn’t take long, however, for Turing’s headaches to begin. The BabyQ bot drew the ire of Chinese officials by speaking ill of the Communist Party. In the exchange seen in the screenshot above, one user commented, “Long Live the Communist Party!” In response, BabyQ asked the user, “Do you think that such a corrupt and incompetent political regime can live forever?”
[In] artificial intelligence ... machines are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most experienced observer. But once a particular program is unmasked, once its inner workings are explained ... its magic crumbles away; it stands revealed as a mere collection of procedures ... The observer says to himself "I could have written that". With that thought he moves the program in question from the shelf marked "intelligent", to that reserved for curios ... The object of this paper is to cause just such a re-evaluation of the program about to be "explained". Few programs ever needed it more.
In a new report from Business Insider Intelligence, we explore the growing and disruptive bot landscape by investigating what bots are, how businesses are leveraging them, and where they will have the biggest impact. We outline the burgeoning bot ecosystem by segment, look at companies that offer bot-enabling technology, distribution channels, and some of the key third-party bots already on offer.
Whilst the payout wasn't huge within the early days of Amazon, those who got in early are now seeing huge rewards, with 38% of shoppers starting their buying journey within Amazon (source), making it the number one retail search engine. Some studies are suggesting that Amazon is responsible for 80% of e-commerce growth for publicly traded web retailers (source).
Have you checked out Facebook Messenger’s official page lately? Well, now you can start building your own bot directly through the platform’s landing page. This method though, may be a little bit more complicated than some of the previous ways we’ve discussed, but there are a lot of resources that Facebook Messenger provides in order to help you accomplish your brand new creation. Through full-fledged guides, case studies, a forum for Facebook developers, and more, you are sure to be a chatbot creating professional in no time.
Yes, witty banter is a plus. But, the ultimate mission of a bot is to provide a service people actually want to use. As long as you think of your bot as just another communication channel, your focus will be misguided. The best bots harness the micro-decisions consumers experience on a daily basis and see them as an opportunity to help. Whether it's adjusting a reservation, updating the shipping info for an order, or giving medical advice, bots provide a solution when people need it most.
aLVin is built on the foundation of Nuance’s Nina, the intelligent multichannel virtual assistant that leverages natural language understanding (NLU) and cognitive computing capabilities. aLVin interacts with brokers to better understand “intent” and deliver the right information 24/7; the chatbot was built with extensive knowledge of LV=Broker’s products, which accelerated the process of being able to answer more questions and direct brokers to the right products early on
While messaging and voice interfaces are central components, they fit into a larger picture of increasing infusion of technology into our daily lives, which in turn is unlocking new potential for brand-to-consumer interaction. The fact is, technology overall is becoming more deeply woven into our lives, and the entire ecosystem is enjoying tighter cohesion through the increasing availability and sophistication of APIs. Smart companies are finding new and innovative touch points with consumers that are contextual, relevant, highly personal, and yes, conversational. Commerce is becoming not only more conversational but more ubiquitous and seamlessly integrated into our lives, and the way we interact with brands will be forever changed as a result.
Want to initiate the conversation with customers from your Facebook page rather than wait for them to come to you? Facebook lets you do that. You can load email addresses and phone numbers from your subscriber list into custom Facebook audiences. To discourage spam, Facebook charges a fee to use this service. You can then send a message directly from your page to the audience you created.
Let’s take a weather chat bot as an example to examine the capabilities of Scripted and Structured chatbots. The question “Will it rain on Sunday?” can be easily answered. However, if there is no programming for the question “Will I need an umbrella on Sunday?” then the query will not be understood by the chat bot. This is the common limitation with scripted and structured chatbots. However, in all cases, a conversational bot can only be as intelligent as the programming it has been given.
Customer service departments in all industries are increasing their use of chatbots, and we will see usage rise even higher in the next year as companies continue to pilot or launch their own versions of the rule-based digital assistant. What are chatbots? Forrester defines them as autonomous applications that help users complete tasks through conversation. […]
A basic SMS service is available via GitHub to start building a bot which uses IBM’s BlueMix platform which hosts the Watson Conversation Services. A developer can import a workspace to setup a new service. This starts with a blank dashboard where a developer can import all the tools needed to run the conversation service. The services has a dialog flow – a series of options with yes/no answers that the service uses to work out what the user’s intent is, what entity it’s working on, how to respond and how to phrase the response in the best way for the user.
As VP of Coveo’s Platform line of business, Gauthier Robe oversees the company’s Intelligent Search Platform and roadmap, including Coveo Cloud, announced in June 2015. Gauthier is passionate about using technology to improve customers’ and people’s lives. He has over a decade of international experience in the high-tech industry and deep knowledge of Cloud Computing, electronics, IoT, and product management. Prior to Coveo, Gauthier worked for Amazon Web Services and held various positions in high-tech consulting firms, helping customers envision the future and achieve its potential. Gauthier resides in the Boston area and has an engineering degree from UCL & MIT. In his spare time, Gauthier enjoys tinkering with new technologies and connected devices.
If your interaction with a conversational bot is through a specific menu (where you interact through buttons but the bot does not understand natural language input), chances are you are talking to a bot with structured questions and responses. This type of bot is usually applied on messenger platforms for marketing purposes. They are great at conducting surveys, generating leads, and sending daily content pieces or newsletters.
“There is hope that consumers will be keen on experimenting with bots to make things happen for them. It used to be like that in the mobile app world 4+ years ago. When somebody told you back then… ‘I have built an app for X’… You most likely would give it a try. Now, nobody does this. It is probably too late to build an app company as an indie developer. But with bots… consumers’ attention spans are hopefully going to be wide open/receptive again!” — Niko Bonatsos, Managing Director at General Catalyst
Bots are also used to buy up good seats for concerts, particularly by ticket brokers who resell the tickets.[12] Bots are employed against entertainment event-ticketing sites. The bots are used by ticket brokers to unfairly obtain the best seats for themselves while depriving the general public of also having a chance to obtain the good seats. The bot runs through the purchase process and obtains better seats by pulling as many seats back as it can.
The chatbot is trained to translate the input data into a desired output value. When given this data, it analyzes and forms context to point to the relevant data to react to spoken or written prompts. Looking into deep learning within AI, the machine discovers new patterns in the data without any prior information or training, then extracts and stores the pattern.
Two trends — the exploding popularity of mobile messaging apps and advances in artificial intelligence — are coinciding to enable a new generation of tools that enable brands to communicate with customers in powerful new ways at reduced cost. Retailers and technology firms are experimenting with chatbots, powered by a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, and live operators, to provide customer service, sales support, and other commerce-related functions.
Spot is a chatbot developed by Criminal Psychologist Julia Shaw at the University College London. Using memory science and AI, Spot doesn’t just allow users to report workplace harassment and bullying, but is capable of asking personalized, open-ended questions to help you recall details about events that made you feel uncomfortable. The application helps users process what happened, to understand whether or not they experienced harassment or discrimination and offers advice on how they can take matters further.
We then ran a second test with a very specific topic aimed at answering very specific questions that a small segment of their audience was interested in. There, the engagement was much higher (97% open rate, 52% click-through rate on average over the duration of the test). Interestingly, drop-off went wayyy down there. At the end of this test, only 0.29% of the users had unsubscribed.
Polly may be a business-focused application, but the chatbot is designed to improve workplace happiness. Using surveys and feedback, managers can keep track of how effectively their teams are working and address problems before they escalate. This doesn’t only mean organizations will run more productively, but that workers will be happier in their jobs.
On the other hand, early adoption can be somewhat of a curse. In 2011, many companies and individuals, myself included, invested a lot of time and money into Google+, dubbed to be bigger than Facebook at the time. They acquired over 10 million new users within the first two weeks of launch and things were looking positive. Many companies doubled-down on growing a community within the platform, hopeful of using it as a new and growing acquisition channel, but things didn't exactly pan out that way.
Along with the continued development of our avatars, we are also investigating machine learning and deep learning techniques, and working on the creation of a short term memory for our bots. This will allow humans interacting with our AI to develop genuine human-like relationships with their bot; any personal information that is exchanged will be remembered by the bot and recalled in the correct context at the appropriate time. The bots will get to know their human companion, and utilise this knowledge to form warmer and more personal interactions.
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve (it’s predicted that AI could double economic growth rates by 2035), conversational bots are becoming a powerful tool for businesses worldwide. By 2020, it’s predicted that 85% of customers’ relationship with businesses will be handled without engaging a human at all. Businesses are even abandoning their mobile apps to adopt conversational bots.
Of course, it is not so simple to create an interactive agent that the user will really trust. That’s why IM bots have not replaced all the couriers, doctors and the author of these lines. In this article, instead of talking about the future of chatbots, we will give you a short excursion into the topic of chatbots, how they work, how they can be employed and how difficult it is to create one yourself.
This is great for the consumer because they don't need to leave the environment of Facebook to get access to the content they want, and it's hugely beneficial to Politico, as they're able to push on-demand content through to an increasingly engaged audience - oh, and they can also learn a bunch of interesting things about their audience in the process (I'll get to this shortly).
Search for the bot you want to add. At the time of this writing, there are about a dozen bots available, with more being added every day. Chat bots are available for customer service, news, ordering, and more, depending on the company that releases it. For example, you could get news from the CNN bot and order flowers from the 1-800-flowers bot. The process for finding a bot varies depending on your device:[1]
Dialogflow is a very robust platform for developing chatbots. One of the strongest reasons of using Dialogflow is its powerful Natural Language Understanding (NLU). You can build highly interactive chatbot as NLP of Dialogflow excels in intent classification and entity detection. It also offers integration with many chat platforms like Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, Telegram,…
Chatbots can direct customers to a live agent if the AI can’t settle the matter. This lets human agents focus their efforts on the heavy lifting. AI chatbots also increase employee productivity. Globe Telecom automated their customer service via Messenger and saw impressive results. The company increased employee productivity by 3.5 times. And their customer satisfaction increased by 22 percent.
Previous generations of chatbots were present on company websites, e.g. Ask Jenn from Alaska Airlines which debuted in 2008[27] or Expedia's virtual customer service agent which launched in 2011.[27][28] The newer generation of chatbots includes IBM Watson-powered "Rocky", introduced in February 2017 by the New York City-based e-commerce company Rare Carat to provide information to prospective diamond buyers.[29][30]
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Europe must stop the nuclear arms race
Europe has had its work cut out recently, trying to defend treaties that President Trump is on a mission to destroy. This summer he ended US participation in the landmark nuclear deal with Iran and began reimposing sanctions. Since US withdrawal, the other signatories have been working strenuously to keep the Agreement in place, recognising the danger of wider nuclear proliferation in the Middle East if it collapses.
Now the EU’s senior diplomat, Federica Mogherini, who negotiated the Iran deal, is trying to save the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) – the latest piece of international law under attack from the Trump White House. The INF is a vital nuclear treaty which ensured the destruction of nearly 2,700 short- and medium-range missiles in the latter years of the Cold War. Scrapping the INF opens the door to the return of these missiles which – as we understood in the 1980s – raises the possibility of a superpower nuclear war in Europe.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has declared Russia in material breach of the Treaty and has given an ultimatum to the Russian government – comply within 60 days or the US will withdraw. NATO foreign ministers have now waded in, declaring that Russia has developed a system that violates the INF. ‘It is now up to Russia’, they say, ‘to preserve the INF Treaty’.
The European Union has taken a more nuanced position, declaring that the United States should ‘consider the consequences of its possible withdrawal from the INF on its own security, on the security of its allies and of the whole world.’ Mogherini has urged both Russia and the US to save the treaty, stating that ‘The INF has guaranteed peace and security in European territory for 30 years’, and warning that Europe does not want to become a battlefield for global powers once again, as it had been during the Cold War.
But will Trump listen? Reportedly, the 60 days breather was a concession to Angela Merkel, following her meeting with Trump at the G20, but there can only be movement during this time if the US is willing to engage in talks with Russia – and these have been at a minimum during the Trump presidency. If non-compliance is a serious concern, then as Daryl Kimball from the US Arms Control Association states, ‘The focus should be on negotiating a solution that addresses U.S. and NATO concerns about Russia’s noncompliant 9M729 missile and addresses Russia concerns about, in particular, U.S. Mk-41 Aegis Ashore missile-interceptor launchers in Romania (and by 2020 in Poland) that could be used for offensive missiles.’
Serious commentators have pointed out that both sides have compliance concerns to raise and all concerns should be addressed. The danger is that Trump is not really interested in resolving the matter and retaining the INF Treaty: that he intends to redevelop and reintroduce intermediate-range missiles, come what may. When questioned on Trump’s action, President Putin observed that Trump had earmarked R and D funding for these missiles – that they are in the Pentagon budget – even before announcing withdrawal from the Treaty. The ultimatum, he suggests, smacks of post hoc justification and he makes it clear that although he opposes the destruction of the Treaty, if that happens, he will ‘react accordingly’.
This is not good news, particularly in an increasingly fraught world facing catastrophic problems like climate change, the solution of which requires major powers to work together, not ratchet up the threat levels.
The international community must now lend its weight to the pleas from Europe – that the INF must be saved. For it may be Europe that will host the missiles once again, and bear the military brunt, but the problems they bring will spill over and destabilise far beyond the continent. The UK has a crucial role to play in this: whatever special relationship exists with the US must now be utilised – to save the INF Treaty and prevent a disastrous descent into a new nuclear arms race based in Europe.
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The Premiere Date For ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Musical Has Finally Been Announced—And The Score Will Be By Elton John
Tickets go on sale soon!
Mandy Gambrell 2019-09-19
Mandy Gambrell , Simplemost · September 19, 2019
Oh, how much we identify with Andy Sachs, the young woman who definitely did not fit into New York City’s brutal fashion industry until she faked it to make it at Runway magazine.
Sachs is the main character in the 2003 book and 2006 movie “The Devil Wears Prada” — which has now been turned into a musical.
The score for the Broadway musical coming in 2020 is by none other than the superstar performer and songwriting icon Elton John. He’s on a three-year farewell tour, so it’s amazing he has had the time to curate the music for what’s sure to be an astounding Broadway show.
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“The Devil Wears Prada” musical will be on stage starting July 14, 2020, through at least Aug. 16, 2020, at Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre, the Chicago Tribune reported. The musical’s director will be Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
The movie version of “The Devil Wears Prada” starred Meryl Streep as the hard-to-impress fashion magazine mogul Miranda Priestley, the boss of Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs. It also featured actress Emily Blunt as Sachs’ co-worker, Emily Charlton.
The film was hugely popular and grossed more than $300 million at the box office worldwide. The book “The Devil Wears Prada,” by Lauren Weisberger, was so popular it published in 40 languages for worldwide distribution. With Elton John creating the music for the Broadway production, it’s sure to be a hit, too.
Single tickets won’t go on sale until Oct. 6, but you can pay $50 for advance access when they do go on sale. Group tickets are already available for the musical.
We can’t wait to see this new musical!
This story originally appeared on Simplemost.
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DEAUVILLE, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 09: Actresses Meryl Streep (L) and Anne Hathaway arrive at the The Devil Wears Prada premiere at the 32nd Deauville Festival Of American Film on September 9, 2006 in Deauville, France. (Photo by Francois Durand/Getty Images)
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